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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
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YOUR LOCAL RELIGION GUIDE
Find Community at Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation
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ooking for a place where you can connect with others and explore what truly moves you? Join a community dedicated to both spiritual growth and collective action for the greater good. Together, we work to turn our values into meaningful change in our community and beyond. Discover a community where you can live into your beliefs and values, and where love and connection is at the heart of everything we do. Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation is a multigenerational, creedless community with a mission of welcoming all, inspiring compassion, nurturing wonder, and serving community. We welcome and affirm people as they are—wherever they are in their journey, however they identify and understand themselves, whomever they love. Together, we work for collective liberation within and beyond our landmark building walls. We offer:
Connection | Transformation | Acceptance | Justice Worship Service and Religious Education Sundays at 9am and 10:45am 875 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60302 unitytemple.org
• Inclusive Sunday Services: Experience open-hearted worship services that draw from diverse traditions, encourage reflection and connection. • Lifelong Learning: Enrich your understanding through educational programs that explore various spiritual paths, philosophies and life’s big questions. • Social Justice: Join like-minded individuals to support local initiatives creating positive impacts within our community and beyond. • Youth & Family Engagement: Nurture the next generation’s values of compassion, empathy and curiosity through our engaging youth programs. We invite you to check out our worship services and children & youth religious education programming at 9 & 10:45am on Sunday. Live-streamed at 9am. Connect with us at www.unitytemple.org.
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Maxham calls for better communication on village council Commissioner criticizes fellow council members for condescendsion and overstepping in their departments By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter
At the end of the village council meeting Sept. 9, during the time when commissioners give individual reports, Commissioner of Accounts and Finance Maria Maxham called out the council for not working well together and making staff ’s jobs harder by overstepping in daily operations. Maxham said this culture was made all the more evident after the Blue Line shootings on Labor Day. As commissioners talked about how to honor the police department following the murders, Maxham said she noticed something. See MAXHAM on page 16
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D91 students take part in the 2nd Annual PTO Color Fun Run at the Roos Center, based on the Hindu Holi Festival, sunglasses optional See more photos page 3
ERICA BENSON
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