Another Day, Another Challenge

                        Another Day, Another Challenge                         By Marjorie Strebe, Guest Blogger               Preparing for Michelle’s first day at a new school, I attempted to inform the staff how my little first grader faked illness or injury for attention, but they cut me off.             “Mrs. Strebe, how many children…

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Remembering Newtown, CT

        The bright holiday lights of the Christmas season did not shine for 27 minutes in Oak Lawn, Illinois  starting at seven o’clock on December 27, 2012. All over the city, residents unplugged their Christmas tree lights and other lawn decorations.  Block after block of darkness wrapped the city with…

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Honor Flight: Heroes Among Us By Jane Rubietta

A hero? Not by any veteran’s defintion of the word. Like most veterans, Air Force Captain Earl Morse would say, “The heroes never came home.” But to 40,000 WWII veterans and their families, Eral Morse, president and founder of Honor Flight Network, deserves the title. When the World War II…

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