Before a door opens, someone has to install it
Who: Helping the less fortunate is a calling for Jerry Jensen, 50, of Algonquin, who helps build homes for Habitat for Humanity of Northern Fox Valley. What he does in...
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Before you fly to New Orleans, make sure you pack a hammer
Who: Patricia Vile, 67 of Northbrook was so taken aback by the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans nearly four years ago that she started Volunteer Expeditions, a...
Class act on Mt. Kilimanjaro
Who: Stan Taylor, 46, of Libertyville, was recently awarded the Libertyville Sunrise Rotary Club's Service Above Self Award. The award is given to a non-Rotarian who exemplifies placing service above...
Bringing more than meals
Who: For more than a dozen years, Johnny Wedekind, 54 of Hoffman Estates has brought hot lunches to homebound senior citizens through the Kenneth Young Center's Meals on Wheels program....
Weaving stories from the past
Who: Deep in the basement of the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian in Evanston, Anne Coats, 30, of Chicago surrounds herself with baskets woven by Native Americans. As part...
Great-grandma, 98, is nifty knitter
Who: At 98, Gertrude Modjeske of Arlington Heights proves you are never too old to help someone. What she does: Chances are if you've known a child born in Northwest...
Technologies come and they go, but to a reader, books are forever
Who: Estelle Cooperman of Morton Grove has helped lead the direction of the library as a board trustee, founder of the first Friends of the Library group and organizer of...
School garden offers bountiful crop of lessons
Who: For the last six years, the 2nd-graders at Woodland Elementary School West in Gages Lake have planted a harvest garden in the spring. In the fall, they will return...
Chasing the music of frogs
Who: Matt Hokanson, 23, of Algonquin is a steward and frog monitor for Spring Creek Forest Preserve near the border of Hoffman Estates and South Barrington. What he does: Crouched...
Cool heads prevail
Who: The reason Hoffman Estates Police Officer Peter Edgar is coordinating a fundraiser for childhood cancer research is a very personal one -- and a parent's worst nightmare. His only...