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  Illinois Valley Regional Dispatch honors five, who helped launch Peru Center. Written
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  by Tom Collins. This article is being read by an automated voice
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  brought to you by Everlett. Doug Burnabay took over Illinois Valley Regional
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  Dispatch on an interim basis this summer and expected an easy transition.
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  An hour in the door changed his mind. During a Tuesday meeting
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  honoring Illinois Valley Regional Dispatch's tenth anniversary, Burnabay told the board he
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  was taken aback by the center's call volume and the brisk pace
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  of work. I was absolutely blown away at the work that they
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  and their partners do down there, Bernabé said of The
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  Peru Dispatch Center, which serves multiple communities in the Illinois Valley. It
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  is an incredibly busy center We recently realized we're the busiest center
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  in LaSalle County with the number and types of calls. The board
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  had decided it was time to give a little recognition to those
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  who started the center ten years ago, and who smoothed out many
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  wrinkles along The way. Berna Bay and Peru Fire Chief Jeff King
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  handed out plaques to five employees who joined the Regional Dispatch Center
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  at its inception and who toughed out the transition while many comrades
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  left for other jobs. The five are Rachel Senkiewicz, Jennifer Hunter, Julie
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  Dean, Randy Simpson, and Kim Blair. The came down, they learned new
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  technology, they learned new procedures, the adapted to a completely new way
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  of doing business in the nine one one field, Burnabay said. There
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  were a lot of challenges that obviously took place along the way,
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  and how things were done, but they worked on behalf of The
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  public, the police officers, the firefighters, and the EMTs who served our
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  communities. The Illinois Valley Regional Dispatch serves LaSalle, Peru, Oglesby, Spring Valley,
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  Dalsil, Mendota, Troy Grove, Earlville and Utica. Blair wasn't present for Tuesday's
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  ceremony. Sinkovich politely declined to be interviewed. The remaining three express
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  thanks for.
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  Tuesday's honor and for the recognition that it took an enormous toil
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  to get things up and running. It's an honor to be honored
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  for the ten years and to be among these people, Dean said,
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  and to work on behalf of the cities that we provide service
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  for. Dean acknowledged there were huge hurdles in changing locations and providing
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  dispatch services for a diffuse regional rather than for an individual city.
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  But we got through it, she said. Hunter agreed that simply changing
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  venues was difficult. Dispatchers were initially housed in tight confines within the
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  old police department, and then moved transitionally into a dungeon during the
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  remodeling of the old station into the Regional Dispatch Center. And now
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  that We have a nice, beautiful setup in our new center, it's
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  been much better, she said. Things are running smoother. We are pretty
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  much fully staffed. Everybody's getting along and it's been a much better
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  work environment. It's a great organization to belong to and I truly
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  do enjoy the job that I do with my fellow coworkers, Simpson
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  said. We make a difference out there, and it's nice to get
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  honored.