Jim McPhail, park board president, accepts a check from the West Frankfort City Council for $5,000 for refurbishing the basketball courts at the park. (William McPherson, Gazette photo.)
WEST FRANKFORT, IL (William McPherson, West Frankfort Gazette. Please click on the link for the full story. Here is an excerpt below.
The City of West Frankfort approved a donation to the West Frankfort Park District for the refurbishing of the dilapidated basketball courts.
“I went out there after you were here, and those basketball goals are the ones I played on in 1966 or before. And the council, we kind of collectively talked about this and suggested that the city donate $5,000 from our youth fund—for those of you that don’t know we take half of the money we get for gaming and put it into an account for the youth of West Frankfort. I can’t think of a more worthy cause than to give $5,000 to the park district,” added West Frankfort Mayor Tom Jordan.
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