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Blog, Events, Featured: Community Connection’s 3rd Annual Poetry Slam and Awards Ceremony

May 5, 2013 – 8:45 pm

When: Thursday, May 16, 2013 from 6:30 – 9:00 pm. Doors open at 6:00 pm.

Where: Ramada Inn – Waukegan, 200 N. Green Bay Rd., Waukegan

What: Tenth Dems Community Connection is hosting our Third Annual Poetry (and Prose) Slam and Awards Ceremony. The event is free and open to the public. but space is limited, so RSVP online, call us at 847-266-VOTE (8683) or send an email.

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Featured, Newsletter: May Newsletter: Social Security, Gun Control and more …

May 2, 2013 – 4:05 pm

2013 May Newsletter

Tenth Dems May Newsletter
Please follow the link to view our May newsletter as a pdf file:

http://www.tenthdems.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/201305NL.pdf

In this issue of Tenth News:

 

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Featured, Newsletter: April Newsletter: Don’t be an April Fool!

April 1, 2013 – 11:29 am

April 2013 Newsletter

Tenth Dems April Newsletter

Please follow the link to view our April newsletter as a pdf file:

In this issue of Tenth News:

 

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Blog, Featured: National Association of Letter Carriers’ Luis Rivas at Delivering for America Rally

March 26, 2013 – 4:00 am

Hat tip Progress Illinois:

Luis Rivas, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 2076 in Des Plaines, explains why cutting Saturday mail delivery is a bad idea and how the postal service has gotten to this point.

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Blog, Featured, News: Community Connection 3rd Annual Writing Contest Announcement and Rules

March 21, 2013 – 4:43 pm

Attention all High School students in Benton, Northern Shields (North Chicago), Warren, Waukegan and Zion Townships. The Community Connection* invites you to enter our Student Writing Contest! Hurry: Entries will be accepted through April 25, 2013.

Files:
Writing Contest 2013 Flyer
Writing Contest Application and Rules 2013

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  • There are two categories and six prizes:
  • Poetry: limit of 20 lines per poem
    • $100 for best poem; $75 for second-place poem; $50 for third-place poem
  • Prose (Essay or Short Fiction): limit of 600 words per piece
    • $100 for best piece of prose; $75 for second-place prose; $50 for third-place prose
  • Plus publication of the prize-winning pieces in Tenth News (an online newsletter)
  • All applicants receive a certificate of participation and an invitation to read at the 3nd annual Community Connection Poetry Slam & Award Night on May 16, 2013, where winners will be announced.

The 2013 Theme: Dreaming
“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.” ― John Lennon, Imagine

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

What is Dreaming? The dictionary tells us it can be a succession of images, thoughts or emotions passing through the mind during sleep or while awake. A dream can be an involuntary vision or an indulgent getaway. The act of dreaming is thinking or conceiving of something in a remote way.

Throughout history dreams have inspired, alarmed and challenged us to become more than what we are; to act for change; and to make the world a more beautiful place. What are your dreams, where do they come from and where will they take you?

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