Local News Junior Friends organization sponsors ‘food for fines’ to help Respond Now by admin on November 24, 2016 admin Author More in Local News: Tiffany Henyard on the ‘brainwashed’ decision to vote against mental health referendum March 27, 2024 3.27.2024 | What You Need To Know Today March 27, 2024 3.26.2024 | What You Need To Know Today March 26, 2024 Three boys, from left, Gehrig Lucas, 7, with Lucas Miller, 6, and Oliver Weberg, 9, make a game out of sorting donated food on Friday, Nov. 18, at the Homewood Public Library. (Photos by Marilyn Thomas/H-F Chronicle) LEFT: Janellie Roach, a freshman at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, takes on organizing duties at a Junior Friends of the Homewood Library event. Food was collected for Respond Now. RIGHT: Gavin Jursa watches over the canned fruits. Homewood Public Library patrons donated food for Respond Now, rather than pay overdue fines.