June 2024 – Page 3

East Aurora’s Alondra Limon receives Cordogan Clark award

On June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 By admin

Student of East Aurora High School, Alondra Limon, was awarded Cordogan Clark’s Built Environment. Alondra Limon, a senior at East Aurora High School, was awarded the Cordogan Clark & Associates ‘Built Environment’ Scholarship. This $5,000 scholarship recognizes Alondra’s exceptional dedication to her education, community, and future career in engineering. As...

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SportsBobby Narang IHSA Sports

Lemont, Providence, IHSA baseball champions

On June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 By admin

By Bobby Narang The IHSA (Illinois High School Association) baseball season ended without much drama. Considering the four-class State tournament, which included the Class 3A and 4A teams, wrapped up the season in the first weekend of June, it was a mild surprise. In 3A, Lemont knocked off Highland in...

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Covenant Living at the Holmstad awards 6 scholarships

On June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 By admin

The resident association of Covenant Living at the Holmstad recently awarded scholarships to six of the graduating seniors employed at the senior living community in Batavia. The major source of scholarship funds is proceeds from the sale of merchandise at the community’s annual Bazaar held each fall. Recipients of the...

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Jerry west created many memories in basketball

On June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 By admin

By Woodrow Carroll Last week basketball icon Jerry West died. Similar to so many stars, Jerry West left many memories to many fans. Much of what most fans remember about West centers around his time in the NBA with the Los Angeles Lakers.. Yet, similar to so many great athletes,...

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Business Carousel EventsBatavia Chamber of Commerce

Taco Dalé ribbon-cutting ceremony in Batava

On June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 By admin

The Batavia Chamber of Commerce celebrated the opening of Chamber member Taco Dalé with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday, June 13. The new restaurant, 842 N. Randall Road, Batavia, has become the fifth and newest Taco Dalé restaurant in the Chicago area. Batavia mayor Jeffery Schielke presided over the celebration along...

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Arts Carousel EventsWesley United Methodist Church

Free four-day arts camp at Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora

On June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 By admin

An Aurora church and four community organizations will partner in a free four-day arts camp for 50 students. Wesley United Methodist Church, 14 N. May St. in Aurora, will host its annual Art and Soul Camp from Monday, June 24 through Thursday, June 27. Community partners are Aurora Area Interfaith...

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Carousel Events FoodMarie Wilkinson Food Pantry

Free outdoor cooking classes at Aurora’s Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry

On June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 By admin

Aurora’s Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry opened a series of seven free outdoor cooking classes by area chefs Saturday, June 15. The inaugural class, “Easy Summer Salads,” took place at Marie’s Garden Kitchen, 835 N. Highland Avenue in Aurora, part of an urban farm affiliated with the pantry on Aurora’s west...

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SportsCarter Crane Sports

School Spring sports reveal championship teams

On June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 By admin

Last week in this space we wrote on girls flag football, the 32nd Illinois High School Association (IHSA) sport with a State tournament series. The tackle football will begin with games Friday, Aug. 23. The flag football gained momentum and became reality when several girls signed up for tackle football...

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Sports Lineup June 20-30

On June 18, 2024June 19, 2024 By admin

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Carousel Events FeatureYarn

Yarn from sheep’s wool for more than 40 years

On June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 By admin

Karen Luebbers loves to spin yarn. In fact, she has been creating her own yarn from sheep’s wool for more than 40 years. She is one of the many artisan residents at Covenant Living at the Holmstad who will be featured during the senior living community’s annual Bazaar in September....

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SeniorsBarb Nadeau Plano

Senior citizens in Plano will receive meal partnership

On June 18, 2024June 17, 2024 By admin

Senior citizens in Plano soon will receive a benefit from a lunch café and home delivered meals center being developed through a partnership between the Community Nutrition Network (CNN) and Plano Methodist Church. “From our current base in Yorkville, we have been planning for some time to expand our services...

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Entertainment EventsCantigny Park

Cantigny Jazz day special

On June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 By admin

Foodies and jazz afficionados looking for a special night out are invited to Cantigny’s first-ever Jazz Soirée at the Robert R. McCormick House from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, June 21. The one-of-a-kind evening in Winfield is a prelude to the Cantigny Jazz and Wine Fest June 23, the...

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PoliticalDonald Trump

Trump attacks on migrant crime in U.S. unfounded

On June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 By admin

A staple of former president Donald Trump’s speeches for the law few years is an unsubstantiated claim that countries around the world are “emptying out their prisons” and “emptying out their mental institutions” and sending those people to the U.S. and he has offered no proof. In recent speeches, Trump...

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Katie Arko to lead Aurora Food Pantry

On June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 By admin

The Board of Directors of the Aurora Food Pantry has appointed Katie Arko as the new executive director. Arko has worked in a leadership capacity at non-profits in Aurora for more than 30 years. Most recently, at the Aurora Food Pantry, she has served as the senior director of Development

HistoryHistory John W. Whitehead Nisha Whitehead Rutherford Institute

Our voices, votes, stand for founding principals

On June 18, 2024June 17, 2024 By admin

By John & Nisha Whitehead “Take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.” — James Madison James Madison, often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” once predicted that the Bill of Rights would become mere “parchment barrier,” words on paper ignored by successive generations of Americans. How...

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A Focus on History: June 20 – 26

On June 18, 2024June 17, 2024 By admin

June 20 Oil begins moving through the Alaska pipeline. Seventy thousand persons worked on building the pipeline, history’s largest privately-financed construction project. – 1977. June 21 In Neshoba County in central Mississippi, three civil rights field workers disappear after investigating the burning of an African American church by the Ku...

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Arts CarouselAurora City of Aurora

Chicago blues artists immortalized in Aurora mural

On June 11, 2024June 24, 2024 By admin

Those soaking up sun in downtown Aurora can enjoy a visual treat along Broadway or Water Street, portraits inspired by the Leland Bluebird Recording Sessions between 1937 and 1938.

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GovernmentBudget Capitol News Illinois

Governor signs $53.1 billion Illinois budget

On June 11, 2024June 12, 2024 By admin

By Andrew Adams, Jerry Nowicki, & Hannah MeiselCapitol News Illinoisnews@capitolnewsillinois.com Governor JB Pritzker Wednesday, June 5, signed the State’s $53.1 billion spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year, the largest in State history. The signing caps months of work – and tension – among top Democratic Party leaders in Springfield...

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12th annual Aurora Greenfest

On June 11, 2024June 12, 2024 By admin

More than 70 exhibitors and vendors were part of the annual Aurora Greenfest at the Prisco Center Saturday, June 8 in Aurora.

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Carousel SportsOswego High School Softball Sports

Oswego High School girls softball wins State tournament Class 4A

On June 11, 2024June 11, 2024 By admin

Oswego High School girls softball team captured third place in the Saturday, June 8 Illinois High School Association (IHSA) State tournament Class 4A (largest) in Pekin. St. Charles North won the State championship. Along the way the Oswego Panthers captured tournament championships in the Oswego Regional, Plainfield North Sectional, and...

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