Cheryl Chojnacki
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Noted photojournalist headlines Authors FairNov 03, 2021 9:38 pm - Just back from Paris, where his world-class black-and-whites are showcased in a new gallery exhibit, photojournalist Art Shay will headline the second annual Elgin Autho...
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Mission in Lake in the Hills grows up into churchNov 03, 2021 7:45 pm - After 10 years as a church plant fed and watered by a Baptist mission agency, a Lake in the Hills congregation is thriving and bearing fruit. So now it's on its own. No ...
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'Placing Out' tells compelling story of orphan trainsNov 03, 2021 4:53 pm - In the 1850s, New York City teemed with homeless children -- orphans, most of them, whose plight nagged the heartstrings of one Charles Loring Brace. Through his Childre...
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Rabbi invites Jews, Gentiles to celebrate Passover and JesusNov 03, 2021 4:42 pm - This month, many Fox Valley Jews will celebrate Passover traditionally as they do every Spring, but some -- like Rabbi Leora Rosenberg-Meiszner -- will bring a different...
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Bonding with patientsNov 03, 2021 4:12 pm - Sarah Schmitz knows little about the medical field but a lot about some patients at Sherman Hospital. She's heard about their kids and grandkids, how many years they wer...
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Garden workshop at MCC will help you live closer to natureNov 03, 2021 3:56 pm - Rich Tobiasz's love for gardening was sown in the fertile soil of childhood, when he was just a little sprout. The Spring Grove resident has photos of himself as a 1-yea...
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Cough pillows one of many projects from homemakers associationNov 03, 2021 3:33 pm - As if surgery itself weren't bad enough, sometimes the gut-wrenching coughs that necessarily follow can deepen a patient's misery even more. In many hospitals, a simple ...
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Elgin's churches welcome the hungryNov 03, 2021 12:22 pm - It's 4:45 p.m. at the Wednesday soup kettle, and the kitchen volunteers are as animated as the taco sauce bubbling on the stove. There's broccoli to be chopped and salad...
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Myriad services this year despite early EasterNov 03, 2021 9:50 am - I've read that Easter is as early this year as it's ever going to be in our lifetimes. It seems the shorter hop from Christmas to Easter hasn't deterred some churches f...
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All local Jews invited to gather at Elgin synagogue for ShabbatNov 02, 2021 7:31 pm - The candles, the wine and the challah bread of Shabbat are as familiar to many Jews today as they were to every generation before them, since the time of Moses. The obse...