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Saving for College talk at HarperOct 10, 2011 12:00 am - Statistics show the price of college tuition, room and board at four-year public institutions rose by 30 percent in the decade between 1998 and 2008 — and it’s still gro...
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Groups aid students in 3 high-poverty U-46 schoolsOct 09, 2011 12:00 am - The Kids in Need Foundation and Newell Rubbermaid are again supporting the children in U-46. They began in 2009, with a donation of 500 backpacks to help homeless studen...
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Local Jaycees host 'Scary-Oke' fundraiser Oct. 23Oct 08, 2011 11:00 pm - Join the Mount Prospect and Hoffman Estates Jaycees for a fun costume contest and a night of karaoke all while raising money to support both Jaycees chapters who work to...
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Dist. 220 students are ‘citizen scientists’Oct 07, 2011 12:00 am - Fourth-graders in Barrington Area Unit District 220 were citizen scientists in September and early October. They hiked, created drawings, took plant measurements and did...
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Palatine teachers awarded $5,000 grant for iPad programOct 07, 2011 12:00 am - The National Education Association Foundation recently awarded a $5,000 Student Achievement Grant to Lake Louise School teachers Laurie Scarpelli and Marianne Rakoczy. S...
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Mt. Prospect firefighters to collect food pantry donationsOct 07, 2011 12:00 am - The Mount Prospect Fire Department and Mount Prospect Firefighters Local 4119 will be sponsoring a food drive Saturday Oct. 22 at the Randhurst Costco Store, 999 N. Elmh...
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Online companies partner with Dist. 54 FoundationOct 07, 2011 12:00 am - By Ed Rafferty, District 54 superintendent The Schaumburg Township Elementary School Foundation has developed an exciting new partnership with Groupon, Amazon and other ...
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Skippyjon Jones Brings Big Dreams to The Hemmens in ElginOct 06, 2011 11:00 pm - With Skippyjon's big ears and wild imagination, sometimes he pretends to be a bird, sometimes he pretends to be a llama, and sometimes he pretends to be a whale. One day...
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Des Plaines Scout is DuLullo Award winnerOct 05, 2011 12:00 am - Little did Scott Chapp know at the time that an article written by his eighth-grade teacher would lead to his future Eagle Scout project — the solicitation, gathering, p...
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Over 75 employers to be at Harper's Job Fair FridayOct 05, 2011 12:00 am - Dozens of employers will converge at Harper College on Friday, Oct. 7, for the annual Fall Job Fair, with a goal of giving Northwest suburban residents new opportunities...