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TOUR DE FARMS STATEWIDE BICYCLE RACE RAISES FUNDS, AWARENESS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
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City Council to buy, raze house to add space for police By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN bkeeperman@shawmedia.com DeKALB – The city plans to buy and demolish a house at 622 W. Lincoln Highway and use the space for parking and for a potential police department expansion, Mayor John Rey said. The property is up for judicial sale and the city will buy it for $228,527, according to city documents. The city operates the police department, which is immediately west of the property at 700 W. Lincoln Highway. The station could use additional parking, Rey said. “Right now, when events are held in the conference rooms, depending on attendance we could have overflow,” he said. “Neighbors have been gracious in accommodating, but long term it would be a good investment.” City Council members amended the fiscal 2015 budget to use $300,000 from the general fund for the purchase, which falls under other capital improvements, at a council meeting Monday. The $300,000 will cover the purchase of the property itself and all closing costs, as well as demolition expenses, according to city officials. Rey said the city is working with the current owner to hammer down a closing date. He said he hopes that everything would transpire and the demolition would occur within 60 to 90 days.
2nd N.Y. prison escapee caught By MICHAEL BALSAMO The Associated Press MALONE, N.Y. – A threeweek manhunt that began with a brazen prison break involving stolen power tools and hacksaw blades hidden in frozen hamburger meat ended Sunday when a single state police sergeant spotted a suspicious man walking down on a rural road near the Canadian border. David Sweat’s capture came two days after his fellow escapee, Richard Matt, was killed in a confrontation with law enforcement while holding a shotgun. Sweat was unarmed when he was shot twice by Sgt. Jay Cook as the fugitive ran for a tree line.
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Bicyclists make their way Saturday through the Tour De Farms course in DeKalb County.
Kirkland family farm hosts riders during DeKalb County stop By KATIE SMITH ksmith@shawmedia.com KIRKLAND – Dawn Carlson’s lawn housed three cows, two sheep, a litter of kittens and about 1,400 people Saturday. For the past three years, Carlson’s farm has served as the first rest stop during Tour de Farms, a statewide bicycle race that took place Saturday and Sunday, to help raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. People pledged donation money for bike teams, individual riders, or to donate directly to the Multiple Sclerosis Society, said Jeremy Barewin, vice president of marketing and communication for the Greater Illinois Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Little is known about multiple sclerosis, a disease that attacks the central nervous system and disrupts the flow of information to the brain, and between the brain and body, according to the society’s website. “It affects everyone and to know I’m helping someone else, and my kids and my family – this is our vacation,” Carlson said. Carlson began toying with the idea of volunteering with the national organization when her mother, Ione Gibson, became chronically ill during her 15-year battle with MS. When Gibson died in 2012, Carlson and her family continued to fight the disease by donating to the organization and volunteering for Tour de Farms, Carlson said. “As my mom would become more and more chronically ill, I thought, ‘I wonder if I could be a rest stop,’ ” Carlson said. “I just dared to make a call to the Illinois MS Society.” Carlson told the organization her story and that she was willing to help however she was needed. “You know how some things are just meant to be. About three weeks later the MS Society got a notice they lost a property and they’d need to find another rest stop,” she said. “I’m just two miles away from where that original rest stop was.” Carlson, along with her husband, brother, three children, and three nieces and nephews, call themselves Ione’s Busy Bees, and have been planning for one weekend all year, she said. Their Kirkland farm is the only family-owned farm rest stop in the race, Carlson said. This year, the stop included a petting zoo, crafts and live music to keep the riders’ spirits high during their breaks.
Candice Quinn (top) and Carrie Quinn (bottom) pet Sandy the calf Saturday at the Carlson Farm in Kirkland.
“As my mom would become more and more chronically ill, I thought, ‘I wonder If I could be a rest stop. I just dared to make a call to the Illinois MS Society.’ ” Dawn Carlson Tour De Farms founder
Jeanine Nicolas of Palatine signs a bee in honor of her mom, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. Each bee represents a person with the disease. Carlson’s family and a team of about 30 volunteers help to relax the riders, make sure they are in good health, and send them off on the next stretch of the race, Barewin said. “It’s really been a great help and they’ve been great volunteers for the organization,” he said. The organization registered more than 1,800 riders and raised more than
$1.3 million by Saturday. The National MS Society’s goal is to rise $1.6 million by the end of July, when they will officially stop accepting donations for the race, Barewin said. “The Tour de Farms ride is the second largest annual fundraiser for the Greater Illinois Chapter,” he said. “It’s a huge part of our yearly fundraising and awareness.”
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Carlson and her family spent the night before the race making handmade bumblebee lawn ornaments from paper cups and pipe cleaners. By Saturday evening, the bees were decorated with paper tags and each riders’ hand-written reason for participating in the race. Someday, Carlson will look back at them on the pages of a scrapbook and know she is in company in her fight for MS research, she said. “Hopefully one day, there will be a cure for it so nobody will go through having to support their families and people affected by MS,” she said.
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