Healthy Springfield Expo Sunday, Oct. 10, 10am-4pm Illinois Building, State Fairgrounds Free

HEALTH | Fit and happy

Treat yourself to a day of exploration toward the healthiest you there is. Healthy Springfield has organized more than 30 vendors and practitioners who offer services or products for healthier lifestyles to participate in this self, environment and community-care expo. Four inspiring and informative speakers top each hour, starting at 11 a.m., and include, at noon, Joyce Surbeck-Harris, Ph.D., presenting, “Seven Miracles of Healing.” More details about the expo can be found at www.Healthy-Springfield.org.

THE CALENDAR

Submit calendar listings at www.illinoistimes.com or e-mail to calendar@illinoistimes.com or send them to:

Calendar P.O. Box 5256 Springfield, IL 62705 Deadline is Friday at noon prior to when the paper comes out on newsstands.

Dates, times and locations are subject to last-minute changes, so we suggest calling before attending the event.

Fairs & Festivals

A-Maze-ing Corn Maze and Festival Oct 09-10, 11am-6pm Sat, 12am-6pm Sun, Four-acre cornfield maze weekends through Oct 9-10, plus Oct 11 (10am-2pm). $5 for maze. auburnumc.org. Auburn United Methodist Church, 14100 State Route 4, Auburn.

Abe’s Corn Maze Oct 09-10, 16-17, 10am-dusk, First four weekends in October walk the ten-acre corn maze, over three miles of twists and turns. Special days such as balloon day, pumpkin day and fireworks on last night. $5-$3. 522-5632. abescornmaze.org. iWorship Center, 3200 Shaler Road.

Auburn Haunted House Oct 15-16, 7pm Fri, 6pm Sat, Blood on the Bayou. This haunt is not for young children. $6. Auburn Masonic Lodge, 217 N. Fifth St, Auburn, 217-553-1848.

Boo Crew Haunted House Oct 08-09, 15-17, 22-24, 29-30, 6:30pm. Gigantic high-tech theatrical haunted house with three levels of scare. $8. Kids open house Oct. 23, 4-6 p.m. boocrew.com. Cooper Township Facitlity, 6500 Jett Rd, Rochester.

Carve for the Carillon Oct 09-10, 11am-5pm, Fun family event. Bring your carving tools and stencils, or use theirs, and help carve 2,010 pumpkins that will light the way for Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular, Oct 15- 16, 6-9:30 p.m. Pumpkins supplied.

Washington Park Rees Memorial Carillon, Fayette Rd, 753-6219.

Extreme Haunted Hayride Oct 15-16, 7pm, Travel along the river, through the woods, pulled by a 1968 Cadillac Hearse. Presented by Riverside Stables. Scary. $8, $13 front of line ticket. Riverside Park, 4105 Sand Hill Rd.

Girard Pumpkin Festival Oct 09, 8am-4pm, Pumpkin carving and costume contest, kid’s activities and games, pumpkin chunkin contest, craft and food vendors and more. $2. Girard.

Indian Summer Festival Oct 09-10, 10am-4pm, Terrific family fun in autumn’s outdoor playground. First-ever birdhouse building contest and PAA mini-fairway of art. Also food, music, crafts, pumpkin decorating, vendors, walks in the woods and so much more. $4 adult-age 12, $3 age 11-2. Lincoln Memorial Garden, 2301 E. Lake Shore Dr.

Octoberfest Oct 10, 12-7pm, Octoberfest, serving from 12-6pm - one Brat or two hot dogs, baked beans, potato salad, $7. Band Hat Trick plays from 4-7pm. Flea market and Craft Show from 9 a.m. -3 p.m. Eagles Club, Springfield, 2700 E Ash St, 544-9849.

Spfld. Jaycees Haunted House Oct 09-31, 6:30-9pm weekdays, 6:30- 11pm weekends, Grandstand. Free parking. $6. (Kids Days on Sat-Sun 12-3

p.m. $3 kids $1 adults.) Advance tickets at Sunrise Café, Recycled Records and Qik N EZs. Illinois State Fairgrounds, 801 Sangamon Ave.

Terror on the Square Oct 08-09, 15-17, 7pm, Weekends through October (excluding Oct. 10), Unique professional haunted house with Disney-style ghost illusions and ghost holograms set in 1930s funeral home. Ranked 3rd best haunt in Illinois. $8 adults, $7 kids. Petersburg Square, N. 7th St. at W. Douglas Ave. Petersburg.

Books & Authors

Doris Kearns Goodwin Book Signing Oct 14, 10am-12pm, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author and Presidential Historian signs books in the Museum Gift Shop. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, 212 N. Sixth St.

Brookens Library Book Sale Oct 08, 9am-3pm, Book sale of donated used books of all kinds. UIS Brookens Library, One University Plaza, 206-8359.

Manga Book Club Oct 16, 2:30pm, Jacksonville Public Library, 201 West College Ave, Jacksonville, 217-243-5435.

Poet Robert Fitzgerald Boyhood Home Historical Marker Dedication Oct 12, 11am, Join the Illinois State Historical Society, Illinois State Bar Association, Vachel Lindsay Association and Springfield High School as they unveil the historical marker of Robert Fitzgerald's boyhood home at the present-day site of the Illinois State Bar Association. Invited guests include Dr. Penelope Laurans Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald's widow and professor of English studies at Yale University, Mayor Timothy Davlin and others. Illinois State Bar Association, Second and Jackson. 525-2781.