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Peru council votes to widen Shooting Park Road west of Parkside · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Peru Council votes to widen Shooting Park Road west of
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  Speaker 1: Parkside Written by Tom Collins. This article is being read
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  Speaker 1: by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Drive
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  Speaker 1: along Shooting Park Road in Peru past the middle school
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  Speaker 1: and the road gets narrow. There isn't much shoulder on
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  Speaker 1: either side. The city means to widen it. Monday, the
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  Speaker 1: Peru City Council awarded a contract to Advanced Asphalt Company
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  Speaker 1: for two hundred thirty three thousand, nine hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: six dollars and two cents. The project is to widen
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  Speaker 1: and resurface a portion of Shooting Park Road from Parkside
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  Speaker 1: Middle School to a point west of the Sycamore Lake subdivision.
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  Speaker 1: Alderman Jim Lucosis said that portion of road needs to
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  Speaker 1: be widened for safety reasons. A visual survey of the
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  Speaker 1: road in question showed mere inches of shoulder to the
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  Speaker 1: north and south. We're trying to get it done before
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  Speaker 1: the first day of school. Engineer Eric carls He noted
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  Speaker 1: the quote came in a bit shy of the estimate.
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  Speaker 1: In other matters, the council approved the next leg of
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  Speaker 1: the sewer separation project with a one point two million
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  Speaker 1: dollars contract to Ski Seal Coating and Maintenance, Inc. Agreed
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  Speaker 1: to donate dollar five zero, zero zero to Central State's
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  Speaker 1: District twenty Baseball approved a quote from twenty five eighths
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  Speaker 1: Extreme for twenty nine thousand, eight hundred and fifty seven
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  Speaker 1: dollars and fifty cents for a kid's play set at
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  Speaker 1: the Taste of the Illinois Valley. The amount will likely
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  Speaker 1: be offset by event sponsors and a raffle