Community of Caring
OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM
October 19, 2016
Staff
Contributing Writer Deb Quantock McCarey Photographer Keith J. McCarey Editorial Design Manager Claire Innes Editorial Designers Jacquinete Baldwin, Javier Govea IT and Digital Developer Mike Risher Advertising Production Manager Philip Soell Advertising Design Manager Andrew Mead Advertising Designers Mark Moroney, Debbie Becker Advertising Director Dawn Ferencak Display Advertising Sales Marc Stopeck, Joe Chomiczewski Media Coordinator Kristen Benford Inside Sales Representative Mary Ellen Nelligan Circulation Manager Jill Wagner Distribution Coordinator Caleb Thusat Chairman Emeritus Robert K. Downs Editor and Publisher Dan Haley Business Manager Joyce Minich ON THE COVER: Austin Coming Together’s Dollie Sherman is a community organizer in the Austin community bent on making life here better. Lyriq, below, after painting rocks |
Kevin J. McCarey
PHOTO COURTESY OF OAK PARK-RIVER FOREST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
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W
e are a community filled with care. In the following pages, you will learn about how certain organizations and the people who run them truly care about those they serve. At Day in Our Village we asked passers-by to write on a big piece of paper their answer to the question, “What do you love about your community?” (See above) We could have asked why do you care about your community and received many of the same answers. Care = Love. Read. Learn. Care. (Love.) Caring for the community,
Kristin Carlson Vogen President & Chief Executive Officer Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation
If you want to help This year we feature the following agencies and groups:
About our contributor
Wonder Works Children’s Museum, page 4
Deb Quantock McCarey is an Illinois Press Association (IPA) award-winning freelance writer who has worked with Wednesday Journal Inc. since 1995, writing features and special sections for all its publications. An avid urban gardener and growing naturalist, she is also a local “green” advocate and community volunteer. As a WJ gardening blogger, Deb is also the host of Deb’s Big Backyard, which runs on oakpark.com and airs on Oak Park public cable, Channel 6.
Austin Coming Together, page 5 West Cook YMCA, page 6 Steckman Studios of Music, page 7 New Moms, page 8
KRISTIN C. VOGEN
PACTT, page 10 By The Hand, 11 FOPCON, page 12 Sarah’s Inn, page 13 Opportunity Knocks, page 14 OP Township Center for Disability for Seniors, page 17 Way Back In, page 18
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