Renovated park opening to be celebrated with July 2 ribbon-cutting
The Naperville Park District will celebrate the opening of the renovated Oakridge Parkway with a ribbon-cutting event at 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 2.
Refreshments will be served as part of the celebration at the 478 E. 87th St. park, and children can play on the newly installed slides, swings and climbing apparatus, a news release said.
Residents participated in an online survey to help select the new play equipment. Construction began in the spring.
The renovation also included the building of a new picnic shelter, officials said.
In case of rain, the event will be pushed back to 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 3.
ReThink founder named to new Young Future Innovators Cohort
Naperville resident Trisha Prabhu, founder and president of ReThink Citizens, is one of 10 grantees chosen to participate in the inaugural Young Futures Innovators Cohort.
Her organization was selected from nearly 200 applicants.
Young Futures is a new nonprofit whose mission is to make the digital world an easier place in which to grow up, a news release said. Its Lonely Hearts Club Challenge is a $1 million commitment to organizations designing solutions focused on meaningful social connections, teen belonging and well-being in a tech-driven world, its website said.
Prabhu’s company, ReThink Citizens, is dedicated to ending cyberbulling and online harassment by equipping youth with the skills they need to be responsible digital citizens.
ReThink Citizens provides age-specific curriculum for elementary, middle and high school students so they can learn what cyberbullying is and how to confront it. Its technology detects offensive content before it is sent by a user and prompts the user to pause, review and rethink whether they want to send something that could be hurtful or rude.
No more bake sales at Naperville Municipal Band summer concerts
Homemade baked goods will no longer be a feature at summertime band concerts, officials with the Naperville Municipal Band announced.
The weekly band concerts allowed various nonprofit organizations to raise funds by selling home-baked goods for several decades, but government rule changes made it difficult to host compliant bake sales, band officials said in a statement.
“We regret that this long-standing tradition needs to come to an end but the great music we share will continue on,” according to the statement, which encouraged audience members to bring their own food or patronize nearby restaurants and stores.
The band performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 15 at Central Park, 104 E. Benton Ave. The annual patriotic concert, featuring the “1812 Overture,” will be held Wednesday, July 3. There will be no concert on Thursday, July 4.
Concerts are free to attend. For more information, go to www.napervilleband.org.
