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Term limits focus of rule review Some County Board members question legality of proposed change By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – McHenry County Board members seem split on a proposal to impose a three-term limit on the chairman and vice chairman, if their comments
during a Friday review were an indicator. Five publicly spoke in favor of the idea and five against during a Committee of the Whole convened to review 49 changes to board rules proposed by the Management Services Committee
after six months of work. Discussion of that one proposal dominated the first hour of the two-hour forum. But it will not be until later this month at the earliest that the changes – the most significant overhaul in recent memory – will go to a
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vote. The proposal is one of several aimed at curtailing the power and the incumbency of the chairmanship, which critics have alleged has become too powerful. The 24-member County Board elects the chairman and vice
chairman from among themselves after each November election. County Board member Mary McClellan, R-Holiday Hills, was among the opponents who cited that the
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What's next The County Board continued the Committee of the Whole in which it is reviewing the changes to next Tuesday morning. It will start at 10 a.m. or after the regular County Board meeting, which starts at 9 a.m. at the county Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock.
EQUIPMENT, TRAINING HELP SAVE MANY ANIMALS
By DAVID ESPO The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The accomplishments are few, the chaos plentiful in the 113th Congress, a discourteous model of divided government now beginning a five-week break. “Have senators sit down and shut up, OK?” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blurted out on Thursday as lawmakers milled about noisily at a time Sen. Susan Collins was trying to speak. There was political calculation even in that. Democrats knew the Maine Republican was about rip into her own party’s leadership, Harry Reid and wanted to Senate make sure her Majority indictment Leader could be heard. Across the Capitol, unsteady bookends tell the story of the House’s first seven months in this two-year term. Internal dissent among Republicans nearly toppled Speaker John Boehner when lawmakers first convened in January. And leadership’s grip is no surer now: A routine spending bill was pulled from the floor this week, two days before the monthlong August break, for fear it would fall in a crossfire between opposing GOP factions. A few weeks earlier, Boehner suggested a new standard for Congress. “We should not be judged on how many new
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Woodstock Fire Rescue District firefighters demonstrate Monday how they could use an oxygen mask to help resuscitate a unconscious dog at the Woodstock Fire Rescue District headquarters in Woodstock.
Protecting four-legged friends Pet rescues part of the job for area firefighters By LAWERENCE SYNETT lsynett@shawmedia.com It might be a pet owner’s worst nightmare – a house fire where they are able to escape, but unable to get their animals out safely before emergency responders arrive. The smoke detector may sound,
prompting the resident to immediately check the home for flames and smoke. Calling 911 and evacuating those inside would most commonly follow. Some pets easily escape by following their owners. Others often scurry and hide, or the fire will be so severe the owner has no chance of getting them out without risking his or her own safety. “People are attached to their pets and look at these animals as members of the family,” said Ralph Webster, chief of the Woodstock Fire Rescue Dis-
trict. “If the pet is your loved one, once your family is safe, your attention immediately turns to saving that animal.” Emergency crews understand the bond between pets and their masters, but leaving the rescue efforts to the professionals can mean the difference between life and death, local fire experts agree. Armed with equipment and the proper training, firefighters will work to save pets whenever, and however, they can.
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D-50 SUPPORT STAFF GET RAISE The District 50 school board and Harvard Education Association have reached an agreement to extend by a year the contract of the district’s educational support staff. The deal extends the 2009-13 collective bargaining agreement and grants the support staff a 3 percent raise, District 50 spokesman Bill Clow said. For more, see page B1.
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Each incident is significant to the pet owners, and we are sensitive to that. We strive to do everything we can to save them.” Tony Huemann,
fire chief of the McHenry Township Fire Protection District