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REVIEW JULY 18, 2018
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Paws for inspiration
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Forest Parker has fostered more than 100 animals By NONA TEPPER
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Staff Reporter
n May 2016, a cat walked into Christina Vasilakis’ alley on the 1100 block of Ferdinand, eyeing her across a lush garden. The scrappy calico, soon to be named Katrina, made eye contact with Vasilakis and held her gaze. After a few weeks, Katrina entered the garden and a bond formed between the stray and the Forest Parker. A routine began. Katrina would walk over daily, seeking shade in the greenery, and Vasilakis would put out food and water. Then she traveled to Berlin to visit her husband who was away on business. When she returned, Katrina was gone. “She just disappeared,” Vasilakis recalled. “Then one day she reappeared, and I was like, ‘I gotta figure out about this cat.’” The next day, Katrina briefly hung out in the garden, then walked south across three neighbors’ front lawns. Vasilakis tiptoed behind her. The cat led her down a gangway, stopping abruptly and making a chirping sound. Then four tiny kittens emerged from underneath the house. She let Vasilakis pet them immediately. “I was just gasping,” Vasilakis said. “The trust — I felt like it was an honor to be seeing them.” Vasilakis called the Animal Care League in Oak Park, where an official told her about fostering the kittens. Already the happy owner of four cats and two dogs, fostering sounded like a fair option for Vasilakis. “I just wanted [Katrina] to be the only cat in a family where she would have a lot more attention.” See VASILAKIS on page 9
Ice cream dream
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From left, Jewan Garner, 8, Mallory Doxie, 6 and Luke Garner eat ice cream sundaes together on Friday, July 13, during the free ice cream social at the Park District of Forest Park on Harrison Street. See more photos on page 5.
PMSA merger scrapped from D209 facilities plan
Architects now focused on improving ‘three facilities within the district’ By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
The protests of students, parents and community members who disapproved
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of the idea of moving Proviso Math and Science Academy (PMSA) in Forest Park onto the campus of either Proviso East in Maywood or Proviso West in Hillside seem to have resonated with
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