Paramedic Ambulance Plans Revive in Frankfort Mokena
The Star reports on revived talks about forming an ambulance district to fund and provide paramedic service for Frankfort and Mokena. Options include a tax-supported ambulance district, village contracts, paid paramedics, or volunteer firefighting crews, with coverage and cost implications for residents and potential impacts on hospital referrals.
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Frankfort-Mokena
Frankfort
Mokena
The
Star
Karen Haave II
Olympia Fields Osteopathic Medical Center
South Suburban
Hazel Crest
Vandenberg
del Yunker
Yunker
Tinley Park
Kurtz Ambulance
New Lenox
Prestwick
Frankfort Square
Lincoln Estates
Arbury Hills
Gas City drops truck stop plan in Mokena development
Gas City Inc cancels the truck stop portion of its 24 acre commercial project at the southwest corner of 191st Street and Route 45 in Mokena after a village board meeting. Mayor Michael Everett said board members never favored the truck stop and urged a zoning session to discuss the revised proposal. Remaining commercial plans include a large motel, a convenience store, and a restaurant with 200 to 250 seats with projected tax and employment figures.
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Karen Harve
Gas City, Inc
191St Street
Mokena
Michael Everett
Board of Trustees
Gas City
Everett
Route 45
Village Planning and Zoning Commission
Village Planning Commission
Townsled Band Boosters Stir in Lincoln Way Activities
A Lincoln Way High School Band Boosters feature highlights Jean Town and other active parents. A mother of two Marching Knights urges parental involvement, saying participation strengthens support for the band and students.
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Jean
Lincoln Way
Marching Knights
Blindness drives blind cross country walk for belief
Bill Morgan, blind since age ten, treks 3,763 miles coast to coast to prove limits are self imposed. The 36 year old from Garden City Idaho began in Astoria Oregon and reached Chicago Heights after 13 miles in four and a half hours with a news photographer in tow. He credits the National Federation of the Blind for courage and notes society often labels the blind as pitiable.
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Michael Cox
Bill Morgan
Garden City
Idaho
Frankfort
Chicago Heights
Morgan
National Federation of the Blind
NFB
Astoria
Ore
Boise
Federation
Saratoga
Wyo
Mokena Board Approves 1983 84 Levy Ordinance
The Mokena board of trustees approved the 1983 84 tax levy for general fund and specified accounts including 59500 for general corporate, 1000 for Emergency Services Disaster agency, 1000 for audit fund, 17500 for police protection, 4900 for school crossing guards, 52300 for Illinois Municipal Retirement, and 1000 for chlorination fund. The meeting approved returning a fire alarms ordinance to committee, funding half of a sidewalk project if money exists, disbursed revenue sharing funds to Senior Services Center of Will County and the village library district, and settled engineering fees with McBride Engineering for 13113.45.
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Mokena
Emergency Services Disaster Agency
Illinois Municipal Retirement
Will County
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Alex Leith
Pikeville
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