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March For Our Lives: Making voices heard
By Steven L. Aldrich – I joined approximately 100 to 150 residents Saturday to support the national “March For Our Lives” movement at Oswego High School. It was an overcast, blustery, and cold day, but the spirits, grassroots activism, energy levels, were exuberant. The rally was organized and led by...
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APD Employee Award:
Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman, left, presents a plaque to Officer Steven Pacenti as the Aurora Police Department 2017 Employee of the Year at the ceremony Wednesday, March 21 at the Aurora Police Department. See facebook.com/thevoice.us. Jason Crane/The Voice...
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Mooseheart Easter Egg Hunt
Women and children pose for photos at the Easter egg hunt Saturday at Mooseheart. Chilly weather failed to deter a huge crowd of 4,000 from attending Mooseheart’s eighth annual hunt. Children and their parents bundled up, but cleared a football field covered in nearly 20,000 eggs, candy, plush animals, and...
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On March For Our Lives, salutes to Aurora police awards
In the long run, society finds a benefit from those who work to make a difference. Included in the fabric of our society are police officers when they properly do their sworn duty and anyone who uses a First Amendment right to peacefully state a case of injustice which needs...
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Reader’s Voice: His voice against Whitehead theme
March 23, 2018 Dear editor; I was appalled, shocked, and angered by the March 1 article in The Voice by Mr. John W. Whitehead, a regular columnist “U.S. gun violence spawned by military culture, warfare.” His article was an affront to everyone who ever served in our military, including me....
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Aurora Museums After Dark runs three times
Aurora Museums After Dark will welcome visitors to downtown museums after hours on three Thursdays this year, starting the week of Spring break. Aurora Regional Fire Museum, SciTech Hands On Museum, G.A.R. Museum, The Pierce History Center, and Santori Public Library, will stay open for an extra few hours Thursday,...
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At Easter in the 1940s, optimism in Europe, finally
Helen entered the kitchen of her home in the small village of Ksawerow, in central Poland. She carried some firewood needed for the day’s soup cooking and for the warmth within the house. She struck matches to light the lamps. It was almost Easter and the family had eggs from...
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Woman’s Club of Aurora set to plant Pinwheel Garden
The Woman’s Club of Aurora was set to plant a Pinwheel Garden at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, March 29 in the garden area of Mutual Ground, 418 Oak Avenue, Aurora. Blue pinwheels and blue ribbons are national symbols for the prevention of child abuse and neglect. The pinwheels represent the happy,...
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Importance: Recycling, picking up loose trash
From the vault, May 23, 1997 (revised): Spring has sprung! The trees are budding, the grass is growing, the birds are chirping, the squirrels are scampering, and the days are getting longer, and warmer. Re-birth is with us at last. Unfortunately, there is a downside to all of it. Now...
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Spring yard waste collection in Aurora to start
Spring yard waste collection in Aurora will begin Monday, April 2 and will run for two weeks. The collection of bundled brush will begin the same day and runs through early November. The Spring Yard Waste Collection program will run through Friday, April 13. During these two weeks, residents do...
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Grow Your Groceries seminar in Elgin
“Grow Your Own Groceries – in Containers,” a free seminar to help save money, build health, find more pleasure in tastier food, and acquire more energy by eating healthy, will take place Sunday, April 8, from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., at Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren, 738 West...
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Ask Grandpa: Help given to clean out the computer
Grandpa, I was looking at various race horses on the internet. I typed in (Grandpa won’t say) to look at some older stud horses. I was very angry when I got locked into an ad for (a men’s personal product). This stuff is for human use and has nothing to...
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Montgomery Village Board Meeting Highlights:
Montgomery Village attorney Steve Andersson, left, tells the Village Board Monday a tie vote fails to let the Board reconsider a previous vote at the Montgomery Village Board meeting. Village officials were split on whether to reconsider an ammendment to the Orchard Crossings planned unit of development to allow a...
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Downtown Aurora Magic Festival:
Kate Purl, director of the Downtown Aurora Magic Festival, gives a report on the event to the Kiwanis Club of Aurora Tuesday at the Prisco Center in Aurora. Purl explained the name was changed because Warner Brothers, the studio that owns the rights to the Harry Potter film series, is...
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Age nothing but a number: Oldest female bodybuilder
Ernestine Shepherd, 81, the world’s oldest female body builder, shares physical fitness tips at an Aurora health fair Saturday. Al Benson/The Voice By Al Benson – Determined. Dedicated. Disciplined to be fit for life. That was the mantra shared by fitness guru Ernestine Shepherd, 81, in Aurora Saturday. Speaking on...
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Athletic Training Month
Robert J. O’Connor, Aurora alderman-at-large, center, pauses for a photo after presenting a proclamation to Aurora University’s athletic training program at the Aurora City Council meeting Tuesday at City Hall. March was proclaimed as Athletic Training Month. From left to right, athletic training students Christina Hurtado, Alejandra Villagomez (O’Connor), Dr....
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Aurora City Council raises age to buy tobacco and vaping products
Aurora City Council members unanimously approved raising the age to purchase tobacco products incl uding vaping supplies from 18 to 21, Tuesday. The vote adds “alternative nicotine and vapor products” to the ordinance that governs tobacco, cigarettes and cigars as well as change the legal age allowed to purchase these...
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Ten organizations offer thanks for grants from Kiwanis
By Amy Roth – Twice a year, the Kiwanis Club of Aurora presents grants to non-profits in our community that are doing good work for children. Last week, representatives from 10 organizations attended the Kiwanis noon meeting at Prisco Community Center to say thank you for the grants and to...
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Storytime available at Plano Library
The Plano Community Library, 15 W. North Street, will be host to many events. For more information and to register, visit www.plano.lib.il.us or call 630-552-2009. • Movie Night, Monday, April 9, 6:30 p.m. to 8:25 p.m.. Inspired by the true story of the unexpected friendship of Queen Victoria (Judi Dench)...
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