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Waubonsee Community College Adult and Workforce Education Department has been awarded a grant of $29,508 by the Dunham Foundation to address the shortage of bilingual teachers in K-12 schools in the college's district area.
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Aurora-based VNA Health Care is launching a campaign to raise $5 million to fund a number of projects, including the expansion of two of its Aurora facilities and the creation of a health center in West Aurora School District.
Agape Connection's 22nd annual Dr. Martin Luther King Day celebration was back in person Sunday for the first time since the pandemic. More than 200 people attended the sold-out event, which benefits the Aurora-based organization's children and youth programs.
Roosevelt-Aurora American Legion Post 84 is partnering with Illinois Joining Forces and the Dunham Foundation, along with the Kane County Veterans Assistance Commission and other area stakeholders, to offer free Veteran Peer Supporter training to Aurora area veterans.
Good News Sunday: Naperville teen is youngest female to climb 50 state high points Naperville resident Lucy Westlake, 17, during her climbing trip to Denali in Alaska with her father, Rodney. Courtesy of Westlake family
Posted7/18/2021 7:30 AM
This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald:
For 17 days, Lucy Westlake and her father, Rodney, climbed until there was nothing but sky above them.
The 17-year-old mountaineer had gotten so used to keeping her eye on the path ahead, to always anticipating her next move and carefully calculating each step, that she half expected to look up and see more icy terrain.