Haiyan relief efforts underway in Painfield. SPORTS
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SCHOOLS
Plainfield wins multiple sectional swim titles
Plainfield North students learn about civic duty PAGE 11
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T HE ENTERPRISE Your Complete Source For Plainfield News Since 1887
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Volume 126 No. 16
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IT’S on County workers go on strike By Nick Reiher Managing Editor
STORY BY SUZANNE BAKER ENTERPRISE REPORTER
SEE HOPE • PAGE 7
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE PETRASKI FAMILY
(Top) Among the shingles, book pages and other debris that dropped from the sky in Plainfield on Sunday was a wedding photo. Through social media, the Petraski family was able to track down the owners of this picture. (Bottom) This is what remains of the Washington home that was torn apart by a tornado Sunday. A wedding photo from this home ended up 100 miles away in a yard in the Wesmere subdivision in Plainfield.
See STRIKE, page 4
INSIDE
Social media is helping track down the owners of photos, letters and bills swept up by the tornados that rolled through Illinois on Sunday. Like many people throughout the Chicago metropolitan area, the Petraski family in the Wesmere subdivision found debris in their yard they believed was picked up by tornados that hit south of Plainfield. What they didnʼt realize was that the rubble traveled 100 miles.
As storms swirled around them Sunday afternoon, some of Will County’s union employees met in a room above a Joliet social club to practice holding picket signs and map out their strike strategy for the next day. Hours later, a spokesman for AFSCME Local 1028, representing more than 1,000 Will County employees, issued a press release announcing a portion of that strategy for the press: - 7:30 a.m. outside the health department (501 Ella Ave. in Joliet) and Sunny Hill Nursing Home (421 Doris Ave. in Joliet). AFSCME Local 1028 president Dave Delrose will be available for interviews. - 8 a.m. Monday, Nov. 18, outside the courthouse (14 W Jefferson St. in Joliet). - Other sites throughout the day … And Will County officials issued their response Monday morning: “Will County Executive Larry Walsh assured residents that Will County government was open for business and ready to serve their needs despite a strike by the County’s union workforce represented by AFSCME Local 1028,” the press release said.“Executive Walsh and the Will County Board have been working for over 15 months to avert a work stoppage by the union, but could not reach an agreement.” No thanks to the Will County Executive and the Will County Board,AFSCME’s release charged: “More than 1,000 frontline employees of Will County are prepared to strike tomorrow (Monday) morning to achieve a fair union contract,” said their release.“Their union,AFSCME Local 1028, has done
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