Month: February 2020

Crime

Shooting on Aurora’s East Side Tuesday, Feb. 18

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The Aurora Police Department has taken multiple individuals into custody after a shooting on the city’s near East Side that left a 16-year-old suffering from life-threatening injuries Tuesday afternoon. Just after 4:15 p.m., Aurora Police officers responded to the 600 block of Second Avenue for reports of a person shot....

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Pratt remembrances fitting; West Aurora Band seeks photos

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The remembrances Saturday of the shootings in Aurora February 15, 2019, at the Henry Pratt factory, were efficient, straight forward, and functional. Some family members and friends of the deceased attended in a situation which never is easy. It will haunt for many years. There was a ceremony at the...

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Commentary Opinion

Offer stands: Coffee treat for League of Women Voters

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February 15, 2020Dear editor; I write to comment on the letter in The Voice, January 23, at thevoice.us/remarks-follow-resignation-from-lwv. From their letter: “The League (of Women Voters) was begun as a nonpartisan political and membership organization, and it remains so today.” The letter was signed by five officers of various chapters...

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Health Money Opinion

Problem: Insurance health care authorization

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February 14, 2020Dear editor; Charles Darwin wrote that “A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” No one knows the truth of this better than someone struggling with a serious illness, for whom every hour of life is hard-won. But all...

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Health Money

Huge profits reaped from fear-filled news on coronavirus

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Last of two parts The first part is available at thevoice.us/coronavirus-fear-compounds-anxiety-arbitrarily. Coronavirus: How dangerous is it? Hint: Don’t trust the big media. Want to Know Info by Fred Burks for PEERS (Public Education and Empowerment Resource Service) and former White House interpreter and whistleblower has submitted the following article: “Fear-filled...

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Human evolution emanated Millions of years ago in Africa

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An interesting book entitled “The Axemaker’s Gift” was written by James Burke and Robert Ornstein and released 25 years ago. Their premise is that axemakers, their discoveries and innovations, significantly improved and changed lives. In the ancient past, we all came out of Africa and began to inhabit the planet....

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Community Events

Kiwanis Club of Aurora breakfast March 14 in Aurora

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The Aurora and Fox Valley community are invited to Aurora Central Catholic High School, 1255 N. Edgelawn Drive, corner Edgelawn Drive and Indian Trail, Aurora, 7 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 14, for the 70th Kiwanis Pancake Day. The Kiwanis Club of Aurora, in its 104th year, presents this annual...

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Sugarland at Aurora RiverEdge Park July 2

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Sugarland, the electrifying country power duo of Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, will return to the road in the Summer and Aurora’s Thomas J. Weisner RiverEdge Park will be the only Chicago-area stop for the band’s There Goes the Neighborhood Tour 2020, at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 2. Don’t miss...

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Events

Neighborhood Activities: 2-20-20

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Aurora • Saturday Feb. 22 • 6 p.m. – 11 p.m. Rosary High School 19th annual Candlelight Ball Alumnae, families, and friends can enjoy an evening of celebration while assisting Rosary in raising funds for Rosary High School. Highlights of the evening will include raffle prizes, fine dining experience, casino...

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Feature Humor

Thoughts straight from the brain about Valentines past

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I hope everyone had a nice Valentine’s Day and received many heartfelt good wishes, tokens of love, and similar garbage. Continuing my tradition of being a day late and a dollar short, I’d like to share some words about that special day. Some time back, I wondered why a heart...

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Events Veterans

Ribbon-cutting for Roosevelt-Aurora American Legion Post 84 February 28

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The Roosevelt-Aurora American Legion Post 84 may be 100 years old, but it is reinventing how it does business. Long ago, Post 84 sold its traditional Post building that had a bar and a hall, and those days are not coming back because the new office will boast a coffee...

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History

Batavia Depot Museum focus: Heritage

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The Batavia Depot Museum will open for the season March 2 with a new exhibit, Community, Culture, and Conversations; African American Heritage in Batavia. Attendees can learn why early African Americans decided to call Batavia home, and what their lives were like here after the Civil War. An opening reception...

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Food

Recipe of the Week: Banana Sour Cream Bread

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Ingredients 1/4 cup white sugar 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 3/4 cup butter 3 cups white sugar 3 eggs 6 very ripe bananas, mashed 1 (16 ounce) container sour cream 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons baking soda 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1...

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Commentary Opinion Political Religion

A piece of the shattered vase should return to the rest

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By Marjorie Logman As a Christian I have been looking at Christianity in America. I see a vase representing Christianity that has fallen and shattered into pieces. Unfortunately, many of the pieces have decided they are the whole vase and it has brought division. The White Evangelical Movement piece that...

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Commentary Opinion

Consistent journalism the vision in the face of change

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Jim Nowlan and I go back a long way, and I can’t think of anyone I know I respect more. That being said, I have a much less dystopian view of the future of newspapers, and particularly community journalism, than the one Jim shared in his piece, two weeks ago...

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Ask Grandpa: On the best man for the wedding day

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Grandpa,My fiancé has known his best friend since they were kids. They even went to the same college together. They both work in the (same profession) but not the same company. My fiancé has asked his friend to be the best man at our wedding. I am trying to fix...

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President Trump commutes Blagojevich sentence after 8 years

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By Jerry Nowicki There was little support Tuesday at the former stomping grounds of ex-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich for president Donald Trump’s decision to commute the remaining years of the disgraced former Democratic governor’s 14-year corruption sentence. Republicans and Democrats from various levels of State and federal government issued public...

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Government

Representative Batnick disagrees with commutation

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President Donald Trump Tuesday, commuted the sentence of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who was found guilty on federal corruption charges and removed from office in 2009. Blagojevich since has served eight years of a 14-year sentence in federal prison, and was set to be released Tuesday. State representative Mark...

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Education Environment Infrastructure

‘Go Solar’ program at Aurora West Branch February 25

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Those thinking about going solar can attend the program “Go Solar!,” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the Aurora Public Library’s West Branch. The Citizen’s Utility Board, a statewide non-profit organization, will present the free solar information session where attendees will have the opportunity to learn everything they might...

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