The Kiwanis Club of Streamwood elected the following new officers for 2007-08: Cathy Tampir, president; Patty McKernan, president-elect; Linda Danner, vice president; Mike Buckley, secretary; Terri Johnson, treasurer; and Jay Schwarzman, past president.

Newly elected to the Streamwood Kiwanis Club's board of directors were: Pat Hogan, John Tampir, Sandy Stewart and Matt Armstrong.

The Kiwanis Club of Streamwood is dedicated to serving children and families in the communities of Hanover Township. For information, call Cathy at (630) 213-3660.

• Jeanne Sinabaldo, a first-grade teacher at Immanuel Lutheran School in Palatine, has been chosen to visit Egypt, in November, with People to People, an organization to enhance international understanding and friendship through educational, cultural and humanitarian activities.

Sinabaldo, one of 40 teachers chosen from across the United States, will be part of a delegation featuring reading and literacy.

• Myrna Patter of Palatine won second place and Mary Kay Fischer of Prospect Heights placed fourth in the third annual Dumpster Diva contest hosted by Windy Brushes of Northern Illinois, a local chapter of the National Society of Decorative Painters.

The goal of the contest was to turn discarded items into treasures.

Patterson's winning entry was a child's wagon painted with a pattern from the cover of a recent issue of The Decorative Painter, the society's magazine. Fischer painted a Florida-inspired water bottle aquarium, complete with goldfish inside.

Windy Brushes is open to all levels of painters. For meeting information, call Toni at (847) 301-0032.

• Dr. Steven N. Pector of Inverness was one of six finalists for the 2007 Illinois Academy of Family Physicians Family Physician of the Year Award.

Pector, who chairs the family medicine department at St. Alexius Medical Center and serves on the medical executive committee, has served Northwest suburban families for 16 years in various locations. His current office is in Schaumburg.