The Taylorville Kiwanis Club heard from a budding Taylorville author, during their weekly meeting Tuesday at the Taylorville Moose Lodge.  

Noah Nelson is completing his junior year at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, majoring in journalism and minoring in political science and history.  Thru Amazon, he’s written a book entitled “Life:  A Collection of Short Stories”, which Nelson says contains both real and fictional stories about his life.  

The Taylorville High School grad told Kiwanis members that since one of his grandmothers was an author.

He added since he loves to read books and write, he’s trying his own book.  Nelson added it’s been a wild and fun journey.  

Nelson already had some 20 to 30 short stories written, so he selected some of them for his 50-page paperback book.    Nelson’s career goal is to be an author or writer.

His book can be purchased on Kindle or paperback, by searching his title at Amazon-dot-com.

The public is reminded to donate non-perishable food and cash donations for the Taylorville Food Pantry, at this Saturday’s Kiwanis Drive-Thru Donation Day at the Miller Media Group front parking lot on East Park Street.

And, Kiwanis Club members are reminded of next Tuesday’s Annual Prayer Luncheon where the Outstanding Spiritual Leader in the Taylorville community will be named. 

The Taylorville Kiwanis Club is part of global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time.  Weekly meetings are held Tuesdays at noon at the Taylorville Moose Lodge.  For information on the club, go to taylorvillekiwanis.com.