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OK Fine – it’s for the kids, but really it’s the adults who score the goodies in the eggs, right?  Saturday, April 3rd at 10AM at West Ridge Park.  The kids are divided by age. 3-years-old and under, 4-7 years-old and 8-years old to senior citizen.  Our money is on the 3 year olds to run circles around the 1 year olds – not even a contest!  Although the 7 year old could hip-check the 4-year olds, and the 8-year old could hip-check the seniors…well, it should be interesting to see how it all plays out…fun for the whole family – and it’s FREE! Questions? call 847-579-3120.

 847-303-0303 .  That could be your lucky number.  If in doubt, it’s worth calling 303 Taxi if you, or a friend, has had a little too much fun.  

And the next morning, when you have to call 303 Taxi and have them drive you back to your car, don’t think of it as your morning-after walk of shame – HARDLY!  Frankly, it’s one of the better ways to show yourself some respect – and start the new year right…

Be Safe – Fun will Follow…

Happy & Healthy to All – From HP Daily Blog

HP Daily Blog Correspondent LL reports on a heartwarming “overheard” moment…

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” recalled the mother with her 3-year old son Matthew.  She was referring to the man operating the crane game at Fuddruckers.   “He’d put in his money, move the crane, grab a stuffy and pull it out of the machine.  It was unreal!” 

Most Fuddruckers diehards rarely see anyone pull any stuffed animals out of the machine, let alone twice in a row.  So she did what any mother would do.

But no luck.  The crane operator couldn’t score any more stuffies and Matthew went back to his table empty handed. 

Thanks Again Mr. Crane Operator!

It was a learning opportunity to be sure, as the mother explained how sometimes you win and sometimes you lose and that sometimes, the crane comes up empty. 

Several minutes later, after Matthew and his mom returned to their Fuddruckers’ deliciousness, the man operating the crane nonchalantly called over, “Hey Matthew, you forgot to pick up your prize.” 

Humanity – It’s Contagious.

HP Daily Blog Correspondent PP reports on the holiday moment that almost wasn’t.

The guests arrived to smiles, water glasses with lemon slices and plates of warmed hors d’oeuvres.  However, just an hour before, the environs were anything but hospitable. 

“Our turkey pan sprung a leak,” recalls the hostess JW.  “We were planning on deep frying the bird for 45-minutes but unless we could patch the hole, it just wouldn’t work.”

While her son was Googling ways to microwave a 25-pound bird, she thought about reaching out to Ravinia Plumbing.  “We just needed someone to patch this hole.  Time was running out.  We didn’t know what to do.” 

“When you don’t know what to do – call us” may as well be Sunset Foods’ tagline.

JW called Sunset out of sheer desperation – the store had already closed for the holiday more than an hour earlier.

However, somebody answered. 

Headed out to his own T-Giving meal, the Sunset representative offered up the store’s own, in-house, commercial weight pan to save JW’s holiday dinner.

“If it weren’t for Sunset’s assistance, I doubt my guests would have been able to over-eat as much as they did. Thank goodness they left satiated – otherwise, I would have been the talk of ….. of well…Sunset.”

HP Daily Blog correspondent DP reports that Sunset Foods – open until 4pm today – is not a zoo. Repeat – not a zoo.  Aisle 3 – entirely devoid of foot-traffic.  So for those forgetting to get some canned pumpkins for the homemade pumpkin pie, or for those needing to score some extra ’shmellows because everyone has been noshing on ‘em, worry no longer.  Sunset is e-z in, and e-z out – until 4pm. 

Happy T-Giving!

Scents of gravy wafting in the frigid tundra…

NFL football games flashing through living room windows…

Cars parked illegally on the snow-buried curb…

Last second runs to Sunset for canned meat.

Happy T-Giving HP

Today is when the world travels to HP, like salmon swimming upstream.  They come for the crisp breezes off the lake, the crisp breezes from the opposite direction of the lake, and because their mothers told them too. 

HP Daily Blog surveys suggest that 7 out of every 10 visitors will hit E Street, and 6 out of 10 will bring their high school yearbooks just to “fill in the gaps.”  Ultimately, 3 out of 10 will opt to simply stay…that’s the HP way…