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Monday, May 20, 2013
Share Pictures of Your Weekend on Palos Patch
Pics & Clips is the place for your photos. Share your slices of Palos life with the community.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Sunday Comic: All Eyes On the Tea Party Graduate
Some people are destined to draw more attention than others, apparently.
Have Something to Say? Blog on Palos Patch
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Contribute your Photos & Videos from the Palos Area
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Tough Week? Here's Some Inspiration to Get You to the Weekend
It's been a long week. You need a pick-me-up.
Friday's here. Thank goodness. One more day of work, and that's it. Here's a little inspiration to get you through to Saturday. For more than a month now, Patch and Grape-Nuts have teamed up to present stories about your neighbors, neighbors who have faced challenges that would seem insurmountable to many of us. But not to the people we've featured in this series, Journeys. Not surprisingly, the stories have generated dozens of comments on Patch and on Facebook: "Great story..." "Thanks for sharing..." "So wonderfully inspiring..." And, so, here they are again. Great stories shared to inspire. Take a look at what these people have faced. Then click on the story to see their responses. And feel better about your tough week. Pit Bull …
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Grumpy Old Man
1:37 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013
Unfortunately some of the inspiration were some of the most divisive comments I've seen on Patch outside of and including the Sunday cartoon. Just look at the one on Long Journey to change minds and the article about the pit bull rescuer. I'm not sure that this was the type of inpiration that Grape Nuts intended. more ›
Caption This: Dog in a Bow Tie
Someone looks pretty spiffy. What's this pup thinking?
Patch readers, you're up! We need your wit, creativity and animal psychic abilities to craft the perfect caption for the next edition of our pet photo caption challenge! Suggest your caption in the Comments section below. Comments will close at 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 22. The winner will be announced Thursday, May 23. The author of the winning caption and pet owner can find a Patch-branded version of the photo, with the caption inserted included in the next week's edition. Congratulations to James, who won last week's edition, Caption This: A Pup Cools Off. I'm busy. Go fetch it yourself. Have a photo you'd like captioned in future editions? Add it to our collection and your pet will be featured in weeks to come! Remember:
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Bob Laird
11:45 am on Friday, May 17, 2013
what was the old saying about pleasing some of the people some of the time? more ›
And the Winner of our Mother's Day Contest is...
Does your mom deserve a day to kick back and enjoy some primping and pampering? Find out if she won the ultimate Mother's Day prizes.
Tired of the B.S.
5:23 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013
Sully said, "Children put other children down when they don't feel so good about themselves." Well Sully, that is a perfect description of.......... you! Heck, you even wrote that while you were putting down Dan Arenov! more ›