DuPagePads is one of 70 Illinois recipients, and one of two DuPage County recipients, selected this year to receive IDHS capital grants to nonprofits. Announced by governor Pritzker, DuPagePads’ grant will be utilized to update and improve the 40-year-old former Red Roof Inn now used as DuPagePads Interim Housing Center
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) visited Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry in Aurora Thursday, April 6 to discuss the $700,000 in federal funding he secured through congressionally-directed spending in the Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) Omnibus appropriations bill for their new Mobile Meals Program that will expand their services to food-insecure
Becky Dunnigan, left, Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry community impact manager, presents free Easter baskets to clients at a grocery distribution Monday, April 3, at the Aurora facility.
One-hundred and fifty Aurora Christian School students and teachers started a five-day Mission Week observance Monday, April 3. A delegation of 10 students and two teachers volunteered to load groceries into guests’ vehicles at Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry in Aurora. The team was among 150 students and teachers leaving
Celebrating its second century of community service, Aurora Noon Lions Club members gave twice to Hesed House homeless shelter in Aurora Thursday, March 23. Led by Susan Koepke, Noon Lions president, a Lions delegation presented a $1,000 donation to Joe Jackson, Hesed House executive director. Then Noon Lions prepared and
Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry will distribute groceries from a mobile pantry from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 1, at New Covenant Full Gospel Church, 1029 Kane St. in Aurora. The public is invited. Admission is free. Identification and registration are not required. In addition to groceries, diapers, toilet
“I was able to sing eight bars without taking a breath. This gave the melody a flowing unbroken quality and that, if anything, was what made me sound different.” — Frank Sinatra Sinatra. The very word conjures an image of a man about town, a saloon singer, a mercurial man
Robbin Lang, Riddhi Gupta, Orges Selimi, and Leslie Surta fill gelatin cups Monday, March 13 for dinner at Hesed House homeless shelter in Aurora.
March 6, 2023Dear editor; When I was growing up in the 1950s my mom was a single parent raising my three older brothers and me on a low-paid job and no food assistance. I remember when I was six years old leaving food on my plate each night that she
Jim Gilbert of Aurora reacts as stylist Kathy Leasure shaves his head Sunday at the Aurora St. Baldrick’s fundraiser at Ballydoyle Irish Pub and Restaurant in Aurora.
American Red Cross responded to 24 home fires in Chicago, Evanston, Park City, Oak Lawn, Waukegan, Downers Grove, Brookfield, Streamwood, Mendota, and Bolingbrook in the past week and provided assistance to 113 individuals, including 40 children, through supplying them with basic items to meet immediate needs after a fire, and
A previous Feed the Need meal packing event is shown at Naperville’s North Central College (NCC) recreation center.
The United Methodist Church of Plano gives a donation to Feed My Starving Children February 7, as well as sending 12 volunteers to work in bagging much-needed food for children in other countries.
Volunteers hand out free food and household products February 9 at a women-only mobile food pantry distribution by Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry.
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 27 S. Edgelawn Dr. in Aurora, will be host to Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry’s mobile pantry in a women-only giveaway from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9. The public is invited. Identification or registration is not required said Rebecca Dunnigan, mobile pantry coordinator
Rotarian Joe Yen, left, presents Gabriel Bradford a speaker gift at the Rotary Club of Montgomery meeting Thursday, Jan. 19, at the Montgomery Village Hall. The Rotary Club sponsored Bradford’s attendance to RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) in 2022, a weekend getaway for youth leaders. Each year thousands of young people
Cameron Leys of Naperville, left, helps a patron load groceries Monday, Jan. 16, at Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry in Aurora. Leys, 15, is a sophomore at Metea Valley High School in Aurora.
Ryan Dowd, director of mission and strategy at Hesed House homeless shelter in Aurora, recently trained organizations in Australia for those individuals facing homelessness and how to serve them. Dowd taught important engagement strategies developed over the years at Hesed House to help more persons care for those in need
Members of Knights of Columbus Council 14929 at Our Lady of Good Counsel (OLGC) Catholic Church in Aurora pose with a $925 donation to Aurora’s Association for Individual Development (AID).
Loaves & Fishes, in partnership with Catch 35 in Naperville, will be host to Toasting for a Cause from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6. This popular event was paused during the pandemic, but is back and better than ever. Guests attending this signature event will enjoy a
