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Newspaper chase

PEORIA, IL -- Problems with your newspaper delivery? 

Read this:
https://shestheday.com/has-covid-killed-newspaper-delivery/

-- Elaine Hopkins

Prro-Palestine rally

PEORIA, IL -- Here's a rally worth going to, but first my solutions to the Israel-Palestine issues. 

In return for total disarmament, enforced by UN inspectors, Palestine gets funds to rebuild its infrastructure.  Israel agrees to end its occupation, recognize Palestine as a nation, get out of its territory (the settlements)  and quit harassing Palestinians who live within its borders. Jerusalem becomes an international city.  Without this,  no funding aid for Israel.The US has a big stick -- the money -- and should use it. 

The rally:  

Palestinians continue to be oppressed by the Israeli Apartheid government. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue the illegal eviction and demolition of Palestinian communities, killing women & children, targeting journalists and mosques.

Join us Sunday, May 23rd, 2021 at 2PM on the corner of Main & University for a rally to support the Palestinian people.

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/803485960283264

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Solidarity,

PeoriaNoBanNoWall

 

-- Elaine Hopkins

 

 

Heartland Festival Orchestra for the birds

WASHINGTON, IL -- The Heartland Festival Orchestra's May 15 concert was for the birds -- with the program title "Blue Sky," performed at the Five Points auditorium.

Every classical piece involved birds or the sky, with the Grammy-nominated guest violin soloist appropriately named Tessa Lark.

The Kentucky native played a Grammy-nominated piece written for her, "Sky Concert for Violin and Orchestra" by Michael Torke. This modern classical number has echoes of country fiddling and jazz, and won Lark a standing ovation.

She then performed a folk tune, which she sang beautifully as she played the violin. This was her first performance with an orchestra in 18 months, she said.

An award-winning classical musician, she has the stunning good looks of a 'pop' or country-western singer with flashy fashion sense. Instead of a traditional gown, she wore a sleek pants suit with flower motif, very sexy. 

The other pieces from the orchestra were Respighi's "The Birds," Ralph Vaughan Williams's "The Lark Ascending" for violin and orchestra, with Lark as the soloist, and "Postcards from the Sky," by Marjan Mozetic.

All the works were from modern composers and fit together well in a lush performance, well played.

The final concert of the season on July 24 will be quite different -- a Beatles tribute band backed by the HFO, playing Beatles hits.

-- Elaine Hopkins