5/7/2022 - 5/7/2022
Gather your group and have fun planning your floats, boats, golf carts or whatever your entry may be for this year’s Rend Lake Water Festival Parade. It’s sure to be a day filled with fun and sunshine! This year’s parade will be on Saturday May 7, 2022
This year's theme is "50 years of friends, family and fun" so pick your favorites and relive the fun and excitement of yesteryear.
Like past years, we will be giving out cash prizes to the “Best of Show”, “Best Business”, “Best Church” & “Best Club/Organization” float. Judges will travel the staging areas to make their choices and winners will be announced after the parade at the Capitol Park Pavilion.
We will again have registration in the parking lot of the Antique Auto Museum (211 N. Main St. - one block NORTH of the Benton Public Square) from 8:00 am – 9:30 am and line up on West Washington Street, as in past years.
5/14/2022 - 5/15/2022
This course will provide an understanding for the law-abiding citizen’s right to self-defense. The participants will develop skills and attitudes essential for the safe and effective use of a handgun for the protection of self and family. Further, coverage will be provided on mental awareness, how to avoid victimization, and mindset development for use of a firearm when faced with a life threatening encounter. This course will review basic gun safety rules for guns in the home, travel and concealed carry. Also covered will be the responsibility of firearm ownership laws, how to legally travel with a firearm and the justified use of lethal force. Students will be required to participate in classroom and firearms range activities and demonstrate basic live-fire handgun proficiency.
An Illinois Firearms Owners ID card is recommended, but not required. This course assumes participant already has a basic understanding of firearms, firearm’s safety and possesses basic firearm’s use skill sets. However, even very novice shooters are more than welcome and even encouraged to attend. (No Firearms or ammunition allowed in the classroom)
This course is available to and encouraged for private/professional groups of 15 or more. Course facilitator would provide classroom facility suitable for the number of participants. Contact us for more information and the training team availability and dates Course meets all of the Illinois Concealed Carry Curriculum Mandates.
5/17/2022
This is the 3-hour Concealed Carry Renewal Class for Illinois Concealed Carry permit holders. Per Illinois Concealed Carry Act Mandate, the class will consist of reviewing all laws associated with Illinois Concealed Carry followed up with a live fire range qualification.5/21/2022
Would you like to Live Fire an AR-15?
Would you like to know how to safely operate?
Would you like guidance before a purchase?
Class is for men and women
When: March 19, 2022 or May 21, 2022
Where: Extreme Exigency Education Foundation and Shooting Park
Cost: $50 Seating limited.
This entry level course includes, but is not limited to…
1) Respect and safely operating in a legal (federal/state) manner. Safety FIRST!
2) History and function of the AR-15 and discussion of variants (AR-9, AR-10, AR-pistols, 300 BO)
3) Discussion includes AR components, Stock types , rail and handguard systems, barrels, triggers,
optics and scopes, magazines, tactical lights, ballistics, chambering and clearing -- to name a few
4) Two functional models will be present.
5) Field stripping and proper cleaning
6) Discussion on AR-15 building and 80% lowers
7) Curriculum provided
LIVE FIRE(20 rounds) at the end* All personal information will be kept confidential.
CONTACT: dollins@gmail.com or TEXT: 618-927-1480 for details