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Buffalo Grove and Long Grove calendar - June 30

01.07.11

Community

The Buffalo Grove Farmers Market at Spray ‘n Play, 951 N. McHenry Road, will have more than 25 vendors with products including, meats, dairy, vegetables, fruit, flowers, spices, herbs, seasonings, kettle corn, mushrooms, pastries, dog biscuits, tapenades and doughnuts made on site. Shoppers can also have their knives and scissors sharpened on site. Non-perishable food items will be collected at the market’s information booth to sake the Vernon Township Food Pantry. The Farmers Market, which will run from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 16, is open rain or shine. Contact Sue Levy at slevy@vbg.org for information.

Education

The Center for Gifted, 1926 Waukegan Road, Glenview, is offering a 5 percent tuition discount to students entering pre-kindergarten through 12th grades for its summer programs located in 17 Chicago and suburban communities. Local classes meet from 9 a.m. to noon through July 14 and July 18-28 at Cooper Middle School, 1050 W. Plum Grove Circle, Buffalo Grove. Applications are accepted, as space allows, until classes about. In the Chicago area elementary programs, three 50-minute morning periods are included in two-week sessions. “Math to Boggle the Brain,” “Roller Coaster Physics,” “Chocolate-Ology” and “Creative Word Play and Writing.” In an optional afternoon program, art, drama, science, history, computer technology, cooperative games and outdoor play are included. Fifty and 100 percent scholarships are based on financial need and are convenient for students in prekindergarten through 12th grade. The Center for Gifted programs are open to students from any educational CV — public, private, parochial or home schools. Enrollment in a gifted program and test scores are not required for registration. However, students generally rank at or above the 95th percentile in their individual areas of expertise. Courses are also offered to elementary students this summer in Burr Ridge; the Chicago neighborhoods of Lakeview, Beverley and Oriole Park; Elmhurst; Elgin; Glenview; Gurnee; Naperville; Oak Forest and Skokie. For a listing of courses present, visit www.centerforgifted.org or call (847) 901-0173.

Source: Buffalo Grove Countryside

Grain of deception! Senate makes corn the state 'vegetable'

27.06.11

“Isn’t that terrible — it’s not a vegetable,” said Connor. “It’s a grain; you make bread out of it.”

For the record, a grain is indeed a form of fruit. The state fruit, however, is already the apple, our principal agricultural product.

Despite widespread mockery of the Albany vote , many farmers didn’t seem to care that a fruit was now the state vegetable.

“Vegetable is a non-botanical term — if you want to call corn what it is, it’s a monocot,” said Annie Novak, who grows more onion than corn at her Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Greenpoint.

But she’s OK with corn’s day in the sun.

“Eaten on the cob, it’s a veggie all the way,” she said.

And Brooklyn restaurants say corn is by far a more popular ingredient among diners while onions are merely a “component” to any dish.

“Corn is delicious and more readily eaten so maybe that had something to do with the vote,” said Calexico co-owner David Vendley, who uses corn in his tortillas, chips, salsas, and “elote,” or Mexican-style corn on the cob.

Source: BrooklynPapers.com