Downers Grove Submitted Content
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'A bittersweet moment': After 25 years, Fox Valley Habitat chief set to retireAug 28, 2024 12:24 pm - After 25 years, the Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity executive director who has led 71 affordable housing projects will retire from his position on Friday, Aug. 30.
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New location for this year’s Fox Valley Folk Music & Storytelling FestivalAug 28, 2024 11:07 am - This year’s Fox Valley Folk Music & Storytelling Festival returns on Sept. 1-2 at a new location, Wheeler Park in Geneva. After last year’s successful return to Island Park, recent weather events have left the park unusable and required a last-minute location change for this year’s event.
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Naperville Rotary’s resilience workshop to help families of veterans, first respondersAug 27, 2024 11:14 pm - The Rotary Club of Naperville, in collaboration with community partners, is offering a “Resilience Tactics Workshop,” a free event designed to support the families and su...
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Naperville’s Celebration preschool celebrates 20 yearsAug 27, 2024 11:00 pm - There’s school pride, and then there’s the kind of school buy-in that Naperville’s Kelly Gilligan witnesses as director of Celebration Children’s Center preschool, which is celebrating its 20th year in operation in 2024-25.
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Sinfonietta Bel Canto to host annual Voice Invitational Sept. 29Aug 27, 2024 10:30 pm - The Sinfonietta Bel Canto, under the direction of Dan D’Andrea, will host its first concert of the season, the annual Voice Invitational.
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Naperville preschool earns national recognition for education qualityAug 27, 2024 12:17 pm - The Gardner School of Naperville announced its accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
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DuPage County Historical Museum welcomes ‘Three Frenchmen and a Goat’ Sept. 14Aug 26, 2024 4:34 pm - Illinois Humanities Road Scholar John Goldsmith presents the story of three enterprising young men who founded a fraternal supply company in 1892 that today is one of the biggest manufacturers of marching band uniforms.
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Shop the Mum Sale at the COD Greenhouse Sept. 11-12Aug 23, 2024 4:26 pm - The College of DuPage Horticulture program’s annual fall mum sale will be Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 11-12, at the COD Greenhouse.
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College of DuPage board elects Florence Appel as vice chairAug 23, 2024 4:13 pm - Florence Appel of Lombard was elected as vice chairman of the College of DuPage board of trustees at the board’s Aug. 22 regular meeting.
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‘The Next Great Discovery’ is Monarch Landing Resident’s newest great adventureAug 23, 2024 11:58 am - Taking advantage of the tranquility and freedom afforded her by living at Monarch Landing, Kathie Bennett has self-publishing her first novel, “The Next Great Discovery: A Heartland to Hometown Mystery-Book 1.”