Rockford Daybook: Open house, lethality prevention, holiday cards
Illinois House Minority Leader open house
Illinois House Minority Leader Tony McCombie is launching additional traveling office hours across the 89th House District to meet with constituents.
The state's 89th legislative district includes all of Carroll and Jo Daviess counties, as well as parts of Stephenson, Winnebago, Boone, Ogle and DeKalb counties.
McCombie will host an open house from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at Winnebago Village Hall, 108 W. Main St. in Winnebago.
Lethality prevention
The Mayor's Office of Domestic and Community Violence Prevention will create a Lethality Prevention Division to align the office's programs and initiatives around preventing domestic violence and intimate partner homicides.
The office also will hire a high lethality project coordinator to be responsible for high lethality teams including the strangulation response team, domestic violence fatality review team and domestic violence enhanced response team.
The office also will hire a case manager to help support services and navigation for survivors who are identified as having high lethality.
Plans for the Lethality Prevention Division were announced Monday at City Hall. The city plans to use nearly $900,000 in DCEO funding to pay for the program.
Holiday card contest
Calling all Rockford elementary and middle school students. Your artwork could become the face of the City of Rockford's annual holiday card.
Designs should be mailed to the City of Rockford Mayor's Office, 425 E. State Street, Rockford, IL 61104, by Nov. 6, along with the entrant's name, address, phone number, school, grade and age.
Visit rockfordil.gov for design guidelines.
The winner get their name and design on the city's holiday card, a $25 gift card to Lino's and a $25 gift card to Rockford Art Deli.
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