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Village earns Green Fleet award for 7th straight year In 2018, 83% of the Village s fleet utilized some form of alternative fuel The Village of Downers Grove has again been selected as one of the Top 50 Greenest Fleets in North America. The Village was awarded the Government Green Fleet Award for their dedicated use of alternative fuel and hybrid vehicles. In 2018, 83% of the Village’s fleet utilized some form of alternative fuel. These alternatives included Biodiesel (B-20), E-85 (Ethanol), Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), propane, solar power, and hybrid combinations. The Village uses CNG fuel to power a wide range of vehicles including compact sedans, pick-up trucks, cargo vans, police patrol vehicles and five-ton trucks.
Join The Discussion To Improve Pedestrian Safety The Village and District 99 are partnering to improve pedestrian safety near both high schools.
MORE INFO The Village recently began use of its first plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. The vehicles, used by the Police Department s Community Support Officers, are averaging over 75 milesper-gallon after one month of use. The Village’s five-ton trucks were the first in the Midwest to be powered by CNG. The implementation of green initiatives like the use of cleaner, more efficient alternative fuels achieves the Village’s Strategic Plan goal of being a Steward of Financial & Environmental Sustainability. Using alternative fuels reduces the environmental impact of fleet operations and is more cost-effective than traditional petroleum based products.
While much has been done over the summer break, there’s more to come. You can join the discussion at the Community Pedestrian Safety Forums on September 5 at the following times and locations: North High 6:30 p.m. South High 7:00 p.m. Can’t make the meeting? No problem. You can register your safety concerns and suggestions on District 99’s Traffic Safety Study Interactive Map.
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The Village uses CNG fuel to power a wide range of vehicles including compact sedans, pick-up trucks, cargo vans, police patrol vehicles and five-ton trucks. Being selected as an award winning Government Green Fleet is a great accomplishment for the Village.
Class is now in session for Community High School District 99 and Downers Grove Grade School District 58 students. The Downers Grove Police Department works closely with the First Student Bus Company to ensure that motorists in our community know the laws pertaining to school buses. The bus drivers report any stop-arm violations to the police department for appropriate action. Patrol officers and traffic officers will be out in force in neighborhoods and in the area of the schools making sure motorists obey the traffic laws. Motorists should be aware that the following laws are in place
The Village recently began use of its first plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. The vehicles, used by the Police Department’s Community Support
Officers, are averaging over 75 milesper-gallon after one month of use.
for the safety of the children walking to and from school each day. On any two-lane roadway and within school parking lots, all traffic must stop when the school bus has its “STOP” arm extended. On a four-lane roadway, only vehicles traveling in the same direction as the bus are required to stop. The penalty for passing a stopped school bus is a $150.00 fine and a 90-day suspension of driving privileges. The speed limit in areas posted as “School Zones” is 20 mph on school days from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM, when children are present in the area. The minimum fine for this traffic offense is
$150.00. Always BUCKLE-UP everyone on every trip, every time. Seat belts are the best defense against driver mistakes - they save lives every day! When driving near schools, be alert for adult school crossing guards and student patrols that may be assisting children crossing the street. Motorists are required to obey the instructions of adult school crossing guards, so use caution and be prepared to stop. Cell Phones are PROHIBITED in school zones for everyone! - State statute prohibits the use of cellphones for all drivers, regardless of age, while operating a motor vehicle in a school zone.
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Son has good income, low rent, but is asking for money
Let him wallow in it and worry about things for a while and test his resolve first DEAR DAVE, Our son is 27, and he has a good job making $55,000 a year. Recently, we learned he financed an expensive car he’s now upside down on. In addition, he has accumulated over $15,000 in credit card debt. He lives in a small town, and only pays $650
DEAR BRYCE,
a month in rent, but he is asking for money. We taught him about living on a budget and staying out of debt when he was younger, and now it seems he didn’t listen very well. How do you think we should handle this situation?
BRYCE
The first thing I’d advise telling him is that you and his mom aren’t going to whip out the checkbook, and make his problems disappear. That may sound harsh, but he had a really good thing going until he messed it up by acting impulsively and irresponsibly with his finances. Nope, I wouldn’t take care of it for him—not at his age. This young man needs to have some skin in the
game. I’d tell him to sell the fancy car, and get something way cheaper to drive for a while. I’m talking about a little beater in the $2,000 to $3,000 range. It sounds like he’ll have to get a small loan to cover the difference, but a little car debt is better than a lot of car debt. I’d also advise him to pick up a part-time job nights or weekends until he gets that credit card debt paid off. In other words, let him wallow
in it and worry about things for a while. Then, if he’s willing to accept responsibility for his actions, and starts handling money more wisely, you two might help out every so often with a little extra cash on the payments. But I’d test his resolve first. And I’d want to see proof he has learned from his mistakes!
DAVE
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LABOR DAY 2019 workers marched them toward town, along the way killing the mine’s onelegged superintendent. After several miles of walking, the group reached a barb-wire fence. Strikers lined up the scabs against the fence and told them to run for their lives. As they clawed to climb the fence, strikers opened fire, killing and wounding many. The final death toll was 23. In the aftermath, prosecutors obtained 214 indictments. But when the first few resulted in acquittals by sympathetic local juries, the rest were dropped. The nation reacted to the massacre with disgust. President Warren Harding characterized it as a “shocking crime, barbarity, butchery, rot and madness.”
Illinois has been the nexus for the nation s labor movement BY PHIL LUCIANO Of the Journal Star of Peoria @BugleNewspapers bstanley@buglenewspapers.com From organizing unions to effecting labor laws, Illinois has played a vital historical role as a flashpoint — sometimes involving violence and danger — for workplace fairness. These are some of the key figures and events of that struggle.
MOTHER JONES She lost her own family, so she adopted a new one, a huge one, lifting up the cause of labor. In the process, Mother Jones became perhaps the greatest labor force in the history of Illinois. An Irish immigrant and dressmaker, Mary Harris landed in Memphis, Tennessee, where she met and wed George Jones, a foundry worker and union supporter. They’d had four children by 1867, when an epidemic of yellow fever claimed the entire household, save Mary. The 30-year-old widow relocated to Chicago to start anew with a dress shop, but it was lost in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. She scraped to get by, sometimes sewing piecework for wealthy Chicago families. As she’d gaze out their picture windows, she gained a keen eye and soft heart for disenfranchised. Jones gravitated to organizing with the Knights of Labor, then the United Mine Workers. Her labor-rights moxie quickly won over workers. She’d travel
to help wherever the call — garment workers in Chicago, steelworkers in Pittsburgh, bottle washers in Milwaukee — railing against companies and corporations for fair wages and safe working conditions. At the close of the 19th century, Illinois became a labor battleground, especially for downstate miners, drawing her attention. After she died in 1930, she was buried among the miners laid to rest at Union Miners Cemetery in Mount Olive. Her simple marker carries some uncharacteristically purple prose, in part extolling: “She gave her life to the world of labor, her blessed soul to heaven.” It’s almost a shame she isn’t remembered there from one of her most telling quotes: “I’m not a humanitarian. I’m a hell raiser.”
THE HAYMARKET AFFAIR With the explosion of a stick of dynamite, the Haymarket Affair became a key flashpoint of the U.S. labor movement. By May 1886, Chicago had become a labor battleground, with pro-labor forces fighting for better working conditions and pay. The tug-of-war also included radical anarchists who wanted to overthrow capitalism, sparking fear among much of the public. To advance the idea of an eighthour workday, a labor rally was set for May 4 — a day after police fired upon on an angry mob of striking Chicago workers, killing two. The rally seemed peaceful, ending as a throng of police stepped through to disperse attendees. Then a stick of dynamite was hurled at the police, killing seven cops and one civilian. In return, officers started firing into the crowd, wounding dozens.
Eight men were arrested and convicted in connection with the bombing, though the thrower was never found. Still, four were hanged; at the gallows, one said, “The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.” His words proved prescient. Though a wave of xenophobia had swept the nation immediately after the bombing, public skepticism gradually grew over what increasingly seemed like a sham prosecution. Of the other four defendants, one committed suicide while the other three were sent to prison; however, they were later pardoned. The martyrdom of the defendants fueled pro-labor forces, eventually leading to the eight-hour workday, along with the creation of International Workers’ Day on May 1.
THE PULLMAN STRIKE The Pullman Strike was the first national strike in American, riveting the country to the burgeoning labor movement. South of Chicago, the Pullman Co. not only built and leased passenger train cars but set up a company town of Pullman, allegedly as a model community. But during a recession in 1893, the company laid off workers and cut wages, yet did not reduce rents. Led by the American Railway Union, 4,000 Pullman workers went on strike May 22, 1894. Gradually, the strike grew nationally: by June 30, 125,000 workers on 29 railroads had walked off the job rather than handle Pullman cars. The strike shut down much of the nation’s freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit. In early July, the federal government (leaning on antitrust and commerce laws) obtained a court injunction ordering ARU leaders from inciting workers to refuse to work. President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops into Chicago. With the city swarmed
with more than 14,000 troops and policemen, 6,000 rioters destroyed hundreds of railcars on July 6. The next day, federal troops responded to an assault by firing into a mob, killing as many as 30 people. Public opinion, originally in favor of workers, switched to opposition as rail service languished. Federal troops were recalled on July 20, effectively ending the strikes. The company agreed to rehire strikers, as long as they sign a pledge to never join a union. But their rents were not reduced. As a conciliatory gesture to the labor movement, President Cleveland and Congress created Labor Day.
THE HERRIN MASSACRE In 1922, a nation recoiled in horror at gruesome strike violence in downstate Illinois. That month, the United Mine Workers continued a nationwide strike. However, at the Southern Illinois Coal Co.’s strip mine near Herrin, workers kept working to pull coal from the earth but not ship it out. In mid-June, however, the owner decided to violate the agreement and ship coal. When the union workers refused, he fired them and called in replacements from Chicago — 50 men unaware that they had been hired as strikebreakers in an area where 90 percent of the workforce carried a union card. On June 21, shots rang out at the mine, though accounts differ as to who pulled the trigger first. Regardless, soon one strikebreaker and two strikers were dead, with a third seriously wounded. Union men from the entire region thundered to the mine, en route grabbing guns and ammunition from shops. Realizing their outnumbered predicament, the strikebreakers agreed to stop work in exchange for safe passage out. On the morning of June 22, they came out of the mine, and union
THE CHERRY MINE DISASTER Though touted for modern safeguards, the St. Paul Coal Co. Mine sparked one of the worst disasters in mining history. The mine, located in Cherry about 50 miles northeast of Peoria, was considered to be secure when it opened in 1905. But on Nov. 13, 1909, an electric outage prompted miners to light kerosene lanterns and torches to continue to pull coal from the deep mine. Shortly after noon, embers from a wall lantern dropped below into a coal car filled with hay for mules. Flames spread to support timbers and quickly raced through the mine. Of 490 miners, 200 men and boys managed to scramble out. Meanwhile, a large shaft fan was reversed in an attempt to blow out the fire, but only succeeded in spreading the blaze. The mine’s two shafts were shut to smother the fire, but the tactic cut off oxygen to miners and allowed black damp (a suffocating mixture of carbon dioxide and nitrogen) to build up in the mine. Twelve volunteers went down a shaft in a lift to attempt a rescue. All died. Eight days after the ordeal began, 21 survivors were brought to the surface, though two later died. In the end, 259 men and boys died. Several families lost two or more relatives. Among the dead were a fatherson team, the Kralls, whose bodies were found locked in an embrace. The disaster also claimed the lives of brothers John, Morrison, David and James Love, immigrants from Scotland. A surviving Love brother, William, later married the widow of one of the men who died while trying to rescue the trapped miners. The Cherry Mine Disaster inspired a crackdown on child-labor laws and led to mine-safety rules that eventually paved the way to modern worker’s compensation laws.
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DOWNERS GROVE ENJOY FREE LIVE MUSIC ON TUESDAY EVENINGS AT 7 P.M. from May 28 through August 20 at Veterans Memorial Pavilion in Fishel Park, on Grove Street just west of Main Street. Food, wine and beer* will be available for purchase starting at 6 p.m. each week. Bring lawn chairs, blankets, outside food, outside non-alcoholic beverages. Dogs must be leashed at all times. Leashes must be no more than six feet in length. No outside alcoholic beverages allowed. July 23- Piano Man (Elton John/Billy Joel) July 30- Hillbilly Rockstarz (Country) August 6- Dancing Queen (ABBA) August 13- Fool House (90s hits) August 20- The SyingRays (Rock and roll oldies) JUNE - SEPTEMBER 14 (SATURDAYS) LISLE FRENCH MARKET. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Prairie Walk Pond, Garfield Avenue just north of Burlington. With an abundance of local farmers, food and artisan vendors in each location, visitors will enjoy a variety of goods in these open-air markets that encourage community to gather, socialize and support small business. Vendors change weekly, so each market is a unique experience. Free parking is available in the Garfield Parking Lot, Main Street and the Commuter Parking Lots off of Burlington Avenue. There is no admission charge, so bring the whole family and friendly pets on a leash are welcome. Diverse offerings include: Artisan crafts, Baked goods, Cheeses, Food, Fresh produce, Home accessories, Jewelry, Knife sharpening, Meats, Olive oils, Pet products and much more. JUNE - OCTOBER 19 (SATURDAYS) DOWNERS GROVE DOWNTOWN DOWNERS GROVE MARKET. 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Downers Grove Main Street Train Station in the south parking lot off Burlington Avenue. On a typical Saturday you’ll find everything you need to prepare your weekend and weekly meals. Decorate your dinner table or home with fresh cut flowers or potted orchids. If you’re in the mood to shop for yourself or for gifts for others there are a variety of craft vendors. For more information, visit www.ymcachicago.org/indianboundary/ pages/special-events. WOODRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY SUMMER LUNCH PROGRAM. Sponsored by the Northern IL Food Bank and the West Suburban Community Pantry. Mondays and Thursdays, June 3 through August 8. Library Story & Craft, 11:30 a.m. – Noon. Lunch, Noon – 1 p.m. Location: Woodridge Library, 2nd Floor. The goal of this lunch program is to support local students and families throughout the summer with the opportunity to have a healthy meal, and for families to learn about pantry support services, as well as library services, resources and programs. GeNeRAL MANAGeR Vice President - Advertising & Marketing AndREw SAMAAn 815-436-2431 ext. 104 andrew@buglenewspapers.com
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Westmont s Venema, Lewis University women s volleyball team is picked to win the GLVC title The Great Lakes Valley Conference announced on Aug. 20 that the No. 7 Lewis University women’s volleyball team was picked to win the GLVC Title in the annual GLVC Preseason Coaches Poll. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own team. The GLVC regular season with feature a 15-match, single round-robin schedule this fall with eight pairs of travel partners. The regular season champion, along with the next seven best teams based on Conference winning percentage, will earn a berth to the eight-team GLVC Volleyball Championship Tournament on Nov. 21-23 at the EastSide Centre in East Peoria, Ill. Lewis finished with 216 points, including eight first place votes, while Rockhurst was picked second with 204 points and also received eight first place votes. “The GLVC has proven to be one of the toughest conferences in country every year,” Lewis head women’s volleyball coach Lorelee Smith said. “For us to be picked as one of the top teams, is not only an honor – but a tremendous challenge.” The Flyers, who finished 29-8 in 2018, won the Midwest Regional title and advanced to the NCAA Final Four for the second time in three years.
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They return two All-GLVC selections in seniors Alexandra Preuss (Elmhurst, Ill./York) and Caroline Stefanon (Orland Park, Ill./Carl Sandburg). Also back for Lewis this season are returning starters: Colleen Wilhelm (Euclid, Ohio/Lake Catholic), (NCAA All-Tournament Team), Ava Venema (Westmont, Ill./Timothy Christian) and Ronni Katarzynski (Winfield, Ill./ West Chicago). Preuss, a Second Team All-GLVC selection last year, averaged 3.62 points, 3.00 kills and 3.24 digs per set. She was also a Baden/GLVC Offensive Player of the Week recipient last season. Stefanon, also a Second Team AllGLVC selection last year, averaged 3.08 points, 2.42 kills and 1.15 blocks per set. Lewis was also picked seventh in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Preseason Coaches poll which was also announced on Tuesday. The Flyers were joined in the AVCA poll by Rockhurst at No. 14, Drury at No. 18 and Illinois Springfield was receiving votes. The Flyers open the 2019 season on Friday, Sept. 6, as they take on Millersville at 10:30 a.m. at the Nova Southeastern Shark Invitational in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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GAMES IN THE GLVC REGULAR SEASON PHOTO BY STEVE WOLTMANN/LEWIS UNIVERSITY
Westmont native Ava Venema and Lewis volleyball are picked to finish atop the GLVC.
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