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Friendly Visiting Program: Connectivity helps us all grow

On March 18, 2025March 18, 2025 By admin

Willing volunteers can help elderly neighbors, by just being a friendly visitor, according to Cindy Adams, the coordinator of the friendly visiting program of Senior Services Associates, Inc.. Cindy enlists volunteers of all ages, active retirees, working professionals, and college students, to spend an hour or more each week to...

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Someone you should know: Grebner ‘Master Volunteer’

On February 18, 2025February 18, 2025 By admin

Sometimes you meet someone whose method for living makes a unique impression. Steve Grebner is one of those people. This spring, Steve will enter his second term as Kendall Township Clerk. He is retired from Hartford Insurance having worked in their financial services as vice president of marketing in the...

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Senior centers great resource to keep active, find interests

On February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 By admin

Did I happen to mention making New Year’s resolutions in my last column? Well, honestly, from what I have been reading by this time in January February most people have already given up on their new year’s resolutions. It’s well into February, and I admit I haven’t even started a...

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Navigating the holiday season, ways to enjoy

On December 17, 2024December 17, 2024 By admin

So it’s practically Christmas! The hustle and bustle of the season has been proceeding before us, and if you are like me, or if most of us are in the same circumstances, we have not been able to enjoy a lot of it. For many older adults, the holidays take...

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Random Acts of Kindness to help heal our country

On November 12, 2024November 12, 2024 By admin

It’s been a very long election and news cycle, extending for years. From our ongoing fatigue over the COVID-19 pandemic, to new variants and vaccine news, to a constant 24/7 media overload of pundits arguing over the recent election, we have seen an increasing division between family members and community...

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BE WELL Illinois, State program for workplace wellbeing

On October 15, 2024October 21, 2024 By admin

A few months ago, as an elected official in my hometown, I had the opportunity to attend an expo that featured goods, services and agencies that help people of all ages, and I picked up a fun looking hat. The color is a vibrant blue, and the logo was positive....

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Edith Farnsworth House, a worthy Plano treasure

On September 17, 2024September 14, 2024 By admin

The Edith Farnsworth House, 14520 River Road, in Plano, is an iconic image of modern architectural genius. A skyscraper in miniature, was created in the 1950s by master architect Mies van de Rohe as a one-room weekend hideaway for Dr. Edith Farnsworth, a prominent Chicago nephrologist. Mies van de Rohe...

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Rover Rescue Barn Sale in Oswego special

On July 30, 2024July 29, 2024 By admin

Whether you are downsizing, planning to start up a new household, or looking for a new friend, the Rover Rescue Barn Sale is something you have to discover. The Rover Rescue Barn Sale is at the big red barn, 5401 Route 71, in Oswego. There are barn sales monthly, with...

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La Salle Manor in Plano seeks human growth

On July 16, 2024July 15, 2024 By admin

Hidden in the Fox Valley is a special place that thousands have visited and experienced at a deeply personal level. It is a place and a time that most of us have only experienced once in our lives, but we will never forget. It is a place that others cruise...

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Senior citizens in Plano will receive meal partnership

On June 18, 2024June 17, 2024 By admin

Senior citizens in Plano soon will receive a benefit from a lunch café and home delivered meals center being developed through a partnership between the Community Nutrition Network (CNN) and Plano Methodist Church. “From our current base in Yorkville, we have been planning for some time to expand our services...

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First harvester factory opened in Plano in 1861

On June 4, 2024June 3, 2024 By admin

The Plano Reaper has been the mascot of the Plano high school athletics teams from its beginning. With an agricultural and industrial spirit, the people of the City of Plano always have been proud to call themselves the Birthplace of the Harvester, and the high school teams adopted the “Plano...

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Rotarians make a difference for seniors

On April 16, 2024April 15, 2024 By admin

Isolation is a chronic condition for most elderly in nursing homes, especially in cold weather months when contact with the outside world is limited to protect residents from illness. Meanwhile, Rotarians throughout Illinois and Wisconsin are trying to make a difference, thanks to the efforts of Rachel Ossyra of the...

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Kendall TRIAD community service organization this week

On March 12, 2024March 12, 2024 By admin

Kendall County TRIAD is increasing outreach to get the word out on prevalent scams that have been occurring, the dangers to seniors, and to reach family members, caregivers, and neighbors. Kendall County TRIAD is a community service organization that is part of a statewide initiative. TRIAD members are volunteers and...

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Income tax help available free through AARP

On February 13, 2024February 13, 2024 By admin

Income tax help is available free through AARP Tax-Aide service at Senior Services Aurora and Yorkville locations, and this year at the Oswegoland Senior and Community Center, too. “Tax time is stressful for most people, and especially our seniors,” said Karen DeAngelis, district coordinator for the AARP Tax-Aide program. “So,...

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New leadership team at Kendall County Food Pantry

On January 16, 2024January 13, 2024 By admin

The Kendall County Community Food Pantry has welcomed a new leadership team in Alex Hurd and Dulce Vargas as the new executive director and assistant director of the burgeoning pantry. Originally from Boston Mass., Hurd had made his livelihood through service to people in need. Hurd comes to Yorkville after...

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Music soothing, assists, in focus of dementia

On December 19, 2023December 18, 2023 By admin

The very last part of the brain to die is the part that understands music. Yorkville High School students are participating in an amazing intergenerational project with instructors from AgeGuide – Northeastern Illinois Agency on Aging to help individuals with dementia through music. Produced in 2014, the documentary Alive Inside:...

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Halloween memories, chills and giggles, recalled

On October 17, 2023October 17, 2023 By admin

Are you ready to be spooked again? Halloween is right around the corner. With it hopefully comes a few good chills and giggles, and none of the frights. The world is scary enough as it is. When we were young, Halloween Trick or Treating lasted for hours. Mom gave us...

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Kendall County TRIAD offers four events each year

On September 19, 2023September 18, 2023 By admin

Kendall County TRIAD thanks those businesses and individuals who offer support to senior citizens by helping to offer educational opportunities for older adults to learn more about fraud prevention strategies. Kendall County TRIAD is a community service organization focused on reducing criminal victimization of the elderly. TRIAD promotes fire safety,...

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Seniors’ Big Band & BBQ fundraiser in Yorkville

On August 15, 2023August 15, 2023 By admin

We can enjoy the traditional end of Summer celebration in Yorkville by celebrating seniors with Senior Services Associates, Inc. at its annual Big Band & BBQ under the big top Thursday, Aug. 31! The Big Band & BBQ fundraiser has become a tradition for the Yorkville office of Senior Services....

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Best to be prepared in mobile navigation process

On July 18, 2023July 17, 2023 By admin

I continue to volunteer as a scout leader and supporter, and know the value of the character scouting promotes. Recently, I had the opportunity to see some scouting spirit replayed unpredictably at a local senior center. I facilitate a senior exercise class and met a vivacious 95-year-old woman I will...

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