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SUPPLEMENT TO McHENRY PLAINDEALER - PAGE 4 -FRIDAY, JANUARY 19. 1979 (Continued from page 3) warehouse on Route 31, south of McHenry, caused an estimated $400,000 worth of damage. Even though only 17'^ per­ cent of the county's registered voters went to the polls, several highly contested races ended as candidates were selected for the fall general election. At the county level Rosemary Azzaro won handily over Cal Skinner, Sr., for the Republican nomination for county clerk. One of the most bitter cam­ paigns was settled when John Anderson of Rockford won in his bid for nomination to another term as Congressman from the 16th district. Robert Swartzloff, who has been serving as acting superintendent of High School District 156 since last July, was given a three-year contract as superintendent. He suceeds Richard Swantz, who resigned and left McHenry, for an ad­ ministrative position in Wisconsin. A nuclear medicine section of McHenry hospital's radiology department has been opened, equipped with a 154 inch camera, the largest in the Kane-Lake-Mc Henry county area. The McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously to recommend that the County board approve Shamrock Beef Cattle NFarm's request for a conditional use permit for -the operation of a private airstrip on its property. Prior to the recommendation, all objections had been with­ drawn, including that of the City of McHenry. APRIL The McHenry City Council voted unanimously to approve a tentative budget which calls for a pay raise for all city employees. The final budget was approved with no changes. Heading the list of employees receiving pay raises is superintendent of Public Works Fred Meyer. Meyer's salary is being raised 8.04 percent from $19,900 to $21,500. Police Chief George Pasenelli is receiving a 7.09 percent pay increase. The raise will boost the chief's salary from $19,500 to $21,000. All other city employees will be receiving a five percent pay increase and an increase in city contributions to employee benefits. The Illinois Department of Local Government Affairs certified a 1977 tentative multiplier of 1.2080 to McHenry county. This multiplier is tentative and is subject to change if the McHenry County jBoard of Review makes significant changes in local assessment levels. The purpose of the multiplier is to equalize average Assessment levels across counties. • * * The City of McHenry, Mayor Joseph Stanek and the City Council have been named as defendants in a lawsuit asking for $1,250,000 in damages. George Biggs, a former em­ ployee of the Public Works department of the city, filed the suit in United States District court. The suit alleges that he was discharged without just cause, and through no fault of his own. The request of Carey Appliance and Walter Knapik to reclassify land at 213 N. Front street for business purposes was recommended for approval by the city Zoning Board of Ap­ peals. City of McHenry residents were urged by Mayor Joseph Stanek to attend the upcoming township meeting to vote against the hard road tax. According to Stanek McHenry city residents have been paying the hard ro&d tax along with the rest of the township but none of the money has ever been used on city streets. By a vote of 1,672 to 1,246, the request of the High School District 156 board for authority to issue bonds in the amount of $2,150,000 to alter, remodel and build additions to West campus and to equip same was defeated at the polls. Approximately 400 residents of McHenry township attended the annual meeting where a measure was passed extending the hard road tax for another five years. The meeting, which in past years seldom attracted more than thirty people, was held at the McHenry VFW this year with a standing room only crowd in attendance because of the hard road tax issue. Richard Nethaway, who was voted McHenry Lions club "Lion of the Year", was recently named Fox River region "Lion of the Year" at the recent District I-J con­ vention. A 13-year-old McHenry youth has been arrested and charged with arson in connection with the fire at the McHenry Public < library. The fire was located on - the second floor of the building, and damaged a light fixture, carpeting, ceiling tile and the end of a cabinet of books. \ Finally, an open Route 31 between McHenry and Crystal Lake, but one lane only on various portions of the major link between the two towns after the Jan. 25 and Jan. 26. An honorable dismissal was given seventeen aides at two McHenry high school cam­ puses. The action was taken with regret, necessitated because of staff reductions announced for the beginning of next year when more than 550 students will leave the local system to enter^ the new Johnsburg high school. A major narcotics supplier for McHenry county was arrested at his home in Algonquin in a rtaid by Sheriff's police. Police believe the arrest breaks up a narcotics ring responsible for supplying area high schools withilrugs. The United Way of McHenry County has finally become a reality. After a year of preparation, contacting civic and industrial leaders regar­ ding the feasibility of a county wide United Way, delivering presentations to various city councils and Chambers of Commerce, and petitioning the state for a change of name from the United Way of Crystal Lake to the United Way of McHenry County, the successful con­ clusion to these efforts has just been realized. McHenry Police Chief George Pasenelli, Arthur Tyrrell and other law en­ forcement officials have recently leveled blasts at the Combined Counties Police Association (CCPA). The CCPA has begun soliciting funds from residents of the McHenry area and both law enforcement officials disap­ prove. 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Faced with an immediate problem of too much sludge at the city sewer plant, the City Council voted at its annual meeting to authorize purchase of a brand new 1977 Big-Wheels sludge removal truck. MAY The Zoning Board of Appeals voted to recommend to the City Council that the minimal width of the lot lines in Woodcreek subdivision remain 132 feet as is presently required by city ordinance. The owners of the subdivision, represented by Attorney Jim Green (who is also one of the owners) had requested for a reduction in the minimum width required to 100 feet. Good news about work un­ dertaken by the Juvenile Intake Screening unit was reported to the McHenry County board by the Audit and Court Services committee. Speaking for the committee, Willis Simms, chairman, issued the positive appraisal of the program in­ tended to keep juveniles out of the court system when feasible and when it will aid the youngster. Simms said 70 percent of the referrals to the program have been diverted from court action. Richard A. Wissell, public health administrator for McHenry County Department of Health, and former McHenry resident, was installed to the office of. president-elect of the Illinois Public Health association at the thirty-eighth annual meeting. Despite strong objections raised by Fourth Ward Alderman Jerome Rogers, the City Council voted to establish a new ordinance regarding the placement of fences on corner lots. Rogers, who called or­ dinance "discriminatory and unfair to corner lot owners," voted against the ordinance as did the other alderman from the fourth ward, Ernest Schooley. The ordinance passed by a vote of six to two. A McHenry resident was honored at a ceremony at Northwestern university in Evanston, when his portrait was unveiled to be hung in a building on campus. Dr. Helmer R. 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