Where has the week gone? Saturday afternoon, April 25th, I helped staff the Global Village booth at the Earth Day Celebration at Forest Park Nature Center. Global Village, if you haven’t been in the shop, is a Fair Trade store in Peoria Heights. Our little booth was stocked with Fair Trade coffee and tea, slavery [...]
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We are coming to the end of Heifer International’s Pass on the Gift Month Heifer International seeks to end poverty and hunger around the world by providing livestock, training, and support to small farmers. Through Heifer, you can purchase a hive of honey bees ($30), a flock of chicks ($20), a goat ($120, or a [...]
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For the first time since I got my digital converter box, I am really, truly impressed. It’s a calm, windless night. For some reason the converter box shut itself off once, but reception has been uncommonly good this evening–and Cecile B. DeMille’s extravaganza is eye-popping! I don’t know if The Ten Commandments even looked this [...]
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The Riverfront Museum is “on”! Maybe. The referendum to raise $40 million (through a .25% increase in the Peoria County sales tax) has passed by the skin of its teeth, and it wouldn’t surprise me if opponents called for a recount. If this museum is going to be built, Build the Block supporters need to [...]
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Before the truth finally dawned on me–the Egyptian Goddess Hathor was alive and well–I had hints, some broad and some subtle, that Somecow wanted my attention. The discovery of Heifer International was, for me, one of those subtle but profound affirmations of a her presence. Let me say, Heifer International in a Christian charity. OK. [...]
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