Briefs: Open house at Mundelein High
Parents and guardians of Mundelein High School students can meet teachers and administrators during an open house at 7 p.m. Aug. 28. The school's newest top administrators - Superintendent Jody Ware, Principal Lauren Fagel and Assistant Principal James Ongtengco - will be present.
Observe Women's Equality Day
The Lake County Women's Coalition, in celebration of the 88th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, will show the movie, "Iron Jawed Angels" at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday with discussion afterward at the Gurnee Police Department community room, 100 N. O'Plaine Road, Gurnee. The movie recounts the struggle of suffragists who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. Admission is free, but due to limited seating, reservations are required. For information, call Debbie Larker at the YWCA Lake County at (847) 662-4247, ext. 102.
Ferrari auctioned at golf event
Fellowship Housing, a not-for-profit transitional housing program based in Hoffman Estates, will host its 12th annual gol outing today at Stonewall Orchard Golf Club, 25675 W. Highway 60 in Grayslake. Local businessman Tony Orsini has donated his 2003 Ferrari for the silent auction at this year's outing. The mission of Fellowship Housing has been to move families "from homelessness to hope, one family at a time" for more than 17 years. For more information, call Laura Riddle at (847) 882-2511, ext. 2115.
Spock to land in Elgin
Leonard Nimoy, TV and film's favorite Vulcan, will narrate Holst's "The Planets" alongside the Elgin Symphony Orchestra. He'll be in town Sept. 20 for the symphony's season opening gala. He will narrate a program of music that also includes many other space-inspired pieces such as Beethoven's "Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus," "Hymn to the Sun" by Rimsky-Korsakov and the opening fanfare of Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra," which was featured in the film, "2001: A Space Odyssey." The show will be accompanied by images of space from NASA, projected on a big screen above the stage at the Hemmens Cultural Center. The Elgin Children's Chorus is also on the program. The 6 p.m. concert will be preceded by a champagne toast at 5:30 p.m. The Adler Planetarium will also provide telescopes for concertgoers to take a look at the night sky. For tickets, log on to www.elginsymphony.org or call the box office at (847) 888-4000.
Volo compost facility
The Volo plan commission will consider a request to annex and zone land and obtain special use permits to operate a landscape waste compost facility and landscape waste transfer facility during a public hearing today at 7:30 p.m. at the village hall, 500 S. Fish Lake Road. Perricone Brothers Landscaping Inc., wants to establish a compost area on about six acres. Tonight's session is a continuation of a previous public hearing. Some residents in the Pines of Lakemoor subdivision to the west have objected to the proposal for a variety of reasons including possible smell, noise, increased truck traffic, incompatability with the existing zoning, and potential harm to their drinking water supply.
Lake Street opening delayed
The opening of Lake Street at Butler Lake Park in Libertyville will be delayed until mid-September. The project, which includes the reconstruction of about a third of a mile of the street and replacement of a bridge, originally was to have been completed by now. According to the village, soil conditions at the bridge site were weaker than expected and required new and deeper than expected pilings, which added about $150,000 to the cost of the project.