Navistar Donates $75,000 to Morton Arboretum Children's Garden
The funds will benefit youth volunteer work in the Children's Garden and other programming.
from the Morton Arboretum The Morton Arboretum Children’s Garden, which has attracted more than 1.5 million visitors and won six prestigious awards, has now received a $75,000 donation from Navistar to help children develop a lifelong love of nature through early experiences. “As the Morton Arboretum’s new neighbor, Navistar is proud to partner with this prestigious organization to engage and inspire visitors in the Children’s Garden and show our commitment to the community,” says Don Sharp, Navistar vice president and chief information officer. “Navistar has a strong commitment to the environment as demonstrated by the very significant investments we make in our emissions-compliant products, and we’re pleased to further extend this …
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Steve
9:08 am on Friday, January 21, 2011
Schillerstrom, Broda and their cronies gave Navistar more than $20 million taxpayer dollars. On top of that, Navistar's "fire sale" purchase of the Lucent property (Assessor put fair market value at $109MM, Nav paid $33MM) resulted in $37MM in assessment appeals for adjacent corporate properties -- guess who's going to make up for that $37MM, plus the $20MM+ given to Navistar? So the taxpayers … more ›