Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—April 26, 2012.  Some of the new Park Forest Community Garden groups will be holding a Bake Sale on Monday, April 30 at Park Forest Village Hall, 350 Victory Drive.  Proceeds will be used on the groups’ community gardens projects. The Park Forest Fire Station’s community garden group[Read More…]

Wow. An excellent introduction the Qur’an. For all of us. Enjoy this chat with Lesley Hazleton, who sat down one day to read the Koran. And what she found — as a non-Muslim, a self-identified "tourist" in the Islamic holy book — wasn’t what she expected. With serious scholarship and[Read More…]

When Jimmy talks to the UNC audience about student loans, he decides a slow jam with President Obama and The Roots is appropriate. Comic genius.

(PHOTO SUPPLIED) Group, Representing the Views of Over 75 Million American Catholics, Asks Catholics to Only Fund Parishes Which Publicly Oppose the Bishops’ Political Campaigns and to Vocally Stand Up Against Political Messages and Activity at Mass. WASHINGTON-(ENEWSPF)- Catholics for Equality, the country’s largest national political organization of Catholics who[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2012.  Buffett Rule, CEO PayWatch Website Address Economic Unfairness The “Buffett Rule” – the Democratic-authored effort to impose a minimum tax on millionaires – failed on a largely partisan Senate vote on Monday. The 51 to 45 procedural vote fell short by 9 votes, since 60 are[Read More…]

(PHOTO SUPPLIED) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski While I was explaining the premise of The Cabin in the Woods to a colleague of mine at school, he quickly dismissed the movie as “The Breakfast Club, but where the assistant principal is the monster.” He was sort of right. The movie[Read More…]

For our GLBTQ friends observing the National Day of Silence, "Make It Stop" by Rise Against. It gets better.

PARK FOREST—(ENEWSPF)—April 20, 2012.  Father Terry Johnson, Pastor of St. Irenaeus Church, 78 Cherry St., invites the community to participate in an Earth Day service on Sunday, April 22 at 1 p.m. in the St. Irenaeus Community Garden.  There will be a brief blessing and those who wish may share[Read More…]

(Source: WhiteHouse.gov) Dearborn, MI-(ENEWSPF)- From that seat… Time to pause and wax philosophical. President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event in Dearborn, Mich., April 18, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—April 19, 2012.  Wondering what to do for Earth Month?  Attend Safer Pest Control Project’s free film screening of ‘Living Downstream’ on Monday, April 23 to learn about the links between pesticides, human health and environmental health.  Find out how you can protect yourself from pesticides exposure and what you[Read More…]