This document printed from the University
of Illinois Extension Tent Poles at http://www.extension.uiuc.edu/macon/
Back To School Time For Most Folks At This Time of Year…
September 10, 2003
Rexlyn Nicole
Community and Economic Development Program Coordinator
Macon County Unit 2535 Millikin Parkway
Decatur, IL 62526
Phone: 217-877-6042
FAX: 217-877-4564 rxnicole@uiuc.edu
Are you taking advantage of furthering your education? Whether it is a strict regimen of classes or just a class for fun why not call your local community college, Project Read office or Public Library and see what you can do to enlighten yourself…widening one's circle of learning is always a good thing…get busy…and use the fall for taking a bite of the apple of knowledge…you will be glad in the long run that you did!
If you look at life as a tent, do you know the importance of tent poles? When putting up the tent, the tent poles are hard to deal with, they are cumbersome and yet without them, there is no tent. The tent poles are there for support. They are the backbone of the tent. They are the foundation of the cover against the storm while camping. Tent poles are in your every day life as well. They are there propping you up when times are tough. Do you know who and what your tent poles are?
