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Metamora

Stop by Metamora’s Farmers Market on Saturday mornings from 8:00 a.m. - noon.  Pick up locally grown vegetables and melons, along with a variety of other vendors offering baked goods, jewelry, and more!

Spring Bay

The Peoria Izaak Walton Farmers Market takes place every Wednesday evening from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at 1125 Spring Bay Road (Rte. 26).   Everyone is invited to shop for fresh vegetables, crafts, DBD, and more.  A sanitation station is provided.   Food and beer are also available.  For vendors, call Tom Miller at 309-338-7265.

Back to school means back to reading 20 minutes per day. If you have to do it anyway, why not get rewarded for it?  The Metamora branch of the Illinois Prairie District Library will host a Back to School Burst Reading Program!  It is a fast, two-week program designed to jump-start your daily reading! 

This program takes place at 12:00 p.m. each day starting on August 17th and running through August 31st.

The Willow Hill United Methodist Church is giving away free sack lunches to children on Monday, August 3rd, and Monday, August 10th from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  (or until lunches are gone).  The sack lunches will be distributed at Germantown Crossing (near Dollar General).  One lunch per child.

The rain dates are Tuesday, August 4th and August 11th.

Make your plans now for a fun-filled night with The Boat Drunks at the Spring Bay American Legion  KDB Center Stage at 500 Legion Road!  Taking place on Saturday, August 29th from 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

A full outside bar will be ready to serve you along with a limited food menu.  The cover charge is $10.00.  There is plenty of room for social distancing. So, bring your lawn chairs, and come out!

With no Ice Cream Social or Pancake & Sausage Breakfast this year, the Annual Snyder Village Benefit will feature an online-only auction.  Online bidding begins September 12th and ends September 26th at noon.  

The website for the auction is www.charityauction.bid/sv2020benefitauction. Beginning Monday, September 7th, auction items can be previewed on the website and bidders can register.  The auction will feature a wide variety of items and will include a “Buy It Now” option.  

An old-fashioned Village Market will be held on Saturday, September 19th, at the Metamora IGA from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.   Look for more details in the September issue of Connected!

Anyone interested in supporting this important fundraiser with a cash donation, an item for the auction, an item for the Village Market, or gift cards for prizes worth between $10 and $25, please call the Snyder Village Development Department at 309-366-4116 to arrange for pick-up or drop off.

Woodford County Special Education Association is seeking substitute teachers and substitute paraprofessionals for the 2020-2021 school year for our programs located throughout Woodford County.  If you have a teaching or teacher sub-license you qualify to sub as a teacher, or if you have a paraprofessional license you qualify to sub as a paraprofessional.  If you need a license to sub, first contact the Tazewell/Woodford/Mason Regional Office of Education to apply for your sub teacher or paraprofessional license, then send a resume to Stacey Scott, WCSEA secretary at sscott@wcsea.us or call 309-367-4901 for more information.