Charan Bashir. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- eNews Park Forest is pleased once again to present our series featuring Park Forest’s best and brightest students, today introducing Charan Bashir, a 17-year resident of Park Forest. He loves to draw and skate, has participated in Snowball, admires teachers who demonstrate leadership[Read More…]
Month: February 2011
Civic Reflection Workshop Coming to GSU
University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Civic reflection helps create an understanding of the importance and value of community service to both the individual who volunteers and the society who benefits. To increase awareness and understanding of civic reflection and to improve related skills, Governors State University is sponsoring a Civic Reflections Workshop.[Read More…]
Wafaa Bilal and Major Chicago Artists to Exhibit at GSU
“The Secret Life of Men” by Sioban Lombardi of Chicago. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The Governors State University Visual Arts Gallery will host “Regard – Resist – React,” a major exhibit of artists’ creative reactions to the issues that affect them personally, emotionally, and/or intellectually. The exhibit runs from[Read More…]
Forest Trail Announces Science Fair Winners
Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The sixth and seventh grade students at Forest Trail Middle School recently participated in the school’s Science Fair/Exposition. The Science Exposition involved the gathering of research on a scientific topic, creating a poster on that topic and presenting the topic. For the Science Fair, students must use the[Read More…]
State Department Briefing Before Departure for Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 27, 2011
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2011. SECRETARY CLINTON: Let me start by saying as strongly as I can that the United States and the American people support the aspirations and rights of the Libyan people. They are clearly sending as strong a message as they are capable of doing that it[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Reports for February 28, 2011
The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by other[Read More…]
In and Around Park Forest Week of February 28, 2011
Ray Devine (right) was in charge of hanging the artwork for Half the Sky, now at Tall Grass Arts Association through May 8. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—February 28, 2011. The Sierra Club, Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago, the Southeast Environmental Task Force and Little Village Environmental Justice[Read More…]
Motown to Yo’ Town, Freedom Hall, Park Forest (Video)
Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Black History Month Celebration at Freedom Hall, DownTown Park Forest, playing to a full, standing-room-only house, on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011 CREDITS Welcome/Introduction of Mayor: Chair Alfreda Keller Mayor John Ostenburg 60’s Historical Facts: Alfreda Keller/Comedian Jay Deep 60’s Act I: Aretha Franklin Latasha Southall 60’s Act[Read More…]
USW Officers, Locked Out Members Among 100K Protesting in Wisconsin
Pittsburgh, PA–(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2011. United Steelworkers (USW) International officers Stan Johnson and Fred Redmond on Saturday joined District 2 Director Michael Bolton, a young USW leader and hip-hop artist from Canada and a vans full of Steelworkers members locked out by Honeywell in Metropolis, Ill., at the ongoing massive protests[Read More…]
Secretary Clinton to Travel to Geneva Today
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2011. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton travels to Geneva, Switzerland on February 27 to 28. While in Geneva, she will hold consultations with her counterparts on the situation in Libya, and events and trends in the broader Middle East. She will also address the high-level[Read More…]