By Barbara Benson

RULES OF THE ROAD CLASSES

 SCHEDULED FOR CUBA TOWNSHIP

In conjunction with Secretary of State, Jesse White, Cuba Township will  present the Rules of the Road class.  The class is designed as a review for anyone needing to take the written portion of the  drivers’ examination.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

9:30 am—11:30 am

Cuba Township office

28000 W. Cuba Road

Barrington

Please call the office at (847) 381-1924 for more information or to make a reservation.  The class is

offered at no charge, however a reservation is required.

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FINANCIAL  ASSISTANCE WITH

HEATING BILLS

FOR LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS

Cuba Township is pleased to administer 2 programs for low-income households to assist with the expense of heating bills.  LIHEAP (low income home energy assistance program) is funded locally and with federal grants to provide assistance to qualifying families and individuals.  If accepted, the funds will be applied directly to the NICOR account.  The SHARING program, offered through the Salvation Army, operates in a similar manner to LIHEAP.  Each program, however, maintains different qualifying income levels.  Please call the Township office at (847) 381-1924 to determine eligibility or to make an appointment to apply.

BACOA to offer AARP Income Tax

Preparation Assistance

The Barrington Area Council on Aging, Inc. (BACOA) is once again offering the AARP Income Tax Assistance Program.

 

A trained AARP volunteer will assist seniors with their taxes on Thursday and Friday mornings from 9 a.m. to noon at the BACOA office at the Prairieview Building at The Garlands of Barrington, 6000 Garlands Lane, Suite 100, Barrington.

 

Assistance is by appointment only and will run from February 1 through Thursday, April 11, 2008.

 

Appointments fill quickly, so please call as early as possible to schedule an appointment. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call BACOA at (847) 381-5030.

In past issues of the Cuba Newsletter, I wrote about the one-room country schoolhouses of Cuba Township, and how, as the area transitioned into consolidated districts after World War 11, the old school buildings were sold and became residences.  The transition included the consolidation of Flint Creek School, Tower Lake (earlier Davlin) School, and Honey Lake School into District #89, the North Barrington School, which was dedicated on November 1st, 1947.

 

But while the school was still in the planning and construction phase, it was, according to the Daily Herald of the time, to be called Indian Lake School.   On May 31st, 1946, the newspaper reported under the headline “To construct model school for Barrington area (sic)”:  “Served only by obsolete and inadequate one-room country  schoolhouses, residents of fast growing Cuba Township, Lake County, has slashed legal red tape in record time since V-J day to start construction of one of the most modern suburban- rural schools in the Chicago area on Route 59 near Miller road, north of Barrington.

 

Termed a “school for the motor age” by its architects, Indian Lake will replace three typical one-room frame country school buildings.  In less than nine months, Cuba Township residents have authorized consolidation, approved a $100,000 bond issue, and secured the seven-acre site by gift.

 

The school will be built in three stages:

       1. A $33,000 emergency unit, containing two class rooms and a lobby, which will double as a temporary community center.

       2.  A basic unit, under $100,000 in cost, which will be completed within a year.

       3. A classroom wing, to be added room by room, as the community grows.”

 

For all but the longest and oldest residents of Cuba Township, the name “Indian Lake” has little meaning.   That we know something of its origins is due largely to the late Andre (Dusty) F. Rhoads, a former resident of Lake Barrington Shores and Lake Barrington trustee, who wrote an article for a Historical Society Newsletter over 25 years ago.   Dusty talked with Charlie Davlin, grandson of an early settler in the area, who told of working in the nineteen- twenties for the Miller family, who were also early farmers in the area north of the present day Miller Road and west of Route 59.

 

Charlie’s story, of how Indian Lake came into existence, to be renamed Lake Barrington by the Bartlett family in 1946, will appear in the next issue of the Cuba Newsletter.