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STATE BUDGET | EDUCATION FUNDING

State restores $97 million of cuts How is your district faring?

How much did your school district lose in the cuts to education funding proposed

by Gov. Bruce Rauner? How much will it regain, if anything, with the restoration of some of that funding? Page A4

Sauk Valley superintendents struggle with uncertainty

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

Nearly 600 of the 800 Illinois school districts will have $97 million in state funding restored after a budget deal brokered

last month between Gov. Bruce Rauner and legislative leaders cut money for education, with about one-third going to Chicago schools and the rest scattered among the other districts.

But even with millions coming back to schools across the state,

it will not make up for a 2.25 percent across-the-board budget cut that included education. And school officials still have to worry about more funding problems as the state continues to grapple with an ongoing budget crisis that may prompt more budget

cuts in the next fiscal year.

Districts took a big hit to their budgets before this school year even started, as the foundation level for per pupil funding has dropped to 89 percent.

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DIXON PUBLIC LIBRARY | RENOVATIONS

CRUNDWELL CASE

New chapter for old building

Theft now a part of collegiate courses Accounting students at DePaul, NIU learn from Crundwell crime

BY MATT MENCARINI news@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5501

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Roof repairs on the Dixon Public Library continued Thursday. The library is undergoing its first major work in more than 30 years. The tile roof has been repaired, and was being sealed Thursday.

$1.5 million in renovation work will take all summer

BY KATHLEEN A. SCHULTZ kschultz@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5535 @KathleenSchul10

DIXON – The Dixon Public Library is overdue: It’s been more than 30 years since any major work on the structure has been done.

Now, though, work is underway to strengthen the bones of the turn-of-thecentury stone building and its 45-yearold addition, thanks to $1.2 million in Rita Crundwell recovery money from the city and $300,000 more from the library trust fund, library Director Lynn Roe said.

Without that big infusion from the city, such a comprehensive update would not be possible, Roe said. The trust fund, made up of donations, was the library’s sole source of maintenance money before now – property tax revenue covers only salaries and insurance, Roe said.

“It was a generous decision on their part, and we’re truly thankful; otherwise, we wouldn’t have been able to get this much done,” she said.

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DIXON – College students across the country are learning from mistakes made in Dixon.

Former Comptroller Rita Crundwell’s April 17, 2012, arrest for the theft of nearly $54 million over 2 decades made national and interRita national news. The Crundwell city is still feeling its effects as recovery money trickles in and the city works to switch from a commission form of government to a managerial form.

The theft and the case now are being taught in some accounting and forensic accounting classes at DePaul and Northern Illinois universities, in addition to others around the U.S. Mayor Jim Burke said that in the weeks and months after the arrest, municipalities around the state and country reviewed their own internal controls for vulnerability to theft.

“I think it’s a positive thing, actually,” he said of the theft being a classroom example. “As far as the city is considered, it is what it is. Nothing’s going to change that.”

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Our opinion In the Lincoln Room at Dixon Public Library, a gathering of busts and statues will remain safe from the chaos of renovations. About $1.5 million in work is expected to be done over the next 4 months, including the replacement of 106 windows in the aging building.

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Friday was the 3-year anniversary of Rita Crundwell’s arrest. Things looked a lot brighter in Dixon on Friday than they did on April 17, 2012. Page A6

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Kelly Richmond Pope is an associate professor in DePaul’s accountancy department. She focuses her research on whitecollar crimes and embezzlement.

She took an interest in the case almost immediately, and as early as July 2012, less than 3 months after the arrest, was discussing making a film documentary.

Pope recently teamed up with Chicago-based Kartemquin Films to complete the documentary, which, Pope said, features interviews with Burke and City Clerk Kathe Swanson. It will focus less on Crundwell and more on the theft’s impact and Swanson’s role as the whistleblower.

“I think it’s going to be such an important case for municipalities, and really for municipalities and workers, but also the residents,” she said. “It’s sort of saying that if it can happen in Dixon, it can happen anywhere.”

In April 2014, Pope participated in a debate in Chicago with Devon Bruce, the attorney who repre-

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sented the city in its lawsuit against its former auditors and bank. They discussed an auditor’s responsibility to find fraud.

That debate is now an e-case for colleges and universities, distributed through Helios Digital Learning, an education media company Pope cofounded.

From a teaching perspective, Pope said, she wanted something visual because millennial learners are more engaged when you offer a video. And as an entrepreneur, she said, she wanted to create more engaging content.

And for that, Pope said, “this is the perfect case.”

She said the e-case is being used in classrooms at DePaul, NIU, Wake Forest University, and the University of Washington.

Among the college professors who have used Pope’s e-case in the classroom is Chih-Chen Lee, a professor in NIU’s accountancy department.

Lee, who teaches classes on forensic accounting and fraud, uses the Crundwell case when she introduces topics of employee fraud and embezzlement.

For that purpose, Lee said, Crundwell’s theft is

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a “classic, textbook case” because she started small and carried the theft out for many years.

But that’s not the only reason Lee uses it.

“It’s more recent, and it’s very famous, and it happened in our neighborhood,” she said. “It’s also been shown in [CNBC’s] ‘American Greed.’ I asked my students to watch that. ... And also watch the debate and discuss it in class.”

During the Chicago debate, Bruce showed evidence from the civil lawsuit, which included the fake invoice and checks Crundwell wrote, some of which included typos and other mistakes.

“Students are fascinated by ... how obvious some of the red flags were,” Lee said, adding that auditors drove on the roads that, according to the audit materials, Crundwell fictiously said were involved in road work.

Crundwell stole much of the money by creating more than 179 fraudulent invoices purportedly from the Illinois Department of Transportation to the city.

Lee said the teaching moment for her students is that audits, which pro-

vide “reasonable assurance” that the money is there, shouldn’t simply be done by a checklist.

“They should actually pay attention to some small red flags and put things together,” she said.

That notion is what Pope said she tried to emphasize in the documentary, which will be titled “All The Queen’s Horses.”

(Crundwell was a nationally renowned owner of competition quarter horses.)

Pope said if auditors, employees or citizens see something suspicious, they should say something.

“Kathe was merely just doing her job, and she discovered this massive fraud,” Pope said. “...

Doing your job is how you can find something like this.”

Pope said she hadn’t reached out to Crundwell, who is serving a sentence of 19 years, 7 months at a federal prison in Waseca, Minnesota. She said she doesn’t think Crundwell could justify the crime and didn’t want to increase the public anger against her.

“I wonder what she would add to the documentary,” Pope said “...

I really don’t know she’d tell us.”

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Randy L. Miller, 39, of Clinton, Iowa; April 11; speeding; given citation.

Angela M. Altenhoff, 44, of Morrison; April 11; no parking, 2:30-6 a.m., central business district; given citation.

Robert D. Wilson, 33, of Morrison; April 11; reckless driving, failure to properly secure child less than 8 years of age; given citation.

Ronald Mitchell, age unavailable, of Sandwich; April 12; no parking, 2:30-6

Ogle County Sheriff Jamie Mancillas, 39, of Rochelle; Thursday; five warrants – failure to report address change, driving while license suspended, petition to revoke probation, failure to appear, contempt of court; given notice to appear in court.

Nicole Wilson, 33, of Dixon; Friday; warrant for failure to appear; given notice to appear in court.

BIRTHDAYS Happy birthday to Mary Temiquel, Chris O’Rourke, Carlene Masters, Rilee Sanders, Helen Spencer, Chrystal Hendryx, Ron Bontz, Bonnie Pyron, Jennifer Adams, and Andrea Mills, all on Saturday.

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WEEKEND FEATURE | DIXON HIGH SCHOOL

Success drives Dixon brothers One teen wins RC races, the other has busy computer business

BY JERMAINE PIGEE jpigee@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5525 @JPigee84

DIXON – At just 14 years old, Jared Wiggins races electric and nitro buggies and he competes with grown men twice his age.

Despite that, Wiggins, a freshman at Dixon High School, never shows any intimidation when he is one of the youngest people at an event.

“It just makes it that much better when I beat them,” Wiggins said with a laugh.

Jared’s brother, Justin, 16, is just as confident about his work. He owns his own computer business.

“Anything with technology, I can do better than anyone else,” he said.

These two brothers are different, but they are both successful.

Once they are dismissed from class, Jared runs to his garage to work on his buggies, while Justin runs to his basement and repairs computers and other electronics.

“This is better than having kids come home and sit in front of the TV and play video games all day,” said Jim Wiggins, the boys’ father. “I told them to find something they love and make it work.

They come home from school and start working.”

Since he was 10, Jared has been racing radio controlled, battery powered and nitro fuel-powered buggies, which are basically high-powered, remote-controlled cars.

“Everything comes unassembled, and I build the cars myself,” Jared said.

He runs them on dirt tracks during competitions. He has competed in more than 40 races throughout his young career.

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Justin Wiggins, 16, operates his business, Wiggins Computing, from the basement of his family’s Dixon home. “Most of the jobs that I do are either tune-ups or I remove junk from people’s computer,” the Dixon High School sophomore said.

If he needs to work on a turn or an obstacle, he can go in his backyard and practice on a lighted dirt track, which he created with the help of his dad.

The track is between 10 to 15 feet wide and it takes up more than 11,000 square feet of land. The track also has tight twists and turns, jumps, and other obstacles similar to those Jared might encounter in competitions.

Jared has two main cars he races and other practice cars. Each car takes 8 to 10 hours to build, and they weigh more than 7 pounds. Each car can reach speeds up to 70 mph.

Jared has raced his cars nationwide, including in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, California and Pennsylvania.

He recently competed in the regional Chi-Town Shootout, a radio-controlled racing competition in Joliet. He joined more than 350 entries, and he earned three second-place finishes and

ABOVE: Jared Wiggins has been racing radio controlled cars since he was 10 years old. Now 14, the Dixon High School freshman is competing against other racers who are twice his age, or more. “It just makes it that much better when I beat them,” Jared said. TOP LEFT: Jared is able to practice with his cars on an 11,000-plus-square-foot track that he and his dad created in their backyard. TOP RIGHT: A basement room in the Wiggins’ home in Dixon is full of computers, keyboards, tablets, cameras, and modems that Justin uses for his business, Wiggins Computing.

On his backyard track, Jared is able to work on tight twists and turns, jumps, and obstacles similar to the challenges he faces during competitions. one fourth-place finish.

Next for Jared is a national event in June, which takes places in Chico, California. If he is able to place in the top 40, he will compete in the world championships, which take place in Las Vegas in 2016.

Justin operates his busi-

ness, Wiggins Computing, in the basement of his parents’ home. Computers, tablets, cameras and modems fill a room tucked downstairs.

Justin has been working with electronics since he was 12.

“Most of the jobs that I do are either tune-ups or

I remove junk from people’s computer,” Justin, a sophomore at DHS, said.

In addition to specializing in computer repair, Justin also has installed a security system and wireless Internet on his parents’ property.

“Working with the schools is how I learned this networking stuff,” Justin said. “I started working with family friends, and it went from there.”

Justin works with businesses all over Dixon, such as Third Street Citgo, Midwest Cement,

and Drive Safe School of Driving.

Working with businesses and private clients keeps him busy.

“I don’t know how much more business I can take on with the time that I have,” Justin said. “I’m busy all the time now.”

Although the brothers are different, Jim said, they get along – for the most part.

“They get along fairly decent,” he said. “When they come together, there are issues at times, but they are brothers.”

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OBITUARIES FUNERAL SERVICES FOR THE WEEK

Marian Devine STERLING – Marian Devine, 78, of Sterling, died Thursday, April 16, 2015, at Sterling Pavilion Nursing Home.

Marian was born April 11, 1937, in Moline, the daughter of Edwin and Katri (Keto) Panttila. She married Erwin N. Devine on Feb. 13, 1960, in Sycamore. He preceded her in death on July 30, 2008.

Marian worked for 25 years at Eagle’s grocery store in Sterling. She enjoyed bowling, gardening, watching movies, and playing cards.

Marian was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Sterling.

Su r v i v o r s i n c l u d e one son, Mark (Susan) Devine of Ashburn, Virginia; three daughters, Mary Kay Devine of Rock

Falls, Theresa Devine of Sterling, and Nancy (Peter) Fries of Virginia Beach, Virginia; one sister, Judith (Tom) Crowell of Kingwood, Texas; and four grandchildren, Mar y Grace Fries, Peter Fries, Keri Devine, and Michael Devine.

She also was preceded in death by her parents.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at McDonald Funeral Home, 1002 12th Ave., Rock Falls. Celebration of the Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary Catholic Church, with the Rev. James R. Keenan officiating.

Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery in Sterling.

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Gloria ‘Maxine’ Fenn STERLING – Gloria “Maxine” Fenn, 86, of Sterling, died Thursday, April 16, 2015.

Gloria was born Dec. 17, 1928, in Mount Vernon, the daughter of Kenneth and Clara (Minor) Myers.

She married Benny Fenn on Sept. 14, 1952, in Lee Center.

Survivors include her husband; one daughter, Barbara (Louis) Quick of Sterling; one son, Gary (Tammie) Fenn of West Bloomfield, Michigan; three sisters, Evelyn Bonnell and Jean (Francis) Fogle, both of Dixon, and Connie (Robert) Blanton of Georgia; and five grandchildren.

She was preceded in

death by her parents; one daughter, Gail Fenn, in infancy; and one sister, Wanda Bonnell.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Schilling Funeral Home in Dixon. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Wesley United Methodist Church in Sterling, with the Rev. Wesley Dickson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be at Lee Center Cemetery.

Memorials have been established to Serenity Hospice & Home, Wesley United Methodist Church, and Sterling Municipal Band.

Visit schillingfuneralhome.com to send condolences.

Today’s visitations: Alma A. “Amy” McElhiney of Sterling, formerly of Tampico, 9-10:30 a.m. at Garland Funeral Home in Tampico.

Today’s funerals: Dorothy J. Reins of Sterling, 10 a.m. at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Sterling.

Alma A. “Amy” McElhiney of Sterling, formerly of Tampico, 10:30 a.m. at Garland Funeral Home in Tampico.

Walter J. Janoskey of Dixon, 10 a.m. prayer service at Jones Funeral Home in Dixon, followed by 10;30 a.m. Mass at St. Anne Catholic Church in Dixon.

Gary W. Isom of Dixon, 10:30 a.m. at First Christian Church Disciples of Christ in Dixon.

Carol A. Hadaway of Prophetstown, 11 a.m. memorial service at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls.

Sunday visitations: Gloria “Maxine” Fenn of Sterling, 4-7 p.m. at Schilling Funeral Home in Sterling.

Monday visitations: Lorraine N. Dykema

of Morrison, 9:30-11 a.m. at Ebenezer Reformed Church in Morrison.

Viola M. Parkinson of Morrison, 12:30-2 p.m. at Bosma-Renkes Funeral Home in Morrison.

Marilyn Slifer of Sterling, 5-7 p.m. at Schilling Funeral Home in Sterling.

Monday funerals: Gloria “Maxine” Fenn of Sterling, 10 a.m. at Wesley United Methodist Church in Sterling.

Lorraine N. Dykema of Morrison, 11 a.m. at Ebenezer Reformed Church in Morrison.

Viola M. Parkinson of Morrison, 2 p.m. at Bosma-Renkes Funeral Home in Morrison.

Tuesday visitations: Marian Devine of Sterling, 5-8 p.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls.

Tuesday funerals: Marilyn Slifer of Sterling, 10 a.m. at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Sterling.

Wednesday funerals: Marian Devine of Sterling, 10:30 a.m. Mass at St. Mary Catholic Church in Sterling.

Obituary information All obituaries, including death notices, are due by 2 p.m. Sunday through Friday if sent via email, obituaries@saukvalley. com or fax, 815-625-9390.

Obituary corrections and clarifications will appear in the Corrections

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Martha A. Myers ROCK FALLS – Martha A. Myers, 93, of Rock Falls, died Friday, April 10, 2015, at Sauk Valley Senior Living and Rehabilitation in Rock Falls.

She worked as a public housing director in various low-income housing facilities in the Rock Falls area.

Martha was born April 21, 1921, in West Point, Iowa, the daughter of Anton Bernard and Catherine Mary (Dingman) Walljasper. Martha married Karl L. Myers on April 5, 1986. He preceded her in death on Jan. 10, 2015. She was a

member of St. Andrew Catholic Church in Rock Falls.

Survivors include one son, Michael ( Co n n i e Eve t t e ) Walljasper of Sterling; and three grandchildren.

She also was preceded in death by her parents, five brothers, and three sisters.

Cremation rites have been accorded.

Arrangements were completed by McDonald Funeral Home and Cremator y in Rock Falls.

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Marilyn Slifer STERLING – Marilyn Slifer, 80, of Sterling, died Thursday, April 16, 2015.

Marilyn was born June 6, 1934, in Ogle County, the daughter of Orville and Lydia Lucille (Meyers) Kitzmiller. She married Lawrence Slifer on Aug. 1, 1954, in Dixon.

Survivors include her husband; four daughters, Sandra Slifer and Valarie (Daniel) Stallings, both of Rockford, and Laurie (William) Free and Barbara (Robert Sr.) Linton, both of Sterling; one son, Lawrence Slifer Jr. of Sterling; one sister, Arlene Offil of Chadwick; one brother, Daryl Kitzmiller of Sterling; 11 grandchil-

dren; and 15 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, three sisters, three brothers, and two grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at Schilling Funeral Home in Sterling. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints in Sterling, with Bishop Tyler Gunderson officiating. Burial will be at Oak Knoll Cemetery in Sterling.

A memorial has been established.

Visit schillingfuneralhome.com to send condolences.

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SAVANNAH, Georgia – Ronald Lyle Farringer, 80, of ROCK FALLS – Leona L. Bluhm, 89, of Rock Falls, died Savannah, formerly of Dixon, died Monday, April 13, Friday, April 17, 2015, at her home.

2015, at St. Joseph Hospital in Savannah.

McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls is handling Families First Funeral Care & Cremation Center in arrangements.

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Sterling schools chief: Great news if it comes to fruition RESTORES

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“We lost $478,111 in general state aid right off the bat, and that doesn’t even include the categoricals,” said Dave Blackburn, business manager at the Dixon school district.

Categoricals are cuts in specific areas, with special education and transportion taking the biggest hits.

After-school programs and the arts have also suffered from these cuts.

Thirty-two districts, including CPS, will get 95 percent of the cut restored. Another 546 districts will get about three-quarters of their funding put back, while the remaining 278 districts were determined not to be eligible.

Sterling, and the Rock Falls elementary and high school school districts are among those recouping 73.6 percent of the funding cuts from the state.

The Dixon school district will recover 90.81 percent, getting back $155,255 of $170,967 lost.

The Rock Falls Elementary district will get back $96,830 of $131,486. The 11 percent proration plus special category cuts took nearly $700,000 out of the district’s revenues before the school year started.

Sterling Superintendent Tad Everett said he is waiting for official notification that the district will receive the $176,320 it is supposed to recover from a cut of $239,427.

“We’ve seen some pre-

Area recovery rates What area school districts lost from cuts in state education funding in a budget proposal by Gov. Bruce Rauner, and how much they stand to regain in the restoration of funding supported by the Illinois State Board of Education and Rauner.

School District Amboy CUSD 272 Ashton-Franklin Center Chadwick-Milledgeville Dixon USD 170 East Coloma-Nelson Eastland CUSD 308 Erie CUSD 1 Montmorency CCSD 145 Oregon CUSD 220 Polo CUSD 222 Prophetstown-Lyndon-Tampico Rochelle CCSD 231 Rochelle HSD 212 Rock Falls ESD 13 Rock Falls HSD 301 Sterling CUSD 5 Morrison CUSD 6 West Carroll CUSD 314

Loss $21,527 $35,101 $30,377 $170,967 $17,241 $41,292 $43,772 $19,351 $94,453 $36,708 $58,740 $112,060 $53,160 $131,486 $52,278 $239,427 $64,156 $91,596

Recovery Ineligible Ineligible $27,585 $155,255 Ineligible Ineligible Ineligible $17,573 Ineligible Ineligible $53,342 $101,761 Ineligible $96,830 $38,499 $176,320 $58,260 $83,178

Percentage 0 0 $90.81% $90.81% 0 0 0 90.81% 0 0 90.81% 90.81% 0 73.6% 73.6% 73.6% 90.81% 90.81%

Source: Illinois State Board of Education

liminary information, but we’re waiting for something official to confirm it,” Everett said. “It’s great news if it comes to fruition.”

The Illinois State Board of Education plan, which was approved Wednesday and supported by Rauner, identified districts that were likely to face a financial crisis as a result of reductions. The plan also protects districts that have higher concentrations of low-income students and have lower available local resources.

Area superintendents said the formula for returning funds seemed to be well thought out.

“The methodology was pretty good, but the categoricals are tough because you’re three-four ths

through the fiscal year, and there’s nothing you can do about special ed and transportation at that point,” Blackburn said.

Rock Falls Elementary Super intendent Dan Arickx said a district’s cash reserves were a big factor in the state’s recovery formula.

“I think they were looking at 180 days of cash reserves as a key measurable, and we’re only at 80 days, so I guess there were districts a lot worse off than us,” Arickx said.

The Rock Falls High School district will also recover 73.6 percent of its money taken away in Rauner’s budget deal.

The district will get back $38,499 of the $52,278 it lost.

“In the grand scheme of things, it might not sound like much, but every penny counts, and we’ll take anything we can get,” Superintendent Ron McCord said.

The Amboy school district was among those deemed ineligible to recover any of the $21,527 lost to the most recent budget cuts. Superintendent Jeff Thake said he would do some research to determine whether he could appeal the decision because his district’s measurables are a mixed bag.

“We’ve made good decisions historically allowing us to have good fund balances, but our number of low-income students has doubled over

porting health needs of, underlying addiction issues.

Families can plant flowers to take home. Music will be played, and there will be a bake sale, silent auction, and 50/50 drawing. Food will be available for purchase from World’s Sausage Café.

Parents, teachers, counselors, health officials, law enforcement, addicts and

alcoholics regardless of recovery status, and the community at large can attend.

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ing event to benefit Rock River Center will be May 2 at Barnacopia, 2750 NW Branch Road.

Doors open at 5 p.m., with team judging at 8.

Teams of as many as four individuals will prepare a dish from one of four different categories – appetizer, entrée, side dish or dessert.

There is no charge for

the last decade to 42 percent,” Thake said.

Rauner has said he wants to restore the general state aid to 95 percent – about a $300 million increase – in the next budget, but superintendents have learned to plan for the worst.

“Right now it’s just a proposal, so we can’t go by that,” Arickx said. “He talked about increases for education 2 months ago, but he’s cutting already.”

Thake said he is budgeting in some big cushions, hoping some of that will come back to the other side of the ledger.

“For the next budget, we’re projecting close to $900,000 in deficit spending in the general education fund,” Thake said. “I’m really hoping I’m wrong.”

Amboy has also been forced to reduce staff, cutting three full-time teachers and 10 paraprofessionals for the next school year. Thake said recent retirements have saved a few jobs.

“We anticipate another four retirements in the next couple [of ] years, but we’ve lost building principals, and we no longer have a dean of students,” Thake said. “I am also worried about our ability to keep up with the high demands of high-tech learning.”

At Dixon, Blackburn is also looking at several retirements projected for fiscal year 2016 to buy some time.

“We’ve whittled away at the balance in the educa-

IN BRIEF Health awareness day Friday in Dixon DIXON – The Safe Harbor group will offer a Planting Seeds event at 3 p.m. Friday at John Dixon Park, 515 N. Galena Ave. Pastor Michael Cole, Travis Shroyer, and Greg O’Brien will discuss responding to, and sup-

Cooks wanted for center’s fundraiser POLO – The second What’s Cookin’ cook-

cooking teams.

Tickets are $20 per person and will be sold at the door.

The charge will allow attendees to taste any or all recipes.

Contact Diane Palmer at fishingbp@frontier.com or 815-973-1432 to register teams or for more information.

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tion fund, and we’re just hoping we can hold our head above water until we get some help with the retirements,” Blackburn said. “It’s tough because the easy cuts have been made a long time ago.”

Everett hopes this action is an indication that educators’ voices are being heard in Springfield.

“We’ve been more legislatively vocal as superintendents, and I’d like to think this outcome is the result of our efforts,” Everett said.

Approval of the funding plan comes the same day the board of education also moved unanimously to select Anthony “Tony” Smith — GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner’s recommendation to the board — as its new superintendent.

The funds range from a few thousand dollars to $33 million for Chicago Public Schools. CPS is facing an estimated $1.1 billion budget deficit, and its pension fund is billions short of what’s needed to pay benefits as currently promised.

The budget deal signed into law by Rauner last month transferred $1.3 billion from state funds that pay for a variety of programs and made 2.25 percent across-the-board cuts – which included education – to fill a $1.6 billion hole in the current budget. It also stipulated that the $97 million is for financially distressed school districts.

– The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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DRUGS IN THE SAUK VALLEY

A resurgence for meth in Lee County?

Police intelligence and addiction counselor hearing drug could be making a comeback

BY CHRISTI WARREN cwarren@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5521 @SeaWarren

DIXON – Lee County hasn’t had a meth problem since the early 2000s, but if word of mouth is any indication, that could be changing.

Both Lee County Sheriff John Simonton and

Dixon Police Chief Danny Langloss said that what they’re hearing is that things might be picking back up again.

“Mostly what we’ve seen and what we’ve read about in the intelligence is they’re mostly doing the cooking in the cars,” Simonton said. “In the county, we haven’t actual-

ly made any arrests at this point. We’re just starting to hear things are starting to brew in the rural areas.”

“We have heard some rumblings,” Langloss said. “It’s called the shake-and-bake method where they make it in a soda bottle. ... They’re making it in smaller amounts, so if they do it

in a soda bottle, it’ll get them a gram.”

The shake-and-bake method involves combining household chemicals in a bottle and, literally, shaking it.

Kevin Buss, a clinician at Sinnissippi Centers who works with people suffering from drug addictions, says he, too, has started

hearing about meth making a resurgence. For the past 3 or 4 months, he said, his clients have been talking about the drug making a comeback in the county.

Buss said it was a major issue for his clients in the mid-to-late ’90s, and that it started to fade in the early 2000s, which is

when he started to hear about heroin becoming popular. Heroin use has resulted in the deaths of at least three Lee County residents this year.

“I have not seen anyone with meth as the identified drug of choice yet,” he said. “But it wouldn’t surprise me if that was the case soon.”

ONLINE EXTRA

PROPHETSTOWN

Planning a vacation? This is where I start

Fundraiser set Sunday to help school yearbook

BY ANGEL SIERRA asierra@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5695 @_angelsierra

As the summer travel season quickly approaches, bargains are ready for the pickin’, but you have to know where to look. Here are a few fishing holes that I’ve used in the past, and a triedand-true recipe for what works for me.

KAYAK is a first stop.

The website uses a secret algorithm to find the best fares, scans a wide range of airplane ticketing sources, and is a confident forecast for what I can anticipate to pay.

Hipmunk is the second place. It, too, is a search engine that filters airfare websites, but with a major distinction – a unique sorting mechanism that arranges results by agony, a proprietary calculation that combines price, flight duration, and departure and arrival times.

Both KAYAK and Hip-

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munk can pinpoint price breaks on flights, hotels, car rentals, and vacation packages, but the ultimate radar is TravelZoo, a company that uses real people to carefully curate listings behind the scenes.

The expansive scope of its getaways covers restaurants, cruises, spas, and entertainment, in addition to the basics.

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There is a wealth of information online regarding the best times to purchase and save, where to go, and when to visit.

Although there are some resources that I have not used, word-ofmouth recommendations put the following websites high on my list: HomeAway and FlipKey for vacation houses and cabins; Momondo and Google Flights for alternative flight searches.

In the age of do-it-yourself vacation planning, what do you use?

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PROPHETSTOWN – An all-ages benefit for Prophetstown High School’s 2015-16 yearbook will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Cochran’s Pub, 13464 Galt Road, Sterling.

Jenna Rascoe, a junior and yearbook committee member at PHS, wrote on Facebook that committee members were told earlier this year that the yearbook was more than $8,000 in debt. If the funds are not made up, she said, at least 20 pages

of the yearbook will have to be cut.

Committee members are trying to raise $8,000 by the end of April through various projects. So far, more than $2,000 has been raised.

Music on Sunday will be provided by bands Panic Stations and Alborn Theory. Dollar tacos, baked goods, soft drinks, and water will be sold. A hog raffle will take place, with two winners each receiving half a processed hog, and a 50/50 raffle will be drawn.

There is a $5 cover charge.

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EDITORIAL

Saturday, April 18, 2015

THE CARTOONIST’S VOICE

Joe Heller, Heller Syndication

Sun shines upon Dixon, 3 years later What we think Friday’s sunshine was appropriate for Dixon, which has emerged from the dark days of the Rita Crundwell scandal, which broke 3 years ago. Here’s hoping that brighter days are ahead for the city and its residents.

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pril 17, 2012, was a dark day for Dixon.

The city’s comptroller, Rita Crundwell, was arrested on one federal count of wire fraud. FBI agents led her in handcuffs from City Hall.

Shock, dismay and anger followed bombshell revelations that Crundwell had stolen nearly $54 million over 2 decades, and that she had spent it lavishly on herself and a vast horsebreeding empire.

Dixon residents wondered how the thefts could have happened for so long.

They also wondered why Crundwell had been released on her own recognizance.

People in other communities snickered at Dixon’s dire straits and how one city employee could have hoodwinked the mayor, council, other city officials, and nearly 16,000 residents.

Crundwell’s lavish lifestyle should have been a red flag, but most people thought her horse-breeding business was the source of her wealth.

CONTRAST THOSE dark days of April 2012 to a brighter April 2015.

Friday marked the third anniversary of the Crundwell arrest, and Friday’s sunny skies reflected a more optimistic mindset for the community as a whole.

Consider what has happened over the past 3 years.

Crundwell was convicted of the massive theft and sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison.

Her empire was liquidated, and nearly $10 million was turned over

to the city.

A successful lawsuit settlement generated a net of nearly $30 million more.

Federal marshals continue to pursue other Crundwell assets.

Meanwhile, 76 percent of city voters in November approved a new city managerial form of government to replace the antiquated commission government under which Crundwell’s thievery prospered, undetected, for so long.

To complete the transformation, voters on April 7 elected a new mayor, Liandro Arellano Jr., and four new members of the city council, Mike Venier, Jesse Arjes, Mitch Tucker and Christopher Bishop.

All five men are committed to the successful implementation of the city manager government, which will professionalize the management of the city and greatly reduce the chances that a Crundwell-style theft could ever occur again.

Current city council members, led by Mayor Jim Burke, set the stage for the city’s new beginning. They labored to do the right thing, after learning 3 years ago how they and city residents were betrayed by Crundwell. Bringing in a new finance director, separating the responsibilities for handling city funds, and hiring a city administrator were positive steps forward.

Friday’s sunshine was entirely appropriate for Dixon. The dark days of the Crundwell scandal are in the past. We hope that brighter days are on the horizon.

GUEST COLUMN

Regional high school concept a bold vision worth exploring Facility could energize area, share resources, attract business JASON ANDERSON Dixon

As an economic development professional, I know that for rural communities to grow, they must leverage every asset they have to attract new businesses and industries.

Great schools are one of those assets.

Another important asset, but less tangible, is a community where every governing body effectively coordinates the use of limited resources.

For more than 125 years, Sterling, Dixon, and Rock Falls have functioned as “islands” defined by county and city boundaries. We operate like competing industries making the same products, i.e., educating kids, providing fire and police protection, maintaining infrastructure, etc.

However, while we still function like we did 125 years ago, the world

around us has dramatically changed. We live in a global economy that is fiercely competitive, and if we do not address the economic forces that are bearing Jason down on us, Anderson we could become like dinosaurs: extinct.

With that said, I am writing today to suggest we consider a “What if” concept to address the need for a new high school.

“WHAT IF” WE COULD build a state-of-the-art facility for one-third of the cost to Dixon taxpayers?

“What if” it could be built on vacant (paid for) land that is set aside for educational purposes?

“What if ” we could lower costs to educate students (maybe lower taxes?) while offering advanced educational opportunities?

“What if ” we could offer more students “dual credit opportunities” that lowered the cost of a college degree?

“What if ” this facility could offer top-notch training in the trades, i.e., welding, construction, HVAC, auto mechanics, etc.?

“What if” this facility was so impressive that it attracted new businesses to locate in the Sauk Valley?

“What if” we began to think more like a “regional community” to grow our economy, lower our tax burdens, and share our resources?

The idea behind these “What if” questions is: “What if” Dixon, Sterling, and Rock Falls were to join forces and build a high school facility on the campus of Sauk Valley Community College?

Now, before anyone thinks I am proposing we forsake our alma maters (I graduated from SHS), we need to consider the consequences of keeping with the current model of how education is funded and how that impacts our future.

EACH COMMUNITY is limited to how much it can tax its citizens. The state of Illinois is not in a position to rescue schools, and we need to

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‘What if’ we built a new high school on Sauk’s campus to educate our children in a 21stcentury facility?

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Jason Anderson

attract people and businesses to locate in our region today.

In a subsequent letter to the editor, I will expand on how I believe this joint effort between the three communities could greatly enhance our quality of life and how we might “re-purpose” the old high school buildings in each community.

In the meantime, consider the questions: “What if” we built a new high school on Sauk’s campus to educate our children in a 21st-century facility? Would we be so bold to at least explore it?

Note to readers: Jason Anderson grew up in Sterling and has lived in rural Dixon for more than 30 years. He is executive director of the Greater Rochelle Economic Development Corp.

THE READER’S VOICE

Comments on ‘double shift,’ Social Security JIM HEGNER Sterling

Your article regarding our esteemed rep in Washington needs an additional sidebar.

I question your April 9 headline of the article, “Bustos works double ‘shift.’”

Average U.S. representatives make $177,000 a year and work 122 days a year at their jobs in Washington.

I know many people who would like the

EDITORIAL BOARD Jennifer Baratta Jim Dunn Sam R Fisher Sheryl Gulbranson Larry Lough Jeff Rogers

opportunity to work at that rate.

The remainder of their time would be on factfinding missions in their districts and around the world at the taxpayers’ expense. Personally, I would like to see some results and truthful reports from these types of trips, but that will never happen.

Mrs. Bustos also is interested in saving Social Security. This has not h a p p e n e d ove r n i g h t and needs some action for future generations.

Maybe she needs to do some homework.

Republican and Democratic leaderships are

responsible for a 1939 program that had a separate Social Security trust fund, which was moved into a general fund in 1969. This was huge mistake.

Over that 46 years, the Social Security funds have been mismanaged, thus part of the shortfall, as is the case for most government entitlement programs.

When those in leadership in Washington understand they are dealing with the people’s money instead of their own, then maybe we will finally get some accountability and someone who represents by the people, for the people.

THE FIRST AMENDMENT

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Don’t use Link cards to pay for convenience JACOB MADISON Dixon

Stop the use of Link cards at convenience stores. We all know that convenience costs more. We, the taxpayers, pay for the Link cards, and now we pay for the convenience for people to use them.

Everything costs more at convenience stores, which are high-cost because of convenience.

If you want to pay that high cost, that is fine. But when a Link card is used

there, you, the taxpayer, not only pay for the product, but you also pay for the convenience.

Every time a Link card is used at a convenience store, you pay more, even if you never go there.

That is sad in itself, but think about it. Convenience stores not only make a profit from their products, they also rake in millions of taxpayers’ dollars from Link card holders. That is like free money for them, and it is costing us more.

People go there with Link cards and buy doughnuts, pop, chips, pizza, and a lot of other products, and you, the taxpayer, pay

“Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?”

Editorials represent the opinions of the Sauk Valley Media Editorial Board.

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What do you think?

Let us know. Write your own letter to the editor and send it to: letters@saukvalley. com the high price This kind of abuse of taxpayers’ money has got to stop.

Convenience is not a food product that we, the taxpayers, should be paying for. There are plenty of grocery stores in our city that sell healthy food that costs a lot less than a convenience store.

I suggest you use your Link card to buy food at a grocery store and stop wasting taxpayers’ money.

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SECOND OPINION

Ready to move on to the 2016 election?

I

n the fall of 2007, a letter to the editor published in a northern Illinois newspaper was sharply critical of Hillary Clinton, whose presidential campaign had yet to be announced.

A few days later, a similar letter showed up in a newspaper in Central Indiana.

No doubt, such letters from Republican partisans were appearing in newspapers throughout the nation as the 2008 presidential election was barely a year away.

As it turned out, that coordinated pre-emptive strike was aimed at the wrong target.

Just a year later, Democrat Barack Obama was elected to the first of two terms as president.

That’s politics.

YOU’RE PROBABLY like most voters in that you haven’t thought much about – but can’t escape the news media’s obsession with – the 2016 presidential election.

While Clinton seems – again – to be the likely Democratic nominee, Republicans might still be a year (or more) from picking someone to try to take back the White House.

And though it’s way, way too early for most voters to pay much attention, some wouldbe candidates are raising money and seeking exposure in states with early primary elections – only

9 months away.

For the media, it’s never too early. Talk of President Obama’s successor started within hours of his re-election in November 2012.

It’s also never too early for the media to be completely wrong about the election and the candidates.

Time magazine, a stalwart of the “liberal media,” had a photo of presidential hopeful Bill Clinton on its cover of the April 20, 1992, edition.

The headline said, “Why voters don’t trust Clinton” – less than 7 months before those same supposedly wary voters elected him for the first of two terms.

Oops!

NATIONAL MEDIA, AND especially cable TV, focus on the presidential election for a simple reason: It is the only election that all Americans have in common.

And everyone has an opinion about the candidates for president, even people who won’t vote.

So we get breathless reporting daily on the latest hot political topic or comment that might hurt this or that possible presidential candidate – but, in truth, won’t mean anything by the time people go to the polls almost 19 months from now.

In fact, now is the best time for a candidate to flip-flop on the issues, take unpopular stands,

larryLOUGH Larry Lough is executive editor of Sauk Valley Media.

Contact him via email at llough@ saukvalley. com.

and make verbal gaffes so that voters have enough time to forget them before that election.

November 2016 is still a long way off – in politics and dog years.

CABLE NEWS HAS AN extremely short attention span.

The reporters and commentators – like politicians – are all about “winning the cycle.”

No, that isn’t the election cycle, which can be as long as a couple of years.

It’s the news cycle, which often is a matter of hours – a couple of days at most.

As an example, the cable clowns went to the thesaurus to find adjectives to describe the programming glitches that stalled the online introduction of the Affordable Care Act in the fall of 2012.

“Disastrous” was a common descriptor, and it must have seemed that way amid the political hysteria of the 24-hour news cycle.

But history has a longer view, and today that

“debacle” of the Obamacare rollout is barely a footnote.

Rational people could see, at the time, that those “devastating” computer issues were mostly a minor technical problem that would be fixed in a relatively short time with no measurable longterm effect on the overall program.

The TV news cycle, however, is reactionary, not rational.

It generally hates context and perspective.

Exaggeration and hyperbole are routinely used to heighten the drama in the competition for eyeballs during that day or two when you’re led to believe the sky is falling.

That’s TV news.

COULD THE 2016 ballot again see Congresswoman Cheri Bustos and former Congressman Bobby Schilling in the 17th District race?

Republican Schilling rode the tea party wave to an easy victory over a Democratic incumbent in 2010.

He since has twice been spanked by Bustos after Illinois Democrats “fixed” the district in 2011.

A blog on RollCall.com recently reported that Schilling hadn’t lost his taste for the Washington life.

“A knowledgeable GOP source,” according to Roll Call, said Schilling might enter a special election this summer to replace

18th District Republican Rep. Aaron Schock, who left office amid an investigation into his spending practices.

Schilling has since endorsed state Sen. Darin LaHood of Peoria, who is considered an early front-runner in the Republican primary to succeed Schock.

Schilling, of course, doesn’t live in the 18th District. But he didn’t live in the 17th District, either, when he was elected there. The Democratic redistricting has since moved him into the 17th.

Does he have an appetite for a third race – in a presidential election year, in a medium blue district, in a deep blue state?

He has nothing to lose.

If not him, who?

AS FOR REP. BUSTOS, she also has taken herself out of consideration for a different elected office.

She was reported to be considering next spring’s primary to find a Democratic challenger for U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, a firstterm Republican.

Although a Senate campaign seemed never more than a remote possibility for her, Bustos yielded gracefully last month when 8th District Rep. Tammy Duckworth announced she would seek the Democratic nomination.

“I can’t see jumping into a race at this time when we already have such a

strong fighter for working men and women and veterans,” Bustos explained as she bailed by email.

But she’s more than comfortable in the 17th District, where she unseated Schilling by 6 points in 2012 and then trounced him by 10 last fall.

The Republican publicity machine has even lately stopped scorching Bustos, preferring to focus its wrath on Duckworth and her threat to Kirk.

Although she can’t realistically hope to sit in a Democratic majority in the House anytime soon, Bustos is generally considered a rising star in the party, given her electoral success.

She could lose a bit of clout, however, if her political mentor, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, becomes the odd man out when Democrats reorganize after the departure of Minority Leader Harry Reid, who won’t seek re-election next year.

New York Sen. Charles Schumer appears destined to succeed Reid as the Senate’s Democratic leader, and Sen. Patty Murray of Washington is reported to be interested in the No. 2 spot – held

by Durbin since 2006.

Still, Durbin will be around through 2020, having won re-election in 2014.

His four-term seniority can only help Bustos.

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ALPS CRASH AFTERMATH

Experts ponder pilotless planes However, concept still decades away

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Workers uncovered a window seat behind plaster near the attic of the Dixon Public Library. An old staircase would have run up through one of the turrets and had a landing here.

Library will be insulated for first time CHAPTER

Library hours, donation info

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In addition to genuine gratitude, you could hear the fatigue in Roe’s voice: She and her three staffers have spent weeks boxing, moving and rearranging books, furniture, shelves, you name it, to make room for the crews to make repairs. Stuff is “piled high,” she said.

That’s because Roe plans to keep the library open and functioning as usual as much as possible during the renovations.

If the electricity needs to be shut off during repairs, the building might have to be closed a day or two, she said, and club meetings will move upstairs for the next month or so; otherwise, it’s just a matter of pardon-our-mess until things get back to normal.

The original building, built in 1900 for a mere $20,000, first was remodeled in 1955 when an apartment used by the custodian was turned into the children’s department. The addition opened in 1969.

The last refurbishing was done in 1994, after a $100,000 fundraising campaign.

Thirty-one years later, the library’s to-do list is voluminous: • The tile roof has been repaired, using mostly existing tiles; the roof was being sealed Thursday.

Staff has been working hard to shift items around as the renovation takes shape. Decades old periodicals and books, left to deteriorate in attics and crawl spaces, have been discarded or, in some cases, sold to collectors.

• Crews have removed all of the old duct work in the attic, which soon will be sprayed with foam insulation. (This is the first time in its history that the library will have any kind of insulation, Roe noted.)

• In about 2 weeks, the ceiling in the children’s department is coming down, and lights and ceiling tiles will be replaced.

The area will remain open during this work.

• About a week later, around May 4, asbestos will be removed from the boiler room, which will take about 2 weeks.

The two steam boilers, vintage 1947 and 1968, will be replaced with hot water boilers. New radiators also will be installed.

There’s no asbestos removal to be done in any of the public areas, Roe

hastened to assure, and its removal from the boiler room won’t affect any of the public areas.

• At the end of May, a crane will whisk the old air conditioning unit off the addition’s flat roof, and the roof and the AC unit will be replaced.

• About that same time, the building will get a good pressure-washing, then crews will tuck point and seal the stone.

• Starting early the second week of June or so, all 106 windows will be replaced. Work will start in the addition.

The goal is to be finished by Aug. 31, she said.

The project is strictly designed to make the building “healthier” – cosmetic work such as new paint, carpet and furniture will have to wait for another time, Roe

of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s decision to suspend $26 million in social service grants.

The State Journal-Register reports more than two dozen people who work

for the free state program have been laid off. Calls to the hotline are now answered with a recorded message saying it will be closed until further notice.

The Dixon Public Library, 221 S. Hennepin Ave., is open from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Donors can earmark where they want their money to go: to the building fund, the book fund, or the program fund, or to wherever the library deems the need is greatest.

Find it on Facebook, go to www.dixonpubliclibrary.org or call 815284-7261 to donate or for more information. said, adding that such work was done a decade ago, thanks to a $100,000 donation.

Patrons should keep an eye on the library’s website and Facebook page for updates; if it does have to close for whatever reason, that’s where the notice will appear.

NEW YORK (AP) – To improve airline safety, maybe we need to remove the pilots.

That radical idea is decades away, if it ever becomes a reality. But following the intentional crashing of Germanwings Flight 9525 by the co-pilot, a long-running debate over autonomous jets is resurfacing.

At the very least, some have suggested allowing authorities on the ground to take control of a plane if there is a rogue pilot in the cockpit.

The head of Germany’s air traffic control agency on Wednesday became the latest to raise such a prospect.

Such moves might seem logical in the aftermath of this crash, but industry experts warn that the technology is

fraught with problems.

Besides, no matter how tragic the deaths of the 149 other passengers and crew were, it was an anomaly.

Each year, more than 3 billion people around the globe step aboard some 34 million flights.

The number of crashes purposely caused by commercial pilots in the last three decades: fewer than 10.

“Would this really be the wisest investment of our air safety dollars?” asks Patrick Smith, a commercial airline pilot for 25 years and author of “Cockpit Confidential.”

Smith says that even the newest jets would need an expensive reengineering of their key systems. And that doesn’t even tackle any of the concerns over terrorists hacking into the communications link and taking over the jet.

MEDICINE

Vast germ diversity found in remote Amazonian tribe WASHINGTON (AP) – In a remote part of the Venezuelan Amazon, scientists have discovered that members of a village isolated from the modern world have the most diverse colonies of bacteria ever reported living in and on the human body.

The microbiome – the trillions of mostly beneficial bacteria that share our bodies – plays a critical role in maintaining health.

Friday’s study raises tantalizing questions about the microbial diversity of our ancest o r s, a n d w h e t h e r today’s Western diets and lifestyles strip us

of some bugs we might want back.

Most surprising, this group of Yanomami Indians harbored bacteria containing genes with the ability to resist antibiotic treatment, even though the villagers presumably were never exposed to commercial medications.

The results bolster a theory that diminished microbial diversity in Western populations is linked to immune and metabolic diseases – allergies, asthma, diabetes – that are on the rise, said senior author M. Gloria DominguezBello of NYU Langone Medical Center.

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Migrants wait to board a cruise ship as they leave the island of Lampedusa, southern Italy, to be transferred to Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Friday. An unprecedented wave of migrants has headed for the European Union’s promised shores over the past week, with 10,000 people making the trip.

Hundreds – nobody knows how many – have disappeared into the warming waters of the Mediterranean, including 41 migrants reported dead Thursday after a shipwreck.

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Saddam’s top deputy believed dead Al-Douri was last man at large in deck of cards BAGHDAD (AP) – He was the last member of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle still on the run, depicted with his distinctive red moustache as the “king of clubs” on the U.S. military’s deck of cards of most-wanted Iraqi regime fugitives.

Now, officials say they believe government forces killed Izzat Ibrahim alDouri near Tikrit, where the former deputy to Saddam was working alongside Islamic State militants.

Reports of al-Douri’s death came Friday as Iraqi forces tried to push back Islamic State group fighters in Salahuddin province, where Tikrit is located. Government troops took back several towns near Iraq’s largest oil refinery at Beiji, officials said.

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In this photo provided by the U.S. Army in 2006, the most-wanted Iraqi fugitive, former Saddam Hussein deputy Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, is pictured on the deck of cards put out by the U.S. military to help capture most-wanted officials of Saddam’s regime. AlDouri is believed to have been killed Friday, officials said. bomb exploded next to the U.S. Consulate in the city of Irbil, a rare attack

in the capital of the Kurdish autonomous zone that killed three people and wounded five, police said.

U.S. officials said no Americans were hurt and no casualties among consulate personnel or guards.

An Associated Press reporter at the scene said the blast went off outside a cafe next to the building in the Ankawa neighborhood, setting several nearby cars on fire. Shortly afterward, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks militant websites.

The report of al-Douri’s death was not the first time Iraqi officials have claimed to have killed or captured the 72-year-old former aide to Saddam.

According to Raed alJabouri, the governor of Salahuddin province, alDouri was killed by Iraqi troops and Shiite militiamen in an operation in the Talal Hamreen mountains east of Tikrit, Saddam’s

hometown, which was retaken from the Islamic State group earlier this month.

MILAN (AP) – The u n a b a t e d f l ow o f migrants fleeing instability in Libya brought a new horror on Friday: The discovery of 20 migrants adrift at sea who had suffered grave burn injuries in a cooking gas explosion before departing Libya, and then were forced onto a smuggler’s boat without treatment.

Italian ships have picked up 10,000 people, many of them refugees of war and persecution, over the past week, an unprecedented number in such a short period.

The influx is putting

pressure on Italy’s shelter system and raising calls for a better response to the emergency.

Friday’s rescue comes after the feared drowning of more than 400 migrants in two shipwrecks in the past week, bringing to more than 900 the number of people who have died or gone missing so far this year making the perilous crossing – 10 times higher than over the same period last year.

In Washington, President Barack Obama pledged more intense cooperation with Italy on threats coming from the instability in Libya, which has contributed to the influx of migrants across the Mediterranean.

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Educator on leave amid investigation

Cancer claims George at 78 CHICAGO (AP) – Cardinal Francis George, a vigorous defender of Roman Catholic orthodoxy who played a key role in the church’s response to the clergy sex abuse scandal and led the U.S. bishops’ fight against Obamacare, has died after a long fight with cancer. He was 78.

George, who retired as Chicago archbishop in the fall of 2014, a few months before announcing his treatment for kidney cancer had failed, died late Friday morning, according to the Archdiocese of Chicago.

“Let us heed his example and be a little more brave, a little more steadfast, and a lot more loving,” Chicago Arch-

CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett will take a paid leave of absence amid a federal investigation over a roughly $20 million no-bid contract the district awarded to a training academy where she once worked as a consultant, officials announced Barbara Friday.

Byrd-Bennett The schools chief of the nation’s thirdlargest district – chosen

by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2012 – requested the leave effective Monday, which the Chicago Board of Education agreed to.

“I believe that my continuing as CEO at this time would be a distraction,” Byrd-Bennett wrote in a letter to board members Friday.

Pope expresses esteem for George CHICAGO (AP) – Pope Francis says he had “great esteem” for Chicago Cardinal George and was very close to him during his suffering.

George, who retired last year as Chicago’s archbishop, died Friday after a long fight with cancer.

Father Lombardi, AP

Cardinal Francis George speaks at a news conference in Chicago in September, prior to his retirement. George, a vigorous defender of Roman Catholic orthodoxy, died Friday morning. He was 78. bishop Blase Cupich said during a news conference, describing his predecessor as “a man of great courage.”

Appointed to Chicago in 1997 by Pope John Paul II, the Chicago native became a leading

figure of his era in many of the most important events in the American church.

At the height of the abuse crisis in 2002, George led a group of U.S. bishops who persuaded resistant Vatican

officials to more quickly oust guilty priests – a policy at the core of reforms meant to restore trust in church leaders. He also oversaw the contentious new English-language translation of the Roman Missal, one of the biggest changes in Catholic worship in generations.

And in his 3 years as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, George spear-

an English-language spokesman for The Vatican, said the announcement of George’s death came in the late evening Friday in Rome.

Because of that, Lombardi said the pope won’t issue a statement on George’s death until today. headed opposition to the Affordable Care Act, arguing that President Barack Obama’s health insurance law would allow taxpayer money to fund abortion.

The Chicago archdiocese’s charitable arm helped sue the Obama administration in 2012, over the requirement that employers provide health insurance covering contraception.

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NASCAR driver Michael Waltrip recently got a new job. He spent an evening as a driver for Uber North Carolina, giving unsuspecting passengers free rides to their destinations.

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Numbers game Alex Rodriguez’s home run Friday went 471 feet, which is the longest homer hit so far this season. It also puts A-Rod three homers behind Willie Mays all-time.

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TRACK & FIELD 101 | TRIPLE JUMP

Chicago Tribune sports columnist.

He can be reached at dhaugh@ tribune.com

Debut done, time to play ball

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hether in a movie or a memory, any recollection of Kris Bryant’s first official day as a Cub likely will start with the heartwarming hug between father and son.

Kris squeezed his dad, Mike, even tighter than Chicago already has embraced the Cubs rookie.

It lasted at least 10 seconds Friday on the Wrigley Field grass as cameras clicked, hearts raced, and emotion overcame both Bryant men.

We made it, Dad.

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Sterling assistant coaches Joe Schneiderbauer (center) and Tom DePasquale watch Leon Ramos do a run-through for the triple jump during practice. DePasquale runs triple jump events at all the meets that Sterling participates in, and he still marvels at what he calls a “weird” event.

Weird times three

HAUGH CONTINUED ON B8

Triple jump not as ordinary as other events

BY TY REYNOLDS treynolds@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5554 @STyReynolds

After watching the triple jump for years as a Sterling assistant track coach – as well as the guy who runs the event in pretty much every meet the Golden Warriors attend – Tom DePasquale has come to a conclusion about one of the most technically difficult events in track and field.

“It just seems weird, just so out of the ordinary,” DePasquale said, smiling and shaking his head. “It’s kind of an event that doesn’t make sense.

Running fast makes sense, throwing something far makes sense, jumping far makes sense; the triple jump, jumping three times, with the first two on the same foot and then switching feet for the last jump … it had never made sense to me.

“Yet, that’s what makes it fascinating,

I think. When I was introduced to it later in life, it just amazed me.”

DePasquale, a long jumper in his youth, has gained a great appreciation for athletes who even try the triple jump.

There’s no real secret to the triple jump. An athlete takes off at a sprint down the runway, then leaps off either their right or left foot. After sailing through the air, they land on that same foot, and push off into the air again. The next landing comes on the opposite foot of the first two, and it’s another immediate takeoff, finishing with a landing in the sand to measure the total distance from that first jump.

What can look like a hop, skip and jump into the sand is actually a very concise set of technical aspects that have to go together smoothly, or there’s a danger of falling.

Triple Jump breakdown Runway: Sprint down the runway, keeping a smooth gait while approaching the takeoff board Phase 1: Leap into the air while propelling the body forward, off either the right or left leg Phase 2: Land on the same leg as the initial takeoff, then turn the landing into a takeoff for the second jump, again propelling the body forward as it rises Phase 3: Land on the opposite leg as the first two leaps, again turning the landing into another takeoff, this one the most explosive of the trio Landing: Try to keep the momentum going forward during the landing in the sand pit, where the distance is measured from the body part that touches furthest back in the sand

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The Cubs’ Kris Bryant swings and misses to strike out during the fifth inning of Friday’s game against the Padres at Wrigley Field.

Bryant, MLB’s top prospect, struck out three times in his debut.

THREE CONTINUED ON B7

BASEBALL | ST. BEDE 13, MORRISON 1, 5 INNINGS

Beautiful day, bad play Mustangs not inspired by nice weather in rout

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Morrison’s Ryan VanZuiden (left) catches a throw to retire St. Bede’s Nathan Bartley at first base during Friday’s game in Morrison. The Mustangs lost 13-1 in five innings.

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MORRISON – It was a beautiful day for baseball Friday, but not so much for the Morrison Mustangs.

After watching his team lose 13-1 in five innings to the St. Bede Bruins in a Three Rivers crossover game at the Morrison Sports Complex, Mustang coach Ben Sondgeroth could only shake his head.

“That was just uninspired baseball, a real lackluster effort,” Sondgeroth said after

Star of the game: Jarret Olson, St. Bede, 4-for-4, 3B, 4 RBIs, 4 runs, 3 SBs Up next: Rockridge at Morrison, 4:30 p.m. Monday Morrison was outhit 12-3 and committed four errors to the Bruins’ zero. “I told the guys after the game, if we want to compete in the postseason, we can’t have games like this. I don’t think they really like this feeling today, and we’re going to take away a learning experience from this.”

Morrison (13-4) got behind

the 8-ball right off the bat, and never recovered. St. Bede (9-3) scored five runs before the Mustangs even got to hit, taking advantage of a pair of tworun triples and a wild pitch after the first one, and won their fifth straight game.

Jarret Olson led the charge for the Bruins, finishing the day 4-for-4 with 4 runs, 4 RBIs and three stolen bases.

It marked the second straight game where the junior was a difference-maker, as he struck out 17 Hall batters in a league win Thursday.

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Meet the Missiles’ Jade Grenoble, B2.

Catch tourney fever, B10.

BAD CONTINUED ON B7

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Recovery road Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Basketball legend had quadruple coronary bypass surgery on Thursday. The 68-year-old played in the NBA for 20 seasons.

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Mightiest Marlin Giancarlo Stanton 25-year-old star outfielder sets franchise record for home runs with his 155th on Friday. He began the day tied with Dan Uggla.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

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On the tube TV listings

Saturday Auto racing 12:30 p.m.

• NASCAR Xfinity, Drive to Stop Diabetes 300, at Bristol, Tenn., FS1 1:30 p.m.

• Formula One, qualifying for Bahrain Grand Prix, NBCSP 4:30 p.m.

• IndyCar, qualifying for Grand Prix of Long Beach (Calif.), NBCSP

College football 11:30 a.m.

• Notre Dame Spring Game, NBCSP 12:30 p.m.

• Ohio St. spring game, BTN 3 p.m.

• Penn St. spring game, BTN 5 p.m.

• Illinois spring game, BTN

College baseball Noon

• Vanderbilt at S. Carolina, ESPN2 7:30 p.m.

• Arkansas at Texas A&M, ESPNU

College softball 3 p.m.

• Florida at Georgia, ESPN2 5 p.m.

• Alabama at Auburn, ESPNU

Men’s lacrosse 10 a.m.

Writing about wins is easy A lisa Baron rounded the blue track in Charleston in 2008 in a record time for the 400 meters in 55.66 seconds. That was really fun to watch.

When the team scores were read at Detweiller Park in Peoria in 2008, and the Dixon Dukes came out on top in Class 2A, I was pretty excited because I had cut my teeth as a journalist covering cross country and watched that team evolve over 4 years.

I have dozens of moments like that filed away in my memory, and coverage for such events usually brings praise.

It’s fun to write about home runs and touchdowns, and it’s easy for readers to consume triumphs.

Sports journalism, however, isn’t always about the triumphs.

For every win, there’s a loss. For every trophy celebration, there are dozens of tear-filled huddles.

While we write about a lot of home runs, it’s sometimes the strikeout or error that proves to be the difference in the game.

We can’t control that at the press table any more than the coach can on the bench, or the fans can in the stands.

The news is why a team won or lost, and the spotlight usually Sports shines on the shoulders Editor Reach of the most talented him at players. dwoessner@ Readers get to know a saukvalley. lot of faces and names com or 800798-4085, from our various ext. 5555. schools in our section throughout the school year, because many of the same athletes excel Media coverage puts at several sports. The a lot of focus on young readers begin to expect athletes when high to see what this baseball school events are covplayer did, or what that ered by media – wheth- track star accomplished er it’s print, radio or TV. each day.

That’s one of the reaWhen those names sons we tend to cover don’t appear in a story, varsity sports only here roundup or box score, at SVM. Those athletes the reader wonders are just bit a older, and why. When we are at near enough to adultgames we are covering, hood to cope with the we ask why. attention.

A key player missing Younger athletes are has a bearing on the playing sports to learn outcome of the game. the skills, and it’s probThe reasons can be ably better that we many. A few weeks ago aren’t there. That’s why a few Newman softball we send many of their players were absent accomplishments to the from a game I was covCommunity section in ering because they were the Weekend edition. on spring break trips, so It allows the kids to get I reported that. their picture and name Sometimes players are in the paper without injured, and we report adding the dimension that. Sometimes they of dealing with actual are sick, or have sufcoverage. fered a loss in their family, and we report that.

The other aspect of sports is that not all ath- Sometimes they are taking important tests, or letes are equal – in talent terms. Talent level is on field trips for class, a big part of winning or and we report those, as losing, especially in high well.

Sometimes the player school sports.

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is suspended, and we report that, too.

We don’t always know about every suspension or every injury, because we cover a wide area of schools with a small number of staff members, and so some slip past us. But when we are at a game, and a good player isn’t playing, we are going to ask and report it. That’s the catch of being a good athlete at the varsity, collegiate, or professional level: people you don’t even know want to know what’s up with you.

The best way to avoid that attention is to not do the type of things that bring down severe athletic punishments. If you don’t avoid them, we might be another consequence that has to be accepted.

It’s not fun for us, because we like the kids we cover, and we hope they achieve special moments that we get to write about.

But I think about it this way: If even one athlete reads about another being suspended and chooses not to do some dangerous things that bring about athletic suspensions at the high school level because they don’t want that sort of attention, haven’t we served the community well?

• Maryland at Ohio St., BTN

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1 p.m.

• Michigan at Johns Hopkins, ESPNU 3 p.m.

• N. Carolina at Notre Dame, ESPNU Golf 2 p.m.

• PGA, The Heritage, third round, at Hilton Head Island, S.C., CBS • Champions, Greater Gwinnett Championship, second round, at Duluth, Ga., TGC

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• Indiana at Illinois, BTN 2 p.m.

• Florida at Mississippi St., ESPNU College softball 10 a.m.

• Penn St. at Maryland, BTN Noon

• Florida at Georgia, ESPNU 2 p.m.

• Oregon at Stanford, ESPN 3 p.m.

• Northwestern at Nebraska, BTN Men’s lacrosse • Rutgers at Penn St., BTN

Golf 2 p.m.

• PGA, The Heritage, final round, CBS • Champions, Greater Gwinnett Championship, final round, TGC

MLB

7 p.m.

9:30 p.m.

• Western Conference, first round, game 1, Spurs at Clippers, TNT

NBA playoffs 11:30 a.m.

9:30 p.m.

College baseball

• Western Conference, first round, game 1, Trail Blazers at Grizzlies, TNT

• Rangers at Mariners or Diamondbacks at Giants, MLB

• Western Conference quarterfinals, game 2, Jets at Ducks, NBCSP

• IndyCar, Grand Prix of Long Beach (Calif.), NBCSP

4:30 p.m.

9 p.m.

• Eastern Conference quarterfinals, game 2, Penguins at Rangers, NBC

3 p.m.

• Eastern Conference, first round, game 1, Nets at Hawks, TNT

• Yankees at Rays, FS1

7 p.m.

Noon

• NASCAR Sprint Cup, Food City 500, at Bristol, Tenn., Fox

2 p.m.

6 p.m.

• Eastern Conference quarterfinals, game 2, Red Wings at Lightning, NBC • Western Conference quarterfinals, game 2, Wild at Blues, NBCSP

• Formula One, Bahrain Grand Prix, NBCSP

• Eastern Conference, first round, game 1, Celtics at Cavaliers, ABC

3 p.m.

2 p.m.

10 a.m.

NBA playoffs

• Orioles at Red Sox, FS1

NHL playoffs

Auto racing

7 p.m.

1 p.m.

8:30 p.m.

Sunday

• Reds at Cardinals, ESPN

• Padres at Cubs, CSN • Reds at Cardinals, FSN

• Western Conference, first round, game 1, Mavericks at Rockets, ESPN

11:30 a.m.

• Premier League, Manchester United at Chelsea, NBC

12:30 p.m.

• White Sox at Tigers or Phillies at Nationals, MLB

• Eastern Conference, first round, game 1, Bucks at Bulls, ESPN

11 a.m.

• FA Cup, semifinals, Reading vs. Arsenal, at London, Fox

• Orioles at Red Sox or Phillies at Nationals, MLB

Noon

6 p.m.

9:55 a.m.

• Premier League, Burnley at Everton, NBCSP

Noon

MLB

• Western Conference, first round, game 1, Pelicans at Warriors, ABC

Soccer

• White Sox at Tigers, CSN

• LPGA, LOTTE Championship, final round, at Kapolei, Hawaii, TGC

2:30 p.m.

TV listings

5 p.m.

6 p.m.

• Eastern Conference, first round, game 1, Wizards at Raptors, ESPN

On the tube

NHL 11 a.m.

Favorite thing about playing softball?

Any interesting tales of playing for your dad?

The greatest part is that my dad [Brad Grenoble] is the coach, and he teaches me new things about slapping [slap hitting]. My favorite thing to do is to slap, because I feel I can succeed in that, even though it’s really hard to do.

It’s great. He teaches us all new stuff, but he treats me just like one of the players. It’s been great.

I like my coach [Jenna Adolph], and playing with my team. We’re all in the same grade, so we all get along really well. I’m a right hitter.

You and your dad also go hunting together, in search of deer and turkey. How has that gone?

At school, you’re also the sophomore class secretary. Anything fun about that?

Softball highlight?

Against West Carroll our first game this year, I had one of my best hits there. I hit it between short and third, and it made it out to left field. I was very happy with that hit.

What was it like watching your older sister, Taylor, play on some great Missile teams?

Their pitching was amazing, I can tell you that. Just seeing them work together as a team was inspiring.

Any volleyball highlights?

That’s the thing that me and him do all the time. That’s our hobby, just me and him.

We’ve got to think about prom and fundraising. We’ve just got to be ready for next year.

Have you bagged any animals?

Down the road, you hope to be a chiropractor.

How did you get interested in that profession?

Just a doe with my dad. He helped me shoot it.

What was it like the first time you fired a gun?

It scared me at first, because I was really young then, probably 10. The first time the gunshot went off, I screamed.

We drive past chiropractic places, and I always thought they were kind of cool. My parents go to Dr. Peterson in Sterling, and he seems like a nice guy, and I want my career to be that.

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• Eastern Conference quarterfinals, game 3, Capitals at Islanders, NBC 2 p.m.

• Western Conference quarterfinals, game 3, Predators at Blackhawks, NBC 6 p.m.

• Eastern Conference quarterfinals, game 3, Canadiens at Senators, NBCSP 9 p.m.

• Western Conference quarterfinals, game 3, Canucks at Flames, NBCSP

Soccer 7:25 a.m.

• Premier League, West Ham at Manchester City, NBCSP 7:30 a.m.

• FA Cup, semifinals, Aston Villa vs. Liverpool, at London, FS1 4 p.m.

• MLS, New England at Philadelphia, ESPN2 6 p.m.

• MLS, Portland at New York City, FS1

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• Sauk Valley at Prairie State

Baseball 10 a.m.

• Sterling at Freeport • Newman at Dixon (2) • Johnsburg at Oregon (2) • West Carroll at Unity (2) 11 a.m.

• Amboy at Erie-Prophetstown (2) • Bureau Valley at Riverdale (2) • Indian Creek at AFC (2) TBA

• Polo-Forreston at Byron Tournament

Girls soccer 12 p.m.

• Moline at Dixon TBA

• Sterling at DeKalb Barbfest

Softball 9 a.m.

• Dixon, Fulton, West Carroll at Steamer Invitational 10 a.m.

• Sterling at Rochelle 11 a.m.

• Amboy at Erie-Prophetstown (2) • Bureau Valley at Riverdale (2) • Indian Creek at AFC (2) 12 p.m.

• Sterling vs. Hononegah (at Rochelle) 2:30 p.m.

• Boylan at Rock Falls (2)

Boys tennis 8 a.m.

• Newman at Freeport Invitational

Boys track 10 a.m.

• Dixon at Rochelle Relays • Bureau Valley at Hall Invitational 11 a.m.

• Sterling, Rock Falls at Freeport Invitational

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Jordan Spieth (right) talks with caddie Michael Greller on the 17th tee during the second round of the RBC Heritage tournament in Hilton Head Island, S.C. on Friday. Spieth shot a 62, while leader Troy Merritt fired a 61.

On good Merritt Leader’s 61 trumps Masters champion Spieth’s 62

BY PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – Littleknown Troy Merritt one-upped Masters champion Jordan Spieth at the RBC Heritage.

Merritt shot a 10-under 61 on Friday to tie the course record at Harbour Town Golf Links, only a few hours after Spieth wowed the gallery with a bounce-back 62 to match his lowest PGA Tour round.

Merritt tied David Frost’s tournament mark set in 1994, and topped the leaderboard at 12-under 130, a stroke off the 36-hole event record shared by Jack Nicklaus

and Phil Mickelson.

Merritt, who opened with a 69 on Thursday, saw Spieth’s score in the morning, and knew the opportunity was there to go low.

“Anytime that you match shot for shot with the Masters champ, with the way he’s playing, it’s a pretty good feeling,” said Merritt, whose career best in four seasons on the PGA Tour is a tie for second last year at the St. Jude Classic.

Spieth looked like the headliner Friday, following a 74 on Thursday with the 62 – which tied his career low set at the Deutsche Bank Championship in 2013.

The 21-year-old Texan has been on a major roll the past month, winning the Valspar Championship and finishing second in San Antonio and Houston before capturing his first major title at Augusta National last week.

Spieth birdied his final two holes at Harbour Town, electrifying the crowds already there to cheer him, to shoot the lowest tournament round in 10 years – until Merritt did him one better.

Merritt had nine birdies over his final 10 holes to surge on top and send Spieth six shots behind on a day of low scoring.

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Troy Merritt 69-61—130 -12 Matt Kuchar 68-66—134 -8 John Merrick 69-65—134 -8 Graeme McDowell 66-69—135 -7 Kevin Kisner 68-67—135 -7 Jim Furyk 71-64—135 -7 Morgan Hoffmann 68-68—136 -6 Matt Every 66-70—136 -6 Louis Oosthuizen 69-67—136 -6 Jordan Spieth 74-62—136 -6

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BY JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer

BRISTOL, Tenn. – Richard Childress Racing appealed NASCAR’s penalties against Ryan Newman’s team to the highest level on Friday, and crew chief Luke Lambert was eligible to return to work at Bristol Motor Speedway.

RCR made the move a day after losing its bid to overturn penalties levied against Newman’s team for allegedly manipulating tires at a race last month at California. Although a three-person appeals panel reduced some of the sanctions, the 6-week suspensions for crew chief Luke Lambert and two other team members were upheld.

RCR sent Todd Parrott to Bristol on Friday as interim crew chief for Newman, but the decision to take the case to Final Appeals Officer Bryan Moss means Lambert and the two suspended crew members can work this weekend.

There was no immediate word from RCR if Lambert will direct Newman on Sunday, or if engineer Philip Surgen and tire specialist

AP

NASCAR driver Ryan Newman listens to a crew member while sitting in his car during practice last week. On Friday, Richard Childress Racing appealed NASCAR’s penalties against Newman’s team for tampering with tires.

James Bender would return to work.

Moss has not set a date to hear the case, and has deferred the suspensions. Lambert missed practice and qualifying Friday.

RCR’s decision to appeal could backfire: Moss, a former Gulfstream executive, could reinstate the original penalties.

The appeals panel reduced the points penalty to Newman and

the team from 75 to 50 points, and Lambert’s fine from $125,000 to $75,000.

There had been speculation throughout the garage that teams were poking tiny holes in their tires in a move called “bleeding tires”, and NASCAR seized tires after races at Phoenix and California. Of the four teams who had tires confiscated after California, only Newman’s tires came back as hav-

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Kendall Schler was stripped of her GO! St. Louis Marathon victory Wednesday, after race officials determined she never actually ran the race. The 26-year-old is thought to have entered the course sometime after the final checkpoint, and ahead of the lead bicycle escort, crossing the finish line at the 2:50:30 mark.

Andrea Karl, a Washington University graduate student who finished the race in 2:54:28, was the real winner of the race.

Race officials initially looked into the suspicious finish when Schler was not wearing her race bib in the correct location, and had not recorded any electronic times throughout the race. Schler claimed she removed the magnetic strips from her bib because she did not want to record her times, but tampering with official race bibs is a violation of race protocol.

ing been manipulated.

Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano’s tires were taken at Phoenix, and both passed an inspection.

Unsure how the appeal process would go, RCR had the foresight to send an interim crew chief to a test session this week with Newman. As the team debated on whether it wanted to appeal further, it sent Parrott to Bristol on Friday in Lambert’s place.

Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel has expressed remorse and asked for privacy following a 10-week stay in rehab.

In his first public comments since he entered a treatment facility on Jan. 28, Manziel apologized to the Browns and their fans, and acknowledged he has a long way to go to win back people’s respect.

“I owe private apologies to a lot of people that I disappointed, but a very public one to the Browns organization and the fans that I let down,” Manziel said in the statement released Friday by the Browns. “I take full responsibility for my actions, and it’s my intention to work very hard to regain everyone’s trust and respect.”

Winston’s attorney calls new suit a stunt The attorney for NFL prospect Jameis Winston said the lawsuit filed against the former Florida State University quarterback by a woman who says he raped her is “false” and a “stunt.”

David Cornwell said in a written statement Friday the lawsuit by former Florida State student Erica Kinsman was expected.

He said her accusations have been rejected by police and Florida State.

The lawsuit was filed Thursday, 2 weeks before the NFL draft, where Winston could be the No. 1 pick.

“Ms. Kinsman’s false accusations have already been exposed and rejected six times. This time will be no different,” Cornwell said.

SPORTS MEDIA

ESPN suspends reporter ESPN has suspended reporter Britt McHenry after a video surfaced of her insulting a towing company clerk’s intelligence, job and appearance.

ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said Thursday that McHenry has been suspended for a week.

McHenry tweeted an apology, saying she let her emotions get the best of her “in an intense and stressful moment.”

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FIRST ROUND PREVIEW CAPSULES | BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EASTERN CONFERENCE No. 1 Hawks (60-22) vs.

No. 8 Nets (38-44)

No. 2 Cavaliers (53-29) vs.

No. 7 Celtics (40-42)

No. 3 Bulls (50-32) vs.

No. 6 Bucks (41-41)

No. 4 Raptors (49-33) vs.

No. 5 Wizards (46-36)

Season Series: Hawks, 4-0. Atlanta led by at least 14 in every game, once by as much as 39. Brooklyn never led in any of the four games by more than eight points.

Story Line: Can Atlanta do it in the playoffs? Much has been made of the culture change Mike Budenholzer has engineered, but note this: the Hawks haven’t won two playoff series in the same year since 1958, when they were in St. Louis.

Key Matchup 1: Kyle Korver vs. Joe Johnson. Both can get sizzling hot, and Brooklyn’s only hope is probably that Johnson finds a way to thwart his former team. Korver shot 49 percent from 3-point range this season; he’s only a 39 percent shooter from beyond the arc in his playoff career.

Key Matchup 2: Jeff Teague vs. Deron Williams. Atlanta is 50-13 when Teague has four turnovers or fewer. Williams saw his scoring drop for the third straight year, and he struggled with his shot in his three appearances against Atlanta this season.

X-Factor: Brook Lopez. He’s only played in the playoffs once before, but averaged 22.3 points in a seven-game loss to Chicago in 2013.

Prediction: Hawks in 5.

Season Series: Tied, 2-2. It’s slightly misleading; both of Boston’s wins came in the final days of the regular season, when Cleveland’s spot on the East bracket was already secured. Both teams went 1-1 on the other’s home floor.

Story Line: LeBron James, back with the Cavaliers, back in the playoffs, back against the Celtics. Of course. Boston ended James’ first run with Cleveland in 2010, remember. So how perfect is it that James’ second quest to deliver a title to championship-starved Northeast Ohio starts with Boston?

Key Matchup 1: Kyrie Irving vs. Marcus Smart. Boston is a big longshot in this series, but if Smart can find a way to keep Irving in some sort of check, the Celtics will give the Cavaliers some headaches.

Key Matchup 2: Tristan Thompson vs. Isaiah Thomas. No, they won’t be guarding each other, but their roles are huge. Thomas is explosive off Boston’s bench, while Thompson finds himself pulling many duties in his role as Cleveland’s go-to sub.

X-Factor: Kevin Love. Like Irving, he’s making his long-awaited postseason debut. He’ll have to learn fast what this time of year is all about.

Prediction: Cavaliers in 5.

Season Series: Bulls, 3-1. Chicago held Milwaukee to 87 points or fewer in all three wins, and neither team scored more than 95 points in any of the four games.

Story Line: Welcome back to the playoffs, Derrick Rose. He blew out a knee in Game 1 of Chicago’s 2012 loss to Philadelphia, and hasn’t seen the floor in a postseason game since. He’s shown flashes of great things since coming back late this season. The Bulls absolutely need him at a high level, or else.

Key Matchup 1: Jimmy Butler vs.

Khris Middleton. Butler has been great for Chicago all season, a true Most Improved Player candidate. Middleton keeps steadily getting better, was part of just 15 wins last year, and now is a go-to option for the Bucks.

Key Matchup 2: Pau Gasol vs. Zaza Pachulia. Gasol led the NBA in doubledoubles this season. Pachulia is a playoff veteran, but will have his hands full.

X-Factor: Tom Thibodeau. The Bulls have lost eight of their last nine playoff games under Thibodeau, whose job security might hinge on Chicago going deep in these playoffs.

Prediction: Bulls in 5.

Season Series: Raptors, 3-0. One of the wins was in overtime, and another went down to the buzzer, but out of the first 103 minutes where the teams went head-to-head this season, the Raptors trailed for all of 23 seconds.

Story Line: Will this be the breakthrough for the Raptors? They’ve never won a best-of-seven series, and have been past the first round only once, back when those were best-of-five matchups.

Key Matchup 1: Kyle Lowry vs. John Wall. Two of the elite point guards in the game. Lowry could have left Toronto last summer and didn’t; Wall shot just 37 percent in last year’s playoffs for Washington, and needs to improve that number.

Key Matchup 2: Jonas Valanciunas vs. Marcin Gortat. They’re almost identical; both European, both virtually the same height and weight, both shot 57 percent this year and averaged about 12 points and 9 rebounds per game.

X-Factor: Paul Pierce. He helped Brooklyn win a Game 7 in Toronto last year, and his recollections of that series should be invaluable to the Wizards now.

Prediction: Wizards in 7.

WESTERN CONFERENCE No. 1 Warriors (67-15) vs.

No. 8 Pelicans (45-37)

No. 2 Rockets (56-26) vs.

No. 7 Mavericks (50-32)

No. 3 Clippers (56-26) vs.

No. 6 Spurs (55-27)

No. 4 Trail Blazers (51-31) vs. No. 5 Grizzlies (55-27)

Season Series: Warriors, 3-1. Golden State won the two games on its home floor with ease, one by 27 and the other by 16. New Orleans won the last meeting, earlier this month.

Story Line: Leading MVP candidate Stephen Curry goes against the league’s unquestioned budding megastar in Anthony Davis. And the Pelicans will play like they have nothing to lose.

Key Matchup 1: Draymond Green/ Andrew Bogut vs. Davis. Green figures to get the bulk of the defensive workload here, and is going to have his hands full, obviously. If Davis gets rolling, the Warriors will have cause for worry. Some cause, anyway.

Key Matchup 2: Curry/Klay Thompson vs. Tyreke Evans/Eric Gordon. The Pelicans actually did OK against the Warriors’ starry backcourt, holding them to a combined 43 percent shooting.

They’ll have to do that again, or even better.

X-Factor: Norris Cole. Traded to New Orleans by Miami midseason, Cole has been in three previous postseasons – getting to the NBA Finals every time.

And he’s quick enough to make Curry work, too.

Prediction: Warriors in 5.

Season Series: Rockets, 3-1. Don’t get too swayed by that. Combined score of those four games: Rockets 402, Mavericks 398. Dallas had double-digit leads in three of the games.

Story Line: James Harden missed out on the scoring title, and will likely miss out on the MVP as well, but now gets a chance for something better. Harden has yet to get Houston past the first round.

Key Matchup 1: Jason Terry vs. Rajon Rondo. The Rockets went 8-3 down the stretch with Terry in the starting lineup.

Rondo has been in 92 playoff games already, and though his tenure with Dallas hasn’t always been smooth, he certainly knows how to win at playoff time.

Key Matchup 2: Tyson Chandler vs.

Dwight Howard. There’s serious star power in this series, with Harden, Monta Ellis, Dirk Nowitzki, and others. But Chandler and Howard will be vital. Some guys can get on scoring streaks; these two can get on rebound streaks.

X-Factor: Chandler Parsons. He was with the Rockets for his first three seasons, then took Dallas’ big-money offer last summer, so perhaps it’s fitting that paths cross now.

Prediction: Rockets in 6.

Season Series: Tied, 2-2. Clippers won by 20 in San Antonio in January, before the Spurs found their end-of-season groove. Both teams went 1-1 on the other team’s floor.

Story Line: The best of the eight firstround matchups could very well be this one, pitting the defending champion Spurs against a Clippers team that’s still looking for that big postseason breakout. San Antonio rolled through the last third of its schedule, but now the question is whether the Spurs will be deflated by missing out on a chance to finish No. 2 in the West, and falling to the 6 spot.

Key Matchup 1: Chris Paul vs. Tony Parker. They’ve gone head-to-head 43 times, and Paul has the better stats – but Parker and the Spurs have won 28 of those matchups.

Key Matchup 2: Blake Griffin vs. Tim Duncan. Anytime a pair of former No. 1 picks get together – Duncan from 1997, Griffin from 2009 – it’s going to be worth watching. Duncan’s next playoff game will be the 235th of his career, while Griffin has played in only 30.

X-Factor: Kawhi Leonard. Since the start of the 2013 playoffs, the Spurs are 131-43 when he is in their lineup.

Prediction: Spurs in 6.

Season Series: Grizzlies, 4-0. Memphis held the high-octane Blazers to 91.3 points per game – more than 12 below their average output against everyone else.

Story Line: Portland gets the higher seed by winning the Northwest Division, but doesn’t have home-court because the Grizzlies had the better record. And both of these teams have serious injury concerns.

Key Matchup 1: LaMarcus Aldridge vs. Marc Gasol. Neither figures to totally muzzle the other, but the pressure will be on both of these bigs.

Aldridge adding 3-point range this season will only add to Gasol’s challenge.

Key Matchup 2: Damian Lillard vs.

Mike Conley. Much like Aldridge, Lillard has gotten his numbers (22.0 ppg) against the Grizzlies this season.

And Conley missed the end of the regular season with a foot injury, so Lillard figures to put him to the test right away.

X-Factor: Tony Allen. He hasn’t played since late March because of a bad hamstring, and the Grizzlies will need their defensive ace.

Prediction: Grizzlies in 6.

NBA | BULLS

Time for Bulls to deliver goods At full strength, Chicago must live up to great expectations Now, they’re going against a rebuilt team that made a big jump CHICAGO – With the return of from winning a league-low 15 games Derrick Rose and the addition of Pau last year to finishing 41-41 in its first Gasol, the Chicago Bulls came into season under coach Jason Kidd. The the season with soaring expectations. sixth-seeded Bucks did that despite Now, it’s time to deliver. losing Jabari Parker, the No. 2 draft The Bulls open the playoffs at pick and a Chicago native keenly home against the Milwaukee Bucks interested in this series, to a seasonon Saturday, eyeing a deep run ending knee injury. after battling injuries during the “We’ve got nothing to lose, really,� regular season. said Bucks point guard Michael They expect to have all their startCarter-Williams, acquired in Februers available, a rarity to this point, ary. “Everyone’s expecting them to and they still see themselves as a win. We’ve just got to go in there force in the Eastern Conference being the underdogs and just fight.� after earning the third seed with a Here are some things to look for 50-32 record. in this series: “I certainly feel a lot more conRose’s (playoff) return: All eyes fident than I did last year at this figure to be on Rose. After all, he time,� Mike Dunleavy Jr. said. hasn’t been healthy for the duraThere are a number of reasons tion of the playoffs since a run to why he would feel that way. the 2011 Eastern Conference finals.

Start with Rose making his first The Bulls lost to Miami, and their playoff appearance since the 2012 championship hopes were on hold postseason opener. Throw in the for a few years while the former addition of Gasol, Jimmy Butler’s MVP point guard recovered from a ascent to becoming an All-Star, torn ACL and then a torn meniscus the depth, and the fact that all five in his right knee. starters are expected to play. “Obviously, he’s been through a The Bulls are 17-5 when they go lot,� coach Tom Thibodeau said. with their regular lineup of Rose, Butler, Dunleavy, Gasol and Joakim “It’s good that he’s able to play.

When he’s on the floor, it makes us Noah.

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It’s been an inconsistent season for Rose, who recently missed about 6 weeks following a minor operation on his right knee. He also sat out the second half of Wednesday’s regular-season finale against Atlanta because of soreness in his left knee.

Carter-Williams adjusting: After an adjustment period following the trade from Philadelphia, CarterWilliams seems to have settled in as the Bucks finished the season 7-5.

The 2014 Rookie of the Year is more of a true point guard than Brandon Knight, whom the Bucks dealt to Phoenix as part of the three-team deal to get Carter-Williams. His 6-foot-6 frame adds another long defender to the court for a team that already includes 6-foot-11 Giannis Antetokounmpo on the wing.

Baby Bucks: A young team blossomed under first-year coach Jason Kidd’s tutelage to finish with a .500 record. The Bucks relied on defense.

Now that they’re in the playoffs, they are no longer an unknown commodity. How will Carter-Williams, Antetokounmpo and shooting guard Khris Middleton respond to their first doses of playoff pressure?

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Douglas Jerrold, a 19thcentury English dramatist, said, “He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that ... he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.”

At the bridge table, a duck – playing low instead of taking the trick – may cause a shower of criticism from partner when it is wrong, but will result in a shower of praise when it is right.

In this deal, North ambitiously pushes South into six spades. West leads the heart queen. Declarer takes the trick with dummy’s king and calls for the club three. Should East duck?

North is right to be thinking about a slam, but he should allow his partner to have

some input. North might respond two no-trump, assuming that is the Jacoby Forcing Raise. Here, South would rebid four spades to show a minimum opening bid with no singleton or void. Then, may-

be North would pass. Alternatively, North could respond four clubs, if that would be a splinter bid showing good spade support and a singleton or void in clubs. South would sign off in four spades and maybe North would pass.

Almost every East would take the second trick with the club ace. Given dummy’s singleton, ducking looks far too dangerous. But note that South would then take 12 tricks: six spades, two hearts, one diamond, two clubs and a heart ruff in his hand. Both of dummy’s diamond losers would disappear on the club king and queen.

In contrast, let East duck at trick two. Yes, now South doesn’t concede a club trick, but he has two unavoidable diamond losers and goes down one. But I agree that that duck is hard to find. © 2015 UFS

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By SVM Sports Staff

Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com

Morrison’s Mason Sitzmore throws a pitch against St. Bede on Friday in Morrison. Sitzmore settled down after a rough first inning on the mound, but the Mustangs lost 13-1 in five innings.

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“I thought we put everything together today,” Olson said. “The coaches told us to go up there with an aggressive attitude and hit the ball, and we didn’t settle for anything less than that mindset. Seeing the ball put in play, getting guys on base early got us into it, and we just kept the chain rolling.”

“When they put that five-spot on us right away, I thought our competitiveness kind of melted,” Sondgeroth said. “We put our heads down and let them beat us.”

The big first inning was all St. Bede starter Gabe Braboy (2-1) would need.

The senior right-hander allowed just one run and three hits in a complete game, striking out six, walking two and hitting a batter.

The only damage he allowed was Ethan Fischbach’s two-out RBI single down the right-field line in the third inning, after Brock Smith led off the frame with a double in nearly the exact same spot.

“Gabe doesn’t do anything flashy, but he’s really filling that No. 2 spot [in the rotation] well,” St. Bede coach Bill Booker said. “He had good tempo, he pitched to contact, and the defense played errorless ball behind him.

“Throw in what I thought were great approaches at the plate, where we looked more aggressive and confident, and good things are going to happen.”

After that rough first inning, Morrison starter Mason Sitzmore settled down a bit. He got two quick outs to start the second, but a pair of walks and a wild pitch after Olson’s two-out single gave the Bruins a 6-0 lead.

Sitzmore retired the side on nine pitches in the third, but got just one out in the fourth, on a sacrifice bunt following Matt Szczepaniak’s leadoff walk. Olson drove him in with a single, then stole second and third, scoring after the throw to third bounded down the left-field line. G.W. Leynaud singled, Brady Booker doubled, then Braboy helped his own cause with a sac fly to

plate Leynaud.

“We got behind real quick, and I think it rattled Mason a little bit,” Sondgeroth said. “He was inconsistent today, up and down in the zone, and when he left a fastball up, they were pounding it.

But if we make a couple of plays behind him, the complexion of a few of those innings changes, and who knows what happens then.”

Fischbach got the final two outs of the fourth, but then allowed four runs (two earned) and five hits in the fifth before Smith came on to get the final out.

Sam Halm added the other two-run triple in the first, and doubled to lead off the fifth before scoring on a throwing error. That came when Szczepaniak, who singled two batters later, stole second, and the throw skipped into centerfield. Szczepaniak finished with two singles and three runs scored.

Sitzmore (3-2) allowed nine runs (seven earned) and six hits, striking out four and walking four while throwing two wild pitches – both with Olson on third – in 3 1/3 innings.

The Morrison Fillies scored five runs in the second inning and six more in the fourth to beat St. Bede 11-0 in five innings Friday in a Three Rivers crossover contest.

Emma Sitzmore singled, homered and drove in two runs, and Brooke Stralow added two doubles for the Fillies. Lauren Pannier had two hits and two RBIs, Rachel Davis drove in two runs, and Lauren Rice had two hits and an RBI. Pannier picked up the win in the circle, striking out four without a walk in three innings of two-hit ball. Rice struck out three in two innings of one-hit relief.

AFC 10, South Beloit 6:

Bryce Gittleson homered and drove in three runs as the Raiders picked up a road win against the SoBos. Lexi Meurer had three hits for AFC. Cassidy Koning was the winning pitcher.

Milledgeville 5, Pecatonica 2: The Missiles scored

all five runs in the first two innings in an NUIC East home win.

Jocelyn Folkers hit a three-run double for Milledgeville, and Natalie Brown pitched seven strong innings. Brown allowed four hits and two earned runs, while striking out 10.

Baseball

Forreston-Polo 9, East Dubuque 0: The Cardinals

won their first game at the Byron tournament, behind seven hits and a strong performance on the mound by Caleb Poffenberger.

Poffenberger went all seven innings and scattered four hits, while striking out five and walking two. Robert DeVries went 3-for-3 with three RBIs. Richie Bartnick scored three runs and added an RBI for Forreston-Polo (14-4, 5-0 NUIC).

Putnam County 5, ErieProphetstown 4, 8 inn.:

The Panthers allowed a run in the top of the

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Morrison’s Rachel Davis slides safely into home plate during Friday’s 11-0, five-inning win over St. Bede at Morrison. eighth in a nonconference home loss.

Phillip Coers had a triple and Kale Orman had three hits, including a double, for Erie-Prophetstown (4-8). Orman also pitched five innings and allowed four earned runs and four hits while striking out three and walking three.

Jordan Chandler took over in the sixth inning and took the loss, allowing an earned run in the eighth.

Boys track & field

Comets 2nd at Riverdale: Newman won seven

events, including two in meet-record fashion, on its way to second place at the 12-team Riverdale Invitational in Port Byron.

ROWVA won the meet with 154 points, while the Comets were next with 118. West Carroll (6th, 23) and Morrison (7th, 20) also competed.

Meet records were set by the 3,200 relay team of Chris Ahlers, Quincy Coomes, Drew Rosengren and Bryson Reyes (8:25.45), and Ahlers in the 1,600 (4:33.62).

Regan Todhunter had a big meet. He won the 110 hurdles (15.79) and 300 hurdles (41.71), and teamed with Easton Bianchi, Ethan Nash and Nolan McGinn to win in 45.13.

Bianchi was also a double winner individually.

He took the 100 (11.55) and 200 (23.24).

Girls track & field

second in the B division triple jump for Oregon’s top finish at the eightteam Ottawa A-B-C Invitational.

Mahoney’s runner-up effort was 31 feet, 2 1/2 inches.

Oregon amassed 106.5 points, behind Huntley (282), Kaneland (269), Dunlap (261.5), Burlington Central (191) and LaSalle-Peru (146).

West Carroll fifth, Morrison 10th at Riverdale i n v i t e : The Thunder

scored 44 points to earn fifth place, while Morrison’s two points earned it 10th out of 10 teams.

Annawan-Wethersfield won with 163 points.

West Carroll’s Courtney Boyer led the Thunder with a second-place finish in the 100 hurdles, finishing in 16.64. Boyer also finished fourth in the 300 hurdles (50.93), while teammate Hailey Barsema was third in the 800 (2:40.86).

Men’s tennis Elgin 9, Sauk Valley 0:

Eric Ardis lost a tiebreaker at No. 4 singles for the Skyhawks in a home loss to Elgin.

Women’s softball Skyhawks split: Sauk Valley split a twinbill at South Suburban, taking the first game 12-7 before losing the nightcap 3-2.

Stephanie Kester won the first game, while PrisHawks 6th at Ottawa: cilla Aponte lost the secDelaney Mahoney placed ond game.

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Sauk Valley All-time Top 10 Boys Triple jump

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“The jump breaks down into three phases: a single-leg hop, going into a bound, then a long jump at the end,” ErieProphetstown jumps coach Liz Green said. “Once you find out which leg they’ll be able to use those first two jumps, you want to make sure to get a really long second phase – and that’s the weakness of most athletes, and where they falter in the event.”

Green has coached a pair of standout triple jumpers. Paige Rus won the Class 1A state title in the event as a senior in 2013, and freshman teammate Rachel Cobert placed sixth.

Cobert also took sixth at state in the event last year, improving by a foot as a sophomore, from 35 feet, 1 1/2 inches to 36-2.

Rus’ 2013 leap of 36 feet, 9 1/2 inches is the Panther record, and Cobert is hoping to break that mark with a 37-foot leap by the time she graduates next spring.

So what does Green look for when trying to find triple jumpers?

“Obviously it starts with having a natural jumping ability,” said Green, who has found triple jumpers in P.E. class, on the basketball court, and even during a health class when doing the standing long jump.

“Then, you look for a kid with a really good, long stride. When you gave both of those things, you’ll have a really good triple jumper.”

Cobert has all of those things, and she has added experience to boot. Her father, Bob, was a triple jumper for Erie back in his high school days, and her

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Distance 47-4 45-11 3/4 45-7 45-3 45-0 1/2 45-0 1/2 44-11 44-9 1/2 44-7 1/2 44-4 1/2 Distance 37-5 36-9 1/2 36-2 36-2 36-1 35-5 1/2 35-4 35-3 1/2 34-10 34-3 1/4

Editor’s note: Times and dates provided by coaches and school officials. Any missing records can be submitted to the sports department at sports@saukvalley.com brother, Rob, competed in the event as well.

“It’s kind of a family affair for me, so I started really young,” Cobert said. “I was learning it in elementary school, when my dad was working with my brother when he got to middle school. By the time I got to middle school, I was pretty familiar with it.

“It’s an event not a lot of people do, or are even interested in doing. It’s very unique, very technical, and I think it’s interesting because it’s very challenging.”

That’s what drew former Sterling standout Joe Schneiderbauer to the event, as

well. Schneiderbauer was a two-time state qualifier in the triple jump, and he holds the Warriors’ second-best jump in program history of 45-3, 8 3/4 inches behind all-time leader Greg Colberg.

Schneiderbauer, who played football and ran track at North Central College, tried to triple jump in college, but used his all-around athleticism to become a decathlete instead.

This year, he has returned to Sterling to help coach the Warrior jumpers as he finishes up chiropractic school, and he hopes to find a job in the area so as to continue coaching the event he loves.

“It just takes a different skill-set, more than just pure strength,” said Schneiderbauer, who got the nickname “Jumping Joe” in middle school. “You have to be able to turn downward momentum from landing in the first two jumps into upward momentum into the second and third jumps. It’s a chance for kids that may not be the most explosive ones in the long jump to use their coordination and extend one jump into three different ones.

“I think it’s fun, but it’s also a real challenge, and because of that, you get those athletes that really want to compete in it.

A lot of kids come out and try it, thinking it will be fun, and when they figure out just how hard it is, they choose to go somewhere else on the track.

The athletes that triple jump, they really want to be here and work at it and get good at it.”

Once you get the form down, there’s really no quick fixes to improve your results. In the end, it comes down to learning the phases so well that your body can take over, so your brain can quiet down from the “thousand things running through your head,” as Cobert puts it.

“It’s doing the drills to strengthen your hips and knees and ankles and legs,” she said, “just improving on the little areas of the different parts of the jump. In the end, when you perfect those things, it all adds up.”

Cobert admits that she’s still learning how to triple jump, and loves watching her fellow competitors at the state meet to pick up pointers on how to do it well, especially in the areas of the cycle that she struggles with.

Schneiderbauer agrees. Even having been around it at the Class AA state meet as a junior and senior, and then with teammates at North Central, he still studies the craft in order to help his young pupils get better.

“It just doesn’t come to you overnight; it’s not even something you master in 1 or 2 years,” Schneiderbauer said.

“It takes tremendous athletic ability and a lot of hard work, and I’m still in awe whenever I see someone do it correctly.

It’s very rare to see someone put all three phases together at such a high level, and be able to extend out each jump as far as possible to get the maximum distance.”

And that’s what keeps DePasquale coming back as well. He has studied the event for decades, even researching to find out that the event originally became popular in the late 18th century in Scotland – “What the heck were the Scottish people doing, throwing logs and doing weird jumps?” he asks with a laugh – before becoming a staple of the modern track meet.

But as few and far between as it is, even for a guy who’s seen thousands of jumpers throughout the years, there are still those rare occasions when DePasquale is left shaking his head in wonder when he sees an athlete who excels in the event.

“When it’s done well, it’s really very balletic, just poetry in motion,” he said. “When you get the right athlete who’s very flexible and very strong, having great balance and that little bit of fearlessness because the event is just so out there, it’s just so beautiful ... and I think that’s what keeps athletes and fans coming back.”

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MLB ROUNDUP

Silence not golden No replay challenge costs Sox; Cardinals win By the Associated Press

Coming into this season, the Tigers had started 9-1 just twice since World War I: in 1968 and 1984, the years of Detroit’s last two World Series titles.

Detroit has won nine of its first 10 games once again following Friday’s 2-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox, which ended on Jose Iglesias’ ninth-inning single.

Detroit’s rally was aided by a controversial call White Sox manager Robin Ventura didn’t challenge because he made his decision too late.

Nick Castellanos led off the ninth with a sinking liner to right off Zach Duke (1-1) that Melky Cabrera couldn’t grab cleanly. Castellanos stretched the hit into a double, and while replays appeared to show shortstop Alexei Ramirez tagging him on a toe, second-base umpire Brian O’Nora called the runner safe.

Ramirez signaled to the Chicago dugout, and Ventura came out to discuss the play with the umpires. He did not immediately ask for a replay review.

Ventura returned to the dugout, then came back on the field after hearing from the team’s replay staff. Umpires ruled the time for a challenge had lapsed because the manager had gone back to the dugout, and the Tigers had inserted Andrew Romine to pinch run for Castellanos.

“The video shows what happened,” Ramirez said.

“It was clear. I’m 100 percent sure I tagged him.”

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Men’s tennis Friday’s result at Sauk Valley C.C.

ELGIN 9, SAUK VALLEY 0 Singles 1. Parker Featherstan (E) def. Alex Knack 6-1, 6-1 2. Christian DeLaCruz (E) def. Brady Reuter 6-4, 6-1 3. Syed Basit (E) def. Julius Alvarado 6-0, 6-1 4. Steve Waynick (E) def. Eric Ardis 6-4, 4-6, 10-2 5. Dylan Keeling (E) def. Jonathon Downing 6-0, 6-3 6. Teddy Lazopalos (E) def. Brennan Chacon 6-0, 6-0 Doubles 1. Featherstan, DeLaCruz (E) def. Knack, Reuter 6-1, 6-2 2. Basit, Keeling (E) def. Alvarado, Downing 6-0, 6-1 3. Tony Hernandez, Lazopalos (E) def.

Ardis, Chacon 6-3, 6-0 Record: SVCC 1-6

Baseball Friday’s results at Morrison Sports Complex

ST. BEDE 13, MORRISON 1, 5 inn.

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White Sox starting pitcher Jeff Samardzija throws during the first inning of Friday’s game against the Tigers in Detroit. The Tigers won 2-1.

Padres 5, Cubs 4: The fans at Wrigley Field hoped to see a home run or two. They did, only not from the hitter they came to watch.

San Diego newcomers Wil Myers and Will Middlebrooks connected, while the Padres held prized Cubs rookie Kris Bryant hitless.

Myers hit his first homer for the Padres, a three-run shot off reliever Brian Schlitter (0-1) in the seventh inning that put them ahead for good.

Middlebrooks hit his second homer, a two-run drive off Jason Hammel that helped the Padres win their third in a row and for the sixth time in seven games.

San Diego, last in run production in the majors last season, got timely power for a second straight game.

Bryant went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts in his big league debut.

He was called up 1 day after the team ensured he can’t be eligible for free agency until 2021.

The Cubs selected his contract from Triple-A Iowa and inserted him into their starting lineup as the cleanup hitter and third baseman.

James Shields (2-0) struck out Bryant swinging in his first three atbats. His groundout in the seventh was pivotal for San Diego.

Cardinals 6, Reds 1:

Michael Wacha pitched seven strong innings, and Yadier Molina delivered a bases-clearing double to lead the Cardinals to a win over Cincinnati in St. Louis.

With the score 1-1, Matt Holliday led off the bottom of the seventh with a single to right field. He went to third on a oneout double by Jhonny Peralta that landed just in front of left fielder Marlon Byrd and bounced past him.

Bryant handles debut with poise to wag its tail at the sight of a bone, but Bryant did his part to ratchet down expectations with four The moment celebrated forgettable at-bats. On the boy from Las Vegas this day, Bryant left his growing into a man signature with three K’s. nobody on the North “I was trying to do a Side considers a gamble, little too much,” Bryant the latest Cubs can’tsaid. “You want to hit miss third-base prospect four home runs in one who seems different at-bat. I didn’t get any from Gary Scott and results, but no reason to Kevin Orie and all the hang my head.” rest.

It certainly will not Mike’s eyes moistened swell after Day One. after seeing Kris for the The slugger considered first time as a majorbaseball’s best prospect leaguer, wearing No. 17 struck out three times in blue pinstripes and after arriving Friday representing much more morning from New to his proud dad than a Orleans on 3 hours of third baseman hitting sleep. fourth in the order.

Bryant’s welcome-to“No words,” Mike told the-big-leagues moment me. “When you listen to came at 1:34 p.m., when a song by Tim McGraw Padres starter James or Justin Moore, it brings Shields needed only tears to your eyes and three pitches to strike lumps to your throat him out – none of them when you think about fastballs. He struck out the story being told. The two more times, making story being told today is Juan Samuel’s 31-yearnear and dear to my old National League family. … There is crying record for strikeouts by in baseball.” a rookie (168) relevant There was screaming, trivia to consider. too, during the Cubs’ 5-4 To the surprise of many, loss to the Padres in a and to the delight of game that didn’t exactly Bryant, his most impresfollow a script based on sive display came on “The Natural.” defense. He started a Manager Joe Maddon crisp 5-4-3 double play, was ejected after arguing dived to catch a liner, and a ball call on an 0-2 showed accuracy with count against Wil Myers, his arm that had been his who blasted a three-run biggest bugaboo. homer on the next pitch.

“We did bring him up Center fielder Dexter for his glove, didn’t we?”

Fowler hit a ball that Maddon kidded. got stuck in the brown Bryant was smiling outfield ivy, prompting postgame, too, calling fans to start an unprintthe whole Wrigleyville able chant when umpires experience “pretty cool,” ruled it a ground-rule like an awestruck teenagdouble. er. Going hitless in defeat But the most memosounds like a lousy way rable thing about a day to start an era, but the including Cubbie occur- Cubs still can define rences was Bryant’s Bryant’s first game as a highly anticipated debut. positive merely by his Telling a Cubs fan to presence. The latest temper his enthusiasm addition also was the over Bryant’s promotion biggest. Until infielder is like asking a puppy not Addison Russell arrives CONTINUED FROM B1

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this summer, right?

“Cubs fans understand what’s going on here,” Maddon said.

Call it progress, and that has nothing to do with the construction site in the bleachers. On a postcard April afternoon, the Cubs finally stopped talking around service time and agent Scott Boras, and started focusing on things that really matter.

Bryant batted cleanup behind No. 2 hitter Jorge Soler, and they weren’t in Des Moines. Cubs President Theo Epstein even claimed Bryant was called up exactly 12 days into the regular season because of Mike Olt’s wrist injury with a straight face.

Iowa Cubs hitting coach Brian Harper actually caught Bryant off guard Thursday night with news of his promotion, but almost everybody else sensed the moment was imminent.

Maddon called Bryant into his office before Friday’s game and issued two rules: Respect 90 feet, and enjoy yourself.

Then Bryant did just that, appearing unfazed as he articulated his thoughts in front of 40 media members.

In a nice touch, the only somber note Bryant sounded came when he expressed disappointment in not getting to play in front of late Cubs legend Ernie Banks. As for being the first Cubs player in 73 years to make his debut batting cleanup, Bryant smiled.

“It’s pretty cool,” Bryant said. “There’s no pressure in this game. If you’re feeling pressure, you’re not having fun. I play this game because it’s fun.”

His arrival suggests the fun could be just beginning for the Cubs.

St. Bede 510 34 — 13 12 0 Morrison 001 00 — 1 3 4 W – Gabe Braboy (2-1). L – Mason Sitzmore (3-2).

(At bats-runs-hits) ST. BEDE (9-3) Matt Szczepaniak ss 3-3-2, Jack Brady 2b 3-2-1, Jarret Olson cf 4-4-4, G.W. Leynaud 1b 3-1-2, Brady Booker rf 2-1-1, Gabe Braboy p 3-0-0, Josh Sapp cr 0-1-0, Nick Plankenhorn 3b 3-0-0, Colin Mitchell ph 1-0-0, Sam Halm 3-1-2, Nathan Bartley c 3-0-0. Totals: 28-13-12.

Braboy (5 IP, 1 ER, 3 H, 6 SO, 2 BB, 1 HBP) and Bartley. 2B – Booker, Halm.

3B – Olson, Halm. RBI – Olson 4, Halm 2, Booker, Braboy. SB – Olson 3, Szczepaniak. SAC – Brady. SF – Braboy. LOB – 6.

MORRISON (13-4) Andy Bird lf 2-0-0, Ethan Fischbach ss-p 1-0-1, Merik Kennedy 3b 1-0-0, Ryan VanZuiden 1b 3-0-0, Justin Jensen c 2-0-0, Mason Sitzmore p-ss 2-0-0, Ben Tegeler 2b 2-0-1, Joey Brackemyer cf 1-0-0, Brock Smith 3b-p 2-1-1, Chance Bender dh 2-00, Cody Southern rf 0-0-0. Totals: 18-1-3.

Sitzmore (3 1/3 IP, 9 R, 7 ER, 6 H, 4 SO, 4 BB, 2 WP), Fischbach (1 1/3 IP, 4 R, 2 ER, 6 H, 1 SO, 0 BB), Smith (1/3 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 SO, 0 BB) and Jensen. 2B – Smith. RBI – Fischbach. SB – Bird, Fischbach. LOB – 5.

E – Jensen 2, Smith, Tegeler. at Prophetstown

PUTNAM COUNTY 5, PROPHETSTOWN 4, 8 inn.

Putnam County000 220 01 – 5 6 1 Prophetstown 002 000 20 – 4 8 0 W – Elliott. L – Jordan Chandler PUTNAM COUNTY Multi hits – Stasel 3. 2B – Stasel 2. 3B – Stasel. RBI – Stasel 3, Bean, Veverk.

PROPHETSTOWN Kale Orman (5 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 3 K), Chandler (3 IP, 2 H, R, ER, 0 BB, 4 K).

Multi hits – Orman 3, Chandler 2. 2B – Orman. 3B – Phillip Coers. RBI – Chandler 2, Orman.

Byron Tournament at Byron

FORRESTON-POLO 9, EAST DUBUQUE 0 East Dubuque 000 000 0 – 0 4 2 Forreston-Polo150 012 x – 9 7 0 W – Caleb Poffenberger. L – Powers.

EAST DUBUQUE Powers (6 IP, 7 H, 9 R, 4 BB, K) FORRESTON-POLO (14-4, 5-0 NUIC) Poffenberger (7 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 5 K).

Multi hits – Robert DeVries 3, Austin Groshans 2. RBI – DeVries 3, Richie Bartnick, Wyatt Kerchner.

Softball Friday’s results at Morrison Sports Complex

MORRISON 11, ST. BEDE 0, 5 inn.

St. Bede 000 00 — 0 3 4 Morrison 050 6x — 11 11 0 W – Lauren Pannier. L – Sydney Eustice.

ST. BEDE Eustice (4 IP, 11 R, 7 ER, 11 H, 0 SO, 3 BB). 3B – Gabbie Morrow. SB – Emily Draper. LOB – 3. E – Draper, Tana Kilanowski, Julia Pohar, Brooke Tonozzi.

MORRISON Pannier (3 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 4 SO, 0 BB), Lauren Rice (2 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 3 SO, 0 BB). Multi hits – Rice 2, Pannier 2, Brooke Stralow 2, Emma Sitzmore 2. 2B – Stralow 2, Rice.

HR – Sitzmore. RBI – Pannier 2, Sitzmore 2, Rachel Davis 2, Rice. SB – Davis. SAC – Emma Melton. LOB – 3. at South Beloit

AFC 10, SOUTH BELOIT 6 AFC 104 500 0 — 10 15 5 South Beloit 014 000 1 — 6 6 6 W – Cassidy Koning. L – Jillian Stevens.

AFC Koning (7 IP, 6 R, 0 ER, 6 H, 5 SO). Multi hits – Bryce Gittleson 2, Carlee Hargis 2, Addison Wetzel 2, Lexi Meurer 3, Lauren Meurer 2. 2B – Hargis, Wetzel. 3B – Lexi Meurer. HR – Gittleson. RBI – Lauren Meurer, Gittleson 3, Koning, Lexi Meurer, Madeline Prestegaard.

SOUTH BELOIT Stevens (7 IP, 10 R, 4 ER, 15 H, 4 SO, 1 BB). Multi hits – Shian Galbreath 2. HR – Galbreath. RBI – Breanna Hoppe, Galbreath 3, Anna Andrews. at Milledgeville

MILLEDGEVILLE 5, PECATONICA 2 Pecatonica 000 002 0 – 2 4 2 Milledgeville 140 000 x – 5 6 1 W – Natalie Brown. L – Ponder PECATONICA Ponder (6 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 2 K).

RBI – Ponder 2.

MILLEDGEVILLE Brown (7 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, BB, 10 K).

Multi hits – Jade Grenoble 2. 2B – Jocelyn Folkers. RBI – Folkers 3, Jenna Bibler, Siegel.

Boys track & field Friday’s result

Riverdale Invitational

at Port Byron Team scores 1. ROWVA 154, 2. Newman 118, 3.

Annawan-Wethersfield 89, 4. BentonScales Mound-Shullsberg (Wis.) 45, 5.

Galena 28, 6. West Carroll 23, 7. Morrison 20, 8. Orion 17, 9. Riverdale 15, 10. Stark County 13, 11. Galva 3, 12. Kewanee 2 High jump – 1. Kyle Woodside (ROWVA) 6-4; Long jump – 1. Bret Woodside (ROWVA) 19-8; Triple jump – 1. James Reed (A-W) 39-5; Shot put – 1. Lucas Grawe (ROWVA) 45-7; Discus – 1. Brandon Sinagra (GAL) 124-6; 3,200 – 1.

Ethan Stanley (ROWVA) 10:43.8; 3,200 relay – 1. Newman (Chris Ahlers, Quincy Coomes, Drew Rosengren, Bryson Reyes) 8:25.45; 400 relay – 1. Newman (Easton Bianchi, Ethan Nash, Regan Todhunter, Nolan McGinn) 45.13; 110 hurdles – 1.

Todhunter (NEW) 15.79; 100 – 1. Bianchi (NEW) 11.55; 800 – 1. Bryent VanDeWostine (ROWVA) 2:05.13; 800 relay – 1.

Annawan-Wethersfield 1:35.27; 400 – 1.

Brad Tomlin (ROWVA) 52.87; 300 hurdles – 1. Todhunter (NEW) 41.71; 1,600 – 1. Ahlers (NEW) 4:33.62; 200 – 1. Binachi (NEW) 23.24; 1,600 relay – 1. ROWVA 3:34.66

Girls track & field Riverdale invite at Port Byron Team scores 1. Annawan-Wethersfield 163; 2. BentonScales Mound-Shullsburg 87; 3. Stark County 78; 4. Kewanee 63; 5. West Carroll 44; 6. Riverdale 36; 7. Orion 33; 8. ROWVA 16; 9. Galva 4; 10. Morrison 2

High jump – 1. Karissa Roman (AnnawanW) 5-2; Long jump – 1. Kayla DeMay (Annawan-W) 15-5; Triple jump – 1. Katie Thomson (Annawan-W) 32-9; Shot put – 1. Sierra Jordan (Kewanee) 34-7; Discus – 1. Sierra Jordan (Kewanee) 112-8; 3,200 relay – 1. Annawan-Wethersfield 10:20.59; 400 relay – 1. AnnawanWethersfield 52.53; 3,200 – 1. Kirstie Ramsey (Annawan-W) 12:32.28; 100 hurdles – 1. Lindsey Brown (AnnawanW) 16.36; 100 – 1. Briana Meinders (Stark County) 13.04; 800 – 1. Shauri Vogt (Kewanee) 2:29.47; 800 relay – 1.

Annawan-Wethersfield 1:51.76; 400 – 1. Shauri Vogt (Kewanee) 1:05.98; 300 hurdles – 1. Karissa Roman (AnnawanW) 48.11; 1,600 – 1. Olivia Draminski (Annawan-W) 5:46.20; 200 – 1. Briana Meinders (Stark County) 27.21; 1,600 relay – 1. Annawan-Wethersfield 4:19.22

CARDINALS 6, REDS 1

MLB

Cincinnati

American League East Division W L Pct Boston 7 3 .700 Tampa Bay 6 5 .545 Baltimore 5 5 .500 Toronto 5 6 .455 New York 4 6 .400 Central Division W L Pct Detroit 9 1 .900 Kansas City 8 2 .800 Minnesota 4 6 .400 Chicago 3 6 .333 Cleveland 3 6 .333 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 5 5 .500 Oakland 5 6 .455 Houston 4 6 .400 Texas 4 6 .400 Seattle 3 6 .333

GB — 1½ 2 2½ 3 GB — 1 5 5½ 5½ GB — ½ 1 1 1½

Friday’s results Detroit 2, Chicago White Sox 1 Atlanta 8, Toronto 7 Boston 3, Baltimore 2 N.Y. Yankees 5, Tampa Bay 4 Minnesota 3, Cleveland 2, 11 innings L.A. Angels 6, Houston 3 Kansas City 6, Oakland 4 Texas at Seattle, late Saturday’s games Atlanta (A.Wood 1-0) at Toronto (Dickey 0-1), 12:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Sale 1-0) at Detroit (An.Sanchez 1-1), 12:08 p.m.

Cleveland (Salazar 0-0) at Minnesota (P.Hughes 0-2), 1:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Tillman 1-1) at Boston (Buchholz 1-1), 3:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 1-1) at Houston (Keuchel 1-0), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 1-1) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 2-0), 6:10 p.m.

Oakland (Hahn 0-1) at Kansas City (Ventura 2-0), 6:10 p.m.

Texas (Lewis 1-0) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 1-0), 8:10 p.m.

Sunday’s games Atlanta at Toronto, 12:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 12:08 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 12:10 p.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 12:35 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Houston, 1:10 p.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 1:10 p.m.

Texas at Seattle, 3:10 p.m.

Monday’s games Baltimore at Boston, 10:05 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, 6:08 p.m.

Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 7:10 p.m.

Oakland at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.

Friday’s box score

TIGERS 2, WHITE SOX 1 Chicago

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bi 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

Detroit

ab r h bi Gose cf 4 0 2 0 Kinsler 2b 4 0 0 0 MiCarr 1b 4 0 2 0 JMrtnz rf 4 0 0 0 Cespds dh 4 1 1 1 Cstllns 3b 4 0 2 0 Romine pr 0 1 0 0 Avila c 3 0 0 0 JIglesis ss 4 0 2 1 RDavis lf 3 0 1 0 Totals 30 1 4 1 Totals 34 2 10 2 Chicago 010 000 000 — 1 Detroit 000 100 001 — 2 One out when winning run scored.

E–Bonifacio (1). DP–Chicago 1, Detroit 1.

LOB–Chicago 4, Detroit 8. 2B–Mi.Cabrera (4), Castellanos (2), J.Iglesias (3). HR–A. Garcia (1), Cespedes (1). S–Avila.

IP H R ER BB SO Chicago Samardzija 8 8 1 1 0 7 Duke L,1-1 1/3 2 1 1 0 0 Detroit Price 8 4 1 1 2 9 Soria W,1-0 1 0 0 0 0 0

National League East Division W L Pct New York 8 3 .727 Atlanta 7 3 .700 Washington 5 6 .455 Miami 3 8 .273 Philadelphia 3 8 .273 Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 6 3 .667 Chicago 5 4 .556 Cincinnati 5 5 .500 Pittsburgh 4 6 .400 Milwaukee 2 8 .200 West Division W L Pct Colorado 7 2 .778 Los Angeles 6 3 .667 San Diego 7 4 .636 Arizona 5 5 .500 San Francisco 3 8 .273

GB — ½ 3 5 5 GB — 1 1½ 2½ 4½ GB — 1 1 2½ 5

Friday’s results San Diego 5, Chicago Cubs 4 Pittsburgh 6, Milwaukee 3 Washington 7, Philadelphia 2 Atlanta 8, Toronto 7 N.Y. Mets 4, Miami 1 St. Louis 6, Cincinnati 1 Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, late Arizona at San Francisco, late Saturday’s games Philadelphia (Harang 1-1) at Washington (Zimmermann 1-1), 12:05 p.m.

Atlanta (A.Wood 1-0) at Toronto (Dickey 0-1), 12:07 p.m.

Cincinnati (Bailey 0-0) at St. Louis (C.Martinez 0-0), 1:15 p.m.

San Diego (T.Ross 1-0) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 0-0), 1:20 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 0-2) at Pittsburgh (Locke 1-0), 6:05 p.m.

Miami (Latos 0-2) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 1-1), 6:10 p.m.

Arizona (De La Rosa 2-0) at San Francisco (Heston 1-1), 8:05 p.m.

Colorado (Lyles 1-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 1-0), 8:10 p.m.

Sunday’s games Atlanta at Toronto, 12:07 p.m.

Miami at N.Y. Mets, 12:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 12:35 p.m.

San Diego at Chicago Cubs, 1:20 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.

Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 3:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at St. Louis, 7:05 p.m.

Monday’s games Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 6:20 p.m.

San Diego at Colorado, 7:40 p.m.

Friday’s box scores

PADRES 5, CUBS 4 San Diego Myers cf DeNrrs c Kemp rf Upton lf Alonso 1b Mdlrks 3b Gyorko 2b Amarst ss Shields p Solarte ph Thayer p Benoit p Venale ph Kimrel p

ab 4 4 4 4 2 4 4 4 2 1 0 0 1 0

r 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

h 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0

bi 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Totals

34 5 8 5

Chicago

ab Fowler cf 5 Soler rf 5 Rizzo 1b 2 Bryant 3b 4 Coghln lf 3 SCastro ss 4 Castillo c 4 HRndn p 0 Hamml p 3 Rosscp p 0 Schlittr p 0 Strop p 0 MMntr c 1 JHerrr 2b 2 Alcantr ph 1 Totals 34

San Diego 000 200 300 — 5 Chicago 002 020 000 — 4 E–Shields (1), Amarista (1), J.Herrera (1).

DP–Chicago 2. LOB–San Diego 4, Chicago 7. 2B–Fowler (3), Rizzo (1), Hammel (1). HR–Myers (1), Middlebrooks (2). SB– Fowler (3). S–J.Herrera.

IP H R ER BB SO San Diego Shields W,2-0 6 5 4 3 2 9 Thayer H,2 1 1 0 0 1 1 Benoit H,2 1 0 0 0 0 1 Kimbrel S,4-4 1 1 0 0 0 1 Chicago Hammel 6 1/3 7 4 4 1 5 Rosscup H,1 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 Schlitter L,0-1 1/3 1 1 1 0 0 Strop 1 0 0 0 1 1 H.Rondon 1 0 0 0 0 1 WP–Shields.

r 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 4

h 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 7

bi 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

ab 5 3 4 4 3 4 4 4 2 0 0

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h 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0

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St. Louis

ab r h bi MCrpnt 3b 4 2 2 0 Heywrd rf 4 0 1 0 Hollidy lf 2 1 1 1 Bourjo pr-cf 0 1 0 0 MAdms 1b 4 0 1 1 JhPerlt ss 3 1 1 1 Jay cf-lf 3 1 0 0 Molina c 3 0 1 3 Wong 2b 3 0 0 0 Wacha p 2 0 0 0 Rynlds ph 1 0 0 0 Siegrist p 0 0 0 0 Totals 33 1 6 1 Totals 29 6 7 6 Cincinnati 100 000 000 — 1 St. Louis 100 000 32x — 6 E–Phillips (1), Jh.Peralta (1), Wacha (1).

DP–Cincinnati 1. LOB–Cincinnati 9, St. Louis 3. 2B–Frazier (3), M.Carpenter 2 (6), Jh.Peralta (4), Molina (2). HR–Votto (4). S– Cueto. SF–Holliday, Jh.Peralta.

IP H R ER BB SO Cincinnati Cueto L,0-2 7 6 4 4 1 10 Hoover 1 1 2 1 1 0 St. Louis Wacha W,2-0 7 5 1 1 1 4 Siegrist S,1-1 2 1 0 0 1 3 HBP–by Siegrist (Negron).

T–2:21. A–46,462 (45,399).

BHmltn cf Votto 1b Frazier 3b Phillips 2b Bruce rf Byrd lf Pena c Cozart ss Cueto p Hoover p Negron ph

NBA playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Saturday’s games Washington at Toronto, 11:30 a.m.

New Orleans at Golden State, 2:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games Boston at Cleveland, 2 p.m.

Brooklyn at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m.

Portland at Memphis, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Monday’s games Milwaukee at Chicago, 7 p.m.

New Orleans at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

NHL playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) Friday’s results Montreal 3, Ottawa 2, OT, Montreal leads series 2-0 Washington 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, series tied 1-1 Nashville 6, Chicago 2, series tied 1-1 Calgary at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s games Detroit at Tampa Bay, 2 p.m.

Minnesota at St. Louis, 2 p.m.

Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Anaheim, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 11 a.m.

Nashville at Chicago, 2 p.m.

Montreal at Ottawa, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Monday’s games N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Auto racing NASCAR Sprint Cup

Food City 500 Lineup After Friday qualifying; race Sunday At Bristol Motor Speedway Bristol, Tenn.

Lap length: .533 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 128.632 mph.

2. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 128.442.

3. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 128.322.

4. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 128.211.

5. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 127.419.

6. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 127.317.

7. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 126.871.

8. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 126.829.

9. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 126.829.

10. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 126.612.

11. (18) David Ragan, Toyota, 126.436.

12. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 126.262.

13. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 127.081.

14. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 127.073.

15. (51) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 126.562.

16. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 126.503.

17. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 126.428.

18. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 126.088.

19. (95) Michael McDowell, Ford, 125.947.

20. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 125.939.

21. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 125.831.

22. (83) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 125.798.

23. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 125.609.

24. (55) Brett Moffitt, Toyota, 125.199.

25. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 126.378.

26. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 126.328.

27. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 126.303.

28. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 126.146.

29. (23) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, 126.046.

30. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 125.823.

31. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 125.798.

32. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 125.625.

33. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 125.551.

34. (26) Jeb Burton, Toyota, 125.51.

35. (98) Josh Wise, Ford, 125.453.

36. (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 125.158.

37. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, owner points.

38. (34) Chris Buescher, Ford, owner points.

39. (9) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, owner points.

40. (7) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, owner points.

41. (32) Mike Bliss, Ford, owner points.

42. (35) Cole Whitt, Ford, owner points.

43. (33) Alex Kennedy, Chevrolet, owner points.

Failed to Qualify 44. (62) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet, 124.034.

45. (30) Ron Hornaday Jr., Chevrolet, 123.682.

Golf Friday’s results PGA Tour

RBC Heritage At Harbour Town Golf Links Hilton Head Island, S.C. Purse: $5.9 million Yardage: 7,101; Par: 71 Second Round a-amateur Troy Merritt 69-61 — 130 Matt Kuchar 68-66 — 134 John Merrick 69-65 — 134 Graeme McDowell 66-69 — 135 Kevin Kisner 68-67 — 135 Jim Furyk 71-64 — 135 Morgan Hoffmann 68-68 — 136 Matt Every 66-70 — 136 Louis Oosthuizen 69-67 — 136 Jordan Spieth 74-62 — 136 Kevin Streelman 71-65 — 136 Jerry Kelly 71-66 — 137 Justin Thomas 70-67 — 137 Bo Van Pelt 69-68 — 137 Lucas Glover 70-67 — 137 Stewart Cink 70-67 — 137 Aaron Baddeley 70-67 — 137 Sean O’Hair 70-67 — 137 Blake Adams 72-65 — 137 Branden Grace 70-67 — 137 John Peterson 72-65 — 137 Scott Langley 68-70 — 138 Jim Renner 69-69 — 138 Vijay Singh 71-67 — 138 Bryce Molder 74-64 — 138 Ben Martin 69-69 — 138 Brice Garnett 72-66 — 138 Brendon de Jonge 70-68 — 138

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NHL PLAYOFFS

PREDATORS 6, BLACKHAWKS 2

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Stars send Caps past Isles Ovechkin, Backstrom lift Washington; Habs take 2-0 lead By the Associated Press

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Predators goalie Pekka Rinne (35) blocks a shot as the Blackhawks’ Marcus Kruger (16) and Teuvo Teravainen (86) reach for the puck during the second period of Game 2 of their first-round playoff series on Friday in Nashville, Tenn. The Predators won 6-2.

Preds put pedal to metal late Third-period flurry puts away Blackhawks, ties series at 1-1

BY CHRIS KUC Chicago Tribune

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – They arrived in Nashville looking for one victory and once they got it, the Blackhawks got greedy.

And why not? Taking a 2-0 lead on the road in a best-of-seven series goes a long way toward a short postseason round.

“We came here to try to grab at least one victory, and we already have the first one, which was really, really important,” winger Marian Hossa said before the Hawks took the ice against the Predators in Game 2 of the teams’ firstround series Friday night at Bridgestone Arena.

“Now we would like to get another one.”

They didn’t.

The Predators got goals from Craig Smith, Colin Wilson, and Roman Josi in

Star of the game: Colin Wilson, Preds, 2 goals the first two periods, and then blew the game open in the second half of the third with goals from Filip Forsberg, Wilson, and Mike Santorelli to post a 6-2 victory over the Hawks behind strong goaltending from Pekka Rinne. The triumph evened the series at one game apiece, with Game 3 set for Sunday at the United Center.

Patrick Sharp and Patrick Kane scored for the Hawks, but it wasn’t enough as Corey Crawford suffered the loss in goal. The Predators’ victory was that much more impressive as they played without captain Shea Weber for the second half of the game after the defenseman suffered a lower-body injury.

Nicklas Backstrom had a goal and two assists, and Alex Ovechkin scored once, leading the Washington Capitals and fill-in goalie Philipp Grubauer past the New York Islanders 4-3 Friday night in Washington to even their first-round playoff series at a game apiece.

After Washington’s two stars – Ovechkin led the NHL in goals, Backstrom was No. 1 in assists – were reunited on the top line, both scored to erase a 3-1 deficit.

“When we play our game, [when] we stay in their zone, everything can happen,” Ovechkin said.

Jason Chimera netted the go-ahead goal with 12½ minutes left.

“Stuck with the gameplan,” said Chimera, who had only seven goals in the regular season. “We wanted to stick with it, no matter what happened.”

It was the first time the Capitals had led in the series, which moves to New York for Game 3 on Sunday.

“Just because it doesn’t work right away, doesn’t mean it’s not working.

You’ve just got to keep doing the same things and the right things – and I thought we did,” Washington coach Barry Trotz said. “You could see it turning.”

Grubauer was called up from the minors Friday to replace starting goalie Braden Holtby, who was ill. Grubauer, a 23-yearold from Germany, made 18 saves.

Canadiens 3, Senators 2, OT: Alex Galchenyuk

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Weekend playoff schedule Saturday’s games • Game 2, Red Wings at Lightning, 2 p.m. (NBC) • Game 2, Wild at Blues, 2 p.m. (NBCSP) • Game 2, Penguins at Rangers, 7 p.m. (NBC) • Game 2, Jets at Ducks, 9:30 p.m. (NBCSP) Sunday’s games • Game 3, Capitals at Islanders, 11 a.m. (NBC) • Game 3, Predators at Blackhawks, 2 p.m. (NBC) • Game 3, Canadiens at Senators, 6 p.m. (NBCSP) • Game 3, Canucks at Flames, 9 p.m. (NBCSP) visiting Ottawa and giving the Canadiens a 2-0 lead in their first-round playoff series.

“It’s great to get an OT goal,” Galchenyuk said. “It’s always nice to get one, but I don’t sit around and think about

that. Time will tell when you can rate those kinds of goals.”

Max Pacioretty, back from a concussion that sidelined him in Game 1, and P.K. Subban scored in regulation for the Canadiens, while David

Desharnais picked up an assist on each.

“I think of myself as a player who steps up in big games and makes a difference,” Subban said.

“I always felt that the more pressure people put on me, the better I’ll play. I wanted to be better tonight for my teammates.”

Clarke MacArthur and Patrick Wiercioch scored for the Senators, and Mark Stone added two assists.

Carey Price stopped 29 shots for Montreal, while Ottawa’s Andrew Hammond made 37 saves.

Game 3 is Sunday in Ottawa.

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nother successful Spring Fling tournament is now in the books, and like the rest of them, this one did not disappoint.

Seventeen teams showed up last weekend to hit the waters of the Rock in search of the biggest 10 channel cats they could find.

As usual, the trash talk at the ramp pre-tournament was already in midseason form.

Some of these guys practice all winter, I swear. Still, it’s about as fun as fishing, trying to convince everyone else you’re better at it than they are.

Seven o’clock rolled around pretty quickly, and 17 boats loaded with little kids and bigger kids were off for the day. With the weigh-in scheduled for 1 p.m., there was not much time to waste.

The fishing leading up to the tournament had been inconsistent at best. So I, along with others, was wondering if 10 keeper fish would even be doable. Every minute was critical, to say the least.

I don’t remember a ton about everyone else’s day, but I know we landed just 11 fish.

If I remember correctly, most every team weighed in some fish.

I know two teams’ 10-fish weight topped 40 pounds, and a couple more topped 30. I also know most of the fish went back unharmed, and two channel cats topped the 8-pound mark.

I also was happy that Mother Nature cooperated with us for the most part, with only the gusty winds hampering fishing slightly. Warm enough conditions and some intermittent sun more than made up for it, though.

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Mark, along with his daughter Ashley, ran a very smooth weigh-in, and things were done absolutely perfect.

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Family-owned restaurant opened doors more than 25 years ago

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f you and your buddy are really hungry and want a free meal, you can get one at Maria’s Pizza in Dixon.

All you have to do is finish one of Maria’s 24-inch mega pizzas with three toppings and two drinks in less than 47 minutes, and the pizza is free.

In 4 years, 16 couples have tried to accomplish this feat, and owner Vince Mazzarisi, 49, has yet to see anyone beat the challenge.

“No one has done it,” Mazzarisi says with a laugh. “I want to see someone do it.”

Mazzarisi opened Maria’s Pizza in Dixon more than 25 years ago, and the familyowned restaurant has been serving up pizzas ever since.

“Everything we do is homemade,” says Mazzarisi, who was born in Sicily, Italy. “The sauce is made fresh every day.”

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About Maria’s Pizza

Phillip Mazzarisi, 20, tops a pizza with cheese at Maria’s Pizza. Mazzarisi is the manager at Maria’s. His younger brother, Marco, also works in the kitchen.

More online SVM reporter Jermaine Pigee stopped at Mom’s Diner, a new restaurant in Sterling, which features a menu full of breakfast favorites, some with a twist.

Pigee also visited Touch of Thai in Dixon, which offers authentic, homemade Thai cuisine along with a full sushi bar.

Go to saukvalley.com to read more about those experiences.

Address: 420 W. Third Street, Dixon Hours: 4 to 11 p.m.

Monday-Thursday; 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday Atmosphere: The restaurant has a small dining room. Most people either carry-out or have their pizza delivered.

Service: Because the food is made fresh, it might take some time for the food to be made and cooked.

Sound level: The dining room is right next to the kitchen, so there is a little bit of commotion. Other than that, it’s a nice place to have a conversation.

Most popular appetizer: Onion rings Chef recommends/ house special: Pizza, chicken tenders Drinks and wine: No Salad bar: No Video gambling: No Reservations: Not necessary

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New name, new look for local restaurant That Place on Palmyra opening soon

BY JERMAINE PIGEE jpigee@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5525 @JPigee84

DIXON – BombDigity Bar and Grill in Dixon has changed its name to That Place on Palmyra.

The restaurant, 628 Palmyra Road, is being renovated.

The building has been closed since early March.

An opening date has not been set. BombDigity originally opened in June 2013.

The menu has been enhanced and the restaurant will offer a variety of entrees, such as chicken, steak and pork chops.

That Place on Palmyra also will include made-fromscratch appetizers, wraps and salads, among other things.

Emily Hermes, general manager of the restaurant, declined comment on the renovations.

“We are in the middle of really big changes for the better,” she said Thursday.

For more information, visit That Place on Palmyra on Facebook.

Dear Dave, My husband and I are 28 years old. We’re completely debt-free, and we each have great jobs. We don’t talk a lot about this kind of stuff, because we’ve found it causes other people to treat us differently. We realize how incredibly blessed we have been, so we always try to give God the credit, save, tithe and give regularly, and not brag about these things. How would you recommend handling a situation like ours?

– Amanda Dear Amanda, When you start to win with money, build wealth and achieve some of your goals, you discover pretty quickly that there’s a very small group of people you can celebrate with.

It sounds like you’ve discovered this already.

A lot of times there are friends, and even family members, you can’t celebrate with, because it comes off as bragging – even if you’re just happy you’ve reached a milestone. So, you learn to keep lots of stuff private and not even share the good things. Still, if you have a nice car or a beautiful home, these things can indicate that you’re successful. Even if they’re a small percentage of your financial world, it will sometimes generate feelings of jealousy or envy in other people.

Jealousy is, “I want what you have.” Envy is, “I don’t think I can have what you do, so I don’t want you to have it either.” These are two really evil spirits, and they’re loose in our country today like never before. Part of the price of making smart decisions, and being wise with your money, is that some people don’t understand when you win and don’t think it’s fair.

But the truth is that you guys have every right to enjoy the fruits of your labor. You’ve earned it. You’re generous, giving people, and you take care of your family so the rest of us don’t have to pay extra taxes to take care of them for you. That’s the truth about winning with money. You guys are under no obligation to explain your income, net worth or the fact that you’re winning. And you’re not obligated to be ashamed of it, either.

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Amboy High School’s December Student of the Month is Grace Thompson. She plans to attend Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and major in pre-veterinary medicine animal sciences and pre-veterinary business management. Her goal is to become an equine veterinarian. Photo submitted.

Amboy’s Student of the Month AMBOY – Grace Thompson, 17, of Amboy, is Amboy High School’s December Student of the Month. She is the daughter of Brad and Jennifer Thompson, and has a sister, Mary, and two brothers, Charlie and Sam.

and groom horses, and I give riding lessons. I love my job. I give lessons to great kids that really enjoy riding horses and want to learn. My boss, who is also my trainer, is great. She makes work fun and enjoyable. I love horses and my job allows Favorite class: Algebra me to work with horses II and precalculus. Math and get hands-on experialways has come easy to ences that will help me me. I love math, and these become a great equine two classes were taught veterinarian. by a great teacher, who made math fun and easy What will you do after for me. high school? I will be attending Oklahoma State Favorite teacher: University in Stillwater, Heather Jurs, psycholOklahoma, with a major in ogy and government. Ms. pre-veterinary medicine Jurs is a great teacher. animal sciences and preShe is so organized, and veterinary business manwas very understanding agement. After I graduate and supportive when I from college, I will attend left for horse shows durvet school and work to ing school. I had never become an equine veterithought about taking narian. psychology. I didn’t think I would like it, but she What is something you made it so interesting to learned in high school learn about and always that you think you will had great experiments never use? I don’t think and projects for us to do.

I will need to know how to use derivatives to be a School activities in successful veterinarian. I which you participate: might need them in colFFA, National Honor Soci- lege for some math classes, ety, and Spanish Honor but otherwise I think they Society. I also show pigs are pretty useless. and horses at the county, state, and national levels.

What kind of music are you listening to?: Alan Do you have a job? I Jackson and Mumford & work at Drinkall PerforSons. mance Horses in Milledgeville. I basically ride What is your favorite:

Food: Panera Bread’s baked potato soup Actor: Jennifer Lawrence TV show: “Bones” Do you have a hobby?

Showing pigs and horses.

I have shown since I was probably 5 and have loved it ever since.

really isn’t going to matter what group you hung out with or how many friends you had in high school.

If you could try any job for a day, what would it be? Interior designer

If you could visit any place for free, where would you go? Thailand.

It has beautiful beaches What scares you? Chick- and a beautiful culens, I am deathly afraid of ture. Also, Thailand has them. a place that you can ride and swim with elephants.

What is something about I love elephants, and it you that nobody knows? would be like a dream I love being outside, but to be able to swim with most of all I love being in elephants. the barn, whether it’s the pig or horse barn. It takes What is the last good my mind off things, and I book you read? “The just get to think about what Beast In The Jungle,” by needs to be done with the Henry James. It’s about a pigs or horses. man who thinks something is going to happen What is your advice for to him, and waits his surviving high school? whole life for this thing It’s so cliché, but you real- to happen. He ends up ly need to just be yourself. wasting his life and does As a freshman, I think I absolutely nothing. At was trying to fit in, but in the beginning, he asked the end I was unhappy. a girl to join him in his I didn’t fit in with many wait, and she falls in love people at school. I was with him. Unfortunately, into agriculture and he was too preoccupied showing pigs and horses, waiting for something while most other girls to happen that he never were into sports and saw that she was in love partying. When I figured with him. It’s a great story out that I didn’t really that shows us we need to care if I fit in, I was more live in the present. The happy. I knew that I had present is going to influfriends who I could count ence the future. We must on that show horses with do something in order to me. Ten years from now, it change the future.

WORKING TOGETHER TO HELP CHILDREN

NORMAL – Special Olympics Illinois crowned its state champions at the State Basketball Tour nament March 13-15 at Illinois State University’s Horton Field House in Normal and Illinois Wesleyan University’s Shirk Center in Bloomington.

About 1,600 athletes competed on 135 teams and in individual skills competition.

Area winners by organization are: Bi-County Special Education Cooperative in Sterling: Andrew Bertolozzi, first place, and Ovalle Gabriella, third place, both of Sterling, basketball individual skills.

Byron School District: Laura Oleson and Madalyn Palmer, both first place and of Byron, basketball individual skills; and Matthew Larson, first place, of Byron, basketball skills 8-foot basket.

Ogle County Special Olympics in Oregon: Owen Groshans, fourth place, of Forreston, and Dustin Miraglia, first place, of Rochelle, basketball individual skills.

Rockford Red Hots:

Martin McMahon and Mi c h a e l Mc Ma h o n , both fourth place and of Leaf River, basketball senior male team competition.

Twin City Schools in Sterling: Kayley L. Crow of Deer Grove and Rhen Huizenga of Prophetstown, both fourth place; and Erica Mapes of Morr ison and Kristina Rodriguez of Sterling, both third place, basketball individual skills.

Village of Progress in Oregon: Elizabeth Bastuk, second place, of Oregon, and Timothy Koebler, first place, of Whitewater, basketball individual skills.

Nicholas Kavala and Jennifer Meyers of Forreston; Sylvia A. King, Ralph Miller, Matthew Otten, and Candice Smidt, all of Oregon; John P. Miller and Jacob Werner, both of Leaf River; Daniel J. Neubert of Byron; Jason Roinas of Rochelle; Kenneth Spurbeck of Stillman Valley, all third place, all stars, basketball senior male team competition. Teams in this division must have at least one male player.

IN BRIEF Dixon student 4th in hoop shoot DIXON – A Reagan Middle School student placed fourth in the North Central Regional Elks Hoop Shoot March 21 in Iowa City, Iowa.

Caylyn Kimmel, the daughter of Dayla and Chad Kimmel, was one of 24 athletes from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin competing in their respective age groups.

Kimmel won the Dixon level and the district level to advance to the regional competition.

shuttled to the lock.

For information, contact Ed Herrmann at hikes@ friends-hennepin-canal.org or 815-664-2403.

Area resident’s work exhibited

FREEPORT – A Mount Carroll resident’s artwork is part of a visual arts scholarship exhibit open until May 9 at Freeport Art Museum, 121 N. Harlem Ave. Hannah Walters’ art is part of the show, which opened April 10 with a reception at the museum.

The works on display are from the most recent Group heads visual arts recipients of the off along canal Eduard Buss Fine Arts and The Friends of the Canal Ferguson Fine Arts Merit scholarships. will have its monthly Hike The exhibit is a sample the Canal Sunday, called of the work created durthe “Raccoon.” ing the students’ studies The walk is 5.4 miles in the visual arts program from Lock 21 to Bridge 15 at the Hennepin Canal at Highland Community College.

Parkway Visitor Center, The museum is open 16006 875 East St., from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sheffield. The group will Tuesday to Friday and meet at 1:30 p.m. at the noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. bridge and then will be

Community classes on SVCC schedule

Rock River Garden Club members teamed up March 11 with Buddy Bags of Dixon to pack weekend meals for Dixon elementary school children who do not have enough to eat at home. They also collected $430 for Buddy Bags during its recent holiday fundraising drive. Photo submitted by Nadine Porter.

D I XO N – S e v e r a l business and community education courses will start soon at Sauk Valley Community College, 173 state Route 2.

They are: Computer Basics, 1 2 : 3 0 t o 5 : 3 0 p. m .

T h u r s d a y. St u d e n t s will be taught computer components and media, keyboard and mouse operations, terminology, and the operating system. The cost is $65.

Coca-Cola History, 7 to 8:30 p.m. May 6.

The class focuses on the drink’s history.

The cost is $18.

American Red Cross CPR/AED Adult, Child, and Infant, 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. May 18. The program helps participants recognize and respond to cardiac and breathing emergencies. Upon successful completion, students will attain a 2-year American Red Cross CPR/AED certification.

The cost is $60.

Visit svcc.edu/bcc for more information. To register, call the college’s community education office at 815835-6212.

Area school libraries receive state grants based on student numbers SPRINGFIELD – Jesse White, secretary of state and state librarian, has awarded about $1.4 million in School District Library Grant Program awards.

Area recipients are: A m b oy C o m m u n i t y United School District 272, 719 students, $750;

Byron CUSD 226, 1,487 students, $1,115.25; Chadwick-Milledgeville CUSD 399, 481 students, $750; Dixon CUSD 170, 2,655 students, $1,991.25; Erie CUSD 1, 609 students, $750; River Bend Community Unit District 1 in Fulton, 909 students, $750; Kings Con-

solidated School District 11, 96 students, $750; Eastland CUSD 308 in Lanark, 597 students, $750; Bureau Valley CUSD 340 in Manlius, 1,061 students, $1,530; Morrison CUSD 6, 1,041 students, $780.75; Ohio Community High School District 505, 33 students, $750;

Ohio Community School District 17, 82 students, $750; Oregon CUSD 220, 1, 412 students, $1,059; Paw Paw CUSD 271, 225 students, $750; Polo CUSD 222, 607 students, $ 7 5 0 ; P r o p h e s t ow n Lyndon-Tampico CUD 3 in Prophetstown, 796 students, $750; Rochelle

Township High School District 212, 896 students, $750; Rochelle Elementary District 231, 1,584 students, $1,188; Rock Falls Township High School District 301, 656 students, $750; Sterling CUSD 5, 3,202 students, $2,401.50; and West Carroll CUSD 314 in Thom-

son, 1,140 students, $855.

The grants were awarded based on a formula of 75 cents per student, for a minimum of $750. The money will be used for new books, educational CDs and DVDs, electronic resources, library subscriptions, and to improve Wi-Fi connectivity.

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The Dixon Park District Coed Volleyball League champion is BBY. Team members are (from left) Darin Pumpfrey, Greg Myers, Carole Day, Liz Scriven, Jenny Bumba, and Mike Zitelman. Photos submitted by the park district.

Fetters Roofing earned first place in the Dixon Park District Women’s VolleyStables won first place in the Dixon Park District’s coed volleyball tournament. ball League. With the trophy are (front row, from left) Kayci Howell and Maryssa The winners are (from left) Adam Love, Matt Huyet, Sara Harrison, Nikki Perez, Howell; and (back row) Lindsay Nauman, Drew Bernharo, Desa Smith, and Dawn and Ryan Seible. Not pictured is Maggie Love.

Glassburn.

BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT WEATHER

A junco looks for food in the snow March 23 at Bonnie Williams’ yard in Rock Falls. Photos submitted by Williams.

A sign of spring: A robin perches on a tree branch March 16 above Bonnie Williams’ Rock Falls yard. Photo submitted by Williams.

MUSICAL EXPERIENCE

PALE FLYER

The Metropolis Chamber Orchestra of Chicago, with Michelle Areyzaga, soprano, performed classical music March 15 at St. Luke Episcopal Church in Dixon.

The music included the works of Samuel Barber, Joseph Haydn, and Richard Wagner. Photo submitted by Josie Almassy of Dixon.

A female, albino cardinal perches in the shelter of a lilac bush in February in John Henry’s backyard. Photo submitted by Henry 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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Center offers hearing test MOUNT MORRIS – Hearing screenings by Connect Hearing will start at 1:30 p.m. April 28 at Mount Morris Senior Center.

James Peck, hearing care specialist, will conduct the 10-minute tests.

Those who need care will be offered a free hearing evaluation at Connect Hearing. Appointments are required.

Other activities offered are: A senior spelling bee

PEO Oregon Chapter 10 awarded Kristina Buschek of Oregon the PEO Lulu Corkhill Williams Friendship Fund Scholarship. With the check are (from left) Kathy O’Brien, Chapter 10 president for 2014-15; Buschek; Jody Ryder, scholarship fund committee member; and Joanne Pennock, committee chairman. The scholarship helps with everyday expenses as the recipient pursues her education.

Photo submitted by O’Brien.

will be at 1:30 p.m. April 30 at Grove Community Center, 500 Evergreen Lane.

The Mount Morris Senior Citizens Council will offer a 9-day, 8-night trip Aug. 22-30 to Colorado and the Rocky Mountains. The cost is $749 based on double occupancy. Single occupancy is $240 more. A $75 deposit is required, with final payment due June 15.

The trip includes visits

to Garden of the Gods and Colorado Springs, the U.S. Air Force Academy, Royal Gorge Bridge and Park, Manitou Springs at the foot of Pikes Peak, and the Olympic Training Center.

Deposits can be dropped off or mailed to the center at 9 E. Front St., Mount Morris, IL 61054.

Fo r i n f o r m a t i o n , appointments or reservations, call Brenda Hayden at 815-734-6335.

NEW WHEELS FOR EASTER

Open burns banned in Sterling STERLING – Residents are reminded of the open burning prohibition within the city limits.

However, recreational fires are allowed, according to the city’s community services department, under these conditions: They must be within

an enclosed vessel, pit, or fireplace.

A spark screen must be used.

No garbage or yard wastes may be burned.

Fires must be supervised at all times.

No fires are allowed if the wind speed is greater

than 10 mph.

Fires must be extinguished if a neighbor files a complaint.

Violators may be fined from $50 to $500.

For more information, call the code enforcement department at 815-6326624.

APRIL 9 STORM CLOUDS

Sisters Alexa Jacobson (left), 6, and Oliviah Jacobson, 3, display a girls’ bicycle April 4 at Rock River Gardens in Sterling. Alexa won the bike during an Easter egg hunt at the facility. The bicycle was donated by Unity Hospice of Western Illinois. Photo submitted by Michelle Spears.

GOOD FRIDAY CROSS WALK

Morrison residents observed Good Friday in the community’s annual cross walk on April 3. After a short service, the walkers started from Resthave Nursing and Retirement Home. Photo submitted by Karla Burn.

EVENING WITH THE LIONS

Steve Caudillo (center) was the speaker at the March Dixon Evening Lions Club meeting. With him are Shari Dysart, president, and Ron Bush, club member. Photo submitted by Laurin Williamson.

Brunch benefits Alzheimer’s walk Patti Puckett’s camera lens caught a variety of cloud formations April 9 near her Walnut home. Lee and Ogle counties and neighboring areas were struck by tornado activity that evening.

ROCK FALLS – A “Mother Knows Best” brunch to help fight Alzheimer’s disease will be May 9 at Behren’s Blumen Stuff – Country Village, 1512 Prophetstown Road.

Women 10 and older are

welcome. The doors open at 9:45 a.m. Guest speakers include June Harmon, pastor and radio personality, and Lisa Janes, a comedian. Breakfast items, beverages, and door prizes will be part

of the brunch.

Tickets are $10, with $1 of each sale going toward the Walk to End Alzheimer’s.

To make reservations, email lisaejanes@gmail. com or call 815-441-8424.

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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Lilliana Marie Celestino

Odell and Pauline Wherry, both of Sterling.

Abbie Seaberg and Travis Celestino of Sterling are the parents of a daughter born at 9:12 p.m. March 12, 2015, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

Lilliana Marie Celestino weighed 9 pounds, 3 ounces at birth and was 22.5 inches in length.

She is welcomed by Brayden, 4, and Zachary, 2.

Maternal grandparents are Lori and Jeff Seaberg of Sterling.

Paternal grandparents are Patty and Rick Celestino of Sterling.

Maternal great-grandparents are Joanne Seaberg of Sterling and Ralph Miller of Rock Falls.

Paternal great-grandmothers are Mary Ann Hittlet of Byron and Evelyn Celestino of Sterling.

Natalee Jennifer Hellquist

Gabriella Rae Lewis Brittany and Brandon Lewis of Rock Falls are the parents of a daughter born at 3:26 p.m. March 20, 2015, at KSB Hospital in Dixon.

Gabriella Rae Lewis weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces at birth and was 21 inches in length.

Maternal grandparents are David and Jennifer Cooper of Rock Falls.

Paternal grandparents are Rick and Debra Lewis of Rock Falls.

Maternal great-grandparents are Gene and Sandy Kruse of Harmon.

Paternal great-grandmother is Alberta Flessner of Rock Falls.

Eric and Katlynn Hellquist of Amboy are the parents of a daughter born at 1:14 a.m. March 21, 2015, at KSB Hospital in Dixon.

Natalee Jennifer Hellquist weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces at birth and was 20 inches in length.

Maternal grandparents are Dennis and Jennifer Yocum of Amboy.

Paternal grandparents are Scott and Jodi Holland of Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, and Bob Hellquist of Zion.

Maternal great-grandparents are Dennis and Karen Yocum of Franklin Grove, Linda and Dan Moyers of Dixon, and Melvin and Sharon McNinch of Amboy.

Paternal great-grandfather is George Swenson of Gurnee.

THANK GOODNESS

Senior prom at Post House was enjoyable JOSIE REYES ALMASSY Dixon

We had such a wonderful time at the spring prom sponsored by the Lee County Council on Aging on April 11.

Food donated by Liberty Court was good and plentiful. Anytime we get to dance at the beautiful Post House is a special treat.

So m e s u g g e s t i o n s, though. Instead of having everyone go outside to have a group picture, the picture can be taken inside, maybe on the dance floor by the arch with the king and queen seated and definitely showing the awesome chandeliers.

Thank Goodness policy Sauk Valley Media accepts letters to the editor (300 words or less) from nonprofit and volunteer groups who want to thank the community for its support.

Letters may be emailed to letters@saukvalley.com or sent to Sauk Valley Media, 3200 E. Lincolnway, P.O. Box 498, Sterling, IL 61081.

Time spent going outside breaks the momentum of the dancing; it’s very difficult for most attendees to maneuver, and mostly too chilly late at night. Besides, you cannot even recognize the people’s faces. Folks started leaving right afterwards.

Also, it is not fair to reserve tables; they should be on a firstcome, first-served basis with few exceptions.

This year was a jampacked event, and I hope to see you all next year. We also liked it better called senior prom.

Thanks to all who made it possible, especially Jennifer Lang. Congratulations to Queen Evelyn Rich and King Hal Weaver.

At Commerce Towers, staff is caring, positive KATHY MORLEY Dixon

I want to express my sincere appreciation for the thoughtful, caring valet staff at Commerce Towers. Jim, Rich, Jock, Bob, John, and Mark

were so welcoming and made us feel like family.

At every appointment, they take a moment to inquire how we’re doing.

Again, we appreciate everything the valet staff has done.

I also would like to thank the physical therapy staff. Jacob, Brooke, and Brandi have helped my husband, John, improve his mobility, using many different, innovative techniques.

They are always so positive and encouraging.

With their help, John has made great strides.

Sarah, the receptionist, is extremely helpful setting up appointments, and always welcomes us with a smile.

The staff in physical therapy help so many people every day and make such a difference in their lives.

HERITAGE SQUARE HELPS OTHERS

Paeton Christopher Brandenburg

Jack-Lynn Coleman and Christopher Brandenburg of Dixon are the parents of a son born at 11:26 p.m.

March 26, 2015, at KSB Hospital in Dixon.

Pa e t o n C h r i s t o p h e r Brandenburg weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces at birth and was 21 inches in length.

He is welcomed by Jordyn Prado, 7, and Aubrianna Coleman, 4.

Maternal grandparents are Mischelle Patrick of Dixon and Lance Bruce of Rockford.

Maternal great-grandJordan Alexander parents are Lazzetta and Charles Bruce of Dixon Yingling and Cyndie and Larry Samantha Buss-Yingling Keller of Rockford. and Brett Yingling of Sterling are the parents of Lydya Dawn Dyson a son born at 4:24 a.m.

March 27, 2015, at CGH Debra Cuthrell and Medical Center in Ster- Ryan Dyson of Dixon are the parents of a daughter ling.

Jordan Alexander Yin- born at 11:41 a.m. April 2, gling weighed 8 pounds, 2015, at KSB Hospital in 7 ounces at birth and was Dixon.

Lydya Dawn Dyson 22 inches in length.

Maternal grandparents weighed 6 pounds, 3 are Norine and Dan Mer- ounces at birth and was cer of Eau Claire, Wiscon- 19.5 inches in length. sin, and Gary and Marcia She is welcomed by Landyn Dyson, 7, Xander Buss of Forreston.

Paternal grandparents Dyson, 4, and Maleena are Robert and Pam Yin- Dyson, 3.

Paternal grandparent is gling of Milledgeville.

Maternal great-grand- Kim Dyson of Dixon.

Maternal great-grandmother is Phyllis LaBudde parents are Bob Ford and of Forreston.

Fran Ford, both of Dixon.

Paternal great-grandparAdam Weiland ents are Louise Dyson and Tegeler John Dyson, both of Polo.

Latisha Truitt Tegeler and Eric Tegeler of MorBenjamin Neil rison are the parents of Belmonte a son born at 12:31 p.m.

Ariel Rose Williams of March 30, 2015, at CGH Medical Center in Ster- Morrison and Aaron Belmonte of Rochelle are the ling.

Adam Weiland Tegeler parents of a son born at weighed 12 pounds at 3:22 a.m. April 4, 2015, at birth and was 23 inches in CGH Medical Center in Sterling. length.

Benjamin Neil BelmonHe is welcomed by Zackery Tegeler, 4, and Benja- te weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces at birth and was min Tegeler, 2.

Maternal grandmother 22 inches in length.

Maternal grandparents is Cindy Truitt of Morriare Tanya and Brian Zigler son.

Paternal grandparents of Morrison and Kevin Wilare Roger and Deb Tegeler liams and Kathy Stofflett of Rochelle. of Morrison.

Maternal great-grand- Paternal grandparents are parents are Robert and Rose Aksoy and MuhamMarian Landheer of Mor- met Aksu of Elkton, Maryland, and Cuautemoc rison. and Adma Belmonte of Kaleb Mathew Wolf Rochelle.

Maternal great-grandparAnja McNeill and Kenny ents are Ralph and Norma Wolf of Dixon are the par- Jones of Sterling and Diana ents of a son born at 4:38 Hotchkiss of Sheffield. p.m. April 1, 2015, at CGH Medical Center in SterCaius Wayne Hoyle ling.

Nicole and John Hoyle of Kaleb Mathew Wolf weighed 6 pounds, 15 Dixon are the parents of a ounces at birth and was son born at 1:55 p.m. April 6, 2015, at CGH Medical 19.5 inches in length.

He is welcomed by Eliz- Center in Sterling. abeth, 15, Morgan, 11, Caius Wayne Hoyle weighed 7 pounds, 11 Rowan, 8, and Easton, 2.

Maternal grandparents ounces at birth and was are Cynthia and Rick Hor- 21.5 inches in length. ton of Earlville, and Rob- He is welcomed by ert Carruthers of Sacra- Caleigh, 5.

Maternal grandparents mento, California.

Paternal grandparents are Grace Hazelwood and are Kenny and Wanda Charles Hazelwood, both of Dixon.

Wolf of Rock Falls.

Maternal great-grand- Paternal grandparents are parents are Pat Carruthers the late Ellen and Joseph and Earl Hurd, both of Hoyle.

Maternal great-grandSacramento, California.

Paternal great-grand- mother is May Pierce of mothers are June Wolf- Dixon.

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ABOVE: Residents of Heritage Square in Dixon made two donations recently. One went to Diabetes Camp Dream through the Lee County Health Department in Dixon. With the check are (from left) Ali Aslam with the health department; Dr. Don Edwards and Hazel Dalke-Miller, residents; and Diana Vasquez with the health department. The money was raised during a rockathon and bake sale. Photos submitted by Jean Gornik.

BELOW: Heritage Square also donated to the Dixon Family YMCA for its Healthy Eating and Healthy Heart Education Program. Bonnie O’Connell (from left), Heritage Square administrator; “Buzzy” Baker, resident; and Andrew McFarlane, Dixon YMCA chief executive officer, stand with the check.

SUPPORT GROUPS, CLUBS, AND SERVICES Saturday Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m., closed, Big Book, United Methodist Church, 201 E. Chicago Ave., Davis Junction.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m., open, tradition; 12:30 p.m., closed; 7 p.m., closed (5), Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m., open, women’s; noon, open; 6 p.m., open, 90-92 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon.

Veterans expo, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Northland Mall, 2900 E. Lincolnway, Sterling, 815-4414132 or 815-441-4093.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 9:30 a.m., former St. Anne Grade School, 32 N. Jones Ave., Amboy, 815-857-2315.

Women’s Alcoholics Anonymous, 10:30 a.m., closed; 7 p.m., closed, 808 Freeport Road, Sterling.

The Kick-It Ticket Narcotics Anonymous, 11 a.m., basement, Fellows Street door, The Worship Center, 403 N. Ottawa Ave., Dixon, 815-4407992.

Mercy Nursing Services blood pressure clinic, 11 a.m.-noon, Walmart, 1901 First Ave., Rock Falls.

Affliction of Addition Narcotics Anonymous, noon and 6 p.m., First Christian Church, 506 Fifth Ave., Rock Falls, 779-245-3487. Downstairs, west door.

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, noon, open, Old School; 8 p.m., open, fun night, bring a friend, back door, 1503 First Ave., Rock Falls.

Mercy Nursing Services blood pressure clinic, 1-2:30 p.m., Save-A-Lot, 928 First Ave., Rock Falls.

Alcoholics Anonymous,7 p.m., open, First Presbyterian Church, 1100 Calvin Road, Rochelle.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed, Village of Progress, 710 S. 13th St., Oregon.

Sunday Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 a.m., closed; 7 p.m., open,

Rochelle Community Hospital, 900 N. Second St. Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 a.m., closed; 11 a.m., open; 1 p.m., closed, Spanish; 7 p.m., closed, Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m., closed; noon, open; 6 p.m., closed, step, 90-92 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 10 a.m., open, barn, Horizon View Farm, 2422 N. River Road, Oregon.

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, 10 a.m., open, Big Book, back door, 1503 First Ave., Rock Falls.

PFLAG Sauk Valley, 2:30 p.m., St. Luke Episcopal Church, 221 W. Third St., Dixon.

Dixon Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 540, 5:30 p.m., 1560 Franklin Grove Road, 815-288-5165.

Compassionate Friends, Death of a Child Support Group, 6 p.m., Church of God, 860 W. Oregon Trail Road, Oregon, 815-441-3710.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., closed, Church of St. Anne, 401 N. Cherry St., Morrison.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, Spanish, St. Patrick Catholic Church, 236 Kelly Drive, Rochelle.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, clearance required, BAAbble on for Life Prison Group, 815-973-6150.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, 808 Freeport Road, Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., closed, 304 Seventh Ave. W, Lyndon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed (4), Mount Morris Senior Center, 9 E. Front St. Monday Childhood immunization clinic; women, infants and children clinic; and family planning services, all by appointment only, Lee County Health Department, 309 S. Galena Ave., Suite 100, Dixon, 815-284-3371.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 a.m., open, Methodist church, 402 First Ave., Forreston.

Abuse Changing team, 815625-0338.

Mercy Nursing Services blood pressure clinic, 8:3010:30 a.m., YMCA, 2505 YMCA Way, Sterling.

Dixon Rotary Club, noon, lower level, St. Luke Episcopal Church, 221 W. Third St., Dixon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed (1), St. Paul Lutheran Church, 114 S. Fifth St., Oregon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed, step; 6 p.m., open, 90-92 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed, Big Book; 6 p.m., closed, Spanish; 7 p.m., open, Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Affliction of Addition Narcotics Anonymous, noon, 6 p.m., First Christian Church, 506 Fifth Ave., Rock Falls, 779-245-3487. Downstairs, west door.

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, noon, open, Sunshine meeting, back door, 1503 First Ave., Rock Falls.

Crochet-Knitting Club, 12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling.

American Legion Post 12 Auxiliary, 1:30 p.m., 1120 W. First St., Dixon.

TOPS Chapter IL 634 meeting, 4:30 p.m., 205 S. Walnut St., Franklin Grove.

TOPS, 4 p.m. weigh-in, 4:30 p.m. meeting; 5:30 p.m. weigh-in, 6 p.m. meeting, Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle.

TOPS, 5 p.m. weigh-in, 5:30 p.m. meeting, Polo Church of the Brethren, 401 S. Congress Ave., Polo, 815-946-3638.

Lee County Honor Flight, 6 p.m., Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 540, 1560 Franklin Grove Road, Dixon, 815-288-5683.

Rock Falls Rotary, 6 p.m., Beelendorf’s Deli, 204 W. 10th St., Rock Falls.

The Kick-It Ticket Narcotics Anonymous, 6 p.m., basement, Fellows Street door, The Worship Center, 403 N. Ottawa Ave., Dixon, 815-4407992.

Celebrate Recovery, 6-8 p.m., 201 W. Market St., Morrison, 815-590-8929.

Celebrate Recovery, 6-8 p.m., Revive Community Church, 8 E. Front St., Mount Morris, 815-994-0428.

Dixon CHIP Support Group meeting, 6:30 p.m. potluck, Conference Room 1, Town Square Centre, Second Street entrance, 102 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon, 815-732-6555.

Rock Falls Boy Scout Troop 306, 6:30 to 8 p.m., fellowship hall, Harvest Time Bible Church, 1802 Dixon Ave., Rock Falls.

Friends of the Sterling Public Library meeting, 6:45 p.m., library, 102 W. Third St., Sterling.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5418 Ladies Auxiliary meeting, 7 p.m., 217 First Ave., Rock Falls, 815-6263513.

Mount Carroll Monday Night Al-Anon-Alateen, 7 p.m., Church of God, 816 Clay St., Mount Carroll, 815-2843444.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, 808 Freeport Road, Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, step study, New Hope Fellowship Church, 113 state Route 64, Kings.

Country Crossroads Quilt Guild, 7 p.m., Forreston Grove Church, 7246 Freeport Road, Forreston, 815-382-4544.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., closed, St. Luke Episcopal Church, 207 W. Third St., Dixon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed (3), First Presbyterian Church, 502 Third St., Savanna.

Sauk Valley Al-Anon Group-Alateen, 8 p.m., open, back door, 1503 First Ave., Rock Falls.

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Excitement over pregnancy dulled by husband Dear Abby: I have just found out I’m 10 weeks pregnant. Both sets of parents are overjoyed – it’s their first grandchild – and I’m happy because this was the plan all along. My husband wants kids, and this is our first baby.

My husband isn’t the kind to wear his heart on his sleeve. I have tried to involve him in appointments and classes, but he seems uninterested. He has expressed no emotions, even when he saw our first sonogram. It makes me feel sad and lonely. When I ask him if he is happy about the pregnancy, he says yes, but it’s hard to tell.

What can I do? His reassurance does not feel gen-

dearABBY Dear Abby is written

by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips. The column is provided through Universal Uclick.

father and the responsibility it entails.

Not all men are good at expressing their emotions, particularly emotions that they think might be “unmanly.”

Instead of depending upon him to reassure you, try reassuring him about what a wonderful father he is going to be.

If you do, you may find that as your pregnancy progresses, his level of excitement will increase.

She keeps suggesting colleges that are instate, but none of them are ones I want to go to.

Shouldn’t it be my choice about where I want to go? As you can see, I need help. What should I do?

– Ashley in New York

Dear Ashley: Continue discussing this with your mother to see if there might be more uine. This is supposed to to her concerns than be a milestone, the next separation anxiety. If the chapter of our lives. reasons include worry – Preg-o in Arizona Dear Abby: I’m a junior about finances, talk to a counselor at your high Dear Preg-o: While your in high school and plan on going to college. When school about scholarparents and in-laws are I brought up the college ships that can help to overjoyed, and you are subject with my mom and pay for the college of excited at the prospect told her the one I want to your dreams. of the baby, it is possible go to is out of state, she that your husband may got upset and said she Dear Abby: My husbe overwhelmed at the would never see me. band curses nonstop. He reality of becoming a

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wakes in the morning with an “f-ing this” or an “f-ing that.” He does it as he goes into the kitchen to get his coffee. I can’t stand it.

I have asked him repeatedly to stop. He was never like this when we were younger.

Over the 20 years of our marriage, he has become worse and worse. Now he’s a nonstop “f-ing machine.”

My neighbors have complained to me about it. They have children, and when he goes outside, it continues. How do I get him to tame his tongue?

– Married to Mr. Eff-ing Dear Mrs. Eff-ing: Is your husband unwell?

Could his problem be related to stress or a form of dementia?

If the answer is no, then let me point out that men who are happy in their jobs and their lives do not act this way.

Men who are considerate and care about their wives’ and neighbors’ sensibilities usually try to accommodate them if asked nicely.

Your problem may not be your husband’s tongue as much as it is his attitude – and until he realizes that only he can change it, there is nothing you or anyone else can do to fix him.

Contact Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440,

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Wildlife best left alone With springtime upon us, we soon will be experiencing the beautiful sights, sounds, and smells of the natural world. In nature, spring is the time for reproduction, the age-old quest to perpetuate the species. Soon the phones at the Dixon Park District will ring with calls of perceived orphaned wildlife.

As a naturalist, this is a difficult time of year. I am happy people have such love and concern for the wild creatures we share this planet with. However, I am perplexed at how little we know about these same creatures, and how insignificant saving one clutch of cotton-tail rabbits really is when society destroys thousands of acres of wildlife habitat each year.

Discovering the young of Illinois’ many wildlife species can be both entertaining and educational.

Here are a few tips to enjoying the experience and learning something in the process: Leave the

gregHUNTER Greg Hunter is the director of natural resources for the Dixon Park District.

babies alone, do not feed them, keep domestic pets away from them, keep a good distance from them, and do some research to learn more about the species.

Times when you should call a licensed wildlife rehabilitator (the only ones who can legally possess and rehabilitate a wild animal to be released back into the wild to live a dignified life): when there is a public safety issue and when it is known the parents have been killed and the animal cannot care for itself.

Due to the extensive training, cost, and hun-

dreds of hours required to perform wildlife rehabilitation, primarily by volunteers, there are few available. The executive director of the Dixon Park District is licensed by both the state and federal governments to perform wildlife rehabilitation.

Under her direction, designated staff respond to calls for service dealing with orphaned or injured wildlife that fall within the above guidelines.

To truly help wildlife, people need to educate themselves on the facts of wildlife; we need to do everything we can to live more in harmony with nature, which is so important to our own survival.

Visit web.extension. i l l i n o i s. e d u / w i l d l i f e / the University of Illinois Living with Wildlife and a list of licensed wildlife rehabilitators in the state.

Also go to www.dnr.illi nois.gov/ for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

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Possibilities at local libraries

BY LYNN ROE Director Dixon Public Library

This week, the Dixon Public Library joined libraries in schools, campuses and communities nationwide in celebrating National Library Week, a time to highlight the changing role of libraries, librarians, and library workers.

Libraries today are more than warehouses for books. Instead, libraries and librarians are change agents within their communities – transforming lives through innovative educational resources and forward-thinking programming. Libraries are doing their part to close the digital divide and level the playing field by providing free access to information and technologies that many in their communities would be hard pressed to find elsewhere. Libraries help to ensure the American dream and promote democracy by providing

service to all regardless of race, ethnicity, creed, age, ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or socioeconomic status.

Librarians work with elected officials, small business owners, students and the public at large to discover and meet the needs of their communities. Whether through offering e-books and technology classes, materials for English-language learners, programs for job seekers, or offering a safe haven in times of crisis, librarians listen to the community they serve, and they respond.

The Dixon Public Library serves the Dixon community by providing materials both online and on its shelves. As part of the Rock River Libraries consortium, it has a shared library catalog of more than 250,000 items.

The library also has 16 public computers and wireless Internet access.

Registration for the Summer Reading Program,

“Read To The Rhythm,” begins May 1.

The library always has been a place of unlimited possibilities. Whatever your interest or need, the library and the library staff are here to provide you the resources you need to accomplish your goals and dreams.

Renovations to the library building have begun and will continue throughout the summer, so that it will continue to provide library services to future generations.

First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association and libraries across the country each April.

For more information, visit the Dixon Public Library at 221 S. Hennepin Ave., see the library’s website at dixonpubliclibrary. org or call 815-284-7261.

Library hours are 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Food historian at history center DIXON – The Galena Trail and Coach Road Society’s annual conference will be May 2 at Northwest Territory Historic Center, 205 W. Fifth St. Registration starts at 9 a.m., with Penelope Bingham, keynote speaker, to present her program at 9:45. “What Wo u l d L i n c o l n E a t ?

Amer ican Cookbooks and Culture 1809-1865”

will be the subject of her presentation.

Lunch will be at noon.

The afternoon session will be from 12:45 to 3:45 p.m., and will feature a tour of Nachusa Grasslands, northeast of Dixon. The 3,100-acre native prairie restoration and preservation project recently received 20 bison.

The public is welcome; the building is accessible

to wheelchairs.

The cost is $30, and includes lunch (including Lincoln’s “favorite cake”) and round-trip bus transportation to the grasslands.

Register at the door, or in advance by contacting Mariele Fisher at 815646-4806 or 400 E. Main St., Tiskilwa, IL 61368.

Make checks payable to Galena Trail and Coach Road Society.

A veterans expo will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at Northland Mall, 2900 E. Lincolnway, Sterling. Expo committee members (from left) Sandy Geesey, Marj Nielsen, Joyce Olds, and Connie Willhite display a poster advertising the event. Photo submitted by Olds.

IN BRIEF Pancakes, plants at annual event DIXON – Dixon Church of the Brethren’s annual Touch of Spring Bazaar will be from 7 a.m. to noon April 25 at the church, 215 North Court St. Pancakes and sausage will be in the fellowship hall. Tickets are $5 for adults and $2.50 for children. They can be purchased from church members or at the door.

Plants and garden decor will be on display outside. Inside, a bake shop corner will feature pies, breads, coffee cakes, cookies, and candy. Craft creations and needlework will be in a craft corner, and Rada knives will be sold.

The church is wheelchair-accessible, with an elevator on the main floor.

For more information, call the church office at 815-284-2711.

from the judges also will be shared.

The public is welcome; refreshments will be served.

Benefit sale for PADS shelter set DIXON – A rummage sale is planned to raise funds for the PADS Homeless Shelter in Dixon.

Shoppers can stop in from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and April 25 at Loveland Community House, 513 W. Second St. Men’s and women’s golf clubs, outdoor and household decorations, and clothing for infants, men, and women from size 0 to 3X will be among the items.

For more information, call 815-440-6598.

Finding records focus of program

PRINCETON – The Bureau County GenealSign-up open ogy Society will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the for spelling bee society library, 629 S. MOUNT MORRIS – Main St. Spellers 50 and older Michael can register to be part of John Neill, the Illinois State Senior professional Spelling Bee at Pinecrest genealogist, Grove Community Center, will pres500 Evergreen Lane. ent “Where The competition will Could It Mark be at 1:30 p.m. April 30; Be WritRivecco registration is due by April ten?” He 27. will guide the audience Local bees take place on how to think of all the throughout the state, with places where records can winners advancing to be found. regional semifinals. State The public is welcome to finals will be Aug. 10 at attend. the Illinois State Fair in For more information, Springfield. call the society at 815To register or for 879-3133. Library hours more information, conare 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. tact Brenda Hayen at Monday. Tuesday, Thursbrendahayen12@gmail. day, Friday, and the first com or 815-734-6335 or Saturday of each month.

815-499-6732.

Winners to read their contest work DIXON – Phidian Art Club will present a literary reading at 2 p.m. April 26 at Dixon Public Library, 221 S. Hennepin Ave. First- second-, and third-place poems, essays and short stories will be read. Commentary

ance” will be from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Registered nurses Nancy Potter, a certified healing touch practitioner, and Beth Wicks, certified lay pastor, will discuss self-care and demonstrate ways to reduce stress.

Refreshments will be served.

For more information or to sign up, call 815-6258510.

Crusade to start sixth year in park ROCK FALLS – Higher Ground Ministries and Michael Hubbard, evangelist, will begin their sixth year of ministry with Taking Back the City, Tearing Down the Devil’s Strongholds, a churchin-the-park revival.

It will be from 2 to 7 p.m. April 25 at Veterans Memorial-Triangle Park, Fifth Street and Fifth Avenue. The rain date is May 2.

The revival features music and preaching.

David Wolf, pastor, and Brian and Dell Staggs are scheduled to take part.

For more information, call Hubbard at 815632-3598 or 779-3484880.

Identity theft seminar planned

OREGON – Stillman Bank and Rock River Center will offer “How to Protect Yourself From Identity Theft, Fraud and Scams” from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the center, 810 S. 10th St. A representative from the state comptroller’s office will give tips about how to avoid becoming a victim, information on the latest scams, and Registration open ways thieves can steal and confidential for caregiver tips financial information.

Those attending will ROCK FALLS – Sauk be able to address conValley Senior Living & cerns and share stories Rehabilitation will offer about identity theft. a seminar for caregivers Reservations are due April 29 at Good Shepby Monday; call 815herd Lutheran Church, 732-3252.

435 Martin Road.

Visit stillmanbank.com “Caregiver Stress & Burnout: Tips for or rockrivercenter.org Recharging & Finding Bal- for more information.

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U of I Extension joins in volunteer week celebration Volunteers were honored this week during National Volunteer Week.

The University of Illinois Extension in local counties showed its appreciation for the work done by its volunteers.

The Carroll County Extension will have its volunteer banquet Friday to honor those who have helped with 4-H events over the past year. A social hour will be at 6 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 at Henry’s Double K, 834 S. Jackson St., Mount Carroll. Contact Leanne Rahn, 4-H coordinator, at lrahn@illinois.edu or 815-835-2070

for more information.

In Lee County, there are more than 100 volunteers.

“National Volunteer Week is about inspiring, recognizing, and encouraging people to seek out imaginative ways to engage their communities,” Patricia MGlaughlin, U of I youth development specialist, said. “It’s about demonstrating that by working together, communities have the ability to meet challenges and accomplish goals.”

For more information, call Kathy Book at the Lee County Extension office at 815-857-3525.

Ogle County has 127 volunteers. Thirty-eight of them are leaders; the clubs and their leaders are: Bits ’N Reins 4-H Club of Ogle County: Cass Headon of Rochelle.

Blackhawk Crossing 4-H Club in Mount Morris: Lisa Hinrichs of Oregon and Tanya Bowers of Mount Morris.

By-Y-Badgers 4-H Club in Byron: Carmon Conderman, Julie Carlson, and Michelle Albert, all of Byron.

Carefree 4-H Club in Oregon: Annette Martin and Stacy Glendenning, both Oregon.

LIONS DONATE TO 4-H

Circle M 4-H Club in Mount Morris: Deb Daleiden and Angela Reigle, both of Oregon.

Forreston Friskies 4-H Club: Vickie Smith, Thelma Meeks, and Cassie Smith, both of Forreston.

Grand Detour Greens 4-H Club: Debbie Lowry and Felicia Coleman, both of Oregon.

Hub Hickory Nuts 4-H Club in Rochelle: Pat Kloepping of Chana and Bonnie Keys and Tina Yagow, both of Rochelle.

Leaf River Busy Beavers 4-H Club: Melinda Charbonneau of Leaf River.

Leaf River Soar ing

Eagles 4-H Club: Bambi Dillavou and Dawn Bolhous, both of Mount Morris, and Gretchen Wojtas-Johnson of Forreston.

Mighty Clovers 4-H Club in Monroe Center: Debbie Sweeney, Barb Sw e e n e y, a n d Je n n y Hagemann, all of Monroe Center; Debbie Burkman of Clinton, Wisconsin, and Adrienne Truran of Kirkland.

Ogle County Clovers 4-H Club in Rochelle: Jeannette Mingus of Byron and Becky Ackland of Rochelle.

Ogle Jolly 4-H Club in

COUNTY U OF I EXTENSION INFORMATION Food waste can be avoided OREGON – A Nutrition Bang for Your Buck will be from 11 a.m. to noon Wednesday at Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St. Marilyn Csernus, University of Illinois Extension nutrition and wellness educator, will present the program on how to cut down on food waste with simple meal planning and finding the best values.

The program is open to the public. To register, call the Rock River Center at 815-732-3252.

Carroll County 4-H members gave a presentation to the Mount Carroll Lions Club about opportunities and programs available through the Carroll County 4-H Program. The Lions then made a donation to 4-H. With the check are (from left) Brian Shelly of Mount Carroll, club member; Saphire Harris of Savanna, 4-H Ambassador; and Haley and Ty Bickelhaupt of Mount Carroll, 4-H members. Photo submitted by Leanne Rahn.

Business to help fight domestic violence VIENNA, Va. – Hair Cuttery and the National Network to End Domestic Violence are teaming up for Hair Cuttery’s Share a Haircut program.

On May 4-5, for every haircut purchased at one of Hair Cuttery’s salons,

a free haircut certificate will be donated to a victim of domestic violence through NNEDV’s national network.

Through the partnership, Hair Cuttery and NNEDV will work closely to distribute free haircut

certificates to individuals who are most in need.

With the goal of donating 75,000 haircut certificates, beneficiaries will include women, children, and men.

Hair Cuttery has a salon in Sterling.

office in Amboy, Whiteside County Extension office in Morrison, Andresen Nature Center AMBOY – A Becomin Fulton, and St. Paul ing the Photographer of Lutheran Church in SterTomorrow workshop will ling. be from 9 a.m. to noon The themes offered are May 2 at the Lee County Fairgrounds, 1196 Franklin Creative Clover; DIY at Home; Boulders, Bugs Road. & Beyond; and Clover Kimberlee Watley, freeDetective. Creative Clover lance photographer, will will involve art projects; teach this two-part class DIY will feature cookfor youth 8 to 18. She will ing, sewing, and crafting; talk about the 4-H photography program and will Boulders will teach about insects, wildlife, fossils, help the students practice and weather; and Clover photography skills.

The cost is $20 for youth Detective youth will use not already enrolled in 4-H. spy kits and test their skills at solving crimes.

Completion of this workGo to edu/clw for shop will allow participants to show in photography at details on camp locations and times and to the Lee County 4-H Fair. register.

Those taking part will For more informaneed to bring a cellphone, tion, contact kbook@ tablet, point-and-shoot camera, or other device for illinois.edu or call the taking pictures; a notebook Lee County Extension and pen; and two or three office at 815-857-3525; or Leanne Rahn at the favorite photos.

Carroll County Extension Register at edu/clw or call the Lee County Exten- office at lrahn@illinois. edu or 815-244-9444. sion office at 815-8573525.

The registration deadline is Monday. The cost is $5, which includes snacks, a T-shirt, speakers, and a take-home bag of materials. Families with three or more children pay a maximum of $15. Registration forms are available at the Carroll County Farm Bureau, 811B S. Clay St. B, or the Carroll County Extension office, 807D S. Clay St., both in Mount Carroll.

Stillman Valley: Michelle Swanson of Stillman Valley, Sarah Hackbarth of Lindenwood, and Brian Hall of Monroe Center.

Pine Creek Valley 4-H Club in Polo: Tanya Bushman, Pat Bushman, and Heidi Scherer, all of Polo.

Po l o P i o n e e r s 4 - H Club: Lisa Fike of Pearl City and Barb Miller of Polo.

Summerhill Huskies 4-H Club in Forreston: Kim Daws of Forreston.

For more information, call the Ogle County Extension office at 815732-2191.

Garden ideas for different styles OREGON – Alternative gardening techniques will be explored from 5:30 to 7 p.m. April 29 at the Ogle County Extension office, 421 W. Pines Road.

Candice Miller, U of I Extension horticulture educator, will talk about growing in pallets, straw bale and vertical gardening, and using self-watering containers.

Participants also can take part in a hands-on portion where they can make their own 18-gallon self-

watering container to take home.

The cost is $5, and $20 to make the container.

Registration is due by Friday. Go to edu/bdo or call 815-732-2191 to sign up.

To register, go edu/clw or call 815-244-9444.

Help provided for wise use of funds

The Ogle County University of Illinois Extension will host Money Smart Talks, field trip Week events next week.

These workshops have part of program been planned to teach MOUNT CARROLL – how to use money wisely.

The Forest Edge WorkU of I Extension Ogle shop will be April 25 at County Master Gardenthe Naaman Diehl Audito- ers will talk about the rium, 811 S. Clay St. money savings that can Area speakers will share be achieved by properly information on the impor- planting trees and shrubs. tance of the forest edge Topics will include the for forest health, what types of trees to choose, should be found in these proper planting proceareas, and management dures and tree maintestrategies. nance, and the savings The morning presentathat can be made on tion will begin at 9 a.m. energy bills. and will feature Jeff The sessions are: Harris, from the Illinois 2 p.m. Sunday, Department of Natural Mount Morris Public Resources; Dave HarLibrary, 105 S. McKendrison, soil and water conservation district resource rie Ave. 5:30 p.m. Monday, conservationist; and Scott Polo Public Library, 302 Schaeffer, woodland W. Mason St. owner. After lunch, the 6 p.m. Tuesday, group will go to Schaeffer’s property for a tour of Byron Public Library, 100 forest edge management S. Washington St. The public is welcome. and restoration projects.

The workshop will end at For more information, go to edu/bdo or call the 3 p.m.

Ogle County Extension The cost is $10. Regisat 815-732-2191. tration is due Monday.

RNA ’50s PARTY

4-H NEWS Tips offered for better photography

Summer camp sign-up ongoing

Registration due for ag safety day

MILLEDGEVILLE – A Progressive Agriculture Safety Families will have the Day will be from 8 a.m. to opportunity to choose from themed programs in noon May 2 at the Carroll the Summer Camp Clover County Fairgrounds, 28374 Milledgeville Road.

Program in Carroll, Lee, The event is open to and Whiteside counties.

Camp Clover is for youth youth 6 to 13. Planned entering the third through activities include demonstrations, discussions sixth grades. Camps are and hands-on activities on at Ingersoll Wetlands Learning Center in Thom- safety-related topics. Sessions offered will be Elecson, Carroll County Fairtrical Safety, Fire Safety grounds in Milledgeville, Naaman Diehl Auditorium (using a fire extinguisher), GPS, PTO/Equipment in Mount Carroll, Sauk Valley Community College Safety, and Grain Safety. and First United Method- Information will be given on poison look-a-likes and ist Church in Dixon, Lee lawnmower, ATV, and sun County Fairgrounds and Lee County Extension safety.

Bows, arrows part of youth workshop LANARK – A 4-H archery workshop will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and 4 to 6:30 p.m. April 26 at the Mike and Jodi York farm, 25269 E. Locust Road.

Youth must be accompanied by an adult. Late arrivals should get there at least 30 minutes before the end of the session.

For more information, contact, Leanne Rahn at the Carroll County Extension office at lrahn@illinois. edu or 815-244-9444.

Royal Neighbors of America Camp 1491 had its annual ’50s party April 6 at New Bedford Christian Church hall. The game of 50 was played, lunch was served, and prizes were awarded. Darcy Smith of the home office in Rock Island gave a short presentation. Photos submitted by Mary Etheridge.

Horse committee to meet Tuesday MOUNT CARROLL – The next meeting of the Carroll County 4-H Horse Committee will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Carroll County Extension office meeting room, 807D S. Clay St. Anyone interested in working with youth and their horse and pony projects is welcome to attend.

Agenda items include future learning opportunities.

For more information, contact Leanne Rahn at lrahn@illinois.edu or 815244-9444.

Nonperishable food items were donated by the women attending the party.

RNA members took the donations to the Western Bureau Food Shelter in Sheffield. With some of the items are (from left) Mary Etheridge, Polly Lickhart, and Joanne Nelson, members; Mary Lanham, food shelter coordinator; and other shelter volunteers.

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FLORIDA

Hybrid shops merge food, drinks and shopping

BY KYLE ARNOLD Tribune News Service

OVIEDO, Fla. – In this city outside Orlando, shoppers can grab a coffee while getting a bike repaired. Java lovers can browse modern furniture for sale. And happy hour customers at a brewery are free to take in and even buy local art or partake in a painting class.

A new breed of hybrid shops are opening across Central Florida, combining retail with fullfledged cafes and bars to double the chance of

business success.

In recent years retailers have been expanding their horizons, with grocers moving into prepared foods and electronics stores stepping into technology repairs.

But some shops are finding common customers in seemingly unrelated fields.

A shop that opened in early March called Propagation sells espresso alongside mid-century furniture.

Washburn Imports, a foreign furniture empo-

rium with two area locations, doubles as the Imperial, where customers can enjoy a beer or cocktail surrounded by home décor from all over the world.

It makes sense to restaurant consultant Rick Van Warner, who said business owners can expand their audience and sales base with multiple concepts.

“With all the stress on people’s time, it makes sense to combine as many things as you can,” Van Warner said. “Coffee shops

used to be very sterile environments, but they have really kind of morphed into places where people hang out and maybe even buy something.”

Velo Creek Bike and Brew splits business almost 50-50 between its café and bicycle repair and sales.

“They kind of support each other,” said owner Thad Daughtery, who runs the shop with his wife, Kristina. “Coffee shops aren’t always busy, and bike shops aren’t always busy.”

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Anna Lovelace makes a tiramisu latte at Velo Creek Bike & Brew on March 19 in Oviedo, Florida.

Astrograph Enjoy a change of scenery Sunday, April 19, 2015 Be clear about your intentions and expectations. Letting others know your plans will help you drum up support when you need it the most.

Don’t let personal matters interfere with your professional aims. Keep a lid on your emotions and conserve your energy for important prospects.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Take a break, rejuvenate and prepare for what’s ahead. Take steps to counteract any negatives in your life. Don’t make excuses or feel guilty; just do what’s best for you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- You can’t solve workplace issues while at home, or appreciate leisure time with friends or family if you are stewing about work. Find a pleasurable pastime that takes your mind off your worries.

Photos by Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com

Marco Mazzarisi cuts a piece of dough down to size at Maria’s Pizza in Dixon.

All of restaurant’s food is made daily from scratch MARIA’S

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When I walk inside Maria’s Pizza, the first thing I see is a giant menu board. To the right is a path to the kitchen and to the left is a small dining room.

People can order six sizes of pizza, ranging from a 10-inch small pizza to the 24-inch mega pizza. There also are specialty pizzas available, including chicken bacon ranch, spaghetti stuffed pizza and bacon cheeseburger.

All of Maria’s food is made daily from scratch, and the vegetables and cheeses are cut and shredded fresh daily.

There are other tasty items on the menu, including garlic bread, a meatball sandwich, chicken strips and ravioli.

I really want to try the pizza, so I order a 16-inch extra large with thin crust, with sausage, pepperoni and bacon.

The restaurant serves between 10 and 15 extra large pizzas a day and between 30 and 50 on the weekends.

Vince’s son, Phillip 20, is

Food fresh out of the oven waits to be cut and boxed for delivery at the restaurant. the restaurant manager.

He invites me back into the kitchen to see how the food is made.

I watch him roll out the dough and lay on the fresh toppings. As he makes the food, delivery drivers walk in and out of the side door of the kitchen.

“We don’t cheat anyone on toppings,” Phillip says.

Vince’s other son, Marco, 18, also works in the kitchen.

Because Vince’s two sons work in the kitchen, along with other employees, the likelihood the business will stay in the family seems fairly high.

Although it is really delicious, our photographer and I could not finish the 16-inch pizza. It is then that I realize why 16 couples have failed to finish a 24-inch pizza.

Although there are other Maria’s Pizza restaurants in the area, Mazzarisi says he has restaurants only in Dixon, Freeport, Amboy and Princeton.

“We are not affiliated with the Maria’s Pizza in Sterling,” Mazzarisi says.

Based on the food and the Mazzarisi’s Sicilian background, Maria’s Pizza could definitely be around for another 25 years.

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Pay it, but with caution Dear Dave, I got a department store credit card, using my real age at the time, when I was 17. I ran up a debt of $150, and the balance has grown to over $350.

This was 10 or 12 years ago, but a debt collection agency started calling again the other day wanting the money. Hasn’t the statute of limitations run out by now? What should I do?

– Elizabeth Dear Elizabeth, There is a statute of

limitations, but there are a couple of other things to consider, too. First, the debt is not collectible because a minor alone cannot enter into a legally binding contract in any state. The second thing is they can screw up your credit report for a very long time, and it sounds like they’re in the process of doing that right now.

Here’s my advice. Call them and explain that they are past the statute of limitations, and that you are considering suing them. After that, remind them that you were a minor when someone approved you for the card, which means the store you signed up with can be sued as well.

However, since you did take stuff from the store, offer them the original $150 to settle the deal. Get it in writing that the account is settled in full by this amount, and don’t give them electronic access to your money. When you get the settlement offer in writing, keep a copy of the letter and a copy of the cashier’s check you’ll use as payment.

Pay it because you owe it, Elizabeth. It’s a moral issue. And hopefully as a result, you can get these kinds of people out of your life for good.

– Dave *Follow Dave on Twitter (@DaveRamsey), or visit daveramsey.com.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Be wary of scam artists. Do your research before you invest in a risky or untried venture. Question the legitimacy of an organization that solicits donations.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- One way to ensure a happy home life is to practice compromise and diplomacy.

Sharing chores and joining forces to conquer projects will bring greater benefits to all concerned.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Travel will entice you, but before making plans, consider how they will affect the people you are closest to. You don’t want to face resentment when you return.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Enjoy a change of scenery. Visit a place you’ve never been before. Check the Internet or browse through brochures in order to discover something that piques your interest.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Spend time with someone you deem special.

If you are single, attend social events geared toward meeting new people; if you’re in a relationship, spice up your love life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -Stop being so hard on yourself. You have plenty of supporters, so ask for help if you need it. You won’t win any medals by working yourself into a tizzy. Delegate menial jobs to others.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Romantic opportunities will slip away if you are too focused on your work. Spend time with someone you love, and keep your mind open to new possibilities.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Try to be more self-reliant. If you feel you need a change, take action.

Waiting for someone else to do what you want or need is pointless. Take control and make things happen.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Don’t be too forthcoming with your personal details. If you are misunderstood or misinterpreted, your reputation will suffer. Think before you speak and avoid having to backtrack.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -You will feel restless if you don’t do something out of the ordinary.

Volunteer your time or talents to a community event. Your services will be appreciated, and you will make new friends.

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SCOUTS AT FLAGPOLE REDEDICATION

Members of Boy Scout troops 72, 305, and 902, and of Girl Scout Troop 5071, attended a March 22 flagpole rededication at Imprintable Memories Inc. in Rock Falls.

Brian Tribley, pastor of Firehouse of God Ministries in Rock Falls, gave the invocation. Thirty-seven people, including Scouts and leaders, attended. Photo submitted

by Rob Weir.

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Northern Illinois University physical therapy students visited with Resthave Home residents March 31 in Morrison. The students gave a PowerPoint presentation on safety and keeping environments free of fall risks, helped residents with strengthening exercises, and demonstrated proper body mechanics. Photo submitted by Karla Burn.

Amplified phones available The Illinois Telecommunications Access Corp., a nonprofit state distributor of specialized telecommunications equipment for people with hearing loss and speech disabilities, offers a new amplified phone at no cost to anyone with hearing issues.

The XLC3.4, a cordless phone with talking caller ID, amplifies incoming sounds up to 50 decibels.

It also has a caller ID screen, and large, highcontrast buttons.

It’s one of four free phones available.

To qualify, a person must be a legal resident of Illinois with a working landline phone service in the residence.

An application must be signed by medical professional stating that the applicant is unable to use a standard phone.

There are no income requirements.

Phones can be tried at the Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, and the Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling. Applications for a free phone also are available.

Call 815-288-9236 in Dixon or 815-626-7707 in Sterling for more information.

Police give wet weather tips ELGIN – Motorists are reminded that spring storms can bring large amounts of rain, which can lead to dangerous driving conditions.

Capt. Brian Windle, Illinois State Police District 2 commander, offers these tips: Make sure vehicles are prepared for wet weather.

Tires, brakes, and windshield wipers should be checked to ensure they

are in good working condition.

Turn on headlights.

State law requires motorists to turn on headlights when windshield wipers are running due to weather conditions.

Allow for more travel time. When roads are wet, motorists should drive at a slower speed.

Don’t try to drive through deep or rushing water. In some instanc-

es, it takes only a foot of standing water to stall a vehicle or 2 feet of rushing water to carry a vehicle away.

Increase following distances. Wet roadways and reduced visibility increase the amount of time needed to safely stop a vehicle.

“We encourage every motorist to follow these travel tips to make their commute safer on our roadways,” Windle said.

Annual festival entries due in June GRAND DETOUR – Artists and artisans can submit applications to show their works at the 67th Grand Detour Arts Festival, Sept. 13 at the John Deere Historic Site, 8334 S. Clinton St. The show will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Work must be of original concept, design, and execution, and should not be made

from commercial kits or models. No commission will be charged for work sold.

Categories include painting, graphics, sculpture, jewelry, photography, drawing, and artisan crafts (clay, fiber, glass, metal, paper, and wood). Cash awards will be given in most categories, along with the Best

of Show award.

The deadline is June 1.

Details on entry requirements and fees for booth space, as well as information on show amenities and exhibitor responsibilities, are available at The Next Picture Show, 113 W. First St., Dixon. Visit thenextpictureshow.org or call 815-652-8663 for a hard copy.

Deadline for submitting copy is 2 weeks The deadline to submit event information, including photos, for the SV Weekend Community pages is 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.

For more information, call 800-798-4085, ext.

5575 or 5530.

Steps to healthier living OREGON – The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics promotes the foundation of a healthy lifestyle.

According to the University of Illinois Extension Ogle County, consumers are encouraged to adopt a lifestyle that promotes overall health and decreases the risk of chronic disease by consuming fewer calories, getting daily physical activity, and making informed food choices to achieve and maintain a healthy weight.

The extension offers the following suggestions: Know your needs. Calorie and nutrient needs are determined by age, gender, overall health, and physical activity.

Generally, the younger and the more active one is the higher the calorie needs. Limiting “empty” calories from foods like candy and sweetened beverages can go a long

way in maintaining a calorie balance.

Start the day with breakfast. Breakfast provides energy to start the day and “break the fast.”

Breakfast is a good time to eat whole grains, fruits and nonfat dairy products. For no-fuss, healthy options when time is limited, try vanilla Greek yogurt and fresh berries or a toasted whole grain English muffin with peanut butter.

Choose healthy proteins. Stick to lean meats, skinless poultry, fish, eggs, beans, peas, nuts and seeds.

Fill half the plate with fruits and vegetables.

Fruits and vegetables are low in fat and calories and provide fiber and key nutrients along with color and texture.

Make half the grains whole grains. Look for whole wheat or whole grain as the first ingredient on a label. Whole

wheat bread, whole wheat cereal and pasta, brown rice, oats, and quinoa are excellent choices.

Make better beverage choices. Drink water instead of sweetened beverages like soda and energy drinks that contain a lot of added sugar.

Specialty coffee beverages often contain both added sugar and fat.

Skip the whip and when drinking milk choose low-fat or nonfat milk or fortified soy milk.

Stay active. Find some type of physical activity that is enjoyable and realistic to do on a regular basis. Adults need at least 150 minutes of moderate physical activity each week, while children need 60 minutes of moderate physical activity daily. Walking is a great option for most people.

Go to eatright.org for more information.

org for more information, to register or for a copy of the activity guide. Contact gsci@girlscouts-gsci. org to have a copy of the camp guide emailed.

Teams wanted for St. Jude golf fund

IN BRIEF Registration to begin for camps PEORIA – Girls Scouts of Central Illinois, serving Bureau County, has opened registration for a variety of summer camps and activities.

Girls in first grade through their senior year of high school can attend four regional camps. They do not need to be Girl Scouts to participate.

“Experiencing the outdoors is a great way for girls to explore leadership, build skills, develop an appreciation of nature, and create lifelong memories and friendship,” Pam Kovacevich, CEO, said.

The camps are in Champaign, Litchfield, Peoria, and Springfield. They include weeklong resident camp, 3-day mini resident camp, and day camp.

Sessions start June 4.

The deadline to register is 2 weeks before each camp begins.

Visit getyourgirlpower.

Money sought for display boards MORRISON – A High Five campaign has been established to raise money for two display boards for the 125-yearold Odell Public Library, 307 S. Madison St. One board will be used for library events and the other for community happenings.

The Odell Public Library Friends wants to raise $750 through $5 donations. For each donation, a colored hand will be placed on a wall.

Once the boards are purchased, leftover donations will be used for library projects For more information, call Odell at 815-7722322.

POLO – Polo Rehabilitation and Health Center’s fifth annual St. Jude Golf Outing will be June 6 at Silver Ridge Golf Course, 3069 N. Hill Road, Oregon.

Registration will be at 7 a.m., with tee time at 8. The cost is $65 per player or $250 for a team of four, and includes 18 holes of golf, a golf cart, and lunch.

All proceeds will benefit the St. Jude Chloe’s Foundation in Peoria, and the residents’ enrichment fund at the health center.

First- through thirdplace team prizes will be awarded. There also will be door prizes, a 50/50 raffle, and a silent auction.

To register in advance or for more information, contact Muriel Casinger at mcasinger@petersen healthcare.net or 815946-2203 or 815-9735913.

Alzheimer’s patients often not told PEORIA – The Alzheimer’s Association 2015 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures report was released recently.

It stated doctors told only 45 percent of those with the disease or the p a t i e n t’s c a re g i v e r s about their diagnosis, but 90 percent of breast, colorectal. lung, and prostate cancer patients were told their diagnosis.

The news release from the Alzheimer’s Association Central Illinois Chapter said the report found people with Alzheimer’s or their caregivers were more likely to say their doctor told

them of the diagnosis after the disease had advanced. According to the association, this is a problem, because learning the diagnosis later can diminish a person’s capacity to participate in making decisions about care plans, or legal and financial issues. Their ability to participate in research or fulfill lifelong plans also may be limited.

Information from the association said one reason cited by health care providers for not discussing an Alzheimer’s diagnosis is fear of emotionally distressing the patient.

However, the association added that telling them the truth should be standard practice.

Benefits of promptly and clearly explaining a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s include better access to quality medical care and support services. Patients also can participate in decisions about their care, such as providing informed consent for current and future treatment plans, the news release said.

Visit alz.org or alzheim ersanddementia.com to view the report’s full text.

For information, visit alz. org or call 800-272-3900.

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Saturday, April 18, 2015

Magic in the maelstrom

The hilltop Amer Fort outside Jaipur, India, stands high above a medieval village, a climb made easier if you ride an elephant.

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Finding peace in India, a nation rich in history that’s always moving

BY DAVE HAGE Tribune News Service

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n our second morning in Rajasthan, we awoke to the sound of birds chattering, vendors barking and taxis beeping in the lane below our window.

It was the merry din of an Indian city waking up to a busy day.

We rolled over, relished the cool serenity of our hotel room, and resolved to take the morning off from being tourists. And why not? Our “hotel” was a 16th century Rajput palace – an elegant compound of shaded cloisters, winding stone passageways and domed turrets.

In short, a museum in itself.

Without realizing it, we had devised a strategy for coping with India.

You visit this remarkable country knowing you are plunging into a maelstrom – birthplace of two great religions, home to countless temples and palaces, a society that throbs with the energy of 1.2 billion people.

But you also risk jet lag, malaria, dysentery, smog, sleep deprivation, dehydration and pure sensory overload from constant immersion in colors, smells, sounds and crowds.

Sometimes you just need a break. Fortunately, India offers these, too, in rich profusion. And so we soon fell into a comfortable rhythm: a morning foray into India’s pulsing markets, slums and historic sites followed by retreat into the tranquility of a temple, mosque or garden.

In a wonderful book called “The Last Mughal,” historian William Dalrymple describes the royal procession that rode across Delhi on the evening of April 2, 1852. Elephants, camels, torchbearers, drummers and princes on horseback issued from the Lahore Gate of the great Red Fort to commemorate one of the last royal weddings of the Mogul dynasty.

Today you can walk that same historic route.

the Taj Mahal Hotel, a massive balconied facade that rivals New York’s Plaza Hotel for sheer splendor; the imposing but graceful Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay (formerly the Prince of Wales Museum) where palm trees sway above the sweeping front lawn; and farther north, the Victoria Terminus, a massive railway station whose exterior bristles with cupolas, spires and gargoyles.

You can complete that tour in an hour or two, but it means navigating some of India’s busiest streets – broad avenues that swarm with taxis, lorries, motor-rickshaws, food vendors, cows and pedestrians. By the time we finished, we felt we had shared our morning Victoria Terminus in Mumbai, India, is one of the world’s biggest and busiest rail- with all of India’s 1.2 billion citizens, and we were road stations – and an extraordinary example of Victorian Gothic architecture. ready for some approximation of solitude. We You will share it with brass statues of Ganesh, to urban hubbub, it was found it on the Oval beggars and rickshaws a lamb kebab, a shave, a so beautiful that I would Maidan, a huge lawn rather than elephants head massage, bumper add it to my list of mustringed by palm trees that and princes, but it’s still stickers with Shiva. visit sights in Delhi. serves as a public garden a riveting introduction to On advice of our friend for this part of the city.

India past and present. and host Grace Morgan, Mumbai On weekdays the Oval An essential starting we hired bicycle rickshaws provides a respite from On our last morning in point is Lal Qila, the Red to navigate the throng.

Mumbai, I got up early to the city and a spot to Fort, whose imposing The lanes are so jammed catch sunrise at the Gate- view some of Mumbai’s sandstone walls enclose with scooters, pushcarts, finest architecture. A row way of India, a huge certhe royal compound of bicycles, donkey carts, Shah Jahan, who came pedestrians, panhandlers emonial arch overlooking of enchanting Art Deco apartment buildings lines the city’s harbor. The to power in the 17th and other shoppers that the west side and the arch was built to comcentury as the fifth of the you can’t take it in unless University of Bombay’s memorate the 1911 visit great Mogul emperors. The you leave the driving to Gothic towers rise above of England’s King George gardens and pavilions are someone else. the trees on the east.

V and Queen Mary, but a bit decrepit today – a hint The ride was occasionOn Sundays, Mumbai’s it also served as a departhat India’s Hindu majority ally heart-stopping, but impassioned cricket playture point for the last lies uneasy with the great the experience was spellers take over, and the vast troops of the British Raj, Muslim chapters of its binding. lawn is bats and balls as so it captures both the past. But it nonetheless Even after the relative grandeur and the tragedy far as the eye can see. showcases Mogul archiluxury of a rickshaw, of British colonialism. tecture – the signature we were soon ready for Jaipur Rising early paid off: peaked archways, lace some peace and quiet. We On the day we visited marble screens and floral found it in Lodi Gardens, a The vast plaza was empty Jaipur’s great Amer Fort, inlay walls – and it conveys quiet, stately park in south but for a few pigeons, and the rising sun lit the our guide was in a hurry. the splendor of an emperDelhi. Its winding paths, The elephants go off duty or who ruled 10 percent of lined with magnolias and basalt arch in tones of gold and pink. at 11 a.m. – before the the world’s population. boxwoods, are popular Most guidebooks heat of the day – and if Leaving by the Lahore with joggers and walkers describe Mumbai as a city we wanted a ride we had Gate, you cross a busy in the morning mist, and for eating and shopping, to get there early. Assured plaza and plunge into soon you fall into their not high culture, and that that the elephants are not Chandni Chowk, a commeditative pace. was our experience. Still, mistreated but feeling mercial artery that runs But the park also opens the Fort District near the more than a little sheepthrough the heart of Old another chapter of Indian ish, we climbed aboard Delhi. In this pulsing history, for it is dotted with Gateway arch provides a great gray mount for bazaar you can buy anyhandsome tombs built by a magnificent walking tour of what has been a winding, swaying and thing: silver bracelets, Per- the Sayyid and Lodi sulunforgettable climb to sian slippers, Nike T-shirts, tanates, the royal families called the world’s greatbeaded necklaces, baby that preceded the Moguls. est collection of Victorian the fort’s high ramparts.

Gothic architecture.

Of all the palaces we shoes, incense, chewing Though we sought Lodi Among the highlights: saw during 18 days gum, Pashmina scarves, Gardens as an antidote

in India, this was the showstopper – a hilltop fortress that overlooks its own artificial lake and an abandoned medieval village below. It was in this palace, begun by Rajah Man Singh in 1592, where the Moguls’ signature architecture met Hindu motifs of lotuses and elephant heads, where royals cavorted in mirrored chambers and water-cooled gardens.

From its upper towers you look down not just on ceremonial plazas and royal apartments, but on fortified walls that climb up and down the Aravali hills so far into the distance that you think you’re looking at the Great Wall of China.

Even a palace, however, can get crowded. When the tour was over, we retired to a palace of our own, 2 hours away in the village of Deogarh. The Deogarh Mahal, built in 1670 by one of the district’s 16 feudal families, today operates as one of India’s many “heritage hotels,” genuine royal palaces that have been converted for tourists.

Others are more elegant – the Samode Haveli in Jaipur, for example, or the unforgettable Lake Palace in Udaipur.

But here you feel as if the royal family just left – you can imagine a young princess composing a letter at your writing desk or running a bath in the vast marble bathroom. In fact, they haven’t entirely left: Descendants of the Singh family still occupy one wing of the mahal and will share their history over afternoon tea if your timing is right.

As evening closed in, we sat on one of the mahal’s countless rooftop terraces, a fire burning in a caldron as two young women in saris and ankle bells swirled through a Rajasthani dance. The waiter came around with spicy snacks and cool drinks, the fire crackled and sparked, and by the time darkness fell, we felt recharged for the next day’s plunge.

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IN BRIEF Playhouse seeks more volunteers

In Dixon, a proclamation that made Feb. 7 Mayors Day of Recognition for National Service was given to the Tri-County Opportunities Council foster grandparents who volunteer in the city. With Mayor Jim Burke (center) are (from left) Sharon Hansen, Gloria Gates, Janice Hamill, Gyrlee Kobler, Ruth Ross, Ruth Hoyle, Mary Barclay, Shirley Marsh, Betty Vaille, Shaye Linn, and Rosemary McAlister. Photos submitted by Barb Walcott.

The vaccines are offered through the Illinois Department of Public Health’s Immunization MOUNT CARROLL – Help is needed at Timber Section. The selection includes tetanus, diphLake Playhouse, 8215 theria and tetanus (Tdap); Black Oak Road.

The professional theater measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR); hepatitis company seeks helpers for the Timber Lake Play- A and B (Twinrix); human house Volunteer Program papilloma virus (HPV); with all manner of talents pneumococcal conjugate (Prevnar); herpes zoster and skill levels.

(Zostavax); meningococcal Those interested in assisting are welcome to conjugate; and pneumococcal polysaccharide 23 take part in the annual TLP Campus Cleanup at valent (Pneumovax).

Underinsured is defined 9 a.m. April 25. Raking, as having health insurgardening, cleaning and general outdoor work are ance that does not include vaccines, or covers only planned. selected vaccines. Those Other opportunities enrolled in Medicare with throughout the season no Medicare Part D coverinclude working in the costume or scene shop, age qualify as underinpainting sets, working on sured.

The cost is $12 per injecthe stage crew, helping in the box office, landscap- tion.

For information, call the ing, fundraising, strategic planning, and serving as a health department at 815284-3371.

TLP ambassador.

For more information, go to timberlakeplayhouse.

Thrivent Asset org or call 815-244-2035.

wins fund award

Scouts get ready to serve pancakes

Foster grandparents who serve in Sterling received the April 7 proclamation. With Mayor Skip Lee (center), are (from left) Terri Jackley; Carol Nicklaus; Rita Wheaton; Linda Bohnert; Gigi Clifton; Betty Schutt, volunteer coordinator; Barb Wolcott, program director; Kathy Roberg; Ron Novak; and Joyce Johnson.

Also issuing a proclamation for April 7 was Mayor Bill Westcott (center) of Rock Falls. With him are (from left) Pat Mintun, Marjorie Murphy, Jean Christianson, and Jackie Hoffman, foster grandparents; Barb Wolcott, program director; Betty Schutt, volunteer coordinator; and Kathy Riley, Linda Lawyer, and LaVerne Nowak, foster grandparents.

Mayors recognize volunteer service Mayors in Dixon, Rock Falls, and Sterling recently honored national service as part of the third nationwide Mayors Day of Recognition for National Service, observed April 7.

Members of the Foster Grandparent Program through Tri-County Opportunities Council met with Jim Burke in Dixon, Bill Wescott in Rock Falls, and Skip Lee in Sterling, who presented proclamations.

“National service is a vital resource of our city,” Lee said. “The Senior Corps volunteers make our cities better places to live.”

Wescott encouraged

residents to recognize the positive impact of national service on Rock Falls.

Burke also attended the program’s 50th anniversary celebration and dinner March 25 at the Dixon Elks Lodge. He thanked the grandparents for their continued support. The first Foster Grandparents Program was started in conjunction with the Dixon Developmental Center.

The speaker was Mike Jones, pastor, who discussed his family’s volunteer trip to India.

Betty Schutt, program volunteer coordinator, recognized the grand-

parents for their years of service, and Barb Wolcott, director, presented them with gifts of appreciation.

Sixty-five volunteers are in the program. Foster grandparent efforts by city are: In Dixon, 13 foster grandparents tutor and mentor 78 children at four schools and three day care centers. In 2014, the volunteers assisted for a total of 13,652 hours.

Volunteers in Rock Falls include 15 grandparents who give time at five schools and the Coloma Township Park District.

In 2014, they gave 14,111 hours and assisted 86 atrisk children.

Eighteen foster grandparents in Sterling help in four schools, one day care center, and Exceptional Care and Training Center.

They also volunteer with the YMCA Summer Academic Enrichment programs and the 21st Century Program.

Foster grandparents must meet income guidelines, undergo a background check, and be willing to work and learn with children. They are reimbursed for travel, and receive $2.65 per hour.

Fo r m o re i n f o r m a tion and an application, call Schutt or Wolcott at TCOC, 815-625-7830, ext.

40.

Blackhawk Hills plans spring symposium ROCK FALLS – Blackhawk Hills Regional Council will have its spring symposium, “What to Expect When You’re Expecting Change: Taxes and Transformation in Illinois,” along with its annual meeting at 9:30 a.m. Friday at Barnacopia, 2570 N.W. Branch Road, Polo.

The keynote speaker will be Carol Portman,

president of the Taxpayers’ Federation of Illinois.

She will cover specific tax issues that are percolating in Springfield, and how new policy may, in turn, increase or reduce revenues at the local level. State Rep. Tom Demmer, R-Dixon, will give a state legislative update. Betty Steinert, Whiteside County Enterprise Zone and Economic

Development administrator, will present an update on the Illinois Enterprise Zone Reapplication Process.

Blackhawk Hills Regional Council’s annual meeting will follow, in conjunction with a lunch prepared by 3-Headed Monster BBQ and Catering of Shannon.

The event is geared toward elected officials

and those interested in economic development.

Registration is $12; call 815625-3854 or go to blackhawkhills.com/register to register.

Blackhawk Hills Regional Council is a nonprofit corporation based in Rock Falls, which serves Carroll, Jo Daviess, Lee, Ogle, Stephenson, and Whiteside counties.

Solar power class offers hands-on PV system training OREGON – The Illinois Renewable Energy Association will offer a hands-on photovoltaic, or solar electricity, class from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 9 at 1230 E. Honey Creek Road.

The class will include an introduction to a typical, roof-mounted PV system, grid-tied and batterybased systems, designing

a code compliant solar system, and subsidies.

Class members will assemble a 1-kilowatt grid-tied PV system They will lay out the solar panels, make wiring connections between them, and wire the remaining components, including the inverter, charge controller, and breaker switches. After

connecting each portion of the solar assembly, the unit will be voltage-tested, wired and ready to connect to a house breaker box. The solar system then will be disassembled.

The workshop cost is $20 for IREA members and $40 for nonmembers, which will include membership.

Lunch will be served for

an additional $5.

Registration and payment are due by May 6. Cancellations will be reimbursed, less $5 for processing.

To enroll, send name, email, telephone number, address, and check to Illinois Renewable Energy Association, 1230 E. Honey Creek Road, Oregon, IL 61061.

DIXON – Thrivent Asset Management has been honored with the Lipper Fund Award DIXON – Boy Scout for Best Mixed-Assets Troop 93 will serve a Small Fund Family. pancake breakfast from The award recognizes 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. the performance of six Sunday at the American Legion, 1120 W. First St. mutual funds managed The cost is $5 for adults by Thrivent Asset Manand $4 for youth younger agement. All four of the Thrivent Asset Allocathan 12. tion funds, as well as the Thrivent Balanced Food manager Income Plus Fund and course at church Thrivent Diversified Income Plus Fund, are PROPHETSTOWN – A part of the category for food service manager which Thrivent received certification class will be the award, announced from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. April March 31.

25 at First Congregational It recognizes ThriChurch, 218 E. Third St. vent for its consisThe cost is $100, which tently strong 3-year riskincludes the state test and adjusted performance materials. relative to its peers and To request a registrabased on Lipper’s pertion form, email william formance-based methsclasses@gmail.com or odology, in the Mixedcall 815-564-5603.

Asset Lipper category.

Thrivent Financial is represented by Jeanine Stores team up Pitman, financial conto fight poverty sultant, with an office in MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Dixon.

The Bon Ton Stores, Inc., parent company of Edward Jones Bergner’s, is partnering ties for honor with Soles4Souls Inc., an international nonFinancial-services firm profit social enterprise Edward Jones ranks that advances the fight highest in a tie in invesagainst poverty through tor satisfaction with fullthe distribution of shoes service brokerage firms, and clothing. according to the J.D. From Wednesday Power 2015 Full Service through April 28, stores Investor Satisfaction will offer a 30-percent-off Study. footwear coupon to cusThe study measures tomers who make a $3 overall investor satisfacdonation in-store to Soles- tion based on investment 4Souls. adviser, investment perforThe money raised from mance, account informathis promotion will be tion, account offerings, donated to Soles4Souls commissions and fees, to assist with shipping website and problem expenses to get the new resolution. and used shoe donations The study was fielded to people in need. from Jan. 5 through The company has a Feb. 3.

Bergner’s in Sterling.

Local financial advis-

Recycling day on Pines Road OREGON – The monthly residential electronics recycling day of the Ogle County Solid Waste Management Department will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Friday at the department, 909 W. Pines Road.

Items should be taken to the south end of the building.

A $10 fee will be charged for each microwave oven.

Make checks payable to Ogle County Solid Waste Management Department.

Each recycling day, participants are limited to TVs or computer monitors, or one of each.

Go to oglecounty.org or call 815-732-4020 for more information, including a list of acceptable items for drop-off.

Vaccinations offered for adults DIXON – A selection of vaccines for the uninsured and underinsured 19 and older is available at Lee County Health Department, 309 S. Galena Ave., Suite 100.

ers are Nick Lareau, Mike Loos, Jim McPherson, and Tom Wold in Sterling; Susan Lyon and Sam Meier in Rock Falls; Chad Weigle and Aaron Young in Dixon; Reg Folmar in Rochelle; Terry Wilkins in Morrison; Steve Scholl in Byron; and Cindy Byrd in Oregon.

Market looks encouraging CHICAGO – A number of RE/MAX brokers are seeing a strong start for the 2015 housing market.

Carla Benesh with RE/ MAX of Rock Valley in Oregon sees sellers adjusting to market realities.

“They are taking a more realistic and flexible approach,” she said, “which is helping create a stronger market. Actually, sellers and buyers are more decisive these days than they were a year ago.”

According to the news release, an improved employment outlook has been a key contributor to that increased decisiveness.

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ABOVE: Abby Langner scrubs the face of the Ronald Reagan statue April 11 during Kiwanis One Day. The annual day of service once again had Kiwanis Club members cleaning the house and grounds of the Reagan Boyhood Home in Dixon. TOP: Allison Bandera (left), 15, a member of the Key Club at Faith Christian School, and Zoey Colglazier, 17, of Dixon High School, dig holes to plant shrubs at the home.

ABOVE: Dixon Golden K President Farrel Wright handles the rake, while Chuck Stoddard picks up leaves as they work at the Reagan Boyhood Home in Dixon.

LEFT: After giving the president a bath, Langner rubs a coat of protective wax over the statue.

Diane Williams stands by and picks up leaves as Katelyn Grobe sweeps at the Reagan Boyhood Home. Clients from a local Kreider Services group home participated in the clean-up.

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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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Dog Found: on Freeport Rd. at Penrose. young male chocolate med. size dog, loves people & needs to find his owner.

815-6310896 Found womens after glasses snow melted. Bifocals. Around 2nd Ave. in Sterling.

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Caregiver needed in Dixon, IL, weekends only. 815973-1505

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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 Volunteers Needed for Timber Lake Playhouse Annual Clean Up on April 25th.

Cleanup starts at 9:00. For questions about our volunteer opportunities contact the playhouse at 815-244-2035, visit the website at www.timberlake playhouse.org, or stop by our office at 8216 Black Oak Rd. in Mount Carroll, Mon.-Friday between 10:30a.m. and 3:00p.m.

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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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STERLING 920 sq.ft., 2BR, 1 ba. home with carport.

Move in Includes ready! washer, dryer, stove, and refrigerator! 309-706-1990

STERLING Move-In Ready, 2 story Sterling Home, 3BR, 1½ BA, 1,300 sq. ft. garage, deck & lg. yard. All new roof, kitchen, baths, H/W floors, furnace plus finished basement w/ family/ 4th BR & ½ BA. 1110 5th Ave. $114,900.

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LOTS / LAND 225 FOR SALE Exclusive Lot for sale, ¾ Acre in Deer Valley.

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Mobile Homes for Sale Dixon, Mt. Morris, Lyndon, Freeport, Davis Junction

APARTMENTSFURNISHED 305 POLO Lower 2BR, applcs. Furn. A/C, att. garage. Ref. & dep.

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Call 815-973-1743 2BR, 1 ba., single story townhouse, attached garage, lawn/snow removal incl., desirable NW Dixon location, laundry, no pets/no smoking, $760/mo.

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2BR very clean, quiet. No smoking or pets. $475 + dep. 815-652-3365

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LEGAL NOTICE ATTENTION: Local Education Agencies, Community-Based Organizations, Local Labor Organizations and Other Interested Persons: As required by Section 118 of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), this shall serve as public notice that a modification to adult, youth and dislocated worker portions of the Title I-B plan for Local Workforce Area #4, which covers the counties of Bureau, Carroll, Jo Daviess, LaSalle, Lee, Ogle, Putnam and Whiteside, has been developed to revise work experience policies.

This plan was developed on behalf of the Northwest Central Illinois Works (NCI Works) Board Members and Chief Elected Officials for Local Workforce Area #4 and will be forwarded to the Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity. Funds available under this Act are for the purpose of providing employment and training services to adults, youth, and dislocated workers in accordance with locally approved plans and funds.

Detailed copies of these plans are available for public review Monday through Friday during regular business hours (8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.) at the following locations: 3691 Cougar Drive, Unit B, Peru, IL 61354, (815-224-7930), 1680 S. Galena Avenue, Dixon, IL (815-994-4169) ,and the NCI Works (www.nciworks.org) website.

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WE WILL BE DONATING A PORTION OF ALL PARTS AND SERVICE SALES.

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WE WILL BE DONATING $100 PER CAR FOR EVERY E NEW AND USED CAR SOLD! IN ADDITION WE WILL BE OFFERING DISCOUNT RENTAL CARS AND ON SITE APPRAISALS FOR INSURANCE CLAIMS FOR THOSE AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO.

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•Residential Commercial cleaning •White glove clean every time!

•Carpet Cleaning •Senior Discount 815-742-2995

Lewis Plumbing 815-288-0028 Serving All of the Sauk Valley Area Lic.#058-173956

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JC SERVICES 815-631-1957 Spring Clean-Up Hauling, Mowing, & MUCH MORE! No Job Too Big or Too Small!

JOHN'S CLEANUP & REMOVAL Anything goes!!

Estate Cleanups PHONE 815-622-0240

Dumpster Rental for Clean-ups & Construction Small & Large containers avail.

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RN/LPN MDS Coordinator We are looking for a dedicated and experienced professional to assume this key fulltime position on our nursing team!

If you are committed to team-oriented outcomes and quality care, we offer: excellent starting wage; vacation, PTO, and holiday pay; medical, dental, and vision; 401 (k); advancement opportunities; and much more! For an and immediate confidential interview, apply in person or call Lynette McFadden, at (815) 284-3393 or email/ fax your resume in to confidence dixon@tutera.com (815) 284-2066.

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All American Bar & Grill Now Hiring all Positions. Servers, cooks and dish washers. Come in and apply at: 2105 1st Ave. Rock Falls IL. 61071 Automotive Welder-Fabricator Wanted Applicants need experience with Mig Welding. Monday through Friday 8-5. Must be versatile and have Fabrication experience. Mill, lathe & machining experience a plus. bellini@grics.net 815-284-4175 Cobblestone Food Prep, Apply 603 Freeport Rd., Sterling, minimum age 18 required.

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Experienced Custom Applicators Full Time positions available. Paid Benefits. Apply: Crop Production Services 1793 Steward Rd. Steward, IL 60553 815-396-2248

Dedicated Drivers Needed $1,250/Week Guaranteed 2013-2016 Tractors Class A CDL Drivers 6 Months Exp. required Dedicated Run $1000 Sign On Bonus Practical Mile Pay Good home time, good miles.

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Please send replies to Box #:1278 ,c/o Sauk Valley Classifieds, P.O.Box 498, Sterling, IL 61081

Male/ Female Help Wanted The Rock Falls Elementary School District is taking applications for the position of Secretary/ Sub Caller (full time).

This position is a 12-month position (working only 3 days per week during June and July), with a regionally competitive salary. Applicant must be proficient in typing, computer use and other secretarial skills.

Application is available online at: www.rfsd13.org under “News” and “Job Openings”

OPEN INTERVIEWS Warehouse/Forklift Positions/2 nd Shift 10:00 am -1:00 pm Mon., April 20th Sterling Library 102 W. 3rd Street PART - TIME OFFICE JANITOR Hours are 3:30 - 10:00 pm Monday- Friday Office cleaning experience and knowledge of floor conditioning required.

High school diploma or GED equivalent required.

Apply at: ALLIED-LOCKE INDUSTRIES, INC. 1088 Corregidor Road Dixon, IL 61021 EOE (no phone calls will be accepted) Part Time position as Office Manager for Faith United Methodist Church in Polo. The person must have excellent people and communication skills, should be able to work with sensitive/ confidentiality issues, should be familiar with computers using: Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Word, Power Point, and website updates.

If interested call John Deuth at 815-440-8291.

NEW TODAY “Meals On Wheels” delivery driver needed in Lee + Ogle counties. Part Time Mon. thru Fri., as needed.

Must be 21 yrs. of age.

Good driving record required.

Ability to move up to 50 lbs.

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Need Help Immediately Need people to start NOW! No Experience necessary Oppt'y for Advancement Potential Earnings of $500/wk Start this week Call 815-213-7360

NOW HIRING Delivery Drivers Apply at 845 N. Galena in Dixon or 511 1st Ave. in Rock Falls.

Professional Administrative Industrial DIXON/STERLING 815-835-3000 To apply or review our current openings, please visit our website at hughes resources.com Prophetstown Farmers Mutual Property Claims Adjuster You will be responsible for evaluating, inspecting and investigating claims, negotiating settlements, and determining coverage for each claim. Bottom line: you will help the insured at their time of need, following the company guidelines and the policy provisions.

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Receptionist/ Business Office Assistant Customer assistance, answering phones and other company duties.

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SALES: Withers of Broadcasting Sterling/ Rock Falls is now accepting applications for a position.

Sales Looking for a career change? You owe it to yourself to pursue this opportunity. Full training provided. Visit our offices at 3101 Freeport Rd. in Sterling to find out more, or call 815625-3400 WITHERS BROADCASTING IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Teller Part Time State Street, Rockford & Rock Falls Areas Operate Teller window, process customer accounts, provide excellent customer service, monitor accounts, provide backup for Banker Personal positions.

Requirements: HS Diploma, customer service experience.

EOE/AA Employer M/F/Disabled/Vet www.illinois bank.com/careers

NEW TODAY Truck Mechanic with electrical and hydraulic experience. CDL a plus. Pay commensurate with experience.

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EMPLOYMENT T OPPORTUNITY O The City of Sterling, Illinois iss seeking its next Public Works Superintendent. This positiion involves directing the Public Works Department and asssissting in departmental operations.

In addition to assisting operra ations, duties include developing and coordinating projects, developing budgets, managing employees and communicca ating with citizens, City Council and outside agencies. Posittion is a direct report to the City Manager.

Salary DOQ and currently under review. The City of Sterling offers an excellent work en environment, fringe benefits, and IMRF pension. Successful applicant must be available for after-hours meetings and ca all-outs. Experience in supervision and construction, engineerring or management required. If you are interested in this po position, please submit a resume and job application to the City C Manager’s office, 212 Third Avenue, Sterling, IL. All applications must be received by 5pm on Thursday, April 30, 2015 5.. The City of Sterling is an equal opportunity employer.

Tool & Die Maker/Mold Maker Experienced Mold Maker needed to work in a clean welllighted, air conditioned, & well equipped tool room. First or Second shifts available with wages commensurate with experience. Applicants must be able to work from finished prints, sketches or verbal instruction. Operation of any of the following is expected: CNC Machining Center, Wire EDM, RAM EDM, Cad/Cam, conventional tool room equipment. Climco is a long-term stable employer & an EOE.

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Utilizing the nursing process, coordinates and provides specialized Oncology Nursing support services to patients in an Ambulatory Care setting. Functions as an information and education resource for the community and staff. Maintains standards of professional nursing practice. Documents complete and accurate patient information in compliance with Patient Services Department policy and other regulatory agency requirements. Participates in continuous quality improvement activities and educational experiences in support of departmental and divisional nursing philosophy and objectives, as well as, Health System initiatives. Coordinates family involvement in assessment and treatment of the patient.

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All proceeds support the 2014-15 Woodlawn Dance Academy Competition Team for their trip to Nationals in July.

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eave those sequined jeans and the tomato-red cowboy boots in the closet.

Likewise, we probably won’t need the parrot or David Lee Roth’s ankle-length black leather coat for our spin in the Chrysler 300.

Which suits me just fine. I’m odd-looking enough without having to dress like a refugee from Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen.

When the modern-day Chrysler 300 arrived in 2005, it invited all sorts of embellishment like a wildly stylish, slightly dangerous den on wheels where various glitzy crimes might be committed. Back then, the 300 flashed urban style that absolutely jolted the auto industry with its chopped-down top, exaggerated Rolls-Royce-like grille and starkly flat sides. Drivers had The 300S I had proudly featured Chrysler’s still-strong 5.7-liter Hemi V-8, now bolted to a fairly refined eight-speed automatic. to dress for a 300 occasion.

But after a decade in which the overall shape of the car has remained more or less the same, the 300 actually seems mildly respectable today though still packing heat. It has aged nicely.

Chrysler is finally hard at work on the successor to the 300, one of the longest-running modern designs in the industry. (The new 300 will supposedly arrive in 2018.)

Granted, the current car got a pretty substantial facelift in 2011, but it remains as recognizable as Mick Jagger with its familiar extrovert grille and bold stance.

And the dark blue 2015 300S I had recently still had the unmistakable big-city stroll that Ralph Gilles now senior vice president of design gave the car more than 10 years ago.

flanked by modern projectorstyle headlamps. Extremely short overhangs front and rear virtues Gilles bestowed on the car a decade ago continue to look fresh.

While still mostly flat, the 300’s body now sports a tiny bit more curve in its sides, including graceful arches atop the wheel wells.

My 300S rode pretty smoothly on 245/45 tires wrapped around appropriately dark 20-inch wheels.

In back, fine-looking vertical taillamps still stood tall along a squared-off trunk. Also, the side windows of the 300 seemed a tad larger and a little less ominous.

But the most important element in the 300’s strong personality besides its enduring design continues to reside not-so-quietly beneath the hood.

Sadly, the vast majority of 300s these days arrive with mainstream

For 2015, the 300’s signature giant grille, which got toned down in 2011, is nearly a third larger,

V-6 engines, which are adequate and keep sales high but further dilute the car’s great heritage from the ‘50s and ‘60s.

The 300S I had proudly featured Chrysler’s still-strong 5.7-liter Hemi V-8, now bolted to a fairly refined eight-speed automatic.

With age comes value or so I try to tell myself each morning staring back at what’s left of me in the mirror. And get this: For a reasonable $39,885, the 300 offers well-seasoned style, a powerful V-8, eight-speed automatic, fully independent suspension and room for at least four real adults.

That strikes me as a pretty good deal.

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Blip the throttle, though, and the magical Hemi felt as silky as some German vehicles. The car’s 394 pound-feet of smooth torque begins flowing down low, pushing passengers into their seats and easily spinning the back tires if provoked. Whoops. Sixty comes up in a quick five seconds. Thanks

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Ironically, the 300 and the Charger are built in Canada, and the SS hails from Australia. By the time the new 300 arrives, that number could be down to two or none, depending on which direction Chrysler decides to go. Get it while you can, as Dr. Joplin advised.

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