Autore: Ken Trainor

A storyteller, chronicler of life, and occasional provocateur, Ken Trainor has been a “free-range” community journalist and newspaper editor in Oak Park, Illinois, for the past 32 years with Growing Community Media as editor of the Forest Park Review, Austin Weekly News, and Wednesday Journal of Oak Park-River Forest (not all at once). Now semi-retired, he works two days a week rescuing the prose of harried reporters on deadline, refereeing the opinion pages, and tending the obituaries with loving care.Born and raised in Oak Park, since 1985 he has honed his storytelling skills as a weekly columnist for newspapers ranging from Ft. Collins, Colorado to Mt. Pleasant, Michigan to Oak Park – proving with the latter that you can go home again.He has been named best columnist in the weekly newspaper category by the Illinois Press Association four times. He has written over 2, 000 columns and yet, somehow, hasn”t run out of things to say.His first book, We Dare to Say – An Adventure in Journaling, was produced by ACTA Publications in 2007. His second book, Unfinished Pentecost – Vatican II and the Altered Lives of Those Who Witnessed It, was published in 2013 and is available at Amazon.com.