The H-F Soccer Club U9 girls traveling team won top honors at the Woodridge Fall Festival Tournament. The team entered play Saturday, Sept. 17, and won the first game 7-0 against the Wilmette Wings and went on to beat KICS South in an 8-2 match. On Sunday, the girls won[Read More…]
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South Holland Master Chorale to present ‘Songs of Celebration’
South Holland Master Chorale will perform a variety of “Songs of Celebration” on two Sundays in October. The 85-voice community chorale will present the concerts Oct. 2 at 4 p.m. at First Reformed Church, 15924 South Park Ave., South Holland, and Oct. 16 at 4 p.m. at St. Thomas More[Read More…]
Franciscan Health to hold Little Angels Memorial Service on Wednesday at Assumption Cemetery in Glenwood
Franciscan Health Olympia Fields will hold a Little Angels Memorial Service for the young lives lost to miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy or newborn death at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 12, at Assumption Catholic Cemetery in Glenwood. When a patient experiences a miscarriage or fetal demise, Franciscan Health buries those[Read More…]
Former Homewood Fire Chief Raymond Presnak dies at 70
The Homewood Fire Department, the Village of Homewood, and the Homewood community are mourning the loss of former Homewood Fire Chief Raymond J. Presnak, who died on Sunday, September 18. Presnak, 70, served the Homewood Fire Department and community for more than 30 years before retiring as fire chief and[Read More…]
Franciscan Health resident receives Goldberg Memorial Scholarship
The Franciscan Health Foundation announced that first-year medical resident Dr. Nishant Kumar is this year’s recipient of its prestigious Dr. Lowell Goldberg Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded annually to the graduating osteopathic medicine student who has earned the highest clinical rotation scores. “I feel very honored to have received[Read More…]
Drama Group opens 91st season with ‘Putnam County Spelling Bee’
The Drama Group kicks off its 91st year as a community theater with the presentation of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” over two weekends starting Sept. 30 at its studio at 330 W. 202nd St., Chicago Heights. The production features an eclectic group of six mid-pubescents who are[Read More…]
Music program benefit at Chipotle Monday
Homewood District 153’s Parent Music Association will benefit from a fundraiser from 5 to 9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19, at Chipotle, 17700 Halsted St. Purchases can be ordered online for pickup using code Q4JK2YE, or show the flyer in the restaurant. Proceeds will benefit the choir, band and orchestra programs[Read More…]
Governor eases COVID-19 restrictions for school, child care staff
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday, Sept. 15, rescinded requirements that unvaccinated school and childcare personnel get tested for COVID-19 twice weekly. The change goes into effect Friday, Sept. 16. Pritzker said the decision was made on the advice of medical experts, based on the current conditions of the COVID-19[Read More…]
Vikings golf benefit Oct. 9 at Coyote Run
The Homewood-Flossmoor High School Foundation and Alumni Association are hosting the 9th annual Viking Golf Outing and Dinner Oct. 9 at Coyote Run Golf Course. This benefit event helps support H-F student clubs, organizations, activities and sports. The event will open with registration and check-in at 11:30 a.m. followed by[Read More…]
H-F High theater students present children’s play
The Homewood-Flossmoor High Theater Department is presenting the children’s play “Miss Nelson Is Missing!” on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 29, 30 and Oct. 1. Miss Nelson can’t control her grade school classroom because she’s too nice. When she disappears, her replacement is the hard-as-nails substitute teacher Viola Swamp. As[Read More…]
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