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‘Olympics’ wrap up Camp Power Day camp held at DeKalb’s University Village By KATIE DAHLSTROM
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kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Watching Terrance Davis whack tennis balls across the court at University Village on Wednesday, you couldn’t tell the only time he’d played before was in a video game. Terrance, 10, was one of about 60 children living in the University Village apartment complex who attended Camp Power, a free daycamp where children learned about sports, nutrition and academics. The camp was launched in June and ended this week with a Junior Olympics-style competition. “I liked the sports and the coaches,” Terrance said between kicking
Camp Power coordinators in September will report on the effects the camp had on nutrition, physical activity, life skills and crime. They hope to offer an after-school program for University Village residents this year and to offer Camp Power next summer.
a football and running to the tennis court. “I did a lot of things I never did before.” Maybe more importantly, campers and organizers said, they learned what can happen when their community gathers for something positive.
“I think most people know when they’re here, they can express their feelings and show people what they can do,” said 11-year-old camper Tamiah Griffin, who said she learned to throw a football and mastered multiplication and division. The DeKalb Police Department’s Youth in Need Task Force was the incubator for the idea that eventually became Camp Power. Mary Hess, an asset specialist with the Ben Gordon Center, Lisa Cummings with Live Healthy DeKalb County, and Nancy Prange, the dietetic internship director for Northern Illinois University, coordinated the program after receiving a $20,000 Champions for
See CAMP POWER, page A6
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Aalliyah Thomas, 9, jumps double dutch Wednesday during the Camp Power Junior Olympics-style event at University Village. About 60 children consistently attended the camp throughout the summer, said Mary Hess, a camp coordinator.
Starting a new chapter
DeKalb considers restricting smoking Ban on lighting up on public patios gets first OK from City Council By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com
Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com
Second-grade teacher Jackie Royalty asks her students Wednesday at Kingston Elementary School who was excited about their first day of school, after reading a poem “’Twas the Night Before School Started.” BELOW: All 26 of Royalty’s second-grade students are ready to learn Wednesday on the first day of school.
Genoa-Kingston schools the area’s first to kick off school year By JESSI HAISH
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jhaish@shawmedia.com KINGSTON – Jackie Royalty is stepping into this school year with a new age group of students and a new name, but a familiar love of reading. Royalty was known by her third-grade students as Ms. Bouchez before her marriage in July. She’s starting her second year at Genoa-Kingston School District 424’s Kingston Elementary School, and this year she’ll teach second grade. “In second grade, they come in such little kids; they’re so excited for school,” Royalty said. “They’re still kind of learning how to read, and by the time they leave third grade, they’re little people.” As about 1,800 students re-
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First days of school n Indian Creek District 425: Today n Hinckley-Big Rock District 429:
Today
n Hiawatha District 426: Friday n Cornerstone Christian Academy:
Monday
n Somonauk District 432: Tuesday n Sycamore District 427: Wednes-
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n St. Mary’s Catholic School – turned to District 424 schools Wednesday, Royalty was ready to take on a challenge she said can be specific to second grade: the transition from picture books
to chapter books. It’s something she looks forward to working on throughout this school year.
See SCHOOLS, page A6
Sycamore: Wednesday
n Sandwich District 430: Aug. 22 n DeKalb District 428: Aug. 27 n St. Mary School – DeKalb: Aug. 27
DeKALB – It could soon be illegal to smoke electronic cigarettes in public places or to light up on a public patio in DeKalb. The DeKalb City Council this week took the first step toward including public patios in the places where smoking is banned and adding electronic cigarettes to be barred under the city’s public smoking ban. Along with those changes, aldermen also could change regulations on where a tobacco store owner could set up shop in the city. If the council approves the ordinance changes at its next meeting, they will become law. First Ward Alder- “People man David Jacobson would still cast the lone vote against the changes, come to denouncing them as the bar, but harmful to business they like to that allow smoking on patios or tobacco be able to shops. sit around “As the smoker a [patio] on the board, I see all sorts of holes in this,” table and Jacobson said. “It’s smoke.” possibly the most business unfriendly Cali Walker change in our code General manthat I’ve ever seen.” ger for Rosy’s Cali Walker, the general manger for Roadhouse Rosy’s Roadhouse, believes the crackdown will cause people to stay at home and drink rather than come to the bar. On a busy night, about 100 people, she said, will be on the bar’s patio smoking while they drink; she estimates that’s about a fifth of the customers at her bar near Northern Illinois University. “People would still come to the bar, but they like to be able to sit around a table and smoke,” Walker said. “We probably will see a change in our business.”
Source: District websites, staff
See SMOKING, page A6
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