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Camden Lazenby – clazenby@shawmedia.com On Friday, Sept. 16, the children of Walnut Street Daycare Center get ready for the start of the eighth annual Trike-A-Thon, which benefits the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
TIKES TAKE TO THEIR TRIKES
Walnut Street Daycare Center holds annual fundraiser for research hospital
By CAMDEN LAZENBY
clazenby@shawmedia.com
GENOA – Dozens of tikes took to their trikes to cross the finish line in Walnut Street Daycare Center’s annual Trike-A-Thon fundraiser, a philanthropic event that benefits St. Jude Children‘s Research Hospital.
The Genoa day care raised $6,035 for the hospital during its event Sept. 16. Since its inception eight years ago, the event has raised more than $43,000, said Kristen Tatroe, Walnut Street Daycare Center’s lead preschool teacher.
“Honestly, I just love how excited the kids get that they’re actually doing something for other children, too,” Tatroe said.
Tatroe, who’s known as Mrs. Kristen by her students, said the preschoolers understand they’re raising money for a charity. St. Jude Children‘s Research Hospital will send the day care information about children who benefit from the money raised. Tatroe said she takes that material and uses it to get “the children to understand that some kids don’t live at home and they live at St. Jude’s, and that we help them so their families never receive a bill.”
“I show them right away because how are they going to get excited or understand why we’re doing something if they don’t understand why we’re doing it?” Tatroe said. “So getting them to differentiate, like a cough is very different than a child who has cancer and can’t go home.”
“Like, they’ll tell you ‘We ride our bikes to school’ Why? ‘To get money for the sick kids.’ They’ll say that,” Tatroe said.
The preschool uses the fundraiser as a tool to not only teach children the basics of philanthropy but safe bicycle practices as well. That lesson is something Rachel Engel, director and co-owner of Walnut Street Daycare Center, said “is so important.”
“That’s one reason why the TrikeA-Thon is so great is we do use the whole week as a lesson on bike safety,” Engel said. “Each day has a different lesson and hopefully once you instill it in them at this age, it stays with them as they move into that school age and they start riding their bikes to school or out with their friends, you just hope that it sticks with them.”
Order forms available for county’s biannual fish sale
SYCAMORE – The DeKalb County Soil and Water Conservation District is taking order forms for its biannual Fall Pond Stocking Fish Sale.
All fish orders are due by noon Friday, Sept. 30. Order forms are available at swcdekalbil.org. Fish for sale include bluegill, hybrid bluegill, redear sunfish, channel catfish, largemouth bass, fathead minnows and triploid grass carp.
Order pick-ups will be from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, in the parking lot of the DeKalb County Farm Bureau Centers for Agriculture, 1350 W. Prairie Drive, Sycamore.
For information, call 815-756-3234, ext. 3.
SANDWICH – Fox Valley Community Services will sponsor the annual Craft Show Under the Big Top from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, on Railroad Street in downtown Sandwich.
Two large tents will house crafts from many local artists and crafters. Items include floral arrangements, jewelry, candles, metal, wood, clothing, seasonal décor and more.
FVCS serves seniors in DeKalb, Kane, Kendall and La Salle counties in active adult activities at the Senior Center, Adult Day Service in Sandwich and DeKalb and Home Services.
Camden Lazenby – clazenby@shawmedia.com Sgt. Misty Odom and Walnut Street Daycare Center’s lead preschool teacher, Kristen Tatroe, talk with the children of the day care before the Trike-A-Thon begins on Friday, Sept. 16.
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To impart that lesson, the day care enlists the help of Sgt. Misty Odom of the DeKalb County County Sheriff’s Office. Odom completed an overnight shift before attending the Trike-A-Thon at 10 a.m.
“Always wear your helmet, don’t ride your bike in the street, watch out for cars and driveways, and always watch where you’re going,” Odom said.
Odom and Tatroe have been friends since childhood. Tatroe even taught Odom’s children when they were in preschool. During that era, Odom was asked to review bicycle safety for Walnut Street Daycare Center’s first TrikeA-Thon. Every year since, Odom has helped the center with the fundraiser, something she said she finds “really, really exciting.”
“I mean, it’s just heartwarming because there’s not a lot of people here, there’s not a lot of kids but they raise an extraordinary amount of money every single year,” Odom said. “It’s just little people doing big things and kids helping kids.”
Odom called the Trike-A-Thon – which features more than two dozen children riding around the day care parking lot – fun, organized chaos. She said the fundraiser also teaches preschoolers something beyond bike safety.
“I think the most important lesson is that the school, or the day care here, is teaching them at such a young age to help people and help each other,” Odom said. “And to me I think that means the world because you know, then hopefully that’s instilled in them from a very young age and it stays with them.” Norway Monday- Saturday 6am - 7 pm Sunday 8am- 4pm 3654 N. IL Rte 71, Sheridan, Illinois 815.496.2669 Store
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Photo provided by DeKalb County Community Foundation Leea Perry is the recipient of year’s Ed and Kim Kapper Physical Therapy Scholarship award. Perry graduated from Genoa-Kingston High School in 2019 and Northern Illinois University in 2022, and is pursuing a doctorate in physical therapy at NIU.
BRIEF
DCCF awards Kapper Scholarship to Leea Perry of Genoa
SYCAMORE – The recipient of this year’s Ed and Kim Kapper Physical Therapy Scholarship, established through the DeKalb County Community Foundation, is Leea Perry of Genoa.
Perry graduated from Genoa-Kingston High School in 2019. She received her bachelor’s degree, with full university honors, from Northern Illinois University in spring 2022. She is pursuing a doctorate in physical therapy at NIU, with plans to graduate in May 2025.
The scholarship is made possible through the Ed and Kim Kapper Physical Therapy Fund, established by the DeKalb County Community Foundation in 2020. The fund honors the memory of Ed Kapper and provides support to a high school graduate of a DeKalb County school attending an accredited physical therapy program at an accredited college or university.
To donate to any existing scholarship fund, visit dekalbccf.org/donate or write to the DeKalb County Community Foundation, 475 DeKalb Ave., Sycamore.
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Board member Eric Jones said he had a very positive experience with community service requirements when he went to a private school in San Jose, California, but noted that was a much different atmosphere with incomparable resources to what’s available to Sycamore’s school district.
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Board vice president Steve Nelson asked Jones how his high school worked with students who struggled to attend school for the service project. Jones pointed out that the students at the private school he went to were paying to attend so he wasn’t sure if that was a prevalent problem.
DeVito said he was thinking a requirement as low as six hours a year “would be nice,” but Dombek said he likes keeping community service to volunteers to build momentum toward a culture of community service.
“It seems to me that it would be almost self defeating if you put somebody out there to do volunteer work and they don’t want to do it,” Dombek said.
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