![]() I've been officially retired from my full-time job at American Banker for a week now, ending a 45-year career in full-time journalism that started in Elburn in 1977 at a newspaper called Chronicle West.Īfter covering schools, police, local government and sports, and then managing newsroom employees and budgets for 25 years, I moved onto a marketing and sales job for a short time, and then to the past 10½ years with American Banker reporting on the payments and data security industries. If you spot me walking around a grocery store in pajama pants, or dining in a place like the Costco food court, or eating at any number of Italian beef joints in the area, you should know these are things that could easily happen to an older fellow when he retires. Since the boys started this process as Richmond Elementary School students, they likely have delivered between 5,000 and 6,000 pairs of new socks. In the past, the collection ended on Christmas Eve, but the boys have decided to keep it going into early January this year to make up for the slower start, Nicole added. ![]() ![]() "Wyatt is optimistic that they can still collect as many socks this year, so we are hoping he is right," Nicole said. It might be a challenge to reach that amount this year, only because the project got off to a slower start because the boys' mother, Nicole Snopko, has been undergoing breast cancer surgeries and treatments. Charles tabbed Wyatt, 14, and Porter, 13, the city's youths of the year in 2021, for helping their community after the two collected 2,500 pairs of donated socks last year in the collection bin in front of their house at 612 Fellows St. After all, "Snopko Socks and Underwear" is entering its fifth year of collecting new socks, underwear and masks to deliver to the Lazarus House and Hesed House homeless shelters. Charles eventually became sock manufacturers. It would not surprise me if Wyatt and Porter Snopko of St.
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