An East Aurora High School student delivers plates at the Aurora Noon Lions Club's annual Breakfast with the Bunny fundraiser Saturday, April 16, at Luigi's Pizza in Aurora.
The Palm Sunday, April 10 celebration in procession, offers a common theme in many churches.
Patrons pick up free brooms and food products April 14 at Eola Public Library parking lot.
The Conservation Foundation will be host to Spring at the Dickson-Murst Farm from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, May 1, at the Dickson-Murst Farm, 2550 Dickson Road in Montgomery. The public is invited. Admission and parking are free. This event features crafts for the kids, hay rides, barrel train...
If we really, truly, love our grandchildren, or our children, or somebody else’s grandchildren, then we must take responsibility and begin to show our love for them through our actions. It is time for us to take care of the earth, because, if we don’t, the earth will no longer...
Aurora Noon Lions Club will celebrate Earth Day one day early with a tree-planting. Noon Lions president Arvid Meyer of Aurora will lead the event at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 21, at Blackberry Farm, 100 Barnes Road in Aurora. Lions will plant a swamp white oak tree from the Fox...
Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora and Aurora Advent Christian Church will work together to fight diabetes. The Cosmos, a nonprofit that focuses on fighting diabetes, will hold a drive-through barbecue dinner fundraiser, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 28, at the Church, 905 N. Edgelawn Drive in Aurora. The public...
The Kiwanis Club of Batavia’s Annual Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser will return Thursday, April 28 after a two-year hiatus as the all-new Pasta Dinner. It will be from 4:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. at Pal Joey’s at 2020 Main Street in Batavia. There are five meal choices which range from classic...
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead It is financial tyranny. The U.S. government, and that includes the current administration, is spending money it doesn’t have on programs it can’t afford, and taxpayers must foot the bill for government’s fiscal insanity. Let’s talk numbers, shall we? The national debt (the...
April 21 According to tradition, April 21, 753 B.C., Romulus and his twin brother, Remus, found Rome on the site where they were suckled by a she-wolf as orphaned infants. Actually, the Romulus and Remus myth originated some time in the Fourth Century B.C., and the exact date of Rome’s...
By Jason Crane Mayor of Aurora, Richard Irvin, presented the Mayor’s Award of Excellence to many individuals at the Aurora city government City Council meeting Tuesday, April 12. The theme was A Night of Culture and Champions: • Sikh Awareness and Appreciation Month Proclamation with members of the Illinois Sikh...
By Peter Hancock Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing Session Recap series in which Capitol News Illinois is following up on many of the more-than 200 measures that passed both houses of the Illinois General Assembly during the final week of Spring session which adjourned at 6...
A family opens plastic Easter eggs Saturday, April 9, after a hunt at Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora.
We do live in a busy world in our country. The many facets are reported in the media, including The Voice newspaper, not to be confused with The Voice television show. The latter generates telephone calls from bewildered callers when they hear they have reached a newspaper in northern Illinois,...
April 1, 2022Dear editor; April 23, America’s Army Reserve will celebrate the generations of soldiers who, like many patriots before them, embraced their roles as citizen soldiers, and continue their proud and distinguished legacy of service in the Army Reserve. Through the interwar years, WWII, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam,...
Spring gardening season is upon us and it’s time to get growing! Here are the top garden trends that the pros forecast for this year. Deb Wiley writes for Birds&Blooms The top new garden trends to try in 2022. Welcome New Gardeners “The 2021 National Gardening Survey compiled by the...
The Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora’s regularly-scheduled meeting for Thursday April 21, will be held at the Oak Street Restaurant in North Aurora. Dinner/social will start at 5:30 p.m. and the meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m.. Guests are welcome! Guest speaker will be diabetes education specialist, Bernadine Holland, MSN, MBA,...
Celebrating its 100th anniversary year, the Little Traveler gift shop in Geneva is raising funds for Ukrainian refugees. An E-mail announcement Saturday, April 9, said “A special collection of products outside our stationery room supports humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. We will donate 100% of net proceeds from these items to...
Celebrating its 100th anniversary year, Aurora Noon Lions Club will collect donations to aid the more than two million men, women, and children, who have fled the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Arvid Meyer, Noon Lions president, said donations for Ukrainian refugees will be accepted at the Club’s annual “Breakfast with...
A habitat restoration work day will be held at Bliss Woods Forest Preserve from 9 to noon Saturday, April 23. Planting shrubs and trees and pulling garlic mustard will be on the agenda. Tools will be provided, but feel free to bring a favorite shovel. Look forward to seeing some...
