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Faces of 2007.

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Byline: Lee Filas

lfilas@@dailyherald.com

Some are dedicated public servants who spent countless hours - in one case, decades - trying to make our communities better.

Another is a professional football player who found himself embroiled in a variety of scandals.

One is a child who touched our hearts and made headlines for the health issues she and her family faced with grace, dignity and hope.

And another is a teen whose love for science and medicine might very well help another such family in the future.

These are just some of the people who made news in Lake County in 2007.

Ed Lescher and Lee Shannon

When torrential downpours caused flood waters to crest about 3 feet over normal summer water levels in August, Ed Lescher and Lee Shannon were on the front lines.

As directors of their towns' emergency services disaster agencies - Lescher in Fox Lake and Shannon in Antioch - the two spent countless hours keeping tabs on the water in New Munster, Wis., all the way south to the swollen banks of the Chain O' Lakes.

They drove for hours into flooded areas to talk with some 400 homeowners affected by the flooding, making sure they had all the supplies needed to weather the weather.

They arranged for volunteers to fill sandbags, then hand- delivered them. For elderly residents, they arranged to have sandbags stacked.

The work wasn't over when the floods finally receded at...

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