Month: July 2018

History

A Focus on History: July 19 – 25

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July 19 During Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria. The irregularly-shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Egyptian demotic. The ancient...

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Commentary Government Policy

Beware cabal of international government, corporations

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The U.S. government is operating under a New World Order government, a power elite conspiring to rule the world, and it is being brought to you by the Global-Industrial Deep State, a powerful cabal made up of international government agencies and corporations. Wait. Just hear me out. This statement is...

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Aurora officials offer a welcome to Lou Malnati's Pizzeria with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday, July 13. Northbrook-based Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria is at 1720 N. Orchard Road. From left are Lynn Young, Aurora, store interim manager; Marc Malnati, owner of Lou Malnati’s; Carl Franco, Fifth Ward alderman; Bill Donnell, Sixth Ward alderman; and Chuck Nelson, Aurora deputy mayor. The store opened Tuesday, July 10. Al Benson/The Voice
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First Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria opens in Aurora

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By Al Benson –   Northbrook-based Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria opened a new location at 1720 N. Orchard Road in Aurora Tuesday, July 10. A formal ribbon-cutting ceremony was held with Aurora officials Friday, July 13. It is the company’s 52nd Chicago area location and 54th overall. There are two locations in Phoenix, Ariz..  ...

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Aurora Water Production Division for winning the 2017 Kane County Water Association Taste Test
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City of Aurora Water Production Division Honored for winning the 2017 Kane County Water Association Taste Test contest, again

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Honored at the Aurora City Council meeting Tuesday was the city of Aurora Water Production Division for winning the 2017 Kane County Water Association Taste Test contest for the seventh time. It competed against nine other municipalities for taste, odor, and color. Mayor of Aurora Richard Irvin, right, holds a...

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Marmion Academy Cadets’ Class 2A boys State championship team
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Marmion Academy Cadets’ Class 2A boys State championship team Honored at Aurora City Council

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Marmion Academy head track coach Dan Thorpe, right, makes a gesture to four members of the Cadets’ Class 2A boys State championship team, assistant coaches, Aurora mayor Richard Irvin, far left, and alderman Tina Bohman, fourth from left, at the Aurora City Council meeting Monday. The school in Aurora, won...

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Oswego East High School freshman Akshar Kota requests the city of Aurora government consider using solar street lights
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Oswego East High School Freshman suggests City of Aurora to install Solar Street Lights

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Oswego East High School freshman Akshar Kota requests the city of Aurora government consider using solar street lights. He spoke at the Aurora City Council meeting Tuesday. He said in 1908 Aurora adopted the nickname “City of Lights” and we should adopt available technology and become the City of Solar...

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Roosevelt-Aurora American Legion Post 84 Band plays in concert at RiverEdge Park in Aurora, July 4

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The Roosevelt-Aurora American Legion Post 84 Band plays in concert at RiverEdge Park in Aurora Wednesday, July 4 as part of the festivities. Later in the evening the fireworks were postponed by lightning in the sky and are set for Friday, July 27. Independence Day photos were in The Voice...

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Community Education Events

Junior Deputy Program assists in Kane County

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A group of west suburban high school students have a better understanding of law enforcement, thanks to their participation in a Junior Deputy Program led by the Kane County Sheriff’s Office. Eighty-five students were honored June 16 at a Kane County Cougars baseball game for completing the course. They came...

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International Science Fair at Illinois Math and Science Academy

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Chris Kornsey, Illinois Math and Science Academy executive director of facilities and capital planning in Aurora, judges posters at the recent international science fair at the school, including students from China....

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Commentary Feature

Global family perspective: ‘Population Connection’ in Aurora makes its point

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By Deena Sherman –  Maybe you saw me Saturday at Aurora’s downtown Farmers’ Market. I was at a little table with a banner that read, “Population Connection.” I was happy to volunteer for this group, whose mission is to explain the connections between overpopulation and issues such as pollution, poverty,...

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Commentary Feature

Soon: Jennings Terrace, Oswego Senior Center; grief now

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We are tied together more than we may think, at times, and pass off circumstances as coincidences. There are many who think there are no coincidences. Early this week, Lynn Akers entered the office of The Voice with a news release for Jennings Terrace. First things first. She is involved...

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Opinion

Reader’s Voice: Reflections at U.S. Fourth of July

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July 2, 2018 Dear editor; My great-grandfather, Franz, immigrated by himself to the U.S. at the age of 16 in 1886 to escape political tyranny in Germany. He met and married my Irish great-grandmother, Mary, whose parents came from Ireland to escape poverty and religious tyranny. They worked hard and...

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Opinion

Reader’s Voice: Register to vote to be counted!

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July 3, 2018 Dear editor; Children in ice boxes. Women in back alleys. Men in breadlines. Teens and six-year olds in coffins. School children under their desks. Is this what Makes America Great Again? Not according to my U.S. Constitution. Wake up, stand up, and fight for what you know...

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Opinion

Reader’s Voice: Congratulations to Emilie Galles for Hall of Fame

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July 7, 2018 Dear editor; Congratulations are in order for the new members of Aurora Boys Baseball Hall of Fame. In particular, the late Emilie Galles, who had a huge impact on the Aurora Boys Baseball program. Galles was, and is, more than deserving of this honor. After a lot...

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Donna Crane
Feature Health History Policy

Industrial hemp proponents seek congressional help

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First of two parts Hemp has a variety of reactions from a variety of individuals, and, there is a lack of information and understanding. The Hemp Industrial Association wrote the following article of its history: “Hemp is among the oldest industries on the planet, going back more than 10,000 years...

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West Aurora Concerned Citizens Neighborhood Group, July 18

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The West Aurora Concerned Citizens Neighborhood Group will meet Wednesday, at 6:30 p.m. at the 5th Ward Meeting Room, 1921 W. Galena Boulevard, West Aurora Plaza. Guest speaker will be Jim Jarvis, vice president of programming and sales for Aurora Civic Authority, which includes the Paramount Theatre, Copley Theatre, and...

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Jo Fredell Higgins
Feature History

Four centuries ago, first thanksgiving, start of a New World

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Last of two parts When the English settlers in the New World in the early 1600s, adapted the foreign soil to their needs, they set off cataclysmic changes. Their animals, insects, and plants literally changed the ground beneath the Native Americans’ feet. The colonists brought in native fruit trees and...

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Wayne Johnson
Commentary Humor

On 20-foot tall Baby Donald and kidney stone surgery

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I’ve avoided writing about political stuff lately because it’s been nearly impossible to find any humor in the things coming out of Trumpworld, a.k.a. The Swamp. But one great thing has happened: Scott Pruitt is history! If you have the opportunity or interest, read his letter of resignation. Pruitt writes...

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Government Policy

Hultgren, McGovern, extol virtues of Human Rights Council

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Congressmen Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and Randy Hultgren (R-Ill.), co-chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, regret the recent decision by the Donald Trump administration to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council. The co-chairs recognize that the Council has been inconsistent in its promotion of human rights on...

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