Family camping festival planned for Randall Oaks Park
There will be an overnight family camping festival starting Friday evening at Randall Oaks Park, 750 Randall Road, West Dundee.
The schedule starts with setup and dinner from 5:30 to 7 p.m., followed by a tour of Randall Oaks Zoo at 7 p.m., a campfire and s’mores at 8 p.m., lights out at 10 p.m., breakfast at 7:30 a.m. and packing up by 10 a.m., according to the Dundee Township Park District.
Participants should bring their own tents, sleeping bags and dinner. Registration is $14 for township residents, $17 for nonresidents.
To register, go to register.dtpd.org. For more information, call 847-428-7131.
DREAM Academy principal named administrator of year
DREAM Academy Principal Mary Mangione has been named the Illinois Administrator of the Year by the Illinois Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
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The award is given to an administrator who has championed the association’s causes, according to a news release posted online by School District U-46. Mangione will be honored at the group’s state convention Nov. 30 at the Tinley Park Convention Center.
The DREAM Academy, 46 S. Gifford St., Elgin, is the district’s alternative educational option.
West Dundee honors man who stopped school fire spread
Chris Palmer, a project superintendent with Lamp Inc. of Elgin, has been presented with the West Dundee Fire Department’s Lamplighter Award for actions that prevented the spread of a fire at Dundee Middle School.
A fire broke out at the school on July 12 due to electrical equipment that malfunctioned, Fire Chief Michael Spiro said at the Aug. 12 village board meeting at which Palmer was honored.
Palmer, part of a construction crew working in the facility, jumped in to shut off the equipment’s power supply despite it unrelated to the work he was doing, thereby preventing the fire from getting larger, a new release said.
The Lamplighter Award was created by West Dundee Village President Chris Nelson to recognize people who go above and beyond the call of duty.