Month: July 2020

Community Events

Author Sherri Rinker’s digger classics live on Zoom July 25

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With a theme of “Dig Deeper and Read!” the Aurora Public Library (APL) Summer Reading Adventure this year reminds us to remain resilient in the face of adversity and of the importance of lifelong growth, learning, and self-discovery. Because 2020 continues to prove a challenge for us collectively and individually,...

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Ask Grandpa: Family discussion big topic on grandson

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Grandpa,I met my daughter’s father-in-law at the wedding. I was not impressed by the man and made no overtures to develop a friendship. Apparently, neither did he. From my daughter, over the years, I have grown to dislike the man based on what she told me. Well, when my daughter...

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Sports

Losing Big Ten football opponents stings NIU

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By Bobby Narang The Northern Illinois University (NIU) football team took a pair of losses before the season even reached August. The Huskies suffered a heavy financial loss and had two of their non-conference games dropped last week when the Big Ten Conference announced it was limiting all Fall sports...

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Interruptions of pro sports not uncommon

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By Woodrow Carroll If we are fortunate an abbreviated version of the 2020 Major League Baseball season will get under way Friday, July 24. Let no civil unrest nor a nasty virus stand in the way of the Boys of Summer. Both of Chicago’s Major League Baseball teams will open...

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Four Waubonsee athletes earn special honors

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The Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference (ISCC) recently named the Dick Durrant Academic Athlete of the Year award winners for 2019-2020. Waubonsee Community College earned four of the five co-winners of this prestigious award, given annually to the male and female student-athletes in the ISCC who attain the highest grade point...

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COVID-19 plays havoc with the sports schedules

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Quandary! That word sums up the near future in sports, from middle school through all of the professional ranks. Tentative might be another good word. Where do we go from here, a function of the COVID-19 situation in which professional teams start the trek to play in a season with...

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Little Free Pantry opens in Batavia

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Working toward the Girl Scout Bronze award, eight Girl Scouts from Louise White School Girl Scout Troop 1675 opened a Little Free Pantry July 7. The Pantry at the Unity of Fox Valley Church, 230 Webster Street, in Batavia, has non-perishable foods and toiletries. The pantry is part of the...

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Seniors

Senior Services Associates to produce virtual programs

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Senior Services Associates Aurora activities coordinators, Paul Heinkel and Sean Kelly, have a new partner in Jennifer Huber who joins them as the new activities coordinator at the Yorkville Beecher Center. Huber works at the Beecher Center, 908 Game Farm Road, Yorkville, and will collaborate with Heinkel and Kelly in...

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Jim Peterik video in Aurora: ‘Carry Me Back’

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By Amy Roth Jim Peterik of Ides of March and Survivor bands’ fame was in Aurora July 7 to shoot a music video of a new song that was “inspired by nostalgia,” he said. “Carry Me Back” was co-written by Ides of March member Larry Millas and is performed by...

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Government

Applications available in Kane County for vote-by-mail

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Applications for vote-by-mail ballots for the November 3 general election are available. Kane County Clerk John A. Cunningham recently announced applications can be obtained in two ways, online and by paper copy. In a July 2020 letter to Kane County voters, he said the first method is to complete an...

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Totalitarianism not the answer to any U.S. problem

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By John W. Whitehead What exactly is going on? Is this revolution? Is this anarchy? Is this a spectacle engineered to distract us from the machinations of the police state? Is this a sociological means of re-setting our national equilibrium? Is this a Machiavellian scheme designed to further polarize the...

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A Focus on History: July 16 through July 22

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July 16 U.S. president George W. Bush announces his plan for strengthening homeland security in the wake of the shocking September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C.. Bush launches a massive overhaul of the Nation’s security, intelligence, and emergency-response systems through the creation of the...

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Entertainment Events

Oswego Drive-In sold out for July 16

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The Village of Oswego’s retro drive-in movie experience of Toy Story 4, scheduled for this Thursday, July 16, has sold out. Interested residents may still join the waitlist to be notified the day of the event if space becomes available. To join the waitlist, send to jhoffman@oswegoil.org. Look for another...

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Government Health

Cooling center open in Aurora helpful

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A hot weather streak will bring air temperatures in the 80s and 90s for at least the next two weeks, with some days reaching triple digits the heat index. The city government of Aurora is advising residents to take necessary precautions to stay safe and has opened a centrally-located cooling...

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Pritzker funnels more than $51 Million to pro-graduated tax group; opposition launches coalition and vows ‘there will be resources’

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By Jerry Nowicki Days after the governor donated $51.5 Million of his personal fortune to a committee supporting a graduated income tax constitutional amendment, a new coalition has begun an effort to defeat the measure. At stake is governor JB Pritzker’s signature policy proposal, a constitutional amendment scrapping the state’s...

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