Alejandro Macias named RLA Exchange Club Hometown Hero

The Round Lake Area Exchange Club Hometown Hero Committee has announced that U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Alejandro Macias is the May hero.

This month’s sponsor is Collision Solution in Hainesville.

Macias, a Round Lake Park resident and 2010 Round Lake High School graduate, was registered at the Club’s site, www.rlaexchange.org/hero, by his mother, Victoria L. Macias.

“Alejandro is our ninth hero being honored and we along with his family are in awe of his service to country and joining during the time of war,” said Sherry Ridge, the Hometown Hero Project chairwoman. “I always get chills and tears of pride when I speak with the family members of our heroes.”

Macias is in Jacksonville, N.C. He just graduated from V-22 Airframes Mechanics School. His mother also shared that he earned an expert rifleman award.

The lance corporal’s “Hanging with the Heroes” care package will be filled with chips, fruit, and lots of chocolate, along with a personalized “Hanging with the Heroes” T-shirt and letters from Round Lake Area Unit District 116 students.

A requested item of a “black Chicago skyline baseball cap” has been made; Ridge is working on finding this cap.

The club will present a plaque on behalf of the May Hometown Hero to his family at the group’s meeting at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 25, at Panera Bread in Round Lake Beach.

Any military personnel serving overseas or in the United States from any of the Round Lake area communities, Hainesville, Fox Lake or Ingleside qualify for the program. Five minutes will get them registered.

If you have a neighbor, family member, friend, employee, employer, etc. serving in the military, register them www.rlaexchange.org/hero.

For more information, call Sherry Ridge at (847) 740-2379.