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Unexpectedly greener future for Fairdale family BRITTANY KEEPERMAN bkeeperman@shawmedia.com DeKALB – A Fairdale family got a big surprise Saturday. Stefanie and Rodney Jacobson, who have two children and a grandchild, were displaced by the Fairdale tornado earlier this year. Their house is being rebuilt, and they are expected to move in by December. What they didn’t expect was a brand-new front lawn, which Rockford-based Crimson Valley Landscaping installed this weekend. The Jacobsons knew the company was planning the makeover, but didn’t know
what it would entail. “We didn’t know exactly what was going to happen,” Stefanie Jacobson said. “They just said, ‘We’ll be here Saturday. We’ll be done at this time. Come by, and you’ll see what we’ve done.’ ” Crimson Valley landscapers dug out the gravel in the front lawn, put down new dirt, and laid and seeded sod in the front and backyards. They also planted bushes and a red maple tree, and placed stones for a walkway. “It’s unbelievable,” Jacobson said. “We’ve never had a yard like this before. We’ve never had a front yard – it was just gravel before. I
“It’s unbelievable. We’ve never had a yard like this before.” Stefanie Jacobson homeowner would have never thought it would look the way it does right now.” The EF4 tornado that struck the unincorporated DeKalb County community April 9 killed two, injured more than a dozen and destroyed many homes and buildings. Since then, recovery efforts have been underway. The area had to undergo
rezoning, roads and ditches, the community septic system needed an overhaul, and homes needed to be rebuilt. Jacobson said she is overwhelmed by all the support the community – and her family – has received since the disaster. It’s not just the landscaping, but all the help with rebuilding their home as well. “There are no words to express when something like this happens, after all we have been through,” she said. “We’ll be [in the new home] by Christmas. I’m calling it Samuel Buckner – For Shaw Media our first Christmas, because it’s our first Christmas of the New landscaping is installed at the Jacobson family’s Fairdale home. The new future.” Jacobsons were displaced by the April tornado.
France bombs Islamic State, hunts attacker who got away
BEGINNING A CONVERSATION ABOUT MEN’S HEALTH
By GREG KELLER and PHILIPPE SOTTO The Associated Press
as No-Shave November, have formed to raise funds for men’s health organizations. “We kind of use fun as the Trojan horse to deliver a serious message, and I think that just resonates with guys in general,” Leonetti said. Once an individual signs up with the Movember Foundation, they are provided a “MoSpace” page, where people can donate money that later will be distributed among different men’s health organizations, Leonetti said. The idea is to use mustaches to spark a
PARIS – France launched “massive” air strikes Sunday night on the Islamic State group’s de-facto capital in Syria, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials said the attacks on Paris were planned. Twelve aircraft including 10 fighter jets dropped a total of 20 bombs in the biggest air strikes since France extended its bombing campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September, a Defense Ministry statement said. The jets launched from sites in Jordan and the Persian Gulf, in coordination with U.S. forces. Meanwhile, as police announced seven arrests and hunted for more members of the sleeper cell that carried out the Paris attacks that killed 129 people, French officials revealed to The Associated Press that several key suspects had been stopped and released by police after the attack. The arrest warrant for Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old born in Brussels, calls him very dangerous and warns people not to intervene if they see him. Yet police already had him in their grasp early Saturday, when they stopped a car carrying three men near the Belgian border. By then, hours had passed since authorities identified Abdeslam as the renter of a Volkswagen Polo that carried hostage takers to the Paris theater where so many died. Three French police officials and a top French security official confirmed officers let Abdeslam go after checking his ID. They spoke on condition of anonymity, lacking authorization to publicly disclose such details. Tantalizing clues about the extent of the plot have emerged from Baghdad, where senior Iraqi officials told the AP that France and other countries had been warned on Thursday of an imminent attack. An Iraqi intelligence dispatch warned that Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had ordered his followers to immediately launch gun and bomb attacks and take hostages inside the countries of the coalition fighting them in Iraq and Syria. The Iraqi dispatch, obtained by the AP, provided no details on when or where the attack would take
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Barber Angie Stafford styles Anthony Adkinson’s hair and mustache Friday at University City Barber Shop in DeKalb. The first week of December is a busy time for the shop, which sees an increase in clients asking to have their facial hair removed after growing it out all November, Stafford said.
Facing a serious issue Local men growing their beards to show they care, raise awareness KATIE SMITH ksmith@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Members of Northern Illinois University’s baseball team are trying to change the face of men’s health by sporting beards this November. About 10 of the team’s players will compete against each other in a month-long bracket-style beard showdown, NIU Baseball Head Coach Mike Kunigonif said. The team got its idea from the Movember Foundation, a global charity that encourages men to grow mustaches during November in an effort to start a worldwide conversa-
tion about prostate cancer, testicular cancer, poor mental health and physical inactivity. “It’s one of those taboo things that most guys don’t want to talk about, and it’s that doctors visit that most people dread when you get to a certain age,” Kunigonif said. Although many men have taken to growing out their beards throughout November, the trend began in 2003 as a strategy to raise money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, said Movember US Business & Community Engagement Manager Andy Leonetti. Since then, similar organizations, such
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