From the clubs

To list your club's meetings, e-mail to mchenry@dailyherald.com or fax to (847) 608-0849.

Kishwaukee DAR: Kishwaukee Trail Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution will meet 10 a.m. Monday in the Community Room at Home State Bank, Main Street and Route 14 in Crystal Lake. (This is the larger building behind the bank's one-story facility, and there is an elevator to the lower level's Community Room.)

The business meeting will be followed by a program "The DAR, Then and Now" presented by Jeannine Kallal, DAR's District IV Director. DAR members and prospective members are urged to attend. Call Cathy Carlton at (815) 337-1818 to reserve a $9 box lunch.

For more information about the DAR call Cathy Carlton, Regent, (815) 337-1818. For DAR membership information, call Marcia Flanagan, Registrar, (815) 648-4941.

McHenry County Audubon Society: Are you wild about woodpeckers? Crazy about cardinals and chickadees? Always looking out for feathered friends large and small? If so, you might want to join the McHenry County Audubon Society at the annual meeting and potluck dinner at 6 p.m. Sunday at the Ridgefield Congregational Church.

New people are encouraged to pay for their memberships that night and join a group of friendly bird enthusiasts who sponsor programs and birding trips throughout the year.

At the annual meeting the guest speaker will present a program on a member of the canid family who has been very much in the news this past year -- the coyote.

For more information on membership and the annual meeting, check the Web site www.crystallakenet.org/audubon.org or call Dwight at (815) 459-6069.

McHenry County Legionnaires: McHenry County Legionnaires from all county posts are invited to attend the monthly meeting of the McHenry County Council at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 24.

The meeting venue will be the American Legion Lake in the Hills Post 1231, 1101 W. Algonquin Road.

The host post is American Legion Cary Post 276.

For details, call Commander Albert Young of Cary Post 276 at (847) 639-7684 or the McHenry County Council Commander, Robert Howe Jr. at (815) 653-6391.

FCC Book Group: Jenny Lee, CTS Seminarian and FCC Intern will lead a book group for those who like to read and those who want to start reading. Groups meet at 11 a.m. and at 7 p.m. on the third Monday of each month. It is your choice which you would like to attend.

This will be a great opportunity for reading, discussing the work and having fellowship together.

The club meets at First Congregational Church, 461 Pierson St., Crystal Lake. For more information, call (815) 459-6010.

Jan. 21: "Love in Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

February: "90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death Life" by Don Piper.

March: "Snow Flowers and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See.

April: "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilber

May: "One Thousand White Women: The Journal of May Dodd" by Jim Fergus.

Am Vets Post 245: Am Vets Post 245 of Cary is moving its monthly meeting location beginning this month.

The meetings will be held at 8 p.m. the last Thursday of the month (Jan. 31) at Algonquin Township, 3702 Route 14, Crystal Lake.

For more information, call (847) 639-2700, Ext. 408 or Sr. Vice Commander Bob DePaul at (847) 639-0267.

The post will hold its annual Meat Raffle at 1 p.m. Jan. 20 at Oberheide's Soft Landings, 203 E. Main St. Cary, (847) 516-8327. Proceeds will go toward hospitalized veterans at North Chicago Hospital.

McHenry County Chapter of AARP: The McHenry County Chapter of AARP will meet at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 14 at the Fountains of Crystal Lake on Route 31 one mile north of Route 176.

Safe travel for seniors will be the subject with Kitty Nash of Home State Bank. The speaker in March will be Crystal Lake Mayor Aaron Shepley on transportation issues.

Refreshments will be served. For chapter information, call Glenn at (815) 477-1952 or Fran at (847) 658-7222.

Friends of the Fox River: The largest environmental film festival in North America is coming to McHenry and Kane counties.

Join Friends of the Fox River as they host the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival Tour at McHenry County College from 6 to 9 p.m. Jan. 31 and at Elgin Community College from 2 to 5 p.m. Feb. 2. Different films will be featured at each venue; consider attending both.

The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival Tour brings together award-winning environmental films in the spirit of inspiration and education.

On Jan. 31, doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts 6:10 p.m. at McHenry County College Conference Center, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake.

On Feb. 2, doors open at 2 p.m. with the show starting at 2:05 p.m. at the Advanced Technology Center auditorium, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin.

Tickets cost $10 in advance and $15 at the door. For more information, visit friendsofthefox.org.

Recovery International: A 70-year-old mental health association has opened new group meetings in Crystal Lake under its new name.

Recovery International will hold open meetings at 7 p.m. every Tuesday at the National Association for the Mentally Ill of McHenry County offices, 330 Commercial Drive, Suite 900A, Crystal Lake.

Recovery Incorporated was founded in 1937 by 30 ex-patients who regained their health after receiving treatments -- including shock treatments -- at the Psychiatric Institute of the University of Illinois.

Dr. Abraham Low, a psychiatrist at the Institute, became the group's medical director. Three years latter the group expanded its work to include the outpatient department.

Dr. Low's cognitive and behavioral self-help methods were explained in his 1950 book, "Mental Health Through Will Training." When Low died in 1954 his patients kept the association running using the book as the basis of their "Recovery Method."

Today there are about 600 weekly meetings throughout the United States, Canada, Ireland and several other countries. Last May members changed the name of the group to Recovery International to reflect its global composition. The change also was intended to correct the misapprehension that it was a for-profit operation. Like all Recovery International meetings, the Crystal Lake meeting is open to the public. There is no charge, although a free will offering is taken.

For more information call (815) 338-5609, or visit Web site www.recovery-inc.org.