JENNIFER’S CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS YOU CAN USE! CHICAGO ROGERS PARK LAKEVIEW HARLEM & IRVING EVANSTON
JENNIFER’S CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS YOU CAN USE! CHICAGO ROGERS PARK LAKEVIEW HARLEM & IRVING EVANSTON
NEIGHBORHOODS UPDATE – ART DESIGN HEART HEALTH & MORE!
CHICAGO
The winner of the city’s Vehicle Sticker Art Design Contest is Patsy Diaz of Jones College Prep High School. Her artwork will be displayed on approximately over I million windshields 2008-2009 city stickers.
Patsy did not realize her artist ability until she was announced the winner of the Chicago City Sticker contest. "I think I’m like in shock maybe denial" said Diaz who also received a $1000 savings bond for winning. "This is very very great. I guess I discovered my hidden potential…I didn’t even know I could draw."
Diaz’s design was selected out of over 400 submitted and then voted on and receiving in excess of 21000 votes from the public. Read the entire article by clicking here.
ROGERS PARK
Mary Jo Doyle the founder and executive director of the Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society loved Chicago and the neighborhood which she lived and worked in.
Doyle died on Dec. 17 2008 at the age of 68 due to complications with cancer. As a result Rogers Park has indeed lost an important piece of living history.
Doyle was born on April 8 1939 to Henry and Dorothy Behrendt at St. Francis Hospital in neighboring Evanston. She attended St. Margaret Mary Grammar School and was a 1957 graduate of St. Scholastica Academy.
Mary Jo Doyle envisioned about the time she founded the Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society in 1975. "I grew up here and I’ve loved Rogers Park my whole life" she said. She began this venture from collecting artifacts and storing them in boxes in her garage.
Later with the help of numerous volunteers and a community effort she opened the museum to display the History of the neighborhood near the intersection of Western and Devon. Read all of the details of her live and her legacy by clicking here.
LAKEVIEW
Heart attack season has arrived. December and January are the deadliest months for heart disease and many of the things contribute to that factor such as rich festive meals and beverages including more alcohol not to mention added stress.
Cold weather shoveling snow and coping with holiday stress can be bad for the heart.
Heart problems during the Holiday season can be more deadly than other times of the year due to denial. Many times people accept chest pain as indigestion. During the December they are more likely not to visit an emergency room when it means disrupting a holiday gathering or if they are traveling — meaning they arrive at the hospital in worse condition by not dealing with is sooner.
Minutes matter. "You have only a short window of opportunity to save heart muscle" said Dr. William Suddath of Washington Hospital Center in the nation’s capital…Read all about this by clicking here.
HARLEM AND IRVING
Sydney Hart is a sociology professional at Wilbur Wright College in Chicago’s Dunning community. She recently did a presentation about the stories behind household objects and culture. A menorah and a Shabbat candlestick were some of the objects she studied. The objects in sociology instructor Sydney Hart’s Old Irving Park home play speak to her culture and is how she and young son Aviv define themselves.
Hart keeps Shabbat candlesticks on a shelf in her family room but unlike a more religiously observant Jew would she doesn’t light them on Friday nights or all all at this point. That is because they are now a cherished keepsake that once belonged to her grandmother.
Another object she had on display in her presentation was a Jewish wedding ring previously owned by Sydney Hart’s late grandmother bears the Hebrew inscription "Ani l’dodi v’dodi li" meaning "I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine."
Other items of rich culture is a Menorah serves as the vehicle for performing the traditional Jewish ritual of Hanukkah. Read about the rich tradtions of which she speaks by clicking here.
EVANSTON
John Horency is the kind of guy who when he has a vision he makes sure it becomes reality. A while ago in his junior high school band he had big dreams.
Over the year Horency and his wife Mary from their Northbrook home found ways for him to continue to play the sax. John has determination and found way to write out his music on giant cards to allow him to continue to play.
He and Mary still perform at church and due to his tenacity has allowed himself and others who suffer from vision problems to continue to read music and play their instruments of choice.
Read about his amazing contributions by clicking here.
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JENNIFER GARRITY
