Year: 2021

Arts

Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame nominations open

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The Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame (FVAHOF) is accepting nominations of outstanding visual, literary, media and performing artists for its 2022 class of inductees. Anyone may submit a name for consideration and there is no fee. The nomination form is at foxvalleyartshalloffame.org. The deadline for nominations is Monday, November...

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Feature Health

Advancement of society dependent on critical thinking

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It is a busy world we live in these days for a variety of reasons. We can choose to be active and participate in many activities in our communities such as government, entertainment, religious, or other choices. We can choose not to be involved, perhaps function vicariously. We operate in...

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Government

Aurora City Council to consider Phillips, Wilder, Parks’ improvements

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By Jason Crane At the Aurora city government Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting Tuesday, Council members placed several agenda items on unfinished business to be discussed at the September 14 full City Council meeting. Mayor Richard Irvin wasn’t at the meeting and Fifth Ward alderman Carl Franco was mayor-pro...

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Health Opinion

Reader’s Voice: Claim: Common sense, no vaccine

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September 3, 2021Dear editor; Common sense is my basis for not getting the COVID-19 bio-weapon, which is not a vaccine, or, for not wearing a mask. We were made to breath in oxygen, not carbon dioxide. Vaers.hhs.gov has the data as of August 6 and it is what we should...

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Food Health

Watermelon: From choosing ripe to storing to diet

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Last of three parts The second part is at thevoice.us/watermelon-healthful-benefits-helps-heart-stops-cancer Ocean Robbins of Food Revolution Network writes about one of summertimes favorite foods: Watermelons. “Watermelons are among the largest and heaviest fruits available at most grocery stores, but is lugging them home worth the effort? One study among 22 athletically-trained...

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Feature

Sense of giving, spirit of true champions

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For Maria Andrejczyk, something mattered more than the silver medal she won for Poland in the javelin during the recent Tokyo Olympics. She auctioned off her medal to help pay for a surgery for an eight-month-old baby with a heart defect. But the winning bidders, a Polish store chain, Zabka,...

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‘Wilderness At Dawn’ reveals early settlement in U.S.

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An honest historian will have to address the brutality and maudlin life conditions of immigrants to our shores in the 1600s. It was, according to the books, Wilderness at Dawn, the Settling of the North American continent, by Ted Morgan, “a wilderness and not a deliverance, but a penalty impos’d.”...

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Commentary Food Health Opinion

Reader’s Commentary: Questions on bad hospital food

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By Evelyn EsslingAurora, Ill. AMITA Health Mercy Medical Center must have the largest amount of waste food in their garbage collection bins. Unfortunately, my husband had to be a guest in that place more times than we care to remember.. Starting in June 2019 he was in for, what the...

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Obituaries

Thank-you card sent to Navy League from Eva Luckinbill

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The Aurora Council Navy League received a lovely than-you card [with colors of the American flag on the outside] from Eva Luckinbill on her late husband’s Herschel’s passing. As you may know they had just moved to Tennessee from Montgomery a few months earlier. Here is what the card read:...

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International Military

A thought on Afghanistan and state of world politics

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Déjà vu all over again! “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana The recent scene at the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, put me in mind of a similar scene in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975. Helicopters frantically evacuated American personnel when the enemy...

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Events

Cantigny Park Museum to hold Heroes of 9/11 ceremony

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The First Division Museum at Cantigny Park invites everyone to the Heroes of 9/11 Memorial Ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 11. The event will be held adjacent to the Museum’s outdoor exhibit comprised of two structural steel beams from the former World Trade Center buildings in New York City....

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Food

Recipe of the Week: Zucchini Bread

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Ingredients3 cups all-purpose flour1 teaspoon salt1 teaspoon baking soda1 teaspoon baking powder1 tablespoon ground cinnamon3 eggs1 cup vegetable oil2 ¼ cups white sugar3 teaspoons vanilla extract2 cups grated zucchini1 cup chopped walnuts Directions1. Preheat oven for 375F and lightly grease a baking pan. 2. In a microwave safe bowl, mix the...

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Poetry

Poem: The Advancing West Coast Tragedy

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I’d like to have you think about what inundated newsSo massively it rivaled even what we got in war.The global warming hyper-thrust to get us all enthused.For quite a while it rivaled anything we’d seen before. The sea off the west coast, its health and nutrients soon bare.Is undergoing changes...

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Government Infrastructure

Elusive energy regulation in State House near deadline

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By Jerry Nowicki The Illinois House was scheduled to return to Springfield Thursday, Sept. 9 to try again at passing an elusive energy regulation overhaul, days after the governor’s office announced support for a new proposal. It’s the latest push for a legislative accomplishment that has eluded governor JB Pritzker...

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Education Events

Bookmobile design Aurora Public Library District focus in September 23 event

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The Aurora Public Library District (APLD) Foundation invites everyone to attend the Bookmobile interior design event and press conference at the Santori Library, 101 S River St, Aurora, at 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 23. The program will include special recognition of the Dunham Foundation for its generous support of the...

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Sheriff’s University in Kane County

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The Kane County Sheriff’s Office is set to launch “Kane County Sheriff’s University,” which will offer ongoing work training and substance addiction counseling for inmates as well as certified forklift training to the general public. The University will be operated in partnership with Talented Tenth Social Services at 205 N....

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Special program for Hispanic Heritage Month at Aurora Public Library District

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¡Es hora de celebrarel Mes de la Herencia Hispana! Del 15 de Septiembre al 15 de Octubre, el Distrito de Bibliotecas Públicas de Aurora (APLD) celebrará a la comunidad hispana y sus culturas vibrantes con muchos eventos divertidos bilingües, en español e inglés. For Aurora Public Library District (APLD) Spanish...

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Ask Grandpa: Advice on seeking employees, marriage

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Grandpa,I wish the politicians could see how this money give-away in early 2021 is now ruining the country. During the height of the pandemic, it was helpful. A lot of people were able to eat and stay afloat with the help. But to continue to give unemployment benefits this late...

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Community Government

More selected communities of 5,000 and more population

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Population Census 2020 Cook County • Barrington*2020 = 10,7222010 = 10,327 DuPage County2020 = 932,8772010 = 916,924 • Addison2020 = 35,7022010 = 36,942 • Bensenville2020 = 18,8132010 = 18,352 • Roselle2020 = 22,8972010 = 22,763 • Warrenville2020 = 13,5532010 = 13,140 • Wood Dale2020 = 14,0122010 = 13,770 • Woodridge2020...

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Environment

Tips helpful: Fall planting of balled-and-burlapped trees

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Fall is a great time to plant trees, many of which are originally grown at a nursery either in a plastic container or in the ground before they are balled and burlapped. How the tree is grown in its first years and then planted affects the long-term health of the...

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