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The first throws of Bowl For Kids’ Sake, the annual fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters, will start from 5-8 p.m. Feb. 22 -23, at the Northern Illinois University Huskies Den in DeKalb. Idle Hour Lanes of Sandwich will host games from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Feb. 28, and Mardi Gras Lanes in DeKalb will finish the tally by hosting three days of games: 5:30-8:30 p.m. March 5 and noon-6 p.m. March 6-7.

The atmosphere of the tropics soon will replace the cold of a DeKalb winter – at least for one night, March 6 – during the eighth annual TAILS Annual Tropical Fundraiser.

University of Illinois Crop Management Conference: Feb. 17-18 at Kishwaukee College Convention Center, Malta. Contact: Greg Clark, 815-772-4075, gmclark@illinois.edu. Advance registration can be completed online at http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/edwardsvillecenter. Registration up to one week before the conference is $130 per person. Late and at-door registration is $150. The fee includes lunch, refreshments and handouts for both days. There is no one-day registration option. Extension specialists from University of Illinois will present some of the latest research information on critical crop production, including fungicide research on corn, soybean and wheat; an update on Japanese beetle and soybean aphid; saturation and flooding effects o

Trinity Lutheran Church annual soup supper: 4:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday at 303 S. Seventh St., DeKalb. The public is invited, as well as their friends, for soup, salad, hot dogs and dessert. Ticket costs are $6 for adults and $3 for children, although children age 5 and younger can have the meal free.

Monday Big Book Study AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

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The Boy Scouts of America celebrates 100 years of service during Scouting Anniversary Week, Feb. 7-13. In celebration, local Scouts across the nation will participate in special ceremonies, exhibits and award presentations within local communities, including DeKalb, Kirkland, Elgin, Geneva, St. Charles, Plano and Sugar Grove, among others that will help the Scouts celebrate – by bestowing proclamations on behalf of the Boy Scouts of America, offering a “Scouting: Century of Values” exhibit, and planning tree-planting ceremonies with local Scout units to commemorate all that Scouting has done and will continue to do in their communities, according to a recent news release.

Family Service Agency’s Senior Service Center Genoa site kick-off luncheon will be held at noon Feb. 10, at the Genoa Township Park District building. The free lunch will celebrate the new senior center for residents of the Genoa-Kingston area.

Kishwaukee Valley Art League’s guest demonstrator, Big Rock fiber artist Natasha Lehrer, will explain the roving process and three types of felting and show how she creates her unique art pieces, such as

Kane County Audubon Society, the local chapter of the Illinois Audubon Society, invites DeKalb County bird-watchers to events, such as the trips and meetings listed below. Three out-of-state trips require registration.

Veteran Filipino human rights activist Marie Hilao-Enriquez will be the featured speaker for the next installment of the John A. Niemi International Lecture Series, “An Organic Intellectual Speaks Up: Social Movements and Human Rights – the Philippine Case.”

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Unless noted, the contacts for Alcoholics Anonymous and AA meetings are 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. (C) designates closed meetings.

Second annual Eight Bean Dinner: 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday in the social hall at First Lutheran Church in DeKalb, which has a close relationship with a Lutheran church and the Moringe Sokoine Lutheran Secondary School in Tanzania, where a famine has created a desperate food situation for the students, who often only get eight beans a day to eat. Tickets for this rice-and-bean dinner will be sold for a donation of the purchaser’s choosing; last year’s tickets cost $30.33, which is the cost to feed one student for six months. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the church office or by calling 815-758-0643, or donations can be given at the door.

Technology has changed the lives of Americans throughout the country – but not all technology is something new, according to a recent news release from the Sycamore History Museum.

Law, Crime and Social Justice, a new interdisciplinary brown bag lecture series for NIU faculty, graduate students and law students interested in socio-legal studies, has planned three upcoming events.

Genoa’s 2010 Quilt and Needle Arts Walk Stop & Swap will be held from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Saturday at Genoa Public Library, 232 W. Main St., part of the weeklong, four-block display at participating Genoa Main Street businesses.

Help with federal and state tax forms will be available, beginning Feb. 2, at several county locations. Volunteer tax aides will give free assistance to anyone from that date through April 15.

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Quilt expert and Elgin resident Ina Dews will be the featured speaker and have her work displayed, along with many other quilters, knitters and needle artists at Genoa’s 2010 Quilt and Needle Arts Walk.

January is all about domestic animals at the Midwest Museum of Natural History, 425 W. State St., Sycamore.

The Midwest Museum of Natural History in Sycamore is preparing for its second “Groundhog Gala” benefit.

Big Brothers Big Sisters needs support to help more kids

Could the Southern Philippines become the next Afghanistan or a training ground for jihadists?

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