{"id":48029,"date":"2026-04-13T13:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/48029\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:28:10","slug":"chicago-steel-visits-geneva-marklund-with-teddy-bears-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/48029\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Steel visits Geneva Marklund with teddy bears \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

Members of the Chicago Steel hockey team visited the Marklund Hyde Center<\/a> near Geneva<\/a> to give out teddy bears to its residents.<\/p>\n

The pre-Easter visit brought smiles to the residents, who have profound developmental disabilities.<\/p>\n

They dropped in to bring special gifts \u2013 treasures from the team\u2019s recent \u2018Teddy Bear Toss\u2019 event, according to a news release. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an activity where they donate teddy bears to charities. People bring them to one specific game. When the Steel makes a first goal, the fans toss teddy bears onto the ice rink,\u201d spokeswoman Dawn Lassiter said. \u201cPlay stops and all the players pick up all the bears and divide them up and bring them to different charities.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was the team\u2019s 11th annual Teddy Bear Toss<\/a> presented by Geneva Family Dental March 14 at the Fox Valley Ice Arena in Geneva. <\/p>\n

Marklund was selected as one of the recipients of the teddy bears and other plush toys that were tossed on the ice rink as part of the promotion, according to the release.<\/p>\n

The players presented the bears, then hung out for a while, taking part in Easter activities with the residents and community clients in the Community Day Services classrooms.<\/p>\n

\"Members<\/p>\n

Members of the Chicago Steel hockey team visited the Marklund Hyde Center near Geneva to give out teddy bears to its residents. The bears were donated by fans during its ‘Teddy Bear Toss’ event. (Photo provided by Marklund)<\/p>\n

The nonprofit Marklund Hyde Center in the Mill Creek subdivision has 96 adult residents in six 16-bed homes. <\/p>\n

It also provides therapeutic and educational services to infants, children, teens and adults with serious and and special health care needs at the Hyde Center and other locations.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur residents always get a kick out of seeing professional athletes,\u201d Lassiter said. \u201cWe appreciate them taking the time to come by. … We wanted to give them a shout-out since we\u2019re recognizing Volunteer Appreciation Month.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Chicago Steel hockey team visited the Marklund Hyde Center near Geneva to give out teddy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,898,899,1981],"class_list":{"0":"post-48029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-geneva","9":"tag-kane-county","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-shaw-local-front-headlines"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116397637847961042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}