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IT TAKES A VILLAGE

Lifelong friends Meera Sinha and Emma Huntley leverage their expertise in early childhood development to build a community for moms. Growing up as next-door neighbors on an idyllic block in Evanston, Meera Sinha and Emma Huntley forged a bond that would last a lifetime. Without even a fence to separate them, their families intertwined like

S’MORES AND MORE

Lake Forest Open Lands Association’s popular Cattails & Cocktails event supports its ongoing preservation programs. WALKING THROUGH THE Mellody Farm Nature Preserve on a bright spring morning, Tyler Lisenby stops to point: “This is where the tent will be,” he says, with a gesture to his right. Just steps behind, Heidi Clifton nods in agreement,

STUDENTS TEACHING—AND WARNING!—STUDENTS

Concerned Barrington High School students form the Josh Burks Foundation High School Council, hoping to do all they can to raise critical awareness about the dangers of fentanyl poisoning while honoring the life of a vibrant BHS graduate who died at the age of 20 after taking a counterfeit pill laced with the synthetic opioid.

BRIMMING WITH GRATITUDE

Veterans of Lake Barrington Shores can’t thank sponsors and the community enough for their help in raising more than $60,000 over the last few years for an LBS charter club that redistributes funds to several military support organizations. Jim Thompson was pushing a cart overflowing with toys in a Walmart one day when a woman—startled

GETTING THEIR HANDS DIRTY

Gardening 2 Grow—the newest parent organization recognized by District 67—is overseeing the implementation of gardening into the elementary and middle school’s curriculum. SEVERAL YEARS AGO, when Lisa Walsh’s youngest child was at Sheridan School, she co-founded a garden club for its students. It wasn’t long before the garden was producing enough vegetables that Walsh, who

RUMMAGE RUMINATIONS

First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest presents its 75th annual rummage sale, a community tradition. REACHING UP HIGH, Melissa Burger stretches to finish styling an outfit on a dressmaker’s form in the window of the Lake Forest Shop. Promoting the 75th First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest Rummage Sale which happens Saturday, May 3 from

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