Briefs: Condo project wins award
The Timber Court Condominium project in Arlington Heights has been awarded the 2008 Burnham Award for Excellence in Planning by the Metropolitan Planning Council. Timber Court is a 108-unit development near the Buffalo Grove border that has designated 20 percent of its units to be affordable for a family of four earning at or below $60,300. The units will remain affordable in perpetuity through a deed restriction. MPC will present the award at its annual luncheon Sept. 8 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. The award had been given out for 21 years and is named in honor of Daniel H. Burnham, creator of the 1909 Plan of Chicago.
Des Plaines OKs newsracks
Des Plaines aldermen this week created two mandatory modular newsrack districts: downtown and at the Cumberland Metra train station. They will take a final vote at the Sept. 2 council meeting. Publications may lease a modular news rack from the city at an annual fee of $25 a unit. No advertising, other than the name of the publication will be allowed on the modular units, and no individual news boxes would be allowed in the two areas. The racks, which the city bought a few years ago, will begin making an appearance this fall.
Golf outing for Burn Camp
Market Square Restaurant and Century 21 Real Estate Finders will hold a golf outing Sept. 4 that will benefit Burn Camp "I Am Me." The camp, associated with the Illinois Fire Safety Alliance, provides an outlet for children suffering from burns to swim, boat and fish with other kids going through the same thing. The outing will be at Chevy Chase Country Club, 1000 N. Milwaukee Ave., Wheeling. Registration and lunch will be at 11:30 a.m., and the tee off will be at 12:30 p.m. Cocktails and dinner will be at Market Square from 6-10 p.m., and the raffle will be at 9 p.m. The outing is $125 a person and $50 for dinner only. Call Mike Kurgan at (847) 484-2411, Sam Pappas at (847) 459-0601 or Mike Moran at (847) 520-0455.
Cycling sisters present trip
Evie Weber of Arlington Heights and her sister Norma Witherbee, of Morton Grove, will give a presentation at the Wheeling Historical Society on their bike trip along the path of the Underground Railroad. The sisters biked for seven weeks from Mobile, Ala., to Owen Sound, Canada for a total of 2,100 miles. Along the way they documented their trip in a popular weekly column in the Daily Herald. The presentation will be at 7 p.m. Aug. 27 at Chamber Park Community Center on Wolf Road in Wheeling. The program is free. Call Joan Wiener at (847) 229-0151.
Movies, audiobooks on sale
The Friends of the Prospect Heights Library will hold a VHS movie and audiobook sale at the Prospect Heights Library, 12 N. Elm St., Prospect Heights, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. All movies and audiobooks are $1 each or 6 for $5. All proceeds benefit the Prospect Heights Library.