Month: November 2020

Feature

Election seasons not necessarily always neat and tidy

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Psychologically the human mind seeks neat and clean results. Close one door, open another door. It is helpful and always sounds productive. An example are major elections and election campaigns. Just because Joe Biden has been perceived as the eventual presidential choice when the Electoral College reaches its conclusion December...

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Journey stop: Unique Tomas’ place

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Editor’s note: Rick McKay, Joe Masonick, and Jack Karolewski, have been travel companions for more than 50 years to a variety of sites with many goals. This week’s adventure is the 15th in the series, a 14-day hike in 2005 across northern Spain’s intriguing Camino de Santiago, known as the...

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Opinion

Anti-abortion issue finds replacement

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November 5, 2020Dear editor; Is there an award for being a loser? The COVID-19 replaced the anti-abortion issue which, for decades, was a top issue. How to create silence and displacement of the right-to-life moral values finally has been found, or, invented: A flu. The fatalities of COVID-19 are tragic,...

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Opinion

Dignity, decency, democracy, won

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November 9, 2020Dear editor; Oh happy day! Dignity, decency, democracy have won the day. The groundswell of excitement and inspirational American unity displayed and felt around the world over the past weekend from the results of this presidential election has put a soothing hush over the past four years and...

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Native Americans’ voting problems include address variations

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Last of two parts The first part is at thevoice.us/native-americans-right-to-vote-among-the-most-violated Native Americans’ right to vote has been systematically violated for generations. In the new book, Voting in Indian Country, The View from the Trenches, Jean Reith Schroedel weaves together historical and contemporary voting rights’ conflicts on the eve of the...

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Events

Oswego Museum open by reservation only

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The Little White School Museum, 72 Polk Street (Jackson at Polk Street), Oswego, will be open Thursday, Nov. 5, by reservation only and will not maintain regular open hours, according to a press release. Museum programming and events will continue as scheduled. According to museum manager Tina Heidrich, the move...

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Police

Naperville Police Department: Halloween enforcement

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The Naperville Police Department issued 52 seat belt citations during the recent Halloween enforcement effort. Law enforcement agencies throughout Illinois participated in this drive to save lives by getting impaired drivers off the roads and more vehicle occupants buckled up. The enforcement campaign took place from October 17 through November...

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Community

West Aurora Cemetery Association seeks help

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By Jan Mangers, West Aurora Cemetery trustee, president The West Aurora Cemetery has been in existence since 1834. Originally known as the West Aurora Burying Ground, it was donated to the city government of Aurora by Clark and Hannah Wilder in 1848. They lived to see their son, William Wallace...

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Women’s Land Army civilians assisted Britain in WWII

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In a 2013 copy of “This England” magazine, I read about the Women’s Land Army (WLA) of World War II. It was a British civilian organization to bring women to the farms and fields to help the war efforts while their men were with the military service. The government wanted...

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Commentary

Salute to late Herbert Hill

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He was a giant among men upon whose shoulders I have proudly stood for more than 20 years during my career as an attorney and elected official. Herbert Hill, Esq. made history as the first black lawyer in Kane County, and he continued to blaze a trail of excellence in...

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Government Political

Stephanie Kifowit to seek State office

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State representative Stephanie Kifowit, 84th District, who announced in October to be seeking the nomination of speaker of the Illinois House, released the following statement about the recent November 3 election results. Kifowit ran uncontested in her District which includes Oswego, Aurora, and Naperville. “It is clear from the result,...

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Election consequences, recollections, thoughts

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I had a different first line for this piece about the never-ending vote count, but just as I punched it out I learned that Joe Biden had won the election. Whew! Even our world allies celebrated with fireworks, music (I think I heard the Munchkins singing, “Ding Dong, the Witch...

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Food

Recipe of the Week: Apple Bread

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Ingredients2 large eggs eggs2 cups white sugar½ cup vegetable oil2 teaspoons vanilla extract2 cups apples, peeled and diced2 cups all-purpose flour1 ½ teaspoons salt1 teaspoon baking powder½ teaspoon ground cinnamon, or more to taste Directions1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease a loaf pan. 2. Beat eggs, sugar, vegetable oil, and...

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Poetry

Blessings Rarely Counted

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We’re told to “Count our Blessings” at each turn we take;To be contrite for what we have, for goodness sake.But just what is a blessings—how are we to know?Assumptions of what blessings are don’t make it so. Some blessings may be what they don’t appear to be;And others so disguised...

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Events

Race and Rights: Wells, Willard, and Addams November 17

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At a time when it was perhaps risky, Ida B. Wells, Frances Willard, and Jane Addams were firm promoters of equal rights. Their work led to a legacy of advocacy that has guided the empowerment of women around the world. In partnership with the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, RAILS...

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Entertainment Events

Empty Can Band 20-year celebration Livestream at The Venue Saturday

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The Empty Can Band, Aurora’s hometown rock and blues band will celebrate 20 Years at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14 with a Livestream from The Venue through Facebook and YouTube. Proceeds from the show will go to Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, www.pancan.org. This illness is very near and dear to...

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Ask Grandpa: On food recipes, thanks to mother-in-law

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Grandpa,I am avoiding using meat and animal fat in my cooking. I would like to make brown gravy, but choose not to use the commercial browning agents sold in the store because they use beef extract and way too much salt. I have tried using food coloring but cannot get...

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Sports

High School basketball schedule of play in flux

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By Bobby Narang York High School first-year boys head basketball coach Mike Dunn might have to wait a bit longer for his debut season at his new school. The former Yorkville High School coach has a long family history that dates back 100 years with York High School. But the...

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Illini, Huskies, on precarious perches

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By Woodrow Carroll Both football teams at Northern Illinois University and the University of Illinois have worked themselves into bad positions without victories through last weekend. Northern Illinois, 0-1, following a defeat at the hands of the visiting University of Buffalo, 49-30, in a season and home-opener in DeKalb, was...

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Northeast Conference teams to play basketball now

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Clarity in high school Winter sports is under way. We just do not know when it will arrive. Wrestling has been moved out of its traditional Winter role. The next question is when basketball will be played. The question to be resolved is will basketball be moved to Spring, or,...

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