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Vol. 32, No. 30
July 26, 2017
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Woman’s Club down to just five members; final meeting Sept. 6 By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
After being in existence for more than a century, come September the Brookfield Woman’s Club will be no more. The club, which was founded in 1906, is disbanding. It will hold its final meeting on Sept. 6. The club is down to only five members and the youngest is 77 years old. “We just couldn’t go on anymore,” said Joanne Bazata, the longest tenured member of the club, who joined it in See WOMAN’S CLUB on page 9
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Zoe Bolchert contributes some brushstrokes for a community banner that the Riverside Arts Center had created as an activity at RiverFest in downtown Riverside on July 22. For more photos from the event, visit online at www.RBLandmark.com.
D103 faces $20K in fines over asbestos reporting Sanctions apparently not related to February central office project
By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is seeking to levy $20,000 in fines
against Lyons-Brookfield Elementary School District 103 for violating recordkeeping laws relating to asbestos in school buildings. The alleged violations do not refer di-
rectly to a February incident in which District 103 Maintenance Director Ryan Grace and others allegedly performed work in the district’s administration building that may have dislodged asbestos. The IDPH’s notice
of intent to assess the fine does reference improper removal of “asbestos containing transite ceiling materials from inside the See D103 on page 11
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