Hinckley Update March 2013

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Hinckley Update March 2013
HINCKLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
6th Annual Dinner and Auction
Saturday, April 20
Hinckley-Big Rock High School
Tickets: $20
5:30 Silent Auction begins 6:00 Dinner served Live Auction begins after dinner
Tickets are available at: Historical Society Museum, Hinckley Library, Jack and Jina’s BP, Resource Bank, South Moon
BBQ, and from HHS members
Auction is open to the public
Don Austin will provide musical entertainment and Chris Wegener will be the auctioneer
We encourage the community to support your Historical Society by either making a donation to the auction or by purchasing a dinner ticket. We have some very dedicated volunteers working to put this event together but we need everyone’s help to make it a success. Proceeds from the auction are a major source of income to maintain the museum and
to support the preservation activities of the society. Donations are now being accepted and tickets are on sale. Call
George Hubert at 815-286-7434 with any questions.
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APRIL GENERAL MEETING- Open House for members and all Hinckley residents
Monday, April 8
7:00pm Historical Society Museum 145 E. Lincoln Ave.
Come out and learn what we are about and view the new exhibits on display (including the mastodon tooth found on a
farm near Hinckley). A group of members will be on hand to answer Hinckley related history questions and share information on resources available in the area for the beginning genealogists and old house researchers.
“HINCKLEY” photographic book of Hinckley by Barbara Diener
The author is a graduate student from Columbia College who has spent several months taking pictures around the village, interviewing residents, and publishing this book depicting small town life. Stop by the museum to view this book.
Orders will be taken through the time of the auction.
MUSEUM NEWS
Dolores Bastian has been working on a set of dioramas depicting the development of the Hinckley area from prehistoric
time to the present. She is currently working on the 3rd in the series which depicts the arrival of settlers to the area. Any
information you have regarding our very earliest settlers is much needed. Most desired are any drawings or photographs of home site locations, buildings, and people taken before 1850. Any later photos of the early settlers will be
much appreciated. Information or photos would be scanned and the originals returned to the lender with a 5x7 copy.
Also any historical anecdotes or stories you might have would add interest to our historical heritage.
Hinckley Historical Society Wish List
>We are looking for photos of the Samuel Miller family, William Sebree family and
David Legget family. We have photos of the Sebree and Eastabrooks families but additional photos are always welcomed.
>Do you have any old square cut nails used in buildings during 1800s? Any quantity
would be appreciated.
Contact Dolores Bastian with any donations or questions: 815-286-7270.
Jerry Bahl wants to thank everyone that got him pictures and or
slides from the Hinckley Prairie Pioneer Days Parade.
I recently spent a week in the hospital. It was unexpected, but I think it will turn out to have been a good thing.
I’d had a migraine headache which had started a couple of weeks into December and had never really gone away. I was
hoping that going to a specialist might get me a prescription for something stronger or more effective than what I had
been using that would help me finally shake this thing. I certainly hadn’t planned on being hospitalized, though! (First of
all, it just wasn’t good timing. I had important meetings, sermons to write, deadlines to meet, even a funeral I couldn’t just
hand off to a pastor the family didn’t even know. I had all of the usual excuses as to why I was “indispensable – “because
without me at work, the world just might stop turning!” Sound familiar? Anybody…?) Despite my protests, they finally
convinced me that it would be for the best, and I soon found myself admitted to a special wing of St. Joseph Hospital that
is entirely devoted to people with headaches. I suppose my brain understood consciously what was happening, but the
whole thing was so unexpected that I was still pretty much a “deer in headlights” for several days.
If you or someone you know has migraines, perhaps you’ve seen how debilitating they can be. There are many
of us who spend hours or even days at a time in a dark room with a bucket or trash can nearby, just in case it comes to
that… I get “post stress” headaches (meaning that I’m usually fine throughout a stressful situation – even if it’s a good
kind of stress, but once it’s over and I can relax, then the migraine sets i.n) And God forbid that I’m out of medicine, or I
didn’t have it with me, because after it gets started, right behind my eyes, it spreads all over until it feels like my head is
in a vice.
Although my migraines have been treatable with the medicine I’ve been taking for years, these headaches
make my life even less predictable than it already is, (a Pastor rarely has a day go quite the way it’s planned...) For almost 30 years, migraines have “held me hostage,” and stolen leisure time away from me, my family, and my friends. In
fact, even though I also have a relapsing/remitting form of Multiple Sclerosis, if you were to add up the number of hours
I’ve spent fighting a migraine, and compare that to the time my vision has suffered from a relapse in my MS, the headaches have actually been much more debilitating.
While in the hospital, I learned that the meds I had been taking – the ones that had been faithfully relieving my
pain for so long – had, for some reason, stopped working. But, even though I had been experiencing that, it didn’t make
sense… I was in complete denial – probably because I was terrified about what that might mean – and because there
was NO WAY I could live without being able to relieve that kind of pain! The idea that I had gotten to the point where my
over-use of the rescue medication had finally made it ineffective, didn’t really sink in. I thought that maybe I just needed
something extra to jumpstart it again; perhaps there was some great, new preventative which would even make it unnecessary to need it so much, because I just wouldn’t get so many headaches. The harsh realization that the “remedy” had
become the “culprit” had a hard time getting into my head. But the truth was, I had been taking it so often, for so long,
that it was giving me ‘rebound headaches.’ Taking the medicine had begun to actually cause as many headaches as it
was relieving. In order to get it out of my system, I needed to be hospitalized to ‘recalibrate’ the way my body responds
to headaches and the various possibilities for other remedies. In short, I had gotten myself into a rut, and I needed help
getting out.
The truth is that any of us can get into ruts. Sometimes we realize what’s happened, but don’t know what to do
about it. These ruts can be habits or routines - just the way we do certain things. It can be a specific lens through which
we tend to look at the world and can’t even conceive of seeing it any other way. Ruts can occur in relationships, and can
lead to problematic interactions within those relationships. In fact, it’s often the case that even if we don’t “like” these
ruts, we’ve become used to them, and we don’t even realize that there are probably better alternatives. Another common occurrence is that when alternatives to problematic behavior do appear, it usually isn’t because we’ve gone looking
for them. Strangely enough, this kind of thing usually happens when we least expect it. If these alternative responses
are successful, perhaps not having had the time to worry about the outcome, or build up a solid argument against it, is
one of the reasons it works!
I don’t really like the new medicine I came home with. The preventatives make me drowsy, and not clearheaded. They’ll take 4 to 6 weeks to build up to an effective level in my body. And evidently, they’ll have to ‘experiment’
with the various drugs to see which combination my body responds to the best. I don’t like people experimenting with
something that has become a life-line! I want some things to be predictable and certain! However, the medicine which,
once upon a time, had been ‘predictable and certain,’ was also causing damage to my body. I’d been taking way too
much of it for way too long. There are many more alternatives to treating migraines than there had been when I first
started needing medication, and I just hadn’t been aware of them.
I’ve found myself thinking lately about other ways in which I’ve gotten into ruts over the years – even if they don’t
develop into the kind of crisis this one had become. If the Mandarin symbol for “CRISIS” is made from the words:
“danger” and “opportunity,” then something about this whole thing actually makes sense. It really is easy to become so
entrenched in the fruitless habits we have formed that we don’t see the inherent danger. But it’s also easy to get so distracted by the danger of reacting differently to certain situations we’ve created that we miss the opportunity for “grace”
that is always present. Breaking free from any rut involves taking a risk. However, being courageous and wise enough
to take that risk when it’s necessary may land you on a much better path than you even knew existed! Thousands of
years ago, the prophet Jeremiah proclaimed God’s grace-filled promise to confused and frightened people: “For surely I
know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with
hope.” (Jeremiah 29.11) We all get into ruts once in a while – it’s our human nature. But there is always a way out –
and an encouraging, helping hand to guide you on the way!
Peace, Pastor Laura
Pastor’s Corner!
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Hinckley Lions Club
Hinckley Lions club holds regular meetings, first Thursday of
the month. Directors’ meeting
is the third Thursday of the
month. All meetings are held at
J&K’s Half Moon Tavern in
Downtown Hinckley
AA Meetings
Are you or someone you love struggling with
alcohol ? First United Methodist Church located at 801 N Sycamore St in Hinckley Welcomes 1st Timers to the Hinckley Big Book
Study group. It meets every Tuesday at
6:00pm.
Hinckley Area Food Pantry
The Hinckley Area Food Pantry serves
the communities of Big Rock, Hinckley,
Maple Park, and Waterman. Assistance
is available to you and your neighbors
the first and third Saturdays of each
month, from 8:00am to 9:00am.
The pantry is located at St. Paul’s
United Church of Christ, North View
and McKinley in Hinckley. (Please use
the View Street entrance.) For additional information call 815-286-7275.
Twisted Stitchers
Twisted Stitchers meets every Tuesday
morning at the library from 10 am until
noon. Anyone who knits or crochets or
would like to learn is welcome to
join. The group occasionally works on
special projects for charitable organizations as well as working on their own
projects.
You will be missed...
Olson, Dianna Marie
"Diane" Age 71 of Hinckley, IL passed away on
Tuesday, February 19,
2013 at her home. She
was born on March 23,
1941 in Prairie Du Chien,
WI the daughter of Charles
and Mary (Richter) Berger.
Diane was united in marriage on August 21, 1961
in Aurora, IL to Mr. Wayne
A. Olson and they spent
the next 51 happy years of
their lives together. Mrs.
Olson was employed, for
over 14 years until her retirement at Old Second
National Bank in Aurora,
IL. She enjoyed walking
and exercising. Diane was
a loving wife, mother,
grandmother, sister and
aunt who will be deeply
missed by her family and
many friends. She is survived by her husband,
Wayne Olson of Hinckley,
IL; her children, Daniel
Olson of Villa Park, IL,
Kathy Olson of AZ and
Tammy (Michael)
McQueen of Hinckley, IL;
her grandsons, Tyler Olson, Bailey McQueen,
Noah McQueen, Lucas
Olson and Sean Olson; her
mother, Mary Berger of
Prairie Du Chien, WI; her
brothers and sisters, Ron
Picco of Rio Rancho, NM,
Bill (Marge) Berger of
Aurora, IL, Jim Berger of
Aurora, IL, Darlene Berger
of Gilbert, AZ, Debbie Berger of Aurora, IL, Garry
Berger of Prairie Du Chien,
WI and Tim Berger of Albuquerque, NM; and her
special friend, Ole Lightning McQueen; as well as
many nieces, nephews,
great-nieces and greatnephews. Diane was preceded in death by her father, Charles Berger.
Church Information
Immanuel Lutheran Church News
Small group bible study 8 am, Adult bible study with a light
breakfast 9 am, Sunday school 9 am, Worship service
10:15 am, communion on 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays, Nursery
room available. Saturday evening service is at 5 pm.
Please join us for our Lenten services: Ash Wednesday
Feb 13th @ 7 pm followed by a fellowship hour. Lenten
services Wed. evening Feb 20th to March 20th all starting
at 7:30 pm followed by a fellowship hour.
First United Methodist Church
801 N. Sycamore St. Hinckley, IL. Morning Worship 9:30am
Christian Education 10:40am Nursery care available. AA
Meetings on Tuesday at 6:00pm
St. Paul’s United Church of Christ
All are welcome at morning worship 9:30am Sundays and
at the coffee fellowship immediately following. Each Sunday, choir practice is held at 8:30am
Library News!
A BIG thank you to everyone who has helped so far with the construction project, Summer Read donations, and 100th
birthday donations! Girl Scouts, you did a great job. Construction is ongoing and the donation list is still out, so if you
haven't had a chance to do your good deed for the day, stop by and see if there is anything you can do. I am constantly
encouraged by your generosity. Your donations help us provide services, programs, and materials for the community.
Here are some of those upcoming programs that might interest you:
Story Time is on Tuesdays at 12:45 and Wednesdays at 9:45.
If you like free movies, we're showing Wreck-It Ralph on March 15th at 4pm and Rise of the Guardians on April 10th at
4pm. There is also free popcorn and juice.
NIU's STEM program is visiting the library again Friday, March 22nd at 4pm for Squishy Circuits. Don't miss the fun experiments making circuits with Play Dough. We had a lot of fun last month with STEM's Kick-Off Party.
Come build with LEGO group on March 26th at 3:30.
And now a message from your friendly neighborhood Friends:
Join our "Centennial Celebration: A Century of Service!" Help us light up our birthday cake with 100 candles in celebration of our 100 years of providing library service to our community! The library can use your contribution to buy books,
audio books, DVDs, office supplies, and items for our children's programming. For each donation we will put a candle on
our cake and your contribution can be recognized with a book plaque.
The Friends now have a Facebook page. We are trying for 100 "likes" by National Library Week, which is April 14-20th.
We hope you will be one of them.
The Friends are working on a list of "people resources." If you would be willing to help with one of our projects i.e. 2
hours at the book sale, less than an hour hanging signs around town, baking for events at the library, etc. please contact
us via our email address [email protected] or call our President Anne Price at 630.809.5184 or Secretary Shirley
Wilhelmsen at 815.286.7218. You do not have to attend Friends meetings (but you may--we have a really good time).
The next Friends meeting will be Monday, March 19th at 7pm at the library.
Village News!
Regular Board meetings are
held on the first and third
Monday of each month at 7:00
p.m. at the Hinckley Village
Hall unless otherwise
stated. If the first or third
Monday is a holiday, then the
Regular Board meeting will be
held on the following Tuesday.
The Village Hall is located at
720 James Street.
Lions Club Hoops and Hams
THURSDAY MARCH 21, 2013
HOOPS AND HAMS RAFFLE IPAD RAFFLE
JK HALF MOON 7pm - ?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. Our recent
donations included $500 to the Hinckley Food
Pantry and $1600 to the Dekalb County Habitat for
Humanity from the Wilbur Bastian IPAD drawing.
We always welcome new members to join our
group. Find us on facebook.
Hinckley First United
Non-Profit Organization
Methodist Church
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Hinckley Parks and Recreation
Upcoming program starting dates:
Beginning Sewing (ages 8yrs.and up) Saturday, April 6-20/ 3 sessions NOTE DATE CHANGE-register now!
Jump Start Spring Soccer Training (grades 3-5)
Wednesday, April 3 for 2 sessions
These ongoing programs do not require pre-registration:
Yoga (high school-adult ages) meets every Wednesday at the Community Building, 120 Maple Street from 6:00-7:00pm
Zumba (all ages) meets every Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30-7:30pm and Saturday from 9:00-10:00am
at the Community Building, 120 Maple Street
The next program guide will be mailed with the water bills in April. There will be some great new programs offered this
summer for adults and children. Also…
2nd Annual Hinckley Parks and Recreation 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, June 8 - registration forms coming out soon
Program guides giving complete details are available at the Hinckley Village Office and the Hinckley Public Library.
They may be viewed online at www.hinckleyil.com click on parks. Questions? Call Kris at 815-739-1336 or email to
[email protected].
Summer Help Needed!!!
Hinckley Parks and Recreations is looking for a couple supervisors for summer programs. If you are a college age student , teacher off for the summer, or a parent that enjoys being with kids email Kris at [email protected] to
discuss details. We have programs we would like to offer but are in need of supervisors. Experience working with children and references required. Also we would like to offer a Social or Ballroom Dance program. The individual we were
to use is unavailable-if you know of anyone who teaches this type of dance contact Kris.