For 39 years, the Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry has helped reduce food insecurity and hunger and their negative impact on the individuals who experience them and the community as a whole, by making nourishing food accessible in a humanitarian and compassionate manner to anyone in need. The Pantry seeks
Grandpa,There is a problem with the pop-up food pantry in the park to give groceries to the poor. There are too many who can’t go into parks. I am one. I got to register that I did some bad stuff and came out of prison. Being on the register, I
By Bobby Narang November is normally a special time of the season in high school sports. The weather turns chilly, leaves start to fall, and the football season is reaching a high point with the start of the playoffs. With basketball practices heating up and the State cross country meet,
By Woodrow Carroll The visiting Purdue University football team played Illinois in Champaign Saturday, which figured to be interesting with the unsettling and hovering nature of COVID-19 hovering. The nasty virus played its unfriendly and unsettling part. The game, the Illini home opener, proved to be better than expected. Illinois
Northern Illinois University senior punter Matt Ference is on pace to set school records. Northern Illinois University football photo
Arthur Graham, Naperville Central; Katrina Schlenker, Batavia; Micah Wilson, St. Charles East; and Lianna Surtz of Rosary in Aurora, forever will have a common thread woven by their high school cross country 2020 season. They captured first places in their final meets of the season. They are sectional champions. Their
By John Schutt NASCAR Cup Series, Xfinity 500, Martinsville Speedway, Martinsville, Va., Xfinity 500, Sunday, Nov. 1. Chase Elliott won the championship at Martinsville to qualify for the final four in Phoenix at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8. Second place was won by Ryan Blaney, Joe Logano was in third,
Cindy Gustafson, Woman’s Club of Aurora president, left, prepares to present a check to Lauren Jernigan, right, representative of Aurora’s Hesed House shelter.
Servant George Rayford has been a community fixture for decades. From the local “fish man” in the 1980s and 1990s to one who would become a “fisher of men & women” as a leader in Aurora’s faith community.
Some individuals are walking around with low levels of thyroid hormone (hypothyroidism). They’re surviving with fatigue, sensitivity to cold, constipation, dry skin, weight gain, hoarseness, weakness, high cholesterol, muscle aches, tenderness, stiffness, pain, swelling of joints, thinning hair, depression, impaired memory, and more. They know they aren’t healthy, but the
Aurora Noon Lions Club seeks donations of Winter clothing to restock supplies at Wayside Cross Ministries, an Aurora nonprofit. Susan Koepke, Aurora, Lions service chairman, invites the public to clean out their closets for Wayside. Items needed are new or gently used sweaters, pants, jacket, coats, and other Winter gear
By Jason Crane Discussions about a residence requirement for city of Aurora police and fire employees was part of the Aurora city government Committee of the Whole meeting Tuesday, through the Zoom video conference platform. Rules, Administration and Procedures (RAP) Committee chairperson, alderman Carl Franco, gave an update about the
By Jason Crane The North Aurora Village Board, through the Zoom video conference platform, discussed at the Committee of the Whole meeting Monday, to create a program to assist food establishments with costs associated with outdoor dining in the Winter due to indoor dining restrictions because of COVID-19. Six establishments
The 18th annual Trunk or Treat Sunday, Oct. 25 sponsored by the St. Mary’s Catholic Church and the United Methodist Church of Plano brings ghoulish ghosts, superheroes, bewitching witches, pretty princesses, crafty pumpkins, and many Halloween decorated trunks.
Volunteers, including Boy Scout Troop 11 from Wesley Methodist Church in Aurora, clean up the West Aurora Cemetery Sunday, Oct. 25 as part of their volunteer work day.
The gift of play this holiday season can be assisted by donating an unwrapped toy for the Marine Toys for Tots Program. Drop-off boxes are available at the Montgomery Village Hall, 200 N. River Street and the Police Department, 10 Civic Center Drive. Donations may be dropped off by December
Naperville Park District invites donations to the 14th annual Pennies for Pies drive from November 2-20. From its inception in 2006, the goal of the Pennies for Pies campaign has been to encourage the community to make donations of any amount, including pocket change, to help fund the purchase of
By John W. Whitehead Things are falling apart. How much longer we can sustain the fiction that we live in a constitutional republic, I cannot say, but anarchy is being loosed upon the Nation. We are witnessing the unraveling of the American dream one injustice at a time. Day after
November 5 More than 300 Santee Sioux are found guilty of raping and murdering Anglo settlers and are sentenced to hang. All but 38 were granted a reprieve, and the 38 were hanged simultaneously December 26 in a bizarre mass execution witnessed by a large crowd of approving Minnesotans. –
Bales of plastic waste destined for recycling. Koron/Getty Images Susannah Scott, University of California Santa Barbara If you thought those flimsy disposable plastic grocery bags represented most of our plastic waste problem, think again. The volume of plastic the world throws away every year could rebuild the Ming Dynasty’s Great
