Volunteers needed for Geneva Film Festival
If you have technical know-how, particularly about running a film projector, the organizers of the Geneva Film Festival may have a job for you.
If technical stuff isn't your thing, how about being a greeter or a ticket-taker?
"The entire film festival is volunteer-based because it is put on by the Geneva Cultural Arts Commission," said film fest chairman Vic Portincaso, who said interested volunteers for the Nov. 8 event can contact him at 630-484-3852.
The Geneva Film Festival, entering its second year, is growing quickly and Portincaso feels it is because people understand the concept of "a celebration of the art of filmmaking."
This festival is not about going to see old, classic movies. This is about giving young filmmakers a chance to show their work, and also about providing useful information to those interested in the industry.
"These are all good films being shown at the festival," Portincaso said. "This is not just someone running around with a camera filming.
"These films have all been judged on content, sound, professional camera work and a story that keeps moving along and is not choppy."
Organizers are planning a free pre-festival event in showing the documentary "Garbage: the Revolution Starts at Home," at 7:15 p.m. Saturday at River Park in Geneva.
Getting support: It's nice when a fundraiser has already raised some funds before the big event.
The Concert for a Cure, featuring national recording artist Robbie Fulks among other bands in an event to raise money for Parkinson's disease research, is Saturday at Tanna Farms in Geneva.
The first part of the overall effort, a golf outing held in early August, has already helped the cause by raising $30,000.
This event, spearheaded by Herrington Inn manager Paul Ruby, himself a Parkinson's sufferer, and his friends was a big hit in its debut last year.
Information and tickets are available at Park Place Interiors, Kiss the Sky and Mill Creek Market in Geneva.
No more pancakes: You knew it was coming, but it is going to be odd to drive by First and Main streets in downtown St. Charles and not see the Manor Restaurant.
The spot where I powered down plenty of "breakfast combos" with enough pancakes, eggs and sausage to feed an army, will be gone to make way for a redevelopment project that I have supported from the start. But it's tough to see a favorite hangout of so many lifelong residents meet the wrecking ball.
That magazine cover: The Focus 303 newsletter for St. Charles schools had the perfect lead story last month, touting the high schools' recognition in Newsweek magazine as top performers ranked in the top 5 percent of all public high schools.
Not that it takes anything away from the honor for St. Charles schools, but in a case of unfortunate timing, the artwork showing the cover of that Newsweek had a lead story about something that's not so pleasant in our nation's schools - bullying, harassment and violence.
It was about the death of an eighth-grade boy in California who was murdered after declaring he was gay.
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