TO MERGE OR NOT TO MERGE
A public forum on the proposed merger of the city and
county health departments will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 21, at
the Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 1601 E. Laurel St.
Leroy Jordan, former assistant superintendent of
District 186 and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at
Springfield, will serve as moderator. The event is co-sponsored by the
Springfield branch of the NAACP and the Sangamon County Medical Society.
The Sangamon County Health Department has offered to
take over the city’s health-department functions. City residents will
vote on the merger proposal on April 5.
VISIONS OF UNITY
As part of an annual rally to promote racial unity
and understanding, organizers are inviting central-Illinois students (third
grade through high school) to submit original art works and poems.
Any drawing or painting (up to two by three feet) or
poem (up to 40 lines) highlighting the theme of racial unity and
understanding may be submitted. Eighteen winners, eligible for prizes of
$20-$50, will be named, and winning entries will be published in Illinois Times. The deadline
is Friday, May 27. Send entries to “Vision of Race Unity
Contest,” P.O. Box 1841, Springfield, IL 62705.
A unity rally will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 5,
in the Capitol Rotunda. For more information about the contest or the
rally, call 217-544-9595 or visit www.springfieldbahai.org.
This article appears in Mar 17-23, 2005.
