Quick Hits!

For our faithful PRU readers who are interested -- At last night's City Council meeting, consideration of payments to Community Groups was again deferred -- due to the absence of the Sixth Ward's Unfriendly Ghost, Ald. Tom Carey.
The issue has been rescheduled for consideration by the City Council at a Special City Council meeting on August 23 at 9p.m.

The PRU Crew really enjoys our smaller, more efficient Council. We all owe former Mayor Howard P. Frimark, and his cut-the-council helpmates, Steve Huening, John Kerin and Amy Sullivan, our undying gratitude!



In case any public service-minded individuals in our reading audience missed it -- the Schoold District 64 Board of Education is accepting applications to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of board member, Mr. Russ Gentile.

According to a District 64 announcement, "Interested candidates should submit an application no later than Monday, August 23 at 4:30 p.m." Applications are available here (.pdf)

The PRU Crew feels those anonymous souls who dedicated such tremendous effort circulating flyers opposing the last District 64 referendum should apply!



We almost forgot! For those who keep up with the doings of the Park Ridge Park District and -- or use their website, you may be pleased with their new look and upgraded navigation!

Nicely done, PRRPD, and long overdue! Drop-down menues would have been nice, but we'll overlook their omission since you've spared us those annoying pop-ups!

The PRU Crew is also looking forward to the time the PRRPD decides on a new method of video hosting and sharing! Just a suggestion!



In case any of our faithful PRU readers should be mislead -- the "Editor's Notes" added to the most recent round of comments on the Public Watchdog have falsely been attributed to the owner of our blog. The false statement of fact does seem to rise to the level of the Public Watchdog Editor's having willfully cast our blog and the PRU owner in a false light, which is defamatory.

PRU.ADMIN did attempt to submit comments pointing out the error and requesting a correction. An email was also sent, last Friday morning, to both the Public Watchdog editor and their blog host, Mr. Dave Kaufman at dkworldwide.com. However, our PRU.ADMIN's comments were deleted, we have not received a response to the email, and neither a correction nor retraction seem to have been undertaken by either the Public Watchdog editor nor their blog hosting company, as of this writing, and despite the apparent completion of the site's upgrade.

So much for information being the currency of democracy -- maybe we were wrong to assume Jefferson's quote implied accuracy!