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player ready...Chicago jazz vocalist Petra van Nuis will perform at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, in the Carnegie Community Room at St. Charles Public Library, 1 S. Sixth Ave. in St. Charles.
Petra van Nuis will be singing with her pianist Dennis Luxion, who was jazz legend Chet Baker’s pianist in Europe in the 1980s, according to a press release from the library.
The public is invited and the concert is free to attend, the release said. For more information, go to scpld.org or call 630-584-0076.
Autumn walks planned at Kane preserves
The Forest Preserve District of Kane County’s Trek with a Naturalist series will offer walks at three different forest preserves this fall.
The hikes are for those 18 years old and older, according to a press release from the district.
A district naturalist will stop occasionally along the way to interpret the ecology of the preserve, but the main goal is to cover three to five miles at a pace of approximately three miles per hour, the release said.
The walks will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, at Bliss Woods Forest Preserve, 5S660 Bliss Road in Sugar Grove; from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at Hampshire Forest Preserve, 44W780 Allen Road in Hampshire; and from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 5, at Prairie Green Forest Preserve, 698 N. Peck Road in Geneva.
Advance registration is required for the free programs. To register, go to www.kaneforest.com/register, call 630-444-3190 or email [email protected].
For more information on district programs, go to www.kaneforest.com or find the district on social media by searching @forestpreserve.