Bistro Verde open today-Thursday

Bistro To Go in the Workforce Careers Center
Bistro To Go, LLCC’s student-led café, is open today, tomorrow and Thursday this week, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. It offers a counter service concept with soups, salads, sandwiches, baked goods, coffees and drinks. It will be open Tuesdays-Thursdays through Oct. 5.

View the Bistro To Go menu.
Place order.

Additional information is available at www.llcc.edu/bistro-verde. Bistro Verde is located inside the east entrance of the Workforce Careers Center on the LLCC Springfield campus.

From Oct. 24-Nov. 16 (closed Nov. 7), the café will transform into Bistro Verde, a casual, dine-in restaurant experience.

Caterpillar Inc. donates engines and transmissions to LLCC Diesel Technologies program

Dr. Jason Dockter, Kody Letterle, Nick Johnson, Keith Heiar, Jeff Gardner and Dr. Nancy Sweet standing by one of the donated engines.
Photo: Dr. Jason Dockter, LLCC vice president, academic services; Kody Letterle, LLCC instructor, diesel technologies; Nick Johnson and Keith Heiar, Caterpillar Inc.; Jeff Gardner, director, LLCC diesel technologies program; and Dr. Nancy Sweet, dean, Workforce Institute at LLCC

Many thanks to Caterpillar Inc. for its recent donation of four engines and 12 transmissions to LLCC’s diesel technologies program. The equipment will serve as a hands-on teaching tool for students as they prepare for careers in the high-demand, high-wage diesel service industry.

Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives.

LLCC diesel technologies program director Jeff Gardner said, “These engines will be used in our Diesel Engine Theory and Repair class, and the transmissions will provide for manual training needs in the Truck Power Trains class. This substantial donation will benefit our students greatly.”

Visit www.llcc.edu/diesel-technologies for more information about the program.

Bistro Verde open Tuesday-Thursday

Bistro To Go in the Workforce Careers Center
Bistro To Go, LLCC’s student-led café, is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. It offers a counter service concept with soups, salads, sandwiches, baked goods, coffees and drinks. It will be open Tuesdays-Thursdays through Oct. 5.

View the Bistro To Go menu.
Place order.

Additional information is available at www.llcc.edu/bistro-verde. Bistro Verde is located inside the east entrance of the Workforce Careers Center on the LLCC Springfield campus.

From Oct. 24-Nov. 16 (closed Nov. 7), the café will transform into Bistro Verde, a casual, dine-in restaurant experience.

In the news

Jeff Martin, workforce recruitment coordinator, was interviewed for this evening’s Friday Night Rivals game featuring Central A&M vs. St. Teresa to be broadcast on the CW 23. His interview will be played during one of the breaks in the game, which begins at 7 p.m. He discussed the upcoming LLCC Open House, which will be held on Oct. 9. LLCC is the education sponsor of Friday Night Rivals.

Bistro Verde reopens today

Bistro To Go in the Workforce Careers Center
Bistro To Go, LLCC’s student-led café, is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. It offers a counter service concept with soups, salads, sandwiches, baked goods, coffees and drinks. It will be open Tuesdays-Thursdays through Oct. 5.

View the Bistro To Go menu.
Place order.

Additional information is available at www.llcc.edu/bistro-verde. Bistro Verde is located inside the east entrance of the Workforce Careers Center on the LLCC Springfield campus.

From Oct. 24-Nov. 16 (closed Nov. 7), the café will transform into Bistro Verde, a casual, dine-in restaurant experience.

Bistro Verde reopens Sept. 5

bistro verde in the Workforce Careers CenterBistro Verde, LLCC’s student-led café, reopens Sept. 5 and will serve customers Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The café is open as Bistro To Go, a counter service concept, from Sept. 5-Oct. 5, offering soups, salads, sandwiches, baked goods, coffees and drinks.

From Oct. 24-Nov. 16 (closed Nov. 7), the café transforms into Bistro Verde, a casual, dine-in restaurant experience. The full-service lunch features appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches, desserts, coffees, drinks and chef inspired dishes that are prepared from scratch using high quality ingredients and finished with creative flair. Reservations are recommended.

The menu as well as ordering and reservation information are available at www.llcc.edu/bistro-verde. Bistro Verde is located inside the east entrance of the Workforce Careers Center on the LLCC campus in Springfield.

In the LLCC Hospitality and Culinary Arts program, part of a student’s learning experience is to run a working café that is open to the public. LLCC offers an associate in applied science degree in culinary arts and in hospitality management and services. Professional certificates offered include first cook, culinary manager, baking and pastry, hospitality professional and hospitality supervisor. LLCC also offers non-credit cooking and baking classes, as well as dinners at Bistro Verde.

LLCC sponsors chamber job fair

Tina, Mac, Kirsten, Mike, Yvonne and Josh at the LLCC exhibit at the job fair.LLCC was the presenting sponsor for the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce Job Fair Aug. 29 at the Crowne Plaza. Participating at the LLCC display were Tina Compton, employee recruitment coordinator; Mac Warren (organizer), assistant director, recruitment and response; Kirsten Taylor, director, enrollment and benefits; Mike Murphy, Chamber president and CEO; Dr. Yvonne Cosentino, program director, occupational therapy assistant; Josh Collins, assistant vice president, business relations. (Also participating but not pictured was Jeff Martin, workforce recruitment and placement coordinator, and Karina Moore, health professions recruiter.)

In the news

Dr. Charlotte Warren speaking at the SCI ribbon cutting. Governor Pritzker seated in background.Dr. Charlotte Warren, LLCC president, spoke at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the South Central Illinois Training & Innovation Center on Monday. SCI is located in Litchfield and will give area high school students and those who have lost their jobs an opportunity to get training to be able to enter the workforce more quickly when they graduate. LLCC is partnering to provide dual credit opportunities.

Dr. Nancy Sweet, dean, Workforce Institute at LLCC, was interviewed by WICS Tuesday about opportunities in the trades and LLCC’s partnership in providing dual credit opportunities for workforce classes at SCI in Litchfield.

Joshua Dineen, chef specialist, wrote this week’s Epicuriosity 101 column in the State Journal-Register, “Marshmallows and s’mores.”