Unfortunately Dementia is a disease that can devastate a person’s ability to socialize, but being among other people is incredibly important for our loved ones with Dementia. Social interaction is healthy, like exercise for the brain, and can slow symptoms including deteriorating memory. In fact, staying socially engaged with friends and family has been shown… Read More Socialization and Dementia
by Laura Miller Hill, St. Charles Natural Resources Commissioner When it rains, paved surfaces, like streets and sidewalks, prevent rainwater from naturally soaking into the ground. The old adage “water will find its level” holds true during storms as water runs off roofs and down driveways making its way through city streets and into storm… Read More The Benefits of Keeping Rainwater Closer to Where it Falls
From the National Alliance on Mental Illness Kane-sough, DeKalb & Kendall Counties A St. Charles Mental Health Board Funding Recipient To be able to care for the people you love, you must first take care of yourself. It’s likethe advice we’re given on airplanes: put on your own oxygen mask before trying to helpsomeone else… Read More Taking Care of Yourself
By Natural Resources Commissioner Pam Otto What comes to mind when you think of a good neighbor? State Farm? The folks next door? Bald-faced hornets? Okay, that last one may sound like a stretch. After all, aren’t hornets the critters people get “mad as”? Isn’t “stirring up a hornet’s nest” the last thing you want… Read More Wasp Nests
By Heather Goudreau, Natural Resources Commissioner The St. Charles Natural Resources Commission is excited to host the annual Pumpkin Smash on Saturday, November 5th. Last year we collected 797 pumpkins and we hope to smash that number in 2022. This is a drive through event, making it quick and easy to get your pumpkins composted,… Read More Annual Pumpkin Smash is Nov. 5
From the St. Charles Mental Health Board Celebrating 61 years of providing customized, consumer-focused programs and services in an equitable, inclusive manner, the Association for Individual Development (AID) works with individuals with developmental, intellectual, and/or mental health challenges, those who have suffered a trauma, those experiencing immediate and/or chronic crises and those at risk to… Read More Association for Individual Development is there for Individuals with with Physical, Developmental, Intellectual and Mental Health Challenges
From the St. Charles Community Mental Health Board For Parents of Preschool & Elementary School Students Review and/or empty papers from the take-home folder after school each day. Daily, read teacher school, and district messages that are emailed or sent through an electronic portal to parents. Tell your children specific expectations you have for after-school… Read More Have a Proactive Start to the School Year
by Natural Resources Commissioner Suzi Myers They’re back! The wonderous flashing bugs of the summer. Known by many different names, including lightning bugs and candle flies, fireflies are not bugs, but acutally a beetle. The firefly family, Lampyridae, includes more than 2,000 species worldwide. We have about 170 species here in the USA, but they… Read More Fireflies
From the St. Charles Mental Health Board The Community Crisis Center was founded in 1975 in Elgin by a group of volunteers who wanted to create a safe place that would be “always home” for individuals and families in crisis, whether that crisis be domestic/sexual violence, economic crisis, or emotional anguish. Over the years, professional… Read More Community Crisis Center Helps Individuals and Families in Crisis
By Natural Resources Commissioners Lee Haggas and Mrs. Carol Haggas Of all the statistics on the effects of climate change, here’s one that doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves: in the past 50 years, the population of birds migrating across the Great Plains on their way to Mexico declined by 70%, and of… Read More Fine Feathered Friends Need Friends of Their Own