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Valley West Community Hospital’s Auxiliary annual meeting and Spring Luncheon will be held at noon Thursday at the United Church on Lions Road, Sandwich.

4-C: Community Coordinated Child Care will present a free workshop for those interested in offering child care services in their home.

The Sycamore Girl Scouts of the Double Tree Service Unit will participate in a Walk with Water event at 3 p.m. Sunday at Sycamore Lake. Girl Scout Troop 654, which is hosted by St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Sycamore, is working with Tanzania Development Support to coordinate this event.

Pay-It-Forward House, 719 Somonauk St., Sycamore, will hold volunteer orientation from 7 to 8 p.m. May 20.

The Sycamore High School Band will perform its spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Sycamore High School Auditorium.

Kishwaukee Untied Way and the DeKalb County Ca$h Coalition will host a series of financial literacy events in DeKalb and Sycamore in the first $mart with Money Week, scheduled from Saturday through May 23.

From noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, the Joseph F. Glidden Homestead and Historical Center’s Spring Open House-Open Barn will give visitors their one chance all year to see the inside of the historic barn where “The Winner” barbed wire was invented and first manufactured.

Glidden Homestead & Historical Center will host a volunteer orientation at 9 a.m. Saturday.

Local artists are invited to gather and brainstorm and initiate a new sharing group from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at DeKalb Area Women’s Center, 1021 State St., DeKalb.

The eighth annual “Crop For Cancer” to raise money for the American Cancer Society will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at The Elva Town Hall in DeKalb. 

The Joiner Restoration Committee clean-up day is set to get ready for the Memorial Weekend Ceremony.

Barb City Manor will hold an open house from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Thursday at 680 Haish Blvd., DeKalb.

The National Association of Letter Carriers will conduct its 21st annual food drive on Saturday. Letter carriers will collect nonperishable food donations Saturday as they deliver mail along their postal routes.

Kishwaukee College will host two free screenings of the documentary “Wired” on Friday.

The Kishwaukee College Music Club will hold a free afternoon of student performances at noon Wednesday in the Student Lounge located in the Student Center at the college. “Music Club Presents: A Spring Performance” is free and open to the public.