Celtic Woman combines traditional Irish music with spectacular production and staging in an April 26 performance at the Coronado Performing Arts Center.

ROCKFORD

RVC music professor is teacher of year

Professor of Music Paul Laprade has been honored as the 29th recipient of the Rock Valley College Faculty of the Year award. 

Fellow faculty members and campus colleagues were on hand earlier this month as Professor Laprade was honored during the College’s faculty development session.

In his 14 years at RVC, Professor Laprade has taught a number of different music courses, including most recently Music Theory, American Music, and Piano. During his tenure he was responsible for developing and teaching three new courses (Women’s Choir, Diction for Singers, and Choral Conducting) and for adding master classes to the voice curriculum

Laprade also conducts the College’s choirs which annually perform a number of concerts on campus and in the community during the fall and spring semesters. Under his direction, RVC students have been honored to be the only two-year college students to perform at the Washington National Cathedral (2005), the Illinois Music Educators’ Association (2007), and at the White House (2009). 

Additional contributions Laprade has made outside of the classroom have included advising the Music Education Club and Choral Clubs, chairing the Music Scholarship committee, and conducting a choir performance annually at the College’s commencement ceremony.

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RVC offers tour of Wrigley Field

Rock Valley College Community and Continuing Education is offering a bus trip and tour opportunity to go behind the scenes of legendary Wrigley Field, home of the 2016 World Series champion Chicago Cubs. The trip and tour will take place Tuesday, July 11. The bus will depart Rock Valley College Lot 10 at 7:30 a.m. and will return at approximately 5:30 p.m.

Tickets are $109 per person and you can register online at RockValleyCollege.edu/ceonline using registration code: TRP 001 CUB.

Built in 1914, this must-see Chicago attraction houses more than 100 years of history. We will visit the seating bowl, press box, Budweiser Bleachers, visitor’s clubhouse, Cubs dugout, and the beautiful field! This VIP private tour is an exclusive tour through the friendly confines with our own personal tour guide. After our tour, we will enjoy a ballpark inspired lunch at the infamous Cubby Bear. We’ll have time to meander around the newly renovated plaza space, shop in the Cubs Store as well as other shops around the stadium and purchase those much sought after, highly envied Cubs souvenirs.

This outdoor one-mile walking tour lasts approximately 75-90 minutes and is conducted rain or shine, so please dress appropriately. Visitors are welcome to bring video and still cameras into the ballpark (no tripods). Treat the Cubs fans in your life to this ultimate experience! This would also make a great Father’s Day gift.

For more information call (815) 921-3900 or visit RockValleyCollege.edu/daytrips. 

ROCKFORD

Park District seasonal guides now available

The Rockford Park District Spring/Summer 2017 Program Guide is available free of charge online at http://www.rockfordparkdistrict.org/guides, and at Park District facilities and Customer Service locations. Registration is now open.

The 96-page guide contains information on activities and programs for all ages April-September, 2017, and includes summer camps (Park District and affiliated museums) and free playground programs, lesson programs for golf, swimming, tennis, track and field, horseback riding, ice skating, and hockey, as well as a variety of other outdoor and indoor recreation and sport activities, clinics, camps, and leagues for youth and/or adult volleyball, golf, soccer, adult softball/baseball, NFL Flag Football, NFL Cheer, and more. Offerings for environmental education/recreation, fishing, and Nicholas Conservatory adult and kids yoga classes also included.

Information on inclusion services for participants with disabilities is detailed in the Guide, as well as information on the Park District’s EZ-Pay automated payment plan, and Help Me Play fee assistance program. Online registration is available at www.rockfordparkdistrict.org for most activities.

–Winnebago County News Briefs–