Friday, May 13, 2011
New B-PAC members take chairmanship, treasurer posts.
Five new members were sworn into the board of the Morton Grove Public Library Thursday night at a tense meeting that touched lingering sore spots from a hard-fought spring election that swept in four of them. The fifth, Christa Quinn, was appointed at the April board meeting over the public objection of the four trustees-elect, who ran under the party name B-PAC, an acronym of the last names of Paul Berg, Catherine Peters, Mark Albers and David Calimag. New board president and treasurer Now holding a majority of the seven-member board, the B-PAC trustees nominated one of their own, Albers, to fill the vacant chairman’s position. In a move that took the incumbent trustees by surprise, they also removed the existing treasurer, Arthur …
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Board of trustees goes to one slate, while library board victories dominated by the other group.
On Election Day, Morton Grove voters made decisions by party line, or at least that's what the April 5 balloting indicates as Cook County has started reporting results from all 17 precincts in town. To see the percentages and number of votes, check out our graphs here. For the open seats on the board of trustees, all three went to Action Party candidates: Shel Marcus, John Thill and Maria Toth. Likewise, the six-year terms on the Morton Grove Public Library Board went to B-PAC candidates: Mark Albers, Peter Berg and Catherine Peters. The lone two- year term also went to a B-PAC candidate, David Calimag. For both the village board and library board races, the space between winning and losing came down to few hundred votes. For example, the …
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
With the current numbers from Cook County Clerk David Orr, the projected winners are the Action Party for village trustee seats and B-PAC for the public library seats.
For up-to-the-minute results and information on your local races, Morton Grove Patch is the place to be. Set a bookmark for Morton Grove Patch and follow us on Twitter. Here are the numbers, according to the Cook County Clerk's website at 9:55 p.m., of contested elections for Morton Grove voters: 1,061 * Write-in candidates Renee Miller and Donald India also campaigned for the MGPL trustee seat and Golf 67 board seat respectively, but Cook County has not released their votes. Live Blogging after the polls closed at 7 p.m. 7:20 p.m. Supporters of the Action Party hang out at the party's headquarters on Dempster Street, waiting for candidates to return from campaigning around the neighborhood. Action Party organizers say they expect …
By early afternoon on Tuesday, workers and voters at the polls say Election Day has been mostly blue skies.
UPDATED 5:45 PM WITH NEW PHOTOS AND TEXT -- Outside the Morton Grove Civic Center on Tuesday afternoon, the sun was shining down on candidates and voters as they made their way into voting booths for Precincts 53, 54 and 57. "It seems like a lot of people are coming out," said voter Sue Mangino, a Morton Grove resident and former school board trustee for District 70 Park View School. "There are important issues at stake with the village and the library." Library board candidates Mark Albers and Laura Frisch offered voters their campaign business cards and their greetings as the voters went into the building to vote. Both said they've been clocking early hours of campaigning today, with one starting at 5:30 a.m. and one at 4:30 a.m. When …
Monday, March 28, 2011
Board member of Morton Grove Public Library and coordinator for PROLibrary election organization Daniel Hoffman responds to recent campaign statements for the April 5 election.
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Monday, March 28, 2011
I would like to take this opportunity to once again point out how grossly uneducated and misinformed Mark Albers and his fellow members of B-PAC are on how a Library Board of Trustees works. They have repeatedly demonstrated an inability to do the most basic due diligence before presenting as fact to the population of Morton Grove such assertions (in their own words) as “The taxpayers do not have to vote to approve a new [library] building. Any referendum is only advisory. The library board may overrule it. The village board cannot block it. The simple, frightening truth is that seven people can decide to spend $20-30 million to build a new library no matter what anyone else thinks. That is why [our group] exists." Through their own …
Thursday, March 24, 2011
The MGPL sponsors a library forum on Thursday night at 7:30 p.m.
The Morton Grove Public Library (MGPL) sponsored a library candidate forum on Thursday evening, with questions submitted by index cards and moderated by a member of the Union League Club of Chicago. Members of B-PAC, the opposing organization running for library board trustee spots, also held a library candidate forum on Tuesday evening, but declined to attend the MGPL event on Thursday, for reasons which you can read in greater detail here. 7:30 p.m. About 60 people are seated in the audience section of Baxter Room in the Morton Grove Public Library (MGPL). 7:35 p.m. MGPL Board President David Levin gives an introduction to the forum's moderator David Kohn, director of public affairs at the Union League Club of Chicago. 7:40 p.m. …
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
B-PAC's library board forum starts at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the Civic Center in Morton Grove
B-PAC sponsored its own library candidate forum on Tuesday evening, with a general assembly of residents walking up to the podium to ask questions. Members of PROLibrary, the opposing organization running for library board trustee spots, also held a pub quiz event at the same time, and said they never received timely invitations for the B-PAC forum on Tuesday, which you can read in greater detail here. There will be a library candidate forum, sponsored by Morton Grove Public Library, on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.* 7:00 p.m. The candidate forum kicks off with four candidates on stage: Paul Berg, Catherine Peters, Mark Albers and David Calimag. The members of PROLibrary are not in attendance, though name tags and empty seats are on the stage for …
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Candidate Laura Frisch runs for one of the six-year term seats on the library board.
Laura Frisch is running for six more years on the Morton Grove Public Library Board of Trustees, the seven-member group responsible for shaping the library's fiscal and operating policies, after she joined the board in the fall of 2010. According to the PROLibrary website, the incumbent teaches classes at the Morton Grove Park District. She writes columns about animals, arts and crafts and occasionally family coupon deals for Morton Grove Patch, and does volunteer work: Evanston Animal Shelter, Morton Grove Farmer’s Market Committee, founding member of the Friends for the Niles Township Food Pantry, co-leader of the Morton Grove Camp Fire USA troop, and committee chairperson for the Park View PTO. Members of the library board serve six-…
Friday, March 18, 2011
Candidate Bernadette Fahy makes a re-election bid for the one spot contested for a two-year term.
Bernadette Fahy is running for another two years on the Morton Grove Public Library Board of Trustees, the seven-member group responsible for shaping the library's fiscal and operating policies. According to the PROLibrary website, the incumbent owns a "home-based business to enable her to spend more time with her son who now attends Park View School" and spent years before in sales and management. Members of the library board serve six-year terms. This year, three seats are up for six-year terms, and one seat is up for a two-year term on the library board. Two organizations are campaigning for spots on the library board: B-PAC (Mark Albers, Paul Berg, David Calimag and Catherine Peters) and PROLibrary (Bernadette Fahy, Laura Frisch, …
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Candidate David Calimag makes a bid for the one spot contested for a two-year term.
David Calimag, 63, is aiming for a spot on the Morton Grove Public Library Board of Trustees, the seven-member group responsible for shaping the library's fiscal and operating policies. This is Calimag's first campaign for elected office. A neurologist by profession, Calimag has served as the attending neurologist for the Cook County Health Bureau in the past, according to the B-PAC website. Members of the library board serve six-year terms. This year, three seats are up for six-year terms, and one seat is up for a two-year term on the library board. Two organizations are campaigning for spots on the library board: B-PAC (Mark Albers, Paul Berg, David Calimag and Catherine Peters) and PROLibrary (Bernadette Fahy, Laura Frisch, Lawrence …
Jennifer Alvarado
4:20 pm on Thursday, April 7, 2011
Can´t say I´m a senior resident yet, at 38, I won´t qualify for many years. I just look out for my kids as they are still quite young and neighborhood, park district,schools and the library are very important to me. :) more ›