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Food Safety Manager Certification

$150

with Chris Fitzsimmons

Calendar Oct 24, 2026 at 8 am, runs for 1 week

This one day course is designed to prepare food service employees to meet the Illinois certification requirement.

Topics include: personal hygiene, cross contamination, time and temperature, receiving and storage, food safety management systems, training hourly employees, and more

Book will be provided. Textbook: ServSafe Manager Book, 9th Edition

Certification is required every five years

Fused Glass Art

$45

with Lily Siu

Calendar Oct 26, 2026 at 5 pm

Glass projects featuring a multi-colored pattern achieved by fusing together variously colored canes, rods, strips, or squares of glass.

Perfect for groups.

Time: 5-8

Trip - Dewitt County Museum

$40

with Kaylee Learnard

Calendar Oct 28, 2026

Join us on a trip to Dewitt County Museum.

 

Pilates 101

$15

with Sarah Kasper

Calendar Oct 30, 2026 at 10 am, runs for 1 week

Pilates is wonderful for everybody at any age. Seniors, in particular, can really benefit from a Pilates practice. Changes in your balance, strength, flexibility, focus, and your breath are all areas you may notice have changed with age. Pilates at its core works on improving all of those things! Pilates is gentle enough to be right for you at any age and every exercise can be modified to meet you where your body is that day.

Please bring a mat if you have one!

Chair Yoga Fall Session 4

$27

with Glenda Brooks

Calendar Nov 2, 2026 at 9 am

Chair yoga is especially  suitable for older adults, people with balance or coordination issues, and those with disabilities.  Chair yoga helps increase flexibility, lung capacity, circulation and strength, Improves balance and  relieves stress.  The class incorporates breathing  exercises, stretching, yoga postures, and final relaxation.

9:00am-10:00am

Make it Monday! Art Classes with LAF Design

$35

with Lindsey Franz

Calendar Nov 2, 2026 at 5 pm

Start your month with CREATIVITY! 

Join local artist Lindsey Franz for a fun and inspiring Monday evening in her studio downtown. Each month, you'll create a brand-new art project, learn new techniques, and leave with a handmade masterpiece to take home! You do not need to be an experienced artist for these classes just willing to come and have some fun! 

Grab a friend or bring your children- this will be the perfect way to get creative and make something with people you love!

Tai Chi Session 3

$35

with Daniel Hall

Calendar Nov 4, 2026 at 10:30 am, runs for 4 weeks

Daniel Hall teaches Tai Chi for the Community Education Department at DACC. He has been a martial arts practitioner for 40+ years, focusing on the internal Chinese art of Tai Chi, as well as the arts of Hsing –I and Bagua. He has studied a variety of Chi-gung and Nei-gung systems and is also a certified Clear Tai Chi™ Level 1 instructor, Clear Tai Chi™ Internal Push Hands™ Level 1 Instructor andhas completed levels 1-4 of Clear Tai Chi™ (Fa Kung) Chi Healing training. As a Kinesiotherapist at the Danville VA, Dan taught Tai chi and Nei-gung for health and for stress reduction to Veterans for several years until retiring in 2020. He taught these skills to Veterans with a wide variety of physical and mental health issues, as ways of coping with the stresses and difficulties of life.

Time: 10:30am-11:30am

Session 3 Wednesdays November 4-25

Tai Chi Evening Session 3

$35

with Daniel Hall

Calendar Nov 4, 2026 at 5:30 pm, runs for 4 weeks

Daniel Hall teaches Tai Chi for the Community Education Department at DACC. He has been a martial arts practitioner for 40+ years, focusing on the internal Chinese art of Tai Chi, as well as the arts of Hsing –I and Bagua. He has studied a variety of Chi-gung and Nei-gung systems and is also a certified Clear Tai Chi™ Level 1 instructor, Clear Tai Chi™ Internal Push Hands™ Level 1 Instructor andhas completed levels 1-4 of Clear Tai Chi™ (Fa Kung) Chi Healing training. As a Kinesiotherapist at the Danville VA, Dan taught Tai chi and Nei-gung for health and for stress reduction to Veterans for several years until retiring in 2020. He taught these skills to Veterans with a wide variety of physical and mental health issues, as ways of coping with the stresses and difficulties of life.

Time: 5:30pm-6:30pm

Session 3 W November 4-25





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