First of all, a very happy and blessed 27th birthday to my number four child and number third son, Timothy Michael Baran, who shares a birthday with the Theotokos. May God grant him many happy, healthy and blessed years!
It's been a couple weeks as Rebekah and I spent eight days in Raleigh with Sarah and her family. I nearly literally "hit the ground running" after the plane landed and haven't quit. I plan to format WriteOn Joliet's anthology tonight and work on Before the Blood tomorrow. While I've picked at it here and there since I've returned, Saturday will be the first real attention I've give it in a couple of weeks, and I greatly looking forward to it.
Tomorrow also heralds the return of Ed Calkins, the Steward of Tara. I have two new posts from him, one of which I'll run tomorrow.
Thank you for reading The Herald-News. And for reading this blog. Your support is greatly appreciated.
It's been a couple weeks as Rebekah and I spent eight days in Raleigh with Sarah and her family. I nearly literally "hit the ground running" after the plane landed and haven't quit. I plan to format WriteOn Joliet's anthology tonight and work on Before the Blood tomorrow. While I've picked at it here and there since I've returned, Saturday will be the first real attention I've give it in a couple of weeks, and I greatly looking forward to it.
Tomorrow also heralds the return of Ed Calkins, the Steward of Tara. I have two new posts from him, one of which I'll run tomorrow.
Onward to features!
Local events: Health, faith, and arts and entertainment calendars: where to find them? Under the sections tab on the left hand side of http://www.theherald-news.com/. Click on "features" and the topics drop down. Assembled by moi.
More local events: Gotta Do It, also by me, runs each Sunday in the People section.
Community news: Again, under the sections tab, under features, and by topic. Updates are posted on these days in print and web and in web on other days as I have the time: Monday (pets), Tuesday (health), Thursday (faith), Friday (arts and entertainment), and Sunday (people).
Daily updates: I do post the briefs and calendars on Twitter during the week, so you're welcome to follow me at @Denise_Unland61.
BryonySeries stuff: I post curated content relating to the BryonySeries at @BryonySeries. And assorted related content at www.facebook.com/BryonySeries. And of course, please follow the adventures of Bertrand the Mouse on Instagram at
1990 Plainfield Tornado: Then and Now
By Megan Schuller
The finally story by Herald-News summer intern Megan Schuller, this story is a first-person pictorial look at sites struck by the tornado "then" and "now."
An Extraordinary Life: Bonnie Disera was Joliet's George
Bailey
Lanette Disera-Geissler of Joliet, Bonnie's daughter,
said her mother worked “from 8 a.m. to midnight.”
Bonnie’s three favorite words were, “Get to work,” Lanette added.
“She worked nonstop,” Lanette said. “She would take calls at
10 or 11 at night. To her, 11 o’clock was the same as 8 o’clock in the morning.
You could call her at midnight with questions. She’d say, ‘Call me any time.’ ”
Pets of the Week: Sept. 4
Read the caption of each photo to find out about that pet,
including where he or she can be adopted.
Minooka Creamery goes to the dogs for Joliet hospice
On Sept. 2, several hundred people and pups alike had a
doggone good time at Minooka Creamery's Doggie Ice Cream Social. Yes, you read
that right: ice cream for dogs. Proceeds benefit Joliet Area Community Hospice’s
pet therapy program.
The Minooka Creamery announces pet contest winners
Read on for the winners of the canine costume contest.
Plainfield woman is a 'walking billboard' for one particular
form of cancer
Lori O’Connor knows without subtle reminders of the need
for prostate cancer screening (hence, the bag promoting screening on her
treadmill handle), men probably won’t think about it, much less discuss it with
their doctors or among themselves.
“Men are men,” Lori said. “They don’t bring these things up.
... They don’t know if their fathers had it, which increases their risk,
because they don’t talk about it.”
Local Flavor: Troy administrator shares favorite recipes
from Cameroon, part 1
Pamela Maxey, the new Troy Community School District 30-C
director of early childhood education, was once a literacy advisor for a
national language in Cameroon, Africa.
Maxey will be featured in Sunday's People section but today,
she's sharing foods she and her family enjoyed while living in Cameroon. And if
you like these, Maxey will share two more recipes on Sept. 13.
New Lenox midwife trying to save moms and babies
Sherry Burnam, a certified nurse midwife for over 30 years
and part of the group Obstetrics in Women's Health in New Lenox, does not often
encounter the above in her patients.
But a medical mission trip to Myanmar (the former Burma) in
2014 starkly showed her what happens to mothers and babies when health
providers don't have basic resources.
Often, they die.
So Burnam decided to do address it.
http://www.theherald-news.com/lists/2017/09/06/1ca5e23b322a4cb49b02f51bc9f3d1cb/index.xml
Wanna see the world? Don't leave home.
Virtual field trip?
Isn't that just a fancy name for watching a documentary?
Nope.
Artworks: Singing is ministry and joy for Joliet grandmother
“If one person heard your message and heard your voice,
that’s better than not hearing it at all,” Graves-Brown said in an email.
“Dreams only come alive if you are living it.”
