North Aurora resident Ed Young, right, receives a service award June 26, from Tammy Robinson, Advocate Medical Group West Region operations vice president. Young was a volunteer for 25 years at Aurora Advocate outpatient clinics’ reception desks. Young, 87, received the award in his final year as a volunteer. Advocate operates outpatient clinics at 2285 Sequoia Drive and 1221 Highland Avenue in Aurora. Young was the senior member of 30 Helping Hands volunteers for Advocate and was saluted at an annual recognition breakfast at the Sequoia location business office. Young is a retired West Aurora School District 129 elementary school teacher. He served Helping Hands for 25 years. He joined Helping Hands a year after the group’s founding in 1994 by Dr. James Sandrolini at Dreyer Medical Clinic in Aurora. Young was recruited by Helping Hands charter member, the late Bill Paull, an Aurora banker.
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