Lori Jensen has always had a passion for community service, but it hit particularly hard just before businesses and school closed for the pandemic, in 2020.
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The son of a sheep herder, Bobby Gonzalo spent his early years in a Peoria that probably wouldn’t be recognizable to the average resident today, one that was still steeped in its agricultural ways.
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Gavin Linderman was still a student at Peoria Accelerated High School when his band, Desole, signed a record deal with California-based Abacus Recordings, a subsidiary of Century Media.
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For his service to the Peoria community, Axiom Lead Pastor Gavin Linderman, has been named the Peoria Independent Hometown Hero in the spiritual leader category for 2023.
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Peoria Mayor Jason Beck has ended his silence over the city council's request for Vice Mayor Denette Dunn to resign, and has accused her of covering up her involvement with a family friend who is a …
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For his service to the Peoria community, Joey Lucidi, owner of Westside Concepts, has been named the Peoria Independent Hometown Hero in the Joey Lucidi category for 2023.
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Reagan Norris was born May 2, 2019 and diagnosed with a cleft lip and a critical Congenital Heart Defect known as right-dominant Unbalanced Atrioventricular Canal defect.
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Marine Tad Snidecor was working in the Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma on April 19, 1995 when ex-Army soldier and security guard Timothy McVeigh parked a rented Ryder truck in front it.
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