Announcements

The Summer Athletic Performance Camps for 2008 are coming to Evergreen Park.

TP Sports Performance, founded in 2002 by Olympian Tom Pukstys,
will host athletic performance camps throughout the summer months at the Evergreen Park Racquet and Fitness Center, 2700 W. 91st St.

Camps will be held during the morning and evening hours and are for athletes aged 11 and older. Speed, agility, power and strength will be covered during the four-week training programs.

The Beverly Area Planning Association’s 31st Annual Ridge Run kicks off on Memorial Day, Mon., May 26, with its new 10K course introduced last year and certified by USA Track and Field.

The 10K run begins at 8 a.m., the youth mile for children ages 6 through 12 begin at 8:10 a.m., and the 5K run/walk begins at 9:30 a.m. All races will start and finish at Ridge Park, 97th and Longwood Drive.

The mosaics studio at Mt. Greenwood Park is up
and running, and in fact we have finished our first totem! It looks fabulous.

We have moved the studio from the first floor to the second floor of the Ceramics Building. This move allows us to have more volunteers working together and We are now able to work on two totems at the same time.

In order to accomodate the schedules of more volunteers we are going to open the studio for longer hours on Wednesday nights and add in a few more weekends... in fact the studio will be open THIS Saturday at 10a.m.

This is just a reminder that on Monday, April 14th we will start working on the mosaics that will later be installed on the seven totems in the playlot.

The designs are amazing. We know you all will be very impressed. We hope to have them on the website soon.

We would like everyone to come out and help create these beautiful works of art. You may have some questions - so perhaps this will help:

*** Where are the mosaic going to be worked on?

By Nafis Ahmed
Medill Reports - Chicago

Retired police officer Gerald McLaughlin was vacationing in Mexico with his wife when he realized he couldn't feel his face.

The 63-year-old Portage Park native was standing at a hotel bar the evening of March 12 when his beverage began to spill out of his mouth.

"I took a sip, and it felt like my lips were totally full of Novocain," McLaughlin said. "The liquid went in and just came right back out."

City Health Department inspectors today shut down the main dining room at St. Xavier University, 3700 W. 103rd Street, for failure to comply with previous orders to eliminate a rodent infestation.

Today’s inspection found numerous mouse feces in multiple areas, including the food preparation area and food storage area.

The dining facility, located in the university’s Warde Academic Center, will remain closed until the infestation has been eliminated and the facility passes re-inspection by the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH).

Come out at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Mt. Greenwood Park Fieldhouse to see the designs that will become a major part of the new playlot. This will be your only chance to see the designs and have any final input on them before they are turned in to the beautiful mosaics.

Elements of the designs came from residents of Mt. Greenwood. We have had many of the area schools get involved, as well as art clubs, a brownie troop, and the many individuals (young and old) that came to the design workshops at the park. We have been very impressed by the amount and quality of the submissions we received.

Sooner than you think school will let out for summer, and parents will be frazzled about keeping their children busy and productive.

The Beverly Arts Center can keep young minds learning, creating and having fun during its Summer Arts Experience, a top-of-the-line interdisciplinary art camp offering music, drama, dance, ceramics, computers, film and visual arts for children age 5 to 12 years in five two-week sessions.