Dundee high grad to led flyover at Green Bay game
Alex Abbott, Dundee-Crown High School Class of 2013, led the four-plane F-35 flyover of Lambeau Field at the Sunday, Nov. 5, Green Bay Packers/Los Angeles Rams game.
Abbott, 28, of Carpentersville, is a captain with the 115th Fighter Wing of the Air National Guard in Madison, Wisconsin.
A video of the flyover is posted at youtu.be/Zkt51gH4sNo?si=rs_059-Wh63kZYdu.
South Elgin students win grand prize at LA film fest
Students at South Elgin High School’s Beacon Magnet Academy of Media and Digital Arts took home the grand prize for “Best Documentary Short” at the 2023 Silicon Beach Film Festival in Los Angeles.
“Teaching the Holocaust: Beyond Facts and Figures” centers on a student-staged reading of “The Thin Edge of the Wedge,” presented at Congregation Kneseth Israel in Elgin in January.
The play, written by Phyllis Zimbler Miller, a 1966 graduate of Elgin High School, features accounts from Holocaust survivors and their families that she collected. Students involved with the play also visited the Illinois Holocaust Museum, according to an online news release.
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To view the documentary, go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgTL95AL-mk. For more information about the film festival, go to www.siliconbeachfilmfestival.com.
Kane prosecutor honored for DUI cases by AAIM
The Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists recently named Kane County Assistant State’s Attorney Katy Flannagan its 2023 Outstanding Assistant State’s Attorney.
It is the second time Flannagan has been recognized for her work as a DUI prosecutor, according to a news release. In 2022, she was named a MADD Hero by Mothers Against Drunk Driving for her DUI enforcement work.
Flannagan has been supervisor of the state’s attorney’s DUI and Major Traffic Unit since spring 2022.
Through October 2023, the unit filed felony charges in 311 DUI cases, which is on pace to surpass the 360 felony DUI cases filed in 2022, according to the release.
Rep. Dan Ugaste collecting gift cards for the troops
State Rep. Dan Ugaste, R-Geneva, is hosting a Holiday Gift Card Drive for U.S. troops.
Gift cards from Amazon, Sam’s Club, Costco and Dollar Tree can be dropped off at his St. Charles office, 406 Surrey Woods Drive, Unit A, for the America’s Holiday Stockings’ campaign conducted by Operation Support Our Troops.
“Our troops sacrifice so much for our nation, including being away from family during important holidays,” Ugaste said in a release. “A gift card can provide an opportunity for them to purchase presents for loved ones or a treat for themselves during this holiday season.”
The deadline to donate a card is Tuesday, Nov. 21. Last year, the nonprofit group shipped 4,517 Christmas stockings to troops.