What has been going on, you ask?

Jackie Butler has been working at It Takes a Village weekly to organize and sort our new donations and put them away.  During those days she opened to the public to "free" shop for items they needed. We've found that the weekly giveaways are a wonderful thing, we will continue this after we complete our transition from summer to winter clothing.

I want to give a special Thank You to Jackie Butler, Kim Conder, Jess Conder, Cheryl Melchi and Shawn Butler for volunteering on Thursdays. 

We participated in the  Sangamon River Music Festival this past August, in Mahomet IL. We had many wonderful raffle prizes (thank you to Abby LaBoyteaux for your prize donations), a 50/50 drawing, and a Duck Pond for the kids. The most important thing we took away from River Fest was getting our name out into the community. We've had a few contacts since then. 

A big THANK YOU to Abby LaBoyteaux for organizing this event! You're a Rock Star!! 

Enjoy our River Fest pictures below. 

Abby LaBoyteaux, Heather Denam, Jess Conder, Kim Conder

Day 2 - Abby LaBoyteaux

We were able to enjoy listening to Big Daddy Weave from our booth

Big Daddy Weave 

This Saturday we will hold our 1st It Takes a Village Central IL Annual Summer Garage Sale. We are selling our summer inventory for 50 cents a piece. With the money raised we will save it towards our Annual Christmas Giveaway. If you are local please come out and support us. If you are not local but would still like to help, please click the PayPal link on the top right of the page.

Today, Wednesday September 4th, I had an interview with The Mahomet Daily, an internet newspaper. I will post a link when the interview is published. 

We will be having our monthly Board Member meeting in a few weeks. If you have any questions, comments, complaints  concerns please send us an email at ittakesavillagemahomet@yahoo.com

God Bless,

Heather Denam - President