With limitations of recent years, we as a larger community, still live in a mobile society. We expect access to sites and places we want to visit.
Examples include: First Division Museums at Cantigny, 1s151 Winfield Road, Wheaton, when there are programs, museums, and sites to see; ghosts and history coming to life at the Oswego Township Cemetery walk each October on South Main Street; or, simply electronics recycling drive-thru at the Bednarcik Junior High parking lot in Aurora, 3025 Eola Road, which is in the Oswego School District.
There are reasons and desires for our mobility.
The First Division Museum will resume its Date with History series at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5 with author David M. Chrisinger who will discuss his book this year, The Soldier’s Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II. The free program will be at the Cantigny Visitors Center. Registration for both in-person and Zoom viewers are required at FDMuseum.org.
At the height of his fame and influence, Ernie Pyle’s nationally-syndicated dispatches from the front lines helped shape the U.S. understanding of what war felt like to soldiers.
The First Division Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, except Monday.
The Oswego Cemetery Walk, Thursday, Oct. 5 will start at 5:30 p.m. with reservations $10 per person. The ghosts are based on Oswego citizens of the past. One is manufacturer, inventor, storekeeper, Marcius C Richards. Other Oswego ghosts from the past include Anna Lester Brown, Mary Ann Minnich; and Ester Jane Rhodes Minard. Brief presentations will be provided with events of their lives and the events of the times. The walk and tour are expected to last approximately 45 minutes. Registration can be made by calling the Oswegoland Park District at 630-554-1010 or by visiting the web site at https://www.oswegolandparkdistrict.org and clicking on Oswego Cemetery Walk. Hosts are the Oswegoland Park District and the Oswegoland Heritage Association.
Aurora residents can recycle electronics free of charge, however, registration is required for the drive-thru 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 30 at the Bednarcik Junior High parking lot. Arriving earlier rather than later is good advice. The first 2,500 Aurora residents will secure a spot in the recycling area. Residents can bring two television screens of any size and an unlimited amount of other approved electronics. Aurora offers two free recycling drive-thru events each year, one in the Spring and one in Autumn.
During the last drive-thru in the Spring, more than 25 tons of materials were collected, including nearly1,500 televisions.
Aurora residents can register at www.aurora-il.org/FallElectronics2023.
The Montgomery Public Works Department will provide residents with bulk brush collection the week of October 2. Crews will make one pass through each neighborhood. Estimation is it will take one week. Brush must be stacked neatly in parkway. Brush blocked by parked cars will not be picked up. Brush must be piled neatly in one direction and untied. Branches must be at least one inch in diameter and not shorter than three feet. Crews will not pick up bushes with roots and dirt attached, grape, or, other vines, lumber, plywood, or construction materials.
Community involvement is a wide cross-section of functions and always needed. Nonetheless, involvement in the political world remains a daily habit for many of us. Dealing with honest differences, debates, and important ideas are a part of the U.S. landscapes. We all should be free to use our voices, however, purposeful deception, deceit, and lies spoil the landscape.