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Huntley Veterans Memorial Breaks Ground

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

Ask the Woodchucks: Woodchucks furniture repair day

Each year the Woodchucks hold two furniture repair days for residents. One is in April and one is in October. Thirty to forty Woodchucks are available in the shop on these days to repair loose chairs, broken tables, broken picture frames, and other wooden items needing repair.

A perfect pizza and pastaria place

One night our phone rang and our friends Tom and Linda said they just dined at a restaurant we recently reviewed. This reminded them that we haven’t seen each other for a while and suggested we get together.

St. Patrick is for pets, too      

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

Check These Out: March 24, 2016

For several hours a week, I work at the Huntley Library re-shelving items. During this process, opportunity presents itself for me to peruse materials I’d not see while looking on my own. Very often I say to myself, oh, that looks interesting … and then I keep it or jot down the info. I’ll share some with you that pique my interest.

Miracles From Heaven — or was it spontaneous remission?

“Miracles from Heaven” is a modest Hollywood production which had a budget of $13 Million. The movie was adapted from a book written by Christy Beam, the mother of a seven-year-old girl with an incurable disease whose name I can’t spell or pronounce.

Ask an Angel: March 24, 2016

Help. Since my mother passed away, I’ve noticed my father has been drinking. When I confront him, he denies it, but it is obvious. I know he is grieving, but this is troubling. I’m not sure how to approach this.

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.

Hang Your Hat: March 24, 2016

Letters for the week of March 24.

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.

Gardening help from technology? App-solutely!

Each year the Oxford Dictionary comes out with a list of words that they have added to their publication. Words such as pneumatologically, studerite, and waterly were added the dictionary in 2015. Way back in 2001, the word “app” was added.

A holiday explanation for when a calendar just isn’t enough

It was one of those falling-asleep moments in bed long ago, when my drowsy wife mumbled to me, “Is Easter two Sundays from now or three?” We had plans for a family gathering on Easter Sunday that would take some preparation, but that was at least two weeks away. Maybe three.

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.

Hello from the 1800s (or around there)

Every time Academy Awards season rolls around, I know the conversation is inevitable. I will casually mention to someone that I would enjoy watching the Oscars, and this is usually all it takes to trigger it. The discussion always goes a little something like this.

Body by plants

It happened exactly one year ago. My active, seemingly healthy husband was in the hospital recovering from totally unexpected triple bypass surgery. We were just beginning to get used to the fact that he’d had a heart attack as he was recovering smoothly ready to go home on February 14 when his heart stopped. (I later learned that is not totally unexpected after open-heart surgery: the heart apparently decided it had enough).

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.

I don’t know how anything works anymore, do you?

When I was a kid and I was baffled by how something worked, Mom or Dad could explain it to me in a couple short sentences, and then I was up to speed.

Check These Out: March 10, 2016

For several hours a week, I work at the Huntley Library re-shelving items. During this process, opportunity presents itself for me to peruse materials I’d not see while looking on my own. Very often I say to myself, oh, that looks interesting … and then I keep it or jot down the info. I’ll share some with you that pique my interest.

Weighing in on Windows 10

Should I install Windows 10 or not? Microsoft has been very persistent that you download and install Windows 10 on your Windows 7 or Windows 8 computer. Should you do this?

London Has Fallen – a little too far for me

This is the worst time of the year to find a good movie to see, much less write about. All of the films with Oscar potential were released at the end of last year, and its months until the summer “blockbuster” season.

Ask the Woodchucks: March 10, 2016

The fan on my water heater is making a very loud noise. I shut the water heater off. Have other Sun City residents had this problem? Can you suggest a repairman to fix the problem?

The Oscars – justice finally served

I had a number of complaints about the Academy Awards show last Sunday. First and foremost, they chose to show their panorama of self-adoration opposite the swan song episode of the world’s most popular TV show, Downton Abbey.

Hang Your Hat: March 10, 2016

Letters for the week of March 10

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.”