LAKE COUNTY
The Grayslake Greenery Garden Club is offering scholarships to Lake County high school and college students. The competition for up to $1,500 in scholarship money for students pursuing studies in horticulture-related fields such as landscape architecture, agriculture, forestry and floral design. For an application, write the club at 238 Westerfield Pl. , Grayslake, IL 60030. The application is also available online at www.grayslakegreenerygardenclub.org. The deadline is April 20. For more information, call 847-543-7307 or 847-546-4180.
The Friends of Volo Bog are offering two $1,000 college scholarships to Lake or McHenry County high school seniors and college students. One scholarship will go to a high school student interested in pursuing a natural science or environmental degree. The other will go to a high school graduate who is in a natural science or environmental field of study at an accredited college or university. Applications are due by Feb. 23. For more information, call 815-344-1294.
EVANSTON
DISTRICT 202
The school board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Evanston Township High School, Room N-112. For more information, call 847-424-7720.
EVANSTON and SKOKIE
DISTRICT 65
The Program/Policy Committee will meet to review the policy manual at 5 p.m. Jan. 9 in Hill Education Center, 1500 McDaniel Ave., Evanston. The regular meeting will begin at 7 p.m. For more information, call 847-859-8100.
GLENVIEW
and NORTHBROOK
DISTRICT 30
District 30 will hold an open forum on the search for a new superintendent at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Maple School, 2370 Shermer Rd., Northbrook. School Exec Connect, an educational search firm, will assist. Supt. Linda Vieth will leave District 30 at the end of the school year to become superintendent of District 29 in Northfield.
Melissa Hirsch, Willowbrook School principal, will hold a Book Chat at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 23 in the school’s Learning Media Center, 2500 Happy Hollow Rd., Glenview. She will be reading from the book “Once upon a Marigold” by Jean Ferris. All pupils are encouraged to participate. For more information, call 847-498-1090.
GRAYSLAKE COLLEGE OF LAKE COUNTY
The College of Lake County Foundation’s Heart of Gold gala on Oct. 28 raised $125,000 for student scholarships, $30,000 more than the previous year. The CLC Foundation awarded $500,000 in scholarships in 2005, assisting more than 700 students. The event, attended by nearly 300 people, honored retired Lake County Coroner Barbara Richardson, who was one of CLC’s first employees.
The College of Lake County’s homecoming is scheduled for Jan. 25 to Jan. 27. Alumni and friends of CLC are invited to attend men’s and women’s basketball games, a homecoming dance, a comedy show and a casino night. Campus tours will be given from 3 to 4 p.m. Jan. 25, followed by an alumni and faculty reception from 4 to 5 p.m. To attend the reception, call the alumni relations office at 847-543-2400.
LAKE FOREST
LAKE FOREST ACADEMY
Lake Forest Academy will hold its annual Young Alumni Luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 5 in the Garden Room of Reid Hall, 1500 W. Kennedy Rd. For more information, call 847-615-3259.
LINCOLNSHIRE and PRAIRIE VIEW DISTRICT 103
Three positions on the District 103 school board will be up for election on April 17. Anyone interested in running may pick up a petition packet at the administration office, 1370 Riverwoods Rd., Lincolnshire. Petitions must be filed between Jan. 29 and Feb. 5. For more information, call 847-295-4030.
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