When Charlotte’s Kids first opened in 1980, Communion dress-buying season was chaotic. Families would come in last-minute to shop for the big occasion and have to wait for a dressing room or someone ...

Port resident Helena Sanders started a project she calls Blessed Dresses. Sanders is collecting gently used First Communion dresses for children who may not be able to afford a dress. She will be ...

In the Derbes family home there is a wall of honor. Lined up on the bedroom wall are six pictures featuring pretty little girls in a similar pose. They represent three generations of the Derbes family ...

As Margaret “Peggy” Muriel Drinkwater Clink tried on the dress, she asked her daughter what color it was. “It’s white,” said Kim Griffith. “We want you to wear the white Communion dress you never had.

LIMA — Lily Whittaker is 8 years old, in second grade at St. Charles Elementary School in Lima, and participated in her first Communion on May 7. Like most girls her age, Lily wore an exquisite, white ...

An idea that started in the laundry room of a Clarendon Hills family’s home has turned into a noble, and successful, effort that is helping many people whose children are taking first Communion. “I ...