Posted3/12/2021 11:24 AM
Aurora Noon Lions Club will celebrate St. Patrick s Day with a corned beef and cabbage dinner fundraiser to benefit vision- and hearing-impaired programs.
The public is invited. The drive-thru or dine-in event will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 17, at Luigi s Pizza and Fun Center, 732 Prairie St. in Aurora.
Dinner options are corned beef and cabbage with carrots, potatoes, bread and a cookie or an Italian beef sandwich with carrots, potatoes and a cookie.
Tickets, $10, are available at the door and from Aurora Noon Lions. Order in advance at auroranoonlions.org, or luigispizzaandfundcenter.com.
Proceeds will benefit Lions vision- and hearing-impaired programs.
DuPage Habitat for Humanity chooses West Chicago for first Community Cares Week Community Cares Week brings together volunteers to do exterior home repair projects for qualifying residents in West Chicago the week of May 25-29. Courtesy of City of West Chicago
Updated 3/10/2021 7:49 PM
West Chicago has been selected to be a part of DuPage Habitat for Humanity s first Community Cares Week.
Community Cares Week brings together volunteers to do exterior home repair projects for residents in a selected community within Habitat s service area. The organization will be bringing together small groups of volunteers from across DuPage County to West Chicago May 25-29.
Two Geneva restaurants with shared heated patio launch Giving Tuesday program Heated by natural gas heaters, the shared Preservation and Atlas patio has kept people safely outside all winter. Courtesy of Isabel Feldhaus
Updated 3/6/2021 1:12 AM
Tuesday, March 9, will be the first Dine & Share #GivingTuesday for Preservation and Atlas Chicken Shack in downtown Geneva.
The two restaurants are launching a monthly program that highlights a different local charity each month.
In addition to special events and offerings, a percentage of every Tuesday s sales will go to the non-profit. We not only want to support local organizations that are in current need, we also want to give non-profits the opportunity to educate our community on what they do and the type of help they could use, says Jason Oles, bartender at Preservation and founder of the program.
Wheaton s Gary UMC earns Cream of the CROP award Gary United Methodist Church member Judy Selby participates in the 2020 CROP Hunger Walk. Courtesy of Gary United Methodist Church
Gary United Methodist Church in Wheaton has received the Cream of the CROP award.
The Wheaton church ranked in the top 50 in the United States for donations to the CROP Hunger Walk in 2020, at more than $8,000.
This year s Glen Ellyn/Wheaton Area CROP Hunger Walk is scheduled for Sunday, May 2.
For more information about the CROP Hunger Walk, go to crophungerwalk.org. CROP Hunger Walks are community-based walk events held in cities and towns across the United States, raising funds to support the global mission of Church World Service, a faith-based organization transforming communities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster. Twenty-five percent of the funds raised are returned to the host community to support l
Posted2/26/2021 6:50 PM
To honor her memory, the family of Jan Bateman Willenborg have created a PEO Memorial Scholarship in the amount of $2,000 to be awarded every spring to a deserving young woman.
It is open to female high school seniors attending Batavia, St. Charles East, St. Charles North, or Geneva high schools with a good academic record, community/school involvement, and a minimum 3.0 grade-point average.
Applications are available from your high school counselor or by contacting caccrt91@gmail.com.
Willenborg, a longtime St. Charles resident, was a member and past president of P.E.O. Chapter OB/St. Charles, Illinois.