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Patch profile a community volunteer or organization each week to spotlights residents who work hard to make their community a better place. Want to be considered? Send an email to the editor.Some teachers can't ever give up teaching. Linda Augustyn, a 26-year resident of Oak Park is one of them. Even after working as an English Department Chair and teacher at Proviso West High School, and as a reading specialist at Downers Grove North High School for over twenty years, she never lost her passion for education. She retired in June last year, but found that she just couldn't sit still. Soon after retiring, she began working as a volunteer with the Chicago-based bookstore and literacy nonprofit Open Books and with the Better Boys Foundation. All that, and she still finds time to …
