Welcome to our new Administrative Assistant Penny Breines

My name is Penny Breines and I started working at the Village Hall in July. My husband, Dave, and I have lived in Grayslake for 23 years, raised our two daughters here and encouraged my parents to move here is 2016 from my home town of Toledo, OH. I have been a stay-at-home mom since moving here and have loved every minute of it. During that time, I have enjoyed volunteering for my daughters’ schools, being part of my church, and chairing /sitting on many committees to raise money and/or put on events. Now that my girls are grown (Emily is an RN in Chicago and Hayley is a junior at DePaul), I like to say I’ve gone from a stay-at-home mom to a stay-at-home daughter. My parents seem to keep me just as busy as my kids did. In my life before children, I worked as an Administrative Assistant in academia and then the pharmaceutical industry. My first job was in a microbiology lab at the Medical College of Ohio. I then worked for a neonatal research lab at Children’s Hospital in Boston; Biogen in Cambridge, MA and finally DuPont Merck in Wilmington, DE. I am looking forward to meeting the residents of Third Lake, stop in at the Village Hall and say Hi.