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[caption id="attachment_109334" align="alignright" width="510"] Nancy Brackmann with her 2021 bumper crop at Brackmann Farm in St. Charles, Illinois.[/caption] For the past several years, the pumpkins given to families attending LivingWell’s Halloween parties and drive-through pumpkin patches have been donated by Nancy Brackmann, a local resident, newly retired senior banking trust...
[caption id="attachment_109306" align="alignright" width="400"] Tammy Kovacs and her son, Officer Ryan Kovacs, during Ryan's swearing-in ceremony at the Rochelle Police Department.[/caption] The Rochelle Police Department has partnered with the Pink Patch Project to sell pink patches and apparel to raise money for breast cancer awareness. All proceeds are being donated...
[caption id="attachment_109224" align="alignright" width="400"] Nandita Kothari, self portrait, 2021.[/caption] When Nandita Kothari walked into the LivingWell Cancer Resource Center in 2018, art was not on her radar. The breast cancer survivor was healing from a mastectomy and came to LivingWell with a friend to learn more about it. She tried...
[caption id="attachment_109073" align="alignright" width="500"] Alyssa Watanapongse and her mom, Jennifer, with the port pillows Alyssa sewed for LivingWell participants.[/caption] Incoming St. Charles North High School freshman Alyssa Watanapongse, 13, has been on a mission this summer. The determined honor student taught herself how to sew “port pillows,” which attach to...