Articles filed under Charities and Fundraising
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Agency to salute volunteers, PADS churches at 25th anniversary celebrationSep 10, 2014 11:00 pm - In 1989, a small group of citizens and churches founded PADS or Public Action to Deliver Shelter in an effort to lift up the homeless and dispossessed in the local commu...
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Mundelein group teaches others about self-sufficiency through homesteadingSep 10, 2014 11:01 am - Several Mundelein residents who say they want to inspire self-sufficiency and sustainability in others hope to improve quality of life by teaching the community to utili...
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Culver's salutes veterans in Lake County:Sep 10, 2014 1:01 am - Culver's restaurants will participate in the 9/11 Patriots Day of Giving in Lake County on Thursday. Stores have worked with the Lake County Veterans and Family Services...
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Schaumburg firefighters' charity softball tourney Sept. 13Sep 09, 2014 1:01 am - The Schaumburg Firefighters Benevolent Association will host its 21st annual charity softball tournament from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13 at Olympic Park, 1675 E...
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Hoffman Estates police, fire softball fundraiser Sept. 27Sep 08, 2014 1:01 am - Hoffman Estates' police officers and firefighters will hold their second annual Shootz & Ladderz Softball Fundraiser from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27 at Cannon Cro...
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From brother's Woodstock-like fest to Goodstock benefitSep 07, 2014 7:15 am - In July 1981, my parents drove to New Jersey to visit my sister and her new husband. They left my 19-year-old brother, Bill, home alone on our family farm outside the sm...
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Wheaton man continues quest for clean water with IronmanSep 07, 2014 7:00 am - Steve Spear still gets choked up when he thinks about where he was roughly this same time last year. An avowed hater of all things having to do with running, Spear wrapp...
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Nominations open for BG 'Heart' awardsSep 07, 2014 1:01 am - The Buffalo Grove-Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce is taking nominations for the 2014 Heart of the Community Awards, which will be presented at the Celebration Gala Even...
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Day of Giving for Antioch nativeSep 07, 2014 1:01 am - Culver's of Antioch will hold a Day of Giving on Tuesday, Sept. 9, to establish a memorial fund for Kathryn Kowalczyk, a 23-year-old who died last month in a car crash. ...
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First Rotary Tour d'Arlington held SaturdaySep 06, 2014 1:01 am - Ron Crawford, heading up this year's first Rotary Tour d'Arlington, said he was a "little disappointed with the turnout" of less than 50 people. Their mission statement ...