Just in time!
The easing of restrictions for resistance to COVID-19 virus is welcome news for the vast majority of us. It’s about time, of course. Nonetheless, caution is created because letting down our guard with the confidence we have encountered, an impenetrable bubble can be a recipe for problems.
The vaccine is not perfect, just better than where we were one year ago when prospects to escape a catastrophe were bleak.
Common sense, caution, and caring should prevail. We are out and about in the joy of good weather, festivals, family gatherings, and personal interactions. It remains one step at a time.
With the bountiful days of longer daylight here and nearly four weeks prior to the overhead sun starting its trek south there are extraneous, exciting, and excellent, notes and thoughts to consider:
• The Aurora Arts Weekend, June 4-5, in downtown Aurora, will bring art, music, and activities into play. First Fridays will be Friday, June 4 and Fox River Arts Ramble will be June 5. The Ramble is working together in collaboration among Fine Line Creative Arts Center, the St. Charles Arts Council, and Water Street Studios in Batavia. It was started in 2018 and The Ramble will offer artists, businesses, and galleries from Aurora through Elgin along the Fox River.
• According to Tim Wagner of the Fox Valley Park District, the two outdoor aquatics centers, “didn’t see a drip of action in 2020.” That is the change this year. The Phillips Park Family Aquatic Center in Aurora will open over Memorial Day weekend, May 29-31 and Splash Country will run June 12-August 8. The expected move to Phase 5 June 11 by the State government will ease the restrictions at both water sites.
• The Batavia Park District will reopen its well-known Hall Quarry Beach, 400 S. Water Street, Saturday, May 29. It will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day through August 15.
• The Naperville Park District’s two splash pads are open for the season at the 95th Street Community Plaza and at Wolf’s Crossing Community Park. The Splash Pad hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day, weather permitting.
Welcome back to all park districts!
• With the developing return to activities, even if more outdoor than indoor, the thought of Dr. Anthony Fauci emerges, not because he is of immunologist fame, or television spokesman for vaccine advocacy, but for his knowledge of words. He emphasizes the correct normality rather than the incorrect normalcy. (Clear and Concise early.)
• West Aurora School District’s A+ Foundation celebrated the delayed 2020 Hall of Honor Class earlier this month for four members: Marina Pocnich Bogard, Class of 1957; Neal Ormond III, Class of 1957; Dr. Andrea Marie Spaeth, Class of 2003; and Peter K. Whinfrey, Class of 1967. Congratulations to the quartet!
• Discussion, dissension, and disgust are being delivered in Springfield over the tug of war in the redrawing of district lines for State and Federal elections, an event each 10 years, according to the well-received Capitol News Illinois. The Democratic Party holds a political advantage in Illinois and likely will make changes to benefit its future sway.
• The Venue in Aurora, a 200-seat music venue on Broadway in downtown Aurora will hold its grand reopening Friday, June 4 with a full weekend of outdoor concerts, from Mr. Blotto Friday, June 4 through cover tributes to the Beatles Sunday, June 6.
• Oswego will follow up the Middle East Conflicts Wall through Memorial Day May 31, with free movies for the family starting Thursday, June 3 at the new Oswego Entertainment Venue, 1010 Station Drive. The following dates will be Thursdays, July 8, July 22, and August 26. Entry will start at 7 p.m..
Clear and Concise, Week 21 Year 2:
Late Spring/early Summer reruns. Host is a noun and not a verb. We are the host and we do not host; we are the host and we are not hosting; we are partners and we do not partner nor are we partnering.