Triton College previews large technical building expansion
Triton College Board revised plans for a prefabricated career education building to add 4000 square feet to the auto lab and upgrade exterior facia at a cost near 420000. Net project cost rises to about 817000 with interior finishing by Triton staff. A new director of admissions was named Mary Kay Rickels, effective January, and two new staff positions were created including a data analyst. The board also approved purchasing six mobile classrooms from Chicago Public Schools for storage and campus use and awarded bids for bookstore carpeting and shelving.
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Marge Gockel
Triton College Board of Trustees
Triton
Mary Kay Rickels
Inter Visions
George Jorndt
Ms. Rickels
Triton College
Rosary College
Riverster
Catholic University
Washington, D.C
Ilinois Office of Education
Educationabilities Center
Chicago
College
Frances Susan
Oak Park
Karen Kelly
Colege
Fac
Torksee
Pat Naptes
Melrose Park
Robert Crown Center offers health education for Forest Park kids
Maureen OBrien reports Forest Park School District expanded health education to include drugs career and sex education with field trips to Hinsdale based Robert Crown Center for Health Education. Center serves kindergarten through adults with programs on nutrition care and prevention. Executive director W Ronald Phillips calls the center adaptive teaching by professional educators.
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Forest Park
Naomi Vinette
Vinette
Varius
Robert Crown Center
Cologne
Germany
Robert Crown Center For
W. Ronald Phillips
Educators debate WSASE governance and District 97 role
Eight districts meet at District 99 office in Cicero at 8 p m to discuss WSASE governance and whether Oak Park District 97 should retain an administrative district or shift to a legal entity. Superintendents propose amendments to current by laws to keep effective cooperation while boosting lay input.
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Juliann J. Neurauter
West Suburban Association For Special Education
WSASE
Oak Park
Association
District 99
W. 24Th St. Cicero
USASE
Coop
Forest Park Dist
Arthur Jones
Forest Park School Board
Jones
District 97
John C. Donaker Jr
Berwyn
North Berwyn
Roger F. Smith
Smith
South Berwyn
Robert G. Gentry
Gentry
Lawrence Kernagis
Lawrence Foster
Triet
Oak Park-River Forest
River Forest
Cicero
Morton East and West
Forest Park resident Roos dies in Arkansas at 98
Bess Hoos Roos, 98, mother of the late Howard Mohr and longtime Forest Park resident, died Monday in Eureka Springs Arkansas where she had moved two years ago. She was active in Oak Park and Forest Park organizations including the Library Board the Forest Park Historical Society and the Oak Park Council International Affairs board. Funeral services were held in Eureka Springs.
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Bess Hoos
Howard Mohr
Forest Park
Eureka Springs
Arkansas
Roos
Oak Park
Police warn watch out during Christmas season in Forest Park
Forest Park Police Lieutenant Fred Zimmerman urges residents to beware of criminal types during the Christmas season. He cites the pigeon drop where seniors are tricked into giving money to supposed finders of cash and a phony meeting place. He also warns of robbers posing as service repair workers and urges women to guard purses as purse snatching rises.
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Forest Park
Fred Zimmerman
Zimmerman
Riveredge Lectures Into Psychiatric Practice Insight
Dr Jack Weinberg delivers the fourth Francis J. Gerty Lecture at Riveredge Hospital on December 14 from 1 to 4 pm. The lecture, titled On Adding Insight to Injury Psy chogeriatric Considerations, costs 15 dollars and offers 3 CME credits. Reservations: 771 7000 ext 367.
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Jack Weinberg
Riveredge Hospital
W. Roosevelt Rd
Francis J. Gerty
Riveredge Foundation
Weinberg
Illinois Mental Health Institutes
American Psychiatric Association
University of Illinois Medical School
Rush Medical School
Chicago
Illinois State Psychiatric Institute
IPSI
University of Chicago Industrial Relations Center
Gerontology Institute of Southern California
Man shot in his rise. police find heroin
Police linked a shooting at Carrell's apartment to a drug case, finding a .38 revolver in a storage locker and heroin hidden in an electrical box outside Johnson's unit. Investigators identified a 25-year-old male victim, with several occupants later released, and connected the discovery to a nearby drug bust. Carrell survived and was listed as in good condition at Oak Park Hospital.
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Man
Thompson
Carrell
Johnson
Oak Park Hospital
Old Age Acceptance Raises Community Call to Care
A reflection urges Forest Park residents to welcome and value the elderly as a source of wisdom rather than a burden. It cautions that aging will touch every family, asking society to prepare for kinder care, lasting support, and the creation of Altenheim style institutions that will accept aging residents with dignity.
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Altenheim
Forest Park
Altenheim Old People’s Home Seeks Community Inclusion
A view argues against discarding the elderly to nursing facilities and urges Forest Park to embrace Altenheim as a true community home. The piece critiques societal neglect and calls for integrating the facility as part of local life despite lingering stigma.
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Altenheim
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Jerry Brochert
Field Stevenson School
S. Beloit Ave
Diane Klotz
Maureen O'Brien
Robert Callahan
Gibbs
Educators Review
Luminaria
Riveredge
Baker
Arizona
Jet
Ney
Christ
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