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August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month and in honor of that, Thornton Township recently took nearly 100 employees and summer program students to the Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network’s Wave Away the Wait event at the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago. Photo Credit: Thornton Township

SOUTH SUBURBAN TOWNSHIP WANTS TO DISPEL COMMON ORGAN DONATION MYTHS

August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month and in honor of that, Thornton Township recently took nearly 100 employees and summer program students to the Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network’s Wave Away the Wait event at the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago.

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NEWS briefly EDUCATION

MARQUETTE BANK AWARDS 57 SCHOLARSHIPS TO LOCAL STUDENTS Marquette Bank, a locally-owned neighborhood bank, continued its annual tradition of awarding scholarships to local graduating seniors. The program has been running for over 50 years. This year, the Marquette Bank Education Foundation awarded individual scholarships of $2,500 to 57 graduating seniors from Chicagoland schools, investing over $140,000 in the local community. Since the scholarship program began during the 1967/68 school year, more than $3.3 million has been awarded to nearly 1,700 high school seniors from Chicagoland neighborhoods.

The scholarship program is funded by the Marquette Bank Education Foundation (MBEF) and scholarships were awarded to students chosen by their school’s guidance counselors and principals.

HEALTH

LAW PASSED TO PROTECT VETERANS AT STATE HOMES FROM EPIDEMICS A new Illinois state law sponsored by State Senator Tom Cullerton (D-Villa Park) will protect veterans at state homes from epidemics like the deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at the Illinois Veterans Home at Quincy. Cullerton’s legislation, which was signed into law recently requires Illinois veterans homes to notify facility residents and their emergency contacts within 24 hours if two or more residents in the home have been diagnosed with an infectious disease in a period of one month or less. “This new law will put the health of our veterans ahead of government bureaucracy,” Cullerton said. “When your loved one is in harm’s way, you have a right to know. Now that right is the law.”

House Bill 4278 was supported by the Better Government Association, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Illinois AMVETS. It goes into effect immediately.

LAW & POLITICS

SENATOR DURBIN ENDORSES DEMOCRAT LAUREN UNDERWOOD FOR THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN ILLINOIS’S 14TH U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) offered his formal endorsement of Lauren Underwood, a Democrat running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Illinois’s 14th District, during a July 28 event in Oswego, IL alongside members of the Kendall County Democrats.

“Healthcare is the driving issue in this election, and we couldn’t have a better candidate,” Durbin said of Underwood, a registered nurse and health policy expert from Naperville, IL. “The incumbent congressman has voted in lockstep with the Republicans in Congress in favor of a health care system that would deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and dramatically increase the cost of health insurance for people over 50.”

“As a nurse I know how critical it is for people to have access to medications and procedures when they need them, particularly if they have a chronic illness.

I have a pre-existing condition myself, so this is deeply personal to me. I understand the plight of so many northern Illinois families who are struggling to afford their care,” said Underwood whose team marked 100 days to Election Day July 29 with an open house celebration at her new office in St. Charles with more than 100 local supporters.

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“MINORITY COMMUNITIES ARE OFTEN IN NEED OF ORGAN AND

TISSUE DONATIONS BUT WE CAN ALSO HAVE THE LOWEST NUMBER

BY KATHERINE NEWMAN

August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month and in honor of that, Thornton Township recently took nearly 100 employees and summer program students to the Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network’s Wave Away the Wait event at the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago.

The Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network is a nonprofit organ procurement organization that coordinates organ and tissue donation and provides public education on donation in Illinois and northwest Indiana.

Since 1986, Gift of Hope has saved the lives of more than 23,000 people who were in need of an organ transplant and improved hundreds of thousands of lives through tissue transplants, according to the Gift of Hope’s website.

Learning the truth about organ and tissue donation is especially important in minority communities where there are known to be a few misleading myths that circulate from generation to generation and that prevent people from becoming organ donors.

“Minority communities are often in need of organ and tissue donations but we can also have the lowest number of donors. We wanted to bring awareness to this because a lot of times the reason we don’t donate

OF DONORS. WE WANTED TO BRING AWARENESS TO THIS BECAUSE A

LOT OF TIMES THE REASON WE DON’T DONATE TO THE LEVEL THAT WE COULD IS THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF MYTHS ON ORGAN DONATION.” ERNST LAMOTHE JR. COMMUNITY RELATIONS MANAGER FOR THORNTON TOWNSHIP

to the level that we could is that there are a lot of myths on organ donation,” said Ernst Lamothe Jr., community relations manager for Thornton Township.

Some of the most common myths around organ and tissue donation are that registered donors don’t receive the same medical care as non-donors or that organ and tissues donation goes against a certain religion.

“I previously was an example of somebody that had heard the myths as well and it wasn’t until I worked at a hospital a few years ago, and saw how many people are actually on the waiting list and how much joy families feel when they hear that they are getting a new organ, that I changed my mindset and became an organ donor,” said Lamothe.

The event featured speakers including medical professionals, organ donation recipients and their families, and Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White.

“This is something that is not talked about enough in the community so the kids don’t necessarily know about the great impact that people can have in this way. Kids anywhere from 9 to 13 years old came to the program and it was just uplifting for them to hear the stories that were told by the adults and even the kids that were there who had a transplant and were much younger than them. That really resonated with them to hear that maybe these kids wouldn’t be alive if someone hadn’t stepped up and been an organ donor,” said Lamothe.

The most impactful information for the adults was learning that there is no religion that formally forbids donation or receipt of organs from living or deceased donors, according to Lamothe. He said that there are several people who have heard the myths their whole lives and never changed their minds because they have never heard the truth about organ donation until now.

AmeriCorps NCCC Helps Richton Park Public Works An AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) team is serving with the Village of Richton Park Public Works from July 13 to August 30. The team isassisting with disaster mitigation and infrastructure improvement tasks.

The AmeriCorps NCCC team of seven from the North Central Region campus of Vinton, Iowa is doing GPS/GIS (Geographic Information System) mapping of storm water infrastructures, manhole covers, street sign inventory, and other public infrastructure throughout the village.

Additionally, the team is cleaning up waterways and storm water runoffs to meet National Pollutant Dis-

charge Elimination System (NPDES) compliance and gathering information to aid in planning and replacement of the current infrastructure.

Through their service, AmeriCorps NCCC members are expected to benefit all the residents of Richton Park by reducing localized flooding and providing accurate information for future development of the Village. The information the team helps gather will help the village make decisions and develop data-driven plans for the future.

“We are here to get the job done,” says member Douglas Anderson from Houston, Texas. “I am very excited about this project because

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we are helping Richton Park Public Works make the community safer and better.”

The Richton Park Public Works Department mission is to provide quality services to enhance the living and working environment of the community. Their vision is to be recognized as an outstanding provider of public works services to the community, which is accomplished through partnerships, quality customer service, teamwork and continuous improvement.

AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) and its FEMA Corps unit engages up to 2,800 young Americans in a full-time, 10-month commitment to service each

year. AmeriCorps NCCC members address critical needs related to natural and other disasters, infrastructure improvement, environmental stewardship and conservation, and urban and rural development; FEMA Corps members are solely dedicated to disaster preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery work.

The programs are administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). CNCS is the federal agency that engages more than five million Americans in service through its AmeriCorps, Senior Corps and Volunteer Generation Fund programs.

For more information, visit www.nationalservice.gov.

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NEWS Rep. Rita Announces Legislative Hearings on Illinois Gaming Expansion

State Rep. Bob Rita

State Rep. Bob Rita will bring together two House committees for legislative hearings aimed at bringing gaming expansion and broad economic opportunity to Illinois.

Rita, D-Blue Island, has been the House Democrats’ point person on gaming issues since spring 2013.

He has proposed several bills on gaming expansion, including a large amendment to Senate Bill 7 that combined new casinos, race tracks

slot machines and other concepts at the end of the spring legislative session. But the bill did not muster enough support before the session ended May 31.

Rita will now lead two House subcommittees – on Gaming and on Sales and Other Taxes – to have hearings on the measure he presented at the end of the session and other gaming expansion issues such as internet gaming, fantasy

sports and sports betting, in hopes of using building a consensus proposal that could be considered in Springfield after the November election. The committees will meet on Wednesday, Aug. 22, at the Bilandic Building in Chicago and on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the Capitol in Springfield.

“As I have said from the beginning in working on this issue, gaming expansion presents many

tremendous opportunities to create revenue, jobs and economic growth in Illinois,” Rita said. “The gaming landscape has changed significantly since I took on this issue five years ago, and I want to use these hearings to understand how those changes present new opportunities for us to put the right package together as we look to meet budget needs and provide a spark for our economy.”

Kelly Report Redefines the American Dream

BY KATHERINE NEWMAN

Congresswoman Robin Kelly recently released her Kelly Report on the New American Dream. The report details how the once very attainable American Dream has evolved and how strategic investments in people, workers, education, manufacturing, and technology will create jobs and foster opportunities that could potentially empower families to redefine the American Dream.

This is the third Kelly Report that the Congresswoman has released since she took office as the U.S Representative of Illinois’s second district in 2013. Each of the reports has examined critical issues and proposed solutions. Previous Kelly Reports have examined preventing gun violence and ending health disparities.

“This is definitely something that I have been thinking about even when I ran for Congress. Because I’ve worked in local government, and then I was a State Rep, and I also worked for Cook County at one point, I saw the economic needs,” said Kelly. “When I really looked around, I had already done gun violence and I did health so it became clear to look at economic empowerment because when people feel empowered economically it affects so many other portions of their life.”

In the first few pages, Kelly welcomes readers to the new Kelly Report by sharing a very personal story about how her grandparents became business owners in New York City about 70 years ago when Kelly’s grandmother bought a grocery store in Harlem on a whim.

The family shop, Ross’s Grocery created economic opportunity in the neighborhood and forever changed the trajectory of their family. In the Report, Kelly signifies that “it was in this store where the Kelly family’s American Dream began.”

The report also includes researched and thoughtful readings on community, workforce, and family development as well as how to create equity in the workplace and adapt to the quickly evolving job market that we live in. Kelly called on academics, community leaders, business strategists, and government colleagues to provide their insight on The New American Dream and what it means for us as civilians.

“Most people in office think about other things like health and gun violence like me, but everyone thinks about economics. That’s how people have a roof over their heads, put food on the table, can further their education, and travel and have fun,” said Kelly.

According to Kelly, it was easy to get people involved in the third Kelly Report and “people were very willing to share their opinions and two cents,” she said.

In Sept. 2017, Kelly introduced her Today’s American Dream Act which, if passed, would establish new programs and amend several existing programs related to workforce and community development.

“Key parts of the American Dream have changed or been sifted out of reach for so many families and this bill is really designed to foster conversation about moving the ball forward. We know there are solutions but it’s just that we have to prioritize how we appropriate funds and the investments we make on a federal, state, and local level,” said Kelly.

Congresswoman Robin Kelly (pictured) recently released her Kelly Report on the New American Dream. Photo Credit: Provided by the office of Congresswoman Robin Kelly

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BUSINESS

Bank to adjust security following call from community, Collins

Sen. Jacqueline Collins

Following vocal concerns from members of the Auburn Gresham community and a public hearing of the Illinois Senate Financial Institutions Committee convened by Sen. Jacqueline Collins, branches of Fifth Third Bank will remove obtrusive security measures.

Collins praised the move as an example of how companies and communities can work together to foster mutual respect. The Rev. Michael Pfleger of the Faith Community of St. Sabina, who was active in bringing the

concerns of the community to the public, worked closely with Fifth Third and those who originally expressed their concerns to arrive at an agreement which will see highsecurity buzz-in doors removed.

At a March meeting of the Financial Institutions Committee, patrons of Fifth Third bank branches in Auburn complained the high security was unnecessary, undignified, and potentially problematic or dangerous for individuals with small children, disabilities, or limited mobility.

MONEY MATTERS

How to Help Prepare Young People for the Workforce

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Study: U.S. Firms Accumulated Cash in 2Q18 At A Slower Pace Than The Previous Quarter

Mark C. Perna, workforce development consultant, education strategist and author of the new book, “Answering Why: Unleashing Passion, Purpose, and Performance in Younger Generations,” lays out a road map for better preparing young people for the opportunities ahead, while also closing the skills gap currently dogging the economy.

tudent loan debt is on the rise and, unfortunately, the high cost of tuition doesn’t mean that graduates are guaranteed to find high-paying, meaningful work after earning a degree.

“Our education and workforce development systems are broken right now, and as a result, the country is facing a crisis,” says Mark C. Perna, workforce development consultant, education strategist and author of the new book, “Answering Why: Unleashing Passion, Purpose, and Performance in Younger Generations.”

“Millions of jobs in sectors crucially important to our economy and society are open and we have no one with the right skills -- or even the desire -- to fill them,” he says.

In “Answering Why” (markcperna.com/book) Perna lays out a road map for better preparing young people for the opportunities ahead, while also closing the skills gap currently dogging the economy.

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Here he offers some of his top insights and recommendations: • Biases and misconceptions about younger generations continue to persist and there’s an intergenerational struggle to connect effectively.

Perna refers to Generations Y and Z collectively as the “Why Generation,” because its members want to understand the “why” behind everything they are asked to do. We need to get to know and understand their traits and abilities if we expect them to perform beyond expectations.

• Non-college career paths have become stigmatized in this country. Experts like Perna believe that teachers and parents need to move away from the belief that everyone has to go to a four-year university to be a successful and productive citizen. Fulfilling, highdemand, high-wage careers can be attained by postsecondary training pathways beyond the traditional college route.

• We should prioritize career development

exploration and education as part of the K–12 system, Perna stresses. Even many teachers, counselors and school administrators are themselves unaware of the robust opportunities available to today’s youth and have tended to devalue career exploration for the sake of sending everyone through one pathway -- college.

• The Why Generation needs to better understand the relationship between selfmotivation and outside motivation when it comes to achieving goals, and parents and teachers can help. To succeed today, young people must develop the ‘want-to’ that fosters passion, achievement and positive self-esteem.

“As young people prepare for and enter the world of work, we need to coach them to do three things: focus, plan and take action,” says Perna. “This generation is tenacious and talented, but they need to be motivated to reach their peak performance. They can do it, but we have to help.”

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U.S. companies continued to accumulate cash during the second quarter of 2018, but at a slower pace than they did in the previous quarter. Strong domestic employment numbers may have instilled some confidence among business leaders during the spring of 2018, but not enough to encourage them to reduce their cash holdings, according to the latest AFP Corporate Cash Indicators® (CCI).

In the latest CCI, a quarterly survey of corporate treasury and finance executives conducted by the Association for Financial Professionals, U.S. businesses increased their cash and shortterm investment holdings in 2Q18 at a slower pace than the previous quarter, as the quarter-over-quarter index reading decreased 13 points to +5. The year-over-year indicator decreased only one point to +16, signaling organizations had continued to build their cash holdings in the past year.

Treasury and finance professionals anticipate that they will continue to hold their cash reserves through the summer.

The forward-looking indicator, measuring expectations for changes in cash holdings in the third quarter, increased 4 points from their predictions last quarter to a reading of +3.

AFP began collecting quarterly data in January 2011 and has now collected 31 data sets. See the AFP website for more data on the CCI. The results of the July 2018 CCI are based on 144 responses from senior treasury and finance professionals.

The next set will be published October 29, 2018.

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NEWS Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Tells Authentic Stories from the Movement

BY FREDDIE ALLEN

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, NNPA

In the early morning hours of January 10, 1966, civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer Sr. was jolted from his sleep, as members of the Ku Klux Klan surrounded his house just north of Hattiesburg, Miss. Dahmer, a Black land-owner, had been actively working to register Blacks to vote and, in some cases, he even paid their “poll” taxes. It was enough to earn a Black man a death sentence in the South.

The Klansmen bullets ripped through the darkness splintering wood and shattering glass as they fired on Dahmer’s house; one of them hurled a Molotov cocktail through the window; the Klan wanted to burn Dahmer and his family alive.

As smoke and flames engulfed his home, Dahmer grabbed his shotgun and blasted his way out, creating a diversion as the rest of his family fled into the woods. Later that day, Dahmer died from smoke inhalation at an area hospital.

A few days later, Dahmer’s voter registration card arrived in the mail.

“These are the kinds of stories we talk about in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum,” said Pamela Junior, the museum’s director. “We tell people all the time: Museums are living and breathing places.”

Junior lamented that, oftentimes, the history

of the Civil Rights Movement is told through the narrow lens of a few key figures, like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks. She said that it was important that people know that Mississippi was ground zero for the Movement; the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum helps to tell the stories of the people that were there.

“What we want to do is make sure that the stories are told authentically,” Junior said. “We have our own native son, Medgar Wiley Evers.

We have Fannie Lou Hamer, June Johnson, Owen Brooks…local people who made up the Movement.”

Junior said that it was also important to show that civil rights leaders were ordinary people, yet they still managed to have a significant impact on the course of American history.

Junior continued: “So, to see something so powerful that these regular, poor people did to make things happen in the state of Mississippi is awesome.”

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum opened on December 9, 2017. The Clarion Ledger reported that the Dahmer family donated a truck that had been shot during the 1966 attack to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.

The museum promotes a greater understanding of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi and shares the stories of the movement that changed the world.

A press release that described the museum

said that visitors can witness the freedom struggle in eight interactive galleries that show the systematic oppression of Black Mississippians and their fight for equality that transformed the state and nation.

The press release continued: “Seven of the galleries encircle a central space called ‘This Little Light of Mine.’ There, a dramatic sculpture glows brighter and the music of the Movement swells as visitors gather.”

Each museum gallery highlights a specific sub-topic or period. Gallery 1 defines civil and human rights; Gallery 2 focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction; Gallery 3 highlights civil rights activists and shares the stories of a Mississippi movement that changed the world; Gallery 4 peels back the layers of a segregated society; Gallery 5 showcases the sacrifices and the successes of the 1960s; Gallery 6 takes a deep dive into the Freedom Summer and local movements in Mississippi (1963-1964); and Gallery 7 tells the story of Black Empowerment from 1965 to the early 1970s.

Junior said that, through the civil rights museum, the ills of Mississippi are finally on the wall.

“We’re taking the bandage off of the sore,” Junior said. “We don’t allow it to fester anymore.

We let it breathe, so that healing can continue.”

The last gallery, Junior said, was designed to spark conversations about how all races can

move forward together.

“Martin is gone. Medgar is gone. All of these people are gone that were at the center of the movement, at the forefront. We believed in them and trusted in them. These people are gone,” Junior said. “So, what we want to do is teach people that they are the movement.”

Junior continued: “We are the movement; it’s up to us to do the work.”

Gallery 8 is titled “Where do we go from here?” and features mirrors with quotes from Mississippians who made incredible sacrifices to improve the lives of others.

One of the last quotes that visitors see as they walk out of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is by Oseola McCarty, a Black seamstress and domestic worker who lived in Hattiesburg, Miss. McCarty, who “quit school in the sixth grade to go to work, never married, never had children and never learned to drive,” according to The New York Times, eventually donated nearly her entire life savings—$150,000—to the University of Southern Mississippi to fund scholarships for Black students. “[McCarty] said that, ‘if you want to be proud of yourself, you have got to do things you can be proud of,’” Junior said. “So, I want people to live by that mantra.”

For more information about the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, please visit http://www. mcrm.mdah.ms.gov/.

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