Briefs: Des Plaines schools open
District 62 schools will be in session today, Sept. 17. Parents should contact their school office if their children will not attend school due to flooding. These absences are excused. Schools were closed Tuesday due to floodwaters around some buildings.
Saxons move homecoming
Schaumburg High School has moved its Homecoming to a different date, blaming the weekend's storms more than the Sept. 12 construction mishap when a cement mixer fell through the field. A letter from Principal Tim Little states the homecoming game now will be moved to Oct. 17 against Conant High School, and all Homecoming events will take place in the week leading up to the Conant game. The new artificial turf surface was supposed to be ready for the original homecoming, on Sept. 26, but the weather has delayed the construction. The Sept. 26 game against Fremd High School will still take place - Schaumburg has been using Conant's field as its home this season, while crews work on the stadium renovations.
Candidate forum
With the upcoming election less than two months away, the League of Women Voters of the Barrington Area is hosting a candidate forum from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight (Wednesday, Sept. 17) at the Barrington Area Library. Candidates have been invited from U.S. Congressional districts 8 and 16, Illinois Senate districts 26 and 27, along with Illinois House Districts 51, 52 and 64. Questions are submitted by members of the audience and are posed to the candidates by a League moderator. For more information, visit lwvba.org.
Grigsby Prairie tour
Barrington-based Citizens for Conservation is hosting a tour of Grigsby Prairie between 8 and 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 20. On the tour, walkers will see late-blooming wildflowers and tall prairie grasses just as the pioneers saw when they traveled through or settled here. Grigsby Prairie is Citizens for Conservation's first restoration project and its most advanced. Those interested in the tour should meet at the Grigsby Prairie parking area on the north side of Oak Knoll Road, just east of Buckley road in Barrington Hills. To RSVP, or for more information, call (847) 382-7283.
Golf may relieve stress
Des Plaines Park District is offering residents free miniature golf at the Mountain View Mine Adventure Center, 510 East Algonquin Road, through Thursday as a flooding stress reliever.
Myositis research the goal
The Myositis Cup Golf Challenge beginning at 9 a.m. Monday, Sept. 22, at Chevy Chase Country Club in Wheeling is aiming to raise $100,000 for research on an immune system disease affecting about 50,000 people for which no cure has been found. Mark Kollar, president of Kollar Financial Strategies in Rosemont, is the event chairman. More information is at myositiscup.golfreg.com.
Campaign finance discussed
"The Current Crisis in Campaign Finance: How Money Talks in Springfield and Washington" will be the topic at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Arlington Heights Historical Society, 110 W. Fremont. David Morrison, assistant director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, will talk at the program sponsored by the League of Women Voters Arlington Heights-Mount Prospect-Buffalo Grove Area.
"Seinfeld Bus" in Chicago
Fans of the show "Seinfeld" won't want to miss the Seinfeld Campus Tour Bus when it stops in Chicago Thursday, Sept. 18. Between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., the bus will be parked at the University of Illinois-Chicago, just south of the Student Center East, at 750 S. Halsted St. in Chicago. Basically, the bus is a traveling museum of Seinfeld memorabilia (the puffy shirt, the Pez dispenser, etc.) and it's filled with activities, games and even food related to the show. For details, see seinfeld.com.
No fishing derby Sept. 20:
The Mount Prospect Park District has reluctantly canceled the Sept. 20 fishing derby, saying the recent rains have made the area surrounding the pond at Robert T. Jackson Clearwater Park muddy >and unfavorable. There are no plans to reschedule the event this year and refunds will be forthcoming, park official said.