Update on Dick Dishinger
Dear Friends,
How I value friends now especially! Your prayers
have sustained Dick and I and Kathy and Connor and Tim
and his wife and my family. Dicks condition is called
ARDS Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome and has a 50%
chance of survival. There have been no advances made
in the last 30 years so the doctors try to treat each
problem as it comes up and there are many. It's like a
brush fire in that you put out one fire and another
springs up in some other area.
As of 6 am Sun. he was
a tiny bit improved from the day before. He developed
pneumonia again from the resuitator being in place and
his kidneys were'nt funtioning well and he is in
acidosis but all that seemed to lessen a little last
night. The new antibiotic hopefully is working. As
one pastor worded it God is holding him above the
threshold of death until his body is able to fight
this tremendous infection. He is also guiding the
doctors in their treatment as this is still somewhat
of a guessing game to them as I understand it. He has
wonderful doctors and nurses and they try to explain
everything as they go along. They keep telling us to
keep the whole picture in perspective to avoid this
emotional roller coaster we are on but it's hard.
I appreciate all of you and wish I could send each of
you a message personally. I just can't right now. I
feel your love and prayers and thank you Donna for the
note and Rita, for the expression of "storming the
heavens with prayers".
Love, Marilyn Dishinger
rmdishinger@yahoo.com
Heat wave was in 1936
Dear Dave,
I really enjoyed this editorial.....But, I think it was 1936 that broke
all kinds of records. The year of the cinch bugs. Keep up the good work
....Emily Zivney
Editor's note: Letter is referring to July 23 editorial which specified 1935 as the
year of the heat wave.See editorial.
Ford bake sale a success
The John Ford bake sale was a big success!!!!!
We made $500.00 and then collected donations. Ended up with about $950.00. Tell everyone
thanks and of course donations will still be accepted at the Pharmacy. The Fords will be in
St. Louis for approximately 6 wks. I will send their mailing address as soon as I get it.
Karen Mooradian
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Luminary Event
Everyone:
For the past several years I have been organizing the Luminary event in
Minonk. I will be unable to continue with this event as the only organizer
and would like anyone interested to contact me. I am willing to
co-organize this event but find that I am too busy to do all of it. If no
one comes forth this event will not take place this December. You may
wonder why this email is in July and it is because the supplies (candles)
have to be ordered in August to assure that you will have them in December.
I can be contacted at 309-438-2665 (w) or 432-2605 (h).
Cathy McKay
Girls fastpitch softball coming to Normal
I'm writing is to see if the Minonk area has a
girls summer softball program. One of my granddaughters will be playing in a
big highschool age fast pitch softball tourney at Ill, State Normal the
early part of August. There will be a lot of teams from throughout the
nation. Her team ,the "Bat Busters", are the champions from the Yorbe
Linda, Cal area. My son Christopher and family will be there but we won't
be attending. If there are any softball players in that area I'm sure they
would enjoy seeing some real great pitching. Tell any who may go to say
hello to Ashley Johnson, the catcher.
Albie Johnson
"Connie" made Chocolate Shop pies
A note about the Chocolate Shop run by Bob Morrison.....One of the original
workers of the Old Chocolate Shop, known to everyone as"Connie"
(Anna Konwinski), just turned 101 and is living at the Heritage Manor Nursing
Home. I am sure everyone remembers all the good pies they had at the
Chocolate Shop. Well, they were made by "Connie".
Karen Mooradian
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