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>>Pictures, pictures! We need to see pictures of the >>firehouse! Pllleeeaasssseeee? > >Hi Bob, > >I can shed some light on the firehouse comment! That >message was from my mother, and in the town she lives >in (from which I just moved last March to Chicagoland) >has a population of about 9,000. We had a small, >older firehouse, which was evidently in a state of >disrepair in recent years. The town's "pet project" >became building a new firehouse, and the referendum >was voted on and passed (the mayor was a long standing >asst. fire chief, thus this was a pet project). The >firehouse that was proposed, and passed, is monstrous. > It's so big for a town of our size, and supplied with >tons of additional equipment. The icing on the cake >is that at the same time, our region (made up on our >town and one other), had no high school. Kids went to >4 other area high schools by contracts with those >towns. Since 1969, the issue of building a high >school had been tossed around, and the issue reached >its peak interest at the same time as the firehouse >issue. It was a heated issue, and the town had >definite sides to the issue (as well as the other town >we're a region with). I think it took 9 referenda to >get the high school passed (finally!), while the >firehouse went through without a problem on the first >round. > >I'll work on getting a picture. > >Jennifer
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