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His answer somewhat surprised me, in a pleasant way. He replied, "Do people that live here know what they have? This town is gorgeous, many of the homes are so varied and unique and they photograph so well with the changing leaves." After talking to him further, I found out he was doing something similar in Elgin the previous weekend, and said this was far more interesting here in Maywood than there.

Whenever I hear things like that it makes me proud of my community and all the effort neighbors have put into making the homes and properties attractive where we live. Many of you have heard me say this before, but we have come a long way in the last several years in the appearance of the village and much of it has been driven by homeowners who have taken renewed pride in the neighborhoods and where we live. We all have a lot to be proud of.

While the story I relayed above applies to a several block area near my house, the same thing is going on in many parts of Maywood. While we suffered from a huge amount of foreclosures in recent times, many of those houses have since been renovated and occupied by responsible homeowners, and it’s happening all over town. Whereas few years back whole blocks were looking desolate and not maintained, now it’s often just one or two houses on a block or none at all. Many of our neighborhoods have gone through a big change, mostly driven by homeowners, and it’s up to us to just take a 2nd look around and really appreciate what's happened in the last few years. We truly have much to be proud of. We also have more work to do to keep this going.

As the holidays are fast approaching (along with winter), let’s think of what we can do to keep this trend up. One of the things I noticed as time went by and improvements started was that more and more Christmas decorations started showing up on homes.