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Chestnut Street Inn Chef Monika Sudakov serves a sample of one of her homemade goodies to Paul Nordstrom. The annual Steppin’ Out for the Babies March of Dimes event was held Thursday night at Wise Guys in Princeton. Event-goers enjoyed a sampling of foods from several local restaurants/establishments, a silent auction and more. BCR photo/Becky Kramer
Princeton Retail Development Committee to host seminar PRINCETON — The Princeton Retail Development Committee will host a business seminar breakfast from 8 to 9:30 a.m. April 25 at the Prouty Building in Princeton. In today’s fast-paced, competitive marketplace, excellent customer service many times sets businesses
apart. Presented by the University of Illinois Extension, On the Front Line will discuss topics including customer service for the common good, understanding customers, dealing with unhappy customers, and looking back and planning for the future. The cost to attend is
$10. Reservations can be made by calling the Princeton Chamber of Commerce office at 815-875-2616. The Princeton Retail Development Committee’s mission statement is to find and encourage new retailers to open their businesses in Princeton and assist current retailers with
retention and expansion programs. Cross fit 56 fitness center and Round 2 consignment shop are examples of successful business ventures that got their start in the business incubator, another project sponsored by the Retail Development Committee.
Meeting Minutes Princeton City Council By Donna Barker dbarker@bcrnews.com
PRINCETON — The Princeton City Council conducted the following business at its April 7 meeting in Princeton City Hall: • Appointed Chuck Woolley to the Princeton Fire Pension Board and Ami Chamberlain to the Princeton Public Library Board. • Heard from Princeton City Manager Jeff Clawson that plans are progressing
for the local BuEComm office to handle the city’s utility emergency calls once its new water treatment plant goes into full operation. The current water treatment plant is staffed around the clock, but the new water treatment plant will be automated and not manned around the clock. The agreement with the city has been approved by the BuEComm board and the needed new equipment has been ordered. The transition should take this summer, Clawson said. • Heard the city issued three residential building
permits in March, for a total value of $111,324, and one commercial/ industrial building permit, for a value of $700. To date for 2014, the city has issued a total of eight building permits for the year, at a value of $215,024. For the same time period in 2013, the city had issued a total of four permits, at a value of $202,500. For the same time period in 2012, the city issued a total of 11 building permits, at a value of $67,950. • Approved payment of bills as follows: $71,824 in Public Affairs and
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and closing it overnight, which would probably eliminate a huge percentage of illegal dumping. Fencing could help with the closing of the center at night, he said. When there is illegal dumping, city crews have to go over and clean it up, Quiram added. Mayor Keith Cain said he’s asked the council to have cameras installed at the recycling center, which should eliminate some of the ongoing problems of illegal dumping. A camera was installed at the Veterans Park gazebo, across from city hall, and that has greatly helped with problems there, the mayor said. If fencing was installed, he has a concern that people would just drop their stuff there, Cain said. He also doesn’t want to see junk placed in alleys or other places. No further action was taken on possible solutions to the problem, other than a request from the council for people to not abuse the recycling center or brush collection site. In his report at Monday’s meeting, Princeton City Manager Jeff Clawson presented a proposal for Wendler Engineering, of Dixon to put together plans for a possible parking lot reconstruction project at the Amtrak depot station, with an engineering cost of $10,000. That information would be presented
to Vissering Construction as a possible way to offset some balances for the company’s liquidated damages with the city’s new water treatment plant project. Once the engineering is complete, the city can negotiate further terms with Vissering Construction, Clawson said. The council will take the proposal under consideration at its next meeting. The council also heard from Steve Bouslog, president of the Youth Services Bureau of Illinois Valley Foundation Board, and Frank Vonch, executive director of the Youth Services Bureau of Illinois Valley, who were present for the signing of a proclamation by Mayor Keith Cain designating April as Child Abuse Awareness Month. After 25 years of investigating child abuse and neglect cases, Vonch said he wish he could say child abuse and neglect were diminishing, but that’s not what’s happening. It’s good to have a YSB office in Princeton and it’s important to remember child abuse awareness is an issue not just during April but throughout the year, he said. Statistics show five children die from child abuse each day in the United States, Bouslog said. That’s a sad statistic, and it’s important for people to be aware of child abuse and to support the efforts that try to eliminate it, he said. Comment on this story at www.bcrnews.com.
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