This Week in the Stateline 04-07-24SEGMENT #1: Jocelyn McLaughlin Board President of Ethnic Heritage Museum
In this segment, Jocelyn explains why heritage is important to the area, why they highlight only 6 of those heritages just as African American, Latino, Irish, Italian, Litho and Polish Cultures at the Museum. They also recap head stone markers handed out this past week, and she highlights their upcoming April 11th Gala on Thursday, April 11th at the Embassy Hotel. Details at EthnicHeritageMuseum.org.
SEGMENT #2: Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful KNIB.ORG Corinne Sosso Education Dir
Changes this year with Earth Day Collection… Great American Cleanup Day is any day of the year you can do it. The hope is when the weather is good, more families, businesses and individuals can participate instead of waiting and missing out on one day. She also recaps the benefits of larger garbage cans in the Rockford area, and How cleaning up litter betters the area. KNIB.ORG for more details.
SEGMENT #3: Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara
This episode, Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara outlines what the community has been doing to help families of the victims from the violence last week, what City Council did with the pending “Dog Ownership Limits”, the success of having the Wake Championships at Levings Lake this year. Finally, he outlines the new partnership with the City and UW Health (Swedes) for additional domestic violence professionals for assistance.
