To recognize Hispanic Heritage Month, the village of Flossmoor hosted a performance by Mariachi Sirenas, the Chicago area’s first all-female mariachi band.
The band performed on the streets downtown during the evening of Oct. 6.
Photos by Andrew Burke-Stevenson/H-F Chronicle.
Charlie Faoro was nervous before coming to a soccer team workout this summer.
The Homewood-Flossmoor senior had stayed away from soccer for two years. He didn’t even kick a ball around with friends during that time.
Predictably, that first workout was rough.
The Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra opens its 2021-22 season on Saturday, Oct. 16, with a 5:30 p.m. concert featuring works of Eric Ewazen, Florence Price and Aaron Copland.
The performance will be at Ozinga Chapel, 6601 W College Drive, at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights.
Organizers of Flossmoor Green Commission’s annual Recyclepalooza report they were able to reduce, reuse and recycle plenty of donations. The event on Oct. 2 gave donors the chance to drive through the Parker Junior High parking lot and have their trunks emptied by volunteers in a COVID-19 safe event.
Jalen Coles-Foster, left, of Flossmoor Public Works, and Dave Becker, right, the village’s arborist, start planting some of the 17 pawpaw trees the village bought with a $1,000 donation from Tom Houlihan, center. (Photo provided)
To help increase capacity and facilitate faster access to COVID-19 testing in schools across the state, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has partnered with the U.S. Health and Human Services’ Midwest COVID-19 Testing Coordination Center (MCC) to provide testing to all public and private schools that are now seeking to establish a testing program.
