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Day at Ellwood House a success in its second year By STEPHEN HABERKORN news@daily-chronicle.com
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TOP: School Tool Box employee Caleb Pluhm packs a box Tuesday for a sixth grader from St. Peter’s School in Kansas City, Mo., in the packaging warehouse in Sycamore. ABOVE: School Tool Box owner Doug Stice fields a question about erasers Tuesday from material team leader Katrina Stone in the packaging warehouse in Sycamore. Stice says the 14 year-old company now ships out about 600 orders a day to 44 different states. Parents can go online to schooltoolbox.com and type in their child’s school and grade level and have a back-to-school kit ordered in about five minutes.
Some area residents see a cost increase for school supplies Money spent on school-related materials per student
By ANDREA AZZO aazzo@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Genoa resident Tricia Winters’ three daughters filled two shopping carts with folders, markers and notebooks at Walmart recently, preparing for their imminent return to school. Winters expects to spend about $300 on school supplies this year for her three daughters, who range in age from a freshman in college to sixth grade. One of her daughters is required to purchase a graphing calculator with color display worth more than $125.
ular items and test fees for a single elementary school student is about $642, up 11 percent over last Year Elementary school Middle school High school year’s estimate. Middle school 2014 $642 $918 $1,284 student costs are estimated at 2013 $577 $763 $1,223 $918, up 20 percent. 2012 $548 $724 $1,117 Although high school students 2011 $530 $684 $1,093 face the highest cost at $1,284, 2010 $474 $545 $1,000 they also saw the smallest increase, about 5 percent, accordSource: Huntington Backpack Index ing to the survey. The bank’s results are calculated using school supply lists “I know every year the gener- gotten more expensive.” from six Midwestern states, not Winters may be right. An including Illinois. It assumes al idea of what I’ll likely spend,” Winters said. “I try to make sure I annual report from Hunting- parents all purchase a new backdon’t spend that money so I have ton Bank’s 2014 Backpack Index pack for their child every year it for school supply shopping. It shows the average amount spent seems like over the years, it has on school materials, extracurricSee SCHOOL SUPPLIES, page A7
DeKALB – Art, ice cream, music, sunshine and history combined Sunday to form an idyllic experience for people attending the Art Fair & Ice Cream Social at the Ellwood House grounds. “It’s a wonderful event. I love the music. I love the fact that it’s in the park. And the people are great,” said Rhonda LeMar-James of Davenport, Iowa, one of the 32 artists displaying their work at the event. For the second year, the Ellwood House Association combined two events that have been taking place on the Ellwood House grounds for more than 40 years: the Art Fair, which used to be held over Fourth of July weekend, and the Ice Cream Social. The Art Fair used to have artists come from all over the country, but with the recession in 2008, attendance started dwindling, said Brian Reese, Executive Director of the Elwood House Association. “But now it’s more of a local show, certainly beyond DeKalb County, but mostly Illinois artists,” Reese said. “We’ve combined it into this day, which makes it very energetic throughout the day.” Music was provided by the acoustic duo, Patchouli, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the DeKalb Municipal Band from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Culvers sold ice cream, and the Elwood House Association sold slices of pie. The Rotary Club and Boy Scout Troop 33 sold items such as brats, hamburgers and hot dogs. “We couldn’t get better weather and the attendance has been very good,” Reese said. “I’ve seen a lot of people buy things from the artists, which I’m sure makes them happy. John Challand from Malta makes metal bird sculptures from old farm implements like combines, shovels and even sewing machine grates. He calls his artwork “post-consumer minimalism.” He’s been creating this art for about 16 years. “It originally started with my imagination as a child. When I grew up on a farm there was a part of a combine that made me think of a bird’s head and I just started making things like that. I was lucky that people tend to like the things I put together,” Challand said. Tom and Danell Jackowski from DeKalb were eating lunch that they bought at the
See ELLWOOD HOUSE, page A7
Israel withdraws most troops from Gaza after Hamas tunnels destroyed Even as Israel said it was close to completing its mission, heavy fighting raged in The Associated Press parts of Gaza, with at least 10 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – people killed in what U.N. and Israel withdrew most of its Palestinian officials said was ground troops from the Gaza an Israeli airstrike near a U.N. Strip on Sunday in an appar- shelter. The United States ent winding down of the nearly lashed out at Israel, saying it monthlong operation against was “appalled” by the “disHamas that has left more than graceful” attack. 1,800 Palestinians and more And with Hamas officials than 60 Israelis dead. vowing to continue their fight,
By KARIN LAUB and JOSEF FEDERMAN
it remained uncertain whether Israel could unilaterally end the war. Israel launched its military operation in Gaza on July 8 in response to weeks of heavy rocket fire, carrying out hundreds of airstrikes across the crowded seaside territory. It then sent in ground forces July 17 in what it said was a mission to destroy the tunnels used by Hamas to carry out at-
tacks. Hamas has fired more than 3,000 rockets into Israel during what has turned into the bloodiest round of fighting ever between the two enemies. Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Israeli military spokesman, confirmed the bulk of ground troops had been pulled out of Gaza after the military concluded it had destroyed most of the tunnel network.
He said Israel had detected some 30 tunnels that were dug along the border for what he called a “synchronized attack” on Israel. “We’ve caused substantial damage to this network to an extent where we’ve basically taken this huge threat and made it minimal,” he said. The army had thousands of troops in Gaza at the height of the operation.
In southern Israel, armored vehicles could be seen rolling slowly onto the back of large flatbed trucks near the Gaza border, while soldiers folded flags from atop a tank and rolled up their belongings and sleeping bags. Lerner said, however, that the operation was not over and that Israel would continue
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