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In and Around Park Forest Week of June 8, 2009

The Western Ave. entryway to the DownTown and CVS Pharmacy.  (Photo: Wendy Heise) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–June 8, 2009. Thanks to everyone who has been providing event information and for all the positive feedback we are receiving about this column. If your club, church, organization or local business will be holding[Read More…]

Summer Energy Workshop on Wednesday June 10

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– CNT Energy in conjunction with the Village of Park Forest and the Park Forest Environment Commission will be conducting a summer energy workshop to help you manage your summer energy electricity costs. The workshop will be held on Wednesday, June 10 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in[Read More…]

Driving the New Pontiac G8 GT

The 2009 Pontiac G8 GT. (Photo: Pontiac.com) Car TalkBy Jonathan R. Pitman Everyone is on pins and needles debating over the fate of General Motor’s future. But, if Pontiac is indeed one of the car companys that will be omitted from the lineup, then it should go out with a[Read More…]

Park Forest Police Report for June 8, 2009

The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo:Wendy Heise) 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 local[Read More…]

Gainers Gymastics Showcases Young Talent

A gymnast performs on the balance beam at Gainers Gymnastics. (Photo: Tom Roome) Photo Gallery: Gainers Gymnastics Talent Showcase Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Gainers Gymnastics in DownTown Park Forest celebrated it’s “Green and Gold Festival” recently, showcasing the talents of  young gymnasts. Participating gymnasts were as young as four years old,[Read More…]

Sotomayor, Religious Freedom and the Great Unknown

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center senior scholar President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court has triggered considerable hand-wringing on both sides of the culture-war divide over the relationship between religion and government under the First Amendment. Weeks[Read More…]

Use First Amendment Freedoms to Debate Second Amendment Issues

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director Nobody wants to encourage or invite another campus killing spree like the one in 2007 at Virginia Tech University, in which 32 people died and 17 were wounded. But does that reasonable concern extend to prohibiting[Read More…]

Grow Your Own Program Cultivates Teachers for Area Classrooms

Chicago Heights, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Denise Kranzer and Michelle Robinson volunteered in their neighborhood elementary schools because they wanted to make a difference in the lives of young people.Both Kranzer and Robinson dreamt of becoming teachers, but neither had completed their bachelor’s degree. Kranzer, of Monee, started her path to a bachelor’s[Read More…]

Media Promote Claim That Bush Administration’s Guantánamo Policies ‘Kept Us Safe’

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Echoing former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent speeches and media appearances, conservative media figures and outlets have claimed that the Bush administration’s policies with respect to the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay “kept us safe” and have criticized President Obama’s executive order directing its closure. For instance, during the[Read More…]

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