August 2006
Monthly Archive
Heller Honey Harvest in Highland Park is 400 pounds better than before
Posted by Meagan on Aug 29 2006 | Tagged as: About
The Heller Honey Harvest is incredibly bountiful this year, with 400 pounds more honey than last year. For the beekeeping program, students, residents, and those wanting local honey for Rosh Hashanah September 23, this is good news. Highland Park is known for the land of milk and honey, and 3,600 pounds of the honey is now on sale in one-pound jars for the public.
The fact that Highland Park does this is amazing. Educational programs to teach families and interested students about honey bees, Apis mellifera and making candles is something I never was able to even consider learning about where I come from. It is such a neat opportunity that is fairly rare. The programs are available in September and November. The park district of Highland Park offers a year-round program at the Heller Nature Center, 2821 Ridge Road, with the opportunity for students in schools and residents at the center to learn about beekeeping. Not only do you get to learn about beekeeping, and making candles, but the money raised from the honey sales and candles is used and put back into the park district programs. The program has expanded significantly through the years, as more and more volunteers keep coming out. Apparently, the extraction went well, with few stings and new equipment used to help harvest the honey. You can find the honey at Sunset Food stores: 1812 Green Bay Road, Highland Park; 1451 West Peterson Road, Libertyville; 825 South Waukegan Road, Lake Forest; and 1921 Raymond Drive, Northbrook, as well as at the Nature Center itself. Be sure to make it to the Heller Nature Center on September 16 from 10 a.m. to noon to catch an adult and family program to learn more about honey bees. You can see the honey bee colonies along with extracting honey from frames where the bees store it.
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Be sure to catch this weekends’ events in Highland Park
Posted by Meagan on Aug 25 2006 | Tagged as: About
This Saturday and Sunday, Highland Park will host its annual Port Clinton Art Festival, featuring over 250 vendors, ranging from paint to sculpture to metal. The festival is at Central Ave and First Street, run by Amdur productions. This is a great festival to go to, and you can even purchase art for under $50!
The American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life will be in Highland Park this weekend at Sunset Woods park. It is the final event in Lake county for the cancer society. The relay features a lot of special events, including entertainment, food, a special guest appearance by Chicago Bears’ tackle Keith Van Horne, a silent auction, and a midnight luminaria walk for reflection for those lost to cancer. The Highland Park volunteer team is working to raise $123,000 of $1.3 million the Lake County area plans to raise with their 10 community events. Whether or not you know anyone fighting cancer, or have lost the battle with cancer, please come out and help support a good cause.
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Highland Park Guitar fans got a real treat
Posted by Meagan on Aug 22 2006 | Tagged as: Shopping, About, Lifestyle
At Highland Park’s Music Gallery store last week, guitar lovers were honored with a chance to meet and listen to the top guitar maker Ren Ferguson from Gibson Guitar Corp., in a special exhibit exclusive to Highland Park.
Not only did they get to meet Ferguson, not to mention listen to his stories about making the guitars, but they were able to be in the presence of guitars Woodie Guthrie played on as well as Dwight Yoakam. There was also a display of master museum guitars and 30 to 40 of their catalogue and custom guitars.
Ren Ferguson was in the store for three days, drawing in a great crowd, according to the store owner Frank Glionna.
It was quite the honor for Highland Park to be selected for this special event, it was the only 2006 in-store appearance by Ferguson.
What I like the best about this guitar-fan’s treat, is that the store held the event in order to further educate those who are into guitars, about the importance and significance of owning and playing a guitar during a lifetime. Music is an important thing for people to learn and love, and it’s pretty amazing that Gibson is so willing to provide more reasons for people to understand that.
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