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A Community Volunteer Service Experience - GHWittler - Open Salon
A Community Volunteer Service Experience - GHWittler - Open Salon
Community Service Learning in Du Page County for the Village of Lombard is an underlying requirement to Illinois residency and homeownership, not always publicly acknowledged nor explained to newcomers to the western suburbs “out in the boonies”, but rather implicitly, tacitly, and sometimes unwillingly assigned. However, some Lombard resident homeowners are given more community service than others without compensation for the consequences of the volunteer service in their neighborhood. Perhaps the Village of Lombard and Du Page County take advantage of gullible Chicago newcomers as resident homeowners to the western suburbs, “the farther the fools move away from the Windy City or others areas in Illinois”, just because they are “Chicagoans”, the same people become casualties, victims of crime and suffer from damages, losses, and liabilities.
Since my deceased father, Mr. Roberto Hung, J.D. purchased a Lombard historic brick bungalow built in 1927, at 502 South Westmore-Meyer s Road and Washington Boulevard, in Du Page County, Illinois, I have had to participate and volunteer in more community service learning projects than other neighbor resident homeowner and tenants in the Eastgate Center Community, along Westmore-Meyers Road, one mile north of Route 38, Roosevelt Road.
It started while I worked for the College of Du Page as faculty, I volunteered for the Latin American Committee and the European Heritage Committee in Glen Ellyn and Lombard.
It started while I worked as Faculty at the College of DuPage and added Professional Development Credit Units (CEUs) for Community Service Learning coordinated by Kathleen Hennessey for Adult Continuing Education, after my father died on June 25, 1998. I was invited to participate and volunteer for the Friends of the Library at the Helen M. Plum Memorial Library, who are also Friends of the Lombard Garden Club and the Lombard Service League, in Lilac Town, the home of the Lilac Festival at Lilacia Park, which was bequeathed to the Village of Lombard by Colonel William R. Plum in 1927. After the closing of the Estate of Mr. Roberto Hung Supplemental Health Care Trust in Lombard by the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court in Wheaton, Du Page County, the Friends of the Court program invited volunteers to participate in the court advocacy program where assigned volunteers visited court wards on-site, upon assignment by the Friends of the Court.
As a friend of the 18th Judicial Circuit Court in Wheaton, I was assigned to visit court wards by car, at my own expense for mileage, gasoline, telephone calls, and U.S. postage for mailing notices for visits by the Court Advocacy program when there was no telephone number available, for those who lived at Lexington Health Care in Lombard and Elmhurst, the Ray Graham Association for People with Disabilities, Iona Glos Intermediate Care for the Mentally Retarded in Addison, Marklund Children's Home for Developmental Disabilities in Bloomingdale, Deicke Home for the Retarded in Lombard, as well as other individuals with terminal disease and disabilities, granted court ward status and funding in Addison, Elmhurst, The Cove Landing in Lombard, and Bensenville, Illinois.
During the expected Community Service as a volunteer, I was paying for car mileage, gasoline, telephone calls, U.S. postage for mailing, as well as printing in black/white, and color community newsletters, flyers, posters, correspondence, and other mailings for contact in Du Page County, Illinois. The Community Service Learning experience became more expensive by the days, weeks, and months, than I could afford to absorb as a consultant—when no one in the Village of Lombard helped me to get referrals for business or freelance assignments, or even job prospects or leads. The Community Service Learning experience and lifestyle reveals that “it is meant for retired seniors with a fixed income who have to pay for their volunteer service” in York Township, Lombard, and Du Page County, Illinois. The amazing revelation is that, I am still not a retired person nor a senior citizen in Lombard, Du Page County, Illinois—I am too young to be retired and my peers for the Baby Boomer Generation are the middle working class of the nation in the 21st century.
For some reason, the Village of Lombard and York Township expect me to volunteer in community service for the rest of my life and not have any gainful income other than poverty for having purchased a Lombard historic brick bungalow, as a resident homeowner, and U.S. citizen for the last seventeen years in Du Page County, Illinois, U.S.A.
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Late For Work Because Of The CTA? Pick Up A Train Delay Notice Slip « CBS Chicago
Late For Work Because Of The CTA? Pick Up A Train Delay Notice Slip « CBS Chicago
The CTA says operations are largely back to normal tonight after switching problems caused significant delays on nearly all of its lines this morning and made thousands of people late for work, school
or other appointments.
And we’ve learned the agency has an offer for riders who get delayed by technical problems.
Metra says for at least two decades it’s had slips of paper for passengers if trains are delayed at least six minutes.
Those slips are in essence tardy slips for your boss, saying Metra was late and that’s why I’m late.
Those slips are at ticket counters and if the the Metra delay is long enough, passenger services personnel are actually handing them out when you get off the train.
But who knew the CTA had the same kind of thing?
Getting one is a little more involved. The CTA says if you’re late because of the CTA, you can get a Train Delay Notice Slip.
You have to ask for one, and the CTA says they’re at every station.
The customer assistant has to verify the delay and once it’s confirmed, then the slip is filled out – indicating the rail line, the station, the date, the time, total delay. And the CTA employee has to write down his badge number.
The CTA says operations are largely back to normal tonight after switching problems caused significant delays on nearly all of its lines this morning and made thousands of people late for work, school
or other appointments.And we’ve learned the agency has an offer for riders who get delayed by technical problems.
Metra says for at least two decades it’s had slips of paper for passengers if trains are delayed at least six minutes.
Those slips are in essence tardy slips for your boss, saying Metra was late and that’s why I’m late.
Those slips are at ticket counters and if the the Metra delay is long enough, passenger services personnel are actually handing them out when you get off the train.
But who knew the CTA had the same kind of thing?
Getting one is a little more involved. The CTA says if you’re late because of the CTA, you can get a Train Delay Notice Slip.
You have to ask for one, and the CTA says they’re at every station.
The customer assistant has to verify the delay and once it’s confirmed, then the slip is filled out – indicating the rail line, the station, the date, the time, total delay. And the CTA employee
has to write down his badge number.
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Metra Fare Increases Start Sunday | NBC Chicago
Metra Fare Increases Start Sunday | NBC Chicago
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Get ready Metra riders—the approved 2015 fare increases start Sunday.
The rail agency announced in the fall that starting in February, one-way fares will go up by an average of 10.8 percent to as much as 18.2 percent. The fares will keep going up every year for the next 10 years to help fund a modernization plan of the aging system which Metra officials say is long overdue.
Over the entire decade, fares will increase by an average of 68 percent from current levels.
"Folks may love nostalgia, but it makes a powerful statement when our oldest cars date from the Eisenhower administration," Metra chairman Martin Oberman said in a statement. "The majority of our rail cars are older than the majority of our daily commuters."
Metra Listens to Complaints About Big Fare Hikes
The 2015 fare hike will mean an increase of between 50 cents and a dollar for the average rider who buys a one-way ticket. By 2024, fares in the most expensive zone will double, from $2.75 to $5.50.
Metra officials said they have one of the oldest rail fleets in the United States. The average age of the agency’s rolling stock is 29.7 years, compared with 19 at other large railroads. Under the proposed plan, Metra will buy 367 new rail cars to replace 318 cars with an average age of 43 years. More than 100 of those cars would be delivered between 2018 and 2019.
In addition, 85 locomotives will be rebuilt at a cost of $178.5 million. In 2020, 52 new locomotives will be purchased with a price tag of $416 million.
The bad news carries a couple of silver linings. The agency plans to restore discounts for 10 ride tickets, with the price of those tickets dropping to the cost of nine rides. The grace period on monthly tickets will be restored, allowing use on the first day of the following month. One way tickets will be good for 90 days, instead of the current 14.
The extra charge for buying a ticket aboard trains will increase from $3 to $5. All of the changes will go into effect Feb. 1.
"While nobody ever likes fare increases, Metra’s fares are significantly lower than our peer railroads in major cities, and have not kept pace with inflation," Oberman said. "In addition, we have to do this right. We have to stop pretending that our costs do not go up every year, just like they do for everything else."
The plan calls for yearly fare hikes, mostly averaging between 3 percent and 5 percent. Fares in 2017 would go up 8.5 percent, while in 2019, the increase would be 7.75 percent.
By 2024, the cost of a one-way ticket on the system will range from $5.50 for a trip from Clybourn Avenue to Downtown, all the way to $16 if that trip originates in far northwestern Harvard. Currently that Harvard trip is $9.25.
The last time Metra increased fares was in 2012.
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1/13/2015 Jewel-Osco Store #3368 Essential EVERYDAY Red Kidney Beans 16 OZ (1 LB) UPC 4130300328 Contained Red Kidney Beans Bitten By Rodent. Also the Red Kidney Beans show signs of mildew and fungus. I have sorted out the sample Red Kidney Beans showing that a rodent bit the beans, as well as the dried out mildew and fungus beans.
1/13/2015 Jewel-Osco Store #3368 Essential EVERYDAY Red Kidney Beans 16 OZ (1 LB) UPC 4130300328 Contained Red Kidney Beans Bitten By Rodent. Also the Red Kidney Beans show signs of mildew and fungus. I have sorted out the sample Red Kidney Beans showing that a rodent bit the beans, as well as the dried out mildew and fungus beans.
I am reporting that the Essential EVERYDAY Red Kidney Beans
are not the same quality for Jewel-Osco Store #3368, 550 North State Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60610.
are not the same quality for Jewel-Osco Store #3368, 550 North State Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60610.
I want a refund in the amount of $1.29 for the Essential
EVERYDAY Red Kidney Beans to buy another bag of Red Kidney Beans without the
mildew and fungus on the dry red kidney beans.
EVERYDAY Red Kidney Beans to buy another bag of Red Kidney Beans without the
mildew and fungus on the dry red kidney beans.
Figure 1 Everyday ESSENTIAL Red Kidney Beans UPC#4130300328,
Red Kidney Beans Bitten By Rodent. Also
the Red Kidney Beans shows signs of mildew and fungus. Everyday ESSENTIAL Red Kidney Beans Sold At
Jewel Store #3368, 500 North State Street, Chicago IL 60610, On January 13, 2015
Red Kidney Beans Bitten By Rodent. Also
the Red Kidney Beans shows signs of mildew and fungus. Everyday ESSENTIAL Red Kidney Beans Sold At
Jewel Store #3368, 500 North State Street, Chicago IL 60610, On January 13, 2015
Figure 2 Close Up Of The Everyday ESSENTIAL Red Kidney
Beans UPC#4130300328
Beans UPC#4130300328
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