Articles filed under Charities and Fundraising
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Walk for brain-cancer patients comes to SchaumburgMay 01, 2014 1:01 am - The second annual Michael Matters 5K Stadium Walk will take place Sunday, May 4, at Boomers Stadium, 1999 S. Springinsguth Road. The event is named after Michael Schost...
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Play golf for charity:May 01, 2014 1:01 am - The Stevenson High School Foundation's annual golf outing will be held June 20 at Kemper Lakes Golf Club in Kildeer. Breakfast, lunch, a raffle and an auction are planne...
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Editorial: Public need meets private good in Harper programApr 30, 2014 11:00 pm - On Tuesday, we read about Denise Owens, a single mom who has survived a bad marriage and bad kidneys, and who turned her life around with a determined spirit and help fr...
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GiGi's Playhouse Dash for Down syndrome June 8Apr 30, 2014 1:01 am - Registration is now open for the 11th annual GiGi's Playhouse 5K Fun Run, 1-mile walk, Dash for Down syndrome, taking place Sunday, June 8 at the Sears Centre Arena in H...
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Program to paint Carpentersville homes needs applicantsApr 29, 2014 11:00 pm - Carpentersville is looking for certain groups of people in the village who need help painting their homes. Every September, the village's Paint-A-Thon committee paints t...
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David Adler Music and Arts Center to host annual fundraiserApr 29, 2014 11:00 pm - The David Adler Music and Arts Center will host its annual fundraising event Saturday, May 17, featuring a silent auction, a celebrity cooking demonstration and local mu...
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Cannings discuss logic behind their Harper giftApr 29, 2014 5:30 am - In the early 1980s, newly divorced and in search of a job, Rita Canning headed to Harper College. She had been out of the workforce for some 20 years. At Harper, she fre...
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Elgin woman, 90, volunteers for more than 50 yearsApr 29, 2014 5:00 am - After more than 50 years as a volunteer, Myra Becker says it's finally time to slow down. But listening to the Elgin woman's conviction about her causes — women's empowe...
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Harper College lauds $1 million donation to women's programApr 29, 2014 5:00 am - From her hospital bed, Denise Owens made a simple request. The Hoffman Estates mother of three asked her kids to deliver her laptop so she could finish her homework. ...
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Volunteers support Hoffman Estates man's ALS fightApr 29, 2014 1:01 am - Friends, family and other volunteer supporters of Hoffman Estates native Eric Von Schaumburg will be wearing yellow aprons and holding collection canisters at major inte...