Stagg Jamboree to feature over 20 marching bands Saturday
More than 20 high school marching bands will perform Saturday at Amos Alonzo Stagg High School’s 43rd annual Jamboree, which takes place in the football stadium at 8015 W. 111th St. in Palos Hills.
Jamboree is a competition that brings marching bands from all over the area together to perform their competitive shows, according to a news release. The first band performs at 3 p.m. Bands continue to compete until 9:30 p.m., when Stagg’s Marching Chargers will present an exhibition. Awards will be given out in three ceremonies after each class competes: A in the late afternoon, AA in the early evening and AAA after Stagg’s exhibition. The classes are determined by the size of the school, not the size of the band.
Admission is $15 for adults; $10 for students with valid school ID and senior citizens 50 and older; and $5 for children 6 to 17 years old. Admission is free to children 6 and younger and Stagg students with school ID. Cash and credit will be accepted at the gate, or spectators can buy tickets online at https://tinyurl.com/Jamboree-2023. The public is welcome.
Three split-the-pot raffles will be available, and winners need not be present. Food will be sold in the main concession stand and at a chuck wagon on the visitors’ side of the stadium. The event is coordinated by the Stagg Music Booster Association, which supports all music programs at Stagg, and is its biggest fundraiser.
NAMI showcases Family & Friends program
NAMI offers a 90-minute seminar on its signature program, Family and Friends, which informs people who have loved ones with a mental health condition or experiencing difficulty with mental health how best to support them. It is also an opportunity to meet other people in similar situations and gain community support.
The seminar is from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at Bremen Township Senior Complex, 15350 Oak Park Ave., Oak Forest.
The program is designed to give a preview of NAMI’s 8 session, flagship program, Family to Family. It is led by trained people with lived experience of supporting a family member or friend with a mental health condition. Registration is required with Marianne Bithos at 708-852-9126, or [email protected].
Gaelic Park offers Heritage & Harvest event
Chicago Gaelic Park will host its annual Heritage & Harvest Day starting at noon Sunday at its campus at 6119 West 147th Street in Oak Forest.
The event includes kids’ games such as a straw pillow fight, candy in the straw scramble, three-legged race, sack race, dizzy stick race, barrel race, water balloon toss, tug of war and Gaelic sports skills test. Other highlights of the day will include a threshing demonstration, a display of antique tractors as well as traditional Irish music and dancing.
A display of the national games of Ireland, hurling and football, will take place as youth athletes showcase their talent.
More information is at www.chicagogaelicpark.com or 708-687-9323.
Calumet City Historical Society sets two events
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The Calumet City Historical Society presents the program “Searching for Facts: Early History of West Hammond and Calumet City” by Joseph Bigott at 3 p.m. Sunday at the museum, 760 Wentworth Ave., Calumet City. The program will follow a general membership meeting at 2 p.m.
The society is also hosting an Arts & Crafts and Flea Market at the museum’s Heritage Cabin from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 16. The event includes local vendors and talent, refreshments, bake sale, country store, raffle baskets and tours of the cabin.
Information is at www.calumetcityhistoricalsociety.org.
Stickney Township to host AARP Driver Safety Class
An AARP Driver Safety Program for people age 50 and older will be offered from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 25 and 28 at the Stickney Township Louis S. Viverito Senior Center, 7745 S. Leamington Ave., Burbank. Attendance at the refresher classes is required for both class days.
The course fee is $20 for AARP members and $25 for nonmembers payable that day to the instructor. Registration is with Stickney Township Office on Aging at 708-636-8850.
The program is designed to help people tune up driving skills and update your knowledge of the rules of the road, learn about normal, age-related physical changes and how to adjust your driving to allow for these changes and drive more safely.
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