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Music

Final summer concert DuPage Symphony Orchestra, 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, Cantigny Park, 1S151 Winfield Road, Wheaton. Program is “This Land is Our Land,” honoring America. $15 adults, $10 students, age 8 to 18, children 7 and under are free. For tickets, call (630) 260-8164, www.cantigny.org.

Fundraiser

Ice cream social fundraiser Adventist Hinsdale Hospital Medical Staff Auxiliary, 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, Burlington Park, Hinsdale. Free. Ice cream, food and beverages available for a nominal fee. Family entertainment includes interactive games, kid’s entertainment stage, Irish dancers, magic show, moon bounce and climbing wall/slide. Proceeds benefit the hospital’s urology department. For more information, call (630) 856-7525.

Miscellaneous

Used book sale Friends of the Helen M. Plum Memorial Library will hold their semi-annual used book sale on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 6 and 7, in the Colonel Plum Auditorium, 110 W. Maple St., Lombard. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday where books will be sold by the bag for $5; and 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, for $2 per bag. Includes fiction, non-fiction, children’s, young adult’s and other media. For more information, call (630) 627-0316, www.plum.lib.il.us.

Nature event


Art in Ash “Rising From the Ashes: Furniture From Lost Trees,” 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily through Sept. 7, Morton Arboretum, Visitor Center, Interstate 88 and Route 53, Lisle. View furniture made from ash trees destroyed by the Emerald ash borer. Woodworking demonstrations on carving, shaping, wood joining and surface texturing. (630) 725-2066, www.mortonarb.org.

Special events

TheosoFest event Theosophical Society fall festival, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, Theosophical Society in America campus, 1926 N. Main St., Wheaton. Speakers, activities, food, vendors, drumming circle, healers, Cretan labyrinth, Hawaiian dances, Qigong and Sandalwood Sitar Music Concert. Free admission. For more information, (630) 668-1571, www.theosophical.org.
 

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