The issue of veterans’ suicide and its alarming rate, the Community Care Act, decency, respect, upward mobility, and assistance, led to the Aurora Veterans Advisory Council (AVAC) Veterans Panel in downtown Aurora, Tuesday at Gillerson’s Grubbery. The public-discussion panel members, from left, Linda Chapa LaVia, acting director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs; Barbara Henandez, 83rd District State representative; Simon Rodriguez Aurora city government youth services manager; Stephanie Kifowit, 84th District State representative; Celia Rodriguez, AVAC; and Michael Wallace, Vet Tech US. Nora Walsh photo
