July	August
July 21, 2pm: Study Group Committee Meeting  at Peoria NEXT Innovation Center, 801 W Main St	Aug. 17 & 24, 9am: Winter Curriculum Committee Meetings in Michel Student Center Executive Suite
July 27, 9am: Fall Registration Open House  in Michel Student Center Ballrooms	Aug. 26, 5pm: OLLI Trivia Night Fundraiser: 1950s At The Hop in the Hayden-Clark Alumni Center - register online

The OLLI Fall 2016 brochure hit the post office yesterday, so you should receive yours in the mail this week!

In the meantime, you can scroll through a digital PDF copy by clicking here.

Once you have had time to review our offerings, choose your way to register, beginning July 27:

1. Attend the Open House Registration on Wednesday, July 27, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. in the Michel Student Center Ballrooms (doors open at 8:40 a.m.)

2. Mail your registration form from the back of your brochure 

3. Register online starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, July 28, via the OLLI home page: www.bradley.edu/olli 

If you need additional assistance with your registration, call our office after 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, July 28, at 309-677-3900.

Goodwill Commons (Activity Level 2)

Monday, July 25, 11:15 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

$25 - includes lunch, gratuities, tour, and shuttle transportation

Victory Acres (Activity Level 2)

Thursday, August 11, 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

$25 - includes lunch, gratuities, tour, and shuttle transportation

Mackinaw Winery (Activity Level 2)

Wednesday, August 24, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

$35 - includes hot buffet lunch, gratuities, private tour, wine tasting, and shuttle transportation

Good's Furniture (Activity Level 3)

Friday, August 12, 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

$29 - includes tour, lunch, gratuities, and shuttle transportation

Sanfilippo Foundation Collection (Activity Level 3)

Wednesday, August 17, 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

$125 - includes museum admissions, lunch, gratuities, snacks, and charter coach transportation

Nachusa Grasslands Hike (Activity Level 4)

Friday, August 5, 7:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.

$89 - includes guided hike, class fees, lunch, gratuities, snacks, and charter coach transportation

To register for any of the above trips, click here to utilize our online system, or call Gwen at 309-677-3900.

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The heroin epidemic is not just on the rise nationally, but is a growing problem in our own area.  Peoria is considered a geographic area of concern for the state of Illinois.

Peoria Reads is encouraging our community to read Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic.  Written by Sam Quinones, this book is described as "an explosive and shocking account of addiction in the heartland of America."  This story of how heroin addiction became an epidemic in small-town America was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction in March.  For more information about Dreamland, click here.

Copies of Dreamland are available for checkout and additional copies are available for pick-up at all Peoria Public Library locations.  To reserve a copy, contact Roberta Koscielski at robertakoscielski@ppl.peoria.lib.il.us or at 309-497-2186.

Coming soon: Information regarding an upcoming Skype conversation with author Sam Quinones!