An Aurora food pantry will be host to its fourth annual Trunk-or-Treat Halloween celebration Friday, Oct. 20. Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry will sponsor the drive-thru event from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Splash Country Water Park parking lot, 195 S. Barnes Road in Aurora. Rebecca Dunnigan-Meyer, Interfaith event
North Aurora Lions Club will hold a benefit knit and crochet-a-thon Saturday, Oct. 21, at 9 a.m. at Oak Street Restaurant and Bar, 945 Oak Street in North Aurora. Completed items will benefit Maddies mitten march, Phil’s Friends and #Senior Services Associates.Experience is not required. Simple patterns will be provided.
Kane County residents can “green their Halloweens” by dropping off pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, and other compostable seasonal decorations to be composted from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 4, at Pushing the Envelope Farm, 1700 Averill Road, Geneva, just north of the intersection of Rt. 38/State Street and Kirk Road. Accepted
Dentists Daniel Campolieto, left, and Ingy Nessim, cut a ribbon Tuesday, Oct. 17, to celebrate the grand opening of North Aurora Lifetime Dentistry,100 Hansen Boulevard.
By John & Nisha Whitehead “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”—Theodore Roosevelt From being a nation in a permanent state of emergency, America’s crisis state has gone global. The military industrial complex, which has established itself as
October 19 Hopelessly trapped in Yorktown, Va., British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a larger Franco-American force, to effectively bring an end to the American Revolution. – 1781. One month after Napoleon Bonaparte’s massive invading force enters a burning and deserted Moscow, the starving French
State Representative Stephanie Kifowit is honored to announce the dedication of “Herschel Luckinbill Road” in memory of the late U.S. Navy Veteran Herschel Luckinbill. This event will take place at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, at the intersection of Route 30 & Douglass Rd, Oswego, (Jewel Parking Lot) Oswego Village
Aurora Public Library District’s Board of Trustees joined executive director Michaela Haberkern for the opening ceremony and ribbon-cutting of the new Bookmobile at Santori Library Parker Garden. The ribbon-cutting ceremony signaled the beginning of a new chapter in Aurora’s story to promote literacy and the love of reading. The Bookmobile
The East High Football Old Timers Association will present the 78th annual dinner at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19 at Lincoln Inn Banquets Batavia, 1345 S. Batavia Avenue (Route 31) Batavia. Dinner ticket cost is $35 per person. East Aurora football teams to be recognized
Oswego High School’s Lucas Andersen, 2, seeks to pull away from visiting Yorkville linebacker, Lincoln Reuterskiold, in the teams’ football game in the Southwest Suburban Prairie Conference game Friday, Oct. 6.
Waubonsie Valley High School defenders swarm Neuqua Valley quarterback Ryan Mohler, 1, Friday.
Many news items prevail, perpetually. Where do we find the space in The Voice each week? The selection process is important. Some information in a wide range of news events is better than less, or, none. Items with substance include:
By Jason Crane The Aurora City Council viewed a presentation naming Aurora, the second most populous city in Illinois, as one of the safest cities in America at the Aurora City Council meeting Tuesday, Oct. 10. Chief communications officer and chief equity officer of Aurora, Clayton Muhammad, presented finance website
October 5, 2023Dear editor; In his letter to president Joe Biden, governor JB Pritzker complained about the refugees being bussed to Chicago from Texas and how federal aid hasn’t kept up. Pritzker rightly points out that the situation is “untenable.” Immigrants are sleeping in police stations, airports, and temporary shelters,
October 8, 2023Dear editor; The Aurora Navy League Council 247 will hold its Tuesday, Oct. 17 dinner meeting in the private room of the Riverview Diner, IL-25 and Mill Street, Montgomery. A reception will begin promptly at 5 p.m. followed by a meeting at 5:30 p.m. with dinner afterward. The
Reprint from August 1, 2019Second of three parts The NAACP (National Association of Colored People) gathered in Detroit for its annual convention. Lauren Gambino, based in Washington, D.C., wrote a piece for The Guardian Weekly. She wrote how the NAACP convention urged presidential hopefuls not to shy away from being
By Russ George The Diabetes Club of Fox Valley is celebrating its first full year of service to the Fox Valley area Thursday, Oct. 12, at the historic Gray’s Mill Estate, 211 N. River Street, in Montgomery. The meeting and dinner will be held in the Third Floor Banquet Room.
Aurora Lions Club will hold its annual Candy Day fundraiser Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13-14. Susan Koepke, Lions president, said volunteers will don bright yellow aprons and stand outside Prisco’s Family Market, 1108 Prairie Street in Aurora, to accept donations from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.. Koepke said, “Lions will
The feminine tranquil birth of the river Le Seine was named after the goddess, Sequana. The Seine has a 483-mile journey from Burgundy to the sea. She begins at 1,540 feet above sea level. The Gallo-Roman goddess Sequana’s name comes from the Celtic squan meaning serpentine. Its source has been
A few days ago we lost all-pro football linebacker and Chicago Bears’ legend Dick Butkus, Mr. Super Crunch #51. He was two-time All-America at the University of Illinois earlier. Some time back, I wrote about my sporadic, off-the-gridiron contacts with him through a friend of mine. In view of Dick’s
