Play It Again owners earn award
• Nancy and Michael Tomaras, owners of Play It Again Sports in Palatine and Mei and Ed Wong, owners of Play It Again Sports in Schaumburg, received a Top Performer award, at the company's annual Play It Again Sports Winter Conference and Trade Show held in San Antonio.
• Dan Dehlin, Bob Gelb, Linda Kinnamon, Bob LaBarre, Lambert Lucietto and Greta Pfeifer will be among the artist participating in the Arts in Bartlett Member's Spring Exhibit being held through May 9 at 2nd Floor Gallery in the Bartlett Village Hall, 228 S. Main St.
A variety of media including pencil, acrylic, photography, watercolor, ceramic, oil and mixed media will be on display from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m.-noon on Saturday. Visit www.artsinbartlett.org.
• Joe Bowman, an employee of the Merlin 200,000 Miles Shop in Schaumburg has completed the Hybrid Vehicle Systems training course at the Merlin Training Center in Geneva.
• Twin Grove Middle School student Nikki Rhum of Buffalo Grove was one of three Illinois winners in "The Letters About Literature" contest, a national reading and writing contest for students presented by The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress in partnership with Target Stores and sponsored by the Illinois Center for the Book. Rhum won Competition Level I for her letter to author Dan Millman about his book "The Peaceful Warrior." She will advance to national competition and meet Secretary of State Jesse White at an awards ceremony.
• Bill Wilson, editorial director at Roads & Bridges magazine, Arlington Heights, was awarded the 2008 Construction Writers' Association's Robert F. Boger Award in the category of Feature Articles for the magazine's I-35W bridge collapse series. Road & Bridges magazine is a Scranton Gillette Communications business-to-business publication serving contractors, government officials and engineers in the road and bridge construction market. This is Wilson's fourth Boger Award in the past eight years in both feature article and editorial categories.