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Crystal Lake Goes Purple By Anne Eickstadt, Correspondent
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illiams Street is flowing with the color purple. Canopies, tree ribbons, T-shirts and plants are all in shades of purple in honor of Lupus Awareness Month. Saturday, May 7, is the date of the 4th Annual Crystal Lake Lupus Fundraiser. The event is to support 18 year-old Taylor Kassel and the other individuals who live with lupus. Taylor’s mother, Bonnie, and her family are joining with the Crystal Lake community once again to spread lupus awareness. “We are the only place in the country that does this. The volunteers and community have shown their support throughout the years and the items that have been donated are spectacular. Words can’t even describe how generous the community has been.” This year offers many raffles and prizes while a DJ sends lively music wafting up and down the street. Volunteers from Downtown Crystal Lake are selling hanging baskets and planters with beauphoto by Anne Eickstadt tiful blooming plants from Taylor Kassel, senior at Crystal Lake South, lives with lupus and works to help the Lupus Foundation of America find a cure. Countryside Flower Shop & co-host of the event with the this fundraiser. ed to the Lupus Foundation. parts of the body. It is difNursery. Many of the 180 businesses Participating businesses are ficult to diagnose and hard to A Lupus Foundation booth Kassels and is selling lupus is located near Benedict’s La themed Beads With A Cause. of Downtown Crystal Lake displaying posters in their treat. It is a “chronic, autoimStrata (where Bonnie Kas- Purple cupcakes can be found are hosting special promo- windows letting people know mune disease that can damage sel works), their tent has at SweetPea Cake & Cupcake tions and events. The Clip that they are donating 10% of any part of the body (skin, been donated by the Service Boutique and face-painting at Joynt Salon and International their proceeds to the Lupus joints, and/or organs inside the body). The signs and League of Crystal Lake. Regi- Enlightened Balance Chakra Hairways are both offering Foundation of America. symptoms tend to last lonLupus is an unpredictable na Villalobos of Huntley, who Spa. The Raue Center is hous- purple hair extensions with ger than six weeks and often also lives with lupus, is the ing a number of vendors for all proceeds are being donat- disease that attacks different for many years,” according to the Lupus Foundation. “In lupus, something goes wrong with your immune system By Samantha Fetzner abuse treatment, meetings, McHenry County, there is an graduation ceremony at the and creates anti-bodies that Reporter court appearances and drug approximate 12% who relapse McHenry County Courthouse. attack and destroy healthy tisn the fifth year since screenings, as well as a min- and fall into their old behav- Family, friends, Judge Charles sue. These antibodies cause its inception in 2011, imum one year of sobriety ioral patterns in the time since Weech, and court officials inflammation, pain, and damthe McHenry County before eligibility to gradu- the program began. In five were present to celebrate their age in various parts of the drum program presented 10 ate. Additional requirements years with 134 participants, dramatic life changes and body.” may include participation in Lupus tends to flare up and graduates on Tues. May 10. alcoholics and/or narcotics most graduates have gone on encourage them to continue to better themselves and their on the right path. For sev- calm down. Those graduates were: Jason anonymous meetings. The 10 communities. Their commit- eral graduates, the program Lupus in not contagious. Beaty, Daniel Brennan, Paul graduates in this class had ment to sobriety has been a may have meant the differLupus is not related to canCarriveau, Ryan Chencin- accounted for 110 arrests stepping stone to helping oth- ence between life and death. cer or HIV/AIDS. ski, Gregg Lockhart, Victor themselves before enrolling ers get well, too. Lupus can range from mild This classes’ graduates varied Musch, Christina Stankus, and getting sober, or an averThe graduates were given greatly in their background to life-threatening. Kenneth Szamlewski, Antho- age of 11 per person if divvied a certificate commemorating and age as many drug proSee PURPLE, Page 3 ny Weil, and Robert Whit- up equally. Charges and their their achievement during a gram attendees do. ney. The court has seen 134 severity varied greatly. There participants since it began. were participants with only Those 134 accounted for a misdemeanors and others with total of 1,005 arrests before felonies; some with DUIs. entering the program. 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