PEORIA MAGAZINE August 2023

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Letter from the Editor	7
Seed and Soil: ‘Our Food Speaks for Itself’	8
Seed and Soil: Handing the Tractor Keys to The Next Generation	12
Dish and Drink: Rolling With the Lunches - One World Café	16
Dish and Drink: What's Cookin' - Farmstand Peach Ice Cream	19
Cocktail Class: Two for One: Spicy Margarita, Paloma	20
Mom and Pop: Sodas Go The Craft Route	22
Call it Shark Tank-lite For Teens	24
Stimulating All the Senses - Peoria Riverfront Museum	26
For Math and Science Whizzes, a Sport of Their Own	30
Not Your Grandpa’s Game	34
A Pipeline to Prosperity	38
Honing the Skills of the Hill	42
Assessing Kindergarten-through-12th Grade Education in the Peoria area	46
The 3 Rs and a B … for Bible	50
Safe and Sound	54
Social Media, its Promises and Perils	58
The Longest, Saddest, Most Hopeful of Journeys	62
One … Button … At … A … Time	66
Hometown: ‘West Bluff, Best Bluff’	70
Wordcount: ‘A Rapper’s Approach’	74
Twenty Something: Enhance a Life, Be A Mentor	78
Playing in Peoria: Commentary Keeping it Simple With Joe George	82
Playing in Peoria: ‘Making the Hard Work of Acting Look Easy	88
ArtsPartners Calendar	92
The School of Athens	96
EconCorner Dr. David Cleeton, chairman of the Department of Economics at Illinois State University	100
Food for Thought	102
Working In The Shadows	106
‘An Assembly Line of Rhyme’	108
The Power of Niche Marketing	111
Out & About	112
In Brief	116
One More Thing: Lovers for Life	118
Thank You, Advertisers	120

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