Environmental science:
Shiloh Felix, student at Grace Holistic Center for Education, shows environmental science projects at the Hoover Forest Preserve in Yorkville earlier this month. Students in grades six through 12 participated in the Living Off Grid theme. Submitted photo...
Students’ Voice: School memories – Thunderstorm charade in a little café
By Jaelyn Rounds Grace Holistic Center for Education, Grade 8 – One of the prominent things that happened this fourth quarter at Grace Holistic Center for Education was the thunderstorm charade. My classroom and I decided to visit a nice little café in Yorkville, Belladonna, which had every breakfast item,...
Students’ Voice: Performing interesting
By Octavius Palmer Grace Holistic Center For Education, Grade 7 – Grace Holistic Center For Education, just a few months ago, presented a school-sponsored performance to the world at the Sandwich Opera House. Every grade from preschool to high school participated. The students based their performances on the theme zombies....
Students’ Voice: Hockey history best
By Evan Reiner Grace Holistic Center For Education, Grade 6 – This year, the Evolutions sixth grade through eighth grade class of Grace Holistic Center For Education, did a lot of stuff through the year, but one of my favorite things was writing a research paper on a topic of...
Students’ Voice: History projects in new board games
By Madison DeTolve Grace Holistic Center for Education, Grade 8 – At Grace Holistic Center for Education the sixth through eighth graders, taught by Ms Danielle, have worked on several projects throughout the year. The current project is board games for social studies. Ms Danielle had students choose a part...
Let’s Go Green!
Bliss Woods Habitat Restoration Day: A habitat restoration work day will be held at Bliss Woods Forest Preserve from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 1. The group will remove hedge parsley and garlic mustard. Bliss Woods is a beautiful, high-quality woodland hosting many unusual plants. Removing invasive species will...
Alice: Sweet mom, chill cat, loves a good nap
Alice is a female Domestic Shorthair Gray Tiger who was born in May 2018. Alice is a sweet mom who loves to sit in the window and watch birds. She is a chill cat, and really enjoys a good nap in the sun, playing with a feather wand, eating yummy...
Fundraiser forum
Marine Corps League Golf Classic Aug. 14 The Fox Valley Marine Corps League will donate the proceeds of its 12th annual Golf Classic at Bliss Creek Golf Course in Sugar Grove to veterans and their families, specifically to help those affected by food insecurity. The outing is set for Wednesday,...
A Focus on History: May 30 through June 5
May 30 At Rouen in English-controlled Normandy, France, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy. – 1431. Former U.S. president William Howard Taft dedicates the Lincoln Memorial on the Washington Mall on this day in 1922. At the...
Advice listed to help those coming of age survive perils
Those coming of age today will face some of the greatest obstacles ever encountered by young people. 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...
Understanding signs and prevention of strokes important
By Barb Nadeau – Stroke is one of the most frightening words for older adults to hear. It is a great unknown. It strikes without notice and with unknown possible results of unknown extremes. Every four minutes someone dies as the result of a stroke. It is the fifth leading...
Discussions relevant at Oswego Senior Center
The Oswego Senior Center, 156 E. Washington Street, Oswego, will be host to many events for seniors. All events will take place at the Oswego Senior Center unless otherwise noted. • Medicare Discussions: Medicare Advantage Plans, Wednesday, May 22, 10 a.m.. Medicare Advantage Plans are HMOs, PPOs, and PFFS. Attendees...
Austin loves to lay in lap with tongue out
Austin is a female Domestic Medium Hair white with black spots and was born in April 2018. Austin at a foster home with two dogs and three cats which she gets along with great. She enjoys running fast down the hallway and laying on a lap and purr with her...
Let’s Go Green!
• Oswego Spring Free Paper Shredding Event: To assist in the prevention of identity theft, the Oswego Police Department and First National Bank of Oswego will offer a free shredding service to the community from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday, May 18, at the First National Bank, 6601 US...
Fundraiser forum
4-H Pork Chop Dinner June 20 The annual Friends of Extension and 4-H Foundation Pork Chop Dinner will take place from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 20 at the University of Illinois Extension office, 7775B IL Route 47, Yorkville. Each pork meal includes applesauce, coleslaw, baked beans, dinner...
A Focus on History: May 16 through May 22
May 16 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out its first awards (Oscars), at a dinner party for approximately 250 individuals held in the Blossom Room of the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, Calif.. – 1929. Japanese mountaineer, Junko Tabei, becomes the first woman to reach the summit...
An alphabet of tyranny by any name you choose to give it
What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly-contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting, and disingenuous curtain of political theater. What political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at times, full of sound and fury, yet in the end, signifying nothing. Played out...