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Unemployment rate rises in area Meanwhile, statewide, national numbers hold steady

BY PAM EGGEMEIER peggemeier@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 570

Unemployment rates were up throughout the Sauk Valley in November, despite holding steady statewide and dropping nationally

during that period.

The jobless rate in Illinois was 8.3 percent last month, the same as it was in October. Nationally, the jobless rate dropped to 6.6 percent, from 7 percent, during that period.

Bureau County saw the greatest increase in the area, jumping from 8.1 to 9.0 percent from October to November.

Lee County’s jobless rate rose to 9.0 percent in November, up from

Area jobless rates County Whiteside Lee Ogle Carroll Bureau State U.S.

8.3 percent the previous month. Ogle, Carroll and Whiteside counties all experienced a 0.5 percentage-point increase in November.

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Could city get with bike program?

Stars align for line dancers

Emulating Chicago bike-sharing plan could be part of streetscape project

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

Happenstance meeting spurs partnership with Moose Lodge Kimberly Watley/Special to SVM

Jared Wetzell leads a line dancing lesson for River Country Stomp at the Moose Lodge in Sterling. The upstart group quickly outgrew the dance floor at other establishments and since developed a great relationship with the lodge.

STERLING – Line dancers have had no local place to “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” for about 20 years, Linda Wolber and Bonnie Mathews recall. Their gathering place in Galt has long since closed.

Most who dance say they would have to grapevine all the way to the Quad Cities, Chicago or the suburbs, but that was before River Country Stomp was founded in March.

All are grateful for a moment of happenstance that brought them together.

Karyn Hollenbach and Victoria Hughes were at Champs Bar and Grill, dancing to songs that a country band was performing. Normally the pair would go to the suburbs, where line dancing bars are plentiful.

Jared Wetzell of Milledgeville was at Champs that night, too.

Care to get in line?

Every Thursday, dancers meet at Sterling Moose Family Center, 2601 East Lincolnway. A donation of $2 to the lodge is requested. All ages are welcome.

For more information about River Country Stomp, call Karyn Hollenbach at 815-631-1649.

For information about the Moose Lodge, call 815-625-0354.

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‘We need more students like Jacob’ Reagan sixth-grader helps second-grader get home safely

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

DIXON – Jacob Duffy noticed something a little strange.

A young boy was walking all alone through his west Dixon neighborhood just after 2:30 p.m. Dec. 18,, and Jacob had never seen him before.

Worried, Jacob, a sixth-grader at Reagan Middle School,

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Reagan Middle School sixth-grader Jacob Duffy receives a special letter of commendation from Chief Danny Langloss (right) on Dec. 19 at Reagan Middle School.

walked up to the boy to check on him. He soon learned that the boy, a second-grader at Lincoln Elementary School, had missed the bus to get home. The boy lives near Jefferson Elementary, and so decided to walk the more than 2 miles home.

Jacob instead persuaded the boy to come back to his house with him, where he called police.

Dixon Police Officer Les Shaw showed up to Jacob’s home within minutes and made sure that Jefferson was notified about the whereabouts of its missing pupil.

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INDEX

Oct. Nov., 2012 8.8% 8.3% 8.3% 8.2% 9.2% 9.4% 7.3% 7.5% 8.1% 8.6% 8.3% 8.2% 7.0% 7.4%

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STERLING | RIVER COUNTRY STOMP

BY KIMBERLY WATLEY For Sauk Valley Media

Nov. 9.3% 9.0% 9.7% 7.8% 9.0% 8.3% 6.6%

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DIXON – The mayor would like to see Dixon become more bicycle-friendly.

Part of that could happen during the downtown streetscape project, Mayor Jim Burke said Friday.

The mayor sent a letter to Ed Barsotti, executive director of the League of Illinois Bicyclists, on Dec. 18 to seek recommendations on bike rack styles and placement, in addition to soliciting Barsotti’s thoughts on a bikesharing proMayor gram for Dixon.

Jim Burke Burke has followed the Chicago’s bike sharing, he said, and sees opportunities for something similar for Dixon residents Ed Barsotti that would also boost tourism.

Chicago’s bike-sharing program, which is a program of the Chicago Department of Transportation called Divvy, consists of 4,000 bikes and 400 stations across the city, according to the program’s website. The bikes can be used during a 24-hour pass or by residents with an annual membership.

“I think, if Dixon were to approach it like Chicago, it wouldn’t be as successful,” Barsotti said. But if the city looked at it as an element of tourism, he said, it could be good.

On Friday, Barsotti sent Burke an email, recommending the city consider a bike rental program with a centralized location, rather than a sharing program.

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Official: 14,000 visitors since new exhibits opened Museum also has Reagan artifacts

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DIXON – Since the Northwest Territory Historic Center opened its interactive exhibits on the second floor last January, nearly 14,000 people have made their way through, a museum official said.

Bill Jones, the museum’s manager and president, said the number could actually be high-

man Wymbs in memory of his wife, Harriet, feature life-size, speaking mannequins, detailed sets and sound effects.

The museum, housed in the former Dixon High School where Reagan attended classes, opened the second-floor exhibits about Black Hawk, a famous Native American figure, and early settlement life in the Northwest Territory.

The Northwest Territory was the name for the Midwestern region that included Illinois before it was granted statehood.

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The $1.6 million exhibits, funded by Ronald Reagan biographer Nor-

Black Hawk, despite a misconception, was never a chief, Jones said, and was instead the leader of the British Band, which was made up of several Native American tribes, during the war of 1812.

The museum, which changed its name this year from the Dixon Historic Center to the Northwest Territory Historic Center, also has historic items more closely tied to Dixon.

Those include a signed map from Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, who led

an exhibition to Antarctica, and numerous artifacts from Reagan’s life in Dixon and his presidency.

The map, which hangs on a wall in the Walgreen room, includes a message to Charles Walgreen about Byrd naming an Antarctic coastline after the Walgreen family.

The message ends with: “With it goes my affection and regard to the Walgreen family. – Dick Byrd.�

In one of the several rooms dedicated to

Reagan hangs the flag that flew at half-staff over the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives after Reagan died. The flag was given to the museum, Jones said, by former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.

Up next for the museum, Jones said Friday, is a temporary exhibit that could be brought in for 5 or 6 weeks during next year’s holiday season. The exhibit topic and duration, he said, will depend on what the museum can afford.

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OBITUARIES Dennis W. Stomberg ROCKFORD – Dennis Wayne Stomberg, 60, of Rockford, beloved husband and best friend of Gaylene for 40 years, passed away peacefully Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013, at his home, surrounded by the ones he laughed with, lived for, and loved.

He was born in Oregon, the son of Donald and Dona (Florschuetz) Stomberg. He was raised in and lived most of his life in Franklin Grove. He always said he made the best decision of his life on Sept. 13, 1975, when he said “I Do� and was wed to Gaylene Briggs.

She blessed him with three children who grew into successful, compassionate, loving adults he was extremely proud of: Kristi (Nathan Keller) Stomberg, Katie (Ken) Hauck, and Lucas (Elizabeth) Stomberg.

His life was filled with a variety of adventures ... in the early years, they revolved around the many homes he built or restored, providing a wonderful setting for his most important undertaking, which was raising children. It also included a period of owning and operating Guys & Gals Billiards in Dixon, which gave him the gift of his lifelong best friend, Mark Wagner. As the children grew, Dennis gained a passion for antiques, which led to the startup of the Roscoe Antique Mall. This offered the perfect opportunity to earn a living and do something he loved.

Over the years, the Roscoe Antique Mall has become a place where people come together to enjoy a hobby, socialize with others who share their interest, and maybe even to make a little money in the process.

Many of these people

started out as customers or dealers, but over 15 years, Dennis came to consider them some of his very best friends. Auctions and “the hunt� became more pleasure than business, and he would travel across the Midwest, often coming home with a trailer full of treasures.

There were also some wonderful road trips throughout the U.S. with Gaylene, as well as on his Harley with his brother, Steve.

However, his favorite times were the vacations and celebrations with the people he loved most, his family ... creating volumes of wonderful memories.

Dennis was a loving husband, a wonderful father and grandfather, and a true friend to many. He showed compassion and a desire to help others in all he did.

He is survived by his wife; children; four grandchildren, Jake, Sam, Kara, and Joey; three stepgrandchildren, Allen, Amy, and Josh; one step-greatgranddaughter, Lillee; his mother, Dona Stomberg; brothers, Steve (Artina) Stomberg and Greg (Misty) Stomberg; and sister, Debra (Curt) Bartlett.

He was preceded in death by his father; and brothers Kirby and Donnie.

A memorial service to honor and celebrate the life of Dennis will be at 2 p.m. Jan. 5 at the Brandywine in Dixon, with a luncheon following. A gathering to celebrate his life will be from 10 a.m. to noon Jan. 9 at Roscoe Antique Mall in South Beloit. Jones Funeral Home in Dixon is handling arrangements.

In lieu of flowers, donations will be accepted for the American Cancer Society.

Visit www.thejonesfh. com to send condolences.

Eugene D. Gallentine DIXON – Eugene Donald Gallentine, 80, of Dixon, died Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013, at SwedishAmerican Hospital in Rockford.

Chapel Hill Funeral Home in Dixon is handling arrangements.

Obituary information All obituaries, including death notices, are due by 4 p.m. Sunday through Friday for the following day’s edition. They can be sent via e-mail, obituaries@ saukvalley.com or fax, 815-625-9390.

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John D. ‘Jack’ Basler OREGON – John Darvin “Jack�

Basler, 84, of Oregon, died Friday, Dec. 27, 2013, at Mount Morris Pinecrest Terrace Alzheimer’s unit.

He was born Feb. 2, 1929, in Oconomowoc, Wis., to John Henry and Marion Grace (Hatch) Basler.

When Jack was 4 years old, his family moved to Oregon, when his father accepted an engineering position at the Carnation Co. Jack graduated from Oregon High School in 1948, where he lettered in football, basketball and track, as well as spending a great deal of time dating his future bride, Betty Mae Rosenberg Basler.

After graduation, Jack started to work for Abe Hess with Gulf Oil Co. in Oregon, driving a fuel oil delivery truck full time.

During high school, Jack worked for Abe part time, as well as numerous other part time jobs, including butcher assistant and grocery delivery boy. In 1948, Jack also joined the Oregon Fire Department, where he would serve for the next 38 years. On Oct. 26, 1950, Jack married his high school sweetheart, Betty, in a small ceremony on the Rosenberg family farm in Oregon.

In 1951, Jack’s Illinois National Guard unit was called to serve in the Korean War. He went to Fort Benning, Ga., for basic training prior to being shipped overseas to Korea for active duty. Jack served 2 years in Korea, receiving two battlefield commissions and rising to the rank of Sergeant First Class with the Fifth Infantry, Intelligence division. While in Korea, Jack was awarded the Bronze Star, Korean Service, Republic of Korea Korean War Service, Army Good Conduct, Korean Defense Service, United Nations Korean Service, Army National Guard Achievement, and the National Defense Service medals. After the war, Jack returned to Oregon and resumed his work at Gulf Oil Co., while supporting a growing family.

In 1964, Jack bought the Gulf Oil Distribution Service from Abe, expanding the business to include the purchase of Rochelle Oil Co., where he would work until his retirement in 1998. Upon his retirement, Jack was given a testimonial by the Illinois Petroleum Marketing Association for his

50 years in the oil business. Jack was a member of First Presbyterian Church. During his life, Jack always saw community service as a way to contribute to the town he called home, as well as the many people that helped him during his life. As well as the Oregon Fire Department, Jack also served as one of the first crew members to a newly established Oregon Ambulance Service. He was an Oregon auxiliary police officer.

He was a member of American Legion Post 97, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8739, Ogle County Fair Board, and Rochelle Lions Club. He also was Scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troup 52. When asked several years ago to relate one of the things he was most proud of, he stated being on the Building Committee for the new Oregon First Presbyterian Church in 1978, after the 125-yearold building was lost to a fire.

Grateful for having shared in his life are his wife, Betty; four children, Jeffrey Basler (Cindy Kowa) of Oregon, Robb Basler (Terri Zolondek) of Crystal Lake, Jennifer Bakener (Dave) of Oregon, and Janna Bredeson (Dave) of Columbia, Mo.; 11 grandchildren, Jaci Basler-Heather, Kim Basler, Megan Basler Ries, Adam Bakener, Jon Bakener, Gena Basler, Ken Schwartz, Alicia Labash, Steve Schwartz, Jackson Bredeson and Jamison Bredeson; and six great-grandchildren, Elisabeth Ries, Adyson Basler-Heather, Brandon Bakener, Carter Ries, Garrett Bakener and Ashyr Basler-Heather.

Jack was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Frank, Dale, and Clyde, sister, Merlene (Griffin); and stepsister, Barbara Beckington.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. today at First Presbyterian Church, 200 S. Fifth St., Oregon. The funeral will be at 11 a.m.

Tuesday at the church.

Farrell-Holland-Gale Funeral Home in Oregon is handling arrangements.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to First Presbyterian Church in Oregon and Good Samaritan Fund at Pinecrest Manor in Mount Morris.

Visit www.farrellhollandgale.com to send condolences.

and clarifications will appear in the Corrections box on page A2 the next publication day.

Margaret Perez Receipt of all obituaries must be confirmed by ANAHEIM, Calif. – Margaret Perez, 68, of Anaheim, phone. formerly of Sterling, died Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013, at For more information, her home in Anaheim. call 815-625-3600 or 815- McDonald Funeral Home in Sterling is handling 284-2222, ext. 530 or 502. arrangements.

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Barsotti also recommended other elements, like shared lane markings and bikeway infrastructure, as ways to make the city more bike-friendly.

Barsotti told Sauk Valley Media he knows the mayor wants to make the city bike-friendly, and that the city has taken some steps in that direction. “I know it’s on [Burke’s]

mind, and I’ve applauded him for making it a priority,� Barsotti said. “I think Dixon is definitely on the right track and looking at this as a way to make their community a 21stcentury community.�

Other than programs at a few colleges or universities, Barsotti wasn’t aware of other communities in Illinois, outside Chicago, that have established bike-sharing programs. But, he said, more have started to think about it.

Alta Bicycle Share Inc. works with cities to help facilitate bike-sharing programs. The group has helped to establish programs in Chicago; New York; Columbus, Ohio; Bay Area, Calif.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Boston; Washington; and Melbourne, Australia, according to its website.

Burke said he plans to reach out to Dixon bicyclists for their input on bike sharing and bike racks, which could be placed downtown as

part of a larger push to become more bikefriendly.

Being more bike-friendly, for residents and tourists, could include trails along historical routes of Dixon, Burke said, including highlights of President Ronald Reagan’s life in Dixon.

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Year over year, jobs were added in seven of the 12 metropolitan areas tracked by the Illinois Department of Employment Security.

The Rockford and Peoria metro areas were among those that lost jobs since November 2012.

The IDES attributed the November job losses to “a temporary slowdown in global manufacturing demand.� The metro areas experiencing the most significant job losses have large agriculture-related manufacturing employers such as John Deere, Caterpillar and ADM. Seasonal cutbacks in manufacturing operations are not uncommon at the end of the year, and oftentimes ramp up again after the holidays. “Manufacturing, farm employers and construction can have big seasonal swings this time of year,� said John Thompson, president and CEO of Lee County Industrial Development Association. “They use seasonal shutdowns to adjust production schedules at the end of the year.�

Local companies do not report layoffs to his office. County and city officials are notified if they are of the mass variety and require official public reporting under provisions of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. “I really haven’t heard of any layoffs locally,�

Thompson said. “If there are, hopefully they are just temporary.�

Although some metro

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challenge coin, and a full set of Dixon Police trading cards. “You could tell Jacob was surprised to see us,� Langloss said in the release. “The look on his face when we recognized him in front of the other students and staff was priceless. He didn’t expect anything for what he had done. We need more students like Jacob in our community.�

It turned out that the boy’s mother had been very concerned.

Shaw drove the boy to his mother before he returned to the police department, where he and Chief Danny Langloss decided to formally recognize Jacob. “I felt it was important to recognize Jacob for his bravery and quick action,� Shaw said in a news release. “This young boy would have had to cross many busy intersections to get where he needed to go.

You never know what 8/31/41 - 12/30/12 could have happened.�

The next day, Langloss and Shaw walked into Jacob’s homeroom class at Reagan Middle School.

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areas in Illinois are showing improvement, the state, overall, is lagging behind the national average. Thompson said that is cause for concern. “We’re not showing the kind of improvement the U.S. is showing,� he said. “If you look back at the reports post-recession, Illinois is not seeing the increasing number of jobs they are seeing in other states.�

Since the recession, the state’s unemployment rate has dropped from a high of 10 percent in 2009, but remains 1.7 percentage points higher than the national average.

In addition, there is some added anxiety building within the ranks of the state’s unemployed. Extended unemployment insurance benefits ran out for about 82,000 Illinoisans beginning Saturday. An additional 36,000 were to join the program in the first quarter of the new year.

The federal program for long-term job seekers was a casualty of the last budget deal. Congress did not renew it after having extended it 11 times since 2008. For some recipients, the program had extended benefits for up to 47 weeks. “While today’s job growth allows most newly unemployed individuals to find work after several weeks, the long-term unemployed face additional hurdles,�

IDES Director Jay Rowell said in a news release. “Ending this modest program based on a calendar date, rather than economic principles and job skills, could slow economic growth.�

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n Thanksgiving, I met the Harts family. I was asked to write a story on how the family’s matriarch, Bobbie Mae Harts, 75, who had been suffering health problems, was making a rare trip outside her house.

Before Thanksgiving, she had left home only twice in the past year, both times for doctor’s appointments.

Her husband, Frank Harts, 77, drove her to the family’s Thanksgiving at the Sterling Township’s Center for Youth.

She was all smiles.

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Beforehand, one of their sons, Ted Harts, who works at Sterling Township, gave me a self-published book that he wrote based on his interviews with his parents.

The elder Hartses, who are black, grew up in Shelby, Miss., during the Jim Crow era. They experienced much prejudice.

But they left that life behind.

In his high school years in the 1950s, Frank worked at a movie theater in Shelby – segregated by race, as all theaters were in Mississippi in those days. “A white boy, about a year younger than I,�

Frank said, “came over and said, ‘Frank, get up and start working. You’re not doing anything but sitting here laughing and talking with your friends.’�

Frank wouldn’t have it. “Get out of my face,� he told the boy.

The boy responded with a racial slur, grabbing Frank and again telling him to work. “When he grabbed me, I shook him loose from me, and I picked him up and dropped him over the banister of the stairs, and he fell to the next flight of stairs,� Frank told his son. “He rolled the rest of the way down, and he got banged up pretty good.

Later that night, one of Frank’s co-workers warned him, “Frank, I think it’s time for you to

get out of town, because a gang of white people and Italians were huddled up down by the bottom of the theater, and they were talking about what they were going to do to you tomorrow.�

Frank followed that advice and fled to Sterling, where his mother and stepfather lived.

When he enrolled in Sterling High School, only two of the 1,200 students were black. “My experience in the school was unsure at first, because I didn’t know how to adjust to white people being

friendly and so nice, and teachers and students were overly friendly.

They treated us as equals, which I wasn’t used to,� he told Ted. “It was so different for me, but a very good experience to know that white people and black people could actually get along together.�

Frank graduated in 1957, married Bobbie Mae, and went on to a career of supervisory positions in meatpacking plants in the region.

That one little confrontation changed Frank’s life for the better.

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Couple take over horse facility Family plans to invest $20,000 into renovations

BY JOSEPH BUSTOS The Northwest Herald

LAKE IN THE HILLS (AP) – Samantha and Josiah Kitchel decided a few months ago they didn’t want to live in the Rockford house they were renting, and preferred the countryside so they could have horses.

Josiah Kitchel, 28, then found the listing for the Lake in the Hills horse facility at 1109 Pyott Road. They took a look, did some research on the facility and decided to write a business plan. “We want our family to

grow up around horses, and this seemed like one of those amazing opportunities,� said Samantha Kitchel, who has worked in horse stables. “It’s definitely been an adventure so far.�

Ultimately, the Village Board chose the Kitchels’ plan to run RoseGate Equestrian Center over two other proposals to run the horse facility and replace Dynasty Farm.

The Kitchels and their 15-month-old son, Devereaux, moved in during November and began sweeping, taking down cobwebs and doing other cleaning. They are repairing doors and replacing lights. “[There’s] a lot of maintenance things making it look better,� 26-year-old

Samantha Kitchel said. “There is some stuff that is run down.�

They expect to have their first boarders at the beginning of the new year.

The Kitchels expect to invest about $20,000 of their own money into the barn to bring in limestone, fix door fixtures, lights, broken boards and other things.

Samantha Kitchel said she thinks the way they structured the lease will be helpful. One-third of their horse stable revenue will go toward rent payments, rather than having a fixed amount due to the village by a certain time period. The monthly rent payment will be capped at $4,600 per month.

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“I think that’s going to be a part of our success, because we want to make the barn self-sufficient,�

Samantha Kitchel said. “How else do you do that, by only having the rent be what the barn is bringing in.�

Tricia Sales, 35, of Cary, is set to be the horse trainer at RoseGate Equestrian Center. She said the barn and its two indoor arenas should be a plus.

Sales said she used to show horses at the barn when it was called Spring Hill Farms about 15 to 20 years ago.

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From our archives: Lincoln has â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;done wellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; re-elect him Note to readers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sauk Valley Media reprints editorials and articles from the past as a regular Monday feature. The following items appeared in the Gazette on Dec. 26, 1863.

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 A Gazette editor, on Dec. 26, 1863, in endorsing Lincoln for president in 1864, noted â&#x20AC;&#x153;an immense feeling in favor of the re-election of Mr. Lincoln.â&#x20AC;?

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t is rather early to begin president making for the next term; but that work is so far commenced as to indicate an immense feeling in favor of the reelection of Mr. Lincoln.

The following paragraph has been extensively copied without credit, and therefore adopted by all papers that have published it.

We do the same: The signs of the times indicate that Abraham Lincoln will be the candidate of the Unionists for president. We cordially endorse the movement. In our estimation, it would be suicidal to experiment with new men while the rebellion exists.

Mr. Lincoln has done well â&#x20AC;&#x201C; much better than any man in the country could have done under the circumstances. He has proven himself a most remarkable man, who sincerely desires the peace and happiness of the people.

The rebellion was inaugurated on his assuming

What we thought: 150 years ago the reins of government, and he should hold them until every vestige of the rebellion is eradicated and our country is blessed with peace.

The most hardened rebel sympathizer has not dared to impugn his motives and honesty of purpose, and we cannot in this emergency point to a more competent standard bearer for the flag of the Union, than Abraham Lincoln.

for president in 1864, and Judge Campbell, of Pennsylvania, for vice president.

The ticket is a good one; we like it, and hope the Conservatives of the peace persuasion will stick to it. No man in the world could be more peaceGen. George able than McClellan Little Mac 1826-1885 0RESIDENT ,INCOLN has been, McClellan, ON A SECOND TERM whether the Army of as citizen Recently a gentleman the Potomac or as comcommander, hinted to President Linwas fired by mander of coln that it was deemed President the army. quite settled among Lincoln He loves in 1862. many friends that he peace and McClellan would accept a renomithen ran quietness, nation for the presiagainst and the dency.

Lincoln for president in This â&#x20AC;&#x153;remindedâ&#x20AC;? Father people, at the next 1864 but lost.

Abraham of what old election, Jesse Dubois, out of Illinois, once said to an itin- will give him a free ticket to a peaceful home in erant preacher. some shady nook down Jesse, as state auditor, in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jarsey,â&#x20AC;? there to rest, had charge of the State apart from the busy House at Springfield. turmoils of this pugiThe preacher asked the listic world. Good bye, use of it for a lecture.

McClellan, good bye, we â&#x20AC;&#x153;On what subject?â&#x20AC;? wish you well in your asked Jesse. rural retreat. Be a good â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the second comboy, George, and you ing of our Saviour,â&#x20AC;? answered the long faced may go to Washington by-and-by to see Old Abe Millerite. again inaugurated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;O, bosh,â&#x20AC;? retorted Uncle Jesse, testily. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I 'AINS AND LOSSES guess if our Saviour had According to the report ever been in Springfield of General Halleck, and had got away with his life, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be too ever- general-in-chief, the captures by the Union lasting smart to think of armies during the year, coming here again.â&#x20AC;? covered by his stateThis, said Lincoln, was very much his case about ments were as follows: colors, 52; prisoners, the succession.

86,783; guns, 266; small arms, 44,829; boats, 158; -C#LELLAN cattle, 5,643; horses, NOMINATED 1,175. Besides, in one FOR PRESIDENT place, â&#x20AC;&#x153;large stores,â&#x20AC;? in The national convenanother, 4,400 pounds tion of the never-to-beof power and 150,000 sneezed-at Conservarounds of cartridges; tives met in Philadelphia and, in another, in the on Thursday last, and language of General nominated Gen. G.B. Grant, â&#x20AC;&#x153;arms and muni(Great Blow) McClellan tions of war for an army

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of sixty thousand men.â&#x20AC;?

Our losses during the same period figure up thus: killed, 10,079; missing, 20,677; wounded, 51,176; guns, 42; small arms, 8,840; and 10,295 men reported under the heads of â&#x20AC;&#x153;our losses,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;killed and woundedâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;killed, wounded and missing.â&#x20AC;? This would place our total loss of men at 92,770.

&EELING A DRAFT Provost Marshal [J.V.] Eustaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letter, published in another column, will be found particularly interesting and suggestive to [Whiteside County] candidates for the coming draft.

By a careful perusal of the marshalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letter, they will find their chances for election by draft into Uncle Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s service tolerably fair, as but 18 volunteers out of our quota of 300 had been enrolled up to the date of the letter.

The draft will certainly ensue unless the complement is speedily filled, and the question for them to decide is, whether they will volunteer and receive the liberal bounties, and choice of regiment, or go by compulsion, where the government sees fit to place them, at thirteen dollars per month.

7OULDN T TOUCH IT An old lady in Boston, last week, was very anxious to read the presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s message, but refused to touch copy of the paper containing it, because she heard that Mr. Lincoln had the small pox and was afraid she would catch it.

.O PAPER No paper will be issued from this office next week. Sickness, and an accumulation of job work, makes it impossible for us to do otherwise. Taking time by the forelock, we wish our friends, one and all, a Happy New Year.

LOMBARD â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all hoarders, you know,â&#x20AC;? my wife, Joan, explained to me after attending the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual meeting.

The vets were practicing doing ultrasounds on dogs from the local animal shelter.

And the doctors were quickly falling in love with the homeless canines.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only veterinary spouse to hear, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can we adopt one?â&#x20AC;?

Animal doctors have such an intense love for creatures that their homes tend to become, well, menageries.

You see, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been blessed with two veterinarians in my life â&#x20AC;&#x201C; my father and my wife.

Vets have an affinity for animals that most people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand.

When I asked my wife for her hand in marriage, I made her promise: No animals would be added to our family â&#x20AC;&#x201C; unless we both agreed. I asked for the promise with a childhood memory in the back of my mind.

When I was 8, my dad came home with a billy goat.

Dad was vaccinating cattle at a sale barn and, as a joke, bid $5 on a lonely billy goat that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any ears.

We ended up owning the beast that devoured newspapers, cigarette butts, and just about anything else. The ruminant had no respect for fences or screen doors. No sooner had the goat been put in the pasture than it jumped the fence, ran across our yard, peered through the screen door, and baaed loudly.

MY MOTHER TOOK to chasing Billy off the porch with a broom â&#x20AC;&#x201C; until he ate the broom. Having no respect for fences, the animal took to sunning itself on the front porch, where more than a few drivers nearly swerved off the road after observing the goat.

Given this history, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have gone into marriage to a vet with my eyes wide open. Dream on.

My wife brought a cat into the marriage that hated all men. Within a week, the cat marked

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my suit and every freshly pressed white shirt of mine hanging in the closet. But marital adventures in felines didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t end there.

A couple of years after we wed, Joan was more than 8 months pregnant with our first daughter, and she came home with a kitten that was born without eyes.

Between sobs, she said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;They wanted me to put it to sleep just because it was born this way. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it, Scott. What happens if our child is born without any eyes?â&#x20AC;?

As my pregnant wife stroked the blind kitten, she added: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a foster cat. It will stay with us just until we find someone who will give it a home permanently.â&#x20AC;?

THE FOSTER CAT IS still with us, 8 years later.

It has the floor plan of the house memorized, avoids the kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; toys on the floor with an eerie sixth sense, and lounges on the window sill like a prince on a throne.

And there have been other creatures.

There is the rabbit that suddenly appeared in our home after Joan discovered it needed a home.

Our three daughters play with it along with their Barbies, My Little Ponies, and costume jewelry.

In addition to four dogs, two cats, two parakeets, and a rabbit, there are other creatures in our family, namely, three goats.

Several nights a week, my two older daughters and I find ourselves scratching behind the ears of Blackie, Snowflake and Alfred. They like to nibble on carrots and apples.

Goat slobber sticks to our fingers, and my girls giggle as they receive gentle butts from the top of their heads.

The time with those creatures brings us closer together.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the legacy of the vets in our lives: loving animals, and loving one another.

Note to readers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Scott Reederâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s column is underwritten by the Illinois Policy Institute.

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Womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s salary reveals beauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s low self-esteem Dear Abby: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a 23-year-old woman in a fantastic relationship with a man two years older. I could fill volumes with all the things I love about him. My problem is I make more money than he does. He earns a good living and is a hard worker, but he constantly says things like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to leave me for someone who makes more money than I do,â&#x20AC;? or, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your parents donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m good enough for you because I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go to college.â&#x20AC;?

Abby, my parents donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care about that. They

finances will be combined.

I have tried telling him this and convincing him that I love him for all his qualities, but he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe me. Is there anything else I can do? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Head Over Heels in Portland, Ore.

dearABBY Abigail Van Burenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Jeanne Phillips) column appears during the week through Universal Press Syndicate.

adore him because they see how happy he makes me. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care that I earn more. The way I look at it, eventually when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re married, our

Dear Head Over Heels: The problem isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that you make more money than your boyfriend does; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have enough self-confidence to believe that someone could love him just for himself. Some men feel

that in order for them to affirm their masculinity, they have to bring in the bigger paycheck.

You might point out that when he says those things, it hurts your feelings because it implies that all you care about is money, you have poor values and are for sale to the highest bidder.

But until HE is able to recognize all that he has to offer, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing more you can do.

Dear Abby: My wife and I are starting to hate our older daughter. After

dropping out of college, she moved home to â&#x20AC;&#x153;save some money.â&#x20AC;? Since then, she has lived as she pleases. She isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t saving money and is contributing nothing toward her support.

We have given her a deadline to move out and will hold to it. But her slovenly ways, sullen attitude and disregard for rules have created such a toxic atmosphere weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re afraid our relationship is forever changed. Abby, this is not the daughter we raised!

What do we do? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sad Dad Out West

Dear Sad Dad: Your letter raises more questions than I can answer.

Why did your daughter drop out of college?

Does she have a job?

Where is her money going if sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not saving it or contributing to the household? Does she have a drug problem?

Emotional problems?

If this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the girl you raised, there has to be a reason for it. Rather than hating her for her behavior, what you should be doing is finding out whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s causing it.

River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hand and Footâ&#x20AC;? card game, 12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

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

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

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

Chair massage, 1:30 p.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

There is a cost; registration necessary.

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

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

101 E. Mason St., 815-946-3818.

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

Line dancing, 10 a.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-6229230.

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

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

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

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

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

Pinochle, 12:30 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., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Farkle, 1 p.m., Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815-589-3925 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 Veterans of Foreign Wars, 217 First Ave. Bingo, 7 p.m. Rock Falls American Legion, 712 Fourth Ave.

COMMUNITY EVENTS Monday, Dec. 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., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Pool players, 8:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3253.

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

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

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

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

Lifescape lunch, 11:30 a.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon. Reservations: 815-288-9236.

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

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

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

Pinochle, 12:30 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.

Friendly Mexican Train

Dominoes, 12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-625-0046.

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

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

Exercise group, 4 p.m., Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815-589-3925.

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

Tuesday, Dec. 31 Open pool, open cards, open Wii games and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

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

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

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

Bingo and doughnuts, 9-10 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-5625050.

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

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

Community coffee and doughnuts, 10 a.m., Oregon Healthcare Center, 811 S. 10th

St., 815-732-7994.

Lifescape lunch, 11:30 a.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon. Reservations: 815-288-9236.

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

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

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

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

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

Wii and Yoga, 1;30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815622-9230.

Bingo, 7 p.m., Sterling Moose Family Center, 2601 E. Lincolnway, Sterling, 815-625-0354.

Wednesday, Jan. 1 Holiday: SVM has not received cancelation notices on these events.

Bingo, 1 p.m., Rock Falls American Legion Hall, 712 Fourth Ave. Community cards, 2 p.m., The Meadows of Franklin Grove, 510 N. State St., Franklin Grove, 815456-3000.

Kings Kids Club, 6 p.m., Liberty Baptist Church, 2002 Ninth Ave., Rock Falls, 815-579-1209 or 815-625-4101.

Sauk Valley Chess Club, 7-9 p.m., Northland Mall, 2900 E. Lincolnway, Sterling, 815-622-8838.

Thursday, Jan. 2 Open pool, open cards, open

Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

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

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

Bingo and popcorn, 9-10 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-5625050.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mexican Train Dominoes, noon, Polo Senior Center, 101 E. Mason St., 815-946-3818.

Card players, 12:15 p.m., Rock

Friday, Jan. 3 Open pool, open cards, open Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

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

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

Cinnamon rolls and quilting, 8:30 a.m., Polo Senior Center,

SUPPORT GROUPS, CLUBS, AND SERVICES Tuesday, Dec. 31 Childhood immunization clinic; Women, Infants and Children clinic; and Family Planning Services, all by appointment only, Suite 100, Lee County Health Department, 309 S. Galena Ave., Dixon, 815-2843371.

Kiwanis Club of Sterling, 6:457:45 a.m., Ryberg Auditorium, CGH Medical Center, 100 E. LeFevre Road, Sterling, 815-4994866.

Sisters in Christ, 9 a.m., Congregational Church, 1602 13th Ave., Rock Falls.

Gaffey Home Nursing blood pressure clinic, 9-11 a.m.

Kroger, 2301 N. Locust St., Sterling.

Golden K Kiwanis, 9 a.m., Dixon Senior Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Free blood pressure clinic, 10-11:30 a.m., Oregon Healthcare Center, 811 S. 10th St. Commodities, 10 a.m.-noon, Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815622-9230.

Blood pressure checks, 10 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3253.

Facing the Challenge Cancer Support Group, 11 a.m., Home of Hope Cancer Wellness Center, 1637 Plock Road, Dixon, 815288-4673.

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

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, open; 6 p.m., open, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; 7:30 p.m., open, 90-92 Hennepin Ave., Dixon.

Sterling Rotary Club, noon, YWCA of the Sauk Valley, 412 First Ave., Sterling.

Dixon Noon Lions, noon, private dining room, KSB Hospital, 403 E. First St., Dixon. Public welcome.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed, tradition; 3:30 p.m.,

Taco Tuesdays $1.00 Tacos + tax. no limit!

$2 Off Taco Pizza Expires 12/31/13.

Mama Ciminoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dine-In ~ Carry-Out ~ Delivery

104 S. Peoria Dixon 288-4448 or 288-4449

closed; 7 p.m., closed, Big Book, Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Reality Check Narcotics Anonymous, noon, 6 p.m., First Christian Church, 506 Fifth Ave., Rock Falls, 779-245-8214. Downstairs, west door.

Red Cross blood drive, 4-7 p.m., 112 W. Second St., Rock Falls. Appointment: 815-6250382.

Dixon TOPS IL617 meeting, 5 p.m., Eells meeting room, St. Luke Episcopal Church, 221 W. Third St., Dixon, 815-284-8321.

Group Hope for Depression and Bipolar Disorder, 6-7:30 p.m., Sinnissippi Center, 326 state Route 2, Dixon, 815-5900822.

TOPS 253, 6-7:30 p.m., Good Neighbor Care, 2705 Avenue E, Sterling, 815-622-2820.

Northeast Area Watch Group, 6:30 p.m., Dixon Police Department community room, 306 S. Hennepin Ave., schowell@dixonpd.com, 815-2847197.

National Alliance on Mental Illness Sauk Valley, 6:30 p.m., School Of Love In Deliverance Substance Abuse Group, 6:30 p.m., closed, The Worship Center, 403 N. Ottawa, Dixon, 815284-1340.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, 606 Brown Ave., Ashton.

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

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

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., open, Rolling Hills Center, 201 state Route 64, Lanark.

Alcoholics Anonymous Beginners, 7 p.m., 8 p.m., closed, First Presbyterian Church, 410 Second Ave., Sterling.

Sauk Valley Group Alcoholics

Anonymous, 7 p.m., open, tradition, back door, 1503 First Ave., Rock Falls.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., closed, Village of Progress, 710 S. 13th St., Oregon.

Al-Anon/Alateen, 8 p.m., private dining room, KSB Hospital, 403 E. First St., Dixon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed, home meeting, 815284-2589.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed, All Saints Lutheran Church, 624 Luther Drive, Byron.

Volunteer Care Center of Lee County, 403 E. First St., Dixon.

Appointment: 815-284-9555.

Wednesday, Jan. 1 Holiday: SVM has not received cancelation notices on these events.

Dixon Kiwanis Club meeting, 7 a.m., private dining room, KSB Hospital, 403 E. First St., Dixon.

Dixon Correctional retiree breakfast, 8 a.m., Rivers Edge Inn, 2303 W. First St., Dixon.

Mercy Nursing Services free blood pressure clinic, 9-11 a.m., Northland Mall, 2900 E. Lincolnway, Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m., closed, Church of the Brethren, 215 North Court St., Dixon.

Nurturing Program, 9:15 a.m., Sinnissippi Centers Inc., 2611 Woodlawn Road, Sterling, 815625-0013.

Narcotics Anonymous, 10 a.m., open, 403 13th Ave., Sterling.

Senior Information Services, 10 a.m.-noon, Community United Church of Christ, 346 Chicago Ave., Savanna, 800541-5479.

Whiteside County Health Department free blood pressure clinic, 10-11 a.m., Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Bank, 112 Main St., Tampico.

Mercy Nursing Services free blood pressure clinic, 11 a.m.noon, Dixon Food Center â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Red Fox, 500 Chicago Ave., Dixon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed, grapevine; 3:30 p.m., closed; 6 p.m., closed, Spanish; 7 p.m., closed, Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Reality Check Narcotics Anonymous, noon, 6 p.m., First Christian Church, 506 Fifth Ave., Rock Falls, 779-245-8214. Downstairs, west door.

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

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed, Big Book; 6 p.m., closed, Big Book, tradition, 90-92 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon.

Sauk Valley Group Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed; 7 p.m., closed, Big Book, back door, 1503 First Ave., Rock Falls.

Free blood pressure check, 1-3 p.m., Amboy Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 15 W. Wasson Road, Amboy, 815-8572550.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 1:30

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p.m., closed, Rochelle Community Hospital, 900 N. Second St. Low Vision Group, 1:30 p.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

American Red Cross blood drive, 2-6 p.m., 112 W. Second St., Rock Falls. Appointment: 815-625-0382.

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Support Group, 5-6:30 p.m., Choices Domestic Violence Program office, 203 W. Market St., Mount Carroll.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 5:30 p.m., closed, steps, tradition, United Methodist Church, 201 E. Chicago Ave., Davis Junction.

YWCA sexual abuse survivors womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group, 5:30-7 p.m., second floor, 115 W. First St., Dixon, bbraid@ywsauk.or or 815625-0333.

Pearl, a self-esteem support group of the YWCA Domestic Violence Program, 6 p.m., 815625-0333.

Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cancer Group, 6 p.m., Home of Hope Cancer Wellness Center, 1637 Plock Road, Dixon, 815-288-4673.

AWANA, 6:30-8 p.m., 3 years through sixth grade, Northside Baptist Church, 598 River Lane, Dixon, 815-288-5212.

Carroll County Fair Board, 7 p.m., Milledgeville Bank basement, 451 N. Main Ave., 815244-9444.

Touched By Suicide ... Survivors Gather, 7 p.m., Hospice of the Rock River Valley, 264 state Route 2, Dixon, 815-438-2345.

Dixon Sports Boosters Club Board meeting, 7 p.m., Dixon High School, 300 Lincoln Statue Drive.

Wednesday worship at the barn, 7 p.m., Chaplin Creek Village, 1715 Whitney Road, Franklin Grove.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., open, Immanuel Lutheran Church, 560 U.S. Route 52, Amboy.

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

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

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed, Polo Town Hall, 117 N. Franklin Ave. Whiteside County Soil and Water Conservation District Board meeting, 8 p.m., United States Department of Agriculture Building, 16255 Liberty St., Morrison.

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Monday, December 30, 2013

Zits® by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Arlo & Janis by Jimmy Johnson Garfield by Jim Davis

Freshly Squeezed by Ed Stein Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley

Blondie by Dean Young & John Marshall

Wizard of Id by Brant Parker and Johnny Hart

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis Rose is Rose by Pat Brady and Don Wimmer

Pickles by Brian Crane Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce

Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom

Baby Blues by Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman

Soup To Nutz by Rick Stromoski

Family Circus by Bil Keane

The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn

Alley Oop by Dave Graue and Jack Bender

Bridge Frank & Ernest by Bob Thaves

The best play of the year chosen

Grizzwells by Bill Schorr

As 2013 comes to a close, let’s recognize the deal that was chosen by the International Bridge Press Association panel for its Keri Klinger Memorial Declarer Play of the Year award.

Appropriately, it was played by the top-ranked player in the world, Fulvio Fantoni.

He was born in Italy, but now represents Monaco. The journalist prize went to Toine van Hoof from the Netherlands.

How did Fantoni make six hearts after West led the club queen to declarer’s ace?

Fantunes (as Fantoni and his partner, Claudio Nunes, are known) play an unusual system in which one-level opening bids are natural and unlimited.

North’s three-heart raise was pre-emptive. East then produced a revealing takeout double.

South made two controlbids (cue-bids), and North

jumped to the slam.

Fantoni felt that East had 4-0-5-4 or 4-0-4-5 distribution with the four honors he actually held. Trusting his reading of the position, at trick two, Fantoni played a low heart to dummy’s seven!

When East discarded a diamond, declarer continued with the club 10, pitching a diamond from his hand.

West won with his jack and returned a trump. South won with dummy’s 10 and led the club nine, covered by the king and ruffed with the heart queen. Then two rounds of trumps ending on the board squeezed East, not that it mattered.

Declarer discarded a diamond and a spade on the eight and six of clubs before taking the marked spade finesse to land his slam. Terrific. © 2013 UFS

Monday, December 30, 2013

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STERLING HIGH SCHOOL

October Student of the Month Nick Abele N

ick Abele, 17, a senior at Sterling High School, is an October Student of the Month.

He is the son of Dave and Karen Abele. His brother is Jonathan, 14, a freshman at Sterling High School.

Favorite class: I have several classes I really like this year, but the new CEO class is probably my favorite, because we learn by actually going to different businesses and listening to the owners or managers who give us advice about how to be successful entrepreneurs.

Top teacher: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had many good teachers at Sterling High School, but Alan Stewart (AP Economics), Mike LeMay (sociology) and Alexis Rivera (pre-calculus) are some of my favorites, because they know how to make their subjects really interesting.

Extracurricular activities: Golf, swimming, baseball, National Honor

called Nickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mow â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Snow.

Best Friend: My closest friends are David Gottemoller and Brady Siegmund. We have a lot of fun together, and I know I can rely on them if I ever need anything.

Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.com

Sterling High School October Student of the Month Nick Abele would like to take this opportunity to offer his snow removal services. The profits are for a good cause: college tuition.

Society, Key Club, Junior Rotarian, Explorers, Peer Jury, Science Club and the SHS Mentoring Program. I also volunteer with Habitat for Humanity.

After graduation: I plan to go to Western Illinois University to major in criminal justice and earn an MBA. My goal is to go into federal law enforcement.

Paycheck: For the last 2 years, I have worked at Emerald Hill Golf Course.

I also run my own landscaping, mowing, and snow removal business

Favorite musical group: Florida Georgia Line.

Favorite TV show: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hawaii 5-0â&#x20AC;?.

Favorite outdoor activities: Riding dirt bikes and snowmobiles, skiing, snowboarding, playing hockey, kayaking, and fishing.

Favorite food: Culverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hamburgers.

Biggest fear: Snakes.

What makes your blood boil? Bad drivers.

What kind of music makes your skin crawl?

Rap. Where are some of the places you like to hang out? I like to be outside as much as possible, but no specific place.

Survival guide: What is the key to surviving high school? Time management. Balancing sports, clubs, activities, community service and homework isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy, but you can do it, if you plan ahead and stick to a schedule.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in the dictionary next to: Diligent. I work hard to earn good grades and to make my business successful, so I can help pay for college.

Personal trivia: I know how to surf and play the guitar.

Dream job: If you could try any job for one day, what would it be? I would like to be either an ATF or an FBI agent.

Trading spaces: I would like to go to Alaska for the wildlife and the scenery. I think it would be fun to hike and fish there.

Shout out to: Anyone who needs mowing, landscaping or snow removal services.

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He usually patronized the Rodeo Saloon, Feed House or WildWood Saloon, all in Iowa.

Before long, the three were chatting up one another. Each always dreamed of a local place to dance on a regular basis.

With their love of dance and Wetzellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passion for teaching, they formulated a plan, ultimately creating River Country Stomp. As a group, they hoped to introduce new people to the dances they enjoyed and to meet as regularly as possible.

The newly formed group was welcome to gather on Champsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dance floor. They met on Friday and Saturday nights, or whenever live country music was available.

Hughes, Hollenbach and Wetzell quickly learned they

werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t alone in their desire to line dance. The trio grew to 40, seemingly overnight.

They soon outgrew the dance floor at Champs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we saw how many people were interested, I approached the Moose as a community offering, not to earn money,â&#x20AC;? Hollenbach said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to have something for people to do, young and old, giving RCS more of a family environment at the same time.

The Moose Family Center and everything the Moose Lodge stands for, is what I wanted to incorporate with dancing.â&#x20AC;?

DuWayne Beck, administrator of the Sterling Moose Family Center, said everyone benefited. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It means a whole lot to this organization,â&#x20AC;? he sid. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the next generation for the lodge.â&#x20AC;?

One hand is washing the other. RCS members are join-

ing the Moose, and Moose members are joining RCS. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It really is a community service project,â&#x20AC;? Beck added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great.â&#x20AC;?

Wolber, who learned of RCS as a member of the Moose, called the dancing â&#x20AC;&#x153;a lot of fun.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love to dance,â&#x20AC;? she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and it has been a really long time since we had some place close to home to do so.â&#x20AC;?

Wetzell, who has 3 years of experience, said the first 30 minutes of the lesson is primarily for beginners to learn the basic steps. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the most part, they have been pretty quick learners,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Hollenbach laughed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No back-of-the-classroom mentality here,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I tell â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh, no, honey, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going in the center.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; It is common nature to hide in the back,

but that is the worst place to be. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can walk them through and encourage them to get in the center of all of us. That way, every time they turn, there is someone they are able to follow.â&#x20AC;?

The intermediate students arrive at 6:45 p.m. and dance until 8.

Every week they review dances, hone steps, and learn something new. They also are incorporating couples dances periodically.

Wetzell takes requests from students. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes they tell me what they would like to learn next,â&#x20AC;? he said.

His demonstration videos are also uploaded on YouTube, so dancers can practice at home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love that it is giving people something to do that is affordable good, clean fun,â&#x20AC;?

Hollenbach said.

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Dylan Hughes, 12, of Sterling, and Catlyn Coy, 13, of Rock Falls, pay close attention during a line dancing lesson at Moose Lodge in Sterling. River Country Stomp welcomes dancers of all ages and skill levels â&#x20AC;&#x201C; even those who have never danced before.

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The Chicago Sun-Times reports that bail was denied at a Sunday hearing for the boyfriend, 16-year-old Anthony Lee, and his brother, 21-yearold Diante Lamont Coakley. Both are from Dolton.

Eva Casara, of Calumet City, was shot on Christmas Day and pronounced dead early the next day.

The 17-year-oldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s baby survived and remains in a local hospital.

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In a year-end interview with The Associated Press, the Chicago Democrat highlighted those accomplishments as evidence of both Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; progress and his leadership, hinting at the themes of his reelection campaign and saying he isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t concerned about criticism from four Republican challengers gearing up to take him on.

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A: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had to work very hard on the [pension reform] mission. And it was a mission. I suggested we have a special session to set up the conference committee, which is kind of going back to the future in Illinois. But clearly, there was gridlock on the pension issue and we had to resolve that deadlock.

I did suspend the legislative pay [to pressure lawmakers to act]. That was necessary to bring public attention to the importance of getting this done. That kind of added into the whole momentum of getting a

decision on this matter.â&#x20AC;?

Q: How much do you think pension reform will be an issue in the 2014 campaign?

A: â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are those who are posers and there are those who are leaders. I think we led on pension reform. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just talk about it. We achieved it. For the public, there are ways to differentiate between the posers and the talkers and the people who get things done.

There were some people, even at the last minute, trying to tear it down. ... Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not going to name names, but it was disappointing. I have to salute Bill Brady.

He voted for it. He and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t agree on a lot of things ... but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to give him credit.â&#x20AC;?

Q: What would you rate as your next top accomplishment? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was important that

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Q: Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve received a lot of criticism of your leadership. Do you think those doubts have been quelled?

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I inherited a huge mess.

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30th Annual Bald Eagle Watch Saturday, January 4, 2014 Time: 8:30am to 2:30pm - Eagle watching at Lock & Dam 13.

Time: 9am to 2pm - Exhibits & Programs at Clinton Community College Location: Lock & Dam 13 - 5 miles north of Fulton, IL along Highway 84.

Location: Clinton Community College, 1000 Lincoln Blvd., Clinton, IA. Clinton Community College, in cooperation with the Clinton County Convention and Visitors Bureau, US Fish and Wildlife Service and US Army Corps of Engineers, presents the annual Bald Eagle Watch. The program is dedicated to the understanding, appreciation and protection of our national symbol. Naturalists and volunteers will be on hand to share their enthusiasm and knowledge of these and other grand birds of prey.

Programs will feature lectures, videos, songs, stories and live birds of prey.

The exhibit hall at Clinton Community College will feature wildlife exhibits, door prizes, food and drinks.

Wild Winter Wednesday Program Salzburg...More than the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sound of Musicâ&#x20AC;? City Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 Time: 9am Location: Windmill Cultural Center, 1st St. & 10th Ave. Cost: Free Speaker: Ron & Connie Koehn Light Refreshments Provided.

Programs are sponsored by the Windmill Area Education Committee.

Wild Winter Wednesday Program Kenya & South America Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 Time: 9am Location: Windmill Cultural Center, 1st St. & 10th Ave. Cost: Free Speaker: Kamalini Kumar Light Refreshments Provided. Programs are sponsored by the Windmill Area Education Committee.

Wild Winter Wednesday Program 1st Generation Immigrant Story, Netherlands Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 Time: 9am Location: Windmill Cultural Center, 1st St. & 10th Ave. Cost: Free Speaker: Charles Dykstra Light Refreshments Provided. Programs are sponsored by the Windmill Area Education Committee.

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Numbers game That’s how many points Mount Carmel’s Tyra Buss scored in an 84-82 loss to Princeton, Ind. on Saturday. She entered the game only two points shy of the IHSA career scoring record of 4,031 points.

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NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE | PACKERS 33, BEARS 28

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AMBOY – Size didn’t matter to the Amboy girls basketball team against Indian Creek.

The Clippers used some stout post defense, along with just enough clutch shooting, to take down the taller Timberwolves 50-42 on Saturday night in the championship game of the Amboy HolDelaney iday TournaWilhelm ment. Amboy Amboy last won its own freshman holiday tournament in 2008.

“This is just really exciting,” freshman guard Delaney Wilhelm said. “We’ve been working hard, and it paid off.”

“I told them before the game, you don’t get the chance to be a champion very often,” Amboy coach Mike McCracken said, “so you’ve really got to go for it when you’re here.”

PROPHETSTOWN – Don Robinson has won a lot of games in his 37 seasons at Prophetstown High School – 659 to be exact.

One game he had never won, however, was the championship game of the Prophetstown tournament.

He has now.

The Prophets turned in a dominating performance, trouncing the LaSalle-Peru Corrie Reiley Cavaliers 68-37 Prophetstown Saturday night. junior “We’ve been close. Every year, we’ve played well and got second or third,” Robinson said.

Prophetstown (16-2) shot a robust 52 percent (27-for-52), including going 8-for-17 from 3-point range. Five different Prophets hit 3-pointers.

“We were a little hotter than normal,” Robinson said.

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Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall (15) lays on the ground as Packers cornerback Tramon Williams (38) talks to him after a pass intended for Marshall was intercepted by Sam Shields to end Sunday’s game in Chicago. The Packers won 33-28 to capture the NFC North title.

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Star of the game: Delaney Wilhelm, Amboy, 18 points Key performers: Alexis Van Whye, Indian Creek, 19 points Up next: Amboy at Fulton, 7:30 Thursday

CHICAGO – The Chicago Bears’ captured the NFC North title and a playoff berth on a fourth-and-8 play to overcome the Bears’ 28-27 lead.

“I’m very disappointed for our players and for our fans,” Trestman said. “I’m proud of the effort they gave today.”

Trestman said the Bears’ locker room was upbeat at halftime despite a 13-7 deficit, and he was pleased with how the team responded in the second half.

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Playoffs s 4HE "EARS AND 0ACKERS weren’t the only teams fighting for their postseason lives. Check out B6 to see who realized their dreams, and who had their dreams dashed. to play,” Trestman said. “We didn’t play well enough to win.”

Rodgers returned from a fractured left collarbone suffered Nov. 4 at Lambeau Field against the Bears and engaged the

Bears’ Jay Cutler in a dramatic duel.

Rodgers went 25-for-39 for 318 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions for a passer rating of 85.2. Cutler was 15-for-24 for 226 yards, two TDs, one pick and a passer rating of 103.8.

“I thought he led our football team very well,” Trestman said of Cutler. “Jay played well enough for us to win tonight.”

Cutler cited “little things” that he wished the Bears could have done differently.

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Star of the game: Corrie Reiley, Prophetstown, 19 points Key performers: Shelby Adams, P’town, 11 points; Heather Strike, P’town 10 points Up next: Prophetstown at Bureau Valley, 7:30 p.m. Thursday

BOYS BASKETBALL | KSB NEWMAN CHRISTMAS CLASSIC | NEWMAN 70, AQUIN 63

Twice nice for Newman Comets knock off Aquin for second time this season

BY PATRICK PETROSKY ppetrosky@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 553

STERLING – The Newman Comets matched up with the Aquin Bulldogs for the second time this season Saturday night. The result was similar as the Comets defeated the Bulldogs 70-63 to capture the KSB/Newman Christmas Classic.

Right off the bat, Newman (12-0) came out swinging. Senior John Payan, who scored 33-points Friday night, hit back-to-back 3s to give the Comets an early 8-2 lead.

Aquin (10-3) junior Aiden Chang, who was the tournament MVP, rallied for eight straight points to help the Bulldogs secure a 16-11 lead after the first quarter. Chang finished with 28 points.

“I thought we did a nice job of keeping our composure,” Newman coach Ray Sharp said.

“We started out pretty good, and then they went on a nice run and took the lead on us. After that

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Star of the game: John Payan, Newman, 21 points, made 7 of 9 3-point attempts Key performers: A.J. Sharp, Newman, 17 points Up next: Newman at Prophetstown, 7:30 p.m. Friday I think we settled down. We were rushing and weren’t executing our offense, but once we started executing it really helped us.”

In the second quarter, a balanced Newman attack brought the Comets back into the game.

In a 5-minute stretch in the middle of the quarter, senior A.J. Sharp and sophomore Noah McCarty combined to score 11 points.

Philip Marruffo@pmarruffo@saukvalley.com Payan also chipped in a pair of 3s to add to the Newman’s Noah McCarty shoots over Aquin’s Andrew Martin on Comets’ cause.

Saturday during the championship game of the KSB/Newman Holiday Classic. The Comets won 70-63.

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Irish finish season with win, B2.

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NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; It was at times boring, sometimes infuriating and only occasionally pretty, but how else should Notre Dame cap its 2013 season than with a sloppy, slippery though ultimately satisfactory 29-16 victory Saturday over Rutgers in the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium?

A grinding defense covered for an inconsistent offense until the Tommy Rees-led unit was able to do enough to win â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a formula Notre Dame employed several times with varying degrees of success on its way to a 9-4 record.

It may not have been much fun to watch, but the players werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the ones watching. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a ground-and-pound second half,â&#x20AC;? said running back Cam McDaniel, who finished with 80 yards on 17 carries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was fun to finish out that tough style weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done so many times.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a staple almost to how this team has really worked over the last 2 years.â&#x20AC;?

The No. 25 Irish had a few

excuses for the less-than-desirable quality, starting with the field. The slick Yankee Stadium grass made it seem at times like a Rockefeller Center ice show on cleats.

That contributed to Notre Dameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s struggles in the red zone, as they scored only two touchdowns in five trips while totaling 494 yards of offense. It was a minor miracle that kicker Kyle Brindza, who struggled at times with his footing, made five of his six field-goal attempts.

Part of the blame also could go to the flu that affected several Irish players before the game.

Coach Brian Kelly said he gave a game ball to the training staff, the unsung stewards who treated as many as 16 ill players.

Rees was one of the players slightly affected, but he capped a tumultuous career at Notre Dame with a statistically strong day, completing 27 of 47 passes for 319 yards with no touchdowns or interceptions against Rutgers (6-7). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a Tommy Rees fan for

life. â&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? coach Brian Kelly said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today was a case in point because we were able to do some things that we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done in a couple of years, and it looked like it was pretty easy for him.â&#x20AC;?

In a fitting Rees performance, there were brilliant plays and hair-pulling ones when Rees missed open receivers or forced the ball into coverage.

But he led a late touchdown drive that iced the game with Notre Dame ahead 19-16. On the 10-play drive, Rees found tight end Troy Niklas for a key 28-yard gain that helped set up Tarean Folstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3-yard touchdown run with 3 minutes, 38 seconds remaining.

That drive was one of the prettier moments Saturday. However, it was the kind of moment that was lacking a bit too much for Notre Dame this season when a few more breaks, and fewer moments of ugliness, might have made all the difference. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a good year that could have been a great year,â&#x20AC;? Kelly said.

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Michigan has taken a step back for a second straight season under coach Brady Hoke.

The Wolverines were defeated by Kansas State 31-14 Saturday night in the Buffalo Wings Bowl, losing their sixth game in an eight-game stretch that left them barely over .500 and dropped their all-time winning percentage to second in college football behind Notre Dame.

After Hoke won eight games last year and 11 in his debut season with the storied program in 2011, the coach, his staff and players will have a lot of reasons to be motivated to bounce back next year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think this team is going to be very hungry,â&#x20AC;? Hoke said in Tempe, Ariz.

Michigan (7-6) started the season with five consecutive wins, including over the Fighting Irish and Minnesota, before its problems became too much to overcome.

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Kansas Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s John Hubert (left) scores a touchdown against Michigan during the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl on Saturday in Tempe, Ariz. Kansas State defeated Michigan 31-14. consistently make stops on defense.

Gardner ended up getting hurt in the last game of the regular season, a one-point loss to rival Ohio State, and was ruled out against Kansas State because of a toe injury.

Freshman Shane Morris became the first Michigan quarterback to make his starting debut in the postseason. Morris was 24 of 38 for 196 yards with an interception, passing more than planned because the Wildcats

jumped out to a 21-6 lead in the first half.

Jeremy Gallon broke the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s single-season record for yards receiving with 1,373, surpassing Braylon Edwards mark set in 2004. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The records right now donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean anything without a win,â&#x20AC;? Gallon said after the game.

Michigan won just twice â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in three overtimes at Northwestern and in a 63-47 shootout against Indiana â&#x20AC;&#x201C; after its 5-0 start.

Next year, the Wolverines will be without offensive tackles, Taylor Lewan and Michael Schofield, Gallon and running back Fitzgerald Toussaint. Defensive tackles Jibreel Black and Quinton Washington, safeties Thomas Gordon and Courtney Avery and kicker Brendan Gibbons are also out of eligibility.

This season, Michigan began ranked No. 17 and rose to No. 11 during its undefeated start.

Gardner accounted for a school-record matching five touchdowns â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for the first of two times this season â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in a 33-21 win over the Fighting Irish. The first of many signs of trouble for the team followed the next week when the Wolverines needed a goal-line stand to beat Akron.

The Wolverines dropped out of The Associated Press poll on Nov. 3 after a 29-6 loss at Michigan State, their fifth setback in 6 years against the rival Spartans. Michigan finished fifth in the sixteam Legends Division, extending its Big Ten title drought that dates to 2004.

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ROUNDUP

Comets top Rockets in Normal Sterling works past Eastland for third place at Dixon tourney "Y 36- 3PORTS 3TAFF

The Newman Comets held the Rock Falls Rockets to seven firsthalf points Saturday at the State Farm Classic, then held on for a 44-38 victory to claim the seventhplace consolation game at Normal Community High School.

Julie Hurd scored 11 points for the Comets (4-9), and Kayci Howell added nine on three 3-pointers. Mary Alice Oswalt had eight points, and Sarah Trujillo chipped in seven in Newmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s balanced effort.

Emily Sauerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 14 points led the Rockets (6-10), who trailed 24-7 at the break. Danica Fortune hit a pair of 3s and added eight points.

Dixon tournament Sterling 54, Eastland 41: The Golden Warriors used a 12-6 firstquarter run and a 19-13 fourthquarter surge to win third place the KSB/Dixon Holiday Tournament.

Kaitlyn Bauer scored 18 points, Gabby Sandoval had 16, and Kiarra Harris finished with 16 for Sterling (10-7). Lexis Macomber had 10 points for the Cougars (13-3).

Dixon 46, Aurora Christian 45:

Sparked by Brooke Baileyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 27 points, the Duchesses outscored Aurora Christian 19-4 in the fourth quarter for a come-from-behind win in the consolation championship at their own tournament.

Bailey hit all six of Dixonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3-pointers, while Carly Hartle added eight points and Maggie Bushman had seven for the Duchesses (10-5). Alyssa Andersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 16 points led the Eagles.

Oregon 63, Lutheran 44: The Hawks cruised to seventh place at the KSB/Dixon Holiday Tournament, led by Sam Lambrigtsenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 31 points.

Emy Wright added 14 points for Oregon (11-6). Kailyn Strawbridge scored 15 to lead the Crusaders (7-4), and Abby Woollacott had 12.

Dunlap 48, Sterling 27: The Warriors scored just five points after halftime in a semifinal loss in Dixon.

Gabby Sandovalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 11 points led the way for Sterling. Brianna Henson scored 14 for Dunlap.

Boylan 50, Eastland 30: The Cougars trailed 27-9 at halftime and never recovered in a semifinal loss at Dixon.

Lexis Macomber had eight points, and Breah Bookman scored six for Eastland. Kayla Steward hit four 3s and finished with 16 points for the Titans.

Dixon 60, Pekin 56, OT: The Duchesses earned a berth in the consolation championship game with an overtime victory over the Dragons.

Brooke Bailey paced Dixon with 23 points, Carly Hartle had 14, and Tyler Smith added 11.

Lexie Yeley led Pekin with 13 points, Jesse Ulrich had 12 and Abigail Lowman added 10.

Stillman Valley 60, Oregon 40:

Emy Wright led the Hawks with 13 points, and Sam Lambrigtsen added 11 in a loss to the Cardinals.

Abby Timm scored 20 points for Stillman Valley, Macy Weaver had 16 and Sydney Shelburne added 10.

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Amboy tournament

Marquette 48, AFC 40: The Raid-

ers managed just 12 points in the second and third quarters, then saw their comeback bid fall short in the third-place game at Amboy.

Alisyn Essex led the way with 11 points for AFC (10-4), and Cassidy Koning hit three 3s for nine points.

Allison Prestegaard chipped in six points, 10 rebounds and five blocks.

Kendall Kaufmann scored a game-high 24 points for Marquette.

Erie tournament Monmouth-Roseville 45, Bureau Valley 26: Helena Osk Arnadottir

scored seven points for the Storm (7-7) in a loss to the Titans.

Dyesha Taylor led MonmouthRoseville with 14 points, and Destiny Smith added 11.

Mercer County 42, Fulton 36:

Betsy Leonard scored nine points, and Averi Leitzen added eight for the Steamers (3-12) in a loss to the Golden Eagles.

Michaela Baker scored 13 points for Mercer County, and Kristen Heath added 10.

Ridgewood 54, Morrison 43: Lakin Goodman paced the Fillies (8-9) with 13 points, and Chelsea Eads added 11 in a loss to the Rebels.

Jasmine Jefko led Ridgewood with 17 points.

Knoxville 56, Erie 37: The Cardinals trailed 28-16 by halftime and couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t catch up in a Warkins Cardinal Classic loss.

Laykin Minerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 13 points led Erie (8-5), while Emily Cox added eight.

Knoxvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Megan Axcell had 19.

Prophetstown tournament

Hall 50, West Carroll 38: Abby Maike scored 14 points for the Thunder (3-12) in a loss to the Red Devils in the seventh-place game at Prophetstown.

Bowling Dixon 5th at Reavis: Top-15 indi-

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Bayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1,179 six-game series was good enough for 13th overall, and featured the fifth-highest game of 253 in her afternoon 661 threegame total.

Quaco was two spots lower in 15th, rolling a 1,165 over six games, including a 243 high game and a 610 in the afternoon.

Metea Valley won the team title (5,741 pins) and saw Jordan Newham take individual honors (1,356).

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ROUNDUP

Dukes win again in Plano Eastland, Polo advance to championship showdown Monday "Y 36- 3PORTS 3TAFF

The Dixon Dukes advanced to the ninth-place game at the 51st annual Plano Christmas Classic with a 50-42 victory over Rockford Christian on Saturday afternoon.

Cal Jarrett led the Dukes (12-1) with 11 points, nine rebounds and two assists, while Laron Carr finished with 10 points, two assists and two steals.

Nate Gascoigne, Kyle LeBlanc and Isaiah Roby each added seven points, with Roby chipping in six rebounds and three steals, and LeBlanc dishing two assists. Dixon will face Kaneland at 12:45 p.m.

Monday for ninth place.

Brandon Williams and Lucheo Tombini scored nine points apiece for the Royal Lions, with Tombini grabbing four rebounds and Williams blocking two shots.

State Farm Classic

Olympia 73, Rock Falls 68: The

Rockets hit just 19 of their 33 free throws, while Olympia made 27 of its 32 foul shots in the fifth-place consolation game at Normal West High School.

Austin Donoho had 15 points, Connor Cain scored 13, and Daegan Wharff added 11 for Rock Falls (4-7), which battled back after being outscored 24-12 in the first quarter.

Drew Stribling finished with 24 points for Olympia, hitting 14 of his 15 free throws.

Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stars Parker Neuhalfen "6 POINTS Zach Barber &ULTON POINTS AJ Dollmeyer 0OLO POINTS Dalton Shaner %ASTLAND

POINTS Durand 62, AFC 60: The Raiders

led by four at halftime, but a 15-7 scoring edge by Durand in the third quarter was enough to send the Bulldogs to fifth place at the KSB/Newman Christmas Classic.

David Zinke hit three 3-pointers and finished with 17 points for AFC (4-6), while Troy Mairs (11 points) and Matt Gendusa (10 points) also hit double figures. Rhyse Evenson and James Bryant led Durand (5-7) with 15 points each.

Erie tournament

Lena-Winslow 48, Erie 40: Five

3-pointers and 17 points from Nich Wildt wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough to lift the Cardinals to victory at the Warkins Cardinal Classic.

Sean Maloney added eight points for Erie (0-12), which trailed 24-20 at halftime before being outscored by that same score in the second half. Hank Robinson scored 17 for the Panthers (3-7).

Stark County 53, Morrison 33:

Eastland tournament Eastland 62, Fulton 52: After the

teams were tied at 27 at halftime, the Cougars pulled away from the Steamers with a 19-9 third-quarter surge in Lanark.

Dalton Shanerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 22 points paced Eastland (9-1), while Skylar Paulson added 17, and Eric Schaney chipped in 10.

Zach Barber hit four 3-pointers and finished with a game-high 23 points for Fulton (10-3).

Polo 70, Prophetstown 43: The Marcos hit just one 3, but scored 31 field goals in a rout in Lanark.

AJ Dollmeyer poured in 23 points, while Brad Cavanaugh added 14 and older brother Brian Cavanaugh scored 13 for Polo (13-1), which will play Eastland in the tournament championship Monday night.

Ethan Howard had 13 for the Prophets (3-7), who trailed 37-22 by halftime.

Pearl City 50, Amboy 38: The Clippers were outscored 19-10 in the final quarter as the Wolves pulled away in a close game in Lanark.

Damon Quest scored 17 for Amboy (2-9), which trailed just 29-28 after three periods. Cody Kluckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 15 points paced Pearl City (4-10).

The Mustangs fell into a 31-10 halftime hole and couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dig out of it at the Warkins Cardinal ClasWrestling sic.

St. Thomas More Noah Hogue paced Morrison New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Challenge (5-9) with 10 points. Jake BerchNewman tournament Newman, Morrison lose duals: Paw Paw 63, Oregon 49: The toldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game-high 13 points led Newman fell 38-30 to Coal City Hawks fell behind 28-15 by half- Stark County.

Peoria Heights 69, Bureau Valley and Morrison lost 48-27 to LeRoy. time and never recovered in the Newman got pin wins from Huntthird-place game at the KSB/New- 61: Thanks in part to Parker Neuhalfenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 25 points, the Storm ral- er Webb (120 pounds), Jake Snow man Christmas Classic.

Trevor Otten hit five 3-pointers lied from an 11-point halftime def- (152), Brandon Ahlgrim (160), and and finished with 17 points to lead icit, but fell short down the stretch Brady Rude (170).

Morrison got pin wins from Oregon (4-10), while Jessie McKin- at the Warkins Cardinal Classic.

Josh Mead had 12 points, and Hunter Ferguson (145), Austin ley scored 16. Nicholas Siemers hit 10 of his 20 shots and all three Tommy Johnston added 10 for Keller (152), and Jesse Lilly (285). of his free throws, pouring in 25 BV (8-7), which trailed only 45-43 The Mustangsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Phoenix Parks (126) earned an 8-6 victory. heading into the final period. points to pace Paw Paw.

Payan hits seven 3s in title game NICE

CONTINUED FROM B1

With time winding down before halftime, Aquin dialed up a manto-man press.

Sharp received the ball and proceeded to wave everyone so he could go one-on-one to bring the ball up.

At half court, he dribbled behind his back to get around one defender, just in time to see another Bulldog flying at him.

Once again, a smooth behind the back dribble got him around that defender. Finally, a spin move to get around a third defender led him to find an open man in the corner.

Payan was the open man, who hit nothing but net on the 3. Payan finished with 21 points. He made seven of his nine 3-point attempts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was just an awesome play all-around,â&#x20AC;? said Payan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A.J. made a couple of great moves to the bucket. They helped off me to stop him like they have all tournament. I just caught it and shot it. When the crowd exploded, it was really awesome to hear.â&#x20AC;?

The shot extended the Comet lead to 33-26 heading into the half.

The Bulldogs once again showed fight. A jumper

by Chang pulled Aquin within two at 42-40 with 3 minutes left in the third.

Newman answered with a basket from junior Trevor Bolin.

McCarty then made two backdoor cuts, and this resulted in a basket the first time, and a pair of made free throws the second time.

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Warkins Cardinal Classic at Erie

LENA-WINSLOW 48, ERIE 40

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Newmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s John Payan shoots a 3-pointer during Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s championship game of the KSB/Newman Christmas Classic. Payan made seven 3-pointers as the Comets beat Aquin 70-63.

To close out the quarter, McCarty poked the ball from his man at half court, which resulted in a basket for Bolin as time expired, extending the lead to 52-44. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all our guards,â&#x20AC;?

McCarty said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Micah, Nate, A.J. were always trying to penetrate and then looking up to find me on the open cut. All the credit goes to them on that one.

Aquin put on some runs that were hard to stop in spurts. We had to be a really strong team to comeback and play like we did after those spurtsâ&#x20AC;?

The dagger strike for Newman came with 2:30 left.

Using a stall offense, the Comets took off about 30 seconds as they clung to a 57-52 lead.

As they stalled, the Bulldogs lost sight of Newmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sharpshooter.

Payan shot another

3-pointer.

It found the bottom of the net for his sixth three of the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It probably wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the best shot to be taken,â&#x20AC;? said Payan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I caught it in rhythm, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always told to shoot if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m open. I had a lot of confidence, and it felt like a heat check at the end.â&#x20AC;?

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Winter tournament schedules Plano tournament Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s 'AME ,ISLE 7ILMINGTON s 'AME 3T "EDE 0RINCETON s 'AME 3ANDWICH (INCKLEY "IG 2OCK s 'AME 3TREATOR )NDIAN #REEK s 'AME $IXON 3OMONAUK s 'AME 2OCKFORD #HRISTIAN 0LANO

s 'AME -ENDOTA &ORRESTON s 'AME +ANELAND 'ENOA +INGS TON s 'AME !URORA #HRISTIAN .EWARK

s 'AME /TTAWA 3ENECA s 'AME -ORRIS #OAL #ITY s 'AME "URLINGTON #ENTRAL 9ORKVILLE

Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s 'AME 0LANO 3OMONAUK s 'AME 'ENOA +INGSTON &ORRESTON

s 'AME $IXON 2OCKFORD #HRISTIAN

s 'AME +ANELAND -ENDOTA s 'AME 3ENECA .EWARK s 'AME 9ORKVILLE #OAL #ITY s 'AME /TTAWA !URORA #HRISTIAN s 'AME -ORRIS "URLINGTON #ENTRAL

Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games s 'AME RD PLACE 7ILMINGTON VS 0RINCETON

s 'AME ST PLACE ,ISLE VS 3T "EDE

noon s 'AME TH PLACE (INCKLEY "IG 2OCK VS )NDIAN #REEK P M s 'AME TH PLACE 3OMONAUK VS &ORRESTON A M s 'AME TH PLACE 0LANO VS 'ENOA +INGSTON A M s 'AME TH PLACE 2OCKFORD #HRISTIAN VS -ENDOTA A M s 'AME TH PLACE $IXON VS +ANELAND

P M s 'AME TH PLACE CONSOLATION 3AND WICH VS 3TREATOR

s 'AME TH PLACE .EWARK VS #OAL #ITY

s 'AME TH PLACE 3ENECA VS 9ORKVILLE

s 'AME RD PLACE !URORA #HRISTIAN VS "URLINGTON #ENTRAL

s 'AME #HAMPIONSHIP /TTAWA VS -ORRIS

Winter tournament schedules Amboy tournament Red Pool: !&# !MBOY -ID LAND 3OMONAUK Black Pool: -ARQUETTE 0LANO

)NDIAN #REEK 0AW 0AW Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s /TTAWA -ARQUETTE 0LANO s )NDIAN #REEK 0AW 0AW s 3OMONAUK -IDLAND s !MBOY !&# Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s TH PLACE 0AW 0AW -IDLAND s TH PLACE 0LANO 3OMONAUK s RD PLACE -ARQUETTE !&# s #HAMPIONSHIP !MBOY )NDIAN #REEK

State Farm Classic Small School Boys Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s 'AME 0EORIA #HRISTIAN /LYMPIA s 'AME +ANKAKEE -C.AMARA 0RAI RIE #ENTRAL s 'AME -ACON -ERIDIAN 4RI 6ALLEY

s 'AME #ISSNA 0ARK 2OCK &ALLS s 'AME "LOOMINGTON #ENTRAL #ATHOLIC

&IELDCREST s 'AME 3T *OSEPH /GDEN 1UINCY .OTRE $AME s 'AME )6# 3T 4HOMAS -ORE s 'AME 2OCKFORD ,UTHERAN %L 0ASO 'RIDLEY s 'AME /LYMPIA 0RAIRIE #ENTRAL s 'AME 2OCK &ALLS 4RI 6ALLEY Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s 'AME TH PLACE CONSOLATION 4RI 6ALLEY

0RAIRIE #ENTRAL s 'AME #ISSNA 0ARK -ACON -ERIDIAN s 'AME 1UINCY .OTRE $AME

&IELDCREST s 'AME TH PLACE CONSOLATION /LYMPIA

2OCK &ALLS s 'AME +ANKAKEE -C.AMARA

0EORIA #HRISTIAN s 'AME 3T 4HOMAS -ORE %L 0ASO 'RIDLEY s 'AME -ACON -ERIDIAN 0EORIA #HRISTIAN

s 'AME TH PLACE 1UINCY .OTRE $AME

3T 4HOMAS -ORE s 'AME 3EMIFINAL "LOOMINGTON #ENTRAL #ATHOLIC 3T *OSEPH /GDEN s 'AME TH PLACE &IELDCREST %L 0ASO 'RIDLEY s 'AME #ONSOLATION CHAMPIONSHIP

+ANKAKEE -C.AMARA #ISSNA 0ARK s 'AME 3EMIFINAL 2OCKFORD ,UTHERAN

)6# Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games s 'AME RD PLACE 3T *OSEPH /GDEN VS )6# P M s 'AME #HAMPIONSHIP "LOOMINGTON #ERNTRAL #ATHOLIC VS 2OCKFORD ,UTHERAN

P M Newman tournament Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s 0AW 0AW $URAND s !QUIN /REGON s .EWMAN !&# Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s TH PLACE $URAND !&# s RD PLACE 0AW 0AW /REGON s #HAMPIONSHIP .EWMAN !QUIN Eastland tournament Pool A: !MBOY !NNAWAN

%ASTLAND 0ROPHETSTOWN Pool B: &ULTON 0EARL #ITY 0OLO

7ARREN Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s &ULTON 7ARREN s !MBOY !NNAWAN s 0OLO 0EARL #ITY s %ASTLAND 0ROPHETSTOWN Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s %ASTLAND &ULTON s 0OLO 0ROPHETSTOWN s 0EARL #ITY !MBOY s !NNAWAN 7ARREN Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games s TH PLACE 7ARREN VS !MBOY

s TH PLACE !NNAWAN VS 0EARL #ITY

s RD PLACE &ULTON VS 0ROPHETSTOWN

s #HAMPIONSHIP %ASTLAND VS 0OLO

Erie tournament Pool A: 3TOCKTON 0EORIA (EIGHTS

"UREAU 6ALLEY -ERCER #OUNTY

/RION 2IVERDALE Pool B: 7ETHERSFIELD +NOXVILLE

3TARK #OUNTY ,ENA 7INSLOW

-ORRISON %RIE Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s 0EORIA (EIGHTS /RION s +NOXVILLE %RIE s "UREAU 6ALLEY -ERCER #OUNTY s 3TARK #OUNTY ,ENA 7INSLOW s 3TOCKTON 2IVERDALE s 7ETHERSFIELD -ORRISON Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s 2IVERDALE -ERCER #OUNTY s ,ENA 7INSLOW %RIE s 3TOCKTON /RION s 3TARK #OUNTY -ORRISON s 0EORIA (EIGHTS "UREAU 6ALLEY s 7ETHERSFIELD +NOXVILLE Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games s TH PLACE /RION VS -ORRISON

s TH PLACE -ERCER #OUNTY VS %RIE

s TH PLACE 2IVERDALE VS ,ENA 7INSLOW

s TH PLACE 0EORIA (EIGHTS VS 3TARK #OUNTY

s RD PLACE "UREAU 6ALLEY VS +NOXVILLE

s #HAMPIONSHIP 3TOCKTON VS 7ETHERSFIELD

Dixon tournament Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s 'AME !URORA #HRISTIAN 2OCHELLE s 'AME +ANELAND !QUIN s 'AME $UNLAP /REGON s 'AME 3TERLING 3TILLMAN 6ALLEY s 'AME 0EKIN &ORRESTON s 'AME $IXON %ARLVILLE s 'AME %ASTLAND 5NITED 4OWNSHIP

s 'AME "OYLAN ,UTHERAN s 'AME !QUIN 2OCHELLE s 'AME &ORRESTON %ARLVILLE Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s 'AME TH PLACE 2OCHELLE

%ARLVILLE s 'AME TH PLACE !QUIN

&ORRESTON s 'AME 3TILLMAN 6ALLEY /REGON s 'AME 5NITED 4OWNSHIP 2OCKFORD ,UTHERAN s 'AME TH PLACE 5NITED 4OWNSHIP

3TILLMAN 6ALLEY s 'AME TH PLACE /REGON

,UTHERAN s 'AME #ONSOLATION SEMIFINAL !URORA #HRISTIAN +ANELAND s 'AME #ONSOLATION SEMIFINAL $IXON

0EKIN /4 s 'AME #ONSOLATION CHAMPIONSHIP

$IXON !URORA #HRISTIAN s 'AME TH PLACE +ANELAND 0EKIN

s 'AME 3EMIFINAL $UNLAP 3TERLING

s 'AME 3EMIFINAL "OYLAN %ASTLAND 30 s 'AME RD PLACE 3TERLING %ASTLAND

s 'AME #HAMPIONSHIP "OYLAN

$UNLAP State Farm Classic Small School Girls Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s 'AME 0RAIRIE #ENTRAL .EWMAN s 'AME 0EORIA #HRISTIAN !LLEMAN 32 s 'AME 3T *OSEPH /GDEN 0ANA s 'AME 4RI 6ALLEY 2OCK &ALLS s 'AME !NNAWAN "RIMFIELD s 'AME +ANKAKEE "ISHOP -AC.AMARA

%L 0ASO 'RIDLEY s 'AME 2OCHESTER "LOOMINGTON #ENTRAL #ATHOLIC s 'AME 3T 4HOMAS -ORE #AMP 0OINT #ENTRAL s 'AME !LLEMAN .EWMAN s 'AME 0ANA 2OCK &ALLS Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s 'AME TH PLACE CONSOLATION .EWMAN

2OCK &ALLS s 'AME 3T *OSEPH /GDEN 4RI 6ALLEY s 'AME %L 0ASO 'RIDLEY "RIMFIELD

s 'AME TH PLACE CONSOLATION !LLEMAN

0ANA s 'AME 0RAIRIE #ENTRAL 0EORIA #HRISTIAN s 'AME "LOOMINGTON #ENTRAL #ATHOLIC

#AMP 0OINT #ENTRAL s 'AME RD PLACE CONSOLATION 0EORIA #HRISTIAN 4RI 6ALLEY s 'AME TH PLACE "LOOMINGTON #ENTRAL #ATHOLIC %L 0ASO 'RIDLEY s 'AME 3EMIFINAL +ANKAKEE -C.AMARA

!NNAWAN s 'AME TH PLACE "RIMFIELD #AMP 0OINT #ENTRAL s 'AME #ONSOLATION CHAMPIONSHIP 3T *OSEPH /GDEN 0RAIRIE #ENTRAL s 'AME 3EMIFINAL 3T 4HOMAS -ORE

2OCHESTER Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games s 'AME RD PLACE !NNAWAN VS 2OCHESTER NOON s 'AME #HAMPIONSHIP +ANKAKEE -C.AMARA VS 3T 4HOMAS -ORE

Erie tournament Pool A: 2OCKRIDGE -ONMOUTH 2OSEVILLE "UREAU 6ALLEY 2IDGE WOOD -ORRISON 3TOCKTON Pool B: +NOXVILLE %RIE 'ALVA

&ULTON -ERCER #OUNTY

7ETHERSFIELD Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s %RIE -ERCER #OUNTY s &ULTON 'ALVA s "UREAU 6ALLEY 2IDGEWOOD s 2OCKRIDGE -ORRISON s -ONMOUTH 2OSEVILLE 3TOCKTON s +NOXVILLE 7ETHERSFIELD s 2OCKRIDGE 2IDGEWOOD s 'ALVA -ERCER #OUNTY s -ONMOUTH 2OSEVILLE -ORRISON s "UREAU 6ALLEY 3TOCKTON s +NOXVILLE &ULTON s %RIE 7ETHERSFIELD Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s 2IDGEWOOD -ORRISON s -ERCER #OUNTY &ULTON s 'ALVA 7ETHERSFIELD s -ONMOUTH 2OSEVILLE "UREAU 6ALLEY

s 2OCKRIDGE 3TOCKTON s +NOXVILLE %RIE Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games s TH PLACE 7ETHERSFIELD VS 3TOCKTON

noon s TH PLACE -ORRISON VS -ERCER #OUNTY

noon s TH PLACE &ULTON VS 2IDGEWOOD

s TH PLACE "UREAU 6ALLEY VS 'ALVA

s RD PLACE %RIE VS -ONMOUTH 2OSEVILLE

s #HAMPIONSHIP +NOXVILLE VS 2OCKRIDGE

Prophetstown tournament Black pool: 0ROPHETSTOWN /RION

7EST #ARROLL 2OCKFORD #HRIS TIAN Orange pool: ,A3ALLE 0ERU (INCK LEY "IG 2OCK 2IVERDALE (ALL

Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s ,A3ALLE 0ERU (INCKLEY "IG 2OCK s 2OCKFORD #HRISTIAN 7EST #ARROLL s 2IVERDALE (ALL s 0ROPHETSTOWN /RION Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results s TH PLACE (ALL 7EST #ARROLL s TH PLACE 2OCKFORD #HRISTIAN (INCKLEY "IG 2OCK s RD PLACE 2IVERDALE /RION s #HAMPIONSHIP 0ROPHETSTOWN ,A3ALLE 0ERU

MENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BASKETBALL | ILLINOIS 74, UIC 60

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Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Joseph Bertrand dives for a loose ball against UICâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kelsey Barlow during Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game in Chicago. Illinois won 74-60.

Do what Joe says

Bertrand sends message at half of Illiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win

BY SHANNON RYAN #HICAGO 4RIBUNE

Trailing Illinois-Chicago at halftime Saturday, Illinois senior guard Joseph Bertrand announced to his teammates he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t about to live through another upset at the United Center.

The message resonated and was echoed by someone who had not endured the devastating 2010 loss to the Flames. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t panic being down 10,â&#x20AC;? said senior Rayvonte Rice, a transfer from Drake. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just told the team letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s get it together.â&#x20AC;?

Rice scored a season-high 28 points, one shy of his career high, to spur the Illini rally for a 74-60 victory. He shot 10 of 16 with seven rebounds and three assists.

Of equal importance, he spent the second half locked on UIC point guard Kelsey Barlow, an assignment that required him to play 36 minutes.

Barlow scorched the Illini for 18 points in the first half on 7 of 12 shooting and helped the Flames

DEFENSE

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The Clippers (10-4) used an effective zone defense the whole game to clog the lane against Indian Creek, whose main weapon, 6-foot-2 sophomore center Josie Diehl, was held in check all night. She managed just seven points on 2-for-7 shooting.

Kaitlyn Liebing and Elizabeth Ortgiesen, a pair of 5-8 juniors, did most of the dirty work inside for Amboy. They combined for just five points, but collected 13 rebounds, and most importantly,

(5-9) to a 13-point lead at one point. But when Rice latched onto him after the break, Barlow hit only 1 of 7 shots for three more points. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It looks like Rice kind of shut me down,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Asked about Riceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defensive skill set, Illini coach John Groce said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Size, strength, hands, anticipation, quickness, explosiveness.

Want me to keep going? Most importantly his mind. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tough dude. â&#x20AC;Ś We ask an awful lot of him.â&#x20AC;?

The Illini (11-2) were reminded of UICâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s victory three seasons ago in other ways too. Not only was UIC coach Howard Moore wearing the same red jacket, but the Flames shot 62.1 percent in building their

halftime bulge.

Illinois, playing its last non-conference game before Indiana visits for their Big Ten opener Tuesday, held UIC to only six more field goals the rest of the game. The Illini outscored the Flames 40-16 after halftime.

Point guard Tracy Abrams added 16 points with four assists and three rebounds, while Bertrand scored 14. Jon Ekey shot 1-for-6, going 0-for-5 on 3-pointers, to finish with only two points. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t good to get down like that,â&#x20AC;? Bertrand said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every team makes runs. Their run just happened to be when the ball tipped. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We fought back a little bit in the first half and kept it going in the second half.â&#x20AC;?

Moore told the Flames the Illini would make their own run. They did â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8-0 to start the second half. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went into halftime telling my guys we probably played our best half of basketball,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I also warned them thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a storm in the second half.â&#x20AC;?

controlled the paint. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just got to stand our ground, basically,â&#x20AC;?

Liebing said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Somebodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to front their big girl, and somebodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to have help-side.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just got to talk and work together.â&#x20AC;?

Indian Creek coach Paul Muchmore credited Amboy with solid defense, but still wanted more from his inside attack. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The zone shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give us that much trouble, but apparently it does,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we were taking advantage of Josie in the post. I told the girls they were very aggressive at

the top, and we needed to use ball fakes and be strong, and we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do that. They got in the passing lanes, and when you play against a good team thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well-coached, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to work.â&#x20AC;?

Amboy didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t light up the scoreboard, with its 17-for-51 shooting from the field, but put together enough offense to get the job done. A banked 3-pointer just before the halftime buzzer by Micaela McCoy knotted the score at 24, then Delaney Wilhelm took over.

The Clippers turned the ball over on their first four third-quarter possessions, and dug them-

selves a 28-24 hole in the process. Wilhelm scored the next eight points to put her team up 32-28, and capped the quarter with a steal and layup to give Amboy a 36-28 cushion heading into the final 8 minutes.

Amboy hit eight of 10 free throws down the stretch to hold for the victory.

Delaney Wilhelm led the Clippers with 18 points, older sister Sydney Wilhelm finished with 10 points and seven rebounds, and McCoy added nine points.

Sophomore forward Alexis Van Whye led Indian Creek with 19 points.

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Sterlingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gabby Sandoval shoots over Eastlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Megan Janssen (25) and Lexis Macomber during Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third-place game at the Dixon tournament.

Sterling won 54-41.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably the best weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve clicked on offense all year,â&#x20AC;? Robinson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We adjusted to everything that they threw at us.â&#x20AC;?

LaSalle-Peru (5-8) tried 1-3-1 and 2-3 zones before eventually going man-to-man. None of the defenses slowed Prophetstown. Meanwhile, the Prophetsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; full-court manto-man defense wreaked havoc.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really picked up our defense, and we started making a lot of 3-pointers and getting fast breaks,â&#x20AC;? said Corrie Reiley, who scored a game-high 19 points. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were really clicking today.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They went through three defenses, and we have every offense for that defense,â&#x20AC;? said Shelby Adams, who scored 11 points. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of us were clicking on the court. We know what to do when the time comes.â&#x20AC;?

It took just over a quarter for Prophetstown to

take control. The first quarter was back and forth; there were five lead changes, and the score was 17-all heading to the second quarter.

The second quarter was nearly all Prophets. Leading 20-19, Prophetstown used a 13-2 tear to build a 33-21 advantage.

Adams started the burst with a 3-pointer from the right wing. Reiley scored off a steal before the Cavaliers managed a bucket.

Karlie Stafford (7 points) hit two field goals, Reiley hit another, and Heather

Strike (10 points) added a layup.

The Prophets led 35-23 at the half.

Prophetstown continued to pull away, scoring the last 11 points of the third quarter to lead 53-29 heading to the fourth quarter.

The Prophetsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; largest lead was 35, 68-33.

Prophetstown reserve Brooke Remley scored all of her nine points in the fourth quarter.

LaSalle-Peru got eight points from Madison Held and Hannah Wolfe.

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Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson runs with the ball after a catch during Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game in Arlington, Texas. The Eagles clinched the NFC East title with a 24-22 win.

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Nick Foles threw two touchdown passes, NFL rushing champion LeSean McCoy had 131 yards and a receiving score, and the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Dallas Cowboys 24-22 in a winor-go-home game for the NFC East title in Arlington, Texas.

The Cowboys (8-8), with Kyle Orton filling in 2 days after Tony Romo had back surgery, lost to a division rival with a playoff berth on the line for the third straight year.

The Eagles (10-6) will host New Orleans in a wild-card game Saturday night.

Dallas trailed 24-16 when Orton threw a 32-yard touchdown pass to Dez Bryant. Orton went back to Bryant for the 2-point conversion, but Cary Williams dove to punch the ball away.

The Cowboys got another chance with a stop from their beleaguered defense, but Ortonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pass was intercepted by Brandon Boykin on the first play to seal the win.

Bengals 34, Ravens 17:

Andy Dalton threw for two touchdowns, ran for another and set a pair of Bengals passing records, leading the Bengals to a victory that eliminated the defending Super Bowl champion in Cincinnati.

The Ravens (8-8) lost their last two games, denying them a chance to make the playoffs for a sixth straight season.

They couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t avoid the Super Bowl slump thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

so common. The Ravens became the 15th Super Bowl champ that failed to reach the playoffs the following season, and the sixth in the last 12 years.

Broncos 34, Raiders 14: Peyton Manning set

the NFL single-season record for yards passing and threw four first-half touchdown passes to help the Denver Broncos clinch the top seed in the AFC playoffs with a win over the raiders in Oakland.

Manning finished the regular season with 5,477 yards and 55 touchdown passes.

Chargers 27, Chiefs 24, OT: Nick Novak kicked a

36-yard field goal with 5:30 left in overtime, ending the Chargersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 3-year playoff drought with a victory in San Diego.

The Chargers (9-7) needed help for weeks, and everything fell into place on Sunday, with the last piece being their win over a Chiefs team that already had clinched the AFCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 5 seed and rested 20 of 22 starters.

Jets 20, Dolphins 7:

Geno Smith led three long scoring drives, ran for a touchdown and threw for 190 yards in Miami to eliminate the Dolphins from playoff contention.

The Dolphins (8-8) squandered a shot at their first playoff berth since 2008 by losing their final two games.

Steelers 20, Browns 7: Leâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Veon Bell ran for 90 yards and a touchdown as the Steelers drubbed the Browns at home, though Pittsburghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bid

to become the second team in NFL history to go winless in September and make the playoffs ended when San Diego edged Kansas City.

Panthers 21, Falcons 20: Cam Newton threw

two touchdown passes, Greg Hardy had a teamrecord four sacks and the Panthers clinched the NFC South in Atlanta.

Saints 42, Buccaneers 17: Drew Brees passed

for four touchdowns and ran for another score, and New Orleans clinched a wild-card spot in New Orleans.

Three of Breesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; scoring strikes were longer than 40 yards â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 76 to Kenny Stills, 44 to Lance Moore and 41 to Robert Meachem. Brees passed for 381 yards, eclipsing 5,000 yards in a season for an unprecedented fourth time. He finished the season with 5,162 yards to go with 39 touchdowns.

Seahawks 27, Rams 9: Malcolm Smith returned an interception 37 yards for a touchdown, Marshawn Lynch added a 2-yard scoring run and the Seahawks clinched the NFC West title and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs with a win in Seattle.

49ers 23, Cardinals 20: Phil Dawson made

a 40-yard field goal as time expired in Glendale, Ariz., to lift the 49ers to a win over the Cardinals that clinched the NFCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 5 playoff seed.

San Francisco will visit Green Bay in the wildcard round next weekend.

Packers win division again OUT

CONTINUED FROM B1

Asked if the offense had done enough to win, Cutler said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We lost as a team. If we had made some plays [on offense] earlier we might have won as a team.â&#x20AC;?

Eddie Lacyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s six-yard TD run pulled the Packers to within 28-27 with 11:38 left in regulation after Rodgers marched them 77 yards in six plays.

Cutler had hit Brandon Marshall on a 5-yard touchdown toss to increase the Bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lead to 28-20 at the start of the fourth quarter. Marshall spun around and beat Tramon Williams for the nifty TD catch.

Matt Forteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1-yard run, his third touchdown of the day, enabled the Bears to regain the lead at 21-20 with 5:04 left in the third.

The score was set up by a 67-yard bomb from Cutler to Alshon Jeffery.

Forte rushed for 110 yards on 22 carries and had four receptions for

47 yards.

A seven-yard TD pass from Rodgers to Cobb had put the Packers back on top 20-14 with 7:27 to play in the third quarter.

Forte scored on a fiveyard run to put the Bears ahead 14-13 with 10:46 to play in the third quarter.

After the Packers went three-and-out on the first possession of the second half, Devin Hester took a 50-yard punt and returned it 49 yards to set the Bears up at the Green Bay 30. After converting a third-and-two into a first down, Forte scored to give the Bears the lead.

Mason Crosbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 27-yard field goal with two seconds left in the half gave the Packers a 13-7 lead entering intermission.

The score was set up by an Alshon Jeffery fumble.

Jarrett Boykin scored on a 15-yard return of a Rodgers fumble to give the Packers a 10-7 lead with 3:34 left in the first half.

Boykin picked the ball up, but had to be urged to run to the end zone as both teams apparently

thought Rodgers had thrown an incomplete pass.

Rodgers faded back to pass and was hit by Julius Peppers. The ball was loose in Rodgersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hand before Peppers hit him, the officials later ruled.

The ball was picked up belatedly by Boykin and returned 15 yards for a touchdown as Bears defenders stood around. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t explain that,â&#x20AC;?

Trestman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Twenty-two players basically stopped. ... Nobody got on the football. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hear a whistle. I was just as curious as anybody else why no one was moving to the ball.â&#x20AC;?

Crosby kicked a 33-yard field goal with 7:59 left until halftime to cut the Bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lead to 7-3. The Packersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; scoring drive included an unnecessary roughness call on Bears defensive end Shea McClellin after Rodgers had been sacked for a five-yard loss by Lance Briggs on third down.

The penalty advanced the ball to the Bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 18.

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CASA 15th Judicial Circuit (Lee/ Carroll/Ogle Counties) is seeking volunteers to advocate for children in the court system involved in abuse and neglect cases.

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Kreider Services is looking for volunteers in several programs. 1) Early Intervention (children under 3 yrs old)- entails preparation for play group sessions and assisting with outings. M & W 8am – noon 2) Recreation program looking for people to help with outings or Special Olympics 3) Arts and Crafts helpers.

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F11050391 CHOH IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY- MORRISON, ILLINOIS JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Plaintiff, vs.

Darren F. Forbes; Amanda S. Forbes; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants Defendants.

11 CH 100 Property Address: 20829 Lincoln Road, Sterling, Illinois 61081 NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALE Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a judgment of said Court entered in the above-entitled cause on June 6, 2012, I, Sheriff, Kelly C. Wilhelmi of Whiteside County, Illinois, will hold a sale on February 6, 2014 , commencing at 10AM , at The Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, IL 61270 . to sell to the highest bidder or bidders the following described real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said decree, to-wit: Commonly known as: 20829 Lincoln Road, Sterling, Illinois 61081 P.I.N.: 10-19-477-002 First Lien Position; Single-Family Residence; Judgment Amount $172067.15 The property will NOT be open for inspection IN ACCORDANCE WITH 735 ILCS 5/15-1507 (c)(1)(H-1) AND (H-2), 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(5), AND 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1), YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE PURCHASER OF THE PROPERTY, OTHER THAN A MORTGAGEE, SHALL PAY THE ASSESSMENTS AND LEGAL FEES REQUIRED BY SUBSECTIONS (g)(1) AND (g)(4) OF SECTION 9 AND THE ASSESSMENTS REQUIRED BY SUBSECTION (g-1) OF SECTION 18.5 OF THE ILLINOIS CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY ACT. Terms of Sale: CASH - 10% down at the time of sale and the balance due within 24 hours of the sale. All payments for the amount bid shall be in certified funds payable to the Sheriff of Whiteside County.

The person to contact for information regarding this property is: Steven J. Lindberg at FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, IL (866)402-8661. For bidding instructions, visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale.

This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC 1771 W. Diehl Rd., Ste 150 Naperville, IL 60563-4947 630-453-6960 866-402-8661 630-428-4620 (fax) Attorney No. Cook 26122, DuPage 42005, Kane 031-26104, Peoria 1794, Winnebago 3802, IL 03126232 R410 Dec. 23, 30, 2013, Jan. 6, 2014

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 15TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT LEE COUNTY - DIXON, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. PLAINTIFF VS MELISSA VANDERMEER A/K/A MELISSA FULLER ; SCOTT VANDERMEER A/K/A SCOTT JON VANDERMEER; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; DEFENDANTS 12 CH 130 2385 REYNOLDS ROAD ASHTON, IL 61006 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on November 4, 2013, LEE COUNTY SHERIFF in LEE County, Illinois, will on February 13, 2014, in OLD Lee County Courthouse112 E. 2ND STREET, DIXON, IL 61021, at 10:00 a.m., sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of LEE, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: TAX NO. 04-10-12-200-004 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 2385 REYNOLDS ROAD ASHTON, IL 61006 Description of Improvements: SINGLE FAMILY HOME WITH DETACHED 2 CAR GARAGE. The Judgment amount was $193,528.13.

Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH". The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 3722060. Please refer to file #PA1218802 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

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F13010064 CHOH IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY- MORRISON, ILLINOIS JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Plaintiff, vs.

Cory J. Johnson; Jamie A. Johnson; Unknown Owners and NonRecord Claimants Defendants.

13 CH 16 Property Address: 1500 Sycamore Drive, Rock Falls, Illinois 61071 NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALE Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a judgment of said Court entered in the above-entitled cause on October 30, 2013, I, Sheriff, Kelly C. Wilhelmi of Whiteside County, Illinois, will hold a sale on February 6, 2014 , commencing at 10am, at The Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, IL 61270Notice of . to sell to the highest bidder or bidders the following described real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said decree, to-wit: Commonly known as: 1500 Sycamore Drive, Rock Falls, Illinois 61071 P.I.N.: 11-23-354-003 First Lien Position; Single-Family Residence; Judgment Amount $116278.00 The property will NOT be open for inspection IN ACCORDANCE WITH 735 ILCS 5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) AND (H-2), 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(5), AND 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1), YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE PURCHASER OF THE PROPERTY, OTHER THAN A MORTGAGEE, SHALL PAY THE ASSESSMENTS AND LEGAL FEES REQUIRED BY SUBSECTIONS (g)(1) AND (g)(4) OF SECTION 9 AND THE ASSESSMENTS REQUIRED BY SUBSECTION (g-1) OF SECTION 18.5 OF THE ILLINOIS CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY ACT. Terms of Sale: CASH - 10% down at the time of sale and the balance due within 24 hours of the sale. All payments for the amount bid shall be in certified funds payable to the Sheriff of Whiteside County.

The person to contact for information regarding this property is: Steven J. Lindberg at FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, IL (866)402-8661. For bidding instructions, visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale.

This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC 1771 W. Diehl Rd., Ste 150 Naperville, IL 60563-4947 630-453-6960 866-402-8661 630-428-4620 (fax) Attorney No. Cook 26122, DuPage 42005, Kane 031-26104, Peoria 1794, Winnebago 3802, IL 03126232 R410 Dec. 23, 30, 2013, Jan. 6, 2014 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WHITESIDE - MORRISON, WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, vs.

UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF M. DIANE SANCHEZ, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF M. DIANE SANCHEZ, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF M. DIANE SANCHEZ, DECEASED, FRANCISCO M. SANCHEZ aka FRANCISCO SANCHEZ and WILLIAM BUTCHER, as Special Representative of M. DIANE SANCHEZ, deceased, and PATRICK SANCHEZ, Defendants.

12-CH-142 Property Address: 901 W. 18th St. Sterling, IL 61081 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to a Judgment of the above Court entered on October 25, 2013 in the above-entitled cause, the following described real estate, to wit: ecorder's Office of Whiteside County, Illinois, in Book 8 of Plats, Page 233.

Permanent Index Number: 11-16-357-002 Commonly known as: 901 W. 18th St., Sterling,, IL 61081 will be offered for sale and sold at public vendue February 6, 2014, at 10:00 a.m., in the main entrance lobby at the Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox St., Morrison, Illinois.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount is $70,436.56.

Sale terms: The bid amount, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, shall be paid in certified funds immediately by the highest and best bidder at the conclusion of the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the Court file to verify all information.

For information contact Plaintiff's Attorney: Heavner, Scott, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC 111 E. Main St., Decatur, Illinois 62523 (217) 422-1719.

The purchaser of a condominium unit at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than a mortgage, who takes possession of a condominium unit pursuant to a court order or a purchase who acquires title from a mortgage shall have the duty to pay the proportionate share, if any, of the common expenses for the unit which would have become due in the absence of any assessment acceleration during the 6 months immediately preceding institution of an action to enforce the collection of assessments, and which remain unpaid by the owner during whose possession the assessments accrued. If the outstanding assessments are paid at ay time during any action to enforce the collection of assessments, the purchaser shall have no obligation to pay any assessments which accrued before he or she acquired title. If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5 (g-l) If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701 (c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act you are advised that the Law Firm of Heavner, Scott, Beyers & Mihlar is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

James A. Coale Attorney for Heavner, Scott, Beyers, & Mihlar, LLC Dec. 23, 30, 2013 & Jan. 6, 2014

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 15TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT LEE COUNTY - DIXON, ILLINOIS

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. PLAINTIFF VS MELISSA VANDERMEER A/K/A MELISSA FULLER ; SCOTT VANDERMEER A/K/A SCOTT JON VANDERMEER; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; DEFENDANTS 12 CH 130 2385 REYNOLDS ROAD ASHTON, IL 61006 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on November 4, 2013, LEE COUNTY SHERIFF in LEE County, Illinois, will on February 13, 2014, in OLD Lee County Courthouse112 E. 2ND STREET, DIXON, IL 61021, at 10:00 a.m., sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of LEE, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: A PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 11 EAST OF THE FOURTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SECTION 12; THENCE WESTERLY ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, 320.69 FEET FOR A POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUE ALONG AFOREMENTIONED LINE, 559.32 FEET; THENCE SOUTHERLY AT AN ANGLE OF 90 DEGREES 01 MINUTES MEASURED CLOCKWISE FROM THE LAST DESCRIBED COURSE, 302.46 FEET; THENCE EASTERLY AT AN ANGLE OF 90 DEGREES 08 MINUTES MEASURED CLOCKWISE FROM THE LAST DESCRIBED COURSE, 559.32 FEET; THENCE NORTHERLY AT AN ANGLE OF 89 DEGREES 52 MINUTES MEASURED CLOCKWISE FROM LAST DESCRIBED COURSE, 303.92 FEET TO POINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING 3.893 ACRES MORE OR LESS, ALL SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF LEE AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. TAX NO. 04-10-12-200-004 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 2385 REYNOLDS ROAD ASHTON, IL 61006 Description of Improvements: SINGLE FAMILY HOME WITH DETACHED 2 CAR GARAGE. The Judgment amount was $193,528.13.

Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH". The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1218802 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

Dec. 30 2013, Jan. 6, 13, 2014

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ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on December 17, 2013 A.D. A certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Lee County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post-office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as Eagle's Bluff Outfitters located at 650 Reynoldswood Road Dixon, IL 61021. Dated this 17th day of December A.D. 2013.

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IN ACCORDANCE WITH 735 ILCS 5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) AND (H-2), 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(5), AND 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1), YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE PURCHASER OF THE PROPERTY, OTHER THAN A MORTGAGEE, SHALL PAY THE ASSESSMENTS AND LEGAL FEES REQUIRED BY SUBSECTIONS (g)(1) AND (g)(4) OF SECTION 9 AND THE ASSESSMENTS REQUIRED BY SUBSECTION (g-1) OF SECTION 18.5 OF THE ILLINOIS CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY ACT. Terms of Sale: CASH - 10% down at the time of sale and the balance due within 24 hours of the sale. All payments for the amount bid shall be in certified funds payable to the Sheriff of Whiteside County.

The person to contact for information regarding this property is: Steven J. Lindberg at FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, IL (866)402-8661. For bidding instructions, visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale.

This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC 1771 W. Diehl Rd., Ste 150 Naperville, IL 60563-4947 630-453-6960 866-402-8661 630-428-4620 (fax) Attorney No. Cook 26122, DuPage 42005, Kane 031-26104, Peoria 1794, Winnebago 3802, IL 03126232 R410 Dec. 23, 30, 2013, Jan. 6, 2014

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JEREMY CHEE; KANDE CHEE A/K/A KANDE LYNN HAYES A/K/A KANDE LYNN WARREN; DEFENDANTS 13 CH 100 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE Public Notice is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment entered in the above entitled matter on October 2, 2013; Kelly C. Wilhelmi, Sheriff, 400 N. Cherry Street, Morrison, IL 61270, will on February 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, at Whiteside County Courthouse 200 East Knox Street 3rd Floor Lobby Morrison, IL 61270, sell to the highest bidder for cash (ten percent (10%) at the time of sale and the balance within twenty-four (24) hours, the following described premises situated in Whiteside County, Illinois.

Said sale shall be subject to general taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and any prior liens or 1st Mortgages. The subject property is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title or recourse to Plaintiff.

Upon the sale being held and the purchaser tendering said bid in cash or certified funds, a receipt of Sale will be issued and/or a Certificate of Sale as required, which will entitle the purchaser to a deed upon confirmation of said sale by the Court.

Said property is legally described as follows: LOT 25 OF WATERS SUBDIVISION OF PART OF LOTS 12 AND 13 LOCATED IN THE NORTH HALF OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 22, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE 4TH P.M., ALL IN THE CITY OF STERLING, WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 1305 11th Avenue, Sterling, IL 61081 Permanent Index No.: 11-22-112-012I Improvements: Residential Structure UNKNOWN Units UNKNOWN Bedrooms UNKNOWN Garage UNKNOWN Bathrooms UNKNOWN Other UNKNOWN The property will NOT be open for inspection prior to the sale.

The judgment amount was $77,036.71. Prospective purchasers are admonished to check the court file and title records to verify this information.

BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, vs.

Commonly known as: 1500 Sycamore Drive, Rock Falls, Illinois 61071 P.I.N.: 11-23-354-003 First Lien Position; Single-Family Residence; Judgment Amount $116278.00 The property will NOT be open for inspection

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13 CH 16 Property Address: 1500 Sycamore Drive, Rock Falls, Illinois 61071 NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALE

THE EAST 25 FEET OF LOT M-26 AND THE WEST 75 FEET OF LOT M25 IN MARTIN ESTATES SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST FRACTIONAL QUARTER OF SECTION 22, PART OF THE SOUTHWEST FRACTIONAL QUARTER OF SECTION 23, PART OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 26, AND PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 27, ALL IN TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7, EAST OF THE 4TH P.M., IN WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE PREMISES DESCRIBED IN A DEED FROM CARL E. SHELDON, EXECUTOR AND TRUSTEE OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN W. MARTIN, DECEASED, AND JACOB CANTLIN, EXECUTOR AND TRUSTEE OF THE ESTATE OF DAVID L. MARTIN, DECEASED, TO JAMES J. MCMAHON DATED FEBRUARY 21, 1934 AND RECORDED FEBRUARY 24, 1934 IN BOOK 281, PAGE 549 IN THE RECORDER'S OFFICE OF WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS (WHICH IS DESCRIBED AS: A PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST FRACTIONAL QUARTER OF SECTION 23, AND A PART OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 26, ALL IN TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7, EAST OF THE 4TH P.M., DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT A STONE AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST FRACTIONAL QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 23; THENCE NORTH ON THE EAST LINE OF SAID SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST FRACTIONAL QUARTER OF SECTION 23, 407.32 FEET; THENCE WEST 1316.5 FEET TO THE WEST LINE OF SAID SECTION 23; THENCE SOUTH ON WEST LINE AND ON THE WEST LINE OF SAID SECTION 26, 644.54 FEET; THENCE EAST 1315.5 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF SAID WEST HALF OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26, 252.04 FEET SOUTH OF THE PLACE OF BEGINNING; THENCE NORTH ON SAID EAST LINE OF SAID WEST HALF OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 26, 252.04 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, SITUATED IN WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS); AND RUNNING THENCE EAST ON THE NORTH LINE OF SAID PREMISES DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED 991.5 FEET, AND THENCE SOUTH AND PARALLEL WITH THE EAST LINE OF SAID PREMISES 180 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 25 OF SAID MCMAHON'S SUBDIVISION FOR A PLACE OF BEGINNING; THENCE WEST AND PARALLEL WITH SAID 'NORTH LINE 25 FEET; THENCE SOUTH AND PARALLEL WITH SAID EAST LINE 150 FEET; THENCE EAST AND PARALLEL WITH SAID NORTH LINE 25 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT 25; THENCE CONTINUING EAST PARALLEL WITH SAID NORTH LINE 75 FEET; THENCE NORTH PARALLEL WITH THE SAID EAST LINE 150 FEET; THENCE WEST ON THE SAID NORTH LINE 75 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, ALL SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WHITESIDE, IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

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13-067573 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, MORRISON, ILLINOIS

JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Plaintiff, vs.

Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a judgment of said Court entered in the above-entitled cause on October 30, 2013, I, Sheriff, Kelly C. Wilhelmi of Whiteside County, Illinois, will hold a sale on February 6, 2014 , commencing at 10am, at The Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, IL 61270Notice of . to sell to the highest bidder or bidders the following described real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said decree, to-wit:

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December 23, 30, 2013, January 6, 2014 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WHITESIDE - MORRISON, WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS

UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF M. DIANE SANCHEZ, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF M. DIANE SANCHEZ, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF M. DIANE SANCHEZ, DECEASED, FRANCISCO M. SANCHEZ aka FRANCISCO SANCHEZ and WILLIAM BUTCHER, as Special Representative of M. DIANE SANCHEZ, deceased, and PATRICK SANCHEZ, Defendants.

12-CH-142 Property Address: 901 W. 18th St. Sterling, IL 61081 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to a Judgment of the above Court entered on October 25, 2013 in the above-entitled cause, the following described real estate, to wit: Lot 2 in Block 4, of Shinkle and Bushman Subdivision being part of the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 16, also part of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 17, all in Township 21 North, Range 7 East of the 4th P.M., in the City of Sterling, according to Plat recorded in the Recorder's Office of Whiteside County, Illinois, in Book 8 of Plats, Page 233.

Permanent Index Number: 11-16-357-002 Commonly known as: 901 W. 18th St., Sterling,, IL 61081 will be offered for sale and sold at public vendue February 6, 2014, at 10:00 a.m., in the main entrance lobby at the Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox St., Morrison, Illinois.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount is $70,436.56.

Sale terms: The bid amount, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, shall be paid in certified funds immediately by the highest and best bidder at the conclusion of the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the Court file to verify all information.

For information contact Plaintiff's Attorney: Heavner, Scott, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC 111 E. Main St., Decatur, Illinois 62523 (217) 422-1719.

The purchaser of a condominium unit at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than a mortgage, who takes possession of a condominium unit pursuant to a court order or a purchase who acquires title from a mortgage shall have the duty to pay the proportionate share, if any, of the common expenses for the unit which would have become due in the absence of any assessment acceleration during the 6 months immediately preceding institution of an action to enforce the collection of assessments, and which remain unpaid by the owner during whose possession the assessments accrued. If the outstanding assessments are paid at ay time during any action to enforce the collection of assessments, the purchaser shall have no obligation to pay any assessments which accrued before he or she acquired title. If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5 (g-l) If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act you are advised that the Law Firm of Heavner, Scott, Beyers & Mihlar is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

James A. Coale Attorney for Heavner, Scott, Beyers, & Mihlar, LLC Dec. 23, 30, 2013 & Jan. 6, 2014

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY MORRISON, ILLINOIS

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. PLAINTIFF VS DAWN GERDES A/K/A DAWN N. GERDES; JACOB JOHN PAUL LEU A/K/A JACOB J. LEU; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; DEFENDANTS 13 CH 61 605 14TH AVENUE FULTON, IL 61252 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on October 2, 2013, WHITESIDE COUNTY SHERIFF in WHITESIDE County, Illinois, will on February 6, 2014, in Whiteside County Courthouse, Third Floor Lobby 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, IL 61270, at 10:00AM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of WHITESIDE, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: LOT 3 IN BLOCK 14 IN RANGE 8, CITY OF FULTON, WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS; ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 1, PAGE 31.

TAX NO. 01-28-331-007 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 605 14TH AVENUE FULTON, IL 61252 Description of Improvements: SINGLE FAMILY HOME WITH DETACHED 1 CAR GARAGE. The Judgment amount was $61,501.36.

Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH".

The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602.

Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1303976 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

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Visit Sauk Valley Classifieds at saukvalley.com IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY MORRISON, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC PLAINTIFF VS VERA HOWARD A/K/A VERA L HOWARD; DEFENDANTS 13 CH 103 404 EAST 9TH STREET ROCK FALLS, IL 61071 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on October 2, 2013, WHITESIDE COUNTY SHERIFF in WHITESIDE County, Illinois, will on February 6, 2014, in Whiteside County Courthouse, Third Floor Lobby 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, IL 61270, at 10:00AM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of WHITESIDE, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: LOT 6 IN BLOCK 3 IN PRATT'S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF ROCK FALLS, WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. TAX NO. 11-27-377-003 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 404 EAST 9TH STREET ROCK FALLS, IL 61071 Description of Improvements: SINGLE FAMILY TWO STORY WITH DETACHED TWO CAR GARAGE. The Judgment amount was $64,051.28.

Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH".

The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602.

Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1226628 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

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C NOTICES THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, ILLINOIS WHITESIDE COUNTY, IN PROBATE IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARCIA L. TWADDELL, Deceased.

No. 2013 P 139 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given to creditors of the death of Marcia L. Twaddell, of 1600 Riverdale Rd. Lot 10, Rock Falls, Illinois. Letters of office were issued to Matthew R. Ludens 431 Sunbeam Court, Stillman Valley, IL 61084 as Independent Executor, whose attorney of record is David W. Badger, of Ehrmann Gehlbach Badger Lee & Considine, LLC, 215 E. First Street, Dixon, Illinois 61021.

The estate will be administered without court supervision, unless under section 28-4 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/284) any interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the clerk.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court at 200 East Knox Street, Morrison, IL 61270, or with the representative, or both, on or before the date which is six (6) months after the date of the first publication of this Claim Notice, or, if mailing or delivering of a notice from the representative is required by section 18-3 of the Probate Act of 1975, 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 to the representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.

By: Matthew R. Ludens Executor David W. Badger Ehrmann Gehlbach Badger Lee & Considine, LLC 215 E. First Street P.O. Box 447 Dixon, IL 61021 (815) 288-4949 (815) 288-3068 FAX Dec. 23, 30, 2013, Jan. 6, 2014

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11 CH 100 Property Address: 20829 Lincoln Road, Sterling, Illinois 61081 NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALE Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a judgment of said Court entered in the above-entitled cause on June 6, 2012, I, Sheriff, Kelly C. Wilhelmi of Whiteside County, Illinois, will hold a sale on February 6, 2014 , commencing at 10AM , at The Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, IL 61270 . to sell to the highest bidder or bidders the following described real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said decree, to-wit: LOT 4 IN THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 6 EAST OF THE 4TH P.M., WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, CONTAINING 10 ACRES, ACCORDING TO PLAT IN RECORD BOOK J, PAGE 320 OF THE LAND RECORDS OF SAID COUNTY. Commonly known as: 20829 Lincoln Road, Sterling, Illinois 61081 P.I.N.: 10-19-477-002 First Lien Position; Single-Family Residence; Judgment Amount $172067.15 The property will NOT be open for inspection

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY MORRISON, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC PLAINTIFF VS VERA HOWARD A/K/A VERA L HOWARD; DEFENDANTS 13 CH 103 404 EAST 9TH STREET ROCK FALLS, IL 61071 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on October 2, 2013, WHITESIDE COUNTY SHERIFF in WHITESIDE County, Illinois, will on February 6, 2014, in Whiteside County Courthouse, Third Floor Lobby 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, IL 61270, at 10:00AM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of WHITESIDE, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: TAX NO. 11-27-377-003 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 404 EAST 9TH STREET ROCK FALLS, IL 61071 Description of Improvements: SINGLE FAMILY TWO STORY WITH DETACHED TWO CAR GARAGE. The Judgment amount was $64,051.28.

Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH".

The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 3722060. Please refer to file #PA1226628 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

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DAWN GERDES A/K/A DAWN N. GERDES; JACOB JOHN PAUL LEU A/K/A JACOB J. LEU; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; DEFENDANTS 13 CH 61 605 14TH AVENUE FULTON, IL 61252 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on October 2, 2013, WHITESIDE COUNTY SHERIFF in WHITESIDE County, Illinois, will on February 6, 2014, in Whiteside County Courthouse, Third Floor Lobby 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, IL 61270, at 10:00AM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of WHITESIDE, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment:

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TAX NO. 01-28-331-007 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 605 14TH AVENUE FULTON, IL 61252 Description of Improvements: SINGLE FAMILY HOME WITH DETACHED 1 CAR GARAGE. The Judgment amount was $61,501.36.

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The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 3722060. Please refer to file #PA1303976 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

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The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS.

IN ACCORDANCE WITH 735 ILCS 5/15-1507(c) (1)(H-1) AND (H-2), 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(5), AND 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1), YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE PURCHASER OF THE PROPERTY, OTHER THAN A MORTGAGEE, SHALL PAY THE ASSESSMENTS AND LEGAL FEES REQUIRED BY SUBSECTIONS (g)(1) AND (g)(4) OF SECTION 9 AND THE ASSESSMENTS REQUIRED BY SUBSECTION (g-1) OF SECTION 18.5 OF THE ILLINOIS CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY ACT. Terms of Sale: CASH - 10% down at the time of sale and the balance due within 24 hours of the sale. All payments for the amount bid shall be in certified funds payable to the Sheriff of Whiteside County.

The person to contact for information regarding this property is: Steven J. Lindberg at FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, IL (866)402-8661. For bidding instructions, visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale.

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JEREMY CHEE; KANDE CHEE A/K/A KANDE LYNN HAYES A/K/A KANDE LYNN WARREN; DEFENDANTS 13 CH 100 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE Public Notice is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment entered in the above entitled matter on October 2, 2013; Kelly C. Wilhelmi, Sheriff, 400 N. Cherry Street, Morrison, IL 61270, will on February 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, at Whiteside County Courthouse 200 East Knox Street 3rd Floor Lobby Morrison, IL 61270, sell to the highest bidder for cash (ten percent (10%) at the time of sale and the balance within twenty-four (24) hours, the following described premises situated in Whiteside County, Illinois.

Said sale shall be subject to general taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and any prior liens or 1st Mortgages. The subject property is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title or recourse to Plaintiff.

Upon the sale being held and the purchaser tendering said bid in cash or certified funds, a receipt of Sale will be issued and/or a Certificate of Sale as required, which will entitle the purchaser to a deed upon confirmation of said sale by the Court.

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Telegraph 113 S. Peoria Dixon, IL 61021

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

Improvements: Residential Structure UNKNOWN Units UNKNOWN Bedrooms UNKNOWN Garage UNKNOWN Bathrooms UNKNOWN Other UNKNOWN The property will NOT be open for inspection prior to the sale.

The judgment amount was $77,036.71. Prospective purchasers are admonished to check the court file and title records to verify this information.

For Bid Amount contact: Sale Clerk Fisher and Shapiro, LLC 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847)291-171 December 23, 30, 2013, January 6, 2014

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625-3600 284-2222

Automotive

Dumpster Rental

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1807 Locust St. Sterling IL

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

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

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WOOD / FUEL

746

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

FURNITURE

755

2pc. Beautiful wood corner flattop computer desk. Prestige brand, 960TWR. 60wx33dx30h 48wx24dx29h $600 815-632-1521

PETS & PET SUPPLIES 775

TICKETS / TRAVEL 787 & EVENTS

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Mattress sets: Twin $99, Full $129, Queen $159, King $199. Will deliver! Kern Mattress Outlet 309-4527477.

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Solid Wood nightstands/end tables. $60/pair. 815-9738675

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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.

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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 765 Wurlitzer Spinnet w/ bench, maple wood, $300 firm, 815-718-2424

PETS & PET SUPPLIES 775 ABC Reg border collie puppies, shots & wormed, 6 wks., bl & wh, & br & wh, $500 Phone 815-631-7391. No texts.

Christmas Puppies Mixed breed. $50 815-590-9635 Kitten, 7 mo., F, blk, spayed, shybut sweet, needs patient person, no small kids, 815535-7061.

Male cat, young, neutered. Free to good INDOOR homes only. 815499-9923.

REDUCED Doodles: black & golden. Ready now! $600. Call 563-212-7307

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

Please screen respondents carefully when giving an animal away.

Your pet will thank you!

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REWARD! We lost our beloved "Shadow" on 12/20/13 near Elks Page Campground. She is a 9 yr old female black lab. "Shadow" is the sweetest dog ever, and if you found her and decided to keep her, please take good care of her and give her a lot of loving. She is an inside dog that loves to be around people. If you have any information on "Shadow", please call (815)4404096...Thank you

Anniversary Special- 57 yrs.

4 Person Pheasant Hunt Includes 20 pheasant, 4 breakfasts, 4 rounds of clays. Smoked Pheasants Available for the Holiday Contact Rogers Hunt Club 815-379-2427

Looking for the perfect home?

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

TOOLS & MACHINERY

905

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Top dollar paid.

815-625-0966

MISCELLANEOUS 796 FOR SALE 1/64 Nascar collection, orig. packaging. 250+ cars, 15 semis + 20 misc. $3,000/obo.

815-625-4943.

2000 oak kitchen cabinets in stock.

Builder Discount 815-626-4561 Brand New Snap On Beer Keg Fridge. Would be a nice holiday gift! $350 firm.

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Accounting Assistant

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Office hours are 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday. Attractive Salary and Benefits. Benefits include Profit Sharing, 401K, Group Health, Disability and Life.

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2001 Ford Explorer XLT, 4x4. Loaded/ sunroof. 182K mi.

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815-994-8426.

2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited 4x4, 4 door, auto, hard & soft tops, black, 106K mi., $15,995 815-441-7500

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1998 GMC Sierra Extended Cab. 4X4 pick up. One owner 58,000 mi.

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2005 Dodge Caravan, good running cond., no rust, 150k mi. $2600 815-626-7398

2000 GMC 3500 HD dually dump.

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815-440-0833.

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

2004 Chevy Avalanche, 2 wheel dr., 120k mi., two tone grey. $6,700 815-238-5502

1999 Ford F150 4x4 Lariat. $2800.

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2001 Chevy Blazer LS, 4x4, 2dr. 97K mi. Very nice & clean. $4,000. 815535-0423 2003 Chevy S10 ext. cab. Bedliner, 82K mi.

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Monday through Friday

The second annual Lee County Council on Aging 50/50 raffle is now in full swing.

For details, see Page 4.

Call 815-625-7433 today to ride WCPT!

Warm up at one of the senior centers

Find us onFacebook or visit www.ridewcpt.net

Want to beat the cold?

Come into the senior center and enjoy the warmth and fellowship.

Lee County Council on Aging and Whiteside County Senior Center are heating centers in the winter and cooling center in the summer.

We always have fresh coffee and smiling faces.

While youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here play a game of Wii Bowling, bil-

liards or how about join in the Zumba or line dancing class? We also have our computer lab open and ready for you to use. Lots of fun, active and entertaining events happen here at the center and we want you to join the fun.

Find us on Facebook or visit us at www.lccoa.com or www.whitesidecsc.org.

These are your centers, come and enjoy them!

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Thank Yous........................................................ 10

Transportation Schedules ................................ 13

Assistance Sites .................................................... 5

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From the LCCOA Executive Director

By Geoff Vanderlin

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id you have a Merry Christmas? I sure hope so. Here at the Senior Center, we enjoyed so many festive times that it’s hard to name them all.

Many of you came and helped us decorate the Center for the season and it has looked great.

December opened with our annual Christmas Walk breakfast and Santa’s Workshop. Though it was cold, we had more than 300 people come through the doors, and a lot of happy eaters and shop-

pers. Santa, Mrs. Claus, and many helpers, including some of Santa’s elves, made it extra festive. Then, throughout the month, we enjoyed many programs relating to Christmas – from line dancers to crafting, to a very special performance by the Dixon High School Madrigal Singers.

It was great to see so many people taking part in these programs, and I’d like to remind readers that most of the activities here at the Senior Center are open to people of

happy for everyone, and that there are many people less fortunate whose lives we can brighten. Many of you have responded to our membership campaign, which goes a long way toward helping us fill the funding gaps and allows for continuing our programs. And so many of all ages. We are the Lee you have included a little County Council on Aging, “extra,” as well. We thank and I like to remind peoyou so very much. If you ple – some of whom do have not yet sent in your not wish to be reminded membership for 2014, now – that we are all aging. is a great time to do it. If we Therefore, we are here for somehow missed you with everyone. Why not make our appeal, you can call us it a point to visit more here at the Center and we often in the coming year? will set you up. Remember While I mentioned at the that membership is not top of the article that we necessary to participate in enjoyed the Christmas sea- and enjoy our programson so much, I would like ming, but it does help us to remind you that the hol- with that programming. iday season is not always Are you looking for-

ward to 2014? We will have another great year of programming for you, including old favorites like our chili supper, luau, and the annual Spring Prom, along with some new events and programs. For example, we will be partnering with the Lee County Extension service this coming year to provide a monthly program, and other partnerships are in the works.

Our second annual 50/50 raffle is now in full swing. Tickets are $1 each or six for $5, and the proceeds provide supplies and other things for the Senior Center. Last year the winner of the raffle walked away with $1,900, and LCCOA spent our share of the money to purchase new comput-

ers for our computer lab.

Let’s make this year even bigger! Get your tickets at the Dixon Senior Center or from one of our employees or board members. Or perhaps you would be interested in being a volunteer seller for us. The more people selling, the more the pot grows, and our winner and the Center will benefit. If you are interested, please call Jennifer at the Center at 815-288-9236.

The drawing for the 50/50 raffle will take place at the chili supper on March 12.

In closing, all of us here at Lee County Council on Aging wish you and yours a very Happy New Year 2014. Help us make it the best year ever. Have you “Senior” Center lately?!

Geoff

purchase gifts? The good news is that by Friday we had more gifts than we had table space to display. Thanks to everyone’s generosity, no child went away without a special gift for their loved ones! A special thank you to everyone who assisted with the setup of Santa’s Workshop and a very special thank you to all of you who provided homemade scarves, mittens, hats, slippers, and other toys or items for the children to purchase! Your efforts made a major impact on numerous families in our surrounding communities. Thank you for making a difference!

The Whiteside County Senior Center offers a

variety of programs and activities which can provide a place for you to start helping others or yourself. January kicks off with a Euchre Tournament at 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5; a Medicare Information Class is available at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10; start organizing your holiday photos in Becky’s Scrapbooking Class at 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16; Beth Sterk of Whiteside HomeCare will be offering a Fall Prevention presentation at 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 17; the American Red Cross will be conducting a blood drive at the WCSC from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17, so please call and make an appointment; learn about The Basics

of Alzheimer’s at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27; Whiteside County Health Department will provide a Foot Clinic from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29 (appointment required); VCP Home Health Care, Inc. will provide a Wellness Event at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29; and the monthly It’s Showtime! movie presentation with free popcorn will feature “Eight Below,” a movie about two Antarctic explorers leaving their team of sled dogs behind as they fend for their survival. It stars Paul Walker, Jason Biggs, and Bruce Greenwood.

This movie is a tribute to Paul Walker!

From the WCSC Executive Director

By Doug Vandersee

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hat are your expectations for 2014? As we begin to look toward next year, it is time to start planning how we are going to make a difference in someone’s life!

That someone can be you, or it can be a friend, neighbor, relative, or perhaps someone you haven’t yet met.

I was reading about two teenagers who decided they wanted to be superheroes and do random acts of kind-

ness for people they didn’t know. They gave a homeless person a coat to keep warm and some money to purchase some food. The person fell down on their knees and thanked God for bringing these two teens into his life.

What are you going to do in 2014 to make an impact on someone’s life?

Earlier this month, I watched a group of volunteers and staff work together to organize Whiteside County Senior

Center’s Fourth Annual Santa’s Workshop and Breakfast with Santa event. It was amazing to watch everyone work together to take the boxes of donated items and put them out on the table. On Tuesday, we were worried about the amount of gifts we had collected. Was this more or less than last year?

Will there be enough for everyone to be able to

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Golden Echo disclaims any liability for any advertisements published herein and in no way endorses or guarantees these ads.

Press releases of interest to seniors will be accepted at 100 W. Second St., Dixon, IL 61021; or 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, IL 61081. Deadline for submission is the 15th of each month.

Golden Echo does not discriminate in admission to programs or treatment or employment in programs or activities in compliance with the Illinois Human Rights Act; the U.S. Civil Rights Act; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act; the Age Discrimination Act; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; and the U.S. and Illinois constitutions. If you feel you have been discriminated against, you have a right to file a complaint with the Illinois Department on Aging. For information, call 800-252-8966 (Voice & TDD), or contact the director of Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, IL 61021 or telephone 815-288-9236; or Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, IL 61081 or 815-622-9230.

The senior centers do not require duration of residency or citizenship as a condition of participation in any services or programs funded by the Northwestern Illinois Area Agency on Aging. Residency or citizenship may be a requirement for other programs that the senior centers may provide assistance with in application or accessing of same. Services are made available, in part, with funds provided under Title III-B of the Older American Act, and the Illinois General Revenue Funds, through the Northwestern Illinois Area Agency on Aging. We are a United Way-funded agency.

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Dear Ralph, This is a very important question to ask, particularly since there is so much

confusion surrounding the Affordable Care Act and Medicare. To answer your question, Medicare representatives will never call you and ask for personal information like your bank account number, Medicare number or Social Security number. People with Medicare do not have to give out their personal information to Medicare representatives as a result of the Affordable Care Act, also known as the health care law. In addition, Medicare private plans like Medicare Advantage plans

and Medicare Part D plans cannot call and ask for your financial or personal information. In fact, plan representatives cannot call or email you if you have never been a member of the plan and you did not invite the plan to contact you.

In general, be wary of websites, callers or individuals that ask for personal information, like your bank account number or Social Security number. For example, you should be suspicious of callers who claim to

work for Medicare and ask for your bank account information. Know that you should not give out your personal information to unidentified callers, as there have been many instances of people giving out their information to callers pretending to be government officials.

You should also refrain from giving out your personal, health or financial information to strangers who come to your home uninvited. Remember, you can always call 800-MEDICARE, before giving out

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If you feel that you are a victim of identity theft, you may also want to contact your local police department as soon as possible.

You can also contact the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging Fraud Hotline by calling them at 855-303-9470 or by visiting them online at http://www.aging.senate. gov/fraud-hotline. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Marci

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ITEMS TO NOTE Scoot your boots to line dancing classes Boot scoot, grapevine, strut, and shuffle into 2014 with line dancing classes at Whiteside County Senior Center and Lee County Council on Aging! The line dancing classes start at 11 a.m. Friday at WCSC, and 10 a.m. Tuesday at LCCOA. Whether you are an experienced line dancer, or if you are just jumping in – we invite you.

Line dancing provides an excellent aerobic workout and is wonderful exercise for balance, coordination, and memory.

While the weather may be freezing outside, we’ve got a warm place, a variety of dances, and toe tappin’ tunes at WCSC or LCCOA line dance classes.

Volunteers needed at Dixon Senior Center A free community meal from Walmart Distribution Center on Nov. 21 turned out to be a huge success! About 350 people came to eat turkey, stuffing, vegetable, drink and dessert. We thank you Walmart, we appreciate it!

50/50 tickets are available Want to help support Lee County Council on Aging and have the chance to win a chunk of change? Then buy some 50/50 raffle tickets.

Money raised will help support a variety of Senior Services in Lee County.

We are selling raffle tickets up until the drawing March 12 at our Annual Chili Supper.

Last year’s lucky winner, Kristy McClain, won $1,900.

With the $1,900 to LCCOA we were able to purchase new computers for our community computer lab.

You may purchase tickets from LCCOA staff or board members, or stop in the center at 100 W. Second St. in Dixon.

Tickets are $1 for one or $5 for six.

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Stop and shop The Emporium Happy New Year from the Emporium Thrift Center.

Looking back we are thankful for all the many donations we received daily in spite of the sidewalk construction, the community always gave and gave.

We have met a lot of new customers and enjoyed seeing the regulars. All and all we are so grateful.

The volunteers do an awesome job of keeping the racks and shelves stocked. Hats off to all of them.

So let’s all pull together to make the New Year just as good or better. So have a good year and stop on by.

As the first of the year rolls around we all might need some things to keep us occupied in the house.

I thought I would mention

some of the things we have at the Emporium to help with that. We have books for both adults and children, both paperbacks and hard covers.

Our magazines and crafting books might give you some new ideas. We have puzzles, records, cassettes and VHS tapes. If you still have one of those machines we have the movies. Make the popcorn and kickback with a movie.

Who cares if it’s cold outside?

We have decided that each weekend in January we will have a sale. Watch

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Once again we thank you for all the support to the Whiteside County Senior Center. We send out a “thank you” to all the people who volunteer at the Emporium. It adds up to about 155 volunteer hours per week.

Stop and shop at The Emporium Thrift Center, 115 W. Third St. in Sterling. The center is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and closed Wednesdays.

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Are you looking to do something with your spare time?

How about volunteering at the Dixon Senior Center?

We are looking for people to teach yoga, computer classes, crafts and more.

Do you have a special talent you would like to share? Or do you have a request for a certain activity? This is your center and we want you to come and enjoy activities you want.

Contact Lee County Council on Aging Activities Coordinator Jennifer Lang at 815-288-9236 to share your thoughts.

We would love to hear from you!

Recycle electronics at WCSC, LCCOA Recycle Cell Phones, Ipods, and Ipads.

The Whiteside County Senior Center and the Lee County Council on Aging collect used cell phones, iPods, and iPads to be recycled.

If you have any these items lying around and want to dispose of them drop them off at WCSC, 1207 W. Ninth St. in Sterling or LCCOA,100 W. Second St. in Dixon.

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ee County Council on Aging, Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, and Whiteside County Senior Center are selection centers for the free amplified telephone program sponsored by the Illinois Telecommunications Access Corporation. You need to be certified as hard of hearing, be an Illinois resident, and have a landline telephone to qualify for this program. Please bring your phone bill with all the pages, proof of address (driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license, state ID, or a bill with your name and address on it) and we will help you with this program.

LCCOA, RFCC and WCSC have outreach caseworkers who provide Options counseling, Medicare counseling, information and assistance to anyone who is 60 or older and persons with disabilities. The caseworkers are Certified Information and Referral Specialists for Aging (CIRS-A) and Senior Health Insurance Program volunteer counselors. They receive training on a variety of programs and network with several

agencies in order to be informed of the options available to their clients. WCSC also offers a monthly Medicare Information class.

In order for our caseworkers to best assess your needs, ask what to bring when making your appointment or bring all of the following information: proof of all income for this year (Social Security benefits, pensions, interest, wages, any other income), Medicare card, Medicare Part D card, Medicaid card, value of all assets (bank accounts, CDs, any investments, investment property, business assets, cash value of life insurance, car, house, prepaid burial, burial plots, etc.), proof of income for 2012 (even if you do not file income taxes, we will need tax documents for Social Security benefits (SSA1099), pension (1099-R), interest (1099-INT), dividends (1099-DIV), and wages (W-2, etc.), Social Security cards, and a list of current medications (including 30-day quantity and dosage).

You should call ahead for an appointment.

Home visits can be provided to clients who are homebound. Caseworkers also travel to several locations each month in both Lee and Whiteside counties (see below).

Some assistance programs may be seasonal, may have deadlines, time frames, or may require renewal. This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reminder: File for the Benefits Access Program to get a $75 license plate discount. You must be 65 or disabled to file. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hesitate to call with questions.

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Whether you had a good year or a bad year, I hope the coming year is better. One of my New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolutions is to make the â&#x20AC;&#x153;insertâ&#x20AC;? button on my keyboard work â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t toggle for me from insert to overwrite. It always inserts. If you know how to fix this, please call me at the number below.

That gets one thing off my list.

Jan. 15 is Dixon Main Streetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lunch and Learn in the Ballroom.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always good food for $3, and you learn whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on. Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t beat that with a stick!

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Happy New Year.

I hope you all had a magical Christmas season.

We begin the new year here in our kitchen knowing we have had some prayers answered this past year, and we are thankful. We have also lost some we will hold in our hearts forever.

We continue to do our best for you, by providing a good meal at a modest cost. With the help of the Sauk Valley Food Bank and the Salvation Army we will strive to do just that this next year.

We are seeing some new faces in the dining room and hope to see more. Anyone with an appetite is welcome to come and eat in our

dining room.

We have had several of our local law enforcement officers come and join us and visit with us.

When you support us here for lunch you are helping with a wide range of things our center provides for our community.

We have so many things going on here, we ourselves find it hard to keep track at times.

We have some of the most dedicated volunteers in the area, and could use a few more in the facility. So come on by, have lunch with us, and see what we are all about. You might be surprised.

As always God Bless you this new year and thank you!

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CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS AT WCSC

!"/6% Eating breakfast and getting pictures taken with Santa at Santa’s Workshop at Whiteside County Senior Center.

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AARP tax aides to prepare returns for free AARP tax aides will be preparing 2013 tax returns again this year for low and middleincome taxpayers at the Lee County Council on Aging and the Whiteside County Senior Center. It is not necessary to be a member of AARP or of a particular age to participate in this program.

For tax assistance at Lee County Council on Aging/Dixon Senior Center you may schedule an appointment by stopping in at 100 W. Second St., Dixon and

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picking up an information packet. The receptionist will then schedule your appointment.

No appointments will be taken over the phone until you have picked up your information packet. Appointments will be scheduled at noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays starting Jan. 30 and ending April 10.

For assistance at the Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling please call 815-622-9230.

Appointment schedule to be announced.

Tax preparation will be for individual taxes, not for businesses such as farm income, rentals, partnerships or other business returns. We also do not do health savings accounts, minor’s investment income, some K-1’s, or moving expenses, and LCCOA does not do cancellation of debt.

Taxpayers are reminded to bring a copy of last year’s tax return, Social Security cards, not medicare cards,

and at least one picture ID such as a driver license, passport, etc. for themselves and each dependent, together with any of the following documents that apply to 2013: W-2 forms showing income from each employer.

Unemployment Compensation statements.

SSA-1099 forms showing Social Security benefits received.

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All forms (1099-INT, 1099-DIV, 1099-B, etc) showing interest and/or dividends.

Documentation showing original purchase prices of stocks or assets sold and their selling price. Note, we will not be able to do returns with an extensive number of sales.

1099-MISC forms showing any miscellaneous income.

1099-R forms for pensions and annuities.

All forms indicating income taxes and real estate taxes paid.

Dependent care provider information (name, address, employee ID or Social Security number).

Receipts, cancelled checks, or other records for itemizing deductions.

Real Estate Tax receipt with the registered lot number.

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ABOVE: Many enjoyed breakfast in the Dixon Senior Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dining room before going upstairs to Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Workshop.

RIGHT: Volunteer â&#x20AC;&#x153;Elfâ&#x20AC;? Devon Jensen from the Dixon High School Key Club helps kids shop for loved ones during Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Workshop.

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Mark your calendar!

Check out the Whiteside Allen Edwards â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The County Public Transpor- Singer will be making a tation system by calling return appearance for the 815-625-7433 (RIDE) to Whiteside County Senior book your reservation at Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annual Fundleast 24 hours in advance. raising Concert at 2 p.m.

They will be happy to take on Sunday, May 18. Allen you to the WCSC or to was a big hit last year with any other destination you all of the audience memwould like to go. Fares bers. Buy your tickets for are free for those over 60, Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, birthday

presents, or just because, as this will be the show you want to see! Call 888622-9230 or 815-622-9230 to reserve your tickets.

Ticket prices and sponsorship packages will be available beginning Monday, Jan. 20! WCSC will be promoting and selling the tickets for this concert. All proceeds from the concert will go to support the programs and operations of the Whiteside County Senior Center.

It looks like 2014 will be a very exciting year at the

WCSC, so please take time to come and check us out!

We have great homemade meals every day at lunch, lots of fun activities each day, and check out our Niagara Falls and Toronto bus trip, Cape Cod bus trip, and Alaskan Cruise in 2014! We will be hosting several other trips which will be listed in the next Echo!

Happy New Year to everyone from the board and staff of the WCSC! Until next month, Doug

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Lee County Council on Aging Dixon Lioness Club Rita Landwer YMCA Daycare Women Marilyn LaCourse Thomas and Barbara Lawless Arlene Glaser Larry and Char Griffith Golden K of Dixon Sylvia Montavon Nancy Grygiel Norma Reed Green Acres Healthcare Tri-County Opportunities Mary Smith V. Ellis Fredda Hoffman Hal Weaver Vi Bushman Robert and Margaret Matthew CeCe Stover Fay Santos Joe Morrissey Annette Peterson Ellen Mumford Ramona Reglin Dixon McDonalds Sara Ackerson Ryver Rice Emily Brooks Justin Wiggins Jaegar Lee

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Whiteside County Senior Center Thank you to all our volunteers who donated their time, energy and services and those who gave monetary and nonmonetary donations. We also thank everyone who gave anonymous donations, and people who donated to Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Workshop.

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Weekly Activities and Meetings Lee County Council on Aging Mondays 8 a.m.-4 p.m. – Open pool table, open cards, and open Wii games 9 a.m.-4 p.m. – Computer lab 10:30 a.m. – Zumba class 11:30 a.m. – Lifescape lunch (reservations) Noon – Organized Wii Bowling games 12:30 p.m. – Duplicate Bridge

Tuesdays 8 a.m.-4 p.m. – Open pool table, open cards, and open Wii games 9 a.m.-4 p.m. – Computer lab 9 a.m. – Golden Kiwanis 10-11 a.m. – Line dancing 11:30 a.m. – Lifescape lunch (reservations) Noon – Organized Wii Bowling games 1 p.m. – Pinochle

Mondays 8 a.m.-4 p.m. – Playing pool, cards, Wii machine, socializing, and computer lab 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Lunch 12:30 p.m. – Pinochle in the Big Room 12:30 p.m. – Crochet/Knitting Club 12:30 p.m. – Friendly Mexican Train Dominoes, $5 to play, prizes, and bring a snack

Tuesdays 8 a.m.-4 p.m. – Playing pool, cards, Wii machine, socializing, and computer lab 10 a.m.-noon – Commodities, must meet income guidelines 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Lunch 12:30 p.m. – Euchre, $2 to play, bring a snack 1:30 p.m. – Wii/Yoga and Zumba

Wednesdays 8 a.m.-4 p.m. – Open pool table, open cards, and open Wii games 9 a.m.-4 p.m. – Computer lab 11:30 a.m. – Lifescape lunch (reservations) Noon – Organized Wii Bowling games 1 p.m. – Pinochle

Thursdays 8 a.m.-4 p.m. – Open pool table, open cards, and open Wii games 9 a.m.-4 p.m. – Computer lab 10:30 a.m. – Zumba class 11:30 a.m. – Lifescape lunch (reservations) Noon – Organized Wii Bowling games 1 p.m. – Crocheting and crafting 5:30 p.m. – Overeaters Anonymous

Fridays 8 a.m.-4 p.m. – Open pool table, open cards, and open Wii games 9 a.m.-4 p.m. – Computer lab 11:30 a.m. – Lifescape lunch (reservations) Noon – Organized Wii Bowling games 12:30 p.m. – Duplicate bridge 1 p.m. – Pinochle

Whiteside County Senior Center Wednesdays 8 a.m.-4 p.m. – Playing pool, cards, Wii machine, socializing, and computer lab 10 a.m. – Farkle 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Lunch 12:30 p.m. – Pinochle in the Big Room 12:30 p.m. – Bridge

Thursdays 8 a.m.-4 p.m. – Playing pool, cards, Wii machine, socializing, and computer lab 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Lunch 12:30 p.m. – “Hand and Foot” card game, similar to Canasta, but a lot shorter, $2

Fridays 8 a.m.-4 p.m. – Playing pool, cards, Wii machine, socializing, and computer lab 11 a.m. – Line dancing (Except: 10-11 a.m. Jan. 24 in Polo) 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Lunch 12:30 p.m. – Mexican Train Dominoes $5 to play, prizes, and bring a snack 12:30 p.m. – Pinochle in the Big Room

Monthly Activities and Meetings Lee County Council on Aging Jan. 1 Site closed for New Year’s Day Jan. 7 10 a.m. – Line dancing class Jan. 8 12:30 p.m. – Fall prevention presented

by CVP Healthcare

Jan. 9 10-11:30 a.m. – Blood pressure checks, sponsored by Oregon Living & Rehabilitation Jan. 10 9:30 a.m. – Bingo, sponsored by Green Acres Healthcare & Rehabilitation

Jan. 14 10 a.m. – Line dancing class Noon – How to Deal with Grief workshop with Unity Hospice of Northern Illinois 1 p.m. – Bingo, sponsored by Liberty Court Jan. 20 Site closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Jan. 21 10-11 a.m. – Blood pressure checks, sponsored by Polo Rehabilitation & Healthcare 10 a.m. – Line dancing class Jan. 23 12:30 p.m. – Puzzles and games with LCCOA staff

Jan. 24 9:30 a.m. – Bingo, sponsored by Lee County Council on Aging Jan. 28 10 a.m. – Line dancing class Jan. 31 Noon – Chase Away Winter Blues with Hearty Soups

Whiteside County Senior Center Jan. 1 Site closed for New Year’s Day Jan. 8 11 a.m.-noon – Blood pressure checks, sponsored by Gaffey Home Nursing 11:25 a.m. – Celebrating January birthdays 12:30 p.m. – Bingo with prizes, sponsored by Good Neighbor Care, Sterling, snacks sponsored by Whiteside County Senior Center Jan. 9 5 p.m. – Alzheimer’s Support Group

Jan. 10 1 p.m. – Medicare information class, free, call 622-9230 to register

Jan. 14 9:30-10:30 a.m. – Outreach caseworker at Prophet Manor, Prophetstown

Jan. 16 10-11 a.m. – Outreach caseworker at Robert Fulton Community Center, Fulton

Jan. 11 1 p.m. – Sauk Computer User Group will meet with a question and answer time. At 2:15, there will be a presentation

by Angie Rester on Card Making Programs. Everyone is invited to be there if you have an interest in computers.

Jan. 15 9-10 a.m. – Outreach caseworker at Erie Public Library 10:30-11:30 a.m. – Blood pressure checks, sponsored by Transitions Nursing & Rehab Center 12:30 p.m. – Bingo with prizes, sponsored by Transitions Nursing & Rehab Center, snacks sponsored by Whiteside County Senior Center

Jan. 22 10:30-11:30 a.m. – Blood pressure checks, sponsored by Sterling Pavilion 12:30 p.m. – Bingo with prizes, sponsored by Vista Hospice, snacks sponsored by Whiteside County Senior Center

Jan. 13 10-11 a.m. – Outreach caseworker at Odell Public Library, Morrison

Jan. 29 10:30-11:30 a.m. – Blood pressure checks, sponsored by Sterling Pavilion 12:30 p.m. – Bingo with prizes, sponsored by VCP, snacks sponsored by Whiteside County Senior Center Jan. 31 12:30 p.m. – It’s Showtime! Movie and popcorn are free. The movie is “Eight Below.” Rated PG. Brutal cold forces two Antarctic explorers to leave their team of sled dogs behind as they fend for their survival. Starring Paul Walker, Jason Biggs, and Bruce Greenwood. The movie is sponsored by Whiteside HomeCare.

Robert Fulton Community Center Come in anytime to play pool, cards, board games, corn bag toss. We have a large screen TV, pianos, books and puzzles to loan out, four sewing machines, two personal computers and four Macs available.

Jan. 1 Site closed for New Year’s Day Jan. 6 8:30-10 a.m. – Community Coffee with Whiteside Homecare

Jan. 7 1 p.m. – Euchre Jan. 8 11-11:30 a.m. – Blood pressure checks, sponsored by Whiteside HomeCare 11 a.m.-noon – Bingo after lunch

Jan. 10 11-11:30 – Blood pressure checks Jan. 14 1 p.m. – Euchre

Visit us on our website: www.cityoffulton.us Look under the community and government heading!

Jan. 16 10-11 a.m. – Outreach caseworker here, call 888-622-9230 for an appointment Jan. 17 11-11:30 a.m. – Blood pressure checks Jan. 21 1 p.m. – Euchre

Jan. 24 11-11:30 a.m. – Blood pressure checks Jan. 28 1 p.m. – Euchre Jan. 31 11-11:30 a.m. – Blood pressure checks

Meals for January Serving at Lee County Council on Aging Jan. 1-3 Wednesday: Site closed for New Year’s Day. Thursday: A) Pizza burger, tator tots, corn and chilled pineapple; B) Roast beef sandwich and cream of mushroom soup. Friday: Cheese omelette, turkey sausage, hash brown potatoes, blueberry muffin and Mandarin oranges.

Jan. 6-10 Monday: Shredded barbecue chicken on wheat bun, augratin potatoes, Capri blend vegetables and fresh orange.

Tuesday: A) Hot turkey sandwich, mashed potatoes with gravy, glazed baby carrots, bread and fruit cocktail; B) Ham sandwich and chicken noodle soup.

Wednesday: Sweet and sour meatballs, fluffy rice, steamed broccoli, Lima beans and diced pears. Thursday: Italian beef on hoagie bun, potato pancakes, winter blend vegetables and cinnamon applesauce. Friday: Mushroom Swiss burger on bun, tator tots, green beans and sliced peaches.

Jan. 13-17 Monday: Spaghetti with meat sauce, steamed peas, corn, garlic bread and fresh pear. Tuesday: Citrus baked ham, sweet potatoes, Capri blend vegetables, wheat bread and Jell-O with fruit. Wednesday: Beef and noodles, glazed baby carrots, steamed peas, roll and peach cobbler. Thursday: Tropical chicken salad on greens, croissant, apricots and pineapple juice. Friday: A) Dirty rice with beef, corn with peppers, broccoli, wheat bread and apricots; B) Liver and onions.

Jan. 20-24 Monday: Breaded chicken Parmesan, pasta with marinara, steamed broccoli, roll and diced pears. Tuesday: Sausage gravy with biscuit, hash brown and fruit juice. Wednesday: Bratwurst with onions on bun, tator tots, Italian blend vegetables and chilled applesauce. Thursday: A) Beef stew, buttermilk biscuit, cauliflower and fresh orange; B) Turkey sandwich and vegetable soup. Friday: Chicken fiesta taco with cheese, lettuce and tomato, Spanish rice, Mexican corn and citrus fruit cup.

Jan. 27-31 Monday: Hamburger on bun, macaroni and cheese, seasoned green beans and diced pears. Tuesday: A) Baked chicken breast, mashed potatoes with gravy, four-way vegetables, wheat roll and fruit cocktail; B) Chicken salad sandwich and tomato soup. Wednesday: Chef salad with turkey, ham, cheese, tomato, cucumber, egg and dressing, wheat roll and sliced peaches. Thursday: Cheese ravioli with meat sauce, steamed peas, waxed beans, garlic bread and chilled pineapple. Friday: Hot ham and cheese on wheat bun, tator tots, Scandinavian blend vegetables and chilled apricots.

Serving at Whiteside County Senior Center Jan. 1-3 Wednesday: Site closed for New Year’s Day. Thursday: Tuna noodle casserole, salad and dessert. Friday: Italian beef sandwich, salad and dessert.

Jan. 6-10 Monday: Pork roast, mashed potatoes with gravy, vegetable and dessert. Tuesday: Meatballs, mashed potatoes with gravy, vegetable and dessert. Wednesday: Lasagna, garlic bread, salad and dessert. Thursday: Barbecue chicken, potato, vegetable and dessert. Friday: Beef stew, salad and dessert.

Jan. 13-17 Monday: Oven fried chicken, baked potato, corn and dessert. Tuesday: Baked ziti, garlic bread, salad and dessert. Wednesday: Chili, corn bread, salad and dessert. Thursday: Pork chop, potato, vegetable and dessert. Friday: Cook’s choice.

Jan. 20-24 Monday: Site closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Tuesday: Baked cod, potato, vegetable and dessert. Wednesday: Chicken breast, potato, vegetable and dessert. Thursday: Tacos, refried beans, rice and dessert. Friday: Cook’s choice.

Jan. 27-31 Monday: Ham, potato, vegetable and dessert. Tuesday: Goulash, vegetable and dessert. Wednesday: Creamed chicken and biscuit, vegetable and dessert. Thursday: Roast beef, mashed potatoes with gravy, vegetable and dessert. Friday: Hot dog or brat, salad and dessert.

Serving at Golden Meals in Rock Falls Jan. 1-3 Wednesday: Site closed for New Year’s Day. Thursday: Barbecue ribettes, cheesy potatoes, mixed vegetables, applesauce and bread. Friday: Tater tot casserole, green beans, mixed fruit and bread.

Jan. 6-10 Monday: Herb baked chicken, parslied potatoes, mixed vegetables, vanilla pudding and bread. Tuesday: Polka dot macaroni and cheese, peas, spiced peaches and bread. Wednesday: Turkey tetrazzini, carrots, mixed fruit and bread. Thursday: Roast pork with gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, applesauce and roll. Friday: Brat on bun, ranch potatoes, mixed vegetables and pears.

Jan. 13-17 Monday: Barbecue chicken, ranch mashed potatoes, broccoli, Mandarin oranges and bread. Tuesday: Beef stew, cole slaw, rosy applesauce and biscuit.

Wednesday: Ham loaf, sweet potatoes, peas, pineapple and bread. Thursday: Easy chicken casserole, white and wild rice, mixed vegetables, mixed fruit and bread. Friday: Baked fish, tater tots, spinach, peaches and bread.

Jan. 20-24 Monday: Site closed for Martin Luther King Day. Tuesday: Scalloped potatoes and ham, peas, pears and bread.

Wednesday: Cheeseburger on bun, German potato salad, baked beans and tapioca pudding. Thursday: Roast beef with gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, mixed fruit and bread. Friday: Chili with meat and beans, carrots, apricots and corn bread.

Jan. 27-31 Monday: Sloppy Joe on bun, parslied potatoes, vegetable blend, peaches and bread. Tuesday: Salisbury steak with gravy, mashed potatoes, beets, mixed fruit and bread. Wednesday: Goulash, green beans, pears and bread. Thursday: Barbecue ribettes, cheesy potatoes, mixed vegetables, applesauce and bread. Friday: Tater tot casserole, peas, mixed fruit and bread.

Serving at Robert Fulton Community Center in Fulton Lunch starts at 11:30 a.m.

Jan. 1 Site closed for New Year’s Day

Jan. 17 Spaghetti with meat sauce, garlic bread, vegetable and dessert

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Jan. 3 Tater tot casserole, vegetable, roll and dessert Jan. 22 Harbor Crest chili with crackers, rolls and dessert by Elsie

Jan. 8 Lunch sponsored by Guardian

Jan. 24 Roast beef, mashed potatoes with gravy, vegetable and dessert

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Jan. 10 Meatloaf, mashed potatoes with brown gravy, vegetable and dessert

Jan. 15 Eagle Point Nursing & Rehab lunch

Jan. 29 Biscuits and gravy, sausage links, fruit and cookie

Jan. 31 Vegetable soup, deli sandwich, salad and dessert

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Transportation Lee-Ogle Transportation System

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Fares: (within zip code) Ages 5 and under (must be accompanied by an adult)

$1 one way

People age 6 to 59 years

$2 one way

Seniors or individuals with a disability (unless qualified under Medicaid or other program)

$1 one way

Out-of-town trips can be arranged, subject to availability

35 cents per mile

Hours: 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday

888-239-9228 or 815-288-2117

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Edith Canales Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs-AmeriCorps VISTA

Fares: (within county) Ages 5 and under (must be accompanied by an adult)

50 cents one way

People age 6 to 59 years

$2 one way

Seniors or individuals with a disability (unless qualified under Medicaid or other program)

Donation suggested

Out-of-county trips can be arranged, subject to availability

25 cents per mile

Edith Canales joined in June 2013 and has made a commitment to one year of VISTA service with WCPT. She loves her job.

Edith is married and has three children that are her life.

Hours: 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday

Contact WCPT or LOTS today to help you get where you need to go.

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855-625-7433 or 815-625-7433

Public transportation always an option Happy New Year to all the Sauk Valley Community! On behalf of Lee-Ogle Transportation System and Whiteside County Public Transportation, we hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

As we move in January, the temperature continues to remain below freezing, road-

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ways are icy, and driving personal vehicles continues to be a challenge during this time of year. Public transportation can be a fantastic option to keep your car in the garage, nice and warm.

As you can imagine, public transportation ridership increases greatly during the

winter months, so as always, we encourage you to contact your local provider as soon as you know you have a need for a ride.

Safety is always the number one concern for the public transportation administration team for both drivers and passengers. In January, all Lee and

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Ogle County public transportation drivers will attend an 8 hour training that is taught by the Rural Technical Assistance Center. The three major trainings include: Defensive Driving, Emergency Procedures, and Passenger Assistance. In addition, drivers endure additional trainings such as winter driving

skills to make sure that all vehicles on the road are as safe as possible. It is our goal to ensure that our passengers are safe.

Lee County would like to congratulate Whiteside County on successfully completing their trainings over the summer.

Thank you for choosing public transportation and stay warm!

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Upcoming trips To sign up and pay, or for questions, please visit or call Dixon Senior Center 100 W. Second St., Dixon 855-407-9236 — OR — Whiteside County Senior Center 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling 888-622-9230

The Midtown Men at the Paramount Theatre Friday, Feb. 14 Leave Rock Falls Community Center at 9 a.m.

Leave Dixon Walmart at 9:30 a.m.

Cost – $75 members; $80 nonmembers Grab your sweetheart, or friends you’re really fond of, and celebrate Valentine’s Day with four voices so silky smooth you can skip the Dove chocolate.

The Midtown Men are the original cast of Broadways Jersey Boys. They took Broadway by storm in one of the biggest hits of all-time! Now they are together again, taking their sensational sound on the road. Audiences from coast to coast are raving about this one-of-a-kind concert experience celebrating the music of the 1960s with classic songs by The Beatles, Beach Boys, Motown, The Four Seasons and more!

Cost includes transportation on a chartered bus and ticket into show. Lunch will be on your own at Cracker Barrel prior to show.

Niagara Falls and Toronto Trip Sunday through Saturday, June 1-7 Cost – $639 Motorcoach transportation; 6 nights lodging including 4 nights in Niagara Falls; six breakfasts and four dinners; guided tours of Niagara Falls and Toronto; a Journey to The Falls on a “Hornblower Niagara Cruise”; gaming at Fallsview Casino; a visit to Niagara-on-the-Lake and Queen Victoria Park; a visit to Casa Loma, Canada’s most magnificent castle, and much more. Stop in and pick up a flyer.

Alaska Anyone?

Thursday through Friday, Aug. 28-Sept. 5 Cost – $2,800 per person for an inside cabin with a $600 deposit due (based on double occupancy) Final payment is due by June 1 Thursday we will be staying overnight in Seattle. Friday, Aug. 29, we will board the Celebrity Solstice for a 7-night cruise. We depart from Seattle and visit Ketchican, Juneau, Skadway and Victoria, B.C. We will travel through the inside passage and visit the Twin Sawyer Glaciers. Please call 815-622-9230 and ask for Glenda.

Cape Cod Trip Saturday through Sunday, Sept. 20-28 Cost – $769 Motorcoach transportation; 8 nights lodging including nights in the quaint Cape Cod area; eight breakfasts and six dinners; a tour of the “Outer Cape” including Provincetown and Chatham; a visit to the JFK Museum; gaming at Turning Stone Casino; a Hyannis Harbor Cruise; an exploration of the historic seaside towns of Hyannis and Sandwich; a visit to the Heritage Museums and Gardens; and much more. Stop in and pick up a flyer.

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Upcoming special events Euchre Tournament at Sterling Moose Family Center 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5 Cost – $5 per player with 25 cents per set Come and play in the euchre tournament. Prizes for first-, second- and third-place. Come in side door. Bring a snack. Call Ron Wolber at 630-9651621 for more information Come in side door.

Fall Prevention presentation at LCCOA 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8 Falls are a real concern for older adults. It is estimated that one out of every three adults age 65 or older, fall each year. Tips will be given on how you can protect yourself by eliminating hazards, understanding health-related factors, and other things that you can do to prevent falls.

Medicare information class at WCSC 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10 Free The basic information that we provide will help our community members who are new to Medicare and those who want more information, make a more informed decision when it comes to their options with Medicare. Our Outreach Department staff are trained Senior Health Insurance Program volunteer counselors. SHIP is a free counseling service provided by the Illinois Department of Insurance. Please call 815-622-9230 to register for this class.

Puzzles and Games at LCCOA 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23 Get out of the cold and join us for an afternoon of fun and games. We will be testing ourselves with riddles and puzzles. Prizes will be given and treats will be eaten.

National Handwriting Day at WCSC 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 23 Come and show off your handwriting! First and second place winners for the best handwriting. You will write a paragraph we show you.

National Pie Day at WCSC Thursday, Jan. 23 Come and enjoy one of our lunches for $5 and get a piece of homemade pie for dessert. Delicious!

The Basics of Alzheimer’s at WCSC 12:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27 Cost – $5 for materials Discover more about symptoms, causes and risk factors for Alzheimer’s and dementia, the benefits of early detection, treatment options, stages of the disease, and ways the Association can help. Call 800-272-3900 to register for the program.

Presentation by Nathan Fellows at WCSC

National Puzzle Day at WCSC

3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10 Nathan Fellows will be talking about a class available for those who wish to know more about technology such as cell phones and computers. The class will help you to better utilize the technology of today. For more information, call 815-632-7293.

10:30-11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29 Come and put a puzzle together. Prizes for first and second for the best time!

The same puzzle will be used for everyone. Come and have some fun!

National Hat Day at WCSC 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15 Wear a special hat today and you could win a prize! First prize for the best decorated hat and first prize for the ugliest hat! This will be fun!

Scrapbooking class at WCSC 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16 Cost – $5 for materials Beginners and advanced scrapbooking class. Bring scissors, double sided tape or glue stick, and four to six pictures that we will use. Double sided tape and cutter will have for sale that day or we can order for next class. Call 815622-9230 to register.

National Blood Donor Month at WCSC 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17 Individuals who are 17 years of age and older, meet weight and height requirements and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. Please bring your Red Cross blood donor care or other form of photo ID when you come to donate. Please call 815-622-9230 to make an appointment. You will help save lives.

Fall Prevention Presentation at WCSC 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 17 The presentation will cover risk factors of falls in the elderly, prevention tips and home safety precautions. This is presented by Beth Sterk of Whiteside HomeCare.

It’s Showtime! at WCSC 12:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17 Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends’ lives – and a small Mississippi town – upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families.

Foot Clinic at WCSC 1 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29 Foot care will be available for all senior citizens over 60. For appointments call Whiteside County Health Department at 815-772-4213. A doctor’s order is required for all clients receiving foot care.

Wellness Event at WCSC 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29 Come join VCP Home health Care Inc for this Wellness Event. They will be doing blood pressure and oxygen level checks. Snacks will be provided.

Chase Away the Winter Blues with Hearty Soups at LCCOA Noon-1:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31 The University of Illinois Extension will teach us the basic soup concepts and terms, tips to increase flavor in soups while keeping them healthy, different preparation methods and cooking demonstrations & recipes to help prepare healthy meals at home.

It’s Showtime! at WCSC 12:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31 Cost – $5 for lunch The movie and popcorn are free. The movie is “Eight Below.” Brutal cold forces two Antarctic explorers to leave their team of sled dogs behind as they fend for their survival. Starring Paul Walker, Jason Biggs, and Bruce Greenwood. The movie is sponsored by Whiteside HomeCare.

Lee County Council on Aging serves a Free Breakfast 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 13 Breakfast will be followed by LCCOA speakers.

Come see all the great happening’s at the Senior Center and learn about what we can do for you.

Reservations for breakfast are required, call 815-288-9236 by Feb. 10.

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