Archive for June 2018

Music filled the air of the senior living center’s main dining room as the Bloomington-Normal Community Bells New Day Ringers gave their first performance using their new choirchimes. Two octaves of choirchimes were a recent purchase, thanks to a grant from the Laura Sullivan Arts & Culture Endowment Fund at Illinois Prairie Community Foundation. View photos…

As the end of the school year approached, children and tutors gathered for an end-of-the-year celebration at Western Avenue Community Center in Bloomington. The after-school program displayed artwork by the participants and the students with an awards program that included diplomas for graduating fifth-graders. See photos from event. Throughout the school year, about 45 minority…

With the goal of improving literacy and providing more access to books for children on Bloomington’s west side, the Bloomington Public Library hosted a Bingo for Books! event at Western Avenue Community Center on May 9. The library received a General Grant for Education from IPCF for $500 to fund the event. The event coincided…

Reprinted with permission from The Pantagraph By Julia Evelsizer; Photos by Lewis Marien BLOOMINGTON — Penguins might be flightless birds, but members of the Penguin Project of McLean County have been soaring for 10 years. The Penguin Project is a unique theater production involving “artists,” or individuals with disabilities ages 10 to 24, who are…