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Our Village, Our News

JANUARY 2, 2013

Race to village hall begins Signatures sought, documents filed for spring elections By Robin Ambrosia Staff Reporter

Having announced his retirement after 30 years as Woodridge mayor, five residents will run to be Mayor William Murphy’s successor. Mayoral candidates include current trustees Gina-Cunningham-Picek, Joe Kagan and Greg Abbott, in addition to Forenc Vandor and Mike Krucek. Kagan has filed for both mayor and village trustee positions. “He has filed petition packets for each office and has five days to withdraw one of the packets,” said Jack Knight, Woodridge management analyst/deputy village clerk. With three terms expiring in 2013, filing for Woodridge trustee are current trustees Pamela Beavers and Kagan, as well as Louis Wardin, Tim Goodwin, Joe Schager and Susan Burtnette. Current Woodridge Village Clerk Eileene Nystrom is the only candidate who filed for clerk. Other municipal candidates include Loren J. Tiede and John Majewski for Woodridge Library trustee and Fred

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The Woodridge Village Hall will be the home of the municipalities newly elected mayor and trustees after the April election.

Hohnke and Brian Coleman for Woodridge Park District board. In Downers Grove, six candidates have filed petitions for three open village commissioner seats. Current commissioners Robert Barnett and Marilyn Schnell have decided to run again, while William Waldack did not. Newcomers David Olsen, Susan Walaszek, Don Jankowski and Greg Hose have also

filed petitions for village commissioner. The race for Westmont mayor will not be competitive like Woodridge since only one candidate has filed for the position, Ronald Gunter. There are six candidates for three village trustee seats. The terms of Lee Fleming, Ellen Emery and Patricia Klebenow expire See SPRING ELECTION, page 4

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Park District helps recycle Christmas trees The Downers Grove Park District will host two drop-off sites for residents who would like to recycle their Christmas Trees between Dec. 26 and Jan. 13. Trees are turned into chips which will be used as mulch within parks and landscaping projects. There will be one drop-off location at Whitlock Park, located at 40th & Fairview, in the parking lot off of Fairview and another dropoff location at McCollum Park, located at 6801 S. Main Street, in the north parking lot off of 67th Street. Real Christmas Trees are recycled and reused in communities across the nation for electricity, wildlife habitats, coastal and dune restoration, improved fishing areas and to provide homes for herons. For more information on these projects, visitwww. christmastree.org. For more information on the Park District’s tree recycling program, call 630-963-1304. To see other Park District green initiatives, www.dgparks.org.


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