By Miriam Meza – Everyone dreams of making a difference in the world and leaving a legacy. Did you know you can start making an impact in the world by attending an Aurora Public Library West Branch program? Birds, bats, bees, butterflies, beetles, and small mammals all help pollinate the plants
The Sugar Grove Public Library is a partner with Waubonsee Lifelong Learning Institute and will be host to a Spring art display in Gallery 125. The public is invited to an opening reception Sunday, April 7 at 2:30 p.m. and refreshments will be served. The reception will provide an opportunity
The Plano Community Library, 15 W. North Street, will be host to many events. For more information and to register, visit planolibrary.info or call 630-552-2009. • Friends Of The Library Book Sale, March 29 to April 6. The Friends of the Library Book Sale will be held in the meeting
By Jerry Nowicki – A State lawmaker is looking to give voters the authority to force their locally-elected school boards into resource-sharing agreements with other districts for certain administration offices and functions. Although the bill allows for districts to share superintendents, other administrators and services, it exempts principals and assistant
DuPage County and SCARCE are accepting project proposals from high school students for the 13th annual Sustainable Design Challenge, Tuesday, April 16. The Sustainable Design Challenge encourages students to construct building and landscape models using environmental and water-friendly design practices. DuPage County stormwater management committee chairman Jim Zay said, “Seeing
With a ceremony held Friday, March 15, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory officially broke ground on a major, new, particle accelerator project that will power cutting-edge physics experiments for many decades. The new 700-foot-long linear accelerator, part of the laboratory’s Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II),
The movie “The Public” private screening, with Emilio Esteves, writer and director, right, visits the movie theater Tinseltown recently in North Aurora. He and Ryan Dowd, left of Hesed House, take questions about the movie, a focus on homelessness. Dowd, executive director of Hesed House seeks to eliminates homelessness. The
The Yorkville Public Library Youth Service Department will have many events in April. All events will take place at the Library, 902 Game Farm Road, unless otherwise noted. For more information, or to register, call 630-553-4354 or visit www.yorkville.lib.il.us. • Tuesday, April 2 and 16, 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.,
During a March 4 meeting the East Aurora School District 131 Buildings and Grounds Committee discussed and will recommend to the full Board of Education the purchase and renovation of approximately 38,000-square-feet of space on the former Copley Hospital site in Aurora for use as a new District administration and
Students in Batavia High School’s successful INCubator Entrepreneurship Program have developed and launched start-up companies specifically designed to drive traffic to community businesses. To show Fox Valley area business owners and professionals how their service-oriented start-ups can increase customer bases and brand awareness, the student entrepreneurs will be host to
The East Aurora High School Latin Jazz Band, under the direction of Joe Kulick, performs for the Kiwanis Club of Aurora at a noon meeting, Tuesday, March 12 at the Prisco Center in Aurora. Director Kulick thanked the Kiwanis Club of Aurora members for their many donations to youth organizations.
By Miriam Meza – Have you been following along with what’s new at the Aurora Public Library (APL)? You might know we have a new executive director, Michaela Haberkern. You probably have been wondering what her vision is, what her background is, or just want to know more about her.
East Aurora School District 131 will hold several registration days for students who will start kindergarten in the 2019-2020 school year. Those registering their child do not have to register at a location closest to their home school. Rather, parents and guardians may register at any one of the following
The Boys II Men 2019 12th annual Phenomenal Man Awards Thursday, Feb. 28 at Piper’s Banquets offers fitting salutes to five accomplished young from Aurora From left: Marquell Oliver, founder of LIFTOFF, a social-emotional learning program and youth director of Unity Partnership, a group that seeks to improve relations between
If you know kids between the ages of seven and 12, you know how hard it can be to get them excited about science from a textbook. Children love to be wowed, and to experience physical phenomena with eyes wide and jaws dropped at Explore the Wonders of Science starting
Ben Pohl, a motivational speaker, shares his personal story about distracted driving at Kiwanis Club of Aurora Tuesday at Prisco Community Center in Aurora. Pohl, just as are many, was a distracted driver at the age of 17, with four friends in his car. He wasn’t using a cellphone, but
By Miriam Meza – With the rapid growth in technology it’s hard to keep up with what’s new, how to use it, and whether or not it’s worth buying. At the Aurora Public Library, we want to provide our customers with the opportunity to express creativity through different media, including
The Batavia Public Library’s artist for March is Robert J. Krawczyk, a native of Chicago, who lives in Batavia. He was a graduate from the University of Illinois Chicago, College of Architecture. In the 1970s, while working in the architectural office of Murphy/Jahn in Chicago he was a pioneer in
The Plano Community Library, 15 W. North Street, will be host to many events. For more information and to register, visit planolibrary.info or call 630-552-2009. • Writers’ Group, Thursday, March 14, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.. Writers will discuss works in progress. Meets in the Library Board Room. No registration
Aurora-based mentoring group, Boys II Men, will be host to its 12th annual Phenomenal Man Awards – Stronger Together – at 6:02 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019 at Piper’s Banquets, 1295 Butterfield Road, Aurora. The theme is both a reflection of the young men who will be honored for academic excellence and
