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.. doinl the I"amily thing."
"We brought our own hot chocolate,
bundled the lcids up ... and we'll stay
out here until ,he cold getS to us," the
30-year-old real estate qent said.
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as Cold, accordin! to · the National
ies. W~ther Service, meant a low 0116 de-
grees and a hid! of 28 Sunday. But even
with the possibility of a low in the teens,
we families were so cKcited to have snow
that temperature did not maner.
:e "It's just fun to be outside and to be
able to do this," said Vito DeFrisco, 37,
who was teachintl his 7-year-old daugh-
ter Brenna to ice skate. "There just
rieia hasn't been much. snow compared to
eat
. at
Thrillsaekers make the long walk back up the tubing hili at Roy Blackwell
Forest Preserve In WarrenvHle before entoylng yat another wild ride down.
last year, and we haven't been able to
set out and try it."
A typical year usually brinSS about
39.5 inehes of snow to the OJicago area.
About 15.6 inches had fallen this time
last year) but only about 3.2 inchesfdl
in aD of January 1990. This season, it
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Monday is the oeaollne lur I~.
voters to fde petitions to set • k4 .
ferendom on the April ballot. Govern
bOards have mon: two Wttks to adop
resolution or ordinance to put a bind
public-policy question on the btiIot.
Donohue said the anticipated lawsuit
ch~e the existing signature reQuirm.
has snowed 13.2 inches, and 10 of those on grounds that other binding issues, 5
have been this month, a weather service iI3 onc to change a county to an elo
spokesman said. . executive fonn of government, whicl1
.Mary Lynn Frank of Cary also was describes IS "I much more signili(
out With her family, but left the activity change," reQuires only 500 Ugnatuft:!.
to her kids because she had hit I tree get on the ball(){.
See Snow. PI. 1 The 10 pm;cnt requiremmt is ··a He,
lean task to get done," he said.
An Iltempt to get the requisite nun
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'Gulf crisis no honeymoon for couple

n of signatures to have the single-men
district issue/laced on the November I
lerk baJlot liule When o'1aniz.ers, inelu. ·
the Du Page Comity League of WOI
ice Volers, were only able to collect .1
o sit 7,500 signatures, far short or the rou
By Debran Rowland Rosemont. Both an: staff sergeants. The two mel in a foxhole at Ft. McCoy 38,500 reQuired at the time. The peti.
k:
Some soldiers find religion in a fOllhole. She W1IlJ called to preparatory training at during training manueve~ in 1988, he were never submittod to the county ,
the Marcel Fraser and Paula Foley found each Ft. McCoy in Wisconsin on Jan. 6, one said. They struck up a conversalion 8S 8 lion board. They will be Mon~'
olher. week after their wedding. He and his wife means of staying IIwake in the wee hours Donohue said.
I seat Now, less than a month after their mar- had made plans to honeymoon in Canada, of the morning. A change 10 single-member distids
om riage, Ihey both find themselves facing but that tnp had 10 be canceled. That was several months after he had been supportod by the league of WOI
sat military callups because of the Persian "She was notified in early December returned from a six-year tour in West Voters as a WIly to get more ICCOUntal'
Gennany, where he became a military po-
"
;e
Gulf cmis. that ther mi,ht be called up:' Ma~1
liceman. His wife, he said, grew up in the
on the County Board. The oounty's Dc
Mucel Fraser, 29, a Hanover Parle na- Fraser said. • And everybody \cq>t teUIn« crat5, including Donohue, who r1IJ1 un
job live and Itasca police officer, selVa with us ,to cancel the wedding. Bul W'C said no Riverdak area and also servod In Wesl ce\.~lUlly for the board and for board cI
ur. t.he BI4th Military Polic~ unit in Rose- WIY, evcn ir she had 10 go (IO Ft. Gamany iI3 an MP. man, see si~ber di.ruicts as a
n like mont. Paul. Foley-Fraser, 32, is a resef- McCoyl, . maybe she could come ba~k for "We were I S minutes apart [in West of breaking the absolute grip on the b
visl with the BUnd MP unit, also in the wedding. Wc wantcd to get mamed." See Couple, by Debranby
Rowland, PI ...
regular Republicans.
10

that
on Increased bus service on Route 223 could spell relief
Some questions and some answers: are made. ThaI's in March.
! lhe
s
edyor
Q-I Ret 10 my Job In the northwest .obllJ'bs ever)' Getting around Whether the increased servia:: gives a lot of reij.
remains to be secn. Buses will nln every I S minult
day via Pace's Route 123. II', chaos. Then', only one
bus enr)' 20 IItlnotes ud people palIh and shoye to instead of every 20. But hours of service also wiU I
ught it IIqueue on at the cr
A's Rhrer Road traJn stadon,
Gary Washburn cKp'anded for people: who work afternoon and cvenin
shifts in the northwest suhurbs. Instead of ending !he
... hen Ihe route oriRillJltes. You hAve riden .laIIdlnl runs al 7:30 p.m., buses win continue unlil I a.m.
on top or the "oon, ~nt and bsck. You. han 0lhts: Got • commuting question? Sre II problem on the
itc
You have pickpockets. They spend all thl! money area's rollds, trains or buses? Getting around will lid- Q-I had tn deliver my wire 10 Ihe new Grcyhoen
'C-fOOI
promoting public lransportadon, and co.pulu around .
dress topics of gcncr.' interest. Write to Getting bus . depot In downtown Chicago one recent Satur....
lows around, do OIicago Tribune, 4JJ N . Michigan Ave., mom In!!. II wu my first trip to Ihe new lermin.I, a"
grant Elk Gmye Villalle enCOUTtlle their employ~s to U5e It,
and then the semce Is lousy. I've coneplalned, bot It
OJicago, 111. 60611 . I h.d • devil of • time trying 10 find It. Then wcre "
signs on Ihe approaches, and a 101 or the strKI
of
t...
d~n'l SHm 10 do IItllCh good.
that a around the depot are one-w.y. In my conruslody
. L.C., ChicAgo misunde~landing with its union bus drivers pre-
wound lip on one or them headed In' the wrong
123. Pace vented carli« action, but more service will be added at
, . --- . - -..1- .hn.. 1
.L_ . :_a nr 1\", hut "oick"-when driver assignments See Relief, .'
• to:, .
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1llc procedures the O'licago Teachers Union has
~

Iy from the county's longstandin& Practice of routine-

adopled 10 collect partial dues from nOfl-members ly renewing no-bid contracts for "profc:ssional servic-
mixl lhe legaJ guidelines set by the U.S. ' Supreme es."
Court, a rc:dcral appeals court has ruled. . "It's the only honest and aboveboard way to oper-
TIlt! au has been attempting since 1981 to 001- . ate," said Republican Majority leader John An-
led rees from teachers and others woo arc nol mem- nerino, onoe 'a n opponent of the biddill8 chan~
bers of the union to help defray the costs of colJec- . In the past, the board tw handed out no-bid con-
! tive blJiaining qmements that also benefit them. tracts for a VI.t1ety of services, l1Ing;ns !'rom audits to
In a 1986 decision, the hiKh court said the au's health insunm<Je. Under state law, the: oounty must

Ii earlier drorts were unconstitutional. Under the

court's guidelines, a union has to speD out which
costs it sedu to pasS on to non-members, allow for
impartial procedures for chal1enging the fees and put
any disput~ fees in escrow pendin& an outcome.
~ sealed bids for most purchases but is permitted
to suspend the rule on "professional :iervica."
"We an: 80inJ to illCCk. bids or proposals whencva'.
we can ," said Mary Ann Gearhart (R-Crete), '
chairwoman of the board's Executivt: Committee.

Couple By Debran Rowland

Germany] for. couple years and
never knew it," Fraser ~aid,
Fraser, now a Darien resident,
graduated' from HolTman Estates
H~g,h School and then entered the
mIlitary,
Today, he describes himself as I. them together; and Fraser Yy& he
"different kind of soldier" than he ' . sees some irony in the fact that
was back then. now the military has drawn them
"( went into the military to lrow
Continued from' apart.
,ale I
up, and ( think it helped me to ""m prayin& thlt my wife will
,row up," he said. be Ible to dQ her month~, if su
"r' l.Iw.ys wanted to be • police she does get called up, and that, if
officer.·r became I military police • get called up, I will be able to do
officer to gain a way to become a my six months," he said. "And we
civilian police officer." will both come back. and 80 on
It was the military that brought with our lives." By Debran Rowland

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