Edward Sullivan- ex-Volunteer |
SAUK VILLAGE
| Spurred on by the election of David Hanks less than 1 year ago, long time
resident Edward Sullivan had been determined to resurrect the Village’s baseball
and softball this summer, now finds himself on the outside looking in. Sullivan volunteered to help restore the
Village’s baseball and softball programs had been told thanks but no thanks.
Hanks put
Village Trustee John Poskin, who was appointed to the Village Board and not
elected, in charge of the Parks and Recreation Committee. Sullivan was working with Poskin to get the
baseball fields, fences, dugouts, bleachers, supply shed, concession stand and
washrooms back in working order until Sullivan was “dismissed” by Poskin.
“I would ask
John if this was getting things he said he would do done and it just never
would get done” Sullivan said. Sullivan
served as President of the Sauk Village Sports Association back in the 1970s
and remained active in the 1980s in hopes of bringing a Park District to Sauk
Village. The referendum to bring the
Park District to Sauk Village failed in the 1980s and in 1963 prior to that.
Sullivan
said back in August “We need to get people to trust us again” referring to the
failed attempt at the Village’s takeover of the baseball and softball programs
in 2009 by now former Trustee Enoch Benson.
In January
while other communities are registering children for the baseball and softball
programs, Sauk Village will once again not have a viable program in the
community. Hanks and his supporters
cleaned up the concession stand and painted in a circus of photo ops many of
his political opponents charged as there was never any way that a baseball program
would get underway.
Enbridge,
the company which will be putting a 36 inch pipeline through the village, will
be spending several thousand dollars in restoring the baseball fields which
have not seen an organized children’s program since 2009.
Marva Campbell-Pruitt |
Marva
Campbell-Pruitt, who chaired the Village’s Beautification Committee and Human
Relations Commission resigned in exasperation over the political backlash from
the “sore winners”. Political tensions and
personal attacks by supporters of Village Clerk Debbie Williams, who won the
April, 2013 election, against Campbell-Pruitt had got worse since The Williams’
election victory. “Clearly they think
they can do a better job, then they should be given the opportunity to do so”
Campbell-Pruitt said at the time.
Campbell-Pruitt
instituted the Community Garden, taken over now by the McConathy Public Library,
the Clean, Preen and Green Program, reinstituted the Hootsie Awards and she
also worked with church groups and volunteers to help clean up the village’s
landscape as well as picked up garbage.
Sullivan was
clearly disappointed “you know all we wanted to do is do something for the kids”. Now Sullivan, like Campbell-Pruitt has become
insignificant to this administration for trying to make a difference.
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