Southland festivals for summer 2011

Memorial Day weekend has long been the unofficial kickoff to summer, and with good reason. Often, it’s when the festival season starts in the Southland. This year is no exception.

From carnivals and food fests to fairs and annual festivals, the region has you covered with tons of fun through Labor Day.

For more events, check out our Seasonal Fun section in SouthtownStar.com’s Entertainment section .

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(May 27 to 30) IRISH FEST 2011: Chicago Gaelic Park, 6119 W. 147th St. (one block east of Ridgeland Avenue), Oak Forest, (708) 687-9323, chicagogaelicpark.org .

Tiny Tidbits: Uses for pool noodles

Last week we had a major disaster black mold in our master bathroom remodel DIY ended with our family in a hotel. I was so grateful for this helpful tip from a friend as it is night, our very easy. Our 2 years sleeping in a bed with double size bed rails. It is too big to sleep in a bag-n-play comfortably, and bed rails are much too heavy to be portable. Then we stopped at the dollar tree to buy pool noodles that we used along the edge of the bed between the fitted sheet and mattress. It worked perfectly, and she slept soundly.

Claymont teacher uses pool noodles to teach genetics

1. The bowl consists of crunchy vegetables on top of slices of flank steak, brisket or whatever meat you desire on top of rice noodles all swimming in a pool of succulent broth. Just talking about it doesn't do it justice; it's in your best interest to
2. Barnhart said she usually buys her pool noodles at discount stores at the end of the summer, when she can get them for about $1 a piece. This is the third year that Barnhart has used pool noodles in her classes. “The kids learn so much better when they
3. The town of Nimbin is already famous for the unusual sport of bong throwing, and now the Friends of the Nimbin Pool are looking to make noodle hockey one of the watery sports of the future. On Saturday, February 25, at 3pm the will
4. When I walked through the door, a gang of bloodthirsty seven-year-olds lined up to challenge the Dark Lord with light sabers fashioned from foam pool noodles. The Force was so strong on that Sunday afternoon it took me a week to recover.
5. “You get to know people when they come in,” he says. He lists some of his favourite features in Tiny's tiny kitchen as the compact dishwasher and a yellow foam pool “noodle” that has been fixed to the low-hanging stairwell near the kitchen entrance to