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Monday, October 14, 2013
NIU FOOTBALL • SPORTS, B1
EVENT • INSIDE, A3
Bishop helps Huskies in win against Akron
Locals enjoy Cortland Community Festival
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Rey, Baker build on their bond Pair continue work to improve town-gown relationship By JOHN SAHLY jsahly@shawmedia.com DeKALB – John Rey saw pedestrian bridges under construction to an urban renewal area. Doug Baker saw a farmer’s market three blocks long filled with community and university members, musical acts, survey research projects, a community living room of sorts, not far from campus. The weekend of Sept. 14, Rey, DeKalb’s mayor, and Baker, Northern Illinois University’s president, saw these things on a trip to Moscow, Idaho, home of the University of Idaho. Baker was provost there before taking the NIU job. With the NIU football team playing that weekend in Moscow,
Baker saw an opportunity to further strengthen an already-strong friendship between himself and Rey. Through presentations with city and university officials, a bus tour and a trip to the farmer’s market, Baker wanted to show Rey how Moscow, a community about half the size of DeKalb, and the University of Idaho worked together. Then they watched the Huskies’ football victory. “[Moscow’s farmer’s market] became a place where you can see community being built and strengthened,” Baker said. “I think those are things we can build on, those kinds of activities.” It was another step in Rey and Baker’s early partnership as they attempt to alter the area’s town-
gown relationship with their mostly-shared vision of collaboration. “I guess the teamwork that I saw present in Moscow is something I hope to build here in the DeKalb community,” Rey said. “A can-do attitude was expressed from everybody that presented to us, and I realize they were showcasing their community, so I’m sure they were showing the positive edge of that, but a real can-do attitude and values from that community were seen in that community.” Rey said that when he first met Baker, he thought NIU’s new president had a serious commitment to building a relationship between the community and the university.
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Muddy good time
Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com
Northern Illinois University President Douglas Baker and DeKalb Mayor John Rey clap along to the NIU Marching Band on Saturday at the end of a dedication ceremony for the 1963 Huskie football team at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb.
Children complete half-mile obstacle course in Hinckley
Social Security increase low again By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER The Associated Press
Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com
Luke Leifheit, 10, steps into the mud pit on his second round Saturday at Hinckley’s first Royal Warrior Run at Pioneer Park. The half-mile course included obstacles such as hay bales, tire steps, a pumpkin patch and a mud pit. By ANDREA AZZO news@daily-chronicle.com HINCKLEY – A little mud never hurt anyone. The Royal Warrior Run, a halfmile obstacle course featuring a mud pit, army crawl and hay bale hurdles, took place Saturday at Hinckley’s Pioneer Park. Almost all of the 28 children who participated finished the race in
muddy shoes. “You’re walking home,” Hinckley resident Chris Scotti told his son, who was covered up to his knees in mud. Their house was only a street away from the park. “Part of being a kid is being messy all the time,” Scotti said. Hinckley native Jake Austin, a physical education teacher in Oswego, helped organize the event with Hinckley Parks and Recre-
ation. The idea came to Austin after he saw similar events in Chicago. He wanted to localize it. “There are so many more things in technology to keep [kids] inside,” Austin said. “They need to be outside. When I was a kid, I was outside all the time. It’s just something they can do to have fun and be active.”
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WASHINGTON – For the second straight year, millions of Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal retirees can expect historically small increases in their benefits come January. Preliminary figures suggest a benefit increase of roughly 1.5 percent, which would be among the smallest since automatic increases were adopted in 1975, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. Next year’s raise will be small because consumer prices, as measured by the government, haven’t gone up much in the past year. The exact size of the cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, won’t be known until the Labor Department releases the inflation report for September. That was supposed to happen Wednesday, but the report was delayed indefinitely because of the partial government shutdown. The COLA usually is announced in October to give Social Security and other benefit programs time to adjust January payments. The Social Security Administration has given no indication that raises would be delayed because of the shutdown, but advocates for seniors said the uncertainty was unwelcome. Social Security benefits have continued during the shutdown. More than one-fifth of the country is waiting for the news. Nearly 58 million retirees, disabled workers, spouses and children get Social Security benefits.
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