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Fun recreation of ‘Foxes Lair’ during Yorkville 115’s Homecoming Parade at Chapel on the Green · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Fun recreation of Fox's Lair during Yorkville, 115's homecoming parade at Chapel
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  on the Green This article is being read
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  by an automated voice, brought to you by Everlet. As the Yorkville
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  115 Homecoming Parade wins through Yorkville, a beloved community tradition is being
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  revived, connecting today's students with the foxes of the past. The Chapel
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  on the Green is bringing back the Foxes Lair. The Foxes Lair
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  was a popular hangout spot for high school students after football and
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  basketball games. The tradition started in the 1950s with student rock band
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  performances and dances carrying on for a few decades. If a student
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  band was not on hand, the Happy Days Esque Jukebox always pumped
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  tunes for students to groove out to. From 4 30 to 7
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  p.m. On Thursday, September 17th, students and families can relive the Fox's
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  lair tradition. The chapel on
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  the Green, located at 107 West Center Street, is resurrecting the bygone
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  era with fun family games, a scavenger hunt, donuts and cider for
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  sale, and a wide collection of Yorkville Foxes memorabilia and memories span
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  across the eras. The event is being co-organized by the BSA Troop
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  forty. We are playing on the nostalgia associated with the chapel when
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  it was the Yorkville Congregational Church, and many of us were back
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  in high school. Susan Kritzberg, president of the chapel on the Green
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  Historical Society, said
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  they chapel basement was the home of the Fox's lair, and it
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  was always a tradition to have an event with cider, donuts, and
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  music after the homecoming game. Kritzberg said the tradition was so popular
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  it continued many Friday nights across the school year. The Chapel on
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  the Green.
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  Said the goal is to recreate the nostalgia just like the good
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  old days at the Foxes Lair. The chapel on The green said
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  they hope people stop by as the homecoming parade streams by the
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  historic church. The parade lineup begins at 4:30 p.m. South of Yorkville
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  High School. The parade launches at 5:30 p.m. Before winding through the
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  community. The Yorkville BSA Troop 40 is also hosting an open house
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  event at 6 30 p.m. On September 28th at the Chapel on
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  the Green. Organizers said the event will help showcase the spirit of
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  adventure and learning that has inspired boys in the community across generations
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  dating back to nineteen fourteen. The event is curtailed toward boys grade
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  six through age seventeen.