Do you want to have tailgate bragging rights? Get a team of four (ages 16+) to compete in various tailgate games including Bags, Washers, Ladder Golf and Horseshoes on Saturday, September 11 at 9:00 am.
Registration forms are available at Glen Oak Pavilion or online at www.peoriaparks.org. Cost is $40 for residents; $45 for non-residents.
For more information, please contact Matt at 681-2866.
Come on out for a great day in the park either September 10th or 11th. Visit with the demonstrators, have great food, and bid on your favorite folk art piece!
Friday, September 10th is an evening event with refreshments, musical entertainment and folk art demonstrations. Suggested donation is $25 per person.
Saturday, September 11th is a family focused folk art demonstration with over 16 local artisans/instructors sharing their craft and opportunities for “hands-on” participation.
Suggested donation is $5 per person, children under 10 free if accompanied by an adult.
Silent Auction items have been donated by the artisans for purchase.
When: Friday September 10, 2010 from 5:30 – 8:30 PM
Saturday September 11, 2010 from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Where: Three Sisters Park, 17189 N. Route 29, Chillicothe, IL 61523
Due to the upcoming holiday, all residential collections during the week of September 6, 2010, will be delayed by one day. If your normal garbage and yard waste collection day is on Monday, PDC will collect on Tuesday and so on for the rest of the week. Friday collection will be done on Saturday.
Recycling will be collected on Saturday, September 11, 2010, at households that normally have their recycling collected on the second Friday.
Seventh annual NPM helps Americans take steps toward becoming prepared
The Peoria City/County Health Department is proud to be participating in the seventh annual National Preparedness Month (NPM) in September. Sponsored by FEMA’s Ready Campaign, NPM is a nationwide effort encouraging individuals, families, businesses, and communities to work together and take action to prepare for emergencies.
This year, NPM focuses on encouraging all Americans to take active steps toward getting involved and becoming prepared. Preparedness is everyone’s responsibility. We have to work together, as a team, to ensure that individuals, families, and communities are ready.
Individuals are encouraged to: make a family emergency plan; put together an emergency supply kit; be prepared to help your neighbor; and work as a team to keep everyone safe.
Preparedness Coordinator Jason Marks says, ” A preparedness kit is easy to make. Obtain 2 items a week and in a few months, you’ll have a great kit to help your family during emergencies. A list of items in a kit can be found on our website www.pcchd.org .” Marks is offering a ready-made kit to a Peoria County resident at a drawing on Sept 30. Register free for the drawing at the health department’s website at www.pcchd.org and “like” us on our Facebook page to enter the drawing.
For more information about the emergency kit drawing or to Get Ready, contact the Peoria City/County health Department at 309-679-6020. For more information on other public health issues, visit us at www.pcchd.org
Corruption and redemption explode in filmmaker Elia Kazan’s Academy Award-winning 1954 drama “On The Waterfront,” scheduled to show at downtown Peoria’s nonprofit Apollo Theater on Saturday, Sept. 11.
Based on Malcolm Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, 24-part series, “Crime on the Waterfront,” published in the New York Sun in 1948, the script was written by Budd Schulberg.
But besides the source material, the acting is amazing. Kazan cast young Marlon Brando in the lead role as Terry Malloy, an ex-boxer turned dockworker. The co-stars are outstanding: Karl Malden as Father Barry, Lee J. Cobb as a crooked union leader, and Rod Steiger as Terry’s brother – plus Eva Marie Saint as a love interest and supporting actors including John Hamilton and Leif Erickson.
The plot revolves around impending hearings by a crime commission investigating underworld influence on labor unions. Workers are frightened of one threat or another, and Terry Malloy inadvertently takes part in a longshoreman’s murder. However, he feels guilty – and even more remorseful when he meets the victim’s sister (Saint) and talks with a parish priest.
Filmed in black and white, “On the Waterfront” also features superb lighting and sound.
Showtime is at 7:00 p.m., and the nonprofit Apollo’s suggested donation is $5 and $4 for kids, students and seniors. For details call (309) 673-4343.
The next First Tuesdays will be held on Tuesday, September 7, 2010, from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. at Michele’s @ 1225 East Samuel Ave, Peoria Heights. The Women’s Fund of the Community Foundation of Central Illinois invites area women to a monthly networking opportunity for Peoria-area women.This month we visit Michele’s- A most wonderful floral shop in the Heights. Kick off Autumn by meeting other dynamic women who are passionate about empowering the women and children in our communities. Become part of a national movement towards Women’s Philanthropy.
To automatically receive First Tuesdays’ invitations, call The Women’s Fund at the Community Foundation of Central Illinois at 309 674-8730 or email kristan@communityfoundationci.org and ask to receive the ‘E-vite’, an online invitation, for First Tuesdays. Appetizers and beverages will be served and door prizes awarded. Donations will be accepted to further the work of the Women’s Fund.
Contact: Kristan Creek, Program Manager: Community Foundation of Central Illinois: 674-8730 or kristan@communityfoundationci.org
The Proctor Health Care Foundation and the Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery at Proctor Hospital are pleased to announce Recovery Walks! 2010.
The Walk, to benefit the Ameel Rashid Scholarship for Addiction Recovery, will be held on Saturday, September 25 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on the campus of Proctor Hospital. The Walk steps-off at 12:00 p.m. All proceeds from the Walk benefit the Ameel Rashid Scholarship for Addiction Recovery which helps individuals who are appropriate for treatment services at the IIAR but are unable to meet the financial requirements.
Registration for the Walk is just $15.00 per person and $10.00 for children 12 and under. Families may register for $40.00.
Registration information is available at www.addictionrecov.org. For those who consider themselves in recovery, there is an Honor Guard and respective years in recovery will be celebrated by shirt colors: 0-9 years, 10-19, 20-29 years, and 30 or more years.
The Schedule of Events:
• 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Entertainment featuring No Access, magician Gordon Snow, entertainer Danny Blakey; balloon creations with Terry Sherbeyn, face painting and an incredible silent auction
• 12:00 p.m. Recovery Walks! 2010 steps-off
• Morning and afternoon refreshments
For information about Recovery Walks! contact Laura Schoon at (309) 693-0414
The Employee Activities Committee at Proctor Hospital is hosting a Garage Sale in the lower level parking garage at HeartCare Midwest located at 5401 N. Knoxville on the campus of Proctor Hospital.
The sale will be held Saturday, September 18 from 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. All kinds of household and office items will be available. All sales are final; cash only.
The public is invited. Plan to come early!
Are you an emotional eater? Do you find that mindless eating is packing on extra pounds? Methodist Medical Center will be offering a unique weight control program that will address those questions beginning Tuesday, September 28 and continuing for six weeks.
“Instinctive Eating” will help those in attendance to manage weight while making better nutritional choices, breaking the habit of mindless eating and incorporating healthy lifestyle changes through teaching and group support.
Instructors for the program will include Nicole Noble, Psy.D a licensed clinical psychologist with the Methodist Weight Loss and Surgery Center and Karen Hutton, MA, RD, LDN, a registered dietitian and Manager of Patient Food Services at Methodist.
There is a $200 charge for the course. Meetings will be held September 28, October 5, October 12, October 19, October 26 and November 2 in the Methodist Diagnostic Center 2nd floor conference room at 112 NE Crescent Ave. To register or for additional information, contact Karen Hutton at 309-672-4957.
The Peoria Public Library Local History and Genealogy Room, temporarily located at the WTVP building at 101 State Street will close while work is done on the building from Monday, September 13 until Friday, September 17.
Ductwork is being installed in the room which has served as a temporary location for the Local History and Genealogy collection since January 2010 while the Main Library is being remodeled.
Regular hours for the location are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Wednesday and Sunday and open until 9:00 p.m. on Thursday. During the summer the location is closed on Saturday as well, but will reopen for Saturday hours beginning September 11.
Local History and Genealogy will be housed in a newly constructed, dedicated room when the Main Library reopens in Summer of 2011. Many library services are available 24/7 at www.peoriapubliclibrary.org.