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The after party
Festival cleanup crews face big job
DeKalb pays its respect to 9/11 flag Historical item’s appearance honors late local firefighter By ANDREA AZZO news@daily-chronicle.com
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Cory Lesniak (left) and Casey Smith, both with the DeKalb Park District, dump full trash cans into a disposal unit Friday morning, a day after thousands of people gathered at Hopkins Park to watch the annual Fourth of July fireworks show. By FELIX SARVER fsarver@shawmedia.com Charlie Freeman has been cleaning up garbage at the Kirkland Fourth of July festival for 30 years, and he wishes festivalgoers would throw their trash in a bin more often. “If people had to pick up the trash themselves, they wouldn’t be throwing it on the ground,” Freeman said. As the grounds chairman for the Kirkland Lions Club, Freeman coordinates a garbage disposal operation that costs the club about $1,200 a year. It’s after the fireworks and parades are done that the “fun” begins for crews who have to clean up the mess. Although it’s not something the
volunteer crews at Kirkland look forward to, it’s considered part of the festival, said Scott Keneway, chairman for the Kirkland Fourth of July Celebration. A volunteer crew consisting of Lions Club members, Boy Scouts and high school students swept up the aftermath of the village’s 65th Fourth of July Festival at Franklin Township Park in Kirkland. “We want to return it ... the way we found it,” Keneway said. “It’s another reason we’ve had a festival for as long we have.” The park is about seven acres, and volunteers comb every foot of it picking up trash, Keneway said.
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Randy Hjelmberg, with the DeKalb Park District, takes down the bunting Friday from the Dee Palmer Band Shell at Hopkins Park.
DeKALB – Local law enforcement officers marched slowly to the sounds of a bagpipe Saturday onto DeKalb High School’s football field to welcome in a rare piece of American history. The National 9/11 Flag, which was recovered from the rubble at ground zero after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, was revealed. The flag was sewn together with patches commemorating different national hardships. One part of the flag was sewn by survivors of the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting. Another came from the flag that President Abraham Lincoln was laid to rest on after he was shot at Ford’s Theatre. The flag was in DeKalb on Saturday to honor firefighter Lloyd Hatcher, who died in March from bone cancer. His son, also named Lloyd, said he promised his dad he would do something to pay tribute to him. Hatcher Sr. was involved with the New York Says Thank You Foundation before he died. The foundation is responsible for bringing the National 9/11 Flag to cities that have been struck by disasters. “This is paying tribute to all the people from 9/11,” Hatcher said. “People forgot about 9/11. Firemen passed away. Survivors are still passing away … that’s why you hear, ‘Don’t forget. Don’t ever forget.’ ”
“The 9/11 flag symbolizes perseverance and resilience. It’s the new star-spangled banner.” State Rep. Robert Pritchard said at the ceremony honoring the National 9/11 Flag
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Officials: Pilots were flying too low before airplane crash The ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO – Pilots of Asiana Flight 214 were flying too slowly as they approached San Francisco airport, triggering a cockpit warning that the jetliner could stall, and they tried to abort the landing but crashed barely a second later, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Sunday. While federal investigators began piecing together what led to the crash, San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault disclosed that he was looking into the possibility that one of the two teenage passengers who died Satur-
day actually survived the crash but was run over by a rescue vehicle rushing to aid victims as the plane burst into flames. Remarkably, 305 of 307 on board survived the crash and more than a third didn’t even require hospitalization. Only a small number were critically injured. Accident investigators are trying to determine whether pilot error, mechanical problems or something else was to blame for the crash. At a news conference, NTSB chief Deborah Hersman disclosed the Boeing 777 was traveling at speeds well below the target landing speed of 137 knots per hour, or 157 mph. “We’re not talking about a
few knots,” she said. Hersman described the frantic final seconds of the flight as the pilots struggled to avoid crashing. Seven seconds before the crash, pilots recognized the need to increase speed, she said, basing her comments on an evaluation of the cockpit voice and flight data recorders that contain hundreds of different types of information on what happened to the plane. Three seconds later, the aircraft’s stick shaker – a piece of safety equipment that warns pilots of an impending stall – went off. The normal response to a stall warning is to boost speed and Hersman said the throttles were opened
and the engines appeared to respond normally. At 1.5 seconds before impact, there was a call from the crew to abort the landing. The details confirmed what survivors and other witnesses said they saw: an aircraft that seemed to be flying too slowly just before its tail apparently clipped a seawall at the end of the runway and the nose slammed down. Pilots normally try to land at the target speed, in this case 137 knots, plus an additional five more knots, said Bob Coffman, an American Airlines captain who has flown 777s. He said the briefing raises an important question: “Why was the plane going so slow?”
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The parents of Wang Linjia are comforted Sunday by the parents of other students also on Asiana Airlines Flight 214, which crashed at San Francisco International Airport. They mourned at Jiangshan Middle School in Jiangshan city in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. Wang Linjia was one of two passengers killed Saturday.
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