Showing posts with label Kankakee River and County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kankakee River and County. Show all posts
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Tales of the South Side: I Really Do Not Know How to Respond to This

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There I was, in my cubicle at Leo, waiting for the One o'clock meeting with the boys from J Walter Thompson. I twas going to be a goo...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Martin Marty's Fedora “How can Catholic education be saved?” - Play Small Ball

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I read an interesting article by University of Chicago scholar Martin E. Marty . The article rather whimsically treats Catholic Schools a...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

CLASS 2A SECTIONAL SEMIFINALS HERSCHER, IL - Leo 65, Bishop McNamara 57, OT

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Leo Varsity # 13 -Sophomore Martez Hampton played last night like legendary Leo coaches Jimmy Arneberg, Tom O' Malley and Jack Fitzgera...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Bank Robber Returns to Finish His Beer -Had to be Stiegl Pils!

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PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Tampa Bay area man ordered a beer at a bar, left to rob a nearby bank then came back to finish hi...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Actress Kara Zediker - A Great Talent from Kankakee, Illinois

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One of the great rewards of a teaching career is seeing the lives developed by students who endured your time with them. Kara Zediker and he...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

The Compleat Anglers - on the Mighty Kankakee River

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Piscator And upon all that are lovers of virtue; and dare trust in his providence; and be quiet; and go a Angling. "Study to be quiet....
Sunday, May 01, 2011

Swashbuckler and Aviator Pat O'Brien's Adventures After Escaping the Hun

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Momence Illinois's pioneer aviator and WWI hero whose exploits rival any script for an Errol Flynn movie was introduced to King George V...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Kankakee Water Treatment Blast - Chief Ron Young, Chicago's Fallen Firefighters and All 1st Responders -God Bless You!

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Today at St. Rita of Cascia High School at 77th & Western Ave. Chicago will send Firefighter Edward Stringer home to Christ. Last night ...
Monday, December 27, 2010

Kankakee Water Treatment Center Blast - No Injuries Thank God!

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About and hour ago there was an explosion at the Kankakee River Water Treatment Plant - Bishop McNamara Alumnus and State of Illinois Wrestl...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

The Bronte Press of Bourbonnais, IL - A Thing of Beauty

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I have always been uncomfortable around things of beauty - I tended to break them, get my soiled mitts and finger prints all over them and a...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

God Welcomes Home Marietta Frogge - Martinton, Illinois

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Calvin Frogge was a WWII Naval Aviator and after the War he wooed Marietta McCue - Marietta took to Calvin's wooing. These two young Mar...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Sauger Fishing the Illinois River - Beer Drinking with Patriots

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Waters of the Illinois River are colder than a mother in law's kiss and with this year's snap from God's Freon Lines (aka -Globa...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Romy Hammes - 1900-1981: Illinois Business Genius, Philanthropist and Good Guy -The Man from Kankakee

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I taught a good many Hammes kids while at Bishop McNamara from 1975 until 1987 and the Hammes legend was very familiar to me. However, I tri...
Monday, August 03, 2009

Kankakee River Rescue! Well Done, Derek Mullady and the Mullady Family!

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First "Ed Mullady's Kankakee River Fisherman's Atlas" for Illinois published. Mullady helps organize "Save Our Stream...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Governor George Ryan - The Man I Know is a Very Good Man.

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I first met George Ryan, in 1975 when I was a baby teacher/coach at Bishop McNamara in Kankakee - a Chicago 18th Ward Democrat in Republican...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Alaister McLean Studge - The Kankakee Naturalist

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Alaister McLean Studge of Custer Park, Illinois could Texas Rig his line for Smallies on the Kankakee River within eight seconds, unless, as...