Back to school party time for adults
Remember those infamous "What I Did On My Summer Vacation" essays we all had to write each September when we returned to school?
Well, the Mount Prospect Historical Society has incorporated those memories into their second annual "Back to School Party for Adults" Friday night at Bogie's Ale House, 303 E. Kensington Road, Mount Prospect.
The society asked members of its board of directors to bring back from their summer trips unique mementoes of where they went and what they did. And those unique items - ranging from Beijing Olympics T-shirts to a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello china and from a sweetgrass basket from Charleston, S.C., to a handmade blanket from Mexico - will be raffled at the fun event to celebrate the reappearance of school buses.
Summers are great. But by August, many are ready for the kids to go back to school, according to Marilyn Genther, president of the society.
So the society and Bogie's have once again teamed up to sponsor this party. It will run from 6 to 10:30 p.m. Admission is $15 and it includes a pizza buffet which will be available. Twenty percent of all drink purchases will be donated to the Mount Prospect Historical Society. At 9 p.m. a DJ will start spinning music.
The highlight of the evening will be the announcement of the winners of the "Seven Wonders of Mount Prospect" voting which has been going on around town all summer. The announcement is planned for 8:30 p.m. immediately before the DJ begins.
Among the 10 people/places in contention are the Mount Prospect Public Library, Officer Friendly Bill Roscop, the S-curve on Route 83, the columns in the ponds at Huntington Commons, Keefer's, St. John Lutheran Church and Central School. Voting is still taking place at the library, 10 S. Emerson St.; Busse Car Wash, 113 E. Prospect Ave.; finance department of the Village, 50 S. Emerson St.; Midwest Bank, 50 N. Main St.; and the Historical Society, 101 S. Maple St., through noon Friday.
In the best (or worst) tradition of Chicago, you can vote as often as you like in this balloting. All you need to do is put some change or a dollar or whatever amount you would like into the container for the wonders you support.
So if you haven't voted, make plans to do so today.
This Time for Always: A local resident, writing under the pseudonym of Debra St. John, has published her first romance novel through The Wild Rose Press. The book is already available online but will come out in print on Aug. 29.
Titled "This Time For Always," it is the story of Sharlie Montgomery, a bar manager in a small town, and her former lover, Logan Reed, who walks back into her life and turns it upside down.
You can read more about the book at www.debrastjohnromance.com. But unless she decides to make her real identity public, you will just have to enjoy giving every woman in town a second look to imagine if she could possibly be this exciting new romance writer.