July 22, 2022Dear editor; Imagine a tax that confiscates one-half of the purchasing power of your entire life savings in less than eight short years! That’s what the current 9.1% inflation rate is doing to you and your family’s financial security. It cuts the purchasing power of your current wages
Oswegoland Senior and Community Center is open and serving seniors and the community Monday -Friday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at its new facility, 3525 US Highway 34, Oswego, the former Oswego Police Station. Programming includes numerous exercise classes, activities such as bingo, dime jingle, bridge, financial and history education,
Messenger Public Library of North Aurora will be host to “The League of Erics,” an outdoors music concert, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16. on the north lawn of the Library, 113 Oak Street, in North Aurora. Performing will be Eric Dinse and Eric Peter Schwartz, vocalists/guitarists from Aurora. The public
Neighbors throughout Aurora are coming together to celebrate National Night Out Tuesday, Aug. 2. Aurora’s National Night Out events will be held in 25 neighborhood sites throughout the 10 wards. National Night Out culminates annually on the first Tuesday in August to enhance the relationship among neighbors, public safety officials,
The Fox Valley Orchestra’s concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 24, at the Batavia Fine Arts Centre, 1250 W. Wilson Street, Batavia, will feature Broadway solos and duets from different eras and composers. Guest artists, Katelyn Lee and Joe Shadday, will bring to the stage experience in both pops and
Aurora Noon Lions Club has extended the reservation deadline for its centennial banquet to Thursday, July 21. Susan Koepke of Aurora, Noon Lions president, invited the public to the celebration Thursday, July 28, at 5:30 p.m. at Gaslite Manor Banquets, 2485 Church Road in Aurora. The event will feature a
The DeKalb American Veterans (AMVETS) Post 90 is at 421 Oak Street, DeKalb, and serves veterans and the community. AMVETS starts off the 15th Annual Veterans Weekend with a meet and greet party Friday, July 29, that will honor all military personnel, veterans, current or retired, first responders, and health-care
The Aurora Navy League Council 247 will hold its Tuesday July 19 dinner meeting at 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 cost is $25 all-inclusive
Aurora • RiverEdge Park, 360 N. Broadway, and McCullough Park, Illinois Avenue and Lake Street, music, games, food, kids activities, will start at 7 p.m.. Fireworks will be Monday, July 4 at 9:15 p.m. over the Fox River with viewing at McCullough Park and RiverEdge Park. • Fourth of July
The Roosevelt-Aurora American Legion Post 84 will be host to the 2022 13th Annual LaSalle Street Historic Auto Show Sunday, July 3, on South LaSalle Street, Aurora. The registration for the Auto Show will be from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., with a presentation and National Anthem at noon and
Aurorans can participate in old-fashioned Independence Day fun from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, July 4 at the Tanner House Museum, 304 Oak Avenue in Aurora’s historic Tanner District. There will be a petting zoo, Andy Head – the Wild Wacky Juggler, a blueberry-pie-eating contest, the Bradley Keven Green
Knights of Columbus, St. Joseph Council 14795 in Aurora, will hold a benefit golf outing Saturday, July 9, at Phillips Park golf course in Aurora. Proceeds will benefit Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry in Aurora. The event will open with a shotgun start at 1:30 p.m.. Admission is a $100 donation.
A boy meets a Spider-Man impostor at Aurora’s Juneteenth celebration Saturday, June 18, at Dr. M.L. King, Jr. Park.
This Summer anyone can stay all day in downtown Aurora by starting the day with a coffee beverage at one of our three coffee shops, then prepare for a day and evening of fun. The three coffee shops downtown: Endiro Coffee, 29 W. New York Street; Tredwell Coffee, 14 W.
The 16th annual Downers Grove Garden Walk will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 9. The Garden Walk is a fund -raiser to benefit the Bridge Board of the First United Methodist Church of Downers Grove (DGFUMC) which is a program partner with Bridge Communities, a
The city government of Aurora, in collaboration with the Aurora African-American Heritage Advisory Board, and the Aurora Divine 9 Alliance, will be hosts to its inaugural Juneteenth flag-raising next at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 19 at One Aurora Plaza, 8 E. Galena Boulevard. In June 2021, Juneteenth was signed into
By Al Benson Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora, the club that fights diabetes, will hold its second annual “A Night at the Barn” fundraiser from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, June 24 at the barn at Blackberry Farm, 100 S. Barnes Road in Aurora. The public is invited. Parking is
Plano’s second annual Juneteenth celebration will be held Sunday, June 19 next to Emily G. Johns School at 430 Mitchell Drive in Plano. Gates will open at 11 a.m. and the festivities will start at noon. Those who attend can celebrate freedom and family with a day of relaxation, food,
Oswego’s annual PrairieFest will be Thursday through Saturday, June 16-19, at 91 Plank Drive in Oswego. Admission, parking and events are free. Presented by the Oswegoland Park District, PrairieFest provides a Summer celebration over Father’s Day weekend. Free concerts from a mix of national and local bands, along with entertaining
The Aurora Area Retired Teachers Association (AARTA) is sponsoring a benefit bus trip to the Chicago Cubs, at Milwaukee Brewers baseball game Sunday, Aug. 28, in Milwaukee. Dubbed “Strike Out Hunger,” the outing is a fundraiser for Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry in Aurora. Individuals and families are invited. A
