Category Archives: Contests

Winter Wish List

Winter Wish List

Enter for your chance to be one of FIVE winners to take home $1,000 each!MORE

Enter to win a round of golf for two people with a cart!

Enter to win a round of golf for two people with a cart!

You can enter to win a round of golf for two people with a cart to any of the Bloomington golf courses! That includes Highland Park, The Den, and Prairie Vista! Contesting runs June 17 though June 21. Enter to win here.MORE

WJBC’s Ultimate Winter Warm Up with Popejoy Plumbing, Heating, & Electric

WJBC’s Ultimate Winter Warm Up with Popejoy Plumbing, Heating, & Electric

Are you warm enough this winter? How about were you cool enough last summer? Starting Jan. 25, be listening to AM 1230, FM 102.1 and WJBC.com for your chance to qualify and you could win a brand new $13,000 heating and air-conditioning system from Popejoy Plumbing, Heating, & Electric in the WJBC Ultimate Winter Warmup contest!…MORE

Come Home for the Holidays

Come Home for the Holidays

WJBC and flyhomebn.org have teamed up so that someone you know and love can Come Home for the Holidays!MORE

Blogs

Labor Day – Expanding voting rights for all

By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year.  It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …

Is federal mobilization the answer?

By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city.   Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…

In these troubled times, to my fellow white Americans

By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…

Workers’ Memorial Day – Remember those whose job took their life

Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University.   We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk.  Going to work every day for some people means…