There will be brief presentations repeating on trick or treat safety, treat bags of candy will be given away along with child ID kits. The ID kits will allow you to obtain the fingerprints and DNA of your child to store in a secure place in your own home as a permanent record.
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New federal food safety rules are coming for farmers, handlers and processors. Before the rules are finalized, it's time for all small farmers — even those who think they are wholly or partly exempt — to tune in and weigh in, said Extension educator Deborah Cavanaugh-Grant.
On Oct. 3, U of I Extension, along with Illinois Stewardship Alliance, Illinois Farmers Market Association and the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, will present a webinar covering the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
Extension offers this webinar and other GAPs training to help growers identify areas of high food contamination risk, particularly with infectious microbes, and prepares the growers to write a food safety plan.
"We help them with writing safety plans and, if requested, follow with mock audits of their farms in preparation for the real audit," said James Theuri, Extension educator for Kankakee, Will and Grundy counties.
The webinar will run from 3 to 4:30 p.
A man was shot in the back Wednesday afternoon in Pembroke Township — hours after community leaders gathered to discuss gun violence in the area.
Kankakee County sheriff's police responded to the shooting at 2:25 p.m. around Sneed Court and 3000S Road. The victim was transported to a Kankakee hospital, but his condition is unknown.
Police say a nurse was on scene and the victim was conscious. He and witnesses were uncooperative, and no suspect information has been released.
On Saturday, gunfire sent hundreds of people scrambling at Martin Luther King Park during the annual Pembroke Days festival.
Witnesses say only a handful of people were fighting around 6 p.m. when 10 to 15 shots were fired. Two men were struck but suffered non-life threatening injuries. One of the shooting victims has already been released from the hospital, Pembroke Township Supervisor Sharon White said.
The event was winding down when police from across the county assisted in restoring calm.
In response to the shootings Saturday night at the Pembroke Days festival, Pembroke community officials are meeting Wednesday to discuss how to make the community a safer place.
The meeting will be held at 10 a.m. in the Special Education Conference Room at the Lorenzo R. Smith Sustainability and Technology Academy at 4120 S. Wheeler Road in Hopkins Park.
'It is my hope that we can come together, pool our resources and find a solution to address safety issues in our community,' Pembroke Township Supervisor Sharon White said in a release.
On Saturday, three people were injured at Martin Luther King Park when fights broke out and gunfire was exchanged.
The meeting is open to the public.
