Walk Your Way to Wellness Challenge sign-up deadline. Contact Kim Elder, kim.elder@llcc.edu, with your team name and individual team members’ names.

Epicurean Club cookie sale, noon–2 p.m. (or until sold out), Baking Lab of Workforce Careers Center. Assorted cookies include chocolate chip, peanut butter, sugar, and white chocolate and macadamia nut. Boxes of assorted cookies will sell for $3 for ½ dozen or $6 for 1 dozen.

The A-Team, Autism and Asperger’s awareness and support group, meets today at noon in room 1179 of Menard Hall. All faculty and staff are welcome.

Happy Birthday to all faculty and staff born in April! Click on the “Birthdays” tab at the top of LincIn to see who is celebrating.

The next meeting of the A-Team, the Autism and Asperger’s awareness and support group, will be on Thursday, April 2, at 12 noon in MNRD 1179.  All are welcome

We extend our sincere sympathy to Karen Riddell, program assistant, Adult Education and Literacy, whose son, Larry Reavis, passed away on Sunday, March 29.

Visitation is at the Staab Funeral Home in Springfield on Wednesday, April 1,  from 4-7 p.m., with funeral services there on Thursday at 10 a.m.

Outstanding Graduate nomination applications are due to the office of Vice President of Student Services. Refer to article posted March 25 for more information.

Springfield Mayoral Forum, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Trutter Center. Public invited.

Chemistry Club bake sale: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., A. Lincoln Commons. All proceeds will go to the “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” fundraiser, which benefits the Prairie Center Against Sexual Assault.

Board of Trustees meeting: 5:15 p.m., R.H. Stephens Room, Menard Hall. Find the agenda HERE.

Political Science Professor Chris McDonald, Ph.D., will present “From Springfield to Schlestadt” on Saturday, April 11 from 9 to 10 a.m. The presentation is being held in the Trutter Center. The public is invited to the free event.

Professor McDonald’s presentation is based on his new book, “‘Three Lying or Four Sitting’—From the Front in a Ford,” which gives an eyewitness account of World War I through the letters of Springfield native and Harvard student Kent Dunlap Hagler. Professor McDonald will provide a glimpse of Mr. Hagler’s life as an ambulance driver and the local connection to the Great War.

In “‘Three Lying or Four Sitting’—From the Front in a Ford,” Professor McDonald provides commentary and a personal account of someone serving on the Great War’s front lines through the detailed, literate and humorous letters of Mr. Hagler. Mr. Hagler came from a prominent family in Springfield. He left Springfield for Harvard University where, after being denied entry into the United States military forces, he decided to become a volunteer ambulance driver with the American Field Service. Over a two-year period, Mr. Hagler sent home many letters describing his experiences in the First World War.

A book signing will follow the presentation. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Cost of the book is $19.95, plus tax. All proceeds from book sales will benefit the LLCC Foundation general scholarship fund in honor of Kent Dunlap Hagler.

LLCC faculty, staff and students, and the general public are invited to a Springfield Mayoral Candidate Forum being hosted by Local First Springfield this Friday, March 27 from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Trutter Center.

Mark McDonald of WSEC (PBS) will be moderating this LIVE event being aired on WQNA radio and on COMCAST (Channel 18) in Springfield. Mr. McDonald will be asking questions that have been submitted to LFS. The public will be allowed to ask questions also.

This event is a production of the Capital Area Career Center.