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Beekeeper program available for Skokie residents
Looking for a little adventure and are not afraid or allergic, there's a program turning residents into beekeepers. Abdullah Motiwala, the founder of Heaven's Honey, Inc., talks more about what it takes to become a beekeeper.
Owner moves into Evanston’s first Passive House and tells about it
Margaret Stender moved into her new home three days before she joined her architect, Nathan Kipnis, to introduce Evanston’s first “passive” house to an overflow audience on April 25 at the Evanston History Center. Deborah Kasindorf, EHC executive director, introduced the presenters and reminded the audience that...
At This Time: Ageless
Elizabeth Klein, a senior at Evanston Township High School, is joined by her grandmother—and model—Barbara Bradford at the opening of a student photo show at Perspective Gallery. “She caught me at a very pensive and wistful moment,” said Bradford as she toured the show. “I hang out with her a lot,” said Klein, who thinks this is one of the best photos she’s taken. The show, which features the work of 40 students from across the Chicago area, runs until May 26 at the gallery, 1310½ Chicago Avenue, and on Perspective’s website. Also chosen for the show from work by 170 photographers were ETHS students Madeline Rose Andreotti, Jacinta Diversiev, Winston Flowers Jr., Sydney Hletko, Eleanor Pavich, Ian William Peppers, Charlene Solis, Erik Van Leer, Kevin Watts, Eleanor Witte-McCarville and Fiona Wonderlich. (Photo by Richard Cahan.)
Paws and Claws Birthday Bash celebrates center’s anniversary
About 150 community members gathered at a hall in Evanston to celebrate local animal rescue Paws and Claws Cat Rescue’s fourth birthday and its adoption center’s one-year anniversary Friday evening. Birthday Bash attendees included current fosters, adopters, donors, volunteers and those looking to adopt. The event was also...
Evanston’s Nolan Robinson is on Broadway as a co-producer for ‘The Wiz’
Nolan Robinson’s theater experience keeps reaching new heights. At the age of 24, and only three years since graduating from Northwestern University’s School of Communication as a theater major, he has a credit as a co-producer on a Broadway musical. The Wiz opened on Broadway at the Marquis...
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