Community Photos

•   Children at Kingswood Preschool plant flowers and vegetables outside in the garden. One of many "hands on" opportunities offered throughout the school year and summer camp. Laura Kopk
•   Children make pine cone bird feeders at the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) class, hosted by Citizens for Conservation in Barrington. During the first part of the class, the children used binoculars to look for birds and count how many they saw. Their results were tallied and added to a global database as part of the international bird count. Tom Benjamin
•   Christian Liberty Academy team praying before the game Eileen Glad
•   Forest preserve employees hauled used Christmas trees to the Baker's Lake heron rookery using all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles. Volunteers from Citizens for Conservation and Friends of Deer Grove East were waiting on the island to trim the trees and stand them upright or lay them flat, providing nesting structures for herons, egrets and cormorants. Approximately 80 ? 100 Christmas trees are recycled in this way every year to freshen the rookery. Steve Halm
•   2012-13 Christian Liberty's 1st Baseball Regional Win!! 5-18-13 6-0. Winning pitcher, only pitcher Senior David Colbert. Team won this together. Great plays by Aaron Karr, Shawn Andersen, Juan Pagan, Aaron Cunningham and last out caught by Brendan Brosnan. David did an awesome job pitching and catching line drives at the mount. Freshman Tim Laskowski, Peter Grob and Jimmy Calkins thanks for getting on base in order to score. Aaron Karr, Shawn Andersen, way to move our players on the bases with your great hits-triples and doubles and Daniel Glad and JD for your great catches. This was definitely a team playing together to win the victory. Eileen Glad
•   Comedians Marge Tackes and Mike Preston at Durty Nellies in Palatine on the set of the cable show "Psychobabble" which is starting its 12th season on local Comcast public access stations. To find out where and when you can see the show go to www.accesschannel.com. Matt Kissane
•   While attending rehearsal for the H.S. Dist. 211 Honors Choir I took this image of the Cross of Life at Holy Family Church in Inverness. The backlight brought out the detail on the face. Tim McGlynn
•   Culver's of Buffalo Grove owner Kevin Weasler (foreground) and several of his True Blue Team Members take part in CPR training March 4 as the restaurant on Route 83 has become one of the first in the area to be equipped with a live saving Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) unit. “We believe it’s important to have the unit in our store and for our team to be confortable and knowledgeable in administering CPR if the need ever arises,” said Weasler. Culver's of Buffalo Grove
•   Dancer from Palatine winning 1st for USA
  First-place winner for ballet and lyrical out of 32 countries
•   The Smart Arts Class at St. Mark's Day School in Barrington Hills celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday with a big celebration. The 4 and 5 year olds learned about the author, read and acted out scenes from an assortment of Seuss books, and dressed in the cat's red and white hat, red bow and whiskers. Dr. Seuss is just one of many well-known authors that the children are introduced to during the year. St. Mark's Day School
•   Harper College's fountain on the Euclid Road side of the campus Frank P. Sesko Ed. D.
•   Face N Time takes the stage at the annual Alpine Fest in Lake Zurich. k gerdts
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  Photo of a House Finch's nest built in a wreath at our front door. There are six babies being well attended to by the pair of finches. Linda Pozdro
•   At Frank Kania's 100th birthday, state Rev. Fred Crespo (left) presents Frank with his House Resolution, HR1182, honoring Kania. Raj Upadhyaya
•   The Fremd Boys Swim Team, pictured with Palatine resident Frances Banks, participated in this year's Paint-athon. For the eighth consecutive year, they have painted a house of a needy community member. Scott Assmann
•   Girl Scout Troop 40523 delivered cookies to the homeless at JOURNEYS | The Road Home in Palatine. The clients felt grateful receiving such a special treat. JOURNEYS | The Road Home
•   Hawk grabbed squirrel out of nest. Margo McNamee
•   Women gathered for a wonderful luncheon at the Inverness Golf Club April 30 to benefit JOURNEYS | The Road Home. JOURNEYS provides supportive services to over 1,300 homeless and at risk families and individuals annually. It also manages the PADS shelter program. The "Garden of Giving" Women's Luncheon raised nearly $8,000. JOURNEYS | The Road Home
•   Landon Salgado, 5, of Palatine, takes a swing at the Home Run Derby game, one of 30 offered at the Prospect Marching Knights "Day as a Knight" fun fair on Aug. 12. Prospect Band Boosters/ B-L Pellicore
•   This little chipmunk has been hanging out in our yard but he's totally different than other chipmunks, he's white! Jim Christensen
•   Eight-year-old Noemi Avalos of Barrington has quite an audience during a recent tennis lesson at Midtown Athletic Club in Palatine. Twice a week, Avalos brings a throng of stuffed animals and treats them to a courtside view of her workout with coach Krisztina Anderko. Laughs Noemi's mom, Elizabeth: "At first she just would bring 2-3 animals, but then she told me it was unfair not to bring the others." Dave Silbar/SilbarPR
•   Children look for birds as part of the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC). The GBBC is an annual event at which bird watchers of all ages count birds to get a real-time snapshot of where birds are all over the world. The local event was hosted by Citizens for Conservation in Barrington. Tom Benjamin
•   Emily Holewczynski of Western Springs and her 13-week-old daughter Eileen, were featured on the runway in fashions created for them by Palatine designer Megan Smith at the Fashion Forward Mixed Ability Fashion Show on May 2 in Greektown. The event at the National Hellenic Museum benefited Tellin' Tales Theatre, which seeks to shatter barriers between the disabled and able-bodied communities through the transformative power of personal story. Jennifer Frankfurter
•   Congratulations to the Palatine Girls Feeder program's 8th grade team, tournament champions at the Grayslake Hoops Fest Basketball Tournament held on March 9 at Grayslake Central High School. The team is coached by Kriss Lindell and Doug Myslinski. Back row: Anastasia Vassiliev, Kendra Lindell, Sarah Jasonowicz, Grace Seiffert, Sidney Rzepka, Jenny Myslinski. Front row: Sarah Clancy, Maggie Scovic, Kacie Filian, Anja Jacobsen Doug Myslinski
•   Traci Knowles of Palatine was one of 67 daring participants to rappel 27 stories of theWit Hotel during Skyline Plunge! Chicago on May 5. The event was hosted by Respiratory Health Association to raise funds and awareness for local lung disease research and programs.
  
  Two-thirds of Skyline Plunge! participants rappelled because they have been affected by lung disease. Others got involved for the thrill of descending 278 feet down the Chicago building as family and friends cheered them on.
  
  “Skyline Plunge! Chicago is Respiratory Health Association’s most unique event because it is the city’s only urban rappel,” said Gina Schwieger, Respiratory Health Association’s senior director of special events. “It is truly inspiring to witness the enthusiasm of our rappellers, so many of whom are participating to support loved ones who have been affected by lung diseases such as asthma, COPD and lung cancer.”
  
  Respiratory Health Association will hold another Skyline Plunge! Chicago on September 8. To register, donate or learn more, visit lungchicago.org/skyline-plunge. Photo by Sooz Main

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