This, too, shall pass!
Don’t sweat the small stuff. It is all small stuff.
We shall overcome!
When problems arise, society can find a way to cope. Sayings offer solace to groups and individuals. Time passes with a failure to change it, stop it, and is neither friend nor foe.
However we make adjustments to our benefit, or, at least we should. Problems will pass. We can manufacture the magnitude of problems, or we can lessen the danger with understanding.
In preparation for the predicted falling snow storm and falling temperatures, more in the central part of the State, we are advised what we can do and how we can react. Endurance is an advised approach. The snow will melt. In the meantime, we can make certain there is gas in the vehicle, warm clothing available, and stay at home, if possible.
We had an example of a big storm in the northeast part of the U.S. last weekend which dumped more than 20 inches of snow in the Boston area. It is amazing how sophisticated weather forecasting is with modern technology. Weather-guessers may a term of the past.
Mental approach to situations in our world is nothing new. Preparation and positivity may be the two best words to adopt. That applies to weather, politics, personal situations, and human interactions at all levels, family, friends, loved ones. Reminder: Valentine’s Day, February 14, exists for more reasons than selling candy, flowers, and loving greeting cards.
• Notices which did not find space in the rest of The Voice, for various reasons, however, are a part of our community orientation:
• In keeping with Valentine’s Day, State representative Barbara Hernandez is a partner with State representative Stephanie Kifowit, in collecting Valentine’s Day cards to give to health-care workers at Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora. They agree that the gesture is appropriate for the role health-care workers play to keep residents safe and healthy. The collection will continue until February 9. Cards can be dropped off at Ms Hernandez’s office, 540 W. Galena Boulevard in Aurora, Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., or, at Ms Kifowit’s office, 1677 Montgomery Road in Aurora, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.. No envelope or postage is necessary.
• U.S. representative Sean Casten of the 6th District and the U.S. Department of Transportation released information earlier this week of a $513.6 million award of American Rescue Plan funds to the Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation (Metra). Metra employs approximately 2,600 workers who provide nearly 17 million trips throughout the Chicago area in 2020. The funds will allow Metra to continue to provide a low-carbon transportation service to 8.6 million residents.
• The Illinois Park and Recreation Association presented the Naperville Park District the 2021 Outstanding Park Award for Wolf’s Crossing Community Park for park districts with operating budgets of $5 million or more. It is the District’s first large-scale park to be developed in one phase.
• The Season for Nonviolence is a global grassroots campaign dedicated to the power of nonviolence. It endorses the philosophies and lives of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.. King: “Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon.” Gandhi: “Nonviolence is in the heart and must be an inseparable part of our being.” Peace around the world must be the goal, continually.
• Clear and Concise, Week 5 Year 3: Words and terms to help fortify communication, understanding, and ease of dialogue: Partner is a noun and should not be used as a verb or conjunction such as in partnering. It is a recent development which should be stopped and understood. Host is a noun and not a verb. Located should be avoided entirely. There are other ways to properly convey the message relevant to location which is a noun. What is located? Site, developed, not used at all, just omitted, are alternate and correct usages.