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From the Old Pine Rocker: Golden moments with Olga
Sherry Maves
Special to The Journal-Standard
For more than half a century, Olga Gize Carlile was known as the face of the Freeport Journal Standard, and hundreds of social media tributes since her recent passing bear witness to the countless ways she touched our community.
A widely acclaimed journalist, she also published popular cookbooks and was involved in numerous civic endeavors and organizations. However, to many of us who worked with her at the Journal Standard, she was a mentor and a friend.
In the 1970s when I first started writing for the paper, it was Olga who invited me to go along with her on an interview. Later, she was my cheerleader when I started my music column. Her enthusiasm and encouragement was such an inspiration to me then and in more recent times when I co-authored a book.
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It is a historical fact that the genesis of racism and brutality in law enforcement evolved from “slave catchers, people employed by plantation owners to run down Black slaves attempting to escape inhuman cruelty and oppression. Over the last number of decades, the evidence of disparate and out-of-control police practice is still, sadly, very often in public view. Racial justice and appropriate policing practices are far from being achieved on the streets of this country. Protests over the last year in response to murders of Black citizens by public safety officers did not happen for no reason.
Instead of responsibly and honestly debating the features of the Illinois bill, Andrew Chesney, in the Jan. 23 issue of the Freeport Journal Standard, parrots “unfunded mandates” and more hyperbolic misinformation about House Bill 3653. Mr. Chesney, Mr. Stewart, Chief Summers and Sheriff Snyders have promulgated an active scare campaign of misinformation to their �