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It’s hot in heaven

We recently received a letter from one of our loyal readers inquiring if we knew of a restaurant that served authentic Red Beans and Rice. After an exhausting search, we stumbled upon a little bit of the bayou in Naperville called Heaven on Seven. Nancy and I checked out their menu online and decided to travel down south to give them the once over.

Good, old-fashioned work ethic

I live in Sun City. My granddaughter stays with us every Tuesday after school and we take her back to school the next morn- ing. She has been collecting aluminum cans from 15 neighbors that save all their cans for her.

Hang Your Hat: April 7, 2016

Letters for the week of April 7.

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.

I guess I’m stuck sticking my vice sales … you’ll see

Here’s a detail about me that everyone who works with me knows (and probably hates) and what all my friends and family know (and probably hate). I hate checking voice mail. I do it, but it’s a task I’d rather not.

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.

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.