Monday, March 25, 2013
The Silver Cross Diabetes Center is one of the area’s first American Diabetes Association’s recognized quality comprehensive diabetes management programs.
In recognition of the American Diabetes Association’s American Diabetes Alert, the Silver Cross Diabetes Center in partnership with the Joliet Noon Lions Club will offer free screenings to detect diabetes on Tuesday, March 26 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. in outside Silver CrossHospital’s Season’s Dining Room, 1900 Silver Cross Blvd., New Lenox. Participants will be offered a Diabetes Risk Assessment and Blood Glucose Test as well as Walgreens will provide a free blood pressure screening. No fasting is required. The American Diabetes Alert is an annual nationwide campaign to raise awareness that diabetes is a complex, serious and increasingly common disease affecting more than 26million children and adults in the United States. There are an …
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Pharmacy managers and store clerks are joining a 5K Walk to fight diabetes.
The staff at Walgreens stores in New Lenox and Mokena know their customers as friends. That's why they're joining the American Diabetes Association's Walk to Stop Diabetes, beginning at 10 a.m. Oct. 20, at Soldier Field in Chicago. In a store where people come for prescriptions and to talk to the pharmacist, they gain more than a bottle of pills and directions on how best to take the medication. They gain friends—a lot of them. It's an authentic relationship, said Walgreens managers from New Lenox's Schoolhouse store and Mokena's store on Wolf Road. "The regular customers—those who come in three times a week or more—are not just faces; they're Barb, Mary Ann, Jose or Mike. These people come in my store, and I can't help but to care about…
Monday, September 17, 2012
Watching your money closely doesn't mean to tighten your belt.
So far in September, New Lenox police have been called twice by businesses that unwittingly took in counterfeit bills. On Sept. 8 employees at the Barber's Chair on Route 30 near Vine Street took in a $10 counterfeit bill, and Walmart lost $100 to a phony money scam on Sept. 1. Deputy Chief Robert Pawlisz said counterfeit bill passing is a sporadic problem in New Lenox, and the amount of loss varies. Most retail stores have detector pens at the cash register, and the clerks are trained to carefully eye ball $100 and $50 bills. The problem is that counterfeits more often than not come in the form of $10 and $20 bills, he said. The counterfeiters know how to take advantage of a situation. They wait for a busy evening or Saturday to pay …
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Brittany Griggs and Maurika Jackson, both of Chicago, face felony retail theft charges after police say they caught the women with goods they stole from three area Walgreens in one day.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Joe Vince
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
Two Chicago women were caught with a little more than $6,000 in merchandise stolen in a single day from three Walgreens pharmacies in Frankfort and Mokena, Frankfort Police said. Brittany K. Griggs, 24, of the 1000 block of East 80th Avenue in Chicago, and Maurika D. Jackson, 25, of the 7400 block of South Claremont Avenue, were arrested Sunday, Aug. 12, on felony retail theft charges. The two women were booked in to Will County Jail, where they are still being held on $25,000 bond each. Their next court date is Sept. 4. READ: Frankfort Man Sentenced for Crossbow-Knife Fight in Joliet Bar A member of Walgreens staff at its store at LaGrange Road and U.S. Route 30 called Frankfort Police around 11:30 a.m. Sunday after a customer witnessed …
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
A New Lenox man encourages donations to the Manteno veterans home through candy.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Karen Hanson
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
A moment of sweet inspiration has brightened the day of hundreds of Illinois veterans. About four years ago, New Lenox resident Jim Kranz noticed a display of candy on post-holiday clearance at Walgreens on Schoolhouse Road, where he works as a cashier. On a whim, he bought some – a lot. It was more than he needed, so he called the Illinois Veterans Home at Manteno to see if anyone there could use it. Come on down, they said. Since then, Kranz has made monthly visits to the Veterans Home, each time donating roughly 250 individual bars and bags of candy. It’s been a group effort, Kranz said. In addition to buying the clearance candy, he has also collected candy donated by others. The Manteno Veterans Home houses about 260 veterans, men and …
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Tori Watson
11:40 am on Monday, September 17, 2012
I'm not offended when I go to Taco Bell and they check my money with a pen to see if I'm a crook, then hand me food that isn't really meat. Sounds about right. more ›