| City Colleges may train for casinos
Chicago City Colleges will train students for jobs in the casino industry -- including blackjack dealers -- "when and if" the Legislature approves the on-again-off-again plan for a land-based Chicago casino, Chancellor Wayne Watson said Monday. No sooner had Ald. Tom Tunney (44th), owner of Ann Sather's Restaurants, suggested that City Colleges branch out into casino training than Watson embraced the idea. "A lot of people think of casino jobs as just being the person who deals the cards or runs the roulette table. That's a small portion of casino jobs. A larger part is wait staff and support staff," Watson said. "Moving from where we kick off our hospitality program to actually training front-of-the-house casino employees is an easy step for us. When and if Chicago is approved for casinos, City Colleges stands ready to provide capacity and quality training for front-of-the-house casino jobs -- all of it, including dealers." The newly rebuilt Kennedy-King College is home to the nation's oldest and, now, most modern culinary school in the Washburne Institute, which includes a world-renowned French pastry school.
The Sophisticated Palate
Private academies, summer classes and a uniform don't usually stir my soul, but the Culinary Institute of America and its Sophisticated Palate experience in the heart of the Napa Valley proved otherwise.With its location in an internationally known wine-growing region, its reputation as a premier culinary school and its setting in the historic Christian Brothers Winery in St. Helena, the CIA at Greystone is making a big-time jump into the fledgling culinary travel industry that some say is the hottest niche market to emerge in years.Gourmet magazine and the Culinary Tourism Association report culinary travel accounts for 60 percent of the U.S. leisure travel market, but the Sophisticated Palate experience promised something more than a boatload of good food, drink and private tours. Its goal: delivering unique and memorable experiences through hands-on experiential learning.I had doubts about how healthy my two-day immersion in Cooking for the Next Half of Your Life would be.
Rockland people in the news
Corinne Schild was awarded a scholarship grant from the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI Inc. Schild of Valley Cottage is the granddaughter of former special agent Charles O. Davis. She is a recent graduate of Nyack High School and will attend Hope College in Holland, Mich. History scholar
Marc Spencer Appel was named a finalist in the Gilder Lehrman History Scholars program. Appel from West Nyack was one of 45 finalists who was chosen to meet with history scholars during a one-week program in New York City. Appel is a student at Yale University. Alston graduates
Daniel J. Alston has received a degree in Culinary Arts from the Art Institute of New York City. He is from Valley Cottage. Fouda graduates
Rana Fouda graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in marketing communications.
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