Miss Illinois OPT and OT, 2010 going on today & tomorrow

Sheridan is competing in Miss IL outstanding Preteen in Springfield this weekend.
I think things are going pretty well. She had interview today, and it sounds like it went very well.

They asked her questions like, if you could tell President Obama one thing, what would it be... She said, you need to tell the people to help and donate to the local food pantries because it is important to me and there are many people suffering b/c of the bad economy and job loss and they need food.

One of the judges asked her why The Biggest Loser was her favorite TV show and she explained about how many kids have childhood obesity and it is important to stay fit and walk and to drink a lot of fluids, water and stay hydrated and eat healthy. (this judge is the one who was a fitness expert).

She was asked what one thing she would bring on an island and she said a photo album because it holds pictures of friends and family and many memories, so although it is one item it is like many items in one.

She looked great in her aqua blue knit suit/dress and shrug.
They had a long practice in the afternoon to get ready for opening number. She has a great purple top that our friend Sam made. We love it. It is cute and an original, no other girl will be wearing a top like hers.

Sheridan had a talent rehearsal too. We switched from a hand microphone to a headpiece microphone. Tonight we did some review of the talent b/c of the switch it means both hands are free for her act. We also did some polishing and a quick review for tomorrow.

In the morning, Sunday she has a 3 hour dress rehearsal, a break for lunch, and we will get hair done, check out and pack the car and then she goes back at 1pm for her pageant from 2-5.

No matter how she does she is a winner to me. We told her to be all out positive and turned on, high energy and i know she will do great.

We believe in realistic goals so our aim is for top 5. If she wins, great and if not, top 5, win or runner up 1-4 would be good too.

Good Luck to Sheridan. Your mom is so proud.

Pageant Weekend is Upon Us. Miss IL Outstanding Pre Teen in Springfield

This weekend starts the Miss IL Outstanding Teen and Pre-Teen Competition. Very Exciting.

I have all the outfits packed and labeled. All the curlers, shoes, socks, hose etc packed.

I have the luggage on my bed, ready or almost ready, to go.

I am so proud of Sheridan. No matter how she does I know it will be great.
There are 14 girls competing. Sheridan has improved 100 fold too.

I just switched hotels from $89 per night to now $50 per night and got the Teen, another Pre-Teen and an IL's got talent competitor to switch too, all of our friends. There is free breakfast too and we are only 2 blocks from the Hoogland Center in Springfield where the competition is and parking is free too. yeah.
We like free.

Sam our friend and Sheridan's coach is coming too, to do her hair. She is coming up with our directors from Miss Northern Suburbs, Kristen and Robin. They are at the same hotel too and so is our Miss. Party!!!

Hope I dont forget anything and that the trip goes well. Our Teen's mom freaked me out worrying about traffic b/c it is Memorial Day weekend but we are leaving at 130pm and it is a little less than a 4 hr. drive so even with traffic I should get there b/f 7. We have to check in from 5-7 at the Hoogland Center.

You have turn in all the outfits.

So Wish Sheridan Luck. We are turning in the sheet that shoes how many raffles she sold, it should be 5 or 6 when i am done tomorrow and we fundraised anywhere from $140-180 for Children's Miracle Network and then there is the change we collected which I will count at Jewel at the counter machine tomorrow morning.

I know Sheridan will do great. Come Join us to cheer her on this Sunday the 30th of May from 2-5 at the Hoogland Center for $25 per ticket.

Libertyville Township Meeting

toonight was a regular Libertyville Township Meeting. It started at pm and was very quick today. All township trustees were present, so was the clerk, the supervisor and the highway commissioner as well as a few of our office staff who are regularly there. We approved bills as always, asked questions if we had any.

The highway commissioner talked about looking out for ticks and bats this summer season.

The supervisor report covered the # of people who came to our food pantry, which was 236 households, 661 people. She also lists all the organizations and companies and people that donate. Thank you so much for donating to the Libertyville Township Food pantry.

June 9 is senior picnic day at Independence Grove from 9am - 12. We are donating and giving out hot dogs as last year. If you are a Senior 55+ come out and enjoy the day.

The food pantry is going to have the moved out on June 7 and power diconnected to follow on June 9 and June 11 the employee parking lot will be closed.

There was a tea to thank all of our food pantry volunteers on April 22 that went well.

This year we will have a float again in the Libertyville days parade. the Theme is Rock this Town and we will be Rockin' the Township and Open space and have the Buckley Road band joining us on the float and rocking out!.

We had an update on our Wetland Mitigation Bank at Atkinson Road. We are awaiting approval from EPA/Fish adn Wild life and the Corp already advised.

For new business there is a township citizen who has a house that is in the Des Plaines River flood zone and has applied for a grant to get relief, basically for the government to buy out their house but the Township has to consider if we will help too, whether it be with money or in assisting in the land clearance and if we take this on it could lead to opening a can of worms in the area b/c there is an entire community of houses in this area. Not sure if the Township can or has the funds to take this on. If we take over the house, which gets knocked down, we then take the land and add it to the Open Space... we will discuss in next township Meeting on June 10th at 7pm. We need to study and learn more b/c this is the first we ahve heard about this.

June 15 at 4pm will be the ground breaking ceremony for the Libertyville Township new food pantry.

come join us.

VOTE For Sheridan and Donate to Chidren's Miracle Network

hi Friends, time is closing in on both the time to vote and to donate to Children's Miracle Network for Sheridan

Hi Friends,

Please vote for sheridan and ask your friends to too. Only one vote per IP.

please - here is the link

http://www.missillinois.org/preteen/photogenic.html


Photogenic voting is up on the website! Go to the homepage at www.missillinois.org and you will see a link. You can vote for 1 teen and 1 pre-teen per IP address. Voting will continue until 11:59 PM on Saturday, May 29th!
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DONATE TO CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK

My daughter Sheridan Hurtig is Miss Northern Suburbs Outstanding Pre-teen and is competing in the Miss IL Outstanding PreTeen competition on May 30th. she has set a goal to fundraise $250 and is at $140 currently. Please look at this link and donate and ask your friends too or forward this email to them.

Children's Miracle Network is the alliance of premier children's hospitals. Every year, Children's Miracle Network hospitals treat 17 million children for every disease and injury imaginable. Children's Miracle Network hospitals impact the lives of more children than any other children's organization in the world. Children's hospitals provide state-of-the-art care, life-saving research and preventative education for children 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. There is a Children's Miracle Network hospital dedicated to serving children in every community across the United States and Canada. These hospitals are committed to providing the best care for children when they need it.

Children need the specialized care and equipment only children’s hospitals can provide. Children's Miracle Network hospitals:

* Provide $2.5 billion in charity (uncompensated) care each year
* Treat 98% of all children needing heart or lung transplants
* Treat 88% of all children with cancer
* Treat 76% of all children with cystic fibrosis
* Treat 90% of all children with sickle cell anemia
* Treat 72% of all children with pediatric AIDS
* Devote 60% of their services to children under age six and 25% to newborns
* Train 60% of pediatricians and 80% of all pediatric specialists
* Educate families about issues like child safety seats, helmet safety and bike safety

You can help make the dreams of millions of kids come true who need the life-saving care and specialized services that only Children’s Miracle Network hospitals provide. Please visit Sheridan's link to donate to CMN at
https://www.maoteen4kids.org/m.aspx?i=1201995EC3B5EEB51
to find out how you can donate too.

it is so easy and a really good cause
Sheridan and Sari Hurtig

PS we also have two collection jars at the Culver's in Libertyville and Mundelein, thank you for letting us put out collection jars. Every Penny does count!

meeting miss america

Sheridan and I went with Ashley Miss Chicago OPT and Linda, her mom and her friend Theresa and Linda's mother-in-law to go see Miss America at the DSW in Oakbrook.

It was great meeting here. I will post pictures later.

We ran into other fellow title holders too, Sydney Shotwell and Ali Nicole Browning as well as Sherry last years Miss Northern Suburbs and the current Miss Glen Ellyn with the International system.

All were so nice. It is fun to see other girls outside of the pageant competitions.

Miss Northern Suburbs fundraiser and Fashion Show Luncheon

It was a great time for all today. The girls all looked great and I think the fundraiser was a success.

The food was nice, we had sandwiches, cookies and lemon bars, various salads, a bean and corn salad and a green lettuce salad and iced tea and lemonade. There was plenty of food with leftovers.

the company was great of course, led by our pageant directors Robin Ruchti and Kristen Pradep this fundraiser went off without a hitch, very smooth going, although I know Robin only had 4 hour sleep, last minute preparation and all.

All the girls modeling were queens from our own queens, Corina, Taylor and Sheridan the Miss Norther Suburbs Miss, Teen and Pre-Teen respectively as well as our princess, a couple of Lake County Fair queens, Little Miss Vernon Hills Queen,Brianna, Last Years Miss and Princess, a Dream Girls Queen, Hanna, Miss Chicago Pre-Teen,Ashley, Miss Teen from Oak Lawn (I think Oak Lawn) - Sydney S., the Little and Junior from Libertyville and last years princesses to Corina, and of course our own Miss IL Erin.

They all looked great and were very beautiful. They modeled fashions from Kohl's in Gurnee. Fashions ranged from dresses to casual. Sheridan was great and even through in her modeling moves.

Corina and Taylor talked about their platforms and Sheridan sang a song. She was amazing as usual, proud mama here of course.

Taylor and Sheridan went around selling raffle tickets as well. there were about 20 raffles to give away ranging from jewelry and stationary to various gift cards to Curlvers and Starbucks. I won two, one was jewelry, a beautiful set of earrings and necklace and a Starbucks gift card.

There was also a silent auction and the items ranged from books, a phone, tupperware, as well as tickets to the indoor football leagues games, nights stays at various hotels, photo packages with Fedler studio, the official photographer for Miss Northern Suburbs pageant system, Culvers 12 pints of custard, and so, so much more.

There was also some pageant jewelry for sale all at reasoanble prices. I bought three new crown pins at $8 each... such a deal. there are rings too!!! if you are interested I can hook you up!!

David Stuart from the Improv Playhouse in Libertyville was the Emcee for the fashion show and he was excellent as always. We got him to volunteer, he is our friend and Sheridan takes classes from the Improv and is going to theater camp there too.

All in all a great day. Join us next year!

JOIN US - 2nd annual Miss Northern Suburbs Fashion show & luncheon.

Second Annual Miss Northern Suburbs Fashion Show and Luncheon
Type: Causes - Fundraiser
Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010
Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm
Location: Lake Forest College - Glen Rowan House


Description
Tickets are $25 each. Annual Fashion Show Fundraiser for the Miss Northern Suburbs Scholarship Pageant. Clothes will be provided by Kohl's of Gurnee.

the 3 Miss Northern suburbs queens are modeling along with many other town queens, come join us. there will also be a fabulous silent auction and the Emcee will be David Stuart from Improv Playhouse in Libertyville.

Say hi to me too, Sari

Community Service

Today Sheridan and I went to a church in Libertyville that has a food pantry every third Saturday of the month. This month there were 210 families, down from previous months.

Sheridan and I talk about communtiy service and we believe it is important, not just to help other but it also helps us and humbles us.
Sheridan is learning and understanding that if I lose my job we could easily be one paycheck away from needing to go to the food pantry too.

This pantry is unique in that they do not have a storage location. The Northern IL food bank shows up with a truck of food the church orders for the food pantry distribution that day.

They offer canned goods, fruits and vegetables, soups, tuna, as well as being a unique pantry because they order Breads, Fresh Fruits, Cakes, and sweets, Frozen Meats. Many pantries dont have the ability to store refrigerated or frozen food so this becomes a luxury to many of these people in need.

Today we arrived at 9am, and the truck was being unloaded. Sheridan and I were assigned to sorting the cans of fruits and vegetables and then we moved on to sorting the pastas and a bunch of misc. stuff. Sheridan also counted items and marked quantities on boxes.

Once we know what we have they count the totals and advise what we can give each family.
At 10am we all pray together and then start lining the people up, they are assigned #'s when they arrive.

I was giving out the soups/beans/ tuna/ canned meals - Sheridan was giving out the fruits and applesauce. they had enough applesauce for every family to get at least one can plus other fruits. the soup had cream of chicken and rice in abundance to give out that extra as well plus 3 cans of soup/tuna/beans or canned meals.

we left at about 1240 b/c i had to get to the doctor. Time went so fast. I was surprised it was almost one when we left. there were about 30 more families in line... others took our spot.

It is great to help and see people, face to face. we show respect b/c we could all be in need at anytime too.

Donate time to a community service that makes you feel good, food pantries or otherwise but help others. It is so important.

Vote for Sheridan for Most Photogenic Pre-Teen

Hi Friends,

Please vote for sheridan and ask your friends to too. Only one vote per IP.

please - here is the link

http://www.missillinois.org/preteen/photogenic.html


Photogenic voting is up on the website! Go to the homepage at www.missillinois.org and you will see a link. You can vote for 1 teen and 1 pre-teen per IP address. Voting will continue until 11:59 PM on Saturday, May 29th!

Thanks, Sari

Donate to Children's Miracle Network, a great cause.

My daughter Sheridan Hurtig is Miss Northern Suburbs Outstanding Pre-teen and is competing in the Miss IL Outstanding PreTeen competition on May 30th. she has set a goal to fundraise $250 and is at $140 currently. Please look at this link and donate and ask your friends too or forward this email to them.

Children's Miracle Network is the alliance of premier children's hospitals. Every year, Children's Miracle Network hospitals treat 17 million children for every disease and injury imaginable. Children's Miracle Network hospitals impact the lives of more children than any other children's organization in the world. Children's hospitals provide state-of-the-art care, life-saving research and preventative education for children 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. There is a Children's Miracle Network hospital dedicated to serving children in every community across the United States and Canada. These hospitals are committed to providing the best care for children when they need it.

Children need the specialized care and equipment only children’s hospitals can provide. Children's Miracle Network hospitals:

* Provide $2.5 billion in charity (uncompensated) care each year
* Treat 98% of all children needing heart or lung transplants
* Treat 88% of all children with cancer
* Treat 76% of all children with cystic fibrosis
* Treat 90% of all children with sickle cell anemia
* Treat 72% of all children with pediatric AIDS
* Devote 60% of their services to children under age six and 25% to newborns
* Train 60% of pediatricians and 80% of all pediatric specialists
* Educate families about issues like child safety seats, helmet safety and bike safety

You can help make the dreams of millions of kids come true who need the life-saving care and specialized services that only Children’s Miracle Network hospitals provide. Please visit Sheridan's link to donate to CMN at
https://www.maoteen4kids.org/m.aspx?i=1201995EC3B5EEB51
to find out how you can donate too.

it is so easy and a really good cause
Sheridan and Sari Hurtig

PS we also have two collection jars at the Culver's in Libertyville and Mundelein, thank you for letting us put out collection jars. Every Penny does count!

quick note; had a virus

sorry, i have a lot to blog about but had a virus and just got computer back today, been down all week.

have to advise about children's miracle network and where we have donation cans/collection cans.

last weekend monthers day with NISP and Stamp out hunger

post about what is going on in HP - politics and the AZ immigration law issue

also have to post on libertyville township meeting we had this past week and budget issues.

lastly tomorrow sheridan and I are volunteering at a food pantry in libertyville

Sunday there is a luncheon and fundraiser for Miss Northern Suburbs part of Miss IL/Miss America system

hope to have time to post all tomorrow.
chime in!!!

Children's Miracle Network a worthy cause, donate please

My daughter Sheridan Hurtig is Miss Northern Suburbs Outstanding Pre-teen and is competing in the Miss IL Outstanding PreTeen competition on May 30th. she has set a goal to fundraise $250 and is at $140 currently. Please look at this link and donate and ask your friends too or forward this email to them.

Children's Miracle Network is the alliance of premier children's hospitals. Every year, Children's Miracle Network hospitals treat 17 million children for every disease and injury imaginable. Children's Miracle Network hospitals impact the lives of more children than any other children's organization in the world. Children's hospitals provide state-of-the-art care, life-saving research and preventative education for children 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. There is a Children's Miracle Network hospital dedicated to serving children in every community across the United States and Canada. These hospitals are committed to providing the best care for children when they need it.

Children need the specialized care and equipment only children’s hospitals can provide. Children's Miracle Network hospitals:

* Provide $2.5 billion in charity (uncompensated) care each year
* Treat 98% of all children needing heart or lung transplants
* Treat 88% of all children with cancer
* Treat 76% of all children with cystic fibrosis
* Treat 90% of all children with sickle cell anemia
* Treat 72% of all children with pediatric AIDS
* Devote 60% of their services to children under age six and 25% to newborns
* Train 60% of pediatricians and 80% of all pediatric specialists
* Educate families about issues like child safety seats, helmet safety and bike safety

You can help make the dreams of millions of kids come true who need the life-saving care and specialized services that only Children’s Miracle Network hospitals provide. Please visit Sheridan's link to donate to CMN at https://www.maoteen4kids.org/m.aspx?i=1201995EC3B5EEB51 to find out how you can donate too.

it is so easy and a really good cause
Sheridan and Sari Hurtig



Sari Hurtig
sarihurtig@hotmail.com