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T HE ENTERPRISE Your Complete Source For Plainfield News Since 1887
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Volume 126 No. 37
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Board discusses medical marijuana cultivation centers, dispensaries
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Unclear if village can pursue special use, zoning regulations By Megan Patsavas For The Enterprise
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(From left) Plainfield East High School freshmen Alia Kabba, Ramya Lakshmanan, Mickey Hayes and Sydney Quarles pose with the dresses they picked out. The “Cinderella’s Closet” sale ran from April 8 through April 10 at Plainfield East High School. However, students and community members can still get formal frocks from the group for free, or at a greatly reduced cost. They also accept donations.
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Formal dresses – whether for prom, a wedding, or other events – are usually “one and done” deals: worn once, and then hang at the back of closets, gathering dust, alongside old Halloween costumes and graduation gowns. But a group at Plainfield East High School is giving old gowns a second (or third) chance, and giving students and members of the community the opportunity to own dresses they might not be able to afford otherwise. The student council and faculty cosponsors Cindy Egizio and Kate Morris held a “Cinderella’s Closet” formal and semi-formal dress sale April 8 though April 10 at the school, featuring previously worn dresses ranging in price from free to $50.
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Although there’s potential for a medical marijuana cultivation center,dispensaries, or both, to come to Plainfield, the Village of Plainfield’s Board of Trustees may not have much of a say in the matter. D u r i n g an April 14 “This was the Committee culmination of of the Whole approximately workshop, the 10 years of efforts board met to on the part of discuss possible lawmakers, amendments physicians and to the Village’s chronically-ill zoning code patients for whom regarding the use of medical regulation marijuana is a of where highly soughtcultivation after [therapy],” centers or Proulx said at the dispensaries meeting. may or may not be allowed. Some trustees suggested requiring special use permits, having dispensaries in B-3 (highway business district), I-1 (office, research, and light industrial district) or I-2 (general industrial district) zones, and >> see mariJuana | Page 9