Hospitals award scholarships to area students
UChicago medicine Hinsdale and La Grange Hospitals presented $4,000 scholarships earlier this summer to 12 area high school students, recognizing their leadership, academic achievement and interest in pursuing health care-related careers.
Scholars were Lyons Township High School students Daniel Aviles Jr., Carly Granger, Abujin Lkhagvasuren and Rohan Shah; Hinsdale South High School students Layla Gallegos and Ghi’Ana Slaughter; Hinsdale Central High School students Summer Ryan, Nabeeha Salahuddin, Asha Sarai and Hillary Sun; and Westmont High School students Kyle Johnson and Julia Leong.
On hand for the presentation were Dr. Paul Ryan, medical staff president; Dr. Nicholas Moy, medical staff vice president; Dr. David You, medical staff secretary treasurer; Dr. Richard Phillips, chief medical officer; Elise MacCarroll-Wright, president and CEO, UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale; Dave Tkachuck, president and CEO, UChicago Medicine AdventHealth LaGrange.
Elmhurst U. to get $1.5 million gift for business school
An anonymous donor who is on the Elmhurst University Board of Trustees plans to give the university more than $1.5 million to establish an endowed professorship and scholarship for the university’s School of Business.
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The gift, an estate commitment by the donor, will allow the business school to address its greatest needs. “Because the school has many options for growth, I wanted to give them the flexibility to expand programs and opportunities,” the donor shared via a news release. “I think so highly of Elmhurst and its focus on being student centered.”
Business is one of the university’s most popular areas for students. The scholarship will go to undergraduates in that school, and the endowed professorship will be awarded to a faculty member to support that person’s “scholarly activities.”
Night for Nature helps restore preserve habitats
Tickets are being sold for A Night for Nature, set for 5 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 17 at St. James Farm Forest Preserve in Warrenville.
The Friends of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, the district’s nonprofit partner, “aims to raise $50,000 to “support native wildlife and habitat restoration in DuPage forest preserves,” according to a news release.
Tickets, $125 per person, include food and drinks, live music performed by Big Sky Acoustic and wagon rides in the preserve and are sold at dupageforst.org/friends.
The event is for those 21 and older.
A silent auction includes items such as a two-night Great Lakes glamping adventure, two tickets to the Presidents Cup at Medine Country Club plus a signed pin flag, three-night wine-tasting escape in Napa Valley, a behind-the scenes private tour of the new state-of-the-art DuPage Wildlife Conservation Center and forest preserve district golf experiences, such as being among the first people to play the Maple Meadows Golf Preserve in Wood Dale once it reopens.
Mum, bulb sale happening at conservatory
The Oak Park Conservatory is selling homegrown fall mums online now, with in-person sales starting Sept. 18 at 615 Garfield St. in Oak Park.
Extra-large containers down to 5-inch mums will be sold. In addition, bulbs that can be planted now will be sold such as daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, alliums and snowdrops. Details are at 708-725-2400 or [email protected].
LaGrange hosts West Ends Arts Festival
Arts fans will find plenty to like at the 30th annual West Ends Arts Festival, a juried art festival planned for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 12 and 13 next to Metra’s LaGrange Stone Avenue Station, 100 S. Brainard Ave.
Attendees can shop for original artwork while enjoying kids’ activities, live art demonstrations, creative activities, acoustic music, and vendors providing food, wine and beer.
Admission is free, as is parking. Information is at westendartsfestival.com.
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Health tips offered during mobile session
Get moving while learning more about health with Walk With a Doc, available from 11 a.m. to noon the third Tuesday of each month.
In May to September, walks take place at Countryside Park, 630 61st St. in Countryside starting at the gazebo and playground near the south parking lot. In bad weather and from October to April, walks happen at the Park District of LaGrange Recreation Center, 536 East Ave. in LaGrange; participants should meet just past the lobby.
During walks, local health care professionals and physicians will share evidence-based health tips, answer questions and walk with participants for a relaxed informational session that offers strategies to improve health.
It’s offered by OptWell. To register, visit [email protected].
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