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Previous mild winter saved city half a million dollars By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
pulled his kids from school, packed a U-Haul trailer and left Chicago. Instead of a promising new start, the Linnear family found themselves on a path that would irrevocably change their lives. “There were really some
Mark Thiel promises his crews haven’t forgotten how to plow the city’s streets of snow. But it would be tough to blame them if they had. “Last winter definitely was the gentlest winter I’ve seen,” said Thiel, the city’s assistant director of public works who oversees snow removal operations. Last winter the Thiel has produced city had only four a new City Hall report that found the trucks equipped city spent $530,000 to spread the liqless on snow remov- uid salt solution. al operations in the This year, the 2011-2012 winter season compared with city has about the same period a a dozen trucks, year earlier. which will allow City crews dealt with just 2.5 inches all of the major of snow — compared arterial streets with 33.5 inches a in the city to be year earlier — and pretreated. used just 749 tons of salt to treat the roads, down from about 3,300 tons from the 2010-2011 winter. The nearly snowless winter has put the city in a good position for this year, Thiel told city commissioners earlier this week. “We’re good to go,” Thiel said. “A mild winter like that just adds more life onto our equipment, and salt has an indefinite shelf life, so there are no worries there.” Now, the city is just like everybody else: waiting to see what winter has in store this year.
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ISIAH LINNEAR, 41, AND HIS CHILDREN, from left, Lezley, 14, Isiah, 15, Kourtney, 17, Britney, 11, and Joshua, 9, now have a place to call home, with the help of the Lawrence Family Promise program, a local organization that works with local churches and volunteers to help homeless families secure permanent housing.
Family of 6 getting back on its feet after being homeless Linnear, 41, brought his five children to Lawrence a year ago, hoping to escape an urban environment he described as inadequate for raising children. “It was actually on Thanksgiving night last year when we were still in Chicago that I had made the decision that made us
By Angelique McNaughton Special to the Journal-World
It’s been an arduous journey for the Linnear family, from their life in West Chicago to the nights they’ve spent in local churches and with friends in the Midwest. Single father Isiah
homeless,” Linnear said. “I had already thought about (moving) for a while but wanted to do it the right way.” An altercation with a family member that night forced Linnear to make a rash decision that put his family on the streets. The day after Thanksgiving, he
In wake of election, family gatherings can be more full of friction than fun By Jocelyn Noveck Associated Press
Ah, Thanksgiving. A little turkey, some cranberry mold, maybe apple pie with ice cream, some football on TV. Getting together with the cousins. Catching up beside the fire. Togetherness.
On second thought: Scratch that. What were we thinking? This was an election year. “The Thanksgiving table will be a battleground,” says Andrew Marshall, 34, of Quincy, Mass. Like many extended families across the country, Marshall’s includes
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Sandy victims prepare for subdued Thanksgiving. Page 6A
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Obama offers turkeys 2nd chance with pardons. Page 6A
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Democrats and Republicans, conservatives, liberals and independents. And so, like many families that count both red and blue voters in their ranks, they’re expecting fireworks. Things had already gotten so bad on
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