Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- If you’re looking for the ideal location to take in “A Christmas Story” this Holiday Season, stop by the Park Forest Library on Friday, December 21. The classic film will be shown all day. The events highlighted below are above and beyond the usual services the library provides. There[Read More…]
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Beginning Birding for Kids at Thorn Creek Nature Center
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Impress your friends this spring with your birding smarts and binocular savvy. Come to get an early start with this popular hobby – bird watching. Learn key shapes, markings, habits, and songs for our most common local birds with crafts, activities, sounds and a hike. Plus create special projects for[Read More…]
Crete Public Library Honors Our Military this November
Crete, IL-(ENEWSPF)- This November, Crete Public Library will honor American servicemen and women in three unique ways: by featuring a display of hats worn by the military from the Revolutionary War to the present, by offering a program presented by a veteran who fell in love with his wife through the letters she sent him while he was stationed abroad, and[Read More…]
Food for Fines at Crete Library: Crete Township Food Pantry & Library Patrons both Win
Crete, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Crete Public Library will offer patrons a way to avoid paying fines for overdue items while supporting the Crete Township Food Pantry at the same time. The program, which began Thursday, November 1, involves the library deducting $1 from fines due for each non-expired item donated to[Read More…]
Park Forest Haunted House: Haunts Against Hunger – Happening Now
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Come support a good cause and visit the Park Forest Haunted House and help local food pantries at the same time. Every year has a different twist to it. Haunts Against Hunger collects canned goods and funds to donate to the local Rich and Monee Township Food Pantries.[Read More…]
Thorn Creek Woods: Stories from the Old Sauk Trail
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Join other nature lovers for the Friends of Thorn Creek Woods annual gathering and program on Sunday, October 27 from 1 to 3 p.m. After a short Friends meeting, which will be open to the public, join us for a presentation on the Old Sauk Trail, the now-busy[Read More…]
Interfaith Group SWIFT Takes Peace Message to the Highway
Tinley Park, IL-(ENEWSPF)- If “a picture is worth a thousand words,” then perhaps a well-placed billboard is worth a hundred public events. That is the reasoning behind a new marketing effort launched this week by the SouthWest InterFaith Team (SWIFT), a 15-year-old collaboration among 18 area churches, synagogues and mosques in the[Read More…]
Nature Camp for Seniors Returns to Thorn Creek Woods
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Nature Camp for Seniors, an annual event at Thorn Creek Woods, returns this year on August 6 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. “We’ll put ourselves in the paws of Thorn Creek’s woodland creatures to discover clues to wild animals’ identities and explore adaptations animals have[Read More…]
Send Treats To American Troops Through Kiwanis of Park Forest
Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- If you’re looking for tasty news, we have some. Kiwanis of Park Forest has picked a new approach to peanut day, this one benefiting American troops. The sight of Kiwanians wearing bright orange vests is familiar to most, volunteers out pitching individual serving-size bags of peanuts in[Read More…]
