Comments on: Heritage Fest on hold

By: DonD

DonD — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:51:46 +0000

Open the books up on past Heritage Fests so everyone can see what the real dollar amounts are and what needs to be done.

By: HS

HS — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:11:12 +0000

Maybe people doing a rolling stop and right turn on red is just one of your pet peeves. But if there is no oncoming traffic, no threat to anyone’s safety, no threat to a pedestrian, then it is NOT important and it doesn’t bother me that someone saved a few seconds and didn’t come to a complete stop. Issuing a ticket in such a case is nitpicking, Barney Fifelike crap.

(Now, if it catches some idiot throwing his cigarette butt out the window onto our streets, by all means fine them a couple hundred $! )

And don’t get me started on the annoying possibility of vehicle stickers…

By: DGLIFER

DGLIFER — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:37:10 +0000

I’m sitting here reading all the posts about the cancellation of HF because it costs the Village too much money.. Funny, I was always told that HF supported itself all these years! Hmmmmm now all of a sudden it’s such a burden on the Village budget! Which is it??? It may not MAKE money, but breaking even shouldn’t be a “burden” on the budget… But, I agree, keep it, but maybe just Friday and Saturday and if there “must” be a benefit concert, how about it benefits HF!!! Nobody is working on the Blodgett House anyway!

By: Elaine Johnson

Elaine Johnson — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:22:03 +0000

If it was the Lincoln Center the men would be park district employees. Still…

By: KellyDGM

KellyDGM — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:03:37 +0000

Public works had 3 people digging decorative stones out of the planting beds in the Lincoln center parking lot today….and why??????????? Seems they were put there on purpose. And using a back hoe not a wheel barrow to haul them…none were any bigger than the decorative stones in my yard – I used a wheelbarrow and I am half the size of most of the three workers (maybe twice the age) – wonder how much that cost DG? Workers, gas, machinery. It all adds up…..

By: Zig

Zig — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:14:04 +0000

If I may….

Lemont has 2 fests during the year. Keepataw Days, which is comparable to HF with the vendors, beer tent, and carnival, and their Heritage Fest. Their Heritage Fest is exactly that, celebrates the history of that old town. There are no “meat stick” booths, there are stores that show off historically important antiques and, if I remember correctly, how to make homemade soap, people dressed up like it’s the late 1800′s and early 1900′s…..THAT’S what heritage means.

At the very least, change the name of our HF to Carnie Fest, what do you think about that?

By: dgmom743

dgmom743 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:07:42 +0000

I thought this post was about Heritage Fest?

By: Chad D. Walz

Chad D. Walz — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:31:09 +0000

I challenge you to stop exactly before the white line and do not go an inch past while checking traffic. I go past the white line all the time to check traffic better. Show me a cop who writes that chicken s*** ticket anyway. They better have better things to do than write that ticket and so should RLC’s.

By: Dilbert

Dilbert — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:19:36 +0000

Chad,

If you do any research on Red Light Cameras, you will see that the issue people are mad about in Schaumburg and Bolingbrook is the right turn people getting tickets. But the issue is not LEGAL right turns. The problem is the rolling right turn, or the California stop as it is referred to. These people with the rolling stops are getting tickets. Now in my rules of the road and also your rules of the road, this is illegal. Now personally, if I get a ticket, I will not be happy, but I guarantee you that I speed and any ticket I get I do deserve.

And again, I do not understand why this is such a negative. Especially on Butterfield by the Hooters intersection. Stop there one night and see how many make that left turn AFTER it turns red. It is amazing. The village would get $300 every red light during rush hour….and the people deserve the ticket!!

By: Info

Info — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:40:50 +0000

Chad you sure speak on a lot of topics and act as if you know about everything. If you turn right on red without stopping which is what I am sure Dilbert is talking about that is illegal. I don’t agree with getting a ticket for that but none the less it is against the law.