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Palatine Jaycees host garage sale Sept. 12
The Palatine Jaycees will hold a giant garage sale, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, in the Gateway Center Parking Garage, fourth floor, corner of Smith and Colfax streets.
Spaces are available at $20 for Jaycees and $25 for non-Jaycees to sell your items. The event will be held rain or shine, since the garage is covered. Donations of garage sale items for the Jaycee Booth are also being accepted.
Fifty signs posted around the community will promote the event as well as ads in the newspaper. There will be food and drinks for sale. To secure a space, call (847) 604-0288 or e-mail www.palatinejaycees.org.
Are you adjusting to visual impairment?
The Schaumburg Township Disability Services Visual Impaired Support Group will hold a four-week special seminar in September. Kathy Austin will lead a multisession seminar on New Visions, a free program to help people adjust and adapt to vision loss.
The seminar will meet Sept. 2, 9, 16 and 23. Each session will begin at 2 p.m. at Schaumburg Township.
RSVP to Bonnie Sargent at (847) 884-0030, ext. 2022 or Kathy Austin at (312) 236-8569. If special accommodations are needed, call the township a week before the event. New members are always welcome.
DAR history contest open for 2009-10
The Twenty-first Star Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution has opened its annual American History Essay Contest for 2009-10.
All public, private or home-schooled students in 5th-8th grades are eligible. The contest is conducted without regard to race, religion, sex, or national origin.
The 2009-2010 topic is the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. One essay at each grade level is selected as the chapter winner and forwarded to the State American History chairman for state competition.
Deadline for submission is Dec. 1. Interested students must contact Nancy Meyer for the specific guidelines for this year's contest, (847) 824-1150.