Month: April 2018

Community Veterans

Video traces history of St. Charles

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An extraordinary video which traces the history of St. Charles, was just released by the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley. The video, which took 10 months to produce, is divided into five sections: A Country Town (1833-1880), Building A City (1880-1950), The Gates-Baker-Norris Era (1926-1980), Education (1835-2003) and...

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Community Events

Spring Break Blast Week in Aurora

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During Spring break 2018 children residing at the Aurora Housing Authority Eastwood Apartment Complex participated in the Spring Break Blast Week. The five-day camp, sponsored by alderwoman Scheketa Hart-Burns, provided fun activities and crafts for first through sixth graders. At Risk Mentoring is a not-for-profit organization with a focus to...

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Community

Andi Danis, Mutual Ground board president, keynote speaker at the bimonthly Aurora Noon Lions Club meeting

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Aurora resident Andi Danis shows a new logo Monday for Mutual Ground domestic and sexual violence shelter in Aurora. Danis, Mutual Ground board president, was the keynote speaker at the bimonthly Aurora Noon Lions Club meeting at Luigi’s Pizza in Aurora.  Al Benson/The Voice...

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Community Veterans

Author on Vietnam at Cantigny

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The First Division Museum at Cantigny Park in Wheaton will welcome Neal F. Thompson Tuesday, April 17. He will discuss “Reckoning: Vietnam and America’s Cold War Experience, 1945-1991.” The free presentation inside the Cantigny Visitors Center, will begin at 7:30 p.m., but doors will open at 6:30 p.m.. Parking will...

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Commentary

Gun violence in U.S. includes unnecessary police shootings

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Enough is enough. That was the refrain chanted over and over by the thousands of demonstrators who gathered to protest gun violence in America. March 24, 2018, more than 200,000 young people took the time to march on Washington, D.C. and other cities across the country to demand that their...

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Community Entertainment Events

‘Once’ at Paramount, Neville in Aurora

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Aurora’s Paramount Theatre, Chicago’s most decorated theater at the 2017 Jeff Awards with the third largest subscriber base in the Nation, will present the first Chicago-area regional staging of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical “Once” to close its 2017-2018 Broadway Series. “Once” will run April 25 through June 3: Wednesdays...

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Commentary Jobs

Another career story: Driving a beer company forklift

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Penning my previous entry for The Voice in the April 5 issue about working on a television assembly line got me into a 367-jobs-I-once-had mode and the fun I endured performing them. Driving a forklift for Budweiser was one job. Working for a beer company would be a dream come...

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