Jeanne Nolan- Planting a Movement By Cleo Lampos My husband, Vernon, and I went to the Evergreen Park Library recently to hear a lecture on organic gardening. Vernon is an ardent gardener who only uses organic methods on our suburban plot. He grows the food, but I…
Crossing Guards: Safe Passage to School By Cleo Lampos For weeks now, those of us who live in the city of Chicago have been hearing about Safe Passage. It is the route that the children of Chicago Public Schools need to traverse twice every day to get to and from…
Clara Comstock- Agent for Change Ordinary People:Extraordinary Lives By Cleo Lampos The smoke from the locomotive engine flowed into the open window of the train, carrying bits of soot in the wind. Clara Comstock turned her head away from what should have been fresh air to the stench of over…
Ordinary People Living Extraordinary Lives Thomas J. Barnardo: A Rooftop of Ragamuffins By Cleo Lampos The moon glistened in the London night sky, breaking into moon beams through the smoke from the chimneys of the crowded tenements of the poorEast Endsection. Very little light reached the old donkey shed…
