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Social justice diet multi-dimensionally, helpful, healthy

On December 21, 2021December 20, 2021 By admin

Last of two parts The previous part is at thevoice.us/balanced-diet-with-justice-healthy-climate-one-goal What’s In A Social Justice Diet? Ray Levy Uyeda contributed the following article in YES! magazine (Journalism for People Building A Better World) Shift food policy by buying regionally “In nearly every corner of the country, it’s cheaper to purchase...

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Carousel FeatureChristmas Jo Fredell Higgins

Christmas includes an historical perspective, memories

On December 21, 2021December 18, 2021 By admin

The season of Christmas arrives once again. Just as it always has. Just as it always will. Many centuries ago, the Germany people honored the pagan god Oden during the mid-Winter holiday. Germans were terrified of Oden because they believed he made nocturnal flights through the sky to observe his...

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Feature HumorChristmas Wayne Johnson

Giving-gifts season: Mastering useless presents

On December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 By admin

Christmas arrived once again and with it, just like a recurring case of diarrhea, the gift-giving season. Yes, it was the time to give gifts to loving family members and valued friends, the majority of which were things they’ll never use and will end up at Goodwill where someone else...

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FeatureCarter Crane

Charitable, giving, joyous, even honesty, in politics

On December 14, 2021December 15, 2021 By admin

Charitable. Giving. Joyous: Words affiliated with the Christmas holidays. Words all of us should take seriously, understand, and purposefully put into action. There is an unbroken link, in a larger sense, in our country. Each person can enact good thoughts and good actions to be helpful. In a political realm,...

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Memorable trip with Baby Ruth: Lunch and limo

On December 14, 2021December 11, 2021 By admin

“It is good to be children at times and never better than at Christmas.” — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Ten years ago I added another day to my “Top Ten” list of my entire life. That November day n 2011 was cool and grey. The Winter birds flew across...

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FeatureCarter Crane

Choices available each day and way of life reality

On December 7, 2021December 9, 2021 By admin

Turmoil verses resolution. Toxic verses refined. Tumultuous versus reverie. We are worlds apart in many places and many view the world with friction instead of fraternity. We can make choices of how we want to see ourselves. In spite of the raucous behavior of some individuals instead of tenderness, those...

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FeatureDonna Crane

Book on The 1619 Project provides connecting depth

On December 7, 2021December 6, 2021 By admin

Third of three parts The previous part is at thevoice.us/the-1619-project-creates-startling-reactions The 1619 Project: a New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah Jones, editor, recently was examined in Kirkus Reviews, which reviews books The first two parts set up part three which is a dialogue between Karen Long, manager of the Anisfield...

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Carousel FeatureDale Berman Jo Fredell Higgins

Dale Berman, North Aurora: Service, accomplishment

On December 7, 2021December 6, 2021 By admin

It was a beautiful September day and Dale Berman came to the Cole Center in Aurora for his Fox Valley Park District book interview. What a complete delight! Dale Berman was born January 3, 1934. He served in the U.S. Army, 1954-1956, in South Carolina with anti-aircraft artillery on the...

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FeatureChristmas Hanukkah Wayne Johnson

Christmas and Hanukkah story worth remembering

On December 7, 2021December 7, 2021 By admin

In celebration of Christmas and Hanukkah, I’m presenting the tale of this heartwarming event from my past, the days when I was a musician, traveling throughout the Midwest as part of a troupe of magicians and clowns presenting 90-minute Christmas magic shows twice daily to benefit charitable organizations. I was...

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Feature1619 Project Donna Crane

The 1619 Project creates startling reactions

On November 30, 2021December 6, 2021 By admin

Second of three parts The first part is at thevoice.us/genesis-purpose-of-the-1619-project-explored The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah Jones, editor, recently was examined in the Kirkus Reviews, which reviews books. In part one, the purpose of the 1619 Project was explored, which started with with the first ship...

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Carousel FeatureBookmobile Jo Fredell Higgins

Traveling libraries began in the late 19th Century

On November 30, 2021November 27, 2021 By admin

“The happy person is the person who does something.” —Mary Lemist Titcomb In the late 19th Century the American School Library was a traveling frontier library published by Harper & Brothers. The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History has the only complete original set of that series complete with...

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FeatureCharles Coddington Thanksgiving Day

Thoughts on Thanksgiving Day and related matters

On November 30, 2021November 29, 2021 By admin

We’ve just celebrated Thanksgiving Day (I’m writing this essay on that day). Well, not all of us are celebrating, because that day has been so ingrained into our collective psyche that we’ve forgotten what the true origin of it was. We have been taught that the first English-speaking people came...

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Carousel FeatureBottle Terrariums University of Illinois Extension

Bottle Terrariums a tantalizing holiday plant gift

On November 30, 2021November 30, 2021 By admin

By Bruce J. Black, Horticulture Educator, Illinois Extension Winter is that time of year where gardeners rest and plan for Spring. But with the holidays, why not make loved ones plant gifts? Impossible bottles, or bottles with an object inside that doesn’t seem like it can fit through the bottle’s...

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FeatureCarter Crane

Holidays always for giving, joy, festivals of lights

On November 23, 2021November 24, 2021 By admin

Holiday season is in full gear. Such a season covers a wide range for many of us from financial concerns to bad or good memories, of simple frowns in dealing with frustrations of all kinds. It is with confidence we can say it is possible to get through it, enjoy...

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FeatureDonna Crane The 1619 Project

Genesis, purpose, of The 1619 Project explored

On November 23, 2021November 29, 2021 By admin

First of three parts The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones, editor, recently was examined in the Kirkus Reviews, which reviews books. Here is the review. “A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision...

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Carousel Feature HistoryJane Addams Jo Fredell Higgins

Jane Addams: Benevolence through helping the poor

On November 23, 2021November 20, 2021 By admin

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us.” — Jane Addams Elizabeth, the child, passed the night and went straight into her Heavenly Father’s arms. She died of malnutrition in the tenements of New York City, 1910. She left four...

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Feature HumorWayne Johnson

On the neutron bomb and less explosive worldly items

On November 23, 2021November 23, 2021 By admin

Ever wonder? Do you ever wonder what happened to the neutron bomb? Neither do I. I’m kidding. I do wonder because it was supposed to be the next big thing in ultimate weaponry. When detonated, it would kill people due to radiation poisoning and not destroy their stuff, things such...

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FeatureJim Nowlan

Improved education key to U.S. national security

On November 23, 2021November 22, 2021 By admin

Readers will be pleased to know that I have brought on a part-time research assistant (RA). So, I no longer will have to make things up for my writings, and can use real facts based on research, if I choose to do so. What an improvement! New RA Kyle Dennison...

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FeatureCarter Crane

Good health possible without political overtones

On November 16, 2021November 17, 2021 By admin

If we think to one year ago we should remember the countrywide shutdown because of COVID-19 was accelerating and not slowing down. It took until earlier this year that the pandemic was finding corrections and modification. Will we continue that course of improvement without sustaining setbacks? An optimist would find...

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FeatureDonna Crane facebook

Frances Haugen: ‘Facebook chooses profit over safety’

On November 16, 2021November 13, 2021 By admin

Last of a three parts The previous part is at https://thevoice.us/facebook-prioritized-growth-over-safety-60-minute Frances Haugen said in her time with Facebook she saw, “conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook.” Scott Pelley reported on a recent CBS 60 Minutes television show Frances Haugen...

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