Opening day of the annual Geneva Swedish Days includes children’s crafts. Parents help children enjoy the first day Tuesday this week. The festive days will culminate with a parade Sunday. Attempts to capture bubbles, far left, are a part of the fun Tuesday. Dustin Krueger/The Voice ...
The Fabulous Pixie Stix participate in song and spoof in the parade Sunday through the streets of Aurora. More than 60 parade units added an upbeat tempo through downtown in higher temperatures than 90 degrees. See a Reader’s Commentary here, and see video at facebook.com/thevoice.us. Jason Crane/The Voice ...
Aurora’s popular Movies in the Park Summer Series has returned with a fun lineup of movies for June and July. Co-sponsored by the Phillips Park Zoociety, the Movies in the Park summer series features free films on an outdoor jumbo screen under the stars. Movies will begin at 8 p.m....
Sugar Ray performs at Oswego’s PrairieFest 2018 Saturday. The four-day event was the 30th year of celebration which ended with a parade. Ronda Bennett photo...
Downers Grove North High School students and Parkland, Fla. delegation show a check at the end of the evening at DuPage Unitarian Universalist in Naperville Saturday. See article here. Carter Crane/The Voice...
Plainfield North High School baseball team members pose for a photo following their Class 4A State championship victory over Huntley, 4-3, Saturday, June 9 at the Joliet Slammers stadium in Joliet in IHSA tournament play. Plainfield North’s softball team took second place in girls softball the same weekend in East...
Inspiration! We require inspirational attitudes in others to spread around preferred qualities in the rest of us. Inspiration was in view with selection of Jose Martinez as the Aurora Independence Day grand marshal. See article here. The East Aurora head wrestling coach did not hesitate to save a life in...
May 25, 2018 Dear editor; Consumers with Illinois driver’s licenses need to know something I learned the hard way: If you renew your stickers through an E-mail notification you will simply receive the registration sheet with the sticker without further explanation. I received an odd-looking plain orange sticker bearing only...
June 5, 2018 Dear editor; Shame, shame, on you, Mr. Trump. The 1,400-plus missing children who have been taken away from their parents when they try to cross the border is beyond cruelty. You are a thug, and show your ignorance of what trauma and psychological harm are done to...
First of two parts “Yes We Have No Bananas” a Roaring Twenties favorite was witten by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn (1922) and originally sung by Eddie Cantor Columbia College Music History #3 written by Bill DeMain’s new column, where he explores the real historical events that inspired various songs....
There will be a free concert from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 1 at Fox Valley Kicker Club, 1015 Harvey Road, Oswego. The band Starlifter, a United States Air Force Band, is a seven-piece group of talented Airmen-musicians. The group performs virtually every musical idiom, from rock and...
Aurora City Council members will vote Tuesday on a West Aurora Plaza update, a proposal for a parking garage at Aurora University, and an ordinance that would give preference for City contracts to Aurora area bidders. All items will be on the consent agenda. Jerry Callahan, an attorney representing West...
First of two parts What word comes to mind when you hear her name, Mati Hari? Spy? Yet, as research now shows, she was framed and betrayed by the French government, the only country for which she spied. As such, this portrait of her will take two weeks to uncover...
Here at last, dear reader, is part two of the history of South LaSalle Street in Aurora. It covers a period of only 25 years because, by the time the 1970s rolled around, few new businesses were starting up and many of the old ones were either going out of...
Ingredients 10 popsicle sticks 5 ripe bananas, peeled and cut in half 1 (16 ounce) bag semisweet chocolate chips 1 tablespoon butter 8 tablespoons unsweetened toasted coconut flakes 4 tablespoons chopped almonds wax paper Directions 1. Insert one popsicle stick into the cut end of each banana. Place the bananas...
Aurora mayor Richard Irvin announced recently that Jose Martinez, a hometown hero who rescued a man from a burning car, will serve as grand marshal of Aurora’s 2018 Fourth of July Independence parade. “Jose is truly an inspiration to everyone in our community,” said Irvin. “He put his own life...
Aurora • RiverEdge Park, 360 N. Broadway, and McCullough Park, Illinois Avenue and Lake Street, patriotic music, games, food, kids activities start at 6 p.m. . Fireworks will be Wednesday, July 4 at 9:35 p.m. over the Fox River with viewing at McCullough Park and RiverEdge Park. • Fourth of...
By Joan Solms – I stood close to the action, during the Aurora Pride Parade Sunday, to be sure I saw Aurora mayor Richard Irvin, and he saw me. I told him I would attend. My son and I wore our Choose Life T-shirts. The mayor had announced he was...
Grandpa, I am starting to get suspicious of my son-in-law’s motives. He and my daughter seem to get along well. He tells me that he loves me like I am his own mother. They had been married only about a year when he decided to buy life insurance for me....
