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DEARBORN – After 12 years serving as executive director of Henry Ford Village, Larry Vidovic has retired. While Vidovic has decided to create a new life, and one which will certainly embrace lessons learned from residents, he does so with an ongoing commitment to the mission of the community. Vidovic will continue sharing his gifts […]
Fellow officers, plus families, were on hand to honor four officers killed in 2021.
UpdatedMon, May 10, 2021 at 1:38 pm CT Replies(161) The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. (pictured in 2013) pays tribute to officers lost in the line of duty. Three police officers from Illinois have died while on duty in 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ILLINOIS — The biggest effect the coronavirus pandemic had on National Police Week isn't that activities in Illinois and elsewhere have been postponed, but the number of police officers whose lives and careers were cut short by the virus. While their names won't be read at the National Police Officers' Memoria...
Chicago Heights police officer dies after collapsing on duty By Sun-Times Media Wire CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. - The City of Chicago Heights is mourning the loss of a police officer who died Friday morning, days after collapsing while responding to a domestic call. Officer Gary Hibbs, a 25-year department veteran, died in the intensive care unit at Franciscan Health in Olympia Fields, according to a statement from Mayor David Gonzalez and police Chief Thomas Rogers. The afternoon of March 4, Hibbs answered a disturbance call of two people fighting inside a third-floor apartment on 14th Place, a...
A senior living community in Silver Spring, Maryland, is one step closer to what it calls “healthy freedom,” after it completed vaccinating its 2,300 residents last week. “It has been a long haul,” said Gary Hibbs, executive director of Riderwood Senior Living. “And we’re very conscious that we’re not out of it yet, but with the vaccinations, it was really the first offensive step we could take.” Each person at Riderwood who wanted and was able to get vaccinated, totaling 96% of its residents, has received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. The senior living community partnered ...