2949 W. Pope John Paul II Dr. - Formerly 43rd St. - Between Richmond & Sacramento BRIGHTON PARK CHICAGO, IL 60632 Phone (773) 523-3663 Fax (773) 523-3983 Email: [email protected] LIFE www.brightonparkLIFE.com McKINLEY PARK News Deadline Monday 6 p.m. Display and Classified Deadline Tues. 12 noon Serving the Communities of Brighton Park, McKinley Park and Archer Heights, for over 80 Years VOL. 85 NO. 37 THURSDAY, JULY 5TH, 2018 $65.00 Per Year By Mail in U.S. THE SOLID DELIVERY Newspaper 15c Per Copy at Newsstands Screen Times May Summer Programs Ribbon Cutting For Dialysis Center Cause Moody Children At A-H Library vast number of children The Archer Heights Learn about and race exposed to long hours Branch Library, 5055 S. live worms, ages 5 and around electronics. Video Archer will conduct the up and their families. games are the new baby Earth Explorers Sum- Registration is required. sitter. It seems harmless mer Learning Challenge 2018 SLC Earth because the children are through Sept. 1st. Explorers Extraganza!, happy, but why? Children are invited Wednesday, Aug. 22nd Dr. Dunckley explains to read 500 minutes or from 2-4 p.m. Celebrate the following six physio- more, complete at least with crafts, awards and logical mechanisms that one hands-on activity prizes. explain how they can and make at least one David L. Hoyt pres- produce mood distur- creation. ents: GIANT Word bances. 1. Screen time Other activities in- Winder Monday, July disrupts sleep and clude: Little Saplings 9th from 2 to 2:50 p.m. desynchronizes the body Pre-School Time, Tues- Travel across the game clock by delaying mela- days from 11 to 11:30 board with toy and game tonin release and can cause hormone imbal- a.m., through July 10th. inventor David L. Hoyt. ance and brain inflam- Explore the Earth with Ages 10 to 12. 14th Ward Alderman Edward M. Burke (6th, left) presided over the ribbon-cutting ceremony mation. 2. The brain's books and songs, ages 4- Registration is required. marking the grand opening of the DaVita Dialysis Center at 4721 S. California which brings 20 reward system is desen- 7 and their caregivers. High Touch High new jobs to the Brighton Park community. The center is being operated in partnership with the sitized because the Tiny Sprouts Toddler Tech presents: A Closer Sinai Health System and University of Chicago Medicine and will treat up to 60 patients daily games can release Time, Thursdays from 11 Look at Our Little Blue afflicted with kidney disease. “The opening of the new DaVita Clinic is just one component of up dopamine that can con- a.m. to 12 p.m., July 5th Planet Tuesday, July to $100 million commercial revitalization of the California Ave. Business corridor extending from By Dr. R. Pletsch fuse the brain. 3. Light to 26th. Read, talk, sing, 17th from 1:30 to 2:30 Fairfield to Sacramento” Burke said. “The close proximity to the new Esparanza Clinic which is at night has been shown count and play, ages 1-3 p.m. Interested in know- under construction across the street had everything to do with DaVita’s decision to join our com- The author of "Reset to be linked to depression and their caregivers. ing more about the coral munity.” Joining Alderman Burke in the photo are: Melissa Santana, Facility Administrator, your child's brain: A four and even suicide. 4. Family Game Night: reefs, volcanic eruptions DaVita Kidney Care; Dr. Rita McGill, Nephrologist, University of Chicago Medicine; Brent Habitz, week plan to end melt- Stress can affect brain Earth Explorers Edition, or gemstones? Investi- Regional Operations Director, DaVita Kidney Care; Matt Lieberman, Director of Real Estate, downs, raise grades and chemistry and cause irri- Mondays from 4 to 6 p.m. gate the Earth with DaVita Kidney Care; Danny Rigoni, Analyst, Clark Street Real Estate; David Low, Vice President boost social skills by tability and can suppress July 23rd and Aug. 20th. hands-on science experi- of Development and Construction, Clark Street Real Estate and Jim Kurtzweil, Principal, Clark reversing the effects of the brain's frontal lobe. Children of all ages and ments. Ages 6 to 12. Street__________________________________________________________________________________________________ Real Estate. electronic screen time" 5. Screen time overloads their families. Registration is required Psychiatrist Dr. Victoria the sensory system and Earth Explorers for groups. L. Dunckley has an depletes mental reserves Science Club Mondays The Laboratory Chi- interesting understand- and cause outbursts of from 2 to 3 p.m., July cago presents: Secret July Events At ing of how some kids are anger. 6. Screen time 30th and Aug. 13th. Superpowers of Insects, Dance Company Invites Dancers becoming moody. She reduces physical activity Explore with hands-on Thursday, Aug. 2nd from McKinley Library believes that there are and green time. This STEM activities, ages 6- 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Ages 6 an increasing number of Improv Playhouse seems obvious, but few 10. Registration is and up. Registration is will present "Ranger children that are chroni- do anything about it. required. required. cally irritable and too Tales: True Stories from It is something you Craft Creators Museum of Science & America's National often they are diagnosed might consider if your as bipolar, having major Crafternoon, Wednes- Industry presents; Brain Parks" at the McKinley child shows signs of days from 2-2:45 p.m. Games with the MSI Park Branch Library, depression or ADHD. moodiness. I remember Therefore, some are July 11th - Aug. 15th. Interns, Tuesday, Aug. 1915 West 35th st. on an interview on TV in Ages 5 and up and their 7th & Thursday, Aug. Monday, July 9th at 2 given the wrong treat- which the people in ment or medication that families. 9th from 1 - 2 p.m. Ages p.m. California whose compa- Audiences will discov- do not work well. nies helped make some of National Summer 8-12. Registration is Scientists have real- Learning Day: Worm required. er stories and facts the programs that fill our they've never known in ized for some time now children's time do not Races, Thursday, July For more information, that children's brains are 12th from 2 - 3p.m. call (312) 747-9241. this funny and educa- allow any electronics in tional anthology explor- more sensitive to elec- their schools, no cell ________________________________________________ tronics than earlier ing The Great Smoky phones or computers. Mountains, Yellowstone, believed. But it has only Now if the people who been the last few years The Everglades, and make these programs more. that the enormity of the realize there is a prob- problem has been identi- De La Salle Appoints Families with chil- lem, I believe we should dren ages 4 and up will fied. This is due to the too. ________________________________________________ watch as actors retell Head Hockey Coach and recreate stories through the arts of the- De La Salle Institute atre, storytelling, pup- announces that Nick petry, and music. Scholarship Awards Holmes has been named Mad Science Chicago head hockey coach. will present "Spaceship At De La Salle Holmes, who served Earth" on Tuesday, July as an assistant coach for 10th at 1:30pm. Ages 6 the Meteors last season, to 11 will learn how all The Mexican Folkloric Dance Company of Chicago is accepting begin- also teaches World the parts and systems on ners and experienced dancers ages 6 to 12 on Tuesdays at Gage Park, Studies, Business Law the planet are intercon- 2411 W. 55th st. and Thursdays at Piotrowski Park, 4247 W. 31st st. both and Business Manage- nected within the envi- at 6 p.m. Experienced and eager self-learner teenagers and young adults ment. ronment. are also welcomed Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at Gage Park at 7 As the Learn to Skate Project Syncere will p.m._______________________________________________________________________ Contact Henry A. Roa at (773) 247-1522 or [email protected]. Director at the Winter present "Enviro Club in Lake Forest, he Mystery" on Thursday, also owned his own goal- July 12th at 11 a.m. tending school in Students ages 9-11 will Pastoral Picnic Oklahoma for three work as Environmental Aloha Center Band years. Engineers and use their In Grant Park Holmes’ played for knowledge of soil and The Grant Park water to solve an envi- At McKinley Park the Chicago Steel of the Musical Festival invites ronmental problem all to dress in white from United States Hockey afflicting plants and ani- League, the Alpena (MI) head to toe, add a white mals in a fictitious com- tablecloth and picnic Ice Diggers in the North N. HOLMES munity. Online registra- American Hockey basket at Millennium tion is required at Park’s Great Lawn on League and Trenton [email protected]. (ON) Golden Hawks of Shedd Aquarium ___________________ Saturday, July 28th at 6 the Ontario Junior p.m. for the Pastoral Hockey League; plus Picnic in White. Seeks Volunteers Everyone is invited, three years of club hock- The Shedd Aquarium Univ. of Iowa there is no registration ey at the University of is sponsoring Great fee and anyone can join Oklahoma and for the Lakes Action Days to Awards Degrees this free, themed picnic, Prescott Valley (AZ) Ice provide opportunities for The University of before the Grant Park Dogs in the Central volunteers to remove Orchestra takes the Hockey League. invasive species, restore Iowa has announced spring 2018 graduates. stage at 7:30 p.m. for De La Salle Institute announces that ___________________ habitats and pick-up lit- Mendelssohn’s Scottish Brittany Miller ’18 and Dakota Biliskov ’18 were ter from local ecosys- Local receipts are: Angel Symphony and Vaughan recipients of the George Eastman Young tems.