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Amy Clinton, a Hope College junior from Sycamore has been elected to serve as a class of 2011 representative in the Hope College Student Congress.

Dan Strey, Kishwaukee College horticulture student, has been named a recipient of the Illinois Landscape Contractors Association scholarship.

Class on college funding offered

DAILY CHRONICLE

St. Mary’s Achieving Success with Helping Hands will be held Saturday at the Parish Activity Center, 244 Waterman St. in Sycamore and the public is invited.

Kishwaukee College is preparing for the Spring 2010 semester, which begins Jan. 11. Registration for the spring semester began online at 12:01 a.m. today. In-person registration begins at 7:30 a.m. Thursday. Registration continues through the first day of the Spring 2010 semester.

Sycamore-DeKalb Alumnae Panhellenic will meet at 1 p.m. Nov. 14 at Passion for Petals Gardens, 1N409 County Line Road, Maple Park.

Community Coordinated Child Care is offering three classes in November at the 4-C office, 155 N. Third St., Suite 300, in DeKalb.

Indian Valley Vocational Center in Sandwich recently announced its October list of Students of the Month.

The Kishwaukee College Foundation will hold its annual Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction Saturday at Altgeld Hall, 595 College Ave. in DeKalb. The annual benefit, “Harvesting Leaders,” raises funds for the Foundation’s scholarship programs.

Planning on purchasing a wreath this holiday season? How about a garland or a mailbox swag?

Creston Public Education Foundation announces the following winners for this year’s fundraising campaign: Juan Barrera, Jon Renner, Dave Bubik, Dave and Mike Hakanson, Ryan Dougherty, Dawn Johnson, Karla Steder, Stanley Johnson, Doris Coil, Donna Miller, Tom Becker, Kendra Buchholz, Gavin Rhoades, Darrel Swope, Karl Lundeen, Marvel Blomberg, Logan Frye, Ron Heidenreich, Cathy, Evan and Alexis Meives, Melissa Ost and Shirley Holderness.

Northern Illinois University will hold an open house for prospective students, families and friends from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 11 in the Holmes Student Center, located at Lucinda Avenue and Normal Road in DeKalb.

The well-stocked reading room at Kingston Elementary has been a project four years in the making.

Following are students named to Sandwich High School’s first quarter honor roll:

DeKalb’s Human Relations Commission sponsored a community block party on Sept. 27 at Hopkins Park.

NIU’s Department of Geography – Advanced Geospatial laboratory will host its second annual GIS Night from 6-8:30 p.m. Nov. 18 in Davis Hall, Room 114.

Kishwaukee College is hosting its annual College Night from 6:30-8 p.m. Nov. 4, in the college gymnasium, with a special presentation on financing a college education at 6 p.m. in Jenkins Auditorium.

As bulldozers and cranes construct the new DeKalb High School building, a team of more than 60 faculty and staff from Northern Illinois University and DHS is planning a high school program that will result in world-class student achievement at both institutions.

Hiawatha Elementary School was declared “State Champions” by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness, according to a news release.

Many environmentally conscious students of Indian Valley Vocational Center are members of the school’s Green Team.

On Oct. 8, the Sandwich High School Future Educators Association participated in the 2009 Read for the Record campaign.

There are certain events in history that are so important that just the mention of the date on which they happened brings shared memories to people around the world. Sept. 11, 2001, is one of those dates.

The Kishwaukee College Horticulture Department has received a special request: Design the landscaping around the Jane Addams Homestead in Cedarville, located near Freeport.