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Boone County’s week of giving was wrapped up Saturday, Dec. 7, and the total donations as of Tuesday morning stood at $442,433 given to 37 county projects and organizations.

Every year during Christmas season, Samaritan’s Purse, a global evangelical Christian ministry, provides “Christmas Shoeboxes” for needy children worldwide. Since 1993, the ministry has collected and delivered over 220 million shoeboxes, to children in over 170 countries.

The Albion community hosted an American Red Cross Blood Drive on Monday, Nov. 4, where 89 units of blood of life saving blood were collected from 78 donors.

Bill Schriver, an active member of the Albion community for more than 50 years, was named the 2024 Living Veteran by local veterans’ organizations at Monday’s Veterans Day ceremony in the Boone Central Gym.

On Saturday evening, the Petersburg Fire Department and Rescue Unit held their annual awards night and banquet. Among the awards was a special golden axe plaque presented by Fire Chief Baumgartner.

The weekend time switch added an extra hour of daylight Sunday, November 3 for more than 300 to find their way through rural Albion country roads for the 41st annual Immanuel Zion Lutheran Church (IZ) soup and pie supper.

On Wednesday, Oct. 23,, seventh and eighth graders from Boone Central Middle School focused on the “Pay It Forward” theme during their annual Retreat Day.

On October 28, 2024, Albion’s local Girl Scout Troop helped in their group effort to support the planting of 5,000,000 trees in North America.