Flyers need your help housing players this season
The Schaumburg Flyers are returning home in May … so make sure supper's ready.
The team is looking for about eight to 10 more host families willing to open their homes to this year's players while they're here from May through -- hopefully -- the post-season in mid-September.
The Flyers, like all Northern League teams, tap players from all around the country. Many don't come from anywhere near Chicago.
Although host families aren't financially compensated, each will receive four season tickets to Alexian Field -- not to mention some insight into the life of a minor league ballplayer.
The main responsibility of a host family is merely to provide a stable, clean, healthy environment for a Flyers player.
For those who think they can help, or may need more information, call Aaron Studebaker at (847) 891-2255, ext. 110 or e-mail astudebaker@flyersbaseball.com.
Though the players won't be arriving until spring break in early May, the team is hoping to set things up with its host families as early as possible.
Trickster movie nights: The American Indian Center's Trickster Gallery in Schaumburg will continue its new Friday Movie Nights through the end of March.
Both old and new films are shown and all focus on either Native American issues or characters. Showings start at 6 p.m., cost $5 and are followed by a discussion.
Tonight's film is "Thunderheart," starring Val Kilmer as an FBI agent involved in a murder investigation on an Oglala Sioux reservation.
The March 14 movie will be "Incident at Oglala -- The Leonard Peltier Story," about a member of the American Indian movement who was convicted for the murders of two FBI agents killed in a gun battle on a reservation in 1974.
"Wounded Heart," a documentary about contemporary Sioux life on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, will be shown March 21.
On March 28, the Trickster Gallery will screen "Billy Jack," about an American Indian Vietnam war veteran who champions the cause of a progressive school for minority students in a bigoted Southwestern town.
The Trickster Gallery is at 190 S. Roselle Road, just south of Schaumburg Road.
Congrats to everyone: Schaumburg Township Elementary District 54 is being congratulated once again for the fine job it does in its budgeting -- but it's every resident of the district who truly benefits.
For the 10th consecutive year, District 54 has received a Meritorious Budget Award from the Association of School Business Officials International.
The Meritorious Budget Award goes only to school districts that have met or exceeded financial responsibility criteria. There is no other organization or program that recognizes how school budgeting is done or honors districts for a job well done.
Since its creation, the award has gained a prestigious reputation among accounting professionals, bond counsel, underwriters, securities analysts, bond rating agencies and educational and citizen groups.