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Updated: November 11, 2011 5:25PM

Teacher receives educator award

Community Unit School District 95 and the Yale Office of Undergraduate Admissions have recognized Carl Krause as a recipient of the 2011 Yale Educator Award. Krause is a Lake Zurich High School science teacher and career counselor.

The Yale Educator Recognition Program recognizes outstanding educators from around the world who have supported and inspired their students to achieve at high levels. Matriculating students are invited to nominate high school educators and a committee composed of Yale admissions officers reviews the nominations individually and designates recipients. Of 228 nominations received for this year’s award, representing 33 different states and 18 different countries, 50 teachers and 30 counselors were selected to receive the awards.

Read for the
record

Join the Ela Area Public Library as people read Anna Dewdney’s “Llama, Llama Red Pajama” as part of Jump Start’s Read for the Record event at 6:30 p.m. today (Thursday) in the Ela Area Public Library’s children’s department, 275 Mohawk Trail. Crafts, snacks and prizes will be part of the festivities.

In 2006, Read for the Record was established. It’s an international campaign to bring preschool children together with valued grown ups in their lives to read the same book, on the same day, in communities all over the world.

Registration is not required for this free program. For more information, contact the children’s department at (847) 438-3840.

Instrument
petting zoo

Stop by and have some musical fun with faculty from the Music Institute of Chicago during the Ela Area Public Library’s Instrument Petting Zoo from 10:30 a.m. until noon Oct. 15 at the library, 275 Mohawk Trail. Children of all ages and their parents will have the chance to get up close and personal with a variety of child-sized instruments.

Registration is not required for this free program. For more information, contact the children’s department at (847) 438-3840.

Police to hold alcohol sales
enforcement

The Lake Zurich Police Department and the Illinois State Police, in conjunction with the Lake County Chiefs of Police Association-Lake County Underage Drinking Prevention Task Force, will be conducting alcohol sales compliance checks prior to the Lake Zurich High School Homecoming festivities Oct. 15. Police Department personnel in conjunction with Illinois State police agents will be observing points of sales for violations of local and state liquor laws. Retailers are urged to check the identification of anyone that is attempting to purchase liquor to insure the purchaser can legally purchase alcohol.

District 95 holding preschool
screenings

Lake Zurich Community Unit School District 95 will offer a preschool screening for three- and four-year-old children for whom there may be concern in the areas of gross or fine motor skills, speech-language or conceptual development. In addition, a vision and hearing screening will be offered. Children must be 3-years-old by the screening date.

The screenings will be held from 9:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Oct. 20 and Oct. 21 at St. Francis de Sales Ministry Center, 135 S. Buesching Road, Lake Zurich. For more information, or to schedule an appointment, call (847) 540-7060.

Women in
Networking fall event

Women in Networking will host the WIN Breakfast and Boutique from 9 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. Nov. 9 at the Kemper Lakes Golf Club, 24000 Old McHenry Road, Kildeer. Women of the community are invited to join the networking group for a continental breakfast and holiday shopping at the WIN Boutique. Women who own or work in area businesses are encouraged to learn more about Women in Networking and become a member.

WIN is the largest networking group for businesswomen in the greater Lake Zurich area. The group meets the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at Alpine Chapel, 23153 W. Miller Road, Lake Zurich. For more information, log on to www.winlz.com.

Etienne program semifinalist

Lake Zurich High School student Kaitlyn Etienne has been named a semifinalist in the 2012 National Achievement Scholarship Program. Etienne is one of more than 1,600 Black American high school seniors who have been designated semifinalists in the 48th annual National Achievement Scholarship Program by National Merit Scholarship Corporation officials.

These scholastically talented young men and women now have an opportunity to continue in the competition for approximately 800 Achievement Scholarship awards worth more than $2.4 million to be offered next spring. To be considered for a National Achievement Scholarship, semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition. About 80 percent of semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing, and more than half of the finalists will win an Achievement Scholarship award.

— Stephanie Kohl