Construction is underway on the Crisis Stabilization Unit at Amita Mercy Medical Center in Aurora. The Community Foundation is proud to support this project which will provide behavioral health patients experiencing a mental health crisis with a new facility to meet their specific needs and enhance their treatment options. Read more…
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Grantee Spotlight: Cal’s Angels
September is National Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month, which usually means a flurry of activity at Cal's Angels, a nonprofit that "provides hope and support to children fighting cancer through various programs". The nonprofit received a CFFRV grant in 2018 to expand its workspace and more effectively provide programming that includes financial assistance, wish granting, hospital… Read more…
For the Love of Dance
Walk into the Aurora Township Youth Center on a Tuesday or Thursday afternoon and you’ll find an energetic dance rehearsal. You’ll hear it before you see it – African, Latin, and hip-hop songs bursting through a speaker, filling the room, as children and teens in matching t-shirts step, sway, and spin. Elizabeth Loving, or “Miss… Read more…
New Cabin, New Opportunities
Summer camp – and the memories and friendships that go with it – shouldn't have to be a luxury. Read more…
Lucille Halfvarson – A Tribute
Chicago Tribune November 11, 2010 By Joan Giangrasse Kates, Special to the Tribune Lucille R. Halfvarson, 1919-2010 Longtime music teacher staged 'Messiah' in Aurora For years, music teacher and local church choir director Lucille R. Halfvarson taught private voice lessons in her living room. Then she took her act to a bigger stage. "It… Read more…
Lucille Halfvarson – A One-Woman Show
The Beacon-News November 10, 2010 By Stephanie Lulay slulay@stmedianetwork.com A One-Woman Show AURORA — Lucille Halfvarson is remembered by all who knew her as a woman who spent her life serving the Aurora arts community. Halfvarson, 91, died Monday in Hayward, Wis. She perhaps is most well known for organizing and directing 25 years of… Read more…
From the Beacon News: Aurora civil rights leader Marie Wilkinson dies
August 14, 2010 The Beacon-News Marie Wilkinson: 1909-2010 Aurora civil rights leader Marie Wilkinson dies By ANDRE SALLES asalles@stmedianetwork.com AURORA -- It's the end of an era. People say that all the time. But the phrase was invented for people like Marie Wilkinson. Known as the matriarch of Aurora, Wilkinson spent most of her… Read more…
Richard J. Dorsey – Beacon-News, November 15, 2008
Former coach's legacy all class November 15, 2008 The Beacon-News By RICK ARMSTRONG Staff Writer When he coached basketball at West High in the late 1950s, Dick Dorsey was courtside calm in the middle of a storm, his former players will tell you. Above all, the former coach and administrator who lost his battle with… Read more…
Richard J. Dorsey – Chicago Tribune, November 15, 2008
chicagotribune.com Richard J. Dorsey 1922-2008 Part educator, part confidant By Joan Giangrasse Kates Special to the Tribune November 15, 2008 As a longtime educator at West Aurora High School, Richard J. Dorsey seemed to bring out the best in his students. Described as a great listener, he was a confidant to those searching for guidance… Read more…
Richard J. Dorsey – Beacon-News November 13, 2008
November 13, 2008 Beacon News Dick Dorsey didn't remember the final score, or even if his team won or lost the game. But as coach of West Aurora's freshman sophomore boys basketball team, he had the distinction of coaching what is thought to be the first competitive game in West High's gym when it opened… Read more…
