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Residents urge enforcement on ICE, praise first responders and promote library events at Berwyn council meeting
Summary
Public commenters at the Berwyn council meeting thanked first responders, promoted the library’s summer reading kickoff, urged clearer enforcement of city resolutions related to ICE and criticized perceived patronage; a judge later spoke in defense of the newly appointed police chief.
Several members of the public addressed the council during the public-comment period.
Bud Gaspares (address given) opened by thanking Berwyn’s fire and police departments for recent responses to a gas explosion and to an incident involving an escaped patient, saying officers and firefighters performed ‘‘excellent work.’’
Jeanette Hess, a librarian at the Berwyn Public Library and co-chair of the summer reading program, invited residents to an outdoor kickoff on Saturday, June 6, and named…
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