Des Plaines resident receives park district’s Honor Roll Award

• The Des Plaines Park District honored Donna Adam with its Neighborhood Honor Roll Award for her “excellent dedication and dedication to furthering leisure advantages for the Des Plaines group.”

The award was offered on the Aug. 17 park board assembly.

Adam based the Clear Up-Give Again group in 2017, wherein she works with volunteers to scrub up areas in want. Park district Government Director Don Miletic stated, “She cleans with a smile and is somebody that goes above and past.”

In 2021 alone, Clear Up-Give Again’s 1,379 volunteers had been capable of collect greater than 40,000 kilos of litter.

Adam has additionally assisted the park district at many neighborhood parks, on the Fall Fest occasion, and at Izaak Walton to make sure open house within the Prepare dinner County Forest Preserves is clear for Des Plaines residents.

Daniel Roque, Nationwide Historical past Day “Excellent Affiliate Award” recipient.
– Courtesy of District 207

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Daniel Roque, a Maine West Excessive Faculty senior, gained the “Excellent Affiliate Award” on the Nationwide Historical past Day Nationwide Contest.

The award is sponsored by the Nationwide Park Service, and simply two entries — one within the junior division and one within the senior division — from every state earn the “Excellent Affiliate” honor.

Roque’s exhibit, “Rebellion within the Coalfields: The Battle of Blair Mountain,” was the venture chosen to obtain the senior division award in Illinois.

“Daniel’s exhibit was superior,” stated social science trainer Bryanne Roemer. “His sturdy thesis, together with the extent of analysis and his evaluation, made his venture stand out from others. Moreover, his consideration to element and graphic design in his exhibit aided within the understanding of his analysis and evaluation.”

Greater than 600,000 center and highschool college students entered the competitors in the course of the 2021-2022 educational college 12 months. After advancing by college, native and affiliate ranges, simply 2,700 college students superior to the Nationwide Contest, presenting documentaries, reveals, papers, performances and web sites.

Nationwide Historical past Day is a nonprofit group based mostly in Faculty Park, Maryland, that seeks to enhance the instructing and studying of historical past.

“Treasures from St. Mark’s,” a quilt by Deborah Yates of Arlington Heights, was chosen to compete within the 2022 Nice Wisconsin Quilt Present’s Quilt Contest.
– Courtesy of Deborah Yates

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Deborah Yates of Arlington Heights and Adelina Mozayeni of Hainesville had been chosen to compete within the 2022 Nice Wisconsin Quilt Present’s Quilt Contest. Quilters from throughout the nation submitted their finest work for judging, and Yates’ quilts, “The Circle Recreation” and “Treasures from St. Mark’s,” and Mozayeni’s quilt, “Anca’s and Lena’s Legacy,” had been chosen to compete.

A 40-year veteran of quilting, Yates was impressed by her aunt to quilt.

“My aunt taught me to make loopy quilt blocks from leftover materials from garments that I made,” she stated.

Mozayeni believes each quilt has a narrative.

“I needed this quilt to seem like a cross sew to honor each my grandmothers. Anca taught me the way to sew cross sew, and Lena taught me the way to use her fantastic Singer machine. Each of them planted the seeds of stitching in my coronary heart, so now they bloomed on this lovely backyard,” she stated in her artist’s assertion.

Quilts accepted within the Quilt Contest are judged on visible impression and stitching method. Awards are given for first, second and third place recognition in every class, and one quilt is awarded as “Better of Present.” One quilt can be chosen to obtain the Viewers’ Alternative Award by those that attend the occasion.

Introduced by PBS Wisconsin, The Nice Wisconsin Quilt Present shall be held Sept. 8-10 on the Alliant Vitality Heart in Madison, Wisconsin.

• Glenview native Luke Blockovich spent the summer season interning for U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, working behind the scenes within the senator’s Capitol Hill workplace.

Blockovich took curiosity in politics throughout his highschool political science class. From his perspective, politics is a subject that provides the chance to have a direct, constructive impression on somebody’s life and to deal with main points in an enduring means by laws.

“I’m extremely grateful for the chance to serve in Sen. Durbin’s workplace,” Blockovich stated. “This internship has provided me a novel and invaluable expertise working in knowledgeable surroundings, whereas additionally serving to me develop as an individual. I’ll at all times worth the work I’ve finished and relationships I’ve made alongside the way in which. I sit up for seeing what the longer term brings.”

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