– Please join us for the Edible Books Contest! Submissions are accepted for drop-off between 7:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m., and voting will held from 11:00 a.m.–noon. At noon, the two favorites will be announced and each will win a $25 Barnes and Noble gift certificate! Beginning at noon, everyone is invited to stop by and help eat the edible books!
Other activities today in celebration of National Library Week include:
– Food for Fines – the first 100 people to bring in a non-perishable donation will win a free book light. You don’t have to have library fines to donate! All proceeds benefit the Central Illinois Food Bank.
– Free candy at the Reference and Access Services desks.
– Add to the “What’s Your Favorite Book?” poster.
– Daily raffle drawing! Winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to the bookstore.
The LLCC Veterans Affairs Office and the Veterans Club invite you to wear jeans on Thursday, April 16 in exchange for a $5 donation to the Brian McMillen Scholarship. Donations can be taken to the Student Life Office.
Dear LLCC Family,
Thank you so much for the cards, kind words, beautiful flowers, gifts and e-mail messages. All of the kindness and thoughtfulness during this time is truly appreciated and always will be appreciated. My son was a wonderful person and always had a smile on his face no matter how bad he felt. I will truly miss him.
Karen Riddell
program assistant, Adult Education and Literacy
Dr. Leitner (second from left) with the committee.
David Leitner, assistant professor, English, successfully defended his dissertation Friday, April 10. His dissertation was titled: “Harlem in Shakespeare and Shakespeare in Harlem: The Sonnets of Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Congratulations, Dr. Leitner!
Congratulations to Dr. Roberta (Beth) Wiediger, professor, psychology and Dr. Matt Wiediger, psychology adjunct, on the birth of Matthew Russell Varão Wiediger born Thursday, April 9 at 10:01 p.m. Matthew weighed 8 pounds and measured 22 inches and was welcomed by older sisters, Melanie and Amanda.
There will be a video shoot for LLCC advertising today and tomorrow at various locations on campus. The video crew will be accompanied by LLCC staff and will make every attempt to be non-intrusive. If you see the video crew filming and prefer not to be included, feel free to move out of the areas being filmed.
A SURS counselor will be on campus conducting one-on-one retirement sessions Tuesday, May 12 in the VP Conference Room. To qualify for a session, you must be, at a minimum, four years away from retirement eligibility. Sessions are by appointment only. To schedule your session, please contact SURS at 1.800.275.7877. Appointment times are limited, so contact SURS as soon as possible to schedule.
Seeds of Change®, leading producer of certified organic seeds and foods, is hosting its fourth annual grant program and LLCC has submitted an application to receive a $20,000, $10,000 or $1,000 grant to fund the Lincoln Land Community College Garden, located near the Workforce Careers Center. To help us support our sustainable gardening initiative, please visit the Seeds of Change® Facebook page at www.facebook.com/seedsofchange or www.seedsofchangegrant.com. Be sure to use “Lincoln Land Community College Garden” (not LLCC Garden) when voting.
To vote for the Lincoln Land Community College Garden on the Seeds of Change Facebook page and website:
1. Search by typing Lincoln Land Community College Garden in the search box (Not LLCC Garden)
2. Search by zip code 62794
3. Search by city/state Springfield, IL
Once voting closes, the 50 organizations with the most votes will move on to the final judging phase and recipients will be announced around May 12.
The Lincoln Land Community College Garden seeks to integrate fresh, locally grown food into the fabric of our community for increased health of district residents, a strengthened economy that keeps money in our community, and for the care of our rich soils and other natural resources. We hope to accomplish this by:
1. offering a new series of workshops where community members learn both the growing and culinary techniques relevant to the season
2. increasing the number of raised beds in our community garden to connect more people to growing their own food, and grow more food for the value-added local food certificate program
3. developing a perennial garden to ensure a legacy of food production at the college
As the demand for local food has outpaced the available supply, LLCC’s mission to provide quality educational programs that are responsive to community needs positions the college to utilize expert staff and state-of-art facilities to grow the local food community.
Chris McDonald, Ph.D., political science professor, is the featured presenter at Soup and Stories Wednesday, April 15 from noon-1 p.m. in the R.H. Stephens Room. Dr. McDonald will present “From Springfield to Schlestadt,” which is based on his newly published book “‘Three Lying or Four Sitting’–From the Front in a Ford.”
Selected works of art from the Trutter Museum World Heritage Collection are now on display in the LLCC Library. The art pieces are part of the personal collection owned by Philip and Mary Kathryn Trutter and generously donated to LLCC. To see more of the World Heritage Collection, please visit the Trutter Museum located in the Trutter Center on campus. For more information about the collection and the museum, contact Janet Semanik at 786-4510 or view the museum website at http://www.llccfoundation.org/.
