Mt. Morris Times / oglecountynews.com • Friday, March 29, 2019
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SPECIAL EVENT
Large crowd turns out for antique show BY VINDE WELLS vwells@oglecountynews.com The treasures offered last weekend at a well-established antique sale had allure for buyers of all ages. Ven Emmons, 8, of Oregon, was enthusiastically browsing the booths at the 69th annual Oregon Woman’s Club Antique Show Sunday with his grandmother Vanessa Emmons, also of Oregon. He showed her an antique ice cream scoop at one booth and then a black necklace at another. Ven asserted that he liked “everything,” but his grandmother said he was especially drawn to the old tools and toys. First-time vendor Warren Wright, of Fine Art Concepts, of Lincolnshire, was also smiling. “It’s been a wonderful experience,” he said at his booth offering antique paintings. Members of the woman’s club said the two-day event drew one of its larger crowds in recent years. “Yesterday was a barn-buster. We had more than 1,000 people,” Johanna Hahne said. “The weather cooperated. It was a great opening day.” The show was held March 23 and 24 at the Blackhawk Center in Oregon. Sunshine and temperatures in the 50s prevailed on Saturday, and a persistent light rain fell all day Sunday. Woman’s club president Rosemary Underwood said a total of 1,609 people attended the show for both days. “People were buying. They were carrying a lot of items out of there,” she said Monday. “The vendors were happy, our antique appraisers were pleased, and the lunch stand from the Chana United Methodist Church almost ran out of food.” A steady stream of people were bringing in antiques of all kinds Sunday for Antiques Road Show-style appraisals
Ven Emmons, 8, of Oregon, shows a beaded necklace to his grandmother Vanessa Emmons, also of Oregon, as they browse through one of the booths Sunday at the Oregon Woman’s Club Antique Show at the Blackhawk Center in Oregon. Photo by Vinde Wells from Greg and Swan Hachmeister, of Hack’s Auction Service in Pecatonica. “This looks like something a flapper would have had,” Greg Hachmeister said as he appraised a flashy sequined handbag with beaded fringe for Rosalinda Rienstra, of Stillman Valley. More than 50 antique dealers from Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and
Iowa participated in the show, offering antiques of all kinds from the early 1800s through the mid-1900s. The Oregon Woman’s Club, a member of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, sponsors the show as a major fund raising event and uses the proceeds to help fund various community projects and charities.
COUNTY GOVERNMENT
County board approves steel bids for new jail BY VINDE WELLS vwells@oglecountynews.com The final bid for Ogle County’s new jail was approved last week. The county board accepted a base bid of $780,000 for structural steel work from T.A. Bowman Constructors, of Bloomingdale, on March 19. Ground-breaking for the jail, which will be called the Ogle County Judicial
Center Annex, is set for Wednesday, April 10 at 2 p.m., and construction is expected to take 20 months. The new facility will be located in the 100 block of South Sixth Street and will face Washington Street. That block of South Sixth Street will be closed to allow a large sally port and enclosed passageway to connect the jail to the judicial center on South Fifth Street for the secure transfer of inmates
into the jail, as well as from the jail to courtrooms. The board accepted 18 other bids for the jail at a special meeting Feb. 26. So far the cost of the project is coming in at $24 million, under the original budget of $25 million to $28 million. The board also approved hiring Testing Services Corporation March 19 to do soil borings at the jail site at a cost not to exceed $70,000.