ROCKFORD — Autumn in the Rockford area means experiencing apple orchards, pumpkin patches, hayrides, haunted houses and more.Here’s your guide to enjoy everything the fall season has to offer in the region.Apple orchards/pumpkin patches Curran’s Apple Orchard, 6385 Kilburn Ave., RockfordOpen daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.At Curran’s Orchard, you can pick from more than a dozen varieties of apples, pre-picked or you-pick. The orchard also features a glass-sided beehive, petting corral, autumn crafts, apple slingshot, corn tunnel, straw tunnel and straw bale pyramid. There are also hay rides on the weekends.For more: http://curransorchard.com/Edwards Apple Orchard, 7061 Centerville Road, Poplar…
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Leading producer Suryadevara Naga Vamsi of Sithara Entertainments is joining forces with Sai Soujanya of Fortune Four Cinemas for a bilingual film Sir (Telugu)/Vaathi (Tamil), headlined by national-award winning actor Dhanush. Srikara Studios is presenting the film. Venky Atluri is the writer and director of the prestigious project. Samyuktha Menon plays the female lead. The makers of Sir/Vaathi announced the film’s release date earlier today. The film will release simultaneously in Telugu and Tamil across the globe on December 2. In the release date announcement poster, Dhanush is seated on a table in a classroom and is pointing his finger…
Save the Children’s Library For All warmly invites Canberrans to experience the Our Yarning program, which is hosting a series of writers’ workshops, public lectures, and activities in the nation’s capital from 19-21 September.Our Yarning is a free, digital library of culturally relevant books created by and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The Our Yarning team will host three story time sessions at early childhood centres, host writers’ workshops, and hold a public lecture at Canberra University presented by Our Yarning’s Cultural Advisor Dr Julie Owen during the week of events.An ‘In Conversation’ event will also be held…
September 18, 2022 – National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) – Portland Thorns FC News ReleaseKansas City, Kan. – Portland Thorns FC and the Kansas City Current played to a 1-1 draw at Children’s Mercy Park on Sunday evening. After 87 scoreless minutes, Rocky Rodríguez broke through to put Portland ahead in the match. Just seven minutes later, the Current responded with a stoppage-time equalizer to level the score. Thorns FC return home for their final two regular-season matches at Providence Park this season on Sept. 21 against Racing Louisville FC and Sept. 25 against the Chicago Red Stars. Playoff PressureWith…
Dear Abby: I went to college in France. It was my lifelong dream to move here and start my own life in this beautiful country. I succeeded. I married and had a child, but the marriage didn’t work out. My son, who is now 8, has spent his whole life here. He fits in. He is popular. However, as a single working mother in a foreign land, I do not.I have mastered the French language. I can have an intellectual conversation in French, and I even make jokes in French. I understand it’s a different culture. I have had many…
For several reasons, R.L. Stine deserves to be mentioned as a master of horror, but none of his work is more iconic than his Goosebumps book series. Goosebumps may not be particularly gory or dark, but the series proves that children’s books are capable of great horror. Kids are often introduced to horror through Stine’s classics, and these stories still stand up decades later. Once the books became a certified hit, it was only a matter of time before the series was picked up for television. Premiering in 1995, Goosebumps became a popular anthology series and was a faithful adaptation…
NEW YORK — For the mother and her three children, the three-block walk to the Coney Island beach was a familiar one.It meant leaving their austere apartment complex on Neptune Avenue for a boardwalk stroll to the neighborhood’s famous amusements or a beach day in the shadow of its towering Parachute Jump and Wonder Wheel.But at nearly 1 a.m. last Monday morning, the streets and boardwalk were rainy and desolate. Still, the mother was intent.Draped in a bathrobe, Erin Merdy carried her 3-month-old son. Her 7-year-old boy and 4-year-old girl walked alongside.She trudged across the sand, down to the dark…
Originally published Sept. 15 on IdahoCapitalSun.com.Editor’s note: This story is part of a project called Democracy Day, in which newsrooms across the country are shining a light on threats to democracy. Para leer esta historia en español, haga clic aquí.Raquel Reyes started her new position with the Idaho Democratic Party in the fall of 2021 – the first Hispanic outreach organizer for the party.The new position is focused on educating the Idaho Latino community on the Democratic platform and building trust within the community. She has reached out to eligible Latino voters who are unfamiliar with the voting process, many…
“I was 12 and had just been kicked out of school for hitting another kid. I had a beginning eating disorder (I wasn’t eating) and was scratching my arms to bleed. My parents decided to home-school me until they could figure out what to do and had me order a bunch of books (books were my only comfort throughout childhood). I ordered The Bell Jar just because I thought it looked interesting, and honestly it was just what I needed. I was so incredibly lost and felt like a complete failure, just like the main character. I got to work through my feelings, and…
Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Register today. Beth Goss was recently appointed as the CEO of kid game company Outright Games. To do that, the former chief brand officer at 20th Century Fox had to relocate her family from the U.S. to London. That tells you the nature of the opportunity. And now she is running a kids’ video game publisher behind the likes of Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol and Star Trek titles. Goss has held positions with some of the biggest entertainment companies in…