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Register on Saturdays at ECC

Most student services offices at Elgin Community College are open on Aug. 9 and 16 for students unable to come to the main campus at other times. Registration, admissions, counseling, financial aid, student accounts, the bookstore and records offices will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. both Saturdays. The testing center, for those taking ECC placement exams, also will be open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Registration as well as most other student services offices are located on the first floor of the Student Resource Center (SRC), 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin. Regular registration hours are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Fridays. Fall classes begin Aug. 18. For more information, call 847-214-7393 or e-mail registration@elgin.edu.

New physical requirements

Illinois law changes student physical requirements for the upcoming school year. Now, all children entering kindergarten should have an eye examination performed by a licensed physician or an optometrist within one year of Oct. 15. School districts are required to waive the eye examination requirement for low-income families with children who receive free and reduced-price lunches and are eligible for public assistance such as Medicaid or All Kids state health insurance. Students entering sixth grade this school year who got physicals between August 2006 and last September do not need to get another exam. Incoming fifth-graders also will not need to submit proof of a physical to school officials. Those fifth-graders will need a physical before entering sixth grade in 2009-10.

Breast-feeding celebrated

To mark World Breastfeeding Week, the Well Child Center, 620 Wing St., Elgin, is inviting breast-feeding moms to take a group photo at 3 p.m. Aug. 6. More than 120 countries worldwide will take part in celebrating the week, organizers say. For more information, call (847) 741-7370.