By Jennifer Wheeler
Board of Directors President Dick Van Evera said an executive committee will oversee Growth Dimensions’ day-to-day operations until leaders have selected either an interim or permanent executive director. There is no deadline to find the successor.
In the meantime, the committee will have numerous projects on their plates, including time-sensitive enterprise-zone administrative tasks and continuous efforts to attract businesses.
Written by Bob Balgemann
To finance the addition the district took out a $950,000 loan, with some $500,000 in donations helping defray the overall cost of $1.4 million.
Museum officials are hoping to resume the popular series of quarterly programs later in the year. The programs included everything from a detailed presentation on the Lincoln funeral train to a portrayal of Ulysses S. Grant.
The museum opened in 1968. In 2003, the district bought some buildings along Pleasant Street and tore them down, to create open space directly north of the museum. Then, in 2007, the district purchased a bank building next door for use as a research center.
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Written by Bob Balgemann
From now on, the Service Providers Group will be in charge of the count, which compares numbers with those found during the survey last winter. From those counts comes HUD and state money that is spent in Winnebago and Boone counties to benefit the homeless.
Danice Loveridge, chairperson of the Boone County task force, said some gaps had been identified as existing in the northern part of the county.
One of them is the lack of transportation to get the homeless from the smaller villages to Belvidere. “We’re just identifying that” situation, she said. “We don’t have a solution.”
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