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February 26, 2015

Dwight Esau

Sun City break-ins provide good, bad news

The latest break-in information in Sun City provides both good and bad news.

Dist. 158 maintains financial integrity despite lack of state support

The State of Illinois is not paying some of its bills on time, but School District 158 in Huntley is.

11 for ‘15

Each year about this time, the Sun City association board of directors determines its priorities and goals for the following 12 months.

Oslance joins Sun City association as communications director

One voice, delivering attractive and interesting information, to all appropriate media. This is the thinking behind the Sun City association’s creation of a new communications coordinator position and hiring an experienced communications professional to fill it.

Why walk down memory lane when you can perform it?

Christmas season is party time. Parties and gatherings are everywhere. Sun City’s 40 neighborhoods “do” holiday parties, starting right after Thanksgiving and many do more than just one. There is one Sun City neighborhood, however, that has taken the concept of a Christmas celebration to an entirely new level.

Upcoming repairs for Sun City noted

As a homeowner, you know that house and property maintenance is one of your biggest challenges. The Sun City community association has the same problem, except on a much larger scale.

Ins and outs of the Huntley Outlet Mall

A lot of local folks are asking, “How is the Huntley Outlet Center doing?” As they say in the famous song, “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.”

Open space possible aid in recent break-in

Another break-in occurred in Sun City the second week of November. This time, the offenders took advantage of the fact that the house backed up to open space and allowed them lots of privacy.

Proposed 2015 operating budget business as usual

This is the first of two reports on the Sun City community association’s 2015 financial activities, including the operating and reserve budgets.

Her father’s keeper

Suzy Phillips Anderle of Sun City was seven months old in September, 1944, when her father, Joseph L. Phillips, was killed in action in World War II. For the past year, she has worked to enhance his legacy of service with her own historical research and travels. On this Veterans Day of 2014, this is her story:

Joe Phillips had his future planned out in September 1944, despite the turmoil of war and conflict throughout the world, and World War II raging throughout Europe.

Sun City signs one-year interim contract with FirstService

The Sun City association board of directors is using an unusual method to out-source some accounting operations.

Sun City ‘card room’ to get facelift

For more than 13 years, the “card room” in Prairie Lodge has given new meaning to the term, “multi-purpose.” Get ready, Sun City, this popular room is going to get a facelift, starting either this December or early in 2015.

Plan B

Suppose a fire breaks out in the Prairie Lodge kitchen and shuts down all operations in Jameson’s and Drendel Ballroom, and/or nearby activity areas?

Royals Lore

This is for all you World Series fans out there. How many of you have boarded the Kansas City bandwagon, which has stormed into the Major League Baseball classic this year out of nowhere.

Huntley business continues to rise

Remember the Hollywood movie star pictures in the former Powell’s car wash on Route 47 in Huntley? As you waited for your vehicle to be cleaned, you could reminisce at pictures of Marilyn, James Dean, Bogie, Elvis, etc. Powell’s has been gone for more than a year, and we miss the cinematic nostalgia. But is it possible that another film revival is coming to this site?

Buggie up

When Tiger and Eleven show up in Neighborhood 20, everyone perks up. As they are pushed around in their customized vehicles, folks come out of their houses to greet them. Residents stop weeding their gardens to say hi, jogging fitness buffs stop and say hello. Even the high school cross country runners sometimes pause and trot over to get a glimpse of the neighborhood celebrities.

Activities ongoing in Walgreen’s commercial complex

HUNTLEY – There’s always something significant happening these days in the Walgreen’s commercial complex just outside Sun City. This past summer and early fall, a number of activities continued to transform this area, which stretches from Kreutzer Road south past Regency Square Parkway, along the west side of Route 47. Walgreen’s itself highlighted the upgrade …

Trustee Hanson resigns for Cincinnati gig

Nick Hanson played a significant role in some of the biggest expansion projects that have transformed Huntley from a tiny farming community into a robust, major suburban municipality.

Walk-ins welcome

Though it has started slowly, business is steadily growing at the new Sun City clinic, which opened in August in Prairie Lodge by the Centegra Health System.

Standing on top of the world

If you’re a veteran traveler, you know all about the world’s most famous places to visit – Hawaii, Disney World, London, Caribbean islands, Panama Canal, European rivers, Alaska, Paris, African safaris, Mediterranean resorts, Greek islands, New York City, etc., etc. But I just returned from a place that may not be on your cruising radar.

A League of Their Own

What do professional baseball and farmer’s markets have in common? Maybe farming breeds fitness? Maybe farms offer space to build baseball diamonds? Don’t we all know of famous players, past and present, who grew up pitching baseballs through tires tied to trees on the back forty? Maybe young, talented athletes ought to have grandparents who live in Sun City.

Sun City burglars caught in New York

Some of the burglars that have been breaking into Sun City homes for the past four years finally got caught – in upstate New York state.

Friday night lights

When you get a big, fancy, new scoreboard, you might as well check it out right away, to make sure it works correctly, right? This is how Huntley High School’s Red Raider football team reacted to the sight of the huge new scoreboard on the south end of their field as they prepared to play Elgin in their home opener on Sept. 5.

LaBeau withdraws from association board race

Bill Bendick, Dennis O’Leary, Eugene Rhodes, and James Van Fleet won’t have to worry about finishing last and being the single loser in the 2014 Sun City Community association board of directors election race.

Who’s who

Every face in the 2014 Sun City association board of directors election is a very familiar one.

Provena Building now Huntley Executive Center

Remember the Provena Building on Regency Square Parkway? Forget it. It’s now the Huntley Executive Center.