Saturday, July 27th, Downtown Lena, 10 am – 4 pm

Enjoy a fun day in Lena with cars, food, music, and more. The Tailgate for Hunger Rotisserie will be debuted. An entire beef will be show cooking all day long on this specially designed grill. There will be food sampling in local stores, food vendors, kids bounce house and games, vintage and antique car show, the Chicago Bears Fan Bus, “DA-BUS”, will be on display, live music from Free Fall and beer gardens.

A few years ago the City of Freeport spent $50,000 on beatification efforts. The deer have now over run this City and parts of Stephenson County. If you want Bambi in the City, then forget flowers, new trees, vegetables, and most types of shrubs. The landscaping tool of choice in Freeport is now mulch. Damage done by deer to properties in this City runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars. It is a losing battle – more deer every year. Unfortunately, our former mayor did not recognize any problems facing Freeport. Will our new mayor be any different? Aldermen in seriously affected areas are blind to the deteriorating conditions in their wards caused by total neglect including failure to recognize the deer problem.

On May 20 Mr. Gitz as one of his first acts reappointed all department heads on interim basis for 90 days. During that period he was going to evaluate all departments. When you have a failed administration as with Mayor Gaulrapp and one repudiated by the voters, it means there is a problem with most city departments if not all city departments. Mr. Gitz should be given a chance to act. Same old faces will mean a continuation of the failed policies of the Gualrapp administration.