In a day and age where people take advantage of others when they get the opportunity to do, so my hat goes off to the Quincy Park District for doing what was right and not "gouging" the public.
Yesterday afternoon I passed by our News Director, Harold Smith, and noticed that on his desk was a bottle of Vess brand root beer. Vess, for those that don't know, is a generic line of soda that can be found in many convenience stores in our area...
With temperatures expected to exceed the century mark today and tomorrow, a few events have been changed to provide relief for the patrons attending those events.
I hope you enjoyed the "cooler" weather we had Tuesday because it is going to get considerably hotter. Dangerously hotter in some cases. Forecasters are predicting mid to high 90's for Wednesday, over 100 degrees for Thursday and upper 90's for Friday and in the 90's for Saturday and Sunday.
Let me start out by saying I don't smoke and right now I am really glad I don't. Effective yesterday (June 24) the new Illinois tax rate on cigarettes went up one dollar a pack.