In This Issue - ’23-’24 Steering Committee begins planning upcoming season - Historic Pullman Foundation presentation by Dick Lanyon: Calumet: First and Forever, Draining the South Area of Chicago - IWWSG supports Basic Dignities with a donation from Golf Outing proceeds - Upcoming Chicagoland Safety, Health & Environmental Conference |
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Greeting Dear Friends! IWWSG’s 75th Anniversary is now history! And wasting no time, we are already planning a very active, interesting, and FUN 76th Year for IWWSG!
I encourage you to reach out to any of our Steering Committee members and offer them your input regarding meeting topics, venues, and other issues. We need and appreciate your paid memberships, attendance at meetings/events, and other support. You really are helping to keep IWWSG alive and well! Thank you!!
I look forward to starting the new season with you and seeing you at the September meeting. |
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| Best Regards, Barb Scapardine
IWWSG 22-23 Chair |
| Steering Committee begins planning ’23-‘24 season On July 12, hosted by Civil & Environmental Consultants in Naperville, the IWWSG ’23-’24 Steering Committee began planning an active, interesting & fun upcoming meeting season. [Photo courtesy of Ted Denning.] |
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Dick Lanyon Sunday, July 23, 3 - 4:30 pm CDT Pullman Exhibit Hall 11141 South Cottage Grove Avenue. Chicago, IL |
| Basic Dignities representative Patricia Fragen at our Golf Outing [Photo courtesy of Ted Denning.] |
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Presentation
George Pullman tried innovative ways to handle sewage from his factory town in the 1880s, but too many people and too small a farm for sewage irrigation resulted in failure and pollution of Lake Calumet. When annexed into Chicago in 1889, the sewage was discharged into the Little Calumet River by way of a sewer down Indiana Avenue. A proposed Calumet-Sag Channel could be built to reverse the Calumet River flow, but the federal government was balking and wouldn’t issue a permit. And dilution was not proving to be the end-all solution to the public health and pollution crisis. Something better was needed.
On Sunday, July 23, 3 - 4:30 pm CDT, come the Pullman Exhibit Hall, 11141 South Cottage Grove Avenue Chicago, IL 60628 and hear the rest of this fascinating story! At this interesting venue, Dick Lanyon will discuss this and more from his book: Calumet: First and Forever, Draining the South Area of Chicago and Territorial Expansion. For details & registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/calumet-first-and-forever-draining-the-south-area-of-chicago-registration-534093627417 |
| IWWSG supports Basic Dignities
The success of IWWSG’s June 26 first-ever Golf Outing at Silver Lake Country Club allowed IWWSG to make a $3,400.00 donation to the scholarship fund of Basic Dignities ( www.basicdinities.org ), a charity dedicated to undertaking projects bringing basic human dignities, including clean water, education, health care, and more to villages in Africa.
When informed of the donation, Brittany Sterling, President & Co-Founder of Basic Dignities, replied, "Wow - I also wanted to jump in and echo Tricia's gratitude! Thank you so much for the generous donation. This will cover the cost of one of our engineering students to attend school for over two years. This is incredible! Thank you again, we are so grateful for your support!" Thanks to all who helped make the Golf Outing such a success! If you have a few minutes and want to learn more about the charity, please watch the video below:
https://www.nctv17.org/spotlight/basic-dignities-improves-quality-of-life-to-create-lasting-change/ |
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Upcoming Chicagoland Safety, Health & Environmental Conference |
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ENHANCE YOUR CAREER - LEARN FROM THE BEST
STAY LOCAL - LEARN LOCAL
September 18 -20, 2023
NIU – Naperville Campus
Ample FREE Parking – Lunch included |
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Topics include: OSHA, EPA, LOTO, Excavation Safety, Machine Guarding, HAZWOPER, Leading Indicators, Chemical Hazards, Heat Stress, EPA Case Studies, ESG, Air Permitting, OSHA Enforcement in the Cannabis Industry, Hazards in Construction, Life Safety Code...... plus many more listed on the website.
REGISTER @ www.chisafetyconf.org |
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