Posted5/9/2021 7:32 AM
This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald:
A small awards ceremony took place last week in the auto shop at Rolling Meadows High School. There was little fanfare, but everyone involved hopes the scholarship may lead to a life-changing opportunity.
Senior Justin Leander of Arlington Heights was the recipient. He has taken four years of automotive technology classes at Rolling Meadows, and he plans to put the scholarship toward pursuing his automotive technology degree at Triton College in River Grove.
Jose Maldonado, owner of Jefes Barbershop, cuts the hair of John Burke of Arlington Heights Friday, April 30, in Rolling Meadows.
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Looking east to Thornton down Victoria Road from the sea in the early years of the twentieth century.
An engineer by profession, first on the old Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and then with a Preston firm, he helped to build Preston Dock and channel.
Then he came to Blackpool as manager of the firm to plan and supervise the building of the Fleetwood tramroad from the Gynn that opened on July 14 1898.
As he once recalled: “At that time, of course, this was all to intents barren land. Only odd houses dotted the landscape with even fewer along the route of the tramroad.”