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New Park Playgrounds coming to 10th Ward
ONT Staff info@ontnews.com Four more 10th Ward parks will be upgraded this year with new playgrounds including Calumet, Mann, Pietrowski, and Wolfe. With the spring upon us and construction here, work is to begin at Cal Park this week with the three other parks to begin the week of March 23rd . Construction is anticipated to last 10-12 weeks. Strong, modern parks and playgrounds provide excellent recreational opportunities and help build stronger communities.
10th Ward Alderman John A. Pope said, “ I am pleased to announce that four more 10th Ward parks will receive new playground equipment this year. With another harsh winter and spring soon upon us the ability to provide our kids and families with high quality playgrounds is of great importance. The reconstruction of these playgrounds with state-of-the art equipment is part of our ongoing effort to provide our residents with a safe, fun place to enjoy themselves and another significant investment in our children and entire southeast side. “ Mann Park playground sketch
Calumet Park playground sketch
Pietrowski Park playground sketch
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Around Town
March 26, 2015
Please Join 10
th
Ward Alderman John A. Pope &
4th District Commander Kevin Navarro For the
Annual
EASTER EGG HUNT! Calumet Park (Enter Field House) 9801 S. Avenue “G”
Saturday, April 4, 2015 Games & Activities – 11 am to 11:45 am Egg Hunt at 12 Noon SHARP! KIDS AGES 10 AND UNDER *Make sure you bring your own baskets/bags to collect Easter eggs* Special Thanks to our Sponsors: 4th District CAPS office South Chicago Chamber of Commerce East Side Chamber of Commerce Marblestone Property Group
If you have any questions, please call Alderman Pope’s Office at (773) 721-1999.
You’re invited
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Advocate Trinity’s staff receives recognition Two Advocate Trinity Hospital nurses recently were honored as the recipients of the 2015 National Black Nurses Day Award sponsored by the Chicago chapter of the National Black Nurses Association. Chikira Hale, RN, MSN and Crystal Price, RN, BSN, work at Advocate Trinity, 2320 E. 93rd St. on the southeast side of Chicago.
Administration Bar Code Project while also training Emergency Department physicians, anesthesiologists and surgeons on various technology-based programs.
Starting her career as an Emergency Room nurse, Price eventually stepped into the clinical informatics department four years ago. She took project lead on GI Lab Department Paperless project where she converted the department from paper to 100 percent electronic nursing documentation by training staff nurses. She also was project lead on Medication
Hale expanded her clinical skill set by acquiring a certificate as certified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner. During the SANE exam, she interviews the victims of sexual crimes, putting them at ease while carefully obtaining the necessary clinical evidence required by law enforcement. She also ensures they have resources upon discharge. Hale has trained more than 50 future SANE nurses in the Chicagoland area. She is a forensic nurse at Advocate Trinity. “Nurses are essential to the design and execution of all the essential elements of
Honoree Crystal Price
Honoree Chikira Hale
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Advocate Trinity from safety and quality initiatives to the strategic planning which keeps our ministry viable,” said Dr. James Keller, vice president of medical management at Advocate Trinity Hospital. “It is only through our great nurses that health in our communities will improve.”
The Chicago Chapter National Black Nurses’ Association evolved out of a desire by six Black nurses to establish an organization where nurses had an atmosphere of comradeship and sisterhood. Story Submitted by Advocate Trinity
Crystal Price (left), Jackie Whitten, chief nursing executive and VP of nursing (center) and Chikira Hale (right)
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STAFF Ernst Lamothe Jr. Advocate Trinity Hospital
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Yessenia Carreon-Gonzalez 10th Ward Alderman John A. Pope
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Joann Podkul South Chicago Chamber of Commerce Brian Grabinski NWI Comic Con Coordinator Abel Zepeda Bowen High School
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South Chicago Green Summit Series
2015 8th Annual 10th Ward Green Summit - LEEDing the Way in May
Born 8 years ago as a simul-thought between Claretian Associates and the Calumet Stewardship Initiative, the annual 10th Ward Green Summit, held in May, celebrates our environmental assets: green buildings, gardens, and open spaces, and through its related activities, helps participants lead healthier and more productive lives. From compact energyefficient affordable housing to LEED(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) designated multi-unit senior housing, the Ward has a variety of green buildings and those rescued from the wrecking ball for re-use. 10th Ward gardens, rescued from vacant trashed lots, and vast open public space abound. This first of a 3-part series previews the rich story told during the summit of how and where green entered the life of a community that continues to be wellstocked with commercial buildings dating back to the early 20th century and housing dating back to the mid-to-late 19th century. The green in the 10th Ward does not hide. It shows up in solar panels on senior housing, in honorary plaques and in the feel of space made with recycled materials. It is also seen in the remnants of energy and housing experiments that were ahead of their time. In an effort to provide affordable housing for community residents, Claretian Associates produced Phase 1 energyefficient housing built with structural insulated panels and installed Energy Star appliances. A tad small for family oriented residents, that phase was followed by two others, both with larger size, and one
offering solar panels as an energy option. A walk along Buffalo Avenue north from 91st to 90th provides abundant examples. While Casa Kirk, a Claretian affordable rental complex at 92nd and Burley has no green features, it does have a detention pond to the north of the property to provide for storm-water run-off. Following a devastating fire several years ago, Rainbow Apparel’s corporate office agreed to re-build LEED-certified with features such as recycled materials for floors and walls, and a reflective roof.
The Big Belly solar trash compactor, at the corner of 91st and Commercial, was an experiment in living cleaner, but relied on being connected to the company’s central office. The East SideVodak Library and the proposed Southeast Community Elementary School on Indianapolis Blvd are green in design. The Victory Centre at 92nd and Burley is a LEED Silver facility. The most visible features are the solar panels atop both roofs. Solar panels also grace the retrofitted Villa Guadalupe Senior Center at 91st and Brandon. The LEED Gold 7th and 10th Ward Streets and Sanitation Building at 92nd and Harbor is not only energy-efficient, but was designed to produce its own electricity through the City of Chicago’s first wind farm: 4 modest-sized vertical-axis windturbines at the back of the building. After one of the turbines was felled during a blizzard a few years ago, the others were removed.
Victory Centre on 3251 E 92nd St.
The 7th and 10th Ward Yard 91st and Mackinaw/Harbor Dr.
At 86th and Green Bay, a millgate building has been retrofitted for the Lakeside Development office, a taste of what the entire development site hopes to become - totally green. Solar Verde, a green housing venture at 96th and Marquette, had enough solar shingles on the roof of each of its two proposed models to fulfill its promise of Zero-Energy costs. Although the two models still stand, their value was affected by the most recent economic downturn, The 18 additional lots remain vacant. The Velodrome bicycle racing track at 87th and Buffalo was proposed as part of a model for a larger-than-theUnited-Center - and totally green - facility at Lakeside Development. Another proposal waiting in the wings is the Jeanne Gang design for the “Best Nest” Ford Calumet Environmental Center at Hegewisch Marsh, 134th and Torrence. Consigned to the back-burner by the rising cost of appropriate materials for the entirely green facility, its fate is being reconsidered in a feasibility study currently being
conducted by the Chicago Park District. Evidence of re-use, another Green Summit theme, can be found in South Chicago where Claretian Associates has renovated the Burley Apartments at 91st and Burley, where Sarah Ward is transforming the former Ellis Cleaners into SkyArt at 91st and Houston, Father Wolf Werling is turning a former family residence into a youth hostel at 83rd and Commercial, and Adrian Cardoso of A-Metal Scrap Inc., now recycles in a space once occupied by a fish-house at 93rd and Baltimore. Need help finding green locations throughout the 10th Ward? Watch for Green Summit logos posted on sites starting in late April. Part 2 in this series on the 10th Ward Green Summit covers not only lovelyto-look at gardens and green open space but places to fish, swim, sail, kayak, canoe, bike, hike and be awed.
Story submitted by Joann Podkul
Rainbow Apparel on 9052 S. Commercial Ave.
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ONT Sponsors 2015 Comic Con Convention
On Saturday, February 21st, Over 3,500 Comic & Pop-Culture attended the 2015 NWI Comic Con. If you happen to miss out on this affordable family friendly event that took place at the Halls of St. George in Schererville, IN you will have to wait until 2016 to attend the next one. Despite the massive crowds, those whose ages ranged from 6-60 that came out, had a fantastic time visiting VIP guests and comic book artists. Purchasing various items from comic, toy, clothing and jewelry dealers. Posing for pictures with multiple cosplayers and entertainment guests such as Medieval Times and the Bristol Renaissance Faire. Showrunner Brian Grabinski said he was thrilled to see everyone having such an enjoyable time and he was also happy that he could assist the Northwest Indiana Cancer Kids and the Humane Society Calumet raise funds through the charity raffles that were available on the day of this comic book convention. The NWI ComicCon also donated 25 attendance tickets to the Boys & Girls Club of Northwest Indiana. Questions? Please contact Brian at nwi-comic-con@inbox.com Story submitted by Brian Grabinski
Executive Director of the South Chicago Chamber of Commerce, Dan Lira (left), NWI Comic Con Coordinator, Brian Grabinski (center), and ONT Publisher, Sam Gomez (right)
Organizer, Natalie Vitaterna, from the South Chicago Chamber of Commerce, speaks to local building owners about the signs of a pyramid scheme.
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Bowen wrestler wins State Championship
Coach Ron Wilson has been building Bowen’s wrestling program since 2000. Bowen has won the conference wrestling championship from 2007 to 2015. Bowen also won the city championship in 20132014. Brandyn Peocock on February 21, 2015 won the state championship in Champaign Urbana at the 220 lbs weight class. Peacock was Bowen’s first state championship in 74 years.
state. Cameron White made it down state as a freshmen. Marise Paino made down state as his second year wrestling. Then, there Georgie Sosa and Brandyn Peocock. both transfer from different school. george from clemente and Peocock from mt.carmel. Brandyn Peocock took first in the state tournament. He is the second wrestler in chicago to win state since 2012
and the first at Bowen high school since 1942. George Sosa took 4th in state being the second person in bowen to take forth. The bowen wrestling team best accomplishments were winning regional 2003-2004, 2009-2013, and runner up for 2014 and 15. They also won 9 conference championship from 2007-
2015 and city champions 2003-2004 and 2013. They were runner up at 2014 and 15. Most of the wrestling ream success go to ron wilson, the head coach and the athletic director of Bowen high school. Story submitted by Abel Zepeda
The team record was 24-2. Those two loses were Montini that ranked 1in class 2A state and Mt.Carmel that also ranked in class 3A. The success of the team was really well. Bowen’s wrestling team is one of the best state wrestling teams in class 1A in Illinois. The team success in tournaments was great. Bowen took 4th in the Guerin tournament. They also did well in the uplift tournament at Evanston, they took 3rd place. In the Reed Cluster tournament, the best class A wrestling team was there, Bowen took 4th. Bowen had four people to make it down
Brandyn Peocock wins Bowen’s first State Championship in over 72 years
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