By Tom Siebert For the second straight year, the Kendall County PADS board decided to keep its temporary homeless shelters closed during the upcoming colder months, citing health concerns over the worsening COVID-19 crisis. But members of the homeless support group pledged to continue offering the alternative assistance that it
L.I.F.T. (Live. Improve. Flourish. Thrive.) Aurora (aka Culture Stock) needs help to win a $25,000 grant to enhance its reading and arts program. It is close to the Top 40 and needs help getting the word out to acquire more votes. Click here for more information https://www.neighborhoodassist.com/entry/2039862Help a Cause in
Hello Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora members, and friends of Cosmos, Saturday, Aug. 7, the Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora will be host to the “Race to Fight Diabetes” Awareness Night at Sycamore Speedway, Route 64, Maple Park. We invite you to join us for an exciting evening of competitive dirt track
Earlier this year, Loaves & Fishes Community Services, based in Naperville, announced the acquisition of a warehouse distribution building to serve as its new hub, at 580 Exchange Court in Aurora. The project will substantially increase the number of families served, expand the geographic service area, and provide omni-channel distribution
Diane Renner, left, executive director of the Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry in Aurora, receives an annual donation from Savannah Crooks of Aurora whose lemonade stand this Summer provided $2,845.
By Al Benson The Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora donated $1,200 to support the Diabetes Educational Center at Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, which empowers patients to effectively manage diabetes. At the Club’s July membership meeting at Oak Street Restaurant in North Aurora, Cosmopolitan Club president Russ George presented a grant
Montgomery-based Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity Wednesday, June 30, dedicated its 66th and 67th homes in the Aurora area. At an outdoor ceremony, the faith-based affordable housing ministry celebrated completion of a duplex at 829-831 Grove Street in Aurora. The event with reflections, presentations and food brought together new homeowners,
CASA Kane County, a nonprofit based in Geneva that is an advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court, has seen a dramatic increase in cases since the pandemic. The rise has been so great that for the first time in the organization’s history, CASA does
The Plano Area Chamber of Commerce will be host to the first Back to School Bash & Color Run, Saturday, Aug. 14 at The Montcler Hotel, 3450 Drew Street, Sandwich. The festivities will be from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. and the Run will start at 5 p.m.. The after
By Al Benson An Aurora girl’s weekend lemonade stand raised a record $2,845 for Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry in Aurora. Thursday through Saturday, Savannah Crooks of Aurora, 17, served homemade lemonade from a pop-up tent in her parents’ driveway. It was the West Aurora High School senior’s 10th annual lemonade
By Al Benson A pop-up food pantry will be held by Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 24, at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, 155 N. Prince Crossing Road in West Chicago. Area residents are invited to drive through to receive groceries. Admission is
The Reverend Derek Rogers, pastor at Aurora’s Flowing Forth United Methodist Church (UMC), displays donations of household products and cash contributed by congregants for the UMC Midwest Mission Distribution Center in downstate Illinois.
The United Methodist Church (UMC) of Plano’s Gerri Henze, middle, gives a donation check to Feed My Starving Children’s Alan, left, recently.
Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry, Aurora’s largest food pantry, joins together with 95.9 The River, asking for community support to ensure no one goes hungry in Fox Valley this Summer, Thursday, July 15. Pack the Pantry Radiothon, a 13-hour live radio broadcast, from three Aurora restaurant locations, Breakfast at Syrup,
This year will be Savannah Crooks 10th year of having her stand and donating the money raised! Her stand will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 8-10 at 233 South Elmwood Drive, Aurora.
By Al Benson Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora held a party with a purpose Friday, June 25. Russ George, Cosmos president, said “A Night at the Farm,” the nonprofit’s inaugural benefit, raised approximately $12,000 to fight diabetes. Attended by approximately 150 guests, the event at the Fox Valley Park District’s Blackberry
Carrie Skreens of Winfield, center, among 11 Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity volunteers pounding nails and working recently at 1600 W. Wilson Street in Batavia during the fifth annual Women’s Build and Fundraiser.
The 15th annual Downers Grove Garden Walk will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 10. The event is produced through a partnership between the Bridge Communities, a Glen Ellyn-based non-profit, and the First United Methodist Church of Downers Grove. Tickets for the walk entitle participants to
Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry volunteer Aryana Burns loads a family’s vehicle during a mobile food pantry Saturday, June 19, at Simmons Park in Aurora.
An Aurora woman is spending a voluntourism week in Guatemala to help build a rural school from recycled plastic water bottles. Christina “Chrissy” Wright is help build a school in Xeatzán Bajo, Guatemala, in Central America, June 10-16 in a Bottle School Building program sponsored by Hug It Forward, Inc.,
