Joan Cary

What if he'd seen coconuts? Most visitors to Morton Arboretum in Lisle wait to do their serious observing until they are through the gates and out of the car. Not...

Hog wild over reading: Sometime during each day, 315 students and teachers at Elmhurst's Edison School are stopped by the hog call "s-o-o-o-e-y" over the public address system. Everyone knows...

Top this, Grandpa: How many kids have sat patiently through their grandparents' accounts of walking miles to school? Maplebrook Elementary School students in Naperville walk their miles at school. Some...

Wrinkles, Congo, Freckles and the gang: Most parents already have had to fill out the forms to send the kids off for a week of summer camp. Glen Ellyn Park...

Pet playgrounds: Since there aren't any pool passes to get your pups through the summer, the DuPage County Forest Preserve District last summer made a swimming hole just for them....

Are ATMs next? Dogs get their own treats from the Yuppy Puppy Treat Machine, cats from the Kitty Kitchen Treat Machine. Soon squirrels will have their own "gumball machine," says...

Surrogate swans: Since the swans on Lake Ellyn seem to be keeping the geese away, David Franson, assistant director of campus services at the College of DuPage, thought he'd try...

An odoriferous oddity: Earlier this spring, when the rest of us were still waiting for that first glimmer of a green lawn, Du Page senior citizen Auburt Young was in...

A letter to Santa-sort of: Barbara Keune, executive director of the Hinsdale Center for the Arts, has about $15,000 to give away to arts-related non-profit organizations. She`s just waiting for...

Ever do laundry the old-fashioned Joe Naper way? Visitors to the Naper Settlement Village Museum in Naperville on Sunday, June 14, will be able to see and experience life, including...