Buffalo Wild Wings Firings
The Buffalo Wild Wings in Naperville fired employees who allegedly asked a group of customers to move because of their race. Mary Vahl was at the restaurant on 75th Street with a group of 18, mostly African-American customers on October 26. They say an employee asked one of them “what race are you guys?” because two restaurant regulars didn’t want to sit next to them and are “racist”. After several managers asked the group to move tables, they eventually left the restaurant. Buffalo Wild Wings has since fired those involved, saying in a statement: “We take this incident very seriously and after conducting a thorough, internal investigation have terminated the employees involved. Buffalo Wild Wings values an inclusive environment and has zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind.” Naperville City Councilman Benny White, who has led many diversity discussions this year, has expressed that he was saddened to hear about the incident, and plans to speak about it at tomorrow night’s council meeting.
Jeopardy James Returning
James Holzhauer is returning to Jeopardy! The 32-consecutive games winner from Naperville will join the quarterfinals of the Tournament of Champions on Wednesday, November 6. The 10-day event will begin today and run through November 15.
Healing Field of Honor
After being postponed on Friday, the Healing Field of Honor is now finally up. Around 50 volunteers helped get 2,019 flags set up across Rotary Hill. This year, they finished in record time – less than one hour. After all the hard work was done, volunteers and the community were treated to a surprise Lima Lima flight display right above the Healing Field.
Boys Soccer Highlights
Congrats to a pair of local boys soccer teams moving on in the state tournament. Benet Academy shut out Lemont 4-0 on Friday night to win the sectional championship in class 2A. The Redwings will face Peoria Notre Dame tomorrow night in the Supersectional. And Naperville North won its fourth straight 3A sectional title in overtime against West Aurora, by a score of 4-3. The Huskies will play Morton in the Supersectional tomorrow night.
