Local businessman and Congressman Azariah Boody donated of land for the new campus, and the University purchased a further from him.

Local businessman Cyril Porthouse purchased a number of lots and built one of the first homes.

Local businessman Frank Parker Sr. heard the future name on the Amos ' n ' Andy radio show during a skit involving the upscale real estate development of Weber City.

Local businessman, John Bailey, took a controlling interest in the stadium, the club and the pavilion.

1936 — Local businessman Frank Russell starts a small brokerage firm in Tacoma, Washington.

In the late 1980s local businessman John Barnett started lobbying the radio industry regulator for a distinct Independent Local Radio ( ILR ) licence for the Blackpool and Fylde area.

Local businessman Lefty McFadden provided the financial base for the team and acquired the team franchise for the International Hockey League.

* Robert Furman — Local businessman who donated land to form the basis of Central Park and was on the committee that established Vale Cemetery.

Local tradition has it that the original wooden man was a figurehead from a ship, placed there by Solomon Andrews, a wealthy Cardiff businessman.

Local businessman Jack Yan proposed that Robertson's campaign be turned into a political party in 2001, a decision that she agreed to the following year after finding that most parties in Parliament generally did not support a reduction.

Local businessman Elof Ericsson was however determined to change this.

Local businessman Andrew Clark is the sitting Chairman.

Local businessman and philanthropist, Charlie Erickson spearheaded the effort with a contribution of of land and $ 300, 000.

* Local Colour: Travels in the Other Australia, a book by Bill Bachman and Tim Winton

As introduced in Parliament, the Local Government Bill would have transferred Newmarket and Haverhill to Cambridgeshire, but Colchester would have been transferred in from Essex ; but those changes were not included in Act as passed.

Gladstone said that the government would withdraw opposition to the Lords ' amendments to the Local Government Bill " under protest " and that it was " a controversy which, when once raised, must go forward to an issue ".

The International Union of Operating Engineers ( IUOE ) Local 150 Head up by William " Bill " E. Dugan is based in Countryside at 6200 Joliet Road.

Local historian Bill Sawtell has documented many facets of the history of Brownville as well as the surrounding area .< sup ></ sup > Sawtell has published numerous books, with subjects such as Katahdin Iron Works, the Highland Quarry, the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, and Penquis Valley High School basketball.

* Local History-Facsimile of the 1677 Bill of Sale

By the time the Local Government Bill was introduced to parliament, the county had been named " Avon ".

The boundaries of the new county were cut back during the passage of Local Government Bill through parliament.

The county was called " Cleveland ", instead of " Teesside " as originally proposed in the Local Government Bill, due to fears in areas not part of the old Teesside county borough that it represented a takeover.

The Local Government Bill presented to Parliament involved a substantial trimming from the White Paper, excluding the northern and southern fringes of the area, excluding Chester, Ellesmere Port ( and, unusually, including Southport, whose council had requested to be included ).

In 2009, several parties in New Zealand staged a filibuster of the Local Government ( Auckland Reorganisation ) Bill in opposition to the government setting up a new Auckland Council under urgency and without debate or review by select committee, by proposing thousands of wrecking amendments and voting in Māori as each amendment had to be voted on and votes in Māori translated into English.

The 1972 Local Government Bill as originally proposed would have transferred the town ( and Haverhill ) to Cambridgeshire.

Local officials and Congressman Bill Orton ( D-UT ) objected to the designation of the Monument, questioning whether the Antiquities Act allowed such vast amounts of land to be designated.

Under the Local Government Bill of 1888, which proposed the introduction of elected county councils, the Isle was to form part of Cambridgeshire.

He declined to serve in Gladstone's third government, formed after Gladstone came out in favour of Irish Home Rule ( unlike Joseph Chamberlain, who accepted the Local Government Board but then resigned ), and after voting against the First Home Rule Bill became the leader of the Liberal Unionists.

Local Hero is a 1983 Scottish comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster.

Bill Forsyth's quirky disarming Local Hero is both.

" Panton praised the cinematography as " little short of amazing " and that Local Hero was " Bill Forsyth's finest work of all, this is a perfect film.

* Manukau City Council ( Regulation of Prostitution in Specified Places ) Bill 197-1 ( 2010 ), Local Bill

George Sclater-Booth ( afterwards 1st Baron Basing ), President of the Local Government Board, was a specific target, and the minister's County Government Bill was fiercely denounced as the " crowning dishonour to Tory principles ", and the " supreme violation of political honesty ".

Humberside finally emerged in the Local Government Bill as introduced to Parliament, which also gave it its name for the first time.

The issue of the future status of royal burghs was discussed during debate on the Local Government Bill.

Under the Local Government Bill as introduced into Parliament in November 1971, it was named Malvernshire, after the Malvern Hills, which were roughly in the geographical centre of the new county and formed the former border.

This anomaly dates to the Local Government Act 1972, which came into force on 1 April 1974 – the village had been originally included in Berkshire as the Bill, but an amendment to keep it in Buckinghamshire was proposed by local MP Ronald Bell, and accepted by the government.

* Ellensburg Public Library's Historic Local Photograph Collection hosted by the CWU Brooks Library

Local merchants are complemented by national retailers and restaurants, such as Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, The Cheesecake Factory, Johnny Rockets, Five Guys, Ann Taylor, Sunglass Hut, Banana Republic, Gap, Swatch, Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works, bebe, Fire & Ice, Starbucks, Brooks Brothers, Urban Outfitters, Uno Chicago Grill, and Swarovski.

The episode which introduced her character, " Support Your Local Mother ," was so well-received that it won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing Achievement in a Comedy Series for James L. Brooks and Allan Burns.

Local director-actor Jack Brooks hosted a Saturday-morning entertainment program until his sudden death in June 1984, after directing a production of Kismet for the Capuchino Community Theatre that featured Jim Eason as the poet Omar Khayyám.