By Christine SuchFor the Sun Day

During the stay-at-home order, most people cleaned their closets, caught

up on their reading, did puzzles, and learned about Zoom. Cathleen Chay wrote a book.

While we may see an influx of pandem-ic-inspired novels after this worldwide crisis, Chay brings a unique perspec-tive to living life and gives her readers a way to reach calmness in her collections of poems in her new book published this month, Life with Intention.

Chay’s introduction to her book states that the book is “A collection of thought-ful, inspiring and insightful works by writers and poets, past and present. The contents of LIFE WITH INTENTION calls us to approach each day with a sense of purpose and direction; with calmness and self-compassion as we navigate the joy and sorrow, pain, and healing of our blessed but imperfect life. The book in-cludes the work of men and women from a variety of belief systems. It is not spe-cifically a spiritual book, but rather a book for the spirit.”

What gave Chay the idea to write this book?

Chay said, “I am a yoga teacher here in Sun City.

It is my practice to begin each class with an inspirational reading and follow up with asking them to set an intention for practice based on the reading. Students would often ask to have a copy of my reading. At first, I had intended the book to help Yoga teachers and students, but I realized that we all need inspiration and guidance to live a more intentional life.”

Chay’s classes in Sun City are popular and her Winter and Summer Solstice-themed classes were so full they were held in the Drendel Ballroom.

Chay said, “After I got my certification to teach yoga, I was trying to figure out how to teach it. I needed to figure out the

Basics and I found that when I incorporate a theme, a celebration of the holidays like Thanksgiving. The results are a wonder-ful class for the students. The Solstice is a time to connect and, let go of the things that no longer serve us, and set intentions.”

The word solstice means “sun standing still,” and the date has been recognized across many cultures as a time to cel-ebrate.

This is Chay’s first published work.Chay said, “It was a struggle. I would

say ‘I don’t know if I can do it.’ But I had Richard [Cathleen’s husband] giving me a gentle push. He got me through it. I am not great with technology, but luckily Richard is and he helped me out and encouraged me.”

Chay dedicated her first published book to Richard.

“The book is a collection of poems that I wrote, poems I got permission to in-clude, and public domain poems. I ended up writing more than I had intended and more than half of the book is my pieces.”

How did Chay go about publishing her book?

Chay said, “It was pretty easy. Richard helped me through the process. We did it through Amazon and used Kindle Direct Publishing. The hard part was proofread-ing the book. It took hours and hours.”

This project inspired Chay to continue writing,

Chay said, “I have been inspired to write a Yoga 101 book. I think that I could help new Yoga instructors. I plan to talk about the history of yoga, themes to be included in the classes, what the students can ex-pect from the class.”

Richard Chay said, “I have gone to the classes, and it’s not just sitting around. A lot of men have started going to the class-es. There is stretching, strengthening, and most important now is maintaining bal-ance.”

Chay’s next book is set to debut in 2021. You can get her current book Life with In-tention on Amazon.

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Christine Such|Sun Day PhotoInstead of learning Zoom, SC resident and yoga instructor Cathleen Chay spent her quarantine writing a book of poems.

In writing, there’s a saying: “Everyone has one book

in them. Almost nobody has two.” I don’t like this saying. In my opinion, it’s mostly said by egotistical writers try-ing to marginalize those who don’t write or have a difficult time writing. But on the sur-face it appears true, but only because most people do get an idea for a story but they’re not interested in storytelling or writing enough to develop more. So they stop there. One story.

Unless they’ve recently been to the DMV. Then most people have two, three, four, or even more. It just depends on how often you’ve gone.

The Department of Motor Vehicles—the place of end-less inspiration.

My license expired this year on my birthday, but it was during the pandemic clo-

sures and I had an extra nine-ty days to renew, so I waited for within a week or so of my ninety-day extension, then I huffed and puffed and sighed my way over to Woodstock’s DMV.

It’s been a few weeks since my visit, and in that time, I’ve shared the story I’m about to tell you with numerous others and each time when I finish, my story is met with, “Well, get a load of this.” Or some variant. But the point is ev-eryone has a story or mul-tiple stories to share about the DMV.

Here’s mine:Going to the DMV during

a time of social distancing, I didn’t know what to expect, but I didn’t think it could be much worse than under normal circumstances, and when I first got there, things seemed pretty good. Check-in was at a folding table on the sidewalk and only took about a minute to get through. I was handed some paperwork, and told, “The line is right there.” She pointed to a line I thought started at a crook

in the outside of the building only fifteen feet away, but as I walked to the “end” of the line and noticed it contin-ued, I saw it went to the end of the building...then around the side of the building...then to the end of the side of the building approximately five miles away from the front door of the DMV. I was going to be there until my license expires again in another five years.

I took my place and waited.Hope was lifted a few

minutes later when the line moved and I jumped about forty feet, thinking at this rate, we’ll move fast. Then the line stopped moving. And didn’t move again for anoth-er fifteen minutes. Then we jumped another forty feet and stopped for about fifteen min-utes. This stop and go was a result of social distancing and attendants only letting in a certain number of people at a time to keep capacity low.

It took me about an hour-and-a-half to get into the DMV.

Once inside, it went rather

smooth, if you call speak-ing through layers of masks, Plexiglas, and face shields smooth. It’s not. You couldn’t hear a thing the clerks said. I haven’t received my new li-cense yet, but I’m pretty sure I’m looking up and to the right and you’ll be able to see the string from my mask in the picture because I couldn’t hear the clerk’s instructions properly and she snapped the photo before I was fully ready.

It was clean, though. I mean really clean. There were two attendants ready with spray bottles, and every time someone left a window, the attendant was there, dous-ing the area in disinfectant. Except for the pens. The one thing everyone touched. That was left dangling off the edge of the counter after each use, forgotten. But the Plexiglas windows were spotless!

In total, the whole trip took me about two-and-a-half hours, door to door. And I was only snapped at by a clerk once. So, yeah, it was an inspiring morning.

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McHENRY COUNTY - Limiting

travel because of COVID-19 restrictions has had an impact on the human psyche. You’re itching to get away, anywhere just to see a new environment. But you may have become confused over a few key facts swirling in your head. Sun Day is here to unclutter.

You may consider this article a tonic to refresh and prepare yourself for adven-ture ahead. Your guide is Bernice Bak-ley, managing owner of Huntley Travel. Bakley is not looking to sell you on a travel package with this article, though she’s all for working with a client to in-sure they have a great adventure. Bakley is your guide through the things you’ll need for commercial air travel in the fu-ture such as a REAL ID.

Up until a few months ago, October 1, 2020 was the deadline to get a REAL ID. Some people have known about the extension of the deadline but many people did not know about the exten-sion to October 1, 2021. So you have a full year to gather necessary documents for REAL ID. You won’t need to rush to the Illinois Secretary of State’s Driver’s License Facility and potentially over-whelm the staff. At Huntley Travel, Bakley has tear sheets on the counter for clients to help them know what they need to obtain a REAL ID.

“We hate to see people go to get one and then discover they didn’t bring all the required documents,” Bakley said.

You may wonder what a REAL ID is, and why are people trying to get one? A REAL ID will make uniform across the U.S. enhanced identification to board domestic flights. The Department of Homeland Security is behind this uni-formity because some of the hijackers on 9/11 had received driver’s licenses using false documents. Imagine on Oc-tober 1, 2021, you head to O’Hare In-ternational Airport for a domestic com-mercial flight and are waiting in line at the security checkpoint. You’re asked for identification. You’ll either need a passport or a REAL ID. Without one or the other, the Transportation Security

Administration (TSA) won’t let you get to the gate and catch your plane.

A few delays since the original REAL ID deadline of 2008 have occurred and now we’re in 2020 and COVID-19 has created another delay for some 79 mil-lion Americans that are left having to make a decision over whether they’ll become REAL ID-compliant. It’s only been since 2005 that Congress passed the Real ID Act. But because of CO-VID-19, Homeland Security can’t be in a rush.

Homeland Security can point to Illi-nois among the states where Secretary of State Jesse White had closed all of-fices including the Woodstock and Bel-videre motor vehicle facilities because of COVID-19. Those drivers’ license facilities have since reopened in Illinois. In Woodstock and Belvidere, the Secre-tary of State Facility locations are open Tuesday through Saturday but closed on Sunday and Monday.

A spokesman at the Woodstock facil-ity says that for those with a driver’s license, you may upgrade your license to a REAL ID. What people are saying though is that you should prepare for long lines at the D.M.V. offices. They suggest that when your license expires you should then upgrade to a REAL ID.

Since you may have a long wait ahead, be prepared to make your visit to the D.M.V. as smooth as possible. This is where we seek Bakley’s knowledge as a travel expert.

“Make sure you have all the required documents. There are four different groups of items, proof of identity, full social security number, proof of resi-dency, and written signature,” Bakley said.

From the Social Security Office, note that “For REAL ID document purposes, you may not need a Social Security number (SSN) card as proof of an SSN. Instead, a recent pay stub, W-2 (wage and tax statement), SSA-1099 (Social Security Benefit Statement) or other tax documents showing your full name and entire SSN may be acceptable proof of your SSN. If you’ve searched all over your home and can’t find your Social Security Card, you may seek a replace-ment card online by going to my Social Security account (ssa.gov).

A passport will “trump” REAL ID, ac-cording to Bakley. From her experience, she’s seen that COVID-19 has had an impact on getting a passport or renew-ing a passport.

“That is slowly changing as more of-fices are bringing back more staff so they are starting to catch up although processing times are still much longer than the normal 4-to-6 weeks,” Bakley said.

She advises clients to go to travel.state.gov. From this website, you can click on passports and it will guide you to the prop-er application. Passports are still a neces-sity for international flights (travel).

Let’s get REAL ID

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Text in your votes, because THIS…is Graven Image Challenge!

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All things considered, it’s not really all that hard to

obey the Ten Commandments, is it? Oh, sure, we all waffle a bit when it comes to coveting, but most of us manage to steer clear of outright murder and theft, and we’re pretty fond of Mom and Dad.

But then there’s that pesky Commandment Number Two, the one ordering us to “make no graven images.”

Are selfies covered under that rule?

But even if we stick with a hard-core interpretation that “graven” means only images crafted in wood, stone, or metal, we’ve still got a lot to answer for, right?

Like all those statues that city councils are removing from historic squares, or are being torn down by angry protestors if council members linger a bit too long over their coffee and donuts.

I won’t debate whether those graven images should stay or go, because you’ve heard all the arguments by now. Be-sides, I sometimes find myself on both sides of the issue.

Yes, some statues honor folks whose values and ac-tions are abhorrent by modern standards — even though they were commonplace and legal back then.

But it also pays to remember that half of the commonplace, legal things you do today will someday probably be consid-ered horrid or nonsensical. Things like driving to the store and buying water in plastic bottles. Or paying good money for kale and quinoa, and then (for heaven’s sake) putting it in your mouth. Don’t get me started.

It goes the other way too, doesn’t it, as yesterday’s hor-rid illegality sometimes be-comes legal and common-place. Today you can drive to Schaumburg and re-stock up on all the horrid, illegal mari-juana the cops confiscated from you during that traffic stop last September. And you

can wave at the cops as you leave the store.

So it’s hard to pass judgment on all those dead dudes from long ago without looking over your shoulder to see how many pitchforks might be heading your way when you’re gone.

It’s a wonder, though, how some of those statuary folks got themselves gravened in the first place.

Take Pierre Menard, for ex-ample, whose statue has stood in the Illinois State house (or thereabouts) since 1886. Oh, the name isn’t familiar to you? He was… (drumroll please)… our state’s second Lieutenant Governor! Or maybe he was the first Lieutenant Governor. Even the history books can’t agree on that, or on what he ever did to earn the honor of getting statued.

So I can’t say it bothers me all that much to see some fad-ed-glory statues vanish.

But what does bother me is the manner in which it’s get-ting done: either by angry mobs tearing them down, or by city councilmen calling in the cranes. Because—come on—we’re Americans, right? And if we’re going to dethrone a statue, we should be doing it in the great American way:

Turn it into a sport—one that lets all Americans compete—and rake in money for it!

If you’re old enough, you may remember Home Run Derby of the 1960’s. In it, two great sluggers of the day — guys like Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle — were brought to a ballpark, where a pitcher served them lolli-pop pitches to smack out of the park. The park was empty except for the two sluggers, a pitcher, and a journalist inter-viewing whichever guy wasn’t hitting at the time. The only sounds in the park were the crack of a bat and the rattle of a ball bouncing around in the bleachers.

But then sometime in the mid-80s, someone got wise. We’re Americans, this guy said, and we can do this better. And so he sold tickets, filled the stadium, charged advertis-ers, hawked merchandise, and raked in the dough. It’s the American way, and it’s what we do best.

So when will we come to our senses and turn statue-toppling into a proper American sport? We don’t even have to violate social-distancing to do it.

Each week, America could vote by text (for a nominal fee) to pick two statues, which will be rigged with explosives at their bases. On Friday at 8 pm (Eastern Time) live voting opens (for a fee) to pick which statue will be blown up.

Imagine Ryan Seacrest at the start of the show: “This week’s challenge features Robert E. Lee versus Thomas Jefferson. Voting ends at 9 pm, so vote early and often. And don’t for-get to visit GravenImage.com to see all the great American merchandise available! Be-cause THIS… is Graven Im-age Challenge!” As America votes during the hour, Seacrest could explain all the ways each of the graven guys was a horrible person by current standards.

At the stroke of 9, as ten-sion-filled music drones, with all of America leaning toward their TVs, thumbs numb from clicking hundreds of (nomi-nal fee) texts, one or the oth-er of the statues will erupt in flames and shatter into shards (available for purchase), to the cheers and groans of all the land. The other statue will live yet another week to chal-lenge the statue of—well, who knows? Christopher Colum-bus? Eleanor Roosevelt? The Pope?

Only you can decide! So get your votes in early! Tell all your friends!

We’ve got enough statues to keep the show running for decades, until we’re finally a graven-image-free land in full compliance with Command-ment Number Two.

And then we’ll figure out a way to cash in on all that cov-eting. Because we are Ameri-ca, and cashing in is what we do best. (Well, right after cov-eting, of course.)

• Author, musician and storyteller TR Kerth is a retired teacher who has lived in Sun City Huntley since 2003. Contact him at trkerth@yahoo.com. Can’t wait for your next visit to Planet Kerth? Then get TR’s book, “Revenge of the Sardines,” available from Ama-zon, Barnes & Noble, and other online book distributors.

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Judy O’KelleyFor the Sun Day

Fall festivals are favorites for many families, but along with the pump-

kins and hayrides is a harvest of new restrictions thanks to COVID-19.

“We cannot have our bouncies, like our pumpkin jumper or inflatable train,” said Liz Halat from Tom’s Farm Market in Huntley.

Cafe dining is outside only. And for chilly days to come?

“It does get cold, and we will provide extra seating in our greenhouse,” said Halat.

Enhanced sanitation is a sign of the season at Goebbert’s Pumpkin Patch and Apple Orchard in Pingree Grove.

“We require hand sanitation before activities such as our big slide, before and after pretty much everything,” ex-plained Jacob Goebbert. “We have a sanitation team to do mass sanitation on all the activities that are high con-tact areas.”

Dave Reid from Dave’s Pumpkins in Huntley aims to meet or exceed CDC guidelines, including requiring masks of everyone over age two anywhere on the grounds – even outside.

“We want to make it as safe as possi-ble,” said Reid. “People might be look-ing at the same pumpkin, and they’re going to forget about the six feet of distance. That’s why we’re requiring masks.”

Reid’s efforts are obvious in the de-tails.

“We put a lot of creativity into how to manage the hayrides. We’ve stacked

bales of straw in the middle of each hayrack, a six-foot-thick section of straw like a wall, so that people aren’t sitting next to each other,” explained Reid. “We didn’t want to just put an X on the seat and say don’t sit here. We wanted to build a barrier that makes it real clear where you can sit.”

Payment at Dave’s is pandemic-proofed as well.

“Pay with cash or a check by leav-ing it in the honor box,” said Reid. “In addition, we added the ability to pay with a credit card on your phone by scanning a QR code on display at each stand.”

But despite Covid-created changes, there is still fun on the farms.

“I have orchards and a ton of apples, ready to be picked,” said Goebbert. “We have our tire mountain, our big straw barrel. People are happy to be out and have some sense of normalcy.”

Tom’s petting animals are alive and well during the pandemic. And there is still a plethora of fresh produce like sweet corn, summer squash, and green beans.

“Our watermelons are amazing,” added Halat.

But, of course, it’s all about the pumpkins. And, despite the pandemic, you can still pick your path to pumpkin bliss.

To keep pumpkin pickers safe, guests can choose to trek by foot to Goebbert’s pumpkin patch rather than ride via wagon. You can also walk to Tom’s pick-it-yourself patch or choose already picked specialty pumpkins.

For a truly private pumpkin moment, visit Dave’s newest Huntley location where an unmanned roadside patch of pumpkins awaits the contemplative soul. Just park, walk to the field, and pay at the honor box.

Like Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin, it doesn’t get much more distanced than that.

Fall Festivals face changes as farms roll out seasonal fun pandemic style

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Gavin Maliska|My Huntley News PhotoDanny Chriscoe of Volo keeps a watch on daughter Ellie, 3, as she takes a pur-ple tractor for a drive Saturday at Goebbert’s Pumpkin Patch south of Huntley.

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Derived from https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

Sept 24, 1938 - Don Budge became the first tennis player to win all four of the major titles when he won the U.S. Tennis Open. He had already won the Australian Open, the French Open and the Brit-ish Open. He is still the only American male to win a Grand Slam.

Sept 25, 1933 - Tom Mix

was heard on NBC Radio for the first time. His show ran until June of 1950. Thomas

Edwin Mix (born Thomas He-zikiah Mix; January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies between 1909 and 1935. Mix appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were silent movies. He was Hollywood’s first Western star and helped define the genre as it emerged in the early days of the cinema.

Sept 26, 1908 - Ed Reul-

bach of the Chicago Cubs be-came the first baseball player to pitch both games of a dou-bleheader and win both with shutouts. According to J.C. Kofoed of Baseball Magazine, Big Ed Reulbach was “one of

the greatest pitchers that the National League ever pro-duced, and one of the finest, clean-cut gentlemen who ever wore a big league uniform.” He hurled two one-hitters, six two-hitters, and 13 three-hitters, and in 1906 he yielded 5.33 hits per nine innings, still the third-lowest ratio of all time. Reulbach also gave up fewer hits than innings pitched in each of his 13 seasons, a feat that was never accomplished by any pitcher in the Hall of Fame (Christy Mathewson and Cy Young also did it 13 times, but they pitched 17 and 22 sea-sons, respectively). He would be a fantastic addition to our Cubs starting rotation today

Sept 27, 1983 - Larry Bird signed a seven-year contract with the Boston Celtics worth $15 million. The contract made him the highest paid Celtic in history. Today that would be an OK salary for one year.

Sept 28, 1958 - “To Know

Him Is To Love Him” by the Teddy Bears was released. The song was written and composed by 18-year old Phil Spector, inspired by words on his father’s tombstone, “To Know Him Was To Love Him.” It was first recorded by the only vocal group of which he was a member, the Teddy Bears. I bet you are humming a few bars as you read this.

Sept 29, 1951 - The first net-work football game was tele-vised by CBS-TV in color. The game was between the Univer-sity of California and the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania. I won-der what percentage of viewers had color TVs to enjoy this new feature that day.

Sept 30, 2014 - Amazon filed

for a patent for a UAV (un-manned aerial vehicle) config-ured to autonomously deliver items to customers. The patent was related to Amazon’s plan for their Prime Air service. A few weeks ago the FAA gave Amazon approval to deploy the drones. It will be a few more years before they begin deliver-ing books by drones.

By Joanie KoplosFor the Sun Day

National Geographic explains that there are more than 150 corona-

virus vaccines now being developed around the world. Hopes, therefore, are high that to ease the global crisis, at least one will be brought to market in record time!

The magazine continues, “Several efforts are underway to help make that possible, including the U.S. govern-ment’s (and President Trump’s) Opera-tion Warp Speed Initiative, which has pledged $10 billion and aims to devel-op and deliver 300 million doses of a

safe, effective coronavirus vaccine by January 2021.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) is coordinating their efforts to deliver a vaccine in hopes of producing two billion doses by the end of 2021.

These researched vaccines hope to instruct the immune system to develop a defense stronger than the result from a natural infection. The candidates also are aiming for fewer side effect health consequences.

How is this accomplished? Reiterating info from my Part I on

this topic, some vaccines use a killed or weakened state of the coronavirus. Others use a part of the coronavirus in the form of a protein or a fragment of it. Still other vaccine shots will trans-fer these same proteins into a differ-ent virus that is most likely unable to cause a disease. Finally, some vac-cines, under development, send pieces of the CoVid19’s genetic material into the vaccinated body cell/s, hoping that temporarily the patient can make their own coronavirus proteins to stimulate an immune system response.

With the normal length of time for a vaccine development of 5 to 10 years, what then are the possibilities of these present researched vaccines becoming available in 5 to 10 months?

Investor’s Business Daily/IBD

(week of August 24, 2020) asked this question of chosen immunology ex-perts in the newspaper’s article titled “Covid Vaccines Aim High.” Here are some of the experts’ responses. One comment stated “Vaccines won’t eliminate CoVid, but we’ll get yearly shots to ward off the disease and create a much milder course of the infection.”

Most observers put the best-case sce-nario of successful vaccine candidates as late this year or in early 2021, in agreement with our government’s pro-jection as stated in my opening para-graph.

A half-dozen experts say “The most realistic worst case is a year or so later.” IBD adds, “That’s a short time in vaccine land, but eons for a world economy in trouble.”

The following are three leading con-testants, all in their Phase 3 of develop-ment.

1. AstraZeneca, partnering with the University of Oxford (England), with $1.2 billion in funding from the U.S. government. The company, under their best-case scenario, is promising their first doses by October, 2020. *Look for a possible delay on this delivery due re-cently to their Phase 3 being shut down briefly with one participant showing a neurological problem. However, upon

thorough investigation into the situa-tion, their Phase 3 has now been suc-cessfully resumed.

2. Moderna, partnering with U.S. health agencies, with $2.48 billion in funding from the U.S. government. The company is promising, under their best-case scenario, millions of doses per month in 2020.

3. Pfizer, partnering with BioNTech, and receiving $1.95 billion from the U.S. government, is promising their best-case scenario with 100 million doses of vaccine being delivered by the end of 2020.

However, all of our experts are skep-tical about the three items that a suc-cessful SARS-CoV-2 vaccine virus must have: be safe, be widely effective, and be broadly available. IBD con-cludes this Part III/A of two parts with the following quote: “In the reasonable worst-case timeline, the initial corona-virus vaccines simply fail on the first two scores, or issues arise in manufac-turing a billion-plus doses quickly.”

Russia and China have recently claimed to be leaders in developing their vaccines. However, Stage 3 is missing in both of the two countries’ final testing phases to assure safe vaccine usage.

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SUN CITY - Sun City’s Neighborhood Watch is plan-ning a new event, the Sun City’s Sirens & Lights Parade, to honor, thank and show sup-port for our Police, Fire De-partments, and first respond-ers.

A motorcade of fire engines and police motorcycles will blare their emergency sirens and flash their lights as they follow the 5.5-mile route in Sun City on Tuesday, October 6 at 4:30 p.m.

Vito Benigno said, “In the past, we have held National Night Out to honor our first responders. We host a softball game at Eakin Field where the first responders battle it out, followed by music and free food. This year’s situation has caused us to change our plans.

We are hoping that this will be a huge success as we loudly show our appreciation.”

National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes po-lice-community partnerships with goals to make our neigh-borhoods safer.

Linda Benigno said, “We are hoping we have a great turnout with Sun City residents deco-rating their golf carts to honor our amazing first responders. We expect to see a lot of red, white, and blue.”

Vito explained how this year’s parade will go.

“The police vehicles will lead our parade, with the fire department bringing up the end. We also hope that we will have some cars from our clubs, antique ones, as well as classic cars, and of course lots of golf carts,” he said.

Join the celebration and

register your golf cart or clas-sic car for the Parade. Please contact Tom Fitzpatrick, at tom7fitz@gmail.com or at 224-535-1114 by October 1. Vehicles will line up at 4 p.m. in the Prairie View parking lot, by Fountain View. The Sirens & Lights Parade will start at 4:30.

Vito said, “The parade will follow the same route as the June golf cart parade. There won’t be any candy-throwing, but there will be a lot of noise. Come out and watch it.”

The Neighborhood Watch committee said, “Help make our Sirens & Lights Parade on Tuesday, October 6 a very special occasion for our first responders here in Sun City!”

The parade will not be a sub-tle celebration.

Linda Benigno said, “We want to emphasize that this will be a loud parade.”

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By Stew CohenStaff Reporter

A visionary in academics believes that once we’re on the other side of

COVID-19, the public will likely see major changes in the “factory model” of primary and secondary education.

Dr. John Burkey, former superinten-dent at Huntley Community School

District 158, is excited about the future of education and believes COVID is going to accelerate the changes.

“Our whole education system hasn’t changed much in the last 150 years. Students go to school for about 175 days a year for six or seven hours a day and that has been the model since the early 1900s or even late 1800s,” Bur-key said.

He reflected on the history of educa-tion explaining that schools were in-tending to produce students that would be good factory workers because that’s what the economy needed in the first part of the 20th Century.

“What students do out in the world today is radically different from what was needed 100 years ago and yet, up until very recently, our schools for the most part haven’t changed that factory model,” Burkey said.

Fast forward from the factory model of 100 years ago to 2020 and the CO-VID pandemic.

Burkey knows teachers and adminis-trators have experienced a very rough ride that has slowed down the integra-tion of a more flexible system of edu-cation.

“In many cases, schools are forced to operate with a complete remote learn-ing program,” Burkey said.

The flexibility has disappeared that might allow for students to be in school for science lab class and for

other courses students might study from home on their own. The teachers would set up the schedule.

Burkey recognizes that school ad-ministrators and teachers are readapt-ing day-to day learning methods be-cause of COVID concerns and they are working harder than ever on reimagin-ing how to teach effectively. However, he notes that education has needed to change for a long time.

“We will have a more flexible, better education system and hopefully we’ll finally leave the factory model of edu-cation behind us,” Burkey said. Dan Armstrong, director of Communica-tions and Public Engagement for Hunt-ley Community School District 158, described Burkey in the time he served District 158 as a visionary leading the school district toward “blended learn-ing.” In 2010, Burkey and his team at District 158 started with small steps developing an educational system of blending in-person learning with on-line and digital instruction.

Burkey’s vision of blended learning now carries the weight of the Large Unit District Association (LUDA) based in Barrington. As executive di-rector of LUDA, Burkey helps lead discussion and innovative ideas from the top school districts making them more accessible throughout Illinois.

COVID forced dramatic changes in the factory model but for some of the

districts using the fairly new blended learning model, COVID represented a step backward. Yet, in school districts where blended learning had taken hold such as at the middle schools and high school in Huntley Community School District 158, “the schools were already doing a portion of their instruction on-line and so this change has been very seamless for them,” Burkey said.

The factory model was far too regi-mented for the older students, accord-ing to Burkey. Because of COVID, many school districts have done away at least temporarily with in-school classroom instruction for remote learn-ing.

“Middle school and high school stu-dents are more autonomous and they can sit down at a computer and manage their time better. They already know how to interact with people through their experiences with their friends and social networks such as FaceTime. They grew up with this…and it’s not foreign to them at all,” Burkey said. However, Burkey stressed “it’s a whole different story for elementary school students for a lot of reasons.”

One reason he pointed out has al-ready received traction from parents with elementary age children.

“How can a first grader sit for three hours at a computer and stay engaged?” he asked.

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Q My wife and I are in our late 50s and retirement

is on our minds. We do plan to continue to work for a few more years, but we’re nearing the next season of our lives. We have three children, one in high school, two in college. We feel that they are adequately set for their futures, now we want to focus on us. We’re interested in long-term care planning and discussing our options. Do you have any suggestions for us as we start this endeavor?

A When it comes to long-term care planning, it’s

never too early to start. Long-term care planning can mean a lot of things for older adults. I think it’s best to sit down with your spouse and have a candid conversation about what you want your retirement years to

look like. Here are a few ques-tions to discuss together:

What sort of lifestyle do you want to maintain? What hap-pens down the road when you need more help? Would you rather age-in-place or move to a retirement community? What factors do you need to account for regarding your family med-ical history, such as dementia, cardiovascular disease, cancer, or stroke? If one of you were to die, how would the other spouse want to live?

Once you decide what sort of lifestyle you desire and where you want to retire, then you can start exploring long-term care insurance policies. Many adults miss their window to purchase a long-term care in-surance policy because they assume it only applies to nurs-ing homes. They also assume Medicare or Medicaid will pay for their future long-term care needs.

However, these government programs only pay for some services and they have restric-

tions, meaning the remaining balance is your responsibil-ity to pay. Medicare pays up to 100 days of services after a qualifying hospital stay and is considered short-term. Med-icaid is essentially for those who have limited assets and income. The state essentially makes decisions on your be-half, including where you re-ceive the care you need. This is why long-term care planning is so essential.

Most long-term care insur-ances cover nursing homes, assisted living communities, memory care facilities, adult day care centers, home health, home care, respite care, and hospice care. Look for a policy that meets your long-term liv-ing goals. For example, if you prefer to age-in-place, you might want a policy that will help you pay for home care should you need it down the road.

It’s also important to note that if you wait too long, you might not health-qualify for

certain long-term care insur-ance plans. Your 50s are gener-ally the best age to start paying into long-term care insurance because most adults in their 50s are generally healthy, mak-ing plans affordable.

Finally, once you have a ten-tative plan, I encourage you to share your plan with your children. Let them know your wishes, as difficult as the con-versation may be. It’s impor-tant for them to hear directly from you what you desire so that should they ever need to make a decision on your be-half, they can do so with con-fidence. Also let them know where they can find important documents and make a habit of keeping your documents cur-rent.

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Burkey doesn’t think they have the attention span, per-sonal motivation or responsi-bility, nor are they old enough. He feels at the earlier elemen-tary grades, a more in-person experience is needed with their teachers and more time with their classmates.

In a post COVID education-al environment, Burkey em-phasizes the word “flexibility.”

Burkey said, “It needs to be built around what’s best for the student and every student is different. It’s just like us as adults. The way I work during the day is probably different than the way you work, differ-

ent than the way someone else works, and we all are able to find what works best for us.”

He cites for example what we know as a morning per-son, someone very productive in the morning while others can’t focus so early in the day. “Adults in many jobs could find that flexibility, we need to do the same thing with stu-dents,” Burkey said.

• EDUCATION

Dr. John BurkeyFrmr. D158 Superintendent

I compliment Joan Davis, a former nurse and teacher,

on her excellent and cou-rageous letter to HangY-ourHat on September 10. She describes her worries over the environment, the chaos facing reopening schools, “the deplorable way we’re dealing with CO-VID-19”, the threats to the post office and social secu-rity, the dangers of ignoring Russian interference in our elections, etc. I share her worries. I also congratulate Glenn Hoffman on his let-ter of the same date sharing his belief and the belief of many that the president is unfit to lead our country.

Eileen GaughanSun City resident

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Jim & NancyEggers

Columnists

Jim and Nancy do not disclose the fact that they will review a restaurant before they attend, ensuring their reviews are unbiased and uninfluenced by their posi-tion with the Sun Day.

In keeping with the CDC Covid-19 guidelines, please “social distance” yourself six feet from our photo!!!

On September 5 you may have no-ticed signs all around Huntley say-

ing, “Tune Radio to 101.5 FM For Fire-works”. Don’t worry, this did not mean your radio would have exploded if you tuned in. Huntley Community Radio had a live broadcast during the village fire-works display, and someone had to put up all those signs. At the butt crack of dawn, 7 a.m., Nancy and I jumped in the Dining Duo Mini-Mobile, headed to the mighty 101.5 global broadcasting facil-ity in beautiful Diecke Park to meet with the other board members. Armed with a map and ten signs to each board member to distribute, we planned our strategy for placing the signs throughout the village.

You work up quite an appetite in the cool morning air, walking from the park-ing lots to the intended spot all while dodging traffic on Route 47. We decided to meet afterward for breakfast at the Village Inn Family Restaurant in Hunt-ley.

One reason why we picked this res-taurant is because they always have the mighty 101.5 playing on the radio. To our dismay, they put in a new radio and it won’t pick up the station. We must send our crack technical crew there to check it out.

This restaurant has been a staple in downtown Huntley for 40 years. The original owner, Bill Galanis, recently passed away. Rather than closing the family business and surrendering to these trying times for all restaurants, his daughter, Christine, has taken over the family business. During the pandemic, she took the time to give the restaurant a fresh new look new (floor and paint), and also updated their menu. Along with dining, there is an area inside the restau-rant where you could try your luck at some video gaming.

Jim, being a one of a kind guy, noticed

the “Billy’s One of a Kind Omelettes” section on the menu. He decided on the Combination Omelette which con-sisted of ham, onions, green pepper, and American cheese ($12). All omelettes are served with American fries and toast. He added onions (50ȼ upcharge) to his American fries and had plain old white toast. This omelette was tasty and filled the void in Jim’s tummy.

Nancy ordered a Denver Omelette ($9), sort of. She asked if they could take the ham out and substitute ba-con instead. The waitress asked her if she would like cheese in it, and Nancy said, “why not”, so she picked Ameri-can cheese ($1.50 upcharge). She also wanted onions with her American fries (50ȼ upcharge) and she asked for Raisin Toast(50ȼ upcharge). She was tired and hungry and this hit the spot. She even took home a doggie bag for the next morning’s breakfast, when we would have to go out once again to retrieve the signs and the hardest part of all, trying to remember where we put them.

The total bill for our pre-fireworks ad-venture was $31.14. Please note: There was a $1.18 charge for using a credit card.

To sum it up, good food, but to keep your breakfast bill down, check out their weekday breakfast specials for $6.

He said/she said:Jim’s take: My omelette was deli-

cious and the onions in the American fries were a nice touch.

Nancy’s take: Come to think of it, I had what Jim had except for the ham...

• Have comments or restaurant sug-gestions for the Dining Duo? Send them an email at thediningduo@gmail.com

THE “VILLAGE” PEOPLE

11713 E. Main StreetHuntley 60142(847)669-5858

Directions: Take Route 47 Northto Main Street, East to restaurant.

Estimated Travel Time: 8 minutes

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I have been wearing a mask in public (and limiting my trips) since March when we

learned the real dangers of Covid-19.I’m not sure how being considerate to

others for the common good is now being mocked by some who are calling it “living in fear”, but it needs to stop....When I wear a mask over my nose and

mouth in public and in the stores/Super-markets/Pharmacies/Offices - I want you to know the following:• I know that I could be asymptomatic

and still give you the virus.• I want to be part of the solution, not

the problem.• Wearing a mask doesn’t make me

weak, scared, stupid or even “controlled.” It makes me caring and responsible.• I don’t feel like the “government con-

trols me.” I feel like I’m an adult contrib-uting to the security in our society and I want to teach others the same.• When you think about your appear-

ance, discomfort, or other people’s opin-ion of you, imagine a loved one - a child, father, mother, grandparent, aunt, uncle or even a stranger - placed on a ventilator, alone without you or any family member allowed at their bedside.....Ask yourself if you could have helped them a little by wearing a mask.

Eileen GaughanSun City resident

Policies being advanced by Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress:

“Free” national health care for all; Pro-viding a Universal Income for all; Higher taxes on “rich” Americans; Extreme climate change programs; Open borders for all immigrants;Support for sanctuary cities; Defund-

ing Police Departments; Cutbacks in U.S. military spending; Budget-busting federal spending; Government-paid college tu-ition for all;Increased gun control; Dangerous abor-

tion policies; Extending voting rights to inmates; Erasing our Nation’s history; Lowering the voting age to 16; Packing the Supreme Court;Making Washington, D.C. a state; Abol-

ishing the Electoral College.Your Vote for Trump and

Against this Socialist Democrat laundry list of left-wing ideas will keep America great beyond 2020 as intended by our Found-ing Fathers and Constitution.

Eileen J. PrusSun City Resident

I see so many comments these days about how bad presi-

dent Trump is and just as many about how good president Trump is.The interesting thing is if

we look to what he promised he would do if elected and compare it to what he’s done, I think he’s done a pretty decent job.His opposition then spouts off

thousands of “Ya Butts”.....“but look what he said about this” But. But. But Yada Yada. So it appears to me not only do these people want him to do what he promised, they want him to do it the way they want him to do it. If not he’s wrong!!Much like when Joe Madden

was hired to win a World Series for the Cubs, when he did it we heard from many fans “we won despite Joe Madden”! Really?? He accomplished something that no one in 108 years could

do and did what he was hired to do and then we complain on how he did it! Let’s try and take emotion out of the

equation and look at facts. Let’s stop assuming we know how to do it better and let the people we elected or hired do what they have been elected or hired to do. If you think you can do it better get on the ballot. Or at the very least support our leaders until you get in a voting booth again.

Larry WalshSun City resident

Back in 2016 I told my son that America must be careful as Trump sounded like

another Hitler. After watching history of WW2 and Hitlers life I find myself amazed at the similarities..Trump’s first wife, Ivana, stated Trump

kept and studied a copy of Hitler’s speeches,Neither Trump nor Hitler ever admitted

a mistake and both responded to criticism with insults and name calling.Both used low forms of language, simple

sentences so even a person with a low level education would understand, Hit-ler’s Nazi Party offered inexpensive radios for direct propaganda communication to the German people. Trump has Rupert Murdock’s Fox News, Sinclair, Twitter, Rus-sian trolls/bots (Facebook) and Chinese’ Epoch News.The goal of both is/was to convince

the public that their lies were the truth. Trump offers a “steady diet of fear, greed, loathing, lies and envy. Hitler and Trump both used closing borders (“build the wall”), scapegoating, short-term eco-nomic gain, xenophobia and racism to convince their countrymen that govern-ment is the problem.

Richard WagnerSun City Resident

This is not about party politics…you (thanks to freedom given to us by our

founders) can vote for whoever you wish. Mr. Kerth has always blatantly shown his hatred for our president while presenting

his views on our current democratic ways of life. I do not expect him to change his Marxist views but without stating what party you favor. I think it would benefit all your readers on your stance for/against BLM and their communist/terrorist ac-tions.P.S. Do you respect our American flag...

OUR VETERANS need your support.

Larry OSun City resident

Trump has decimated and/or slandered much of the State Department, the

Environmental Protection Agency, Depart-ment of Agriculture scientists, Justice sys-tem, the rule of law, the FBI and the CIA.

The similarities of Hitler and Trump are frighteningly, unmistakable. Will our system of checks and balances survive a Trump Presidency? What are conser-vatives thinking when they embrace Trump’s anti-government, fascist, pro-authoritarian dictatorship?I have held off telling my thoughts in

case it may offend any of my Trump loving neighbors…Well guess what! I do not care what they think anymore. If they love Trump, they need not talk to me. God Help America! Pray we do not have a war before his man is removed from office.

Richard WagnerSun City resident

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The season of fall is syn-onymous with a gor-

geous array of various shades of red on a myriad of shrubs and trees. The sight of stately trees in all of their glory at the end of a beautiful summer is what many of us look forward to all year. Often overlooked though are the dozens of pe-rennial flowers that offer up their beautiful blooms as we approach months of cold, ice and snow. It seems as if for these flowers it is their final performance of the season. It’s a performance you don’t want to miss.

The Pugster series of Butter-fly Bush (Buddleia) consists of 6 shrubs. They are named by the color of the flower; Am-ethyst, Blue, Periwinkle, Pink, Pinker and White. Each is a dwarf plant that grows 2’ tall

and wide. They are winter har-dy in our area and shouldn’t need a lot of pruning each spring. They typically start blooming in July and continue all the way through October.

Want to see the sun a bit more as our days get shorter? Consider planting Arizona Sun Blanket Flower (Gail-lardia x grandiflora ‘Arizona Sun’). The bi-color daisy type flowers have a red center with yellow edges. As the name im-plies Arizona Sun does best in full sun and grows approxi-mately 10” by 10”.

Wood’s Purple Aster (Sym-phyotrichum ‘Wood’s Purple) does well both planted above ground in containers or planted in the ground. It attracts pol-linators (bees) though so site it carefully. This fall bloom-ing aster grows about 15” by 15”. The fine textured foliage compliments the bluish purple daisy type flowers. It grows best in well drained soil and full sun.

Another great fall blooming yellow flowered perennial is

Tiny Dancer Sneezeweed (He-lenium flexuosum ‘Tiny Danc-er’). This cultivar was named because the petals resemble long skirts of dancers.

The name sneezeweed origi-nates from years ago when the foliage on the plant was used to make snuff. Setting the crazy names aside this native perennial flower with its rela-tively compact habit makes a great addition to any garden.

Looking to add a ground-cover to your planting areas? Waterperry Blue Speedwell (Veronica ‘Waterperry Blue’), is a low growing plant with sky blue flowers that bloom profusely in the spring and then intermittently through-out the summer and fall. It can take foot traffic and it drought tolerant. It grows best in full sun with a height of 5” and a width of 15.”

Rose Cardinal Flower (Lobe-lia ‘Monet Moment’) attracts butterflies and hummingbirds with its large magenta flowers. Its fragrance wafts through the garden. Growing about 30”

tall and 18” wide it does best in full sun to part shade.

Plumbago (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides) Absolutely breathtaking electric blue flower paired with glossy green foliage tinged with a reddish color. This groundcover type plant grows to about 10” high and can spread to about 18” wide. My only concern with this plant is it is really, really late to leaf out in the spring. It is late to green up in the spring with the flowers starting to ap-pear in August and continuing through October.

The small orchid like flow-ers on Toad Lily (Tricyrtis x ‘Tojen’) add beautiful pink color to a shady area. Toad lil-ies can grow up to 3’ and need a shady spot to perform best. They are deer resistant but do attract hummingbirds.

Each year there is one vine that continually surprises me by displaying hundreds and hundreds of flowers this time of year. Sweet Autumn Clematis(Clematis terniflora) has white star like flowers that

bloom on the previous year’s growth. Butterflies are at-tracted to the fragrant flowers. Make sure to provide a sturdy structure for it to grow onto. Given room to grow in time it can get 10-12’ high and 6’ wide.

Sweet Summer Love Clem-atis is a red flowering clematis that starts blooming in July and occasionally blooms as late as October. It also has a fragrant flower that attracts humming-birds. While it prefers full sun, it can grow well in a partial shade area. Mature plants can produce hundreds of flowers a year. Like the Sweet Autumn Clematis it can get pretty tall and wide reaching 15-20’ in height and 4’ in width.

• Kathleen Carr is the owner of The Growing Scene, Inc., a garden center and land-scaping company. She can be reached by calling 815-923-7322 or emailing her at kathleen@thegrowingscene.om Have a gardening ques-tion? Please contact her. She will address it in an upcoming column.

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Falling in love with florals this season

As this month began, the promise of movie theaters reopening has

given us some pause. How will things change in this new world we find our-selves? What safety measures have the staff put in place to make for a com-fortable experience? The studios have held back a great deal of their slate un-til later in 2020 or even next year. With “Tenet” the only major release that seems worth it (and I may still review it later), the resounding feeling of dis-interest may have you feeling the small screen to be the better choice. Luckily, we don’t need to give up big budget storytelling in the exchange.

A holdover from the summer, Net-flix’s “The Old Guard” is here to scratch that superhero itch until “Black Widow” is released. Adapted by Greg Rucka from his own graphic novel, we follow the exploits of immortal mer-cenaries led by Charlize Theron. Her questioning of her own purpose comes

just as a new recruit emerges to her dis-may. Also a pharmaceutical executive has discovered their powers and plans to use them for his own devices. Un-like the typical Marvel film, the action scenes are more akin to “John Wick” and “Atomic Blonde” in which the main star was also featured. The at-tention to character and motivation is above the usual for the genre.

Earlier this spring, we were eagerly awaiting the latest Disney live-action remake. Questions had been raised as to when “Mulan” would be released. Back a month ago, there was an an-nouncement of a premium release on their streaming service. A fair criti-cism of these remakes were their reli-ance on their original source material too much. Here director Nikki Caro has created a historical war epic with shades of “Crouching Tiger” style ac-tion. Newcomer Yifei Liu plays the mythical warrior along a strong sup-porting cast including Gong Li, Jason Scott Lee, Donnie Yen and martial arts legend Jet Li as the emperor. Yes, the songs and comic relief have been sacrificed for realistic drama making this not for the little ones. At a pricey

$29.99 for the unlimited viewing as a Disney Plus member, one might want to wait for the free access the studio promises in December.

With Halloween around the corner, horror films may be just the ticket. Available on most premium on-de-mand cable services, “Antebellum” is taking the place of other creepy flicks that that have been shifted until next year. Little has been revealed about the plot, however what we know is that time travel dimensions are involved. A successful author played by Janelle Monaé finds herself within a horrify-ing reality that includes plantations and nefarious kidnappings to the past. Fans of Jordan Peele (“Get Out”, “US”) and “Candyman” will rejoice.

Also on HBO currently, “Lovecraft Country” tells the tale of a tightly knit African-American community in Chi-cago and their adventures. Based the novel of the same name by Matt Ruff, the show is equal parts domestic drama and supernatural mystery. A young sol-dier played by Jonathan Majors comes back to find his father missing and must go in search of him. The horrors of this show range from monsters to ghosts

to the reality of Jim Crow era itself. Similar to another HBO show “True Blood”, the plot is interwoven with social commentary with genre fiction making a beautiful pastiche. All these features make for a great selection go-ing into the fall. Happy viewing!

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SUN CITY SIRENS & LIGHTS PARADESun City’s Neighborhood Watch is planning a new way to honor our police and fire departments, and other wonderful first re-sponders! We are having a spe-cial Sirens & Lights Parade here in Sun City, on Tuesday, October 6 at 4:30 p.m. Our parade will feature police and fire vehicles, perhaps some antique ones, as well as classic cars. We are encouraging Sun City residents to register their golf carts for the Parade, golf carts decorated to honor our amazing first responders! (To register your golf cart or classic car for the Parade, please con-tact Tom Fitzpatrick, NW Treasur-er, at tom7fitz@gmail.com or at 224-535-1114 by October 1.)Vehicles will line up at 4 p.m. in the Prairie View parking lot, by Fountain View. The Sirens & Lights Parade will start at 4:30, and go about 5 and 1/2 miles through the community (follow-ing the same route as the June golf cart parade). There won’t be any candy-throwing, but we plan to have a loud and great Sirens & Lights Parade. Come out and watch it! Maybe even wave an American flag or two! Help make our Sirens & Lights Parade on Tuesday, October 6 a very special occasion for our first responders here in Sun City!

BITS FROM THE BARDElgin Community Theatre pres-

ents “Bits” from the “Bard”Enjoy a number of William

Shakespeare’s soul-searching and entertaining monologues performed individually by some of our top actors. You can sit back in the comfort of your home and dial into this and other performances on the internet.All videos will be found here:

elginfringefestival.comOnce you are on that website,

you can choose to purchase a ticket for a specific video, more than one video, or a festival pass

which entitles you to view or view again as many videos as you want for one price. When you have your ticket, you will then be taken from the website to VIMEO where all the videos are posted. All videos will be running on

VIMEO live between September 4 and October 4.

TLS VETERANS NEEDAt this time organizations are

not accepting donations due to the quarantine. There is a still a Great Need. TLS is asking residents, family, neighborhoods to donate Gift Certificates from any store in the amount of $5 so they can purchase some of the things needed. The gift cards can be mailed to Diane Naples. 12950 Meadowview Ct #307 Huntley Il 60142 or to TLS 6330 W Elm Street McHenry Il 60050 Attn: Tammy. Donations Name and address Should be included so a donation receipt can be mailed. Contact Diane Naples at naples.d@yahoo.com for more information

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPWe are a group of widows and

widowers offering understand-ing, empathy and social connec-tion to those who have lost their spouses; whether you are new to loss or have been alone for some time. For more informa-tion, please call Diana Gonzales 847-515-2409 or Dave Gerber 224-858-7225.

HUNTLEY AREA LIONS CLUBThe Huntley Area Lions Club is

expanding its service area and is looking for new members who live in Huntley or the surround-ing towns. For more information, please

contact the President, Jim Saletta, at jsaletta @sbcglobal.net or at 847-980-3203.

HELPING VETS AT TLCContact Diane Naples There is

need men’s jeans, mens thermal underwear, bottled water and men’s belts. These items can be used they are for PADS which provides overnight housing, showers, evening meal, break-fast & lunch for the homeless. These people can only stay over-night then they move to another location. email naples.d@yahoo.com for drop off details.

VINTAGE VOICESThe Theatre Company of Sun

City presents classic radio plays on Vintage Voices The shows air on 101.5 FM on

Sundays at 11 a.m. and on Tues-

days at 11:30 a.m.Visit https://huntleyradio.com/

hcr/vintage-voices/ to hear over 40 past shows on demand.

SURVIVING DIVORCEThis is a program for those go-

ing through marital separation and divorce and is designed to restore hope and to help bring about authentic healing. This program is a facilitated small group with a DVD component featuring divorce survival experts and personal testimonies. Going through a divorce is a heart-breaking experience, but healing is possible!

ELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Barrington Area Library and

the Elgin Symphony Orchestra (ESO) have partnered to present FREE Listeners Clubs with Jim Kendros on select Thursdays at 2 p.m. Barrington Area Library Lis-teners Clubs are free, but please register at barringtonarealibrary.org/library-events. Learn more about the ESO at ElginSymphony.Org

ELDERWERKS CAREGIVER SYMPOSIUMTuesday, November 179 a.m. to 5 p.m.The Elderwerks Caregiver Sym-

posium provides education to caregivers. We understand that it can be very stressful trying to care for those we love who have illnesses that prevent them from performing daily activities. The education provided is designed to help you maintain your sense of self, build some coping skills, learn techniques to care for yourself and about resources to help you and your loved one in the home. For class descriptions, please call 847-462-0885 or email events@elderwerks.org.9-10 a.m.Maintaining Your Sense of Self10:15 to 11:15 a.m.Dementia Live12-1 p.m.GEMS Care Techniques & Strat-

egies1:15 to 2:15 p.m.Compassion Fatigue2:30 to 3:30 p.m.Don’t Wait for a Crisis - Plan

Now for Future Needs3:45 to 4:45 p.m.Eldercare Resources; A Discus-

sion with a Geriatric Social Work-er and Certified Case ManagerThere is no cost to join the

Symposium, but registration is required. Please call 847-462-0885 to register. Come and go as you please using the same Zoom login. Each seminar will be

recorded and available to view at a later date. Questions? Call us 847-462-0885 or email events@elderwerks.org

SHEPHERD OF THE PRAIRIE LUTHERAN CHURCHShepherd of the Prairie Lu-

theran Church of Huntley, Il will sponsor a fundraiser and food drive to benefit the Grafton Food Pantry. Your generosity will help those in need in Huntley as well as the Village of Lakewood, and portions of Lake in the Hills, Crystal Lake, and Algonquin, Illinois. This drive-through event will take place on Saturday Octo-ber 3 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the parking lot of Shepherd of the Prairie Lutheran Church located at: 10805 Main St., Huntley, IL 60142. Donors will not need to leave their cars. Thank You!

THE SHALOM GROUP OF SUN CITY Huntley offers fun and fellow-

ship for members of the Sun City Huntley Jewish community, their spouses, significant others, singles, and Jewish interfaith couples. For further information contact Vicki Goldberg, program chairperson at 847-965-8344. Thursday, October 1 at 5:15

p.m. Deli NightFriday, October 2 at 7 p.m.,

monthly meeting via Zoom.Friday, October 16 at 4 p.m.,

Book Club via Zoom.Friday, October 23 at 6:30 p.m.

Movie Night via Zoom.

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PET CARE“We live in Sun City”Call for details and feesJim & Jo Geary443-307-1387Insured and bonded.

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SNOWBIRDS HOME WATCHCall 847-366-5834.Terry Lynn CochraneReasonable rates. Experience.(Sun City.)

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