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The Mokena Messenger 042017
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the Mokena Messenger | April 20, 2017 | 3<br />
Mokena Village Board<br />
Motorists implored to<br />
avoid driving distracted<br />
Community invited<br />
to help on Mokena<br />
Clean Up Day<br />
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A brief recap of action and discussion at the April 10<br />
meeting of the Mokena Village Board<br />
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Two upcoming events<br />
were top of mind April 10<br />
at the Village of Mokena<br />
Board of Trustees meeting.<br />
For motorists: Keep your<br />
eyes on the road, as April<br />
24-28 is Distracted Driving<br />
Awareness Week. Mokena<br />
Police Chief Steven<br />
Vaccaro said distracted<br />
driving can entail texting,<br />
talking on a phone that is<br />
not hands-free, applying<br />
makeup, eating or any activity<br />
that takes away the<br />
driver’s attention from the<br />
road.<br />
He said police will use<br />
traffic stops during that<br />
week to educate drivers officers<br />
believe are driving<br />
distracted.<br />
“What the Mokena Police<br />
Department will do<br />
is target high-traffic areas<br />
and high-crash areas,<br />
and most importantly, our<br />
school zones,” he<br />
said. “We’ll ensure<br />
that our motoring<br />
public isn’t driving distracted,<br />
for the safety of our kids<br />
and our community.”<br />
Vaccaro said the week is<br />
meant to be more educational<br />
than anything else.<br />
“Rather than being punitive,<br />
citations will be discretionary<br />
by my officers,”<br />
Vaccaro said. “If they feel<br />
the need to just educate motorists,<br />
I’m happy with that<br />
— as long as we’re getting<br />
the word out that distracted<br />
driving can cause a serious<br />
injury or death.”<br />
• During the meeting, Mayor Frank Fleischer asked<br />
Village Clerk Patricia Patt to read a proclamation<br />
recognizing the 50th anniversary of Mr. Benny’s Steak<br />
and Lobster House. The owners opened their Mokena<br />
location, their second, in 2000.<br />
• As part of the consent agenda, trustees voted 6-0<br />
to approve a special event request from the Mokena<br />
Marley Clergy to conduct the annual Good Friday Cross<br />
Walk Procession on April 14.<br />
• Also part of the consent agenda, trustees approved<br />
an agreement with Melrose Pyrotechnics, Inc., of<br />
Kingsbury, Indiana, for fireworks on the Fourth of July.<br />
Vaccaro said Mokena<br />
has been fortunate in that<br />
distracted driving has not<br />
yielded the types of horror<br />
stories one might expect.<br />
But when he was an officer<br />
in another town, Vaccaro<br />
recalled a car collision that<br />
had one of its causes turn<br />
out to be distracted driving.<br />
It led to a death.<br />
“With the nicer weather,<br />
we got more kids outside<br />
playing and people on bicycles<br />
or walking in the<br />
neighborhoods,” he said.<br />
“If you take your eyes off<br />
the road for 2 seconds at<br />
35 [miles per hour], you’ve<br />
covered about 90 feet.<br />
“It’s very important that<br />
we don’t drive while distracted.”<br />
Distracted Driving<br />
Awareness Week is an initiative<br />
that is sponsored by<br />
the Illinois Association of<br />
Chiefs of Police, AAA and<br />
safetyserve.com. For more<br />
information about the campaign,<br />
visit www.iddaw.<br />
org.<br />
Also coming up is Mokena<br />
Clean Up Day, scheduled<br />
for 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on<br />
Saturday, April 22, at Mokena<br />
Village Hall, 11004<br />
Carpenter St.<br />
“Bring some gloves,”<br />
Mokena Clerk Patricia Patt<br />
said during her Community<br />
Calendar portion of<br />
the meeting. “And students<br />
can get community service<br />
hours.”<br />
Trustee John Mazzorana<br />
encouraged residents to<br />
volunteer during his comments<br />
at the end of the<br />
meeting.<br />
“It’s usually a very nice<br />
village-wide event,” he<br />
said. “Hopefully, we can<br />
clean up the village.”<br />
Volunteers are to receive<br />
a free lunch of hot dogs,<br />
chips, soda pop and water.<br />
For more information, call<br />
(708) 479-3900 or visit<br />
www.mokena.org.<br />
Trustees approve pond<br />
water testing<br />
The board members also<br />
voted 6-0 to approve a pond<br />
treatment bid.<br />
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