After months of deliberation on whether or not to retain their current Hainesville Police Department or utilize another provider the Hainesville Village Board voted 5-1 Tuesday evening in favor of hiring the Grayslake Police Department. Even though Hainesville’s home-grown local police department was only two years old, it had made great strides in hiring a [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Avon Community Garden Full Of Activity
June 28th, 2010 
Gene Carey The Avon Township Food Garden, officially known as the Community Garden and Food Pantry Production Farm, keeps showing improvements with each and every visit. Since the Community area was planted, many additional plots have been planted as you can see from the slide show below. Besides the older white picnic table that was available, it looks [...]
School Starts In Round Lake On August 18th
June 26th, 2010 Gene Carey To answer a lot of visitors inquiries the Round Lake Area Schools will have their first day of school on Wednesday, August 18th. Winter Break will be from Monday December 20th through Friday, December 31st Spring Break will be from Monday, March 28th through Friday, April 1st The last day of school will be Friday, [...]
Tornado’s In Round Lake – What To Do
June 23rd, 2010 Gene Carey With well over 100 visitors yesterday looking for information on tornado’s in Round Lake, we thought we would once again post WHAT the various tornado siren warning sounds stand for. We are not aware of any actual tornado touching down Thursday night but as we all know, the sirens wailed for a very long time. [...]
Games+Food+Crafts+Entertainment=BeachFest
June 19th, 2010 Gene Carey Did you get a chance to visit this years Round Lake BeachFest? There were games, rides, food, crafts galore, pony rides, a petting zoo, and great entertainment! I was there twice and both times had to wait for a parking spot (even before the musical entertainment started). You can get an idea of what you [...]
Avon Township Appoves Funds For New Website
June 18th, 2010 Gene Carey While local District 46 discusses updating their website to improve its search-ability, the Avon Township Board approved funds for a new vendor to design, host, implement, and train personnel for a brand new website. The Township already has a new logo to go with their new site. The approved cost was approximately $2,400 with the [...]
Food Pantry Production Farm Finally Gets Tilled
June 17th, 2010 Gene Carey With a short break in the rainy weather, Landscape Concepts was finally able to get their equipment on site and till the Community Garden and Food Pantry Production Farm located behind the Avon Township Center. It appears as though the process that was used to stunt the sod and turn it into nothing more than [...]
Posted in Avon Township Food Pantry, Avon Township Office, District 116 Area News, Round Lake News, Village of Round Lake Beach 
Tags: Avon Township Community Foundation, Avon Township Food Pantry, Community Garden and Food Pantry Production Farm, Landscape Concepts, Round Lake Beach Public Works 
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