The Sunday School Children at the United Methodist Church of Plano designed valentine cards to give to their moms for Valentines Day. The children designed hearts with stickers, hearts, drawings, words, and used their creativity.
“Uncasville, Connecticut,” a watercolor by famed Aurora artist Ruth VanSickle Ford, will be among Ruth VanSickle Ford works showcased in “Aurora’s Own Ruth Ford,” an exhibit March 3-May 13, at Aurora Historical Society’s Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place in Aurora.
Lifelong Auroran, Clarina Warren, celebrates her 100th birthday with family, friends, and community supporters.
The Reverend Cynthia Anderson, pastor at Batavia United Methodist Church, delivers the sermon at a joint worship service by three Tri-cities churches at Geneva UMC Sunday, Feb. 19.
Steel trusses arrive Wednesday, Feb. 15, for the Super EMX auditorium in Batavia, to house the largest Cinemascope movie theater screen in Illinois.
The Kiwanis Club of Aurora announces its solicitation for the God and Fellow Man Award for 2023. The award is an annual tradition since 1975 and honors those individuals whose lives consistently reflect a charitable spirit and acts of service in the Aurora area community. Many faith backgrounds as well
Two big events, this month and next month, will be at the Little White School Museum in Oswego. • Proud of all the history on your family you’ve discovered? Find out how to showcase all your hard work during “Thinking Inside the Box: Display Your Family History in a New
By Bobby Narang The Illinois High School Association individual boys State wrestling tournament featured several marquee match-ups last weekend. The three-day tournament on the University of Illinois campus in Champaign, pitted the best in the State, including two nationally-ranked wrestlers from Kane County. St. Charles East junior Ben Davino and
By Woodrow Carroll The always-popular NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) men’s postseason basketball tournament is getting close. The tournament Selection Show will be Sunday, March 12. We take a look at a team that came ever-so close to winning the tournament championship, only to falter at the finish, the very
March Madness is on the horizon in basketball and for more sports, high school, college, and professional. For some fans the madness has been here during the regular season without a neat order and uncommon results. Why have neat and clean? An examples is the Big Ten Conference in men’s
We rise through legacy, growth, and community. This year, Aurora Downtown will celebrate five milestones that exemplify that truth which honors our City’s history and its forward momentum. 10 years of First Fridays Aurora has a long tradition of celebrating the arts. Prior to First Fridays, the Aurora ArtWalk was
Fat Sunday at New England Congregational: Will and Ellie O’Connell sample a chocolate fountain during a Fat Sunday event February 19 at New England Congregational Church in Aurora.
“(Law) officers that feel good perform better.” To aid officers, Kelly Krauchun, detailed Bank the Blue, a Chicago-based nonprofit that offers a network of mental health resources for Illinois law officers. Krauchun, a Bank co-founder, addressed Citizens Police Academy Alumni of Aurora at APD headquarters February 15. She added, “These
By Al Benson Montgomery-based Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity plans a 17-home subdivision for West Side Aurora. Barbara Zegiel, Habitat funds development director, reviewed plans for Habitat’s Green Freedom project at Aurora Noon Lions Club meeting Thursday, Feb. 16 at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Aurora. Zegiel, who said she
The Batavia Chamber of Commerce holds a celebration of a grand opening of Casey’s with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday, Feb. 17 at 2074 Main Street.
The Kane County 4-H Foundation will be host to its 14th annual pork chop dinner and auction fundraiser from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, April 15 at the Prairie Events Center of the Kane County Fairgrounds in St. Charles. “This is our biggest fundraiser of the year, and it
American Red Cross responded to 24 home fires in Chicago, Evanston, Park City, Oak Lawn, Waukegan, Downers Grove, Brookfield, Streamwood, Mendota, and Bolingbrook in the past week and provided assistance to 113 individuals, including 40 children, through supplying them with basic items to meet immediate needs after a fire, and
February 23 During the bloody Battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines from the 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Regiment of the 5th Division take the crest of Mount Suribachi, the island’s highest peak and most strategic position, and raise the U.S. flag. Marine photographer Louis Lowery was with
By John & Nisha Whitehead The government wants us to bow down to its dictates. It wants us to buy into the fantasy that we are living the dream, when in fact, we are trapped in an endless nightmare of servitude and oppression. Indeed, with every passing day, life in
By Nika Schoonover Governor JB Pritzker Friday, Feb. 10 signed 15 bills into law, tackling policy areas from tourism to prison reform and making it easier for those previously convicted of felonies to legally change their names. The laws passed the General Assembly in their recently concluded lame duck legislative
