It will be history in action on April 12, when Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, Teddy Roosevelt and Charles Lindbergh, and Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lady Bird Johnson all will be presented at the Peoria Civic Center Ballroom to help…
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West Peoria News for April 2014
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April schedule for UnityPoint’s mammogram van
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Dunlap Library Happenings
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April 3 – 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.: Page Turners Book Club – We’ll be talking about “A Week in Winter” by Meave Binchy. Call Dunlap Public Library at (309) 243-5716. April 7 – 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. – Monday Morning…
Food Fight Invites Amateurs to Battle with Top Chefs in Meals on Wheels Fundraiser
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There’s a food fight coming to Peoria and you can throw your chef hat into the ring to compete with some of our area’s top chefs. Neighborhood House is sponsoring its first Food Fight to stop hunger on Thursday April 24th from…
Web services social media classes
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April 2 9-10:30 am – Social Media Marketing Made Simple (free) – Learn more about using social media for your business. Register: www.webservicesinc.net 1-3 pm – Getting Started with Email Marketing (free) – Are you using email blasts for your…
Primary vote March 18 has key proposition, few races
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Area residents will have the opportunity to vote on a key school-funding proposition in Peoria County and candidates for various offices in the March 18 General Primary Election. Although the top of the ballot has several contested races, few county…
Important election dates
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March 10 – Last day for any member of the U.S. Service, spouse and dependents to make application for an absentee ballot and the last day for the election authority to mail such ballot (not less than 10 days before…
Candidates double down in wake of gubernatorial primary
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With the primary just two weeks away, Republican candidates poke jabs and play politics in hopes of locking in votes. Rauner or Rutherford? As the race for Illinois’ top spot takes shape, two candidates have come to the forefront: one…
‘History of Medicine in Peoria’ to be presented at Osher Life-Long Learning Institute at Bradley University
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Testing the whooping cough vaccine on Dr. Hugh Macdonald’s family in the sultry summer of 1933, an illegal abortion in the late 1890s and Peoria’s famous Gold Institute for rehabilitation from liquor, opium and tobacco addictions are all storied accounts…