Focus on music at Aurora’s First Fridays
Music breaks out Friday in Aurora at the First Fridays event in front of the River Front Playhouse on the Water Street Mall.
Study Circles opens in Aurora
By Al Benson Four community dialogues on racism opened Monday, June 7, at Santori Aurora Public Library. Co-hosts for the series, free to the public in-person and on Zoom, are Study Circles Illinois, Santori Library, and Gail Borden Public Library, 270 N. Grove Avenue, Elgin. The inaugural dialogue, moderated by...
Luxemburg ambassador to the U.S. in visit to Aurora
Settlement of Europeans in northern Illinois began in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s. The largest ethnic groups to arrive in Aurora in the 19th Century were from Luxemburg and from Romania. Each group can cite a proud history of settlement. Frequently we receive reminders. The Luxemburg ambassador to the United...
Aurora City Council: Grand reopening at three sites
By Jason Crane The Aurora city government City Council meeting Tuesday, through the Zoom video conference platform, lasted only a little more than 25 minutes but was packed with anticipation for several events this weekend. Communications director Clayton Muhammad presented information about Activate Aurora, grand re-opening weekend with three ribbon-cutting...
New bridge phase in Aurora, ribbon-cutting June 11
The RiverEdge Pedestrian Bridge over the Fox River, south of New York Street, waits for the official Friday, June 11 ribbon cutting.
Conversion projects in New York solve two major problems
First of two parts “The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on housing and homelessness,” is an article by Pramod Sukumaran in Salud America! “City and state leaders know (it). Many are implementing policies and creating unique affordable housing conversion projects that aim to make progress in solving this...
Nature walk on Mound for Sierra Club
The Sierra Club Valley of the Fox will have its final program of the 2020-2021 season at Johnson’s Mound Forest Preserve, south of Elburn, at 6 p.m. Monday, June 14. We will provide free box lunches for a no-touch community picnic, and our expert naturalist, Ray Wronkiewicz, will lead us...
Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora will click at The Barn
The members of the Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora, “The Club That Fights Diabetes”, cordially invites everyone to attend our First major fundraiser of this year. The Barn at Blackberry Farm will come alive with an evening of fun and excitement at 6:30pm. Friday, June 25. Live Entertainment will be by...
Solar energy system installed in Naperville facility
The City of Naperville government, along with the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency (IMEA), was host to a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday, June 4 to formally unveil its new solar energy system at the Springbrook Water Treatment Facility, 3712 Plainfield-Naperville Road. Its more than 3,000-panel solar energy system, a testament to...
Poem: Footsteps Into Life
If you are still in High School, still a youngster, like as not;That does not mean you will not have adult thoughts, quite a lot.Most of them though you may not recognize for what they are;But how they influence you may well carry you quite far.By now, you know that...
Environment experience in the Everglades elucidating
The weather finally has turned favorable for all sorts of outdoor activities, such as hiking, swimming, biking, blowing off M80s in the middle of the night, tearing up the asphalt on low traffic streets and roads with rubber-burning, squealing tires, and camping. I enjoy the beauty of the great outdoors...
Summer Reading Program challenge for Yorkville young
The Yorkville Public Library Youth Service Department will have many events this month. All events will take place at the Library, 902 Game Farm Road, unless otherwise noted. For more information, or to register, call 630-553-4354 or visit www.yorkville.lib.il.us. • 2021 Summer Reading Program: Reading Colors Your World, through July...
Reader’s Commentary: Thoughts on Pride Month: Atone
June 1, 2021Dear editor; Once again we have Pride Month where we are all supposed to make believe that male minds in female bodies and female minds in male bodies are not obvious disorders, despite the fact that transgenders say they feel trapped in the wrong bodies, thus basically admitting...
Joe Sustersic receives two special awards
Joe Sustersic, West Aurora High School social studies teacher and head boys soccer coach, has been named West Aurora Gordon Kerkman Coach of the Year by his peers! Sustersic led the School’s boys soccer team to an 18-0 record the most recent season. Additionally, he has been recognized as the...
Recipe of the Week: Summer Chicken Burgers
Ingredients1 ripe avocado, sliced1 tablespoon lemon juice1 tablespoon butter1 large Vidalia onions, sliced into rings4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halvessalt and pepper to taste4 hamburger buns4 tablespoons mayonnaise4 slices provolone cheese Directions1. In a small bowl, combine sliced avocado,lemon juice, and mayonnaise and blend until smooth. Preheat an outdoor grill...
Openings in Golf For Kids Foundation fundraiser June 28
Nobody needs a birdie’s eye view to notice the resurgence. It doesn’t take a golfer to realize the sport is writing quite the comeback story. “You drive down the street and pass a golf course, and we’ve got golf carts going forwards, backwards and any other direction they can fit,”...
Aurora University Trumbo Award to David Dial
David Dial of Naperville, Aurora University (AU) associate professor and chairman of criminal justice, recently was honored as Aurora University’s 2020 Marcus and Mark H. Trumbo award-winner for excellence in teaching. Nominated by students and fellow faculty members, the Award is the University’s most prestigious faculty recognition. Dial, former Naperville...
Guatemala gains Auroran Chrissy Wright’s helping hands
An Aurora woman is spending a voluntourism week in Guatemala to help build a rural school from recycled plastic water bottles. Christina “Chrissy” Wright is help build a school in Xeatzán Bajo, Guatemala, in Central America, June 10-16 in a Bottle School Building program sponsored by Hug It Forward, Inc.,...
Naperville Chief of Police Robert Marshall sets retirement date
Chief of Police Robert Marshall has announced his retirement from the Naperville Police Department effective July 2. This announcement marks the culmination of the Chief’s 44-year career with the city government of Naperville, seven of which were spent in the City Manager’s office. Marshall has served as Naperville’s police chief...
Libraries hosts to virtual visit on kids and diversity
Three libraries, Aurora Public Library District, (APLD), Mount Prospect Public Library, and Villa Park Public Library, will be hosts to a virtual visit with authors Dr. Carolyn B. Helsel and Dr. Yvette Joy Harris-Smith, 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 14. Helsel and Harris-Smith will discuss their book, “The ABCs of Diversity:...