Special days in our world include Mother’s Day. Special persons make our lives better and add depth to each day.
A special piece from Unity Sermon Passages is far-reaching and demonstrates the importance of special persons in our lives:
“A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his mother who lived 200 miles away. When he got out of his car, he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb and sobbing. He asked her what was wrong and she replied, ‘I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother, but I only have 75 cents, and a rose costs $2.00.’
“The man smiled and said, ‘Come on in with me. I’ll buy you a rose.’ He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his mother’s flowers. When they were leaving, he offered the girl a ride home. She said, ‘yes, please! You can take me to my mother’. She directed him to a cemetery, where she place the rose on a freshly-dug grave. The man returned to the flower shop, canceled the wire order, picked up a bouquet and drove the 200 miles to his mother’s house.”
- The Venue in Aurora will celebrate its fourth anniversary of bringing live music to the Aurora area with a double album cover Beatles tribute show Friday, June 2. The ticketed outdoor concert in adjacent Mundy Park will feature two headline acts, along with artisan and food vendors, and some surprises in store for their Fab Fourth Birthday.
“It’s a salute to our wonderful patrons and the dedicated volunteers who have kept us afloat through thick and thin over the last four years,” said Melissa Mercado, executive director of Fox Valley Music Foundation, the nonprofit behind The Venue, 21 S. Broadway in downtown Aurora.
Mercado said celebrating four years with the Fab Four is especially meaningful due to The Venue’s surviving the pandemic.
- “A Conversation About the Anti-Slavery Movement in Kendall County and Congregationalism” will be presented Sunday, June 4 at the Chapel on the Green, 107 W. Center, Yorkville.
Historian Roger Matile will lead the presentation. The public is invited to the program which will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 4. Admission is free and donations are welcome.
- The Mid-American Canoe & Kayak Race will return for a second successive year following a four-year absence due to high flood waters and the pandemic. The June 3 event, on a Saturday for the first time, will have two distances, St. Charles to the Illinois River Bridge in Aurora, 10 miles, and Batavia to the Illinois River Bridge, six miles.
- The Kane County Regional Office of Education (ROE), named West Aurora High School principal, Dr. Charles Hiscock as the 2023 Kane County educator of the Year in recognition of his achievements. He and other award-winners received their honors Friday, May 5 at the Q Center in St. Charles.
Other professionals who won category awards:
- Regional Superintendent Award: Neil Currie, St. Charles East High School, District 303;
- Educational Service: Adam Bryl, South Elgin High School, District U-46;
- Student Support Award: Faye Licari, Kaneland School District 302;
- Private/Parochial Teacher Award: Sharon Elgar, Aurora Central Catholic High School;
- Early Career Educator: Michael Smith, Davis Primary School, District 303.
- Elementary/Early Childhood Teacher: Dr. Ann Butcher, Fearn Elementary, District 129.
- Middle School Teacher: Kiel Douglass, Waldo Middle School, District 131;
- High School Teacher: Emma Cole, Geneva High School, District 304;
- School Administrator: Dr. Susan L. Harkin, School District 300.