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A request for courage Kinzinger traveling office filled with concerns about democratic process By Dave Cook
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The actions taken during Donald Trump’s first 12 days in the Oval Office helped fill the village hall in DePue with area residents from a host of Illinois Valley communities. All were eager to discuss with their congressman a multitude of concerns. Congressman Adam Kinzinger sent staff to his traveling office in DePue on Jan. 31. The first in a series throughout
the 16th District, the meetings are meant to hear the concerns of constituents and provide guidance. If the traveling office in DePue was any indication of what the rest of them will be like, the congressman and his staff will have plenty to address. Issues raised during the DePue traveling office included health care; environmental concerns; immigration; the president’s impulsiveness, his apparent inability to accept criticism and facts; his willingness to conduct global diplomacy via social media while
disregarding experienced diplomats; conflicts of interest; hastily crafted Executive Orders being issued without proper consultation; misinformation; controversial cabinet nominees; congressional accountability; public education; reactionary partisan politics; the National Security Council; gag orders; ethics; Planned Parenthood funding; the failure to use proper procedures; and the threat to the First Amendment.
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Greg Ridenour, an aide to Congressman Adam Kinzinger, listened to a wide array of concerns during the traveling office held in DePue on Jan. 31. The first of a series of traveling offices being held throughout the 16th District, constituents had plenty to say about the new presidential administration and commended Kinzinger for breaking from party lines to speak against how the recent immigration order was handled.
A stitch in time
Donuts with Daddy
Church group finishes quilt that Rosemary Biagi began making in 1950s By Lori Boekeloo
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narrow in on the right solution. Carter Funfsinn, a senior at SBA, built the model using scrap wood, an air pressure tank and some tubing and fabrication. He said the most expensive piece of the model was actually the basketball, which cost $20.
HENNEPIN — This is a story that started over 60 years ago in the tiny town of Hennepin. It began before the steel mill came to town. It began before there was a grocery store and four taverns. It began before the firehouse and the new bank. Newlyweds Rosemary and Frank Biagi bought a little house on the west end of High Street, before there was a street sign to indicate their address. When their daughter, Rosalie, was small, Rosemary would take her next door to Bessie Hollumbach’s house to visit, as neighbors did often during those times. “She had a tiny little rocking chair for Rosalie, along with a small box containing sewing supplies,” Rosemary recalled. During these visits, the three of them began to piece together a quilt topper, made from the scraps of various projects that Rosemary had sewn for Rosalie and then her younger daughter, Chris. Over time, the quilt grew larger and larger, but before it could be completed, Hollumbach became ill and so the project was put aside. It was packed away in a box, and on the rare occasion it was seen, Rosemary indicated her desire to finish it, but the demands of being a mother and wife left it as a low priority. Decades passed and eventually Frank grew ill and died. Rosemary was left to live alone in their home. The kids had grown and married and moved on. Though they visited often, it eventually became apparent that
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Putnam County kindergarten student Quinn Holly got to enjoy donuts with his dad, Luke Holly, during Putnam County Primary School’s recent Donuts with Daddy event. Students sang a song honoring their dads, gave them a handcrafted tie and then joined them for a breakfast of donuts and milk.
St. Bede AP physics class attempts slam dunk By Goldie Rapp
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PERU — The AP physics class at St. Bede Academy (SBA) has modeled an air-powered basketball launcher, which allows students to see first hand how basic principals, such as impulse-momentum theVol. 149 No. 24 One Section - 12 Pages
orem, projectile motion and kinematics play out in real life. While the device has yet to make a slam dunk, it is able to shoot a basketball across the gymnasium — and pretty close to the basket. Students are still experimenting, working out the kinks and referring back to their formulas. But they are determined to
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