Close out summer with fun at the LITH Summer Sunset Festival!

Summer Sunset Festival returns to Lake in the Hills

The annual festival is three days of fun, food, events and live bands, and it sends summer off with a bang with one of the best fireworks displays in the county. Best of all, admission is free – the only costs are for food/beverages and the carnival.

The three-day Summer Sunset Festival starts at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30, and goes strong through Sunday, Sept. 1 with the evening fireworks. Visit the festival website at www.summersunsetfest.com for a complete schedule of events, and follow the festival on Facebook for the latest updates!

County Clerk’s Office putting finishing touches on Election Center

Starting with the upcoming Nov. 5 election, the facility will be used to tabulate data from polling places, process vote-by-mail ballots, train election judges, serve as a polling place, and more.

Located three doors down from the Illinois Secretary of State DMV office in Woodstock, this new location will give our County Clerk’s Office more room and dedicated space to continue ensuring that McHenry County elections run smoothly.

If you need to register to vote, apply for a vote-by-mail ballot, or learn the location of your polling place or early voting locations, visit www.mchenrycountyclerkil.gov.

MCC looking for adult literacy tutors

Adult literacy tutors work one-on-one with students who are trying to improve their basic reading or math skills, or who are learning English. Besides helping students to learn a new language, tutors also assist with helping students learn the life skills they need to thrive in a new country.

If this sounds like your kind of challenge, visit www.mchenry.edu/volunteer and fill out the brief contact form to learn more.

Workforce Network hosting transportation job fair

The McHenry County Workforce Network is holding its Fall Job Fair from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 13 at its office at 500 Russel Ct., Woodstock. Transportation-related jobs is the theme, and employers will be present to look for dedicated workers.

If you want to make sure you make the best impression you can, or you need to brush up on your interviewing skills, the Workforce Network is holding a preparatory workshop from 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11.

Both the job fair and the workshop are free. If you’re looking for a job or want to increase your skills to get a better job, the Workforce Network is an invaluable and free asset – learn more about it at www.mchenrycountyworkforce.com.

Get ready for apple picking season!

McHenry County is blessed with some of the best apple orchards around, offering people across the Chicago area the experience of walking through sunny orchards to pick juicy apples and buy fresh cider and doughnuts. And with many boasting all sorts of family activities, a trip to a McHenry County apple orchard is so much more.

Our orchards boast many varieties to suit your taste, and probably a few you’ve never tried.

As always, our friends at Naturally McHenry County have a great list of family orchards to pack your baskets full of apples, cider, and other home-grown goodness. And picking has already begun at some of them! Click here to check it out.

Make Huntley glow with the Hootenany 5K Glow Run/Walk

The Village of Huntley and the District 158 Education Foundation are once again teaming up to hold the seventh annual Huntley Hootenanny, which celebrates the farm roots of Huntley with a 5K evening glow run/walk.

The event takes place starting at 7:15 p.m. this Friday, rain or shine, and they’re still taking registration! The admission fee is $10 for students, and $20 for adults. Click here to register – there is no on-site registration at the event.

All proceeds go toward District 158 classroom initiative grants and student scholarships for continuing education.

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