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Mighty Richland Players Dessert Theater (MRPDT) Director Kim McIver is excited to announce her cast for the upcoming comedy "Blithe Spirit." The show roster includes Cole Duvall as Charles Condomine, and Emily Duval as his wife, Ruth. They are friends with Dr. and Mrs. Bradman, played by Ron Pallek and Sandy Sweitzer, respectively. Medium Madame Arcati is portrayed by Mary Jo Frederick. The Bradman's maid is Melanie Frederick. And the ghostly Elvira is Keisha Leehan. "We have audience favorites...
Downtown Freeport Events presents The Arctic Ale and Art Walk, a family-friendly Saturday afternoon event with art, shopping, food, ale, and trolley rides. Enjoy your Saturday afternoon strolling the streets in Downtown Freeport. Businesses will host displays by various local artists—Potters, painters, photographers, crafters, musicians and more! Some of the Downtown restaurants will have “tap takeovers” by local Breweries! The Breweries will have many of their signature craft beers available for tasting during the event. The Downtown Freep...
The Cat's Pajamas-Vocal Band, a national touring professional a cappella group, will be performing in the Warren High School Gym on Tuesday March 3rd at 7pm as part of their thirteenth annual Music in Schools Tour! This tour brings choral clinics, school assemblies, and evening shows to communities across the nation in an effort to raise money for school music programs. To date, The Cat's Pajamas have raised over $160,000 for music education! Their goal is to inspire students, generate...
The Galena-Jo Daviess County Historical Society invites the public to the second of its four programs for the 2020 "History Matters" Winter Program Series on Sunday, February 23. Historical reenactor Steven Cole will present "Slavery, Freedom and the Kansas-Nebraska Act." The program begins at 3pm at the Galena Methodist Church, 125 South Bench Street in Galena. Cole grew up in Freeport, Il, one of the Lincoln/Douglass Debate sites. He is a retired Union Tradesman and a historian. Also, he is a...
The Daily Drawing (a cooperative fundraiser) is a drawing for 366 daily cash prizes from October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2020 to those donating for a ticket. Cash prizes vary between $50 and $250. A ticket may win multiple times as each ticket remains in the drawing each day for the entire year, no matter how often it may be drawn. There are nearly 20 organizations working together on the Daily Drawing from Jo Daviess, Carroll & Stephenson County. Sponsoring organizations include: Caring Community of Elizabeth, East Dubuque Music Boosters, E...
The Stephenson County Visitor Center is proud to bring the Illinois Freedom Project (ILF) exhibit to Stephenson County residents and visitors to illuminate historical stories of slavery and freedom. Join us for this exhibit's opening presentation on January 16 at 6 pm at the Stephenson County Visitor Center, located at 4596 US Highway 20 East, Freeport. Exhibit Curator Tim Townsend of the National Park Service and Freeport's own Abraham Lincoln, George Buss will explain the history behind creati...
Join the Pearl City FFA and FFA Alumni for the Ed Curry Memorial Night to be held at Pearl City School on Monday, January 13. The night will honor Ed’s memory and recognize his many years of dedicated service to the FFA on a local and state wide level. A chili meal will be served from 5 to 7:30 p.m. in the cafeteria. The meal will include a bowl of chili with all the fixings and a drink for $5 tickets can be purchased at the door. The Lady Wolves will be taking on the RR/SM Wildcats that evening. There will be a quilt raffle and halftime a...
The Christmas Season is in full swing, but not everyone we've talked to – yours truly included – have been able to say that they are filled with the joys of the Holidays. So how do we determine how much Christmas Spirit a person has? And exactly what is this Christmas Spirit anyway? Why is it that some people long for the chance to walk the streets in sub-zero weather singing carols, while others dread the prospect of hauling decorations down from the attic and making the obligatory trip to see...
Twas ten days before Christmas and all through the room Was a terribly heavy feeling of impending doom. No gifts had been purchased, nothing was wrapped, While holiday commercials made us all feel quite trapped. The Christmas duties were almost all done But nobody ever said they would ever be fun. The lights were all tangled, and some would not light, It took hours to fix them in quite a long fight. We put them on both the high and lower house roof, But compared to our neighbor, we looked like...
Help FHS Thespians collect food donations for the Freeport Area Church Cooperative and ring in the Christmas season! FHS hosts Christmas Memories, a collection of humorous and heartwarming songs and stories. Guests should bring food donations for the Freeport Area Church Cooperative, which needs plenty of food to keep up with our community’s need for non-perishable food items. Directors Becky and Tim Connors describe Christmas Memories as “our homemade Christmas card for the community. Becky searches high and low for holiday stories that she...
Grab the gang for Breakfast with the Grinch Saturday, December 14 at the Heritage Center (106 S. Broad St.) in Lanark! From 7:30 to 10:30 am children through 3rd grade can enjoy a buffet featuring Green Eggs and Ham, Grinchmas Pancakes, Whoville Pastries, Cindy Lou Who Fruit Cups, and milk or apple juice; coffee will be available for parents. Two serving times will be offered at a cost of $2.00 per meal. Forms to sign up for the 7:30 to 9 am or 9:15 to 10:30 am serving will be sent home with children attending Eastland Elementary School,...
Aquin Schools are happy to announce our 1st Early Bird Winner . . . ANTHONY PACEONI!!! We will be sending $50 his way! If you want to be our 2nd (and final) Early Bird Winner, be sure to get an Adesse ticket before Monday, December 2--and turn it in to the Aquin Office before 3:00. We'll pull our 2nd winner out of the barrel and send another $50 Early Bird Prize in the mail. And don't forget--even if you are an Early Bird Winner like Anthony--you will remain in the barrel for every daily drawing of 2020 for $25, $50 or $250! 367 More Winners...
Every day for the past 36 years, Aquin has paid $25, $50 or $250 to a lucky winner in the daily Adesse drawing. Since 2020 is a leap year--we will be drawing 368 times for our winners--and we want you to be one of them. So how do you get a ticket with better odds of winning than any Lotto ticket? It’s very easy. Tickets are on sale now and start with an ‘Early Bird Special’ when all tickets sold by December 2 are just $20—a $5 savings off the regular $25 ticket price! (of course, if you want to donate the full price, we will gladly accept...
Let's cut to the chase shall we – Freeport has a cast again! I've been seeing Freeport musicals for over 16 years, and with no disrespect intended to anyone, the last few years the program had been rebuilding with a few token stars, but several holes on stage – to the point where I wasn't sure they'd ever return to the days of Leslie Eiler and the cast of stars who surrounded her. Well, guess what? They're back! There was not a single hole in the cast of Legally Blonde – which I give major...
Aquin pulled off a courageous production last weekend which – while technically it was theater – it would best be described as a series of scenes designed to spark conversation because none of them "resolved" – which was the point. Make the audience determine what the right path would have been. "Fight For My Self" as explained in the program, was the culmination of a project created by a number of students looking to make an impact on their community. With the help of a grant from the youth...
Did you ever wonder when and where holiday music began? Or what the most popular Christmas Carol of all time is? Or which holiday song gets played the most on the radio? Join the Mighty Richland Players Dessert Theater at 203 W. High Street in Orangeville, Illinois, for a history of Christmas music and add to your holiday musical knowledge. You'll be entertained by voices you know from the MRPDT stage: Reynold Nolan, Sandy Switzer, and Glenda Adams. Also appearing for the first time on our...
Let's talk about theater and other fine art, Let's talk classic novels, but where do I start? The Panther production for some it showed wit But some others did not like it, not one little bit. So where do I stand on this very fine line? Well let's get to it, but without all the rhyme. (Sorry, but after sitting through Lena-Winsow's production of a Seussified Pride and Prejudice, I kinda couldn't help myself.) The Jane Austin Classic is best described as the chick flick of novels. And in...
The Galena-Jo Daviess County Historical Society has set dates for most of its annual events dedicated to shining a spotlight on the rich history of our region while creating opportunities to connect with residents and visitors alike. Mark your calendars for the Historical Society’s events to come: Dec. 13, 2019: Trivia Night at the Distillery! The Blaum Bros. Distilling Co. is hosting Trivia Night at the Distillery, Friday, Dec. 13, benefitting the Historical Society. (Time TBD). Entry is $10 per person. Spots fill up quickly! Contact info@blau...
'Fighting For My Self' is a dramatic portrayal of the very real stresses on today's teenage girls, many of whom lose their way just trying to survive. The characters struggle to win back their self-reliance and hold on to their identities in the face of peer pressure. Though focusing on women's issues, this poignant play is vital for all, offering a message of hope. Performances are Friday, November 15 at 7:00pm, Saturday, November 16 at 7:00pm and Sunday, November 17 at 2:00pm. There will be...
Timber Lake Playhouse is looking for area musicians to play in the pit for musical productions at the playhouse in Mount Carroll. TLP produces seven full length musicals throughout the summer and fall as well as a Christmas show in December. TLP regularly hires musicians who play the more traditional instruments – keys, guitar, bass, drums, trumpet, trombone, reeds, and strings – as well as specialty instruments such as banjo, steel guitar and mandolin. Professional musicians or those with skills to sight read and perform a traditional Bro...
EPC Theater co-op Director, Jamie Graf had a problem – seven legitimate stars were returning to the most loaded theater program in the region, and that didn't include the up and coming stars who also needed a chance to shine. Fortunately, she found the perfect vehicle to allow her cast plenty of comic opportunities over the entire comedic spectrum – from one liners, to slap-stick, to mis-identification, to shock and awe, to the completely gross, and don't get me started on how much fun they had...
Let me open up with what I think is the biggest thing I noticed in the River Ridge production of "The Man Who Came To Dinner." The Wildcat stage has jumped leaps and bounds on the technical end. Major kudos for the new sound system – yes there were one or two glitches, but it was a vast improvement over the feedback festival we had for School of Rock. In addition, the set they produced was strong – a staircase to another level, multiple entrances, and a lot of attention to detail. (The Christmas...
On the opening night of the volleyball season, the Lena-Winslow Panther students all filed into Aquin dressed in their best "redneck" outfits, and thoroughly out cheered, out-screamed, and embarrassed the small collection of Aquin students who were relegated to slumping back in the bleachers staring at their phones in the vain hopes that people throughout the gym would not think they were being soundly beaten in one of the major aspects of the emotional game of volleyball – the student c...
Football teams are preparing for the playoffs, and Volleyball Regionals began this week, but the other big extracurricular events are also about to open the curtain on another season of theatrical fun. The season begins the weekend of November second as both River Ridge High School and the EPC Theater Co-op will open with comedy plays. The comedy continues the next weekend at Lena-Winslow where the Panthers are giving the classic Jane Austin novel Pride and Prejudice a Seussical twist. And on th...
No, you didn't miss it-Lanark's famous Pie on the Porch has changed its name, location and date! Now dubbed Pie Across the Fence, those delicious homemade pies will be found at the Lanark United Methodist Church, 405 E. Locust, from 9 am to 4 pm on November 1st and 2nd. The Friends of the Lanark Public Library (FLPL) invite you to relax with friends over your favorite pie in the Fireplace Room. Enjoy soothing live music and plan your shopping spree with the map provided. Begin your splurge...
