Group Guitar for All Ages: Brookdale Music’s popular Group Guitar classes for Beginners will meet Thursdays for 12 weeks through April 23.
Ages 7-10, 5 to 5:50 p.m. Ages 11-16, 6 to 6:50 p.m. Ages 17 and up, 7 to 7:50 p.m. $10 registration plus $180 tuition plus $10.95 book. Brookdale Music is in Pebblewood Plaza, 1550 N. Route 59, Naperville. Call JoEllyn Caulfield at 630-983-5100 to register. www.brookdalemusic.com. Free COPD screening: Edward Hospital’s pulmonary rehabilitation department is offering a free screening to detect alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency. The screenings will be available from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Edward Heart Hospital conference room on the campus of Edward Hospital, 801 S. Washington St. in Naperville. Call 630-527-3389 to register. Walk-ins are also welcome. Amici Club: The Italian American Amici Club will meet at 12:30 p.m. at Tutte a Tavola Mia Francessca Passaggio, 3124 S. Route 59, Naperville. A scholarship fund donation will be taken. Contact Mary at 630-961-2031 or mpfuraol.com. Lincoln archive: North Central College will open its archive of Lincoln materials and display, among other items, a hand-written 1859 letter and a presidential telegram from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the college’s Oesterle Library, 320 E. School St. Naperville in the Age of Lincoln: Naper Settlement joins in the national celebration of the bicentennial of President Abraham Lincoln’s birth with an exhibit about Naperville in the 1830s through 1860s titled “Naperville in the Age of Lincoln.” The exhibit runs through June 28. The exhibit is included with admission to Naper Settlement. Visit www.napersettlement.museum or call 630-420-6010. Art contest: Naperville’s Sister Cities Commission is hosting the Young Artists Competition for youth between the ages of 13 and 18 to design a piece of artwork that encompasses the theme “Your Path to Peace.” Entries are due to the Mayor’s Office in the Naperville Municipal Center, 400 S. Eagle St., by 4 p.m. March 13. An entrant must be between the ages of 13 and 18 as of April 30 and either a resident of Naperville or a student in a Naperville Community Unit School District 203 or Indian Prairie School District 204 school. Further rules and information are available at www.sister-cities.org/programs/yap.cfm.
Adoption promotion: Adopt any pair of animals from the Naperville Area Humane Society during the month of February and receive a 50 percent discount off the least expensive adoption fee. Visit www.napervilleareahumanesociety.org or call 630-420-8989, Ext. 14 for more information.