12/22/2020
Youth Council brings snowflakes to town
Smithfield Youth Council’s Mia Holroyd shows off a snowflake before hanging it on her window. The Council designed the Smithfield Snowstorm project encouraging residents to make snowflakes and hang them in their windows as a community unifying project.
SMITHFIELD – While Rhode Island experienced its first major snowstorm last week, the Smithfield Youth Council proposed its latest community unifying event, the Smithfield Snowstorm, which encourages people to put cut-out snowflakes in the windows of businesses and homes.
The Youth Council is asking the Smithfield community to hang snowflakes in windows around town to show each other there is still fun to be had while being socially distant.
Libraries share in state allocation
Darren Iozia
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Several west-central Illinois libraries have received a share of $752,835 allocated to 187 libraries statewide, according to State Librarian Jesse White.
Beardstown Houston Memorial Public Library will receive $3,320 and Jacksonville’s Illinois School for the Visually Impaired will receive $4,900.
Other allocations include $2,000 to Carlinville Public Library, $2,750 to Greenville Public Library, $4,700 to Petersburg Public Library, $4,864 to the Pikeland school district and $4,900 each to Brown County Public Library, Roodhouse Public Library, Rushville Public Library and Taylorville Public Library. Darren Iozia