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Community

Drill team teaches a lot more than dance

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | June 13, 2011

VOISE juniors Mario Shack and Akuamoah Waldon are part of the Golden Knights Drill Team.

News

Information shared at sex education workshop

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | June 13, 2011

The sessions covered how much it costs to care for a baby and the dangers of getting a sexually transmitted disease.

Opinion

Students should get a break from wearing school uniforms

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | June 13, 2011

High school student Eddonishia Jones wants her classmates to have the right to wear what they want one day a week. What do you think?

Community

High school coach chose baseball over basketball

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | June 13, 2011

Gym teacher Darrell Mathis has been playing the sport since he was 5.

News

Annual career day gets students thinking about their future

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | June 13, 2011

Various companies attended the event, and tips on interviewing and resume-writing were shared.

Opinion

Fantasy teams help VOISE juniors prepare for college test

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | June 13, 2011

Some students don’t like the fantasy teams. What do you think?

healthy

Students, teachers debate whether food brought from home is OK

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | April 11, 2011

Journalist Brittany Douglas wants students to have more options. What do you think?

Anti-Defamation League

Religion should be kept out of schools

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | April 11, 2011

In an editorial, journalist Amber Richardson urges teachers and students to discuss their spiritual beliefs elsewhere.

classes

Students think some courses should be offered each year

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | April 11, 2011

Journalist Brittany Douglas learns what her classmates want offered at V.O.I.S.E. Academy.

appropriate

Some students want the right to wear their own clothes to school

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | April 11, 2011

Journalist Eddonishia Jones hopes schools officials will consider letting students ditch their uniform on some days.

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News

  • Expungement, record sealing event helps West Siders get jobs after leaving prison

    Austin resident Anthony Jefferson has been working over the past six years to expunge his criminal record. With help from the Monroe Foundation, he's moving toward the clean slate he wants to achieve to secure employment.

  • Get free groceries, other help from these Austin groups

    On a recent Thursday, volunteers from What About Us Charitable Enterprises spent the morning filling dozens of grocery bags with fresh food and staples that soon filled the arms of West Side residents in need. Dorin “Pastor Mac” McIntyre, executive director and co-founder of What About Us Charitable Enterprises and pastor of Mount Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, is one of many helping Austin residents struggling with food insecurity.

  • 29th Ward residents invited to holiday events on Tuesday

  • 29th Ward residents invited to propose how to spend $450,000

    Austin residents are invited to participate in this year's participatory budgeting cycle. The annual process lets ward residents ages 14 and up decide how to spend a portion of the aldermanic menu money.

  • Forty Acres Fresh Market marks important moment this week in bringing store to Austin

    Austin moves one step closer this week to getting a new grocery store with the groundbreaking of Forty Acres Fresh Market in the heart of the Soul City Corridor. Another effort to expand food offerings on the West Side continues with the Austin Community Food Co-op, which held a virtual info session last week on its efforts to bring a grocery store to the area.

  • Healing in nature workshop set for Saturday

    The Westside Cultural Alliance continues its "See, Feel and Heal" nature series Saturday at Garfield Park Nature Area, 100 N. Central Park with a workshop on making memory boxes. The workshop sessions focus on art and nature as vehicles of healing through art therapy, which provides wholistic healing for the body, mind and spirit.

  • Illinois residents can apply for help with paying gas, electric bills

    Applications are now open for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for qualified residential customers who are over the age of 60, have a disability or have children under the age of 6 to receive financial assistance to pay their energy bills. LIHEAP is a federally funded bill payment assistance program that helps low- and fixed-income families pay their utility during the winter heating season.

  • West Siders turn out for chili cook off in Austin’s Soul City

    Over a dozen local chefs competed in the second annual "It’s Getting Chili in Soul City" event on Saturday. A team of five who make up the Austin African American Business Networking Association board – Malcolm Crawford, Shirley Fields, Sharmine Rickett, Ronald Smith and Marshawn Felton – created the chili contest last year.

  • Chicago Marathon runner raises money for West Side girls

    Over the last 20 years, Ashley Graham has run 56 marathons - including the Chicago Marathon five times. Several of those marathons she raised money for charity - and this year was no different.

  • Stop by Austin farmers market this week

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