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Yesteryear: Looking back at stories that captured headlines in the Record for May · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yesteryear looking back at stories that captured headlines in the
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  Speaker 1: Record for May. Written by Jeff Farrenshaw Local News Network.
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  Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. May twenty twenty one, the Bristol
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  Speaker 1: Kendall Fire Protection District swore in the first group of
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  Speaker 1: full time firefighters Latrous Paramedics. First members are Tyler Ament,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Ronning, Jamie Martinez, Ted Karlovich, Brandon ferld, Audrey Enlow,
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  Speaker 1: Christine Velaski, Brandon Johnson, Josh McElroy, and Nate King. May
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  Speaker 1: twenty eleven, Mayor Gary Glinski and Alderman Carlo Carlissimo used
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  Speaker 1: paddles to break the red ribbon and officially opened the
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  Speaker 1: new March Kline Whitewater Course on the Fox River at
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  Speaker 1: the Glendee Palmer Dam in downtown Yorkville. May two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and six, workers began demolishing the thirty four year old
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  Speaker 1: countryside shopping center to make way for a new shopping center.
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  Speaker 1: May two thousand and one, Academy Award winning actor Tom
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  Speaker 1: Hanks was in Kendall County to shoot a scene for
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  Speaker 1: the movie Road to Perdition at a spot on Church
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  Speaker 1: Road south of Caton Farm Road. May nineteen ninety six,
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville School Board members took another step toward construction of
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  Speaker 1: a new high school when they authorized the sale of
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  Speaker 1: bonds to pay for the building on Game Farm Road.
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  Speaker 1: May nineteen ninety one, Tom Barnell will be acting Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: Police Chief. Ron Diederic, current chief, announced he would step
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  Speaker 1: down as chief and return to patrolman. Public Works Department
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  Speaker 1: employee Joe Moore will be the acting city administrator. Moore
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  Speaker 1: replaces Frank Klass, who became Kendall County Highway Superintendent. May
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, As part of Yorkville's one hundred fiftieth
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  Speaker 1: birthday celebration, the committee selected the oldest lifelong a male
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  Speaker 1: and female residence of Yorkville. Ira Perkins and Lenora Cornells
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  Speaker 1: were chosen. May nineteen eighty one, plans for the new
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Public Library were approved by the City Council after
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  Speaker 1: having been okayed by the Library Board earlier. The library
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  Speaker 1: will be built just south of the Beecher Community Center
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  Speaker 1: on Game Farm Road. The present library will be torn
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  Speaker 1: down soon to make way for the wider Route forty
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  Speaker 1: seven bridge over the Fox River. May nineteen seventy six,
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  Speaker 1: the bi centennial parade will go down Route forty seven
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  Speaker 1: after the Illinois Department of Transportation granted a request that
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  Speaker 1: the route be closed for two hours. IDOTT had recently
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  Speaker 1: stopped local parades from using Root forty seven due to
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  Speaker 1: have the track concerns. May nineteen seventy one, the New
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Chamber of Commerce elected their first board of directors.
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  Speaker 1: They include John Barons, Jim Hall, Larry langlan Fred Schneider,
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  Speaker 1: Dean Thanapone, Ellsworth Wyndett, Trace Flint, Leon Lyes, Robert Mahoney,
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth Prickett, and Leroy Thanapone. May nineteen sixty six, to
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  Speaker 1: quiet rumors, the Board of Education of Yorkville District fifteen
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  Speaker 1: issued a statement on the future of Platteville Grade School
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  Speaker 1: if a unit district is approved. The board went on
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  Speaker 1: record recommending that the school continue to be operational as
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  Speaker 1: it is now. May nineteen sixty one, the Yorkville Women's
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  Speaker 1: Club enjoyed its fiftieth birthday. Its pet project is still
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  Speaker 1: the Yorkville Public Library, which opened December fourth, nineteen fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: May nineteen fifty six, Public Service Company has announced the
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  Speaker 1: new one hundred plus wiring campaign. As homeowners continue to
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  Speaker 1: improve their standard of living with more electrical appliances, they
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  Speaker 1: require more electrical capacity in their homes. Today, there are
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  Speaker 1: more than sixty different kinds of electrical appliances available for
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  Speaker 1: home use. May nineteen fifty one, local Chevrolet dealer Leon
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  Speaker 1: Laes stopped by the Record office driving the newest model
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  Speaker 1: at corverir Manza. May nineteen forty six, Yorkville residents voted
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  Speaker 1: sixty four to thirty three to join the Bristol Kendall
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  Speaker 1: Fire Protection District. The trustees are August Corneil's ee, Hadas
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  Speaker 1: Meyer and John Amant. May nineteen forty one, about one
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  Speaker 1: million walleye pike fry were put in the Fox River
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  Speaker 1: near the Yorkville Bridges. The project was sponsored by the
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Lions Club, with the State Department of Conservation cooperating.
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  Speaker 1: May nineteen thirty six, work on the overpass of the
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  Speaker 1: CB and Q tracks on Route forty seven north of
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville has been halted until the pumping equipment can be
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  Speaker 1: installed to remove the ten feet of water flooding the pavement.
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  Speaker 1: May nineteen thirty one, at the village board meeting, the
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Women's Club said they wanted to beautify some vacant
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  Speaker 1: village property. They discussed building several tennis courts and possibly
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  Speaker 1: a playground. When the weather is permissible, a large number
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  Speaker 1: of the young men and women of Yorkville take their
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  Speaker 1: tennis rackets and leave, bright and early in the morning
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  Speaker 1: for Aurora to play tennis. A group of two or
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  Speaker 1: more tennis courts in Yorkville would do wonders in saving
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  Speaker 1: these people the drive to Aurora, and doubtless many more
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  Speaker 1: would become interesting did in this intriguing game. May nineteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, residents who are golf enthusiasts now have a
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  Speaker 1: golf course within short driving distance upon which to play.
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  Speaker 1: The Cedardel Golf Course in Plano is now a public course,
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  Speaker 1: as only members, their families and guests enjoy its privileges.
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  Speaker 1: May nineteen twenty one, the bill introduced by State sen
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  Speaker 1: John Denver of Chicago to make two states of Illinois
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem to meet with a hearty response from the
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  Speaker 1: state in general. The Senator proposes to take Cook, McHenry,
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  Speaker 1: decalb Kine, and Will Counties for the new state of
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  Speaker 1: Northern Illinois. The rest of the state would constitute the
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  Speaker 1: new state of Southern Illinois. Poor little Kendall would be
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  Speaker 1: on the northeast corner, almost entirely surrounded by a new state.
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  Speaker 1: The move by the Senator has caused some amusement. May
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixteen. Mike Quirk, the veteran flagman, has resigned and
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  Speaker 1: Ory Wellman will protect the Bridge Street crossing of the Burlington.
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  Speaker 1: May nineteen eleven. Victorian of the Platteville class of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eleven was Frank Clayton, Saledatorian Hugh Van Cleeve. Other members
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  Speaker 1: Katherine Sweeney, Lily Dell, Alma Murley, Cora Clayton. May nineteen
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  Speaker 1: oh six Bristol Station boasts an automobile. Frank Ernst has
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  Speaker 1: bought the machine formerly owned by W. H. Wright of Sandwich.
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  Speaker 1: May nineteen oh one. George McHugh has made a new
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  Speaker 1: front to the old Mason building on Bridge Street, put
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  Speaker 1: in a plateglass front and fixed up generally. May eighteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety six. At the school election held last week, George
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  Speaker 1: Mooherder was elected director. May eighteen ninety one. Harry Page
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  Speaker 1: of Newark rides an elegant new safety bicycle and the
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  Speaker 1: girls all wonder why he did not get one with
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  Speaker 1: two seats. May eighteen eighty six. Frank Wilkinson of Lisbon
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  Speaker 1: says his windmill tumbled in the Zephyrras fracas last week.
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  Speaker 1: May eighteen eighty one. Joseph Tarbox of Bristol is making
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  Speaker 1: five thousand bricks a day at his factory south of
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  Speaker 1: Somanok Street, between Church and West Streets. May eighteen seventy six.
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  Speaker 1: Black's gristmill in Yorkville came very near begin destroyed by
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  Speaker 1: fire last Friday night. The fire caught on the south
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  Speaker 1: side of the mill, near the door, and burned the
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  Speaker 1: outside from the floor to the height of about fifteen feet.
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  Speaker 1: It is thought the fire was started by accident, and
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  Speaker 1: that someone did it by emptying his pipe. May eighteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty six. Any lack of local matter this week must
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  Speaker 1: be attributed to the editors having been engaged in the
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  Speaker 1: construction of an immense and gorgeous chicken pen with a
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  Speaker 1: sleeping apartment for the hens attached to the same. It
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  Speaker 1: is a safe place to keep chickens, and if any
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  Speaker 1: of our readers want to put their chickens out for
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  Speaker 1: the summer, we can keep them and will feed them
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  Speaker 1: well as we have a crib full of Willard Johnson's
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  Speaker 1: corn in our yard, and will ask no other pay
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  Speaker 1: but the privilege of eating a chicken occasionally