Briefs: Log home expo til Sunday

Log home expo til Sunday

A Log Home & Timber Frame Expo will run through Sunday afternoon at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center. About 75 of the industry's leading companies and craftsmen will be there. Experts in a variety of log home and timber frame home topics will conduct free seminars. The show will run from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $15; kids 15 and younger get in free. The convention center is at 1551 N. Thoreau Drive in Schaumburg. Call (888) LOG-EXPO or visit www.logexpo.com for details.

Our Lady of Guadalupe talk

To recognize the 475th anniversary of the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St. Juan Diego, a lecture will be presented in English and Spanish at 3 p.m. today at Holy Name Cathedral, State and Superior streets, Chicago. The lecture "Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Woman Who Changed the Hemisphere" also will be presented in Spanish at 2 p.m. Sunday at Maryville's Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel, 1150 N. River Road, Des Plaines. Organized by the Knights of Columbus, the talk and accompanying slideshow will be led by the Rev. Eduardo Chavez, postulator of St. Juan Diego's cause for sainthood. For details on the lecture series, visit www.kofc.org/guadalupe.

Palatine recycles, big time

Palatine will be participate in the Cans for Cash City Recycling Challenge in October. The national contest challenges cities across the country to collect the most recyclable aluminum beverage cans and to develop innovative ideas for promoting participation. Any awards received will be used to further recycling efforts and education in the village. All Palatine residents, businesses, schools and community groups are encouraged to participate. Residents can place aluminum cans in their recycling carts for weekly curbside collection or bring aluminum cans to the designated drop off located in the south parking lot across from the village hall at 200 E. Wood Street. For details, contact the Environmental Health Division at (847) 359-9090 or at www.palatine.il.us.