Grace Kuikman Earns Well Deserved BAPA Community Service Award
By Brian Marchetti No one personifies the commitment to Beverly/Morgan Park embodied in the BAPA Community Service Award like Grace Kuikman. Her lifetime of dedication to the arts, preservation of historic architecture, and charity to the less fortunate has shaped Beverly/Morgan Park into one of Chicago’s best neighborhoods. Originally from Evergreen Park, Kuikman moved to […]
Profiles of 3 BAPA Community Service Award Winners
By Tina Jenkins Bell BAPA School Liaison Logan Killelea: See a Need, Do Something In 2014 at the age of 8, Logan Killelea started making homemade crayons and selling them in the neighborhood to raise funds for Ronald McDonald House. Now 13, he continues this endeavor, most recently expanding it as service project and accepting an offer from the 95th Street Farmers Market to sell his crayons there this summer. Logan, the 2021 Community Service Award […]
Beverly Area Public School Community Service Awards
By Tina Jenkins Bell BAPA School Liaison Each year, BAPA’s public education committee gives out community service awards to public school students who make a difference. Each public elementary school has the opportunity to nominate one student, who in their own way contributed to their community, including their school, their neighborhood, or elsewhere. Last month, The Villager profiled award winners from Kellogg School, Vanderpoel Humanties Academy […]