Changes are coming police station to police station - LaSalle News Tribune - LaSalle, IL

Changes are coming police station to police station - LaSalle News Tribune - LaSalle, IL


A first step in sharing!

Dive in Friday to help save Oglesby pool - LaSalle News Tribune - LaSalle, IL

Dive in Friday to help save Oglesby pool - LaSalle News Tribune - LaSalle, IL

Listen and learn!

Perhaps if we had done this instead of allowing the Peru swimming pool to be come the first of numerous bits of destruction being done to the city, we might still have one. Kudos to Oglesby residents for taking the lead in doing this for your city and hopefully it will be enough to allow the city to keep the pool open. Elected officials working with local residents can accomplish minor miracles that we are seeing in the Illinois Valley.

Peru Considers Sending Government Consolidation Plant to Voters

http://ilnews.org/8875/peru-considers-sending-government-consolidation-plan-to-the-voters/http://ilnews.org/8875/peru-considers-sending-government-consolidation-plan-to-the-voters/

Collinsville Mayor John Miller Commits Crime During Public Meeting –

Collinsville Mayor John Miller Commits Crime During Public Meeting –


This is interesting.

Splash Pad Issue Seems to be Bigger Than Necessary

Can we build a splashpad for about $250,000 or as the mayor suggests a much larger amount of money would be necessary. Considering a change of location since the grant was applied for, it seems logical to think that would no longer be in play. If the DNR would not give us one with the original plan that did not have enough activities to fit their specifications of need, how can we believe that we still would  be able to put that money into our new plans. It seems that I am hearing figures of up to $700,000.

The "truck complex" for city vehicles is now up to 4 million.??

Are trucks that much more important than our cities children? I guess that depends upon who is making that decision.

A simple splashpad with the money now in place and planning being done should be ready a year from now.

Do you think our city workers should be doing the actual work on the splashpad or should we have professionals who have done many of them be doing the planning and the putting together?

Pedal to the Park (Wenona)

Pedal to the Park 
So much activity in the Illinois Valley even Wenona, so I am posting this small event just because they are trying.

Core Municipal Values

Excellence and quality in the delivery of services

Fiscal Responsibility

Ethics and Integrity

Respecting residents as owners

Open & Honest Communications

Professionalism

Visionary leadership and planning


I came across this list in another Midwestern city and it sounded like something we would envision for our city.

Donation for a Peru Splash Pad is a Reality A Large Donation

Friends have informed me that at the Town Forum held this eveing an announcement was made that former Peru resident and Major League Baseball Player J.A. Happ will be donating $100,000 for a baseball themed splash pad to be located in the Washington School space.

This is such good news for the residents of this city. It will be landscaped so that adults will also be able to use the land not occupied by a splash pad. Hopefully a lovely green space that will fit in with the residential areas around it.

Happy Fourth of July Friends, Family and Fireworks

For many of you July 4 is a big family event and for others it is just trying to get away from  the excess noise coming from people who abuse the day with very loud noise disturbing kids, pets and ptsd people.

At last a new location in Peru, a different fireworks company and what's you opinion? Will we want to improve upon this location and continue on or return to Water Street when it is possible or find another way to celebrate July 4 and just watch the communities who seem to have a long and successful history of celebrating the whole day.

I did not see them but did appreciate not having to deal with the loudness of Water Street, but that is only me. Not to say we did not have a neighborhood full of amateur fireworks taking place and eventually very well controlled by the PPD.

FB has been discussing this much of the morning pro and con but mostly con.