Park
district offers 'Eat What You Learn' cooking class
The Lincoln Park District is offering a four-week course that is
an introduction to basic food preparation. Adults young and old,
couples or singles wanting to improve their skills are encouraged to
come and join in a fun learning experience.
The instructors will be two veteran cooks: Deb Rohrer, the
Lincoln Daily News food editor, and Roy Logan, activities director
at the park district. With these two in the kitchen, the classes are
sure to be fun and informative.
To learn more about this, go to the "Park district notes" in the
LDN Community section:
http://www.lincolndailynews.com/
Features/comm022212_park.shtml.
For class information on the park district website, go to
http://www.lincolnparkdistrict.com/News.aspx.
Zonta
scholarship
This year, the Zonta Club of Lincoln is able to offer
scholarships for young women; among them is the Zonta Club of
Lincoln's Women's Career Scholarship.
The scholarship being offered is open to any Logan County woman.
The school to be attended need not be an Illinois institution;
however, it must be accredited or recognized as an approved program
in the field of study. Top candidates will be selected based on
merit, activities, leadership, honors, awards and need. Awards are
offered on a one-academic-year basis and applicants can reapply year
after year. Students having less than one academic year remaining
until graduation are not eligible for consideration.
Deadline for this scholarship application is March 19.
Scholarship applications are available at local high schools,
colleges and university guidance offices.
More information is available in a Jan. 25 LDN
article.
For further information or to obtain an application, contact
Christel Huff, chairman, Zonta Club of Lincoln Scholarship
Committee, 211 Latham St., Lincoln, IL 62656; phone 217-732-3305
(home) or 217-737-4470 (cell); or email
christel_huff_211@comcast.net. Applications can be
emailed to applicants.
Healthcare
Careers Scholarship applications due March 30
March 30 is the deadline
for the 2012 Abraham Lincoln Healthcare Foundation Healthcare Careers
Scholarship.
Scholarships may be awarded to students pursuing careers identified
by Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital as relating to its present and
future needs. Award amounts range from $10,000 for an associate
degree up to $30,000 for graduate degrees. For every $2,500 awarded,
the recipient is contractually obligated to a one-year employment
contract at ALMH.
Graduating high school seniors, as well as students further along
in their health career studies, are eligible to apply. Preferred
career fields this year are nursing (ADN or BSN), physical therapy,
medical laboratory technology and nurse anesthesiology (CRNA).
Applicants must be residents of Logan County, currently attending
or accepted into a fully accredited school for their chosen field of
study, and demonstrate a cumulative grade-point average of at least
2.5 on a 4.0 scale while maintaining a B average in core classes.
Detailed scholarship guidelines and application forms are
available for download at
https://www.almh.org/Giving-Back/
Scholarships.aspx.
Applicants are also required to simultaneously submit an ALMH job
application specifically for the foundation scholarship. This
application is available at:
https://www.choosememorial.org/
careers/affiliates/ALMH-Job-Listings.aspx.
Both completed applications are due on March 30.
For more information about the ALHF Healthcare Careers
Scholarship Program, contact Marty Ahrends, ALHF executive director,
at 605-5006.
Crime Stoppers accepting scholarship applications
The Lincoln-Logan Crime
Stoppers board is currently accepting applications for the organization's
2012 scholarship awards.
The scholarships are available
to Logan County residents who are either high school seniors or
current college students pursuing a degree in the law enforcement
field.Applications are available at Logan County high schools,
Logan County Regional Office of Education, Lincoln College and
Heartland College, or call 217-732-5704 to obtain an application.
The submission deadline for scholarship applications will be
March 31.
Completed applications should be submitted to:
Karen Petty
Lincoln-Logan Crime Stoppers
311 10th St.
Lincoln, IL 62656
Area
chapter of engineering society offers $1,000 scholarship
The Central Illinois Chapter of the Illinois Society
of Professional Engineers is sponsoring a $1,000 scholarship to a
qualified central Illinois high school senior.
To be eligible, a candidate should be accepted into an
engineering college or to a junior college with an equivalent
academic schedule for the first two years. The candidate must reside
within the counties of Macon, Moultrie, Piatt, Shelby or the
southern parts of DeWitt and Logan. The southern parts of DeWitt and
Logan counties are defined as including the cities of Clinton and
Lincoln and those parts south of Route 10, east of Interstate 55 and
south of County Highway 569 west of I-55.
There is no formal application form. Interested high school
seniors should submit a brief resume including interests, organized
activities, officer positions and awards; school transcript with
national testing results; and a one-page composition describing
their interest in engineering. Arrangements will be made for a
personal interview with each applicant during the latter part of
April.
Interested students should submit
their applications prior to April 8 to:
Willard T. Sudduth, P.E.
2360 S. Taylor Road
Decatur, IL 62521
Mount
Pulaski Rotary Club scholarship announcement
The Mount Pulaski Rotary Club is offering Mount Pulaski High
School seniors the opportunity to apply for scholarships through a
Rotary Club program again this year. Applications for the
scholarships may be obtained from the high school
guidance counselor's office.
Mind-reading
fun for the public with the Lincoln Masons
The Lincoln Masons are
looking forward to an excited room full of happy thoughts at Masonic Lodge
210 the afternoon of April 14, when they host a 1 p.m. lunch event for the
public, featuring psychic entertainer Stefan Alexxis with a family-friendly
"Comedy & Cool Stuff Mindreading Show."
According to a media release, "under Alexxis' guidance, the audience
becomes the star of the show, as average people discoverer they can
apparently make amazing, and often hilarious, intuitive connections
with him and with each other."
The performance description
continues:
"Starting with lighthearted, yet amazing experiments in
communications between two minds, the impossibilities grow as
Alexxis and his audience see if they can push past the limits of
time itself and even mentally influence the physical world.
"Is this ESP? Is it psychology? All Alexxis will say is what his
previous audiences already know: It's a whole lot of pure fun, with
plenty of laughs along the way."
The performance benefits Masonic Lodge 210.
Stefan Alexxis' varied background seems tailor-made to create a
psychic entertainer, or mentalist: high school science fair
experiments in ESP-related topics; a degree in religious studies,
specializing in world religions and ethics; years as a top-rated
radio personality in Idaho and Georgia; work as an award-winning
writer for organizations ranging from regional nonprofits to Fortune
500 companies -- all these come together in mentalism.
Alexxis makes no claim to be any more "psychic" than the next
person, nor is he trying to prove anything paranormal, the media
release says.
"I believe in the ability of the human mind to communicate in
subtle and wonderful ways," Alexxis says. "My job as an entertainer
is to make sure my audiences have fun with these natural, intuitive
abilities. And maybe some people will walk away with more than the
memory of (a) laughter-filled night. Maybe they'll have more
confidence in what they can accomplish when they put their minds to
it."
Online:
http://alexxis.info/
Angela Kelley, Logan County Bank Student of the Month
The Lincoln Community High School Senior of the Month for January
is Angela Kelley of Lincoln. Her parents are Bruce and Mary Kelley.
Angela's school activities have included student government,
D.A.R.E. program, Pep Club, Fellowship of Christian Athletes,
Spanish Club, L.E.A.F. Club, basketball, volleyball, Lady Railer
dance team and National Honor Society, among others.
Angela is active in community as well, including volunteer work
with Special Olympics, Toys for Tots, Relay for Life, Humane
Society, Main Street Lincoln, Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival, Zonta
dinner, Lincoln/Logan Food Pantry and numerous other volunteer
efforts.
She is planning on business management as a college major.
Logan County Bank, sponsor of the LCHS Senior of the Month/Year
award and scholarship program, congratulates Angela on her selection
as the January honoree.
Each monthly winner receives a $50 U.S. savings bond from Logan
County Bank and is then eligible for a $1,500 scholarship awarded by
the bank, to be used at the college of their choice.
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