Macoupin county EnquirEr~DEMocrat THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 20132A

WOTMANNUAL CHILI & SOUP SUPPER

Saturday, October 26, atMoose Lodge, 801 Pine Street

Serving begins at 4:00 p.m. We will be serving before, during & after the parade.

Be sure to join us for our Haunted Hayride!

Carlinville Fire Dept. & Moose Lodge #1216

AnnualHaunted Hayride

Saturday, October 26

at Carlinville Moose Lodge

following the Halloween Parade

Proceeds to benefit “Help The Elf”Macoupin Center for the Developmentally Disabled’s

ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT

HOMEMADE CHICKEN & DUMPLINGS DINNERSun., November 3 • 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

700 East Elm Street, Carlinville

Dinner includes: Homemade Chicken & DumplingsGreen Beans, Rosy Applesauce, Bread and Butter

and your choice of Dessert and BeverageAdults: $8 Children 6-12: $3 Under 6: FREE

Carryouts available! • 50/50 • RaffleAll proceeds will benefit MCDD’s adults with developmental disabilities.

Please call us at 217-854-3473 with any questions or for directions.

TURKEY DINNERSaturday, November 2ndMT. NEBO LODGE NO. 76 A.F. & A.M.

All you can eat 4:00-7:00 P.M.Adults $10.00

Masonic Temple • 257 N. Broad, Carlinville

First Annual Flea Market

Carlinville Park BoardSaturday, October 26, 2013, starts at 8 a.m.

To reserve a space call 217-854-9231. Spaces are $10 (20 ft.)Concessions available:

Pork Burgers, Walking Tacos, Nachos, Coffee and Cocoa.

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Church

A Comedy and Musical RevueSt. Paul UCC Fellowship Hall

Saturday, Nov. 2, 7 p.m.Desserts and Drinks from 6:15 p.m.Tickets: Adults $7, Children 6-11, $3Advance Tickets at Church Office or office of Dr. Katie Thomas of Carlinville Eye Care and from Carl Kasten.

Tickets also at door, subject to availability.217-854-4046 church office

Carlinville Moose Family FeedFRIDAY, OCT. 25, AT 6:30 P.M.PORK CHOP DINNER

Open to the public

Scalloped Potatoes & Green Beans, Salad & Dessert

Law enforcement officials from the city of Carlinville, Jerseyville, Roodhouse and the Illinois State Police trained K-9 dogs at the old Carlinville Area Hospital Oct. 16. The training sessions are held periodically at places. The dogs search for various items hidden throughout the building.

Law enforcement officiaLs train dogs

By Misty FritzIn an effort to inform area residents

about services offered through the hos-pital and other health organizations, Carlinville Area Hospital held a com-munity health fair Friday, Oct. 18, in the Ss. Mary and Joseph gymnasium.

Though attendance was not as high as she had hoped it would be, Melissa Bellovich said the fair was well-re-ceived by those who attended.

“The people who were there had positive things to say,” said Bellovich. “They thought the options for vaccines and lab work we provided were great and they hoped to see us back, so we will be back next fall for another com-munity-wide health fair.” She said the hospital may also host a similar event geared toward high school and college students in the spring.

Because the event was a first for the hospital, Bellovich was not surprised by the attendance numbers. “The public health department does a lot of similar things in the area, and we had a couple people tell us it takes a good two or three years for people to start coming out,” she said. A representative from Macoupin County Public Health Department said they gave 15 flu and three pneumonia vaccinations during the health fair.

According to Wally Dyer of Mi-chelle’s Pharmacy about 40 or 50 people visited his booth, where he displayed and distributed information about shoes specially designed for people with diabetes. “If someone’s diabetic and on Medicare, there is a benefit where they’ll pay for a pair of shoes with three sets of custom insets per year,” said Dyer. “A lot of people don’t know that and go for the cheapest ones they can, but they don’t have to.”

CAH hosts community health fair

Asked why the hospital decided to hold such an event, Bellovich said, “We’d never done one, and it seemed like something our hospital should be doing. It’s a great outreach opportunity. We want to educate people as much as possible on their health, and by pro-viding low-cost screenings we hope more people will take charge of their health.”

Rachel Woods, whose granddaugh-ter was staffing an informational booth about the Affordable Care Act, appre-ciated the event. “I’ve never been to a health fair before,” she said. “I just thought I’d come check it out and see

A massage therapist from Carlinville Area Hospital gives a massage during the hospital’s health fair, held Friday, Oct. 18, in the Ss. Mary and Joseph Catholic Church gymnasium.

what it’s all about. It’s nice.”Barbara Hull agreed. “It’s very infor-

mative. I picked up a few pamphlets, and it’s nice of them to give away all the little free things they’re giving away. I really like the pink breast can-cer pens.”

Bellovich wanted the public to know that the hospital is available to come to any health-focused event. “We are available to come out and do screenings and provide information about whatever topic they’re focusing on,” she said. “We do that a lot. We are happy to do that for businesses and schools.”

The Carlinville Middle and High School bands will be participating in the Rotary Halloween Parade on Saturday night. The Middle School band will perform a short concert at 5:45 pm on the Square in the ga-zebo prior to the start of the parade. Song selections include “Dark Ad-venture”; “Superheroes R Us” and

“Thriller.”The High School Marching

Cavaliers will be in the parade per-forming songs which pertain to the parade theme of “Superheroes Cel-ebration.”

Band Director Ryan Pirok invites everyone to come enjoy the Carlin-ville bands.

CHS and CMS bands to Participate in Halloween Parade

Rotary got together and said, Let’s start a parade to give the kids something better to do.”

The parade has grown and evolved every year since. That same fall of 1939 that the parade began, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and a real monster, Adolf Hitler, took the place of Franken-stein and Dracula in the world’s nightmares. In Carlinville, the traditional Halloween colors of or-ange and black turned red, white and blue as America entered the war and patriotic floats entered the Rotary parades of the 1940s.

The Queen’s Court for girls from Carlinville High School and their escorts soon became part of the parade, along with the traditional competition between high school classes for best float. After World War II, new themes– television, the space race, and later rock and roll, Elvis and the Beatles– entered the parade in the 1950s and ‘60s.

People from Carlinville have fond memories of many past pa-rades. Recently, on the “You know

you’re from Carlinville if...” Fa-cebook page, Rita Cerar remem-bered the “Class of 1962 had King Kong one year, and as it reached the square the head fell off!”

Sarah Zimmer Gillen recalled, “One class had the Jolly Green Gi-ant and he was too tall to fit un-der the wires, back when the pa-rade started at the (high) school and came up West Main to the Square.”

In 1971, during the Vietnam War, students from Blackburn College brought up the rear of the parade in a candlelight procession, holding candles and singing John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance.”

Comic books started just a year before the Rotary Parade, with Superman, the first of the super-heroes, zooming from the pages of Action Comics # 1 in April, 1938. In 1939, Superman became the first hero to get his own comic book, and was joined that year by the grim, brooding Dark Knight, Batman.

The Marvel line of comics also

hit newsstands that first year of the Rotary parade, eventually giv-ing us such characters as Captain America, and later, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the Avengers.

Over the years, superheroes have gone from comic books to TV and movies. Carlinville’s Hal-loween Parade celebrates them all this year, in particular the 75-year history of the first and greatest, Superman. As the Huffington Post recently acknowledged, “You have to respect a guy who can rock a red cape for this long.”

The Man of Steel from the plan-et Krypton is Grand Marshal of this year’s parade. His true love, the– as they said in the 1940’s-- “plucky girl reporter”, Lois Lane, will be appearing with him.

Carlinville can expect all man-ner of Caped Crusaders, Wonder Women, Dark Knights and friend-ly neighborhood Spider-Men, on North Broad St. from the Carlin-ville Plaza to the Square, this Sat-urday night, starting at 6:15 p.m. Evil-doers beware!

(Continued from 1A)PARADE

By Daniel WinninghamIn addition to several awards and

an explanation of the “Better To-gether” theme, a few special guests spoke to the gathering at the Cham-ber dinner.

Anne Haaker of the Illinois His-toric Preservation said Carlinville has a lot of potential.

“You’ve got plenty of assets here, and they’re underutilized,” she said.

Haaker pointed out the unique opportunity to market the city’s Route 66 history.

Bill Kelly of the state’s Route 66 program was listed in the pro-gram’s order of the event’s but was unable to attend.

Haaker said Kelly’s goal is to make cars go from Chicago to Los Angeles on Route 66 as slow as possible and to spend as much money in Illinois.

Others who spoke throughout the evening continued with Rho-dus’ theme.

“No one does it alone,” said Ja-son Medford of the Macoupin Eco-nomic Development Partnership. “In any aspect of your life, you got there, somehow, some way with the assistance of others.”

Medford said through the years he’s learned the importance of quality, strategic relationships.

State of the cityCarlinville Mayor Deanna De-

muzio provided an update on hap-penings at city hall.

Demuzio explained that city hall has undergone a facelift of sorts

Special guests share vision for Carlinvillewith new signage and an updated interior. She introduced city clerk Carla Brockmeier and aldermen in attendance.

Demuzio also introduced city treasurer Jody Reichmann, who was unable to attend the dinner.

“In April, the city made a com-mitment and made a step forward by approving the sales tax in-crease,” she said.

Revenue from the one percent increase in sales tax will be used for infrastructure improvements and Carlinville Lake rehabilitation. The city of Carlinville will begin collecting the sales tax in January 2014. Starting Jan. 1, 2014, the city’s sales tax will go from 6.25 to 7.25 percent.

Other highlights from Demuzio’s comments were:

• The new Amtrak station south of West Main Street will include a tunnel. Demuzio said the structure will feature a Frank Lloyd Wright design;

• Work continues in the city’s comprehensive plan, which will provide a long-term vision for Car-linville;

• Public Works Director Tim Hasara started in June and provides leadership concerning the city’s street and water departments;

• Scott Stinson/Simpson of Central Realty plans to head up improvements to the Carlinville Plaza.

While the temporary closing of railroad crossings may be an incon-venience, Demuzio urged people to

“bear with us, we’re moving Carl-inville forward.”

Demuzio took time to recognized the work of Carlinville Police Chief David Haley.

“We thank our lucky stars we live in a small town, but we’re not isolated from what goes on in the world,” she said.

Consultant Mike Hoffman pro-vided an update on the city’s com-prehensive plan.

“It’s a guide to the future, and ways to improve the quality of life,” he said.

Earlier this fall a community workshop took place and Hoffman said more input is sought from the residents.

The feedback from those who took part in the workshop revealed the favorite aspect of Carlinville was its “small town character.”

Richard Oswald of Carlinville Winning Communities provided an updated on the work the organiza-tion is doing. An educational leaflet was distributed at the Chamber din-ner that highlighted focus areas of the different subgroups, including: 1) Social Services; 2) Parks, Rec-reation and Leisure; 3) Beautifica-tion, Downtown Development and Community Pride; 4) Education and Lifelong Learning; 5) Broad-band development; 6) Economic Development; and, 7) Infrastruc-ture.

The organization also incorpo-rated a new motto: Celebrating our past, cooperating in the present and competing in the future.