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…
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Web services social media classes
by Community Word Staff • • Comments Off on Web services social media classes
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
by Bill Knight • • Comments Off on Primary vote March 18 has key proposition, few races
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
by Sara Browning • • Comments Off on Candidates double down in wake of gubernatorial primary
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
by Clare Howard • • Comments Off on ‘History of Medicine in Peoria’ to be presented at Osher Life-Long Learning Institute at Bradley University
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…
Happenings for March 2014
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Mar 5 – “Constitutional Orphan: The 19th Amendment and Gender Equality” lecture at Bradley University at 7:00 p.m. in Neumiller Lecture Hall in Bradley Hall. Paula Monopoli, professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law where she…
West Peoria News for March 2014
by Sharon McBride • • Comments Off on West Peoria News for March 2014
Thus far in 2014, the West Peoria Neighborhood Watch has heard from Lt. Jason Buckley, Sheriff’s Office, in January when he presented information on new State of Illinois laws and fines that went into effect on January 1, 2014. He…
Miscellaneous stories for March
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Mar 6 – Page Turners Book Club – 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. @ Dunlap Public Library. Discussing “Orange is the New Black” by Piper Kerman. Call 243-5716. Mar 10 – Monday Morning Book Club – 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. at the…
Women’s issues in March at Bradley University
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Paula Monopoli Lecture “Women, Gender and the Law” Women’s Studies 2013-2014 Series, Neumiller Lecture Hall, Bradley Hall, 03/05/14 7:00 p.m. Constitutional Orphan: The 19th Amendment and Gender Equality This lecture will focus on the years immediately preceding and following the passage and ratification…