Barbara Sherlock

The percussion music slowly carried its audience on a voyage across five continents. It traveled from the low-pitched clanging of Brazilian agogo bells and the soft whispering from the wooden...

The eyes went first to their grinning faces. Then their outstretched arms moving up and down as their bodies teetered on a massive log, a few inches above the water....

". . . and anything their imaginations can dream of. . . ." That last item from a list of ingredients rattled off by a teacher at Camp Invention '96...

The rays of the sun and 90-degree temperatures can quickly transform a swirl of peanut butter on a crisp cracker into soupy glop. So with a clear need for urgency,...

Attendance by job-seekers was slim at a summer youth job fair held last week, but the fair helped highlight the business community's interest in reaching out to hire youths. "It's...

A worm goes on a hook, and the line goes in the water. Fish swim by and chomp on the hook. What could easier? With bluegill and sunfish in Willow...

The bad news is that owning Park Place carries little prestige.The good news is that there is not a jail. Squares on special-edition Monopoly-like games are being sold to Naperville...

DuPage County River Sweep '96 organizers didn't bat an eye when the recent annual cleanup of area waterways turned up a couple of water heaters and a TV set along...

The late afternoon sunlight touches on two temptingly plump black and white checkered couches. Across from a fireplace is a wall of pine shelving partially filled with books and audio...

Of all the faces Sara Meyer envisions when the people in the impoverished Kenyan villages of Bomet and Silibwet see the books for their first community library, her favorite is...