Community spoke; district listened

Community spoke; district listened

The Glen Ellyn Park District Board of Commissioners voted on Tuesday to NOT put soccer fields at Ackerman Woods.

The vote was 4-1 with Bill Taylor, Keith Schoen, William Dallman and Sandra Minogue for, Jeffrey Jourdan voting against, and Ron Aubrey and Ed Hess absent.

The park district listened to the community on this issue and we are very pleased with their decision, which is a big step toward permanent protection of the woods and making them more accessible to our community.

The park district vote still allows the village to excavate a stormwater detention facility in Ackerman Woods. We need to put an end to this project and find a way to permanently protect these woods.

The Glen Ellyn village board will meet at 8 p.m. June 9 at the Civic Center and we plan on attending this meeting. Please take the time to thank the park district board and encourage the village to take positive action.

You can send letters to the editor to the Daily Herald at dpfencepost@dailyherald.com.

Contact the park board directly at w.taylor.gepd@gmail.com; e.hess.gepd@gmail.com; j.jourdan.gepd@gmail.com; w.dallman.gepd@gmail.com; s.minogue.gepd@gmail.com; k.schoen.gepd@gmail.com.

Park District Director Cory Atwell can be contacted at CAtwell@gepark.org and executive assistant Jeanine Sesto can be reached at JSesto@gepark.org.

Thank you to all of the many supporters that have made phone calls, sent e-mails, made signs, passed out flyers door-to-door, written letters and have made their voices heard.

The park district has listened and we have made a positive impact on our community and our environment.

Thank you for your help.

David and Melissa Creech

Glen Ellyn

Critics can't match priest's good deeds

The avalanche of hate, disparagement and vilification aimed at Father Michael Pfleger for his May 25 over-the-top sarcasm directed at Hillary Clinton is puzzling. Usually such response is directed at someone who truly does something dreadful to the public interest.

Not being a churchgoer, I don't know a single man of the cloth personally. The only local holy man I am familiar with is Father Pfleger, who has been an inspiration to me since he chose to dedicate his life to the betterment of his Englewood parish, and by extension Chicagoland and America.

I taught school in that neighborhood from 1968 to 1972, and can only marvel at the good works Pfleger has accomplished during these past three decades.

It would be interesting to compare all the good works and deeds of the thousands of Pfleger's stone-throwers against the good works and deeds of this single man. His may well be a mountain versus their molehill.

I suggest Father Pfleger take the two-week break from his parish requested by Cardinal George to contemplate the need to leave politics out of his sermons.

Then he should get back to the task of creating a better parish, a better Chicagoland, a better America.

And if he ever does leave the priesthood, he may want to consider stand-up comedy.

His sermon at Trinity United Church of Christ was a hoot.

Walt Zlotow

Glen Ellyn