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Area calendar

Oct. 12-14

Today

Community

-- Register for Retired and Senior Volunteer Program Rules of the Road class; 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Oct. 17 at Maple Lawn, Eureka. Call (309) 467-9059.

-- Reserve your space for AARP Safe Driver classes; 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 22-23 at Maple Lawn-Memorial Hall, Eureka. Cost: $10. Call (309) 467-9059.

-- Advance registration required for two-day AARP Driver Safety Class; 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 24 and 25, Westminster Village Social Center, 2025 E. Lincoln St., Bloomington. Cost: $10 per person. Call (309) 454-1451.

-- Advance tickets for the 45th Annual Jewish Food Fair; 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 17, Moses Montefiore Temple, Bloomington. Carryout lunch: $6.50. Orders of 10 or more may be delivered. Call (309) 662-3181.

-- Tickets available for McLean County Affiliate of Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure’s Dance for the Cure; Oct. 19, DoubleTree Hotel and Conference Center, Bloomington. Includes dinner, silent auction and raffle. Go to www.comenmcleanco.org or call (309) 532-1718.

-- Lions Club annual Candy Day; members in front of grocery stores and on street corners to give away candy for donations for blind and visually handicapped. Also Saturday.

-- Tazewell County tire collection; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Festival Building, East Peoria. Call (309) 925-5511. Also Saturday.

-- Nancy Slonneger Hancock presents “Philosophy for the Net Generation”; 3 p.m., 2009 Turner Hall, Illinois State University, Normal.

-- Fish fry dinner; 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Towanda Legion Post 931. Cost: $7. Carryout meals available.

-- Freddy’s Underground Terrors IOOF Haunted House; 7 to 11 p.m., with lights on 7 to 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday nights in October starting Oct. 12 at Charity Home Rebekah Lodge 112, Fairbury. Donations: $4 for regular tours and $1 for lights-on tours.

Saturday

Community

-- Tazewell County tire collection; 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Festival Building, East Peoria. Call (309) 925-5511.

-- Lions Club annual Candy Day; members in front of grocery stores and on street corners to give away candy for donations for blind and visually handicapped.

-- Seventh annual Hunter Oaks Horse Trials; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Interstate Center, 2301 W. Market St., Bloomington. Dressage tests and show jumping. Cross country portion, 9 a.m. Sunday at Hunter Oaks Equestrian Center, Carlock.

-- Pumpkin Blowout; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Niemann Market, Farmer City.

-- Atlanta food drive for Lincoln Logan Food Pantry; bags to be distributed to homes Saturday and picked up on Oct. 20. Organized by Atlanta United Methodist Church. Call (217) 648-5002.

-- Ford-Iroquois 4-H Federation selling sandwiches; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., parking lot at Hometown Shop and Save, Gilman.

-- First Pet “Mask”arade and Carnival to raise money to purchase pet oxygen recovery masks; 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Canine Classic Spa & Resort, 2405 Springfield Road, Bloomington. Call (309) 829-5023.

-- Benefit for Tim Hovey; LaVon’s Fine Foods, Minonk. Cost: $6. Hog roast, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.; drawdown for prizes, 7 p.m.; and music by Beer Thirty, 9 to 11 p.m., and The New Glory Stompers Reunion, 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.

-- Ebenezer Ladies Aid third annual fall dinner and auction event; 5 to 7 p.m., Mount Hope-Funks Grove Park District building, McLean.

-- Twin City Amateur Astronomers public observing session; 7 to 9 p.m., Sugar Grove Observatory, Sugar Grove Nature Center, near Funks Grove. Event canceled if sky is overcast. Call (309) 830-4085.

-- Barn Keepers annual barn dance; 7 to 10 p.m., McGhee Barn, 9326 Old Peoria Road, west of Bloomington. Signs posted on Illinois 9 and Mitsubishi Motorway. Admission: $3 per person or $5 per couple.

Sunday

Community

-- Arts and craft show and free admission to zoo; 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Miller Park Zoo, 1020 S. Morris Ave., Bloomington. Call (309) 434-2250.

-- Third annual Fall Festival; 2 to 5 p.m., Miller Park, Bloomington. Call (309) 434-2260.

For kids

-- Teen Read Week; Mount Hope-Funks Grove Library, teens get candy bars when checking out books. Limit one per teen. Call (309) 874-2291.

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