Mr. Z Supermarket is a Lombard institution. It’s a landmark that deserves your support. Their meat is better than the retail chains as is their customer service and their location is very convenient. Please patronize Mr. Z.

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When the children of the illegals get amnesty, does this mean they get to pay taxes, buy medical insurance and all the other things we legal Americans have to have, or is this just to allow them to vote?

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Recently I received a letter from Nicor Electric offering a low fixed price of 5.54 cents per kilowatt hour through March 23, 2013. Nowhere in this solicitation is there a mention of replacing the very old, outdated, 50-plus years of on and off service with vintage and poorly maintained equipment of ComEd. The last prolonged power outage will be repeated again and again with all the spoiled food, flooded family rooms and basements, damaged carpeting and furniture all stacked up at the curb on trash day. The current Illinois attorney general apparently is not fulfilling her oath of office because she has not called for a grand jury to investigate ComEd’s inability to provide continuous, reliable, dependable electric service to its customers, thereby defaulting on its contract with its customers.

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We have Prairie Days coming up soon over at Terrace View park. What will people think when they see and smell the pond? It looks and smells terrible. Not a good way to draw visitors to Lombard.

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Romney’s sticking with Paul Ryan because he has a plan that is great for people like Mitt Romney, because it gives them additional tax breaks at the expense of everyone else. The expense of Medicare will hit us harder. Republicans want to shift the risk of rising costs onto the seniors. Seniors will get a much worse deal than members of Congress.

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This is Villa Park calling. Your article on the Villa Park president in the Aug. 8 paper was very interesting. I was just wondering, where does he find the time in the day to do everything? He has a family of three with three boys, a full-time job, busy with DuPage Mayors and Managers Conference, village president of Villa Park and now, he knocked on 25,000 doors in eight weeks? That’s over 3,000 per week and he still has 215,000 more to knock on. It seems to me that there are not enough hours in the day to do all of these things. Something has to come up short. President Cullerton should step down as village president and focus on what’s important to him, his family, his job and his Senate run, if that’s what he wants to accomplish. The residents of Villa Park deserve a president who has time for the village.

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I’m really tired about reading about all the teacher bashing. I’ve recently been going from one store to another taking advantage of the school sales, because the organization I belong to donates these items to needy children. I have run into quite a few teachers who are stockpiling pencils, pens, paper, etc., for students they know who are going to need these necessities, but whose parents cannot afford them. They know that several of the parents are out of work and things like this cost us money. It’s just unfortunate that they don’t brag about it, they don’t ask for a pat on the back; they simply do it for the children. So, enough of the teacher bashing. And if you want to sit there and say, “So what, they’ve got the money,” well, so do you. Why don’t you chip in five or six dollars for school supplies and take them to your school for children whose parents are out of work? That’s all I have to say.

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Why doesn’t Villa Park Village President Cullerton, instead if walking around all the towns around here seeking votes to go to the Illinois Senate, stay home in Villa Park and address our needs? Some parkway trees have not been trimmed in 20 years, some of the streets are in bad condition, and it isn’t safe for us elderly, women or children to walk the streets of Villa Park at some times of the night or even during the daytime. He needs to do some work at home first.

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This is Lombard calling. I was just at the brand new Villa Park Sonic on Aug. 15 and I would like to thank car hop Dave for waiting on me. The food was excellent. Everybody should check out the new Sonic in Villa Park on Roosevelt Road.

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Lombard calling. I just discovered another difficulty at the little crosswalks Lombard put in downtown at St. Charles and Lincoln right by Fifth Third Bank. If you are westbound on St. Charles and want to turn left onto Lincoln to get into the bank parking lot, there’s no way anybody can get around you, even though that’s a four-lane street there. And, when the light turns green on the eastbound traffic at Elizabeth, and the cars are backed up all the way to Route 53, you can sit there for three or four minutes waiting for the person to turn and there’s no way to go around them. An impediment, definitely, and other than Cruise Nights, I’ve never seen anybody cross at that crosswalk.

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Hi, Lombard. I have a question. I’ve always wondered this. Did Ann Street used to go through, all the way from Finley to Main Street, because it doesn’t now? I remember as a little kid, there used to be an old, rusted-out street sign at what would be the corner of Roosevelt and Elizabeth, about where Wolfy’s is now. It was there for a long time, as if Elizabeth used to go through to Roosevelt. But in that area where Ann and Elizabeth would meet, there’s just trees. Now I know why Morris doesn’t go through from Finley to Main Street, because it used to flood all the time and now there’s a retention pond there cutting it off, but how did trees just take over a road like that? I’ve always wondered this. I wonder if anybody knows the answer to this.

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Hello, Lombard. I just want to thank the Sphinx computer repair shop on Main Street in Lombard. They did a super and very cost-effective job in helping us with our computer set-up. It’s great to see this kind of local merchant in downtown Lombard.

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East Lombard here. If Peter Roskam is a member of the “fiscally conservative” party, why did his campaign just mail me a four-page color brochure when I’m in the newly created district? I can’t vote for him anyway. OK, that’s it.

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Anybody hear what happened up in Wisconsin recently? It seems that the government in Wisconsin cut all the benefits for people—Medicare, Medicaid, they took stuff away from school teachers and hospitals. It’s unbelievable what they’re doing up there and you know what? Ryan was a congressman there and the governor, who did all this stuff, they’re Republicans. This is what you’re going to get if the Republicans get in. They’re going to cut all your benefits. These guys want rich people and don’t care about the small guys. Please remember this, will you? Take a look at Wisconsin. This is what’s going to happen to the country if the Republicans get in.

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Lombard calling. I just wanted to pass along my thoughts and prayers to the Mueller family during this most difficult time.

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This is Lombard calling. This is to the shoppers in the family. I’m sure by now you have noticed that some of the popular grocery items’ quantity has shrunk, but the price remains the same. Maybe it’s time to think about some of the alternate brands that offer a bigger quantity for less money. More bang for your buck. Maybe they might get the idea that the customer isn’t going to pay more for less quantity with no adjusted prices.

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If someone lost a Jeep Comanche 2.0 bicycle, it was found on Sunday, Aug. 12, near the corner of Wisconsin and Kenilworth.

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I really find it funny that just because we’re given a choice of electricity that this is automatically union busting. I find it funny that you can have a choice in everything we choose in life but can’t have a choice to choose electricity because it’s union busting. This is America, not Russia. Come on, union busting? Give me a break. It’s called being fair to the consumer. Instead of being gouged double what the electricity rates are, we have a choice to save 15, 20, 30, 40, 50 percent. How is that union busting? That just makes good sense for the consumer.

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This is to the person who thinks that lowering the rates by switching to another electricity company is union busting. So are you saying that non-union employees are not as good employees as union employees? Are you saying that things that are manufactured by non-union employees are not as good as those of union employees? I find that hard to believe. I think it’s high time that the unions get a little busting, considering part of the problem with our pension funds is because of unions and part of the problems we have today with the state if Illinois is the underfunded pension fund that the unions have taken advantage of and forced our hand to put in union contracts and now the state of Illinois can’t afford to pay it. I applaud the Village of Lombard for allowing us to switch to a company that’s non-union and has lower rates.

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Any Lombard residents who want to improve this village and become active in what happens in town, please get ready this fall to file a petition and run for trustee and/or village president. Then you can have a say-so in what happens in local government and improve the lingering issues that the current board has not addressed. If your platform is to get a new village manager, you will get elected by a landslide.

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Hi, this is Lombard calling. I’d like to mention to the couple, who were approximately in their 40s, over at the AMC Theater in Yorktown on Friday night, who kept her bare-sandal feet in my face across the seat as she sat behind me. I politely asked her to put them down and an altercation took place verbally. Those people are so immature. I spoke with the theater. I believe they should post signs that besides shutting off your cell phone, you should keep your feet down in a public place. I hope I never run into this couple at a restaurant. AMC Theater was very nice to reimburse me for my tickets, since this one couple ruined my evening. I hope all the people in Lombard realize you should be polite to everyone when they’re out spending money for entertainment.