Fact, Fun & Fillips: August 26, 2010
What hurts us most in this job we’ve held for the past 50 years plus as a writer-photographer for the Pana News-Palladium, is the loss of friends – by attrition, or otherwise. And what pleases us most is what we’ve experienced in recent days, and running into months, has been the experience of renewing an [...]
Fact, Fun & Fillips: August 23, 2010
Nothing to write about? What to say . . . . .? So the thought has moved through our mind here in Pana recently! Then for the time since Wednesday last, we moved ourself from the area for an absence of Thursday, through the weekend to Sunday, for a trip to the beautiful Wisconsin area. [...]
Fact, Fun & Fillips: August 16, 2010
One of these days we hope, before we’re looking on from elsewhere, we hope someone or organization, will take, or something, on the job of setting up a program, physical memorial to the memory of our local favorite Pana claim to fame in the annals of Pana’s literary history – James Vincent Sheean! What brings [...]
Fact, Fun & Fillips: August 12, 2010
State Fair time . . . . . That too reminds us of another brother of the Pana Preihs family – Carl, an attorney and state representative in our growing up days here in Pana. John, a brother, also an attorney, we wrote about suggesting we start this column. And we did. Don’t know how [...]
Fact, Fun & Fillips: August 9, 2010
Folks, this, as far as the column is concerned, is one of those “clean out” the mailbag day, and other assorted items. First off, from Carnegie-Schuyler Library came two things. The first was a phone call from a personable gentleman, Tom Hundley, former Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent here in Pana doing research on a book [...]
Fact, Fun & Fillips: August 5, 2010
The friend and gentleman who helped FFF on possibly all the projects we had in the offing, while his health allowed him to, departs. Final services for our long time friend, Gene Gingery, were held this morning from St. Patrick’s Church at 10:00 a.m., with burial following in Calvary Cemetery. At one time, and we [...]
Fact, Fun & Fillips: July 29, 2010
From a dear friend of out California way! How time flies! We kept in touch by correspondence with Larry Stocker and Bill Klein while they were in Vietnam! “Hi Tom: “Didn’t make it back home for the 4th this year. Nothing quite like celebrating our country’s birthday in the heart of America! “Really enjoyed the [...]
Fact, Fun, & Fillips: August 2, 2010
Another friend of our lifetime, Joe Schmitz passes, and is surrounded by loved ones, friends and acquaintances today at St. Patrick’s. It is Monday morning! Not much time, we’ve had to think about the many good things to say about a good person in the short space of a weekend. As opposed to a lifetime [...]
Fact, Fun & Fillips: July 19, 2010
Wheee . . . . . All the new things, projects that pop up around the old town – while we’re, FFF, busy nosing around elsewhere . . . . .! Among the ongoing work is an attractive and practical job at the Land of Lincoln Credit Union (former Central Illinois Public Service/Ameren headquarters) 206 [...]
Fact, Fun & Fillips: July 15, 2010
Heard something lately on the demise of the newspaper industry. Don’t know if it should shake us all that much. But, at the same time it does shake us a bit down here in the ranks of community newspapering. Just think folks – and we say this humbly here on the foundation level, but actually [...]
