Roller blade travel to raise scholarship funds and to prove the kindness of strangers
Victoria Schmitt of Yorkville bid farewell recently to a new friend, 23-year-old Yanise Ho, originally from Hong Kong (click here for her website). The immediate destination for Ho was Iowa and ultimately Portland, Ore., all by roller blades. Yes, the college student at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass.
Kirhofer’s Sports, former UAW 145, captures Aurora Legion League Championship
By Joe Healy – I had the pleasure for several seasons of coaching Kirhofer’s Sports when it was known as U.A.W. Local #145 in Aurora American Legion League baseball. I handed over the managerial reins to former player and current manager, Alex Varvarezos. There were a handful of other former
Football, Fitzgerald, fundraising, fuel for Northwestern University
By Joe Ruklick – First of two parts – This Summer’s football practice marks three months of fierce dedication by Northwestern University’s football Wildcats. Amid heat, annoying injuries, and ferocious rivalries, players are looking toward the this season’s schedule certain that last season’s success proved the Purple are capable of
Brian Urlacher example for youth, West Aurora School Board examines options
By Carter Crane – High School practices in football and boys and girls golf started Monday with the rest of the sports’ practices to begin Wednesday. Golf meets will begin Thursday, Aug. 9. First football games will be no sooner than Friday, Aug. 24 and this season should be interesting
Optimism accompanies Chicago White Sox sweep
The Chicago White Sox want last weekend’s three-game sweep of the host Tampa Bay Rays to be a sign of better things to come and not a momentary aberration. There have been fleeting moments earlier this season when the Sox showed signs of life, only to revert to the team
Following the flow down Fox River: All 202 miles
By Charlie Zine – Editor’s note: Charlie Zine and Chuck Roberts completed an eight-day, 202-mile journey from Colgate, Wis. to Ottawa and finished Monday, July 23. There were two photos on the front page of The Voice last week. Here is Charlie Zine’s focus on the trip. I have enjoyed
Chicago Cubs 1945 World Series in view
The Chicago Cubs will be the topic at the Little White School Museum’s next “Meet the Author” presentation at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 12 in Oswego. Author and Chicago sports historian Charles Billington will chat with visitors about his 2005 book, “Wrigley Field’s Last World Series: The Wartime Chicago Cubs
Kyle Busch, Harvick, capture NASCAR runs
By John Schutt – NASCAR Monster Energy series, Gander Outdoors 400, Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pa., Sunday, July 29. Daniel Suarez won his first poll position in a Joe Gibbs Toyota. However it was his teammate, Kyle Busch, who was in the right place at the end of the race
Kirhofer’s, A-Z, advance in Aurora Legion play
Aurora American Legion League regular season champion Geneva Construction built a challenge in the semifinals by suffering a setback at the hands of A-Z Tax Service Monday. Geneva Construction, 15-1 in the regular season, fell to Tuesday’s loser’s bracket and was eliminated in the playoffs for boys baseball teams 17
Chicago White Sox trade late heroics against Toronto
It is never over until it’s over. An old adage attributed to the late, great, Yogi Berra of the New York Yankees was never more true for the Chicago White Sox and their fans Saturday and Sunday. When facing the Toronto Blue Jays in the final game of a three-game
School boards at West Aurora, Yorkville, consider options
The turmoil and changes in the wind with high school conference affiliation realignment continue to accelerate, instead of diminish. West Aurora may have been caught up in the maelstrom. Solutions and calm winds are the answer. The DuPage Valley Conference has been reduced to five schools from its nine by