The briefs

Officer's funeral set

Funeral services for Vernon Hills police Officer Jesse Goldsmith, who died Monday of a heart attack, will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Willow Creek Church, 67 E. Algonquin Road, South Barrington. Goldsmith served for 17 years with the police department and distinguished himself in several assignments. A contingent of Vernon Hills police squad cars will escort Goldsmith from the McMurrough Funeral Chapel, 101 Park Place, Libertyville, to the campus of Harper College in Palatine. Squad cars from other area departments will join the procession there and proceed to the church. The procession is expected to leave the college between noon and 12:30 p.m. for the trip to the church. Visitation is 2 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the McMurrough Chapel.

Destroy those documents

The Buffalo Grove Health Department and the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County will have a document destruction "event" from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, open to all residents whose community belongs to SWANCC. Identification will be checked. The event is for residential paper only; no material will be accepted from businesses, schools or institutions. Bring your waste documents to the public works building, 51 Raupp Boulevard, Buffalo Grove. Paper clips and staples don't need to be removed, but binders do.

Climb the Sears Tower

Registration for Go Vertical Chicago 2008, the annual charitable stair climb to the top of the Sears Tower, begins Tuesday at goverticalchicago.org. Entries for the climb, which takes place Nov. 9, are limited to the first 2,250 registrants. The event benefits the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. Climbers will ascend 2,109 steps and 1,353 vertical feet to the Sears Tower Skydeck observatory. Climbers of all ages and athletic levels are welcome. The entry fee is $35 plus a guaranteed minimum of $55 in pledges. For more information, go to goverticalchicago.org.

Art grant for Woodland

Woodland Intermediate School teacher Craig Hammett has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the American Library Association. Hammett was given a Picturing America grant. That's an initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities to bring American art into classrooms and libraries across the United States. As part of the grant, Hammett will be provided with 40 Picturing America art prints and a teacher's resource book. Hammett submitted an application for Woodland's intermediate and middle schools, officials said, which allows both to receive a set of prints and associated materials.