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D209 could dissolve PMSA campus At Feb. facilities meeting, five options put on table By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
During a community engagement meeting held Feb. 27 as part of Proviso Township High Schools District 209’s master facilities planning process, members of the public openly grappled with the prospect of eliminating the Proviso Math and Science Academy campus in order to save costs and maximize the use of space at Proviso East and Proviso West. Since the district tapped the architectural firm Perkins and Will to draw up a comprehensive plan for improving the district’s three campuses last June, the firm has hosted three engagement meetings. The two meetings prior to the Feb. 27 meeting centered on exploring the areas where the district’s campuses need to be improved the most. Mark Jolicoeur, of Perkins and Will, said that the “guiding principles” that have anchored the community engagement process have been “fiscal responsibility, equity and [whether or not the process is] data-informed.” The Proviso East meeting was the first at which some possible options for approaching See PMSA on page 8
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PIPING UP: Tonal director Jonathan Oblander, of Forest Park, shows off his tools at Berghaus Pipe Organ Builders on Madison Street in Bellwood.
Pipe organs are (like) people too The instruments are ubiquitous, but where do they come from?
By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
The dying, duct taped, more than century-old organ at St. Paul’s Memorial United Methodist Church in South Bend, Ind., was on life support, so the church’s leaders
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called on Berghaus Pipe Organ Builders. A local Indiana newspaper described the Bellwood-based company, one of a few dozen organ manufacturers in the United States, as an “organ hospital of sorts.” If Berghaus is a hospital, consider Forest Park resident Jonathan Oblander — the musical director at Oak Park’s Good
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Shepherd Lutheran Church, 611 Randolph St., and the company’s tonal designer — it’s chief surgeon of sound. Oblander has a master’s degree in organ performance from the Juilliard School. He’s played the instrument for more than See PIPE ORGANS on page 4
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