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Art Club Paints a Mural In the Art Hallway
As students walk through the art hallway, located from rooms 160 to 165, they admire the murals of famous painting on the walls, but when they reach Art club sponsor Michael Leistner’s room, a new half-finished mural catches their eyes. Every year, the Art Club members get the chance to leave their mark on the [...]
2013 Northstreet Coffeehouse
The annual North Street Coffeehouse was scheduled to take place Feb. 20, and Feb. 21, but took place instead on Monday, Feb. 25, and continued on Tuesday, Feb. 26. Thursday and Friday’s snow days delayed the production. Due to a snow day contingency plan put in place by the Learning Commons, all english classes that were [...]
Cheryl Bayes joins Youth in Need
Cheryl Bayes walks into the Youth in Need St. Charles location just past 8:15 a.m. As she walks through the door, the greetings begin. ‘Hi Miss Cheryl’ echoes through the room as more kids see who’s just entered and join in. Some come running over. Some of the young boys want high fives. Some of the kids give hugs. “I [...]
Five Acres Relies on Volunteers
A couple, hand in hand, walk into the barn-styled building. They walk by the kennels set up in the brightly painted room and stop in front of one of the kennels and ask to meet the dog. A canine staff member opens the cage, picks up the dog and leads the couple to the visiting room. The couple, who are looking for [...]
Volunteering Throughout Life
Last year more than 64.3 million Americans heard the call to donate their time to volunteer work, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service. An increase of 1.5 million individuals answered the call compared to 2010. These heroes’ experiences ranged from helping out at animal shelters to helping with national causes. The idea of volunteering has to start somewhere. For some, [...]
Catherine House takes on the family tradition
Windsor is a small town of about 2,900 people. And just like any other small town, word gets around fast. Soon enough everyone around knew that the First United Methodist Church’s (1UMC) youth group would be flying in to save the day of their little town. What was meant to be another rebuilding trip, turned out to have one of the [...]
St. Charles Soda Shop Had Old-Fashioned Charm
Friendly family banter fills the room as the Ozenkoski family and employees surround the polished wooden counter of Little O’s Soda Shop in downtown St. Charles. From every angle of the shop the 1957 Chevy green walls, the old time soda bottles and the “Leave it to Beaver” episode playing in the back take customers [...]
Senior Tom Camden Is A Band Salesman
Unlike most teenage concert-goers, senior Tom Camden is not just a face in the crowd. In fact, he usually isn’t in the crowd at all. Instead, Tom spends his time at the merchandise table where he sells t-shirts and EPs for an up and coming progressive metal band called The Engineered. While they are not [...]