High school students honor fallen officer.St. Charles, Illinois St. Charles is a city in Kane and DuPage counties of Illinois, United States, and is roughly 40 miles west of Chicago on Illinois Route 64. According to a 2004 census estimate, the city has a total population of 32,134. , Police Sergeant Daniel Figgins died on April 9, 2005, after being stricken with a heart attack while chasing students breaking in to St. Charles North High School Saint Charles North High School is a public four-year high school, located in St. Charles, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Community Unit School District 303 which also includes Saint Charles East High School. . Many of the city's students felt extremely bad about the incident and decided to do something to honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. the fallen policeman policeman /po·lice·man/ (pah-les´min) a glass rod with a piece of rubber tubing on one end, used as a stirring rod and transfer tool in chemical analysis. po·lice·man n. . Several St. Charles East High School Saint Charles East High School is a public four-year high school located in St. Charles, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Community Unit School District 303 which also includes Saint Charles North High School. students approached the police department about erecting a park bench in front of police headquarters in memory of Sergeant Figgins. Paul McCurtain, the public information officer for the department, told the St. Charles Sun, "The students had the idea--they wanted to do something." The students raised $600 toward the cost of the $3,000 bench, with the police department paying for the remainder. Sgt. Figgins' daughter, Kristin Dierking, expressed her thanks to the St. Charles community, and to the students. "I thank family, friends and dad's former colleagues in this past difficult year," she told the Sun. She said that the bench will allow her father to remain "in the community in which he served." |
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