Archive for March, 2009

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UPDATE: This article was edited slightly to further explain candidate Beth Akeson’s position regarding the sale tax increase referendum on the April 7 ballot. With the elections for Peoria city council and the Peoria District 150 school board less than one week away, candidates are touting their issues on voters’ doorsteps. Although voter turnout this spring...
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Cal Rychener is senior pastor at Northwoods Community Church. He and his wife and children came to Peoria from Indiana in March of 1990 so he could pastor the newly formed congregation. The first service was held March 25th at the Christian Center in Peoria. A second morning service was added six months later....
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As I write this month’s column my dear and close friend, Royce Elliott, is a patient in CCU at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. He’s recovering after collapsing at home. He had a close call, but when I visited him, he was smiling and, not so surprisingly, even managed to get off a few...
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Openness returns in time for Earth Day Unlike the mindless chatter from the Right that Progressives ooh and aah over everything President Obama does, there are serious misgivings about some of his decisions, such as appointing Timothy Geitner as Treasury Secretary and sending 17,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. But at least this White...
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We just had to stop the car, turn around, and go back. A flash of white had captured our attention as we were driving past a stand of oak and hickory trees. It turned out to be a beautiful stand of snow trilliums, in full bloom, covering a north-facing slope. This is a spring...
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I’m going to preface this segment by saying that I do not believe police officers are above the law. It is NOT my position that claims of police brutality are always bogus. Likewise, I do not believe that when officers are accused of brutality, that the charges MUST be true. I do not know if...
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by Gloria Cassel-Fitzgerald  Understanding the present economic situation in the United States and feeling the $ crunch as others; I give respect to this closing. But as Black Americans time has changed also and stores with names such as this brings sad historical memories.  The Plantation’s Stores’ name brings with it...
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by Merle Widmer, Peoria County Board Member and local blogger In the October, 2007 issue of the Community Word, Roger Monroe wrote a column titled, “Peoria Chiefs Have a Great Run.” “What a great year with Ryne Sandberg as manager, the Chiefs set some attendance records.” Monroe continues “Despite claims by a malcontent (me)...
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