Des Plaines Lifestyle
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Good deeds scavenger hunt honors Sadie's short lifeMay 01, 2014 5:30 am - Eating lunch Tuesday on what would have been their daughter Sadie's fourth birthday, Cathy and Adin McCann let the tears come. There is no stopping the sorrow for what t...
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Editorial: Public need meets private good in Harper programApr 30, 2014 11:00 pm - On Tuesday, we read about Denise Owens, a single mom who has survived a bad marriage and bad kidneys, and who turned her life around with a determined spirit and help fr...
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Local 3rd Grade Jr. FIRST LEGO League team makes the trip to world competition in St. LouisApr 30, 2014 11:00 pm - A group of third grade Brownie troop members from Lions Park Elementary School are all members of the Tiny Tornados, a Jr. FIRST LEGO League team. Earlier in the school ...
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Cannings discuss logic behind their Harper giftApr 29, 2014 5:30 am - In the early 1980s, newly divorced and in search of a job, Rita Canning headed to Harper College. She had been out of the workforce for some 20 years. At Harper, she fre...
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Harper College lauds $1 million donation to women's programApr 29, 2014 5:00 am - From her hospital bed, Denise Owens made a simple request. The Hoffman Estates mother of three asked her kids to deliver her laptop so she could finish her homework. ...
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Weird Animals Are Coming to First Presbyterian ChurchApr 28, 2014 11:00 pm - First Presbyterian Church of Arlington Heights will host Weird Animals Vacation Bible School (VBS) Monday through Friday, July 14-18, from 9:00 am to noon each day. Chil...
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Area Artists & Craftsartists to Exhibit in Pak Ridge ShowApr 28, 2014 11:00 pm - Area Artists will join with artists and craftsartists from far and near to present an intriging variety of work on display by those who created the work during the 24th ...
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Multigenerational homeowners prefer big, happy familiesApr 27, 2014 12:01 am - Growing up in India, Devyani Bhatt lived in a multigenerational home with her parents, her paternal grandparents and maternal grandfather. Now, many years later and seve...
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Elgin activist, Erin's Law namesake honoredApr 26, 2014 1:01 am - Erin Merryn, an advocate for better protections for children from sex abuse, was honored Saturday at a fundraising gala where Gov. Pat Quinn praised her international mi...
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Mount Prospect Lions Club celebrates 80 years of serviceApr 24, 2014 11:00 pm - Members of the Mount Prospect Lions Club will gather with family, friends and dignitaries to look back on a storied past of volunteering on Friday, May 9. The club will ...