Started in 1998 with the three high schools in Crystal Lake cooperating with the CL Police Department and the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce, Operation Click is now a robust two-state enterprise dedicated to keeping teens safe while driving their … Continue reading
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Operation Click, Operation Cool before 2007, started in Crystal Lake as a joint project between the police department and the high school district. The goal was to stop car accident deaths of teenagers. Inducements were large and small. The large … Continue reading
I attended the Operation Click annual luncheon in Crystal Lake on Thursday. Two automobile dealers donated cars for the teens whose names were selected from various high schools. One was from Kunes Country Ford in Antioch. The other was from … Continue reading
Two car crashes last year killing Huntley teens, plus a twenty-year old from Algonquin, may have led to the formation of an Operation Click chapter covering Dundee-Crown, Huntley, Marengo, Hampshire and Algonquin’s Jacob High School. During the d’Andrea’s 2013 Operation … Continue reading
The McHenry County high schools participating in Operation Click held their awards luncheon today at D’Andrea’s in Crystal Lake. Every school was above the 95% seat belt compliance level so had two contract holders eligible for a key that might … Continue reading
The high school safety program that started in Crystal Lake, Operation Click, will hold its annual local luncheon today at 11 at D’Andrea Banquet Hall. Around the Clock, a restaurant west on Route 14 has been advertising the event. Two … Continue reading
Operation Click gave away three cars donated by Crystal Lake Buick GMC, Crystal Lake Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram and Black Diamond Plumbing. The first went to Abby Heck, who attends Harvard High School. You can read about that here. The … Continue reading
Cary-Grove student Roxanne Neubaum won the car from Sam Oginni’s Crystal Lake Buick GMC Oginni had the Pontiac dealership in Crystal Lake before General Motors pulled the plug on that line. He has provided a car for each of Operation … Continue reading
For the three McHenry County high school students who won cars when their key started the ignition at Crystal Lake’s Advocate Good Shepherd-sponsored awards ceremony Thursday, ownership of their own car was the highlight of the day. For the mission … Continue reading
Three McHenry County high school students won cars (donated by the private sector) from Operation Click Thursday. Schools are grouped in three chapters in McHenry County. The first was comprised of the Woodstock High Schools, Marian Central and Harvard High … Continue reading
The program to entice high school students to fasten their seat belts that started in Crystal Lake will hold its annual awards luncheon at D’Andrea’s Banquets at 10:45 on Thursday, April 21st. That’s what Crystal Lake Policeman Sean McGrath, the … Continue reading
Sadly, Operation Click has outgrown the Crystal Lake Holiday Inn. 40,000 high school students from Harvard to Champaign were involved this year. I so enjoyed the award ceremony two years ago when Cary-Grove High School’s Kate McNamee won. Happily, the … Continue reading
Operation Click, the seat belt encouragement program that started in Crystal Lake has been extended to Richmond-Burton and Johnsburg High Schools with major help from the Richmond-Spring Grove Kiwanis Club. Meeting in Crystal Lake at what is called an “interclub,” … Continue reading
Operation Click, the seat belt encouragement program that started in Crystal Lake has been extended to Richmond-Burton and Johnsburg High Schools with major help from the Richmond-Spring Grove Kiwanis Club. Meeting in Crystal Lake at what is called an “interclub,” … Continue reading
The Daily Herald’s Chuck Keeshan reported yesterday afternoon that Crystal Lake Police Office Sean McGrath has been awarded the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s J. Stannard Baker Award for Highway Safety. Only one police officer in the whole world … Continue reading
The Daily Herald’s Chuck Keeshan reported yesterday afternoon that Crystal Lake Police Office Sean McGrath has been awarded the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s J. Stannard Baker Award for Highway Safety. Only one police officer in the whole world … Continue reading
I must admit that I had not figured out that Crystal Lake High School District 155 was one of the districts that got an exemption from the new law requiring six hours of behind the wheel driver education. Tuesday’s lead … Continue reading
I must admit that I had not figured out that Crystal Lake High School District 155 was one of the districts that got an exemption from the new law requiring six hours of behind the wheel driver education. Tuesday’s lead … Continue reading
There was one surprised Chicago Tribune reporter at the Operation Click annual luncheon at the Crystal Lake Holiday Inn Monday. His name was Ted Gregory. Operation Click gave him and fellow reporter Bonnie Ruben, who was not present, an award … Continue reading
There was one surprised Chicago Tribune reporter at the Operation Click annual luncheon at the Crystal Lake Holiday Inn Monday. His name was Ted Gregory. Operation Click gave him and fellow reporter Bonnie Ruben, who was not present, an award … Continue reading