Forest Park honors longtime coach Fred O’Connor with field name
Park commissioners of Forest Park honor Fred O’Connor for 40 years coaching women’s softball and organizing local leagues. The resolution credits his ceaseless efforts with installing dugout lights and a concession stand, naming the field in his honor and planning a future dedication at the start of next baseball season.
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Fred O'Connor
Forest Park
Park Commissioners
Park District of
O’connor
Park Board
Park
O’ O’connor
O'Connor
Colt League
Colt
Bronco
Park District
Forest Park lights up first street section Friday
Forest Park residents urged to cheer as commissioner Ed Lambke announces the south end street lights will be turned on at 7 00 p m Friday Nov 22 Only lights between 16th street and Roosevelt road and Harlem avenue and Circle avenue will be activated since they share a single lighting circuit The measure marks the towns first step in a staged lighting plan.
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Len Iwan
Forest Park
Ed Lambke
Forest Park Village
16Th St
Roosevelt Rd
Harlem Ave
Circle Ave
Elgin
Marengo Aves
Lambke
Howard Mohr
James Sansone
Mohr
Candi
Elementary schools win in-district OSPI evaluation move
Forest Park 91 district leads Proviso-Lyons area by using in-district evaluators for OSPI reviews. Superintendent Arthur E. Jones says local teams provide clearer feedback on instruction life safety and policies. Final OSPI report due in six weeks with district 45 days to respond.
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Kaye Schultz
Forest Park
OSPI
Arthur E. Jones
Jones
Park District
Triton building fund cut sparks campus fighting tone
Triton college officials planned a trip to Springfield to oppose a 30000 cut in state allocations for a proposed community career center. President Herbert Zeitlin said the cut angered the college and explained it as excluding the physical education area from funding while ICCB affirmed full support. Time line shows a shift to convert the current PE space into a vocational shop at state cost, with the arts center delayed until 1977.
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Mary Anne Stevens
Triton College
Springfield
Herbert Zeitlin
Triton
Board of Education
Zeitlin
Fred L. Wellman
Illinois Community College Board
ICCB
Center
Perform
New Triton board member sworn in to replace retiree
Frances Sullivan, Oak Park resident and new Triton community college board member sworn in October 30 to replace Ann Brennan says she will not be a rubber stamp but will raise women’s concerns as needed. She plans to enroll in a course next term to learn the board’s workings and aims to have deliberations earlier in the future. Sullivan, a former delegate to the 1972 Democratic National Convention, and her husband Monroe have four children and she will serve about two years until the next school election.
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van der Mullen Disposal Company
Stephen M. Bukovac
Michael T. Fay
Howard Mohr
Mohr
Senior Citizens Committee
Youth Commission
Forest Park
Frances Sullivan
Triton Community College Board of Education
Sullivan
Ann Brennan
Oak Park
Miami
Fla
Monroe
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Proviso East
Moliere
Triton Building Fund
Ing Arts
Irion Board of Education
River Grove
New Fine Arts Art Gallery
Frederick Gaskin
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
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