Community Calendar

The start of a new year often comes with a list of resolutions.  New Year’s resolutions are different for everyone, but one of the most common is to live a healthier lifestyle.  If you’re hoping to improve your physical and mental health, there’s one option that often gets overlooked and benefits others:  volunteering. Volunteering and […]

Volunteers are needed to walk with, or even just visit with, residents at Willowbrook Memory Care Facility in Effingham, on weekends. If interested, call Molly Fearday at 217-994-3364.

Eastern Illinois University is hosting a Traveling Holocaust Exhibit in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Auschwitz Experience in the Art of Prisoners, a traveling exhibit about the Holocaust, will be displayed in the West Reading Room at Booth Library on the EIU Campus, located at 600 Lincoln Avenue in Charleston, from January 11th […]

Illinois Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologists are collecting live Christmas trees to be used as fish habitat in local lakes after the holidays.  The collected trees will be bundled together, weighted, and submerged at lakes, providing critical habitat for multiple fish species and promoting algae growth for insects that attract fish for anglers.  The […]

The Bald Eagle Festival and Bird Show will take place on Sunday, January 18, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm.  Come out to Pere Marquette Lodge & Conference Center, near Grafton, where you can meet our nation’s majestic symbol up close!  This crowd favorite festival will have numerous unique vendors, restaurant favorites, drink specials, free […]