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COUNTY WIDE YOUR HOME AND FAMILY NEWS FROM ALL OF KENDALL COUNTY

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GETTING THE BALL ROLLING Retired Oswego police sergeant and daughter collect soccer balls for Guatemalan kids By STEVEN JACK news@kendallcountynow.com

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hen most people retire, they don’t have much of an idea of how they’ll fill their days. But that’s not the case for Sgt. Dan Kipper, who retired last month after 18 years on the Oswego Police Department. No, Kipper will be spending his time continuing the work of the service organization he started with his daughter Abbey in 2012 – Fun for a Change. Fun for a Change collects soccer balls to give as Christmas gifts to impoverished children in the Central American nation of Guatemala. In the last five years Dan and Abbey have collected over 1,800 balls that are given away through relief agency Amigos de Vamos Adelante. “When we started this I thought I would just go around and collect soccer balls from people’s garages in town,” said Abbey, who graduated from Oswego High School in 2013 and is currently a senior at Moody Bible Institute. “It’s turned out to be so much more than that.” Fun for a Change began after Abbey developed a pen pal relationship with a teen in Guatemala.

See FUN FOR A CHANGE, page 6

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LEFT: Fun for a Change, a group created by Abbey Kipper and her dad, Dan Kipper, collects soccer balls to give as Christmas gifts to impoverished children in the Central American nation of Guatemala. ABOVE: In the last five years, the Kippers have donated more than 1,800 soccer balls to needy children in Guatemala through relief agency Amigos de Vamos Adelante.

“The first time we went down I thought ‘we’ll just help out here and we’ll be done,’ but when you get there you realize you have to do more. … I guess my goal now is to make sure that every child that stands in line will be able to receive a gift.” Dan Kipper, co-founder of Fun for a Change

Want to help? To donate to Fun for a Change, visit Dan and Abbey’s GoFundMe page at gofundme.com/funforachange.


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