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The Hickory Hills Sertoma Club has donated $3,500 to the Kiwanis Club to help support residents who were displaced after a fire on Dec. 25. From left to right are Mayor Bennett, Jerry Lipinski, Matt Birk, and Mike Lebarre. (City of Palos Hills Resource & Recreation Department)
PALOS HILLS, IL – The Hickory Hills Sertoma Club has donated $3,500 to the Kiwanis Club to help support residents who were displaced after a fire on Christmas Day.
Members of the Sertoma Club recently presented the donation to Mayor Jerry Bennett and Kiwanis member Mike Lebarre with the goal of providing assistance to the 56 people who were affected by the fire at an apartment-condominium building.
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The Green Tree Condominiums in Palos Hills hours a fire tore through the building on Christmas Day. (Courtesy of American Red Cross)
PALOS HILLS, IL In the days leading up to the fire that displaced dozens of residents from a Palos Hills apartment building that had been converted into the condos on Christmas Day, residents noticed what smelled like burning plastic as they entered the building. The smell got thicker, but we didn t think too much about it, said Jessica Mendoza, one of 56 residents forced to flee the Green Tree Condominiums.
After dropping off her fiancé s children early Christmas morning, the power went out in their section of the Green Tree Condos, 9954 84th Terrace. Mendoza and her fiancé, Jason Rodriguez, noticed that other sections of their 40-unit building still had power.