Oak Park Newspaper

Library Board member the Honorable Bruce Samuels and an
Oak Park Township Board Member staff the Illinois Green Party Tent.
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Illinois Westside Greens Show different
ways to be more ecologically friendly.
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Oak Park Independent Voters who ran slate called "It Takes a Village" Discuss Local Issues and events with interested citizens.
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Past Oak Park Board Member Galen Gockel, now President of
Oak Park Festival Theatre always has a smile and some kind words

for the Arts.

Oak Park Festival Theatre's Artistic Director and Actor extraordinaire
Mr. Jack Hickey prepares for his role in Cyrano de Bergerac to be performed indoors at the Mills House (he reads and sleeps with the book).

Carl Occhipinti, the Artistic Director of Oak Park Village Players will be retiring after many years with the organization. From an organization that almost failed after many years to one that is strong and succeeding, Mr. Occhipinti has done a great deal for the organization and the arts in

Oak Park.

Dorothy Reid, an Oak Park Township Board Member and Baird and Warner real-estate Agent, presents a series of historic photos of Oak Park and asks residents to name some of the structures, a fellow real-estate agent poses with Ms. Reid.

Deborah Preisser, Oak Park Public Library's Media relations person
and a lot more......greets residents and prepares for a summer of readers
and events from all over the nation.

Greyhound Rescue folks and residents enjoy the park.
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Oak Park and River Forest's Rotary International President Mr.
Bill Planek bakes cookies for folks and illustrates the workings of a solar oven. Solar ovens like this one are placed in developing nations where energy for cooking and baking is limited. Another helpful hand that the Rotary is giving to those in need.

One of the large Solar Ovens being used by Rotary International.
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A Cockatoo with his human friend comes to the
event, but would have nothing to do with the pigeons.
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Entertainment at Scoville Park kept the kids and parents delighted all day. Sundays at Scoville will host a variety of events through the summer.
Click here for a complete schedule.
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A Breast Feeding Station on the left and a Dream Interpretation
tent welcome visitors and sucklers.
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Evangelical Lutherans Offer Free Bibles whilst Homosexuals
let it be known there are Gays in the Village.
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There are Optimists Everywhere, and some may have helped keep the rain from coming back.