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Vernon Library adopts four-year strategic plan

  The Vernon Area Public Library District Board of Trustees have officially adopted a Strategic Framework that will guide the activities of the library over the next four years. The action came at Board’s March 18 meeting. According to a press release issued by the Library, key activities highlighted in the plan include working with an architect to maximize public use of the library building and grounds and looking into a shared library catalog to provide patrons with access to more materials. Other action items include expanding the “Library of Things” (equipment that patrons can check out) and maker-type offerings for content creation. “As this library district completes its 50th year of stellar service to this community, this Strategic Framework will give us a strong start on another half-century of operational excellence,” Library Director Anne Rasmussen said. “We feel good about this plan,” Rassmussen added. “It's an investment in our future. It’s doable, it’s lofty, a
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Women helping women focus of new organization

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Four area students have formed a non-profit organization that strives to educate and provide supplies to women in underprivileged areas.             Big deal, right?             It is considering their goal is to provide “sanitary pads to 500 million individuals in underprivileged populations while also promoting menstrual health education, sensitization, and de-stigmatization campaigns related to menstruation.”             That has been the mission of “Every 28 Days,” started in March of 2023 by (pictured from top to bottom)  Shruti Govindarajan of Buffalo Grove, Amrutha Venkat of Palatine and sisters Nishika and Niyathi Girish of Palatine. Since its founding, Every 28 Days has been trying to target rural areas worldwide, focusing on underprivileged populations with inaccessibility to resources.             It’s fitting that Every 28 Days is focusing on public health and health education as Venkat is a sophomore at Nova Southeastern University majoring in Public Health and minoring in
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Safety, truck traffic keys to BG Road widening opposition

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  A scheduled meeting   of the Lake County Public Works and Transportation Committee may shed light on the plans for the proposed widening of Buffalo Grove Road between Illinois Rt. 22 and U.S. Rt. 45. Opponents of the project are hoping there will be revisions discussed at the Jan. 10 meeting that will show a scaling back of the plans for the project. Key members of the opposition group cite safety, environmental impact and increased traffic, especially truck traffic, as their key concerns. The project was unveiled at a May 24 public forum sponsored by the Lake County Division of Transportation (LCDOT) which, organizers say, drew around 100 people, which they say is more than most project-based forums. Since that time, they say more than 300 people have voiced opposition to the project, mostly through the  group’s website  that includes its 1,650 word   “declaration” ,  basically a petition, that provides considerable discussion about their objections. The declarations focus on three
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