by Eileen Daday | Sep 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Most days, members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society at Our Lady of the Wayside Church go about their work quietly. A parish phone line connects them with neighbors in need to help them with food, housing, financial help for utilities and other basic needs. Yet, on...
by Eileen Daday | Sep 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Back in high school, Jen Cupani played clarinet in Stevenson’s marching band and was a member of its dance program — and her love of the performing arts only grew from there. Just last month, Cupani was named interim artistic director at the Metropolis...
by Eileen Daday | Sep 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Joe Pietro still thinks of 129 as his lucky number. It was his draft number coming out of high school and sure enough he was drafted into the Army to serve during the Vietnam War. Though he would spend less than 18 months in Vietnam, and never saw any combat duty, the...
by Eileen Daday | Sep 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Buying a restaurant in the middle of the pandemic might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for Tim and Stacey Grodek of Rolling Meadows, well, they threw caution to the wind. They took over Peggy Kinnane’s Irish Restaurant & Pub in June, 2021 and they...
by Eileen Daday | Sep 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
These Conant High School students had a lot to celebrate after completing a recent 5K in Busse Woods. Not only did they organize the event, but they raised enough money to provide access to clean water for an entire province in Kenya. Credit junior Shiven Patel of...
by Eileen Daday | Sep 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Paul Petricca of Arlington Heights has held several high level jobs in marketing, sales and business development, but through it all he held tightly to his true passion: hitting. That’s right, hitting, as in hitting a baseball or softball. Over the last 25 years...
