Bistro Verde is open Tuesday-Thursday this week, offering a full-service lunch experience that features appetizers, soups, salads, desserts, coffees and drinks! View the menu. Reservations are highly recommended and can be made by emailing Bistro Verde, or leaving a message at 217-786-2821.
Online to-go orders will be accepted, but we very much encourage guests to make a reservation and join us in person.
LLCC Chef Specialist Joshua Dineen walks us through a holiday breakfast dish sure to please, in this week’s Epicuriosity 101 column for the State Journal-Register.
Bistro Verde is open Tuesday-Thursday this week, offering a full-service lunch experience that features appetizers, soups, salads, desserts, coffees and drinks! View the menu. Reservations are highly recommended and can be made by emailing Bistro Verde, or leaving a message at 217-786-2821.
Online to-go orders will be accepted, but we very much encourage guests to make a reservation and join us in person.
Bistro Verde
Oct. 22-Nov. 21 (closed Nov. 5)
Tue, Wed and Thu
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Sheridan Lane, director, culinary program and operations, wrote “Global thanks” for this week’s Epicuriosity 101 column in the State Journal-Register.
Bistro Verde is open Tuesday-Thursday this week, offering a full-service lunch experience that features appetizers, soups, salads, desserts, coffees and drinks! View the menu. Reservations are highly recommended and can be made by emailing Bistro Verde, or leaving a message at 217-786-2821.
Online to-go orders will be accepted, but we very much encourage guests to make a reservation and join us in person.
Bistro Verde
Oct. 22-Nov. 21 (closed Nov. 5)
Tue, Wed and Thu
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
A big thank you to Sievers Equipment for donating a Case IH Maxxum 145 tractor to the LLCC Diesel Technologies program. Brian Sievers, company director, personally delivered the tractor on Thursday to the college. The tractor is on a one-year zero cost lease to the program.
The LLCC Career Center welcomes Lynn Giles-Harris as a career coach. Lynn just moved from New York City where she was a transition coordinator for a school district. She holds a master’s and bachelor’s degree in special education. Her first day was Nov. 1. Lynn says she moved back to Springfield to be closer to family, including her sister, Leigh Giles-Brown, director, diagnostic medical sonography. You can reach Lynn at 217-786-2482 or by email. Welcome Lynn!
LLCC Workforce Institute welcomes Bethany Szamocki as the new program assistant for aviation maintenance. She will provide a variety of support services that contribute to the success of the aviation programs. Her first day was Nov. 4. You can get in touch with her through email. Welcome Bethany!
Congratulations to Shelly Smothers on her new role as a student success advisor for health professions. Shelly started with LLCC in 2016. She previously served as a student success advisor but was most recently in the role of admissions specialist. Shelly can be reached at 217-786-3685 or by email.
Our condolences go out to the family of Tony Young, a former adjunct instructor in LLCC’s Truck Driver Training program who unexpectedly passed away on Oct. 30, 2024. Tony spent the past twenty years as a CDL examiner with the Illinois Secretary of State’s office, continuing to work closely with the LLCC program.
Funeral services and visitation are Thursday, Nov. 7 at Union Baptist Church, 1405 East Monroe Streeet in Springfield. Read the obituary online.
LLCC’s first year diesel technologies students helped assemble 60 bicycles that will be donated to the Ansar Shrine Circus happening Nov. 8-10 at the BOS Center in downtown Springfield. The volunteer project was done in conjunction with Roland Machinery. The bicycles will be given away during the circus.
In this week’s Epicuriosity 101 in the State Journal-Register, Jay Kitterman, culinary and special events consultant, digs into the latest wine trend – low and no-alcohol wine.
Joan McGrath, president-elect, LLCC Academy of Lifelong Learning extoles the value of an ALL membership in her Senior News and Times essay titled, “Helping further education goals: LLCC Foundation’s ALL scholarship.”