Dear Brinley Mae, Your arrival into this world on September 13th has caused significant increases in Facebook postings, the use of cameras and recording devices, emails, texts, phone calls, prayers, and love spread all around. While you are currently capable…
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West Peoria News for October 2012
by Sharon McBride • • Comments Off on West Peoria News for October 2012
Check out the West Peoria 2012 Beautiful Yard winner. The winner is Keith Morrell; the outstanding yard is located at 613 N Sterling, corner of N. Sterling and W. Barker Avenues. The reward was very appropriately given to him. The…
4 Ways Job Seekers Can Use the Internet to Build a Better Career
by Tammy Finch • • Comments Off on 4 Ways Job Seekers Can Use the Internet to Build a Better Career
If this economy has thrown you back into the job market – or if you have decided that it’s the right time to make a career move – then you probably already know that the Internet could be your top resource…
Happenings for October 2012
by Community Word Staff • • Comments Off on Happenings for October 2012
Oct 5 – 14 – Twelve Angry Men – at Peoria Players Theatre, Peoria. Tempers are short, arguments grow heated and jurors become 12 angry men. Admission: $12 adults, $9 patrons 18 and under. Call 309-688-4473. Oct 5 – 27 – 13 annual…
Don’t shoot
by Roger Monroe • • Comments Off on Don’t shoot
Under the leadership of Mayor Jim Ardis, Peoria County State’s Attorney, Jerry Brady, Sheriff Mike McCoy and several others, Peoria is implementing a new program to combat youth violence. Badly needed in our city, it’s called “Don’t Shoot.” It was…
Super PACs Spent Big in Peoria
by Bill Knight • • Comments Off on Super PACs Spent Big in Peoria
Super Political Action Committees (super PACs) spent almost a quarter of a million dollars in the Peoria TV market during the campaign from January-March, records show, together paying $3.74 per vote for the March 20 primary. That’s lousy for democracy…
Change … The Only Certainty
by Community Word Staff • • Comments Off on Change … The Only Certainty
Every once in a while something comes along that changes everything. For example: in the mid seventeenth century, Dutch scientist, Antonin Van Leeuwenhoek, invented the first microscope. He could actually see previously unknown single-celled critters we now call microorganisms. This…
I am surrounded by death this month
by Billy Dennis • • Comments Off on I am surrounded by death this month
First, my Uncle Joe Binder died after a long illness. Uncle Joe was born in Hungary, but escaped to the United States in the 1950s to avoid having to serve in the Army. He met my Aunt Barbara in a bar in Peoria. He…
Alice Cooper Was Wrong?
by Cheryl Courtney Semick • • Comments Off on Alice Cooper Was Wrong?
Are you still in school? That’s a rhetorical question. The wisest man who ever lived told me you are. I am, too. We are all born into a classroom, and whether we learn or not, the lessons and tests will…
Introspection & common sense eventually helped allay feelings of inadequacy
by Sandra Dempsey Post • • Comments Off on Introspection & common sense eventually helped allay feelings of inadequacy
Back in the day, a euphemism for non-specific but multiple numbers of decades ago, school reconvened in September. More specifically, the day after Labor Day, regardless of the calendar date. With no regard to outside temperatures, we parochial school students…