Buffalo Grove native Rachel Heiss died after an accidental fall Sept. 9 while hiking near one of her favorite places, Mount Rainier in Washington state. "One of the things about Rachel is she never left her friends behind," said her father, Mark Heiss.
The Buffalo Grove Park District has implemented the Perry Weather platform, a weather safety system that warns when lightning and other potentially dangerous weather conditions are imminent. Unlike other systems that rely on weather predictions, Perry Weather uses technology that collects real-time, site-specific conditions for more accurate monitoring and alerting. “One of the benefits of