OGLESBY — The Zonta Club of the LaSalle-Peru area recently created a $10,000 scholarship endowment with the Illinois Valley Community College Foundation. 

Zonta is a worldwide service organization of executives in business and the professions working together to advance the status of women through service and advocacy. Zonta has been promoting women in the Illinois Valley area since 1924.

“Illinois Valley students now have one more resource to open the door to higher education opportunities, allowing them to improve their status in the workplace,” Zonta Vice President Sarah Walczynski said.