DuPage County briefs

AmeriCorps helps Aurora

AmeriCorps member Molly Fitzpatrick, a 2006 graduate of DePaul University, has joined Rebuilding Together Aurora for an 11-month term as community outreach coordinator. AmeriCorps - a federal volunteer program - assigns members to serve with nonprofits for a term of 10 to 12 months in exchange for a small living stipend. Rebuilding Together Aurora received its first AmeriCorps volunteer last year to help with its mission of providing free repairs to single-family, owner-occupied homes owned by elderly, disabled and low-income residents. Last year's volunteer, Emily Stern, has completed her AmeriCorps service and been hired as Rebuilding Together's first executive director.

Lombard OKs traffic change

The one-way traffic pattern around Lombard's Main Street Cemetery will be reversed effective Sept. 1. The village board approved a recommendation from the transportation and safety committee so that traffic on West Washington will travel west on the south side of the cemetery and will travel east on the north side. The change is needed because the installation of a brick pillar fence, a new street lap and the relocation of a wooden utility pole near the southeast corner of the cemetery property has created a visual impairment.