Articles filed under Volunteering
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Lake Zurich native fundraising for Guatemalan orphanage when she volunteersOct 29, 2014 1:01 am - Lake Zurich native fundraising for Guatemalan orphanage
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Smart Farm in Barrington proves to be a smart ideaOct 26, 2014 11:00 pm - Organizers with the Smart Farm in Barrington are wrapping up their sixth growing season, and the numbers are staggering. This grass-roots, educational farm project produ...
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Dundee Township Rotary to throw special Halloween partyOct 21, 2014 11:00 pm - For the last 15 years, Dundee Township Rotary Club members have been hosting a Halloween party for disabled and terminally ill people. Many who have attended were childr...
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Good feelings run high at Cantigny cancer walkOct 19, 2014 1:01 am - Wheaton's Cantigny Park was filled Sunday morning with the kind of celebration that occurs when people band together to do something good. More than 2,000 people partici...
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Hospital stay inspires Geneva teen to help othersOct 18, 2014 11:00 pm - Confined to bed, waiting for broken bones to heal. That's plenty to vex anyone, let alone an active teenager. Lindsey McDonald, 15, had all sorts of summer plans: family...
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Hunger walk in Lombard helps people at home and around worldOct 18, 2014 1:01 am - One of the reasons Dan Jares stays involved with the annual Great Prairie Trail CROP Hunger Walk is that the event allows him to help people he doesn't even know. "There...
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Blood drive at Stevenson High:Oct 16, 2014 1:01 am - Stevenson High School's National Honor Society will hold a blood drive Oct. 24. Friday is the last day to sign up during lunch periods. The event's theme is "Save a Life...
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Effort to help homeless marks 25th anniversaryOct 05, 2014 11:00 pm - Twenty-five years after 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 ...
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Lombard cancer patient counsels others on living with the diagnosisOct 05, 2014 7:00 am - The calendar marks Oct. 20 as the 15th anniversary of when Gary Grieger was told his non-Hodgkin lymphoma probably was going to kill him. Reminders of how close the fath...
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JOURNEYS lauds laundry aid from medical centersOct 03, 2014 1:01 am - Two days before Northwest suburban homeless shelters' Oct. 1 opening for the cold weather months, JOURNEYS | The Road Home received word that its primary donator of laun...