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Tuesday, July 12, 2016 n SERVING ROCK FALLS, STERLING AND THE SURROUNDING AREA SINCE 1854
OBITUARY | ANDREW BOLLMAN
‘It’s a loss for the community’ Sauk Board of Trustees chairman, Lee County Board of Health president dies while scuba diving BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN cheimerman@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5523 CHeimerman_SVM
DIXON – Before departing, Andrew Bollman left many mile markers for his friends, family, and colleagues to remember fondly. The longtime Dixon attorney, also chairman of the Sauk Valley Community College Board of Trustees and president of the Lee County Board
of Health, died Saturday morning while scuba diving off the coast of San Pedro, Belize. Paul Whitcombe, Bollman’s former boss, travel companion and brother-in-law, would rather talk about their road trips, back when he was an attorney, and Bollman was a professional photographer. The sunrise in the snow at the Grand Canyon. A sunset in Key West, Florida. New Orleans. “They were mile markers in life, and which you
gauge your life by,” said Whitcombe, the former Lee County state’s attorney for whom Bollman served as an assistant from 2004 to 2008. “When I try to remember when something happened, I think, ‘Was this before or after the sunset at Key West?’” “Learning photography from him was like learning to paint from Van Gogh. He was very generous in sharing his knowledge.” BOLLMAN continued on A104
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West Ended? Organizers hope not Neighborhood reunion canceled after 13 years; help sought to bring it back BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN cheimerman@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5523 CHeimerman_SVM
Photos by Alex T. Paschal/apaschal@saukvalley.com
Tammy Becker and her son, Jason Zuidema, share a hug Monday at their Fulton home. The 18-yearold will undergo his third open-heart surgery today at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago.
He’s all heart But today, that heart will be getting some help as a Fulton teen goes in for surgery again
REUNION continued on A54
DIXON
Skyscrapers and petunias rooted in common ground
BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN cheimerman@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5523 CHeimerman_SVM
FULTON – Jason Zuidema has outgrown his heart, and it’s made him weak. You’d never know it, though. The 18-year-old will undergo his third open-heart surgery today at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. Heart surgery isn’t uncommon for guys Online extra like him, who have Click on this story at Down syndrome. saukvalley.com to hear “But Jason’s heart Tammy Becker read from condition is severe,” “social stories” that Jason his mom, Tammy Zuidema wrote in school Becker, said Monday. to help prepare for his Nonetheless, using third open-heart surgery. sign language, he demanded she take him to the park to go down the slide at the River Bend School District’s campus. To try to convince her, he gave her a bear hug. “He loves riding his three-wheel bike, but the park is totally over the hill,” she said. “It’s a little too hot for him, so he wears out. SURGERY continued on A44
STERLING – Rosie Davis is a little bit heartbroken. After a 13-year-run, the West End picnic won’t be happening this year. Davis, 75, is one of seven Howard siblings – three girls and four boys – who grew up on Woodburn Avenue and Seventh Street. The past 3 years, she and her sister, Carol Finnicum, and Joanie Tuft have run the potluck-style reunion held the last Saturday in July at Scheid Park for residents of Avenue L and Woodburn, Griswold and Dillon avenues. Tuft’s sister, Ellen Howard, who married one of the Howard boys, picked that spot when she started the annual gala in 2002, because they were among nine siblings who grew up in a house there, before Scheid Park was Scheid Park. Last year, 82 people showed up for the picnic – former West End residents, their kids and grandkids. They came from as far away as Colorado.
Historian highlights shared history of Petunia City and the Windy City BY RACHEL RODGERS rrodgers@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5529 @rj_rodgers
Jason reacts to a profile about himself Monday as it’s read by his mom, Tammy, at their Fulton home. The card will accompany Jason to the hospital to help the staff communicate with him while he’s there for open-heart surgery.
DIXON – Though they split directions along the way, Chicago and Dixon share common ground in their early path to growth. Local historian Duane Paulsen highlighted the parallels that helped to lay the foundations of the two areas Monday during the Lee County Historical and Genealogical Society’s monthly program. “The settlement of both the Rock River Valley and Chicago are intertwined in time and development,” he said. HISTORY continued on A54
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CROSSWORD.......B9 LIFESTYLE............ A7 LOTTERY.............. A2
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