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City of Oak Forest Veterans Commission met Sept. 18

Here is the agenda provided by the commission:

CHAIRPERSON: Joe Pilch

MEMBERS: Christopher Adams John Perales

(A) = Absent Ralph Chichester Jim Hanlon

Jim Pioth Dennis Mitzner

Dave Moore Tom O’Neill

Paul Selman Don Snedden

Richard Wojtowicz Mayor Jim Hortsman

Honorary Member: James (Jim) Watson

Guest:

• Pledge of allegiance

• Roll Call

• Approval of Minutes

▪︎ Approval of August Minutes by _____ 2nd by ____. All members present approved.

• Public participation

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• Old business:

• Independence Day 2026 are we ready to do it again? Planning starts NOW.

▪︎ Starting time of first entertainer starts at 6:00 PM and the main band starts at 8:00 PM. Same entertainment or change

▪︎ Trucking for Veterans was upset and may not return.

▪︎ All vendors need to be emailed the correct starting time of event and access to set-up time.

▪︎ All vendors need to be listed on flyers. How many food vendors should we really have?

▪︎ Involved PD and FD now or soon.

▪︎ Need to discuss with Gaelic Park date and any changes they need to do or we need to do to make it a smoother operation.

▪︎ The many bags of flags we had to retire were taken to WGN Flag and Decorating Company 7984 South Chicago Ave. WGN usually only takes 50 flags to retire at a time. We may need to empty our flag box more often or only send fifty at a time. Thanks to Tom Ceska and Rich Sehnert from Oak Forest EMA for delivering the flags to WGN to retire. As a back up-Country Club Hills fire may burn the flags in their training facility.

• New business

• Veterans day November 11 is Council meeting night. We will do a presentation and short video. Let’s think people what we should do????

• Community Awareness fair is October 18 at Arbor Park school from 9-noon. Need people to man the table handing out Veterans information and give aways.

• Jim Hanlon was approved by Oak Forest City Council August 26th.

• Jim Pioth and Joe Pilch will tell war stories about Honor Flight they were on Wednesday September 17.

• Once around the Table

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Adjournment at 20:xx, motion by _______ 2nd by ______.

http://www.oak-forest.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09182025-2201