Dylan Snyder, 11, and Maria Serban, 6, they play with her younger brother, Victor, 3½, after Dylan presented Maria and her mother, Elena, with a check for close to $4,000 at the South Elgin Lions Club on Wednesday, April 2. Maria, a first-grader at Willard Elementary School, has a rare form of arthritis and was very sick the past few months. Dylan, a fifth-grader at the school, raised funds with a spaghetti dinner and auction last month at the Lions Club where his great grandfather, Leo Snyder, is a member.
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