PEORIA MAGAZINE July 2022

Impact Central Illinois

THE PRIZE GOES TO … Impact Central Illinois , a 501(c)(3) women’s collective giving organization, awarded $260,000 ingrants at its annual meeting on June 7. Dream Center and Lutheran Social Services of Illinois each walked away with $110,000, while Central Illinois Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired and Invictus Woods received $20,000 each. Dream Center will use the grant dollars to build an indoor playground and fitness area. Lutheran Social Services of Illinois will use the funding for its Therapeutic Foster Care Program. Invictus Woods will fund its Sober Living Day 1 Program. Lastly, Central Illinois Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired will upgrade its kitchen and technical center and hire staff.

Build Peoria provides up to $50,000 to a project “to physically build Peoria into a better place and leave a legacy for future generations.” This year’s winner aims to address the “food desert” situation that exists on Peoria’s South Side by creating a community-gathering space at Trewyn Community Center for neighborhood families to access healthy and affordable fresh fruits and vegetables and health and nutrition education. The Peoria Pilot Club announced the following grants: $750 to the Children’s Home Association of Illinois for a behavioral health radial rocking chair; $1,000 to the Central Illinois Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired for headsets; $1,000 to Goodwill’s Youth Services Program to sponsor the Youth Leadership Camp at Franciscan Center; $1,000 to Camp Big Sky to complete its Sensory Garden. ‘HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, BABY, GOT YOU ON MY MIND …’ Camp Wokanda celebrated the 85th anniversary of its first Boy Scout summer camp on June 11. Camp Wokanda is

located at 620Boy Scout Road, just north of Mossville off of Old Galena Road.

Maple Lawn Homes, a faith-based independent l iv ing ret i rement community in Eureka, is celebrating its 100th anniversary on July 22-23. NEWS YOU CAN USE The Peoria Historical Society will host two events on July 4. Pettengill Morron House , 1212 W. Moss Ave., will host a gathering at 2 p.m. in conjunction with the Moss-Bradley Residential Associ at ion . The Peor i a Pops Orchestra will perform. Meanwhile, the grounds of John C. Flanagan House Museum , 942 NE Glen Oak Ave., will be open for fireworks viewing from the bluff overlooking the Illinois River beginning at 6 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults, $2 for children under 12. Abbreviated tours of the house, which was built in 1837, will be available until 8:30 p.m. for $5. Attendees at both events should bring their own seating.

Market 309 in partnership with Peoria Grown is the recipient of the 2022-23 Build Peoria Community Project Grant. Each year, the non-profit organization

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