There was an amazing response to the Shorewood benefit garage sale for the Lisa Stebic and Childrens Fund! The garage sale raised $2225! Thank you so much to everyone who donated items, who volunteered their time or who came an shopped!

Everyone was amazed with the quantity of items donated, and Karen’s neighbors were also amazed at the quantity of people this Benefit has brought to their neighborhood. Karen Jahnke told us there were so many items her driveway and garage began to look like a flea market and it spilled over into a neighbor’s yard. We had some really great people that donated great raffle baskets along with the Chicago Cubs ball.

But the biggest thanks goes to Karen Jahnke. We don’t know how she does it! Lisa’s family wants to express how much your hard work has meant to us and how it touched our hearts.

Thank you to all these great donation volunteers & those who made monetary donations:

Kathy Vocu ~~~ from Joliet

Gina Foote & neighbors ~~~ New Lenox
Lisa’s Aunt Diana & Uncle ~~~
Jody Kmetz ~~~ Aurora
Barb & Greg Scheff ~~~ Bolingbrook

Tracy Pavlson ~~~ Naperville

Sylvie Kemp ~~~ Plainfield
Wendy Jomant ~~~ Plainfield (from Lincoln Elementary)

Thomas Davenport ~~~ Wilmington

Chris Kraft ~~~ Shorewood

Debbie Stewart ~~~ Oak Park

Kerri Goodwin ~~~ Shorewood
Jenni Riley ~~~ Shorewood

Elizabeth Bledsoe ~~~ Shorewood

The Ambrozich Family ~~~ Shorewood

Julissa Dailey ~~~ Shorewood

Dawn & Larry Hull ~~~ Shorewood

Lydia B. ~~~ Plainfield ( Nature’s Crossing)

Margie Kosinski ~~~ Plainfield ( Nature’s Crossing)

Will County Mother of Twins Club ~~~ Will County area

Betty ~~~ Joliet

Deana Justak ~~~ Shorewood

Missy Stack ~~~ Shorewood

The Greenberg Family ~~~ ( Lisa’s family)

Jeff & Jeanette Armitage ~~~ Naperville

Paula Bosak ~~~ Shorewood

Charlotte Kic ~~~ Shorewood

Jennifer Koss ~~~ Joliet

The Ritchey Family ~~~ Shorewood

Thank you for the wonderful raffle basket donations:

At Home America basket ~~~ By Gina Foote of New Lenox
Creating Your Style basket ~~~~ By Barb Scheff of Bolingbrook
Pampered Chef basket ~~~ By Kerri Ciesla of Shorewood

Autographed baseball by ‘Ryan Dempster’ ~~~~ By the Chicago Cubs

Floral Arrangement ~~~~ By Vicki from Heavenly Creations Design of Shorewood
Premier Jewelry $25.00 gift certificate & Jewelry cleaner ~~~ by Julie from Plainfield

The winners of these wonderful baskets are:

Judy Thayer ~ At Home America basket
Lisa ~ Creating Your Style basket

Gina Faught ~ Heavenly Creations floral arrangement

Annie & Ralph Johnson ~ Ryan Dempster autographed Cubs baseball

Kathleen Goeken ~ Pampered Chef basket

Deb Miklic ~ Premier Designs gift card & Jewelry cleaner

Message from Garage Sale organizer Karen Jahnke:

The Lisa Stebic Garage Sale Benefit in Shorewood turned out to be a huge response! Thank you to all who donated your garage sale goods, we could not have done this without you! Thank you to all who shopped and spread the word about this huge sale, we had people come from here to West Chicago to even Gurnee! We are very grateful of the support & kind words you shared, and the generous amount of donations that you made to helping us find our Lisa, along with your garage sale purchases.

Thank you to all of those who volunteered to helping me make this garage sale such a huge monetary success. It is very sad how we have to be brought together under these circumstances, but very heartwarming to be together doing this special deed for our friend/family member Lisa Stebic.

Thank you to my husband, Chris Jahnke, my kids Ryna & Riley, many friends, Tammi Watson, Debbie Zolnierowicz, Annette & Vince Glascow, Debbie and Sami Herrero, Hazbi, Taylor Glascow, Barb Scheff, Kerri Ciesla, Michelle Wrobel, Laurrie & Jim Beingenheimer, Jenny Beingenheimer, Rachel Weber, Lisa’s Aunt ~ Marlene Greenberg, Lisa’s sister ~ Debbie Ruttenberg. Thank you all for all of your help in setting up this massive garage sale, or helping with all the long hours of working it. I could never have done this alone, with the crowd that we had. We are all a great team and their are even many more out there in this Lisa Stebic Army~ WE WILL stay strong & POSITIVE & WE WILL find what happened to our Lisa, We will have closure! It is my honor to be able to have taken on this very long exhausting mission to make this garage sale a successful one along with the many others & I am glad I was able to help in such a big way, my heart feels very happy to be able to do this for Lisa’s children. You both will always be in my heart! Again, Thank you cannot be said enough!!

Karen Jahnke

 

Barb & Gregg Scheff  hosted the latest “Find Lisa Stebic Garage Sale” at their home in Bolingbrook,  last weekend …bringing in $1,541.

 

This wondrous gift from the community has now brought Lisa’s Reward Fund to OVER $70,000 !!!!

 

Barb wrote this to Lisa’s family and friends: 

“The garage sale was a success and people are supportive. We made $ 1541.00 plus lot’s of change.

There were some people that just stopped by to talk about Lisa and give their love and support.  

Everyone Loves LISA!  I know for me that I have no doubt that she was an Angel and was very much loved.  

Being so close to Lisa’s family and friends, my husband and I feel like we were blessed in knowing Lisa, her family and friends are AMAZING people.

If you notice in the pictures that we had people shopping in the dark, we also had children that would come up and ask their parents if they could have some money to just donated to help find Lisa.”

Lisa’s family cannot thank enough  all those who have organized, worked and supported the many “Find Lisa” Garage Sales staged in Naperville, Plainfield, Shorewood & Bolingbrook.

Your dedication, hard work and focus on helping to Find Lisa Stebic has been beyond phenomenal (superhuman, more like!)

We KNOW she is out there…waiting to be found.

We just need to entice that ONE person to come forward and tell us WHERE she is…and the reward fund is a key component to making that happen! 

Please see below the many members of “Lisa’s Army” who made this past weekend’s FLS garage sale a success (and God Bless each and every one of you!)

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Thank you for your Support and Donation’s

Joe Borsche                                        Bolingbrook   

Karen Janke                                        Shorewood

Tammy Watson                                  Plainfield

Gigi Abogado  & Family                     Bolingbrook

Marty & Pam Habada                        Bolingbrook

Amanda Ramey                                  Bolingbrook

Roy Denon                                          Plainfield

John Herman                                      Plainfield

Matt                                                    Bolingbrook

Donna Robinson                                Woodridge

Bernie Chesner                                   Plainfield

Donnie Maskeri                                  Romeoville

Leslie Jones                                         Bolingbrook

Volunteers that donated their time and I could not have done it without them, they were amazing!

Tammi Watson

Karen Janke

Laura Burke

And my incredible husband, Greg Scheff