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‘This is a community crisis’ Proviso Township residents search for solutions after third teenage suicide in less than 6 months By MICHAEL ROMAIN
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MS. FIX IT: Tisa Carter, a Proviso East graduate and an apprentice plumber, said she’s satisfied with the career she found in the trades. Now, she wants to open up the opportunity to other young women of color. ALEXA ROGALS
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Residents in and around Proviso Township are grappling for solutions after yet another 15-year-old Proviso East student from Maywood died by suicide — the third 15-year-old East student from Maywood to die by suicide in less than six months. The most recent suicide happened on April 5. The victim was a 15-year-old African American female who was a member of the girls’ basketball team at the high school. In November 2018, a 15-year-old Hispanic female, who was also a member of the girls’ basketball team at East, died by suicide. Her death was followed by the death of a 15-year-old Hispanic male who lived in Maywood, attended East and died by suicide last December. “We look at this as a community crisis,” said Rajeska Jackson, a Proviso Township See EAST SUICIDES on page 4
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East grad, rare female plumber, wants more women in trades
Tisa Carter, a member of Plumbers Local 130, is breaking barriers one project at a time By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
Bellwood resident Tisa Carter, 29, is a rarity. She’s approaching the tail end of an
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apprenticeship with Chicago Journeyman Plumbers Local 130. With 6,100 members, the union is one of the largest straight-line plumbing locals in the country, according
to its website. During a phone interview last month, See TISA CARTER on page 8
“A man has only one life and if during it he has no great environment, no community, he has been irreparably robbed of a human right,” -Paul Goodman
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