For some young people, a teacher may be the only person they come in contact with, who will listen and validate them. Those connections can last a lifetime.
This is the season that's all about giving. It does my heart proud to see what these Harlem High School students are doing with their class project. They will be giving back to help a group that have given us so much. Our veterans.
When you think about summers as a teenager you remember all the fun in the sun, the swimming, going to friends, the parties. But do you remember using your time to go and do manual labor of pulling weeds and yardwork for fun and not because your parents assigned you the tasks?
That's local high school students are doing this summer. As they've partner with a church to clean up Rockford schools bef