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Vol. 39, No. 42
Also serving North Riverside
October 16, 2024
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Brookfield rallies behind Hurricane Helene donation drive Jeff Wahl of Hollywood Motors had to stop accepting donations early after residents turned out
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By TRENT BROWN Staff Reporter
PHOTOS BY TRENT BROWN BROWN, PAGE PAAGE 11
TRENT BROWN
Brookfield celebrated its boys Little League baseball team as the victors of the village’s 61st annual Roy A. Overholt Baseball Tournament at the village board’s Oct. 14 meeting. All members of the team were present; in alphabetical order, Aiden Biel, Andrew Santos, Arturo Mason Raigosa, Daniel Ort, Jackson Holmes, Jax Horejs, Josiah Holmes, Kevin Pytel Jr., Lionel Otero, Michael Delgado, Ty Chase and Vincent Grant. Coaches Kevin Pytel Sr., Courtney Holmes, Chase Horejs and Arturo Raigosa were also recognized.
When Jeff and Cindy Wahl, owners of Hollywood Motors in Brookfield, put out an online call for donations last week for victims of Hurricane Helene, they had no idea village residents would turn out as hard as they did. Between the store and American Legion Post 1977 in New Lenox, of which Jeff Wahl is a member and which was also taking donations, the Wahls thought they might be able to gather one truckload of goods. In reality, Brookfielders showed out to support the Wahls’ effort, leaving them with more than two trucks’ worth of items to help the people of Elizabethton, Tennessee. Hollywood Motors started accepting donations See HELENE on page 3
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