In one of three stops in the U.S, Professor Frédéric Worms of the Ecole Normale Superieure University of Lille III, will lecture at Bradley University on November 7 at 6 p.m. in the Marty Theater in the Michel Student Center, located at 915 N. Elmwood Ave. His topic will be “The Two Senses of ‘Care’ and Bergson’s Two Senses of ‘Life’.” The event is free and open to the public.

Professor Worms is the director of the Centre international d’étude de la philosophie française contemporaine (CIEPFC) at the renowned Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. A specialist of Henri Bergson, he is the coauthor with Philippe Soulez of a commanding biography of the philosopher. He has just published a book on the ethics of care (Le moment du soin) in which he attempts to expand the notion of care that has been a noted aspect of ethical thought coming out of Anglo-American feminist thought.

The event is sponsored by the French Consulate with support from Bradley’s Intellectual and Cultural Activities Committee, and the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.

Thomas J. Donohue, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, will give the keynote address at the Midyear Commencement Ceremony at Bradley University on December 17.

Mr. Donohue will be awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters during the ceremony that begins at 10:00 a.m. in the Renaissance Coliseum on campus.

“Thomas Donahue is a distinguished and accomplished professional who will bring tremendous inspiration to our students as they complete their Bradley experience and embark on their careers,” said Bradley President Joanne Glasser. “We are privileged to welcome him to Bradley to speak to our graduates and their families.”

Since assuming his position in 1997, Mr. Donohue has built the Chamber into a lobbying and political powerhouse with expanded influence across the globe. He has aggressively advanced a competitiveness agenda that includes doubling U.S. exports in five years, strengthening capital markets, forging a national energy strategy, reforming health care and education, and protecting intellectual property rights.

Donohue spearheaded the creation of the American Free Enterprise. Dream Big. campaign, a positive, long-term program to defend, protect and advance the free enterprise system. During his tenure, the Chamber’s lobbyists, policy experts and communicators have helped secure many legislative victories, including major tax cuts, more sensible workplace and environmental regulations, and increased funding for transportation. On the international front, the Chamber has become a leader in removing trade barriers, winning new free and fair trade agreements, and fighting isolationism at home and abroad.

Donohue established the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, which has won significant legal reforms in the courts, at the state and federal levels, and in elections for state attorneys general and supreme court judges. He has also launched a number of multimillion-dollar initiatives around several key issues, including a national energy strategy, stronger capital markets, and protection of intellectual property.

Previously, Donohue served 13 years as president and chief executive officer of the American Trucking Association, the national organization of the trucking industry.

He serves on the boards of directors for Union Pacific Corporation and Sunrise Senior Living Corporation and is president of the Center for International Private Enterprise, a program of the National Endowment for Democracy dedicated to the development of market-oriented institutions around the world.

Gary R. Roberts, Dean of the Indiana University School of Law and a 1970 Bradley graduate, will give the commencement address at the Midyear Commencement Ceremony for the Bradley University Graduate School.

The ceremony will be held at 7:00 p.m. December 14 in the Markin Family Recreation Center on campus.

Roberts is the on-air legal analyst for the NFL Network. In that capacity, he appeared in many media outlets regarding the NFL strike, including The New York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post, and he has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, ABC’s Nightline, CBS Evening News, ESPN’s Sports Center and other prominent television broadcasts.

Dean Roberts joined Indiana University in the summer of 2007. He graduated at the top of his law school class from Stanford Law School and then clerked for the Honorable Ben C. Duniway on the U.S. Court of Appeals in the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco before entering private practice. He worked for Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C., where he engaged in antitrust, sports, labor, contract and trademark litigation.

Before going to IU, he was a faculty member at Tulane University Law School for 24 years, where he directed the Sports Law Program and served as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs.

He has taught sports law, antitrust, labor law and business enterprises. A recognized expert in sports law, he has published several articles and book chapters on antitrust, labor and other issues in the sports industry, and has co-authored the leading casebook on sports law. Dean Roberts has served as president of the Sports Lawyers Association and as chairman of the AALS Sports Law Section. He is currently an officer and board member of The Sports Lawyers Association and is editor-in-chief of its monthly online newsletter, The Sports Lawyer. He has served for many years on committees for the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Bradley senior Kathleen Clemens will receive the Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award for excellence in curricular and extracurricular activities during the Lincoln Academy of Illinois’ annual Student Laureate Convocation on Saturday, November 5, at the Old State Capitol State Historic Site in Springfield.

Clemens, a native of Tinley Park, will receive a Student Laureate Medallion, along with an honorarium check and certificate of achievement. This marks the 37th year students have been honored by the academy.

Clemens has been active on campus as a Residence Advisor on Bradley’s residence hall staff, as a member of LINCS, a senior leadership group, and served as Director of Pan-Hellenic Recruitment. She attended Victor J. Andrew High School.

The Lincoln Academy, unique among the 50 states, was established 46 years ago to honor Illinois’ most distinguished citizens with the state’s highest award, the Order of Lincoln.

During National Family Week (November 19-26), Hopedale Wellness Center is offering $20 Family Guest Passes which give families use of the entire facility as well as participate in programs at member rates throughout the week. A Family Pool Party will also be held on Saturday, November 19 from 1-3 p.m. The event is free with Wellness Center membership or $5 per family for non-members.

After National Family Week ends, families taking part in the promotion will be able to join Hopedale Wellness Center with no initiation fee and $20 applied to their first month of membership. When paid in full families will receive an additional one month free on a six-month contract, or two months free on a 12-month contract. This offer expires November 30.

We are very proud of the Wellness Center and think it’s a great place for families to spend quality time together and stay active,” said Melissa Mohr, Membership Coordinator for Hopedale Wellness Center.

Since 1955, the Hopedale Medical Complex has been consistently recognized for its excellent and compassionate healthcare services to its patients and residents of our surrounding communities. What started as a 20-bed hospital has become a multi-faceted medical complex that includes Hopedale Hospital, Hopedale Commons, Hopedale Nursing Home and Hopedale Wellness Center.

Sister Noreen

( A variety of handmade and other items will be available at the annual fall bazaar sponsored by The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis.

When: Friday, November 18 @ 9 AM – 5 PM,
Saturday, November 19 from 9 AM – 2 PM

Where: The Motherhouse, 1175 St. Francis Lane, East Peoria (Access road #14 off of Route 116)

Among the items to be offered for sale are Christmas ornaments; unique jewelry; a variety of toys including yoyos, snakes and dinosaur plaques; min gazing balls; handmade items.

All proceeds will be used to assist the poor.

A suspense film often recalled mostly for its haunting score, “The Third Man” will be the only feature film in November at downtown Peoria’s nonprofit Apollo Theater, which is screening the 1949 gem on Saturday, Nov. 12.

Anton Kara featured the zither in his chart-topping “The Third Man Theme,” but the critically acclaimed movie produced and directed by Carol Reed is also memorable for its screenplay, written by one of the 20 th century’s most respected novelists, Graham Greene, and its core cast.

Joseph Cotton, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard star in “The Third Man,” which follows a jobless pulp writer (Cotton) as he arrives in post-war Austria only to find that the friend who invited him (Welles) has apparently been killed in a weird traffic mishap. Set in Vienna, partitioned by the Allies and home to a booming black market, the film shows the effort to find the truth behind the death.

Reed’s filmmaking career ran the gamut from “Oliver!” to “The Agony and the Ecstasy”; Greene’s novels included “The Quiet American,” “This Gun for Hire” and “The End of the Affair.”

Show time at the Apollo is 7:00 p.m. Donations are $5 and $4 for kids, students and seniors. For details call (309) 673-4343.

Interactive event unites children and the elderly

Apostolic Christian Skylines and Myah’s Just 4 Kids Learning Center are proud to co-host an interactive event, Bridging the Gap: In Their Shoes, on November 11, 2011 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. The event will take place at Myah’s Just 4 Kids Learning Center’s new facility, located at 114 West Forrest Hill Avenue, Peoria, IL 61604.

This interactive event is designed for children to learn about the physical aging process through a unique simulation activity. Putting themselves in the shoes of the elderly, children will experience firsthand what it means to age with a variety of education tools, all provided by Advocates for Access. These tools will allow the children to experience how their vision, hearing, and mobility will change as they grow older.

While the goal is to bridge the gap between the senior citizens and children, this event will also provide parents with the tools to continue the conversation with their children about aging. Education is important to facilitate outside the classroom.

This event is part of a public relations campaign created by Fine Design PR, a group comprised of four senior public relations students at Bradley University. The goal of the campaign is to educate children on the physical and mental processes of aging, and ultimately, bridge the gap between children and the elderly.

Local media personalities, elected officials to join lawmaker in serving breakfast to say thanks

Rep. Jehan Gordon (D-Peoria) will be hosting a free Veterans’ Appreciation Breakfast on Saturday, November 12 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the American Legion Post 2 Hall located at 110 E. McClure Ave. in Peoria. Several area media personalities, elected officials and community leaders will serve as waiters for veterans at the breakfast.

“Everyday we go to work, school, or spend time with our family, while members of our military face threats to life and limb in order to protect us and others from harm,” Gordon said. “I would like to show a small token of my appreciation by hosting a free pancake breakfast for our veterans and current military men and women, as well as their loved ones.”

Veterans and their family members will be able to come to the American Legion Post 2 Hall for a free pancake breakfast that will include pancakes, sausage, juice and coffee. Gordon will be joined by local Peoria dignitaries to help serve veterans and current military.

“With so much dissension between political parties and groups in our country, we must recognize the issues that unite us, the first among these are making sure our veterans and the brave men and women in our military have the resources and support they need at home, I want them to know how much we appreciate them,” Gordon added. “I look forward to being joined by community leaders from every sector in acknowledging the sacrifices made by our veterans.”

For more information about Rep. Gordon’s Veterans Appreciation Breakfast, please contact Rep. Gordon’s constituent services office at 309-681-1992 or e-mail her at repjgordon@gmail.com.

State Rep. Jehan Gordon (D-Peoria) will be at Advanced Medical Transport (AMT) to present her October “Good Neighbor” Business of the Month Award.

Bernadine Nolan of the Columbia Terrace Neighborhood Association nominated Advanced Medical Transport. Nolan nominated AMT for supporting neighborhood associations across the city financially, as well as providing monthly meeting space.

“When community members think of a business that is a “good neighbor” Advanced Medical Transport is always one of the first ones that come to mind because of all of the support that they offer to neighborhood associations,” Gordon said. “I want to thank AMT for the providing meeting space, financial support for activities, and other resources to community leaders who are trying to make our city a better place to live.”

For more information about Gordon’s “Good Neighbor” Business of the Month Award, or to receive a nomination form, please contact Rep. Gordon’s constituent services office at 309-681-1992 or e-mail her at repjgordon@gmail.com. Nomination forms are also available at her website, www.housedem.state.il.us/members/gordonj.

What: October “Good Neighbor” Business of the Month Award Presentation
When: Thursday, November 3 @ 3:00 pm
Where: Advanced Medical Transport, 1718 N. Sterling Ave., Peoria