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: 4.23.2024 | What You Need To Know Today April 23, 2024 Homewood Bird Day: Will Homewood be the next Bird City? April 22, 2024 The Weeks | April 21: Downtown Homewood master plan, reptiles & bugs at Flossmoor library, last debate, improv, poker night, choir concert, Nellie McKay April 21, 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.