This weekend our Navigators will be providing enrollment services in different locations throughout Chicago, including Humboldt Park, Albany Park, Pilsen, and La Villita communities. On Saturday, February 8th, our Affordable Care Act office located at 1112 N. California Ave. will be open from 9am to 5pm. On Sunday, we will be providing services at the Good Shepherd Church (28th St. and Kolin Ave.) from 8am to 4pm and the Iglesia Evangelica del Pacto Albany Park (4516 N Kedzie Ave.), as well as Blue 1647 (1647 S. Blue Island Ave.). 

We continue to offer services in our new office located in the Hermosa community. Visit us to enroll. Health insurance is a human right and it is the law!

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women, but heart disease is preventable and controllable. February is American Heart Health Month and The Greater Humboldt Park Diabetes Empowerment Center is celebrating with the Love Your Healthy Heart event provided by the Keep Your Heart Healthy program on February 15, 2014 from 10:00AM to 2:00PM at 2753 W. Division St. There will be free heart health screenings provided to adults 18 years and older, a healthy cooking demonstration with tasty samples and fun Zumba dance aerobics so come dressed to move your body! Healthy snacks will be provided and there will be $50 Walgreen's gift cards raffled. We look forward to seeing you at our FREE Love your Healthy Heart event, which is open to the public so feel free to spread the word and bring a friend.

PACHS Science Class

Evelyn Gordillo and Jawun Scott, students in Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School Science Teacher Diamond Montana's Integrated Science I Quarter 2 class, created the video project that makes a stop animation video explaining the plant organelles and how plants reproduce and make fruit. In this particular video they look at an angiosperm aka flower.

In Robert Channick's Jan. 21 article "Hyperlocal website EveryBlock to be resurrected," I was pleased to read that Comcast has relaunched this "hyperlocal news space."

Any outlet that empowers community members should be celebrated. Unfortunately, Comcast and other cable providers have been silencing community voices around the country by making changes that defund and eliminate public access television. This cannot and must not happen in Chicago. Read on.

Last week, the freshman class began a unique theatre unit called American Mosaic in collaboration with the American Theatre Company. All freshman students are participating in this unit in their English class by reading the play Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam. Each class period will rehearse and perform one scene from the play. Some students will be actors and other students will be part of the production crew. Together, all classes will perform their scenes together in a "mosaic" performance of the play on Saturday, February 22nd  from 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at the American Theatre Company in North Center. The following week on Tuesday, February 25th, students will take a field trip to see a professional matinee performance of the play on the same stage that they performed on a few days before.

Sons of the Prophet is about a Lebanese-American family that struggles with the loss of a parent, an ailing uncle, and other recurring healthcare problems. The two brothers attempt to keep their family together after suffering an unusual number of personal losses. From the author of Speech & Debate and co-author of Columbinus, which Clemente students performed last year, comes this hysterically funny and deeply moving tale of life, love, and loss in working-class America. This play was the winner of the 2012 Drama Critics' Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, and a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.   Families, friends, and community members are encouraged to attend the student production on Saturday, Feb. 22nd!  

El día de ayuno terminará con un acto de oración de

7:00 pm a 12:00 de la medianoche en la Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús de Caguas. Contaremos con la participación del Obispo Rubén Antonio González Medina y otros y otras distinguidos/as participantes.

"Estuve preso/a y me visitaste". Mateo 25:36