Open Forum for Chatham Veterans

We, at the Chatham Avalon Park Community Council, wish to invite all Chathamites in the armed services of the United States to voice your wartime experiences and post-tour life back into civilian society here in Chatham with all of your comments about the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan here on this blog at the comment line. Give your name, rank and serial number with your tour of duty and deployment for reference.

Winter Coat Drive

The temperature is dropping...the needs are rising! It's time to clear your closet of those too little coats.. The Q.B.G. Foundation will hold its annual coat drive to benefit the Feather First Organization. We encourage you to take part in keeping the less fortunate warm this season. Chatham Food Market has partnered with us for this effort. Coats can be dropped off at 806 East 87Th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60619 or 327 E. 79Th Street from Monday, November 23, 2009 through Monday, December 14, 2009.

Violence Plagues 79th Street on the Day Before Thanksgiving

Two shot inside store in 79Th Street

The store in question is Total Cellular Solutions located at 752 E. 79Th St.
A man and a woman were shot inside a Chatham cell phone store Wednesday morning. At about 11:15 a.m., an unknown gunman who was outside of the store in the 700 block of East 79Th Street, shot into the store, injuring the two people, police News Affairs Officer Michael Fitzpatrick said. Witnesses said a man walked out of an alley, knocked on the window of the store and opened fire. The gunmen then fled back down the alley, they said. Both victims were taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, according to police, but their conditions were not available. No one was in custody as of 2:45 p.m. Fitzpatrick said. No other details were available.

Congratulations to the Obamas on their first State Dinner

We, at the Chatham Avalon Park Community Council, would like to send praises to the First Family for their very first State Dinner to the Prime Minister of the Republic of India. We hope to see more of their state occasions at the White House in the coming New Year 2010.

It Would be Nice, Indeed!

Would you like to see a Meijer open up at the former Dominick's store site at 122 West 79Th Street? Leave your comments on the comment line.

How About This!

Would it be great to engage the youth of our Chatham community to become urban beekeepers, to set up commercial beehives on the rooftops of our storefronts and business and generate income for themselves with the sale of homegrown honey? The pollination of the vegetation in our state provides for the fruits and vegetables that are essential to our agriculture of our region in the Midwest. Plus urban gardens with compost from our garbage waste would also engage young minds of how entrepreneurship can have even modest beginnings to grow into sizable enterprises? Leave your comments on the comment line.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We, at the Chatham Avalon Park Community Council, wish all of our members, residents, friends, and viewers a very Happy Thanksgiving! We urge you to wash your hands thoroughly before eating your feast due to the swine flu epidemic via H1N1. Don't eat too much, and see your for the holiday season!