The dog days of summer are here. It’s time to grab your camera and enter the Bark Busters Dog Days of Summer Photo Competition.

“We’re looking for clever and entertaining photos,” said Bark Busters trainer Christine Guth of Bloomingdale.

The entry deadline is Monday, Sept. 1. Prizes include a Bark Busters gift bag and a donation to an animal-related charity. Contest details appear at www.BarkBusters.com.

As the world’s largest dog training company, Bark Busters is devoted to animals. They recently joined the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals International in support of Operation Baghdad Pups to help military personnel transport animals from the Middle East back to the states.

On June 24, the seventh Operation Baghdad Pups transport began. FedEx jets transported 24 dogs and two cats from Baghdad to Dubai, France and England. The animals arrived in New Jersey on Thursday. To read more about this international operation, log onto www.spca.com/press/item/42.

From dogs to fish

If you like fish, head over to the free Catch and Release Fishing Derby to be held Saturday, July 26, at Heritage Park, 311 Windy Point Drive, Glendale Heights.
The casting skill area and registration begins at 9 a.m.

The village and the Glendale Heights Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 52 are co-sponsoring the event. Prizes will be awarded for children in three age categories. For information, call (630) 260-6060.
 
Witness a demolition

The wrecking ball is headed for the east wing of the Marklund Home for Children, 164 S. Prairie Ave., Bloomingdale.

“We’ve added on to the original 1956-built home,” said Marklund spokeswoman Vicki Krystof. “To best meet the needs of our residents — and to be fiscally responsible — we’ve decided to raze the original home and rebuild the wing.”

The new wing will include an elevator, an activity room and therapy rooms.

The 9 a.m. Monday, July 28, demolition party will feature a Tonka truck race and a sledgehammer Test-Your-Strength Challenge. For information, call (630) 593-5456.

To help fund Marklund services for people with severe and profound developmental disabilities, a special raffle is under way.

One hundred $100 tickets will be sold for a chance to win two airfares and a week’s stay in Hawaii. To purchase raffle tickets, call (630) 593-5482.
 
Or attend an art show

Once again, the nonprofit DuPage Credit Union Bank, 202 S. Gary Ave. in Bloomingdale, is displaying the artwork of DuPage residents with disabilities.

Thanks to the bank, oil pastels, paintings, clay sculptures and collages from Western DuPage Special Recreation Association and Northeastern DuPage Special Recreation Association artists will be on public display through Saturday, Aug. 2.