Archive of entries posted by Clare Howard
Rabbi outspoken on behalf of Palestinian people speaks in Peoria March 26
MLK Day Awards
For Immediate Release FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: January 21, 2019 Rita Ali, Chair, (309) 256-3300 Judy Page Receives MLK Commemorative Service Leadership Award The King Holiday Committee of Peoria presented its annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Service Leadership Award and MLK Drum Major Awards at the 35th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, …
Third Annual Women’s Rally Rescheduled!
RESCHEDULED TO 11 A.M. MARCH 9 OUTSIDE GATEWAY BUILDING, DOWNTOWN PEORIA For more information: Nancy Long nclong405@yahoo.com (309)868-9400 Jean Sloan fortuunate@gmail.com (309) 678-8099 The Third Annual Women’s Rally and March will take place beginning at 10:40 AM on Saturday, Jan. 19 outside at the Gateway Building in downtown Peoria, IL. The organizers of the march …
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SAVE PEORIA PUBLIC RADIO
For immediate release A meeting to craft strategy to save Peoria Public Radio from vanishing has been scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 5, at Lakeview Library, 1137 W. Lake Ave., Peoria. Concerned citizens are convening the meeting and the public is invited. According to news media reports, Bradley University plans to merge Peoria …
Food as a Value; Food as Medicine
Community Word has written about the wheat at Janie’s Farm Organics and how different it is from other commercially available wheat. Now that the Mill at Janie’s Farm Organics is up and operating, distribution is expanding and this month Naturally Yours at Metro Centre in Peoria began carrying the flour — just in time …
NAACP and AFSCME challenge Peoria city budget
BY CLARE HOWARD Approval of a city budget with elimination of more than three dozen union positions and implementation of a special fee on top of property-taxes triggered scrutiny by officials with AFSCME who reported they found an undisclosed $30 million fund. “It was behind a firewall,” said Sherry Carter-Allen, retired president of Local 3464 …
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Peoria Journal Star: ethical conflict?
Opinion & Analysis The Peoria Journal Star, under the editorial management of Dennis Anderson, published an editorial Oct. 21 endorsing Gov. Bruce Rauner. The editorial concluded Rauner is a much better choice for governor than his opponent JB Pritzker, and the editorial cited Pritzker’s level of “corruption” for the method he used seeking to lower …
Vote your power!
Helen King, left, with the Peoria NAACP, reviews voting at the Peoria County Election Commission with first-time voter Nae’Kirah Linwood before Linwood enters a voting booth. King and teacher Holly Nelson instruct students in the options class about the process and responsibility of voting. Five Manual students were first-time voters Tuesday at the Election Commission, …