Project Share drives mobilize readers to feed hungry families
Since 1974 The Star urges participation in Project Share through the Calendar of Giving running to December 17. Readers can drop off food, shops donate Kraft products, and baskets cost 12 dollars feeding a family of four. Local groups and offices host drives with coordinators named and contact numbers listed.
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the Star
Project Share
The
Star
Walt’s
Kraft Foods
Tinley Park
Ill
Key Park
Share
Hope Community Center
Markham
Jones Memorial Services
Chicago Heights
Together We Cope
Respond Now
Salvation Army
South Cook County Association OF Life
Wptfrs
Gail Brewton
Prudential Insurance
Tom Kukowski
American Family Insurance
Rosewood West
Crestwood
Broad fundraisers and community events in Park Forest area
The Mary A. R. Brown Scholarship Board reports its first fundraiser at Marie Irwin Community Center Homewood with an auction of bachelor men 30 to 75, proceeds to scholarship fund. Next year’s second auction planned. Thorn Creek Audubon Society meeting titled Portrayal of an Early Naturalist features Edward Collins as Edward Carrington at Park Forest Library 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Saint Paul’s Good Shepherd Church hosts first art show and bistro at Park Forest. 24 artists, prize money. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District and Illinois EPA collect household hazardous wastes Nov 21 at Richards High School Oak Lawn. Neighborhoods column invites brief public-interest items to Paula Carlson.
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Mary A. R. Brown
Marie Irwin
Homewood
Thorn Creek Audubon Society
Edward Collins
McHenry County Conservation
United States
Collins
Edward Carrington
Alexander Wilson
Thomas Say
John James Audubon
Park Forest
Lakewood Boulevard
L.J. Alba
St. Paul’s Good Shepherd United Protestant Church
Hal Rogoff
Hal Rogoff Restorations
Paula Carlson
The
Star
W. 159Th St
Tinley Park
Will County Tires Recycled After Collection Drive at Joliet West High
Will County Waste Services reports about 4,000 tires collected at Joliet West High School during a tire collection event. This marks the second county-sponsored collection this year, following a 5,000 tire haul earlier. Recycled tires go to an Aurora firm for conversion into new products or as fuel additives for power plants and cement kilns.
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Will County Land Use Department
Joliet West High School
Will County
Aurora
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Illiana Jewish Genealogical Society
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Temple B’nai Yehudah Beth Sholom
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Park Forest American Legion
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