Carpentersville Lifestyle
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Elgin Butera manager, wife on ventilators due to COVID-19Apr 25, 2020 1:00 am - The manager of a Butera Market in Elgin and his wife have been placed on ventilators while fighting COVID-19, and their relatives say they are grateful for the outpourin...
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Geneva restaurateurs open The Burger Shop diner in the middle of the pandemicApr 24, 2020 6:00 am - It would make sense for a restaurant owner to say the past several weeks have been difficult because of the coronavirus shutdown. But it would be quite surprising to hea...
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Balmoral, other Campton Hills restaurants pay it forward during pandemicApr 24, 2020 5:25 am - Colin Smith, owner of the Balmoral Restaurant in Campton Hills, can remember being hungry as a child in Scotland - and getting help from strangers. So when schools and o...
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'Elgin Strong' T-shirt sale launched by Symonds-Madison Funeral HomeApr 23, 2020 11:00 pm - Joy Symonds of Symonds-Madison Funeral Home has launched a two-week campaign to sell "Elgin Strong" T-shirts for adults and children. A portion of the sales will benefi...
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New season sees yellow-rumped warbler making a stop on migration northApr 23, 2020 6:00 am - We all need survival strategies in these stressful, scary times. My preferred coping method is binge-watching. Not on the couch staring at a screen, but outside, watchin...
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Coleman Foundation to match donations to Association for Individual DevelopmentApr 21, 2020 11:00 pm - Thanks to the generous support of the community, the Association for Individual Development has reached its fundraising goal of $30,000. These funds provide essential s...
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Local homeowners can help preserve oaks in their own backyardApr 21, 2020 11:00 pm - After a long winter and weeks of sheltering in place, it's exciting to see some green in your oak woods. However, the green you see could be buckthorn or honeysuckle, bo...
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Good News: Wheaton workshop collecting cards, letters to send to military personnelApr 21, 2020 6:00 am - The cards and letters are coming in. After a plea went out last month from a Wheaton-based organization for families “staying at home” to write letters to the military, ...
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Fideliter Club of Elgin feeds kids, supports local nonprofitsApr 21, 2020 6:00 am - Fideliter Club of Elgin, Elgin's oldest philanthropic organization, which was founded in 1882, has immediately responded to an urgent plea from Mike Warren, board presid...
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How Elgin twins reunited 1,200 family photos at bottom of pond with their ownerApr 21, 2020 1:00 am - The camera stayed at the bottom of a murky pond in Elgin for five years, with more than a thousand family photos of precious memories — birthdays, soccer games, Christma...