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16 | March 22, 2018 | The frankfort station news
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Business briefs
Custom screen printing company
Same Day Tees moves to Frankfort
Submitted by Same Day Tees
When Same Day Tees
moves to its new headquarters
in Frankfort in April,
the custom screen printing
and embroidery company
will bring a wide range of
resources typically unavailable
from local printers.
“We’ll basically be a national
printer right in the
neighborhood,” said Same
Day Tees President Pete
Bolsoni.
The 15-year-old company
has had its eye on Frankfort
for some time since outgrowing
its Peotone base thanks
to booming sales. The move
to 9525 W. Laraway Road
more than doubles the business’s
space, from 7,500 to
18,000 square feet.
With a staff of 25 artists,
walkout
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felt to her like they were there
to make them feel “intimidated”
and herd the students
toward the fieldhouse, where
they were being encouraged
to go for the gathering.
Although the main goal of
the gathering was to honor
and remember the victims,
Miller said when the 17 minutes
were over she didn’t feel
like that was the end of the
conversation.
“This was a really lovely
memorial kind of thing, but
we can’t just stop here,” Miller
said. “And we have to keep
talking about this and keep
pushing for what we believe
for change.”
District 210 Superintendent
Dr. R. Scott Tingley, in
a request for comment as to
why students were kept indoors
during the preplanned
printers, embroiderers, quality
control, customer service
and sales personnel, Same
Day Tees creates screen
printed and embroidered tee
shirts, polos, hoodies, caps,
jackets, jerseys, work uniforms,
and more for businesses,
organizations, nonprofits,
sports teams, and
other groups.
“We do a lot of really
complicated designs and
cool pieces of art that most
smaller shops aren’t capable
of because they don’t have
the talent or the equipment,”
said Bolsoni.
Frankfort with its extensive
industry, ideal demographics,
and the high visibility
of the Laraway Road
location offered the perfect
headquarters for Same Day
Tees’ burgeoning business.
walkout, issued this statement
via email:
“Concerns from parents
and administrators, along
with recommendations from
law enforcement were determining
factors in choosing
to keep the students indoors.
Students were made aware of
this update during the morning
announcements, before
the walkout took place; they
were informed that they were
not to leave the building. Although
law enforcement and
administrators were at the entrances,
at no time were students
physically prevented
from leaving the building.
The safety of the students is
the district’s responsibility.”
Teresa Stinnett, a former
member of the Frankfort
School District 157-C Board
of Education, said she thought
the students should have been
able to leave campus during
the walkout and expressed
Bolsoni, who runs the
company with his wife,
Sandy, plans to expand the
second shift by summer,
increasing staff to 35 – 40
employees. The new location
also will include a
showroom where customers
can explore samples and
observe the printing and
embroidery process. In addition
to a variety of automatic
and direct-to-garment
presses and embroidery machines,
the Frankfort facility
offers space for a versatile
18-color press and new
low water consumption,
environmentally-friendly
equipment.
“These were the key factors
we were looking for,”
said Bolsoni. “So when the
Frankfort location popped
up, we jumped on it.”
disapproval over the way the
administration handled the
matter, calling it “a shame.”
“They’re using, ‘Oh, we’re
fearful,’” she said. “Well, every
other school that the kids
are walking out of throughout
this country, they probably
had the same, the same crank
calls saying something’s going
to happen. But that’s
what you have the police for,
that’s what you have security
for. You do not take away
somebody’s right to dissent.”
The Southwest Suburban
Activists plan to co-host a
local March for Our Lives
rally with the Illinois chapter
of Moms Demand Action
at 2-4:30 p.m. on Saturday,
March 24, at Breidert Green
in Frankfort.
Additional reporting provided
by Contributing Editors Nuria
Mathog, James Sanchez and Assistant
Editor Amanda Stoll.