Ellisville Opera House Lifts Community
A new lift makes the 130-year-old structure accessible to the region
Music legacy of Jack Larson, Sally Rynott, and Laurie Pearson lives on
New instruments will give students the opportunity for personal growth and a lifelong appreciation of music.
A growing partnership
Buchanan Center for the Arts is partnering with Galesburg Community Foundation to build their endowment.
Building the regional workforce of tomorrow
Early one morning last June, Alice Greene and Axel Holt boarded a flight from Moline to Atlanta. If the two Galesburg freshmen were giddy with nervous excitement, they had good reason. They were headed to the SkillsUSA National Championships to compete against thousands of their peers from career technical education programs across the country. At […]
Meet the Hunger Collaborative
Why do people go hungry? Viewed one way, food insecurity is about access to food—and combating it means making affordable, nutritious food available to more people. Viewed another way, it’s about the deeper disparities, from education and income to transportation and housing, that lead to hunger in the first place. Tackling these root causes means […]
Roseville Fund helps community thrive
Recent grants awarded to Roseville Community Center
Why can’t we?
A Q&A with Dr. John McClean When you go out for coffee with Dr. John McClean, expect to be interrupted. Every few minutes, a passerby will stop over to say hello or wish him well—former patients or their family members whose lives he touched during his long career as a local oncologist. His connections to […]
An Opportunity to Serve
David Erickson is a busy man. In addition to farming and running a farm management business, he has served in leadership positions on boards and associations at the local, state, and national level. He believes in the importance of sharing your time and talent. “It’s not a lifetime commitment, but you can make a lifetime […]
Endowed Fund Honors Values of Three Generations
The Huff family believed strongly in a Catholic education. When George and Florence moved to the area in 1941, they chose to live in Galesburg because it had what they considered the best Catholic school in the area for their daughters Alice, Betty, and Kathleen. George drove 100 miles each day to his job as […]
Alumnus Creates Connections to Improve Education
Dr. Hugh Hawkins, a 1967 Galesburg High School graduate, was a true visionary; in fact, his friends would say he was a constant thinker who always looked at problems from a different perspective. After retiring from his radiology career in Cincinnati, Hawkins turned his focus to his hometown. He began connecting with current leaders and […]
