DuPage County Lifestyle
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'You are the higher powers you've been looking for': Atheist tells board to ditch prayers
Mar 12, 2019 4:21 PM - Atheist blogger and author Hemant Mehta on Tuesday urged the DuPage County Board to abandon its decades-old tradition of opening its meetings with a prayer. -
Atheist to give invocation at DuPage board meeting
Mar 8, 2019 7:34 PM - Atheist blogger and author Hemant Mehta on Tuesday will become the first nonbeliever in recent memory to deliver the invocation during a DuPage County Board meeting. -
Memorial set for Wood Dale's 'Pastor Rick'
Feb 28, 2019 4:35 PM - Pastor Richard "Rick" Bullis was generous and serious when the time called for it, but if you ask his children, he also had a knack for fishing and may have been the inventor of the "dad joke." Friends, family and the Wood Dale faith community will gather Saturday afternoon to remember the co-founder of the Agape Family Church and World Outreach Center in Wood Dale. -
How comfort dogs helped Aurora begin to heal after shooting
Feb 26, 2019 6:00 AM - Golden retriever comfort dogs from Lutheran Church Charities were invited to visit Aurora schools, churches and first responders after the Feb. 15 mass shooting at the Henry Pratt Co. warehouse in which five employees were killed and five police officers were injured.
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Exhibition of Fox River paintings opens Feb. 2 at the Geneva History Museum
Jan 29, 2019 2:16 PM - Original oil paintings showing the beauty and many moods of the Fox River by local plein air artist Joel Sheesley as part of "A Fox River Testimony" will be exhibited at the Geneva History Museum beginning Saturday, Feb, 2 through Friday, May 24 during the museum's regular hours. -
Churches in DuPage, Will counties collecting items for asylum-seekers
Jan 21, 2019 5:37 PM - In response to what the Trump administration calls a growing humanitarian crisis at the southern border, a Wheaton-based group is organizing efforts to collect supplies to help migrant families seeking asylum. -
DuPage County Master Gardener volunteers log hours of service
Jan 18, 2019 6:27 PM - University of Illinois Extension of DuPage County recognized its Master Gardeners with the 27th annual Master Gardener Celebration in November. The volunteer group has already completed 8,750 hours of service for 2018. -
All-Canada Show returns to St. Charles
Jan 8, 2019 12:30 PM - The 36th annual All-Canada Show returns Thursday-Sunday, Jan. 10-13, to Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles featuring Canada's best fishing and hunting destinations -
Some new Democrats want DuPage County Board to cease prayers at meetings
Dec 12, 2018 8:41 PM - Some of the new Democrats on the DuPage County Board are calling on the panel to end its decadeslong tradition of inviting religious leaders to conduct invocations before regular board meetings. -
Aurora couple shows joy of giving back, volunteering
Dec 6, 2018 10:12 PM - Jen and Mike Reemts are People to be Thankful For. The retired Aurora couple were the first pair to win the Fox Valley United Way's Volunteer of the Year Award in spring 2018. They help with organization's Holiday Assistance Program and Jen also sews bears and pillowcases made from sentimental shirts of deceased loved ones for the Geneva-based Hands of Hope.
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