Hospital lectures begin next week Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital is offering a series of three lectures starting next week. "Women's Health Issues for Mom and Daughters," will be Tuesday; "Colon Cancer-Advances in Treatment," Oct. 9; and "The Diabe...

"Once Upon a Mattress": The Fox Valley Theatre Company present the Broadway musical classic, "Once Upon a Mattress," at Elgin Community College's Blizzard Theatre, 1700 Spartan Drive. The show is an adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale...

A team of seven disaster response officials from local, state and federal agencies toured flood-damaged areas in the Tri-Cities Tuesday and will visit devastated areas upriver today to determine whether it qualifies as a federal disaster are...

Animals & plants Prospect Heights Garden Club, Gary Morava Recreation Center, 110 W. Camp McDonald Road, Prospect Heights: The first meeting of the year at 11:30 a.m. today. (847) 259-5354. Art openings Anatomy of a Children's Book, Barrington Area ...

To list your club's meetings, e-mail to mchenry@dailyherald.com or fax to (847) 608-0849. NARFE: National Active and Retired Federal Employees will hold its next meeting at 1 p.m. Tuesday. Chapter 2181 meets monthly on the second Tuesday of the...

The group's name is "Ducks Unlimited" but really that's only a lofty goal. Ducks Unlimited is a national group that aims to save and preserve wetlands -- basically so ducks have a place to visit and therefore duck hunters have a place to hunt. The p...

At the Fox Valley Duck Race held annually to benefit Boys and Girls Club of Elgin, it's the river that does all the work, but it's that lovable yellow flotilla -- thousands strong -- that gets all the attention. Everyone thinks that's just ducky, th...

Scott Bruce of Carol Stream carried a mattress from his summer home to the curb on Grove Avenue through about 8 inches of water. A couple of ducks had just paddled by, oblivious to the carnage inside several of the dozen or so homes on this quiet s...