Elgin News Digest: Dundee-Crown grad led flyover at Sunday’s Green Bay game; South Elgin students win grand prize at LA film fest; Kane prosecutor honored for second time by AAIM
Dundee graduates to lead flyover Green Bay Game Alex Abbott, Dundee-Crown High School Class of 2013, leads flyover of Lambeau Field’s four F-35 jets on Sunday, November 5, Green Bay Packers/Los Angeles Rams Game .
Abbott, 28, of Carpentersville, is a captain in the National Guard’s 115th Fighter Squadron in Madison, Wisconsin.
South Elgin High School student Hannah Yoder reads for the role of Phyllis Zimbler Miller in Zimbler Miller’s play “Thin Edge of the Wedge,” presented in January at Elgin Congregation Kneseth Israel.
A documentary about the production was filmed by the students and won the grand prize for “Best Short Documentary” at the 2023 Silicon Beach Film Festival in Los Angeles.
(Ryan Lewin / HANDOUT) South Elgin students win grand prize at LA film fest Students at South Elgin High School’s Beacon Magnet Academy of Media and Digital Arts took home the grand prize for “Best Documentary Short” at the 2023 Silicon Beach Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Advertisement “Teaching the Holocaust: Beyond Facts and Figures” centers on a student-staged reading of “The Thin Edge of the Wedge,” presented at Congregation Kneseth Israel in Elgin in January.
The play, written by Phyllis Zimbler Miller, a 1966 graduate of Elgin High School, features accounts from Holocaust survivors and their families that she collected.
Students involved with the play also visited the Illinois Holocaust Museum, according to an online news release.
Kane prosecutor honored for DUI cases by AAIM The Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists recently named Kane County Assistant State’s Attorney Katy Flannagan its 2023 Outstanding Assistant State’s Attorney.
It is the second time Flannagan has been recognized for her work as a DUI prosecutor, according to a news release.
In 2022, she was named a MADD Hero by Mothers Against Drunk Driving for her DUI enforcement work.
Flannagan has been supervisor of the state’s attorney’s DUI and Major Traffic Unit since spring 2022.
Through October 2023, the unit filed felony charges in 311 DUI cases, which is on pace to surpass the 360 felony DUI cases filed in 2022, according to the release.
Rep.
Dan Ugaste collects gift cards for the military State Rep.
Dan Ugaste, R-Geneva, is organizing a holiday gift card drive for the U.S.
military.
Gift cards from Amazon, Sam’s Club, Costco and Dollar Tree can be delivered to the St.
Charles, 406 Surrey Woods Drive, Unit A, for the America’s Holiday Socks campaign led by the Support Our Troops Campaign.
“Our troops make many sacrifices for their country, including being away from their families during important holidays,” Ugaste said in a statement.
“Gift cards can give them the opportunity to buy gifts for loved ones or treat themselves this holiday season.
” Card donation deadline is Tuesday, November 11.
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Last year, the nonprofit shipped 4,517 Christmas stockings to the troops.
