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November 19, 2015 • 75¢
SERVING OSWEGO, MONTGOMERY AND BOULDER HILL FOR MORE THAN A HALF-CENTURY
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Boulder Hill talk covers crime Sheriff: Deputy will focus on senior issues starting in January By LYLE R. ROLFE news@kendallcountynow.com
Oswego American Legion Post Commander Ralph Stahl gives his address Wednesday at the Veterans Memorial in downtown Oswego.
Solemn ceremonies honoring our nation’s veterans past and present were held in Oswego, Montgomery and across the country Wednesday, Nov. 11, Veterans Day. Members of the Oswego American Legion Post 675 presided at the ceremony in Veterans Memorial Plaza at Jefferson and Main streets in downtown Oswego. Meanwhile, about four miles north, members of Montgomery Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7452 conducted a ceremony at the Veterans Memorial in Montgomery’s Riverside Cemetery.
ABOVE: Veteran Robert LeClercq of Oswego salutes during taps at the Oswego Veterans Day Ceremony on Wednesday. LEFT: Don Dahm, a member of the Oswego American Legion Post 675, lays a wreath on the Veterans Memorial in front of the Oswego Public Library. Photos by ERIC MILLER • emiller@shawmedia.com
More than 25 Boulder Hill residents participated in a question and answer session last Wednesday evening with Kendall County Sheriff Dwight Baird at their monthly Neighborhood Watch meeting. When asked by residents about gang activity in the unincorporated Boulder Hill subdivision, Baird said there is more activity in the area between Yorkville and Plano. Many of the people involved with gangs came here and throughout the western suburbs when Section 8 housing was eliminated in Chicago, Baird said. He said gang activity here is mostly out of sight. “They are not standing on corners or dealing drugs on corners. And we sometimes see gang graffiti,” he said. Baird added that gang activity is not new in Kendall County. ”It was here when I grew up in Boulder Hill. Back then it was the Gaylords and the Warlords,” he noted. One resident asked where the people who are arrested in the county come from. Baird said it’s the same as it has always been: those being arrested are from the county as well as from adjoining communities. Many crimes such as thefts from cars are being committed by residents from area communities who go from one town to another, which is not unusual, he said. When asked about his thoughts on concealed carry laws, Baird said he is a full supporter of the law and the Second Amendment.
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