Most recent greeting is posted at top of this page as it’s updated throughout the month. Occasionally, Greetings to PN also are linked to other online PN stories. Many of these greetings, edited for space for the printed paper, will appear in the next issue of PN.
Thank you for keeping greetings as brief as possible. And thanks for sending your thoughts about this community with your signature. We welcome them!
To PN FB: I would like to just send a huge hug and great big thank you to the residents of Naperville! My family and I were involved in a terrible accident on Sunday afternoon. Ppl assisted us and helped us to get out of an overturned vehicle, stayed with us until the police and paramedics arrived. To man that reached into the car and spoke the words “grab my hand, I won’t let you go”…. thank you! To the young man (off duty paramedic) who held my daughter’s hand, I will be forever grateful. To the woman the came to my brother’s aide, thank you. To the residents of the complex that came out to assist and provide support. .. thank you. The residents of Naperville were my angels in disguise! We are forever grateful for the acts of kindness shown towards us. Thank you again to the residents of Naperville, Naperville police, and Naperville fire department. As we recover from this traumatic experience, we will always remember the good Samaritans of Naperville.
—Tasha Smith, Naperville resident
To PN: Great article. Thank you to Ribfest and the Exchange Club for a wonderful night and for organizing such a worthy cause that benefits so many in the local community. It was great to meet the mayor and so many of the volunteers who give of their time toward the Festival. This is in honor of your work – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmOJgRA8YMI.
—Roger Hodgson
To PN: What a wonderful and gracious article you wrote in the Positively Naperville paper.
Lisa and I feel honored that you took such an interest in us and acknowledged our volunteerism.
We both were so surprised by the warm reception we received from those that were officiating and managing the Fest events. We were so happy we were allowed to volunteer and contribute toward the Rib Fest endeavor to eliminate child abuse.
Please share our expression of gratitude (I don’t have their email information) with the Mayor, Emy, Cathy, and John (manager of gates). They are wonderful and caring people that clearly have a passion and enthusiasm for what they do.
I do hope we may have a future opportunity to engage with all the wonderful people we met. Lisa and I would like to extend an invitation to meet with those mentioned above should they find occasion to be in the Dayton area.
—Abel Hernandez Jr.
To PN: Thanks for publishing Scott Wehrli’s tribute to Bill Young. —Mike Reilly
A great fan story from a #FaceTheMusic signing in Naperville. #KISSFANSROCK #KISS http://t.co/uW8OwALOhD — Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) June 11, 2014
To PN: My name is Brendan Bond, I will be a junior at Naperville North High School this Fall. I am currently a Boy Scout with Life ranking in Troop 555 at Grace United Methodist Church. I am reaching out to you about my upcoming Eagle Scout project to promote Organ Donor Awareness.
My goal is to sign up at least 100 new donors for Donate Life Illinois.
This project was inspired and will be in Honor of my dad, Jim Bond, who is currently on the UNOS National Kidney transplant list and in Memory of Mikey Gustafson, a friend and NNHS golf teammate, who passed away in January, 2013, after almost a five-year battle with medullablastoma and had made the decision to donate tissue to help research efforts.
I will have a booth at Lisle’s Eyes to the Skies festival (July 3-5), create a Facebook page and this email campaign looking to sign up as many new donors that cannot make the festival.
If you are attending the festival, stop by and say hi at booth #60 on Short St.
If you cannot make the festival to sign up, the following link will take you directly to the Donate Life registration page. Please email me back if you kindly register online, so I can keep a count of who registered. If can also, please pass along this email to your friends and family to further promote my project.
Click here: Register – Donate Life Illinois / www.donatelifeillinois.org/index.php/register/
Thanks so much for your help in and look forward to meeting you.
—Brendan Bond, bjbgolf16@aol.com
To PN: I love your website! I just spent some time on your website. It is really wonderful — full of information, beautifully designed, and in touch with Naperville. I really enjoyed Scott Wehrli’s tribute to Bill Young.
Thanks for this great concept and incredible contribution to Naperville.
Have a blessed 4th, celebrating our freedoms and this exceptional country.
—Jini Clare
Editor’s Note: All of us at Positively Naperville appreciate all of the local independent merchants that have embraced this concept with their investment of advertising since PN launched its first version of a website in July 2001. Lucky 13 years ago! The words of Dan Casey, owner of Casey’s Foods, pretty much sum up the generous spirit of our city. “Support your local businesses and you’ll always live in a nice community,” said Casey.
Also, if you live outside the PN delivery area, the pages of our monthly print edition are presented online for readers to flip, one at a time. Thanks for reading. —PN
To PN: (In response to a recent marketing story that identified Naperville in the Top 10 of Snobby mid-sized cities) Naperville a Snob City? Of course, there may be some in our wonderful town. I like our Mayor’s viewpoint saying this is an opportunity to talk about all the good things we have here.
One thing I would like to promote is that we could be a little “kindlier.” KIN – Kindness in Naperville. I notice that we are all in such a hurry that sometimes we are not as kind as we could be.
One time while shopping in a department store in Naples, Florida, I was approaching the check out cashier when a rather harried lady came up behind me. I turned around and said, “You seem to be in a big rush, why don’t you go ahead of me.” So she did and thanked me.
Then when she left and I was paying, the clerk reached under the counter and gave me a wrapped gift. I asked what was that for and she said because I was so kind to let that lady go in front of me. When I opened the package at home, it was a nice toiletry of lotion, soap, etc. The clerk said the store manager gave out one per day to someone who had been kind. That was several years ago and it made an impression on me.
Just last week, a friend of mine here in Naperville was at a grocery store and she said when she was at the checkout counter the cashier asked her if she had found everything. Pat said No and told her what it was. And then one of the bag boys presented her with some flowers and said they were sorry for her inconvenience. She was so amazed. And I know she has a good feeling about shopping in that store from now on.
I notice that drivers here are very aggressive. They ride your bumper and love to get in the right lane and then cut left in front of you. I don’t blame them if you are driving with 50 yards between you and the front guy. But they do it no matter how much space there is. They don’t seem to get there any quicker than if they stayed behind me. Often when the right lane is a turn lane too, I try to not plug it up and hold up a driver behind me that may wish to turn right.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could look for ways to be nicer and “kindlier”?
These are just little courtesies that Napervillians could do that would make us a KIN city.
—Bev Frier
Editor’s Note: Bev Frier was among the individuals who urged the concept of Kindness in Naperville back in 2010. Nearly five years later, we’re trying to be kind— even when fast-talking scam callers make it tough.
