McHenry County Lifestyle
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Acts Of Kindness Cabaret uses music, storytelling to raise money for area nonprofitsMar 07, 2023 5:00 am - Take a little song, add a little dance, throw in a few laughs and a whole lot of kindness and you have yourself a show. At least that is what Hilary Ann Feldman of Wheel...
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Top Teacher: New Round Lake High civics class inspires students to do good in their communityMar 07, 2023 5:00 am - A new free store of donated items for people who rely on the Avon Township Food Pantry, an oral history project aiming to tell the story of the Round Lake area, and a $3...
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To develop its own climate plan, Kane County is asking for community feedbackMar 07, 2023 12:00 am - Kane County announced this week it will host three community listening sessions to help create its first Climate Action Implementation Plan, which the county will develo...
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Kane HCE Unit members attend state conferenceMar 06, 2023 10:00 pm - Kane County Home and Community Education members Pat Kowalkowski of Country Cousins Unit, Naomi Redman of Kennedy Unit, Nancy Haire, Joan Rossi and Robin Tibbets of Plat...
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Things to do March 10-16: Suburban St. Patrick's Day parades, races and moreMar 06, 2023 10:00 pm - By Luke Zurawski lzurawski@dailyherald.com Before Friday The Orchid Show, Magnified: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily through March 26 at the Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 La...
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Volunteers needed to deliver meals to DuPage and Kane seniorsMar 06, 2023 12:00 am - The DuPage Senior Citizens Council in Lombard needs volunteers to help deliver shelf-stable meals to seniors in DuPage and Kane counties from March through October. Vol...
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Feeling your age? It might be your heartMar 05, 2023 10:00 pm - As we get older, we slow down. Or so we're told. But, what if the slowdown is really a sign of something more? "A lot of times, people believe that a change in their fun...
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Good News Sunday: Brave souls in Fox Lake take a dip to raise funds for Special OlympicsMar 05, 2023 5:00 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: About 100 people braved the icy waters o...
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Palatine Poet Receives AwardMar 03, 2023 10:00 pm - Kate Hutchinson of Palatine received the ISPS 2022 Book of the Year runner-up award for her third poetry collection, "The Matter of Dark Matter." Sponsored by the Illino...
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McHenry student awarded $10,000 college grant through Northwestern Mutual's Childhood Cancer Sibling scholarship programMar 03, 2023 10:00 pm - Recognizing the significant financial burden families shoulder when undergoing childhood cancer treatments, the Northwestern Mutual Foundation is dedicating $500,000 in ...