Rick West
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Sugar Grove senior program holds drive-through lunchApr 28, 2020 1:00 am - Like the restaurant industry, the Sugar Grove Community House and senior citizen program had to adapt if it wanted to feed people during the COVID-19 pandemic. The grou...
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Parade in his honor is birthday first for 80-year-old Wheaton manApr 27, 2020 1:00 am - Even an 80-year-old can experience a birthday first. For Lou Addante of Wheaton, it was his first birthday during a stay-at-home pandemic and, on a brighter note, the f...
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Music teachers find silver lining in cloud of COVID-19Apr 27, 2020 1:00 am - If every cloud has a silver lining, then so must the cloud the COVID-19 pandemic has cast on all of us. Ben Westfall and Kristin Paxinos of Da Capo Music Studio are doi...
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Elgin school holds drive-through parade in parking lot for some face timeApr 17, 2020 1:00 am - FaceTime is nice, but sometimes nothing beats actual face-to-face time. With that in mind, St. Thomas More Catholic School held a "Miss You Carcade" Friday in its parki...
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From 400 employees to 8, a suburban restaurant group rides out the pandemicApr 11, 2020 5:00 am - When Bob Karas talks about his life's work, he isn't just talking about himself. He's talking about siblings, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews. And he's talking ab...
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Chuck the Duck pulls bunny duty in BataviaApr 09, 2020 1:00 am - When hopes of holding their traditional Easter egg hunt were dashed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Batavia Park District staff members came up with another idea. In the spir...
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Their Life's Work: Lake in the Hills martial arts club now posts recorded training sessionsApr 08, 2020 5:30 am - Illinois has more than 1 million small businesses. Each proprietor has a story to tell about how things have changed dramatically for them with the onset of the coron...
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Not knowing is the hardest part for owners of Elgin volleyball clubApr 06, 2020 5:30 am - When Sean and Cindy Gritzman decided to start Top Flight Volleyball Club 12 years ago in Elgin, they went in thinking big. “We knew we wanted to be one of the large...
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Naperville neighborhood creates stuffed animal 'zoofari'Mar 30, 2020 1:00 am - Kids aren't able to go to the zoo, but a Naperville neighborhood is doing its best to bring the zoo to kids. Residents in the Wiloway subdivision are putting out myriad ...
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On this West Chicago street, neighbors come out every day to exercise together, and apartMar 26, 2020 1:00 am - Coming together and staying apart might seem to be at odds, but that's exactly what a West Chicago neighborhood is trying to do every day at 2 p.m. As a way to maintain...