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May 5, 2016

Dwight Esau

Sun City staff changes underway

Several more staff changes in the Sun City marketing, maintenance, and fitness departments have been announced recently by Deanna Loughran, executive director.

Huntley amps up emergency communication efficiency

While the budget stalemate in the State of Illinois drags on, there is one agency that is consolidating and moving toward increased efficiency.

Someone else’s treasure

Garage sales have a history. According to Phyllis James, N19, the first, and probably only, outdoor garage sale was actually held in Sun City in the summer of 2004.

Huntley Outlet Center faces uncertain fate

The Huntley Outlet Center is back in the news this month. At least some of the new developments are continued bad news for the struggling factory sales facility.

Sun City Concert Band continues to give back

When the Sun City Concert Band performs at Huntley High School, they do a lot more than just play music.

Sun City maintenance updates underway

Some maintenance projects in Sun City take longer than anticipated to complete.

Prairie Lodge rooms receive official names

Sun City’s governing board has renamed three activity rooms in Prairie Lodge.

Green thumb time

Sun Citians, how do your gardens grow? In McHenry County, there may be a master gardener near you, who can help answer some of the above questions, and more.

Court case

The Sun City Pickleball and Tennis clubs have been cordial friends and partners regarding the use of the seven courts at the Tall Oaks Tennis Center for about a decade.

Holocaust survivor’s life and lessons

It was the spring of 1932, in Leipzig, Germany. Seven-year-old Oskar Knoblauch and his brother, Siegmund, 10, ran enthusiastically to the sports club in their community, where they ran races and played games with their friends. They were always met cordially by Horst Werner, one of the coaches.

Can Cap’s magic still inspire the diamond?

Hey Cub fans, “next year” is almost here. After last year, is this the “next year” to end all the previous “next years?” Or is this NEXT YEAR, meaning…THE YEAR? Well, forget all this “high expectations” stuff. I’d like to go back about 140 years, to a time when the most dominant and influential player in baseball was a Cub.

Mission Impossible

The Riffner family vacation trip last year was truly a team event. It was initiated by one team, but it ended up with two.

Huntley P.D. and H.S. discuss student parking dilemma

The problem of high school students parking on Sun City streets has escalated somewhat recently and has prompted a special meeting among students, parents, and the Huntley Police Department.

Spring sees groundbreaking on Veterans Memorial

Twenty-four members of Dawn Ellison’s family have served in military service, most of them in time of war.

They started in the Civil War and carried the tradition through the Gulf War in the 1990s. Every one of them came back. They left such a great legacy of service that Ellison and a group of friends decided to play a major role in recognizing them, and so many others like them, including those who did not came back.

Autopsy performed on Keech, investigation continues

Huntley police authorities are investigating a man’s death that may have occurred in or near Sun City’s Prairie Lodge pool spa on January 4.

Dollars and Census

There are two ways a municipality in Illinois can become a home rule community – by referendum among its residents, or automatically when its population reaches at least 25,000. If a town goes the population route, it has to prove that its population is above 25,000 using precise numbers. That means banging on doors and counting heads.

Tax force

Anyone who owns a home loves to complain about property taxes. The protests ebb and flow year after year, almost on a schedule. They erupt whenever an owner or group receives a tax bill or their property’s tax assessment.

Keeping burglars out

Tom Neirinckx always believes there’s a better way to do, fix, or make something. He has taken that attitude and persistence into a project that he believes will deter or possibly eliminate the break-ins that have been occurring in Sun City homes.

New officers elected for Sun City board

Two members of the Sun City board of directors have been elected officers of the board for 2016.

All Aboard

To say Pete Walton has a model railroad set in his basement would be a gross understatement; you’d be about 130 feet and 13 years short, in fact. And if you count the number of tracks and how many times those tracks run back and forth, you’d be off by a mile.

There’s pre-med, then there’s pre-pre-med

At Huntley High School, education is being transformed by innovative teachers and 15-year-old freshmen who are not afraid to think way outside of the box.

Holiday safety tips from the Huntley Police

Christmas brings us a lot of joy, fun, and family camaraderie. But it also reminds us of unpleasant and dangerous risks we take with our homes and possessions.

Strike of genius

This one, Sun City residents, is for all of you facing serious health issues that are forcing you to make major lifestyle or leisure time activity changes.

New furniture in the works for Tall Oaks Tennis and Eakin Field

Teak is out, plastic is in, for outdoor furniture at Tall Oaks Tennis Courts and Eakin Field in Sun City.

Raccoons have it out for Neighborhood 19

We like raccoons in zoos, pictures, or cartoons, don’t we? We certainly don’t like them in our attics, basements, or chimneys. And we absolutely hate them when they damage our roofs and soffits, and litter our attics in various ways.

Ad-hoc committee recommends FSR for another year of accounting

It appears as though the accounting outsourcing issue in Sun City is settling down and improving.