Prepared for Pumpkins

CHICAGO — With white hair, achy bodies, and frustrated looks on their faces, they make their way slowly down the uneven sidewalk along Sheridan Road. But when you look into their eyes, you see nothing but childlike excitement.

Nine residents of the Lakeshore Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre, 7200 N. Sheridan Road., anxiously made their way one block down the street Monday morning to a yellow school bus that was waiting to drive them 34 miles to a pumpkin patch in Barrington, Ill.

“I’m really excited,” said Lois Timms, who will celebrate her 81^st birthday next week.

“I’ve never been to a pumpkin patch before.”

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David Samuel, 73, watches cars drive by on Monday morning as he waits for other residents on the patio of the Lakeshore Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre, 7200 N. Sheridan Road, before making his way a block down the street to Touhy Ave. where a bus waits to drive him and his fellow residents to a pumpkin patch in Barrington, Ill.

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Elmur Cadenhead, 70, waits for other residents outside the Lakeshore Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre, 7200 N. Sheridan Road, before making his way to Touhy Ave. to board a bus that would take him and his fellow residents to a pumpkin patch in Barrington, Ill. Monday morning.

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Jon Lrazier, 67, works on a word search outside the Lakeshore Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre Monday morning while waiting for other residents to make their way down Sheridan Road to Touhy Ave. where a bus is waiting to take them to a pumpkin patch in Barrington, Ill.

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Lois Timms, 80, and other residents of the Lakeshore Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre, 7200 N. Sheridan Road, wait to be loaded into a bus that will take them to a pumpkin patch in Barrington, Ill. Monday morning.

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Residents of the Lakeshore Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre, 7200 N. Sheridan Road., wait to be raised into a school bus on Touhy Ave. that will drive them to a pumpkin patch in Barrington, Ill. Monday morning.

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While sitting in his wheelchair, Elmur Cadenhead, 70, is raised into the school bus that will drive him and his fellow residents to Barrington, Ill. Monday morning where they were going to visit a pumpkin patch.