By Doug Day Three dramas were performed locally in November. I met with Charles Brown at the Broken Tree Cafe on Main Street to learn about his experience being a guest artist for Bradley in the student directed production of…
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Unique program teaches links between diet and disease
by Community Word Staff • • Comments Off on Unique program teaches links between diet and disease
Cutline: Dr. Mladen Golubic, top center, speaks with a participant at the “Cook Well, Eat Well, Live Well” program at ICC North Campus. Working in the kitchen with physicians at each session were dieticians, Rebecca Kaplan-Shank, right, and Alice Price,…
FDIC data offers glimpse of Peoria commercial banks
by Bill Knight • • Comments Off on FDIC data offers glimpse of Peoria commercial banks
Looking at hard numbers can be meaningless, like trying to connect the St. Louis Cardinals’ post-season performance with players’ weights or beard dimensions. Factual yet irrelevant. A better comparison might be the old yarn about several people trying to describe…
Learning to read the weeds
by Clare Howard • • Comments Off on Learning to read the weeds
Super Weeds Tell Story of Soil Imbalance Central Illinois organic farmer Dave Bishop can stand at the edge of a chemically-treated soybean field, and giant “super weeds” tower over his 6-foot frame. Yet, his organic field nearby has no super…
Art: What is it good for?
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This photo-mosaic of the downtown skyline of Peoria consists of 2,775 images by Central Illinois artists. Local professional photographer Doug Leunig contributed the master skyline image; Bradley University Professor George Brown designed the “Art Works in Peoria” graphic. The project…
The Magnificent Invalid
by Doug Day • • Comments Off on The Magnificent Invalid
Theater is sometimes referred to as “the magnificent invalid” for a variety of reasons including weak box office. The artful, complex storytelling technique has been around for more than 2,500 years and as such seems to be firmly situated as…
West Peoria News for November 2014
by Community Word Staff • • Comments Off on West Peoria News for November 2014
Packets are still available for anyone interested in running for office in the City of West Peoria. The packets can be picked up 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays at City Hall. Early voting for the Nov. 4 election is…
Change 150 & District 150 goals collide; some wonder about direction of Peoria’s schools
by Sara Browning • • Comments Off on Change 150 & District 150 goals collide; some wonder about direction of Peoria’s schools
Change may be coming to District 150, but it may not be the type of change everyone believes is best for education. Since voters overwhelmingly voted in favor of Sue Wolstenholm to replace Laura Petelle on the District 150 School…
America’s health lags behind comparable nations
by Bill Knight • • Comments Off on America’s health lags behind comparable nations
Everyday people might understandably fear West Nile Virus or Ebola, but a new report in the Annual Review of Public Health journal says it may be smarter to fret about policymakers’ decisions and wasteful health-care spending – which haven’t meant…
Deceptive or Informative: Pro-choice and anti-choice people go toe-to-toe on North University
by Clare Howard • • Comments Off on Deceptive or Informative: Pro-choice and anti-choice people go toe-to-toe on North University
People with two philosophically opposing agendas stand along the sidewalk on University Street just north of Willow Knolls Drive. One group wants to put the other group out of business. There is the Illinois Choice Action Team wearing vests with…