Lake County briefs

Baseball tournament:The 13th Annual Cougar Classic baseball tournament is scheduled for this weekend at the Vernon Hills Athletic Complex. Hosted by the Vernon Hills Youth Athletic Association, the tournament starts Wednesday, July 7 and runs through Sunday, July 11. Teams in age groups from 9 through 14 from northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin will compete for their respective championships. Fields feature scoreboards and lights and the facility has an automatic severe weather detection system. The complex is on Fairway Drive, one mile south of Route 60.Edens Spur work:The start of the Edens Spur (I-94) project between the Tri-State Tollway (I-94) and the Edens Expressway (I-94) has been adjusted with a new work zone reducing the Edens Spur to one lane in both directions in place by 5 a.m. Wednesday, July 7. The project includes repairing and resurfacing five miles of pavement and rehabilitating bridge structures. Traffic will be reduced to one lane in both directors for the duration of the project, which is scheduled to be complete by the end of the year. For eastbound Edens Spur traffic, lane closures will begin on the Tri-State Tollway (I-94) at Duffy Road. For westbound traffic, closures will begin on the ramp between the Edens Expressway and the Edens Spur. There will be no impact on the Edens Expressway. Visit www.illinoistollway.com or call 1-800-TOLL-FYI.New SEDOL Foundation ChairmanLake Forest resident David Raye was elected to serve as chairman of the Special Education District of Lake County's Foundation board. Raye owns The Goddard School for Early Childhood Development in Third Lake and has been a SEDOL Foundation board member for four years. The foundation gives funding and supplemental materials to SEDOL, which provides special education programming for students in 35 districts across Lake County. Raye joins vice chair David Rutkowski of Gurnee, treasurer Joe Charneske of Hawthorn Woods, and secretary Craig Hourigan of Grayslake on the foundation's executive board. With his wife Donna, Raye, who suffered hearing loss at an early age, established a $10,000 "Help Them to Hear" grant for families that do not qualify under state agencies to receive hearing devices such as hearing aids. The program is coordinated by SEDOL's audiological services department.