Village Chronicles

Wheaton Warrenville South and Maine South will become the first defending high school state football champions to face each on national television, when the two teams square off tonight at 4:00 p.m. in a non-conference game to be broadcast live by ESPN at Red Grange Field in Wheaton.

Teachers and staff at Wheaton Warrenville Community Unit School District 200 are leading the way for others while achieving big savings with energy-efficient behavior—and now those good habits are earning the organization national recognition.

Over the years several Illinois high school football programs have developed storied histories, but none outdistances Wheaton Warrenville South, whose teams boast state championships in four separate classes.

Right in our own backyard—we can see a rare feat of engineering—man harnessing the power and flow of a river.

Take a walk down the prairie path east of Batavia Rd. At the bridge you see when you cross the river on Butterfield Rd there are huge diesel engines sucking the river into a pipe. The water is moved downstream in the pipe below a temporary wall structure and again released into the river. A huge section of river is without water; trucks and men scurry about digging in the river bottom.

On Saturday, Sept. 25, the CHS Education Foundation will honor the 2010 Distinguished Alumni at its Autumn Flame event.

Tom Marziani, class of 1943, will be the first recipient of the CHS Distinguished Alumni Award for Entrepreneurship, and Michael C. Lach, class of 1986, will be awarded the first CHS Distinguished Alumni Award for Education.

More than 250 golfers, joined by PGA Professionals Curt Byrum, Todd Dempsey and Chris Smith, tested their skills Aug. 27 at Medinah Country Club to raise funds for the Central DuPage Hospital Foundation. In total, more than $380,000 was raised after expenses from the day’s event and activities.

I have read the thoughts of some other readers on the appearance of the Cenacle property,  and I felt the need to add my views.

The [DuPage County Forest Preserve District] is in the process of naturalizing the property. For hundreds of years the Cenacle property was an Oak Savannah. At some point [not too long ago], the landscape under the Oak trees became mowed grass.

Wheaton Warrenville South alum Kevin Streelman came into his own as a professional golfer two years ago, when he cracked the million dollar mark for the first time.