Colleen Thomas
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Rolling Meadows High students present plans for new fire stationNov 03, 2021 12:01 pm - When students get a shot at real-world experience, it's a bonus. It's a double bonus when their work saves taxpayers thousands of dollars. Five computer-aided design stu...
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Life experiences guide agency's new director to help othersNov 03, 2021 11:07 am - The new director of Meadows Community Services knows firsthand the difficulties immigrants face as they start a new life in the U.S. Julio Mayorga was a young man in 196...
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Rolling Meadows High reaches out to African villageNov 03, 2021 10:10 am - There's a village in sub-Saharan Africa so remote it has never seen Western aid. Even its own government has trouble reaching it. Rolling Meadows High School students an...
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College student finalist in invention competitionNov 03, 2021 9:05 am - A class assignment to find a way to make life easier for the disabled led to an invention that could earn a patent for a Rolling Meadows student. Stephen Diebold, a soph...
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Trio have the climb of their lives on Grand TetonNov 03, 2021 8:22 am - I knew we had taken a wrong turn when we came to a 1,200-foot drop. Dead end. With winds beating on my four layers of clothing and my muscles complaining about working o...
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Skaters to test their mettle in international contestsNov 02, 2021 7:43 pm - A long tradition of winning got even longer this season for the Chicago Jazz, a synchronized skating club whose home base is Rolling Meadows. Two of its teams have again...
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Live in shelter of God's love, chaplain saysNov 02, 2021 6:58 pm - A "thin-skinned" trailer doesn't offer much protection from the threat of enemy shelling, an Army chaplain who spent a year in Iraq says, but safety can be found in the ...
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Meadows Mayor not worried over possibility of slotsNov 02, 2021 6:46 pm - Each time the Illinois legislature meets, Arlington Heights leaders have another chance to push for slot machines at Arlington Park. The issue resurfaced in the village ...
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Meadows students have their say in mock primaryNov 02, 2021 4:54 pm - If teens could vote, Barack Obama would be a shoo-in for president. At least that's the case at Rolling Meadows High School, where students took part in a mock primary e...
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Wellness center provides blank canvas for artist's workNov 02, 2021 3:51 pm - He stopped in for a workout, then walked out with work. Rolling Meadows resident Dave Ryan was signing up at the Wellness Center at Northwest Community Hospital last yea...