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Public hearing set on bar bid Change required to open one at Glidden Crossing By DEBBIE BEHRENDS dbehrends@shawmedia.com
Photos by Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com
Volunteer Skylar Zimmerman, from Kishwaukee College, scans tickets at a gate at Northern Illinois University’s Huskie Stadium in DeKalb on Nov. 13. Zimmerman was training to scan tickets for the IHSA State Football Championships.
DeKalb area ready for state championship games next week By FELIX SARVER
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fsarver@shawmedia.com DeKALB – With less than a week to go, Debbie Armstrong knows DeKalb County is primed for two days of high school football state championship games expected to draw 30,000 fans. Armstrong is part of the host committee that has been preparing for the Illinois High School Association championship football games for more than a year. She said preparation is almost complete and committee members are taking care of the final details. “We’re ready,” said Armstrong, who also is the executive director of the DeKalb County Convention and Visitors Bureau. In June 2012, the IHSA Board of Directors awarded the state football finals to Northern Illinois Universi-
The IHSA Destination DeKalb Host Committee could still use volunteers. The positions include parking attendants, ticket takers, door guards and ushers. To learn more, visit shawurl.com/vut or call 877-335-2521.
Voice your opinion Are you planning to participate in the IHSA high school football state championships in DeKalb this week? Vote online at Daily-Chronicle.com. ty in odd-numbered years through 2021. NIU beat out Illinois State University and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
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Karen Matya hands volunteer ambassador Ralph Tompkins an IHSA rally towel during a meeting for IHSA Ambassadors to prepare them for their duties at the state championships.
DeKALB – A developer wants to add a bar to the Glidden Crossing shopping center, but will have to change an agreement with the city of DeKalb first. Representatives of the developer, Glidden S t a t i o n L L C , If you go say there is an What: DeKalb unnamed potential tenant who City Council meetwants to serve ing with public food and alcohol hearing on the and make video proposed change gambling avail- to the Glidden able in a store Crossing annexon the property. ation agreement The shopping When: 6 p.m. center, at 975 S. Monday Annie Glidden Where: DeKalb Road south of Municipal Building, the intersection 200 S. 4th St. of Annie Glidden and Malta Road, is anchored by Schnucks. The DeKalb City Council will hold a public hearing on the proposed change at its 6 p.m. Monday meeting. The annexation agreement the council approved for the shopping center in 2006 prohibits bars or taverns from operating there. Rockford attorney Aaron Szeto has submitted an application to amend the agreement to strike the prohibition. Schnucks opened their 58,000-square-foot grocery and drug store in the center in December 2007, but the rest of the property has not lived up to the expectations of 6th Ward Alderman Dave Baker. “I think this will probably be a very important public hearing,” Baker said. “Glidden Crossing has not met the potential I had hoped for, such as the addition of a gas station.”
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Anniversary of JFK death brings sadness, solemnity The ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS – It was the same time, 12:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22. It was the same place, downtown Dallas. But 50 years later, the thousands of people who filled Dealey Plaza weren’t there to cheer but to remember in quiet sadness the young, handsome president with whom Dallas will always be “linked in tragedy.” The solemn ceremony presided over by Mayor Mike Rawlings was the first time the city had organized an official Kennedy anniversary event, issuing 5,000 free tickets and erecting a stage with video screens. Somber remembrances extended from Dallas to the shores of Cape Cod, with moments of silence, speeches by historians and, above all, simple reverence for a time and a leader long gone. “We watched the nightmarish reality in our front yard,” Rawlings
told the crowd, which assembled just steps from the Texas School Book Depository building where Lee Harvey Oswald fired from the sixth floor at Kennedy’s open-top limousine. “Our president had been taken from us, taken from his family, taken from the world.” Two generations later, the assassination still stirs quiet sadness in the baby boomers who remember it as the beginning of a darker, more cynical time. “A new era dawned and another waned a half-century ago, when hope and hatred collided right here in Dallas,” Rawlings told the crowd that gathered under gray skies and in near-freezing temperatures. The mayor said the slaying prompted Dallas to “turn civic heartbreak into hard work” and helped the city mature into a more tolerant, welcoming metropolis. The slain president “and our city
will forever be linked in tragedy, yes,” Rawlings said. “But out of tragedy, an opportunity was granted to us: how to face the future when it’s the darkest and uncertain.” Historian David McCullough said Kennedy “spoke to us in that now-distant time past, with a vitality and sense of purpose such as we had never heard before.” Kennedy “was young to be president, but it didn’t seem so if you were younger still,” McCullough added. “He was ambitious to make it a better world, and so were we.” Past anniversaries have been marked mostly by loose gatherings of the curious and conspiracy-minded, featuring everything from makeshift memorials and marching drummers to freewheeling discussions about others who might have been in on the killing.
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Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, lays a wreath at his memorial Friday at Runnymede, England. A short ceremony took place at the JFK memorial which overlooks the site of the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215. Friday was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Kennedy in Dallas.
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