Oak Park Farmers Market Opens With Broad Range Of Produce
The Oak Park farmers market opened Saturday on North Boulevard drawing growers from across the United States along with a Tinley Park florist and a Des Plaines farmer. Market manager Curtiss Miller noted rain delayed a few planned participants and urged more farmer turnout while buyers praised freshness and atmosphere over price.
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Oak Park
United States
Far East
North Boulevard
Des Plaines
Tinley Park
Oak Park House
John Walton
Farmers’ Market
East Avenue
Erwin Gieles
Gieles
Gulf and
Mount Prospect Roads
Evanston
Curtiss Miller
Miller
Jack Roy
Ket Booth
Carla Lind
Farmers’ Market Commission
Village tests elm treatment chemical Lingnasan on 50 to 100 trees
Oak Park Village Board authorized a test of 50 to 100 elms with Lingnasan, a new and costly treatment for Dutch elm disease. Public works chief Glen Sunde noted the process costs about 50 dollars per treatment, takes three hours, and requires twice yearly applications.
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Oak Park
Oak Park Village
Sunde
Public Works Department
District 97 approves administrator salary increases
District 97 the board voted 6 to 1 to raise administrative salaries by 5.5 percent on average for next year covering an assistant superintendent two directors and ten building principals. New junior high principals top the scale at 26000 annually while some administrators receive no or minimal changes.
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District 97 Board of Education
Hubert Helfer
Robert Baldauf
John Belletini
Baldauf
Martin McCullough
McCullough
Oak Park to switch school nursing to Public Health
Oak Park Village Board tentatively approves a plan to shift school nursing from schools to the Oak Park Public Health Department in 1977. Public health nurses would handle in school first aid and data on communicable diseases, with parochial schools already served by public health nurses. Nine nurses would cover both parochial and public schools. District 200 would retain one high school nurse on contract.
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Oak Park
Oak Park Village
Tills
Public Health Department
District 97
Oak Park River Forest High School
District 200 Board of Education
District 97 Board
District 200 approves life safety renovation plan
District 200 accepts a life safety project report totaling 4 774 093 to renovate high school buildings for fire prevention detection and safety. The plan may require a 1977 tax increase to finance initial work slated to start this fall and finish within three years with state education oversight by Robert Hayes and Daniel Bryant.
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District 200 Board of Education
Daniel Bryant
Robert Hayes
Hayes
Bryant
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Elmhurst
John Hoppe
Shirley Klein
Little Theatre
Westgate Flower & Plant Shop
Oak Park Ave
Walker’s of Oak Pont
Lake St
Cannon
Bank Corde
Pyrex
UMIT
al Fiaal
Schick Sales and Service Center
Westgate Oak Park
Mfg
North Ave
Oak Park, Ill
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