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Five things to eat or drink this month: July 2024
Summer is the most fun part of the year, and I simply won’t be convinced otherwise. This month, everything delicious is in season at the farmers markets, and it feels like everybody has more time for lingering over meals and cold beverages, too. Before the routine of school schedules and allure of pumpkin spice get us, let’s soak up the flavors of summer.
Clinton Fire Department Plans 150th Celebration on Clinton Square
The Clinton Fire Department is inviting you to join them to celebrate 150 years on Aug. 10 on Mr. Lincoln Square in downtown Clinton. Fire Chief Stephen Page says there will be demonstrations, food trucks, fire trucks from all over central Illinois, a firefighter competition, and much more. Fire trucks...
Critters Uncaged: Miller Park Zoo | Meet Ringo the Opossum
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WCIA) — He’s the only marsupial in North America and he’s hanging out with us in today’s Critters Uncaged. Joining ciLiving today to introduce us to Ringo is Miller Park Zoo Educator, Ty Harris. . Opossums are the only marsupial...
Uptown Normal pub celebrates 50 years
NORMAL (25News Now)—Pub II turned 50 this Saturday, and the business commemorated the milestone with a parking lot party. The pub opened in 1974 and has been a staple in the Normal community for five decades. Saturday’s party included a beer truck, live music, and their fan-favorite cheeseballs.
New plays from the Heartland Theatre Company…and a free workshop
The Heartland Theatre Company hosts an annual 10-minute play festival, recruiting some of the best work from writers all over the world. Normal’s wonderful theatre company also hosts a yearly call for new plays for the Mike Dobbins Memorial New Plays from the Heartland Festival. This year, the three winning one-act plays will have enhanced staged readings produced this weekend at the Heartland Theatre Company in Normal, Illinois. The winning plays are The Shill, by Gregory Mandryk out of Cleveland, Ohio (directed by Champaign-Urbana’s talented Douglas Malcolm); A Shop in the Darkness, by Troy, Michigan’s Jacquelyn Priskorn (directed by Natasha Warloe, of the Heartland Theatre Company); and Making Some Noise, by Claudia Haas out of Minnesota (directed by Tabitha Miller, familiar to fans of the Coalesce Theatre Project).
July is National Sweet Corn Month
July is National Sweet Corn Month. Caitlin Mellendorf is a nutrition educator with the University of Illinois Extension in DeWitt, Macon, and Piatt Counties and indicates the heart of the sweet corn season is nearly upon us. Mellendorf highlights some of the ways sweet corn can be prepared and how...
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