Volunteers, donors and organizations around the Aurora area working to make the holidays a little brighter for those in need.
Category: Aurora Beacon-News Opinion
Column: Administrative assistants at Waubonsee’s Adult Education Department aim to help students, community
Edith Vazquez and Margarita Sanchez are graduates of Waubonsee’s Adult Education program, and have served that program as administrative assistants since 2003 and 2002, respectively.
Column: Loyola University Museum of Art loans diverse creches to Aurora church
An open house on Sunday, Dec. 15, at New England Congregational will feature 40 non-Anglo/European Nativity scenes.
Column: Mother frustrated with preschool expulsions looking for help from recent law and state resources
Naperville mom frustrated with hurdles she’s facing with her 3-year-old identical twins.
Longtime ‘irreplaceable’ reporter Steve Lord retires after nearly 47 years at The Beacon-News
With almost 47 years under his belt covering Aurora and other Fox Valley communities, the 69-year-old journalist is unofficially the newspaper’s longest-serving editorial employee.
Column: Despite small membership, Aurora Cosmopolitan Club continues to make big impact
The group only has a handful of registered members these days, along with another half-dozen “friends” of the club, but what they manage to accomplish is more than impressive.
Column: Dollar store experience yields valuable holiday message
An act of kindness once a day a wonderful plan for a better world.
Column: Veterans Day in Aurora brings out many emotions
As happens to me after attending the Aurora Veterans Day parade and celebration each year, I departed this year’s recent event feeling many emotions. I am so very proud of all of our veterans, and I am grateful to them for so much.
Column: A Fox Valley family shattered twice by grief holds strong through the decades
Two brothers honor their sister killed in an accident in 1971 in North Aurora.
Column: Plano family’s blood ties earn them national distinction
Fontanez family has earned induction into the National Blood Donation Hall of Fame.