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By Editor | January 20, 2021
President William McKinley, our nation’s 25th president, was assassinated July 4, 1891, by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, while he stood in a receiving line in the “Temple of Music” at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. My columns always deal with Fayette County connections, and there is a connection between this event and Vandalia resident Olivia Yoos Burtschi, Mary and Josephine’s mother. Remembered as historians and preservationists, Josephine and Mary were daughters of Joseph Burtschi and founders of the Vandalia Historical Society. Olivia was the daughter of Adam Yoos, an Effingham merchant whose store was a short distance from the railroad station.
Caring & Sharing
By Editor | December 30, 2020
Christmas baskets were again provided through Fayette County Caring & Sharing, albeit in a different fashion due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the distribution of this year’s baskets in Vandalia, families were given their baskets in a drive-through manner, instead of walking through the Mother of Dolors Catholic Church Parish Center with volunteers. And while the altered operations got clothing, food and Christmas toys as always, it didn’t have quite the same feel for a woman who helped start the program and has been part of it for the past 40 years, or for the families.