WRITING CLUB - Create a new story at Writing Club for Kids from Homewood Library. Kids in third through sixth grades will get a fun writing prompt in this low stress club that focuses on creativity. Each participant gets a notebook to keep. Register online for the program at 6 p.m. Thursday
For over 50 years, local families have been adopting furry friends from South Suburban Humane Society. Since first opening their doors in 1970, SSHS has continuously worked to serve the local communities, and for the past 14 years, CEO Emily Klehm has been at the forefront of the shelter’s efforts.
The Prairie State College Board of Trustees have announced that Dr. Michael D. Anthony and Dr. Pamela Haney are the final two candidates in the search for the college’s 17th president. They will be interviewed the week of Sept. 20.
Mental illness is difficult enough to deal with, but social stigma associated with it compounds the problem, according to Tiara Jackson, co-owner of Beauty Starts Within Cosmetics in downtown Homewood.
BSW, in partnership with NoStigmas, a nonprofit support network for people experiencing mental illnesses, will host a panel discussion from 3 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 25, at the Homewood Science Center, 18022 Dixie Highway.
After 16 months on the job, Dr. Cheryl Green officially accepted the mantle as the sixth president of Governors State University in a formal investiture ceremony on Friday, Sept. 17.
The surge of COVID-19 cases fueled by the highly transmissable Delta variant may have reached a plateau, locally and statewide, although Homewood lost two more residents to the disease since Sept. 3.
One, Cherie Garza, a former Homewood District 153 teacher, died on Sept. 13, four days after her 40th birthday.
