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March 24, 2016

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.

Early Signs

Do you find that the TV remote needs to be raised to higher and higher volume levels each time you use it? Are you having difficulty understanding everything that may be said in friends’ conversations? Do you avoid certain noisy restaurants?

Huntley Veterans Memorial Breaks Ground

The Huntley Area Veterans Foundation goal of a Veterans Memorial is nearly complete.

St. Patrick is for pets, too

For the third consecutive year, Sun City’s Stingrays Swim Club held their Charity Service Auction.

State changes dictate what electronics can be recycled

Changes have been made in the State of Illinois as to which electronic items must be recycled and which items can now be thrown away with your household garbage.

Hashtag One Huntley

As recently as 1999, Huntley was considered a small town known for an ice cream shop and a Turkey Testicle Festival. Now in 2016, it has become a premier place to live in Illinois. How does this happen in such a relatively short period of time? The answer is what I like to call #onehuntley.

Gold medal grandma

When Marie and Mike Hasanov first moved into their Sun City home roughly ten years ago, one of their first memories upon arriving at the new place was of their granddaughter Abby. She had started doing flips and summersaults in her grandparents’ freshly painted, furniture-free room.

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.

The amazing human-body machine

These scientific FACTS will probably read as part of a “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” column. Compiled in The Beacon (a Burnt Store Marina, Florida newspaper), columnist Bob Bottel writes about “The Wonders of the Human Body.” Here then are fascinating excerpts from his January/February/2016 column:

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.

Parking dilemma continues to accelerate

Things are still revving up in the controversial student parking issue between two of Huntley’s closest neighbors – Sun City and Huntley High School.

The day the music was born

We all remember the great song by Don McLean called American Pie, which was about the plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson). As the lyrics go “I can’t remember if I cried, when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died.”

Helping homeless vets

The Sun City Lions and Diane Ahrens from VFW Post 298 Auxiliary proudly display some of the items donated by Fox Valley residents to help homeless vets transition into structured housing.

Put on a happy face

While the Sun City Strutters might be known for their grand annual performances, the dancers delight audiences in humbler arenas as well. The Sun City Strutters, composed of about 70 members who normally perform two large winter and spring dance events, also take their show on the road.

That’s a RAP…not exactly

Imagine a class where there is no homework and no test; it is learning for the joy of learning. Sounds too good to be true, right?

How HCR is helping mold the youth of America

When the original plans were being crafted about creating a radio station in Huntley, most of the benefits to the community were obvious. One was not. The profound impact we would have on college students to help shape their educational experience, and probably ultimately their careers, was not on the list.

Beating leading diseases in 2016, part 2

In addition to cancer and heart disease (discussed in Part 1 of this topic), two other major illnesses pose a huge threat to our healthy aging. They are diabetes and obesity.

Sun City Huntley Announces New Date for Consumer Spring Showcase

Thursday, April 14, Sun City Huntley will host its annual Spring Consumer Showcase at Prairie Lodge, located at 12880 Del Webb Blvd. in Huntley. Showcase hours are from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Tree’s a crowd

You might not be able to see the forest for the trees, but you can see the downtown Huntley square. Last month, the Village of Huntley removed seven of the eight trees decorating the downtown area, according to Barbara Read, Village of Huntley Management Assistant.

The Nature of Love

To everything there is a season, especially for true love.

Here, then, is the love story of Esther and Doug Kenning, high school sweethearts.

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.

Beating leading diseases in 2016

The AARP Magazine’s October/November 2015 publication gives us a multitude of tips on how to forestay the threat of four major diseases as we age. Healthy aging is based on combating these four major debilitating players of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. In my two-part article on the subject, I repeat most of the magazine’s latest and critically extensive research summarized by Robin Westen and Joe Kita.

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.

HCR is here with the latest hospital highlights

As everyone knows, Huntley is growing by leaps and bounds. A census is currently being conducted where we are expected to go over the 25,000 mark. That is hard to believe when you consider Huntley had just over 5,700 people in 2000. The recent roadway improvements to route 47, including the 90 interchange has opened even more doors to business and additional home construction.

The Theatre Company Scholarship Program

The Theatre Company of Sun City announces their Scholarship program is now open for 2016. The company decided it would again dedicate a portion of their annual budget to a scholarship fund directed towards helping young people.

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.

Maintaining your independence in 2016, part 2

No doubt you’ve heard the quote: “Move it or lose it.” Mayo Clinic, in their 2015 book on Healthy Aging, reveals the following startling facts: “Many of your basic bodily functions start to decline at a rate of about 1 to 2 percent a year after age 30.

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.