GoodNews Sunday: ArlingtonHeights volunteers spend MLK Day preparing meals for homeless shelter
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Bag lunches included sandwiches, chips, fruit and granola bars. For dinner, crews made pasta, garlic bread, fresh salad and dessert. The 2016 Olympic bronze medalist in sabre fencing gave a talk before the entire school community, followed by a book signing of her children's titles"The Proudest Blue" and"The Kindest Red.""All week their teachers must have been talking up this event," said Rabia Hussain of Oak Brook, whose three children attend the preschool through 12th grade school."My son wants to be a fencer now," she said of her first grader, Idris, 6.
Alice Eichhorst, left, a resident at The Vines Senior Homes in Elgin, has a celebratory dance for her 100th birthday with activity director Cathy Vaden during a party in her honor last week. She's lived in Elgin for more than 80 years and used to work at the Elgin Watch Factory and Ackemann's Department Store.
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