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Today our Earth Scouts group paid a visit to PAWS of Tinley Park. PAWS is a no-kill animal shelter dedicated to the protection of domestic animals. Our current Earth Scouts’ focus is to make a difference through participatory democracy–and through those means, together, we chose to focus our attention on animal welfare. Specifically, we are [...]

Last Saturday we headed out early to spend the whole day at the annual South Suburban Cook County 4H fair at the Children’s Farm in Palos Hills. This is a day that Aidan was really looking forward to, and one that Mike and I were dreading. It is a long day–starting at before 9am and [...]

This summer we decided to forgo major travels and enjoy a series of brief excursions just beyond our usual stomping grounds. Our most recent adventure took us to the gateway city–St. Louis. Now, I didn’t know too much about St. Louis, but in my imagination I kind of likened it to vacationing in Gary, Indiana [...]