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Groups remove 100 bags of trash from downtown Galesburg
Galesburg Register-Mail
GALESBURG The Galesburg Downtown Council announced more than 100 bags of trash were filled during its Spring 2021 Cleanup Downtown Day Initiative on May 22. This is the first year of this project being a collaboration between the Downtown Council and The Downtown Community Partnership of Galesburg.
With this partnership, the project included over 100 volunteers and 14 businesses in Downtown Galesburg, who canvassed the special service area to pick up trash, broken bottles, plastic cups, beer/pop cans, cigarette butts and other waste. The focus was going from south to north on Tompkins Street to Ferris Street to include Main Street and East to West from the Square to Chamber Street. The group worked the sidewalks, streets, every parking lot and several back alleyways.
A pair of downtown community groups completed their spring cleanup day initiative last month, sprucing up Galesburg's downtown. According to a release from the Galesburg Downtown Council, over a hundred trash bags were used to fill a dumpster as the group worked the sidewalks, streets, every parking lot, and several back alleyways to clean up the trash on Saturday, May 22. Joe Mangieri, Jr., Board Member of the Galesburg Downtown Council led the project with Kate Bullis, President of the Downtown Community Partnership. In a joint statement, they stated that we have a great start to a cleaner downtown for 2021. "Most importantly, we continue to increase the awareness that it is the Downtown Community's responsibility to keep our area clean. We want to build pride in our downtown for the entire community," said Mangieri. "This was a perfect reflection of both of our organizations' goals," said Bullis. "We want to see the community coming together,
March 10, 2021
Rose Anne Weaver was a Galesburg native who went to college when few women did and carried on that trail-blazing legacy as a force in the local business and philanthropic communities. Weaver died Friday at the age of 91. Weaver graduated from Galesburg High School in 1947, and attended the University of Illinois, and also took classes at Carl Sandburg College. She held positions at Brown Speciality and Admiral Corporations but her longest tenure came at Galesburg Broadcasting Company which WGIL is a part of. Weaver spent 35 years with the radio stations first as a bookkeeper then an office manager, and also an account executive. Her obituary from Hinchliffe Pearson West says she had a “strong love for Galesburg.” That was clear from her time serving on the Lincoln School PTA, Galesburg High School Band Parent Association, and boards for the Galesburg Civic Art Center, Midwest Credit Union, Knox Galesburg Symphony, and the Galesburg Convention and Visitor’s B