As days shorten, attention turns not just to football, but to such real life topics as harvest and preparation for winter. We tend to plan ahead more now than at any other time of the year. It’s a time of…
Columns
The Country Needs a Better Minimum Wage
by Bill Knight • • 0 Comments
Whether slinging hash at a fast-food franchise in Peoria Heights or clocking in day labor booked out of a downtown office, minimum-wage workers need better pay. The country needs a better minimum wage – and one that includes everyone who…
Shame on the city council — shame
by Billy Dennis • • 0 Comments
The Peoria City Council ought to be ashamed of itself. This was not a case of some street department worker caught leaning on his shovel. This was not some clerk at the finance department caught pocketing a buck. This was…
West Peoria News for September 2013
by Sharon McBride • • 0 Comments
The West Peoria Neighborhood Watch is again this year sponsoring the annual West Peoria Night Out Against Crime on Saturday, September 7th from 3:00 until 5:30 p.m. Other local organizations assisting are the City of West Peoria, West Peoria Township,…
‘Ransomware’ Scary Messages that Lock up Your Computer
by Tammy Finch • • 0 Comments
Our computer repair store in East Peoria has seen a rash of Ransomware computer threats. It’s not just here that this is happened. I read an article recently where a guy fell for the scam. He admitted to child pornography…
In like a flood
by Cheryl Courtney Semick • • 0 Comments
When I was a child, the nightly news seemed like a foreign movie. It seemed that everything bad and evil happened on the other side of the planet, far from our suburban home. When we went to church and heard…
Whatever our age, life is a classroom
by Sandra Dempsey Post • • 0 Comments
While my youngest child’s last time to celebrate the first day of a new school year, not counting college, was in 1994 as a high school senior, sentimentality reigns supreme for me each year when summer vacation ends and kids…
September 2013 Happenings
by Community Word Staff • • 0 Comments
Sept 1 – Grape Stomp & Harvest Festival from 12:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Mackinaw Valley Vineyard & Winery, 33633 State Route 9, Mackinaw. Call 309-359-9463. $5 per person/12 & under free. There is a harvest demo. Wine tasting all…
Peoria Park District September Activities
by Community Word Staff • • 0 Comments
Youth Piano Lessons Beginning in September – The Peoria Park District offers multiple sessions of Piano Lessons for ages 5-13, both beginner and intermediate, starting September 3 and 4 at Don’s Music Land. Beginner & intermediate mini-mester classes cost $38/residents,…
The full story on Peoria’s Betty Friedan
by Bill Knight • • 2 Comments
This Labor Day during the 50th anniversary year of the publication of the landmark “Feminine Mystique” by Peoria native Betty Friedan, one wonders, “What if?” What if more people knew of Friedan’s background – especially her years as a labor…