WHEATON, Ill. – What makes for a good citizen? During the May 17 Wheaton City Council meeting, the Community Relations Commission introduced 11 examples of residents who have made a difference in the community as it presented the annual Good Citizen Awards.

In the student category, the commission presented awards to:

• Melissa Fortes, a Glenbard South High School student who tutors underprivileged children at Lincoln Elementary and leads a peer support program at Glenbard South that trains students to support their peers experiencing difficult matters.
• Melanie Milling, a Wheaton Warrenville South High School student and four-year Varsity Tennis Team athlete who teaches tennis to children living in Marian Park through “Tuesday Night Tigers,” participates in the Athletic Leadership Council and tutors middle school students.
• Megan Wilt, a Wheaton Warrenville South High School student who has volunteered at the DuPage Convalescent Center for 8 years, serves as a teacher’s assistant for multi-needs students, volunteers in the Buddy Baseball program and fundraises for Cosley Zoo.

The adult category award winners are:

• Marilyn Berthel, who helped care for a new neighbor’s family when the neighbor was ill, volunteers in the classroom and library at Longfellow School, co-hosts an annual block party, and is in a ministry for the disabled at College Church.
• Jeff and Christine McGhee, who helped a family in need in many ways, including repairing their car, providing day care for the family’s children, helping the family move to a new house and supporting them through difficult times.
• Steve and Michelle Scholl, who helped their neighbor who has Parkinson’s disease by removing the snow from his driveway in the winter without being asked.

The senior category award winners are:

• Jane Hawthorne, who is the director of the Repeat Boutique, which serves thousands in need by providing them with clothing, household goods and other necessities at no cost; and who personally supports many refugee families with transportation to medical appointments and assistance with job hunting and immigration paperwork.
• Don Immekus, who devotes his time and passion to youth soccer in Wheaton by mentoring and training referees, attending games every Saturday, and working to grow the Wheaton Park District soccer program to almost 1,000 players in spring season and more than 1,700 players in the fall.
• Joan Reuss, who has organized volunteers to maintain Adams Park for many years, and also volunteers and supports the Wheaton Public Library.

The group category award winner is:

• The Weisbrook Elementary Power Paws, a student service group that packed 160 lunches during their lunch hour to donate to PADS; made blankets, cards, cookies and calendars for residents of the Midwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans; collected and melted down crayons to make super crayons for disabled children; and its first-grade members worked through lunch and recess to make gift items for residents of DuPage Convalescent Home.

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City of Wheaton

WHEATON, IL, May 18, 2010 — Cantigny Park, part of the McCormick Foundation, is once again the leading west suburban venue for free outdoor concerts!  Starting Memorial Day weekend, 16 outstanding musical acts will entertain guests on Sunday afternoons through Labor Day.  Four Saturday shows especially for kids are scheduled, too.

All concerts feature lawn seating and are free with paid parking ($5 per vehicle).  The following performances will take place at the Cantigny bandshell or, as noted, in front of the First Division Museum:

• Steve Cooper Orchestra (big band)

Sunday, May 30, 3 pm

• The Special Consensus (bluegrass)

Monday, May 31, 3 pm

• The Paul Avers Band (country)

Sunday, June 6, 3 pm

• Skip Green’s Big Band (swing)

Sunday, June 13, 3 pm

• Navy Band Great Lakes (wind ensemble)

Sunday, June 27, 3 pm at the First Division Museum

• Southwest Community Concert Band (patriotic)

Sunday, July 4, 3 pm at the First Division Museum

Free parking on Independence Day!

• Chicago Outskirts Big Band

Sunday, July 11, 3 pm

• Mark Dvorak Trio (Americana)

Sunday, July 18, 3 pm

• Frank Lamphere (Rat Pack tribute)

Sunday, July 25, 3 pm

• Iron Horse (rockabilly)

Sunday, August 1, 3 pm

• Maxwell Street Klezmer Band (folk)

Sunday, August 8, 3 pm

• Air Force Band (jazz ensemble)

Sunday, August 15, 3 pm at the First Division Museum)

• Prairie Dogs (50’s)

Sunday, August 22, 3 pm

• Banjo Buddies Dixieland Band (jazz)

Sunday, August 29, 3 pm

• Jamaican Breeze (Caribbean)

Sunday, September 5, 3 pm

• Jim Guter’s Big Band

Monday, September 6, 3 pm

Especially for kids:

• Dave Rudolf’s Beach Party

Saturday, June 26, 2 pm

• Jim Gill

Saturday, July 10, 2 pm

• Macaroni Soup!

Saturday, July 24, 11 am

• ScribbleMonster

Saturday, August 14, 11 am

For all concerts, guests are encouraged to bring a blanket or chairs.  Picnics are welcome, and Le Jardin (in the Cantigny Visitors Center) serves lunch from 11 am to 2 pm.

Cantigny Park is open every day throughout the summer from 7 am to dusk.  Parking fees are $5 per vehicle or $2 off-peak (before 10 am and after 5 pm).  Annual parking passes are available for $60.

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About Cantigny
Cantigny, part of the Chicago-based McCormick Foundation, is the 500-acre Wheaton (Illinois) estate of Robert R. McCormick.  Cantigny Park is home to the McCormick Museum, First Division Museum, formal gardens, picnic grounds, walking trails and a Visitors Center with banquet and dining facilities. More information, including hours, directions and upcoming events is online at Cantigny.org.  Cantigny Golf, adjacent to the park, features a 27-hole championship golf course, full-service clubhouse, Cantigny Golf Academy and the 9-hole Cantigny Youth Links.  For more information, visit CantignyGolf.com.

During the Taste of Wheaton, Wheaton Police Department will temporarily close the following streets to all through traffic:

• Karlskoga – between Hale and Wheaton;
• North Wheaton Avenue – between Wesley Street and Union;
• Liberty Drive – between Cross and Wheaton Avenue; and,
• Hale Street – between Front Street and Union.

The following City parking lots will be closed during the Taste of Wheaton:

• Lease Lots #3, # 4 and #5; and,
• The southernmost portion of Lease Lot #9 (only on Tuesday, June 1, 2010 and Wednesday, June 2, 2010).

Due to Taste of Wheaton activities, the French Market will be moved temporarily for one Saturday only from City Parking Lot #3 on Saturday, June 5, 2010.

During this temporary relocation of the French Market to the East Liberty Drive/Reber Street area, the following streets will be closed:

• East Liberty Drive – between Cross and Reber; and,
• Reber Street – between East Liberty Drive and Willow Avenue.

WHEATON, IL, May 3, 2010 — The Robert R. McCormick Museum at Cantigny Park will host two lectures in June that tie in with the Cantigny estate’s agricultural heritage.  The talks are free and open to the public:

• Thursday, June 17

Yes, Virginia, Sears DID Sell Barns!

Presented by Rebecca Hunter, Architectural Historian

This lively program will explore the history of mail-order agricultural buildings.  Five major mail-order housing suppliers sold barns and farm buildings from 1909-1936.  Cantigny, a working farm during that time, may have been a customer.

• Thursday, June 24
  The New Wave of GMOs: What to Expect

Presented by David Lightfoot, Professor, Southern Illinois University

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about modern farming—in particular, Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMOs.  In the next few years, dozens of new food and feed crops will be introduced to America’s farms.  Lightfoot will discuss the opportunities and dangers, and what it all means for the food on our dinner tables.

Robert R. McCormick ran his Cantigny property as the Tribune Experimental Farms.  He raised a wide variety of crops and tested them to determine their suitability for local growing conditions.  His newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, featured weekly updates in a column called “Day by Day on the Farm.”

Each lecture will begin at 7 pm in the McCormick Museum’s historic Gold Theatre, with complimentary museum tours to follow.  Doors open at 6:30 pm.  Admission and parking are free.  Reservations are suggested—call 630 260 8162.

The lectures are made possible in part by an award from the Illinois Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Illinois General Assembly.

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About the Robert R. McCormick Museum

The McCormick Museum at Cantigny Park in Wheaton is a historic house museum interpreting the life and legacy of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, longtime editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune.  Hours are 10 am to 4 pm, Tuesday-Sunday, with visits by free guided tour. In the summer, starting on Memorial Day, the museum is open until 5 pm.

WINFIELD, Ill., May 12, 2010 — The Bariatric Treatment Center at Central DuPage Hospital (CDH) recently expanded its program to include the New Direction^â Weight Loss System, a medically-supervised low and very low calorie diet. CDH currently offers surgical and medical weight management options with a multidisciplinary support structure.

“We know patients need support, education and counseling to lose weight and keep it off no matter what method they use,” said Sandra Berger, RN, MSN, MBA, CNOR, manager, Outpatient Services. “We can design a program to fit a patient’s lifestyle and support them to make the life changes necessary to succeed long term.”

Appropriate for females forty pounds or more overweight and males fifty pounds or more overweight, this program is suitable for patients with type 2 diabetes and is particularly beneficial for patients who have other health concerns related to obesity.

The New Direction program at CDH is comprised of three phases — reduction, transition and maintenance. The amount of weight the patient needs to lose determines the length of each phase. Patients are required to attend weekly one hour sessions, meet regularly with physicians on the CDH medical staff, have relevant medical tests, weigh in, purchase nutritional products and attend an educational seminar. “The seminars cover a range of topics and are given by a multidisciplinary team,” Berger explained.

The Bariatric Treatment Center includes an Aramark dietician, physician and psychologist from the medical staff of CDH and an exercise specialist and nurse.

New Direction informational sessions are held at CDH the second Monday of every month from 6-7 p.m. in the Winfield Room and on the last Friday of the month from 11-12 noon in Women and Children’s conference rooms 1 & 2. If you would like more information about New Direction, call the Bariatric Treatment Center at 630-933-6745/TTY for the hearing impaired 630-933-4833.

About Central DuPage Hospital

Central DuPage Hospital (CDH) is a nationally recognized 313-bed facility located in Winfield, Ill., a suburb west of Chicago. CDH is a leading center for medical technology and one of the busiest surgical hospitals in Illinois.

For the last four consecutive years, Thomson Reuters has listed CDH as a 100 Top Hospital in the U.S. Similarly, U.S. News & World Report has included CDH on their list of Best Hospitals in the orthopaedics category each year since 2007.

The hospital is part of an interdependent network of health-care organizations and services, including convenient care centers, occupational health services and a full range of options for senior living, home health and hospice care. For more information or to find a doctor on the medical staff of CDH, visit www.cdh.org or call 630-933-4CDH (4234)/ TTY 630-933-4833 for the hearing impaired.

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McAninch Arts Center Calendar of Events

June/July 2010

Attention Calendar Editors: When listing performing events at the McAninch Arts Center, please use the Ticket Box Office, (630) 942-4000, for your information number.

June

3 to Aug. 7

Gahlberg Gallery – Deborah Boardman. Boardman’s work builds on small, intimate moments and hand-recorded daily observations to probe the specific energy and history of the gallery space. Gallery hours: Mondays to Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Thursdays, 6 to 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; also open during MAC Mainstage events and by appointment. For more information, call (630) 942-2321.

25, Friday, to July 11

College Summer Repertory Theatre – “Fools.” Neil Simon’s comedy centers on Leon Tolchinsky, a young teacher excited about his first tutoring position, who arrives in a Russian village to find the people sweeping dust from outside back into their houses, as well as doing and saying a host of other odd things. He learns that the town has been cursed with stupidity for two hundred years, and it’s his job to break the curse in one day, or be cursed himself. He’s also fallen deeply in love with his student. Performance dates are 7 p.m. Fridays through Sundays, MAC Courtyard, tickets $13 for adults and $11 for students and youth.

27, Sunday

College Summer Repertory Theatre – “Mowglie Grows Up.” Directed by Connie Canaday Howard. Back by popular demand, this show will continue College Theatre’s tradition of family theatrical fare in the pleasant Arts Center Courtyard. Scripted through improvisation and interweaving the stories of Rudyard Kipling, this adaptation of “The Jungle Book” follows the story of Mowgli and his wolf-pack family and his best friends Ballo the bear and Bagheera the black panther. Bring your picnic baskets, blankets or lawn chairs, and enjoy some interactive fun with this classic story. Performances dates are 5 p.m. on June 27. Free.

July

1 to 11

College Summer Repertory Theatre – “Fools.” Neil Simon’s comedy centers on Leon Tolchinsky, a young teacher excited about his first tutoring position, who arrives in a Russian village to find the people sweeping dust from outside back into their houses, as well as doing and saying a host of other odd things. He learns that the town has been cursed with stupidity for two hundred years, and it’s his job to break the curse in one day, or be cursed himself. He’s also fallen deeply in love with his student. Performance dates are 7 p.m. Fridays through Sundays, MAC Courtyard, tickets $13 for adults and $11 for students and youth.

3, Saturday

College Summer Repertory Theatre – “Mowglie Grows Up.” Directed by Connie Canaday Howard. Back by popular demand, this show will continue College Theatre’s tradition of family theatrical fare in the pleasant Arts Center Courtyard. Scripted through improvisation and interweaving the stories of Rudyard Kipling, this adaptation of “The Jungle Book” follows the story of Mowgli and his wolf-pack family and his best friends Ballo the bear and Bagheera the black panther. Bring your picnic baskets, blankets or lawn chairs, and enjoy some interactive fun with this classic story. Performances dates are 5 p.m. on July 3. Free.

8 to 25

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble – “Frankie and Johnny at the Claire de Lune.” Written by Terrance McNally, directed by Connie Canaday Howard. Restaging of BTE’s most successful production, centering on the sometimes complex relationship between coworkers who are forced to question what they’re willing to give up for love. Theatre 2. Performance 8 p.m., Thursdays to Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets $25/23 Thursdays; $33/31 Fridays and Saturdays; and $29/27 Sundays.

10-11, Saturday and Sunday

College Summer Repertory Theatre – “Mowglie Grows Up.” Directed by Connie Canaday Howard. Back by popular demand, this show will continue College Theatre’s tradition of family theatrical fare in the pleasant Arts Center Courtyard. Scripted through improvisation and interweaving the stories of Rudyard Kipling, this adaptation of “The Jungle Book” follows the story of Mowgli and his wolf-pack family and his best friends Ballo the bear and Bagheera the black panther. Bring your picnic baskets, blankets or lawn chairs, and enjoy some interactive fun with this classic story. Performances dates are 5 p.m. on July 10-11. Free.

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About the MAC

Located 25 miles west of Chicago near I-88 and I-355, the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage is a state-of-the-art facility, housing three performance spaces, an art gallery and classrooms for the college’s academic programming. This unique facility has presented theater, music, dance and visual art to more than 1.5 million people since its opening in 1986 and last year welcomed more than 75,000 patrons from the greater Chicago area to more than 230 performances.

The center offers free parking and group discounts and is home to Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, the New Philharmonic Orchestra and DuPage Opera Theatre. The result is a collection of touring and resident and student groups that foster enlightened education and performance opportunities to encourage artistic expression, promote a lasting relationship between people and art, and enrich the cultural vitality of the community.

The MAC’s extensive community outreach program includes pre-performance lectures, classes with visiting artists and the SchoolStage program, which provides students with an interactive, educational arts experience. Those and other efforts to increase community access to arts earned the MAC the Illinois Arts Council’s Partners in Excellence designation, which recognizes 40 of the most significant cultural institutions in the state.

Bold Steps, Inc., in partnership with LS Consulting Solutions, is hosting a free job seekers seminar called “From across the desk, a recruiter’s perspective”. Whether you are unemployed, underemployed, or just thinking about looking for another job, this seminar is for you.

Don’t miss an opportunity to get an inside glimpse at what happens before, during, and after the interview, from the recruiter’s perspective. Find the edge you need to stand out in the crowd through our interactive, informative session.

The seminar will be held May 13, from 6-8 pm at the Bold Steps office on 116 N Main street (Suite 1), Wheaton. Seating is limited, so if you know someone who would benefit from this seminar, please contact Rick Erickson at 630-665-7939 or rick@bold-steps.com to grab a seat!

Background information:

Laurie Scavotto is the Founder of LS Consulting Solutions.  Laurie is a Business Coach and HR Consultant with over 20 years of Human Resources experience recruiting and managing all levels of staff. She has worked for several international hotel chains and most recently served as HR Manager for a small privately owned company.

Rick Erickson is the Founder and President of Bold Steps, Inc. after serving more than 25 years at Household International / HSBC in various leadership positions. He has a wealth of experience with the hiring process, and will serve as a resource for Laurie as she leads the seminar.

When Wheaton’s monthly electronic recycling program returns next Saturday, May 8, it will be better than ever. In addition to computers, TVs and other common electronic waste, you can drop off small electronics such as hair dryers, toasters and alarm clocks. Businesses are welcome to recycle electronics, too.

Runners and walkers of all abilities are invited to join us for the Run, Rock & Roll 5K!

• Ducat Chiropractic & Wellness Center will host a stretching tent
• Cardinal Fitness will be on hand
• Massage Clinique will be giving post race massages.