Mon Sep 7, 5 PM

Batavia Moose Lodge #682 · 1535 S. Batavia Avenue, Batavia

Monday is the deadest night in the restaurant business, and the Moose Lodge filled it with a name and a routine. Go eat, and count how many people get greeted by name.

Tue Sep 8, 8 AM

Batavia Rotary Club · Apple Villa, 1961 W Wilson, Batavia, IL 60510

Patti Lackman speaks on memories of September eleventh at the weekly Rotary meeting. It's the highest concentration of people who actually get things done in this town — go once as a guest and ask everyone else what they need.

Tue Sep 8

Grognard Games · Batavia - 1375 Wind Energy Pass, Batavia, IL 60510 · $5.00

Five dollars to play Riftbound isn't revenue — it's a reason to come back every week. Tabletop retailers cracked community programming before the rest of us did.

Tue Sep 8, 6 PM

The Sidecar Supper Club & Beer Garden · Sidecar Supper Club Beer Garden, 12 North River Street, Batavia, IL

Carissa May plays solo acoustic in the beer garden, with half-price hand-ground burgers and two dollars off drafts. An easy, low-stakes downtown spot to bring a client for a real conversation.

Thu Sep 10, 11 AM

Covenant Living at the Holmstad · Covenant Living at the Holmstad, 700 W Fabyan Pkwy, Batavia, IL

Thirty-eight wooded acres and a full continuum of care, opened up for a lunch. If your customers are older adults or the adult children deciding for them, this is where you learn how those decisions get made.

Fri Sep 11, 2 PM

Elderday Center, Inc. · Elderday Center-Central, 328 W Wilson St, Batavia, IL 60510 and Elderday Center-North, 865 Parkway Ave, Elgin, IL 60120 · Free

Free open house during the Mum Sale, with live entertainment. Buy mums for your storefront, then ask what they need this fall — nonprofits like this are the best referral partners a small business ever gets.

Fri Sep 11, 7 PM

Batavia Bulldogs Football · Bulldog Stadium, Batavia High School, Batavia, IL

Difference Maker Night, with a free trading card for everyone through the gate — card three of ten, and the only one that exists so far. Come early, scan it, and guess before the person next to you does; the program site carries sponsor tiers if a few thousand neighbors in one place is your market.