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| The International Day of Service was part of the Sesquicentennial Celebration at Lake Forest College |
On Saturday, September 29, 2007 Lake Forest College students, faculty, staff, parents, and alumni came together in a spirit of community giving unmatched in our institutional history. It was a way for our campus community to show that we are a part of the larger, global community. This involved dozens of separate community oriented projects conducted throughout the greater Lake County area originating from here on campus. Simultaneously, volunteer events occurred around the globe, in places like Ethiopia, and in several cities in the United States led by College alumni, parents, and friends, each making a local impact, but fully traceable back to Lake Forest College.
Sites included:
Deerfield Public Library
Volunteers helped relocate books throughout the library.
C.O.O.L. Food Pantry
127 Water Street, Waukegan, IL
Volunteers helped with newsletter preparation for mail.
Center Stage
400 East Illinois Road, Lake Forest, IL
Volunteers assisted with preparation of October's production of "Honk."
Chicago Botanic Garden
1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
Volunteers helped with seed banking, prairie seed collection, drying and packaging, or clearing buckthorn and other non-indigenous plant species.
Elawa Farm Garden
1401 Middlefork Drive, Lake Forest, IL
Volunteers assisted with preparations for their pumpkin festival and with harvesting crops.
Greater Chicago Food Depository
4100 W. Ann Lurie Place, Chicago, IL
Volunteers packed boxes of food for the needy.
Grove National Historic Landmark
1421 Milwaukee Avenue, Glenview, IL
Volunteers helped with national public lands work day: collecting seeds, removing non-native, invasive plants, etc.
Heller Nature Center
2821 Ridge Road, Highland Park, IL
Volunteers collected native prairie seeds, buckthorn clearing, and seed preparation for winter storage.
I-PLUS
3001 Green Bay Road #9, North Chicago, IL
Volunteers performed general office maintenance and provide clerical assistance for the day.
Lake County Forest Preserve
Lyons Woods, Blanchard & Sheridan Road, Beach Park, IL
Volunteer assignments included collecting seed for later replanting.
Lake Forest Hospital
660 N. Westmoreland Rd, Lake Forest, IL
Volunteers made activity packets for children to use while sitting in hospital waiting rooms.
Lake Forest Open Lands
Skokie River Nature Preserve, Lake Forest, IL
Volunteers helped with prairie restoration and seed collection.
4th Annual Special Olympics Skills Day
Sports Center, Lake Forest, IL
Set up and organized athletic events for Special Olympians.
LEAD
400 East Illinois Road, Lake Forest, IL
Volunteers helped prepare a mailing sent to Lake Forest and Lake Bluff families regarding Red Ribbon Week
North Shore Community Services - BROWN C.I.L.A.
727 Brown, Evanston, IL
Volunteers helped with outdoor cleanup, including raking leaves, pulling weeds, picking up branches, hedging, and possibly planting tulip bulbs.
Save-A-Pet
31664 N Fairfield Rd, Grayslake, IL
Volunteers assisted with painting, cleaning, yard/landscaping work, tiling, special construction projects, greeting the public, and laundry help.
Staben House
3000 Grand Ave, Waukegan, IL.
Volunteers helped with repair and maintenance of the facility.
The Northern Illinois Food Bank
Park City, IL
Volunteers packed boxes of food for the needy.
VA Medical Center
3001 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, IL
Volunteers conducted a bingo game with several dozen veterans living in the assisted living building. Volunteers helped get the Vets from their living spaces to the bingo room and then assisted with the game itself.
Warren Newport Township Public Library
O'Plane Road, Gurnee, IL
Volunteers assisted with organization throughout the library.
Waukegan Public Library -
Waukegan, IL
Relocated collections within the building.
Winchester House
1125 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Libertyville, IL
Volunteers assisted with interactive activities for the seniors.
Wings
756 East Northwest Highway, Palatine, IL
Volunteers helped with accepting, sorting, tagging donations, straightening and cleaning the dressing rooms.
MDA Stride & Ride
16400 W. Buckley Rd, Libertyville, IL
Duties included set-up and break down of event, maning the registration table, monitoring carnival games, food preparation and distribution of water on route.
North Chicago Chamber of Commerce and School District
North Chicago, IL
Beautification of school playgrounds project.
Sedgebrook Retirement Community
Volunteers worked with seniors in developing and performing several forms of art including but not limited to poetry, theatre, and music.
Kohl's Children's Museum
2100 Patriot Blvd., Glenview, IL
Volunteers prepared educational materials for several different projects.
Center on Halsted
Chicago, IL
Volunteers distributed literature and calendars to a predetermined list of places in the Lakeview/Boystown neighborhood in Chicago for Center on Halsted - the largest, most comprehensive gay community center in the nation.
Ronald McDonald House
Chicago, IL
Volunteers prepared lunch for families and parents and helped with general domestic work as necessary.
Zion/Benton Public Library
Zion, IL
Volunteers helped with face painting and making buttons; signed people up for our adult-teen reading club; directed people to various areas of the library; supervised youth games in the youth department; and helped with various other activities.
National Events:
Connecticut
Edward Sherer '97 coordinated a beach clean up followed by a celebratory cookout at Hammonasset State Park in Madison, Connecticut.
Texas
Natalie Ford '03 coordinated a service opportunity in the Dallas / Ft. Worth area with The Living Science Center entitled: Make a Splash! A Water Science Interactive Fair for the Whole Family. Contact Natalie directly at ford_nm@yahoo.com.
California
Jess Andrews '53 coordinated a cemetery clean-up at Historic Mission San Juan Capistrano.
Florida
Nancy Petersen '61 in Maitland Florida voluntered with Meals on Wheels.
Pennsylvania
Susan West Ayres '69 coordinated opportunities to assist temporarily homeless families - provide dinner, after dinner support or spend the night at Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr.
Colorado
Danielle Summerville '00, as Manager of Corporate Partnerships for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Pikes Peak, is using her network to arrange for any Forester in the State of Colorado an opportunity to volunteer at a food pantry close to their home.
Maine
Hospice volunteer Bob Gross '71 and his therapy-dog-in-training, Fraggle, did extra nursing home visits in the Augusta area.
Washington, D.C.
Lynn Rhomberg '69 worked with Jubilee Housing to coordinate volunteers to help repair low income housing units in the D.C. Area.
International events:
Calgary, Alberta Canada
Ryan Panet '05 coordinated "Light the Night" in this area.
London, England
Arnold Bucheli '86 conducted service work in this area.
Cambodia
Alum Shannon O'Kane '99 volunteered at a rural school in Cambodia with the PEPY Bike to School Program. This event provides bikes to students, making education more accessible, and increasing educational opportunities for children is rural Cambodia.
China
Kristen Allen '03 coordinated an event at a local panda refuge in rural China.
Cameroon
Humphrey Mosenge '77 coordinated a few dozen volunteers in a communal cleaning up of bush in village areas and even grave yards for those who are old and cannot keep up their compounds or even pay for such upkeep.
Nepal
Brittney Sears '06 worked with other foreign nationals on volunteering in numerous ways throughout Nepal.