Neighbors in the news
Ben Gustafson and Kaylie Dibrowa won the Barrington Area Library's Teen Flix Film Contest.
Gustafson won for grades nine-12 with his entry, "The Walker." Dibrowa won for grades six-eight, with her film "Pie Kids." Both films are available for viewing on YouTube at barringtonarealibrary.org.
• While celebrating her 90th birthday with 116 loved ones at a dinner party, Guiseppina Acino was presented with the Elk Grove Village Community Spirit Award for her more than 45 years of volunteer work, the last 33 with Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village.
Acino lives independently, does her own cooking and cleaning, and never visits friends or family without bringing her homemade breads, cookies, pastries and an assortment of Italian specialties. She sews, does alterations and crochets scarves and baby accessories for family and friends. Acino, who was married to her late husband Nicasio for 57 years, has four children, 10 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
• Streamwood artist NiMara Price has an exhibit of oil paintings - finely crafted, colorful, contemplative domestic still lifes on an intimate scale - at Hanover Park Park District Community Center Gallery, 1919 Walnut Ave., Hanover Park, through Oct. 29.
• Sarah Deardorff, a 2000 graduate of Buffalo Grove High School, has received the Weidenfeld graduate fellowship to Oxford University in England.
The Weidenfeld's chief purpose is education and shaping leaders.
Deardorff, who competed with more than 1,000 others for the scholarship, holds a master's degree from the University of Chicago and has worked for a year in Geneva, Switzerland, with the World Council of Churches, interfacing with the High Commission of Refugees at the United Nations. She has also worked in Tanzania managing four refugee camps. Deardorff is the daughter of Jeff and Rose Deardorff of Arlington Heights.
• The Illinois State Dental Society presented Dr. Samuel J. Cascio of North Barrington, with its highest honor - the Distinguished Member Award - during its annual session held in September.