Normal Rotary OKs grant for Oakdale Elementary

Posted on November 21, 2016

By WJBC Staff

NORMAL – The Normal Rotary Club has given a $480 grant to the Oakdale Elementary Promise Council to buy file storage boxes to contain the school’s crisis procedures.

The grant will provide 40 boxes to be placed at each classroom door in the school so crisis procedures are easily available to teachers and substitute teachers.

Members of Normal Rotary have been active in Oakdale’s Promise Council for several years.

The Normal Rotary Club is dedicated to service to the community and the world. The club meets at noon on Wednesday’s at Illinois State University’s Bone Student Center.

For more information on the Normal Rotary Club, see the web site at normalrotary.org.

Blogs

Labor Day – Expanding voting rights for all

By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …

Is federal mobilization the answer?

By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…

In these troubled times, to my fellow white Americans

By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…

Workers’ Memorial Day – Remember those whose job took their life

Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…