Garden club names scholarship winners
• The Buffalo Grove Garden Club awarded a $1,000 scholarship for the 2007-08 academic year to Jennifer Czaja of Wheeling, David Didier of Indian Creek and Brian Liss of Buffalo Grove.
Czaja, a Wheeling High School graduate, studies landscape architecture and plans a career designing golf courses.
Didier, a Vernon Hills High School graduate, studies agricultural technical systems management and plans to work at his family's farming business.
Liss, a Stevenson High School graduate, studies environmental science and plans a career advocating for the environment.
• Jack A. Lloyd of Palatine, Harris Bank's regional president, Northwest suburbs, has joined the board of trustees of the Northwest Community Healthcare Foundation.
Lloyd, who has over 30 years of executive banking experience, also serves as a board member of the Rolling Meadows Park District Foundation, Harper College Education Foundation and District 214 Community Education Foundation.
• Arlington Heights residents Anita Janczak, field office supervisor, Department of Employment Security, and Peggy St. Leger, director of diagnostic and interventional cardiology services, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, were honored by the National Able Network with a Claude D. Pepper Distinguished Service Award at the 26th annual Outstanding Worker Awards luncheon held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago.
The Distinguished Service Award pays tribute to Chicago's best employees age 50 and over, who have demonstrated extraordinary service to an organization.
• Kimball Hill Homes executive chairman David Hill and his wife, Diane Hill, of Barrington and Madison Dearborn Partners chief executive officer John Canning and his wife, Rita Canning, of Inverness will serve as co-chairmen of the Harper College Education Foundation's 40th anniversary gala being held Sept 29, at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center in Schaumburg.
Actor and comedian Kevin Pollack will return to his stand-up comedy roots to entertain gala goers with a repertoire of celebrity impersonations. The $500 per person ticket price will benefit funding for student scholarships. For information, (847) 925-6610.