Fall is officially here. Already the trees are starting to change color. The morning temperature is brisk. It is getting dark earlier. Apples definitely are in season. Everything is in a flux of change with each day bringing forth new colors. Take the time to enjoy this season, a favorite of mine. AROUND AND ABOUT […]
At Home with Merle Burleigh – September 16, 2020
Although the general election still looms on the horizon for November 3, 2020, another election approaches—the April 6, 2021, consolidated election for officials in the City of West Chicago, West Chicago Public Library District, West Chicago Elementary School District 33, Community High School District 94, and Benjamin School District 25. Beginning Tuesday, September 22, the […]
At Home with Merle Burleigh – September 9, 2020
We have not even reached the first day of Fall and the temperatures, especially at night, are getting cooler. Knowing my indoor plants do not like to get too cool, I had to bring them inside. They always look so healthy from soaking in the sun’s rays and summer humidity. I bought one yellow mum […]
At Home with Merle Burleigh – September 2, 2020
Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday in September to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements of the United States. It was created by the labor movement in the late nineteenth century and became […]
At Home with Merle Burleigh – August 26
Today is the 100th Anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, prohibiting any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. The House of Representatives passed the amendment May 21, 1919, followed by the Senate June 14, 1919. The final hurdle for […]
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