An Earth Day Kite Fly will be held from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday at Volunteer Park, 1100 Murphy Drive, Romeoville.
"Pack a picnic lunch, bring your lawn chairs and watch the kites take flight as we celebrate National Kite Fly Month, the arrival of spring and Earth Day," organizers boast.
RECYCLING ALERT: Bring your old gym shoes, books, crayons, cell phones, and ink jet cartridges for SCARCE's 2009 rescue programs. Your shoes will be recycled to make new playgrounds, running surfaces, and basketball courts. Please only bring gym shoes; no dress shoes or sandals. Bring your old cell phones to recycle too! The recycled cell phones will help defray the costs of the shoe rescue program. All other items will be recycled and put to good use as well.
Activities include:
Bubble fun
Snow cones provided by Tropical Sno
Cold Blooded Creature performance
Wal-Mart booth
Biodiversity Project booth
Will County Forest Preserve booth
Plant your own seeds
SCARCE Rescue Programs
Giveaways
The Earth Day Kite Fly is free and open to all ages. All children must be accompanied by an adult.
Julie Todd is the night editor at The Herald News in Joliet. She and her
husband are looking to cut the chemicals and get back to basics -- minus the
granola and hemp clothing. They live in a home they bought last year in
Plainfield, where they're making changes to create their own little patch of
utopia.
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