McHenry County Blog

The McHenry County Young Republicans invite folks, young and old, to their next meeting on Wednesday January 20 at 7:00 PM.

The meeting will be held at the restaurant 1776 in Crystal Lake, on Route 14 between the signals at Virginia Street and Dole Avenue near the water tower..

The group’s announcement says,

“This will be a very exciting meeting for us as we will be having some very distinguished guests in attendance.  Attending our meeting will be County Board Members

• Lyn Orphal
• Ken Koehler
• Barbara Wheeler
• Sandra Salgado
• Tina Hill
• Daniel Ryan
• Mary McCann.

“Also in attendance will be count board candidates

• Robert Nowak
• Donna Kurtz
• Veronica Armstrong
• Nick Provenzano
• David Federick
• Karen Tynis
• Craig Steagal
• Diane Evertsen

“Attendance is highly encouraged to support our local Republican county board candidates.”

At the Patriots United Town Hall County Board Candidates’ Forum last Friday night, incumbents Ken Koehler, Anna May Miller, Yvonne Barnes and Peter Merkel did not attend.

Jon Heideman, McHenry County Young Republican Education Committee Chairman, announced today that the YR’s will sponsor a November 20th candidate’s night at McHenry County College’s Conference Center.

Six candidates are listed. Not all have filed their petitions in Springfield.

The winner will face off against Democrat Melissa Bean.

The press release follows:

MCYR will be co-hosting the 8th Congressional District Debate on November 20th, 2009 at the McHenry County College Conference Center Building “B” at 7:00PM.  A representative from each of the groups hosting the event will sit on the panel and ask the participating candidates questions.

The Republican Candidates for the 8th Congressional District are:

Dirk Beveridge
John Dawson
Christopher Geissler
Maria Rodriguez
Joe Walsh
Greg Jacobs

MCYR members have the privilege of crafting questions the candidates will be asked.

Please send your questions to

educate@mchenryyoungrepublicans.com.

Please also let us know if it is OK to use your name when asking the question.

A tattered flag.

Ready to be taken down and brought to the Woodstock VFW for disposal.

Where is it?

The Crystal Lake Plaza, where my Dad had his Barley and Malt Institute trade association office in the “V,” where he published The Star Reporter and from where

• I first ran for state representative in 1972 and

• we coordinated the losing 8-person Bick to Burns “Responsible Republicans” campaign for county board after the old supervisor, assistant supervisor system was thrown out as unconstitutional and the McHenry County Board was re-apportioned into three districts of equal population.

(From the complexity of that sentence, can you tell I took German?)

My father ran ninth, losing the race, but getting more votes than any winning county board candidate in the other two county board districts. He was subsequently elected to the board,

But, back to the flag.

Is there someone reading this who is outraged enough to contact the management of the CL Plaza and request that this flag be removed and disposed of properly and a new one raised?

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The picture of the Woodstock VFW was taken the night of the McHenry County Republican Central Committee convention. Standing outside were members of the Young Republicans campaigning for Brent Smith for treasurer of the committee.

A tattered flag.

Ready to be taken down and brought to the Woodstock VFW for disposal.

Where is it?

The Crystal Lake Plaza, where my Dad had his Barley and Malt Institute trade association office in the “V,” where he published The Star Reporter and from where

• I first ran for state representative in 1972 and

• we coordinated the losing 8-person Bick to Burns “Responsible Republicans” campaign for county board after the old supervisor, assistant supervisor system was thrown out as unconstitutional and the McHenry County Board was re-apportioned into three districts of equal population.

(From the complexity of that sentence, can you tell I took German?)

My father ran ninth, losing the race, but getting more votes than any winning county board candidate in the other two county board districts. He was subsequently elected to the board,

But, back to the flag.

Is there someone reading this who is outraged enough to contact the management of the CL Plaza and request that this flag be removed and disposed of properly and a new one raised?

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The picture of the Woodstock VFW was taken the night of the McHenry County Republican Central Committee convention. Standing outside were members of the Young Republicans campaigning for Brent Smith for treasurer of the committee.