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Learn better financial management and smart home buying techniques with several educational classes offered this month through McHenry County College's Continuing Education Department. Classes include "Buying or Refinancing a Home: Mistakes You Don't Want to Make," "Wills and Trusts" and "Get Smart About Home Buying."

Let McHenry County College's Continuing Education Department help you have fun and get fit outdoors with their entertaining and educational classes being offered this month. Classes include Canoeing, Basic Fundamentals of Golf, and Advanced Fundamentals of Golf.

McHenry County College president Walter Packard, along with two students and an instructor, were recently recognized for their leadership and service at the 2008 Phi Theta Kappa International Convention in Philadelphia. Earth Science instructor David Elder received the Distinguished Chapter Advisor Award for the fourth time since 1999. Diane Hanks of Huntley received the Distinguished Chapter Officer Award and Leslie Frailey of Crystal Lake received the Distinguished Member Award, placing both students among the top 25 chapter officers and members out of 1,200 chapters internationally.

Trips and Tours on a Southern Caribbean and Panama Cruise aboard the Holland America ms Zuiderdam for an 11-day tour from Jan. 28 to Feb. 7, 2009.

Start this tour worry-free with included home pick-up to O'Hare Airport. Travelers will arrive in Fort Lauderdale, Florida to set sail on a two-week adventure featuring ports of call at Half Moon Cay, Bahamas, Oranjestad, Aruba, Willemstad, Curacao, Panama Canal, Gatun Lake, Colon, Panama, Puerto Limon, and Puerto Limon, Costa Rica.

McHenry County College's Sensational Trips and Tours program is traveling to Miller Park in Milwaukee to see the Colorado Rockies take on the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday, July 10.

Seating is loge infield. A motorcoach departs circular drive at McHenry County College at 10 a.m. and returns approximately 6 p.m. Cost of tour is $60.

Those planning to attend graduate school can prepare for their entrance exams with prep sessions scheduled in May for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). Each three-day session costs $250. A three-day prep session for the GRE is scheduled for evenings on May 20, May 22 and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 24. A three-day prep session for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) will be held in the evenings on Tuesday, May 13 and Thursday, May 15, plus 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 17.

Area employers are invited to sign up for an exhibit booth at McHenry County College's Annual Job Fair from 2-7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 3. Sponsored by McHenry County College Career Services, the job fair is expected to attract about 1,500 job seekers with various skill levels and educational degrees, from associate's through master's degrees. Cost to exhibit is $125. Deadline to register is May 28.

The Illinois Small Business Development Center (ISBDC) at McHenry County College is collaborating with Paulsen Productions and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Development to host From Service to Success sm from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, May 6 at the Shah Center, 4100 W. Shamrock Lane, McHenry. This is a free seminar providing information regarding the resources available to assist area veterans and veteran business owners. The event is free of charge, but registration is required.

McHenry County College's Office of Adult Education is seeking volunteers to teach reading or English as a Second Language. A literacy tutor receives free basic training to work with literacy students and speaking a second language is not required. Prospective volunteers are asked to observe a literacy class first, and then to attend an orientation session. Call now to make an appointment to observe a class in May and to register for orientation, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 15.

The Sessions Jazz Quartet will perform at McHenry County College at 3 p.m. on May 4 (first Sunday) in the MCC Conference Center, concluding the college's Second Sunday Concert Series for the year. Selections will include: "Compared to What," by Wes McCann; "Land of Make Believe" by Chuck Mangione; and "That's Life" by K. Gordon and D. Thompson. The concert is free and open to the public.

The McHenry County College Department of Athletics announces ScotStars - 2008, youth baseball, basketball, soccer and softball summer camps. Most camps are for third through ninth graders with the general skills soccer camp also accommodating those going into first and second grade. Participants in these general sports camps will have the opportunity to learn, reinforce and/or improve upon age-appropriate skills, improve self-confidence and ability, have fun, and meet new friends. Camp dates are: boys baseball (June 16-19), boys and girls basketball (June 23-26), boys and girls soccer (July 21-24), boys and girls soccer striker and goalkeeper (July 28-31) and girls softball (July 28-31). The fee for each camp is $69.