Indian Creek Newsletter
January, 2007
on the web at frontiernet.net/~indiancreek
compiled by Helen Mogill, hmogill@frontiernet.net,
Annual Indian Creek Association
Meeting The annual Indian Creek Homeowners’
Association meeting will be The agenda will include, but is not limited to:
Please contact association
president, Brian Krause (email briankrause@frontiernet.net),
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Towanda Scouting Organization’s Pancake
and Sausage Breakfast
Advance tickets: Adults: $4.50, K-12: $2:50,
pre-school: free At the door: Adults: $5, K-12: $3, pre-school: free Contact Scouts, Read's, Grain Co., Advance
Meat Orders may be made through Mike Potts, ·
Whole hog, 2.95/lb: o
bulk sausage, 2 lb packages; o
links, 5 lb; back ribs, 5 lb; o
bacon, 1 lb packages ·
Italian sausage, 2.95/lb: o
bulk, 2 lb packages; o
links, 5 lb packages ·
Chicken breasts, boneless/skinless, 5 lb packages, 4.00 / lb |
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Girl Scout Cookies
Girl
Scouts will be having a bake sale at the Boy Scout Pancake and Sausage Supper
on Feb.10. However, cookies will not
be available for sale on that day. |
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Nature
Club The next Nature
Club meeting will be “Inspired by
Nature”. Linda and Terry Garbe
have used colors, shapes, and images from Nature as inspiration for their art
work. Nature shows up in Terry stained glass work, in Linda's beadwork and wall
hangings, and in the extreme cakes they have made. On February 15th, they will demonstrate
how they created this |
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Towanda Reads
From amazon.com: “One of the greatest and most socially
significant novels of the twentieth century, Steinbeck's controversial
masterpiece indelibly captured America during the Great Depression through
the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads.
Intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, tragic but
ultimately stirring in its insistence on human dignity, The Grapes of Wrath
(1939) is not only a landmark American novel, but it is as well an extraordinary
moment in the history of our national conscience.”… “ For
this marvel of observation and perception, [Steinbeck] won the Pulitzer in
1940.” |
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Unit 5 Public Meetings
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Towanda Area Historical Society
Audio
interviews will be conducted beginning in January. Suggestions of people to interview are
welcome! We also
continue to need any historical items you have that document our area's
history, which includes Indian Creek and Lamp Lighter subdivisions, Merna and
of course, all of Towanda and surrounding farms. We would like to borrow these items for
digital scanning and identification.
These items will be accessible on the Internet in a couple of months
for people doing historical research.
Thank you from all of us interested in local history! Development of the website - www.towandahistory.org
- is in the planning stages. Towanda PTO Annual Chili Supper and Basket Raffle Thursday, February 15 –
Mark your
calendars for Towanda Elementary's Annual Chili
Supper and Basket Raffle. Ticket sales
are scheduled to begin |
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Subdivision
Tractor Usage After the
last snow, a couple of residents of Indian Creek asked if they could use the
subdivision tractor to plow out their drives.
While the tractor is very good for mowing and the occasional light use
of the end loader for moving gravel or dirt; in its current configuration, it
cannot move snow around much less move itself. With the turf tires and light weight
differential, it is just not heavy enough for snow removal. At this time the
tractor is being stored in Jim Kellenberger's shed. It will be parked back in its usual place
in late March or early April, weather permitting. |
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Towanda 4th of July Planning Open to everyone.
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HCE The
February meeting of the Towanda Home & Community Education (HCE) will be
held at the The
McLean County HCE is sponsoring a Cultural Enrichment contest. See more details at the HCE website at www.mcleanhce.org. Bring
entries to the Extension office on January
On Saturday, February 24, there will be a
quilt workshop at the McLean County Extension Office Auditorium at |
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Red
Carpet Corridor Weekend Event - and Spring Area Garage Sales
Usually
our Towanda Area Spring Garage Sales are held in April. In 2007, Easter is April 8. PLEASE
LET ME KNOW whether you want to hold your garage sale with this larger
event, or, if Thu-Sat April 12-14 or April 19-21 is desired. If I don't hear that an April date is
preferred I will plan on coordinating sales for May 5-6. Thank you!
Gail Ann Briggs |
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Hedgeapple (Osage
Orange)
If you
have been walking in the woods, along the streets of the subdivision – or
even your own yard, you have seen the ubiquitous hedgeapple
or osage-orange.
When Lewis and Clark set off to explore the During
the 19th and early 20th centuries the tree was planted throughout the The
tree's fruits contain a chemical that has been proven to repel many insects
that get into homes: cockroaches, crickets, spiders, fleas, box elder bugs,
and ants. The chemical does not kill the insects but for some reason
effectively repels them from the area where the fruit is located. Whole
ripened fruit left sitting on the floor in places where insects are a problem
will usually repel pests for up to two months. Squirrels
and deer find the fruit hard to resist in their natural habitat Squirrels spend considerable time
working their way into the pithy core to consume the seeds contained inside. |
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