Dixon Replies To Soviet Mayor On Friendship City Link
Dixon responds to a New Year letter from Nikolai Kartamyshev of Dickson Siberia noting the six day Soviet visit last August and the Dixon City council action to form Friendship City relations. He cites wide publicity including press clippings and TV coverage, mentions a Sister City Committee and plans for a chess match by short wave radio, a video sent to President Reagan, a press bridge idea, and student newspaper participation. He also covers charity efforts for Armenian earthquake victims raising over 3000 dollars and coins raised by schoolchildren. Dixon and Shaw expect a Siberia visit in spring pending schedule.
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Dixon
Nikolai Kartamyshev
Dickson
Siberia
Kartamyshev
Friendship City
Chicago
Portland
Ore
Mobile
Ala
Richmond
Buffalo
N. Y
Tucson
Ariz
San Francisco
Calif
Ronald Reagan
Albion Brechalov
Novosty Press Agency
Dixon Telegraph
Bill Shaw
Brechalov
Shaw
Armenia
Judy
Polo sewer project moves forward with CDAP grant
Polo approves a $365,000 Community Development and Assistance Program grant with the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs and hires Willett Hofmann & Associates to begin final planning. A city meeting with DCCA will fix the bid date, with expenditures blocked until that meeting. Mayor Pilling expects the meeting this month. The council also set annual salaries for aldermen at 750 each and mayor at 1500, switching from per meeting pay to annual pay to aid budgeting. Revised garbage and snowmobiling ordinances tighten dumpster billing and add railroad-rights snowmobile routes, with fines rising from 25–500 to 35–500 under general code provisions.
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Polo
Department of Commerce and Community Affairs
Willett Hofmann & Associates
Dixon Engineering
Willett Hofmann
DCCA
Water and Sewer
del Pontnack
CDAP
Bob Pilling
John Clayton
Pilling
Gary Turner
Turner
New firm aims for 21st Century consulting in Dixon
The Twenty-one Consulting Group opens in Commerce Towers Dixon offering internal external assessments and strategy development primarily for health care clients but expanding to any business. Founders Kirby Holland and Karen Conley hold nursing home administrator licenses with AIDS health care expertise and aim to grow nationally through affiliated services and projects.
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Dixon
Twenty-One Consulting Group
Commerce Towers
First St
Kirby Holland
Karen Chare Conley
Twenty-One
Holland
Conley
Illinois Department of Public Health
Sterling
University of Colorado
University of Illinois
American Society For Hospital Marketing
Chicago
Georgia
Conley and Holland
Twenty-One Consulting
County Board denies motion for part-timers
Lee County Board members voted 19 to 7 against granting vacation and sick pay benefits to nine permanent part-time employees. The measure would have provided 50 percent of full-time benefits, despite 47 of 56 part-timers already receiving that level at the nursing home or health department. The nine workers in Sheriff, State's Attorney and Circuit Clerk offices faced the denied proposal amid union concerns and hopes for broader equality. The board also kept the dormant Lee County Public Building Commission in place 18 to 8, with Chairman Dunphy to appoint three new members after input from peers.
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Lee County
Sharon A. Thompson
Lee County Nursing Home
Lee County Health Department
Thompson
Mary Ann Lawson
Lawson
Lee County Public Building Commission
PBC
Dan Fish
Fish
Charlie Dunphy
Questionable clothing prompts dress code review in district
District 275 explores tighter dress code after parents raise concerns over shirts with graphic and violent imagery. Attorney Branson notes minors cannot be prohibited from all messages unless safety links are shown and First Amendment rights considered. Board discusses dialogue with parents while bids for a school bus are reviewed and staff changes approved.
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Ashton
Greg Sawka
Board of Education
Manda
Robert Branson
Branson
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