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Candidate challenges petitions Electoral board must decide whether incumbents filled out petition properly

BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN cheimerman@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5523 CHeimerman_SVM

MORRISON – A three-member electoral board must decide whether two

members of the Sterling school board can remain on the April 4 election ballot.

Former board member Gonzalo Reyes, who also served as vice president, filed an objection Dec. 28 challenging the

petitions filed by Terry McGuire and Marc A. Geil, who are both seeking another 4-year term.

Reyes, who has hired a lawyer, contends that neither McGuire nor Geil specified whether they were running for

a 4- or 2-year term; specified whether they were running to represent the Sterling Township or outlying townships; or listed the legal name of the district: Community Unit School District #5.

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Veterans park project gains ground City agrees to let group use land

BY PAM EGGEMEIER peggemeier@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5570 @pam_eggemeier

ROCK FALLS – The committee making plans for a veterans memorial park along the riverfront has a land-use agreement with the city in writing.

The City Council approved a resolution Tuesday giving the Rock Falls Veterans Memorial Committee permission to use city property in the RB&W District for its project.

The committee has affiliated itself with the Rock Falls Community Development Corporation, giving organizers the nonprofit status needed for its fundraising efforts.

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Lee County Health Department administrator Cathy Ferguson listens to her Whiteside County counterpart, Beth Fiorini, speak Tuesday during a PRISM of Lee County meeting in Dixon. PRISM is a collaborative community service provider working to provide help and treatment for addiction and mental health issues.

Photos by Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.com

ABOVE: The stockings aren’t hung by the chimney with care any more, and neither are the Christmas decorations in Rock Falls.

City workers were out and about Tuesday afternoon, removing wreaths, lights and other ornaments that decked the halls.

Here, Don Cassidy of the city’s Electric Department uses a bucket truck to remove a wreath from a light pole downtown. But fear not, fans of the festive holiday, things will start getting merry again before you know it. After all, there are only 354 days until Christmas. RIGHT: Stephen Pleskovitch of the Coloma Park District takes down a string of Christmas lights Tuesday afternoon at John W. Bowman Family Park along the Rock River in Rock Falls.

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Calls for help are increasing

Crisis prevention team formed to find reason behind the rise

BY ASHLEY CADY acady@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5521 @ashleycady_svm

DIXON – The irony of the most wonderful time of the year correlating with an uptick in suicide-related reports is not one that’s lost on mental health professionals.

Sometimes, though, the reasons aren’t as obvious, nor are the symptoms.

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IN BRIEF

Chief: house fire was accidental

Rockford man killed at hotel on New Year’s Day

DuPage deputy shoots, kills man after altercation

ROCKFORD (AP) – Authorities have identified a Rockford man who was shot dead during a fight at a hotel early on New Year’s Day. The Rockford Register Star reports that the Winnebago County Coroner’s Office pronounced 34-year-old Joshua Jamerson dead at 5:35 a.m. Sunday at the side of the Cliffbreakers Riverside Hotel and Conference Center where he was found. Three others were shot and injured in the same incident. Police said one victim was critically wounded and two others suffered non-life threatening injuries.

Jamerson’s death is the first homicide of the year in Rockford.

VILLA PARK (AP) – Authorities say a man has been fatally shot after getting into an altercation with a sheriff’s deputy in suburban Chicago.

The DuPage County sheriff’s office says in a statement that the deputy responded Monday to a reported violent domestic incident near the community of Villa Park and the man was wounded in an “officerinvolved shooting.” He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The man’s name wasn’t immediately confirmed by authorities.

Illinois State Police are handling the investigation at the request of officials from DuPage County.

BY ASHLEY CADY acady@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5521 @ashleycady_svm

DIXON – No injuries were reported in a house fire Monday morning.

The Dixon City Fire Department responded to a call of a house fire at 1617 W. Fourth St. just after 9 a.m. Dixon Police were already on the scene and had helped a female resident from the home.

Firefighters then entered the house and extinguished the fire.

The living room, where the fire started, suffered the most damage, but much of the rest of the house took smoke and heat damage. Fire Chief Tim Shipman said damages could exceed

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Firefighters enter the home at 1617 W. Fourth St., Dixon, where a fire started in the living room Monday morning and caused about $25,000 in damage, according to Dixon City Fire Chief Tim Shipman. No one was injured. $25,000.

The cause of the inci-

dent was accidental, he said.

Dixon Rural firefighters and Advance EMS assisted.

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Correction A question in Miranda Long’s Q&A for the Rock Falls High School December Student of the Month profile should have read: “What is one thing in your life you can’t do without?”

(Her answer: “My faith”).

The word “can’t” was omitted from the question in Tuesday’s editions.

We regret the error.

POLICE Sterling Police Brad W. James, 34, of Sterling; 4:28 p.m. Monday at West Seventh Street and Avenue I; operating uninsured vehicle, driving while using an electronic device; given state citation.

Michael E. Finney, 31, of Sterling; 8:42 p.m. Monday at East Fifth Street and Ninth Avenue; improper lane usage and driving while license suspended; given state citation and notice to appear in court.

Thomas R. Slock, 36, of Manlius; 11:45 a.m. Monday at East Fifth Street and Second Avenue; suspended registra-

tion for no insurance; given state citation.

Kathleen S. Know, 60, of Prophetstown; 12:36 p.m.

Monday at East Fifth Street and 12th Avenue; failure to wear a seat belt; given state citation.

Daniel E. Walker, 21, of Rock Falls; 9:02 p.m. Monday at West First Street and First Avenue in Rock Falls; disobeying a stop sign; given state citation.

Rock Falls Police

Eleanor C. Evenson, 38, of Rock Falls; 6:09 p.m. Friday in the 300 block of Sixth Avenue; Whiteside County warrant – failure to appear; posted bond.

Blanca A. Lopez, 26, of Rock Falls; 4:21 p.m. Friday in the 1000 block of Seventh Avenue; Ogle County warrant – failure to appear; posted bond.

Kyle M. Cooper, 27, of Rock Falls; 3 a.m. Friday in the 500 block of Second Avenue; battery; given notice to appear in court.

Jordan T. Woosley, 25, of Rock Falls; 1:49 p.m. Friday in the 1900 block of First Avenue; driving while license suspended, Whiteside County warrant – failure to appear; given notice to appear in court.

Joshua D. Knowles, 34, of Rock Falls; 11:24 a.m. Friday at 10th Street and Fifth Avenue; no valid driver’s license; given notice to appear in court.

Jenny Kay Duden, 25, of Rock Falls; 3:07 p.m. Friday at West 19th Street and First Avenue; unlawful use of a cell phone; given notice to appear in court.

Kerry K. Church, 25, of

Rock Falls; 7:11 p.m. Friday at U.S. Route 30 and First Avenue; failure to yield at an intersection; given notice to appear in court.

Matthew W. Kornewald, 38, of Sterling; 7:37 p.m.

Saturday in the 1600 block of Wike Drive; Ogle, Whiteside and Winnebago county warrants – failure to appear; taken to Whiteside County Jail.

Corrine M. Gibson, 23, of Sheffield; 10:46 a.m. Saturday at First Avenue and 12th Street; unlawful use of a cell phone; given notice to appear in court.

Jennifer S. Haselwander, 29, of Tampico; Saturday at First Avenue and West Second Street; unlawful use of a cell phone; given notice to appear in court.

Kara J. Roberts, 19, of Rock Falls; 7:23 p.m. Saturday at U.S. Route 30 and Seventh Avenue; disobeying a stop sign; given notice to appear in court.

Donna L. Fullington, 44, of Sterling; 11:42 p.m. Sunday at Fourth Street and Avenue C; driving while license suspended and operating a vehicle with suspended registration; given notice to appear in court.

Jason J. Witmer, 35, of Sterling; 3:42 p.m. Sunday in the 700 block of 11th Avenue; driving while license suspended and operating an uninsured motor vehicle; given notice to appear in court.

Karina R. Huaracha, 19, of Sterling; 12:53 p.m. Sunday in the 1200 block of First Avenue; speeding; given notice to appear in court.

Dixon Police

Andolino L. Mendez, 22, of

Elgin; 2:50 p.m. Monday on South Hennepin Avenue; Lee County warrant – domestic battery (subsequent offense), domestic battery, battery and criminal trespass to a residence; taken to Lee County Jail.

John M. Worley, 22, of Dixon; 11:23 p.m. Monday in the 500 block of West Third Street; possession of cannabis under 10 grams and operating an uninsured vehicle; given city ordinance citation and notice to appear in court.

Tiffany M. Briggs, 25, of Dixon; 7:41 p.m. Monday in the 800 block of West First Street; Bureau County and Henry County warrants – failure to appear; taken to Lee County Jail.

Frank Kroksen, 22, of Dixon; 8 p.m. Monday in the 800 block of West First Street; possession of drug paraphernalia; given city ordinance citation.

Kalee Hutson, 22, of Polo; 11:50 p.m. Monday in the 500 block of West Third Street; possession of drug paraphernalia; given city ordinance citation.

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Brian D. Sisson, 42, of Dixon; 9:30 p.m. Dec. 21 in the 400 block of Gale Street; driving while license revoked; taken to Ogle County Jail.

Ada G. Estrella, 34, of Stillman Valley; 6:41 p.m. Dec. 23 in the 700 block of North River Road; operating an uninsured motor vehicle; given state citation.

Zachary L. Stanley, 33, of Oregon; 1 a.m. Dec. 24; Ogle County warrant for failure to

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ComEd personnel said a vehicle hit a pole, bringing a wire down at 10:48 a.m. at Bunker Hill and Yeager roads.

About 3,500 ComEd customers were affected in Mount Pleasant Township, with all power restored by 11:41 a.m.

Whiteside County Sheriff’s Lt. John Booker said no one was hurt in the crash.

School district staff said no students were sent home because of the outage.

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Ricky Rippy, 18, of Polo; 11:04 a.m. Friday in the 6000 block of South Freeport Road; no valid driver’s license and driving while license suspended; held in Ogle County Jail in lieu of bond.

Christopher R. Cannone, 30, of Woodstock; Friday; Ogle County warrant – failure to appear.

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Kayla White of Whitehurst, Wisconsin; Saturday; failure to appear; posted bond.

Hans Polcher, 67, of Belvidere; 11:03 a.m. Sunday in the 1800 block of South Harmony Road; driving while license revoked; held in Ogle County Jail in lieu of bond.

Steven R. Cooper, 45, of Rockford; 4:02 p.m. Monday in the 800 block of state Route 251 North; no valid driver’s license, driving without lights when required and a Rockford County warrant.

Jason L. Bennett, 47, of Rockford; 4:02 p.m. Monday in the 800 block of state Route 251 North; Ogle County warrant – driving while license suspended.

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Adam C. Rodriguez, 31, of Sterling; 9:24 p.m. Dec. 24 in the 100 block of South Fourth Street; operating an uninsured motor vehicle; given state citation.

Tyler W. Hammer, 31, of Mount Morris; 10:16 p.m. Dec. 24 in the 400 block of North Fourth Street; operating an uninsured motor vehicle; given state citation.

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Dec. 25; runaway; released to parents Dana L. Anderson, 61, of Oregon; 8 p.m. on Wednesday; operating an uninsured motor vehicle; given state citation Angelina D. Whaley, 21, of Stillman Valley; 3:35 p.m.

Thursday in the 400 block of South Fourth Street; operating a motor vehicle with revoked registration; given state citation.

Boy, 16, of Oregon; 1:45 a.m. Friday; curfew violation; released to guardians.

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ERIE SCHOOL DISTRICT

Vote will decide fate of $21.5 million project Superintendent: Neither board, nor community, must vote unanimously for campus overhaul approval

BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN cheimerman@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5523 CHeimerman_SVM

ERIE – The school board doesn’t need a unanimous vote tonight to put a referendum on the ballot for a proposed $21.5 million campus overhaul on the April ballot – not even in the district superintendent’s opinion. “[A unanimous vote is] not important,” Bradley Cox said Tuesday morning – though he does hope, at least, for a decisive vote. “Hopefully it wouldn’t be a 4-3 vote, but having a 7-0 vote is not crucial.”

Ultimately, he said, it’s the public’s vote that counts. “You’re putting it on the ballot for the public to decide, and the school board is an accurate reflection of the community.”

“If we go to the polls, it won’t be 100 percent yes or 100 percent no,” he said.

The April 4 ballot measure would ask voters’ permission to issue bonds Bradley to consoliCox date from four to two buildings, all while adding 13,700 square feet of space and modernizing learning spaces.

The proposal calls for the 62-year-old, dilapidated elementary school building to be leveled, for grades 6 through 12 to move to the middle school, and lower grades to shift to the high school.

All the details are subject to change but, hypothetically, if the district were to use $6.5 million from reserves, $4 million in sales tax revenue, and issue $11 million in bonds over 10 years, the project would cost the owner of a $125,000 home $189 annually.

School board member Charles Brown,

The proposal

Cost (at $250/square foot): $14,475,000 Renovation: 3,000 square feet Cost (at $125/square foot): $375,000 Phase 3: Demolition of elementary school, district office and part of Annex • Annex continues to house district offices and gym space • Elementary school site repurposed as green space, parking, whatever best fits long-term needs

Erie School District administration shared the nuts and bolts of a proposed facility reorganization plan at the Dec. 12 meeting: Phase 1: High school renovation Space affected: 9,000 square feet Cost (at $125/square foot): $1,125,000 Phase 2: Middle school addition/ renovation New construction: 57,900 square feet most notably, spoke out against the proposal at the Dec. 12 meeting, citing enrollment concerns, as well as what must be done with the elementary school in the interim.

He called the process a “rush session.”

“We’ve got to fix that [elementary school] building for 2 years for sure,” Brown said. “What we can do by waiting a year is bring everything to the table in a good fashion.”

Board member Tammy Tegeler said the condition of the building

Loss of square footage: 44,200 Phase 4: Civil engineering Outdoor projects, including parking lots, driveways, bus/parent drop-offs, track rehabilitation Cost: $750,000 Phase 5: HVAC updates High school: Boiler, cooling tower, heat pumps, controls: $2,000,000 Middle school: Boiler consolidation, unit vents, rooftop units, controls: $2,000,000

Next meeting

The Erie school board will next meet at 6:30 p.m. today in the board room at Erie Middle School, 500 Fifth Ave. Visit ecusd.info or call 309-659-2239 for agendas and more information, and visit ecusd.info/one-vision for more information about the facilities planning. doesn’t afford the district that luxury of time.

“If they took a tour, people would be shocked,” she said.

Brown lamented poor public attendance during forums held by BLDD, the architecture firm the district consulted with while weighing multiple consolidation

options.

Three days after that board meeting, Dec. 17, the board voted – not unanimously – to approve the district’s contract with BLDD. “It’s a huge positive that the board has an architectural contract approved,” Cox said.

“It’s kind of hard to move

forward without that.”

Board President Chad Miner stressed to Brown the importance of a cohesive board, but Cox said Tuesday that debate is welcome – encouraged, really.

If the board votes down the referendum, though, Cox said it would be far-fetched for members to re-rack, make adjustments and vote it through by Jan. 17 – the deadline to get the measure on the spring consolidated election ballot.

“We’ll cross that bridge when we get there,” Cox said, “if we get there.”

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IN BRIEF

Here comes the sun power? Not for a while

Duckworth sworn in as U.S. senator

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DIXON – It could be another 2 or 3 years before a solar farm comes to the Dixon Municipal Airport.

The City Council reviewed the findings of an airport feasibility study in October that gave recommendations on how to make the facility a more sustainable operation, including generating more revenue by leasing a portion of land to a company to develop a solar farm.

City Manager Cole O’Donnell said that after contacting energy companies that might be interested in the land, he found it could take a couple of years of cutting through red tape before the project could happen.

The city will need to draft a new airport layout plan with the Federal Aviation Administration that would declare the acreage as excess land before a longterm lease can be made for a solar farm.

In the meantime, the council approved a lease Tuesday for Dixon resident Rick Humphrey to farm 98 acres of airport land from Jan. 15 through Nov. 30.

The City Council next meets at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 17 at City Hall, 121 W. Second St. Go to discoverdixon.org or call City Hall at 815-2881485 for an agenda or more information.

The lease is for $280.82 an acre, which would total about $24,600 for the year.

O’Donnell said the city’s previous lease was for about $260 an acre.

Because of certain FAA restrictions on the types and heights of crops that can be grown, they expected to receive bids between $250 and $300 an acre.

Humphrey, a Lee County Board member, said he plans to grow sweet corn on the land.

Fargo Creek plan The council also decided to wait and look for more bids before hiring a firm to complete an emergency action plan for the Fargo Creek dam.

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources required the city to create an emergency plan in 2015 for the dam, which temporarily detains water and helps control floodwaters.

O’Donnell said the

IDNR could revoke the city’s dam permit if no plan is in place – leaving the city liable for damage if it breaks – but it’s unlikely the dam could fail.

“I don’t think there’s ever going to be enough pressure put on it so that it would fail,” he said.

Willett, Hofmann & Associates bid about $28,500 for the project and would use data from the creek’s last study 30 years ago. Rock Islandbased Veenstra & Kimm Inc., which is conducting a current study of the creek to identify weak areas, bid $47,880.

Using outdated data could increase the number of residents the city would have to alert during an emergency, but it wouldn’t affect flood plain mapping, he said.

Mayor Li Arellano Jr. said saving about $20,000 and having to alert more residents would be an easy trade-off.

Councilman Kevin Marx

said the price still seemed high for the work.

“I’m not sure it’s worth $28,000,” he said.

Dixon One The council will hold off until its next meeting to vote on a lease agreement for Dixon One to move into 87 S. Hennepin Ave and merge the Dixon Area Chamber of Commerce with Dixon Main Street and Dixon Tourism.

The city has budgeted $50,000 for improvements to the building, and the Dixon One organization would pay a monthly rent of $850 for 5 years, which would go into a maintenance fund for the property.

Arellano said those included in the merger are still looking over the lease agreement.

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CHICAGO (AP) – Vice President Joe Biden has sworn in Tammy Duckworth as Illinois’ new U.S. senator at a ceremony in Washington.

Duckworth’s press secretary, Sean Savett, says U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois escorted AP Duckworth to the Tuesday afternoon Vice President Joe Biden ceremony. Savett shakes hands with Sen. says Duckworth Tammy Duckworth, during a and the vice presi- mock swearing-in ceremony dent also did a tra- on Tuesday in the Old Senditional recreation ate Chamber on Capitol Hill in of the ceremony Washington. shortly afterward and her family, including her 2-year-old daughter Abigail and her husband Bryan were there.

Duckworth is a Democratic two-term representative from Hoffman Estates. She defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk in the November general election. Duckworth is the second woman to represent Illinois in the U.S. Senate.

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OBITUARIES Angie Springer ROCK FALLS – Angie Springer, 93, of Rock Falls, died Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, at Liberty Court in Dixon.

Angie was born Nov. 20, 1923, in Tampa, Florida, the daughter of John and Matilda Garcia. She married Bernard Lepianka on Sept. 16, 1945, in Tampa.

She later married Carl Springer on March 12, 1983, in Rock Falls. She was a secretary for the city of Rock Falls for 12 years.

Survivors include her husband, Carl of Rock Falls; one daughter, Agnes Rolen of Naperville; two stepdaughters, Carlotta Mitchell of Rock Falls and Andrea (Darrell) Clum of Tulsa, Okla-

homa; two stepsons, Bob Springer of southern Illinois and David (Donna) Springer of Dixon; one granddaughter, Amber Rolen of Roselle; several step-grandchildren; and several step-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Bernard Lepianka; her parents; and her brother, Manuel Garcia.

Private burial will be at Evergreen Memory Garden in Kewanee.

McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls is handling arrangements.

Visit mcdonaldfuneralhomes.com to send condolences.

Linda L. Renois ROCK FALLS – Linda L. Renois, 71, died Friday, Dec. 30, 2016.

A celebration of life service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Sterling.

Memorials to the family may be sent to Emmanuel Baptist Church, 1904 18th Ave., Sterling, in care of Dennis Renois.

McDonald Funeral Home & Crematory is handling arrangements.

Mary J. Clinker DIXON – Mary Jane Clinker, 87, of Dixon, died Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, at Heritage Square in Dixon.

Jones Funeral Home in Dixon is handling arrangements.

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Bill N. Feather STERLING – Bill N. Feather, 72, died Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, at his home, after a long battle with cancer.

Bill was born March 10, 1944, in Sims, the son of Noel and Opal (Lamb) Feather Sr. He graduated in 1962 from Sterling High School and served in the Army from 1963 to 1966, stationed in Germany.

Bill enjoyed his time in Germany and was able to tour all of Europe in the summer, playing on the Army tennis team. He married Sandy Fulfs on May 27, 1966, in Sterling.

Bill was in the insurance business all of his life. In 1972, Clayton and Bob Schuneman asked Bill to join them in their agency. Bill purchased the agency from the Schunemans when they left the business. Later, Ron Hartz joined him and they worked together at Schuneman Insurance Agency (SIA) until they retired. Bill had an open-door policy and loved talking and laughing with people. We all

remember his infectious laugh. Bill loved golf, and after he retired he played whenever he was able.

Survivors include his wife, Sandy; daughter, Kelli Feather-Henigan of Winnebago; son, Shane Feather of Rock Falls; sisters, Jean Pearson of Tavares, Florida, and Dolores (Rusty) Fulfs of Bolingbrook; brothers, Donald Ellis of Mount Vernon and Noel (Sue) Feather of Sterling; two grandsons, Garret and Hunter Henigan of Winnebago; and many wonderful nieces and nephews.

He loved little ones the most.

He was preceded in death by his parents, and a brother, Gerald in infancy.

Visitation will be from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at Schilling Funeral Home & Cremation in Sterling. Cremation rites have been accorded.

A memorial has been established.

Visit schillingfuneralhome.com to send condolences.

John E. ‘Jack’ Fane III

DIXON – John Edward “Jack” Fane III, 77, of Dixon, died Monday, Jan. 2, 2017, at Aperion Care in Amboy.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at PresDale Endress ton-Schilling Funeral Home in Dixon. The funeral will MOUNT CARROLL – Dale Endress, 76, of Mount be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Further Carroll, died Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016, at Stephenson arrangements are being completed.

County Nursing Center in Freeport.

Visit prestonschillingfuneralhome.com to send conLaw-Jones Funeral Home is handling arrangements. dolences.

▼ Today’s funeral: Darlene Eich of Paw Paw, 11 a.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Compton. ▼ Saturday funerals:​ Linda L. Renois, of Rock Falls; 11 a.m. celebration of life at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Sterling.

Arlene M. Blum of Polo, 1 p.m. Memorial Mass at St. Mary Catholic Church in Polo. ▼ Sunday visitation: Bill N. Feather of Sterling, 11:30-2 p.m. at Schilling Funeral Home of

Sterling. ▼ Jan. 13 visitation: Lucien Kroll “Skip” Laswell, of Byron; 5 to 7 p.m. at Farrell-HollandGale Funeral Home in Byron, with rosary at 6:45 p.m. ▼ Jan. 14 funerals: Douglas Payne of Amboy, 4 p.m. celebration of life at Amboy Community Building.

Lucien Kroll “Skip” Laswell, of Byron; 10 a.m.

Mass of the Resurrection at St. Mary Catholic Church in Byron.

Arlene M. Blum POLO – Arlene M. Blum, 96, of Polo, died Friday, Dec. 23, 2016, at Polo Rehabilitation & Health Care Center. She farmed in Polo with her husband for more than 40 years.

Arlene was born Oct. 21, 1920, in Dixon, the daughter of Fred and Louise (Stanley) Odenthal. She married Byron Blum on Oct. 19, 1940 in Dixon. He preceded her in death on Jan. 25, 2004.

Arlene was a 60-year member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Polo.

Survivors include her daughter, Julene (Craig) Cheatham of Polo; sons, Larry (MaryEllen Garcia) Blum of Arizona and Michael Blum of Polo; sister, Gladys Osborne of Mount Morris; six grandchildren; seven greatgrandchildren; and nieces

and nephews.

She also was preceded in death by a daughter, Bonnie; daughter-inlaw, Carol Blum; sister, Helen Benson; brother, Frederick Odenthal; and brothers-in-law Hubert Osborne and Fred Benson.

A Memorial Mass will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at St. Mary Catholic Church in Polo, with the Rev. Richard Kramer officiating. Cremation rites have been accorded.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to St. Mary Catholic Church in Polo, or Polo Public Library Foundation.

Honoring Arlene’s wishes cremation rites have been accorded Visit polofamilyfuneralhome.com to send condolences.

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On Tuesday, a crisis prevention team made up of Lee County agencies met to tackle tough topics in search of the answers to questions surrounding mental illness, depression and suicide, and a recent increase in reports of suicide-related activity.

Law enforcement agencies, the State’s Attorney’s Office, KSB Hospital, Sinnissippi Centers, Lee County Health Department and the National Alliance on Mental Illness are working to identify red flags, such as people not showing up to appointments, not taking medications, and showing a noticeable deterioration in their condition.

“[Mental illness] should be considered an illness like diabetes,” said Cathy Ferguson, administrator for the Lee County Health Department and member of PRISM of Lee County.

Lee County Sheriff John Simonton said callers reporting suicide-related activity are getting younger, adding that the generational gap could be the cause. He said young people expecting more out of life sooner can slip into depression – or further into it – when things don’t work out as quickly as they’d hoped.

Fortunately, the number of suicides haven’t increased along with the number of calls, according to county coroners in Lee and Whiteside counties.

Simonton said the holi-

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days could be behind the rise of calls, and that symptoms of depression and anxiety can increase because of factors such as others’ heartwarming and happy social media posts, or the financial strain of not being able to provide gifts.

Mary Brokaw, president of the local NAMI chapter, said the risk of suicide increases by 50 percent for people suffering from depression, and noted that 90 percent of people who commit suicide have at least one mental disorder.

Sinnissippi Centers President/ CEO Patrick Phelan talks Tuesday about efforts being made to house people suffering from addiction and mental illnesses during a PRISM of Lee County meeting in Dixon, as Mary Brokaw, president of the local chapter of National Alliance on Mental Illness, listens.

Another big reason for a high volume of mental illness-related issues is that there is not enough room to treat patients.

Brokaw said the recommendation is to have 50 beds per 100,000 people; in Illinois, there are 9.5 beds per 100,000 people.

The next steps, according to Ferguson and Brokaw, include expanding treatment facilities in the area and lowering the incarceration rate of people affected by mental illness and incorporating them into society.

The biggest hurdle, they said, is getting the community aware of mental illness and the issues people suffering from it face.

Ferguson said a large part of the problem is fixing the stigma surrounding mental illness, and that people should not be afraid to seek help. PRISM plans to host a community forum in the spring to work toward that end.

“We’ve come a long way, but there is more work to be done,” Ferguson said.

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The committee has said the estimated $150,000 project would be paid for entirely with donations.

The memorial area would actually house two parks – one dedicated to veterans, police, fire and emergency medical service professionals, and the other to prisoners of war and veterans missing in action.

The memorial parks would be west of the city’s green space project near the Holiday Inn Express & Suites at 301 E. Second St. The area is also west of a ComEd utility easement, which has been an issue the city has been dealing with, in regard to riverfront construction.

“The power lines were over the old Reliant building,” Mayor Bill Wescott said. “It’s taken some time, but everything has been worked out with ComEd so we can all do what we need to do.”

The mayor said the issue has been resolved largely by slightly alter-

ing the construction plans to accommodate the utility.

While the memorial parks will be paid for entirely with donations, the city has offered to take care of the project’s electrical and maintenance needs.

“That will require another agreement, which we’ll do when they get their final plans in place,” Wescott said.

“This agreement, however, will allow them to do their fundraising.”

The council unanimously approved the land agreement, but Alderman Rod Kleckler thought it was lacking in details.

“I think there should be more in here,” Kleckler said. “What if they can’t come up with the money, or the scale of the project changes?”

The mayor said the final resolution will address specific project concerns.

“There will be no construction until they have all of their money,” Wescott said. “If they fall short on funds, we’ll have to address that later.”

Next meeting

The Rock Falls City Council next meets at 6:30 p.m.

Jan. 17 at City Hall, 603 W. 10th St. The agendas will be posted at rockfalls61071.net and at City Hall. Call 815-622-1100 for more information.

The council meeting also airs live on Channel 5.

Lift station work The council also ratified a pact with engineering firm Willett, Hofmann & Associates for additional work done at the main lift station at the city’s sewer plant.

The firm has agreed to pay the city $42,543.79 for new valves needed at the lift station. This is in addition to a 2015 settlement agreement that called for the firm to pay the city more than $815,000 to address problems at the plant.

The firm started working with the city on the sewer plant in 2008.

Soon after the lift station became operational in 2013, there was a series of electrical and mechanical

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The settlement agreement exempted the firm from paying any future claims at the sewer plant. The city, however, requested reimbursement for the valves, saying that the wrong type was used when the plant was built.

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In the pact, the firm doesn’t admit liability for the valve problem, but agreed to pay the city because of its “longstanding business relationship” with the city.

The firm has 14 days to pay the city.

Police and Fire Commission The city accepted the resignation of Darla Schryver as chairwoman of the Police and Fire Commission. Schryver’s resignation was effective Dec. 15, the date of the

last commission meeting. Commissioner Tim Lawrence was named chairman of the 3-member panel.

The council also approved the mayor’s appointee, Tim Cain, to fill the vacancy on the commission. Cain was in various positions with the Whiteside County Sheriff’s Department, working there 29 years before retiring. Cain started in probation services, and then was a patrol officer, sergeant, lieutenant, and chief deputy.

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“If I win this objection – and that’s a big if – they can run as write-in candidates, if they so choose,” Reyes said Tuesday afternoon.

“That right will not be denied to them.”

The electoral board consists of Whiteside County Clerk Dana Nelson, state’s attorney designee Tom Senneff, and Circuit Clerk Sue Costello.

Nelson said running as write-in candidates would be McGuire’s and Geil’s only option, should the panel rule their petitions invalid.

“Once they’re filed in our office and the filing period passes, they can’t be changed,” Nelson said.

The 5-day filing period closed Dec. 19.

If the electoral board rules the names can remain on the ballot, Reyes could appeal that decision to a circuit court.

The school board is made up of four members from the congressional township with between 75 and 90 percent of the district’s population, and three from the district’s other townships.

Reyes, McGuire and Geil are running for two

Visit shawurl.com/2z41 to read Gonzalo Reyes’ objection to Sterling school board members Terry McGuire and Marc A. Geil’s petitions.

Visit shawurl.com/2z42 to read the board members’ petitions.

Visit shawurl.com/2z3z and shawurl.com/2z40 to read the state statutes pertaining to petitions stating candidacy for office.

To attend

A public hearing will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in Room 117 of the Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox St., Morrison, where a three-member panel will determine whether two Sterling school board members’ names will remain on the April 4 election ballot.

Visit whiteside.org or call 815-772-5189 for more information. open seats representing Sterling Township, while board President Jim Brotheridge and Pamela Capes are running for seats representing other townships.

Sarah Nitz filed to fill the unexpired-term seat she took in 2015, when no one ran to fill 12-year board member Gail Dancey’s seat.

When no candidates, whether having filed by the deadline or later filed as a write-in candidate, run for a seat, it’s up to the school board to open up a search and appoint a new member.

“The reality is that if Terry McGuire’s and Marc Geil’s names were taken off the ballot, there would be one candidate running for two open positions,” said

Tad Everett, superintendent of the Sterling school district. “We just dealt with that 2 years ago.”

Such an objection marks uncharted waters for both Nelson and Everett, who’s in his ninth year as superintendent.

“This is my first time going through this,” Nelson said.

Electoral gamesmanship is anything but unprecedented, though. On Dec. 22, a three-member panel agreed to strike Moline mayoral candidates Stephanie Acri and Bob Vogelbaugh from the ballot, simply because they didn’t number the pages on their nominating petitions.

After serving 10 years

on the school board, as well as being vice president and chairman of the Finance Committee, Reyes stepped down from his seat on the board in August 2011 to become an art teacher at Challand Middle School, a position he still holds. He also was a divisional president of the Northwest Division of Illinois Association of School Boards.

After checking out McGuire’s and Geil’s petitions at the courthouse – as any member of the public may do within 5 days of the filing period’s close – Reyes consulted the IASB website to determine whether the incumbents had followed the letter of state statute.

McGuire and Geil had filed for Board of Education Member and School Board Member, respectively, whereas Reyes contends they should have specified which seats they were seeking. The incumbents wrote they were running for those seats in Sterling and Sterling CUSD #5, respectively, and Reyes said they were required to write Community Unit School District #5.

McGuire and Geil could not be reached for comment.

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Just be careful with that gavel; this coin’s made out of glass FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – Faced with a copper shortage at the beginning of World War II, the U.S. Mint authorized experiments to make pennies from other metals, plastic and rubber.

A Tennessee company made some from glass and failed so spectacularly that only one known unbroken AP penny remains – and it is scheduled to be auctioned This prototype for a Thursday. Another bro- glass U.S. penny was ken piece is also known to manufactured as a posexist. sible alternative to copThe Fort Lauderdale- per during WWII. based Heritage Auctions will conduct in-person and online bidding for the coin that it hopes will exceed $30,000.

The coin is owned by Roger Burdette, who wrote a book about World War II experimental coins and purchased the piece during a small online auction last summer “for several thousand dollars.”

After the U.S. entered the war in late 1941, the military needed most of the nation’s copper to make ammunition and equipment. The U.S. Mint handed out dies to companies willing to make experimental, uncirculated pennies as it tried to find a suitable replacement.

The Blue Ridge Glass Co., a Kingsport, Tennessee, manufacturer that no longer exists, made an unknown number of pennies from a hardened, yellow-amber glass.

Burdette, a retired Potomac Falls, Virginia, technical researcher, says that according to a report the company filed with the Mint, the glass coins didn’t have the precise images needed and couldn’t be made a uniform size and weight. The coins also developed sharp edges that could cut fingers.

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Good luck to Sen. Duckworth What we think The Land of Lincoln got a new U.S. senator this week. Best of luck to U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth.

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llinoisans got a new has turned over more freU.S. senator on Tues- quently than the seat that day. longtime U.S. Sen. Dick That’s when Tammy Durbin, D-Springfield, Duckworth, 48, a Hoffholds. man Estates Democrat, In fact, Duckworth is was sworn in to the 10th person succeed one-term to hold it since Republican U.S. 1951, when Everett Sen. Mark Kirk.

McKinley Dirksen Duckworth is a was first sworn in. war hero who has Upon Dirksen’s overcome the loss death in 1969, of two legs from Ralph Tyler Smith U.S. Sen. combat injuries in was named to the Tammy Iraq in 2004 to conSenate seat.

Duckworth tinue serving the Following Smith public, first in an appoint- were Adlai E. Stevenson ive governmental capac(1970), Alan J. Dixon ity, and later as a member (1981), Carol Moseley of the U.S. House from Braun (1993), Peter suburban Chicago.

Fitzgerald (1999), Barack That region is where Obama (2005), Roland Duckworth is better Burris (2009) and Mark known. In downstate Kirk (2010). rural sections of the state, By comparison, she might not be so well Durbin’s seat has had known. relatively little turnover; We encourage her to only four people – Paul alleviate that deficiency Douglas, Charles Percy, by reaching out to her Paul Simon and Durbin – new constituents, listenhave held it since 1949. ing to them, and repreNow it’s Duckworth’s senting the needs of all turn to represent IlliIllinoisans, regardless of noisans to the best of party or region, to the her ability in the U.S. best of her ability.

Senate.

The seat she now holds We wish her good luck.

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Response to citizen inquiry on openness ERIC ARDUINI Rock Falls

In response to the letter to the editor [“More openness for city contact numbers, please”] published Dec. 20, the Rock Falls City Clerk’s office has contacted the area phone books to try to get the direct extensions and phone numbers for city offices changed.

The phone books have been unwilling to make the requested changes.

The city of Rock Falls has listed the phone numbers of all of the aldermen for each ward on the city website for years. On the same page as the aldermen’s phone numbers, a map of the city can be found illustrating the boundaries of each ward.

Note to readers: Eric Arduini is Rock Falls city clerk.

Prays Trump will listen to wise advisers VIRGINIA RAY Fulton

I have always been proud to be an American.

As a second-generation American, I think I take my citizenship more seriously than many others probably do. That is why I am so concerned about the future of my country.

Donald Trump has bought his way to our presidency. Basically, there is nothing wrong with that. He has also

bought beautiful wives.

That is not against the law, either.

He is rude and uses socially unacceptable language in public. That kind of behavior will hurt him when he expects to be treated with the dignity shown to other leaders. I doubt that he will ever learn that one must prove himself worthy of the respect of others.

I am well aware of the potentially dangerous relations our nation will be facing with other countries. Trump has admitted that he avoided paying taxes for nearly 20 years – taxes that we pay to provide highways, bridges, education, police and military protection for the benefit of all citizens.

Those of us who did pay our share of taxes not only paid the salaries, housing, and nourishment of our military personnel, but we also paid for military equipment – tanks, planes, ships and the fuel required to run them.

Trump also avoided the draft and any opportunity to serve his country in any military manner. He was granted student deferments and also a medical deferment because of heel spurs. And now this unique personality is going to be installed as our commander in chief.

I pray that Donald Trump will surround himself with sensible, wise people, and that he will take their views seriously. I doubt that will happen. Did you notice that his choice for secretary of education is someone who has never attended a public school?

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Wealth aside, Rauner vulnerable Madigan won’t scottREEDER Reeder give him any wins Scott is a veteran Springfield in Legislature to statehouse journalist run on in 2018 who has SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Bruce Rauner is loaded for bear.

We are 2 years out from the 2018 elections, and he deposited $50 million into his own campaign coffers. Why so much, so soon?

He’s sending a message.

Whatever Democrat considers taking him on will be attacked relentlessly.

In 2014, when Rauner was elected, he spent $65 million.

Rauner, an ultra-rich venture capitalist, has money to burn. And the person it will scorch is whatever Democrat takes him on.

Mike Madigan, who heads the Democratic Party and is about as popular statewide as tooth decay, is busy recruiting liberal gazillionaires to meet the challenge.

There is Chris Kennedy, the son of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy, and then there is J.B. Pritzker, an heir of the Hyatt hotel fortune. Both men, unlike Rauner, were born to great wealth.

It will be interesting if either of these fellows

covered government for almost 30 years.

run. Somehow, I doubt it.

Why? Whoever challenges Rauner should expect to be attacked relentlessly. If you are a rich guy living a comfortable life, why would you put yourself through that? And it’s worth noting that neither Kennedy nor Pritzker have ever run for office before.

The interesting thing is that despite his loaded campaign coffers, Bruce Rauner is vulnerable.

FIRST OF ALL, midterm elections almost always favor the party that doesn’t hold the White House. And given the animosity Democratic voters hold toward Donald Trump, particularly in blue states like Illinois, Rauner will likely be swimming against the tide.

It doesn’t mean he will drown, but it will be a tougher race than when he first captured the Executive Mansion.

And I make that statement reluctantly. Of all of

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put up with it.

While they may agree with much of what Rauner is trying to accomplish – term limits, independent redistricting and lower property taxes – they may view Rauner as the more expendable part of the equation in ending the strife in Springfield.

Yes, Rauner is vulnerable.

I ANTICIPATE THE next 2 years of the Rauner administration will look pretty much like the last 2. The state will fall further behind in paying its bills, and we will go 4 years straight without a state budget.

The majority in the Legislature will do everything it can to block any Rauner endeavor.

And don’t be surprised if state workers go on strike in the middle of this chaos.

Madigan, who collects power the way some grandmothers collect buttons, has every interest in continuing to stir the chaos. After all, Rauner is a threat to his power.

Note to readers: Scott Reeder is a veteran statehouse journalist. He works as a freelance reporter in the Springfield area and can be reached at ScottReeder1965@ gmail.com.

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the governors who have served in my lifetime, he comes the closest to matching my own libertarian ideology.

I want government out of my wallet and out of our private lives.

But Illinoisans are weary of the constant war between Madigan and Rauner.

Rauner views his election as a voter indictment of the longtime political boss, who he blames for Illinois’ fiscal ills.

And he’s right for blaming Madigan. But Rauner has done a poor job of messaging about why he is engaged in this struggle. I’ve covered every governor since James R. Thompson, and this administration has done the worst job by far of sharing its vision for the state.

Because of this, voters view this conflict as a personality clash between two egos rather than a conflict between divergent political philosophies.

Madigan is hell-bent on making sure Rauner has no successes to run on when he seeks re-election. And the people of Illinois are suffering for it.

Many voters have taken to viewing Madigan like mildew on the shower curtain. They don’t like it, but it’s hard to get rid of so they just

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Man feels abandoned by ex-girlfriend Dear Abby, I am a straight man who met and fell in love with a transgender girl I’ll call Eve. We dated for almost 3 years, and they were the happiest of my life.

In all that time, we never once had an argument.

She said I had given her the strength to come out to her family and begin her transition. I was planning to ask her to marry me.

Without any indication that anything was wrong, she dumped me one day and weeks later began dating her friend, another trans girl. I wanted to walk away and take time to heal, but Eve maintained that I was important to her and we could remain friends.

For the next few months we tried, but her new girlfriend treated me like I was a threat.

came to give a little back, I was abandoned. I’m worried I will never trust anyone again, and I don’t know how to get “myself” back. Can you help?

– Abandoned in West Virginia

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

While I was emotionally hurting, she seemed to take intense pleasure in showing me how happy they were together. It eventually led to friction, and now my ex thinks I caused it because I was jealous, so she cut off all contact with me.

I stood by her when she absolutely needed my support, but when the time

Dear Abandoned, It might help if you consider that there are more than physical changes when making the kind of transition Eve was undergoing, and she might have felt that her trans friend was better able to relate to what she was experiencing than you were. It was cowardly of her to just dump you rather than tell you she had doubts about your relationship, and it was selfish of her to pressure you to hang around as “just a friend” afterward. It also wasn’t realistic.

What you are feeling is normal. However, it might help you to move forward if you keep in mind that all women are not the same, and that building trust takes time. Give yourself time to heal before trying to replace Eve. Dear Abby, I am a 23-year-old woman who recently got out of a 6-year abusive relationship. While I was in the relationship, no one knew what was going on.

When I finally left him, I started dating a man of a different race. People are now saying I moved too fast because we got together a month after I moved out. But we had been close friends for more than a year before things started to kick off.

The issue is, my fam-

ily disapproves of our relationship because of his race and because they believe he didn’t give me enough time to figure out what I wanted. I feel like I already knew what I wanted. I had been emotionally done with my first relationship for a good 6 months.

My family refuses to meet him, nor do they want to hear anything about our relationship. My family and I had always been close – until now.

I am happy with my new boyfriend (even my grandma sees a difference). I just wish I knew how to get my family to understand and agree to meet him. What can I do?

– Ready For This in Ohio

in an abusive relationship for so long, talk with a licensed psychotherapist about it. You were unhappy for a long time, and it’s possible that the difference your grandmother is seeing is partly fueled by adrenaline.

You are an adult and you deserve to be happy.

If this man makes you feel that way, then more power to him. Take things slowly, enjoy the relationship, and perhaps with time your family will come around.

Dear Ready, If you are open to a suggestion: Because you were

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Community coffee, 10-11 a.m., The Meadows of Franklin Grove, 510 N. State St., 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., Post House Community Center, 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., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815288-9236. Sign up by 10 a.m. previous business day.

Organized Wii Bowling games, noon, Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Mexican Train, noon, Polo Area Senior Services, 101 E. Mason St., 815-946-3818.

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

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

Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Crocheting, knitting and crafts, 1 p.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Euchre/500 games, 1-2 p.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

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

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

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

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

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 VFW, 217 First Ave. Mexican Train dominoes, 6 p.m., Tampico Area Community Building, 106 W. Market St., 815-535-3665.

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

COMMUNITY EVENTS Wednesday, Jan. 4 Coffee, 8 a.m., Mount Morris Senior Center, 9 E. Front St., 815-734-6335.

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

Open pool, open cards, open Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

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

Stretch & Move, 9 a.m., Mount Morris Senior Center, 9 E. Front St., 815-734-6335.

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

Mexican Train dominoes, 9:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815732-3252.

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

Monthly Birthday Party, 11:45 a.m., Whiteside County

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

Lifescape lunch, 11:30 a.m., Post House Community Center, 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.

Monthly Birthday Party, noon, Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815288-9236.

Organized Wii Bowling games, noon, Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

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

Sewing after lunch, noon, Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815-5893925.

500, noon, Polo Area Senior Services, 101 E. Mason St., 815946-3818.

Bingo with the Beukemas, 12:15 p.m., Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facil-

ity, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815589-3925.

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

Men’s cards, 12:30 p.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Bridge, 1 p.m., Mount Morris Senior Center, 9 E. Front St., 815-734-6335.

Bingo, 1 p.m., Rock Falls American Legion Hall, 712 Fourth Ave. Wii Bowling, 1 p.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St.., Oregon, 815-732-3253.

Community cards, 2 p.m., The Meadows of Franklin Grove, 510 N. State St., 815-456-3000.

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

Mindfulness Meditation community sitting sessions, 5:306:30 p.m., Mind Body Spirit Connection, 1254 N. Galena Ave., Dixon, 563-210-6516.

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

Knit Wits Knitting Circle, 6:308 p.m., Dixon Public Library, 221 S. Hennepin Ave., 815-284-7261.

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

Open pool, open cards, open Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Coffee, 8 a.m., Mount Morris Senior Center, 9 E. Front St., 815-734-6335.

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

Burn exercise class, 8:309 a.m., Polo Area Senior Services, 101 E. Mason St., 815-946-3818.

Bingo and popcorn, 9-10 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Boot Scootin’ Seniors, 9:15 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Bags, 10 a.m., Mount Morris Senior Center, 9 E. Front St., 815-734-6335.

SUPPORT GROUPS, CLUBS AND SERVICES Thursday, Jan. 5 Childhood immunization clinic; women, infants and children clinic; and family planning services, Lee County Health Department, 309 S. Galena Ave., Suite 100, Dixon. Appointments: 815-284-3371.

Abuse Changing team, 815625-0338.

Twin City Sunrise Rotary, 7 a.m., Ryberg Auditorium, CGH Medical Center, 100 E. LeFevre Road, Sterling.

Blood pressure screenings, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Health Department, 1300 W. Second St., Rock Falls, 815-6262230.

TOPS IL 1426, 8:30-9 a.m. weigh-in, meeting at 9 a.m., Coloma Homes, 401 W. 18th St., Rock Falls.

TOPS IL 825, 9-10 a.m. weighin, meeting at 10 a.m., Coventry Activity Center, 612 St. Mary’s Road, Sterling, 815-626-0034.

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

Free blood pressure checks, 10-11:30 a.m., Oregon Living & Rehab Center, 811 S. 10th St., Oregon.

Alcoholics Anonymous Gratitude Group, noon, Big Book, closed; 6 p.m. literature, open; lower level, Loveland Community House, 513 W. Second St., Dixon.

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

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

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, noon, 7 p.m., open, 12x12, back door, 1503 First Ave., Suite D, Rock Falls.

Volunteer Care Center of Lee County, 2-5 p.m., 101 W. Second St., Dixon. Appointments: 815-284-9555.

Facing the Challenge Networking Group, 2 p.m., Home of Hope Cancer Wellness Center, 1637 Plock Drive, Dixon, 815288-4673.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 2:30 p.m., closed, clearance required, BAAbble on for Life Prison Group, 815-973-6150.

Narcotics Anonymous, 3 p.m., 2611 Woodlawn Road, Sterling, 815-625-0013.

Kids Coping with Cancer Group, 3:30 p.m., Home of

Hope Cancer Wellness Center, 1637 Plock Road, Dixon, 815288-4673.

Al-Anon-Alateen, 4 p.m., Wesley Chapel Annex, 200 S. Hickory St., Shannon.

Mindfulness Meditation and group dialogue, 5:30-6:30 p.m., lower level, United Way of Whiteside County building, 502 First Ave., Sterling, 563-210-6516.

Lee County Veterans Assistance Commission, 6:30 p.m., Dixon VFW Post 540, 1560 Franklin Grove Road.

Covered Bridge Quilters Guild, 6:30 p.m., Evangelical Covenant Church, 24 N. Main St., Princeton, 815-224-2563.

TOPS, 6:30 p.m., Rock Falls United Methodist Church, 210 Fourth Ave., 815-625-0431.

Rock River Lodge AF & AM, 7 p.m., 113 1/2 W. Third St., Sterling.

Al-Anon-Alateen, 7 p.m., St. John Lutheran Church, 703 Third Ave., Sterling.

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

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed; Al-Anon-Alateen, 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 709 Fourth Ave., Rochelle.

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

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., open, back door, 707 First Ave., Suite A, Rock Falls.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., closed, Church of St. Anne, 401 N. Cherry St., Morrison.

Lee County Sheriff’s Deputy Reserves, 7:30 p.m., Law Enforcement Center, 306 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon.

AMVETS Post 167 Auxiliary, 7:30 p.m., Sterling American Legion, 601 First Ave. Rock River Valley Barbershop Chorus practice, 7 p.m., Rock Falls Community Building, 603 W. 10th St., 815-626-1574.

Self Help Parents Association, 7:30 p.m., Self Help Enterprises, 2300 W. LeFevre Road, Sterling.

Sterling-Rock River Masonic Lodge 612, 7:30 p.m., 113 1/2 W. Third St., Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed, United Steelworkers, 502 Woodburn Ave., Sterling.

Friday, Jan. 6 Childhood immunization clinic; women, infants and

children clinic; and family planning services, Lee County Health Department, 309 S. Galena Ave., Suite 100, Dixon.

Appointments: 815-284-3371.

Blood pressure screenings, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Health Department, 1300 W. Second St., Rock Falls, 815-6262230.

Whiteside County Genealogists meeting, 9 a.m., Sauk Valley Area Chamber of Commerce meeting room, 211 Locust St., Sterling, Marilyn, 815-625-1370, ext. 20.

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

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

Alcoholics Anonymous Gratitude Group, noon, open; 6 p.m., open, lower level, Loveland Community House, 513 W. Second St., Dixon.

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

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

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, noon, open, this is your meeting; 7 p.m., open, Grapevine, back door, 1503 First Ave., Rock Falls.

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

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., women’s, closed, back door, Reformed Church parsonage, 703 14th Ave., Fulton.

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

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, Rochelle Community Hospital, 900 N. Second St. Reformers Unanimous, an addiction abstinence program, 7-9 p.m., First Baptist Church, 24 N. Mason Ave., Amboy, 815857-2682.

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

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed (6), Church of God, 816 S. Clay St., Mount Carroll.

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Zits® by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Arlo & Janis by Jimmy Johnson Garfield by Jim Davis

Luann by Greg Evans 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

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The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn

­­­Alley Oop by Dave Graue and Jack Bender

Bridge Frank & Ernest by Bob Thaves

Swallow partner’s card in coup play

Grizzwells by Bill Schorr

Winston Churchill said, “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.” How is that apropos for today’s deal?

Kristoffer Hegge from Norway won the world youth teams and European youth pairs titles in 2014. He was sitting East during a national training session.

South was in six hearts.

How did the defense go after West led the club queen?

In the auction, North’s twono-trump response was the Jacoby Forcing Raise. Three clubs promised a singleton (or void) in that suit.

Three diamonds was a control-bid. Then North, in answer to Roman Key Card Blackwood, showed three key cards (two aces and the

trump king) and no side-suit king.

At first, South thought he could get home if either diamonds were 3-3 (so that a spade could be discarded from the dummy) or the

spade finesse won. Then he spotted a third, even better, chance.

Declarer won with dummy’s club ace, ruffed a club in his hand, led a heart to dummy’s king, ruffed the last club, played a diamond to the ace and led the diamond six.

If East had covered with the seven, South planned to play low from his hand.

Here, West would have had to lead away from the spade king or concede a ruffand-sluff. (Or, if West had a diamond to return, either the suit would be 3-3 or the spade finesse would still be available.)

However, Hegge foiled the plan by playing the diamond queen to swallow his partner’s jack, what is known as a crocodile coup. Now the contract had to fail. © 2017 UFS

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RECIPE RESOLUTIONS

Whether you’re planning a cheat meal or a healthy dinner, try some new dishes in 2017

Tribune News Service

Sweet and tart balsamic vinegar dresses up pork scaloppini for a quick dinner. Pair the main dish with fettuccine and broccoli raab.

Dress up pork scaloppini with this sweet recipe

BY LINDA GASSENHEIMER Tribune News Service

Tribune News Service

In today’s recipe for beef fillet with béarnaise sauce, brown butter takes a béarnaise sauce to a sublime level. Béarnaise is a classic French sauce noted for its rich taste and a silky smooth and creamy texture.

Break out the brown butter ust when you thought you couldn’t take a sauce or baked good to another level, along comes brown butter.

In the past few months, brown butter has been popping up all over and touted as liquid gold. We can certainly see why. Knowing how to make it and having this technique in your repertoire is an easy way to take dishes to new flavor levels. It’s also a way to impress dinner guests.

When you brown butter by heating it gently over medium heat, it not only turns color but the taste goes from sweet cream to nutty.

It’s similar to how garlic goes from pungent to sweet and nutty when roasted.

To make brown butter, you start with unsalted butter, which is pale yellow. Melt it in a skillet, and cook it until it begins to brown. What’s happening during the process is the water is evaporating. It doesn’t take very long, but you need to watch it carefully so the butter doesn’t burn. If you cook it too long, it will turn black, and burn.

Once the butter melts, it will begin to sputter and pop some. The heat should be at medium in order to keep the sputtering at a minimum.

What you don’t want is butter splattering all over the place. Now, once it’s melted and the butter becomes foamy, you will see the butter start to change color.

Also, the milk solids will turn into brown specks and sink to the bottom of the skillet. The remaining liquid should be a deep honey color.

Once that is reached, remove the skillet from the heat and let the butter cool to room temperature.

You can use browned butter in sauces, drizzled

over vegetables, and many baked goods, such as cookies, cakes and pie crusts.

In today’s recipe, brown butter takes a béarnaise sauce to a sublime level.

Béarnaise is a classic French sauce noted for its rich taste and a silky smooth and creamy texture. It’s typically made from a reduction of white wine vinegar, tarragon and shallots. Once that mixture is reduced, eggs and clarified butter are whisked in it to thicken and emulsify the sauce.

In today’s recipe, brown butter replaces the clarified butter.

Instead of eggs, mayonnaise is used. What I like about this béarnaise sauce, is that it holds up well. You can make it several hours in advance of having guests over for dinner and then reheat it.

The best way to reheat the sauce is to place it in a heatproof bowl that’s set over a pan of simmering water. Whisk it gently while reheating and don’t heat it too much or it will separate. You can do this while the beef fillets are resting.

Serve this dish with your favorite vegetables, roasted potatoes and a classic Caesar salad.

Beef fillets with brown butter béarnaise Serves: 4 Preparation time: 25 minutes Total time: 50 minutes Brown butter béarnaise ½ cup unsalted butter 2 tablespoon white wine vinegar 1 tablespoon water 4 teaspoons chopped fresh tarragon or 1 teaspoon dried 1 tablespoon finely minced shallots 6 black peppercorns ½ cup mayonnaise Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper to taste Fillets 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 4 beef tenderloin fillets, about 6 to 8 ounce each Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper To make the béarnaise: place butter in a skillet over medium heat, watching that it does not burn, and cook until butter turns brown and has a nutty taste, 4 to 5 minutes.

Remove from heat and cool to room temperature.

In a small saucepan, combine vinegar, water, 2 teaspoons fresh tarragon, shallots and peppercorns.

Bring mixture to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 1 to 2 minutes or until reduced to 1 heaping

tablespoon. Remove from heat and strain the mixture – discarding the solids.

In a medium bowl, combine the mayonnaise and vinegar mixture. Slowly, and in a steady stream, whisk in the room temperature brown butter.

Continue whisking while the sauce will thicken.

Season well with salt and pepper. Stir in remaining 2 teaspoons tarragon.

Wipe out the skillet you used to brown the butter.

Heat the oil in the skillet over medium-high heat.

Season beef generously with salt and pepper. Add fillets to the skillet and sear for 3 minutes. Turn fillets over and sear for 3 more minutes. Turn again, tilt skillet slightly to spoon some of the pan juices up and baste the fillets. Cook for another minute. Repeat on other side for mediumrare. Remove to a platter and let rest for 5 minutes before serving. Serve sauce on the side or add a dollop to each fillet.

– Adapted from Food and Drink magazine, Holiday 2016 issue

Balsamic pork scaloppini Yield: 2 servings 3 ⁄4 pound pork tenderloin Olive oil spray 1 cup diced onion Salt and freshly ground black pepper ½ cup balsamic vinegar 2 tablespoons pine nuts 2 tablespoons chopped parsley (optional garnish) Remove visible fat from tenderloin and cut into 1-inch thick slices.

Flatten the slices with a meat bat or the bottom of a heavy skillet. Heat a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Spray with olive oil spray. Saute onion 3 minutes. Move onion to sides of skillet.

Add pork to the skillet and saute 2 minutes per side. Remove to a plate; sprinkle salt and pepper to taste. Raise heat to high, add vinegar.

Reduce liquid by half, about 1 minute. Add pine nuts and warm through, about 30 seconds.

Divide pork between two dinner plates and spoon the sauce and pine nuts on top. Sprinkle parsley on top.

Per serving: 330 calories (26 percent from fat), 9.5 g fat (1.9 g saturated, 4.1 g monounsaturated), 108 mg cholesterol, 37.6 g protein, 20.3 g carbohydrates, 2.1 g fiber, 115 mg sodium PORK continued on A104

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BY SUSAN SELASKY Tribune News Service

Sweet and tart balsamic vinegar dresses up pork scaloppini.

Broccoli raab is best when small or young. It has a nutty and slightly bitter taste.

There are many different qualities of balsamic vinegar. The best ones are made only from grapes; lesser ones add brown sugar or caramel.

Some quality producers make a less expensive but good quality vinegar.

Read the label. It should say balsamic vinegar and not have any other added ingredients, such as sugar.

Fred Tasker’s wine suggestion: This tangy pork dish would go well with an exotic, tangy, white wine like torrontés. Or a red pinot noir.

Try both.

Helpful hints: • Thin cut boneless pork chops can be used instead of pork tenderloins.

• Broccoli florets can be substituted for broccoli raab. The cooking time and method are the same.

Countdown: • Place water for pasta on to boil.

• Make pork.

• Make pasta and broccoli raab.

Shopping list: • To buy: 3⁄4 pound pork tenderloin, 1 onion, 1 small package pine nuts, 1 bunch fresh parsley (optional), ½ pound broccoli raab, ¼ pound fresh or dried fettuccine.

• Staples: olive oil spray, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and black peppercorns.

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QUICK FIX

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

DESSERT

A coconut pie worth the try

BY BRIDGETTE A. LACY Tribune News Service

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A warm, inviting quiche can make for a quick midweek supper.

Ham and quiche dish a painless midweek dinner

BY LINDA GASSENHEIMER Tribune News Service

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ou can have this homemade quiche ready in just 25 minutes. I like to serve a warm, inviting quiche for a quick midweek supper, but don’t want to fuss with pastry dough. The secret to saving time and calories is to use bread crumbs for the crust instead. You can still slice and serve the quiche with this crust.

A tossed green salad is all you need to complete the meal.

Fred Tasker’s wine suggestion: I’d try a festive rosÊ sparkling wine.

Helpful hints: • If whole wheat bread crumbs are not available, process 2 slices of whole wheat bread in the food processor to make crumbs. • Any type of mushrooms can be used. If using meaty portobello mushrooms, bake pie 5 minutes longer as they will add more liquid to the pie. • A casserole dish can be used instead of a pie plate.

Countdown: • Preheat oven to 400 degrees. • Prepare ingredients. • Make quiche.

Shopping List: • To buy: 1 small container whole wheat bread crumbs, ½ pound reduced-sodium deli ham, 1 package shitake

mushrooms, 1 red onion, 1 red bell pepper, 1 bag washed, ready-to-eat salad, 1 bottle ground nutmeg and 1 package shredded, reducedfat sharp cheddar cheese. • Staples: olive oil spray, eggs (6 needed), skim milk, reducedfat vinaigrette dressing, salt and black peppercorns.

Ham and wild mushroom quiche Yield: 2 servings 10-inch shallow pie or casserole dish Olive oil spray ½ cup whole wheat breadcrumbs ½ pound reduced-sodium deli ham, torn into bite-size pieces 1 cup sliced shitake mushrooms 1 cup sliced red onion 1 cup sliced red bell pepper 2 large eggs 4 egg whites Ÿ teaspoon ground nutmeg ½ cup skim milk ½ cup shredded, reducedfat, sharp cheddar cheese Salt and freshly ground black pepper Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Spray bottom and sides of pie plate with olive oil spray.

Sprinkle breadcrumbs over bottom and sides of plate. Roll the plate around to make sure the

sides are covered with crumbs.

Gently shake the plate to evenly distribute excess crumbs across the bottom.

Place the ham, mushrooms onion and red bell pepper in the pie plate. In a small bowl lightly beat the 2 whole eggs and 4 egg whites with a fork. Add the nutmeg, milk, cheese and salt and pepper to taste. Pour into the prepared pie plate. Press the ingredients under the eggs with a fork. Place in oven for 25 minutes.

The pie should be firm. Leave a little longer if needed. Remove, cut in halves and serve.

Per serving: 487 calories (25 percent from fat), 13.6 g fat (4.7 g saturated,6 g monounsaturated), 217 mg cholesterol, 48.6 g protein, 34.6 g carbohydrates, 3.6 g fiber, 1618 mg sodium.

Tossed salad Yield: 2 servings 4 cups washed, ready-to-eat salad 2 tablespoons reduced-fat vinaigrette dressing Place salad in a bowl and toss with dressing.

Per serving: 27 calories (13 percent from fat), 0.4 g fat (0.1 g saturated, 0.3 g monounsaturated), 1 mg cholesterol, 1.2 g protein, 3.8 g carbohydrates, 2 g fiber, 12 mg sodium.

Coconut pie was one of my maternal grandfather’s signature desserts. He would normally prepare them on a Saturday afternoon so they would be ready for Sunday dinner.

I loved sitting at the red Formica table in the kitchen as Papa laid out all his ingredients. I watched him carefully measure out his sugar, cornstarch and coconut. Some of our best times together involved me observing him creating these culinary masterpieces.

Once the pies were in the oven, he always cleaned his pots and utensils. Before you knew it, those baked beauties with toasted shreds of coconut were ready.

My grandparents lived in a house without central heating or an air conditioner. So these pies would go from the oven to the table in the enclosed porch to cool. He always made at least two, and sometimes more. The sweetness of those pies would perfume the air.

For Southerners, like my family in Virginia, coconut as an ingredient marked a special occasion. It was associated with the holidays, such as Thanksgiving or Christmas. Or for us, it was often served as a dessert on Sunday.

Debbie Moose, author of “Southern Holidays,� part of the Savor the South series from UNC Press, explains that before the days of the railroad, coconut was available only in port cities such as Wilmington, Richmond, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina, “Citrus fruit and coconut was very expensive and available only once a year,� she says. So coconut cakes and pies were a big treat.

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Big Jimmy’s coconut pie from “Sunday Dinner: a Savor the South Cookbook,� by Bridgette A. Lacy takes a little effort but it’s worth it to encourage delicious family traditions.

Big Jimmy’s Coconut pie Yield: 1 (9-inch) pie Papa liked his desserts sweet.

This coconut pie is no exception.

Enough said. I prefer using ½ cup sugar even though my Papa used 1 cup of sugar. I think it’s sweet enough with less sugar.

Add a half teaspoon of vanilla extract to add a little bit more richness. Papa used Jiffy piecrust mix to make his crust.

2 eggs ½ cup white granulated sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch 1½ cups sweetened condensed milk ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature 4 ounces shredded unsweetened coconut 1 (9-inch) unbaked pie shell Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

In a large bowl, beat the eggs and sugar together. Add the cornstarch, milk, and butter and blend well. Add the coconut and stir until incorporated. Pour the filling into the pie shell. Bake until firm, about 40-45 minutes.

Cool and serve. – From “Sunday Dinner: a Savor the South Cookbook,� by Bridgette A. Lacy (UNC Press, 2015)

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Fettuccine and broccoli raab Yield: 2 servings ½ pound broccoli raab, stems trimmed (about 4 cups) Ÿ pound fresh or dried fettuccine

2 teaspoons olive oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper Cut off thick broccoli raab stems and discard. Cut broccoli raab into 1-inch pieces. Fill a large saucepan 3 â „4 full of water and bring to a boil. Add the broccoli raab and fettuccine. Bring back to a boil and boil 4 minutes for fresh fettuccine and 8 minutes for dried.

Remove 2 tablespoons pasta water to a bowl. Drain and add fettuccine and broccoli raab to the bowl.

Add olive oil and salt and pepper to taste. Toss well.

Per serving: 269 calories (19 percent from fat), 5.8 g fat (0.9 g saturated, 2.3 g monounsaturated), no cholesterol, 10.0 g protein, 44.8 g carbohydrates, 4.0 g fiber, 29 mg sodium

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Wednesday, January 4, 2017 Numbers game With his 52-point performance Monday, Bulls star Jimmy Butler became the 8th different NBA player to score 50 or more points in a game this season, tying the NBA record from 1989-90.

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Cold shooting, turnover woes add up in Sterling loss

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STERLING – It was the fundamentals that doomed the Sterling girls’ basketball team Tuesday night at Musgrove Fieldhouse in an NIB-12 crossover contest against the DeKalb Barbs.

The Golden Warriors shot just 27 percent (12-for-44) from the field, 38 percent (8-for-21) from the free-throw line and 1-for-13 from 3-point range, and committed 22 turnovers in a 39-33 loss.

“We didn’t do much well tonight,” Sterling head coach Taylor Jackson said. “This may have been the worst game we’ve played all season. It’s very frustrating. We thought we had gotten over some things, but we’re back to square one.

“I don’t think this is a reflection of who we are as a team, but the question becomes how our girls respond from here.”

Both squads started slowly, but eventually picked things up in the latter stages of the first quarter. A wide-open 3 from the right corner by Cheyenne Harrington via a pretty pass from Genea Garza gave the Golden Warriors their first lead of the game at 8-7 with 1:36 left in the quarter.

The Barbs answered back with four straight points in the closing minute, and led 11-10 after the first 8 minutes of play.

Things got sloppy on the Sterling side in the second. Nine turnovers limited the Warriors to just two points in the quarter, a putback by Grace Gould off an airball by Garza with 3:10 left before halftime.

Despite Sterling’s 13 first-half turnovers and offensive deficiency, DeKalb couldn’t pull away. The Barbs scored just six points in the second quarter, and led 17-12 at halftime.

Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com DeKalb let the Warriors get within striking Sterling’s Grace Gould (5) and Tobi Garcia (24) and DeKalb’s Jacki Rapp reach for a distance with turnovers and missed shots rebound off the Golden Warriors’ hoop during the second quarter of Tuesday night’s in the third quarter. The Barbs scored their game at Musgrove Fieldhouse. Sterling lost to the Barbs 39-33. first points of the second half with just over 3 minutes to play in the third via a layup by Star of the game: Raquel Mills, DeKalb, scored 11 of her game-high 16 points in 4th Uriah Hegwood. quarter, 4 rebounds, 3 steals Sterling got to within a point twice in the Key performers: Josi Borum, Sterling, 9 points, 4 rebounds, 2 steals; Mya Pearson, quarter, but the Barbs still clung to a 23-20 Sterling, 9 points, 6 rebounds; Jacki Rapp, DeKalb, 9 points, 2 assists advantage with a quarter to go.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL | No. 13 WISCONSIN 75, No. 25 INDIANA 68

Badgers snap skid in Bloomington Wisconsin turns 13 Indiana turnovers into 23 points in road win

BY MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – No. 13 Wisconsin started fast and finished strong Tuesday night.

In between, the Badgers made Indiana pay a heavy price for its mistakes.

Ethan Happ had 19 points, six rebounds and four assists, Bronson Koenig scored 17, and Wisconsin used a 14-point scoring advantage off turnovers to hold on for a 75-68 victory at Assembly Hall.

“We try to put a maximum value on every possession and not just turn it up in the last 4 or 5 minutes,” Badgers coach Greg Gard said. “They understand the value of every possession and they are used to playing in that situation, where we expect them to do good things on every possession – not just the last 5 minutes.”

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That’s one reason the Badgers (13-2, 2-0 Big Ten) extended their winning streak to nine by snapping a two-game losing streak in Bloomington.

And they made it look easy in the game’s three most crucial sequences – a 13-0 run at the start, a 10-2 spurt late in the second half to retake control, and four straight free throws made in the final minute.

For No. 25 Indiana, it’s been a mind-boggling week.

The defending Big Ten champs entered conference play with seven wins in eight games and a 26-game home-court winning streak.

Now they have lost three straight, two in a row on their AP home court, and 16 of 18 in the Wisconsin’s Ethan Happ (right) tries to tie up Indiana’s Josh Wisconsin series.

Newkirk during the second half Tuesday in Bloomington, Ind. SNAP continued on B44 The Badgers beat the Hoosiers 75-68.

Current bowl system likely to change in future

BY RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer

Meaningless bowls. Too many bowls. Made-forTV bowls. Shrinking bowl attendance.

There have never been more bowl games, and 3 years into the College Football Playoff era there are more questions than ever about why these games are being played at all. Especially when high-profile players such as Christian McCaffrey and Leonard Fournette choose to skip the postseason to protect their bodies for the NFL draft.

There is currently an NCAAimposed freeze on the creation of new bowls that caps the field at 40 through 2019.

Over the next few years, the people invested in the bowls – commissioners, athletic directors and bowl executives – will consider ways to improve the bowl system and answer the question: What should bowls be?

Chances are there will be fewer bowls, data-driven limitations on how many bowls a conference can lock in, and maybe even postseason games played on campus. But for those who long for the days when there were a dozen or so bowls that rewarded only the very best teams in college football, well, you might as well wish for the return of leather helmets. Neither is coming back.

Everyone seems to agree that while the bowl system is not perfect, it does not need to be razed.

Andy Bagnato is a former sports writer who also worked for 4 years as a public relations executive for the Fiesta Bowl. He now runs Bagnato Pflipsen Communications, a consulting firm that helped Phoenix land the this year’s Final Four and last year’s College Football Playoff championship game.

“The question for people in college football is: What’s the utility of the bowl?”

Bagnato said. “Is it a great trip for your alumni? For your student-athletes? Is it television exposure for 4 hours for your program? Is it a branding exercise for the school and for a conference?

For the communities, I think the questions become: Are they tourism magnets?

Is the utility of a bowl game the fact that it attracts tourists? All those are factors.

“I don’t know that there is [only] one reason to have a bowl game.”

The main reason is the same as it ever was.

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Cubs taking World Series trophy on tour The World Series champion Cubs are taking the Commissioner’s Trophy on tour with stops planned for Freeport and Rockford.

The trophy will visit the Illinois Masonic Temple on Stephenson St. in Freeport from 11 a.m. to 1p.m.

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The trophy will then head to the Rockford IceHogs game against the Chicago Wolves, where it will be on display at the BMO Harris Bank Center Main concourse from 3:30-6:45 p.m. Sunday.

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AFC, Amboy holding Blue and Gold Night AFC and Amboy will honor the strong tradition of FFA in both schools with a Blue and Gold Night before the boys basketball game Saturday in Ashton.

All former FFA members of both schools are invited to attend.

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Tomlinson, Taylor finalists for Canton First-year eligibles LaDainian Tomlinson, Jason Taylor and Brian Dawkins are among 15 modern-era finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Also making the finals are Morten Andersen, Tony Boselli, Isaac Bruce, Don Coryell, Terrell Davis, Alan Faneca, Joe Jacoby, Ty Law, John Lynch, Kevin Mawae, Terrell Owens and Kurt Warner.

Previously selected as a finalist by the veterans committee is former Seattle safety Kenny Easley.

In the contributors’ category, the nominees are former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

Browns owners issue apology to fans Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam apologized to fans Tuesday for putting them through the worst season in franchise history.

In a letter sent to seasonticket holders and distributed to members of the media, the Haslams fell on the proverbial sword after the Browns set a franchise record for losses in a season by finishing 1-15.

“With the close of the 2016 season, we wanted to thank you again for all of your support and apologize for such a disappointing year,” the owners wrote.

“Clearly, this season has been a painful part of our building process. You deserve the best, and you certainly deserve better than a 1-15 team. We are sorry that our results have not been better.”

Watt, Perine declare for NFL Draft Wisconsin linebacker T.J. Watt and Oklahoma running back Samaje Perine will leave school early and declare for the NFL draft.

Watt announced his decision Tuesday on Twitter, a move confirmed by the university.

Perine announced his decision on Tuesday in an Instagram post. In the post, he thanked his coaches, family, and Oklahoma fans.

Watt played in all 14 games for the Badgers this season and led the team with 15½ tackles for loss, including 11½ sacks. Watt made 63 total tackles.

Perine became Oklahoma’s career rushing leader during Monday’s Sugar Bowl win over Auburn. He finished with 4,122 yards, 4 more than 1978 Heisman winner Billy Sims.

Tracy Claeys Golden Gophers football coach was fired Tuesday after leading the team to an 11-8 record since taking the job in 2015.

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Saban rolling the dice with change

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ou can only poke the bear so much.

Lane Kiffin kept running his mouth, and it may have cost him a chance to stay at Alabama for 1 more week.

But Nick Saban is taking a real gamble here, even more than the onside kick that helped turn the tide in last year’s national championship game.

If Alabama’s offense performs well against Clemson and helps deliver a fifth national championship in 8 years, then Saban will be vindicated in his decision to switch up offensive coordinators a week before the big game.

If the Crimson Tide falter – and, frankly, they didn’t look all that impressive offensively in what turned out to be Kiffin’s farewell at the Peach Bowl – then Saban is sure to face plenty of questions about the wisdom of carrying out what has all the looks of a Sovietstyle purge.

Kiffin, of course, was already set to leave Tuscaloosa at the end of the College Football Playoff to take the head coaching job at Florida Atlantic. He was supposed to stay through the end of the Crimson Tide’s season, and indeed was on the sideline last Saturday, flip card in hand, for a 24-7 semifinal victory over Washington.

Two days later, Saban stunningly announced that Kiffin wouldn’t be around for the championship game, giving way immediately to offensive coordinatorin-waiting Steve Sarkisian.

The head coach issued a vague statement that created more questions than it answered, something about the “time demands of managing both jobs” being too much for Kiffin to handle – even though this has become a familiar arrangement for assistants moving on to head coaching jobs.

Kirby Smart stayed on as Saban’s defensive coordinator through the national championship

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• Hiawatha at Milledgeville

Girls basketball 7 p.m.

• AFC at Somonauk 7:30 p.m.

• Eastland at Warren

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Lane Kiffin (left) will not be on hand as offensive coordinator for Nick Saban (right) when Alabama faces Clemson in the national championship game next week, which could be a risky move for Saban.

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game last season after being hired by Georgia.

Two seasons ago, Tom Herman finished out Ohio State’s title run as offensive coordinator before becoming the head coach at Houston (and, now, Texas).

Kiffin may have sealed his fate at Alabama with some inflammatory comments in the days leading up to the Peach Bowl. When asked about the happiest moments of his 3-year tenure, Kiffin said he only remembered the many times he was chewed out by his boss.

Kiffin also said that he thought Sarkisian’s personality would be a better fit with the demanding Saban.

Given that Saban extended a coaching lifeline to Kiffin after he was unceremoniously fired at the airport by Southern Cal, those comments surely didn’t go over well.

Considering the way Alabama played in the Peach Bowl, passing

for 57 yards and getting just 17 points from the offense (one touchdown came off an interception return), Saban had further reason to push up Sarkisian’s start date, even if that meant ditching a coach the offensive players are much more familiar with – some for as many as three seasons.

As an analyst, Sarkisian wasn’t permitted to have that sort of relationship.

“They’re involved in the planning. They’re involved in the organization. That’s where they make their contribution, in the coaching meetings,” Saban said. “They’re not really allowed to be involved with the team.”

It will be interesting to see how that dynamic plays out next Monday night in Tampa.

Just don’t expect Saban to spend any time talking about it.

“I don’t know why you all keep asking me what changes we’re going to make,” Saban said during a previously scheduled teleconference Tuesday, one that he surely would have preferred to skip.

Then, he added sarcastically that Clemson coach Dabo Swinney “is a good friend of mine.

Maybe I’ll just call him up and tell him what we’re going to do.”

Saban got especially testy when asked to elaborate on why it was the best interests of Kiffin and Alabama that he not hang around for 7 more days.

“I don’t have anything else to say about this,” Saban said. “We did what we did for the reasons that I’ve stated many, many times before, and there’s really nothing else to talk about. So there’s no why, there’s no if, there’s no but. It just is what it is. The statement says what it is. We’re moving forward, so let’s talk about the game. I mean, it’s only fair to the players who have worked hard on both teams to have an opportunity to play in a great, competitive venue, and that’s what we’d like to talk about.”

Not long before Saban spoke, Kiffin made it sound like it was his decision to leave, which really stretched the bounds of credibility – especially when he also raised the idea of essentially flipping jobs with Sarkisian to stay on with the Crimson Tide as an analyst through the title game.

“This was not something that Nick Saban forced me to do, by any means,” Kiffin insisted.

“If I wanted to coach this game, I would have coached this game.”

Bowl industry ‘healthy,’ but probably not sustainable BOWLED

CONTINUED FROM B1 t “The first thing we want them to be is a reward for the players,” said Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby, who also leads the NCAA’s football oversight committee.

The problem is that bowls also reward competence, not excellence.

Once the minimum for postseason eligibility was drawn at 6-6 when the regular season expanded to 12 games, pressure built on conference officials to place each eligible team in a bowl.

Coaches want the extra bowl practices to develop players and the ability to sell a bowl game to recruits.

“Mr. Commissioner, if my 6-6 team stays home, I’m going to be your worst enemy,” Football Bowl Association Executive Director Wright Waters recalled hearing from one university president back when he was commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference.

The bowl lineup grew to 40 games as Power Five conferences locked up spots in most existing games and other conferences such as the American Athletic Conference, Sun Belt and Mountain West worked to create

new games – often with the help of ESPN. The result is that during the last 2 years, 5-7 teams played in bowl games.

“Beginning in 2020, I seriously doubt there will be 40 bowl games,” Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson, who has previously been the commissioner of the Western Athletic Conference and the Mid-American Conference.

But no conference is about voluntarily shut down one of its bowls.

That’s where the oversight committee will come in. Bowlsby said the group has been analyzing data to determine how many bowl slots each conference can typically fill. When bowl lineups are reset for 2020 and beyond, conferences will likely be limited to a number that matches a 5-year average of the eligible teams they have produced.

Benson said when Texas State went 6-6 in 2013 but was shut out of the postseason, the conference broached the idea having the Bobcats play a 13th game on campus.

“It could be a way to navigate when we have too many teams for the number of bowls,” Benson said.

Maybe it would help attendance, which dropped 4.94 percent this season from last, according to data compiled by

the Football Bowl Association.

Average attendance went from 43,018 in 2015-16 to 40,893 this season.

“I think the industry is healthy,” said Pete Derzis, senior vice president for ESPN Events, which owns and operates 13 bowls, mostly matching teams from outside Power Five conferences. All but four of the 40 FBS bowl games, plus the national championship game, are televised on an ESPN network.

Derzis called the TV ratings for this season’s bowls respectable.

Waters said those final numbers were still being compiled. But ratings for one particular game provide part of the explanation why ESPN is so heavily invested in bowls.

The Las Vegas Bowl on Dec. 17, in which San Diego State beat Houston 34-10, drew 3.7 million TV viewers on ABC. At the same time, Kentucky and North Carolina, two of college basketball’s traditional powers, played a thrilling game that drew 3.6 million viewers on CBS. The ratings for the Rose Bowl jumped percent 20 percent from last year, but at 9.4 they are still way behind the days when that game would consistently draw double-digit ratings.

Now the playoff draws the most attention, and everything else feels more like an exhibition.

• Newman, Erie-Prophetstown at Dakota • Morrison, Putnam County at Riverdale • AFC, Byron at Amboy • North Boone at West Carroll

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Today Men’s basketball 5:30 p.m.

• Rutgers at Michigan St., BTN • Villanova at Butler, FS1 6 p.m.

• Georgetown at Providence, CBSSN • Georgia Tech at Duke, ESPN2 • South Carolina at Georgia, ESPNU • Auburn at Vanderbilt, SEC • Northern Iowa at Loyola, CSN 7 p.m.

• Iowa St. at Baylor, ESPNNEWS 7:30 p.m.

• Penn St. at Michigan, BTN • Creighton at St. John’s, FS1 8 p.m.

• Temple at SMU, CBSSN • Oregon at Washington, ESPN2 • Tulsa at Houston, ESPNU • LSU at Missouri, SEC • Missouri State at Illinois St., CSN 10 p.m.

• Boise St. at UNLV, CBSSN • San Diego St. at Nevada, ESPN2 • New Mexico at Utah St., ESPNU

Women’s basketball 6 p.m.

• Baylor at West Virginia, FS1

NBA 7 p.m.

• Bulls at Cavaliers, ESPN 9:30 p.m.

• Trailblazers at Warriors, ESPN NHL 7 p.m.

• Rangers at Flyers, NBCSN

Soccer 1:55 p.m.

• Premier League, Chelsea at Tottenham, NBCSN

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Pitzer’s 22 leads Dixon win Cardinals hitting from long-range; Steamers top Orion

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Polo’s Rilley Peterson looks to pass Tuesday night during the Marcos’ NUIC East game in Forreston.

Polo lost to the Cardinals 84-40.

TUESDAY’S SCOREBOARD Boys basketball AP polls Class 4A

School W-L Pts Prv 1. Simeon (13) 11-0 130 2 2. Evanston Township 13-2 101 3 3. Edwardsville 11-1 91 5 4. Kenwood 10-3 61 NR 5. Whitney Young 9-3 48 NR 6. Bolingbrook 10-0 47 NR 7. East Moline United 13-1 38 7 8. Curie 11-2 32 1 9. Belleville Althoff Catholic 8-3 29 8 10. Joliet West 13-1 27 6 Others receiving 12 or more votes: Lisle (Benet Academy) 21. Fremd 19. East St. Louis 18. Rockford Boylan 17.

Class 3A School W-L Pts Prv 1. Springfield Lanphier (7) 11-0 113 8 2. Morgan Park (6) 9-2 112 1 3. Bloomington 9-2 97 2 4. North Lawndale 11-3 62 5 5. Springfield Southeast 9-3 53 NR 6. Fenwick 10-3 49 4 7. Benton 12-1 45 9 8. Mahomet-Seymour 9-3 29 NR 9. Morton 11-3 28 NR 10. Farragut 6-2 20 NR Others receiving 12 or more votes: Centralia 19. Effingham 18. Peoria Manual 15.

Class 2A School W-L Pts Prv 1. Chicago Uplift (8) 11-3 114 T1 2. Mt. Carmel (1) 12-1 92 NR 3. Quincy Notre Dame (3) 11-1 87 NR 4. Orr (2) 7-1 84 3 5. Tremont 13-0 77 T8 6. Teutopolis 9-1 70 7 7. St. Joseph-Ogden 11-3 65 T1 8. Alton Marquette 13-1 50 6 9. Pittsfield 10-1 30 NR 10. Eldorado 14-1 26 NR Others receiving 12 or more votes: Pinckneyville 22. Nashville 18.

Class 1A School W-L Pts Prv 1. Colfax Ridgeview (7) 13-0 109 2 2. Okawville (2) 12-2 99 1 3. East Dubuque (1) 14-0 89 10 4. Effingham St. Anthony 14-1 79 NR 5. Quest Academy (1) 16-1 76 6 6. Newark 9-2 60 8 7. DePue 14-0 39 7 8. Annawan 11-2 34 T3 9. St. Anne 11-1 21 NR 10. Hope Academy (1) 11-3 18 NR Others receiving 12 or more votes: None.

Tuesday’s result at Geneseo

GENESEO 57, ERIE 38 ERIE (7-10) Dillin Tegeler 0-3 0-0 0 2 0, Kale Orman 1-8 0-0 0 2 3, Carson Kirkpatrick 0-1 2-4 0 0 2, Josh Hammer 1-2 4-6 0 4 6, Eric Miller 4-9 1-1 1-1 2 6 9, Kyle Stover 2-6 0-0 1 2 5, Justice Youngberg 1-1 2-2 0 2 4, Justice Cole 2-3 2-2 4 5 6, Kyle Schipper 1-1 1-1 2 1 3. Totals 12-34 12-16 38.

GENESEO (4-5) Rice 2-6 0-0 2 4 5, Pauley 5-17 1-4 0 3 13, Rivera 7-15 2-2 1 8 21, Bravata 3-11 2-2 2 6 9, Aper 0-1 0-0 3 1 0, Wiese 1-1 0-0 3 1 2, Frerichs 1-2 0-0 1 1 2, Ganson 1-2 1-1 1 3 3, Whiteman 0-0 0-0 0 0 0, Wise 1-2 0-0 1 0 2. Totals 21-57 6-9 57.

Erie 6 13 12 7 — 38 Geneseo 13 9 22 12 — 57 3s – Erie 2-11 (Orman 1-6, Stover 1-5), Geneseo 7-20 (Rivera 3-4, Pauley 2-8, Bravata 1-6, Rice 1-1, Ganson 0-1).

Rebounds – Erie 24 (Miller 6, Cole 5, Hammer 4), Geneseo 27 (Rivera 8, Bravata 6). Assists – Erie 5 (Hammer 2), Geneseo 10 (Pauley 3). Steals – Erie 3 (Hammer 2), Geneseo 10 (Pauley 3). Blocks – Erie 2 (Hammer 2), Geneseo 1 (Rivera). Turnovers – Erie 19, Geneseo 9. Fouls – Erie 9, Geneseo 14.

Girls basketball AP polls Class 4A School W-L Pts Prv 1. Montini (5) 16-0 111 2 2. Homewood-Flossmoor (5) 9-2 98 1 3. Rock Island (1) 15-1 96 T3 4. Edwardsville (1) 13-0 93 T3 5. Benet 16-2 65 5 6. Geneva 12-1 57 7 7. Rockford Boylan 14-0 52 10 8. Evanston Township 15-2 33 6 9. Hersey 14-2 26 NR 10. Springfield 14-2 15 NR Others receiving 12 or more votes: None.

Class 3A School W-L Pts Prv 1. Bethalto Civic Mem. (6) 15-0 121 2 2. Morton (3) 14-1 105 6 3. Chicago Marshall (3) 8-0 81 7 4. Mattoon 18-0 66 NR (tie)Highland 14-3 66 5 6. Richwoods 14-3 58 NR 7. North Lawndale 8-3 38 3 8. Effingham 15-1 32 NR 9. Rochester 12-3 30 NR 10. Peoria Central 11-2 29 NR Others receiving 12 or more votes: Galesburg 24. Normal University 22. Kaneland 12.

Class 2A School W-L Pts Prv 1. Byron (11) 13-1 110 1 2. Sherrard 15-1 91 7 3. Hall 13-2 86 2 4. Eureka (1) 15-2 65 9 5. Teutopolis 16-2 53 NR 6. Camp Point Central 14-1 52 NR 7. Hillsboro 14-3 38 T4 8. Auburn 18-1 31 6 9. Breese Mater Dei 9-5 29 3 10. St. Edward 12-3 27 NR Others receiving 12 or more votes: Kewanee 26. Gilman Iroquois West 22.

Monticello 15.

Class 1A School W-L Pts Prv 1. Lebanon (12) 14-00 124 1 2. Ashton-Franklin Center 14-1 84 3 3. Okawville 13-3 67 4 4. Calhoun 12-3 64 5 (tie) Danville Schlarman (1) 10-4 64 2 6. Winchester 14-0 60 NR 7. Mount Olive 15-2 52 7 8. Colfax Ridgeview 16-1 44 NR 9. Harvest Christian Acad. 11-3 39 NR 10. Princeville 16-2 29 NR (tie) Galena 16-2 29 6 Others receiving 12 or more votes: Amboy 21. Annawan 14.

Tuesday’s results at Musgrove Fieldhouse

STERLING 33, DeKALB 39 STERLING (3-14) Josi Borum 2-8 5-14 9, Genea Garza 0-2 0-3 0, Cheyenne Harrington 3-10 0-0 6, Grace Gould 2-11 2-2 6, Mya Pearson 4-6 1-2 9, Tobi Garcia 0-0 0-0 0, Emilie Powers 0-0 0-0 0, Gretchen Gould 1-5 0-0 2, Kaylee Martin 0-1 0-0 0. Totals: 12-44 8-21 33.

DeKALB (4-13) Hegwood 2-6 0-0 4, Stiles 0-1 0-0 0, Williams 1-6 0-0 2, Rapp 3-12 2-4 9, Mills 7-18 1-2 16, Kizer 0-0 0-0 0, Westburg 2-2 0-0 4, Nelson 2-4 0-0 4, Overton 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals: 17-50 3-6 39.

Sterling 10 2 8 13 — 33 DeKalb 11 6 6 16 — 39 3s – Sterling 1-13 (Harrington), DeKalb 2-18 (Rapp, Mills). Rebounds – Sterling 22 (Pearson 6), DeKalb 19 (Mills 4). Assists – Sterling 3 (Borum, Garza, Harrington), DeKalb 5 (Rapp 2). Steals – Sterling 9 (Borum, Harrington 2), DeKalb 11 (Mills 3).

Blocks – DeKalb 2 (Williams, Westburg).

Turnovers – Sterling 22, DeKalb 14.

Fouls – Sterling 12, DeKalb 16.

at Freeport

DIXON 60, FREEPORT 50 DIXON Kira Goral 3 5-7 12, Emily Lynch 0 0-0 0, Avery Fox 0 0-0 0, Gretchen Bushman 1 0-0 2, Britney Pitzer 8 5-8 22, Bre Scheidegger 2 0-0 4, Ellie Provo 1 3-4 5, Isabelle Shiaras 5 5-7 15. Totals 20 20-26 60.

FREEPORT Fane 1 0-0 2, Macon 1 0-0 2, Rowe 0 2-2 2, Hasken 2 2-2 7, Ensor 0 1-2 1, Geiser 3 2-4 8, Avery 11 3-5 28. Totals 18 10-15 50.

Dixon 9 13 15 23 — 60 Freeport 6 8 14 22 — 50 3s – Dixon 2 (Pitzer, Goral), Freeport 4 (Avery 3, Hasken)

at Forreston

FORRESTON 84, POLO 40 POLO Rilley Peterson 1 0-0 2, Kenzie Dusing 3 2-3 10, Lizzy Stamm 0 0-0 0, Lexi Cox 1 0-0 3, Hannah Blumhoff 2 0-2 4, Lani Bergstrom 3 0-1 6, Justine Gorzny 7 1-1 15, Hannah Hobbs 0 0-0 0, Brianna Pelini 0 0-0 0. Totals 17 3-7 40.

FORRESTON Henneman 2 0-0 5, Kloepping 3 0-0 6, Erdman 5 1-2 11, Resing 7 2-2 16, Houston 2 0-0 4, Timm 0 0-0 0, Boss 0 1-2 1, Bondele 10 2-2 31, Carr 0 2-2 2, Metzger 2 0-0 4, Hageman 2 0-0 4. Totals 32 8-10 84.

Polo 14 10 13 3 — 40 Forreston 26 30 12 16 — 84 3s – Polo 3 (Dusing 2, Cox) Forreston 12 (Bondele 9, Resing 2, Henneman)

at Orion

FULTON 53, ORION 34 FULTON Whitney Wynkoop 0 0-0 0, Kearra Kohrt 0 2-2 2, Rylee Leitzen 0 0-0 0, Jordan Price 10 1-1 21, Abby Willging 3 0-0 6, Faith Kennedy 5 0-0 15, Brooke Huizenga 1 0-0 3, Baylee Gooch 1 0-0 2, Schipper 2 0-0 4.

Totals: 22 3-3 53.

ORION Moore 0 0-0 0, Smolenski 2 1-4 5, Stropes 1 2-2 4, Mohr 1 1-2 3, Lodge 0 0-0 0, Schultz 0 0-0 0, DeVoss 2 0-0 4, Taets 4 2-3 10, McCunn 1 0-0 2, Parsons 2 0-0 4.

Totals: 14 6-11 34.

Fulton 9 12 16 16 — 53 Orion 16 9 2 7 — 34 3s – Fulton 6 (Kennedy 5, Huizenga).

Girls bowling Tuesday’s results at Sterling

MORRIS 3,189, STERLING 2,635 STERLING Jamie Riley 127-124-146 — 397; Rhiannon Filippi 160-142-143 — 445; Jasmynne Brinkmeier 120-134-132 — 386; Hannah Stout 143-173-219 — 535; Zoey Paone 143-136-148 — 427; Kyleigh Glazier 143148-154 — 445. Totals 836-857-942 — 2,635.

MORRIS Olivia Schultz 188-154-151 — 493; Angel Heck 170-188-176 — 534; Cadenz Fitzgerald 172-259-221 — 652; Corrinne Day 152-183-169 — 504; Allison Kukman 138-143-130 — 411; Amy Waldron 204222-169 — 595. Totals 1,024-1,1491,016 — 3,189.

Wrestling Tuesday’s results at Woodstock

STERLING 36, MARIAN 32* 106 pounds – Kolten Smith (S) pin Harman 2:36; 113 – Julian Rodriguez (S) major dec. Burke 11-2; 126 – Isaac Figueroa (S) major dec. Valeria 10-2; 132 – Randazzo (M) pin Noah Garcia 1:03; 138 – Isaiah Figueroa (S) dec. Bokowy 3-2; 145 – A.Silva (M) pin Ethan Edmondson :34; 152 – L.Silva (M) dec. Turner Garcia 8-6 OT; 160 – Elias Edmondson (S) major dec.

Konopka 11-3; 195 – Gustafson (M) pin Edgar Rodriguez 2:25; 220 – Pedro Rodriguez (S) dec. Brunken 3-2; 285 – Smith (M) pin Jacob Capes :47 Sterling rec. fft.: 170, 182 Marian rec. fft.: 120 * – Marian penalized 1 point for unsportsmanlike conduct

Britney Pitzer scored 22 points to lead Dixon to a 60-50 win Tuesday at Freeport.

Dixon led 22-14 at halftime and 37-28 after three. Freeport scored 22 points in the fourth with Dixon putting up 23, 11 of them from the free-throw line.

Isabelle Shiaras scored 15 points for Dixon, with Kira Goral adding 12.

Quavashia Avery led the Pretzels with 28 points.

Forreston 84, Polo 40: Allison Bondele hit a school-record nine 3-pointers, all in the first half, to finish with 31 points in Forreston’s win at home.

Bondele hit six 3s in the first quarter and added three more in the second. She fell just four shy of the state record for 3-pointers in a game of 13, set by Adele Cook of Carrollton in December 2012.

Justine Gorzny led the Marcos with 15 points, and Kenzie Dusing added 10.

Fulton 53, Orion 34: The Steamers turned a four-point halftime deficit into a rout on the road by holding outscoring the Chargers 32-9 in the second half.

Jordan Price poured in 21 points to pace Fulton, and Faith Kennedy hit five 3-pointers for 15 points.

The Steamers trailed 16-9 after Brandon Bonnette/Special to SVM one quarter and 25-21 at halftime Forreston’s Allison Bondele (31) hit nine 3-pointers in the first half before rallying.

Tuesday against Polo, a school record for the most in one game and Northeast (Iowa) 46, West Carroll just four shy of the state single-game record.

13: The Thunder never got on track in a nonconference loss in Isaiah Figueroa and Pedro RodriTuesday’s stars Savanna, trailing 13-0 after one guez both added 3-2 decision wins. quarter and never recovering.

Britney Pitzer, Dixon, 22 points Girls bowling Seven different players scored for Jordan Price, Fulton, 21 points Morris 3,189, Sterling 2,635: West Carroll, with six scoring two Hannah Stout led Sterling with Faith Kennedy, Fulton, 15 points, points apiece.

5 3-pointers a 219 game and a 535 series in a Boys basketball NIB-12 loss at Blackhawk Lanes.

Justine Gorzny, Polo, 15 points Geneseo 57, Erie 38: The CardiCadenz Fitzgerald led Morris with nals were outscored 34-19 in the a 652 series and a 259 game. from there. second half of a nonconference Amboy led 19-12 after one quarBoys swimming road loss. ter and 29-16 at halftime.

Moline 135, Sterling 51: Jake Eric Miller had nine points and Wike was second in the 500 freeWrestling six rebounds for Erie (7-10), while Josh Hammer added six points, Sterling 36, Woodstock Marian style and third in the 50 freestyle in four rebounds, two assists, two 32: The Golden Warriors went on the Golden Warriors’ swim meet at steals and two blocks. Justice Cole the road and returned with a non- Moline.

Brayden Wolf scored a 175.45 to chipped in six points and five conference dual victory.

Kolten Smith recorded Sterling’s take second in diving. boards.

Isaiah Rivera led the Maple Leafs lone pin at 106 pounds, and the Zach Wade was second in the with 21 points and eight rebounds. Warriors got major decisions backstroke, with Chris Leal third.

Robby Christensen was third in Amboy 52, Prophetstown 39: The from Julian Rodriguez (113), Clippers jumped out to an early Isaac Figueroa (126) and Elias both the individual medley and the breaststroke.

11-3 lead and kept extending it Edmondson (160).

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t Finally, the Warriors captured the lead in the fourth. Josi Borum hit a pair of free throws with 6:16 remaining to give Sterling a 24-23 lead. A 3

by Raquel Mills with 4:49 left gave the Barbs the lead back, but Harrington tied things back up at 26-all with a transition jumper just seconds later.

The teams went back and forth down the stretch. DeKalb led 34-29 with under a minute to go, but Sterling wouldn’t go down without a fight.

After a Borum basket cut the deficit to three, Mya Pearson stole the ensuing inbounds pass and laid it in with 38.6 seconds left, forcing a timeout from DeKalb head coach Elliot Whitefield.

Whitefield drew up the perfect play to put the game on ice out of the timeout. Jacki Rapp inbounded the ball perfectly, as Mills converted a traditional three-point play with 34.4 seconds remaining to seal the deal.

Mills scored 11 of her 16 points in the final quarter.

“When she’s under control and waits for lanes to open up, she’s very tough,” Whitefield said about Mills. “She’s just learning what’s a good shot and what’s not. It was good to see her respond the way she did. Eleven points in the fourth is what you’re best player is supposed to do.”

DeKalb improved to 4-13 on the season, and picked up its first conference win. It was a muchneeded win for a Barbs team that has been competitive in the NIB-12.

Photos by Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com

ABOVE: Sterling’s Josi Borum (left) drives past Dekalb’s Dennysha Kizer during the first quarter of Tuesday night’s game at Musgrove Fieldhouse.

BELOW: Sterling’s Kaylee Martin (top middle) and Dekalb’s Haley Westberg (bottom) fight for a loose ball during the second quarter Tuesday in Sterling.

“I can go in the locker room and say we’re 1-0 in 2017,” Whitefield said.

“We’re in the infancy stage of what we can be.

It’s a great group of kids that works their butts off.

As long as they’re willing to work, we’ll keep getting better.”

Sterling dropped to 3-15 on the season with the loss, and 0-4 in NIB-12 play. Despite the secondhalf rally, the Warriors are focusing on jumping out to a better start at the beginning of games.

“They’ve had that fight in them all season,” Jackson said. “We’ve fought hard at points, but the problem is digging ourselves a hole. We can’t fault our fight, but we can’t put ourselves in that position.”

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When the game is over Former Blackhawks still adjusting to life after hockey

BY CHRIS KUC Chicago Tribune

A professional athlete’s career, filled with many twists, has one certainty: At some point it will end.

“It definitely didn’t go smooth for me – it was very difficult,” said Nick Boynton, a member of the Blackhawks team that captured the Stanley Cup in 2010. “I was very depressed. I had some head issues, and I was very fortunate that I had a good family to stay on me and stick with me.”

Boynton, 37, now a radio analyst for the Coyotes, says he is at peace after working through dark times.

In recent years, former NHL players Bob Probert, Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien, Wade Belak, Todd Ewen and Steve Montador – all who played similar physical, hard-nosed styles – have died after post-playing struggles.

“I knew a couple of those guys and they didn’t make it, so it is scary,” Boynton said.

“That could have easily been me with the path I was on. I’m very fortunate to come across the people I did at the time I did.

Otherwise, who knows?

“You’re told when you’re playing you’re supposed to be tough. It’s tough to ask for help, and it was probably the hardest thing I ever did, and I’m glad I finally did it.”

Even if they sensed the end of their careers was coming, some former NHL players are illequipped to deal with the real world.

“I knew I wasn’t going to play forever and I accepted it,” Ben Eager said. “It’s nice to have a little break from the game, but suddenly you’re not around the guys and you don’t have the same routine and schedule. No nice planes and buses.”

Eager played for five teams during nine seasons in the NHL, and was a key member of the Hawks’ 2010 champions before they traded him to the Thrashers after the season.

After the Oilers released him in 2014, he kicked around the KHL and AHL before concluding his career with the Wolves in 2015. Playing hockey was Eager’s life, but when he could no longer call himself a hockey player, life had to go on and the next step was to find things to fill his days and nights.

“When you’re playing,

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t “We just didn’t come out with the right mindset,” Indiana’s Juwan Morgan said. “I don’t think everybody was ready to fight. It was just a mental lapse in the coverages, and it was just small mistakes that could have been prevented.”

Indiana shot 53.1 percent from the field, shot 5-for15 from 3-point range, and outrebounded the Badgers 32-25 – numbers that are normally solid enough to produce a win.

But because Wisconsin converted 13 turnovers into 23 points and only gave up nine points on its seven turnovers, the Hoosiers (10-5, 0-2) came up short.

“The problem with tonight is we had six turnovers in the first half and they scored two points on every one of them,” coach Tom Crean said. “Against the best teams, you can’t have bad segments.”

Morgan, De’Ron Davis and Robert Johnson each

NFL playoffs Wild-card round Saturday’s games Oakland at Houston, 3:35 p.m. (ESPN) Detroit at Seattle, 7:15 p.m. (NBC) Sunday’s games Miami at Pittsburgh, 12:05 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Giants at Green Bay, 3:40 p.m. (FOX) Divisional round Saturday, Jan. 14 Seattle, Green Bay or N.Y. Giants at Atlanta, 3:35 p.m. (FOX) Houston, Oakland or Miami at New England, 7:15 p.m. (CBS) Sunday, Jan. 15 Pittsburgh, Houston or Oakland at Kansas City, 12:05 p.m. (NBC) Green Bay, N.Y. Giants or Detroit at Dallas, 3:40 p.m. (FOX) Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 22 AFC Divisional winners, time & place TBD NFC Divisional winners, time & place TBD Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 29 At Orlando, Fla. AFC vs. NFC, 7 p.m. (ESPN) Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 5 At Houston TBD, 5:30 p.m. (FOX)

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After struggling to adjust to retirement, former Blackhawks player Nick Boynton (left) said he got through some dark times thanks to the support of his family. all you hear about is setting yourself up for retirement and saving your money,” Eager, 32, said. “Obviously it would be nice to retire with $20 million – which I don’t have – but even if you finish with $20 million or you have all the money in the world, you’re still sitting around and your investment guys are doing all the work.

“Now it’s about getting out and learning different things so when you’re done, you have a reason to get out of bed and not sit around with nothing to do.”

For many athletes, the difficulty is often finding that new path. Daniel Carcillo retired after helping the Hawks win the 2015 Stanley Cup, and the way forward was at first unclear.

“In transition, you’re searching,” Carcillo said.

“My brain was telling me: ‘OK, go try something else. Go do some music or just go down another avenue other than hockey.’ But then you put on your thinking cap because you have to feed your family.”

Like Eager, Carcillo played for five teams during a 9-year NHL career, including two stints with the Hawks.

“I had a difficult period,” Carcillo said. “Every year you’re familiar with a routine and structure and you have a purpose, and now you’re kind of searching for what to do next and what will motivate you.”

Many players also deal with cognitive issues after sustaining concussions throughout their careers. Like many of their fallen peers,

Boynton, Carcillo and Eager each had multiple concussions. Such head trauma can lead to those “difficult times” Carcillo referenced, including alcohol and substance abuse for some.

“It was just isolating and not really wanting to hang out with anybody,” Carcillo said of the days after retirement. “Staying inside or going to the park with your kid and just reflecting a lot.

“But being alone all the time isn’t the greatest, and then you have to learn how to interact with your spouse, and you’re getting in the way of her routine. Some things are an adjustment.”

All three former players said family helped their post-NHL transition.

Boynton is married with two young children, and has two older children from a previous relationship. Carcillo is married, and he and his wife have a 2-year-old son, with another baby due in April. Eager is separated and shares custody of his 2-year-old daughter.

“If I didn’t have my daughter, it probably would have been a lot tougher,” Eager said.

“She’s a big reason to get up in the morning.”

Becoming physically and mentally healthy was the former players’ top priority, and then they began to take the next step in life.

Like many, Boynton, Carcillo and Eager gravitated back to the sport that sustained them.

“My father-in-law gave me some great advice,” Carcillo, 31, said. “He said, ‘Do what you know.’”

That would be hockey.

That explains why

Boynton is an analyst, and why Carcillo and Eager make the trek to West Dundee – Carcillo from downtown Chicago and Eager from the west suburbs – three to four times a week and often hit the road on weekends as coaches of Team Illinois, a gathering of teenagers with lofty expectations and a love of the sport.

Carcillo and Eager have also filled their days and nights by becoming businessmen, having bought and renovated Jet Hockey Training Arena in Glenview, where they offer skating lessons, hockey leagues, and open skates.

Carcillo is also the founder of Chapter 5, which he created after Montador’s death to help former NHL players transition to posthockey careers.

In other words, they are busy. And that’s important.

“There were some tough days,” Carcillo said, “but you have a good support system around you, and one day you have an ‘aha’ moment and all of a sudden you’re coaching, and then an email comes through with a business opportunity and it works out.”

Neither Carcillo nor Eager anticipated spending their post-NHL lives coaching kids, but both realize the good it does for them and the players.

“It’s been really nice to stay involved in the game,” Eager said. “I mean, that’s the thing we know the most about, really. I don’t have a university degree or anything. Then when you get away from the game a little bit, you just realize you love it. It’s been fun working with the kids.”

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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

finished with 12 points to lead the Hoosiers, who took their last lead at 57-56 with 7:06 to play.

Wisconsin responded with a 10-2 spurt, taking a 66-59 lead with 4:30 to play, and Indiana couldn’t get closer than three the rest of the game.

“Every team wants to get up and down the court, get a lot of good shots in transition. They got a couple too many tonight,” said Wisconsin’s Zak Showalter, who scored 14 points. “But I think we were really able to take them out of what they wanted to do tonight.”

Nigel Hayes, who always seems to be a thorn in the Hoosiers’ side, finished with 10 points, but was just 2-for-3 from the free throw line; in the previous three games against the Hoosiers, Hayes was 30-for-39 on free throws.

Miami (Ohio) 69, N. Illinois 67: The Huskies

lost their MAC opener in Oxford, Ohio.

AP Newman grad Noah McCarty finished with Wisconsin’s Zak Showalter (3) shoots between two points, two rebounds Indiana’s James Blackmon Jr. (left) and Freddie and a block for NIU (8-6). McSwain Jr. on Tuesday in Bloomington Ind.

Bowl glance Monday’s results Outback Bowl Tampa, Fla. Florida 30, Iowa 3 Cotton Bowl Arlington, Texas Wisconsin 24, Western Michigan 16 Rose Bowl Pasadena, Calif.

Southern Cal 52, Penn State 49 Sugar Bowl New Orleans Oklahoma 35, Auburn 19 Monday, Jan. 9 College Football Championship Tampa, Fla. Alabama (14-0) vs. Clemson (13-1), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Men’s basketball Big Ten

Conference

W-L Pct. Wisconsin 2-0 1.000 Michigan St. 2-0 1.000 Nebraska 2-0 1.000 Maryland 1-1 .500 Minnesota 1-1 .500 Northwestern 1-1 .500 Purdue 1-1 .500 Illinois 1-1 .500 Iowa 1-1 .500 Penn St. 1-1 .500 Michigan 0-1 .000 Ohio St. 0-1 .000 Rutgers 0-2 .000 Indiana 0-2 .000

Overall W-L Pct. 13-2 .867 10-5 .667 8-6 .571 13-2 .867 13-2 .867 12-3 .800 12-3 .800 11-4 .733 9-6 .600 9-6 .600 10-4 .714 10-4 .714 11-4 .733 10-5 .667

Tuesday’s result Wisconsin 75, Indiana 68 Today’s games Rutgers at Michigan St., 5:30 p.m. (BTN) Penn State at Michigan, 7:30 p.m. (BTN) Thursday’s games Purdue at Ohio St., 6 p.m. (ESPN) Iowa at Nebraska, 8 p.m. (BTN) Minnesota at Northwestern, 8 p.m. (ESPNU) Saturday’s games Michigan St. at Penn St., noon (ESPN) Maryland at Michigan, 2:15 p.m. (ESPN2) Illinois at Indiana, 4 p.m. (ESPNU) Sunday’s games Northwestern at Nebraska, 1:15 p.m. (BTN) Wisconsin at Purdue, 3:30 p.m. (CBS) Rutgers at Iowa, 3:30 p.m. (BTN) Ohio St. at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m. (BTN) Tuesday’s box score

No. 13 WISCONSIN 75, No. 25 INDIANA 68 WISCONSIN (13-2) Happ 8-11 3-4 19, Hayes 4-11 2-3 10, Brown 3-8 0-0 8, Showalter 5-8 2-2 14, Koenig 5-7 2-2 17, Illikainen 0-1 0-0 0, Hill 0-0 0-0 0, Trice 2-8 0-1 5, Iverson 1-2 0-2 2. Totals 28-56 9-14 75.

INDIANA (10-5) Morgan 4-5 4-5 12, Anunoby 4-4 1-2 9, Bryant 3-5 0-0 6, Newkirk 1-7 2-2 4, Blackmon 4-9 0-0 10, McSwain 0-0 0-0 0, Davis 5-7 2-4 12, McRoberts 0-2 0-0 0, Johnson 4-9 2-2 12, Jones 1-1 0-0 3.

Totals 26-49 11-15 68.

Halftime–Wisconsin 38-37. 3s–Wisconsin 10-20 (Koenig 5-5, Showalter 2-5, Brown 2-5, Trice 1-4, Illikainen 0-1), Indiana 5-15 (Johnson 2-5, Blackmon 2-5, Jones 1-1, Morgan 0-1, McRoberts 0-1, Newkirk 0-2).

Rebounds–Wisconsin 23 (Happ, Brown 6), Indiana 30 (Morgan 7). Assists–Wisconsin 12 (Happ 4), Indiana 9 (Newkirk 4).

Fouls–Wisconsin 15, Indiana 16.

State schedule Tuesday’s result Miami (Ohio) 69, N. Illinois 67 Today’s games N. Iowa at Loyola, 6 p.m.

Bradley at Evansville, 7 p.m.

Indiana St. at S. Illinois, 7 p.m.

S. Dakota St. at W. Illinois, 7 p.m.

Missouri St. at Illinois St., 8 p.m.

Thursday’s games E. Illinois at Morehead St., 6:45 p.m.

SIU-Edwardsville at E. Kentucky, 7 p.m.

Texas-Rio Grande Valley at Chicago St., 7 p.m.

Friday’s games Detroit at Ill.-Chicago, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s games DePaul at Seton Hall, 11 a.m. (CBSSN) E. Illinois at E. Kentucky, 1 p.m.

Illinois St. at Indiana St., 1 p.m.

Oral Roberts at W. Illinois, 2 p.m.

New Mexico St. at Chicago St., 2:05 p.m.

S. Illinois at Missouri St., 3 p.m.

SIU-Edwardsville at Morehead St., 3:15 p.m.

Cent. Michigan at N. Illinois, 3:30 p.m.

Loyola at Bradley, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s games Oakland at Ill.-Chicago, 4 p.m.

Tuesday’s box score

MIAMI (OHIO) 69, N. ILLINOIS 67 N. ILLINOIS (8-6) Key 0-4 1-4 1, Maric 4-6 2-3 10, Thomas 1-1 0-0 2, Armstead 4-9 4-5 13, Highsmith 3-6 2-2 10, McCarty 1-1 0-0 2, Porter 0-2 2-2 2, Pauga 0-1 0-0 0, German 5-7 2-2 13, Wilson 1-6 1-2 3, Bradley 5-10 1-2 11.

Totals 24-53 15-22 67.

MIAMI (OHIO) (8-6) McLane 7-11 0-7 14, Mills 5-10 0-0 15, Wade 1-5 0-0 2, Harouna 5-9 3-4 18, Mi.Weathers 4-8 3-5 11, Ma.Weathers 1-1 4-4 7, Harper 0-0 0-0 0, Wright 0-3 0-0 0, Jovic 1-3 0-3 2, Bischoff 0-0 0-1 0. Totals 24-50 10-24 69.

Halftime–Miami (Ohio) 32-24. 3s–N. Illinois 4-17 (Highsmith 2-4, German 1-2, Armstead 1-3, Porter 0-1, Pauga 0-1, Bradley 0-2, Wilson 0-4), Miami (Ohio) 11-24 (Harouna 5-7, Mills 5-9, Ma.Weathers 1-1, McLane 0-1, Jovic 0-1, Mi.Weathers 0-1, Wright 0-2, Wade 0-2).

Rebounds–N. Illinois 40 (Bradley 14), Miami (Ohio) 28 (McLane 9). Assists–N. Illinois 8 (Thomas, Key 2), Miami (Ohio) 18 (Mi.Weathers 6). Fouls–N. Illinois 23, Miami (Ohio) 19.

Top 25 schedule Tuesday’s results No. 3 Kansas 90 Kansas State 88 No. 6 Kentucky 100 Texas A&M 58 No. 7 West Virginia 76 Texas Tech 77, OT No. 13 Wisconsin 75, No. 25 Indiana 68 No. 14 North Carolina 89, Clemson 86, OT No. 24 Florida 70, Mississippi 63 Today’s games No. 1 Villanova at No. 18 Butler, 6:30 p.m.

No. 2 Baylor vs. Iowa State, 8 p.m.

No. 8 Duke vs. Georgia Tech, 7 p.m.

No. 9 Louisville at No. 23 Notre Dame, 9 p.m.

No. 10 Creighton at St. John’s, 8:30 p.m.

No. 11 Virginia at Pittsburgh, 9 p.m.

No. 15 Oregon at Washington, 9 p.m.

No. 21 Virginia Tech at N.C. State, 9 p.m.

Thursday’s games No. 4 UCLA vs. California, 9 p.m.

No. 5 Gonzaga at San Francisco, 9 p.m.

No. 17 Arizona vs. Utah, 10 p.m.

No. 19 Saint Mary’s vs. BYU, 11 p.m.

No. 20 Purdue at Ohio State, 7 p.m.

No. 25 Southern Cal vs. Stanford, 11 p.m.

Saturday’s games No. 1 Villanova vs. Marquette at Wells Fargo Center, 7:30 p.m.

No. 2 Baylor vs. Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

No. 3 Kansas vs. Texas Tech, 7:15 p.m.

No. 5 Gonzaga at Portland, 10 p.m.

No. 6 Kentucky vs. Arkansas, 8:30 p.m.

No. 7 West Virginia vs. TCU, 1 p.m.

No. 8 Duke vs. Boston College, 2 p.m.

No. 9 Louisville at Georgia Tech, 2 p.m.

No. 10 Creighton at Providence, 2 p.m.

No. 12 Florida State vs. No. 21 Virginia Tech, 2 p.m.

No. 14 North Carolina vs. N.C. State, 8 p.m.

No. 15 Oregon at Washington State, 7 p.m.

No. 16 Xavier vs. St. John’s, 2:30 p.m.

No. 17 Arizona vs. Colorado, 9:30 p.m.

No. 18 Butler at Georgetown, Noon No. 19 Saint Mary’s at San Francisco, 11 p.m.

No. 22 Cincinnati at Houston, 9 p.m.

No. 23 Notre Dame vs. Clemson, 3 p.m.

No. 24 Florida vs. Tennessee, 5:15 p.m.

No. 25 Indiana vs. Illinois, 5 p.m.

Sunday’s games No. 4 UCLA vs. Stanford, 8 p.m.

No. 11 Virginia vs. Wake Forest, 8 p.m.

No. 13 Wisconsin at No. 20 Purdue, 1:30 or 4:30 p.m.

No. 25 Southern Cal vs. California, 10 p.m.

AP Top 25

Record Pts Prv 1. Villanova (59) 14-0 1619 1 2. Baylor (6) 13-0 1532 4 3. Kansas 12-1 1503 3 4. UCLA 14-1 1406 2 5. Gonzaga 14-0 1357 7 6. Kentucky 11-2 1280 8 7. West Virginia 12-1 1179 11 8. Duke 12-2 1090 5 9. Louisville 12-2 1063 6 10. Creighton 13-1 1015 10 11. Virginia 11-2 954 12 12. Florida St. 14-1 902 20 13. Wisconsin 12-2 865 14 14. North Carolina 12-3 785 9 15. Oregon 13-2 771 21 16. Xavier 12-2 634 17 17. Arizona 13-2 613 18 18. Butler 12-2 477 13 19. Saint Mary’s (Cal) 12-1 416 19 20. Purdue 12-3 405 15 21. Virginia Tech 12-1 293 — 22. Cincinnati 12-2 258 23 23. Notre Dame 12-2 250 24 24. Florida 10-3 193 25 25. Indiana 10-4 74 16 25. Southern Cal 14-1 74 22 Others receiving votes: Minnesota 56, Clemson 23, Miami 16, Maryland 6, Kansas St 5, Iowa St. 3, Seton Hall 3, Northwestern 2, VCU 2, UNC Wilmington 1.

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Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 23 11 .676 — Boston 21 14 .600 2½ New York 16 18 .471 7 Philadelphia 9 24 .273 13½ Brooklyn 8 25 .242 14½ Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Charlotte 19 16 .543 — Atlanta 18 16 .529 ½ Washington 16 18 .471 2½ Orlando 16 20 .444 3½ Miami 10 26 .278 9½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 26 7 .788 — Milwaukee 17 16 .515 9 Indiana 18 18 .500 9½ Chicago 17 18 .486 10 Detroit 16 21 .432 12

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W L Pct GB Utah 22 14 .611 — Oklahoma City 21 14 .600 ½ Portland 15 21 .417 7 Denver 14 21 .400 7½ Minnesota 11 24 .314 10½ Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 30 5 .857 — L.A. Clippers 23 14 .622 8 Sacramento 15 19 .441 14½ L.A. Lakers 13 25 .342 18½ Phoenix 11 25 .306 19½ Tuesday’s results Minnesota 91, Philadelphia 93 Indiana 121, Detroit 116 Utah 104, Boston 115 Washington 105, Dallas 113 Toronto 82, San Antonio 110 Sacramento 120, Denver 113 Miami 90, Phoenix 99 Memphis 102 L.A Lakers 116 Today’s games Atlanta at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Chicago at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Memphis at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Miami at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

Portland at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Thursday’s games Brooklyn at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Utah at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Atlanta at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Houston, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Denver, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

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GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 38 23 9 6 52 115 87 Ottawa 37 20 13 4 44 94 98 Boston 40 20 16 4 44 95 97 Toronto 37 17 12 8 42 113 109 Tampa Bay 39 19 16 4 42 113 111 Florida 38 16 14 8 40 92 104 Detroit 37 16 16 5 37 93 107 Buffalo 37 14 15 8 36 82 102 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Columbus 36 27 5 4 58 126 74 Pittsburgh 38 25 8 5 55 133 107 N.Y. Rangers 40 26 13 1 53 136 101 Washington 37 23 9 5 51 105 83 Philadelphia 39 20 14 5 45 116 120 Carolina 37 16 14 7 39 95 101 New Jersey 39 16 16 7 39 92 115 N.Y. Islanders 36 15 15 6 36 104 113

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GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 38 23 13 2 48 95 82 Anaheim 39 19 12 8 46 107 109 Edmonton 39 19 13 7 45 111 104 Calgary 39 20 17 2 42 105 111 Los Angeles 38 19 15 4 42 94 92 Vancouver 39 18 18 3 39 97 116 Arizona 37 11 21 5 27 82 121 Note: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Tuesday’s results Buffalo 4, N.Y. Rangers 1 Toronto 5, Washington 6, OT New Jersey 3, Carolina 1 Edmonton 1, Columbus 3 Winnipeg 6, Tampa Bay 4 Montreal 2, Nashville 1, OT Los Angeles 2 San Jose 1, OT Today’s games Winnipeg at Florida, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Dallas, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Arizona at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Detroit at Anaheim, 9:30 p.m.

Thursday’s games Columbus at Washington, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Boston, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Carolina at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY - MORRISON ILLINOIS

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Plaintiff,

Plaintiff,

vs.

vs.

Tyler J. Schultheis, AKA Tyler Schultheis; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants

Paul A. Urrutia; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants; Teresa R. Urrutia, AKA Teresa R. Griswold

Defendants.

Defendants.

16CH 98 808 West 14th Street, Sterling, IL 61081

2016CH 112 206 East 7th Street, Sterling, IL 61081

NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on December 7, 2016, the Whiteside County Sheriff's Office will on February 2, 2017, at the hour of 10:00AM at the Whiteside County Sheriff's Office, Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox Street(Third Floor Lobby), Morrison, IL 61270, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 808 West 14th Street, Sterling, IL 61081

NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on December 7, 2016, the Whiteside County Sheriff's Office will on February 2, 2017, at the hour of 10:00AM at the Whiteside County Sheriff's Office, Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox Street(Third Floor Lobby), Morrison, IL 61270, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 206 East 7th Street, Sterling, IL 61081

Parcel Number(s): 11-21-107-006

Parcel Number(s): 11-21-408-012

The real estate is improved with a Single Family Residence.

The real estate is improved with a Single Family Residence.

Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the time of sale, a cashier's or certified check for 10% of the successful bid amount. The balance of the successful bid shall be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds. The subject property is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the Court. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the time of sale, a cashier's or certified check for 10% of the successful bid amount. The balance of the successful bid shall be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds. The subject property is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the Court. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than the mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

For information call Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski LLC, One East Wacker, Suite 1250, Chicago, IL 60601.

Phone number: 312-651-6700. Attorney file number: 16019115.

Ellen C. Morris MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff One East Wacker, Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60601 Telephone: 312-651-6700 Fax: 614-220-5613 Attorney. No.: 6308804 Email: MDKIllinoisFilings@manleydeas.com January 4, 11 & 18 2017 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY - MORRISON, ILLINOIS U.S. Bank National Association PLAINTIFF

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than the mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

For information call Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski LLC, One East Wacker, Suite 1250, Chicago, IL 60601.

Phone number: 312-651-6700. Attorney file number: 16013538.

Ellen C. Morris MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff One East Wacker, Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60601 Telephone: 312-651-6700 Fax: 614-220-5613 Attorney. No.: 6308804 Email: MDKIllinoisFilings@manleydeas.com January 4, 11 & 18th 2017 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY - MORRISON, ILLINOIS Wells Fargo Bank, NA

Vs.

PLAINTIFF

Sandy M. Hoffman; et. al.

Vs. Ricky Richards; et. al.

DEFENDANTS 16 CH 00071 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 12/7/2016, the Sheriff of Whiteside County, Illinois will on 2/2/17 at the hour of 10:00AM at Whiteside County Courthouse 200 E. Knox St, 3rd Floor Lobby Morrison, IL 61270, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of Whiteside and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: PIN 11-27-153-002 Improved with Single Family Home COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 219 Avenue B Rock Falls, IL 61071 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, 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, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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 and in "AS IS" condition.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

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.

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 successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and Plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

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

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. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876.

Please refer to file number 14-16-02609.

I711074#efer to file number 14-16-02609.

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DEFENDANTS 15 CH 00129 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 3/16/2016, the Sheriff of Whiteside County, Illinois will on 2/2/17 at the hour of 10:00AM at Whiteside County Courthouse 200 E. Knox St, 3rd Floor Lobby Morrison, IL 61270, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of Whiteside and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: PIN 11-33-205-012 Improved with Residential COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 610 W. 14th Street Rock Falls, IL 61071 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, 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, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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 and in "AS IS" condition.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

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.

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 successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 15TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT LEE COUNTY-DIXON, ILLINOIS FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION ("FANNIE MAE"), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PLAINTIFF vs.

PAUL M. WOLF A/K/A PAUL WOLF; TINA WOLF; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR CAPITAL ONE HOME LOANS, LLC; DEFENDANTS 16 CH 57 Address: 90 Logan Ave. Dixon, IL 61021 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 6, 2016, I, Sheriff of Lee County, Illinois, will on February 9, 2017 at the hour of 10:00 AM at the Old Lee County Courthouse 112 E. Second Street, Dixon, IL 61021, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of Lee, State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: COMMON ADDRESS: 90 Logan Ave., Dixon, IL 61021 P.I.N.: 07-08-06-277-003 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

THE JUDGMENT AMOUNT WAS: $55,415.99 Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds; the balance, by certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to 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 and in "as is" condition. 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 and Plaintiff makes no representations as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the Court file to verify all information.

Pursuant to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512, the amounts of any surplus bid will be held by the sheriff until a party obtains a Court Order for its distribution, or for 60 days following the date of the entry of the order confirming sale, at which time, in the absence of an order directing payment of the surplus, it may be automatically forfeited to the State without further notice.

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 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Johnson, Blumberg & Associates, LLC, 230 W. Monroe St., Chicago, IL 60606, telephone 312-541-9710.

Please refer to file number IL 16 3887.

Johnson, Blumberg, & Associates, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite 1125 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Email: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg.com Ph. 312-541-9710 / Fax 312-541-9711 JB&A # IL 16-3887 I711268 Dec. 28, 2016, Jan. 4, 11, 2017

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT LEE COUNTY - DIXON ILLINOIS Wells Fargo Bank, NA Plaintiff, vs.

Dena L. Engelkes, AKA Dena L. Martinez, AKA Dena Engelkes; Timothy D. Engelkes, AKA Tim Engelkes; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants Defendants.

2016CH 39 510 IL Route 2, Dixon, IL 61021 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on December 6, 2016, the Lee County Sheriff's Office will on February 9, 2017, at the hour of 10:00AM at the Lee County Sheriff's Office, Lee County Courthouse, 309 Galena Avenue Suite 320, Dixon, IL 61021, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 510 IL Route 2, Dixon, IL 61021 Parcel Number(s): 16-07-01-300-005 The real estate is improved with a Single Family Residence.

Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the time of sale, a cashier's or certified check for 10% of the successful bid amount. The balance of the successful bid shall be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds. The subject property is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the Court. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than the mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

The property will NOT be open for inspection and Plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

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

For information call Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski LLC, One East Wacker, Suite 1250, Chicago, IL 60601.

Phone number: 312-651-6700. Attorney file number: 16014431.

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.

Alan S. Kaufman MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff One East Wacker, Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60601 Telephone: 312-651-6700 Fax: 614-220-5613 Attorney. No.: 6289893 Email: MDKIllinoisFilings@manleydeas.com

For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876.

Please refer to file number 14-15-17354.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY - MORRISON ILLINOIS JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Plaintiff,

Plaintiff,

vs.

vs.

Paul A. Urrutia; Unknown Claimants; Teresa R. Urrutia, AKA Teresa R. Griswold

Owners

and

Non-Record

Tyler J. Schultheis, AKA Tyler Schultheis; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants

Defendants.

Defendants.

2016CH 112 206 East 7th Street, Sterling, IL 61081

16CH 98 808 West 14th Street, Sterling, IL 61081

NOTICE OF SALE

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on December 7, 2016, the Whiteside County Sheriff's Office will on February 2, 2017, at the hour of 10:00AM at the Whiteside County Sheriff's Office, Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox Street(Third Floor Lobby), Morrison, IL 61270, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate:

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on December 7, 2016, the Whiteside County Sheriff's Office will on February 2, 2017, at the hour of 10:00AM at the Whiteside County Sheriff's Office, Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox Street(Third Floor Lobby), Morrison, IL 61270, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate:

All of Lot 4 and the Southerly 33.5 feet of Lot 3 (Excepting therefrom the Westerly 100 feet of Lot 4 and the Westerly 100 feet of the Southerly 33.5 feet of Lot 3), all in Block 3 of J.W. LeFevre's Addition to the City of Sterling, Whiteside County, Illinois; according to the Plat thereof recorded March 10, 1856 in Plat Book 1, Page 30.

The West Half of Lot 5 in Block 11 in Pitney's Addition of Blocks 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of Martin Estate Subdivision in the Northwest Quarter of Section 21, Township 21 North, Range 7 East of the 4th Principal Meridian, in the City of Sterling, Whiteside County, Illinois.

Commonly known as 206 East 7th Street, Sterling, IL 61081 Parcel Number(s): 11-21-408-012 The real estate is improved with a Single Family Residence.

Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the time of sale, a cashier's or certified check for 10% of the successful bid amount. The balance of the successful bid shall be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds. The subject property is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the Court. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than the mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

For information call Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski LLC, One East Wacker, Suite 1250, Chicago, IL 60601. Phone number: 312-651-6700. Attorney file number: 16-013538.

Ellen C. Morris MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff One East Wacker, Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60601 Telephone: 312-651-6700 Fax: 614-220-5613 Attorney. No.: 6308804 Email: MDKIllinoisFilings@manleydeas.com

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY - MORRISON, ILLINOIS U.S. Bank National Association PLAINTIFF Vs. Sandy M. Hoffman; et. al.

DEFENDANTS 16 CH 00071 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 12/7/2016, the Sheriff of Whiteside County, Illinois will on 2/2/17 at the hour of 10:00AM at Whiteside County Courthouse 200 E. Knox St, 3rd Floor Lobby Morrison, IL 61270, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of Whiteside and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: THE SOUTHERLY HALF OF LOT 8, AND THE SOUTHERLY HALF OF LOT 9 IN THE RESUBDIVISION OF BLOCK "C" IN WOODWORTH'S SUBDIVISION OF THE NORTHWEST FRACTIONAL QUARTER OF SECTION 27, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE 4TH P.M., AS PER PLAT RECORDED IN THE RECORDER'S OFFICE OF WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, IN BOOK 6 OF PLATS, PAGE 24.

PIN 11-27-153-002 Improved with Single Family Home COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 219 Avenue B Rock Falls, IL 61071 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, 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, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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 and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

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.

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 successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and Plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

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

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. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-16-02609.

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Commonly known as 808 West 14th Street, Sterling, IL 61081 Parcel Number(s): 11-21-107-006 The real estate is improved with a Single Family Residence.

Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the time of sale, a cashier's or certified check for 10% of the successful bid amount. The balance of the successful bid shall be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds. The subject property is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the Court. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than the mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

For information call Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski LLC, One East Wacker, Suite 1250, Chicago, IL 60601. Phone number: 312-651-6700. Attorney file number: 16-019115.

Ellen C. Morris MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff One East Wacker, Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60601 Telephone: 312-651-6700 Fax: 614-220-5613 Attorney. No.: 6308804 Email: MDKIllinoisFilings@manleydeas.com January 4, 11 & 18 2017

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT LEE COUNTY - DIXON ILLINOIS Wells Fargo Bank, NA Plaintiff, vs.

Dena L. Engelkes, AKA Dena L. Martinez, AKA Dena Engelkes; Timothy D. Engelkes, AKA Tim Engelkes; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants Defendants.

2016CH 39 510 IL Route 2, Dixon, IL 61021 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on December 6, 2016, the Lee County Sheriff's Office will on February 9, 2017, at the hour of 10:00AM at the Lee County Sheriff's Office, Lee County Courthouse, 309 Galena Avenue Suite 320, Dixon, IL 61021, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Parcel No. 1: Part of Lot 2 of Assessor's Plat of part of Sections 1, 2, 11 and 12 in Township 21 North, Range 8 East of the Fourth Principal Meridian, Lee County, Illinois, described as follows: Commencing at the Northwest corner of the Southwest Quarter of said Section 1; thence North 89º 24' 39" East on the North line of the said Southwest Quarter, 1137.51 feet; thence South 13 º 20' 00" East 491.91 feet; thence South 57º 50' 00" West, 453.10 feet; thence South 28º 00' 14" East, 562.16 feet to the present Northerly Right of Way line of S.B.I. Route No. 6; thence South 67º 25' 35" West on the Right of Way line, 66.30 feet; thence North 28º 00' 14" West 202.46 feet; thence South 62º 29' 58" West 394.48 feet; thence South 64º 57' 59" West, 220.91 feet to the Westerly line of said Lot 2; thence North 29º 45' 08" West on the said Westerly line, 112.33 feet to the point of beginning of the tract being described; thence North 65º 14'46" East, 224.40 feet; thence North 28º 00' 14" West, 206.85 feet; thence South 63º 45' 46" West, 230.29 feet to the said Westerly line of Lot 2; thence South 29º 45' 08" East, 201.32 feet to the said point of beginning.

Parcel No. 2: An easement 25 feet in width for ingress and egress described as follows: Beginning at the Southeast corner of the above described property; thence South 28º 00' 14" East, 271 feet to the Northerly Right of Way line of S.B.I. Route No. 6; thence Westerly on the said Northerly Right of Way line 25 feet; thence North 28º 00' 14" West, 271 feet more or less to a point on the South line of said above described property; thence North 65º 14' 46" East on said South line, 25 feet to the said point of beginning, situated in the County of Lee, in the State of Illinois.

Commonly known as 510 IL Route 2, Dixon, IL 61021 Parcel Number(s): 16-07-01-300-005 The real estate is improved with a Single Family Residence.

Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the time of sale, a cashier's or certified check for 10% of the successful bid amount. The balance of the successful bid shall be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds. The subject property is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the Court. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than the mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

For information call Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski LLC, One East Wacker, Suite 1250, Chicago, IL 60601. Phone number: 312-651-6700. Attorney file number: 16-014431.

Alan S. Kaufman MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff One East Wacker, Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60601 Telephone: 312-651-6700 Fax: 614-220-5613 Attorney. No.: 6289893 Email: MDKIllinoisFilings@manleydeas.com I711507

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NOTICE Sealed Bids will be received until 10:00 a.m., January 13, 2017 at the Whiteside County Highway Office, 18819 Lincoln Road, Morrison, IL 61270, (815) 7727651 and at that time publicly opened and read for the following: 2017 GENERAL COUNTY LETTING WHITESIDE COUNTY Furnish the Whiteside County Highway Department and various road districts in said county with all or part of the seven (7) groups of materials consisting of: 35,000 tons of Agg. Surf. Crse., Type-B (CA-6/10); 2,000 tons of Agg. Surf. Crse (CA-12); 11,500 tons of CA-16 (washed); 1,000 tons Coarse Agg. (CA-02); 1,000 tons of Bit. Patching Mix (cold patch); 3,000 tons of HMA, Mix C, N 50, IL9.5/12.5; 4,100 Ft. of Pipe Culvert, Type 1, C.S.C.P. In various diameters.

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Furnish the Whiteside County Highway Department and various road districts in said county with all or part of the groups of materials.

Proposals may be obtained at the office of the County Engineer at the above address. All bids must be submitted on forms provided by the Whiteside County Highway Department. No duplications of this form will be allowed.

All Contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act. (820 ILCS 130/112).

The Public Works Committee reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive technicalities and to accept the proposal which is most advantageous to Whiteside County.

Industrial Park Storage 905 E 17th St. Rock Falls IL 61071 815-564-9551 Will hold a public sale to enforce a lien(s).

Date of Sale Saturday Jan. 14th, 2017 at 12:00 P.M. (noon) Customer Name: Emily Fortune #103 Dec 28, 2016 & Jan. 4, 2017 ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on December 30, A.D. 2016, a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Lee County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post-offce addresses of all of the persons ownconducting ing, and transacting the business known as Pro Web Development located at 116 Fox Trot Lane, Dixon, IL 61021.

Dated this 30th day of December, A.D. 2016.

Cathy Myers County Clerk

by Gerianne Kilack, Deputy Jan. 4, 11, 18, 2017

By Order of Russell L. Renner, P.E., S.E. County Engineer Whtieside County Jan. 4, & 9, 2017 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, ILLINOIS, LEE COUNTY, IN PROBATE IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT HARTZELL, Deceased.

No. 2016 P 87 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given to creditors of the death of Robert Hartzell of 620 N. Ottawa Ave., Dixon, IL 61021. Letters of office were issued to Sara M. Milligan of 2020 Greenfield Lane, Rockford, IL 61107 as Independent Executor, whose attorney of record is the firm 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 309 S. Galena Avenue, Dixon, Illinois 61021, 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: Sara M. Milligan, 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. 28, 2016, Jan. 4, 11, 2017 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN PROBATE IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ARLYN W. FOLKERS DECEASED. NO. 2016 P 16 NOTICE OF DEATH AND CLAIM PERIOD Notice is given of the death of Arlyn W. Folkers.. Letters of Administration were issued on May 11, 2016, to Ben Hayen, 2379 Coleta Road, Milledgeville, IL 6105, as Independent Executor.

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 Circuit Clerk of Whiteside County.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the Office of the Circuit Clerk of Whiteside County, 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, Illinois 61270, or with the Independent Executor, or both, on or before June 21, 2017, or, if mailing or delivery of a notice from the Independent Executor is required by Section 18-3 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/18-3), the date stated in that notice. Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered by the claimant to the Independent Executor and her attorneys within 10 days after it has been filed.

Lon M. Richey Nelson, Kilgus, Richey & BuckwalterSchurman Attorneys for said Estate 209 E Main Street, PO Box 111 Morrison IL 61270 815-772-2121 December 21, 28, January 4, 2017

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

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION ("FANNIE MAE"), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PLAINTIFF vs.

PAUL M. WOLF A/K/A PAUL WOLF; TINA WOLF; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR CAPITAL ONE HOME LOANS, LLC; DEFENDANTS 16 CH 57 Address: 90 Logan Ave. Dixon, IL 61021 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 6, 2016, I, Sheriff of Lee County, Illinois, will on February 9, 2017 at the hour of 10:00 AM at the Old Lee County Courthouse 112 E. Second Street, Dixon, IL 61021, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of Lee, State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: THE NORTHERLY FIFTY (50) FEET OF THE WESTERLY ONE HUNDRED (100) FEET OF LOT ONE (1) BLOCK TWENTY-ONE (21) IN THE TOWN OF WEST DIXON (NOW A PART OF THE CITY OF DIXON), ALL IN LEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. COMMON ADDRESS: 90 Logan Ave., Dixon, IL 61021 P.I.N.: 07-08-06-277-003 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

THE JUDGMENT AMOUNT WAS: $55,415.99

CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT,WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS

IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF HILARIA GARZA, Petitioner vs.

ERIC RASCON, Respondent.

No. 2016 D 86 ST NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Eric Rascon that a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage is pending in the Circuit Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, Whiteside County, Illinois, in regard to the marriage of Hilaria Garza, Petitioner, vs. Eric Rascon, Respondent, Case No. 2016 D 86 ST, and that on or after January 20, 2017 a default judgment may be entered against such party.

Louis F. Pignatelli Pignatelli & Associates, P.C. Attorneys for Petitioner 102 East Route 30 Rock Falls, IL 61071 December 21, & 28 2016 & January 4 2017 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS

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

Wells Fargo Bank, NA PLAINTIFF Vs. Ricky Richards; et. al.

DEFENDANTS 15 CH 00129 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 3/16/2016, the Sheriff of Whiteside County, Illinois will on 2/2/17 at the hour of 10:00AM at Whiteside County Courthouse 200 E. Knox St, 3rd Floor Lobby Morrison, IL 61270, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of Whiteside and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 97 IN SECOND ADDITION TO GARDEN VIEW SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF ROCK FALLS, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MAY 12, 1969 AS DOCUMENT NO. 337751 IN WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

Estate of: RONALD P. ADAMS Deceased.

No. 2016 P 164 CLAIM NOTICE

PIN 11-33-205-012 Improved with Residential

Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds; the balance, by certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to 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 and in "as is" condition. 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 and Plaintiff makes no representations as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the Court file to verify all information.

Pursuant to 735 ILCS 5/15-1512, the amounts of any surplus bid will be held by the sheriff until a party obtains a Court Order for its distribution, or for 60 days following the date of the entry of the order confirming sale, at which time, in the absence of an order directing payment of the surplus, it may be automatically forfeited to the State without further notice.

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 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Johnson, Blumberg & Associates, LLC, 230 W. Monroe St., Chicago, IL 60606, telephone 312-541-9710. Please refer to file number IL 16 3887.

Johnson, Blumberg, & Associates, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite 1125 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Email: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg.com Ph. 312-541-9710 / Fax 312-541-9711 JB&A # IL 16-3887 I711268 Dec. 28, 2016, Jan. 4, 11, 2017

Notice is given of the death of RONALD P. ADAMS. Letters of Administration were issued to PAUL J. ADAMS, 702 Maple Lane, Sterling, IL 61081, as Indewhose attorpendent Administrator, neys are WARD, MURRAY, PACE & JOHNSON, P.C., 202 E. 5th Street, Sterling, Illinois 61081.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Court, Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, IL 61270, or with the administrator, or both, on or before June 28, 2017,and any claim not filed within that period is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to theAdministrator and to the attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed.

Dated: December 21, 2016

Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, 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, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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 and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

PETITION FOR TAX DEED NO. 16 TX 64 FILED DECEMBER 13, 2016

Notice is given of the death of Helen M. Mitchell. Letters of Administration were issued on December 13, 2016, to Diane K. Boelkins of 1025 Hilltop Drive, Morrison, Illinois 61270, as Independent Executor.

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 Circuit Clerk of Whiteside County.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the Office of the Circuit Clerk of Whiteside County, 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, Illinois 61270, or with the Independent Executor, or both, on or before June 21, 2017, or, if mailing or delivery of a notice from the Independent Executor is required by Section 18-3 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/18-3), the date stated in that notice. Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered by the claimant to the Independent Executor and her attorneys within 10 days after it has been filed.

TAKE NOTICE County of: Lee County, Illinois Date Premises Sold: October 28, 2014 2014-00113 Certificate No.: Sold for General Taxes of (year): 2013 Sold for Special Assessment of (Municipality): None THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at: 817 S. Ottawa Avenue, Dixon, Illinois 61021 Legal Description and Property Index No.: The Southerly 40 feet in width of the Northerly 90 feet of Lot 4 in Block 102 in the Original Town (now City) of Dixon, situated in the County of Lee, in the State of Illinois, under PIN: 07-08-05432-011.

This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on April 28, 2017.

The amount to redeem is subject to increase at six-month intervals from the date of sale and may be further increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes or special assessments to redeem the property from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the County Clerk as to the exact amount you owe before redeeming.

This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right of possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before April 28, 2017.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of Lee County, 309 S. Galena Ave., Room 330, Dixon, Illinois, on May 2, 2017, at 10:45 a.m.

You may be present at this hearing, but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption may be made at any time on or before April 28, 2017, by applying to the County Clerk of Lee County, Illinois, at the County Courthouse in Dixon, Illinois.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT THE COUNTY CLERK Address: 112 E. Second Street, Dixon, Illinois 61021 Telephone: (815)288-330 Terry Hambley Purchaser or Assignee Dated December 15, 2016 NOTICE TO: Unknown Owners or Parties Interested Dec. 21, 28, 2016, Jan. 4, 2017

Paul J. Adams, Independent Administrator Amanda J. Beveroth WARD, MURRAY, PACE & JOHNSON, P.C. Attorneys for Estate 202 E. 5th Street | P.O. Box 400 Sterling, IL 61081 P: 815.625.8200 beveroth@wmpj.com Dec. 28, 2016, Jan. 4, 11, 2017 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN PROBATE IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HELEN M. MITCHELL, DECEASED. NO. 2016 P 162 NOTICE OF DEATH AND CLAIM PERIOD

Lon M. Richey Nelson, Kilgus, Richey & BuckwalterSchurman Attorneys for said Estate 209 E Main Street, PO Box 111 Morrison IL 61270 815-772-2121 December 21, 28, 2016,January 4, 2017

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If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

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.

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 successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and Plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

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

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. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876.

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Full or Part Time Local or Regional Drivers Wanted Class A CDL Assigned Peterbilt and Kenworth Trucks Preloaded Trailers Paid Vacations Home Weekends Flexible Dispatch Wellmark Health Insurance Apply online at www.avtrans inc.com or Call Missy 800-397-6387x10

Wanted C.N.A. Shift, full time

RN 2nd shift, part time Please Apply in person at: Heritage Square 620 N. Ottawa Ave., Dixon, OR online at: heritagesquare dixon.com

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NEW TODAY Bartender/Waitress needed at Wagon Wheel Restaurant.

Apply in person at 1711 W. 4th St., Sterling

Casey's General Store in Franklin Grove accepting applications for Store Manager Rock Falls IL. location 1st Ave. Food Service Leader Rock Falls IL Dixon Ave. Food Service Leader and Shift Leader Dixon IL. Must be willing to work days, nights weekends and some holidays.

Apply online at www.caseys.com or mail applications to P.O. Box 836 Sterling IL. 61081 Entry level Mechanic needed Must have standard tools. Pay depends on experience. No phone calls please.

Email resume to bellini@grics.net or stop in for application at 1577 Eldena Rd., Dixon Experienced HVAC Technician ★★needed★★ ★immediately★ must have at least 5 yrs. experience, competitive wages, Please submit resume to 1301 Ave. L, Sterling, IL Receptionist PoMust be sition: available mornings, afternoons, evenings and weekends. Bilingual applicants a plus.

Apply in person Mondays from 16p.m. and Fridays 9a.m.-3p.m. at H & R Block, 1027 lst Ave. Rock Falls

Part-time dog kennel and cat care person/ assisadoption tant needed. Experience preferred, but will provide training. Must be at least 18 years old.

Approximately 20 hours per week with alternating reweekends quired.

Should have good customer skills. Apply person at in Granny Rose Animal Shelter, 613 River Lane, Dixon, IL. NO phone calls!

Sterling Township Highway Department has immediate openings for part time snow plow drivers. CDL a plus and drug screening required.

Must be available for all inclement condiweather tions. Could lead to part time summer help.

Please stop at Sterling Township Highway Department, 1807 Griswold Ave., Sterling Illinois to pick up an application. Mon - Fri. 7AM- 3PM We are an EEO.

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Little Blessings Childcare has immediate daycare openings for infant-school age. 815-285-3811 Lic# 48927502 NO INDIVIDUAL, unless licensed or holding a permit as a childcare facility, may cause to be published any advertisement soliciting a child care service.* A childcare facility that is licensed or operating under a permit issued by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services may publish advertisements of the services for which it is lispecifically censed or issued a permit. Sauk Valley Media strongly urges any parent or guardian to verify the validity of the license of any facility before placing a child in it's care. *Family homes that care for no more than three (3) children under the age of twelve or which receive only children from a single household, for less than 24 hours per day, are exempt from licensure as day care homes.

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

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2015 International semi (sleepercab).

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ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES 705 I Buy: Antiques, collectibles, toys, post cards, etc.

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PETS & PET SUPPLIES 775

Sofa, blue & white.

Good cond. $50.

Call 815-732-1492

Child's wooden desk with attach. chair & metal base $20. 815-732-1492 Kids mattress, 50” L x 28”W x 5” thick.

815-626-6875

NEW TODAY Pronto Power Chair, M41 Series.

Like New. 815-915-3870

AKC reg. German Shepherd pups blk/tan, dewormed & shots. Ready now Parents on site. $600 cash.

815-629-2606.

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!

SNOWBLOWERS

782

Craftsman 3.5hp 21” snowblower, auger. Runs good.

815-625$120.

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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.

AREA GARAGE SALES 624

Mattress sets: Twin $99, Full $129, Queen $159, King $199. Will deliver! Bunk Bed $298. Call 309451-7477

Offer expires 12/31/16 No Commercial Advertising, Pets, Garage Sales, Wood/ Fuel, Tickets/ Travel or Real Estate

2002 Chevy Malibu,130k + mi. new tires, runs great.

New Price $2,100 OBO 815-219-2734 2005 Nissan Altima 144K mi.

Good cond. Lots of new parts. Heated leather seats. $2700/obo.

815-973-9600 creditautosales dixon.com Always over 100+ vehicles to choose from.

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Sauk Valley Classified makes every effort to qualify these charges for the reader.

If you have a concern about an advertiser, please contact the Better Business Bureau 330 N. Wabash, Chicago, IL 60611.

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FURNITURE

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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

SERVICE DIRECTORY SAUK VALLEY

Air Cond./Heating

Fireplaces

Painting

FARLEY'S APPLIANCE Heating & Cooling Sale & Service Free Estimates New & Replacement Units We service all brands!

Call Today (815)284-2052

Fireplaces Gas Wood Stoves Inserts Log Sets Doors Service Repair Install Visit our Showrooms Anselmo's 1235 W. LeFevre Rd., Sterling 815-625-3519

PRATER Paint & Waterproofing Specializing in •Residential •Commercial •Farm & •Industrial Call for your FREE painting or sandblasting estimate 815-626-5165

Furniture Refinished

•Residential & Commercial •24 Hour Service!

•Specializing in Custom Duct Design & Fabrication •Free Estimates Affordable, Reliable & 25 years Experience!!

Owner Tod Reynolds 815-535-1459

Furniture Restoration Strip, Refinish, Repair Re-glue, Touch-ups.

Custom Woodworking & Finishing Shop Anselmo's Inc. 1235 W. LeFevre Rd., Sterling 815-625-3519

Genl. Contracting

Basement Waterproofing Prater Paint & Waterproofing We Dry Up Basements & Crawl Spaces, Remediate Mold & Install E-Z Breathe™ Ventilation Systems 815-626-5165

License-Bonded Insured NO JOB TOO SMALL All your home Improvement needs Remodeling of baths, basements & kitchens Custom showers Siding-Decks etc.

815-440-3519

Gutters

www.praterpaintand waterproofing.com

Cleaning Service Serving the Sauk Valley Areas for over 15 years •On the Job Manufactured • Expert Installation •Competitive prices •Best Quality Materials, Guaranteed •5” and 6” Seamless Gutters for Residential, Industrial & Commercial Needs •Leaf Free Gutter Protection Systems •Licensed •Bonded •Insured FREE Estimates 815-213-0704

Power Washing

Mobil Pressure Wash Service • Commercial, • Residential & • Semis You name it.... we clean it!

Call Ben 815-590-2694

• Residential • Commercial • Industrial * Fully Insured * Hot Water We do everything including house washing, gutters, pool areas, brick/ stone walls, decks & patios and commercial businesses.

Professional industrial equip.

Done right the first time!

Call 815-441-0246

Remodeling

Farm Services Do you want lower cost per bushel and higher yield per acre?

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Call 815-438-5014 Cell 815-499-6090 Tampico, IL www.300bushel corn.info

Interior & Exterior Light Carpentry Pressure Washing 35 Years Experience Insured - References Cell #815-440-2202

DAN'S HOME REPAIR Professional Painting Interior & Exterior Snow Removal Licensed bonded and Insured.

Proudly serving your community for 15 years

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Serving the Sauk Valley Area for over 15 years.

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Painting BALAYTI PAINTING

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Snowmobile & ATV Service Repair & Accessories Your Local Amsoil Dealer!

Be Ready Before The Snow Flies!!

10576 Buell Rd. Rock Falls 815-622-9370

Haul/Clean Service JOHN'S CLEANUP & REMOVAL Anything goes!!

Estate Cleanups PHONE 815-622-0240

“Area's #1 Roofing Contractor IL Lic# 104-015191 Licensed, Bonded & Insured •Roofing •Siding •Windows •Decks •Additions •Garages & More Residential & Commercial Call now to schedule your FREE Estimate!

Will beat any leading competitor price 815-590-2677

Frank's Performance

PAUL’S HANDYMAN SERVICE “Anything Your Husband Won’t Do!” •Experience On All Manner of Home Repairs & Maintenance since 1986

“Area's #1 Roofing Contractor IL Lic# 104-015191 Licensed, Bonded & Insured •Roofing •Siding •Windows •Decks •Additions •Garages & More Residential & Commercial Call now to schedule your FREE Estimate!

Will beat any leading competitor price 815-590-2677

Storage

www.allsafe center.com

Snowmobile Repair

(815)631-4122 www.mullerslane farm.com

Dumpster Rental for Clean-ups & Construction Small & Large containers avail.

Tidy Bug Inc. Dixon, IL tidybuginc.com 815-456-3001

Roofing/Siding

Snowmobile Repair

Handyman

Dumpster Rental

Storage

STORAGE UNITS Multiple Sizes Starting at $35 OUTSIDE STORAGE NOW AVAILABLE No appt. needed Located inside MOORE TIRES 2411 E. Rt 30 Rock Falls (815)625-3764

High-Security Storage Solutions and Much More!

•Climate Controlled Storage •Low-Cost Moving Truck Rental •Confidential Document Shredding •We Ship FedEx & UPS! •Expert Packaging Services •Value Boxes & Packaging Supplies •EBAY and EMOTORS Internet Auction Sales Over 15,000 Sales •Office Hours: Mon-Fri. ☛ 8:306, Sat. ☛ 8:30noon 690 Timber Creek Rd. Dixon, (815)285-2212

Tax Services Whitson CPAs, LLC

•Family Owned Accounting Firm •Downtown Dixon We pride ourselves in offering Quality Services at Competitive Rates.

•Currently Offering free initial consulregarding tations tax preparation services.

Please call 815-677-9216 to set up your appointment today!

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A division of Timber Industries, LLC. Tree & Limb Removal Stump Removal Storm Clean-up Mulch & Firewood •Free Estimates •Fully Insured 815-857-3674 Cole's Complete Tree Service Tree Trimming Stump Removal Licensed and Insured *Free Estimates* 25HR Emergency Service Will meet or beat any written tree estimates.

Call 815-718-2997 Now accepting credit/debit cards Donnie Cole colestree service@outlook.com

WILKINS TREE & LANDSCAPING Simple Trimming Simple Price Fully Insured Licensed Timber Buyer in IL FREE Estimates Selling hardwood lumber & firewood 815-631-4340

TV Repair

TELEVISION IN HOME REPAIR 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE! Work on all Brands & Models Old or New Serving the Sauk Valley and More Call Ron for a free quote at 815-561-0011 Dixon, IL

Water Softeners

The Softener Man 815-544-0918

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815-625-3600 to announce weddings or engagements in Celebrations!

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PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- An emotional situation will surface, leaving you in an awkward position.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Work from home or make changes to your domestic environment that will add to your comfort and convenience. Make subtle changes that will help you reach your personal and physical goals.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

SERVICE DIRECTORY SAUK VALLEY

Air Cond./Heating

Fireplaces

Painting

FARLEY'S APPLIANCE Heating & Cooling Sale & Service Free Estimates New & Replacement Units We service all brands!

Call Today (815)284-2052

Fireplaces Gas Wood Stoves Inserts Log Sets Doors Service Repair Install Visit our Showrooms Anselmo's 1235 W. LeFevre Rd., Sterling 815-625-3519

PRATER Paint & Waterproofing Specializing in •Residential •Commercial •Farm & •Industrial Call for your FREE painting or sandblasting estimate 815-626-5165

Furniture Refinished

•Residential & Commercial •24 Hour Service!

•Specializing in Custom Duct Design & Fabrication •Free Estimates Affordable, Reliable & 25 years Experience!!

Owner Tod Reynolds 815-535-1459

Furniture Restoration Strip, Refinish, Repair Re-glue, Touch-ups.

Custom Woodworking & Finishing Shop Anselmo's Inc. 1235 W. LeFevre Rd., Sterling 815-625-3519

Genl. Contracting

Basement Waterproofing Prater Paint & Waterproofing We Dry Up Basements & Crawl Spaces, Remediate Mold & Install E-Z Breathe™ Ventilation Systems 815-626-5165

License-Bonded Insured NO JOB TOO SMALL All your home Improvement needs Remodeling of baths, basements & kitchens Custom showers Siding-Decks etc.

815-440-3519

Gutters

www.praterpaintand waterproofing.com

Cleaning Service Serving the Sauk Valley Areas for over 15 years •On the Job Manufactured • Expert Installation •Competitive prices •Best Quality Materials, Guaranteed •5” and 6” Seamless Gutters for Residential, Industrial & Commercial Needs •Leaf Free Gutter Protection Systems •Licensed •Bonded •Insured FREE Estimates 815-213-0704

Power Washing

Mobil Pressure Wash Service • Commercial, • Residential & • Semis You name it.... we clean it!

Call Ben 815-590-2694

• Residential • Commercial • Industrial * Fully Insured * Hot Water We do everything including house washing, gutters, pool areas, brick/ stone walls, decks & patios and commercial businesses.

Professional industrial equip.

Done right the first time!

Call 815-441-0246

Remodeling

Farm Services Do you want lower cost per bushel and higher yield per acre?

Maximize your profits and increase your yields with a world-class crop management system!

Call 815-438-5014 Cell 815-499-6090 Tampico, IL www.300bushel corn.info

Interior & Exterior Light Carpentry Pressure Washing 35 Years Experience Insured - References Cell #815-440-2202

DAN'S HOME REPAIR Professional Painting Interior & Exterior Snow Removal Licensed bonded and Insured.

Proudly serving your community for 15 years

815-677-7970

Serving the Sauk Valley Area for over 15 years.

•Garages •Additions •Roofing •Siding •Windows •Gutters •Interior/Exterior •New Construction & Re-Construction Residential, Industrial, Commercial •Licensed •Bonded •Insured FREE Estimates 815-213-0704

Snowplowing ❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋

MATT'S SNOWPLOWING Sterling Rock Falls Residential & Commercial Most Driveways $20 LOWEST PRICE GUARANTEED 815-590-1677 ❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋

Roofing

Snow Removal Swanson Snow Removal

Commercial & Residential Free Estimates Call 815-973-8361

Painting BALAYTI PAINTING

Illinois License #104.016127 Bonded/Insured •Roofing •Siding • Windows •Doors •Additions• •Garages •Drywall •Decks and more Free Estimates 815-213-0556

Snowmobile & ATV Service Repair & Accessories Your Local Amsoil Dealer!

Be Ready Before The Snow Flies!!

10576 Buell Rd. Rock Falls 815-622-9370

Haul/Clean Service JOHN'S CLEANUP & REMOVAL Anything goes!!

Estate Cleanups PHONE 815-622-0240

“Area's #1 Roofing Contractor IL Lic# 104-015191 Licensed, Bonded & Insured •Roofing •Siding •Windows •Decks •Additions •Garages & More Residential & Commercial Call now to schedule your FREE Estimate!

Will beat any leading competitor price 815-590-2677

Frank's Performance

PAUL’S HANDYMAN SERVICE “Anything Your Husband Won’t Do!” •Experience On All Manner of Home Repairs & Maintenance since 1986

“Area's #1 Roofing Contractor IL Lic# 104-015191 Licensed, Bonded & Insured •Roofing •Siding •Windows •Decks •Additions •Garages & More Residential & Commercial Call now to schedule your FREE Estimate!

Will beat any leading competitor price 815-590-2677

Storage

www.allsafe center.com

Snowmobile Repair

(815)631-4122 www.mullerslane farm.com

Dumpster Rental for Clean-ups & Construction Small & Large containers avail.

Tidy Bug Inc. Dixon, IL tidybuginc.com 815-456-3001

Roofing/Siding

Snowmobile Repair

Handyman

Dumpster Rental

Storage

STORAGE UNITS Multiple Sizes Starting at $35 OUTSIDE STORAGE NOW AVAILABLE No appt. needed Located inside MOORE TIRES 2411 E. Rt 30 Rock Falls (815)625-3764

High-Security Storage Solutions and Much More!

•Climate Controlled Storage •Low-Cost Moving Truck Rental •Confidential Document Shredding •We Ship FedEx & UPS! •Expert Packaging Services •Value Boxes & Packaging Supplies •EBAY and EMOTORS Internet Auction Sales Over 15,000 Sales •Office Hours: Mon-Fri. ☛ 8:306, Sat. ☛ 8:30noon 690 Timber Creek Rd. Dixon, (815)285-2212

Tax Services Whitson CPAs, LLC

•Family Owned Accounting Firm •Downtown Dixon We pride ourselves in offering Quality Services at Competitive Rates.

•Currently Offering free initial consulregarding tations tax preparation services.

Please call 815-677-9216 to set up your appointment today!

Tree Service ✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤

BRAD'S TREE SERVICE

A division of Timber Industries, LLC. Tree & Limb Removal Stump Removal Storm Clean-up Mulch & Firewood •Free Estimates •Fully Insured 815-857-3674 Cole's Complete Tree Service Tree Trimming Stump Removal Licensed and Insured *Free Estimates* 25HR Emergency Service Will meet or beat any written tree estimates.

Call 815-718-2997 Now accepting credit/debit cards Donnie Cole colestree service@outlook.com

WILKINS TREE & LANDSCAPING Simple Trimming Simple Price Fully Insured Licensed Timber Buyer in IL FREE Estimates Selling hardwood lumber & firewood 815-631-4340

TV Repair

TELEVISION IN HOME REPAIR 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE! Work on all Brands & Models Old or New Serving the Sauk Valley and More Call Ron for a free quote at 815-561-0011 Dixon, IL

Water Softeners

The Softener Man 815-544-0918

Call

815-625-3600 to announce weddings or engagements in Celebrations!

A9 A1

www.saukvalley.com

Repairr on all makes & models Servicce Call Special $19.95!

Over 30 years of experience

Sauk Valley Media • B9

Astrograph Trust in yourself and your skills, and let past experience be your guide.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2017 CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Taking a new approach to the way you deal with partners or people who can influence your future will help you establish better working relationships. Romance is encouraged.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- He who hesitates is lost. Pick up the pace and finish what you start. An opportunity to bring in extra cash is apparent, and money in the form of a settlement or prize could be heading your way.

joint ventures.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Stick to the facts and take a practical approach to everything today. Move forward with your plans, regardless of what someone else decides to do.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- You may feel anxious about your position, direction or next move. Relax and take your time. Impulsive decisions will add to your confusion and stress.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- An emotional situation will surface, leaving you in an awkward position.

Do your best to take care of business quickly, before matters escalate. Romance will improve your life.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Work from home or make changes to your domestic environment that will add to your comfort and convenience. Make subtle changes that will help you reach your personal and physical goals.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Explaining what you are trying to do will help you avoid criticism and interference. Emotions will be difficult to control if you don’t keep busy. Don’t engage in

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Live and learn. Use past experience as your guide to a better future. Change is necessary, but how you go about it will be what makes the difference.

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CELEBRITY CIPHER

by Luis Campos

Celebrity Cipher cryptograms are created from quotations by famous people, past and present.

Each letter in the cipher stands for another.

TODAY’S CLUE: N equals Q

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940

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Location: The Auction Shed at 900 S. Division Ave (Rt 26), Polo, IL 61064 See advance salebills, possible color photos on our website at topauctions24-7.com/paspolo & Auction Zip

Sunday, January 8, 2017 • 9:30 am

Items belonging to the Woodin Family, William W Harden Trust, Keith & Susan Zickuhr, Stuff Family and others. Viewing will begin sale day at 8:30 am. Auction ring one starts on rack items at 9:30 am. Ring two starts at 12:00 noon on oor items.

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$14,999*

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$14,999* 2014 VW BEETLE

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GE dryer; Whirlpool washer; GE portable dishwasher; kitchen table & chairs; hutch; buffet; base cupboards units w/enamel tops; tea cart; stools & benches; lots of cooking utensils; sm appliances; Bunn coffee machine; lots of baking pans; assorted glassware; crock pots; baskets; cookbooks; vases; sofa; recliners; lift chair; oor lamps; post hall tree; end & coffee tables; child’s rocker; mirrors; roll top desk & others; Sentry safe w/comb; ďŹ le cabinets; speakers; 4’&6’ banquet tables; sewing stand; beds; dressers; chests; shelving; bedding & linens; exerciser; quartz heaters; games; battery operated Airhawk helicopter; Radio Flyer wgns; Monarch bike; golf clubs; porch swing; Pride Go-Go Elite Traveller mobility scooter; rinse tubs; Resistol hats; coolers; books; bushel baskets; pop cooler; patio tables & chairs; step & ext ladders; Pacer water pump w/gas engine; Homelite chain saw; airless paint sprayer; sm live trap; shop vac; wheel barrels; Ryobi mulching blower vac; wood box; misc tools; elec supplies; welding rods; hardware; Jet Equip air ďŹ ltration system; Foley Model 387 saw ďŹ ler; Craftsman 10â€? radial arm saw, 18V drill & others; Skill HD band saw; Waterloo 2 drawer work bench (new); old military rie; Diamond Arm Co 12ga single shot, 30â€? barrel; Diamond Arm Co 12ga single shot, 24â€? barrel; Savage Model 110 .243 win, left handed bolt action, Weaver scope w/case; Premier single shot .22 bolt action; Haenel Model I DRP pellet gun; Ammo - 12 & 20 ga, assorted boxes .22 shells; plus lots of misc.

COLLECTIBLES

Settee & 2 chairs; IC chairs; dry sink; sewing rockers; platform rocker; various chairs; lamp table; drum table; commode; corner shelves; enamel top table; kitchen cupboard (rough); top of kitchen cupboard; treadle sewing machine; dresser; braided rug; wicker table, fern stands, piano bench, sewing rocker; Sunset Flyer wgn; pedal tractor s - JD #520 & MM (signed by Joe Ertl); old toys - JD 12A combine; JD 2R mtd picker, various Tonka trucks, 3 Nylint semis, Deluxe auto transport; copper boiler (sharp); Gotham ice hockey game; Gilbert “Big Boyâ€? tool chest; ash tray stand; yard sticks; milk strainer & pads; barn lanterns & lamps; JD planter plates; Borden wood milk case; wood wheel barrel; scale; set of bull horns; wood egg crate; egg scale; copper spittoon; wood keg; wood adv box; cigar boxes; old pictures & frames; Women’s Home Companion magazine; rusty minnow pail; ower bin; 3 round wash tubs; sm Pride seed corn signs; buck saw; old license plates; wood carpenter box; Kill Rust Can (The Sisal Sweeping Co); wood wgn wheel; marble slab; Dazey 4qt butter churn; wood coffee grinder; Campbell soup warmer; Arvin table model radio; old pop bottles; local adv items; 2 alum Coke 6 packs; Sanitary Dairy clock; mirror w/ “’49 Ford Car of the Yearâ€?; Buckeye 5 gal crock & others; lemonade crock; Blue Ribbon 8gal crock; green canister set; lg set amber Depression lass pieces; lg Carnival vase; Frankoma vase; set Pope Gosser china w/accessories; set Holmes & Edwards inlaid atware; lots of knick knacks; some jewelry; plus much more.

Terms - Cash, good check, Master Card, Visa, Discover and American Express credit cards. All items must be settled for day of sale. Number system will be used, have proper ID. Not responsible for accidents or merchandise after sold.

Auctioneers: Polo, IL 61064 Lenny Bryson (IL#040000158) 815-946-4120 Mark Ebert (IL#440000341) 815-946-2809 Clerks: Public Auction Service

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2012 NISSAN SENTRA 2.0 SR

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