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Cob Connection, which seeks to foster community by promoting sustainability, hosts a fund-raiser with food, music, and activities Saturday from 4 to 7 PM at the McCormick Tribune YMCA. It’ll benefit their latest project, creating a community farm and building an outdoor classroom using alternative materials like corncobs and straw bales in partnership with the YMCA. $10.
Saturday at 10 AM at Kendall College (900 N. North Branch), the Chicago Foodways Roundtable presents a screening of One in a Million: the Cock Robin and Prince Castle Story [click on “Foodways”], a documentary by Naperville Community Television about the now defunct suburban fast-food institution variously called Cock Robin and Prince Castle. Afterward the son of the founder, Walter Fredenhager Jr., will give a talk that covers, among other things, why the stores used square scoops for ice cream, how they influenced McDonald’s, why the company changed its name, and what remains of it today. $3.
