REMINDER and action alert for the Special 8

First of all Thank you all for your continued support of our efforts to save the Special 8 acres in unincorporated DuPage County. Please pass on the news and these attachments to all interested trail users and supporters. We are real close to getting the acquisition of the Special 8 by the DuPage Forest Preserve District approved. We need people to attend the meeting on Thursday (12/6), see below. It will be real quick. We will be in and out within an hour. We do not need you to speak. We need to fill the chairs and the room to impress the DuPage County Board members in attendance.

This week's issue of the Glen Ellyn Sun lead story is an excellent article about the campaign to Save the Special 8. Click on this link: http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/sunpub/glenellyn/

Please pass on the story and ask any interested parties to write to:

• Robert Schillerstrom, Chairman, DuPage County
  
• Dewey Pierotti Jr., President, DuPage County Forest Preserve District
  
• Bill Maio, Chairman, Finance and Land Acquisition Committee
  
• Pam Rion, Chairman, Transportation Committee

Send all letters to: DuPage County, 421 N County Farm Rd, Wheaton, IL 60187 or send them an email. Check out their email addresses at the County website:

http://www.dupageforest.com/COMMISSION/comm.html

We also need letters to Greg Matthews, President, Village of Glen Ellyn, 535 Duane St, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 and

Sandra Minogue, President, Glen Ellyn Park District, 185 Spring Ave, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137. Note - these two officials do not have official email addresses.

Please write soon and ask them to Protect the 8.3 acres from development and prevent a new street crossing on this very busy section of the IL Prairie Path at Whittier Ave. Please write the above mentioned officials and your local county representatives now asking them to help us save these pristine acres.

The DuPage Forest Preserve District Finance and Land Acquisition Committee will be meeting this Thursday 12/6 morning at 9:30 AM SHARP at the Forest Preserve Dist. Headquarters on Naperville Rd approx. 1/2 mile south of Butterfield Rd, at 3S580 Naperville Rd. in the Danada Forest Preserve about buying these Special 8 acres. We are urging all trail supporters and trail users to attend this meeting. All possible attendees are welcome to contact me to discuss plans for this meeting.

Please pass on this news to all interested friends, neighbors and coworkers.

THANKS!

Don Kirchenberg
Home office: 630-682-9297
Email: FrndsGrtWstnTrl@aol.com
For more information please check out the IPP website: www.ipp.org