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Three more stores reopen More appear to be close to getting back to business

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

STERLING – Three more stores have reopened at storm-damaged Northland Mall in Sterling.

GNC, Cost Cutters and Didoughs opened Monday morning, a week after a devastating storm swept through the area.

As a result, more than 20 retail outlets at the mall were temporarily closed.

Amy Johnson, spokeswoman for J. Herzog & Sons Inc., the Denverbased company that owns the mall, said more stores will open next week, but did not say which ones.

“The best place to get updated information is the Northland

Mall Facebook page,” Johnson said in an email.

Bergner’s and J.C. Penney reopened for business late last week.

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STERLING MUNICIPAL BAND CONCERT

House defeats 1-month budget

Heavy artillery adds percussion to performance Photos by Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.com

ABOVE: The Chicago Mercantile Battery fire off cannons Wednesday evening as the Sterling Municipal Symphony Band plays the national anthem at Grandon Civic Center in Central Memorial Park in downtown Sterling.

BELOW: Jane Ott of the battery rests before the firing of the cannons.

See more photos from the performance on A2.

Animal control adopts new home

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NICIL: Budget woes force shutdown

Supervisor: Streamlined system will be beneficial

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

DIXON – For the first time in ... well, ever, Lee County Animal Control is getting its own building.

And Wednesday was moving day for people and boxes and the one animal housed there – a black-and-white male pit bull terrier.

Animal Control has been looking for a new space for years, said Teri Zimke, animal control supervisor.

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See for yourself Lee County Animal Control, 280 E. Progress Drive in Dixon, will host an open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 13.

Refreshments will be provided. Call 815284-3833 for more information.

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Lee County Animal Control supervisor Teri Zinke greets the county’s lone ward – a black-and-white pit bull – at the facility’s new location, 280 E. Progress Drive, Dixon.

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Temporary fix still possible, as Senate OKs identical plan SPRINGFIELD (AP) – Another day, another defeat for a state budget.

A spending plan allowing Illinois to limp through the month while a long-term budget battle rages failed in the House on Wednesday, and hopes for a temporary fix dimmed even before facing an almost certain veto by Gov. Bruce Rauner.

The Democratic-controlled Legislature and the Republican governor have been have been unable to reach agreement on a budget for the new fiscal year that began Wednesday. So Democrats tried to keep “essential services” moving, such as operating veterans’ homes, child care and police protection, with a $2.3 billion, 1-month stopgap. The Senate endorsed the plan. In the House, it needed 71 votes and fell four short.

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In observance of the July 4 holiday, the Sauk Valley Media office in Sterling will be closed Friday.

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STERLING – The Northwestern Illinois Center for Independent Living closed Wednesday, thanks to budget wrangling in Springfield, its director said in a news release.

NICIL, which provides services for the disabled and training for caregivers, “is forced to temporarily close our office and lay off our staff,” Michele Miller, executive director of NICIL, said in the release.

She plans a news conference at the office, 412 Locust St., at 2 p.m. today to discuss the impact of budget negotiations on the agency. Phones are not being answered, but her email is director@nicil.org.

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and legislative Democrats could not agree on a 2016 budget before the fiscal year started Wednesday. That has created concerns that some parts of the government could shut down.

– SVM staff report

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Clarification A graveside service for Erma Jean Castle of Dixon begins at noon today at Oak Knoll Cemetery in Sterling, with the Rev. Marty Creager, pastor of Dixon Church of the Brethren, officiating. The day of the service was incorrect in an obituary on page A4 of Wednesday’s editions.

We regret the error.

POLICE Sterling Police Abby L. Arachikavitz, 30, of Sterling; 1:05 p.m. Tuesday at Sterling Police Department; Whiteside County warrant for failure to appear – driving under the influence; posted $300 bond.

Julian J. Belmonte, 21, of Sterling; 1:14 p.m. Tuesday at Locust Street and LeFevre Road; possession of marijuana 10-30 grams, possession of marijuana with intent to deliver within 1,000 feet of a school, obstructing identification; taken to Whiteside County Jail.

Austin J. Larkin, 20, city unknown; 4:32 p.m. Tuesday at Walmart, 4115 E. Lincolnway; retail theft; given notice to appear in court.

Renee N. Rodriguez, 26, of Sterling; 7:43 p.m. Tuesday in the 100 block of Sixth Avenue; Whiteside County warrant for failure to appear – no valid driver’s license; posted $300 bond.

Luke A. Moore, 17, of Sterling; 12:18 a.m. Tuesday at West Sixth Street and Avenue D; no headlights when required; released with promise to comply.

Ralph C. Price, 63, of Sterling; 8:12 p.m. Tuesday at Locust Street and East Lynn Boulevard; operating uninsured vehicle; released with promise to comply.

Boy, 17, from Sterling; 9:26 p.m. Tuesday at East Lefevre Road and Fourth Avenue; possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia; released to his parents.

Boy, 17, from Sterling; 9:26 p.m. Tuesday at East Lefevre Road and Fourth Avenue; possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia; released to his parents.

Rock Falls Police Adrian E. Fernandez, 38, of Rock Falls; 4:30 p.m. June 19 in the 1000 block of Seventh Avenue; nonconsensual

dissemination of private sexual images; taken to Whiteside County Jail.

Dallas J. Ellis, 39, of Rock Falls; 4 p.m. June 15 in the 400 block of Second Avenue; Whiteside County warrant; taken to Whiteside County Jail.

Molly A. Hunt, 35, of Walnut; 12:36 p.m. Tuesday in the 200 block of First Avenue; unlawful use of a cellphone; given notice to appear in court.

Michelle C. Thackerson, 46, of Vestaulia, Alabama; 8:36 p.m. Tuesday at Dixon Avenue and Wiker Drive; speeding; released with promise to comply.

Lawrence H. Slifer, 52, of Sterling; 1:49 p.m. Tuesday at West Second Street and Fifth Avenue; speeding; given notice to appear in court.

Cameron J. Charleston, 18, of Rock Falls; 2:56 p.m.

Tuesday in the 1200 block of Dixon Avenue; speeding; given notice to appear in court.

Timothy A. Coy, 42, of Sterling; 2:42 p.m. Tuesday in the 1000 block of Dixon Avenue; speeding; given notice to appear in court.

Cody A. Lawson, 28, of Rock Falls; 2:49 p.m. Tuesday at First Avenue and 15th Street; speeding; given notice to appear in court.

LEFT: Hammers strike the tubular bells at the concert.

ABOVE: Mary Lynn Tedrick of the Chicago Mercantile Battery claps as she listens to the band play. The battery fired off cannons during the 1812 Overture and the national anthem.

Lee County Sheriff Jade E. Glenn, 18, of Dixon; 4:30 p.m. Tuesday; possession of drug paraphernalia; posted bond and given notice to appear in court.

Kenneth R. Helfrich, 46, of Dixon; 1:45 p.m. Tuesday; warrant for contempt; held at Lee County Jail.

Ogle County Sheriff Andrea Esquivel-Cuevas, 19, of Kansas City, Kansas; 12:16 a.m. Tuesday in the 1000 block of West Blackhawk Drive in Byron; no valid driver’s license; taken to Ogle County Jail and given notice to appear in court.

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Randa M. Schopp, 23, of Ashton; 6:40 p.m. Monday in the 200 block of South Hennepin avenue; leaving the scene of an accident, failure to report an accident, improper lane usage, driving on a sidewalk; posted bond and given notice to appear in court.

Kenneth J. Sims, 25, of Dixon; 2 p.m. Tuesday; warrant for failure to register as a violent offender against youth; taken to Lee County Jail.

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IN BRIEF Euchre tourney to help Granny Rose DIXON – Card players are invited to take part in a euchre tournament July 18 to benefit Granny Rose Animal Shelter.

The entry fee is $25 a person, which includes food but not drinks. You don’t need a partner; play will be rotation-style, organizer Rudy Rutherford said.

Sign-up will begin at 10 a.m. at a Dixon location still being determined.

Play will start at 11 a.m..

Call Rutherford at 815440-4096 to sign up or for more information.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Petunia Festival royalty play “Heart and Soul” on a floor piano Wednesday morning at the Dixon Public Library. Petunia attendant Clara Thorpe (from left), Petunia Queen Hannah Acker, Pinky Petunia Shannon Lahey, and attendant Alyssa LaMendola entertained children at a drop-in craft day, and the 2015 Petunia Festival court stuck around to meet and greet the children, and help with their projects. For a schedule of Petunia Fest events, check out our listings on A9-11, or visit petuniafestival.org.

Addison Foster, 9, of Sterling watches with glee as her hand-crafted tiara is stapled together at the library.

Arthur Piper Jr., 5, decorates a crown during the drop-in craft day.

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The agency has been leasing space from Ashton Animal Clinic to house animals, but the office has been in the old Lee County Courthouse.

The new arrangement is going to make a huge difference, Zimke said, not only for families looking to adopt, but also for animal control workers.

“It’ll be a lot better, because we’re at one place, so people can come and they can view the dogs here instead of going to an off-site place,” she said. “We can do all the paperwork here and not have to transfer anything.

It’s going to work out great.”

The last time the county looked at new space for animal control, the cost to build would have been between $366,000 and $460,000 – a cost that was, in the end,

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Lee County Animal Control moved into the former Granite Works building in the industrial park, on the south side of Dixon, on Wednesday. An open house will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 13. Refreshments will be provided, for humans and animals. Call 815-284-3833 for more information. deemed too high by the county board.

The new space at the old Granite Works building in Dixon Industrial Park, 280 E. Progress Drive, cost half that.

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CHICAGO (AP) — Minimum wage earners in Chicago will see a $1.75 hourly bump.

A city law raising the minimum wage to $13 by 2019 in increments took effect Wednesday. The first increase will be from $8.25 to $10 an hour. After that, it’ll go up 50 cents in 2016 and 2017, then $1 in July 2018 and 2019.

City officials estimate the move impacts about 200,000 workers.

Illinois’ rate is already $1 higher than the national rate of $7.25.

Several attempts to raise it statewide have failed or stalled with legislators.

Chicago approved raising its rate in December.

SPRINGFIELD (AP) – Illinois state officials wants to remind commercial motor vehicle operators starting Wednesday, there are new federal rules for testing and eligibility.

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White’s office says his office has worked to communicate with CDL holders and the trucking industry about the new federal rules. He says the Mid-West Truckers Association and the Illinois Trucking Association also helped.

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OBITUARIES Billy M. ‘Bill’ Medlock DIXON – Billy Max “Bill” Medlock, 79, of Dixon, passed away Saturday, June 27, 2015, at his home with his family by his side, after a courageous battle with lymphoma. He worked for International Harvester, Dresser for 32 years before his retirement in 1988.

Bill was born Feb. 25, 1936, in Lawrence County, Arkansas, the son of Ralph Henson and Pearl (Forest) Medlock. He married Anita Whitten in Monette, Arkansas. Bill was a member of First United Methodist Church in Dixon. He served in the Army from 1958 to 1961.

He enjoyed golfing, hiking, and the outdoors, but most of all spending time with his family.

He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Anita Medlock of Dixon; one son, Beau (Kate) Medlock, and four grandchildren, Kitty, Max, Faith, and Elijah Medlock, all of LaGrange Park; sister-inlaw and brothers-in-law,

Jerry and Betty Drake of Middlebury, Indiana, and Kenneth Love of Bogata, Texas; four nieces, Karen Werner of Houston, Becky Steinbring of Dallas, Cindy Pressinell of LaPorte, Indiana, and Theresa Pressinell of Elkhart, Indiana; and one nephew, Jeff Pressinell of Elkhart.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Kathy Love.

Visitation will be from 11 a.m to noon Monday and the funeral at noon Monday at First United Methodist Church in Dixon, with the Rev. Tim Mitchell, pastor, officiating. Cremation rites have been accorded. PrestonSchilling Funeral Home in Dixon is handling arrangements.

In lieu of flowers, memorials have been established to Serenity Hospice & Home in Oregon and First United Methodist Church in Dixon.

Visit prestonschillingfuneralhome.com to send condolences.

Vicky S. McMillen STERLING – Vicky S. McMillen, 55, of Sterling, died Saturday, June 27, 2015, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

She was born Dec. 26, 1959, in Bristow, Oklahoma, the daughter of Charles and Virginia (Montgomery) McClain.

Survivors include her husband, Ray; daughters, Ginny (Bruce) McPerryman of Rock Falls and Victoria McMillen of Sterling; her son, Shawn (Amy) Bailey of Sterling; her sisters, Sonya Barkley of Oklahoma, Shelly Boggs

of Florida, and Jamie Aldridge of Oklahoma; and nine grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Sarah; a sister; and a brother.

Cremation rites have been accorded. A gathering of friends and family will be from 5 to 6 p.m. today and a memorial service at 6 p.m. today at McDonald Funeral Home & Crematory in Rock Falls, with Larry Harts, pastor, officiating.

A memorial has been established.

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.

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FUNERAL SERVICES FOR THE WEEK Today’s visitations: Erma J. Castle of Dixon, 10-11 a.m. at Preston-Schilling Funeral Home in Dixon.

Irene E. DeLanghe of Sterling, 5-7 p.m., with the rosary recited at 4:45 p.m., at McDonald Funeral Home in Sterling.

Mary C. Henkel of Sublette, 4-7 p.m., with the rosary recited at 3:30 p.m., at Schwarz Funeral Home in Mendota.

Vicky S. McMillen of Sterling, gathering of family and friends, 5-6 p.m. at McDonald Funeral Home & Crematory in Rock Falls.

Today’s funerals: Mary C. Henkel of Sublette, 10;30 a.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Sublette.

Erma J. Castle of Dixon, noon graveside service at Oak Knoll Cemetery in Sterling.

Vicky S. McMillen of Sterling, 6 p.m. memorial service at McDonald Funeral Home & Crematory in Rock Falls.

Friday visitations: Helen M. Hollaway of

Prophetstown, gathering of family and friends, 9-10:30 a.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Prophetstown.

Marin R. Williams of Milledgeville, 9-10:30 a.m. at Milledgeville United Methodist Church.

Carl D. Weber of Oregon, 3-5 p.m. at Polo Family Funeral Home.

Friday funerals: Irene E. DeLanghe of Sterling, 10 a.m. Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Sterling.

Helen M. Hollaway of Prophetstown, 10:30 a.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Prophetstown.

Marin R. Williams of Milledgeville, 10:30 a.m. at Milledgeville United Methodist Church.

Monday visitation: Billy M. “Bill” Medlock of Dixon, 11 a.m.-noon at First United Methodist Church in Dixon.

Monday funeral: Billy M. “Bill” Medlock of Dixon, noon at First United Methodist Church in Dixon.

Irene E. DeLanghe STERLING – Irene E. DeLanghe, 88 of Sterling, died Tuesday, June 30, 2015, at her home, with her family by her side.

She was born Feb. 7, 1927, in Davenport, Iowa, the daughter of Maurice and Florence (Teerlinck) VanThorre.

She married Roger DeLanghe on Nov. 18, 1950, in East Moline.

He preceded her in death Nov. 18, 2009.

Irene was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church; a volunteer member of CGH Medical Auxiliary; and enjoyed sewing and oil painting.

Surviving are three daughters, Maria (Gail Yager) DeLanghe of Dripping Springs, Texas, Ronda DeLanghe of Dixon, and Sondra (Larry Ganther) Meyer of Sterling; two sons, John (Andrea) DeLanghe of Pipe Creek, Texas, and Dennis DeLanghe of Sterling; her sister, Evelyn

King of East Moline; two brothers, Roger (Jimmie) VanThorre of Fort Collins, Colorado, and George (Millie) VanThorre of East Moline; five grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

She also was preceded in death by her brother, Paul.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today, with the rosary recited at 4:45 p.m., at McDonald Funeral Home, 505 First Ave., Sterling. Celebration of the Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Sterling, with the Rev. Bruce Ludeke, celebrant, and Larry Zitkus, deacon, assisting. Burial will be at St. Mary Cemetery in East Moline.

In lieu of flowers, memorials have been established to Hospice of the Rock River Valley and CGH Medical Center Auxiliary.

Erma J. Castle DIXON – Erma Jean Castle, 87, of Dixon, died Monday, June 29, 2015, at Dixon Rehabilitation and Health Care Center. Her favorite caregiver at the center was Andrew. Erma was employed for more than 30 years

by Lawrence Brothers in Sterling before her retirement.

She was born June 28, 1928, in Lee County, the daughter of William and Aleta (Sauer) Castle. Erma was a member of Dixon Church of the Brethren and enjoyed being a member of the Dixon Lioness Club. In her younger days, she was an avid traveler, vacationing in many places with her loving family and friends.

Loving family that will miss her include one sister-in-law, Margaret Castle, and one nephew, Steven Castle, both of Dixon; one niece, Janice (Dean) Zinanni of Rock

Falls; one great-niece, Shanin (Bryan) Thompson of Anthem, Arizona; two great-nephews, Timothy Hendricks and Joseph Zinanni of Sterling; and five great-great-nieces and great-greatnephews, Drew, Mia, and Bryce Thompson, and Asher and Piper Hendricks.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one brother, Robert Castle.

Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. today at Preston-Schilling Funeral Home in Dixon. A graveside service will be at noon today at Oak Knoll Cemetery in Sterling, with the Rev. Marty Creager, pastor of Dixon Church of the Brethren, officiating.

In lieu of flowers a memorial has been established.

Visit prestonschillingfuneralhome.com to send condolences.

Helen M. Hollaway PROPHETSTOWN – Helen Hollaway, 82, of Prophetstown, died Tuesday, June 30, 2015, at Good Samaritan Society – Prophets Riverview in Prophetstown.

She was born Oct. 26, 1932, in Savanna, the daughter of Harold and Blanche (Atkins) Resel. She married Larry G. Bearsley on Dec. 9, 1951. She later married Donald E. Hollaway on Oct. 10, 1967.

He preceded her in death Sept. 17, 2007. Helen was a 40-year member of Walnut United Methodist Church. She was a member of the “Golden Girls,” and a past member of the Women of Pork Producers and Tampico Booster Club. She and her husband farmed north of Coleta.

Surviving are her daughter, Krista (Larry) Specht of Tampico; her son, Steven (Kathy) Bearsley of Albany;

two stepdaughters, Gayla Krahl of Lusby, Maryland, and LuAnn (Ed) Covell of Kasbeer; three stepsons, Thomas Hollaway of Georgia, Dana Hollaway of Sterling, and Scott Hollaway of Rock Falls; one sister, Connie (Denny) Zink of Savanna; 14 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.

A gathering of friends and family will be from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Friday and the funeral at 10:30 a.m. Friday at McDonald Funeral Home, 46 Grove St., Prophetstown, with the Rev. Nancy Weingartner officiating. Family graveside service will be at Oak Knoll Memorial Park in Sterling.

Memorials to Good Samaritan Society – Prophets Riverview would be appreciated.

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“My goal is to avoid a shutdown of core, critical services,” House Speaker Michael Madigan said in a statement as his chamber adjourned until next week. “I believe that should be the top priority of the governor and the Legislature at this moment.”

Rauner, entering his seventh month in the top spot, has insisted that before negotiating a budget with Democrats, they must approve overhauls to make Illinois more business-friendly and less susceptible to political corruption.

Democrats say the ideas, such as restricting lawsuits and payments to injured workers, freezing property taxes and term limits for politicians, are unrelated to state spending and want him to help find money to close a $4 billion gap in the $36 billion budget Rauner vetoed last week.

Short of that, they looked for help to keep the lights on in state government in a maneuver used several times in the past decade.

Moderate Democratic Rep. Jack Franks of Marengo said he agrees with Rauner on issues such as the property-tax freeze and term limits, saying “he ought to get some victories.”

“But ladies and gentle-

man, we’re not talking about statistics, and this is not an abstract thing that we are doing here today,” Franks said.

“These are real people that, if we don’t provide them with the resources they need, real people are going to suffer.”

Officials are unsure how quickly state services will wind down. There is money to pay employees through mid-month, but some vendors providing social services may start scaling back because there’s no authority to pay them.

The temporary budget could still be resurrected, because the Senate approved a separate but identical plan 37-0. Eleven Republicans voted “present” and nine didn’t vote.

It is possible Madigan, a Chicago Democrat, could persuade four more lawmakers to endorse the initiative to get it approved when the House returns Wednesday.

But even then, Rauner calls it unconstitutional because it is not a balanced budget. Over a full year, it would create the same $4 billion deficit Democrats proposed earlier, according to a letter Wednesday from Rauner budget director Tim Nuding, who said it “marches the taxpayers of Illinois toward an unbalanced budget one month at a time.”

Rep. Margo McDermed, a first-term

Republican from Mokena, voiced the exasperation of taxpayers statewide in a plea to both sides to skip the shortterm fix and talk.

“What’s the matter with us, that we’re unable to have a discussion, as adults, where we’re all invited to the table, and actually make decisions about dividing up the money?”

McDermed asked.

Without Republican support, a Rauner veto of the bill would be tough to overcome, because a legislative override would need 71 House and 36 Senate votes.

Aside from the budgetvote drama, the House listened to a second day of testimony on the impact of a state government shutdown, hearing mostly from advocacy groups and worried parents of disabled children because the 15 directors of state agencies invited to testify failed to show up.

At a Senate committee hearing on the provisional plan, Tim Egan, CEO of Roseland Hospital in Chicago, said without funding, hospitals receiving state funds may have to lay off staff – a particularly devastating blow to facilities such as his, where emergency treatment often involves victims of Chicago violence.

“People will die without a budget agreement,” he said.

However, parts of those stores were still closed off Wednesday.

Some stores, such as Accents and Christopher & Banks, appeared ready to reopen.

Others, such as Shoe Sensation and Sports Zone, have been gutted of merchandise and display racks and shelves.

Finish Line has merchandise on some if its shelves, but its entrance was covered with plastic Wednesday. Parts of the store remained bare.

Plastic also covered the entryway of Dunham’s Sports, which lost part of its roof when a back wall collapsed during the storm.

Dunham’s had been open only since October, after the mall shuffled Shoe Sensation to a new location and did an extensive interior remodel to accommodate the sporting goods retailer.

Soft music played over the speakers Wednesday inside the 302,680-square-foot mall.

Only a few people were walking around the mall Wednesday afternoon.

Fans and blowers could still be heard throughout the vintage-1972 mall, which was renovated in 1999.

ServiceMaster vans and other work vehicles remained parked outside the mall’s main entrance.

Karyn Brouilette, general manager at Northland Mall, declined to comment again Wednesday.

Alex T. Paschal/apaschal@saukvalley.com

A crane hauls debris from Dunham’s Sports at Northland Mall on Friday after torrential winds ripped off part of the roof June 22. Dunham’s has been open since October and, while it remains unclear when it will reopen, three other stores reopened Monday.

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ILLINOIS

Medical marijuana patients up to 2,600 Patient numbers will

increase when sales begin, official says CHICAGO (AP) – With the number of Illinois medical marijuana patients inching slowly upward to 2,600 on Wednesday, the state’s licensed growers are fine-tuning their models to get the right number of plants in the ground.

At least one company hopes to have marijuana growing this summer. Others are still months away from planting.

They’re all tracking the official

patient total with interest and trepidation.

“They’re watching it like a hawk,” said David Friedman, CEO of Chicago-based MJIC Media, which covers the industry for investors. “It’s a huge indication for them” of future paying customers and revenue.

“All we can do is produce the best product we can and stay focused on that,” said Emily Wilcox, a spokeswoman for In Grown Farms, which has scheduled city and state inspections this month of its cultivation center in Freeport. “To us the biggest thing is figuring out who the patients are and where they are.”

In June, Illinois sent about 100 approval letters to patients who qualify to use marijuana, bringing the total to 2,600, the Illinois Department of Public Health said. About 22,600 people have started the application process on the program’s website. Of those, about 3,200 have submitted a complete application, 100 more than last month.

The low numbers might be related to patient complaints about a fingerprint-based background check requirement. Some patients are waiting to see if the long-delayed program gets off the ground before paying a $100 fee. Some

doctors want to see more scientific evidence before agreeing to sign a required form.

The flat numbers fall short – by a factor of 10 to 15 – of figures used in financial models companies relied on as they applied for cultivation permits, said Friedman, who did some of that modeling through another business venture, CFO Worldwide. The models predicted revenues starting around July 1, he said, which hasn’t happened.

“They’re not even close,” Friedman said of the Illinois industry. “I think it’s in jeopardy. There’s cause for concern.”

Patient numbers will increase when sales begin, said Charles Bachtell, a founder and principal of Cresco Labs, which holds three Illinois cultivation permits. Cresco’s Joliet facility, the furthest along of the three, may have plants growing in September, Bachtell said. That would put Cresco’s harvest in the first quarter of 2016.

He noted that Illinois patient numbers are far ahead of Minnesota, which kicked off sales in its medical cannabis program this week with only 65 registered patients.

“That puts it in perspective,” Bachtell said.

CLINTON EMAILS

ILLINOIS

Emails: Top officials aware of private address

Former treasurer employees file suit over firings

WASHINGTON (AP) – Senior Obama administration officials, including the White House chief of staff, knew as early as 2009 that Hillary Rodham Clinton was using a private email address for her government correspondence, according to some 3,000 pages of correspondence released by the State Department on Tuesday night.

The chief of staff, nowChicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, requested Clinton’s email address on Sept. 5, 2009, according to one email. His request came 3 months after top Obama strategist David Axelrod asked the same question of one of Clinton’s top aides.

But it’s unclear whether the officials realized Clinton, now the leading Democratic presidential candidate, was running her email from a server located in her home in Chappaqua, New York – a potential security risk and violation of administration policy.

The emails, covering March through Decem-

AP

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham testifies in January 2014 on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. ber 2009, were posted online as part of a court mandate that the agency release batches of Clinton’s private correspondence from her time as secretary of state every 30 days starting June 30.

The regular releases of Clinton’s correspondence all but guarantee

a slow drip of revelations from the emails throughout her primary campaign, complicating her efforts to put the issue to rest. The goal is for the department to publicly unveil 55,000 pages of her emails by Jan. 29, 2016 – just 3 days before Iowa caucus-goers will cast the first votes in the

Hospital supported the donation of the overdose kits. Each kit costs about $50.

Sgt. Ron Atkins attended a recent 30-minute training session and says the system is easy to use.

The new launch site is a city parcel on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River.

River flooding forced Alton to cancel its July Fourth holiday fireworks show in 2008. Flooding has also prompted officials in nearby Grafton to postpone their planned holiday fireworks display this year.

Democratic primary contest. Clinton has said she wants the emails released as soon as possible.

A Republican-led House panel investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, also is examining emails of Clinton and other former department officials, raising the possibility of further revelations into 2016. The State Department provided more than 3,600 pages of documents to the committee on Tuesday, including emails.

Pushing back, the Clinton campaign released a video Wednesday that argues that seven previous investigations have debunked the conspiracy theories surrounding the attacks that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, and the panel’s sole purpose is to rough up Clinton politically ahead of the presidential election.

“How long will Republicans keep spending tax dollars on this political charade?” the video asks.

IN BRIEF Deputies to patrol with overdose kits DECATUR (AP) – Sheriff’s deputies in Macon County in central Illinois are learning to save lives by administering a medicine that reverses the effects of heroin and other opioid drugs.

The Herald-Review reported the county’s patrol units will soon carry life-saving kits to address the growing problem of heroin overdose.

The kits are equipped with naloxone, better known by its brand name, Narcan. They were donated by the Mount Zion-based Tyler Yount Foundation. The foundation is a not-for-profit organization started by Kathy Burkham, whose 23-year-old son died of an accidental heroin overdose.

Heritage Behavioral Health and St. Mary’s

Alton relocates holiday fireworks ALTON (AP) – Flooding on the Mississippi River has forced Alton city officials to find another launch site for their July Fourth holiday weekend fireworks show.

The Alton Telegraph reported that city leaders are still planning a Friday night fireworks show at Riverfront Park but must relocate the launch site after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers called the previous location in West Alton, Missouri, unsafe after recent heavy rains.

More cars expected during weekend DOWNERS GROVE (AP) – The Illinois Tollway in the northern part of the state will be more crowded this July Fourth.

The agency expects nearly 6 million vehicles to use the system between today and Sunday. That’s a 7 percent increase from last year.

The busiest driving day is expected to be Thursday with nearly 2 million vehicles.

To keep the extra traffic moving, the Tollway says it will restrict construction work.

The Illinois State Police will increase patrols to target those speeding, driving under the influence and using cellphones without handsfree devices.

Claim they were let go for providing damaging evidence CHICAGO (AP) – Three former state employees allege in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that then-Treasurer Dan Rutherford fired them in 2014 in retaliation after they offered damaging evidence in a sexual harassment investigation conducted by a law firm into the Illinois Republican.

Patrick Carlson, George Daglas and Ashvin Lad – all top aides to Rutherford at the time – were told they were being fired for timekeeping abuses, but that was merely a pretext for getting rid of them for implicating their boss, the filing in Cook County Circuit Court alleges.

The 10-page civil suit names Rutherford, former chief of staff Kyle Ham, and the agency as defendants. Among other demands, the men seek back pay and compensation for future wages and emotional distress.

Another ex-Rutherford aide, Edmund Michalowski, made the original harassment allegations. In a still-active federal lawsuit, Michalowski

claimed he was subject to repeated unwanted sexual advances Dan

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T h o s e harassment claims against Rutherford were first made public in January last year as Rutherford’s campaign for governor kicked into high gear.

He steadfastly denied the allegations, but ended up losing the March 2014 Republican primary. There was never an indication of a criminal investigation of Rutherford, and no criminal charges were ever filed.

Wednesday’s lawsuit says the plaintiffs told investigating lawyers who were brought into the agency to vet the harassment allegations that the allegations were true.

The retribution came months after the primary, according to the lawsuit, when a separate investigation by the treasurer’s inspector general concluded the men had falsely recorded working times. Citing those allegations of wrongdoing, Rutherford fired them July 2, 2014.

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THE CARTOONIST’S VOICE

Labor face-off looms between Rauner, unions Contract runs out; walkouts are a possibility

Jim Morin, MorinToons Syndicate

EDITORIAL | CONFEDERATE FLAG

Lay it out of sight forever W

e add our support to the growing movement to take down Confederate flags from flagpoles at public buildings in the South and elsewhere.

The impetus for the movement is the shocking attack last month at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.

The killings of nine blacks by a young white man were the very personification of a hate crime. The shooter identified with racist causes and appeared in a photograph with the Confederate flag, which for 150 years has also been identified with racist causes.

At first, the Confederate flag represented the Confederate States of America, which broke away from the United States in 1861 on the platform of the so-called rights of Southern states to preserve slavery.

Upon the defeat of the Confederacy by U.S. forces 150 years ago, the flag represented a defeated society, a failed revolt, a “lost cause.”

But hatred, unfortunately, was not defeated.

At the hands of whites in the South and elsewhere, blacks suffered oppression, lynchings, and the systematic denial of their rights. It took another century before the civil rights movement took back some of the denied rights from the powers

What we think The Confederate battle flag represents a regime that stood for slavery and oppression. It has no place flying on any public building in the United States. that be, who continued to wave the Confederate flag in defiance.

Interest in Civil War history by many in the North and South added a semblance of legitimacy to the appearance of the Confederate flag as a supposed symbol of Southern heritage.

As a result, Southern history buffs may balk at calls by the Confederate flag’s critics to remove it from public buildings, as well as other state-sanctioned venues (license plates, state-supported displays, and the like).

The problem with that is, one man’s heritage is another man’s horror.

And the horror continues, as witnessed by the carnage in Charleston.

WHILE VICTIMS’ families have shown remarkable magnanimity and forgiveness, the sight of the Confederate flag still flying at the South Carolina Statehouse must be a bitter pill to swallow – and has been for the past 50 years, when state leaders had it erected in defiance of the civil rights movement.

So far, the governor of South Carolina has called for the removal

of the Confederate flag from her state’s capitol grounds.

The Alabama governor ordered the removal of four Confederate flags from a memorial at his capitol.

Governors in Virginia and North Carolina say the flag should be removed from specialty license plates. Georgia stopped issuing such plates; Tennessee may do the same.

Some stores have gotten into the act. Walmart, based in Arkansas, says it will stop selling all Confederate gear.

Pop culture hasn’t been immune from the movement. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that “The Dukes of Hazzard,” a 1979-85 TV show that featured the heroes driving a car painted with the Confederate flag on its roof, will be dropped by the TV Land network.

Our concern is not so much with business and entertainment as it is with public tax dollars being used to support a flag that so many people see as offensive.

It’s not just in relatively recent times that offense has been taken to the

display of the Confederate flag.

In an editorial from 125 years ago, the Telegraph took umbrage at the flag’s return to public display in the South.

ON JUNE 23, 1890, the Telegraph editorialized: “There has been much said about the great display of Rebel flags at Richmond [Virginia] recently, and in that regard, there can be but one opinion among people who are loyal to the Union.

“There is not room enough in these United States for two flags – especially where one was the emblem of slavery, treason and disloyalty.

“The colors that waved over Andersonville, Libby Prison, Belle Isle, Salisbury, and other Southern prison hells, should be laid out of sight and forever. It is the one and only thing that brings vividly to mind the unpleasant memories of the past.”

If the flag belongs anywhere, confine it to museums that explain what it stood for in context with a 19th-century Civil War and the racial oppression that followed.

But on the public square and other places of prominence, the Confederate flag has flown long enough.

Lay it out of sight and forever.

THE READER’S VOICE

Step up to protect drivers from peddlers LEON DAVILO Rock Falls

Mr. Mayor of Chicago and surrounding cities in the state of Illinois: Years ago, there were legit poor people asking for money on the streets of Chicago and surrounding towns all over the state. It is now a business for the peddlers without a ped-

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

dler’s license.

They make and change their cardboard signs to read whatever it takes to get motorists to stop and give them money for personal gain, to buy whatever they need or pay bills they have. And they make good money doing it.

You have the legal peddler with a peddler’s license that he pays a fee for each year to operate. He does get a ticket or a fine for operating without a license. He

tries to make a living by selling products to the public, for personal gain to make a living.

He does not stop traffic, approach cars, and shake his cup at their window.

The peddler stops traffic, which I believe is illegal. There used to be one illegal peddler on a corner; now you see three and four cardboard holders making real good money.

Every other business pays to operate its com-

THE FIRST AMENDMENT

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

pany – so should the illegal peddlers. One thousand peddlers at $100 a year, that’s $100,000. I’ll pay it and start peddling for free money.

The peddlers walk in the middle of the streets in traffic, slow down traffic, and if they get hit, they want to sue. Cities have to make rules and regulations for peddlers to protect the motorists from the peddlers’ stupidities of just walking into traffic and stopping traffic.

SPRINGFIELD – The way Illinois has handled negotiations with the largest union representing state workers has always been political.

When the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees flexes it political muscle in Springfield, politicians quake.

Between 2002 and 2014, AFSCME poured $5.8 million into the campaign coffers of state politicians.

And then the union officials who doled out the dough ended up sitting across the negotiating table from the very pols they helped to elect.

Perhaps not surprisingly, those politicians got more generous with our tax dollars and ladled out cash and promises to union bosses like tomorrow didn’t matter.

Of course in politics, it’s the next election – not tomorrow – that matters.

Look no further than September 2010.

In the midst of a campaign – 3 days after receiving an AFSCME endorsement – then-Gov. Pat Quinn signed a deal with the union pledging that none of its employees would be laid off for the next 2 years.

Two months later, Quinn was elected governor.

Considering his razorthin victory that year over state Sen. Bill Brady, it’s almost certain that Quinn would not have prevailed in that election if not for AFSCME’s support.

And the governor’s office alone is responsible for negotiating with AFSCME. In fact, in past years, even when the Legislature has refused to appropriate money for pay raises, the courts have ruled taxpayers are still on the hook if the governor promised them in negotiations.

Between 2002 and 2014, government-worker unions combined pumped $47.5 million into the war chests of various Illinois state elected officials.

And politicians kept upping their promises to these political contributors.

It was more than the state could afford.

That’s one reason that the state has a $111 billion unfunded pension liability.

But a strange thing happened last year.

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

Contact him at sreeder@ illinoispolicy. org.

A candidate ran on a platform of taking on “union bosses.”

The candidate, of course, was Bruce Rauner.

And now, he is in office.

AFSCME leaders don’t like that.

The state is hurting, and Rauner wants state workers to pay more for their health insurance and make other concessions.

It’s a common predicament in the private sector.

When an employer’s revenues are down, employees share in the sacrifice.

DURING MY DECADES in the newspaper business, I saw benefits trimmed as the industry struggled. I didn’t much like it, but I understood it was necessary.

But AFSCME doesn’t view the world that way.

They want the state to jack up taxes.

In other words, they want you to take a pay cut so they don’t have to.

On July 1, the union’s contract ran out. Most of the terms of the contract have been temporarily extended for 1 month.

But the labor showdown is coming to a head.

Some sort of labor work stoppage may well be in the Prairie State’s future.

In past administrations, Big Labor benefited from the power of governors to cut deals on their own.

With Rauner in office, that gubernatorial power doesn’t favor AFSCME. The union’s answer?

Change the rules.

Now it wants an unelected outsider to have the final say.

Lawmakers, many of whom received AFSCME donations, passed a measure to allow for mandatory arbitration.

Rauner will almost certainly veto the bill.

Now we must ask ourselves, Who should have the final say? Someone elected and accountable to the voters, or an outsider whom AFSCME views as a means of avoiding sacrifice?

Note to readers: Scott Reeder’s column is underwritten by the Illinois Policy Institute. He can be reached at sreeder@illinoispolicy.org.

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WASHINGTON | FEDERAL INVESTIGATION

U.S. probing possible airline collusion Justice Department is looking into potential ‘unlawful coordination’ WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. government is investigating possible collusion among major airlines to limit available seats, which keeps airfares high, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.

The civil antitrust investigation by the Justice Department appears to focus on whether airlines illegally signaled to each other how quickly they would add new flights, routes and extra seats.

A letter received Tuesday by major U.S. carriers demands copies of all communications the airlines had with each other, Wall Street analysts and major shareholders about their plans for passenger-carrying capacity, or “the undesirability of your company or any other airline increasing capacity.”

The Justice Department asked each airline for its passenger-carrying capacity both

AP

Travelers pass through a corridor in February 2013 at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. The U.S. government is investigating possible collusion between major airlines to limit available seats, which keeps airfares high, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press. by region, and overall, since January 2010.

Justice Department spokeswoman Emily Pierce confirmed that the department is looking into potential “unlawful coordination” among some airlines. She declined to comment

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further or say which airlines are being investigated.

On a day when the overall stock market was up, stocks of the major U.S. airlines ended the day down 1 to 3 percent on news of the investigation.

American Airlines, Delta Air

Lines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines all said they received a letter and are complying. Several smaller carriers, including JetBlue Airways and Frontier Airlines, said they had not been contacted by the government.

The airlines publicly discussed capacity early last month in Miami at the International Air Transport Association’s annual meeting. After hearing about that meeting, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., requested a Justice Department investigation.

The department had tried to block the most recent merger, the 2013 joining of American Airlines and US Airways, but ultimately agreed to let it proceed after the airlines made minor concessions.

Some Wall Street analysts argue that to remain financially strong, airlines should not expand capacity faster than the U.S. economy. And from January 2010 to January 2014, they didn’t.

In that 4-year period, capacity on domestic flights was virtu-

FARM PROGRESS SHOW

Organizers plan $1M expansion in Decatur DECATUR (AP) – Plans are underway to expand this year’s Farm Progress Show in Decatur before it takes place at the beginning of September.

Three new streets will be added to provide enough space for about 100 more exhibitors,

show manager Matt Jungmann said. However, construction bids for the $1 million project haven’t been considered, and weather is a potential hindrance, according to officials.

Jungmann remains optimistic and believes

the expansion will be completed in time.

“We’ve got to get it done by show time,” he said. “We’ll get it done.”

The expansion will allow the upcoming Farm Progress Show to feature more than 600 exhibitors and addi-

NORTHFIELD (AP) – Kraft shareholders have approved the sale of the company to ketchup-maker H.J. Heinz, creating one of the world’s largest food companies with annual revenue of about $28 billion.

Heinz’ owners, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and the Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital engineered the deal, first announced in March, and

Man withdraws permit application for wildlife park ARTHUR (AP) – A central Illinois man has pulled his request for a specialuse permit to build a zoo and drive-through wild animal park on farmland in Moultrie County.

James Aikman said it would be a “long and uphill battle” to bring it to the 140-acre site near Arthur, even if county officials approved the permit.

Instead, he’s not giving up

and will look for a less contested location to open Aikman Wildlife Adventure next year, he said.

“We’re still very committed to what we’re doing, because we know there are

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Readers voice strong opinions on cohabitation Dear Abby, On May 5, I printed a letter from a parent, “Against the Tide in New Jersey.” He said his “independent, intelligent, loving” daughters (both in their late 20s) have dated their boyfriends for 5 years and had recently moved in with them. The man also said he and his wife approve of the young men.

One daughter is planning to have an open house and invited her parents. The writer said his daughter is upset because he and his wife refuse to attend because cohabitation is against their beliefs. He said he and his wife “understand her decision,” but their

anything to gain by doing so. Thousands of angry readers wrote to comment. Read on:

dearABBY Abigail Van Buren’s (Jeanne Phillips) column appears during the week through Universal Press Syndicate.

daughter doesn’t appear to respect theirs. He asked, “Are we wrong?”

I responded yes, because it’s no longer unusual for couples to cohabit before marriage.

I asked how long they plan to continue punishing the daughter and said I don’t think they have

Dear Abby, Cohabitation is not a substitute for matrimony. I realize it is “not unusual for couples today to live together.”

However, you must certainly be aware that many religious people regard doing so as a sin against God. Should the parents compromise their beliefs to attend, simply because their daughter’s relationship is “progressing nicely”?

Why do you feel that standing up for their beliefs is “punishing” their daughter and her live-in? I wish you would

address this again.

– Dianne in Lubbock, Texas Dear Dianne, I try to deal with things as they are, and not as some people think they ought to be. Today, many couples have chosen to live together before marriage. Some are trying to avoid the unhappiness they saw in their parents’ marriages. Others realize that you don’t really know someone until you have lived with him or her. Divorce is messy, not to mention expensive on many levels, and they want to avoid the pain if possible – although few separations are painless.

I believe that parents should choose their bat-

tles carefully after their children become adults.

What these parents are doing might eventually isolate them from their daughters. Acting as they are, there may be other happy occasions they’ll be skipping. This one is just the first.

Dear Abby, If the letter writer and his wife accept an invitation to someone’s house, do they check first to make sure their hosts share their “values,” that they vote the same way, are against gay marriage, have the same religious beliefs? If they don’t take that same care with everyone they know, they are being unfair to their daughters.

For 5 years they were apparently comfortable with the daughters living at home or in their own apartments and having sex with their boyfriends on the sly. Now that the young women are honestly acknowledging the sexual relationship and formalizing it by living together openly, suddenly there’s a problem. There’s a stench of hypocrisy here.

– Online Dear Abby Reader Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

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

SUPPORT GROUPS, CLUBS AND SERVICES Friday, July 3 Childhood immunization clinic; women, infants and children clinic; and family planning services, Lee County Health Department, 309 S. Galena Ave., Suite 100, Dixon. Appointments: 815284-3371.

Mercy Nursing Services free blood pressure clinic, 9:3011:30 a.m., Oliver’s Corner Market, 748 N. Brinton Ave., Dixon.

Bible study, 10 a.m., Oregon Living & Rehab Center, 811 S. 10th St. Blood pressure checks, 11 a.m., Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815-589-3925.

Mercy Nursing free blood pressure clinic, noon-1:30 p.m.

County Market, 1380 N. Galena Ave., Dixon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed, St. Paul Lutheran Church, 114 S. Fifth St., Oregon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed; 3:30 p.m., closed; 7 p.m., closed; 10 p.m., open, candlelight, Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, open; 6 p.m., open; 10:30 p.m., open, candlelight, 90-92 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon.

Afflication of Addiction Narcotics Anonymous, noon, 6 p.m., First Christian Church, 506 Fifth Ave., Rock Falls, 779-2458214. Downstairs, west door.

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, noon, closed,

it’s your meeting; 8 p.m., open, Grapevine, back door, 1503 First Ave., Rock Falls.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, 808 Freeport Road, Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., open; 7 p.m., Al-Anon-Alateen, Immanuel Lutheran Church, 960 U.S. Route 52, Amboy.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, Rochelle Community Hospital, 900 N. Second St. Reformers Unanimous, an addiction abstinence program, 7-9 p.m., First Baptist Church, 24 N. Mason Ave., Amboy, 815-8572682.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., closed, First Congregational Church, 218 E. Third St., Prophetstown.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed, Church of God, 816 S. Clay St., Mount Carroll.

Saturday, July 4 Independence Day Cancellations have not been received for these; check ahead to see if meeting.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m., closed, Big Book, United Methodist Church, 201 E. Chicago Ave., Davis Junction.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m., open, women’s; noon, open; 6 p.m., open, 90-92 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon.

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, 9:30 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, 815-440-7992.

Mercy Nursing Services free 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, 779-2458214. 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 free 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.

Chapter 410 of the Experimental Aircraft Association, 7:30 p.m., terminal building, Whiteside County Airport, 10950 Hoover Road, Rock Falls, 815-626-1249.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed, Village of Progress, 710 S. 13th St., Oregon.

Organized Wii Bowling games, noon, Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Pinochle, noon, Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Hand and Food card game, 12:15 p.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815732-3252.

Pinochle, 12:30 p.m., Big Room, Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Friendly Mexican Train dominoes, 12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Duplicate bridge, 12:30 p.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Rummy, 1 p.m., Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815-589-3925 Tampico Farmers Market, 3-6 p.m., Reagan Park, Main and Glassburn streets, Tampico, 815-718-0818.

Tacos, 4-8 p.m., Latin American Social Club, 2708 W. Fourth St., Sterling, 815-625-8290.

Exercise group, 4 p.m., Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815-589-3925 Bingo, Dixon Elks Lodge No. 779, 4:30 p.m. doors open, 5:30 p.m. kitchen opens and 6:30 p.m. bingo begins, 1279 Franklin Grove Road, Dixon, 815-2883557. No computers.

Loaves and Fishes, 5-6 p.m., Holloway Center, St. Patrick Catholic Church, 612 Highland Ave., Dixon, 815-284-7719. A free, hot meal for the needy.

Sauk Valley Chess Club, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Northland Maill, 2900 E. Lincolnway, Sterling; 815-622-8838.

Open pool, open cards, open Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Pool players, 8:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Bingo and doughnuts, 9 to 10 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815562-5050.

Morning Whittle, 9 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St.., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Line dancing, 9:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

313 card game and Wii Bowling, 10 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Community coffee and doughnuts, 10 a.m. Oregon Living & Rehab Center, 811 S. 10th St., 815-732-7994.

Line dancing, 10-11 a.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Lifescape lunch, 11:30 a.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815288-9236. Sign up by 10 a.m. previous business day.

Lunch, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815622-9230.

Organized Wii Bowling games, noon, Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Euchre, 12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Pinochle, 1 p.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Euchre 101, 1 p.m., Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815-589-3925.

Farmer’s Market, 3-6 p.m., Lanark City Park, 200 block of West Claremont Street.

Dixon Coin Club, coin grading, 6 p.m., and auction, 7 p.m., Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 540, 1560 Franklin Grove Road, Dixon, 815-535-8427.

COMMUNITY EVENTS Thursday, July 2 Open pool, open cards, open Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Open pool, open cards, open Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Pool players, 8:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St.., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Stump Jumpers, 9 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, weather permitting.

Register: 815-732-3252 or 800541-5479.

Bingo and popcorn, 9-10 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815562-5050.

Line dancing, 9:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St.., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Community coffee, 10-11 a.m., The Meadows of Franklin Grove, 510 N. State St., Franklin Grove, 815-456-3000.

Friendly Needles, 10:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Zumba class, 10:30 a.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-2889236.

Lunch, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815622-9230.

Lifescape lunch, 11:30 a.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815288-9236. Sign up by 10 a.m. previous business day.

Organized Wii Bowling games, noon, Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Hand and Foot card game, 12:15 p.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815732-3252.

Hand and Foot card game, 12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Crocheting, knitting and crafts, 1 p.m., Lee County

Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Euchre/500 games, 1-2 p.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Bingo, 1 p.m., Sterling Women of the Moose, 2601 E. Lincolnway, Sterling.

Euchre, 1 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-8220.

Euchre, 1-3 p.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Trap shooting, 2 p.m. until no shooters, Coleta Sportsmen’s Club, corner of Pilgrim and Blue Goose roads, 815-336-2191.

Open to public.

Exercise group, 4 p.m., Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815-589-3925 Mexican food, 5-8 p.m., Rock Falls Veterans of Foreign Wars, 217 First Ave. Mexican Train dominoes, 6 p.m., Tampico Area Community Building, 106 W. Market St., Tampico, 815-535-3665.

Bingo, 7 p.m., Latin American Social Club, 2708 W. Fourth St., Sterling, 815-625-8290.

Friday, July 3 Open pool, open cards, open Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Pool players, 8:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St.., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Bridge, 8:45 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Wii Bowling, 10 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Lifescape lunch, 11:30 a.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815288-9236. Sign up by 10 a.m. previous business day.

Organized Wii Bowling games, noon, Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Pinochle, noon, Hub City

Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Duplicate bridge, 12:30 p.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815288-9236.

Pinochle, 1 p.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Farkle, 1 p.m., Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815-589-3925 Farmers Market, 3-7 p.m., West Second Street, Rock Falls, 815-625-4500.

Farmers Market, 4-8 p.m., Union Bank parking lot, 2 W. Main St., Mount Morris.

All-ages open mic night, 5-9 p.m., Triangle-Veterans Memorial Park, Fifth Street and Fifth Avenue, Rock Falls, 815-590-8881.

Mexican food, 5-8 p.m., Rock Falls Veterans of Foreign Wars, 217 First Ave. Bingo, 7 p.m. Rock Falls American Legion, 712 Fourth Ave. Saturday, July 4 Independence Day Cancellations have not been received for these; check ahead to see if meeting.

Farmers Market, 7 a.m.-noon, Haymarket Square, 317 W. Third St., Dixon, 815-284-3306.

Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-noon, Twin City Market, indoors, 106 Avenue A, Sterling, 815-626-8610.

Farmers Market, 8-11 a.m., rain or shine, behind Morrison’s Heritage Museum, 202 E. Lincolnway.

Farmers Market, 8 a.m.noon, courthouse lawn, Oregon.

Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-noon, on state Route 52 next to BP station on North Pennsylvania Avenue, Sublette.

Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., West Second Street, Rock Falls, 815-625-4500.

Cookout, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Rock Falls Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5418, 217 First Ave. Carry-outs, 815-626-3513.

Singles of Sauk picnic, 1 p.m., 217 N. Dement Ave., Dixon, 815-631-1541.

Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 410, 7:30 p.m., Whiteside County Airport, 815626-1249 .

Sunday, July 5 Community worship service, 9 a.m., Petunia Festival main stage on River Street just west of Galena Avenue, 815-288-1505.

Bingo, 1 p.m., Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 540, 1560 Franklin Grove Road, Dixon.

Monday, July 6 Open pool, open cards, open Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Open pool, open cards, open Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Pool players, 8:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Mexican Train dominoes, 9 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-5625050.

Quilting, 9:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th Ave., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Wii Bowling, 10 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave, Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Situation Room, 10 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th Ave., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Zumba class, 10:30 a.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Lifescape lunch, 11:30 a.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815288-9236. Sign up by 10 a.m. previous business day.

Lunch, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815622-9230.

Bureau Valley Buddy Bags cookout, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Soldiers and Sailors Park, South Main Street and Park Avenue, Princeton.

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Tuesday, July 7 Open pool, open cards, open Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

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STERLING | THEATER

‘Into the Woods’ to hit park stage Five outdoor performances next week STAFF REPORT news@saukvalley.com 800-798-4-85, ext. 5501

STERLING – Sauk Valley Community College’s Theatre Department and Woodlawn Arts Academy

will come together again next week for Shakespeare in the Park, offering free performances of the Steven Sondheim musical “Into the Woods.”

Showtimes are set for 7 p.m. July 8 to 12 on the back lawn of Woodlawn Arts Academy, 3807 Woodlawn Road. The production is sponsored

by Savant Capital Management.

While Shakespeare’s works will always be the heart of this summer event, other classic works will be included in the repertoire in an effort to provide the Sauk Valley area with quality, entertaining and enriching theatrical experiences.

The plot centers on several beloved fairy tale characters. The journey

of this two-act musical encourages the audience to look beyond what is known about these familiar stories.

Participants can bring a chair and grab a place on the lawn. Guests may bring their own snacks and beverages. For this performance only, alcohol will be allowed in the park.

The park closes at 10

p.m. In case of rain, an “Into the Woods” musical revue will be performed inside the academy in the J. Mark Beaty Performance Center.

Before the July 10 show, students from Shakespearience!, a 2-week camp presented

by Woodlawn Arts Academy and Sauk Valley Community College, will perform at 6 p.m. on the

Shakespeare in the Park stage.

The production is suitable for ages 10 and up; however, parents are encouraged to use their own discretion. The first act is lighter in tone than the second.

For more information, call Woodlawn Arts Academy at 815-626-4278 or email anna.k.kurtz@svcc. edu.

WHAT’S GOING ON by local bands Trippin Molly, E11eventh Hour, and Killbourn.

Gates will open at 2 p.m.

The event will also feature a ride-in bike show, a burnout contest, and beer and food vendors.

Free camping will be offered for the night. Campers may bring their own beer, pop and food, but for only their campsites. No fires will be allowed.

It is a 21-and-older event.

Organizers ask that participants not bring any glass. Pets are not allowed.

Tickets are $22 and are available at at www.etickets.to/ buy/?e=12147. If available, tickets will be $25 at the gate.

Find the event on Facebook for more information.

ART EXHIBITS At The Next Picture Show DIXON – “All Mixed Up,” a mixed media show is on display until July 10 at the gallery, 113 W. First St. The next show set for the gallery is “Mind, Spirit & Emotion.”

The visual narrative of the artist’s work will reveal their mind, spirit and emotion in the artwork.

Ellen Mumford will show her work through July 15 on the front wall of the gallery.

Art at the Loveland DIXON – The art collection at Loveland Community House and Museum, 513 W. Second St., as well as the museum’s many other exhibits, are available for viewing from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday through Friday and by appointment. Guided group tours can be scheduled by contacting Steve Wilson at swilson@ lovelandcommunityhouse.org or 815-284-2741.

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

The event is free to the public.

At Woodlawn Arts Academy STERLING – The summer exhibit at Woodlawn Arts Academy, 3807 Woodlawn Road, will run until Aug. 14 in the academy halls and lounge.

The show features paintings by Jan Harvey and photography by Linnea Koch and Bob Logsdon.

Go to woodlawnartsacademy. org for more details.

BANDS AND BARS Get listed!

Are you in a band that would like to be listed in Plan!t Sauk Valley’s free entertainment calendar? Are you a bar that offers live entertainment? Send an email with the band’s name, booking number and website or Facebook page, and gig or event schedule, or the bar’s event schedule, to Lucas Pauley at lpauley@saukvalley.com.

At The Cooler ROCK FALLS – The Funnies will play from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. today, and Whey Jennings and The Unwanted (Whey is the grandson of Waylon Jennings) will play form 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday at the bar, 311 W. Second St., which will be closed Saturday.

At Val’s Place DIXON – Acoustic open mic is at 8:30 p.m. every Monday at the bar, 316 W. First St. Musicians also are welcome to join the band Notorious Folk, featuring Steve Catron, at 8 p.m. every Tuesday.

At Whiskey Barrel Saloon ROCK FALLS – Super Red Hot DJ & Karaoke will provide entertainment from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. today, PapaNutt will play from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday, and Naughty-Naughty will play from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday at the bar, 305 W. Second St. July 17 Hitz City to play STERLING – Hitz City will play from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. at Latin American Social Club, 2708 W. Lincolnway.

Upcoming: 5-9 p.m. July 18 at Dairy Mart in Sterling; 9 p.m.-1 a.m. July 25 at The Corner Spot in Dixon; and 7-9 p.m. Aug. 8 at Books on First in Dixon

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The Mount Morris Jamboree Committee will present The Jimmys, an award-winning blues band, at this week’s free concert from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the band shell downtown. custom reunion and cruise-in is set to roll into Sterling.

The cruise will begin at 6 p.m.

Friday, July 17, at Culver’s, 1901 Harley Davidson Drive, Rock Falls. First stop will be at Dairy Mart Plus, 312 16th Ave., and the final stop will be at Latin American Social Club, 2708 W. Fourth St., both in Sterling.

Festivities start at 9 a.m. Saturday at Latin American Social Club, and will include live music, drinks, food, past show displays, videos and more.

Call Ricardo at 815-501-2901 for more information.

COMEDY July 17-19 Comedy show in Polo POLO – “The Rules of Comedy,” presented by the Polo Area Community Theatre, will hit the stage at 7 each night at Louise Quick Park, 102 W. Mason St. The free show displays physical comedy with an interesting twist that showcases the cast’s dramatic side ,as well.

In order to prove that the rules of comedy work, they will be inserted into one of the most popular tragedies of all time: William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”

Concessions and 50/50 tickets will be sold, and donations will be accepted. Participants may bring a blanket or chair.

Email info@polotheatre.org, or visit polotheatre.org for more information.

CONCERTS Today Band’s season continues DIXON – The Dixon Municipal Band will continue its summer season at 7 p.m. with its annual patriotic concert on the lawn of the old Lee County Courthouse, 112 E. Second St.

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Matthew Fuger, an alumnus of the band, will be the guest conductor.

In case of inclement weather, the band will play inside at the Historic Dixon Theatre, 114 S. Galena Ave. In the event of a change in location, an announcement will be made by 5 p.m. the day of the concert on the band’s Facebook page. The public also can call the band’s conductor, Mark Bressler, at 815-6313948.

All concerts are free to the public. The Dixon High School drama department will benefit from sales of popcorn, water and other treats this summer.

Friday Free concerts at band shell MOUNT MORRIS – The Mount Morris Jamboree Committee will present The Jimmys, an award-winning blues band, at this week’s free concert from 7 to 9 p.m. at the band shell downtown.

Participants can bring a chair or blanket, and bench seating is available. A meal is served by a different local charitable organization at 6 p.m. before every performance.

In the event of inclement weather, the show, with concessions, will be presented at the same time at the Mount Morris Moose Family Center, 101 Moose Drive.

Upcoming: July 10, Jim Kanas Trio (jazz and American roots music); July 17, Ernie Hendrickson (Americana, folk, blues and country); July 24, Archtop Brownie (jazz and blues); July 31, Illinois Rail (bluegrass); and Aug. 7, Jeff Elbel + Ping (rock) Bands to play in park PROPHETSTOWN – A concert in Eclipse Square Park will be offered

by Prophetstown Main Street, featuring two bands from town.

DNA will play from 5:30 to 7

Wednesday Summer season continues STERLING – The Sterling Municipal Band’s free summer concert series continues at 7:30 p.m. at the downtown Grandon Civic Center.

Participants can bring a lawn chair or a blanket and enjoy.

Go to sterlingmunicipalband. com for more information.

July 11 Big Daddy Woo Woo to play DIXON – Big Daddy Woo Woo will play the second of three summer concerts set for Lowell Park Shelter.

The six-piece funk and R&B band will play from 6 to 8 p.m.

Patio Daddy-O, a classic rock cover band, will play Aug. 22.

Donations will be accepted, with proceeds benefiting the restoration of the Historic Reagan Bath House.

No alcohol is allowed in the park, which will close at 9.

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July 17 Blues and Bluegrass FRANKLIN GROVE – If it’s the third Friday of the month, it’s Blues and Bluegrass night at the H.I. Lincoln Building, 136 N. Elm St. Open-stage acoustic gospel, folk, country, blues and bluegrass will be performed, beginning at 7 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are accepted to help with the upkeep of the historic building.

Go to franklingroveil.org for more information.

Upcoming: Aug. 21 July 18 10 Years to headline pig roast NELSON – The Who Else entertainment group will again bring its brand of summer entertainment to the area with its 44th annual hog roast along the railroad tracks in Nelson at 126 Anderson Lane.

The Knoxville, Tennessee, band 10 Years will headline this year’s concert. 10 Years will be joined

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Those attending are encouraged to bring lawn chairs.

First Fridays in Oregon OREGON – The First Fridays Open Stage music show will return at 7 p.m. to the Oregon VFW Post 8739, 1310 W. Washington St. Ken Williams, Oregon mayor, will start the night with a reading of the Declaration of Independence.

Each musician or band performs for 15 minutes. Instruments are acoustic, and a professional sound system is provided. The music will include country, bluegrass, blues, gospel, folk, soft rock, and eclectic mixes of the different styles.

Admission is by donation. All musicians and spectators are welcome. Call 815-973-0942 for more information.

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July 25 Local bands to play festival STERLING – A group of bands with local ties will join forces when Sterling Main Street presents its annual Music Fest at Grandon Civic Center in Central Memorial Park in downtown Sterling.

Gates will open at 1 p.m., with music starting at 2. The performers will be The Defeated Royals at 2, Gina Venier at 3:15, Small Town Hymnal at 4:30, Mr. Myers at 6, and Elephant Gun at 8.

There will be a 50/50 drawing at 7:45. Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20. They will be sold at the event, and are available in advance at the Main Street office, 17 E. Third St.; Sterling Welcome Center & Gallery, 318 First Ave.; Golden Key Gifts, 702 W. Fourth St.; Showplace Antiques & Treasures, 307 First Ave. ; Grummert’s Hardware, 424 Locust St.; and SBM, 501 Locust St. Admission is $5, with kids 12 and under (must be accompanied by adult) getting in free. No pets will be allowed.

Vendors will sell food and beverages, and no outside food or drink will be allowed.

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KEWANEE | FUN FOR A CAUSE

P’town couple’s pal, ‘Elvis,’ putting on concert Tribute artist returns to help raise money for American Cancer Society

BY DAVE CLARKE Kewanee Star Courier

KEWANEE – A Prophetstown couple are channeling The King to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

Allen and Marcia Dragolovich, formerly of Kewanee, met Brandon Bennett, one of the top Elvis Presley tribute artists in the country, in 2004, when he was performing at a casino in Biloxi, Mississippi.

At the time, the Dragoloviches mentioned that their daughter, Amy Sternes, 30, a nurse in Kewanee, would be cancer-free 10 years in 2005. Bennett, too, had cancer in his family, and they asked whether he would consider doing a

benefit concert in celebration of Amy’s cancer-free anniversary and to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

Bennett agreed, and in April 2005 his show raised $5,400. He returned to Kewanee in 2008, also to put on an ACS fundraiser.

And now Bennett, who has become a family friend, is coming back to Kewanee one more time, for a 20th anniversary celebration. Doors will open at 6 p.m., and the show begins at 7, Sept. 26 in Kewanee High School’s Petersen Auditorium.

Tickets cost $15 at www.brandonbennettlive.com; from

the Dragoloviches, 815537-5673; from Amy, at 309-856-7305; from Cris Hicks, at 815-5372510; and at the door.

They also are being sold at State Bank of Toulon and other locations around Kewanee.

An after-party that night will be at the Flemish American Club.

Again, all proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society.

For the past 3 years, Bennett been in the Chicago cast of “Million Dollar Quartet,” a musical production that revisits the night future legends Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley performed together on the same stage.

He has also performed extended engagements in Las Vegas, Canada, and around the U.S., and in 2008, was named the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist in a worldwide contest conducted by Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. The Dragoloviches are mini superstars in their own right: They also are members of “The Cure,” a team that will participate in the Henry-Stark Relay for Life on Aug. 8.

“We are doing this because cancer continues to touch so many lives, including our own,” Allen said. “It’s hard to find a family that hasn’t had to deal with it.”

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WHAT’S GOING ON DOWNTOWN EVENTS July 11 Second Saturdays returns DIXON – Second Saturdays Art Happenings will return to various venues, most of them running from 6 to 8 p.m. downtown, between First and Second streets and Peoria and Galena avenues. Second Saturdays features art, music and other cultural events, Find the event on Facebook for a complete schedule and more details.

Upcoming: August 8

FAIRS AND FESTIVALS Through July 5 Folk legends to headline Petunia Fest DIXON – The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band will certainly be close enough to the Rock River this summer, if they feel like “Fishin’ in The Dark.”

The American country/folk band will play at 8:30 p.m.

Friday on the Bud Light Main Stage at the 51st annual Petunia Festival.

Pat Anderson will play at the Reagan stage at 5 p.m. today, for the festival’s opening night.

Logan Mize will play at 7 p.m. on the main stage. Brushville, a country band from Normal, will follow at 9:30 p.m.

Chicago Farmer will play from noon to 2 p.m. Friday on the main stage. Also Friday, The Dirty Beet Brothers will play 2:30 to 5 p.m., and Woodland Remedy will play from 5:30 to 6 p.m. on the main stage, and Kendra Swanson will play from 8 to 8:30 p.m. on the Reagan Stage.

Sun Stereo will immediately follow the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on the main stage.

Burn n’ Bush, featuring Tristan Bushman, will play from noon to 2:30 p.m Saturday on the main stage. Also Saturday, The Catfish Dogs will play from 3 to 5:30 p.m., Gina Venier will play from 6 to 9 p.m., and Dexter O’Neal and Funk Yard will play at 9:30 p.m., all on the main stage.

Lyle Grobe and the Rhythm Ramblers will play at 3 p.m., and Robbie LeBlanc will play at 6 p.m. Sunday, both on the main stage.

According to a news release, other acts are being finalized.

There also will be a limited number of backstage passes made available to the public. Go to petuniafest.com/event/entertainment/music or find Petunia Festival on Facebook and Twitter for more updates.

This is the third year the festival will be in downtown Dixon

on River Road, between Peoria and Galena avenues, and on Hennepin Avenue, from First Street to River Road.

Admission to the festival will be $5 per day, or $12 for 3 days in which admission is charged.

There will be food vendors throughout the festival grounds.

The carnival will remain across the river, in front of Dixon High School, 300 Lincoln Statue Drive. There will be no charge for admission to those grounds.

The annual craft show will be held under a new name this year: “Pinky’s Not-so-Forgotten Treasures ‘n’ More.” The event is set for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the auditorium of Loveland Community House, 513 W. Second St. There will be a Petunia Festival 50/50 drawing this year. Tickets will be $1, or 6 for $5. The drawing will be Sunday night at the main stage, prior to the annual fireworks display. Tickets will be on sale at events throughout the festival.

Proceeds benefit the organization.

The winner will be responsible for all applicable taxes and fees.

Go to petuniafestival.org for more information and a complete schedule of events.

Let Freedom Ring returns MOUNT MORRIS – The Let Freedom Ring festival returns this year with the theme “Freedom Reborn.”

A bags tournament is set for 4 p.m. Friday on Wesley Avenue, with registration starting at 3:30.

Also Friday, The Jimmys will play from 7 to 9 p.m. at the band shell. The fireworks are planned to begin at dark near David L. Rahn Junior High, 105 W. Brayton Road.

There also will be a 97ZOK live broadcast and house party from 9 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday.

A craft fair is set for 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday on the north edge of the festival.

The Jonas Levi Fultz Memorial Car Show and Cruise will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday on Main Street.

Also Sunday, Gene Cordova, a master ventriloquist, comedian and magician, will perform on at 1 p.m. at the band shell.

Go to letfreedomringfestival. com for a complete list of events and a map of the festival.

Alborn Theory will perform at 5:30 p.m., with the fireworks to follow at dusk.

The event can be found on Facebook by searching for 51st Annual 4th of July Fireworks Celebration.

July 23-26 Fair returns in Amboy AMBOY – The Lee County 4-H Fair and Junior Show at the fairgrounds will feature a full grandstand lineup of tractor and truck pulls, mud bogs and dirt drags.

The fair opens at noon Thursday, July 23. Gate admission is $5 Thursday through Saturday and $2 Sunday. Children age 12 and under are free.

New this year is the 4-H Fair Marketplace featuring local crafters, artisans, farmers market vendors, and home-based business products. Vendors include painted glass, Jamberry, Pampered Chef, reclaimed vintage furniture, Jade Lilly natural lotions and cosmetics, and Jewelry in Candles. Vendor space is available and is free. The marketplace will be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 26. For more information or to reserve a space, call 815-857-2603.

In addition to daily judging and livestock shows, free kids activities will be offered, as well as a kiddie carnival, bingo, Ben’s Bubble Show, and Miller’s petting zoo. The carnival will be put on by Oak Ridge Ranch Amusements.

A full fair schedule and more information about other fair activities and events is posted at leecounty4hcenter.com, or find Lee Co. 4-H Fair & Jr. Show on Facebook.

The Lee County Fair Association is also accepting entries for the junior show. The show is open to youth ages 8 to 19.

Project departments include all livestock and small animals, as well as visual arts, mechanical sciences, and crops.

An entry form and class descriptions are available at leecounty4hcenter.com. Entries will be accepted until July 15.

Friday and Saturday Annual celebration returns PROPHETSTOWN – The 51st annual Fourth of July celebration will be in Prophetstown State Park.

The annual Prophetstown Run Around 5K will be Friday, with the fun run at 6:30 p.m., and 5K at 7.

Go to prophetstownparkdistrict.com/ProgramsandRegistrations.html for a registration form and more information.

The 3-on-3 basketball tournament will begin at 8 a.m.

Saturday. The fire department will have food and refreshments during the day.

FARMERS MARKETS In Dixon DIXON – There will be no Dixon Park District farmers market Saturday at Haymarket Square.

The Dixon City Market is open from 4 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Sept. 30 along the riverfront between Hennepin and Peoria avenues.

Entertainment this week will be provided by Al and Jeannie Brown.

Upcoming: July 15, Chameleon; July 22, Copacabana Trio; July 29, Cirque du Swing; Aug.

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Farmers, entrepreneurs, bakers, and artists are all welcome.

For more information about the market, including rules, regulations, and applications, go to morrisonfarmersmarket.com or call 815-772-4749.

In Polo POLO – The Polo Farmers Market will begin July 9 at the city’s empty lot located on South Division Avenue, just south of the Shell gas station.

The market will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. every Thursday through the second week of October.

For more information, call Jean Deuth at 815-946-3234.

In Rock Falls ROCK FALLS – The Rock Falls Farmers Market is open from 8 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, 3 to 7 p.m. Friday, and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday through October at 400 W. Second St. Those interested in being a vendor can call 815-625-4500 or email hodges@rockfallschamber. com.

In Sterling STERLING – The Twin City Market is open from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday in the historic Twin City Produce Building, 106 Ave. A. Find the market on Facebook, go to www.twincityfarmersmarket.com, or call 815-499-7268 for a list of vendors, upcoming events and more information.

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Fireworks ready to pop across the area STAFF REPORT news@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5501

Fireworks are planned across the Sauk Valley this Independence Day. Amboy: Fireworks will be launched at dusk Friday from the Amboy Sports Park, and visible throughout the downtown.

Byron: A display will begin at dusk Saturday at Byron Dragway, 7287 River Road.

Dixon: Fireworks at the 51st annual Petunia Festival will start at 9 p.m.

Sunday. Fireworks will be launched near the Com Ed site on Second Street.

Fulton: Riverboat Days’ fireworks display in Clinton, Iowa, will be visible Saturday from School Park on 10th Avenue in Fulton. The fireworks will start after the Clinton Lumberkings’ game, which begins at 6:30 p.m.

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July 24 Concert to benefit organizations DIXON – The Arc of Lee County and Lee County Council on Aging will present “Petunia City Brass,” a drum and bugle corps show, at 7 p.m. at A.C. Bowers Field at Dixon High School, 300 Lincoln Statue Drive.

Proceeds from the show will benefit the two nonprofit organizations.

According to a news release, the show will showcase several of the best drum and bugle corps in the world.

Tickets, priced between $12 and $20, are available at www. dci.org or at Kreider Services, 500 Anchor Road; The Post House, 100 W. Second St.; and Venier Jewelers, 117 W. First St. Go to lccoa.com or thearcofleecounty.org for more information.

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Prophetstown: The annual fireworks show will start at dusk Saturday at Prophetstown State Park on Riverside Drive.

Savanna: Fireworks will be at dusk Sunday at West Carroll High School, 500 W. Cragmoor St. Sterling: This year’s fireworks will begin at dusk Friday at Westwood Fitness and Sports Center, 1900 Westwood Drive. The cost is $5 per carload of people.

Walnut: This year’s fireworks will begin at dusk Sunday at Bureau Valley North School, 323 S. Main St.

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Brandon Bennett, one of the top Elvis Presley tribute artists in the country, is coming to Kewanee to play.

Doors will open at 6 p.m., and the show begins at 7, Sept. 26 in Kewanee High School’s Petersen Auditorium.

2-hour Fischbach concert that starts at 7. There also will be a silent auction.

Tickets are available at all Sauk Valley Bank locations; at The Crystal Cork, 219 W. First St. in Dixon; and at wwwtheamosfund.org and www. thecrystalcork.com.

Proceeds will benefit the Amos Fund, established by Sterling real estate agent Deb Proctor, which helps Sauk Valley residents in need to pay their pets’ medical bills.

To donate, send a check to ReMax Sauk Valley, 110 Lynn Blvd., Sterling, IL 61081.

Call Proctor at 815-6253722 for more information.

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WHAT’S GOING ON FUN FOR A CAUSE

STERLING – Movies at Grandon will continue with “The Polar Express” at Grandon Civic Center in Central Memorial Park in downtown Sterling.

The movies are free and begin about 8:30 p.m. Concessions are available for purchase.

There are family activities before the movies. Participants can bring a lawn chair or blanket.

Go to sterlingmainstreet.org for more information.

July 25 Paint with a purpose FULTON – A paint-a-thon benefit for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Unity Christian High School, 711 10th St. This Inspired! Painting Party marathon will involve four paintings: sunflowers, magnolia blossom, eagle soaring, and barn with sunflower.

The cost is $40 per painting; food is included. Sixty percent of funds raised will go toward the hospital.

Visit inspiredpaintingparties. webs.com to register and prepay.

For more information, email inspiredpaintingparties@gmail. com, or call Laura Readdy at 815-590-4071 or Brenda Linville at 563-219-3472.

July 30 Trivia night in Dixon DIXON – Registration will be at 5:30 p.m. for Battle of the Brains Trivia Night, with the competition at 6, at the Post House Ballroom, 100 W. Second St. The cost is $12 per person, with up to six on a team. Individuals entrants will be assigned to teams.

Door prizes, a 50/50 drawing, and games will round out the event. Prizes will be awarded.

Light snacks will be served, and a cash bar will be open.

Proceeds will benefit Lee County Council on Aging.

Aug. 15 Festival benefits youth program DIXON – The seventh annual Gardenstock Art and Music Festival is set for Aug. 15 at Distinctive Gardens, 2020 Lowell Road.

The festival is a benefit for Sinnissippi Centers’ Youth Garden Program. The program allows at-risk youths involved with Sinnissippi to raise produce from a vegetable garden and donate it to Dixon Food Pantry. The donation from Gardenstock proceeds keeps the program alive, organizers say.

Parking for the 2014 festival approached capacity. Three parking lots are available. Carpooling is highly encouraged. Last year, all three lots reached capacity by 4 p.m. Guests need to be prepared for parking diversions.

Based on last year’s event, organizers estimate capacity at 2,500 to 3,000 people, so tickets

THEATER Through July 25

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Cast members rehearse a scene from “Peter Pan” at Timber Lake Playhouse in Mount Carroll. Brennon Cavanagh (from left) of Savanna plays John Darling, Wilson Bressler of Mount Carroll plays Michael Darling, and resident company member Holly Moss plays Wendy Darling. The show debuts at 7:30 tonight at the theater, 8215 Black Oak Road. Tickets are $17 for children, students and active duty military personnel; $22 for seniors; and $25 for adults. Groups of 10 or more can get $20 tickets. They can be purchased at the box office, at timberlakeplayhouse. org, and by calling 815-244-2035. will be limited. Online ordering is encouraged at diggersdelight. com. Wristbands cost $6 for adults 13 and older, and $1 for children 12 and younger. When available tickets sell out, day-of ticket purchases will cease. Tent rental has already sold out.

The music: • 11 a.m. to noon: 12+4 • 12:15 to 1:15 p.m.: Team Goodvibes • 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.: Lunch with Pedro • 2:45 to 3:45 p.m.: Small Town Hymnal • 4 to 5 p.m.: Melanie Devaney • 5:15 to 6:15 p.m.: Wrong Element • 6:30 to 7:45 p.m.: Lojo Russo • 8 to 9:15 p.m.: The Dirty Beet Brothers • 9:30 to 11 p.m.: Acoustic Knuckle Ride The art: The Art Alley will feature 42 regional artists, showcasing a variety of unusual art and fine crafts from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Contest, raffle and 50/50: A tie-dye contest will allow participants to get their pictures taken between 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.,

with voting running from 3 to 6 p.m. The most “likes” on the Gardenstock’s Facebook Tie Dye Contest Album will win.

This year, 36 of 42 Gardenstock artists donated items for the raffle.

Participants can buy raffle and 50/50 tickets at the info booths starting at 11 a.m., or from raffle ticket sellers throughout the festival grounds. The drawing times for the raffle will be 2:30, 3:45, 5, and 6:15 p.m. The 50/50 drawing is set for 7:45 p.m.

The food: Gardenstock is “picnic style,” allowing everyone to his or her own chair, blanket, cooler and beverage. Vendors, including Mama Cimino’s, Baker Street Café, Kokomo’s, Art Cookies, Ginkgo Tree Café, and Air Play Sports and Espresso, also will sell food and drinks from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

GARAGE SALES AND ANTIQUE SALES July 11 Annual antique show BISHOP HILL – The 25th annual antique show and sale will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Old Colony

School, 304 Bishop Hill Road.

The market features 60 dealers from throughout the Midwest.

The selection includes primitive antiques, folk art, early country, textiles, stoneware, baskets and more.

Live folk music will be featured at the festival, and a lunch will be available through Filling Station Restaurant.

The market is a rain or shine event.

Go to sweetannieprimitives.net or call 309-927-3072 for more information.

KARAOKE July 10 and 11 Party with the James Gang Karaoke with the James Gang from 8 p.m. to midnight July 10 at Freeport Moose, 601 E. South St., and 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

July 11 at Messie’s Bar and Grill, 117 N. River Road, Oregon.

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AT THE MOVIES Tuesday ‘The Polar Express’ at the park

Classic returns to area stage ROCK ISLAND – “The Sound of Music” is on stage through July 25 at Circa ‘21 Dinner Playhouse, 1828 Third Ave. The show will be performed at 7:45 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 5:45 p.m. Sundays, and 1:30 p.m. Wednesdays.

Tickets are $48 plus tax for the evening dinner and show, and $42.50 plus tax for the lunch matinees. Student tickets are available for $28 plus tax.

They can be ordered at circa21.com or by visiting or calling the box office at 309-7867733, ext. 2.

Today through July 12 ‘Peter Pan’ at TLP MOUNT CARROLL – Timber Lake Playhouse continues its 54th season with “Peter Pan,” which debuts at 7:30 tonight at the theater, 8215 Black Oak Road.

Shows are also set for 2 p.m. Friday; 2 and 6 p.m. Sunday; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday; 7:30 p.m. July 9; 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. July 19; 2 and 7:30 p.m.

July 11; and 2 p.m. July 12.

Tickets are $17 for children, students and active duty military personnel; $22 for seniors; and $25 for adults. Groups of 10 or more can get $20 tickets. They can be purchased at the box office, at timberlakeplayhouse.org, and by calling 815-244-2035.

The 2015 season also will feature “Greater Tuna,” “Big Fish,” and “Big River.”

AT THE MUSEUM The Depot is open AMBOY – The Amboy Depot Museum, 99 E. Main St., is open for the season. Admission is free.

Go to amboydepotmuseum.org or call 815-631-7391 for appointments or more information.

History at Loveland DIXON – The History Museum has artifacts and displays on local and national history at Loveland Community House and Museum, 513 W. Second St. The art museum also is available for viewing and features works by nationally known local artists.

The museum’s hours are 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday and Friday; and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday. The office is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Go to www.lovelandcommunityhouse.org for more information.

At John Deere Historic Site GRAND DETOUR – The John Deere Historic Site will offer a free family day every second Saturday through October at the museum, 8334 S. Clinton St. The site is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday from May through October.

Admission is $5.

Call 815-652-4551 for more information.

Fun at Firehouse Ministries ROCK FALLS – Firehouse Ministries Fire Museum, 403 W. Second St., is open for tours from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Saturday through October. Local antique fire trucks, historical pictures, firefighting equipment, and more can be viewed.

Lincoln slept here STERLING – The LincolnManahan House, 607 E. Third St., which the Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society has restored as a museum, is open for free guided tours from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. In addition to being a historical site where Abraham Lincoln slept, it’s also a window into life in the mid-1800s. Call the historical society, 815-622-6215, for more information.

Ronald Reagan Birthplace Museum TAMPICO – The Ronald Reagan Birthplace Museum is now open on weekends.

The museum, 111 S. Main St., will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and 1 to 4 p.m.

Sundays. The museum also is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Firing back The PGA, LPGA, USGA, and PGA of America release statement saying Donald Trump’s views on Mexican immigrants are inconsistent with golf’s commitment to an inclusive environment in golf.

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Thursday, July 2, 2015 Numbers game Carlos Carrasco nearly became the first Indian to throw a no-hitter on the road in 67 years on Wednesday. Carrasco had his bid ruined in ninth with a clean single by the Rays’ Joey Butler.

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WRESTLING

Honor pinned down Mena inducted into wrestling hall of fame

BY BRIAN WEIDMAN bweidman@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5551

Mena file Resides: Dubuque Family: Children Breanna, Elisia, Chris, Makaley, and Gracie FYI: Part of 1997 Iowa wrestling team to be inducted into Glen Brand Hall of Fame on May 30. ... Fourtime All-American at Iowa. ... Went 157-0-1 and was four-time state champ at Newman.

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Jimmy Butler dunks against the Bucks during Game 6 of the Eastern Conference first-round series in April. Butler agreed to a 5-year extension with the Bulls on Wednesday.

Butler collects on good bet

Daryl Dieterle witnessed something few, if any, other people have seen.

He saw Mike Mena cry on a wrestling mat, and they weren’t tears of joy.

Mena was about 7 years old at the time, and competing in the Illinois Kids Wrestling Federation state tournament. Dieterle was his coach, and Mena found himself trailing after one period of a bout.

“I can still remember the mat in DeKalb, and Mike starts crying because he’s behind,” Dieterle said on Tuesday afternoon in Morrison, where the pair were working a youth wrestling camp.

“I’m telling him, ‘Mike, it’s OK, it’s only the first period. You’re not losing yet.’

The crying thing was OK because it means you care, and you want to win.

It’s that desire that got him to where he ended up.”

Where he ended up was a legendary career in wrestling that continues to this day, as an assistant coach at the University of Dubuque. On May 30 in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Mena and his teammates from the 1997 Iowa wrestling team were part of the 2015 Glen Brand Wrestling Hall of Fame class.

PINNED CONTINUED ON B3

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Mike Mena talks to wrestlers Tuesday during a wrestling camp at Morrison High School.

Mena, a four-time state champion at Newman, was inducted into the Glen Brand Wrestling Hall of Fame in May as a member of the 1997 University of Iowa wrestling team.

2015 REAGAN RUN 5K | 8 A.M. SATURDAY | DIXON

Bulls sign guard for $90 million

BY ANDREW SELIGMAN AND JON KRAWCZYNSKI AP Sports Writers

CHICAGO – Jimmy Butler bet on himself and won big.

Butler agreed to terms Wednesday on a 5-year maximum contract that could be worth $90 million, and includes a player option for the final year.

The total value of the contract could wind up being a little higher depending on the salary cap figure for next season, which will be set on July 9.

The deal comes on the heels of a breakout season in which Butler made his first All-Star team and was selected the NBA’s Most Improved Player. He averaged 20 points after he and the Bulls were unable to agree to a contract extension last fall.

The Bulls also agreed to terms with Mike Dunleavy on a 3-year, $14 million deal.

Butler posted a photo of downtown Chicago on his Twitter account with the words, “windy city skyline ... aka home.”

It’s been a remarkable rise for Butler, who was kicked out of his house by his mother at age 13, started his college career at Tyler Junior College, and was the last pick in the first round out of Marquette in 2011. He quickly became indispensable for the Bulls, and his tireless work ethic endeared him to hard-nosed coach Tom Thibodeau.

BET CONTINUED ON B2

Love and money • NBA free agency opened with a bang on Wednesday, including Kevin Love making his decision on whether or not to leave Cleveland.

Check it out on B2.

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Megan Grady (325) runs during the 1A state cross country meet last November at Detweiller Park in Peoria. Grady is one of many area cross country runners that use the Reagan Run 5K as a good midsummer checkpoint for the upcoming season.

Cross country checkpoint High school runners use Reagan Run to gauge progress

BY CODY CUTTER cutter@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5555

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School: Amboy Year: Junior Last year’s race: 105th, 21:13 Last year’s IHSA cross country state final: 63rd, 19:21 FYI: Grady is the highest female finisher from the area from last year’s race to return for high school competition this fall.

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For Megan Grady, running is a common interest within her family.

At a young age, the soon-to-be Amboy Clipper junior competed in the Reagan Run 5K in Dixon, starting out with the 1-mile fun run. When she turned 10, Grady took on the challenge of competing in the main race, three times longer.

Not too long after the starting-gun blast, the first try looked as if it was going to be

memorable, with more runners – from all ages – behind her than in front of her.

“I started out really, really fast,” Grady said. “Everyone starts out really fast, but

I got so excited that I got out really fast going down that first hill.”

But what comes down in road races, will, at some point, come back up.

“I felt real excited,” Grady said, “until I got to that first big hill. Then I was like, ‘oh ...’”

The challenges of competing in 5 kilometers of grass and concrete, and up and down those pesky hills over the years has helped Grady become one of the area’s leading high school girls cross country runners.

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Playing through Tiger Woods The National Enquirer claims that beleaguered golf star had an affair with former wife of fellow PGA golfer Jason Dufner.

After review Aaron Hernandez Massachusetts judge refuses to overturn or reduce former Patriots tight end’s murder conviction for death of Odin Lloyd.

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Seven former University of Illinois women’s basketball players sued the university Wednesday, accusing coach Matt Bollant and a former assistant of violating their civil rights by using race to divide the team and try to force some players out.

The lawsuit adds to this year’s stream of accusations against the school’s sports programs over player treatment. The ex-players seek at least $10 million in damages.

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Dipoto resigns as Angels GM Los Angeles Angels general manager Jerry Dipoto says he has resigned, but the team is refusing to confirm his departure.

Dipoto quit after 3½ years with the Angels, but manager Mike Scioscia and Angels spokesman Tim Mead repeatedly declined to acknowledge any changes ahead of a team meeting before their game against the Yankees.

White Sox activate reliever Jennings The White Sox activated reliever Dan Jennings from the 15-day disabled list, and optioned righthander Junior Guerra to Triple-A Charlotte.

Jennings, a left-hander, has been on the DL since June 7, retroactive to June 5, with inflammation on the left side of his neck. He tossed six innings in three relief appearances during a rehab stint with Charlotte.

NFL

Former Patriot LB pleads guilty Former Buffalo Bills and New England Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes has pleaded guilty in a hitand-run crash that injured three people, and will serve a year of probation.

State police found Spikes’ damaged Mercedes-Benz Maybach abandoned June 7 in the Interstate 495 median in Foxborough.

At about the same time, police got a report a Nissan SUV had been struck from behind by a vehicle that left the scene.

NHL

Ex-King Richards held at border Mike Richards was held at a Manitoba, Canada, border crossing for at least 4 hours last month after he was allegedly found to be carrying OxyContin pills, and the former Kings center remains under investigation in connection with the alleged possession of a restricted substance.

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Kevin Love announced in The Players Tribune on Wednesday that after his uneven first season ended with a serious shoulder injury, he is coming back to help LeBron James finish what they started together last season. He signed a 5-year contract with the team.

Hot in Cleveland

Love committed to winning with LeBron and Co.

BY JOHN KRAWCZYNSKI AP Basketball Writer

After all the speculation and intrigue surrounding Kevin Love’s foray into the free agent market, the star power forward ended up right where he said he would all along – in Cleveland.

Love announced in The Players Tribune on Wednesday that after his uneven first season ended with a serious shoulder injury, he is coming back to help LeBron James finish what they started together last season.

“We’re all on the same page, and we’re all in,” Love wrote.

“We have unfinished business, and now it’s time to get back to work.”

Love agreed to terms on a maximum contract of 5 years that could be worth more than $110 million.

Love opted out of the final year of his existing contract to hit the open market, a financially motivated decision aimed at getting more security after suffering some significant injuries over the last few years.

The Lakers, Celtics, and Suns were among the teams believed to be interested in Love, who was viewed by many across the league as gettable after he struggled at times to find his place with James and Kyrie Irving.

He was spotted at a pool meeting with James and other teammates earlier this week, a meeting he alluded to in the piece he published on Wednesday.

“Yeah, of course I’ve heard the free agency rumors,” Love wrote.

“But at the end of the day, and after meeting with my teammates [it turns out pools are great meeting places] and with the front office, it was clear Cleveland was the place for me.”

It wasn’t always that clear during a rocky beginning.

After James chose to return to Cleveland last summer, he targeted Love as a running mate with the new-look Cavaliers.

Cleveland sent the previous two No. 1 overall selections – Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett – to Minnesota in the three-team deal to bring Love in and form a new power trio aimed at ending

the city’s 50-year championship drought.

But after being the face of the Timberwolves franchise for six seasons, Love had a difficult time in his new role as the third wheel in Cleveland. His averages of 17.5 points, 10.4 rebounds and 13.5 shots per game were all the lowest since he came off the bench as a rookie in Minnesota, and every tweet and quote between him and James was heavily scrutinized and dissected to try to decipher how the two All-Stars were getting along.

Love said all along that he just wanted to win, and the Cavs turned a worrisome 19-20 start into a blazing 34-9 finish to surge to the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference. Just as Love was figuring out how best to play with James and Irving, and his team entered the postseason for the first time in his 7-year career, it all came to an end.

Celtics forward Kelly Olynyk pulled Love’s shoulder out of its socket during their tense first-round series, ending Love’s season.

NBA FREE AGENCY | ROUNDUP

No decision from Aldridge as free agency hits full speed The first full day of NBA free agency featured skyrocketing salaries and a flurry of moves, though no decision yet from LaMarcus Aldridge.

Players and teams agreed to more than $1 billion worth of deals.

Tyson Chandler will get his in Phoenix, taking $52 million over 4 years to leave Dallas, while Atlanta’s DeMarre Carroll agreed to a deal with Toronto for $60

million over 4 years.

Deals can only be agreed to during the first week of free agency. They can’t be signed until July 9, after next season’s salary cap is set.

Aldridge was busy meeting with teams for a second straight day, while he decides whether to leave Portland. His representatives wrote on Twitter on Wednesday afternoon that he had made no decisions, even following reports that the Lakers had been eliminated.

The Spurs were among the teams hoping to land him, and were making moves to entice him.

They dealt Tiago Splitter to Atlanta to clear cap space, and re-signed guard Danny Green, who got $45 million for 4 years.

Aldridge was among the top big men available when the market opened early Wednesday morning, considered by many the best one who might consider moving. The Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan was another top big man on that list.

In a market filled with big men, the little guys were also getting theirs.

That includes around $90 million for Goran Dragic in Miami, and $70 million for Brandon Knight in Phoenix – where he took over the ballhandling duties that Dragic handled before he was dealt to the Heat.

Khris Middleton also received $70 million to remain in Milwaukee following his strong season. He and Carroll were two of the top wing players available.

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Thibodeau is gone now, replaced by Fred Hoiberg. But Butler and Derrick Rose will be back in what should be a dynamic backcourt for the Bulls.

Butler turned down a 4-year, $44 million offer from the Bulls before last season. At the time, he said he was betting on himself, willing to play last year for just under $3.2 million to earn the right

to become a restricted free agent.

It turned out to be a wise decision. Butler solidified himself as perhaps the best two-way shooting guard in the league, averaging career highs in points (20.0), rebounds (5.8), field goal percentage (46.2), 3-point percentage (37.8), and minutes (38.7).

The breakout season earned Butler almost $50 million more with his new contract than the one he would have signed last year. And even though he entered

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• Hamilton at Winnipeg, ESPN2

College baseball 7:30 p.m.

• Exhibition, Home Run Derby, at Omaha, Neb., ESPN

Golf 3 p.m.

• PGA, The Greenbrier Classic, first round, at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., TGC

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• Cubs at Mets or Pirates at Tigers, MLB 6 p.m.

• Padres at Cardinals, FSN/MLB • Nationals at Braves, MLB

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• Wimbledon, early round, at London, ESPN

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• Formula One, practice for British Grand Prix, NBCSP 1 & 3 p.m.

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BY BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer

On the tube

restricted free agency and garnered interest from the Lakers and other teams, Butler made it clear all along where his heart was.

“I think this is a place for me,” Butler said after he was given the Most Improved Player award.

“I love playing with the guys we have. They continue to bring in great, high-character guys that fit the team role. I love it here.”

Dunleavy is back as well, meaning most of the key players return from the team that took the

Cleveland Cavaliers to six games in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Dunleavy was expected to get interest from several other clubs, including Cleveland.

He turns 35 in September, and averaged 9.4 points in 63 games and shot 41 percent from 3-point range last season. In the playoffs, he averaged 10.9 points and shot 48 percent from beyond the arc.

The No. 3 pick in the 2002 draft has averaged 11.7 points in 902 career games.

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Venus Williams returns a shot to Yulia Putintseva during their second-round singles match Wednesday at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London. Williams advanced with a straight-set victory.

Williamses stay hot on scorching day Venus, Serena lead strong U.S. contingent at All England Club

BY HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer

LONDON – Venus Williams is no longer the player she once was, on account of the passage of time and the day-to-day ups and downs of an energy-sapping condition.

But at age 35, 21 years removed from her first professional tournament, Williams still possesses a dangerous serve, along with the muscle memory that comes with seven Grand Slam singles titles, five at Wimbledon.

And so while it is her younger sister Serena who is ranked No. 1, has 20 major titles, and owns a 23-match Grand Slam winning streak as of Wednesday, the elder Williams is still in the draw at the All England Club, too – and the siblings are closing in on what would be their 26th all-in-thefamily matchup on tour.

“She probably comes back here and, you know, I think, she almost feels like this is home,” said David Witt, Venus’ coach. “When you have confidence, you have everything. That’s with any sport. And I guess

when she gets here, it’s a confidence thing.”

On the hottest day on record in Wimbledon history, with the temperature topping 95 degrees – and a terrific day for American women – both Williams sisters won second-round matches: 16th-seeded Venus beat 95th-ranked Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 7-6 (5), 6-4, while topseeded Serena defeated 93rd-ranked Timea Babos of Hungary 6-4, 6-1.

Two more wins, and the siblings will meet in the fourth round.

“She poses a big threat for me,” Serena said about Venus.

They pulled out of doubles on Tuesday, citing “soreness” for Serena.

Four other women from the U.S. won Wednesday, including two real surprises: 158th-ranked qualifier Bethanie Mattek-Sands eliminated No. 7 Ana Ivanovic, the 2009 French Open champion, 6-3, 6-4; and 47th-ranked CoCo Vandeweghe, the niece of former NBA player and executive Kiki, beat No. 11 Karolina Pliskova 7-6 (5), 6-4.

On Monday, most Blackhawks fans likely never heard of Artem Anisimov, the big-bodied center from the Blue Jackets who has played in the league since 2009.

Now, they better become fast friends.

A day after acquiring Anisimov in the sevenplayer deal that sent promising young winger Brandon Saad to the Blue Jackets, the Hawks inked Anisimov, 27, to a 5-year extension through the 2021 season.

Anisimov, who was entering the final year of a 3-year contract this season, is expected to carry a salary-cap hit of $4.55 million when the extension takes effect in 201617. His cap hit for next season is $3.283 million.

“It’s a very good team, very good, talented players,” Anisimov said of the Hawks. “They play the game so well. The past 6 years, three Stanley Cups, it’s very good.

I’m really excited.”

Anisimov will head a veritable Red Army of Russian players in the sea of red at the United Center, considering the Hawks have inked Russian forward Artemi Panarin to a 2-year deal and forward Viktor Tikhonov to a 1-year deal, the Tribune confirmed.

Anisimov played for his hometown team of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the KHL after the Rangers drafted him in 2006.

On Sept. 7, 2011, when Anisimov was with the Rangers, a plane carrying players, coaches and staff members of Yaroslavl crashed upon takeoff, killing 37 passengers on board and decimating the organization, which then took a year off from the KHL. “I know these people, half the team,” Anisimov told the New York Daily News at the time. “Young

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Artem Anisimov (42) signed a 5-year contract extension with the Blackhawks on Wednesday, 1 day after coming to Chicago in a trade from Columbus.

Anisimov file Born: May 24, 1988 Hometown: Yaroslavl, USSR Position: Center Ht./Wt.: 6-foot-4, 181 pounds Drafted: 54th overall in 2006 by Rangers NHL teams: Rangers (2008-12), Blue Jackets (2012-15), Blackhawks (present) Career stats: 192 points (86 goals, 106 assists) in 412 games (7 goals, 20 assists in 52 games last year) guys, we’ve grown up together, you know?”

The NHL’s lockout shortened-season turned into an opportunity for Anisimov to help his hometown of Yaroslavl.

During the lockout, Anisimov played for Lokomotiv as the team tried to move on from the crash.

“It was tough in the hockey world,” Anisimov said Wednesday. “They were the hometown team when I grew up.

The lockout happened, and the team offered me [a chance] to play, and I accepted and helped

rebuild the team. It was difficult playing in the arena. I cannot explain it. It was different.”

When Anisimov returned to the NHL, he began his three-season tenure with the Blue Jackets that was marred last season when he was sidelined with a concussion and torn triceps.

He finished with seven goals and 20 assists in 52 games.

Hawks general manager Stan Bowman says he has wanted Anisimov for years. He believes Anisimov is the right player to fill a need for the Hawks,

who had three centers from last season hit free agency. Brad Richards and Antoine Vermette are unrestricted free agents, and the team continues to work on a deal with restricted free agent Marcus Kruger.

“I talked a long time about our desire to find a big centerman. There are very few of them in the NHL,” Bowman said.

“You just look around to 30 teams, and to be able to get a guy in the prime of his career at 6-foot-4 who can do a little bit of everything, it’s someone we’ve been chasing for a long time and we were finally able to acquire him. ...

“I look at our combination now of [Jonathan] Toews and Anisimov, and I feel very comfortable knowing we have a strong 1-2 punch.”

And it could be that way for a while.

Mena was a 4-time All-American at Iowa Grady hopes to keep pace with uncle at RR5K PINNED CONTINUED FROM B1

This hall of fame was established in 2002 to honor those who made an impact on wrestling at the state or national level. It honors native Iowans, or those who achieved fame wrestling or coaching at an Iowa school.

“I felt very blessed to be a part of that team, and to be able to reunite with them and have a little bit of a reunion as well, I was very excited about that,” Mena said. “It definitely was an honor, and I feel very humbled by the recognition.”

Mena, 41, was a co-captain of the 1997 Hawkeyes, along with Joe Williams and Lincoln McIlravy, and the team captured the 17th national championship in the program’s storied history. Iowa scored 170 points in the NCAA finals, still a record for most points accumulated.

“There was just a lot of maturity and leadership,” Mena said, “and there was a nice infusion of guys that had maturity, but hadn’t quite been in there, but they got their shot too. I think all that pieced together, and it culminated in an outstanding lineup.”

Making the title even more sweet for Mena and his teammates was it sent legendary coach Dan Gable out on a high note.

Gable was in and out of the hospital that season with a number of issues, including hip replacement surgeries.

“Coach Gable, we knew it was going to be his last

season,” Mena said, “so there was more meaning to the season.”

Iowa crowned five individual NCAA champs in 1997, and had eight All-Americans, including Mena, who was a runnerup at 126 pounds. He lost a 3-2 overtime decision to Oklahoma State’s Eric Guerrero in the finals.

Mena was a four-time All-American, having finished seventh, third and fifth his first three seasons. He had a record of 108-24 as a 4-year starter for the Hawkeyes.

After college, Mena remained active on the mat. He was a three-time U.S. freestyle team member, after finishing in the top three at the U.S. World Team Trials in 1999, 2001 and 2003. He was also fifth in the 2000 Olympic trials.

Mena coached at Indiana University for nine seasons before joining the University of Dubuque wrestling staff in 2012. He recruits northern Illinois for the Spartans, and the 2014-15 roster included a host of suburban wrestlers, as well as one, Zach Depuy, from Sterling.

In high school at Newman, Mena posted a 1570-1 record, and became the first undefeated wrestler in IHSA history. Dakota’s Josh Alber became the second to go unbeaten in his career, in 2014.

As a junior, Mena was tied in a bout by Riverdale’s Joel Stockwell, shortly after Mena had helped the Comets win a state football championship.

Mena is one of 14 wrestlers in IHSA history to win four state championships.

CHECKPOINT

“I kind of leave it up to them,” Warkins said. “At this time of year, my biggest thing is to not have Of runners who will them race too much. But return next year in high if they want to do a few school, Grady was the races, I don’t worry too top female finisher last much about it. year. She placed among “My biggest thing is the top 10 percent of the that I don’t want them thousand-plus-runner to do too much of it, and field, finishing with a they get burned out for time of 21 minutes, 13 the rest of the season.”

Alex T. Paschal/apaschal@saukvalley.com seconds. That is about Both Grady and Lund Sterling’s Cody Lund is planning out his summer are scheduling their run2 minutes behind last running so that he will be strong for the end of the ning sessions in a way year’s top female fincross country season this fall. isher, 2012 Dixon High so they can excel next School graduate Brittany real race, rather than just noting that he rarely sees fall. They have goals to Schwarz. running by yourself or a large number of people improve on their times, Grady will compete and know that starting running with friends.” at any other road race. once more in Saturday’s the race off slower than Newman cross coun“It’s great because it’s race, one that sits about the first time around try coach Pat Warkins in the middle of our halfway between the end agrees. is paramount toward training season,” Lund of the track and field seagetting a strong finish.

Warkins, who has run said. “It’s a way to see son and the beginning of in the main race in the Lund, who will be runwhere we are. If we run the cross country season. past, coaches several ning his fourth RR5k, good times, then we “I’ve been trying to run runners that participate. know that we’re doing experienced the same every day,” Grady said. original difficulty that Two of his runners, the right training.”

“This is like a checkpoint soon-to-be-junior Chris Grady had starting out.

Lund finished 17th before cross country sea- Ahlers and recently“I went out way too last year, with a time of son, just to see where I’m graduated Quincy fast,” Lund recalled. “It 17:43. He will be among at competitively.” was really hard to finish.

Coomes, finished in the the top runners returnOf all of the summer I had to really learn to top 10 last year. ing for next year’s high tests, the Reagan Run start out slower.”

“It gives them an idea school season. is the one that is circled Grady won’t have to about where they are Ahlers, who finished repeatedly on her calen- at, and what they think look far for inspiration 10th (17:07), will not be dar. Another race that they might have to do,” competing this year due this year. Her uncle, Mike, the principal of she looks forward to is Warkins said. “The to injury rehab – nor Dixon High School, finthe Milk Run, a 2-kilocourse is a challenging will Rock Falls seniorished in the top 60 last meter race held in early one, running on the old to-be Seth Williams, year (19:22). Her last June in Harvard. But she railroad grades up in the who finished ninth last name dots last year’s top admits that the Reagan hills. There’s some good, year (17:00) and eighth 50 more than anyone Run is more of a serishort, steep hills that you in the 1A cross country else. ous race, as it is about run into quite a bit in a state final race this past But Mike will be at the a month-and-a-half cross country race.”

November. forefront of Megan’s removed from the high Sterling senior-to-be Warkins cautions that mind. school state track meet.

Cody Lund has a busy running in too many “I’m going to try to stay “You really don’t get summer with the Brad races over the summer with him,” Grady said. that race experience Onken 5K in June, the could be a negative facuntil you run the Reagan Reagan Run, and the tor come the backstretch “He’s going to try to run a 6-minute mile. My goal Run,” Grady said. “There Music in Motion 5K in of the cross country is just to stay with him, are more runners there.

August. What makes the season. Warkins allows There are more people Reagan Run stand out for the kids to decide if they and that should help me get a good time.” to feed off of, like in a him is the competition, want to participate.

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Thursday, July 2, 2015

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LINKS WITH LOCALS

ONLINKS

ONPROS

This week’s tournaments

This week’s leaders

PGA TOUR

PGA TOUR

GREENBRIER CLASSIC Site: White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

Schedule: ThursdaySunday.

Course: The Greenbrier Resort, The Old White TPC (7,287 yards, par 70).

Purse: $6.7 million. Winner’s share: $1,206,000.

Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 3-6 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 12-1:30 p.m.) and CBS (SaturdaySunday, 2-5 p.m.).

Last year: Argentina’s Angel Cabrera closed with consecutive 64s for a twostroke victory.

Last week: Bubba Watson won the Travelers Championship in Connecticut, beating Paul Casey with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff. Watson also won the 2010 event.

Notes: Tiger Woods is making his seventh start of the season. He missed the cut in the U.S. Open 2 weeks ago, shooting 80-76. In 16 rounds this season, he has shot 80 or higher three times, and broken 70 only twice. ...

The top four finishers not previously eligible for the British Open will earn spots in the July 16-19 tournament at St. Andrews, provided they are among the top 12 and ties. ... Watson is in the field. ... In the inaugural event in 2010, Stuart Appleby shot a 59 in the final round to win by a stroke. ... Tour victory leader Sam Snead was Greenbrier’s professional for 29 years, and served as professional emeritus from 1993 until his death in 2002. ... The John Deere Classic is next week in Silvis, Illinois.

LPGA TOUR

Next event: U.S. Women’s Open, July 9-12, Lancaster Country Club, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Last week: Na Yeon Choi won the NW Arkansas Championship by two strokes for her second victory of the year. She holed out from 142 yards for eagle on the par-4 16th, and hit to a foot for a birdie on the par-3 17th, using an 8-iron on both shots.

CHAMPIONS TOUR

Next event: Encompass Championship, July 10-12, North Shore Country Club, Glenview, Illinois.

Last week: Jeff Maggert won the U.S. Senior Open at Del Paso in Sacramento, California, for his second major victory of the year.

He won the Regions Tradition in May in Alabama.

EUROPEAN TOUR FRENCH OPEN Site: Saint-Quentin-enYvelines, France.

Schedule: ThursdaySunday.

Course: Le Golf National, Albatross Course (7,331 yards, par 71).

Purse: $3.36 million. Winner’s share: $559,575.

Television: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 3:306:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.; Saturday, 7-11 a.m.; Sunday, 6:30-11 a.m.).

Last year: Graeme McDowell successfully defended his title, overcoming an eight-stroke deficit in the rainy final round for a one-shot victory.

Last week: Pablo Larrazabal won the BMW International Open in Munich, closing with 6-under 66 for a one-stroke victory.

He also won the 2011 tournament.

Notes: McDowell tops the field, along with Martin Kaymer and Lee Westwood. ... First played in 1906, the tournament is the oldest in continental Europe. ... Thomas Levet won the 2011 event.

Scoring Average

1. Jordan Spieth 2. Rory McIlroy 3. Dustin Johnson 4. Bubba Watson 5. Ryan Palmer

68.92 69.11 69.48 69.67 69.70

Driving distance

1. Dustin Johnson 2. Charlie Beljan 3. Bubba Watson 4. Adam Scott 5. Jason Day

319.0 309.7 309.5 309.2 309.0

Driving Accuracy %

1. Fran. Molinari 2. David Toms 3. Steven Alker 4. Jason Bohn 5. Henrik Stenson

78.52 73.80 71.57 71.53 71.40

Greens in regulation %

ABOVE: Mike Lawton reacts after hitting a bunker shot close to the flag on the 14th hole Monday at Lake Carroll golf course.

BELOW: Ken Brown hits an approach shot on No. 15.

1. Henrik Stenson 2. Fran. Molinari 3. Jim Herman 4. Stewart Cink 5. Adam Scott

Of miracles and men

1. Jason Day 2. Justin Rose 2. Jordan Spieth 4. Jimmy Walker 5. Dustin Johnson

Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.com

Y

ou’ve heard of the “Miracle on Ice,” about the United States ice hockey team’s win against the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics.

On Monday, I had the opportunity to reminisce about a miracle on grass, or rather, the “Miracle on 17,” as myself and Ken Brown refer to it.

Back in the early 1990s, there was a golf tournament, the Tom Miller Memorial Golf Tournament, held at Lost Nation during the Petunia Festival. It was started to raise funds for a driving range named after Miller, an avid golfer and Dixon native who had recently died.

Brown, the Telegraph sports editor at the time, and myself, a sports writer at the paper, teamed up and had it going most of the day. We were 5 under par through 16 holes, but ran into trouble on the 17th, a short, dogleg-right par 4.

Our best tee shot on the hole ran through the fairway and into some trees, leaving limited options for a second shot. After Ken punched out safely, I took a whack at a low, slinging hook shot and somehow pulled it off.

The ball trickled onto the front portion of the green, leaving about a 10-footer for birdie. It was a tricky read, and I wasn’t sure if the ball would break right or left, so I told Ken to hit it straight at the hole.

He drained it for an unlikely birdie, and we ended up winning the event by a stroke.

It was great fun, and something we still bring up some 20 years later.

The latest time was Monday at Lake Carroll golf course, near Lanark, for this week’s Links With Locals. The foursome was myself, Ken, and two of my favorite Lawtons – Rich and Mike.

Ken was the person responsible (some might say to blame) for me coming to Dixon a little more than 23 years ago. He was the sports editor at the Telegraph, and at the time, I was a one-man sports department at a weekly paper, the Geneseo Republic.

We’d trade stats over the phone for preview articles when the Dukes

73.26 72.49 72.31 72.03 71.68

Birdie average

4.60 4.47 4.47 4.38 4.36

Sand save %

1. Will Wilcox 2. Chris Kirk 3. Rory McIlroy 4. Luke Donald 5. S.J. Park

66.67 65.22 64.71 64.56 64.49

Champions Tour Scoring average

1. Bernhard Langer 2. C.Montgomerie 3. Jeff Maggert 4. Kenny Perry 5. Kevin Sutherland

69.31 69.64 69.92 69.96 70.00

Driving distance

brianWEIDMAN Sports reporter.

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and Maple Leafs met in various sports. In the spring of 1992, he mentioned there would soon be an opening on the Telegraph sports staff, and would I be interested. Yes I was, and here I am.

Ken was at the Telegraph from 1986-97, as sports editor, then city editor, then managing editor, before leaving for the Dubuque (Iowa) Telegraph Herald. He was at that paper, as assistant city editor, then city editor, from 1997-2013.

Ken is now the executive director of marketing and communications at Clarke College, in Dubuque. He resides in Peosta, Iowa, with his wife, Roxanne, and children Ean, 10, and Ellie, 8.

Ken and I get together usually once a year – for the annual Jim Shorts Fantasy Football League draft, of which Mike Lawton is the commissioner. There was already some fantasy football talk among the three of us on Monday.

Mike was the voice of Dixon football, and boys and girls basketball, for 16 years (1995-2010) on WIXN radio, calling games for his alma mater. After graduating from Dixon in 1985, he went to Illinois, and was an avid Fighting Illini fan, particularly of the Flyin’ Illini, as the basketball team was known in 1989.

Mike went to all the home games that year,

and also attended the road game at Indiana when Nick Anderson drained a 35-footer at the buzzer as the Illini edged the Hoosiers, 70-67. He also went to Seattle for the Final Four loss to Michigan.

Mike’s professional life has been in Oregon.

He was a teacher and coach from 1992-2002, the elementary school principal from 2002-11, and the athletic director since 2011. He also serves as the executive secretary for the Big Northern Conference.

Mike lives in Dixon with his wife, Tracey, and children Katie, 16, and Ryan, 14. Both are/ will be multi-sport athletes for the Duchesses and Dukes in the coming years.

While still a Fighting Illini fan, Mike’s favorite college team to root for is Northwestern, a nod to his father. Rich Lawton played football and wrestled for the Wildcats in the early 1960s.

In 1962, Northwestern started the football season 6-0 and was ranked No. 1 in the country by the Associated Press under hall of fame coach Ara Parseghian.

“We started smelling roses,” Rich said.

Alas, the Wildcats, who also had Dixon players Bud Melvin and Chuck Brainerd on the roster, lost to Wisconsin in Week 7 of a nine-game season, then to Michigan State the following week, on their way to a 7-2 mark.

Rich taught from 1965-96 at Dixon High School, where he coached football for 33 seasons, boys track for 28, and wrestling for 15. He is a 2005 Illinois Track and Cross Country Coaches Association hall of fame inductee.

Rich and his wife, Susan, reside in

Sterling, and celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on April 24.

They have two children: Mike, and Brad, a physician in Morris.

When not attending soccer, softball, baseball, basketball, track, or cross country competitions of their four grandchildren, Rich is likely to be found at one of his two cabins: near Maytown, or another in Wild Rose, Wisconsin.

Fishing is the activity of choice at the cabins, and bluegill is the most coveted fish.

On Monday, however, it was about the golf.

It was a decent day at Lake Carroll, as the scattered showers that dotted northern Illinois largely missed that area. Each of us had a few highlights.

Ken finished with a 101, including a birdie on the par-3 16th hole, where his tee shot landed just outside of gimme range. He also almost dunked a shot from 100 yards on the next hole, rimming the cup.

Mike finished with a 106 and provided comic relief on the day, with several references to Dustin Johnson and his inability to finish off the U.S. Open. Mike took one look at the narrow, tree-lined 11th hole, a 454-yard par-5, and cracked, “I’m calling it right now. This hole has five lost balls all over it.”

Rich had the lone par on the first hole, and went on to finish with a 94 on the day. He proclaimed himself to be about a bogey golfer, and that’s about where he wound up.

I finished with a 75, a score I was happy with on a course that can punish you if you get out of position. All in all, it was a fun day with some good guys.

1. Kenny Perry 2. John Huston 3. Grant Waite 4. Jesper Parnevik 5. John Riegger

298.3 296.7 294.9 292.1 289.2

Greens in regulation %

1. Joe Durant 2. Tom Lehman 3. C.Montgomerie 4. Bernhard Langer 5. Scott Dunlap

76.62 75.93 75.69 75.63 75.17

Birdie average

1. Jeff Maggert 2. Bernhard Langer 3. Rocco Mediate 3. Kenny Perry 5. Tom Pernice Jr.

4.27 4.23 4.13 4.13 4.10

Sand save %

1. Mike Goodes 2. Guy Boros 3. Fred Funk 4. Kenny Perry 5. Brian Henninger

69.44 64.00 62.96 60.71 60.53

LPGA Scoring average

1. Inbee Park 2. Stacy Lewis 3. Hyo-Joo Kim 4. Lydia Ko 5. Anna Nordqvist

69.49 69.71 69.72 69.76 69.93

Driving distance

1. Joanna Klatten 2. B.Lincicome 3. Yani Tseng 4. Karin Sjodin 5. Carlota Ciganda

274.0 272.7 269.7 269.2 268.5

Greens in regulation %

1. Lydia Ko 2. Anna Nordqvist 3. Suzann Pettersen 4. Jessica Korda 5. Inbee Park

78.10 77.10 76.70 76.50 76.10

Birdie average

1. Stacy Lewis 2. Anna Nordqvist 3. Amy Yang 4. Sei-Young Kim 5. Inbee Park

4.39 4.24 4.22 4.18 4.11

Sand save %

1. Hyo-Joo Kim 2. M.J. Hur 3. Belen Mozo 4. Simin Feng 5. Sei-Young Kim

64.52 60.00 59.32 57.78 57.14

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WEDNESDAY’S SCOREBOARD Youth tennis KSB Classic at Emma Hubbs Tennis Courts Page Park, Dixon Wednesday’s results 16U Girls Doubles 1. Ally Klein, Paige Gramling 17 games won; 2. Anna Ivarson, Katelyn Grell 15; 3. Audrey Melton, Erin Vits 12; 4. Larissa Gallardo, Kailey Woolard 4 16U Boys Doubles Daniel Ferguson, Jonathon Rivera def.

Jonathan Rhodes, Jacob Rhodes 11-1 12U Boys Doubles Lucas Healy, Logan Moeller def. James Rhodes, Brady Partington 10-2 14U Mixed Doubles 1. Dillon Nitz, Abby Aitken 12; 2. Luke Steinke, Katelyn Grell 9; 3. Holden Longan, Kate Preston 3 18U Mixed Doubles 1. Alane Bratt, Sam Bratt 11; 2. Chantel Ordean, Connor Knack 10; 3. Anna Ivarson, Peter DeLaFuente 3

June 30 W-L 25-11 22-10 21.5-10.5 20-16 17.5-14.5 19.5-16.5 16.5-19.5 15.5-20.5 13.5-18.5 14-22 3-5 0-4 0-8

Chicago Pct. .694 .688 .672 .556 .547 .542 .458 .431 .422 .389 .375 .000 .000

Local golf Emerald Hill Women’s Association Tuesday’s result Member/Guest Day Play of the day: F&T Day (total score for holes beginning F or T, less ½ handicap) Winning team: Peggy Buckingham, Pat Peterson, Kim Aurandt Longest drive: Aurandt Longest putt: Jane Minard Birdie: Cindy Moorehead Chip-in: Minard

MLB American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 42 36 .538 New York 42 37 .532 Tampa Bay 42 38 .525 Toronto 42 38 .525 Boston 36 44 .450 Central Division W L Pct Kansas City 44 31 .587 Minnesota 41 37 .526 Detroit 39 38 .506 Cleveland 36 41 .468 Chicago 33 42 .440 West Division W L Pct Houston 47 34 .580 Los Angeles 41 38 .519 Texas 40 39 .506 Seattle 36 42 .462 Oakland 36 45 .444

Wednesday’s results Cincinnati 2, Minnesota 1 Oakland 4, Colorado 1 Seattle 7, San Diego 0 Milwaukee 9, Philadelphia 5 Pittsburgh 9, Detroit 3 Chicago Cubs 2, N.Y. Mets 0, 11 innings Miami 6, San Francisco 5 Washington at Atlanta, late Chicago White Sox at St. Louis, late L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, late Today’s games San Francisco (M.Cain 0-0) at Miami (Fernandez 0-0), 11:10 a.m.

Pittsburgh (Liriano 4-6) at Detroit (K.Ryan 1-1), 12:08 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 7-5) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 8-5), 12:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Garza 4-10) at Philadelphia (Billingsley 0-2), 5:35 p.m.

Washington (Scherzer 9-5) at Atlanta (Banuelos 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

San Diego (T.Ross 5-7) at St. Louis (Cooney 0-0), 6:15 p.m.

Colorado (Rusin 3-2) at Arizona (Hellickson 5-5), 8:40 p.m.

CUBS 2, METS 0, 11 inn.

Twin City League Standings as of Avg. 1. Don Dudley 92 2. Laverne Schroeder 75 3. Arlyn Dykhuizen 70 4. Tim Fisher 61 5. Don Nice 50 6. Glenn Hollis 52 7. Dale Sutton 46 8. Brody Fisher 30 9. Bob Schaver 90 10. Neil Reynolds 37 11. Jim Hayden 64 12. Josh Wisely 28 13. Roger Doering 66

MLB ROUNDUP

Wednesday’s box score

Horseshoes

GB — ½ 1 1 7 GB — 4½ 6 9 11 GB — 5 6 9½ 11

Wednesday’s results Cincinnati 2, Minnesota 1 Toronto 11, Boston 2 Oakland 4, Colorado 1 Seattle 7, San Diego 0 N.Y. Yankees 3, L.A. Angels 1 Baltimore 4, Texas 2 Pittsburgh 9, Detroit 3 Cleveland 8, Tampa Bay 1 Houston 6, Kansas City 5 Chicago White Sox at St. Louis, late Today’s games Cleveland (Kluber 3-9) at Tampa Bay (M.Moore 0-0), 11:10 a.m.

Pittsburgh (Liriano 4-6) at Detroit (K.Ryan 1-1), 12:08 p.m.

Texas (Gallardo 7-6) at Baltimore (Gausman 1-0), 6:05 p.m.

Boston (Miley 7-7) at Toronto (Boyd 0-1), 6:07 p.m.

Minnesota (Gibson 5-6) at Kansas City (C.Young 7-3), 7:10 p.m.

Seattle (Elias 4-5) at Oakland (Kazmir 4-5), 9:05 p.m.

National League East Division W L Pct GB Washington 43 34 .558 — New York 40 39 .506 4 Atlanta 36 41 .468 7 Miami 33 46 .418 11 Philadelphia 27 53 .338 17½ Central Division W L Pct GB St. Louis 51 25 .671 — Pittsburgh 44 33 .571 7½ Chicago 41 35 .539 10 Cincinnati 36 41 .468 15½ Milwaukee 32 48 .400 21 West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 44 35 .557 — San Francisco 42 37 .532 2 Arizona 37 40 .481 6 San Diego 37 43 .463 7½ Colorado 34 44 .436 9½

New York ab r h bi ab r h bi Fowler cf 4 0 0 0 Grndrs rf 5 0 1 0 Rizzo 1b 5 1 1 0 Tejada ss 5 0 0 0 Bryant 3b 5 0 1 0 Duda 1b 5 0 0 0 Coghln lf 4 1 1 0 DnMrp 3b 5 0 2 0 SCastro ss 5 0 2 1 MyryJr lf 3 0 1 0 Baxter rf 4 0 1 0 Cecilin ph-lf 2 0 1 0 D.Ross c 1 0 0 0 WFlors 2b 4 0 0 0 MMntr ph-c 3 0 1 1 Plawck c 5 0 1 0 Lester p 2 0 0 0 Lagars cf 3 0 1 0 Denorfi ph 1 0 1 0 B.Colon p 2 0 0 0 Strop p 0 0 0 0 Campll ph 0 0 0 0 HRndn p 0 0 0 0 Parnell p 0 0 0 0 ARussll ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Famili p 0 0 0 0 JHerrr 2b 4 0 1 0 Robles p 0 0 0 0 Motte p 0 0 0 0 Monell ph 1 0 0 0 JRussll p 0 0 0 0 CTorrs p 0 0 0 0 Grimm p 0 0 0 0 Glmrtn p 0 0 0 0 Totals 39 2 9 2 Totals 40 0 7 0 Chicago 000 000 000 02 — 2 New York 000 000 000 00 — 0 E–S.Castro (15). DP–New York 2. LOB– Chicago 9, New York 10. 2B–Rizzo (24), S.Castro (7), J.Herrera (1), Dan.Murphy (16), Mayberry Jr. (4), Lagares (9). SB– Rizzo (12), Coghlan (6), D.Ross (1), Campbell (5). CS–Tejada (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Chicago Lester 7 5 0 0 1 7 Strop 1 1 0 0 0 2 H.Rondon 1 0 0 0 0 0 Motte W,6-1 1 0 0 0 0 2 J.Russell H,6 2/3 1 0 0 0 1 Grimm S,1-1 1/3 0 0 0 1 1 New York B.Colon 7 3 0 0 1 8 Parnell 1 1 0 0 0 0 Familia 1 1 0 0 1 1 Robles 1 0 0 0 1 0 C.Torres L,2-4 2/3 3 2 2 1 0 Gilmartin 1/3 1 0 0 1 0 HBP–by Lester (Lagares). WP–Lester, Grimm.

WOMEN First Round • Madison Keys (21), United States, def.

Stefanie Voegele, Switzerland, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-4.

Second Round • Serena Williams (1), United States, def.

Timea Babos, Hungary, 6-4, 6-1.

• Maria Sharapova (4), Russia, def. Richel Hogenkamp, Netherlands, 6-3, 6-1.

• Lucie Safarova (6), Czech Republic, def.

Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, 6-2, 6-3.

• Ana Ivanovic (7), Serbia, lost to Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, 6-3, 6-4.

• Karolina Pliskova (11), Czech Republic, lost to CoCo Vandeweghe, United States, 7-6 (5), 6-4.

• Andrea Petkovic (14), Germany, def. Mariana Duque-Marino, Colombia, 6-3, 6-1.

• Venus Williams (16), United States, def.

Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, 7-6 (5), 6-4.

• Sara Errani (19), Italy, lost to Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-2.

• Sam Stosur (22), Australia, def. Urszula Radwanska, Poland, 6-3, 6-4.

• Victoria Azarenka (23), Belarus, def. Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, 6-3, 6-3.

• Irina-Camelia Begu (29), Romania, def.

Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, 7-5, 6-7 (4), 7-5.

• Belinda Bencic (30), Switzerland, def.

Anna-Lena Friedsam, Germany, 7-5, 4-6, 6-0.

Auto racing Points standings NASCAR Sprint Cup Through June 28 1. Kevin Harvick 2. Martin Truex Jr. 3. Joey Logano 4. Jimmie Johnson 5. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 6. Brad Keselowski 7. Jamie McMurray 8. Kasey Kahne 9. Matt Kenseth 10. Kurt Busch 11. Jeff Gordon 12. Paul Menard 13. Denny Hamlin 14. Ryan Newman 15. Aric Almirola 16. Clint Bowyer 17. Carl Edwards 18. Kyle Larson 19. Danica Patrick 20. Greg Biffle NASCAR Xfinity Through June 21 1. Chris Buescher 2. Ty Dillon 3. Chase Elliott 4. Regan Smith 5. Darrell Wallace Jr. 6. Elliott Sadler 7. Brian Scott 8. Brendan Gaughan 9. Ryan Reed 10. Daniel Suarez NASCAR Trucks Through June 19

Soccer Women’s World Cup SEMIFINALS Tuesday’s result at Montreal United States 2, Germany 0 Today’s game at Edmonton, Alberta Japan 2, England 1

1. Matt Crafton 2. Tyler Reddick 3. Erik Jones 4. Johnny Sauter 5. Jon Wes Townley 6. Spencer Gallagher 7. Timothy Peters 8. Daniel Hemric 9. Cameron Hayley 10. Ben Kennedy

THIRD PLACE Saturday’s game at Edmonton, Alberta Germany vs. England 3 p.m. (Fox)

IndyCar Through June 27

CHAMPIONSHIP Sunday’s game at Vancouver, British Columbia United States vs. Japan, 6 p.m. (Fox)

Tennis Wimbledon Seeds Fared Wednesday At The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club London MEN Second Round • Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, 6-4, 6-2, 6-3.

• Stan Wawrinka (4), Switzerland, def. Victor Estrella Burgos, Dominican Republic, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.

• Kei Nishikori (5), Japan, lost to Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, walkover.

• Milos Raonic (7), Canada, def. Tommy Haas, Germany, 6-0, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4).

• Marin Cilic (9), Croatia, def. Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (6), 4-6, 7-5.

• Grigor Dimitrov (11), Bulgaria, def. Steve Johnson, United States, 7-6 (8), 6-2, 7-6 (2).

• Kevin Anderson (14), South Africa, def.

Marsel Ilhan, Turkey, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (6), 6-4, 6-4.

• David Goffin (16), Belgium, def. Liam Broady, Britain, 7-6 (3), 6-1, 6-1.

• John Isner (17), United States, def. Matthew Ebden, Australia, 6-2, 7-6 (8), 6-4.

• Richard Gasquet (21), France, def. Kenny de Schepper, France, 6-0, 6-3, 6-3.

• Leonardo Mayer (24), Argentina, def.

Marcel Granollers, Spain, 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3.

• Nick Kyrgios (26), Australia, def. Juan Monaco, Argentina, 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-4.

• Bernard Tomic (27), Australia, def. PierreHugues Herbert, France, 7-6 (3), 6-4, 7-6 (5).

• Dominic Thiem (32), Austria, lost to Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 5-7, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.

1. Juan Pablo Montoya 2. Will Power 3. Scott Dixon 4. Graham Rahal 5. Helio Castroneves 6. Marco Andretti 7. Sebastien Bourdais 8. Tony Kanaan 9. Josef Newgarden 10. Simon Pagenaud 11. Charlie Kimball 12. Carlos Munoz 13. Takuma Sato 14. Ryan Hunter-Reay 15. James Jakes Formula One Through June 21 1. Lewis Hamilton 2. Nico Rosberg 3. Sebastian Vettel 4. Kimi Raikkonen 5. Valtteri Bottas 6. Felipe Massa 7. Daniel Ricciardo 8. Daniil Kvyat 9. Nico Hulkenberg 10. Romain Grosjean NHRA Through June 21 Top Fuel 1. Antron Brown 2. Tony Schumacher 3. Richie Crampton 4. Larry Dixon 5. Spencer Massey Funny Car 1. Matt Hagan 2. Ron Capps 3. John Force 4. Del Worsham 5. Jack Beckman Pro Stock 1. Erica Enders-Stevens 2. Greg Anderson 3. Jason Line 4. Chris McGaha 5. Allen Johnson

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The Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo slides into third base safely as the Mets’ Daniel Murphy tries to tag him and umpire Chris Guccione watches the play during the ninth inning Wednesday in New York. The Cubs won 2-0 in 11 innings.

Cubs find a way again Chicago wins battle of slumping offenses in NYC By the Associated Press

Starlin Castro legged out a run-scoring infield single in the 11th inning, and the Chicago Cubs blanked the punchless New York Mets 2-0 Wednesday night for their second consecutive shutout at Citi Field.

Jon Lester returned to form with seven sharp innings, and the Cubs overcame a major baserunning blunder to score twice in the 11th. Miguel Montero added an RBI single, and Chicago won its eighth straight against the Mets, including the first six of seven meetings this season.

The staggering Mets botched a suicide squeeze in the eighth and a double-play ball in the 11th during their latest flop at the plate.

After neither team was able to score for 10 innings, Dexter Fowler drew a leadoff walk from Carlos Torres (2-4) in the 11th. Anthony Rizzo hit a grounder to shortstop, but second baseman

Today’s games • Cubs (Arrieta 7-5) at Mets (deGrom 8-5), 12:10 p.m. (780 AM) • Padres (T.Ross 5-7) at Cardinals (Cooney 0-0), 6:15 p.m.

(FSN/95.7 FM) Wilmer Flores made a low relay to first and Lucas Duda was unable to scoop the ball out of the dirt.

Kris Bryant singled, and so did Chris Coghlan. But when Rizzo was held at third, Bryant got hung up after tearing around second and was easily tagged out.

Rizzo scored when Castro beat out a slow bouncer to third baseman Daniel Murphy. Montero, who entered as a pinch-hitter in the seventh, made it 2-0 with a single off Sean Gilmartin – all that prevented the Mets from losing 1-0 in consecutive home games for the second time since early May. Jason Motte (6-1) fanned two in a hitless inning, and Justin Grimm threw

a called third strike past Kevin Plawecki with runners at the corners for his first major league save.

Lester and Bartolo Colon took advantage of the feeble lineups they were facing to shake off recent struggles. Both starters went seven innings – and Colon retired 14 straight following a leadoff double in the third.

The Mets’ tried a suicide squeeze in the eighth with two men in scoring position. Pinchhitter Darrell Ceciliani bunted right through the pitch, and Ruben Tejada was hung out to dry.

Cardinals 1, White Sox 0, 3 inn.: After a lengthy

delay prior to the start, then another one in the middle of the second inning, St. Louis led by a run after three innings at Busch Stadium at SVM’s press time.

Jhonny Peralta’s RBI double in the bottom of the first accounted for the lone run up to that point.

SOCCER | WOMEN’S WORLD CUP | SEMIFINAL

Late own goal sinks England Japan advances to championship match vs. U.S.

BY JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer

EDMONTON, Alberta – Laura Bassett scored into her own net during second-half stoppage time, giving Japan a 2-1 victory over England in a Women’s World Cup semifinal.

The decisive goal Wednesday came when Japan’s Nahomi Kawasumi drove up the right side and sent a cross into the middle for Yuki Ogimi. Bassett reached out with her right foot and caught the ball flush, inadvertently sending it toward her net. The ball struck the crossbar and bounced in just before goalkeeper Karen Bardsley could get across.

The defending champions advanced to play the United States in the championship game at Vancouver on Sunday.

It’s a rematch of the 2011 championship game in Germany, when Japan won on penalty kicks after a 2-2 draw.

The U.S. is 24-1-6 against Japan.

“However we played in this game, the fact is, we’re going to the final,” Japan coach Norio Sasaki said through an interpreter. “And I’d like to congratulate the players for

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England’s Laura Bassett, who scored an own goal in stoppage time, lays on the turf in the background. that. ... We should really cherish this moment that we are going to the final.”

Bassett was inconsolable at the end of the match, lying flat on the ground, her face in the turf. She then needed assistance from teammates and her coach before leaving the field.

“This team can’t be afraid to cry,” England coach Mark Sampson said. “There’s nothing wrong with that at all.”

It was a torturous finish for the sixth-ranked Lionesses, who have made their deepest run in four World Cup appearances.

England had never won an elimination game until this year.

“Of course, when there’s a huge disappointment, there’s going to be an outcry,” Sampson added. “But it’ll sink in soon what they’ve achieved, and how proud everyone is of their teammate ... and what we’ve done to put football in our country to a place it’s never been before.”

England will remain in Edmonton to play topranked Germany in the third-place match Saturday. Germany lost 2-0 to the U.S. on Tuesday.

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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, a Nobelist from Hungary who offered his prize money to Finland, said, “Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”

To do well at the bridge table, you must think the right thought at the correct moment.

Your success rate will rise if you pause to consider the alternatives.

That – surprise, surprise – is relevant in today’s deal. Look at the North and East hands.

East is defending against three spades. After West leads the heart king, how should East plan to defeat the contract?

A modern duplicate player sitting West would respond

with a pre-emptive three hearts, showing four trumps but limited high-card power.

With game-invitational or better values, he would make a two-spade cue-bid raise – exactly as North did with his

three-heart cue-bid. South, with a weakish balanced hand, signed off in three spades.

For East, holding the heart ace, it looks obvious to encourage a heart continuation by signaling with his nine.

But first he should ask from where his side might get five tricks. There are only two available in hearts, but perhaps three can be corralled in clubs. However, to do that, West will have to lead clubs twice through dummy’s king.

So, at trick one, East must discourage by dropping his heart two. Then, as you can see, if West shifts to the club three, the defenders can triumph.

East wins with his club jack and plays a low heart to his partner’s queen. Then another club lead gives East-West the first five tricks. © 2015 UFS

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT LEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN AMBOY, Plaintiff, vs.

GREGORY SOBANSKI, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE E. SOBANSKI, SR., DECEASED, WAYNE E. SOBANSKI, JR., ROSEANNE DEDO, ALAN SOBANSKI, LEONARD D. SOBANSKI, CHARLOTTE SOBANSKI AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants.

NO. 2015 CH 41 PUBLICATION NOTICE TO: ROSEANNE DEDO, 13471 SANDRA LANE, CRESTWOOD, IL 60445 ALAN SOBANSKI, 13954 S. CHAR LANE, CRESTWOOD, IL 60445 CHARLOTTE SOBANSKI, 16 N. CRAWFORD AVENUE, AMBOY, IL 61310 NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Affidavits for Publication having been filed, because upon due inquiry you cannot be found so that process can be served upon you.

Notice is hereby given you, Roseanne Dedo, Alan Sobanski, Charlotte Sobanski and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants in the above-entitled action, that an action was commenced in the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Lee County, Case No. 2015 CH 41, by the Plaintiff The First National Bank in Amboy against you, in which the Complaint seeks foreclosure of two mortgages, the first dated December 3, 1999, and recorded December 6, 1999, as Document No. 999-09214 among the Land Records of Lee County, Illinois, and the second dated May 28, 2004 and recorded June 1, 2004 as Document No. 2004-04220, in which Plaintiff is the Mortgagee of certain real estate owned by Mortgagor, Wayne E. Sobanski (now deceased), and that foreclosure of mortgage action is now pending in said Court. The current record title holder of the affected real estate is the Estate of Wayne E. Sobanski, Sr., and the property is legally described as follows: PARCEL NO. 1: A part of Lot Twelve (12) in Block Four (4) in the Original Town (now City) of Amboy, Lee County, Illinois, bounded and described as follows: Commencing at the Northerly corner of Lot Twelve (12) and upon the Easterly line of East Avenue; thence Northeasterly along the Northerly Boundary of said Lot Twelve (12), 160 feet; thence Southeasterly along the Easterly line of said Lot Twelve (12), 18 feet; thence at right angles Southwesterly parallel with the Northerly boundary line of said Lot Twelve (12), 160 feet to the Westerly boundary line of said Lot Twelve (12); thence Northwesterly at right angles, 18 feet to the place of beginning, being North 18 feet of said Lot Twelve (12), situated in the County of Lee and the State of Illinois.

PARCEL NO. 2 Part of Lot Twelve (12) in Block Four (4) in the Original Town (now City) of Amboy, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the West line of said Lot Twelve (12), said point beginning 18 feet southerly (measured along the East line of East Avenue) from the Northwest corner of the Lot, and running thence Northeasterly parallel with the North line of said Lot for a distance of 94 feet; thence Southerly and parallel with the East line of East Avenue, 20 feet; thence Westerly and parallel with the North line of said Lot, 94 feet to the East line of East Avenue; thence Northerly along the East line of East Avenue to the point of beginning, all in LEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PARCEL NO. 3 A part of Lots Twelve (12), Thirteen (13) and Fourteen (14) and all of an alley (now vacated), all in Block Four (4), Original Town (now City) of Amboy, Lee County, Illinois, described as follows, to-wit: Commencing at a point on the Westerly line of said Lot Twelve (12) in Block Four (4), which is 38 feet Southeasterly of the Northwesterly corner of said Lot Twelve (12); thence extending Southeasterly, on the Westerly line of said Block Four (4), a distance of 24.5 feet; thence Northeasterly, parallel with the Southerly line of said Lot Twelve (12), to the East line of said Block Four (4); thence Northerly on the East line of Block Four (4), a distance of 32.0 feet; thence Southwesterly, parallel with the said Southerly line of Lot Twelve (12), a distance of 34.5 feet; thence Northerly, parallel with the said Westerly line of Block Four (4), a distance of 2.5 feet; and thence Southwesterly, parallel with the said Southerly line of Lot Twelve (12), to the place of beginning, IN LEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PARCEL NO. 4 THE NORTH 60.0 FEET OF LOTS (1) ONE AND (2) TWO IN BLOCK (6) SIX OF FARWELL?S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF AMBOY, SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF LEE, IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Common Addresses: Parcels 1, 2 and 3 commonly known as 59 South East Avenue, Amboy, Illinois Parcel 4 commonly known as 16 N. Crawford Avenue, Amboy, Illinois Consequently, unless you, Roseanne Dedo, Alan Sobanski, Charlotte Sobanski and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in the action or otherwise make your appearance in the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Ogle County, Illinois, at the Lee County Courthouse, 309 S. Galena Avenue, Dixon, Illinois, on or before August 1, 2015, a default judgment may be entered against you at any time after that date, in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint.

Denise A. McCaffrey, Lee County Circuit Clerk Lisa A. Gabriel WARD, MURRAY, PACE & JOHNSON, P.C. Attorney for Plaintiff 202 E. 5th Street Sterling, IL 61081 815-625-8200 gabriel@wmpj.com

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NOTICE OF RECORDS TO BE DESTROYED The Records Custodian of the Bi-County Special Education Cooperative is announcing that special education student temporary records are scheduled to be destroyed August 31, 2015, for all students who graduated in the year 20072008 or permanently withdrawn from special education services five or more years prior to August 31, 2015. Information in the records which may be of continued assistance to the student may be transferred to the parent, or to the student if the student has succeeded to the rights of the parents.

The Bi-County Special Education Cooperative will make every attempt to notify parents and/or students, by mail, of their right to obtain the student records prior to destruction. If you are interested in requesting student records, you may do so in writing to: Records Custodian Bi-County Special Ed. Coop.

506 W. 4th St. Sterling, IL 61081 Please include the student?s legal name and date of birth with your request. If you have questions or would like to request records by phone, please call 815622-0858 and speak with Jill Ramirez.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT LEE COUNTY - DIXON, ILLINOIS

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND, Plaintiff, v.

BRIAN SIGLER a/k/a BRIAN C. SIGLER; JOLEEN R. LAURITSEN, as Administrator of the Estate of Yolanda M. Sigler, deceased; LARRY SIGLER AND ELIZABETH SIGLER, as Co-Guardians of Christopher Aron Sigler, a minor; THE CITY OF DIXON and UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

2014-CH-58 Property Address:230 Lincoln Way Dixon, Illinois 61021 NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on April 7, 2015, in the above-captioned mortgage foreclosure proceeding, the Sheriff of Lee County, Illinois, on Thursday, July 16, 2015, at the hour of 9:00 a.m., in the lobby of the Old Courthouse, 112 East 2nd Street, Dixon, Illinois, will sell, at a public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described premises and real estate in said Decree mentioned, situated in the County of Lee, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy the decretal indebtedness, to wit: A PART OF LOT NUMBER 2 IN IVES' SUBDIVISION OF LOTS 4, 6 AND 7 IN BLOCK NUMBER 11 OF PARSON'S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF DIXON, ILLINOIS, AND A PART OF LOT NUMBER 8 IN SAID BLOCK NUMBER 11 IN SAID PARSON'S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF DIXON, ILLINOIS, BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 2 OF IVES' SUBDIVISION, 37-1/2 FEET EASTERLY FROM THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT NUMBER 2 AND RUNNING THENCE WESTERLY ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOTS 2 AND 8, 50 FEET; THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY IN A DIRECT LINE TO A POINT ON THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT NUMBER 2, 18-1/2 FEET EASTERLY FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT NUMBER 2; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT NUMBER 2, 50 FEET; THENCE NORTHWESTERLY IN A DIRECT LINE TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF LEE AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Permanent Tax Identification Number: 07-0232-341-002 Common Address: 230 Lincoln Way, Dixon, Illinois 61021 The Judgment amount was $75,427.40.

The property is improved with a single-family residence.

PREMISES WILL NOT BE OPEN FOR INSPECTION. The name and address of the person to contact for information regarding the real estate is Sheryl A. Fyock, attorney, or Rowena C. Holt, paralegal, LATIMER, LEVAY, FYOCK, LLC, 55 West Monroe Street, Suite 1100, Chicago, Illinois 60603. The telephone number is 312-4228000.

Said sale will be subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and any prior mortgages and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

The terms of the sale are the highest bidder with ten (10%) percent of the purchase price due by cash or certified funds at the time of the sale and the balance due within (24) twenty-four hours.

Sheryl A. Fyock LATIMER LEVAY FYOCK, LLC 55 West Monroe Street Suite 1100 Chicago, Illinois 60603 (312) 422-8000 (312) 422-8001 Fax ARDC No. 06204378 June 18, 25, July 2, 2015

TAKE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS CASE NO. 15-TX-23 To: AF-DOLAS, Inc., Daniel C. Hawkins, Konstantinos Fotopoulos, Rt 30 Smoke Shop Inc., Royal Smoke Shop, City of Rock Falls, Eric Arduini City Clerk, Ward Murray Pace and Johnson PC, Illinois Department of Employment Security, Illinois Attorney General, Illinois Department of Revenue, Internal Revenue Service, United States Attorney General, Dana Nelson Whiteside County Clerk, unknown owners, non-record claimants, occupants, or parties interested in said lands or lots: Property located at: 1118 and 1120 West Route 30, Rock Falls, IL Property Index Nos. 11-33-102-008, 11-33-102-009, 11-33-102-028, 11-33-102-029, 11-33-102-030 Tax Sale Certificate Nos. 2011-00277, 2011-00278, 2011-00279, 2011-00280, and 2011-00281 This property was sold on November 8, 2012 for delinquent general taxes for the year of 2011. A Petition for Tax Deed for this property was filed on June 9, 2015.

Your right to redeem the property from the sale will expire on November 6, 2015.

If you fail to redeem by that date, the court may enter a judgment granting petitioner a tax deed.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois, 200 East Knox St., Morrison, Illinois on December 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Hauttman, or any other judge presiding in his stead.

Janson Investment Company, Petitioner Angela L. Tucker, Esq. Janson Investment Company 2503 Galen Dr. Champaign, IL 61821 July 2, 3, 4, 2015

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for Lee County, Illinois and Incorporated Areas The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued a preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report, reflecting proposed flood hazard determinations within Lee County, Illinois and Incorporated Areas. These flood hazard determinations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway. Technical information or comments are solicited on the proposed flood hazard determinations shown on the preliminary FIRM and/or FIS report for Lee County, Illinois and Incorporated Areas. These flood hazard determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to either adopt or show evidence of being already in effect in order to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. However, before these determinations are effective for floodplain management purposes, you will be provided an opportunity to appeal the proposed information. For information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, as well as a complete listing of the communities affected and the locations where copies of the FIRM are available for review, please visit FEMA?s website at http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/fhm/bfe, or call the FEMA Map Information eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877-FEMA-MAP (1-877336-2627).

July 2 & 9, 2015 TAKE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS CASE NO. 15-TX-18 To: Estate of Jamie H. Spencer, Unknown Heirs/Devisees of Jamie H. Spencer, Kayla J. Sutton, Corey A. Spencer, Kristan K. Swigart, Wayne D. Spencer, Arthur W. Spencer, Karen F. Sprankle, Mark R. Spencer, , Dana Nelson Whiteside County Clerk, unknown owners, non-record claimants, occupants, or parties interested in said lands or lots: Property located at: 215 Ave D, Rock Falls, IL Property Index No. 11-27-128-005 Tax Sale Certificate No. 2011-00209 This property was sold on November 8, 2012 for delinquent general taxes for the year of 2011. A Petition for Tax Deed for this property was filed on June 9, 2015.

Your right to redeem the property from the sale will expire on November 6, 2015.

If you fail to redeem by that date, the court may enter a judgment granting petitioner a tax deed.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois, 200 East Knox St., Morrison, Illinois on December 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Hauttman, or any other judge presiding in his stead.

Janson Investment Company, Petitioner Angela L. Tucker, Esq. Janson Investment Company 2503 Galen Dr. Champaign, IL 61821 July 2, 3, 4, 2015

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS CASE NO. 15-TX-15 To: Charles Bibeau, Ronald Weems, Karen Bibeau, The Provident Bank, PNC Bank, City of Sterling Illinois, Marie Rombouts Sterling City Clerk, Ron Coplan Sterling City Attorney, Dana Nelson Whiteside County Clerk, unknown owners, non-record claimants, occupants, or parties interested in said lands or lots: Property located at: 1507 5th Ave, Sterling, IL Property Index No. 11-21-230-020 Tax Sale Certificate No. 2011-00158 This property was sold on November 8, 2012 for delinquent general taxes for the year of 2011. A Petition for Tax Deed for this property was filed on June 9, 2015.

Your right to redeem the property from the sale will expire on November 6, 2015.

If you fail to redeem by that date, the court may enter a judgment granting petitioner a tax deed.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois, 200 East Knox St., Morrison, Illinois on December 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Hauttman, or any other judge presiding in his stead.

Janson Investment Company, Petitioner Angela L. Tucker, Esq. Janson Investment Company 2503 Galen Dr. Champaign, IL 61821 July 2, 3, 4, 2015 TAKE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS CASE NO. 15-TX-14 To: Gunars Grikmanis, City of Sterling Illinois, Marie Rombouts Sterling City Clerk, Ron Coplan Sterling City Attorney, People of the State of Illinois, Lisa Madigan Illinois Attorney General, Dana Nelson Whiteside County Clerk, unknown owners, non-record claimants, occupants, or parties interested in said lands or lots: Property located at: Sterling, IL Property Index No. Tax Sale Certificate No.

1411 3rd Ave, 11-21-207-007 2011-00154

This property was sold on November 8, 2012 for delinquent general taxes for the year of 2011. A Petition for Tax Deed for this property was filed on June 9, 2015.

Your right to redeem the property from the sale will expire on November 6, 2015.

If you fail to redeem by that date, the court may enter a judgment granting petitioner a tax deed.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois, 200 East Knox St., Morrison, Illinois on December 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Hauttman, or any other judge presiding in his stead.

Janson Investment Company, Petitioner Angela L. Tucker, Esq. Janson Investment Company 2503 Galen Dr. Champaign, IL 61821 July 2, 3, 4, 2015 TAKE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS CASE NO. 15-TX-26

TAKE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS CASE NO. 15-TX-17 To: Lonnie Chattic, Argent Mortgage Company, LLC, Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, US Bank NA, C-BASS Mortgage Loan Asset Backed Cert. 2007-CB6, Dana Nelson Whiteside County Clerk, unknown owners, non-record claimants, occupants, or parties interested in said lands or lots: Property located at: 302 W. 4th St, Sterling, IL Property Index No. 11-21-380-013 Tax Sale Certificate No. 2011-00176 This property was sold on November 8, 2012 for delinquent general taxes for the year of 2011. A Petition for Tax Deed for this property was filed on June 9, 2015.

To: Kristy A. Walker, William P. Walker, Board of Education of ProphetstownLyndon-Tampico Community School District No. 3, Dana Nelson Whiteside County Clerk, unknown owners, non-record claimants, occupants, or parties interested in said lands or lots: Property located at: 101 East 4th Street, Tampico, IL Property Index No. 22-14-301-007 Tax Sale Certificate No. 2011-00394 This property was sold on November 8, 2012 for delinquent general taxes for the year of 2011. A Petition for Tax Deed for this property was filed on June 9, 2015.

Your right to redeem the property from the sale will expire on November 6, 2015.

If you fail to redeem by that date, the court may enter a judgment granting petitioner a tax deed.

Your right to redeem the property from the sale will expire on November 6, 2015.

If you fail to redeem by that date, the court may enter a judgment granting petitioner a tax deed.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois, 200 East Knox St., Morrison, Illinois on December 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Hauttman, or any other judge presiding in his stead.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois, 200 East Knox St., Morrison, Illinois on December 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Hauttman, or any other judge presiding in his stead.

Janson Investment Company, Petitioner Angela L. Tucker, Esq. Janson Investment Company 2503 Galen Dr. Champaign, IL 61821 July 2, 3, 4, 2015

Janson Investment Company, Petitioner Angela L. Tucker, Esq. Janson Investment Company 2503 Galen Dr. Champaign, IL 61821 July 2, 3, 4, 2015

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CASE NO. 15-TX-20

To: Kristy A. Walker, William P. Walker, Board of Education of ProphetstownLyndon-Tampico Community School District No. 3, Dana Nelson Whiteside County Clerk, unknown owners, non-record claimants, occupants, or parties interested in said lands or lots:

To: Rodney R. Lilly, Teresa L. Matina, Chelsie Lilly, Norwest Surveying Services Inc., Dana Nelson Whiteside County Clerk, unknown owners, non-record claimants, occupants, or parties interested in said lands or lots:

To: Richard Haan Jr, Union Savings Bank, Dana Nelson Whiteside County Clerk, unknown owners, non-record claimants, occupants, or parties interested in said lands or lots:

Property located at: 209 S. Fremont St., Tampico, IL Property Index No. 22-14-357-017 Tax Sale Certificate No. 2011-00405 This property was sold on November 8, 2012 for delinquent general taxes for the year of 2011. A Petition for Tax Deed for this property was filed on June 9, 2015.

Your right to redeem the property from the sale will expire on November 6, 2015.

If you fail to redeem by that date, the court may enter a judgment granting petitioner a tax deed.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois, 200 East Knox St., Morrison, Illinois on December 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Hauttman, or any other judge presiding in his stead.

Janson Investment Company, Petitioner Angela L. Tucker, Esq. Janson Investment Company 2503 Galen Dr. Champaign, IL 61821 July 2, 3, 4, 2015 TAKE NOTICE

Property located at: 307 4th Avenue West, Lyndon, IL Property Index No. 15-16-461-006 Tax Sale Certificate No. 2011-00335 This property was sold on November 8, 2012 for delinquent general taxes for the year of 2011. A Petition for Tax Deed for this property was filed on June 9, 2015.

Your right to redeem the property from the sale will expire on November 6, 2015.

If you fail to redeem by that date, the court may enter a judgment granting petitioner a tax deed.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois, 200 East Knox St., Morrison, Illinois on December 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Hauttman, or any other judge presiding in his stead.

Janson Investment Company, Petitioner Angela L. Tucker, Esq. Janson Investment Company 2503 Galen Dr. Champaign, IL 61821 July 2, 3, 4, 2015 TAKE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS

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CASE NO. 15-TX-24

CASE NO. 15-TX-21 To: Jeffrey L. Hayen, FIA Card Services NA f/k/a MBNA America Bank NA, Internal Revenue Service, United States Attorney General, Dana Nelson Whiteside County Clerk, unknown owners, nonrecord claimants, occupants, or parties interested in said lands or lots: Property located at: 614 3rd Ave., Rock Falls, IL Property Index No. 11-28-436-020 Tax Sale Certificate No. 2011-00256 This property was sold on November 8, 2012 for delinquent general taxes for the year of 2011. A Petition for Tax Deed for this property was filed on June 9, 2015.

Your right to redeem the property from the sale will expire on November 6, 2015.

If you fail to redeem by that date, the court may enter a judgment granting petitioner a tax deed.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois, 200 East Knox St., Morrison, Illinois on December 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Hauttman, or any other judge presiding in his stead.

Janson Investment Company, Petitioner Angela L. Tucker, Esq. Janson Investment Company 2503 Galen Dr. Champaign, IL 61821 July 2, 3, 4, 2015 TAKE NOTICE

To: Patti L. Kline, City of Rock Falls, Eric Arduini City Clerk, James L. Reese City Attorney, Dana Nelson Whiteside County Clerk, unknown owners, non-record claimants, occupants, or parties interested in said lands or lots: Property located at: 1015 9th Ave, Rock Falls, IL Property Index No. 11-33-128-008 Tax Sale Certificate No. 2011-00289 This property was sold on November 8, 2012 for delinquent general taxes for the year of 2011. A Petition for Tax Deed for this property was filed on June 9, 2015.

Your right to redeem the property from the sale will expire on November 6, 2015.

If you fail to redeem by that date, the court may enter a judgment granting petitioner a tax deed.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois, 200 East Knox St., Morrison, Illinois on December 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Hauttman, or any other judge presiding in his stead.

Janson Investment Company, Petitioner Angela L. Tucker, Esq. Janson Investment Company 2503 Galen Dr. Champaign, IL 61821 July 2, 3, 4, 2015

Property located at: Rock Falls, IL Property Index No. Tax Sale Certificate No.

Your right to redeem the property from the sale will expire on November 6, 2015.

If you fail to redeem by that date, the court may enter a judgment granting petitioner a tax deed.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois, 200 East Knox St., Morrison, Illinois on December 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Hauttman, or any other judge presiding in his stead.

Janson Investment Company, Petitioner Angela L. Tucker, Esq. Janson Investment Company 2503 Galen Dr. Champaign, IL 61821 July 2, 3, 4, 2015 TAKE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS CASE NO. 15-TX-19 To: Kyle A. Mahaffey , Dana Nelson Whiteside County Clerk, unknown owners, non-record claimants, occupants, or parties interested in said lands or lots: Property located at: 212 E. 3rd St., Rock Falls, IL Property Index No. 11-27-154-003 Tax Sale Certificate No. 2011-00211 This property was sold on November 8, 2012 for delinquent general taxes for the year of 2011. A Petition for Tax Deed for this property was filed on June 9, 2015.

Your right to redeem the property from the sale will expire on November 6, 2015.

If you fail to redeem by that date, the court may enter a judgment granting petitioner a tax deed.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois, 200 East Knox St., Morrison, Illinois on December 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Hauttman, or any other judge presiding in his stead.

Janson Investment Company, Petitioner Angela L. Tucker, Esq. Janson Investment Company 2503 Galen Dr. Champaign, IL 61821 July 2, 3, 4, 2015

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CASE NO. 15-TX-16 To: John E. Williamson, Angela Williamson, Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., Illinois Attorney General, Illinois Department of Revenue, Dana Nelson Whiteside County Clerk, unknown owners, non-record claimants, occupants, or parties interested in said lands or lots: Property located at: 804 W. 7th St., Sterling, IL Property Index No. 11-21-304-010 Tax Sale Certificate No. 2011-00169 This property was sold on November 8, 2012 for delinquent general taxes for the year of 2011. A Petition for Tax Deed for this property was filed on June 9, 2015.

Your right to redeem the property from the sale will expire on November 6, 2015.

If you fail to redeem by that date, the court may enter a judgment granting petitioner a tax deed.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois, 200 East Knox St., Morrison, Illinois on December 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Hauttman, or any other judge presiding in his stead.

Janson Investment Company, Petitioner Angela L. Tucker, Esq. Janson Investment Company 2503 Galen Dr. Champaign, IL 61821 July 2, 3, 4, 2015

To: Jean V. Dudley, Elizabeth Dudley, George Dudley, Jr., U.S. Bank NA, Dana Nelson Whiteside County Clerk, unknown owners, non-record claimants, occupants, or parties interested in said lands or lots: Property located at: Road, Rock Falls, IL Property Index No. Tax Sale Certificate No.

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2311 Prophet 11-32-126-014 2011-00275

This property was sold on November 8, 2012 for delinquent general taxes for the year of 2011. A Petition for Tax Deed for this property was filed on June 9, 2015.

Your right to redeem the property from the sale will expire on November 6, 2015.

If you fail to redeem by that date, the court may enter a judgment granting petitioner a tax deed.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, Illinois, 200 East Knox St., Morrison, Illinois on December 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Hauttman, or any other judge presiding in his stead.

Janson Investment Company, Petitioner Angela L. Tucker, Esq. Janson Investment Company 2503 Galen Dr. Champaign, IL 61821 July 2, 3, 4, 2015

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT LEE COUNTY - DIXON, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION successor by merger to U.S. Bank National Association ND, Plaintiff, v.

BRIAN SIGLER a/k/a BRIAN C. SIGLER; JOLEEN R. LAURITSEN, as Administrator of the Estate of Yolanda M. Sigler, deceased; LARRY SIGLER AND ELIZABETH SIGLER, as Co-Guardians of Christopher Aron Sigler, a minor; THE CITY OF DIXON and UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

2014-CH-58 Property Address:230 Lincoln Way Dixon, Illinois 61021 NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on April 7, 2015, in the above-captioned mortgage foreclosure proceeding, the Sheriff of Lee County, Illinois, on Thursday, July 16, 2015, at the hour of 9:00 a.m., in the lobby of the Old Courthouse, 112 East 2nd Street, Dixon, Illinois, will sell, at a public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described premises and real estate in said Decree mentioned, situated in the County of Lee, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy the decretal indebtedness, to wit: Permanent Tax Identification Number: 07-0232-341-002 Common Address: 230 Lincoln Way, Dixon, Illinois 61021 The Judgment amount was $75,427.40.

The property is improved with a single-family residence.

PREMISES WILL NOT BE OPEN FOR INSPECTION. The name and address of the person to contact for information regarding the real estate is Sheryl A. Fyock, attorney, or Rowena C. Holt, paralegal, LATIMER, LEVAY, FYOCK, LLC, 55 West Monroe Street, Suite 1100, Chicago, Illinois 60603. The telephone number is 312-422-8000.

Said sale will be subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and any prior mortgages and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

The terms of the sale are the highest bidder with ten (10%) percent of the purchase price due by cash or certified funds at the time of the sale and the balance due within (24) twenty-four hours.

Sheryl A. Fyock LATIMER LEVAY FYOCK, LLC 55 West Monroe Street Suite 1100 Chicago, Illinois 60603 (312) 422-8000 (312) 422-8001 Fax ARDC No. 06204378 June 18, 25, July 2, 2015

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Our Physical Flow Material Handlers maintain a safe, orderly, stable and efficient flow of materials, equipment and supplies throughout the plant and within required timeframe to support production builds. Load, unload and transfer freight to/from trucks or to/from the warehouse to the work centers as needed. This position is required to effectively support all areas of receiving, shipping, warehouse and associated inventory tasks. Successful candidates must possess strong knowledge and abilities in the following: Previous material handling with powered industrial trucks experience is required. Competent PC skills including Microsoft Office and experience with ERP system, (SAP preferred). Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds. A HS Diploma/GED equivalent along with good communication, problem-solving, planning, organizational and team-work abilities are also required.

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• Installs, upgrades, and deploys hardware and software • Windows security administration • Conducts internal system security audits and system checks to ensure compliance with standards • Inspects, maintains, and repairs computers, printers, and other IT related equipment.

• Maintains supply/parts inventories and purchase or receive based on plant needs • Maintains audit records of Plant software/hardware • Performs duties associated with back-up systems including transporting tapes to offsite storage facility • Attend meetings and training as assigned by reporting official • Participate in a 24x7 on call rotation. Must be onsite within 45 minutes of receiving a critical on-call.

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• Education: Associates Degree or higher in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related field.

• Experience: 2+ years’ experience providing end user computer hardware and software technical support in a Windows based network environment.

• Skills: Experienced in basic networking and telecommunications All interested applicants must apply online at purinacareers.com www.nestlep no later than 7/27/15 APPLY UNDER JOB NUMBER 15003905 NO RELOCATION ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

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Now accepting new clients Taxes individual and business, Bookkeeping, Payroll, Financial Analysis, & all your accounting needs.

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Construction

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*Asphalt paving & Patch work * Seal Coating *Skid loader/ Dump Truck Work (Concrete Removal, Dirt and Gravel Hauling) Call for free, no obligation estimates 815-499-7195.

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Brick & Masonry MASONRY PROS •Brick-Block-Stone •Chimneys repaired or rebuilt •New Masonry or restoration & tuck-pointing Get masonry repairs done from winter damage.

Free Estimates 25 yrs. experience Insured & Bonded.

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Carpentry Carpet For Less •Less Money •Less Time •Less Hassle Call Al for a FREE Estimate A & A Flooring 815-632-0675

Cleaning Service

Deck Builders

We specialize in exterior decks & privacy fences “You’ll always be a winner if we cut the deck” 815-288-4089 www.cosscustom woodworking.com

Drywall Diehl's Drywall Inc. “Over 20 years experience”

17 Franklin St. Milledgeville 61051 Jamie Diehl Owner 815-499-3047

Dumpster Rental

Dumpster Rental for Clean-ups & Construction Small & Large containers avail.

Tidy Bug Inc. Dixon, IL tidybuginc.com 815-456-3001

Gutter Cleaning GUTTERS & THEN SOME Gutter Cleaning & Repair Service Miscellaneous Jobs FREE ESTIMATES 815-535-0911 Bonded & Insured If you have gutter problems, call the Gutter Guys!!

Handyman LawnCare Service •Pot Holes •Leaf clean up •House cleanup •Large hauling (dirt, gravel, sand) •Gutters •Pressure washing •Mulch, Rototilling •Storm Clean-up •Free Estimates• 815-590-6336

Advanced Cleaners

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We Specialize in Residential Maid Service as well as Commercial Janitorial Service Call Now For Your Spring Cleaning.

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J & S SERVICE PLUS We offer a wide variety of services from lawn mowing, lawn maintenance, auto repairs and light construction.

We do moving & hauling and many other things.

Just give us a call!

No job too small!

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PAUL’S HANDYMAN SERVICE “Anything Your Husband Won’t Do!” •Experience On All Manner of Home Repairs & Maintenance since 1986

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SUMMER is the perfect time to build your garage, addition or remodel Re-roof / Reside your home!

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BOB BOYD LAWN CARE SERVICES •Mowing• •Leaf Cleanup• Free Estimates Reasonable Rates Fully Insured 815-973-0699

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Remodeling

Power Washing Frank's Anything Power Washing Stripping Paint & Cleaning Homes, Decks, Driveways Commercial & Residential * Fully Insured * Call 815-213-0675

Mobil Pressure Wash Service • Commercial, • Residential & • Semis You name it.... we clean it!

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“Area's #1 Roofing Contractor IL Lic# 104-015191 Licensed, Bonded & Insured •Roofing •Siding •Windows •Decks •Additions •Garages & More Residential & Commercial Call now to schedule your FREE Estimate!

Will beat any leading competitor price 815-590-2677 Guaranteed Best Buy!

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•Climate Controlled Storage •Low-Cost Moving Truck Rental •Confidential Document Shredding •We Ship FedEx & UPS! •Expert Packaging Services •Value Boxes & Packaging Supplies •EBAY and EMOTORS Internet Auction Sales Over 15,000 Sales •Office Hours: Mon-Fri. ☛ 8:306, Sat. ☛ 8:30noon 690 Timber Creek Rd. Dixon, (815)285-2212

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Resumes may also be faxed to Human Resources at (815) 732-6426.

EOE/Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled

BRAD'S TREE SERVICE A division of Timber Industries, LLC. Tree & Limb Removal Stump Removal Storm Clean-up Mulch & Firewood •Free Estimates •Fully Insured 815-857-3674 Cole's Complete Tree Service Tree Trimming Stump Removal Licensed and Insured *Free Estimates* 25HR Emergency Service Call 815-718-2997 Donnie Cole colestree service@outlook.com

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Full-Time 2nd Shift Positions • Assemblers • Welders • Machine Operators • Parts Cleaners E. D. ETNYRE & CO. 1333 S. Daysville Road, Oregon, Illinois Check us out on Facebook and www.etnyre.com M/F Disabled and Vet EEO/AA Employer

Christ Lutheran School is seeking a full-time Preschool Teacher for 2015-2016 Teaching certificate required, preferably early childhood certification. Submit letter of interest and resume by July 10, 2015 to: Christ Lutheran School, Attn: Brandi Spreeman, Interim Principal 2000 18th Avenue Sterling, IL 61081, Or email bspreeman@christ lutheranschool.com

IN HOME REPAIR 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE! Work on all Brands & Models Old or New Serving the Sauk Valley and More Call Ron for a free quote at 815-561-0011 Dixon, IL

HEALTH / MEDICAL

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Wanted P.T. C.N.A. - Days Please Apply at: Heritage Square 620 N. Ottawa Ave. Dixon, EOE No Phone Calls Please.

Water Softeners The Softener Man Repair on all makes & models Service Call Special $19.95 Over 30 years experience 815-323-1622

EMPLOYMENT

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18 to 24 people needed to start immediately, full time positions. No exp. nec. Oppt'y for advancement.

Potential Earnings of $500/wk Call Mark 563424-4479

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NOTICEPURSUANT to the Business Opportunity Sales Law of 1995, every business opportunity must be registered with the Illinois Securities Department. Protect yourself and get the facts before you hand over your hard earned money by contacting the Illinois Secretary of State's Securities Department at 1800-628-7937. This notice provided as a public service by Sauk Valley Classifieds.

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MEISTER TREE CARE Specializing in all of your tree care needs.

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Storm clean up & specialty work.

Free Estimates No job too big or too small!

Licensed, Bonded Insured Safety and your satisfaction is my #1 goal!

815-994-1750

Coilcraft, Inc., founded in 1945, is an established worldwide organization specializing in the manufacturing of magnetic components with headquarters located in Cary, Illinois. We currently have the position listed below at our Oregon, IL plant:

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Illinois License #104.016127 Bonded/Insured •Roofing •Siding • Windows •Doors •Additions• Garages •Drywall• Decks and more Free Estimates 815-213-0556

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STORAGE UNITS Multiple Sizes Starting at $35 No appt. needed Located inside MOORE TIRES 2411 E. Rt 30 Rock Falls (815)625-3764

PRATER Paint & Waterproofing Specializing in •Residential •Commercial •Farm & •Industrial With working height up to 250 ft.

Call for your FREE painting or sandblasting estimate 815-626-5165

Residential Painting & 15 years experience •Painting Inside & Out •Power Washing •Decks (815)973-0858 shazta@msn.com

Roofing/Siding

815-618-2717 South side of Dixon Rte. 26 Great Rates Inside 10x20 $45 Outside $20 Larger or smaller available

Painting

(815)631-4122

JOHN'S CLEANUP & REMOVAL Anything goes!!

Estate Cleanups PHONE 815-622-0240

1 room make-over 1 coat ceiling/ 2 coats on walls

Green River Lawn Service Harmon, Amboy, Dixon, Sterling, Rock Falls Areas.

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•Carpet Cleaning •Senior Discount 815-742-2995

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Cimco Recycling Sterling is looking for CDL drivers and a certified diesel mechanic.

Hours are MondaySaturday. Salary based on experience. Cimco offers vacation time, health, vision & dental insurance and 401k.

Please send resumes and references to: Cimco Recycling Sterling, 13509 Galt Road, Sterling, IL 61081 DIRECTOR OF CRISIS SERVICES: Search Re-Opened Join us to lead our team working to transform the lives of people in crisis.

You'll supervise a staff of 19 in our domestic violence and sexual assault You'll programs. also work with funders, do grant-writing, and develop policy.

Requirements: Bachelor's Degree in human service field and significant supervisory experience in a human services setting.

Benefits include excellent retirement plan, generous paid leave, and insurance. Diverse applicants welcome.

Apply at YWCA of the Sauk Valley, 412 First Avenue, Sterling

Full or Part Time Drivers Wanted

!Class A CDL !Assigned Peterbilt and Kenworth Trucks !Preloaded Trailers !Paid Vacations !Home Weekends !Flexible Dispatch !Wellmark Health Insurance Call Missy 800-397-6387x10 Full time position with excellent hours in a busy fast paced Sterling, IL office.

Enjoy working 8 A.M. - 5 P.M. Monday – Friday Responsibilities will include but are not limited to data entry, answering mulphones, ti-line billing, filing, sorting mail, daily deposits, and dealing with the public.

Must be energetic and have a willingness to help others. Must have baaccounting sic background and be a self starter and able to work with little supervision. Benefits include Health Insurance, 401k, paid vacation, holidays and sick time.

Send resumes to: rlambert@ withersradio.net Harbor Crest Home An 84-bed skilled care facility in Fulton IL, is in need of •D.O.N. •CNA's: 2nd & 3rd shift •Restorative Nurse Must be able to practice in Illinois and pass Background test. Apply online or in person harborcrest2 at: @mchsi.com 817 17th St, Fulton IL. EOE

NEW TODAY Help Wanted to take down carnival rides at the Dixon Petunia Festival grounds. Report to carnival office at 9pm Sunday, July 5, ask for Jerry.

Immediate Opening Dining Services Wait Staff Full and Part time openings.

Motivated individuals with a passion for seniors.

Apply in person Morningside of Sterling 2705 Ave E Part Time Bartender needed in Amboy.

Please send replies to Box # 1291, c/o Sauk Valley Classifieds, P.O. Box 498, Sterling, IL 61081 Part time driver needed, CDL & drug testing reirregular quired, hours, familiar with Chicago a plus, some day & night Retired driving. persons a good fit.

815-625-0373

EMPLOYMENT

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Montmorency C.C.S.D. #145 has an opening for a FT custodian.

Applicant should be organized and able to work with minimal supervision.

Duties include cleaning classrooms, offices, and common areas.

During summer months, applicant will move furniture, strip, scrub, and wax floors. Responsible for light maintenance and other duties as assigned.

Applications may be picked up at Montmorency School, and/ or sent to: Mr. Alex Moore Montmorency C.C.S.D. #145 9415 Hoover Road Rock Falls, IL 61071 Ph.#(815)625-6616

NEW TODAY Part time Summer Help (July-Aug), 20-30hrs per week for Dixon area business.

Duties include lawn care, clean up, painting & light maintenance. $9/hr. Call 815-440-2392.

The City of Amboy is accepting applications for Police Chief and police officer for the police department. Applications are available at city hall.

The deadline to apply is August 3rd at 4:30 p.m.

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READERS:

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

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

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

Village of Franklin Grove Streets/Alleys Employee Full time opening, DOT physical & drug test required, Background check, CDL w/ air brakes, Snow removal/ backhoe exp. a plus, General equipment maintenance skills a plus, Benefits pkg.

Accepting applications until July 6, 2015. Reply to: P.O. Box 206, Franklin Grove, IL 61031 or call Village Hall 815-4562131.

W-S Industrial Services Inc. is currently hiring Industrial Labor and CDL Drivers to join our rapidly growing team.

Must be drug free, clear driving record, clear criminal background, and agree to physical and pre-employment test. Apply in person at 1517 S. 19th St., Clinton IA. Wanted temporary full time help as Agricultural Labor long hours with pay depending on experience, drivers license required.

Must be reliable, applicant subject to drug testing, no cell phones allowed, apply in person.

Franks Flying Service 12677 Black Rd. Morrison Illinois

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

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

AREA GARAGE SALES 624 AMBOY GARAGE SALES 624 Fri. 8-5 Sat. 8-?

302 W. Clark St. (behind grain elevator), recumbent exercise bike, serger sewing matons of chine, Christmas & holiday, glider chair & footstool, Casio keyboard, rototiller, vacuums, tvs & stereo equip., bedding, GPS & lots more!

Fri. 9-5, Sat. 9-12, 121 N. Jefferson Ave., Amboy. Sale Fri. 9am - 5pm Sat. 9am – 2pm Lee Center Road (one mile east of Amboy) MAN SALE & Misc.

Watch for Signs Large, small & vintage tools, wood splitter on wheels, 16' tandem axel car trailer w/new tires, engine stand on wheels, ¾” drive impact wrench, ¾” drive impact sockets, 18” scroll saw, table saw(s) & much MORE! Clothes, Furniture, Household items Thurs. Fri. & Sat. 9:00am - ?

1630 Morman Rd. MOVING/GARAGE SALE Many miscellaneous items: Furniture, TV, Home Furnishings, Tools, Yard Equipment/ Games, tools, Bikes, Golf Clubs, Dresses, Prom Some Jr Clothes too many items to mention!!!

DIXON GARAGE SALES 624 Fri. & Sat. 7-2 929 N. Brinton Ave. Moving Sale Items include, family room, girls bed rooms, twin, full, queen and king bedding, towels, multiple tables and chairs, china cabinet, buffet, desks, home & holiday décor, sewing/ fabric, kitchen items, electric books, paino & lots more

DIXON GARAGE SALES 624 Fri. 7-1pm Sat. 7-4pm 209 W Morgan St. Furniture, patio items, kitchen small appliances.

Items are new or like new.

Fri. 7-1pm Sat. 7-4pm 603 N. Hennepin Across from John Dixon Park 5 Family Sale & Bake Sale Wicker ottoman, camera, toys, fish tank, books, art books, scrub tops and jackets, coned yarn, holiday items, dishes.

Vintage: wagon bench, Schwinn bike, Milk Crate, McCoy Pottery, lightning rod, laundry rack.

Fri. 8-3 Sat. 8-12 713 S. Ottawa high top patio table & chairs, misc. lawn equip., kitchen table & chairs, Coach purses, women's clothing, CDs, books, wall decorations, glassware, & misc. knick knacks.

Friday 7am – 2 pm Saturday 8 – 11am 604 E. Graham St. Boys, girls & adult clothes & shoes.

Girls bike, race car toddler bed, poker table, desk & lots of misc.

FRIDAY ONLY, July 3rd , 8am-6pm 532 Vitale St. (off 4th Ave. near Jefferson School) Garage SaleKerosene heater stove (works), old games, old Structco farm trucks, books, home décor, frames, household misc., adult clothing, scrub tops & bottoms (xs-sm).

THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE 109 W. 1st Street Thur. July 2 nd Fri. July 3 rd Daily 10-4 Antiques, Gifts, Petunia Festival Street Sale & Bake Sale Thursday 8-1 & Friday 8-12 11788 W. Pilgrim Road (1.5 mi. W. of Woosung) Women's clothing(some new) sizes 10-18, household, Kirby vacuum new recumbent bike, Davidson Harley clothing, & misc.

STERLING GARAGE SALES 624 Friday 7-2 1807 21st Ave. New with tags womens, Mrs, & Jr's, swim ware, bras and pajamas, plus size womens Gymclothing, boree baby clothing. Cook books, player, VCR/DVD TV stand, misc. tools, fluorescents shop lights, lots of stuff for everyone!!

Saturday 9-3 802 E 16th St. Shelving units.

Rolling desk chairs, mirrored bar/liquor bicycle, cabinet, and so much more

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES 705 I Buy: Antiques, collectibles, toys, post cards, etc.

815-445-6151.

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CLOVER HILLS LEASE TO OWN APPLIANCES TV’S MATTRESSES

815.625.8529 Maytag Centennial Washer, good cond., $100 815622-0223

FURNITURE

Antique Walnut Desk w/ granite top, 64”L x 40”w $350 815-2883301 “Golden” power lift recliner, brown top of the line. Exc. Cond. $425. 815626-2596 Lg. sauder L shape wooden corner desk with file drawer and upper shelf unit. $70 815-625-9232 or 815-441-0746 Lg. sofa, covered in light green fabric, skirt on front, camel back. $75 815-626-5321 Lg.L shaped wooden maple desk, 3 file drawers, laminate top. 85”x66” $80 815-625-9293 or 815-303-3720 Mattress sets: Twin $99, Full $129, Queen $159, King $199. Will deliver! Kern Mattress Outlet, call 309452-7477.

Secretariat Desk, small, antique, good cond., $40 815-535-0568

MEDICAL SUPPLIES

625-3600 284-2222

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Sterling Stair Chair, 3 yrs. old, 12 ft., well maintained, $900 815857-7090

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 765 Restored violin bow, resin ,case & book included. $225 will negotiate.

815-288-7760

PETS & PET SUPPLIES 775 AKC Shihtzu Puppies ready now.

Wonder health and temperaments.

815-677-2624 Cat- male neutered, 1yr old.

Very sweet, little shy, good w/other cats. Indoor home only. 815-535-7061 JUST ANIMALS LOW COST

WELLNESS CLINICS

Friday, July 10th 2 pm- 6 pm Muddy Paws Pet Complex in Sterling Cat & Dog exams $10, Most vaccines $12 Heartworm test & Microchips $20.

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Noticing how people react in various situations will give you insight into your own behavior.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -Overindulgence will lead to neglect. There are lots of groups that will help you get back on track with healthy food choices and exercise. Friends will provide support and motivation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Start fresh. Join a group, club or organization that will provide an interesting diversion from your daily grind. If dancing or art lessons are not your thing, try out a new sport.

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LAWN MOWERS

779

Cub Cadet LT1046 riding lawn mower, 46” deck, 220 hrs., like new cond., $1150/obo 815245-9704

LAWN & GARDEN

781

Agri-Fab Mow-NVac 5hp; attach to any lawn tractor. $425.

815-6267110.

Craftsman 42” tractor; Kohler Pro 17hp, rear bagger.

815-626$425.

7110.

Craftsman rear tine tiller; 14”, 6hp, used 4x. $375. Call 815-626-7110.

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

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WANT TO BUY 795

MISCELLANEOUS 796 FOR SALE Hasselblad Camera equipment for sale. 501CM complete.

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MISCELLANEOUS 796 FOR SALE (2) Clark fork lifts $5200 total. 815626-4561.

10 Gal. Artic Construction type water cooler $15 815288-1585 1964 Cushman Eagle; totally restored show bike 270 miles $6000 obo 815-849-9923 1oz. Silver bars. $20 per oz. & coins for sale. 815-4990970

NEW TODAY 2 Hunter green (with a little burgundy) custom made sofa's 88” long $200 each.

1 Burgundy green chair with ottoman $125. Area rug 5x8 blue, green & white. $30. All exc. cond.815-626-5930 3 Gal. Gott water cooler $10 good condition 815-2881585 3 Willy's bus trip tickets Cubs vs Cards. On 7/8/15.

For the price of 2.

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4 Oak Bar stools backs, Engraved Excellent Cond.

Seats 25.5”h,$100.

815-440-4440 7, 38 D Victoria Secret Padded Bras.

All different colors.

Great Condition $50 for all.

815-590-0908 Billy Joel Tribute Item. Prof. Frame.

New. $30 815-732-1492 Computer color w/ carprinter tridges in orig. box $20 815-732-1492 Extra Large Gander Mtn. duffle bag $30 815-732-1492 ★★ Generac ★★ ★ Generator ★ portable, heavy duty, 8500 surge watts, 5500 rated watts, less than 25 hrs use, $600/obo 815-626-1056 Hospital Bed Electric, many extras, $800 815288-7168 Large swing set 5 units. $100 815-456-2175 Leather brown recliner. Exc. cond. $50 815-626-2077

Story & Clark, 48” upright 8 year old piano, like new condition. $4,000 OBO. 815-616-2572 Truck bed tool box

for small truck, has working lock with key. Good cond. $50. 815-535-7061

Twin, full, queen, king beds. Dryer, washer, table & chairs, dbl. recline sofa, sofa, dresser, 4pc. sectional, gas stove, gas dryer.

815-718-4385.

HORSES & SUPPLIES

835

NEW TODAY Wagonette, burgundy & black.

Seats 6-8 wooden spoke wheels & tongue inc. Exc. condition. $3,000 815-626-5930

CLASSIC CARS

904

1969 Mercury Comet, drive train is done. $5,000 obo. 815-535-3969 1989 Pontiac Firebird. Formula 350 $7,500 OBO. Call 815-590-7241

AUTOMOBILES

905

1983 Buick Riveria edition Limited $1,100 815-7627267

AUTOMOBILES

905

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815-772-3215

USED AUTOS 2015 Chevrolet Silverado Crew Cab, 4x4 2014 Ford Mustang Convertible 2013 Kia Optima SX LTD Turbo, Low Miles 2009 GMC Sierra 1500, Pickup Ext. Cab, 4x4 2008 GMC Sierra 1500, Pickup Ext. Cab, 4x4

2008 Buick Lucerne CXL 2008 Buick Enclave 1998 Mercury Mountaineer 4x4

1992 Pontiac Sunbird Convertible 1991 Jaguar Like New, 68,000 Miles

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1984 Buick Lesabre body good, 108K 4dr, Runs/ drives good. $1,650. 815631-5900.

1996 Ford AeroStar XLT 4WD, 7 passenger.

85K. mi. $2,800 815-625-3039 1999 Chrysler Concorde LXI- Original

Owner. Above avg.

Cond. $3,500 815-499-6862

AUTOMOBILES

905

2002 Silver Hyundai, 4DR. Exc. cond.

34K mi. $4,500.

815-441-8551

TRUCKS

910

2003 Chevy Silverado 1500 HD 4 door, loaded, liner & tuxedo 121,840 miles $12,000 obo 815-762-1716

4X4S 2005 Cobalt SS, supercharged. 5 Sp. Manual transmission. 125K mi. great cond. Well kept interior. Asking $7,000 OBO Serious inquires only. 815-499-2314 2006 Chevy Impala, 96k. Motor miles. $5,500 OBO as is.815-499-5123 2006 Mercury Montego Luxury.

No snow! Safe, 29mpg. $7250.

Like new in & out!

815-625-6182.

2007 Dodge Charger RT, Hemi V8. Leather, sun roof. 48K mi. $14,500. Call 815973-6768.

912

2003 Chevy Silverado 2500HD Crew Cab 4x4. GM rebuilt diesel engine, has 71k mi. camper shell with roof rack, total mileage 206,00 some rust, service records available. $15,900. Call 815535-3884

PARTS & ACC.

925

Hard top, 2 full doors, Set of 5 factory mag tires, 1991 Jeep Wrangler. $350. Call 815-677-4664

MOTORCYCLES

935

NEW TODAY

2007 Pontiac G6, sunroof, 89K mi.

Excellent condi$8,000/obo. tion.

815-626-1270.

2004 Harley Davidson Electra-Glide Classic, $9500, many extras. Must See! 815-973-0977

NEW TODAY

2004 Harley Davidson Fatboy, 11,200 mi. custom paint, air ride suspension.

Accessories, extra chrome.

Asking $13,000. Call 815590-2397

2007 Pontiac hard convertible, top black, sharp! 85k mi., $10,800 firm 815-994-3500 2008 Chevy Aveo in Dixon white, $2,000 815-2886231 2012 Chevy Impala LT, asking $12,988 Excellent condition Like new.

Must Sell!

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2012 Toyota Camry LE 47,000 miles mint condition.

17,000 Asking open to Negotiation. Must sell going to Florida.

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Bad Credit? No Credit? We might be able to help! If you're looking to buy a vehicle we have many financing options available through qualified lenders. Call Brett Simpson today at 815-2855313. Ken Nelson Auto Plaza. creditautosales dixon.com Always over 100+ vehicles to choose from.

HAVING TROUBLE wording your ad? Call our classified department today. We'll be glad to help you. 626or 284SOLD SOLD. Red, 1978 Fiat black top convertible, 124 Spider, $3,800 OBO 815-499-4066

TRUCKS

910

1996 Ford 250, 7.3 power stroke engine, 215K mi., good cond., green, 815-631-1310

2004 Kawasaki 65CC dirt-bike.

Great condition.

815-499-9739.

BOATS/MOTORS

940

1993 Alumacraft 16-ft flat-bottom on trailer w/2011 30-HP Evenrude 2-stroke. 815-4999739 1993 Mariah Shaba Open Bow-wsun deck, 350 Magnum Merc. I/O Custom Trailer $7000/obo 815994-2465 2002 Bayliner 21ft.

5L Mercruiser outdrive, I/O. $7,000 obo. 815-535-3969 2013 Sunchaser DS22 pontoon, 90hp 4 stroke Mercury, vinyl floor, w/ 2013 Karavan trailer $19,900 815718-5273 Tracker 1998, 18ft.

150 HP mercury low hours excellent maintenance. Many extras. $11,900 630-859-2332 see at 4/231 Sandpebble Dr. Lake Carroll

TRAILERS/RVS

945

1996 Damon Hornet camper, 30', very clean, exc. shape, A/C, everything works well, sleeps 6, $3500 815-625-8840 2010 Sprinter by Keystone, 24ft.

Travel trailer w/one slide out. Sleeps 6.

Very good cond.

Great floor plan! $8,000. Call 815441-3138.

AUTOS WANTED

960

$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 815-499-3543 2005 Harley Davidson Softail $8,900.

Deluxe.

16,141 miles. Great condition, sounds great, lots of chrome and extra parts. Well taken care of, never been dropped. Had 10, 000 mile inspection at Workmans in Rock Falls. (563) 343-2897.

NEW TODAY 2006 Harley Softail mi.

Good 10K shape. $9,000. Call 563-249-9266.

2008 Honda XR 650L $3,700 OBO. 779-348-0869

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2009 Harley DavidKing son Road classic. 4,700 mi.

New pipes, extra chrome, $14,000 815-994-6646

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2009 Kymco Venox Motorcycle 250cc V-twin liquid cooled 4,700 miles, excellent condition $2,750 815-994-0284

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