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Cousins born hours apart at Hinsdale Hospital

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Cousins Rowan Flood and Jack Flood will share a special bond throughout their lives: They were delivered by the same doctor at the same hospital just one day apart. Rowan Avery Flood, a girl, was born at 2:42 a.m. May 9, weighing 7 pounds, 9 …

Helping Hand Center aids people with disabilities

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Helping Hand Center, a nonprofit in Countryside, is helping people with disabilities get jobs in the local community. The center’s mission is to assist individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve their highest level of independence through quality programs and services. One of the ways they …

Ammey will make an amazing friend

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Abbey is a 6-year-old spayed domestic short hair feline.

Abbey is very affectionate and loves attention. She’ll let you know how much she appreciates a loving home and your company. Abbey qualifies for the friends for life program. If you are 65 years of age …

Hinsdale Adventist Academy students walk for a cause

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More than 300 preschool through 12th-grade students, staff, parents and grandparents joined in the first ever Wild About HAA walkathon for the Hinsdale Adventist Academy. High school students took care of elementary children as they walked 2.3 miles from Hinsdale Adventist Academy to Katherine Legge …

La Grange Area Historical Society opens Girl Scout exhibit

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The La Grange Area Historical Society has an exhibit marking the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts. The “campsite” and “cookie sale” includes vintage uniforms, merit badge sashes, camping gear and items dating back as far as the early 1900s.

The museum hours are 9:30 …

LaGrange Park baby first born in Hinsdale Hospital pavilion

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Only a few hours old and already Emilia “Emi” Joy Sato has a great story.   She was the first baby born at the new patient pavilion at Adventist Hinsdale Hospital at 4:32 a.m. April 23, to parents Regina and Junichi Sato, of LaGrange Park. …

Seventh Season Home Show this weekened in Darien

The Home Show from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Darien Sportsplex, 451 Plainfield Road, between Cass Avenue Clarendon Hills Road. Admission and parking are free. “We don’t think property owners should have to pay to attend an expo so they …

Five students earn Merit Award from the Hinsdale Rotary

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Five students who attend Clarendon Hills Middle School, Hinsdale Middle School or Hinsdale Central High School received the Rotary Club of Hinsdale’s Youth Merit Award April 13. This award recognizes high school and middle school students for scholarship, leadership and service. Honorees this month were …

Fenwick Mothers’ Club to host spring fashion show

The Fenwick High School Mothers’ Club spring luncheon and fashion show, “Sweeten Your Style,” will begin at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 26, with boutique shopping followed at 11:30 a.m. by the luncheon and fashion show, at The Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace. Tickets are $65 and …

Students perform ‘The Music Man’ at Notre Dame School

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Notre Dame School in Clarendon Hills recently performed “The Music Man.”

Shannon and Fallon Corcoran were among performers in the school’s produciton of the musical.