Volunteer opportunities
Volunteer camp counselors are needed for the Association for Individual Development (AID) one-week residential summer camp for children and teens with disabilities titled Camp Forever, to be held Aug. 6-12 at the Hoover Outdoor Education Center in Yorkville. Volunteers must be at least 17 years of age and should have experience working with individuals with disabilities. A one-day intensive training and orientation will be held Aug. 5. For more information, call 630-966-4251 or visit www.the-association.org.
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The Cook County Circuit Court clerk’s office needs volunteers to help with entering 400,000 declarations of intention to naturalize forms from 1906 to 1929 into a database. The project will be a resource for genealogical, historical and legal researchers and begins in July. For more information, call Phil Costello at 312-603-6601.
Grace Lutheran Church will collect food for the Glen Ellyn Food Pantry during the 4th of July Parade at noon July 4 in downtown Glen Ellyn. Grocery cart drill team members will march past crowds in synchronized fashion and collect non-perishable items such as peanut butter, pasta, beans, paper products, canned goods, soap and detergents. For more information, call 630-469-1555.
Lincoln Elementary School is holding a summer school program for the Glen Ellyn Resource Center. The resource center assists local families, many of whom are African refugees and participating in the school’s subsidized lunch program. The school’s PTA initiated the Summer Lincoln Lend a Hand Program volunteer effort, which provides food, swimsuits, beach towels, school supplies, backpacks, socks, underwear, diapers and gift cards for residents serviced by the resource center. Donations can be dropped off at the school, 380 Greenfield Ave., Glen Ellyn. For more information, call 630-790-6475.
The Mayor’s Office of Special Events in Aurora invites not-for-profit organizations to sell bottled water along the 4th of July parade route starting at 9 a.m. July 4. All proceeds from the sale must go toward the volunteer organization. For more information, call 630-844-4725.
Those making a difference
Sunday School children at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church collected enough coins to send seven children, all victims of last year’s hurricanes, to Camp Noah this summer. Camp Noah is a project sponsored by the Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota that provides children affected by natural disasters a fun place to heal from traumas associated with the loss of homes, neighborhoods, family members and pets. More than $1,400 was donated from coins the children collected in banks shaped like Noah’s Ark and matching funds from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
The Lombard Moose Lodge 2350 and Women of the Moose 1967 recently donated $500 to the Lombard Police Department to be used to supplement community-based programs such as the Citizens Police Academy.
The United Way of the DuPage Area recently announced it will provide $2.68 million for community investment in health and human service programs throughout the county starting July 1. The amount marks a 7 percent increase over last year’s investment.
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