Signs of the Times

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At DuPage County’s inauguration ceremony December 5, Michael Childress became the first black man to serve as a board member.
At DuPage County’s inauguration ceremony December 5, Deborah Conroy became the first woman to serve as county board chair.
The Naperville Noon Lions Turkey Trot boasted 5,187 finishers November 24. The annual race netted more than $100,00 for the service’s clubs community programs.
Environmental interpreter Glenn Perricone gives a tour of the DuPage Forest Preserve District’s Urban Stream Research Center in Warrenville on November 19. The open house offered a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Illinois’s first center dedicated to raising freshwater mussels, which improve the water quality of lakes and rivers.
Environmental interpreter Glenn Perricone gives a tour of the DuPage Forest Preserve District’s Urban Stream Research Center in Warrenville on November 19. The open house offered a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Illinois’s first center dedicated to raising freshwater mussels, which improve the water quality of lakes and rivers.
Fitness manager Kristina McGrath checks the holiday lights recycling bin at Fort Hill Activity Center. The Naperville Park District will be collecting nonworking strands and cords through February 1 at Fort Hill, Alfred Rubin Riverwalk Community Center, Knoch Knolls Nature Center, Springbrook Golf Course Golf Shop, and Naperbrook Golf Course Golf Shop.
NaperVoice, Naperville’s new philanthropic choir of professional and volunteer singers under the direction of Philip Spencer, performed its inaugural concert, “Gather in Gratitude,” November 20 at Grace United Methodist Church. Violinist Mina Chang, a junior at Benet Academy, accompanied the group. The concert raised funds for the choir’s first designated charity, Feed My Starving Children.

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Photos courtesy of Naperville Noon Lions (Turkey Trot), Naperville Park District (lights), Laurie May (NaperVoice), Jen Banowetz (Urban Stream Research Center), and Evan Shields (DuPage County Board)