Business

One hungry child in America is one too many for Mike Everhart, the owner of the Ponderosa Steakhouse in La Grange. Everhart, together with parent company Homestyle Dining LLC, has contributed $15,000 to Share Our Strength’s No  Kid Hungry® campaign, which helps connect children across the country to the nutritious food they need every day. Homestyle Dining, based in Plano, Texas, is the owner and operator of the Bonanza and Ponderosa Steakhouse chains of family restaurants.

Children often tug along blankets for years and years for a sense of security before finally reaching adulthood. Becky Jew’s goal is to have all children feel the sense of warmth that only a blanket can bring.

Jew is the chapter coordinator of Project Linus, which is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide love, sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized or otherwise in need.

Barbara Mendenhall came in “kicking and screaming” to BeeHive Homes in early April. Ten days in, though, she knew she was “home.”

Mendenhall was one of 15 residents that celebrated the assisted living facility’s one-year anniversary in Goshen last week.

“When I came in, I thought it was a nursing home, but it’s more like a country club,” Mendenhall said as she sat with friends, including a 99 year-old former Brooklyn Dodgers baseball player and a former professional dancer from New York City.

For years women could choose to get highlights, haircuts and the latest gossip in a plethora of La Grange beauty shops, and now male residents will be happy to know there is now a barbershop providing back-to-basics services.

George’s Barber Styling, named after its owner George Shunnarah, has been located in Crestwood since its beginnings as a barber school in 1999.

Shunnarah turned the school into a successful barbershop in 2005, providing haircuts, straight razor shaves and beard trims.