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Happy campers; happier counselors

Jail to add 2 officers Overtime costs, liability factors causing concern

BY RACHEL RODGERS rrodgers@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5529 @rj_rodgers

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Oregon Elementary School students in the Superhero Academy walk past pictures of themselves as they enter the Oregon High School gymnasium for a graduation ceremony May 6. The Superhero Academy was a 3-day camp put on by Oregon High School students participating in the Open Program.

Oregon students clear hurdles to put on camp for elementary school kids

BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN cheimerman@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5523 @CHeimerman_SVM

OREGON – It would have been perfectly understandable if Ericka Biekert and Kyla Suter felt about 40 years old as Superhero Academy wrapped up May 6 behind Oregon Elementary School.

All the disappointments, stop signs and restarts they endured? That stuff

can take years off one’s life.

Instead, they felt closer to 10.

“Half the time, I feel like I’m a thirdgrader, too,” Ericka said. “I wish we got to do the whole week, but I’m also kind of glad it’s the last day.”

The 15-year-olds just completed their sophomore year at Oregon, and got a bona fide lesson in adult politics as Open Program students.

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Online extra Click on this story at saukvalley.com to catch some sights and sounds from Superhero Academy.

Inside Part of class is forcing students to go outside comfort zone. Page A5

DIXON – To alleviate liability concerns and an abundance of overtime costs, the Lee County Jail plans to hire two additional officers in the next month.

The jail operates with 8 correctional officers and must have at least two working at any given time to abide Sheriff John Simonton by state law.

However, juggling the jailers’ schedules around instances like sick days, extended medical leave and vacations has put a strain on the officers and the department’s overtime budget, Lee County Sheriff John Simonton said.

“We are working with the bare, absolute minimum of correctional officers,” Simonton said.

“They’re worn out, and we need to get them some relief.”

Simonton made a request to the Lee County Board to hire the additional staff, citing the situation as a “most critical need” for the jail.

With flat county revenue paired with economic distress at the state level, Simonton said he is sympathetic to the county’s fiscal limitations, but the expense would ease overtime burdens and prevent potentially costly liability issues from having overworked staff.

“The 8 employees in the jail division are taking up almost 50 percent of the overtime budget for the entire department,” he said.

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ROCK FALLS

Evolution of city utilities ‘Heart of city’ has a leader in Hatfield

BY PAM EGGEMEIER peggemeier@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5570 @pam_eggemeier

ROCK FALLS – Diane Hatfield spends about 2 hours a day in her work commute, but she has drastically reduced her travel time.

Hatfield, 52, knew she’d be driving from her home in Bettendorf, Iowa, to Rock Falls City Hall when she landed the newly created job of utilities supervisor, but inconvenience

Utilities information Go to http://www.rockfalls61071.net/utility-services/customerservice-office-2/ for more information about the city’s utilities, including a billing schedule and online payment. is a relative term.

The past 15 years she was a field office manager for U.S. Pipeline, an energy infrastructure construction company based in Houston.

“I enjoyed it immensely, but I was on the road all the time,” Hatfield said. “We’d get a 15-month contract, and wherever it was, I’d be there that long.”

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Given that two of her favorite things to do are taking care of her house, and spending time with her three grandchildren, Hatfield thought it might be time for a change.

She saw the Rock Falls job Alex T. Paschal/apaschal@saukvalley.com opportunity in a newspaper, and on a whim decided to Diane Hatfield recently started her job in the newly created position of utilities supervisor for the city of Rock Falls. The city check into it. hopes direct leadership of the city’s utilities will improve accuUTILITIES CONTINUED ON A12 racy and efficiency for customers.

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POLICE Sterling Police Kathryn A. Schauff, 21, of Sterling; 8:21 p.m. Thursday at West Fourth Street and Woodburn Avenue; speeding 45 mph in a 30-mph zone; given state citation.

Benjamin J. Howard, 39, of Rock Falls; 10:25 p.m.

Thursday at West Third Street and Avenue C; driving while license suspended, no insurance, no rear registration light; given notice to appear in court.

Rock Falls Police Sarah F. McClearin, 29, of Sterling; 12:49 p.m. Thursday at U.S. Route 30 and 12th Avenue; expired registration; given notice to appear in court.

Morrison Police

Boy, 14, of Morrison; May 7; curfew violation; given citation.

Richard D. Rausch, 45, of Morrison; Monday; nuisance – vehicle (ordinance violation); given citation.

Todd A. Morthland, 48, of Morrison; Tuesday; driving while license suspended; given citation.

Amanda M. Dierksen, 26, of Morrison; Thursday; truancy of child less than 13 years; given citation.

ing uninsured motor vehicle; given traffic citation and released after posting bond.

Anthony C. Lovgren, 20, of LaMoille; 5:50 p.m. Wednesday at U.S. Route 52 and Water Street; failure to wear seat belt; given traffic citation and released after posting bond.

Donald C. Conkle, 37, of Amboy; 5:24 p.m. Wednesday at U.S. Route 52 and Water Street; failure to wear seat belt; given traffic citation and released after posting bond.

Amy L. Stewart, 33, of Amboy; 1:17 p.m. Thursday at West Main Street and Gilson Avenue; failure to wear seat belt; given traffic citation and released after posting bond.

David A. Densmore, 47, of Amboy; 2:42 p.m. Thursday at U.S. Route 52 and Nauman Road; disobeying a no passing zone, operating uninsured motor vehicle; given traffic citation and released after posting bond.

Robert J. Teague II, 47, of Rock Falls; 3:49 p.m. Thursday on Sterling Road west of Josiah Avenue; operating uninsured vehicle, speeding, 43 mph in a 30-mph zone; given traffic citation and released after posting bond.

Russell R. Scarbrough, 58, of Amboy; 9:55 p.m.

Sunday at South East Avenue and Main Street; disobeying traffic control device; given traffic citation and released after posting bond.

Darious D. Decker, 21, of Amboy; 11:55 p.m. May 14 at Sterling Road and Robbins Road; possession of drug paraphernalia, unlawful possession of marijuana 10 to 30

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grams; taken to Lee County Jail.

Mirna N. Irizarry, 56, of Chicago; 10:55 p.m. May 14 at Mason Avenue and Division Street; operating uninsured motor vehicle; given traffic citation and released after posting bond.

Killian Z. Vayda, 20, of Amboy; 4:15 p.m. May 14 in alley east of 210 E. Division St.; leaving the scene of an accident with vehicle damage, failure to give information after striking unattended vehicle; given traffic citation and released after posting bond.

Stephen A. Morris, 21, of LaSalle; just after midnight May 14 on South Mason Avenue; possession of drug paraphernalia; taken to Lee County Jail.

notice to appear in court.

Andrew M. Warbritton, 23, of Rockford; 7:51 p.m.

Thursday in rural Stillman Valley; domestic battery, criminal damage; taken to Ogle County Jail and held in lieu of bond.

Three hurt in two-vehicle crash Wednesday

Lee County Sheriff Jesse J. Morris, 20, of Franklin Grove; 11 p.m.

Thursday; criminal damage to property, disorderly conduct; posted bond and given notice to appear in court.

Michael Burgins, 29, of Lee; 6:36 p.m. Thursday; warrant for failure to appear – violation of order of protection; held at Lee County Jail and given notice to appear in court.

Ogle County Sheriff Jaimie Lindsey, 22, of Rochelle; Thursday; warrant for failure to appear; posted $225 bond and will not appear in court.

George Bonds, 34, of Rockford; Tuesday; driving while license suspended; given

OGLE COUNTY – Three people suffered apparently minor injuries Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash at state Route 72 and Main Street in Leaf River.

Ogle County Sheriff’s deputies and Leaf River Fire personnel responded at 4:16 p.m. A truck driven by Scott L. Volden, 44, of Monroe Center, was eastbound on Route 72 when a northbound van driven by Carol J. Gattolin, 70, of Davis, entered the intersection on Main Street after stopping. The vehicles collided in the intersection.

Volden was not injured.

Gattolin and her passengers, Eileen Olsen, 66, of Davis, and Therese Stajduhar, 65, of Davis, were taken to Freeport Memorial Hospital. Their conditions were unavailable Friday.

BIRTHDAYS Happy birthday to Gala Sublett, Darin Betts Jr., 3, Kallen Shawver, 2, Terry Carter, Zulma Rote, Lola Pyron, and Dina Johnson, all on Saturday.

Happy birthday to Michal Fisher, Bud Albrecht, Justin Morthland, Douglas Hansen, Randy Walters, and Maria Driesbach, all on Sunday.

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Boy, 17, of Amboy; 5 p.m.

May 13 at North Mason Avenue and Provost Street; failure to wear seat belt; given traffic citation and released after posting bond, Ryan L. Reaver, 34, of Dixon; 12:10 p.m. Wednesday at Northeast Avenue and Division Street; no valid driver’s license, expired less than one year; given traffic citation and released after posting bond.

Emily M. Warner, 28, of Sterling; 5:09 p.m. Thursday at Wasson Road and Northland Avenue; operating uninsured vehicle; given traffic citation and released after posting bond.

Douglas W. Baddorf, 64, of Amboy; 1:07 p.m.

Wednesday at East Main Street and South East Avenue; failure to wear seat belt; given traffic citation and released after posting bond.

Michael D. Danekas, 57, of Amboy; 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday at Division Street and Jones Avenue; failure to wear seat belt, operat-

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OREGON – A juvenile from Mount Morris was arrested shortly after a robbery Friday at an Oregon gas station.

At 1:32 a.m., Oregon Police responded to a call about a robbery at the Shell gas station at 201 S. Fourth St. The caller told police the suspect had demanded cash and cigarettes while implying they had a weapon. The suspect then fled from the

gas station.

Oregon Police did not say whether any cash or cigarettes were stolen.

Police found the suspect, a 17-year-old girl, about 2:45 a.m. Friday in the 600 block of South Sixth Street in Oregon. She was arrested and taken to the Oregon Police Department.

After reviewing the case, police took her to the Kane County Juvenile Detention Center, pending a court appearance on the robbery charge.

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DATELINE DIXON

A queen for a cause: Big payout finally a wrap Families of local wounded servicemen rachelRODGERS is accept funds on organizations’ behalf Rodgers a reporter at DIXON – A single playing card can make quite the ripple.

When the queen of hearts showed her face at the Dixon VFW in March after 44 weeks in hiding, the fundraiser had reached a $301,510 jackpot.

In addition to the 70 percent payout for the Rock Falls man who revealed the queen, the VFW garnered 15 percent from the Queen of Hearts game toward deferred building maintenance and repairs.

During the past several weeks, the remaining $45,226 has been awarded to 8 local orga-

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nizations and 2 national charities.

The VFW wrapped up its last round of donations Thursday, distributing $4,523 to both the Semper Fi Fund and America’s Fund, charitable organizations that have given financial support to more than 15,000 injured and critically ill service members, veterans and their families throughout the nation.

Of those thousands, two local families of injured soldiers shared their stories and accepted the donations on behalf of the organizations.

Standing atop the VFW stage holding one side of

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the giant novelty check were Terry and Kim Devine, of Dixon, parents of Marine Lance Cpl. Adam Devine, who lost his legs after stepping on an improvised explosive device while serving in Afghanistan in December 2011.

Shortly after they arrived at Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Maryland to see their son, who underwent 66

To participate in the Queen of Hearts fundraiser, tickets can be purchased at the Dixon VFW, 1560 Franklin Grove Road, which opens at 2 p.m. Monday through Friday and at 11 a.m. on the weekend. Six tickets cost $5.

The next drawing will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the VFW, and tickets will be sold until 5 minutes prior to the drawing. surgeries and 3 and a half years of rehab treatment, a representative from the Semper Fi Fund handed them an envelope.

“It was a check for $1,500 for [travel-

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The officers are slated to work 84 hours every 2-week pay period, but they are regularly racking up around 115 hours, totaling about 15 overtime hours each week, Simonton added.

“One of our correctional officers, by himself, has accumulated twice as many hours as all nine of our girls in the 911 dispatch center,” the sheriff said.

The measure could reduce overtime costs by 20 to 25 percent, about $30,000, he said.

The County Board unanimously approved the additional officers Monday, an estimated expense of $115,000 for annual salaries and benefits.

“We are all aware we need to be looking for additional revenue,”

received new staff positions was about 15 years ago, when the number of officers doubled from 4 to 8.

Simonton said he plans to have the two officers hired by the end of June.

Gaining a little more flexibility with staff, the sheriff’s office still has the issue of making operations flow smoothly while the jail’s infrastructure continues to deteriorate.

Voters rejected a referendum March 15 that called for a 1 percent sales tax increase to fund the construction of a new jail, estimated to cost between $12 million and $15 million.

Prior to the election, the County Board had passed a resolution stating the increase would be lowered to half a percent if the referendum was successful.

Simonton said they intend to try another referendum, but they will wait until next spring, as

board member Allyn Buhrow said Monday.

“This is a priority that has got to be taken care of.”

Jail Superintendent Jack Skrogstad said in addition to dealing with deteriorating infrastructure at the jail, the officers are strained working 6 days a week, which could cause complacency that presents a safety risk.

In addition to normal time off, officers have been out for 2 or 3 months because of injuries twice in the past 2 years, Skrogstad said.

“Because of all this, a correctional officer might be ill but will work anyway because they know if they take the day off, that’s going to take away from whoever has to be called in,” Skrogstad said. “They’re not taking care of themselves, and they’re holding off on vacation days.”

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Poor conditions at the jail include plumbing and mold problems, space constraints, and a lack of segregation areas.

“It’s a totaled car,” Skrogstad said.

The attorney general is reviewing the jail’s last inspection, and Simonton said he expects to receive the agency’s report next month.

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FUNERAL SERVICES FOR THE WEEK ▼ Today’s visitations: Raymond H. Kosick of Dixon, memorial visitation, 9-10:30 a.m. at Preston-Schilling Funeral Home in Dixon.

Donna S. Koster of Sterling, 9-10 a.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Rock Falls.

Mary J. Gehant of Amboy, 9-11 a.m. at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Amboy.

Betty J. Esslinger of East Moline, 9:30-11 a.m. at BosmaGibson Funeral Home in Prophetstown.

Russell E. Scholl, formerly of Polo, 10-11 at Polo Family Funeral Home.

Ronald J. “Ron” Hartz, formerly of Sterling, gathering of

friends and family, 10-11 a.m. at St. John Lutheran Church in Sterling.

Kenneth W. Kortemeier, formerly of Polo, 10 a.m. at Christ United Methodist Church, Rockford. ▼ Today’s funerals: Mary L. Craft of Dixon, 10 a.m. prayer service at Jones Funeral Home in Dixon, followed by 10:30 a.m. Mass at St. Anne Catholic Church in Dixon.

Donna S. Koster of Sterling, 10 a.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Rock Falls.

Betty J. Esslinger of East Moline, 11 a.m. at BosmaGibson Funeral Home in Prophetstown.

Mary J. Gehant of Amboy, 11 a.m. Mass at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Amboy.

Ronald J. “Ron” Hartz, formerly of Sterling, celebration of life, 11 a.m. at St. John Lutheran Church in Sterling.

Raymond H. Kosick of Dixon, 11 a.m. memorial service at PrestonSchilling Funeral Home in Dixon.

Russell E. Scholl of Polo, 11 a.m. Masonic service at Polo Family Funeral Home.

Raymond G. Appler of Oregon, 1 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church in Oregon.

Kenneth W. Kortemeier, formerly of Polo, 11 a.m. at Christ United Methodist Church in Rockford.

▼ Sunday visitations: Joshua W. Grunder of Tampico, noon-4 p.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls.

Mary K. Bonneur of Morrison, 4-7 p.m. at Bosma-Renkes Funeral Home in Morrison.

Donna L. Smith of Sterling, 4-7 p.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Sterling. ▼ Sunday funerals: Joshua W. Grunder of Tampico, 4 p.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls. ▼ Monday visitations: Elmer N. Onley of Oregon, 10-11 a.m. at Oregon United Methodist Church.

John A. Celletti Jr. of Rock

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Merle T. Dale of New Bedford, 4-7 p.m. at New Bedford Christian Church. ▼ Monday funerals: Mary K. Bonneur of Morrison, 10 a.m. at Bosma-Renkes Funeral Home in Morrison.

Merle T. Dale of New Bedford, 10 a.m. with Masonic services at New Bedford Christian Church.

Donna L. Smith of Sterling, 10 a.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Rock Falls.

Burchard F.O. “Butch” Koester of Normal, 11 a.m. memorial service at Our Saviour Lutheran Church in Normal.

Elmer N. Onley of Oregon, 11 a.m. at Oregon United Methodist Church. ▼ Tuesday visitations: Jack R. Norman of Como, 9-11 a.m. at Schilling Funeral Home & Cremation in Sterling. ▼ Tuesday funerals: John A. Celletti Jr. of Rock Falls, 11 a.m. Mass at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Rock Falls.

Jack R. Norman of Como, 11 a.m. at Schilling Funeral Home & Cremation in Sterling. ▼ May 28 funerals: William L. “Bill” Helms of Rock Falls, gathering of family and friends, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at Helms farm in Sterling.

OBITUARIES John A. Celletti Jr. ROCK FALLS – John A. Celletti Jr., 68, of Rock Falls, passed away Thursday, May 19, 2016, at home.

John was born Feb. 15, 1948, in Sterling, the son of John and Ida (Smith) Celletti Sr. He graduated from Newman Central Catholic High School.

John married Diana Reid on June 5, 1966, in Rock Falls. He was the owner and operator of Celletti’s Sportland in Rock Falls. John loved his store, and cherished the friendships that were made throughout the years with his customers. He was very talented and handy, and was able to fix just about anything. He enjoyed being on the river and racing hydro boats. John loved his family more than anything and enjoyed life to the fullest.

Survivors include his wife, Diana; five children, Jean Perkins of

Ingeborg ‘Inga’ Teachout

Belvidere, and Carol (Mark) Flynn, John A. (Stephanie) Celletti III, Lisa (Robert) Cooksey, and Jerry R. (Amber Halverson) Celletti, all of Rock Falls; nine grandchildren, Kyle and Nathan Perkins, Brody and Logan Flynn, Lailah Barber, Ashton, Summer, and Korbin Cooksey, and Isabella Celletti; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his parents, and one brother, Jerry Celletti.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at McDonald Funeral Home, 1002 12th Ave., Rock Falls. Celebration of the Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m.

Tuesday at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Rock Falls, with Monsignor Thomas Dzielak officiating.

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STERLING – Ingeborg Hannlore “Inga” Haarmeyer Teachout, 86, of Sterling, passed away Thursday, May 19, 2016, at Sterling Pavilion Nursing Home.

Inga was born Jan. 28, 1930, in Berlin, the daughter of Heinrich and Emilie (Johannesmeyer) Haarmeyer. She married Lester Teachout on Nov. 26, 1954, at Centennial United Methodist Church in Rockford.

Inga came to the U.S. in 1953 and lived most of her life in Rockford.

She spent several years in Hannover, Germany, from 1976 to 2000. She retired in 2000 in Sterling to be close to her family. Inga enjoyed knitting and reading, and was a member of the Roundtuits Group.

She loved to knit hats, and often would donate them to area schools and Hospice. Inga was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Sterling.

Survivors include her daughter, Kim (James) Hegner of Sterling; son, Sam Teachout of Tustin, California; and two grandsons, Theodore “Ted” Hegner and Matthew Teachout.

She was preceded in death by her husband and parents.

At Inga’s request, cremation rites have been accorded by McDonald Funeral Home. A Memorial Mass will be at a later date at Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

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Frances Lippert DIXON – Frances Lippert, 96, of Dixon, died Thursday, May 19, 2016, at Liberty Court in Dixon.

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Burchard F.O. ‘Butch’ Koester NORMAL – Burchard F.O. “Butch” Koester, 88, of Normal, passed away at 11:52 p.m.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at his home.

Burchard was born Feb. 12, 1928, in Norden, Germany, a son of Otto and Margarethe (Steffens) Köster.

He married Gretchen Luebbers on Nov. 22, 1953. She preceded him in death on April 29, 1981.

He married Sandra L. Eich on July 29, 1982.

Butch came to the U.S. in 1951. He farmed until 1970 in Sterling. He then worked for Farm & Fleet for 7 years, and was an assistant manager at the Bloomington store. He also worked for McGhee Implement Co. as parts manager, and at Millers True Value until they went out of business.

After retiring, he worked part time at Super Wash, located on West College Avenue, and returned to Farm & Fleet in Bloomington part time until retirement at 75 years of age. He was educated in Germany, where he also served in the army during the end of World War II, and later, 2 years in the U.S. Army. He was a faithful member of St. Paul Evangelical Luther-

an Church in Sterling, where he served several times as council member, and was past president of his then-local Lutheran Brotherhood Chapter. He was a member of Our Saviour Lutheran Church in Normal.

Butch loved to travel, especially to Germany and Hawaii, and enjoyed several cruises. He will be greatly missed by family and friends.

Survivors include his wife, Sandra; three daughters, Heidi G. Allen, Linda A. Koester, and Jacquelyn L. Cooper; two grandchildren; and one sister in Germany.

He also was preceded in death by his parents.

There will be no visitation. The memorial service will be at 11 a.m.

Monday at Our Saviour Lutheran Church in Normal, with Jeffrey R. Henricks, pastor, officiating.

Cremation rites have been accorded. KiblerBrady-Ruestman Memorial Home in Bloomington is handling arrangements.

Memorials may be made to Our Saviour Lutheran Church building fund or the organ fund.

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MORRISON – Mary K. Bonneur, 93, of Morrison, died Friday, May 20, 2016, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at BosmaRenkes Funeral Home in Morrison. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the funeral home. Interment will be at Grove Hill Cemetery in Morrison. Further arrangements are being completed.

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William L. ‘Bill’ Helms ROCK FALLS – William Lee “Bill” Helms, 78, of Rock Falls, passed away peacefully Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, at home, from ongoing heart problems.

Bill was born Dec. 27, 1937, at Sterling Public Hospital, to Ellard and Blanche (Klocke) Helms.

He enlisted in the Navy in 1957, and traveled to Japan, the Panama Canal, Hawaii, and Alaska, serving on the Monticello LSD 35. While stationed in San Diego, he married Lois Boseneiler. They celebrated 58 years of marriage Dec. 28, 2015.

Survivors include his wife, Lois of Rock Falls; six children, Mindy Burge of Rock Falls, Shelly Helms of Rock-

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According to his wishes, the family will have a casual gathering of family and friends from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 28 at Helms farm, 12 Paris Road, Sterling.

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Jack R. Norman COMO – Jack R. Norman, 62, of Como, died Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at his home.

Jack was born July 29, 1953, in Sterling, the son of Glenn and LaVonne (DeGroot) Norman Sr. He served in the Navy. He married DeAnna Buckman on Oct. 3, 2008, in Morrison.

Survivors include his wife; his parents of Tampico; one daughter, Jennifer Norman of Polo; one son, Jason (Tammy) Norman of Amboy; three stepsons, Jeremy and Jason Stingley, both of Rock Falls and Justin (Tracy) Stingley of Sterling; three sisters, Jo Norman and Penny (Robert) Duncan, both of Sterling, and Glenda

(William) Hitchcock of Grand Detour; one brother, Glenn Norman Jr. of Prophetstown; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

He was preceded in death by one brother, Robert Norman.

Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, and the funeral at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Schilling Funeral Home & Cremation in Sterling, with the Rev. Jeff Coester, pastor of Big Red Church in Sterling, officiating. Burial will be at Coloma Township Cemetery in Rock Falls.

A memorial has been established.

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Ying, yang, yes Students shy and bubbly thrive in Passions alike like to watch them, and see them grow,” she said.

Speaking of growth, Ashley Throw has burst from her shell, thanks to Passions.

A gifted writer, she’s submitting two short stories – one an introspective reflection piece, the other a dystopian adventure – to any contests she can find.

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OREGON – Whether students think they know what they want to be when they grow up, or think they know what they’re capable of, Open Program Passions is there to prove them right or wrong – whichever they need most.

It’s a class for juniors, and those who took Open Program their sophomore year most often continue the community project they undertook the year before. Those students and jump-in juniors – those who didn’t take OP their sophomore year – are all urged to start not only figuring out what they’d like to do after high school, but to start planning for it.

Since she was 12, Hailey White was pretty sure she wanted to be a mortuary scientist. As she started looking into colleges, there was one factor she refused to overlook: the school’s softball reputation. She’s flourished as a lefty slap-hitting tablesetter extraordinaire for her Hawks.

“With Passions, I got to sit down and look at different colleges – which ones had good softball records and the career I want to do,” she said. “To open my mind to other things was actually pretty cool.”

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wisely at an Imagine Me convention at Rock Valley College toward the beginning of the spring semester. She had 60 seconds to pitch an app enabling a user to listen to music on airplane mode.

“I don’t really like talking in front of people, but I decided I should, to put myself out there and get over it,” she said.

“I was very proud of her that day,” Passions instructor and Spanish teacher Kim Radostits said. “It was neat to see her put herself where she was uncomfortable, but she really flourished.

I was really impressed with her pitch.

“She did a great job.”

Such a great job she won an award.

Both Throw and White are jump-in juniors, a concept Ms. Rad, as her students call her, wasn’t entirely sure about.

“Last year’s kids were hungry for it, where they’d had it before and they wanted it back,” “The jump-ins were a little more timid at the start, but they’ve been great. They actually might have jumped on their portfolio faster than some of the others.

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‘Open Program has changed me’ Ericka is a smart cookie, but she wasn’t acting like it in years past. She confesses she used to cut corners by copying others’ homework.

“I probably shouldn’t admit that,” she said.

“But I think we’ve all been there. I was so lazy.”

She’s wanted to be a lawyer since she was in eighth grade, and when she heard about OP, she applied. It was a savior.

That said, it’s also been a struggle.

Because she and Kyla had to start from square one with the project, they fell behind in their standards. Through OP, students are given the first three class periods of every school day to ultimately carry out a project that benefits the community, and also tackle 10 chapters of math and English.

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Superhero Academy graduates pose for photos after certificates and capes were handed out. got no standards except for Chapter 5 in math.

I’ve got to catch myself up. I’m so far behind everyone else, because this project has been my life.”

Kyla, who works two jobs – one with Lutheran Outdoor Ministries Center and another at Alfano’s Pizzeria & Italiano – took a pragmatic approach and got after her math standards, knowing she could catch up on English in a hurry.

“I’m not great at math, so I thought I should push ahead in that subject,” she said.

Not only was the camp a success, they both got high marks in OP, math and English, while acing Real World 101.

“I’ve definitely learned a lot and become more professional,” Kyla said.

“I’ve learned about how adults communicate. It wasn’t what I was expecting.”

Ericka marvels at the difference a year can make.

“Now I’m at the point that I’m only 15, but I’m stressing about college and what I want to do,” she said. “I’m glad I had the growth, but I would like to go back and tell myself to get it together.”

It takes a village English teacher and OP instructor Aaron Sitze walked across the soccer field behind Oregon Elementary with the facial expression of a puppy who’d piddled in the corner. He was holding a hula hoop that had broken during Catch the Villain.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “I flexed.”

Ericka laughed. The

hard parts were over, including the fundraising to buy all the candy that kept the kids’ motors running – the Rotary Club gave them $260, Hupy & Abraham chipped in $100, and Kiwanis added $100.

Although earning that last contribution was a true labor of love.

“Pitching Kiwanis was super cool,” Ericka said, “and they gave us breakfast. It was so cute.”

She had to replace volunteers on the fly for the first and second camp days, when they flaked out at the last minute.

She found a diamond in the rough in her cousin, Jerry Richardson, a.k.a Capt. Jerry. The 16-yearold sophomore with long, curly hair delighted the kids as he glided around the soccer pitch, his neon cape flapping in the breeze.

“He was so good with the kids, so I made him come back,” Ericka said.

“They love him.”

Aaron Sitze yelled “Get him! Get him!” in his evilest voice, while several OP students, including his son, Alex, manned

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Ericka shied away from the games.

“I don’t want to steal these kids’ thunder,” she said. “This is their camp.”

She flitted from game to game to make sure everyone was equal parts happy and hyped.

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They had a vision to put on a weeklong day camp, complete with games and arts and crafts – including the creation of the capes their pintsized superheroes would wear to graduation. They spent the fall semester planning and coordinating the camp with the Oregon Park District – until it red-lighted the camp, citing a letdown with a camp the previous summer.

“Everything has been a clash,” Ericka said back in early March, fresh off the bad news that she and Suter would have to re-rack. “I was so crushed by the way we were seen. I came back here bawling. I get choked up just thinking about it. This program has totally changed my life, and I’m so appreciative of it.”

While struggling to keep up with the math and English requirements, they pitched the concept to Oregon Elementary School administration, as an early-out camp for 3 days. The pitch landed, and about 2 months later, on an unseasonably warm Friday, kids played Catch the Villain, answered superhero trivia, and zipped through a phone booth relay, a race to see which team’s members could all change from civilian to superhero clothes first. On previous camp days, they’d played games like squirt gun tag and braved obstacle courses.

Then, in front of dozens of parents, they got their graduation certificates.

“I just want to thank all of you for trusting two high-schoolers with your kids,” Ericka told the crowd.

Kaden Birnbuan, a.k.a.

KWolf, ran across the high school gym floor, both hands in the air flashing the metal sign, and collected his certification.

“The fun part has been watching her learn to become an elementary teacher,” said Jesse Glim, an Open Program instructor who teaches history, but who has taught elementary before.

“It’s like herding cats.”

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That’s why it’s a bummer that, just 2 years into the program’s existence, the band is being broken up. Jesse Glim, a history teacher who cut his teeth (and much more) in suburban districts, helped Sitze map out the program, but recently became a victim of budget cuts.

“It’s the hardest part of this job, is trying to decide which bad decision will you have to make,” Superintendent Tom Mahoney said.

“They’re all bad decisions.”

With the elimination of an assistant principal position, Mike Boyer is being moved from that role into Glim’s, essentially.

Glim was one of the architects of the program, and his students have stood by their man,

aron Sitze glided across the soccer field behind Oregon Elementary School in his brown Argyle socks, with the sort of blissful borderline insanity that geniuses possess and the insane lament.

Tagged with the moniker Dr. Evil for the afternoon, he was eluding dozens of Superhero Academy attendees. The visual summed up an easily overlooked reason Open Program thrives: its instructors.

It’s easy to get caught admiring the teenagers, many of them not old enough to get their driver’s licenses, as they painstakingly pull together projects that enrich their community.

But those feats can’t be pulled off without teachers with open minds eager to help kids grow.

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initially staging a campaign titled Save Glim, complete with T-shirts and a petition to save his job. On May 18, the high school was peppered with Post-It notes that read #SaveGlim.

“Those few days after I heard the news, those were some violent days,” said junior Mike Jones, who’s worked closely with Glim on his burgeoning career as a blacksmith.

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In visiting the OP lab a few times this semester, it was immediately glaring that the trust established with teachers is what fuels Open Program. In turn, students want their teachers at their events, workshops, or however their project culminates, so they can make them proud.

Sitze was named a Teacher of the Year finalist in the state in 2013, 3 years after Spanish teacher Kim Radostits, also an OP instructor and the overseer of OP Passions, was also named a finalist for the honor.

Those honors don’t happen by accident, nor does a student body grassroots campaign.

Those instructors are rock stars. Their kids know it, and they want to emulate that aura.

Whereas the Passions class was new this year, Mahoney sees the district’s new partnership with the Whiteside Area Career Center as a supplement to the program. Four seniors will attend the Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities course at the career center this fall – just one more innovative step, Mahoney said.

“I want us to be bold, and to have our kids dream big and if you’re going to fail, fail big. We should be expanding this program more and more.”

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EDITORIAL | STATE BUDGET IMPASSE

Activity no substitute for achievement Y

ou may have read that the Illinois General Assembly has been active during this last month of the legislative session, which is scheduled to end 10 days from now on May 31.

And indeed, legislators have kept themselves busy.

Just Wednesday, the House followed the Senate’s lead by approving a bill to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana in Illinois.

The House and Senate approved a bill to restrict how police use Stingrays, or devices that mimic cell towers, in order to track phone locations in criminal investigations.

The Senate approved a bill to legalize daily fantasy sports betting.

Senators approved a bill to allow automatic voter registration in Illinois.

The House approved

a bill to increase wages for workers who care for senior citizens.

And lawmakers approved a measure to fully fund tuition grants for low-income students.

In a normal year, such activity would be expected and entirely acceptable.

However, this is anything but a normal year.

Illinois state government has gone 326 days without a budget for the fiscal year that began July 1.

Much of the government is funded through court orders, but key areas – human services, colleges and universities, MAP grants for low-income students, soil and water conservation districts among them – have not been adequately funded, or haven’t been funded at all.

The result is uncertain-

What we think Illinois remains in terrible financial shape, but with 10 days to go in the legislative session, lawmakers fritter away their time on unrelated measures. Such activities are no substitute for real achievement on Illinois’ pressing problems. ty, pain, and existential threats to service providers across the state.

Meanwhile, state spending continues to outpace revenues – even though the Illinois Constitution forbids it.

State debt continues to rise.

Months-long delays in payments to vendors continue.

And no solution has been forthcoming to deal with the state’s massive unfunded pension obligations, pegged at well over $100 billion.

Providing a backdrop to

the lack of state budgets so far for this year and next is the state’s sluggish economy. While the U.S. unemployment rate stands at 5 percent, Illinois’ jobless figures have gone up the past half year, rising to 6.6 percent in April.

THE LEGISLATURE has the authority and responsibility to address and solve the major problems faced by the state.

That would signify real achievement.

And that’s what lawmakers are elected to do.

But in Illinois, many lawmakers are more worried about keeping their jobs than making hard decisions that might rile constituents.

They apparently hope to fool voters into thinking that the Legislature is doing important work.

They hope their activities with marijuana legalization and automatic voter registration and fantasy sports betting mask their inactivity on state’s dire financial straits.

Well, the people know better.

They know activity is no substitute for achievement.

They know Illinois is in real trouble.

They know the ship is sinking.

They know lawmakers have 10 days to make tough decisions to right the ship.

And they know lawmak-

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326 days

without a state budget for the fiscal year that started July 1.

ers scurrying to rearrange deck chairs on the Good Ship Illinois just won’t cut it.

The soon-to-end session might merely consist of more busywork from politicians.

Or it could be marked by real achievement from statesmen and stateswomen.

The choice is theirs.

THE READER’S VOICE

Agency finds ways to operate in budget crisis

achievements and successes of our students, but also showed the support and generosity of our community.

Military, college, local individuals, businesses and service organizations awarded a total of $259,075 in scholarships to our seniors.

The students, staff and administration at DHS appreciate the community members who recognized our students and assisted them financially with their post-secondary endeavors.

Thank you to all who participated in our awards presentation. We are grateful to be part of a community that is supportive of education.

PATRICK PHELAN Dixon

Sinnissippi Centers Inc. continues to operate during the state’s protracted budget and financial crisis as we have always operated in the past. We continue to remain a financially strong and viable agency now and for the foreseeable future.

However, this ongoing budget crisis has created an atmosphere of concern in our communities.

It’s true, there are still many barriers to a budget resolution, and it’s true the impact of the current situation is keenly felt by human service providers.

For example, as a result of funding lost this fiscal year, Sinnissippi has been forced to reduce the number of individuals our prescribers can see by about 30 percent. It is our hope that this is only temporary.

We continue to accept new clients for psychiatric services, and plan to do so into the future.

Sinnissippi Centers has not cut nor dramatically changed the provision of any other services as a result of the budget impasse or lost funding. We will continue to provide the same quality services to our communities now, next week, next month, the rest of this year, and far into the future.

We are consistently taking steps to ensure that we make it through this crisis, no matter how long it might last. One step we have taken is joining a 64-agency lawsuit against the state seeking payment for more than 10 months of contracted services rendered.

For those of you who have demonstrated such great concern about our future well-being, thank you so much. This is by far the most challenging time in the history of behavioral health in Illinois.

I eagerly await the day when we can look back at

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this period and talk about how far we have come.

Note to readers: Patrick Phelan is the president/ CEO of Sinnissippi Centers.

Coach honored to serve Dixon for past 5 years JASON MEAD Dixon

It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as a math teacher and the head boys basketball coach at Dixon High School for the past 5 years.

I want to thank Laron Carr, Cal Jarrett, Riley Mehrens, Isaiah Roby, Kyle LeBlanc and Nate Gascoigne for buying into changing a culture with an incredible year-long work basketball ethic while still playing more than one sport. I want to thank JD Gieson, Ryan Webb and Javier Gomez for playing vital roles in that culture change, along with many older players who had to deal with the “new coach” coming in.

I want to thank assistant coaches Chase Goodeill, Garrett Kerr and

Matt Newquist for their service. I also want to thank LaQuan Pittman for serving as an assistant for all five seasons – during which time he was an incredibly dedicated coach.

I want to thank my father, Larry, for sacrificing about 200 minutes of his day traveling in a car for five seasons in order to be the best assistant coach I could ever ask for.

I also want to thank the parents who have allowed me to teach and coach their children. Without these people, our program accomplishes nothing.

I am heartbroken I do not get to finish coaching the high school careers of David Whitcombe, Patrick Johnson, Kandras Martin, Kaylon Westmorland, David Martin, Noah Wilcox, Nyrel Sullivan, Oscar Van Sickle, Beau Bailey and Derian Duncan, along with countless other players that were in our program. I am confident they will do a great job and finish their careers well.

It has been the best 5 years of my life. Together we accomplished a lot, and only part of the story

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occurred on the basketball safety distinctions of bathcourt. Thank you to the rooms, locker rooms and community of Dixon for changing rooms. all the support.

Contrary to what some may say, preserving and honoring these differences is not “discrimination.”

Moreover, why is the federal government making absurd policies for local school districts? What DAVID SMITH happened to local control?

Tinley Park What about the voices of Insanity. On the heels parents and local taxpayof Target’s ridiculous ers? Do we no longer need bathroom policy to allow local government bodies? gender-confused men to All Americans should have full access to wom- contact their federal repen’s bathrooms in their resentatives and demand stores, the Obama admin- the federal takeover of istration decided to issue bathrooms be stopped. a federal mandate requir- And call your local Target ing all public schools in while you’re at it. the nation to comply with Note to readers: David similar radical co-ed rest- E. Smith is the executive director of the Illinois Famroom policies.

These absurd policies ily Institute. ignore the privacy and safety needs of the vast majority to accommodate the absurd wishes of a few.

The fact is, males and females are created different, yet are of equal and AMY EBERT infinite value and worth.

Oregon Respecting the innate biological and immutable The awards assembly differences of the sexes held on May 4 at Dixon requires that we recognize High School not only the privacy, modesty and highlighted the efforts,

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My second political novel, “The Editor’s Wife,” covers the same post-World War II era of veteran newsman Bob Hartley’s “Dealmakers.”

[See Jim Nowlan’s column, “Boy, do we ever need ‘dealmakers’ now,” on page A9.]

Ranging from smalltown Illinois to Springfield and Chicago, this period piece is filled with many of the events and real people, masqueraded to protect the guilty, who gave character and color to the years up to the 1970s.

“The Editor’s Wife” is rather good, if I do say so myself, though a bit racy in places. I have authored or co-authored four non-fiction books for very legitimate university presses, but I never found a big-time publisher for this book, so I have warehouses full remaining.

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UNDERSTANDING ILLINOIS | LESSONS FROM THE PAST

Boy, do we ever need ‘dealmakers’ now V

eteran newsman Bob Hartley has drawn generally affectionate portraits of three large-in-life, colorful southern Illinois politicians from the mid-20th century in “The Dealmakers of Downstate Illinois” (SIU Press, 2016).

There may be some lessons for pols today.

Until one man-one vote districting in the 1960s, deep southern Illinois often dominated Illinois politics. Today, the great swath of the Prairie State south of Interstate 70, the only identifiable region of our state outside Chicago, doesn’t even claim its own congressman, the population-starved region carved up to serve interests farther north.

Yet in chronicling the lives of John Stelle (McLeansboro, pop.

2,000), Paul Powell (Vienna, 1,700) and Clyde Choate (Anna, 5,000), Hartley brings to the fore an era in which it was quite OK for ambitious men to do well for themselves in politics while doing good for their voters back home.

Southern Illinois has always been hard scrabble, many folks without two nickels to rub together. The soil is generally thin, and the copious amounts of coal (and maybe oil and gas from future fracking) poured forth bittersweet dividends of dangerous but decent jobs, murderous labor conflict, and environmental degradation.

So political jobs and government largesse have always been more

important in that region than elsewhere in Illinois.

John Stelle is probably the least known and yet the most important of the three politicians featured, for he was truly the father of the GI Bill, arguably one of the most productive pieces of legislation ever enacted.

A STRONG personality who didn’t suffer fools lightly, Stelle was gassed, wounded and decorated in World War I. Returning home to rural Hamilton County, the entrepreneurial Stelle built a sizable farming, banking and oil portfolio, all the while playing in American Legion and Democratic politics.

His low point came in 1940. As lieutenant governor, he took over the governor’s mansion for 99 days in the wake of Gov. Henry Horner’s death and, some say, plundered the state.

He made his friend and Springfield paint dealer George Day the state purchasing agent. The two bought so much yellow paint for striping highways that rumors persist there are barrels full of the stuff still stored at the

jimNOWLAN Jim Nowlan of Toulon served two terms in the Illinois House and worked under three governors.

He co-wrote “Fixing Illinois.”

highway department.

But Stelle redeemed himself and more in 1944 when he took leadership in Washington via the American Legion of the drive to provide benefits for servicemen returning from World War II. In just 7 months, he pushed the massive policy initiative of generous education benefits for millions through a reluctant Congress.

One-time Illinois House Speaker and Secretary of State Paul Powell is best known for, on his somewhat unexpected death in 1969, leaving $800,000 in cash stuffed in shoe boxes in his Springfield hotel room.

Unfortunately, that overshadows a political career during which Powell, who never went beyond high school, built a tiny “normal school”

for teacher training into Southern Illinois University, a major graduate research university.

[In addition, in the 1950s, Powell worked across the political aisle with GOP Gov. William Stratton to put together many deals that built highways and served people in his region as well as across the state.]

Powell also pushed valuable horse racing dates through the Legislature on behalf of new business combines that didn’t even own the tracks their horses trotted on.

In return, Powell was basically given many thousands of shares of stock in the enterprises at 10 cents a share, shares that paid $1 per in dividends in the first year and for many years after.

As Hartley explains, ethics were “flexible” in those days.

CLYDE CHOATE WAS Powell’s protégé in the Legislature, a partner in many of Powell’s accomplishments. He deserves more space than I have left, but I must get on to lessons learned.

Most important, politics wasn’t personal then.

Pols scrapped and fulminated across party lines and geo-political regions in the Legislature during the day.

Their work done, they piled into cars together and went out to the Lake Club or down the road to Mick and Mary’s roadhouse in Thayer for steaks and bourbon with a splash of branch water, where they had a good time and sealed political deals.

Second, while they might take a few bucks here and there, their word was as good as gold.

Today, I hear that while the pols won’t take a dime under the table, their word’s no good.

Pity.

Third, the southern Illinois dealmakers saw their political business as indeed that of doing deals, of allocating scarce government resources around the state.

Today’s Illinois political environment is toxic, with parties and their candidates vilifying, and worse, opponents with half-truths at best, destroying the camaraderie in which deals can be reached.

Let’s hear it for the good ol’ days, or at least elements of that bygone era.

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Great Lakes Management Group representatives will be in town this weekend to help give tours of the Holiday Inn Express & Suites at 301 E. Second St. The tours will be given from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday,

and light refreshments will be available.

Great Lakes Management, based in Verona, Wisconsin, specializes in hotel development. The company said it wanted residents to continue to feel engaged in the process after watching the

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Glenn Close said, “I love the chemistry that can be created on stage between the actors and the audience. It’s molecular even, the energies that can go back and forth.”

I like to sit in the front row of a theater to experience the chemistry between the actors.

In bridge, declarers need to concentrate on going back and forth between their hand and the board.

How is that important in this deal?

South is in four spades.

How should he play after West leads the heart queen?

As a secondary issue, what was West’s better opening lead?

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costs 800 if South gets a club ruff.)

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But where should he take the first trick?

Suppose the play starts heart queen to the ace, diamond ace, diamond ruff. What happens next?

Declarer can play a club, but East can win and shift to his trump. South must take the first trick on the board, play a diamond to his ace, ruff a diamond, lead a heart to his ace, ruff his second diamond, and run the spade jack. Then everything is under control.

If West leads the club six, and East shifts to a spade, that defeats the contract.

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‘Everyone here is good, they just need more training’ UTILITIES

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“I didn’t think I’d get it, but when I looked into it more, I thought it was right up my alley,” Hatfield said.

City officials seemed to agree with that assessment – before and after the hire.

“Diane has the perfect skill set – she’s a self-starter, and just digs in and wants to learn everything,” City Administrator Robbin Blackert said.

“She’s meeting all of our expectations and more.”

Training will be another area of emphasis in a high-stress, fast-paced office that hasn’t had direct leadership. The city hopes customers will reap some of the benefits with improved accuracy and efficiency.

“We need to do a whole

lot of crosstraining because we need people to step in under any circumRobbin stances,” Blackert Hatfield said. “We have one person who’s been here a long time, and that knowledge needs to be passed along to everyone.”

Hatfield said she has always been a handson manager, doing just about everything imaginable during her days with the pipeline company.

Her management philosophy won’t change in Rock Falls.

“A manager is only as good as its weakest employee,” Hatfield said.

“Everyone here is good, they just need more training.”

While having a chain of command in utilities might be challeng-

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“I think it will be nice for them to have a designated leader – somebody to take the heat and remove a lot of the pressure from them,” Hatfield said.

That heat could be turned up a notch, too, because another priority is to better enforce the ordinances that govern the office. A state comptroller’s program is used to help with collections, and a national version is being looked at to reduce write-offs. Collection

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The creation of the new position is part of the city’s efforts to keep up with the increasing demands of running the utilities that now account for about 70 percent of the city’s annual revenues. The electric department alone is about a $10 million-ayear business.

When the city’s new auditor, Sikich, gave its first report, it included a strong recommendation that the city have a designated leader in its utilities office. There are four clerks in the office, and

prior to Hatfield’s arrival April 11, the electric department head tried to oversee the office.

City officials agreed with the auditor’s opinion that the office needed someone who had the time to be a hands-on manager.

“That office is so integral to the city – it’s really the heart of the city,” Blackert said. “With all of the revenue that comes into that office, it requires direct oversight.”

When Blackert came to City Hall 5 years ago, she immediately focused on the utilities office protocol. “Stopping the bleeding” in accounts receivables demanded a clearly defined system.

“We never had a policies and procedures manual for the office until 4 years ago,” Blackert said. “It took me months to write it, but honing the manual will be one of our priorities

now that Diane is here.”

The new supervisor said the importance of the utilities in the city’s nearly $26 million budget is exciting.

“The city has such an investment in its utilities, and it’s far enough along to be reaping the benefits – with the overall budget and its ability to pay for infrastructure,” Hatfield said. “This office isn’t just about mailing bills and taking money.”

The city is also in the early stages of setting up a Public Utility Governance Board to better stay on top of a rapidly changing industry that includes keeping in good stead with the Environmental Protection Agency.

If it is established, Hatfield would be a non-voting member of the board that would also implement more standardized performance metrics for the utilities.

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Numbers game That’s how many local qualifiers there were for next weekend’s boys track & field state meet at Friday’s 1A & 2A sectional meets – 19 from 2A Galena, 22 from 1A Bureau Valley, & 18 from 1A Oregon.

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Dixon’s Tayla Schwarz throws the shot put during Friday’s preliminaries at the Class 2A state track & field meet at O’Brien Stadium on the campus fo Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Schwarz advanced to the finals in the shot put with a throw of 43 feet, 3¾ inches – the second-best on the day – and also moved on in the discus, with the best throw of the day of 132-7. Locals advanced to the finals in five events; full coverage can be found on pages B4 & B5.

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Back in California Tim Lincecum Two-time NL Cy Young winner with Giants agrees to 1-year, $2.5 million deal with Angels. He hasn’t pitched since June 2015.

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GIRLS SOCCER | 2A STERLING REGIONAL | KANELAND 1, DIXON 0

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Dixon falls in regional championship on fluky goal

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STERLING – In a balanced match between two evenly matched teams, things were bound to go down to the wire – and be decided on which team caught a break.

When Kaneland senior Gabby Cano popped up a shot toward the Dixon goal with about 12 minutes left in regulation, it didn’t look like it would necessarily prove pivotal. But when it stayed just out of reach of a leaping, stretching Ellie Provo and found the back of the net, the Knights had all they needed to win a regional title.

Cano’s goal off an assist from Ashley Crotteau broke a scoreless tie with 11:51 to play, and Kaneland advanced to the 2A DeKalb Sectional with a 1-0 win over Dixon on Friday evening at Sterling’s Roscoe Eades Stadium.

“The coaches told us at halftime to start shooting from distance, because we hadn’t really tested out the goalkeeper with valid shots on goal,” Cano said. “I decided that I was going to shoot everything, just take some risks and maybe something would work out.

“We’ve had lucky goals like that in the past, and that was a good break for us in a tough match.”

The shot came from Provo’s left, and it looked at first like the 6-foot junior keeper had it in her sights. But as the ball kept floating, Provo was

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Dixon’s Lauren Chacon is stopped on a breakaway by Kaneland goalie Emily Chapman during the 2A Sterling Regional championship Friday evening at Roscoe Eades Stadium. Kaneland won 1-0.

Star of the match: Gabby Cano, Kaneland, goal with 11:51 to play Up next: 2A DeKalb Sectional semifinal, Kaneland vs. Boylan, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday forced to backpedal, and she was unable to get more than a fingertip on it before it was past her and into the goal.

“I actually didn’t see it until the last second, and all I could get was a finger on it,” Provo said.

“We knew they were a really good team, and defensively is where it was at for them, but we felt we had the momentum in the second half.

We were pretty confident about our chances, especially as it stayed 0-0, but then it just slipped away.”

Possession was tough for both teams, and the

defenses played fast and rallied to the ball well. Kaneland (16-42) controlled things for much of the first half, but could never get any clean looks at the goal.

Dixon (16-3) then dominated field position for most of the second half, but again could not take advantage of any scoring chances.

The best was a breakaway with about 21 minutes left. Lexy Langloss played it up to Lauren Chacon, and Chacon and Kaneland goalie Emily Chapman were in a footrace from opposite directions. They reached

it at almost the same time, and Chacon’s shot ricocheted off Chapman and went out of bounds.

Chapman then made a save on a loose ball in front of the goal with 13 seconds to play, with the Duchesses supplying heavy pressure to score the equalizer.

“They’re a very good team, and we played very well too,” Dixon coach Mahmoud Etemadi said.

“There were no clear chances on goal for them or us, and when that happens, it usually comes down to which team gets a break to go their way.

That game was played 95 percent of the time away from the goals, and it was just a tough loss on a shot that didn’t even look like it was supposed to be a shot.”

BOYS TRACK & FIELD | 2A GALENA SECTIONAL

It’s all downhill for Dixon sprinters Dukes’ relays blaze to wins, leading way to runner-up finish

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HANOVER – It was almost as though the Dixon sprint relay teams were running downhill in mountainous northwest Illinois.

The Dukes blazed their way to a pair of wins in the 400 and 800 relays to highlight a secondplace team finish on Friday night at the Class 2A Galena Sectional.

Dixon will send athletes in seven events to the state meet, which begins Friday in Charleston.

Erie-Prophetstown moved on in six events, Sterling in four, and Rock Falls in two.

Kaneland won the meet with 113 points, comfortably ahead of Dixon, which had 82. Freeport (64), Burlington Central (56) and Rochelle (54) rounded out the top five.

Arthur Cox, Josh Dallas, Nyrel Sullivan and Kyle LeBlanc, the Dukes’ quartet of sprinters, rolled to wins in the 400 relay (43.17 seconds) and 800 relay (1:30.13). Each was a season best, with the previous marks at 43.95 and 1:32.15.

“We’ve been practicing handoffs all week, and we got it down,” LeBlanc said. “Obviously it worked.”

Dixon also got wins from Isaiah Roby in the high jump (6 feet, 3 inches), and Nyrel Sullivan in the long jump (21-91⁄2).

Second-place finishers included LeBlanc in the high jump (6-3), and Sullivan in the 200 (22.67). The top two finishers in each event, plus those meeting qualifying standards, move on to state.

The Dukes’ 1,600 relay team of Roby, Jared Harrison, Nate Gascoigne and Dallas placed third

Local state qualifiers Dixon – 400, 800 & 1,600 relays; Nyrel Sullivan (long jump, 200); Isaiah Roby (high jump); Kyle LeBlanc (high jump) Erie-Prophetstown – Dylan Binion (110 hurdles, long jump); Tyler Naftzger (pole vault); Kyle Kruthoff (pole vault); Jack Heflin (shot put); 3,200 relay Rock Falls – Brayden Hamblen (800); Seth Williams (1,600) Sterling – Terrance Bruce (400); Jacob Gebhardt (1,600); Dewey Landis (3,200); 1,600 relay with a time of 3:26.19. It sliced more than 6 seconds off their previous best, and punched their ticket to state.

Sterling had two champions in Jacob Gebhardt and Dewey Landis.

Gebhardt edged Rock Falls’ Seth Williams at the wire to take the 1,600 in 4:22.35. His previous season best was 4:24.78.

“I didn’t want him to beat me,” Gebhardt said. “We have a friendly competition, but I didn’t want to get beat by Rock Falls, and I’m sure Rock Falls doesn’t want to get beat by Sterling. That’s just how it is.”

Landis sliced a little more than 2 seconds off his best 3,200 time to win in 9:53.45.

Terrance Bruce finished second in the 400 (50.81), while the 1,600 relay team of Bruce, Orlando Ramos, Jalen Hart and Bobby Tribble placed fourth in 3:26.35, but moved on to state based on time.

Erie-Prophetstown’s lone champ was Jack Heflin, who went 53-91⁄4 in the shot put. It was a season best by nearly a foot.

Dylan Binion moved on in two events. He was timed at 14.79 in the 110 high hurdles, and went 21-51⁄2 in the long jump. That was a season best by 31⁄4 inches.

Tyler Naftzger added 4 inches to his pole vault best by going 14-4. It was good for third place, and well above the qualifying standard of 13-1.

“I got on two bigger poles than I’ve ever used, and I had a really good day,” Naftzger said.

Teammate Kyle Kruthoff cleared 13-1 to also advance to state.

E-P’s 3,200 relay team of Kerrick Cameron, Conner Reiley, Jack Bauer and Kody Wetzell was third in 8:10.48, a season best by nearly 12 seconds. It was the second time the foursome ran the event, with Bauer being the last addition.

“We’ve been trying to find that fourth guy all season,” Reiley said. “Once we actually found our guy, it was a matter of the competition we had and how bad we wanted it.”

Rock Falls will be represented at state by its two distance aces, Williams and Brayden Hamblen.

Williams was edged by Sterling’s Gebhardt, and finished second in the 1,600 with a time of 4:22.49.

“Sure, I would have loved to have gotten the sectional win my senior year,” Williams said, “but being able to go to state is what I really wanted.”

Hamblen has been ill this week, and missed 3 days of school. He was second in the 800 with a time of 2:00.35; he pulled out of the 1,600.

“I haven’t run in the past 3 days,” Hamblen said, “and I just gutted out that race. I just wanted to get through.”

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hat a week it has been around here. Cold days and cold nights, and then some cold nights and some warm days and, well, more typically atypical weather. The ups and downs are enough to drive a person crazy, and one can’t help but be a little hesitant to look at our current beautiful forecast and just say, “Oh yeah, whatever.” Hopefully, though, it will hold up and we can go about that little thing I like to refer to as summer.

Tuesday of this week, I shared the river with another one of what seem like hundreds of couples from Peoria.

They had visited the area a few times, and even camped a time or two at Prophetstown State Park.

This time, their visit was all about the river, and learning to catch channel catfish. Although they had both caught fish before, they just hadn’t had any time to really figure this river out … so that’s kinda where I came in.

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at the state park, and we headed downriver toward Erie, and all the twists and turns that lie there. The flats down that way had been really good this year, and this day I hoped would be no different.

After anchoring and fishing one flat and then a great logjam with only one halfhearted bite, I was hoping things would turn around quick. I was starting to wonder if the water was dropping, or if maybe it was just going to be one of “them days.”

But on the third anchor on a nice warming mud flat in about 3 feet of water, we hit paydirt with three really nice channels – and from then on, it was like taking candy

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Melissa Draper of Peoria shows off the 6-pound channel catfish she caught this week while on a Rock River excursion with CatMatt. The fish was the biggest she’s ever caught. from a baby. The G and S Cheese Bait and shad guts were working like a charm. Everybody, including me – or maybe I should say especially me – was happy as a clam.

Now this was just a 4-hour trip, mind you, but I think we ended up boating some 20-plus cats – which is certainly not setting the world on fire, but it ain’t too shabby, either.

I really love seeing

people reach milestones in my boat. Whether that be their first fish or their biggest or what have you. Well, for this young couple, they caught their most, and for Melissa, well, she caught her biggest channel cat ever.

The pig swallowed up the cheese and hit so hard I had to grab the butt of the pole to keep it from tipping up and out of the boat.

“Wife,” as Troy calls her, grabbed up the

pole and did a fantastic job working the game 6-pound cat to the boat.

Best thing about it was how giddy she was as she fought the fish. It was pure joy for her. I love to be part of moments like that. I tell you this, we had no trouble getting her to smile for pictures.

She even held this fish, as well as a couple others.

Again, it was something she had never done before.

Like almost all people that have never been here before, these two could not believe the beauty of the river. How peaceful it is out there, and how healthy the fish look. It was amazing to them that we saw only one other boat that day, and it was when we were leaving. Things we sometimes take for granted.

Make no mistake about it, people, this river in our backyard may be called the Rock, but it’s really a diamond.

Until next week, everybody get outside and do something (even if it’s wrong), and definitely Go Catfish!

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Everyone loves Derby champ, even his rivals Nyquist leaves no reason to doubt his winning streak can continue

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BALTIMORE – Everyone loves Nyquist.

From Kentucky Derby winning trainers, to Preakness rivals, to millions of racing fans wondering whether another Triple Crown awaits, it’s tough to find anything wrong with a horse who has been nothing but perfect.

Eight races, eight victories.

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Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. Del Mar Futurity. And a 2-year-old championship.

“I haven’t seen any reason to doubt that he can go ahead and do the Triple Crown,” says Barclay Tagg, who trained 2003 Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide. “He hasn’t done anything wrong, and he’s had a lot of tries. He’s taken on all comers on both sides of the

continent. How can you say he won’t go all the way?”

A year after American Pharoah, along comes Nyquist, the 3-5 favorite for Saturday’s second leg of the Triple Crown. Trained

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CLASS 2A STATE PRELIMINARIES • O’BRIEN STADIUM • EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FRIDAY’S SCOREBOARD Finalists, local results Long jump 1. Imani Carothers (Chicago Brooks) 19-5 3/4; 2. Erika Furbeck (Geneseo) 19-0 1/2; 3. Gillian Urycki (Metamora) 18-1; 4. Sierra Brown (River Forest Trinity) 18-0 1/4; 5.

Madison Meyer (Carterville) 18-0; 6. Charde Golliday (Mt. Vernon) 17-9 3/4; 7. Emma Jones (Benet Academy) 17-9 1/4; 8. Vicky Gruszka (Peoria Notre Dame) 17-5 1/2; 9.

Morgan Sherwood (Charleston) 17-4; 10. Alissa Ashlock (Centralia) 17-3; 11. LaQwasia Stepney (Cahokia) 17-2 1/2; 12. Aanise Sajna (Dunlap) 17-0 1/2 Local: Erin Long (Sterling) 15-11 3/4 Pole vault T-1. Ali Munson (Benet Academy), Lexie Guerra (Kaneland) 10-9; T-3. Cora Uidl (Woodstock), Nicole Bagwell (Tolono Unity), Kassadee Ifft (Prairie Central), Stephanie Jacobs (Freeburg), Josie Held (Mt. Zion), Gianna Lullo (Providence Catholic), Sydney Davidson (Kaneland), Aliyah Welter (Monticello), Sydney Bertschy (Dunlap), Betsy Lovett (Clinton), Gabby Arbas (Triad), Taylor Millsap (Tolono Unity) 10-6 Locals: Alissa DeShane (Erie-Prophetstown) 10-3; Kallie Zuidema (Sterling) NH High jump T-1. Jamari Drake (Springfield Southeast), Dasia Evans (Rich South), Michaela Busch (Rock Falls), Gillian Urycki (Metamora), Christina MacNab (Providence Catholic), Lunden Henry (Springfield Southeast), Shaniya Howard (Urbana), Sierra Brown (Trinity), Halle Wiegand (Eureka), Eve Meintz (Woodstock Marian) 5-2 Shot put 1. Latavia Maines (Centralia) 44-2 1/2; 2. Tayla Schwarz (Dixon) 43-3 3/4; 3. Bridget Bishop (Boylan) 41-0 1/2; 4.

Deambrea Brown (Peoria Manual) 40-10 1/2; 5. Kaylynne Terry (Streator) 40-2; 6. Allison Richter (Triad) 39-11 1/4; 7.

Allison Torrance (Macomb) 39-7 3/4; 8. A’veun Moore (Mt. Vernon) 39-5 1/4; 9. Tayler Weaver (Mattoon) 39-5 1/4; 10.

Nikita Maines (Centralia) 38-9 1/4; 11. Carah Cole (Chicago Perspectives) 38-6 1/2; 12. Bralon Mack (Herrin) 38-5 1/4 Triple jump 1. Imani Carothers (Chicago Brooks) 38-3 1/2; 2. Sierra Brown (Trinity) 37-10; 3. Raynesha Lewis (Cahokia) 37-6 1/2; 4. Dominique Anderson (IMSA) 37-2 1/2; 5. Vicky Gruszka (Peoria Notre Dame) 37-0; 6. Charde Golliday (Mt. Vernon) 36-6 1/2; 7. Lucy Zimmerman (Benet Academy) 36-2; 8. Alex Schaub (Dunlap) 35-11; 9. Morgan Sherwood (Charleston) 35-6; 10. Rachel Cobert (Erie-Prophetstown) 35-0 1/2; 11. Paige Minor (Charleston) 35-0; 12.

Lalonda McMath (North Chicago) 34-9

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ABOVE LEFT: Dixon’s Tayla Schwarz throws the shot put during Friday’s 2A state track & field preliminaries at O’Brien Stadium on the campus of Eastern Illinois University. Schwarz advanced to the finals in both the shot put and the discus.

ABOVE RIGHT: Erie-Prophetstown’s Rachel Cobert triple jumps Friday in Charleston. The senior qualified for the finals.

Calm will carry on Schwarz makes finals again; Busch, Cobert, Sterling advance

BY PATRICK MASON pmason@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5550 @pm222

CHARLESTON – This time around, it was going to be different. That’s what Dixon thrower Tayla Schwarz told herself.

In her second state meet in as many years, the Duchesses sophomore had a calm about her that was missing a year ago. She was able to use that steadiness to throw her way into the finals in a strong performance at Friday’s Class 2A state track & field preliminaries at Charleston’s Eastern Illinois University.

Schwarz threw 43 feet, 3¾ inches in the shot put to earn the second seed in Saturday’s finals, then uncorked a discus attempt that traveled like a frisbee 132-7. That mark in the discus set a new school record – breaking her own – and gave her the top distance heading into finals.

“There’s something about this where I wasn’t nervous and I wasn’t scared,” Schwarz said. “That wasn’t the case last year, and I let everything get to me. I didn’t have those nerves this year. I went out and went after it.”

The competitive fire was on full display. Schwarz entered with the sixth seed in the discus, and the second in the shot. She knew she would have to have a strong day to match her competitors, and she did just that.

Only Centralia’s Latavia Maines threw anything further than Schwarz. Maines posted a 44-2½ mark in the

2A state finals qualifiers Tayla Schwarz, Dixon – shot put, discus Michaela Busch, RF – high jump Rachel Cobert, EP – triple jump Maggie McPherson, Sterling – 1,600 Sterling – 400 relay (Erin Long, Samantha Hibbard, Ashleigh Tira, Sabrina Chamberlain)

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Sterling’s Erin Long (right) hands off the baton to Samantha Hibbard during the 800-meter relay Friday during the 2A state preliminaries. The Golden Warriors didn’t make the finals in 800 relay, but they did advance in the 400 relay. shot. Schwarz was better by 3 feet in the discus than anyone.

“I know from last year that you’re up against the best,” said Schwarz, who took third in the shot and fourth in the discus as a freshman. “You know that any one of these girls could break off a great throw, and I told myself that was going to be me.

“I want to win state. It’ll be hard, but I learned you just have to go for it.”

Elsewhere, Rock Falls senior Michaela Busch advanced to finals in the high jump. She cleared 5-2, and didn’t have to go any higher because much of the field was eliminated at that height. Busch has gone 5-6 earlier this year, and breezed through the prelims.

She competed in the 300 hurdles and ran a personalbest time of 47.31, but didn’t advance. “[The hurdles] felt great,” Busch said. “I can’t even explain how great that experience was. And to get through in the high jump is an unbelievable feeling. I had no trouble with [that height]. I cleared it no problem.”

Erie-Prophetstown’s Rachel Cobert made it through in the triple jump, her only event.

She went 35-0½, to make it through for the fourth consecutive season. A three-time medalist in the event, she sits in ninth place.

“I know I’m capable of jumping farther,” Cobert said. “I’m hoping this is my body’s weird

way of saving it. I just need to stay focused and remember that I am capable. I’ve done this before, and I can do it again.”

Sterling competed in seven events, the most of any local team. The Golden Warriors pushed through two finalists, including the 400 relay and Maggie McPherson’s 1,600.

McPherson’s season-best 5:16.24 earned her a finals spot for the second straight year.

Erin Long, Samantha Hibbard, Ashleigh Tira and Sabrina Chamberlain teamed to run a new team-best 49.98 to reach the finals. They beat out Monticello by .08 seconds to grab the final spot. Long and Tira each had individual events, the long jump and 300 hurdles, respectively, but didn’t make it through.

“We were all talking in the tent, saying we wanted to run a new best,” Long said.

“That’s how we wanted to run it together, go out with a PR, and that’s what we did. It’s a great feeling to be able to do that against the big competition here.”

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Mental tactics pay off for McPherson C

HARLESTON – Much of athletics is a mental game.

I’ve spoken with dozens of athletes this week, and each one has a different tactic on how to handle the state meet.

It’s big, and it’s loud. An announcer calls out positions on the track, pointing out dwindling leads or epic comebacks. Opponents in the lane next door are hyped up.

As a teenager, you’re on the big stage. Adults pay money to watch you run.

Newspaper-types write stories. It can be daunting, but the key for these brave athletes is to somehow find a calm.

From the end of last season, Sterling’s Maggie McPherson seemed to have found that calm. By the time she was sipping water out of a small plastic cup, her chess match was through. Only the Golden Warriors junior knew what moves she had.

Trade in the black and white tiles for a blue track.

Toss out pawns and rooks.

McPherson was locked in a back-and-forth tussle with her own mind, a game she would win.

The Sterling distance runner was competing in the 1,600 meters during Friday’s Class 2A state track and field preliminaries in Charleston.

Eastern Illinois University’s nine-lane track was the game board.

McPherson posted a season-best time of 5:16.24 and qualified for finals. She finished sixth in an incredibly fast heat, with five runners under 5:10, including Boylan’s Delaney Appino, who ran a 4:59.40.

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Sterling’s Maggie McPherson (middle) runs the 1,600 meters Friday at the 2A state track & field meet in Charleston. She advanced to Saturday’s finals.

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CHARLESTON – Michaela Busch cleared hurdles with ease, and the high jump bar without a problem. The only time she stumbled on Friday was when she tried to put into words what was going on in her head.

The Rock Falls senior qualified for her first state final appearance after clearing 5 feet, 2 inches in the high jump. She breezed over the height, and didn’t have to jump any higher after most of the field was eliminated.

Later on, Busch put up a personal best time in 300 hurdles. Her 47.31 was better than her sectionalwinning time, though she didn’t advance. She improved all season. She figured out how to get three steps between each hurdle, and once it felt right, the times started to drop.

“I’m a person who loves competing,” she said.

“It’s that rush you get that’s indescribable. I didn’t really do them all that often, but you start to enjoy what goes into it.

“From the first hurdle, you’re in that mindset and you want to push the people you’re running against, and you hope they push you, too.”

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Rock Falls’ Michaela Busch runs in the 300 hurdles Friday at the 2A state track & field preliminaries. She set a new personal best, but did not qualify for finals; she did earn a finals berth in the high jump. had just filed away one of her favorite athletic memories, and it happened on a college campus.

She is headed to Western Illinois University next fall to do a lot of different things for the Leathernecks. She plans to high jump at Western, as well as compete in the heptathlon and decathlon.

Busch has always had a knack for high jumping.

She cleared 5-6 already this season to match a school record. She can’t wait until Saturday so she can test her limits. She wants that record for herself. She has a 300 hurdles sectional title, owns the Rock Falls pole vault school record, and even dabbles in the shot put and sprint events.

Throwing a javelin? Bring it on. The heptathlon consists of seven events: the

100 hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200, long jump, javelin, and 800. With the decathlon, add in the discus, pole vault and some longer distance running and you get a dream come true for Busch.

“I’m so excited,” she said. “It’s hard to just pick one. I love the longer hurdles events; high jump is great. I’ll get to learn to throw a javelin.”

Her eyes and smile are growing wider as she talks.

Her voice picks up. She’s already thinking about Round 2, when the bell hasn’t rung in the first.

“This is a good meet to have that college-like competition,” she said.

“I can’t wait to do this in college. I mean, I’m at state right now and I get to be in the finals [Saturday]. It has just been a great experience.”

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BOYS TRACK & FIELD | 1A BUREAU VALLEY SECTIONAL

Comets narrowly claim 2nd straight title 22 local athletes earn state berths

BY ERIC INGLES eingles@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5555 @Eric_Ingles

MANLIUS – Newman defended its sectional crown, but not by much.

The Comets edged out Fulton by two points Friday to claim the Class 1A Bureau Valley Sectional title, scoring 75 points to the Steamers’ 73.

The Comets were paced by Chris Ahlers in the distance races and Easton Bianchi in the sprints. Ahlers won the 800 (2:01.35) and took second in the 1,600 (4:37.68), while Bianchi was second to Bureau Valley’s Will Konneck in both the 100 and 200.

“I’m real proud of everybody,” Bianchi said. “We’ve got somebody going [to state] in every aspect. We’ve got field events going, we’ve got long distance.”

Newman’s Brady Rude took second in long jump (20-0).

Jacob Heiderscheit took second in high jump (5-10).

Bianchi was in a pair of fast sprint heats, with four state qualifiers in each. In the 100, Bianchi got off to a quick start, but by the 50-meter mark Bureau Valley’s Will Konneck had caught and passed him. Konneck won (11.11), with Stone Darrow of Lowpoint-Washburn (11.14), Bianchi (11.17) and Morrison’s Gabe Hunt (11.26) also heading to state.

In the 200, Bianchi and Konneck got off to fast starts and held off a pair of LowpointWashburn runners at the end for first and second.

“I didn’t want to tighten up because when you tighten up, you slow down,” Konneck said.

“I just tried to stay loose and keep breathing.”

The Steamers swept the sprint relays. The quartet of Rodney Gossard, Nathan McLuckie, Tyler Paulline and Trey Simmons, running together as a relay team for just the fourth time, powered the Steamers to wins in the 400 relay (43.78) and the 800 relay (1:31.61).

“I liked our handoffs,” Simmons said. “I think that’s what sets us apart from other teams.

We usually have pretty crisp, smooth handoffs. I think that gives us an edge.”

Fulton also has a state qualifier in the 400, where Sam Norman took second (53.80), and in the high jump, where Michael Dixon cleared 5-11 to claim first place.

For Gossard, the trip to Manlius included competing in four events, and at the end of the day, he is heading to state in all four. Along with the two relay wins, he was second in both the triple jump and the 300 hurdles.

“I feel really great,” he said. “I didn’t know how I was going to do. I’m really pleased and really relieved to know that I put in the work and it paid off.”

Bureau Valley missed out in the 400 relay by less than a second.

In the 800 relay, Milledgeville’s Jason Brubaker, Jacques Christensen, Collin Eubanks and Nick DeVito missed a state qualifying time by less than a second, finishing third.

The Missiles are heading to state with a dominating 1,600 relay. DeVito, Brubaker, Christensen and Troy Litwiller led wire-to-wire to take first (3:31.98).

“I think maybe only two or three times we haven’t gotten first all year,” Milledgeville coach Jason Wroble said. “...

They’ve been jumping out to leads. They won conference and some big meets. They just wanted to shut the door early.”

While Milledgeville dominated the race, there was chaos behind them as teams jockeyed for the other state qualifying spot. Amboy seemed poised to take it before El Paso-Gridley snuck in before the first exchange. On the second leg, Fulton leapt into second, but EPG caught the Steamers on the final leg. Fulton took third and Amboy finished fourth.

Amboy’s Josh Gross, Thomas Stamberger, Alan Stamberger and Romeo Blackburn edged

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Bureau Valley’s Hunter Schoff clears the final hurdle in the 110 hurdles race Friday at the 1A Bureau Valley Sectional in Manlius. Schoff qualified for state in both the 110 hurdles and the pole vault, and was one of 22 state qualifiers from local schools. Newman won the team championship.

Local state qualifiers Amboy-LaMoille – 3,200 relay; Romeo Blackburn (3,200) Bureau Valley – Will Konneck (100, 200); Hunter Schoff (110 hurdles, pole vault); Kale Barnett (pole vault) Fulton – 400 & 800 relays; Rodney Gossard (300 hurdles, triple jump); Sam Norman (400); Michael Dixon (high jump) Milledgeville-Eastland – 1,600 relay Morrison – Gabe Hunt (100) Newman – 3,200 relay; Chris Ahlers (800, 1,600); Easton Bianchi (100, 200); Jacob Heiderscheit (high jump); Brady Rude (long jump) out Newman’s Spencer Mauch, Shay Hafner, Matt Hodge and Clay Jungerman in the 3,200 relay, finishing in 8:36.32, with the Comets taking a time of 8:37.67.

Newman jumped out to an early lead on the first leg, but Gross had closed the gap before the first exchange. Alan Stamberger handed the Clippers an 8-second lead by the final exchange before Jungerman closed the gap on the last leg, passing Blackburn with 200

meters to go before Blackburn retook the lead.

Bureau Valley swept the pole vault. Hunter Schoff won, clearing 11-7, and freshman Kale Barnett cleared 10-7 to claim second.

Barnett and Hall’s Nick Stoner came in with the same seed height of 10-0, tied for second behind Schoff. With the bar at 10-1, both Barnett and Stoner failed on their first two tries before Barnett cleared on the third and Stoner could not.

“It was pretty exciting,” Schoff said. “I thought there was a good chance Kale was going to make second. He came out here. He did amazing, PR-ed by 7 inches.”

Schoff made his first attempt at 11-1, clearing on the second attempt. He then cleared 11-7 before failing at 12-1.

Schoff also qualified in the 110 hurdles. He finished more than 2 seconds behind Bret Dannis of St. Bede, but grabbed second place (17.15).

In high jump, Heiderscheit and Dixon both cleared 5-10, but neither could clear 6-0. To break the tie, they moved the bar back down to 5-11, with Dixon clearing on his second attempt to grab the win.

“I haven’t been jumping much this year because of a broken foot, and when I came back, my steps were off,” Dixon said.

“I’m just going to adjust as I go.

I know I can make that height because I have before.”

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OREGON – After competing against each other in six major meets this spring, the battle for track and field supremacy between Oregon and Polo-Forreston ended without a clear–cut winner.

At the 1A Oregon Sectional, the Hawks nipped P-F for second place 82-78, with Rockford Christian taking top honors with 101 points for its first sectional win in 17 years as a program. More importantly to Oregon and P-F were the number of athletes headed to Charleston for the IHSA state meet.

In what was a stacked sectional, with RC and Winnebago dropping back into 1A, the Hawks sent all four relays and seven individual events downstate.

“We held serve and went above and beyond tonight,” Oregon coach Jim Spratt said. “It’s a testament to how this team performed all year.

They did everything I asked of them.”

Senior John Ghibellini got his team going early with a personal best of more than 3 feet in qualifying for the shot put with an effort of 50 feet, 5 inches, good for second. He had already been assured of a spot downstate in the discus prelims with a toss of 150-4.

“He finally threw like he does in practice,” Hawk throwing coach Doug Engle said. “Until tonight, he wasn’t able to do it in a meet. With how hard he has worked these 4 years, he earned it.”

Joining him in Charleston is Kole Mowry, who took fourth in the discus with a qualifying mark of 145-9.

Last year, Mowry qualified in the shot put.

In the 3,200-meter relay, RC ran a state-best 8:04 to win, with Oregon’s third-place time of 8:23 well under state qualifying. Running were

Local state qualifiers

Oregon – 400, 800, 1,600 & 3,200 relays; Konner Wilson (110 hurdles, 300 hurdles); Ian Hussung (800, 1,600); John Ghibellini (shot put, discus); Kole Mowry (discus) Polo-Forreston – 400 & 800 relays; A.J. Christensen (110 hurdles, 300 hurdles); Brooks Grobe (100); Mason Wright (triple jump); Preston Stapleton (triple jump)

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was slower than his 11.21 seed, but good enough to take second.

“I think my body had been taking a beating, and it was good to rest up the last week,” Grobe said. “I felt good in the relays, but didn’t have as strong of a start in the 100 as I usually do.”

“It was another nice night for us,” Deets said. “If Gavin [Fuchs] and Brooks would have been healthy, we could have put them in the 400 and 200 and maybe had a chance to win the meet.”

In a testament to competition on display at LandersLoomis Field, five teams qualified in the 800 relay, including both P-F (Cavanaugh, Grobe, Davids, Reid Taylor) and Oregon (Caleb Mennen, Carson Buck, Mitchell Nehrkorn, Brayton Finch).

The veteran 1,600 relay of Newman, Buck, Nehrkorn and Mennen ran a seasonbest of 3:28.13 to take third, and qualify all four relays for the third time under Spratt.

“With our experience, it helps with consistency,” said Buck, who gave Oregon a lead on the first leg. “We’ve been together for 2 years.

This is a group of guys that like to have fun, but always seems to run hard when it matters most.”

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Oregon’s Konner Wilson (left) battles Polo’s A.J. Christensen in the hurdles at the Class 1A Oregon Sectional on Friday night at Landers-Loomis Field. The two split the hurdles races, and both qualified for state in both events. foreign exchange students Arne Wendler and Isidoro Marcos, along with Andrew Newman and Ian Hussung.

Hussung was just getting started. The sophomore ran 2:01 to place second in the 800 meters, and also grabbed a second in the 1,600 at 4:37, both in stiff competition.

The lone Oregon win came from Konner Wilson in the 300 hurdles, over AJ Christensen of P-F, 40.33 to 40.46.

Christensen had the lead the entire way until the final hurdle.

“I had to get past a mental block with him,” said Wilson, a returning state medalist. “He beat me in the first meet, and we’ve been going back and forth all year.

He has his days, and I have mine.”

In the 110 high hurdles, it was Christensen beating Wilson 15.62 to 15.72.

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The surprise of the meet for P-F was its one other win.

Junior Mason Wright, in his first year out for track, won the triple jump with a 42-11 effort. Teammate Preston Stapleton was second at 42-2.

“At the beginning of the year, who would have thought that possible. He was only going 33 feet,” P-F coach Ryan Deets said.

“But tonight, we had a lot of things different than what we had at the beginning of the year because of lineup changes.”

With Brooks Grobe and Brad Cavanaugh still not 100 percent, the top-seeded 400 relay qualified with a 43.93 second-place finish.

Other runners were Christensen and freshman anchor Cailean Davids.

Grobe did run the 100, but not the 200. His time of 11.44

Jack Nitz cruised through a pair of matches to open play Friday at the Rock Island Sectional tennis meet, earning a berth in next week’s state tournament by advancing to the semifinals.

Nitz won his opener 6-0, 6-1, then took a 6-1, 6-3 decision in the second round.

He was the only Sterling player to qualify for state, as Henry Steinhagen went 1-1 in singles play, and Andrew Ivarson and Luke Steinke also won their first doubles match before falling in the second round.

Zach Healy and Bryce Stanley picked up Dixon’s lone victory at the sectional meet, beating Sterling’s Jonah Khuntangta and Alex Gallardo 6-1, 6-1 in the first round before losing to Geneseo 7-6 (3), 6-1 in the second round.

The Newman Comets saw their season end after four first-round losses.

Softball 1A Westminster Christian Regional A F C 7 , A l d e n - H e b r o n 5 : The Raiders made a long road trip worthwhile, advancing to the Pecatonica Sectional with their first-ever regional championship.

AFC scored all seven of its runs in the sixth inning, as Laci Meurer drove in two runs, and Bryce Gittleson, Cassidy Koning, Lexi Meurer and Maley Fike all added RBIs. The Raiders out-hit AldenHebron 15-7, led by Addison Wetzel’s three hits, including a double.

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Baseball Rochelle 8, Dixon 4: The Dukes scored twice in the top of the first to take a quick lead, but the Hubs tied it in the bottom of the inning, then scored four runs in the third to take control at home.

Ryan Troutman drove in two runs for Dixon (6-19), and Riley Mehrens and Brock Burgess each had two hits and an RBI. Jack Doane (1-4) took the loss in a complete-game effort.

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Wednesday, May 25 Fulton Regional Monday’s result • No. 7 West Carroll 11, No. 9 Riverdale 2 Wednesday’s results • No. 1 Princeton 8, West Carroll 3 • No. 4 Fulton 2, No. 6 Morrison 1 (10 inn.)

Saturday’s game • Championship, Princeton vs. Fulton, 2:30 p.m.

Winner advances to Morrison Sectional, vs. Stillman Valley Regional winner, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May 25 Class 1A AFC Regional Monday’s result • No. 8 Leland-Earlville 10, No. 10 Paw Paw 0 Wednesday’s results • No. 1 Newman 3, Leland-Earlville 1 • No. 4 Milledgeville 3, No. 5 AFC 2 Saturday’s game • Championship, Newman vs. Milledgeville, 2 p.m.

Winner advances to River Ridge Sectional, vs. Aquin Regional winner, 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 25 Eastland Regional Monday’s result • No. 9 Pearl City 10, No. 7 Amboy 5 Wednesday’s result • No. 2 Eastland 11, Pearl City 0, 5 inn.

Thursday’s result • No. 3 Indian Creek 6, No. 6 Hiawatha 4 Saturday’s game • Championship, Eastland vs. Indian Creek, 11 a.m.

Winner advances to River Ridge Sectional, vs. Orangeville Regional winner, 4:30 p.m.

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Softball Postseason pairings Class 3A Rochelle Regional Monday’s game • No. 10 Dixon at No 9 Rochelle, 4:30 p.m.

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Class 2A Bureau Valley Regional Monday’s results • No. 7 Bureau Valley 10, No. 10 Wethersfield 0 • No. 5 St. Bede 11, No. 11 Kewanee 1 Tuesday’s result • No. 1 Morrison 8, Bureau Valley 4 Wednesday’s result • No. 4 Hall 7, St. Bede 0 Saturday’s game • Championship, Morrison vs. Hall, 11 a.m.

Winner advances to Stillman Valley Sectional, vs. Winnebago Regional winner, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 24

Westminster Christian Regional Tuesday’s result • No. 2 Alden-Hebron 7, No. 7 Westminster Christian 3 Wednesday’s result • No. 3 AFC 6, No. 6 Hiawatha 2 Friday’s result • Championship, AFC 7, Alden-Hebron 5 AFC advances to Pecatonica Sectional, vs.

Lena-Winslow, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 24

Newman Regional Monday’s result • No. 9 Fulton 5, No. 8 Riverdale 0 Tuesday’s result • No. 2 Erie-Prophetstown 10, Fulton 0 Thursday’s result • No. 3 Newman 6, No. 6 Princeton 1 Saturday’s game • Championship, Erie-Prophetstown vs.

Newman, 2 p.m.

Winner advances to Stillman Valley Sectional, vs. Oregon Regional winner, 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 24

at Hanover Team scores 1. Kaneland 113, 2. Dixon 82, 3. Freeport 64, 4. Burlington Central 56, 5. Rochelle 54, 6. Sterling 49, 7. Erie-Prophetstown 42, 8. Galena-East Dubuque-River Ridge 30, 9. Sycamore 19, 10. Genoa-Kingston 18, 11. Rock Falls 17, 12. Belvidere 10, 13.

Stillman Valley 4, 14. Boylan 0 State qualifiers 100 (SQ 11.1) – 1. Brandon Cruz (Kaneland) 11.11, 2. Jason Berango (Burlington Central) 11.46 200 (SQ 22.5) – 1. Brandon Cruz (Kaneland) 22.21, 2. Nyrel Sullivan (Dixon) 22.67 400 (SQ 51.0) – 1. Colfay Pointer (Rochelle) 50.22, 2. Terrance Bruce (Sterling) 50.81 800 (SQ 1:59.2) – 1. Nick Harvey (Burlington Central) 1:57.44, 2. Brayden Hamblen (Rock Falls) 2:00.35 1,600 (SQ 4:27.7) – 1. Jacob Gebhardt (Sterling) 4:22.35, 2. Seth Williams (Rock Falls) 4:22.49, 3. Matt Richtman (Kaneland) 4:25.17 3,200 (SQ 9:44.8) – 1. Dewey Landis (Sterling) 9:53.45, 2. Stephen Poorten (Sycamore) 10:07.41 110 hurdles (SQ 15.3) – 1. Deion McShane (Freeport) 14.59, 2. Dylan Binion (Erie-Prophetstown) 14.79, 3. Caleb Flack (GEDRR) 15.07 300 hurdles (SQ 40.2) – 1. Deion McShane (Freeport) 37.93, 2. Tanner Robertsen (Kaneland) 39.79 400 relay (SQ 43.3) – 1. Dixon (Arthur Cox, Josh Dallas, Kyle LeBlanc, Nyrel Sullivan) 43.17, 2. Freeport 43.37 800 relay (SQ 1:30.9) – 1. Dixon (Arthur Cox, Josh Dallas, Kyle LeBlanc, Nyrel Sullivan) 1:30.13, 2. Kaneland 1:30.66, 3.

Rochelle 1:30.85 1,600 relay (SQ 3:27.5) – 1. Rochelle 3:22.75, 2. Burlington Central 3:25.68, 3.

Dixon (Isaiah Roby, Jared Harrison, Nate Gascoigne, Josh Dallas) 3:26.19, 4. Sterling (Terrance Bruce, Orlando Ramos, Jalen Hart, Bobby Tribble) 3:26.35, 5. Kaneland 3:27.13 3,200 relay (SQ 8:11.2) – 1. Kaneland 8:03.54, 2. Rochelle 8:07.88, 3. ErieProphetstown (Kerrick Cameron, Conner Reiley, Jack Bauer, Kody Wetzell) 8:10.48 Long jump (SQ 21-5) – 1. Nyrel Sullivan (Dixon) 21-9 1/2, 2. Caleb Flack (GEDRR) 21-8, 3. Dylan Binion (Erie-P’town) 21-5 1/2, 4. Deion McShane (Freeport) 21-5 1/4 High jump (SQ 6-3) – 1. Isaiah Roby (Dixon 6-3, 2. Kyle LeBlanc (Dixon) 6-3 Triple jump (SQ 43-4) – 1. Caleb Flack (Galena co-op) 44-5, 2. Dionte Smith (Burlington Central) 44-4 Pole vault (SQ 13-1) – 1. Mike Rinella (Kaneland) 15-0, 2. Jared Trump (Burlington Central) 14-7, 3. Tyler Naftzger (Erie-Prophetstown) 14-4, 4. Danny Walker (Kaneland) 13-1, 5. Keegan Whitmer (Burlington Central) 13-1, 6. Daniel Martin (Belvidere) 13-1, 7. Kyle Kruthoff (Erie-Prophetstown) 13-1 Shot put (SQ 50-11) – 1. Jack Heflin (Erie-Prophetstown) 53-9 1/4, 2. Jered Allison (Freeport) 53-3, 3. Clayton Hannula (Kaneland) 51-7 Discus (SQ 145-11) – 1. Tristan Kinder (Kaneland) 157-1, 2. Jered Allison (Freeport) 154-9, 3. Ryan Grant (Sycamore) 152-0, 4.

Clayton Hannula (Kaneland) 149-1

Oregon Regional Monday’s result • No. 8 Stockton-Warren 20, No. 9 Rockford Christian 0, 5 inn.

Tuesday’s results • No. 1 Stillman Valley 14, Stock.-Warren 0 • No. 5 Oregon 7, No. 4 West Carroll 6 Saturday’s game • Championship, Stillman Valley vs. Oregon, 11 a.m.

Winner advances to Stillman Valley Sectional, vs. Newman Regional winner, 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 24 Winnebago Regional Monday’s result • No. 10 Rockford Lutheran 11, No. 7 North Boone 10 Tuesday’s result • No. 3 Forreston-Polo 4, No. 6 Winnebago 2 Wednesday’s result • No. 2 Byron 3, Lutheran 0 Saturday’s game • Championship, Forreston-Polo vs. Byron, 11 a.m.

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Saturday’s game • Championship, Marquette vs. Amboy, 11 a.m.

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Wednesday, May 25 Aquin Regional Tuesday’s results • No. 1 Orangeville 16, No. 8 Aquin 0 • No. 5 Lena-Winslow 4, No. 4 Milledgeville 1 Thursday’s result • Championship, Lena-Winslow 2, Orangeville 0 Lena-Winslow advances to Pecatonica Sectional, vs. AFC, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 24 Pearl City Regional Monday’s result • No. 7 Eastland 7, No. 8 Galena 1 Tuesday’s result • No. 2 Pearl City 8, Eastland 0 Wednesday’s result • No. 6 East Dubuque 2, No. 3 Scales Mound-River Ridge 1 Saturday’s game • Championship, Pearl City vs. East Dubuque, 11 a.m.

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Milledgeville 17, 11. Hall 15, 12. Henry 14, 13. Fieldcrest 12, 14. Indian Creek 11, 14.

Riverdale 11, 16. Morrsion 7, 17. AFC 2 State qualifiers 100 (SQ 11.32) – 1. Will Konneck (Bureau Valley) 11.11, 2. Stone Darrow (Lowpoint) 11.14, 3. Easton Bianchi (Newman) 11.17, 4. Gabe Hunt (Morrison) 11.26.

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110 hurdles (SQ 15.84) – 1. Bret Dannis (St. Bede) 14.81, 2. Hunter Schoff (Bureau Valley)17.15.

300 hurdles (SQ 41.75) – 1. Bret Dannis (St. Bede) 39.93, 2. Rodney Gossard (41.11).

400 relay (SQ 44.29) – 1. Fulton (Rodney Gossard, Nathan McLuckie, Tyler Paulline, Trey Simmons) 43.78, 2. Lowpoint 44.41.

800 relay (SQ 1:33.24) – 1. Fulton (Gossard, McLuckie, Paulline, Simmons) 1:31.61, 2. Lowpoint 1:32.14.

1,600 relay (SQ 3:31.52) – 1. Milledgeville (Nick DeVitto, Jacques Christensen, Jason Brubaker, Troy Litwiller) 3:31.98, 2.

El Paso 3:36.49 3,200 relay (SQ 8:32.45) – 1. Amboy (Joah Gross, Alan Stamberger, Thomas Stamberger, Romeo Blackburn) 8:36.32, 2. Newman (Spencer Mauch, Shay Hafner, Matt Hodge, Clay Jungerman) 8:37.67.

High jump (SQ 6-2) – 1. Michael Dixon (Fulton) 5-11, 2. Jacob Heidersheit (Newman) 5-10.

Long jump (SQ 20-11) – 1. Sam Leskanich (Cornell) 20-5, 2. Brady Rude (Newman) 20-0.

Triple jump (SQ 41-7) - 1. Baylee Hopps (St. Bede) 43-1 3/4, Rodney Gossard (Fulton) 43-1.

Pole vault (SQ 12-7) – 1. Hunter Schoff (Bureau Valley) 11-7, 2. Kale Barnett (Bureau Valley) 11-1.

Discus (SQ 143-2) – 1. John Barnes (St. Bede) 184-03, 2. Nick Olson (Cornell) 153-11.

Shot put (SQ 47-8) – 1. Nick Olson (Cornell) 55-6, 2. John Barnes (St. Bede) 52-6, 3. Lane Brinkman (Riverdale) 51-2, 4.

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Washington (Ross 3-3) at Miami (Fernandez 5-2), 6:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Wood 1-3) at San Diego (Vargas 0-2), 9:10 p.m.

Sunday’s games Milwaukee at N.Y. Mets, 12:10 p.m.

Seattle at Cincinnati, 12:10 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 12:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Philadelphia, 12:35 p.m.

Colorado at Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m.

Arizona at St. Louis, 1:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 3:40 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at San Francisco, 7:05 p.m.

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Serving Food at 4p.m.

Saturday’s games Kansas City (Duffy 0-0) at Chicago White Sox (Gonzalez 0-0), 1:10 p.m.

Toronto (Happ 5-1) at Minnesota (Dean 0-1), 1:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Bauer 3-1) at Boston (Kelly 1-0), 3:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 1-0) at Oakland (Manaea 1-1), 3:05 p.m.

Seattle (Hernandez 3-3) at Cincinnati (Lamb 0-1), 3:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Smyly 2-4) at Detroit (Fulmer 2-1), 3:10 p.m.

Texas (Ramos 0-2) at Houston (Fiers 3-1), 6:15 p.m.

Baltimore (Gausman 0-1) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 2-5) 9:05 p.m.

Sunday’s games Tampa Bay at Detroit, 12:08 p.m.

Seattle at Cincinnati, 12:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Boston, 12:35 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 1:10 p.m.

Texas at Houston, 1:10 p.m.

Toronto at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m.

Baltimore at L.A. Angels, 2:35 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

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Team scores 1. Rockford Christian 101; 2. Oregon 82; 3. Polo-Forreston 78; 4. Byron 66; 5. Winnebago 54; 6. Pecatonica-Durand) 52; 7.

Christian Life 46; 8. Lena-Winslow 29; 9. Harvest Christian Academy 24; 10. Hinckley-Big Rock 12; 11. Alden-Hebron 6; 12. Hiawatha 5; 13. West Carroll 2; 14. Dakota 1; 15. (tie) Rockford Lutheran, Faith Lutheran, South Beloit, Stockton-Warren, Pearl City 0

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State qualifiers 3,200 relay (SQ 8:32.45) – 1. Rockford Christian 8:04.98; 2. Byron 8:19.12; 3. Oregon (Ian Hussung, Isidoro Marcos, Andrew Newman, Arne Wendler) 8:23.83 400 relay (SQ 44.29) – 1. Winnebago 43.82; 2. Polo-Forreston (Brooks Grobe, Brad Cavanaugh, A.J. Christensen, Cailean Davids) 43.93; 3. Lena-Winslow 44.03; 4. Oregon (Konner Wilson, Carson Buck, Mitchell Nehrkorn, Brayton Finch) 44.10 3,200 (SQ 10:11.70) – 1. Grant Munson (PD) 9:56.48; 2. Michael Sisko (Harvest) 9:58.26 110 hurdles (SQ 15.84) – 1. A.J Christensen (PF) 15.62; 2. Konner Wilson (Ore) 15.72; 3. Malik Marshall (Winn) 15.74 100 (SQ 11.32) – 1. Rahveon Valentine (LW) 11.40; 2. Brooks Grobe (PF) 11.44 800 (SQ 2:02.26) – 1. Chase Sarver (Byr) 2:00.38; 2. Ian Hussung (Ore) 2:01.38 800 relay (SQ 1:33.24) – 1. Winnebago 1:31.29; 2. Rockford Christian 1:31.55; 3. Polo-Forreston (Brooks Grobe, Brad Cavanaugh, Cailean Davids, Reid Taylor) 1:31.76; 4. Oregon (Caleb Mennen, Carson Buck, Mitchell Nehrkorn, Brayton Finch) 1:32.39; 5. Lena-Winslow 1:32.86 400 (SQ 52.68) – 1. Jake Heitter (Byr) 51.32; 2. Noah Varvara (Harvest) 52.02 300 hurdles (SQ 41.57) – 1. Konner Wilson (Ore) 40.33; 2. A.J. Christensen (PF) 40.46 1,600 (SQ 4:38.49) – 1. Riley Wells (RC) 4:33.76; 2. Ian Hussung (Ore) 4:37.23; 3.

Nick Monkemeyer (RC) 4:37.80; 4. Andrew Dobrescu (Harvest) 4:38.46 200 (SQ 22.50) – 1. Dennis Lunde (PD) 23.25; 2. Nick McMahon (RC) 23.39 1,600 relay (SQ 3:31.52) – 1. Winnebago 3:26.84; 2. Rockford Christian 3:27.91; 3.

Oregon (Andrew Newman, Carson Buck, Mitchell Nehrkorn, Caleb Mennen) 3:28.13 Shot put (SQ 47-8) – 1. Michael Ford (CL) 53-3; 2. John Ghibellini (Ore) 50-5 1/4 Discus (SQ 143-2) – 1. Michael Ford (CL) 153-5; 2. Billy Trosper (Byr) 152-1; 3. John Ghibellini (Ore) 150-4; 4. Kole Mowry (Ore) 145-9 Long jump (SQ 20-11) – 1. Jake Heitter (Byr) 21-8 1/4; 2. Quinn Halversen (RC) 20-10 1/2 Triple jump (SQ 41-7) – 1. Mason Wright (PF) 42-11 1/2; 2. Preston Stapleton (PF) 42-2 1/4; 3. Josh Johnson (AH) 42-2 High jump (SQ 6-2) – 1. Brady Irwin (RC) 6-4; 2. Alex Bolhous (Winn) 6-4; 3. Quinn Halversen (RC) 6-2; 4. Austin Capes (Byr) 6-2 Pole vault (SQ 12-7) – 1. Nathan Aldritt (Winn) 13-0; 2. Christian Klemm (CL) 12-7

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IS YOUR PET MISSING? Read our found section in todays paper. Just in case it is not there, call one of your area animal shelters listed below: Lee County Animal Control (815)284-3833 Granny Rose Animal Shelter (815)288-7387 Whiteside County Animal Control (815)625-3507 Happy Tails Humane Society (815)626-2994 A public service of Sauk Valley Media

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LYNDON

ROCK FALLS

Rustic 1900 Sq. ft.

2 story home on 1.5 acres that includes 320ft. Rock River Frontage. No flood ins. needed here. 3BR, 1.5 BA, loft, F/P, 4 car detached garage.

See on Saukvalley.com Asking $130,000 815-718-4123

STERLING 3BR RANCH 2ba, garage with loft, screened in porch. New roof, lg. family room, all appliances stay. $127,000.

815-441-0873.

Small young black female cat. 1 Mile north of Lowell 815-288Park.

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NEW TODAY For Sale or Rent to Own Indian Ridge

12740 Lawrence Rd.

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CASA 15th Judicial Circuit (Lee/ Carroll/Ogle Counties) is seeking volunteers to advocate for children in the court system involved in abuse and neglect cases.

Your involvement can impact a child’s future.

Contact Vanessa White-Broome, Director of Advocate Services (815) 440-6598 www.casalee carroll.com Now seeking smiling faces at the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home in Dixon to greet guests from all around the world, host tours and help with grounds keeping.

We offer flexible scheduling, complete training, lots of fun, volunteer perks and huge appreciation for your time and talent. Please call us at 815-2885176 or visit reaganhome.org

Ranch, riverfront, 3BR, 1.75 BA, 2 fire places, full finished basement w/ bar. 2 car att. garage & 1 detached.10X16x30 All Elect., Radiant Heat, Central Air Reduced! Asking $165,000 (3%down) Rent $1,000. mo.

No gas or water bills Pictures on saukvalley.com available NOW! 815-441-5706

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EFFICIENCIES! -InclusiveClean & Quiet 815-626-8790*

APARTMENTS UNFURNISHED 306 Attractive 1 & 2 apts. with BR. some utilities. Sterling & Rock Falls.

No pets, no parRefs. req. ties.

815-336-2305.

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ASHTON ★★ 1&2 BR., Ashton/ F.G. 815-7512712/562-5075.★

HARMON ½ off 1st month's rent! Large 2 BR Utilities incl. except electric, $475 Pets OK. Harmon, IL 815-562-7368

PROPHETSTOWN Riverview Estates Senior Housing, ages 55+. 1 or 2 bedroom units.

Utilities plus much more included.

Call 815-537-1172 EHO

Advertise your mobile homes for sale here!!

www.good-sam.com/prophetstown.

DIXON

ROCK FALLS

1987 Schult mobile home 14x60, 2BR, 1ba. Dixon.

Located in Rock River Estates. Asking $8900. 815631-1635.

1 & 2 BR Hampton Apts.

815-625-7043 2BR Duplex, No pets. No smokers.

Call 815-625-9638

STERLING

NORTHLAND PARK APARTMENTS

Remodeled 1BR, Water & Garb. Incl. $400/mo. + dep.

815-590-9511

Studio’s, 1 & 2 BR Apts.

CALL FOR AVAILABILITY

(815) 632-7368 (Located Behind Northland Mall)

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Sterling Rentals Newer 2 Bedroom $640.00 Applcs., Fireplaces 2002 3rd Ave. 1836 First Ave. 606 W. Lefevre 2 BR $535.00 1 BR $465.00 1 Studio $390.00 Partial Heat, Water, Sewer, Refuse Removal, Laundry Facilities, Satellite

(815)626-1431

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1BR, $400 815-562-7368 Rochelle Realty 1BR, $400/mo. + sec. deposit.

773-319-0059.

2 bedroom, great Sterling location, $495/mo. No SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED (with 1 year lease).

815-414-2288.

2 BR for $500

Water, sewer, garbage incl.

Coin W/D, No pets/ No parties.

Call Diana: 630-327-7046 2BR, 1st Floor clean, QUIET. 641-777-7261 2nd floor apt. with 1BR & garage. $375/mo. + dep. th 511 6 Ave. 815625-4987.

for more information.

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LOCATIONS! DEALER FINANCING AVAILABLE

1397 N. Galena Ave., Dixon 708 First Avenue, Rock Falls 815-288-5626 815-622-6655

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PUBLISHER'S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference , limitation or discrimination based on race, color,religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians pregnant women and securing people custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law.

Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800-669-9777.

The toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-279275.

We Buy Cars Too!

NO MONEY DOWN & NO PAYMENTS FOR 45 DAYS

We Finance!

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Hours Mon - Fri 10-6 • Sat 9-3

TR IV I A AN SW ER 1) Corsets 2) Hairdressing; the book’s subtitle was The Whole Art of Hair Dressing, and it was extremely popular.

Before you make a move call…

SHIPPERTS Moving & Storage

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PUBLIC NOTICES SAUK VALLEY

MOBILE HOMES

STERLING

FOR RENT

Room for Rent. All utilities incl. + wifi Starting at $75/wk. + dep. Call or text 815-716-6150.

Sinnissippi Townhomes Spacious 2 BR. 2 story townhomes.

Central air, good location. Laundry hookup. (815)6261130.

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FOR RENT/SALE HOUSES & APTS. svla.org

DIXON 4 BR, 1 ½ bth, fenced yard, NO PETS! Available May 1st, $750 mth, call Chuck 815994-0157 Newer duplex, Dixon for rent. $825 mo. 2 BR, 1 Bth, finished basement.

Call Tim 815-766-2769

ROCK FALLS 2BR No Pets. No smoking. $550/mo. + dep. 815-6259638 2BR, 708 W. 2nd St., 1 car garage 815-625-1900 Nice 2BR, garage, stove, refrig., no pets. 815-631-6678

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THE CLASSIFIED Advertising Department of Sauk Valley Media does not have the opportunity to fully investigate the credibility of each advertiser appearing within these columns. If an offer sounds “too good to be true” it probably is.

Proceed with caution if you are asked to send money or to give a credit card number.

Proceed with caution in calling 900 phone numbers. All phone numbers prefixed by “900” are charged to the CALLER. Charges may be assessed on a “per minute” basis rather than a “per call” basis.

Sauk Valley Classified makes every effort to qualify these charges for the reader.

If you have a concern about an advertiser, please contact the Better Business Bureau 330 N. Wabash, Chicago, IL 60611.

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Fri. - Sun. 9-5 414 - 2nd Ave. PLANT SALE! Many perennials for sun or shade, gobs of hostas, tomatoes, flower planters, annuals, houseplants, all reasonably priced

Friday 7:30 – 4:30 Sat. 7:30 – Noon 508 Countryside Lane Longaberger baskets (dealer closeout), Seagrass area rugs, pottery barn rugs 3x5 & 5x8.6, pillows (bed & toss), lamps, desk, easel, Keurig 4-cup coffee pot, Chico stroller, infant car seat, 2 person pup tent, children's toys, ect. Lots of miscellaneous!

Friday 7:30-5pm Sat. 7:30-5pm 308 Heather Lane Household, fishing equip.,golf, tools, cuckoo clock, 65 Impala, Men's jackets, & much more!

Sat. & Sun., 10-3 317 Wild Cherry Dr. (Lost Nation) Moving Sale Everything must go! Call 815-9942009 for info.

Classifieds Work!

Terry of Rock Falls sold his 2002 Pontiac Grand Am for $4200 using

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Small 1BR home, W/D & garage. $475/mo. + dep.

723 Broadway.

815-625-4987.

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, LEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS ESTATE OF MARLIN R. JORDAL Deceased Case No. 2016-P-21 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of Marlin R. Jordal, of Steward, Illinois. Letters of Office were issued on April 12, 2016, to Kristian M. Knutson, whose address is 15294 Tower Road, Malta, IL 60150, and whose attorney is Charles P. Cole, Jr., 104 Oak Avenue, Suite B, Rochelle, Illinois 61068.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the Office of the Lee County Circuit Clerk, at the Lee County Courthouse, 309 S. Galena Ave., Ste. 320, Dixon, Illinois, 61021, or with the estate representative, or both. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before November 21, 2016, that date being not less than six (6) months from the date of first publication of this Notice. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred.

Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerks Office must be mailed or delivered to the estate representative and to his attorney within ten days after it has been filed.

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NOTICE The City of Sterling is seeking proposals for the position of City Attorney The position is appointed on an asneeded basis by the Mayor with Council consent. A full copy of the Request for Proposals is available at City Hall or by emailing info@ sterling-il.gov Proposals are due by 5pm, June 14, 2016.

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Everyone wants a cleaner, greener environment, so the buzz words are “think global, act local.”

Here’s something you can do in your everyday life to be more environmentally-friendly.

Think green.

If you are a subscriber of the daily Gazette or Telegraph, we are asking you to recycle your plastic bags and rubber bands by just giving them back to your carrier or driver.

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Search for local job listings at saukvalley.com/jobs/ NOTICEPURto the SUANT Business Opportunity Sales Law of 1995, every busiopportunity ness must be registered with the Illinois SeDepartcurities ment. Protect yourself and get the facts before you hand over your hard earned money by contacting the Illinois Secretary of Securities State's Department at 1800-628-7937. This notice provided as a public service by Sauk Valley Classifieds.

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Avonlea Cottage of Dixon C.N.A.'s for Days 7-3, Evenings 3-11, Nights 11-7, Part Time Apply in person 503 Countryside Lane in Dixon or call 815-288-6044 Experienced RN/LPN Part time, 11-7 Please apply in person at: Avonlea Cottage 2201 E. LeFevre Rd., Sterling

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The Whiteside Area Career Center has an opening for an Auto Service Instructor Candidates must have completed a minimum of 60 hours of college credit and a minimum of 2000 hours employment in Auto Service. Send letter of application and resume to: Paula Rademacher; Whiteside Area Center; Career 1608 Fifth Avenue; Sterling, IL 61081; Phone: (815) 6265810.

WRVS/WACC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Deputy Circuit Clerk-Primarily Sterling, IL location Full time - 35 hrs/ wk. 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, $11.40/ hr.

File court cases & documents, Clerk in the courtroom Bilingual in Spanish beneficial but not required. www.whiteside.org for complete job description & application Deadline - Fri. June 3, 2016 at 4:30 pm

Dixon area business looking for part time Bookkeeper, Mon-Fri. Approx.

30-35 hours per week. Excellent working conditions.

Starting at $10/hr.

Call 815-440-2392.

Attention Job Seekers We have multiple entry level jobs available. Seeking motivated individuals with a good work ethic.

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NEW TODAY Awesome Summer Job – Team Corn Detasseling is hiring workers for summer detasseling. Work with your friends this summer.

Local Pick Up Sites and Fields.

Ages 12 and up.

Earn from $7.75 to $10.00 per hour depending on your ability.

Attendance Bonus Available.

Season starts around July 5th to 10th and runs for 8 to 15 days.

Transportation Provided. For Applications Call 866-8988326 or 815-8758100 or on the Web at: www.Teamcorn. com.

Evening P/T Bartender Apply with in at JJ's Come Back Inn 337 N. Main Ave. Milledgeville, or call: 815-225-7714 ask for Jerry Farm Laborer needed at Erie hog farm.

Please call 309-659-2963 for application information.

Grain Farm Help wanted. Class A CDL required. Experience preferred.

Dixon, IL. Call 815288-5000.

Housekeepers wanted June 1.

Exp. & no exp. Reliable transport or live-on site. Call or 815-284-6979 apply online www. reynoldswood.org/ jobs/

• Full-Time Positions • Full Benefits Package • 1st & 2nd Shifts

Krumpets Bakery Café Adding to our team!

Positions: Line cook, prep cook, baker.

Apply within at 1016 4th St Fulton, IL or email krumpetsbakery @gmail.com

Apply online at etnyre.com

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E. D. ETNYRE & CO. 1333 S. Daysville Road, Oregon, Illinois M/F Disabled and Vet EEO/AA Employer

Lifeguards wanted June 1. Reliable transport or live-on site. Call 815-2846979 or apply online www.reynolds wood.org/jobs/

• PATROL - includes all shifts • MAINTENANCE We are accepting applications for these seasonal positions at our family friendly camp resort.

Apply in person at O’Connell’s Jellystone Park, 970 Green Wing Road, Amboy.

Applications also available at www.jellystoneamboy.com

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NEW TODAY Live-In Help needed: Free Housing, utilities, cable & Internet and small living allowance in exchange for part time mature Personal Assistant in Sterling. Refs. req.

SterlingLiveWork Exchange@gmail. com

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Nanny Needed $8/hr. Visit kennamy8.wix.com/ nanny for details and contact info

NEW TODAY Summer Construction help needed.

815-973-1736

EMPLOYMENT

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Satellite Installer position AVAILABLE NOW Experience a plus but will train.

Send resume to: razorsatellitepro@ gmail.com OR stop by 955 N. Galena Ave., Dixon

Hiring for entry level assembly positions on 1st and 2nd shift.

• Full- Time • Fixed Schedule- Monday thru Friday • Group Insurance Benefits • Vacation Benefits • Attendance Incentives • Retirement Benefits

NOW

APPLY IN PERSON OR ON-LINE AT www.pncinc .com PNC, INC. 117 E. MASON STREET POLO, IL 61064

HIRING

Applications taken on-site Monday through Friday 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Sterling:

Bookkeeper • General Labor & Production Positions Shipping Team Lead • Purchasing • Header Operator Maintenance Tech $24.71/hr • CNC Operator Order Fillers • Press Operator

EOE

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Dixon: Order Fillers $10.75/hr.

Part Time 3rd shift Sanitation $10.84/hr Part Time Janitorial $10/hr Production All shifts $10.14-$10.84 Mechanical - Electrical Maintenance Operations Tech General Labor - Basic Computer skills 9.25-9.45 Forklift Operators $11.30-11.70/hr

is a progressive human service agency providing Day Services and Community Living Programs to individuals with developmental disabilities. We are currently looking to hire a

Maintenance/Housekeeping Manager

Apply online. Visit: manpowerjobs.com

This position would be responsible for but not limited to:

Sterling Office 815.622.2814 Dixon Office 815.288.7800 SM-ST2887-0521

District Sales Manager Sauk Valley Media is interviewing for a district sales manager in the circulation department. Responsibilities include recruitment, selection and training of contracted carriers to provide sales growth, prompt delivery service and collections within Sauk Valley Media communities.

The successful candidate will be self-directed and communicate effectively with subscribers and carriers. Subscriber solicitation is required. Ability to manage time, organize duties and operate as a team member is critical to performance.

Must possess and maintain a valid driver’s license, proof of insurance, reliable transportation and acceptable motor vehicle record. Pre-employment drug screen, physical agility test and background check required.

Sauk Valley Media offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Submit your resume to: recruitment@shawmedia.com

• Coordinates agency maintenance program, insuring that all agency buildings and grounds are maintained in order to be clean, safe and secure for use by clients and staff.

• Provides direction, supervision and leadership to assigned maintenance and housekeeping personnel.

• Ensures program compliance with regulatory standards - OSHA, Public Health, DHS-DD, etc.

• Organize and coordinate a schedule of regular and preventative maintenance for all buildings • Daily coordination of maintenance/housekeeping needs.

• Implement and monitor lock-out tag-out programs.

• Coordinate a schedule of maintenance for grounds to include mowing, landscaping, snow removal, repair of sidewalks and driveways.

• Serve as General Contractor for assigned projects.

• Maintain compliance with agency policy and procedures; updated assigned policies as required.

• Publish and update policy and protocol for OSHA compliance related to Dept needs.

Qualifications: Thorough knowledge of building and grounds. Past experience as a General Contractor or licensed in the building trades field. Five years of previous experience in a position where coordination and supervision were expected. Ability to use Microsoft Office products and various data bases. Valid drivers license and driving record acceptable to Agency insurer.

Or Contact: Sheryl Gulbranson, Circulation Director Sauk Valley Media 3200 E. Lincolnway P.O. Box 498 Sterling, IL 61081 Phone: 815-625-3600 x5300

The Benefits: Health and dental/vision insurance option plan, life insurance, retirement plan with company match, paid vacation, holiday, and sick time; tuition reimbursement.

Sauk Valley Media is an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace.

This posting may not include all duties of the position.

Attention: Jodi Murdock 500 Anchor Road, P.O. Box 366, Dixon, IL 61021

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Please send your resume to:

Kreider Services, Inc

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Kreider is an EEO employer/Drug Free workplace

SAUK VALLEY

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Dixon Direct has an immediate opening for the following full-time position. This position requires 3-5 years of experience or 2 years with certification. Experience with printing equipment is a plus.

LOOKING FOR A CHANGE?

MAINTENANCE MECHANIC

We are looking for experienced and dedicated professionals to assume key positions on our nursing team.

Must have strong knowledge of machine and facilities maintenance; the ability to read and work from blueprints, schematics, and diagrams; use precision measuring devices; and operate metalworking equipment such as lathes, grinders, and milling machines; and operate welders.

CNAs/RNs/LPNs We offer an excellent starting wage, 401K, vacation, Potential SIGN ON BONUSES and much more!

Send resumes to:

For an immediate interview, apply in person or call Lynette at (8 Ly (815)) 284-3393 28428 284-3393.

1226 W. Seventh Street Dixon, Illinois 61021 815-284-2211

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Now Hiring Customer Service for insurance agency, full-time. Must have experience.

Basic accounting skills required. Insurance license a plus. Please send resume to: Box #1335, c/o Sauk Valley Classifieds, 498, P.O. Box Sterling, IL 61081

Now Hiring FullTime Electrician Specialist at the Sterling Park District.

View complete job description and apply online at www.sterling parks.org.

SEASONAL EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS AVAILABLE We are accepting applications for all seasonal positions at our family friendly camp resort.

Ideal candidates are team oriented and work well with others. Applications available at our office or website.

O' Connell's Jellystone Park, 970 Green Wing Road, Amboy www.jellystone amboy.com

NEW TODAY Social Services Child Welfare Clinician (Master's) Full time opportunity for a Masters level candidate to provide clinical services to foster care children and their families in their home and/or community setting to achieve placement stabilization.

MSW preferred, or Master's Degree in closely related social services field.

Clinical licensure strong plus!

For employment consideration, email resume: chris.mills@lssi.org Lutheran Social Services is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Store Manager Join the team at your neighborhood store.

1000 S. Seventh St., Rochelle, IL Previous convenience store management experience required.

Competitive starting pay; bonus program; extensive benefit package; Vacation; 401k and more!

Please send a resume and cover letter to sfelson@ stop-n-go.com Equal opportunity employer

“The People Professionals” 102 S. Galena Ave 2nd floor, DIXON 815-835-3000 Now Hiring: •Receptionist •Welding Cell Operator •Assembly •Warehouse ------------Apply online at: hughes resources.com

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POLICE OFFICER THE CITY OF STERLING, IL Board of Fire and Police Commissioners will be accepting applications for POLICE OFFICER for the Sterling Police Department. Applications will be available in the Police Department Administration office, 212 3rd Avenue, Sterling, IL and on the city website www.sterling-il.gov through Friday, June 3, 2016. All applications must be returned no later than 4:00 p.m. on Friday, June 3, 2016 to the Police Department Administration office.

NO INDIVIDUAL, unless licensed or holding a permit as a childcare facility, may cause to be published any advertisement soliciting a child care service.* A childcare facility that is licensed or operating under a permit issued by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services may publish advertisements of the services for which it is lispecifically censed or issued a permit. Sauk Valley Media strongly urges any parent or guardian to verify the validity of the license of any facility before placing a child in it's care. *Family homes that care for no more than three (3) children under the age of twelve or which receive only children from a single household, for less than 24 hours per day, are exempt from licensure as day care homes.

The three children to whom this exemption applies includes the family's natural or adopted children and any other persons under the age of 12 whether related or unrelated to the operator of the day care home. (DCFS Rule, Part 377.3 (c))

General Requirements: Must be 21 years of age and not have reached your 35th birthday, U.S. citizen, high school diploma or equivalent, valid Illinois driver’s license, and good health and vision. Exam required.

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A MANDATORY ORIENTATION will be held for applicants on Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at the Sterling Coliseum, 212 3rd Avenue, Sterling, IL. The testing will be held on Saturday, June 18, 2016. More information to be provided at the orientation.

Board of Fire and Police Commission Sterling, Illinois Equal Opportunity Employer

SM-ST2882-0523

COMPETITIVE WAGES/SIGN ON BONUS Winning Wheels has openings for Certified C.N.A.’s.

Starting Pay is $11/hr Weekend Warrior Program $12/hour.

Apply online at: www.winningwheels.com Or in person at Winning Wheels 701 E. 3rd St. Prophetstown, IL 61277 Pre-employment drug screen, background check

Woods Equipment • Farm, Ranch, and Ag Division Blount International • Oregon, IL

Woods Equipment Company is the tractor attachment expert and largest independent supplier of top quality equipment and genuine replacement parts.

Woods Equipment is looking for experienced:

OTR TRUCK DRIVERS Must possess a valid CDL, have 200,000+ miles, and 2+ years of experience. Travel time is 100%. We offer a very competitive pay per mile, a safety bonus, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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Woods is an Equal Opportunity Employer

CAN YOU QUALIFY FOR A CAREER AS A ROCK FALLS FIREFIGHTER? The Rock Falls Board of Fire and Police Commissioners are seeking candidates for the position of firefighter and will conduct entrance examinations at the IL National Guard Armory located at 716 6th Ave. Rock Falls IL on Saturday June 18, 2016. Physical agility examination will be administered at 9:00 a.m. and the written exam will follow.

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1) Resident of the State of Illinois.

2) Valid driver’s license 3) Must be 21 years of age and not reached your 35th birthday 4) Have a high school diploma or equivalent.

5) Must pass physical exam, skills evaluation, and written examination Fringe benefits include: Good pension plan, hospital insurance, paid vacation, overtime pay and uni form allowance.

Application forms may be obtained at the Rock Falls Fire or Police Department located at 603 W. 10th Street, Rock Falls IL and must be completed by Friday, June 17, 2016, on or before 5:00 p.m.

THE CITY OF ROCK FALLS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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DIXON GARAGE SALES 624

ROCK FALLS GARAGE SALES 624

STERLING GARAGE SALES 624

Sat. 9-3pm 624 Reynoldswood Rd. 50% off mostly everything. Some new things added, vanity, garden fountain, kids clothes, much more.

Fri. & Sat. 8-?

2311 Prophet Rd. Antiques, collect., misc., baby girls clothes NB-3mo., oil lamps, shoes, clothing & something for everyone.

Fri., 2-6pm & Sat., 8-2 803 3rd Ave. Twin & queen bedding, household items. Clothes: boys L-XL, Jr. boys XS-S, Jr. girls XSS, Hollister pants 24x29, womens S-M, shoes, purses, men's S-M

New & used furniture & all size beds wholesale Washer, dryer, recliner, sofa, table & chairs, refrig., gun & curio cabinets, elec, & gas stoves, dressers, storage cab. 815-718-4385

Saturday 8-2 806 E. 19th St. Clothing, brand name, Aeropostle, American Eagle, Hydraulics, men's / women's, jr. Size M, girl's 2T, DVD players, primitive décor, ab roller, 18 sp. Bike, lg. wooden table, misc.

Avatar 212 speaker cabinet, $300/ obo.

815-631-3826.

Randall 112 tube combo. $300/obo.

815-631-3826.

Saturday 7 – 1 612 Pine Street Scrapbook & craftitems, girls ing baby clothes, items, household toys, microwave, play station games, videos, gold clubs w/ bag, comforter Queen & sets/ twin, gently used books & patterns, kitchen items, & whatever else we can dig out before the 21st !

Saturday 7 – 2 Subdivision Rummage Sale corner of Pump Factory & Bloody Gulch Rd 685 Pheasant Run 8 Place 35 piece depression glass set, quilt racks, antique flexible flyers, 6 place set of china, snow sleds, Bunn coffee maker, Christmas items, Santa collection, antique Hooshier cabinet.

699 Pheasant Run camping articles, 3 burner stove, water tank, antiques, mens jeans 34”x32”, womens jeans, knick knacks, lg antique coffee grinder, Cabbage Patch dolls & clothes, Barbie dolls & clothes Saturday 8-3pm 1219 N. Dixon Ave. Household misc., women's clothing (sz.m-xL), Thirtyone, & Scentsy.

Saturday, May 21st 7-2pm 664 Veterans Pkwy (next to Car wash behind Veterans Park) ATV ramps, generator, tools, men & womens clothing, CD's., flower pots, holiday decorations and books.

Thurs. Fri. & Sat. 8am-3pm 521 E McKenney Huge Moving Sale!

Toys galore, girls & boys(12mo. &up), lots of misc., womens, new items daily. Don't Miss Out!!

MT. MORRIS GARAGE SALES 624 Thursday, May 19th & Friday, May 20th from 9am – 5pm. Saturday, May 21st 9am - Noon 3630 W. Rt 64, Mt. Morris - across from the Motel 2 Sales rolled into one. Honey Bee Quilters are offering the quilting estate of a dear friend. Over 50 scrap bags, much yardage (Thimbleberries in great supply), gently used books and patterns, notions, kits purchased with good intentions and so much more.

Additional quilting items will be offered by our members as well as other household items. Lamps, bikes, vintage “this and that”, purses, Boyd's Bear collection and whatever else we can dig out before the 19th! Please park in the lot adjacent to the house.

ROCK FALLS GARAGE SALES 624 Fri. & Sat. 8-4 Sunday 8-?

620 E Rt. 30 Womens clothes, Tigger items, boys clothes sz. 5-12, Home & Garden dishes, mens clothes, log chains, lots of craft items, boys winter coats, big guy jeans.

Too much to list this is a must see!

Quilt Shop will be Open!

Fri. & Sat. 8-?

810 Marty Avenue Downsizing Sale Large collection of Precious moments, like new X-mas décor, household bedding, air mattress, Raggedy Anne items, bedding, mens XL & Lg. womens S. M & L, printer & drill press Fri. 12-3 Sat. 9-3 Sunday 9-3 28975 Knieff Rd. (off Route 40) Ladies clothing sizes 10-12, porch glider, lg. mirror, Christmas decorations, & lots of household items.

Fri. and Sat. 8:30-3 28469 Bertha Dr. (off Buell Rd.) Daycare cots, baby bedding and furniture. Clothes: girls 24 months and up, Junior girls, women's, mens, boys 8-10/12. Vera Bradley, Bosch dishwasher, motorcycle bags, boots, ladies tees.

Lots of misc.

Fri. – Sun. 8-5 502 Culver St. Corner of 5th & 5th (green house) Garage Sale Rain or Shine!

Tools, weight bench, ladders, china, & lots of misc.

Fri., Sat. & Sunday 8-5 2810 Kaufman St. (Yeowardsville) Large craft sale & old tools.

Sat. & Sun. 9-?

610 W 14th St.

No early sales or checks!

TONS OF PRIMITIVE DECOR Boys clothes NB5T, dresses, Jr., womens & mens clothes, sm. kitchen table w/ 2 chairs, entertainment center, coffee & end tables, misc. baby items, toys, household knick knacks and much more!

Sat. only, 9-3 212 3rd Ave. (in back) Huge 2 Family- all clothes .25 each, all sizes adult thru newborn. Household, Holiday, tools, yard items, movies, music, games, strollers, bikes, pet items, plant stands. Too much to list!

Saturday 8-4 511 7th Ave. Huge Sale!

Girls clothes 10/12 -16/18 very cheap, boys clothes 5T-8T, Women & Jr clothing all sz., scrubs, glassware & décor, furniture, weight bench w/ weights, books & toys.

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SPRING GARAGE SALES May 20- May 22 Rock Falls & Sterling Maps @ Shell Stations & Schriners RF Chamber 815-625-4500 Thurs. Friday 10-6 & Saturday 8-4 400 Galt Ave. Tons of items, new items added daily.

Come checks us out!

STERLING GARAGE SALES 624 Fri. & Sat. 8-3 1508 Avenue K Lighted store display case, bikes, furniture, new lamps, tools, park bench, & much misc.

Fri. 7-? Sat. 7-12 817 E. 16th St. (in alley) Large Item Sale Trek trick bike, 2 man bass boat with title, lighted curio cabinet, oak, 80”hx36”w, pre-formed pond, many misc.

Saturday only 8-2 2711 16th Ave. Nice Jr.'s, women's, & men's clothing, shoes, Prom/HC dresses, purses, bags, jewelry, seasonal items, Set of Christmas dishes, household/kitchen items, bedding, curtains, bean bag video game chair, & lots of misc.

In-home estate tag sale Estate of Elise Matthews. FRI. SAT. 10AM-6PM. 1424 WEST 21ST ST. STERLING (STRAWBERRY FIELDS CONDOS) another wall to wall full house! Quality sale of bedroom sets , living room furniture, beautiful piano, drop front desk, buffet, sofa & hide-a-bed, lots of other furniture, upright freezer, another kitchen full, lots of hand made quilts, huge collection of Longaberger, jewelry (some fine), beautiful flow blue collection, fiesta ware, pfaltzgraff, teapot collection, glassware collection, antique doll, lots of books, kenwood home stereo system, lots of Christmas, tools, garage items, nice sewing machine, lots of fabric for quilters, lots of sheet sets/towels/ vintage linens, lots of household items? Way too much to list! Super clean sale! For pics & more info. See estatesales.net Sale assisted by sauk valley estate sales & services 815-590-7021 THE EMPORIUM THRIFT CENTER 115 W. 3rd St. Sterling - Open 9-4 Closed Wed. & Sun. NEW ITEMS!!!

Oriental décor, handmade picture frames, wood cutouts for crafters, sports cards, beads for crafting, lots of flower pots & large display case

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES 705 I Buy: Antiques, collectibles, toys, post cards, etc.

815-445-6151.

APPLIANCES

710

CLOVER HILLS LEASE TO OWN APPLIANCES TV’S MATTRESSES

815.625.8529

FURNITURE

755

3 pc. Basset Bedroom Set, 60” mirrored dresser, reg. $75 bed frame, 815-499-0576 Flexsteel sofa, fall pattern; 4 oak occasional tables- includes coffee table good cond. Call 815-625-2620.

Mattress sets: $99, Full Twin $129, Queen $159, King $199. Will deliver! Bunk Bed $298. Call 309451-7477

FURNITURE

755

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 765

PETS & PET SUPPLIES 775 3 beautiful female kittens free. Prefer indoor homes. Littrained and ter weaned.

Please call 815-535-1950.

Cat, sweet,Female, spayed, approx.

2 yrs., needs good indoor only home 815-535-7061 F. Tabby Cat, spayed. Current on shots, 1½ yrs. Very affectionate. Needs loving indoor home.

815-739-5239 Female kitten, ap4mo.

Old, prx. adorable tortise shell color, lovable & sweet. Was abandon. 815-535-7061 Free kittens to good homes only, litter trained. Call 815-440-3035 after 4pm.

Golden Doodles & female male $800. MiniDoodles, & female male $1500.

563-2127307.

Mixed breed pup2(F). pies. 4(M) $125. Call 815716-0084 Need loving homes for 4 cats, free to good homes only. Call 815-625-1664.

Pitbull needs loving home- young male, well behaved and friendly. No small children or cats. $50. Call 815632-3345.

Wanted: Tea Cup size F Chihuahua, adult, short hair, reasonably priced or free. 815-5649022 after 2:00.

WARNING ADS FOR FREE PETS Your beloved pet deserves a loving, caring home. The ad for your free pet may draw response from individuals who will sell your animal for research or breeding purposes.

Please screen respondents carefully when giving an animal away.

Your pet will thank you!

LAWN MOWERS

779

6hp Pushmower, deck, high 22” back wheels, runs good, $70 815625-1606 Cub Cadet Tank zero turn, 27hp Kohler, 2 whl. hydrive.

Exc. dro cond. $5100/obo.

815-973-8780.

LAWN & GARDEN

781

John Deere, Model 300 Tractor w/ 42” deck, 7 cu. ft. bagger, 500 hrs. on machine, serviced per year, twice garage kept, exc.

Call 815cond.

499-6100

TICKETS / TRAVEL 787 & EVENTS No person or business, unless properly licensed by the Illinois Secretary of State, may sell ticket(s) for any sporting event or otherwise, for more than the price printed upon the face of the said ticket(s).

Only licensed ticket brokers may legally advertise, negotiate and execute the sale of ticket(s) for any amount over what is printed upon the face of ticket.

WANT TO BUY 795 I Pay Cash 4 Gold, Silver, Coins & Antiques 24/7 779-245-2950 Skid loader in any condition Call or text 563212-7699

MISCELLANEOUS 796 FOR SALE 2 Large tractor tires. $50 for both.

815-284-2097

B12 MISCELLANEOUS 796 FOR SALE 1991 Sea Nymph 16' fishing boat w/ 68 Evinrude motor easy load yacht club trailer, trolling motor and depth finder inc. $3900 815-275-7311 2 lots in Lyndon Cemetery 815-590-0662 2 Pack N Plays $30 & $50 815-718-5325 5 old bathroom sinks. $50 815-284-2097 75,000 BTU, 96% high efficiency furnace - works good. Has some newer parts. $100 815-626-4490 Blue, HJC Helmet CL 15 Cyclone, Snell Apvd., Sz. Med. $80 FIRM 815-626-2549 Coffee table w/ matching end tables. $50 815-718-5322 Corner hutch $100 great cond.

815-718-5325 Dbl. Recliner sofa, glass stereo cabinet & equip. Video, DVD/ CD cabinet.

815-441-4828 For Sale: Deluxe never Walker, used, asking $200 815-499-2579 Golf balls $1 a dozen.

815-625-2022 Graco collapsible stroller. $30. Call 815-285-4816 Great Lakes hot tub for free! Repairable, You haul.

815-973-1236 Great Tasting Beef, fed the old fashioned way, halves & quarters avail.

815-978-2589 John Deere children's recliner, cup holder. No tears. $25 815-499-4592 Kobe Bryant Lakers Rookie Card $75 obo 815-9855359 Ladies jeans 18 tall worn once, 6 Levi's Indigo, 4 Diane Gilman colors. $75 815-456-2839 Mens Snap on work jacket, like new, Sz. Lg. Paid $190 new, asking $50. 815-499-4592 Moving Sale! Everything Must Go! Builder Discount Nice clean pair 1956 IL license plates $25 815275-3131 Oak Knoll Sterling, 2 spaces East side by flag pole. $725/ Negotiable. ea.

815-994-1635.

Queen bed spread, drapes, etc. dark green w/ pattern. $900 new, must see! $75.

815-456-2839 See More Online Photos, Commerce, Expanded Text ➛Look for WEB ID ➛Log on to: www.saukvalley. com classifieds ➛Enter the WEB ID in the WEB ID Box ➛View Photos, Expanded Text BUY ONLINE!! saukvalley.com CLASSIFIEDS Strawberry Rhubarb. $2 Ib. Call 815-677-0896 Taylormade irons, stiff new grips, shaft, nice clubs 3-W $75 815-7343340 Tools, wrenches, & various hand tools $75 obo 815985-5359 Two cemetery lots for sale in Garden of Hymns, Chapel Hill Memorial Park, Dixon Reasonably priced.

815-284-7273.

Werner 10ft. Wooden step ladder. $50 Like new.

815-535-0568 Wheelchair. $100.

Call 815-288-6200 Whirlpool bath Jacuzzi for sale. $250 like new.

815-441-3299 White Mountain 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzles, 9 for $45 815-625-3812 Wooden Shed 12x20, barn shaped, 3 yrs. old, asking $2200 Made in USA 815-622-9622

FARM EQUIPMENT

855

Ford 4000 tractor N.F., P.S. Selecto-Shift, 8 sp. 5 ft. king kutter mower. $5,500. Call 815626-8491 International H for sale, good cond. $1600. 815499-9483

AUTOMOBILES

905

NEW REAL DEAL

FOR ITEMS OVER $300

A 5 Line REAL DEAL

ad runs for 30 days in Sauk Valley Classifieds, 4 Ogle County Papers, The Review and saukvalley.com all for only $42!

Special must be mentioned at time of ad placement.

Offer expires 12/31/16 No Commercial Advertising, Pets, Garage Sales, Wood/ Fuel, Tickets/ Travel or Real Estate

1998 Chevy Malibu good work car.

Asking $900/ obo.

815-499-6440.

2005 VW new Beetle GLS conv.

Gray, red leather int. Auto trans., full power 113K. Fun car! $6400/obo.

515-745-0994 2008 Pontiac Torrent. V6. White.

Rm start.

Clean car. Call 815-288-4330 creditautosales dixon.com Always over 100+ vehicles to choose from.

HAVING TROUBLE wording your ad? Call our classified department today. We'll be glad to help you. 626SOLD or 284SOLD. We Buy Junk Cars, Equipment, Fork Lifts, & Farm Equip., running or not. Ask for Will 815-213-4071 Sterling, Dixon, & surrounding areas.

TRUCKS

910

1975 one ton Ford with steel flatbed. $1,500, 40k mi.

815-994-3339

1988 GMC 7000 49k regular miles, garage kept, no rust, brand new back tires, 366 gas motor, 5 speed, 2 speed, rear end, exc. cond., $5600 815-590-1677 1990 F150 XL, 302, AOD, 2WD very good heat & A/C, Good phys. cond.- Very good – mech cond. $3,500 815-684-9997

4X4S

912

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BOATS/MOTORS

940

Gemini Ski Boat 16' V-haul, windshield, lay down seats with trailer.

115 HP Merc. overhaul.

Fresh New prop. Very Nice $3500 815938-2218

PERSONAL WATERCRAFT 941 1997 Kawasaki Jet Ski 750cc, trailer, $850/obo 815-499-4179 leave message.

TRAILERS/RVS

945

2003 Keystone Cougar, 29.5ft Super Slide out. Front BR, garden shower & tub, C/A & heat, built in stereo, micro , refrig. & stove.

New tires, rims, awning. Everything works great! Must see! $10,000 firm.

815-677-1533

AUTOS WANTED

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Celebrity Cipher cryptograms are created from quotations by famous people, past and present.

Each letter in the cipher stands for another.

TODAY’S CLUE: J equals C

“ J T P I K N V T P V P H W L L E X V N Y F W L AW V P VN VP JFVERHVGLF -- LFX PWLKGWE TGRXG TI LFVPUN.” -- UXPXGWE OWKGVJX LKUYXEE Previous Solution: “I love riding trains ... there’s something about it that just transports me into old films.” -- Rosario Dawson (c) 2016 by NEA, Inc., dist. by Universal Uclick 5-21

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Saturday, May 21, 2016 GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Keep an open mind, but don’t believe everything you are told. Someone will take advantage of your vulnerability and tempt you with excessive behavior. Show discipline and make wise choices.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- If you speak from the heart regarding money and contractual matters, you will be offered alternatives that will help you get back on track.

Take action and learn from your mistakes.

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Once you’re plans out in the open, you will get the feedback you require to make things happen.

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Discuss your plans, and organize a romantic celebration to reinforce your position.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Use your knowledge and experience to overcome any adversity you face. Don’t be surprised if someone tries to take advantage of your good nature. Be careful while operating equipment.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Share your adventures and experience with people who have something to offer in return. Engage in activities or procedures that will help you achieve your greatest potential.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Make every move count. If you use your energy wisely, you will discover something that will help you expand what you have to offer. Negotiate, formulate and concentrate.

Financial gain is within reach.

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815-284-2222

1999 Jeep Wrangler Sahara, only 83K mi. Hard & soft top. $12,000/obo.

815-994-2009.

1999 Jeep Wrangler Saraha, 83K mi. Hard & soft top. $12,000/obo. Call 815-994-2009

PARTS & ACC.

925

2006 & newer Ford F150, 4 Alloy 17” wheels w/nuts & centers, 5 bolt, no pits, never in salt. $400/obo.

815626-5045 after 6p Ford Rims 22”x9”, split spoke polished aluminum w/ black pearl metallic, includes sport center cap, valve stems, 5-lug bolt pattern 4.5”, great condition, 4 for $1200/obo 815-626-2549

MOTORCYCLES

935

2000 Harley Davidson FX STD, 11k. mi. new tires, battery, fresh tune up, 10,000 mi. service complete. Mikuni Carbs. Some extras windshield etc.

Luxury Rich Red in color. $7,500 FIRM 815-732-7526

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NEW TODAY 2012 Harley Davidson Triglide, orig. mi. Complete custom, too many changes to list.

Must see to appreciate- serious only. $35,000/obo. 815677-8180

BOATS/MOTORS

940

'87 Crest Pontoon Boat, 50 HP Johnson, everything needed to go boating $3,200 firm 815-973-4831 after 10 am.

16' Lund-Mr. Pike, 70hp Johnson motor, trolling motor, live well, new seats, $3000/obo 815-441-7636 2 HP Evinrude outboard motor w/ stand. $80.

815-994-8831 or 815-288-6294 Extra Wide Jet Ski Lift $750 815-625-1713

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Alterations SHOE REPAIR ZIPPER REPAIR & ALTERATIONS Grummert's Hardware Sterling, Rock Falls, & also Shaw's Marketplace 214 Washington Prophetstown

CONCRETE • Driveways • Sidewalks • Patios CONSTRUCTION •Garages •Additions •Remodeling •Decks • Homes 38 yrs. Experience 815-626-9026

815-989-8320

Asphalt Fritz Asphalt Sealing

Commercial – Residential Shawn Von Holten 815-499-2940 **FRANKLIN** MAINTENANCE •Pothole Repair •Hot Pour •Crack Filling •Seal Coating •Line Striping Bonded-Insured 815-284-6806

Concrete Workz Sidewalks • Steps Driveways • Patios Floors Exposed & stamped concrete Poured walls/ retaining walls Skidloader work & Hauling *Free Estimates *Insured 815-441-6126 All Types of Concrete Work

Construction

T & M PAVING

*Asphalt paving & Patch work * Seal Coating *Skid loader/ Dump Truck Work (Concrete Removal, Dirt and Gravel Hauling) Call for free, no obligation estimates 815-499-7195.

Locally owned And Operated.

Over 25 Years Asphalt Exp. Fully Insured

Basement Waterproofing Prater Paint & Waterproofing We Dry Up Basements & Crawl Spaces, Remediate Mold & Install E-Z Breathe™ Ventilation Systems 815-626-5165

www.praterpaintand waterproofing.com

Bicycles GREEN RIVER CYCLERY

We Take Your Fun Seriously!

Bicycle Repairs Tune-Ups Overhauls 205 E. 1st St. Dixon, IL 61021 (815)622-8180

www.grc.bike Tuesday - Friday • 10 - 6 Saturday • 8-1

Cleaning Service

ADVANCED CLEANERS

MAID SERVICE JANITOR SERVICE CARPET CLEANING

Dumpster Rental

Dumpster Rental for Clean-ups & Construction Small & Large containers avail.

Tidy Bug Inc. Dixon, IL tidybuginc.com 815-456-3001

Furniture Refinished Furniture Restoration Strip, Refinish, Repair Re-glue, Touch-ups Anselmo's Inc. 1235 W. LeFevre Rd., Sterling 815-625-3519

Genl. Contracting Active Const.

(815) 499-1871 Kitchen & Bath Remodels Additions, Garages Siding, Windows, Handicap, Ramps Concrete Work WE DO IT ALL! Anything Interior Exterior 35 year experience FREE Estimates And We Will Call You Back!

Golf Instruction Jim Stewart

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Jeep loyalists let out a collective groan last year when the brand unveiled the Renegade and in turn joined the parade of tiny sport utility vehicles sometimes called “cute utes” crowding America’s roads.z But no one should have been surprised. Jeep wants to make a buck as much as the next auto brand, and subcompact SUVs are all the rage right now.

Besides, the Renegade is still a Jeep.

It has the trademark seven-slat grille and includes some signature Jeep touches inside like mudsplatter graphics on the dashboard dials. “Since 1941” is etched under the center console to remind you that although the Renegade may be the family baby, it’s part of a longrunning legacy.

More important, the four-wheeldrive Trailhawk model is king of the mountain when it comes to off-road performance. It’s the most capable in the mini ute segment.

Jeep was not about to cede that claim.

With Jeep being part of the Fiat Chrysler group, the Renegade is built in Melfi, Italy, and shares a factory, platform and components with the Fiat 500X. It may be short in stature just 166.6 inches long but it is long in character. From the front, with its black-accented grille, it looks like a mischievous little tyke ready to romp in the mud and sand. Twotone alloys and black roof rails sharpen the look. Square tail lights are stamped with the Jeep emblem.

The Renegade, which comes in a variety of loud colors, also features lift-out roof panels that spell Wrangler-style adventure.

Short overhangs in both front and rear give the Renegade a stubby look but serve to enhance its climbing skills.

The Renegade, which comes in a variety of loud colors, also features lift-out roof panels that spell Wrangler-style adventure.

Clearly, however, most drivers of the vehicle will only climb neighborhood hills and speed bumps as they head to the mall or run errands around town.

They’ll find the Renegade a blast to drive and easy to park. The short wheelbase, at 101.2 inches, means a slightly choppy ride.

Jeep serves up two engines, both with four cylinders, for the Renegade, which oddly, are comparable in terms of power. A 1.4-liter turbocharged engine is standard with the base Sport and Latitude trims and produces 160 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque.

It comes with a six-speed manual transmission that is smooth and fun to drive, but as there’s little room in the vehicle’s footwell, you might want to avoid wearing the

floppy sandals or work boats when the city and 29 on the highway. behind the wheel.

Electric-assisted steering offers A nine-speed automatic good feedback, and the Renegade transmission is optional with feels well-controlled on corners. that engine and standard on the That’s especially true on the other, a 2.4-liter that puts out standard front-wheel-drive 180 horses and 175 pound-feet of versions, which sit two inches torque. That’s a few more horses lower than the 4x4. but less torque than the 1.4 turbo.

Fortunately, there’s plenty of pull A full-time all-wheel-drive system across the power band. is available on all four trim levels. In addition to offering an The Renegade feels sprightly on the automatic setting, a four-mode road, with a decent jump from the control adjusts the system for get-go. The 1.4 runs smoothly and enhanced performance in mud, has a sporty feel. Not too surprising sand or snow. On the highway, the given the stats above, the vehicle’s system disengages the rear wheels zero to 60 mph time is about 8.8 and reverts to front-wheel-drive seconds with either engine. for better fuel economy.

When it comes to gas mileage, 1.4-liter engine gets 24 mpg in the city and 31 mpg on the highway.

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Backseat passengers are a little more cramped for legroom, there is sufficient space for three back there.

The Renegade’s interior has a rugged Jeep-like feel. Fit and finish is clean, and the materials look and feel good, even if there is some plastic about. Dials and instruments are well placed and easy to see and use.

Despite its steel wheels and manual tranny, the Sport trim comes decently equipped, with a fixed, dual sunroof, automatic headlights, power windows and locks, and a telescoping steering wheel.

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MANUFACTURING | VETERINARY EQUIPMENT

Milledgeville company wins award for exports Shank’s honored in nation’s capital

BY PAM EGGEMEIER peggemeier@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5570 @pam_eggemeier

MILLEDGEVILLE – Shank’s Veterinary Equipment Inc. was one of 123 companies nationwide recognized by the U.S. Department of Commerce for its success in exporting goods and services.

The Milledgeville company received the President’s “E” Award for Exports at a ceremony May 16 in the nation’s capital. It is the most prestigious award a business

Online Go to export.gov for more information about U.S. exports, and the President’s “E” Award for Exports.

Go to shanksvet.com to learn more about Shank’s Veterinary Equipment Inc. can win for its contributions to the expansion of U.S. exports.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order reviving the World War II “E” symbol of excellence to honor the nation’s exporters.

Founded in 1957, Shank’s is a global leader in making and selling large animal surgery tables. The company also produces related equipment for transporting, examining, and performing

surgeries and autopsies on large animals.

The late Alvin Dettman and son, Mark, bought the company in 1989. Alvin retired in 1996, and Mark had a new manufacturing facility built in 2004. The company is at 505 E. Old Mill St. Sixteen years ago, the company decided to make a big push to grow globally, and it has paid big dividends.

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Connor Clark is one of the members of the Clark family that runs P&C Lawn Care. The company serves Dixon and other Sauk Valley towns, with customers in Sterling, Rock Falls, Amboy, Mendota, and Polo. Estimates are free.

BY AVALYNDA CASEY For Sauk Valley Media

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ost kids take up lawn mowing so they can have a little walking around money.

The Clark brothers turned their childhood business into the main source of income for their family of six.

Patrick, 26, started P&C Lawn Service in 2006, when he was a Dixon High School sophomore. The C stands for Connor, the brother who joined him in the venture. He was a fifth-grader at the time.

“It was cash in my pocket, and kept me out of trouble,” said Connor, a 2013 Dixon High grad.

Their dad helped keep them mowing on the straight and narrow.

“I saw how much time

To get in touch P&C Lawn Service serves Dixon and other Sauk Valley towns, with customers in Sterling, Rock Falls, Amboy, Mendota, and Polo.

Estimates are free.

Email pandclawnservice@ outlook.com or reach Patrick Clark at 815-441-8267 or Connor Clark at 779861-0886, or go to pandclawnservice.com to learn more. school sports took from homework, so the boys didn’t do that,” said their dad, Stephen Clark. “And I didn’t want them sitting around doing nothing, so I gave them on-the-job training.”

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Husband and wife Mark and Jennifer Dettman are the team behind the tables at Shank’s Veterinary Equipment in MilledEXPORTS CONTINUED ON C8 geville.

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The Clark brothers, Connor (left) and Patrick, sort customers by date on their magnetic calendar. The boys learned the difference between flowers and weeds from the Internet.

Dear Dave, My husband is a recovering heroin addict. He’s been clean for 2 years, but I still feel we shouldn’t keep cash in the house or give him unsupervised access to a bank account.

He agrees with these precautions, even though he does need a little pocket money from time to time.

We’ve also started your plan to try and get control of our finances, so how would you suggest handling a situation like this?

– Meghan Dear Meghan, First of all, congratulations on his being clean for 2 years.

That’s awesome! The longer he stays clean, the more he’ll begin to normalize his mechanical activities with things like money.

I agree with not putting him in charge of large sums of money just yet. However, we work with addicts all the time at my company, and I don’t agree that you can’t have any money in the house when he has been clean for 2 years. You might not want a big pile of cash lying around, but there’s no reason you can’t run the envelope system out of your purse. I mean, at this point, if you can’t trust him to stay out of your purse, then you’ve got other major issues in your marriage.

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Mackenzie Wolf, 18, of Franklin Grove, is Ashton-Franklin Center High School’s March Student of the Month.

She plans to attend the University of Kentucky to major in nursing.

March Student of the Month ASHTON – Mackenzie Wolf, 18, of Franklin Grove, has been named March Student of the Month at Ashton-Franklin Center High School in Ashton. She is the daughter of Kevin and Tammy Wolf, and she has three siblings, Megan Boos, 32; Zach Wolf, 29; and Adam Wolf, 25.

Favorite class: Calculus, because there are only nine of us in the class and it is always a fun time Least-favorite class: Consumers education, because it is boring and I already know a lot about what we are learning Favorite teacher: Travis Stauffer, history. He always pushes me to do my best. He always is trying new teaching methods that best suit all of his students. He knows our fullest potential, and he strives to do his best at getting us to reach it. Mr. T always makes us write out everything, and it is just my favorite part of his class, because I love writing.

School activities: Basketball, National Honor

Society secretary, FFA secretary, and senior class secretary Civic, church, volunteer or other activities: I am a member of the Grove-GoGetters 4-H Club.

Food: Strawberry Laffy Taffy App: Snapchat Game or activity: Hanging out with friends

Actor: Liam HemsDo you have a job? I am a worth certified nursing assistant Movie: “The Hunger at Franklin Grove Living and Rehabilitation Center. Games” What will you do after high school? I will attend the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and major in nursing.

What is something you learned in high school that you think you will never use? Calculus

If you could ask President Obama any question, what would it be?

What are you going to do after January?

If you could try any job for a day, what would it be? A scuba diving Instructor

If you could go anywhere in the world for free, where would it be? Australia, because I TV show: “Awkward” always have wanted to go Sports team: Green Bay there and it looks beautiful Packers Do you have a hobby?

Anything outdoors What’s the one thing in your life you can’t do without? My parents and siblings

What kind of music are you listening to? Any radio What is your advice for station that isn’t playing a surviving high school? commercial Get involved and don’t be afraid to try new things.

What is the last good book you read? “Things I What scares you? GetCan’t Forget,” by Miranda ting a creepy roommate Kenneally. It was about in college a group of high school students and their lives. It What’s something was good, because I could about you that nobody relate to it, being around knows? I don’t have the same age. anything that someone doesn’t know about.

What is your favorite:

What is your proudest moment? Honors Night every year, because it is where we get awarded for all of our accomplishments from the year, and it shows me that all my hard work pays off.

Who is your hero or role model? My parents. They are always there for me whenever I need them and I wouldn’t be the person I am today without them Is there someone you’d like to send a shout out to? To my three older siblings, you guys are the best and I love you.

Honors Program students at Sauk Valley Community College in Dixon recently were recognized for academic achievement. With their advisers, Steve Shaff and Val Sleger, are (kneeling, from left) Rebecca Coyle, Amanda Smith, and Joanna Klein; and (standing) Shaff, Jillian Peabody, Jessie Grett, Amanda Hughes, Quincy Coomes, Angela Nordman, Catherine Weinzierl, Jessica Bovee, and Sleger. Photo submitted by Christina Pilling.

the University of Illinois at SPRINGFIELD – Rachel Urbana-Champaign.

The scholCobert, an Erie High arship was School student recently one of 10 received a $30,000 Linawarded coln Scholarship for 4 this year by years of tuition. the coopShe also has been erative to admitted to the University Ashley students of Illinois – Cooney choosing a Springfield career path for this in an ag-related field. fall. The scholarship is based Reagan Run upon a stuDIXON – Senior stuRachel dent’s ACT dent athletes from Dixon Cobert or SAT High School recently score. They received $500 scholarmust earn a 27 to 29 on ships from the Reagan their ACT and hold a 4.0 Run 5K Committee. and above GPA. The recipients and the Cobert plans to major college they will attend in biology with a pre-med are Shannon Lahey, focus, and will play on Valparaiso University in the Prairie Stars volIndiana; Zoey Colglazier, leyball team. Her career University of Wisconchoice after graduation sin – Madison; Benito is to become a physical Mayes, undecided; therapist. and Brendon McCrory, North Central College in River Valley Naperville.

The requirements DEER GROVE – River included participating in Valley Cooperative high school cross-counrecently awarded a try or track and one or $1,000 scholarship to more road races includAshley Cooney of Deer ing a Regan Run 5K. Grove for the 2016-17 The 17th annual Reaacademic year. gan Run will be July 2.

Cooney is a senior Visit reaganrun.com for at Prophetstown High School, and will attend more information.

IN BRIEF Registration open for food courses STERLING – Woodlawn Arts Academy and The Kitchen Incubator of Northwest Illinois are partnering to present culinary workshops.

Chef Jonathan Zellar, who grew up in Sterling, will present basic culinary skills workshops June 14 and Aug. 2, for students 18 and older. He will teach basic skills. The cost is $60 each.

From 4 to 7 p.m. July 3, Zellar will lead Learning to Drink and Cook with Wine.

Topics include the wine basics. Students must be 21 or older. The cost is $65.

All programs are at the Kitchen Incubator, 1741 Industrial Drive.

Registration is required at least 3 days in advance at

apm.activecommunities. com or call 815-626-4278 or stop at the academy, 3807 Woodlawn Road.

Financial assistance is available, go to woodlawn artsacademy.com or apply in person.

Webinar deals with vacation Family Matters Parent Training and Information Center will present “Here’s 104 Days of Summer Vacation” at 9 a.m. June 2.

This webinar gives suggestions about how families can spend summer vacation and transition from school to vacation.

For online registration details, visit fmptic.org/ events. For a phoneonly option, call 866436-7842, ext. 3516.

Allison Hunt’s work, “Perseverus,” was one of the artists honored in the 16th Congressional District of Illinois Congressional Art Contest. Hunt is an Oregon High School student. Photo submitted by Maura Gillespie.

Winners named Awards go to Sauk academic achievers in district contest

DIXON – Sauk Valley College Foundation gave $200 to 10 Sauk Valley Community College Honors Program students.

The awards were present during a recent luncheon

by Steve Shaff and Valarie Sleger, program advisers.

Honorees Jessie Greet of Dixon, a nursing major, and Amanda Hughes of Sterling, an accounting major, spoke during the event.

Grett’s recent project was a paper titled “Loving Wife, Angry Fists: A Perspective on Why We Stay,” a personal story to provide insight into abusive

relationships. And Hughes’ past projects included a chronology and analysis of the Rita Crundwell financial scandal, and a paper examining the city of Dixon’s financial statements and their relationship to a standard financial reporting model.

Other students, their majors, and most recent projects are: ■ Dixon: Quincy Coomes, criminal justice-psychology, a psychology paper addressing extrinsic versus intrinsic motivation Amanda Smith, no

major, neck dissection of a cadaver for a human anatomy and physiology class Catherine Weinzierl, business, an in-depth research paper detailing the crimes committed by Crundwell ■ Morrison: Rebecca Coyle, nursing, a 10-page research paper on Alzheimer’s disease ■ Oregon: Angela Nordman, secondary education, a paper utilizing calculus to describe how and why a rainbow is formed when sunlight is refracted through water droplets

Sterling: Jessica Bovee, marketing, a paper comparing management styles in business Joanna Klein, sociology, a psychology paper involving the history of Stanley Milgram’s obedience study, his life and influences, and how he changed the future of research in the social sciences Jillian Peabody, nursing, a paper addressing gestational diabetes For more information on the honors program, call Shaff at 815-288-5511, ext.

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388.

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OTTAWA – An Oregon High School student received a runner-up position in Illinois’ 16th Congressional District for the 35th annual Congressional Art Competition.

Allison Hunt of Mount Morris entered her work, “Perseverus,” and was one of three runners-up in the contest. The art will be displayed at the office of 16th District Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Channahon, at 725 N. Lyford Road, Suite 3, Rockford.

Bailey Penwell of

Pecatonica won with her charcoal drawing, “The Soldier.” Her art will be displayed in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Other runners-up and the offices they will be displayed in are: ■ Savanna Bell of Sheffield, Bureau Valley High School in Manlius, “Sensitive Soul,” at 342 W. Walnut, Watseka ■ Paige Foley of Ottawa, Ottawa High School, “Jet,” at 628 Columbus St., Suite 507, Ottawa Search for Adam Kinzinger on Facebook to see all of the entries.

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School Days Students at Sauk Valley Community College in Dixon recently completed the 50-hour pharmacy technician program.

Graduates from the Dixon, Morrison, Polo, and Sterling areas are (from left) Rae Cunningham, Shaye Linn, Anna Dane, Sarah McCawley, Kathy Yingling, Averi Lindenmeier, and Melissa Hagler. Not pictured is Christine Jacobs. Photos submitted by Christina Pilling.

Students from the Dixon, Rock Falls, and Oregon areas recently finished the Sauk truck driving training program. They are (front row, from left) Martin Schaefer, Derrick Enlow, and Antaeus Simmons; and (back row) Daniel Coutts and Spencer Galitz; with Tony Mertes, instructor.

Amboy Junior High School’s Scholastic Bowl team won first place April 27 at the Class A Regional Championship Tournament in Dixon. They are (front row, from left) Ethan Larson, Samantha Goldman, Nicholas Tarr, and Shannon Simpson; and (back row) Gabby Ketchum, head coach Yvonne Vicks, Matthew Dinwiddie, Zachary Winters, and Andrew Thier. Photos submitted by Andrew Full.

Amboy Junior High School’s scholastic bowl team also finished second May 2 at sectionals at Ottawa Wallace Grade School. With their ribbons are (kneeling, from left) Shannon Simpson, Samantha Goldman, Ethan Larson, and Nicholas Tarr; and (standing) Zachary Winters, Gabby Ketchum, Andy Thier, and Matthew Dinwiddie; with Yvonne Vicks, coach. Photo submitted by Andrew Full.

May Students of the Month have been announced at Challand Middle School in Sterling. They are (front row, from left) Cori Chavez, Emma Wilson, and Tori Recipients of Challand’s May Respectful Warrior Award are (front row, from left) Arduini; and (back row) Cooper Willman, Trinity Winchell, and McKenzie Hubbard. Celeste Lopez, Benjamin Knowles, Elle Koerner, and Haleigh Freas; and (back Photos submitted by Cindy Brown. row) Paul Aguilar, Mallory Newberry, Laelin Fossett, and Amber Greenfield.

Wanted: Photos from you A scrapbook is a book with blank pages, and that’s what our Scrapbook page is without your pictures. We want to fill the page with images that capture lives in the Sauk Valley. They can be submitted by email to photos@saukvalley.com or can be taken to the Sterling and Dixon offices.

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Saturday, May 21, 2016 Gracie Young, a ninth-grade student at Rock Falls High School, placed first in the high school division with “You’re Late,” a carved stained pine work, during the Student-Teacher Art Exhibit at Woodlawn Arts Academy in Sterling. Photos submitted

by Janel Stahr.

“Shoe Story,”

by Britney Shipman, an eighth-grade student at Rock Falls Middle School, placed first in the fifththrough eighthgrade category.

Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com

Adam Mairs, 18, of Ashton, has earned the honor of being April Student of the Month at Ashton-Franklin Center High School in Ashton. He intends to major in agronomy, and will attend Joliet Junior College for 2 years.

April Student of the Month ASHTON – Adam Mairs, 18, of Ashton, is the April Student of the Month for Ashton-Franklin Center High School in Ashton.

He is the son of Dave and Michelle Mairs, and he has two siblings, Troy, 20 and Kimberlee, 23.

Favorite class: Ag construction, because it is a hands-on class and the information learned is valuable and definitely will be used in my future Least-favorite class: English, because typing papers and reading books just isn’t for me Favorite teacher: Travis Stauffer, constitution. He has a great way of connecting with his students, and he is young and energetic. He also does a wonderful job of teaching what it right and what is wrong in today’s world.

School activities: FFA, National Honor Society, Student Council, baseball, basketball

Ames or Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where I will be majoring in agronomy.

What is something you learned in high school that you think you will never use? The majority of everything I have learned in calculus What kind of music are you listening to? I am listening to “Work,” by Fifth Harmony, at this moment.

What is your favorite: App: AccuWeather Food: Cheese-stuffedcrust pepperoni, and sausage pizza with two times the meat Game or activity: Baseball Actor: Tom Hanks Movie: “Forrest Gump” TV show: “Dirty Jobs”

Sports team: St. Louis Civic, church, volunteer Cardinals or activities: 4-H, FellowDo you have a ship of Christian Athletes hobby? Restoring antique Do you have a job? Field farm machinery scout for Pioneer Seed Is there a celebrity Corn whom you look like, act like, or feel like? None What will you do after that in aware of, I am a high school? After high one-of-a-kind. school, I plan to attend Joliet Junior College for What’s the one thing 2 years, then transfer to in your life you can’t do Iowa State University in

without? Agriculture. If I don’t grow the food, then how am I going to eat? If I don’t eat, then I won’t last very long.

What is your advice for surviving high school? Stay on top of all your assignments and don’t push them off till the last possible moment.

Also, don’t be afraid to ask questions, because you are probably not the only one in the class who has the same question.

Lastly have fun, but don’t be stupid.

be? Australia. I want to see what the Outback looks like, and I want to try their food. Also, I want to see kangaroos in their natural habitat.

What is the last good book you read? “Where the Red Fern Grows,” by Wilson Rawls, The book is about a boy who works hard to get two coon hounds. After a lot of work and training, they become some of the best hunting dogs in the South. But after an accident with a mountain lion, one dog dies, and a few days later, so does the other one.

What scares you? Spiders scare me. Those little What is your proudthings just show up out est moment? Being the of nowhere, and it’s an instant moment of terror. salutatorian of my class, because it’s something that only a few people will What’s something ever achieve about you that nobody knows? I got hit in the Who is your hero or mouth with a wild pitch while batting in baseball. role model? My grandpa, Chuck Meurer. He has I got a tooth knocked shown me from a very out, several other teeth damaged, and 10 stitch- young age how to work hard, and he has steered es. I came back to play me down the path of in the next game 4 days being a farmer, and I’m later. so grateful that he did.

If you could ask PresiIs there anything else dent Obama any question, what would it be? Is you would want people to know about you? My this the change that you brother and I were born wanted for our country? on the same day 2 years If you could try any job apart – on April Fools’ for a day, what would it Day. be? Monster truck driver Is there someone you’d like to send a shout out If you could go anyto? To the A-FC baseball where in the world for team free, where would it

Information sought for WACC wall of honor STERLING – Whiteside Area Career Center’s Criminal Justice Department is turning 50.

To celebrate and honor past criminal justice students who have entered a career in criminal justice or associated fields, Bruce Luther, WACC criminal justice instructor, is creat-

ing a wall of honor in his classroom.

Among the careers considered are police, department of natural resources officers, paralegals, attorneys, counselors, firefighters, investigators, correctional and parole officers, and military personnel.

He would like to have

a 5-by-7-inch photo of past students in uniform or official attire, a logo or shoulder patch of the organization they’re with, the students’ names, departments where they work, length of service, and the year they attended WACC’s criminal justice class. Send to Whiteside Area Career

Center, Attn: Bruce Luther, 1608 Fifth Ave., Sterling, IL 61081.

For more information, email bluther@wacc.cc or call Luther from 7:30 to 8 a.m. and 2:15 to 3:30 p.m. until Thursday at 815626-5810, ext. 212. After Thursday, call the WACC office at 815-626-5810.

Walk on wild side; then show artistic abilities DIXON – A wildflower walk and design project will be May 28 and June 4 at the Ruth Edwards Nature Center in Lowell Park, 2114 Lowell Park Road.

The sessions will be from

1 to 4 p.m., and are limited to 10, ages 10 and older.

After walking, participants will create a chalk drawing of wildflowers on the sidewalk leading to the center. Those interested in attending can sign up

for one or both sessions.

Those in sixth grade and older will have the opportunity to make a sand painting from 1 to 4 p.m. June 11 at the center.

They will be taught about the Native American tra-

dition of sand painting and will make one of their own. Class size is limited to eight.

To register or to check on a program’s status, call 815-288-5209 and leave a message.

Estate planning, tax investing to be offered at college DIXON – Several business and community education classes will start soon at Sauk Valley Community College, 173 state Route 2.

Each costs $12, and runs

from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

They are: ■ Preparing Your Estate Plan: June 7, basic overview of estate planning ■ Social Security: Your Questions Answered: June

21, ways to maximize benefit amounts ■ Tax Investing: It’s Not What You Make, It’s What You Keep: July 12, tax-free investing ■ Outsmart the Scam-

mers: July 19, information how to outsmart scammers Registration is required for all courses; call Sauk’s community education office at 815-835-6212.

Taking first in the kindergarten through fourth-grade category was “Wise Owl,” by Brady Wolber, a fourth-grade student at Centennial Elementary School in Polo.

Winners honored at local academy STERLING – “You’re Late,” a carved, stainedpine piece by Gracie Young, a Gragert Designs student and freshman at Rock Falls High School, was the first-place winner in the ninth to 12-grade category -of Woodlawn Arts Academy’s 2016 Student-Teacher Art Exhibit.

Community members voted on their favorite pieces during the first 2 weeks of the exhibit.

First place in the fifth- to eighth-grade category went to “Shoe Story,” a work made of paint, paper, and shoelaces on canvas by Brittney Shipman, an eighthgrade pupil at Rock Falls Middle School. Brady Wolber in fourth grade at Centennial Elementary School in Polo won first place in the kindergarten to fourth-grade category with his mixed media piece, “Wise Owl.” Other winners are: Second place: “The Sky Is not the Limit,” acrylic on canvas, Tessa VanderBleed, Brooke Stralow, Paxton Orth, and Brent Mulnix, juniors and seniors, Morrison High School, ninth to 12th grade; “Colt of Many Colors,” tempera on canvas, Kashmir Johnson, seventh grade, Rock Falls Middle School, grades five-eight; and “Lighthouse With Sunset,” watercolor, Rayden Ehredt, second grade, Milledgeville Elemen-

tary School, grades kindergarten-four Third place: “Pazienza,” acrylic on rocks, Kellen Kyker, senior, Polo Community High School, freshmen to seniors; “Story of My Life,” mixed media, Ally Cytrych, fifth grade, Centennial Elementary School, Polo, fifth to eighth grade; and “Chicken,” watercolor, Annie McGrail, second grade, Jefferson Elementary School, Dixon, kindergarten to fourth grade.

Honorable mention: “Sinnissippi View,” acrylic, Sara Page, freshman, Sterling High School, freshmen to seniors; “The Victim,” colored pencil, Emma Frank, eighth grade, Montmorency School, Rock Falls, grades fiveeight; and “Color Spin,” colored pencil and marker, Judah Moeller, Woodlawn Arts Academy, Sterling, kindergarten to fourth grade The winners received a gift certificate from the academy. Photographs of the 12 art pieces are featured in the academy’s summer program guide.

Through a partnership with Bridge the Community, several of the winning creations will be used for banners along the First Avenue bridge between Sterling and Rock Falls. They will be revealed at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 10 along Second Street in Rock Falls, before the Bridge the Community 5K-10K.

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Students recognized for academic achievement MANLIUS – The annual Ashley Phillips, Emily Wall achievement awards proSauk Scholar: Anna gram was May 11 at Bureau Harshman Valley High School.

Those recognized and Marine Corps their awards are:

Perfect attendance Ethan Ainley, Robert Aukes, Savanna Bell, Jacob Callahan, Joseph Green, Courtney Hoagland, Andrew Mazzei, Breanna Richardson, Austin Wierzbicki, Hannah Williams, Kenny Wolfe

Mentors Stephanie Christian, Treyson Dale, Jay Edlefson, Justin Fisher, Andrew Fordham, Chelsea Higgins, Abbey Howes, Tess Kopp, Josie Lind, Taylin Ritter, Kaylee Towne, Emily Wall

Citizenship American Legion Awards: Emily Wall, Harrison Brousseau; honorable mention: Jenna Hansen, Treyson Dale Daughters of the American Revolution Award: Tess Kopp Sons of the American Revolution Award: Harrison Brousseau

Academic Scholarships Illinois State Scholars: Harrison Brousseau, Chelsea Higgins, Richard Lootens, Kyle Reilly, Emily Wall President’s Education Awards: Harrison Brousseau, Justin Fisher, Chelsea Higgins, Richard Lootens,

Awards

Distinguished Athlete Award: Darcy Kepner, Andrew Fordham Scholastic Excellence Award: Samantha Stocking, Richard Lootens Semper Fidelis Award for Musical Excellence: Kurt Bitting

Other Awards VFW Award: Tess Kopp, Andrew Fordham Voice of Democracy, first- through third-place: Emily Wall, Maggie Kelly, Abbey Howes Princeton Moose Lodge: Katelyn Aukes Shirley and Dale Espel Scholarship: Katelyn Aukes Mediacom Scholarship: Chelsea Higgins Unity Point Health Volunteer Service: Kenneth Johnson, Chad Sarver, Gary Carl Memorial Scholarship: Abbey Howes CPS Scholarship: Jay Norden Pass It Along Scholarship: Jay Norden, Abbey Howes, Jenna Hansen Rock River Lumber & Grain Scholarship: Madalyn Dahl Educators of Beauty Scholarship: Savannah Brunoehler Whiteside County Farm

onna Balensiefen, Katelyn Splitt; third, Grace Risatti, Nataleigh Nugent, Ashley Everson; honorable menExtracurricular tion: Caitlyn Starr, Carrington Recognition Musil, Colton Reuter, Hunter Student Council Schoff, Kimberly Peters, Lynne Swanson, Victoria Seniors: Abbey Howes, Balensiefen Maggie McReynolds, Jay Bausch & Lomb Award: Norden, Emily Wall Hunter Schoff Juniors: Josie Lind, Taylin Business Award: Kelsey Ritter, Samantha Roberts, Dawson Kaylee Towne Family and Consumer Sophomores: Kurt BitScience: Stephanie Christian ting, Ellen Johnson, Joshua Science Award: Tess Monier, Sophia Myong Kopp Freshmen: Saige Barnett, Grant Adresen Senior Marissa Endress, Emily FordSocial Studies Award: Tess ham, Elijah Lind Kopp Army Reserve ScholarDepartment Awards Athletes: Ashley Phillips, The Representational Treyson Dale Art Conference 15: Hunter Schoff, Caitlyn Starr, Grace BVHS Scholar, Risatti, Carrington Musil, Athletes Savanna Bell, Breonna Balensiefen, Katelyn Splitt, Athletic Booster Club Alexandria Geary, Ember Sportsmanship: Darcy Cork, Christian Terzoli, GarKepner, Andrew Fordham rett Scott, Kristy Mathas Bob O’Bryant 12-Star Illinois Art Education Awards: Treyson Dale, Association Youth Art Andrew Fordham, Sidney Month and Best of Show: Kolb Savanna Bell 4-Year Plaques Illinois Valley Community Scholastic Bowl: Katelyn College Art: Breonna Balen- Aukes siefen, Savanna Bell, CarFootball: Thomas Brumrington Musil mel, Shawn Christiansen, Scholastic Arts: Breonna Treyson Dale, Andrew FordBallenseifen, Savanna Bell ham, William Konneck, RichOutstanding Artist: ard Lootens Savanna Bell Golf: Harrison BrousIllinois Art Education seau, Jay Norden Association Traveling Art Basketball: Treyson Show: Breonna Balensiefen Dale, Savannah Dean, Federal Junior Duck Andrew Fordham, Sidney Stamp Award, Group Four: Kolb, Darcy Kepner Alexandria Geary, first place; Track: Treyson Dale, Abbey Howes Savanna Bell, second: BreBureau Foundation Award: Margaret Kelly

COLLEGE BRIEFS Illinois Wesleyan BLOOMINGTON – Those earning degrees May 1 from Illinois Wesleyan University are: Byron: Erin McCarey, magna cum laude, accounting Fulton: Gwenyth Naftzger, mathematics, secondary education Morrison: Nathaniel Osborn, music education.

Fall dean’s list students are: Byron: Erin McCarey Dixon: Marielizabeth Johnson Sterling: Nathaniel Edison

Bob Jones University

Cross-country: Yulian Osorio Juniors Cheer: April Atkins, Erica Buckman Football: Jay Edlefson, Chase Gripp, Hunter Schoff Basketball: Jay Edlefson, Marissa Mungia, Savannah Wall Scholastic Bowl: Alex Elmore, Nick Glubczynski Volleyball: Megan Hunt, Tiana Kennedy 2015-16 Track: Lexi Jacobs, Tiana Kennedy, Marissa Mungia, Three Rivers Hunter Schoff, Kaylee Towne Athletic Academic Softball: Dana Macklin All-Conference Cross-country: Marissa Mungia, Sydney Sweenie, Seniors Scholastic Bowl: Katelynn Savannah Wall, Heather WilAukes, Harrison Brousseau, liams Chelsea Higgins, Christian Sophomores Terzoli Scholastic Bowl: Kurt BitCheer: Breonna Balensief- ting en, Savanna Bell, Stephanie Cross-country: Kurt BitChristian, Kylee Green, Mag- ting, Austin Catton, Nataleigh gie Kelly Nugent, Brad Sierens, Haley Golf: Harrison Brousseau, Weidner Jay Norden Cheer: Jade Blackert, Alex Football: Trey Dale, Justin Geary, Courtney Hoagland Fisher, Rick Lootens Golf: Gabe Cook, Spencer Basketball: Trey Dale, Marquez Darcy Kepner, Yulian OsoFootball: Drake Davis, Alex rio, Dana Kepner Peck Track: Trey Dale, Abbey Basketball: Christen HurHowes, Jessica Loudenley, Ellen Johnson, Spencer burg Marquez, Addison Moreland, Flags: Courtney Ehnle Andrew Petros, Nicole Wirth Dance: Jenna Hansen, Softball: Laura Phillips Chelsea Higgins, Abbey Freshmen Howes Basketball: Kale Barnett , Volleyball: Darcy Kepner, Saige Barnett Sam Stocking, Kalynn SulVolleyball: Saige Barnett livan, Cross-country: Trevor Softball: Darcy Kepner, Griffin, Hannah Williams Ashley Phillips, Sam Golf: Allan Kerber Stocking, Dana Kepner, Cheer: Kylee Hoagland Kalynn Sullivan Volleyball: Savannah Dean, Sidney Kolb, Samantha Stocking Cheer: Alyssa Duckworth Baseball: Andrew Fordham, Evan Ringle Dance team: Jenna Hansen, Chelsea Higgins, Abbey Howes Softball: Sidney Kolb, Darcy Kepner, Ashley Phillips Cross-country: Yulian Osorio

JUNIOR STYLISTS COMPETITION Lyndon: Austin Meadows, Mary Ann West Manlius: Andrea Erickson Morrison: Hannah Welding Polo: Mally Haak Prophetstown: Katherine Fringer, Lindsey Inskeep, Amy Jones Thomson: Chad Medenblik Those who graduated May 20 from Black Hawk College, East campus, Galva, are: Ashton: Megan Knight Deer Grove: Nicole Bannick Erie: Kenneth Cole Harmon: Emmitt Hicks La Moille: Laura Rieker Lee: Noah Holm

UW – Platteville GREENVILLE, S.C. – Emily VanDeburgh of Lanark gradPLATTEVILLE, Wis. – Jenuated May 6 from Bob Jones nifer Lawson of Dixon earned University with a Bachelor of a master’s degree in project Fine Arts degree in studio art. management during the 2015-16 semester at the Black Hawk College University of Wisconsin – Those who graduated May Platteville.

19 from Black Hawk College Moline campus are: Augustana College Dixon: Daniel Pulse ROCK ISLAND – AugusErie: Victor Bramm, Kyle Coleman, Lexi Floming, Kyle tana Symphony Orchestra members, Ashley Kuhn of Pannier, Stephanie Reul, Sterling, Bethany Hayenga Danika Smith Fenton: Courtney Cobert of Kings, and Emilie Antolik performed during an April 30 Fulton: Catherine Johnson, John Widener concert at the school.

Amy Chamberlin (from left), Highland Community College Cosmetology program instructor, stands with Alex Ankney of Dixon and Chris Myers of Stockon, two of more than 200 students who competed nationwide to reach the fourth round of competition in the Junior Styles Online Contest. Each had to prepare an updo hairstyle on a mannequin in the avant-garde style. They took pictures from various angles of the mannequin to post on the contest website. All work was done on an identical mannequin in a classroom setting, under strict supervision by the instructor. Judging was via the Internet. The mannequins are on display at the school, 2998 W. Pearl City Road, Freeport. Photo submitted by the school

PERRY ACADEMIC AWARD WINNERS

SHERIFFS’ ASSOCIATION

Hannah DeVries (third from left) of Dixon is a Perry Academic Award recipient at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. Other winners are (from left Anna Lauren Bicker of Pearl, Mississippi; Lauren Cullen of Oxford, Mississippi; Taylor Gaughf and Kaitlin McCarty, both of Brandon, Mississippi; Dorothy Parish of Largo, Florida; Drake Terry of Madison, Mississippi; and Noah Bowlin of Mendenhall, Mississippi. The awards were established by Mr. and Mrs. M.W. Perry for the purpose of recognizing scholastic achievement at Mississippi College. Gold medallions are awarded to seven seniors who have maintained a minimum 3.5 GPA. Academic excellence receives 75 percent consideration, and leadership, citizenship, creative ability, activities, and moral character, 25 percent. Photo submitted by the school.

Jeanna Arjes of West Brooklyn is a 2016 Illinois Sheriffs’ Association $500 Scholarship recipient. Lee County Sheriff John Simonton selected and presented her with the award. She plans to study business administration with an emphasis in health care at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Photo submitted by Simonton.

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Vacation plans cause headache for New York intern Dear Abby: I recently received a very competitive internship in New York. I’m excited and can’t wait to go. I have never been to New York, and my mom is driving me crazy over it.

She’s using my internship as an excuse to go on vacation to “see me,” even though I have told her multiple times that I won’t be able to do anything with her because I’ll be working full time. She doesn’t have a car and expects to use mine, and she’s constantly sending me information about stuff “we” can do in New York. It is overwhelming, and I’m getting very stressed out.

I just want to go by

dearABBY Dear Abby is written

by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips. The column is provided through Universal Uclick.

myself and have my own experience. We don’t have that good a relationship. Would it be bad if I asked her not to come?

– Stressed Out New Intern Dear New Intern: You already have told your mother – with whom you do not have a good rela-

tionship – that you will be busy. Repeat that message often.

When she sends you literature about things you can do together, point out that your time must be devoted to one thing – your internship.

If she makes reservations to come to New York, tell her you would prefer that she not come until your internship is finished, unless she’s prepared to do all of the activities she’s planning on her own.

never allowed myself to date.

I’m terrified of going to a doctor. My father died of cancer when I was 17, and the thought of being diagnosed with cancer prevents me from going to get this looked at. I am very depressed about this and the stress is causing my hair to fall out. I need help, but I’m scared.

What should I do?

– Anonymous in Santa Barbara, California

Dear Anonymous: You must see a doctor. If you Dear Abby: I am 24 and need moral support, ask a still a virgin. For the past trusted friend or relative 10 years I have had a vagi- to come with you. The nal infection. I’m scared only thing worse than that I can’t have children. dying of cancer would be Because of this I have to die of a disease that

could have been cured had it been diagnosed early enough.

Although I am not licensed to practice medicine, allow me to suggest that if what you have is cancer, you would have known by now. That’s why I’m urging you to act like the adult you are and talk to a gynecologist.

If you don’t know of one or can’t afford one, contact Planned Parenthood.

It has clinics that provide the help you need.

The caring people at Planned Parenthood will help you as they have helped many others, and they’ll do it on a sliding payment scale, if necessary.

Please let me hear from

IN BRIEF Dementia talks scheduled soon

PRINCETON – The Bureau Valley Genealogy Society will meet at 7 p.m.

Thursday at the group’s library at 629 S. Main St. The program will be on “Managing the Genealogy Data Monster,” through Internet access.

The webinar by Thomas MacEntee, a genealogy professional, is designed to teach the audience how to tackle the three main problem areas of genealogy data – research, project, and file.

The public is welcome.

Call 815-879-3133 or visit the library from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and the first Saturday of each month.

STERLING – Alzheimer’s Association, Central Illinois Chapter will present Dementia Conversations: Driving, Doctor Visits, Legal and Financial Planning from 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday at Sterling Public Library, 102 W. Third St. Tips will be provided about conversations with family members about dementia, including talks about going to the doctor, when to stop driving, and making legal and financial plans. The program also will connect participants to resources to enhance quality of life for all involved.

Registration is requested, but not required; call 800272-3900.

DIXON – NAMI Sauk Area Support Group will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Sinnissippi Centers, 325 state Route 2.

The meeting provides education, as well as support, to families with a diagnosis of mental illness in a relative or friend.

NAMI Sauk Area serves residents of Carroll, Lee, Ogle, and Whiteside counties, as well as surrounding areas.

For more information, contact Mary Brokaw at namisaukarea@gmail.com or 815-284-6417.

Dear Abby: What’s up with this beard trend? I am sick and tired of looking at unshaven men. It makes them look shaggy and not clean. I think that hairless faces should be the new trend. Let’s clean up, please. Do you agree, Abby?

– Joan in Florida Dear Joan: As a woman who is married to a man with a beard, I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me.

Contact Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Genealogical tips through webinar

Group helps with support, education

you again so I’ll know you’re OK.

nutrition and fitness, transportation assistance, Ways to Wellness, Protecting Our Infants, main clinic oncology renovation, diabetes education, and women’s health.

Chairwomen for the event are Mary Jean Derreberry, Mary Spitzer, Julia Headrock, Mimi Hicks, Berta Crofton, Sandra Williams, Deb Haan, and Janice Repass.

For more information or to make a contribution, contact Amanda Blaine, Foundation development officer, at amanda.blaine@ cghmc.com or 815-6250400, ext. 5575.

Annual lingerie sale 3-plus weeks

OREGON – The 14th annual Breast Yard Sale in Town, an American Cancer Fundraiser’s on Society fundraiser, will start CGH front burner at 8 a.m. May 28 and will STERLING – A bake sale close at 8 p.m. June 19 and dessert auction by the in the barn at Maple Hill Farm, 1194 Mud Creek CGH Health Foundation Road, about 2 miles north Employee Division Comof Oregon. mittee, will start at 7 a.m.

The benefit opens at rain Wednesday in the Ryberg or shine. In addition to Auditorium of CGH Medical Center, 100 E. LeFevre antiques and furniture from three estate liquidations, Road. the event features new Dessert auction bidding lingerie from Maidenform will end at 1 p.m. and Essential Bodywear.

Proceeds will go to help fund foundation programs: More than 1,500 bras, Love on a Leash, Eyeglass- both new and gently-used, es for Kids-Adults, Prescott in a variety of sizes will be Dental Clinic, scholarships, available.

All proceeds will go to the Medication Assistance ProACS. For more information, gram, Community Health call the farm at 815-973Network, workplace wellness, cardiac wellness, 2050.

“Staccato,”

by Carol Hubbard, won Best of Show May 7 at the 32nd National Watercolor Society Exhibition. The artwork can be viewed until May 28 at The Next Picture Show – A Fine Arts Gallery in Dixon. Photo submitted

by Michael Glenn.

Speak Boldly Toastmasters 2125 members will celebrate their group’s 60th anniversary May 26 at Sterling Public Library, 102 W. Third St. Planning committee members are (from left) Sandra Carl, Rebecca Kane, Jim Dixon, Paul Kane, Tom Willison, and Jim Jaeger. A meet and greet will be at 5:45 p.m., with the program at 6. The keynote speaker will be Jon Greiner, a 43-year Toastmasters member and past president of Toastmasters International. The public is welcome. Toastmasters was created to help members develop communication and leadership skills. For more information, call Kane at 815-626-7650. Photo submitted by Kane.

STERLING PARK DISTRICT

Selection of trails available With warmer weather and sunny skies present more and more as we head into the summer months, it’s time to get out and enjoy all of the great opportunities we have to experience the outdoors at various Sterling Park District sites.

Our area trails offer endless choices to the those who take advantage of what we have right in our own backyard. You can walk, run, bike, roll, or skate while experiencing nature at your desired pace.

One way to get a great workout and enjoy our scenic trails is by participating in the Brad Onken Memorial SMART Summer Sizzler 5K at 9 a.m.

June 4. The scenic course starts in Sinnissippi Park, 1100 Sinnissippi Road, and then heads down tree-lined streets before finishing the last half in Hoover and Sinnissippi parks. Challenge yourself

steveBRENNER Steve Brenner is track and risk manager at Sterling Park District.

He can be reached at sbrenner@ sterlingparks. org.

to walk or run the 5K, while you take in some awesome trails right here in Sterling.

Proceeds from the race help annually fund two scholarships awarded to local student-athletes who have participated in cross-country and or track. This event is for all skill levels and ages, so bring out the family and have everyone take part in the fun. You can register at sterlingparks.org or in person at Westwood Fitness & Sports Center, 1900 Westwood Drive, or Duis Recreation Center,

211 E. 23rd St. The race is annually in conjunction with National Trails Day, an event that is designated by the American Hiking Society, so communities acknowledge the values of trails and what they bring to those who take advantage and use them for a number of reasons. Trails can bring tourism to communities while also offering area residents a great place to recreate, exercise and simply enjoy the outdoors.

Instead of sitting at home watching TV or playing video games, you can make your own adventure on the trails – starting by winding your way around Sterling, and then continuing for miles down the Hennepin Feeder Canal when you cross the Rock River via the Sinnissippi Dam Walkway. So get outside and enjoy some of our great area trails.

Connecticut artist leads show Registration open for camp DIXON – The Illinois Watercolor Society presented awards May 7 to 17 participants of the 32nd National Watercolor Society Exhibition at The Next Picture Show – A Fine Arts Center, 111 W. First St. Mark E. Mehaffey, artist and awards judge, gave a 90-minute watercolor demonstration, and a reception followed the awards presentation.

The winners are: ■ Best of Show: “Staccato,” by Carol Hubbard of Monroe, Connecticut ■ Award of Excellence I: “Where R U?,” by Ken Call of Northbrook ■ Award of Excellence II and Director’s Choice: “Lunch Break on the Mag Mile,” by Ingrid Albrecht of Chicago, a Dixon native ■ Award of Excellence III: “We Three Sams,”

by Yueqi Zhang of Hammond, Indiana ■ Schultz Creative Spirit: “Just Look at the Time,”

by Tom Herzberg of Chicago ■ Outstanding Figurative: “Doing My Best,” by Janet Doll of New Douglas ■ Outstanding Landscape: “South Loop L,”

by Bret Steinhaus of Woodridge ■ Spirit of Bonnie: “In the Wings,” by Matthew Bird of Sykesville, Maryland ■ Dixon Tourism: “The Critic,” by Aneita Gates of Petersburg ■ Rudy Avina Memorial: “It’s in the Bag,” by Denise Athanas of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina ■ Janet Pauley Memorial: “Take PCSC No. 35,”

by Bob Mejer of Quincy

■ Charles Strissel: “Piano No. 1 – Upright Grand,”

by Ione Angilan of Shawnee, Kansas ■ Honorable Mentions: “Prowling With Defiance,” by Dan Danielson of Wheaton; “Tago Vos,”

by Ian Mitchell Wallace or Glen Ellyn; and “Old Timers,” by Kelly Eddington of St. Joseph More than 180 works were submitted from 19 states and from overseas, with 52 pieces accepted.

Votes for the People’s Choice Award are submitted by visitors to the gallery, and will be totaled after the show ends May 28.

Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Visit illinoiswater colorsociety.org/gallery/national-show-2016 to view a complete awards list and see the artwork.

STERLING – Applications are due by June 3 for Camp Love ‘n Loss, set for 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. June 9 at the Sterling-Rock Falls Family YMCA, 2505 Avenue E. Hospice of the Rock River Valley will present the camp, which is for children 6 to 13 who have suffered the loss of a loved one.

Games, discussions,

and focused arts and crafts are designed to help themexpress their feelings and concerns, identify supportive people, and find ways to use memories for healing and growth.

The theme is one of hope for their future.

Visit hospicerockriver. org to download applications, or call Cynthia at 815-625-3858. Appli-

cations after June 3 will be accepted based on space availability.

Another hospice activity will be at 7:30 p.m. beginning Wednesday, and drawings running every Wednesday, Queen of Hearts raffle, hospice home fundraiser, tickets available at Whiskey Barrel Saloon, 399. W. Second St., Rock Falls

Players wanted for trivia competition DIXON – The fourth annual Battle of the Brains Trivia Night will be Tuesday at the Post House Ballroom, 100 W. Second St. Sign-in is at 5:30 p.m., followed by trivia from 6 to 9.

Door prizes, a 50-50 raffle with tickets at $1 each or $5 for six, light snacks, and a cash bar are planned.

Prizes will be awarded for the winning team, lowest score, and best team name.

The format is eight categories with eight questions each.

For information, call the Post House Community Center at 815-288-9236.

Proceeds benefit Lee County Council on Aging.

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GRANT DONATION Jodi York, one of the owners of Little Sprout Preschool and Day Care in Lanark, accepts a check from members of Clever Clovers 4-H Club of Lanark and Shannon.

The club received a 1st Farm Credit Community Improvement Grant that was written to support the Gardening Project at the day care. The money will be used to purchase materials and supplies needed to construct raised beds with plants.

The members also will help with the labor. Photo submitted by Leanne Rahn.

SUPPORT GROUPS, CLUBS, AND SERVICES Today Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m., closed, Big Book, United Methodist Church, 201 E. Chicago Ave., Davis Junction.

Alcoholics Anonymous Gratitude Group, 9 a.m., open; noon, open; 6 p.m., open, lower level, Loveland Community House, 513 W. Second St., Dixon.

Overeaters Anonymous, 9 a.m., lower level entrance, Church of God, 816 S. Clay St., Mount Carroll.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 9:30 a.m., closed, former St. Anne Grade School, 32 N. Jones Ave., Amboy, 815-857-2315.

Women’s Alcoholics Anonymous, 10:30 a.m., closed; 7 p.m., closed, 808 Freeport Road, Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed; 7 p.m., closed (5), Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, noon, open, Old Timers; 7 p.m., open, family fun night, bring a friend, back door, 1503 First Ave., Suite D, Rock Falls.

Narcotics Anonymous Hope Without Dope, noon, in the back of Lutheran Social Services of Illinois, 1901 First Ave., Sterling, 815-535-3748, 24-hour

hotline, 844-678-7684.

Bi-Ways Brain Injury Support Group, 2 p.m., Winning Wheels, 701 E. Third St., Prophetstown.

Register: 815-537-5168, ext. 29.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., open, First Presbyterian Church, 1100 Calvin Road, Rochelle.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., steps, traditions, Village of Progress, 710 S. 13th St., Oregon.

Sunday Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 a.m., closed; noon, open; 1 p.m., closed, Spanish; 7 p.m., closed, Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 10 a.m., open, barn, Horizon View Farm, 2422 N. River Road, Oregon.

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, 10 a.m., open, Big Book; 7 p.m., open, veterans; back door, 1503 First Ave., Suite D, Rock Falls.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., closed, Church of St. Anne, 401 N. Cherry St., Morrison.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, Spanish, St. Patrick Catholic Church, 236 Kelly Drive, Rochelle.

Alcoholic Anonymous, 7

Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Alcoholics Anonymous Gratitude Group, noon, step, closed; 6 p.m., open, lower level, Loveland Community House, 513 W. Second St., Dixon.

Dixon Rotary Club, noon, lower level, St. Luke Episcopal Church, 221 W. Third St. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed, Big Book; 6 p.m., closed, Spanish; 7 p.m., open, beginners, Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, open, St. Paul Lutheran Church, 114 S. Fifth St., Oregon.

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, noon, open, Sunshine meeting, back door, 1503 First Ave., Suite D, Rock Falls.

American Red Cross blood drive, noon-6 p.m., Dixon City Fire Department, 210 S. Hennepin Ave. Appointments: 800733-2767.

Crochet-Knitting Club, 12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling.

The Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary, 1 p.m., 409 Avenue F, Sterling, 815-625-1622.

Whiteside County Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired, 1:30 p.m., Coventry Village, 612 W. 23rd St., Sterling.

TOPS, 4 p.m. weigh-in, 4:30 p.m. meeting; 5:30 p.m. weighin, 6 p.m. meeting, Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle.

TOPS Chapter IL 634 meeting, 4:30 p.m., 205 S. Walnut St., Franklin Grove.

TOPS, 5 p.m. weigh-in, 5:30 p.m. meeting, Polo Church of the Brethren, 401 S. Congress Ave., 815-946-3638.

Celebrate Recovery, 6-8 p.m., 201 W. Market St., Morrison, 815-590-8929.

Celebrate Recovery, 6-8 p.m., New Hope Baptist Church, 902 W. 12th St., Rock Falls; John Mattingly, 815-631-3896.

Celebrate Recovery, 6-8 p.m., Revive Community Church, 8 E. Front St., Mount Morris, 815-994-0428.

Rock Falls Rotary, 6 p.m., Beelendorf’s Deli, 204 W. 10th St. Rock Falls Boy Scout Troop 306, 6:30-8 p.m., fellowship hall, Harvest Time Bible Church, 1802 Dixon Ave. Rock Falls Optimist Club, 6:30 p.m., Candlelight Inn, 2200 First Ave. Mount Carroll Monday Night Al-Anon-Alateen, 7 p.m., Church of God, 816 Clay St., 815-284-3444.

Lee-Whiteside Chapter of

the American Diabetes Association, 7 p.m., Ryberg Auditorium, CGH Medical Center, 100 E. LeFevre Road, Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, 808 Freeport Road, Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., open, Immanuel Lutheran Church, 960 N. U.S. Route 52, Amboy.

Tampico Lions Club, 7 p.m., Good Times, 106 N. Main St., 815-438-2789.

Sauk Valley Al-Anon GroupAlateen, 7 p.m., back door, 1503 First Ave., Suite D, Rock Falls.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, step study, Church of St. Anne, 401 N. Cherry St., Morrison.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, study, Elim Reformed Church parsonage, 140 S. Church Road, Kings.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., closed, Eells Room, St. Luke Episcopal Church, 207 W. Third St., Dixon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed (3), First Presbyterian Church, 502 Third St., Savanna.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., open, 217 N. Hickory St., Shannon.

mother is Norma Han- pounds, 9 ounces at birth sen of Schaumburg. and was 22 inches in length.

He is welcomed by BrisGwendolyn tol DeVries, 3, Sophia HerAnnelise Wroble nandez, 2, and Franque Jessica and Jason Wroble Hernandez, 2.

Maternal grandmother of Morrison are the paris Aimee Stoudt of Sterents of a daughter born at 5:34 a.m. May 7, 2016, ling. at CGH Medical Center in Paternal grandparents are Sergio Hernandez Sterling.

Gwendolyn Annelise and Lugarda Hernandez, W r o b l e w e i g h e d 8 both of Sterling.

Maternal great-grandpounds, 8 ounces at birth and was 22 inches in p a r e n t s a r e M e m a Ramirez and Rick Stoudt, length.

She is welcomed by both of Rock Falls.

Cohen Anthony Wroble, 3.

Remi Eileen Maternal grandparents Luevano are Jim and Diane LandAshton Brushaber and heer of Morrison.

P a t e r n a l g r a n d p a r - Rodolfo Luevano of Rock ents are Steve and Beth Falls are the parents of a daughter born at 9:22 Wroble of Morrison.

Maternal great-grand- a.m. May 8, 2016, at CGH parents are Bob and Mar- Medical Center in Sterian Landheer of Morrison. ling.

Remi Eileen Luevano weighed 9 pounds, 9 Alexander Valente ounces at birth and was Hernandez 23 inches in length.

Paetyn DeVries and Maternal grandparents J o r g e H e r n a n d e z o f are Deb Brushaber and Dixon are the parents of a Tom Frederick, both of son born at 1:21 p.m. May Rock Falls.

Paternal grandparents 5, 2016, at CGH Medical are Andrea Luevano and Center in Sterling.

A l e x a n d e r V a l e n t e Rodolfo Luevano, both of Hernandez weighed 9 Rock Falls.

Maternal great-grandmother is Karen Goss of Rock Falls.

Paternal great-grandmother is Cindy Knight of Rock Falls.

O’Brien of Sterling and Sam Rodriguez of Rock Falls.

Paternal grandparents are Bob and Barb Ruiz of Sterling.

Jamison Steven Anderson

Alexander Charles Rodriguez

Samantha and Seth Anderson of Sterling are the parents of a son born at 5:20 p.m. May 21, 2016, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

Jamison Steven Anderson weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces at birth and was 20 inches in length.

Maternal grandparents are Cheri Nyberg and David Nyberg, both of Texas.

Paternal grandparent is Jeri Rodriguez of Sterling.

Miranda Hall and Sebastian Rodriguez of Prophetstown are the parents of a son born at 10:30 a.m. May 12, 2016, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

Alexander Charles Rodriguez weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces at birth and was 21 inches in length.

Maternal grandparents are Kelly Hall and Charles Hall, both of Lyndon.

Paternal grandparents are Gyl Rodriguez and Adrian Rodriguez, both of Prophetstown.

p.m., open, Rochelle Community Hospital, 900 N. Second St., Rochelle.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, 808 Freeport Road, Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, clearance required, BAAbble on for Life Prison Group, 815-973-6150.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., closed, 304 Seventh Ave. W, Lyndon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed (4), Mount Morris Senior Center, 9 E. Front St. Monday Childhood immunization clinic; women, infants and children clinic; and family planning services, Lee County Health Department, 309 S. Galena Ave., Suite 100, Dixon.

Appointments: 815-284-3371.

Abuse Changing team, 815625-0338.

Blood pressure screenings, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Health Department, 1300 W. Second St., Rock Falls, 815626-2230.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 a.m., open, Methodist church, 402 First Ave., Forreston.

Veterans Affairs representative, 9:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St.,

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Finley Paige Wolford Robert and Erin Fellores Wolford of Batavia are the parents of a daughter born at 2:23 a.m. April 15, 2016, at Delnor Hospital in Geneva.

Finley Paige Wolford weighed 6 pounds, 9 ounces at birth and was 19 inches in length.

She is welcomed by Brad, 3, and Zachary, 2.

Maternal grandparents are Mary Fellores of Midlothian and the late John Fellores.

Paternal grandparents are Terry and Cheryl Wolford of Dixon.

Miles Matthew Wade Donoho Kayleigh Tabor and Matthew Donoho of Dixon are the parents of a son born at 8:38 a.m. May 5, 2016, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

Miles Matthew Wade Donoho weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce at birth and was 21 inches in length.

He is welcomed by Gabriella Stone, 8, Lily Stone, 4, and Valhalla Donoho, 3.

Maternal grandparents are April Tabor and Mike (Renee Tabor) Tabor, all of Sterling.

Paternal grandparents are Mindy and Mark Donoho of Dixon.

Maternal great-grandparents are Melody Morris of Sterling and Patricia and James Tabor of Tampico.

Paternal great-grandparents are Rosie and Gene Donoho of Dixon and Bill and Barbara Hansen of Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Aiden Joseph Hansen Jasmine Govis of Dixon and Damon Hansen of Sandwich are the parents of a son born at 3:29 p.m. May 7, 2016, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

Aiden Joseph Hansen weighed 8 pounds, 11 ounces at birth and was 22.5 inches in length.

Maternal grandparents are Nicolle Iniguez and Joseph Iniguez, both of Dixon.

Paternal grandparents are Janet Hansen and Don Hansen, both of Sandwich.

Paternal great-grand-

Ellie Margaret Ruiz

Information sought

Jamie and Kyle Ruiz of Sterling are the parents of a daughter born at 10:59 p.m. April 14, 2016, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

Ellie Margaret Ruiz weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces at birth and was 19 inches in length.

Maternal grandparents are Martie and Mick

The birth announcement for Myles Christopher Riley cannot be printed without additional information. The editorial department has been unable to reach the submitter. If those who submitted it could call 815-625-3600, ext. 5501, it would be appreciated.

p.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Pinochle, 12:30-3 p.m., Big Room, Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Duplicate bridge, 12:30 p.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Friendly Mexican Train dominoes, 12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Rummy, 1 p.m., Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815-589-3925.

Tacos, 4-8 p.m., Latin American Social Club, 2708 W. Fourth St., Sterling, 815-625-8290.

Exercise group, 4 p.m., Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815-589-3925.

Loaves and Fishes, 5-6 p.m., Holloway Center, St. Patrick Catholic Church, 612 Highland Ave., Dixon, 815-284-7719. A free, hot meal for the needy.

Sauk Valley Chess Club, 6:308:30 p.m., Northland Mall, 2900 E. Lincolnway, Sterling; 815-6228838.

COMMUNITY EVENTS Today Farmers Market, 7 a.m.noon, Haymarket Square, 317 W. Third St., Dixon, 815-2843306.

Farmers Market, 8-11 a.m., rain or shine, 204 E. Lincolnway, Morrison. 815-564-7427.

Farmers Market, 8 a.m.noon, Twin City Market, indoors, 106 Avenue A, Sterling, 815-626-8610.

Cookout, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Rock Falls VFW Post 5418, 217 First Ave. Carry-outs, 815-6263513.

Sunday There are no activities today.

Monday Open pool, open cards, open Wii games and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Open pool, open cards, open Wii games and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Pool players, 8:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St.,

Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Mexican Train dominoes, Wii Bowling, 9 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Kings on Corner cards, 9 a.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815622-9230.

Quilting, 9:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Wii Bowling, 10 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave, Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Euchre lessons and games, 10 a.m., Whiteside County Senior

Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling.

Register: 815-622-9230 or 828461-7979.

Zumba class, 10:30 a.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Lunch, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815622-9230.

Organized Wii Bowling games, noon, Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Card games, noon, Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

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The boys learned the difference between flowers and weeds from the Internet. They learned about trimming, seeding, and fertilizing. And they learned dependability, responsibility, and the value of an honest day’s work. In 2009, they added snow removal to P&C’s roster of services.

Mom Margaret Clark chauffeured the boys to their customers’ homes, taught them the basics of mowing and lawn care, and took care of customer relations.

“I was the designated driver at first, and I took care of client authorizations,” she said.

When she lost her job in 2010, she joined the business full-time, and “the mowing business became a way to keep a roof over our heads,” she said.

Now Margaret takes care of the billing and keeps the books. In her spare time, she volunteers at Serenity Hospice as a coordinator and bookkeeper.

Stephen’s overall experience as a handyman and his mechanical skills helped keep the equipment, and the boys, in business.

“I spent a lot of time at Ace Hardware, and Rich

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What has made this work: We have always been a family who has talked and worked things out.

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Margaret Clark on the secret to her family’s success with P&C Lawn Service

and his team gave us yard and garden advice,” Stephen said.

Once Patrick was old enough to drive, the brothers upped their efforts, contracting with more yards.

“We make sure our services are mutually beneficial to our customers,” he said. “When it’s dry and the grass doesn’t grow much, we don’t take advantage of our customers. We can skip a week.”

The business has grown through wordof-mouth, grocery store billboards, homemade fliers, and door-to-door sales. They’ve done so well that, in addition to covering basic family expenses, they’ve paid off the mortgage.

P&C will mow and trim, spray weeds, clean gutters, mulch, and do basic landscaping. Over the summer, they hire extra help in the form of two high-schoolers.

The brothers have four grandstand mowers, and can do a 40-inch to a 60-inch cut. They use ethanol-free blowers, weed-whackers, hedge trimmers, sprayers, and a rototiller.

Their signature uniforms – orange shirts and sweatshirts with a tree frog for the logo – stand out in yards and fields of green.

Alex T. Paschal/apaschal@saukvalley.com Ladies in Orange, a new Patrick Clark of P&C Law Care runs a mower at Credit Auto Sales in Dixon. The branch to their business, brothers have four grandstand mowers, and can do a 40-inch to a 60-inch cut. is a group of women employees who do basic landscaping – building Astrograph walls, planting bushes and plants, weeding garASTROGRAPH by Eugenia Last dens, laying mulch, and helping people maintain Sunday, May 22, 2016 their gardens. Recycling, donating and replanting plants among their cusYou’ll have to keep things in perVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Hanby discussing projects, investments tomer base is part of their spective this year, regardless of dle domestic situations with caution. and plans with someone who thinks what others do. Don’t give in to Emotions will escalate fast, making as you do. Financial or personal focus on being green. temptation or someone trying to it difficult for you to get things done. gains are heading your way.

Most of their customers entice you to take part in something Offer love and compassion instead are residential, and are dubious. Hard work will bring the of criticism and complaints. Make AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -serviced on 7-, 10-, and rewards you are looking for, but romance a priority.

Don’t be afraid to make a change. shortcuts will not.

Follow your instincts and the latest 14-day rotations.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Visit a trends in order to discover a lucraOlder brother, ChrisGEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- A friend or go somewhere you haven’t tive plan. A home business can be tian, and younger brothpartnership will need proper at- been for a long time. Your observayour ticket to freedom. er, Aaron, 16, also work tention. Stick to the basics and say tions will encourage you to improve for the family business. what’s in your heart. Greater stabil- your life. Consider a program or PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -ity can be yours if you are honest course and check out online emMove forward with caution. Sharing Aaron started picking your personal feelings or plans will up trash and sticks for his and work diligently to make im- ployment opportunities. provements. be costly. Don’t give in to pressure. brothers when he was 5, SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -Be secretive and intent on pursuing and now his specialty is CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- You Make romantic plans or join a group your goals. mowing. can start something new that will or service that is geared toward improve your environment by offer- meeting new people. Don’t be afraid ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- A The secret to their sucing to help others. Open your doors to be different. Your unique nature gift, proposal or financial gain is cess is not just their for group meetings or start a project will attract someone special. heading your way. A partnership 16-hour days, Margaret that will help you build new skills. will help you cut costs and bring you said.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. greater happiness and good fortune.

“What has made this LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- A finan- 21) -- Be prudent when it comes Apply for a prestigious position. cial proposal may sound good, but to spending. You won’t gain points work: We have always joint ventures aren’t in your best trying to buy someone’s interest.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Exbeen a family who has You are best off invest- Offer an adventurous outing that pand your interests and experience talked and worked things interest. ing in yourself. Personal develop- costs little. Let your personality be by taking part in an event that will out.” ments and educational pursuits are the attraction. bring about positive change. Somefavored.

Committee impressed with Shank’s creative product design, marketing EXPORTS

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“In 2000, when we began aggressive efforts to grow exports, they accounted for 7 percent of our annual sales, and our most recent fiscalyear exports were 29 percent, enabling us to sustain jobs,” said Jennifer Dettman, secretary and treasurer of Shank’s.

In a congratulatory letter to Shank’s, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker noted that the awards committee was particularly impressed with Shank’s innovative product design and marketing.

“Shank’s Veterinary Equipment has demonstrated a sustained commitment to export expan-

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Get back on your feet before getting back to kicking debt out of your life RAMSEY

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I think you need to be on a debit card and the envelope system. I also think you need to be controlling about 98 percent of the money for now.

For what he’s doing, I’d work daily cash allowances and expand that to weekly when you’re comfortable with it. Also, ask for some accountability from him as to where the pocket money goes.

Ask him to keep receipts, and turn them in as if he were working for a company and taking a petty cash withdrawal. That holds him accountable for spending it on what he said he was spending it on, and it’s healthy for someone who’s a recovering addict.

When someone’s fresh recovering from being an addict – and especially because heroin is so addicting – I probably wouldn’t let him legally have access to the household account for a while

longer. He can look at it, and you two can make financial decisions together, but you are in control of it. I wouldn’t want it where he can just reach over and clean out the account if he has a relapse.

Obviously, this guy has gotten some healing and I’m very proud of you both. Heroin is a big deal and a hard habit to kick.

The fact that he has done it this long is awesome!

– Dave

Pause the debt snowball Dear Dave, I’m going through a divorce that’s about to become final in 2 weeks.

I moved in with my parents temporarily while I save up money to get my own place and start over.

I make $30,000 a year, and it looks like I’ll have around $43,000 in debt when the divorce is finalized. Should I pause my debt snowball in order to financially get back on my feet again?

– Adam

Dear Adam, Yeah, that’s what I would do. There are reasons to pause the debt snowball, and one of those can be going through a divorce. Not only are there expenses, but you might end up with payments you don’t even expect.

I think the motivation and the heart behind the debt snowball is that you gain momentum and traction, and you do it quickly when you’re in a positive emotional position. You might not have that right now, so I think pressing pause and building up for expenses that might come – plus getting your own place – is a good idea. Just rent the cheapest spot you can as soon as possible.

Then, once you get in there and get your life in operational mode again, you’ll be ready to rock on!

– Dave Follow Dave on Twitter (@DaveRamsey), or go to daveramsey.com.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -You have plenty to offer and to gain

one you meet will offer insight regarding a decision you must make.

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SV Weekend • C9 Tri-City Trail Riders gather for a picture during the April 23 ride. Photos submitted by Sally Johnson.

Equestrians start season with banquet Tri-City Trail Riders annual banquet was in March at the Geneseo Moose Lodge One Plus One provided music and door prizes were presented.

The nonprofit club members help maintain area parks with trails and campgrounds, and donate to different organizations for helping care for horses in need, and to fairs and scholarship programs.

The first ride of the year was April 23, with 16 members.

At 10 a.m. Sunday, weather permitting, the group will ride at Morrison Rockwood State Park, 18750 Lake Road, Morrison.

Call the park at 815-7724708 or the Deboers at 815-631-5310 for more Randy Deboer, Tri-City Trail Riders Club president, stands with Joanne Snod- Judy Claeys of Atkinson shows her raffle prize, while information.

One Plus One, who provided entertainment, sets up. grass, club member, who led the prayer at the March banquet.

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IN BRIEF ‘Speed’ business lunch in Sterling STERLING – A speed networking program will be from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.

June 8 at Wesley United Methodist Church, 2200 16th Ave. The Professional Women’s Network of the Sauk Valley Area Chamber of Commerce will present the workshop, during which any business person can meet for a short time with others and network. The cost is $12 for chamber members and $15 for nonmembers.

To register, call the chamber at 815-625-2400 or email chamber@essex1. com or print a registration form from saukvalley areachamber.com and email it back to the chamber.

Payment can be made at the door, by credit card or invoice.

For more information, go to the chamber website or call the chamber.

to 11 a.m. Friday at the center, 409 N. Fourth St. Registration is requested; walk-ins are welcome. Call the Whiteside Extension office at 815632-3611 to register.

The series continues on the fourth Friday of the month through August.

Go to: http://web.exten sion.illinois.edu/clw/ downloads/58404.pdf to view upcoming monthly topics.

Wellness program continues in June DIXON – The summer wellness series second installment is planned.

Take a Stand Against Falls, will be June 13 at the Post House Ballroom, 100 W. Second St. Registration is required.

Go to web.extension. illinois.edu/clw for more information and to register.

Students’ scenic Summer day camp pictures sought SPRINGFIELD – Young dates announced

Summer Camp Clover is a day camp experience for 4-H’ers and nonmembers, 8- to 12-years old.

Camps will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Dates are: June 13-16 at Naaman Diehl Auditorium, 811 S. Clay St. Mount Carroll; June 20-24 at St. Peter Lutheran Church, 601 N. Jackson St., Morrison; and June 27-30 at Lee County 4-H Center, 1196 Franklin Road, Amboy.

Led by the University of Illinois Extension, camp activities include science experiments, healthy snacks, and crafts.

Registration fee is $40 for 4-H’ers and $60 for nonmembers. Go to web. extnesion.illinois.edu/clw/ clw4h/4592.html to register or for more information.

Green and Growing set at nature center FULTON – Gardening classes continue at the Andresen Nature Center, University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners and Master Naturalists will offer Natural Fairy Gardens from 9

photographers are encouraged to submit photos for the 2016 Cream of the Crop Photo Contest.

The event, part of the Ag Invest program, offers an opportunity for Illinois students, ages 8 to 18, to submit their most innovative or scenic picture that depicts their vision of agriculture in the state. Contest winners will be featured in Ag Invest marketing materials and at the State Fair.

Top photographs will be chosen in three age-based categories, 8-10, 11-14, and 15-18. Each student is allowed to submit up to two photos by July 7.

The state treasurer’s office, through Ag Invest, partners with eligible lenders to offer farmers annual and long-term, low-interest loans, which can be used for operating costs, equipment purchases, constructionrelated expenses, and livestock purchases.

For more information, rules, terms, and legal conditions, go to illinoistreasurer.gov or call contact Rebecca Huston at 217-558-6217.

Fungus, canary grass in area

BY RUTH EDWARDS NATURE CENTER STAFF

are the ideal place for the pathogen to grow and spread. Bat colony popuMay is the month when lations have been reduced we pause and take a few by 75 to 99 percent after moments to think about being hit with WNS. Funthe large number of gal spores may be transundesirable, nonnative species of plants, animals, ported by humans, bats, and the wind. and pathogens that have RCG: Nonnative reed invaded the U.S. canary grass may seem English sparrows and pigeons may first come to innocuous; after all, it’s just a tender blade of mind; and the insidious emerald ash borer is high grass, but nothing could be further from the truth. on everyone’s list right now. What is the origin of Unbelievably aggressive, RCG invades wetlands these invaders? How did and puts a stranglehold they get here? And why on just about every other are they an issue?

WNS: The White-Nosed form of aquatic vegetation. Pulling, burning, Syndrome is a nonnative fungus, Geomyces treating with chemicals, destructans, that was first and death by drowning are methods used to connoted in 2006 in the U.S. Just a few weeks ago, WNS trol RCG. It creates such a was documented in LaSal- thick, single-species stand that even turtles have le County. This fungus thrives in humid and cool difficulty wending their environments, so caves way through the wetland.

This Eurasian species was brought to the U.S. in the 1800s; it was planted as forage and erosion control.

SUS: Sus scrofa, or wild boar – it’s hard to believe that Illinois may be invaded by pigs, but it’s true. The first documented reports of wild boar in Southern Illinois were in 1993, and now 14 counties have reports listing this nonnative, destructive, 400-pound mammal. In early March 2013, a wild boar carcass washed up on a boat ramp near the town of Palestine. Wildlife experts say there may be as many as 6 million wild boar in the U.S. Needless to say, a 400-pound animal causes a lot of damage – rooting up fragile soils, uprooting rare plants, consuming huge amounts of forage,

conveying diseases to livestock and humans, actually charging and attacking humans, and eating small mammals and just about everything else. Spanish explorers brought them to North America as food sources in the 1500s.

Keep it native.

In other park district news: ■ Come to the flea market from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

June 11 at the Meadows soccer fields, 1550 Washington Ave. ■ Register for Session I of summer tennis lessons at dixonparkdistrict.com or at the park office, 804 Palmyra St. Lessons begin the week of May 31.

■ Haymarket Square Farmers Market, 317 W. Third St., opens today.

Hours are 7 a.m. to noon Wednesday and Saturday.

CLEANING DAY

New Bedford Royal Neighbors of America members and area youth got together to clean New Bedford Park. They also planted tomato plants for the children to take home. Games were played and cookies and punch were served in the hall at New Bedford Christian Church. With their pots are (from left) Olivia Kerber, Katy Smith, Jennifer Etheridge, Wyatt Allicks, Damian Allicks, and James Etheridge. Photo submitted.

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‘Most of them come back’ Wild Yukon calls with its bright lights, not-so-big cities

Tribune News Service photos

Of the Alaska Highway’s 1,520 miles, 567 go through Yukon Territory. This stretch, about 200 miles from the U.S. border, is east of Haines Junction, Yukon.

BY ALAN SOLOMON Tribune News Service

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hey had come back, some of them, for a second night to see the northern lights.

The night before had been a mixed but satisfying-enough experience.

That night, a couple of dozen people from all over the world – Australia, Singapore, the Philippines, and even from exotic places such as Louisiana – had been bused by a tour company to this broad, snow-covered hayfield 30 minutes out of Whitehorse, away from the Canadian town’s streetlights that, few as there are, nonetheless pollute the Yukon’s heavenly darkness.

That night, they got a quick flash of aurora borealis when they arrived around 10 p.m.

Then, nothing. Four hours later, at the tour’s designated quitting time, most had hauled themselves and their cameras away from the field and warming house and campfire onto the return bus when someone shouted.

“There they go!”

And the people were off the bus.

“We stayed another 40 minutes,” said a guide, Tom Thurmer (northerntales.ca). “It turned out really nice.”

I saw some of their digital photos of the northern lights. They turned out really nice.

But this was another night. My lone designated lights night. This time there was no 10 p.m. tease, and clouds foretold the worst. Between upward glances at a starless sky, there was time to talk.

Thurmer first came to the Yukon from Germany as a tourist, in 1980.

“I read too many Jack London stories,” he said with a little laugh.

“Seriously, that’s what brought me up here. I looked around and said, ‘Wow! This is cool!’”

He came back 7 years later. He stayed.

John Ostashek is a bush pilot who does flightseeing tours out of Burwash Landing, a dot on the Alaska Highway near Haines Junction, Yukon.

“I grew up here, then

ABOVE: Author Jack London came to the Klondike in 1897 seeking his fortune; he went home broke but inspired – and he left this cabin, now part of Dawson City’s Jack London Museum. RIGHT: A statue in downtown Whitehorse honors the prospectors – and their companions – who braved rugged conditions to follow their dreams during the Klondike Gold Rush. moved away for 25 years,” said Ostashek, 48. He’d been living in Fort Nelson, a gas and oil town in British Columbia. Then, since 2007, he wasn’t.

“Most people that come to the Yukon and spend any amount of time, many’ll leave – and most of them come back.

“There’s something about this place that just draws us to it ...”

What is it about this place?

The territory (38,000 people – 28,000 of them in Whitehorse, the capital – plus moose, caribou, elk, goats, foxes, bears (black and grizzly), sled dogs and lots of black spruce) is too unpopulated, still, to be designated a province. It’s about the size of California (population 38 million). Locals are split between calling it “The Yukon” – as in the old radio/TV show “Sgt. Preston of ...” – and the official name, just “Yukon.” (That argument: “You don’t say ‘the Ontario,’ ‘the Saskatchewan.’ ”) Its international airport is in Whitehorse. Regular flights arrive most days from Edmonton and Vancouver; what makes it international, late spring into fall, are weekly flights from Frankfurt for people who read too much Jack London. (His “The Call of the Wild” and “White Fang” – set in the Yukon’s Klondike River region

during its brief gold rush heyday, 1896-1903 – still inspire. London’s cabin is a museum in Dawson City.)

Whitehorse works as a rest stop, especially for voyageurs hauling themselves along the Alaska Highway to or from that Promised Land. There are lodgings in Whitehorse, and surprisingly good restaurants, and outfitters and day-adventure companies and gas stations and museums and a Walmart. A lot of travelers just stay overnight, refuel and move on.

Which amuses Thurmer, immigrant sky guide.

“I like to joke around that, you know, they have ‘the Last Frontier’ on the Alaska license plate? A lot of Americans drive through here on their way to Alaska,” said Thurmer, “and on their way there they pass the Last Frontier. This is the Last Frontier.”

And that, apparently, is what grabs people.

Bob Baxter grew up in Windsor, on the Canada side of the Detroit River, which he crossed regularly to cheer for the immortal Al Kaline and the mortal Ray Oyler.

After college, with a degree in engineering, he worked for a time in Winnipeg, wanted adventure, flew to Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, looked out the airplane window, saw flatness, stayed on the plane and

continued to Whitehorse.

Today, 35 years later, he and a partner operate Yukon Brewing on the edge of town (yukonbeer. com).

“I had no idea what the Yukon would be until we landed here, and I said, ‘Oh, jeez, there’s mountains and a river and trees!’ ” he recalled.

“Outdoors is right outside the window.”

Why should people visit this place?

“Well,” he said, with a hint of a smile, “at the end of the day you don’t come here for the shopping.”

You come here for the day hikes and a true wilderness experience. Drives? The Alaska Highway is maintained year-round, and the section to Haines Junction and beyond into Alaska is special – but there are other roads: When they’re passable and the daylight lengthens in March and April, the Dempster (which extends past the Arctic Circle) and Top of the World Highway out of Dawson City are dazzlers. The Klondike Highway, which links Whitehorse and Dawson (allow 6 hours), is both a beauty and historic; dreamers chased riches partly via this route in the years after the first strike, and they built Dawson City into a boomtown of 30,000 – that, like most of the dreams, quickly went bust.

Dawson, current population 2,000, has a few gold rush-era remnants, hardy residents who can handle the occasional dips to 40-below (C or F), a few places to stay and eat, frontier-style dance hall girls in a modest (but Canada’s first) casino and several places to imbibe – one of which, in the Downtown Hotel bar, features (ready for this?) the Sourtoe cocktail.

Garnished with a severed human toe. A tradition since 1973, the current toe is No. 11.

Said Terry Lee, the toe’s current keeper and captain of the ritual: “It is disgusting, isn’t it?”

In rational weather, the Yukon – or just Yukon – is hiking and climbing and biking and fishing and wildlife viewing and canoeing and scenic drives and other outdoor pleasures.

December and January can be pretty grim, but winter temperatures typically begin to moderate in February, and from then into April, that’s a time to celebrate such seasonal pursuits as snowshoeing, crosscountry skiing, those northern lights – and mushing.

“The draw of the Yukon,” said Gary Burd-

ess, who let me do 2-plus hours, guided, on one of his dogsleds (skyhighwilderness.com), “is the lack of all the boundaries. There’s an incredible amount of rivers and lakes. And you don’t have to go far – you just hike into them.”

Or fly over them. Ostashek (rockingstar.ca) takes folks over Kluane National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, home of Mount Logan – Canada’s tallest peak – the largest ice fields outside the polar caps, lots of glaciers and zero roads.

From up there, you can see Alaska. Ostashek is staying in Yukon.

“You have to kind of like the outdoors and doing outdoor things,” he said.

“We love it. We absolutely love it.”

The return to the United States went through Vancouver airport.

“So what brought you to Canada?” asked the customs agent, in Canadian.

“I’m a travel writer,” I said, “and I came to do a story on Yukon.”

“Oh – way up there, eh?

Did you see the northern lights?”

“No, and I’m [miffed],” said the travel writer.

“Well, then,” said the Canadian. “You’ll just have to come back ...”

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MASTER NATURALISTS

West Carroll High School FFA’s members, Brianna Kampmeier (from left) with her goat and Leland and Shane Houzenga with their pigs, were part of the May 6 Barnyard Zoo at West Carroll Primary School, both in Savanna. Children visited with the members, while seeing baby goats, a cow, horses, rabbits, pigs, chickens, pheasants, ducks, a fainting goat, and several tractors and trucks. Photos submitted by Josi Anderson.

Ogle County Master Naturalist trainees work toward their final weeks of class. The group, which have trained in ecology, herpetology, American black bears, environmental ethics, botany, wetland, river ecology, and forest, will graduate in June. For more information, contact Peggy Doty at psdoty@iilinois.edu or 815-787-2000.

IN BRIEF Hospital earns top safety grade

Bailey Durward chats while a student tries to pet her cow.

​Children line up as they wait for Michael Kinder to help them into the cab of the tractor.

measures of publiclyavailable hospital safety data to assign A, B, DIXON – KSB Hospital C, D, and F grades to was one of 798 hospitals more than 2,500 U.S. hospitals twice per to receive an A, rankyear. It is calculated by ing among the safest hospitals in the U.S., by patient safety experts, peer-reviewed, fully The Leapfrog Group, a transparent, and free to national patient safety the public. For the first watchdog. time, the score includes “Our A grade is a tesfive measures of patienttament to our clinical reported experience with leadership and frontline the hospital, as well as staff’s dedication to safety,” said David Sch- two of the most comreiner, hospital president mon infections, bacterium Clostridium or C.diff and CEO. and Methicillin-resistant “At KSB Hospital, we are committed to put the Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. patient above all else to Go to hospitalssafetys ensure our patients not score.org to view the full only receive high quality, report. patient-centered care, but safe care, too. I’m proud that our relentless Amboy ag student focus to keep patients wins top award safe and save lives has earned us this honorable AMBOY – Zachary recognition.”

Becker of Amboy High Developed under the School recently was guidance of Leapfrog’s presented the school’s Blue Ribbon Expert highest agricultural Panel, the Hospital honor, the DEKALB AgriSafety Score uses 30 cultural Accomplishment

Award, from Monsanto Co. Becker, the son of Steve and Karen Becker, earned the award for excellence in academics, leadership, and agricultural work experience. His experiences and accomplishments include Amboy FFA chapter president, FFA section president, District Proficiency finalist, and first-place state floor member for parliamentary procedure. Ashleigh Fisher is Becker’s agricultural education instructor.

Courses included leadership management, college to career success, working with the media, understanding and dealing with diverAbigail sity, as well Mongan as knowing one’s values and discovering passion.

While at the conference, participants also attended a half-day communication and team-building session at Escape Bloomington, and volunteered at the 4-H’er attends Food Bank. leadership course Midwest Mongan was invited to participate in the BLOOMINGTON – Abiconference through the gail Mongan recently completed the 2016 Illinois 4-H Premier LCP Award Farm Bureau and Affiliates program. The purpose of the award is to honor Premier 20 Leadership members exhibiting Conference.

Mongan, along with other outstanding leadership, citizenship, coopera4-H and FFA members, tion, and professionalism participated in various during the past 4-H proleadership and personal development sessions. gram year.

County real estate tax deadlines near

Shaelynn Williams shows her miniature horse to some children.

Whiteside County Real Estate tax bills were mailed May 9.

The first installment is due June 10 and the second is due Sept. 2.

Payment options are by mail to or in person at Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox. St., Morrison, 61270; by Automatic Clearing House withdrawal at whiteside.org for forms; credit card at illinoispay.com (convenience fee charged); calling 877-690-3729,

using Jurisdiction Code 7038; and at most banks in Whiteside County.

Go to whitesideil. devnetwedge.com for tax information.

Ogle County bills were mailed May 13. The first installment is due June 17 and the second Sept. 2. Both payment coupons were included in the mailing; no others will be sent.

Payments by cash or check, payable to Ogle County Collector, may be made at any Ogle

County bank or at the treasurer’s office from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday, except holidays, at 105 S. Fifth St., Oregon.

Payments also may be mailed to P.O. Box 40, Oregon, IL 61061.

Go to oglecounty treasurer.org or ogle county.org to make payments online; a convenience fee will be added.

Mobile home taxpayers in Lee County have until Friday to pay their

tax bills. The bills were mailed in March.

The owner of the mobile home from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2016, is liable for the tax.

Payments may be made by mail or at the treasurer’s office at 112 E. Second St., Dixon, IL 61021. For more information, call the treasurer’s office at 815288-4477.

All mailed payments must by postmarked by the due date.

PEDIATRIC JUMP KIT BAGS

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

Laura Orr, Princeton Junior Women’s Club member, presents Chief Jim Becker and several Ohio First Responders a Pediatric Jump Kit Bag for their rescue unit. In 2014, PJWC began fundraising efforts to provide every First Responder Unit in Bureau County with at least one kit. According to the news release, bags are specialized kits that have critical pediatric emergency supplies in one place to help EMS respond to pediatric calls with organized, easily-accessible, and properly-sized equipment. They contain different color-coded packs that correspond to the colors on a specialized tape measure that can be placed alongside the patient. Based on the patient’s size, the correctly-sized medical equipment can be obtained instantly, saving valuable time in an emergency. To date, the group has purchased and provided kits to eight Bureau County units. Photo submitted.

Kirsten (center), new habitat homeowner, and her three children gather with Peggy Ulferts (from left), Bob Augustine, Jim Dixon, Paul Reiger, Linda Newlon, and Phil Toney, Dixon Habitat for Humanity Inc. members, at the May 7 groundbreaking-ceremony at 1909 Clark St., Dixon. The Rev. Frank Langhoff (not pictured), pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Dixon, dedicated the newly-acquired tract of land, where homes will be built during the next 6 years.

Photo submitted by Dixon.

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Photos by Alex T. Paschal/apaschal@saukvalley.com

TOP: Preschooler Saige Gonzalez shows the proper way to put on a life jacket May 18 during a water safety class for students in Wallace School’s Head Start program.

Deb Mortonson, Sterling/Rock Falls YMCA’s aquatics and youth sports director, conducted the class at the school. ABOVE: Preschooler Kyle Cox-Martinez demonstrates how to hold tight to the top of a raft in the event of a capsize.

ABOVE: Preschooler Jade Ruiz plays the part of a swimmer in distress during the class.

RIGHT: Preschoolers listen as Mortonson talks to them about proper water safety techniques.

TOP: Mortonson teaches students Jade Ruiz (left) and Angel Artz proper water rescue techniques, stressing the “Reach or throw. Don’t go” method used to teach the children not to place themselves at risk by entering the water to save someone in distress, but rather reach for them, or throw them a buoyant object.

ABOVE: Preschooler Kyle Cox-Martinez demonstrates how to cling to the top of a boat in the event of a capsize as Mortonson looks on.