The Pekin Park District Adult Kickball 2016 Fall Kickball champions. Registration is open for the next season of kickball.

MORTON

Computer company gets travel grant

Startup Peoria awarded its first ever Startup Travel Grant to a Morton company. Unit Trac, a software company that allows clients to manage the storage of their own data, will travel to the East Coast to present to a concentrated group of potential customers. Unit Trac will report on the trip at a future 1 Million Cups event. 1 Million Cups is a free weekly program of Startup Peoria designed to educate, engage and connect entrepreneurs. It meets 8-9 a.m. every Wednesday at Jump Simulation, in the Edison Room, 1306 N. Berkeley Ave., Peoria.

PEKIN

Adult kickball teams wanted

The Pekin Park District is forming new adult kickball teams. The 2017 kickball season starts soon.  For more information or to register your team, call (309) 201-4007. 

MORTON

School district will have new superintendent

Jeff Hill will assume the duties of Morton School District superintendent July 1. He will replace Lindsey Hall, who is leaving Morton on June 30 to become superintendent in the Mahomet-Seymour School District. Hall has been Morton’s superintendent since July 1, 2012.

Hill is now superintendent of the Illinois State University Laboratory Schools. Thomas Metcalf School (grades pre-K through 8) and University High School (grades 9 through 12) make up ISU’s lab school system, a department within the university’s College of Education. Hill has been superintendent since July 1, 2012. He formerly was principal at Olympia High School in Stanford.

WASHINGTON

City is March Madness Experience sponsor for 8^th year

The city is a March Madness Experience sponsor for the eighth year, having spent $5,000 for the honor. The March Madness Experience is a family-oriented basketball playground held in conjunction with the Illinois High School Association boys’ basketball state finals at the Peoria Civic Center. The City Council approved the payment, which is covered by the city’s hotel tax revenue.

Activities take place in the 100,000-square-foot Exhibition Hall near Carver Arena, site of the state finals games. Hundreds of volunteers keep the March Madness Experience running during both weekends of the state finals.

March Madness Experience sponsors are communities that agree to sponsor the March Madness Experience. In return, sponsors receive marketing opportunities including recognition on LED boards and in public address announcements in Carver Arena, game program advertisements, and a link on the IHSA’s www.marchmadness.org website. The Civic Center has been home to the boys’ basketball state finals since 1996. The March Madness Experience has been part of the festivities since the beginning.

This year’s March Madness Experience dates are March 9 to 11 for Class 1A and Class 2A, and March 16 to 18 for Class 3A and Class 4A.

Rotary Club holds trivia night contest

Washington Rotary Club will hold its Smarty Pants Trivia Night at Countryside Banquet, 659 School St., Washington, March 25. Doors will open at 6; trivia contests will be held 7-10 p.m. Fee for teams of eight members is $120. Teams can sign up by emailing kristylhowell@mtco.com or calling (309) 356-65445 by March 20. Food will be available for purchase.

Proceeds from the trivia competition will benefit the Washington Weekend Snackpac Program. The Rotary Club is committed to raising $5,000 for the program this year.

–Tazewell County News Briefs–