Some of the colorful decoration from the 2009 PFLAG  entry in the Crystal Lake Independence Day Parade

I’ve been marching in the Crystal Lake Independence Day Parade almost every year for at least twenty years-usually with the McHenry County Democrats or the old McHenry County Peace Group.    This summer, an off election year, the Democrats are ( Read more... )

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It was a glorious, warm autumn day in McHenry County.  And with just three weeks and two days to the election, it was time to get serious.

Even at morning services at the Congregational Unitarian Church, after Woodstock PFLAG leader Toni Weaver led a commemoration of the tenth anniversary of Mathew Shepherd’s murder, the morning was given over to ( Read more... )

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