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Landfill expansion plan awaits OK Waste Management still needs Illinois environmental agency permit for next step By FELIX SARVER
By the numbers 245: Number of acres in current landfill 594: Number of acres to be added in planned expansion 2,000: Approximate number of tons of trash the landfill will be able to accept daily when the expansion is finished
fsarver@shawmedia.com CORTLAND – Waste Management is still waiting for approval from an environmental agency for expanding a landfill it has owned in part of Cortland Township for 22 years. The waste and environment services company filed an application for a construction permit with the Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency this year for the expansion of the existing landfill. Waste Management plans to add 594 acres to the landfill, which is in the southwest corner of the township. Waste Management began moving forward with the expansion plans after the Illinois Supreme Court declined in May to hear an appeal of the county’s approval for the ex-
pansion, which had been upheld by both the Illinois Pollution Control Board and the state’s 2nd District Appellate Court. Opponents to the expansion said the approval process was unfair, and the DeKalb County Board’s approval was not based upon the available evidence. Area leaders are uncertain if the Cortland Township Electors’ Association is
moving forward with plans to file a separate legal challenge to the expansion. Currently, Waste Management has been corresponding with the environmental agency and answering routine questions on the design of a planned facility, Waste Management spokesman William Plunkett said. “The permit process takes a little while because of the
permit writers looking at the facilities that are planned for construction,” Plunkett said. The design of the facility already is planned, which includes not only expanded space but a liner system and soil layers. The application submitted to the environmental agency has an exhaustively detailed document of the
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Jury in slaying trial gets working
Trying to do more with less
The ASSOCIATED PRESS SANFORD, Fla. – With police and civic leaders urging calm, a jury began deliberating George Zimmerman’s fate Friday after hearing dueling portraits of the neighborhood watch captain: a cop wannabe who took the law into his own hands or a well-meaning volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin because he feared for his George life. Zimmerman, As the 29, is charged jury got the with secmurder case, ond-degree police in this Orlando murder, but suburb went the jury on national also will be t e l e v i s i o n allowed to to plead for consider manp e a c e i n slaughter. Sanford and across the country, no matter what the verdict. “There is no party in this case who wants to see any violence,” Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger said. “We have an expectation upon this announcement that our community will continue to act peacefully.” During closing arguments, Zimmerman’s lawyers put a concrete slab and two life-size cardboard
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At the Voluntary Action Center in Sycamore, volunteer Dee Anderson (left) is helped by coordinator Ron Mullen on Tuesday while carrying prepared meals to Anderson’s vehicle to be delivered to Meals on Wheels clients. By FELIX SARVER fsarver@shawmedia.com
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ee and Don Anderson bring meals to the elderly throughout DeKalb and Sycamore. But they don’t always stop there. The Sycamore wife and husband have delivered meals for almost 20 years as part of the Meals on Wheels program run by the Voluntary Action Center. Sometimes they only have to drop off a paper bag of food
Local Meals on Wheels program expects more funding cuts at a client’s stoop. But in one case they helped a woman who was lying on the floor in her home and couldn’t get up. All the doors were locked, so they called a center representative, who in turn contacted the authorities for help.
Looking out for the clients is not one of primary duties for Meals on Wheels volunteers, but it is one of the many ways the program participants help care for senior citizens in the DeKalb County. “It’s a good service if nothing else
to check on people,” Dee Anderson said. “Somebody comes once a day at least to check on them.” The funding for Meals on Wheels in the county will be reduced in October, though. Meal services on Saturdays already have been eliminated in response to the declining funds, said Ellen Rogers, associate director for the Voluntary Action Center, in an email.
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