Alton Spring Clean-up runs through April
April 7, 2021
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ALTON More than 45 organizations, businesses and clubs plan to pick up litter in their adopted areas during Alton’s Spring City-Wide Litter Clean-Up this month.
The community is invited to pitch in on the effort to clean up Alton streets. Volunteers can simply pick up litter in their neighborhood and deposit it in their own trash and recycle bins. Bags and gloves provided by Madison County and safety vests provided by Granny’s Uniforms Work Fashions & More will be available all month at Jacoby Arts Center, 627 E. Broadway 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, as well as Maeva’s Coffee at 1320 Milton Road 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.
Theater readies for audience s return
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Margery Handy will star as Deloris in Alton Little Theater’s March production of “Sister Act.”For The Telegraph
ALTON Tickets remain scattered throughout upcoming eight performances of Alton Little Theater’s (ALT) “Sister Act,” but the community ensemble got a little help from its friends to open more seating due to capacity limits.
“The cast’s family and friends agreed to come to a dress rehearsal to open up more tickets,” ALT Executive Director Lee Cox said. “But we’re selling in-person and by phone at the present time because overnight, the computer could oversell our capacity of 110.
Spangler, Moginot honored by Rotary
Ron DeBrock, ronald.debrock@thetelegraph.com
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ALTON Olivia Spangler, of Alton High School, and Ben Moginot, of Marquette Catholic High School in Alton, have been named Students of the Month for February 2021 by the Alton-Godfrey Rotary Club.
Because of the Covid-19 restrictions in the area, the club has decided to suspend meetings for a short time. However, it is not suspending honoring exceptional students from the community.
Spangler, the daughter of Scott and Stacey Spangler of Godfrey, is president of the Alton High School Class of 2021 and ranks 13th in a class of more than 500 seniors in grade point average. She also posted an SAT score of more than 1500.
WBGZ Radio 1/6/2021 |
By Doug Jenkins - WBGZ Radio
With the isolation that many of us have felt during the pandemic, mental health issues have become part of the conversation. The Alton Little Theater is hosting a free support group for teens struggling with isolation and despondency over the lack of extra-curricular activities. It is a six-week program that runs through February.
ALT Executive Director Lee Cox tells The Big Z this is just for teens.
Click here for Cox s comments The group will meet on Thursday evenings beginning this week. To register or to find out more, call 462-3205.
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Alton theater offers help for other art groups
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ALTON Alton Little Theater’s (ALT) first agenda for 2021 is a “Pay It Forward” program aimed at helping local schools, arts organizations and other theater groups get back on their (performing) feet in grand style.
The oldest community theater in Illinois, ALT has weathered the financial challenges of the national pandemic with the support of true “guardian angels,” Executive Director Lee Cox said. While ALT has learned to work in new and creative ways toward a restart goal in mid-March 2021, it also wants to help other organizations regain their ability to develop programs for the cultural enrichment of the whole community.