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November 28-29, 2015 •
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Nonprofits ready for campaign DeKalb County organizations gearing up for upcoming Giving Tuesday By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN bkeeperman@shawmedia.com DeKALB – DeKalb County nonprofits are gearing up for Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday is a national campaign to promote the support and awareness of local nonprofits in the community. More than 450 Illinois organizations have signed on this year including some in DeKalb County. Donations can be made on the individual organization websites. A list of participating
Illinois nonprofits can be found at www.ilgive.com. This will be the second year TAILS Humane Society is participating, after a massive success last year, said Heather Short, development and marketing manager for the society. “Our goal last year was $2,000, and we ended up bringing in over $7,000,” she said. “We’re not sure what to expect going into year two, but $5,000 would be great.” About a third of those who gave to TAILS last year were
new donors, she said. The campaign tended to bring in small donations from many different people. “I think the time of year goes nicely with a campaign like this,” Short said. “People are often in the spirit of giving, so they give support toward the end of the year.” TAILS, located at 2250 Barber Greene Road in DeKalb, cares for more than 2,000 animals a year. Donations will go to the day-to-day care of those cats and dogs. Kishwaukee Family
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YMCA also is a repeat participant. The agency hasn’t set a target goal because they are hoping to encourage volunteerism as well as monetary giving. “For us, it’s about awareness and giving people the idea to get involved throughout the year,” said Heather Eade, marketing and communications director. “In general, with the air of the holiday season, it’s a great time for everyone to start thinking of it. I think the spirit of giving around this time helps gener-
ate the extra interest.” The Northern Illinois Food Bank serves DeKalb County and 12 other counties in the area. They have a goal of $30,000, which will be matched by the Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation, as well as anonymous donors. Northern Illinois Food Bank works with 16 food pantries, a soup kitchen and other outreach organizations in DeKalb County. “The thing about Giving
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Participate in ‘Giving Tuesday’ Donate to these local nonprofits on Giving Tuesday through their websites: DeKalb Public Library: dkpl. org/donate Northern Illinois Food Bank: solvehungertoday.org Kishwaukee Family YMCA: kishymca.org TAILS Humane Society: tailshumanesociety.org Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois: girlscoutsni.org
IHSA STATE FINALS SPARK EXCITEMENT
Demonstrators block store entrances, shut down traffic in city By SARA BURNETT The Associated Press CHICAGO – Hundreds of protesters blocked store entrances and shut down traffic in Chicago’s ritziest shopping district on Black Friday to draw attention to the 2014 police killing of a black teenager who was shot 16 times by a white officer. Demonstrators stood shoulder to shoulder in a cold drizzling rain to turn the traditional start of the holiday shopping season on Michigan Avenue’s Magnificent Mile into a high-profile platform from which to deliver their message: The killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald – captured on a squad-car video made public earlier this week – was another example of what they say is the systemic disregard police show for the lives and rights of black people. They chanted “16 shots! 16 shots!” and stopped traffic for blocks to express their anger over the Oct. 20, 2014, shooting and the subsequent investigation, which they say was mishandled. While shoppers continued to make their way along sidewalks and the empty street, some major retailers were forced to close, at least temporarily. Among them was the typically swamped Apple store, where dozens of employees in red shirts stood in an otherwise empty two-story space and watched through store windows as protesters linked arms to stop anyone from entering. It was the largest demonstration in Chicago’s streets since police on Tuesday released the video under a court order to make it public. The footage shows McDonald jogging down
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Protesters block an entrance to the Disney Store Friday in Chicago. Community activists and labor leaders held a demonstration billed as a “march for justice” in the wake of the release of video showing an officer fatally shooting Laquan McDonald.
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Angela Rojas, an Arcola Purple Riders fan, screams for her team Friday as the final seconds tick off the clock in the Class 1A football championship game between the Riders and the Stark County Rebels at Huskie Stadium. The Riders beat the Rebels, 35-17.
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By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN bkeeperman@shawmedia.com DeKALB – When Betsy Fons was a student at Kankakee’s Bishop McNamara High School in the 1980s, the football team made two trips to the state finals. On Friday, she came to Northern Illinois University’s Huskie Stadium to cheer the Fightin’ Irish on again as they reeled off a convincing win against the Tolono Unity Rockets to take the Illinois High School Association Class 3A state title. “My freshman year and senior year [at Bishop McNamara] we won the state championship,” Fons said. “So now I’m back to support them.” The first four games of an eight-game state championship slate were played Friday in DeKalb, with the games in classes 5A through 8A – the state’s largest schools – to be played starting at 10 a.m. today. Officials have been preparing for the event for weeks and say it
WHAT: IHSA state football championships WHERE: Northern Illinois University’s Huskie Stadium WHEN: Games start at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. today COST: A $10 ticket allows entry to all four games; additional charge for parking
make a win even better. “For him to go out on a championship would be great,” Fons said. Volunteer Bryant Irving scans tickets and checks bags Friday outside Huskie Fans from all over Illinois Stadium on the campus of Northern Illinois University before the Class 3A crowded into Huskie Stadium on football championship game. Friday, huddled under blankets and scarves on a cold and drizzly will bring thousands of fans and be headed to the championships. late-November afternoon. The millions in economic impact to “It’s always a good thing for weather was a challenge but fans the county. the school,” he said. ‘It was very were understanding, said Brad David Wheeler, whose daugh- exciting.” Hoey, director of campus commuter is a freshman at Bishop McFootball coach Rich Zianni has nications at NIU and a member of Namara, said he was excited when been with the team for more than he heard the school was going to 40 years, which Fons said would See IHSA, page A4
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