Monday event seen as a once-in-a-lifetime teaching opportunity.
Category: Aurora Beacon-News Opinion
Column: Aurora area districts say school resource officers ‘part of the fabric’ of their schools
Local educators praise their relationships with the SROs in their schools.
Column: Oswego dad’s grief after loss of son leads to Ronald McDonald House and new book
“Detours: Finding Strength After the Loss of Your Child,” is a book about facing hurdles in life and looking for paths that will lead to strength and healing.
Column: A year after her release from prison, Sandra Vasquez finds life ‘a huge adjustment’
After nearly 13 years behind bars, this 40-year-old mother of two, who was convicted of aggravated drunken driving and reckless homicide for the February 2007 crash that killed five Oswego teens, always knew life on the outside would be a challenged to get used to.
Column: With ‘The Rec,’ East Aurora creates new facility students will definitely want to enter
School District 131’s Resilience Education Center offers counseling, classes and activities to mitigate trauma and encourage careers.
Column: ‘Cabrini’ so much more than a movie about a Catholic nun
Movie brings to life the work of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini.
Column: Age issue already getting old in this presidential election
Even with so many months to go before voting for the next POTUS, there are plenty of big issues making headlines in this election year yet nothing seems to be more front and center these days than the ages of the candidates.
Column: CASA Kane County ready to ‘raise the bar’ on child abuse and neglect prevention
In recognition of National Child Abuse Prevention Month in April, CASA Kane County is holding its annual Hands Around the Court House at noon April 4 at the Historic Kane County Courthouse on Third Street in downtown Geneva.
Column: New Fox Valley church points to homeless man’s death as ‘casualty of a broken system”
Becoming, a new church in Oswego, is looking to start open and honest dialogues between all groups to find answers to difficult problems.
Column: ‘Incredible’ Ruth Van Sickle Ford painting back in Aurora
Aurora Women’s Empowerment Foundation purchases famed artist’s painting “Grand Mere.”