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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.
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ELLISVILLE The Spoon River Rascals Theatre Troupe will take the stage once again, presenting musical comedy Little Shop Of Horrors June 18 and 19 at 7:30 p.m. and a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee the 20th.
If you haven’t attended a live theatrical in a while, Little Shop Of Horrors is a positively perfect post-pandemic production!
When Seymour Krelborn purchases an odd little plant and takes it home with him to Mushnik’s Skid Row Florist, the failing business is revitalized by interest in the new exotic plant, affectionately called the “Audrey II” after Seymour’s co-worker and secret crush, Audrey. When he accidentally discovers the plant thrives on human blood, Seymour faces increasing moral dilemmas as success in life and love depend on his keeping the plant fed by supplying it’s increasing appetite with fresh victims!
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,
City council evaluate external agency, event funding
GALESBURG Last year, the city of Galesburg broke from trends in its funding of external agencies, approving only about $30,000 of the $160,000 requested in 2020. The city approved $102,650 the year prior.
At a work session Tuesday evening, the city discussed how they would fund external agencies this year, finding members of the council were not all of accordance on the issue.
In 2021, the city budgeted for $120,000 in funding for external agencies. This budget has increased from $53,475 in 2010 to $159,500 requested in 2020.
City Manager Todd Thompson noted that the city has five options moving forward.
It could continue the program, stop or phase out funding altogether, partner with agencies such as the Galesburg Community Foundation to distribute the funding, place specific programs and events funded as regular items in the annual budget, or create programs linked to specific priorities or needs such as youth progr