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Leading after another tragedy ‘This is a resilient community,’ says local native now mayor

BY PAM EGGEMEIER peggemeier@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5570

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Dan Corbin, the mayor of Killeen, Texas, since 2011, said “there are some special people here” as the community deals with Wednesday’s shootings at Fort Hood. Corbin grew up on a dairy and hog farm near Lyndon.

If it’s true that tragedy forges the strongest of bonds, then Killeen, Texas, must be unbreakable.

Whiteside County native Dan Corbin understands that bond better than most.

Corbin, who grew up on a dairy and hog farm near Lyndon, has lived a life defined by service to country and community – the embodiment of

the city that is home to the sprawling military installation of Fort Hood.

Killeen is one of the fastestgrowing cities in the country.

Its population of 134,000 represents a 47 percent increase from 2002 to 2010. There are about 45,000 military personnel and 9,000 civilian employees at Fort Hood.

Corbin has been in Killeen since 1971, when he spent time on the base after his Vietnam deployment. He has been there

for three of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. While all were equally devastating, Wednesday’s tragedy is a little different for Corbin. This time he is the mayor of a grieving community.

A retired Army lieutenant colonel, Corbin is well trained to lead in difficult times. The community he serves also is better equipped than most to once again pick up the pieces in the aftermath of unspeakable gun violence.

“This is a resilient community,” Corbin told Sauk Valley Media shortly after hitting the 100 mark with television interviews with every outlet from CNN to Al-Jazeera. “Only about 1 percent in our nation step up to serve in the military, and we have a whole community of 1 percenters.”

There are briefings every day, where new stories of heroism continue to emerge.

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Struggle inspires legislation Bill could help military medics become EMTs

BY MATT MENCARINI mmencarini@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5529

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This photo submitted to Sauk Valley Media’s Facebook page, shows a customer at the Kelly Williamson Mobil store at Polo Road and East Lincolnway in Sterling trying to evade a pig that had gotten loose Thursday from a nearby farm. The pig actually showed up at the station twice Thursday, having roamed free from the farm owned by Norm Koster.

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BY DAVID GIULIANI dgiuliani@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5525

STERLING – You might very well see a hog – as in a large motorcycle – at the Mobil convenience store at Polo Road and East Lincolnway.

But a hog, as in a pig?

Actually, yes.

On Thursday, a pig was twice spotted at the gas station.

A photo, posted on Sauk Valley Media’s Facebook page, showed a young man sitting on the hood of a gray car in the early evening, apparently in fear of the pig.

The hog – a female – was a

foot away, looking up at the man.

“He looks like he is wearing cowboy boots. What kind of cowboy is he that he is on the car? He’s supposed to be rough and tough,” joked Norm Koster, the farmer who owns the pig farm behind the businesses on Lincolnway.

The pig in question also had escaped earlier that day, but a farm employee got the animal a few minutes later, Koster said. The same hog found her way back to the gas station in the early evening.

ASHTON – Josh Harmon, during his nearly 6 years in the Army National Guard, says he treated soldiers for common illnesses like the flu, worked in operating rooms and dealt with mass causality situations.

But it took him 8 Josh months to get cerHarmon tified as an EMT in Illinois, a state that recognizes both state and national certifications for an EMT license.

Harmon, 37, of Ashton, was trained as a medic in the U.S. Army, after spending 7 years in the Marines.

A proposed bill – H.R. 235 – which has passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, aims to streamline the certification and licensing for military veterans seeking jobs as emergency medical technicians in civilian life.

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NELSON – Construction is underway at the Invenergy power plant in Nelson.

The facility is scheduled to go online in the first quarter of next

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year. Several trade unions are supplying workers for the construction site, said John Thompson, president and CEO of the Lee County Industrial Development Association.

“They are hired largely through the local building trade unions,” Thompson said. “Whether they are

local people depends on where the offices are located and which union shops have waited the longest.”

Groups of up to 200 workers have been at the site at 1311 Nelson Road, south of Rock Island Road.

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“There is a story that came out Thursday about a chaplain who saved several soldiers by shielding them and breaking windows so they could get out,� Corbin said. “There are some special people here.�

Those stories will be added to those that came from the Nov. 5, 2009, Fort Hood shootings, and the massacre at Luby’s restaurant in which 50 were shot, 23 fatally. The Luby’s tragedy was the deadliest shooting incident in U.S. history until Virginia Tech in 2007, and Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

While still mourning the dead, the focus now must move to the living, Corbin said. “This is another big kick in the gut,� Corbin said. “But we’ll dust ourselves off and do whatever we can to help the families.�

Corbin is one of many former military people who stayed in Killeen after spending time at one of the world’s biggest bases. “They choose to live here because they enjoy being in a military community; it’s a very special place to live,� Corbin said.

Corbin’s extensive military travels have not dimmed his memories of the area in which he grew up.

He is one of four sons and two daughters born to Francis Austin and Gertrude Corbin. A brother, Donald, died in a car accident right before leaving for military deployment.

He still borrows on that tragedy when trying to come to terms with what his community is again going through. “Military people deal with death on a much larger scale in Afghanistan and Iraq,� Corbin said. “The nature of how these people died is the most difficult part I think – the sudden, unexpected death of people so young.

You expect casualties when you deploy, but you don’t when you’re here at Fort Hood.�

One of Corbin’s sisters is Rock Falls City Administrator Robbin Blackert.

She said her older brother has always been an unflappable leader. “I don’t know if it’s the military background, but he has always been a strong leader,� Blackert said. “He stays calm

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in times of crisis and just goes into autopilot.�

He is so busy right now, he really hasn’t had time to open up much to family, Blackert said. “He’s in that mode now where he’s just thinking ‘we’ve got to do whatever it takes to get through this’�, she said. “He wants to make sure the city is doing everything they can to help those most affected.�

Corbin draws from a wide range of training and experiences that followed his early days in Whiteside County.

The family farmed near Lyndon until 1968, when they moved to Prophetstown. In 1965, he graduated from Lyndon High School, which would later consolidate with Prophetstown and Tampico schools. “Lyndon High had less than 100 people, and I went to a one-room country school for elementary school,� Corbin said. “I used to stop to visit Jean Taylor, the teacher I had at Greene; she was a great lady.�

Greene School, since torn down, was at state Route 2 just east of Lyndon.

He joined the Army Security Agency, where he specialized in military intelligence, learning Spanish and Vietnamese along the way.

That would prepare him for military work in the Panama Canal Zone and deployment to the war in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division. “I remember riding in a helicopter in Vietnam, doing low-level reconnaissance with a telephoto lens,� Corbin

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After retiring from active duty, he continued to serve in the Army Reserves. Oh, and in his spare time, he became a lawyer and certified public accountant. He has a law practice in Killeen.

He was at work in that office the day of the 2009 Fort Hood shootings.

The military man in Corbin believes there is nothing more that can be done to prevent these types of tragedies. “There is no way to do a better job of security than what they do now,�

Corbin said. “There are so many people in and out every day, it’s impossible to search every vehicle.

It’s very difficult to secure anything now whether it’s a baseball stadium or a military base.�

Corbin says he has a great appreciation for the area in which he grew up. “I got my values there – through the school system, family and church,� he said. “That’s something that just doesn’t happen as much as it used to.�

He promised his family he would serve only one term as Killeen mayor. He made good on that vow, and plans to kick back a bit and travel when his term expires next month. “It’s a shame that in his last month as mayor he’s having to deal with this,� Blackert said. “As calm as he seems, I know it’s just devastating for him and the community. The city and the base are one big family.�

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STERLING – The federal government has taken a big step toward opening the federal prison in Thomson, posting advertisements for 15 positions at the facility.

Compared with the area’s median household income, the jobs pay well.

The federal Bureau of Prisons is awaiting Congress’ approval of a spending plan for the opening of Thomson Correctional Center, which is in the small Carroll County village along the Mississippi River.

The bureau’s job search started March 26 and will end April 16.

Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke said the facility’s renovations have not begun. “I can’t speculate on when we will hire,� he said. “I’m really limited on what I can say until the spending plan is approved.�

In Sterling and Dixon, the median household income is about $40,000; in Rock Falls, it’s a few thousand less.

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The file photo shows an overhead view of the federal Thomson Correctional Center. The first 15 of what is expected to be about 1,100 jobs at the maximum-security facility have been posted by the federal Bureau of Prisons. It is expected to take 3 years for the prison to be fully operational.

Those incomes are lower than the salary ranges for all of the jobs advertised at Thomson.

A computer specialist would get anywhere from $60,000 to $78,000, while a tool room officer would be paid between $46,000 to $59,000. Many of the positions appear to be managerial.

In January, Congress approved $90 million for prison buildings and facilities, money that could pay for opening new lockups.

The Bureau of Prisons was

required to report back to Congress in 30 days with a spending plan, which the agency did.

The bureau said it wanted to spend $54 million for the first phase of activating Thomson, with $10 million going toward renovations.

Both Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-East Moline, have pushed for the prison’s opening. In a statement Friday, Durbin said he would work to make sure President Barack

Obama’s administration remained committed to opening the prison.

Bustos, whose 17th Congressional District includes Thomson, called the first job postings “great news.� “Communities across our region of Illinois have spent over a decade thirsting for today’s great news,� she said in a news release. “The opening of Thomson prison will not only alleviate overcrowding of our prison system, but it will create over a

thousand local jobs and be an economic shot in the arm to a region that continues to struggle with high unemployment.�

More than a dozen years ago, the state built the 1,600-cell maximumsecurity prison in Thomson, but couldn’t afford to run it.

The federal government bought it in 2012. When it opens, it is expected to employ 1,100 people and have a regional impact that extends to Whiteside, Lee and Ogle counties.

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and then you have some field work where they simulate combat. So it’s very intensive.�

The national registry is working on starting a pilot program with the Army, which would have medics renew their national certification during the administrative process of leaving the military. “We have quality soldiers and high quality training,� Rodriguez said of military medics. “They meet or exceed the civilian level.�

Getting the certification renewed for another 2 years, he said, takes something off those veterans’ minds while they’re re-entering civilian life.

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by Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Channahon, who represents Lee County. “As a military guy myself, and talking about the issue of veterans unemployment, and talking to people about areas Rep. Adam of need, this just made Kinzinger s e n s e , �

Kinzinger said.

The congressman served in the Air Force and currently serves as a pilot in the Air National Guard.

H.R. 235’s intent is to shorten – or eliminate – that delay by providing grants to states with a shortage of EMTs to streamline the process for veterans.

The bill’s funding includes $1 million over 5 years, with $200,000 available for grants in any given year, Zach Hunter, a spokesman for Kinzinger’s office, said in an email. “The purpose of this limited grant program is not to give all 50 states grant dollars,� he said, “but rather for the few states with the significant needs to review their licensure processes and implement changes that could be replicated by other states.�

Dia Gainor, executive director of the National Association of State EMS Officials, said a state’s decision to apply for a grant would be twofold. “It’s going to be a process of self-assessment,� she said. “[They’ll ask,] ‘Do we have shortage of state EMTs? And do we have process improvement opportunities in the

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Josh Harmon of Ashton was trained as a medic in the U.S. Army, after spending 7 years in the Marines. But when he returned home it took him 8 months to get certified as an EMT in Illinois. A bill proposed by U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Channahon, aims to streamline the certification process.

EMT license process that the grant could help?’�

Getting the right certification Harmon, like all Army and most Air Force medics, has an EMT certification through the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians.

It’s required, the registry’s Executive Director Severo Rodriguez said, adding that the Navy uses the national certification in a “limited manner.�

The national certification needs to be renewed every 2 years, he said, adding that the certification is only half of the process. A license must be given by the state for someone to work as an EMT as well.

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The state issues permission to practice, Gainor said, adding that an examination – or certification – is just a prerequisite. There may also need to be a relationship with a firehouse or EMT company, fees to pay, criminal background check or other prerequisites, she said, which vary by state.

In Illinois and Montana, Gainor said, the applicant has the option of getting the national certification or the state certification.

If an applicant working to get a state EMT license in Illinois already has a national certification, reciprocity is granted for the corresponding level.

Hamron’s 8-month delay, he said, was with the reciprocity for getting the national certification to count for the state licensing process.

Harmon said he was told during the delay that some of his medical education didn’t meet the requirements. It wasn’t until after meeting Kinzinger, Harmon said, that his reciprocity made progress.

Military medics have the same, if not more, experience and training than their civilian counterparts, experts say. “You do 16 weeks at Fort Sam [Houston], which is in San Antonio, Texas,�

Harmon said of his medic training in the Army. “And it is very intensive. You’ve got roughly a year’s worth of EMT training done in 6 weeks

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H.R. 235 passed the House by voice vote in Feburary 2013. To become law, it needs to be approved by the U.S. Senate and signed by President Barack Obama.

Kinzinger said there are additional ways to reduce the high unemployment among veterans, which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated was 9 percent among veterans who served after Septem-

ber 2001.

Addressing the mental health issues for veterans, improving job placement and training and finding ways to streamline veterans’ entrance into the civilian workforce, he said, are all things that need to be explored. “There’s a lot we need to do,� Kinzinger said.

Harmon is selfemployed. He trains mixed martial arts fighters out of a barn on his Ashton property and teaches concealed carry permit classes.

He’s able to support his wife and four children, he said, while doing those jobs and working as a part-time EMT in Ashton. For him, gone are the days, he said, when the next deployment was the best opportunity for work.

But there are other veterans who aren’t in the same position, Harmon said, and why he feels it’s important to make the transition into the civilian workforce as easy as possible. “That’s the big thing,� he said. “Protecting [veterans] when they get home – getting them the opportunities to not have to keep this deployment cycle going.�

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OBITUARIES William R. Peters MACHESNEY PARK – William R. Peters, 75, of Machesney Park, died Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at Nelson-Debes Subacute Complex in Rockford.

Bill was born April 18, 1938, in Aurora, the son of Reinhardt W. and Gertrude E. (Flanigan) Peters. He was a veteran of the Army. He married Susan A. Thorell on Jan. 28, 1961, in Loves Park.

Bill was employed by NCR for 35 years, retiring in 1994. He volunteered at the Loves Park Fire Department for more than 10 years. Bill (WB9MCZ) was president of the Amateur Radio Club in Sterling.

He also was a member of

the Jaycees, Moose Club, and American Legion.

He was a 10-gallon blood donor.

Survivors include his wife, Susan; his children, Lindi (Garth) Anderson, Brenda (Charlie) Anderson and Randy (Leslie McClure) Peters; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Visitation will be from 9:45 to 10:30 a.m. today and the funeral at 10:30 a.m. today at Delehanty Funeral Home, 401 River Lane, Loves Park.

A memorial will be established.

Visit delehantyfh.com to send condolences.

Edward C. Aldridge STERLING – Edward C. Aldridge, 38, of Sterling, died Thursday, April 3, 2014, at his home.

Born May 1, 1975, in Sandwich, he was a son of Charles and Maunita (Walters) Aldridge. He was employed at Self Help Enterprises.

Edward was an avid NASCAR fan, and especially enjoyed watching Brad Keselowski race.

He loved fishing, bike riding, walking the river and canal, drawing, and traveling. He was a dedicated friend, who always helped others. He especially will be missed by his beloved dog, Cocie.

Those left to honor his memory include his father and stepmother, Charles (Martha) Aldridge of Rock Falls; his fiancĂŠe, Kari CarSkaden of Sterling; special daughter, Jennifer CarSkaden of Sterling; paternal grandmother, Mary (Garnett) Stevens

of Rock Falls; maternal grandmother, Mildred Walters of Sandwich; sisters, Shawnda Lynn (Stephen) Yuhas of Sheridan, Jacalynn (Tim) Bowes of Downers Grove, and Annette Skinner of Janesville, Wis.; a brother, Marc (Virginia) Juarez of Charlotte, N.C.; and several nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his mother and his grandfathers.

Visitation will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday and the funeral at 4 p.m.

Monday at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls, with the Rev. Joe Aldridge officiating.

Cremation rites will be accorded after the services.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established.

Visit www.mcdonaldfuneralhomes.com to send condolences.

Carl E. Gustafson MOUNT MORRIS – Carl E. Gustafson, 75, of Mount Morris, died Wednesday, April 2, 2014, at his home.

Carl was born Jan. 3, 1939, in Detroit, the son of Gordon and Elsie (Drossard) Gustafson.

He graduated from high school in 1957, and then entered the Navy for 2 years. He married Laura Forte on Dec. 31, 1960, in Evanston. Carl worked as a truck driver for Personalized Pick Up Service in Elk Grove Village for more than 25 years, and for Oregon Healthcare Pharmacy Inc. in Oregon for 7 years as a driver. Carl was in Rock River Riders Motorcycle Club in Oregon. He collected rare collectibles, and enjoyed spending time with his beloved grandchildren and family. He belonged to Mount Morris Moose Lodge 1551 and the American Legion in Oregon. He loved his time in Wisconsin.

Carl is survived by his wife, Laura Gustafson of Mount Morris; four

daughters, Marlene (James) Anderson of Sandyville, Ohio, Sylvia (Eduardo) Correa of Burr Ridge, Jorie (Kerry) Langlois of Streamwood, and Koren (Jeremy) Bell of Wood Dale; 11 grandchildren, Danielle, Amanda, Lauren, Chelsea, Cody, Tyler, Alexandra, Dylan, Chloe, Isabela, and Lily; 13 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Raymond Gustafson of Chicago and Arnold Gustafson of Hazel Park, Mich.; one sister, Rita (Timothy) Almond of North Wilkesboro, N.C.; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Walter; sister; Elaine Malenfant; brother-in-law and best friend, Grant Forte; and other brother-in-law, Thomas Forte.

Visitation will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday and the funeral at 3 p.m. Sunday at Finch Funeral Home, 405 E. Hitt St., Mount Morris, with the Rev. Josh Erhler officiating.

Memorials will be established.

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Isabel Valdivia STERLING – Isabel Valdivia, 88, of Sterling, died peacefully Thursday, April 3, 2014, at her home, surrounded by her family.

Born March 29, 1926, in Kansas City, Kan., she was the daughter of Telesforo and Luz (Cabrera) Vargas. On Dec. 31, 1946, she was united in marriage to Salvador Valdivia in Oletha, Kan. She was a beloved, faithful member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Sterling and the Family of Praise Charismatic Prayer Group. Isabel always was ready to pray for, and with, anyone in need.

Those left to honor her memory include four daughters, Yvonne (Ernest) Quevedo, Benita (John) Mendoza, Marcella (Richard) Wells, and Margaret (Tim) DeGolyer, all of Sterling; three sons, Salvador (Laurie) Valdivia of Loveland, Colo., Aaron

(Kathleen) Valdivia of Ellicott City, Md., and Phillip (Shari) Valdivia of Simi Valley, Calif.; two sisters, Hillary Loya and Ruth Fernandez, both of Kansas City; 24 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.

Isabel was preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, Suzanne Villa; grandson, Lawrence; brothers, Jess and Phillip Gonzalez; and sisters, Aurora and Mary Vargas.

Visitation will be from 3 to 5 p.m., with the rosary recited at 3 p.m., Sunday at McDonald Funeral Home in Sterling. Celebration of the Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Mary Catholic Church in Sterling, with the Rev. James Keenan officiating. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery in Sterling.

Visit www.mcdonaldfuneralhomes.com to send condolences.

Travis Langley ROCK FALLS – Travis Langley, 82, of Rock Falls, died Thursday, April 3, 2014, at his home.

He was a truck driver with Burger King for more than 30 years, retiring in 1994.

He was born Feb. 9, 1932, in Waynesboro, Miss., the son of Kotsie and Cora Lee (Cochran) Langley. He married Loralee Norris on Aug. 28, 1954, in Bellwood.

Survivors include his wife; daughter, Jeanine (Scott) Wilson of McHenry; sons, Ed (Bo) Langley of Kingston and Tim (Crystal) Langley of Woodstock; a sister, Ann (Lewis) Foxworth of

Waynesboro; nine grandchildren; and two greatgrandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, five brothers, and four sisters.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m.

Tuesday at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home, with the Rev. William Cherry officiating. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Mount Emblem Cemetery in Elmhurst.

In lieu of flowers, memorials have been established to the American Cancer Society and Hospice of the Rock River Valley.

Virginia M. Baumgart STERLING – Virginia M. Baumgart, 83, of Sterling, died Friday, April 4, 2014, at Avonlea Cottage in Sterling, McDonald Funeral Home in Sterling is handling arrangements.

AMBOY – Ronald C. Ottjepka, 76, of Amboy, died Thursday, April 3, 2014, at KSB Hospital in Dixon.

He was born Jan. 13, 1938, in Chicago, the son of Joseph and Wilma (Stanofsky) Ottjepka. He was a police officer for Elmhurst Police from 1971 to 1972.

He then worked for the DuPage County Sheriff’s office from 1972 to 1975.

Finally, he was an officer for the Addison Police Department from 1975 until his retirement in 1999. He was a veteran of the Army during the Vietnam era.

Ron was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Dixon, Dixon American Legion Post 12, where he served as color guard commander, Loyal Order of the Moose, and Blackhawk Model Railroad Club. He was a retired life member of the Illinois Police Association, and the DuPage County Police Association. He also was a founding member of the Illinois Auxiliary Police, serving as chief and first president from

1981 to 1991.

Survivors include his significant other, Carrie Funderburgh of Amboy; children, David (Sandy) Palgen of Manhattan, Lorene (Steve) Bryan of Bensenville, Anita Krejcik of Indian Head Park, and Randy Palgen of Coloma, Mich.; nine grandchildren; and one sister, Carolyn (Jim) Darcy of Naperville.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and a stepson, Jereme Pettorini.

Visitation will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Mihm-Jones Funeral Home in Amboy. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Dixon, with the Rev. Frank Langholf, pastor, officiating. Burial, with military honors accorded by the Dixon combined veterans group and the Amboy American Legion, will be at Prairie Repose Cemetery in Amboy.

A memorial has been established Visit www.thejonesfh. com to send condolences.

Ruth M. Kramer LOCKPORT – Ruth M. (neÊ Anderson) Kramer, 83, of Lockport, passed peacefully Wednesday, April 2, 2014, at Lemont Rehab Center.

Born in Ohio, living in Lockport since 1962, she retired from Orland Park Library after 15 years of service. She also was an English teacher at Lockport Township High School, Central Campus, for 20 years. She graduated from Western Illinois University with a Bachelor of Science degree in English, and received a master’s degree in library science from Northern Illinois University. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa at WIU and the American Association of University Women. Ruth was unique, dedicated, and loyal to her family.

She was very committed

to her career, but most of all, she cherished her family.

She is survived by her one and only devoted son, Kevin (Stacey) of Cary; four grandchildren, Matthew, Eric, Christopher, and Katharine Kramer; and a brother, Ted (Elaine) Anderson of Glen Ellyn.

Three nephews and one niece also survive.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Russell, in 2003; and her parents, Pearl and Florence (Bolback) Anderson.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at O’Neil Funeral Home Chapel, 1105 E. Ninth St. (159th Street), Lockport.

The funeral will be at noon Tuesday at Union Cemetery in Ohio.

Visit www.oneilfuneralhome.com to send condolences.

Richard D. Reuter DIXON – Richard D Reuter, 61, of Dixon, died Friday, April 4, 2014, at his home.

Jones Funeral Home in Dixon is handling arrangements.

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ecently, I saw the movie, “Cesar Chavez.� It was about the labor leader’s efforts to persuade consumers to stop buying grapes until workers out in the fields received the minimum wage. Millions of Americans joined the boycott, which started in 1965. Five years later, the growers agreed to the farmworkers’ demands.

This movie reflected poorly on Dixon’s favorite son, Ronald Reagan, with footage showing him calling the boycott immoral and eating grapes in protest. Conservatives are crying foul about the film’s treatment of Reagan.

This movie isn’t showing locally. Carmike Sauk Valley 8 in Sterling doesn’t plan to include the film in its lineup, so that leaves the downtown Sterling Theater. When the theater opened last year, its owner said it would show films that would never play in this area.

But Sterling Theater’s owner, Skip Huston, said there was no money in movies such as “Cesar Chavez.� “I think we found the winning combination at the Sterling Theater,� he said. “It’s really going mainstream and family films. We’re not going to play [the movie about Chavez]. I know Carmike won’t.�

When the brew-andview theater opened in August, it tried alternative, non-mainstream movies, but that didn’t work, Huston said. “It was a really rocky start. It didn’t take off like we wanted to,� he said.

It’s too small a market for alternative films, he said.

Last Thursday, 100 students, faculty members,

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and staff at Amboy High School released balloons in honor of Mike “Paz�

Pasley, 47, a social studies teacher who unexpectedly died a few days before.

Many of the balloons didn’t make it far because of weather conditions, reported Brandon Albrecht, who writes for the yearbook.

But one traveled to Oregon, about 25 miles north of Amboy, he said.

Oregon resident Hannah Jones’ stepmom found one 2 days after the release. She contacted Amboy student Megan Grady. “It was a nice day, so the whole family was outside doing work around the house. It was my stepmom who noticed a bright red something under a bush,� Jones said in Albrecht’s story on the balloon discovery.

Her stepmom, Joni Willard, realized the balloon was for the Amboy teacher.

The note from the balloon read, in part, “Paz was not only a great teacher, but a great man.�

I spoke with Albrecht about Pasley. “He meant a lot to us,� the freshman said. “He made a special connection with every one of his students. He brought out the better in students.�

David Giuliani is a news editor for Sauk Valley Media. You can reach him at dgiuliani@saukvalley. com or 800-798-4085, ext.

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If you want to set up a new water account in Sterling, it’s a pretty easy process.

Getting service is just a phone call away. No need for a photo ID, deposit or forms.

It’s not so simple elsewhere.

Across the river in Rock Falls, a new customer is asked to come into City Hall to show a photo ID and fill out an application. Then the customer has to pay a $150 deposit, which is also for the city’s electricity and trash services.

Sterling’s water system is owned by a private company, Illinois American Water. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Water, which runs water utilities around the United States and Canada.

For Dixon, the process of getting new water service is similar to Rock Falls’. Dixon requires a photo ID, but not an application. Its deposit is $100, but unlike Rock Falls, you cannot pay by credit card.

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Sterling’s private water utility charges a $10 activation fee, which can be assessed on a customer’s first bill. “We have a commit-

ment to our customers to make it as easy as possible,� Illinois American spokeswoman Karen Cotton said. “This process is followed in our other districts across the state.�

Rock Falls Mayor Bill Wescott said his city requires the photo ID because it wants to check the information against its other records to determine whether the person has past-due utility bills. “Sometimes people move from one location and leave a big utility bill behind,� he said. “We collect data, but we don’t share it with other creditors.�

The deposit, Wescott

said, helps to cover the city’s losses when people move away without paying their utility bills. “The deposit is usually not enough to cover all of the debt that customers leave,� he said.

The city’s customer service employees fill out the applications when residents come in, he said.

Sterling Mayor Skip Lee said large private utility companies have more economic resources to “cover their bases.� “If 100 deadbeats signed up this month, Illinois American Water would have enough to cover those losses,� he said. “A city utility may not have the financial ability to be as flexible.

The large utilities have bigger legal departments. They can find someone and get the money easier.�

At the same time, cities with their own water utilities can use them as economic development tools, making “pretty significant� offers to prospective companies, Lee said, an ability that Sterling does not have. “There are advantages to both systems,� he said.

ANNUAL MEETINGS FOR TOWNSHIPS

Hopkins corrects meeting error Meeting moved up to Tuesday

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STERLING – State law requires that all townships have their annual meetings on the second Tuesday of April, which is next week.

At least one township, however, had planned to hold its session a week later.

In March, Hopkins Township, which is just west of Sterling, published a legal notice in Sauk Valley Media that it would have its meeting April 15.

Hopkins Supervisor Lynette Springman said last year’s meeting was also held the third Tuesday of April. That complied with state law, which requires townships to delay their meetings by a week when they conflict with the April consolidated election. That elec-

tion is on the second Tuesday every other year.

After Sauk Valley Media called her about the date of the meeting, she said her township would have the meeting this coming Tues-

day, in compliance with state law. It will begin at 7 p.m. at the township hall, 24719 Emerson Road.

Annual meetings are where township residents have a voice and can vote on issues.

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Cozy up to your township on Tuesday T

ownship government supporters like to say that townships are the one unit of government that is closest to the people.

On Tuesday evening, the people will have the chance to get up close and personal with their townships.

What are called “annual town meetings� will take place, starting by law at 6 p.m. or later on the second Tuesday of April in township halls across the Sauk Valley.

It’s an excellent opportunity for people to find out what’s going on

with that up-close-andpersonal government of theirs. Financial reports will be reviewed, and elected officials will give their reports. Those who attend also get a chance to vote on various measures and to buttonhole their elected officials to ask questions.

Townships exist to maintain roads and bridges, assess property, and provide general assistance to the poor. Some townships have expanded those roles.

The problem is, much of their activity occurs with little public scru-

What we think Township annual meetings are slated for Tuesday evening across the Sauk Valley, and the public is invited. What’s your township been up to during the past year?

Here’s your opportunity to find out. tiny, as SVM readers learned last year in the series “Under the Radar: Many Townships, Little Scrutiny.�

So, how about attending your township’s annual meeting Tuesday to provide a little more scrutiny?

(After all, it’s your tax dollars that townships spend.)

In Coloma Township, Rock Falls area residents should attend to find out whether township officials have straightened out their financial recordkeeping problems.

Dixon Township residents should attend to see how their new supervisor, Edward Fritts,

whom they elected a year ago, is doing.

Sterling Township residents likewise will want to find out how their new highway commissioner, Dana Stutzke, whom they elected a year ago, is working out.

And the list goes on.

We checked with PublicNoticeIllinois.com, which is operated by the Illinois Press Association. A review of township public notices that appeared in area newspapers provides these starting times for township annual meetings on Tuesday: 6 p.m. – Dixon, Port-

land, Erie, York, Marion 7 p.m. – Coloma, Sterling, Palmyra, Hopkins, Garden Plain, Newton, Fairhaven, Savanna, Rock Creek-Lima, Mount Carroll, Nelson, May, Sublette, Pine Rock, Oregon/ Nashua, Buffalo, Freedom 7:30 p.m. – Jordan, Pine Creek 8 p.m. – Hume, Hahnaman If your township isn’t listed, give its office a call for the exact meeting time.

The invitation has been extended. On Tuesday, go ahead and cozy up to your township.

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I could not let Scott Reeder’s recent column on March 26 titled “Speaker wrong to offer tax money for Obama library� go by without comment. (Usually I just fume to myself.)

His purpose in life seems to be to bash Democrats, from the president of the U.S. to the governor of Illinois, and anyone else who holds elected office as a Democrat.

When he isn’t awfulizing on the president, he’s awfulizing on the governor. Now he says that the state of Hawaii should fund the Obama Presidential Library because the president was born there. (I think you slipped up on yourself, Scott, by admitting he was born in the U.S.A., Hawaii to be exact.)

If that’s the case, I guess the Abraham Lincoln Library should have been built in Kentucky, the state of his birth. It was built in Springfield, where Lincoln lived and which is owned and operated by the state of Illinois, administered by the Illinois Historic Preservation Society.

And I can bet you anything that if President Obama was a Republican, Mr. Reeder would be humming a different tune, and maybe he can answer me this: Why wasn’t the Reagan Library built in Illinois, the state of his birth? Nope, it’s out in California where he lived.

But I’ll bet you Mr. Reeder would have led the band to get state funding for Mr. Reagan’s library to be built in Illinois, preferably in Dixon, and would have asked for a heck of a lot more money for it than Mr. Madigan did.

Vision includes growth for Rock Falls, Sterling BRENDEN WALZ Sterling

I, a citizen of Sterling, write to share a vision of mine. What if Rock Falls, Sterling’s sister city, were to have its own medical center, a world-

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class provider of health care, and it was called the Rock Falls Clinic?

What if high-tech manufacturing came to Rock Falls and it was called CBR Computers Inc., and it manufactured MP3 players, Android PC tablets, and Ubuntu Linux PC tablets?

What if there was a regional mental health provider in Sterling providing improved services like what the Singer Mental Health Center in Rockford provided?

Would the jobs to be had be worth much to the communities in the area?

What if there was an institution of higher education called the School of Nursing Institute, and it was affiliated with the Rock Falls Clinic? What if the training at said institution allowed one to train as a certified nursing assistant all the way up to nursing practitioner? Would those be valued by the community?

What if a steel and other metals reclamation smelter was set up in Sterling and Rock Falls? What if an ethanol fuel retailer was based in the area, and an ethanol or gasohol refinery was operated in the region, and outlets were put up all over the Midwest, or even franchises were possible? What if the retailer were called Ethanol America and the other Gasohol America?

What if three privately owned prisons were operated successfully at a profit by a private concern in the Prophetstown area? And what if they were one medium security prison and two minimum security prisons? Would those have value as job creators?

I leave these ideas for your readers to ponder and consider, and hope to highest heaven’s Creator I can make this all come true.

Religion not an enemy of freedom CHRISTOPHER HARRISON Dixon

Steve Lopez continues to exhibit his terribly bad reasoning [“Opposition wrong about abortion issue,� The Reader’s Voice, March 19]. He ignores facts that were laid out, denies a human embryo is human, then rebuts by saying stepping on an ant is closer to murder than killing an unborn baby. Need I say more?

To finish, he wallows in liberal self-delusion, saying the Founders were deists and most of them showed disdain toward the Bible. That statement couldn’t be further from the truth. He should look at the Founders’ own writings and lives, not someone else’s liberal

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

wishes on the matter.

Take Jefferson. Although his view of the Bible changed at different times of his life, he insisted the Bible be included as a textbook in public schools. He personally approved the use of the Capitol building for Sunday services.

I could go on almost forever about the Founders’ favor of Christianity, including their writings regarding intent of the First Amendment (opposite of the past 67 years’ application).

So, simply consider these statements.

From John Adams: “Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not only of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all governments.�

Washington said, “Religion and morality are indispensable supports (of national prosperity) – in vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who would labor to subvert these great pillars.�

From Tocqueville: “In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom pursuing courses diametrically opposed to each other; but in America, I found that they were intimately united, and that they reigned in common over the same country.�

Many erroneously believe the Founders

Sheriff race showed voters’ disapproval

installed a godless Constitution. Likewise, many Americans today side HAROLD “SAM� McMICHAEL with 1790s France, and Oregon look upon religion as the This is to advise a recent enemy of freedom. They’re writer from Polo that the not patriots, according to sheriff of Ogle County was Washington. voted out of office by an almost two-to-one margin, due to there having been three contestants.

In my opinion, the voting indicated a great deal of dissatisfaction with the performance of the sherDARIN DeHAAN iff.

Oregon I hope the members of What is a volunteer? The the Ogle County Board are Merriam-Webster dic- smart enough to undertionary defines volunteer stand this and will start as a person who does work putting the taxpayers’ without getting paid to do interest ahead of the goodit. Volunteer is a noun, but old-boy, strut-around I contend that volunteer mentality they have. is actually a verb. A word that expresses an action, an occurrence, or a state of being.

A Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer is many things; a JUANITA ROSE mentor, a vision of hope Sterling for the hopeless, a caring On March 28, I had and kind person in a world coffee with a friend at of chaos and confusion.

CASA volunteers do McDonald’s and then work without getting went to County Market.

When I left, a man was paid, but that does not describe the actions they next to my car waiting to take on behalf of the tell me I had a flat tire. All abused and neglected he said was, “Take it to children in our commu- Jesse’s.� nities.

After determining it was To me, a CASA volun- safe to drive to Rock Falls, teer is a hero who gives I arrived at Jesse’s Towa voice to the voiceless ing. Even though he was children in the court sys- bogged down with work, tem. Judges appoint CASA he fixed the tire, and I was volunteers to speak for on my way in half an hour. the best interest of chil- Thanks, Jesse, for your dren removed from their kindness.

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“Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.�

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SECOND OPINION

Politics: Where the right thing goes to die D

oing the right thing involves a simple concept: Examine the options, then choose the one that serves the greater good.

But some ideas ought to receive widespread support without consideration of alternatives.

For example, legislative districts should be logically drawn to protect communities of interest and encourage competitive political campaigns.

And another: We should encourage as many voters as possible to participate in elections to make results as representative as possible of the population.

But politics isn’t about the greater good.

AT THIS SAME TIME just 4 years go, this newspaper was “all in� with the Fair Map Amendment.

We editorialized on behalf of a nonpartisan redistricting process for Illinois. We encouraged people to sign petitions to get the initiative before the voters. We

even made petitions available to sign at our offices in Dixon and Sterling.

Alas, not enough signatures were gathered statewide to put the measure on the November 2010 ballot.

Now a new campaign, Yes! for Independent Maps, reported this week it has enough signatures to put a referendum in the Nov. 4 election.

Everyone should agree that congressional and legislative maps should ensure fair elections and informed representation.

But the partisan process of reapportionment in Illinois is intended solely to give an electoral advantage to the political party that draws the maps.

Life’s not fair. Same with politics.

IMAGINE A GROUP of people – nonpartisan, not the political party in power – being responsible for drawing political maps that reflect the state’s geographic, demographic and political diversity.

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Those districts would be as compact as possible, keeping together people with similar local or regional interests, regardless of how they voted in past elections.

Remapping would be an academic exercise, not a political game.

In a perfect world?

Try Iowa, or Ohio, or a number of other states that have removed politicians from redistricting.

It can be done.

ILLINOIS DEMOCRATIC leaders can be expected to challenge the petitions that will be submitted by Yes! for Independent Maps.

They have a supermajority in the General Assembly, a stranglehold on the state’s

congressional caucus (two-thirds of 18 seats), and their own maps in force to perpetuate their power.

You would ask them to give that up ... why? To do the right thing?

But it’s not just a Democratic issue.

In Indiana, Republicans have a similar hold on state government: super majorities in both chambers of the Legislature, seven of the nine congressional seats, and their own partisan districting plan in place.

Look at the bigger picture: Why should Illinois Democrats want a nonpartisan redistricting process, which would give Republicans a chance to pick up four or five congressional seats, when Indiana Republicans – and other traditionally Republican states – have no intention of adopting fairly drawn maps that would give Democrats a shot at more seats in the U.S. House?

Illinois Democrats have a point: They’d be happy to turn over redistricting

to the academics – but let Indiana do it first.

If those folks from Yes! for Fair Maps have 298,000 valid signatures (they say they have collected 350,000), Democratic political leaders won’t decide the matter.

Illinois voters will.

ANOTHER INITIATIVE that could find its way onto the Illinois ballot in November seeks to protect voters from being hassled at the polls.

Democrats have proposed to amend the state constitution to bar the Legislature from establishing new requirements for citizens to exercise their right to vote.

Several states – Indiana among them – have enacted voter identification laws, cut back early voting, etc., to discourage voting.

Such laws are part of a nationwide Republican campaign to suppress the vote since low turnouts usually favor Republican candidates. Many typically Democratic voters – seniors, youths, minorities – are less

likely to vote if they have to jump through extra hoops.

The GOP argues it’s merely trying to prevent voter fraud, but nobody really believes that because such fraud is practically non-existent.

Illinois Democrats hope to exercise a little preemptive self-defense in anticipation of Republicans’ gaining control the General Assembly again someday.

With their supermajorities, Democrats can vote to put the question on the ballot without Republican support.

If they’re smart, Republican legislators will join the effort.

SO, YES, YOU CAN do the right thing.

You can establish a sensible redistricting process.

And you can make it easier for people to vote.

But such things run counter to the selfpreservation instincts of politicians who want to perpetuate their power.

The greater good?

Good luck.

THE READER’S VOICE

Week honors kids, those who support them LORI REUBIN $IXON

Young children in the Sauk Valley area deserve the best that we can give them.

Open Sesame Children’s Learning Centers invites the Sauk Valley to come together for children during the Week of the Young Child, April 7-11.

As part of the national Week of the Young Child celebrated across the

country, Open Sesame and other child care and Head Start programs, preschools, and elementary schools will honor young children and all those who make a difference in children’s lives.

All young children need and deserve high-quality early learning experiences that will prepare them for life. Week of the Young Child is a time for the Sauk Valley to recognize that early years are learning years for all young children.

Young children and their families depend on high-quality education and care, which help

children get a great start and bring lasting benefits to the Sauk Valley.

You can show support for early learning in our community by promoting early literacy programs, thanking teachers who care for our children, and working to ensure that our public policies support early learning for all young children.

Young children are the future of our communities.

Week of the Young Child is a time to remind us that early years are learning years.

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‘Nice-smile’ people just might be right TONY VALENTINO Rock Falls

The people that I admire the most in this world are: First, medical professionals, because they have the ability to cure the sick; Second, teachers, because they impart knowledge and mold

young minds; and Third, those who have “faith,� because they are the ones who always have a smile, a kind word, and an answer to life’s woes. They are the nice ones.

There are no dilemmas that they cannot resolve by using the words, “Have faith.� You cannot argue the meanings of existence with them without “You must have faith� coming up in the discussion.

It is sometimes frustrating, but it is hard to get angry with someone with a nice smile. In fact, it is impossible.

What do you think?

Do you agree WITH THESE LETTERS Do you disagree WITH THESE LETTERS ,ET US KNOW 7RITE YOUR OWN LETTER TO THE EDITOR AND SEND IT TO letters@saukvalley. com I tend to be arrogant and not overly kind.

Sometimes I have questioned the existence of God in their midst (not a wise thing to do), and in the end, I walk away and say to myself: Maybe the nice-smile people are right. I hope so.

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DIXON

City to take another stab at TIGER grant Application deadline near

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DIXON – Dixon will again apply for a federal grant that could bring about $12.8 million to improve the city’s infrastructure.

The Dixon City Council is expected on Monday to approve an ordinance to allow the city to apply for

a Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant through the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The grant, if received, would fund the Reagan Transit Corridor Project.

That project aims to widen and repair East River Street, add multiuse trails, and repurpose the Illinois Central Railway bridge west of the Peoria Avenue bridge.

Although the city has

WHITESIDE COUNTY

Convictions down in 2013 State’s attorney: Stats cyclical

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MORRISON – Compared to 2012, convictions in Whiteside County decreased in 2013 – but not by much, according to a report released by the state’s attorney’s office.

In 2013, the state obtained 2,438 convictions, compared to 2,607 in 2012 – a decrease of just 169, or about 6.5 percent.

The annual report, submitted by Whiteside County State’s Attorney Trish Joyce to the county board, is compiled by her office. Lee County, too, submits a similar report, but its most recent numbers haven’t yet been released.

While Whiteside County’s felony convictions dropped in 2013 to 482, from 621, the number of misdemeanor convictions and juvenile adjudications both rose. Traffic and DUI convictions remained about the same.

The number of people found not guilty also dropped in 2013. “It’s just cyclical,� Joyce said. “For instance, I was looking today because I was doing a report for how many felonies we have filed, and last year at

this time we had filed 100, and this year we’ve filed 127, so we’re on track for filing 500-andsome this year, which is more than last year and, I think, more than 2012. “Some years are up; some years are down.�

Whiteside County Sheriff Kelly Wilhelmi said the numbers could be deceiving. “I really don’t think crime is down,� he said. “I think crime is up, but the type of criminals that we’re arresting now are taking a little longer to convict. “I think the state’s attorney is doing a good job, and we’re working at it.�

2013 was Joyce’s first full year as Whiteside County’s state’s attorney. Before then, she was a private attorney as well as an assistant state’s attorney. “I think that our staff has really jelled,� she said. “I think we have a good working relationship with the defense attorneys, and we certainly have a good relationship with the sheriff’s department and with the police departments. And we’re busy. ... But as I said, it’s very cyclical and my experience is that some years are a lot busier than other years.�

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been denied a TIGER grant three times, Mayor Jim Burke said the city gets closer with each application. “We have, at various times, talked to officials out in Washington [D.C.] and were given some suggestions on it,� he said this week. “We’ve learned from every one of those to focus on what they’re looking for.�

Previous applications – in 2011, 2012 and 2013 – have been refined to decrease the scope of the

work, Geoff Vanderlin, a member of the citizens committee for the grant, said this week.

The biggest change in the new application that the city will submit this month – the deadline is April 28 – is 0.75 of a mile of multi-purpose trails to connect Dixon to other trails in the region.

Making the project more regional, Vanderlin said, could help the city’s chances.

The grant committee has considered applying

for another grant through the TIGER program to be used for planning purposes. A request for that grant won’t be submitted until the next round of applications, Vanderlin said.

This year, the Blackhawk Hills Regional Council will assist in the planning and submission of the grant. Vanderlin said the group will bring inceased expertise to the process.

The grant area includes the section of River Street

where the city is budgeting $1 million for repair in the next fiscal year.

That money is coming from funds the city recovered in its legal settlement with former auditors and the sale of assets of former Comptroller Rita Crundwell.

That local investment in the project area could help the city’s chances of being awarded a grant on its fourth attempt. “It shows that we have some skin in the game, for sure,� Burke said.

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The 584-megawatt plant has officials in both Lee and Whiteside counties excited about the tax revenues it will bring.

Although the plant probably won’t be fully assessed until the end of 2016, when it is, it could become the biggest taxpayer in Lee County, Thompson said.

The Lee Energy Facility, operated by Duke Energy in Nachusa, is now the county’s largest taxpayer.

Duke is now looking for a buyer for 13 of its Midwest power plants, including the Nachusa facility.

Although Thompson said it was too early to estimate numbers for the Nelson plant, the tax value on the Nachusa operation is $31 million, which has the company paying about $300,000 a year to the county. The tax value on the Nelson plant is expected to far surpass that of the Nachusa property.

Schools also stand to be big winners when the plant is on the tax rolls. “About 85 percent of that would go to school districts,� Thompson said. “It’s basically the same group of taxing districts as for the old National Manufacturing building.�

Those districts would be Rock Falls High School, East Coloma-Nelson Elementary, Sauk Valley Community College, County of Lee, Nelson Township, Nelson Highway Department, Rock Falls Fire Protection, and multiple Nelson and Harmon township entities.

The fire department’s stake in the plant is twofold, said Gary Cook, chief of the Rock Falls Twin City Joint Fire Command. “The Rock Falls rural district is a tax beneficiary, so it’s obviously going to be a good thing for us down the road, especially for the capital budget,�

Cook said.

The plant’s water supply also will be made available to the fire department.

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“They will be a fill site for us,� Cook said, “which will be nice because National [Manufacturing] used to be a site for us, and we haven’t had them for a while.�

The facility will be a combined-cycle plant with its own water system. It will have two gas-fired turbines that turn the generators. The exhaust gas goes through a heat exchanger, where it is cooled by water.

The high-pressure stream created runs the second turbine, allowing for two generation cycles from just one fuel stock.

The project site, an abandoned power plant at 1311 Nelson Road, south of Rock Island Road, has seen two owners begin work since 2001. NRG Energy bought the 165-acre lot to build a gas-fired electrical power plant. NRG, however, filed for bankruptcy protection in 2003 before completing the project.

Invenergy bought the property in 2006, with plans to use ethanol and natural gas to generate electrical power. At that time, the company said the plant would create 70 jobs.

When plans for the ethanol portion of the project were scrapped, that number was reduced to an estimated 20 to 25 jobs.

Invenergy wants waiver from FERC

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The Nelson Invenergy plant now under construction is seeking a waiver that would allow the plant to sell some of its energy to a Wisconsin-based regional supplier.

Invenergy has filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to get partial exemption from a requirement that all of the Nelson plant’s energy produced in the 2017-18 delivery year go to PJM Interconnection, the world’s largest wholesale electricity market.

It fuels the grid for several states in the Midwest and Mideast.

Some of the jobs are now posted on the company’s website.

The technology at the Nelson plant is much different from the Duke plant in Nachusa, officials say.

Invenergy believes it qualifies for a waiver because an exception to the PJM agreement can exist when the producer has a “financially and physically firm commitment to an external sale of its capacity�.

On March 12, Nelson and WPPI Energy drew up an agreement that says WPPI will buy 15.6 percent of the Nelson facility’s output for a 20-year period, beginning June 1, 2017, the beginning of the 201718 delivery year.

PJM opposes the waiver because it says the Nelson plant did not enter into the agreement with WPPI until 2 months after the deadline. “The Nelson plant is much more efficient than the Duke plant,� Thompson said. “Nachusa is what’s called a peaker plant, and it only operates where there is high demand for electricity.

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Farm & Fleet remodeling store Project scheduled to be completed by end of June

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STERLING – The Farm & Fleet at 3913 E. Lincolnway is undergoing a remodeling project that includes a new storefront.

A spokesperson at the retailer’s corporate headquarters in Janesville, Wis., said the store was being updated in line with Farm & Fleet’s newest prototype.

Other changes are being made inside the store to improve the shopping experience at the Sterling location, the spokesperson said. Included are a new customer service area, new fitting rooms, a larger pet department, and skylights to let in natural light and reduce lighting costs.

The project is tentatively scheduled to be complete by the end of June.

The store has been at the East Lincolnway location since 1958.

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ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Illinois Department of Natural Resources, often criticized as advocating for the coal industry, announced a series of reforms this week meant to help repair the agency’s image and make it more responsive to the public.

The changes – from closer inspection of coal-ash ponds to better communication with the public to strengthening ethics rules – underscore the daunting task of balancing environmentalists’ concerns about an energy source they view with disfavor and fairly treating coal producers in a state that’s among the nation’s richest in energy reserves.

But they also come as the agency deals with other embarrassing missteps, including a department administrator’s departure after reports he attended professional fishing tournaments while on sick leave and revelations that two mine-safety regulators accepted

political contributions from a coal-mine operator. Last week, The Associated Press reported another official had to repay $7,200 that he overcharged the state for mileage.

Neither environmentalists nor the industry believe the reforms are tied to Gov. Pat Quinn’s re-election bid against a well-funded Republican opponent. But the timing doesn’t hurt him, either, said David Yepsen of Southern Illinois University’s Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. “Pat Quinn came into office as a reformer, so any hint of problems undermines his public image. So it’s good they’re to trying to clean up their act,� said Yepsen, who credited Quinn’ with recognizing “the DNR clearly has problems.�

Still, “it’s a long way to the November election, and it’s important that Quinn and his administration get back on track and get this issue off the table.�

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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) – The Fort Hood soldier who gunned down three other military men before killing himself had an argument with colleagues in his unit before opening fire, and investigators believe his mental condition was not the “direct precipitating factor� in the shooting, authorities said Friday.

The base’s commander, Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, offered those details a day after saying that Spc. Ivan Lopez’s mental condition appeared to be an underlying factor in the attack.

On Friday, Milley said that an “escalating argument� precipitated the assault. He declined to discuss the cause of the argument but said investigators believe Lopez made no effort to target specific soldiers – even though at least one of the soldiers shot was

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Lt. Gen. Mark Milley (left) and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn talk to the media near Fort Hood’s main gate Thursday in Fort Hood, Texas. A soldier opened fire Wednesday on fellow service members at the Fort Hood military base, killing three people and wounding 16 before committing suicide. involved in the dispute. tated targeting of an indiMilley would not say vidual,� he said. whether those involved Chris Grey, a spokesman were among the dead or for the Army’s Criminal wounded, or how many Investigation Command shooting victims had been based in Quantico, Va., said a part of the argument. the military has not estab“There was no premedi- lished a “concrete motive.�

And because Lopez is dead, he added, “the possibility does exist that we may never know why the alleged shooter did what he did.�

The crime scene encompasses two city blocks, Grey said.

Lopez initially began firing near an intersection, then traveled to several nearby buildings, went inside and kept firing.

While driving to those locations in his vehicle, he fired indiscriminately at other soldiers, Grey said.

Grey also confirmed for the first time that the military police officer who confronted Lopez exchanged words with him before firing a single round at him that apparently missed. That’s when the gunman put his .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol against his head and pulled the trigger one last time.

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“When it rains, the hogs will tend to root in the soil,� Koster said. “and

they put the wet dirt against the [electric] fence, and that shorts it out.�

That allows pigs to get under the wire and roam outside the farm.

Last July, Koster moved

pigs to the 120-acre farm, where he had grown corn and soybeans for more than 30 years. This winter, the farm had 2,400 pigs.

The pigs are not a threat to people, Koster said.

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Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute, called it a “pretty meaningless benchmark economically.� “The potential labor force is growing all the time, so the private sector should have added millions of jobs over the last six-plus years,� she said.

U.S. employers did add a seasonally adjusted 192,000 jobs in March, just below February’s 197,000, which was revised higher. March’s figure nearly matched last year’s average monthly gain, suggesting that the economy has recovered from the hiring slowdown caused by severe weather in December and January. “We’re seeing sustained improvement,� said Scott Anderson, chief economist at Bank of the West. “But we’re not really that much stronger than we were last year. And we need more improvement for a stronger economy to come into fruition.�

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WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. economy has reached a milestone: It has finally regained all the private-sector jobs it lost during the Great Recession.

Yet it took a painfully slow six years, and unemployment remains stubbornly high at 6.7 percent.

The comeback figures were contained in a government report Friday that showed a solid if unspectacular month of job growth in March.

Businesses and nonprofits shed 8.8 million jobs during the 200709 recession; they have since hired 8.9 million.

But because the population has grown since the big downturn, the economy is still millions of jobs short of where it should be by now.

Also, government jobs are still 535,000 below the level they were at when the recession began in December 2007. That’s why the overall economy still has 422,000 fewer jobs than it did then.

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Blooming in cold Tyler Flowers had hits in each of his first three at-bats on Friday after going 4-for-4 on Thursday. He’s the first Sox player to get seven straight hits since Magglio Ordonez in 2001.

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That’s how many pitches it took before Masahiro Tanaka gave up his first big league home run on Friday. The Blue Jays’ Melky Cabrera hit the dinger off the Japanese star, who the Yankees signed to a 7-year, $155 million deal.

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Same game, contrasting philosophies Two very different programs set to meet

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ARLINGTON, Texas – They play the same game, though they come at it from opposite sides of the court.

Kentucky has a coach labeled a renegade, a rotating stable of McDonald’s All-Americans, and sky-high expectations every year. Wisconsin has a coach who has stayed firmly in one state for 3 decades, a lineup filled with juniors and seniors, and an aw-shucks attitude about its first trip to the Final Four in more than a decade.

They meet Saturday in the national semifinals – the Oneand-Done Wildcats (28-10) two wins from the program’s ninth national title, and the Badgers (30-7) making their first trip this far in the tournament since 2000.

“Frank Sinatra, wasn’t that the song? We did it our way?”

Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan said.

“Everybody’s doing it their way.

If you’re a coach and here’s the landscape, you do it the best way you can.”

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Gary Hartje coached the Milledgeville Missiles for 33 years, leading them to the state semifinals three times. Hartje will be inducted into the Illinois High School Football Hall of Fame on April 12.

Big man, small town Milledgeville legendary coach Hartje gets Hall call

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The Badgers play Kentucky in the Final Four on Saturday.

hrough the highs of three appearances in the state football semifinals, to the lows of barely having enough athletes to field a team, Gary Hartje was there.

He coached football in Milledgeville for 33 seasons, the last 30 as head coach.

His varsity teams compiled a 186-114 record during that span, and his name became synonymous with Missiles football.

Hartje file High school: Milledgeville, 1969 College: Western Illinois, 1973 FYI: Started teaching and coaching in Milledgeville in 1974. ... Compiled 186114 record in 30 seasons as varsity football coach. ... Will be inducted into Illinois High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame on April 12.

He’ll be recognized for his efforts as a member of the Illinois High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame class of 2014. Hartje and 12 other coaches will be inducted on Saturday, April 12 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign.

“It wasn’t on my bucket list,” Hartje said, “but it’s a pleasant thing. It means a lot to me. It’s something that you share with thousands of kids that went through the program. The relationships that I still have, that goes round and round, and makes me feel awfully good.

“It’s an honor that I didn’t expect, but it’s an honor that I cherish, and will for a long time.”

Hartje was nominated by Pete Robertson, who played for him in the mid 1980s and is now the athletic director at Durand, and long-time Durand coach John Schwab, himself a hall of famer.

Brad Smith, who played for Hartje in the late 1980s, was happy for his coach.

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Last hurrah for Coberts Erie sisters ready to make most of final season together forward to one final season … and hopefully, it’s another s %RIE 0ROPHETSTOWN TOOK great one on the track.” second at the 1A state meet The Cobert sisters were major For the last 4 years, Courtney last season by medaling in the factors in the Panthers’ runnerCobert has been in the middle long jump, triple jump (twice), up finish at the Class 1A state of everything for the Erie vol200, 400 relay, 800 relay, and meet a year ago, and hope to leyball and basketball teams, 1,600 relay. once again be at the center of a and the Erie-Prophetstown special run this spring. The duo Panther track team. combined to score 29 of Eriemake the most of it.

The last 2 years, she’s been Prophetstown’s 56 team points “It’s been a blessing,” said able to share all of her expesenior Courtney. “We’ve always last year, and together with riences with younger sister sister combo Paige and Peyton cheered each other on, but we Rachel.

Rus, was part of a quartet that But after five highly successful never really got to compete accounted for every single seasons together, the Cobert sis- together until last year. We Panther point. ters are entering the final phase mesh really well on the court and on the track, and it’s been of their shared athletic careers a lot of fun. We’re really looking … and they’re determined to HURRAH CONTINUED ON B8

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Courtney Cobert crosses the finish line to win the 60-meter dash Wednesday at the Rosenberry Classic at Westwood. Cobert and her sister, Rachel, were key contributors to the Panthers’ second-place finish at the Class 1A state meet in 2013.

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Professional wrestling is one of those things that make some sports journalists bristle, because let’s face it, even the industry’s most influential figure, WWE CEO Vince McMahon, admits that it’s not really a sport. It is, in fact, this strange term known as sports entertainment.

If you think about that for a moment, that term doesn’t really clarify anything. Isn’t the NFL also entertainment?

Anyway, I spent a few moments trying to decide if the feature on this Sunday’s WrestleMania 30 belonged in our section.

I asked myself two questions.

First, did we have room? Yes, there was space, considering most of the local slate of games were scratched because of inclement weather.

Two, will any of our readers want to read it?

If you look below this column, you’ll see how I answered that.

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1970s. All MLB players As I skimmed the need is individualized story, it made me think about the WrestleMania pyrotechnics, and their era in this country, and walks to the plate would be identical to that of how it’s inception 30 sports entertainers. years ago has changed Don’t think for a sports around it. second that the touchFor those that don’t down celebrations that know, WrestleMania is old-timers bristle at the pinnacle pay-perdon’t have origins in view event of the year rehearsed celebrations for World Wrestling of guys like Hulk Hogan.

Entertainment.

From its start, Wrestle- Heck, Aaron Rodgers’ Mania has been a blend signature pose is of him of its “WWE Superstars,� mimicking strapping on a championship belt, enhanced by the fame of professional athletes just like The Rock or John Cena would do. and celebrities.

Even before MLB had The first WrestleMania featured Mr. T, Muham- its steroid era and subsequent scandal, the mad Ali, Cyndi Lauper, WWE did it first. In fact, Liberace, and a host of the WWE gained fame NFL players who comon the backs of steroidpeted in a battle royal.

enhanced performers like Hogan, the Ultimate Warrior, and Randy Savage in the 1980s. Vince McMahon nearly went to prison for that.

MLB won back fans on the backs of Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds. No one ever seemed to point the finger squarely at Bud Selig for any of that.

As far as promotion?

Very few entities do it better than WWE, and its cross-promotion for events like WrestleMania has been mimicked for the Super Bowl, NCAA Final Four, and Olympics.

McMahon mastered the art of using a montage of highlights with popular music playing behind it. You can’t watch a sporting event today – no matter how big or small – and not see the same thing done at some point during the broadcast.

There are plenty of aspects of sports entertainment that cause concern, but probably no more than the average professional sports league.

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Hulk Hogan (left) and John Cena will both appear at WrestleMania 30 on Sunday at the Superdome in New Orleans. Hogan wrestled in the main event of the first WrestleMania, and is acting as host of the 30th anniversary of the event.

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Once billed as “Hollywood� Hulk Hogan, wrestling’s marquee star has a scaled-down title at 60.

Try, Host Hogan.

With Hogan more suited these days for an AARP membership than a WWE championship, it’s unlikely he’ll deliver a thunderous boot to the face, followed by a leg drop for the 1-2-3 on the challenger of the month.

That’s why he’ll be hosting Sunday’s WrestleMania 30 in New Orleans. However, Hogan might have a few hard fists left in the redand-yellow tank. “I guarantee you, his presence will be felt at WrestleMania 30, and he’ll make an impact on the show,� said Paul “Triple H� Levesque, a wrestler and WWE executive.

Few wrestlers have made an impact on the WWE’s signature event quite like Hogan during the first 29 Wrestle-

Mania’s. His bodyslam of Andre the Giant is etched in sports entertainment lore.

Hogan will be part of history on Sunday, with WrestleMania airing for the first time on the WWE Network.

WWE chairman Vince McMahon gambled that fans have grown weary of the traditional pay-per-view model and were ready to plunk down $9.99 a month for the right to watch the biggest cards, ondemand classic events and other premium shows not available elsewhere.

The WWE Network launched Feb. 24 as a streaming service with a 6-month commitment and included all 12 payper-view events.

Hogan was thrilled to bring his famed 24-inch pythons to the 24-hour network. He’s ready to start searching through more than 1,500 hours of archived programming. “I’d probably start when I had a full head

of hair,� Hogan said. “I’d probably roll back to 1977, ’78 when I first went to work for Vince McMahon Sr. I’d probably start with my first match ever at the TV tapings in Allentown, Pa.�

The PPVs are still available in their current format through cable or satellite providers. The 4-hour WrestleMania card costs $64.99 in high definition.

WWE was expected to announce the first batch of subscriber numbers next week. Powell, who has covered the pro wrestling industry for 15 years, said anything around the 300,000350,000 mark was a strong first indicator the network was a smash.

The 1 million PPV buyrate is now obsolete.

WWE is expecting another packed house Sunday at the Superdome, home of the New Orleans Saints, for the anniversary event.

The Undertaker faces former UFC heavyweight champion Brock

Lesnar in one of the signature bouts. Triple H wrestles Daniel Bryan, the company’s most popular star, and the winner advances to a triple-threat match for the WWE championship against Randy Orton and Batista. John Cena takes on Bray Wyatt, and there’s even an Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal.

Holding the mayhem together is Hogan. His style hasn’t changed much since 1985, when his hand was raised in victory by guest referee Muhammad Ali at the first WrestleMania.

Hogan wore the signature red bandanna, yellow sleeveless shirt emblazoned with “Hulkamania� on the front, and sunglasses on a recent “Raw� segment that paired him with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Alex Gordon drove in three runs, and Jeremy Guthrie pitched effectively into the sixth inning as the Kansas City Royals beat the Chicago White Sox 7-5 in their home opener Friday.

Gordon hit a bases-clearing double in the first inning, and Guthrie allowed four runs on seven hits, four walks and a hit batter in 5 2/3 innings. Lorenzo Cain drove in two runs with a two-out fifth-inning single that put Kansas City ahead 7-2.

The Royals jumped on White Sox rookie right-hander Erik Johnson for six hits and four runs in the first two innings. Johnson retired only 14 of the 28 batters he faced, yielding seven runs on 10 hits, three walks and a hit batter to take the loss.

Jose Abreu and Conor Gillaspie had sacrifice flies, and Adam Eaton added a two-run single in the sixth for the White Sox. Tyler Flowers, who went 4-for-4 Thursday against Minnesota, had hits in his first three at-bats, but the streak ended in the eighth when Nori Aoki dropped his fly ball to right.

Phillies 7, Cubs 2: Chase Utley’s two-run home run and RBI single helped the Phillies and manager Ryan Sandberg – a hall of fame second baseman with the Cubs – spoil the opener of Wrigley Field’s 100th anniversary season.

John Mayberry Jr. also connected on a two-run blast, his fourth career pinch-hit homer, and Roberto Hernandez pitched into the sixth inning in his Philadelphia debut.

Welington Castillo ripped a solo homer for the Cubs, who have

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The White Sox’s Alexei Ramirez is tagged out at home by Royals catcher Salvador Perez during the second inning Friday in Kansas City. The Royals beat the Sox 7-5.

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was charged with four runs, three earned, and six hits.

Pirates 12, Cardinals 2: Pedro Alvarez homered twice and scored three runs as the Pirates clubbed the Cardinals in Pittsburgh.

Alvarez hit long solo shots in the second and fourth off Shelby Miller (0-1), and broke open a close game with a rare stolen base he converted into a run.

Travis Ishikawa added his first major league home run in nearly 2 years for Pittsburgh.

Miller struggled in his 2014 debut. He tied a career high by giving up five earned runs in 5 1/3 innings, including the three home runs. Matt Carpenter hit a two-run homer for the Cardinals.

Cubs passion at Wrigley endures

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reg Fizdale is about to become a father.

Fizdale’s wife, Leslie, is 8 months pregnant with the couple’s first child. If her pregnancy were any further along, it might have interfered with Fizdale’s annual guys trip from Indianapolis to see the Cubs’ home opener at Wrigley Field. “I was telling her it was good timing,� Fizdale, 35, said with a grin before his eighth consecutive home opener. “Because I probably would have missed the birth.�

Fizdale was kidding.

At least, I think he was kidding.

The only certainty is that the party has returned to Wrigleyville after one of the most miserable winters in this city’s history. And judging by the packed bars, crowded sidewalks, and filled stadium before Friday’s game, Cubs fans will party regardless of whether their team finishes first, worst, or somewhere in between.

Granted, those fans might leave a few innings earlier than they used to, as was the case during the Cubs’ quiet 7-2 loss against the Philadelphia Phillies. But every game on the North Side draws a crowd, and Opening Day continues to be extra special.

Across the street from the stadium, hundreds of people filled Bernie’s Tap & Grill. Eric Bonano arrived at 9 a.m. and found a spot in the outdoor beer garden, where he drank Budweisers in wind chills that crept to 28 degrees Fahrenheit by game time. “We don’t have a Mardi Gras here,� said Bonano,

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37, who marked his 14th consecutive home opener. “And this is about the closest thing that there is to it.�

You want to know the depth of Bonano’s dedication to the Cubs? “I actually dropped out of school in 2003 because I was following that 2003 season so much,� said Bonano, who was pursuing a political science degree at Northern Illinois. “I fell some credits short because I just missed class after class after class.�

Bonano wasn’t kidding. At least, I don’t think he was kidding.

Elsewhere in the noisy bar, passion teamed up with poignancy.

Juliann Atkinson of Winthrop Harbor wore a button with a picture of her late brotherin-law, Chuck Gesky.

Atkinson sat beside Sara Ames, Gesky’s daughter.

Gesky attended 30 consecutive Cubs home openers before his death in 2009. His family has preserved the tradition as a happy remembrance of their loved one.

“We come out for him,� said Atkinson, 59. “Every opener. And we won’t miss it.�

Nobody was going to miss it, not at Bernie’s or any of the other establishments in the neighborhood that were buzzing long before the first pitch.

Long, long, long before the first pitch. “I was getting here at 7:30 in the morning, and I was getting poured on by the rain, and the visitors’ gate was locked,� said Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg, who played 15 seasons with the Cubs. “So I stood there, and then I figured out I had to go in through the Captain Morgan Club, which was packed with fans and cameras. “So, that was my entrance to the ballpark. It was a little tough entry, but just the memories of driving up and getting close to the neighborhood and seeing the ballpark every year, I always felt the excitement when I saw the ballpark.�

The Captain Morgan

Club was jam-packed, but I did manage to squeeze in to the Cubby Bear at the corner of Clark and Addison after visiting Bernie’s. There, I met Scot Gibson of Glenview and his brother-inlaw, Chris Hemp of Poplar Grove, who huddled over a table of Miller Lites, tater tots, Buffalo wings and Chicago dogs.

Gibson, 52, arrived at 7 a.m. to celebrate his 10th consecutive home opener. “My dad used to take me down here when I was a little kid,� Gibson said. “I’ve been watching these guys since the ’60s.

I would never root for another team. “There’s no better place to watch a ball game, anywhere, ever.�

The feeling is part expectant-father excitement, and part inmemoriam bittersweet.

It’s part skipping-school devotion, and part since-the-’60s tradition. “I love the team, I love the neighborhood,�

Bonano said before heading to the park. “It’s very welcoming and open to having a party. “And if you’re going to have a party about anything, why not have a party with the team that you cry and bleed with, year after year?�

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Shabazz Napier hit the game-winning shot against Florida when the teams met before Christmas.

The senior has carried Connecticut into the Final Four, where it will meet the Gators once again.

’Tis season for rematch UConn, Florida meet for first time since before Christmas didn’t exactly propel the Huskies, who lost three ARLINGTON, Texas of their next five games. – The last time Florida Napier was named lost, there were still 23 the American Athletic shopping days until Conference player of Christmas. the year, and was a firstThe Gators have won team All-America. He every game since that took advantage of a freak loss at Connecticut on play to hand the Gators Dec. 2. The teams meet (36-2) one of their two again Saturday in the losses – the other was to Final Four.

Wisconsin, another Final They both have Four team. changed, and they both “I was fortunate,� he have stayed the same. said. “I put up a lousy “They are high right shot and DeAndre tipped now. They are playing it back out, and I was great basketball. They able to get off a great shot. I got a second are sharing the basketball. They are all playing chance and was fortunate enough to make it.� hard. They haven’t lost Now Connecticut, since then. It will be just like that day before really tough,� Huskies winter even started, forward DeAndre Danhas a second chance at iels said Friday. “We Florida. feel great. ... I feel like The Gators were difnobody is playing harder than us right now. We ferent that day, in that are just out there having freshman guard Kasey Hill was out with an fun and not playing for ankle injury, and freshourselves, but playing man forward Chris for each other.�

Walker was clearing up Connecticut, the seveligibility issues. enth seed in the East Scottie Wilbekin, the Regional, has won nine do-everything guard who of its last 11, with both was chosen Southeastern losses to Louisville.

Conference player of the That’s no 30-game year, was playing in his winning streak, but third game of the season it’s enough to have the after being suspended Huskies two wins from a fourth national cham- for the first four. He had 15 points, but injured pionship, and the first an ankle with 3:01 to under a coach besides play; he was taken to the Jim Calhoun. locker room and never Florida, the tournareturned. ment’s overall No. 1 “I was in the locker seed, is looking for its room, and there was third national title, the first two coming in con- a clock but no score,� he recalled Friday. “I secutive years under kept asking one of our coach Billy Donovan. managers to go check “These guys underthe score. He came back stand what goes into and said we were up playing and competing, one, and there was only they’re really good as it relates to scouting report a couple of seconds and preparation,� Dono- left. I was laying there with ice on my leg, and I van said. “I think they heard the roar from the understand how hard crowd, and I knew we they have to play, how lost. That was the low well they have to play point of our season. defensively together, “We’re familiar with offensively together.� them, and they’re Shabazz Napier hit a familiar with us. buzzer-beating jumper from the free-throw line They’ve done a great job of improving the to give Connecticut (30defense since we played 8) the 65-64 victory in them, especially in the Storrs, Conn., 4 months postseason.� ago. The dramatic win

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In his 13th season at Wisconsin, Ryan is at his first Final Four at this level after winning four national titles at Division III Wisconsin-Platteville.

Asked about the biggest difference between getting this far at Division III and Division I, Ryan espoused the virtues of enjoying a good doughnut, diet soda and a crossword puzzle before the big game, as opposed to heading to a room filled with reporters who want to dissect his every move.

The trappings of bigtime college basketball have not changed him. “Every place I’ve been, wherever I was an employee, [the paycheck] always went into the account,� Ryan said. “My wife gives me $150 a month as an allowance, whether I need it or not. I don’t get caught up in all that other stuff.�

That is more the domain of the man he’ll coach against, John Calipari, whose news conferences at the NCAA tournament usually grow more prickly as the Wildcats make their way deeper through the bracket.

He is labeled by some as a pariah, the primary exploiter of the “One-andDone� rule – really an NBA rule – that so many feel are ruining the game.

Calipari attempted to put a different spin on it Friday. “Succeed and Proceed,� he called it, adding that the T-Shirts with said slogan are at the printer. “When you’re changing

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Nobody at Kentucky is complaining, though they certainly were earlier this season.

Led by lottery pick-tobe Julius Randle and the Harrison twins, Aaron and Andrew, Calipari recruited six McDonald’s All-Americans to the bluegrass this season. The national title and an undefeated season were expected to be mere stopping points for these kids on the way to bigger things.

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Never in the recruiting process or the season has the NBA been brought up, he insists. “It’s the elephant in the room that we don’t need to talk about,� he said.

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Yes, they are having fun on this trip to the Final Four, where the chance awaits to see how they stack up against the “One and Dones� – the likes of which don’t walk through Ryan’s door all that often. “I had a Three and Done,� he said of Devin Harris, a lottery pick in the 2004 draft. “He came into my office and said, ‘Coach, what do you think?’ I told him that I would get back to him after I found out what the NBA people really felt. And when I did find out and sat down and talked to him, he was just so relieved that I would allow him to go make a lot of money.�

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South is in three no-trump.

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Jeremiah Ratliff impressed Bears management enough in five games last year that he got a 2-year contract this offseason. When healthy, Ratliff has been a Pro Bowl-caliber player.

Ratliff key to Bears’ success on D-Line Tackle could create problems on inside

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Ratliff, 32, impressed so much in a five-game New Bears defensive audition after being end Jared Allen knows claimed off waivers how to take down oppos- in November that gening quarterbacks. eral manager Phil Emery He’s done so 128½ times signed him to a 2-year over the past 10 seasons, deal, letting 2013 franthe most of any player in chise player Henry football over that span.

Melton depart for Dallas.

He also knows plenty The Cowboys’ seventhabout what dominant round pick in 2005, defensive tackle play does Ratliff appeared in just to make his job easier. one game as a rookie but During Allen’s 6-year caught the eye of coach stint with the Vikings, he Bill Parcells. By the end played alongside 3-techof his second season, nique Kevin Williams, the athletic nose tackle and his first three seasons was playing meaningful in purple and gold were snaps. bolstered by nose tackle In 2007, the arrival of Pat Williams. In its prime, Wade Phillips and his the “Williams Wall� was one-gap “30� defense virtually impenetrable. in Dallas put Ratliff in a To hear him tell it in his prime position to excel. introductory news conHe was often slanted and ference Monday at Halas tilted into gaps where he Hall, Allen thinks Jeremi- would explode up the ah Ratliff can form one field and torment the half of a new “Wall.� opposition. “I’ve seen what he can After posting three sacks do in Dallas, and when and four batted balls in he’s healthy, he’s an 2007, Ratliff started 64 absolute beast in the mid- consecutive games over dle,� Allen said. “I’ve had the next four seasons, the fortune to play with earning Pro Bowl nods Pat and Kevin Williams, in all of them. He was and he’s up there on that named first-team All Pro in 2009. level with them.�

“Anybody that’s been involved in football in northern Illinois identifies Milledgeville with coach Hartje,� Smith said. “With the success he’s had over that time frame, you can’t argue with it. He had up and down years like anybody, but overall, he put a lot of good teams on the field.�

Hartje was a three-sport (football, basketball and baseball) athlete at Milledgeville High School, and graduated in 1969.

He went to college at Western Illinois University, graduated in 1973, worked for his father for a year, then got a job teaching and coaching in Milledgeville in 1974.

In 1976, he started coaching football, at the freshman level and as a varsity assistant, under Les Snow, who Hartje described as a “legend� in Milledgeville. Snow compiled a 99-53 record in 19 seasons (1958-76) with the Missiles, and was a 1997 IHSFCA hall of fame inductee.

In the 1977 and 1978 seasons, Hartje was an assistant to head coach Steve Parker.

In 1979, the varsity job was open, and it was offered to assistant coach Rick Malson. He turned it down, however, opening the door for Hartje, who accepted when offered the position. “[Malson] told me he would be with me 100 percent forever,�

Hartje said. “He helped me through some really rough times.

Between he and coach Snow, that’s where I fell in love with the game. Coach Malson really should be the one being inducted.�

Hartje’s first team went 9-2 and made the second round of the playoffs. He remembers it was flush with talent and had 38 players, large for a 1A team. “Looking back, I really didn’t know what I was doing those first couple of years, and relied on coach Malson a lot,� Hartje said. “He was with me 5 or 6 years, until I got a good handle on things.

I was blessed with a lot of good help – too many to name, really. I don’t want to leave anybody out.�

Milledgeville qualified for the playoffs in nine of Hartje’s first 12 seasons on the job, with a few games in particular that stood out.

There was a 16-14 win against Stockton in the first round of the

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The Milledgeville Missiles advanced to the 1A state semifinals in 2008, the last of 33 seasons under coach Gary Hartje. The last game was a 27-24 heartbreaking loss that still bothers the retired coach.

1986 playoffs, spurred on by a successfully executed fake field goal for a touchdown just before halftime. “They had twin tackles that were just remarkable players,� Hartje said, “but we ended up winning that ballgame.�

In 1989, a 9-0 Milledgeville team hosted 9-0 Newman in the first round of the 1A playoffs. The Comets prevailed 22-20 against a Missiles team that was nicknamed the “Smurfs,� as they only had two players weighing more than 160 pounds. “We were all undersized and really had no business being on the same field with Newman that day,� said Smith, one of the Smurfs on that team, “but Coach had a good game plan and kept us close. It didn’t work out in the fourth quarter, but it was a lot of fun.�

The first Milledgeville team to make a deep playoff run was in 1998, when it made the semifinals before falling to Carthage 30-14. “We had never been beyond the second round,� Hartje said, “so that was a really big moment.�

Hartje’s last team, in the fall of 2008, was one of his finest. Led by quarterback Kirk Engelkens, the Missiles went 9-0 in the regular season, then handled Deer CreekMackinaw, Wethersfield and Galena in the first three rounds of the playoffs.

In the semifinals against Stark County, Milledgeville raced out to

an 18-0 lead in the game’s opening minutes, but were unable to sustain that momentum. The Rebels ended up rallying for a 27-24 victory, a result Hartje says “still sticks in my craw to this day.� “I think I might have sat on my hands a little bit, didn’t stay aggressive, and that’s the way that group was,� Hartje said. “That was one I’ll never get over. Those kids, they were playing for me that year, and they didn’t need to be. I kept reminding them of that – this is your ballclub, not mine. “That was a tough one to take, and still is. I’ve only watched the film once. I don’t want to watch it again, but maybe I will one of these days.�

Hartje had opportunities to leave his alma mater, he said, as a number of area schools approached him over the years about coaching positions. He’d listen, especially when the Milledgeville administration didn’t do things as he saw fit, but he never was close to leaving. “That was a brief thought, if anything,� Hartje said. “I never did want to go, and still don’t.�

Nowadays, Hartje fills his time with golfing, fishing and attending games played by his four grandchildren. It’s basic retirement stuff, though he still dabbles in football, with the Milledgeville junior tackle program. “I really, really miss the football,�

Hartje said, “and that’s why junior tackle keeps me going right now.�

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Newman Comets Coach: "RANDON +RECZMER ST SEASON 2013: .O SCORE AT TEAM ! %RIE 3ECTIONAL Roster (ATHAIPAT !RAYANGKUL JR JUMPS %RIN !LLEN JR SPRINTS 2ACHEL (UMPHREYS JR THROWS 3AMANTHA *ONES JR THROWS ,INNEA ,ARSON JR THROWS +YLA ,EHRKE JR THROWS 0AIGE 2UTHART JR SPRINTS (ALEY 3IMPSON JR DISTANCE (ILLARY 'RENNAN SO SPRINTS +ATIE #OLLINS FR JUMPS -ARY *ENSEN FR SPRINTS 4EAGAN -C+ENNA FR SPRINTS DISTANCE +ATE 2YAN FR SPRINTS +ELSEY 3IMPSON FR SPRINTS Outlook: .UMBERS ARE ONCE AGAIN AN ISSUE FOR THE #OMETS BUT LOOK FOR THEM TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE ATHLETES THEY DO HAVE 7ITHOUT A SENIOR ON THE ROSTER

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Reason to believe

Tough 2-week stretch inspired Irish

BY TOM COYNE !SSOCIATED 0RESS

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw remembers sitting down back in October and looking over her team’s schedule, and noticing a particularly daunting 2-week span, where her squad would play at Tennessee, at Maryland, and at Duke. “I thought, ‘That’s going to determine our season, right there,’ in terms of how far can we go, how good can we be?� McGraw said. “I think when we won those three games, that’s when we started to think, ‘You know, I think we can be pretty good.’�

The Irish (36-0) have been better than pretty good, posting the best regular season in school history.

It’s not what anybody expected when the season began, when many wondered how good the Irish could be after Skylar Diggins, one of the best players in school history, graduated last year.

However, the Irish

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Notre Dame forward Ariel Braker (44) blocks out Baylor guard Imani Wright during the regional final game against Baylor on Monday. The Irish are undefeated going into the Final Four. returned four starters and a talented freshmen class, and had hopes of making it to a fourth straight Final Four.

That hope became belief when the Irish played that tough stretch between Jan. 20 and Feb. 2.

The Irish didn’t get off to a good start against the Volunteers. They fell behind 42-30, as Jewell Loyd and Lindsay Allen sat on the bench for much of the half in foul trouble. But the Irish didn’t let the slow start or hostile crowd intimidate them, bouncing back for an 86-70 win. Even better

for the Irish, the comeback was fueled in large part by the reserves. “They kind of stole the show that game. That’s when we started to see the bench emerge.

That’s when you go, ‘OK. Now we have it,’�

McGraw said.

After mounting the big comeback against Tennessee, the Irish had to find a way to hold on against Maryland – the team they will face Sunday in the national semifinal. There weren’t any dramatic swings against Duke, as the Irish won handily, 88-67.

LOCAL ROUNDUP

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The Rock Falls baseball team dropped the first two games on its annual spring road trip, 10-0 to Edwardsville and 16-13 to Granite City on Friday in Edwardsville.

In the first game, the Rockets (0-3) were held to four hits, two of which were singles by Clay

Velazquez. Cayden Erickson (0-1) took the loss, allowing 10 runs (nine earned), eight hits and three walks. He also struck out four in five innings.

In the second game, Rock Falls trailed 11-0 after four innings before rallying to make things interesting. Jacob Mammosser and Dallas Jones

each drove in three runs, while Logan Pillars added two RBIs. Trace Hippen (0-1) took the loss, allowing seven runs (four earned), three hits and seven walks in 2 1/3 innings. He also struck out two.

The Rockets have a doubleheader on Saturday at Jerseyville.

Bar set high for Panthers HURRAH

and the Panthers are primed to reach the CONTINUED FROM B1 same heights as 2013. “We know it’s going “It was unreal, espeto be different on some cially winning the 4x100 of the relays and in together,â€? Courtney said. other events this year,â€? “We jumped on each Courtney Cobert said, other and hugged so “but we’re already hard after the race was accomplishing things over, and we couldn’t we did last year ‌ and stop talking about it the we’re still expecting big whole way home. It’s a things.â€? great experience not a The sense of urgency is lot of people get to have, starting to creep up on and the fact that we got Courtney Cobert, Remto share it is something ley, and EP’s other eight we’ll never forget.â€? senior athletes. LongThe Panthers got state time coach Don Robtitles from the Cobert inson told the team at sisters, Peyton Rus and practice Monday there Heather Strike in the 400 were only 7 weeks left relay, as well as Paige until the state meet.

Rus in the triple jump. “I told the girls that EP also placed second in a goal is a dream with the 1,600 relay and third a deadline, and the in the 800 relay, with the countdown is on for the Cobert sisters, the Rus seniors,â€? Robinson said. sisters and Corrie Reiley “But they’ve been leadplaying parts in those. ing us in every practice, Individually, Paige Rus really working hard to was fourth in the high make the most out of jump, Peyton Rus took their last season ‌ and third in the 200 and sixth they want it be just as in the long jump, and special as last season.â€?

Rachel Cobert placed The younger girls aren’t sixth in the triple jump. immune to the countBut with Paige Rus hav- down. Rachel Cobert, ing graduated, and Pey- for one, also feels like ton being a long shot to she’s on the clock, espejoin the team this spring cially when she considwhile recovering from ers that she’ll be on her a knee injury suffered own once again when at the end of volleyball Courtney graduates next season, the Coberts are month. left to anchor this year’s “It’s been so great, but effort. we know there’s not a lot They’re far from alone, of time left,â€? said Rachel, however. The Rus sisters a sophomore. “It’s really are the only athletes coming up on us fast, who qualified for the and I’m going to enjoy state finals last year who the time I have left with are not back this seaCourtney as much as I son, and the 3,200 relay can. squad of Reiley, Breanna “And we’re not just Jensen, Kassi Henrekin doing it for the seniors, and Brooke Remley – but for every one of our which finished just out teammates. We’re all in of a medal last year in this together, and we all 10th place – returns want to have success for each other ‌ but the completely intact. seniors are definitely Add in Strike and sevleading the way.â€? eral new faces hungry Courtney and her for success both on the senior classmates can track and in the field,

see the affect last year is having on their younger teammates. She said the seniors haven’t once had to tell their teammates what’s at stake, what another trip to state would mean.

Robinson sees the same thing, calling his entire team “true competitors� every time they hit the track. If last weekend’s Top Times indoor state meet, and Wednesday’s Rosenberry Classic at Westwood are any indicator, he loves how fired up his team will be for the next month and a half.

None of the Panthers know what the future holds, and Robinson isn’t about to set the program’s first state title as the ultimate goal. But after the amazing feeling following last year’s stellar state performance, another successful trip to Charleston is most definitely in the back of the Panthers’ minds. “Last year, we set the bar pretty high,â€? Rachel Cobert said, “but we’re not thinking about the end of the season too much yet. The state trophy last year was so special, and we’d love to have that same success at the end of this year, but we’re just going to keep improving, keep trying our hardest to get better, and hopefully things will work out for us again.â€? “It would mean the world to me to do it again, though,â€? Courtney added. “I mean, how many people get to experience two really successful track seasons ‌ and do it with their sister? So far, last track season is my favorite memory of high school sports, and it would be amazing to add another memorable season to that.â€?

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Bulls forward Taj Gibson scores in front of Bucks guard Jeff Adrien during Friday’s game in Chicago.

The Bulls won 102-90.

Bulls battle their way past Bucks Third seed in East still possible

BY TEDDY GREENSTEN #HICAGO 4RIBUNE

CHICAGO – The battle between the Chicago Haves and the Milwaukee Have-nots was not much of one. Until the fourth quarter, anyway.

The Bulls jumped on their neighbors shortly after the opening tip and led almost the entire way. A sloppy fourth quarter left a sour taste to a 102-90 victory, but it was still a victory.

Seven Bulls scored in double figures, led by Jimmy Butler and Kirk Hinrich’s 17 points. Joakim Noah had 11 points, 13 rebounds and four assists. Chicago assisted on 24 of its 31 baskets.

The night’s only major negative was that the Bulls did not overtake Toronto for the third seed in the Eastern Conference playoff race.

The Raptors beat visiting Indiana, 102-94. So the Bulls and Raptors remain even (44-32) with six games to play. Toronto holds the tiebreaker,

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Oh, and the Bucks outscored Chicago 15-3 to open the fourth quarter, as the Bulls missed their first 11 from the field. A Hinrich 3 got Chicago back on track.

The Bucks entered with the NBA’s worst record, a 5-33 mark on the road, and a run of 11 defeats in 12 tries. They had five players in street clothes, including O.J. Mayo, who sat out with an ankle injury.

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Brendan Gaughan jokes with fans before Nationwide qualifying back in 2012. The former Trucks standout was a walk-on basketball player at Georgetown, as well as an all-conference kicker for the Hoyas.

Gaughan has the Answer on track Driver used to chase Iverson around at Georgetown practice Gaughan, 38, has been especially fast in his FORT WORTH, Texas first year with Richard – Brendan Gaughan’s Childress Racing on the chore of catching up with Nationwide circuit, after a Nationwide Series colong career in the Craftsleaders Regan Smith and man Trucks Series, which Trevor Bayne seems a included winning four task more fit for a tortoise consecutive races in 2002 when you consider some and ’03 at TMS. of his other imposing Sitting sixth in the series sports ventures. standings heading into Like, say, trying to shad- Friday night’s O’Reilly Auto ow basketball great Allen Parts 300 is the former Iverson in practice.

Georgetown Hoya, who Practice? Yes, practice. actually was a two-sport As in basketball practice athlete in college. Gaughan at Georgetown, where was an all-conference kickGaughan, the future er for the football team. sorcerer of trucks comGaughan’s connection petition at Texas Motor to college basketball conSpeedway, was a walktinues to this day, and he on under coach John has a clear favorite to win Thompson from 1994-97. this weekend.

That the NCAA Final Wisconsin guard Ben Four in Arlington coinBrust spots for him each cides with NASCAR’s June at the Road America race week in Fort Worth race in Wisconsin. is a perfect storm for the “I gotta cheer for the Nationwide aspirant. spotter,� he said.

His foundation for the And, of course, he cheers business of the circuit’s for Georgetown, which winding road of triumphs was, he said, “an amazing and potholes wasn’t built time,� his base not just for on asphalt, but rather racing but for living. the hardwood of historic “If it wasn’t for John McDonough Arena in Thompson, I would have Washington, D.C. just been a little spoiled “You know the saying, brat who didn’t know how ‘His crossover is so hard to act, didn’t understand he broke your ankle?’� what I wanted to be or said Gaughan, who was treat people right,� he said. part of two Big East chamWhen Gaughan gradupionships, two NCAA ated, Walker Evans asked Sweet 16s, and a team him to join his truck that advanced to the Elite team. He has eight career Eight. “Not a joke. [Ivervictories and 80 top 10s in son] broke my ankle the that series. first week he was there.�

And he doesn’t have to Not even the most effiguard Iverson anymore. cient automobile engine “I would not put anything tuned and polished by the athletic by Allen Iverson,� best engineers can seem Gaughan said. “I bet if you as fast as Iverson with a gave him some time in a basketball in his hands. car, he’d figure it out.�

BY JOHN HENRY &ORT 7ORTH 3TAR 4ELEGRAM

noticed something yesterday while running my boat down the Rock River. There are freakin’ eagles everywhere.

Now, at one time I had to just stop the boat and count. I got to 13, of all shapes and sizes. Your immature eagles are pretty much completely brown until around 4 years of age, when their head and some other plumage begins to whiten, while your fully mature birds have the classic white head.

Tell you what ... I don’t know how good an idea it would be to have your little puppy in the boat with you.

As one would expect, I noticed several other things while on the Rock this week. The amount of new cover – i.e. trees and other wood debris in the

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water – was awesome.

Lots of great new places to stalk big fishes.

I also saw that we got some serious cleaning up to do. Seems over this massively long winter that lots of garbage made its way to the river banks.

Seems lots of you all got tons a yard repairs to do as well. That’d be courtesy of the massive ice as it broke free and began to roll down river.

I spied some real doozies

out there. If you had something in the path of the ice, it simply got relocated or destroyed.

Try to keep your minds focused on next Saturday. What’s next Saturday, you ask? Well, just the first catfish tourney of the year, that’s all.

This is a huge deal, man. I am pumped for 8 a.m. on April 12. The first tourney of the year is really the first time all the local river rats see each other after the winter months. Usually this means lots of pure bull being thrown around.

Simply put, it is a great time. I urge you to come out and become part of our fishing family.

Make sure if you do come out, that you stop off first at Schreiner’s bait shop over in Rock Falls and grab a 2014 fishing license, as the

2013 ones are now out of date.

I saw a mink on the bank of the river Wednesday while I was out. It was a pretty good sized one, at least as far as the ones I have seen.

I do not know much about these animals, but I do know they are cute little things. Guess I’m gonna have to check into them a bit and do a little learnin’.

I know at one time they were one of the most highly sought after furs on the planet. I believe that has changed some now; I will have to check with someone more in the know.

Anywho, spring is trying to spring or get sprung or whatever, so get outside and start to suck it up some. Until next week ...

Go Catfish!

NHL | BLACKHAWKS 4, BLUE JACKETS 3

Points when they count most Smith’s late goal key for Blackhawks in race for home-ice advantage

BY CHRIS KUC #HICAGO 4RIBUNE

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Soon, the Blackhawks will officially know their first-round postseason opponent.

It certainly won’t be a surprise.

Barring some sort of galactic event, the Hawks and Avalanche will meet in the opening round of the playoffs. “We’ve been thinking like that for a while now,� Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. “Probably [to] both teams, [it] looks like it’s inevitable.�

All that remains to be determined in the waning days of the regular season is which team will finish second to the Blues in the Central Division and secure home-ice advantage in that firstround series.

The Hawks did what they could to cut the gap on the idle Avs, when they defeated the Blue Jackets 4-3 on Friday night at Nationwide Arena. The two points pulled the Hawks to within one of Colorado, which now has two games in hand.

Ben Smith scored the winner with 3.9 seconds remaining in regulation, as the Hawks topped the Jackets for the 13th consecutive time. Patrick Sharp had a goal and an assist, and Marian Hossa and Jeremy Morin also scored to help make a winner of backup goaltenAP der Antti Raanta.

The Blackhawks’ Nick Leddy (right) clears the puck past the Blue Columbus got scores from Derek Jackets’ James Wisniewski during the third period Friday in Columbus, MacKenzie, Ryan Johansen, and Artem Anisimov.

Ohio. The Blackhawks defeated the Blue Jackets 4-3.

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‘Fine wines and weird beers’ on the way

BY KATHLEEN A. SCHULTZ kschultz@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5535

STERLING – A foxy new bar is opening soon in downtown Sterling.

The Rusty Fox will feature “fine wines and weird beers� in an intimate atmosphere, coowner and bar manager Rich McNinch said.

He and his dad, Tim McNinch, who also own Air-

Play Sports and Espresso up the street, hope to open in the former Main Street Wine Cellar at 1 E. Third St. later this month.

You’ll know they’re ready when the paper comes down from the windows, Rich said.

The Rusty Fox will serve craft and import beers, fine wines, meat and cheeses, and food from the AirPlay bakery – essentially appetiz-

ers and finger foods – “things that are not necessarily carried by our neighbors,� Rich said.

There will be open mic nights, probably on Fridays, bands and other live entertainment on Saturdays, and a jukebox all day long. Sundays, and maybe Mondays, the bar will be closed.

You won’t hear the ping of video gambling machines,

though. “We’re going for an atmosphere that that will disrupt,� Rich said.

Both ventures are family affairs: Rich’s sister, Rebecca McNinch Ryan, and mom, Mary Ellen McNinch, “are kicking butt on this project (and Air Play Sports & Espresso), they’re just not seen as often because they have kids and a real job, respectively, and can’t work all day like us

chumps,� he said in a Facebook posting.

Sister Amanda Happ, who lives elsewhere, also is an owner and is the artist who created the Rusty logo.

Keep tabs on the new bar at www.facebook.com/ rustyfoxcorp on Facebook; the phone number is 815625-4708.

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Osip Nikiforov, a prizewinning piano student, plays a Yamaha Disklavier piano at the home of his teacher, Stella Sick, in Maple Grove, Minn.

Internet-capable pianos ‘fantastic teaching tools’ for students

BY STEVE ALEXANDER MCT News Service

In what may be a revolution in experiencing music, 19-year-old Russian pianist Osip Nikiforov is recording Chopin’s Etude Op. 10, No. 1, without capturing any of its sound.

Instead, a sensor-equipped piano is recording the “data� of his performance, the mechanical movements when keys and foot pedals are pressed. Playing a piano generates thousands of data points. And when turned into digital ones and zeros, that data can be stored, transmitted on the Internet and even precisely replayed by another similarly equipped piano.

Nikiforov plays a Yamaha Corp. Disklavier owned by Stella Sick, a music professor at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn.

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Dr. Stella Stick, a music professor at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., works with Nikiforov at her home. “These pianos are fantastic teaching tools,� said Nikiforov. “You can correct things based on just listening to yourself. While you could do that with any recording, this

one is even closer and more precise.�

Sick says Nikiforov could use the piano to audition for another music school, saving travel and other costs. To pro-

mote Disklaviers, which cost $40,000 to $240,000, Yamaha has simplified Internet submission of recorded auditions.

Last year, the company created a cloud storage website that allowed Disklavier performances to be shared among 18 U.S. universities and 28 private audition sites. George Litterst, a Massachusetts pianist and Yamaha consultant, said the network is expected to grow this year to 50 universities and 40 to 50 audition sites.

Nikiforov is already a beneficiary of Internet auditions.

At age 13, he sent a recording from a similar Disklavier in Moscow to audition for an international music competition based in Minnesota.

He won third place, and the experience brought him there to study.

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Dear Linda, I’m sure your mom loves you guys a lot, but she’s wrong twice on this one. First, she should mind her own business. Second, you guys have obviously worked hard and been extremely smart and disciplined with your finances.

For someone in your situation, bringing your family together for one of the most important days of the year isn’t foolish on any level. I think it’s awful that you’re even having this conversation with her.

One of my great dreams years ago was to have the ability to do things like that for my family. When I was 22, I worked for a real estate guy who would bring his entire family in from all over the country once a year to go skiing for a week. He and his wife would pay for everything.

They would rent a nice chalet, and spend that time having fun as a family and growing closer together. I sort of borrowed that idea a while back.

Once a year we’ll take all our kids and their spouses on a nice vacation. We pay for everything, and it’s just one of our gifts to them because we love them.

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In other school district news: The February Students of the Month are Lukas Johnston, kindergarten; Blake Goodbred, first grade; Landon Schrader, second grade; Ella Benson, third grade; Shailey Mathis, fourth grade; Kendall Hawbaker, fifth grade; Aaron Ness, physical education; Joey Jensen, Title 1; and Heather Becker, graphic communications.

The Academic Bowl team placed first in the Little 10 Conference and first in the conference tournament. Team members are Henri Seymour, James Sensen-

brenner, Austin Buffington, Matt Swed, William Zeman, and Nate McKee and John Hoelzer, co-captains.

The Wordwide Youth in Science and Engineering team attended the sectional competition March 6 at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. Henry Seymor earned third place in English.

Alyssa Allen, Ian Dober, Nicholas Ekstrom, Nathan McKee, Henrietta Seymour, and Nicholas Siemers exceeded the Illinois Learning Standards on the 2013 Prairie State Achievement Examination. Allen and Seymour received recognition for performance in science and reading; Dober and Ekstrom in science; McKee in reading, math, and science; and Siemers in math.

The Paw Paw FFA Auction will be at 6 p.m. today at the high school, 511 Chapman St. Din-

ner will be served at 5 p.m., with a cost of $7 for adults and $2 for children. The auction is free.

For information, call Patricia Brummel at 815762-8927.

Top accelerated reader point winners in February are: Claire Kessler, Claire Seifert, Jaelynn Mathis, Alexis Adkins, Zenobia Hollenback, Adriana Allen, Lucas Odle, Ava Volkert, Alexandrea Edwards, Ruby Reyes, Ella Benson, Victoria McCannon, Aiden Znaniecki, Jordan Wilkinson, Grant Schlorff, Brendon Schweickert, Jacob Pierce, Samuel Benson, Marcus Hadley, Kern Zeimetz, and Caytlin Prodzenski.

February behavior awards went to Paige Williams, Ruby Reyes, Jaelynn Mathis, Bethany Odle, Joey Jensen, Lucas Odle, Jada Taylor, Landon Schrader, Aiyana Ness, and Caleigh Scoppa.

Boys, girls sports honors given PAW PAW – The winners at the Paw Paw Junior High and High School Winter Sports Award Ceremony were honored March 19.

They are: Eighth-grade boys basketball: Jase VanBeek, best defensive-hustle award; Trystan Sheridan, most improved; Joe McKee, coaches award; and Rob Hill and Brandon Heiman, most valuable players.

Seventh-grade boys basketball: Tim McNally, most valuable player; Jase VanBeek, best defensive-hustle award; Josh Wiseman, coaches award; and Zac Clayton, most improved.

Eighth-grade girls basketball: Joslyn Hopkins and Leeann Smith, most valuable players; Cassidy Fairchild, best defensive-hustle award; Haley Oros, coaches award; and Brieanna Bevans, most improved player.

Seventh-grade girls basketball: Brooke Heiman, most valuable player; Destini Schweickert, most improved; Claire Hicks, hustle award; and Jodie Penman, coaches award.

Junior high cheerleaders: LeeAnn Smith and Brieanna Bevans, leadership award; Sera Dalki and Cassidy Fairchild, most spirit; and Matyson Elder and Joslyn Hopkins, most vocal.

Varsity girls basketball: Anna Pfeiffer, most improved; Shelsie Crawford, coaches award; Katelynn Lampson, heart award; and Jessica Kidd, offensive award.

Varsity boys basketball: Nick Siemers, most valuable; Nick Dodaro, coaches award; Wes Kaiser and Trevor Oros, most improved; and Jon Jenkins and Justen Penman, defensive-hustle award.

Junior varsity boys

basketball: Cameron Hendricks, most valuable; Keagan Eppard and Antonio Solis, most improved; Taryn Foster, defensive-hustle award; and Patrick Wiley, coaches award.

Little 10 All-Conference team and All State Honorable Menion: Nicholas Siemers.

Little 10 All-Academic team: Madyson Aloisio, Shelsie Crawford, Jessica Kidd, Patrick Wiley, James Sensenbrenner, and Nicholas Siemers.

Little 10 All-Star Game: Nick Siemers and Wes Kaiser were selected to represent Paw Paw in the Leland Lions Club Interstate Eight-Little Ten All Sar Game, which is today.

Junior 10 All-Star Game: Tryston Sheridan, Rob Hill, Brandon Heiman, Joslyn Hopkins, LeeAnn Smith, and Haley Oros represented Paw Paw at the game March 14 in Somonauk.

March Students and Staff of the Month at Bureau Valley High School in Manlius were honored at a breakfast March 21, hosted by the BVHS Renaissance Program. They are (from left) Paul Donovan, Riza Mirtoski, Gailen Gibson, Jake Everson, Salvador Guerrero, Lexi Kruse, Kelsey Kaiser, Tiana Kennedy, Kelly Sierens, and Lynne Bechtold. Not pictured are Regan Weidner, Taylor Zemke, Daniel Johnson, and Chasidy Johnson. They were presented with a certificate and a gift certificate. Photo submitted by Tori Boyle.

OREGON STUDENTS JUMP FOR HEARTS

The dance floor will be kept busy as girls and their escorts move to the music of Trent Bush April 25 during this year’s father daughter dance in Morrison.

Photo submitted by Nancy Anderson.

Girls, dads to take to dance floor More than 300 Oregon Elementary School students were part of this year’s Jump Rope for Heart Event Jan. 20-24. The participants, who jumped during physical education classes, were in kindergarten through second grade. They raised more than $1,000 for the American Heart Association. Photo submitted by Bob Ryder.

Lincoln’s journey home to be discussed STERLING – The Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society will present an encore program by Ron and Constance Koehn of Fulton. “Lincoln’s Long Jour-

ney Home� deals with the 20-day period after Lincoln’s death and the trip across six states back to Illinois.

The program is part of the 2 p.m. April 13 meet-

ing at CGH Medical Center’s Ryberg Auditorium, 100 E. LeFevre Road.

The public is welcome; there is no charge.

For more information, call 815-622-6215.

MORRISON – St. Mary Church of Morrison will host its ninth father daughter dance April 25 at the parish hall, 13320 Garden Plain Road.

This year’s theme is

denim and lace. Young women of all ages are welcome to bring a male, family escort.

Photos will be taken from 6:30 to 7 p.m., followed by the dance from

7 to 9. Trent Bush will provide the music. There will be a gift basket raffle and refreshments.

The cost is $20 at the door for escorts. Female admission is free.

Pancakes, biscuits on breakfast menu AMBOY – Teen Turf will serve breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m. April 12 at the Boehle Youth Center, 235 W. Main St. The menu will include pancakes and sausage or biscuits and gravy for $5. Beverages are included.

Carry-out is available; call Teen Turf at 815857-4800 in advance for large orders.

The March 28 dance and fun night had more than 100 in attendance.

The chaperones were Michelle Murphy, Susan Ogan, Rich Geiger,

Pete Rood, Connie Pettinger, Marlene Greskiwcz, Melissa Ketcham, Leeniece Rumoro, CeCe Rodriguez, and Cassie Jibben.

Chaperones always are needed; call the above number for more information.

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Naturally beautiful

ABOVE: Mallard ducks seek a landing site near Canada geese along Page Drive in Dixon. Photos submitted by Ann Stover of Dixon.

LEFT: A juvenile bald eagle looks down from its perch on Page Drive.

Nature painted a February sky with a palette of colors at sunrise in White Oaks, Dixon. Photo submitted by Josie Almassy of Dixon.

A deer watches for traffic March 9 at Rockwood-Morrison State Park in Morrison, while a fieryred cardinal (below) comes near birdseed left along the road.

Photos submitted by Bill Doering of Rock Falls.

A snowy owl spreads its wings in March over Lee County. Photos submitted by Dave Tackett of Sterling.

No boaters ventured into the icy waters Feb. 22 at the Castle Rock State Park boat launch ramp in Oregon. Photo submitted by Lorraine Dyba-Militano of Dixon.

Wanted: Photos from you A scrapbook is a book with blank pages, and that’s what our Scrapbook page is without your pictures. We want to fill the page with images that capture lives in the Sauk Valley. They can be submitted by email to photos@saukvalley.com or can be taken to the Sterling and Dixon offices.

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Bunny on way to park ROCK FALLS – The Coloma Township Park District’s 32nd annual Easter Egg Hunt Contest will be April 12 at Centennial Park, Avenue D and East 11th Street.

There is no cost, but the hunt is open only to children in Coloma and Montmorency townships.

Registration is from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. at the Storybook Village Shelter, with the hunt at 1:30 p.m.

Boys and girls, ages 3-8, will be divided into age divisions. Each group will hunt for colored eggs in a different section of the park. The children are asked to bring a sack or basket to gather eggs. The Easter bunny has laid an egg; in fact, she’s laid lots of eggs. We have been told that the bunny has left some 2,100 eggs. So, kids, let’s get out and find them.

The hunt will test the ability of each participant to find hidden, colored,

a maximum of 20 teams.

Teams secure their own sponsors and provide *OAN &RITZ IS their own equipment and THE RECREATION SUPERVISOR OF uniforms. League play is THE #OLOMA scheduled to begin May 4OWNSHIP 19. The entry fee is $275.

0ARK $ISTRICT IN Register at the park dis2OCK &ALLS trict office.

Home Landscaping and Lawn Care program: This is for ages 18 and older and emphasizes plastic eggs. Prizes will be proper lawn, shrub, tree, awarded in all age catego- and flower care, as well as ries. All participants will where and how to plant. receive an award.

It will be from 7 to 8 p.m.

Registration forms are April 22 at the Little Red available at the park disSchoolhouse in Cententrict office, 508 E. 11th nial Park. The instructor St. Advance registration is Larry McCormick from is encouraged, and teleMcCormick’s Nursery. phone registration will The cost is $3, with a limit be accepted. Registration of 15 participants. For also will be accepted at more information, call the hunt.

McCormick at 815-499The event will go on rain 4422. or shine.

For more information Other activities include: about park district proThe 39th season of grams, call 815-625-0272 the Men’s 12-inch Slowor stop in the office from pitch Softball at Centen9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday nial Park will consist of through Friday.

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On March 26, the Whiteside County Senior Center line dancers boot-scooted their way to Parkway Center in Sterling to perform for the residents. The dancers (from left) Joan McDonnell, Helen Brown, Carol Garland, Lindsay Anderson, Lynda Norton, Nancy Potter, and Priscilla Olinger danced the “Stray Cat Strut,� “San Antonio Stroll,� and “Reggae Cowboy,� among other steps. Photos submitted by Lindsay Anderson.

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Fiona Cummings (left), Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois CEO, and Lisa Normoyle, GSNI board president, were among the board members who met March 15 at the new Rock Falls Service Center, 229 First Ave. Thirteen adults and two girl associate board members talked about the issues facing Girls Scouts today and the GSNI annual meeting. They also discussed the April 26 GSNI annual meeting, where new board members, national council delegates, and board development committee members will be elected. Photo submitted by Ann-Marie Soderstrom.

Travel tales on agenda at Odell MORRISON – Two presentations will be this week at Odell Public Library, 307 S. Madison St. The Rev. Gary Lawler of St. Anne Episcopal Church, will talk about “Holy Land: Holy Sites� at 6:30 p.m. in the pro-

gram room. In 2012, Lawler visited and studied in and around Jerusalem. He also will answer questions from the audience.

Alfred Hitchcock’s, “Rear Window� will be shown at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the program room. The suspense

film stars Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr, and Thelma Ritter.

Popcorn and a beverage will be served. Donations will be accepted.

There is no charge for either event.

For more information, call 815-772-7323.

Programs range from Vikings to housing OREGON – April activities have been set at Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St. Among the programs are: “What is a Reverse Mortgage?� at 2:30 p.m.

Thursday; American Classic 2014 Tour preview at

1:30 p.m. April 24; “Viking Ship Presentation� at 7 p.m. April 27; and “Housing Awareness for People with Disabilities� at 1:30 p.m. April 29, sponsored by the center and Northwestern Illinois Center for Independent Living of

Sterling. These free programs are open to adults of all ages.

Registration is required; call 815-732-3252.

For more information, go to www.rockrivercenter.org or call the above number.

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Readers tackle ‘The Dinner’ FRANKLIN GROVE – The Franklin Grove Library Book Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. April 15 at the library, 112 S. Elm St. This month’s selection is “The Dinner,� by Herman Koch. Copies are available at the circulation desk.

Movie Night is from 6 to 8 p.m. April 25. The show is “Rio 2.� There will be a craft-game time from 10:30 to noon April 26. A springtime craft will be created.

Children younger than 8 need parental supervision for both events.

The library will be closed April 18 in observance of Good Friday New books on the shelves are: “Blackberry Pie Murder,� by Joanne Fluke; “The Troop,� by Nick Cutter; “Concealed in Death,� by J.D. Robb; “Kiss and Tell,� by Fern Michaels; “The Bombers and the Bombed:

The Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945,� by Richard Overy; “Evening Stars,� by Susan Mallery; “Deep Winter,� by Samuel W. Gailey; “Moving Target,� by J.A. Jance; “Power Play,� by Danielle Steel and “Be Careful What You Wish For,�

by Jeffrey Archer, both in large print; “Uganda Be Kidding Me,� by Chelsea Handler; “Pete Rose: An American Dilemma,� by Kostya Kennedy; “Mentats of Dune,� by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson; “Black Horizon,� by James Grippando; “The Bootlegger,� by Clive Cussler; “Liberty: 1784,� by Robert Conroy; “Star Wars: Honor Among Thieves,

by James S.A. Corey The Weight of Blood,� by Laura McHugh; “NYPD Red 2,� by James Patterson; “Invasion Rabaul: The Epic Story of Lark Force, The Forgotten Garrison, January-July

1942,� by Bruce Gamble;� Waking The Dead,�

by Heather Graham; “The Pilgrims,� by Will Elliott; “The Divorce Papers,� by Susan Rieger; “Tempting Fate,�

by Jane Green; “The Alpine Yeoman,� by Mary Daheim; “Four Friends,

by Robyn Carr; “Missing You,� by Harlan Coben; “Notorious,� by Allison Brennan; and “Blossom Street Brides,� by Debbie Macomber.

New DVDs are “Gravity,� “Thor: The Dark World, “Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2,� “About Time,� The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,� “12 Years a Slave,� “The Book Thief,� “Walking With Dinosaurs,� “American Hustle,� “The Wolf of Wall Street,� “Delivery Man,� and Mandela, The Long Walk To Freedom.�

For more information, call 815-456-2823.

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Grateful for successful pie auction RUSS SIEFKEN AND BETTY CLEMENTZ RESIDENTS OF 3TERLING

Sterling Federal Bank loan officers, (from left) Linda Murray, Melissa Majewski, and Diane Metzler; and Joan Padilla of Home of Hope in Dixon were at WSDR radio station during the auction of their pies for the 15th annual WSDR pie auction. The four celebrities joined 27 others March 14 to raise $12,686.62 for the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Whiteside County. Photo submitted by Betty Clementz.

Thanks to everyone for making the 15th annual WSDR Celebrity Pie Auction for Relay For Life of Whiteside County another great success.

Fabulous creations, including cakes, pies, cookies, and hanging baskets of flowers from 31 celebrities who entered the auction this year, were put up for auction, and more than 65 people were in attendance March 14 at WSDR.

At the end of the day, the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Whiteside County had raised $12,686.62.

Thanks to everyone who took part: WSDR for its sponsorship of the pie auction, the baker celebrities who baked creations and gathered funds, the volunteers for their part in manning the phones and organizing the event, and to the public who donated their support.

Like the Relay For Life, this truly is about a “community that comes together to finish the fight.�

Note to readers: Russ Siefken and Betty Clementz are the publicity cochairs.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Noah Christopher Denning Mallory Anderson of Sterling and Christopher Denning of Rock Falls are the parents of a son born at 11:33 a.m. March 9, 2014, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

Noah Christopher Denning weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces at birth and was 20 inches in length.

Maternal grandparents are Stephen Anderson and Gail Anderson, both of Sterling.

Paternal grandparents are Gordon Denning Jr. and Krista Denning, both of Rock Falls.

Maternal great-grandmother is Anne Anderson of Sterling.

Paternal great-grandparents are Gary and Sharon Handel and Pete and Genie Olalde, all of Sterling.

ling and Judy Reubin of Dixon.

Paternal great-grandparents are Howard and Helen Boostrom of Sterling and Roger and Flora Jo Larson of Rock Falls.

Jace Jamison Dowdy

Nicole Cortez and Nicholas Dowdy of Sterling are the parents of a son born at 8:33 a.m. March 25, 2014, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

Jace Jamison Dowdy weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces at birth and was 21 inches in length.

Maternal grandparents are Oscar Cortez and Joleen Cortez, both of Sterling.

Paternal grandparents are Charlie Dowdy of Coffeen and Linda Clelland of Litchfield.

Maternal great-grandparents are Gladys Hannan of Sterling and GuillAvery Ann ermo Medina of Mexico.

Boostrom Paternal great-grandTaylor and Matt Boost- parents are Ellen Clelland rom of Rock Falls are the of Litchfield and John parents of a daughter Dowdy of Vandalia. born at 8:09 a.m. March 24, 2014, at CGH Medical Quinn Rosalie Center in Sterling.

Berkeley Avery Ann Boostrom weighed 8 pounds, 5 Nicholas and Ashley ounces at birth and was Berkeley of Indianapo20 inches in length. lis are the parents of a She is welcomed by daughter born at 11:25 Blake Boostrom, 13, Kade a.m. March 13, 2014, at St. Boostrom, 9, Grace Boost- Vincent’s Hospital in Carrom, 7, and Jakob Nick- mel, Ind. laus, 4.

Quinn Rosalie BerkeMaternal grandparents ley weighed 8 pounds, 6 are Lisa and Mark Framke ounces at birth and was of Sterling and Rick and 20.5 inches in length.

Denell Reubin of Dixon.

She is welcomed by P a t e r n a l g r a n d p a r - Rowan Annalise, 2. ents are Larry and Debra Maternal grandmothBoostrom of Rock Falls. er is Marilyn Clouser of Maternal great-grand- Brownsburg, Ind. parents are Robert and Paternal grandparents Barbara Linboom of Ster- are Rich and Lavonne

Berkeley of Byron.

Paternal great-grandparents are Calvin and Beverly Faber of Sublette and Monica Berkeley of Franklin Grove.

Ja’Kai D’Rae Woods Lindsey Hardin of Sterling is the mother of a son born at 4:34 a.m. March 27, 2014, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

Ja’Kai D’Rae Woods weighed 6 pounds, 2 ounces at birth and was 20 inches in length.

He is welcomed by J’Ontae Woods, 1, Aalaysia Woods, 1, and Akiera Woods, 5 months.

Maternal grandparents are Kimberly and David Hardin of Sterling.

Jacob Jonathan Hoover

es at birth and was 21 inches in length.

Maternal grandparents are Craig Wolber and Luann Wolber, both of Rock Falls.

Paternal grandparents are Amy and Antonio Hicks of Rock Falls and the late Rick Rippy.

Maternal great-grandfather is Harry Weaver of Sterling.

Paternal great-grandparents are Karen Russell of Sterling, Marilyn Rippy of Lyndon and Carolyn and Kim Ruth of Rock Falls.

Henry Hugh Hartman Ashlie Hartman of Sterling is the mother of a son born at 9:32 a.m. March 28, 2014, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

Henry Hugh Hartman weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces at birth and was 21 inches in length.

He is welcomed by Abbie Burge, 6.

Maternal grandparents are Cynthia Nanninga and William Hartman, both of Prophetstown.

Maternal great-grandparents are Henry and Alma Nanninga of Annawan and Hugh and Sandy Hartman of Ponca, Ark.

Katie and Jon Hoover of Rock Falls are the parents of a son born at 7:33 a.m.

March 23, 2014, at KSB Hospital in Dixon.

Jacob Jonathan Hoover weighed 6 pounds at birth and was 18.5 inches in length.

He is welcomed by Makaley, 16.

Maternal grandparents are Mike Velazquez and Alexander Allen Mary Velazquez, both of Wade Rock Falls.

Amanda Smith and Alex Paternal grandparents are David Hoover and Betsy Wade of Prophetstown are the parents of a son Hoover, both of Tampico. born at 7:12 p.m. March 27, 2014, at CGH Medical Emma Marie Rippy Center in Sterling.

Jenna Wolber and Richard Alexander Allen Wade Rippy Jr. of Rock Falls are weighed 8 pounds at the parents of a daughter birth and was 22 inches in born at 7:47 a.m. March 29, length.

2014, at CGH Medical CenHe is welcomed by Tayter in Sterling. lor Wade, 8, Jason CurEmma Marie Rippy tain, 5, Macy Jo Wade, 5, weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounc- and Mathew Ballard, 3.

Maternal grandparents are Dee Smith of Prophetstown and Jim and Joanne Smith of Tampico.

Paternal grandparents are Allen and Jessica Wade of Sterling.

Maternal great-grandmother is Carolyn Gilbert of Geneseo.

Kaylee Jane and Jace Michael Williams Kristy Bonnell and Michael Williams of Nelson are the parents of twins, a daughter and a son, born at 12:47 and 12:48 p.m., respectively, March 27, 2014, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

Kaylee Jane Williams weighed 6 pounds, 3 ounces at birth and was 18.5 inches in length.

Jace Michael Williams weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces at birth and was 19.5 inches in length.

They are welcomed by Austin Williams, 13, Gavin Williams, 6, Kaydence Roath, 7, and Landon Roath, 5.

Maternal grandparents are Tim Bonnell of Nelson and June Granter of Harmon.

Paternal grandparents are Joe Williams and Dana Williams, both of Ogden, Kan.

Kolt James Thomas Krystle and Kevin Thomas of Tampico are the parents of a son born at 10:50 p.m.

March 24, 2014, at St. Margaret’s Hospital in Spring Valley.

Kolt James Thomas weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces at birth and was 20.5 inches in length.

He is welcomed by

Brady, 6, and Kory, 2.

Maternal grandparents are Elizabeth Taylor and Kirby Hermeyer, both of Ohio.

Maternal great-grandparents are Paul and Jenny Hermeyer of Dixon.

Paternal great-grandmother is Sandy Miller of New Bedford.

Hazel Irene and Celia Lou Atkinson Jennifer Bubrick and Erik Atkinson of Dixon are the parents of twin daughters, born at 8:24 and 8:25 p.m., respectively, March 12, 2014, at KSB Hospital in Dixon.

Hazel Irene Atkinson weighed 4 pounds, 12 ounces at birth and was 17.5 inches in length.

Celia Lou Atkinson weighed 3 pounds, 15 ounces at birth and was 17.5 inches in length.

They are welcomed by Margaret Atkinson, 2, and Jense Atkinson, 2.

Maternal grandmother is Deborah Bubrick of Dixon.

Paternal grandparents are Laura and Andy Atkinson of Franklin Grove.

Maternal great-grandmother is Betty Hopper of Franklin Grove.

Paternal great-grandmother is Sue McCoy of Dixon.

Information sought The birth announcement for Penelope Gracelynn Mae Morse cannot be printed without additional information. The editorial department has been unable to reach the submitter. If those who submitted it could call 800-798-4085, ext. 5501, it would be appreciated.

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Teen shares friend’s grief without tears Dear Abby: I’m 15.

Yesterday, they told our class that one of my friend’s parents had died suddenly. Every single person in our grade cried, except for me. I felt bad about not crying for my friend’s loss, but I just didn’t.

Another friend told me that last night people were texting, and it had been mentioned several times that I wasn’t crying and that it looked like I didn’t care, even though I do. I feel bad about not crying, but I don’t want to lie and say that I did. Please help me. – Dry-Eyed in Colorado

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Dear Dry-Eyed: If you feel that any explanation is called for, simply say that when you heard the news you were so stunned that you couldn’t cry. Your reaction is very common. When bad news is conveyed, some people are just struck numb.

Believe me, not everyone who can cry on command is necessarily grieving.

Dear Abby: My boyfriend, “Chico,� and I have been going together for 6 years. We have discussed marriage, but for the past few months he has become distant and not as loving as he once was. Chico is the dependent type who often needs to be reminded by his parents or me about things he needs to do.

When I asked Chico what was going on, he said he is confused and he thinks he relies too much on his parents and me for direction.

LEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING

Tim Broos won the annual 50/50 drawing from the Lee County Council on Aging in Dixon. With him is Julie McGrail, staff member. Photo submitted by Brandi Langner.

He said he didn’t want to break up, but he would like some time alone. He assured me there is no one else involved and he wants to continue talking on the phone to me once in a while.

I don’t know what to do.

Should I believe what he is saying about needing time, or do you think this is Chico’s way of telling me it’s over? – Heartbroken in Hoboken Dear Heartbroken: Frankly, I think Chico is trying to break it to you gently that it’s over. Wish him well and let him go.

You probably meant well, but the problem

with giving someone “directions� is, it prevents that person’s own compass from guiding him where he needs to go.

Look at it this way: This may be a period of growth for Chico and for you as well.

Dear Abby: I have been dating someone over the last 2 years and our relationship has had a lot of ups and downs. We are in our 50s, and we have both been married before.

The problem is, he thinks he always has to be right. He’ll never admit to being wrong.

We love each other and spend most of our time together, but every time

we have an argument, he calls our relationship off.

I am always the one who calls to patch things up.

Should I let this relationship go once and for all? – Tired Of The Drama in Atlanta Dear Tired Of The Drama: Yes, I think so.

Your gentleman friend has an unhealthy way of dealing with conflict.

Unless your idea of a happy marriage is one in which you are always the peacemaker, I doubt it would last.

Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Yard waste collection begins MORRISON – Weekly yard waste collection is on Mondays for Morrison residential customers.

Materials are to be placed curbside in brown paper, yard waste bags or in containers no larger than 30 gallons.

Other events in the area are: Grove Hill Cemetery, on East High Street, cleanup will be Monday through Friday. Those who have decorations they want saved should pick them up no later than Sunday.

Yoga with Martina: This is a 6-week session of beginning-continuing yoga classes are Tuesday through May 15. For information, call 815-7724473.

A free, community dinner will be served from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Thursday at the Presbyterian Church, 100 E. Lincolnway. The church is wheelchair accessible.

Call 815-772-3510 for information.

The Whiteside Forum

will present “Human Rights: Indigenous People, Their Rights and Perspective� at 7:30 p.m.

Friday at Odell Public Library’s community room, 307 S. Madison St. Registration begins at 7 p.m.

The panel of speakers will be Isabel Scarborough, professor of anthropology at Parkland College in Champaign; Beverly Smith, assistant director of the University of Illinois Native American House; and Bryce Elliott, who will provide insight into the Maori culture. The meeting is open to the public at no charge. For information, call 815-772-4949.

Lions Club annual Rose Day sales are in progress through Friday. The cost is $15 for 1 dozen roses that will arrive April 18 and 19. To order, call Jim Blakemore at 815-772-3744, Flora Stralow at 815-772-4874 or Bob Smith at 815-4999954. Proceeds will help support the Morrison Lions Club Scholarship Award.

The Bethesda Blaze Relay For Life team and one of their sponsors, DQ Grill & Chill will serve breakfast from 7 to 10 a.m. April 12 at the restaurant, 200 N. Sawyer Road. The choices are scrambled eggs, pancakes and sausage, biscuits and sausage gravy, juice, and coffee. Donations will be accepted with proceeds going to the American Cancer Society – Relay For Life of Whiteside County.

Morrison Presbyterian Church and Christian Reformed Church will have a citywide paper drive from 9 to 11:30 a.m. April 12 at Christian Reformed’s parking lot, 300 W. South St. Items to be collected are bundled papers, books, magazines, and broken-down corrugated boxes. The collection will benefit Self Help in Sterling.

Jennifer’s Dance Center recital will be at 1 and 7 p.m. April 12 at Morrison High School’s auditorium, 643 Genesee Ave. For ticket information, call 815-772-4108.

SERENITY HOSPICE & HOME Volunteer session to start April 12

Carrisa Yardley (center) presented a check for Lee County Council on Aging in Dixon to Julie McGrail (left) and Cathy Reglin, staff members. The money was raised at Quartermania March 21 at Dixon Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 540. Photo submitted by Brandi Langner.

Registration underway for walk DIXON – The March of Dimes annual March for Babies will be May 3 at Page Park on Page Park Drive.

This year’s Sauk Valley ambassador family are the Loescher-Blackburns. Marisa and Purdue are the parents of two daughters who were born prematurely at Rockford Memorial Hospital. The babies spent 106 days in the newborn intensive care unit before coming home.

The March of Dimes was instrumental in regionalizing the unit.

Go to www.marchforbabies.org/event/saukvalley to register. Sign in at 8 a.m. at the Lions Shelter; the 3-mile walk will follow at 9 a.m. It is sponsored by Wahl Clipper of Sterling.

The March of Dimes also has given more than $134,000 over 16 years in community grants in the Sauk Valley area.

Last year, Whiteside

County Health Department received $6,500.

This grant is part of the March of Dimes Chapter-Directed Mission Investment Plan. The Illinois chapter made 3-year commitment to invest community grant money to implement its prenatal education curriculum Becoming a Mom-Comenzando Bien in 14 community-based sites across the state.

For more information, call 815-397-0097.

Poets can submit work for contest SPRINGFIELD – Entry forms are available for the 10th annual Illinois Emerging Writers Competition Gwendolyn Books Poetry Award.

The competition was started to promote creative writing, according to Illinois Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White. It is open

to state residents 18 and older.

Entries must be postmarked by June 30. Cash prizes will be awarded: $500 for first place, $300 for second, and $100 for third. Winning poems will be submitted for possible publication in the Ninth Letter, RHINO, and Quiddity magazines and Poetic

License Press publications. The winners also will read their poems and receive their prizes at a ceremony in Springfield.

Go to www.cyberdriveillinois.com for forms or more information. Also for information, contact Bonnie Matheis at bmatheis@ilsos.net or 217-558-2065.

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BOOKS BY THE BUSHEL

Danelle Burrs, (left) Lee County Farm Bureau manager, presented Lori Whitson of Washington Elementary School in Dixon, with the Lee County Farm Bureau Foundation’s Books by the Bushel donation. Lincoln Elementary School in Dixon and Pankhurst Memorial Library in Amboy also received a bushel basket of 11 agriculture-related children’s books. The foundation funds ag-related education through scholarships and Emily Goff of Pankhurst Memorial Library in Amboy projects, such as the book program. For more information about the program, go to www.leecfb.org/founda- accepted a bushel of books from Burrs. Photos submitted by Burrs. tion or call the Lee County Farm Bureau at 815-857-3531.

PROJECT POOL

West Carroll FFA Livestock team members are (front row, from left) Meng Huang, Tessa Sibley, Karley Metz, Allison Law, April Bumphrey, Elise Walls, and Kyle Behrens; (middle row) Rachel Badtke, Clare O’Connor, Natalie O’Connor, Josi Anderson, Elizabeth Rath, Mallory Comeau, Shawna Lott, Cheyenne Behrens, and Emily Suiter; and (back row) Josh Sullivan, Kristen Houzenga, Ashley Hunt, Alysha Adams, Kyah Mull, Glenn Hoffman, Jacob Dauphin, Devon Handel, Daniel Hartman, and Jacob Casey. Photos submitted by Don Mathey.

West Carroll FFA teams compete MOUNT CARROLL – The West Carroll FFA Livestock and Dairy Judging teams competed in the Section 1 FFA Livestock and Dairy Judging Career Development Event March 22

at the County Highway building.

West Carroll team scores were 860 in the dairy contest and 994 in the livestock contest.

Individually for West Carroll, Karley Metz

placed fifth in dairy judging.

The dairy judging consisted of seven rings of dairy animals, (cattle and goats) and the livestock judging included three rings each of beef,

sheep, and swine.

Eastland High School in Lanark placed fourth with 1,084 and Skylar Paulsen of Eastland.

10th with 368.

Forreston High School placed ninth with 1,022.

West Carroll FFA Dairy Judging Team members are (from left) Glenn Hoffman, Jacob Casey, Elizabeth Rath, Emily Suiter, Shawna Lott, Ashley Hunt, Karley Metz, Alysha Adams, Daniel Hartman, Cheyenne Behrens, and Kyle Behrens.

Katie Pratt teaches (from left) Mia Mondro), Andrea Buhrow, and Cherith Bulfer about the different ingredients in candies, and what different chocolates taste like. The Lee County 4-H Extension offered a project pool for youth ages 5 to 18 March 15 at the Lee County Fairgrounds in Amboy. It was an opportunity to learn about cupcake decorating, woodworking, Japan, plants and soils, chickens, 4-H records and what is in a Tootsie Roll. There also was an interactive class for 5- to 7-year olds.

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Sterling store to offer discounted pet clinic STERLING – Happy Tails Humane Society will sponsor a wellness clinic for limitedincome pet owners from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 19 at Pet Supplies Plus in Northland Mall, 2900 E. Lincolnway.

Pet owners will need to provide proof of program enrollment and a photo identification card.

Immunizations, tests, and microchipping will be available at a reduced cost to those enrolled in a public assistance program. Dogs must be current on rabies vaccinations. Rabies vaccinations will be provided by Advanced Animal Health Center for a reduced fee that does not include the cost of county tags from Whiteside County Animal Control. The pet will need to be examined before the vaccination.

For more information or

to schedule an appointment, call the shelter at 815-626-2994.

The clinic is part of Happy Tails’ Pets for Life Program, which provides community outreach to pets and owners. Go to happtailanimalshelter.org for more information on other programs, including the Microchip Safety Net, Food Pantry, and Reduced-Cost Spay and Neuter programs.

Happy Tails Humane Society, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization is a limited-intake, nokill facility that shelters and cares for stray and abandoned dogs and cats until they are adopted into permanent homes. The shelter is 1408 McNeil Road in Rock Falls. The hours are 8 a.m.-noon Monday through Friday and 5-7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday.

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to harvest, and potential savory uses. Other topics in the spring series include 0EST #ONTROL 3TRATEGIES IN the Garden, April 22 and "ARGAIN 'ARDENING -AY The cost is $5 per session and free for active Master Gardeners. Go to http://web.extension. illinois.edu/clwebinar or call OR REGISTER

August. After training is completed, participants are will complete a volunteer service project to become The spring series of the a certified Master NaturalUniversity of Illinois Extenist. Once certified, they will sion’s Four Seasons Garbe required to conduct dening program, which volunteer stewardship focuses on environmental and continuing training to stewardship and backyard maintain their certification food production, starts annually.

Tuesday.

The curriculum will cover The Basics of Growing topics ranging from natural Herbs will be at 1:30 p.m. history, understanding the at 100 E. Knox St., MorMaster Naturalist natural world, communiRISON $ 3 #LAY 3T

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communities. Also covered will be ecosystems management, geology, and volunteer service projects opportunities.

For more information and cost, contact Mary Nelson of the Whiteside Extension OFFICE AT Space is limited and will be based on paid participants on a first come basis.

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Sick, also born in Russia, has a music doctorate from the University of Minnesota. But her teaching career has been altered by the technology. “In addition to performing, I liked getting under the piano with the Yamaha technical guys to find out what they were doing, and they explained things to me,� she said. She also discovered that by listening to the Disklavier’s precise playback and watching the accompanying video of the player’s movements, she could help students correct their mistakes.

Sick calls it “reverseengineering the performance,� a technical term that might make some liberal arts fans cringe.

But she shrugs it off. “My friends are both technicians and musicians, so I live in both worlds.�

As a result, Sick is a part-time consultant for Yamaha, and recently helped demonstrate the Disklavier for the music department staff at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., which is wrestling with a decision on whether to use it as a way to audition prospective music students. “We haven’t done auditions by Disklavier yet, and we’re looking into whether that would be a good option for us,� said Kent McWilliams, a St. Olaf music professor who has used older, preInternet models of the Disklavier for classroom piano teaching.

Although Disklaviers first became available in the U.S. in 1987, when

they recorded piano data on floppy disks, they are getting another look from university music teachers now that they are Internet-capable and require only modest Internet speeds of 2 million to 4 million bits per second for both uploads and downloads.

The Disklavier is a conventional piano that has been wired with extremely precise sensors to measure the movement of its mechanical parts. For example, when a piano key is struck, it causes a hammer to strike a piano string. A Yamaha sensor can measure and record the velocity of that hammer at 1,023 different increments, and store the result as computer data. When that data is used to reproduce that hammer speed on another Disklavier, the sound produced is virtually identical to that of the original piano.

And, aside from the classroom teaching benefits, universities wonder if remote auditions will bring them a more diverse group of students. “Diversity of applicants is what schools ask us about,� Litterst said. “The more competitive schools want students auditioning from Asia and Europe. The music department chair at Wayne State College in Nebraska recently listened to a remote audition from a high school junior who lives in the Aleutian Islands (in Alaska).�

That’s part of the discussion at St. Olaf. “If somebody in China wanted to audition for St. Olaf, we could arrange for them to do the audition electronically, which

would be much more cost-effective for the student,� McWilliams said. “But we already draw students from other parts of the country and the world.’’ Besides, he added: “We like to have students come to campus so we get a good sense of them, and they of us.�

The University of Minnesota, which just purchased its first Disklavier, sees it as a valuable teaching tool whose potential has barely been scratched, said Alexander Braginsky, a professor of piano at the UM School of Music.

Initially, it will be used to receive audition recordings for the 2015 International e-Piano Junior Competition to be held at UM, and for teaching. “When I play back a Disklavier recording, I can slow it down 50 percent or speed it up 25 percent without changing the key it’s being played in,�

Braginsky said. “That helps piano students hear what I hear. The playback usually brings a whole lot of surprises.�

But that’s just the beginning, he said. “I have used one of these Disklaviers to do remote piano lessons between Minneapolis and New York, and between New York and Tokyo,� he said. “The students enjoy it very much. I think the uses for music education are yet to be fully explored.�

The rising popularity of Internet-enabled pianos makes it likely that Yamaha will face increased competition. For example, Massachusetts-based Steinway offers pianos with digital playback capability. “It’s clear that this is a concept whose time has come,� Litterst said.

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Salamandra Restaurant, 105 W. First St., Dixon, is opening The Gathering Place next door. The new venue for wedding receptions, reunions, birthday parties and the like will open Monday.

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Relics for sale in Dixon DIXON – Have a taste for primitives and other funky antiquities? Then you may want to check out Reuben’s Relics.

There’s a fun mix of antiques and collectibles in the little building at 1112 S. Galena Ave.

Dixon couple Rick and Denell Reuben open shop from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays, and by appointment. Call them at 815-994-0707.

New party venue opening in Dixon DIXON – There’s a new venue for wedding receptions, reunions, birthday parties and the like opening Monday in the downtown.

Salamandra Restaurant, 105 W. First St., is opening The Gathering Place next door to the popular Mexican restaurant.

It’ll be a big party room that can seat up to 100 people, co-owner Kora Bajrami said. Cost to rent will be $150 a day, and the restaurant also can cater an event, if needed, she said.

Give her a call at 815285-0874 for all the details.

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So, I think your mom is completely wrong. There are three things you can do with money: spend, save and give. Trust me, giving is the most fun of all! – Dave

Book room without a credit card?

Dear Dave, Is it possible to book a hotel room without a credit card? – James

Dear James, Absolutely, it is. Just use a debit card.

I don’t have a credit card. When it comes to finances, the only pieces of plastic you’ll find in my wallet are two debit cards – one for my business, and the other for my personal account.

A Visa or Mastercardbranded debit card can be used anywhere credit cards are accepted. And the best part is that you’re not borrowing money when you use one. The funds come directly from your check-

ing account. Some hotels might put a temporary hold on your account for the amount in question, so you need to make sure you actually have the money in the bank. But that just makes sense, doesn’t it? You shouldn’t be traveling without money in the first place.

If you’re too broke to travel, then you need to stay home. Pretty simple! – Dave Follow Dave on Twitter at @DaveRamsey and on the web at daveramsey. com.

MCT News Service

Osip Nikiforov, a prizewinning piano student, is captured on video as he plays a Yamaha Disklavier piano.

Astrograph A change in scenery will do you good.

Sunday, April 6, 2014

It’s time to step into the spotlight.

Your talent and hard work deserve recognition, and it’s up to you to draw attention to your accomplishments. If you don’t act on your own behalf, it’s likely that someone else will try to take credit for your ideas.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- An unhappy past interaction with someone will repeat itself if you let that person back into your life. Keeping secrets from a friend will cause irreparable damage. Honesty is necessary.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- A change in scenery will do you good.

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HONOR ROLLS St. Mary Elementary and Junior High School, Dixon Highest Honors Eighth grade: Kate BonNELL *AEDIN #ANTERBURY AND Travis Williams.

Seventh grade: Hannah $IXON #HLOE +LEIN -ARY 0OWERS AND %MILY 3CHAAB Sixth grade: Nate Ahlers, .OAH 'ROT #ONNOR -C"RIDE

#HARLOTTE -C#OY !VERY -EYER -AGGIE /SWALT

*ONATHAN 2HODES -ADELYN Ryan, and John Simpson.

High Honors Eighth grade: Eli Blaney, %LIZABETH /SWALT "ROOKE Richardson, Erin Vits, and Hannah Wilson.

Seventh grade: Drew Ackman, Isaac Blaney, Sean Lahey, Patrick Powers, and Lexie Wetter.

Sixth grade: Dean Ellorando, Luke Ely, and Sierra Williams.

Honors Eighth grade: 4IFFANY "UGAjsky, Drake Farster, and Jillienne Roe. Seventh grade: Julia Ardis AND :OE #ARR Sixth grade: *ASMINE #ONnolly.

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CAMP BENSON DONATION Parsons, Seth Sanderson, %LISABETH 7AGENECHT AND Victoria Wiest.

Seniors: Nathan Ankrom, !LEX "ARBER -ARA "ILYEU

+ARLI "YERS 'AGE #OLE +ODY #ROSTHWAITE "RYCEN $OLAN

/LIVIA %DFORS -ATIAS &ACIO

-ADDISON (AAN -ONTANA (ERNANDEZ (EIDI (OLCOMB

#HASE (OLDEN #ODY (UFF

4RISTAN (UISINGH *ENNA *ONES !LLISON -EURS !LEC .ICOLAYSEN 3IARA / ,EARY (AWK -ORGAN 0ANNELL

!USTIN 2EGENWETHER -ARIAH Snyder, Ryan Sturtz, Jessica 6ANDERPLOEG 0AUL 6ELASCO

!USTIN 7IEBENGA .ICOLAS 7IEBENGA -ADDISON Wiersema, Tyler Wilkins, and *ACOB 7ILLGING Honors Juniors: Jamie HuennekENS AND -ADDISON -C&ARren.

: (ELTON #ADE ! ,YONS

%LIJAH & !NDERSON 'EORGIA E. Brown, Payton W. Day, Alexander J. Herrera, Grace ! -AHONEY !NTHONY # 4HOMPSON /LIVIA , 'ARZA

2YAN - -C$ONNELL %BON , +ENDRICK -ALLORY 2 .EWBERRY !VIVA 2 "RENNER

$YLAN # $ELHOTAL -IKKAYLA E. Hinkle, Isaac J. Jensen, !NGELINA - -EINERS *ACOB " /LIN :OE ' 2YAN 0AIGE # 3UTTON $ANIELLA - #HINO

Samantha A. Smith, and #OLTON $ $UNCAN Seventh grade: Dylan H. Bryant, Dulce I. Lemus, 3AMANTHA ! 3PAULDING

Josilyn R. Borum, Rachel L. "UYERS (UNTER 7 #ARRELL

,IBBY 3 &ELDMAN -ADELINE P. Gasso, Keely L. Hinkle, -IGUEL 3 (UARACHA %THAN J. Przysucha, Jaylynn B. Razo, Jenna R. Johnson, )SAIAH * -OORMAN 3HAYLA * Challand Middle School, -OORMAN *ARED ! 3AATHOFF

Sterling Shelly L. Saathoff, Luke D. Steinke, Kyle D. Polzin, High Honors !NNA 2 -OHR 2AINBOW - Sixth grade: Nicolas !LLEN #IERRA & !VILA .EGIL #ELESTINO #ORI % #HAVEZ

- "RUCE 3IERRA % #HASTAIN

&ERNANDO ( #ID *R +ON!LEJANDRO %SCALANTE 8AVIER NER 7 #ONKLEN $ANTE 8 Gallardo, Jordan T. Green, #OPPOTELLI *ADE - #OTBianca R. Lukancic, Allyssia TRELL .ICOLE ! $E*ONGE

! .EWMAN !LEX 3 2ANGEL

0AIGE % $E*ONGE 4ESSA - $E*ONGE 3ARAH % %IFEL 3ERENA + 6AUGHN *OCELYN St. Andrew School, Rock Aaliyah T. Gaffey, Grace L. * %NRIGHT #AITLIN . 7OLBER

Falls Gould, Zoe A. Hanson, Luke 3ONIA - #HINO 4REVOR 7 Highest Honors 2 (EFFELFINGER 9AQUELINE " #ARRELL -ARQUEZ $ 'ALE Williams, Isaac A. Garcia, Eighth grade: Delaney (ERNANDEZ +AYLEE * -AY

$ANIEL 'ARCIA -ARQUEZ

(INRICHS AND !UDREY -ELTON -AKALEY , -IKRUT $ILLON *ENNI - -ILLER 7ESTON $ Seventh grade: -ACKEN- .ITZ "RIAN # 0ODKUL3ISSON 6ICTORIA + -ARTINEZ

ZIE &OWKES -ICHAEL &RANK

SKI %MMA - 2APP *ULIAN -ARTIN % 'UZMAN 6ADEN 3 -EGAN -ARCUM -ELISSA ! 2ODRIGUEZ "ETHANY 0 *OHNSON !LYSSA 3 -ARQUEZ

/SUNA AND "REANN 2OSENSandison, Emily R. Shank, 3ARAH , 0AGE !BIGAIL % GREN "RICE $ 4AYLOR %VAN - Sixth grade: -ATTEA "IAN- 4IRA ,UIS % 6ARGAS "RYNLEE 3HEETS 8AVIER * #ERVANTES

#LARKE 2 #HAPMAN !LEK - chi, Victoria Erickson, and 3 7OLFE -OIRA - 2ODDY

$URAN 3ARAH ! -C#ULLOUGH

#LARE 3ANDERS !NDREA 9 #ERVANTES #LAU:IA $ -EIER !LICIA - High Honors dia B. Garcia, Viana D. Eighth grade: Ashly Tor.GUYEN !DDISEN $ 4HAYER 2OSAS !LYSSA # !MEZOLA

4YLER * #OY #ALEB * (UIZres.

-ADISYN 2 .ICKLAUS +EVIN Seventh grade: Brianna / ,EMUS 4YLER ! (ANSEN ENGA !NGELICA - ,E"ARRON

6IVIAN $ .GUYEN 6INCENT * Jackley and Kyle Ellefsen.

Elle B. Koerner, Kristen E. 0ADILLA (EIDI 2OMO -IKALEY Sixth grade: Alejandra "USHMAN !BIGAIL % !ITS. Smith, Kadin J. Wolf, Padilla.

KEN *OSIE - 'ALLENTINE

Wyntir R. White, and AlexHonors !LLISYN 2 2EIGER 'ILLIAN ' Eighth grade: Natalie Schumaker, Joey R. Trujillo, SANDRA * 'ROBE Eighth grade: 9ASMINE % !MEZOLA #ADE "IANCHI

Whitnie R. Garriott, Kira E. "RENTIN %RICKSON -ADALINE Garza, Jada L. Rhodes, Val- 'UERRERO 4YLOR - / "RIEN

0AYTON 0 3HARP 9ARIELA * Grove, Ana Padilla, Tyler erie Villaneda, and Katelyn ,OPEZ !UTUMN . -ILLER

Soltow, April Torres, and - !YLING *UAN 6 "RISENO -ADISON + Riley Vondra.

Seventh grade: -AD#ORWELL 3YDNIE % 'ARRIOTT

Seventh grade: *ACOB ELYNN 2 !DAMS -ADISON -ICAH $ +ENDRICK !LEXIS - Terveer.

- !NDERSON #AMDEN 2 -ARTINEZ !LICIA ( -ONTANEZ

Sixth grade: -ACAIRE "AILEY 3AMUEL % #ASTILLO

+ALEB 7 0OLZIN #ARTER - Brown and Jordan Johnson. Emalia A. Dunkel, Genea R. 'EARING 3PARROW - ,EWIS

'ARZA ,AUREN % 'EARING

Fulton High School -ADELINE % 'EIL -ARCOS $ *AZLYNN - -ORENO 0ATRICIA Grande Jr., Katelyn G. Grell, Torres Luna, Rhiannon R. Highest Honors *ULIA , (OFFMAN !NDREW - Filippi, Dawson R. Koett, Freshmen: 4AYLOR #URLEY

Ivarson, Lauren K. Johnson, *ACOB - 'EBHARDT !NDY 2IKKI +ING *ORDAN 0RICE

Hernandez, Nicholas A. #ARTER 3 +ENNEY "ROOKLYN Lauren Spencer, Dustin #ERUZZI -ACKENZIE , &ERGUR. Linton, Kolton T. Loos, Williams-Davis, and Hillary SON +RISTIAN , #OOK .ATALIE "RADY * -ORAN 4IARA !

Winkel.

- 2AMOS %STELA " ,UNA

-UNOZ *OSHUA % / "RIEN

Sophomores: Tayler *ESSICA 3 0AYNE -EGAN % #LAIRE % 3TEINHAGEN %LIZABirkett, Benjamin FanderBETH ! 2ODRIGUEZ 1UINTESPodkulski, Hayley N. Reynclai, Samuel Fanderclai, SA - / #ONNELL .ATASHA Roane Hand, Betsy Leonard, OLDS :AINA - 2UMBOLZ

J. Dickerson, Heather N. .ATHANIEL * 3TOUT ,IBERTY Delaney Reed, and Allison Donahue, Brynn L. Ganz, N. Tanton, Jenna K. TruesWinkel.

Turner J. Garcia, Sydney T. DELL +YLIE . "ABIN (OWARD

Juniors: Thomas Hand, Johnson, Kassidy E. Kenney, *AYME , %ILERS #OLBY * +AYLIE (UIZENGA "RANDI 4ANNER , -ACKEY (AILEY Law, Josiah R. Schmitt, 0ESSMAN +IRSTEN 3TAGE

! 0IPES #AYHLA . 3MART

0RESTON 4 "ELLINI -ADISEN ,YNDSEY 4EGELER *AC"RIANNA - *UAREZ (AN% "ATTLES #AMRYN 2 $ELlyn Toureene, and Lucas NAH . .EWBERRY "RYCE - GADO 'ARY ! %DWARDS

7IEBENGA 3AMANTHA . (IBBARD *OHN #AMPOS 2OSS $ 'ALLENTINE

Seniors: !MY "ARZGARI

Nolan R. Sullivan, Nicole K. % 2AHN 'RACIE - 4RADER

2ACHAEL "EIERMANN -AT0HILLIPS *ERRY ! 2ODRIGUEZ

'RANT ! "RIGHT 2ICHARD 4 thew Dail, Weston Dixon, Gerardo Garcia Jr., Zoe K. +YLIE 'REEN "RYCE (OLESING- %VERETT 1UINN # &OSSETT

7ARD 'ISELLA / -ANCERA

Gretchen A. Gould, Jerett er, Jack Reed, Krista Tem#ARA , !LEXANDER $AVID * * (ARRINGTON ,AUREN % ple, Velaye Weinert, Laura (UMPHREYS !MBER , +UHN #ARRILLO 6ALERIA ' #ERVANTES

7IERSEMA AND 2EBECCA !SHLEY - .EIMAN +YLEE * "RITTANY - $INGLEY +ARLEY + Winkel.

2US )SAIAH : 2YAN 8ITLALI # Lippens, Allison A. Sandison, High Honors Freshmen: 2ACHEL "ARBER Sifuentes, Sierra L. Villarreal, AND #HARLES -IGHELL #ONNOR * "LAND !RTURO 5 -EGAN &RICK #OLE 'RANT

Montmorency School, #ONTRERAS !NDREA % ,EMAY

Allison Green, Tyler Green, Rock Falls AND #ONNOR /-ALLEY *ACOB (ARTMAN !DAM Eighth grade: Jake R. High Honors (ODGE "RAIZEE (OLDEN

!LSTON #HRISTOPHER - "ROUIFourth grade: Brady %MMA *ACOBS (ARLEIGH *ONES &AITH +ENNEDY 2OB- LETTE 3OPHIA # "ROWN 2UTH "AKER %MMA #UNNIFF -EG ERT +ERR !LEX -ARTIN !MBER % #ASTILLO %SPINOZA -ITCH&RANK 'ABRIEL &UNDERBERG

-AZE #OLE -C#LARY -ARYS- ELL 2 #LODFELTER +OLTEN ( #ALIN 'AULRAPP "REANNA SA -C#UNN +YLE -C,UCKIE #ONKLEN "ROOKLYNN 2 &REAS -ORGAN %ASTON -ORGAN

-I+AYLA -EDENDORP 3AMUEL #HLOE ) (ALVERSON 2EILLY $ !UTUMN .ELSON /WEN 0ILHay, Kassidy G. Heffelfin.ORMAN -AEGAN /TTENS

LARS -ALLORY 0INSKE -ASON 4YLER 0AULLINE 2OBERT 0OORE GER -IA . +NAPP ,ILAH 3 0OCI -ADISON 2OBBINGS

,OPEZ 4REY # -ORSE !BBY Alexandria Royer, Alaina 0AIGE 0ORTZ 3HELBY 0UCKJ. Nitz, Brayden N. Reyes, ett, Avery Qualman, Garth Schreiner, Devin Schultz, Rickertsen, Hayley Schrader, ,OGAN - 2OCHA *AMES 7 3LOAN 3CHUTZ #ADENCE Roddy, Katrina L. Sandefer, 4ORI 3IKKEMA ,OGAN 3IPE

Stonitsch, Hailey Vos, and 4YLER 3WEENIE 4AYLOR 4UBBS Nichole A. Schuldt, Akira J. Katie Witherow.

"RITTNAY 6AN/OSTEN #ASSAN- 4ANTON 'RACIE - 6OGEL

Fifth grade: Luke Akerdra VanZuiden, Emma Van+YLE , 7INEBRENNER 4YLER * MAN 4YLER "UCKINGHAM

Zuiden, Taylor VanZuiden, Willman, Bryn E. Gatz, Paul -ADELYN #OCHRAN +HLOE #AMERON 7ARD AND 7HITNEY $ *ENSEN *R #HARLES 3 $EVERS *ERIAH 'EORGE

Wynkoop. ,EHMAN *OZLYN - 'ARCIA

!INSLEIGH (ENDRIX !VERY Sophomores: Kyle Richard S. Jones, Kerry L. *OHNSON *ORDAN -ORTHLAND

Alstead, Jeff Banker, -ULLEN *ARRICA , 4HAYER

*ADYN /SBORNE 3AVAN#ARLY "ERGERHOUSE *ARED %MMA % "OZE 'EHRIG 7 nah Pinske, Tyler Richards, #HARNESKI :ACH $ERKoerner, Joseph A. Sivits, #ONNER 3UTTON 0EYTON mody, Sean Ford, Rodney +ATELYN . 3MOOT %LIZABETH 7ARD -ADISON 7ESCOCTT

'OSSARD !LLISON 'RIEBEL

A. Lyman, Henry D. Steinha- +YLIE 7ITHEROW AND ,OGAN +IMBERLY (OLLAND 3TORM GEN -EGAN " 3HEARER AND 9OUNG (OOVER #AMERIN (UIZENGA (ALEY - 3CHMIDT Sixth grade: -ADISON Averi Leitzen, Austin Lind, Honors !RICKX #ODY "RITT ,IL-ICHAYLA -ARTIN -ACKENNA Sixth grade: Anjelina J. ian Gaulrapp, Audra Goff, -UNSON 3EBASTIEN -URE Ramos, Samuel L. Janssen, %VAN ,AWS ,AUREN -OELLER

Ravaud, Laura Newsom, 4REVOR 2 6OS 2OQUELLE 3 Erin Porter, Josie Rank, *ACOB /UTZEN (ANNAH 0ENAFLOR %MILY , -ARRUFFO

Jared Rasmussen, SpenPannell, Trey Simmons, Har- *ACOB $ +NOTT 8AVIER . cer Schutz, Shannon Weir, SIMRANPREET 3INGH "ROOKE !RREOLA +AYA * 3TRINGER )SA- #INDY 7ILLIAMS AND !BBY Smith, Sarah Stephan, and IAH 2 9ARBROUGH .ICOLAS ! Workman. .ICOLE 6ANDERPLOEG !LLISON -ADISON % -ORRISON Seventh grade: Alec AkerJuniors: -AITLIND !NDRE#ARTER 2 ,EHMAN 6IVIAN , MAN -ATTHEW ,AWS -ATSEN :ACHARY "ARBER !LEXIS 7YATT *ACK 3 7IKE /CTAY- THEW -OELLER 4OMMI -YERS

"ENNETT *ACOB "IELEMA )SA- VIA 2 -ERRYMAN #HRIS-AC+ENZIE /LSON 3AMANTHA BEL "ORGMAN !RIAN #ASEY

TIANO 3 3EGRETTO $YLAN - Royer, Devon Summers, "ONNIE #OLEMAN "REANNA (UGHES !DAN % 2AMIREZ

!LFRED 3UTTON +EYON 7OLBER

%ISSENS !ARON &IELD #OLIN Kaydence J. Brauer, Brooke AND 0ATYON 9ANES (OUZENGA +YLE (UEBNER

% 7ILSON 4ODD - %NNELLS Eighth grade: Alexis Autumn Hutton, Brody *R !IDAN ! -UNOZ 2IPLEY "AUER %MILY -USSELMAN

-AY 3KYLER .ORMAN *AMIE -ADISON * "LAND 3TEVEN Nicholas Rozhon, Faith San-

DROCK AND !BBEE 3IGEL Honors Fourth grade: Austin #ERNICH "OOKER #ROSS

(AILEY 'IBSON #ARA 'OFF

4REY (ENRY #OOPER (EWITT

Braxton Law, Jasmine -ILLS 0AIGE -ULNIX ,EXADIE .ELSON $ENNING $AWSON Newendyke, Joseph Parent, 3HAYLA 3CHMALL %LIZABETH Somerville, and Tucker 9OUNG Fifth grade: #HLOE #OOK

4REVOR $RIESSENS #HEYENNE Duchay, Joshua Howard, #AILIN +YARSGAARD +YLIE 0OTTORFF *AKOB 3CHMITT -ADISON 4HATCHER AND #ADENCE Wheat.

Sixth grade: #ADE "ETZ

Jalen Bickett, Alaura Busch, -EGAN #HRISTENSEN #LARA #ONKLEN 4RISTEN #OWLEY

%MMA &RANK #AMRYN Johnson, Kilie Law, Alyssa -ATHEWS %LISE -OELLER

Perry Ports, and Whitney Schwindenhammer.

Seventh grade: JesSICA #LEVENGER .ICKOLAS %DDINGER -IRANDA (EWITT

"RODY )VEY !SHLI -C'RATH

%LIZABETH 2EINHARDT -AKAYLA 2OBBINGS (ANNAH 3CHULTZ

Jenna Valdivia, and Ecco Wildman.

Eighth grade: Karley #RADY "RANDEN 'ORDON

+ATIE +UHLEMIER -ADELINE ,E&EVRE *ALEN -ORTHLAND

-ADISON 3HETLEY $ELANEY Wetzell.

Bureau Valley High School, Manlius High Honors Freshmen: Hannah Atherton, April Atkins, Preston Balensiefen, Erica Buckman, !LEX %LMORE .ICK 'LUBCZYNSKI #HASE 'RIPP -EGAN (UNT !LEXA *ACOBS 4IANA +ENNEDY /LIVIA +ERBER

Alaina Kruse, Josie Lind, -ARISSA -UNGIA +AITLYN Pleshko, Taylin Ritter, Hunter Schoff, Katie Smith, Kaylee Towne, Savannah Wall, and !BBEY 7ALTERS Sophomores: Breonna Balensiefen, Savanna Bell, Harrison Brousseau, StephaNIE #HRISTIAN +ELSEY $AWson, Emma Deppen, April %ASTWOOD #OURTNEY %HNLE

Justin Fisher, Kylee Green, !NNA (ARSHMAN #HELSEA (IGGINS -ARIAH +LEMME

Rick Lootens, Jessica LoudENBURG !SHLEY 0HILLIPS +AItlyn Ptasnik, Kyle Reilly, and Emily Wall.

Juniors: Blake Balensiefen, Jedidah Barnes, Sarah "ERGER #ARLIE "ICKETT *ULIA Edlefson, Kristyn Ehnle, Riley Francis, Ashley Guenther, Lindsey Hoffert, Alex *OHNSON 3YDNEY ,EBAHN

#HARLES ,OTSPEICH 2ACHEL -AC.AUGHTON "REANNA -OON )RINI 0ETROS #HASE 0IERCE #AITLIN 3COTT 3EAN Shepard, Alison Siltman, and 2EGAN 7EIDNER Seniors: Helena Arnadottir, Jeremiah Blackert, Nicole Bornsheuer, Justin Buckman, Katelyn DeBrock, Lacey DeVenney, Kane Eastwood, Samantha Haney, 0HILLIP (EDGES !NDREW *ACOBS 3ABRINA *OHNSON

&RANCIS -ONIER *ANELLE .ORDEN #OLTON 0ETERSON

6ERONICA 2IGGEN +ALIE 2UMBOLD 4UCKER 3CHOFF !NDREW Smith, Allisa Stoller, Daniel 4RONE AND #HRISTY 7ILLIAMS Honors Freshmen: Jay Edlefson, Jake Everson, Kylie Floyd, $ANA -ACKLIN #AJE 0ETERson, Tessa Reuter, Bethany Swanson, Sydney Sweenie, and Heather Williams.

Sophomores: Katelynn !UKES -ADALYN $AHL (UNTER %LMENDORF $ESTINY &LEMING

Andrew Fordham, Jenna (ANSEN *USTIN (OLMBERG

!BBEY (OWES .EVIN *OHNSON $ANA +EPNER -AGGIE -C2EYNOLDS *AY .ORDEN

9ULIAN /SORIO %LIZABETH Pleshko, Ashlee Prina, Stephanie Rhodes, Jamen Rinehart, Samantha StockING !LEX 3TRADER AND +ALYNN Sullivan.

Juniors: Rachel Brummel, !NNIKA #ARTER 'ARRET $ABLER

(ALEY $E6OSS !SHLYN 'IBSON 4YLER 'ONIGAM 3ALVADOR 'UERRERO #ASSIE *OHNSON *OSHUA -EAD ,AYNE -ILLER 2IZA -IRTOSKI "AILEY Russell, Thomas Samuels, Shyanne Schindel, Lea StetSON #ORINNE 7AGENKNECHT

(ALEY 7IERZBICKI AND 4AYLOR Zemke.

Seniors: -ASON !LTIZER

Justin Anderson, Nellie Benavidez, Scott Brown, Paul Donovan, Kelsey EtherIDGE "AYLEE (UDGIN +ATELIN *OHNSON !LEXIS +RUSE -ARTIN -C-AHON $AVID -ILLER

$ANIELLE -ISSEL *OSEPHINE -UELLER ,AUREN 0ETERSON

3ADIE 2EINBECK !DARE 3CHOFF ,OGAN 4WIDELL 'LENda Valle, Liam VanDeraa, 3HELBY 7EBORG AND 2YAN 9OUNG

Cory Harrison, (left) director of the Y Camp Merrill Benson in Mount Carroll, accepts $400 from Lee Kraut, Sterling Noon Rotary president. The club donated to the camp to help with scholarships for summer camp. Photo submitted.

Emergency staff webinar planned A webinar designed to assist emergency preparedness professionals to include people with disabilities in emergency planning and drills will be from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Health department and local emergency management agency emergency preparedness staff, local community-based organizations, and those serving people with disabilities are welcome.

Jessica Mitchell, Federal Emergency Management Agency Region V disability integration specialist, will provide information on the concept of wholecommunity planning, why it is important to

include people with disabilities in emergency exercises, and how to plan inclusive exercises. Information on how many people in Illinois have functional needs also will be discussed.

A panel of speakers from agencies serving people with disabilities will discuss specific populations of people with disabilities.

The program is in collaboration with the Great Lakes ADA Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Illinois Department of Public Health, Disability and Health Program.

Go to www.adaconferences.org/Health to register.

National Volunteer Week observed DIXON – Hospice of the Rock River Valley, a United Way agency in Dixon, will recognize its volunteers who provide support, companionship, and dignity to members of the community facing serious and life-limNina iting illness.

Setchell National Volunteer Week is Monday through April 12. “We could not do the work we do without the gifts of time and talent from our hospice volunteers who support our organization and walk with patients and families during the journey at life’s end,� said Nina Setchell, HRRV volunteer coordinator.

HRRV volunteers help the people they serve live every moment of life to the fullest and enable the organizations they work with to achieve their mission in the community.

Most hospice volunteers choose to give their time helping others because

of their own experience with the compassionate care hospice provided to a dying loved one.

They often serve patients and families at the bedside, but they also assist in the office, contribute to educational programs, and provide fundraising support.

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization reports there are an estimated 450,000 hospice volunteers providing more than 21 million hours of service to hospice programs each year.

An estimated 1.65 million patients in the U.S. are cared for by hospice every year.

More than 225 volunteers provide 2,800 hours per year in service to HRRV through direct care or during special projects or events like the Festival of Trees.

For more information on hospice or volunteer opportunities, visit www.hospicerockriver. org<http://www.hospicerockriver.org or call 815-288-3673.

DEANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LISTS UW â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Whitewater WHITEWATER, Wis. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kayla Betz of Sterling graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in BIOLOGY FROM THE 5NIVERSITY of Wisconsin â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Whitewater.

Upper Iowa University

named to the deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s list INCLUDE 0AIGE +NODLE AND #ARLY 7OLF BOTH OF Byron; Sydney Spelde of Dixon, Emily Gardner of Erie, ,ANNON .OBLE OF Oregon, #AMRYN 7ADE OF Rock Falls, AND -AKENZIE 3TERK of Sterling.

Educators of Beauty

&!9%44% )OWA n "RYCE Lumzy of Dixon graduated IN $ECEMBER WITH a Bachelor of Science degree in communication STUDIES FROM 5PPER )OWA 5NIVERSITY

STERLING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Lisa Bopes and Vanessa NicewanNER BOTH OF Sterling, have graduated from the COSMETOLOGY PROGRAM AT Educators of Beauty.

University of Northern Iowa

Palmer College of Chiropractic

#%$!2 &!,,3 )OWA n Sean Smith of Morrison received a Bachelor of Arts degree in accountING FROM THE 5NIVERSITY of Northern Iowa. Those

$!6%.0/24 )OWA n *AMES 3TEGMAIER OF Dixon, HAS BEEN NAMED to the seventh trimester deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s list AT 0ALMER #OLLEGE OF #HIROPRACTIC

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MCT News Service

The old powder house at Kaymoor measures 20 feet by 19 feet with 1-foot-thick walls in West Virginia’s New River Gorge.

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A trail leads to the mine entrance at Kaymoor No. 1 mine in West Virginia’s New River Gorge.

Colorful Kaymoor

Sandstone cliffs rise above New River Gorge.

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Finding history in West Virginia’s New River Gorge The land was purchased by Low Moor Iron in 1873 when FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. – My the railroad came to the New first on-land visit to historic River Gorge. But Low Moor Kaymoor was before trails kept the site in reserve until existed.

1899. Work on the mines began Friend David Arnold led me that year, and the first coal was on a killer bushwhacking hike shipped in 1900. Kaymoor was in the 1,000-foot-deep New sold in 1925 to the New River River Gorge 30 years ago to get and Pocahontas Consolidated to the old coal camp and take Coal Co. photographs of the mining Kaymoor was a company-run, equipment and infrastructure. bare-bones town. Families It was one of the most visible lived in four-room bungalows. old mining communities along Some had running water and the New River. There was a electricity, but all relied on large coal operation from 1900 privies. to 1962 at what was called KayThere were no churches, moor No. 1 mine. banks, town halls, saloons, Its headhouse near the streetlights or sidewalks. There entrances to the coal seam were company stores and segclung to the gorge’s steep slope. regated schools at the top and This was where coal was loaded bottom, and a theater and tenonto a double-tracked incline nis court. The post office was in to descend 560 feet to the a company store.

MCT News Service tipple, where it would be sorted The company built 50 houses Climbers rest under a steel beam with its suggestion to former coal miners at Kaymoor mines in in 1901, 45 in 1902 and 17 and loaded onto rail cars. Old New River Gorge. buildings, railroad tracks and in 1905 for miners and their coke ovens once sat by the families. Later New Camp was once used this trail. They hiked tors will see the ruins of 202 river. Dave and I and other raft the New River Gorge Bridge. added with 24 houses on the The Kaymoor No. 1 mine pro- down to the mine and at the beehive ovens that were used canyon rim. There was a boardguides floated past Kaymoor duced nearly 17 million tons of end of the day, back up to their to turn coal into coke for on the New River and told our ing house for 15 single miners bituminous coal in its 62 years, homes at the edge of the gorge. iron making. The coal was customers of the town’s colorcosting 55 cents a day. the park service says. No. 2 was Later a single-track mountain removed from the mine by ful history.

In 1923, there were 131 less successful and closed in haulage or car with a steammule-powered rail cars. Later houses at Kaymoor. The town We had started our hike near 1925. powered cable hoisting drum locomotives replaced the the New River Gorge Bridge. It had 560 residents with 140 The National Park Service has was built to connect Kaymoor mules. was cold and icy and the hiking employed in the mine. developed three trail options to Top and Kaymoor Bottom. It The coal was moved to the was not easy. Thickets of vegKaymoor Bottom was largely get to Kaymoor. could haul up to 15 people at a wooden headhouse. That struc- abandoned by 1952 and was hit etation made the cross-gorge I love the historic Kaymoor time. Two miners were killed in ture was built in 1899 and has hike more difficult. Sandstone by a fire in 1960.

Miner’s Trail outside of Faya 1913 haulage accident. collapsed, although its foundacliffs barred our way in some Kaymoor, covering 71 acres, etteville on the canyon’s west Today the mine entrances at tion can still be seen. spots. The slopes were steep. was added to the prestigious rim at a trailhead called Kaywhat’s called Sewell Bench are The coal was lowered 1,000 But we made it the 2 miles.

National Register of Historic sealed off with bars to make feet on a double-tracked gravity Places in 1990.

We inspected the old buildings moor Top, about 60 miles east of Charleston and 4.5 hours sure that no one gets hurt incline along a 30-degree slope at Kaymoor, the dark holes of Today there are two addiinside. to the tipple that sat by the the mine entrances and fading from Akron. tional hiking routes to get to It is a steep hike that drops A warning is painted on a main railroad tracks next to the Kaymoor, but you can’t drive signs encouraging miners to 400 feet in a half mile to reach 28-foot-long steel I-beam beam New River. work safely. there. two mine entrances to the in white letters: Your Family Initially, Kaymoor Bottom Today it is much easier to get There are two fairly level bike Wants You to Work Safely. had 120 coke ovens. More were trails: one begins at the Cunard to Kaymoor, one of the historic Sewell coal seam, and the remains of some of the old Nearby is what’s left of the added during World War I. centerpieces of the New River Access Road, and the second mine’s powder house. It is 20 They were abandoned in the Gorge National River. That des- buildings and equipment. It is begins off Fayette Station Road. the shortest route to Kaymoor, feet by 19 feet with walls of 1930s. ignation covers 53 miles of the It is 6.24 miles one-way from stone a foot thick.

There are the remains of old river and 73,000 acres in south- but not an easy hike. There Cunard to Kaymoor, 2.1 miles are ferns, wildflowers, waterVisitors can then descend 821 houses, mine buildings and central West Virginia. one-way from Fayette Station falls, rock outcroppings, some wooden steps to reach Kayrail sidings. Much of the site is There were actually two KayRoad to Kaymoor. That 2.1long-distance vistas and seven moor Bottom at river level. But overgrown with vegetation. moors at the No. 1 mine: Kaymile route is roughly what I had switchbacks. it is a steep and difficult return Kaymoor – it is sometimes moor Top at the canyon rim hiked 30 years ago.

You can gaze across the gorge climb up those steps. It is just spelled Kay Moor – was started and Kaymoor Bottom by the For park information, contact at the bare sandstone cliffs short of a half mile down and by the Low Moor Iron Co. of river. There were also upper the New River Gorge National known as the Endless Wall. back up.

Low Moor, Va. It employed 800 River, 304-465-0508, www.nps. and lower towns at Kaymoor Hundreds of coal miners At the bottom, park visiminers at its peak.

No. 2, about two miles closer to gov/neri.

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Magician entertains farmers during Rotary banquet ROCK FALLS – The Rock Falls Rotary’s 66th annual Farmers’ Night was March 24.

More than 140 farmers and agri-businessmen gathered at Deer Valley Country Club in Deer Valley for dinner and a pie auction to raise money for youth scholarships.

Entertainment this year was Magic Mike, a Rotarian magician from Rockford. He shared numerous magic tricks with audience participation.

With a tradition that started in 1948, when farmers were numerous and city businesses were small, it was a way of uniting the two employments of the community, both dependent upon

each other. Although farms have changed over these 66 years, as have the businesses of Rock Falls, the purpose remains the same, to show the unity of city and rural businesses of local communities. The chairman of the event is Keith Zoeller.

Julie Dodd, the March Rotary Rock Falls Student of the Month; Krits, the inbound Rotary Exchange student from Thailand; and Tess Schafer, the 2014-15 outbound student, who will spend next school year in Denmark, were introduced by Bob Sondgertoth, club president.

Silver Level sponsors include Johnson Oil Co., The Cornerstone Agency, and Vern’s Farm Sup-

Magic Mike Winters, a magician from Rockford, entertained the crowd March 24 at the Rock Falls Rotary annual Farmers’ Night at Deer Valley Golf Club in Deer Grove. He was assisted by Krits, the Rotary Exchange student from Thailand, and Julie Dodd, March Student of the Month. Photo submitted by Betty Clementz. ply. Bronze Level spon- Community State Bank, Gold Star FS, Hawkins- Sauk Valley Bank, Stersors are Alton Irrigation, Country Financial, 1 st Cassens Insurance, Pete ling Federal Bank, and Birkey’s Farm Store, Farm Credit Services, Harkness Auto Group, Zoeller Ag Services.

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Superintendent Greg Lutyens (from left) and East-Coloma-Nelson Principal David Chavira receive copies of “Rescue Kitty” from Rotarians Betty Clementz and Pam Erby. It was written by Brenda Fiorini of Rock Falls (not pictured). The book, published through money from Granny Rose Animal Shelter in Dixon, shares humane treatment of animals and the need for providing homes to abandoned pets. Copies, along with a read-a-long CD, will be delivered to all first-grade classrooms in Whiteside County, along with a teacher’s guide of activities. Copies also are being prepared for delivery to Lee and Ogle counties. Photos submitted by Betty Clementz.

Rock Falls Rotarian Brent Martin distributed a dictionary and pencil to students in third grade at Montmorency School in Rock Falls, through a project of the Rock Falls Rotary Literacy Committee. The goal is to promote and support successful communication and literacy skills.

‘True Grit’ featured book for April DIXON – The Dixon Public Library Book Group will read “True Grit,” by Charles Portis, this month.

New books at the library, 221 S. Hennepin Ave., are: Fiction: “You Should Have Known,” by Jean Korelitz; “Single by Saturday,” by Catherine Bybee; “Missing You,” by Harlan Coben; “Gemini,” by Carol Cassella; “Long Man,” by Amy Greene; “Somerset,” by Leila Meacham; “The Third Hill North of Town,” by Noah Bly; “Somewhere in France,” by Jennifer Robson; “The Consequences,” by Colette Freedman; “Above,” by Isla Morley; “The Wind Is Not a River,” by Brian Payton; “Mercy Snow,”

by Tiffany Baker; “Savage Girl,” by Jean Zimmerman, “Revolutionary,” by Alex Myers; “The Black-Eyed Blonde,” by Benjamin Black; “The Auschwitz Escape,” by Joel Rsoenberg; “Four Friends,”

by Robyn Carr; “Notorious,” by Allison Brennan; “Without Warning,” by David Rosen-

es,” by Joyce Magnin; “A Hidden Truth,” by Judith Miller; “Take This Cup,” by Bodie and Brock Thoene; “For Every Season,”

by Cindy Woodsmall; and “The Shepherd’s Song,” by Betsy Duffey and Laurie Myers.

Westerns: “The Omaha Trail,” by Ralph Compton; “Silver City Massacre,” by Charles West; “While Angels Dance,” by Ralph Cotton; “Flintlock,” by William Johnstone; “The Poacher’s Daughter,”

by Michael Zimmer; and “Buckskin Border,”

by Les Savage Jr. Science Fiction-Fantasy: “Raising Steam,”

by Terry Pratchett.

Large print: “Bleeding Edge,” by Thomas Pynchon; “Orfeo,” by Richard Powers; “The Black-Eyed Blonde,”

by Benjamin Black; “ Death of a Policeman,”

by M.C. Beaton; and “North of Boston,” by Elisabeth Elo. Go to www.dixonpubliclibrary.or or the new books list at the library to see the nonfiction titles.

ACT OF HEROISM AWARD Dylan Brumbly of Dixon received the Act of Heroism Award during the March 9 Blackhawk Area Council Recognition Dinner in Rockford.

While on his way to a troop meeting Oct. 7, he made a stop at McDonald’s in Dixon.

After entering the restaurant, he noticed a woman in distress.

After determining she was not choking, but having a hard time breathing, Brumbly, with the help of his father and a restaurant employee, took the woman outside to help her breathe. He remembered he had an albuterol inhaler in his father’s vehicle and retrieved it. After a few attempts to get the elderly woman to inhale some of the albuterol, the woman’s breathing began to calm down.

Although she was not taken to the hospital, she later went to the doctor and was informed that the incident was caused by an unknown heart condition.

RNA helps out Happy Tails PROPHETSTOWN – Prophetstown Chapter 516 Royal Neighbors of America members brought and donated items for Happy Tails animal shelter in Rock Falls during their March 18 meeting.

A letter from the shelter, stating that more than 300 animals were saved last year, was read.

felt; “Precious Thing,”

by Colette McBeth; “The Midnight Witch,”

by Paula Brackston; “NYPD Red 2,” by James Patterson and Marshall Karp; “Tempting Fate,” by Jane Green; “Waking the Dead,” by Heather Graham; “Blossom Street Brides,” by Debbie Macomber; “The Forever Girl,” by Alexander M. Smith; “Dept. of Speculation,” by Jenny Offill; “The Headmaster’s Wife,” by Thomas Greene; “Shadow Spell,” by Nora Roberts; “Children of the Revolution,” by Peter Robinson; “The Promise,” by Ann Weisgarber; “Trouble in Mind,”

by Jeffery Deaver; and “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry,” by Gabrielle Zevin.

Mysteries: “Death on Blackheath,” by Anne Perry; “The Alpine Yeoman,” by Mary Daheim; “Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line,” by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham; and “Killer Physique,”

by G.A. McKevett.

Christian Fiction: “Maybelle in Stitch-

In other business, a motion was made to make a donation to Prophetstown Good Samaritan Nursing Home for its newly-remodeled dining area. The estimated cost for the project is $25,000.

It also was decided to plant flowers May 3 at the nursing home for a Join Hands Day Event.

Members will help

serve at Pat’s Table as a service project for the community, no date was announced.

Those at the meeting were Kathy Raser, Anna Mae Johnson, Anita Stickel, Mary Sue Church, Alice Manon, Betty Dennis, Esther Kuelper, Connie Murphy, Glady’s Swanson, Donna Brooks, and Terry Gaskill.

Photo submitted by Angie Brumbly

Deadline for submitting copy is 2 weeks The deadline to submit event information, including photos, for the SV Weekend Community pages is at 2 weeks before the event.

Information may be submitted in writing by

hand, mail, fax or email at the Dixon or Sterling offices.

Information on events that already have taken place will be published as soon as possible, in the order in which it is

received. Given the volume of such information, that could be 2 weeks or more after the event.

Photos will be published as space permits.

For information, call 800-798-4085, ext. 5575.

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SAUK VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE’S 30TH ANNUAL CHILDREN’S FAIR

Photos by Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com

ABOVE: Myiah Shinabarger, 3, of Dixon, jumps over a ladder as she has fun at Sauk Valley Community College’s Children’s Fair on March 29. This was the 30th year for the event. TOP-LEFT: Rock Falls firefighter Derick Newton talks to kids about the fire truck and other pieces of equipment that are used by firefighters. The Children’s Fair at SVCC featured a variety of activities and events for kids to enjoy. ABOVE-LEFT: Rachel Lance, 5, of Dixon colors a “Cat in the Hat” coloring page at the fair. The free event had a Dr. Suess theme and the college’s theater department performed the popular play in the school’s auditorium.

ABOVE: Joziah Monarrez, 4, of Rock Falls, aims a rubber band gun at a target at the Cub Scouts’ and Boy Scouts’ booth at the fair.

RIGHT: Knox Chesnut, 3, of Polo sits in the front seat of the Rock Falls Fire Department’s ladder truck at Sauk Valley Community College. Among the many activities for children was a petting zoo sponsored by the University of Illinois Extension.

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IS YOUR PET MISSING? Read our found section in todays paper. Just in case it is not there, call one of your area animal shelters listed below: Lee County Animal Control (815)284-3833 Granny Rose Animal Shelter (815)288-7387 Whiteside County Animal Control (815)625-3507 Happy Tails Humane Society (815)626-2994 A public service of Sauk Valley Media

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CASA 15th Judicial Circuit (Lee/ Carroll/Ogle Counties) is seeking volunteers to advocate for children in the court system involved in abuse and neglect cases.

Your involvement can impact a child’s future.

Contact Vanessa White, Director of Advocate Services (815) 288-1901 www.casalee carroll.com The Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home seeks volunteer story tellers.

If you love public speaking and can weave a story that inspires emotion within your audience, we need you!

When you host guests in our visitors center or while touring the Reagan Home the stage is yours.

Enhance your job and school applications while developing skills with hands on experience you gain as a volunteer!

Visit reaganhome.org or call 815-2885176 to apply.

REAL ESTATE 202 SERVICES PUBLISHER'S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference , limitation or discrimination based on race, color,religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law.

Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800-669-9777.

The toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-279275.

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Tax Deed No.14-TX-21 Filed 3/28/2014 TAKE NOTICE

CERTIFICATE NO. # 2010-00465 TO: COUNTY CLERK OF WHITESIDE COUNTY; Alicia Murphy; IH Mississippi Valley Credit Union; Target National Bank; PHH Mortgage Corporation c/o Illinois Corporation Service Co.; Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property, Unknown owners or parties interested in said land or lots.

A Petition for Tax Deed on premise described below has been filed in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois as Case No. 14-TX-21. The property is Located At: 12490 Spring Hill Rd., Prophetstown.

Legal Description or P.I. No.: 20-14-400005.

Said property was sold on 11/2/2011 for delinquent taxes for the year 2010.

The period of redemption will expire on August 14, 2014.

On 8/26/2014 at 9:00 AM the petitioner will make application to such court in said county for an Order for Tax Deed, should the real estate not be redeemed.

Kathleen M. Hollonbeck, Petitioner April 3, 4, 5, 2014

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON ROAD DISTRICT BUDGET Notice is hereby given that a tentative budget and appropriation ordinance for Road Purposes of the Tampico Road District, in the County of Whiteside, State of Illinois, for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2014, and ending March 31, 2015, will be on file and conveniently available to public inspection at 107 W. 2nd St. from and after 5 o' clock P.M. Friday April 11, 2014.

Notice is further given that a public hearing on said budget and appropriation ordinance will be held at 7:00 o'clock, P.M. Wednesday, May 14, 2014, at 202 W. 2nd St. in this Tampico Road District and that final hearing and action on this ordinance will be taken at a meeting to be held at Tampico Township Office at 7:15 o'clock P.M., Wednesday, May 14, 2014.

April 5, 2014

Tom Fritsch, Clerk Greg Forward, Supervisor

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON TOWNSHIP BUDGET Notice is hereby given that a tentative budget and appropriation ordinance for the Township of Tampico in the County of Whiteside, State of Illinois. For the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2014, and ending March 31, 2015, will be on file and conveniently available to public inspection at 107 W. 2nd St. from and after 5 o' clock P.M. Friday April 11, 2014.

Notice is further given that a public hearing on said budget and appropriation ordinance will be held at 7:00 o'clock, P.M. Wednesday, May 14, 2014, at 202 W. 2nd St. in this Town and that final hearing and action on this ordinance will be taken at a meeting to be held at Tampico Township Office at 7:15 o'clock P.M., on Wednesday, May 14, 2014.

Greg Forward, Supervisor Tom Fritsch, Clerk

April 5, 2014 Tax Deed No. 14-TX-19 Filed 3/28/2014

Tax Deed No. 14-TX-18 Filed 3/28/2014

TAKE NOTICE

TAKE NOTICE

CERTIFICATE NO. # 2010-00281

CERTIFICATE NO. # 2010-00105 TO: COUNTY CLERK OF WHITESIDE COUNTY; Fritz H. Null; Michael B. Null; Midland Funding, LLC c/o Illinois Corporation Service Co.; Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property, Unknown owners or parties interested in said land or lots.

A Petition for Tax Deed on premise described below has been filed in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois as Case No. 14-TX-18. The property is Located At: 406 Ash Ave., Morrison, IL 61270.

Legal Description or P.I. No.: 09-18-479011.

Said property was sold on 11/2/2011 for delinquent taxes for the year 2010.

The period of redemption will expire on August 14, 2014.

On 8/26/2014 at 9:00 AM the petitioner will make application to such court in said county for an Order for Tax Deed, should the real estate not be redeemed.

Kathleen M. Hollonbeck, Petitioner April 3, 4, 5, 2014 Tax Deed No.14-TX-20 Filed 3/28/2014 TAKE NOTICE CERTIFICATE NO. # 2010-00437 TO: COUNTY CLERK OF WHITESIDE COUNTY; Gillis P. Abney; Nancy L. Abney; Judy C. Powell; Illinois Department of Revenue; Illinois Department of Revenue Brian Hamer, Director; IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan; Arrow Financial Services LLC c/o Illinois Corporation Service Co.; Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property, Unknown owners or parties interested in said land or lots.

A Petition for Tax Deed on premise described below has been filed in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois as Case No. 14-TX-20. The property is Located At: 11302 McNeil Rd., Rock Falls.

Legal Description or P.I. No.: 17-02-327015.

Said property was sold on 11/2/2011 for delinquent taxes for the year 2010.

The period of redemption will expire on August 14, 2014.

On 8/26/2014 at 9:00 AM the petitioner will make application to such court in said county for an Order for Tax Deed, should the real estate not be redeemed.

Kathleen M. Hollonbeck, Petitioner April 3, 4, 5, 2014 Tax Deed No. 14-TX-17 Filed 3/28/2014 TAKE NOTICE CERTIFICATE NO. # 2010-00019 TO: COUNTY CLERK OF WHITESIDE COUNTY; Zendel Zendeli; Arzija Zendeli; First Central State Bank; Midland Funding LLC c/o IL Corporation Service, Registered Agent; IL Department of Employment Security; IL Department of Revenue Lien Unit; IL Department of Revenue; IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan; U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS; U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; US Attorney Zachary Fardon; Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property, Unknown owners or parties interested in said land or lots.

A Petition for Tax Deed on premise described below has been filed in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois as Case No. 14-TX-17. The property is Located At: 1002 13th Ave., Fulton.

Legal Description or P.I. No.: 01-28-405001.

TO: COUNTY CLERK OF WHITESIDE COUNTY; Melvin C. Unger; Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property, Unknown owners or parties interested in said land or lots.

A Petition for Tax Deed on premise described below has been filed in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois as Case No. 14-TX-19. The property is Located At: 207 Ave. D, Rock Falls.

Legal Description or P.I. No.: 11-27-128004.

Said property was sold on 11/2/2011 for delinquent taxes for the year 2010.

The period of redemption will expire on August 14, 2014.

On 8/26/2014 at 9:00 AM the petitioner will make application to such court in said county for an Order for Tax Deed, should the real estate not be redeemed.

NOTICE Hopkins Township incorrectly posted the Annual Town Meeting Dates state statute require second Tuesday of April.

Hopkins Annual Town Meeting will be held April 8 at 7:00 p.m.

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Kathleen M. Hollonbeck, Petitioner April 3, 4, 5, 2014 Jordan Township and Road District 2013 Annual Treasurer's Report CORPORATE Town Fund Beg. Bal. Jan. 1, 2013 $69,762.53 Income $80,434.48 Expenditures $62,101.06 Ending Bal. Dec. 31, 2013 $88,095.95 Gen. Assist. Fund Beg. Bal. Jan. 1, 2013 $13,413.16 Income $1,063.36 Expenditures $1,218.07 Ending Bal. Dec. 31, 2013 $13,258.45 Corp. Ins./Tort Fund Beg. Bal. Jan. 1, 2013 $8,495.24 Income $3,884.18 Expenditures $3,296.00 Ending Bal. Dec. 31, 2013 $9,083.42 ROAD DISTRICT Road & Bridge Fund $57,641.34 Beg. Bal. Jan. 1, 2013 Income $58,919.06 Expenditures $90,237.63 Ending Bal. Dec. 31, 2013 $26,322.77 Spec. Rd & Bridge Fund Beg. Bal. Jan. 1, 2013 $29,708.70 Income $5,600.56 Expenditures $ 800.00 Ending Bal. Dec. 31, 2013 $34,509.26 Permanent Road Fund Beg. Bal. Jan. 1, 2013 $28,125.94 Income $30,920.97 Expenditures $32,197.40 Ending Bal. Dec. 31, 2013 $26,849.51 Bldg. & Equip. Fund Beg. Bal. Jan. 1, 2013 $27,681.53 Income $20,629.83 $36,216.84 Expenditures Ending Bal. Dec. 31, 2013 $12,094.52 Rd & Bridge Tort Fund Beg. Bal. Jan. 1, 2013 $ 4,461.96 $ 5,061.17 Income Expenditures $ 4,195.00 Ending Bal. Dec. 31, 2013 $ 5,328.13 Town Fund: Payments to vendors totaling more than $2500: Camps Concrete and Steel Buildings $6050.00; Frary Lumber $2652.92; TOIRMA $3470.75; US Treasury $13,071.82; Randy Engelbarts $3510.00 Officials & employees earning over $25,000.00: Kerry Carbaugh $31,320.00 Officials and employees earning under $25,000: Allen R. Shank, Cindy Book, Leonard Long, David Hinrichs, Dale Pfundstein, Randy Clodfelter, Sasan Williams Road & Bridge Fund: Payments to vendors over $2500.00: Alliance Materials $17613.54; Meiner Repairs $3345.48 TOIRMA $4195.00; U.S Bank $6651.90; Gold Star $11634.20; Monroe Truck Equipment $6527.00; Ogle County $20000.00;Whiteside County Treasurer $57351.88 Nadermann Development $8200.00; Environmental Rd. Solutions $8503.04 CONMAT $5335.70 Officials & employees earning under $25,000.00: Dean Book, Cliff Pfundstein

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On 8/26/2014 at 9:00 AM the petitioner will make application to such court in said county for an Order for Tax Deed, should the real estate not be redeemed.

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AREA GARAGE SALES 624 DIXON GARAGE SALES 624 Fri. & Sat. 8 – 1 521 N. Dement Girls clothes 4-8, boys 4-10, baby clothes, household & misc., 2 prom dresses & a wedding dress, various furniture Sat. Only 9 am – 2 pm 1104 University Furniture, tools, books, patio furniture, lawn fixtures, washer, lots of misc. ✯ SATURDAY ✯ ✯✯ ONLY ✯✯ 8am-1pm 532 Vitale St. (off 4th Ave., near Jefferson School) Pool table with auto ball return & access., B&D cordless drill, brand new tool belts, home improvement instruction books, DHS grad. party decorations, children's books, lamps, frames, pictures, 19” color TV, toys, Longaberger baskets, collectibles, antique wood desk chair, ornate inlaid wood table with marble top & 2 drawers, lots of misc. Rain or shine

POLO GARAGE SALES 624 ESTATE SALE 505 N. Thomas Ave., Polo Sat. April 5th 8am-4pm, Sun. April 6th 10am-4pm Living room sets, dining room tables and chairs, complete bedroom set, computer desks, heavy duty shelves, 3-wheeled bicycle & others, musical instruments, old 78 records, Longaberger, wooden ironing boards, misc. kitchen items & much more!

ROCK FALLS GARAGE SALES 624 Saturday 7-12 616 5th Avenue Antique desk, 4 chairs, side table, sm. appliances, old bench, curtains, linens, Christian books and home décor. All clothing 25¢ each.

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Commons at SHS WANTED: Garage Salers!

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Bookkeeper Needed Successful candidate should have general knowledge of Accounts receivable, Accounts payable, payroll accounts and end of monthly reports.

Monday thru Friday, Hours may vary. Please send resumes to;

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or stop by 1101 Middle Road, Dixon, for an application. No phone calls please.

Christian Care Ministry is seeking to fill the position of Medical Bill Analyst in our Rock Falls; Office. This position is full-time and involves processing medical bills for payment.

Evening or weekend hours are not typically required.

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Farm Equipment Operator Full time position operating 4 wheel drive and tracked farm tractors.

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M & R Farms, 815288-3136.

First Federal Savings Bank is seeking an energetic individual for a Fulltime Customer Service Representative position. Duties include teller work, opening new accounts and phone marketing.

This position is available at our Rock Falls Office.

Apply online at www.ffsbweb.com or email resume to mmulinazzi@ ffsbweb.com.

Granny Rose Animal Shelter Kennel Help Wanted Summer weekend kennel person wanted. Must be at least 18 years of age and have experience with dog care. Some heavy duty work with pressure washer and maintenance as required. Applications will only be accepted on Tuesday, April 8 and Wednesday, April 9. No phone calls please.

Apply at Granny Rose Animal Shelter, 613 River Lane, Dixon, IL.

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Foster Care Worker Full time foster care caseworker position available at the Youth Service Bureau of Illinois Valley.

B.A. In human services with 2 years experience in human services required.

Salaried position with excellent benefits. Travel to Rock Falls, Sterling, Dixon and surrounding area necessary.

Send resume to: Youth Service Bureau of Illinois Valley, Attn: HR, 424 W. Madison St., Ottawa, IL 61350 or email resume to: hrs@ysbiv.org Place the word resume in the subject line.

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HVP VENDING Hiring Full Time Route Driver Sales Person Qualifications/ Requirements High School Diploma or GED Able to pass physical/Drug Screen Have excellent driving record Send Resume: HVP Vending P.O. Box 382 Morrison, IL 61270 Or Apply: HVP Vending 409 East Main St, Morrison, IL. 61270 815-772-4035 LEE COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT Seeking Civil Engineer with IL P.E. license or ability to obtain one within two years.

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LOCAL ROUTE DRIVER NEEDED Home every night. Class A preferred but Class B considered. Up to $16 per hour to start.

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NOW HIRING DRIVERS Local 60 hour/ 7day company.

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Benefits include company uniforms with laundry service, health reimbursement and profit sharing.

Please apply in person (by appointment only Monday- Friday 7:30am 5pm) or send a resume to: Bryan's Repair Inc, 117 N Stanton St, Shannon, IL 61078 (815) 8642497.

NOW HIRING We currently have two opportunities available: Security Camera and Home Theater Installer Installation of security cameras and home theater systems. Successful candidate must have advanced knowledge of computers, networking, programming and be able to travel.

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Introduction Although full-size trucks dominate the pickup kingdom, there’s also a small but stable population of midsize trucks like the 2014 Nissan Frontier. Along with its rivals, the versatile Frontier is aimed at shoppers who don’t require maximum towing and hauling abilities -- and don’t want to pay extra for a truck that has more than they need.

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The 2014 Nissan Frontier is a solid pick for a midsize pickup truck. pound trailer, the Nissan Frontier can take on most any truck-related task. The base S model will serve small business owners well as a light-duty work truck, while the Frontier Pro-4X is one of the most capable and entertaining offroad vehicles on the market. In addition, you can equip Nissan’s midsize truck with features like moveable cargo tie-downs, a spray-in bedliner and a sliding bed extender that enhance its utility.

Along with all that, the Frontier is surprisingly comfortable as a daily driver. Although it’s starting to feel dated on the inside, Nissan has added amenities like a rearview camera and, for 2014, smartphone app integration and voice control to help modernize it.

However, the Frontier hasn’t received a major overhaul since 2005, and compared with newer trucks, it feels pretty rudimentary.

Drive it on a road with tight turns, and you can’t ignore its slow steering and low handling limits -- typical hallmarks of an old-school truck. In addition, if you’re considering the Frontier alongside its main rival, the 2014 Toyota Tacoma, you’ll notice that Nissan doesn’t offer a regular cab body style. On the opposite side

On two-wheel-drive (2WD) King Cabs with a manual transmission, the entry-level S trim level includes 15-inch steel wheels, rear privacy glass, front bucket seats (with a flat-folding front-passenger seat) and cloth upholstery. Automatic transmission-equipped S King Cabs also come with air-conditioning, cruise control, steering wheel audio controls, Bluetooth phone connectivity, and a four-speaker sound system with a CD player and auxiliary input; these items can be added to the manual version via the S Preferred package (late availability). Meanwhile, S crew cabs add the V6 engine, 16-inch steel wheels, a sliding rear window and a six-speaker audio system as Body Styles, Trim Levels, and standard.

Options Stepping up to the SV trim level The 2014 Nissan Frontier is a gets you all of the above (though compact-to-midsize pickup truck the V6 engine is optional on SV that’s offered in extended cab King Cabs), along with 16-inch (known as the King Cab) and crew alloy wheels, keyless entry, full cab body styles. King Cab models power accessories, a tilt-adjustable come with fold-down rear jump steering wheel, satellite radio with seats and a 6.1-foot cargo bed, while a 4.3-inch color display, a USB/ crew cab versions get a 60/40-split iPod integration, satellite radio and folding rear bench and a choice of a an additional 12-volt power outlet. standard 5-foot or optional 6.1-foot Options for the SV ( V6 model) bed. There are also five trim levels include a Value Truck package that available: S, SV, Desert Runner, Pro- adds foglights, rear parking sensors, 4X and SL. a rearview camera, a sliding bed of the spectrum, you’ll likely find the Frontier crew cab’s backseat smaller and less comfortable than the roomier quarters in the Tacoma Double Cab. If rear-seat space is truly a priority, the carlike 2014 Honda Ridgeline is also worth considering, though in most respects, it’s not as capable as the others. And come 2015, the midsize truck class will get significantly more competitive when General Motors rolls out its new-generation 2015 Chevrolet Colorado. For now, though, the 2014 Nissan Frontier remains a very viable midsize pickup choice, especially if off-road capability is on your must-have list.

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