Concert for a Cure sounds like it'll be great time
There's going to be plenty of great music at the annual Concert for a Cure on Saturday at Tanna Farms off Hughes Road, but the band I keep hearing good things about is The Michael Heaton Band.
Each time I have planned to go see this local band, something comes up, not the least of which was a rainstorm before a recent outdoor concert in Lincoln Park in St. Charles.
The band probably ended up performing that night, but my Woodstock years of sitting in or near wet grass or mud to watch bands are long gone. So my wife and I wimped out and didn't go.
The Concert for a Cure is for a great cause in supporting research for a cure for Parkinson's disease. So many people have rallied around Paul Ruby, the general manager of the Herrington Inn in Geneva, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's three years. It has been an impressive display of how our communities come together when people just know it is the right thing to do.
Another Route 66: It would have been a shame for the empty Bennigan's restaurant site on the east side of St. Charles to remain that way.
So we're hoping the new Route 66 restaurant that opened a few weeks ago at that location has some staying power. A diner on the east side years ago operated under a couple of different names, but at one point it was called Route 66 in the location now occupied by the East Side Pub in the strip mall at Dunham and Main Street.
That Route 66 had its certain charm, with the look and feel of a 1950s diner and "loose meat" sandwiches on the menu.
The new Route 66 is a bigger operation and its manager, Kim Hamby, has said the business has a goal to become a nationwide chain.
Now we need to see what will happen to the empty Bennigan's site in Batavia. How about a Route 65?
Cars and music: Once again, Third Street in Geneva had overflow crowds. Last Sunday's Concours de' Elegance vintage car show had folks buzzing - about how big the show has become, the billions of dollars worth of automobiles on display, and the excellent weather.
I also enjoyed the vintage music piping out of the speakers through the Third Street sound system, adding to the theme of another great local event.
But I wondered what the car owners would do if the weather wasn't so perfect, and a sudden hailstorm were to occur with their Packards, Aston Martins and Cadillacs on display.
New era for reunions: You knew it was going to come to this at some point.
It was no surprise to see that the St. Charles High School Class of 1989 is utilizing Facebook.com to help promote and inform those classmates about the 20th reunion Oct. 2 to Oct. 4, with the main party set for Oct. 3 at the Fox Valley Country Club.
Reunion organizers are steering classmates to the Facebook site to purchase tickets and keep track of how this event is going to shape up.