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The Woodstock Independent Toys Incubator Program
Independent PHOTO by Ken Farver Children in the Woodstock Parks and Recreation Department summer playground program at Olson Elementary School assemble toy rhinos from plastic felt made of recycled water bottles. They worked as a focus group last week under the supervision of Jack Berry of Woodstock, who is working to develop a toy line for Turf Design of Elgin.

If  Woodstock’s Jack Berry becomes the next great American toy tycoon, he will owe it in part to the kids in the Woodstock Parks and Recreation Department summer playground program […]

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Larry Lough

Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news. He has worked for community newspapers in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for the past five decades, and was a college journalism instructor for 17 years.
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Larry Lough

Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news. He has worked for community newspapers in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for the past five decades, and was a college journalism instructor for 17 years.
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