Plus, Peoria Mayor Rita Ali and Police Chief Eric Echevarria will speak at TRIAD event this month; ride CityLink, visit Cat; Trunk and Treat at City Hall
West Peoria News: Rocky Glen is our very own little Starved Rock
New Graceland senior center here to help us live life together
Graceland Center for Purposeful Living here to help older adults “Age with Vitality.” Check out the Life Together Center from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesdays
Gill: Contradictions in politicians’ trust in parents
First, many conservative politicians and public authorities do not trust parents to make appropriate decisions for their children concerning medical care. Second, they are all too willing to listen to parents who not only want to restrict their own children from exposure to certain library materials, but who also want to make these decisions for everyone else’s children.
Golden Voice lives – LIVE: iconic local studio featured Oct. 8 at Riverfront Museum
Afternoon event will feature music by local acts and memories from studio that recorded Dan Fogelberg, Head East, REO Speedwagon, Starcastle and Styx in 1960s-70s
Arts Alerts: Natural exhibits at Contemporary Arts Center; Blue Ridge Farm concert series; art and music at BU; see ‘Clue,’ ‘Jeckyl and Hyde,’ Destry Rides Again’
Two nice natural exhibits run through Oct. 14 at Contemporary Art Center; Two concerts left at Blue Ridge Farm near Chillicothe; Brazilianaires playing at CAC on Oct. 27; ‘Clue: On Stage’ at Barn III; ‘Jekyl & Hyde: The Musical’ at Peoria Players; ‘Destry Rides Again’ at Cornstock this month
Crisis in child care: How can we leave these kids behind?
Crisis in affordable child care could get way worse next month with the end of federal pandemic aid for child-care centers and parents
Baby steps: Here’s what we can do to make child care more available, affordable
Peoria County has the capacity to meet families’ child-care needs, according to a report from Birth To Five Illinois, a group launched by the state and the Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
Inland Art: ‘Synthetic Being’ — petri dishes of paint
‘Synthetic Being’ by Vera Scekic spread through Contemporary Art Center recently with moderately sized paintings, full of forms reminiscent of petri dishes repeating across colored surfaces, recalling the ringed expressions of laboratory tables.
Heat Waves — In Red & Black: Another summer of discontent
The Lion’s Den: Colorful collections of African bull-doggers, movie stars valuable bounty of Wild, Wild West
Bass Reaves and Bill Pickett laid the groundwork for the likes of Lou Rawls, Harry Belafonte and Sydney Poitier in tales from how West was won is a large part of Black history
Nature Rambles: There’s more than meteors lighting up our night sky
As you wait for shooting stars, you notice other lights in the night sky. Planes fly overhead on their 30,000-foot flight path. Their blinking lights stand out against the pinpoints of starlight. Higher in the heavens, Starlink satellites reflect the sunlight from their orbit some 340 miles above the Earth surface
Labor roundup: UAW says Big 3 can afford demands; nurses, grad-students organizing
All three corporations reported hefty profits last year: operating incomes of $9.2 billion (Ford), $13 billion (GM), and $15.2 billion (Stellantis). So the union is demanding some share in the profits their members produce.
Arts Alerts: Fine Arts Fair Sept. 23-24; ‘Beautiful: The Carole King Musical’ at Peoria Players; ‘Chicago’ at Eastlight
A combined art reception featuring live music from Projekts is set for Sept. 16 at the Contemporary Art Center
Straight Talk: Kayaks? Get serious about our Riverfront
Another $15-$26 million going to developing Peoria’s shore. Let’s begin with some gorgeous landscaping and benches to enjoy the riverboat traffic
Letters: About Roger Monroe and his radio show
I assert that Mr. Monroe should pony up advertising dollars every time he “give[s] a plug on [for] our morning show ‘Breakfast with Roger and Friends’ ” in his column for The Community Word (née, West Bluff Word). His radio…
Letters: Remembering when we helped Moss Bradley shine
Seems only yesterday I was elected the first president of a then-rejuvenated Moss Bradley Residents Association. We decided on the name Moss Bradley because the neighborhood ran from Moss to Bradley. It was only years later did we realize the…
Letters: Disturbing parallels with ex-president
Donald Trump’s legal troubles should not be so hard nor drawn out. As a lay citizen, I do not know why it was fairly simple to lock Matt Hale up for the rest of his life, while Trump continues to…
Bill Knight: Our streets have actually been safer this summer
Following national trends, homicides in Peoria started dropping last year after more than doubling between 2020 and 2021. They are down 21% in Peoria since July
West Peoria News: Young minds center moving into Heddington Oaks
Carle Health affiliate Trillium Place offers comprehensive youth-based inpatient behavioral health care; plus WPFD Family Day and Golf Classic set for September