Month: March 2021

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Opinion

Ask Grandpa: Answers to questions on previous columns

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Grandpa,I realize that because your column has to be concise that you can’t go into depth on topics, but your assertion that Pope Urban II’s call November 27, 1095 (See The Voice, November 6, 2020) was prompted by imperialism, overlooks the real causes. During the 7th and 8th Centuries, Moslems...

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Opinion Political

Predictions: Republican Party losses, Great Awakening

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The coffee klatch at Julie’s Café Market asks: What’s going to happen in American politics over the next few years, now that Donald Trump has declared he plans to be the leader of the Republican Party? Here is my take. In sum, the Republican Party will survive, if at all,...

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Events Government

Township government series at Aurora Public Library District to continue March 18

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Did you know that Illinois is one of only 20 states with a township form of government? There will be more such information in the second part of the two-part Civic Education Series, Township Government: What does it do and why do we need it? Aurora Township trustee, Brenda Hernandez,...

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Sports

Loyola carries NCAA berth in repeat hopes

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By Woodrow Carroll Some things fall into place after many rough moments. For Chicago’s Loyola University men’s head basketball coach Porter Moser the present and future have a rosy glow. Sunday in St. Louis, Mo., Moser’s Loyola Ramblers defeated the Drake Bulldogs, 75-65, to capture the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament...

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Sports

March Madness in a different look offers excitement

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March Madness refers to the time of the year when high school and college basketball tournaments generate enthusiasm, even growing to a fever pitch. High school basketball in the State, known as the Original March Madness, will be silent for a second consecutive year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Last...

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Sports

Rashon Burno, formerly of DePaul, Marmion, NIU coach

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By Bobby Narang The Rashon Burno era officially tipped off Monday afternoon. The former DePaul University guard was named the new Northern Illinois University (NIU) men’s basketball head coach Saturday afternoon. Burno, who coached three years at Marmion Academy in Aurora, 2007-2010, was officially introduced Monday during a press conference....

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Sports

Selected High School boys basketball schedule and results

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Thursday, March 11DuPage ValleyNaperville North at Metea Valley, 7 Non-conferenceBenet at Batavia, 7 Upstate Eight TournamentConsolation semifinalConsolation semifinalSemifinalSemifinal Friday, March 12Chicago Catholic White*Montini at Providence, 7 DuKaneBatavia at St. Charles East, 7Lake Park at Wheaton-Warr. South, 7St. Charles North at Glenbard N., 7Wheaton North at Geneva, 7 DuPage ValleyMetea Valley...

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Decorated ‘Charlie’ Aguirre passed too early, Feb. 24

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By John Montesano The Fox Valley Veterans Breakfast Club has named Rosalio “Charlie” Aguirre, the March Veteran of the Month. Sadly, this honor is being conferred posthumously because Charlie passed February 24. Charlie was born June 10, 1981 in Aurora; one of a family of eight children. The oldest of...

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Government

Stephanie Kifowit chair person of two State committees

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State representative Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego, has been appointed to serve as chair person of the Veterans Affairs and State Government Administration Committees for the 2021-2022 legislative session and will serve on three additional House committees. “As a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, it is my honor to once...

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Opinion

Government continues to make mockery of Fourth Amendment

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By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Americans are not safe in their homes. Not anymore, at least. This present menace comes from the government and its army of bureaucratized, corporatized, militarized, mercenaries who are waging war on the last stronghold left to us as a free people: The sanctity...

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History

A Focus on History: March 11 through March 17

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March 11 One of the worst blizzards in American history strikes the Northeast, and kills more than 400 persons and dumps as much as 55 inches of snow in some areas. Wind gusts are recorded at 85 miles per hour in New York City which end with drifts that reach...

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Government Political

State changes proposed: Draw districts differently

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By Peter Hancock Republican Party members in the State General Assembly has introduced a new bill that would hand over the process of drawing new legislative and congressional district maps to an independent commission that would be required to use official U.S. Census Bureau, rather than survey estimates, to draw...

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Aurora’s Equity-Focused Vaccination Clinic

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More than 700 individuals receive COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday morning in Aurora at Cathedral of Grace St. John AME provided by the city government, in a Black Vax Coalition program. Less than three percent of black residents in Aurora previously had received vaccinations. The Aurora Equity-Focused Mass COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic received...

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Health

U of I System authorized for saliva-based test

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By Grace Barbic The University of Illinois System received Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Monday for its saliva-based COVID-19 test. The statewide, seven-day, rolling positivity rate reached 2.4%. The FDA approval allows for the covidSHIELD test to expand beyond the U of I System....

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Government

Commuter train study in Kendall

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The Kendall Extension Study is examining the feasibility of extending the BNSF (Burlington Northern Santa Fe) commuter rail line beyond the existing end of the line in Aurora. This study is looking at new outlying yard locations, in addition to new commuter rail stations in Montgomery, Oswego, Yorkville, Plano, and...

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Health Veterans

Hines VA Hospital offers vets vaccine at sites

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Hines VA Hospital is scheduling appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine for March 6 and April 3 at its Aurora Community Based Outpatient Clinic. Hines continues to vaccinate according to this stratification plan: • Veterans age 60 and older; • Dialysis patients; • Chemotherapy patients; • Organ transplant veterans; • Homeless...

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Healthy perspective: A glass better if always half full

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We really can make our way through the COVID-19 maelstrom, in part, because there is no other way. We do what we have to do to move onward. Although there have been and are problems with the pandemic, hope springs eternal that our situations will become better. We can make...

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Community Government

Blackberry Farm museum preparing to reawaken this year

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Blackberry Farm, the Fox Valley Park District’s living history museum, is set to reawaken this year, after the entirety of the 2020 season was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Season passes are available at early-bird rates through May 14. A resident season pass for a family of four costs...

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