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Man shot by police arrested Suspect in stabbing has been charged with attempted murder STAFF REPORT news@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5501

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A Rock Falls administrator wants to get through to bullies who lack empathy. Dixon High School is offering rewards for students who show up and do the work. Whether it’s to acknowledge students or protect them, Sauk Valley educators are taking the eraser to conventional behavioral intervention methods. Their goal is to encourage students to avoid behavior that could lead them into bigger trouble later in life. STORIES BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN • cheimerman@saukvalley.com • 815-625-3600, ext. 5523 • CHeimerman_SVM

Positivity test: Dixon High adds incentives for kids with clean noses

Let’s get real: Rock Falls administrator shows students consequences of bullying

DIXON – Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports is an incentive system generally reserved for elementary and, sometimes, junior high schools. By the time kids turn into teenagers, the lure of pencils, pop-up books and pizza parties loses its luster. Concerned about students who are doing all the right things but not being recognized, Dixon High School administrators went hunting for carrots to help kids not only succeed in high school, but to be as prepared as possible for what comes next – be it the workplace, vocational school, or college. The negotiations began at registration. Students were given a list of incentives “the old people,” as Dixon High Principal Mike Grady called them, thought might convince them to get to class on time and generally keep their noses clean.

ROCK FALLS – If concern for our fellow man won’t persuade students to bite their tongues, or take their fingers off the keyboard, Rock Falls High School Assistant Principal Vicki Dunphy will. The first line of defense against cyberbullying, or any disruptive behavior, is the student handbook. Every students signs it, and what follows in most districts are assemblies, homeroom discussions and myriad means of character education to drive home expectations. Concerned that guest speakers and other means weren’t holding students’ attention, Dunphy, with help from her 23-year-old daughter, Kenzie Greenawalt, produced a video that emphasized the ramifications of cruelty toward others.

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Community Traditional folkloric dancers in their colorful garb were a highlight of the SterlingRock Falls Fiesta Parade. More SVM photos appear inside. See Page C12

ROCKFORD – The suspect in a stabbing Sept. 7 in Dixon was arrested Friday afternoon at a Rockford hospital as he finished his treatment for gunshot wounds suffered as police tried to stop his attack. Justin R. Llanas, 33, of Dixon, was released from Justin R. OSF St. Anthony Llanas Medical Center around 4:45 p.m. and immediately arrested by Illinois State Police, which is conducting the investigation into the officerinvolved shooting, the ISP said in a news release. Llanas is charged with attempted first-degree murder, which carries 6 to 30 years in prison, aggravated battery, unlawful restraint, domestic battery, and resisting/obstructing an officer. He was in Winnebago County Jail on $100,000 bond, pending a transfer to Lee County Jail. He is accused of holding a woman hostage at knife point at his apartment at 805 W. Third St. As officers tried to calm him, a man emerged from the building and struggled with Llanas, who stabbed him in the stomach, police said. ARRESTED continued on A114

Inside story With the $600 million Rock Island Clean Line energy transmission project likely at the end of the road in its legal options, and the opposition smelling blood, both sides are rallying their troops for the latest battle in court. Page A5

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ROCK FALLS – A member of one of Sterling’s oldest business families also helped to build one of northwest Illinois’ biggest YMCA campgrounds. John A. Lawrence, 87, died Thursday at his home in Rock Falls. He was CEO of Lawrence Brothers for more than

20 years. He served on the committee that established what is today YMCA Camp John Benson near Mount Car- Lawrence roll. Mary Benson of Sterling, whose husband, Keith, was president of National Manufacturing in Sterling, said the Lawrences and Bensons are

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Services for John Lawrence Visitation for John A. Lawrence will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Schilling Funeral Home & Cremation in Sterling. Graveside services will be private. good friends. “The story is that John was very involved with the YMCA for many years. He was on the board of directors, and was instrumental in moving the camp from Galt to Mount Carroll,� Mary said. The YMCA camp was

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Grief-processing program offered DIXON – Home of Hope Cancer Wellness Center and United Hospice of Western Illinois will offer Grief Support Group: The Grief Recovery Method, to help those who are having difficulty processing loss. The program starts with an introductory session at 6 p.m. Thursday, followed by seven more Thursday sessions at Home of Hope, 1637 Plock Road. Registration is required at 815-288-4673.

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POLICE Sterling Police Misty L. Clevenger, 44, of Rock Falls; 4:16 p.m. Thursday at 212 Third Ave.; Whiteside County Warrant – probation violation on 2014 conviction of dealing heroin; delivery of heroin; taken to Whiteside County Jail. Nicholas T. Fullington, 21, of Sterling; 9:41 a.m. Thursday in the 500 block of Eighth Avenue; Whiteside County warrant – failure to appear, operating an uninsured motor vehicle; taken to Whiteside County Jail.

Rock Falls Police Donna L. Fullington, 44, of Rock Falls; 8:42 p.m. Thursday in the 200 block of First Avenue; operating a vehicle with a suspended registration; given notice to appear in court. Erik E. Halverson, 42, of Rock Falls; 11:23 a.m. Thursday in the 1100 block of Dixon Avenue; speeding; given notice to appear in court. Kenneth K. Blackmon, 31, of Rock Falls; 10:49 a.m. Thursday at West 10th Street and Fifth Avenue; driving while license revoked, operating an uninsured motor vehicle, no valid registration; given notice to appear in court. Patrick D. Cathey, 44, of Rock Falls; 8:42 p.m. Thursday in the 200 block of First Avenue; Whiteside County warrant; posted bond.

Dixon Police Dominic J. White, 27, of Dixon; 5:50 a.m. Thursday in the 1500 block of West Ninth Street; domestic bat-

Leo L. Prushinkski of Princeton; Sept. 2; parking by fire hydrant; citation issued. Andrea Hochstatter of Princeton; Sept. 2; no parking; citation issued. Jeffrey A. Fultz of Ohio; Sept. 2; no parking; citation issued. Irish May Guillen Lackas, 25, of Clinton, Iowa; Sept. 10; no valid registration; citation issued.

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Morgan Hake, 50, of Freeport appears at his final pretrial conference Aug. 29 in Carroll County court in Mount Carroll. He is charged with shooting his wife, Suzanne M. Hake, 46, in the head and chest and killing her Dec. 5 in Lanark. His trial, expected to last a week, will begin Monday.

Matthew Wisner, 29, of Freeport; 6:52 p.m. Thursday in the 3000 block of North state Route 26; driving while license suspended, illegal transportation of alcohol, possession of drug paraphernalia; taken to Ogle County Jail.

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MOUNT CARROLL – The trial of a Freeport man charged with his wife’s murder is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. Monday in Carroll County court. Morgan Hake, 50, is charged with shooting Suzanne M. Hake, 46, in

Virgil D. Robinson, 25, of Rockford; 4:30 p.m. Thursday; warrant – failure to appear, contempt – nonpayment, unlicensed; taken to Lee County Jail. Blanca Estella Ramirez, 29, of Sterling; 10:20 a.m. Thursday; warrant – failure to appear, contempt – nonpayment; posted bond.

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Dunphy hunted down videos, articles and case files and put them into a PowerPoint presentation, and Greenawalt, a programming engineer, used them to make the video. It is filled with stories of those permanently damaged by bullying – many of whom committed suicide. It was shown to every class. The student Dunphy is most concerned about, though, is the one who lacks empathy, and so might not be swayed. So she also included videos and case files of arrests, prosecution and imprisonment of bullies. “This is how it will affect you,” she said. “If you don’t care how your behavior affects others, here’s how it will affect you. We made it very personal. “I wanted it to hit home, and I wanted it to register with them. If you really cared about how what you do affected other people, you wouldn’t do it.” Students then went into small groups to discuss the jarring content with their teachers. “The feedback we’ve gotten from the kids has been phenomenal,” Dunphy said. “Every year, I will have to revamp this.”

Constant vigilance Dunphy keeps close tabs on her “kids” – that’s what she calls every youngster who walks through the halls. She makes 30 to 70 calls every night, “for every incident from a tardy on up.” She said it’s crucial that students know that

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Rock Falls High School Assistant Principal Vicki Dunphy is all about intervention – letting students know they’re appreciated, and for those who make fun of others, letting them know what the consequences could be.

Statistics A survey conducted in Illinois by the Centers for Disease Control in 2015 yielded these results among high school students, expressed in percentages: Total Male Female Were electronically bullied 15.3 18.7 11.8 Were bullied on school property 19.6 19.8 19.4 Felt sad or hopeless 29.3 36.8 21.7 Seriously considered suicide 15.9 18.8 12.9 Made a suicide plan 14.5 16.4 12.6 Attempted suicide 9.8 9.5 9.8 school administration and their guardians are on the same page. “Students need to know there’s going to be consistency,” she said. “They can’t play parent against parent or school against parent.” This year, spurred by Senate Bill 100’s insistence that schools use more intervention and less discipline, the high school brought back its Alternative Learning Center, where students who run afoul of policy are given time to think and change their behavior.

When they do end up being suspended, Dunphy is grateful the new law makes out-of-school suspensions a second-tolast resort, and expulsion the very last resort. “All around, I’m hoping this will improve attendance, graduation rates, performance and all the things of keeping students in-house,” she said.

Staying positive Dunphy is in her fourth year in Rock Falls after spending 3 years with the Sterling district, where

cussed bringing it to the high school, but it has other programs in place that would make PBIS’ benefits a bit redundant. Other districts use myriad morale-boosting programs, many of them developed by and tailored to the specific district, such as The Leader in Me in Oregon, The Eastland Way in Lanark, and The Thunder Way in the West Carroll School District. “By posting positive behavior expectations and rewarding those behaviors, teachers, administrators, and staff at all schools, we expected to see a decrease in discipline and an increase in positive school climate,” West Carroll Superintendent Adam Brumbaugh said. Jackpot. He said suspensions went down and honor roll went up from 10 percent to 12 percent last school year, compared to the 2014-15 year, his first as principal at West Carroll High.

Rock Falls High doesn’t use PBIS, but, like most districts, those in Rock Falls use Second Step curriculum for K-8 socioemotional development and support. At the high school, programs such as B.L.I.N.D. (Building Lasting Impressions that Never Die) and Open Campus offer support and camaraderie. On half-days, afternoons are used for character education. Dunphy appreciates the way PBIS recognizes kids who might not be straight-A students, athletes or club members. She set a goal last semester to find students who don’t have any referrals or attendance issues, but might be under the radar because they simply go about their business without getting involved in extracurriculars. “That group of students are underrepresented,” she said. “We don’t know them well enough, and I want to recognize them individually. They deserve that.”

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OBITUARIES Donald W. Krug Jr. P R O P H E T STOWN – Donald W. Krug Jr., 71, died Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling. Don was born Feb. 27, 1945, in Sterling, the son of Donald and Lorraine (Hackbarth) Krug Sr. Don graduated from SIU in Carbondale, with a degree in math and economics. He married Donna Rury in September 1965. She died Dec. 21, 2000. He later married Victoria (Woosley) Duncan on Dec. 26, 2002, in Moline. Don served our country in the Army during the Vietnam War. At the age of 32, Don decided to build a large apartment complex in Rock Falls. He was a good and kindhearted landlord. Don was known for the compassion he showed to his tenants. Don was a master builder. He learned carpentry from his strict German father. Don began building houses at the age of 14. He often told us, “Back in the ’50s, there were no power tools. We had to hammer every nail by hand when constructing a house.” Don’s expertise at construction led him to a career of commercial construction. For almost 25 years, he traveled all over the Midwest, and he built many stores, buildings, etc. He built 10 restaurants in the Quad Cities.

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Don retired from the road in 2009. In retirement, his main work was maintaining his apartments. Don was a true animal lover. The highlight of his day was returning home to his two Maltese dogs, Puffy and Marley. They always watched for his big white truck. They’d run to the garage door and jump into his arms. They never left Dad’s side. Don enjoyed walking the dogs by the river every day. Those left to cherish his memory are his loving wife, Vicki; two sons, Steven (Sheila) Krug and Donald Krug III; two sisters, Sharon (Ed) Janssen and Carol (Paul) Shore; and brother, John (Beth) Krug. Don also is survived by four grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren; nephews and nieces; a brotherin-law, Herman Charles Rury,and his children of southern Illinois. Don also was preceded in death by his parents and several siblings, David Krug, Larry Krug, Joni House, and Sue Marrer. In lieu of flowers, please send a donation to the Wounded Warrior Project. Visitation will be from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Monday and the funeral at 10:30 a.m. Monday at McDonald Funeral Home, 45 Grove St., Prophetstown. Burial with military honors will conclude at Riverside Cemetery in Prophetstown.

Pamela K. Wasson-Brandt ROCK FALLS – Pamela K. Wasson-Brandt, 68, died Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, at Sauk Valley Senior Living Center in Rock Falls, after a lengthy illness. Pamela was born Feb. 13, 1948, in Dixon, the daughter of Vern and Ann (Miller) Wasson. Pam always enjoyed sharing her artistic talents through projects she created for friends and family members. Pam made many friends through various areas of employment, her favorite being serving her customers in her capacity as waitress and hostess in restaurants, both in Illinois and Michigan. Some of her favorite moments were spent with friends and family in the beautiful setting of Lake Michigan. Survivors include one son, David of Chana; and grandsons, Drayton and Sawyer Brandt resid-

ing in Utah; four sisters, Kathleen (Don) Hess of Dixon, Kim (Bob) Beckman of Virginia, Cindy (Tom) Ketchum and Shelly (Jack Allgrim) of Michigan; one brother, Bob (Liz) De Arvil of Chana; and many nieces and nephews. Pam was preceded in death by both parents and a brother, Ken (Sharon) De Arvil of Oregon. Memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Sept. 24 at St. Bride Episcopal Church, 1000 state Route 64, Oregon, with the Rev. Barbara Seward officiating. McDonald Funeral Homes is handling arrangements. A memorial has been established. “If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” – St. Francis of Assisi

his wife, Shirley; three daughters, Andrea Lawrence Wood of Denver, Gayle (Scotty) MacLaren of Whitefish, Montana, and Julie Chippendale of Encinitas, California; one son, Jay (Sarah) Lawrence Jr.; 12 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. He was preceded in death by one sister, Patricia Lynn Hill; and one brother, Edwin F. Lawrence III. Visitation will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Schilling Funeral Home & Cremation in Sterling. Graveside service will be private. A memorial has been established to SterlingRock Falls YMCA Camp. Visit schillingfuneralhome.com to send condolences.

ROCK FALLS – John Alden Lawrence, 87, died Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, at his home. He was the CEO for Lawrence Brothers for more than 20 years, before retirement. John was born Aug. 20, 1929, in Sterling, the son of Edwin F. and Hellen (McKenney) Lawrence Jr. He married Shirley Schmitt on Sept. 24, 1946, in Washington, Kansas. John’s greatest joys in life were his wife, children, and grandchildren. He was involved in many successful business organizations, and was most proud of being the chairman of the committee that put together the property for the Sterling-Rock Falls YMCA Camp. Survivors include

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR THE WEEK ▼ Today’s visitations: Linda J. Luther of Ottawa; 9-10 a.m. at Epworth United Methodist Church in Ottawa. Sigmund A. Jasinski of Friendship, Wisconsin; 10-11 a.m. at Jones Funeral Home in Dixon. ▼ Today’s funerals: Linda J. Luther of Ottawa; 10 a.m. at Epworth United Methodist Church in Ottawa. Daryl J. Grennan of Byron; 11 a.m. at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Rock Falls. Sigmund A. Jasinski of Friendship, Wisconsin; 11 a.m. at Jones Funeral Home in Dixon. ▼ Sunday visitations: Charles L. Retherford Jr. of Rock Falls; 2-4 p.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls. John A. Lawrence of Rock Falls, 1-3 p.m. at Schilling Funeral Home & Cremation in Sterling.

▼ Monday visitations: Donald W. Krug Jr. of Prophetstown; 9-10:30 a.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Prophetstown. ▼ Monday funerals: Charles L. Retherford Jr. of Rock Falls; 10 a.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls. Donald W. Krug Jr. of Prophetstown; 10:30 a.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Prophetstown. ▼ Tuesday visitations: Esther Guzzardo of Freeport; 10-11 a.m. at St. Raymond Catholic Church in Mount Prospect. ▼ Tuesday funerals: Esther Guzzardo of Freeport; 11 a.m. at St. Raymond Catholic Church in Mount Prospect. ▼ Sept. 24 funerals: Pamela K. WassonBrant of Rock Falls, 2 p.m. at St. Bride Episcopal Church in Oregon.

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702 1st Avenue, Sterling 815-626-1131 www.schillingfuneralhome.com Robert D. ‘Bob’ Cowley Jr. loved ones will greatly miss him. He is survived by his beloved wife of 66 years, Dorothy (Childs); son, Stan (Jean); and daughters, Sue (Ron) Tait, Debbie Argle, and Merrie (Scott) Wolf. He also is survived by his brothers, Jim and Lee Cowley; sisters, Mary Ann, Vella, Jane, Peggy, and Carol; eight grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; his brothers, Bill and John; and a sister, Donna Jean. A memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Sept. 24 at Evergreen Funeral Home in Everett. A luncheon will be after the service in Arlington. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to the Alzheimer’s Association. Evergreen Funeral Home in Everett is handling arrangements.

ARLINGTON, Wash. – Robert Dale “Bob” Cowley Jr. of Arlington, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. He was born May 15, 1928, in Lyndon, to Robert and Mary Cowley. Bob was a sergeant in the Army Air Forces from 1946 to 1949, serving in the 634th Aircraft Control Squadron as a teletype mechanic and equipment operator. After returning from the service, Bob and Dorothy were married Feb. 10, 1950, in Everett, Washington. They moved to Illinois, where Bob worked on a farm for 12 years. In 1962, they moved back to Washington with their four kids. Bob worked for Nord Door in Everett, retiring in 1994. Bob loved his wife and family, woodworking, camping, bowling, and pitching horseshoes. His

Edward R. Batt III DIXON – Edward Robert Batt III, was stillborn Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling. He is survived by his parents, Edward R. Batt Jr. and Tabitha R. VanBuskirk; his brothers, Joshua Batt, Jordan Batt, and Jayden Batt; his sister, Aria VanBuskirk; paternal grandparents,

Edward (Dale Ann) Batt Sr. of Dixon; maternal grandfather, Kenny (Angela) VanBuskirk of Dixon; and maternal grandmother, Charity (Jim) Howard of Rock Falls. Cremation will take place. There will be no services. Arrangements by McDonald Funeral Homes.

Mary Frey DIXON – Mary Frey, 88, of Dixon, died Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, at her home. Jones Funeral Home in Dixon is handling arrangements.

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Clean Line project battle lines drawn Opposition prepares for latest appeal BY PAM EGGEMEIER peggemeier@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5570 @pam_eggemeier

The $600 million Rock Island Clean Line energy transmission project was supposed to be under construction by now, but it can’t seem to break free from the court system. The project route was to begin in Iowa’s O’Brien County, enter Illinois between Cordova and Port Byron, continue through Whiteside County just southwest of Erie, through the entire north edge of Bureau County, and end in Grundy County. First proposed in 2010, Houston-based parent company Clean Line Energy has been challenged ever since by Block RICL and the Illinois Landowners Alliance. In 2014, a legal path was cleared for the company when the Illinois Commerce Commission affirmed Rock Island Clean Line’s status as a public utility and gave the company a green light for construction. The judicial system, however, was again asked to intervene, and on Aug. 10 a ruling came down that put the project in limbo. The state’s 3rd District Appellate Court reversed the ICC’s decision, ruling that Rock Island Clean Line wasn’t a public utility under the parameters of the Illinois Public Utilities Act. The court said

that because the company has no utility assets, operations or customers, the project wasn’t eligible for regulatory approval. The company’s attorneys countered Wednesday by filing an appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court. With the company likely at the end of the road in its legal options, and the opposition smelling blood, both sides are rallying their troops for the latest battle. Clean Line said several groups have been on board during its appeal process. Its list of supporters include the ICC, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Natural Resources Defense Council, and wind energy advocacy group Wind on the Wires. The IBEW and other trade organizations are voicing their concerns about the state taking work from them. The company estimates that 1,450 workers would be involved in a 3-year construction process. “The court’s ruling unnecessarily interferes with vital interstate transmission projects,” IBEW International President Lonnie Stephenson said. “We have filed a request to ask the Illinois Supreme Court to review the RICL case, because our workers cannot afford to have Illinois be a roadblock to nationally significant projects.” Clean Line has claimed the project would deliver more than

Block RICL meetings Block RICL and the Illinois Landowners Alliance have scheduled two meetings in the aftermath of recent court developments in the proposed Rock Island Clean Line project. The first meeting is at 4 p.m. Sunday at Mendota Civic Center, 1901 Tom Merwin Drive. The second is at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Erie High School, 435 Sixth Ave. 3 times the energy of the Hoover Dam on an annual basis, and reduce electricity costs statewide by $320 million just in the first year of operations. Those numbers have grabbed the attention of consumer advocates, some who have publicly supported the project. “New carbon-free power supplies are a critical leg of the stool for keeping electricity prices affordable going forward,” said David Kolata, executive director of the Citizens Utility Board. “This project could be good news for consumers, and we believe the court was wrong to reverse the Illinois Commerce Commission’s approval.” Several other influential business, labor, and alternative energy organizations have officially aligned with Clean Energy on the appeal efforts. Clean Line contends the appeals court, in its reversal, made interpretative mistakes it hopes the high court will find. “The appeals court has created a Catch-22 barrier, with no basis in the statute, to prevent new companies from becoming public utilities, and to keep them from helping to lower

energy prices in Illinois,” said Hans Detweiler, vice president of Clean Line Energy. At the heart of the matter for the project’s opponents is the right of eminent domain. While the company has said land would be taken in only a few instances, the landowners say the project would require eminent domain to be used on a large scale. Block RICL said the court ruling recognized that Clean Line doesn’t meet the requirements of a public utility, and should not have the same rights. The organization issued a statement after the appellate court’s reversal. “Clean Line is a private, speculative company, operating outside of established public utility systems, are not true public utilities, and do not merit the same rights as real public utilities, especially the right of eminent domain,” Block RICL stated in the release. Block RICL said there is a good chance Rock Island Clean Line’s appeal will never be heard. “Just because they are going through the motions of appealing, it doesn’t mean that the

Illinois Supreme Court will choose to hear the case,” said Mary Mauch, a Block RICL spokeswoman. Mauch said the 3rd Appellate Court’s decision was unanimous, and only about 5 percent of the appeals made to the state’s high court are heard. She said the landowners groups weren’t surprised by Clean Line’s appeal and they are prepared. RICL has scheduled two meetings, one for Sunday in Mendota, and another for Tuesday in Erie. The organization is also active in Iowa, putting up signs and speaking with politicians. The landowners are not alone in their fight against the transmission line project. The Illinois Farm Bureau and ComEd joined the Illinois Landowners Alliance in the appeals process that led to the reversal of the ICC’s ruling. The Farm Bureau is involved in another pending case against Clean Line Energy. Farm Bureau attorneys are working to block the proposed Grain Belt Express, a 780-mile transmission line involving several states, including south central Illinois. ComEd’s parent company, Exelon, is the largest power producer in Illinois, so there is an obvious competitive interest in the Clean Energy project. ComEd, however, has contended that Clean Line isn’t financially or structurally equipped to deliver on its promises, and ultimately the transmission line wouldn’t be in the best interest of consumers.

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Three apply for Whiteside circuit court judgeship will be asked to comment on the applicants’ “integrity, temperament, legal ability, management skills and other professional qualifications.” In addition, background checks by law enforcement will be done, and the records of the Illinois Attorney Registration and

First-term state’s attorney, associate judge among contenders BY KATHLEEN A. SCHULTZ kschultz@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5535 @KathleenSchul10

MORRISON – Whiteside County State’s Attorney Trish Joyce is one of three people seeking to replace 14th Judicial Circuit Court Judge John L. Hauptman, who is retiring on Dec. 5. Associate Judge William S. McNeal and attorney Colleen M. Buckwalter, both of Morrison, also have applied for the position, the state Supreme Court said in a news release Friday afternoon. The high court justices will appoint Hauptman’s successor, who will serve until the next election on Dec. 3, 2018. The 14th serves Henry, Mercer, Rock Island and Whiteside counties. Joyce, 56, a Sterling Democrat, was elected in November 2012 to the 4-year term, her first. She is running unopposed for re-election on Nov. 8. If she is appointed to Hauptman’s position, the County Board will appoint someone to fill her seat, also until the 2018 election. Joyce, who beat Whi-

To comment Attorneys Trish A. Joyce, William S. McNeal and Colleen M. Buckwalter are seeking appointment to the 14th Judicial Circuit Court seat being vacated by John L. Hauptman at the end of the year. Send comments on any or all to Judge Appointment Comments, 14th Judicial Circuit, Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, 3101 Old Jacksonville Road, Springfield, IL 62704. Comments, preferably no more than 250 words, must be received by noon Oct. 17, and must include contact information such as the sender’s name and address. Call 312-793-2323 for more information. teside County Assistant State’s Attorney Pat Liston and took over for Gary Spencer, who was the county’s top prosecutor for 30 years, did not return several calls seeking comment. McNeal, 57, was the county’s chief public defender when he was appointed associate judge in 2011. He was reappointed in 2015; his current 4-year term expires June 30, 2019. If he is appointed to Hauptman’s seat, the court will seek applicants for his associate judgeship. In Whiteside County, associate judges tend to hear misdemeanor, traffic and small claims

cases, although they are able to handle all kinds. Buckwalter is a partner in the firm Coplan & Buckwalter, in Morrison. Among other things, she represents the Carroll County village of Thomson; she also represented one of two boys who set a fire that destroyed downtown Prophetstown in July 2013. Justice Thomas Kilbride will be gathering information on the three candidates until Oct. 17. In addition to taking comments from the general public, Kilbride will use the results of an Illinois Bar Association poll of attorneys in the 14th Circuit, whose members

Disciplinary Commission will be reviewed. A committee of lawyers and nonlawyers alike will be empaneled to evaluate the findings and make a recommendation, which Kilbride will present to the full court. Notice of the opening was posted in court-

houses throughout the district; the deadline to apply was Monday. All applicants must be Whiteside County residents. Hauptman was elected to the 14th Circuit post in 2004, after the death of Dan Dunagan. He was reelected in 2010; his term expires this year.

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EDITORIAL | LEE-OGLE ENTERPRISE ZONE

Looks goofy on map but helps create jobs W

hen looking at a map of the new Lee-Ogle Enterprise Zone, one might wonder whether some gerrymandering legislator had a hand in its design. The E-zone is nothing if not oddly shaped. Because all areas in an enterprise zone by law must be connected, large chunks of land, ripe for development across Lee and Ogle counties, are linked by pencil-thin corridors on the map. But this is one case where such “gerryman-

dering” is good for the people. Within the new E-zone, which the State Enterprise Zone Board approved last week and which will take effect Jan. 1, business development gets a helping hand through “pretty much the only economic development tool we have left in Illinois,” as Jason Anderson, director of the Greater Rochelle Economic Development Corp., put it. The sprawling E-zone’s 15 square miles basically comprise portions

What we think We offer our congratulations for the successful renewal of the job-creating Lee-Ogle Enterprise Zone. of Dixon, Rochelle, a few other towns, and the Interstate 88-state Route 38 corridor that connects them. BUSINESSES WITHIN the zone that wish to expand or build anew can receive sales tax exemptions for building materials and property tax abatements.

Such incentives, which reduce the cost of doing business for a set period of time, really work. The current Lee-Ogle Enterprise Zone, in existence for 3 decades, has been a crucial factor in establishing thousands of jobs and attracting more than $1 billion in business development to the area, according to John

Thompson, president of the Lee County Industrial Development Association. So it was good news, indeed, when the LeeOgle Enterprise Zone won approval for 15 years, with the possibility of a 10-year extension after that, which would take the zone through the end of 2041. The new E-zone takes in some of the current territory, adds new, undeveloped parcels, and deletes some areas, such as the Global 3 intermodal site near Rochelle, that have

already been developed. We congratulate Thompson, Anderson and everyone else involved for making the successful case for the E-zone’s renewal. Looking ahead, we hope the 1,000 acres that have been set aside for future development will yield as many, if not more, new jobs and tax revenue than the first E-zone produced. Yes, it sure looks goofy on a map, but it’s a proven economic tool that the region is fortunate to have.

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Use of public funds appears to violate law JAMES E. DIXON Dixon

The Illinois Election Code prohibits the Dixon School District from using public funds (tax money) to advocate for passage of, or urge a voter to vote for its referendum. Dixon School District hired Unicom-Arc, a Missouri public relations firm, under a professional services agreement, signed by the parties and dated March 18, 2016, to provide “community engagement” services. The total payment to Unicom-Arc is to be $33,600 payable at a monthly rate of $4,200. The final payment is to be made on Oct. 28, coincidentally just 11 days before the election. Check Unicom-Arc’s website. They promote themselves as being able to “…guide election efforts to achieve even the most ambitious goals.” A contract that calls for services to be delivered monthly from March right up to the end of October before the November election clearly tells us their “community engagement” services are intended to assist the

school district to secure passage of this referendum. Also, the Telegraph reports that the president of Unicom-Arc has agreed to work “free of charge” in September and October to help organize and advise citizens’ “YES” committees to promote passage of the referendum. Can anyone actually believe that, with his company receiving $33,699 for “community engagement” services, including $8,400 during September and October, the company president is actually working “free of charge”? I have no doubt, and neither should you, that his direct work guiding any committee whose goal is passage of the referendum is the use of public funds in violation of Illinois law. How gullible do we have to be to think that the president of Unicom-Arc is providing his services out of the goodness of his heart, or that the School Board is not spending our tax money to advocate for passage of this referendum? Note to readers: Due to the gravity of the issue raised by Mr. Dixon, Sauk Valley Media waived its election letters policy regarding (1) word length and (2) its limit of one letter per person per electionrelated issue.

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Grasslands to be topic of Forum event MARK ADAMI Morrison

The 4,000-acre Nachusa Grasslands preserve [on Lowden Road, 4 miles northwest of Franklin Grove] consists of large

remnant prairie, woodlands and wetlands being reconnected through habitat restoration to create one of the largest and most biologically diverse grasslands in Illinois. Working hand in hand with The Nature Conservancy staff, a dynamic community of volunteer stewards collects and plants seeds, manages

invasive species, repairs wetlands, and conducts controlled burns in order to preserve, protect and share this precious endangered ecosystem. On Thursday, The White­ s ide Forum will host Betty Higby, who will speak to us about The Nature Conservancy in general and Nachusa Grasslands in particular

and answer our questions about the significance of both. Please join in on the presentation and discussion at 6:30 p.m. at the Odell Public Library, 307 S. Madison, Morrison. All Whiteside Forum events are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact me at 815-772-4949.

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Promise to a dead child: Her memory won’t be lost Journalist looks into 1990 murder of Jennifer Lewis SPRINGFIELD – Is it possible to mourn the death of someone you never knew? I’ve found myself doing that every Sept. 17 for the past 26 years. Back in 1990, I was working as the night police reporter for another newspaper when I was dispatched to a fire at a school playground at 9 p.m. I was one of the first on the scene. I walked to where I saw smoke rising from some tall weeds on the edge of the playground, looked down, and was met with the

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body of a child that had been doused with gasoline and set on fire. I staggered backwards, gasping for air. I could feel the bile rise in my throat and my knees go weak. It was the last thing I expectJennifer ed to find Lewis on a crisp autumn evening in Davenport, Iowa. I WAS THERE WHEN the firefighters, the detectives, the medical examiner, and a hoard of reporters arrived. And I stood a few feet from the smoldering remains wondering: Who would do such a thing?

scottREEDER Scott Reeder is a veteran Springfield statehouse journalist who has covered government for almost 30 years.

What evil lurked in the shadows of a playground to do such an act? We later learned that the victim was Jennifer Ann Lewis, a pugnacious tomboy from Rock Island’s west end. She was last seen going to buy some gum from a store. She never came back. Year after year, I’ve learned a bit more about this girl. I’ve wondered what her

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life would have been like if she had lived. A teacher’s aide told me how Jennifer liked to twirl around in frilly dresses, hiking the hem higher and higher as she spun. Her best friend told me how they played with “My Little Ponies” together. And her mother and I sat together for 3 hours as she recalled her daughter’s sweet disposition, how she loved her newborn baby brother and her dog, Bowser. And each sentence was punctuated with the tears only a mother can shed. The dark ripples of grief continue to spread from that night so many years ago.

Earlier this year, I decided to make it my mission to ensure that Jennifer’s memory is never forgotten. We name bridges after politicians and streets after celebrities. But our collective recollection of children who die at the hands of others fades. That shouldn’t be the case. I’M WRITING A BOOK on the case. Each day, as I write, I’m met with the image of a bucktoothed smile and the unassuming brown eyes of a child who never turned 10. That photo haunts me. To this youngster, whom I’ve never met, I can only promise: Your memory will not be lost. A trial is scheduled for

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February, and a jury will decide whether Stanley Liggins, a man charged in her death, is guilty or not guilty. But when I think of Jennifer, I prefer to think of innocence. I think of a child without guile who was raped, strangled and burned. I think of a youngster who ran down school hallways telling teachers and classmates alike about her upcoming birthday. She just didn’t know that was the day she would be buried. Note to readers: Scott Reeder is a veteran statehouse journalist. He works as a freelance reporter in the Springfield area and can be reached at ScottReeder­1 965@ gmail.com.

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UNDERSTANDING ILLINOIS | POLITICS & POLICY

A few ‘nuclear options’ for political reform Doing away with Illinois House would be radical, but constitutional

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n the wake of the recent embarrassingly political, 4-3 partisan decision by the Illinois Supreme Court Democratic majority to reject a proposed voter initiative to reduce legislative district gerrymandering, savvy political observer Rich Miller has suggested the “nuclear option” of a voter initiative that would simply abolish the Illinois House altogether! The idea is not so outlandish as one might think at first blush. First, such a voter initiative would be constitutional, that is, it would meet the state high court’s wrong-headed requirement that initiatives be both “structural and procedural.” Second, many democratic governments operate quite nicely with unicameral legislative bodies. Readers probably know that Nebraska has a one-house legislature, which they call the senate. And that state appears to have avoided the dysfunction for which Illinois has become noted. Costa Rica is probably the healthiest democratic

society in the Americas south of the U.S., other than maybe Uruguay. When I was that sunny clime some years ago, I visited their unicameral “assembly.” And the 30 states of Mexico also operate with unicameral legislatures. I think Rich Miller had in mind that an effort to put such a proposal on the ballot might spur the Illinois General Assembly itself to enact redistricting reform, to stave off the abolition effort. I believe the idea has merit on its own, at least for further consideration. ANOTHER MAJOR idea that would assuredly pass constitutional muster with the court is to reinstitute cumulative voting for election to the Illinois House. When I was a young legislator, members to the Illinois House were elected from threemember districts. Each voter had three votes to cast for candidates in a district, and voters could “cumulate” their votes, that is, cast all three votes for one candidate. This voting scheme was put into the Illinois Con-

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bit more independent of the speaker, confident they could be re-elected with their staunch local Democratic supporters, even if the speaker came in and tried to beat them because of apostasy.

jimNOWLAN Jim Nowlan of Toulon served two terms in the Illinois House and worked under three governors. He co-wrote “Fixing Illinois.”

stitution of 1870 by Chicago Tribune publisher and delegate Joseph Medill, who saw it as a way of ensuring that the minority party would be represented in each district. So in my predominantly Republican district, the Democrats always elected one House member by cumulating their votes behind him (mostly “hims” then). The minority representation system had the benefit of putting suburban Democrats (often very effective ones) into that party’s caucus, and Chicago Republicans into the GOP caucus, then dominated by downstaters. A kind of cross-fertilization resulted, which moderated the positions of both caucuses and also reduced, but certainly didn’t eliminate, the power of the speaker. For example, suburban House Democrats felt a

A PROPOSAL TO reinstate cumulative voting would also have to be found constitutional by the state high court, because it would be the exact obverse of the proposal that made it to the ballot in 1980 and eliminated cumulative voting. In 1980, populist and later governor Pat Quinn persuaded voters that elimination of cumulative voting and reduction in the size of the Legislature (both were in the same proposition) would save money – and send a message to the lawmakers who had earlier given themselves a post-election pay raise. I firmly believe most voters supported the Quinn “Cutback Amendment” because of their desire the get back at lawmakers, not because they wanted to eliminate cumulative voting. Cumulative voting wasn’t perfect; no voting scheme is. In practice, as the minority party often had no chance of electing

Because the state high court has in effect nullified our constitution’s proviso that voters be given a chance to change the legislative branch of government, a nuclear option should be considered.

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more than one of the three, the party would only nominate one, rather than the two or three it could nominate. This resulted in fall elections in which voters often had only three choices on the ballot in their district – for three positions! Yet today, with legislative gerrymandering of voters into districts that lean heavily to one party or the other (protecting incumbents), there is probably even less competition in the fall than there was under cumulative voting. The flaw in the old system could be addressed,

to some extent, by requiring parties to put at least two candidates on the ballot. In sum, I think cumulative voting had virtues that make it highly preferable to what we have today. Because the state high court has in effect nullified our constitution’s proviso that voters be given a chance to change the legislative branch of government, a nuclear option should be considered. AS AN ASIDE, I hope the four Democrat justices on the Illinois Supreme Court feel ashamed of themselves for hiding behind picayunish, hair-splitting reasoning that will deny voters the chance to reform the almost antidemocratic gerrymandering of the present. And for badly tarnishing the credibility of a state court we would like to hold in high esteem, but can’t. Note to readers: Jim Nowlan of Toulon served two terms in the Illinois House and worked under three governors. He cowrote “Fixing Illinois: Politics and Policy in the Prairie State.” Contact Nowlan at jnowlan3@ gmail.com.

THE READER’S VOICE

Better to vote for Trump, not Ted Cruz J. HARDEN Dixon

This is in response to C. Miles’ letter published Wednesday. I fully respect and understand your opinion of the two candidates left as our

choices for president of this great nation and why you said you were going to “write in” Ted Cruz. This was how I felt several months ago, and you are right that we, as American citizens, have an obligation to vote for who we, as voters, feel would do the best job. I applaud your enthusiasm, but if a vast majority of conservatives follow

your plan, Hillary wins. I truly feel the country cannot recover from the damage of another 4 years of Obama, aka Clinton, policies. Please keep in mind: The next three or four Supreme Court justices will be picked by our next president! That alone should be reason enough for ANY conservative or undecided to VOTE TRUMP.

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From 1964 to 1973, the United States waged a secret war against Laos, carrying out 580,000 bombing missions. No other country in human history before or since has been subjected to as massive an assault from the air at levels sustained by Laos during that undeclared war. It was during this period that 270 million cluster bombs were dropped on the Southeast Asia nation by the U.S. Last week, President Barack Obama moved to address America’s moral obligation to lessen and eliminate the danger posed by an estimated 80 million unexploded bombs still seeding the largely rural and poor nation. Decades after the CIA-ordered aerial campaign ended, dozens of innocent civilians who are farming, playing or simply walking down the road continue to be maimed or killed annually.

Once there were as many as 300 fatalities a year from unexploded bombs; that number has been cut to fewer than 50 annually thanks to American efforts. While statistically speaking the majority of Laos’ 7 million people are far less likely to encounter an unexploded American cluster bomb, that doesn’t lessen this nation’s obligation to eliminate the threat entirely. That is why Obama has doubled the U.S. contribution to removing the bombs to $30 million a year for the next 3 years. This $90 million commitment approaches the $100 million the U.S. has already spent over the past 2 decades. ... Obama may not have apologized formally for America’s actions a half century ago, but his actions speak louder than any words ever could. America is making amends.

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“The reception was really lukewarm,” Grady said. “The kids didn’t want a pizza party or root beer floats. They wanted something that means something to them. I got frustrated and asked them what would work. Man, those kids were honest.” The freshmen asked for open-campus lunch. “The first thought in my head was, ‘Oh my goodness, we’re going to give them open campus, and will they come back on time? Will they walk across the street and get hit by a car?’” he said. The school honored the request. Kids with no referrals or tardies, who are passing all their classes, get to leave the campus to eat lunch. A misstep, and the privilege is taken away for a week. Along that line, the school also integrated the yin to that yang: social probation, which Grady said Sterling High School also uses. Get a referral, arrive late for class, and you’re on probation, which means you can’t go to any school social events, such as dances or sports events. “When there’s an event, like a home football game, and you’re on social probation, you don’t get to go,” Grady said. “That’s made an impact. We’ve had kids sitting outside the fence looking in. Especially when we have a large crowd and the kids are getting into it, there’s some angst we’ve created – in a positive way.” Speaking of angst, sophomores, juniors and seniors saw the freshmen’s incentive and wanted one of their own. They asked for a final exam exemption. Grady went to his teachers to make sure it was feasible – that students who are getting at least a B in their classes would be eligible for the exemption. They green-lighted it, and the kids were

shocked, Grady said. “When we put that back on the table, I think the kids looked at me like, ‘Are you serious?’” he said. “I think this is the result you get when you have open communication.” Four weeks into the school year, the results jump off the page. When Grady and Assistant Principal Doug Stansford, who brought the program from the Byron School District, addressed the school board Wednesday night regarding PBIS, they reported a 40 percent drop in referrals and tardies year-to-year. “That’s significant, and they even surprised us with it; I had to question it,” Superintendent Margo Empen said. Grady is quick to admit it’s a small sample size, and there’s a lot of work to be done to establish such a dialogue with all students. “Not everybody is jumping up and down for this, but nothing works universally for everybody,” he said. “We still have a small population of kids we haven’t reached. Once we gather the data and the names of those kids, we’ll ask those kids what will entice them to do these things, to do the right thing.” Empen said data gathered also can help steer curriculum and educate the district on how to best meet kids’ needs. “In tight times and even in healthy times, you’re always looking at how you can program effectively for kids,” she said. “[PBIS] meant to develop those readiness skills and those intrinsic responsibilities you’re going to be required to have throughout your life.” Skeptical? That’s natural, Grady said. “Two years ago, I would’ve been concerned about what they’d ask for next,” he said. “I’m not so much now. If the kids collectively want something bad enough, they’re willing to do something equally important that

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DIXON – The comments can be cruel, society unforgiving, and hope a hard commodity to come by. But for those battling heroin and opioid addiction, the Sauk Valley offers sanctuary. You don’t need money. You don’t need insurance. All you need is a willingness to kick the habit to get help. So far, 105 people have taken advantage of free treatment and support offered by the Safe Passage Initiative. This month marks the first anniversary of the ground-breaking program. It’s a milestone well worth celebrating, with food and fellowship. The community is invited to do just that, from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at That Place on Palmyra, 628 Palmyra Road. A Lee County Drug Court graduate will speak, and local leaders of the initiative, including Lee County Sheriff John Simonton, Dixon Police Chief Danny Langloss, and Lee County Health Department Administrator Cathy Ferguson, will talk about the program’s successes, and its future. KSB Hospital President and

for a more compassionate community response to substance use disorders and issues.” Go there for news releases about the local Safe Passage program, and postings of news, features, benefits and other items related to addiction and recovery. • Lee County Health Department, 309 S. Galena Ave., which provides the opioid overdose antidote naloxone, and training in how to use it, free of charge to anyone who asks for it. It also has a free and legal syringe exchange program, and help with health care and treatment referrals. Go to www.lchd.com or call 815-284-3371. • The Whiteside County Community Health Clinic, 1300 W. Second St. in Rock Falls, offers a treatment program for opioid addiction, a doctor on staff certified to provide Suboxone treatment, recovery support groups and counseling. No one is turned away because of an inability to pay. Call 815-625-2230 for more information. • Safe Harbor offers a recovery group at

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DIXON – It’s funny. Liz Davis didn’t talk much about her disability growing up. Then she found her community, and now she can’t stop talking about it – laughing, even. The 26-year-old Sterling woman was born with a half-dozen congenital spine deformities. “I actually had to call mom to make sure this was all correct, and all the words were spelled correctly,” she joked Wednesday morning while showing a slideshow to Kiwanis Club of Dixon at KSB Hospital. “From about the neck down, it’s all over the place. I have metal in my back holding me up, and had a lot of constructive surgery to make me really stable now.” She achieved guest-ofhonor status by earning one of 18 spots on Team USA’s women’s developmental sled hockey team Aug. 25-28 in Buffalo, New York.

The squad feeds the national team that will compete in the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Tryna Zeman, a physician’s assistant with Now Care in Dixon, knew Davis long before her paralympic dream started materializing. “I think about 50 percent of our visits were because of sores on her knees and the tops of her feet that wouldn’t heal because she didn’t like her wheelchair,” Zeman said while introducing Davis. “So she’d use her arms to run herself around the house and give herself rugburns all the time. I was always lecturing her to cut that out, and she just wouldn’t listen to me.”

A chance encounter As a kid, Davis tried every sport she could find and became known in the neighborhood as the girl in the wheelchair who skateboards. With the assistance of a walker, she was able

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You’ve got to hear her story When Liz Davis, 26, of Sterling, spoke at the Kiwanis Club of Dixon meeting Wednesday morning, it was her first public speaking engagement. She not only crushed it, but she also enjoyed it immensely. “I would love to speak to schoolkids, especially disabled schoolkids in the area,” Davis said. “I can even bring equipment and show it to them.” She’d like to do more public speaking, particularly at schools to students with disabilities – although her inspiring story and perspective will inspire able-bodied folks, too. Contact her at 815-590-6232 or elizabeth.ch.davis@ gmail.com to arrange for her to speak at your school, business or club. and not want to try something new, or try to better themselves at something they misguidedly thought they’d mastered. Here’s the best part: Davis wasn’t always this confident. Getting into adaptive sports unlocked something in her, and now she’s capable of enthralling a room full of strangers on her very first try. DAVIS continued on A104

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iz Davis has a gift. She’s among the best women’s sled hockey players in the country, and she’s molding herself into a triathlete. But she has a genuine gift for public speaking. With deft comedic timing, she drew deep belly laughs throughout her first engagement Wednesday morning at the Kiwanis Club of Dixon meeting, and by the time she wrapped up, eyes around the room swelled with tears – mine included. It was personal, powerful and, for her first time out, it was darn near perfect. “I’d just like to say you’re an amazing spokeswoman for what you do,” said John Holthaus, who will take the reins as Kiwanis District 13’s lieutenant governor Oct. 1. “Thank you, and hopefully when I’m back next time, I’ll be on the national team,” she said. Here’s the thing: She meant it. Every word. Hers is the best kind of swagger. Cocky? Yes. Justified? Absolutely. Vindictive? Never. She’s simply spent her entire life proving to herself and, in turn, to others, that anything they can do, she can do better. And when others told her stuff like maybe skateboarding was a little too intense for her? “In my brain, I basically say, ‘OK, well, now I have to,’” she said during her presentation. Imagine being a youngster struggling to find a niche, and being able to grab onto some of that confidence. I’m not necessarily talking about disabled kids and adaptive sports, either. I’d challenge anyone of any level of ability to hear her story

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much. Now she’s making fun of herself, and I think of all the things she does with both her disabled friends and her able-bodied friends – it’s been a lot of fun watching this blossoming experience for her.” She needed a group in which activities, not commiseration, were the focus. “I can get behind doing sports together, and I can get behind going and smashing each other with sleds a couple of times a week,” she said. “I probably talk about disability more now than I ever did, because I’ve connected with more people with disabilities.”

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Tamley plugged Davis in to the Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association, a group that offers many sports to disabled people who want to be more active. Davis joined the Highland Park-based GLASA Falcons club team and, after securing one of six spots on the first women’s development team last summer, pulled double-duty. She’d fly out Fridays to game sites all over the nation, then fly back Sunday, just in time for her workweek to resume at Halo Branded Solutions in Sterling. The adrenaline of gliding and spinning along the ice, of scoring goals, of crashing violently into other sleds, is one thing. The bonds are another. Through adaptive sports, she’s found a crowd in which she can laugh at herself and others. “We joke about it,” she said. “I always tease standup hockey players that our sport is more metal than theirs, because of all the metal in our equipment, and they give it right back.” “That’s something that was kind of forbidden outside of limits before,” her dad said. “You could tease her a little bit, but not too

The hockey assist Davis said whenever she sees a youngster with a visible disability, she greets them with a question: “I always ask them if they play sports, and I try to rope them into it,” she said. She said she didn’t know many disabled people growing up. “I didn’t realize how many people felt the same way I did, that the disability wasn’t the forefront of their personality,” she said. “That they weren’t sitting at home. They were everyday people, just like me, doing what they do, stumbling their way through things, find-

ing things they like and don’t like, getting jobs. Living life.” She wishes she’d found this community sooner. But better late than never. “I wish I had that opportunity when I was younger,” she said. “Having that community is really important, and I think adaptive sports is the key to that for disabled people. “It will change your life.” Especially if life suddenly changed for you. She has a particularly big place in her heart for people who were once able-bodied but became disabled because of tragedies. “For me, this is all I’ve ever known,” she said. GLASA showed her that, even though adaptive sports groups are tough to find in the Sauk Valley, they’re out there waiting. GLASA liked her so much, saw so much potential in her, that the group paid for her gas, most of her gear, even built her a sled. But you don’t have to be the next Liz Davis. She said people, regardless of disability, age, ability level, whatever, can try out sled hockey for virtually free through the Quad-City Sled Hockey Association. You might have heard hockey is expensive, but in order to give folks a chance to toe the frozen

Ask even the best public speakers and they’ll tell you it takes practice. Standup comics will tell you getting great takes bombing and learning from it. Most news anchors are like lab experiments, carefully crafted, tweaked and recreated until audiences respond the way the network likes. The best public speakers put more polish on their script, their routine, their delivery, than a

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She dared to try Davis has taken her ambitions to the streets. She signed up for the Disney halfmarathon in Orlando in April, and has completed sprint triathlons through the Dare2Tri Paratriathlon Club. She won her hand cycle – used for the bike portion – through a grant via the California-based Challenged Athletes Foundation, and her racing bike is a loaner while she saves up for one tailor-made for her body, the way her hockey sled is. “Triathlons suck,” she said. “They’re very hard, and very intense, but they’re very worth it at the end. And the swimming? That’s easy. No equipment needed. Just a wetsuit, and you’re good. Easy.” Maybe for some. Maybe for all. They won’t know until they try, is Davis’ mantra. “What’s the worst that could happen?”

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Liz Davis, 26, of Sterling fell in love with the sport of sled hockey, and made the cut for the Team USA development team. Her goal is to perform so well with that feeder team that the national team calls her up for the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

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Trump admits Obama was born in U.S. Candidate reverses course, claims Clinton started ‘birther movement’ WASHINGTON (AP) – After 5 years as the chief promoter of a lie about Barack Obama’s birthplace, Donald Trump abruptly reversed course Friday and acknowledged the fact that the president was born in America. He then immediately peddled another false conspiracy. “PresiHillary dent Barack Clinton Obama was born in the United States, period,” Trump declared, enunciating each word in a brief statement at the end of a campaign appearance. “Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.” But as the GOP presidential nominee sought to put that false conspiracy theory to rest, he stoked another, claiming the “birther movement” was begun by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. There is no evidence that is true. “Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it,” Trump said. While the question of Obama’s birthplace was raised by some backers of Clinton’s primary campaign against Obama

8 years ago, Clinton has long denounced it as a “racist lie.” “Trump has spent years peddling a racist conspiracy aimed at undermining the first AfricanAmerican president,” Clinton tweeted after his Friday event. “He can’t just take it back.” Indeed, it is clear Trump’s foes will try to keep the criticism of his actions alive. AfricanAmerican members of Congress held a news conference at the Capitol to denounce him immediately after his appearance. Trump’s allegation on Clinton starting the controversy is the latest example of his tendency to repeat statements that are patently false. However, that did not affect his ability to beat more than a dozen challengers in the GOP primaries and has yet to dissuade his loyal supporters. His statement Friday, in a sprawling ballroom at his new Washington hotel, lasted only a few seconds following a lengthy campaign event featuring military officers and award winners who have endorsed him. That turned the appearance into a de facto commercial for his campaign and property, as the major cable TV networks

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taken. But Trump did not explain how or when he’d come to that conclusion. As late as Wednesday, he refused to acknowledge Obama was born in Hawaii, declining to address the matter in a Washington Post interview published late Thursday. “I’ll answer that question at the right time,” Trump said. “I just don’t want to answer it yet.” Clinton seized on Trump’s refusal during a speech Thursday night. “This man wants to be our next president? When will he stop this ugliness, this bigotry?” she asked. Hours later, Trump’s campaign spokesman Jason Miller issued a state-

ment that suggested the question had been settled 5 years ago – by Trump. “In 2011, Mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion by successfully compelling President Obama to release his birth certificate,” Miller said. “Mr. Trump did a great service to the president and the country by bringing closure to the issue that Hillary Clinton and her team first raised,” he added. The facts do not match Miller’s description. Trump repeatedly continued to question Obama’s birth in the years after the president released his birth certificate. In August 2012, for example, Trump was pushing the issue on Twitter. “An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that @BarackObama’s birth certificate is a fraud,” he wrote. Even in January of this year, Trump sounded skeptical when asked whether he now believed the president was a natural-born citizen. “Who knows? Who cares right now? We’re talking about something else,

OK?” Trump said in a CNN interview. “I mean, I have my own theory on Obama. Someday I’ll write a book.” Trump’s reversal comes as he works to win over African-American voters – many of whom have been turned off by his attempt to delegitimize the nation’s first black president. Obama took the unprecedented step of releasing his long-form birth certificate in 2011, amid persistent questions from Trump and others. On the day he released the document, Obama jabbed at Trump, saying, “We’re not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers.” The president added Friday that he hoped the election would focus on more serious issues, and said he “was pretty confident about where I was born.” After Trump’s event, the GOP nominee invited photographers and a camera on a tour of his new hotel property, without reporters present. Meanwhile, the backdrop of blue curtains that Trump had spoken in front of collapsed, toppling a row of American flags like dominoes.

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Numbers game The Cubs clinched the NL Central on Sept. 15, the earliest date a team has done so in 8 years: the Angels (Sept. 10) in 2008 – that’s also the last time the Cubs won the division crown.

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Old addition Panthers’ search for game turns up past foe Timeline of a schedule change May 2015: The Amboy school board votes to leave the Three Rivers Conference for the NUIC. June 2015: A meeting of Three Rivers principals blocks Amboy from leaving the conference after the 2015-16 school year. Jan. 2016: The Three Rivers changes course, allowing Amboy to leave at the end of the school year and sending football teams in the conference searching for another game. Spring/Summer 2016: ErieProphetstown searches for a Week 4 opponent in place of Amboy. Erie athletic director Brian Howell searches state association websites in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan to see if anyone has an open date. Unable to find an opponent at first, the IHSA awards E-P a forfeit win. Aug. 26: Rockford Christian Life has only 10 healthy players for its Week 1 game against Alden-Hebron. The teams agree to play an 8-man game, but it goes down in IHSA records as a forfeit win for Alden-Hebron. Sept. 7: Christian Life tells Ottawa Marquette it will forfeit its Week 4 game between the two teams due to low numbers. Marquette athletic director Todd Hopkins calls Howell to ask if E-P was interested in playing. Howell talks it over with Panthers coach Chuck Millem. Within hours, the game is finalized. Sept. 16: Marquette faces Erie-Prophetstown for the first time since 2009.

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Celebrate Cubs times, come on! Chicago wins division after Cards lose late BY JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer

The Erie-Prophetstown football team nearly had a night off. The players could have had a practice. The coaches could have been out scouting some other team. But instead of sitting at home Friday, the Panthers hit the field to take on former conference rival and current No. 2 team in Class 1A Ottawa Marquette. The reunion of the two teams that were conference rivals from 1999-2010 nearly didn’t happen, and is a game that, once the opening came about, was finalized with lightningquick speed. “It is kind of ironic we get to face a former conference team,” Erie athletic director Brian Howell said. “Marquette has been out of the conference so long that a lot of kids don’t remember Marquette playing, so for them it’s a new team.” Once upon a time, both the Panthers and Crusaders were scheduled to play someone else Week 4. For Erie-Prophetstown, that opponent was going to be Amboy; however with the Clippers’ move to the NUIC, all TRAC teams had to scramble for a new opponent. E-P quickly found that was going to be difficult. “It’s everybody’s homecoming or conference,” ErieProphetstown coach Chuck Millem said. “It’s not [Weeks] 1-3 or 7, 8, 9. It’s hard to get a game.” Howell posted on the IHSA website that the Panthers were looking for someone to play. Nothing came of it. E-P got on a waiting list for Chicago Public League teams. A couple

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Nathan Pierceson (16) and his Erie-Prophetstown teammates took the field for a game Friday night, after thinking they would have the week off. After unsuccessful attempts to fill an open date with Amboy’s departure to the NUIC, the Panthers were finally able to find a matchup against former Big Rivers foe Ottawa Marquette. teams did have to forfeit, but the CPL ended up being able to match teams with open dates against each other. Some TRAC teams found opponents in other states. St. Bede opened the year facing St. Catherine in Racine, Wis. Bureau Valley will travel to North Crawford, Wis., next

Saturday afternoon. E-P tried that route as well, looking at state association websites from Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan. It might have meant a 7-hour bus ride, but the Panthers wanted to be on the field. ADDITION continued on B44

LOCAL NOTEBOOK

Sands fitting in just fine at RF

CHICAGO – David Ross was on his way home when the Chicago Cubs clinched the NL Central, so he ducked into a bar on Sheffield Avenue for a drink. Ross, who plans to retire after this year, wanted to celebrate his last division title. The bartender recognized the backup catcher and bought him a shot of Jameson. The party is definitely on in Chicago. Ross and his teammates returned to Wrigley Field on Friday for the first time since St. Louis lost at San Francisco late Thursday, handing the NL Central over to the Cubs for the first time since 2008. The Cubs wasted a chance to clinch the division in front of their fans when they lost 5-4 to the Milwaukee Brewers, but they planned to celebrate after the second game of the series. “You’d rather celebrate on the field and all that, but it doesn’t really matter,” Ross said. “The key is getting in. You know, this is one of our goals and steps to a bigger goal, and so hopefully there’s a lot more partying to go on, especially here at Wrigley. But we’re going to enjoy this and we’ll enjoy ourselves tonight. Don’t worry about that.” The Cubs showed a highlight video before Friday’s game against Milwaukee, and then the players and coaches took the field to wave their caps to the cheering crowd. Several fans used their phones to take pictures of the scene. The division had seemed like a foregone conclusion since Chicago got off to a 25-6 start, serving notice that all the preseason hype was justified. Led by MVP candidates Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo and a ridiculously deep pitching staff, the Cubs began the day with the best record in baseball at 93-53. CELEBRATE continued on B24

Freshman not intimidated on court; Hamblen sorting out future By SVM Sports Staff

Seeing a freshman playing varsity volleyball at Rock Falls is nothing new. Coach Sheila Mammosser has never had any qualms with bringing up ninth graders to play in their first season as high schoolers. The latest is 5-foot-7 Maddie Sands, who saw varsity action for the first time against Sterling 9 days ago when Mammosser “threw a jersey at her and said, ‘You’re playing varsity tonight.’” Sands is familiar with the Rockets, as she played in some summer tournaments with them in place of other girls who were unable to make it those weekends. She served for three points and set for two assists Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.com against the Golden Warriors, Rock Falls freshman Maddie Sands goes for the kill on Sept. 8 then led the team with four against Sterling. Sands has been moved up to the varsity team, kills to go with four digs against with whom she played some tournaments during the summer. Mendota on Thursday.

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“The key thing is she played with me over the summer half of the time because we were missing other players, and she did a nice job,” Rock Falls coach Sheila Mammosser said. “She doesn’t hit the ball the hardest, but she’s smart about where and how she hits, and she keeps it in bounds. We’ve been so inconsistent with that this year, and kudos to her for not being intimidated and just playing her game.” Let the visits begin: Rock Falls senior Brayden Hamblen is a favorite to win the 1A championship at the state meet in November. Adding to his long list of race victories was Tuesday’s Twin City Meet at Centennial Park against Newman and Sterling. FITTING IN continued on B44

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The Cubs’ David Ross (left) and Anthony Rizzo wave to the crowd at Wrigley Field while celebrating their division title before Friday’s game against the Brewers.

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Saturday

Hockey 2:30 p.m.

Auto racing

• World Cup Group stage, United States vs. Europe, at Toronto, ESPN2

8 a.m.

• Formula One, Singapore Grand Prix, qualifying, CNBC

7 p.m.

• World Cup, Group stage, Czech Republic vs. Canada, ESPNNEWS MLB

9:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.

• NASCAR, Sprint Cup Series, TMNT 400, practice, CNBC

Noon

11:30 a.m.

• Yankees at Red Sox, FOX

• IMSA, Weathertech Sportscar Championship, Lone Star LeMans, FS2

3 p.m.

• Tigers at Indians, FS1

2:30 p.m.

• NASCAR, Xfinity Series, Drive for Safety 300, NBC

6 p.m.

• White Sox at Royals, CSN

4 & 5 p.m.

8 p.m.

• IndyCar, GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma, practice, NBCSN

• Cardinals at Giants, FSM Paralympics 11 p.m.

5 p.m.

• 2016 Rio Summer Games, NBCSN Soccer

• FIA World Endurance Championship, FS2 College football

8 a.m.

11 a.m.

• Florida St. at Louisville, ABC • Temple at Penn St., BTN • Akron at Marshall, CBSSN • Kansas at Memphis, ESPNU • Miami at Appalachian St., ESPN • N. Dakota St. at Iowa, ESPN2 • New Mexico at Rutgers, ESPNEWS • Iowa St. at TCU, FS1 • SC State at Clemson, FSN • Ohio at Tennessee, SEC 1:30 p.m.

• FAU at Kansas St., FSN 2 p.m.

• Eastern Illinois at Illinois State, CSN 2:30 p.m.

• Oregon at Nebraska, ABC • Colorado at Michigan, BTN • Alabama at Mississippi, CBS • San Diego St. at N. Illinois, CBSSN • Pittsburgh at Oklahoma St., ESPN • Boston College at Virginia Tech, ESPNU • James Madison at North Carolina, FSN 3 p.m.

• W. Michigan at Illinois, ESPNNEWS • East Carolina at South Carolina, SEC 6 p.m.

• Maryland at UCF, CBSSN • Mississippi St. at LSU, ESPN2 • Texas A&M at Auburn, ESPN • Louisiana Tech at Texas Tech, FSN 6:30 p.m.

• North Texas at Florida, ESPNU • Ohio St. at Oklahoma, FOX • Michigan St. at Notre Dame, NBC • Georgia at Missouri, SEC 7 p.m.

• Southern Cal at Stanford, ABC • Duke at Northwestern, BTN 9:15 p.m.

• UCLA at BYU, ESPN2 9:30 p.m.

• Utah at San Jose St., CBSSN • Texas at California, ESPN • Grambling St. at Jackson St. (same-day tape), ESPNU Golf 5:30 a.m.

• LPGA Tour, The Evian Championship, third round, GOLF 10:30 a.m.

• European PGA Tour, Italian Open, third round, GOLF 2 p.m.

• Web.com Tour, Albertsons Boise Open, third round, GOLF 5 p.m.

• Champions Tour, Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach, second round, at Pebble Beach, Calif., GOLF

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The Cubs’ Miguel Montero (second from right) celebrates with teammates after hitting a walk-off solo home run in the 10th inning to beat the Brewers 5-4 on Friday at Wrigley Field.

Upping the party ante Montero’s walk-off homer in 10th sinks Brewers BY JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer

CHICAGO – Miguel Montero and the Chicago Cubs were going to celebrate no matter what happened in Friday’s game against the Milwaukee Brewers. One sweet swing by the veteran catcher turned it into one raucous party. Montero homered in the 10th inning, and the Cubs celebrated the NL Central title with a dramatic 5-4 victory over the Brewers. “It all worked out pretty good,” a champagne-soaked Montero said with a smile. The Cubs became the first major league team to clinch their division when St. Louis lost at San Francisco late Thursday night. They had a chance to wrap it up in front of their delirious fans at Wrigley Field earlier Thursday, but Scooter Gennett’s tiebreaking two-run double in the seventh lifted Milwaukee to a 5-4 win. A day later, they put a stylish finish on their summer-long dominance of the Central. Chicago (94-53) pushed across two runs in the ninth, and Montero connected for a leadoff drive in the 10th against Blaine Boyer (2-4). The Cubs poured out of the dugout to mob Montero at home plate, and then pulled on postseason hats and shirts as the crowd of 40,823 cheered wildly. There were hugs all around before the team gathered for a photo in front of the pitcher’s mound with one of the ‘W’ flags that fly all over the Chicago area

MLB this weekend Saturday • Brewers (Zach Davies,10-7, 3.87) at Cubs (Jake Arrieta, 17-6, 2.91) 3:05 p.m. • White Sox (Miguel Gonzalez, 4-6, 3.82) at Royals (Jason Vargas, 0-0), 6:15 p.m., CSN • Cardinals (Mike Leak, 9-10, 4.60) at Giants (Jeff Samardzija, 11-10, 4.07), 8:05 p.m., FSM Sunday • White Sox (Jose Quintana, 12-10, 3.05) at Royals (Danny Duffy, 11-2, 3.15), 1:15 p.m. • Brewers (Wily Peralta, 6-10, 5.42) at Cubs (Kyle Hendricks, 15-7, 2.03) 1:20 p.m. • Cardinals (Alex Reyes, 2-1, 1.29) at Giants (Albert Suarez, 3-3, 4.20), 3:05 p.m., FSM after Cubs victories. The celebration then transitioned to the team’s refurbished clubhouse, where players sprayed each other with champagne while a DJ played dance music. “If we had lost, we’d still be having fun, but it wouldn’t be as fun as it is right now,” said second baseman Ben Zobrist, one of several regulars who got the day off. “This team all year long, we don’t give up. We never quit.” Chris Coghlan had three hits for the Cubs, including an RBI single that sparked the ninthinning rally. Albert Almora Jr. hit a two-run homer, and Aroldis Chapman (4-1) struck out the side in the 10th for his first win

with the Cubs. Ryan Braun, Orlando Arcia and Scooter Gennett homered for Milwaukee (66-82), which wasted another solid start by Chase Anderson. Andrew Susac added two hits. The Brewers also lost two outfielders to injuries. Center fielder Keon Broxton slammed into the wall in left center while tracking down Tommy La Stella’s drive in the third inning, breaking his right wrist. He was replaced by Kirk Nieuwenhuis, who left in the seventh inning with an abdominal strain. “It’s very disappointing,” Broxton said. “I wanted to finish out the season, keep working, keep getting comfortable and keep getting more experience. It’s a tough loss right now, but I’ll come back strong.” Gennett’s tiebreaking two-run drive made it 4-2 in the seventh, but the Cubs responded in the ninth. Coghlan singled in Willson Contreras, and pinch-hitter Addison Russell drove in the tying run with an infield hit, sliding headfirst into the bag to beat the throw from Gennett at second. The Cubs had the bases loaded with one out, but Matt Szczur lined to center and Javier Baez tapped back to reliever Carlos Torres, ending the inning. Torres’ escape delayed the start of the Cubs’ party, but they quickly made up for lost time. “Just got to keep pushing,” Russell said. “This is only the beginning.”

Cubs plan to rest players before playoffs CELEBRATE

care of his pitching staff. “Now we have this CONTINUED FROM B1 opportunity to plan it t out, slowly, really try to It is 108 years and make some intelligent counting since Chidecisions while we’re cago last won the World still playing the same Series in 1908, a drought game with the same the Cubs hope to end kind of intensity,” Madthis year. But in the don said. “That’s what meantime, they weren’t we’re looking for.” taking the NL Central Most of Chicago’s title for granted. regulars were out of “Winning your divithe lineup for the Frision, that’s a highlight,” day afternoon start, manager Joe Maddon and Maddon said he said. “It’s always a planned to wait until highlight. Being able to Saturday for more inavoid a wild-card game depth discussions with ... you really want to his coaching staff about avoid that if you possiAP their plans for the rest bly can.” Chicago Cubs fans celebrate the team’s division of the regular season. Chicago beat Pittstitle before Friday’s game against the Brewers at For now, the Cubs were burgh in the wild-card ready to party. Wrigley Field. game a year ago, and “It’s exciting,” Ross then eliminated St. postseason spot, and said. “Winning the divifor home-field advanLouis before it was that also was via a loss tage throughout the NL sion is pretty cool and, swept by the New York by another contender. postseason, but clinch- you know, a rare treat. Mets in the NL ChampiThis time around, Chi- ing the division so early I think we’ve seen this onship Series. The Cubs cago is into the playoffs gives Maddon plenty of coming for a while now, but it’s nice to have that with a couple weeks to time to rest some posihad to wait until Sept. finally in the books.” spare. It is still hoping tion players and take 25 to clinch their 2015

• Premier League, Hull City at Arsenal, NBCSN 11:30 a.m.

• Premier League, Middlesbrough at Everton, NBC

Sunday Auto racing 6:30 a.m.

• Formula One, Singapore Grand Prix, NBCSN 1:30 p.m.

• NASCAR, Sprint Cup Series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400, NBCSN 5:30 p.m.

• IndyCar, GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma, NBCSN Hockey 2 p.m.

• World Cup, Group stage, Sweden vs. Russia, ESPN 7 p.m.

• World Cup, Group stage, North America vs. Finland, ESPN2 Golf 7 a.m.

• LPGA Tour, The Evian Championship, final round, GOLF 11 a.m.

• LPGA Tour, The Evian Championship, final round, NBC • European PGA Tour, Italian Open, final round, GOLF 2 p.m.

• Web.com Tour, Albertsons Boise Open, final round, GOLF 5 p.m.

• Champions Tour, Nature Valley First Tee Open GOLF MLB Noon

• Tigers at Indians, ESPN 3 p.m.

• Cardinals at Giants, FSM 7 p.m.

• Yankees at Red Sox, ESPN NFL Noon

• Bengals at Steelers, CBS • Cowboys at Redskins, FOX 3:25 p.m.

• Colts at Broncos, CBS 7:20 p.m.

• Packers at Vikings, NBC Paralympics 2 p.m.

• 2016 Rio Summer Games, NBCSN 9:30 p.m.

• 2016 Rio Summer Games, Closing Ceremony, NBCSN Soccer 6 a.m.

• Premier League, Manchester United at Watford, CNBC 8:15 a.m.

• Premier League, Stoke City at Crystal Palace, CNBC 6:30 p.m.

• Women, International friendly, United States vs. Netherlands, FS1

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On the calendar Local events

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Saturday College cross country 10:45 a.m.

• Sauk Valley at Tom Hoffman Invitational, UWWhitewater Men’s golf 10 a.m.

• Sauk Valley at Timber Creek Classic, Dixon Women’s volleyball TBA

• Sauk Valley at Waubonsee Region IV Invitational Cross country 9 a.m.

• Sterling at Geneseo Invitational 9:30 a.m.

• Erie-Prophetstown, Amboy, Rock Falls, Newman at Bureau Valley Invitational Boys golf 8 a.m.

• Rock Falls, Bureau Valley at Princeton Invitational 8:30 a.m.

• Erie, Amboy, Fulton, Morrison, Prophetstown, West Carroll at Brinkmeier Invitational, Port Byron 9 a.m.

• Sterling at Freeport Invitational • Polo at Salley Wessels Invitational, Mount Morris Girls golf 8:30 a.m.

• Sterling, Rock Falls, West Carroll at Geneseo Invitational 9 a.m.

• Dixon. Newman at Wessels Invitational, Mount Morris Boys soccer 9 a.m.

• Hinckley-Big Rock vs. Dixon at Sauk Valley Community College

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a know there is only one thing in my book that is better than arriving at your vacation destination. That would be getting home when said vacation is over with. I just wish I could say my trip home from Memphis and the Mississippi River Monster Tourney was as smooth as the trip down. I just knew the trip had gone a touch too smooth that something was bound to go wrong. So when I saw flames and smoke shooting from my driver-side trailer tire, I wasn’t all that surprised. Mad? Oh, you bet, but not surprised. It seems a set of bearings don’t go as far as they used to, at least not when the job isn’t done right, but that’s a whole other story. So here we are, 8:30 on a Saturday night in No-wheresville, Missouri with a brokendown trailer. Mildly put, we’re screwed. Actually the name of the town was Portageville, and it wasn’t all that different of a town than, say, Erie or Prophetstown in size. Our mission here was to find a mechanic and start putting together a plan to get things fixed and back on the road. Locals soon had us in touch with a guy named Neil who worked at Mike’s Repair, a shop with a giant sign over the door that said “Buddy’s.” Go figure.

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Legendary angler Bill Dance (right) and CatMatt hang out at the Mississippi River Monsters weighin last week in Memphis. Anyhow, Neil from Mike’s assured us he’d get the trailer fixed up Sunday without a problem. A quick call was made to my friends, Jesse and Amy, who were still in Tennessee and just happen to have an extra vehicle, and the plans were made. All that had to happen now was a guy I had never met before had to fix a trailer he’d never seen before, and get it done on Sunday before my friends passed through. Well, I’m not sure how many people like old Neil exist in today’s world, but this guy ran to three towns to secure parts and got my trailer done … on a Sunday before 3 p.m.

He charged me 50 bucks for labor, and all he would say is he was sorry it took so long. Moral of the story is there are really good people out there, more than we know, most we will never meet. Every once in awhile your faith in humanity needs a little shot of assurance, and this was mine. If you’re ever in southeastern Missouri and have a mechanical emergency, give old Neil a call. He’s good people. I guess I kinda put the buggy in front of the horse here by not mentioning how awesome it was to compete in such a great event. The MRM tourney went off without a hitch, and we had an

absolute ball competing against the best in the country. We managed to place in the top half of the field without being anywhere close to being properly equipped to fish the conditions there. Definitely need lots of big 12- to 16-ounce sinkers. A new strong trolling motor is also a necessity. My partner Addison Folkers and I did manage to weigh in three flatheads though, and that’s our passion, so we were satisfied. Thursday morning, I found myself back on the clear tranquil waters of the Rock River. Back in the real country I’m used to. No barges and pleasure boats. No city noises or 10-milean-hour current. Just a little breeze at my back and geese honkin’ overhead. Reminded me real quick that vacations are pretty cool, but when it’s all said and done, I’ll take our little river here in northwest Illinois, tucked in between corn fields and gravel roads. Until next week all, Go Catfish!

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CHARLOTTE, N.C.– NASCAR’s playoffs are set to begin with a new set of rules that gives the sanctioning body the power to issue far stiffer penalties – so stringent that a driver could lose the championship if his team fails inspection. The increased penalties announced Wednesday give NASCAR the authority to levy a harsh penalty should a car fail a post-race trip to the Laser Inspection Station. How stiff? A winning team would not be able to use the victory to advance to the next round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. The same penalty could apply to a team that does not have enough secure lug nuts on a car’s wheels at the end of a race. The new punishments, under guidelines applying to “encumbered finishes,” will go into effect if a team fails the post-race laser by a significant amount, or if three or more of the 20 lug nuts aren’t secure after a race. A winning team will not be stripped of the victory, but the benefits that come with a win could be docked. “We wanted to make sure that the door wasn’t open for

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NASCAR officials use a template to check the front end of Jeff Gordon’s Chevrolet before a 2015 race. New penalties this year could prove costly. a team to really take advantage of the rules,” said Scott Miller, senior vice president of competition. “The level of infraction that it takes to end up with an encumbered finish, we haven’t seen that. It would certainly be egregious from everything we’ve seen before.” The guidelines came the same day NASCAR docked Martin Truex Jr. 35 points and fined crew chief Cole Pearn $15,000 because Truex’s car failed the laser

inspection Saturday night at Richmond. The points deduction does not apply to Truex for the Chase, which begins Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway, because the points have been reset to seed the 16-driver field. Truex begins the Chase seeded sixth. Among the significant changes announced Wednesday was one addressing missing lug nuts. A crew chief will no longer be suspended for one missing lug nut, because NASCAR found

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Bears will have hands full Chicago gets first look at Wentz when Eagles visit BY ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer

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Aaron Rodgers (12) has extended the Packers’ success against the Vikings since taking over at QB for Brett Favre. Green Bay has a 15-5-1 record against Minnesota since 2006.

Grand opening in Minnesota Packers fitting first visitor as Vikings unveil new stadium Favre, the newly minted member of the Pro FootMINNEAPOLIS – Folball Hall of Fame, and lowing a decade-plus of Rodgers, the two-time NFL lobbying and 2½ years of Most Valuable Player, have construction, the Minne- made the Packers the envy sota Vikings have arrived of the league, let alone of at the grand opening of the Vikings, for nearly 25 their new stadium, with years. Their elite ability the Green Bay Packers has been supplemented serving as the fitting visi- by exceptional durability, tors on the national stage further underscored by the of a Sunday night game. devastating knee injury The Vikings will unveil that knocked Minnesota yet another starting quar- quarterback Teddy Bridgeterback in the history of water out for the season this rivalry, too, a series and maybe longer. controlled by the Pack“Hopefully I can ride ers since Aaron Rodgers this out a little longer assumed the signaland then pass along to caller’s role. Rodgers has the next guy who’s going extended what’s been a to go on a run like Brett remarkable run of stabil- and I have,” said Rodgers, ity and success at the who has missed only nine sport’s most vital posigames in 8 years. tion dating to the dawn of Seven of those came in Brett Favre’s career. 2013, when his broken “We’re obviously collarbone forced three blessed,” said Packers other quarterbacks into coach Mike McCarthy, action. Since Rodgers took who overlapped with over, he has opposed six Favre’s final two seasons different Vikings starters in Green Bay, and is 15-5- out of the 10 that they’ve 1 against Minnesota since sent out since 2008. If Sam taking the job in 2006. Bradford makes his widely McCarthy added: “I’m expected debut on Sunsure they kiss their moth- day, those totals would ers every chance they get.” reach seven and 11. BY DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer

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t “We were open to the idea, actually had permission from the principal and superintendent to travel out of state, but they were just filled,” Howell said. By the start of the season, Erie-Prophetstown was preparing to take Week 4 off. Meanwhile, Marquette had assumed its Week 4 opponent would be Rockford Christian Life. The season had a rough start for Christian Life. They came in with 18 players on the roster, and the Northwest Herald reported that they only had 10 to dress for the Week 1 game against Alden-Hebron. The teams agreed to play an 8-man game, but it goes into the IHSA record books as a forfeit win for Alden-Hebron. The roster issues did not go away for Christian Life. The Eagles again played 8-man games Weeks 2 and 3, then informed Marquette they would have to forfeit Week 4. Marquette got news of the forfeit Sept. 7, and almost immediately, Marquette athletic director Todd Hopkins was on the phone. Hopkins and Howell have been friends for 20 years – Howell began his teaching career at Marquette – and Hopkins knew his old friend was looking for a game. “Once he got ahold of me, I talked to Coach Millem to see what his thoughts were,” Howell said.

After months of waiting and searching for a team to play, within 2 hours of the phone call, the contracts had been faxed, signed, and faxed back. Erie-Prophetstown had found a Week 4 game. Instead of a night off or a bus trip to another state or into Chicago, the Panthers got to welcome the Crusaders to Erie. “That’s huge to get another home date,” Howell said. “It’s always nice to play at home, especially after playing away from home for 2 weeks. It’s always special to get a home date under your own lights.” From there, the Panthers had to get ready to face a team they didn’t know much about and hadn’t planned on seeing. Helping matters was the fact that not only was Marquette a former Big Rivers team, but also that the Crusaders are coached by former Morrison coach Tom Jobst. “We still exchanged two films like we do in our conference,” Millem said. “Coach Jobst is familiar with our conference and said ‘Let’s do that,’ so that’s what we did. Obviously we’re not as familiar with their kids, but the film teaches us a lot.” Ultimately, the renewed rivalry between the Crusaders and the Panthers lasted for one night only. With MonmouthRoseville joining the conference next fall, ErieProphetstown doesn’t have an open date on its 2017 schedule.

LAKE FOREST – Carson Wentz turned heads in his NFL debut. Now, all eyes will be on him. Wentz looks to build on a promising start to his career when he leads the Philadelphia Eagles against the Chicago Bears on Monday night. The No. 2 overall draft pick looked like he was ready for prime time when he threw for 278 yards and two touchdowns in last week’s 29-10 victory over the hapless Cleveland Browns. He did that after attempting just 24 passes in the preseason before injuring his ribs. That didn’t stop the Eagles (1-0) from elevating him to the No. 1 spot following Sam Bradford’s trade to Minnesota. And Wentz rewarded Doug Pederson by helping him pick up a win in his first game as an NFL head coach. The Bears (0-1), meanwhile, are trying to shake off a rough 23-14 loss at Houston. Quarterback Jay Cutler got knocked around behind a shuffled offensive line, and the defense did not make enough plays against Brock Osweiler. It added up to a shaky start for a team looking for more in its second season under coach John Fox after finishing last in the NFC North at 6-10. “You want to protect your home field and come out and play well,” receiver Eddie Royal said. “You don’t want to start losing games in a row. You want to win all of them. Especially, you don’t want to drop two in a row. We’re not thinking about that. All we’re thinking about is winning and just getting ready and prepared for a good Philadelphia team.” Balanced attack: The Eagles mixed the run and pass well against the Browns and dominated time of possession, a rarity under Chip Kelly. Pederson called 41 passes and 32 runs. The result was 403 total yards, and the offense controlled the clock for 39:20. Philadelphia won time of possession just 15 times from 2013-15, and never had the ball for 35 minutes in any game during that span. “If you don’t keep throwing, as they say, mud against the wall, eventually something is going to stick,” Pederson said. “You’ve just got to keep hammering away and chiseling away, and eventually something’s going to give, and it just opens up the rest of the game plan.” Protecting Cutler: The Bears’ offensive line was in a difficult spot last week, and figures to have its hands full again with

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After an impressive debut last week, Eagles rookie QB Carson Wentz will make his first trip to Soldier Field to play the Bears on Monday. Pro Bowl tackle Fletcher Cox leading a tough defense. At least Chicago’s blockers will have some more time together. The late signing of three-time Pro Bowl left guard Josh Sitton following his release by Green Bay, and the resulting shift to center for rookie Cody Whitehair, created several moving parts. Left tackle Charles Leno Jr. and right tackle Bobby Massie did little to distinguish themselves. And a fierce Houston defense had five sacks and another 13 hits on Cutler. At least Sitton impressed Fox. “I think he did pretty remarkable, to be honest with you, especially on the road, noisy stadium, silent count, all the things that go into playing in an indoor noisy stadium on foreign soil,” Fox said. Pressuring Cutler: Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz doesn’t call many blitzes. Instead, he relies on the front four to pressure quarterbacks. It worked well against the Browns with Cox,

Connor Barwin and Brandon Graham getting sacks. “It just helps the back end so much when you can affect the quarterback’s eyes with four guys and make him get off of his launch point in the pocket,” Pederson said. Room to grow: Chicago’s Kevin White showed in his long-awaited debut he still has plenty to learn before becoming a top receiver. He had three catches for 34 yards and one big gaffe in the opening minute of the third quarter. White, who sat out last season because of a stress fracture in his left shin, pulled up on a route rather than cut to the right flat. It led to an interception against Cutler, who was seen pointing at his receiver and waving toward the right sideline. “By no means was that a bad day for Kevin,” Royal said. “I thought he played well. Some little things he could have done better. He’ll learn from them.”

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libero while senior Mady Ferris was out last week with a concussion, but t they were without the While he’s not runheart and soul of their ning, preparing to run, team as well. or doing schoolwork, Ferris was cleared to Hamblen is trying to return last Friday, and put his future together, Newman beat St. Bede preferably at a university in three sets on Tueswhere he can be a great day, then followed with fit on their cross country a road win over Hall on and track teams. Thursday. Hamblen has made “It helps us a lot [to visits to Illinois, Iowa have her back], because and Nebraska so far, but she’s a leader with our made his first “official” communication back visit last weekend to Iowa there,” junior Lauren City, where, among other Wilson said. “She also things, he got to see the keeps the ball in play and Cy-Hawk rivalry game goes after everything; if between the Hawkeyes nobody else is chasing and Iowa State. the ball, Mady will dive “I got to go to the Iowafor it and get it back up.” Iowa State game for free,” Now in her third year Hamblen said. “It was starting with Ferris, Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.com a lot of fun. The coach senior hitter Madalyn Rock Falls senior Brayden Hamblen made his first [Randy Hasenbank] is official college visit last weekend, when he traveled Wilson is no longer surreally nice, he brought prised by the talents of to Iowa City to see the University of Iowa. me in as if I was one of her classmate. In fact, their own for the weekObviously you know us in the right workouts after seeing Ferris track end. It was a great time.” and the right runs to get about a player like that. down seemingly imposHamblen would like He strikes the ball really us to the postseason.” sible digs to keep points to make a final decision well. He’s quality on the alive more times than No specific plan: The and sign before the start Geneseo soccer team ball, but I don’t know it’s she can count, Wilson of track and field season. kept Tony Diaz relatively anything we had to espe- has come to expect Meanwhile, he’ll concially work on.” points to continue on quiet for most of Thurstinue to prepare for what day’s game at Roscoe Diaz had his first shot after most other players could be a memorable on goal in the 43rd min- think they’d be over. Eades Stadium, though cross country season. ute and saw it go wide “Mady is huge for us in Leafs coach Ian Kline “We’ve been putting in said he did not specififrom 40 yards out. He got the back row, because a lot of miles,” Hamblen she can get to things that cally have a plan to focus another couple chances said. “We’ve been worknobody else can,” Madaon the Warriors’ senior. before finding the back ing really hard. I know of the net in the 62nd lyn Wilson said. “You “He plays the ball as my guys are banged up, minute with a left-footed think it’s a point for the much as he shoots the but come November, strike from 25 yards. other team, and there’s ball,” Kline said. “When Mady getting under it and we’re going to be ready. you defend a player that Glad to have Mady knocking it back up and Our coaches [Mark doesn’t only shoot, you back: Not only were the keeping the rally going. Truesdell and Mindy just defend. We didn’t Newman Comets missShe’s a rock back there.” Porter] have been putting really talk about it. ing an all-conference CONTINUED FROM B1

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NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 1 0 0 1.000 23 21 N.Y. Jets 1 1 0 .500 59 54 Miami 0 1 0 .000 10 12 Buffalo 0 2 0 .000 38 50 South W L T Pct PF PA Houston 1 0 0 1.000 23 14 Indianapolis 0 1 0 .000 35 39 Jacksonville 0 1 0 .000 23 27 Tennessee 0 1 0 .000 16 25 North W L T Pct PF PA Pittsburgh 1 0 0 1.000 38 16 Baltimore 1 0 0 1.000 13 7 Cincinnati 1 0 0 1.000 23 22 Cleveland 0 1 0 .000 10 29 West W L T Pct PF PA Kansas City 1 0 0 1.000 33 27 Denver 1 0 0 1.000 21 20 Oakland 1 0 0 1.000 35 34 San Diego 0 1 0 .000 27 33

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA 1 0 0 1.000 20 19 1 0 0 1.000 29 10 0 1 0 .000 19 20 0 1 0 .000 16 38 South W L T Pct PF PA Tampa Bay 1 0 0 1.000 31 24 Carolina 0 1 0 .000 20 21 New Orleans 0 1 0 .000 34 35 Atlanta 0 1 0 .000 24 31 North W L T Pct PF PA Minnesota 1 0 0 1.000 25 16 Detroit 1 0 0 1.000 39 35 Green Bay 1 0 0 1.000 27 23 Chicago 0 1 0 .000 14 23 West W L T Pct PF PA San Francisco 1 0 0 1.000 28 0 Seattle 1 0 0 1.000 12 10 Arizona 0 1 0 .000 21 23 Los Angeles 0 1 0 .000 0 28 Thursday’s result N.Y. Jets 37, Buffalo 31 Sunday’s games San Francisco at Carolina, Noon Dallas at Washington, Noon Miami at New England, Noon New Orleans at N.Y. Giants, Noon Baltimore at Cleveland, Noon. Tennessee at Detroit, Noon. Kansas City at Houston, Noon. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, Noon Seattle at Los Angeles, 3:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Arizona, 3:05 p.m. Jacksonville at San Diego, 3:25 p.m. Indianapolis at Denver, 3:25 p.m. Atlanta at Oakland, 3:25 p.m. Green Bay at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m. Monday’s games Philadelphia at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

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College Football Saturday Top 25 games No. 1 Alabama at No. 19 Mississippi, 3 p.m. No. 2 Florida State at No. 10 Louisville, 11 a.m. No. 3 Ohio State at No. 14 Oklahoma, 6:30 p.m. No. 4 Michigan vs. Colorado, 2:30 p.m. No. 5 Clemson vs. SC State, 11 a.m. No. 7 Stanford vs. Southern Cal, 7 p.m. No. 8 Washington vs. Portland State, 7 p.m. No. 9 Wisconsin vs. Georgia State, 11 a.m. No. 11 Texas at California, 9:30 p.m. No. 12 Michigan St. at No. 18 Notre Dame, 6:30 p.m. No. 13 Iowa vs. North Dakota State, 11 a.m. No. 15 Tennessee vs. Ohio, 11 a.m. No. 16 Georgia at Missouri, 6:30 p.m. No. 17 Texas A&M at Auburn, 6 p.m. No. 20 LSU vs. Mississippi State, 6 p.m. No. 22 Oregon at Nebraska, 2:30 p.m. No. 23 Florida vs. North Texas, 6:30 p.m. No. 24 Arkansas vs. Texas State, 6:30 p.m. No. 25 Miami at Appalachian State, 11 a.m.

BIG TEN CONFERENCE East Conference All Games W L PF PA W L PF PA Indiana 0 0 0 0 2 0 64 33 Maryland 0 0 0 0 2 0 93 27 Michigan 0 0 0 0 2 0 114 17 Ohio St. 0 0 0 0 2 0 125 13 Michigan St. 0 0 0 0 1 0 28 13 Penn St. 0 0 0 0 1 1 72 55 Rutgers 0 0 0 0 1 1 65 62 West Conference All Games W L PF PA W L PF PA Iowa 0 0 0 0 2 0 87 24 Minnesota 0 0 0 0 2 0 88 51 Nebraska 0 0 0 0 2 0 95 27 Wisconsin 0 0 0 0 2 0 70 24 Illinois 0 0 0 0 1 1 75 51 Purdue 0 0 0 0 1 1 65 56 Northwestern 0 0 0 0 0 2 28 31 Saturday games Georgia St. at Wisconsin, 11 a.m. N. Dakota St. at Iowa, 11 a.m. New Mexico at Rutgers, 11 a.m. Temple at Penn St., 11 a.m. Oregon at Nebraska, 2:30 p.m. Colorado at Michigan, 2:30 p.m. W. Michigan at Illinois, 3 p.m. Maryland at UCF, 6 p.m. Ohio St. at Oklahoma, 6:30 p.m. Michigan St. at Notre Dame, 6:30 p.m. Duke at Northwestern, 7 p.m.

MAC East Conference All Games W L PF PA W L PF PA Akron 0 0 0 0 1 1 57 78 BGSU 0 0 0 0 1 1 37 103 Ohio 0 0 0 0 1 1 91 77 Buffalo 0 0 0 0 0 1 16 22 Kent St. 0 0 0 0 0 2 49 72 Miami (Ohio) 0 0 0 0 0 2 38 66 West Conference All Games W L PF PA W L PF PA C. Michigan 0 0 0 0 2 0 79 30 Toledo 0 0 0 0 2 0 76 13 W. Michigan 0 0 0 0 2 0 92 42 Ball St. 0 0 0 0 1 1 51 51 E. Michigan 0 0 0 0 1 1 82 65 N. Illinois 0 0 0 0 0 2 51 88 Saturday games Ohio at Tennessee, 11 a.m. Akron at Marshall, 11 a.m. Middle Tennessee at Bowling Green, 11 a.m. Fresno St. at Toledo, 2 p.m. E. Kentucky at Ball St., 2 p.m. UNLV at Cent. Michigan, 2 p.m. Monmouth (NJ) at Kent St., 2:30 p.m. San Diego St. at N. Illinois, 2:30 p.m. W. Kentucky at Miami (Ohio), 2:30 p.m. W. Michigan at Illinois, 3 p.m. E. Michigan at Charlotte, 5 p.m. Buffalo at Nevada, 8 p.m.

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n 1966, college football teams kicked off after Labor Day and ended before Thanksgiving. African-Americans were still a year away from playing in the SEC. There was no playoff, no BCS. Teams split national championships. And games ended in ties. Some of those ties were more memorable than the victories. So memorable that 50 years later, the games still are dissected by those who called the plays – and journalists who called the shots. When Michigan State and Notre Dame meet Saturday night, it will mark 50 years since the most famous and infamous meeting between the teams. They were ranked 1-2 in both the media and coaches polls and exited Spartan Stadium with nothing settled. It was a 10-10 deadlock. “A really hard-hitting game,” Spartans receiver Gene Washington recalled. “The field was not a good place to be. Whether you were on offense or defense, [the hits] were really coming.” Some of the toughest shots came after the game. Dan Jenkins was the most influential college football writer at the time, a Sports Illustrated scribe with an irreverent style who would go on to pen legendary novels such as “Dead Solid Perfect” and “Semi-Tough.” He believed Irish coach Ara Parseghian should have been more aggressive after his team took over at the its 30-yard line with 1 minute, 10 seconds to play. Jenkins wrote Parseghian chose to “tie one for the Gipper.” That sentiment still steams the 93-year-old Parseghian. He told the Tribune by telephone: “We didn’t go for a tie; the game ended in a tie. Christ, somebody ought to wake up to that.” First, a little background: Notre Dame entered the game No. 1, the nation’s highestscoring team at 37.7 points per game. But top running back Nick Eddy was sidelined after slipping on ice while exiting the train in East Lansing. And Michigan State’s Bubba Smith knocked out quarterback Terry Hanratty on a first-quarter sack. Notre Dame rallied from 10-0 down, missing on the chance for a 13-10 lead when a 41-yard field goal attempt sailed wide.

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Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian (left) shakes hands with Michigan State’s Duffy Daugherty after the teams played to a 10-10 tie in 1966. The Irish won the national title; MSU finished second.

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“We’d fought hard to come back and tie it up,” Parseghian said at the time. “After all that, I didn’t want to risk giving it to them cheap. They get reckless and it could cost them the game. I wasn’t going to do a jackass thing like that at this point.” Reminded of the “jackass” quote, Parseghian said, “That’s exactly right. It would have been easy to blow the game. We knew they were laid back in pass defense. We were using draw plays, screens. On the second-to-last play, Bubba Smith came over our No. 2 center and got a sack. So the last play of the game was a quarterback sneak.” Parseghian said the illinformed have lost sight of what actually transpired: “I’ve had young people came up to me saying: How come you didn’t go for two?” Jenkins is a now primarily a golf writer who strived to entertain.

Memorable ties in college football NOV. 9, 1946: ARMY 0, NOTRE DAME 0 This was football, not soccer, and the scoreless draw was actually one of the most memorable games of its era. It featured four Heisman Trophy winners, and top-ranked Army was unable to break through against the second-ranked Irish at Yankee Stadium. NOV. 23, 1968: HARVARD 29, YALE 29 The headline of Harvard’s student newspaper – “Harvard Beats Yale 29-29” – said it best. The Crimson erased a 29-13 deficit by scoring 16 points in the final 42 seconds. NOV. 24, 1973: MICHIGAN 10, OHIO STATE 10 They’re still bitter about this one in Ann Arbor. The Wolverines and Buckeyes were both unbeaten when this game ended deadlocked, so the Big Ten’s athletic directors voted to decide who went to the Rose Bowl. Ohio State was the choice. It’s a wonder the league didn’t adopt an overtime format immediately afterward. JAN. 1, 1988: AUBURN 16, SYRACUSE 16 Auburn coach Pat Dye caused an uproar when the Tigers kicked a 30-yard field goal in the final seconds to spoil Syracuse’s shot at a 12-0 season. Dye stood by his decision: “If they wanted to win, they should have blocked the field goal.” NOV. 25, 1995: WISCONSIN 3, ILLINOIS 3 The last game of the regular season was the last tie in the history of college football. Overtime was introduced starting with the bowl games that year. At age 86, he still does. During a smoke break at the U.S. Open in June, he recalled it this way: “I was kind of rooting for Notre Dame going in, until that ending. It was disappointing. What Ara did probably made sense because he knew he could win the national title with a tie. “He never got enough credit for the fact that he lost his quarterback early in the game and Nick Eddy fell off the train, didn’t even play. I didn’t give

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him credit for that. Looking back, I should have. But, you know, it was more fun to do it the other way.” Jenkins said Irish fans reacted to his cover story by burning copies of the magazine. “But I’m very proud of it,” he said. “It’s on my wall.” Michigan State’s 9-0-1 season ended with that game. Notre Dame’s 10th game came a week later at 10thranked USC. The Irish obliterated the Trojans 51-0.

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IOWA CITY, Iowa – No. 13 Iowa’s only game against an FCS opponent just might be its toughest nonconference challenge of the season. North Dakota State, which visits Iowa City on Saturday, has won five straight national championships and five straight games over FBS teams since 2010. It is the topranked team in the Championship Subdivision. But a closer look at the two teams suggests that North Dakota State’s FBS streak is in serious jeopardy. The five top-tier teams the Bison have upended recently finished with a combined record of just 20-41 – and only Kansas State in 2013 went on to earn a bowl bid. The Hawkeyes, on the other hand, look ready to compete for a Big Ten title. Iowa has yet to be threatened, outscoring its first two opponents 87-24. The Hawkeyes throttled rival Iowa State by 39 points last weekend – the biggest win over

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first-class team,” Ferentz said. Quarterback Easton Stick led the Bison to an 8-0 record while former star Carson Wentz was injured last season, throwing 13 touchdown passes with a completion percentage of 61.2. Stick has thrown for 451 yards with four touchdowns and an interception this season. Lance Dunn keys their rushing attack, with 179 yards on nearly 7 yards per carry.

CHAMPAIGN – If Illinois needed any reason to not look past its MidAmerican Conference opponent on Saturday, the odds makers provided it. Western Michigan (2-0) comes to Champaign undefeated and favored to beat the Illini by three. After last week’s 25-point home loss to North Carolina, Illinois (1-1) needs no extra reason to take the Broncos seriously, coach Lovie Smith insists. He did, though, seem to express some disbelief over the line. “We don’t need a lot of motivation. We lost this last week, and that’s motivation enough,” Smith said. “I don’t see

the University of Illinois being underdogs to many people here at home.” The Broncos are just 2 weeks removed from a 22-21 win at Northwestern, and looking for a rare shot at two wins over Big Ten teams in one season for a non-Power Five school. Broncos coach P.J. Fleck grew up in Illinois and played at another MAC school, Northern Illinois. He said his players come into games against Power Five teams sensing both opportunity and, if they ease up, peril. “They know how easy it is to go back to 1-11 – just like that,” Fleck said, snapping his fingers. He was referring to the Broncos’ record in his first season at Western Michigan in 2013.

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West led the heart ace: three, two (discouraging), jack. When West continued with the heart queen, East played his 10, the higher card asking for a diamond shift, the higherranking of the other two side suits. West did as asked, so East took two tricks in the suit before exiting with a club to dummy’s eight. South had to play the trump suit without loss. This seemed to require East’s having kingdoubleton, but when declarer played a spade to his jack, West dropped a sneaky 10. He was trying to look like someone with 10-nine-doubleton. However, South knew that that was much less likely than a singleton 10 or 10-9-x. Declarer ruffed his third diamond in the dummy and led the spade eight, planning to run it. But when the king appeared, he claimed. © 2016 UFS

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ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on September 6, A.D. 2016, a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Lee County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post- office addresses off all of the persons ownconducting ing, and transacting the business known as Northcreek, located at 105-113 E. 1st Street, Dixon, IL. 61021. Dated this 6th day of September A.D. 2016.

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Petitions for election of officers for Independent Candidates for Palmyra Township for the Consolidated Election to be held Tuesday, April 4, 2017 will be available Tuesday, September 20, 2016. Petitions can be obtained at the home of the Town Clerk, 1635 Rockview Road, Castellan, Dixon after 6:00 P.M. Monday, through Friday. Officials to be elected are Supervisor, Highway Commissioner, Clerk and Four (4) Trustees. The filing period for Petitions circulated for Independent Candidates is December 12 through December 19, 2016. For further information, please call the Clerk at 815/288-4616 after 6 P.M.

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Avonlea Cottage of Dixon Now Hiring Part Time Cook Must have food sanitation license Apply in person 503 Countryside Lane in Dixon or call 815-288-6044 C.N.A.s Part time & Full time,11-7 and weekends. Please apply in person at: Avonlea Cottage 2201 E. LeFevre Rd., Sterling Wanted F.T. C.N.A.'s 3rd shift Apply at: Heritage Square 620 N. Ottawa Ave Dixon, IL EOE NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE Wanted P.T. Nurse Please Apply at: Heritage Square 620 N. Ottawa Ave Dixon, IL EOE NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

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AZZ Inc. is currently looking to fill a full-time Maintenance position at our Dixon facility. We are looking for someone who has a strong electrical background as well as general maintenance. We offer: Competitive Wages/ Incentive Program/401K/ Excellent Benefits. Apply at: AZZ Galvanizing 310 E. Progress Drive Dixon, IL 61021 or email your resume to mikeechebarria @azzgalv.com Bi-County Special Education Cooperative has the folTeacher lowing Aide openings for 2016/2017 the school year. Two in the Prophetstown Preschool, 24 hours weekly. One at Washington Elem. Life Skills in Sterling, one at Morrison HS Life Skills, and one at Thome ED School in Rock Falls. 29 1/2 hours weekly, $9.50 minimum starting wage, no health benefits. Must be 20 years of age. If interested contact Laurie Heston, Director, by email: lheston @bi-county.org or fill out an application at the main office, 2317 E. Lincolnway, Suite A, Sterling, IL, or call 815-622-0858 Bi-County Special Education Cooperative is seeking a Head Coach(es) for Special Olympics for Life Skills students in the Morrison programs. No experience is necessary and there are no criteria to meet for these positions. Sports include Basketball in the fall and Track and Field in the spring. One coach can do both or they can be split. Some of the duties include paperwork, practices, events, etc. Bi-County will be paying $1500 to each of these coaches. If you are interested, please contact Laurie Heston, Director by email: lheston@bi-coun ty.org, by phone at815-622-0858, or by filling out an application at the main office, 2317 E. Lincolnway, Sterling.

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Harbor Crest Home An 84-bed skilled nursing care facility in Fulton IL, 61252 (815)589-3411 Is seeking qualified nurses licensed to work in Illinois to join our team, full-time RN & LPN all shifts Competitive salaries $3500 Sign On Bonus! Apply in person or submit resumes to harborcrest2 @mchsi.com EOE Looking for a Class A Truck Driver Home every night, some weekends required, must have a clean driving record, hauling ag products, minimum 2 yrs. exp. 815-438-7821 Looking for full time grain cart driver, Ashton area, start immediately. 815-3785847 lv. msg. Meat cutting business looking for experienced meat cutter or someone willing to learn. Full time position with overtime. Call Lucas at Johnson Processing Plant

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Financial Analyst – Decision Support 40 hrs/wk; Salaried; M – F, 8am – 4:30pm; Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance or related field is required; Minimum 3 yrs. of experience working in healthcare finance is strongly preferred; Demonstrated computer skill with in-depth knowledge of financial software packages is required; Required proficiency with spreadsheets and report writing software Clinic Building & Grounds Maintenance Worker – CGH Clinics 40 hrs/wk; M – F, Days, 8am – 5pm; w/weekends & occasional shifts of 3pm-11pm; Valid driver’s license required; flexibility with hours is required MLT or MT– Laboratory 40 hrs/wk; Second shift, rotating weekends and holidays; (MLT); A.A.S. degree from a CAHEA Accredited Medical Laboratory Tech program or equivalent; (MLT) Certification with ASCP or NCA (or eligible to receive within 6 mo. of hire required); (MT); B.S./B.A. degree in Medical Technology or clinical specialty; (MT or MLS) or specialist certification with ASCP or NCA (or eligible to obtain within 6 mo. of hire required)

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EMPLOYMENT Search for local job listings at saukvalley.com/jobs/ Gaffey Health Service Inc. Is in need of caring

Certified Nurses Aides for

all shifts starting immediately. home. Gaffey works around your schedule including other jobs, school, and life. Full-time and part-time

Call 815-625-5575

For more information or apply at: 3408 River Road in Sterling.

SM-ST07910-0921

LOOKING FOR QUALITY CARRIERS Sauk Valley Media 3200 E. Lincolnway Sterling, IL 61081

Towns

815-625-3600 ext. 5301

Streets

Amboy

Telegraph 113 S. Peoria Dixon, IL 61021

Route

N. Jones, N. Metcalf, N. East, Joe Dr., W. Bacon 3218

Amboy

Customers

S. Washington, Davis, Prospect, W. Clark, W. Main 3206

Sterling

1st Ave., - 6th Ave. , E Miller to Grobe Road

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For motor route availability call David Sheets

815-625-3600 ext. 5311

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HIRING

Sterling:

Secretary with AP and AR pay DOE Production Team Lead • Maintenance Tech $24.71/hr Local Entry Level Assembly • Customer Service • Data Entry General Labor in Morrison • Orderfillers • Stick Winder CDL/Construction- travel Monday-Friday

Dixon:

Immediate General Labor $10.35-$11.05 IMMEDIATE OPENINGS DIXON PACKAGING $9.25-$9.65/hr General labor with grain bin experience $11/hr Inspection/visual repackage $10/hr MRP Purchaser pay DOE Heavy Assembly (need to be mechanically inclined) $12/hr

Apply online. Visit: manpowerjobs.com Sterling Office 815.622.2814 Dixon Office 815.288.7800 SM-ST07916-0917

HELP WANTED

AUTOMOTIVE HELP WANTED Due to an increase in vehicle sales Kunes Country Auto Group has the following positions open at our Sterling Ford, and Sterling Chrysler locations.

Entry Level Techs Automotive Detailers

We require our new employees to have the ability to work well with others and maintain a positive attitude throughout the workday We offer Highly Competitive Pay Plans along with: Flat Rate Based on Experience and Certifications, Performance Based Pay Plans, Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance,401k Retirement Plan, Paid Holidays, Paid Vacations, Paid Training, Employee Discount Program

Contact Joe McGlennon 815-631-5167 SM-ST08877-0917

Joem.@kunescountry.com

Hospice of the Rock River Valley is seeking a

Licensed Social Worker This position provides direct casework and counseling services to our hospice clients as directed by their plan of care. The social worker completes psychosocial assessments, and develops a corresponding care plan as coordinated by the Interdisciplinary Team and Director of Nursing. This positions reports to the Executive Director. Minimum Requirement includes: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited educational institution of social work, Master’s Degree preferred. Current state license. Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Experience in health care and clinical social work. Understanding of psychosocial factors operative in terminally ill patients and families.

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OREGON

MT. MORRIS GARAGE SALES 624

Nice 2BR home, furn. or unfurnished. W/D, refrig., stove. All utilities & cable TV included. $850 mo., + 1mo. Sec. dep. Req. 815-218-0495

Fri. & Sat., 9-5 413 Betty Place & 408 Sunset St. Mt. Morris Jolly Estate Sales is excited to host a double estate sale weekend in Mt. Morris. Come visit both to find a treasure. Cash & credit accepted. Mid Century furniture, antique & vintage linens, tools, household items & more.

STERLING Full-Time Live-In Personal Assisstant Needed: Free Housing, utilities, cable & Internet and small living allowance in exchange for 3 1/2 hrs. per night in Sterling. Refs. req. Email: Sterling LiveWorkExchange @gmail.com

The care involved is one on one in the patient’s

shifts available in the Sterling/Rock Falls area.

EOE Resumes may be sent to the attention of: Emily Taylor - Executive Director Hospice of the Rock River Valley 2600 N. Locust St., Suite B Sterling, IL 61081 or e-mail to emily@hospicerockriver.org

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MOBILE HOMES FOR RENT

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LOANS

402

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AREA GARAGE SALES 624 DIXON GARAGE SALES 624 Fri. & Sat. 9-2 1317 Ann Ave hammock, treadmill, snowblower, bikes, crafts, coffee & end tables, hedge trimmer, household items, books, bedding, car cover & much more!! Fri. & Saturday 8-4 212 Palmyra Rd. (1mi. from Midway) Washer, dryer, steel baby gate, 2 old clocks, holiday décor, some new items, cast iron kettle, bedding, comforters, Fire pit chairs, western paperbacks, 32” pedestal shop fan, sand blasting cabinet, Reynor 7500 BTU hanging gas shop furnace, Stihl weed eater, Stihl BG75 blower & much more! Fri. 8-4 & Sat. 8-1 717 S. Hennepin Furniture, keyboard bass guitar, toys, bedding, golf clubs old vintage doors, jr/ms's clothing, excel. cond. & lots! MUCH MUCH MORE!!! Fri. 8-5 & Sat. 8-1 565 Wolverine Ln (off Route 2 or Palmyra to Wolverine) Pre-Moving Sale clothing – infant to adult, lots of misc. Sat. only, 8-2 2098 Lowell Park Road Dirt bike, black leather sectional, dressers, coffee tables & end tables and much more! Saturday 10 - 2 Sunday 9 - Noon 324 Prospect St Wedding décor (lanterns) clothing, furniture, scrubs, & misc. items Saturday only! 8-4 1247 Pump Factory Rd; ½ mile from Rt. 30 Multi- Family Sale antique Mickey Mouse phone, old farmhouse screens, windows, all season clothing, push & riding lawn mower, So Much More!

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815-284-2222

GRAND DETOUR GARAGE SALES 624

Fri, Sat 8-3 4125 W. Timber Lane Huge Sale 50+ totes of childrens clothes and toys. Newborns – 10/12 boys and girls - good condition. Reasonably price. Maternity and scrubs. Two 4 wheelers.

ROCK FALLS GARAGE SALES 624 Saturday 8-12 611 W. 12th St. CHEAP Longaberger plus so much miscellaneous items! Moving to Florida In-home Living Estate/Tag Sale Sat. & Sun. 10-6 2609 E. Hill Drive, signs off Dixon Ave. Owner: Charles Whitlock will be offering a house full! All must go! Home is sold. Every room is filled! 2 queen dressers, beds, black sofa hide-abeautiful bed, leather sectional sofa, beautiful high end sun porch furstunning niture, formal dining room set, marble sofa table, floral sofa/love matching seat, washer/dryer, a full tool room, kitchen full, double is garage full including John Deere rider, too mush to list! Super clean smoke & pet free home. See estatesales.net for info. and 100 pics! Sale assisted by Sauk Valley Estate Sales & Services, 815-590-7021

STERLING GARAGE SALES 624 Sat. only, 7-12 2003 15th Ave. 4 Family Sale Men's, women's & Jrs. Name brand clothing all sizes. Jewelry, DVDs, CDs, faux leather love seat, retro video gaming systems & games, Hallmark Keepsake ornaments, Creative Memories scrap book supplies, Fitbit HR, baby items, baby boy clothes 318mo, breast pump, home décor, Holiday decorations, Polk audio sound bar, women's boots, purses. Saturday 7-3 16928 Hickory Hills Rd. Baby girl's clothes, 0-24 mo., men's & women's clothing, toys, household & other items misc. Saturday 8-1 613 W. 10th St. Name brand teen & womens clothing, Hollister, AE, V/S PINK & Underarmour and lots of misc. items. Saturday 8-2 1409 W. 21st St. Metal chairs, folding chairs, sport clothes & items, jewelry and misc. items. Saturday 8-3 905 W. 15th St. Pandora charms, stainless steel sink, name brand clothing, home décor & lots of good quality misc. items. Saturday, 8-4 1110 Farley Rd. (past Woodlawn School) Lots of misc. Priced to sell!

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES 705 I Buy: Antiques, collectibles, toys, post cards, etc. 815-445-6151.

APPLIANCES

710

21 Cubic Ft. GE Freezer, 3 yrs. old, very good cond., $225/obo 815-7722810 Good condition Maytag gas dryer. $125 OBO. 815441-4622.

BICYCLES

715

22” Men's Mountain Bike w/ helmet $50 815-6258333

WOOD / FUEL

746

FIREWOOD Hardwoods split & delivered & stacked 815-626-6875 Need Firewood? Lg. Oak tree free for the taking 815499-6909

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Astrograph Make positive alterations to the way you run your home and finances.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- The changes you make will be directly linked to previous experiences. Look back, but be prepared to leap forward. Opportunity and good fortune will change your life. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -A change in a relationship or partnership will result in an opportunity and a chance to use your skills and expertise in a different arena. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Applying what you know to a problem that crops up will help you bypass trouble. An interesting opportunity to use your talents in different business sectors should not be ignored. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Put your house in order. Host an event or alter your living arrangements. Romance is encouraged and will play a role in an important relationship.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Keep your life simple. Listen carefully and don’t jeopardize your reputation or ability to get things done. An emotional problem must be dealt with diplomatically.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Rely on your own ability, skill and energy to get things done. Make physical changes that will encourage a loved one to be more romantic. Taking action will bring about positive change. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Try not to be inconsistent. If you want others to take part in your plans, you will have to prove that your ideas are well thought out. ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Do your best to be your best. Engaging in physical activity, being playful with a loved one and making lifestyle or appearance changes will be beneficial.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Uncertainty while traveling will arise, causing a delay. Give yourself plenty of time to reach your destination in order to avoid being late. You’ll find out something from an unexpected source. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Relationships will be complicated. Try not to send the wrong signal or let your flirtatious ways cost you. Don’t let temptation lead you astray. Honesty is the best policy. CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Someone will call your bluff if you exaggerate. Stick to the facts and practical, carefully considered plans. Let your performance speak for itself. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- A quiet getaway will do you good. Make plans to go on a retreat or brief vacation with a good friend or loved one. Make sure you take some time to pamper yourself.

©2016 UFS

CELEBRITY CIPHER by Luis Campos

Celebrity Cipher cryptograms are created from quotations by famous people, past and present. Each letter in the cipher stands for another.

TODAY’S CLUE: B equals W

“ Y C M M N B C C J . . . W L’ G D C T LV C M M H J S T S VD Y N . O K L Y C B D S T N C K M C S LY H G C Z H LYW T R LY S L Y S G RW E H T N C K G C Z K D Y ? ” - ZWDYSHM DWZWTC Previous Solution:”I sang Natalie Wood’s songs in ‘West Side Story.’ Then I saw how important my singing was to the picture.” -- Marni Nixon (c) 2016 by NEA, Inc., dist. by Universal Uclick

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750

Fairhaven Fruit Farm Fresh picked apples & more: Honey Crisp, Cortlands, Goldens, Snowsweet, other eating & baking apples. Also our our Baker's mix. Local Honey, Caramel, Jams, Dried sweetened Cranberries & Apple Cider. ½ pecks to bushels 1 ½ mi. West of Hwy. 78 on Fairhaven Rd., look for the sign. Thurs.-Sat. 9am5pm, Sun. 12-5 Closed Mon-Wed 815-499-1856 Fresh Concorde Grapes off the vine Perrino Vineyards Dixon 815-857-3118

FURNITURE

755

Antique ž Bed $300; 815-284-8321 Estate Sale- New & used furniture, beds & appliances And wholesale. much more! 815718-4385. Mattress sets: $99, Full Twin $129, Queen $159, King $199. Will deliver! Bunk Bed $298. Call 309451-7477 Solid oak hutch top style dresser, chest of drawers, 1-3 drawer night table. $500 for all. Call 815-499-8679.

www.saukvalley.com

WANT TO BUY 795

MISCELLANEOUS 796 FOR SALE

MISCELLANEOUS 796 FOR SALE

I Pay Cash 4 Gold, Silver, Coins & Antiques 24/7 779-245-2950

Dewalt 14� multicutter saw & pancake style heavy duty air compressor. Never used $395 for both. 815857-3739

Wooden Barn Quilts 2' x 2', put on barns, garages $50 815-284-2617

MISCELLANEOUS 796 FOR SALE 12' x 5' Heavy duty shelf. $75 815-284-8204 815-626-4991 2 cemetery lots for sale in the Garden of Hymns, Chapel Hill Memorial Park, Dixon; very reasonably priced. 815-284-7273 4 graves at Chapel Hill in the Lord's Supper, $550/ea./obo.

Transfer fee involved.

815-734-6473.

7 large cacti, 20 sm. cacti and succulents. $30/obo. 815-631-1906 8' snow plow w/ brackets. $60 815-284-8204 815-626-4991 Amana side by side fridge, 25.6 cu. in. $725/obo; cabinet storage $175/obo 815-4995334 Blemished apples for sauce, pies and cider. $20 bushel. 815-590-0372 Chapel Hill Lot No. 738 Section V, graves 1 & 2 $1,500 + transfer 815-499-0972 Leave Message Charcoal Grill / Smoker 16x32 cooking area $125 815-626-6880

Emptied storage unit...LOTS of FISHING STUFF for sale. Call 815718-5703. Executive paper shredder from Staples. Exc. cond. $20. 815-626-1618 Ladies Yamaha, like new snowmobile coat(med) bibs (Lg) & hood $100 815-359-7350 Lg. flowered hanging basket $8 815-625-5065 Lg. Potted Hibiscus Tree $8 815625-5065 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 Small portable baby crib. Good for grandma's. Good cond. $20 815-499-8424 Stamping Kit 133 stamps, 7 inks, SO MUCH MORE! $55 for all call:815994-1784

FARM LAND WANTED

815

Cash-Rent land for 2017 & beyond. Paying top dollar. Please send replies to Box #:1346 ,c/o Sauk Valley Classifieds, P.O.Box 498, Sterling, IL 61081

HORSES & SUPPLIES

835

13 yr old female, quarter horse, 12 yr old male Blue Roan. Free to good farm home want to keep together. Re-homing due to senior citizen. 815-631-4746

FARM EQUIPMENT

855

1950 Minneapolis Moline ZA. Runs great, Mechanically sound. All there. Needs paint. Good tires. Great tractor project $1,750/obo 815-379-2541 or 815-718-5354

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

1997 Lincoln Town Car Signature, 155K mi., black, $3000/obo 815-440-4621 1998 Chevy Corvette Coupe, 74k mi., AT, highly optioned, $13,500 815-625-2915 1999 Buick LeSabre, 140k mi. Many new parts. $2450 or make offer. Great cond. 815-677-1637. 1999 Cadillac black; DeVille; Good condition. $2,900 obo. 815288-7910

2002 Grain Cart, 1800 Killbros. Scale & Tarp incl. Exc. cond. $17,000 /obo 815-541-6911

2002 Ford Taurus many new parts, good gas mileage, 815$2300/obo 718-0144

•Dirt Bike• Yamaha PW80 good condition $600/OBO 815-499-7333

2004 Pontiac Grand AM, high mi. Runs good. 4 new tires. Good work car. $1800/obo. or 815-772-4963 815-499-1428

John Deere LA with tag & belt pulley. Runs good. Needs painted. $3200 815-631-9667

2006 Pontiac Torrent, 113K miles, $5,000 815-7185941

AUTOMOBILES

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2006 Toyota Corolla, High mi. needs some work. Sound system inc. $1,250 815-631-6338 2014 Chevy Spark mi. Denim 23K blue. $10,000. 815499-3158. Caddy DeVille only 62K mi. loaded. All work perfect. Exc. cond. Must see. $4900. 815-994-1614. 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. 626or 284SOLD SOLD.

TRUCKS

910

1999 Dodge Dakota extended cab, runs good. $1500/ obo. 815-626-6082 2000 Chevy S-10 Pick Up 2wd, ext. cab, 115k mi., AT, remote start $3,900 815-625-2915

PARTS & ACC.

MOTORCYCLES

1986 Harley FXST C model, considered vintage bike. Apes, 2� shot guns, maxed out chrome. Must see to appreciate! $6,000/ obo. 815625-4943.

1992 Yamaha motorcycle, 10,255 mi Silent Thunder XV 1100. One owner. As is (been in storage). Call 815-5353663 after 5pm.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

John Deere LT 160, automatic, 2 new back tires, 38� $675/obo. deck. 815-441-3552.

LAWN & GARDEN

781

2009 Agri Fab yard vacuum, 8 hp, 15ft. wand, exc. $600/obo cond., 815-379-2541

TICKETS / TRAVEL 787 & EVENTS 4 Chi. Bears Tickets. Nov. 27th @ Chicago- Titans Also Bears/4-49ers Dec. 4th will sell 2-4 Sec. 122 R-12 $150/ticket 815-718-4647 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.

TOOLS & MACHINERY

792

6� Craftsman Bench Grinder, $35 815-626-8333

1989 Ski Brendella 351 Ford 240hp, 105 original hrs., cover, mooring trailer w/new tires. $8,000. Asking 815-284-1984

Classifieds Work!

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

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SHIPPERTS

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Moving & Storage

404 N. Lincoln Ave., Dixon, IL 288-3133 www.alliedvan.com ILL CC 10540

US DOT 76235

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$395 DOWN

SALE!!

HIRE CLOSER. HIRE HAPPIER.

Buy of the Week! 2005 Chrysler Sebring Convertible

$ SM-ST08055-0903

Mama cat, spayed & shots and kitten (free), must be toindoors. gether Call 815-499-9923

1988 Sea Nymph, 20HP Mercury Motor Live well. New wood & carpet.Boat trailer, pedestal seat, Aerator pump, bilge pump. $2,500 obo. 815-440-6446

1. Quilting; it is the Museum of the American Quilter’s Society. 2. The National Knife Museum, which also includes swords and razors.

Heavy Duty Nordic Treadmill, Track programmable, incline & speed Control, $200/obo 815441-2879

Australian Sheppard puppies, ready Sept 27th 2F & 5M, Reds & Blacks $400. View pictures at tradinpost.com 309-897-8477

★1988 ProCraft★ 1780V, fish & ski, pristine cond., many extras, $6400/obo 815-946-2311

940

TR IV I A AN SW ER

761

PETS & PET SUPPLIES 775

1986 Wellcraft boat and trailer, Inboard & outboard 180 American, Mercury Cruise 170 HP. $2600 815-441-2242

BOATS/MOTORS

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XLong Twin Bed, frame & metal white wrought iron head board, w/ XL TempurpedicCloud Supreme Mattress $500 815-6256623

HEALTH & FITNESS

940

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925

2008 Schwinn scooter, 49cc. Bright red. 1700mi. $800. 815-4993158.

BOATS/MOTORS

2010 Harley Davidson Limited. 62K mi. Has extras. $13,500 815-499-3924

Bed topper, black, fits short bed pick up. Very good cond. New $1400, asking $800/obo. or 815-718-4849 815-718-3533.

MOTORCYCLES

935

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SERVICE DIRECTORY SAUK VALLEY

FARLEY'S APPLIANCE Heating & Cooling Sale & Service Free Estimates New & Replacement Units We service all brands! Call Today (815)284-2052

Alterations SHOE REPAIR ZIPPER REPAIR & ALTERATIONS Grummert's Hardware Sterling, Rock Falls, & also Shaw's Marketplace 214 Washington Prophetstown

Concrete Contractors

Gutters

Power Washing

CONCRETE • Driveways • Sidewalks • Patios

Serving the Sauk Valley Areas for over 15 years •On the Job Manufactured • Expert Installation •Competitive prices •Best Quality Materials, Guaranteed •5� and 6� Seamless Gutters for Residential, Industrial & Commercial Needs •Leaf Free Gutter Protection Systems •Licensed •Bonded •Insured FREE Estimates 815-213-0704

Mobil Pressure Wash Service • Commercial, • Residential & • Semis You name it.... we clean it! Call Ben 815-590-2694

CONSTRUCTION •Garages •Additions •Remodeling •Decks • Homes 38 yrs. Experience 815-626-9026

815-989-8320

Asphalt

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

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 ➊SIMON MASONARY➊ Brick, Block & Stone Work, Griding & Truckpointing New & Repair NO JOB TOO BIG OR TOO SMALL Chimneys & Foundations Bonded and Ins. ★Free Est.★ Call Cris Sosa 312-771-1310

Dumpster Rental

Bicycles

205 E. 1st St. Dixon, IL 61021 (815)622-8180

Dumpster Rental for Clean-ups & Construction Small & Large containers avail. Tidy Bug Inc. Dixon, IL tidybuginc.com 815-456-3001

www.grc.bike Tuesday - Friday • 10 - 6 Saturday • 8-1

Furniture Refinished

Cleaning Service

Furniture Restoration Strip, Refinish, Repair Re-glue, Touch-ups Anselmo's Inc. 1235 W. LeFevre Rd., Sterling 815-625-3519

License-Bonded Insured NO JOB TOO SMALL All your home Improvement needs Remodeling of baths, basements & kitchens Custom showers Siding-Decks etc. 815-440-3519

Gutter Cleaning

Clock/Watch Repair CLOCK, WATCH & JEWELRY REPAIR •We repair and restore all brands and types of clocks and watches •We make house calls on Grandfather clocks •We repair all types of jewelry, and all work is done on premises •Appraisal Services Professional Jeweler for over 25 years. KRIEGER TIME AND JEWELRY CO. 618 S. Main St. Princeton, IL 815-872-8321

www.allsafe center.com High-Security Storage Solutions and Much More! •Climate Controlled Storage •Low-Cost Moving Truck Rental •Confidential Document Shredding •We Ship FedEx & UPS! •Expert Packaging Services •Value Boxes & Packaging Supplies •EBAY and EMOTORS Internet Auction Sales Over 15,000 Sales •Office Hours: Mon-Fri. ☛ 8:306, Sat. ☛ 8:30noon 690 Timber Creek Rd. Dixon, (815)285-2212

“Area's #1 Roofing Contractor IL Lic# 104-015191 Licensed, Bonded & Insured •Roofing •Siding •Windows •Decks •Additions •Garages & More Residential & Commercial Call now to schedule your FREE Estimate! Will beat any leading competitor price 815-590-2677

Stump Removal CLARK'S

• Stump Grinding • Small Trees • Clean Up • Bush Removal 815-718-2663 or 815-590-0423

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REYES REMODELING & DRY WALL Complete Line of Remodeling & Dry Wall •Carpentry •Kitchens •Bath •Basements No Job Too Small! ★40 years★ experience 815-535-8488

GUTTERS & THEN SOME Gutter Cleaning & Repair Service Miscellaneous Jobs FREE ESTIMATES 815-535-0911 Bonded & Insured If you have gutter problems, call the Gutter Guys!! GUTTERS & THEN SOME Gutter Cleaning & Repair Service Miscellaneous Jobs FREE ESTIMATES 815-535-0911 Bonded & Insured If you have gutter problems, call the Gutter Guys!!

Gutters American Energy Savers “Sauk Valley's Oldest & Best Seamless Gutter Company� Always Flow Seamless Gutters Call Dan Maloney 815-288-4525

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Roofing

Roofing/Siding

815-626-1333

IL State Roofing Licensed 104-002247(1986) Bonded-Insured

Painting PRATER Paint & Waterproofing Specializing in •Residential •Commercial •Farm & •Industrial Call for your FREE painting or sandblasting estimate 815-626-5165

Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding Licensed/ Insured. Whiteside Area 815-590-1677 Cole's Complete Tree Service Tree Trimming Stump Removal Licensed and Insured *Free Estimates* 25HR Emergency Service Will meet or beat any written tree estimates. Call 815-718-2997 Now accepting credit/debit cards Donnie Cole colestree service@outlook.com

CUT ABOVE TREE SERVICE •Tree Trimming •Tree Removal •Licensed & Insured 815-718-1415

TV Repair

TELEVISION

Lawn Care

Lawn Service Commercial & Residential Includes Mowing Trimming Bushes & Scrubs Leaf mulching & clean-up Call Ethan 815-441-6812

70 ft.

A&M TREE SERVICES

Randy L. Moore

BILL'S LAWN SERVICE •Mowing •Garden Tilling •Yard Clean Up FREE Estimates Call 815-441-6073

Lund 1650 Renegade, 70hp Johnson motor w/trim & Minn Kota tilt. power drive trolling motor, depth finder, live well. Yacht Club trailer. $3800. 815-718-5703.

TRAILERS/RVS

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he 2016 Nissan Titan XD pickup (I give it three out of four stars) is likely to be the perfect truck for a few buyers. Its success depends on just how many or few. Nobody knows which. The similarity of their names notwithstanding, the Titan XD is a completely different truck from Nissan’s Titan fullsize pickup. It’s bigger, more capable and more expensive. It has a unique frame that can tow and haul more, and offers an engine from peerless diesel maker Cummins Engine. The Titan XD is the first medium-duty pickup built by an automaker other than the Detroit 3. The EPA classifies the XD as a medium-duty pickup because its weight and hauling capability push it into a class above full-size pickups like the Titan, Chevrolet Silverado, Ford F-150, GMC Sierra, Ram 1500 and Toyota Tundra. It can haul more than those trucks, but less than the D3’s heavy-duty pickups. You can identify D3 heavy-duty pickups because their names include the letters HD or the numerals 250, 350, 2500 or 3500. Those trucks used to be solely for ranchers, plumbers and people whose work carried with it serious towing demands generally 6 tons or more. Those heavy- or medium-duty trucks don’t obsess about the names as they’re don’t mean much; the defining factor is the pickups’ weight _ are a large and profitable part of the pickup market. They have grown from their original use as commercial vehicles to include luxurious

The Titan XD is the first medium-duty pickup built by an automaker other than the Detroit 3. Engine. trucks that get mostly personal use. If you live near an upscale mall, you’ve probably cursed the trucks and their owners for straddling multiple parking spaces outside Neiman Marcus or McCormick & Schmick’s. About 75,000 owners every year move from full-size pickups up to medium-duty, or vice versa. That’s chicken feed to Ford, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler, which sell hundreds of thousands of HD pickups every year, but it spelled opportunity to Nissan. Nissan was the first Japanese automaker to make a U.S.-style full-size pickup, but its Titan never gained traction versus the F-150 and company. The XD is Nissan’s attempt to reestablish itself as a capable and competent pickup maker. The Titan XD should start arriving in dealerships shortly. Nissan hasn’t announced

official prices yet. They will run from about $40,000 to $62,000. I tested a loaded and luxurious Titan XD Platinum Reserve 4WD crew cab. It stickered at about $60,000 and had a roomy and luxurious interior, navigation, backup camera, voice recognition, Bluetooth compatibility and more. It cost a few thousand dollars less than comparably equipped 2500 pickups. It’s also smaller, with a maximum towing capacity likely a few thousand pounds less than those trucks.

comfortable and trimmed in high-end materials, including low-gloss wood and tufted leather upholstery. Storage includes a big bin in the center console. The controls are simple and easy to use. The voice recognition for phone calls and navigation was very slow, however, and the touch screen lacked elementary features, like a display to show what radio station was stored on each memory setting.

The brand-new Cummins 5.0-liter V-8 provides 310 Nissan hasn’t announced final horsepower and 555 poundfigures for towing capacity, but feet of torque from 1,600 rpm. confirms it’ll be between 12,000 That should equate to fine pounds and the D3 maximum. towing performance. The Nissan will certify towing six-speed Aisin automatic capacity with the Society of transmission shifted smoothly. Automotive Engineers’ J2807 test standard. There are no official fueleconomy ratings. The The XD’s interior was roomy, Environmental Protection

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Don’t store debt in buildings Dear Dave, My husband and I own three commercial buildings in Boise, Idaho, that are leased longterm. We owe about $500,000 on one and $400,000 on each of the others, and they earn $190,000. The only other debt we have is a small amount left on our mortgage. I know you don’t like debt, but is it OK to owe on commercial properties that are making good money? – Dawn

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t can take years for people to decide what they want to do when they grow up, but not for Elisabeth Woolums, owner of Elli’s Euro Hair Salon. Elisabeth knew she was destined to become a cosmetologist by the time she was finished with nursery school. Elisabeth, 53, now has decades of experience in the cosmetology business. She began at 15 as an intern at a hair salon in her hometown, Wertheim, located in Baden-Wüettemberg, Germany. She said she knew she wanted to become a hair stylist by the time she was 5. “My mom always took me [to her hair salon] with her,” she said. “I remember to this day that I liked that place. Mom worked hard, ... and they were super friendly to her. It was a friendly place and I thought ‘I want to work here when I grow up.’” Elisabeth moved from Germany when she was 30 after her husband, Jay Woolums, 55, whom she met and married in Germany, decided he wanted to return to his hometown of Prophetstown. “There was nobody here

Dear Dawn, I own several commercial buildings, and I don’t owe a dime on any of them. So, I can’t tell you that I think it’s OK to have debt on commercial buildings. I believe the best plan for building wealth is to become debt-free. Now, from the situation you’ve described, that doesn’t necessarily mean you guys should be in panic mode and start selling everything in sight. But I do think that you should systematically work your way out from under these debts over the next few years. If I were in your shoes, I’d get the house paid off first. Then, I’d take a look at these commercial properties, and begin working the debt snowball on them. RAMSEY continued on C84

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Elisabeth makes sure her customers know it’s OK to voice their opinions on exactly what they want and whether they like their hair after she is finished styling it.

Elli’s Euro Salon Address: 348 Washington St., Prophetstown Phone: 815-537-9019 Hours: By appointment only to work for. Our kids were growing up at the time and my husband said, ‘Open your own shop,’” she said. This year marks 20 years in business for Elli’s Euro Salon, where Elisabeth has managed to build an impressive clientele through the years.

In addition to this, Elisabeth and Jay also own Elli’s Bistro located directly next door to Elli’s Euro Salon. Elli’s Bistro specializes in German food and beer – a nod to Elisabeth’s home country. Elisabeth said it’s a lot of work, but she loves running both of her businesses. “I’m a busy kind of person,” she said. “I always need to do something.” Despite owning two businesses, which can become

a financial burden to some, Elisabeth said she always tries to charge her customers a fair price for her services. “I’m in a small town, so I always try to be realistic with what the income is around here,” she said. “And since I grew up being a working class girl, often times I find myself running behind everybody in price, really.” STYLE continued on C84

STERLING – An investment company has purchased the site of a former kitchen gadgetry store for $235,000. Cook’s Corner, which was open for 8 years, closed June 30 at 2501 Avenue E. The sale was made official Sept. 1. Debra Lawrence owned the business, which sold kitchen gadgets, gourmet foods, coffee, tea, and serving dishes, among other items. Ken Duncan Realty in Sterling is seeking a tenant for the building. Patty Martinez, with Ken Duncan, said, “Bill Shirk [an attorney from Morrison] is representing the investment company who bought the building. They don’t have a tenant yet.”

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GETTING THE MOST OUT OF PARKS

A piece of driftwood became a playground accessory for two girls during the week of Aug. 29 at Lowell Park in Dixon. On the log are (from left) Kate Lusz of Amboy and Charlie Arellano of Dixon. Photos submitted by Greg Hunter of A young raccoon stares out from the side of a tree – another way to enjoy the parks of Dixon. Oregon.

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Rockets vs. Byron Tigers ROCK FALLS – “Candyland” will be the theme of this year’s Rock Falls High School homecoming Monday through Sept. 24 at the school, 101 12th Ave. Dress-up day features the coronation ceremony at 2:10 p.m. Monday in the main gym, 101 12th Ave. A dodgeball tournament is planned for 6. Tuesday is tourist day and Wednesday is wild hair or hat day, with a powder puff football game at 6:30 p.m. The parade starts at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, costume

day. It will leave the south entrance of the school’s S-curve and head east down West Second Street before turning right on Fourth Avenue, south to West Fifth Street, west on West Fifth to Grace Avenue, then right onto Grace, stopping at the end of the S-curve and Leroy Avenue. Fan Friday and rocket attire day is Friday. The football game is at 7:15 p.m. vs. the Byron Tigers. The homecoming dance will be Sept. 24. Line-up will start at 5 p.m. at the high school parking lot. Vehicles will not be per-

mitted, but walkers and golf carts are acceptable. Mascots, business banners, promotional items, and business T-shirts are welcome. If using bags of candy, participants are advised to bring at least 25 pounds. Contact the Rock Falls Chamber of Commerce at sarah@rockfallscham ber.com with the subject “Homecoming Parade” to register to be in the parade and mention if golf carts will be used. For more information, contact the school at 815625-3886.

Missiles vs. Wildcats MILLEDGEVILLE – Milledgeville High School’s homecoming week is Monday through Sept. 24. Students will dress for success in college team apparel on Monday, famous group outfits on Tuesday, as millionaires on Wednesday, representing a decade Thursday – freshmen 1980s, sophomores 1970s, juniors 1950s, and seniors 1920s – and in orange and black on Friday. The homecoming

parade and activity night is planned for Thursday. The parade begins at 5:15 p.m. from the high school, 100 E. Eighth St. Representatives of the school and community will march through town. At the end of the parade, activity night will start in the gym where the homecoming court will be announced and Iron Man games played. Also planned are a parent skit and a senior slide show. The pep assembly and homecoming football

game will be Friday. The assembly will be during the school day after lunch at the gym, Performances and games are scheduled. After the assembly, the powder puff games will be on the football field. The varsity football team will take on River Ridge at 7 p.m. Homecoming ends with the dance from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Sept. 24 at the high school’s small gym. For more information, call the school at 815-2257141.

Quilt Supplies for Charities, a group of women who sew for area organizations and other groups, donated quilts for cats and dogs Aug. 15 to Happy Tails Humane Society in Rock Falls. With the quilts are (from left) Mary Ann Runnian, group member, and Dave Suarez, president of the Happy Tails board.

Fundraiser to help Toys for Tots STERLING – A Sept. 24 toy run and hog roast by Green River Riders will benefit Toys for Tots. All vehicles can take part in the run. Registration is from 11 a.m. to noon at Sterling Motors, Inc., 1807 Locust St. Participants will leave at noon, with the run ending about 4 p.m. at Long Shot Sports Bar and Grill, 3312 W. Rock Falls

Road, Rock Falls. The cos is $5 and the donation of a toy. The first 100 people to sign up will receive an event T-shirt. At 2 p.m., the hog roast will begin at Long Shot. Admission is $10 per person, or a toy valued at $10. Toy run participants do not need to pay again to be admitted.

A 50-50 drawing also will take place. Tickets are $1 or $5 for six. Live bands will perform from 2 to 11 p.m., including Problem Child. Newshoe, and Slick Trigger. A live auction and a silent auction are planned. Long Shot will have food available for purchase. For more information, contact Terol McCarty at 815-441-3655.

40 winks part of healthy outlook STERLING – Sleep is important for children – but chances are, they might not know just how vital getting a healthy night’s sleep can be. According to the National Sleep Foundation, scientists have established that just like a healthy diet and exercise, sleep is critical for children to stay healthy, grow, learn, do well in school, and function at their best. CGH Sleep Center personnel want to remind everyone about the importance of sleep, especially for children and teens. According to experts H.E. Montgomery-Downs, Ph.D., West Virginia Uni-

versity, and O.M. Buxton, Ph.D., Harvard, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Penn State University, sleep is important because: ■ The primary consequences of poor sleep among children and adolescents are behavior problems, impaired learning and school performance, mood and emotion problems, and worse health, including obesity. A recent study found that greater media use in teens was linked to a higher body mass index, largely because of reduced sleep time. ■ It is not just a matter of getting sufficient sleep quantity – children and adolescents, like adults,

also need adequate sleep quality. Young children can be deceptively hyperactive with insufficient sleep or because of a sleep disorder. Families can work together to make sleep a priority, so that everyone has the opportunity to sleep as much as they need in a safe, quiet, comfortable environment. Anyone who is having trouble sleeping can visit cghmc.com/sleep to take a sleep questionnaire. For those thinking they might need treatment for a sleep disorder, ask a doctor for a referral to the center or call 815625-4790, ext. 3301, for more information.

Children and adults from Immanuel Lutheran Church in Rock Falls dropped off dog toys and $70 Aug. 16 at Happy Tails Humane Society. The group represented Pets Unleashed, this year’s vacation Bible school theme. Photos submitted by Dave Suarez.

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Serving baked potatoes, fixings MANLIUS – Bureau Valley High School yearbook staff will offer a baked potato bar from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday

in the school’s commons area, 9154 County Road 2125 N. The bar will be during the Bureau Valley Storm

volleyball team’s game against the Princeton Tigers. The cost is $5, and includes toppings, a dessert, and beverage.

Dog training to start at area shelter DIXON – Obedience and other classes for all breeds and mixes of dogs will begin this month at the K-9 Enrichment Center at Granny Rose Animal Shelter, 613 River Lane. Agility class sessions start Monday and obedi-

ence and ring-ready novice obedience courses begin Tuesday. The kickoff for puppy classes is Wednesday. The cost is $90 for a 6-week class. Courses in all levels of obedience, household

manners, rally, and conformation also are available. Visit grannyrosek-9.org for class schedules, costs, and registration forms. Contact Office@Granny RoseK-9.org or 815-6779350 for information.

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An evening storm of lightning bolts and dark clouds moves through Sterling July 23. Photos submitted by Dave Tackett of Sterling.

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Jake, a yellow Labrador retriever owned by Roy Rogers of Ohio, took second The lab (with Rogers) also competed Aug. 7 at Southtown K9 in Tampico. Jake place during this year’s Petunia Festival in Dixon in Ultimate Air Dogs jumping placed first with a 21.9-foot jump, and won first in the chase division, swimming competition. Jake jumped 14.8 feet. Photos submitted by Rogers. 35 feet in 6.2 seconds.

Candace Hazelhurst of Rock Falls offers a peanut to one of her squirrels. Hazelhurst calls them her “kitties,” and feeds them peanuts every day. She knows which squirrel is which, and the squirrels look for her if she’s not outside. Photo submitted by Pam Marks of Rock Falls.

Quinn Lancaste (center), a member of the Mighty Cogs, a cheer squad from Genoa, performs at the Northern Illinois University Convocation Center in DeKalb. The team qualified to perform at the national competition at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. She is the granddaughter of Patricia and Dave Puckett of Walnut. Photo submitted by Patricia Puckett.

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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DIXON PARK DISTRICT SUMMER SPORTS Stables came out ahead with first place in the league and tournament. The team is in the adult co-ed softball program.

The Halo Branded Solutions team, part of the park district’s adult co-ed softball program, placed second in the tournament.

Dixon Ace Hardware won first place in its league and in the tournament. They are part of Dixon Park District 12U Baseball.

Faith Christian Church in the adult softball church league, placed second in the Turning Point Church, also in the adult softball church league, was first in both tournament. league and tournament play.

FURRY AND FEATHERED PALS COME TO CALL On Aug. 18, Furry Friends came to visit Resthave Home in Morrison. Irma Longanecker gets acquainted with a bird which sat on her shoulder. Photos submitted by Karla Burn.

Jan Bos and Nellie Zaagman take a close, but not too close, look at an albino skunk.

Alice Stiles’ new friend is a white duck.

Eleanor Voss is face-to-face with a friendly alpaca.

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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Liam Abraham Hemminger Nichole Montanez and Lucas Hemminger of Sterling are the parents of a son born at 2:11 p.m. Sept. 1, 2016, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling. Liam Abraham Hemminger weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces at birth and was 21 inches in length. He is welcomed by Joshua Arzuaga, 9, Josiah Carr, 6, and Jeremiah Walters, 3. Maternal grandparents are Tracy Stingley and Dominick Montanez, both of Sterling. Paternal grandparents are Jeffrey L. Hemminger of Dixon and DeAnna L. Schindel and Kyle Schindel, both of Powell, Tennessee. Maternal great-grandpar-

ents are Mable McLindsey, Cynthia Mantanez, and Andy and Barb Montanez, all of Sterling. Paternal great-grandparents are Larry L. Hemminger and Marilyn S. Hemminger, both of Rock Falls, Monica Anderson of Morrison, and Russell Coers of Tampico.

Zoey Marie Nichols Misty and Joshua Nichols of Sterling are the parents of a daughter born at 1:56 a.m. Sept. 4, 2016, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling. Zoey Marie Nichols weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces at birth and was 20.5 inches in length. She is welcomed by Camryn Inman, 16, Liberty Nichols, 13, and Addisyn Nichols, 5.

SUPPORT GROUPS, CLUBS Today Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m., closed, Big Book, United Methodist Church, 201 E. Chicago Ave., Davis Junction. Overeaters Anonymous, 9 a.m. lower-level entrance, Church of God, 816 S. Clay St., Mount Carroll, 630709-7807. Overeaters Anonymous: 9 a.m. Gateway Faith Fellowship parsonage, 701 14th Ave., Fulton, 563-321-8577. Alcoholics Anonymous Gratitude Group, 9 a.m., open; noon, open; 6 p.m., open, lower level, Loveland Community House, 513 W. Second St., Dixon. 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, 815-5353748, 24-hour hotline 844-6787684. Bi-Ways Brain Injury Support Group, 2 p.m., Winning Wheels, 701 E. Third St., Prophetstown. Register: 815-537-5168, ext. 29. A Time to Share Grief Support Group, 2-4 p.m., Preston-Schilling Funeral Home, 213 Crawford Ave., Dixon, 815-288-4469. 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.-noon, open, Big Book, back door, 1503 First Ave., Suite D, Rock Falls. PFLAG Sauk Valley, 1:30 p.m. support time, 2:30 p.m. meeting, Eels Room, St. Luke Episcopal Church, 221 W. Third St., Dixon, 815-440-2672. Dixon VFW Post 540, 6 p.m., 1560 Franklin Grove Road, 815288-5165. 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. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, clearance required, BAAbble on for Life Prison Group, 815-9736150. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, 808 Freeport Road, Sterling. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., open, Rochelle Community Hospital, 900 N. Second St. 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 Women, infants and children clinic; and family planning services, Lee County Health Department, 309 S.

Galena Ave., Suite 100, Dixon. Appointments: 815-284-3371. Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 a.m., open, Methodist church, 402 First Ave., Forreston. Blood pressure screenings, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Health Department, 1300 W. Second St., Rock Falls, 815-6262230. Abuse Changing team, 815-6250338. Mercy Nursing Services free blood pressure clinic, 8:30-10:30 a.m., YMCA, 2505 YMCA Way, Sterling. Dixon Rotary Club, noon, Mama Cimino’s, 104 S. Peoria Ave., Dixon, Melissa, 815-284-5287. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, open, St. Paul Lutheran Church, 114 S. Fifth St., Oregon. Alcoholics Anonymous Gratitude Group, noon, step, closed; 6 p.m., open, lower level, Loveland Community House, 513 W. Second St., Dixon. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed, Big Book; 6 p.m., closed, Spanish; 7 p.m., open, beginners, Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling. Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, noon, open, Sunshine meeting, back door, 1503 First Ave., Suite D, Rock Falls. Crochet-Knitting Club, 12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling. American Legion Post 12 Auxiliary, 1:30 p.m., 1120 W. First St., Dixon. iPad class, 2 p.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236. TOPS Chapter IL 634 meeting, 4:30 p.m., 205 S. Walnut St., Franklin Grove. TOPS, 4 p.m. weigh-in, 4:30 p.m. meeting; 5:30 p.m. weigh-in, 6 p.m. meeting, Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle. Lee County Honor Flight, 6:30 p.m., VFW Post 540, 1560 Franklin Grove Road, Dixon, 815-288-5683. Rock Falls Rotary, 6 p.m., Beelendorf’s Deli, 204 W. 10th St., Rock Falls. 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., Crossroads Community Church, 201 W. Market St., Morrison; Penny, 815-590-8003. Dixon CHIP Support Group meeting, 6:30 p.m. potluck, kitchen, Town Square Centre, Second Street entrance, 102 S. Hennepin Ave., 815-288-2560. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., open, Immanuel Lutheran Church, 960 N. U.S. Route 52, Amboy. Sauk Valley Al-Anon GroupAlateen, 7 p.m., back door, 1503 First Ave., Suite D, Rock Falls. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, study, Elim Reformed Church parsonage, 140 S. Church Road, Kings. VFW Post 5418 Ladies Auxiliary meeting, 7 p.m., 217 First Ave., Rock Falls, 815-626-3513. Mount Carroll Monday Night Al-Anon-Alateen, 7 p.m., Church of God, 816 Clay St., 815-284-3444. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, 808 Freeport Road, Sterling. Country Crossroads Quilt Guild, 7 p.m., Forreston Grove Church, 7246 Freeport Road, Forreston, 815-238-6489 or 815-535-3432. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, step study, Church of St. Anne, 401 N. Cherry St., Morrison. 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.

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Whiteside County Fair results MORRISON – The Whiteside County Fair was Aug. 16-20 at the fairgrounds. Winners are: Junior Dairy Ayrshire Junior heifer calf, intermediate heifer calf, intermediate yearling heifer, Junior Champion Female, Senior Champion Female, Grand Champion Female Ayrshire: 1. Hannah Zinke, Morrison Holstein Junior heifer calf, intermediate heifer calf, senior heifer calf: 1. Hannah Linder, Morrison Junior yearling heifer: 1, 3. Bailey Durward, Thomson; 2. Hannah Linder Senior yearling heifer: 1. Bailey Durward; 2. Hannah Linder 2-year-old cow, 3-yearold cow, 4-year-old cow and older, 5-year-old cow, best udder cow in milk, dry cow: dam and daughter: 1. Hannah Linder Junior Champion Female, Grand Champion Female: 1. Bailey Durward Jersey Senior heifer calf, Junior Champion Female, Jersey Senior Champion Female, Grand Champion: 1. Hannah Zinke Open Dairy Supreme Champion Female Over-All-Breeds: Renee Koster, Dixon Best 3 Females OverAll-Breeds: Brynn Schneider, Sterling Ayshire Junior heifer calf: 1. Tyler Isenhart, Chadwick; 2. Tom Milnes, Morrison; 3. Hannah Zinke Intermediate heifer calf: 1. Hannah Zinke; 2. Tom Milnes Summer yearling heifer: 1. Tom Milnes Junior yearling heifer: 1. Brynn Schneider; 2, 3. Tom Milnes Intermediate yearling heifer: 1. Hannah Zinke; 2. Tom Milnes Senior yearling heifer: 1. Tom Milnes Junior Champion Female, Junior Supreme Champion Female: 1. Hannah Zinke Cow, 2 years old, cow 3 years old: 1. Tom Milnes Cow, 4 years old, 1., cow 5 and older: 2. Brynn Schneider Cow, dry, 3 and older: 1. Tom Milnes; 2. Brynn Schneider Senior Champion Female, Grand Champion Female: 1. Tom Milnes Best uddered cow in milk: 1, 2. Tom Milnes 3. Brynn Schneider Pair of cows: 1. Tom Milnes; 2. Brynn Schneider Best 3 females: 1. Tom Milnes; 2. Hannah Zinke; 3. Brynn Schneider Dam and daughter: 1. Brynn Schneider Calf, graded herd: 1,2., exhibitors herd: 1. Tom Milnes Brown Swiss, All Other Breeds Cow, 4 years old, Senior Champion Female, Grand Champion Female, Best uddered cow in milk: 1. Renee Koster Holstein Junior Supreme Champion Female, Junior Champion Female:

1. Bailey Durward Junior heifer calf: 1. Hannah Linder; 2. Brynn Schneider, Intermediate heifer calf: 1, 2. Brynn Schneider; 3. Kent R. Linder, Morrison Senior heifer calf: 1. Brynn Schneider; 2. Hannah Linder Summer yearling heifer: 1. Brynn Schneider Junior yearling heifer: 1, 2. Bailey Durward; 3. Hannah Linder Senior yearling heifer: 1. Bailey Durward; 2. Hannah Linder Cow, 2 years old: 1. Brynn Schneider; 2, 3. Hannah Linder Cow, 3 years old: 1. Renee Koster; 2. Hannah Linder Cow, 4 years old: 1, 2. Hannah Linder Cow, 5 and older: 1. Brynn Schneider; 2, 3. Hannah Linder Cow, dry, 3 and older: 1, 3. Hannah Linder; 2. Brynn Schneider Senior Champion Female, Grand Champion Female: 1. Brynn Schneider Best uddered cow in milk: 1. Brynn Schneider; 2, 3. Hannah Linder Pair of cows: 1. Brynn Schneider; 2, 3. Hannah Linder Best 3 females: 1. Brynn Schneider; 2. Bailey Durward; 3. Hannah Linder Dam and daughter: 1. Brynn Schneider; 2, 3. Hannah Linder Calf, graded herd: 1. Bailey Durward; 2. Brynn Schneider; 3. Hannah Linder Exhibitors herd: 1. Hannah Linder; 2. Kent R. Linder; 3. Brynn Schneider Jersey Junior heifer calf, junior yearling heifer, Junior Champion Female, cow, 3 years old, cow, 5 and older, Senior Champion Female, Grand Champion Female, best uddered cow in milk, pair of cows, dam and daughter: 1. Brynn Schneider Senior heifer calf, Junior Supreme Champion Female: 1. Hannah Zinke Supreme Champion Female: 1. Renee Koster Open Rabbits Californian Senior buck: 1, 2. Gary Geerts, Sterling Senior doe: 1, 2. Gary Geerts; 3. Harry Ringler, Dixon 6- to 8-month buck, 6 -to 8-month doe: 1, 2. Gary Geerts Junior buck, junior doe: 1, 2. Gary Geerts; 3. Bryce Folsom, Erie Best of Breed, best opposite: 1. Gary Geerts Champgne D’Argent Senior buck, Senior doe, junior buck, 1., junior doe, 1, 2.; Best of Breed, best opposite: 1. Harry Ringler Dutch All Senior buck, senior doe, Best of Breed, best opposite: 1. Judith Cary, Freeport English Spot, Black Senior buck: 1. Randy E. Harvey, Dixon Senior doe: 1. Courtney Cary, Freeport English Spot, Any Other Color Senior buck: 1. Randy E. Harvey; 2, 3. Courtney Cary Senior doe, Junior doe, Best opposite: 1. Courtney Cary

Junior buck, Best of Breed: 1. Randy E. Harvey Flemish Giant Sandy, senior buck; giant, any other color, senior doe; giant, light gray: senior buck 1.; senior doe, 6- to 8-month doe: 1, 2.; Best of Breed, best opposite: 1. Randy E. Harvey Florida White Senior buck: 1, 3. Don Dudley, Morrison; 2. Harry Ringler Senior doe: 1. Harry Ringler; 2, 3. Don Dudley Junior buck, junior doe: 1, 2. Best of Breed, best opposite: 1. Don Dudley Havanna Solid Senior buck: 1. Judith Cary; 2. Courtney Cary Senior doe, junior buck: 1. Judith Cary Junior doe: 1. Judith Cary; 2, 3. Courtney Cary Havanna Broken Senior buck, senior doe, junior buck, junior doe, Best of Breed, best opposite: 1. Judith Cary Minilop, Broken Senior buck, senior doe, junior buck: 1. Judith Cary Junior doe: 1. Judith Cary; 2. Courtney Cary Minilop, Solid Junior doe: 1. Courtney Cary Best of Breed, best opposite: 1. Judith Cary Mini Rex, All Senior buck: 1. Jacklyn Hanson, Morrison; 2. Judith Cary Senior doe, Best of Breed: 1. Judith Cary Junior buck: 1, 2. Jacklyn Hanson; 3. Judith Cary Junior doe: 1. Jacklyn Hanson; 2. Judith Cary; 3. Courtney Cary Best opposite: 1. Jacklyn Hanson Mini Satin, All Senior buck, junior buck, best opposite, 1. junior doe, 1, 2. Judith Cary Senior doe: 1. 3. Courtney Cary; 2. Judith Cary Best of Breed: 1. Courtney Cary Netherland, Dwarf Self Senior buck, senior doe, junior buck, junior doe: 1, 2. Michael Jackson, La Moille Netherland, Dwarf Shaded Senior buck: 1, 2. Michael Jackson; 3. Chelsea L. Conner, Geneseo Senior doe: 1, 2. Michael Jackson; 3. Chelsea L. Conner Junior buck, junior doe: 1, 2. Michael Jackson Netherland, Dwarf, Any Other Variety Senior buck, senior doe: 1, 2. Michael Jackson Junior buck: 1, 2. Michael Jackson; 3. Chelsea L. Conner Junior doe, 1, 2., Best of Breed, Best opposite: 1. Michael Jackson New Zealand, White Senior buck: 1. Jerry Jacobs, Chadwick 2. Jeffrey Lewis, Orangeville Senior doe, 1., 6- to 8-month buck, 6- to 8-month doe, junior buck: 1, 2. Jerry Jacobs Junior doe: 1, 2. Jerry Jacobs; 3. Jeffrey Lewis New Zealand, Black Senior buck: 1. Jerry Jacobs; 2. Harry Ringler Senior doe: 1, 2., Jerry Jacobs; 3. Harry Ringler 6- to 8-month buck, 6to 8-month doe: 1, 2. Harry Ringler Junior buck, junior doe, 6- to 8-month buck, junior buck, junior doe, Best of Breed: 1., any

other variety, senior doe, 6- to 8-month doe: 1, 2. Harry Ringler Best opposite: 1. Jerry Jacobs Palomino, Golden Senior buck, senior doe, 6- to 8-month buck, 6- to -8 month doe, junior buck, junior doe: 1, 2, 3. Jeffrey Lewis Palomino Lynx Senior buck, senior doe, 6- to 8-month buck, 6- to 8-month doe, junior buck, junior doe: 1, 2, 3., Best of Breed, best opposite: 1. Jeffrey Lewis Polish Solid Senior buck: 1, 2. Michael Jackson; 3. Leonard D. Hanson, Morrison Senior doe: 1. Michael Jackson; 2. Evelyn R. Hanson, Morrison; 3. Leonard D. Hanson Junior buck: 1. Leonard D. Hanson; 2, 3. Michael Jackson Junior doe: 1, 2. Leonard D. Hanson; 3. Michael Jackson Polish, Broken Senior buck: 1, 2. Michael Jackson; 3. Evelyn R. Hanson Senior doe: 1. Evelyn R. Hanson; 2, 3. Michael Jackson Junior buck: 1, 2. Michael Jackson; 3. Evelyn R. Hanson Junior doe: 1, 2. Evelyn R. Hanson; 3. Michael Jackson Best of Breed: 1. Michael Jackson Best opposite: 1. Evelyn R. Hanson Satin, Broken Senior buck, senior doe, 6- to 8-month buck, junior buck: 1, 2., 6- to 8-month buck, senior buck, senior doe, junior doe: 1, 2, 3., 6 -to 8-month doe, junior buck, junior doe: 1. Jeffrey Lewis Satin, Any Other Variety 6- to 8-month doe: 1. Courtney Cary; 2, 3. Jeffrey Lewis Best of Breed, best opposite: 1. Jeffrey Lewis Silver Marten, Black Senior buck: 1, 3. Gary Geerts; 2. Don Dudley Senior doe: 1. Gary Geerts; 2, 3. Don Dudley Junior buck: 1, 2. Don Dudley Junior doe: 1, 2. Don Dudley; 3. Gary Geerts Silver Martin, Any Other Color Senior buck, senior doe: 1, 2., Best of Breed, best opposite: 1. Gary Geerts Junior buck: 1, 3. Don Dudley; 2. Gary Geerts Junior doe: 1, 2. Gary Geerts; 3. Don Dudley Standard Chinchilla Senior buck: 1, 2., senior doe, junior buck, junior doe, Best of Breed, best opposite: 1. Harry Ringler Meat Pen Meat pens: 1. Harry Ringler; 2. Gary Geerts Single fryers: 1, 2. Harry Ringler; 3. Gary Geerts Fur White: 1, 3. Gary Geerts; 2. Don Dudley Colored: 1, 3. Harry Ringler; 2. Judith Cary Satin: 1. Jeffrey Lewis; 2, 3. Judith Cary Silver Martin: 1, 3. Don Dudley; 2. Gary Geerts Best In Show Best in Show, Polish, buck, senior, 4 Class: 1. Michael and Karen Jackson, Polish, buck, senior Best 6 Class: 1. Jeffrey Lewis, palomino, buck, senior

COMMUNITY EVENTS Today Farmers Market, 7 a.m.-noon, Haymarket Square, 317 W. Third St., Dixon, 815-284-3306. Farmers Market, 7 a.m.-noon, West Second Street, Rock Falls, 815-625-4500. 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. Farmers Market, 8:30 a.m.noon, courthouse lawn, South Fifth Street, Oregon. Cookout, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Rock Falls VFW Post 5418, 217 First

Ave. Carry-outs, 815-626-3513. Sunday There are no activities today. Monday Open pool, open cards, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815622-9230. 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 in 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. Situation Room, 10 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th Ave., Oregon, 815-732-3252. Euchre lessons and games, 10 a.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St.,

Sterling. Register: 815-622-9230 or 828-461-7979. 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. Pinochle, noon, Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050. Hand and Foot cards, 12:15 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. Exercise group, 4 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. Bingo, Dixon Elks Lodge No. 779, 4:30 p.m. doors open, 5:30 p.m. kitchen opens and 6:30 p.m. bingo begins, 1279 Franklin Grove Road, Dixon, 815-288-3557. No computers. 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.

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Children’s bedtime routines cause loss of sleep Dear Abby: After the birth of our son, “Ricky,” my husband insisted he sleep in our bed with us. When our son was 3, I finally put my foot down because none of us were sleeping peacefully. Ricky is now 8, and my husband lies in his bed with him until he falls asleep. Our daughter, “Julie,” was born 2.5 years ago. She slept in our bed until she was 1, when I moved her to her own bed. She goes down well on her own, but seems to be more clingy (with me especially) during the day. I try to make sure she gets the affection she needs before bedtime, but I feel guilty that she

Dear Sleepy: You’re not wrong. Some parents cosleep with their children for Dear Abby the first few months after is written by Abigail they are born because they Van Buren, enjoy the closeness. After also known that, they transition the as Jeanne Phillips. The baby to sleeping in a crib column is pronearby so the child’s needs vided through can be attended to as necUniversal essary. Uclick. According to Los Angeles pediatrician Faisal Chawla, doesn’t get that closeness M.D., children form their at night. sleep habits early: “The lonBy the end of the day ger co-sleeping continues, I’m exhausted, and I do the more difficult sleeping not want to fall asleep in a separately becomes. At 7 or kid’s bed. Am I wrong for 8 months, babies begin to wanting bedtime without develop age-appropriate kids? At what age should separation anxiety. By the children sleep on their age of 1, a routine is usually own? set in a child’s mind. By age – Sleepy in California 2, it becomes very difficult

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to change the sleeping routine because of the ‘terrible 2s’ temperament that begins.” Your husband has done Ricky no favors by continuing to lie beside him until he falls asleep. Your son should have started sleeping alone years ago. A boy his age should be able to go to sleepovers at friends’ houses or away to summer camp without having to worry about sleeping because his dad isn’t there. Dear Abby: My boss and his wife recently hosted an employee appreciation dinner party at their home. We have close to 100 employees, and because of limited space, we were

asked not to bring children. However, the invitations did indicate “and guest” (or our spouse’s or significant other’s name, if they knew it). One of my co-workers, a single woman, asked me if I thought it would be OK if she brought a female friend (not someone she is in a relationship with). My interpretation of the invite in this particular situation was that if one co-worker couldn’t bring their teenage child due to space limitations, it wouldn’t be appropriate for another to bring a casual friend. To me, it seemed to be bad manners. What do you think? – Appreciation Dinner

Dear Appreciation: When a host issues an invitation that says “and guest,” it means the host is prepared to accommodate whomever the invitee would like to bring. According to my interpretation, it would be wrong to bring a teenager to an adults-only business-related dinner because the younger person would likely feel out of place. However, bringing a companion along would not be considered a breach of etiquette.

201 Locust St. The fair will run until 1 p.m., and lunch will be served for a donation. Twenty vendors, an adult flu clinic, amplified phone testing, and blood pressure checks will be available. For information, call Ruth at 815-288-9236.

library, 629 S. Main St. He will speak on “Tips and Tricks to Finding Your Ancestors in Slovenia and America” His Slovenian or Yugoslavian-Austrian paternal ancestors settled in the Spring Valley and Cherry areas. In 2006, he started his work to learn more about his ancestors and their burial places. He and his wife, Cheryl, have 10 binders of information. He will share the steps needed and his research experiences, as well as some photos of their 2014 trip to Slovenia. For more information, call BCGS at 815-8793133 or stop by from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays and Oct. 1.

IN BRIEF Bridge players close out August DIXON – Dixon Monday Night Bridge Club has announced its Aug. 29 results. First place went to Dave and Ed Fritts of Dixon, who scored 60 percent. Sharon Grot and Susie Smith of Dixon tied with Barb and Phil Naffziger of Princeton for second, with 56 percent. The group meets at 5:30 p.m. each Monday at the Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St. For more information, contact Fred Spitzzeri, club manager, at spitzzeri@aol.com or 630917-5858.

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Rock River Area Christian Women’s Connection will have its Beautiful You Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Candlelight Inn, 2200 First Ave., Rock Falls. Gloria Peska (from left) Rosemary Egan, and Deb Taylor plan for the event. Shirley Mozena of Vancouver, Washington, will give a program, “God’s Protection.” Mandy Jacobs from Beautiful You Boutique in Dixon will present a style show, and Larry Riffle, a harmonica musician from Milledgeville, will perform. The cost is $11. Reservations are due by 9 p.m. Monday. Cancellation notice is required. Call Irene at 815-948-2157. Photo submitted by Kathleen Williams.

New reads arrive in Dixon DIXON – New books have arrived at Dixon Public Library, 221 S. Hennepin Ave. They are: Fiction: “Sting,” by Sandra Brown; “ C u r i o u s Minds,” by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton; “The Last Days of Night,” by Graham Moore; “Damaged,” by Lisa Scottoline; “The Paradise Guest House,” by Ellen Sussman; “The One Man,” by Andrew Gross; and “The Couple Next Door,” by Shari LaPena Mystery: “First Star I See Tonight,” by Susan Elizabeth Phillips; “Surrender, New York,” by Caleb Carr; “The Redeemers,” by Ace Atkins; and “Send More

Idiots,” by Tony PerezGiese Science fiction, fantasy, urban fantasy: “Marked in Flesh (The Others 4),” by Anne Bishop Large print: “Alice & Oliver,” by Charles Bock; “Imagine Me Gone,” by Adam Haslett; “American Heiress,” by Jeffrey Toobin; “Sweet Tomorrow,” by Debbie Macomber; and “Family Tree,” by Susan Wiggins Nonfiction: “The 15:17 to Paris,” by Anthony Sadler, Alek Sarkatos, Spencer Stone, and Jeffrey E. Stern; “What Color is Your Parachute?,” by Richard N. Bolles; “Peterson’s 2017 Two-Year Colleges;” “Sixty: A Diary of

my Sixty-First Year,” by Ian Brown; “Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories From Presidential Campaign History,” by John Dickerson; and “Autistic Blessings and Bipolar Me,” by E.J. Plows Local history: “Land of Big Rivers: French & Indian Illinois, 16991778,” by M.J. Morgan; “Eight Months in Illinois With Information to Immigrants,” by William Oliver; and “The Conquest of Illinois,” by George Rogers Clark The book group selection for September is “The Oregon Trail,” by Buck Rinker. For more information, call the library at 815284-7261.

Film, craft day at area library FRANKLIN GROVE – “The Angry Birds Movie” will be shown from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Franklin Grove public library, 112 S. Elm St. A craft day also is planned from 10:30 a.m. to noon Sept. 24. Children younger than 8 need parental supervision. New books are “Bullseye, by James Patterson; “Insidious,” by Catherine Coulter; “Sunday Kind of Love,” by Dorothy Garlock (large print); “Sting,” by Sandra Brown; “Curious Minds,” by Janet Evanovich; “First Star I See Tonight,” by Susan Elizabeth Phillips; “Die Like An Eagle,” by Donna Andrews; “The Book That Matters Most,” by Ann Hood; “The Bones of

Paradise,” by Jonis Agee; “Family Tree,” by Susan Wiggs; “Damaged,” by Lisa Scottoline; “Sweet Tomorrows,” by Debbie Macomber; “Behind Closed Doors,” by B.A. Paris; “Smooth Operator,” by Stuart Woods; “The Swarm,” by Orson Scott Card; “Lafayette In the Somewhat United States,” by Sarah Vowell; “Sorrow Road,” by Julia Keller; “The Law and the Lawless: A Ralph Compton Novel,” by David Robbins (large print); “Winchester 1887,” by William W. Johnstone (large print); “Fire Brand,” by Diana Palmer; “Cold Silence,” by James Abel; “The Best of Bova, Volume II,” by Ben Bova; “The One Man,” by Andrew

Gross; “The Shattered Tree,” by Charles Todd; “The Commodore,” by P.T. Deutermann; “With Love From the Inside,” by Angela Pisel; “Finding Calm for the Expectant Mom: Tools for Reducing Stress, Anxiety, and Mood Swings During Your Pregnancy,” by Alice Domar; “Always A Cowboy,” by Linda Lael Miller; and “The Couple Next Door,” by Shari Lapena. New DVDs are “Sons of Liberty.” “Fathers and Daughters,” When Calls the Heart: Forever in my Heart,” “11.22.63,” “Mother’s Day,” “Criminal,” and “God’s Not Dead 2.” For more information, call the library at 815456-2823.

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STERLING – Christ Lutheran School Booster Club will have its seventh annual Fall Fun 5K RunWalk at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 8 at the school, 2000 18th Ave. The event begins and ends at the school. It will feature a fast, flat course through north Sterling, with one water station. The cost is $20 before Sept. 26, and $25 thereafter. All proceeds will benefit the school. Awards will be presented to overall and masters male and female finishers. Medals will be awarded to the top three male and female finishers in 5-year-age divisions. To register go to getmeregistered.com or call Karla at 563-343-2803. Go to clsfallfunrun.webs.com for race information.

Pupils to clean cars for journey DIXON – Junior and senior students at Faith Christian School of Grand Detour will be going on an education trip to Washington, D.C. To help raise money for the trip, they will have a car wash and bake sale from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Dixon Snyders Pharmacy, 301 N. Galena Ave.

Sessions start soon for training DIXON – Volunteer training will begin Sept. 27 for Hospice of the Rock River Valley, 2600 N. Locust St., Sterling. Sessions will be from 1 to 4 p.m. every Tuesday through Nov. 1 in Classroom 1 at Town Square Centre, 102 S. Hennepin Ave. Participants must attend each session. Helpers are needed to work with hospice patients and their families. Hospice also is looking for bilingual volunteers. To sign up, contact Becky Highbarger at becky@hospicerockriver. org or 815-625-3858.

Cemetery reason for local meeting TAMPICO – An informational gathering about Tampico Memorial Cemetery will be at 7 p.m. Thursday at Tampico Community Building, 106 Market St. Among the topics to be covered are spraying, upkeep, and ownership. For more information, call Butch McNinch at 815-213-0402

MORRISON – Northwest Illinois Area Agency on Aging will present a series of workshops on selfFULTON – A weekly managing chronic disease Women’s Coffee Break from 9 to 11:30 a.m. group will begin Tuesday every Thursday from Oct. at Second Reformed 6 to Nov. 10 at Resthave Church, 703 14th Ave. Home, 408 Maple Ave. Sessions will be from A kickoff party is sched9:30 to 11 a.m. each uled for 9 a.m. Sept. 22 at Tuesday at the church. the home featuring cake, A Bible discussion will punch, small giveaways, take place, with each and information. member sharing ideas The course will be and insights. Previous taught by two leaders Bible knowledge is not a trained at Stanford Unirequirement. This year’s versity in California, and topic is the book of Isaiah. is open to anyone who A nursery will be set has a chronic disease or up for infants and todtheir caretakers. Among dlers, and programs for topics to be covered are children, ages 3 to 5, arthritis, diabetes, depreswill include Bible stories, sion, asthma, bronchitis, crafts, snacks, and playand pain. time. For more information, Contact the church at call 779-221-3722. staci@secondreformedchurch.net or 815-5893425 for more information. Medicare topic

Bible study group to discuss Isaiah

Polo groups gear up for fundraiser POLO – Polo Knights of Columbus and Polo Economic Development Committee will have Dave’s Coffee Cakes available for purchase Oct. 1 and 2 during Autumn on Parade in Oregon. The groups will sell 27 flavors of the cakes, which are made in Rock Falls, whole or by slice. Whole cakes are $12 for one, $22 for two, and $30 for three. Samples will be provided at the booth, and beverages, such as cappuccino flavors, hot chocolate, coffee, and sodas will be sold. Cakes can be purchased in advance with order forms at First State Bank Shannon-Polo, 211 S. Division Ave., and Polo City Hall, 115 S. Franklin Ave. The completed forms should be turned in there. Advance sale forms are due by Sept. 24, with pickup dates of Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at the bank’s Polo branch.

Researcher to Vendors, adult flu share experiences clinic at church PRINCETON – The SUBLETTE – A community health fair by Lee County Council on Aging will begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Hall,

Course deals with chronic diseases

Bureau County Genealogical Society will feature Depue resident Brian Benkse at its next meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at the group’s

of NIAAA program DIXON – Medicare will be the subject of a Northwest Illinois Area Agency on Aging presentation at 1 p.m. Sept. 28 at Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St. Jeff Barnes with NIAAA will be the speaker. Topics include the different parts of Medicare, and the importance of knowing about services received and billing and reporting errors. For information, call the center at 815-288-9236.

Catholic school prepares for fair STERLING – An online Scholastic book fair at St. Mary School, 6 W. Sixth St., will start Sept. 26 and continues until Oct. 14. Proceeds will benefit the school library and the Accelerated Reader Program. Visit bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/ stmarysch23 to order online. They will be shipped to the school at no charge. Orders can be picked up Oct. 31. The fair will be Oct. 2-5 in the second-floor library. Hours will be 8:30 a.m. to noon Oct. 2, noon to 4 p.m. Oct. 3, and 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 4 and 5. For information, call Linda Cook at 815-625-2253 or Bernadette Hammes at 815-441-3397.

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Swine, horticulture, highlights of county fair MORRISON –Additional Aug. 16 results of the Whiteside County Fair are:

Open Textiles Awards

Premier Exhibitor Trophy: Lorna Temple, Morrison Judge’s Choice Quilt: Sue Austin, Sterling, mixed technique entry Best of Show Award Afghan: Mary Backus, Freeport, crochet, 2 or more stitches entry Best of Show Award Picture: Deb VanZuiden, Morrison, bird or animal entry Best of Show Award Basket: Geralyn R. Nash, Sterling, any holiday entry

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Crochet granny: 1. Mary Backus; 2. Lavonne Huizenga, Morrison; 3. Judith Ross, Camanche, Iowa Crochet ripple: 1. Valerie Shierry, Morrison; 2. Jean Tichler, Morrison; 3. Judith Ross Crochet shell stitch: 3. Cindy Tessendorf, Chadwick Crochet or more stitches: 1. Mary Backus; 2. Sally Gray, Morrison; 3. Lavonne Huizenga Any other crocheted afghan: 1. Judith Ross; 2. Peggy Anne Grau, Morrison; 3. Darlene Weltzin, Morrison Any knit afghan: 3. Cornelia Drolema, Morrison Miscellaneous: 1. Mary Backus; 2. Lavonne Huizenga; 3. Judith Ross Infant Afghans Crochet granny: 1. Judith Ross Crochet ripple: 1. Jean Tichler; 2. Judith Ross Crochet shell stitch: 1. Karen K. Ingwersen, Fulton; 2. Jean Tichler Crochet any other: 1. Valerie Shierry; 2. Mary Backus; 3. Peggy Anne Grau Knit: 1. Peggy Anne Grau Any Other Infants Afghans: 1. Valerie Shierry Bed quilts Machine Pieced, using up to 10 different fabrics: 1. Connie Barr, Morrison; 2. Ellen Feltes, Morrison; 3. Carol Onken, Morrison Machine pieced, using more than 11 different fabrics: 1. Sue Austin; 2. Mary Vos, Morrison; 3. Judith Ross Mixed technique: 1. Sue Austin; 2. Cheryl Mylin, Galt Hand quilted: 1. Ellen Feltes Machine quilted: 1. Kathie VanderVinne, Morrison; 2. Cheryl Mylin Tied comforter: 1. Mary Vos Small, Lap Quilt Fused appliqué: 1. Cheryl Mylin; 2. Jane VanZuiden, Morrison Embroidery or crossstitch: 1. Connie Barr Pieced: 1. Connie Barr; 2. Judith Ross; 3. Marna Geerts, Morrison Recycled quilt: 2. Jenniffer Eberley, Milledgeville Machine quilted: 1. Carol Onken; 2. Deborah Schultz, Savanna; 3. Rebecca Albrecht, Morrison Tied comforter:1. Mary Vos Infant Quilt Machine appliqué: 1. Peg E. Dauphin, Savanna Pieced: 1. Connie Barr; 2. Kathie VanderVinne; 3. Judith Ross Quilt made with quilted panel: 1. Judith Ross; 2. Mary Vos Machine quilted: 1. Mary Vos; 2. Rebecca Albrecht; 3. Connie Barr Tied comforter: 1. Mary Vos; 2. Jenniffer Eberley Wall Hanging Hand appliqué: 1. Lorna Temple Pieced: 1. Deborah Schultz; 2. Peg E. Dauphin; 3. Lorna Temple Machine quilted: 1. Kathie VanderVinne; 2. Linda Ebersole, Rock Falls; 3. Deborah Schultz Fused appliqué: 1. Jenniffer Eberley; 2. Jane VanZuiden; 3. Christy Abell, Tampico Wall hanging made with felted wool: 1. Sue Austin; 2. Lorna Temple; 3. Jenniffer Eberley Quilted Items Bag, purse, tote, etc.: 1. Jenniffer Eberley Miscellaneous: 1. Judith Ross; 2. Jenniffer Eberley; 3. Jane VanZuiden

Table runner: 1. Sue Austin; 2. Elizabeth Gabbard, Thomson; 3. Ellen Feltes Fleece Pillow, small, to 13 inches, pillow, large, more than 13 inches: 1. Christy Abell Clothing: 1. Lorna Temple Blanket, small, to 36 inches: 1. Lavonne Huizenga; 3. Katie Selburg, Lyndon Blanket, large, more than 36 inches: 1. Lorna Temple Scarf: 2. Christy Abell Miscellaneous: 1. Joan Johnson, Tampico Pillows Embroidered: 1. Lorna Temple; 2. Judith Ross Patchwork, pieced: 1. Norma Young, Morrison; 2. Lorna Temple; 3. Christy Abell Counted cross-stitch: 1. Rhonda Dietz, Prophetstown; 2. Amy Johannsen, Morrison Any other: 1. Christy Abell Embroidered: 1. Lorna Temple Patchwork, pieced: 1. Lorna Temple; 2. Norma Young; 3. Christy Abell Crochet: 1. Jean Tichler, Any other: 1. Ellen Feltes; 2. Lorna Temple Pillow Slips Hand embroidered: 1. Judith Ross; 2. Lorna Temple; 3. Ellen Feltes Guest Towels Fused appliqué: 1. Lavonne Huizenga Machine embroidered: 1. Lavonne Huizenga Doily Crochet, 6 to 13 inches: 1. Judith Ross; 2. Lavonne Huizenga; 3. Cindy Tessendorf Crochet, 13 inches or larger: 1. Lavonne Huizenga; 2. Ellen Feltes; 3. Kathy Anderson, Morrison Crochet dresser scarf or table runner: 1. Judith Ross Any other: 1. Jenniffer Eberley; 2. Ellen Feltes Linens Place mats, 2, any method: 1. Judith Ross Dresser scarf or table runner: 1. Lorna Temple; 2. Sue Austin Miscellaneous: 1. Lorna Temple Pictures Miscellaneous: 1. Laurel Kenady, Port Byron; 2. Irene Drolema, Morrison; 3. Mary Backus Sampler: 1. Amy Johannsen Quotation, whimsical: 1. Amy Johannsen; 2. Lois Temple, Morrison Bird or animal: 1. Deb VanZuiden Flower, still life: 1. Cornelia Drolema; 2. Lois Temple Christmas: 1. Amy Johannsen Any other holiday: 1. Nancy Howson, Clinton, Iowa Miscellaneous: 1. Deb VanZuiden; 2. Mary Backus; 3. Carrol Farthing, Morrison Sampler: 1. Amy Johannsen; 2. Nancy Howson; 3. Valerie Jungen, Clinton, Iowa Quotation, whimsical: 1. Laurie Sim, Morrison Bird or animal: 1. Deb VanZuiden, Morrison; 2. Nancy Howson; 3. Laurel Kenady Farm scene: 1. Cornelia Drolema Flower, still life: 1. Nancy Howson Any other holiday: 1. Mary Backus Christmas articles Counted crossstitch, stocking: 1. Amy Johannsen; 2. Peg E. Dauphin Stocking, other than listed elsewhere: 1. Jenniffer Eberley; 2. Lorna Temple Textile ornament: 1. Lorna Temple; 2. Emily Dobesh, Sterling; 3. Lisa M. Lindquist Crochet ornament: 1. Judith Ross Christmas clothing article: 3. Christy Abell Counted cross-stitch Christmas article: 1. Valerie Shierry; 2. Beverly Peterson Tree skirt: 1. Kathie VanderVinne Handmade Doll and Animal Cloth doll: 1. Lorna Temple Crochet animal: 1. Judith Ross Stuffed toy or animal:

1. Judith Ross; 2. Christy Abell; 3. Lorna Temple Bear: 1. Judith Ross; 2. Lorna Temple Doll: 1. Peggy Anne Grau Kitchen Articles Crochet potholders: 1. Lavonne Huizenga; 2. Sally Gray; 3. Judith Ross Any other, potholder: 1. Lorna Temple; 2. Jane VanZuiden; 3. Judith Ross Refrigerator, appliance towel: 1. Lorna Temple; 2. Jane VanZuiden; 3. Valerie Shierry Any other kitchen article: 1. Lorna Temple; 2. Christy Abell Coasters, 4: 1. Cindy Tessendorf Kitchen towel, any method: 1. Lisa Seaman, Morrison; 2. Amy Johannsen; 3. Joann A Wilson, Sterling Days of the week towels, set of 7: 1. Lavonne Huizenga Casserole carrier, any method: 1. Christy Abell; 2. Marcia A. Brands, Morrison Miscellaneous Knit or Crochet Infant knit or crochet sweater set: 1. Mary Backus; 2. Judith Ross Child’s knit or crochet sweater: 1. Mary Backus Scarf, knit: 1. Irene Drolema; 2. Valerie Shierry; 3. Lisa M. Lindquist Scarf, crochet: 1. Lisa Seaman, Morrison; 2. Lavonne Huizenga; 3. Megan Huizenga, Morrison Adult’s knit sweater: 2. Gigi Clifton, Rock Falls Miscellaneous, knit or crochet accessory: 1. Lisa M. Lindquist; 2. Emily Dobesh, Sterling; 3. Cindy Tessendorf Crocheted jewelry: 3. Lisa M. Lindquist Clothing Shell, vest or jacket: 1. Cheryl Mylin Hand-decorated sweat, T-shirt: 1. Lorna Temple; 2. Katie Selburg; 3. Christy Abell, Recycled T-shirt: 1. Christy Abell; 2. Lorna Temple Adult or child shirt or blouse: 1. Christy Abell; 2. Lorna Temple Scarf, made with ribbon, yarn, T-shirt, etc.: 1. Judith Ross; 2. Lorna Temple Adult or child’s dress: 1. Mary Backus; 3. Christy Abell Apron: 1. Jenniffer Eberley, 1. Ellen Feltes; 3. Linda Pasvogel Any other: 1. Lorna Temple; 2. Christy Abell Miscellaneous Items Pin cushion: 1. Judith Ross; 2. Sue Austin Purse: 1. Lorna Temple; 2. Linda Ebersole; 3. Katie Selburg Tote bag: 1. Lorna Temple; 2. Wendy Dobesh, Morrison; 3. Christy Abell Doll clothes: 1. Mary Backus; 2. Peggy Anne Grau; 3. Ellen Feltes Baby bibs, any method: 1. Deb VanZuiden; 2. Judith Ross; 3. Christy Abell Holiday article, other than Christmas: 1. Sue Austin; 2. Linda Ebersole; 3. Jenniffer Eberley Any other, embroidered article, not listed anywhere else: 1. Lorna Temple; 2. Jenniffer Eberley Mug cozy, mug rug: 1. Lorna Temple; 2. Megan Huizenga, Morrison Hair accessory, band, bows, etc.: 1. Lorna Temple; 2. Lisa M. Lindquist, Sterling; 3. Christy Abell Rugs Any method: 1. Sue Austin; 3. Lorna Temple Handwoven Baskets Flat reed, round reed, artistic design, miscellaneous, miniature less than 3 inches, any holiday: 1. Geralyn R. Nash Family Heirlooms Quilt: 1. Butch VanderSchaaf, Morrison; 2. Ellen Feltes; 3. Joan Johnson Knit or crocheted tablecloth or bedspread: 1. Irene Drolema; 2. Linda Warner, Fulton Textile heirloom: 1. Butch VanderSchaaf; 2. Beverly Peterson, Prophetstown Adult clothing heirloom: 2. Lorna Temple Child’s clothing heirloom: 1. Beverly Peterson; 2. Joy Sipes, Morrison; 3. Lorna Temple

60s clothing, flower power: 1. Beverly Peterson; 2. Linda Pasvogel, Fenton Heritage Arts Handwoven item: 1. Karen K. Ingwersen Any other heritage textile art: 1. Linda Pasvogel; 2. Sue Austin

Open Swine Honors Champion Single Barrow: James Dobbels, Cambridge, heavy weight; Reserve Champion: Blake Roselieb, Annawan, medium weight Champion Gilt: Bailey Roselieb, Annawan, medium weight; Reserve Champion: Josh Dobbels, Cambridge, heavy weight Champion Pair of Barrows: James Dobbels, heavy weight; Reserve Champion: Blake Roselieb Open Barrow Classes Light barrow: 1, 3. Bailey Roselieb; 2. James Dobbels Medium barrow: 1. Blake Roselieb; 2. James Dobbels; 3. Josh Dobbels Heavy barrow: 1. James Dobbels; 2. Blake Roselieb; 3. Josh Dobbels Champion Barrow: 1. James Dobbels; Reserve Champion: 1. Blake Roselieb Open Gilt Classes Light gilt: 1. Blake Roselieb; 2. Kyle Bird, Laura; 3. Alyssa Miller, Lanark Medium gilt: 1. Bailey Roselieb; 2. Lexi Meurer, Ashton; 3. Alyssa Miller Heavy gilt: 1. Josh Dobbels; 2. Colby Wall, Bradford; 3. Olivia Bird, Laura Champion Gilt: 1. Bailey Roselieb; Reserve Champion: 1. Josh Dobbels Open Pairs Classes Light pair: 1. Bailey Roselieb; 2. James Dobbels; 3. Bailey Roselieb Medium pair: 1. Blake Roselieb; 2, 3. Josh Dobbels Heavy pair: 1. James Dobbels; 2. Levi R. Meurer, Ashton; 3. Tanner J. Barron, Sterling Reserve Champion: pair: 1. James Dobbels Champion pair: 1. Blake Roselieb

Open Horticulture Premier Exhibitors: Thomas Nedbal, Morrison, Genevieve Nedbal, Morrison; Reserve Champion: Merle Daniels, Morrison Best of Show: Thomas Nedbal, winter apples Apples Delicious: 1. Mark Zink, Rock Falls; 2. Theresa Zink, Rock Falls Golden delicious: 1. Dale Belt, Morrison; 2. Quinn James, Morrison; 3. Donna Young, Sterling Jonathon: 1. Thomas Nedbal McIntosh, Wolf River: 1. Genevieve Nedbal Any other variety: 1. Thomas Nedbal; 2. Genevieve Nedbal; 3. Quinn James Summer, early fall apples: 1. Genevieve Nedbal; 2. Thomas Nedbal; 3. Mary Jo Tichler, Morrison Winter apples: 1. Thomas Nedbal Crabapples Siberian: 1. Genevieve Nedbal; 2. Bob Boone, Prophetstown Pears Bartlett: 1. Eric Bergen, Morrison; 2. Quinn James, Keiffer: 1. Frank Belt, Morrison Any other variety: 1. Cindy Young, Erie Peaches Any one variety: 1. Theresa Zink; 2. Sara Medendorp, Morrison; 3. Mary Jo Tichler Grapes Concord: 1. Bob Boone; 2. Merle Daniels; 3. Shannon Jacobs, Sterling Delaware, Niagra: 1. Merle Daniels Any other variety: 1. Bob Boone; 2. Merle Daniels Berries Berries, any edible berry: 1. Janice Stuart, Morrison; 2. Sara Medendorp; 3. Donna Young Display of Fruits 6 kinds of fruit: 1. Donna Young Fruit basket: 1. Thomas Nedbal; 2. Donna Young Apple head doll: 1. Merle Daniels; 2. Janice Stuart;

3. Donna Young

Pedal Pull 1 2-Wheel Drive 4 years old and younger: 1. Cohen Wroble, Morrison, full pull (2); 2. Brysen Adams, Tampico, full pull, 24 feet, 11 inches; 24 feet 11 inches; 3. Jack Sandrock, Prophetstown, full pull, 23 feet, 5 inches 5 years old: 1. Levi Nimmick, Clinton, Iowa, full pull; 2. Zackery Tegan, Morrison, 37 feet, 5 inches; 3. Hailey Yaun, Prophetstown, 34 feet, 16 inches 6 years old: 1. Ryder House, Chadwick, full pull (3); 2. Breckon, Sandrock, Prophetstown, full pull, (2), 39 feet, 3 inches; 3. Ava Robbins, Morrison, full pull, (2), 38 feet, 9 inches 7 years old: 1. Megan Folkers, Morrison, full pull, 38 feet, 9 inches; 2. Carsten Wade, Morrison. full pull; 3. Eliana Huisingh, Fulton, full pull, 35 feet, six inches 8 years old: 1. Grace Johnson, Sterling, full pull, 33 feet, 9 inches; 2. Lexi Walters, Morrison, full pull, 31 feet, 2 inches; 3. Noah Rubbins, Morrison, 32 feet, 4 inches; 3. Bridget Kennidy, Morrison, 32 feet, 4 inches 4-Wheel Drive 9 and 10 years old: 1. Colton Bielema, Morrison, full pull; 2. Matt Toppert, Hillsdale, full pull; 3. Ian Smiddy, Hillsdale, 36 feet, 1 inch 11 and 12 years old: 1. Faith Green, Morrison, full pull, (2), 39 feet, 10 inches; 2. Max Jacobs, Morrison, full pull, 30 feet; 3. Tyler Hines, Andover, Iowa, full pull, 30 feet, 9 inches The junior floriculture and junior swine exhibits were Aug. 17 highlights. Winners are:

Junior Floriculture Awards Premier Exhibitor Trophy, Most Blue Ribbons: Audrey Gesiakowski, Sterling Rosette Awards Best of Show, Bouquets and Arrangements: Ella Purvis, Colville, Washington, “Hit the Road arrangement Best of Show, Table Settings: Audrey Gesiakowski, movie-theme supper Bouquets and Arrangements Arrangement for teenage girls’ bedroom: 1. Audrey Gesiakowski; 2. Vivian Gesiakowski, Sterling Arrangement in small wicker basket: 1. Audrey Gesiakowski Petunias: 1. Gina Lee, Morrison; 2. Vivian Gesiakowski; 3. Audrey Gesiakowski Daisies: 1. Audrey Gesiakowski; 2. Vivian Gesiakowski Arrangement of dried or silk materials, wall hanging, arrangement of dried or silk materials, other than wall hanging: 1. Audrey Gesiakowski Arrangement for a small table: 1. Vivian Gesiakowski “Hit The Road” arrangement: 1. Ella Purvis; 2. Audrey Gesiakowski; 3. Vivian Gesiakowski Arrangement an oldfashioned container: 1. Vivian Gesiakowski; 2. Audrey Gesiakowski; 3. Austin Zink, Rock Falls “My Favorite Arrangement:” 1. Vivian Gesiakowski Arrangement for kitchen: 1. Audrey Gesiakowski; 2. Austin Zink; 3. Megan Shears, Rock Falls Patriotic arrangement, red, white, and blue: 1. Audrey Gesiakowski; 2. Austin Zink Arrangement, hosta leaves: 1. Audrey Gesiakowski; 2. Vivian Gesiakowski Arrangement, animal planter or animal as accessory: 1. Audrey Gesiakowski; 2. Vivian Gesiakowski; 3. Austin Zink Arrangement, western theme: 1. Audrey

Gesiakowski; 2. Austin Zink Mixed bouquet: 1. Vivian Gesiakowski Arrangement, sports theme: 1. Audrey Gesiakowski; 2. Austin Zink; 3. Megan Shears Reflections arrangement, with mirror: 1. Austin Zink; 2. Vivian Gesiakowski Arrangement, Disney Theme: 1. Austin Zink; 2. Megan Shears Arrangement, include stuffed animal: 1. Audrey Gesiakowski; 2. Vivian Gesiakowski; 3. Megan Shears Arrangement by boy who loves flowers: 1. Austin Zink Arrangement using birdhouse as accessory: 1. Audrey Gesiakowski; 2. Vivian Gesiakowski; 3. Austin Zink Arrangement, including angel(s): 1. Vivian Gesiakowski; 2. Austin Zink Christmas arrangement: 1. Audrey Gesiakowski; 2. Austin Zink Arrangement for my teacher: 1. Megan Shears, Rock Falls; 2. Audrey Gesiakowski; 3. Vivian Gesiakowski Potted Plants Houseplant, foliage only, 1, 2., blooming houseplants: 1. Audrey Gesiakowski Hanging plant, pot more than 8 inches: 1. Austin Zink; 2. Audrey Gesiakowski; 3. Audrey Gesiakowski Cactus or succulent, 1, 2.; dish garden, 3 or more different plant varieties grown in one container: 1. Audrey Gesiakowski Table Settings Tea for 2, 8-12 years old, must use child’s table and dishes, birthday party for a pet: 1. Vivian Gesiakowski Movie theme supper with show to follow, 4 place settings: 1. Audrey Gesiakowski

Junior Swine Champion Single Barrow, heavy weight, Reserve Champion, medium weight: Blake Roselieb Champion gilt: Levi R. Meurer, medium weight; Reserve Champion: Kyle Bird, light weight Champion Pair of Barrows: Blake Roselieb, medium weight; Reserve Champion: James Dobbels, heavy weight Showmanship Senior showmanship, 16-18 years: Josh Dobbels Teen showmanship, 14-15: Alyssa Miller Junior showmanship, 8-13: Braxton Mapson, Sterling Pee Wee showmanship, 7 and younger: 4 unnamed pee wees Junior Barrows Junior light barrow: 1, 2. Bailey Roselieb; 3. James Dobbels Junior medium barrow: 1. Blake Roselieb; 2. James Dobbels; 3. Bailey Roselieb Junior heavy barrow: 1. Blake Roselieb; 2, 3. Josh Dobbels Junior Champion Barrow, Reserve Champion: 1. Blake Roselieb Junior Guilts Junior light gilt: 1. Kyle Bird; 2. Blake Roselieb; 3. Tanner J. Barron, Sterling Junior medium gilt: 1. Levi R. Meurer; 2. Bailey Roselieb 3. Lexi Meurer, Ashton Junior heavy gilt: 1. Colby Wall, Bradford; 2. Olivia Bird, Laura; 3. Samantha Wall, Bradford Junior Champion Gilt: 1. Levi R. Meurer; Reserve Champion: 1. Kyle Bird Junior Pairs Junior light pair: 1, 2. Bailey Roselieb; 3. James Dobbels Junior medium pair: 1. Blake Roselieb; 2, 3. Josh Dobbels Junior heavy pair: 1. James Dobbels; 2. Levi R. Meurer; 3. Tanner J. Barron, Sterling; Junior Champion Pair: 1. Blake Roselieb; Reserve Champion: 1. James Dobbels, Showmanship Teen showmanship: 1. Alyssa Miller Junior showmanship: 1. Braxton Mapson Senior showmanship: 1. Josh Dobbels

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SMALL BUSINESS

Owner juiced about the growth prospects Company makes 100 percent organic drinks BY DIANE MASTRULL Tribune News Service

PHILADELPHIA – Frank Leto has changed course from his carnivorous teen years, now finding culinary excitement in a glass. He blends and then presses kale, cucumber, spinach, lemon, apple and ginger into drinkable form in a tiny commercial kitchen in suburban Philadelphia. The Philadelphia-area native came to this dietary conversion while living at a Tibetan Buddhist meditation center in Berkeley, California, where the menu was vegetarian. More surprising, perhaps, is that Leto has staked a new business on it as the consumer market is saturated with juices and approaching a high-water mark for the cold-pressed type his Juice Dr. is producing. In 2012, Barron’s called it a national movement fueled by wellness-oriented millennials. By some estimates, the cold-pressed juice industry had grown to $100 million by last year – just as Juice Dr. was launching the first of three green drinks. More juices are to follow this month. But comparing Juice Dr. with other juice companies would miss the point, Leto said. “I call us a health company, not a juice company,” said the 30-year-old, sporting business casual – flip-flops and shorts, his hair gathered in a ponytail. “The juice is our tool.” Juice Dr. makes 100 percent organic drinks, each 11-ounce bottle one day’s serving of primarily locally sourced fruits and vegetables. They are sold on a subscription basis and delivered to homes and businesses, or are available for pickup from the company’s headquarters and kitchen. Free access to a health coach is available at juicedr.org to all customers.

The drinks were first available in January 2015 at the region’s three HubBub Coffee shops, a startup led by Drew Crockett, with direct-to-consumer service added 2 months later throughout Philadelphia and its burbs. “The pairing is brilliant,” Crockett said of HubBub’s work with Juice Dr., an effort intended to “round out” his customers’ dining experiences. They are working on a line of snacks, as well. “The issue historically is that there is a disconnect between what customers are looking for and the options available in the coffee-bar segment, traditionally carbohydrateheavy options,” Crockett said. With six employees, all of whom are health coaches or nutritionists, Juice Dr.’s revenue has exceeded $20,000 a month, Leto said. He envisions annual sales reaching $100 million within 5 years, aided by kitchens throughout the country enabling localized delivery of fresh, nonpasteurized juices with shelf lives of just days. Profitable, Juice Dr. has 100 to 150 subscription customers. A 2-week trial costs $40 to $80, depending on the number of juice days, after which each client personalizes a program. Started with $75,000 – $55,000 of which came from friends and family, the rest from Leto himself – Juice Dr. is closing on its first round of outside fundraising, he said, declining to disclose details. Paul Baudier of Pressed Juice in New York, a consultant to juice and health food businesses throughout the world, is a minority partner. Leto’s vision attracted him, he said. “As a health company with a systematic, scientific approach to a trendy consumer health

product, there aren’t many like it around,” Baudier said. “If this idea takes hold and people start looking to their food providers as their health coaches, it could change the face of modern medicine and the biggest health problems Americans deal with, like heart disease and type II diabetes, for the better.” For help in developing the juices – where taste is critical, as is keeping the ingredients from separating – Leto turned to Drexel University and Stella Lucia Volpe, professor and chair of the Department of Nutrition Sciences, and Juan Muniz, lab director and an assistant clinical professor. Volpe said “hard data” exist on the health and nutritional benefits of cold-pressed juices, which are made without the nutrition-destructive processes of traditional heat-generating centrifugal blending. “The data are strong, however, on fruit and vegetable consumption and overall health benefits and prevention of some chronic diseases,” she said, adding that at least 5 servings per day are recommended. At Cornell University, Chang Y. “Cy” Lee, a professor of food chemistry, said cold-press juices satisfy a consumer trend of “less processing is better.” Mike McGrath’s healthmanagement company, the Charge Group, customizes health and nutrition programs for employees and business professionals. It has started recommending Juice Dr. drinks to its clients. The drinks are also served at McGrath’s home, which he shares with his wife, Jessica Nagle, and their two children, Liam, 6, and Isla, 4. “We do fight over them – in a loving way,” McGrath said.

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Elisabeth said in addition to charging fair prices, she wants to make sure her customers know it’s OK to voice their opinions on exactly what they want and whether they like their hair after she is finished styling it. Don’t worry, she said it won’t hurt her feelings. “We’re in the Midwest. It’s easy going; it’s relaxed,” she said. “In Germany, if I pay for

something, I will let you know what I like. Here, it’s not as straightforward. “I get a little success every day when [clients] like their hair. If I make them happy, I’m happy; it’s a great thing.” Elisabeth has two other stylists working with her in her salon, Elizabeth Swatos, 32, who has been working there since October 2015, and Ashleigh McEvoy, 25, who has worked there for 5 years. Having the two younger girls around helps keep things fresh in

her salon, she said. “If you keep younger people around it keeps the salon young and the clientele mixed. That’s how I was taught,” Elisabeth said. The salon offers hair cuts, colors, styles and waxing. There are also tanning beds. Elisabeth said she would like to expand more by offering makeup artistry. She’s proud of what her salon has become over the past 20 years. “The hair salon is great,” she said. “All around, it’s been fun.”

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Start throwing as much money as you can at the smallest debt, while making minimum payments on the other two. When you get it paid off, roll that amount over – along with every dime you can dig up – and attack the second largest one. Follow these steps until you pay off all of your commercial properties. It might take up to 10 years in your case, because we’re talking about at least $1.3 million in debt. If you have a bunch of equity in one you don’t particularly like, you might consider selling it and throwing the cash at the remaining two. But whatever the timeline, I’d develop a hardcore game plan to get rid of this debt.

Wouldn’t it be cool to have all that paid for? Talk about cash flow! – Dave

Family and debt don’t mix

Dear Dave, My wife and I are debtfree except for a car and our house. The car is financed through her mom, and her dad agreed to send us half of the payment each month. We owe $7,700 on the car, and we have enough cash right now to pay off the car in full with plenty left over. Should we do this, even though her dad is making $100 of the payment each month? – Dustin Dear Dustin, If her father had agreed to send you guys $100 each month, ask him to continue doing that for

the duration of the agreement. Then, you guys pay off the car now with your cash. There’s nothing dishonest about this, as long as you explain the plan to her parents and they’re agreeable. The reason for this approach is two-fold: It gets the debt paid off, and then you can get the car put in your name. Plus, a situation like this represents drama just looking for a place to happen, if it hasn’t already. Family relationships take on a weird vibe when money has been lent and borrowed. If they’re not agreeable to the idea, that’s OK. All you can do is ask. But one way or another, I’d be out of this situation before the sun goes down. – Dave Follow Dave on Twitter (@DaveRamsey), or go to daveramsey.com.

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Juice Dr. founder and CEO Frank Leto stands next to his juice products while holding a piece of kale, which is one ingredient used in each of his “Phase” drinks, Aug. 10 in Adrmore, Pennsylvania. When living in Berkley, California, in 2008, he became blown away by the popularity of juice bars, became a convert, and then brought the concept back to his hometown of Ardmore.

Astrograph ASTROGRAPH by Eugenia Last Sunday, September 18, 2016 There is always room for improvement, and this year will be all about it. The way you live and how you present yourself and what you do should get a face-lift. Re-evaluate matters and make the changes that will get you back in the game. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Make decisions based on your needs, not on what someone else wants you to do. Ulterior motives and emotional pleas must not interfere with your choices. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Don’t sit around when you should be taking action and making the changes that will improve your relationship with someone you love or want to get to know better. Be direct. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Take the initiative and make personal or physical changes in order to feel better emotionally. Start a new fitness regimen or update your appearance. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Resolve a situation involving a friend or relative. A change to the

way you live or the circumstances surrounding your personal or love life will improve your reputation and state of mind. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Emotional turmoil will develop if you aren’t sympathetic to what others are going through. Bide your time and offer space to anyone who appears to be unpredictable or uncertain. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- You need to get your priorities straight and follow through with your goals. Do something that will encourage love and romance. Make personal plans with someone special. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -Don’t feel that you have to keep up with someone doing things you aren’t equipped to do. Be who you are and do your own thing in order to excel. ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Offering kindness, appreciation and affection will get you further ahead than being critical. If you want to

see change, begin with self-improvement. Romance will enhance your life. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- If you take part in an unusual activity, it will open up a window of opportunity. Communication and travel are highlighted, and will help contribute to your knowledge of different cultures and lifestyles. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- A personal decision will bring about positive changes to your professional future. Make changes to your appearance, demeanor and the way you treat loved ones. CANCER (June 21-July 22) -Emotionally fraught matters will cause you to do crazy things. Before you take action, consider the consequences and focus on projects you can do on your own. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- A change of location or a day trip will be informative and help you make alterations to your personal life that will bring you great joy. Love and romance are featured.

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4-Hers win big at Carroll County Fair MILLEDGEVILLE – Winners Champion: Ty Bickelhaupt, of the Carroll County Fair, Mount Carroll Champion Crossbred Aug. 9-13 at the fairgrounds, Female: Nicki Adolph; are: Reserve Champion: Max Sewing, Textile I: Aubrey Eaton, Mount Carroll Charles, Mount Carroll Champion Angus Sewing, Textile II: Brieann Female: Reserve ChamSpoerlein, Lanark pion: Kiley Carroll, Lanark Fashion revue: Aubrey Champion SimmenCharles tal Female: Max Eaton; Aerospace: Indigo Zach, Reserve Champion: MadyThomson Animal science: Rebecca son Frederick, Lanark Grand Champion Female Alexander, Chadwick; Allison Overall: Max Eaton; Duggan,Thomson Reserve Grand Champion: Child Development I, II, Haley Bickelhaupt III: Adam Rath, Savanna Grand Champion Overall Clover Buds: Caleb Cow-Calf Pair: Kiley Carroll Sweitzer, Lanark; Brook Junior beef showmanBradbury, Savanna ship: Max Eaton Collections: Ethan Nash, Intermediate beef showSterling manship: Haley Bickelhaupt Communications: Izzy Senior beef showmanFredericks, Savanna ship: Clayton Ruter Consumer education: Club Group of 3: Carroll Janessa Witt, Lanark County Kids Crops, corn, soybeans, small grains, sunflowers: Cats Connor Erbsen, Lanark; NatBest of Show Cat: Kaialie Wilkinson, Chadwick lyn Hutchison, Chadwick; Electricity: Andrew Law, Reserve Best of Show: DalSavanna ton Duggan,Thomson Best of Show Kitten, 4-H Cooking Reserve Best of Show: Adam Rath 101: Jenica Stoner, Best Decorated Cage, Lanark; Adam Rath Kailyn Hutchison; Reserve: 201: Katie Hoffman, Savanna; Elizabeth Rath, Savanna Abby Skiles, Savanna Food Science I: Meat and other proteins: Izzy FredDairy ericks Champion Holstein Calf: Candy making, cookies Payton Erbsen, Lanark; and pies: Jenessa Witt Reserve Champion HolFood preservation: Nicki stein Calf, Nevin Erbsen, Adolph, Mount Carroll Lanark

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Health: Izzy Fredericks Savanna Geology: Jayden Forth, Mount Carroll Floriculture: Allison Duggan Horticulture: Adam Rath Intercultural: Elizabeth Rath Leadership, innovation: Izzy Fredericks Natural Resources, exploring your environment: Zoe Fredericks, Savanna; Jayden Forth Photography: Connor Erbsen; Rebecca Alexander Photo editing: Josie Gallentine, Sterling; Connor Erbsen

Champion Holstein Yearling: Nathan Erbsen, Lanark; Reserve Champion: Connor Erbsen Champion Dairy Colored and Other Breed: Dylan Houzenga, Chadwick; Reserve Champion: Regan Scidmore, Chadwick Grand Champion Dairy: Payton Erbsen; Reserve Grand Champion: Nevin Erbsen Junior dairy showmanship, Dwayne Harridge Memorial 4-H Showmanship: Payton Erbsen Senior dairy showmanship: Connor Erbsen Club Group of 3: Clever Clovers

The Carroll County Fair was Aug. 9 through 13 at the fairgrounds in Milledgeville. The Champion Hereford Female ribbon went to Haley Bickelhaupt of Mount Carroll. Carroll County 4-H Ambassador Katie Hoffman presented the award. Photos submitted by Susan O’Connor. Champion Bantam, Reserve Champion: Destiny Haugh, Lanark Champion Female Ducks and Geese, Reserve Champion, Champion Turkey, Reserve Champion, senior poultry showmanship: Rebecca Alexander, Chadwick Champion Male Ducks and Geese: Rebecca Alexander; Reserve Champion: Brock Dykema Champion Egg Production Pen: Jayden Forth; Reserve Champion: Natalie Shaw Champion Market Pen: Abbey Schmidt, Mount Carroll; Reserve Champion: Will Schmidt Junior poultry showmanship: William Schmidt

Rabbits

Rabbit Champion Breeding Pen: Wyatt House, Chadwick; Reserve Champion: Jayden Forth Max Eaton of Mount Carroll stands with his Champion Simmental. Champion Market Pen: Zoe Fredericks; Reserve Nicki Adolph Champion: Elizabeth Rath (center) of Mount Champion Doe All Other Carroll accepts Breeds: Olivia Charles, the Champion Mount Carroll; Reserve Pair of Lambs Champion: Marryn Wynia Ribbon from Champion Doe CrossCarroll County bred: Izzy Fredericks; Ambassador Reserve Champion: Zoe Shelby Fryar. Dogs Shooting sports Fredericks Alyssa Miller of Best of Show Dog ObediArchery: Emily Suiter, Champion Doe New ZeaLanark helped ence, senior dog groomMount Carroll land: Wyatt House with the animals. ing, maintenance, senior Rifle, shotgun: Alex York, Grand Champion Doe: dog showmanship: Hannah Izzy Fredericks; Reserve Lanark Witt, Lanark Small engines: Katelyn Grand Champion: Olivia Goats Fink, Lanark Charles, Tractor: Dylan Wilkinson, Champion Buck All Other Champion Meat Goat: Chadwick Breeds: Olivia Charles; Kailyn Hutchison; Reserve Welding: John Morgan, Champion: Brock Dykema, Reserve Champion: ShalMount Carroll lon Wynia, Mount Carroll Chadwick Woodworking: Dylan Champion Buck CrossChampion Dairy Goat: Alexander, Chadwick; Will bred: Allison Duggan; Brock Dykema; Reserve Schmidt, Mount Carroll Reserve Champion: Jayden Champion: Emma Foster, Forth Chadwick Visual arts Champion Buck New Champion Fainting Goat: Hoffman also recCookie decorating: Zealand, Reserve ChamAdam Rath ognized the Clover Aubrey Charles pion: Wyatt House Grand Champion Doe: Buds Award winCupcake decorating: Grand Champion Buck: Brock Dykema; Reserve Nicki Adolph ners, Brook BradWyatt House; Reserve Grand Champion: Emma Chalk, carbon, pigment: bury of Savanna Grand Champion: Allison Foster Pippen Legel, Thomson and Caleb Duggan Grand Champion Buck: Clay: Brianna Wilkinson, Sweitzer of Lanark Junior rabbit showmanBrock Dykema; Reserve Chadwick (not pictured) ship: Olivia Charles Computer-generated art, Grand Champion: Hannah Senior rabbit showmanFoster, Chadwick heritage arts: Ethan Nash ship: Elizabeth Rath Junior goat showmanFiber: Nicki Adolph Sheep Glass, plastic: Emily Suiter ship: Brock Dykema Champion Market Senior Goat ShowmanMetal, wood: Izzy Fredership: Elizabeth Rath Lambs, Reserve Champiicks Club Group of 3: Savanna on, junior sheep showmanPaper: Kirk Hoffman, Smiles 4-H Club ship: Nicki Adolph, Mount Savanna Carroll Horses Scrapbooking, kits, modChampion Pair of Lambs: els: Katie Hoffman Champion Halter Pony: Nicki Adolph; Reserve 3-D: Rebecca Alexander Kaiti Collins, Polo, Champion: Katie Hoffman, Champion Halter Horse: Beef Savanna Lane Rahn, Sterling; Senior sheep showChampion Beef Carcass: Reserve Champion: Josie manship: Katie Hoffman, Jace Urish, Lanark Gallentine Savanna Champion Simmental Champion Performance Club group of 3: Savanna Steer: Max Eaton, Mount Horse and Rider: Olivia Smiles Carroll Charles; Reserve ChamReserve Champion Swine Champion Crossbred pion: Josie Gallentine Champion Market BarDairy Goat winner Steer: Bradley Johnson, Horse and pony costume row: Clayton Ruter; Reserve was Emma Foster Lanark; Reserve Champion: class: Natalie Shaw, Mount Champion: Market Barrow, Clayton Ruter, Shannon of Chadwick. Carroll, Kaiti Collins Clayton Ruter Champion HerChampion Gaming Champion Market Gilt: eford Steer: Clayton Ruter; Horse: Josie Gallentine; Alyssa Miller; Reserve Reserve Champion, Jace Reserve Champion: Kaiti Champion: Clayton Ruter Urish Collins Champion Pair of Market Champion Angus Steer: Junior horse and pony Barrows: Clayton Ruter; Clayton Ruter; Reserve showmanship: Zoe FredReserve Champion: Austin Champion: Bradley Johnericks Miller son, Lanark Intermediate horse and Champion Pair of MarChampion Shorthorn pony showmanship: Josie ket Gilts: Clayton Ruter; Steer: Peyton Urish, Lanark Gallentine Reserve Champion: Alyssa Grand Champion Beef Senior horse and pony Miller, Lanark Feeding: Bradley Johnson; showmanship: Lane Rahn Outstanding Swine Reserve Grand Champion: Champion Horseless Exhibitor Award, Senior Clayton Ruter Horse Showmanship: Kirk Swine Showmanship: ClayChampion Beef Bucket Hoffman ton Ruter Calf: Lillian Ebersole, ChadPoultry Junior Swine Showmanwick ship: Alyssa Miller Champion Large Fowl: Champion Hereford Brock Dykema; Reserve Club pen of 3: Clever CloFemale: Haley Bickelhaupt, Champion: Will Schmidt Mount Carroll; Reserve vers

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The catch to a cruise Five ways to not only survive a family voyage, but make it the best vacation ever

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The Ruby Princess docks in Victoria, British Columbia, in May. The ship has 19 decks and is 951 feet long. There are four pools and seven whirlpool spas.

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recently survived a cruise to Canada with 15 other adults and three children, and no one got hurt. No, really! To add to the drama, two of them had food allergies and I’m prone to motion sickness. No, really! I slapped on a ReliefBand ($89 on Amazon, and I swear by it) and we alerted the crew ahead of time to the possible foodrelated medical emergencies, then headed out. The idea of spending 5 days in the middle of the Pacific with that many family members might sound ... daunting. Possibly nightmarish. But I actually had a blast. I kept one rule of thumb in mind the whole time, which is what really saved me. But here are a few tips before you call up all your cousins. First, go for a one-way cruise. Sound crazy? Hear me out. We departed Long Beach, California, on the Ruby Princess on a Tuesday in May. We were “at sea” – meaning we saw no land – for 2 days. On Friday, we docked in Victoria, British Columbia. We spent the afternoon sightseeing and had enough time for a long lunch before getting back on the ship. By dinnertime, the ship departed; we arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Saturday, where we disembarked and spent the weekend. On Monday morning, we took a flight back to Orange County. It was like having three mini vacations in one, and we weren’t even gone a whole week.

Plan ahead Checking into a hotel on land is cake compared to cruise registrations, but the internet helps. Princess Cruises has 18 ships with multiple worldwide destinations, but once you’ve put in your personal info online, you’re able to customize preferences such as extra pillows and whether you want a robe (I, of course, did). This is also where you choose dinner table reservations, which means it’s your first chance to warn them that you’re a picky eater – or like my cousin, Barbara, allergic to gluten. If you’re an avid traveler, this might be a no-brainer, but for a large group vacation, you absolutely need an itinerary. It needs specific departing and

The Vancouver skyline. The city was a great weekend stay – even with family.

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Fun ship facts

There are many options, including round-trip coast cruises, to consider. Here’s a sample trip. Where: Los Angeles to Vancouver, British Columbia When: April 3 or April 28, for 7 days How much: $699$2,199, depending on room size/location Splurge: It’s worth it to get the all-inclusive beverage package for alcohol and soft drinks, $56.35 per day Info: princess.com

Most cruise lines offer this info on their websites, so look it up ahead of time. It’s kind of fun to know this stuff and impress your fellow travelers. Ship name: Ruby Princess Size: 19 decks, 951 feet long Cabins: 1,542 (I suggest securing an outside cabin with a balcony.) Pools and spas: four pools, seven whirlpool spas Dining: Three main dining rooms, three restaurants, two buffets, poolside pizza and grill, 24-hour room service and five bars Activity areas: Poolside movie screen, spa and fitness center, kids and teens centers, wedding chapel, casino, library, art gallery, shops, sports deck (with putt-putt golf, basketball hoops and running track), theater, nightclub and cigar lounge

arrival times as well as addresses, because one of you might try to “lose” the grumpy brother-inlaw, and he’ll need to be able to find his way back to the hotel in time for dinner. We rented vans to tour Victoria, but it took a small bus to cart all of us and our luggage from the ship to the hotel in Vancouver. For such a large group, trying to hail a taxi or car service on command isn’t feasible – unless of course your Uber guy is really good at “Tetris.” When you’re on the ship, you’ll get detailed info about cruise activities. Let your group know which ones you’ll be at, so they can avoid you if you forget to pack deodorant. (Seriously though, they sell deodorant in the duty-free shops.) Take heed: “Kid center time” is cruise-speak for grown-up drink time. You should absolutely take advantage of this amenity, which means you just drop off your offspring for a few hours. When you get them back, prepare to ooh and ahh over their paper-plate art projects.

Communicate When you’re out in the

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middle of the ocean, you lose cell service. Let me repeat: You. Will. Not. Have. Cell. Service. Princess Cruises offers a messaging app via its onboard website. It does not send your phone a notification when you have a message, but it can still be useful if everyone in your group knows to check it periodically. (Just don’t expect Aunt Karen to ever get the hang of it.) Otherwise, you just need prearranged meetup spots. Our ship had 19 decks and I could never remember which way to turn off the elevators to get to our cabin. The only reason I knew forward was because I quickly developed a habit of looking outside to see the direction of the waves. It’s like wandering the halls of a hotel, except there are multiple “lobbies” and no exit doors. I logged an average of 12,000 steps on my Fitbit every day of the cruise, and I’m certain half of them were because I got turned around trying to get from 12th deck port side to top deck starboard bow for more pizza. So make multiple meeting locations, and give yourself at least 10 to 15 minutes to get to and from places. You should also develop

a rapport with the servers and crew members. The servers were the same for every dinner we had on the ship, so they easily got to know us and were able to accommodate our requests for glutenfree, low-sodium or kidfriendly feasts.

Recreate A band was performing in a lounge one night, and we took up a large chunk of the seating area next to the dance floor. The kids were dancing, the adults were being goofy and eventually our party became the party. Strangers started joining in. We brought the crowd! For bingo – a very serious and very necessary part of your cruise experience – we would show up early and stake out multiple tables. You’re supposed to be quiet during bingo, so be respectful, but there’s really nothing better than wasting away an afternoon on a boat, sipping a bloody mary while hoping the Aussie bingo caller with the punny jokes will say “G-14” so you can stand up and claim your prize before Uncle Mark wins again.

Get alone time Within a few days (or maybe a few hours,

TOP: Shrimp appetizer is offered in one of the main dining rooms on the Ruby Princess. ABOVE: Bingo and bloody marys are a perfect combo on a cruise. depending on your tolerance level), you’re going to need a break from your cousin’s whining and your aunt’s tendency to overshare details about the ’70s, so make sure to plan a break from the group. After 10 p.m., the ship goes pretty quiet, so my partner and I would explore. We strolled around outside when it wasn’t too cold, and sat at a bar for a drink when we needed to warm up. Mostly, it was just nice to feel alone on a ship you knew was actually packed with people. My absolute favorite activity was “Movies Under the Stars.” A huge movie screen loomed over one of the pools on the top deck. During the day they played family-friendly flicks, but on some nights they screened grown-up movies. We watched “The Martian” while cuddled up under soft, red blankets and being served warm popcorn and chocolate-chip cookies.

Be flexible If you take just one piece of advice from me, take this: Be willing to go with the flow (pun intended!). In large groups you might never have a say. But if you hate what you’re doing, just excuse yourself. Being missing for an hour is better than sitting there being grumpy (I’m looking at you, Uncle Chris). Allow yourself some time to do absolutely nothing, and don’t plan out every single meal together – that way you can opt for ice cream for lunch if you want. My overall saving grace, though, was simple: I was on a ship! A massive, 960-foot-long vessel floating in the ocean. Anything I did, no matter how ordinary on land, just seemed infinitely more fun to do on a ship. Tipsy by 2 in the afternoon? Shrug. I’m on a ship! Eating burgers by the pool? So fun. I’m on a ship! Laughing over dinner with a bunch of my favorite people? Wonderful. I’m on a ship!

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ABOVE: Focus Services of Sterling sent a crew to work Sept. 10 at Dixon Habitat for Humanity Home site. Kirsten Zinke, future homeowner (center), also was on hand to help. Photos submitted by Jim Dixon.

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Sydney and Jack Graves of Sterling traveled during spring break to visit the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Indiana. The National Park Service gave them five cushaw squash seeds to plant in their home garden. The seed once was grown by Abe Lincoln’s father. According to the news release, the Indiana Bicentennial Commission, with the help of the National Park Service, hopes to spread the use of the squash in honor of the Lincoln family. Of the five seeds planted, two germinated. The vegetable spreads rapidly and can weigh up to 25 pounds. Photo submitted by Butch Falkenstein, the Graves’ grandfather.

RIGHT: This is a Sept. 10 view of the future home.

Ogle County Federation names 4-H ambassadors Four 4-H’ers have been selected as Ogle County 4-H Ambassadors for the 2016-17 4-H year. They are Kallista McIntyre and Samantha Malk of Stillman Valley and Johnathan Prose and Anna Ring of Oregon. All were chosen as the result of an application and interview process that screened candidates for leadership abilities, 4-H expertise, and communication skills. McIntyre is a first-year ambassador, and a 9-year member of Ogle Jolly 4-H Club in Stillman Valley. Her major project area has been sheep. She serves as a 4-H Federation delegate for her club, has held numerous club offices, and has been a 4-H camp

counselor for 2 years. She also is involved in the school musical, choir, National Honor Society, Renaissance team, yearbook, and FFA. According to McIntrye, 4-H has helped her “gain leadership skills, confidence, and bettered her communication skills by being an active member of the Ogle Jolly 4-H Club.” Malk, also a first-time ambassador, is a 6-year member of Bits ’N Reins 4-H Club, a horse club in Ogle County. Her major project area is small pets. She has been her club treasurer, Cloverbud junior leader, a Federation delegate, and served on the club’s horse committee. She also is involved with the Ogle

County 4-H Fair crew. She stated 4-H has helped her learn to work better as a team, where she “learned how to listen to everyone’s thoughts.” Prose is a second-year ambassador and a 6-year member of Carefree 4-H Club in Oregon. His major project area has been visual arts. He has been his club’s treasurer, project leader, Cloverbud junior leader, federation delegate, camp counselor, and served on the LIVE itUp conference planning committee. He has been very involved with school activities as well as a member of the Student Council Media Chair, Key Club, student council, National Honor Society, madrigals, musicals, and

junior varsity and varsity soccer. He stated that through his experiences in 4-H, his oral communication skills have improved. “I feel thoroughly communicating is one of my greater accomplishments as a 4-H member. “Since I am passionate about my 4-H projects and have a willingness to talk about them, I have engaged in conversations with people wanting to know more about my projects and 4-H, and have received many complements, as well as offers to purchase my artwork at both the Ogle County and State Fair.” Ring, also is a secondyear ambassador and 9-year member of Carefree. She serves as the club

vice president. She has been a reporter, secretary, and recreation chairman, as well as a member of the Ogle County Fair crew, a camp counselor, a federation delegate, and has been involved with several committees at the club and county levels. Her major project area is beef. She has served as president for 3 years in the Northern Illinois Junior Angus Association, as well as a mentor in the mentor-protégé program at Gelbvieh Nationals. Her “favorite accomplishments have been being a camp counselor, despite never being a 4-H camper, and being an ambassador. Another favorite is being named the Beef Herdsman, an award given to

one Ogle County 4-H member in the beef barn who shows outstanding showmanship in and out of the show ring by helping others in the beef barn during the fair. They will began their work for 4-H earlier this month. As ambassadors, the team will represent the county 4-H program at various events and activities in Ogle County throughout the 4-H year. Duties include promoting 4-H in local parades, conducting classroom presentations, and manning displays at community events. They will be formally honored at the county 4-H Achievement Celebration on Nov. 13 in Byron.

Trout fishing sites include Ogle, Bureau, and Whiteside counties SPRINGFIELD – The fall Trout Fishing Season will open Oct. 15 at 53 ponds, lakes, and streams throughout the state. The fall catch-andrelease fly fishing-only season will open Oct. 1 at nine sites, including Apple River Canyon, 8763 E. Canyon Road, Jo Daviess County; and Pine Creek at White Pines Forest State Park, 6712 W Pines Road, Mount Morris. Both areas also are regular trout season fish-

ing sites. Anglers can use fly fishing gear to catch and release trout. No trout may be kept during the fly fishingonly period. The Illinois catchable trout program is funded by those who use the program through the sale of Inland Trout Stamps. The IDNR stocks more than 80,000 rainbow trout each year in bodies of water where trout fishing is permitted during the fall season.

No trout may be taken from any of the stocked sites from Oct. 1 until the fall trout season opens at 5 a.m. Oct. 15. Anyone attempting to take (harvest) trout before the legal harvest season opening will be issued citations. All anglers – including those using fly fishing gear who intend to release fish caught before Oct. 15 – must have a valid fishing license and an Inland Trout Stamp,

unless they are under the age of 16, blind or disabled, or are an Illinois resident on leave from active duty in the Armed Forces. The daily catch limit for each angler is five trout. Illinois fishing licenses and Inland Trout Stamps are available at DNR Direct license and permit locations, including many bait shops, sporting goods stores, and other retail outlets. Go to dnr.illinois.gove/

DNRDirectMonitor/VendorListing.aspx for locations. Fishing licenses and trout stamps also can be purchased by using a credit card through DNR Direct online via the IDNR website at dnr. illinois.gov, or by calling DNR Direct at 888-6737648. Not all fall trout sites open at 5 a.m. on opening day. Anglers are reminded to check the opening time

5K run to honor longtime teacher

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GROWMARK essay contest underway

share (EPS)1 were 44 cents in fourth quarter and $1.42 for full-year. Excluding certain one-time items, fourth quarter 2016 adjusted EPS2 increased 2.2 percent to 46 cents from 45 cents last year. Full-year 2016 adjusted EPS declined 3.8 percent to $1.52 from $1.58 in 2015. “Consistent with last quarter, both sales and operating margin improved sequentially as we saw more typical seasonality and continued benefits from our expense discipline,” said Tod Carpenter, president and CEO. “We are pleased that we delivered full-year sales and operating margin in line with guidance. On the bottom line, higher-than-expected expense in ‘other income and expense’ resulted in earnings that were below our expectations.” Donaldson has a plant in Dixon.

Floral workshop to be offered at library

The Carroll County Fair’s third annual Friends of the Fair 5K will be at 9 a.m. Oct. 1 at the fairgrounds, 28374 Milledgeville Road, A Kids Fun Run, in memory of Nancy Dittmar, a longtime fair volunteer, track coach, and teacher, will begin at 8:45. All participants will receive a souvenir in her honor. The fair board welcomes all of Dittmar’s former athletes, students, and those who have a love for the fair to attend. Entry forms can be found at carrollcountyfair.info or the Milledgeville State Bank,451 N. Main Ave. Monetary donations will be accepted at CCF, P.O. Box 548, Milledgeville, IL 61051. All proceeds will be used to make repairs to the fair office. For more information, call

company/youth-youngfarmers/pages/essay-con test.aspx for more information. Additional program details have been sent to area agriculture teachers. Each state’s winner earns $500, and the winner’s FFA chapter receives $300; four runners-up per state will each win $125.

before the season. For more information about all site regulations, anglers should contact individual sites that will be stocked with catchable-size trout. Other area trout locations are: Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park, 16006 East St., Sheffield; Illinois and Michigan Canal, Lock 14, off Rockwell Road in LaSalle; and Centennial Park Pond, 510 E. 11th St., Rock Falls.

IN BRIEF

BLOOMINGTON – The theme for the 2017 GROWMARK Essay Contest is “What value do cooperatives provide to today’s farmers?” The 24th annual contest is open to all high school FFA members in several states, including Illinois. Students will explore ways in which cooperatives help farmers remain competitive, and describe the value cooperatives provide to modern farms. Essays will be submitted online for the first time this year. The deadline for all submissions is midnight Oct. 31. Past topics have included sustainability, careers in agriculture, and the cooperative principles. Go to growmark.com/

Dixon company reports earnings MINNEAPOLIS – Donaldson Co. Inc. recently announced fourth quarter and full-year 2016 results. Fourth quarter 2016 net earnings increased 5.5 percent to $59.5 million from $56.4 million last year. For the full year, net earnings declined 8.3 percent to $190.8 million from $208.1 million in 2015. Fiscal 2016 Generally Accepted Accounting Principles earnings per

Sealed bids must be received by 4 p.m. Sept. 27 via fax at 815-2732960. They also may be , MOUNT CARROLL – Carroll County Master Gar- dropped off or mailed to dener Nancy Gmitro will District Manager, 7071 present a fall swag workRiverview Road, Thomshop from 5:30 to 6:30 son IL 61285. p.m. Sept. 29 at Mount The highest bidder will Carroll Public Library, 208 be awarded a Special N. Main St. Use Permit that will allow Swags will be made of all exclusive commercial natural materials. Registration fishing rights within Pool is due Thursday at go.illinois. 13. edu/fallswag or by calling Commercial fishing the Carroll County Extension under this permit will office at 815-244-9444. be from Oct. 1, 2016 through Sept. 30, 2018. Bids for commercial Special regulations are fishing permit open in effect for commercial fishing at Lost Mound THOMSON – The U.S. that include a seasonal Fish and Wildlife Service closure from Jan. 15 is soliciting bids for the to May 15 to protect exclusive commercial fishing permit on the Lost over-wintering areas and spawning habitat for sevMound Unit, Upper Miseral species of sport fish, sissippi River National including walleye. Wildlife and Fish Refuge For more information, in Carroll and Jo Daviess call 815-273-2732. counties.

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Fiesta kick-off

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TOP: Martial Arts master Jane Dillon, owner of Legacy Martial Arts in Sterling, breaks boards Sept. 10 while marching through the Sterling-Rock Falls Fiesta Parade in Sterling. ABOVE: Traditional folkloric dancers spin and dance through downtown Sterling. The Fiesta Days fun hasn’t stopped, though. Taste of Fiesta is happening from noon to 6 p.m. today at Grandon Civic Center in Sterling.

ABOVE: Costumed revelers march through the Fiesta Parade on Sept. 10 in celebration of Mexico’s independence day. There’s still time to sample more food, art and music today during the Taste of Fiesta. LEFT: More costumed marchers celebrate a different holiday during the parade. Characters from Haunted Haven remind you that Halloween is fast approaching and to get your tickets to meet “Leatherface” of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” movie fame at the haunted house south of Rock Falls.