Carrie Steinweg
Times Correspondent
Summer is almost officially here according to the calendar. But it already feels like summer. School is out for the year in most places, the sun is shining and after the past year, everyone is ready to slip into long, lazy days by the pool. Start off your summer by making a summer bucket list for your family and have fun checking things off one by one. Here are a few ideas:
Go fishing. If your kids have never dropped a pole in the water before, why not pick up some poles and introduce them to this pastime? With rivers and lakes small and large in the region, there are plenty of places to snag a fish â from the Kankakee River to Cedar Lake to the shores of Lake Michigan.
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âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.