a LEVY COUNTY JOURNAL AROUND LEWY COUNTY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2006 j Pages Carol Saunders wins quilt The Gathering Place BY WINNELLE HORNE CORRESPONDENT Log Cabin Quilters met Thursday, Dec. 7 at the Levy County Quilt Museum. The Quilt Show is over. It” was again great. Everyone had a good time and met new visitors as well as old. Two quilts were finished and hemmed. We will leave everything as is until after Christmas and then we put in two new ones to be decided on later. Our new quilt is being put together and it will be the one we will give away next Quilt Show, more about it later. The last day of the show we were ready to draw the winning ticket when Larry Houchen and his wife came in. He told .us his son Capt. Houchin of the Levy Co. Sheriff’s Office was coming, by to make sure we are safe. He checks the door and we do appreciate what these officers do for us. We asked Larry to draw the winning ticket for us. Our -winner is Carol Saunders of Williston and when we called her she was one happy lady. She said she had never won anything and to win a quilt made her day. We now getting ready for the state fair and we also have our bus trip in the making. More next week about it. Pat, Doris and Carol spent the day making a cape to wear to church. There was a lot of laughing and learning that went on. Carol is new at sewing, but doing great. Lunch was great with chicken and dumplings, meatballs, fruit salad, lots of all kinds of good food and lots of desserts, Sixteen members were present. Winnelle' Horne is the Director of the Levy County Quilt Museum. area it serves. This project will emphasize working with women not only on their domestic violence issues but with areas of economics such as . job counseling, budgeting, credit restoration, financial planning and instruction in preparing their tax returns as well as advanced earned income tax credit. Executive director Donna Fagan said, “Very Another Way receives grant Another Way, Inc. has received a $25,000 grant from- Altria, Inc. and the National Network to End Domestic Violence. The grant will ailow Another Way to initiate an economic empowerment program that will serve program participants from the six-county back into unsafe situations due to the lack of financial resources that would allow them to be economically self-sufficient. We are very excited about the initiation of this project and anticipate it will allow the women who participate in this program to develop employment and financial skills that will last counties. them a lifetime.” * Another Way is a domestic violence and — rape crisis center serving Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette and Levy To speak to a counselor or get information about Another Way’s services call eM) often victims of domestic violence are forced NAACP banquet announced The president of the Tri-County NAACP, Al Joseph Carnegie, invites the community to attend the 16" Annual Tri-County NAACP. Freedom Fund Banquet. This year the banquet will be a Christmas Extravaganza featuring, entertainment from around the Tri-County area. The banquet will be held at the Tommy Usher Pineland Center in Chiefland on Saturday, Dec. 16 starting at 7 p.m. Tickets may be A reception honoring re- tiring librarian Cherie Bow- ers will be held on Saturday, Dec. 16 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the A. F. Knotts Pub- lic Library in Yankeetown. ‘the Library CARNEGIE T. hoe Friends of is hosting the open house to honor 500-1119, push 2. purchased from any NAACP member. Thehighlight of the banquet will be the announcement of the Tri-County NAACP ' Elected Official of the Year and the Andrew Lee Merit Award. + Additionally;: the, NAACP will announce their First © Annual Business of the Year. For additional information contact Alice Monyei at (352) 490-6166 or Mary Golding at 352-463-6169. Bowers’ 20 years of service to the library. From its beginning in 1959 at the back of the Knotts’ real estate office with 1,000 donated books, the Knotts. Library has been a source the library serves the com- of pride for the Inglis-Yan- munity. keetown community. The old 3 x 5 card catalogs have almost literally morphed | In her 20 years, Bowers into Internet searches and li- has seen changes in the way braries have become centers p- ry -R, Barber E. Tucker, J. Walker (chair, Barber J. Hill, Earl ‘Hudson, (chair), Jack Meeks, Jennings Rodgers, Hubbard odgers, Joseph Tomlinson, Le Photo courtesy of Abbye Jean Richner, Homosassa. Reception will honor retiring librarian Cherie Bowers for learning new ways of ac- .cessing information. The A. F. Knotts Public Li- brary is located at 11 56th St. in Yankeetown. Ben Dewwiler hoped to make the workd a beuer place, That ‘hope died when he was killed by a drunk driver, What should you do to stop a friend fram driving drunk? atever you havé to, Friends don’t let friends drive drunk, gQ | \peuig 'f 2.9 Cepertmert of tracapotation LAQs COUNTY JOURNAL The legal organ of Levy County, Florida The Levy County Journal is published every Thursday by Levy County Publishing, Inc. P.O. Box 159, Bronson, FL 32621. Periodicals postage paid at Bronson, FL. (USPS 310-780). Postmaster: Send address changes to: LEVY COUNTY JOURNAL P.O. Box 159 Bronson, FL 32621 SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Levy, Gilchrist and Dixie Counties . . . $17 Out of state Reproduction of the contents of this publication in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. The paper cannot be responsible for any unsolicited manuscripts or photographs. The publisher’s liability for an error will not exceed the cost of the space occupied by the error. 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