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Wednesday, April 12 - Italian Wedding w/Meatballs - Diner Style Patty Melt - Chicken a la Mer - Beef & Broc - Greek Chicken Panini w/Feta Cheese - Sicilian Style Pizza - Grilled Chicken Bowtie in a Tomato Cream Sauce The Wilson Hall Cafe accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express. |
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Before Fermilab was a high-energy physics lab, it was farmland. And that's where Marilyn Wenberg grew up, collecting eggs from the chicken house on her family's farm near the curve of old Batavia-Warrenville road. "Now I go there and I just get lost," she laughs. Aside from the new buildings and roads, Wenberg says, the woods where she and her brothers used to play have not changed much.
Wenberg's grandfather, George Bartelt, bought the property in 1904, at a time when much of the Batavia and Warrenville area was devoted to farming. She remembers riding her horse, Ginger, in the woods, hunting for spring flowers, and skating on a frozen pond with her brothers Ron and Duane. On Saturday evenings, they could hear square dance music floating over the prairie from a neighbor's weekly fundraising event.
Looking back, Wenberg is glad Fermilab bought the land instead of another type of contractor. "At the time, it didn't seem like a good thing," she said, explaining how difficult it was to move all the furniture and farm equipment to the family's new abode in Polo, IL, an hour and a half away. "Now I see the positive, because we have green spaces. If Fermilab hadn't come, we would have had commercial or industrial spaces." Wenberg is also pleased with the lab's efforts to record the history of the area. The Fermilab Archives Project website has a page featuring the Bartelt family, complete with family pictures and images of the Bartelt house after a tornado in 1961. Wenberg added, "I appreciate that Fermilab has taken such an interest in the farms, and trying to preserve that history."
The Fermilab Site History Comittee will hold an old-fashioned Prairie Potluck for farmers who used to live on Fermilab's grounds on Saturday, May 6 from 12-3 p.m. at the Kuhn Barn. Call 630-840-3303 to arrange a tour of your old homesite during the potluck. RSVP is required by April 28, call 630-840-3082. |
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Beacon News Online April 8, 2006: Fermilab future remains unclear BATAVIA — U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman gave a pep talk to Fermilab physicists Friday morning but could offer little new information on the potential for a new particle accelerator that is the lab's best hope of remaining at the forefront of science. The Department of Energy has named Fermilab as its preferred site for building the International Linear Collider (ILC), a 20-mile-long underground tunnel in which scientists could smash particles into each other at close to light speed and discover things unknowable with today's technology. If the scientific community wants the government's help in making the ILC a reality, Bodman said researchers like those at Fermilab have to take the first steps — making preliminary plans and cost estimates. "The history here (at FermiLab) is extraordinary, and we would like to see that continue," Bodman said, but the Department of Energy can't make any further commitments to the project without an idea of what it would cost.
That work is already in progress by an international team of scientists, who hope to have a rough price tag (somewhere in the billions) by the end of the year.
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Symmetry, the joint publication of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Fermilab, recently won the 64th annual Golden Trumpet Award for excellence in public relations efforts in the newsletters/magazines category. From hundreds of entries each year, Golden Trumpet judges look for publications or programs that illustrate special creativity, address an issue to improve quality of life, or exhibit exceptional overall public relations. The Golden Trumpet--which is the most prestigious public relations award in the Midwest--is given by the Publicity Club of Chicago, the nation's largest independent public relations membership organization.
Launched in October 2004, symmetry magazine explores concepts and developments in the field of particle physics, and how they relate to other aspects of science, policy and culture. "One of the goals of symmetry is to reach out to non-scientists and share the excitement of the science that we all do," said Editor-in-Chief David Harris. "That's why it's great to be recognized for our efforts by communication professionals outside of science." The magazine includes commentaries, essays, and graphical explorations of the devices, people and history of particle physics. You can find the most recent issue here.
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