Names of U.S. military veterans who received Quilts of Valor from Rita Pennington’s group and the Veterans Assistance Commission of Kendall County: Alvin Keith Chrisse; Ed Wolsfelt; Nancy Judge; Norman Meier; Ronald Lambe; James Hill; Chad Lockman; Jim Harvey; Phil Solecki; Edward Ohligschlager; Ed Kurz; Mike Wilson; Rebecca Ropp; Michael
The Aurora Area, Downers Grove/Woodridge/Lisle, and Naperville Chapters of the League of Women Voters will sponsor candidate forums in September. Due to the pandemic, these forums will be held on closed Zoom sessions. Please visit our Facebook page after the dates listed to view the respective forums. Visit our website
First Fridays will return to selected outdoor settings in downtown Aurora, Friday, Sept. 4, from its previous virtual settings with art and music at more than a dozen venues. The evening will provide a variety of experiences to include virtual and crowd-free options: • Goldfinch Cafe will pop up with
Waubonsie Valley High School, 2590 Ogden Avenue, Aurora, will be the site for a “Pollo (chicken) and Rice Palooza” giveaway Saturday, Sept. 5, from 9 a.m. until 84,000 pounds of food are distributed. Admission is free. Ten pounds of chicken and rice will be distributed per family. Amigos Meat Chicago
The Woman’s Club of Aurora will open the 2020-2021 Club year with a socially-distanced luncheon meeting at noon Tuesday, Sept. 8 in the open-sided tent at Orchard Valley Golf Club. Both members and servers will observe all tenets of COVID-19 protection. Following the noon luncheon, the 100th Anniversary of the
Free training institute: Harish Anathapadmanabhan, left, owner of JH Real Estate Partners, and Richard Irvin, mayor of Aurora, look at the falling ribbon moments following their ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday, Aug. 27 in Harish’s APS Tower, the former Aurora National Bank building.
Executive chef Chris Koetke prepares a hot Asian carp meal for the Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry in Aurora to serve last week.
We don’t end hunger or transform lives by ourselves. We do it with the generosity and support from our entire community! On behalf of the nearly 1,000 families we serve each week, we offer our sincerest gratitude for the community’s outpouring of support for our virtual gala, Night to End
To help with the ongoing need for blood donations during the coronavirus pandemic, Naperville Park District will be host to several donation opportunities this Fall at its Alfred Rubin Riverwalk Community Center (ARRCC) in partnership with Versiti Blood Center of Illinois. The blood drives will take place in Community Hall,
Naperville Park District has canceled the Kite Fly event, which was scheduled for from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.Sunday, Aug. 30 at Frontier Sports Complex, due to the elevated COVID-19 positivity rate in Will County. Although this is an outdoor event, based on participations at previous kite fly events, the
Protests in favor of saving the U.S. Postal Service and ending delivery delays Tuesday morning in front of the Fox Valley Sorting Center in Aurora.
Aurora Fifth Ward alderman Carl Franco will sponsor a clean-up day from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 5. According to postcard mail to property owners, the clean-up is for Ward 5 residents living north of West Galena Boulevard. The notice said trash compactor trucks will be parked at
Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry, 1110 Jericho Road in Aurora, will hold a drive-thru food giveaway from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28. The public is invited. Food is free. Items include meat, produce, dairy, a bag of sliced bread to include French bread, rolls or buns, pasta,
The next one-day event will be from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 12 at 540 S. Randall Road, St. Charles. Electronics and bookswill be accepted at this event. There is a fee for TVs and computer monitors, both tube and flat screen, of $25 for screens under 21 inches
Alley Art Festival will be on the last Saturday of the month, Saturday, Aug. 29 with one big change. The popular, grassroots art festival will be downtown-wide. Celebrating its 10th year, the festival thrown by the Aurora Downtown group will be held at more than a handful of venues throughout
Because all of us are playing our parts to decrease the spread of COVID-19, consumption of home utilities has increased drastically. According to Henry Fountain, in his article for The New York Times in April, “people are using up to 25% more energy during the daytime as they work or
The Oswego Senior Center (OSC), 84 Templeton Drive, Oswego, will be host to many events for seniors. All events will take place at the Oswego Senior Center, unless otherwise noted. Events at the Center will require: Temperature, self-health check screen; signed waiver, face mask, and social distancing. • COVID19 Educational
The MEDC (Montgomery Economic Development Corporation) 17th annual golf outing will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10 at Bliss Creek, Sugar Grove. Registration is open online at www.montgomery-illinois.org or by calling the MEDC office at 630.897.6748. Non-golfers are encouraged to attend the after-party dinner. Raffles
The Citizen’s Utility Board is a partner with Kane County on a program called Solarize Chicagoland. Together they will be hosts to a series of Solar Power Hour webinars to discuss different options for going solar, incentives in Illinois, and details of their program. The Batavia Environmental Commission will be
