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              SERVING THE PEOPLE OF HUNTLEY SINCE 1960
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THURSDAY APRIL 4,1996 - VOLUME 35, NUMBER 51 - HUNTLEY, ILLINOIS
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IT'S EASTER EGG HUNTING SEASON
Pictured above are children participating in tlie Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by the First Congregational Church last Sunday.
Planning Underway for Town Picnic
The Huntley Town Picnic committee has been meeting regularly at the Deicke Recreation Center, making plans for the 11th annual Town Picnic on Sunday June 23 in Deicke Park. Lots of new activities are being (Ided to the festivities. Donations nd sponsorships have been coming in, but lots more are needed. Some of the activities will include a Moon Walk sponsored by Huntley Chiropractic & Massage Therapy; a Caterpillar Crawl by Country Junction; a Duck Pond by Century 21-New Heritage II Realty; the Sea of Balls by Elgin Organization; a Dunk Tank by Huntley Firefighters Assoc; 9-hole Mini Golf by 1st National Bank of Marengo/Huntley Banking Center; an Exotic Zoo by JoAnn Jones Insurance; a Petting Zoo by Huntley Pioneers 4-H Club; a
Com Boil with an antique steam engine by Huntley Harvestors 4-H Club; Snowcone sales by Huntley High School Snowball; an Ice Cream Eating Contest by Huntley Dairy Mart; a Used Book Sale by Friends of the Huntley Library; a Penny Coral by Harris Bank/Huntley; a "Make & Take" animal visor booth by TLC Preschool; Sand Creations & Rootbeer Floats by Parkside Tap; a Revolutionary War Reenactment by Diane & Rusty Ayers; a Youth Slammer by Just Blinds; and monetary donations have been received by St Mary's Church, the Huntley Penguins Snowmobile Club, Marlowe Feed, American Speedy, King Chevrolet, Dean Foods and the Village of Huntley.
If you would like to be involved in any way, please call the park district at 847/669-3180.
Easter Egg Hunt Saturday, April 6 at Deicke Park
Search for Easter Eggs - meet the Easter Bunny when he arrives!
The Huntley Park District is having an Easter Egg Hunt this Saturday, April 6.
The egg hunt starts at 11:00 am for pre-schoolers, and 1:00 pm for grades kindergarten through 4. Pre-schoolers may come with older kids if they prefer.
No registration is necessary. A $1.00 donation will be collected.
Volunteer egg hiders are needed! Please call 669-3180 for more information.
EASTER BASKET GIVE AWAY
Can you guess how much pasta is in this jar? If you are right, Genoa Pizza on Route 47 in Huntley will give you this huge basket of prizes. The contest ends this Friday, April 5.
County Team Takes First Place
By Tim Hoeft
On Saturday, March 30th, 1996, McHenry County's 4-H Livestock Judging team traveled to Kishwaukee Valley College near DeKalb to compete in the district livestock judging contest. At this contest, the 4-Hers judged two classes of each; beef, swine and sheep, with four animals in each class. The object of livestock judging is to place the animals from first to fourth place base on quality and criteria. Some classes are judged as breeding animals and others are judged as market/meat animals. There were teams from eight area counties at the district contest.
McHenry County's 4-H team had place first overall with Huntley's
own Eric Ruth being awarded as the second place individual with an excellent high score of 331! Also in each of the livestock categories McHenry County had top placing individuals; Beef-Ben Dowell, Swine-Tom Linneman, and in Sheep-Eric Ruth and Tim Hoeft, both of Huntley, placed 1st and 2nd respectively. Also representing McHenry County were; Katie Danforth, Andrea Douglas, Katie Dowell, Manda & Noel Dowell, Holly & Jennifer Jacobs, Phil Ksiazek, Chris Little and Jason Veldhuizen.
The McHenry County 4-H Livestock judging team is not qualified to compete at the state livestock judging contest which will be held in June at the University of Illinois in Champaign.