Belvidere chamber's civic honors go to Dick Van Evera, John Wolf - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star

 

BELVIDERE — The Belvidere Area Chamber of Commerce honored Dick Van Evera with the 2013 Distinguished Citizen of the Year Award and John Wolf with the 2013 Doctor of Civic Betterment Award tonight.

The night began with a social hour, followed by dinner and the award presentation. Misti Rice, senior manager of Chrysler State Government Relations, served as the keynote speaker.

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Update on Dolores Puplava’s Campaign for Belvidere Township Trustee

 

On the morning of March 13, 2013 I had the privilege of giving a presentation to 28 Union Leaders from the Rockford / Belvidere area. Representatives included Teamsters, CWA, Laborers Local 32, Pipefitters, Plumbers, Painters and the IBEW. The officials for the event interviewed eight candidates for office from the Rockford area. “Puplava for Trustee” was the only candidate to be interviewed from Belvidere to proudly represent the valued constituents of Boone County. If your organization would like for me to introduce myself or has an upcoming candidate’s forum; please contact me at my campaign office number at 815.388.9314

Thank you in advance for Voting on Tuesday, April 9, 2013.

-Dolores Puplava-

PUPLAVA

For

BELVIDERE TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE

MISSION STATEMENT

To actively represent our community's interests as a Belvidere Township Trustee on a full time basis with vigor, by providing transparency, accessibility and community outreach.

DOLORES A. PUPLAVA

PLEDGE

I hereby pledge to act as an accessible, dedicated public servant. I will proudly serve as a liaison between the people of Belvidere Township, local government officials, first responders, and the road commission; to lobby for fiscally sound budgets that will not sacrifice the quality of services demanded by our valued residents.

Party: Democrat

Political

Experience: Belvidere 21 Democratic Precinct Committeeperson

Eight (8) years

Residency: Belvidere area for nearly (25) twenty-five years

Occupation: AT&T Inc. (Formally "American Telephone & Telegraph ")

Retired - Engineering Management

Family: Spouse, Ronald Puplava, 3 Adult children, and 1 grandson

Community

Work: Boone County Fair Breakfast, Volunteer

Telephone Pioneers of America, Secretary/Treasurer

All God’s Children Shall Have Shoes Project

Education: ATT Engineering School, Chicago IL,

Chicago University, Public Relations

North Central College, Business Management

Rockford Business College, Travel & Tourism

CONTACT: Voice: 815.388.9314

E-Mail: Dolores.Puplava@gmail.com

Appointments in other counties

McHenry County requires applicant’s for their many citizen commissions and agencies to fill out an application.  Should Boone County consider such an application? 

Currently the Boone County requires little or nothing for an application—it is up to Chairman Bob Walberg.  Written requirements are only required if the county board uses its “advise and consent” rights and demands something.

Here is the application which is required in McHenry County.

Click on the photocopy to enlarge:

Immigration Reform Could Cost Social Security Billions | Daily Ticker - Yahoo! Finance

By Nicole Goodkind

 

Stephen Goss, chief actuary of the Social Security Administration estimates that 3.1 million illegal workers pay into Social Security each year. In 2010, undocumented workers and their employers paid $15 billion to Social Security with no intention of ever collecting benefits -- that year illegal workers only received $1 billion back.

How do working illegal immigrants pay in to and collect Social Security? Some are issued Social Security numbers with their temporary or student visas, others forge documents and were issued numbers by Social Security before they tightened their screening process in 2001, some steal numbers, and others simply make them up.

When workers pay Social Security under numbers that don’t match their names the administration sorts these into their “suspense” file. No one gets credit towards benefits for this money but the money does still go to the Social Security trust fund.

Related: Immigration Is an Economic Issue: Actress and Obama Campaign Co-Chair Eva Longoria

Over the course of many years, Goss estimates that a total of $150 billion in undocumented workers' money has flowed into the Social Security trust fund. That’s about 8% of the total

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