LU 150 Member Wins Community Service Award

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Melville shares labor award

An electrician from Lake Bluff has been named a co-winner of the annual Rodney Graham Community Service Award by the Northeastern Illinois Federation of Labor.

The awards were presented April 24 at a federation dinner at Midlane Country Club in Waukegan honoring Margaret Blackshere, president of the Illinois AFL-CIO.

Co-winner Bill Melville of Lake Bluff is a member of IBEW (Electricians) Local 150 based in Libertyville. He has been a volunteer for the Lake County Food Pantry operated by Christian Outreach of Lutherans for 15 years.

Melville once donated $1,000 he won in a raffle to the COOL food pantry to help the agency buy a new van to pick up and distribute food. He also was a volunteer coach for his son's softball team.

Co-winner Dave Carlson of Waukegan, a member of National Association of Letter Carriers Lodge 409, is a guitar player and leader of the band Crossroads.

The band has helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for charitable causes.

Since 1999, Carlson's band has played at fund-raising events that have helped raise more than $50,000 for muscular dystrophy research.