SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
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Herbert Smith, seated second to left, and his relatives wave as a birthday car caravan passes by his Maywood home on Sept. 27.
Money from American Rescue Plan Act to fund range of functions
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By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
In July, Gov. JB Pritzker announced that more than 1,250 municipalities across Illinois that had not already received American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) aid would be able to apply for more than $742 million in federal funding. Nine suburbs in the Village Free Press readership were slated to receive $16.3 million of that funding. Cities, towns and villages can use the money to cover expenses they incurred while responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the governor’s office said in a July 22 statement. The first payments, state of-
The sage of 16th still sharp at 90
Community members and relatives gathered in Maywood on Sept. 26 to celebrate Herbert Smith’s 90th birthday By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
Herbert Smith’s relatives call him a histo-
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rian for a reason. On Sept. 26, several dozen relatives and friends gathered at Smith’s on the 1600 block of South 16th Avenue in Maywood to celebrate his 90th birthday. During a brief pause from the festivities, Smith walked into a bedroom in his home and pointed to an old photo of Nan Haraway hanging on the wall. Haraway, Smith’s great-grandmother, was born enslaved in 1847, in a small town located within the Florence – Muscle Shoals metropolitan area, home to the world-famous Muscle Shoals Sound Studio (where artists from Aretha Franklin to the Rolling
Stones have recorded). “She had two kids in slavery and when slavery was over, she had managed to give her and those kids property,” Smith said of Haraway. “She gave each one of them a house. Some of that property is still in our hands today.” Smith said his great-grandmother, who died in 1921, was a housemaid whose owner gave her the plot of land once she was freed. “The same thing happened with another family around there,” said Smith, before telling the story of another slave who was See HERBERT SMITH on page 2
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