OUTDOOR ALLIANCE HOSTING ‘BIKE TO THE BARN’
Naperville Outdoor Alliance’s annual “Bike to the Barn” event, in which participants bike, walk or run to the Greene Barn in the Greene Valley Forest Preserve in Naperville, will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 27.
The event at the 23W171 Hobson Road preserve will also include live music, plein air painting, an art exhibit, a nature hike, lawn games and a photo booth. There will be face painting, games and crafts geared for kids.
A preordered box lunch from Belgio’s is available for $20 for adults and $10 for children. It includes a choice of sandwich, pasta and fruit salad, water and an ice cream scoop.
The event will take place rain or shine. For more information, go to www.napervilleoutdooralliance.org.
REAL ESTATE FIRM HELPING PROVIDE SUMMER MEALS
John Greene Real Estate in Naperville is offering a $25,000 matching gift to benefit West Suburban Community Pantry’s Summer Meals campaign.
The matching gift helps ensure donors can provide twice as many meals for families struggling with rising grocery costs, a news release said. Donations can be made at www.wscpantry.org.
The Summer Meals campaign helps families in need fill the gap while schools are closed during summer break, the release said. The campaign will provide fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables, milk, macaroni and cheese, healthy snacks and more.
When schools close, thousands of children lose access to school meals they rely on, Maeven Sipes, the CEO of West Suburban Community Pantry, said in the release.
West Suburban Community Pantry serves DuPage and Will counties through its in person food pantry in Woodridge, online ordering and senior home delivery.
GARDEN CLUB AWARDS $15,000 IN SCHOLARSHIPS
Naperville Garden Club has presented $15,000 in scholarships to local students pursuing degrees related to science, the environment, horticulture, sustainability, landscape architecture and other related disciplines.
The seven scholarship recipients were announced during the organization’s annual spring luncheon May 27 at Naperville Country Club.
Recipients include Gianna Cannek, of Metea Valley High School, who will study earth and climate sciences at Middlebury College in Vermont, and Aidan Dwyer, of Neuqua Valley High School, who will study landscape architecture at Auburn University.
From Waubonsie Valley High School, scholarship recipients are Daniel “Caleb” Dowd, who will study environmental engineering at Iowa State University; Nainika Gupta, environmental engineering at University of Colorado Boulder; and Satya Mehta, chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois.
Naperville Central High School recipients include Emily Lubek, who will study ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Boulder; and Sabrina Tse, molecular and cellular biology and international relations at Johns Hopkins University.
