Local News and Info

Since is the Halloween season, I thought it might be worth posting about our local haunting. Rumor has it (although I am having trouble documenting this) that a werewolf lives in Sacred Heart Cemetery just up the road from MVCC. I have driven up Kean Avenue for many years, and I have never come across a werewolf. But, what if the local werewolf was just a guy with a genetic defect? Author Lisa Seachrist Chiu’s book,
When a gene makes you smell like a fish– and other tales about the genes in your body discusses this is her chapter entitled “The Werewolf Gene.” It may be more exciting to think that our neighborhood has its own werewolf, but the science may not support it.

This bit of news caught my eye. MVCC’s neighbor, the Valley Inn just down the street from the college’s main campus (on 107th street) will be featured on the Food Network’s show Restaurant Impossible. Valley Inn’s episode is scheduled to air at 8 p.m. p.m. (CST) Wednesday, October 10th, 2012.

You can read more about this here at the Palos Patch: Valley Inn Restaurant Set to Appear on Food Network Show This Week

You can also check out this page from the Food Network: Restaurant Impossible: Valley Inn

The Palos Patch is reporting an increase in the number of West Nile Virus cases in the Southwest Suburbs of Cook County (see
New Cases of West Nile Virus Reported in Southern Cook County). Cases of the disease are on the rise nationally. This is part of  a larger trend where globalization & climate change are crossing. If you find this as interesting as we do, take a look at some of these resources from our library’s collection:

• A planet of viruses by Carl Zimmer, Call #  QR360 .Z65 2011
• Emerging infectious diseases : trends and issues edited by Felissa R. Lashley and Jerry D. Durham Call # RA643 .E465 2007
• Understanding new, resurgent, and resistant diseases : how man and globalization create and spread illness by Kurt Link,  Call #RA643 .L56 2007