Mr. Jim Kruse is a real American hero who not only has served our country, but now volunteers his time for an organization called Adoptaplatoan. Jim collects donations of nonperishable items and then packages and sends these donations to Army and Marine platoons in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Through Jim’s TIRELESS efforts, he and his group of volunteers now support 7 platoons and 13 Chaplains from different denominations. You may have seen Jim’s Adoptaplatoon collection boxes in several area stores.

Jim collects donations of hard candy, magazines, comic books and comic strips, religious medallions, books, DVDs, toiletries, canned food, board games, playing cards, socks and even underwear. All donations are sent directly to our troops. Many of the soldiers that Jim’s Adoptaplatoon supports have no families or friends so they almost never even receive a greeting card.

The City provides Jim a room at the Community Center to store these donated items until they are packaged and sent to our troops. The City also will display Jim’s donation box in both the donate and will allow our residents a convenient means to help support these men and women who valiantly defend our freedom.

The Hickory Hills business directory has been revised and updated. As usual, you can search for local businesses alphabetically or by business type. You can even download and print a Printable PDF of the entire directory. Remember, you can click on the Businesses link in the menu to the left to go to the Business page at any time.

Read the June 11, 2009 City Council Meeting Minutes PDF document.

Grand opening of the UPC Institute

The grand opening of the Upper Cervical Institute’s Hickory Hills location was held on Saturday May 23rd 2009. This health care facility utilizes a revolutionary system of drug-free health care, through the upper cervical correction procedure. They offer complimentary community health workshops about the upper cervical correcton procedure everyday Monday at 7pm and Thursday at 1pm. For more information you can call the office at 708/598-3429 or visit them on the web at www.UpCInstitute.org.

Read the May 28, 2009 City Council Meeting Minutes PDF document.

Read the May 14, 2009 City Council Meeting Minutes PDF document.

As you have undoubtedly already heard, human cases of swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection have been identified in the United States, Canada and in Mexico – which is the likely epicenter of the outbreak.  As of this morning, several other human cases are pending identification in countries outside of North America.
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