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Suburban Access Outreach is making it easy for you to share blessings with others this Thanksgiving season as volunteers again aim to assemble packages for 1,000 families in the South Suburbs. The Homewood-based organization, previously known as Open Access, has put out a call for donations. Thousands of canned goods[Read More…]
Senior Medicare Fraud Patrol. Flossmoor Public Library, 1000 Sterling Ave., will host Marina Silva of Age Options’ Illinois Senior Medicare Patrol from 1 to 2 p.m. to help seniors learn more about the Senior Medicare Patrol Program and how they can protect, detect and report Medicare fraud. Handouts and take-away information[Read More…]
Homewood firefighters responded about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, to a fire in an office building at 905 175th St. Homewood Deputy Fire Chief Steve DeJong said offices on the third floor of the building were heavily damaged by fire, smoke and water. He said the whole building will be[Read More…]
The millipedes didn’t seem to care about the weather. Inside a cabin at Izaak Walton Preserve, Karen McCray let one crawl across her hand while Annette Pletcher balanced a cockroach on her sleeve and Cindy Wade-Mayo held up a shimmering blue beetle. Margaret Burns-Westmeyer stood nearby, explaining how each insect[Read More…]
Rain made the ink run on some of the signs held by early-bird protesters at the intersection of 103rd Street and Western Avenue in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood on Saturday, Oct. 18, but the growing crowd did not let the weather stop it from making their opposition to the Trump administration[Read More…]
Flossmoor Green Commission will meet 6:30 p.m. at village hall, 2800 Flossmoor Road. Homewood-Flossmoor District 233 Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. in the Viking Room, South Building, 999 Kedzie Ave. The agenda is available here. Homewood-Flossmoor Park District Board of Commissioners will meet at 7 p.m. in the Goldberg Administration Center,[Read More…]
It’s time to refresh the Homewood-Flossmoor Park District image. Slate Communications has been hired to tackle the project. It’s been about 15 years since the park district adopted the current logo, and park board commissioners decided to make the change. At its Oct. 7 meeting, commissioners agreed to a contract[Read More…]
While the spotlight Saturday, Oct. 18, was on the national No Kings protests, local volunteers helped organize a protest along Harwood Avenue in Homewood, giving people a chance to protest the policies of President Donald Trump’s administration. Estimates are that between 700 and 1,000 people were part of the peaceful[Read More…]
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity is now accepting applications for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for income-qualified residential customers who are age 60 and older, disabled or have at least one child 5 years old or younger. Households already disconnected or that have a[Read More…]
THE WEEK > Your government Monday, Oct. 20 Flossmoor Board of Trustees will meet at 7 p.m. in village hall, 2800 Flossmoor Road. The agenda is available here. The livestream will be available here. Meeting ID 852 1089 4513, passcode 60422. Highlights: Tuesday, Oct. 21 Flossmoor Green Commission will meet 6:30 p.m. at village[Read More…]
