Cook County briefs

Blood, bone marrow sought

Faith World Outreach Church and LifeSource, an affiliate of the National Marrow Donor Program, are sponsoring a blood and marrow registry drive from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21. To donate marrow, a small amount of blood is taken to look for matches already waiting on the list. Potential donors must be between the ages of 18 years and 60 years old, must complete a brief health questionnaire and sign a consent form to have their tissue type placed on the donor registry. The cost to be tested is $25, which is tax deductible. Donating blood is free. Faith World Outreach church is located at 1280 S. Route 59, Bartlett. To make an appointment, contact Donna Schiavone at (630) 540-0497. Walk-ins are welcome.

MLK Day celebration set

Hanover Park's Cultural Inclusion and Diversity Committee is set to host its first Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, "The Power of One: Commitment, Challenge and Change." The free event will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, at the Evangel Assembly of God, located at 5700 Bartels Road in Hanover Park. Tyronne Stoudemire, global director of diversity and inclusion for Hewitt Associates, will serve as keynote speaker. Choirs and dance troupes will perform at the celebration, which will be presented in both Spanish and English. For more information, contact Trustee Toni Carter at trusteecarter@yahoo.com, or (630) 372-4203.

Libraries have tax forms

Residents can pick up free tax forms at most public libraries. The Indian Trails Public Library District, 355 S. Schoenbeck Road, Wheeling, for example, has Internal Revenue Service forms 1040A, 1040EZ, 1040, Illinois 1040, and Circuit Breaker forms. The library has binders of reproducible forms and instructions, and computer access to all the IRS and Illinois revenue forms for tax year 2008. For information, visit indiantrailslibrary.org, or call (847) 459-4100.