The Berwyn Park District will hold its 2nd annual Positively Pasta Spaghetti Dinner at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Liberty Cultural Center, 6445 W. 27th Place, Berwyn.

The Northern Illinois LEGO Train Club will bring its huge LEGO train display to Cantigny Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 6 and 7, for its seventh annual Christmas Train Show.

New is an expanded display taking up two rooms. Trains will zoom past a 9.5-foot LEGO Sears Tower, through cities and villages made out of LEGO, and past creations from the Indiana Jones movies and “Jurassic Park.”

The Louis S. Viverito Senior Center, 7745 S. Leamington Ave., Burbank, will host a Christmas party on Tuesday, Dec. 23.

Coinciding with the town’s Christmas Walk festivities, the Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva will present its 26th annual Cookie Walk from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5. Cookie sales raise money to support the work of the church and the social justice programs it sponsors, including a youth trip to a Habitat for Humanity home-building site and donations to local nonprofit organizations such as Lazarus House homeless shelter and the Northern Illinois Food Bank.

A 15-year-old Lyons Township High School sophomore who has volunteered at Adventist Hinsdale Hospital for more than a year recently was recognized as the hospital’s junior volunteer of the month.

Professional dancers from around the nation, along with collegiate, high school, middle and grade school dancers from the Chicago area and neighboring states, will perform in Ballet Légere’s 24th annual production of “The Nutcracker Ballet” in Cicero.

Maggie Vannucci of La Grange, a seventh-grader at Gurrie Middle School, was chosen for the lead role of Clara.

Weiman Products offers timely ways consumers can eliminate some of the holiday stress before the season even starts.

If you have questions about how to select, prepare, serve or store the popular holiday main course, there’s a new resource at your fingertips. Experts at University of Illinois Extension is ready to help via the office’s “Turkey for the Holidays” Web site.

The perfect way to get into the spirit of Christmas, according to Danielle Yilmaz, will be by attending “Sophia’s Christmas Miracle.”