Category: Community

Diabetes Club’s third annual “Tee Off to Defeat Diabetes” Golf Outing Friday, June 20; Diabetes Club of Fox Valley members to meet May 14

By Russ George Members of the Diabetes Club of Fox Valley will hold their May membership meeting Wednesday, May 14, at Oak Street Restaurant, 945 Oak Street, in North Aurora. Meeting will be held in the East Banquet Room. Dinner is optional on members’ own from the menu at 5:30

Suburban Norwegian-Americans honor departed friends

Suburban Norwegian-Americans honored departed friends Sunday, May 4. Members of Sons of Norway Polar Star Lodge 5-472 held a remembrance service during the group’s May meeting at St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Montgomery. After a potluck luncheon and business meeting, Yorkville resident and Polar Star president Ken Johnson opened the

Cleaning up community: ‘Earth Day of Service’

More than 50 Aurora area volunteers, adults, and children celebrated “Earth Day of Service,” by removing litter Saturday, April 26 at Aurora and Montgomery parks and lakes and along Fox River banks. Community cleanup locations were Waubonsie Lake Park and Trail in Aurora and Montgomery canoe and kayak launch. Cosponsors

Rosary H.S. National Honor Society hosts senior citizen prom

Rosary High School’s National Honor Society was proud to host its second annual “Senior Prom” for the residents of Greenfields living community in Geneva April 15. This year’s standing-room-only event had a Western theme and featured music from the Marmion-Rosary Jazz band. Mr. and Mrs. Bergman were crowned king and

Aurora Kiwanians 74th annual pancake breakfast

Aurora Kiwanis Club held its 74th annual pancake breakfast fundraiser Saturday, April 12. Featuring two rotating pancake grills, the event was held at Aurora Central Catholic High School. Volunteers included Boy Scouts and leaders from Troop 26, sponsored by Kiwanis at Plum Landing retirement community in Aurora. Club president Daniel

Aurora Council honors Sikh Awareness and Appreciation month

By Jason Crane Mayor of Aurora, Richard Irvin presented a proclamation in honor of April being national Sikh Awareness and Appreciation Month at the April 15 Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting. Mayor Irvin invited members of Aurora’s Sikh community to share more about the Sikh faith and the purpose