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Telemedicine Services Due to the COVID-19 pandemic IVCH understands that patients may not want to come in for their scheduled doctor visit.

Your health and safety are our main concern. IVCH doctors and healthcare providers now offer telemedicine services to their patients.

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Summertime Uptown’s summer libations (left to right) Summer Ginger Squeeze, Sunset Margarita, Strawberry Peach Frozee, Cucumber Ginger Fizz and Bourbon Citrus. Page 14 PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANNETTE BARR

Illinois Valley Woman

Open for business 4 Salon owners adapt to reopening guidelines.

Time to shine PHOTO COURTESY OF BECKY CATTANI

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Triage nurses share their frontline journey through COVID-19.

Publisher Dan Goetz Editor Tammie Sloup Advertising Director Jeanette Smith

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Writers Annette Barr Goldie Rapp Kim Shute

On the cover An eye for staging helps antique lovers see new life in old pieces.

Becky Cattani, of rural Spring Valley, has always been drawn to old pieces with a story rather than furnishings that are shiny and new. Page 11

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Photographers Annette Barr Goldie Rapp Kim Shute

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Brittany Buffo, receptionist at Meraki Beauty Room in La Salle, takes a client’s temperature. All clients are required to wear a mask, complete a short survey and have their temperature taken upon entering the salon.

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Hair need some TLC after the shutdown?

Salon owners adapt to reopening guidelines

By Annette Barr

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t’s no secret that one of the more difficult aspects of quarantine for some people was being separated from their hair stylists for more than two months. Now, in addition to correcting do-ityourself dye jobs and home haircuts, salon owners are making changes to what was once business as usual.

“We had to reevaluate everything. We had to build partitions for the front desk and for the shampoo bowl.

We had to move our stations around so that we are social distancing at least six feet. We had to implement more sanitation practices. We took online

barbicide certification class for COVID-19. And we had our entire staff do it as well, including our receptionist. We did another thorough deep clean of the salon, which we are clean already, but we did it more,” said Alicia Sampson, co-owner of Meraki Beauty Room in La Salle.

In keeping with state guidelines, the salon experience has changed. Meraki Beauty Room clients are asked to call before entering the building.

Once inside they complete a short questionnaire regarding COVID-19 symptoms and potential exposure and have their temperature taken with

a no-touch infared thermometer. Everyone in the salon is required to wear a mask at all times. Gone are the magazines and complimentary beverages along with spray tans, facials and some waxing services.

Yet in spite of some losses, Lynn Cawley, Sudio 718 owner and stylist, took advantage of the mandated closure of her business to make some planned improvements.

“We were going to do some updating in the salon so it was a perfect time to do it,” Cawley said of her La Salle salon.

“We painted, new floors, updated the front, new software system, new computers. We

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Jessica Kowalczyk, co-owner of Meraki Beauty Room in LaSalle, washes a client’s hair. The salon’s shampoo bowls are now divided by a plexiglass partition per state guidelines.

made lemonade out of lemons. We are really excited about it. We thought, ‘What the heck?

What are you going to do? We’ll never have this time again.’ It just made it easy to get it all done.”

Time and managing it has become even more important post pandemic protocol. Previously, Sampson said she would have appointments staggered, often cutting hair for one client while color was processing on another one. Now the number of people in the salon is limited and movement to other chairs is limited.

“We always try to be structured with time, but it’s even more important now because if your client is waiting out in the car you don’t want them sitting out there for an extra 20 minutes,” Sampson said. “If their appointment was at noon, you want to be able to take them at noon.

You want that transition to be as smooth as possible so they are not running into other clients leaving, our station is already ready to go. So time management is even more essential now than it was before.”

Aside from adapting to some scheduling changes, wearing a mask may be the biggest difference clients and stylists are experiencing.

“For the most part I think everybody does want to be safe. I won’t lie, the hardest part is the mask, but you get past it. It’s worth it. You have to do it so there’s no option. And for the most part people are good about it,” Cawley said.

While learning to follow new guidelines, Cawley said lessons learned during the weeks-long shutdown were not limited to sanitation and scheduling.

“I know one thing I’ve learned through all this is I’m not ready to retire,” she said. “You miss being around your coworkers and clients.

You just miss working. It feels good. It just felt really good to be back.

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Alicia Sampson, co-owner of Meraki Beauty Room in LaSalle, applies color to a client’s hair.

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Perry Memorial Hospital’s triage nurses Michelle Glancy (left) and Kate Feurer (right) work side-by-side through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Triage nurses share their frontline journey through COVID -19

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riage nurses have been among those on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their role is to assess a patient’s symptoms while determining the level of needed medical assistance.

Whether attending to patients in the emergency room or screening symptoms over a telephone call, the role of a triage nurse has always been crucial, and especially so during the coronavirus pandemic.

When Perry Memorial Hospital launched its COVID19 hotline in mid-March, Elizabeth Goetsch, a triage nurse at the clinic, went from taking on average 20 calls a day, to her phone ringing off the hook. With so little information and education

about the new virus, people who thought they might have contracted the illness were desperate for answers. Keeping up with all the calls in the beginning was more than just an overwhelming task.

“I will admit, it was hard to wrap my head around it in the beginning,” she said.

To make things even more challenging, symptom checklists would change on a daily basis and protocols on what to do were sometimes altered within a matter of hours. It also didn’t help that the COVID-19 outbreak happened in the midst of Influenza season and shared similar symptoms for some patients.

Goetsch said the hardest thing was explaining to people

that getting tested didn’t really matter. It didn’t matter if someone was negative or positive, if they had COVID-19 or thought they had COVID-19, protocol was the same — stay home, self-isolate and treat symptoms.

Goetsch said the most difficult calls were from the patients who demanded testing and wouldn’t accept no for an answer very easily.

During those times, Goetsch said it would be the one caller during her shift who would thank her for all she was doing that kept her going.

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you thanks for what you’re doing.’... It took just that one person to make it worth it,” she said.

When the clinic closes each night, triage and COVID-19 hotline calls are transferred to Perry’s emergency room, where a caller most likely will talk with registered nurses Kate Feurer or Michelle Glancy.

Feurer and Glancy had very similar experiences of the COVID calls as Goetsch did in the beginning of the outbreak. While stressful to keep up with the calls, help educate a frightened community and stay on top of the changing protocol, Feurer said it was community and teamwork among her co-workers that got her through the most difficult days.

“We’re so much a family — the doctors, nurses, our relationship with fire and EMS. We’re like brothers and sisters. We all communicate with each other about the needs of our patients,” she said. “Communication is the heart of health care.”

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Elizabeth Goetsch, a triage nurse at Perry Memorial Hospital’s Family Health Clinic, logs data on the computer after taking a call from a patient during the COVID-19 pandemic. support of the community was a big factor for her.

“We have been very fortunate here. We haven’t had to worry about supplies. Everything we’ve needed and asked for, we’ve gotten. The community has been amazing supporters ... and it really brightens your day knowing they stand behind you,” she said.

Feurer added the support was always there, which was an amazing feeling.

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to have that and feel it, because it’s very hard sometimes,” she said.

Feurer describes the COVID pandemic as a worldwide learning process.

“There’s not one country or state that has done it 100 percent correctly,” she said.

As people become more educated about COVID, the calls have significantly decreased. But there are still concerns that circulate among the nurses. For

Goetsch, her concern is the misinformation that’s been spread over social media, especially the information that claims COVID-19 isn’t real. She just shakes her head when thinking about it.

“It’s very real. There’s a lot of misinformation out there.

Even on Facebook, I will see posts that are not right and it’s been tough to watch that,” she said. “If it doesn’t come from the CDC, I don’t buy it. The CDC I will believe over anybody ... No one is faking the numbers. What has happened is real.”

From here on out, it’s taking it day-by-day and hoping the cases don’t spike as the state’s shelter-in-place order is lifted, businesses begin to reopen and people become more willing to venture outside of their homes.

Feurer urges people to keep masking, washing their hands, keep a 6-foot-distance away from others and stay home when sick.

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Rebecca Johnson, owner of Cricket’s Pickin’s in Princeton, has an eye for pieces that will transform anyone’s space. Johnson, who says she’s always had an artistic bent, found her passion in rescuing old furniture pieces often overlooked by others.

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By Kim Shute When it comes to furniture and decor, not everyone likes the shiny and new.

Some people have a love for pieces from the past and have an eye for updating them.

Rebecca Johnson, who lives near rural Galva, recently turned an avocation into a vocation with the opening of her Princeton store Cricket’s Pickin’s.

Johnson’s new career came from the end of an old one – she lost her job last July. With some prompting from her mom, whom she watched crafting all her life, Johnson decided to open a small

business doing something she loved.

That something is searching far and wide for old furniture, much of it from auctions, sales, even the side of the road and bringing new life to pieces with fresh colors and hardware.

After finding her favorite paint, Fusion Mineral Paint, Johnson started making rounds at craft shows, honing her talents until the time came to open her shop.

One of her first, and favorite pieces was a dresser she named Jonathan (and yes, she says she does get attached to pieces). That piece made its home with a good friend who intends to use it in her baby’s nursery.

“It went to a good home, which makes me happy, “ Johnson said. “I know that will be a piece they have for a lifetime.”

When she’s not scouring the sales for new pieces, Johnson is busy re-imagining them and giving them new life – dressers become coffee bars, sofa tables become desks and mason jars become hand crafted decor.

“I couldn’t do this without my whole family,” she said. “My husband and kids who help me in the store and at home, my mom and sister who help me and advise me about pieces.”

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Self-professed ‘junker’ Becky Cattani loves a good story and seeks out pieces that are a part of someone’s history. Cattani runs an online ‘junking’ site selling and auctioning her finds and donating the proceeds to Project Success and to a group of women in Uganda she became close with on a mission trip. This piece – a favorite of Cattani’s – lives in her downstairs bathroom. It’s an old set of post office boxes, repurposed as mini picture frames of her family.

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Johnson said it’s that family tie that makes working on projects even more special, and keeps her sane.

“When a piece isn’t going my way, my mom can step in and lend a hand, which definitely helps.”

Living in the country has its advantages as well, allowing her to keep an ever-ready inventory of furniture waiting for some love.

“I’ve flipped a lot of things that would have wound up in a landfill otherwise.”

Johnson said dressers are a particular favorite.

“I love doing them, but they’re a lot of work,” she said.

Another favorite is something rarely found today – potato bins.

“I love them because they’re so ugly,” she laughed. “They were meant to be functional so they aren’t the most attractive, but I love to give them a new color and see how they come to life.”

For those who love the idea of redoing old pieces but don’t know where to start, Johnson said she plans to offer classes in the near future.

“I want people to be able to bring their (small) pieces into the store to learn how to redo them, to make different decor pieces like the paw print hooks we have or how to refinish their cabinets for a new look.”

Becky Cattani, who lives in rural Spring Valley, is modest about her

talents. She’s a self-professed ‘junker’ who likes to scour the markets for the offbeat, often overlooked pieces that others don’t see potential in.

Cattani says she’s always had an eye for older pieces because she loves the stories behind them.

She has a collection of old metal lunch boxes, for example, that she loves because looking at them reminds her of the generation of men who carried them.

“I look at them and I just love the idea that someone carried that to work for years and loved it. If it has dents or a broken handle even better,” she said. “It’s the idea that if I had a lunch box that broke, I’d just get a new one, but it didn’t used to be that way. Someone carried that maybe their whole working life.”

Cattani’s quaint A-frame home is an homage to the past with found objects telling the stories of lives lived. One of her favorite pieces lives on a bathroom wall. It’s an old set of wooden post office boxes. Behind each door is a rotating series of photos of kids and grandkids that brings a new generation of charm to the piece.

Her love for junking isn’t something she keeps to herself, either. Cattani runs a Facebook Group called Picks and Flips with Babs. When she’s ready to rehome her pieces, she holds online sales and auctions. The proceeds always go to Project Success and a women’s group in Uganda she became attached to on a recent mission trip.

“I don’t do this for a profit,” she said.

“I just love it and when I have to clean

out my finds I sell them or auction them to have something to donate to my groups so I’m grateful for the support that comes with the sales,” she said.

Courtney Driscoll, of Princeton, also has a passion for bringing new life into old furniture.

“I have been painting various furniture items ever since about 2005.

I’ve painted anything from two full wall book cases, bathroom vanity and cabinets, to vintage buffets and night stands. I’m currently painting a buffet,” she said.

“My top tips are to give your piece a good wipe down, use a really good bonding primer and finish with a urethane enamel. Make sure it’s quality paint.”

“I always recommend Sherwin Williams bonding primer and their Emerald Urethane. It applies really well, and gives it a smooth, hard finish. A good brush and roller are a must too. I really like the Purdy Brand,” she said.

“I’ve done at least 15-20 projects,” Driscoll said. “My biggest challenge was my cousin’s office with the book cases, floor to ceiling, along two walls.

My favorite so far has been my fireplace I just finished whitewashing.”

Johnson’s final word for anyone who wants to give it a try? Just do it.

“Get a tester and do a small piece,” she said. “A small table, a cabinet door, something to give you the chance to see how you’’ll like the outcome and if it looks like you want it to.”

A favorite piece of Rebecca Johnson’s is this antique child’s desk that received a makeover with a coat of bright aqua mineral paint.

Johnson said one of the most rewarding aspects of her new career is rescuing pieces that may have otherwise been abandoned.

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