Month: August 2019

Photograph taken by Patrick Coin

Meet Your Water Snake Neighbors

By Slithering Jack MacRae Queen snakes are gentle but squirmy water snakes with unique colors. They are not female king snakes, but belong to an entirely different taxonomic genus and family. Their very cool name in Latin “Regina septemvitatta” means Queen Seven Stripe. Queen snakes are about 2 feet long (big ones might reach 3) … Read more

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Bandito Barney’s Beach Club and Bordello

By Gary Swick From time to time we profile one of our Business Partners. As our largest fundraiser, No Clean Water No Good Beer is successful partly due to its great location: Bandito Barney’s Beach Club and Bordello in East Dundee. It has been rated as the #1 beer garden in the Northwest suburbs and … Read more

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Plastics are Breaking the Laws

By Gary Swick, President At our Yorkville river cleanup, I realized that my very full bag of trash was exceptionally light. It lacked the usual heavy glass bottles and pieces of metal. The contents were primarily cigarette butts, plastic bottles, food wrappers, and miscellaneous other plastic products like polystyrene (Styrofoam). These items end up as … Read more