Helen J. Anderson

Bird watching: Willowbrook Wildlife Center in Glen Ellyn, where ailing birds and animals are nursed back to health and released, will not accept injured feathered imports. "We don't take in...

The crayon crowd at Gower West School had a chance to see an artist in action recently, when Grace Haverty of Winfield showed up in the art room with pastels,...

A feast of words: When members of the Women's Association at Hinsdale's Union Church first talked about compiling a cookbook as a fundraiser, they didn't realize it was the start...

Puttin' on the dog: Dressed to the nines in costumes created by Hinsdale Humane Society volunteers Marilyn Tisol of Hinsdale, Bonny Bartelt of Oak Brook and Carole Ogle of LaGrange,...

Fish story: Hinsdale dentist Michael Novak is telling folks about the big one that didn't get away. An avid fisherman since childhood, he was casting on Palmer Lake in Vilas...

Picture perfect: There's a perfect little park in the heart of Hinsdale, thanks to a bequest from the late Eleanor L. Swartz, who left $125,000 to the village for parks'...

It was everyone for tennis last weekend when the Hinsdale Racquet Club in Hinsdale invited children, juniors and adults to participate in clinics, watch video-taped replays and hear Tom Ciurej,...

Company's coming: Pam and Nick Keseric threw an open house to show off their new Hinsdale digs a few weekends ago, and everybody came. About 200 friends, coworkers and neighbors...

A helpful harvest: Farmland in DuPage is disappearing quickly, but there's a plot in the midst of creeping civilization that has proven a bonanza for an Iowa farmer hard hit...

Crumpets weren't served, but there were lots of other goodies at the Hinsdale Historical Society's old-fashioned Mother/Daughter Tea last weekend at the group's headquarters, a two-story frame house built in...