Local businessmen were major backers of the first railroad to connect Illinois ' ( then ) two biggest cities — Chicago and Quincy — as well as a third leg initially terminating across the river from Burlington, Iowa, eventually connecting to it via bridge and thence onward to the Western frontier.

Local businessmen constructed a City Hall, and an Opera House Company organized for the purpose of constructing an opera house and town hall.

Local Stafford businessmen formed the The Izaak Walton Cottage Trust to establish a small museum dedicated to the famous writer.

Local primary schoolchildren elect a Lanimer Queen and court ; and a Lord Cornet is chosen from local businessmen.

Local businessmen in London, Ontario, in 1864, founded it, as the Huron & Erie Loan and Savings Company.

Local businessmen had noticed a slowly growing phenomenon in the late 1930s and 1940s-the popularity of camping on the Rosebud foreshore ; a cheap and interesting alternative to staying at guesthouses or hotels.

Local businessmen Aven Hanford and Oscar Klatt replaced the toll ferry with the tolled Antioch Bridge in mid-1926, almost a year before they opened the larger Carquinez Bridge to the west.

Local businessmen Raymond Lumsden and Matthew Tailford would be joining Scott Neil as co-owners-forming a management team which would also include the Capitals Webmaster, Keith Butland.

Local traders and businessmen sell between eighty five and ninety percent of the total fabric produced.

Local businessmen soon copied this system in an effort to drive homeless people away from public sidewalks adjacent to their businesses.

Local businessmen, including Valentine S. McClatchy ( the co-owner of the Sacramento Bee ), incorporated the Fair Oaks Development Company in 1900.

VESA ( Video Electronics Standards Association ) Local Bus worked alongside the ISA bus ; it acted as a high-speed conduit for memory-mapped I / O and DMA, while the ISA bus handled interrupts and port-mapped I / O.

Local groups have worked to preserve Beaufort's historic character and significant architecture.

The tramway was worked by steam power, rather than horses, as evidenced by a photograph held in the Tameside Local History Library archives.

O ' Higgins had formed a negative view of Cosgrave having worked under him at Local Government and was not happy when the latter was appointed President of the Executive Council.

The government and senior military officials rapidly compared plans and by 13 May had worked out an improvised plan for a home defence force, to be called the Local Defence Volunteers, but the rush to complete a plan and announce it to the public had led to a number of administrative and logistical problems, such as how the volunteers in the new force would be armed, which would cause problems as the force evolved.

He has previously worked as the director of the New Local Government Network.

He worked for ten years from 1965 as a committee clerk with Surrey County Council and from 1975 until his election to parliament he was a union official with the National Association of Local Government Officers ( NALGO ).

Labor legend George Hardy got his start organizing janitors with Local 9, where he helped quickly grow its membership ; improving wages, benefits and working conditions for the janitors who worked in San Francisco's office buildings.

She worked on BBC Local Radio in Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester before becoming a producer and reporter in Liverpool, and later joining a national spoken word network, BBC Radio 4, as a producer on The World at One and PM programmes.

Local citizens and members of ORHA worked together to exhume thousands of Iraqis who had been killed by Saddam Hussein's security forces during the uprising against his government in 1991.

Local farmers, supplemented by the army and navy, worked for months to build levee banks to hold the water out of the town.

His mother was a teacher in the Wayne School system in Huber Heights and his father worked as a member of IUE Local 801 for 42 years after serving in the military.

The seven housemates worked at the Waikiki Location of Local Motion, a clothing and surf apparel store.

She worked with Steve McQueen in the 1966 western drama film Nevada Smith, was nominated for a Laurel Award for her starring performance in the comedy If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium opposite Ian McShane, and co-starred with James Garner in a pair of films, the drama Mister Buddwing and the western comedy Support Your Local Gunfighter.

Local people from the Harrisburg area also worked on the bridge.

He served as Parliamentary Secretary ( Junior Minister ) in the Ministry of Housing and Local Government ( under Richard Crossman, then later Anthony Greenwood ) where he worked, among much else, on planning and conservation, and on devising the soon-to-be-set up Department of the Environment ( Secretary of State, Tony Crosland ) He was responsible for setting up the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and for giving off.

Local sentiments varied, but eventually complaints grew vociferous and Kulm hotel owner Caspar Badrutt built the first natural ice run for his guests, as he had worked hard to popularize wintering in the mountain resort, and did not want to lose any customers to ennui, nor his workforce to injury from errant sleds on the streets.

Local legend in Chattanooga says that the fictional town of Mayfield where the Cleavers lived actually came from Mayfield Dairy, for which Beaumont had worked while attending school in Chattanooga.

The LCCO has worked with Local, State and the Federal Government officials to resolve the landslide situation that has affected the community since 1995.

Local officials in Kankakee that were working with producers worked feverishly to keep the crew in town in the hopes of the arrival of colder weather.

Local popular music hits, if they made it on the air at all, had to be worked in between these segments.

As State Treasurer, Straub worked to create the Local Government Investment Pool and the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System ( PERS ).

* Local authority administrator ( 1986 – 1994 ) ( worked in Neuilly-sur-Seine for mayor Nicolas Sarkozy )

Local legend Norman " Bob-A-Lou " Freedlander also worked there during the station's Top 40 1960s heyday.

Local and regional companies — such as Erie Lake, Hensel Phelps Construction, KOA Radio, and the Rocky Mountain News — rounded out the group.

There could be no SHELAB — the astronauts would work out of the LM — and the LTV accommodating two persons took the name Local Scientific Surface Module ( LSSM ).

Local councils are responsible for the general upkeep and embellishment of the locality, local wardens, and refuse collection, and carry out general administrative duties for the central government such as collection of government rents and funds, and answering government-related public inquiries.

Local cricket authorities went out of their way to cater for the needs of the team and the sponsors.

Local government is carried out through three regional mayors.

Local groups across the nation could join by filling out an application.

Local experts have mentioned that moving forward in such a small area, is a big tool to in executing and rolling out macro plans smoothly.

Local governments are also privatizing by contracting out service provision or administration.

Local government in Northern Ireland does not carry out the same range of functions as those in the rest of the United Kingdom.

Within the region the local transport authorities carry out transport planning through the use of a Local Transport Plan ( LTP ) which outlines their strategies, policies and implementation programme.

The current regions and most of their councils came about in 1989, as a result of an amalgamation procedure carried out under the Local Government Act 1974.

In terms of local government, the city of Stirling is a part of the wider Stirling Council area, which governs on matters of local administration as set out by the Local Government etc ( Scotland ) Act 1994.

Local authorities in Ningxia point out that their model of Aksai Chin is part of a tank training ground, built in 1998 or 1999.

It was split out as a separate civil parish in 1866, and became part of the Uxbridge Urban District in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894.

Local farmers rushed to try to put it out.

Local traditions include a Butterfly Parade, in which elementary schoolchildren dress in various costumes and march through town, and the Feast of Lanterns, a Chinese-styled pageant in which a high school girl and her companions act out a melodrama.

As Nation " cleaned out " a number of local spots, it is believed that Perryville became the first location in the United States to exercise Local Option laws.

Local brickyards turned out 1, 500, 000 bricks per year to meet the demands of the city's rapid development.

Local hero Augustus Smith MP ( 1804 ) led gangs of local and hired men from London's East End brought out on the new railway on a specially chartered train to break the fences and protect Berkhamsted Common for the people of Berkhamsted.

In 2009, the Centerburg Local School Board voted to cancel that year's graduation ceremony in response to a cheating scandal, even though only one person out of the entire 97-student graduating class was ever proven guilty of cheating.

Local residents have been known to say the town was named Faith because it took faith to live out on the prairie.

Local and out of town artists are featured, with a great variety of artistic mediums presented.

Local men took out mile contracts to help dig the ditch.

Local legend states that Frank James and Big Nose George were hiding out along Little Goose Creek in 1878.