Wheeling Lifestyle
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St. Emily School to support Buona Beef with 'Share and Show You Care' April 7Apr 02, 2020 11:00 pm - Throughout the year, Saint Emily Catholic School has done monthly "Dine and Shares" with an assortment of Mount Prospect restaurants. The funds benefit the school in a v...
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How a Lake County nonprofit is helping homeless, foster kids during the coronavirus pandemicApr 02, 2020 1:00 am - A personalized letter or a homemade card. A gift card to a local grocery store. An “activity box” full of crafts and lesson plans. To many kids, these gifts would be a k...
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Cook County seeks donations of PPE inventoryApr 02, 2020 1:00 am - Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Thursday announced a new donation program to accept unused personal protective equipment for first responders and medical...
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Chamber musicians keep music going with mini online concertsApr 01, 2020 11:00 pm - With social distancing and shelter-in-place orders in place, music lovers are left with no live performances to attend and musicians have been cut off, not only from the...
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Good News: Willow Creek Care Center adapts in time of social distancingApr 01, 2020 6:00 am - Cars pulled up by the hundreds last week to Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington. Without church services, what could be the draw? Emergency food distributi...
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Third place, Prose - 'True Friends'Apr 01, 2020 1:00 am - Infinite stars stared clearly through the warm summer air, like holes punched out of a taut fabric. A wide expanse of desert stretched untouched, save for a single road....
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Second place, Poetry - 'Starlight'Apr 01, 2020 1:00 am - I found a poem in a moment you've forgotten, when your eyes met mine then shifted up to splattered silver brightness hanging still against the ink-smeared sky. Lines c...
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Second place, Prose - 'March Rain, Year 2 Scholars, New South Wales'Apr 01, 2020 1:00 am - Miss Flossy spoke to her class. "Alright, children, we've a few minutes before noontide, let's clear your workplace and rearrange them into a square or rectangle, you de...
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Third place, Poetry: 'Childhood Bedroom'Apr 01, 2020 1:00 am - I love the way you sit there on my bed, stuffed monkey, untouched by teenage perils and inevitable growing pains. I still hold you at night, dear Blankie, because I'm a...
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First place, Prose: 'A Puncher's Chance'Apr 01, 2020 1:00 am - Seated at a small Formica table in a sparse dining room, Ronny Felton stared at the phone resting before him. He licked his lips and reached for the phone, but his hand ...