Features

We go for a ride with Dave Morrow, a flight instructor at Lake in the Hills Airport.

Carol Knudsen, of Woodstock, has been an election judge for more than 40 years.

Cindy Zimmerman will retire this year after 29 years of teaching. She has taught band at Bernotas Middle School in Crystal Lake since 1994.

A look at GardenFest 2009 on April 4 at McHenry County College. The expo featured local vendors and educational seminars that complement McHenry County Magazine's April garden and landscaping features.

The Animal House Shelter in Huntley houses 200 discarded animals that are up for adoption. But, some of these animals have special needs that make it impossible to adopt out and difficult to raise funds to treat.

Heather B. Armstrong, creator of the popular blog dooce.com, talks about blogging as a profession and her new book, 'It Sucked and Then I Cried.'

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Mike Andry, 58, of Johnsburg, had a cancerous poylp removed last year after a preventative check found it.

On March 15, 2009, three soldiers from Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 178th Infantry, deployed out of Woodstock, were killed by a roadside bomb in Kot, Afghanistan. Sgt. Robert Weinger, 24, of Round Lake Beach, Sgt. Christopher Abeyta, 23, of Midlothian, and Spc. Norman Cain III, 22, of Mount Morris, were laid to rest this past weekend.

The 2009 Home and Housewares Show at McCormick Place in Chicago.

Lillian Reasor, 16, of Algonquin, is currently ranked third in the world for Irish Harp in Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann's (Festival of Music in Ireland) for the 15-18 age group. The Fleadh Cheoil is a competition of traditional Irish music. This May, she will be competing in Detroit at the 2009 Midwest Fleadh Cheoil a regional competition. Reasor plays classical and Irish harp.