Fox Valley briefs

Another award for ECC top scholar:

Recent Elgin Community College graduate Andrea Andrada is the 2009 recipient of the Gigi Campbell Student Trustee Award from the Illinois Community College Trustees Association. The award, named after a former Prairie State College student trustee, recognizes exemplary student leadership. Andrada, of Elgin, is one of the most accomplished students in Elgin Community College history and has won an impressive list of accomplishments and awards. She recently finished a one-year term as the student representative on the Community College District 509 Board of Trustees. Other honors include being named to the First Team of USA Today's All-USA Community College Academic Team and as a New Century Scholar by the Coca Cola Scholars Foundation. Andrada graduated from ECC last month with a 4.0 grade-point-average and continues her studies this fall at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She plans to become a lawyer.

Sports Day Sunday:

Dundee Sports Day in the Park will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 14, in Prairie Meadow Park, behind Chili's in West Dundee. Registration is from noon to 1 p.m. Games include volleyball, bags, Bocce ball, croquet, HORSE, 500 (bring a mitt), obstacle course, kid's games and more. Entry fee for participation is a canned food item with proceeds benefiting the FISH Food Pantry. Spectators are also welcome to donate, and are encouraged to bring a lawn chair or blanket for seating. For details, visit www.wdundee.org.

School hosts pom clinic:

The Cary-Grove High School Varsity pom squad is holding a clinic for girls in preschool through eighth grade. Girls will learn pom routines and perform for their parents at the end of the second day. The clinic will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. July 13 and 14 at the high school. Before July 1, the clinic costs $25 for preschoolers and kindergartners; it costs $35 for girls in grades one through eight. The cost goes up by $5 after July 1. To register, visit d155.org/cg, call (847) 644-4816 or e-mail njkaplan@hotmail.com.