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OREGON Republican Reporter

Fair Ornaments Limited edition ornaments will help sponsor the Ogle County Fair Queen pageant. A7

July 9, 2015 Volume 165, Number 30 - $1.00

Free Concerts

Kids Contest Some laughs were shared during the Little Miss Mister contest. B1

Jim Kanas and his trio will perform July 10, and the Kable Band takes the stage July 15. A6

Sparrow offers economic tips By Chris Johnson cxjohnson@oglecounty news.com An economic development advisor told the city’s newly formed Economic Community Development Committee Tuesday that there is a golden opportunity for development ready to be seized. Advisor Greg Sparrow, Rochelle, who is also an Ogle County Board member, said the city has a major opportunity because it is the county seat. “Being the county seat you have a golden opportunity,” said Sparrow. “Oregon is only limited by what you go after.” To discover what direction to go, Sparrow challenged the members of the ECDC to Amy Lamb Woods removes crumbling materials from the head of the Black Hawk statue. Photo supplied by Amy answer questions. “How fast do you want Lamb Woods, Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger, Inc. to go? What do we want to go after?” said Sparrow. “You can bring people here. You can develop the river front. You have tourism

In search of the right mix

Experts work to find the right fix for statue

Mt. Morris man was flying jet over ocean on 9/11

By Vinde Wells vwells@oglecounty news.com Experts will know in about two weeks whether or not they concocted the right mixture last week to repair Oregon’s most well-known landmark. Black Hawk statue restoration team members Andrzej Dajnowski, from Conservation of Sculpture & Objects Studio, Inc., Forest Park, and Amy Lamb Woods, professional engineer from Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger, Inc., Chicago, were at Lowden State Park July 1 to inject four different mixtures of repair materials into the cracks in the 104-year-old concrete monolith. “We have to let them set and then look at the surface and see how they performed,”

opportunities.” The ECDC will need to examine what resources the community has to offer. Sparrow said working with the Village of Mt. Morris is only logical since the communities share a combined school district. He also said the river is a common element between Oregon and Byron. “This is a good thing,” said Sparrow. “I encourage you to try a tri-city approach with Mt. Morris and Byron. Market the towns and you can attract retail.” He said the area of the three communities has close to 15,000 in population and nearly 40 percent of the county population does not live within city limits. “Embrace this and join forces and bring together the cities,” said Sparrow. There is a railroad spur from Oregon that runs to Mt. Morris. ECDC committee member Tom Golden asked Turn to A9

By Vinde Wells vwells@oglecounty news.com

Project conservator Andrzej Dajnowski injects a repair material into a crack in the Black Hawk statue. Four different mixtures were injected July 1 to determine which will be the most effective. Photo supplied by Amy Lamb Woods, Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger, Inc.

Woods said. “We’ll know in about two weeks.” Dajnowski, the project conservator, made four different mixtures of cement and lime in plastic containers

and then climbed the scaffolding surrounding the 50-foot statue to inject each into the cracks using a large needle and syringe. Woods said two mixtures

were injected in the morning and two others would be done in the afternoon. “It’s a very delicate process,” she said. Turn to A2

Mt. Morris native Mike Ballard was high in the sky over the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 11, 2001 when he got the word that all was not well in the U.S. He was piloting a United Airlines jumbo jet carrying 200 passengers and the crew from Heathrow Airport in London to Chicago. “I’d just started my break when the first flight attendant told me I was wanted back in the cockpit,” he told the crowd at the July 4 Let Freedom Ring Patriotic Program. Soon he received a note

that gave only sketchy details, but said both towers at the World Trade Center had been hit, that it was a hijacking, and “others may be in progress.” He locked the cockpit door and posted the plane’s third pilot beside it, armed with a crash axe. Ballard said he was soon informed that the flight would be diverted to Toronto, Canada, because U.S. airspace was closed. That plan changed quickly when orders came that Toronto would not be the destination after all, and three other airports in Canada were offered as options. After consulting with Turn to A2

Nashville drum & bugle corps practices at OHS By Sarah Zuniga Correspondent Some Oregon residents may have heard brass and percussion cadences rather than fireworks to start their Fourth of July weekend. Oregon High School was the practice location for the Music City Drum & Bugle Corps on July 3, before their performance later that night at Rockford’s Show of Shows at Boylan Catholic High School. The corps arrived at Oregon High School in the morning and practiced all day, then performed a full run-through of their show shortly before 3 p.m. Keith Hall, executive

director of Music City, founded the corps back in 2008. “I was in a drum corps in 1980 and it was the most fun I’d ever had,” said Hall. “I was a band director for nine years and I always wanted to start a drum corps and seven year ago, a group of people in Nashville got it going. We had 47 members the first year, this year we have 128.” Music City’s show this year features three movements from Gustav Holst’s “The Planets”: “Mars: the Bringer of War”, “Venus: the Bringer of Peace”, and “Jupiter: the Bringer of Jollity.” The Show of Shows was the first event for Music City The percussion line of Music City finishes a cadence during their practice on the Oregon High School practice fields Turn to A2 on July 3. The corps competed at the Show of Shows in Rockford later that night. Photo by Sarah Zuniga.

In This Week’s Edition...

Church News, A5 Classifieds, B6-B10 College News, A4 Entertainment, A6 Fines, B3

Library News, A3 Marriage Licenses, A4 Oregon Police, B5 Public Voice, A8 Property Transfers, B6

Sheriff’s Arrests, B3 Social News, A4 Sports, B2 State’s Attorney, B3 Zoning Permits, B5

Deaths, B5 Ruth I. Balluff, Donald E. Blumeyer, Wayne L. Hinrichs, Lynn A. Manis, Wayne E. McBride, Mary J. Moser, Martha Ruthe

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