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2 MT. MORRIS TIMES MT. MORRIS TIMES Rotar y Club Foundation offer ing scholarships MT. MO RRIS BE AT oglecountynews.com ShawLocal.com OFFICE 113-115 Peoria Ave. Dixon, IL 61021 815-732-6166, ext. 2592 The Oregon Rotary Club Foundation is offering its annual College Scholarship opportunity. Application résumés can be accepted via email to the Scholarship Chairperson, Hollie Guist Jr. at hguistjr@gmail.com or mailed to the Guist Agency at P.O. Box 296, Mt. Morris Times / ShawLocal.com • Friday, Aug 26, 2022 SUBSCRIPTIONS $39 in Ogle County, and $52 outside Ogle County. Single-copy price is $1 To subscribe, make a payment or discuss your delivery, call 815-732-6166, ext. 2518, from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday-Friday or send an email to subscriptions@ oglecountynews.com. You also can subscribe online by going to oglecountynews.com and clicking on Subscribe. CLASSIFIED SALES classified@shawlocal.com HELP WANTED employment@shawlocal.com LEGAL NOTICES sauklegals@shawlocal.com Oregon, IL 61061 from now until Sept. 15. Please keep in mind that the financial

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Alzheimer’s Support

More than six million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s Disease. One in three seniors die with Alzheimer’s or another form of Dementia. This disease kills more people than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. Over 11 million Americans provide unpaid care for people with Alzheimer’s or other Dementias. If this disease has not affected you yet, someday, in some way, it will. So, what can we do? Something they are doing at the Mt. Morris Senior Center is hosting an Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group. This group is led by Kathy Heid and it will meet on the first Thursday of each month from 6-7 p.m. This is a great opportunity for those who are taking care of their loved ones with this horrible disease to connect and support one another. Sometimes it helps to hear that you are not alone and that someone else is in a similar situation. To join this group simply come to the Mt. Morris Senior Center at 9 East Front Street on Thursday, Sept. 1 at 6 p.m. If you have any questions or would like more information just call Melissa at 815-734-6335. High Community College Fitness Class - Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday the Walk and Stretch Fitness Class meets at 9 a.m. This class helps with balance, strength and more. The cost is $40 for 10 weeks (30 classes). To try the class out stop by 9 East Front Street or call 815-7346335 Hike with Melissa - Take a hike with Melissa on Tuesday, Aug. 30. We will be meeting at the Mt. Morris Senior Center at 10 a.m. to set out for our hike. The hike will depend on the skill level and ability of those who are there to hike. Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group – Join us on Thursday, Sept. 1 at 6 p.m. at 9 East Front Street in Mt. Morris to receive support and encouragement from others who are taking care of their loved ones with Alzheimer’s or Dementia. Book Club – This month our book club is reading The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach. We will discuss the book on Tuesday, Sept. 6 at 11 a.m. and then we will have lunch and watch the movie together. You are welcome to join us even if you do not have a

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chance to read the book. To sign up call 815-7346335.

Breakfast with the Mayor – Mt. Morris Village President, Phil Labash, will be at the Mt. Morris Senior Center for breakfast and conversation on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 8-10 a.m. All are welcome to join us for biscuits and gravy and pancakes. Call 815-734-6335 for more information.

Cookbook Club – The Mt. Morris Senior Center and the Mt. Morris Public Library are working together to bring back the Cookbook Club! This club will meet at the Mt. Morris Senior Center (9 East Front Street) on the second Tuesday of each month at 5:30 p.m.

Here what you need to do to join this group… stop by the Library (105 South McKendrie) during open hours to check out our cookbook of the month, choose a recipe and have a copy made, then make your dish, and bring it to the club.

We will all be able to try all of the dishes and collect all of the recipes! If you have any questions, call the Library at 815-734-4927 or the Senior Center at 815-734-6335. See you on Sept. 13 at 5:30 p.m.

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The Giving Pump

Stop by Shell to help support Children’s Programming at the Mt. Morris Library. Our local gas station has generously chosen to donate a portion of the proceeds from their Giving Pump toward our library. This pump will be wrapped and available through October, just look for the purple Giving Pump signs on pump 1 or 2! We would like to thank Shell for their support of community programming! Thank You!

Story Time!

Join us for a ‘letter’tastic time as we learn about the alphabet this Wednesday, Aug. 31. It will be an A+ time for all! Stop by with your little ones to enjoy stories and a craft at the Mount Morris Library! Wednesdays at 11:15 a.m.

Cookbook Club!

Join us as we reconvene The Cookbook Club! This is a wonderful club where a different cookbook is chosen each month, you stop by to choose your recipe, then bring the dish to pass at our next meeting! This month we are using “Rachel Ray’s Book of 10”! Stop by to choose your recipe and join us on Tuesday, Sept.13 at The Senior Center for an exciting meal!

Lego Club!

Our next Lego night on Thursday, Sept. 15, from 6-6:45 p.m. Bring a friend and build some fun with Lego bricks! All children and parents are invited. Children under 8 need to bring a parent with them.

Adult Book Club

The August book is Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson. Everyone is welcome to join this book club group! Copies of the book are available at the library. This group will meet in-person at the library on Monday, Sept. 26 at 3:30 p.m.

Display Case Showings

Stop in to see our new display for August! Local artesian, Rod Avey, will once again be showcasing his wooden duck collections. They are meticulous, handcrafted creations that will make you feel like you are outside at a pond! Stop by to admire these beautiful pieces of artwork! We are always looking for collectors or artists who are willing to share their treasures in our display cases. If you are interested, please call, 815-734-4927.

Rock River Center

The Rock River Center has a representative in our library the second Thursday of every month. Services provided by Rock River Center are designed to enable older and disabled persons to remain independent, thereby avoiding costly long-term care. No appointment necessary but, if you want to make an appointment with the Rock River Center you may call 815-732-3252.

Additional Services Offered

We make copies (25¢ per black and white page). We fax ($2 for the first page and 50¢ each additional page). We can scan a document and send it to email ($2 per document). You can use a computer without a library card for $1. Resume software is available on our computers. Come visit us and let us help you!

“It’s finally here,” said Roger Cain smiling broadly as the sleek stainless-steel touring car was backed into its new location west of the Depot by railroad workers. “We’ve been working on this for three years and now here it is.”

Cain is one of a handful of Oregon Depot Museum Board members who started working on getting the dome car moved to the Oregon Depot three years ago.

“We met with Mike in Sycamore three years ago and started talking about this,” said Cain.

The idea to move the signature Vista Dome of Burlington’s famed Twin Cities Zephyr was spawned when former Oregon resident Peter Medins, now of Woodstock, met Abernethy on a rail tour run by Abernethy. When they started talking about Abernethy’s ongoing restoration work on the sleek rail car Medins suggested the move to Oregon.

Medins remembered taking a trip from Oregon to Minneapolis on the Twin Cities Zephyr as a child and suggested Abernethy move the Silver View closer to St. Charles so restoration work could be monitored and performed more easily.

Abernethy has owned the Silver View for 20 years after purchasing it at an auction from a railway company in New York. He remembered watching the Zephyr – with the Silver View in tow – in the early 1950s when visiting his aunt and uncle near Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin.

“When we would go down to visit them, they would say ‘Oh, let’s take Mike over to see the Zephyr.’ And whenever I saw the Silver View on the back end that was a big deal for me,” Abernethy said.

The car was housed in Iowa and St. Louis before being stored outside in Charles City, Iowa. He decided to explore moving the car to Oregon after the Silver View was damaged by vandals.

“They threw some rocks and broke some of the windows,” he said.

The Oregon Depot Museum Board was offered a $5,000 matching donation from Medins for costs associated with moving the Silver View. The Oregon Depot Board matched his donation with funds given by local donors.

Earlier this year, officials from the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe (BNSF) agreed to replace and upgrade the “house” track – the track that once served the freighthouse – just west of the Oregon Depot for the Silver View to sit on.

That track, located north of the active BNSF freight line, will be the Silver View’s new home during its next two restoration phases.

Phase 1 of the restoration process will include getting the Silver View back to its original condition, with a few added extras. Phase 2 will include getting the Silver View ready for rail travel.

Cain said having the car in Oregon should help speed up the restoration process.

“We will roll out the whole plan on Oct. 8,” Cain said. “We will have focused priorities. Fundraising is going to be critical. The work will be done by tradespeople.”

For instance, seats from the car are being re-upholstered by an Oregon resident.

“The whole purpose is to give a person the experience of what it was like to ride in a dome car on the Zephyr,” Abernethy said, noting that the car, once restored, could be a stationary venue for fundraising events. “It can seat 24. I see it as a collaborative effort and it also gets Oregon and the Depot more in the public eye.”

Cain said work on the exterior of the Silver View will begin soon.

Abernethy will be speaking about the Silver View this Saturday, Aug. 27, at the Oregon Depot. The program starts at 10 a.m. and is open to the public.

Abernethy is president and tour operator of Zephyr Route, a small privately owned business he launched to fund the restoration of the Silver View. His website is www.zephyrroute.com.

Oregon Depot

The Oregon Depot Museum has been restored by local volunteers and houses a museum that reflects the history of train travel to and from the town of 3,800, located 40 miles west of DeKalb. For more information about the Oregon Depot visit http://oregonil. com/oregon-depot-museum/.

Silver View Facts

The following information was provided by the Oregon Depot.

Silver View was built by the Budd Co. and delivered to the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe on Nov. 29, 1947. It immediately became one of the signature Vista Dome cars for the Burlington’s famed Twin Cities Zephyrs. The Twin Cities Zephyrs operated between Chicago and its namesake cities. It was marketed as “where natures smiles for 300 miles.”

Silver View and its sister car, Silver Vista, both operated as daytime parlor cars with one drawing room.

Their domes were configured with the customary 24 seats. The “main floor” of the cars had 26 parlor seats in the tail/observation end.

Earleen Hinton/Shaw Media ABOVE: Oregon Depot Museum Board member RG Hough V of Mt. Morris talks to a railroad employee after the Silver View vintage rail car arrived at the Oregon Depot on Sunday afternoon. BELOW LEFT: Otto Dick, right, talks with Tom Champley, Jeff Hallock and Michal Burnett inside the Oregon Depot as they watch a live feed of the tracks after the Silver View rail car arrived Sunday afternoon. BOTTOM RIGHT: The Silver View was transported to the Oregon Depot as the “caboose” of seven empty cars. Here, the train passes through the crossing at Flagg Center.

By ALEXA ZOELLNER azoellner@shawmedia.com

It took a little misdirection to get John Lindhorst to attend this year’s Oregon Area Chamber of Commerce’s awards dinner.

“It’s called lying to me,” Lindhorst said, smiling even as he playfully chided Lori Peterson and Chamber Executive Director Liz Vos during the Aug. 18 event held at River’s Edge Experience.

“We lied to him, yes,” Peterson and Vos admitted with chuckles. The two had conspired to convince Lindhorst that Peterson was to receive an award.

But, when it came time to name the 2022 Citizen of the Year, Vos called Peterson up not to accept the award, but to announce the winner: John Lindhorst.

“Well-played,” he told them after accepting the award.

It was a very unexpected honor, said Lindhorst, who owns Ukulele Stat i o n A m e r i c a a n d O r e g o n M u s ic Garage, both in Oregon.

“I will tell you, it’s fun to be recognized for something that you don’t think about,” he said. “My mother’s from Italy, and she always said, ‘Do what you love, and do it with passion,’ and my father, being from Germany, said, ‘Follow your guts.’ So between those two, I’m somewhere in the middle, I think.

“This is quite an honor,” Lindhorst continued. “Thank you very much.”

Lindhorst has dedicated countless hours volunteering with local fundraisers, as well as donating financially, Peterson said. He also promotes Oregon as president of Oregon Together.

“The investment he has made in Ukulele Station America and Oregon Music Garage is a testament to his dedication, ability and success,” she said. “For these reasons, and many more, the Oregon Area Chamber of Commerce would like to recognize [Lindhorst] and thank for his many years of contributions.”

Lindhorst has brought much joy to the greater Oregon community and

Alexa Zoellner/Shaw Media Oregon Area Chamber of Commerce 2022 Citizen of the Year John Lindhorst, right, poses with Chamber Executive Director Liz Vos, left, and Lori Peterson, who presented Lindhorst with the award at the Chamber’s annual awards dinner.

Alexa Zoellner/Shaw Media Oregon Area Chamber of Commerce 2022 Volunteer of the Year Sue Heng, right, poses with Chamber Executive Director Liz Vos, left, and Chamber Board of Directors President Donna Mann. Heng was selected for her work with the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

See OREGON AWARDS, Page 7

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