Dear Santa: No more coffee cups, please
Dear Mr. S. Claus: I understand your company is quite busy at this time of the year so I hope this letter reaches you before you start on your annual...
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Shnay: Make sure you set a plate for someone else
Last Wednesday, along with more than 200 others, we attended the 45th annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Eve Service at Infant Jesus of Prague Church in Flossmoor. There were songs and hymns,...
Shnay: Park Forest veteran kept busy after Army
When Bill Matre retired and left Park Forest for the sunnier albeit often storm-tossed coast of Florida, our senior softball team was in dire need of a first baseman. The...
Shnay: Southland group wants arts lovers to dance to a different tune
The late Etel Billig once talked of how she wanted to get money from a private arts organization in Chicago for her Illinois Theatre Center in Park Forest. Her hat...
Park Forest family fights hunger on Halloween
For nearly a decade, the Schaefers — Chuck, Kim and their kids — have had the best decorated Halloween house in Park Forest. The fenced-in front yard was inhabited by...
‘I was told to stay in the closet’: Gay man persists in faith on journey to Park Forest ministry
There never seemed to be a better candidate for the ministry than Chris Wogaman. But to some in the church there never was a poorer aspirant. Wogaman majored in the...
Shnay: Park Forest considers changing street names honoring Confederate figures
In the fall of 1955, some 15 months after the Supreme Court declared that segregated schools in the United States were illegal; five students at the University of Missouri wondered...
Shnay: Civic pride shows in Flossmoor, Park Forest
I am sure Walter McBride and Willie Brooks never crossed paths. I am also certain they never heard each other's name mentioned. Yet McBride, who grew up in Flossmoor, and...
Shnay: Squirrels, birds welcome but not raccoons
A group of squirrels often arrive for dinner in our back yard. They scrounge for seeds that fall to the ground from the same feeders where finches, sparrows, cardinals and...
Despite life-threatening illnesses, Park Forest woman excels as powerlifter
Ann LaFrance says: "Life is how you handle plans b, c, d, e, and f." For the former U.S. Navy officer, one whose father served in the Marine Corps and...