Jose Martinez was honored at the Aurora City Council meeting Tuesday as the Independence Day/Fourth of July parade grand marshal. Martinez, an Auroran, recently risked his life to pull a man out of a burning vehicle that crashed in front of the Martinez house on New York Street in Aurora.
The Naperville Police Department will conduct a traffic enforcement campaign focused on impaired and unbuckled drivers through July 8 to encompass the Independence Day holiday, an all-too-often deadly time on Illinois roads. “We encourage residents to celebrate Independence Day safely,” said Naperville Police Sgt. Derek Zook. “If you’re going to
By Jason Crane – The Aurora City Council approved a West Aurora Plaza update Tuesday which is set to improve the aesthetics by adding a 10-foot bike path along the front of the property. The plan includes moving the McDonald’s Restaurant, from the back of the development closer to Galena
Edith Makra, director of Environmental Initiatives for the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, based in Chicago, presents a certificate to Montgomery Village president Matt Brolley at the Montgomery Village Board meeting Monday. The certificate proclaims Montgomery is the 100th municipality to pass a resolution to endorse the consensus goals of the Greenest
By Al Benson – Two Aurora Methodist churches will come together Sunday to begin services and serving as one church: Flowing Forth United Methodist Church! Flowing Forth UMC was created in a union of historic Fourth Street UMC, 551 S. Fourth Street in Aurora, and Flowing Grace UMC, at Aurora
We celebrate Independence Day, Fourth of July, in various ways. The most common thread is to offer a boisterous, noise-filled salute to the Declaration of Independence, which was confirmed by the Continental Congress in 1776, 242 years ago. Each generation is challenged to keep strong and valid, the theme of
By Marjorie Logman – I thought of a parable that may relate to what I see in Washington, D.C.: There was a young man who asked his father if he could borrow the car the next day and the father responded by saying yes. The next morning the young man
June 22, 2018 Dear editor; Congratulations are in order for Randy and Lisa Brown, owners of The Banana Split on Church Road near Garfield Park in Aurora, for 35 years of great service and ice cream. Happy anniversary Randy and Lisa. Editor’s note: See The Voice’s video of the Aurora
Last of two parts Jackie Turner, an environmental scientist and journalist, continues her story about bananas. “The banana that people ate in the early 20th Century was not the one we know today. There are hundreds of edible banana varieties, but to standardize production, banana companies selected a single type
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
“Let’s ring freedom bells!” said president John F. Kennedy when he established the national Independence Day bell-ringing observance in 1963. At that time Congress set aside two minutes on the Fourth of July when citizens all across the country would simultaneously ring bells of all kinds. The Aurora Historical Society
Last of two parts In 1917 radio messages were intercepted about a possible German spy named H-21. H-21 was Mati Hari. That year she was again arrested in Paris and put on trial, accused of spying for Germany and consequently causing the deaths of at least 50,000 soldiers. During her
With the arrival of Summer my thoughts turn to baseball, beer, barbecue, beaches, and visions of sugar plums while my wife’s thoughts turn to the stupid list of household projects I was coerced into making with her in the early Spring. At the dawn of each rain-free day, the list
June 28 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August. –
Aurora children can receive free lunches each weekday during the Summer, thanks to a new collaboration with Northern Illinois Food Bank’s Summer Meals Program. The Meals on the Move program is a mobile meals route that provides free and nutritious boxed lunches to children and teens up to the age
Ingredients 1/2 cup water 1/4 cup ketchup 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1/4 cup teaspoons cornstarch 2 teaspoon honey 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper 1 teaspoon fresh ginger, finely-grated 1/2 tablespoon sesame oil 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 cup sliced green onions 8 cloves garlic, minced 1 pound raw shrimp, tails
The Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry and Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry will join forces Friday to end Summer childhood hunger. The two food pantries, both in Aurora, will take part in the annual Matching Pallet fundraiser, with a goal of $25,000, an amount that will be matched by six businesses:
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 Lisa Brown – Here is the story about the good luck charms (cross, wreath and water pipe) hanging above the office door on the wall at Banana Split ice cream shop on the East Side of Aurora. The bent pipe serves as a reminder of what happened May 24,
