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This week’s forecast:
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Meteorologist: Thursday and Friday could be dangerous BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN cheimerman@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5523 CHeimerman_SVM
Photos by Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com
Ethan McDermott (left), 8, and his father, Ray Bowers, both from Dixon, play Pokemon Go together on the Dixon riverfront Saturday afternoon.
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Oregon teen Adam McFalls said he needs to get a bit stronger before trying to take over the gym at Ukulele Station America. Confused? So were many Online extra other Sauk Valley residents, Read this story at until they delved into the saukvalley.com smartphone app craze that is to hear from players Pokemon Go. trying to catch ‘em There are no weights in all with the free app this gym. Just elegant, four- Pokemon Go. stringed instruments and dozens of books full of tablature that owner John Lindhorst just got in stock. GO continued on A104
Plenty of people are poking around the Sauk Valley, looking for digital denizens of a game that’s exploded in popularity – but more importantly, they’re spending time outside, and spending time together
The Pokemon Go gamer’s view of the Ukulele Station America in Oregon. The business is known as Cottage Home, a Pokestop Gym, in the game. Shop owner John Lindhorst is unlike many business owners, and welcomes all the gamers who walk by or stand near his shop, or even come inside to check out his ukuleles.
We’ve all got a couple of days to tackle the outdoor portion of our honey-do-lists before things really start to heat up. The temperatures through Wednesday won’t crack 90, according to the National Weather Service’s Quad Cities office, and the dew point will hover near 70 percent. On Thursday, the heat will be on, to the tune of highs in the mid-90s, and the heat index could touch 100. “Both Thursday and Friday could be dangerous,” said David Cousins, a meteoInside rologist in It was pretty the Quad hot around Cities NWS here back in office. 1866, too. He said As a matthe humidity, expected ter of fact, it was so hot, to be in the “anything but upper-60s, f l u c t u a t e s , salamanders would have and can thus completely be deceiving, peyuncked.” whereas the Editorials dew point is a much better from Yestergauge. That year: Page A6. dew point Dear Abby will be in the weighs in on mid-70s until the weather: a front comes Page A7 through late Friday and drops the dew point back into the upper-60s. “The dew point is that constant presence of moisture in the air, and what makes it feel so hot and miserable,” Cousins said. To put the incoming heat into perspective, in order for temperatures to get into the 100s, the dew point actually has to be “pretty dry,” Cousins said. So, 95 degrees with a 75-percent dew point is about as hot and heavy as the air gets. The heat wave will spend the next couple of days building up as it crosses the central plains. FORECAST
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DIXON | WATER MAIN BREAK
City caught a bad break, but it could have been worse Repairs could take up to 3 weeks, but mayor says city is lucky they didn’t take longer BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN cheimerman@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5523 CHeimerman_SVM
DIXON – The bad news is it’s likely to take about 3 weeks to fix the broken water main that’s clogging up traffic in downtown Dixon. The good news? It could’ve been much worse,
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Mayor Li Arellano Jr. said. Ground-penetration radar equipment was brought in Tuesday to determine the scope of the damage caused when the main in the 100 block of South Galena Avenue broke around 8 a.m. July 17. The runoff’s width affected all four lanes of Galena Avenue, causing alarm. ABBY.................... A7 COMICS................ A9 CROSSWORD.......B6
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“But it wasn’t nearly as deep as we thought it might have been, meaning the repairs needed aren’t nearly as extensive as we feared,” Arellano said. “It’s not good, but we were expecting worse. It’s fortunate that the runoff didn’t finger like we thought it might have. We could have been looking at it taking at least a month to fix.” BREAK continued on A54 OPINION............... A6 POLICE................. A2 STATE................... A8
Today’s weather High 85. Low 66. More on A3.
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