MATTOON — The Mattoon Community Food Center Catholic Charities is one of 13 different Central Illinois food pantries receiving a total of $25,000 from Land of Lincoln Credit Union.
Other food pantries that are receiving funds from this total include Feed Macon County Initiative (includes Catholic Charities of Decatur, Good Samaritan Inn, Northeast Community Fund, and Salvation Army), Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry (Pana), Western Avenue Community Center (Bloomington), St. John’s Lutheran Food Pantry (Effingham), Manna Storehouse Food Pantry (Springfield), CCBA Food Pantry (Centralia), 6:35 Food Pantry (Vandalia), Nokomis Food Pantry, and Salvation Army Food Pantry (Macomb/Colchester).
“Our mission at LLCU is to provide people with education and tools to achieve financial success,” stated Robert Ares, LLCU President/CEO. “But we also know that financial success cannot be achieved if people are facing food insecurity. This is why we feel it is important to provide resources to local food pantries. They provide these basic essentials to individuals in our communities who are in need and we want to support that work as much as possible.”
Remember these Mattoon locations?
Gas prices
1988: Super Pantry claims when their price reduction hit 69.9 centers that it ended the Mattoon gas war.
IL central depot
1977: This three-story building has served Illinois Central and Amtrak passengers in Mattoon for a half-century.
IL central railroad
1971: Crowds like this one in Mattoon in 1971 can still be seen along some Amtrak routes.
Kraft
1989: Kraft Foods plant where the Lender’s Bagels are made.
Lake Land Boulevard
1987: 57 trees were cut down on Lake Land Boulevard started a campaign to end the great number of trees cut down for no good reason by Dr. Stanley Thiel.
Lake Mattoon
1958: The new impounding reservoir about one mile west of Neoga is nearing completion and will be known as Lake Mattoon.
S&K
1990: Controller Don Portugal, left, and vice president Gary Stacey outside the Mattoon tool and supply firm of S&K Power Tool and Supply Corp.
Sculpture “In Southern Crossing”
1988: Dann Nardi’s sculpture “In Southern Crossing” inspires some Mattoon residents to appreciate such an artistic endeavor, while others are left scratching their heads in bewilderment.
St. John Lutheran
1956: Recent dedication of the new $400,000 St. John’s Lutheran Church. The first church was established in 1893 in what is now the Union Congregational Church. The congregation in 1921 purchased the present church at 14th St. and Broadway.
Wesley Towers
1977: This brightly-colored Patio Room is one of two restaurants the public an enjoy at Wesley Towers. The six-story Wesley Towers may be a retirement home but the first floor was designed to serve the community.
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