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SUMMARY:Canal Alliance Congress
DESCRIPTION:The Canal Corridor Association invites you to: \nThe 6th Annual Canal Alliance Congress \nWednesday\, February 21\, 2018\, 8:30am-4:30pm  \nat the Four Rivers Environmental Education Center  \n25055 South Walnut Lane Channahon\, IL 60410 \n\n \nThe annual Canal Alliance Congress is a gathering of local I&M Canal enthusiasts\, city and state officials\, and business and civic organizations who meet to network\, discuss the goings-on in the I&M Canal National Heritage Area\, and coordinate efforts to further promote the IMCNHA. \nThis all-day event is for those working to (1) promote the National Heritage Area (NHA)\, (2) preserve and maintain the cultural resources of the NHA\, (3) collaborate in the fields of conservation\, economic development\, recreation\, preservation\, storytelling\, education\, interpretation\, education and sustainability in the Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Area. \nPresentations focus around building partnerships to engage with people throughout the Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Area.  Networking opportunities at the Canal Alliance Congress allow representatives from neighboring towns to share updates and plans. \n\nThis year’s Congress will focus on Illinois Bicentennial and present opportunities for partnership programs and activities. There will be keynote speakers\, morning and afternoon sessions\, displays from varied organizations\, networking time\, and of course\, a delicious lunch. \nTickets are $50 for non-members\, $38 for members and all proceeds support the CCA and the IMCNHA. \n\nRegister by calling (815)220-1848 x 1838.
URL:https://iandmcanal.org/events/canal-alliance-congress/
LOCATION:blog-10
CATEGORIES:Canal Corridor Association
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SUMMARY:Valentine's Tea at Lock 16 Cafe
DESCRIPTION:There is still time to reserve for Lock 16 Cafe’s Valentine’s Tea!\n\n\n\n\nAfternoon teas have been enjoyed for centuries and tea has been touted as a miracle cure and most potent health drink ever. Spend a relaxing with friends\, or meet new friends\, in the Lock 16 Vintage Room\, sipping a variety of tasty teas and sampling delectable tea sandwiches\, scones\, sweet treats\, all made in-house\, with a Valentine’s theme. \n\nRESERVATION REQUIRED\n\nCost per person $24.95\nTo book call (815)223-1851 or CLICK HERE. 
URL:https://iandmcanal.org/events/valentines-tea-at-lock-16-cafe/
LOCATION:Lock 16 Visitor Center\, 754 First Street\, LaSalle\, IL\, 61301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Canal Corridor Association,Lock 16
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180121T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180121T143000
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SUMMARY:Sunday Lecture: Uniting the Rivers: The History of the Illinois Waterway
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, Sunday January 21st 2018 1:00pm – 2:30pm\, at the LaSalle County Historical Museum for our Sunday lecture series: Uniting the Rivers: The History of the Illinois Waterway \n \nThe Illinois Waterway\, once the skeletal remains of a glacial drainage ditch\, has been transformed into an engineering marvel.  Discover how this passageway became such an essential link in the economy and continues to draw water and land enthusiasts to its banks. One water enthusiast\, the bald eagle\, can be seen year-round but is more predictably viewed in the winter.  Learn more about this iconic creature and why so many visit the Illinois Waterway. \nSpeaker Julie McDonald is a Park Ranger with the US Army Corps of Engineers.  She has worked in natural resources and environmental education since  1998.  Ms. McDonald received her Master of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Ms. McDonald is currently at the Illinois Waterway Visitor Center\, which is run by the US Army Corps of Engineers. 
URL:https://iandmcanal.org/events/sunday-lecture-uniting-the-rivers-the-history-of-the-illinois-waterway/
LOCATION:Home section services
CATEGORIES:Canal Corridor Association,Dinner Lecture,History,Nature
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171223T110000
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with Author Steven Decker
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin the Canal Corridor Association on Saturday December 23rd 11:00am – 1:00pm for a book signing with author Steven Decker and his book Cambridge Street at the Lock 16 Café & Visitor Center\, 754 First Street LaSalle\, IL. \n \n“Cambridge Street is for the millions of immigrants from Italy and the world that came to America to give their families better lives\, they helped build our country\, feed its people and fight its wars. Now\, with the passing of years\, their bravery and sacrifices are being forgotten. We must not let that happen.” – Steven Decker \nThe Mafia\, bad government and high taxes forced the Tomaso family to leave Italy and the people they loved. They came to America in search of opportunity but found rejection and prejudice. Chicago\, sprawling and dirty\, was not like anything they could have dreamed or imagined. The family quickly learned that immigrants – especially Italians and\, worse\, Sicilians – were not wanted or welcomed. Love of family and trust in God held them together and\, somehow\, they survived. The Tomasos were finally content until early one morning when an act of terrible\, unforgivable violence was committed against them by their Italian countrymen. \nAuthor Steven Decker grew up in a large\, thriving Sicilian family on the north side of Chicago. He never forgot the stories about the struggles of his immigrant grandparents: How they survived terrible poverty\, life during Prohibition and their encounters with gangsters. \nFor more information call (815)220-1848.
URL:https://iandmcanal.org/events/book-signing-with-author-steven-decker/
LOCATION:Lock 16 Visitor Center\, 754 First Street\, LaSalle\, IL\, 61301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Canal Corridor Association,History,Lock 16
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with Author Carole Ledbetter!
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nJoin the us on Saturday December 16th 1:00pm – 3:00pm for a book signing with local author Carole Ledbetter and her book Carole’s Column’s at the Lock 16 Café & Visitor Center\, 754 First Street LaSalle\, IL. \n\nIn her recently published book\, Carole’s Columns\, Carole Ledbetter shares her perspectives on growing up and growing older in the Midwestern town of Ottawa\, Illinois. Carole’s book is a compilation of newspaper columns originally published by The Times newspaper in Ottawa\, IL. Carole writes about community\, connectedness\, and shared memories\, including interviews with local residents\, seasonal emphases\, and perspectives on faith\, family\, and friendship. \n\nCarole Ledbetter is also the author of a previous book\, Who Am I Now? Growing Through Life’s Changing Seasons\, published in 2007 by Pleasant Word\, a division of WinePress\, and republished in 2014 by Redemption Press. She hopes to provide fresh perspectives on faith\, family\, friendship and community by sharing memories from the past and views on today’s world. Carole has also been published in The Standard\, BGC Today\, Illinois Valley Community College\, River Currents\, and The Times\, Ottawa\, IL. \n\nBooks are available for purchase in the Lock 16 Visitor Center’s Gift Shop. \nFor more information call (815)220-1848 x 1836 or visit the Lock 16 Cafe & Visitor Center. 
URL:https://iandmcanal.org/events/book-signing-with-author-carole-ledbetter/
LOCATION:Lock 16 Visitor Center\, 754 First Street\, LaSalle\, IL\, 61301\, United States
CATEGORIES:History,Lock 16
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SUMMARY:Dinner & a Little History: Coal\, Shale\, and Ironstone: The Geology & Paleontology of Mazon Creek
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday\, October 5th 2017 at the Lock 16 Cafe for our Dinner Lecture: Coal\, Shale\, and Ironstone: The Geology & Paleontology of Mazon Creek.  \n \nLocated in northeastern Illinois\, Mazon Creek\, is an incredible fossil array of associated Upper Carboniferous plants and animals. Considered to be among the world’s great Lagerstätten\, or Mother Lodes\, this site’s numerous and delicately preserved soft-bodied animals are rarely seen in the fossil record\, and many species have been singularly described from the deposit. Magnificent plant impressions\, many of them ferns (to some\, the quintessential prehistoric floral form) are beautifully preserved in iron carbonate nodules. The importance of Mazon Creek to understanding the story of our planet\, and specifically the Pennsylvanian Period\, was realized by science only in the mid-nineteenth century. Considerable research has been done since then\, perhaps providing the most comprehensive picture of life in the Late Paleozoic. \n  \n \nSpeaker Andrew Young is a visual artist who studied biology\, art history\, and studio art at the University of California\, Berkeley. In 2006\, he received an invitation to join an expedition to Antarctica to study the wildlife and document studies of the earthquakes and ice movement in the region. A continued fascination with the human relationship to the natural world led him to curate an exhibition in 2011entitled\, Indexing the World: invention\, abstraction and dissonance\, the 2012 publication of a book on Mazon Creek fossils of Illinois\, and a solo painting show with the Chicago Academy of Sciences. \nJust the lecture $7. Dinner and Lecture $29 for Non-Members\, $24 for Members. \nReservations are required. \nTo reserve CLICK HERE or call MarQuinta Moore (815) 220-1848 ext 1838. \nLock 16 Cafe – The Vintage Room \n 
URL:https://iandmcanal.org/events/dinner-a-little-history-mazon-creek/
LOCATION:Lock 16 Visitor Center\, 754 First Street\, LaSalle\, IL\, 61301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dinner Lecture,History
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