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Conference tab: Nearly $12K Rock Falls’ spending nearly doubles that of Sterling, Dixon combined BY DAVID GIULIANI dgiuliani@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 525
One and a half pounds of Alaskan king crab costs $71.25 a plate at Hugo’s Frog Bar & Fish House in downtown Chicago.
Two such meals were included on a dinner receipt for Rock Falls officials during a conference in mid-October. As with past years, the city of Rock Falls far outpaced Sterling and Dixon in spending at the
annual conference of the Illinois Municipal League. In mid-October, two officials each from Sterling and Dixon attended the annual 3-day meeting of the Illinois Municipal League at the Hil-
ton in downtown Chicago, while six from Rock Falls took part. Rock Falls forked out $11,884 for lodging, food and other expenses at the conference, with Dixon and Sterling spend-
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ing $4,163 and $2,173, respectively. Most years, Rock Falls officials get together for a dinner during the conference. CONFERENCE CONTINUED ON A10
YOUR HEALTH
Swine song on repeat Nasty flu strand returns; still time to get vaccinated BY KATHLEEN A. SCHULTZ kschultz@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 528
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AJ Stanley, 13, of Rock Falls shovels off his family’s driveway Sunday afternoon. After wind and snow caused whiteouts around the Sauk Valley, temperatures fell overnight, bringing in dangerous wind chills and leading to school closings.
AMBOY MARSH
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Group buys 30 more acres for sanctuary BY DAVID GIULIANI dgiuliani@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 525
AMBOY – In some areas, environmentalists are trying to grow more black oak trees. But that’s not the case at the Illinois Audubon Society’s Amboy Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary. If anything, the group makes sure there aren’t too many of the native trees. “We’re working on keeping black oaks in their place,” said Tom Clay, the society’s executive director. “Part of our restoration work keeps the number of black oaks in balance with everything else.” In 2012, the society bought 272 acres of wetlands near U.S. Route 52 and Mormon Road, about 3 miles south of Amboy,
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and opened the sanctuary the next year. Recently, the group paid $250,000 for an additional 30 acres. The land is part of the statedesignated Green River Lowland Natural Area Inventory, a mostly undisturbed 1,100 acres. Illinois has the second-most disturbed soil in the United States, because so many acres are under the plow. Iowa is first. At one time, 60 percent of Illinois – 22 million acres – was prairie, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com Resources. Of that, only 2,500 Lindsay Daniels (left) of Amboy, and her daughters, Laci, 2, acres remain. and Tori, 11, walk the 2.5-mile trail to Indian Ridge in OctoHow did the Amboy Marsh ber at the Amboy Marsh. The sanctuary opened to the pubstay relatively preserved? lic that month, and the Illinois Audubon Society recently purchased another 30 acres about 3 miles south of Amboy. BIGGER CONTINUED ON A2
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Achy, shaky, hot and cold? Didja get a flu shot? Didja? “We’re seeing a lot of influenza, just like nationwide,” Lee County Health Department Administrator Cathy Ferguson said. The same is true in Whiteside County, health department officials there said. And like the rest of the nation, the H1N1, or swine flu strain, is back, Ferguson said. Typical influenza hits infants and people older than 65 the hardest. H1N1, which caused a nationwide Cathy pandemic in Ferguson 2009, tends to expand that pool to young adults, pregnant women, older children, and people with chronic diseases.
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In Lee County The Lee County Health Department, 309 S. Galena Ave. in Dixon, provides vaccines by appointment. You need not be a county reisdent. The shot costs $12 to $25 for kids, depending on a few factors, and $25 for adults. FluMist, for ages 2 and older, also is $25. Medicaid, Medicare and Medicare Advantage cards are accepted, as are some private health insurance companies. Call 815-284-3371 for an appointment or more information.
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