Activism

Evanston's second annual Green Living Festival runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Evanston Ecology Center, 2024 McCormick Blvd.

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The City Council this evening is scheduled to approve a contract with an architect to design expanded facilities for the Evanston Animal Shelter.

For the second year in a row, the City of Evanston and Keep Evanston Beautiful are urging Evanston residents and businesses to recycle as many aluminum beverage cans as possible during October, designated "Evanston CAN Recycle!" month.

Northwestern University officials say students moving out of their dorms in June gave 14,000 pounds of cast-off clothing and food to a campus recycling effort.

The City Council this week accepted donations to provide ballfield scoreboards and restore an architectural landmark.

The Evanston Chapter of the United Way of the North Shore is distributing grants totalling $584,720 to 23 groups providing health and human service programs serving the city.

Locavore activists with The Talking Farm held a potluck dinner Tuesday to celebrate their new mini-farm site at Twiggs Park in Evanston.