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Wednesday • December 10 • 2014
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Time is running out to purchase raffle tickets for Humane Society Calumet Area’s Annual Holiday Raffle featuring three cash prizes. Tickets cost $5 each and are available for purchase at HSCA’s Adoption Center, 421 45th St., Munster, Ind. and Paws Resale Shoppe, 8149 Kennedy Ave., Highland, Ind. One grand prize winner will receive $1,000; one second prize winner will receive $500 and one third prize winner will receive $250. Ticket sales end on Saturday, December 20 and winners will be drawn on Monday, December 22 at HSCA’s corporate office, 8149 Kennedy Ave., Highland, Ind. Winner need not be present to win and participants must be 18 years of age or older. Proceeds benef it t he a nima ls of HSC A. For more information, call 219.513.8911 or visit www.hscalumet.org.
Thornton Township To Serve 1500 Hot Cooked Meals On Saturday, December 13, 2014, Thornton Township Supervisor Frank M. Zuccarelli and Board of Trustees will serve 1500 hot cooked meals for the holidays at the South Suburban College Fitness Center, 15800 S. State Street, South Holland, IL from 11:30AM to 4:00PM. Super v isor Zucca rel l i stated, “We must cont i nue to provide a social service safety net for all of Thornton Township.” For more information, call 708/596-6040.
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Random Reads BRANDI SMITS Through the Woods By Emily Carroll Throughout our lives, we have hea rd severa l stor ies t hat include spooky, creepy woods. No matter the circumstances or t he people involved, t here is one t hing t hat remains constant during the course of our lives; don’t go into the woods. The warnings are clear. The directions are simple. Just don’t go in there. Yet time after time, they enter the woods anyway. T hat ’s w hat Ca r rol l has created for us. This g raph ic novel tel ls t he stor y of f ive d i f ferent protagonists. All of them were told warnings about the woods. They heard rumors about the danger t hat l ives w it h i n t he tree line. That does not stop t hese people from experiencing terror in one way or another. Carroll tells her horror-filled tales through this collection of short stories as a graphic novel. Each story uses a different art technique. Some are very stark, with
litt le color. Ot hers are drawn more like a cartoon. There are those that are downright frightening. All of them are engaging. Pick up Through the Wo o d s a n d h e a r t h e stories of sisters trying to survive while their father is missing, a young bride in an arranged married whose new husba nd is not what he seems, the t r ut h behind a n attack in t he woods involv ing brothers, two friends with a ghost ly secret, a nd a sullen girl who discovers her brother’s wife is not all that meets the eye. T hrough the Wood s is a u n ique concept, combining a graphic novel with several short stories. The stories a re enough to rattle the reader, but keep her wonder ing what happened a f ter the book cover closes. I highly recommend t his book, even to those who are not fans of graphic novels. The stories are reminiscent of the spooky campfire and sleepover stories from childhood.