On Saturday, March 29, from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m., we can enjoy the 34th annual all-you-can-eat Spaghetti Dinner, at Calvary Lutheran church, 6149 S. Kenneth Avenue. Tickets are available at the door but advance ticket purchases are preferred and the prices are $7 per adult and $3 each for children, ages 5-12). For additional information, please call (773) 735-6887or (773) 767-7400.
The Chicago-Pulaski Office Group of the Golden Eagle Club will present Cheryl Ann Spran, an artist in pastels whose works are currently exhibited at the Prospect Federal's Office in Worth and the Forest Park area. She will be the speaker at its next meeting at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 27 in the Amber Room of the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, 6500 S.. Pulaski Road.
The City of Chicago, which recently celebrated its 171st birthday (on March 4), celebrates “Women’s History Month” and an evening reception was held on March 11 in the Cultural Center honoring the ladies who make this city proud of its citizens.
The "International Working Woman's Day" on March 8 was a day all about us... the working women of the world. Think about all the famous women you can identify such as Maria Diaz Martinez, Ida B. Wells, Sandra Cisneros, Mary A. Livermore, Jane Adams, Anne Burke, Jane Byrne, Lorraine Hansberry, Marilyn Rozmarek Komosa, Ella Flagg Young, Ida Platt, and Willie Whyte, and then consider all the great women we do know in West Lawn, who take on the various offices of clubs, involved with churches and schools and in companies.
We are blessed by knowing them and we thank them together with the mothers who actually parent their children.
You'll be glad to hear that I finally (one year later) received the check due me from the CTA...part of the problem was their's but part of it was our U.S. Postal Service. Currently, I received a telephone call to verify my address because the check as election judge was returned to the Board of Elections with the envelope stating "no address," however I can see from the copy of the envelope that there WAS an address given.
I also understand from a neighbor that her son's Federal Tax Return being mailed to the I.R.S., also came back to the sender. Would you say our postal service is getting better and we should be soon paying additional postage? (By the way, we miss our former great mail lady, Linda, and when we see her at her new route, she always receives a hug.)
Although during March we are honoring women, we congratulate Charles A. Komosa, the National Secretary of the Polish National Alliance (PNA) at 6100 N. Cicero Avenue, who was elected during the convention at the PNA of Brooklyn building in Brooklyn, New York, on Jan. 18.
To all of us "Irishmen," and our devoted service men and women overseas, we send greetings of a happy St. Patrick's Day, and look forward to seeing the Chicago River turn green during the annual parade tomorrow and a happy St. Joseph's Day on March 19.