Month: November 2018

Grace Holistic Center for Education (GHCFE) middle school students’ project includes creating a wall of memorial for Anne Frank’s story and the Holocaust. Danielle Reuterskiold photo

Memorial created for Anne Frank’s story

By Jaelyn Rounds –  This year, Grace Holistic Center for Education (GHCFE) middle school students in Yorkville are creating a wall of memorial for Anne Frank’s story and the Holocaust. This will be the wrap-up on the end of a unit lesson. Rather than expressing depressing parts of the time,...

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State students receive honors

The top students representing Illinois’ colleges and universities were honored by The Lincoln Academy of Illinois during the annual Student Laureate Convocation Saturday, Nov. 17 at the Old State Capitol State Historic Site in Springfield. Each Fall, an outstanding senior from each of the State’s four-year degree-granting colleges and universities...

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Ashlei N. Ross of Plainfield receives honors as one of the top college students in Illinois

Ashlei N. Ross of Plainfield receives honors as one of the top college students in Illinois

Ashlei N. Ross of Plainfield, third from left, a senior at Northeastern Illinois University, receives honors as one of the top college students in Illinois by The Lincoln Academy of Illinois during the annual Student Laureate ceremony November 17 at the Old State Capitol State Historic Site in Springfield. From...

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Special holiday attraction at McCormick House in Cantigny Park

The Robert R. McCormick House at Cantigny Park in Wheaton invites visitors to a special holiday attraction honoring Colonel McCormick’s philanthropic legacy. Through December 30, McCormick House will feature seven “Community Trees,” each decorated for Christmas by a community nonprofit organization. Charities were invited to participate because their missions involve...

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Holiday lights recycling in Naperville

The Naperville Park District eighth annual holiday lights recycling program, in partnership with Elgin Recycling, will continue through February 1, 2019. Residents and businesses are invited to bring their old, non-working lights to any of the following locations: • Alfred Rubin Riverwalk Community Center, 305 W. Jackson Avenue. Hours of...

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Let's Go Green

Let’s Go Green!

• Kane County’s Recycling collection event: The Kane County Electronics Recycling Program will include two daily drop-offs locations. There is a fee for TVs and computer monitors, both tube and flat screen, of $25. for screens under 21 inches (measured diagonally) and $35. for screens 21 inches and larger. The...

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Fundraiser forum

Christmas Coffee Shoppe fundraiser Dec. 1 Flowing Forth United Methodist Church, 551 S. Fourth Street in Aurora, will have its first Christmas Coffee Shoppe fundraiser from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1. Holiday crafts, a cookie walk and fudge shoppe, handmade crafts, gift baskets, a fudge shoppe, cookie...

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A Focus on History – November 29 through December 5

November 29 In spite of strong Arab opposition, the United Nations votes for the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state. – 1947 Making good on his most dramatic presidential campaign promise, newly-elected Dwight D. Eisenhower goes to Korea to see whether he can find the...

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John Whitehead

More than give thanks, paying blessings forward important

Listen: I know it’s been a hard, heart-wrenching, stomach-churning, kind of year. It’s been a year of hotheads and blowhards and killing sprees and bloodshed and takedowns. It’s been a year in which tyranny took a few more steps forward and freedom got knocked down a few more notches. It’s...

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List of candidates who filed November 19, to run for aldermen in Aurora

An UPDATE to the list of candidates who filed to run for aldermen in Aurora

Recently-added candidates for office in Aurora since November 19 are in blue among those who have filed for office and asterisk indicates an incumbent: Alderman-at-Large: Sherman Jenkins* Brooke Ann Shanley Durrell Williams Ward 1 Peter Aguilera Emmanuel Llamas Caryl Riley Amanda Sperzel Valerie Budach Hugo Saltijeral Ward 3 Theodoros Mesiacos*...

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Dorothy and the Scarecrow interact during the Wizard of Oz at the Paramount Theatre Broadway Series. The production will run through January 6, 2019. Liz Laruen photo

Dorothy and companions: Innocence and wonder in Wizard of Oz

By Joani Foster –  Another must-see performance at the Paramount Theatre, Wizard of Oz, is wowing audiences just as top performances have since 1931 in Aurora. It is not just for children. It is truly for everyone. This production is a burst of happiness. We all could use a little...

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The world’s tallest elf is Jason Kullom at the Winter Lights in Aurora Friday to turn on the Christmas lights. Behind Kullom, is Santa peering over the top of the GAR building. See page 13 and facebook.com/thevoice.us. Jason Crane/The Voice

Winter Lights in Aurora:

The world’s tallest elf is Jason Kullom at the Winter Lights in Aurora Friday to turn on the Christmas lights. Behind Kullom, is Santa peering over the top of the GAR building. See videos of the parade and fireworks at facebook.com/thevoice.us.  See more photos by clicking here. Jason Crane/The Voice...

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Season is over: Batavia High School’s Luke Weerts sheds tears in an embrace with head coach Dennis Piron following Saturday’s playoff defeat. Carter Crane/The Voice

Four among 16 in State football finals

Patterns exist in high school playoffs, however, often there is no explanation. Batavia High School’s football team won 17 games in succession over two years, including a State championship last season. The streak was stopped Saturday when host Nazareth Academy defeated Batavia, 47-28, in LaGrange Park in a Class 7A...

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State School Board votes no on gun plan

A proposed resolution calling for the Illinois Association of School Boards (IASB) to support legislation that would provide school boards the option to decide if they would allow for properly trained staff members to be armed in school buildings as part of the districts’ overall student safety and protection plans...

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Rotary Club of Aurora volunteers, assisted by Marmion Academy students, take a moment to pose recently while setting up the 2018 Festival of Lights in Phillips Park in Aurora. The display will be visible Friday through December 26. Charlie Zine photo

Setting up the displays for the 2018 Festival of Lights in Aurora’s Phillips Park

Rotary Club of Aurora volunteers, assisted by Marmion Academy students, take a moment to pose recently while setting up the 2018 Festival of Lights in Phillips Park in Aurora. The display will be visible Friday through December 26. Charlie Zine photo...

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Carter Crane editor of The Voice

’Tis the season: Attitude of gratitude best fits our thankfulness

Thanksgiving Day should remind us that our glass is half-full and not half-empty. We should express and feel an attitude of gratitude. We should think thanksgiving every day. Problems arise for some of us whose level of expectations are so high that their concept either is they are certain they...

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