MY SUN DAY NEWS
The Huntley area is ready to be unwrapped! The Holiday season is such a good opportunity to get together with friends and family. But what about some budget friendly activities when it is so chilly outside? Find out how to add even more cheer and magic to this season.
Seniors Helping Seniors (SHS) provides non-medical home services to seniors by seniors.
Colleen Flaherty, marketing assistant, said, “SHS has a unique peer-to-peer model to caregiving. Seniors connect best with other seniors because of their common life experiences, compassion, and appreciation for the aging process. Seniors who need services, receivers, are carefully matched with seniors who render services, providers, creating mutually rewarding relationships.”
HUNTLEY — Core Huntley, LLC, owner of Lot 4a of Huntley Crossings Phase I, had previously received final PUD (planned Unit Development) approval from the Village Board back in July for a multi-tenant building which included a Noodles and Company restaurant, an unnamed urgent care medical user, and a standalone Chipotle building.
Since that time, Core Huntley has reported to trustees that Noodles and Company is scaling back its operations in Illinois and therefore decided to no longer pursue the site. In an unexpected setback, the urgent care user also opted to back out as a tenant.
Sun City residents Duane and Nancy Fontana had their Barndominium ground-breaking ceremony with a gold shovel, balloons, and champagne on Wednesday, March 15, 2022. On November 4, 2023, they celebrated the completion of their Huntley Barndominium with an open house. Family, neighbors, and friends attended the celebration. The weather cooperated, allowing the guests to wander outside for conversation and enjoy the perfect weather. Other guests sat upstairs in the loft and watched while others danced to the familiar music of their youth provided by the band Rick Lindy and the Wild Ones.
Sun City residents Duane and Nancy Fontana had their Barndominium ground-breaking ceremony with a gold shovel, balloons, and champagne on Wednesday, March 15, 2022. On November 4, 2023, they celebrated the completion of their Huntley Barndominium with an open house.
Family, neighbors, and friends attended the celebration. The weather cooperated, allowing the guests to wander outside for conversation and enjoy the perfect weather. Other guests sat upstairs in the loft and watched while others danced to the familiar music of their youth provided by the band Rick Lindy and the Wild Ones.
The Killer comes to us from cinema’s Enfant Terriblé, David Fincher. Gone are the more elegant trapping of 2020’s Mank, also on Netflix. Although this could have used some black and white.
In a January public communication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it was explained that one of their real-time vaccine safety monitoring studies — referred to as the Vaccine Safety Datalink — had picked up a small and uncertain risk of stroke for older adults who received a dose of Pfizer’s bivalent Covid-19 vaccine and a high-dose or adjuvanted flu shot on the same day.
You have probably realized by now that Nancy and I are not the brightest people in the world. Both of us are in our seventies, and we decided it would be a good idea to get a little puppy. How much work can she possibly be? So, after two weeks in Aruba, resting up for this momentous occasion, we came home and picked up a nine-week old Maltese/Shih Tzu puppy named Rosie. We now realize why puppies are so cute, because that is the only thing that keeps them alive!!!
I’m an active senior who loves staying physically active throughout the year. However, as winter approaches, I find myself facing a dilemma. Last winter was the first winter where staying active during the colder months became a challenge for me.
Note: The views expressed in these political submissions do not reflect those of the Sun Day, its staff, or those associated to the Sun Day.
Gerald Tarpey, Sun City resident and artist, displayed his sculptures of soldiers in Prairie Lodge in the Hallway in Front of the Clayground Club facilities. The sculptures gave pause to residents as they passed them on the way to a meeting or getting their steps in for the day. The three sculptures tell a story.
Gerald Tarpey, Sun City resident and artist, displayed his sculptures of soldiers in Prairie Lodge in the Hallway in Front of the Clayground Club facilities.
The sculptures gave pause to residents as they passed them on the way to a meeting or getting their steps in for the day. The three sculptures tell a story.
The old song says, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” but the weeks before Thanksgiving and spanning all the way to New Year’s Day can be a difficult obstacle course for many of us. The local radio stations barely wait 24 hours after Halloween to switch over to holiday music. It may seem incongruous to drive through streets lined with golden maple trees while hearing “Frosty the Snowman” over the speakers, but here we are. As the ghosts and cobwebs are cleared away, the bells and wreaths and candy canes immediately rush onto the scene to cram every crevice with lights, tinsel, and excess.
The old song says, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” but the weeks before Thanksgiving and spanning all the way to New Year’s Day can be a difficult obstacle course for many of us.
The local radio stations barely wait 24 hours after Halloween to switch over to holiday music. It may seem incongruous to drive through streets lined with golden maple trees while hearing “Frosty the Snowman” over the speakers, but here we are. As the ghosts and cobwebs are cleared away, the bells and wreaths and candy canes immediately rush onto the scene to cram every crevice with lights, tinsel, and excess.
Sun City Concert Band is celebrating its 20th anniversary this December with two performances of “A Musical Celebration – 20 Years of Favorites” in Drendel Hall at 7 p.m. December 7 and 1 p.m. December 9.
On a cold wintery day, October 31, 2023, Mary Schlee and Sue Wallace provided Sun City residents with some hot beverages and donuts while collecting items for the Grafton Food Pantry. The bursts of fall snow did not stop residents from dropping by and bring their donations.
On a cold wintery day, October 31, 2023, Mary Schlee and Sue Wallace provided Sun City residents with some hot beverages and donuts while collecting items for the Grafton Food Pantry.
The bursts of fall snow did not stop residents from dropping by and bring their donations.
Bocce Club is one of Sun City’s largest charter clubs, with over 700 members each summer coming Monday through Friday to play bocce. Bocce courts from June to August are filled with residents playing, laughing, and socializing with one another as they all enjoy the famous Italian game. But the club may soon come to an end if no one volunteers to be president or vice president.
Bocce Club is one of Sun City’s largest charter clubs, with over 700 members each summer coming Monday through Friday to play bocce. Bocce courts from June to August are filled with residents playing, laughing, and socializing with one another as they all enjoy the famous Italian game.
But the club may soon come to an end if no one volunteers to be president or vice president.
Although I am as much a slave to technology as the next guy, I don’t embrace it willingly. I never play video games. I don’t listen to music while riding my bike. I refuse to jam a white stick in my ear so I can talk to distant people as I walk. It would be a stretch to call me a luddite, but it’s fair to say I’m luddite-adjacent.
Although I am as much a slave to technology as the next guy, I don’t embrace it willingly. I never play video games. I don’t listen to music while riding my bike. I refuse to jam a white stick in my ear so I can talk to distant people as I walk.
It would be a stretch to call me a luddite, but it’s fair to say I’m luddite-adjacent.
A holiday tradition for Sun City Sunflower Garden Club is the House Walk for Charity. This year the event is on December 14, from 1-5 p.m. Sun City residents’ homes, decorated for the holidays, will be open to visitors. This is a ticketed event and may sell out.
A holiday tradition for Sun City Sunflower Garden Club is the House Walk for Charity.
This year the event is on December 14, from 1-5 p.m. Sun City residents’ homes, decorated for the holidays, will be open to visitors. This is a ticketed event and may sell out.
You’re getting that itch to travel, so what do you do first? Most likely, step one of any travel plan is to decide where you’re going to go, and how you’ll get there, and then everything else tends to flow along. But, what if somewhere in the process everything comes off the rails and you have to make changes? It doesn’t mean your trip is a disaster even though I’ve been told about some that did go that way, but it does complicate the whole process. But even disasters sometimes provide memories that tend to last.
Lately, Jim and I have been reviewing restaurants that cater to senior citizens. Because of this, we received a letter from one of our loyal readers recommending an “old school” favorite. With empty stomachs and pockets to match, we took our reader’s advice and decided to try Andy’s Restaurant in Crystal Lake.
As we approach the much-loved Thanksgiving holiday, it feels like an appropriate time to give thanks to all that our landscaping, our community and nature give to us. As I write this column, I am able to view the beauty of sunshine filtering through the bright red leaves on a maple tree. This common fall sight has brightened my afternoon and brought joy. It is by our interactions with nature, that joy can be found throughout the day.
I’m writing to you as a senior who is feeling rather down around Thanksgiving this year. While the holiday season has always been a time of joy and togetherness for my family, recent changes in my life have left me feeling somewhat disconnected and melancholic. Thanksgiving used to be a time of gathering with loved ones, sharing stories, and expressing our gratitude for each other. Today, Thanksgiving looks much different as family members have moved away and gatherings have become smaller. This shift has left me feeling lonely.
Some people may be really mad about what I am about to write, put off by what is considered sacred. But as we well know, even our idols are human; nobody’s perfect. In theaters, Priscilla comes to us from writer/director Sophia Coppola, just a little over a year after Baz Luhrmann’s rapturous bedazzled send-up to the King.
Some people may be really mad about what I am about to write, put off by what is considered sacred.
But as we well know, even our idols are human; nobody’s perfect. In theaters, Priscilla comes to us from writer/director Sophia Coppola, just a little over a year after Baz Luhrmann’s rapturous bedazzled send-up to the King.
Letters for the week of November 16.
What was once a milk condensation factory has now turned into luxury apartments in downtown Huntley.
Sun City Resident David Applegate is putting the pieces of the puzzle together to figure out what his father, Harold M. Applegate, did for a living. Applegate is aware of some of the story. “My father retired in August 1975 at the rank of E—9, Chief Master Sergeant serving in the Strategic Air Command (SAC), working at The Vault,” he said.
Sun City Resident David Applegate is putting the pieces of the puzzle together to figure out what his father, Harold M. Applegate, did for a living.
Applegate is aware of some of the story.
“My father retired in August 1975 at the rank of E—9, Chief Master Sergeant serving in the Strategic Air Command (SAC), working at The Vault,” he said.
Three Sun City Homeowners Association Board of Directors candidates have been elected. Results were official as of Oct. 18.
I recently learned that former MSDN reporter and Sun City resident Dwight Esau passed away. To put it bluntly (because Dwight wouldn’t have it any other way when it comes to things published in a newspaper) the news stung. News does that sometimes, often times. It stings.
I recently learned that former MSDN reporter and Sun City resident Dwight Esau passed away.
To put it bluntly (because Dwight wouldn’t have it any other way when it comes to things published in a newspaper) the news stung. News does that sometimes, often times. It stings.
Tragedy is the first thing that shows up when I turn on the news, or log in to social media. The cruelty that humans can perpetrate on other humans takes my breath away. In so many ways I want to retreat into the world that I believe existed when I was a young child, where everyone was a friend and anyone would offer help if you needed it. Besides the spectacle of war, natural disaster, and crime broadcasted on our screens, tragedy has touched my own community, too. A 17-year-old boy’s life was cut short this week, and the high school where my daughter attends has been reeling from this senseless snuffing out of a beautiful life that was just getting started.
Tragedy is the first thing that shows up when I turn on the news, or log in to social media. The cruelty that humans can perpetrate on other humans takes my breath away. In so many ways I want to retreat into the world that I believe existed when I was a young child, where everyone was a friend and anyone would offer help if you needed it.
Besides the spectacle of war, natural disaster, and crime broadcasted on our screens, tragedy has touched my own community, too. A 17-year-old boy’s life was cut short this week, and the high school where my daughter attends has been reeling from this senseless snuffing out of a beautiful life that was just getting started.
The 170th Illinois State Fair was a success for the Woodchucks this August. Members From Sun City’s Woodchucks Charter Club entered their hand-crafted pieces in the competition. Rich Escallier, Judy Escallier, and Ed Cuttle came back with winning ribbons. Cuttle, who has been a member of Woodchucks for 17 years, not only won a blue ribbon and first place, but also took the honor of “Best in Show in All Crafts.” “Best in Show” includes categories of metal, wood, ceramic, and glass, and Cuttle won for his beautiful segmented vase. The vase was made with white ash, mahogany, wenge, and bloodwood cherry, with six coats of Minwax Tung Oil.
The 170th Illinois State Fair was a success for the Woodchucks this August. Members From Sun City’s Woodchucks Charter Club entered their hand-crafted pieces in the competition. Rich Escallier, Judy Escallier, and Ed Cuttle came back with winning ribbons.
Cuttle, who has been a member of Woodchucks for 17 years, not only won a blue ribbon and first place, but also took the honor of “Best in Show in All Crafts.” “Best in Show” includes categories of metal, wood, ceramic, and glass, and Cuttle won for his beautiful segmented vase. The vase was made with white ash, mahogany, wenge, and bloodwood cherry, with six coats of Minwax Tung Oil.
Many people visit the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Maybe one percent of those visitors make the trek to the bottom. A smaller percent do the hike known as the Rim-to-Rim (R2R). The percentage only gets smaller of those who do it in one day. Sun City residents Mike Grantham, Larry Lindahl, and Doug Jenks did just that on Thursday, September 7. What existed on avid hiker Doug’s bucket list, became a reality when Mike and Larry with their triathlete experience brought their endurance training knowledge to the adventure.
Director of Development Services Charlie Nordman had previously presented trustees with conceptual plans brought forward by petitioner Kelley Williamson and Bakley Development, LLC for the construction of a 6,000-square-foot gas station/convenience store at the northwest corner of Route 47 and Noah Avenue.
