LLCC Community Garden spots are available for the 2021 season! Please contact registration at 217-786-2292. Garden plots are $25 each for the first plot and $15 for each additional plot, with four plots being the maximum number allowed. Once registered, please contact Tom Spears at Thomas.spears@llcc.edu or 217-786-3675 for a contract and plot assignments.
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Community Garden spots available for 2021 season
LLCC Community Garden spots are now available for the 2021 season! Please contact registration at 217-786-2292. Garden plots are $25 each for the first plot and $15 for each additional plot, with four plots being the maximum number allowed. Once registered, please contact Tom Spears at Thomas.spears@llcc.edu or 217-786-3675 for a contract and plot assignments.
Two sculptures being added to LLCC campus
Two new sculptures will be soon be adding to the beauty and interest of the LLCC campus in Springfield. These sculptures, “Take Five” and “Paradigm Shift,” are being donated by Dr. Terry Travis. They will join Barry Tinsley’s “La Terra” and be placed between Menard Hall and Millennium Center. “Stele Head” will also be moved from its current location near the Workforce Careers Center to the area near the A. Lincoln Commons.
“Take Five” is by artist Pat McDonald. The sculpture is made of steel, wood and paint. It is 12 ft. by 8 ft. by 8 ft.
“Paradigm Shift” is by artist Bruce Chaban. The sculpture was first exhibited in the 1999 Pier Walk Exhibition at Chicago’s Historic Navy Pier. It is 22 ft. by 4½ ft. by 5 ¼ ft. and weighs one ton.
LLCC students in Tom Spear‘s highway construction careers training class began work yesterday digging out the dirt and starting the forms for the concrete pads. Today they will complete the forms and compact rock, and on Wednesday they plan to pour concrete.
Springfield chapter of Chaîne des Rôtisseurs grows LLCC culinary scholarship fund
The Springfield chapter of Chaîne des Rôtisseurs, the oldest and largest food and wine society in the world, recently donated more than $2,000 to the LLCC Foundation to grow its hospitality management scholarship.
The scholarship fund provides $1,000 scholarships to two hospitality management students each year. A total of $24,750 has been awarded to 31 students since the establishment of the scholarship.
Dr. Charlotte Warren, president of LLCC, thanked the local chapter for its support of hospitality students. “These scholarships are lifechanging for students,” said Dr. Warren. “Our community depends on the local culinary and hospitality industries, and we are proud to provide them with talented and skilled employees.”
John Dale Kennedy, Bailli, Chaîne des Rôtisseurs, Bailliage de Springfield, commented, “Our contribution to this scholarship fund allows students from all walks of life to come to LLCC and learn about food, hospitality and managing restaurants. We are happy to be a part of that. These LLCC hospitality and culinary graduates are a great asset for our community, and the payoff for Chaîne is a good one.”
LLCC offers degree and certificate programs in hospitality and culinary arts, along with a Culinary Institute featuring themed dinners and non-credit cooking and baking courses. Students learn in state-of-the-art culinary labs and practice their skills in Bistro Verde, LLCC’s student-led café.
Updates on Bistro Verde offerings for spring 2021
Bistro Verde, LLCC’s student-led restaurant, will not be open this spring due to COVID-19 restrictions, with plans to reopen in the fall. LLCC’s hospitality and culinary arts program will be utilizing the Illini Country Club, Lake Pointe Grill, D’Arcy’s Pint and Obed and Isaac’s as externship sites for LLCC hospitality students. Other businesses who would like to partner in this effort may contact Sheridan Lane, director of LLCC culinary programs and operations, at sheridan.lane@llcc.edu or 217-786-2494.
The LLCC Culinary Institute has three Bistro Verde curbside pickup dinners planned in partnership with local restaurants. Pickup will take place onsite at the restaurants. Cost is $55 per serving. Mardi Gras Dinner on the Run will take place Tuesday, Feb. 16 at Brunchfield Café, 751 S. Durkin Dr. Maldaner’s Dinner will be Thursday, March 4 at 222 S. 6th St. Luminary Kitchen and Provision Dinner will be Tuesday, April 6 at 3121 Hedley Dr. Menus and registration are available at www.llcc.edu/ci-bistro-verde-dinners or by calling 217-786-2432.
Piper Cherokee aircraft donated to LLCC Aviation
Dr. Thomas Carey Jr. of Springfield recently donated his late father’s Piper Cherokee aircraft to Lincoln Land Community College’s aviation program. The plane is being used for hands-on training experiences in aviation mechanics.
An LLCC alum, Dr. Carey has been a pilot for 40 years. His father, Thomas W. Carey Sr., was a pilot for more than 60 years and was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, serving in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
“This model was very special,” explains Carey. “My father flew on missions in a similar aircraft during the Vietnam War and once returned back to base with numerous bullet holes in his plane.”
Carey Sr. purchased the aircraft in 1968. It was only the seventh one built of that particular model.
“It is an honor to continue use of this aircraft as a learning tool in our program to enhance our students’ hands-on training,” says David Pietrzak, program director, LLCC Aviation. “We’re grateful to the Carey family for their generous donation.”
LLCC offers an aviation mechanics program at Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in which students can earn airframe and powerplant certificates in 18 months, with degrees in aviation mechanics and aviation management also available. Last year, the median annual wage for aircraft mechanics and service technicians was more than $64,000. Registration is currently open, and classes begin Jan. 6. More information is available at www.llcc.edu/aviation.
Bistro To Go open today
This is the last day Bistro To Go will be open for the fall semester. So don’t miss the opportunity to place an order for curbside pickup or takeout at LLCC’s student-run café, open 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. You can also purchase frozen ready-made chili made by culinary students at BOGO prices!
View the menu. In addition, specials are posted on the LLCC Culinary Arts and Hospitality Facebook page. Lunch orders may be placed online at https://orders.cake.net/11205518 or by calling 217-786-2821, and must be paid for by credit or debit card when ordering.
Reserved parking spots for curbside pickup are available on the east side of the Workforce Careers Center on LLCC’s Springfield campus. When parked, call 217-786-2821, provide the name on the order and the vehicle make/model to have the order delivered.
For those joining us from campus that prefer to walk over, still order online and please pick up orders under the covered pavilion (signs will direct you to the pickup spot).
If you are a student attending classes at Workforce Careers Center or are an LLCC employee within the building, and you have already completed the daily health check as well as scanned your forehead temperature within WCC, you may wait for your order in the foyer. Please continue to follow the social distancing guideline of staying six feet apart.
Bistro To Go open today
Bistro Verde, LLCC’s student-run café, is open during the fall 2020 semester as Bistro To Go for curbside pickup and takeout. It is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. through Nov. 19. You are invited to enjoy takeout items such as items as smoked chicken tortilla soup, roasted pear salad, grilled and chilled shrimp tacos, short rib melt, chicken pot pie and apple bread pudding. View the menu. In addition, weekly chef specials will be available. Specials will be posted on the LLCC Culinary Arts and Hospitality Facebook page.
Lunch orders may be placed online at https://orders.cake.net/11205518 or by calling 217-786-2821, and must be paid for by credit or debit card when ordering.
Reserved parking spots for curbside pickup are available on the east side of the Workforce Careers Center on LLCC’s Springfield campus. When parked, call 217-786-2821, provide the name on the order and the vehicle make/model to have the order delivered.
For those joining us from campus that prefer to walk over, still order online and please pick up orders under the covered pavilion (signs will direct you to the pickup spot).
If you are a student attending classes at Workforce Careers Center or are an LLCC employee within the building, and you have already completed the daily health check as well as scanned your forehead temperature within WCC, you may wait for your order in the foyer. Please continue to follow the social distancing guideline of staying six feet apart.
Bistro To Go open today
Bistro Verde, LLCC’s student-run café, is open during the fall 2020 semester as Bistro To Go for curbside pickup and takeout. It is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. through Nov. 19. You are invited to enjoy takeout items such as items as smoked chicken tortilla soup, roasted pear salad, grilled and chilled shrimp tacos, short rib melt, chicken pot pie and apple bread pudding. View the menu. In addition, weekly chef specials will be available. Specials will be posted on the LLCC Culinary Arts and Hospitality Facebook page.
Lunch orders may be placed online at https://orders.cake.net/11205518 or by calling 217-786-2821, and must be paid for by credit or debit card when ordering.
Reserved parking spots for curbside pickup are available on the east side of the Workforce Careers Center on LLCC’s Springfield campus. When parked, call 217-786-2821, provide the name on the order and the vehicle make/model to have the order delivered.
For those joining us from campus that prefer to walk over, still order online and please pick up orders under the covered pavilion (signs will direct you to the pickup spot).
If you are a student attending classes at Workforce Careers Center or are an LLCC employee within the building, and you have already completed the daily health check as well as scanned your forehead temperature within WCC, you may wait for your order in the foyer. Please continue to follow the social distancing guideline of staying six feet apart.
Info session tonight on Culinary and Hospitality programs
Prospective students are invited to an info session this evening at 5:30 p.m. to learn about programs in LLCC’s Culinary and Hospitality Center of Excellence. Please encourage any prospective students you know to sign up at www.llcc.edu/forward.
These info sessions are a part of October’s Moving Forward to LLCC events, which have included virtual info sessions, the Campus Cruise and more!