This week is National Newspaper Week.
With the many forms of communication in addition to the newspaper, there can be discussions and debates on the functions and future of newspapers.
Such discussion and debate always will be evident in the communications industry and in all other forms of business. The Voice is a community newspaper and fills that world with the function of offering a highlight of our communities and keeps our communities in touch with the world around us. We seek neither to blend in with the rest of the world, nor, shrink into our own little world. We have our place.
We invite communities to work with us, to offer a sense of communication, and to be mutually beneficial. With communities we mean the individuals who compose the various areas even more than we mean governments. Ultimately, communities are led by the wishes, resolve, ideas of the inhabitants. It is just far too many persons who live in various places are too busy, simply do not care, think they have little impact, or, mistakenly think they should leave their will up to the governing bodies. Mutually working together in some sense of democratic form nearly always propels communities farther and in greater strength than the dictates of a handful of persons to make decisions, rule, and avoid interaction with residents.
The Voice seeks to reflect communities’ strength, issues to overcome, and the changing nature of the composition of communities each year.
Ultimately we are The Voice for good reason and offer our assistance to our communities.
• We see part of the function in this space is to offer information, comments, and opportunities to reach other community members when space in the rest of an edition is filled. We pass along:
• The Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley and Dunham Foundation (two important and wonderful community organizations) have become partners to conduct a Community Needs Assessment. Various ways of sharing the Community Survey is through social media, website, newsletter, eblast, or E-mail to clients of organizations. The survey for Kane and Kendall Counties will be open for four more weeks. Go to: cffrv.org. We know it matters to be involved and give feedback.
• Sugar Skull City in Aurora, is in its third year as an annual event which is a celebration of the Day of the Dead which will be October 15 through November 6. It is run by Aurora Downtown and is a memorial and honor of those persons close to us who died. It will be a part of First Fridays in November.
• Voluntary Action Center of Northern Illinois (VAC) has received for the Meals on Wheels, a $4,500 donation from Corteva Agriscience. “We are grateful for the support of Corteva,” said Ellen Rogers, chief development office of VAC, which serves more than 600 individuals through home delivery and congregate meal programs in northern Illinois.
• Marmion Academy in Aurora, a Catholic college preparatory high school for young men, 1000 Butterfield Road, will be the host to two open houses for fifth-eighth grade boys and their families, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19 and 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6 at Regole Field House.
• Two seats will be open for candidates seeking election to the Batavia Park District Board of Commissioners at the Consolidated Election April 4, 2023. Those eligible must be 18 years of age and a Batavia Park District resident for at least one year prior to the election. For information go to www.elections.il.gov. Petitions for candidates may be circulated now. The filing period for these petitions is Monday, Dec. 12 through Monday, Dec. 19 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the Batavia Park District, 327 W. Wilson Street.
• Aurora Public Library will be host to Oaxacan Woman Photography Exhibit through Sunday, Oct. 15 at the Library, 101 S. River Street.