Prospect Heights Building Department, director earn honors

• Congratulations to Jenn Myzia, Mike Porzycki, Darrell Taylor, and Director Dan Peterson of the Prospect Heights Building Department. The Illinois Association of Code Enforcement has awarded the city of Prospect Heights Building Department the 2018 Code Enforcement Agency of the Year Award, and Director Dan Peterson, the Department Director of the Year Award.

These awards were based on events and programs that the department managed or implemented in the past year. Among the tasks the department worked on in addition to normal duties were: Flooding event response; a fire at River Trails Condominiums and assistance response, including initiation and development of donation center.

Among the items cited for Dan Peterson's award were the management of flood and fire disaster response and assistance, and recognition of 25 years of contribution to the Illinois Association of Code Enforcement.

• Anthony Kozlowski, a senior at Rolling Meadows High School, was selected for Western Illinois University's Centennial Honors Scholarship, which awards $10,000 per year to academically high-achieving students.

High school students with an ACT score of 30 or higher or SAT equivalent of 1360, and a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher, are eligible for the scholarship.

Kozlowski, who lives in Rolling Meadows, plans to major in exercise science.

• Elisabeth Slotten, a Buffalo Grove native and 2010 Stevenson High School graduate, was named Emergent Teacher of the Year by the Janesville School District in Janesville, Wisconsin. Slotten is a fourth-year English teacher at Craig High School, currently teaching honors and Advanced Placement classes. She is also an instructor at the University of Wisconsin's Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence, a precollege pipeline for students of color and low-income students, most of whom are the first in their families to potentially attend college.

She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in secondary education-English and gender studies.

Slotten, who currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin, was honored Dec. 6, during a ceremony in Janesville.

• U.S. Air Force National Guard Airman 1st Class Jose A. Reyna Jr. graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

Reyna, is a 2013 graduate of Maine East High School, Park Ridge.

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