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This page is new to share information and dates of Current Events. No business advertising please.

If you have an event, class reunion, church celebration, community service, or anything that the community members of Odin (past or present) may want to know please contact: mgimbel@fairpoint.net or any one of the Odin Renewal & Development Committee (ORDC).


Calendar of Local Events 

Presented By The Odin Renewal & Development Committee

**Come out and Support Odin!

MAY 13, 2025 - ORDC Meeting  7:00 @ Odin First Christian
Church Fellowship Hall

ELECTRONIC RECYCLING - Saturday, April 26, 2025 & 
 
Saturday, October 25, 2025,  9:00 am to 2:00 pm

 
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ELECTRONIC RECYCLING
O
din Renewal and Development Committee

Saturday, April 26, 2025   &   October 25, 2025,        9:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Corner of Green & Kirkwood St., Odin IL

There will be volunteers at the site to assist in the unloading of items.
 

**** Note: We cannot accept TVs\without a small charge ****

·          Christmas lights

·          Vacuum cleaners/ Coffee makers/ Curling irons /Irons

·          Computers & component

·          Microwaves Small appliances

·          Electric heaters/ Electric motors

·          Electric weed eaters/ Fans

·          Fuse or breaker boxes
·          Anything with a cord

                **We do not accept: plastic, paper or glass** www.odinish

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GOOSE CREEK CLASSIC

5K & 10K RUN / 2.5K WALK & Kids-K

Presented by The Odin Renewal & Development Committee

Saturday, 24 May 2025

Registration Form  &  5K Course Description

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HELP US GET A GERERAL DOLLAR STORE IN ODIN!

Starting today, 12/18/24 the ORDC and the Odin Village Board have started a campaign to convince the Dollar General Corporate Office to place a store in Odin.  Last month the Village Trustees wrote a letter to the corporation and officially asked for a store. A Dollar General representative contacted Mayor Greg Smith several days later and said they would consider it but that it is unlikely to happen because the Salem DG store is 4.6 miles away.

The Dollar General Corporate website states, “DG is proud to be America’s neighborhood general store.”   Our response is – Then please give us a neighborhood store, in Odin!.

The people of Odin do not claim Salem or Sandoval or Centralia as their neighborhood.  Odin is our neighborhood and we have a site picked out on Highway 50 that is perfect for a new store.  We have a large enough population to support a store. Odin has people who want to work in the store. We have many people who would willingly shop at an Odin DG store for food and household items.

We are going to convince them to give us a store. Today we began circulating petitions for signatures and personal written stories that we will mail to the DG Corporation the first week of January.  There are 1565 residents off Odin Township. We urge everyone join our campaign by signing one of the petitions OR writing a personal note about why you want a store, how it will impact your family etc.

Here are the two forms if you want to print your own. There are many copies at the Village Hall and Pam will be encouraging everyone who enters the building to sign it. The form is going out to the churches and ORDC members have forms. We need your help.

Please return the forms to Odin Village Hall by 10 am on December 30. Our team will then send everything in a certified letter to the Dollar General CEO. If you have questions please contact our team leader, Vicki Vaughn at -- 618-231-5322 or send a message in Messenger.

**Come out and Support Odin!

ORDC--Odin Community Needs Survey

Click Final Report below for PDF of Report

FINAL REPORT -3/20/23

Community Needs Assessment of the Village of Odin

&

 Odin Township

by

Odin Renewal & Development Committee

 

O.R.D.C. - Caps  for Benches Project

This year ORDC decided to bring back the “Green Tree Plastics Caps Program” to gain enough caps to make benches for Odin school.  We are accepting all clean, dry caps from most containers shown below.