Neighbors in the news

• Bob Travis celebrated his 60th anniversary as a car salesman selling cars at Suburban Buick of Wheaton. Travis, who lives with his wife Peggy in St. Charles, was honored with a luncheon hosted at the dealership by Suburban Buick owner Kim Bushy.

• Robby Olp of Wheaton, son of Ellen and Tom Olp, received his Eagle Scout rank from the Boy Scouts of America.

Olp, a senior at Benet Academy in Lisle, received the award during a ceremony at St. Michael's Catholic Church in Wheaton.

His Eagle Scout project was to collect paper products, school supplies and hygienic products and donate them to Sacred Heart Parish of Hopkins Park in the South suburbs of Chicago.

• Emily Kolf of Itasca and Michael Della Penna and Scott Harold, both of Roselle, were all selected as finalists in the 2008 National Merit Scholarship Competition. They were selected based on test scores of the 2006 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, and represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors.

• Zhiwei Tu of Woodridge won the Award of Excellence-Best Master Signature Member at the 2007 Regional Exhibition for the Oil Painters of America. Tu's painting, "Village Girl," was selected from more than 100 paintings being exhibited at Waterhouse Gallery in Santa Barbara, Calif.

• Elizabeth Hudson of Naperville was selected as this year's College of DuPage nominee for the Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Medallion.

Each year, students from all the community colleges in Illinois are nominated for the prestigious award. The Lincoln Academy is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization established in 1965 to recognize contributions by individuals to the betterment of mankind.

Hudson, who plans on transferring to Northern Illinois University in DeKalb to study forensic accounting, is an accounting major and an Honors Scholar at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn.