St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin receives heart association honors
St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin, a member of Prime Healthcare, has been awarded the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus and its Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll awards.
The Gold Plus award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive treatment following nationally recognized, research-based guidelines, according to a news release.
The honor roll award recognizes hospitals that ensure patients with Type 2 diabetes, who face higher risks of stroke complications, receive the most up-to-date, evidence-based care, the release said.
“Being recognized with the Get With The Guidelines Stroke award reflects our dedication to excellence in stroke treatment,” hospital CEO Eva Balderrama said in the release. “This honor underscores our commitment to delivering the life-saving stroke care that our patients and community can trust.”
Fox Valley Theatre Company to present ‘Puffs’ at ECC
Fox Valley Theatre Company will present “Puffs,” a parody of “Harry Potter,” on the first two weekends in September at the Elgin Community College SecondSpace Theatre in Building H on the school’s Elgin campus, 1700 Spartan Drive.
“Puffs” follows the story of Wayne Hopkins, a regular boy from New Mexico who discovers he’s a wizard and is whisked off to magic school, according to a news release. There, he’s sorted into the Puffs’ student house and he and his Puff friends learn what it means to be brave.
The show will be presented Sept. 5-7 and Sept. 12-14. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays.
Tickets are $18 for adults and $16 for students and seniors. A free sensory-friendly performance will be presented at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11.
For tickets and more information, go to www.cteelgin.com/puffs.
Registration underway for Hanover Township tutoring program
Hanover Township’s 10-week fall tutoring program, which begins Tuesday, Sept. 16, is currently accepting student registration.
Sessions meet on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at the Hanover Town Hall, 250 S. Route 59, Bartlett, according to a news release. The program is for students in grades 2 through 8 in all subject matters and for students in grades 9 through 12 who need help with math.
Students can register for one-hour sessions led by certified teachers starting at 5, 6 or 7 p.m. The tutoring fee is $60 per student, per semester. Tutoring groups are put together based on age, subject matter and learning needs.
For more information and to register, call 630-483-5799 or go to www.hanover-township.org.
Caesars holds ‘prep rally’ with Boys & Girls Club in South Elgin
More than 100 Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Illinois students, families and Caesars Entertainment employee volunteers took part in a “prep rally” to kick off the school year on Aug. 20 at the club’s South Elgin location.
The afternoon event featured STEM and arts projects, outdoor games, music, pizza, and a dunk tank with local police and firefighters, according to a news release. Every child went home with new shoes and a backpack filled with school supplies. Families also had the opportunity to connect with representatives from local social service agencies.
Caesars Entertainment owns and operates the Grand Victoria Casino Elgin and has an ongoing partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America through which they provide more than $3 million in support nationwide, according to the release.
Elgin to install EV charging stations at The Highlands, Bowes Creek
Two EV chargers each will be installed at Bowes Creek Country Club and at The Highlands of Elgin golf course, according to the city’s website.
The locations were selected due to their popularity, high visitor traffic and longer average stays, making them ideal for Level 2 chargers, which provide 20 to 30 miles of range per hour of charging, the site said. Each charger will have ports for two vehicles.
Elgin previously installed four public chargers with a total of eight ports in the parking deck that serves the Robert Gilliam Municipal Complex and the Centre of Elgin.
With the new chargers in place by the end of 2025, Elgin’s public network will total 16 charging ports.