On Saturday, the parking lot at Lincoln Center on the campus of Lincoln College was transformed from a location for vehicles to a place of honor and remembrance of those who are now fighting or have fought the tremendous battle with cancer. The annual Relay for Life event began at noon and ran into the night with a wide variety of activities going on during the 12-hour period. LDN today will offer coverage of the event. On Tuesday, the Relay for Life special section will be published. And as soon as completed, the names of all those honored or held in memorium during this year's reading of the luminaria will be included in the magazine.

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Recently Devin Biggs of Lincoln, who will be a junior at Western Illinois University this fall, participated in The Weather Challenge, a nationwide competition hosted by the University of Oklahoma.

Biggs placed second in the weather forecasting freshman-sophomore category. The competition challenge is to forecast the high, low, maximum wind in knots and the maximum precipitation to the one-hundredth in rain units for a specific city over a two-week period. This year the city was Phoenix, Arizona.

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Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital has announced Jennifer Glascock of Lincoln as the June Employee of the Month. Glascock has worked for the past 8 years in the ALMH surgery department.

Glascock was nominated for the recognition by a co-worker who wanted to highlight her willingness to share her knowledge. “She makes the operating room a great place to work and her skills produce great results,” said her nominator.

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Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo (44) hits a home run during the fifth inning against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field.

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