Wednesday, May 25, 2011
This week's Patch Portraits also feature a 19-year-old Muslim grocer in Morton Grove and a volunteer from Northbrook who wants to end hunger.
This week's Patch Portraits also feature the story of a Northbrook man determined to end hunger, and the story of a 19-year-old Morton Grove grocer who serves up everything from halal meat to fresh orange juice. When you drive down Touhy Avenue, watch for the frame house immediately east of the railroad tracks in Niles. This unassuming structure is living history. It's been in the Meinke family, which owns Meinke's Garden Center at 5803 W. Touhy, Niles, since 1862. Henry Meinke, who's 84, says he can remember when Native Americans used to camp slightly west of what are now the railroad tracks in Chicago's Wildwood neighborhood. For all those years, the Meinkes have been growing things on the land and selling them, making Meinke's what's…
Monday, April 25, 2011
This weeks Patch Portraits also features a Niles Boy Scout helping to restore community history and Northbrook's seven-year debate team dominators.
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Monday, April 25, 2011
This week's Patch Portraits was produced and edited by Pam DeFiglio, Jenny Fisher and Andrea Hart. Check back on Mondays for the next installment. Also showcased, a Niles Boy Scout helping to restore community history and Northbrook's seven-year debate team dominators. Dr. Kirk Reed, senior pastor at Trinity United Methodist Church, gave his last Easter sermon this Sunday. In his 39 years as a pastor, Reed has served five churches in the Chicagoland area. "I had no idea I was going in this direction. . . I loved church when I was young but it was mostly because they had good music, and good donuts and potluck suppers," Reed said with a reflective laugh. Gradually, Reed found himself drawn to "the kind of God he was hearing about in church…
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Monday, April 18, 2011
This weeks Patch Portraits also features Morton Groves coffee superman and a 11-year-old social entrepreneur from Winnetka.
This week's Patch Portraits was produced and edited by Philip Downie, Sara Fay, Andrea Hart and Carrie Porter. Check back on Mondays for the next installment. Also showcased, Morton Grove's coffee superhero and a 11-year-old social entrepreneur from Winnetka. Having a baby is usually a life-changing event, but for Glenview resident Jennifer Reis, having her second child was slightly overshadowed by a diagnosis of Leukemia. "I hadn't had a lot of experience [with cancer]," she said. "My family is fairly small and we didn't see a lot of cancer so it was shocking." Reis underwent chemotherapy and, with the support of friends and family, became committed to fight the disease. Her treatment ran into complications when she ignored a slight …
Monday, March 28, 2011
This week's installment of Patch Portraits also includes an India-born scientist who teaches Americans how to live in the present through meditation.
For the past five years a Highland Park woman has been helping kids across the North Shore learn to read. Carole Yuster founded K9 Reading Buddies back in 2007. She first got the idea in a hospital. She was visiting her mother, who was struggling with cancer, when a therapy dog was brought into the room. It was the first time Yuster had ever seen one, and she was impressed by how much the dog "helped to reduce the stress of the moment." After her mother died, Yuster got her own dog, Minny, and trained it to be a therapy dog. At first she brought Minny to hospitals, but her mother's love of reading gave Yuster a more unique idea for her pet. "My mom was an avid reader, so I thought it was a legacy to start a children-reading-to-dog program…
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Father Sunny Francis, a priest with the Society of the Divine Word, oversees the missionary group's land development in Northbrook.
Father Sunny Francis loves animals—except maybe deer. That’s because they strip the bark off the 39,600 trees he’s planted on the the Society of the Divine Word's property. “They go after the best trees,” he says. Since 2006, Francis has led a project to reforest 40 acres of land that priests and brothers of the missionary society formerly used for farming. Those 40 acres are one small piece of the Techny Land Development—742 acres of land owned by the Society of the Divine Word, most of which is leased out to developers. Willow Festival, Crate and Barrel’s corporate headquarters, Five Seasons Sports Club and the housing development Meadow Ridge, for example, are all located on Techny property. The Society of the Divine Word has owned the…
Monday, March 7, 2011
This week's Patch Portrait also features a Des Plaines innovator who's transforming the way women share their stories.
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Monday, March 7, 2011
This week's Patch Portraits was produced and edited by Lisa Cisneros, Andrea Hart and Allison Williams. Check back on Mondays for the next installment. Also showcased is Des Plaines resident Mary Long, an innovator who's transforming the way women share their stories. This year 91-year-old Mary Adair will be celebrating 30 years of volunteering at the Wilmette Public Library. Adair coordinates the "Armchair Travel" series, which allows residents to explore the world through the journeys of others every Thursday. Of the hundreds of presentations Adair has coordinated, she’s only missed three showings. Shaped at an early age by the Great Depression, the Philadelphia native acquired a strong commitment to volunteerism through her mother. …
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Monday, February 21, 2011
This week's installment also features a senior synchronized swimmer.
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Monday, February 21, 2011
This week's Patch Portraits was produced and edited by Pam DeFiglio, Jenny Fisher and Allison Williams. Check back on Mondays for the next installment. Also showcased, a 91-year-old synchroized swimmer who talks to Niles Patch. Ask Gina Manski to tell you her funniest stories from eight years as Northbrook's animal control officer, and she'll rattle off at least 10. Manksi's helped a deer that jumped through a picture window, an abandoned ferret that became her pet, as well as many critters left in cardboard boxes. "I'm going to write a book called Something in a Cardboard Box," she jokes. But Manski's job can take a sadder turn, like when she comes across sick or injured wildlife or pets that people have abandoned. But her job as an …
Monday, February 14, 2011
This week's installment also features Winnetka's 27-year-old war veteran.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
This week's Patch Portraits was produced and edited by Sara Fay, Andrea Hart, Carrie Porter and Allison Williams. Check back on Mondays for the next installment. Also showcased, a 27-year-old Iraq veteran who talks to Winnetka-Glencoe Patch. In Tom Roddy's 80 years, he has escaped mental asylums five times; raised nine kids; and worked as a disc jockey, used-car salesman and journalist. These days the Evanstonian leads a simple life. At 5 a.m. he reads at Starbucks; at 10:30 a.m. he brunches at the Sher-Main Grill; and at 3 p.m. he takes a nap. Roddy grounds his day in a mixture of meditation and prayer, sprinkled with casual philosophical conversations with strangers. Above all, he lives to laugh. Roddy shares some of the most important …
Monday, February 7, 2011
This week's installment also features Des Plaines' brotherly business partners and Highland Park's comedic duo.
This week's Patch Portraits was produced and edited by Lisa Cisneros and Jacob Nelson, featuring photos by Allison Williams and Philip Downie. Check back on Mondays for the next installment. Also showcased, a comedic duo who talks to Highland Park Patch and the brotherly business partners who open up to Des Plaines Patch. Don’t ask, just give. A motto to live by, Monica Garvey incorporates this altruistic outlook— handed down from her parents and grandmother – into everything she does. As an event coordinator for Youth Services, Garvey gives back to youth in the community through fundraising efforts. The Glenview resident and mother of two was first introduced to Youth Services in 2004 when her daughter started a 5K run to benefit the …
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7:19 am on Monday, March 28, 2011
Carole's K9 Reading Buddies is the best program around for encouraging struggling readers. She comes to my classroom with Mickey or Minnie on a regular basis. My students love to read to the dogs and the result is an increased interest in reading along with improvement in fluency and comprehension. Carole and the entire crew of K9 reading buddies are extremely hard working, dedicated, and a … more ›