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1 mm Today mn Cornell Days Highlights include water fights, 1 p.m.; egg-throwing contest, 3 p.m.; teen dance featuring 7 p.m. Golf play day Sponsored by Streator Knights of Columbus at Twin Creeks Golf Club. Democrat Picnic At Odell's Pool Park at 1 p.m. District meeting For Streator Eagles Club at 2 p.m. Cornell Days The Pantograph SEPT.

11, 1983 Monday Willing Workers 4-H Club to meet at 7 p.m. at Graymont Hall. Swimming classes Begin at Pontiacc High School Natatorium. Hustlers 4-H Club to meet at 7:30 p.m. at the 4-H Hall.

Pontiac-Esmen School board to meet at 8 p.m. at the school. Retired Persons To have potluck dinner at noon at the VFW Hall. Soccer Club Of Pontiac to hold general meeting at Mario's Pizza at 7 p.m. Regional meeting For home extension advisors at Champaign.

Lutheran Women Of Rowe to meet at St. Paul Lutheran Church Monday at 7:30 p.m. Voiture 818 Of Livingston County to stage regular promenade at Family Inn, Emington, at 7 p.m. Homemakers extension Of Rooks Creek will meet at 1:30 at Graymont Hall. Immunization Clinic Sponsored by St.

Mary's Hospital, Streator, from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the hospital. Tuesday Pantagraph photosDON DRUIN Ruth Wrightam displayed the quilt that will be featured in Better Homes and Gardens magazine. Village Board Of Odell to meet at 7 p.m. Senior Citizens Of Dwight to hold potluck dinner at Dwight VFW at noon.

Eagles Auxiliary Of Streator to meet at 8 p.m. Tattoo dates For swine producers interested in participating in spring barrow show; Tuesday or Sept. 28 from 9 to 11 a.m. at Livingston County 4-H Park. Uniform style show Sponsored by Employee Activity Committee at St.

Mary's Hospital, Streator, at 7 p.m. at the hospital. Wrightam's quilt design a winner 'w tt Wednesday Even though her husband, Marvin, had painstakingly taken photos and transparencies of the quilt, the editors ask that she send the completed quilt to them. "I didn't know that this type of magazine prepared its format a year in advance," she said. "So they kept the quilt almost a year." Also, they asked her to compose directions for the readers.

"This took me almost as long to do as making the quilt," she said. Ruth has a full-time job at Johnson Press and, besides keeping a house and doing other duties, managed to sandwich in the time to make understandable directions. "I got on a new binge," she said, "and while that one was at the publishers, I made two more." These she made for her family, a son, Fred, and daughter, Linda, who are old enough to have started their own careers. Fred expresses his artistic talents in woodworking and Linda paints. However, she does not intend to give up her water color painting.

Since the third quilt is finished, she will start to paint again. Over a dozen paintings adorn the walls of her house, all good enough to have been represented in shows. "It is nice to alternate from one form of art to another," she said. By WANDA LEATHER Pantagraph staff PONTIAC Ruth Wrightam was amazed when she learned that her quilt was selected to be illustrated in the Holiday Crafts Issue of Better Homes and Gardens. The reason for her astonishment was that it was the first time she had ever designed a quilt.

Although she admired the artistry of other quilts she had seen, she had never entertained the idea of making one herself until recently. "I've been mostly wrapped up in water colors," said Ruth, a member of Amity Town Society of Painters since 1946. "But I suppose one relates to the other." Her quilt reveals the fact that Ruth loves color. The theme is colorful homes and gardens in the squares that comprise the quilt. After she had worked out the design on graph paper, she bought the fabrics in the colors that would complement one another.

The result was a piece of artistry that she thought deserved some attention for others who may want to copy it. "Quilting has really turned in to a big thing and a lot of women are doing it," she said. Since the theme of the quilt was homes and gardens, I sent pictures to Better Homes and Gardens Magazine and they accepted it." Ostomy Association Of Illinois Valley to meet at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary's Hospital, Streator.

Planning committee Of Cornell United Methodist Church to meet at 7:30 p.m. at the church. Glaucoma screening Sponsored by Pontiac Lions Club from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. at corner of Madison and Mill streets.

Treasure hunt Sponsored by First Lutheran Church, Pontiac, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. For children in grades one to six. Trip to see 'Annie' Sponsored by Livingston County Homeakers. Bus departs for Summit from K-Mart parking lot at 10 a.m. Seniors Citizens Potluck dinner at Cullom Community Hall Wednesday at noon.

Immunization Clinic Free from 1 to 5:30 p.m. at the Health and Education Building, Pontiac. Neighborhood Club Of Graymont to meet at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Alta Vitzhum. A sample from Ruth Wrightam's work as a water color artist.

those two places. He takes his fishing gear along and relaxes. She has quilts planned for other members of her family, which can be passed down as heirlooms. Between her painting and her quilting, Ruth Wrightam leads a fascinating and interesting life. Ruth attends painters' workshops whenever they fit in with her schedules.

The workshops are not only informative but provides other scenes for her subject matter. Two workshops that she attends are in Havana and Louisiana, Mo. and her husband shares her enthusiasm for Thursday Enjoying the rural life in Pontiac Budget hearing For Odell Community High School District 160 and Odell Grade School District 435, 8 p.m. at the grade school. Neighborhood Club Of Cornell to meet at Mary Lou Gragson's home.

Country Club Of Cornell to meet at Judy Hastings' home. Price outlook Meeting from 9:30 a.m. to noon at Pontiac Moose Lodge. Junior college Letter of intent due for students living in Pontiac High School district in high school office. Used book sale At Forrest Township Library from 1 to 8 p.m.

Sale continues Friday and Saturday. Will went on to explain that all their friends at home were either on antidepressants or tranquilizers. I accused him of exagerating but then he started ticking off names. Everyone I used to know are now apparently legal drug addicts. He concluded by saying, "You just seem to be high on life." "No," I replied, "I'm just allergic to corn.

It makes me look like I'm on drugs." When they left I felt like I was sending my children off to the war. "Mark," I said tearfully, "There go two of the bravest people I know." "Or the craziest," he added. I if I Friday INSIDE Two friends of mine came up from home last weekend. The second day of their stay I was working in the kitchen and Jean was watching me prepare dinner. After staring critically for a few minutes she said, "You're so domestic it's nauseating." "Thank you," I replied scooping cream into a chocolate cake.

Looking at my creation I thought she should be grateful rather than appalled. "No really," she continued, "Why are you doing this?" "People gotta eat," I informed her realistically. "Haven't you ever heard of a restaurant?" she asked. "Haven't you ever heard of Gandhi?" I countered with an intellectual blow. "Gandhi? What's he go to do with a cream filled cake?" "The dignity of the worker," I replied.

"There is nothing dignified about being covered with flour. You look disgusting," she told me nicely. "There is a world of difference between being dignified and maintaining dignity," I told her ignoring the word "I guess," she mumbled skeptically. Day three they asked if they could stay another day and "wonderful" crept into their descriptions. I smiled.

On day four, Will started looking at real estate signs I personally thought they were going overboard. He started talking about buying or renting a "summer home" in Pontiac. I thought it was time to rain on their parade (or at least their diesel van). "Nobody comes to Pontiac in the summer," I told him. "Spring maybe; fall definitely; but summer is dumb." But I love it here," he bubbled, "it's so quiet, so clean, "Let's not get carried away," I told him.

His wife had gone pale and was gathering their dogs into her arms. (Those were the same dogs that got their first flea at my house. Jean saw the fleas and was out of the door and at the vet's office before I could say flea spray). I really didn't know how they would survive here. Meanwhile Will was still bubbling, "You look so calm and healthy," he informed me.

"This place has been good for you even though you cook and clean more than is natural and you seem so sane!" To Mark's credit he didn't say anything his mouth just fell open and he gaped at the word KAREN OSMAN It was a real meeting of country and city. My friends had just moved from the suburbs to the hills surrounding the city. They think they live in the country they're wrong. The setting might be rural but they still dine out almost every night, have season tickets to the theatre and work downtown. Pontiac was their first real contact with a rural community.

The day they arrived, they used the word "quaint" a lot that really irritated me. It's the kind of word that sounds nice but makes one feel as if they should wear a bonnet and carry a pitchfork. The second day they toned the "quaint" down to "interesting." Interesting is a non-committal word that can go either way I still wasn't hap- py- Dwight Harvest Days Begins with WGN radio's "Noon Show," broadcast live from Custom Farm Seed; ragtime piano concert, 1:30 p.m.; and teen street dance, 7 p.m. High school football Chenoa at Forrest-Strawn-Wing, 7 p.m.; Peotone at Dwight, 8 p.m.; Fairbury-Cropsey at Woodland, 7:30 p.m.; Flanagan at Tri-Point, 7:30 p.m.; Gridley at Ford Central, 7 p.m.; Minonk-Dana-Rutland at Milford, 8 p.m.; Pontiac at Olympia, 8 p.m.; Streator at Bartonville Limestone, 8 p.m. Chicken supper At Livingston Manor Nursing Home, Pontiac, from 5 to 8 p.m.

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