The briefs

Fire district to serve breakfast

The Burlington Community Fire Protection District will hold its all-you-can-eat breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to noon Sunday, at the fire station, 154 South St., Burlington.

The menu includes all-you-can-eat pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, toast, juice milk and coffee.

Cost is $5 for adults and $3 for kids, ages 6 to 12. Kids age 5 and younger are free.

Benefit day for accident victim

Salon 37 is holding a benefit day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the shop, 1415 Commerce Drive Algonquin (behind BP gas station across from Algonquin Commons).

Services offered include haircuts for $15 (no blowdry), eyebrow waxing for $10 and manicure for $7.

No appointments are necessary; first-come, first-served.

The benefit is for Troy Oates, whose wife, Ann, is an employee of Salon 37. Troy was involved in an accident in early March that caused severe injuries that have temporarily disabled him. This next year will be a long recovery with many financial burdens on their family, which includes 4-year-old twin boys.

For more information, call

(847) 658-3737.

Neighbors in the news

Over spring break, Ed Torres, a sophomore at Marian Central Catholic High School in Woodstock, volunteered in Haiti.

He collected school supplies to give to a school in the city of Port au Prince, and for a fledgling school in the mountain village of Lespinasse.

Much of his time was spent feeding, playing and caring for small children and babies in the Missionaries of Charity Children's Nutrition Center.

Torres and the group also visited the men and women at the Missionaries of Charity home for the dying in the Sanfil area of Port au Prince. Torres accompanied a group of seven parishioners from St. Margaret Mary in Algonquin, and Ss. Peter and Paul in Cary. The group lived and prayed with Blessed Teresa of Calcutta's sisters, the Missionaries of Charity.