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Holiday Season of Sharing
Community HS #155 - Dr. Johnnie Thomas
Cary-Grove High School’s Interact students loaded 800 presents to be delivered to underprivileged students
at Hanson Park Elementary School in Chicago. The students collected and donated $85,000 worth of
presents to CPS students during the past five years including $20,000 worth of gifts this year.
Crystal Lake Central High School’s Madrigals performed at O’Hare Airport. CL Central’s Madrigal dinner is
the state’s oldest school-sponsored madrigals event, having just completed its 42
nd
consecutive dinner.
Palatine CC #15 - Dr. Scott Thompson
Community Consolidated School District 15's school social workers partnered with the local YMCA and
Palatine Township to provide nearly 350 needy families across the district with gifts this holiday season.
Students from John G. Conyers Learning Academy visited Church Creek Retirement Home in Arlington
Heights on December 12 to stage their annual holiday performance. For their annual service project, sixth
graders at Marion Jordan School stuffed stockings as part of The Night Ministry’s Holiday Celebration. Gray
M. Sanborn School proudly launched its first-ever “Helping Hands” holiday support program to assist families
that found themselves in financial hardship during the holiday season.
