MY SUN DAY NEWS
October 6, 2016
The suddenness and wonder of the sights and sounds poured over all of us as hundreds of visitors in the tower watched the September 8 launch of this spacecraft for the Asteroid Sample Return Mission. We were just 2.3 miles from the launch pad and 50 feet above ground as the blastoff of the huge Atlas V rocket impacted our senses and our emotions.
As a young woman, Marion Matthews left home and began working at her first job, about 30 miles from her hometown. It was just far away enough to feel homesick.
“It was before you could call long distance,” she remembers. “I had to write my parents a letter during the week! We did a lot of letter-writing back then.”
“Retire from work, not life,” was the mantra at Sun City when the community was filling up with residents.
Many Sun Citians left jobs and careers behind, and embraced social activities, recreation, and volunteerism. But that wasn’t true of all of us.
When Joe Alengo signs on to his radio program, “Big Swingtime” on Huntley Community Radio, he might say something like, “If you like what you hear, be of good cheer! Tell a friend and let him capture the rapture.”
It’s tough to be a cop these days, no matter how far or close you are to the front lines. What does this mean for local police officers, closer to home? The Sun Day asked this question to Chief Robert Porter, Deputy Chiefs Todd Fulton and Michael Klunk, and Officer Megan Racial.
“Hurry to the stable, Matthias. We need you!” So begins the ebook, A Baby Changes our World, written by Sun City resident Ken Kozy. The story outlines the events of the Christmas Nativity story from the viewpoint of Matthias, a nine year-old stable boy living in Bethlehem. Later in the story, young Matthias looks to the skies, in awe of the bright star he sees glowing in the sky.
Judy Smith and Pat Shannon met in 2008 when Smith moved in across the street from Shannon on Timber Creek Drive. “My [previous] neighbor and I were good buddies,” said Shannon. “Then, when Judy moved in to Peggy’s house, well, we began to be buddies, too.” The two forged a friendship that centered around walking.
Judy Smith and Pat Shannon met in 2008 when Smith moved in across the street from Shannon on Timber Creek Drive.
“My [previous] neighbor and I were good buddies,” said Shannon. “Then, when Judy moved in to Peggy’s house, well, we began to be buddies, too.”
The two forged a friendship that centered around walking.
Sun City resident Ernest Mall is just one person, but what he witnessed on his visits to South Asia — India, Nepal, Tibet, Myanmar — stayed on his mind. What Mall saw was extreme poverty: families struggling to make ends meet, children forced into child labor and foregoing education, individuals unable to extricate themselves from the cycle of poverty.
For Rosemary Peterson Meyer, every day is Mother’s Day. Here’s why.
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.
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.
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.
Imagine a class where there is no homework and no test; it is learning for the joy of learning. Sounds too good to be true, right?
To everything there is a season, especially for true love. Here, then, is the love story of Esther and Doug Kenning, high school sweethearts.
To everything there is a season, especially for true love.
Here, then, is the love story of Esther and Doug Kenning, high school sweethearts.
The Riffner family vacation trip last year was truly a team event. It was initiated by one team, but it ended up with two.
The Train Club in Sun City Huntley would like to sincerely thank all our residents, friends, and neighbors who supported us this past Holiday Season.
To say Pete Walton has a model railroad set in his basement would be a gross understatement; you’d be about 130 feet and 13 years short, in fact. And if you count the number of tracks and how many times those tracks run back and forth, you’d be off by a mile.
“A Baby Changes Our World” is the title of a new electronic book written by Ken Kozy, a 10-year Sun City resident.
There is no sign of Kay Harlow slowing down. And that’s saying something, since the Sun City resident recently joined the centenarian club.
Jerry McClellan wanted to be an astronaut. He studied science and engineering, graduated at the top of his class in high school, got a college degree in physics, joined the Air Force, and became a pilot. Next stop, space, right? Well…no.
Sun City residents tool around the community in sedans, SUVs, RVs, golf carts, three-wheel bikes, and regular bikes. Occasionally they follow grandchildren who ride around on roller blades or scooters. But have you ever seen any resident driving a 63-year-old U.S. Army jeep like the ones used in the Korean Conflict? It looks like it just came off the assembly line, because it’s been restored and rebuilt by a Sun City resident and his friends at a Hampshire auto dealership.
When Sun City resident Joyce Zemba taught at St. Philomena’s grade school in Chicago in the late 1960s, it seemed unlikely that any of her students would be able to stand out. “I taught a class of 49 sixth graders and they were a handful,” said Zemba, who was a nun and educator forfourth, fifth, and sixth graders. Despite this, sixth grader Guido Lavorata managed to stay on Zemba’s radar.
The Women Marines, that is. On Saturday, Ann DiValerio, of Sun City Huntley, hosted a picnic for the Women Marines Association of Illinois. The group is dedicated to preserving the heritage of the Women Marines. The WMA also provides a forum for them to “pass the torch” to the new generation of Marines.
Clara Biswas’ passion is compassion; she reaches out to the children working in the garbage dumps or wandering the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
“We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.” Abraham Lincoln enshrined these eloquent words into our minds and hearts when he dedicated the Gettysburg battlefield to history more than 150 years ago.
“We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.”
Abraham Lincoln enshrined these eloquent words into our minds and hearts when he dedicated the Gettysburg battlefield to history more than 150 years ago.
Most of us here in Del Webb have a bucket list, and this is the story of one man’s quest to check off yet another item. While sitting in our screened in porch, Jim noticed a small plane flying overhead, towing a glider. He remarked that it would be cool to add flying in a glider to his bucket list.
Ten thousand times in the last 10 years, Sun City’s Sew ‘N Sews members have practiced a tangible giving spirit.
Many international and cross-cultural marriages and families began despite the difficulties of war. Men and women who never imagined a future thousands of miles from home reached across the differences of culture and the chasms of distance and connected with each other in a new global community. None of these relationships, however, was achieved quite like those among Margot Hoeffler of Rombas, France, and Americans Walter Sormane and George Kays.
To Craig Culver, the success of any business enterprise is the people who work in it. At a ground-breaking ceremony on June 12 at the site of a new Huntley restaurant that will bear his name, he demonstrated his point dramatically.
When Chad Radtke moved his State Farm office to the west side of Highway 47, he did not know that it would be more than a business pursuit, but a creative one as well.
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