Good deeds with special spirit should be gifts all year. As a society we do focus on special spirituality at Christmas holiday. See the Aurora Police presence with presents just prior to Christmas at thevoice.us/aurora-police-provide-presents-to-children.
Joy and sharing are staples during the holidays and could be observed all year, if positive forces were to prevail, continually.
The annual revisiting of The Voice’s Year in Review this week prevented important information to be included in prominent positions, possibly postponed to next week, however, finding a landing spot in this article:
• Aurora alderman Sherman Jenkins of the Agape Connection, a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization, will be host to its 19th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Day celebration, which will start at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 1400 Corporetum Drive in Lisle. Awards will be presented for educational, cultural, and other initiatives that have an impact on the youth of the western suburbs. For information regarding tickets, call 630-898-5333.
• Mark Reynolds, executive director of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, reports that Marshall Saunders, founder and president of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, recently died at the age of 80. Reynolds wrote: “His spirit and love will continue to live in all of us.”
• Prohibition, the U.S. amendment to the U.S. Constitution that banned the sale of alcohol will turn 100 years one minute past midnight January 17. In keeping with the reminder, Club Arcada Speakeasy & Restaurant on top of the The Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, will be host to a series of events and toasts in observance. A pre-prohibition toast will begin at 10 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16. Club Arcada will be host to a Flapper Girl Extravaganza Friday, Jan. 17.
• The year in review: What kind of a year was it? Tragedy, happiness, joy, and events which compel us to think more of the good times. Service organizations openly and quietly offer service to their communities. We must be grateful. In spite of periodic problems we must encounter, our glass must be half full, and not half empty. Each day is an opportunity to start over. Each year is an opportunity to improve.
• Observed: A young woman in downtown Aurora on a busy avenue stopped her vehicle to see if a man needed assistance when he had fallen after stumbling over an uneven alignment of concrete on a sidewalk. She was compelled to stop to render assistance to a stranger. Good Samaritans still do exist!
• We look forward to this year and to this decade!