Joliet 08-07-13

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INSIDE

SPORTS Swartout wins Illinois Women’s Open PAGE 11

NEWS Joliet man held in fatal restaurant shooting

ONLINE More news at buglenewspapers.com

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AUGUST 7, 2013

Vol. 5 No. 49

HOW SWEET IT IS!

Despite slow start, sweet corn crop this year is ‘fantastic’ By Suzanne Baker Enterprise reporter

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NICK REIHER/MANAGING EDITOR

The Glasscock Farm stand on Essington just north of Theodore in Joliet is a popular spot now that calico sweet corn is ready for pickin’ … and eatin’.

his year’s sweet corn crop has farmers grinning ear to ear. “We are seeing phenomenal yields,” said Frank Keller, owner of Keller’s Farmstand in Plainfield, Oswego and Naperville. Likewise, Zach Siegel of Siegel’s Cottonwood Farm in Crest Hill says his family is harvesting a bumper crop this summer from the 70 acres dedicated to sweet corn of the 400 total acres of corn. Phenomenal and bumper were not exactly words farmers See SWEET, page 3


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