The Huntley Farmside

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USPS 680-360
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1986
VOLUME 26-NUMBER 33
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Local Students at Nationals
4-H DAIRY BOWL
Members of the Mc- Henry County 4-H Dairy Bowl Team, Todd Manke, Mark Olbrich, Adam Gardner and Brian Olbrich represented Illinois in the National North American Dairy Bowl Contest this past weekend at Louisville,   Ky.
The Dairy Bowl was compitation on dairy related subjects consisting of a written test, oral responses to multiple choice, word completion, true and false and toss-up questions.
Our Illinois team placed 14th in the National contest.
Village Board
The regular meeting of the Village Board of Huntley was held on November 6, 1986 in the Board Room of the Village Hall and brought to order by the President at 8:10 P.M.
Roll noted the fol¬ lowing present: President Dhamer, Trustees Basel, Ahrens, Berlin and Russ with Trustees Wicke and Brown absent. Also attending were Attorney Cowlin (in the absence of Attorney Kukla), Village Engineer Schwegel, Police Chief Rossi, iSuperintendent of Public Works Shear, and Building Inspector Spradlin.
The minutes of the October 2, 1986 meeting were brought to the Trustees for review. There being no addi¬ tions nor corrections, they stood approved as presented.
The financial reports were reviewed. Trustee Berlin made a motion to approve the Treasurer's Report for October, 1986 and also, after an extensive explanation of the September, 1986 report by Treasurer Swanson, the September, 1986 Treasurer's Report. Motion seconded by Trustee Russ and upon roll call, all trustees voted aye and the motion carried.
The current bills for the village were re¬ viewed and a motion was made by Trustee Berlin, seconded by Trustee Ahrens and upon roll call, all trustees voted aye, the motion carried and the Clerk
was instructed to make payment of these bills. A listing of same is attached hereto. At this same time. President Dhamer pre¬ sented an invoice irom HcHenry Farm Service in the amount of $14.50. Trustee Berlin made a motion to pay this invoice, seconded by Trustee Russ. Roll noted: Berlin, aye; Ahrens, aye; Basel, aye; Russ, aye: and motion carried.
President Dhamer and Village Engineer Schwegel spoke on the water tower refur¬ bishing. The President suggested that this be put out for bids for the inside and outside of the tower with the stipulation that the work be done between April 15 and June 15 or between September 15 and November 15. He requested that the same proposal be put out except to use the above stipulation. After discussion, a motion was made by Trustee Basel, seconded by Trustee Berlin, to authorize Baxter and Woodman to carry out the above request with opening of same at the March, 1987 meeting. Upon roll call, all trustees voted aye and the motion carried.
The next order of business was the dis¬ cussion of the Ordinances, namely the Preannexation Ordinance in re fees and if, over five acres, developer would have to go before school, park. Planning and Zoning before com-
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Fire Protection
The Huntley Fire Protection District has improved it's fire classification to a Class 7 effective Dec. 1, 1986. The new rating was given to the Dirstict by ISO Commercial Risk Services, Inc. after re-rating the District this spring. The District's rating was formerly a Class 8 and 9.
ISO conducted their survey during a three day visit to the District this past spring. Included in the survey was a tanker drill outside of the village to evaluate the department'a ability to respond and deliver a water supply to rural areas without hydrants. Also included in the survey was the evalua¬ tion of training drills, fire training, maintenance reports and a complete inventory of all fire equipment. ISO also checked all re¬ sponse time to fire calls, manpower avail¬ able on fire calls and tested the village hy¬ drant system.
The firemen of the Huntley Fire Protection District worked very hard to improve the District's fire rating during the past two years. I would like to commend each of them for doing an out¬ standing job, enabling the District to lower the fire rating.
All residents and businessmen should contact their insurance companies after Dec. 1, 1986 and inform them of the District's new rating. The District will also be contacting insurance companies m the area about the new rating. The new rating will also be in ISO's insurance booklet.
The Huntley Fire Protection District and the Village of Huntley will continue to up¬ grade their services to insure the best fire protection available to the District. We hope to have ISO survey the District during the next two years and fur¬ ther attempt to lower the fire rating.
Sincerely,
Dave Veath
Chief HFPD
New Plans at Historical Society
Inside This   Issue
Church Dir.   ¦      p.2 Legal Not. p.4,-8
Neighborhood News  p.9,10 Farm News p. 11
Community Calendar p.10
Pictured:   Nancy Grau of Huntley, one of the previous Sampler Series Lecturers who spoke on Major William McHenry, with the awarcf won by the Society.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Plans are underway at the McHenry County His¬ torical Society Museum in Union to run their award-winning "Sampler Series" evening lecture program again next March and April. Based on the 8 week series run earlier this year, specific subjects of local historical interest will again be featured.
Such topics will include: "The Black Hawk War", "Surviving on the Prairie", "Women During the Civil war^ and "Dating and Identifying Costumes" to mention just a few.
Just recently the McHenry County Historical Society received an Award of Superior Achievement from the Congress of Illinois Historical Societies and Museum for the first Sampler Series. Based on that and on the excellent local response for the program, the Society Board of Directors is looking forward to continuing the series.
Further information will be made available in coming months or by contacting the Society at 815-923-2267.
Huntley Scholars        honors
Students who have achieved superior academic status for the first nine weeks of the current year were announced recently at Huntley Junior High. To be named to the Principal's List a student must attain a 3.9 average or above. High Honors recognition requires an average between 3.5 and 3:89, and Honorable Mention listing denotes an average between 3.0 and 3.49.
Principal's List
Grade 6
Janet Schumacher Grade 7
Natasha Drufke Jenny Kelm Brenda Janowiak Grade 8 Jim Cook Julie Ottley Mary Ann Miller Linda Schumacher High Honors
Seniors
Julie Bunt Cassie Evans Chris Manley Eileen Manning Marci Maxwell Dacien McGee Jodi Peterson Tanya Pupich Larry Rugg Ron Terry Judy Weisneth
Juniors
Brett Blank David Bond Angela Doty Jay Peterson Shane Pickerill Chad Warrington
Sophomores
Sara Matz
Freshmen
Stacy Colson
HIGH HONORS
Seniors
Kenneth Basel Cheryl Boettcher
Grade 6 Penny Piske Becky Chappell Meryl Gustafson Alicia Jagman
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