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DeKALB – Local performance group Wooden Box Theater will present an event of live theater, poetry, fashion, photography and live music at 5 p.m. Sunday, May 19, at The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway in DeKalb.

SHABBONA – Shabbona Lake will hold its Crappie Contest Weekend from 6 a.m. Saturday, May 18 until 7 p.m. Sunday, May 19.

DeKALB – DeKalb women and the men who love them will join the fight against heart disease in women at the American Heart Association’s annual Go Red for Women luncheon on Friday, May 17 at Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center. The Go Red for Women Luncheon, chaired this year by Tami Armstrong of NB&T, is the signature fundraising event of the campaign, which raises awareness of women’s No. 1 killer, heart disease.

DeKALB – Bill Rodriguez of the A1C Champions Program will deliver a free, Spanish-only presentation on diabetes management and lifestyle changes based on his extensive training and personal experience in living with diabetes.

DeKALB – Barb City Manor Inc., the governing board of Barb City Manor Retirement Home in DeKalb, recently hosted its annual Volunteer Thank You Dinner to honor all the members of FRIENDS of Barb City Manor. Members of the board served volunteers and their guests a dinner to show appreciation for the tireless efforts of FRIENDS on behalf of the residents.

GENOA – Officeholders in the revived Ney Grange 1845 gathered at the 1835 Miller-Ellwood log cabin near Genoa for this photo after installation ceremonies on April 21.

SYCAMORE – The Sycamore High School Band spring concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 16, in the Sycamore High School auditorium. Both the Concert Band and Symphonic Band will perform pieces with water-based themes, including Handel’s “Water Music,” the spiritual “Deep River” and Gliere’s “Russian Sailors’ Dance.” The Symphonic Band will also perform the new composition “Deep, Like the Rivers,” composed by Robert Bradshaw.

SYCAMORE – The sun is shining, the trees are budding and the birds are singing, but do you know which bird is singing? Why does that one keep flying into your window? And will that one who nested in your tree come back this year? And why can some birds walk right up the side of a tree while others have to nest on the ground? Discover all this and more at Bird Brains at the Midwest Museum of Natural History from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18.

DeKALB – “Made in Brazil”, an exhibition of prints by international artists from the collection of Robert Bornhuetter, professor emeritus in printmaking from Northern Illinois University School of Art, will be on display at The Art Box, 308 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb, through May 30.

DeKALB – At a small gathering on May 5, the DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice honored graduating Northern Illinois University Law School student Kevin Zickterman for his help with programs on campus during the past year.  

GENOA – Becky Haag of Genoa has become an independent consultant with Tastefully Simple Inc., a national direct sales company featuring more than 60 delicious, easy-to-prepare foods.