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URGENT CARE FACILITY OPENS IN DIXON
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The Dixon City Market is held from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays on the riverfront and boasts many local vendors.
Giving public taste of world Photos by Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.com
Dixon City Market is held each Wednesday BY MATT MENCARINI mmencarini@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5529
TOP: Dr. William Zander, regional medical director of Physicians Immediate Care, gives an eye exam Monday at the newly opened urgent care facility in Dixon. KSB Hospital and Physicians Immediate Care partnered to open the clinic at 1672 Galena Ave. The facility has X-ray capability, lab testing and seven exam rooms – including a pediatric room and a trauma room. Patients with nonlife-threatening injuries and illnesses will be treated from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. ABOVE: The pediatric room at the new urgent care center features an infant scale, a TV, and a mural painted on the wall.
Physician assistant Tiffany Connolly (left), Terry Buzzard, chief medical officer of Physicians Immediate Care, Dixon Mayor Jim Burke, KSB President and CEO Dave Schreiner, Stan Blaylock, president and CEO of Physicians Immediate Care, and KSB Chief Practice Officer Kevin Marx take part in the ribbon-cutting at the new urgent care facility Monday afternoon in Dixon. Physicians Immediate Care has 24 other such facilities in the state, and Blaylock said the Dixon site might have seen a record number of patients during its grand opening Monday.
DIXON – For its fourth week, the Dixon City Market will offer tastes of Chile, Argentina and Kansas City, Missouri. In addition to food and live music, the City Market, held 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays at the Dixon Inside riverfront, has For a list had wine and of vendors, beer tastings. The turn to A3. tastings represent a different region each week, with previous tastings of wine from Italy, Spain and Portugal, and Australia and New Zealand. Beer tastings have included beer from Capital Brewery in Wisconsin, Brooklyn Brewery in New York, Bent River Brewing Company in Rock Island, and Galena Brewing Company in Galena. This week, the wine will be from South America – specifically Chile and Argentina –and the beer will be from Boulevard Brewery in Kansas City.
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Council unanimously backs sales tax resolution City, school district referendums will be on November ballot BY PAM EGGEMEIER peggemeier@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5570
MORRISON – The city joined its school district Monday in approving a resolution to put a sales tax referendum on the November ballot. The council unanimously backed putting the sales tax increase before voters at its 1 percent maximum. If voters approved the measure, the exact amount of the tax would then be determined. “Once it is approved, the council has to have another vote for how much it will be,” Mayor Everett Pannier said.
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It’s unfortunate, but it’s a sign of the times. State funding is down just about everywhere, and money is needed in municipalities and schools.
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Scott Vance, superintendent of Morrison Community Unit District 6
“We could decide to just set it at a portion of that, and then we could use the rest later.” For non-home rule municipalities, the tax is capped at 1 percent, and can only be instituted in one-quarter increments. Whiteside County schools will have the County School Facility Sales Tax on the November ballot. That referendum will call for a 1-cent sales
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tax increase to be used only for school maintenance purposes. While both entities agree that having both tax questions on the same ballot is not an ideal situation, they believe they had no other choice. “It’s unfortunate, but it’s a sign of the times,” said Scott Vance, superintendent of Morrison Community Unit District 6. “State funding is down just about everywhere,
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Next meeting The Morrison City Council next meets at 7 p.m. Aug. 11, at the Whiteside County Courthouse board room, 400 N. Cherry St. in Morrison. Go to www.morrisonil.org or call City Hall at 815-7727657 for an agenda or more information. and money is needed in municipalities and schools.” As the second-largest school district in the county, Morrison stands to reap about $500,000, if the tax increase passes. Vance said the school board would look to use some of the extra sales tax revenue to lighten the load on homeowners. RESOLUTION CONTINUED ON A4
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Venetian Night When Giana Bonneur was hired as Dixon Main Street’s events and marketing coordinator in April, one of the first things she said she wanted to bring to the city was a Venetian Night. That will happen on Saturday, Aug. 23. Similar to Chicago’s Venetian Night, which has been around for more than 50 years, the event in Dixon will include music, food and a lighted boat parade. There will be a mask-making workshop for children and a “European square atmosphere,” Bonneur said, with musicians, street performers, art, Italian food, wine and gelato on the riverfront. Reserved spots to watch the boat parade cost $10 or $25. Email riverfrontdixon@gmail or call 815-288-2308 for more information.
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