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ALTON - A local business owner proposed several solar installations to power the businesses he owns and Gordon Moore Park to expand the “clean energy portfolio” of the Alton area at last night’s City Council meeting. But with the June 30 deadline for federal grant funding fast approaching, he asked the City of Alton to act quickly in approving these projects. Vern Van Hoy said he owns and manages the Rolling Hills Golf Course in Godfrey, Arlington Greens Golf course in Collinsville, Nautilus Fitness Center in Alton, and has leased and operated Spencer T. Olin Golf Course for the last nine years. Van Hoy said he’s willing to invest to bring solar to each of these properties - as well as Gordon Moore Park - and that he would finance, install, and operate each of the solar array projects. “I’m a lifetime resident and longtime business owner and operator in this area and community, and I believe in the community and its future,” Van Hoy

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