Class offers steps toward effective parenting
Been thinking about going back to school? While this may not be the MBA program you've been eyeing, it may prove even more valuable.
Hanover Township Youth and Family Services will offer parenting classes known as STEP, or Systematic Training for Effective Parenting.
The program aims to help parents communicate effectively with their kids, encourage positive behavior, and discipline using natural and logical consequences for behavior. STEP believes mutual respect leads to increased cooperation and more responsible, self-reliant kids.
There are classes for parents of teens, children age 6 to 10 and those 5 and younger. Classes will be held at the township offices, 250 S. Route 59, Bartlett.
Pre-registration is required. There's a $15 book fee. Call Hanover Township Youth and Family Services at (630) 483-5799 for details.
Help wanted: The Literacy Connection, which serves 16 area communities, is looking for volunteers to tutor basic reading and English as a second language.
A free orientation session will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the Bartlett Public Library, 800 S. Bartlett Road.
Six training workshops will follow. Once trained, tutors are matched with a student to meet for an hour or two a week at a time and place of their choice.
No special education is required, and you don't have to know a foreign language.
For more information, call (847) 742-6565 or e-mail info@elginliteracy.org. Also visit elginliteracy.org.
Honor veterans, visit police: Streamwood will both honor its veterans and host an open house at its new police station on Veterans Day Nov. 11.
The ceremony begins at 11 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial on Irving Park Road, between village hall and the police station.
Everett Parpart, past commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5151, will make opening remarks, followed by a reading of the poem "Freedom is Not Free."
Members of the VFW and the Veterans Commission will give additional readings. Village President Billie Roth and Veterans Commission Chairman Joe Marino will also make remarks.
The ceremony will end with a 21-gun salute by the post's honor guard.
The public is also invited to an open house from noon to 4 p.m. that day at the new, $11 million police station next door at 401 E. Irving Park Road.
There will be tours of the 51,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility throughout the afternoon and a dedication and ribbon-cutting at 1:30 p.m.
Meeting adjourned: A light agenda and lack of comments from area residents led the Hanover Park Village Board to meet for a whopping nine minutes at its Oct. 16 meeting. That's a new record, according to Trustee Bill Manton.