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Oct 22, 2023 | 
shawlocal.com | Maribeth Wilson |TXGranna's Cornbread Dressing |OHMeatloaf Roll-Ups
Sunday marked the inaugural Battle For The Basket to raise funds for the Ottawa Community Food Basket. The event, in the Jordan Block in downtown Ottawa, was sponsored by KEEP Rentals and KEEP Clean Laundry. It featured seven food trucks that each sold a featured specialty item for $5. More than 12,000 people in La Salle County live with food insecurity, and the Ottawa Community Food Basket works daily to ensure families don’t go hungry.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
shawlocal.com | Alex T. Paschal |OHMeatloaf Roll-Ups
Reagan Stanley, 18 months, digs into some chili as fed to her from grandma Tiffany Marquez Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023 at the Elks Club in Dixon. (Alex T. Paschal)
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
shawlocal.com | OHMeatloaf Roll-Ups |Mary Ann T |TXGranna's Cornbread Dressing
The Black Box Theatre at McHenry County College has announced that auditions for its spring production of “Present Laughter” will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 11, and Tuesday, Dec. 12. Callbacks will be from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 14. There are roles for 11 actors.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
shawlocal.com | Denise M. Baran-Unland |Mary Ann T |MICaramel Pumpkin Cookies |OHMeatloaf Roll-Ups
Will County’s first and only level 3 neonatal intensive care welcomed its first set of triplets shortly before the NICU’s first birthday. Samantha and Jarrod LeSage’s triplets were born June 5 at the Amy, Matthew and Jay Vana Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox.
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Oct 22, 2023 | shawlocal.com | Denise M. Baran-Unland |Mary Ann T |MICaramel Pumpkin Cookies |OHMeatloaf Roll-Ups
Will County’s first and only level 3 neonatal intensive care welcomed its first set of triplets shortly before the NICU’s first birthday. Samantha and Jarrod LeSage’s triplets were born June 5 at the Amy, Matthew and Jay Vana Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
shawlocal.com | Derek Barichello |Mary Ann T |OHMeatloaf Roll-Ups
Drivers traveling on 12th Street in Streator soon will have to stop at Otter Creek Road. The Streator City Council approved at Wednesday’s meeting a four-way stop sign at the intersection. City Engineer Jeremy Palm said there were concerns about how fast drivers were traveling on 12th Street past Otter Creek Road, which is one of the more well-traveled north and south routes through Streator. Otter Creek Road travelers always have had to stop to 12th Street traffic.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
shawlocal.com | OHMeatloaf Roll-Ups
Oh, the stories so many Oswego houses and other buildings could tell about their travels around town. At noon on Oct. 28, visit Oswego’s Little White School Museum to learn about some of the homes and other buildings in town that have been moved from one location to another during the village’s 190-year history. How common was moving buildings back then? How were they moved in the days before heavy motorized construction equipment existed? And why move them at all?
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
shawlocal.com | OHMeatloaf Roll-Ups |MICaramel Pumpkin Cookies |Mary Ann T
Children up through grade six are invited to participate in Trunk or Treat sponsored by Plano Methodist Church. This event will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29, at the Plano Methodist parking lot, 219 N. Hale St., Plano. Car trunks will be decorated in fall colors and Halloween items and arranged in a circle. Children visit each trunk in the safety of the church parking lot and pick out treats at each stop.
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Oct 22, 2023 | shawlocal.com | OHMeatloaf Roll-Ups |MICaramel Pumpkin Cookies |Mary Ann T
Children up through grade six are invited to participate in Trunk or Treat sponsored by Plano Methodist Church. This event will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29, at the Plano Methodist parking lot, 219 N. Hale St., Plano. Car trunks will be decorated in fall colors and Halloween items and arranged in a circle. Children visit each trunk in the safety of the church parking lot and pick out treats at each stop.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
shawlocal.com | Felix Sarver |OHMeatloaf Roll-Ups
A pop-up mobile market in Joliet provided free groceries to 800 families in need. The free grocery distribution was by the Northern Illinois Food Bank on Saturday morning at Joliet Junior College, 1215 Houbolt Road, Joliet. Each family received 50 pounds of food, said Mike Keane, director of programs for the food bank. “The distribution reached capacity by 8:45 a.m. [on Saturday]. Food is distributed on a first-come, first-served basis and some neighbors arrived early,” Keane said.
