Benefit basketball game aids injured coprens worker Matt Coppens
Mi Jack Products Inc sponsors a benefit basketball game at South Suburban College to help Matt Coppens who lost both legs after being struck by a car December 30. Admission is 5 for adults and 1 for children under 14. Doors open 6:30 p.m. Game 7 to 9 p.m. Tickets at the door. Coppens works in Mi Jack s building maintenance department. Mi Jack will match proceeds 100 percent. College address 15800 S State St South Holland.
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Matt Coppens
Coppens
ESDA
Rich South High School
Mi-Jack Products Inc
Hazel Crest
South Suburban College
Mi-Jack
S. State St
South Holland
Lithuanian Heritage Group to Meet with Sheryl Ford Guest Speaker
Lithuanian Heritage to meet Sheryl Ford senior citizens program director at Bloom Township as guest speaker. Meeting at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the lower level of the Chicago Heights Municipal Building 1601 Chicago Road Chicago Heights. Plans for trips and future events on the business agenda. Kay Verba at 757-6018 provides group information.
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Sheryl Ford
Bloom Township
Chicago Heights
Chicago Road
Phoning Kay Verba
Sierra Club to Screen Coral Sea Dreaming in Park Forest
The Sauk Calumet Group of the Sierra Club meets Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the Ringering Room of Park Forest Library at Lakewood Boulevard and Orchard Drive. Members will view Coral Sea Dreaming about the Great Barrier Reef. Contact Anne Kawaters at 755 3432 for more information.
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South Chicago
Self-Help
Park Forest
Lakewood Boulevard
Orchard Drive
Joe Mulcronne
Chicago
Sierra Club
Ringering
Great Barrier Reef
Anne Kawaters
Prejudice Reduction Workshop at GSU This Weekend
Governors State University and the NCBI chapter host a one day prejudice reduction workshop today and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The session introduces a training program to combat discrimination and resolve conflicts based on prejudice while building intergroup coalitions. Co facilitated by NCBI staff from Matteson and Park Forest with contacts John Joyce or Barbara Moore at Park Forest 748 1112.
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Governors State University
NCBI
National Coalition Building Institute
GSU
Matteson
Park Forest
John Joyce
Barbara Moore
Black History Month calendar kicks off in February
The Star announces a February calendar of Black History Month events for south and southwest suburbs. Community members should send event items to Robin Tanko at The Star, 1526 Otto Boulevard, Chicago Heights 60411. This week includes a gospel festival at Prairie State College in Building K on Thursday, Feb. 2.
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the Star
Robin Tanko
Otto Boulevard
Chicago Heights
Prairie State College
Building K
S. Halsted St
American Black History Month events across Chicago area
A roundup of February events honors African-American history with exhibits, films, plays, and performances. Highlights include Martin Luther King Jr. profiles at South Holland and SXU, "Invisible No More" at SXU, and community programs at Governors State University Joliet Junior College and local libraries.
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South Holland Public Library
Martin Luther King Jr
Matteson Historical Society
Amanda Berry Smith
Harvey
St. Xavier University
Invisible No
Orville Robertson
SXU Art
W. 103Rd Street
Chicago
Chicago State University Theatre
Alamnjo Theatre Workshop
Breakey
SXU
Homewood Library
Dixie Highway
Son
Martin Luther King, Jr
Harvey Public
155Th and
Turlington
Maia
Local teachers named as Golden Apple finalists
Three teachers from area high schools are named finalists in the 1995 Golden Apple Awards. Lawrence Baran from Homewood Flossmoor High, Carol Czworniak from Stagg High, and Steve Phillips from Eisenhower High are among 29 Cook, Lake and DuPage county finalists chosen from more than 700 nominees. The finalists will be honored February 18 at IBM Chicago, then narrowed to 10 winners. The 10 winners will be announced by month end and honored in May in a one hour WTTW prime time special.
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Golden Apple Foundation
Lawrence Baran
Homewood-Flossmoor
Flossmoor
Carol Czworniak
Stagg High School
Palos Hills
Steve Phillips
Eisenhower High School
Blue Island
Cook, Lake and
DuPage Counties
IBM
Chicago
WTTW
Channel 11
Berry joins the Peace Corps to serve in Dominican Republic
Kathryn M. Berry, daughter of Jan Berry of Crete, has been accepted into the Peace Corps. She departs Feb 27 for the Dominican Republic as an environmental education awareness volunteer, focusing on natural resource conservation, soil erosion control, trash disposal, and agroforestry management. She is a Crete-Monee High School graduate with a BS in physical geography from Illinois State University and experience as an outdoor environmental education instructor in Estes Park, Colorado, and study in Alaska at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
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Kathryn M. Berry
Jan Berry
Crete
Peace Corps
Dominican Republic
Crete-Monee High School
Illinois State University
Normal
Berry
Estes Park Center
Estes Park
Colo
Alaska
University of Alaska
Anchorage
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