June 22-25

SUNDAY

Community

- Streator R/C Flyers' 20th annual Radio Controlled Air Show; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Club Field, two miles west of Streator on Illinois 18 and half mile south on East 15th Road.

- Third annual Rutland Car Show: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Music, door prizes, trophies, 50/50 drawing. Chicken dinner proceeds will go back to the Rutland Fire Department and the Rutland American Legion.

- Irish Heritage Society's third annual Heritage Family Picnic; 1 to 5 p.m., Bloomington Knights of Columbus, 1706 RT Dunn Drive. Call (309) 838-0461.

- St. Jude Bike-a-thon; 2 to 4 p.m., start in front of Waynesville United Methodist Church.

MONDAY

Community

- Read & Share meeting; 6:30 to 8 p.m., McLean County Extension Building, Hershey Road, Bloomington. Discussion book: "The Friday Night Knitting Club" by Kate Jacobs. Call (309) 723-6558. Sponsored by Home & Community Education.

For kids

- Homeschool curriculum closet; 3 to 5 p.m., 1109 Royal Pointe Drive, Bloomington. Sponsored by Theta Zeta chapter, National Homeschool Honor Society. Visit www.cahsa.com.

TUESDAY

Community

- Toys and Games of the Past; 10:30 a.m., Bloomington Public Library Community Room. Sponsored by McLean County Museum of History.

- Eureka Rotary Club; noon in the Eureka College Cerf Center. Visitor lunch: $6. Speake: President Laura Siscoe on her 2007-08 year term.

- YWCA Senior Services' free walk-in Medicare insurance counseling for senior citizens and their families; 1 to 2 p.m., Normal Township Community Activity Center, 1 Normal Plaza (intersection of Beech and Lincoln), Normal. Call (309) 454-1451 or (800) 227-2509.

- Open house to honor Mary Pasel Williams for her library service; 3 to 8 p.m., Towanda District Library.

- Registration deadline at 5 p.m. for free See Your Soldier video visits on July 9 and 10 with troops in Iraq sta-tioned at Al Asad Airbase, Camp Taji/Cooke, Camp Falluja, Camp Taqaddum and Camp Victory. Participants must pre-register at www.seeyoursoldier.uiuc.edu. Call (815) 397-7714.

- Fiction Book Club, Bloomington Bookies; 7 p.m., Lincoln Leisure Center, Bloomington. Topic: "Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette" by Sena Jeter Naslund.

For kids

- Itty Bitty Lapsit; 6:30 p.m., Bloomington Public Library Story Room.

WEDNESDAY

For kids

- Team up with Tales Story Time; 10 a.m., Bloomington Public Library Community Room. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

THURSDAY

Community

- Grandparents' caregiving workshop; 9 to 11 a.m., Eureka Public Library. Speaker: Rachel Schwarzendruber, a family life educator. Call (309) 467-2922.

- Afternoon movie series; 1:30 p.m., Bloomington Public Library Community Room.

- Mack-Ca-Fest Farm Days 2008; 5 to 10:30 p.m. Thursday; 5 to 10:30 p.m. Friday; 7 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Saturday; and 10 a.m. Sunday; Mackinaw.

- GridleyFest 2008; carnival opens, 5 p.m.; "Teen Night" with karaoke contest, 6 p.m. and dance, 7 to 10 p.m. Fri-day: steak dinner 5 to 7 p.m. in Community Building; carnival and craft show, 5 p.m.; gospel music, 6 to 9 p.m.; and fireworks at dusk. Saturday: 7 a.m. breakfast in Community Building; craft show and parade at 9 a.m.; carnival opens, noon; firefighters' water fight, 2 p.m.; Dan Barth, 4 p.m. at Center Street Park; pork chop dinner, 5 to 7 p.m. with a tribute to the Clues Brothers, 6 to 11 p.m. Sunday: church service, 9 a.m., Center Street park pavilion; and community potluck afterward.

- Discussion of the Vietnam War and McLean County; 7 p.m., Bloomington Public Library Community Room. Topic: "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers.

- Prairie Aviation Museum hosting the Vietnam Traveling Wall; near Eastview Christian Church, Normal. Huey UH-1H helicopter on display 9 a.m. until dark. Through Saturday.