Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Evanston Subaru of Skokie owner Rob Paddor is going on his third 300 mile bicycle ride to raise money for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Like many Americans, Rob Paddor can recall exactly what he was doing and where he was going on Sept. 11, 2001. As the owner of Evanston Subaru of Skokie, Paddor was driving to an auction to purchase several vehicles for his dealership. It was about 8:30 a.m., when he received a phone call from his wife informing him of the tragic event that took place at the Twin Towers. "By the time I got to the auction it was dead silent. You could hear a pin drop," Paddor said. "Usually when you're at an auction, there's a lot of rumbling and noise, but everyone was tuned into the TV." Paddor took the tragedy to heart and became involved with the military shortly afterward. He's now serving on the board of directors for the United Service Organization (…
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
With the 11th anniversary of 9/11 today, the Village of Skokie will be holding a moment of silence throughout the community.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Today, Sept. 11, 2012, the Village of Skokie Fire Department will dedicate a moment of silence with a bell ceremony beginning at 8:58 a.m. at the flagpole of each of its Fire Stations in remembrance of the attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. At 8:59 a.m., a “last alarm” bell ceremony will take place followed by a minute of silence at 9:00 a.m. The public is invited to attend. Station locations include: Ceremony schedule:
Monday, September 12, 2011
Day-long event begins with a memorial service.
A memorial service for first responders to the 9/11 assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon kicked off a day of activities to commemorate the 10th anniversary, and focus on our communities and our future at Maine East Sunday. Related: Reclaiming 9/11 as day of hope.
Community organizations come together for a day of service to honor heroes and victims of tragedy.
Hundreds of people attended HopeFest 2011 Sunday to honor the heroes of 9/11, remember the victims of the devastating attacks and pay tribute by serving their communities. HopeFest, an event sponsored by three area United Methodist Church congregations, started at 7:30 a.m. with the arrival of a 200-pound steel beam that was once part of the World Trade Center in New York at Maine East High School in Park Ridge. The beam, which has been donated to the Village of Park Ridge, will be put on permanent display at an as yet undetermined location. Related: Photo gallery of HopeFest. Throughout the day volunteers helped with blood drives and donated blood at two sites, participated in family-friendly CPR and disaster response/relief classes, …
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Members of Religious Leaders Acting Together for Equality (RELATE) issue a joint public statement in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Religious communities and leaders in the Northern Suburbs of Chicago joined all in the U.S. and people of good will across the world in grieving the terrible acts of September 11, 2001. We found these crimes against humanity to be horrendous and contrary to the core teachings of our faith traditions. RELATE (Religious Leaders Acting Together for Equality) is 52 religious leaders of Baha'i, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant denominations from 12 northern suburbs. As a collective body of religious leaders, we originally penned this statement as a response to vicious hate crimes, including the murder of Ricky Byrdsong, on the North Shore in July 1999. Our goal in publishing this Joint Public Statement was to declare our common commitment to …
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Muslims now called upon to be experts and ambassadors in the community.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
This story is part of a Patch series examining the Muslim experience 10 years after the Sept. 11 attacks. Read other stories in the series here. When Rizwan Kadir would leave his downtown office during lunch on Fridays to pray at a nearby mosque, he told very few coworkers where he was going. He wasn’t deliberatively secretive about his Muslim faith with his fellow investment bankers. He just considered religion a private issue. That was before September 11. In the 10 years since the attacks, Kadir and other area Muslims have been compelled to go from quietly practicing their faith to becoming public ambassadors of Islam, giving presentations to religious, educational and civic groups in the area. “We Muslims came out of our comfort zones…
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Community encourages peaceful relations with the Muslim community.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
This story is part of a Patch series examining the Muslim experience 10 years after the Sept. 11 attacks. Read other stories in the series here. Like many religious groups, the Bahá’í International Community saw the need for a renewed call for openness and friendship with Muslims in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Two months after the attacks, the group issued a statement in The New York Times to encourage peaceful relations with the Muslim community. "It was a statement talking about the peril we’re in right now, and trying to remind us how the Bahá’í writings say that America has a spiritual destiny to bring the world together," said Ellen Price, the U.S. Bahá’í National Center's assistant director in the office of communications in …
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Local Muslims discuss experiences since the September 11 attacks.
This story is part of a Patch series examining the Muslim experience 10 years after the Sept. 11 attacks. Read other stories in the series here. Ten years after 9/11, Mohammed Saiduzzaman is still getting used to the looks some non-Muslims give him -- the raised eyebrows, the suspicious stares. "[It's] like we have done something wrong," he explained. Saiduzzaman and Mir Shamsuddin, two prominent local Muslims, sat down recently at a roundtable with Patch to discuss their experiences since the September 11 attacks. Read more: Acclaimed Muslim Playright Returns to Hometown for Debut Skokie resident Mir Shamsuddin, a retired professor of medicine at Northwestern University, was accompanied by Saiduzzaman, president of the Dar-us-Sunnah …
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Des Plaines just received its steel beam; North Maine expecting its relic this week.
A week ago, the Des Plaines Fire Department received a "piece of the tower"--a 33-inch high, 114-pound steel beam found in the World Trade Center wreckage. The department plans to use it in a 9/11 memorial. This week, the North Maine Fire Protection District, which borders Niles, Glenview, Des Plaines and Park Ridge, will get its own fragment of steel from the 9/11 debris. The timing of the two events, punctuated as it was by Sunday's assassination of Al Queda leader Osama bin Laden, reinforced the solemnity of the relics to firefighters. "This isn't just a piece of steel. It's so much more than that. This represents the 3,000 people who lost their lives in the Sept. 11th attacks," said Des Plaines Deputy Fire Chief Ron Eilken. "And not …
Tim Jennings
7:35 am on Wednesday, September 12, 2012
As a parent of a son who is been deployed 4 times, thank you. Thank you for your support and your generosity. more ›