CARBONDALE, IL (KFVS) - Building Healthier Communities: A Leader's Forum will be held on Tuesday, February 26, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Carbondale Civic Center. 

Around 150 leaders from Alexander, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac, Randolph, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, and Union Counties will learn about the connection between improving health and the economic development of the community. They will receive suggestions for improving health through changes in the workplace which make the healthy choice the easy choice.

PINCKNEYVILLE, IL (KFVS) - The next Pinckneyville City Countil meeting will be Monday, February 11 at 7:30 p.m.

The meeting will be in the Council Room of City Hall at 104 South Walnut.

For more information or to put a request in to appear on the agenda, you can click here.

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(KFVS) - The 1st Southern Illinois Food Packing Event 2013 will be Saturday, February 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The event will be at the SIUC Newman Center at 715 South Washington Street in Carbondale. Organizers are hoping to unite churches and businesses in the Southern Illinois area to package a minimum of 43,000 meals for orphans in third world countries.

They say anyone can be a participant at this event: any age, anyone who is willing to help scoop rice, soy, dried vegetables and seal them in a box.

To register, you can go to www.foodpackingevent.com, click on the "Sign Up" at the top right corner, fill in required information (click on Carbondale, Ill. for: Choose the event). It costs $54 a participant. Organizers say you can pay by the secure form of Paypal online or have all checks made out to Food for Orphans by Jan. 25. You can also call 1-888-219-0779 to register by phone.