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Park addition combines reading with outdoor fun

The walk features a series of enlarged and laminated pages of a children’s book along a pathway that includes play areas and natural prairie grasses.

Park addition combines reading with outdoor fun

The walk features a series of enlarged and laminated pages of a children’s book along a pathway that includes play areas and natural prairie grasses.

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“I’ll see you in heaven.” 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. Al’s daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Al’s hospitalization. Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.