Community Calendar

Learn all about the snakes of Illinois and beyond! The Boone County Conservation District is offering a guided snake hike around Spencer Conservation Area as well as a lecture about how a long-forgotten snake was rediscovered in Mexico all these years later.

Guided Snake Hike from 5:00 - 6:00 PM: Join BCCD's Natural Resources Manager, Aaron Minson, on a guided snake hike around Spencer Conservation Area to talk about local snakes and their habitats!

Lecture: Herpetologica Miscellanea Mexicana presented by Nathan Kutok from 6:30-7:30 PM: Nathan J. Kutok is an undergraduate students and Scientific Affiliate at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. His current research interests are broadly centered around the taxonomy, systematics, and natural history of Garter snakes and their allies, particularly those from middle America. In his presentation, Herpetologica Miscellanea Mexicana, Nathan will summarize two years of research in Mexico, which attempts to clarify the taxonomic status of the Thamnophis in the Sierra Madre Oriental, including the description of a new species.

Registration is required for one or both of these programs. To register, please call 815-547-7935 or email dgrelecki@gmail.com.

Our summer story time with the South Beloit Public Library returns! Join us on Friday mornings for reading and activity time under our cottonwood tree. This series will introduce our local plant and animal friends to help build nature vocabulary, as well as American Sign Language vocabulary. Recommended for children ages 3-5, siblings welcome.

Our summer story time with the South Beloit Public Library returns! Join us on Friday mornings for reading and activity time under our cottonwood tree. This series will introduce our local plant and animal friends to help build nature vocabulary, as well as American Sign Language vocabulary. Recommended for children ages 3-5, siblings welcome.

Author and presenter Cyndee Shaffer uses excerpts from her mother’s letters written home during WWII to provide a romantic yet frightful glimpse into the life of a woman in uniform during this crucial time in history. Cyndee will detail her mother’s experiences from basic training in 1943 to a dramatic image of seeing the Statue of Liberty in the midst of darkness in November 1945 when she returned home.

This event is FREE and open to the public – no library card required to sign up. Registration is required. Thank you to Illinois Humanities Road Scholars Speakers Bureau for sponsoring this event.

Our summer story time with the South Beloit Public Library returns! Join us on Friday mornings for reading and activity time under our cottonwood tree. This series will introduce our local plant and animal friends to help build nature vocabulary, as well as American Sign Language vocabulary. Recommended for children ages 3-5, siblings welcome.

Our summer story time with the South Beloit Public Library returns! Join us on Friday mornings for reading and activity time under our cottonwood tree. This series will introduce our local plant and animal friends to help build nature vocabulary, as well as American Sign Language vocabulary. Recommended for children ages 3-5, siblings welcome.

Our summer story time with the South Beloit Public Library returns! Join us on Friday mornings for reading and activity time under our cottonwood tree. This series will introduce our local plant and animal friends to help build nature vocabulary, as well as American Sign Language vocabulary. Recommended for children ages 3-5, siblings welcome.

Our summer story time with the South Beloit Public Library returns! Join us on Friday mornings for reading and activity time under our cottonwood tree. This series will introduce our local plant and animal friends to help build nature vocabulary, as well as American Sign Language vocabulary. Recommended for children ages 3-5, siblings welcome.

Our summer story time with the South Beloit Public Library returns! Join us on Friday mornings for reading and activity time under our cottonwood tree. This series will introduce our local plant and animal friends to help build nature vocabulary, as well as American Sign Language vocabulary. Recommended for children ages 3-5, siblings welcome.

Our summer story time with the South Beloit Public Library returns! Join us on Friday mornings for reading and activity time under our cottonwood tree. This series will introduce our local plant and animal friends to help build nature vocabulary, as well as American Sign Language vocabulary. Recommended for children ages 3-5, siblings welcome.