Addison’s “Rock ‘N Wheels” celebrates weekly summer concert

Posted by RVP Editor / July 14, 2017

Addison’s “Rock ‘N Wheels” weekly concert and food fest events continue on Thursday, July 20 at the new Village Green, 1 Friendship Plaza, east of the Village Hall. Included in the festivities will be a concert, food fest, bike & car show, with Historical Museum craft fair.

From 6 – 10 p.m., the Rock N’ Wheel Concert is featuring music from the “Big Suite,” a Talking Heads tribute band on the 95.9 The River “Rock ‘N Wheels” stage, starting at 7:30 p.m. Plus, “Space Face,” featuring the music of David Bowie at 6:30 p.m.

The food theme is “Mangiamo Italiano,” with delicious Italian menu items for sale by Addison restaurants; Muggs-N-Manor, Nardi’s, Rosati’s, 601 Bar and Grill, Alta Villa, Zio Tony’s, Uncle Harry’s Ice Cream, and Millie’s Pancake Shoppe.

Community partners are Addison Fire Protection District, Addison Historical Society, Addison Public Library, Addison Park District, Addison Early Childhood Collaborative, Addison Township Democrats, and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7446.

Cruise night cars are invited to park along Army Trail Road, east of May street. Car show entry closes at 7:30 p.m., or when full. Motorcycle parking is also available until full. The Historical Museum, south of the Village Green, hosts a fair and tours of the museum until 8 p.m.

For the entire schedule of events visit; ItHappensInAddison.com.

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The Illinois Athletic Directors Association has named York High School's Assistant Principal for Athletics, Rob Wagner, as the Class 3A & 4A Division 3 Athletic Director of the Year. He will be honored at an awards banquet that will be a part of the IADA State Conference in East Peoria on Saturday, May 5 at 7 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel in East Peoria.

Rob has been at York for 15 years now, having spend eight years as the Athletic Director & Assistant Principal for Athletics. This is his second term in the athletic office. His career accomplishments include:

A dean from 2002-05;
Athletic Director from 2005-09;
Assistant Principal for Student Services from 2009-11;
Assistant Principal for Finance and Student Activities from 2011-14; and,
Assistant Principal for Athletics from 2014-present.

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Jeb Bush impresses as keynote at College’s Governmental Forum

Keeps his obligation despite mother’s passing day before

By Dee Longfellow
FOR THE ELMHURST INDEPENDENT

A few people were biting their nails and pacing the floor on Tuesday, April 17, after learning political matriarch Barbara Bush had passed away on that day at the age of 92. The concern was that with Mrs. Bush’s death, her son Jeb Bush might cancel his plans to be the keynote speaker at the Elmhurst College Governmental Forum that took place on Wednesday, April 18. Many people made phone calls and sent text messages the night before to see what was going on, but all they really needed to do was visit the Elmhurst College web site to learn that the former Florida governor would indeed keep his commitment and turn out to address the 700 people gathered at the Oak Brook Hills Hotel.
At the event, Bush offered a no-nonsense explanation.
“Believe me, my mother would want me to keep my obligation to Elmhurst College and the 700 guests at-tending this Forum,” he explained. “In fact, she would have been angry if I had passed on coming to this event.”
Lee Daniels, former House Speaker and senior advisor to Elmhurst College president Troy VanAken, was the chief organizer of the College’s 11th Annual Governmental Forum, entitled “Leadership in a Changing World: A Conversation with Governor Jeb Bush.” After his own welcome that included a salute to the sponsors and recognition of others respon-sible for the event, Daniels made the introduction of Bush, saying he had no doubt he would keep his commit-ment to the event.
“His mother was the type of person that, if you broke an obligation, you were in real trouble,” said Daniels.
Bush talked about his mother and her legacy, including telling a little joke about those who praised her.

His mother and her legacy
“People sometimes come up to me and say, ‘you know, I just love your mother,’ and that was code for ‘I’m a Democrat and I can’t stand you,’” he said, drawing a laugh from the audience. “My dad’s really struggling right now, he held her hand all day yesterday (Tuesday). I talked to him after she passed and he said, ‘I’m afraid I’m a bit of a crybaby today.’”
Bush said his father was physically in better shape than he was about a month ago, but that he was “in and out, mentally.”
“If I ever talked and used the language like some of the politicians in this day and age, [my mother] would have ‘whipped my butt,’” he said, “and, occasionally, she did it anyway! My mother was my first teacher. Mom and Dad taught us right from wrong, taught us to serve others, to be civil and above all else, love your family. They acted on their love for 75 years.”
Following about a 30-minute address by Bush, he sat down for a conversation with R. Bruce Dold, publisher and Editor-in-Chief for the Chicago Tribune.

The quest to sustain quality education
Bush serves as Chairman of the Foundation for Excellence in Education, clearly following in his mother’s footsteps in that she was such an advocate for education. In fact, he said his message during the 2016 presidential race was to push quality education – a subject Bush was rarely allowed to address due to the direction the debates typically took.
“If you look at how political it got, what I saw was that we were missing the opportunity to fix what needed to be fixed,” he said. “People don’t see the future as bright as they used to. Our parents’ [generation] raised their chil-dren to do better than they did and most of us were able to do that. Today, it may not be the same. People feel their children may have less opportunity than they did.”
He said upward mobility has been cut in half. In the 1920s, children could expect to do 85% as well as their parents did, but in the 1980s, the next generation could do about 50% better than the prior. Bush added that the workers’ skills gap was growing.
“While the high school graduation rate is at 83% right now, of those only 37% are truly prepared for college. One out of every five students who attend a public university will have to retake math. At a community college, it can be as much as 50%.
“We do have more and more kids taking AP (advanced placement) classes in our high schools, so we’re mov-ing the needle, but we’ve still got a long way to go.”

Think differently, modernize the message
Bush said that while we have this skills gap, we have to organize ourselves in a “radically different” way. He said we haven’t modernized our message so we can be relative to 2080, not the 1980s.
“As conservatives, we’ve lost our ability to communicate about conservatism. We’re still holding on to what we’ve had and we’re not pushing forward. We have to think differently, we’re fooling ourselves if we think we can sustain things as they are. This country has done it before during tough times and we can do it again.”
He referred to the “poisonous political climate” today and how we have become “hyperpartisan.”
Bush urged the audience to “resist fake news.”
“To do that, we have to force ourselves to acquire news from various sources. It’s easy to listen to those who validate our own values, but we need to get the other side of the story.”
He recalled how Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill had once set aside their differences in order to save social security.
“Good people can have differences of opinion. We need to find enough consensus to move forward.”

Gracious reference to current president
Overall, Bush was impressive and gracious, even with the occasional mention of the current president who did his best to humiliate Bush (as well as all the other candidates) in the 2016 presidential primary.
While he didn’t directly put down the president, Bush hinted that he recognized the flaws of the current White House resident, calling him the “chaos president,” – he’s getting things done via chaos.
“The swamp is still there, and things are not getting any less swampy!”
Bush ended on a positive note.
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Carson’s and its Furniture Gallery in Lombard to close. Parent company to liquidate 256 stores nationwide.

Carson’s, a fixture at the Yorktown Center and one of the center’s anchor stores when Yorktown first opened in 1968, will be closing its doors—along with Carson’s Furniture Gallery in the nearby Yorktown Convenience Center—after a federal bankruptcy court approved the sale of Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. to two liquidation companies last week.
One of the nation’s largest department store firms, Bon-Ton—the parent company of Carson’s based in Milwaukee—will liquidate all of its 256 stores across the country, including Carson’s, Bergner’s, Elder-Beerman, Herberger’s, Younkers, Boston Store and Bon-Ton.
Bon-Ton Stores filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February, but did not find a buyer at that time.
Prior to last week’s bankruptcy court sale, a last-ditch effort was made by a group to buy Bon-Ton out of bankruptcy and continue to operate some stories, but that bid fell through. Published reports said Bon-Ton has been unprofitable since 2011.
“While we are disappointed by this outcome and tried very hard to identify bidders interested in operating the business as a going concern, we are committed to working constructively with the winning bidder to ensure an orderly wind-down of operations,” said Bon-Ton President and CEO Bill Tracy.
The Carson’s and Carson’s Furniture Gallery in Lombard are scheduled to close sometime in August. Of Carson’s 30 stores in Illinois, 26 are located in the Chicago area. In addition to the closings in Lombard, Carson’s stores in Aurora, Bloomingdale, DeKalb, Dundee, Joliet, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, Naperville, Norridge, North Riverside, Orland Park, St. Charles, Schaumburg, Vernon Hills and Wilmette will be closing.
According to CNN Money’s website, Bon-Ton blamed e-commerce “as a prime culprit leading to its downfall” after filing for bankruptcy.
Traditional brick-and-mortar retail outlets have been in a downward spiral in recent years, and even more so in recent months. According to a report from Moody’s in April, retail sector defaults hit a record high in the first three months of 2018. Toys “R” Us filed for bankruptcy last September, and in March announced it will either shut down or sell all 735 of its stores after nearly 70 years in business. Also in March, Claire’s filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Going back to 2017, Abercrombie & Fitch, Foot Locker, J.C. Penney, Sam’s Club, Macy’s, Gap and Banana Republic, and Sears and Kmart have closed stores across the country. Sears announced in January that it was closing 103 Sears and Kmart stores. Also in January, Sears Holdings laid off 220 employees at its corporate offices—many of those layoffs occurring at the corporate headquarters in Hoffman Estates. ... See MoreSee Less

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