Month: March 2021

Reflections on past KP duty: Scrubbing pots, pans

While I was scrubbing my single serve fry pan this morning (not this morning, but the morning when I was writing this column), it reminded me of a day long past. It was a day during basic training when I, once again, had the privilege of being selected for KP...

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State ‘getting close’ to next phase of reopening: IDPH

By Tim Kirsininkas Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) director, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, said on Monday the State is “getting close” to the next phase of reopening amid increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates and decreasing positivity rates. Speaking in a Senate Health Committee meeting, Ezike said the State has been working...

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Recipe of the Week: Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients1 cup unsalted butter1 1/4 cup crunchy peanut butter1 cup white sugar1 cup packed brown sugar2 eggs2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour1 teaspoon baking powder1/2 teaspoon salt1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract Directions1. Cream butter, peanut butter, and sugars together in a bowl; beat in eggs. 2. In a...

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Poem: Being Swept Off Your Feet

You measure your pleasure– to prevent being swept off your feet,But you may be preventing that pleasure from being complete.Being swept off your feet in the right way is something to prize;It’s not something that happens that often for, it’s a surprise;But it’s one that is plainly delightful, a giddy...

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Oscars among blacks Aurora Public Library District explication program March 24

Aurora Public Library District (APLD) patrons who are waiting for this year’s delayed Oscars broadcast can whet their appetites with Aurora Public Library District’s upcoming program “Black Oscars: What the Academy Awards Tell Us About African Americans.” Dr. Frederick Gooding, Jr., associate professor of African American studies at Texas Christian...

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Ask Grandpa

Ask Grandpa: On the Promised Land, metals, other planets

Grandpa,I read about the belief that man either came from or had interactions with, benevolent beings from outer space and that there are metals found as far back as ancient Egypt that are proven to have come from other planets. The article did not go into great detail about these...

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Study Circle Illinois dialogue focus in Aurora, Elgin

By Dr. Vincent Gaddis In Fall 2020, Study Circles Illinois launched its first round of dialogue groups through the Aurora Public Library as host. March 9, the Gail Border Library was host to its kick-off for its first dialogue groups in Elgin. The second round in Aurora will begin with...

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Cathedral of Santiago: Spectacular

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 30th in the series, a 14-day hike in 2005 across northern Spain’s intriguing Camino de Santiago known as the...

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Illini on a roll into NCAA

By Woodrow Carroll True or false? The first team to enter the men’s NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) basketball tournament undefeated ended up losing to Illinois. True of course! The question would have looked silly if Illinois were not the correct answer. The first NCAA tournament was in 1939 with...

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Season final high school boys basketball games savored

By Bobby Narang Benet Academy High School boys basketball head coach Gene Heidkamp made sure to take his time walking off the court Friday. The Redwings were one of the small group of boys and girls basketball teams to finish the truncated 2021 season March 12. The official end of...

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Cultured-meat research continues injustice, immorality

By M. Grace Grzanek, Founder and executive director, The Just Food Initiative of the Fox Valley In a letter to The Voice in the February 18 edition, thevoice.us/public-funds-would-help-cultured-meat, Jon Hochschartner of Granby, Conn. wants you and me to encourage senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth to support the payment, through...

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Sports perspective new in COVID-19; Illini goal lofty

Sports continue in a state of flux. With the Major League Baseball season on the horizon in an April 1 start, the let up in the COVID-19 is by no means complete. Lurking around the corner are tests, cancellations, and postponements in the schedule of playing games. Few of us...

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Municipal Elections April 6 will include important positions

Really, is it time to go to the polls again? Yes. It is. Every so often an opportunity comes along to really make a difference for your future and that of your community. One of those very simple and easy opportunities will present itself to all of us in just...

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Waubonsee group makes endorsements

March 15, 2021Dear editor; I am writing as a proud member of the Waubonsee Community College Faculty Council. We have unanimously endorsed Giselle Gonzalez and Sandra González for two Trustee seats in the upcoming April 6 election. Ms Giselle Gonzalez, @giselleforwcc, is the daughter of Mexican immigrants, a former student...

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