Tag: Carter Crane

Family always is important. Interaction at more than during holidays brings family bonds more firmly together. Consider a few items below: • The Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry and Community Garden’s 8th anniversary at the Harvest Dinner will be from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 14 at the Marie...

National Night Out will be Tuesday, Aug. 3 with participation by many communities. It is a break from the heat of the Summer and a link to a back-to-school mentality. From previous years an impression is that young children enjoy the variation from a usual Summer routine. It is an...

Free and easy and a sense of individualism can be admirable and a positive sense for a proper lifestyle. There are limits, however. With the apparent easing of restrictions following fewer COVID-19 cases in recent months, it has been easy for many of us to think that sickness is over...

It is truly a big world in many ways. We have many directions to go to find our way. Choices may include to find a COVID-19 vaccine site, or, decide to take chances we would avoid calamity and not be subjected to catastrophe with the virus which has altered our...

Growing interests provide food for thought. Independence Day offers clarity to a variety of items. It is more than honor and respect for the valuable Founding Fathers and the legacy they left. It is more of a focus on what our future can become. It is, at the same time,...

This week’s edition, filled with Independence Day materials, salutations, and references, limit other articles which are important. Therefore, without a scathing letter to the editor, or any letter, we have extra room to include information we think is important. Information and comments include: • There are two Rotary Clubs in...

With Father’s Day on the doorstep, it is important for this writer to move out of the third person and state how blessed his life has been because of a wonderful father. He passed this life more than 50 years ago, however, the road map, love, connection, and role model...

Settlement of Europeans in northern Illinois began in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s. The largest ethnic groups to arrive in Aurora in the 19th Century were from Luxemburg and from Romania. Each group can cite a proud history of settlement. Frequently we receive reminders. The Luxemburg ambassador to the United...

Holidays are important significant. We cherish them for the reasons holidays exist: Celebrations, memorials, specific events. Remembrances in many communities Monday this week are important universally, however, especially when there are families who remember loved persons who died in wars. Some families remember loved ones who died, whether or not...