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“The people at Easter Seals are like a second family to us and we are all great friends,” Megan Bishop said in a small room at Easter Seals.

Megan and Thomas Bishop are the parents of three children: Ryan, 6 years old; Finley, 4 years old; and Sophie, 15 months old.

By DeWayne Bartels
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The economic forecast for the Greater Peoria Area offered last week at Weaver Ridge by business leaders was stormy. But, they said, there is a rainbow at the end of the storm, and it is coming into focus.
“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. Life is about learning to dance in the rain,” said Keith Steffen, CEO of OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, one of the speakers at the forum sponsored by the Heartland Partnership.

 

Opinions vary.
District 150 interim superintendent Norm Durflinger recently told me Glen Oak School in the East Bluff, whose principal is North Peorian Velda Shipp, has gone from a “zoo” to a “pocket of excellence.”
I wrote that.
One respondent to the article referred to the school as “hell on the hill.”
Who would have thought you could find a pocket of excellence in hell? 
 

Lily Phan’s desire to escape the crushing poverty and lack of freedom she lived under in Saigon, Vietnam, blinded her to the dangers of seeking a new life in America.
She dreamed of life in America while working long hours and tending to her dying mother in her communist-controlled country.
Fulfilling her dream would involve incredible sacrifice. Phan knew that. Still, she was willing to pay the price.