Community Calendar
This Community Calendar is a service of Lincoln Library. Submissions are generated from individuals and organizations in the area. If you don't find an event you are looking for here, try the links below. Submit information to Lincoln Library's Calendar with a print-off form that you can FAX us at 217-753-4905 or mail to: Lincoln Library Community Calendar / 326 S. 7th St. / Springfield, IL 62701. Information can also be emailed to kim.hergett@lincolnlibrary.info.
Lincoln Library meeting room schedule
Lincoln Library Calendar of Events
February 2012
1 "Healthy U" Eating Classes Offered at SIU Med School
"Healthy U” nutrition classes offer tips about healthier eating, weight loss and customizing diets and meal plans for specific health conditions including diabetes, high cholesterol or heart disease. This class will begin with an orientation session from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 1, and continue for eight weeks. Sara Lopinski, registered dietitian, is the instructor. The $225 fee includes a newly published cookbook and calorie, fat and carbohydrate counter book. The classes will be held in Room 2014, SIU Clinics Building, 751 North Rutledge St., Springfield. Free parking is available in the Baylis-SIU Clinics parking garage. For more information and to register, call SIU Endocrinology at 217-545-7989 weekdays.
13 Simmons Cancer Institute Offers Scarf Tying Class
A “Tying, Tea, Talk and Touch” class will be held from 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Simmons Cancer Institute (SCI) at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, 315 W. Carpenter St. in Springfield. This free class is open to all cancer patients, regardless of where they are being treated, and to women who are dealing with any type of hair loss. To register to attend, call 217-545-0798 weekdays, or email ebrotzman-desart@siu.edu .
16“Christianizing Lincoln: Historical Memory and the Religious Views of Abraham Lincoln”
The Sangamon County Historical Society will be discussing Abraham Lincoln’s religious views at their meeting on Thursday, February 16, at 5:30 p.m., at the First Presbyterian Church, 321 S. 7th St., Springfield.
Following Lincoln’s assassination, religion proved to be one of the most contentious battlegrounds in the war over Lincoln’s memory. Samuel P. Wheeler, Ph.D., Sangamon County Historical Society executive coordinator and researcher with the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, will reconstruct the different interpretations of Lincoln’s religious views from his childhood through his time in Sangamon County and into the White House.
The free program is jointly sponsored by the Sangamon County Historical Society and the First Presbyterian Church.
For more information,
217-521-1961.
21 & 28 "Diabetes U" at SIU Med School
The “Diabetes U” self-management education classes include a series of two sessions held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 21 and 28. The interactive classes are designed for adults with diabetes and their support persons. The classes provide information about various aspects of living with diabetes, including potential complications, nutrition, testing and monitoring. Instructors are Caren Bryant, nurse diabetes educator, and Lopinski, registered dietitian, both with SIU. Participants must register before February 10 and meet with a registered dietitian for nutrition counseling prior to starting the classes. The fee is about $150 and will be billed to participants’ insurance companies.The classes will be held in Room 2014, SIU Clinics Building, 751 North Rutledge St., Springfield. Free parking is available in the Baylis-SIU Clinics parking garage. For more information and to register, call SIU Endocrinology at 217-545-7989 weekdays.
March 2012
16 & 17 Celebrate Quilts
Q.U.I.L.T.S. (Quilters United in Learning, Teaching and Self-Improvement), the Springfield area quilt guild presents “Celebrate Quilts” a biennial quilt show with hundreds of quilts and quilted items, guest speaker Hallye Bone, queen size raffle quilt, demonstrations, bed turning, appraiser, scissor sharpening, $20.12 quilted items for sale to benefit Basket of Hope, consignments, quilt shops and related craft vendors. Orr Building, Illinois State Fairgrounds. On-site food and drinks. Free parking. Friday, March 16: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday, March 17: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. For more information, 217-652-4292 or http://www.springfieldquilts.com .
17 "Expanding Your Horizons in Math, Science & Technology" for Girls in 6th, 7th & 8th Grades
Girls will participate in hands-on activities and meet with successful and inspiring women who are professionals in the fields of math, science, technology and engineering. Parent/Teacher Workshops will run concurrent and educate adults on mentoring young women that are wishing to pursue higher education and fulfilling careers. Univeristy of Illinois at Springfield, Public Affairs Center, 8 a.m.-12:45 p.m. $15. For more information and to register, EYHSpringfield.com, eyhspringfield@gmail.com or 217-793-1710. Sponsored by the American Association of University Women, The Children's Center of Mental Health Centers of Central Illinois and the University of Illinois, Springfield.
Ongoing Meetings & Events
Carillon Belles
The Carillon Belles are a group of ladies who work with the Rees Carillon Society to promote the Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon in Washington Park. If you would like information about joining this group, please, phone 217-787-3532 or visit http://www.carillon-rees.org/html/the_carillon_belles.html.
GROW in Illinois
A 12-step, community mental health support group program for people with mental health issues, emotional problems or who are having difficulties coping with life circumstances. Meetings are held weekly and are anonymous, free and confidential. For more information on GROW, 1-888-741-GROW or http://www.growinamerica.org/Illinois.html.
Illinois Symphony Guild of Springfield
The Guild actively supports the Illinois Symphony Orchestra by hosting events, including the popular "Meet the Conductor" luncheons. For more information, 217-572-1372.
Lincoln Land Stroke Support Network (LSSN)
LSSN is a network of stroke survivors and caregivers who support and educate stroke survivors and caregivers. For more information and meeting times contact 217-960-4263.
Other Announcements
Help!!! Readers Needed
Do you like to read? Would you like to help others who cannot read? WUIS/WIPA Radio Information Service is a reading service for the print impaired which broadcasts newspapers, and magazines, and we need your help. If you are interested, please call Becky at (217) 206-6405.
Volunteers needed for the Illinois State Museum's "A Place for Discovery"
"A Place for Discovery" is a hands-on children's gallery in the Museum. If interested, phone Amanda Paszek at (217) 782-6044.
Looking for more activities in Springfield that you don't find here?
Check out these links
Hoogland Center for the Arts
Illinois State Fair
Illinois State Museum
Illinois Symphony Orchestra
Illinois Times Calendar
The Muni
Rees Memorial Carillon
Springfield Convention and Visitor's Bureau Calendar
Theatre in the Park
University of Illinois at Springfield Sangamon Auditorium