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Council considers gaming request DeKalb officials to schedule a public hearing regarding amending Glidden Crossing agreement By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN bkeeperman@shawmedia.com DeKALB – The City Council again will consider a rule change that would allow a bar to open in the Glidden Crossing shopping plaza, although some aldermen are concerned that residents do not consider it acceptable. Blackhawk Restaurant Group wants to revisit a proposal to establish a video gaming facility in the shopping
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alcohol and be considered a bar, under existing city codes. The idea was last proposed Visit in 2013, and residents expressed tout.com/m/ concerns about video gambling, brja93 to view alcohol sales and people smoka video from ing outside the establishment. the DeKalb City On Monday, council members Council meeting. decided to move forward with a public hearing, although some were concerned that neighbors’ center, which currently houses feelings had not changed. Schnuck’s and Goodwill. The “My biggest concern is what age-controlled, video gaming the residents want,” Ward 4 business would serve food and Alderman Bob Snow said. “I
personally think it’s not a bad place, but it’s the neighbors’ perceptions we need to get a handle on.” Glidden Crossing was annexed to the city in 2006 with an agreement that prohibits bars from operating in the complex. The annexation agreement has been amended twice, most recently in 2009 to allow Goodwill to move in – the original agreement prohibited resale and antique-sale stores, Derek Hiland, the city’s principal
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planner, said. Blackhawk operates video gambling-based businesses around Illinois, including Penny’s, in Sycamore next to HyVee. The Sycamore location generated $3,482 in tax revenue in September 2015. Blackhawk representative Mark Thiessen said the gaming machines would generate about $2,000 a month in revenue to the city. DeKalb also would receive restaurant and bar tax revenue.
Under Illinois’ video gaming law, vendors and the establishment where the gaming device is located split 70 percent of the revenue collected by the machines, another 25 percent goes to the state and 5 percent goes to the municipality. Payments to municipalities have been suspended since July in the absence of a state budget. “It’s a proven business model in this state,” Thiessen said.
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By ANGELA CHARLTON The Associated Press PARIS – Bacon, hot dogs and cold cuts are under fire: The World Health Organization threw its global weight behind years of experts’ warnings and declared Monday that processed meats raise the risk of colon and stomach cancer and that red meat is probably harmful, too. Meat producers are angry, vegetarians are feeling vindicated, and cancer experts are welcoming the most comprehensive pronouncement yet on the relation between our modern meat-eating lifestyles and cancer. The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, analyzed decades of research and for the first time put processed meats in the same danger category as smoking or asbestos. That doesn’t mean salami is as bad as cigarettes, only that there’s a confirmed link to cancer. And even then, the risk is small. The results aren’t that shocking in the U.S., where many parents fret over chemicals in cured meats and the American Cancer Society has long cautioned against eating too much steak and deli. But the U.N. agency’s findings could shake up public health attitudes elsewhere, such as European countries where sausages are savored and smoked ham is a national delicacy. And they could hurt the American meat industry, which is arguing vigorously against linking their products with cancer, contending that the disease involves a number of lifestyle and environmental factors. While U.S. rates of colon cancer have been declining, it is the No. 2 cancer for women worldwide and No. 3 for men, according to the WHO. A group of 22 scientists from the IARC evaluated more than 800 studies from several continents about meat and cancer. The studies looked at more than a dozen types of cancer in populations with diverse diets over the past 20 years. Based on that analysis, the IARC classified processed meat as “carcinogenic to humans,” noting links in particular to colon cancer. It said red meat contains some important nutrients, but still labeled it “probably carcinogenic,” with links to colon, prostate and pancreatic cancers. The agency made no specific dietary recommendations and said it did not have enough data to define how much processed meat is too dangerous. But it said the risk rises with the amount consumed.
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Between bullying at school, strangers on the streets and a technological overload in a seemingly unregulated digital world, reasons for parents to worry about their children appear to be lurking around every corner.
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High-profile cases of unfortunate events are exception, not norm By KATIE SMITH ksmith@shawmedia.com DeKALB – A number of factors have made even the places children are expected to feel safest become a cause for concern, and the worry is weighing down on parents, according to recent studies by Gallup and Pew Research Center. Between bullying at school, strangers on the streets, and a technological overload in a seemingly unregulated digital world, reasons for parents to worry about their children appear to be lurking around every corner. But as more dangers present themselves, the more preventative measures schools, law officials and parents are taking to ensure the safety of a younger generation. DeKalb County schools are taking steps
to prevent bullying on and off campuses by talking about the issue with students and offering anonymous reporting, while local police are keeping an eye open for suspicious strangers out in public. Sometimes behind-the-scenes efforts keep kids better protected than they seem, said Dennis Young, president of Ittner Architects, a company that equips schools with security measures and safe rooms. “What I find is that they have a perception of something being unsafe when it truly is safe,” he said.
friends began talking online with strangers, one of whom convinced the young girl to flash him. A year later, the photo resurfaced and went viral, igniting a cycle of bullying that eventually pushed Todd to take her own life. Todd’s suicide and others like it have sparked conversation surrounding bullying and legislation to punish online harassment. The resulting push to target bullying has seemingly paid off, as fewer students say they are being bullied at school, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey. Twenty-two percent of students ages 12 to 18 said they were bullied in 2013 – that’s 6 percent less than those who reported being Bullying bullied in 2011, and also the lowest level since The story of Amanda Todd is one that the National Center for Education Statistics incorporates some of parents’ worst fears. Todd was in seventh grade when she and her See ANXIETY, page A5
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