THE CITY OF Wilmington has $2 million to spend to build a new police station, and will go modular to fit the project in the budget. This is an artists rendering of what the building could look like.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Volunteer of the Year
Dean Dennis named Volunteer of the year!
Dean has been involved with Boy Scouts for years.
Dean has been a strong leader in the Lions club for over a decade. He plays a key role in the annual “Wilmington Lions Spook Hike”. Recently Dean has spear headed the “Christmas Walk” on the North Island that helps raise funds for our food pantries in town. This year it raised over 2,200 dollars,
Dean is an avid carpenter as most of us know. He has volunteered to make shelving for our Wonderful local library and pinewood derby tracks for our Scout packs.
Dean is also a veteran. He volunteers down at the VFW every chance he gets (dinners, breakfast and special events). He makes the wood flag cases for our veterans that hold the flags for the veterans we have passed away here in Wilmington.
Dean is also a big Support of our local organizations.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Council designates monument as historically significant
BERT NIEHLS (second from right) got some help from the crew of Manny's Landscaping installing memorial bricks at the Island City Memorial Flagpole and Monument in October 2011. The City Council recently designated the project as historically significant and authorized the county to designate it a county landmark. Free Press file photo.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Wilmington Fire Protection District GPS Fire Hydrant Project
The Wilmington Fire Protection District project of GPS locating the fire hydrants in the Wilmington Fire Protection District has recently been completed.
The hydrant GIS layer has been implemented on our apparatus computers for use with our electronic mapping. A total of 618 hydrants were located over a period of just over 2 months. When the data set was delivered to Will County 911 for them to input, they commented on how accurate the data was as compared to other hydrant GPS projects they’ve seen. As quickly as the night of the implementation, this data payed off as we responded to a kitchen fire in an apartment building on Meadowood Ln. While enroute to the scene, companies were able to locate available hydrants closest to the incident location and quickly implement the appropriate fire attack strategy. This of course will also assist in obtaining ISO credit for having a GPS hydrant map. The GPS locating software used was an ESRI platform.
The data is available to us through Will Co. 911 for future use and needs.
Below is a screenshot of our electronic mapping with the hydrants visible:
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Open house will explain new water-sewer rates and fees
The Wilmington City Council will hold an open house Wednesday, Jan. 2, to explain proposed increases on water bills coming in early 2013. The changes include the addition of at least $20 per month in base fees, regardless of the amount of water used, and the elimination of small debt service fees.
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