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DIXON | CITY MANAGER POSITION

‘Consensus’ reached on manager Council decides in closed session with whom it will negotiate

BY BRENDEN WEST bwest@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5529 @BWest_SVM

DIXON – The City Council reached a “consensus” in closed session Thursday night on which of its two candidates will be offered the city manager posi-

tion, Mayor Li Arellano Jr. said.

Council members met in private to discuss whether to offer a contract to Interim Manager David Nord or to East Moline City Administrator Cole O’Donnell. Arellano said the council expects to make a “formal” announcement today of

who was chosen, once the candidate has been notified.

The council spent more than an hour in closed session. Arellano said the discussion included what terms City Attorney Robert LeSage will take to contract negotiations.

However, even if the candi-

date accepts the contract, no hire will be made official until the council votes to hire a candidate in public session.

“I will present something to the candidate,” LeSage said.

“He might like it. He might not like it. He might say, ‘I’ll do it at this level.’ And, just like every

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other contract we have with the city, eventually you get it to a point where you think you have a consensus. You put it on an agenda, and you find out [if the council will accept the contract] through a formal vote.”

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LEE COUNTY

Hunting shirt sends student home Deputies cite

phone users, send message Department’s campaign nails 5 drivers in 2 hours

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

DIXON – In just 2 hours Thursday morning, Lee County sheriff’s deputies nailed five drivers on state Route 2 between Dixon and Sterling for distracted driving.

The infraction? Cellphone use.

Citations are issued for driving while texting or not using a hands-free device, and it has been illegal for nearly 2 years; violations start at $75.

Thursday’s campaign was the first to target a perceived rise in illeJohn gal cellphone use, Lee Simonton County Sheriff John Simonton said. The Lee County sheriff campaign was activat- says Thursday morning’s ed after an increase in campaign is complaints that drivers across the county department’s first, won’t be its last. still were ignoring the law.

“Five is above average in 2 hours,” Simonton said of the tickets, but that is just a guess – because it’s the first, there is nothing to compare it to.

More than putting up big numbers, he said, is the impact that this type of enforcement has on heavy traffic areas, especially in patrol zones where drivers are making their way to work or school.

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Dixon High School junior Clinton Boyer holds up the hunting-themed hooded sweatshirt he wore to school, for which he was sent home.

Official sends him home to change, then has change of heart

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

DIXON – Dixon High School junior Clinton Boyer was in need of a sweatshirt, so he asked his dad, Derrick, for an extra one.

Derrick Boyer, 43, gave his son a mustard-colored sweatshirt that reads “I’ll stop hunting when they pry the gun from my cold dead

hands.” The shirt has a picture of a shotgun, along with other hunting equipment.

Boyer and his dad might have thought the sweatshirt was OK, but it didn’t sit well with school officials Monday.

When Boyer, 17, arrived at school that morning, the sweater caught the attention of Lisa Guenther, one of his teachers, who sent Boyer to the Principal Michael Grady’s office. Grady

has the final say on enforcement of the district’s dress code.

“They told me if I don’t take the sweater off or turn it inside out, I would be sent home,” Boyer said.

“I refused to take it off, because it wasn’t against the rules. I could have went home, changed the sweater and came back, but I was so mad, I knew I wasn’t coming back.”

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Freaky Friday fun house in Dixon

DIXON – Gymnastics Devine is having a Freaky Friday fun house at 110 E. First St. for K-8 kids, from 4:30 to 5:45, 5:45 to 7, or 7 to 8:15 tonight, with an indoor activity maze, face painting, character games, and performances by GD team members. Admission is $5, which benefits the competition team. To choose a session and reserve a spot, email debriseaboveit@yahoo.com.

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Monster breakfast and parade

DIXON – The annual monster pancake and sausage breakfast will be served from 8 to 9:30 a.m Saturday at Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St. Cost is $4 for adults, $3 if in costume, and $2 for children 11 and younger, $1 if in costume. The Dixon Noon Lions Halloween parade follows at 10 a.m. at Haymarket Square Park.

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Will there be ghosts of Ronnie?

DIXON – Staff at the Reagan Home Visitors Center, 810 S. Hennepin Ave., will pass out candy to trick-or-treaters from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, or while supplies last. In addition, Grace United Methodist Church, 921 E. Chamberlin St., will have trunk-or-treating from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Popcorn and hot chocolate will be provided. Call 815-288-1505 for more information.

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MORRISON – A Halloween parade will line up at 12:30 p.m. Saturday in the cafeteria at Morrison Junior High School, 300 Academic Drive, where there also will be a free photo booth from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Costume judging begins at 1:15 p.m., with prizes for most original, scariest, funniest, cutest, and group costumes. Treats will be given to the first 250 children. The parade through the cafeteria begins at 1:30 p.m. Go to morrisonhalloweenparade2015. eventbrite.com today to register, or register at the event.

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Halloween with the Heat

ROCK FALLS – The Sauk Valley Heat traveling baseball team will have a Halloween party for students in grades 2-8 from 5:30 to 9 tonight at the Rock Falls Community Building, 601 W. 10th St. There will be a costume contest, and food, drinks, and glow items will be sold.

Admission is $5. Proceeds will help the Heat with equipment and other costs. Find Sauk Valley Heat on Facebook for more information.

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IN BRIEF Judge tosses police tattoo policy lawsuit CHICAGO (AP) – A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit challenging the Chicago Police Department’s new policy requiring officers to cover up their tattoos.

The three Chicago police officers who filed the lawsuit against the city in July argued that the policy violates their First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and expression. The Chicago Tribune reported

STERLING that all three officers served in the military and have symbolic tattoos on their arms.

U.S. District Judge Charles P. Kocoras ruled Tuesday that the city’s goal of having a professional-looking police force trumps the officer’s desire to express themselves by keeping their tattoos visible while on-duty.

In his ruling, Kocoras said the meanings of certain tattoos could be negatively misinterpreted and could undermine the department’s aim of establishing trust with the community.

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POLICE Sterling Police

Marcia L. Fisk, 57, of Erie; 9:49 p.m. Wednesday; no valid insurance; released with promise to comply.

Oregon Police

Jesse H. Barnhart, 22, of Oregon; 1:25 a.m. Oct. 19 in the 200 block of South Fourth Street; operating a vehicle without evidence of registration, improper use of registration or title; given citations.

Robert D. Vandyke, 34, of Oregon; 9:21 p.m. Oct. 19 in the 700 block of South Second Street; disorderly conduct, domestic battery; taken to Ogle County Jail.

Boy, 15, of Oregon; 5:47 p.m. Oct. 21 in the 300 block of North Third Street; aggravated assault; taken to Ogle County Jail and released to a guardian.

Timothy E. Smice, 44, of Oregon; 4:23 p.m. Oct. 23; Ogle County warrant; taken to Ogle County Jail.

Tanya L. Knight, 29, of Jackson, Missouri; 4:50 a.m. Saturday; harassment by text; taken to Ogle County Jail.

Jordyn S. Arneson, 23, of Oregon; 9:30 p.m.

Saturday in the 100 block of South 10th Street; driving under the influence of alcohol; taken to Ogle County Jail.

Ogle County Sheriff

Eric C. Young, 35, of Rockford; Wednesday; warrant for driving while license revoked; posted bond and given notice to appear in court.

Michael Voldrich, 40, of Rockford; Wednesday; warrant for failure to appear; given notice to appear in court.

Randi M. Suter, 27, of Mount Morris; Wednesday; residential burglary; taken to Ogle County Jail and held in lieu of bond.

Info sought in Oregon hit-and-run

OREGON – Oregon police are asking the public for any information about a hit-and-run crash in the 300 block of Lover’s Lane.

Police investigated the crash at 6 p.m. Oct. 20, in front of 320 Lover’s Lane.

An unknown blue vehicle struck a parked 1999 Acura belonging to Deanna Leach, 39, of Oregon, then left the scene in an unknown direction.

Anyone with information can call the police department at 815-7322162.

BIRTHDAYS Happy birthday to Naomi Veil, Tracy Ahlers, Jenna McThenia, Kathy Good, Gary Davis, Roxanne Tuttle, Gerry Hunsberger, Marissa Sanford, and Rhonda Bradfield, all today.

City to host USS Illinois event Nuclear sub first ship named after state since 1897

Meet and Greet What: USS Illinois SSN-786 commissioning event When: Open house with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres from 6 to 9 p.m. Nov. 14 Where: Kunes Country Ford Lincoln, 2811 Locust St. in Sterling Reservations: Admission is free. Contact Kristina at 815-625-6300 or at kristina.kaecker@ kunescountry.com

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

STERLING – The city will host a commissioning event for the USS Illinois, the first Navy ship to carry the state’s name since 1897.

The $2.7 billion Virginia-Class nuclear submarine was christened on Oct. 10 in Groton, Connecticut. Mayor Skip Lee was one of about 7,000 people on hand for the event led by the ship’s sponsor, Michelle Obama.

Sterling’s involvement in the hoopla surrounding the warship is the result of a chance meeting between the mayor and Len Wass, a retired Navy captain who is heading up the USS Illinois Commissioning Committee. Wass splits his time between Oswego and Savanna.

“Len Wass and I have a common friend, and she told him about my Navy background, and that he should contact me,” Lee said.

Wass eventually contacted Lee and asked if Sterling would be interested in doing a fundraising event for the ship’s commissioning.

“I was at the Galena Steakhouse in Dixon, and I knew the owner’s daughter had a restaurant in Sterling,” Wass said.

“She said the mayor came to her restaurant quite a bit, so I asked her to pass along my information.”

Lee comes from a U.S. Naval Academy family – his father was a submariner after graduating from the military school in Annapolis, Maryland.

“Some of my earliest memories are of diesel ships,” the mayor said.

“I’m still what they call a blue and gold officer – I help young people who are interested in attending the Naval Academy.”

The service academies don’t have field admissions staff, so the schools rely heavily on volunteers.

Lee’s appointment tasks him with overseeing a certain number of schools

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Sterling Mayor Skip Lee shakes the hand of four-star Navy Adm. James F. Caldwell Jr. at the christening of the USS Illinois on Oct. 10 in Groton, Connecticut, where the state-of-the-art warship was made. Lee, who comes from a U.S. Naval Academy family, called meeting Caldwell, the new director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, the highlight of the trip. and its applicants.

Lee’s roles as mayor, academy appointee, and event host scored him an invitation to attend the christening in Groton, where the state-of-the-art warship was made.

The mayor wanted it known that the city did not contribute to his trip expenses.

“Anytime I can go out and tell people about Sterling, Illinois, and see an incredible sub like this, I’m happy to do it,” Lee said.

The highlight of the trip for Lee was meeting four-star Navy Adm. James F. Caldwell Jr., the new director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. The position, created in 1949 and coordinated with the Department of Energy, is one of the most powerful in the military. The controversial Adm. Hyman Rickover, known as the father of the nuclear Navy, was the first director, serving there for 33 years, despite numerous attempts to replace him.

“I’ve always been fascinated by Rickover and the establishment of that office, so meeting Adm. Caldwell was something I’ll always remember,” Lee said.

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The first lady, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, and Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner were keynote speakers at the christening event.

The local commissioning event will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Nov. 14 at Kunes Country Ford Lincoln, 2811 Locust St. in Sterling.

Wass said Master Chief David DiPietro and three sailors from Groton will be in Sterling to talk about the boat.

“The chief of the boat will give a presentation on the boat’s composition, its capabilities, how it fits in with nation’s defense strategy, and the Virginia

Class of ships,” Wass said.

The event will be openhouse style, so the presentation will be given more than once.

Wass said the Navy doesn’t pay for expenses related to the commissioning and launch, so the committee is trying to raise about $800,000 for work that needs to be done to the ship and for the actual events.

“We are chartered to raise money for costs that the government doesn’t pick up,” Wass said.

“There are a lot of expenses related to these commissioning events.”

Wass said the committee’s primary mission is to present the ship to the residents of the state that has given it a name, and build a connection with the sub.

“We want to tell people about the Navy’s sub force, instill pride, and let people know where their tax dollars are going,” Wass said.

The USS Illinois commissioning had been scheduled for December, but has been delayed until sometime next summer.

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ILLINOIS | MEDICAL MARIJUANA

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Sales spur excitement, worry Required ID cards being mailed to patients this week MUNDELEIN (AP) – Patients say they will drive long distances to buy their first legal marijuana.

Neighbors worry about loitering and crime. Police plan extra patrols in towns where dispensaries will sell, for the first time, medical marijuana in Illinois.

Public sentiments range from cautious to elated as Illinois prepares to join more than a dozen states that allow medical marijuana sales. There is still no official start date in Illinois, but Joseph Wright, director of the state’s pilot program, said Thursday that sales should begin “within the next 2 weeks.”

Required ID cards are being mailed to 3,200 approved patients this week, and lab testing of marijuana has begun.

Five retail shops statewide are fully licensed under a 4-year pilot program that began in 2014.

Each marks another step closer to patients getting a chance to legally buy marijuana after several delays, including lawsuits, and a new Republican governor who has been lukewarm to the idea.

Striving for professionalism, Illinois retailers have designed their shops like medical clinics in hopes of garnering support.

Some shops have waiting rooms with touch-screen tablets or employees to discuss different marijuana strains one-on-one with patients.

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Shamay Flaharty of Lewiston, who has multiple sclerosis and is hoping marijuana will help ease her pain and headaches, meets Oct. 20 with Eric Sweatt, partner and manager of Salveo Health and Wellness, a licensed medical cannabis dispensary in Canton. Illinois will begin its first medical marijuana sales within the next 2 weeks.

“It’s not a head shop.

There are no Bob Marley posters,” said Andy Schnack, manager at Herbal Remedies Dispensary in Quincy.

In central Illinois, patient cardholder Shamay Flaharty is saving money for when her caregiver will drive her to purchase her first legal marijuana. The 43-year-old expects to pay around $380 an ounce.

She hopes the drug, which she’s never tried, will ease her leg pain and headaches from multiple sclerosis, one of nearly 40 qualifying health conditions in the Illinois law.

Others include AIDS, hepatitis C, Parkinson’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis.

“I told my doctor I would seriously like to try

this,” she said. “I don’t want a cocktail of pills. ...

I just think it will be a better way, a healthier way to replace some of medications I would take.”

But some law enforcement and neighbors are hesitant. In the Chicago suburb of Mundelein, Police Chief Eric Guenther hopes his force of 54 sworn officers won’t be overburdened when a dispensary opens in a local industrial park.

“This is all new to me and, really, to law enforcement in Illinois,” Guenther said. “I would have liked someone else to be the guinea pig.”

Another shop wants to locate across the street from a roller-skating rink on Chicago’s South Side. Its vocal foes carry

signs reading: “We Don’t Want It.” “Our neighborhood’s already struggling,” said Dedra Delaney, who objects to the proposed location of the shop but not to medical marijuana in general. “We all agree it’s just not good for the community.”

A church a half-block from the Quincy dispensary is more welcoming.

Chuck Sackett, minister of Madison Park Christian Church, said his congregation doesn’t pass judgment.

“Our doors are open to anyone who finds life more difficult than they can handle,” Sackett said.

The other licensed shops are in Marion, Addison and Canton.

Patients initially have to

register with a specific dispensary, but will be able to change it later.

Retailers warn of possible shortages in the first days because of pent-up demand. They reassure customers, who phone daily, that new products will continue to arrive.

But longer term, they worry there won’t be enough cardholding patients to keep them in business. Experts thought the Illinois program would attract tens of thousands of people, but only 3,200 patients signed up. State law allows for 60 retail shops, and more retailers say they plan to open next year.

One businessman wants more information about the 21,000 Illinois residents who started patient applications but didn’t submit the paperwork.

“Is it that they haven’t found a doctor? Or they haven’t paid the $100 [application fee]?” said Ben Kovler, CEO of Green Thumb Industries, which will run the Mundelein shop.

He said such information would help the industry reach more patients.

Expansion would help patients like 54-year-old Mike Murphy, who plans to travel from his home in suburban Chicago to the Canton shop.

“My plan is to take Amtrak to Springfield, then rent a car,” Murphy said.

He said he’s desperate to treat headaches linked to concussions from high school football and get off prescription painkillers.

“It just takes over your life.”

Exelon will wait to decide on Clinton CHICAGO (AP) – Exelon Corp. says it will wait a year to decide if it will close a nuclear plant in the central Illinois city of Clinton.

Exelon owns Illinois’ 11 nuclear reactors. It made the decision Thursday. The company previously delayed similar decisions for a year about nuclear plants in the Quad Cities and Byron.

Exelon President and CEO Chris Crane says the company is encouraged by potential market reforms but the Clinton plant “remains unprofitable and more needs to be done.”

Company officials say the deferral will give policymakers in Illinois time to consider legislation that Exelon says would “level the playing field” for carbon-free electricity.

Exelon wants lawmakers to approve a monthly surcharge on consumers’ electricity bills to reward generators that produce carbon-free electricity.

Opponents have said Exelon doesn’t need a bailout.

Moline’s minutes ready to download MOLINE (AP) – Archival records from the city of Moline show that problems with parking go back to the early 1900s, when people complained about where riders parked their horses.

In the 1920s, residents worried about streetcar safety.

It’s the sort of history that will be available online to researchers and trivia buffs as the northwestern Illinois city continues to upload its trove of City Council minutes.

Moline City Clerk Tracy Koranda told The (Moline) Dispatch there are now minutes accessible online going back to 1926.

ILLINOIS

Group: State should streamline corrections hiring process Rauner called for overhaul of rules earlier this year SPRINGFIELD (AP) – A report from an Illinois prison watchdog group says the state’s hiring process for its corrections system is cumbersome and needs to be streamlined.

The John Howard Association says in the report released Thursday that jobs at state corrections facilities stay vacant too

long because of the hiring system. For instance, filling teacher vacancies takes 6 to 8 months at six youth prisons run by the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice, according to the report.

The report says delays in completing background checks and setting start dates “can encourage the most highly qualified candidates to accept employment elsewhere.”

Additional testing, reviewing, scoring and interviewing add to delays, the report says.

Applicants file large batches of paperwork, according to the association.

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner called for state hiring rules to be overhauled earlier this year, the Springfield bureau of Lee Enterprises newspapers reported. He also said in February that the state Department of Corrections needed more workers, saying it should have 12,224 employees rather than the estimated 11,300 at the time.

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Wilson said increased staffing has helped trim overtime costs, saving $1.06 million from fiscal year 2015 compared with 2014.

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tion executive director Jennifer Vollen-Katz said the idea for its report came after the group visited facilities.

“What we noticed is the chronic understaffing,” Vollen-Katz said.

“The more questions we asked, we found that this is a very complicated problem. Nobody could explain the hiring process to us from start to finish.”

Many procedures that slow hiring were meant

curb political favoritism, but Vollen-Katz said processes have become “unwieldy and unmanageable.”

“It started from a good place,” she said. “The instinct there was good.”

Vollen-Katz said many changes would require spending. Computer systems would have to be upgraded, and more training would be needed for human resources staff.

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ELECTION 2016 | GOP PRESIDENTIAL RACE

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Bush aims to steady campaign Spat with Rubio fails to help his struggling bid PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) – Jeb Bush emerged from the third Republican debate as a candidate in crisis, with supporters struggling to understand why he keeps underperforming and advisers promising a turnaround before it’s too late.

Campaigning in New Hampshire on Thursday, Bush insisted his White House bid was “not on life support.”

Still, advisers concede November will be his campaign’s most crucial period to date, a stark contrast to their previous assertions that Bush was best-positioned to outlast rivals in a long campaign. Millions of dollars in TV advertising must start yielding stronger poll numbers, advisers say, and Bush himself must find a way to stop being overshadowed by competitors in the large GOP field.

“The intensity is going to increase,” declared Sally Bradshaw, Bush’s senior adviser.

To some supporters, that may ring hollow on the heels of Bush’s lackluster performance in Wednesday night’s debate. Aides have spent weeks promising more forceful performances from the bookish former Florida governor, only to see him repeatedly fall flat.

The contrast between expectations and reality was particularly striking on the debate stage in Colorado. Bush appeared to land a sharp jab on

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Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush shakes hands with supporters during a campaign stop Thursday outside Geno’s Chowder and Sandwich Shop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. friend and political mentee Marco Rubio, suggesting the senator should resign if he’s going to keep skipping votes on Capitol Hill while he campaigns for president. But Bush was glaringly ill-prepared for Rubio’s sharp comeback and quickly faded into the background for the rest of the 2-hour contest.

It was a painful moment for a candidate once seen as the GOP’s best hope for reclaiming the White House. And it deepened concerns about a campaign that less than a week ago was forced to drastically cut its payroll, travel costs and other expenses amid slower-than-expected fundraising.

“He was poorly served by whatever campaign adviser told him to go down that path with Marco,” said Brian Ballard, a major fundraiser for both Bush’s campaign and super PAC. “It’s not the kind of ideas

campaign that he has promised.”

Ballard said he still believes Bush would be the most capable commander in chief of anyone in the race, but he acknowledged he is “really worried” about the campaign trajectory.

Bush’s finance team was fielding so many calls from worried donors in the hours after the debate that a special briefing was hastily scheduled Thursday afternoon. After Bush made small talk about his trip to New Hampshire, Bradshaw began by addressing the debate head-on, telling donors, “It was not our best night.”

As part of the campaign’s fall revamp, Bush is moving staff out of his Miami headquarters and into early voting states, particularly New Hampshire. The shift ramps up pressure for him in the first-in-the-nation primary, making it essentially a make-or-break state for his campaign.

Aides say Bush will spend longer stretches of time there, including a bus tour next week. While he still plans to hold town hall-style meetings, he’ll also add more informal events to his schedule, such as stops at VFW halls for beer and lengthy discussions with veterans.

Bush also plans to release a book that chronicles his time as Florida governor through email correspondence with constituents, another move aimed at helping personalize the son of one president and brother of another.

Supporters in New Hampshire welcome the promise of more campaign resources in their state, but they aren’t ready to declare the new strategy the answer to the candidate’s problems.

“People are sitting on it and watching to see how it evolves,” said Carlos Gonzalez, a New Hampshire state representative and Bush backer.

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Grady declined to comment on the matter.

“I cannot discuss student discipline,” he said.

Superintendent Margo Empen also declined comment.

“I obviously cannot and will not discuss specific students or incidents,” she said.

According to the DHS student handbook, student dress may not display lewd, vulgar, obscene or offensive language or symbols.

The handbook also says students may not

advertise or promote violent behavior.

“The rule book does not state anything about a picture of a gun,” Derrick Boyer said.

Boyer said he did not wear the sweater Tuesday, and he had a normal day. But on Wednesday, he said school officials had a change of heart.

“I came to school Wednesday and they told me I could wear the sweater, after all,” said Clinton Boyer, who plans to join the Army Reserves after high school. “They told me it’s not against the rules and I could wear it.”

Boyer and his father are

avid hunters. They’ve hunted together since Boyer was 7.

In fact, Derrick has the same sweater in orange, too. He said the sweaters were bought at Walmart.

“He was raised in a house that hunts,” Derrick Boyer said. “It’s a father-son thing we have been doing forever.”

Derrick told school officials he would have made calls to different establishments and foundations, if his son was not allowed to wear the sweater.

“I’m a big advocate of Second Amendment rights and hunting rights,” he said. “I

felt they were violating his rights. I would have contacted the National Riffle Association or the Illinois State Riffle Association.”

Derrick said he’s glad his son can continue wearing the sweater to school. He also believes school officials overreacted.

“I understand the whole violence at schools and how it needs to be addressed, but this has nothing to do with gun violence,” Derrick said. “Hunting is a sport, just like any other sport. That’s how it needs to be taken, not that he is bringing a gun to school.”

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Distracted driving has risen, slowly becoming a top factor in property damage and fatal accidents, a news release said. The department “will continue to conduct these types of enforcement details

throughout the county.”

To help finance the push against distracted driving, the sheriff is going after grants, which would study the county and traffic flow, and deputy’s salaries, to pinpoint the amount of money the department could stand to receive, he said.

“This is kind of our first test,” the sheriff said; campaigns would monitor specific areas, during specific times.

The department also plans to partner with the city of Dixon to help coordinate coverage.

The department eventually would like to see a heavier presence near Interstate 39, Paw Paw

and Amboy, Simonton said.

Two other citations were issued in the 2-hour target period: one for a suspended license and another for no proof of insurance.

Simonton noted that the traffic campaign’s success also was important because of its proximity to the holidays.

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The city voted in July to use GovHR as the search firm for manager candidates. In early October, GovHR compiled a list of 34 prospects. On Oct. 22, the council interviewed four candidates, and this week announced its final two.

Arellano said the city chose the search firm process – rather than appointing Nord as the permanent manager

– because none of the new council members were involved in Nord’s initial hiring. Four of the five were sworn in May 4, and the fifth – Kevin Marx – was appointed in August.

“None of us were involved in the initial set-up,” Arellano said.

“We came to a consensus decision to extend Nord’s contract [in May], but we wanted to take a hard look at how the city operated and who was operating it. One of the key decisions there is, who is the

city manager for the city?

“What we wanted was a formal process where we took a hard look at the candidates, took a

hard look at who was the best out there,” he added. “Who is the best available to the city of Dixon?”

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David F. Cramer STERLING – David F. Cramer, 76, of Sterling, died Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015, at his home after an illness. He was employed for 39 years at Northwestern Steel and Wire Co. in Sterling before his retirement from the furnace department in 1990.

He was born Feb. 16, 1939, in Dixon, the son of Francis Albert and Hazel Marie (Jones) Cramer. He served in the Army. David married Bonnie Bolen on Dec. 19, 2002, in Sterling.

Survivors include his wife; three sons, David Lee Cramer of Madison,

Wisconsin, Frank Cramer of Rock Falls, and Mark Cramer of Detroit; a daughter, Pam; one brother, Harold Cramer of Rockford; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, and one brother.

A gathering of friends and family will be from 9 to 10 a.m. Saturday and the memorial service at 10 a.m. Saturday at McDonald Funeral Home in Sterling, with Rita Wolf, chaplain, officiating.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the family.

Delbert R. Ely II ROCK FALLS – Delbert Richard Ely II, 66, of Rock Falls, died Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015, at his home.

Survivors include his children, Beaux (Courtney) Corley and Katy (Paul) Geist, both of Amarillo, Texas, and Shannon (William) Gallentine of Rock Falls; the mother of his children, Sherry Lemond

of Elk City, Oklahoma; his brother, the Rev. James E. (Linda) Ely of Bay City, Texas; and five grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Delbert and Lahoma Katherine Ely; and his brother, Thomas Ely. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. today at Grace Episcopal Church in Sterling.

Madelyn E. Dollinger MOUNT CARROLL – Madelyn E. Dollinger, 104, of Mount Carroll, died Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, at Good Samaritan Society in Mount Carroll.

Law-Jones Funeral Homes handled arrangements.

George M. Henkelman FULTON – George M. Henkelman, 52, of Fulton, died Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa.

Gibson-Bode Funeral Home in Erie is handling arrangements.

Noel Reed Sr. ROCK FALLS – Noel Reed Sr., 72, of Rock Falls, died Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015, at Sauk Valley Senior Living Center in Rock Falls.

McDonald Funeral Home & Crematory in Rock Falls is handling arrangements.

James D. Rumfelt FULTON – James D. Rumfelt, 85, of Fulton, died Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, at his home.

Bosma-Renkes Funeral Home in Fulton handled arrangements.

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR THE WEEK Today’s visitations: Laura Moldt of Rock Falls, 9:30-11 a.m. at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Rock Falls.

Rose M. Kane of Dixon, formerly of Franklin Grove, 10-11 a.m. at Polo Family Funeral Home.

Today’s funerals: Delbert R. Ely II of Rock Falls, 11 a.m. memorial service at Grace Episcopal Church in Sterling.

Rose M. Kane of Dixon, formerly of Franklin Grove, 11 a.m. at Polo Family Funeral Home.

Laura Moldt of Rock Falls, 11 a.m. Mass at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Rock Falls.

Saturday visitations: David F. Cramer of Sterling, gathering of friends and family, 9-10 a.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Sterling.

Laura L. Bopes of Polo, 10-11 a.m. memorial visitation at Crossroads Country Church in Polo.

Helen L. Dirksen of Oregon, 10-11 a.m. at FarrellHolland-Gale Funeral Home

in Oregon.

LaVerne R. Thompson, formerly of Rock Falls, 10-11 a.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls.

Saturday funerals: David F. Cramer of Sterling, 10 a.m. memorial service at McDonald Funeral Home in Sterling.

Laura L. Bopes of Polo, 11 a.m. memorial service at Crossroads Country Church in Polo.

Helen L. Dirksen of Oregon, 11 a.m. at FarrellHolland-Gale Funeral Home in Oregon.

LaVerne R. Thompson, formerly of Rock Falls, 11 a.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls.

Nov. 14 visitation: Orville E. Kuehl of Sterling, 9-10 a.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Sterling.

Nov. 14 funerals: Orville E. Kuehl of Sterling, 10 a.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Sterling.

Eris E. Mason, formerly of Dixon, 11 a.m. memorial service at Harvest Time Bible Church in Rock Falls.

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DeKALB – Sauk Valley Media won first-place awards for news reporting, photography and headline writing in the 2015 Northern Illinois Newspaper Association contest.

SVM won five first-place honors and 13 awards total in the competition. Winners were announced Thursday night at Northern Illinois University during the association’s annual banquet.

Former SVM reporter Christi Warren took two first-place honors. “The elephant in the gaming room,” a story examining the impacts of video gambling on gambling addicts in the Sauk Valley, won in the Best Business/Financial/ Consumer Story category among daily newspapers.

Warren also took top honors in the Technology/Medical Story category among dai-

lies with her story, “Inmates as caregivers.”

SVM Day News Editor Kathleen Schultz won a first place in the Best Personality Profile category with her story, “He helped everybody in town,” written about Amboy murder victim Leroy Daniels on the day his killer was convicted in Lee County court.

Chief Photographer Alex T. Paschal took first-place honors for his sports photo, “Muscle Failure,” which showed an Effingham runner falling yards before the finish line in the 3200-meter finals at the state track meet.

Finally, SVM Editor Jeff Rogers won a first-place award for Best Headline Writing.

Other award winners from SVM on Thursday were: • Matt Mencarini, second place in both the Best InDepth News Story and Best

News Story Series categories.

• Ty Reynolds, second place in Best Sports Story for “Close no more, OTHS legend’s time is now.”

• Patrick Mason, third place in Best Sports Story for “Jumping off point.”

• Phil Marruffo, third place in Best Feature Photo for “Swan song.”

• Angel Sierra, third place in Best Religion Story/Owen Phelps Award for “Heaven on Wheels.”

• Sports department, third place in Best Special Section for “High School Hard Knocks.”

• Kathleen Schultz, third place in Best Spot News Story.

There were 127 awards given in 46 categories to daily and nondaily newspapers in northern Illinois.

The Moline Dispatch won the sweepstakes award in the daily category, and the Galena Gazette won among nondailies.

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Effingham’s Anna Sophia Keller falls down yards before the finish line in the 3200 finals May 24, 2014, in Charleston. The photo, titled “Muscle Failure,” won a first-place award in the 2015 Northern Illinois Newspaper Association awards, announced Thursday night at Northern Illinois University during the association’s annual banquet.

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LEFT: Pam Marks dresses up Queen as a festive ninja warrior Thursday evening before the start of the Happy Tails Humane Society’s Howl-O-Ween pet costume contest at Northland Mall.

ABOVE: Connor Bontz, 4, picks out treats provided by Purina with his beagle basset hound, Acapella, at the event.

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Remembering the Gipper’s last visit T

SVM file photo

Surrounded by members of the 1990 Dixon Dukes football team, former President Ronald Reagan chats while posing for a photo. Reagan paid his final visit to his hometown 25 years ago today.

wenty-five years ago today, Ronald Reagan arrived in Dixon for what would be his last visit to his hometown.

The date was Oct. 30, 1990. Reagan, the 40th president, had been out of office for about 21 months.

Along with visiting his boyhood home and being guest of honor at a private dinner, Reagan gave a speech to about 1,700 people at Dixon High School and met members of the Dixon Dukes football team.

“Yes, I love to remember Dixon,” Reagan declared.

Reagan, then 79, appeared to enjoy his time spent with the football players. They presented him with a DHS letter jacket, and he posed for pictures and tossed a football around with team members.

After all, Reagan played football in high school and college, and one of the former actor’s best-known roles was as an ill-fated

Notre Dame football player, George Gipp, in “Knute Rockne, All American.”

Struck with a fatal illness, Reagan’s character urged his teammates, if the going ever got tough, to go out and “win one for the Gipper.”

“The Gipper” would become synonymous with Reagan as his political career blossomed.

Well, exactly 25 years after Reagan’s Dixon visit, his favorite high school team has made the playoffs but faces a formidable foe in undefeated Rockford Lutheran on the road this evening.

The Dukes already absorbed a 95-28 loss to the Crusaders in Week 3.

Can they possibly “win one for the Gipper” tonight?

A victory may a tall order.

The going will be tough. But a lot of Dukes fans are rooting for them. And if “The Gipper” were here again, so would he.

SVM file

Former President Ronald Reagan throws a football during a visit to his hometown on Oct. 30, 1990.

COMMENTS ON CONGRESS

Congress’ problems deep-seated but fixable Let lawmakers shed bad habits and work like a legislature again LEE H. HAMILTON Bloomington, Indiana

A lot of ink is being spilled about the speakership drama in the U.S. House, the demands by members of the conservative Freedom Caucus, and the turmoil besetting the Republicans who run Capitol Hill.

There is a pervasive sense in Washington that Congress has gone, at least temporarily, off the rails.

Even members of Congress are saying it. “I think the House is bordering on ungovernable right now,” one prominent Republican told NBC earlier this month.

I’ve been around congressional politics for more than 50 years, and I can’t ever remember hearing a member of Congress say such a thing.

All this attention on the crises of the moment suggests that resolving them will fix Congress. It won’t.

There are three deepseated issues that have to be addressed before Congress can play a constructive role in sustaining our place in the world and tackling the tough economic and social issues we face at home.

The first sounds simple, but it is not: Congress should work its will by letting its members vote on the major issues of the day. In legislatures, whoever controls procedure usually Lee H. controls Hamilton results. In Congress, leaders – and sometimes followers – in both parties for years have manipulated the process to get the results they want.

Omnibus bills and continuing resolutions are part of this. Leaders try to avoid tough issues if their caucus members don’t want to vote on them.

The 60-vote requirement to avoid a filibuster in the Senate plays a role. So does the “Hastert Rule” in the House, under which a majority of the majority caucus has to give its approval before a measure moves forward.

THESE ALL CARRY a cost. Crucial issues facing the American people don’t get addressed. Congress moves from crisis to crisis. Americans give up on the institution. And

members get frustrated when they can’t vote on issues they know their constituents want Congress to address.

Giving members of the House and the Senate a fair shot at addressing the nation’s challenges would deal Congress back into the policy-making arena.

Second, Congress over the years has developed several bad habits that it needs to fix. These include huge bills that become vehicles for special-interest provisions and leadership wish-lists; bypassing the committee process; concentrating power in the leaders; curbing the participation of most members; and limiting debates and amendments.

The most pernicious of these is the practice of legislating by omnibus bills. These consist of hundreds of provisions, usually drafted in the dead of night by leadership staff – not members of Congress – brought to the floor with scant time for anyone to read them, limited time for debate, and few amendments allowed.

They’re usually timed to come up just before a key deadline on a single upor-down vote, so that the leadership can threaten a government shutdown if the bill fails.

The sad part here is that

Dave Granlund, GateHouse News Service

there are a lot of members who’ve never known anything different.

AN ENTIRE generation on Capitol Hill thinks that bills they had no part in shaping, are unable to debate, and have no choice but to pass are the way Congress runs.

It’s not. There’s another way, and it brings me to my third point.

We have more than 200 years of experience on Capitol Hill that have taught us how to run a legislature so that the voice of the people can be better heard, multiple viewpoints get consid-

ered, and ordinary legislators get a fair shot at influencing the results.

It’s called the “regular order,” and it involves committees with authority holding hearings, debating issues, and reporting bills to the floor, where members get several chances to shape the legislation through amendments. The regular order requires negotiation and compromise, and gives members a fair crack at crafting policy for the nation.

The American people want Congress to work.

They don’t expect a solution to everything,

and they certainly don’t expect miracles. But they do expect a Congress that tries to make progress and that’s capable of developing creative approaches to the major problems of the day.

The frustration for me is that we know how to do things better with a timetested process, but members of Congress simply ignore it.

Note to readers: Lee Hamilton is a distinguished scholar, Indiana University School of Global and International Studies. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 34 years.

THE READER’S VOICE

Many helped to make boy’s wish come true SUE HENG Oregon

My wish partner, Janelle Beyer, and I, along with new Wish Granter, Ashley, were involved in making Sammy the Brave’s [6-year-old Sam

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

Hodgett’s] wish to have a camper (with bunk beds) to take fishing come true [“The home of ‘Sammy the Brave,’” Sauk Valley Media, Oct. 26].

Jeff Bright of Jeff Bright’s RV went over the top to make the camper happen. Thank you, Jeff. The generosity of many other people made it even more special.

An uncle donated the

food for the reveal day party. An aunt collected donations that were used to fully furnish the camper. Also donated was the decal on the back of the camper, propane refills, a campground membership, tables and chairs, and Big John portable services. So much more was given to make this a very special wish for Sam. The escort was very spe-

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.

cial. There were two Whiteside County Sheriff’s Department vehicles, two State Police vehicles, a Rock Falls fire truck, and a Tampico fire truck. It was a very special day for Sam. Thank you to everyone who made this wish happen.

Note to readers: Sue Heng is a Wish Granter for Make a Wish of Illinois.

Illinois Budget Stalemate

122 days

without a state budget for the fiscal year that started July 1.

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HOLIDAYS

DAY TRIP | NAPERVILLE

’Tis the Christmas season on TV already

Going along your merry way

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It won’t be long, and it’ll begin to look a lot like Christmas

BY ANDREA MILLS amills@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5575

NAPERVILLE – Although it’s almost Halloween, it’s time to prepare for December events at Naper Settlement, where holiday traditions reach back into time.

The darkness of late autumn will give way to brightness during Naper Lights. The museum grounds will be lit from 5 to 9 p.m., Thursdays through Saturdays, Dec. 3-31 to set the stage for holiday happenings.

Victorian traditions will be revealed from 3 to 5 p.m. Dec. 5, when guests can join in a guided tour with a holiday theme at the Martin Mitchell Mansion. The mansion will be wearing its holiday splendor as if it were 1915. After the mansion visit, the groups will stop at the 1834 tavern to find out more about the customs of the time. Those attending should dress warmly as the tour includes outdoor walking. This program is for teens and older, and registration is necessary.

The legend of St. Nicholas will be explored from 4 to 5 p.m. Dec. 13 at the settlement’s Century Memorial Chapel. Here, Terry Lynch of HFK Presents will discuss holiday tales as Father Christmas, the English version of St. Nicholas. Lynch will focus on how the fourth-century bishop has influenced holiday traditions around the world. Reservations are recommended, and buying advance tickets saves $1.

Holiday music will warm many a heart on a cold day when the Jingle Bell Jamboree takes place from 3 to 9 p.m. Dec. 19. This is a family-oriented holiday music program by Chicago Sinfonietta’s Project Inclusion Ensemble and the Alena Quintet from Metea Valley High School in Aurora.

Along with the music, visitors can decorate cookies in Mrs. Claus’ Bakery and visit a holiday craft workshop, the Candy Land Photo Booth, and Rudolph’s Reindeer Food Station. A mailing spot for letters to Santa will be available, and if the weather is right, guests can make a snow painting. The mansion also will be open.

Can’t wait until December? Two special events are planned for November. The Weed Ladies Winter Show and Sale is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 12-14 and 1 to 4 p.m.

Nov. 15 at the Daniels House.

Admission to the sale is free. Holi-

If you go ...

What: Naper Settlement holiday programs Where: 523 S. Webster St., Naperville Events: Naper Lights, 5 to 9 p.m., Thursdays through Saturdays, Dec. 3-31, free Victorian Holiday Traditions, 3 to 5 p.m. Dec. 5, $18 – registration needed Holiday Mansion Tours: 1, 2, 3 and 4 p.m. Dec. 12 and 13, $7 The Legend of St. Nicholas, 4 to 5 p.m. Dec. 13, Century Memorial Chapel, $7 adults and $6 ages 4-12 – reservations recommended Jingle Bell Jamboree, 3-9 p.m., Dec. 19, $7 for ages 13 and older, $5 for youth – registration recommended Information and registration: napersettlement.org or call 630-420-6010 day-themed accessories and floral arrangements will be sold.

A Very Merry Unbirthday: Tea & Trivia is scheduled for 2 to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 14 for $23. The program is all about the 150th anniversary of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” by Lewis Carroll. Those attending will tour the Martin Mitchell Mansion and will find out about the book with trivia games and tasty treats in the tavern. This is for teens and adults. Reservations are required.

Naper Settlement is an outdoor 19th-century living history museum consisting of costumed interpreters and historic buildings. Don’t leave the past behind; take a holiday-oriented look at it this fall.

Father Christmas, portrayed by Terry Lynch, will discuss the influence of St. Nicholas on the traditions of the holiday season during A Legend of St. Nicholas at Naper Village in Naperville. The program is from 4 to 5 p.m. Dec. 13.

Merry Christmas!

What, you think I’m early? Not when TV’s shopping channels have been hawking holiday merchandise from treedecorated sets for weeks already. Not when your local warehouse club has shoved aside Halloween wares to stock Santa and snowmen.

Not when Hallmark Channel is about to start its annual ratings-magnet marathon, “Countdown to Christmas,” on Halloween night.

That’s because viewers are itching to get to it, too – all that reassuring warmth, romance and reconciliation, all those dreams-come-true and Santa, too. It’s 55 straight days of seasonal uplift.

Hallmark kicks it off at 8 p.m. Saturday with a family favorite to watch with your still-costumed kids. Macaulay Culkin’s Christmas-themed “Home Alone” commences the mood, before Sunday spotlights the first of the channel’s whopping 17 new original holiday films. Hallmark then delivers a double dose of new titles every week, even stuffing the long Thanksgiving weekend with new films on 5 straight nights.

Sibling channel Hallmark Movies & Mysteries has its own “Most Wonderful Movies of Christmas” festival starting round the clock Saturday, and will offer up four new originals through December.

There’s more. The past week has seen a parade of Christmas announcements by other channels (though most restrain themselves until closer to the holiday). Lifetime’s “Very Merry Christmas” event launches Thanksgiving weekend. ABC Family beats turkey day with its “Young & Hungry” Christmas episode Nov. 24, while mothership network ABC waits till Nov. 27, the day after, for “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” to launch its string of animated faves. (“A Charlie Brown Christmas” airs Nov. 30.)

Even streaming services are getting holidayhappy. Netflix debuts its special “A Very Murray Christmas” on Dec. 4 with Bill Murray, George Clooney, Amy Poehler, Chris Rock, Miley Cyrus and many more.

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TELEVISION

Going from walking dead to riding live Zombie will get reality-TV show NEW YORK (AP) – AMC says Norman Reedus of the network’s hit thriller “The Walking Dead” is going for a ride.

Reedus, who plays zombie-plagued Daryl Dixon, is hitting the road in a new AMC reality show

as he takes viewers on a biker journey exploring motorcycle culture.

The series’ six 1-hour Norman Reedus episodes will each pair Reedus with another biker enthusiast – a fellow actor, musician,

friend or local chopper fanatic – as they set off from a different city.

Along the way, the network said, they will stop at custom bike shops, tattoo parlors, collector’s warehouses, or an inviting roadside smokehouse.

The series, with the working title “Ride With Norman Reedus,” debuts

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Your safety is cause for an alarm Dear Abby, Printing this letter could save some lives – maybe even your own.

In the United States, eight people die every day (on average) in house fires. Tragically, about half of these deaths could have been prevented with an inexpensive device that takes just a few minutes to install and costs only a few dollars to maintain.

I’m talking about smoke alarms. Smoke alarms are the cheapest life insurance money can buy. They are one of the most successful public health innovations in history, but 71 percent of smoke alarms that failed to operate during the last year had missing, disconnected or dead batteries.

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

For the 28th year, the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) is proud to partner with Energizer, the manufacturer of batteries, flashlights and lanterns, in the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery program. Together, we’re asking your readers to make sure they have working smoke alarms

that have been installed correctly, and to test their existing batteries – or install fresh ones – in conjunction with the end of daylight saving time on Sunday, Nov. 1.

In a fire, seconds count.

A working smoke alarm can literally mean the difference between life and death. This program ensures that residents will have a working smoke alarm, giving them and their families the critical early warning needed to escape a fire.

That precious time also helps to protect firefighters, reducing the likelihood they’ll have to enter a burning home to rescue someone trapped inside.

Learn more about the program by visiting energizer.com/firesafety

or the IAFC at iafc.org.

Readers should also check with their local fire departments because many of them offer discounted or free programs to install working smoke alarms in low-income areas in their communities. Thanks, Abby.

– Fire Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr, IAFC president and chair of the board Dear Chief Kerr, I’m pleased to publicize your lifesaving effort.

Readers, daylight saving time is also lifesaving time. Changing and testing the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors when setting the clocks back can save your lives and the lives of the people you love. Every

family should also have a fire safety evacuation plan and practice it so that everyone is prepared to evacuate should an emergency occur. A great start to establishing that safety plan is to recognize that this is the ideal time to buy and install those batteries.

Dear Abby, My husband was going to a meeting at the home of a fellow temple member. Because I was baking for a cookie exchange and had plenty available, I sent a lovely plate of cookies with him. The hostess thanked him, but didn’t serve them.

I’m fine with that. But as he was leaving, she presented him with the stillwrapped plate and said

she “couldn’t possibly” accept them. Is it me, or is that odd?

– Cookie Baker Dear Cookie Baker, Yes, I think it’s odd – unless the hostess or someone attending the meeting had a severe allergy to an ingredient that might have been in the cookies, such as nuts. While it was not unusual (or rude) to not use the gift of food in the meeting, it was odd to return it.

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.

AROUND THE HOUSE

Keeping your eyes safe at home should be a year-round goal Tribune News Service

Dr. Joseph Dolan, ophthalmologist with Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, shares his thoughts about eye injuries: We don’t often think about eye injuries when doing daily activities, but as almost half of all eye injuries each year

happen at home, we probably should. While October is Eye Injury Prevention Month, I see it as a year-round goal.

Here are examples of common household activities that can cause an eye injury, according to experts from the American Academy of Ophthalmology: Household chemicals or

bleach: Getting unexpectedly sprayed or splashed in the eye can cause anything from minor irritation to a chemical burn.

If this happens, immediately flush the eye by putting your head under a steady stream of room temperature tap water for 15 minutes. Contact your eye doctor or urgent care facility to determine

what is recommended as a next step, based on the chemical.

Hot grease or oil splatter: The most important thing to do is irrigate the eye and contact your eye doctor as soon as possible.

Drilling or hammering: An activity as simple as hanging a picture can cause a nail or screw to become a projectile or

cause fragments to fly off and cause an eye injury.

Seek immediate medical help if you are hit in the eye with any foreign object.

Lawn and garden care: Always wear protective eyewear when mowing the grass, trimming hedges, cutting wood or using power tools.

Whether you use a rid-

ing or push mower, stop the engine when any one approaches. The mower can cause rocks and other objects on the lawn to fly toward someone and cause injury.

Securing items to racks: Use caution with any objects that have the potential to snap, such as bungee cords or rubber bands.

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Steak fry dinner, 5-7 p.m., American Legion Post 12, 1120 W. First St., Dixon, 815-284-2003.

Mexican food, 5-8 p.m., Rock Falls VFW, 217 First Ave. Halloween party for children second to eighth grade, 5:309 p.m., Rock Falls Community Building, 610 W. 10th St. Bingo, 7 p.m. Rock Falls American Legion, 712 Fourth Ave.

Monster Pancake and Sausage Breakfast, 8-9:30 a.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Fourth Avenue and West Second Street, Rock Falls, 815625-4500.

Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-noon, Twin City Market, indoors, 106 Avenue A, Sterling, 815-6268610.

Farmers Market, 8:30 a.m.noon, courthouse lawn, Oregon.

Trunk or Treat activity, 5-6:30 p.m., parking lot, Evangelical Free Church of Mount Morris, 102 S. Seminary St.

COMMUNITY EVENTS Friday, Oct. 30 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., Post House Community Center, 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.

Kings on Corner card game,

9 a.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Intermediate Line dancing, 10 a.m., call Whiteside County Senior Center at 815-622-9230 for location.

Wii Bowling and cards, 10 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815562-5050.

Line dancing, 11 a.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-6229230.

Lifescape Lunch, 11:30 a.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

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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, Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

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

Halloween costume party and Bingo, 12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Mexican Train dominoes, 12:30 p.m., Whiteside Senior

Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Pinochle, 12:30-3 p.m., Big Room, 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, 815288-9236.

Pinochle, 1 p.m., Post House Community Center, 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.,

Saturday, Oct. 31 Farmers Market, 7 a.m.-noon, Haymarket Square, 317 W. Third St., Dixon, 815-284-3306.

SUPPORT GROUPS, CLUBS AND SERVICES Saturday, Oct. 31 Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m., closed, Big Book, United Methodist Church, 201 S. 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, 9:30 a.m., closed, 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.

Mercy Nursing Services free blood pressure clinic, 11 a.m. to noon, Wal-Mart, 1901 First Ave., Rock Falls.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed; 7 p.m. closed (5), Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Affliction of Addiction Narcotics Anonymous, noon and 6 p.m., First Christian Church, 506 Fifth Ave., Rock Falls, 779-2453487. Downstairs, west door.

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, noon, open, Old

School; 7 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.

The Kick-It Ticket Narcotics Anonymous, 3 p.m., basement, Fellows Street door, The Worship Center, 403 N. Ottawa Ave., Dixon, 815-677-9694.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, First Presbyterian Church, 1100 Calvin Road, Rochelle.

Alcoholics Anonymous,

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

Sunday, Nov. 1 Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 a.m., closed; 7 p.m., open, Rochelle Community Hospital, 900 N. Second St. Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 a.m., closed; 11 a.m., open; 1 p.m., closed, Spanish; 7 p.m., closed, Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m., closed; noon, open; 6 p.m., closed, step, 90-92 S.

Prep now for winter driving Two for one mammograms SPONSORED BY SLIM-n-HANK’S

By Gina Kraman It’s not too early to prepare for driving in snow, as Chicago has experienced measureable snowfall as early as mid-October. On October 12, 2006, almost half an inch of snow was recorded at O’Hare International Airport, with heavier snow north and west of the city, according to WGN weather statistics.

To get ready for winter driving, and managing car emergencies, SafeMotorist. com advises, “Stay alert, slow down, and stay in control.

Snow, rain, and ice dramatically affect the braking distance of a vehicle by reducing tire traction.

“When handling slippery winter roads, the keys to safety are slower speeds, gentler stops and turns, and increased following distances. Drivers are advised to reduce their speed to half the posted speed limit, or even less, based on snowy road conditions.”

Spending one to two hours winterizing your car can help prevent breakdowns during severe weather. The Car Care Council (CCC) recommends

having the battery and charging system checked, as cold weather impacts battery life. Also, replace the wiper blades and antifreeze in the cooling system. Check tire tread depth and pressure. Colder temperatures decrease tire pressure, and under-inflated tires affect car performance.

CCC adds to make sure the braking system is functioning properly, and that oil is changed regularly on schedule.

Other time-honored suggestions are to keep your gas tank filled more than halfway, and stow winter supplies in your car, including a snow brush, ice scraper, bag of sand or cat litter for traction, and extra windshield fluid. Other helpful items include a cell phone charger, blanket, booster cables, fire extinguisher, spare tire, and a flashlight with extra batteries.

Specializing in auto body repair, auto glass, and emergency towing for more than 50 years, SlimN-Hank’s Auto Body Shops are located in Sterling, (815) 625-1851, and Dixon, (815) 288-3211, or visit www.slimnhanks.com.

SPONSORED BY CGH Medical Center

By C.R. Walker

Most Americans know a family member, friend or co-worker who has developed breast cancer. About 1 in 8 women in the U.S. will get it.

A mammogram combined with a clinical breast exam is the most effective way to detect breast cancer early. Simply stated, early detection greatly improves a woman’s chances for getting treatment and surviving this deadly disease.

This is a low-dose x-ray exam of the breasts that looks for abnormalities. The results of a mammogram are recorded for a doctor or radiologist to examine.

CGH Medical Center recognizes how important mammograms are for women’s health. Its dedicated and compassionate medical professionals don’t only want to help serve you, but they are offering patients a unique opportunity to potentially save the life of someone they know, or even an underserved women they’ve never met.

The 2 for 1 Mammogram Program at CGH Medical Center allows patients,

who have insurance that will cover their mammogram, to also receive a free mammogram for a friend or family member who is uninsured or underinsured.

Thanks to the generosity of the CGH Health Foundation and Team Underwires, you can make a life-saving difference in someone’s life. For those who don’t know someone who needs a mammogram along with them, you’re decision to get a mammogram at CGH Medical Center will allow an underserved woman to get one for free at your request. Furthermore, if you’re reading this and need a mammogram, but don’t have the means to get one, please inquire about being paired to receive one through a sponsor.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all women between 50 and 74 years of age should get a mammogram every two years. It also suggests that women under 50 should talk to their primary physician about when to start and how often to have a mammogram.

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Hennepin Ave., Dixon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 10 a.m., open, barn, Horizon View Farm, 2422 N. River Road, Oregon.

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, 10 a.m., open, Big Book, back door, 1503 First Ave., Rock Falls.

Latin American Social Club meeting, 3 p.m., 2708 W. Fourth St., Sterling, 815-625-8290.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., closed, Church of St. Anne, 401 N. Cherry St., Morrison.

Alcoholics Anonymous,

7 p.m., closed, Spanish, St. Patrick Catholic Church, 236 Kelly Drive, Rochelle.

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

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, clearance required, BAAbble on for Life Prison Group, 815-973-6150.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., closed, 304 Seventh Ave. W, Lyndon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed (4), Mount Morris Senior Center, 9 E. Front St.

Best way for seniors to stay active SPONSORED BY YMCA

By C.R. Walker Getting up and going early each day is a good way for seniors to start staying active.

What seniors choose to do each to day is up to them as there are many different ways to live life to the fullest while remaining energetic.

Many seniors now live alone. Isolation and boredom are unhealthy, but thankfully there are options to be around others. Adult day care programs, senior centers, in-home caregivers/companions and senior retirement communities are all beneficial.

Another option is to get a pet. A dog who you walk multiple times daily gives you a new best friend. It also gets you outside to meet new people, converse, enjoy fresh air and get some exercise by walking.

Some seniors stay active by continuing to work. Others volunteer and give back to the community.

Just because a senior is 65 or older doesn’t mean he or she has to only spend time around other seniors.

Surrounding yourself with

younger people helps seniors feel young, and just by trying to keep up with the younger generation, they stay active.

Stimulating the mind helps seniors also is valuable. Taking a college course at the local community college, reading a good book or doing the daily crossword are some of the many ways to do it. Starting a new hobby or attempting to get better at something you’ve done for a long time are also constructive.

Of course, getting downright physical certainly helps you stay active. Locally, there are some great offerings at the Dixon YMCA. “We have Yoga for seniors, a cardio-mix and Sneakers,” said Silver Christine Hoyle, sports and wellness director for the Dixon YMCA. “We have some stretching therapy classes and some water fitness stuff as well. Plus, there’s a lot of seniors that just come in and exercise in the wellness room.”

For more information contact Dixon Family YMCA at 815.288.9622 or visit their website at www. dixonymca.org.

Dixon YMCA is located at 110 N Galena Ave, Dixon, IL 61021.

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CRIME | DRUG TRAFFICKING THROUGH FOOD

Chocolate meth?

Customs agents have seen it all AP photos/U.S. Customs and Border Protection

A Guatemalan citizen arrived in April at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston from Guatemala City with packages of vanilla wafers. But when customs officials opened them up, they said they found they were filled with cocaine instead of cream filling. He also had bags of chips that had small bundles of cocaine inside of them. The 4 pounds of cocaine had a street value of more than $60,000.

ABOVE: A man arriving from Guyana in December at 2014 at Kennedy International Airport in New York was found to be carrying the bottles that customs officials said were filled with 18 pounds worth of liquid cocaine. The drugs had a street value of $310,000.

ABOVE RIGHT: A mother and daughter traveling from Spain in February 2012 were carrying bags of condiments that customs officials at Los Angeles International Airport decided felt unusually thick. They opened it up to find a plastic bag with cocaine paste placed inside, and then found another syrup packet in their checked-in luggage that contained more cocaine paste, a gummy substance that is extracted from coca leaves and then dried and turned into the white powder sold on the street.

RIGHT: In June 2012, officials found a rice cooker stuffed with 3 pounds of black opium, which had been coated in cinnamon and wrapped in plastic, being transported by a man arriving at Los Angeles International Airport from Iran. They also found a glass jar with a dark jelly-like substance in a suitcase that turned out to be opium. Officials said the opium had a street value of about $110,000.

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This July 2012 photo shows methamphetamine disguised as a chocolate candy bar in Los Angeles. Officials said a California man tried to smuggle more than 4 pounds of methamphetamine out of the country disguised as 45 individually wrapped chocolate bars at Los Angeles International Airport.

The Associated Press

Something about the dozens of individually wrapped chocolate bars in the luggage of a man flying from California to Japan struck a federal Customs and Border Protection officer as odd. Sure enough, when unwrapped, they turned out to be more than 4 pounds of methamphetamine covered by a “chocolate-like substance.”

That bust at Los Angeles International Airport in July 2012 was one of tens of thousands of drug seizures made by customs agents each year at the nation’s airports, including many where drugs were hidden inside food.

Customs officers stopping travelers coming and going from the United States have found drugs disguised as cream filling in cookies, in bags of coffee, bottles of rum,

and stuffed inside bricks of frozen meat, among other places.

“Drug smugglers, mules, what have you, they use various consumer methods.

Depending on how much experience they’ve had, [officers have] probably seen every concealment method under the sun,” said Anthony Bucci, the public affairs specialist for Customs and Border Protection’s New York regional office.

Customs officials made 153,000 drug seizures from people trying to enter or leave the country between the 2011 and 2015 fiscal years in the top five ports of entry alone, according to the agency.

Officers in the New York region – including Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports – made more than 72,000 stops over the 5-year span, and Chicago had more than 36,000.

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WASHINGTON | GOVERNMENT OFFICE SHOOTING

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Kevin Kozak shows his hand Sunday near his home in Southern California. Kozak is still struggling with debilitating injuries from the Feb. 16, 2012 gun battle in his office at the Long Beach offices of U.S. Homeland Security Investigations.

17 seconds of terror Probe reveals new details on 2012 incident WASHINGTON (AP) – The Homeland Security Department missed clear warning signs of a disgruntled federal agent’s descent toward violence and could have intervened before he started a deadly gun battle inside a government office building in southern California, according to a confidential, internal investigation obtained exclusively by The Associated Press.

The government’s investigation, which started nearly a year after the shootings and took 18 months, revealed new details about the private life of the dead supervisory agent, Ezequiel “Zeke” Garcia, 45, and clarified how the February 2012 gun fight unfolded inside the Long Beach offices of U.S. Homeland Security Investigations. Garcia died from a gunshot to the back of his head. An unarmed senior regional manager, Kevin Kozak, suffered serious wounds to his hands, abdomen, back and leg.

Garcia’s supervisor, Perry Woo, killed Garcia after Garcia started shooting – firing 23 rounds from his service pistol in 17 seconds – without warning during a disciplinary meeting. Garcia reloaded and resumed firing during the shooting before Woo killed him.

The report offers an unusual glimpse behind factors that drove one of the most sensational instances in recent years of workplace violence, which kills more than 700

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Americans each year. The AP obtained a censored copy of the 36-page report, which was marked “for official use only,” 5 months after requesting it under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. Kozak, 54, who struggles with debilitating injuries and might lose his leg, filled in key details during an exclusive interview with AP that the Homeland Security Department discouraged him from granting.

“I never thought I’d have to defend myself in a secure office on a secure floor in a secure building,” Kozak said. “Wow, was I wrong.”

The government concluded that Garcia was a walking advertisement for workplace intervention. His previous supervisor, John Rocha, said Garcia told him that the agency “had taken away from him everything that mattered” and said he had to “talk [Garcia] off the ledge every day in an effort to motivate him to work,” the report said.

His estranged wife was so worried about ominous remarks by Garcia 2 days before the office shooting that she wrote them on an index card.

Garcia had been the subject of four sexual harassment complaints 1 year earlier, which later were substantiated, and he complained to coworkers that his bosses were unfairly scrutinizing him in order to demote him after 21 years in federal law enforcement.

“The review revealed missed opportunities for intervention that, had they been pursued, may have prevented the tragic result,” the report read.

It said Garcia’s behaviors

before his death “demonstrate acts of misconduct and behavior that would have alerted management, if they had been aware of his history.”

Still, the report identified no one person to blame for failure to predict the shootings. “No reasonable person could have predicted the precise date, time, place or magnitude of violence,” it read. “Garcia’s known and reported easygoing disposition may have masked the reality that he was capable of committing a violent act at any moment.”

Woo and Rocha declined through a government spokesman to speak with the AP. The report described the dramatic late-afternoon confrontation in the office. During a disciplinary meeting, Garcia rose from his chair, drew his pistol from his hip holster and fired across the desk at Kozak, who wrestled with Garcia over his gun while being shot.

Kozak screamed at Garcia, “Don’t do it! It’s not worth it! We both have kids.” Garcia answered, “It’s too late!”

Kozak collapsed behind his desk from his wounds, as Garcia circled to continue firing. Woo fought for the gun, but Garcia threw him onto an office couch and aimed his gun at Woo. Badly bleeding from at least seven bullet wounds, Kozak stood to attract Garcia’s attention.

“Zeke, it’s me you want!

I’m here!” he yelled. When Garcia turned toward him, Kozak yelled to Woo: “Shoot him! Shoot him!”

Woo stood, drew his weapon and shot Garcia once.

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CITY OF ROCK FALLS WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS TREASURER’S REPORT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING MAY 1, 2014 AND ENDING APRIL 30, 2015

Total additions DEDUCTIONS Administrative

General REVENUES Taxes Licenses and permits Intergovernmental Charges for Services Fines and fees Investment Income Miscellaneous

3,777,971 97,563 330,211 708,644 492,894 3,834 100,342

Total revenues EXPENDITURES General government Public Safety Streets and highways Public Property Division Development Capital Outlay Debt service Principal

11,180 1,271 18,827

4,253,162 97,563 679,804 708,644 504,074 5,105 119,169

5,511,459

856,062

6,367,521

1,279,190 3,449,180 557,005 122,669

128,749 27,779 306,365

1,407,939 3,476,959 863,370 122,669 205,149 233,417

349,593

205,149 233,417 119,120

100,000

17,765

13,780

31,545

5,778,346

781,822

6,560,168

(266,887)

74,240

(192,647)

OTHER FINANCING SOURCES (USES) Operating transfers in Operating transfers out

577,802 (64,004)

950,762 (267,763)

1,528,564 (331,767)

Total other financing sources (uses)

513,798

682,999

1,196,797

NET CHANGE IN FUND BALANCE

246,911

757,239

1,004,150

FUND BALANCE, May 1 Prior Period Adjustment

778,686 310,214

210,631 42,614

1,989,317 362,828

2,088,900

253,245

2,342,145

1,010,484

3,346,295

Interest Total expenditures Excess (deficiency) of revenues over expenditures

FUND BALANCE, MAY 1, RESTATED FUND BALANCE, APRIL 30

2,335,811

OPERATING REVENUES Billed services Utility taxes Penalties collected Connection fees Payroll transfers

$

Miscellaneous Total operating revenues OPERATING EXPENSES Personnel Salaries Payroll taxes

Enterprise

Internal

Funds

Service Funds

14,246,872 225,963 32,111 32,330

$

219,120

Total

1,235,070

15,481,942 225,963 32,111 32,330

327,014

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327,014

14,864,290

1,235,070

16,099,360

1,717,721 142,525

Payroll benefits Total personnel Utility expense Commodities Contractual services

554,325 2,414,571 5,782,367 1,916,425 398,333

Depreciation and Amortization

2,495,604

Miscellaneous

1,717,721 142,525 1,176,920 1,176,920

1,731,245 3,591,491 5,782,367 1,916,425 398,333 2,495,604 406,074

406,074

Total operating expenses

OPERATING INCOME (LOSS)

13,413,374

1,176,920

14,590,294

1,450,916

58,150

1,509,066

NONOPERATING REVENUES (EXPENSES) Property taxes Investment income Interest expense Total nonoperating revenues (expenses) INCOME BEFORE TRANSFERS

33,165

1,004

34,169

(90,872)

______

(90,872)

(57,707)

1,004

(56,703)

1,393,209

59,154

1,452,363

(1,452,996)

(327,764)

(1,780,760)

(869,033)

(327,764)

(1,196,797)

TRANSFERS Transfers In

583,963

Transfers out Total Transfers

583,963

CAPITAL GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

522,238

522,238

SPECIAL ITEM

815,539

815,539

CHANGE IN NET POSITION NET POSITION, MAY 1 Prior Period Adjustment

1,861,793

(268,610)

1,593,183

46,881,394

639,804

47,521,198

(424,507)

NET POSITION, MAY 1, RESTATED NET POSITION, APRIL 30

(424,507)

46,456,887 $

48,318,680

639,804 $

371,194

47,096,691 $

48,689,874

Pension Trust Policemen's Firemen's

ADDITIONS Contributions - employer

Pension

Pension

Fund

Fund

Total

308,239

114,533

422,772

Contributions - plan members

104,929

71,025

175,954

Total contributions

413,168

185,558

598,726

Net appreciation in fair value of investments

177,703

177,931

355,634

Interest

221,934

217,414

439,348

399,637

395,345

794,982

Less investment Expense

(18,401)

(23,400)

(41,801)

Net Investment Income

381,236

371,945

753,181

Investment income

Total Investment Income

557,503

1,351,907

34,233

17,739

51,972

557,595

426,303

983,898

Total deductions

591,828

444,042

1,035,870

NET INCREASE (DECREASE)

202,576

113,461

316,037

May 1

7,031,549

6,662,488

13,694,037

April 30

7,234,125

6,775,949

14,010,074

&

NET POSITION HELD IN TRUST FOR PENSION BENEFITS

Total Governmental Funds

475,191

794,404

Refunds

Benefits

CITY OF ROCK FALLS, ILLINOIS ALL GOVERNMENTAL FUND TYPES COMBINED STATEMENT OF REVENUES, EXPENDITURES AND CHANGES IN THE FUND BALANCES FOR THE YEAR ENDED APRIL 30, 2015 Nonmajor Governmental Funds

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PAYROLL: 0.01 TO 25,000.00 ABNER, KAY M; ADAMS, PAUL J; ARNOLD, LAWREN E; ATILANO, JOAN M; BASS, ANDREW C; BUHLER, DOUGLAS M; CARLSON, ROGER P; COLBERG, JOY B; DAY, AUTUMN A;DUSEK, ELISE M; FOLSOM, LEE RJ; GARCIA, LOU ANN L; HAND, DAVID J; HARRINGTON, APRIL D; JOHNSON JR, ROSS M; JOHNSON, STEPHANIE M; JORDAN, PAULA H; KUHLEMIER, GLEN R; LEWIS, BRANDON R; LOGAN JR, GEORGE A; MCKANNA, MATTHEW R; MCKANNA, RYAN R; NEBLUNG, NICHOLAS M; PLETSCH, KYLE D; REITZEL, DAEHLE R; RODEKAMP, CHRISTINA L; RUSSELL, ALVIN M; SCHUNEMAN, JAMES N; SCOTT, GREYSON L; SNOW, BRIAN E; SURDEZ, DANIEL W; TATE, PAMELA E; TRIBLEY, BRIAN K; VALDIVIA, CLAUDIA A; VANDERSNICK, MARK S; WATTS, JOHN W; WESCOTT, WILLIAM B PAYROLL: 25,000.01 TO 49,999.99 ALLSPAUGH, SCOTT J; ANDERSON, KARI M; ARDUINI, ERIC M; BRAUER, COLTEN W; CONKLIN, MICHELLE K; CRUZ, DAVID; FRANKFOTHER, KEVIN C; FREY, SYLVIA B; GARRISON II, STEVEN D; HANSON, CHAON L; HEIER, CHRISTOPHER J; HENDERSON, PAMELA K; HENDRICKS, JENNIFER L; HERMES, CHAD D; HOWARD, CASEY D; KING, JAY P; KUSTER, JENNA M; LAWYER, PAUL C; LEAF, MICHAEL D; MCKENNA, JASMINE V; MORTENSON, SHEILA L; NICHOLS, JEREMIAH B; PILGRIM, KATIE M; SANDERS, CORNELIA G; SCHRYVER, CORY L; SEARING, MARK A; SIGNER, JULIA S; SIMON, LORI A; STOECKEL, AMY M; STOUFFER, KEITH E; VROMAN, ANN M; WIND, SHERRY L; WORCESTER, JOHN C

PAYROLL: 50,000.00 TO 74,999.99 BEHRENS, ANDREW J; BLACKERT, ROBBIN D; BOUWENS, CRIS A; BREED, SCOTT A; BRIGGS, ALLAN D; CATER, JONATHAN J; COPPOTELLI, DOUGLAS J; COX, EDWARD J; DAVIS, MARK J; GUINN, JEFFREY B; HARTMAN, NATHAN D; HOLLAWAY, JAMES R; JARAMILLO, VERONICA; KILBERG, BETONY M; KOBBEMAN, MATTHEW T; KOETT, JAY K; LUDWIG, JARRETT M; MCKNIGHT, CHRISTOPHER M; MILBY, WILLIAM S; MULVANEY, STEPHEN M; NELSON, TAMMY J; NEWTON, DERICK J; NORTHCUTT, DAVID A; PADILLA, TED A; PILGRIM, DAVID L; POCI, ANTHONY S; REINHARDT, DANIEL J; ROKEY, SARA L; SOMMERS, KYLE B; SPINKA, LARRY L; THURM, MARTIN L; VONDRA, JEREMY E; WILLIAMSON, RYAN M; WILLMAN, JOSHUA D; WOLBER, DOUGLAS M; WOLF III, KENNETH J PAYROLL: 75,000.00 TO 99,999.99 CASSIDY JR, DONALD O; COOK, GARY F; JOHNSON, GREGORY R; KUELPER, MICHAEL A; MARTIN, KALEB C; MARTIN, WILLIAM H; SANDROCK JR, RONALD H; TUPPER, JEFFRY T; WESCOTT, JEFFERY N PAYROLL: 100,000.00 TO 124,999.99 SIMON, RICHARD F; LIABILITY: AFLAC 3,484; CITY OF ROCK FALLS 17,327; FOP LABOR COUNCIL 11,524; IBEW LOCAL #196 3,072; IBEW LOCAL #196 20,429; VANTAGEPOINT TRANSFER AGENTS 53,909; LYDIA S MEYER 3,537; CENTRAL UNITED LIFE INS 2,028; ROCK FALLS FIREFIGHTERS ASSOC 5,922; CITY OF ROCK FALLS 1,103,677; CITY OF ROCK FALLS 597; IL STATE DISBURSEMENT UNIT 52,010; CHARLES SCHWAB & CO INC 70,002; QUAD CITY BANK & TRUST 105,336; UNITED WAY OF STERLING 231 EXPENDITURES AND EXPENSES: DAN IVEY 23,468; AIMS MECHANICAL, LLC 264,867; AIRGAS USA LLC 2,552; ALARM DETECTION SYSTEMS, INC. 4,285; ALLIANCE MATERIALS, INC. 12,658; ALLIANCES COUNSELING SERVICES 2,750; ALTEC INDUSTRIES, INC. 3,349; ALTORFER INC. 61,422; AMERICAN LEAK DETECTION 3,800; AMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOC. 2,549; APPLIED INDUSTRIAL TECH INC 4,225; ARAMARK UNIFORM SERVICES, INC. 22,291; ASPHALT SALES CO 20,004; AT&T 15,918; AT&T MOBILITY 9,459; AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS CO 48,108; B & D SUPPLY CO. 3,980; DENNIS A BECK 3,083; JEFF BEHRENS EXCAVATING 7,753; BEST BET CONSTRUCTION 4,900; BHMG ENGINEERS 45,374; BONNELL INDUSTRIES, INC. 19,132; BORDER STATES ELECTRIC SUPPLY 13,008; J F BRENNAN CO INC 20,200; BRENNTAG MID-SOUTH, INC. 31,650; BROTHERS FLOORING 5,012; BTU SERVICES, INC. 5,927; BURGER BROTHERS TRUCKING & 10,847; C & C SWORD CONSTRUCTION 116,191; C.O.P.S. TESTING SERVICE, INC. 5,767; CAPTAIN'S CABIN, INC. 16,659; CARD SERVICE CENTER 85,122; E.J. CATTANI & SON INC. 25,905; CENTRAL SALT, LLC 123,844; CHARLESTON SALES & RENTALS 3,210; CIRCUIT CLERK OF LEE COUNTY 3,685; CIRCUIT CLERK OF OGLE COUNTY 5,580; CITY OF ROCK FALLS UTILITIES 368,274; CITY OF DIXON 3,060; CITY OF ROCK FALLS 5,493; CITY OF FREEPORT 6,399; CIVIC SYSTEMS, LLC 15,691; CLIFTONLARSONALLEN LLP 40,363; CLOUDPOINT GEOGRAPHICS INC 53,066; COMMUNICATIONS SUPPLY CORP 26,684; COMMUNICATIONS DIRECT INC 17,780; COMPLETE ELECTRICAL CONTR. INC 52,367; CONMAT, INC. 14,670; CONTROL PLUS INC 3,607; COOK COUNTY SHERRIFF'S 6,210; CRESCENT ELECTRIC 7,169; CUSTOM MONOGRAM 5,262; CUSTOM PRODUCTS CORP 4,628; DADSONS SEAL COATING 4,500; KURTIS & KATHERYN DOWNS 10,000; DRAKE SCRUGGS EQUIPMENT 3,042; DUKE'S ROOT CONTROL INC 4,347; EDLER POWER SERVICES INC 10,990; ENGEL ELECTRIC CO. 64,340; ENVIRONMENTAL ROAD SOLUTIONS 11,594; ESRI 10,000; ESSEX TELCOM, INC. 3,779; EXCEL LTD, INC. 4,892; FERGUSON WATERWORKS #2516 123,866; RICHARD FINNICUM 112,085; FIREHOUSE MINISTRIES 13,491; FISCHER EXCAVATING, INC. 189,736; FLETCHER-REINHARDT CO 24,586; FLINT HILLS RESOURCES LP 34,234; FORD CREDIT DEPT. 67-434 40,961; FRANKLIN MAINTENANCE 19,425; FRONTIER 54,031; FURR EXCAVATING, INC. 3,640; GE INTERNATIONAL, INC. 9,525; GIESON MOTORSPORTS 2,559; GISI BROS. INC. 5,628; GO EXCAVATING, INC. 5,100; GRACE AMMO.COM 3,106; GRAINGER 4,272; GRAYBAR 4,715; GRUMMERT'S HARDWARE - R.F. 7,748; HALL'S SAFETY EQUIPMENT CORP. 5,070; PETE HARKNESS AUTO GROUP 31,706; HARRIS COMPUTER SYSTEMS 7,517; HD SUPPLY WATERWORKS, LTD. 2,748; HD SUPPLY POWER SOLUTIONS, LTD 41,636; HENDRICKS CONSTRUCTION 15,693; HIGH VOLTAGE EQUIP DIAG INC 14,173; HILL'S ELECTRIC MOTOR SERVICE 3,293; HOUSE'S TRUCK & AUTO REPAIR 80,796; I-80 EQUIPMENT LLC 11,000; IL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT 9,194; ILLINOIS DIRECTOR OF 7,414; ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL 1,115,562; ILLINOIS EPA 57,296; ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC 4,897,644; ILLINOIS FIRE STORE 17,114; ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL UTILITIES 13,069; INTERSTATE POWERSYSTEMS 4,090; VIOLET JARAMILLO 5,000; KELLEY WILLIAMSON COMPANY 10,181; KELSO-BURNETT CO. 217,978; KIRBY CABLE SERVICE 43,580; LAWSON PRODUCTS, INC. 4,069; LAYNE CHRISTENSEN COMPANY 17,916; STEVE LEACH 5,400; LECTRONICS, INC. 19,398; LOESCHER 30,279; MAGELLAN ADVISORS, LLC 68,040; MANLIUS OIL CO., INC 4,901; MARTIN EQUIPMENT OF IA-IL, INC 5,264; MATRIX RESEARCH LABS INC 11,304; MCCLOUD & ASSOCIATES, LLC 3,780; MCMASTER-CARR SUPPLY 3,613; MENARDS 13,401; METROPOLITAN INDUSTRIES, INC. 9,045; MICHLIG ENERGY LTD 88,405; MIKE'S REPAIR SERVICE 5,881; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY PUMP, INC. 15,858; MONROE TRUCK EQUIPMENT, INC. 8,278; MOORE TIRES INC. 13,153; MORING DISPOSAL, INC. 404,412; MES - ILLINOIS 2,854; MUNICIPAL SYSTEMS INC 9,573; MUNICIPAL INSUR COOP AGENCY 324,730; MUNICIPAL CODE CORPORATION 7,787; MURRAY & SONS EXCAVATING, INC 98,636; NEENAH FOUNDRY COMPANY 8,435; KEN NELSON CHRYSLER 3,285; JERRY CELLETTI 3,381; NICOR 73,994; NJPA 5,119; NORTHERN IL SERVICE CO 10,075; RAY O'HERRON CO., INC. 5,011; O'REILLY AUTOMOTIVE INC 7,984; OUTFRONT MEDIA 2,650; PACTEC, INC 3,419; PAETEC 3,713; PANTHER UNIFORMS, INC. 5,175; PINNEY PRINTING CO 6,911; PITNEY BOWES 6,005; PITNEY BOWES GLOBAL 12,165; PORTER BROTHERS ASPHALT 9,206; POWER LINE SUPPLY 108,234; POWER SYSTEM ENGINEERING INC 180,053; PRAIRIE HILL RDF 18,166; PRATER PAINT AND WATERPROOFING 8,450; PREMIER INSULATION, LLC 3,345; PUBLIC HEALTH & SAFETY, INC 4,250; QUAD CITY BANK & TRUST 310,413; QUALITY READY MIX 43,760; QUALITY CHEMICAL CO MIDWEST 7,370; RANDY'S TRUCK REPAIR, INC. 7,165; RESCO 14,407; KELLY P. REYNOLDS & ASSOC, INC 9,025; RISE BROADBAND 8,230; RIVER CITY FENCING, INC. 3,227; ROCK FALLS COMMUNITY 100,000; ROCK FALLS CONVENTION & 95,891; ROCK FALLS AREA DOG CONTROL 6,566; ROCK FALLS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 6,008; ROCK FALLS POSTMASTER 38,500; ROCK ISLAND ELECTRIC 7,159; SANTANDER LEASING LLC 27,768; SAUK VALLEY MEDIA 13,851; SAUK VALLEY BANK & TRUST CO. 148,820; SAUK VALLEY PLUMBING INC 5,172; SBM BUSINESS EQUIPMENT CENTER 17,248; SCADAWARE, INC. 4,918; SCHMITT PLUMBING & HEATING INC 35,901; SCHREINER OIL CO., INC. 5,238; CHARLES SCHWAB & CO, INC. 13,192; SCHWEITZER ENGINEERING 8,275; SEDONA STAFFING 32,041; TIMOTHY W. SHARPE 7,400; SHELL FLEET PLUS 110,398; SIEMENS INDUSTRY INC 2,796; SIMMERS CRANE DESIGN & SERVICE 94,458; SJOSTROM & SONS, INC. 35,192; SKOOG LANDSCAPE AND DESIGN 4,783; TIMOTHY J SLAVIN 7,800; SMITH ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS CO 7,983; SPAANS BABCOCK, INC. 9,466; SPECTRON ENERGY, INC. 4,719; STANDARD EQUIPMENT COMPANY 24,897; STANLEY CONSULTANTS, INC. 59,000; STAPLES CREDIT PLAN 3,842; STELLARRAD SYSTEMS LLC 8,979; STERLING COMMERCIAL ROOFING 19,850; SURVALENT TECHNOLOGY CORP. 18,340; SWEDBERG & ASSOC INC 69,176; T & R SERVICE 6,071; TECHNO PLY LTD 7,799; TERRACON CONSULTANTS, INC. 22,867; TODD'S MUDJACKING SERVICE, INC 9,610; TOTAL ENVIRONMENTAL 3,179; MARNA TOWNE 2,500; TREASURER, STATE OF ILLINOIS 57,898; TREATED MATERIALS CO. 11,549; TROJAN TECH/BNS FBO 2,620; TWIN CITY CONSTRUCTION CO 6,779; UNION DRAINAGE DISTRICT #5 5,000; US BANK 239,620; USA BLUE BOOK 9,095; USIC LOCATING SERVICES LLC 8,973; VERIZON WIRELESS 16,416; VIKING CHEMICAL CO 13,853; WALMART COMMUNITY/GEMB 10,922; WARD, MURRAY, PACE & JOHNSON 276,677; WELCH BROS BELVIDERE INC 3,070; WELLNESS INC 2,948; WELLS FARGO EQUIPMENT FINANCE 37,448; WENDLER ENGINEERING 13,179; WESTWOOD MACHINE & TOOL CO 3,277; WHEELHOUSE, INC. 3,381; WHITESIDE COUNTY COLLECTOR 2,649; WHITESIDE COUNTY RECORDER 4,143; WHITESIDE COUNTY TREASURER 10,496; WILCO RENTAL 9,823; MIKE WILKINS TREE & LANDSCAPIN 102,690; WILLETT, HOFMANN & ASSOCIATES 232,407; WILLIAM & MARY COMPUTER CENTER 115,407; WILLIAMS AUTO BODY SHOP 3,288; WILLIAMS LAWN CARE & 15,845; WILVAR ENTERPRISES, INC. 3,524; WIRFS INDUSTRIES, INC 50,490; TERRY WOLF CONSTRUCTION INC 6,258; EXPENSE DISBURSEMENTS UNDER 2,500.00 218,891

I, KAY M. ABNER, TREASURER OF THE CITY OF ROCK FALLS, WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING FIGURES ARE TRUE AND CORRECTTO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, AND THAT THE DETAILED REPORTS ARE ON FILE IN THE CITY CLERK’S OFFICE. ____________________________ KAY M. ABNER, CITY TREASURER I, ERIC ARDUINI, CITY CLERK FOR THE CITY OF ROCK FALLS, WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE AND FOREGOING IS A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF THE “TREASURER’S REPORT” OF THE CITY OF ROCK FALLS AS PUBLISHED IN THE DAILY GAZETTE BY SAUK VALLEY NEWSPAPERS.

____________________________ ERIC ARDUINI, CITY CLERK

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ADVENTIST SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH,416ProspectSt.,Dixon. Saturday Service 10 a.m.; Worship Service, 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Pastor Trudy Dunn.

APOSTOLIC APOSTOLIC ASSEMBLY, 2609 Pine St., Rock Falls. Spanish Spoken, Sunday School, 10 a.m., Sunday Worship Service Noon. Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.. Pastor: Martin Garcia 590-7897.

ASAMBLEA APOSTOLICA, 2609 Pine St., Rock Falls. Se habla español.

Escuela Dominical 10 a.m., Servico de Alabanza y Adoraciòn Domingo 12 p.m., Miércoles Estudio Bìblico 6 p.m. Pastor: Martin Garcia 590-7897.

ASSEMBLIES OF GOD BETHESEDA TEMPLE, 1602 13th Ave., Rock Falls, IL 61071. Phone 535-0423. Pastor Lucio Esquivel. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Sunday Worship Service 10:30 a.m., Childrens Church.

All services in Spanish & English.

ROCK RIVER CHRISTIAN CENTER, 1800 Prophetstown Road, Rock Falls. Phone 815-625-4371.

Rev. Brian Vickers, Pastor, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School, 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship, 6 p.m. Evening Worship; Wednesday, 10 a.m. bible study, 6:30 p.m. children’s programs: Rainbows, Missionetts, and Royal Rangers, 7 p.m. Crossroads Youth Ministry.

NEW LIFE IN CHRIST, 1101 1st Ave., Sterling, Pastor William Cherry, Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday evening service 5:30 p.m.; Wednesday nite 6:30 p.m. Adult Prayer/Bible Study & Youth Group. Nursery provided for all services. Church office 626-8778.

BAPTIST BEREAN BAPTIST CHURCH, 1119 10th Ave., Rock Falls, Pastor Roger Carlson, Parsonage and office phone 625-7179, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Morning Worship 10:30 a.m., Evening Service 6 p.m. Wednesday evening Bible Study 7:00 p.m.; Wednesday Dynamite Kids Club 6:00 p.m. Nursery provided for all services. Transportation Available. Independent Fundamental Baptist Church. www.bbcrf.com COMO BAPTIST CHURCH, 25059 Como Road. Pastor Larry Jones. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship, 10:30 a.m., Evening Worship 6 p.m.; Wednesday Evening Service, 6 p.m. Affiliated with Southern Baptist Convention. Phone 625-8492.

COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH, 35021 Illinois Route 40, Milledgeville, Pastor J. Kregg Farmer, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Morning Worship 10:30 a.m., Afternoon Service 1:00 p.m., Wednesday Evening Prayer and Bible Study 7:00 p.m., Children’s classes during Sunday School, Morning Worship and Wednesday Prayer and Bible Study. Nursery provided for all services. Church phone 225-7150. Independent Fundamental Baptist Church.

MISSION BAUTISTA HISPANA (Como Baptist Church), Sun. 10:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Wed., Prayer Service 6:30 p.m., all services in Spanish, Meet in the lower level of Como Baptist.

EMMANUEL BAPTIST, 1904 18th Ave., Sterling. Pastor Aaron Jackson Sunday Bible Study, 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m., nursery provided. Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6 p.m.; Affiliated with Southern Baptist Convention. Phone 625-0351.

FAITH BAPTIST, Pastor Bryan Bice, 2005 Freeport Road. Sunday: Bible Study 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:30 a.m., Fellowship Service 6:00 p.m.; Wednesday: Youth Club 6:30 p.m., Prayer Service 7:00 p.m.. Nursery provided for all services. Church phone 625-7690. www.faithbaptiststerling.com FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 1705 6th Ave., Sterling, Rev. John Kermott.

Morning worship 10:10 a.m.; Sunday School 9:00 a.m. Crib room and nursery provided. Call for info: Church office phone 625-1288; Air conditioning, easy access for handicapped.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 406 Maple Ave., Morrison, IL. Pastor Dick Adams 815-772-2696 home 815772-3181; 9:00 a.m. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Worship Service; Wednesday nights 7:00 p.m. Bible Study.

EAGLE HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH, 1026 Third Avenue, Fulton. 589-3443 (church). Michael McCloud, Pastor. Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Morning Service, 10:45 a.m.; Sunday evening, 6 p.m.; Wednesday Bible Study and Prayer Meeting, 7:00 p.m.; Nursery provided for all services. General Association of Regular Baptist Churches affiliated church.

NEW HOPE BAPTIST, 902 W. 12th St., Rock Falls. Jon Sedwick, Pastor Sunday Morning Worship, 10:30 a.m.

Phone: 625-6696. Celebrate Recovery Mon nights at 6pm 815-590-3389. Affiliated with Southern Baptist Convention.

MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH, 1313 Woodburn Ave., Sterling, 6256473. Johnny Cooper, Pastor. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship, 11 a.m. Prayer Service & Bible Study Wed., 7 p.m.-8:15 p.m.; Youth Fellowship Hour Mon. 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

MARANATHA BAPTIST CHURCH, 2103 Walter Street, Rock Falls (Ye-

owardville). Sunday School (for all ages) 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:40 a.m. (nursery provided) Sunday evening worship service 6:00 p.m. Wednesday night prayer meeting 7:00 p.m. Phone 625-8978. Affiliated with Southern Baptist Convention.

PRIMIRA IGLESIA BAUTISTIC GETHSEMANE HISPANA 1014 W. 7th St., Sterling. Sunday School 10 a.m. & 5 p.m. Morning Worship, 11 a.m.; Evening Worship, 7 p.m.; Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Servicio de Orasion y Estudio at 6:30.

TAMPICO BAPTIST CHURCH, Tampico, Sunday School (for all ages), 9:30 a.m. Worship, 10:30 a.m.; Evening service, 6:00 p.m. Wednesday: Adult Bible Study and Prayer, 6:30 p.m.

HARVEST TIME BIBLE CHURCH, 1802 Dixon Ave., Rock Falls. Phone 626-1234. Pastor Dalmus Meeks, Assistant Pastor, Jason Borton. Children’s Pastor Myles Kukowski, Baptist Doctrine, Aaron Meeks, Minister of Music. Sunday School for all ages, 9:30 a.m., Sunday Worship Services, 8:30 and 10:50 a.m. Evening Worship, 6:30 p.m.; High School Youth, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Services, 6:45 p.m.; Awanas 6:30 p.m. Jr. High Youth 6:30 p.m. Nursery always provided.

LIBERTY BAPTIST CHURCH 2002 9th Ave., Rock Falls, IL 61071 Phone 815-579-1209 Pastor Tommy McMurtry. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Sunday Service 11:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Service 6:00 p.m. tommymcmurtry.libertybc@gmail.com TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH 403 6th Ave. North, Lyndon, Illinois.

Pastor Alan Jahn. Ph.#(563)2420307 www.trinitybaptistchapel.com Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Evening Worship 6 p.m., Youth Program 6 p.m.

Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m.

BRETHREN MILLEDGEVILLE BRETHREN CHURCH, 521 N. Main Ave., Milledgeville.PastorJimBlack.Fellowship8:30 a.m.; Sunday School 9:00 a.m.; Worship at 10:00 a.m. Youth Activities & Evening services announced. 815-225-7814.

UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST, 210 East Grove Street, Coleta, IL. Wilmer (Bill) Houch, Pastor. Sunday Worship Celebration 9:30 a.m.; Sunday School 11:00 a.m. For more information, call 815-441-3774.

BRETHREN IN CHRIST TheBridge@Beans,121E.3rdSt.,Sterling. 11 a.m. Sunday. Pastors, Rita Wolf and Bruce Johnson. Phone 815-441-0779 CATHOLIC SACRED HEART CATHOLIC, 2224 Ave., J, Sterling. Masses; Saturday, 5:30 p.m.; Sunday, 8:30 and 11 a.m.; Sacrament of Reconciliation, Saturday 4:30-5 p.m. Rev. Bruce Ludeke, Pastor ST. ANDREW CATHOLIC, 708 10th Ave., Rock Falls, Saturday confessions 4:00 p.m. Tuesday confessions 8:45 a.m. Saturday evening Mass 5:00 p.m.

Sunday Mass: 7:15 & 9:00 a.m. Daily Mass Mon.-Thurs. 8:00 a.m. (Wednesday during school year 8:15 a.m.); Friday 5:30 p.m.; Sat. 8:00 a.m. Msgr.

Thomas Dzielak. Phone: 625-4508.

ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC, corner of Ave. B and W. 6th St., Sterling. Saturday, 5 p.m.; (Masses of Anticipation); Sunday Masses, 7, 8:30, 10 and 11:30 a.m. in Spanish. Rev. James Keenan, Pastor; Fr. Adalberto Sanchaz Parochial Vicar.

ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC, 105 Benton Street, Tampico, Rev. Msgr. Thomas L. Dzielak, Parochial Administrator. Sunday Mass 10:45a.m., Phone 438-5425 CHRISTIAN-CHURCH OF CHRIST YORKTOWNCHURCHOFCHRIST, rural Tampico. Sunday service - 9 a.m. worship. For more information call Joseph Rosenski at (815)537-5371.

Everyone is welcome!

TAMPICO CHURCH OF CHRIST, 201 S. Fermont St., Tampico. Sunday school 9:00 a.m.; Sun Worship Service, 10:00 a.m.; Phone 815-438-6805.

MORRISON CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 201 S. Genesee St., Morrison, IL 61270. Phone (815) 772-4928 Worship 10:00 a.m. Sunday; Sunday School 10:30; Call for Ladies Bible Study COMMUNITY COMMUNITY OF CHRIST, Corner of Reno Rd. and Candlelight Dr., Worship 9:30 a.m. Pastor Kimberly Crump, Phone 815-625-6144.

WALNUT COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH, 125 Jackson, Walnut. Eldon Cook, Pastor, Nathan Richey, Associate Pastor; 9:00 a.m. Sunday Church Service; 10:30 a.m. Breakout Bible sessions. Phone 815-379-2645.

CONGREGATIONAL FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, 905 Dixon Ave., Rock Falls.; Pastor Al Campbell; Sunday Service 10:00 a.m.; Holy Communion first Sunday of the month.

No steps or stairs for handicapped for worship. Church phone: 625-3314.

THE BIG RED CHURCH First Congregational 311 Second Ave., Sterling. Pastor Jeff Coester; Church School, 9:00 a.m.; Morning Worship, 10:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary. Coffee Fellowship to follow worship service.

Tuesday nights Prayer Warriors 6:00 p.m.; Bible Study 7:00 p.m. Church

Office phone, 625-5112. The church is accessible to people with disabilities.

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 506 5th Ave., Rock Falls. Rick Morris, Pastor. Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m. Handicapped accessible. Phone 815-626-2271.

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 3400 N. 6th Ave., Sterling, Rev. Courtney Montgomery Chandler.

Sunday School, all ages 9 a.m.; Worship service 10:15 a.m.; Families Welcome. Nursery provided. Handicapped accessible. Phone 625-6851.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH, New Bedford, Pastor Brian L. Moore. Sunday: 9 a.m., Sunday School; 10:00 a.m., Sunday Morning Worship 10:30. Christian Children Fellowship Group on first Wednesday at 6:00 p.m., Youth Group on third Sunday at 6:00 p.m. Adult Fellowship Group on first Sunday at 5:00 p.m. at Fellowship Hall, and CWF on fourth Monday at 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. 445-4663 Pastor 626-2668 FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF WALNUT, 109 Red Oak Road, Walnut, IL. Pastor Brian L. Moore. Sunday Morning Worship 9:00 a.m.; Sunday School for all ages 10:45 a.m. Children/ Youth Sunday Club will resume on September 14th 10:15 a.m., Youth Group Meeting 6:00 p.m.; Adult Sunday Bible Class 8:00 a.m., Wednesdays Adult Bible Study 8:00 p.m. Church office phone 815-379-2093. Church Kitchen phone 379-2083. Email: walnutfirstchristain@yahoo.com. Also on Facebook (FirstChristianChurchWalnutIl) EPISCOPAL GRACE EPISCOPAL, 707 1st Ave., Sterling, 815-625-0442. Reverend Peg Williams, Rector. 9:00a.m. Sunday Holy Eucharist. Wednesdays spoken Holy Eucharist Noon, Bible study and soup supper at 5:30. Every Third Friday at 5:30 Younger adults gathering.

Pastoral care, confession and reconciliation by appt. gracechurchstg.org CHURCH OF SAINT ANNE (Episcopal), 401 North Cherry Street, Morrison, Illinois 61270 (815) 772-2818.

The Father Andrew Bro, Supply Priest.

Schedule of Masses and Services: Sunday 9:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, low mass with hymns, 10:00 a.m. coffee and fellowship.

EVANGELICAL ERIE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH 1409 16th Avenue, Erie, Illinois 61250. 309-659-7125. Pastor Ron Eckberg. Sunday: Sunday School 9:00 a.m.; Celebration Service, 10:15 a.m. Wednesday: Awana (K-6) 6:30 p.m. (Church Location); Junior High (7-8) 6:30 p.m. ; (Erie Middle School); Senior High (9-12) 7:30 p.m. (Erie Middle School). www.info@erieefree.org FOURSQUARE FOURSQUARE CHURCH, 1501 11th Ave., Rock Falls, Floyd Osborn, pastor. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m. Crusaders, 6 p.m.

Evening Service, 7 p.m. Wednesday Mid-Week Service, 7:30 p.m. nursery facilities available. Phone: 625-5040.

JEWISH TEMPLE SHOLOM, 510 E. 10th St., Sterling. Call for time and date of services. Temple phone:625-2599.

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST LATTER DAY SAINTS THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS, 2709 16th Ave., Sterling. William Stocks, Bishop; Sacrament Meeting 9:30-10:40 a.m.; Sunday school, 10:45-11:25 a.m.; Priesthood, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Relief society and Young Women, 11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.

LUTHERAN FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH OF JORDAN (ELCA) Sterling, 6 miles north on Rt. 40. Pastor Jamie Gallagher.

Phone 225-7410. Worship, 8:30 a.m.; Church 625-5407. The church building is air conditioned, and handicap accessible.

FIRST LUTHERAN (ELCA), 300 West Third Street, Prophetstown, Rev. Katrina (Katie) Gallagher. Worship, 9:00 a.m. Education hour, 10:15 a.m.

September through May. Our building is handicap accessible. Phone 537-2758.

OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN (LCMS), 21496 Hazel Rd., Sterling, Rev. Donald Matthiessen, Pastor. Worship, 9:00 a.m. Sunday School and Bible Study 10:00 a.m. Morrison phone: 772-4345.

GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN, (LCMS) Dixon Ave., at Martin Road, Rock Falls, Rev. Daniel Behmlander, pastor. Worship Service, 9:00 a.m.

Handicap accessible. Air Conditioned. Sunday School and Bible Class 10:15 a.m. Church office: 625-3376.

IMMANUEL EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN (ELCA), corner of 8th Ave. and W. 5th, Rock Falls. Henrietta J. Milner, Pastor; Worship: Sunday Worship at 9:00 a.m. and Sunday School at 10:15 a.m. Sept. thru May; Thursday evenings 6:30. Elevator and facilities for disabled persons. Air Conditioned. Church office: 625-3575.

ST. JOHN’S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN (ELCA), 703 Third Ave., Sterling. Rev. Mark Oehlert. Sunday Worship at 9:30 a.m. Sunday School immediately following worship. Alternative Worship Wed. 6:15 p.m. Fa-

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Church Office phone: 625-2634, between 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays.

MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH, (LCMS) LeFevre Rd. and Ave. F, Sterling. Phone: 625-2284. Sunday Worship Services at 9:00 a.m.; Sunday School and Bible classes at 10:15 a.m.; 9 a.m. broadcast live on WLLT, 107.7 FM on Sunday. Handicap accessible w/use of elevator. Air Conditioned. International Interim Pastor David Burge DCE: Steven Whitney ST. PAUL LUTHERAN (ELCA), 1701 16th Ave., Sterling; Brandon Nelson, Pastor. Gerad VonHolten, Youth Director. Sunday Morning: Worship Time 9:00 a.m.; Coffee Fellowship following worship. Nursery provided; handicap accessible; air conditioned. Phone 625-3069.

HOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH (LCMS), 404 E. North St., Rte. 92, Walnut, IL; Rev. David Menet, Pastor. Sunday Morning Worship 9:00 A.M.; Sunday School and Adult Bible Class 10:00 A.M. Phone 815-379-2839.

ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCH (LCMS) 601 N. Jackson St. Morrison.

Rev Mark Winkelman, Senoir Pastor; Rev Mike Winkelman, Associate Pastor. Sunday Worship Services at 9:30 A.M. Sunday School & Adult Bible Studies 10:45 A.M. Various Bible Studies during the week. Handicap accessible and air conditioned. Signing for deaf is available upon request. 815772-3386. www.stpetersmorrison.com TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (ELCA), Rt. 40 & Stover Ave., Milledgeville.

Pastor Jamie Gallagher. SeptemberMay 9:00 a.m. Sunday School and Adult Forum; All year 10:15 a.m.

Sunday Worship; Handicap accessible; Air conditioned. Phone: 225-7410.

NEW LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH (LCMC Congregation), 702 W. Lynn Blvd. Sterling, IL. Air conditioned.

Pastor Bill Sullivan, Sunday Traditional Service 8:30 a.m. Contemporary Service 10:45 a.m. Church Office Phone 499-6552. nursery provided Sat. night service 6:00pm. www.nllutheran.com Handicapped Accessible.

MENNONITE COMMUNITY MENNONITE FELLOWSHIP, meeting site at Sterling YWCA, 412 First Ave., Sterling, IL. Pastor Dan Rusmisel. Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m followed by Study Time 11:15 a.m. Phone: 815-2383421; Email: d_rusmiselle@yahoo. com. For more information see website: Community-Mennonite.org SCIENCE RIDGE MENNONITE CHURCH, 1702 East 37th St., Sterling.

Arnold Owens, Pastor. Sunday morning Church Worship 10:00 a.m., Sunday School 10:55 a.m. Phone 626-0538.

METHODIST EAST JORDAN UNITED METHODIST, 22027 Polo Rd., Sterling, IL 61081. Jim Miller, Pastor. Fellowship 9:00; Sunday School 9:30; Worship 10:30. Handicap accessible and air conditioned. Phone: 815-626-0104. Web address: www.EastJordanUMC.org FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 501 Broadway Ave., Sterling; Rev. Brad Wilson, pastor. Sunday School, 9:00 a.m. Worship, 10:30 a.m.

Nursery provided. Elevator available.

Air conditioning. Handicap accessible.

Telephones: Church 815-625-0244 (fax-815-564-0302); Annex, 815626-1734; Loaves & Fishes breakfast, Mon.-Fri., 9-11 a.m., FISH Pantry, Mon.-Fri., 9-11 a.m., 815-626-1734.

E-mail: admin@sterlingfirstumc.org ROCK FALLS UNITED METHODIST, home of Bear Necessities 210 4th Ave 815 625 0114 Worship 9:00 Adult and Children’s Education 10:00 Pastor: Rich Fassig - cell 815 751 2290 Christian Ed: Ann Brandt. See us on Facebook UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 321 N. Holcomb Ave., Milledgeville, 225-7511. 9:00 a.m. Sunday School 10:15 a.m. Worship Service. Pastor Andrew Pittman.

TRINITY UNITED METHODIST, 2nd Ave., and E. 10th St., Sterling, Pastor Brad Wilson. Sunday morning worship and Camp Sonshine for children in 5th grade and under at 9:00a.m. Fellowship with coffee and snacks at 10:20a.m.

Nursery provided during 9:00a.m. worship. Phone 1-815-626-7777. Trinity Food Pantry: call ‘Good Neighbors’ for voucher at 1-815-625-5111.

WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 2200 16th Ave., Sterling, Rev. Wesley Dickson Fellowship 9:30 a.m. Worship 10:00 a.m. Fully handicapped accessible and air-conditioned.

Nursery provided. Contact Church Office for questions 815-625-1968 TAMPICO FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, (Two blocks west of Casey’s) Welcomes Pastor Leanne Keate. Church phone 815438-6105; Sunday School 9:30 a.m. (starting again in Sep); Sunday Church Service 10:30 a.m., Fellowship to follow.

Need a ride? Call Terry 815-535-3665.

COLETA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 112 North Main St., Hyewon “Sophia” Hyon, Pastor. Worship Hour: 9:00 a.m.; Fellowship 10:00 a.m.; Sunday School for All ages 10:30 a.m. Fully

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Sterling. Rev. Scott D. Porter, Sr. Pastor; Saturday Night service 6:00 p.m.

Sunday Celebration service 10:00 a.m.

Youth Group 7th thru 12th grade, Sunday 10 a.m. Children’s ministry during all services. Phone 626-1827. Fax 626-6065. www.abidingwordchurch.org FULL GOSPEL ASSEMBLY, 3807 E. 23rd, Sterling, Brian Deseno, pastor. Sunday Services at 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday Night services at 7:00 p.m. Home/Office phone, 622-3968.

THE LIVING BREAD, 1003 Griswold, Sterling, “A Spirit-filled Bible Fellowship,” Sunday 10:00 a.m. For youth and other meetings call 626-6941.

CITY OF GOD, 530 W. Rt. 30, Rock Falls, an “Evangelistic Spirit Filled Ministry”, Larry Harts, Sr., Pastor. Associate Pastor, Marchet Harts. Youth Sundays ages 12-18. Sunday Worship and Praise 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday “Bible Education Night” 6:45 p.m.; Nursery: birth to 3 yrs.; Children’s Ministry All Services 4 yrs.-11yrs.

Phone 815-716-8057; FAX 716-8058 TABERNACLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 1407 Griswold Ave., Sterling. Frank Echebarria, pastor. Sunday Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.; Thursday night 7:00; Saturday night 7:00 p.m.

Phone 625-9377; Home phone 625-3420.

RIVER VALLEY CHURCH, 417 E. 3rd Street, Sterling. Sunday Morning Worship Service 10:30 a.m.; Sunday Night Worship Service 6:00 p.m.. Visitors welcome. Phone 626-2577.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP, 309 30th Avenue North, Clinton, Iowa. Sunday Services at 10:00 a.m., and children’s education at 10:30 a.m. Sunday mornings. For more information call 319-242-4972. wwws.geocities.com/unitarianclintonia FIREHOUSE OF GOD MINISTRIES, 306 5th Ave., Sterling. Pastor Brian Tribley. Phone 622-9490.

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 a.m., Community Light Program Free Meal Mon.-Fri. 5-6 p.m. Sat. Noon-1 p.m.

SHALOM ASSEMBLY OF YAHWEH, Sabbath Meetings Sat. at 1:30 p.m.; Sabbath School Sat. at 4 p.m.; (815)718-1323. Pastor H.R. Castillo. wwwforhisname.com COWBOY CHURCH ON THE ROCK, at 106 Gaston St., Prairieville, Sunday worship service 10:30 a.m.; Bible Study every Tuesday at 6:00pm: Handicapped accessible - everyone welcome. Contact Pastor Charlie White 815-445-5912 for more information.

THE ROCK CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, Building Stronger Christians. 104 E. 3rd Street, Rock Falls, IL. Sunday Prayer & Praise 9-9:30 a.m.; Bible Study/Worship Service 9:45 a.m.; Life Support 6:30 p.m.; Mon. Youth Group 7-8 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.); Tues. CPR-Constantly Practicing Recovery 7-8 p.m.; Wed. Steps of Life 10-11 a.m.; Bible Study 101 6-7 p.m.; Sat. Open Fellowship 6-10 p.m.

CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH MORRISON, Meets Sundays at 10:00a.m. at MIT Auditorium 701 Portland Avenue, Morrison. Kidzlink (Birth-5th grade) During Sunday Service. Office location 125 W. Main St., Morrison, Phone 815-956-0090, Email morrison@crossroadscn.com Crave Students Ministries 201 W. Market Street, Morrison (Grade 6-12) Wednesday nights doors open at 6:30p.m.

CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH ~ WHITE PINES CAMPUS 205 N. Jefferson Avenue, Polo.

815.837.5255. Meeting Saturdays at 6pm and Sundays at 10AM whitepines@crossroadscn.com We offer contemporary worship and relevant Bible teaching through engaging messages and powerful video. Join us after services for coffee, snacks & fellowship. Kidzlink Children’s Ministry (nursery-5th grade) during adult services Crave Youth Group (6th-12th grade) Wednesday nights 7pm. Visit our website: www.crossroadscn.com ONEIGHTY CHURCH, 12590 Lawrence Road, Sterling. Paul Sheley, Pastor. Service, Sunday 10:00am. Children’s Ministry available during all services. Phone 815-632-3410.www.oneightychurch.org SAUK VALLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH, 498 IL RT. 2 (accross Brandywind) Sunday worship at 10am Nursery provided; 815-288-7000 website: saukchurch.com PADS PADS SHELTER, 111 E. 29th St., Sterling (North of Lynn Blvd.East of Rt. 40 across from Wahl Clipper) October 1 - May 30, 7:00 p.m. - 7:00 a.m. 815-626-2210

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handicapped acessible and air conditioned. (Rides available, call 336-2226) NAZARENE FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE, 13th Ave., and 5th St., Sterling.

Senior Pastor: Bob Hasselbring 9:45 a.m. Sunday School, 10:45 a.m. Worship Service; handicapped accessible; nursery providedatallservices.Phone:625-0864.

LOST LAKE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE, 90 W. Flagg Road, Dixon 815-6264732 (corner of Lowden and Flagg Road). Pastor: Bob Clardie; Sunday School 9 a.m.; Fellowship at 11 a.m.; Sunday Weekly Service 10:00 a.m.

OPEN BIBLE FIRST OPEN BIBLE CHURCH, 2105 E. Rt. 30 Rock Falls. Rev. Les Funderberg, Pastor, Sunday School, 9:30 a.m., Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.; Super Church 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday, Prayer and Bible Study, 7 p.m. Youth Service - Beyond Belief Wed. 7:00 p.m. Phone: 625-1957 or 625-0414.

UNITED PENTECOSTAL NEW LIFE TABERNACLE, Located on the Corner of E. 10th St. and Avenue D, Rock Falls. Rev. Carl B. Reese, Pastor. Sunday School and Morning Worship 10 a.m., Sunday Evening Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday Prayer 6 p.m. Church/Pastors Phone: 625-2926 PRESBYTERIAN FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 410 2nd Ave., A Heart for God in the Heart of Sterling. Pastor Christina Berry: Morning Worship 9:30 a.m. with childcare provided; Fellowship following worship. Choir practice 11 a.m. Building accessible to the handicapped for more information call 815-625-0452 or visit our Facebook & Become A Fan of FPC. www.firstpresbyteriansterling.org FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 100 East Lincolnway, Morrison, Il. Rev. Michael Selburg. Phone 815-772-3510.

Sunday School/Choir Rehearsal 9:00 a.m. Worship Service 10:15 a.m. Coffee Hour 11:15 a.m. Monthly Communion.

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REFORMED BETHEL CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, 1208 3rd Ave., Fulton, IL. Pastor Len Meinema. Sunday services 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Sunday School for children and adults 9 a.m.; Youth group: Every other Sunday at 7:15 p.m.; Early Teen Ministries (ETM): Sunday at 4:30 p.m.; Prayer meeting at church every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

BETHEL REFORMED CHURCH, Pastor Gary DeKoekkoek 23rd St. and 3rd Ave., Sterling. Worship, 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Sunday School, 10:50 - 11:30; Nursery provided.

Call the church office for information and other organizations: 626-1816. www.bethelreformed.com SPRING VALLEY REFORMED CHURCH, 10960 Spring Valley Rd., Fulton, Il. 815-772-3554. Pastor Ralph Beidler. Worship 9:30am. Sunday School 11:00am. Outdoor Drive In Worship 7pm Mid May - Mid September.

SALVATION ARMY SALVATION ARMY, 409 Ave. F, Sterling, www.tsasterling.org, 815-6251622. Envoys DeShawn and Christal Johnson, Corps Pastors and Administrators. Social Services: Office Hours M/T/W/F 9am-4pm, Food Pantry T/W/F 1pm-3:30pm. Weekly Programming: Bible Study Wednesdays 5:30pm, Corps Cadets (Teen Leadership) Wednesdays 5:30pm, Praise Team Practice Wednesdays 7:00pm, Women’s Ministries Thursdays 1:00pm, Youth Group Thursdays 5-7pm, Women’s Night once a month 7pm, Parkway Service 2nd Sunday’s 2pm. Sunday Services: Sunday School 10:15am (all ages), Fellowship Time 11:00am, Worship Service 11:15am (nursery available). Community Services: Disaster Services, Worship Services, Character Building Programs, Summer Camps, Worship Arts, Vacation Bible School, Nursing Home Visits, Pastoral Counseling, Funerals.

THE CHURCH OF GOD, INC. THE CHURCH OF GOD INC., La Iglesia de Dios Inc.; 119 W. Second St., Rock Falls, IL 61071 626-8419, y la Pastora Sonia Rico y congregacion te invita a sus servicios de adoracion a Dios, Martes, Miercoles, Viernes, y Sabados 7:00-9:00 p.m. Clases biblica de ninos Sabados 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

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NONDENOMINATIONAL CHURCH OF CHRIST, 1902 16th Ave., Sterling. Sunday Morning Bible Study, 9:30 a.m. Worship Services, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday Evening Bible Study, 7 p.m. Phone: 625-2251.

AMAZING GRACE OF STERLING, 512 Second Avenue, Sterling. Rev. Loren Schlomer, pastor. Saturday evening service 6 p.m., Sunday worship 10 a.m.

Midweek service Wednesday 7 p.m.

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A shopper uses her iPhone to compare prices at Wal-Mart while shopping after midnight Nov. 28 at a Target store in South Portland, Maine. Wal-Mart is promising it won’t be beat on prices this holiday season. But online shoppers shouldn’t expect free shipping without any restrictions.

Retailers roll out plans for season $50 minimum – the same as last year. The retailer is encouraging online shoppers whose orders fall below the minimum to pick them up at the store.

Target is bringing back free shipping for the holidays – without any restrictions. It will waive the $25 minimum threshold starting Sunday and it will end Dec. 25. Last week, Best Buy, the nation’s largest consumer electronics chain, said that it would drop its $35 minimum to qualify for free shipping.

NEW YORK (AP) – WalMart and Target, two of the biggest U.S. retailers, on Thursday rolled out plans to lure shoppers into stores during the holiday season that includes discounts, stepped-up marketing and spiffed up stores.

The moves illustrate how important the holiday shopping season is to retailers. It’s a roughly 2-month period that accounts on average for 20 percent of the retail industry’s annual sales.

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Changes in stores Wal-Mart will have workers demonstrate toys, and there’ll be more food tastings. And they’ll be carols playing too.

The retailer also said shoppers can expect more theater in the stores, such as workers in Santa Claus gear.

Meanwhile, Target is featuring its mascot, a white bulldog with the trademark red bull’s-eye painted on him, throughout the store more prominently. And the retailer is overhauling the front area of the store that is stocked with $1 to $5 items and branding it under “Bullseye’s Playground.� For the holiday season, shoppers will find gift wrap and stocking stuffers there.

Discounts Both Wal-Mart and Target said discounting will be key. Wal-Mart says it will be offering price cuts, or what it refers to as “rollbacks,� starting Sunday, on thousands of holiday products that will last at least 90 days. That’s the same time as a year ago. It also says it will offer fewer “weekend�-only deals.

Target didn’t provide specifics on its discounting, but in late September said it would match its online prices with more than two dozen online competitors.

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Back by spring Brewers right fielder Ryan Braun undergoes a surgical procedure on his back, but is expected to return by spring. Braun hit 25 home runs and had 84 RBIs despite suffering from back pain.

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Friday, October 30, 2015 Numbers game Clippers guard Austin Rivers was fined $25,000 by the NBA, following an incident in which he hit a seat cushion that flew into the stands and hit a fan.

VOLLEYBALL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PREVIEW | FIRST ROUND 5A | STERLING AT METAMORA

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Rock Falls’ Bailey O’Brien hammers a kill during Thursday’s 3A Dixon Regional championship match against LaSalle-Peru.

O’Brien had 10 kills, but the Rockets lost 25-21, 25-11.

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Sterling’s Jordan Asbury (left), Reid Blackburn (center) and Trevor King form the wide receiver corps for the Golden Warriors. The group has grown into a bigger threat with each passing week, making things difficult for opponents.

OUTSIDE OPTIONS Warriors wide receivers making things rough on defenses

BY DAN WOESSNER dwoessner@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5555 @DanWoessner

A legend is growing at Roscoe Eades Stadium, and it has only a little to do with quarterback Sterling Thornton smashing Golden Warrior offensive records like hooligans do pumpkins on Halloween.

See, it’s almost always Thornton throwing the football.

The other is who’s catching it.

If it’s thrown toward Reid Blackburn, legend has it that the ball never hits the turf.

“Reid is a beast,” fellow receiver Trevor King said before Thursday’s

Geneseo. That was a bigger moment for the team.”

Blackburn and King have split time at one receiver spot throughout the season, while senior Jordan Asbury has occupied the other.

By the numbers, it’s Asbury who practice. “He’s so tall, and he has has been Thornton’s favorite target huge hands. I don’t think he’s ever with 29 receptions for 487 yards and dropped a pass.” four touchdowns. Thornton has comBlackburn, a 6-foot-5 junior, is com- pleted 80 passes for 1,024 yards and ing off his best varsity game with seven touchdowns. three catches for 43 yards in Sterling’s “Jordan is so good after he catches 21-18 loss to Sycamore in Week 9. the ball,” Blackburn said. “He’s so It was a personal highlight, but not fast and hard to bring down. He can one that comes to his mind first. make that one move, and then be “That’s probably my best game,” gone.”

Blackburn said. “But I think the highlight of the season so far is beating OPTIONS CONTINUED ON B3 When: 1 p.m. Saturday Where: Metamora H.S. Radio: 94.3 FM Twitter: Patrick Mason (@pm222)

Collision derails Rockets Rock Falls knocked out by Cavaliers

BY DAN WOESSNER dwoessner@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5555 @DanWoessner

DIXON – A pin could have dropped at Lancaster Gym and echoed like a thunder boom after Alexandra Romo and Molly Mammosser collided late in Game 1 of Thursday’s match between Rock Falls and LaSalle-Peru.

The two Rockets knocked heads while diving for a serve from LP’s Taylor Gibson, and neither player got up after the point.

The air left the crowd as trainers worked on the two players, and the air pretty much left the rest of the Rock Falls players in a 25-21, 25-11 loss in the 3A Dixon Regional championship.

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VOLLEYBALL | 3A PLANO REGIONAL | STERLING DEF. KANELAND 25-13, 25-19

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PLANO – If, in some alternate world where successful serve percentage was related to body temperature, then Jamy Trancoso would be running a slight fever.

The Sterling libero puts her serve in play 98.7 percent of the time, and she couldn’t have stepped to the service line in a more perfect situation. Backed

by Trancoso’s reliable serves, the Golden Warriors bounced

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25-13, 25-19.

“I just knew I had to keep serve,” said Trancoso, whose team trailed 7-2 before she rattled off nine straight points. “We came out slow, and I knew that if I could keep serving, our hitters would get us back into it.”

The hitters certainly did.

Second-seeded Sterling won the first game without much resistance from the No. 3 Knights (20-14-1), and didn’t want to allow Kaneland back Alex T. Paschal/apaschal@saukvalley.com back from a rough start to Game into the match with a sloppy Sterling celebrates after beating Kaneland 25-13, 25-19 on 2 and rallied to win the Class second game.

Thursday in the championship of the 3A Plano Regional. The 3A Plano Regional volleyball Warriors are looking for back-to-back sectional titles. championship over Kaneland, RELIABILITY CONTINUED ON B5 Star of the match: Jay Borum, Sterling, 12 kills, 8 digs Key performers: Kaylee Martin, Sterling, 12 kills, 6 digs; Alli Olson, Sterling, 27 assists; Jamy Trancoso, Sterling, 11 digs Up next: 3A Sycamore Sectional, Sterling vs. Boylan, 7 p.m. Tuesday

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Marlins catch big fish Don Mattingly The Miami Marlins hired the former Dodgers manager, who was fired by Los Angeles after the team’s playoff exit in the NLDS.

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Mount Carroll defeated Aquin 12-6 in overtime in 1983 for the school’s lone playoff win. A capsule in Thursday’s editions had the score incorrect.

SVM regrets the error.

Local events

Today Football 7 p.m.

• 4A playoffs, Dixon at Rockford Lutheran, at Harlem High School, Machesney Park (1460 AM) • 1A playoffs, Westminster Christian at Polo (107.7 FM)

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Dixon playoff game moved to Harlem Today’s 4A playoff game between Dixon and Rockford Lutheran has been moved to Harlem High School’s field at 7 p.m. The address is 1 Huskie Circle, Machesney Park.

Women’s volleyball TBA

• Sauk Valley at Parkland Tournament

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NIU profitting from stadium beer sales Northern Illinois University officials say a decision to sell beer at Huskie Stadium during football games is paying off monetarily and in public safety.

University police Cmdr.

Don Rodman said alcoholrelated calls during games have dropped since beer sales began in the second week of the football season. Rodman and senior associate athletic director John Cheney believe the drop is due to fans not binge drinking before going into the stadium.

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Padres hire Arizona coach as manager The San Diego Padres hired Arizona Diamondbacks third base coach Andy Green as their new manager.

Green takes over a team that underachieved despite general manager A.J. Preller’s aggressive offseason roster makeover. The Padres finished 74-88 and fourth in the NL West, 18 games behind the division champion Los Angeles Dodgers.

San Diego has had five straight losing seasons and has missed the playoffs for 9 straight years.

Blue Jays GM rejects offer to stay The Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos left the team on the day he was selected executive of the year by his peers, rejecting an offer to remain in what might have been a diminished role under its new president.

The team announcement Thursday comes as former Cleveland Indians President Mark Shapiro takes over as Toronto’s new president on Monday.

Shapiro replaces Paul Beeston, who is retiring.

Anthopoulos acquired MVP candidate Josh Donaldson in the offseason and traded for David Price and Troy Tulowitzki before the deadline to give Toronto its first playoff spot since 1993.

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When the Royals traded for Johnny Cueto this season, it gave Kansas City three starting pitchers from the Dominican Republic. The Royals will become the first team to start three pitchers in the World Series from outside of the United States.

Domincan dominance Royals trio of pitchers making a little bit of history Cuba, Canada, Venezuela and the Netherlands, among other KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Yordano countries.

Ventura is the flamethrower Ventura starts with Kansas City who stares down hitters. Johnny holding a 2-0 lead.

Cueto has flowing dreadlocks Ever since the Royals got Cueto and nicknamed his motion “The from Cincinnati in a trade in late Rocking Chair.” Edinson Volquez July, it seems the KC clubhouse is the always ebullient guy, who has come to resemble a Dominipitched just hours after his dad can neighborhood. died.

“Take a look, we all lined And together, the Kansas City up together here. This is trio is about to put the world in the Dominican corner,” the World Series. said Kelvin Herrera, anothWhen Ventura takes the mound er Dominican and a key memat Citi Field tonight to face the ber of the bullpen. “We have New York Mets, the Royals will families, but during the season become the first team in Series we spent more thing together history to start three pitchers bonding in the field. I think that born outside the United States. makes us a family.”

Each from the Dominican That family of right-handers Republic, too. came together in the past year.

“The fact that we are all in this Ventura is the one with more together is priceless,” Ventura tenure with the Royals, a winsaid. “This is so exciting. You ning pitcher in Game 6 of the feel proud that this is something 2014 World Series. He had the historic, but at the same time highest velocity this year among you’re aware this is also unique. starting pitchers who qualified Nobody knows if three Dominifor the ERA title at 96.79 mph. can pitchers will be ever starting After the offseason departure again for the same team in World of their ace James Shields in Series.” free agency, the Royals signed Before this year, six Series Volquez to a 2-year, $20 million teams had started two pitchers contract. He led the team in wins from beyond the U.S., STATS (13) and ERA (3.55) during the said. Those pitchers came from regular season.

BY ERIC NUNEZ AP Sports Writer

The 32-year-old allowed three runs over six innings against the New York Mets in Game 1 on Tuesday. His father, 63-year-old Daniel Volquez, died of heart failure just before he started. The Royals won 5-4 in 14 innings.

Cueto, a soon-to-be-free agent, was acquired at the trade deadline from the Reds. He delivered on Wednesday night, completing a two-hitter in a 7-1 victory. He was a teammate with Volquez, both starting for the Reds in the 2010 NL Division Series against Philadelphia.

“At first, it was a little strange because I didn’t know most of the guys, but I became comfortable quickly,” Cueto said. “We’re three Dominicans, tremendous pitchers. We got along as brothers, there’s no envy among us.

Everybody is trying to help each other.”

No telling if any of Cueto’s fellow pitchers will benefit from copying his slowed-down, wiggling windup. He calls it “La Mecedora” – the Rocking Chair.

“I read swings, I read rhythms.

And I come up with these different type of windups because of the rhythm that I feel is going to be effective on that particular pitch,” Cueto said.

MEN’S BASKETBALL PREVIEW | 2015 WISCONSIN BADGERS

Badgers being frank without Frank Hayes not afraid to speak his mind about replacing Kaminsky foul line more and be more assertive. Just as MADISON, Wis. – important is that Hayes Nigel Hayes will be takwill be counted on to ing more big shots this set a standard for the year and saying fewer younger Badgers. big words.

“He needs to make The field of stenograsure that what he does phy’s biggest fan is the is scrutinized even more new headlining act on now,” Ryan said. “His the Wisconsin Badgers. leadership skills will be “I try to stay away from on display in every drill words now in these interhe does in practice.” views because that seems So far, so good for to get me in trouble like Hayes. Last year, Hayes it did last year,” the talkpointed to outside ative Hayes deadpanned shooting and ball-handuring Wisconsin media dling as skills he targetday.

AP ed for improvement.

Hayes became a Hayes said he is workWith Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker gone, viral sensation during Wisconsin will turn to Nigel Hayes (left) to fill some ing on everything going the Badgers’ run to into this season. And he of that void offensively. the national title game still has an impressive This year’s squad pare them to play.” for his interest in arsenal of entertainwill be led by a pair of There are huge voids NCAA Tournament ing press conference juniors who know noth- to fill. The Badgers lost stenographers. answers. ing except making it to about two-thirds of the But Hayes is no lonWhen asked about ger just the wingman, a Final Four: Hayes and scoring and rebounding whether he took offense like he was on Wisconquick point guard Bron- from last year’s starto predictions of lower sin’s back-to-back Final son Koenig. expectations among outstudded squad.

Four teams. siders, Hayes answered: “My role and BronKoenig (8.7 points) Frank Kaminsky and “The bumblebee isn’t son’s role, suddenly we remains a constant at Sam Dekker are gone to just have to take more point guard. Hayes (12.4 supposed to be able to the NBA. Trusted senior shots,” Hayes said. fly because it’s aerodypoints, 6.2 rebounds) guards Josh Gasser and “We’ll definitely be namically unfit,” Hayes will be the top option said. “But the bumbleTraevon Jackson are out looked upon to teach up front. bee doesn’t care. He of eligibility, as is top the young guys and Coach Bo Ryan said flies anyway. So, here frontcourt backup Duje the inexperienced guys that he would like to we are.”

Dukan. see Hayes get to the what to do to best preBY GENARO C. ARMAS AP Sports Writer

On the tube TV listings

Today Auto racing 10:30 a.m.

• NASCAR Sprint Cup, practice for Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500, NBCSP Noon & 1:30 p.m.

• NASCAR Trucks, practice for Kroger 200, at Martinsville, Va., FS1

College football 6 p.m.

• Louisville at Wake Forest, ESPN2 • E. Carolina at UConn, ESPNU 6:30 p.m.

• Dartmouth at Harvard, NBCSP 7 p.m.

• Louisiana Tech at Rice, FS1 9:15 p.m.

• Wyoming at Utah St., ESPN2

College field hockey 2:30 p.m.

• Rutgers at Indiana, BTN

College soccer 9 a.m.

• Women, Michigan at Penn St., BTN 7 p.m.

• Women. W. Virginia at Baylor, FSN

College volleyball 7 p.m.

• Purdue at Wisconsin, BTN

Golf 4 p.m.

• Champions, Toshiba Classic, first round, at Newport Beach, Calif., TGC 10 p.m.

• PGA, CIMB Classic, third round, at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, TGC

Horse racing 2 p.m.

• Breeders’ Cup World Championships, Day 1, at Santa Anita Park, Calif., NBCSP

MLB playoffs 7 p.m.

• World Series, Game 3, Royals at Mets, Fox

NBA 11 a.m.

• Grizzlies at Pacers (delay), FSN 6 p.m.

• Heat at Cavaliers, ESPN 6:30 p.m.

• Bulls at Pistons, CSN 8:30 p.m.

• Warriors at Rockets, ESPN

NHL 7 p.m.

• Blackhawks at Wild, CSN+

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THURSDAY’S SCOREBOARD Volleyball Postseason pairings

Class 3A Dixon Regional Monday’s results • No. 8 Dixon def. No. 7 Kewanee 19-25, 25-17, 25-13 • No. 5 Princeton def. No. 10 Geneseo 25-10, 25-17 Tuesday’s results • No. 1 LaSalle-Peru def. Dixon 25-16, 25-22 • No. 4 Rock Falls def. Princeton 25-16, 25-22 Today’s match • Championship, LaSalle-Peru def.

Rock Falls 25-21, 25-11 LaSalle-Peru advances to Sycamore Sectional vs. Sycamore, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3 Plano Regional Monday’s results • No. 11 Mendota def. No. 9 Sandwich 25-22, 25-17 Tuesday’s results • No. 2 Sterling def. Mendota 25-9, 25-12 • No. 3 Kaneland def. No. 6 Plano 25-20, 25-5 Today’s match • Championship, Sterling def. Kaneland 25-13, 25-19 Sterling advances to Sycamore Sectional vs. Boylan, 7, Tuesday, Nov. 3

Class 2A Newman Regional Monday’s result • No. 7 Prophetstown def. No. 10 Bureau Valley 25-18, 25-9 Tuesday’s results • No. 2 Dakota def. Prophetstown 25-16, 25-17 • No. 3 Fulton def. No. 6 Newman 25-16, 25-15 Friday’s result • Championship, Fulton def. Dakota 25-12, 25-17 Fulton advances to Fulton Sectional vs.

Elgin St. Edwards, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3 Lena-Winslow Regional Monday’s result • No. 9 West Carroll def. No. 8 Forreston 25-18, 25-19 Tuesday’s results • No. 1 Lena-Winslow def. West Carroll 25-13, 25-23 • No. 4 Riverdale def. No. 5 Morrison 25-22, 15-25, 25-20 Friday’s result • Championship, Lena-Winslow def.

Riverdale 25-18, 25-22 Lena-Winslow advances to Fulton Sectional vs. Keith Country Day, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3 Oregon Regional Monday’s results • No. 9 Winnebago def. No. 10 South Beloit 25-10, 25-20 • No. 8 Pecatonica def. No. 11 Rockford Christian 20-25, 25-19, 25-15 Tuesday’s results • No. 2 Keith Country Day def. Winnebago, 25-5, 25-17 • No. 3 Oregon def. Pecatonica 25-5, 25-17 Friday’s result • Championship, Keith def. Oregon 25-20, 20-25, 28-26.

Keith advances to Fulton Sectional vs.

Lena-Winslow, 6 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 3

Class 1A Indian Creek Regional Monday’s results • No. 7 Paw Paw def. No. 9 Hinckley-Big Rock 25-18, 25-19 • No. 6 Indian Creek def. No. 11 Mooseheart 25-10, 25-14 Tuesday’s results • No. 2 Milledgeville def. Paw Paw 25-14, 25-16 • Indian Creek def. No. 3 AFC 25-16, 25-19 Today’s match • Championship, Milledgeville def. Indian Creek 13-25, 25-21, 25-22 Milledgeville advances to Polo Sectional vs.

Galena, 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 3 Erie Regional Monday’s results • No. 10 Polo def. No. 8 Hiawatha 25-8, 25-10 Tuesday’s results • No. 1 Eastland def. Polo 25-6, 25-11 • No. 4 Erie def. No. 5 Amboy 25-16, 19-25, 25-11 Today’s match • Championship, Eastland def. Erie 25-14, 25-23 Eastland advances Polo Sectional vs.

Stockton, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3

MLB WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) All games televised by Fox Kansas City 2, N.Y. Mets 0 Tuesday’s result Kansas City 5, N.Y. Mets 4, 14 inn.

Wednesday’s result Kansas City 7, N.Y. Mets 1 Today’s game Kansas City (Ventura 13-8) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 9-7), 7:07 p.m.

Saturday’s game Kansas City (Young 11-6) at N.Y. Mets (Matz 4-0), 7:07 p.m. x-Sunday’s game Kansas City at N.Y. Mets, 7:15 p.m. x-Tuesday, Nov. 3 N.Y. Mets at Kansas City, 7:07 p.m. x-Wednesday, Nov. 4 N.Y. Mets at Kansas City, 7:07 p.m.

College football Big Ten West Iowa Wisconsin Northwestern Illinois Minnesota Nebraska Purdue East Michigan State Ohio State Penn State Michigan Rutgers Maryland Indiana

Conf.

3-0 3-1 2-2 1-2 1-2 1-3 0-3

Overall 7-0 6-2 6-2 4-3 4-3 3-5 1-6

Conf.

4-0 4-0 3-1 2-1 1-3 0-3 0-4

Overall 8-0 8-0 6-2 5-2 3-4 2-5 4-4

Saturday’s games • IIllinois at Penn St., 11 a.m. (ESPN2) • Nebraska at Purdue, 11 a.m. (ESPNU) • Rutgers at Wisconsin, 11 a.m. (BTN) • Maryland at Iowa, 2:30 p.m. (ABC) • Michigan at Minnesota, 6 p.m. (ESPN)

Top 25 schedule Thursday’s results No. 5 TCU 40, West Virginia 10 North Carolina 26, No. 23 Pittsburgh 19 Saturday’s games No. 3 Clemson at N.C. State, 2:30 p.m.

No. 8 Stanford at Washington St., 9:30 p.m.

No. 9 Notre Dame at No. 21 Temple, 7 p.m.

No. 10 Iowa vs. Maryland, 2:30 p.m.

No. 11 Florida vs. Georgia, 2:30 p.m.

No. 12 Oklahoma State at Texas Tech, 2:30 p.m.

No. 13 Utah vs. Oregon State, 6 p.m.

No. 14 Oklahoma at Kansas, 2:30 p.m.

No. 15 Michigan at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

No. 16 Memphis vs. Tulane, 6 p.m.

No. 17 Florida State vs. Syracuse, 11 a.m.

No. 18 Houston vs. Vanderbilt, 6 p.m.

No. 19 Mississippi at Auburn, 11 a.m.

No. 22 Duke vs. Miami, 6 p.m.

No. 24 UCLA vs. Colorado, 2 p.m.

AP Top 25 Poll 1. Ohio St. (39) 2. Baylor (7) 3. Clemson (6) 4. LSU (5) 5. TCU (3) 6. Michigan St. 7. Alabama (1) 8. Stanford 9. Notre Dame 10. Iowa 11. Florida 12. Oklahoma St. 13. Utah 14. Oklahoma 15. Michigan

Record 8-0 7-0 7-0 7-0 7-0 8-0 7-1 6-1 6-1 7-0 6-1 7-0 6-1 6-1 5-2

Pts 1,466 1,417 1,378 1,344 1,327 1,250 1,163 1,062 997 934 867 864 838 697 666

Pv 1 2 6 5 4 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 3 17 15

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16. Memphis 7-0 660 18 17. Florida St. 6-1 571 9 18. Houston 7-0 411 21 19. Mississippi 6-2 368 24 20. Toledo 7-0 365 19 21. Temple 7-0 307 22 22. Duke 6-1 274 23 23. Pittsburgh 6-1 161 25 24. UCLA 5-2 110 — 25. Mississippi St. 6-2 103 — Others receiving votes: Texas A&M 73, North Carolina 46, Southern Cal 33, BYU 18, Georgia 17, Wisconsin 15, Northwestern 10, Appalachian St. 6, California 5, Washington St. 2.

Heartbreak Hawks Oregon plays Keith to brink, but can’t pull out win

BY ANDY COLBERT Shaw Media

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 1 0 1.000 Toronto 1 0 1.000 New York 1 1 .500 Brooklyn 0 1 .000 Philadelphia 0 1 .000 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 1 0 1.000 Washington 1 0 1.000 Atlanta 1 1 .500 Charlotte 0 1 .000 Orlando 0 1 .000 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 2 0 1.000 Detroit 2 0 1.000 Cleveland 1 1 .500 Milwaukee 0 1 .000 Indiana 0 2 .000

GB — — ½ 1 1 GB — — ½ 1 1 GB — — 1 1½ 2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Dallas 1 0 1.000 Memphis 1 1 .500 Houston 0 1 .000 San Antonio 0 1 .000 New Orleans 0 2 .000 Northwest Division W L Pct Denver 1 0 1.000 Minnesota 1 0 1.000 Oklahoma City 1 0 1.000 Portland 1 0 1.000 Utah 0 1 .000 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 1 0 1.000 Golden State 1 0 1.000 L.A. Lakers 0 1 .000 Phoenix 0 1 .000 Sacramento 0 1 .000

GB — ½ 1 1 1½ GB — — — — 1 GB — — 1 1 1

Thursday’s results Memphis 112, Indiana 103 Atlanta 112, New York 101 Dallas at L.A. Clippers, late Today’s games Utah at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Miami at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Washington at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Denver, 8 p.m.

Golden State at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Sacramento, 9 p.m.

Portland at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m.

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 10 9 1 0 18 Tampa Bay 11 5 4 2 12 Florida 9 5 3 1 11 Ottawa 9 4 3 2 10 Boston 8 4 3 1 9 Detroit 9 4 4 1 9 Buffalo 10 3 7 0 6 Toronto 8 1 5 2 4 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Islanders 10 6 2 2 14 N.Y. Rangers 10 6 2 2 14 Washington 8 6 2 0 12 Pittsburgh 10 6 4 0 12 New Jersey 10 5 4 1 11 Philadelphia 9 4 3 2 10 Carolina 10 4 6 0 8 Columbus 10 2 8 0 4

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GF 36 28 30 29 33 22 23 19

GA 17 28 18 30 29 24 33 28

GF 33 28 30 20 25 20 20 22

GA 25 20 21 20 27 26 28 41

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Dallas 10 8 2 0 16 35 Nashville 9 7 1 1 15 27 St. Louis 10 7 2 1 15 27 Minnesota 9 6 2 1 13 28 Winnipeg 10 6 3 1 13 32 Chicago 10 6 4 0 12 20 Colorado 9 3 5 1 7 22 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF Los Angeles 9 6 3 0 12 20 Vancouver 10 4 2 4 12 28 Arizona 10 5 4 1 11 27 San Jose 9 5 4 0 10 24 Edmonton 10 3 7 0 6 24 Calgary 10 2 7 1 5 20 Anaheim 10 1 7 2 4 10 Note: Two points for a win, one point overtime loss.

GA 27 17 21 25 26 19 26 GA 18 22 28 20 31 40 27 for

Thursday’s results Carolina 3, N.Y. Islanders 2, OT New Jersey 4, Philadelphia 1 Pittsburgh 4, Buffalo 3 Colorado 2, Tampa Bay 1 St. Louis 2, Anaheim 1 Winnipeg 3, Chicago 1 Dallas 4, Vancouver 3, OT Montreal at Edmonton, late Today’s games Philadelphia at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Toronto at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Washington, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Carolina, 6 p.m.

Ottawa at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Boston at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Chicago at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Montreal at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Thursday’s box score

JETS 3, BLACKHAWKS 1 Chicago 1 0 0 – 1 Winnipeg 1 1 1 – 3 First Period–1, Chicago, Kane 6 (Panarin, Seabrook), 1:26 (pp). 2, Winnipeg, Wheeler 5 (Little), 8:12. Penalties–Enstrom, Wpg (holding), :18; Trouba, Wpg (tripping), 8:19; Toews, Chi (hooking), 8:32; Garbutt, Chi (tripping), 17:04.

Second Period–3, Winnipeg, Ladd 3 (Little, Perreault), 5:09 (pp). Penalties– Toews, Chi (holding), 4:03; Trouba, Wpg (tripping), 19:41.

Third Period–4, Winnipeg, Scheifele 4 (Ehlers, Myers), 8:04. Penalties–None.

Shots on Goal–Chicago 14-18-14–46.

Winnipeg 9-13-9–31.

Power-play opportunities–Chicago 1 of 3; Winnipeg 1 of 3.

Goalies–Chicago, Crawford 5-3-0 (31 shots-28 saves). Winnipeg, Hutchinson 4-0-0 (46-45).

A–15,294 (15,016). T–2:32.

Transactions BASEBALL American League DETROIT TIGERS — Named Rich Dubee pitching coach.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Promoted Jeff Kingston to vice president and assistant general manager for baseball operations, Tom Allison to vice president for player personnel and Lee MacPhail IV to director of professional scouting.

TEXAS RANGERS — Announced pitching coach Mike Maddux will not return next season.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Announced general manager Alex Anthopoulos is leaving the team.

National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Declined the mutual 2016 option on 1B Justin Morneau.

MIAMI MARLINS — Fired Dan Jennings general manager.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Named Andy Green manager.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Indiana Pacers F Paul George $10,000 for public criticism of officiating, and Los Angeles Clippers G Austin Rivers $25,000 for throwing a seat cushion into the spectator stands.

OREGON – For fans of smallschool volleyball, Oregon was the place to be Thursday night for a 2A regional final.

Oregon, winner of 10 regionals in the past 11 years, and three-time defending 1A state champ Keith Country Day met in a thrill-a-minute classic that left not only the players exhausted afterward, but the large crowd at the Blackhawk Center emotionally drained.

In the end, Keith prevailed 25-20, 20-25, 28-26, and Oregon could only wonder, what if? Twice, the Hawks were one point away (2524 and 26-25) from closing out the final game, but Keith survived to move on to the Fulton Sectional.

“We’re a young team and new to 2A,” said Keith coach Steve Williams, who starts four sophomores. “To come in here and get a win against a really good Oregon team is huge.”

In the third game, Oregon came back from deficits of 18-12 and 21-15 to almost pull off the win.

With Bre Cullen calmly holding serve and Gylian Finch ratcheting up kills from the outside, Oregon scored seven straight points to take a 22-21 lead.

“Both teams wanted it so bad,” said Cullen, who had a seasonhigh 23 digs.

With the roar from the crowd deafening and Oregon (28-9) hoping to increase its lead, a bad break went against the Hawks as an attempted return hit the ceiling and took an errant bounce. Oregon couldn’t corral the ball, and the Cougars were able to tie the score at 22-22 and stop Oregon’s momentum.

“The fact that we hung in there after losing the lead meant a lot,” Williams said.

Keith managed a 24-23 lead, and almost had the clincher, but a kill was ruled out of bounds by a narrow margin.

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Oregon’s Sommer Rhea spikes the ball Thursday in a 25-20, 20-25, 28-26 loss to Keith Country Day in the 2A Oregon Regional final.

Finch, Oregon’s best server, then aced the Cougars for a 25-24 lead.

Similar to Keith, Oregon was set up for a kill to win the game, but it went out of bounds.

“At the end of the third game, we were really digging deep,” Oregon coach Faith Watson said. “We had a couple of good opportunities. Keith didn’t do anything we weren’t expecting.”

A Keith service error gave the lead back to Oregon, but the Hawks weren’t able to take advantage.

Instead, Keith slammed the door on Oregon repeating as regional champs with a pair of kills for points 27 and 28.

“I’m proud of the team. I always am,” Watson said. “All of the energy and heart came from all 12 of them, even the ones on the bench.”

That heart was tested after losing the first set and trailing 6-3 in the second game. Sommer Rhea jump-started the Hawks with a tip and two aces to tie things up. With

Finch serving and Rhea adding on to her total of 16 kills for the match, Oregon took a 14-10 lead.

Then freshman Bailey Nelson had a block and kill on consecutive plays to help Oregon to an 18-13 lead. The two teams traded points the rest of the way. Oregon was keyed by tips from Haylie Rorbeck and Finch. Nelson finished matters off with a kill for the 25-20 win.

“Coming in, I don’t know if they truly believed they could win the second game,” Watson said.

“We were a little frantic at first, and had a little miscommunication,” Cullen said.

In Game 1, Oregon got into an early hole with three net violations and a service error. They pulled within two points a couple of times, but never any closer.

“Our goal was state,” said Mackenzie Skoumal, one of four seniors playing their last match. “We played our hearts out and fought to the end. I wouldn’t want to play with anyone else.”

NHL | JETS 3, BLACKHAWKS 1

Hot goalie ends win streak at four Jets’ Hutchinson makes 45 saves to beat Blackhawks By the Associated Press

WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Michael Hutchinson stopped 45 shots, and Andrew Ladd scored on the power play to lead the Winnipeg Jets to a 3-1 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night.

Bryan Little set up a pair of goals for the Jets, who stopped the Blackhawks’ four-game winning streak.

The Jets (6-3-1) were ahead 2-1 going into the third period on goals by Blake Wheeler and Ladd.

Mark Scheifele added to the lead at 8:04 when he took a pass from rookie Nikolaj Ehlers and beat goalie Corey Crawford on the short side.

Patrick Kane scored the game’s first goal, his sixth of the season, 1:26 into the game on a power play for Chicago (6-4-0).

Crawford had come into the game with a pair of shutouts in his four straight wins. He stopped 28 shots.

AP

The Jets’ Dustin Byfuglien (33) is checked by the Blackhawks’ Viktor Tikhonov during their game in Winnipeg on Thursday. The Blackhawks lost 3-1.

The Jets got off on the wrong foot when defenseman Toby Enstrom took a hooking penalty 18 seconds into the game.

The reigning Stanley Cup champions made them pay, as Kane took a cross-ice pass from center Artemi Panarin

and fired a low shot past Hutchinson.

Wheeler tied it at 1 with his fifth goal of the season after Little won the faceoff, sent the puck back to him, and he delivered a low shot from the top of the circle that went under Crawford’s

stretched-out left leg at 8:12 of the first.

With hometown product Jonathan Toews in the box for holding, the Jets peppered shots at Crawford until Ladd flipped in a Little rebound to go ahead 2-1 at 5:09 of the second.

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Blackburn is third on the team in receptions with 10, behind slot back Turner Morse (26-297). King has three catches for 36 yards, including a big thirddown reception for 14 yards last week.

“Where Trevor stands out is blocking,” Sterling coach Jon Schlemmer said. “I suppose he has to, considering his father, but it’s something that he’s worked

on. In this offense, these guys need to be able to catch the ball, but they better be able to block too.”

King is the son of former Amboy and Augustana center Greg King, who served as Sterling’ s head coach for a decade before Schlemmer. Greg King, Sterling’s athletic director, is an assistant coach now.

“I know if that I slack on blocking on a play that I am going to keep hearing about,” Trevor King said.

“With him being a lineman, blocking is some-

thing he’s alway emphasized, so it’s something I make sure I do right.”

Asbury, who is battling bronchitis this week, spent the offseason hitting the weight room, running routes with Thornton, and improving his speed by joining the track team.

“I am going back out for track this year,” Asbury said. “It’s helped my speed so much. It makes you focus so hard on technique that you don’t waste any motion.”

He also has watched

the growth of his fellow receivers, and knows that it will only mean good things for the Warriors.

“Our offense starts with the run, and the passing game comes once that is established,” Asbury said. “The more threats you have out there, the less they can focus on one person or on the run.

“Both Trevor and Reid have worked so hard this season, and you can tell that next year there isn’t going to be any fall-off on the offense, and they are going to have a lot to do with that.”

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At times you have to just guess well

Grizzwells by Bill Schorr

Lewis Thomas, whose annual award is given by the Rockefeller University to a scientist for artistic achievement, said, “We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life.

We have language. We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a ‘common goal’ of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.”

This week, we have been looking at the deals when a defender should, or should not, overruff declarer. The general principles are fine, but sometimes a defender will have to guess. In this deal, for example, South is in four spades. West leads the heart 10. East wins with his queen, cashes the heart ace,

and continues with the heart king. After South ruffs with the spade jack, what should West do?

South’s rebid of two spades guaranteed at least a sixcard suit. With, say, 5-2-4-2

distribution and the same honor cards, South would have passed over East’s intervening two-heart bid. North would have had another chance to continue his hand description.

Should West overruff? If South started with A-K-J-7-2 of spades and East with 10-8-6, West would have to overruff to gain the defenders two trump tricks.

However, the general principle is to overruff with tripleton queen-low-low unless partner rates to be short in the suit.

Here, South has shown at least a six-card suit in the auction.

West should discard. Then the contract must fail. But note that if West overruffs and, say, shifts to a diamond, declarer wins in the dummy, plays a trump to his 10, cashes the ace, and claims. © 2015 UFS

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VOLLEYBALL

1A INDIAN CREEK REGIONAL

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1A ERIE REGIONAL | EASTLAND DEF. ERIE 25-14, 25-23

Missiles rally past Cougars deal with Cards’ comeback Eastland downs Erie in two games to advance to Polo Sectional Timberwolves M’ville wins first title since 2000

BY JAMES HIGH Shaw Media

SHABBONA – The Indian Creek volleyball team won Game 1 but couldn’t hold on, losing 13-25, 25-21, 25-22 to Milledgeville on Thursday in the championship of the Class 1A Indian Creek Regional.

It was the Missiles’ first regional title since 2000.

“We had a lot of pressure on us,” Missiles coach Brad Grenoble said, “with the talk around town and promises of parades, but it’s great for these girls and great for the community.”

Indian Creek came out and dominated the first set. The Timberwolves took an early 7-1 lead and never looked back.

Josie Diehl and Alex Turner continued to get it done on offense, and the Timberwolves looked to be in complete control.

“We played really well,” Turner said. “We had a lot of power in that first game. We came into tonight really wanting to put them away quickly.”

After Turner aced the first serve of the second game, it seemed the Timberwolves had the Missiles on their heels.

But Milledgeville (2511) reeled off six straight points, and eventually won the second game to force a deciding Game 3.

Milledgeville def. Indian Creek 13-25, 25-21, 25-22 Up next: 1A Polo Sectional, Milledgeville vs. Galena, 7 p.m. Tuesday Milledgeville took an 18-11 lead in Game 3, but Indian Creek was able to battle back and tie the score at 22.

From there, the Missiles scored three points to take home the regional crown.

“We’ve been down before,” Grenoble said.

“We play in a tough conference, and came from behind several times to beat good teams this year. So it’s nothing new to us.

It just came down to relaxing tonight. I told them that if they made good passes, then the middle would take over and we would win.”

The Missiles’ size was a key factor in getting their offense going.

Junior Carley Harrielle said that their confidence and never-giveup mentality also played a big role.

“We knew they had great players and a great defense,” Harrielle said.

“We lost the first game pretty bad, but we came out in the second game and we knew that we were going to win.”

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ERIE – The Eastland Cougars started things out with a bang – actually, several of them – from the outside on Thursday night, then went into the middle for a bit. And even when the Erie Cardinals caught on to the shifting attacks, it was still too much for them to stop.

The Cougars’ balance was on full display during the Class 1A Erie Regional championship match, and the end result was a 25-14, 25-23 victory for Eastland’s 19th regional title.

“That’s a big key for us,” senior middle Sydney Guentner said.

“When we can put hits down in the middle, that opens up the pins on either side, and we can get good shots all along the front for the whole match. It’s great to have that many options that we can keep the defense guessing.”

What Guentner calls “options,” most would refer to as “weapons.”

Eastland (35-1-1) got them all going against Erie (12-19-5) from the opening serve, jumping out to a 6-1 lead.

Junior Makenzie Fink was the catalyst in Game 1, as her first kill forced an Erie timeout; she went on to slam seven more in the opener, with her last one forcing the Cardinals’ second timeout trailing 22-10. She finished with 13 kills and five digs.

And when Fink rotated into the back row, senior Cassidy Logemann picked up the slack on the outside.

She spiked eight kills in the match, including the one that finished off Game 1, and it was her final kill of the night that gave Eastland a 23-22 lead in Game 2.

“It’s always important to set the tone, and we came out fired up today,” Logemann said. “We’ve been looking forward to this postseason for a long time, and we knew

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Eastland’s Makenzie Fink (left) hits the ball against the block of Erie’s Taylor Steimle (center) and Delaney Tegeler during Thursday’s 1A Regional Championship in Erie. what we had to do tonight and came out and did it.”

When Erie got wise to Fink and Logemann outside, junior setter Ashley Beyers changed things up with quick sets to Guentner and Karalicia Kennedy in the middle.

Guentner finished with nine kills and three blocks, and Kennedy added a pair of kills and a stuff.

After Logemann’s kill put Eastland up 23-22 in Game 2, Guentner and Beyers combined on a block to get to match point. After a block by Erie senior standout Rachel Cobert, Beyers set Guentner in the middle one final time, and Guentner’s tip went to the perfect spot and found the floor for the victory.

The Cougars’ passing was the key to the match, as libero Bubby Doubler (13 digs, 4 points), fellow senior defensive specialist Heather Larak (11 digs, 6 points) and the rest of Eastland’s back-row players got the

ball to Beyers (33 assists, 5 points, 2 kills) in perfect position.

“Everything starts with our passing, and when we get perfect passes right on point, that really gets us going,” Fink said. “Ashley is such a smart setter, and she switches things up so well that when our back row plays as well as it did tonight, it’s easy to find a rhythm.”

Eastland quickly found that the Cardinals weren’t about to give up without a fight. Erie got back-toback blocks from Cobert (7 kills, 5 blockws, 13 digs) and Taylor Steimle to take a 3-1 lead, and never trailed by more than two points.

“The vibe was totally different in that second set, because we didn’t let them get up by so much right away,” Cobert said. “We went backand-forth with them, but you just can’t mistakes against Eastland, because they will take the match away from you – quite literally.”

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Sterling’s Jay Borum spikes a kill Thursday against Kaneland during the 3A Plano Regional. Sterling won 25-13, 25-19.

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After Kaneland opened Game 2 on a 4-0 run, Sterling coach Dale Dykeman called a timeout.

“I told them we had to focus,” Dykeman said.

“We still had to be hungry. Just because we won one set doesn’t mean we won the match.”

Kaylee Martin got a kill out of the break to put Sterling on the board, but it wasn’t until Trancoso rotated to the line that Sterling took over.

“Jamy’s the perfect person you want back there,” Dykeman said.

“You can always count on her serves to go in, and that’s what you want with Kaylee and Jay [Borum] in the front row. You don’t want to miss opportunities when those two are up front.”

Trancoso didn’t miss, and neither did Martin and Borum. Both hitters had 12 kills apiece, and the Knights had no answer. After its early lead, Kaneland never got closer than a three-point deficit thanks to Martin, a Northern Illinois commit, and Borum, as the two were relentless on the pins.

Alli Olson, who finished with 27 assists, kept tabs

on the defense and spread the ball evenly, forcing the Knights into a nightmare situation.

The attack was unlike anything Kaneland has seen before from Sterling. The Knights lost to the Warriors in three sets back on Oct. 1, and used that as motivation on Thursday.

This time around, however, the Knights couldn’t solve the Warriors’ aggressive attack.

“We really couldn’t pick who to defend,” Kaneland’s Jessica Weber said. “They came out swinging, and I think we underestimated them. I don’t remember them being able to hit like that the last time we played. They were on it today.”

Sterling heads to a Sycamore Sectional semifinal match at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, where it will face Rockford Boylan, a 25-16, 20-25, 25-19 winner over Burlington Central in the Boylan Regional final.

Last season, the Warriors won the program’s first sectional title since 1981.

“I think we’re playing well right now, but we’re not thinking past the next game,” Trancoso said. “For us to make a run, we have to put all of our focus on just the next game.”

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Rock Falls’ Molly Mammosser bumps the ball Thursday against LaSalle-Peru during the championship match of the 3A Dixon Regional at Lancaster Gym. Mammosser was injured later in the match that the Rockets lost 25-21, 25-11.

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“That completely knocked the wind out of us, and I don’t think we ever got it back,” Rock Falls coach Sheila Mammosser said. “That’s the way we play, and that stuff is going to happen, but you never want someone to get hurt.

“After that, we didn’t really have it. I think we still put out a good lineup, but the communication wasn’t there.”

Romo went to the bench after a few minutes, and sat there holding her head.

Molly Mammosser remained flat on the court, before being helped out of the gym.

She did not return, and Sheila Mammosser thought she might have suffered a concussion.

LP (25-10) closed out Game 1 after the injury on a kill by Taylor Gibson. It was one of 14 kills for the Cavalier star.

“We all let up a little after that,” Rock Falls senior Bailey O’Brien said. “I think we started playing a little too safe, and you can’t do that against a good team like that.”

The Rockets (25-12) scored four of the first five points in Game 2, but managed only six the rest of the game.

The hitting combination of Gibson and Abby Happ (eight kills, seven service points) took over, and the Rockets started making too many mistakes.

It was a contrast of Game 1, when the Rockets recovered from a slow start to take the lead late.

The Cavaliers ripped off the first six points in Game 1, but the Rockets clawed back.

“We’ve been working on playing from behind all season,” O’Brien said.

“We’re not a team that gives up, and I think we started to get a little confidence.”

O’Brien had eight of her

10 kills in Game 1.

“She was great like she always is,” Sheila Mammosser said. “But we couldn’t get it going in the second game.”

The Rockets took a 12-11 lead in Game 1, but a block by Maria Bruner started a fourpoint run for the Cavaliers. Bruner – a 6-foot-2 middle blocker – had five blocks in the match.

The Rockets battled back, and took a 20-18 lead to force a LaSallePeru timeout. After the break, a Rock Falls service error gave the momentum back.

The Cavs scored six of the next seven points to finish the game.

“Every time there was timeout or a break, we’d come back out with a mistake,” Sheila Mammosser said. “It was the little things that cost us in the first game. After that, we just didn’t communicate very well.”

Sydney Arickx had three kills and a block, and Annie Austin had eight assists for Rock Falls.

The Fulton Steamers won their second regional title in 3 years Thursday night, exacting some revenge with a 25-12, 25-17 victory over Dakota in the Class 2A Newman Regional championship.

A year after falling to Dakota in three hardfought sets in Forreston, the Steamers (29-8) rolled in the rematch Thursday in Sterling.

Betsy LeonJordan ard domiPrice nated at the Fulton net with 11 junior kills and 11 blocks, and libero Averi Leitzen led the back-row defense with 13 digs.

Jordan Price added eight kills and four digs for Fulton, while Brooke Huizenga and Camerin Huizenga spiked six each. Camerin Huizenga also dished 10 assists to go with four digs, and Taylor Curley chipped in 17 assists and five digs.

The Steamers, who won a sectional title in 2013, will return to their home court, advancing to the 2A Fulton Regional to face Elgin St. Edward, which defeated Rockford Lutheran 25-14, 26-24 to win the Somonauk Regional title. That semifinal match will follow the first semifinal between Keith Country Day and Lena-Winslow, which will begin at 6 p.m.

Keith Country Day beat Oregon in three sets to win the Oregon Regional crown, and Le-Win swept Riverdale en route to the Lena-Winslow Regional championship.

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Game of the week Packers at Broncos Two of the NFL unbeatens meet Sunday night, as two future Hall of Fame QBs Aaron Rodgers and Peyton Manning face off.

This date in the NFL October 30, 1966 Baltimore quarterback Johnny Unitas throws for 252 yards to pass Y.A. Tittle (28,339 yards) as the NFL’s all-time passing yards leader.

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SPOTLIGHT ON LATE ARRIVALS

Rule No. 1: Be on time

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE New England N.Y. Jets Buffalo Miami

Tardiness usually causes problems in NFL workplace

BY EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer

Back before he won the Super Bowls and was known more for his rules than his rings, Tom Coughlin had one directive that sounded so extreme, it was borderline comical: If you weren’t 5 minutes early for a team meeting, you were late.

Among those to balk, and pay the price, was Hall of Fame defensive lineman Michael Strahan. The coach and his star eventually worked out their differences, but even at his Hall of Fame induction, Strahan couldn’t resist poking a bit of fun at his old coach: “Just tell me 7:55; don’t tell me it starts at 8,” he said. “That one I still don’t get. I ain’t going to lie to you. But you made me a better man, Coach Coughlin.”

This week, the issue came up again – in a much less amicable light. The Texans parted ways with their sometimes starting quarterback, Ryan Mallett, 3 days after Mallett missed the team’s charter flight to Miami for last weekend’s game against the Dolphins.

“We don’t have a lot of rules, but one rule that we do have is we want guys to be on time,” Texans coach Bill O’Brien said in explaining Mallett’s release.

“Now we’re not talking about starting a meeting 15 minutes early ... if the meeting is supposed to start at 8, then be there at 8, be there at 7:59 ready to go.

If it’s something that happens time and time again, then the message isn’t getting through, then we have to make decisions in that regard, too.”

There are two lines of thinking when it comes to tardiness among NFL players: • Some believe a man making millions to play football shouldn’t have any problems being on time for meetings and should be held accountable if he does.

• Others say grown men shouldn’t be treated like kids and, hey, everyone’s a few minutes late from time to time.

Some other notable truancies, and the way the coaches handled them: Back to the island: Last year, Darrelle Revis overslept and ran late for a team meeting, so Patriots coach Bill Belichick sent him home, per team policy.

Belichick had previously sent Randy Moss and others home for being late for meetings.

The coach, with his four Super Bowl rings, has a reputation for not making exceptions when it

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland Baltimore Denver Oakland Kansas City San Diego

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East L T Pct PF PA 3 0 .571 166 156 4 0 .429 148 168 4 0 .429 160 137 4 0 .333 121 158 South W L T Pct PF PA Carolina 6 0 0 1.000 162 110 Atlanta 6 1 0 .857 193 150 New Orleans 3 4 0 .429 161 185 Tampa Bay 2 4 0 .333 140 179 North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 6 0 0 1.000 164 101 Minnesota 4 2 0 .667 124 102 Chicago 2 4 0 .333 120 179 Detroit 1 6 0 .143 139 200 West W L T Pct PF PA Arizona 5 2 0 .714 229 133 St. Louis 3 3 0 .500 108 119 Seattle 3 4 0 .429 154 128 San Francisco 2 5 0 .286 103 180 Thursday’s result New England 36, Miami 7 Sunday’s games Detroit vs. Kansas City, at London, 9:30 a.m.

San Francisco at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Houston, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Arizona at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Seattle at Dallas, 4:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Denver, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Buffalo, Jacksonville, Philadelphia, Washington Monday’s game Indianapolis at Carolina, 7:30 p.m.

N.Y. Giants Washington Philadelphia Dallas

Thursday’s box score Miami New England

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Texans head coach Bill O’Brien (right) and quarterback Ryan Mallett (15) watch from the sideline during a game against the Jaguars on Oct. 18. The Texans released Mallett this week after he missed the team’s charter flight to Miami. comes to team rules, regardless of how big a star the transgressor may be.

Not so in-Vince-able: In 2006, Titans quarterback Vince Young forgot his ID, then refused to bull his way through a funeral procession to beat traffic and make the team flight to Philadelphia. So, he was forced to find his own way there. Young made it to town and beat the curfew, but was fined nonetheless. The coach at the time, Jeff Fisher, said: “There’s a reason we recommend they get there 45 minutes before departure time.”

Geno no-show: There were two well-publicized tardiness issues on the Jets last year. Quarterback Geno Smith missed a meeting in San Diego because he was unsure of what time zone he was in. And safety Cal-

vin Pryor was late for a meeting.

Smith didn’t miss any playing time for his transgression. Pryor did. It was this sort of inconsistency that made Rex Ryan an easy target for Jets players after he became the ex-coach.

Before the shouting: Last week, NFL Network reported that Greg Hardy was late for Thursday’s practice with the Cowboys and didn’t let anyone know where he was. He was listed as not participating in practice because of an illness. But he played Sunday, and whatever angst his lateness may have caused was overshadowed when Hardy yelled at special teams players and coaches along with receiver Dez Bryant on the sideline during a loss to the Giants.

Nobody’s perfect: And finally, guess who was late for one of

the biggest job interviews of his life? Yes, Tom Coughlin. In an interview with the YES Network a few years ago, he told about being late for an interview with Syracuse coach Frank Maloney, when Coughlin was in his late 20s and looking to break into big-time-college coaching. Coughlin had planned his day so he’d be 10 or 15 minutes early for the interview, but as he started out the door, he realized he’d lost his car keys. He called Maloney and told him, and Maloney told Coughlin to take another hour and call back if he still couldn’t find the keys.

Coughlin found the keys. Got to the meeting, and got the job.

“But for that one moment in time, I thought, well, I’ve just blown my opportunity here,” Coughlin said.

Brady, Patriots roll to rout of Dolphins New England remains undefeated with easy victory over Miami in Foxborough FOXBOROUGH, Mass.

– Even when they look sluggish, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots still dominate.

Brady threw for 356 yards and four touchdowns – two to Julian Edelman – and the Patriots beat the Miami Dolphins 36-7 on Thursday night to become the first of the NFL’s five unbeaten teams to reach seven wins.

Stephen Gostkowski broke Adam Vinatieri’s franchise record for consecutive field goals by connecting from 52 and 36 yards to make it 26 in a row. Rob Gronkowski had 113 yards receiving and a touchdown, and Dion Lewis had 93 yards receiving and one score.

The loss was the first for Miami (3-4) under interim coach Dan Campbell.

The Dolphins scored 82

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PATRIOTS 36, DOLPHINS 7

PATRIOTS 36, DOLPHINS 7

BY ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer

Indianapolis Houston Jacksonville Tennessee

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points in wins over the lowly Titans and Texans in Campbell’s first two games after replacing Joe Philbin.

But they were completely overmatched against the defending Super Bowl champions.

It could be an even bigger loss for the Dolphins, because four-time Pro Bowl defensive end Cameron Wake was carted off the field with an Achilles tendon injury.

The Patriots are 7-0 for the second time in franchise history, and first time since going 16-0 in 2007. They’ve scored at least 28 points in every game, and 30 or more in six straight.

A week after setting an NFL record with 25 straight completions, Ryan Tannehill had a rough night against New England. He threw two interceptions and no TDs.

Brady connected with Gronkowski for a 47-yard scoring pass on the opening drive, but the Patriots managed a total of 65 yards on their next five possessions.

They went up 9-0 on a safety after center Mike Pouncey snapped the ball before Tannehill was ready on a third down from the 9.

Then Brady got going in the 2-minute offense.

He completed all four of his passes for 59 yards on a scoring drive that was capped by a 16-yard toss to Lewis for a 19-0 lead.

Tannehill led the Dolphins into the end zone to start the second half, with Lamar Miller scoring on a 1-yard run.

But the Patriots took control in the fourth quarter. Brady threw TD passes of 10 and 16 yards to Edelman to put it out of reach.

0 0 7 0 — 7 7 12 3 14 — 36 First Quarter NE–Gronkowski 47 pass from Brady (Gostkowski kick), 10:12.

Second Quarter NE–Team safety, 14:05.

NE–FG Gostkowski 52, 3:25.

NE–Lewis 16 pass from Brady (Gostkowski kick), :24.

Third Quarter Mia–Miller 1 run (Franks kick), 11:25.

NE–FG Gostkowski 36, 6:09.

Fourth Quarter NE–Edelman 10 pass from Brady (Gostkowski kick), 13:29.

NE–Edelman 16 pass from Brady (Gostkowski kick), 7:17.

Mia NE First downs 18 24 Total Net Yards 270 437 Rushes-yards 13-15 26-95 Passing 255 342 Punt Returns 4-9 4-38 Kickoff Returns 2-68 1-17 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-31 Comp-Att-Int 28-44-2 26-38-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 5-45 2-14 Punts 6-58.2 6-44.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 7-40 8-69 Time of Possession 27:23 32:37 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING–Miami, Miller 9-15, Gray 2-1, Tannehill 2-(minus 1). New England, Blount 17-72, Lewis 5-19, White 3-3, Brady 1-1.

PASSING–Miami, Tannehill 28-44-2-300.

New England, Brady 26-38-0-356.

RECEIVING–Miami, Matthews 7-62, Landry 6-71, Miller 5-19, Gray 4-50, Stills 3-58, Cameron 2-34, Sims 1-6. New England, Edelman 7-81, Gronkowski 6-113, Lewis 6-93, LaFell 4-47, Amendola 1-11, Chandler 1-9, Blount 1-2.

MISSED FIELD GOALS–Miami, Franks 63 (WL).

Line Sunday FAVORITE LINE O/U Kansas City 4 46 at Chicago 1½ 42 at Atlanta 7 49½ at New Orleans 3 48½ at St. Louis 8 39 Arizona 6 46½ at Pittsburgh 1½ 48 at Baltimore 3½ 50½ at Houston 3½ OFF NY Jets 3 45 Seattle 6 41 Green Bay 2½ 45½ at Carolina

Monday 7 46½

UNDERDOG Detroit Minnesota Tampa Bay NY Giants San Francisco at Cleveland Cincinnati San Diego Tennessee at Oakland at Dallas at Denver Indianapolis

CAPSULE Vikings (4-2) at Bears (2-4)

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Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill (17) slips away from Patriots linebacker Geneo Grissom during Thursday’s game in Foxborough, Mass. The Patriots won 36-7.

When: Noon, Sunday TV: Fox Series record: Vikings 55-51-2 Last meeting: Vikings 13-9, Dec. 28, 2014 Last week: Vikings beat Detroit, 28-19; Bears had bye, lost in OT to Lions 37-34 on Oct. 18 AP Pro32 ranking: Vikings No. 9, Bears No. 25 Vikings offense: Overall (30), Rush (6), Pass (30) Vikings defense: Overall (7), Rush (13), Pass (11) Bears offense: Overall (27), Rush (16), Pass (24) Bears defense: Overall (10), Rush (25), Pass (6) Streaks, stats & notes: Bears have won 13 of 14 home games against Minnesota, and seven straight against Vikings at Soldier Field.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, LEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS DOUGLAS STERN and TERESA STERN Plaintiffs,

The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York as Trustee for the benefit of the Certificate holders of the CWABS Inc., AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2006-SD4 PLAINTIFF VS

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HEIRS AT LAW OF MARY M. CROMBIE, Defendant, vs.

UNKNOWN OWNERS, Defendants.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF LEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS

NO. 2015 CH 39 NOTICE

Notice is hereby given to Unknown Owners, Defendants to be served by publication that said suit entitled above for the purpose of quieting title to the following described real estate: PARCEL A: Part of the East Half (E 1/2) of the Southwest Quarter (SW 1/4) of Section Twenty (20), Township Twenty-One (21) North, Range Eight (8), East of the Fourth (4''9 Principal Meridian, Lee County, Illinois, described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the Northwest corner of Lot Six (6) in the Crombie Tracts, a subdivision located in the East Half (E 1/2) of the Southwest Quarter (SW 1/4) of said Section Twenty (20); thence Westerly, along an extension of the North line of Lots Six (6), Seven (7), Eight (8), Nine (9 and Ten (10) in said subdivision, a distance of 75.00 feet; thence Southerly, parallel with the West line of said Lot Six (6), at an angle of 89 degrees 51 minutes 55 seconds as measured clockwise from the last described course, a distance of 75.03 feet; thence Westerly, at an angle of 89 degrees 50 minutes 43 seconds as measured counterclockwise from the last described course, a distance of 25.00 feet; thence Southerly, at an angle of 89 degrees 50 minutes 43 seconds as measured clockwise from the last described course, a distance of 75.00 feet to a point 100.00 feet West of the Southwest corner of said Lot Six (6); thence Westerly, on a line parallel with and 30.00 feet perpendicularly distant from the South line of the East Half (E 1/2) of the Southwest Quarter (SW 1/4) of said Section Twenty (20), at an angle of 89 degrees 50 minutes 43 seconds as measured counterclockwise from the last described course, a distance of 75.00 feet; thence Northerly, at an angle of 90 degrees 09 minutes 17 seconds as measured counterclockwise from the last described course, a distance of 178.41 feet to a point on the centerline of an existing drive; thence Easterly, along said centerline at an angle of 91 degrees 25 minutes 06 seconds as measured counterclockwise from the last described course, a distance of 94.03 feet; thence continuing Easterly, along said centerline, at an angle of 177 degrees 56 minutes 57 seconds as measured counterclockwise from the last described course, a distance of 81.01 feet to a point on the West line of said Crombie Tracts; thence Southerly, along said West line, at an angle of 90 degrees 37 minutes 57 seconds a measured counterclockwise from the last described course, a distance of 30.26 feet to the Point of Beginning, containing 0.422 acres, more or less.

In addition, the point of beginning being the most southerly southeast point of the above-described parcel, south (30') feet, then west (75') feet parallel to the above parcel's southerly border, then north (30') feet, east (75') feet parallel to the southern border to close at the point of beginning.

PARCEL B: A part of the Southwest Quarter of Section 20, Township 21 North, Range 8 East of the 4th P.M., Lee County, described as follows: Commencing at the Southwest corner of Crombie Tracts, which is 415 feet West of and 30 feet North of the Southeast corner of the Southwest Quarter of said Section 20; thence North on the West line of said Crombie Tracts, a distance of 150 feet; thence West, 75 feet; thence South parallel to the West line of Crombie Tracts, 75 feet; thence West 25 feet; thence South parallel to the West line of Crombie Tracts, a distance of 75 feet; thence East on the South line of Crombie Tracts, as extended, 100 feet to the West line of Crombie Tracts.

In addition, the point of beginning being the most southeast point of the above-described parcel, south (30-') feet, then west (100') feet parallel to the above parcels southerly border, thence north (30') feet, thence east (100') feet to the southerly border to close at the point of beginning.

Is now pending in said Court, and default may be entered against you and each of you theirn after the 30th day of November, 2015.

DOUGLAS STERN and TERESE STERN

Prepared by: Andrew Bollman Keller & Bollman, Attorneys at Law 119 1St St., P.O. Box 1171 Dixon IL 61021 Phone: 815-288-0435 Fax: 815-288-0653

By: Andrew Bollman Counsel for Plaintiffs

Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13, 2015

CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS ESTATE OF LEONE G. REED, Deceased.

David A. Katner; Stacey L. Katner a/k/a Stacey Katner a/k/a Stacey Spaine; Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services Collections/Technical Recovery; Capital One Bank (USA), N.A. Successor In Interest To Capital One Bank; Collection Professionals, Inc.; Cornerstone Credit Union; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, DEFENDANT(S) 15 CH 57 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: DAVID A. KATNER; Stacey L. Katner a/k/a Stacey Katner a/k/a Stacey Spaine; Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services Collections/Technical Recovery; Capital One Bank (USA), N.A. Successor In Interest To Capital One Bank; Collection Professionals, Inc.; Cornerstone Credit Union; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; defendants, that this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, asking for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit:

Notice is given of the death of LEONE G. REED. Letters of Office were issued to VICKI MERLAK, 1903 6th Avenue, Sterling, Illinois 61081, as Independent Representative, whose attorneys are WARD, MURRAY, PACE & JOHNSON, P.C., 202 E. 5th Street, Sterling, Illinois 61081.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Court, Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, Illinois 61270, or with the Representative, or both, on or before April 26, 2016, and any claim not filed within that period is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the Representative and to the attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed.

Dated this 19th day of October, 2015.

Vicki Merlak, Independent Representative Daniel C. Hawkins WARD, MURRAY, PACE & JOHNSON, P.C. Attorneys for Estate 202 E. 5th Street Sterling, IL 61081-0400 815-625-8200 October 23, 30, November 6, 2015

UNION SAVINGS BANK, Plaintiff, vs.

JOY L. YOAKUM, ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN TENANTS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

NO. 15-CH-65 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE Notice is given to Defendants, JOY L. YOAKUM, UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN TENANTS, and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS of the following described real estate: Lot 81 in Fargo Addition to the City of Dixon, according to the Plat thereof recorded in the Recorder's Office of Lee County in Book “A” of Plats on Page 56; situated in the County of Lee in the State of Illinois.

Part of Lot Two (2) in Block Sixty-two (62) in the Town of West Dixon, (now a part of the City of Dixon) and also part of vacated Stiles Street, bounded and described as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the Northwest corner of Lot 2 in said Block 62 and running Northerly on an extension of the Westerly line of said Lot 2 a distance of 12 feet; thence Easterly parallel with the Northerly line of said Lot 2 a distance of 75 feet; thence Southerly parallel with the Westerly line of said Lot 2 to the Northerly line of the Rock Island Road; thence Westerly along the Northerly line of said Rock Island Road to the Westerly line of said Lot 2 and thence Northerly in a direct line to the place of beginning, situated in the County of Lee, in the State of Illinois Commonly known as: 1515 W. 4th St., Dixon, IL 61021 and which said mortgage was made by, David A. Katner and Stacey L. Katner, Husband and Wife; Mortgagor(s), to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., its successors and assigns; Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Lee County, Illinois, as Document No. 2005-05463; and for other relief.

UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this County, 309 S. Galena, Box 325, Dixon, IL 61021 on or before NOVEMBER 30, 2015 A JUDGMENT OR DECREE BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED IN THE COMPLAINT. RANDALL S. MILLER & ASSOCIATES, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 120 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1140, Chicago, IL 60602 Phone: (312) 239-3432 Fax: (312) 284-4820 Attorney No: 6238055 File No: 13IL00198-1 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act you are advised that this firm may be deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained may be used for that purpose.

Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13, 2015

The undersigned certifies that the above entitled mortgage foreclosure action was filed on September 28, 2015, and is now pending.

ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on October 23, A.D. 2015, a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Whiteside County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post-office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as No Limit Volleyball located at 1900 Westwood Drive, Sterling, IL 61081 Dated this 23rd day of October, A.D. 2015.

Dana Nelson County Clerk October 30, November 6, 13, 2015

This Notice prepared by:

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS ESTATE OF LAURENCE R. SULLIVAN, Deceased.

NO: 2015 P 109 CLAIM NOTICE

No. 15 P 125 CLAIM NOTICE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT LEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS

Notice is given to creditors of the death of Laurence R. Sullivan. Letters of Office were issued on September 4, 2015, to Wendy E. Meyer, 3802 Stacie Lane, Rock Falls, Illinois 61071, as Independent Representative, whose attorney is named below.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the Circuit Clerk's Office, Courthouse, 200 East Knox Street, Morrison, Illinois, or with the representative, or both, on or before the _16th ___ day of _____April___, 2016, or if mailing or delivery of a notice from the representative is required by Section 18-3 of the Probate Act (ILCS 5/18-3), the date stated in that notice.

Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the clerk must be mailed or delivered by the claimant to the representative and to the representative?s attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed.

Wendy E. Meyer Independent Representative for the Estate of Laurence R. Sullivan, Deceased William R. Shirk Law Office of William R. Shirk, P.C. Attorney for Estate 301 East Main St. Morrison, IL 61270 Tele: 815 772-7231 Oct. 16, 23, 30, 2015

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NO. 15-CH-65 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE Notice is given to Defendants, JOY L. YOAKUM, UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN TENANTS, and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS of the following described real estate: Lot 81 in Fargo Addition to the City of Dixon, according to the Plat thereof recorded in the Recorder's Office of Lee County in Book “A” of Plats on Page 56; situated in the County of Lee in the State of Illinois.

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NO. 2015 P 107 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of Elizabeth Ann VanLanduit. Letters of Office were issued on September 10, 2015, to Lawrence J. VanLanduit, 28794 Surrey Drive, Sterling, IL 61081, as independent representative. The attorney for the independent representative is Andrew Bollman, Keller & Bollman, Attorneys at Law, 119 West First Street, P.O. Box 1171, Dixon, IL 61021.

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TELEVISION 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

Water Softeners The Softener Man Repair on all makes & models Service Call Special $19.95 Over 30 years experience 815-323-1622

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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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Whiteside Area 815-590-1677 Cole's Complete Tree Service Tree Trimming Stump Removal

Snow Removal Snow Plowing Licensed and Insured *Free Estimates* 25HR Emergency Service Call 815-718-2997 Donnie Cole colestree service@outlook.com

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Licensed, Bonded Insured Safety and your satisfaction is my #1 goal!

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LOANS

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School Age Teachers needed Full and Part time available.

Experience preferred. Please send resumes to:

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HEALTH / MEDICAL

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Parkway Center is seeking part time Nurse.

Applications can picked up at 1801 Ave. G Sterling

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5 to 10 people needed to start immediately, full time positions. No exp. nec. Oppt'y for advancement.

Potential Earnings of $500/wk Doing open interviews Call Mark 563-424-4479 to reserve a spot!

Amboy C.U.S.D. #272 is seeking applicants for the following position: 2nd Shift CUSTODIAN To apply go to www.roe47.org Area Vacancies and complete application.

BEER, WINE, SPIRITS SALES REPRESENTATIVE G & M DISTRIBUTORS, INC located in Galesburg IL is seeking a highly motivated, results-oriented self-starter who possesses both a strong sales personality and demonstrates above average leadership skills.

Responsibilities will include managing a territory of retail accounts including Kewanee, Princeton, Rock Falls, Dixon, and Sterling. This job requires candidates to achieve sales goals, introduce new products, merchandise, and analyze business opportunities.

Training provided.

Full time with benefits.

To apply submit resume to monicaj@gmdist.com or mail to 200 N Linwood Road, Galesburg IL 61401 CNC MACHINE OPERATORS

NIGHT SHIFT! GREAT COMPANY!

Freeport, IL. Earn $10-12.50/hr 1yr exp. needed.

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Days Inn and All American Bar & Grill/Rock Falls, IL now hiring for All Positions, Hourly and a Supervisor Apply within 2105 1st Ave. Rock Falls, IL 61071

Great Garage Sales Call

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DRIVER NEEDED ADVANCE DISTRIBUTION NEEDS LOCAL DRIVER WITH 4 YRS CDLA EXPERIENCE HOURLY PAY WITH COMPANY PAID HEALTH INSURANCE 877-992-9079 EXT4 OR ONLINE @ WWW.AD VANCEDTW.COM

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Experienced Custom Applicators Ag background a plus.

FT positions available. Paid Benefits. Apply: Crop Production Services 1793 Steward Rd. Steward, IL 60553 815-396-2248

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Wipfli, LLP is currently looking for an experienced Seasonal Tax Professional to prepare individual tax returns during the upcoming tax season for our Sterling office. Position will prepare mostly individual, small corporate and partnership returns. This will be a limited term employment opportunity for the period of January 18, 2016 through April 18, 2016 with the possibility of rehire for future tax seasons.

The ideal candidate will have previous experience related to small corporate, partnerships and individual tax and a Bachelor’s Degree preferably with an accounting concentration.

Individuals interested in pursuing this career opportunity can visit our Careers page at www.wipfli.com Wipfli is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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Dixon, IL Leading provider of housing has an immediate full time position for an Office Assistant. $10/hr.

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Graphic Arts Express Graphic Arts Express in Oregon, IL currently has an opening for a hourly part-time Weekend Driver.

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Eyelet Products & Engineering Corp.

Is seeking a Full Time Tool & Die Maker Transfer press and Progressive die Experience preferred.

401k with benefits Please send resume to PO Box 763 Dixon IL 61021 Fax to 815-2881991 Eyelet Products is an EOE

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Forreston Custom Cabinet Shop seeking general shop help.

Woodworking experience a plus. Apply at: 207 S Chestnut Forreston or call 815-938-9016.

Send resume to PO Box 383, Forreston, IL 61030.

Full Time Office Basic office skills required. Must have experience with Excel, Quickbooks, general office skills and be able to multi-task.

Serious inquiries ONLY! Please send replies to Box #:1309, c/o Sauk Valley Classifieds, P.O. Box 498, Sterling, IL 61081 NOW HIRING ·General Laborers ·QA Techs ·Maintenance ·Forklift Operators Work in Morrison EARN TOP $$$ 1yr. exp req.

Apply In Person Mon-Fri. 8-3 Chartwell Staffing 229 1st Ave, Ste 2 Rock Falls 61071 Across from Shell gas station.

815-564-0794

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LEGAL ADVOCATEPart time at 28 hours a week. Primary job role consists of assisting domestic violence victims with obtaining orders of protection. Advocacy services provided with the court system, law enforcement, and on a crisis intervention basis in both Whiteside and Lee County.

Requirements: must have valid driver's license with insured vehicle, prior social services experience recommended, and schedule flexibility.

Join our team of working together to empower the lives of people in crisis. Apply at the YWCA of the Sauk Valley, 412 1st Avenue Sterling.

Local & Regional 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 Apply online at www.avtrans inc.com or Call Missy 800-397-6387x10

Sensient Flavors, Amboy is growing and looking for qualified individuals to join the Sweet Flavors’ team!

Sensient Flavors is a leading manufacturer of dairy ingredients and sweet goods.

Positions Now Available: • Process Engineer • Supply Chain Director • Quality Control Lab Supervisor • Warehouse Workers

We offer competitive salary & benefits package including: • Medical • Dental • Vision • Life Insurance • 401K Savings • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) • Paid Vacation Sensient Flavors is an Equal Opportunity Employer Qualified candidates may apply online at: sensient.com/careers Come join our growing team and make a difference!

We require our new techs to have the ability to work well with others and maintain a positive attitude throughout the work day.

We Offer HIGHLY Competitive Pay Plans along with:

Assistant Production Manager needed for Avanti Foods Company for the pizza factory.

Full time benefits apply: Medical insurance, life insurance, 401K, vacation and sick days.

Please apply at: Avanti Foods Company, 109 Depot Street, Walnut, Illinois.

PT position flexible hours.

Responsibilities include: Marketing, Customer Relations, Minimal book keeping, Computer skills needed & an outgoing and pleasant creative personality a must.

Please send replies to Box #:1308, c/o Sauk Valley Classifieds, P.O.Box 498, Sterling, IL 61081 The Comfort Inn of Dixon is hiring for the following part time positions:

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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))

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LIQUIDATION AUCTION ALCO-WHITE. INC. (Truss manufacturer) Commercial Real Estate Truss Building Equipment Trucks/ Fork Lifts SAT., NOV. 7, 2015 9:30 A.M. AT 200 WASHINGTON ST., JACKSONVILLE, IL Middendorf Bros.

Auctioneers 217/243-5486 middendorfs.com

PUBLIC AUCTION Rescheduled for SAT. NOV. 7th 9am ILLINOIS VALLEY FABRICATION 1739 E. State 116, Fairview, IL. M&E (absolute) 15+ Acres & Building (reserve) Details at: www.auctionzip.com

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RECREATIONAL LAND AUCTION JACKSON COUNTY, IL 53+/- ACRES (10) 5 Acre Parcels OCTOBER 31ST 10AM 9 Parcels Lake front Hunting Fishing Tom Rayburn, Auctioneer 847-514-4230 www.mossyoakprop erties.com

RECREATIONAL LAND AUCTION VERSAILLE, IL NOVEMBER 9TH 6PM Versailles Community Building 40.5 Acres Hunting spot with Easement Access 4-5 Acres of Somewhat Open Ground CORNERSTONE AUCTION & REALTY 217-242-3388 www.cornerstoneauctionco.com

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Kunes Country Auto Group is Expanding Our Office Team to handle our increase in sales volume. We are seeking a Full-time Accounting Office position with a team player attitude to oversee the daily record keeping and accounting for one of the company’s multiple dealerships. Possibly multiple offices with short traveling distance may be required. This position will work closely with the controller, general manager, and the office managers for our other locations.

Benefits include: Insurance • Dental Insurance • Paid Holidays • Vacation • 401k Please send the resumes to kunesoffice@genevaonline.com

TIRED OF WORKING IN A NURSING HOME? It’s time to join our teaam off quallifiedd inddividuuals provvidinng reesidenntial supporrt to inddividualss with devellopmeentall dissabillitiess! We arre hiringg a QIDPP posiition, 2nd annd 3rd shhift possitioons. CN NA is not requuired..

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AREA GARAGE SALES 624

ROCK FALLS GARAGE SALES 624

STERLING GARAGE SALES 624

DIXON GARAGE SALES 624

Fri. 8-4 Sat. 8-3 306 E. 2nd St. (off of Wood Avenue) Huge Sale!

Electronics, power tools, acoustic guitars, bass guitar & sm. bass amplifier, Hot Wheels collectibles, sports cards, CDs, DVDs, Xmas décor & ornaments, carpet shampooer, Indian & horse plates, lots of misc. antiquey treasures, purses, lawn chairs, sm. garden seat, new electric snow blower. Don't Miss This Sale!! Something for everyone.

LARGE Inside Consignment Sale Wed. 9-6, Thurs. & 11-6, Fri. 9-6, Sat. 9-4, Early Sales Tues. after 9am.

Come Early for Best Prices!

Bizarre Americana 609 W. Third St.

By Steel Worker's Credit Union bottom Ave. G Bridge.

If you need furniture & just starting out, this is the place! 3 stores to serve you!

All size beds, twinfull-queen-king $100. 6pc. Bedroom set, Futon, matching sofa, love seat, queen split boxes, 4 swivel rockers, 10 sofas, 10 recliners, 5 table/ chair sets, 3 coffee end table sets, 2 washer/dryers, 3 sofa sleepers, 5 love seats, 2 stoves, 7 dressers, poker table, swivel office chairs & refrigerator, freezer, upright chest, ffuton twin full bunk bed, elec. hospital bed, sm hutch, & computer desk 815-718-4385 MUCH MORE!

Fri. 7:30am - 5pm Sat. 7:30am -2pm 2165 Forest Park Circle. Household items, small furniture, '80's Barbie doll house, bedding, Christmas decorations, white Christmas tree, clothing, wood items for craft painting.

Friday 8-6 947 N. Brinton Dressers, queen bed, office desks, tables & chairs, tools, sofa, shelving units & curio cabinet. Many misc. items!

EVEN THE KITCHEN SINK!!

MT. MORRIS GARAGE SALES 624 October 30th 31st & Nov. 1st. 9-4 5829 W. Lowell Park Rd. Large Antique Furniture Barn Sale Lg. assortment of refinished antique furniture.

Priced to sell 815-734-4424

ROCK FALLS GARAGE SALES 624 DATE CHANGE FOR GROUP ESTATE/MOVING TAG SALE HAS BEEN CHANGED WITH THE UPCOMING NICE WEATHER. AS THERE WILL BE LOTS OUTSIDE. DATES CHANGED TO SUN. MON. TUES. WED. NOV. 1-4 see estatesales.net for times / info.

Sale held outside/ garage at 705 W. RT 30, Rock Falls.

Large ad in weekend paper.

NEW TODAY SUNDAY, 11-5 MON, TUES. & WED., 10-5 NOV. 1, 2, 3, 4 WHERE: 705 W. Route 30 (enter back garage door) & lot WHAT: Group Estate/Moving Sale for Shery Lewey of Tampico (moving) Mrs. Woesner of Sterling (moving), Ivan Eberly (partial Moving/Estate) Also a partial Moving/Estate out of Harmon and a partial estate clean out for Larry Junis from Prophetstown We are assisting the families to sell their personal items. This will be the very last group sale we will have, only doing in-home assisted sales. Far too much to list for this massive sale!

See pics/info. At estatesales.net Sauk Valley Estate Sales Service 815-590-7021

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES 705 I Buy: Antiques, collectibles, toys, post cards, etc.

815-445-6151.

APPLIANCES

710

All Maytag stainless steel: double door refrig. Freezer on bottom, ice maker and water in door. Pd. $2600 Used 6 mo. $1000; Range top Microwave, used 6 mo. $300; gas range 32in. Approx 2 yrs. old. $300 815-326-0672

APPLIANCES

710

Kitchenaid dishwasher. $75 815-994-1326

SPORTING GOODS

716

K2 Illusion Snowboard w/ 2 sets of bindings $80 815508-2585

WOOD / FUEL

746

All Hardwood split, full size, 8 ft. truckload, $90 delivered 815-973-3302

FURNITURE

755

Like new twin bedroom set, Beautiful like new Oak Express twin bedroom set including headboard, heavy duty bed frame, nightstand, and dresser w/ mirror.

Perfect cond $275.

815-716-0976 Mattress sets: $99, Full Twin $129, Queen $159, King $199. Will deliver! Kern Mattress Outlet, call 309452-7477.

Vintage Ethan Allen 3 piece Pine “Old Tavern” desk & shelving unit. $500. 815-973-5630

MEDICAL SUPPLIES

762

Inogen portable oxygen concentrator, 15-200 Inogen One G2 system, 2 batteries, ac & dc power cords.

Backpack & cart.

Like new. $3800 new/asking $2500.

815-772-3413 New GoGo Scooter. Exc. condition.

With rechargeable batteries. $900 815-625-2422

PETS & PET SUPPLIES 775 3 Tuxedo kittens spayed & neutered. Free to good home. Call 815-284-1130

PETS & PET SUPPLIES 775

PETS & PET SUPPLIES 775

Free 9 week old kittens to good home only. All different colors.

815915-9472

Tosa Puppy (lg. breed), Free as a co-own to the right home.

Call 815626-6382 after 7pm.

Free to good indoor home male cat, neutered, declawed, all shots.

815-499-9923 “Froncois”, a Persian Lap Cat, 5-6 yrs., fixed, shots up to date, needs a loving home, free, 815-622-2622

NEW TODAY

Golden Doodles ready now.

Apricot. $700$800. 563-2127307

NEW TODAY Tosa Female (100 lb.), Mid age. Show Champ, all shots.

Seeking retirement.

Free to right companion. 815-6266382 after 7pm.

Wanted: Tea Cup size Chihuahua, adult, short hair, reasonably priced or free. 815-5649022 after 2:00.

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

Please screen respondents carefully when giving an animal away.

Your pet will thank you!

LAWN MOWERS

779

Trailer type Mow & Vac 5HP bagger. $550.

815-438-7845

LAWN & GARDEN

781

5hp push mower, 21inch deck, runs good $50 815-6251606

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

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

WANT TO BUY 795

MISCELLANEOUS 796 FOR SALE

I Pay Cash 4 Gold, Silver, Coins & Antiques 24/7 815-564-9061

HARDWOOD LUMBER, Walnut, Cherry, Oak. Furniture lumber, fireplace mantles & gun stock material.

815-631-4340

Looking to buy horses that anyone would like to get rid of. Call 815622-5899 Looking to buy, reliable, good shape, late model car, (5-6 yrs old) Prefer 4DR, Chevy or Ford. 5060k mi. extras not imp. 815-631-3631

MISCELLANEOUS 796 FOR SALE 60's Slate Top Pool Table, Best Offer.

Must be gone by Nov. 1st.

815-440-3475 Beautiful, large engagement ring, 1.34 carats, marquise cut solitaire, color F, clarity S12, Appraisal $10,000 Asking $3,750/obo 815-973-0291 Comfort Glow all mounted ventless heater, 20,000 btu max 10,000 btu min. $75 815-6255766

Limited Edition, 1 of 1,000 SHS Golden Warriors “Beanie” Mascot bear. 1999 Like new. $15 815-626-2600 Microsoft laptop 3 years old, like new.

815-499-0597 Oak Sun Heat inroom frared heater, thermostat, $75 815-625-5766 Patch Magic Primitive Hearts bedding. Includes twin bedspread, skirt & oblong throw pillow, square pillow & 2 valances. $75 815-716-0976 Sanborn 15 gallon air compressor.

Good motor, rusty tank. $50 OBO 815-440-3428 Utility trailer 1450lb. capacity, $350/obo.

815-980-6325

Think Green Everyone wants a cleaner, greener environment, so the buzz words are “think global, act local.”

Here’s something you can do in your everyday life to be more environmentally-friendly.

Think green.

Fri. 10-4 Sat. 9-12 8769 Clearview Drive (S. on Rt. 40 past Montmorency) Tupperware, Jewelry, décor, clothes, Lots & lots of misc.

If you are a subscriber of the daily Gazette or Telegraph, we are asking you to recycle your plastic bags and rubber bands by just giving them back to your carrier or driver.

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2073 GRAND DETOUR ROAD, DIXON

Excellent 3 bedroom, 2 bath home, hardwood floors, 3 season room, updated kitchen with granite counters, $159,900 Hosted by Nancy Fritts

815-288-4648

SUNDAY 12-2

1420 EUSTACE DRIVE, DIXON

Upscale 3 bedroom, 3 bath, walk-out ranch on the Rock River! Many recent high end improvements, $339,000 Hosted by Nancy Fritts

815-288-4648

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Whiteside County & Surrounding Areas SATURDAY 11:30-1

1511 1ST AVENUE, STERLING

All brick 3 bedroom, near hospital, move-in ready, large rooms, hardwood floors, 2 car garage, $117,500 #09044910 Hosted by Frank Murphy

Sauk Va alley

815-625-3722

SATURDAY 12-1

300 E. 9TH STREET, ROCK FALLS

Well maintained, 2 lots, open living/dining & redone kitchen, full basement, 1 car & 3 car garage, $59,000 #08812422 Hosted by Louise Gibbons

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815-625-3722

SATURDAY 10-12

619 W. LINCOLN WAY, MORRISON

Spacious 3 bedroom home. New roof, furnace, fresh paint & more!! #09067367 Hosted by Barb Kophamer

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815-625-3722

SUNDAY 12-1

605 3RD AVENUE, STERLING

2-story home can be 1 large family home or 2 apartment property, large lot, 2 car garage, $49,900 #09003415 Hosted by Louise Gibbons

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815-625-3722

SUNDAY 1-3

1412 LOCUST STREET, STERLING

Classic 2-story, open floor plan, completely remodeled 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 baths, new custom kitchen, master suite, 2 car garage, $129,900 #09026316

JUDY POWELL REALTY

815-626-7450

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MISCELLANEOUS 796 FOR SALE

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'05 Dodge Caravan Stow 'n Go. Runs Great!

144K. $3,800 or obo. 815-631-4467

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