Make it free. It’s the obvious thing to do if you love roller skating and want to make it more accessible to everyone. Ash Mateja did just that. She started Free Wheeling, an organization devoted to not just spreading the skating word but helping people get started. Or restarted. Free Wheeling[Read More…]
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Fun activities planned for libraries’ summer reading programs
Schools are winding down, and that’s when reading for fun and enjoyment takes over at Homewood and Flossmoor Public Libraries. But it’s not just the kids who have a reading club. Homewood’s library also has one for adults. In addition to the reading club activities and giveaways, the libraries are[Read More…]
Two dads find H-F a welcoming home for biracial family
Not many years ago, their family would not only have been frowned upon, it would have been illegal in most states. J.R. and Brandon Willard-Rose of Homewood are gay, married and have an adopted Black son. Times — and the law — have changed, and society’s attitudes are in the[Read More…]
Make the world a better place: Share your books
The idea behind Little Free Libraries is simple and ancient: sharing. LFLs are designed to be places where people can share books. The organization’s motto is “Take a book. Return a book.” The number of LFLs has increased in the past couple of years. The Chronicle asked LFL stewards and[Read More…]
Sculpture park: Great art is front and center, available to all in Flossmoor
Editor’s note: This story originally was published as the cover story in the September 2016 print edition of the Chronicle. The young girl, frozen in time, looks skyward. She may be gazing at stars, or watching a sparrow in the trees. She is filled with hope and innocence but also[Read More…]
Free Monday dinners at First Presbyterian Church find community support
Community members enjoy a good meal and good company at the free dinner July 4 at First Presbyterian Church in Homewood. (Photo by Joseph Dorsey/H-F Chronicle) When you walk into the basement of First Presbyterian Church of Homewood for a free community dinner, you’re greeted with warmth and compassion. The church has served[Read More…]
Pooch Parlor owner’s grooming plan aims to give shelter dogs a brighter future
(Photo from the project’s GoFundMe page) Marion Bryer, owner of Pooch Parlor in Homewood, wants to establish a grooming salon at the South Suburban Humane Society so that dogs at the shelter have a better chance of being adopted. “It’s hard to bond with a dog that smells,” Bryer said.[Read More…]
Villagomez retiring from H-F parks after 26 years
The next time you sit under a tree at Ballantrae Park, swing a bat on an Apollo Park diamond or admire the landscaping around the Irwin Center, think of Adolfo Villagomez. This Homewood-Flossmoor Park District employee leaves April 29 after 26 years of mowing, landscaping, planting trees, plowing snow and[Read More…]
Spellbinding storyteller Beth Horner returns to Homewood Stories Sept. 15
[Editor’s Note: Host Karen O’Donnell announced Tuesday, Sept. 8, that the room is full and no additional reservations can be accepted for the Sept. 15 show.] Master storytellers are spellbinding. There. I’ve stated the obvious. Even though that’s common knowledge, it is still sometimes surprising to be caught in the[Read More…]
New Thornton reservoir ‘like no place else’ in the world
Tony Gaudry is a miner who works 300 feet underground – and a mile from Homewood. Since 2011, hehas shored up a 30-foot-high tunnel with steel, rebar and concrete, preparing four slots for steel doorsthat will slide open one morning in August, letting billions of gallons of storm water and[Read More…]
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