Community Calendar Blandinsville
TUESDAY After School Program Blandinsville First Christian Church After School Program for Kindergarten through High School students from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
SATURDAYS Life Skills Program Blandinsville First Christian Church Life Skills Program for 5th grade through High School students from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon on the third Saturday of each month.
Story Hour and Crafts Saturdays at The Blandinsville-Hire Library at 10 AM.
Snacks will be available. Check out the many new kids and young adult books. Spend some time at the library and take a book home to read!
SUNDAY Youth Group Blandinsville First Christian Church Youth Group for 5th grade through High School students from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm.
Bushnell
WEDNESDAYS Story time at the Bushnell library each Wednesday from 2:30-3:30 at the Bushnell Public Library. We will have snacks, story, crafts, and playtime.
TUESDAY, APRIL 14 Bushnell Business Fair The public is invited to attend the Bushnell Chamber of Commerce Business Fair and Social at the V.F.W. at 5:30 p.m. This is an opportunity for residents to learn what products/services are available in the area. All businesses are invited to set up at this free event. Contact Chamber of Commerce members to reserve your table: Holly Brint 309 337-0920 or Austin Pierce 309 357-0393.
FRIDAY, APRIL 17 & SATURDAY, APRIL 18 B-PC High Spring Play B-PC Drama Club is proud to present Treasure Island: A New Adventure in the High School Auditorium Friday at 7pm and Saturday at 1pm and 7pm.Tickets are $8/student, $12/Adult and children 3 & under are free. Pre-sale tickets are $5/student and $10/adult -purchase from directors or actors
Colchester
SATURDAYS, APRIL 11, 25 & MAY 2 Nature hikes in Argyle Lake State Park Enjoy the first blooms of spring and the peace and serenity of nature on these morning nature hikes in the woods of Argyle Lake State Park from 10-11:30am. These 1.5 mile hikes will begin at the park visitor center. For more information, please call the park visitor center at (309)776-3422.
TUESDAY, APRIL 14 Colchester Area Historical Society at 6:30 P.M. Colchester Area Historical Society meeting at Colchester City Hall Community Room, 500 E Roberts ST. Marla Vizdal will present the program on 'Vishnu Springs”. Everyone is invited to attend.
4TH THURSDAY OF MONTH New Illinois meetings
at 7pm at the Colchester Lions Club
Macomb
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 One Book One Community Festival Event Fire: Light and Warmth, Danger and Destruction: Friends of the Library discussion-join the Page Turner Book at the Macomb Public Library from 4:30-5:30pm for a conversation led by member Kim Rice and baked on Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Both the book’s protagonist and antagonist are firefighters who, rather than same homes, destroy houses and the books in them.
SATURDAY, APRIL 11 Republicans Lincoln Day Dinner at Park Place in Macomb. Social Hour at 5pm and program, meal & auction at 6pm. Tickets are $50 each. Guest speakers will be Anne Hathaway and Jerry Tyson.
One Book One Community Festival Event Fire: Light and Warmth, Danger and Destruction: Prairie Land Conservancy-The Conservancy at 321 W. University Drive will host a program from 11am-12pm about prairie burns as a method of caring for native prairie plants and will suggest ways of getting involved in prairie and savanna restoration. If weather permits, the program will include a prairie burn demonstration.
Sports and Collectibles Show at the Macomb 4-H Center. There will be 55 Dealer Tables and admission is free. There will be Sports Cards, Pokemon, Magic and other TCG, Star Wars, Garbage Pail Kids, Toys, Collectibles, Bargain boxes, singles, graded cards, sealed boxes/packs, supplies and more! Dynamic Grading Authority (DGA) Grading will be accepting on-site grading submissions and have special show pricing for grading submissions.
SUNDAY, APRIL 12 Rock the Bald for St. Baldrick’s Foundation to conquer kids’ cancer from 1-4pm at Western Illinois University- University Union Lamoine Room.
One Book One Community Festival Event Fire: Light and Warmth, Danger and Destruction: Legends & Lattes Book Club will focus on fantasy and science fiction when they meet from 3-4:30pm at the Prairie Land Conservancy 321 W. University Drive. Their April selection is the 1953 dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, by science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury. Contact Jaime at [email protected] for more information.
One Book One Community Festival Event Western Illinois Museum Sunday Film-as part of its Sunday film series, the Western Illinois Museum will show Triangle-Fire, a 60-minute documentary, about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City and the resulting workplace safety reforms that continue to shape building codes and labor protections today. Because of the film’s graphic images, consider reviewing the trailer to determine suitability. Conversation and a pizza supper will follow the film screening. The program is scheduled for 3:30-5:30pm.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 Preschool Story Time A One Book One Community Festival Event-Fire: Light and Warmth, Danger and Destruction: Preschool Story Time-meeting from 10:30-11am, in this story time, children will meet a friendly Wombat who invites his neighbors into his warm underground burrow when they need to help. Each child or family can take home a copy of Carmen Agra Deedy’s Wombat Said Come In.
