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Dixon man gets 3 years in prison In December, Shomaker pleaded guilty in dragging death case

BY CHRISTI WARREN cwarren@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 521

Keith J. Shomaker Sentenced to 3 years in prison for reckless homicide, a Class 3 felony

DIXON – A Dixon man who pleaded guilty in December to reckless homicide was sentenced to 3 years in prison Wednesday.

In June, Kimberly Landwer was dragged for about 20 feet after she reached into the passenger side window of 19-year-old Keith J. Shomaker’s car as he continued to drive.

Landwer, 25, fell, hitting her head on the pavement in the 100 block of East Seventh Street. She later died at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria from her injuries.

Shomaker was apparently using drugs around the time of the incident.

Reckless homicide, a Class 3 felony, carries a maximum prison sentence of 5 years.

Before announcing his decision, Judge Ron Jacobson deli-

cately explained his reasoning, walking through the process that he took to get to his ruling.

Most important, it seemed, was Shomaker’s history of drug abuse.

During Tuesday’s hearing, Lee County State’s Attorney Anna Sacco-Miller brought up the fact that Shomaker attended an in-patient drug rehabilitation program during the month of November.

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Prosecutor challenged in GOP primary Candidates disagree on incumbent’s performance

BY DAVID GIULIANI dgiuliani@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 525

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Still adorned in her Ash Wednesday ashes, Tessa Steder works on a project in Heidi Schmall’s kindergarten class Wednesday at St. Mary’s School in Sterling. On Monday, the Catholic grade school will be hosting a preschool and kindergarten open house and registration day. From 5:30 to 7 p.m., students and parents can meet the teachers, learn about the curriculum and tour the building.

OREGON – Ogle County State’s Attorney Mike Rock touts the performance of his office since he took the helm a little more than a year ago after his predecessor left to become a judge.

Eric Morrow, a local attorney and Rock’s opponent in the March 18 Republican primary, takes a dimmer view of the incumbent’s brief tenure.

In January 2013, the Ogle County Board unanimously voted for Rock to replace State’s Attorney Ben Roe, who had been named a judge in the 15th Judicial Circuit. Rock was among four candidates, including Morrow, who were interviewed by a selection committee.

Rock had been first assistant state’s attorney under Roe since 2010 and was a prosecutor for the office from 1994 to 2000. He later was in private practice in Rockford for the 10 years until he returned to the office.

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Noah Carrier (above) and Morelia Vargas (left, middle desk), kindergartners in Heidi Schmall’s class at St. Mary’s, work on get well cards.

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Board members praise Rock A year after Rock was sworn in, members of a board committee that oversees the state’s attorney’s office are happy with Rock’s performance. “He’s done very well, and he’s good with money,� said John Finfrock, the committee’s chairman. “I absolutely support him in his reelection.� “He has not only met his budget line, but been under it,� said another member, Pat Nordman. “The collection of fines and fees has been up.�

Criticism from Morrow Morrow, 38, who responded to questions by email, said he doesn’t mean to criticize the performance of any of Rock’s employees, but he wanted to comment on the policies of the top prosecutor.

Previously, Morrow said, communication between the state’s attorney’s office and other agencies was the office’s “hallmark,� but that is no longer the case. “Since Mr. Rock was appointed to the position of state’s attorney, I have witnessed a breakdown of communication between his office and other members of the system, which has led to a lack of efficiency in the system,� Morrow wrote in the email.

Communication with victims, including families dealing with the aftermath of “heinous� crimes such as child sexual abuse, has been reduced to form letters that are sometimes delivered unsealed, according to the challenger.

The state’s attorney’s office, Morrow said, was also known for an inno-

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Family: 7IFE -AGGIE THREE CHILDREN vative approach to juvenile justice and drug court. Despite Rock’s campaign rhetoric supporting such programs, Morrow said, the state’s attorney has shown “something less than support� over the past year. “As someone who was involved at the outset with both the juvenile programs and drug court, I find it disturbing that this programming has suffered since the current state’s attorney’s appointment,� he said in the email. “As the next state’s attorney, I will work collaboratively with other departments to restore and expand these programs.

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Rock, 48, insisted he has worked well with law enforcement. “We’re not always going to agree, but I have a very good relationship with detectives and officers all throughout the county,� he said in a telephone interview during his lunch hour. “I have an excellent victim’s advocate [in the office]. Every single victim gets a letter from us explaining what’s going to happen. We ask for

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He said his experience in Rockford helped to prepare him as state’s attorney, “dealing with all different kinds of crime, more than I could have in a lifetime in Ogle County.�

As for his job, Rock said: “I want to serve the public. I take really seriously that the prosecutor’s duty is to seek justice.�

One of the office’s most important duties, he said, is to keep drugs out of Ogle County. He promised “stiff� sentences for drug dealers, sending a message to those outside the county who bring in drugs.

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Attorney Trish Joyce last year kept secret an interview of a suspect who had already been convicted of attacking a local man. In that same case, the Sterling Police Department, which must follow the law, released the victim’s interview.

In 2012, then-Lee County State’s Attorney Henry Dixon released emails upon Sauk Valley Media’s request showing that his office had engaged in politics. His successor, Anna SaccoMiller, while promising to bar political activities in her office, said the office no longer had to comply with FOIA because of the ruling.

Rock agreed. “I am the lawyer for the whole county, as well as a number of department heads,� he said. “I get a number of emails from them. There is an attorney-client relationship.�

Rock said he wouldn’t want to “sift� through all of his documents to determine what portions are subject to attorney-client privilege.

At the same time, in his role as state’s attorney, Rock said, he has always recommended that county departments follow the information law.

Morrow said that if the Supreme Court overturns the ruling or the Legislature amends the law, he would abide by FOIA. “If, however, neither one of these things happen, there is no requirement that the state’s attorney not comply with the spirit of the act,� he wrote in his email. “As a result, if the state of the law remains the same and the state’s attorney’s office remains exempt from the act, I would still consider requests on a case-by-case basis and release appropriate records.�

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Project could start after Memorial Day Work to be done in five phases

BY MATT MENCARINI mmencarini@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 529

DIXON – How the downtown streetscape project will happen, and when, became a bit more evident Wednesday at City Hall.

During a second public meeting with engineering firms Wendler Engineering Services Inc. and Willett Hofmann & Associates, it was revealed that the project would be done in five phases.

Streetscape work, which would include new sidewalks and roads, could start soon after Memorial Day, said Jeff Reis of Willett Hofmann, and be completed by November.

Other than the addition of more green space and different locations for trees, little has changed to the project’s aesthetics since the first public meeting Jan. 22.

The new development Wednesday was phasing for the work and details for how the firms will try to keep open pedestrian and street traffic on First Street.

The first four of five phases would be expected to take between 5 and 6 weeks to complete, Reis said. The fifth phase is expected to take 2 weeks.

The order of the first

John Thompson, president and CEO of the Lee County Industrial Development Association, looks over plans for Dixon’s downtown streetscape project Wednesday afternoon at Dixon City Hall. The plans were put on display for the public to see.

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Jeffrey Reis of Willett Hoffmann & Associates describes a map of the planned downtown streetscape project in Dixon during a public meeting Wednesday at City Hall. The rendering maps out the planned stages for the work, which include new sidewalks and streets. and second phases can April, Reis said, and award Doorways will be be switched, Reis said, if the contract during its blocked while the old needed, because they’re first meeting in May. sidewalk is ripped up, on the same block of First The inconvenience for Reis said, but that will Street. the businesses could be take only a few hours, and In order to keep at least minimal. then there will be a ramp one lane of traffic and “The stores should be or other safe access. one sidewalk along First able to stay open the The engineering firms Street open during the whole time,� Reis said. will talk to the City Counwork, the north side of “The one time they will cil about accepting bids the street will be done be closed is whenever for concrete and hot first, then the south side. you’re pouring that con- mix asphalt work for the The fourth and fifth crete right next to the roads, Reis said. phases also deal with doorway. You have to let The concrete roads are the same stretches of that cure.� more expensive, but have First Street and can be Contractors will try to a longer lifespan and switched, if needed. pour the concrete later in are easier to lay when The City Council could the day, he said, so that the weather gets colder approve for bids for the by morning it should fin- toward the end of the project to be advertised in ished curing. project.

The streetscape work in downtown Dixon will be done in five phases.

Phase 1 includes the south side of First Street, FROM (ENNEPIN !VENUE TO 'ALENA !VENUE /TTAWA !VENUE FROM Second Street north to the entrance of the KSB (OSPITAL PARKING LOT AND the KSB parking lot.

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Phase 5 of the project includes the north side of First Street, from Galena !VENUE TO #RAWFORD !VENUE AND A PORTION OF /TTAWA !VENUE NORTH OF First Street.

IN BRIEF Discussion set on church’s history 34%2,).' n ! HISTORY OF Sterling’s Reformed Mennonite Church will be told at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society meeting at CGH Medical Center, 100 E. LeFevre Road.

The meeting is free and open to the public. The presentation will be in the HOSPITAL S 2YBERG !UDITO rium. Louis Sedig and Lee Johnson will discuss the church’s history. The previously scheduled program for Sunday was about the AREA S !MISH The program is open to the public. For more information, call 815-6226215.

Lee County sheriff warns of scam DIXON – The Lee County Sheriff’s Department is warning businesses of a scam involving an international business directory.

People are calling businesses, churches and nonprofit groups, claiming to be a directory company verifying addresses by phone or fax to confirm existing phonebook list-

ings, according to the Sheriff’s Department.

Once the businesses verify the information, the company signs them up for services and sends several invoices demanding payment or threatening legal action. The directories are never distributed or promoted as promised, but are simply websites with various business listings, the Sheriff’s Department reported in a news release.

The scammers are based internationally, but use post office boxes or mail drops to appear as if they are in the United States.

If your business has been targeted, call the Sheriff’s Department at 815-284

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Board reschedules March meeting DIXON – The Lee County Board will meet at 9 a.m. March 19 in the third-floor board room of the old Lee County Courthouse, 112 E. Second St. The meeting was scheduled for March 18, but was changed because of March 18 being the primary election. For more information, call 815-288-5676. –SVM staff reports

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OBITUARIES Edward ‘Ed’ Haas DIXON – Edward “Ed� Haas, 76, of Dixon, died Monday, March 3, 2014, at his home. He owned and operated Haas Builders Inc. for 25 years, and worked as a contractor for Duro-Last Roofing Inc. of Saganaw, Mich., before retiring in 2008.

Ed was born Dec. 29, 1937, in Woosung. He served in the Army from 1963 to 1964. He married Joyce McClanahan on June 5, 1965, at St. Anne Church in Dixon.

Survivors include his wife, Joyce Haas of Dixon; one son, Scott (Lynda) Haas of Oregon; two daughters, Nikki (Bill) Koppari of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Amy (Lowell Ligtenberg) Haas of Dixon; his mother, Dorothy Bosshart of Dixon; two brothers, Jerry Haas of Rochelle and David (June McCartney) Haas of Dixon; one sister, Janice Johnson of Dixon; five grandchildren, Lauren (Andrew) Myers of Colorado Springs, Derek

Koppari of Carlsbad, Calif., Brooke Koppari of Colorado Springs, Adam (Andrea) Poole of Rockland, Calif., and Colten Meyer of Polo; and two great-grandchildren, Caleb Andrew Myers and Jacob Daniel Myers, both of Colorado Springs.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Preston-Schilling Funeral Home in Dixon. The funeral will be at 10 a.m.

Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. John Kalebaugh, pastor of Refuge Church in Amboy, officiating.

Burial, with full military graveside honors by the combined veterans organizations, will be at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens in Dixon. A celebration of life in Ed’s honor will be June 13 at the family’s home in Dixon.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established.

Visit www.prestonschillingfuneralhome.com to send condolences.

Sheryl L. ‘Sherry’ Schultz SAVANNA – Sheryl L. “Sherry� Rowland Schultz, 65, of Savanna, formerly of Mount Morris, loving wife, mother, and grandmother, died Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at University of Madison Hospital in Madison, Wis., because of complications from surgery.

Sherry was born April 24, 1948, in Savanna, the daughter of Leo J. and Evelyn V. (Erdmier) Reusch. She graduated from Stockton High School in the class of 1968. Sherry married Harold Schultz on April 4, 1998, in Kerrville, Texas. She worked as an office assistant at Country Companies in Lena.

Sherry loved spending time with her family and friends, traveling to new places, caring for her animals, and spending time in her flower garden.

Sherry is survived by her husband, Harold Schultz of Savanna; daughter, Christy (Andy) Egyed of Oregon; son,

Dale Rowland of Mount Morris; stepdaughter, Carrie Kluck of McConnell; stepson, Shane (Jackie) Schultz of German Valley; three grandchildren, Erica Egyed, Josh Egyed, and Johnna Rowland; six stepgrandchildren, Carah Higges, Viola and Daeley Kluck, and Tannis, Hailey, and Elisha Schultz; brothers, Rick (Cheryl) Reusch of Argyle, Wis., and Russ (Sherril) Reusch of Sabula, Iowa; and one sister, Sandy (Don) Raehorn of McConnell.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and stepgranddaughter, Emma Schultz.

A celebration of Sherry’s life will be from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at Pinecrest Grove Community Center, 500 Evergreen Lane, Mount Morris. Finch Funeral Home in Mount Morris is handling arrangements.

Memorials may be made to the American Humane Society.

Hattie F. Wolever PROPHETSTOWN – Hattie F. Wolever, 91, of Prophetstown, died Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

Hattie was born Feb. 14, 1923, in El Dorado Springs, Mo., the daughter of Albert August and Bonnie Alice (Stingley) Freude. She graduated from Erie High School in 1941. She married Robert D. Wolever in 1940 in Missouri, and later divorced. She worked at Penberthy for 21 years, retiring in December 1988. Hattie also worked at Paul Carlson Insurance Agency, John Deere Defense, Microgear, and Climco, and was a teacher of all grades in a country school. She was a member of Prophetstown United Methodist Church, American Legion Auxiliary and AARP. She enjoyed reading and spending time with her great-grandchildren.

Survivors include her

two daughters, Patricia Crump of Prophetstown and Barbara Israel of Chino Hills, Calif.; one son, Brett Wolever of Tucson, Ariz.; one sister, Bea Wolever of Erie; 11 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; two step-greatgrandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her parents; one son, Robert; two sisters, Alberta and Bonnie; and two brothers, Albert and Jack.

Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday and the funeral at 11 a.m. Saturday at Prophetstown United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Cheri Stewart officiating.

Burial will be at Erie Cemetery. McDonald Funeral Home in Prophetstown is handling arrangements.

In lieu of flowers a memorial has been established.

Visit www.mcdonaldfuneralhomes.com to send condolences.

Vicki Hinrichs MILLEDGEVILLE – Vicki Hinrichs, 62, of Milledgeville, died Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

She was a homemaker.

She was born April 25, 1951, in Dixon, the daughter of Lloyd and Billie Jean (Brooks) Pritchard. She married Roger Hinrichs on June 6, 1970, in Milledgeville. She was a member of Milledgeville Brethren Church.

Survivors include her mother, Billie Jean Pritchard of Dixon; her husband, Roger Hinrichs of Milledgeville; one daughter, Michelle (Mike) Behrman of Belleville; one son, Matt Hinrichs of Milledgeville; one brother, Terry

“Butch� (Vonna) Pritchard of Dixon; 22 nieces and nephews; and 18 greatnieces and great-nephews.

She was preceded in death by her father; and one son, Shawn, in infancy.

Visitation will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday and the funeral at 11 a.m.

Saturday at Milledgeville Brethren Church, with the Rev. Jim Black officiating. Burial will be at Maple Ridge Cemetery in Sterling.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established to the Milledgeville Brethren Deacon Board Fund.

Visit www.mcdonaldfuneralhomes.com to send condolences.

Floyd Daub Jr. MILLEDGEVILLE – Floyd Daub Jr., 88, of Milledgeville, died Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at his home.

McDonald Funeral Home in Milledgeville is handling arrangements.

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Kathryn L. Anspach ROCK FALLS – Kathryn L. Anspach, 66, of Rock Falls, died Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at Sterling Pavilion.

She was born March 5, 1947, in Cedar Falls, Iowa, a daughter of Grant and Marcella (Miller) Ehrke. She was united in marriage to Joseph Anspach on Aug. 9, 1991. He preceded her in death on Jan. 14, 2005.

Kathryn was an accounting clerk with Sauk Valley Media for 44 years before retiring May 31, 2013. She enjoyed knitting, cross stitching, crafts, crocheting, reading, and shopping. Kathryn adored her grandchildren, and loved to watch their sporting events.

Those left to honor

her memory include a son, David (Sue) Jones Jr., a sister, Karla (Jerry) Portner, and her grandchildren, Vicki, Zach and Abbi Jones, all of Rock Falls; and a nephew, Ben (Jennifer) Portner of Sterling.

Kathryn also was preceded in death by her parents.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Brian Vickers officiating. Burial will be at Riverside Cemetery in Sterling.

A memorial has been established.

Visit www.mcdonaldfuneralhomes.com to send condolences.

Lois E. Myers OREGON – Lois E. Myers, 86, a lifelong Oregon resident, died Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at Family First Home of Oregon.

She was born Nov. 1, 1927, in Lee County, the daughter of Allen and Mattie (Stauffer) Straley. She married Robert E. Myers on June 9, 1945, in Oregon. He died Sept. 13, 2005. She farmed with her husband for many years, and then worked at Lorado Taft Field Campus as a cook for several years before retiring. Lois was a kindhearted person whose door always was open for coffee, tea, or supper. Friends would often stop by to play dominoes and cards, and do puzzles. She was a member of Lighthouse United Methodist Church. She did beautiful counted crossstitching that looked like paintings.

She is survived by her

daughter-in-law, Kathy Myers of Ridott; brothers, Vernon Straley and Earl Straley, both of Oregon, and Dale (Alta) Straley of Winnebago; sister, Joyce Seyler of Winnebago; grandchildren, Erica and Ian Kopp; and daughter, Sara Lynn (Bernard) Kopp of Oregon.

She also was preceded in death by her son, Randy; and sister, Wilda.

There is no visitation.

The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at FarrellHolland-Gale Funeral Home in Oregon, with the Rev. Javier Martinez, pastor of Lighthouse United Methodist Church in Oregon, officiating. Burial will be at Lighthouse Cemetery in rural Oregon.

Memorials in Lois’s name may be made to the American Cancer Society.

Visit www.farrellhollandgale.com to send condolences.

Margaret D. Ayres MORRISON – Margaret D. Ayres, 81, of Morrison, formerly of Sterling, died Saturday, March 1, 2014, at Four Seasons Living Center in Morrison.

A celebration of life gathering will be at noon Saturday at the Sterling Moose Lodge, 2601 E. Lincolnway, after a private service.

ELECTION 2014

GOP governor candidates debate unions’ role Hopefuls face off in penultimate debate before March 18 primary CHICAGO (AP) – A major union’s endorsement became a central focus of a debate between the Republican candidates for Illinois governor on Wednesday, prompting questions about the contenders’ GOP credentials, accusations of “selling out� taxpayers and pointed exchanges over the role of organized labor in the state’s politics.

State Sens. Kirk Dillard and Bill Brady, businessman Bruce Rauner and state Treasurer Dan Rutherford met in their second-to-last debate before the March 18 primary.

The event came the same day that the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31, the state’s largest public-employee union, endorsed Dillard, and as campaign finance filings showed labor sinking even more money into

a multimillion-dollar antiRauner advertising campaign.

Rauner, a businessman from Winnetka who has repeatedly blamed “government union bosses� for Illinois’ dismal financial situation, wasted little time in using the endorsement to question Dillard’s allegiances. He noted AFSCME and two teachers unions that also are backing Dillard have been big supporters of Gov. Pat Quinn and other Democrats. “Why are you running in the Republican primary?�

Rauner asked Dillard. “I think you should be running in the Democratic primary.�

Brady also got in on the attack, questioning Dillard’s vote last year against a landmark pension overhaul that cut worker benefits and is opposed by the unions.

The measure is estimated

to save Illinois $145 billion over 30 years. “Many people on campaign trail say you sold out the taxpayers to the unions,� said Brady, of Bloomington.

As he has for weeks, Dillard defended his support, saying many union members are Republicans and that the GOP – which has struggled in Illinois – can’t afford to “demonize� potential supporters.

He insisted the unions knew he wouldn’t be in lock step with them, but that they appreciated he was willing to sit down and hear their concerns. “They’re going to expect No. 1, respect,� Dillard said. “My approach with unions will work. It’s not

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a sledgehammer, ‘My way or the highway.’�

The Hinsdale lawmaker said he voted no on the pension bill, after supporting similar measures, because it was rushed through the Legislature and it didn’t set limits on how Quinn and the Democrat-controlled Legislature could use the annual savings.

Brady voted in favor of the pension bill. Rauner opposed it because he said it didn’t save enough money, while Rutherford said he believed the courts will find it unconstitutional.

Brady also insisted that he was the only “reliable Republican� in the race, and criticized Rauner –

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vote with Bruce Rauner?

Someone that they didn’t even know 4 months ago,� Brady said. “The three of us have a pretty open book. We’ve got a track record.�

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Coloma Township finds missing $19,000 Commissioner: Money was in disbursement fund

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ROCK FALLS – For a long time, Ruthie Rogers, Coloma Township road commissioner, had asked during meetings about where the township was keeping $19,000 from the sale of a truck.

She received no answers.

Then Rogers sent a public records request to Coloma’s supervisor, Debra Burke, for the information.

But Rogers waited months for the documents, long after the deadlines under the state Freedom of Information Act. Finally, she got the records and found where the money appeared to

have gone – in the general disbursement fund. It was supposed to be in the road and bridge account, Rogers said.

This is another example of financial problems in Coloma Township. Since last fall, Burke has been under fire for her handling of the books.

Township Trustee Peggy McFadden said the problem was another example of incompetence. “I’m totally amazed all the time with the problems that come up,� said McFadden, who joined the board about a year ago. “You get bewildered.�

About a year ago, Rogers said, her predecessor, Gerald Bristle, asked her

about the $19,000 “to see if it was accounted for.�

That’s when she started asking about the money at meetings. “I never got an answer on it,� Rogers said during a break from snowplowing Wednesday. “It was a long process to get the information.�

Burke said the money was never lost. Last month, she said, the money was transferred from the general disbursement account to road and bridge.

Asked about the time it took to transfer the money, Burke said, “We had to find where it was deposited.�

A few months ago, Burke gave the state comptrol-

No Coloma audit results yet 2/#+ &!,,3 n #OLOMA Township, which has been under fire since last year for its finances, has yet to get a completed audit.

It’s been nearly a year since Wipfli started the township’s audit. !T TIMES THE ACCOUNTing firm has requested more information from Coloma’s supervisor, Debra Burke, so that it ler’s office the financial reports from the past 4 years, which are on the agency’s website. The township hadn’t submitted one since 2009, although it’s required to do so every year. The 21 other townships in Whiteside County

could finish its work. “We still have not got it done. That’s all I know,� township Trustee Peggy McFadden said. “Supposedly, Debbie has gotten everything to them that they requested.�

Wipfli, a regional accounting firm that has an office in Sterling, hasn’t returned calls for comment.

In December, the firm gave the township until the middle of that month to turn in the numbers or it would wait to finish Coloma’s audit until after TAX SEASON ENDS IN !PRIL Burke said she spoke with Wipfli last week. “They are still working on trial balances,� she said, adding that she hoped the firm could finish the work soon.

– all but one smaller than Coloma – have been up to date with their reports.

Burke also has been late in publishing financial statements in the newspaper, which is another requirement. At one point, the county with-

held more than $400,000 in property tax payments from Coloma because of late statements. “What did the township live on when she wasn’t getting any tax money?�

McFadden asked. “I don’t know.�

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wo families of Dixon military veterans could get $5,000 scholarships.

LRB Distributors Inc. made the donation to the Folds of Honor Foundation, a nonprofit group that gives scholarships and assistance to the spouses or children of military veterans who were killed or disabled.

Folds of Honor will accept the applications and award the scholarships.

It’s not the first time LRB Distributors has worked with the group, said LRB coordinator Andrew Brockwell, adding that they’ve previously collected a nickel or quarter for each sale of a Budweiser product and donated it to Folds of Honor. “We’re big on donating to the community and giving back, especially to the soldiers that give life and limb for us,� Brockwell said. “And this is a way to give back to them. ... It’s just our way of giving back.�

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“with a service-connected disability� from the Department of Veterans Affairs are eligible to receive the scholarships, according to the scholarship website.

Scholarships are available for college students, dependents enrolled in high school or lower grade levels and for future college use. The deadline to submit an application is April 30.

Go to www.FoldsOfHonor.org or call 918274-4700 for more information or to submit an application.

Main Street hiring Dixon Main Street is looking for an events and marketing coordinator

for the riverfront.

The job was posted to Main Street’s website Wednesday, with a March 28 deadline to apply.

On Monday, Main Street Executive Director Josh Albrecht got the blessing of the City Council to submit a formal contract to the city attorney to merge Main Street and the Dixon Riverfront Commission.

In that merger, Main Street will take over the day-to-day operations of the riverfront. The new position will be added as part of the merger, with $15,000 for salary and benefits coming from the city. Main Street will contribute $25,000 toward the total salary and benefits for the position.

According to the job listing: Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in event planning and a bachelor’s degree, among other qualifications. Job responsibilities include organizing events for Main Street and the riverfront and selling sponsorships for events.

Albrecht said Main

Street hopes to have the position filled by May 1.

Go to www.DixonMainStreet.com for more information.

Buddy Bags donations Books on First, 202 W. First St. in Dixon, will begin taking food donations for Buddy Bags of Dixon.

Buddy Bags, currently a pilot program, sends food home each Friday with students at Washington Elementary who qualify for free or reduced price lunches.

The food is enough for two breakfasts, two lunches and two snacks.

Buddy Bags wants to expand the program to the entire school district starting next school year.

Search “Buddy Bags of Dixon� on Facebook for more information.

Sauk Valley Media reporter Matt Mencarini covers government and happenings in Dixon. He can be reached at mmencarini@saukvalley.com or at 815-625-3600, ext. 529.

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After Shomaker completed it, offered his guilty plea. One month after offering his plea, and while out on bond, Shomaker then twice tested positive for drugs and admitted to using marijuana and Tylenol 3.

In February, then, Sho-

maker was charged with possession with intent to deliver drugs.

His other current charges in Lee County include theft, burglary, and criminal damage to property.

But, as Judge Jacobson acknowledged during his sentencing, everyone is presumed innocent until proved to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, which is why Jacobson hinged

the majority of his sentence on Shomaker’s addiction to drugs. “Drug habits are extremely difficult to shake and extremely difficult to deal with,�

Jacobson said.

And because of that, he said, it would be “incorrect and wrong to consider [the defendant] for probation.� “You’re actually given

an opportunity to make changes in your life,� the judge said. “What happened can never be erased. ... At this point, you’re at a very critical moment in your life.�

Jacobson asked that while Shomaker is in prison, he consider taking part in the prison’s drug treatment program, and take the opportunity to make positive life changes.

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STERLING – A fundraiser to help a local Army veteran combat brain cancer will be from noon to 6 p.m.

Sunday at Cochran’s Pub, 13464 Galt Road.

Rhonda Howard Schweska grew up in Sterling and served during Operation Desert Storm.

Her children, Carlye and Zach, spent their junior and high school years in the Chadwick-Milledgeville School District.

On Jan. 9, Rhonda was treated for a seizure, and Rockford Memorial Hospital confirmed she had a malignant tumor putting pressure on her brain.

Surgery was performed to remove the tumor, which was diagnosed as glioblastoma multiforme, a rapid-growing and aggressive cancer.

Schweska was left with severe weakness and paralysis on her right side. She also faces difficulty reading, writing, saying what she means

to say, and swallowing.

Schweska faces in-patient rehabilitation and cancer treatment, which will be covered by Medicaid.

Sunday’s proceeds will go toward home health care costs not covered by insurance. Schweska has two adult children, Carlye and Zach, and two grandchildren. “She’s in Carbondale with her daughter,� said Tammy Hayen, a friend of Schweskas.

There will be no cost to attend the benefit. Barbecue meals will be sold for a donation. A raffle for gift certificates and other items will cost $1 per ticket, $5 for six, or $10 for an armlength. A silent auction will take place, with three baskets from Massage Works in Sterling, a photograph from the Chicago Bears, and other items.

Donations may be made out to the Rhonda Schweska Benefit, care of Milledgeville State Bank, 451 N. Main Ave. For more information, call Hayen at 815-225-5622 and leave a message.

IN BRIEF State puts $45M toward tornado aid 302).'&)%,$ !0 n !FTER THE DENIAL OF FEDERAL disaster assistance, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced the state will be making MILLION AVAILABLE TO help local governments recover from November’s deadly tornadoes.

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Eastern county coverage is lacking in paper MARK BRESSON Compton

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Let temporary tax hike expire Politicians have failed to spend extra money wisely SPRINGFIELD – Back in 2011, the state of Illinois began snatching away an extra week’s worth of our pay.

At the time, we were assured of two things: The tax hike was necessary, and it would be temporary.

But, like so much that politicians tell us, both statements are questionable.

First of all, we were told that the increase was necessary to help put the state’s fiscal house in order and to pay down the backlog of unpaid bills.

But even after jacking up our taxes, the state’s fiscal condition is pathetic.

Springfield is paying its bills many months late, the state pensions are the worst funded of any state, and Illinois’ credit rating is in the [toilet].

scottREEDER Scott Reeder is a reporter in residence for the Illinois Policy Institute.

Contact him at sreeder@ illinoispolicy. org.

Instead of using the extra tax dollars to pay down bills, Springfield politicians used it increase spending.

That shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Most politicians are far more comfortable spending than saving.

After all, it’s what they do best.

And, for the record, there are plenty of myths surrounding this tax hike.

The most persistent – and most annoying – is that the politicians raised our income taxes by only 2 percent.

Even as abysmal as I was in high school math, I can tell you that raising the income tax rate from 3 percent to 5 percent is a tax hike of 67 percent – not 2 percent.

The fact that so many politicians persist in

claiming it was only 2 percent makes one wonder whether: A) They aren’t real bright.

B) They aren’t particularly honest.

C) That’s what their leaders have told them to say.

D) All of the above.

It being Springfield, any of those answers may be correct.

Some would have you believe this tax hike is picayune – hardly noticeable for the average household.

Nonsense.

THE TAX HIKE ALONE is the equivalent of one week’s pay for every worker in Illinois.

And what have workers gotten in return?

Not much.

The state is still broke.

Spending is on the upswing. Bills are still going unpaid.

And guess what?

Now they are talking about taking the “temporary� out of the income tax increase.

Some lawmakers and pundits say it’s time for Illinois to make the tax hike permanent, while others say perhaps we

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The state is still broke. Spending is on the upswing.

Bills are still going unpaid.

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ought to move back the law’s January 2015 sunset date.

To both proposed laws, I can only say, Baloney.

The state hasn’t used the extra money wisely this year or in 2013, 2012 or 2011.

What makes our leaders think they will start using it wisely if it becomes permanent?

State revenues are at their highest level in Illinois’ 196-year history.

Springfield has a problem with spending – not revenue.

It’s time for our lawmakers to say “goodbye� to the tax hike and embrace difficult spending decisions.

Note to readers: Scott Reeder’s column is underwritten by the Illinois Policy Institute.

THE READER’S VOICE

Disagrees with abortion-rights writer’s reasons CHRISTOPHER HARRISON Dixon

After reading Steve Lopez’s “Don’t approve of abortion? Don’t have one� letter [dated Feb. 22] and seeing the terrible reasoning he gave for that position, I had to write.

Hey, if you don’t want to cut down your neighbor’s house for your firewood, fine. But don’t tell me I can’t, OK?

(Ridiculous, right?)

Stating that we “have to determine what kind of life you are describing,� he acts as if we aren’t sure it is human life that is developing in the mother. It is fact that it is human life; every time, the mother will find it’s a human baby that develops, not a cat, a cow or something else.

Then, he effectively says if it isn’t “conscious,� it isn’t alive, and “we have no evidence supporting the consciousness of an embryo.� Astounding.

How conscious is a

baby who is 2 days old?

Two months old? More or less than a fetus that is 2 months old? If we assume, as you do, for a moment that we are not certain of “consciousness� of the developing fetus, shouldn’t civilized people protect the defenseless, and err on the side of life?

Switching subjects, he says that Mr. Becker objects to homosexuals’ “deserved rights.� Apparently, homosexuals should have the right to impose on everyone else their desired new defini-

tion of the basic, timetested, and, yes, Godordained building block of culture. Where do they get that “right�?

So, whose code should we live by?

The reason our freedom is in jeopardy is indeed because of that philosophy being forced on us all that says, “No one’s code is right.� According to them, especially not the code that the Founders clearly favored, and has served us and the world so much better than any other for so many years – the Bible.

The deadline to submit election-related letters to the editor is noon Tuesday, March 11.

EDITORIAL BOARD Jennifer Baratta Jim Dunn Sheryl Gulbranson Larry Lough Trevis Mayfield Jeff Rogers

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This is in regard to the article “SVM Scouts 1A Boys Basketball Regionals� in the Feb. 24 issue. If you had done your homework, you would know that Justin Wiley and Zach Lilja are not on the Paw Paw team.

They both graduated last year and have moved on to college ball. Nicholas Siemers is on the team, and if he was included in the area leaders, he would be the leading scorer and would be toward the top of the rebound, steals, and assist list. You have missed a very good ball player all season.

You seem to forget that Lee County extends past an Amboy-to-Ashton line.

Very seldom do you cover Paw Paw, Compton or West Brooklyn.

There was a major house fire in Compton awhile back that the Dixon ladder truck helped at, and not one word in your paper. I guess Whiteside, Ogle and Carroll counties are more important than your own county.

Re-elect Varga for Lee sheriff LARRY EISENBERG Amboy

I spent 8 years on the Lee County Board. During that time, I saw Sheriff John Varga administer the office of sheriff in a good way.

He brought many ideas to the board, some of which were acted on to make the Lee County Sheriff’s Department more of a service to the citizens of the county.

Sometimes I believe the Republican Party cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe this time the light is Sheriff John Varga, and he should be re-elected for another term.

Gun-free zones ignore history’s tragic lessons DUANE F. BAUFUSS Sterling

A friend of mine stopped at his favorite gas station the other day. He was greeted by a sign that stated, “No guns allowed.�

He asked the manager about the sign, and the manager replied that she didn’t want to allow guns in the store. My friend told her that he would no longer buy fuel from the store and left to find another “more Second Amendment friendly� place.

The manager appears to want to create a safe work environment, but she fails to see the lessons of history. The criminal will see the sign as an invitation. The business will look to be an easy, undefended target to be robbed or worse. After all, how often is a convenience store robbed?

The active shooters whom we read about too often will actively seek the “gun-free zone� as a target-rich environment without an ability to retaliate. My count is all but one incident of active

“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.�

Charles Evans Hughes, former chief justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1925

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Reminder on election letter lengths The maximum length for letters to the editor endorsing candidates or discussing issues regarding the March 18 primary is 200 words.

Letter writers may not endorse the same candidate or issue more than once. The submission deadline is noon March 11. shooters has been in a gun-free zone.

The only other reason I could see is that she suffers from “hoplophobia.�

Hoplophobia is a neologism, originally coined to describe an irrational aversion to firearms, as opposed to justified apprehension about those who may wield them. It is sometimes used more generally to describe the “fear of guns� or the “fear of armed citizens.� I know of one person who is affected by this.

We should all understand that the people who go through the effort to acquire a concealed-carry permit are not a hazard but an asset to us all. The wolves that prey on society are less likely to attack a person if they think there is someone who has the ability to bring lethal force to the conflict.

Elect Drought sheriff of Ogle NEIL and ANN ANDERSEN Rochelle

In the primary election March 18, we’ll have the opportunity to elect a sheriff with the experience, leadership, integrity, and professionalism to run the sheriff’s department appropriately. This person is Joe Drought.

We’ve known Joe for many years as members of the First Presbyterian Church of Rochelle and witnessed firsthand Joe’s ability to lead, take command, and be very decisive in making decisions.

He’s a very compassionate and caring Christian man and lives his life each day serving the Lord and fellow citizens.

Joe has trained many area police officers on how to protect our children and school staff from active shooters. He has adapted this training to give the teachers and staff in our school districts tools with which to protect themselves and our children.

The office of sheriff should be run by someone who has law enforcement administration experience and proven leadership skills; someone we can trust to make good decisions, act professionally, and who will serve and protect the people of Ogle County. For those reasons, we will be supporting Joe Drought for Ogle County sheriff.

We urge you to compare all three candidates, and you will likely reach the same decision.

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Aristotle Onassis said, “Don’t sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half in which to succeed.”

I wonder if he tried that plan, but fell asleep on the job.

A bridge player cannot afford to sleep at the table. He should count winners and losers, and watch all of the cards as they are played.

In this deal, the problem is South’s extra loser. West leads the spade queen against three hearts. How should South proceed?

North had a textbook game-invitational limit raise, showing at least four hearts, 10-12 support points (highcard points plus short-suit

points) and eight losers.

South guessed well to pass.

When the dummy comes down, declarer should count his losers. Here he has one club, one heart and at least

two spades. He has only seven sure winners: four hearts, two diamonds and one club.

South should play a low spade from the dummy at the first two tricks.

East is bound to have the ace and might be forced to play it. Here, though, the defenders take the first three tricks. Then East shifts to a low club. What next?

Declarer has gained an eighth winner, his last spade.

But he still has five losers: three spades, one heart and one club.

How can he eliminate that club loser?

South must immediately take three diamond tricks.

He cashes his diamond ace, plays a diamond to dummy’s jack, and discards his club jack on the diamond king.

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Geocaching event planned for March 22 STAFF REPORT news@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 501

THOMSON – For those looking to get outside and do some exploring, the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge might have the answer.

A Curing Cabin Fever V Geocaching event is planned for March 22.

The event will begin with a meet and greet from 10 a.m. to noon at Heirloom Market/Cafe, 2200 state Route 84. This will provide a chance for participants to get together and share their geocaching experiences with a meal. There will be an introduction to the geocaching class from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. at Ingersoll Wetlands Learning Center, 7071 Riverview Road.

Then, geocaching will commence from 1:45 to 3:30 p.m.

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Two girls participate in a past geocaching event. Curing Cabin Fever V Geocaching is planned for March 22 in Thomson. tioning System receiver (GPSr) to find a treasure or cache. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook and “treasure,� usually toys or trinkets of little monetary value.

To reserve a spot for the event, got to www.fws. gov/refuge/upper_mis-

sissippi_river or call 815273-2732 ext. 116. The event is free and is geared towards beginners, but all levels are welcome.

You don’t need to own a GPSr; you can borrow one from the refuge for the day. If you do bring your own, please be sure to bring your cable to

connect to the computer for downloading cache locations.

Experienced geocachers are needed to volunteer and help with the field practice. Contact the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge to volunteer.

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Area student to play with orchestra Sixteen-year-old will graduate from Clinton High School this year STAFF REPORT news@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 501

STERLING – Cyrus Colah, a 16-year-old pianist of Clinton, has been named 2014 Young Artist by the Clinton Symphony Orchestra, and will perform a concerto with the orchestra at their concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, at Sterling High School’s Centennial Auditorium, 1608 Fourth Ave. All students are admitted free to the concert in his honor.

Colah will graduate from Clinton High School this year with college plans to become

a chemical engineer. He began piano study at age 6 in Minnesota, and continued under Audrey Owen when the family moved to Clinton.

In fourth grade, Colah became involved with the orchestra program in the Clinton schools, studying the cello under the instruction of Greg and Julie Marston. In sixth grade he began private cello lessons with Robert Whipple.

Colah will perform the first movement from Saint-Saens’ “Second Piano Concerto� with the orchestra.

Also on Saturday’s program is “Peter and the

Wolf,� a musical children’s tale. Its composer, Sergi Prokofiev, uses musical themes and particular instruments of the orchestra to portray each of and animals and characters in the story. Rob Engelson of Clinton will narrate the story, with conductor Brian Dollinger leading the orchestra.

Gateway Contemporary Ballet members will portray the characters on stage.

The ballet will also join forces with the orchestra to portray animals from Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals,� which Engelson will

narrate.

Adult tickets are $15, available in advance at Tegeler Music in Clinton, Fitzgeralds Pharmacy in Morrison, and Grummert’s Hardware in Sterling, or at the door of the concert.

Because of uncertain driving conditions, Community State Bank and the symphony have joined together to provide a bus from Clinton.

Information and reservations can be made with Marianne Jensen at 563-243-5958. Space is limited.

Go to www.clintonsymphony.org for more information.

Benefit for children of accident victim planned STERLING – A benefit for the children of Bryan Schrimpf, who died Sept. 8 in a motorcycle accident, is planned from 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday at John-

ny’s Bar and Grill, 707 Freeport Road.

The event’s proceeds will go toward Schrimpf’s funeral expenses, and education and care expenses for his children, Addyson and Eastyn.

The benefit also will serve as a birthday party for Schrimpf, who would have been turning 21.

There will be a taco bar from 1 to 4 p.m. An auction and 50/50 raffles are

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DAVENPORT, Iowa â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Local composer Jacob Bancks will join Beethoven and Brahms on the program for this weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performances by the Quad City Symphony Orchestra. In addition to the world premiere of Bancksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rock Island Line,â&#x20AC;? the the concert will include Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eighth Symphonyâ&#x20AC;? and Brahmsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Second Symphony.â&#x20AC;?

The concerts will be performed Saturday and Sunday. Saturday eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concert is at 7:30 p.m. at the Adler Theatre, 136 E. Third St., Davenport.

The Sunday performance is at 2 p.m. at Centennial Hall, 3703 Seventh Ave., Rock Island. This concert is sponsored in memory of Isador, Ruth Evelyn, and Judith Katz, with additional support by Melvin Berlin.

Among Bancksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; performances and commissions are works for the United States Marine Band, the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, eighth blackbird, Pacifica Quartet, Schola Antiqua of Chicago, Cantori New York, the Annapolis Symphony, Soli Deo Gloria, and many others. He teaches composition at

Augustana College.

On Friday, Music Director Mark Russell Smith Jacob will be Bancks joined by composer Jacob Bancks at Inside the Music. Inside the Music is at noon the Quad City Botanical Center, 2525 Fourth Ave., Rock Island.

This luncheon is hosted by Volunteers for Symphony. Cost is $15, and reservations can be made at www. qcsymphony.com or by calling 563-3227276.

Also on Friday, students are welcome to sit in on a dress rehearsal and get the inside perspective through Students@ Symphony. During a break in the rehearsal, the students will have an opportunity to meet Smith.

This program is open to any secondary or elementary student and supervising adults.

Students should arrive at 7:30 p.m. and preregister online at www. qcsymphony.com.

After the Saturday night performance, the audience is invited to mingle with the guest artists and members of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra in the lobby of the Hotel Blackhawk at Afterglow. The evening includes free hors dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oeuvres, cash bar, and, of course, repartee.

Go to www.qcsymphony.com or call 563-322-7276 for ticket information.

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MOVIES | â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;12 YEARS A SLAVEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Film puts spotlight on industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach to race Two Oscar voters admit they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see best picture

BY JOHN HORN MCT News Service

LOS ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Was it ultimately a race about race?

The best picture Oscar is meant to honor the yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest achievement in film, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;12 Years a Slaveâ&#x20AC;? had no shortage of supporters before winning the top honor Sunday. But for all the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artistry, the

undercurrent of many â&#x20AC;&#x153;12 Years a Slaveâ&#x20AC;? conversations hinged on race and how Hollywood has for decades given short shrift to one of the most inglorious chapters in the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history.

The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s distributor anchored its awards campaign around the line â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time,â&#x20AC;? easily interpreted as an attempt to exhort members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences into voting for the movie because it was the right thing to do.

The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director, British filmmaker Steve

McQueen, said repeatedly during the long awards season that Hollywood appeared more comfortable making Holocaust movies than slavery stories. And in her opening monologue, Oscar host Ellen DeGeneres even joked that if McQueenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s telling of the enslavement of Solomon Northup didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take the top Academy Award, voters could be branded as â&#x20AC;&#x153;racists.â&#x20AC;?

Whether or not Oscar voters were motivated by fear of looking racially insensitive, or to correct a perceived histori-

cal wrong, can never be known. But one top Oscar strategist said that Academy Awards voters have a long history of honoring movies that take on the subject of race relations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Look at â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;A Soldierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Story,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;In the Heat of the Night,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ray,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Guess Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coming to Dinnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sounder,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? said publicist Tony Angellotti, reeling off the names of films that collectively garnered 30 Oscar nominations with nine wins. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This kind of socially aware vote for a movie that spotlights racism is

rooted in the academyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DNA.â&#x20AC;?

All the same, two Oscar voters privately admitted that they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see â&#x20AC;&#x153;12 Years a Slave,â&#x20AC;? thinking it would be upsetting. But they said they voted for it anyway because, given the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social relevance, they felt obligated to do so.

In winning the best picture honor, â&#x20AC;&#x153;12 Years a Slaveâ&#x20AC;? became the first feature directed by a black man to collect the definitive Academy Award, capping a remarkable year for people of color in Hollywood. The Kenyan actress

Lupita Nyongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;o from â&#x20AC;&#x153;12 Years a Slaveâ&#x20AC;? won for supporting actress, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gravityâ&#x20AC;? filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron became the first Latino to win the directing Oscar and â&#x20AC;&#x153;20 Feet From Stardom,â&#x20AC;? a look at African-American backup singers, was named top documentary feature.

Even if they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win any Oscars, 2013â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most acclaimed films included the civil rights tale â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lee Danielsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Butler,â&#x20AC;? the Jackie Robinson story â&#x20AC;&#x153;42â&#x20AC;? and the South African biography â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.â&#x20AC;?

March 16 Live music at Rosbrook DIXON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Kiwanis Club of Dixon will present its 18th annual Youth Musical Talent Showcase at 2 p.m. at The Next Picture Show, 114 W. First St. Eleven of the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best high school and college musicians will be performing at the concert.

Tickets are available at the door, and are $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, and $2 for seniors and students younger than 12.

There will be a reception following the concert. Refreshments will be served.

noon Saturday, year round, in the historic Twin City Produce Building, 106 Ave. A. Find the market on Facebook, go to twincityfarmersmarket.com, or call 815-499-7268 for a list of vendors, upcoming events and more information.

WHATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GOING ON ART EXHIBITS At The Next Picture Show DIXON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The exhibits Fantasy, Stream of Consciousness, and Celebrating Black History will run through April 5. Celebrating Black History is a retrospective exhibit of the works of Shelly Vidmar. Vidmar was a prolific, selftaught artist who specialized in the portrait. Through her artwork, she tried to define the essence of the African American struggle. Art had always been her passion, and to teach young people her dream.

Kreider Services is holding â&#x20AC;&#x153;Perspectives: Art and Photography,â&#x20AC;? running through March 28. The exhibit of art and photography through the hearts, hands and minds of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Art at the Loveland DIXON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The art collection at the Loveland Community House and Museum, 513 W. Second St., and its many other exhibits are available for viewing from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and by appointment.

Guided group tours can be scheduled by contacting Steve Wilson at swilson@lovelandcommunityhouse.org or 815-2842741.

Go to lovelandcommunityhouse.org for a virtual tour of the museum, and for more information.

BANDS AND BARS Get listed!

Are you in a band that would like to be listed in Plan!t Sauk Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s free entertainment calendar? Are you a bar that offers live entertainment? Send an email with the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name, booking number and website or Facebook page, and gig or event schedule, or the barâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event schedule, to Lucas Pauley at lpauley@saukvalley.com.

At Books on First DIXON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Flying Fish will play from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Books on First, 202 W. First St. Go to www.booksonfirst.com or call 815-285-2665 for more information.

Upcoming: March 15, Ron Holm; March 22, Robbie LeBlanc; and March 29, Anna Marie Petry.

At Champs STERLING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Trippinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Molly will play Saturday at the bar, 216 Locust St. For more information, call 815626-6003.

Upcoming: March 15, Poison Apple; March 22, Dirty Beet Brothers and Lunch with Pedro; and March 29, Michael D. Band.

At Cragelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PROPHETSTOWN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Yesterdaze Gone will play March 15 at the bar, 345 Washington St.

blues, gospel, folk, soft rock, and eclectic mixes of all of the above. Admission is a donation.

All musicians and spectators are welcome. Call 815-973-0942 for more information.

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Ray Rose, a regular performer at First Fridays, plays music that ranges from country to folk to acoustic rock and roll. First Fridays Open Stage Music Show returns to the Oregon VFW, 1310 W. Washington St., this weekend.

Upcoming: April 26, Whitlocked and Loaded; and May 31, Reflex Blues.

At The Cooler ROCK FALLS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Cal Stage Band will play Friday, and Leprechaun Leap Starts will play until 7:30 p.m., with Bone Whiskey will finishing the night, Saturday at the bar, 311 W. Second St. At Long Shot Bar & Grill ROCK FALLS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Drop Dead Dolly will play Saturday at the bar, 3312 W. Rock Falls Road.

DJ Soundstorm will be on hand Fridays this month.

Upcoming: March 15, Kizmaz; March 21, Rout 38; March 22, Sharks Benefit; and March 29, The Funnies.

At Poopyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SAVANNA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kill Bill Eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will play at 8 p.m. Saturday at the bar, 1030 Viaduct Road. The band will have DJ Deano on hand every Friday.

Upcoming: March 15, Cal Stage Band; March 22, Lynn Alan Band; and March 29, Jammer.

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Ramblers will play 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar and Girl, 125 E. Mason St., Polo.

Upcoming: 7 to 10 p.m. March 15 at Sterling Moose Club, 2601 E. Lincolnway; 8 to 11:30 p.m.

March 22 at Rock Falls American Legion.

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Tickets are $15. Those wanting to attend must be at least 21 and have a Wild Rose Playerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club Card.

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Rockford Symphony Orchestra concert ROCKFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Rockford Symphony Orchestraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2013-14 season continues at 7:30 p.m. the Coronado Performing Arts Center, 314 N. Main St. The concert is the fifth in this seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ComEd Classics Series.

Tickets for this concert are available online at www.rockfordsymphony.com or by calling the Rockford Symphony Orchestra Box Office at 815-965-0049.

Concert ticket prices range from $20 to $58. Student tickets are $7.

March 14 Bands at Rosbrook Studio DIXON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Defeated Royals, Dare I Dream, Love Party, Surviving Sunday, and Ali Settles and Jake Woods will play at Project GenNex teen concert from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. at Rosbrook Studio, 107 S. Peoria Ave. Sow Bellys will be vending the event.

Admission is free, though freewill donations to help Project GenNex will be accepted.

The event is open to all ages.

For more info, find Project GenNex on Facebook.

March 21 Blues and Bluegrass FRANKLIN GROVE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the third Friday of the month, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blues and Bluegrass night at the H.I. Lincoln Building, 136 N. Elm St. Open stage acoustic gospel, folk, country, blues and bluegrass will be performed, starting at 7 p.m. Admission is free; donations are accepted to help with the upkeep of the historic building.

Go to www.franklingroveil.org for more information.

Upcoming: April 18

DOWNTOWN EVENTS Saturday Second Saturdays in Dixon DIXON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Second Saturdays Art Happenings, featuring art, music and other cultural events, returns to various venues, mostly from 6 to 8 p.m. downtown, between First and Second streets and Peoria and Galena avenues.

Go to www.Second-Saturdays. com or find the event on Facebook for a complete schedule and more details.

Upcoming: April 5

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KARAOKE Tuesday At Charlieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar and Grill MOUNT CARROLL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Karaoke is offered at 7 p.m. every Tuesday at Charlieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar and Grill, 123 W. Market St. Friday Party with the James Gang DIXON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Karaoke with the James Gang from 8 a.m. to noon at Dixon VFW, 1560 Franklin Grove. Email jamesgang1996@gmail.com for more information.

Upcoming: 8 p.m. to midnight March 14 at Dixon VFW, 1560 Franklin Grove Road; 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. March 15 at Ralphie and Lu Luâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 812 Main St., Ashton; 8 p.m. to midnight March 22 at Brandywin Lodge, 441 state Route 2, Dixon; and 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Messieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar and Grill, 117 N. River Road, Oregon.

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Sequel is prettier but less thrilling

Choir performance planned in Dixon DIXON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Dixon High School choral department will present its annual Mid-Winter Concert at 7 p.m. Thursday in the high school auditorium, 300 Lincoln Statue Dr. The high schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concert choir, jazz choir and honors choir will perform. The seniors will be honored for their years of service, and the students and audience are invited to attend a reception in the seniorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; honor immediately following the concert.

The concert will feature a variety of music, including music of the Classical area, American folk tunes, and a full department prelude to begin the evening.

The public is invited to this free performance. Donation cans will be displayed, with proceeds going to the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choir program.

For more information, call 815-284-7723.

BY ROGER MOORE MCT News Service

King Leonidas slipped into legend at the Battle of Thermopylae, martyred with 300 Spartans for the sake of Western Civilization and Spartan glory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.â&#x20AC;?

So it was too much to hope that someone with Gerard Butlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charismatic, bellowing swagger would be around for the sequel, â&#x20AC;&#x153;300: Rise of an Empire.â&#x20AC;? His Leonidas and his oiled-down eight-pack are sorely missed, as are the quotable quatrains of that famous fight, the Spartan trash talk that sings through the ages. So many Persian arrows will rain on them that they will â&#x20AC;&#x153;blot out the sunâ&#x20AC;?? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then we shall fight in the shade.â&#x20AC;?

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing that moving in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rise of an Empire,â&#x20AC;? a more visually stunning but less thrilling epic with bloodier slomotion swordfights, this time at sea. It lacks the heroic proportions and poetry of â&#x20AC;&#x153;300,â&#x20AC;? mainly thanks to a less impressive cast and murky, forgettable script.

Sullivan Stapleton (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gangster Squadâ&#x20AC;?) is Themistokles, the Greek general who took the oracleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prophecy that Greece could only be saved â&#x20AC;&#x153;by a wall of woodâ&#x20AC;? (i.e., ships) to

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Lena Headey in â&#x20AC;&#x153;300: Rise of an Empire.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;300: Rise of an Empireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 2 1/2 stars (Grade: C-plus) Cast: Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Jack Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connell, Andrew Tiernan, David Wenham Directed by Noam Murro, scripted by Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad, based on the Frank Miller graphic novel. A Warner Bros. release.

Running time: 1 hour, 42 minutes heart and fought the enormous Persian fleet at Artemisium and Salamis. That prophecy, by the way, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shown â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a clever and quotably theatrical moment discarded as Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey) relates this oral history.

The movie opens at the end of Thermopylae, flashes back to the ear-

MPAA rating: R for strong sustained sequences of stylized bloody violence throughout, a sex scene, nudity and some language The movie opens this weekend at Carmike Sauk Valley 8 in standard and 3-D. Go to www.carmike.com for showtimes. lier Battle of Marathon, then flashes forward to the fictive present as Themistokles rallies the city states and prepares for battle at sea as Leonidas marches to his fate at Thermopylae.

The Persian fleet is led by the she-devil Artemisia, played by one-time Bond babe Eva Green, a seductive swordfighter

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It is. The clever Greeks foil her and crush her huge war galleys at every turn.

Things get so bad that Artemesia summons Themistokles for a mid-Aegean parlay. And things turn so hot and heavy there that Themistokles has to teach her a little Latin â&#x20AC;&#x201C; coitus interruptus.

Director Noam Murro did the college professor romance â&#x20AC;&#x153;Smart People,â&#x20AC;? in no way a recommendation for directing a red-blooded digital epic of an ancient sea battle. Zack Snyder, who directed the original film, had a hand in the tin-eared script. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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not graphic novel creator Frank Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fault that Thermopylae, the basis for his â&#x20AC;&#x153;300â&#x20AC;? book, made for more elegiac history than Salamis.

But the design â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a sea of greys and whites covered with heaving digital black ships and black sails and Persians clad in black battling Greeks in tiny brown boats â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is stunning, an improvement over 2006â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;300.â&#x20AC;?

And the action never disappoints.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pity this colorless cast doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold a candle to the Butler /Headey/ Michael Fassbender/ David Wenham crew of the original, that the writers couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t conjure up thrilling speeches to match the original.

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that these pretenders spoiled their franchise, and here their movie lies.

Comedian to perform March 20 at SVCC DIXON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sammy Obeid will offer a free performance at 7 p.m. March 20 in Mathis Theatre at Sauk Valley Community College, 173 state Route 2.

Obeid has recently appeared on Conan Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien, Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Got Talent and The Food Network. Obeid also has worked with Robin Williams, Russell Peters and Dana Carvey.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d rather be where we are today than where we were yesterday,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The flurry of diplomatic activity came as NATO punished Russia by suspending military cooperation, and the European Union extended $15 billion in aid to Ukraine, matching the amount the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fugitive

president accepted from Moscow to turn his back on an EU trade accord.

After an intense round of diplomacy with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and several European counterparts in Paris, Kerry said the meetings were â&#x20AC;&#x153;very constructive, without promising something

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Comets cage Seneca Newman rides suffocating defense to sectional final

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MANLIUS – Newman coach Ray Sharp’s message to his team was simple: Slow down Seneca’s Conlan Callahan, and we’ll be just fine.

Mission accomplished.

For the second consecutive year, the Comets bottled up the Fighting Irish’s do-it-all guard. This time, the result was a 54-39 victory Wednesday night at the Class 2A Bureau Valley Sectional.

Callahan averaged 14 points to pace a balanced Seneca attack, but he is the unquestioned go-to player for the Fighting Irish. He shot 2-for-8, however, and scored six points, thanks to some inyour-face defense from the Comets’ Nate Terveer and friends.

“I’m really happy with how we played as a team,” Terveer said. “It wasn’t just me. It was everybody working together. We knew who their best player was, and we worked as a team to stop him.”

A year ago, Nate’s older brother, Lucas, guarded Callahan at the Byron Sectional.

Callahan missed all 10 of his field-goal attempts as the Comets won 46-27.

Star of the game: Noah McCarty, Newman, 16 points, 5 blocked shots Key performers: A.J. Sharp, Newman, 14 points, 4 rebounds, 3 steals; Austin Applebee, Seneca, 15 rebounds, 13 points Up next: 2A Bureau Valley Sectional final, Newman vs.

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Sheldeen Joseph and the rest of the Skyhawks will play for the district title Saturday in North Dakota.

“Just play hard, stay low, and play smart,” Nate said, when asked what advice Lucas passed on for Wednesday’s game.

Sharp’s goal was to hold Callahan to under 10 points, and couldn’t have been more pleased to get that done.

“If you can keep the other team’s best player under 10, you’re doing something,” Sharp said. “Terveer did a great job on him individually, but it was really team defense that got it done.

Whenever they ran him off screens, we got switched.

“We tried to not let him catch it, but if he did catch it, if he put it on the floor, we doubled him right away. He’s such a great player, you’ve just got to get it out of his Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com hands and make somebody Newman’s Nolan McGinn gets past the Seneca defense for else beat you.” a layup during their Class 2A Bureau Valley Sectional semifinal Wednesday night in Manlius. The Comets won 54-39.

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1A RIVER RIDGE | EASTLAND 54, DAKOTA 50

The Shaner show just goes on Senior outscores Dakota counterpart, leads Eastland to win

BY PATRICK PETROSKY ppetrosky@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 551

HANOVER – The crowd that attended the 1A Sectional semifinal at River Ridge High School got their money’s worth Wednesday night.

The game featured two of the area’s top phenom scorers in Eastland’s Dalton Shaner and Dakota’s Brett Benning, and the duo put on quite a show.

But in the end, Shaner got the last laugh. The Cougar senior scored 39 points to help his team defeat the Indians 54-50.

He and Benning combined for 76 of the 104 points scored in the game.

“It was a lot of fun,” Shaner said. “This is my first time playing him in high school.

We played together all sumPhilip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.com mer, and have always talked Eastland’s Dalton Shaner and Dakota’s Brett Benning shake about how we wanted to play hands after Shaner’s Cougars defeated Benning’s Indians each other. It was fun going 54-50 Wednesday in the 2A River Ridge Sectional semifinal. back and forth with him.”

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Star of the Game: Dalton Shaner, Eastland, 39 points, 24 in second half Key performers: Brett Benning, Dakota, 37 points, 22 in 2nd half, 6 rebounds; Skylar Paulson, Eastland, 8 points, 4 rebounds Up next: 1A River Ridge Sectional final, Eastland vs.

Indian Creek, 7 p.m. Friday After an evenly matched first quarter, the Cougars (25-4) seized control in the second. They built a 20-13 lead with 4 minutes to go in the half.

Their defensive task then got a little tougher, as defensive guru Skylar Paulson went to the bench after picking up his third foul.

But even without their best defender matched up on Benning, the Cougars were able to pull through.

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Bulls bounce back, B5.

Last step sure is a doozy Sauk one road win away from nationals

BY BRIAN WEIDMAN bweidman@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 551

Jed Johnson knows the thrill of playing meaningful basketball in March from his days as a Rock Falls Rocket.

Now he gets to experience it as a coach.

Johnson is in his fourth year as head coach of the Sauk Valley Community College women’s basketball team. On Monday in Freeport, he guided the Skyhawks to their first Region IV Tournament championship since 2008.

The reward for that is a berth in the NJCAA District D championship Saturday in Devils Lake, N.D, where they will face the Region 13 champ, Lake Region State College. The winner between the Skyhawks (23-5) and Royals (28-4) advances to the 24-team national tournament slated to begin March 17 in Salina, Kan. “It’s always fun to play in March,” Johnson said. “It’s March Madness, and it’s kind of neat to be involved in that a little bit this month.”

“We’re so excited – we don’t want the season to end at all,” freshman center Autumn Smith added. “We get along amazing, and we just know that we didn’t want it to end, so we played our hearts out and kept the seaDOOZY CONTINUED ON B2

District D championship Sauk Valley (23-5) vs.

Lake Region (28-4) When: 2 p.m. Saturday Where: Devils Lake, N.D. Radio: 1240 AM At stake: Winner advances to junior college nationals, March 17-22 in Salina, Kan.

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As the NHLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trade deadline approached, Chicago Blackhawks General Manager Stan Bowman wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bunkered in his office furiously working the phones.

Instead, Bowman sat in the stands at the United Center and calmly watched the Hawks practice Wednesday, cellphone in hand but not to his ear. If it appeared Bowman wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even trying to make a deal, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because, well, he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t looking to do anything [Wednesday],â&#x20AC;? Bowman said shortly after the 2 p.m. deadline passed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We made our big move earlier [this season] when we got Kris Versteeg, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made some other minor moves in between. ... But we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t looking to do anything else. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the way the cap situation is this year, every team is tight against [it], so in order to make moves, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have trade money away â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any players that we want to trade away. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve really accomplished a lot over the last couple of seasons with the group we have here, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not looking to break it apart and try to bring in new players.

If we can add to it, which weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve

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So while some big names changed teams around the league, Bowman stood pat, satisfied with the group that has been in contention throughout this season after winning its second Stanley Cup in 4 years in 2013. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a plan in place to keep this group together, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got some young players that are right on the horizon that will be pushing for big spots on our team,â&#x20AC;? Bowman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe in this group. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve talked a lot to our coaching staff, and they believe in the group that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had here.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a lot of success with the main players, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to surround them with

young players who can contribute. All the main guys from last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team are back. That doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t guarantee you anything other than, if you play your best hockey, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a tough team to beat. We have to go out there and do it and earn the wins every night.â&#x20AC;?

So with the dust now settled after another trade deadline, does Bowman believe he has the team in place to make another run for a cup? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;... There are a lot of components to our team that are similar to a year ago. Some of the younger players are better now than they were a year ago, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exciting to see. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had any guys that have just dropped off and lost their talent over the last 6 months. We have a really good group that understands what it takes to win.â&#x20AC;?

Coach Joel Quenneville added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;we definitely like our team in a lot of ways. It will be a great stretch run. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It you look at the last couple, three deadlines, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve added ...

I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say huge deals, but [guys who] came in and really fit in well with our team. The nucleus and the core has always been in place. ... All aspects of our team, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re comfortable with.â&#x20AC;?

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The leading scorer for Lake Region, which has won 16 of its last 17 games, is Jordyn Kirk, a 5-foot-10 sophomore forward who averages 16 points, 7.1 rebounds and 2.8 steals per game. She is backed by Sarah Schafer, a 5-9 sophomore guard who averages 14.2 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.5 assists, and Leslie Hairston, a 6-0 sophomore forward who averages 12.1 points and 5 rebounds.

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Jaimie Hurd and the rest of the Skyhawks are looking forward to their long road trip to North Dakota to play for a berth in the national tournament. be stepping down after 25 years on the Lake Region bench. He has a career record of 571242, with trips to the national tournament in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2005, 2006 and 2008.

Johnson has settled on a rotation of starters Jordan Giddings and Morgan Dean inside, with a three-guard combo of Sheldeen Joseph, Aleena Hammelman and Jaimie Hurd. The Skyhawks average 66.7 points per game, while allowing

just 50.8, and Johnson particularly likes what this group accomplishes on defense. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lately, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been playing well with the five or six weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been using,â&#x20AC;? Johnson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a good thing going on the floor.

Defensively, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve focused on. That group does a great job defensively, and if we can hold teams down in the 50s, we usually have a pretty good chance.â&#x20AC;?

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Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt that game in my bones when I was warming up. It was the opportunity of a lifetime, to be able to help my team make it this far.â&#x20AC;?

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Peoria Manual Regional winner, 7 p.m.

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Photos by Michael Krabbenhoeft/mrkabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com

ABOVE: Newmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A.J. Sharp (13) defends the dribble of Senecaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Devin Leo during their Class 2A Bureau Valley Sectional semifinal Wednesday night in Manlius. Newmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense held Seneca star Conlan Callahan to six points in a 54-39 victory.

BELOW: Newmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Noah McCarty shoots over the Fighting Irish defense. He had 16 points and five blocked shots in the win.

McCarty makes big difference down low CAGE

CONTINUED FROM B1

Austin Applebee (13 points, 5-for-10 shooting) and Alex Bott (12 points, 5-for-8 shooting) were effective for the Fighting Irish, but nobody else picked up the slack. The rest of the squad was 5-for-27 from the field.

Seneca coach Russell Witte credited the Comets with some sticky man-to-man defense, but in his view, the key was having 6-foot-7 sophomore Noah McCarty waiting near the basket. McCarty blocked five shots and was a disruptive force in the paint whenever the Fighting Irish ventured inside. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you want to point to one main difference, McCarty inside, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big difference,â&#x20AC;? Witte said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a problem getting to the rim. We had a problem getting to the rim and finishing. If he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t block the shot, he altered it. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty special to have. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not too many teams have a kid like that.â&#x20AC;?

McCarty led the Comets with 16 points, on 7-for-9 shooting.

He converted all five of his field goal attempts in the first half as the Comets seized a 25-20 lead at the break.

In the second half, his minutes were limited as he dealt with a migraine headache he attributed to not being hydrated enough.

Still, he soldiered on, even as

more of decoy after halftime. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our guards did a nice job facilitating, hitting open shots,â&#x20AC;?

McCarty said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and I just tried to do what I could to get a win tonight for our team.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Noah wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as effective in the second half,â&#x20AC;? coach Sharp said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but having him in the game, it really opened up some of our other guys to shoot from the perimeter. Since he had such a good first half, they had to be aware of him.â&#x20AC;?

Seneca got to within seven points (39-32) when Callahan opened the fourth quarter by hitting a 3-pointer, but Newmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A.J. Sharp answered with a 3 of his own to up the margin back to 10 points.

The Comets led by at least nine points the rest of the way, and hit all eight of their free-throw attempts the final 4 minutes to keep the Irish at bay. Newman hit all 14 of its free throws in the game.

Next up for the Comets is IC Catholic (23-6), which took down Winnebago 65-63 in overtime Tuesday night. The Knights have an elite sophomore center in Rhashaun Epting, a dangerous swingman in senior Clark Brinkman, and quickness and athleticism across the board, according to coach Sharp. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Epting is a lefty, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very skilled, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a great battle inside against He shoots the 3, he can take it are very quick and fast. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going Noah,â&#x20AC;? coach Sharp said. to the basket, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incred- to be a great challenge for us on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brinkman can do everything. ibly athletic. Their other players both ends of the floor.â&#x20AC;?

Cougars overcome Benningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second-half surge SHOW

CONTINUED FROM B1

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first quarter, I think I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do bad until they called two fouls on me,â&#x20AC;? said Paulson, about guarding Benning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Second quarter I picked up a third, and then I had to sit out. Our help defense lacked. We emphasized it in practice, but we needed more of it. If we are playing that good of a player, we need to respect him.â&#x20AC;?

On back-to-back possessions, Shaner found a freelancing Brighton Haverland behind the Dakota zone. After receiving Shanerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laser-beam passes, the freshman scored easily, helping Eastyland hold a 30-21 lead at the break.

The show really picked up in the third.

Down by nine points with 3:44 left in the quarter, the Indians (18-8) made their run. Benning strung together a 9-0 run to close out the quarter, with the tying basket coming on an exclamation point.

As he watched the Cougars run time off the clock

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Eastlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brighton Haverland (left) dives for a loose ball Wednesday evening during the 1A River Ridge Sectional semifinal against Dakota. to get the last shot, the Dakota senior poked the ball away. On the other end, he flushed it down with a two-handed slam with 5 seconds on the clock. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really locked down in the third quarter, and started getting to the hole a little more,â&#x20AC;? Benning said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We kept being aggressive, and before we knew it, it was tied up at the end of the third. I saw

the ball out there, loose from his hand. I made a swipe and luckily I got it. It was off to the races from there.â&#x20AC;?

The Indiansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; run corresponded to Paulson picking up another foul, and heading to the bench for the final 6 minutes of the third. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brett just got hot in the third,â&#x20AC;? Shaner said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;which isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that hard for him to do. We just

had to weather it, and when Paulson came back, it gave us a lot better chance, because he made it tougher on Brett.â&#x20AC;?

Benning added another basket to open the fourth to give his team the lead, and spark the final shootout. Shaner answered from behind the 3-point arc and at the free-throw line in the fourth, amassing 14 points in the final stanza. Benning used his

height and athleticism to finish around the hoop, but only scored eight points in the quarter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If someone thinks that they can stop [Benning] from scoring, they need to get on my staff,â&#x20AC;? Eastland coach Tony Dunlap joked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to stop him from scoring.â&#x20AC;?

The only other player to score in the quarter was Dakota sophomore Casey Brokhausen. He got a putback, an area in which the Cougars need to improve on looking ahead to their Friday matchup with Indian Creek. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had to sit out the last 6 minutes when they went on that run,â&#x20AC;? Paulson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just needed to get rid of their secondchance points. From the bench, that was just killing me.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;What really disappointed me,â&#x20AC;? Dunlap said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;was our lack of effort to screen out, and allowing them to get second and third shots. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what made this game a struggle. We did pretty good on their first shots, but we would not screen out until the beginning of the fourth.â&#x20AC;?

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NASCAR | SPRINT CUP

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This week’s racing schedules

‘Feud’ funny, but fake

This week’s standings

SPRINT CUP Kobalt 400 Site: Las Vegas Schedule: Friday, practice (Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m.), qualifying (Fox Sports 1, 5:30 p.m.); Saturday, practice (Fox Sports 2, 10:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m.); Sunday, 2 p.m. (Fox) Track: Las Vegas Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles) Race distance: 400.5 miles, 267 laps Last year: Matt Kenseth won in his third start for Joe Gibbs Racing.

Last week: Kevin Harvick raced to his second straight victory at Phoenix International Raceway, leading 224 of 312 laps.

He’s in his first season with Stewart-Haas Racing.

Fast facts: Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the seasonopening Daytona 500 and finished second in Phoenix. ... Jimmie Johnson has a record four victories in Las Vegas. ... Kyle Busch won the 2009 race at his home track. ... Two-time Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon was killed in an accident at the track in the 2011 IndyCar finale.

Next race: Food City 500, March 16, Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tenn.

NATIONWIDE Boyd Gaming 300 Site: Las Vegas Schedule: Friday, practice (Fox Sports 1, 2:30 p.m., 4 p.m.); Saturday, qualifying (Fox Sports 2, 11:30 a.m.), race, 3:15 p.m. (ESPN2) Track: Las Vegas Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles) Race distance: 300 miles, 200 laps Last year: Sam Hornish Jr. held off Kyle Busch on two late restarts.

Last week: Kyle Busch won the rain-shortened Phoenix race to become the first driver to win three straight Nationwide events at the track. Busch has a series-record 64 victories.

Fast facts: Daytona 500 winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. is driving the No. 88 Chevrolet. ... Kyle Busch is winless in Nationwide competition at his home track. ... Regan Smith won the season-opening race at Daytona. ... Truck champion Matt Crafton is racing.

Next race: Drive to Stop Diabetes 300, March 15, Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tenn.

CAMPING WORLD TRUCK Last race: Kyle Busch won at Daytona to become the first driver to win Truck, ARCA, Nationwide and Sprint Cup races at the track.

Next race: Kroger 250, March 29, Martinsville Speedway, Martinsville, Va.

NHRA Last race: Alexis DeJoria raced to her first career Funny Car victory, beating Robert Hight in the final at Wild Horse Pass in Chandler, Ariz. Antron Brown won in Top Fuel, and Allen Johnson topped the Pro Stock field.

Next event: Gatornationals, March 13-16, Auto Plus Raceway At Gainesville, Gainesville, Fla.

INDYCAR Next race: Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, March 30, St. Petersburg, Fla.

FORMULA ONE Next race: Australian Grand Prix, March 16, Melbourne

Patrick-Petty squabbling has run its course

BY GEORGE DIAZ Orlando Sentinel

The Danica Patrick-Richard Petty feud would be a funny thing, if any of it were true.

But there will be no race. No winner-take-all grudge match.

Danica has nothing to prove by beating a 76-year-old man, even if Petty still has the physical skills to give it a whirl.

The speculation was fun for a while. It made for good, quirky copy as everyone rolled to Daytona for the start of the season in February. Danica stayed out of the fray, but Petty kept the story going by challenging her to a race recently.

Roll of the eyes, and maybe a primal scream, please.

The escalation of nonsense continued this week when ESPN columnist Rick Reilly posted a story quoting GoDaddy chairman Bob Parsons, a piece that once again blurred the lines between fantasy and reality.

“These guys never cut Danica any slack,” Parsons said, sticking up for his gal who drives the No. 10 GoDaddy Chevy for StewartHaas Racing. “None of ‘em. They somehow feel if she wins, they’ll be disenfranchised. And yet she keeps battling week after week.

She’s one tough woman. I’ll tell you something: Richard Petty is a man and Danica is a woman, but Danica has bigger [expletives] than Richard Petty ever did.”

He then went on to say, “Danica would win. For once, she’d be on a level playing field. Just her against Petty. She’s a better driver.”

Oh, please. Hopefully Petty will be a bigger man and let it go.

Enough is enough.

Patrick has enough on her plate, most notably the fact that she’s been involved in accidents in the first two races of the season, including the Daytona 500.

She is 41st in owner points.

Owner points are used to help set the field each week after the third race of the season, with seven of those spots designated

1. Regan Smith 2. Trevor Bayne 3. Elliott Sadler 4. Ty Dillon 5. Dylan Kwasniewski 6. Brendan Gaughan 7. Chase Elliott 8. Brian Scott (tie) James Buescher 10. Mike Wallace 11. Mike Bliss 12. Ryan Reed (tie) Landon Cassill 14. Dakoda Armstrong 15. Jeremy Clements 16. Joey Gase 17. Jeffrey Earnhardt 18. Eric McClure (tie) Jamie Dick 20. Chris Beuscher

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Danica Patrick (10) has had some tough luck this season on the track, but she has taken the high road when it comes to the verbal sparring with legendary former driver Richard Petty. among the 43-driver field. With the top 36 getting in on qualifying speed, Danica will be in precarious position to miss the cut, if qualifying rounds don’t work out.

“It’s tough,” Patrick said in a statement after wrecking at Phoenix. “That’s 2 weeks in a row we’ve had good cars and nothing to show for it. The car was good all day; we just needed track position. I’m starting to think if we didn’t have bad luck, we’d

have no luck at all.”

Patrick is struggling for relevance on the track besides her highly marketable commercials skills. No one needs to feel sorry for her. She can handle it.

But to keep a non-story alive is ridiculous.

Regardless of whether you are a Petty Man or a Danica Gal, it’s a safe bet that this nonsense will continue for a while.

Who is going to chime in next?

Crew chief made right decision to work with Harvick CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Rodney Childers wrestled for months with the decision to join Kevin Harvick at StewartHaas Racing. Just when he thought he’d made up his mind to leave Michael Waltrip Racing, he and Brian Vickers won a race together at New Hampshire.

Weeks went by after that victory last July, when Childers thought his heart was truly in remaining with MWR. He woke up one day, and his mind was finally made up.

“My alarm went off and it hit me, it was like, ‘I need to go to Stewart-Haas and crew chief Kevin Harvick,’” Childers told The Associated Press this week.

So much for peace of mind: MWR reacted to his decision by essentially benching Childers for the rest of the season.

He couldn’t work for almost 6 weeks. He pressure washed his house, tweeted with fans during races, and had weekends off for the first time in his adult life.

Finally, in late October, MWR gave Childers his release, and he was free to join to SHR and get a head start on the 2014 season.

“When I started, it was a bit overwhelming, the way it’s run is different because the crew chiefs have a lot more

1. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2. Brad Keselowski 3. Jeff Gordon 4. Kevin Harvick 5. Jimmie Johnson 6. Joey Logano 7. Matt Kenseth 8. Denny Hamlin 9. Carl Edwards 10. Greg Biffle (tie) Jamie McMurray (tie) Casey Mears 13. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 14. Kyle Busch 15. Ryan Newman 16. Austin Dillon 17. Marcos Ambrose 18. Kasey Kahne 19. Reed Sorenson 20. Tony Stewart

NASCAR Nationwide

Childers’ choice validated

BY JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer

NASCAR Sprint Cup

Childers file Born: June 7, 1976 Hometown: Mooresville, S.C. FYI: Won 7 titles in South Carolina & 5 nationally in World Karting Association. ...

Drove late-model stock cars from 1999-2002. ... Has been crew chief for Scott Riggs, Elliott Sadler, David Reutimann & lifelong friend Brian Vickers. struggled so far this year with its other three cars.

Perhaps because of the head start Childers had on 2014, and Harvick’s arrival, the No. 4 team AP Rodney Childers, seen here last year with Michael doesn’t have the same ailments as the other Waltrip Racing, moved to Stewart-Haas Racing three SHR cars. Harvick this season as Kevin Harvick’s crew chief. finished second in his else can,’” Childers said. Daytona qualifying race, control,” Childers said.

“It had all come togeth- and was in the mix at the “I got there and really Daytona 500 until he was er so quickly, and from wasn’t happy with the part of the last-lap crash. that moment on, our way the cars were built; Childers points to a whole demeanor has the equipment needed to be a lot nicer. I started been a lot different – it’s December test at Charlotte as knowing he to think after 6 or 7 days, been about winning.” made the right decision That was evident all ‘Man, this is going to last weekend at Phoenix to move, and that he take a long time to fix.’”

International Raceway, and Harvick can have a Childers grew so disspecial season. where Harvick showed couraged he thought it “My personal validaearly on that his No. 4 would be June or July tion was not winning Chevrolet was going before Harvick would at Phoenix, but leaving to be a race-day conwin his first race with tender. The car was ulti- that Charlotte test,” he his new team. mately so good, Harvick said. “We knew that car Six weeks into the wasn’t very nice, and process, something sud- led 224 of the 312 laps we could build cars way Sunday en route to a denly changed. better than that. But to win in just his second “I left work one night still be that fast in a car and looked around and race with SHR. we felt could be a lot It was the lone bright thought ‘Crap, we can better – it was like, ‘This win one of the first four spot in a second consecutive crummy week- is really going to work races, and we can conend for SHR, which has out.’” tend just like anyone

NASCAR Trucks 1. Timothy Peters 2. Johnny Sauter 3. Ron Hornaday Jr. 4. Ryan Blaney 5. Jeb Burton 6. Jimmy Weller III 7. German Quiroga 8. Ryan Sieg 9. Tyler Reddick 10. Matt Crafton (tie) Ben Kennedy 12. John Wes Townley 13. Justin Jennings 14. Bryan Silas 15. Chris Fontaine

43 41 39 38 37 35 34 33 32 31 31 30 28 27 25

IndyCar 2013 Final 1. Scott Dixon 577 2. Helio Castroneves 550 3. Simon Pagenaud 508 4. Will Power 498 5. Marco Andretti 484 6. Justin Wilson 472 7. Ryan Hunter-Reay 469 8. James Hinchcliffe 449 9. Charlie Kimball 427 10. Dario Franchitti 418 11. Tony Kanaan 397 12. Sebastien Bourdais 370 13. Simona de Silvestro 362 14. Josef Newgarden 348 15. E.J. Viso 340 16. Ed Carpenter 333 17. Takuma Sato 322 18. Graham Rahal 319 19. James Jakes 294 20. Tristan Vautier 266

Formula One 2013 Final 1. Sebastian Vettel 2. Fernando Alonso 3. Mark Webber 4. Lewis Hamilton 5. Kimi Raikkonen 6. Nico Rosberg 7. Romain Grosjean 8. Felipe Massa 9. Jenson Button 10. Niko Hulkenberg 11. Sergio Perez 12. Paul di Resta 13. Adrian Sutil 14. Daniel Ricciardo 15. Jean-Eric Vergne

397 242 199 189 183 171 132 112 73 51 49 48 29 20 13

NHRA Top Fuel 1. Doug Kalitta 2. Khalid alBalooshi 3. Antron Brown Funny Car 1. John Force 2. Robert Hight 3. Alexis DeJoria Pro Stock 1. V. Gaines 2. Jason Line 3. Allen Johnson (tie) Vincent Nobile

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WEDNESDAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SCOREBOARD Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball Big Ten Conference Overall W-L Pct. W-L Pct. -ICHIGAN

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Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s result -ICHIGAN )LLINOIS Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results Nebraska 70, Indiana 60 Wisconsin 76, Purdue 70 Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games Penn St. at Northwestern, 6 p.m.

Iowa at Michigan St., 8 p.m.

Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games )NDIANA AT -ICHIGAN P M Illinois at Iowa, 7:30 p.m.

Penn St. at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games Northwestern at Purdue, 11 a.m.

Michigan St. at Ohio St., 3:30 p.m.

Wisconsin at Nebraska, 6:30 p.m.

Top 25 schedule Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results No. 3 Arizona at Oregon State, late Wake Forest 82, No. 4 Duke 72 .O +ANSAS 4EXAS 4ECH .O 7ISCONSIN 0URDUE No. 10 San Diego St. at UNLV, late No. 11 Louisville 84, No. 18 SMU 71 Dayton 72, No. 17 Saint Louis 67 .O 5#ONN 2UTGERS .O .EW -EXICO !IR &ORCE No. 23 Oklahoma 72, West Virginia 62 Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games No. 6 Villanova at Xavier, 6 p.m. .O #INCINNATI VS .O -EMPHIS

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No. 22 Michigan State vs. No. 24 Iowa, 8 p.m.

Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game No. 2 Wichita State vs. Drake or Evansville AT THE 3COTTRADE #ENTER 3T ,OUIS

p.m.

Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games .O &LORIDA VS .O +ENTUCKY A M No. 3 Arizona at Oregon, 3 p.m.

No. 4 Duke vs. No. 14 North Carolina, 8 p.m.

No. 6 Villanova vs. Georgetown, 1 p.m.

No. 8 Kansas at West Virginia, 11 a.m.

No. 10 San Diego State vs. No. 21 New -EXICO P M .O ,OUISVILLE VS .O 5#ONN P M .O -ICHIGAN VS )NDIANA P M No. 13 Creighton vs. Providence, 7 p.m. .O #INCINNATI AT 2UTGERS A M No. 16 Iowa State vs. Oklahoma State, 1 p.m.

No. 18 SMU at No. 20 Memphis, 11 a.m.

No. 23 Oklahoma at TCU, 3 p.m.

No. 24 Iowa vs. Illinois, 7:30 p.m.

Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games .O 6IRGINIA AT -ARYLAND A M No. 7 Syracuse at Florida State, 1 p.m. .O 7ISCONSIN AT .EBRASKA P M No. 17 Saint Louis at UMass, 1 p.m.

No. 22 Michigan State at Ohio State, 3:30 p.m.

State schedule Tuedayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s result 7 -ICHIGAN . )LLINOIS Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results Ohio Valley tournament Tennessee Tech 74, SIU-Edwardsville 67 3% -ISSOURI 3T % )LLINOIS Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games )DAHO AT #HICAGO 3T P M Butler at DePaul, 8 p.m.

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Oklahoma City at Phoenix, 8 p.m. , ! #LIPPERS AT , ! ,AKERS P M Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games Memphis at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Utah at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Portland at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Denver, 8 p.m.

Indiana at Houston, 8:30 p.m. !TLANTA AT 'OLDEN 3TATE P M Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s box score

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Los Angeles at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Colorado at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Columbus at Chicago, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Montreal at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m.

0ITTSBURGH AT 3AN *OSE P M Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games . 9 2ANGERS AT #AROLINA P M New Jersey at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Calgary, 8 p.m.

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Bulls bounce back, rout Pistons

BY K.C. JOHNSON Chicago Tribune

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; There are different kinds of toughness.

There is mental toughness, which the Bulls needed to flush Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debacle in Brooklyn out of their focus.

And there is physical toughness, which the Bulls displayed in myriad ways during Wednesday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 105-94 victory over the Pistons at the Palace of Auburn Hills.

The Pistons lead the NBA in offensive rebounding, averaging 14.5 per game. So all the Bulls did is respond to coach Tom Thibodeauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s challenge â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Really, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a toughness factor when the ball is up on the board,â&#x20AC;? he said â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and dominate the glass. They held the Pistons to eight offensive rebounds, and enjoyed a 43-32 rebounding advantage.

Jimmy Butler displayed fortitude by grinding out 46 minutes, finishing with 18 points and 12 rebounds and coming up with a fourthquarter steal and break-

Transactions BASEBALL American League #()#!'/ 7()4% 3/8 Â&#x2C6; 2EASSIGNED 2(0S #HRIS "ASSITT 0ARKER &RAZIER AND Brian Omogrosso; INF Mike McDade; OF $ENIS 0HIPPS ,(0 -AURICIO 2OBLES AND # Kevan Smith to minor league camp.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association "2//+,9. .%43 Â&#x2C6; 3IGNED # *ASON #OLlins to a second 10-day contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League .&, Â&#x2C6; #ONDITIONALLY REINSTATED #" "RANdon Browner from indefinite suspension.

"5&&!,/ "),,3 Â&#x2C6; 3IGNED $" !ARON 7ILliams to a four-year contract extension. #()#!'/ "%!23 Â&#x2C6; 4ERMINATED THE CONtract of P Adam Podlesh. Agreed to terms WITH $4 *EREMIAH 2ATLIFF ON A TWO YEAR contract.

-)..%3/4! 6)+).'3 Â&#x2C6; 4ERMINATED THE contract of TE John Carlson. .%7 9/2+ *%43 Â&#x2C6; #LAIMED #" *OHNNY Patrick off waivers from the San Diego Chargers. Agreed to terms with CB Ellis Lankster and CB Darrin Walls.

0)443"52'( 34%%,%23 Â&#x2C6; 3IGNED 3 Troy Polamalu and TE Heath Miller to threeyear contracts.

HOCKEY National Hockey League !.!(%)- $5#+3 Â&#x2C6; 4RADED $ !LEX 'RANT to Ottawa for F Andre Petersson.

"5&&!,/ 3!"2%3 Â&#x2C6; 4RADED $ "RAYDEN -C.ABB 27 *ONATHAN 0ARKER AND AND SECOND ROUND DRAFT PICKS TO ,OS Angeles for Fs Hudson Fasching and Nicolas Deslauriers. #!,'!29 &,!-%3 Â&#x2C6; 4RADED ' 2ETO Berra to Colorado for a 2014 secondround draft pick, and F Lee Stempniak to Pittsburgh for a 2014 third-round draft pick. #!2/,).! (522)#!.%3 Â&#x2C6; 4RADED ,7 4UOMO 2UUTU TO .EW *ERSEY FOR # !NDREI Loktionov and a conditional 2017 thirdround draft pick. #/,5-"53 ",5% *!#+%43 Â&#x2C6; 4RADED 27 -ARIAN 'ABORIK TO ,OS !NGELES FOR 27 Matt Frattin, a 2014 second-round draft pick and a conditional third-round draft pick, and C Jonathan Audy-Marchessault and LW Dalton Smith to Tampa Bay for D Matt Taormina and C Dana Tyrell. %$-/.4/. /),%23 Â&#x2C6; 4RADED & !LES Hemsky to Ottawa for a 2014 third-round DRAFT PICK AND FIFTH ROUND DRAFT PICK

and D Nick, Schultz to Columbus for a fifthround draft pick. &,/2)$! 0!.4(%23 Â&#x2C6; 4RADED ' 4IM Thomas to Dallas for G Dan Ellis, and F -ARCEL 'OC TO 0ITTSBURGH FOR THIRD and fifth-round draft picks.

-)..%3/4! 7),$ Â&#x2C6; 4RADED 27 4ORREY Mitchell and 2014 and 2016 second-round draft picks to Buffalo for LW Matt Moulson and C Cody McCormick.

-/.42%!, #!.!$)%.3 Â&#x2C6; !CQUIRED & Thomas Vanek and a 2014 conditional fifth round draft pick from the N.Y. Islanders for F Sebastien Collberg and a conditional 2014 second-round draft pick. .!3(6),,% 02%$!4/23 Â&#x2C6; 4RADED G Devan Dubnyk to Montreal for future considerations, and F David Legwand TO $ETROIT FOR 27 0ATRICK %AVES # #ALLE Jarnkrok and a conditional 2014 thirdround draft pick.

0(),!$%,0()! &,9%23 Â&#x2C6; 4RADED $ Andrej Meszaros to Boston for 2014 thirdround draft pick.

3!. */3% 3(!2+3 Â&#x2C6; 4RADED & *AMES Livingston to Los Angeles for a conditional 2016 seventh-round draft pick.

4!-0! "!9 ,)'(4.).' Â&#x2C6; 4RADED 27 -ARTIN 3T ,OUIS TO THE . 9 2ANGERS FOR 27 2YAN #ALLAHAN A CONDITIONAL SECOND ROUND DRAFT PICK AND A FIRST ROUND draft pick.

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Bulls forward Carlos Boozer (5) shoots over Pistons forward Greg Monroe during the first half of Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game in Auburn Hills, Mich.

Star of the game: Jimmy Butler, Bulls, 18 points, 12 rebounds Up next: Grizzlies at Bulls, 6 p.m. Friday TV/Radio: TNT, CSN/1000 AM away dunk in the gameturning run.

And Joakim Noah showed his grit â&#x20AC;&#x201C; again â&#x20AC;&#x201C; by rebounding from his six-turnover night against the Nets with

his second triple-double in three games. Entering the fourth quarter with just two points, Noah finished with 10 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists for his third triple-double this season and sixth of his career.

Noah is now the first center to record three triple-doubles with assists in the same season since David Robinson in 1993-94.

COLLEGE ROUNDUP

Badgers hold off Boilers Demon Deacons upset No. 4 Blue Devils By the Associated Press

Frank Kaminsky scored 22 points, Traevon Jackson added 14, and Wisconsin finished off its home schedule with a 76-70 home victory over Purdue on Wednesday night.

Kaminsky, a 7-footer who can shoot from the perimeter, went 4-for-5 from 3-point range for the Badgers (25-5, 12-5 Big Ten).

Nebraska 70, Indiana 60: Walter Pitchford

scored the Cornhuskersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first nine points, and knocked down a key 3-pointer with 1:57 to go, allowing Nebraska to hold off Indianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secondhalf comeback for its first win in six tries in Bloomington.

Wake Forest 82, No. 4 Duke 72: Tyler Cavanaugh

scored a career-high 20 points, and Wake Forest pulled away to upset No. 4 Duke in WinstonSalem, N.C.

half, including two key 3-pointers in the putaway run, helping visiting Dayton upset Saint Louis, the Billikensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; third No. 8 Kansas 82, Texas straight loss.

No. 19 Connecticut Tech 57: Tarik Black scored 19 points on per- 69, Rutgers 63: Shabazz fect shooting in his final Napier scored 26 points game at Allen Field- in his final home game, house, and No. 8 Kansas leading UConn to a win managed just fine with- over Rutgers.

No. 21 New Mexico 80, out injured center Joel Embiid in a romp over Air Force 52: Seniors Cameron Bairstow and Texas Tech.

No. 11 Louisville 84, No. Kendall Williams put on a 18 SMU 71: Russ Smith show in their final home scored 22 of his 26 points game for New Mexico, after halftime, includ- combining for 34 points ing six 3-pointers, and to lead the Lobos to a vicLouisville became the tory over Air Force. first opponent to win in No. 23 Oklahoma 72, SMUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s renovated home West Virginia 62: Cameron Clark had 19 points in Dallas.

Dayton 72, No. 17 St. and 10 rebounds in his Louis 67: Reserve Jalen final home game to help Robinson scored all 10 of Oklahoma defeat visiting his points in the second West Virginia.

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LOVELAND MUSEUM...

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THE VETERANS ASSISTANCE COMMISSION needs volunteers to drive veterans in our van to the Iowa City VA hospital. If you are a licensed driver who is looking for a rewarding opportunity to help our area veterans, joining our transportation network might be something that you are looking for.

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PUBLIC NOTICES SAUK VALLEY

IN THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR GRUNDY COUNTY IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF JENNIFER L. ALBRECHT AND JOSHUA R. ALBRECHT Upon the Petition of JENNIFER L. ALBRECHT,

CASE NO. CDDMO57735

Petitioner, And Concerning JOSHUA R. ALBRECHT,

PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

Respondent.

ORIGIONAL NOTICE TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT You are notified that a petition has been filed in the office of the clerk of this court naming you as the respondent in this action. A copy of the petition (and any documents filed with it) is attached to this notice. The name and address of Plaintiffs' attorney is Amy Marquess, of Hinshaw, Danielson & Haney, 103 W. State St. Marshalltown, IA, 50158. The attorney's phone number is (641) 753-0305.

You must serve a motion or answer within 20 days after service of this original notice upon you, and, within a reasonable time thereafter, file your motion of answer with the Clerk of Court for your Grundy County, at the county courthouse in Grundy Center, Iowa. If you do not, judgment by default may be rendered against you r for the relief demanded in the petition.

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March 6th, 13th and 20th 2014 NOTICE TO BIDDERS BID NO. 2014-03-02 Route 5th Avenue County Whiteside Local Agency Sterling Section N/A Time and Place of Opening Bids Sealed proposals for the improvement described below will be received at the office of City of Sterling City Clerk, 212 Third Avenue, Sterling, IL 61081 until 10 o'clock A.M., March 20, 2014. Proposals will be opened and read publicly at 10 o'clock A.M.. March 20, 2014, at the office or The City Clerk, 212 third Avenue, Sterling, IL 61081.

Description of Work Name: 5th Avenue Reconstruction.

Length: 730.0 feet (0.14 miles).

Location: LeFevre Road to Miller Road.

Proposed Improvement: Reconstruction of 5th Avenue between LeFevre and Miller Roads.

Bidders Instructions Plans and proposal forms will be available in the office of Willett, Hofmann & Associates, 809 East Second Street, Dixon, Illinois 61021. $25.00 non-refundable fee for plans and proposal.

If prequalification is required, the 2 low bidders must file within 24 hours after the letting an “Affidavit of Availability” (Form BC 57), in triplicate, showing all uncompleted contracts awarded to them and all low bids pending award for Federal, State, County, Municipal and private work. One copy shall be filed with the Awarding Authority and 2 copies with the IDOT District Office.

All proposals must be accompanied by a proposal guaranty as provided in BLRS Special Provision for Bidding Requirements and Conditions for Contract Proposals.

BIDDING AND CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS Document 00030 - Advertisement for Bids

Sealed bids will be received until 3:30 p.m., prevailing time on March 17, 2014, by the Board of Education, Chadwick Milledgeville Community Unit School District 399 for the following bid package: Asbestos Abatement Work at Chadwick Elementary School and Milledgeville High School Bid proposals for Asbestos Abatement Work will be received for this project at the scheduled time of receipt of bids and will be publicly opened at that time.

A Pre-Bid Meeting and walk-through will be held on March 12, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. prevailing time, starting at the Main Office of Milledgeville High School, 100 East 8th Street, Milledgeville, Illinois 61051. The pre-bid meeting will include a site visit to Chadwick Elementary School. All bidders are encouraged to attend this meeting which will also be attended by the Owner and the Asbestos Project Designer. Failure to attend and sign in at the Pre-Bid Meeting may be cause for rejection of the Bid. Bid security in the form of a bid bond, certified check or cash in an amount equal to 10 percent of the base bid amount shall be submitted with the bid.

The successful Contractor shall provide Labor and Material Bonds, and Performance Bonds for the work.

Bids shall be submitted in an opaque sealed envelope addressed to: Business Office, Chadwick Milledgeville Community Unit School District 399, 15 School Street, Chadwick, Illinois 61014.

The Board of Education reserves the right to waive any or all Bids or parts thereof, or any irregularities or informalities.

All bidders must comply with applicable Illinois Law requiring the payment of prevailing wages by all contractors working on public works.

All bidders must comply with the District's current Criminal Background Check policy.

Bidding documents are on file and copies may be obtained from the office of the Asbestos Project Designer, TEM, Incorporated, 443 Duane Street, Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 or the Owner. A business card is required to obtain documents.

Superintendent of Schools Chadwick Milledgeville Community Unit School District 399 15 School Street Chadwick, Illinois 61014 March 6, 2014

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The Awarding Authority reserves the right to waive technicalities and to reject any or all proposals as provided in BLRS Special Provision for Bidding Requirements and Conditions for Contract Proposals.

Read Sauk Valley Classifieds real estate section and Real Estate Weekly on Thursdays.

Bidders need not return the entire contract proposal when bids are submitted unless otherwise requited. Portions the proposal that must be returned include the following: a. BLR 12210-Contract Cover b. BLR 12220-Notice to Bidders c. BLR-12221-Contract Proposal d. BLR-12222-Contract Schedule of Prices e. BLR-12223-Signatures f.. BLR-12230-Proposal Bid bond (if applicable) g. BLR 12325-Apprenticeship or training Program Certification (do not use for federally funded projects) The quantities appearing in the bid schedule are approximate and are prepared for the comparison of bids. Payment to the Contractor will be made only for the actual quantities of work performed and accepted or materials furnished according to the contract. The scheduled quantities of work to be done and materials to be furnished may be increased, decreased or omitted as hereinafter provided.

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Submission of a bid shall be conclusive assurance and warranty the bidder has examined the plans and understands all requirements for the performance of work. The bidder will be responsible for all errors in the proposal resulting from failure of neglect to conduct an in depth examination. The Awarding Authority will, in no case be responsible for any costs, expenses, losses or changes in anticipated profits resulting from such failure or neglect of the bidder.

The bidder shall take no advantage of any error or omission in the proposal and advertised contract.

If a special envelope is supplied by the Awarding Authority, each proposal should be submitted in that envelope furnished by the Awarding Agency and the blank spaces on the envelope shall be filled in correctly to clearly indicate its contents. When an envelope other than the special one furnished by the Awarding Authority is used, it shall be marked to clearly indicate its contents. When sent by mail, the sealed proposal shall be addressed to the Awarding Authority at the address and in care of the official in whose office the bids are to be received.

All proposals shall be filed prior to the time and at the place specified in the Notice to Bidders. Proposals received after the time specified will be returned to the bidder unopened.

Permission will be given to a bidder to withdraw a proposal if the bidder makes the request in writing or in person before the time for opening proposals.

By Order of Sterling City Council, Awarding Authority Marie Rombouts, Municipal Clerk Note: All proposal documents, including Proposal Guaranty Checks or Proposal bid bonds, should be stapled together to prevent loss when bids are processed.

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VERONICA JARAMILLO, UNKNOWN OWNERS, and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

No. 14 CH 23 ST NOTICE BY PUBLICATION Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants That this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to-wit: Lot 17 in Block 3 of Hoover Home Subdivision as located in the Northwest Quarter of Section 22, Township 21 North, Range 7 East of the 4th P.M., in the City of Sterling, Whiteside County, Illinois; according to the Plat thereof recorded August 16, 1937 in Plat Book 8, page 50.

COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 819 E. 16th Street, Sterling, Illinois 61081 and which said Mortgage was made by: Veronica Jaramillo, Mortgagor, to Community State Bank of Rock Falls, as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Whiteside County, Illinois, as Document No. 201101837; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending.

NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court: Clerk of the Circuit Court Whiteside County Courts Facility, Eastern Division 101 E. Third St. Sterling, IL 61081

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Public Notice is hereby given that on 2/18/2014, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Whiteside County, Illinois, concerning the business known as Crimson Gifts located at 601 West 8th Street, Sterling, IL 61081, which certificate sets forth the following changes in the operation thereof: Name changed for Chelsey L. Redell to Chelsey L. McLaughlinThreehouse.

Dated this 18th day of February Dana Nelson County Clerk Feb. 20, 27, March 6, 2014

Dated this 2nd day of March, 2014.

March 6th 2014 Public Hearing Notice Notice of Public Hearing Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by: Director of Transportation On: March 27th At: 5:00pm Where: Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W 9th St, Sterling IL For the purpose of considering a project for which financial assistance is being sought from the Illinois Department of Transportation, pursuant to the Illinois Department of Transportation's general authority to make such Grants, and which is generally described as follows: Whiteside County Public Transportation (WCPT) is requesting a continuation of 5311 Rural/Down State Operating Assistance. The grant will allow WCPT to continue providing public transportation services to residents of all ages throughout Whiteside County. The proposed grant will be made available for public inspection at Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W 9th St, Sterling IL. Tori McDaniel Director of Transportation 1207 W 9th St Sterling, IL 61081

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 15TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT LEE COUNTY - DIXON, ILLINOIS ALLY BANK PLAINTIFF VS

RONALD HAYDEN A/K/A RONALD D HAYDEN; STATE OF ILLINOIS; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF JOYCE HAYDEN AKA JOYCE L HAYDEN AKA JOYCE LUCILLE HAYDEN AKA LUCY HAYDEN; BARBARA OLIPHANT; WILSON HIGGINS; JULIE FOX, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DECEASED MORTGAGOR, JOYCE HAYDEN AKA JOYCE L. HAYDEN AKA JOYCE LUCILLE HAYDEN *; DEFENDANTS 13 CH 62 802 SOUTH PEORIA AVENUE DIXON, IL 61021 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF JOYCE HAYDEN AKA JOYCE L HAYDEN AKA JOYCE LUCILLE HAYDEN AKA LUCY HAYDEN; WILSON HIGGINS; defendants, that this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, asking for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: THE NORTHERLY SIXTY-FOUR (NLY. 64) FEET OF LOT NUMBER TWO (2) IN BLOCK NUMBER ONE HUNDRED FOUR (104) IN THE ORIGINAL TOWN (NOW CITY) OF DIXON ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, IN LEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as: 802 SOUTH PEORIA AVENUE, DIXON, IL 61021 and which said Mortgage was made by, JOYCE HAYDEN A/K/A JOYCE L HAYDEN A/K/A JOYCE LUCILLE HAYDEN A/K/A LUCY HAYDEN DECEASED; Mortgagor (s), toM.E.R.S., INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GMAC MORTGAGE CORPORATION DBA DITECH.COM Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of LEE County, Illinois, as Document No. 2006000337; and for other relief.

UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this County, Denise McCaffrey Circuit Clerk 309 S. GALENA AVE STE 320 Dixon, Illinois 61021

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HEALTH / MEDICAL

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or call: 625-3600 or 284-2222, ext. 301

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CDL CLASS A Drivers needed for part time work, April-Oct. Most all work would be on Mon, some work could be SunWeds. Also need Drivers with passports for 6 trips in to Canada. Good pay plus hotels paid.

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Automotive The exciting world of automotive sales is changing and the need for sales people is increasing.

At Dixon Ford Lincoln VW Mazda we offer both the training and a fast paced and exciting atmosphere that can lead to a long, highly paid, rewarding career.

Contact Kevin White at 815-2883366 for further details. Paid training & earning potential $30k$80k/yr Experienced Class A CDL Driver needed for local grain hauling in Dixon area. Late model equip. furnished.

Call 815-973-1825.

Food Service positions available.

No nights, weekends or summers.

Background and drug test required.

Aramark Education with Sterling Public Schools. Contact 815-622-4153 for information or pick up application at Challand Middle School, door #14.

EOE.

EMPLOYMENT

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Christian Care Ministry is seeking to fill the position of Medical Bill Analyst in our Rock Falls Office.

This is a full-time position and involves determining eligibility and processing of medical bills for payment.

Applicants must have advanced computer skills and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment. Knowledge of medical coding, billing or medical terminology is preferred but not required.

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Harbor Crest Home, a Skilled Nursing Facility An 84-bed longterm care facility in Fulton IL, is in need of a full-time Accountant/ Billing Specialist. Ideal candidate will have accounting degree, Quickbooks experience, familiarity with Medicare/ Medicaid billing.

Competitive benefits package, salary commensurate with experience.

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Home weekends.

Paid vacations.

Please call 815-622-3000 Nicil FT/40 hrs. week Northwestern Illinois Center for Independent Living seeks an enthusiastic and self-motivated team player for Transition Coordinator.

Check online: www.nicil.org to learn how you can apply and Transition Coordinator position description.

Deadline for this position: March 10th, 2014. NO Email Resume or Phone Calls Accepted!

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OTR Flatbed Driver needed. Home most weekends.

Call 815-985-4384.

Rock River Cartage Diesel mechanic needed 401K, health insurance pay depends on experience.

815-625-1699

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OWNER OPERATORS Average $3K /week!

Be out up to 14 days, enjoy GUARANTEED home time! Weekly settlements. Cardinal Greatwide pays loaded/unloaded.

Class-A CDL & 1yr driving experience.

Fleet Owners Welcome. Operate under your own authority or ours!

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PART TIME SEASONAL TOUR GUIDE Experience speaking in front of large groups, must have excellent customer service skills, & a horticulture background is a plus.

Please email your resume to mkotrogiannis@volt.com or call Maria at Volt Workforce Solutions, 563.359.4822 Professional Company Drivers with CDL's needed for 600 mile radius & long hauls. We pay fees for tarping, extra loads and extra stops.

Please call 815568-7225 or send resume to: FS&S, PO Box 147, Marengo, IL 60152-0147.

To apply in person: 2106 W. Railroad Street, Marengo IL REGIONAL CDL-A DRIVERS Great Career w/weekly hometime!

888362-8608. For paid training apply online at AverittCareers.com Equal Opportunity Employer - Females, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Regional Drivers *Class A CDL *Flexible Dispatch *Preloaded Trailers *Assigned Peterblits *Health Insurance *Paid Vacation *Home Weekends/ Holidays 800-397-6387x18 Schwan's Home Service of Freeport is currently accepting applications for Route sales Representative positions.

Position offers paid training, base wage, commission, and benefits. Please apply at: www.schwans jobs.com or call 507-537-8990 with questions.

Seno Formal Wear, part time help wanted. 4015 A E. Lincolnway, Sterling.

Sterling Rock Falls Child Care Is taking applications for summer hire. Varied hours.

Apply within. 1840 W Le Fevre Road The Ogle County Health Dept. is seeking a Director Clinical Services, a full-time management position for nursing and communicable disease staff and services. Must be an RN with a bachelor's in nursing or related field. Send resume to Doreen OBrien, 907 West Pines Road, Oregon, Illinois 61061.

Well Known established restaurant in Dixon looking for experienced night cook capable of handling all aspects of operating a kitchen. Please send resume to PO Box 279, Dixon, IL 61021

EMPLOYMENT

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TO OUR

READERS:

Sauk Valley Media does not knowingly accept advertising which is in violation of the law. Likewise, we do not knowingly accept advertising which is fraudulent or has malicious intent.

While we attempt to screen advertising with potential fraud, it is impossible to screen all potential problems.

We strongly encourage our readers to exercise caution and common sense, particularly when dealing with companies with which you are not familiar.

SALES & MARKETING

510

EARN $500 a-day; Insurance Agents Needed; Leads, No Cold Calls; Commissions Paid Daily; Lifetime Renewals; Complete Training; Health & Dental Insurance; Life License Required.

1-888-713-6020

CHILD CARE

512

LICENSED DAY CARE has openings. 4C's accepted. (815)284-0461,

Lic. #00062-03.

Little Blessings Childcare has immediate daycare openings for infant-school age. 815-285-3811 Lic# 48927502 New licensed daycare has full time openings, all ages. 4 C's welcome.

Sterling area. Call 815-4413357. Lic# 495997 NO INDIVIDUAL, unless licensed or holding a permit as a childcare facility, may cause to be published any advertisement soliciting a child care service.* A childcare facility that is licensed or operating under a permit issued by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services may publish advertisements of the services for which it is specifically licensed or issued a permit. Sauk Valley Media strongly urges any parent or guardian to verify the validity of the license of any facility before placing a child in it's care. *Family homes that care for no more than three (3) children under the age of twelve or which receive only children from a single household, for less than 24 hours per day, are exempt from licensure as day care homes.

The three children to whom this exemption applies includes the family's natural or adopted children and any other persons under the age of 12 whether related or unrelated to the operator of the day care home. (DCFS Rule, Part 377.3 (c))

AREA GARAGE SALES 624 DIXON GARAGE SALES 624 Saturday 8 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2 Loveland Community Bldg.

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ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES 705 I Buy: Antique furniture, fishing tackle, toys, post cards junk. 815-445-6151

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GUNS & ARCHERY

706

1861 Navy Colt revolver reproduction. FOID card. $85. 815-719-5083

APPLIANCES

710

CLOVER HILLS LEASE TO OWN APPLIANCES TV’S MATTRESSES

815.625.8529

WOOD / FUEL

746

Mixed Hardwood $80/pickup load Delivered 779-423-4249

FOOD PRODUCE

750

PEEP INC. Order Your Pasture-Raised Whole or Half Hog Today!

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FURNITURE

755

Entertainment Center, solid oak, 47¼ x 60. You have to see it to appreciate it!! $200 815-626-0033.

Ethan Allen maple Heirloom dining table & 4 Duxbury chairs, nutmeg finish. $500. Call 630926-1350.

Mattress sets: Twin $99, Full $129, Queen $159, King $199. Will deliver! Kern Mattress Outlet, call 309452-7477.

Tegelers Oval double pedestal table w/ 4 leaves & 6 chairs. $1,000.

815-772-3762

PETS & PET SUPPLIES 775 Female Calico, 8 mos. Old. Free to good indoor home only. Call 815-9733574.

Free Cat, 1 yr.old, male gray tiger striped, neutered, good w/ kids. 815517-3363 Free Cats, 2/1 yr. old tgr stripe kittens, 1/ 2-3 yr. old, b/w cat 815-8789412.

Free Cats, inside cats only, no dogs, 815-548-9511 MASTIFF English AKC. Large pups from huge parents Champ lines. $950 Call 309-944-3917 Rottweiler/Pitbull mix puppies. 10 wks old. $120/ea. obo. 815-716-0195

SugarDoodles: $600. Call 563212-7307 WARNING ADS FOR FREE PETS Your beloved pet deserves a loving, caring home. The ad for your free pet may draw response from individuals who will sell your animal for research or breeding purposes.

Please screen respondents carefully when giving an animal away.

Your pet will thank you!

SNOWBLOWERS 782 Ariens snowblower 7hp, 24” cut. 2 stage. Self prop. $250. Call 815973-3223.

TICKETS / TRAVEL 787 & EVENTS No person or business, unless properly licensed by the Illinois Secretary of State, may sell ticket(s) for any sporting event or otherwise, for more than the price printed upon the face of the said ticket(s).

Only licensed ticket brokers may legally advertise, negotiate and execute the sale of ticket(s) for any amount over what is printed upon the face of ticket.

ELECTRONICS

790

Ipod Nano, 7 th Gen. Purple, 16GB, Great Deal! $60.

815-535-6131

WANT TO BUY 795

AUTOMOBILES

905

1-18 diecast muscle cars, P/S, S/S, Sox & Martain, Landy, McCandless, Grotheer, Deswick, Grumpy Jenkins American Muscle, GMP, precision, Auto world & Greenlight. 309714-0787

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Want to Buy: *silver & gold *silver coins *scrap gold *hunting guns 815-625-0966

Credit Problems?

Bad Credit? No Credit? We might be able to help! If you're looking to buy a vehicle we have many financing options available through qualified lenders. Call Brett Simpson today at 815-2855313. Ken Nelson Auto Plaza.

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Qty 34. $30 (815) 284-2685 Ladies Blue suede sports jacket, size small.

Like new. $25 815-284-2685 McCoy Cookie jar: Apple $60 Dixon 630-453-1629 N-Scale Model Trains, engines, freight cars, track, passenger car set, misc. $750 obo 815-994-2101 New 12 Cup white Mr. Coffee $5 815-284-3620 New 8 ft. skid steer snow pusher box.

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Call 815-718-4385.

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HAY & STRAW

825

16 sm. bales alfalfa/grass mix $80 815-440-2532 Large Round Hay Bales of AlfalfaGrass mix. Call 815-973-1226.

FARM EQUIPMENT

855

John Deer 4110 4x4 diesel hydro 410 loader, 62 bellymower, 3pt post hole auger, 6' blade, 500 hrs., 3 pt. weight box, $11,900/obo., 815379-2541

AUTOMOBILES

905

★ NEW TODAY ★ 1999 Saturn SL-2 4 Dr. Stick shift.

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2007 Buick La Crosse CXL, 62K mi. Sunroof. Exc. cond. $11,500.

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creditautosales dixon.com Always over 100+ vehicles to choose from.

HAVING TROUBLE wording your ad? Call our classified department today. We'll be glad to help you. 626SOLD or 284SOLD.

TRUCKS

910

2000 Ford F150 half ton. $4,000.

815-625-2816

4X4S

912

1996 GMC Sierra, 123K mi., runs great, $3500 815590-9511 1998 Toyota T100 ext. cab. 192K mi.

Everything works! $4,000. Call 815303-5971.

4 wheel drive-4 door-Chevy Blazer, 2002. $5900/obo 815631-6678

MOTORCYCLES

935

1996 Harley Davidson motorcycle giving away in good shape and perfect condition to good rider. $500. Email: fred manjames1@gmail .com or call 754212-0106

A.T.V.S

936

2005 Suzuki 500 CC's 4x4 w/ electric winch and snow blade, low miles. $3,450. 815716-0475

BOATS/MOTORS

940

Cajun Bass boat, 18' 6”. Yamaha V Max 150 hp.

Minnkota trolling motor, on board charger. $8,000.

815-562-7377

SNOWMOBILES

955

1997 Ski Doo Mach Z 800, mint. cond. Looks & runs good. $900/obo.

815-535-3797.

AUTOS WANTED

960

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We are licensed & insured to buy vehicles. Running or non running, scrap, Ect. 7 days a week.

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Call Dixon ATV 815-288-2146

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