December is the month for Holiday cheer and the art community at Westside Multimedia & Gallery is honoring this time with a show, running from Friday, Dec. 5, to Wednesday, Dec. 31, at 7023 W. Roosevelt Road, Berwyn.

Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital recently donated nearly $5,500 worth of medicine to an organization dedicated to helping Guatemalan families break the cycle of poverty through education, health care, housing and family development.

Garfield Farm Museum will present its annual Candlelight Reception from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 6 and 7.

Interpreters wearing period clothing will share what life was like in the 1840s. Scantlin’ Reunion will play dulcimers in the second-floor ballroom, while spiced tea and tea breads are served in the dining room. The Homespun Holiday Market will be set in the adjacent Atwell Burr House.

Let’s face it: The holidays are a time for showing off.

Whether it’s the turducken you slaved over in hopes of impressing your mother-in-law or the elaborate light design strung in the front yard to elicit the neighbors’ envy, expectations for holiday entertaining are high. A surefire way to wow your guests is to create a beautiful tabletop arrangement to set the tone for your dining experience. Here are some tips...

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.