First Fridays’ Food Truck gathering in Aurora
Youth enjoy ice cream at the Food Truck delight at First Friday’s in Aurora Friday, May 6.
Centennial Park Skate Facility Renovation Survey Now Available
Naperville Park District is seeking input from local users of the Centennial Park Skate Facility to help guide a new design, which will be completed in 2022 in preparation for a renovation of the facility in 2023. The design survey is available online now through Monday, May 23 at www.napervilleparks.org/news.
Holy Angels School wins Aurora Sports Festival at Phillips Park
Student athletes from Holy Angels School in Aurora hold the trophy and scoreboard during their championship celebration Monday, May 9 of the city-wide Aurora Sports Festival at Phillips Park.
Prayers and Squares Quilters, creates for Ukraine
Dedicated women are sewing quilts for Ukraine.
Sons of Norway Polar Star Lodge 5-472 celebrates 60-year member, Floyd Anderson, and mothers
Yorkville resident Floyd Anderson celebrated 60 years as a Sons of Norway member Sunday, May 1.
Holocaust Remembrance Day program Wednesday, April 27 in Aurora
At a Holocaust Remembrance Day program Wednesday, April 27, Rabbi Edward Friedman of Temple B’nai Israel in Aurora, left, chats with Rev. John Bell, pastor at Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora.
Aurora proclamation presentation for the month of Ramadan
Aurora mayor Richard Irvin, center, is joined by Kashif Fakhruddin, president of the Islamic Center of Naperville (second from left), and fellow Muslims, during a special proclamation presentation for the month of Ramadan.
Aurora’s annual Fifth Ward cleanup
Workers toss trash into a double line of compactor trucks on a rainy Saturday, April 30, at Lindsay Windows in Aurora during an annual Fifth Ward cleanup from 8 p.m. to 11 a.m.
Organizing: Quick Tips and Cool Hacks offers hope
We welcome a now-standard late-onset Spring, and families and businesses across Aurora are embarking on the tradition of Spring cleaning, accompanied by a range of familiar responses and emotions. Although some may enjoy the opportunity to dig in and tidy up, others experience something like a Mai Tai composed of
Hindu civilization in focus in Aurora
Fox Valley Mall in Aurora became a destination location for hundreds of Indian Americans in the western suburbs. A national traveling exhibit focusing on the Hindu civilization and its contributions to the world made a stop in the State’s second-most populous City, Aurora. Darshana: A Glimpse into Hindu Civilization is
Schedule filled in Aurora for good weather, good times
Come have fun downtown Aurora this Spring and Summer. Now is the time to plan for the warm-and-nice-day-and-evening good times ahead. Get your summer bucket list ready, and check off these fun adventures right in downtown Aurora. May 6, Aurora Downtown’s Food Truck Festival will return to Benton Street from
Aurora police officers talk at West Aurora Concerned Citizens meeting
Aurora police officers J. Martinez, left, and T. Coleman, are speakers at an April 20 information meeting sponsored by West Aurora Concerned Citizens, a Fifth Ward neighborhood group.
‘Coffee with Kifowit’ to return April 25
The popular “Coffee with Kifowit” series of get-togethers, presented by State representative Stephanie Kifowit, will return in person beginning Monday, April 25 in the Meeting Room of the Oswego Library, 111 Reading Drive, Montgomery. “The Spring session of the General Assembly has wrapped up, and that gives me the chance
Holocaust memorial service April 27
Temple B’nai Israel will hold an outdoor Holocaust memorial service at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 27 at Millennium Plaza Gazebo, 21 S Stolp Avenue, Aurora. Rabbi Edward Friedman announced the Yom HaShoah service will be held at the Millennium Plaza gazebo on Stolp Avenue in downtown Aurora. The public is
Longtime Wheaton resident celebrates 101st birthday
By Al Benson Wearing a “101” tiara and sash labeled “101 AND FABULOUS,” longtime Wheaton resident Phyllis Virginia Jones celebrated her 101st birthday Tuesday, March 29. Jones’ party was held on her birthday at Asbury Gardens senior living facility in North Aurora, with nine family and friends attending from four
Palm Sunday at United Methodist Church of Plano
The Palm Sunday, April 10 celebration in procession, offers a common theme in many churches.
Aurora Noon Lions celebrate Earth Day
Aurora Noon Lions Club will celebrate Earth Day one day early with a tree-planting. Noon Lions president Arvid Meyer of Aurora will lead the event at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 21, at Blackberry Farm, 100 Barnes Road in Aurora. Lions will plant a swamp white oak tree from the Fox
A Night of Culture and Champions at Aurora City Council
By Jason Crane Mayor of Aurora, Richard Irvin, presented the Mayor’s Award of Excellence to many individuals at the Aurora city government City Council meeting Tuesday, April 12. The theme was A Night of Culture and Champions: • Sikh Awareness and Appreciation Month Proclamation with members of the Illinois Sikh
Easter Egg hunt at Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora
A family opens plastic Easter eggs Saturday, April 9, after a hunt at Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora.
Aurora Area Retired Teachers Association meeting Tuesday, April 5
Sue Fitzsimmons, West Aurora School District 129 retiree, produces an Easter bunny with pipe cleaners at the Aurora Area Retired Teachers Association meeting Tuesday, April 5.