A Taste of Persia Mar 21, 5-9pm, Celebration of the Persian New Year, Persian art, three-course Persian dinner and music. $10.50. Garden of Eat’n, 115 N. Sixth. For info, call 544-5446.
Ag Day on the Farm Mar 21, 9am-4pm, Includes seed, feed and fertilizer machinery, antique tractors and machines, trucks, draft horse teams, wool spinning, llamas, sheep, miniature donkeys and fainting goats. Bring the kids. S&H Llama Farm, Sherman. For more info, call 652-4131.
Annual Sausage and Pancake Breakfast March 14,15 and 21-22, 8am, Annual Sausage and Pancake Breakfast features syrup tapped and made by local volunteers, sausage patties, pancakes, juice and coffee. Lincoln Memorial Garden and Nature Center, 2301 East Lake Dr. For more info, call 529-1111.
Caring for Aging Family Mar 31, 6-7:15pm, Dr. John Miller will discuss Positive Psychology of Aging. Extensive caregiver resource info provided. UIS PAC Room H. For info, call 206-7577.
Catholic War Veterans of America Inc. Last Mon, 7pm, Meeting, Bishop Joseph A. McNicholas Post 1916. All Catholic war veterans welcome. VFW Post 10302, 2349 Stockyard Rd.
Food Not Lawns: Water Use Mar 25, 12pm, Bob Croteau speaks on ways to reduce and reuse water in the urban environment. Free. Springfield Public Library, Seventh and Capitol. For more info, call 753-0057.
Mothers and Daughters Self Defense Workshop Mar 28, 12-3pm, Learn the basics of self defense and how to use your voice and intuition. Ages 11-up. Offered by Prairie Center Against Sexual Assault. Free, donations appreciated. Fit Club South, 3631 S. Sixth St.
Motorcycle on Exhibit Through Mar 31, 9am-5pm Wed-Sun, Custom Harley- Davidson motorcycle designed and built in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday. Copper plated wheels with Lincoln penny designs, airbrushed Lincoln portraits and depictions of Lincoln sites, air cleaner shaped like Lincoln’s stove pipe hat and lots more. Free. New Salem State Historic Site Visitor Center. Petersburg.
Role of Women in 2009 Mar 24, 12:15-2:30pm, This diversity forum of panelists will discuss sexual orientation and the “glass ceiling.” Free. UIS Brookens Auditorium. For more info, call 206-6245.
Spotlight on Ice Mar 28, 2pm and 7pm and Mar 29, 2pm, Over 100 Springfield Figure Skating members perform to musical ice versions of Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Snow White, Aladdin and Sleeping Beauty. Guest skater is US National Medalist Ryan Bradley. $10 adults, $5 children under 12. Nelson Center Ice Arena, Lincoln Park. For info, call 725-1884.
Spring Coin Show Mar 22, 9am-4pm, 70 dealer tables. $1 per person, members/children free. Northfield Center I, 3210 Northfield. For more info, call Central Illinois Numismatic Association, 528- 7634.
Springfield Ski Club Recruitment Party Mar 19, 5-11pm, Come see what the Ski Club is all about: skiing, golfing, touring, bowling, ball games and more. Door prizes and drawings. Free. Brickhouse Grill & Pub, 3136 West Iles. www.springfieldskiclub.org
Tea with Harriet Tubman Mar 21, 2pm, Kathryn Harris portrays Tubman. $35. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library’s Lincoln Reception Room. For reservations, call 558-8934. For more info go to www.presidentlincoln.org.
FAITH & PHILOSOPHY
Gospel Sing and Supper Mar 21, 5pm, Dinner and 6:30 pm, Gospel Sing featuring The Peeks, Ron Senters, Save by Grace, Bill Lewis, Joy Bells, Joe Burgess, Living Proof, The Tribbles, Harmoney Trio, Dora Lee, Mutch Love, Barb Green, Living Testomony, The Dowd Family, Wayne Marqus. Also, Free. Rochester Baptist Church, 6 Vernon Dr. For more info, or if you would like to sing or play an instrument, call 787-7312. .
Interfaith Service Mar 19, 6:30-7:30pm, “Giving Voice to Peace” on the sixth anniversary of the Iraq war. Parents of local soldiers who died in Desert Storm and Iraq wars will be heard, along with the voices of other victims of war. First Church of the Brethren, 2115 S. Yale, with hospitality to follow the service.
Lenten Fish Dinners Through Apr 3, 5:30-7:30pm, Knights of Columbus Hall. Pawnee Square. .
Special Lenten Services Mar 4 through Apr 1, 5:30- 8pm, Stations of the Cross and Eucharist followed by soup supper at 6:15pm and programs from 7-8pm. Nursery provided. Cathedral of St. Paul, 815 S. Second St.
Unconventional View of World Economy Mar 23, 7-9pm, Linda Kopecky will review the book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein. Free. Humanist Discussion Group, Abraham Lincoln Unitarian- Universalist Congregation, 745 Woodside Road.
POLITICS
Drinking Coffee Liberally First and Third Sat, 9am, Enjoy coffee, breakfast and conversation with fellow progressives. Free. Trout Lily Cafe, 218 S. Sixth St. For more info, e-mail [email protected] g.
HISTORY
1860 Banner Exhibit Through Mar 22, An oversized campaign banner from Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 presidential campaign on display. Lincoln Visitor Center, 420 S. Seventh St. For more info, call 391- 3221.
Lincoln Programs Mar 21-22, 2pm, Park Ranger Jason Collins on Sat presents, “Abraham Lincoln: The Next Generation.” On Sun, Park Ranger David Bell presents, “Living in Lincoln’s Shadow.” Lincoln Visitor Center. For more info, call 391-3221.
Lincoln’s Springfield Mar 20, 2pm, Historian Tim Townsend speaks on Springfield’s growth and evolution and Lincoln. Free. Lincoln Home Visitor Center, 426 S. Seventh St. For more info, call 391-3221 or go to nps.gov/LIHO.
SPORTS & FITNESS
Owatonna vs. Jr. Blues Mar 20-21, 7:30pm, $7. Nelson Center, 1601 N. Fifth, Lincoln Park. For info, call 525-2589.
Semi Pro 8-Man Football Mar 29, 2-5pm, Watch the Capital City Outlaws take on cross town rivals the Sangamon County Seminoles. $5. concessions available. Knight’s Action Park, 1700 Recreation Drive. For info go to www.ccofootball.com.
Shamrock Games Mar 21, 8am-10pm, Celtic athletic games. Free. Coliseum, Illinois State Fairgrounds. For info, call 528-4024 or go to ancientathletics.com.
Springfield Junior Football League Registration Mar 21, 11am-3pm, Football registration for boys who will be in the 6-8th grade for Fall 2009. $85. Kicks, 2744 S. 6th St. For info, call 971-2953 or go to www.springfieldjfl.org.
