Sept. 24-27

Monday

Community

- Tickets on sale for 45th annual Jewish Food Fair; 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 17 at Moses Montefiore Temple, 102 Robinhood Lane, Bloomington. Tickets: $6.50 for lunch, sold in advance at the Temple office, The Garlic Press, The Mole Hole, Crossroads and USA Gourmet. Call (309) 662-3182.

- Advance registration required for Sew Special workshops and lectures; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 5 and 6, The Chateau, Bloomington. Call (309) 530-2063 or e-mail sewnotes@aol.com. Oct. 5 workshop costs: $40 to make rayon jacket and $65 for sand-washed silk. Oct. 6 workshop costs: $50 for American Sewing Guild members; $60 for nonmembers and $40 for students.

- Applications being accepted by Tazewell Regional Office of Education to register for GED testing; 5 p.m. Oct. 5 and 8 a.m. Oct. 6 at Regional Office of Education, Pekin. Registration hours, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. Call (309) 477-2290.

- Register for self-defense and personal safety workshop for women age 16 and older; 9:30 a.m. to noon Oct. 13, YWCA McLean County, Bloomington. Cost: $20. Pre-registration required. Call (309) 662-0461.

- Tickets available for Kevin O'Brien and Company's "Murder at the Haunted Hangar," an interactive comedy-murder mystery; 5:30 p.m. Sept. 29, Challenger Learning Center, old airport terminal. Catered dinner at 7 p.m. Cost $45 per person. Call (309) 242-9004.

- Illinois Wesleyan University's Rock the Vote registration drive; in the atrium of IWU's Center for Natural Sciences. Through Sept. 28.

For kids

- Registration deadline for Teens-R-Normal paintball trip for children in sixth through 12th grades; 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 6, Chilli Paintball Pits Paintball Field, Chillicothe. Fee: $45 includes admission, paint gun rental with 500 paintballs, and bus transportation; or $35 without paint-gun rental. Call (309) 454-9540.

Tuesday

Community

- Eureka Rotary Club speaker, Doug Hicks, chaplain of Maple Lawn Homes; noon, Eureka College Cerf Center. Topic: Peoria Rescue Mission.

- YWCA Senior Services walk-in Medicare insurance counseling for seniors and their families; 2 to 3 p.m., Normal Township Community Activity Center, One Normal Plaza, Normal. Call (309) 454-1451 or (800) 227-2509.

- "Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis: The Japanese American Internment Experience"; 6 to 8 p.m., McLean County Museum of History. Speaker: William Yoshino, Midwest director, Japanese American Citizens League.

- "Campus Computing: From Free Speech to Facebook"; 7 p.m., Illinois Wesleyan University's Hansen Student Center, 300 Beecher St., Bloomington. Speaker: C.L. Lindsay III, founder and executive director of Coalition for Student & Academic Rights.

For kids

- Family movie time, "The Best Bad Thing"; 3:30 p.m., Mount Hope-Funks Grove Library.

Wednesday

Community

- "Resolving Differences: The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean," speech by Mitali P. Wond; noon to 1 p.m., third floor east lounge, Bone Student Center, Illinois State University, Normal. Free lunch.

Thursday

Community

- Annual large group sale; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., West Olive United Methodist Church, 1306 W. Olive St., Bloomington. Bag sale, 3 to 5 p.m.

- Metamora Association for Historic Preservation garage sale; 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Barbie and Kirk Perry residence, 319 S. Spring, Metamora. Also 8 a.m. to noon Friday.

- Designing for Fall Landscaping Workshop; 6:30 p.m., Memorial Hall, Maple Lawn Homes, Eureka. Call (309) 467-2922.