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Article posted: 2/5/2012 6:00 AM

Hanover Park recognizes citizens, businesses at Awards Night

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Hanover Park Mayor Rod Craig congratulates Mariah Reeves, 12, standing with her parents, for winning the village's Humanitarian of the Year award. Reeves earned the award by donating a portion of the gifts she received from her bat mitzvah to the family of a 3-year-old boy in need of a kidney transplant.

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It’s not often that a community bestows a humanitarian award on someone well short of voting age, but that’s just what the village of Hanover Park did this year at its annual Awards Night. Mariah Reeves, 12, was recognized Jan. 27 for helping 3-year-old Nathan Saavedra, a Carpentersville boy who suffers from prune belly syndrome.

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