Evanston is a busy place, and sometimes it’s hard to keep up with everything that happens over the course of a weekend. So here at the RoundTable we’ve decided to start a new project to help us keep in better touch as a community.
At the start of every week, the RoundTable will share photos from the various festivals, events, protests, block parties, full moons, sunrises, weddings, or even just pictures from the backyard or a park. To better know what goes on in each other’s lives, we’d like to see what keeps you busy on a typical Saturday and Sunday. So, please send us your weekend photos at news@evanstonroundtable.com!
Some 20 volunteers braved the rain to participate in Evanston Grows “Put your Garden to Bed” event on Sunday, Oct. 24.
The photo at left shows Mary Collins, Evanston Grows Director of Strategy, and Linda Kruhmin, Edible Evanston Co-Leader. Collins and Kruhmin were pleased with a successful afternoon preparing Fleetwood Jourdain’s 18 raised beds for winter. Linda and Matt provided expertise with volunteers on best practices for winterizing raised beds.
The right-hand photo shows Nia Williams, Evanston Fight for Black Lives organizer and founder of West End Garden Initiative, assisting with the “Put Your Garden to Bed” event sponsored by Evanston Grows.
Lisa Zschunke, Evanston Grows Founding Member; Matt Wechsler, owner, Village Farmstand; and Nia Williams worked through a steady rain planting onions and garlic that will mature through the winter.
Halloween is only a week away, and Evanston residents are ready to celebrate.
The photo at left shows brothers Matthew, Elijah and Ethan (from left to right) Lopez trick-or-treating on Saturday, Oct. 23 on Central Street.
The photo to the right shows three skeletons, relaxing on Forestview Road, who find all this Halloween hullabaloo hilarious.
On Saturday afternoon, artist Tyrue Slang Jones presented his new “Birds of Concern” mural at its celebratory ribbon-cutting.
This exquisite mural graces the side of the Maya Papaya children’s clothing store on the northwest corner of Green Bay Road and Central Street. Its purpose is to alert people that the three representative birds, Red-headed Woodpecker, American Kestrel and Blackburnian Warbler, are under stress from habitat loss, climate change and other causes. Bookmarks picturing the mural and recommending actions people can take on behalf of birds are available for free at various Central Street stores and from info@ensbc.org.
Left to right: Mayor Daniel Biss; Angela Shafer, Director of Central Street, Evanston; Council Member Eleanor Revelle, 7th Ward; artist Tyrue Slang Jones; Lea Pinsky, Executive Director of Art Encounter; Dustin Harris of Art Encounter; and Arden Davidson, Vice President, Evanston North Shore Bird Club.
And finally, a demonstration at Elliot Park Sunday afternoon, Oct. 17. Many environmental groups presented a demonstration against the Line 3 oil pipeline which will go under the Mississippi River then under the Straights of Mackinac.
