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FUTURE EVENTS * Upper Vandalia Historical Society will have its quarterly meeting at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Putnam County Board of Education office in Winfield. Guest speaker will be Sally Fletcher Holliday of Hurricane, who will discuss her book, "Ray of Hope." Nonmembers are welcome.
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