Crete Wild West Days unveil new parade and events
Crete Wild West Days will feature a Main Street parade with cowboy outfits and a three day festival in Crete Park from Friday to Sunday. Events include a Friday shoot-out at 5 p.m., folk tale readings by Rick Cleveringa, Civil War demonstrations, a Saturday street parade and kiddie activities, and a Sunday pancake breakfast with crafts and a Civil War tea.
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Crete
Rick Cleveringa
Crete Park
Crete Amvets Hall
Miss Kitty
Marshall Dil
Prairie State College Board vets bids for Fitness Complex
Prairie State College in Chicago Heights accepted two bids for the Fitness Complex and rejected a steel bid $300,000 over budget at a special board meeting. Callaghan Paving won the site work bid of 522,398 and Chicago Heights Construction won the concrete bid of 412,000. The steel bid may be rebid next week as officials anticipate a one year completion for the 62000 square foot facility joint with St James Hospital and Park District.
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Prairie State College
Chicago Heights
College Board of Trustees
Ray Marthaler
Chicago Heights Construction
Diane Grossi
College
St. James Hospital and
Chicago Heights Park District
Vollmer Road
Halsted Street
Park District
St. James Hospital
Grossi
Gross
Park Forest Co operative Nursery School marks 49th anniversary
Park Forest Co operative Nursery School celebrates 49 years since incorporation in August. Betty McDonnell, longtime teacher since 1966, highlights the school’s philosophy of learning through play and the whole child. Registration for 1999 2000 is under way with contact Vicki Zandi at (708) 748 1790.
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Park Forest
Betty McDonnell
McDonnell
Crete
Monee Road
Forest Preserves
Hawthorne Road
Park Forest Co-operative Nursery School
Vicki Zandi
Frankfort plans bend in Old Plank Road Trail
Assistant Village Administrator Howard Sloan outlined a Board approved plan to reroute the Old Plank Road Trail north of Fox Lumber through downtown Frankfort with a northerly curve and potential new park tied to a $300000 state grant. Fox Lumber will relocate storage to the south side, allow paving of the old site into a parking lot, and the curve aims to avoid forklift traffic along the trail.
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Howard Sloan
Frankfort
Sloan
Board of ‘Trustees
Fox Lumber
White Street
Fox
Intergovernmental Dispatch Plan Aims for Shared Center
The plan would shift dispatch duties into an intergovernmental entity with a director, supervisors, and operators drawn from participating agencies. No current employees would lose jobs as retraining or reassignment to departments or the new center is offered. Residents would benefit from centralized, cost effective operations and better shift coverage.
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VanSchepen
Police
Fire
ESDA
Public Works
Ment
van Sichepen
Chester Wilkins
Village Hall
Rick Reinbold
Lauren Franklin honored as Illinois Community Leader of the Year
Franklin, a Grambling State University pre law student from Chicago Heights, is an Americorps youth spokesperson and active in debate and student government. She interned in Cook County State Attorney’s Office and plans to attend Georgetown Law. The NCNW and community centers helped her rise.
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Franklin
Americorps
March of Dimes
Grambling State University
Louisiana
Student Union Board
Windy City Association
Hubert
Linda Franklin
Lauren
Cook County
State's Attorney's Office
Georgetown University
Washington
D.C
Chicago Heights
Deborah Harper
Harper
Cheryl
Chicago
Miracle ‘Temple
NCNW
Anderson
Illinois
Mary McLeod Bethune
Refuse Transfer for Glaeser Park Pavilion and Youth Baseball
Refuse pickup will be hauled to Robbins Resource Recovery Partners in Robbins under prior village contract. The service covers one bulk item per week, including appliances, furniture, or light construction debris.
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Glaeser Park
Youth Baseball Association
Robbins Resource Recovery Partners
Robbins
Power Crews Seek Action Over Outages With Officials
Doby says ComEd delays and outages prompted letters to the Illinois Commerce Commission the Cook County Board and local legislators urging faster remedies. He frames the power issues as a long running hassle and seeks official oversight.
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Illinois Commerce Commission
Cook County Board
ComEd
Doby
Postage Rates and Local Notices in Chicago Heights
Fragmentary OCR text shows postal rate references and local notices for Chicago Heights. It mentions post charges, stamped materials, and a listing of numbers and codes, suggesting a periodical postage or distribution note within the local edition. No clear names, dates, or events are readable.
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Danielle Hirsch
Lon
Lynda J. Hemmerling
Co-op Nursery School
Park Forest Co-op
By Kristen McQueary
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VanSchepp En
Olympia Fields
John Murry
IRMA
Reinbold
Telcora
Audit Bureau of Circulations
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