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Scott Lewis / 60504 For $65 a couple, 425 couples attended Waubonsie Valley's yearly dance ritual at the Radisson Hotel in Lisle.
Scott Lewis / 60504 "I'm not paying fifty bucks. I had the cheapest thing on the menu," Chris Paffrath, left, says while settling the bill with his friends at Tuscany restaurant in Oak Brook. Paffrath, a senior, attended the dance with his girlfriend, Kim Carli, center, and three other couples.
Scott Lewis / 60504 Barb Cannan, left, watches her daughter, Megan, prepare to leave with her friends for the dance. Like many girls, Megan shopped for and purchased her dress with her mother.
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Scott Lewis / 60504 After searching through area malls and stores, Waubonsie Valley senior Missy Dugan finally chose a blue sequined dress for $150.
Scott Lewis / 60504 The Most Reverend Joseph L. Imesch, D.D. Bishop of Joliet blesses the walls and parishoners as the first ritual action in the new building for Our Lady of Mercy church during the church's consecration service.
Scott Lewis / Staff photographer Jeodoro Novarro plants sod, rolled like little carpets, on a berm on New York Street. Sod grass, cheaper than seed, takes up to three years to root completely into the underlying soil.
Scott Lewis / 60504 When the Waubonsie Valley High School auditorium was being used for a school funcation, the church was pushed into the gymnasium for their weekend masses during the nine years of planning for the church's own building.
Scott Lewis / Staff photographer Juniors Nerissa Beltram and Chris Young meet during every passing period of the day.
Scott Lewis / Staff photographer Freshman Kylie Hahn shares a laugh with Susan Klosterman as Hahn gets her lunch from her locker.
Scott Lewis / Staff photographer With roughly 2,800 students Waubonsie Valley's halls are packed wall to wall as students make their way from class to class or try to get into the lunchroom.
Scott Lewis / 60504 Dan Butler, second from left, bounces his three month old daughter Kelly while he and other parents keep their babies occupied during the monthly baptism service for parishoners of Our Lady of Mercy Church at Saint Anne's Church in Oswego. Our Lady of Mercy is in the process of building their church and use the Oswego facility on Sunday afternoons for their baptism services. This Sunday there were eleven babies baptised.
Scott Lewis / Staff Photographer / Sun Publications 4.23.99 Emily Hetzer, left, and Jim Belsante, far left, joke around while Staci Clark, bottom, Courtney Cordova, center, and Erin Ferrell get their makeup and hair ready for Neuqua Valley High Schoolâs production of Anything Goes! Neuqua Valley has state of the art facilities for productions but the backstage environment is classic crowded theater conditions.
Scott Lewis / Staff photographer A developer's precisely planted trees and retention pond flank a newly paved road and a farmer's corn fields. With area growth continuing at its current rate, this road, like many in the area, will likely be expanded to four lanes and the corn field will become a subdivision.
Scott Lewis / 60504 "We've never lost a squirtgun fight since we've lived here," Tiernan McDonald, 9, asserts after claiming victory over another band of neighborhood kids during the block party on Cranberry Lane.
Scott Lewis / 60504 Rich and Pam Heller catch some shuteye while going home after a full day of work and a few hours of school. Starting their day at 5:30 am, the Hellers go to school three nights a week and arrive back in Naperville around 9:30 pm.
Scott Lewis / 60504 Nicole Lanoue, 10, left and Dani Becker, 15, try to manuever their way through a team building exercise on the final day of the annual softball camp put on by the Waubonsie Valley High School varsity softball team. Athletic camps of all sports go on throughout the summer in the Fox Valley.
Scott Lewis / 60504 "Big kicks. Now, little kicks," Brianna Timothy tells her students in the beginning swimming class at Phillips Park swimming pool. Brianna teaches four-year-olds, the youngest students in the swimming program, how to get comfortable with the water as well as some basic skills.
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Scott Lewis / 60504 Waubonsie Valley guard Dan Farley celebrates with teammates after the Warriors defeated Streamwood 21-16 in their homecoming game Friday night. The win clinched a share of the Upstate Eight championship for the Warriors.
Scott Lewis / Staff photographer At the end of last school year, students in Star Raiders, an anti-drug and alcohol group, pledged not to do drugs or alcohol by marking a hallway at Waubonsie Valley High School with their handprints.
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Scott Lewis / Staff photographer 4.3.99 Anxious children ages 4-7 break through the tape early on their way to gather eggs during the Crossroads church third annual Easter Egg Hunt. The church put 14,000 eggs in the practice field at Neuqua Valley High School for three stages of hunting, divided by age.
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Scott Lewis / Staff photographer Capping off the homecoming celebration, students cram into the school's atrium for the dance Saturday night.
Scott Lewis / Staff photographer Neighborhoods like 60504 tend to have similar look due to the limits of mass production and resale possibilities. Developers offer good housing prices but the aesthetic cost to buyers is less options than an entirely custom built home. Homes that are less unusual or distinctive tend to be harder to sell than more traditional styles.
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Scott Lewis / 60504 "She double commutes," Jamie White says of his friend, neighbor and fellow commuter, Kathy Delehanty. "She telecommutes while commuting." Delehanty works for a management consulting firm in Chicago and talks to business associates as close as Chicago and as far away as London in her commute. "The Eisenhower is a nightmare," Delehanty says about driving into the city. "Look at how productive I can be. With all this fellowship and productivity why would I drive." Delehanty usually commutes each day with the same two or three friends.
Scott Lewis / 60504 "The nice thing about Chicago is that the commuting is easier," Linda Puccio, a former New Jersey resident says. "The trains are on time and they have a lot of expresses." The express trains that leave the Route 59 station stop only once in Naperville before getting to downtown Chicago in an hour's time.
Scott Lewis / 60504 Lauren Taylor, Tammy Norton and Marie Pautler relax after a day at the block party in the Lakeridge subdivision. The party is usually scheduled for the July 4th weekend but was a week late this year.
