Board of Education Meeting Tomorrow at Lincoln School
The next District 97 Board of Education Meeting will be held tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Lincoln School (1111 S. Grove Ave.). You can access the packet of materials for the meeting by clicking here.

Golden Apple Award Nominees Featured in the Wednesday Journal
The Wednesday Journal published feature articles about the three District 97 teachers who have been nominated for a 2012 Golden Apple Award. You can access the articles via the links below.

• Cristina Arroyo, a kindergarten teacher at Irving School
• Marvin Childress, a first grade multiage teacher at Lincoln School
• Elizabeth Chase Vivas, a kindergarten teacher at Lincoln School

Brooks Honored for Efforts to Fight Hunger
Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School recently earned the status of National School of Distinction from the Schools Fight Hunger program. The honor, which was awarded to fewer than 2,000 schools nationwide for the 2010-11 school year, is given to schools that demonstrate notable enthusiasm, creativity or dedication in getting involved with the effort to fight hunger.

You can read more about this accomplishment by clicking here.

Helpful Links
Below are links that feature important school and district-related information and resources.

• Digital backpack – http://www.op97.org/digital-backpack/index.cfm
• Food service/menus – http://www.op97.org/business-office/Food-Service.cfm
• District and school calendars –  http://www.op97.org/School-Calendars.cfm
• District 97 on Twitter – http://twitter.com/#!/OakPark97

Information from the Village of Oak Park

• Forum to address concerns over new gun shop – A community forum to address concerns over the gun shop set to open at 6338 Roosevelt Road is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 29 at 7 p.m. at Irving Elementary School (1125 S. Cuyler Ave.). The owner of the newly licensed gun shop will be on hand, along with representatives of the Village Board and Police Department. The forum is sponsored by the South East Oak Park Community Organization. For more information, visitwww.seopco.org or e-mail seopco@gmail.com.

• Village Board to discuss proposed FLW Historic District expansion – The Village Board will review a proposal to expand of the boundaries of the local Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture historic district during a meeting scheduled on Monday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Village Hall (123 Madison St.). The boundaries of the National Register historic district were expanded in 2009, and the proposal is to match the local boundaries to the national ones. The Historic Preservation Commission hosted a series of public meetings to discuss the proposal with property owners within the proposed new boundaries before forwarding a recommendation for approval to the Village Board. For more information on the proposal, click here, call 708-358-5417 or e-mail planning@oak-park.us.

• Recycle holiday lights – The Village has partnered with Vintage Tech Recyclers to host a holiday light drop-off box at the Public Works Center (201 South Blvd.), during December and January. Mini-lights, C7 lights, C9 lights, rope and LED lights, as well as extension cords, are acceptable. Items may be dropped off from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information call 708-358-5700 or e-mail publicworks@oak-park.us.