Temporary Warming Center Opens Tonight At 7 P.M.Beginning tonight, the City of Aurora will be opening its Temporary Overnight Warming Center at the Financial Empowerment Center, located at 712 S. River Street. The entrance is through the main door and guests will be buzzed in through the security door.

Oswego Panthers made it to the State Championship and faced the number one team in the Midwest, the Mt Carmel Caravan that boasted seven players who are heading to Division One Football next season. Panthers played toe to toe with the Caravan, and the defense held the high-flying offense to only 20 points. Oswego came into the game as an underdog and came out of this gaining respect for the Panthers football program. Realizing in the past thirty years Oswego Panthers Football has been a quiet powerhouse. Starting in the 1990 season the panthers have run off Three State Championship appearances, two state titles, five semifinal appearances, ten quarterfinal appearances, and thirty-two playoff appearances in four different football classes, 4A, 5A, 7A, and 8A. This is going along with only having Three Football Coaches that come from the Ken Pickerill coaching tree, the founder of Oswego Panther Football. Throughout the years, event thou our school District has grown, we have added Oswego East who is also building a regional power football. The Oswego Panther tradition has not changed. Many of the current players have ties to the tradition of Panther Pride, and many of the Coaches as well.

Montgomery’s Annual Tree Lighting & Santa Visit Grows “Merry & Bright” with New Surprises This YearThe Village of Montgomery invites residents and visitors to embrace the holiday spirit at the annual Tree Lighting & Santa Visit, a centerpiece of the Village’s Merry & Bright Holiday Events series. This year’s celebration is bigger, brighter, and filled with festive surprises the whole family will love.

Christmas Walk RemindersChristmas WalkOswego’s annual Christmas Walk returns tomorrow Dec. 5, and the downtown area will come alive with festivities from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m.

With the Holiday Season upon us we at the Aurora Valley Times would like to thank you for all your continued support. We are dedicated to helping our shared communities and would like to share with you our partners in the community who have worked with us to help support the community through such notable causes as Kendall County Casa , The Oswego Legion, Diabetes, Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry , and so many wonderful civic organizations that have helped to make a difference in our community. With the Holiday season upon us we would like to extend our invitation to local business to send us their business card so we can add you as a supporter and we also invite the public to please stop by and support these family-owned business. Please join us in supporting.

I wanted to reach out to everyone and thank them for all the continued support you have shown in supporting our local community magazine. It has been a great experience, and I have met so many wonderful people who have become dear friends over the years. I am proud to announce that my Nephew Jack Flowers will be taking over the Aurora Valley Times and ushering in a new chapter in our history. I will continue to help out around with some articles, but it is a great pleasure to be working with the next generation of Flowers, and we look forward to continuing to serve you please continue to support us, and we look forward to continuing serving our shared communities.

Temporary Warming Center Opens Tonight At 7 P.M.Beginning tonight, the City of Aurora will be opening its Temporary Overnight Warming Center at the Financial Empowerment Center, located at 712 S. River Street. The entrance is through the main door and guests will be buzzed in through the security door.

Panther Pride started with Commander Karl Hoinkes in 1990 with the win over Marion Catholic that was the launch of the Oswego Panthers with a coaching staff of Ken Pickerill, Dave Keeley, Chopper Babick all notable. The Focus was Karl on offense and Dave Kelley on defense and Coach Pickeral supporting all aspects of the program. With the Foundation in place the Pather Dynasty would go on to 30 years of promise. After 2 State Championships, 10 quarterfinals, and five Semi Finals appearances under three Coaches in that time frame. The Three Coaches of Karl Hoinkes, Dave Keeley, and Brian Conney have helped to build this local Dynasty. Current Coach Brian Cooney was the starting Coach was the starting linebacker on the first State Championship team. With Semi Final Appearances in 1991, 1992, 1999,2003 and State Titles in 1992 and 2003 the Panthers have positioned themselves as one of the best football programs in the State.

Oswego Panthers will travel to play Maine South on Saturday game will be on local Radio WSPY. This is the first time the Panthers have been to the Quarterfinals in ten years and this has been a magical season for Coach Brian Cooney. Panther Pride is being seen all over the School District and if the Panther can continue their magical season they will face the winner of the Bolingbrook vs Fremd Matchup. Good Luck to the Panthers. 

Together we face tough times with the Government shutdown and with our nation being held hostage by the Republican Majority. Their agenda is unknown and a domestic policy that is meant to divide our nation rather than bring us together. Communities across America face fear and insecurity and this affects us all. American middle class the Majority in America wants us to be divided and not work together. There is a saying be Abrham Lincoln that stated a house divided cannot stand. This affects all of us. As a member of a blue collar family and the grandson of Mary Flowers my grandparents influenced me in how America is not a privilege but every day, we must commit ourselves to our freedom. My grandpa served Wiiliam Flowers served in Vitenam War. On my father’s side commitment to Kendall County and all their contributions with my aunts Jennifer, Elizabeth, and Catherine forging a place an honor with the Democrat Party. On my mothers’ side through my Grandpa Jack our family are the Hollenbach’s and as a young boy I remember attending with my family both sides when we were dedicating the Historical Court House and receiving from County Board President John Church my ribbon with my sisters and all my grandparents standing with me. Being a founding family through my mom and the service of my dad’s parents and their adoptive county and all the love they had for Kendall County. Being part of a Republican and Democrat families, we have come together, and we believe in the same principle of helping our shared communities. The best ideas of our democracy are through discussion, tolerance, and comprise that together we will stand against a majority who does not represent the principles of our shared communities here an Kendall and to honor my grandmothers vision of Oak Park of bringing leaders together and working towards the betterment of all and the quote the wants of the few will never outweigh the needs of the many. Together we can stand and give all Americans the opportunity to succeed and not fail please join me and invest in our shared communities.

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High School Round by Jack Flowers