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Friday, November 2, 2012

Fun Facts for New Year's: Wear Red Underwear, Lock Your Car and Eat Black-Eyed Peas

Check out these interesting fun facts and trivia about New Year's Eve.

If you're celebrating New Year's Eve this year and find a lull in the conversation, impress your family and friends with this New Year's trivia.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

At Long Last, Olympia Fields Subdivision Residents See Sunny Future

Residents of the Traditions subdivision say a new grant will help their senior development recover from Hurricane Ike & developer woes.

Hurricane Ike made landfall in Galveston, Texas on September 13, 2008, about 1,000 miles from Olympia Fields, Illinois. But the storm's furious rains continued inland to Chicagoland, and its destructive potential remained evident where the ground had not been properly prepared, as in the case of the Traditions subdivision of Olympia Fields. Here, at this senior living development around the corner from St. James Hospital, the rains left standing water over four feet deep on Vollmer and Crawford roads even days after the flood, said Olympia Fields Village Administrator David Mekarski. Many considered the flooded streets an unfortunate legacy of Traditions developer George "Bud" Arquilla, who abandoned the development due to financial …

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