REMINDER: 'Community Conversation' On How Elmwood Park Has Changed

On November 15 from 3-4:30 pm in the Ferrentino Room of the Elmwood Park Public Library

Join us for The Elmwood Park Advocate’s final “Community Conversation” of the year.

For the sixth conversation in the Elmwood Park Public Library’s Ferrentino Room, we’ll express our gratitude to many of the senior citizens, who have attended and helped make our gatherings throughout 2025 a success. There will be bakery treats and beverages to share while we engage in conversation.

We’ll invite those who have lived here a long time to discuss how the village has changed over the past decades. Regardless of whether you are old enough to count as a senior, we want to hear your insights and wisdom about life in Elmwood Park.

The event will take place at 3 p.m. on November 15, 2025, in the Ferrentino Room of the Elmwood Park Public Library. (RSVP)

As you may know, we have fought for fair access to library meeting spaces for several months in order to preserve residents’ rights to freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press at the library.

Questions have been disingenuously raised about whether these discussions legitimately serve the community, but we have seen firsthand how our “Community Conversations” have fostered new connections between residents and helped bring neighbors together.

Again, the conversations help us to ground our reporting and writing so that it reflects the reality in Elmwood Park and not only our personal opinions about the village.

We do not know whether we will be able to continue to use the meeting room for free in 2026, but we are not worried about that right now. This weekend is about celebrating what was accomplished this past year.

Hope to see you there on Saturday, November 15, at 3 p.m.

*Note: The Elmwood Park Public Library has permitted resident-led groups to use meeting spaces as a community service. The Library neither sponsors nor endorses this event, the speaker(s) or the organization.