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Monday, January 14, 2013

Video: Crystal Lake Central Promo for Upcoming Dance-A-Thon

Video aims to encourage students to participate in Crystal Lake Central's "Dance-A-Thon" on Saturday, Feb. 9, to raise money for the children's cardiac unit at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago.

  Crystal Lake Central's student council wanted to get classmates excited about an upcoming Dance-A-Thon to raise money for the children's cardiac unit at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago. So the council's executive board created a promotional video for the Feb. 9 event to get students "pumped up." The group, working with other student volunteer groups at the school, released the video to Central High School students on Friday, even posting it on YouTube, hoping to generate excitement and participation for the dance fundraiser scheduled from 6 to 10 p.m. in the CLC Fieldhouse. Central student Chris Dowell served as videographer (with help from English teacher Benjamin Thomas), and fellow students Colin Telmanik and Brent Pfaff stepped …

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

No Power, No Problem at Country Donuts

Generator keeps donut shop going.

Monday's storm knocked out the power for a lot of Crystal Lake businesses, but Country Donuts got up from the canvas and continued on. With the power going down Monday morning, Country Donuts' employees received quite a gesture—a loyal customer stepped up and let the store use his generator. With a few connections and a full tank of gas, the store pulled in enough power to get the coffee going. When the store owners got a donut shop in Elgin to supply the donuts, Country Donuts was back in business. "Yesterday (Monday) it was crazy business," Stephanie Parison, a 12-year employee, said. "Today we're seeing a lot of new customers." The situation is not ideal, but it'll keep the 24-hour business going until ComEd does its job. "We're just …

Dorothy Kischuk

6:55 pm on Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Good for you Country Donuts. You certainly didn't take that power outage as a reason to shut down. Kudos for rapidly moving to a plan B.   more ›

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