Summer is here; hopefully you are enjoying it.

Don’t forget to support your community in the next few weeks as the Rantoul July 3 and 4 activities will be taking place. Look for details in the Rantoul Press.

The following comes from my colleagues who outline my total thought process in attempting to be a good “C.O.P.” and the course that I will follow in life.

I would like to thank Rich and Phyllis Vogelsang for their kind gesture last week.

They decided to give my granddaughter four boxes full of green ware. She loves art work.

I ended up giving them to someone that could get them in a kiln after painting and glazing them. My granddaughter did not have the equipment to complete this challenge.

In the last few years, during the Boneyard Arts Festival, I visited abCU exhibitions and bought some artwork. abCU stands for letterforms (ABC) and Champaign-Urbana.

These letters are put together to create the abbreviated exhibition title. The abCU Letters, Words and Wisdom 2013 is the Champaign-Urbana Design Organization’s (CUDO’s) fourth annual typography exhibit and fundraiser.

School is out, and children are everywhere. What a happy sight!

I loved the summer vacation with my sons. I enjoyed long walks with them, loved grilling hot dogs and hamburgers with them.

I really miss those days. We walked everywhere back then because I didn’t drive, and still don’t.