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‘This is my town’: Volunteers dig in for Park Pride across Homewood-Flossmoor

by Nuha Abdessalam on May 4, 2025

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Michael Bauer, right, and Amanda Battles shovel into a large pile of mulch at Millennium Park during Park Pride Day. Both said helping out is about pride in the place they call home.(Nuha Abdessalam/H-F Chronicle) — Michael Bauer, right, and Amanda Battles shovel into a large pile of mulch at Millennium Park during Park Pride Day. Both said helping out is about pride in the place they call home. (Nuha Abdessalam/H-F Chronicle)

Amanda Battles stood beside a freshly mulched tree at Millennium Park, rake in hand and mud on her sneakers.

“This is my town. Of course I’m going to make it look nice,” she said. “We live here, we should…