Eight area chambers of commerce met for a Multi Chamber Progressive Luncheon last month. The Winfield Chamber gathered with fellow members from Addison, Bartlett, Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, West Chicago, Warrenville and Wheaton.

Children, teens and adults may sign up for the Winfield Public Library’s summer reading program called “Get in the Game: Read.”

There will be some changes in this year’s Good Old Days celebration which runs from Thursday to Sunday, Sept. 4 to 7.

Early this month, more than 30 new red wheelchairs were donated to the DuPage County Convalescent Center in Wheaton by St. John’s Knights of Columbus.

The wheelchairs are to be used primarily by hospitalized veterans who are former Knights. The presentation ceremony took place after the 11:30 a.m. Mass May 4. Wheelchairs bearing the KC logo were positioned in the sign of a cross in the center’s parking lot, so they could be seen from the second floor.

Warrenville fifth-grade student Marissa Thompson knows how to pen a story. She recently won an essay contest sponsored by the Naperville Area Humane Society and will collect an iPod Nano and an iTunes gift card as her prize.

What a miserable day for Boy Scout Troop 575’s plant pickup May 3 — chilly and rainy as well.

The Scouts sold a lot of plants, but not enough to buy all the tents the troop needed. The Scouts need to buy about 20 new ones.

Winfield United for a Better Community volunteers will have a tree sale to benefit the outdoor classroom and native grass garden in the Winfield Public School’s front yard. Trees will be sold for $20 each from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 10, at the school at the corner of Winfield Road and Beecher Street.

On the lookout for a woman who always takes time from her busy schedule to work for her community, church, friends and neighbors, Council of Catholic Women members had no trouble this year naming a CCW Woman of the Year.

Just like income taxes, spring cleaning is (or should be) a necessary component of your annual schedule. After months of keeping the windows closed, it’s possible that toxic fumes from household cleaners and manmade fibers and materials have quietly invaded your living space, screaming for attention and cleansing.

Spring finally has arrived and the Farmer’s Market will reopen June 4 in the Prairie Trail shopping mall, located at the intersection of Geneva and County Farm roads.

The weather cooperated for the April 8 opening day for 58 Winfield Golf League golfers. As in past years, league play is at St. Andrews Golf and Country Club, West Chicago.

The celebration continues as The City of Warrenville 175th Anniversary Commission proudly presents “Hooray For Warrenville,” a musical revue honoring Warrenville with song-and-dance routines, Saturday, April 12. Directed by Warrenville resident Brian Lynch, fine arts director at North Central College, the show promises to be a lively, 90-minute capsule of Warrenville’s history and its residents.

Winfield Historical Society members will host their annual meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 15, at the Winfield Public Library.

At 7:30 p.m., a slide program on “Images of the Roaring Twenties and the New Woman” will take a step back in time to one of the most exciting periods in U.S. history, the 1920s. The decade is best remembered for scandalous fashions, revolutionary jazz music and amazing new freedom for the newly “liberated” women, known as “flappers,” whose rebellious attitude inspired risqué, flashy fashions, unorthodox behavior and a demand for equality.

Seventh-grader Jamie Riendeau, 12, won the St. John School Science Fair and received a certificate.

Is it possible the last of three is leaving grade school and turning 14? It seems like yesterday I cradled a big baby, 8 pounds, 6 ounces, with delight and awe as he joined his two siblings in the Mignin household. Everyone brags about their children because there is something special about each one. Each personality that evolves is indeed a mystery that plays out as time goes on. But 14? How did that happen?