How To Avoid A Fire At Your Home

Your week might include a $2 lunch to benefit the animal shelter, a Bears tailgate party Thursday, and a Saturday event just for romantics.

Posted Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:47 am CT

It's National Fire Prevention Week. Did you make your family escape plan yet, with a defined place to meet after all are out? Did you change your smoke detector batteries? Here are some tips.
Buy a $2 hot dog lunch Monday to benefit Wright-Way Animal Shelter, where a runaway bus crashed into a building last week. The lunch is at the Niles Senior Center from 11:30 to 1 p.m. or until supplies run out.
Ready to tail gate? Get to St. John Brebeuf Church's parking lot by 5:30 Thursday, Oct. 10, for beer and hearty tailgate food, then watch the Bears Beat the Giants on a 45-foot screen. If it rains, the event will move indoors.
Romantics, rejoice! The Jane Austen Festival--two months long--begins Saturday at Morton Grove Library. Make a shawl like Jane would have worn, plus two movies based on Austen heroines.
On Sunday Oct. 13, there's a Home and Safety Fair at Oakton Community College's Skokie Campus. Learn to protect your family against ID theft, crime, fires and more; and protect your kids against cyberbullying.

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