Month: May 2018

Students’ Voice: Ready Player One bright visuals contrast to reality

By Sean Nash, senior –  Grace Holistic Center for Education in Yorkville –  Ready Player One is a critically-acclaimed movie directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the book by Ernest Cline. Bright and lively visuals of the virtual world contrasts dramatically with the grim and bleak world of reality. The...

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Students’ Voice: Steven Spielberg movie focus on population problems

By Joe Illingworth, junior –  Grace Holistic Center for Education in Yorkville –  Ready Player One is a movie interpretation of the book written by Ernest Cline. The movie was directed by Steven Spielberg and was funded by Warner Bros.. The movie is based in a dystopian world where over-population...

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Naperville North High School track and field team State Champs

The Naperville North High School track and field team members pose after capturing the Class 3A State championship Saturday, May 19 at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Homewood-Flossmoor finished in second place and Glenbard West was sixth. Naperville North High School photo...

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In favor of Dreamers

Reverend Timothy Piasecki of First Presbyterian Church in Aurora reads to a group outside the Paramount Theatre Thursday, May 24. The immigrant rights organizations, Immigrant Liberation Alliance of Aurora, Immigrant Solidarity DuPage, and Indivisible Aurora, gathered to protest recent raids against immigrants and in favor of Dreamers who were brought...

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Aurora Memorial Day Parade

Participants in the annual Aurora Memorial Day parade, Monday, include, left, the new school name, Pope St. John Paul II Catholic Academy, the successor to the four closed schools (see article here). Jason Crane/The Voice...

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Maggie: Loves all, respectful with cats

Maggie is a female Labrador Mix who was born in May 2016. Maggie is a sweet dog who loves to touch and snuggle with her humans. She is housebroken and knows many commands. She loves going for car rides and even will ride on an ATV. She enjoys her toys...

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Let’s Go Green!

• Household Hazardous Waste collection: The City of Naperville household hazardous waste (HHW) drop-off facility, 156 Fort Hill Drive, next to the Public Works Service Center, will accept many types of household waste from all Illinois residents. The facility is open Saturdays and Sundays, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.,...

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Fundraiser Forum

Effort seeks funds for mural in Yorkville The Yorkville Public Library and Kendall Arts Guild have joined to raise funds to for artist Eulojio Ortega to  paint a mural that would greet the public at the entrance of  the Library at 902 Game Farm Road. It would excite the minds...

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A Focus on History: May 31 – June 6

May 31 The famous tower clock known as Big Ben, at the top of the 320-foot-high St. Stephen’s Tower, rings out over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, England. – 1859. The South Fork Dam collapses and causes a flood in Johnstown, Pa., that kills more than 2,200 residents....

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Speak up: Make activism count for more than politics

Those coming of age today will face some of the greatest obstacles ever encountered by young persons. In addition to being overtaxed and underemployed, they will be forced to march in lockstep with a government that no longer exists to serve the people, but which demands they be obedient slaves...

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Exchange Club of Aurora Police Officer of the Year

Aurora Police Officer Steven Pacenti was named Exchange Club of Aurora Police Officer of the Year Tuesday at Gaslite Manor in Aurora. His award was received in absentia. Officer Pacenti was nominated for his actions in catching a pair of juveniles who fled from him earlier in his shift and...

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She flies to an IHSA State jump championship

Freshman Riley Ammenhauser, of Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, flies through the air in last weekend’s Illinois High School Association (IHSA) girls State track and field meet in Charleston at Eastern Illinois University. She captured first place in the triple jump with a 40-foot, 02.25-inch performance. She became only...

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Aurora Police Department Police Week Memorial

Aurora Police Department Police Week Memorial, Saturday, at A.P.D. Headquarters, 1200 E Indian Trail, included an annual memorial service dedicated to the memories of Alfred Olin (badge 105) and Thompson Richardson (badge 113), the only two Aurora Police officers killed in the line of duty. Memorialized were the six retired...

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Ceremonial shoveling in ground-breaking for the pedestrian and bike bridge

Aurora City Council members, mayor Richard Irvin, sixth from the left, and Tom Weisner, f ormer mayor, fifth from left, offer ceremonial shoveling in ground-breaking Wednesday, May 16 for the pedestrian and bike bridge which will connect the East Side and West Side of Aurora north of downtown. Later, the...

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