Community Service League meets May 10
May 11, 2021
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Pictured is Suzanne Lagomarcino, 2020-2021 Silver Bowl Recipient, accepting the Silver Bowl from Janet Hansen, Placement Chairman of Alton Community Service League.
ALTON The Alton Community Service League met May 10 at Camp Warren Levis for their first in-person meeting this year.
Thanks to the hard work of Cathy Droste, chair of the Ways and Means Committee, and the members at large, the ACSL was able to fund the following grants to the community totaling $5, 508: Serving Area Kids, All God’s Children, Alton Youth Symphony, Girl Scouts of Southern Il.,Thrive Metro East, and Alton Juneteenth Committee.
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William (Bill) Kolkmeyer, 71, passed away on Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. at his home in Godfrey, Illinois. He was born August 27, 1949 in Alton, the youngest of three children of Otto and Edith (Hack) Kolkmeyer. He attended Alton High School and graduated in the class of 1967; he then went on to SIUE where he received his BS degree in Business and Accounting in 1972. Bill had three children from a previous marriage: Lisa Kolkmeyer, in Jerseyville, Julie (Kevin) Conley, in Chicago, and Kevin (Jessica) Kolkmeyer, in Dow. He had one grandchild, Cadence, who was the light of his life. In 2007 he met Maureen (Rena) Zwilling and they married on October 12 in the garden at 12
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Freer sisters organize way for nonprofits to receive stockpiled gifts
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