February 6, 2019 the Published in Partnership with the Shopper Lansing Journal Every Community Deserves a Good Newspaper Sign up for Daily News: Thelansingjournal.Com
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
Volume 3, Issue 2: February 6, 2019 THE publIshed In partnershIp wIth the shopper LANSING JOURNAL Every community deserves a good newspaper Sign up for daily news: TheLansingJournal.com candidates Lansing’s ballot of Trustee candidates choices integrates past, 4 present, and future 3 April 2 BY LANSING JOURNAL STAFF left, from left: Village Voice party candidates Jerry Zeldenrust, saad abbasy, and mike Fish (photo: melanie Jongsma) above: Independent candidate larry thomas (photo: Josh bootsma) on april 2, voters will be asked to choose any three candidates from these four options. LANSING, Ill. (January 2019) – On for Lansing. Summaries of those businesses and homes in Lansing and assist first-time home buyers. He January 23, about 100 people gath- conversations are presented here in recommending action to the Village plans to assist in creating an econom- ered at Jack’s Sports Pub for the alphabetical order, and we hope Lan- Board. Abbasy says this experience ic development strategy that attracts Village Voice Party’s press confer- sing residents will subscribe to our made him “intimately aware of the retail and entertainment options that ence, marking an unofficial start to daily online newsfeed in order to stay zoning ordinances,” and he pointed meet the needs of young families. Lansing’s 2019 campaign season. informed about upcoming campaign to two massage parlors with criminal Abbasy is Jordanian and realizes Those in attendance heard from the developments. histories wanting to open in Lansing that his ethnicity would put him in a party’s leader, Mayor Patty Eidam, as evidence that Village ordinances special place as a minority on the Vil- and her slate of three Trustee candi- Saad Abbasy “might need some updating.” Neither lage Board. “I want to continue to be dates—Saad Abbasy, Mike Fish, and Village Voice Party business was permitted to open, but a bridge in communication between Jerry Zeldenrust. The various pre- EXPERIENCE Abbasy hopes to modernize the ordi- minorities in our community and sentations lasted approximately 45 Abbasy has called nances so that such situations will be village government,” he said, praising minutes, but the mingling, food, and Lansing home his easier to address. the Village for the Human Relations socializing before and after extended whole life—from VALUES Commission, which held its first the event to about two hours. playing in the Old Abbasy is also hoping to use his meeting in December. A fourth candidate—Larry Timer’s League experience as father of a young Mike Fish Thomas—has focused his time on at a young age, to family to make Lansing a place where one-on-one or small group conver- graduating from TF South, to buying young people can feel represent- Village Voice Party sations with residents. Working a house in Lansing and raising two ed. As Trustee, he wants to create EXPERIENCE alone, he doesn’t have the resources young children with his wife Lindsey. “connection points” with people A Lansing resi- or synergy that the party has, but he Abbasy first got involved in Lansing through social media. Abbasy said, dent for 50 years, plans to share his enthusiasm, in- politics when he ran for Trustee during “I have mentored hundreds of youth Fish is a retired volvement, and ideas with residents the 2015 election. Though unsuc- in Lansing through my volunteerism employee of the in upcoming events before April 2. cessful, Abbasy was later appointed through different churches…and I’m Village with 30 The Lansing Journal met with all as Chair of the Planning and Zoning uniquely aware of those things that years’ service in the four Village Trustee candidates in Board, a Board he had been serving young families are looking for.” Public Works Department, the last four of which he served as both As- late January in order to learn about on for a couple of years. Planning and GOALS sistant Superintendent and Interim their background and relevant expe- Zoning Commissioners are responsi- As a Trustee, Abbasy would like to rience, their values, and their hopes ble for applying Village ordinances to create programs to attract or even see “Candidates,” page 15 o. 130 o. N ermit P IL Homewood, Homewood, p2— Jim and JoAnn Kijewski are p12– TFS students love Walk Over ustomer C ostal P D PAI LOVE esidential esidential R GE A T POS . S . U long-time Valentines Wednesdays SS W CR E STORIES IN p9— Love Hispanic cuisine? Lan- p21– Lansing Garden Club shares TD S T PRSR this issue— sing has many options love of gardening 2 2 | February 6, 2019 | The Lansing Journal Every community deserves a good newspaper Long-TiMe VALenTineS Lansing couple to celebrate 60th wedding anniversary this year BY CARRIE STEINWEG the ID back to his dorm and told his roommate about this girl he had met. It turned out that Jim’s LANSING, Ill. (February 1, 2019) - JoAnn Hosta and roommate and JoAnn had attended the same high Jim Kijewski met on a blind date at a school dance school in the small town of Highland in down- at Illinois State University in Normal more than state Illinois. Within in a couple weeks, Jim and six decades ago. “In those days they had match- JoAnn were going steady. makers,” said Jim. “Someone would get 10 guys They dated throughout the rest of their college together and then match with 10 girls.” time. Both were education majors. While still Jim and Joann Kijewski have been Valentines a long It was what happened after the dance that gave attending ISU, Jim enlisted in the Army National time. they were married in 1959. (photos provided) Jim a hint that JoAnn might be the one. “We went Guard. Before he left for Fort Leonard Wood and with these other couples after the dance, and they six months of active duty, he offered a pin to JoAnn took us to a bar. She was 17, I was barely 20. Back to wear while he was gone, but expressed that he then, women could legally drink at 18, but it was didn’t expect her to commit to him for that long 21 for guys,” he explained. “I went into the bar and absence. JoAnn gladly accepted the pin and said ordered a 7-up, and they asked for ID and then she’d be waiting when he returned. She said she al- threw me out!” ready knew before he left that she wanted to marry “I was in the car by myself,” Jim continued, “and him, although she didn’t tell him that yet. JoAnn came out to comfort me. It wasn’t one of MARRIAGE those love at first sight things—those are overrat- “I came from Calumet City. She was a farm girl. We ed. But when I got kicked out of the bar, she came were two different people from two different back- out there with me, and she didn’t have to do that.” grounds,” said Jim. “But we were very much alike even GOING STEADY though we were from different areas.” “He kept my school ID because he couldn’t JoAnn had graduated high school at 17 and then remember my last name,” said JoAnn. Jim took finished college in 3 years, graduating at age 20. She had one more year of school after Jim finished. After JoAnn see “Valentines,” page 6 THE OF A COMMUNILoveTY THE is what keeps this newspaper going. LANSING JOURNAL Thank you to everyone who contributed to the special Facebook fundraiser in support of The Lansing Journal, in addition to our regular monthly supporters and people who mailed in checks. ABOUT US You put the “community” in “community newspaper”! Every community deserves a good newspaper. The Lansing Journal serves the Lansing, Illinois, community with consistent, trustworthy, community-building news SAAD ABBASY JACOB GOURLEY VIVIAN PAYNE and information. Our partnership with The Shopper, which has served South Holland and the surrounding region since 1957, combines professional journalism, community ANONYMOUS FRIEND JIM GRUTZIUS TONY & MAUREEN GRADY-PEROVICH values, and local publishing. We offer advertising opportunities for local businesses, RODRIGO ARCEO MEGAN HARVEY byline opportunities for local journalists, and learning opportunities for local students. JENNIFER POLLEY Content appearing in The Lansing Journal—in print or online—is subject to copyright KATHY ARVIA HELEN HNATUSKO laws. (© 2018 by The Lansing Journal. All rights reserved.) JAY & CHRIS POPP ALEXA BAISE DONNA HUIZENGA The Lansing Journal, P.O. Box 742, Lansing, IL 60438 JOANNE PRITCHARD NANCY BALES ROY & CHRISTINE (708) 831-2250 • [email protected] • www.thelansingjournal.com JANICH DONNA PYRITZ PUBLISHED BY BESSE SHIRT LETTERING LEROY JANSMA BETHANY ROELS The Shopper Group LLC, 924 E. 162nd Street, South Holland, IL 60473 (708) 333-5901 • [email protected] • www.myshopper.biz MICHAEL BOLZ ROBERT BONNIE STAFF JARANOWSKI ROMANOWSKI JOSH BOOTSMA Managing Editors: Melanie Jongsma, Arlo Kallemeyn, Matthew J. Splant JEFFREY JOHN DOLORES SAMPLES Regular Contributors: Katie Arvia, Josh Bootsma, Ashlee De Wit, Ernst Lamothe Jr., SUSAN BOVINO Carrie Steinweg, Jennifer Yos ALLEN JONGSMA JENNY SCANLAND MARSHA BULTEMA ADVERTISING MELANIE JONGSMA CAROL SCHAAP STEVEN BURNAP The Lansing Journal offers a range of ad sizes and prices for businesses, schools, and ARLO KALLEMEYN BARB SCHWARZ churches who want to reach potential customers and constituents. Prices range from MARIA CABRERA $100 to $1,000. Download our easy-to-read Ad Rates at thelansingjournal.com. DONNA KOOYENGA BEVERLY BRIANA CLIFTON SCHWEITZER SUBMISSIONS PATRICIA KREMER The Lansing Journal is a community newspaper. We need help making sure our full ROBERTA COE CAROLYN SCOFIELD community is represented in all its demographic diversity. If you have story ideas, LEGION RIDERS photos, or articles you’d like to send us, email [email protected].