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dailyGAZETTE Monday, January 16, 2017 n SERVING ROCK FALLS, STERLING AND THE SURROUNDING AREA SINCE 1854
ILLINOIS | BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS
Senators: Let’s make a deal
The Senate is serious about turning a legislative logjam into sawdust, but will the House follow suit? SPRINGFIELD (AP) – If last week’s action is any indication, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Illinois Senate are serious about attempting to bust the state’s 18-month budget deadlock – quickly. Democratic Senate President John
Cullerton and Minority Leader Christine Radogno negotiated an ambitious, multi-part plan to end a nearly 2-year battle between Democrats and GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner, which has forestalled an agreed-upon annual state spending plan since 2015.
Promising to act on a package by month’s end, they introduced 13 measures Wednesday that included nonbudget-related sweeteners for both sides. By Thursday, they had been rapidly assigning public committee hearings. The package includes Democrat-
friendly ideas such as a minimumwage hike and an income-tax increase – which many in both parties agree is necessary to pare down a multibilliondollar deficit. DEAL continued on A54
EDUCATION
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY
Photos by Alex T. Paschal/apaschal@saukvalley.com
Annie Chattic, 22, of Sterling, performs “I Know Where I’ve Been” on Sunday night during the annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at First Church of the Nazarene.
Living in harmony Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy lives on in a celebration of song and words by those who are still living the late leader’s dream
Photos by Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com
Whiteside Area Career Center student Dylan Hollenbach, 17, of Prophetstown stands next to a 3-D printer that was assembled by students in Steve Bierdeman’s class at the career center.
All the learning that’s fit to print There are many dimensions to education, and some local students are focusing on the third one
BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN cheimerman@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5523 CHeimerman_SVM
STERLING – In case anyone missed the inspiring, often hair-raising, insights the Rev. Galon Darby offered Sunday night at First Church of the Nazarene, a host of singers backed him up. Voices such as the ones that highlighted the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration are hard to ignore. It’s only fitting that this year’s title was “A Celebration in Song: March On.” “I have a dream also, of how this community can be a better place, if all of us work together,” Darby, who was pastor for 19 years at Second Baptist Church until about 6 years ago, said during his opening address. “You’re not going to get anywhere fighting against one another,” Darby said. “That old eye-for an-eye, toothfor-a-tooth philosophy, all you’re going to get is a bunch of blind, snaggle-toothed folks.”
BY PHILLIP HARTMAN phartman@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5525 @phartman19
The Rev. Galon Darby, a retired pastor who spent 19 years at Second Baptist Church in Dixon, speaks before the congregation Sunday in honor of HARMONY continued on A94 Martin Luther King’s birthday.
“God has wrought many things out of oppression.
MORRISON – The class of high school students sat at their computers Thursday, following teacher Chris Scott’s instructions to create a three-dimensional model for translation to the real world. “Take time to think about where they’ll start and where they’ll end,” Scott told the 10 students at Morrison Institute of Technology, as they worked on using software to design a bracket to send to a 3-D printer. PRINTING continued on A94 What do students at the Whiteside Area Career Center do when a light bulb goes off in their head? They make a light shade for it, courtesy of a 3-D printer that turns ideas into reality.
He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create – and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different situations. ... Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. Martin Luther King Jr. | 1964
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In music ... there is a stepping stone toward all of these.”
INDEX
ABBY.................... A7 COMICS................ A8 CROSSWORD.......B8
LIFESTYLE............ A7 LOTTERY.............. A2 OBITUARIES......... A4
OPINION............... A6 POLICE................. A2 SCHOOLS............. A3
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