The Kewanee City Council met on Monday, April 25th, 2022, in council chambers and broadcast live on the RegionalDailyNews.com WKEI Facebook page. On the agenda were several items including a discussion of allowing the sale of Fireworks in the City of Kewanee. Currently, the closest place to purchase Fireworks is in nearby Atkinson. A new ordinance would allow for businesses with specific permits to sell legal fireworks in the City Limits of Kewanee. Use of Fireworks in Kewanee City Limits remains greatly restricted by state law. Mayor Moore indicates that the City of Kewanee would benefit from taxing the sales of Fireworks in the City of Kewanee as well as from the permit costs. He did however, also state that use of Fireworks would be restricted to larger rural areas outside of the City of Kewanee and that the use of Fireworks remains under the restrictions posed by state law. The Mayor of Kewanee also discussed changes to the parking ordinance related to Payson Street in Kewanee, and the demolition of another decrepit property in the City of Kewanee on today's Wake Up Tri-Counties.

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April 28th is Worker's Memorial Day in the State of Illinois and it will be celebrated in Marseilles, Illinois in a very special way. A plaque dedicated 21 people killed while protesting the use of Out of State workers on a Federal project in Marseilles in 1932 will be unveiled during an event beginning at 5 p.m. at the Illinois Valley Cellular Parking Lot, located at 200 Riverfront Dr, Marseilles, IL. Governor J.B Pritzker will be on hand for the dedication and rock star Tom Morello, from the band Rage Against the Machine, will be there to perform a live acoustic set in honor of Worker's Memorial Day. Mike Matejka
Vice-President, Illinois Labor History Society, joined Wake Up Tri-Counties to preview the event and invite the public to Marseilles for the unveiling and the concert.

All this week, April 25th to the 29th, is Lab Week at OSF Healthcare. Lab week is aimed at highlighting the career opportunities in lab work throughout the OSF Healthcare Ministry. Renee Turczyn is the Laboratory Services Manager for OSF Saint Luke Medical Center in Kewanee and OSF Saint Clare Medical Center in Princeton and she, along with Samantha Rux, talked with WKEI on Wake Up Tri-Counties about the career paths available in Laboratory Services with OSF.

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The Bushnell VFW Auxiliary is hosting a Quarter Auction on April 21st at 5pm to help raise funds for the Bushnell Community Pool.

They'll also be having some raffles and will be selling chances to win a lottery basket, in advance!

Everyone is welcome to attend and bring friends. Help them save their pool and have loads of fun in the process!

For more information or to make a donation, visit the Bushnell Swimming Pool page on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BushnellSwimmingPool

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