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Oak Park celebrates another big win with mParks’ award for new quilt program
Oak Park has won the mParks Innovative Programming award two years in a row. This year, it won for a community quilting program called Rooted in Community.
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Oak Park celebrates another big win with mParks’ award for new quilt program
Oak Park has won the mParks Innovative Programming award two years in a row. This year, it won for a community quilting program called Rooted in Community.
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