Articles filed under Volunteering
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Growing Palatine Jaycees chapter names new officersJan 18, 2016 10:00 am - The Palatine Jaycees turned over the reins of the organization to its new board of directors for the 2016 fiscal year at the annual Awards and Installation Banquet, Satu...
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Volunteers find ways to serve on MLK DayJan 18, 2016 12:00 am - More than 1,600 volunteers filled the Highland Park Recreation Center gym Monday to work on service projects during the seventh annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Serv...
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Boy Scout Troop 32 celebrates three Eagle ScoutsJan 17, 2016 10:00 pm - Boy Scout Troop 32 in West Dundee has added three new Eagle Scouts to their ranks in the past year. The Eagle award is scouting's highest honor. Only about 4 percent of ...
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Editorial: Thanks to the young who get involvedJan 16, 2016 1:00 pm - When you're about to give up on the world, pause to remember the young people who make up this year's Daily Herald Leadership Team. When you start to think that the coun...
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Homeless count volunteers soughtJan 14, 2016 12:00 am - Lake County is seeking participants for the 2016 Point-In-Time Count on Jan. 27 and 28. A Point-In-Time Count is conducted annually to find out how many people are homel...
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Thankful heart transplant recipient extols virtues of blood donationJan 13, 2016 10:00 pm - At just 34 years old, Gwendolyn Westlund's body has been through more than what most people experience in a lifetime. The Willowbrook resident has overcome a life-threat...
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Fox Valley Hands of Hope needs volunteersJan 12, 2016 10:00 pm - Fox Valley Hands of Hope, a community-based, nonprofit organization dedicated to serving those with life-threatening illnesses and the bereaved, is in need of volunteers...
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Local Early Response Team goes to MississippiJan 11, 2016 10:00 pm - Members of a local Early Response team were invited to Holly Springs in north central Mississippi to help recovery efforts after tornadoes and heavy rains hit the area. ...
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St. Charles North student to Earn Eagle Scout award Jan. 24Jan 04, 2016 10:00 pm - Cameron Neville of South Elgin will be celebrating earning the rank of Eagle Scout with fellow members of Troop 13 at his court of honor on Sunday, Jan. 24, at Bethlehem...
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Hanover Park cop uses OT pay to buy gifts for kids in hospitalDec 31, 2015 12:00 am - As a kid, Hanover Park police officer Sean Bockstadter went to Chicago's Shriners Hospital for Children to visit a friend and member of his church who was at the hospita...