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Memorial Day observances set to go The new Veterans Memorial that will be dedicated on Memorial Day at Bryn Zion Cemetery. Courtesy photo Memorial Day in Cardington this year will have a double meaning. The program. to be held in Glendale Cemetery on May 31 will include a rededication ceremony of the Civil War Monument. The event will begin with a parade that will step off at 1 p.m. from the American Legion Post Home on Park Avenue and proceed to the cemetery. The parade will include a color guard made up of members of the American Legion Post 97, Squadron 97 of the Sons of the American Legion and Auxiliary Unit 97. They will be followed by veterans, Civil War re-enactors, the Cardington-Lincoln High School marching band, village officials, a riderless horse, a bagpipe player and local fire, police and EMS vehicles. ....
Photo courtesy of August Appleton Dozens of paintings by the late folk artist George Colin are stored in August Appleton’s law office. It wasn t Al Capone s secret vault, which proved an overhyped dud that held a few empty bottles and not much else. This was more colorful – and valuable. Chris Schaller, a former mortgage broker who awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to wire fraud last year in federal court, had a taste for artwork by the late George Colin, who made his home in Salisbury and died in 2014. Schaller was such a fan of Colin s work that he acquired more than 100 paintings, dozens of which now sit in the office of August Appleton, a Springfield lawyer who spent years battling Schaller in Menard County Circuit Court on behalf of Dan Fricke. ....