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Student events
2024 Friendship Fridays & Book Club
Friendship Fridays
January 5, 2024 - Speaker Deanna Jones from Lincoln Library
February 2, 2024 - Ground Hog Day - Games & Fun
March 8, 2024 - Tour YMCA
April 5, 2024 - What Art Feels Like Field Trip
May 10, 2024 - Kentucky Derby Party & Speaker Deana Corbin, Animal Protective League
June 7, 2024 - New City Refuge Ranch Field Trip
July 12, 2024 - Speaker Neil Williamson-Retired Sheriff of Sangamon County
August 9, 2024 - Speaker Mike Vetter - Book by Vincent Speranza WWII Veteran
September 6, 2024- Fishing with the Park District
October 4, 2024 - Pumpkin Creek Farms in Sherman Illinois
November 8, 2024 - Speaker Dana Duke of the Office of the State Fire Marshal
Birthday Party Celebrations for Everyone
December 6, 2024 - Christmas Party at First United Methodist Church
Book Club
January 19, 2024 - "In the Presence of my Enemies" by Garcia Burnham
February 16, 2024 - "Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell" by Robert Dugoni
March 22, 2024 - "Camino Island" by John Grisham
April 19, 2024 - "My Sister's Grave" by Robert Dugoni
May 24, 2024 - "Boys from Brazil" by Ira Levin
June 21, 2024 - "The Thread Collectors: A Novel" by Alyson Richman & Shauna J. Edwards
July 26, 2024 - "Astor" by Anderson Cooper
August 23, 2024 - "The Only Women in the Room" by Marie Benedict
September 20, 2024 - "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
October 18, 2024 - "Vanderbilt: The Rise & Fall of an American Dynasty" by Anderson Cooper
November 22, 2024 - "The Cyanide Canary" by Robert Dugoni
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