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Final Weeks of Historic Photo Contest

The weather is perfect for amateur photographers to take photos, which can be entered in the “Huntley – Then and Now” photo contest. Entries will compare a vintage photograph of a Huntley scene with a current photograph of the Huntley scene as it looks today. Entries are due May 1. Complete contest details and contest …

Staged to strike

“The Pajama Game” is the next musical to take the stage at Drendel Hall this season, however, the show is anything but a snoozer.

Driving through cold weather is just fine by me, that’s no joke

I’ve written a lot of different material that covers a broad spectrum of categories, during my career. I’ve dabbled in everything from fiction to non-fiction, including ghost writing a chapter on China’s copper usage and how it impacted the stock market for a book on market analysis, which, by the way, was way outside my area of expertise, and I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. But I pulled through, as I usually do on writing projects because I’m pretty decent. Not great, but decent. What I’m not decent at is writing jokes.

Poor sidewalk conditions at Factory Mall account for SC resident fall

Seven months ago, the Sun Day wrote about the Huntley Outlet Center, the deteriorating condition of its infrastructure, the vacancies in most of its spaces, and the declining interest among Sun City residents in shopping at the facility. We reported on uneven and cracked sidewalks and the potholed and cracked, mostly empty parking lot.

Help wanted

Your Community Radio Station has been broadcasting on 101.5 FM for nearly six months, and we’re getting busier and busier. By May, we’ll have 44 shows and more to come. And that’s great…but while there’s a lot to do, we just don’t have enough volunteers to get some of the jobs done.

In support of support groups, part 2

As I said in my August 22, 2013, article on Low Vision, “Certainly one of the priceless perks of living in our senior community is our residents’ easy accessibility to support groups.”

Board of directors approves new community slogan

In 1999, when Sun City opened as the first four-season Sun City active-adult community in the nation, the message to America was “Retire from work, not life. Free your spirit…to relax, play, and make friends.”

Pond 15

About 12 years ago, Sun City’s Neighborhoods 27 and 28 were designed and built out. That design included construction off a large flood-control detention pond located behind homes along Windsor Drive.

Rental recommendations

Here is a list of a few films for the Netflix/On Demand crowd. If you missed these the first time around, you might consider them. Any or all will provide a great evening’s entertainment.

Fly like a ‘Stone’ eagle

A stone’s throw off I-90 at Route 59, about a half-mile north as the eagle flies, is a restaurant in Hoffman Estates known as Stone Eagle Tavern. (Notice how cleverly we tied that altogether? Boy, we’re good!)

Chemicals in our foods (part one)

According to Donna Crane, writer for the Voice Newspaper out of Aurora, Illinois, the average American consumes 150 pounds of chemicals each year. She says that in any grocery store, you will see tens of thousands of boxed, bagged, jarred, canned, and frozen items begging for your attention.

M-m-m-m, you can really taste the deprivation!

I started a new diet a week ago, and I’ve already lost six pounds.

That got your attention.

Ask an Angel: April 9, 2015

My Dad has dementia/Alzheimer’s and has become very argumentative, especially with my sister, who is his main caregiver. I have more patience with him than she does. How can I convey that she has to have greater understanding of his disposition?

Ask the Woodchucks: April 9, 2015

I live in an original Del Webb-built home, and I can hear mice when they occasionally crawl up the siding and get into the attic. Do you have any solutions to prevent this from happening? Some of my neighbors have the same problem.

Time to gas up and tour your yard

I am responsible for the maintenance of 4 vehicles. They range from a 1995 Chevrolet pickup truck to a 2013 Honda Odyssey van. Three vehicles for business use, one for personal. Because several of the vehicles have not been driven in 4 months, I have spent the past few days, having them cleaned, filling them with fuel, making sure the insurance and registration papers are accurate and checking to see if they need to have an oil change.

An Easter basket case

Diane Naples was going to give up. Though she had already dedicated 15 years to creating Easter baskets and donating them to children in need, health issues sidelined her this year and, as she put it, “I just haven’t gotten back to my old self.”

Men are from Mars, women are from pay less

I’m almost 37 and my feet are becoming pickier than a toddler’s eating habits. Shoe shopping is a Goldilocks state in which I can be found standing in an aisle, slightly adjusting my weight on mismatched shoes, with a look of severe consternation on my face. Picking the right shoe has become a tight balancing act of comfort, style (which I care little about), and budget (which I care a lot about).

For the love of the animal

Over the past year, former Sun City resident Jess Chipkin has become increasingly aware of what happens to animals living on large factory farms. Enter Crate Free Illinois, a nonprofit organization that Chipkin is in the process of forming. The Illinois-based group has a focus on animal welfare on factory farms, and the group’s goal is rather straightforward.

Body Electric

When John Jeide wants to hit the road, all he has to do is unplug his pickup truck from the wall and press the pedal.

Leadership lifestyle

Ken Andersen is very serious about one thing in his life – he wants to help make things better. For his community, his company where he worked, and for the people around him.

In support of support groups

The halls are alive with the sound of music! If you walk into Family Alliance’s new Huntley location’s building (just outside of Del Webb) at mid morning on the second and fourth Mondays of each month, you will indeed hear singing and musical instruments being played and the sound of both emitting from a support group meeting room.

A Rule of Green Thumb

With well-earned, warmer weather right around the bend, what is the best way to ready the yard for the spring and summer season?

Call the potty patrol, because I’m going in!

If you keep your eye on the crime reports over the next several weeks, you might see my face as the cops haul me away.

The ‘Vegabond’ of Art

In the almost five years since the Sun Day spoke to Cesar Vega, N. 31, regarding his rather unique collection of multi-medium art, he has managed to significantly add to it.

Cinderella – perfect family fare

The history of Cinderella goes back to the early 1600s when Charles Perrault first penned a story about the “persecuted heroine.”

There’s a new pub in town

There is a restaurant location on Route 47 just a stone’s throw north of Wisted’s Market, which has gone through many lives in the last few years. The latest incarnation is Pub 47, which just opened its doors on February 9th, and we stopped in 2 weeks later.

Sun City seniors to celebrate their 68th wedding anniversary

Paul and Joan Souchek will celebrate their 68th wedding anniversary on Sunday, March 29. The Sun City couple were married in 1947 at the Norwood Heights Evangelical Congregational Church. Paul and Joan have three children: Linda, Donna, and Paul David. Also included in the Souchek clan are seven grandchildren (10 including the grandchildren’s spouses). Joan, …