DAILY HERALD: Des Plaines teacher wins Carnegie Award for saving student
A counselor at a school for special-needs students in Des Plaines is being awarded by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission for rescuing a student from the flooded Des Plaines River. According to the commission, here's why Christopher Skeet got the award:
"Christopher Adam Skeet helped to save a boy from drowning, Des Plaines, Illinois, September 15, 2008. A teenaged boy fled his school and was located by school personnel, including Skeet, 30, teacher, along the Des Plaines River. The river was flooded from heavy rains, and its current was swift. The boy mounted a concrete wall adjacent to the river and jumped into it. He submerged, the current then carrying him out from the bank and downstream. Without hesitation, Skeet, fully clothed, jumped into the river and swam to him, but the swift current and the boy’s struggling impeded Skeet's initial attempt to tow him back to the wall. They were pulled a distance downstream before Skeet got the boy within reach of the wall. Another man entered the river to help, and people along the wall, including responding police, pulled the boy, the other man, and Skeet from the river. All three were taken to a hospital for examination. Skeet recovered from nausea and muscle ache."
Congrats to Skeet! He's getting a medal and $5,000...well deserved!
WEDNESDAY JOURNAL: Oak Park mom shares 'One Love'
An third grade teacher in Oak Park just raised $10,000 for Haitian earthquake survivors. The single mother of two organized a benefit concert all by herself to raise the money. It will go to the Organization for Haitian Development and Progress, which was created by a group of Haitian Americans. Their goal is to help support a small Haitian community where many of them were born and raised before immigrating to Chicago.
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