Community groups announce spring activities and meetings
The April calendar lists the Lithuanian Heritage potluck at Chicago Heights City Hall with ethnic dishes and contact numbers for Verba and Bernice Strom. Homeschoolers meet monthly at St Paul Lutheran Church with open gym days and a spring potluck plus a Renaissance Fair. Thorn Creek Audubon offers a birding course with lectures and field trips starting evenings in April. Prairie State College hosts a National Issues Forums town hall on Americas family crisis led by Ruth Bittner.
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Chicago Heights
Chicago Road
Verba
Bernice Strom
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Vollmer Road
Matteson
St. Paul Church
Thorn Creek Audubon Society
Bement
Wasa Peeve
Prairie State College
Ruth Bittner
PSC
America
Korean vet aids area veterans with national role and donations
Paul A. Mons, a Korean War veteran, serves as national service officer for the Military Order of the Purple Heart. His work has generated over 200000 dollars annually for Illinois veterans programs for eight years. A recent 29600 dollar optics carrier microscope funded by Purple Heart profits will aid VA West Side Medical Center surgeons in orthopedics plastics and ENT.
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Paul A. Mons
Veterans Administration
Barry Jenig
Purple Heart
Heart Foundation
Illinois
Preehace
Mons
Thornton Community Eolge
Homewood Flossmoor
U. S. Army
15Th Infantry Regiment
Republic of Korea
Military Order of Purple Heart
VFW
Disabled American Veterans
Incan Legion
Elks Lodge
Harvey Chapter
Chicago Heights Chay
Ilitary Order of Purple Heart
Paul Mons
Chicago
West Side Medical Center
Illinois to Award Library Grants for 52 Suburban Schools
State Librarian George Ryan announced 1.2 million in grants benefiting 52 south suburban and 82 percent of districts with a minimum $100 award. Grants fund books CD ROMs software and telecom. each district receives 73 cents per student.
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Illinois
George Ryan
Ryan
Illinois State Library
Alsip Hazelgreen
Oak Lawn
Atwood Heights
Beecher Community Unit
Blue Island Crestwood
Calumet City
Hoover-Schrum Memorial
Lincoln
Community
Oak Lawn-Hometown
Rich ‘Township
Ted
Orland
Palos Heights
Palos
Matteson
Posen-Robbins
Dalton
Community Consolidated
South Holland
Steger
Kirby
Worth
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Marianne Hahn
Xen Schon
South Suburban Music Teachers Association
St.Andrew's Lutheran Church
Strieff Lane
Glenwood
Schoon
Northwest Ydiana University
Forest Preserve District
Will County
Forest Breverve District
Pfeiffer Road
Frankfort
Jessica Smith
Park Forest
Joanne Reidel Eylander
Drury Lane Theater
Rita Walker
Thomas DeGiulio Vets
DeGiulio Post
Catholic War Veterans Post
John Foushi
Charles Gerini
Tinley Park
American Legion Hall
S. 67Th Court
John Doody Jr
R-Homewood
Maralee Lindley
Hazel Crest
Homewood
Oak Forest
Orland Park
Flossmoor
Midwest
Bourbonnais
Latham Drive
Ios
Crestwood
Cicero Avenue
Lincoln Highway
Glenwood Women's Wellness Center
South Halsted Stet
Glenwood Linois
Midwest Physician Center
Dixie Highway
Imos
Olympia Fields
South
Uranfond Avenue
Olimpia Felini
167Th
Harlem Avenue
Harvey
Thornton Community College
The
Harvey Tribune
Kinois Institute of Technology
Norton
Blooms Township
Chicago Ridge
Homewood-Flossmoor
Ford Heights
Brookwood
Thorton Township
Lansing
Sunnybrook
Homer
Lockport Township
Milan-Kelvin Grove
Manhattan
Magneto
Prairie Hills
Mokenni
Lincoln Way
New Lenox
Forest Ridge
Pecos
Katz
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