With Spring fully under way, with Winter releasing its grip and being replaced with delightful 70-degree temperatures, and with society’s desire to push through still damaging COVID-19, activities other than Zoom events, have increased.
Find a way to include all of the increased buzz is the task.
For example:
• The Luxemburg Club will hold a craft show, 416 High Street, Aaurora, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. It will include new membership sign-up and will be open to the public. Thank you to Joe Lusk for the note.
• Then the Sons of Norway Polar Star Lodge 5-472 will resume monthly in-person meetings with a parking-lot party at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 11 at St. Olaf Lutheran Church, 1233 Douglas Avenue in Montgomery. Polar Star president Ken Johnson of Yorvkille said a potluck luncheon and sharing COVID-19 survival stories are planned. Polar Star plans on reviving its first Sunday of the month meetings.
There are 400 Sons of Norway lodges in the United States, Canada, and Norway. Thanks to Al Benson for the information.
• The Board of Education for East Aurora School District 131 anticipates a vacancy on the School Board immediately. Those interested in serving the term for the next two years, should send a letter of interest to the East Aurora School District Administrative Office, 417 Fifth Street, Aurora, IL 60505, attn: Ms Lisa Morales, executive assistant.. The letter should be received by 4 p.m. April 13. Qualifications include at least 18 years of age and live in the School District 131. Telephone: 630-299-5554.
• The pop-up food pantry will be held by the Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. at Austin Park, 1345 S. Broadway, Montgomery. The Pantry is a partner with the Fox Valley Park District, Calvary Church of Naperville, and Blessings in a Backpack of Chicago to provide free bags to pantry families. Food will be available to the first 200 families. There will be a wide variety of food products.
• Congratulations to the winners of the consolidated elections Tuesday. In fact, congratulations to every candidate who ran for office, regardless of the outcome. So many individuals run to make a difference, to be a part of civic duties and a sense of improvement.
Their effort are to be applauded.
It is unfortunate that the voting turnout continues to be a sense of such little importance, a lack of urgency, and a lack of understanding why voting is important to all of the citizens regardless of party or of geography.
We vote not just to pick a winner. We vote to let those elected officials who do not have the public’s best interests at heart and who would otherwise seek to perform nefarious tasks, know that the citizens are watching. That we care.
Frankly: We should be embarrassed that the turnout is so low. We should seek to fix that problem in future elections. If we do not care to understand and do not care about our democracy, then democracy simply will fade away.
Clear and Concise, Week 14 Year 2:
• Unnecessary words include located, also, and going forward. Leave those words out and the meanings do not change.