Youth football and cheer programs merge 

The area’s two youth football and cheerleading programs are merging, the Homewood-Flossmoor Junior Vikings and Kings announced April 12. The new organization will be called the Homewood Flossmoor Youth Football and Cheerleading Club. “The biggest reason to do this was to combine resources,” HFYFCC President Martez Harding said. “Now we can all work together and push to make the vision possible, that’s to create youth that want to giv