This week's GoodNewsSunday column features a Civil War vet, a scholarship winner and a run for mentalhealth
This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald:
All she knew of unknown Sieburg from written family histories and whispers of family lore was that her ancestor was a Union Army dispatch rider who was killed in the Civil War. He was likely 18 or 19 years old, though he claimed to be 20. Two years into the war -- and just months after the 8th famously fired the first shot at the Battle of Gettysburg -- Sieburg was carrying a dispatch between commanding officers when he was shot through the hip and knocked from his horse. He died of his wounds the next day.
As a 44-year-old first-generation college student, the Streamwood resident is one of six siblings, but the only one to attempt higher education.
The DuPage County Prevention Leadership Team , NAMI DuPage, and Serenity House in Addison will be hosting the new teen-led Color Run on Saturday, June 10, starting at 10 a.m. at the DuPage County Fairgrounds.
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