Buffalo Grove Lifestyle
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How planners are deciding to cancel or keep summer festivals in age of coronavirusApr 02, 2020 1:00 am - Deposit deadlines, sponsorship funds, stage rentals, band bookings and organizers' experience levels are shaping whether spring and summer festivals are being canceled m...
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Chamber musicians keep music going with mini online concertsApr 01, 2020 11:00 pm - With social distancing and shelter-in-place orders in place, music lovers are left with no live performances to attend and musicians have been cut off, not only from the...
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Good News: Willow Creek Care Center adapts in time of social distancingApr 01, 2020 6:00 am - Cars pulled up by the hundreds last week to Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington. Without church services, what could be the draw? Emergency food distributi...
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Keep your distance, Lake County forest preserve visitors told, or preserves will closeApr 01, 2020 1:00 am - Lake County forest preserves and trails are open, but officials warn that can quickly change if visitors don't practice safe distancing. So far, those using the preserve...
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Third place, Prose - 'True Friends'Apr 01, 2020 1:00 am - Infinite stars stared clearly through the warm summer air, like holes punched out of a taut fabric. A wide expanse of desert stretched untouched, save for a single road....
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Second place, Poetry - 'Starlight'Apr 01, 2020 1:00 am - I found a poem in a moment you've forgotten, when your eyes met mine then shifted up to splattered silver brightness hanging still against the ink-smeared sky. Lines c...
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Second place, Prose - 'March Rain, Year 2 Scholars, New South Wales'Apr 01, 2020 1:00 am - Miss Flossy spoke to her class. "Alright, children, we've a few minutes before noontide, let's clear your workplace and rearrange them into a square or rectangle, you de...
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Third place, Poetry: 'Childhood Bedroom'Apr 01, 2020 1:00 am - I love the way you sit there on my bed, stuffed monkey, untouched by teenage perils and inevitable growing pains. I still hold you at night, dear Blankie, because I'm a...
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First place, Prose: 'A Puncher's Chance'Apr 01, 2020 1:00 am - Seated at a small Formica table in a sparse dining room, Ronny Felton stared at the phone resting before him. He licked his lips and reached for the phone, but his hand ...
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First place, Poetry - 'Farmer's Market Club'Apr 01, 2020 1:00 am - Dreaming of growing maitakes from my cheeks Of walking through a layer cake of limestone The American West. Tired of being Corn leaves. Or Gala apples. Haven't called ...