Mayor's Message | City of Darien

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

8/11/2022

Oh, how our World has changed! No. I am not talking about the world we live in; I am talking about Disney World in Orlando Florida, and how much it has changed since our family’s first visit in 1981.

Cancer cannot cripple love, it cannot shatter hope, it cannot conquer the spirit.

8/4/2022

I find it amazing how a single event can influence one’s life.

There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.

7/28/2022

I have noted in past Mayor’s Messages, that I spent my professional career in the field of education, as an instructor and administrator.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

7/21/2022

Imagine a four-year-old boy, his eight-year-old sister and their father going out every Wednesday evening to a Chicago Public Library to select two books each for their weekly reading.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

7/14/2022

So here we are again, a tragic loss of life and no reasonable explanation for what causes an individual to go atop a building with an assault weapon and aim it at his fellow humans who are doing nothing more than enjoying the beauty of celebrating a national holiday.