PEORIA MAGAZINE February 2023

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Letter from the Editor	7
Seed and Soil: ‘Farming While Black’	8
Seed and Soil: Fred the Horse	10
Dish and Drink: Groundbreaker, Baker, Businesswoman	12
Dish and Drink: What’s Cookin’ - Chocolate Ganache Nutella Tart	16
Dish and Drink: Cocktail Class - Bonhomme Richard	19
‘There’s Plenty of Pie for All of Us’	20
Peoria Power Couple	26
Peoria’s Carver Community Center Turns 100	30
A Modern-Day Renaissance Man	34
‘The Most Dynamic Branch in Illinois’	38
A Tale of Three South Peoria Families	42
Let’s Improve Peoria for All	44
Cover Commentary: An Overdue Appreciation	46
Cover Commentary: Progress in Peoria? Perhaps	50
Peoria Retro: What’s in a Name?	52
From Athlete to Orthopedist	56
Nourishing the Brains and Souls of South Peoria	60
‘Bringing Life Back to the City for People Who Look Like Us’	64
Playing in Peoria: ‘I Don’t Sing Anything I Don’t Feel’	66
ArtsPartners Calendar	68
Playing in Peoria: Globalfest Central Illinois Makes Its Debut	70
WordCount: ‘Representation Really Does Matter’	72
Mom and Pop: ‘My Stomach Leads the Way’	76
Entrepreneur, Author, Advocate	78
From Mississippi Sharecropper to Peoria School Board President	80
Allergic To Animals But Not to Wildlife	82
Man on the Move	84
Twenty Something: Peoria, ‘Shiny’ Enough for Me	87
EconCorner: Josh Lewer, Chairman of the Department of Economics and Finance at Bradley University	88
Out & About	92
In Brief	94
One Last Thing: Final Respects Can Wait No More	96
Toon Town	99
Thank You, Advertisers	100

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