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Pleasant Street is losing two more elms to the dreaded Dutch Elm Disease. This will make the second and third elm to go on the block between Humphrey and Taylor (far right and far left in bottom picture) The stump from the first remains. With such a nice stand of elms remaining on the 100 block of South Taylor, one wonders if there isn't something we ought to be doing to protect them. Losing all of them would be tragic.
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DED - Dutch Elm Disease
Kevin Wiley Deployed
From Gary and Betty Wiley,
Greetings to all our former neighbors (but always friends) from Taylor Ave.
I don't normally do group mailings but this news is something I would rather not repeat more often than needed. Kevin called the other night and said he is being deployed to Afghanistan in October for six months. He will be stationed at Bagram Air Base in Kabul and will work as an Electronic Warfare
Officer teaching Army personel how to use bomb detection equipment.
Welcome to the New NeighborNet!
Over the past several years since Mark and I created the NeighborNet e-mail newsletter, a lot has changed. When we started, we were both stay-at-home dads with too much time on our hands for our own good. Rounding up neighborhood news and trying to connect new and old residents took time, but we had it. Things have changed. I'm working a full-time schedule while still hauling my kids around town after school to one practice or another. Mark is going to school, student teaching and keeping up with his own kids, while serving as president of the Park District.
Green Line Safety
I wanted to post an incident that happened to me on the Green Line last Wednesday on my way home from downtown.
It's Girl Scout Cookie Time
Just a note to the neighborhood that it's girl scout cookie time. We have many troops and leaders living in our neighborhood so there is no shortage of opportunity to order some. If no one comes to your home and you'd like to order cookes, call Rachel or Grace at 445-0575. They'd be happy to take your order. All Girl Scout Cookies are free of trans fat - even the Thin Mints! Cost is $4/box.
Mindy Kolodziej
221 S. Lombard
