Sunday, April 21, 2013
Patch spotlights videos that give you a different look at the community, past and present. This week, we take a look at the first graduating class from the Tinley Park Police Department's 12-week citizens academy.
Village Videos features videos from Patch, from around the web and from readers that showcase Tinley Park and its residents. Want your video featured? Upload it to our Neighborhood Gallery and email me at joev@patch.com to say you want to see it in Village Videos. They didn't receive badges, and they can't arrest anyone, but the graduates of the Tinley Park Police Department's first-ever citizens academy do have a better sense of the day-to-day duties of local law enforcement officials. The 12-week program, which began Jan. 17, was an idea Tinley Park Police Chief Steve Neubauer brought with him when he was hired in 2011 from his former post in Elmhurst. The purpose of the academy is to pull back the curtain on the police department for …
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Tinley Park Police Department
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Sunday, April 7, 2013
Patch spotlights videos that give you a different look at the community, past and present. This week spotlights advertising music as a Tinley actor jazzes up a car insurance theme, and a waitress freestyles about Boston's Gourmet Pizza.
Village Videos features videos from Patch, from around the web and from readers that showcase Tinley Park and its residents. Want your video featured? Upload it to our Neighborhood Gallery and email me at joev@patch.com to say you want to see it in Village Videos. Too bad American Idol—or The Voice or The X-Factor or America's Got Talent or Law & Order: SVU—doesn't have a special category for jingles and songs about commercial products and services. If that was the case, Tinley Park residents would clean house. Don't think so? Just check out these two videos: We need to get these two together and have a jingle off. They need to perform the Empire Carpet theme—the ad world's equivalent of an acoustic cover of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin…
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Boston Gourmet Pizza
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
Patch spotlights videos that give you a different look at the community, past and present. This week, we take a look at a piece of history as a family celebrates Easter more than 30 years ago.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Joe Vince
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Sunday, March 31
Village Videos features videos from Patch, from around the web and from readers that showcase Tinley Park and its residents. Want your video featured? Upload it to our Neighborhood Gallery and email me at joev@patch.com to say you want to see it in Village Videos. One of the fascinating things about YouTube videos are that, on occasion, they can give glimpses of the past in a way that photos and writings can't. That's why this week, thanks to YouTube user Tom Miler, we're using Village Videos as our personal WABAC Machine to look how one family celebrated Easter in 1982. YOUR TURN: Do you have videos of Easters past? Or even footage of family celebrating this year? Share them here by uploading the video to this story's media gallery. …
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Patch spotlights videos that give you a different look at the community, past and present. This week features residents doing their rendition of the popular viral video dance. Vote for your favorite and share your own Harlem Shake video.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Joe Vince
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Sunday, March 24
Village Videos features videos from Patch, from around the web and from readers that showcase Tinley Park and its residents. Want your video featured? Upload it to our Neighborhood Gallery and email me at joev@patch.com to say you want to see it in Village Videos. It was inevitable. Eventually, the Harlem Shake—the viral video/dance meme that had to fill the void left by Psy's "Gangam Style"—would infect Tinley Park. WATCH: Teen's Prom Proposal Adds Touch of Romance to Irish Parade If it's pop culture ebola, then YouTube is the Outbreak monkey that exposed us all. it's worse than the Rockin' Pneumonia or the Boogie Woogie Flu. The symptoms? It appears to attack groups, forcing the members to don mismatched and unrelated outfits and then …
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Tinley Park High School
6111 175th St, Tinley Park, IL
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Country Inn & Suites
18315 la Grange Rd, Tinley Park, IL
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Sunday, March 17, 2013
Patch spotlights videos that give you a different look at the community, past and present. This week, watch a Tinley Park High School senior pull out all the stops when he asks his date to this year's prom.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Joe Vince
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Sunday, March 17
Village Videos features videos from Patch, from around the web and from readers that showcase Tinley Park. Want your video featured? Upload it to our Neighborhood Gallery and email me at joev@patch.com to say you want to see it in Village Videos. Romance isn't something people usually associate with St. Patrick's Day. But that didn't stop one Tinley Park High School senior from trying to change that holiday's reputation by using a bit of showmanship and surprise during Tinley Park's 14th annual Irish Parade on Sunday, March 10. PHOTOS: Check Out All the Festivities During the 14th Annual Irish Parade Riding in the bed of a pickup truck with his Titans baseball teammates for the parade, Mitch Smith used the opportunity to ask classmate …
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Patch spotlights videos that give you a different look at the community, past and present. This week, we feature employees and volunteers from Together We Cope sharing the holiday spirit.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Joe Vince
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
Village Videos features videos from Patch, from around the web and from readers that showcase Tinley Park. Want your video featured? Upload it to our Neighborhood Gallery and email me at joev@patch.com to say you want to see it in Village Videos. Employees and volunteers from Together We Cope got to play the role of Santa early this year, handing out donated Christmas gifts last week to families in need as part of the nonprofit's Adopt a Child program. READ: Together We Cope Provides Christmas for Needy Kids This year, the program had 1,800 children from needy families, up from last year's 1,300. People and organizations have "adopted" these kids, donating gifts that Together We Cope gathered together in gift bags. Although the program is …
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Together We Cope
17010 Oak Park Ave, Tinley Park, IL
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
Patch spotlights videos that give you a different look at the community, past and present. This week, we feature firefighters saving two trapped kittens. Plus, check out a bonus video for residents who think the new train "quiet zones" are too quiet.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Joe Vince
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
Village Videos features videos from Patch, from around the web and from readers that showcase Tinley Park. Want your video featured? Upload it to our Neighborhood Gallery and email me at joev@patch.com to say you want to see it in Village Videos. Rescues are an art form for the Tinley Park Fire Department. The firefighters train regularly to become adept at life-saving techniques that not only involve burning buildings but include more unusual situations. Such as last weekend, when crews saved two Tinley Park girls who were buried in mud that fell on them as they were playing in an excavation hole at a residential construction site. READ: 2 Girls Rescued After Being Buried in Mud at Construction Site Sometimes, however, the rescues aren't …
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Patch spotlights videos that give you a different look at the community, past and present. This week, we feature three videos that show the village as a popular place for UFO sightings over the years.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Joe Vince
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
Village Videos features videos from Patch, from around the web and from readers that showcaseTinley Park. Want your video featured? Upload it to our Neighborhood Gallery and email me at joev@patch.com to say you want to see it in Village Videos. For a village that doesn't have an airport near its boundaries just yet, Tinley Park seems to have become quite the destination for flying objects, especially unidentified ones. Maybe it has to do with the helipad that is situated next to the Tinley Park Fire Department's training area off of 183rd Street. Or maybe it has to do with the Tinley Park Village Board approving a measure last month that allows Santa Claus to land in the village Christmas Eve. Perhaps those reasons—and others have …
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Patch spotlights videos that give you a different look at the community, past and present. This week, watch and listen to Stephanie Porche sing as she works at her Salvation Army post at Sam's Club in Tinley Park.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Joe Vince
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
Village Videos features videos from Patch, from around the web and from readers that showcase Tinley Park. Want your video featured? Upload it to our Neighborhood Gallery and email me at joev@patch.com to say you want to see it in Village Videos. One of the great parts of my weekly routine is that I get to wander around Tinley Park, keeping an eye out for interesting people doing unique things. And then I get to photograph or videotape these individuals. And on most occasions, I'm required to pester them by asking a series of personal and possibly embarrassing questions. WATCH: How Tinley Park Helped After a Disaster This is a great job for three reasons: If you've shopped at Sam's Club on Harlem Avenue last week, then you've probably …
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Sam's Club
16100 Harlem Ave, Tinley Park, IL
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Patch spotlights videos that give you a different look at the community, past and present. The first installment features footage from 2005 of Tinley Park volunteers helping victims of Hurricane Katrina.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Joe Vince
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Village Videos features videos from Patch, from around the web and from readers. Want your video featured? Upload it to our Neighborhood Gallery and email me at joev@patch.com to say you want to see it in Village Videos. After the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, communities around the country have stepped up to help those affected on the East Coast. And Tinley Park is no exception. Businesses have been collecting donations, and even Tinley Park Police officers have been asked to assist with emergency efforts. (No officers were deployed to New Jersey, however, because the state withdrew its request.) READ: Bettenhausen Dealerships Collect Items for Sandy Relief This isn't the first time the village has helped out storm victims. In 2005, …
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7:24 pm on Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Great job, Joe! Thanks for sharing! more ›