Meet and Greet

 I stopped by Sunday's candidate Meet and Greet. Suprised at the lack of information there about the candidates. Only two had brought any campaign literature and there was not a lot of information about postions on it. I did see Tamiko "TC" Mueller there, who is running in the Democratic primary for the 59th State Senate seat.  Here is her Balletpedia page as well as her Facebook campaign page.

Nobody approached me as I walked around, though to be fair, I did get there late in the evening and did not approach anyone either.

Candidate Meet and Greet

 Meet and Greet with three local candidates at Pag's tonight from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. No indication in the article as to what each is running for but I think Mueller is a candidate for State Representative

Gunfire

 Had several incidents of shots fired in town in the past week.  A couple of 14 year olds shot at houses on North Bridge and S. Beveredge. No one hurt but there was damage to houses.  There was also another instance of shootings over at the Fields.

Trees

 I really wish the city woud put some trees back in place along West Main and West Walnut.  A number of them were removed several years ago because of age and disease nd the spaces where they stood still sit empty. We are a tree city so lets put more trees in.

Sidewalks

After looking at the access ramps some house have for their occupants to get in and out, I understand the sidewalk design in Carbondale much better. It can take 30 to 40 feet of ramp to allow the user to gain access to a doorway 3 feet above the ground and the curbs are there to protect people in wheelchairs from going off the edge.  Maybe not the most elegant solution but it does work.

Freddy's

 Freddy's has closed up as well. apparently, as with Fazoli's, it shut down with little notice with employees offered the opportunity to transfer to the Marion location.

Closures

 Looks like Fazoli's here in Carbondale and Hardee's in Carterville have both closed up.  From what I have read, Fazoli's employees found out the day the restaurant closed as they were told not to come in to work.  both restaurants have had all the signage removed from the building.