Carol Stream Lifestyle
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Real help requires real peopleJun 23, 2011 6:00 am - Four recorded messages and two live — though not lively — operators later, the only thing I’d gotten from the customer service department of my HMO was more irritated. ...
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Even when you’re right, it never hurts to cool offJun 23, 2011 12:00 am - Being right is not the same as arguing right. Now, I knew my friend was wrong. As upset as he was, he simply hadn’t gotten his facts straight and was just plain wrong. ...
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Local parish reaches out to global communityJun 20, 2011 11:00 pm - On June 9-10, St. Michael Catholic Church sponsored a Feed My Starving Children Mobilpack Event. At the event, almost five hundred inner-generational volunteers from the...
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Even when you’re right, it never hurts to cool offJun 17, 2011 12:00 am - Being right is not the same as arguing right. Now, I knew my friend was wrong. As upset as he was, he simply hadn’t gotten his facts straight and was just plain wrong. ...
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BAPS Charities holds bone marrow drive June 26Jun 15, 2011 11:00 pm - BAPS Charities Organizes Nationwide Bone Marrow Drive Today, an estimated 750,000 Americans live with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma and someone new is diagnosed with one...
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Girl Scouts promote National Great Outdoors MonthJun 14, 2011 11:00 pm - June 2011 marks the eighth annual National Great Outdoors Month! Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois encourages girls across northern Illinois to get outside and experience...
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You might need another field guideJun 13, 2011 12:00 am - Does anybody besides me remember watching a birding show on PBS? It was a series, about 10 years ago, hosted by Don and Lillian Stokes. I loved that show. But because i...
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Industry Insider: Cheryl Bonk, M/I HomesJun 11, 2011 12:00 am - For the past 26 years, Cheryl Bonk has been helping people fulfill their personal dreams of owning a house. Starting as a greeter in a model home, she worked her way up ...
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On the Market: Castle-like home in WheatonJun 11, 2011 12:00 am - Families that enjoy leisure time spent at home will revel in this 4,497-square-foot home in Wheaton, custom built in 1997 by Cesario Builders of Oakbrook Terrace. Not on...
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Builders offer more guest suites as family dynamics changeJun 10, 2011 12:00 am - For many people in their 50s and 60s, the nest is anything but empty these days. Some delayed having their families until later in life and still have teens or younger c...