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Board votes against Pedcor variance request CARY – Cheers erupted from a crowd of residents after Cary’s Zoning, Planning and Appeals Board on Thursday voted against a variance request for the previously approved Pedcor project. After a scathing review by Chairman Joseph Turnier of statements from Pedcor that, in his own opinion, “bordered on deceit,” he voted against recomOn the mending the request, breaking a Web 3-3 tie. Members PatTo see vidrick Jasper, Holly eo from the meeting, visit Kelps and James Graziano voted NWHerald. in favor, while com. Jennifer Meyer, Patrick Khoury and Frank O’Laughlin voted against. “I’m really excited,” resident Kathleen Scott said after the three-hour meeting ended. “I think we were successful in getting them to pay attention.” The contentious affordable housing project was brought back to the zoning board after a miscalculation in lot coverage was discovered while Pedcor was going through the permitting process, Community Development Director Brian Simmons said. The village requires no more than 45 percent lot coverage, and Pedcor was requesting an increase to 55 percent. “The plans that were submitted had 56 percent open space, and that inferred 44 percent lot
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Susan Gort of Cary makes her objections known as she stands with a noisemaker Thursday during a Zoning, Planning and Appeals Board meeting on the controversial Pedcor zoning variations at Cary Junior High School in Cary.
McHENRY – Republican state Sen. Pam Althoff made it official that she is seeking a fourth full term in Springfield. Althoff, 61, of McHenry, announced Wednesday that she plans to run for re-election to the 32nd Senate District, which covers most of McHenry County and part of Lake County. She has held the seat since 2003, when she first was appointed to replace Republican Sen. Dick Klemm, whose cancer diagnosis forced him to step down. She since has won election three times. Sen. Pam If re-elected, Althoff Althoff said in her announcement she will work to make Illinois “a state that each and every citizen can point to with pride,” and she wants to be “part of the restoration of our state government and institutions” she said has started under newly elected Gov. Bruce Rauner. “If the voters send me to Springfield again by trusting me as they have for the past 12 years, I will devote myself to resolving our state’s immediate and severe financial issues. I will work tirelessly to assist in the transformation of the culture in Springfield,” Althoff said. The next term for the 32nd Senate District seat is a two-year term – whoever wins the election will be up again in 2018. Althoff drew the two-year term for 2016 after the 2012
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Obama visits New Orleans 10 years after Hurricane Katrina By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and NANCY BENAC The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS – Visiting residents on tidy porch stoops and sampling the fried chicken at a corner restaurant, President Barack Obama held out the people of New Orleans on Thursday as an extraordinary example of renewal and resilience 10 years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
“There’s something in you guys that is just irrepressible,” Obama told hundreds of residents assembled at a bustling new community center in an area of the Lower 9th Ward that was once under 17 feet of water. “The people of New Orleans didn’t just inspire me, you inspired all of America.” He held out the city’s comeback as a metaphor for what’s happening all across a nation that has moved from economic
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crisis to higher ground. “Look at what’s happened here,” he declared, speaking of a transformed American city that was once “dark and underwater.” Still, Obama acknowledged that much remains to be done. And after walking door to door in the historic Treme section of a city reborn from tragedy, he cautioned that “just because the housing is nice doesn’t mean our job is done.”
Areas of the city still suffer from high poverty, he said, and young people still take the wrong path. There is more to be done to confront “structural inequities that existed long before the storm happened,” he added. In his remarks at the community center, Obama blended the same themes of resilience and renewal that he drew from encounters with the sturdy residents he met along Magic
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Street and at other locations. Leah Chase, the 92-year-old proprietor of Dooky Chase’s Restaurant, was one of those to chat with Obama. She pronounced herself a fan of the man, saying he’d handled “a rough road.” Chase – who’s known as the “Queen of Creole Cuisine” – said, “That’s all you have to do: handle what’s handed to you,” voicing what could be a credo for the city.
Obama was clearly energized by his visits, at one point breaking into a song from “The Jeffersons” sitcom after meeting a young woman who calls herself “Ouisie.” He stopped for fried chicken at Willie Mae’s Scotch House, and pronounced the resulting grease stain on his suit a good indication that he’d enjoyed his stay in the city.
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