Jerry Shnay – Page 27

Shnay: Richton Park vet nears 100th birthday without slowing down

June 3, 2018 at 5:04 a.m.

It was supposed to be another perilously routine flight. The unarmed C-47 would unload supplies on the Island of Luzon in the Philippines, pick up two wounded soldiers, a doctor...

Park Forest police Officer Timothy Jones, who was shot in the line of duty in March 2016 and suffered life-threatening injuries, was released from Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton on May 26, 2017.

Shnay: Home is where you hang your hat; whether it’s Colorado or Park Forest

June 4, 2018 at 12:47 p.m.

This is about the places we call home. A couple of weeks ago we made our annual trip to Colorado. This year it was to see my granddaughter graduate from...

Shnay: Like others, I remembered someone who never returned home

June 4, 2018 at 5:02 p.m.

I could not attend this year's Memorial Day observance, so I did not stand with others for a moment of silence, did not sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and did not...

Shnay: Who needs cable when you have Thoreau

June 4, 2018 at 8:59 p.m.

Some time ago I mentioned that my friend John Ray finally bought his first television set. Really, I thought. Welcome to my world, I told him. Now, you can watch...

Shnay: Joyce is the definition of a good public servant

June 5, 2018 at 1:03 a.m.

The other week the Village of Park Forest finally got around to honoring one of their finest public servants, John Joyce. The dictionaries describe a public servant as someone who...

Eight people, organization inducted into Park Forest hall of fame

June 5, 2018 at 4:33 a.m.

For 10 years in the 1970s, Assistant Village Manager Don DeMarco and civil rights activist Bill Simpson engaged in an on-going battle about the future of Park Forest. This issue...

A Park Forest pioneer celebrates a century

May 21, 2019 at 8:40 p.m.

In the great, grand cosmic scheme of the universe, Lucille Wagener is on the outside looking in. Her picture was never on the cover of Time, let alone the front...

A Mass was held Sunday at St. Irenaeus Catholic Church in honor of Park Forest police officer Tim Jones, who continues to recover a year after being shot on duty.

It was a dream day to be a diarist

May 21, 2019 at 8:38 p.m.

Sunday, March 19, 2017 Dear Diary, Boy, this sure was a busy day in Park Forest with lots of people doing lots of things and I really don't know where...

A year later, horror of ‘officer down’ call still fresh

May 21, 2019 at 8:37 p.m.

"Officer down!" Park Forest Police Chief Pete Green remembers that day a year ago when he got the terrible news from his Deputy Chief Christopher Mannino. One of the village's...

From left, Speed assistant coach Beccie Brucker, head coach John Lewis, team member Jillian Angell and assistant coach Colin Jackson gather around a basketball for a photo. The team is participating in a Special Olympics tournament this weekend.

Every step points in the right direction for local basketball team

May 21, 2019 at 8:36 p.m.

The biggest steps are often measured in inches. Jillian Angell scored four points for her school in a recent basketball game, and in the grand scheme of things, that doesn't...

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