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When the characters in Glencoe-Silver Lake High School’s production of “Newsies” take the stage, Valerie Bonderman’s aim is that all of them at the very least look the part.
That’s her job. The rest is up to them.
Bonderman has been in charge of costumes for GSL’s theater productions for the past nine years. She’s worked with Hutchinson High School’s theater staff for the past eight years. And to think, she owes it all to her unwillingness to move to Virgina.

‘Newsies’
When: Nov. 14-16, 21-23
Curtain: 7 p.m.
Tickets: Available at the door

The Glencoe Chamber of Commerce honored existing members, greeted new members and welcomed new leaders at its annual business meeting and luncheon last Wednesday at Glencoe City Center.
Ana Alexander of Glencoe Regional Health was named the chamber’s 2019 Mike Popelka Chamber Volunteer honoree. She will also be the 2020 chairperson of the chamber board, replacing Chip Anderson of SLS Tax, Accounting Financial Services.

For some, this is another Habitat for Humanity home-building project, an opportunity to help a local family enjoy home ownership.
Crow River Habitat for Humanity is building a single-family house on North Baldwin Avenue. The house’s owners, Trinity Johnson and Teresa Rannow, are both working for Habitat for Humanity. Johnson spent part of Saturday shingling the house. Rannow is helping the agency with fundraising and office work. Crow River Habitat for Humanity welcomes additional volunteer help on the project.

Gabby Fountain, the youth librarian at the Glencoe Public Library, won the Glencoe Chamber of Commerce’s 2019 Community Volunteer of the Year Award.
“They always laugh at me because I have a hard time saying no to things,” Fountain said.
Fountain and those around her know that all too well. But she decided a better way of describing it might be that she just loves saying yes.

Ninety-five-year-old Army veteran Ed LaMott was overwhelmed with gratitude throughout Veterans Day on Monday. At 69 years of membership, he’s one of the longest standing veterans — if not the longest — of the Silver Lake American Legion.
Although it’s typically a day meant for acknowledging the sacrifice, bravery, patriotism and tribulations America’s veterans endured and thank them for it, LaMott is eager to reciprocate the gratitude.