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Hotel’s ground broken Mayor: ‘It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood’

BY PAM EGGEMEIER peggemeier@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5570

ROCK FALLS – It was a time for celebration, but most of the people who gathered Tuesday morning for groundbreaking of the Holiday Inn Express & Suites knew it was merely a timeout.

City officials, developers and investors flashed big smiles as they tossed dirt into the air with their golden shovels at the development site along East Second Street. The hard

hats they wore could have signified more than construction – it was a reminder of the hard work done by many people to get to this point, and the resolve needed to build around the riverfront’s new cornerstone.

“Our leaders and city councils have done so much for many years to prepare for this today,” said Randy Balk, executive director at the Rock Falls Community Development Corp.

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Rock Falls Hotel Group The development team is incorporated as Rock Falls Hotel Group LLC. It is made up of five developers from the Madison, Wisconsin, area, and one from Dyersville, Iowa.

Partners are Al Gibbs Construction of Dyersville; and Landgraf Construction, Neil Densmore of Great Lakes Management Group, Kevin Page and John Kothe, all of Madison.

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Rock Falls Mayor Bill Wescott thanks those who worked to bring the Holiday Inn to the riverfront during a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday morning.

DATELINE DIXON mattMENCARINI Matt Mencarini is a reporter for Sauk Valley Media. You can reach him at mmencarini@ saukvalley.com or 800-798-4085, ext. 5529.

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Kris Horton holds on to August as her partner, Crystal (left), looks on Tuesday at the Dixon home of Kris’ sister, where the couple is staying. August woke them in the wee hours of Sept. 29, just before a fire engulfed their home.

Recent addition to family saves couple’s lives from fire

BY CHRISTI WARREN cwarren@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5521

DIXON – Sometimes in life, the “what ifs” are the scariest part.

“What if we hadn’t woken up?”

“What if the fire had started inside the house?

“What if there wasn’t enough time?”

For Crystal and Kris Horton, the scariest “what if” hinges on what would have happened if their newly adopted kitten, August, hadn’t woken

them up when their Dixon home caught fire last week.

Luckily for them, the affectionate orange furball did just that.

Kris and Crystal have been married for 3 years, but August is a recent addition to the family – a somewhatreluctantly adopted pet. A couple of months ago, a friend found him wandering the streets of Dixon, homeless and hungry with matted fur.

“I was out of town and I was like, ‘If you haven’t found a home by the

time we get back, then maybe,’” Crystal said, sitting on a couch in their temporary home – Kris’ sister’s place in Harmon. “Well, when we got back, he was already at the house.”

And so, August became part of the Horton family, named for the month when Crystal and Kris were married, and, by happenstance, also the month they agreed to take him into their home at 922 Van Buren Ave..

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hen I sat down with Mayor Jim Burke on Monday, our conversation wasn’t limited to his health and recovery from surgery.

Burke, who has been recovering since his Sept. 22 surgery to remove his bladder due to a tumor, talked about the money the city had received from the sale of land in the industrial park, a possible vote on reducing the water rate for Bay Valley Foods, and the city’s upcoming strategic planning.

He expects to be back at work in City Hall by the first week of November, but to start doing some work from home before then.

“I know they’re going to be starting strategic planning,” Burke said. “And I’m going to be giving some input on that.”

For several months, the city and Bay Valley Foods have discussed reducing the company’s water rate.

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POLICE Sterling Police Donnie G. Carr, 66, of Marseilles; 10:12 a.m. Monday at West Fourth Street and Avenue I; no insurance; given notice to appear.

Dennis E. Schick, 45, of Sterling; 10:25 a.m. Monday at West Fourth Street and Avenue K; suspended registration, no insurance, no valid registration; posted driver’s license as bond.

Jonathon L. Stinson, 26, of Sterling; 1:39 p.m. Monday at East Third Street and 12th Avenue; expired driver’s license; given notice to appear.

Staci N. Hartle, 25, of Sterling; 1:56 p.m. Monday at Sixth Avenue and East 19th Street; passed stopped school bus; posted driver’s license as bond.

David A. Flannigan, 30, of Sterling; 4:58 p.m. Monday in the 1800 block of Locust Street; stalking; taken to Whiteside County Jail.

Jody L. Hartman, 19, of Sterling; 2:17 p.m. Monday at Walmart, 4115 E. Lincolnway; retail theft less than $300; given notice to appear.

Courtney E. Landry, 19, of Sterling; 2:17 p.m. Monday at Walmart, 4115 E. Lincolnway; retail theft less than $300; given notice to appear.

Kathryn A.H. Schauff, 20, of Sterling; 8:18 p.m. Monday at West Fourth Street and South Lynn Boulevard; speeding; given notice to appear.

Rock Falls Police Justin Reyes, 28, of Rock Falls; 9:42 p.m. Monday; warrant for failure to appear; bonded out.

Dixon Police Laiff A. Jacobson, 40, of Dixon; 5:40 p.m. Monday in the 200 block of South Hennepin Avenue; Lee County warrant for contempt; released with notice to appear.

Ogle County Sheriff Martin J. Zuniga, 37, of Rockford; Oct. 3; arrested for predatory criminal assault of a child; taken to Ogle County Jail and given notice to appear.

Oregon Police Jessie J. Rolen, 29, of Oregon; 12:35 a.m. Sept. 30 in the 300 block of Webster Street; operating a vehicle with expired registration; issued citation.

Logan K. Bell, 18, of Monroe Center; 9:48 a.m. Sept.

30 in the 200 block of South Fifth Street; operating an uninsured motor vehicle; issued citation.

Carol M. Severson, 59, of Oregon; 5 p.m. Sept. 30 in the 100 block of South Fourth Street; operating a vehicle with expired registration; issued citation.

Nicholas L. Cagle, 26, of Burlington, Iowa; 8 p.m.

Thursday in the 400 block of North Fourth Street; arrested on charges of driving under the influence of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia, issued citations for improper lane use and operating an uninsured motor vehicle.

Mark E. Hendricks, 27, of Chicago; 1:12 a.m. Saturday in the 100 block of South Fourth Street; operating a vehicle when registration suspended for non-insurance; issued citation.

Lindsey A. Horton, 29, of Rockford; 10:25 p.m. Saturday; outstanding warrants; taken to Ogle County Jail.

Jeremy T. Izer, 23, of Oregon; 12:15 a.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of South Third Street; disorderly conduct, resisting, obstructing a peace officer; taken to Ogle County Jail.

Edward A. Burkhart, 28, of Oregon; 6:49 p.m.

Sunday in the 400 block of Hill Street; driving while license suspended, fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer; taken to Ogle County Jail.

Mount Morris Police Justin A. Dietrich, 27, of Dixon; Sept. 14; speeding; issued citation.

Peter K. Brauchler, 19, of Oregon; Sept. 18; improper backing; issued citation.

Richard V. Jeter, 44, of Mount Morris; Sept. 20; Ogle County warrant; taken to Ogle County Jail.

Robert M. Disch, 43, of Mount Morris; Sept. 20; disorderly conduct; taken to Ogle County Jail.

Erik M. Olvera, 18, of Romeoville; Sept. 22; speeding; issued citation.

Jordan R. Markle, 21, of Mount Morris; Sept. 26; cruelty to animal; taken to Ogle County Jail.

Luther J. Revels, 69, of Lanark; Sept. 27; speeding; issued citation.

Debra S. Bronstein, 55, of Mount Morris; Thursday; operation of uninsured motor vehicle, hit and run; issued citations.

Kenneth M. Cunningham, 28, of Mount Morris; Saturday; operation of uninsured motor vehicle, no valid registration, driving under the influence of alcohol; taken to Ogle County Jail.

Skee L. Hartman, 36, of Princeton; Sunday; speeding; issued citation.

Shawn M. Rutherford, 29, of Harmon; Sunday; illegal transportation of alcoholic liquor; issued citation.

James D. Weems, 34, of Mount Morris; Sunday; illegal transportation of alcoholic liquor; issued citation.

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August lies in the arms of Kris Horton, one of her owners, as they stay with relatives. The kitten’s addition to the family in August was fortuitous. A friend found him wandering the streets of Dixon, and to repay the Hortons for taking him in, he woke them up early Sept. 29, just before a fire engulfed their Dixon home.

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was – perfectly intact, except for some water damage.

The ring, too, was found undamaged in the bathroom.

Crystal works at Open Sesame Children’s Learning Center and Madison Elementary, where her students have been incredibly supportive. At Madison, her fifth-graders decided to hold a little fundraiser for them.

They’ve been great at Open Sesame, too. One of her students bought them Batman T-shirts, and, as is only fitting for a superhero, a Batman cape for little August.

The cause of the fire has been ruled undetermined, though the fire marshal and fire department both agree it started in the garage.

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28, Crystal went to bed before Kris did, but couldn’t get to sleep because August was bugging her.

“I sent Kris a text that said, ‘Can you come get sir-licks-a-lot?’”

Crystal said, laughing.

That was about 10:30 p.m.

An hour later, Kris headed to sleep. And a few hours after that, she was woken again to August standing on top of her, staring.

“I was like, ‘Come on, Gus, not right now,’” Kris said.

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It wasn’t until fire crews walked them through the cinders the next morning around 6 a.m. that they even thought to look for anything else.

Some of the most important things were Kris’ father’s Bible and her mother’s wedding ring. Both parents died by the time she was 4 years old.

Most everything in the living room had turned to ash; Kris couldn’t even bring herself to open the burnt wooden box to see if any of her father’s Bible remained.

But it did.

She handed it to her sister, and there it

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City looks at bids for Limestone Building work Terracon likely winner of contract

BY PAM EGGEMEIER peggemeier@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5570

ROCK FALLS – Environmental consulting firm Terracon has played a key role in the city’s riverfront redevelopment plans, and it has the inside track to work in a new capacity.

The Naperville-based company was hired to develop a comprehensive community development plan that was completed in 2008. Ter-

racon does a great deal of brownfields work, and has done environmental assessment work in the ParrishAlford and Reliant Fastener areas.

Earlier this year, Terracon helped the city get a $200,000 federal grant for environmental assessment work at the Limestone Building.

One of the terms of the Limestone grant was to put out official requests for qualifications for the environmental consulting work. City Administrator Robbin Blackert told the council Tuesday

Next meeting The Rock Falls City Council next meets at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 21, at City Hall, 603 W. 10th St. The agendas will be posted at www.rock-

falls61071.com and at City Hall. Call 815-622-1100 for more information.

The City Council meeting also can be viewed live on Channel 5.

that, although Terracon didn’t come in with the lowest bid among the four respondents, she believed the firm was the best fit for the job.

“Terracon is most familiar with our situation,” Blackert said. “The lowest bid didn’t have brownfields experience,

and just didn’t do comparable work.”

Alderman Glen Kuhlemier also voiced his support of Terracon.

“We have a long association with them, and they have done very good work for us,” he said.

City Attorney Jim Reese reminded the council

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that they were just voting on the requirements of Terracon, and a contract was still being worked on.

In other matters, Mayor Bill Wescott said he has been inundated by office visits and phone calls regarding Comcast’s decision to close its Rock Falls customer service center. Comcast has told him the cable company is trying to make arrangements for customers to pay the bills at Walmart.

While Wescott said he appreciates the effort, he plans to take action on behalf of the city and angry customers.

“I have asked the city attorney to draft a letter to Comcast,” he said. “I don’t understand why they want to leave here after 40 years, leaving Rock Falls, Sterling and Dixon without an office.”

Also, the council approved two mayoral appointments. Michael Clark, a loan officer at Sauk Valley Bank, was named to fill a vacancy on the Industrial Development Commission.

Blackert will serve a new 3-year term on the board for the Whiteside County Enterprise Zone.

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Soggy weather slows state’s harvests Director of veterans hospital set to retire

Many farmers still have corn, soybean in ground in Illinois ST. LOUIS (AP) – Like many Illinois growers beset by recent harvest-halting rains that have turned their fields into expanses of mud, Mark Reichert spent yet another day Tuesday relegated to odd jobs, sanding away on a propane tank he planned to paint.

“It’s just flat-out soggy, and we are at a dead standstill,” Reichert, 54, said from his farm in central Illinois’ Sangamon County, where he braced for prospects of another inch of rain could fall tonight and into Thursday. “Guys are trying to find any open window they can to make progress, but that hasn’t been easy.”

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday that last week’s often-heavy rains across Illinois has put the corn harvest at just 23 percent complete – half of the pace of the previous half decade. Efforts to bring in soybeans haven’t fared much better, with farmers having been able to cut just 18 percent, down from 32 percent over the previous 5 years.

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With rain storms in the forecast, central Illinois corn farmers race against the setting sun while harvesting this year’s crop of corn Saturday in Pleasant Plains. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says wet weather has turned Illinois’ corn harvest into a slog.

“It just doesn’t look during the past week, of the nation’s soybean real promising at the ending Sunday. crop is in, down 15 permoment,” Reichert said, While some south- centage points from the though noted he’s fared ern states are breezing norm. better than most, fig- through the corn harvest Concerns about the uring he’s cleared half – North Carolina, Texas sluggish harvest often of his 1,300 corn acre- and Tennessee had at are tempered by the fact age and 220 of his 1,100 least 70 percent of their that today’s behemoth acres of beans. But crops in – the nation’s combines can make up there’s been no progress Corn Belt isn’t as fortu- lost ground in a hurry. on either for days. nate. Iowa, the country’s But the recent moisture Nationwide, among the top producer, has man- and cooler-than-normal 18 states that produce aged to harvest just 5 conditions can slow crop most of the country’s percent, well off its typi- maturation, up the cost corn, just 17 percent of cal rate of 26 percent by of drying the grain and has been harvested – 15 early October. Nebraska create backlogs at grain percentage points below stood at 11 percent, elevators as they try to the average pace. But about half of its normal accommodate so many just 5 percent of that pace. farmers suddenly playgrain was brought in Meanwhile, one-fifth ing catch up.

IN BRIEF Sign-up is on for bowling benefit STERLING – Registration is underway for the Mixed Doubles Bowl for the Cure tournament, which will be held at 1 p.m. Oct. 19 at Blackhawk Lanes, 2325 E. Lincolnway.

The entry fee is $20 a person, which covers bowling and a donation to Home of Hope Cancer Wellness Center in Dixon.

Entry forms are available at the lanes; advance registration is due Saturday, but

walk-ins also are welcome on the day of the event.

Call Jo Dell Cruz, 815535-8949, for more information.

4-H fall fest set for Saturday at Sauk DIXON – The second annual 4-H Fall Fest, designed to get folks interested in National 4-H Week and what 4-H has

to offer, will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Sauk Valley Community College.

Activities will include a petting zoo, pumpkin decorating, cookie decorating bar, carnival games, and a bouncy house. Hot dog meals will be $2.

All are invited. About 400 people attended the first fall fest, said Susan O’Connor, program and marketing coordinator for

the Carroll-Lee-Whiteside Unit of the University of Illinois Extension Service.

Contact the Extension Office at 815-835-2070 or lancast@illinois.edu for more information.

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CHICAGO (AP) – The director of a troubled Chicago-area veterans hospital announced her retirement Tuesday, a move she and other hospital officials said was unrelated to the Veterans Affairs Department’s firing a day earlier of four senior executives after a nationwide scandal over long wait times for care.

In a news release, Joan Ricard said she would retire Oct. 31 as director of the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital in order to spend more time with family.

“It has nothing to do with any of the recent events,” Hines spokesman Charity Hardison said of Ricard’s announcement. “This is something she made a personal decision on. She hasn’t been pressured into leaving.”

But Illinois’ junior U.S. senator questioned the timing of Ricard’s retirement, as Hines has faced recent allegations of misconduct at the facility.

“In my discussions with the (Deputy VA) Secretary Sloan Gibson, it appeared to me that her position was no longer tenable,” Mark Kirk, a Highland Park Republican said.

“She probably realized before she’d get fired she should retire.”

Kirk met in June with a VA social worker and union representative, as well as a current and former physician from Hines about allegations of misconduct at the facility

in the Chicago suburbs, including whether $16.6 million in bonuses to employees might have led to secret wait lists and scheduling manipulation.

Ricard has denied those allegations.

The dismissals of the high-level executives followed the revelation of long wait times for veterans seeking medical care and falsified records covering up the delays.

The firings, which the employees are allowed to appeal, were the first since Congress passed a law this summer making it easier for the agency to fire senior officials suspected of wrongdoing.

In the statement announcing her departure, Ricard called her role at the hospital “the last stop in my career plan.”

“I always wanted to finish my VA career at a large, tertiary facility, and I had this in mind when I began my tenure at Hines,” she said.

She has been with the Department of Veterans Affairs for 37 years and was named director of the facility in 2012.

Officials said Ricard’s replacement hasn’t yet been chosen.

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OBITUARIES Vernon E. Straley OREGON – Vernon E. Straley, 89, of Oregon, died Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, at Oregon Living and Rehabilitation Center.

He was born Sept. 26, 1925, in Paw Paw, the son of Allen and Mattie (Stauffer) Straley. He married Marianne Schwab on March 10, 1947, at the Lighthouse United Methodist Church parsonage near Oregon. She preceded him in death Feb. 10, 2014. Vernon and Marianne owned and operated Straley Spring in Rockford for 20 years before returning in 1978 to Oregon to farm.

He is survived by his daughter, Jo Ann (Charles) Reynolds of Oregon; granddaugh-

ter, Monica (Mike) Rasmussen of Dixon; greatgrandchildren, Mattie, Eric, and Emily; brothers, Earl Straley of Oregon and Dale (Alta) Straley of Winnebago; and sister, Joyce Seyler of Winnebago.

He also was preceded in death by his parents, and sisters, Wilda and Lois.

There will be no visitation. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Farrell-Holland-Gale Funeral Home in Oregon, with Jack M. Briggs, chaplain of Unity Hospice, officiating. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Machesney Park.

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Margaret Sanders Stave ELK RIVER, Minnesota – Margaret Sanders Stave, 76, of Elk River, formerly of Sterling, died Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, in South Carolina, from injuries suffered in an automobile accident.

Marge was born Dec. 8, 1937, in Sterling, the daughter of Fred and Lillian (Smith) Sanders. She worked at Franz Manufacturing Co., then for several years at Tyco in Sterling. She loved spending time with her family and friends.

Surviving are her children, Cheryl Harvell and Ann Gross, both of Roseau, Minnesota, Rita (David) Smith of The Colony, Texas,

Keith (Renae) Harvell of Elk River, and David (Thuy) Harvell of Punta Gorda, Florida; nine grandchildren; 10 greatgrandchildren; a sister, Rose (Earl) Rhodes of Lyndon; and a brother, Frank (Shirley) Sanders of Sterling.

She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, three sisters, and five brothers.

Graveside service will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Riverside Cemetery in Sterling, with pastor Dalmus Meeks officiating. Cremation rites have been accorded.

McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls is handling local arrangements.

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FUNERAL SERVICES FOR THE WEEK Today’s visitations: Flora Mae Megli of Sterling, 4-7 p.m. at Schilling Funeral Home in Sterling.

Mary L. Fredette of Oregon, formerly of Dixon, 6-7 p.m. at Preston-Schilling Funeral Home in Dixon.

Today’s funerals: Darlene June Clymer of Dixon, 10:30 a.m. at Preston-Schilling Funeral Home in Dixon.

Violet E. (Johnson) Woodhurst of Erie, 10:30 a.m. at Erie United Methodist Church.

Mary L. Fredette of Oregon, formerly of Dixon, 7 p.m. at Preston-Schilling Funeral Home in Dixon.

Thursday visitations: Melvin E. “Frizz” Pontnack of Mount Morris, 10-11 a.m. at St. James Lutheran

Church in Forreston.

Thursday funerals: Melvin E. “Frizz” Pontnack of Mount Morris, 11 a.m. at St. James Lutheran Church in Forreston.

Flora Mae Megli of Sterling, 10 a.m. at Schilling Funeral Home in Sterling.

Friday visitations: Norma Wiegand of Sterling, 9:30-11 a.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Sterling.

Friday funerals: Vernon E. Straley of Oregon, 10 a.m. at FarrellHolland-Gale Funeral Home in Oregon.

Norma Wiegand of Sterling, 11 a.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Sterling.

Margaret Sanders Stave, formerly of Sterling, 1 p.m. graveside service at Riverside Cemetery in Sterling.

Lois E. Reed SYCAMORE – Lois E. Reed, 85, of Sycamore, died Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, after complications from a stroke. She was employed

by Anaconda Cable and Wire and Duplex Products in Sycamore.

She was born Feb. 23, 1929, at home in Harmon, to Fred and Eathel (Lincoln) Dale.

Survivors include her son, Larry (Melodie Clark) Tucker of Sycamore; sisters, Louise Walton of Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Reatha (John)

Carlson of Dixon; and three nieces.

She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Wilma Hawkins; nephew and niece; and brothers-in-law, Joe Magnafici and Alton Walton.

Services were Sept. 26 and 27 at Olson Funeral & Cremation Services, Ltd., Quiram Sycamore Chapel. Burial was at Elmwood Cemetery in Sycamore.

A memorial fund has been established.

Visit olsonfh.com to send condolences.

Charlene Harrison-Moore DIXON – Charlene Harrison-Moore, 85, of Dixon, died Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, at KSB Hospital in Dixon.

Preston-Schilling Funeral Home in Dixon is handling arrangements.

Robert E. ‘Bobby’ Martin ROCKFORD – Robert E. “Bobby” Martin, 58, of Rockford, formerly of Sterling, died Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford.

Schilling Funeral Home in Sterling is handling arrangements.

Shirley L. Cramer EL PASO – Shirley L. Cramer, 87, of El Paso, formerly of Pontiac, passed away at 9 a.m.

Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, at Heritage Manor in El Paso.

Shirley was born April 18, 1927, in Aurora, a daughter to Elmer and Mabel (Stacey) Smith.

She married Robert E. Cramer on Feb. 28, 1949, in Dixon. He preceded her in death on March 22, 2003.

Surviving are three daughters, LuAnn Ploense of Lincoln, Catherine (Gregory) Allen of Bloomington, and Ellen (James) McWilliams of El Paso; eight grandchildren, Cory (Jen) Legner, Brad (Carrie) Legner, Zach Ploense, Chad (Heather) Allen, Christy (Justin) Shively, Ian (Annie) McWilliams,

Tanner McWilliams, and Brady McWilliams; and eight great-grandchildren.

She also was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, and two sisters.

Family services will be private, with Stephen Jeffreys officiating. Ruestman-Harris Funeral Home in El Paso handled arrangements.

Memorials may be made to East White Oak Bible Church, 11922 W. 2000 North Road, Carlock, IL 61725; American Red Cross of Heartland, 1 Westport Court, Bloomington, IL 61704; or St. Jude Midwest Affiliate, 530 NE Glen Oak Ave., Peoria, IL 61637.

Visit ruestmanharrisfuneralhome.com to send condolences.

Norma Wiegand STERLING – Norma Wiegand, 93, of Sterling, died Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

Norma was born March 18, 1921, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the daughter of William F. and Blanche I. (Resch) Stern.

She married Charles Wiegand on Oct. 28, 1940, in Sterling. He preceded her in death on June 8, 1987. Norma was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Sterling.

Norma is survived by one grandson, Kevin Wiegand; nine greatgrandchildren, Zach, Joshua, Rebecca, Talon, Aspen, Aurora and Adler Wiegand, Elizabeth McCrory, and Amber Cooper; one daughterin-law, Diane Grobe; and one brother-in-law, Carl Nelson.

She also was pre-

ceded in death by her parents; one son, Larry Wiegand; one grandson, Keith Wiegand; one granddaughter, Kari Cooper; five sisters, Esther Nelson, Ruth Henton, Hazel Coppotelli-Steele, Jessie Snow, and Louise Barrett; and one brother, Wilbur Stern.

Visitation will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Friday and the funeral at 11 a.m.

Friday at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Sterling, with the Rev. Brandon Nelson officiating. Burial will be at Palmyra Cemetery in Dixon. PrestonSchilling Funeral Home in Dixon is handling arrangements.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Paul Lutheran Church.

Visit prestonschillingfuneralhome.com to send condolences.

STERLING – Felicitas Ranjel, 80, of Sterling, died Obituary information Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

All obituaries, including box on Page A2 the next McDonald Funeral Homes is handling arrangements. death notices, are due by publication day after we 2 p.m. Sunday through are notified of an error.

Friday if sent via email, Receipt of all obituarBetty Lou Van Horn William Dixon obituaries@saukvalley. ies must be confirmed by PROPHETSTOWN – Betty Lou Van Horn, 81, of com or fax, 815-625-9390. phone.

DIXON – William Dixon, 78, of Dixon, died Monday, Obituary corrections For more information, Oct. 6, 2014, at KSB Hospital in Dixon.

Prophetstown, died Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, at Prophets and clarifications will call 800-798-4085 ext. Preston-Schilling Funeral Home in Dixon is handling Riverview Good Samaritan Center in Prophetstown.

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Online voting began Monday for water tower award DATELINE DIXON CONTINUED FROM A1

An agreement was scheduled to be on the council agenda Monday night, but Burke said he had it been pushed back until he returns so the full council can discuss it.

Money from Lot 5 The council approved the sale of an 8.85-acre piece of land, also known as Lot 5, in the Lee County Industrial Park on Sept. 16, for $320,000.

The land was sold to IPP LLC, which submit-

SVM reporter at Books on First today Sauk Valley Media reporter Matt Mencarini will have “office hours” from 1 to 2 p.m. today at Books on First, 202 W. First St. ted an application for a medical marijuana cultivation center to the state but said it had plans to build on the land even if it didn’t get the license.

Burke said the money should be given to the Lee County Industrial Development Association, which owns the industrial park, after about $59,000 is removed

Feel free to stop by and let him know what’s on your mind. Is there a story in Dixon you think should be reported? Stop by to share or just to say hi. to pay for services the city provided to the association.

“When I get back, I want to bring that up on the table and get a resolution,” Burke said Monday. “That was never the intention – that the city would keep that money. ... The LCIDA, their whole mission is to attract industry. This

could give them some incentive funds and so forth.”

Dixon Main Street funding Burke wants to set up a meeting between the city, Dixon Main Street, Dixon Tourism and the Dixon Area Chamber of Commerce about ways to get more consistent funding for Main Street.

“That goes to the heart of the issue with Main Street,” he said. “I know that we’re going to be able to get a good program manager because we have a good program.

OREGON

IN BRIEF

Restaurant demolition too slow, fines may be coming, chief says

Guitar benefit to help veterans

BY VINDE WELLS vwells@shawmedia.com Shaw Media

OREGON – Fines might be levied on the owner of a burned-out restaurant, if demolition fails to begin in the near future.

Oregon Police Chief Darin DeHaan said Tuesday that he has talked to building owner Kevin Wedel, city officials, and insurance adjusters in the last few days about tearing down what’s left of Whiskey’s River Smokehouse, 123 N. Second St. Although the restaurant and residence above

it were destroyed by a fire on March 16, demolition has yet to begin.

Darin “It’s my recDeHaan ommendation to begin the fine process Nov. 1,” DeHaan said.

The matter has been turned over to city attorney Paul Chadwick.

Wedel’s attorney has submitted demolition bids to his insurance company, Cincinnati Financial, but has heard nothing back, DeHaan said.

The hold-up seems to be that the two adjusters – one who’s advocating for Wedel, and the insurance company’s adjuster – cannot agree on the amount Wedel should receive, DeHaan said.

In the meantime, he and other city officials have been fielding complaints from citizens who question why the building has not been torn down.

The fire started in the basement; it was ruled accidental by the Office of the State Fire Marshal.

Wedel, who lived in the upstairs apartment, was not home when it burned.

DIXON – An open microphone fundraiser for the Guitars 4 Vets program will begin at 7 p.m. Friday at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 540, 1560 state Route 38.

The program helps veterans facing posttraumatic stress disorder and other issues by donating free guitar instruction, a new acoustic guitar, and a guitar accessory kit. The veterans meet weekly for private lessons, and monthly for group sessions to talk and play music with peers. An area chapter is in Rockford.

A group of eight local veterans will perform during the evening, as will

Until we can stabilize that funding, that’s going to be an ongoing ... problem.”

In September, Director Josh Albrecht left the organization after serving in that role since 2007.

Main Street is still searching for a new director.

Water tower Dixon’s water tower, south of the industrial park on Dutch Road, is among more than 200 vying for the honor of Tank of the Year.

Tnemec, a Missouribased industrial paint company, is sponsoring the competition and will pick the best tank from

musicians from Rockford. All area musicians are invited to come and play. There is no cost to attend.

A fried fish and chicken will be available from 5 to 8 p.m. A silent auction with paintings, a painted, guitar, and other items will take place. A group of veterans from the Rockford chapter, with Trish Rooney, Rockford director, will receive a donation of 12 guitars at 8:30 p.m.

A 50/50 drawing will take place. Donations will be accepted for Guitars 4 Vets. Visit guitars4vets.org for more information about the program, and call Rick Munson at 815-6312735 for information about the evening.

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among the top 12 chosen by voters.

The Dixon water tower is painted purple and white with the city’s name and two petunias on each side.

Online voting started Monday and will last for 2 weeks.

Go to www.tnemec. com/tankoftheyear to vote.

Sauk Valley Media reporter Matt Mencarini covers government and happenings in Dixon.

He can be reached at mmencarini@saukvalley. com or at 815-625-3600, ext. 5529. Follow him on Twitter: @MattMencarini

First lady attends Quinn fundraiser CHICAGO (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama made a pair of stops Tuesday in the upper Midwest for gubernatorial candidates locked in close contests in Wisconsin and Illinois, encouraging early voting, particularly among young voters, women and minorities.

She spent the first half of Tuesday near the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison to rally young voters for Mary Burke, who’s challenging Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

Later, she stopped in Chicago after attending a small $10,000-a-person fundraiser for Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and played to the hometown crowd before the thousands at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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CAL seeks donations for 10th statue in series

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Many local and city leaders attended Tuesday’s Holiday Inn groundbreaking. The hotel will be at 301 E. Second St., Rock Falls, and is considered the keystone to the city’s riverfront development.

Construction phase of hotel will put 75 people to work HOTEL

point of contact, and the person most responsible for us being here today,” he said.

Mayor Bill Wescott said he was reminded of a show he once watched with his kids.

“As Mr. Rogers used to say, it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood,” Wescott said. “This is proof that if you stick with development projects, they can come to fruition.”

Wescott recalled the rich manufacturing history of the riverfront and the personal ties residents still have to the companies.

“In 1907, RB&W was built, and many of our family members worked there,” he said. “But now our partnerships with the EPA have given us a clean slate for leaving a new footprint along the riverfront.”

Wescott also issued a reminder that this isn’t a time for the city to rest on its laurels.

“We feel this is the centerpiece to jump-start development,” he said.

“We are going to make the riverfront and uptown area a more vital area than it has been in a long time.”

Officials from Sterling, including Mayor Skip Lee and City Manager Scott Shumard, helped celebrate.

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“Much will be expected of us to fill in this new footprint, but that’s OK, this will be a fun project,” Balk said.

The city announced plans on May 6 for the $6.1 million hotel project in the RB&W District. Construction was expected to begin this summer, but the timetable was moved back.

Four new easements were granted by the city Sept. 30 to accommodate some construction changes.

The hotel is expected to create 20 permanent jobs, while the construction phase will put about 75 people to work.

One of the five developers with Rock Falls Hotel Group, Neil Densmore, president of Great Lakes Management Group, said he expects to move dirt at the hotel site Monday or Tuesday, and to bring in lodgers by July.

“This is a big project, and there have been a lot of details to work through,” Densmore said.

“The city has been great to work with, and so has our investment group.”

Densmore cited the role played by Balk’s predecessor, Sandy Henrekin.

“Sandy was our first

Rock Falls expects the 68-unit hotel to generate an estimated $2.3 million over the next 10 years – $1 million in property taxes that go into the TIF District, $700,000 in hotel/motel taxes, and $600,000 in city utilities revenue.

The city plans to use TIF money from the hotel to expedite a public green space project in the area.

An amphitheater, restrooms, a splash pad, and bike path are part of the preliminary drawings for the green space.

City Administrator Robbin Blackert said progress was being made on the green space project. The engineering agreement is being reviewed by the city attorney.

“We hope to have the bids out this winter, and start work on the green space this spring,” she said.

Blackert has applied for a grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to help fund the project. The Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development grant program is funded by the state real estate transfer tax. A 50 percent matching grant, up to $400,000, is available for development and renovation projects for parks and other green spaces.

Recipients usually are announced in December.

OREGON – The Community Arts Legacy is seeking donations for its 10th and final statue, a tribute to Oregon founder John Phelps.

About 65 percent of the funds needed for the $50,500 project have been raised, CAL committee member Betty Adams of Oregon recently said.

It will complete CAL’s goal of installing 10 sculptures in 10 years in and around Oregon.

This statue, created by artist Steven Carpenter and now being cast at inBronze Foundry in Mount Morris, depicts Phelps and his French guide as they canoed south down the Rock River and first stepped foot on the shore where Oregon is now.

The project includes establishing a new park behind the Oregon Coliseum with pathways, seating, landscaping, and the Phelps sculpture as its centerpiece.

Phelps was a soldier in the War of 1812 and the Black Hawk War 20 years later. He founded Oregon and claimed 40 acres between Oregon and Mount Morris in 1834.

Nearly $7,000 of the cost will be paid from three grants.

OREGON – A Rochelle man has been appointed the coordinator of the Ogle County Emergency Management Agency.

Thomas E. Richter, 58, was appointed Oct. 1, Ogle County Board Chairman Kim Gouker said in a news release.

ter interim coordinator on Aug. 29. The longtime county resident has 26 years of related experience.

OCEMA is responsible for coordinating the county’s emergency and disaster preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation efforts.

The office is at 103 Jefferson St.

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Ten sculptures in 10 years was the vision of the late Dick Adams, Betty’s husband, when CAL was first formed.

The full-sized clay model of the Phelps sculpture made its public debut on June 21 at the Ogle County Historical Society’s Living History Faire. Completion of the piece continues to rely on public contributions.

Donations may be sent to CAL, P.O. Box 444, Oregon, IL 61061.

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THE CARTOONIST’S VOICE

Polls indicate Quinn is weak outside Chicago Governor gets less support than Democratic House hopefuls

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Steps necessary to build a stronger Illinois economy Reduce business costs, fix finances, attack corruption is fourth highest in the nation and sticks out like a sore thumb. For many foreign investors, the corporate tax rate is the Note to readers: In most relevant tax in their advance of today’s Sauk investment decision. The Valley Symposium, feaJames D. J. Thomas rate should be reduced to turing James D. Nowlan Nowlan Johnson no more than 7.3 percent, and J. Thomas Johnson, where it stood before the development professionauthors of “Fixing Illi2011 tax increases. als, the men and women nois: Politics and Policy In other essays, we have in the Prairie State,” Sauk who recruit businesses discussed how to put to their communities.

Valley Media reprints the state’s fiscal house The 70 economic spetheir column from May in order and provide cialists who responded 23. Nowlan and Johnson stability and predictabilwill speak at 6:30 p.m. at to our survey were blunt. ity.

In sum, we should Illinois should, they said, Sauk Valley Community broaden our income and take the following steps: College’s Jerry Mathis sales taxes to encompass Reduce workers’ Theater. A reception in faster-growing sources of compensation liability their honor will begin at revenue and reduce the insurance costs.

5:30 p.m. in the college’s Reduce the corporate rates of these taxes.

East Mall. The public is Three out of four of income tax. invited to this free event. the respondents to our Put the state’s fiscal survey of economic he Illinois econhouse in order. omy has been Provide stability and development professionals said that perceptions struggling. In predictability about the of corruption in Illinois January 2014, the state’s future, and were either “a factor unemployment rate was Change the percep8.7 percent, second high- tion that Illinois is a cor- from time to time” or “an est in the nation. rupt state in which to do important, negative factor” in efforts to market [By August, the state’s business. their areas to businesses unemployment rate had from out of state.

AS FOR WORKERS’ fallen to 6.7 percent, To change a culture of compensation rates, the according to the U.S. corruption over time will state needs to follow 29 Department of Labor, require such actions as other states by enactwhich put Illinois in a creation of a permanent, tie for 36th place among ing a law that requires high-profile state comthe workplace to be the 50 states and the Dismission on turning “The prevailing or primary trict of Columbia; rates ranged from 2.8 percent cause of an injury before Illinois Way” of doing claims are compensable. business from a negative in North Dakota to 8.1 about corruption into At present, all that lawpercent in Georgia.] a positive statement of From our employment yers for the injured have peak in November 2000, to do is persuade an arbi- integrity in government.

The campaign could trator that the workplace Illinois lost 656,000 jobs include workshops on “might have” or “could and has regained only have been” a contributor ethics for all newly elect257,000. ed local and state offito the injury, even if the What can be done cials as well as increased about our parlous situinjury occurred outside emphasis on ethics in the workplace. ation?

At 9.5 percent, the state’s social science studies.

We asked the experts Illinois also has to do corporate income tax rate – the state’s economic JAMES D. NOWLAN Toulon and J. THOMAS JOHNSON Springfield

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a better job of marketing itself to the world.

We have hundreds of fragmented, parochial economic development units in the Midwest that consider it a victory to attract business jobs from one community to another, when that doesn’t increase the number of total jobs.

It would be better for Illinois to take the lead in developing a Midwestern version of the Southern Growth Policies Board.

A NONPARTISAN think tank, the Southern group focuses on innovation and technology, globalization, and the changing nature of the workforce. Each year, the board releases a report on the future of the South.

Like Illinois, the Midwest has been lagging the nation in economic growth. We need to compete, not among ourselves, but with the world.

As for tax incentives, rather than award $150 million to keep a struggling, mature company in Illinois, our state would be much better off to grant $30,000 each to 5,000 startups to locate here, as entrepreneur Aksh Gupta has recommended.

Illinois has great strengths in infrastructure, location, and workforce talent. We must have more confidence in these strengths and in our capacity to market to the world.

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he Sauk Valley Media Editorial Board and Sauk Valley Community College invite the public to attend today’s Sauk Valley Symposium at

Sauk Valley Community College.

Meet authors Jim Nowlan and Tom Johnson at a reception at 5:30 p.m. in the East Mall, and hear them talk

about their book “Fixing Illinois: Politics and Policy in the Prairie State” starting at 6:30 p.m. in the adjacent Jerry Mathis Theater.

The program will also

EDITORIAL BOARD

THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Jennifer Baratta Jim Dunn Sam R Fisher Sheryl Gulbranson Larry Lough

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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include a panel discussion and questions from the audience. It should conclude by 8 p.m.

Copies of “Fixing Illinois” will be available for sale at the reception.

OK, so what we’re going to do today is discuss some congressional races that you may or may not care about in order to talk about the governor’s race, which you probably do care about, since you’re reading this column.

First up, let’s look at freshman Democratic U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider, who was leading former one-term Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Dold by 2 points, 46 percent to 44 percent, with 9 percent undecided, according to a Capitol Fax/We Ask America poll taken Sept. 30.

Millions have already been spent in that north suburban district, and Schneider barely beat Dold last time in a big Democratic year, so it’s little surprise that this race is so tight. The poll of 919 likely voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 points, and 23 percent were mobile phone contacts.

Gov. Pat Quinn was getting slaughtered in the district by Bruce Rauner, 51-39, with 5 percent going for Libertarian Chad Grimm and 5 percent undecided. That can’t be helping Schneider. There are a ton of anti-gun, proabortion-rights women in that district, and yet Quinn is trailing Rauner among females, 45-42.

Moving right along, every poll was way off in the 11th Congressional District 2 years ago. So, keep that in mind when I tell you that the latest Capitol Fax/We Ask America poll had Democratic U.S. Rep. Bill Foster ahead of Republican state Rep. Darlene Senger by only 3 points, 47-44, with 9 percent undecided. The poll of 918 likely voters was taken Sept. 30 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 points, with 24 percent mobile phone contacts.

The race in the sprawling southwest suburban district has so far attracted little outside attention. A recent Senger poll showed her trailing by 5 points, and the campaign decided to keep it secret in order to sneak up on Foster. Oops.

Rauner was leading Quinn in the district, 48-39, with another 6 percent going to the Libertarian.

ANOTHER CAPITOL Fax/We Ask America poll showed state Rep. Mike Bost leading Democratic freshman U.S. Rep. Bill Enyart by 5 points, 45-40, with 6 points going to Green Party candidate Paula Bradshaw in this southern Illinois district.

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leading Enyart, 41-40, among women. The poll of 909 likely voters was taken Oct. 1 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 points; 22 percent of the contacts were cell phone users.

Rauner was way ahead of Quinn in that district, 47-35, with 9 percent going to the Libertarian candidate.

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U.S. Rep. Bobby Schilling by 9 points, 50-41.

The poll of 953 likely voters had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 points.

National Republicans have been saying for months that Gov. Quinn would bring down Democratic incumbents, and Quinn was trailing Rauner in this northwestern Illinois district, 42-38, with 9 percent going to the Libertarian. But, obviously, Quinn hasn’t hurt Bustos.

LIKE ELSEWHERE, Quinn has a big problem with women in the district. Bustos was leading among women, 51-39, but they split, 39-39, in the governor’s race.

OK, now to the point I’m trying to make.

If you look back at 2012, it was very difficult to find a hotly contested congressional race where President Obama was trailing in the polls. He won all the districts listed above.

Again, these are swing districts. Neither party has a huge advantage over the other party. You’d expect Quinn to at least be competitive, but he was getting blown out everywhere except the Bustos district, where he was still trailing.

Obama won Illinois by 17 points, so Quinn doesn’t have to be all that close in those congressional districts to prevail. But his appalling numbers are a clear sign of his unpopularity everywhere but Chicago.

Despite recent polls showing Rauner and Quinn essentially tied, I think the governor is still a long way from closing this deal.

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Turkey: Syrian town poised to fall to militants Outgunned Kurdish fighters struggling to defend Kobani MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) – Islamic State fighters were poised to capture a strategic Syrian town on the Turkish border, Turkey’s president warned Tuesday, even as Kurdish forces battled to expel the extremists from their footholds on the outskirts.

The outgunned Kurdish fighters struggling to defend Kobani got a small boost from a series of U.S.-led airstrikes against the militants that sent huge columns

of black smoke into the sky. Limited coalition strikes have done little to blunt the Islamic State group’s 3-week offensive, and its fighters have relentlessly shelled the town in preparation for a final assault.

Warning that the aerial campaign alone was not enough to halt the Islamic State group’s advance, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for greater cooperation with the Syrian opposition, which is fighting both the extremists and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad.

“Kobani is about to fall,” Erdogan told Syrian refu-

gees in the Turkish town of Gaziantep, near the border. “We asked for three things: One, for a no-fly zone to be created; two, for a secure zone parallel to the region to be declared; and for the moderate opposition in Syria and Iraq to be trained and equipped.”

Erdogan’s comments did not signal a shift in Turkey’s position: He has said repeatedly that Ankara wants to see a more comprehensive strategy for Syria before it commits to military involvement in the U.S.led coalition.

Turkish tanks and other ground forces have been

stationed along the border within a few hundred yards of the fighting in Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, but have not intervened. And while Turkey said just days ago that it wouldn’t let Kobani fall, there’s no indication the government is prepared to make a major move to save it.

Since mid-September, the militant onslaught has forced some 200,000 people to flee Kobani and surrounding villages, and activists say more than 400 people have been killed in the fighting. It has also brought the violence of Syria’s civil war to Turkey’s doorstep.

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Turkish riot police detain protesters Tuesday, as they use tear gas to disperse people protesting in Ankara, Turkey, against the nations’s policy in Syria, while fighting intensified between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group in Kobani, Syria.

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Ebola escapes Europe’s defenses; woman’s pet dog must die Medical officials in U.S. retraining hospital staff MADRID (AP) – Health officials scrambled Tuesday to figure out how West Africa’s Ebola outbreak got past Europe’s defenses, quarantining four people at a Madrid hospital where a Spanish nursing assistant became infected. Determined to contain the spread of the deadly virus, they even announced plans to euthanize the woman’s pet dog.

The first case of Ebola transmitted outside Africa, where a monthslong outbreak has killed more than 3,400 people, is raising questions about how prepared wealthier countries really are.

For Europeans, a distant problem has arrived on their doorstep, and as Spanish health workers complain about inadequate equipment and poor training, the all-important tourism industry was showing its anxiety.

Medical officials in the United States, meanwhile, are retrain-

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Hospital staff walk out Tuesday past police guarding the entrance to protest outside the Carlos III Hospital in Madrid, where a Spanish nurse who is believed to have contracted the Ebola virus from a 69-year-old Spanish priest is being treated after testing positive for the virus. The staff demanded the resignation of Health Minister Ana Mato for the handling of the case. ing hospital staff and find- virus after being sent away by a tuning infection control pro- hospital. cedures after the mishandling The nursing assistant in of a critically ill Liberian man Madrid was part of a spein Texas, where he could have cial team caring for a Spanish exposed many others to the priest who died of Ebola last

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The Justice Department initially defended the practice in court filings, but now says it is reviewing whether the Facebook guise went too far.

Sondra Arquiett’s Facebook account looked as real as any other. It included photos of her posing on the hood of a sleek BMW and a closeup with her young son and niece. She even

appeared to write that she missed her boyfriend, who was identified by his nickname.

But it wasn’t her. The account was the work of DEA Agent Timothy Sinnigen, Arquiett said in a federal court lawsuit. The case is scheduled for trial next week in Albany, New York, court records show.

Justice Department spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement Tuesday that officials were reviewing both the incident and the practice, although in court papers filed earlier in the case the government defended it. Fallon declined to comment further because the case was pending.

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STOCKHOLM (AP) – An invention that promises to revolutionize the way the world lights its homes and offices – and already helps create the glowing screens of mobile phones, computers and TVs – earned a Nobel Prize on Tuesday for two Japanese scientists and a Japanese-born American.

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Two more women who became pregnant after having womb transplants are due to deliver in the next few weeks – and that could be the start of a new wave of babies born this way, say the Swedish doctors who pioneered the technique.

“It means a lot to me that we are able to help patients who have tried for so long to have families,” said Dr. Mats Brannstrom, a professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the University of Gothenburg.

50 other people under observation, including her relatives and fellow health care workers. “The priority now is to establish that there is no risk to anybody else,” emergency coordinator Fernando Simon said.

Even so, the potential repercussions of Ebola’s presence in Europe became clear, as shares of Spanish airline and hotel chain companies slumped in Tuesday’s trading.

Spain is Europe’s biggest vacation destination after France, and investors were apparently spooked that the deadly virus could scare away travelers.

The afflicted woman, reportedly in her 40s and childless, was not identified to protect her privacy, but nursing union officials she had 14 years’ experience. Spanish officials said she had changed a diaper for the priest and collected material from his room after he died. Dead Ebola victims are highly infectious, and in West Africa their bodies are collected by workers in hazmat outfits.

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The woman, who had been on vacation in the Madrid area after treating the priest, was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday after coming down with a fever, and was said to be stable Tuesday. Her husband also was hospitalized as a precaution.

Madrid’s regional government even got a court order to euthanize and incinerate their pet, “Excalibur,” against the couple’s objections. The government said available scientific knowledge suggests a risk that the mixed-breed dog could transmit the virus to humans, and promised to use “biosecurity” measures to prevent any such transmission.

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Woman who suspects abuse needs proof to accuse Dear Abby, When I was 10, I faked an injury so I could quit playing soccer. I couldn’t articulate why the coach, who was clean-cut, friendly and fair, made me uneasy.

After he died a few years ago, it came out that he had molested dozens of girls.

Over the subsequent 20 years, those same instincts have screamed at me three more times – and twice I was proven correct. The third man to set off this alarm is in my social circle, along with his wife. Several of the couples in our group are starting families.

I feel like I’m in a terrible position. Should I say something and risk destroying an innocent man’s reputation and the group dynamic, or remain silent and risk

dearABBY Abigail Van Buren’s (Jeanne Phillips) column appears during the week through Universal Press Syndicate.

the kids being around a predator? I don’t have a shred of evidence, just a gut-punch feeling.

I never said anything about the prior abusers, but I don’t sleep well wondering if I should have – even if it was based solely on a sixth sense. What should I do?

– Nose Like A Bloodhound

Dear Nose, Child molesters belong to every race, both sexes, and come in various age ranges. The problem with criminals of every sort – child abusers and con men included – is they look like the rest of us.

I’m sorry you’re having sleep problems, but the solution to them is not to accuse someone about whom you have no proof. To falsely accuse him could destroy both of you, and I don’t recommend it.

Dear Abby, I’m struggling in my marriage. I have asked my husband to treat me as an equal, but it falls on deaf ears. I work part-time, attend school

full-time and care for our two children, basically on my own. I pay for almost everything. If I’m broke, he’ll pay one of the smaller bills.

He refuses to help with any of the housework, and he has the freedom to go when and where he pleases. I’m only allowed to go to school or work; otherwise, I must take the kids with me. He’s very controlling and, in the past, when I have threatened to leave, he said he would kill himself. He is verbally and emotionally abusive.

I no longer love him and want a divorce, but I’m scared of what he’ll do if I ask for one.

I don’t know what he is capable of. The stress has

taken a toll on me. I’m depressed, angry and bitter. I wish the kids and I could simply disappear, but that’s not an option, nor healthy.

Is there an easy way to ask for a divorce, or somewhere I could turn for help? Is there financial help where someone could help pay for a divorce?

– Wants To Disappear Dear Wants To Disappear, There is no easy way to ask a spouse for a divorce, particularly one who is controlling and verbally abusive. If you are worried about him killing himself, please don’t. From your description, he is too selfish and self-centered

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

SUPPORT GROUPS, CLUBS, AND SERVICES Thursday, Oct. 9 Women, infants and children clinic; and family planning services, all by appointment only, Lee County Health Department, 309 S. Galena Ave., Suite 100, Dixon, 815-284-3371.

Abuse Changing team, 815625-0338.

Twin City Sunrise Rotary, 7 a.m., Ryberg Auditorium, CGH Medical Center, 100 E. LeFevre Road, Sterling.

Blood pressure screening, 8-9 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815562-5050.

TOPS IL 1426, 8:30-9 a.m. weigh-in, meeting at 9 a.m., Coloma Homes, 401 W. 18th St., Rock Falls.

Free blood pressure clinic, 8:30-9:30 a.m., The Eureka Inn, 110 E. Third St., Prophetstown.

AARP driver safety class, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon. Registration: 815-288-9236.

TOPS IL 825, 9-10 a.m. weighin, meeting at 10 a.m., Coventry Activity Center, 612 St. Mary’s Road, Sterling, 815-626-0034.

Office of U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., open, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 212 Third Ave., Sterling.

Golden K Kiwanis, 9:30 a.m., YMCA, 2505 YMCA Way, Sterling.

Health and Information Fair, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Free blood pressure check, 10-11:30 a.m., Oregon Living & Rehab Center, 811 S. 10th St. First Steps and Beyond for Survivors meeting-lunch, 11:30 a.m. Call Serenity Hospice & Home in Oregon for location and reservations (due by 10 a.m.

Wednesday): 815-732-2499.

Caregiver Support and Education Group, noon, St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, 703 Third Ave., Sterling, 815-6267333, ext. 317.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed, Big Book; 6 p.m., closed, Big Book, 90-92 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed, St. Paul Lutheran Church, 114 S. Fifth St., Oregon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed; 5:30 p.m., open, beginners; 7 p.m., closed, step, Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Reality Check Narcotics Anonymous, noon, 6 p.m., First Christian Church, 506 Fifth Ave., Rock Falls, 779-245-8214. Downstairs, west door.

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, noon, open, 12 and 12; 8 p.m., closed, 12 and 12, back door, 1503 First Ave., Rock Falls.

KSB Parkinson’s Disease Support Group, 1-2:30 p.m., second floor, Town Square Centre, 102 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 2:30 p.m., closed, clearance required, BAAbble on for Life Prison Group, 815-973-6150.

Free Naturalization/Immigration Services, 3-5 p.m., Room 1E08, Sauk Valley Community College, 173 state Route 2, Dixon, 309-736-7727.

Alzheimer’s Support Group, 3:30 p.m., Terrace Conference Room, Pinecrest Manor, 414 S. Wesley Ave., Mount Morris, 815734-9069.

Narcotics Anonymous, 4-5 p.m., Sinnissippi Centers, 2611 Woodlawn Road, Sterling, 815-625-0013.

Alzheimer’s Support Group, 5 p.m., Whiteside Senior Center,

1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815622-9230.

Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30 p.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-441-4452.

Speak Boldly Toastmasters, 6 p.m., Sterling Public Library, 102 W. Third St., Sterling.

Ladies of the Elks, 6:15 p.m., Wagon Wheel, 1711 W. Fourth St., Sterling.

TOPS, 6:30 p.m., Rock Falls United Methodist Church, 210 Fourth Ave., 815- 625-0431.

Sons of American Legion Post 12, 6:30 p.m., Legion Post, 1120 W. First St., Dixon, 815-284-2003.

Al-Anon-Alateen, 7 p.m., St. John Lutheran Church, 703 Third Ave., Sterling.

Sterling Optimist Club, 7 p.m., Candlelight Inn, 2907 N. Locust St., Sterling.

40&8 Promenade, 7 p.m. Dixon American Legion Post 12, 1120 W. First St., 815-284-2003.

PEO Sisterhood Chapter KM, 7 p.m., home of Priscilla Brickley.

Whiteside County Natural Area Guardians, 7 p.m., Odell Public Library, 307 S. Madison St., Morrison, 815-772-3811.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, and Al-Anon-Alateen, 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 709 Fourth Ave., Rochelle.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, 808 Freeport Road, Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., open, Big Book, Rolling Hills Center, 201 state Route 64, Lanark.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., closed, St. Anne Church, 401 N. Cherry St., Morrison.

Rock River Valley Barbershop Chorus practice, 7 p.m., Rock Falls Community Building, 603 W. 10th St., 815-441-5327.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8

p.m., closed, United Steelworkers, 502 Woodburn Ave., Sterling.

Volunteer Care Center of Lee County, 403 E. First St., Dixon.

Appointment: 815-284-9555.

Friday, Oct. 10 Childhood immunization clinic; women, infants and children clinic; and family planning services, all by appointment only, Lee County Health Department, 309 S. Galena Ave., Suite 100, Dixon, 815-284-3371.

CAFE (Coffee and Friends Etc.) bereavement support group, 9-10 a.m., Serenity Hospice & Home, 1658 S. state Route 2, Oregon. Call 815-7322499 before 4 p.m. Thursday. If no one calls, the meeting will be canceled.

Kelly Hearing Aids, 9 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Mercy Nursing Services free blood pressure clinic, 9:3011:30 a.m., Oliver’s Corner Market, 748 N. Brinton Ave., Dixon.

Bingo, 9:30-11 a.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Bible study, 10 a.m., Oregon Living & Rehab Center, 811 S. 10th St. Red Cross pherisis blood drive, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., 112 W. Second St., Rock Falls. Appointment: 815-625-0382.

Blood pressure check, 11 a.m., Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815-589-3925.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, open; 6 p.m., open; 10:30 p.m., open, candlelight, 90-92 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon.

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, noon, closed, it’s your meeting; 8 p.m., open,

ever to do that.

Because I know of no individuals or organizations that pay for people’s divorces, talk to your family and see if one or more of your close relatives is willing to help. However, if you are afraid that your husband might harm you, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline. The phone number is 800799-7233. Its counselors can help you form an exit strategy.

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American Red Cross blood drive, noon-4 p.m., Veterans of Foreign Wars Post, 217 First Ave., Rock Falls. Appointments: 800733-2767.

Reality Check Narcotics Anonymous, noon, 6 p.m., First Christian Church, 506 Fifth Ave., Rock Falls, 779-245-8214. Downstairs, west door.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed, St. Paul Lutheran Church, 114 S. Fifth St., Oregon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed; 3:30 p.m., closed; 7 p.m., closed; 10 p.m., open, candlelight, Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Mercy Nursing free blood pressure clinic, noon-1:30 p.m., County Market, 1380 N. Galena Ave., Dixon.

Medicare information class, 1:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling. Registration: 815-6229230.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, 808 Freeport Road, Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., open; 7 p.m., Al-Anon-Alateen, Immanuel Lutheran Church, 960 U.S. Route 52, Amboy.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, Rochelle Community Hospital, 900 N. Second St. Reformers Unanimous Addiction Abstinence Program, 7-9 p.m., First Baptist Church, 24 N. Mason Ave., Amboy, 815-857-2682.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., closed, First Congregational Church, 218 E. Third St., Prophetstown.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed, Church of God, 816 S. Clay St., Mount Carroll.

Actress: Hacking was ‘sex crime’ NEW YORK (AP) – The people who chose to look at nude celebrity photos that hackers posted committed “a sexual offense,” actress Jennifer Jennifer Lawrence Lawrence says in an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair in its November issue.

The Oscar winner, who was among dozens of celebrities whose photos were posted beginning Aug. 31, attacked both the hackers and those who sought out the photos in her first interview since.

“It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime,” she said about the hackers. “It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change.”

Of those who looked at the photos, she said, “Anybody who looked at those pictures, you’re perpetuating a sexual offense. You should cower with shame.”

COMMUNITY EVENTS Wednesday, Oct. 8 Open pool, open cards, open Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-6229230.

Open pool, open cards, open Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815288-9236.

Pool players, 8:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th Ave., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Crafting, 9 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Mexican Train dominoes, 9:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815732-3252.

Birthday Party, 10 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Lifescape lunch, 11:30 a.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815288-9236. Sign up by 10 a.m. previous business day.

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, Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Fellowship lunch, noon, Ashton Bible Church, 702 Main St. Pinochle, noon, Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Sewing after lunch, noon, Robert Fulton Community Center

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Bingo with the Beukemas, 12:15 p.m., Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815-5893925.

Pinochle, 12:30 p.m., Big Room, Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Bingo and bridge, 12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815622-9230.

Book Club, 12:30 p.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Bingo, 1 p.m., Rock Falls American Legion Hall, 712 Fourth Ave. Wii Bowling, 1 p.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Second Wind Entertainers, 1:30 p.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815732-3252.

Community cards, 2 p.m., The Meadows of Franklin Grove, 510 N. State St., Franklin Grove, 815456-3000.

American Craft Week celebration, 4-8 p.m., dezine99, 711 N. Brinton Ave., Dixon.

Farmers Market, 4-7 p.m., Riverfront, downtown Dixon.

Kings Kids Club, 6 p.m., Liberty Baptist Church, 2002 Ninth Ave., Rock Falls, 815-579-1209 or 815-625-4101.

“Architecture and More” show opening, 6-8 p.m. The Next Picture Show, 113 W. First St., Dixon, 815-285-4924.

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Thursday, Oct. 9 Open pool, open cards, open Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Open pool, open cards, open Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815288-9236.

Pool players, 8:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Bingo and popcorn, 9-10 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-5625050.

Line dancing, 9:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Community coffee, 10-11 a.m., The Meadows of Franklin Grove, 510 N. State St., Franklin Grove, 815-456-3000.

Zumba class, 10:30 a.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-2889236.

Lifescape lunch, 11:30 a.m., Lee County Council on Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815288-9236. Sign up by 10 a.m. previous business day.

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Don’t let thyme slip away Spice too good to not be used in variety of dishes

BY DANIEL NEMAN MCT News Service

T

o every thing there is a seasoning, and a thyme to every purpose under heaven.

It says so in the Good (cook)Book.

So thyme, clearly, is on my side – even though thyme and tide wait for no man. Thyme flies like an arrow – on a thyme line – and it is so abundant that you can save thyme in a bottle.

I’ve got a million of ‘em.

Thyme is as essential as parsley, sage and rosemary. It has to be one of the most popular spices in this country and is certainly one of the most useful. It grows anywhere that gets some decent sun and has a warm summer, and it goes well with practically anything you want to put it on: poultry, lamb, beef, fish, mushrooms, onions, cheese and so much more.

You can use it to flavor vinegar, and sometimes bees use its pollen to make thyme-flavored honey.

With so many potential ways to use thyme, I decided to try a nicely representative three. One chicken dish, one beef dish, one vegetarian. One way is as a marinade, one a sauce and one a flavoring.

Because thyme originated around the Mediterranean Sea, I decided to stick with recipes that at least had echoes in southern Europe. Thyme can be used in any sort of dish from anywhere, but herbs are generally a most natural fit with food from the region where it first grew wild.

For that reason, I decided to call my first dish Mediterranean baked chicken. It is the easiest and most basic of the dishes I made. I took a well-known Greek dish and tweaked it by taking out some of the Greece and adding a bit of France.

They marinate their chicken in bottled salad dressing. I more or less marinated mine in a homemade salad dressing. Obviously, I think my way is better, and it is

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Thyme has abundant uses, such as in this Mediterranean baked chicken. Thyme grows anywhere that gets some decent sun and has a warm summer, and it goes well with practically anything you want to put it on: poultry, lamb, beef, fish, mushrooms, onions, cheese and so much more. not significantly harder than buying dressing at a store. It’s faster, too – if you have to go to the store to get the dressing.

I made a simple vinaigrette of olive oil, lemon juice (that’s from the Greek dish), garlic, Dijon mustard (that’s the part from France), thyme and salt. Then I plopped a couple of bone-in chicken breasts into it – the bones add much more flavor while it cooks, but you could use skinless and boneless if you wish – and let them marinate overnight.

The next day, I just baked them in the oven.

They would have been great grilled, too, or panfried if they were boneless and skinless. But I wanted the dish to be the most tender and juicy it could be, so into the oven it went.

For my second dish, I started with the idea of serving duxelles with steak. Duxelles is an intensely flavored, traditional French mixture of sauteed minced mushrooms and shallots.

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Most bean recipes call for meat for flavoring, as this one did, but I wanted to make it vegetarian (in fact, my version is vegan). So I took Pepin up on his suggestion of using aromatics – I used carrots, celery and a red bell pepper – to create a full-flavored, protein-rich veggie dish.

It could be either a side dish or a main course, and it is the sort of food you will want to make over and over when the nights become chilly.

You can make it quickly with canned beans, if you want, or spend less money and hurry up the cooking process at least a little bit by soaking the beans overnight. I chose the more extended way to do it, by not soaking the dried beans first and simmering them for longer.

It’s definitely worth the effort, if you have the thyme.

Mediterranean Baked Chicken Yield: 4 servings 2 large bone-in chicken breasts Ÿ cup olive oil 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice ½ teaspoon Dijon mustard ½ teaspoon salt Ÿ teaspoon dried thyme 1 clove garlic, minced Note: This recipe marinates overnight.

1. Pat chicken dry with paper towels.

2. In a large bowl, whisk together oil, lemon juice, mustard, salt, thyme and garlic until thoroughly mixed. Add chicken breasts and turn in bowl until coated on all sides. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

3. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Shake excess marinade off chicken breasts and place skinside up in a baking pan.

4. Bake 30 to 35 minutes, depending on the thickness of the breasts.

Per serving: 230 calories; 12g fat; 2.5g saturat-

ed fat; 80mg cholesterol; 29g protein; no carbohydrate; no sugar; no fiber; 155mg sodium; 15mg calcium – Recipe by Daniel Neman

Creamy Duxelle Steak Sauce Yield: About 1 cup 1 tablespoon butter Ÿ cup minced shallots (about 2 small shallots) ½ cup red wine 8 ounces mushrooms, minced 1 teaspoon fresh thyme or Ÿ teaspoon dry thyme 3 tablespoons cream 1. Melt butter in a small skillet over medium heat; add shallots and sautÊ until translucent, about 3 minutes. Stir in red wine and cook until wine is almost evaporated.

2. Add mushrooms and thyme, and season liberally with salt and pepper.

Cook until mushrooms release their liquid and it evaporates. Stir in cream and cook until slightly thickened.

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Thyme happens to go blissfully well with both mushrooms and shallots, so it is often included in duxelles.

Because I wanted to serve my duxelles with steak, I decided to add red wine to the mixture and let it all nearly evaporate away, so that all that was left is the wine’s rich essence.

And because nothing, absolutely nothing, goes better with mushrooms than cream, and vice versa, I decided to add just a bit of cream at the end.

Not too much cream, because I didn’t want it to be too creamy. I didn’t want it to be a sauce. I wanted to maintain the distinctive coarse-paste texture of duxelles.

Finally, I love the taste of thyme with white beans, so I went in search of a recipe making use of both ingredients. I found one by Jacques Pepin, a celebrity chef before chefs were celebrities. He calls it a ragout, which would technically be a stew,

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3. Serve alongside or on top of steak or hamburger.

Per serving: 25 calories; 2g fat; 1g saturated fat; 6mg cholesterol; 0.5g protein; 1g carbohydrate; 0.5g sugar; no fiber; 5g sodium; 5mg calcium – Recipe by Daniel Neman

Ragout of White Beans Yield: 10 to 12 servings 1 pound dried Great Northern beans or 7 (15ounce) cans, see note 1½ teaspoons salt, plus more to taste 1 tablespoon olive oil 1½ cups chopped onions 2 carrots, sliced 1 rib celery, chopped ½ red or green bell pepper, chopped 3 tablespoons peeled and thinly sliced garlic (5 large cloves) 2 teaspoons minced fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried thyme, crumbled ¼ teaspoon black pepper 2 tablespoons chopped parsley, for garnish Note: If using canned beans, skip to step 3.

1. If you want to, soak

Creamy duxelle steak sauce is a great use for thyme.

The spice goes well with both mushrooms and shallots, so it is often included in duxelles.

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Thyme shines in this ragout of white beans. It could be either a side dish or a main course, and it is the sort of food you will want to make over and over when the nights become chilly. the dried beans overnight in water that covers them by a couple of inches (this will make them softer and faster to cook, but is not necessary).

2. Drain the beans if you have soaked them or wash the dried beans and put them in a large, 5- or 6-quart pot. Add 6 cups of water if you soaked

them or 8 cups of water if you did not, plus the salt.

Bring to a boil and simmer gently, partially covered.

After 40 minutes of cooking, taste several beans to check for doneness – you want them all to be tender to the bite but not mushy.

Simmer longer if necessary.

3. If using canned beans,

put them in a large, 5- or 6-quart pot and bring to a simmer.

4. While the beans are cooking, heat the oil in a 10-inch frying pan. Stir in the onions, carrots, celery, red or green pepper, garlic, thyme and black pepper and cook over moderately low heat for about 10 minutes, stirring

and tossing frequently until the vegetables are soft. Set aside.

5. When the beans are nearly tender, stir in the sautéed vegetables and return to a simmer. Cook, partially covered, over low heat, stirring occasionally, for about 20 minutes or until the beans are fully cooked and soft.

6. Remove from heat.

Strain or ladle out any liquid covering the beans (save it for soup). For a thick and creamy texture, remove a cup of beans and purée them in a blender or food processor, or use an

immersion blender for a few seconds in one small area of the bean pot to make a small amount of purée. Stir the purée through the rest of the beans. Taste and adjust seasoning.

7. Just before serving, sprinkle the chopped parsley over the beans.

Per serving: 140 calories; 1.5g fat; no saturated fat; no cholesterol; 8g protein; 24g carbohydrate; 1.5g sugar; 8g fiber; 305g sodium; 80mg calcium – Recipe adapted from “Julia and Jacques: Cooking at Home,” by Julia Child and Jacques Pepin

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LEGAL NOTICE DELINQUENT TAXES OFFICE OF THE COUNTY TREASURER LEE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, DIXON, ILLINOIS 61021 815-288-4477 The following is a list of the Delinquent Lands and Lots, and being in Townships of Dixon, Hamilton, Harmon, Nachusa, Nelson, Palmyra, & South Dixon all in the County of Lee, in the State of Illinois upon which the General Taxes levied and assessed for the year 2013 now remain due and unpaid.

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PUBLIC NOTICE is also hereby given that as County Collector, pursuant to such Court Order as issued to sell said Lands and Lots, I shall expose to public sale at the Old Lee County Courthouse in Dixon, Illinois, in said County of Lee, severally and all such lands and lots to which such court order shall apply for the amount of said taxes, plus interest, statutory costs, and printers fees due thereon, on October 28, 2014 at the hour of nine o’ clock A.M. I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief all the taxes listed herewith are due, unpaid and delinquent, unless paid since the delivery of this list to the publisher thereof.

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$1,193.75 MURPHY, CHERYL

07-02-09-327-004

$3,331.62 WHITMORE, SHERRY & RICHARDS, NATHAN $122.36 SHIVE, CHRISTOPHER & CAMPBELL, MICHELLE $1,368.52 FERGER, WM F JR & JANET M $102.38 MCKNIGHT, PETER $3,226.09 PORTER, JERRY $282.44 FRITZ, THOMAS A & PAULA J $46.72 BALLINGER, DENNIS $1,651.24 HENRY, DOUGLAS $1,795.47 BUCKLEY, BERNARD $1,467.83 ZIGLER, KEITH $2,102.73 BEAUFORD, GEOFFREY $1,274.00 WEIDMAN, DANIEL $217.54 RAMIREZ, HERMELINDA $1,830.94 BAY, JOHN $3,160.44 BARNA, TODD $2,940.95 JOHNSON, SCOTT L & SUE A $170.61 WEIDMAN, DANIEL $1,186.41 BROWN, LAURA $2,337.13 SPARBY, MICHAEL $7,811.66 SAUK VALLEY TREATS, INC $6,682.03 SAUK VALLEY TREATS, INC $819.94 FRY, DAVID $1,705.49 UTTER, THOMAS $1,127.00 SCHAEFFER, SHAWN P & KIMBERLEY M $1,750.82 ABDULLAH, SAMEER A & MAYSLOUN N $438.29 SAMPLE TRUST $1,660.35 SAMPLE, DARRELL & PATRICIA $1,660.35 SAMPLE TRUST $3,411.28 ENGLUND, DANIEL & SHERRI $809.17 GEARHART, ORVAL $529.60 AMCORE INVESTMENT GROUP LAND TRUST #03-15010 $291.43 EHLERT, PAUL & JOLYNN $752.71 EHLERT, PAUL & JOLYNN $2,795.72 LAWRENCE, BARBARA $120.75 VAN DOREN, CAROLYN $706.66 COLE, MICHAEL $447.08 GARRISON, GLEASON $263.56 VAILE, EDWARD A & LANA K $2,657.24 US HOME OWNERSHIP LLC, $1,131.69 LANE, ANGELA $2,942.75 DARK LAND TRUST #1, $317.31 HERWIG, STEPHANIE $887.60 PIERCE-GREENFIELD, FLORENCE $2,427.75 TOTH, ALEX $1,014.44 THORNTON, KEIKO $1,512.79 HODGSON, JULIE $1,849.85 MEYERS, RHONDA $1,654.91 JOYNT, ORVILLE L & HELEN $965.46 KNAPPNEYER, KAREN K & STEDER, ROCHELLE $2,787.04 PERSON, BRIAN $1,314.04 GAUL, MATTHEW AND BARBARA $1,762.47 STINSON, JENNASUE $2,078.87 SCHROCK, JAMES $408.23 DELHOTAL, ALAN $182.32 VIVIAN, EDWARD $371.69 SMITH, DELORES $1,197.35 RODEHAVER, NATHAN & SARA $156.20 HAWKS, ROBERT $1,017.32 BLACKBURN, THOMAS J & JANIS M $392.85 THE WORSHIP CENTER MINISTRIES $919.56 ELMENDORF, THOMAS & JODI $1,149.08 YATER, JARED $2,120.63 HAMILL, L D & JANICE L $1,103.17 ENGLUND, DANIEL E & SHERRI L $2,398.14 KEMP, JESSICA $7,884.05 SAUK VALLEY ORTHODONTIC PROP ERTIES LLC $2,509.83 CROWSON, WILLIAM R & DEBORAH J $1,223.61 MARQUEZ, DAVID $2,480.28 KNACK, KEVIN W & KATHLEEN A $1,779.92 WEIDMAN, DANIEL $593.64 HARRISON, RANDALL $1,324.69 GARNHART, TIMOTHY L & JUDITH H $478.89 LILLYMAN, KATHRYN $816.06 LILLYMAN, KATHRYN $3,074.47 JONES, MARK $3,323.46 BUCKLEY, BERNARD J & HELEN SUE $3,474.72 RENNE, JEFFREY L & BETTY J $1,008.00 WAGNER, JAMES $4,846.26 JOHNSON, JEFFREY

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“We are trying to balance the needs of [workers] as well as the costs of [workers] as well as the cost to Wal-Mart,” she said.

The announcement comes after Wal-Mart said far more U.S. employees and their families are enrolling in its health care plans than it had expected following rollout of the Affordable Care Act, which requires big companies to offer coverage to employ07-08-04-276-006

$59.07

07-08-04-308-007 07-08-04-311-006 07-08-04-315-005 07-08-04-355-019 07-08-04-403-017 07-08-04-404-004 07-08-05-129-004 07-08-05-134-008 07-08-05-134-009 07-08-05-154-001 07-08-05-155-001 07-08-05-157-005 07-08-05-157-007 07-08-05-162-004

$699.28 $251.44 $1,538.25 $2,246.61 $2,689.61 $2,472.22 $301.76 $469.04 $594.45 $1,416.57 $803.07 $1,836.97 $630.33 $924.16

07-08-05-163-008 07-08-05-163-010 07-08-05-176-018 07-08-05-177-005 07-08-05-177-015 07-08-05-177-034 07-08-05-178-007 07-08-05-204-010 07-08-05-214-011 07-08-05-235-015 07-08-05-238-006 07-08-05-252-003

$1,520.30 $1,343.32 $1,091.83 $1,265.44 $571.02 $537.18 $1,753.14 $719.86 $716.17 $332.69 $3,742.70 $257.54

07-08-05-253-009 07-08-05-254-003 07-08-05-256-001 07-08-05-256-007 07-08-05-260-007 07-08-05-261-002 07-08-05-261-006 07-08-05-264-007 07-08-05-281-007 07-08-05-284-002 07-08-05-301-004 07-08-05-302-005 07-08-05-303-021 07-08-05-305-009 07-08-05-305-015 07-08-05-306-020 07-08-05-334-004

$2,422.45 $709.35 $970.73 $1,011.37 $1,896.42 $843.60 $1,157.03 $873.84 $551.58 $863.18 $561.19 $475.20 $831.01 $551.58 $568.86 $858.96 $260.34

07-08-05-334-010 07-08-05-335-002

$539.69 $331.33

07-08-05-335-007

$698.56

07-08-05-335-011 07-08-05-352-021 07-08-05-354-017 07-08-05-355-007 07-08-05-355-010 07-08-05-357-009 07-08-05-358-004 07-08-05-376-004 07-08-05-380-005 07-08-05-389-006 07-08-05-410-011 07-08-05-411-007 07-08-05-432-011 07-08-05-434-005 07-08-05-451-003 07-08-05-451-007 07-08-05-452-012 07-08-05-477-006 07-08-05-477-026 07-08-05-479-006 07-08-05-482-009 07-08-06-279-003 07-08-06-286-005 07-08-06-287-001 07-08-06-287-007 07-08-06-329-029 07-08-06-376-003 07-08-06-376-004 07-08-06-376-007 07-08-06-376-010 07-08-06-380-015 07-08-06-406-012 07-08-06-409-006 07-08-06-412-017 07-08-06-431-001 07-08-06-433-012 07-08-06-434-005 07-08-06-458-017 07-08-06-461-007 07-08-06-461-022 07-08-06-461-023 07-08-06-463-008

$719.24 $1,138.79 $1,911.29 $737.89 $831.01 $3,082.80 $2,602.69 $471.97 $735.94 $1,157.03 $1,453.75 $1,892.86 $788.78 $1,380.58 $570.03 $1,250.16 $478.99 $285.99 $226.06 $1,520.30 $907.87 $1,576.18 $1,188.90 $1,576.18 $781.85 $659.24 $2,873.91 $1,845.83 $893.84 $651.08 $92.06 $259.59 $204.78 $1,002.76 $1,482.86 $499.32 $419.21 $295.27 $47.10 $246.05 $1,842.40 $873.66

07-08-06-476-009 07-08-06-478-003 07-08-06-478-015 07-08-06-478-017 07-08-06-481-013 07-08-06-481-015 07-08-06-483-001

$251.68 $1,500.31 $410.82 $822.49 $691.30 $877.60 $204.93

ees working 30 hours or more a week or face a penalty. It also requires most Americans to have health insurance or pay a penalty.

Wal-Mart, which employs about 1.4 million full- and parttime U.S. workers, says about 1.2 million WalMart workers and family members combined now participate in its health care plan. And that has had an impact on Wal-Mart’s bottom line. Wal-Mart now expects the impact of higher health care costs to be about $500 million for the current fiscal year, or about $170 million higher than the original estimate of about $330 million that it gave in February.

But Wal-Mart is among the last of its peers to cut health insurance for some part-time workers. In 2013, 62 percent of large retail chains didn’t offer health care benefits to any of its part-time workers, according to Mercer, a global consulting company. That’s up from 56 percent in 2009.

STONE CREEK DEVELOPMENT C/O BETH A NELSON KUEHL, WILLIAM TRUITT, SANDRA K & TERRY LEE MCALISTER, ALLEN B SR & BARBARA MILLER, JOSEPH LOYD, SUSAN SELDEN, HEATHER SIMMONS, CHRISTINE APPLEMAN, WILLIAM MATTHEW HAZELWOOD, CHRIS CLYMER, DARLENE MILLER, MICHAEL AUSTIN, JIMMIE GRACE, OMA SANFORD, RICHARD & SANFORD, SARA DEETS, EDWARD P & STEPHANIE D PORTNER, WADE M & JILL E SHOMAKER, KEITH & MICHAEL NELSON, MATTHEW & NELSON, ALICIA CASTLE, RUSSELL & JUDITH COOKS, LILLIE STARNES, PAUL KNOLL, LINDA REALBANC 1 INC, STEDER, G G & SHIRLEY A BLOSSER, LAVERNE D & NORMA J PLECHATY, DAVID & PLECHATY, MARY ANN ETAL GENESIS HEALTHCARE INC, HORSEMAN ACQUISITIONS, LLC MALONEY, WILLIAM DANIEL SEIBEL, GARY JORDAN, RICHARD FRIEL, DENNIS M & JUDITH K LE BLANC, DONALD R & MARIA S LOPEZ, JOSEPH L & CYNTHIA S MEEKS, JOHN JUSIFI, NAZIM SCHECK, MICHAEL L & ROSA L SIMMONS, CHRISTINE BAKER, WARREN A & RANDY L RODRIGUEZ, JAMES GILLETTE, CARA ROBINSON, DENISE BASS, MICHAEL CHARLES & CRYSTAL LYNN BAXTER, LIZANNE DELHOTAL REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST DATED 04/20/06, JAMES E & JANELLE F DELHOTAL REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST, JAMES E & JANELLE F HARBOUR PORTFOLIO VIII LP, MALMBERG, STEVEN CLARK, PATRICK COBERLY, DEBRA DICKEY, REBECCA SZYDELKO, STANLEY OMEGA FOOD DISTRIBUTION COMP. ACKERSON, LAWRENCE AVEY, KEITH STAHL, WALTER W & BONNIE D HOME START LLC, MURRAY, THOMAS FARSTER, MICHAEL JOHN LOVE, MATTHEW METOYER, HANS & HELEN SWAN, TIMOTHY ASHFORD, MONA OHDA, TIMOTHY FOSTER, MARION BARTLETT, TAMARA HARPER, JAMES B & ARLENE C ATKINSON, ERIK BOSS, BROCK L & KERIANNE GAPINSKI, DEBORAH MOORE, GARY W & DEBRA A OBANION, DAVID HOLLINGSWORTH, LEE HOLLINGSWORTH, L HOLLINGSWORTH, LEE & LINDA HOLLINGSWORTH, LEE HANDLEY, WILLIAM TIEKEN, GABRIEL GARRISON, KENNETH CASTLE, RUSSELL & JUDITH DETIG, ALAN BUTTERFIELD, JOSEPH E & MARSHA QUAGLIA, KURT JIMENEZ, CAROL HANDLEY, WILLIAM PITCHFORD, WILLIAM PITCHFORD, WILLIAM & JULIE PITCHFORD, JAMES & PITCHFORD, WILLIAM DECKER, LORRAINE HARRISON, PAUL ROGERS, GREGORY ADAMSON, BEVERLY LUMZY, CYNTHIA WALLACE, CHEVY L & SARA R PITCHFORD, JAMES & PITCHFORD, WILLIAM

Hamilton Parcel Count: 5 09-19-05-200-001 09-19-12-300-999 09-19-18-300-999 09-19-22-100-003 09-19-22-400-003

$333.40 $176.22 $792.92 $2,168.53 $4,047.36

LAPPIN, RICHARD DEAN & CARYL L DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ATKINSON, BRENDON GARLAND, DAVID

Harmon Parcel Count: 11 10-13-11-300-003 10-13-15-279-003 10-13-17-400-001 10-13-22-200-002 10-13-22-300-002

$5,567.17 $371.38 $1,721.71 $1,835.76 $403.84

TOTH, MICHAEL & TOTH, DEBORAH ROBERTS, CYLE HENRY, DOUGLAS BUTLER, JOHN H & MARJORIE J BUTLER, JOHN

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.

(AP) – Genetic material from Asian carp has been found in the Kalamazoo River in southwestern Michigan, but there’s no indication the invasive fish have become established in the river that flows into Lake Michigan, officials said Tuesday.

DNA from silver carp was detected in one of 200 water samples taken in July from the river in Allegan County, this one from below the Caulkins Dam about 24 miles from Lake Michigan, the state Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.

This marks the first time environmental DNA for silver carp has been found in Michigan’s Great Lakes waters outside of Maumee Bay in Lake Erie. The term “environmental DNA” refers to genetic markers that fish leave behind as they move through waters, shedding scales, mucous or excrement.

Scientists have been testing waters for Asian carp DNA in an effort to track 10-13-25-300-001 10-13-25-400-004 10-13-26-200-002 10-13-26-400-002 10-13-33-400-002 10-13-34-300-001

their progress toward the Great Lakes. Bighead and silver carp were imported to the Deep South from Asia in the early 1970s and escaped into the Mississippi River, where they have been migrating northward since. They have invaded numerous tributaries including the Illinois River, which leads to Lake Michigan, although authorities have installed electric barriers near Chicago in hopes of stopping their advance.

The large, voracious fish compete with native species for food.

The discovery of genetic markers doesn’t necessarily prove the presence of live carp, as scientists say it could come from other sources, such as fishing gear or bird droppings that came in contact with the DNA. But some contend the presence of live fish is the likeliest explanation.

“While we don’t have evidence of a live fish in the water, we treat this finding very seriously,” Michigan DNR senior water policy adviser Tammy Newcombe said.

$690.79 $756.98 $2,992.68 $1,679.53 $483.93 $1,088.69

LESAGE, DEBRAH D & PRICE ALICE MCNEIL, CHRISTINA LESAGE, DEBRAH D & PRICE ALICE LESAGE, DEBRAH D & PRICE ALICE BUTLER, JOHN BUTLER, JOHN

$5,101.74 $3,660.46 $228.24 $124.18 $4,203.88 $1,942.04 $1,128.86 $583.90 $2,779.69

LUNDQUIST, CARL R & SHARON E FARMERS STATE BANK OF SUBLETTE, FARMERS STATE BANK OF SUBLETTE, NICKELS, DENNIS HOWELL, CAROLYN & HOWELL, TRACY HEADLEE, TERRY CIHLAR, MARK EDWARD SMITH, LENDY LEE FOSS, CHAD

$87.29 $87.29 $87.29 $84.00 $1,268.93 $125.33 $2,055.19 $1,244.67 $24.80 $505.08 $445.00 $48.06 $50.07 $50.07 $50.07 $441.94 $1,148.63 $534.46 $745.20 $617.40 $262.39 $136.38 $1,046.72 $1,966.70 $292.23 $1,026.41

ALBERT, RAY ALBERT, RAY ALBERT, RAY MIDWEST TULSA PROPERTY, INC MILLER, RICHARD T & JOYCE L MILLER, RICHARD T & JOYCE MANY, JANIECE KASCEL, MICHAEL UNIVERSAL LAKESHORE CORP WHALEY, THOMAS HATTEN, JIM DAUM, WM H & JANET M HENRIKSON, DON HENRIKSON, DON HENRIKSON, DON CROMBIE, PATRICK & JANET BRIGHT, RICHARD THOMPSON, WILLIAM JOHN CARDOT,THOMAS JAMES & CARDOT, RITA FULLER, CARL CROW, CHRISTOPHER W & BRENDA S HULTIN, ARTHUR & HULTIN, AVIS BEROGAN, MICHAEL D & DONNA WITMER, RANDALL L & GAIL A BRIGHT, RICHARD DOWNEY, RICHARD & DOWNEY, TIMOTHY

Nachusa Parcel Count: 9 14-03-28-300-024 14-03-28-300-025 14-03-28-300-027 14-03-31-300-006 14-09-04-100-004 14-09-06-378-005 14-09-06-379-002 14-09-06-453-001 14-09-29-200-009 Nelson Parcel Count: 26 15-07-15-127-005 15-07-15-127-006 15-07-15-127-007 15-07-15-206-023 15-07-15-206-028 15-07-15-206-029 15-07-15-207-041 15-07-15-207-043 15-07-15-252-001 15-07-15-252-002 15-07-15-252-035 15-07-15-255-008 15-07-15-256-004 15-07-15-256-005 15-07-15-256-006 15-07-19-451-001 15-07-19-451-002 15-07-20-176-003 15-07-20-257-008 15-07-20-378-012 15-07-20-379-002 15-07-20-379-016 15-07-22-100-017 15-07-24-200-018 15-07-30-201-001 15-07-30-352-013

Palmyra Parcel Count: 35 16-01-13-400-039 16-01-19-300-006 16-01-24-400-002 16-01-29-276-006 16-01-29-426-003 16-01-30-100-006 16-01-33-376-003 16-01-34-400-014 16-01-35-352-003 16-01-36-251-013 16-01-36-251-016 16-01-36-251-018 16-01-36-251-021 16-01-36-251-022 16-01-36-251-023 16-07-02-401-002 16-07-05-103-004 16-07-05-103-006 16-07-06-451-022 16-07-09-251-001 16-07-09-276-003 16-07-09-400-101 16-07-09-400-110 16-07-09-400-120 16-07-09-400-122 16-07-09-400-123 16-07-09-400-127 16-07-09-400-135 16-07-11-127-005 16-07-11-201-009 16-07-11-205-001 16-07-11-426-003 16-07-11-427-003 16-07-18-426-005 16-07-18-426-016

$1,987.59 TRIBLEY, KEVIN & TRIBLEY, TRINA $159.93 INTERONE, SHANA & INTERONE, CARMELO $560.15 SNEEK, MELVIN & MARY F $43.52 MCFALLS, BRADLEY & MCFALLS, LIZABETH $3,630.95 WARD, KELLY $4,701.22 INTERONE, SHANA & INTERONE, CARMELO $3,125.02 RUSSELL, JANET & RICHARD $4,893.68 JOHNSON, JEFFERY $4,130.61 CHAPMAN, JOHN K AND JENNIFER J $46.45 HAMMES, JEROME $46.45 HAMMES, JEROME $46.45 HAMMES, JEROME $46.45 HAMMES, JEROME $46.45 HAMMES, JEROME $46.45 HAMMES, JEROME $77.15 GASKILL TRUST, KATHRYN $828.44 ASHLEY, ROBERT F & MARILEE K $914.26 ASHLEY, ROBERT F & MARILEE K $113.57 BRUNE, SAM & BRUNE, SHEILA $1,266.31 BRINKMEIER TRUST, BARBARA $3,576.21 HAUCK, NANCY $897.53 HAUCK HOMES, INC $491.56 MCCOY, BILLY J & SUMMERS, SUSAN $195.89 HAUCK HOMES, INC $258.94 HAUCK HOMES, INC & FEATHER, NOEL & SUE $137.58 HAUCK HOMES, INC $168.78 HAUCK HOMES, INC $197.75 HAUCK HOMES, INC $1,385.79 USARESORTSAND HOTELS GROUPF LLC, $12,307.25 USARESORTSAND HOTELS GROUPF LLC, $663.38 HELANDER, ERIC $198.67 SMITH, JULIE $696.54 LOGEMANN, DOROTHY JEAN $3,252.53 REDFIELD, RYAN $988.73 PETERSON, JOAN

South Dixon Parcel Count: 16 18-08-08-102-001

$346.37

18-08-08-102-010 18-08-08-128-002 18-08-08-128-003 18-08-08-129-003 18-08-08-176-028 18-08-08-176-059 18-08-08-251-016 18-08-09-100-008 18-08-14-100-017 18-08-16-400-001

$180.90 $44.01 $150.30 $568.70 $567.93 $1,287.54 $1,483.83 $1,087.92 $418.85 $1,910.90

18-08-26-401-007 18-08-26-402-007 18-08-26-427-005 18-08-33-400-004 18-08-36-139-008

$426.54 $1,256.81 $117.51 $1,463.66 $1,041.50

POWERS, KENNETH & POWERS, DIANE ETAL MAZZARISI, GIUSEPPE WALLACE, TAMMY & DAVID KREMER WALLACE, TAMMY & DAVID KREMER CASTLE, RUSSELL L & JUDITH M HALGREN, DENNIS J & HARRIET L MOORE, TINA KRICK, JASON BLOSSER, LAVERNE D & NORMA J SCHMALL, FRANK D & CHRISTY F SCHABACKER, ROBERT & SCHA BACKER, BARBARA LINK, RAYMOND & JUDITH LJR TRUST LINK, RAYMOND & JUDITH WEST, TERRY V & ROBYN A STARR, MICHAEL & HEATHER

Total Parcel Count: 278

October 8, 2014

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

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ENERGY COSTS

U.S. predicts lower heating bills this winter Temperatures are forecast to be warmer, according to statement NEW YORK (AP) – Heating bills should be lower this winter, because the deep freeze that chilled much of the nation last year is unlikely to return.

Last year, persistently low temperatures across the Midwest, South and East forced people to crank up the heat. The high demand jacked up the price of some fuels, especially propane. Heating bills soared.

This year, milder temperatures should reduce homeowners’ fuel use, according to the Energy Department’s annual prediction of winter heating costs. The price of propane and heating oil should be lower, helping those customers save even more.

“Temperatures are forecast to be warmer than last winter and that means less demand for heat,” Adam Sieminski, administrator of the Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration, said in a statement.

Lower energy costs give the economy a boost.

This winter, some customers could see savings of nearly $800 on their heating bills, according to the EIA. Gasoline prices are expected to soon drop below $3 per gallon on average in up to 30 states. Consumers will have more money to spend on other things, and consumer spending is 70 percent of the nation’s economy.

But it’s probably not wise to spend those hoped-for savings just yet. Some of the conditions that helped bring record-cold temperatures to the middle of the country still exist, according to Matt Rodgers of Commodity Weather Group, which forecasts weather and heating demand for energy companies.

The warm water in the North Pacific that helped push polar air south into the United States still remains, he says. There

is also more moisture in the jet stream thanks to warmer water in the tropical Pacific that could generate more East Coast and Southeast snow.

The EIA, using forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, predicts the number of heating degree days – a measure of heating demand – will fall 12 percent this year.

Here’s the outlook for customers of the four most common heating fuels based on current forecasts.

Natural gas Nearly half the nation’s households heat with natural gas, and they will see a sharp increase in prices, especially in the Northeast. On average the retail price will rise 5.8 percent to $10.57 per 1,000 cubic feet. Northeast customers will see a rise of 6.8 percent, to $12.42 per 1,000 cubic feet, the highest in the country.

Natural gas wholesale prices are higher than they were last year, in part because last year’s cold winter drained gas in storage. Storage levels are 11 percent below their 5-year average for this time of year. New England prices are higher because there is not enough space on existing pipelines to carry the increasing amount of gas needed in the region for heating and generating electricity.

The average natural gas bill for the Octoberto-March heating season is expected to fall, to $649 from $680 last year, because customers are expected to use less. Natural gas remains the cheapest heating fuel by far.

Electricity Electricity prices are heavily influenced by natural gas prices, so they’re on the rise. But electricity customers should use less this winter, resulting in lower

MONEY & MARKETS The following stock quotations, as of 5 p.m., are provided as a community service by Chad Weigle of Edward Jones, Dixon and Raymond James and Associates, Sterling.

Abbott...................................41.45 Alcoa.....................................15.95 AltriaCorp.............................46.04 Autonation...........................51.37 American Express................85.36 Arris-Group..........................26.64 Apple....................................98.75 ADM.....................................49.56 AT&T.....................................35.32 Bank of America...................16.88 Boeing.................................123.31 BorgWarner..........................52.52 BP..........................................42.54 Casey’s..................................73.80 Caterpillar.............................94.70 CenturyLink.........................40.06 Chevron..............................116.00 Cisco.....................................24.64 Citigroup...............................51.27 CNW.....................................44.32 CocaCola..............................43.93 ConAgra................................33.30 Dean.....................................13.30 Deere & Co...........................80.01 Disney...................................87.10 Donaldson............................39.08 DuPont..................................69.00 Exxon....................................93.33 Ford......................................14.08 Exelon...................................34.75 GE.........................................24.80 FifthThird.............................19.66 HawaiianElectric.................26.39 Hewlett Packard...................35.20

HomeDepot.........................92.46 Intel Corp.............................33.47 IBM.....................................185.65 IntlPaper...............................46.92 JCPenney................................9.19 JohnsonControls..................43.72 Johnson&Johnson.............102.34 JPMorgan Chase..................59.26 Kraft......................................55.56 Kroger...................................52.98 Leggett&Platt........................34.04 Manpower............................68.05 McDonald’s..........................92.80 Merck&Co.............................58.46 Microsoft..............................45.53 3M.......................................137.69 Monsanto...........................108.15 Newell...................................34.13 AGL.......................................51.37 Nike......................................88.05 Parker-Han.........................109.67 Pfizer.....................................28.79 Pepsico..................................93.07 Procter&Gamble..................83.13 RaymondJames....................51.89 Republic................................38.07 Sears Hldg............................30.30 SensientTech........................50.63 Sprint......................................6.04 Staples...................................11.49 TheTravelers........................93.66 UnitedContinental..............45.45 UnitedTech........................101.38 USBancorp...........................40.60 USSteel..................................35.51 Verizon..................................49.67 Walgreen...............................59.85 WalMartStores.....................77.32 WalMartMexico...................24.29 WasteMgt..............................46.72 Wendy’s..................................7.96

Commodities The following quotations are provided as a community service by Sterling Futures: Corn: Dec. 3.401⁄2; March 3.531⁄2; July 3.70 Soybeans: Nov. 9.40 3⁄ 4; Jan. 9.491⁄4; March 9.573⁄4 Soybean oil: Dec. 33.10; March 33.62 Soybean meal: Oct. 327.00; Dec. 312.60 Wheat: Dec. 5.06 1 ⁄ 4 ; March 5.181⁄4 Oats: Dec. 3.511⁄4; March

3.351⁄2 Live cattle: Oct. 165.77; Dec. 167.85; Feb. 167.00 Feeder cattle: Oct. 241.47; Nov. 242.42 Lean hogs: Oct. 107.22; Dec. 94.35; Feb. 91.62 Sugar: March 17.03 Cotton: Oct. 65.83 T-Bonds: Dec. 1403⁄4 Silver: Dec. 17.17 Gold: Dec. 1209.00 Copper: Dec. 3.0330 Crude: Nov. 88.53 Dollar Index: Dec. 85.73

Average bills are expected to fall nationwide however, to $938 from $955. Thirty-nine percent of U.S. customers heat with electricity.

Heating oil

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John Wood of Bordentown, New Jersey, delivers heating oil Feb. 13 in Trenton, New Jersey. The Energy Department’s annual prediction of winter heating costs released Tuesday reported that Americans will pay less, because they won’t have to crank up the heat as much. heating bills for many.

The natural gas pipeline constraints are pushing power prices sharply higher in the Northeast.

The Energy Department predicts northeast power

prices will rise 12 percent this winter. Electric utilities in Massachusetts and New Hampshire have warned customers that prices will rise up to 47 percent.

Heating oil customers will get a big break on their bills, both because of lower consumption and lower prices.

Lower global crude oil prices are helping push heating oil prices to their lowest level in 4 years.

The Energy Department predicts the average price will be $3.63 per gallon, down from $3.88 last year.

Only 5 percent of U.S. households use heating oil, but they tend to be in very cold areas, especially in the Northeast.

Heating oil customers will pay $1,992 on average, $362 less than last year.

Propane The propane market was thrown into chaos last year. Supplies were low going into the winter thanks to high demand for use in drying crops.

Then the Midwest, where propane use is most prevalent, got socked by the cold, boosting demand even further.

Local distribution companies saw supplies fall sharply and prices skyrocketed.

The Energy Department says supplies going into this winter are higher than at any time since at least 1993 and demand is expected to be lower.

That will lead to an average price of $1.99 per gallon in the Midwest, down 24 percent from last year’s record average of $2.61.

Propane customers in the Midwest will pay $1,500, a savings of $767.

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Wednesday, October 8, 2014 Numbers game That’s how many years in a row the Sterling Golden Warriors boys golf team has advanced to the sectional round. Sterling finished second at the 2A Freeport Regional on Tuesday, led by medalist Ryan Hurley, who shot a 75.

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Getting hot when cold Hurley, Warriors excel in tough conditions at Park Hills

BY BRIAN WEIDMAN bweidman@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5551

FREEPORT – There wasn’t much that was comfortable at the 2A Freeport Regional golf tournament on Tuesday afternoon at Park Hills West.

Blustery winds, occasional rain showers, and sloped, quick greens played havoc with a 10-team field. Then there were the anxious moments after the round, to see which teams and individuals had their seasons continue, and which could put their clubs away.

Sterling dealt with the first set of conditions well enough, however, that the post-round waiting period outside the Park Hills clubhouse was no big deal. It was just a matter of how high the Golden Warriors would finish.

That turned out to be in second place with a team total of 339, two behind champion Freeport, but safely ahead of the thirdplace squad, Alleman, which had 347. Those teams move on to the Grayslake Sectional, slated for Monday at Stonewall Orchard Golf Club.

“People thought we didn’t have a chance,” Sterling’s Ryan Hurley said, “but I think we knew we all had been working hard, and we had a good shot. To come in second is really big for us. That’s a good confidence boost moving forward.”

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Amboy’s Jake Lucas tees off Tuesday during the 1A Morrison Regional at Prairie Ridge Golf Course. Lucas helped the Clippers advance to the sectional with a third-place finish.

Klein starts No. 4, finishes No. 1 Clipper steps up to lead Amboy to sectional for first time

BY CODY CUTTER ccutter@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5555

MORRISON – Sam Klein was Amboy’s No. 4 golfer heading into Tuesday’s 1A Morrison Regional.

In the survive-and-advance situation that is the postseason, Klein became the Clippers’ No. 1. He fired an 80 to lead his team to a third-place finish at Prairie Ridge Golf Course.

The effort sent not only him to Monday’s sectional at Nettle Creek Golf Course in Morris, but his team as well. The Clippers (357) finished behind champion Riverdale (338) and runner-up St. Bede (350).

Klein shot nine fewer strokes than the No. 1 Clipper golfer, Griffin Kozeal, by fine-tuning his putting game.

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Tough field • The 1A Byron Regional was stacked with tough teams.

Oregon played well, finishing fourth, and three Hawks advanced to the sectional round. Find out more on this story on B5.

Top teams Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com

Sterling’s Nick Ceruzzi (left) and Rock Falls’ Nolan Moeller watch as Ceruzzi’s ball narrowly misses the hole on the second green at Park Hills West on Tuesday at the 2A Freeport Regional. The Warriors advanced as a team, placing second.

The Rockets were fourth, sending two individuals to next Monday’s sectional.

1. Freeport 337 2. Sterling 339 3. Alleman 347 Medalist: Ryan Hurley, Sterling, 75

GIRLS SWIMMING | BYRON 120, STERLING 62

Depth charges Tigers Byron’s distance swimmers, relays too much for Sterling Star of the meet: Kylie Shaw, Byron, 2 individual wins, 2 relay wins Key performers: Kerry Mullen, Sterling, 2 individual wins; Micheala Busch, Sterling, 2 wins; Gretchen Bushman, Byron, 1 individual win, 2 relay wins Up next: Byron, Sterling swimming at Hinsdale North Invite, 10 a.m. Saturday; Sterling diving at Hinsdale Central, 9 a.m.

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BY PATRICK MASON pmason@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5550

STERLING – By the time Gretchen Bushman took her first stroke in the 200-yard freestyle, she was near the middle of the pool.

Her opponents had already taken at least three strokes, but Bushman held her streamline and ate up yards, saving energy that would later become useful.

Bushman, a Dixon freshman swimming on the Byron co-op team, held off teammate and fellow freshman Kylie Shaw to win the race in 2:11.07, and set the tone for a meet where Byron

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would dominate the distance and relay events.

“We really work on hitting all of our walls strong,” Bushman said.

“We do a lot of drills in practice that help with our underwaters.”

Byron out-swam Sterling and came away with a 120-62 win at the Duis Center in Sterling on Tuesday.

Byron’s girls swimming team is a powerhouse in mid-distance and relay events, with a deep roster filled with talented swimmers. The Tigers won three of the first four events before the break, Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com and took four of the next seven, Gretchen Bushman, a Dixon freshman on the Byron co-op team, including all three relays. swims during the 100-yard backstroke. Bushman placed first in the race during Byron’s meet at the Duis Center in Sterling.

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VOLLEYBALL | ROCK FALLS DEF. DIXON 25-11, 25-12

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Mueller resigns as Cubs hitting coach A person familiar with the situation says Bill Mueller has resigned as the Chicago Cubs’ hitting coach.

It comes after president of baseball operations Theo Epstein announced last week that Mike Brumley would not return as assistant hitting coach. All other coaches on manager Rick Renteria’s staff were invited back.

Mueller, a former infielder who won a batting championship with the Boston Red Sox, spent 1 year with the Cubs. Chicago finished 26th in the majors in runs, 27th in batting average, and 28th in onbase percentage.

NHL

Hawks’ Versteeg injured for opener Forward Kris Versteeg sustained a lower body injury during the Blackhawks practice Tuesday, and left the ice before practice concluded.

“He got hurt lower-body there, we’ll know more tomorrow,” Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said. “Didn’t look good.”

Versteeg, who has had an impressive training camp, is questionable for the season opener Thursday at Dallas.

NFL

Bears release cornerback Frey The Chicago Bears released cornerback Isaiah Frey, who had been on the active roster for the last three games, logging 94 snaps combined against the Jets, Packers, and Panthers.

Frey played in 16 games last season in a slot corner role.

Former Denver Broncos return man Trindon Holliday worked out for the Bears this week, a day after the New York Giants released Holliday from injured reserve.

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Irish swipe QB recruit from Penn St. Notre Dame scored a coup on the recruiting front Tuesday, picking up an oral commitment from quarterback Brandon Wimbush from Jersey City, New Jersey.

Wimbush, a four-star prospect according to 247sports.com’s consensus rankings, flipped his commitment from Penn State to Notre Dame after visiting South Bend for the Irish’s game against Stanford on Saturday.

Two Gators involved in fight The Florida Gators’ issues at quarterback took another turn on Monday when reserve Skyler Mornhinweg was involved in a fight with a teammate.

University of Florida Police were dispatched on that evening to break up a physical confrontation between Mornhinweg and back-up defensive lineman Gerald Willis outside of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

ESPN hires First Lady’s brother ESPN has hired Craig Robinson, the brother of Michelle Obama, to work as a college basketball game and studio analyst for ESPNU. Robinson was fired after six seasons as head coach at Oregon State last year.

Today Women’s volleyball 6 p.m.

• Sauk Valley at Highland Cross country 4 p.m.

• Dixon, Hall, Oregon, Streator, DePue at Mendota • Rock Falls, Bureau Valley at Byron Girls golf 9 a.m.

Photos by Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.com

ABOVE: Rock Falls’ Michaela Ward (left) bumps the ball as teammate Jenny Lawson looks on Tuesday during their Big Northern West match against Dixon at Tabor Gym. The Rockets won 25-11, 25-12.

BELOW: Dixon’s Haley Fitzsimmons goes up for the kill Tuesday against Rock Falls.

Rockets roll past Dixon Duchesses can’t come back from Rock Falls’ fast start

BY TY REYNOLDS treynolds@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5554

ROCK FALLS – Momentum can easily change throughout a volleyball match, but the Rock Falls Rockets were having none of that Tuesday night at Tabor Gym. With the “Rowdies” student section in attendance for the first time this season, the Rockets rolled from start to finish in a 25-11, 25-12 victory over the Dixon Duchesses in a Big Northern West match.

“I think the energy we played with was the big key,” Rock Falls senior Michaela Ward said. “It’s a lot more fun playing in a loud gym than a quiet one, and I think we were excited to go out and play well today.”

Ward opened and closed both games from the service line, reeling off a 6-point run right off the bat to put Rock Falls (19-7, 8-2) ahead 7-0 in Game 1. She then had four straight points near the end of that game, then staked the Rockets to an 8-1 lead after her second ace of the night closed out a five-point run early in Game 2.

Fittingly, she again served four consecutive points at the end of the match, before the two teams traded sideouts for the final two points.

“I don’t really pay attention to how many I’ve got in a row or anything like that,” Ward said.

“You just try to stay out of your own head, just try and get the serves over and get ready for the

Star of the match: Michaela Ward, Rock Falls, 19 points, 2 aces, 3 digs Key performers: Bailey O’Brien, Rock Falls, 6 kills, 4 digs; Phoenix Smith, Dixon, 4 kills, 1 block Up next: Rock Falls, Dixon at Dixon Invite, 8:30 a.m. Saturday

ball to come back.”

Ward attributed the secret of her service success to her teammates.

When Ward subs in to play the back row, that’s the point where the Rockets have their strongest front-row lineup.

Bailey O’Brien (6 kills), Bailey Schrader (4 kills) and Emily Sauer (4 kills, 1 block) didn’t disappoint, as Rock Falls never looked back from the fast start.

“That’s a tough front row, probably the toughest we’ve got,” Rock Falls coach Sheila Mammosser said. “We’ve got strong hitters, good blockers, and a little height with those three, and they really seemed to get into a rhythm tonight.”

Dixon (10-12, 5-7) was playing catch-up from the get-go, and found it tough sledding. With the

starters sitting out for the first rotation due to a coach’s decision, the Duchesses struggled to get back out of the hole the Rockets dug for them with their aggressive, confident play.

“We had an off night, and give all the credit to Rock Falls,” Dixon coach Bunyan Cocar said.

“They have a very good team, and they were able to play more aggressively with the lead. You’re always more conservative when you’re playing from behind, and Rock Falls never let up once they got going … and they got going right away.”

Chelsi Blair dished 15 assists for the Rockets, while O’Brien led the way with four digs. Blair and Ward added three digs each, while Dallas Clevenger and Sydney Arickx added three kills and a block each.

Phoenix Smith led Dixon with four kills and a block, Amy Rotella added three kills, and Kacey Koch had seven assists and four digs.

Jessa Long’s six digs led the backrow defense, Alyssa Cruse had three digs, and Hannah Acker had three points and two digs.

6 p.m.

• Geneseo at Sterling Volleyball 7 p.m.

• Orangeville at Polo • Milledgeville at Aquin

On the tube TV listings Today College soccer 8 a.m.

• Women, Ohio St. at Minnesota, BTN

College volleyball 6:30 p.m.

• Northwestern at Penn St., BTN 7 p.m.

• Iowa St. at Kansas St., FSN 8 p.m.

• Mississippi St. at LSU, ESPNU

NHL 6:30 p.m.

• Flyers at Bruins, NBCSP 9 p.m.

• Sharks at Kings, NBCSP

On this date October 8

VOLLEYBALL ROUNDUP

Warriors win wild one over DeKalb Hawks, Comets, Steamers win conference clashes; Cards fall

By SVM Sports Staff

• Dixon, Eastland, Oregon, Rock Falls at 1A Stillman Valley Regional • Erie, Fulton, Morrison, Prophetstown, West Carroll at 1A Galena Regional • Amboy at 1A Princeton Regional • Sterling at 2A Sterling Regional Boys soccer

Tuesday’s stars

Kaylee Martin and Jay Borum Emy Wright, Oregon, 12 kills, led the way Tuesday as the Sterling Golden Warriors outlasted 5 digs, 3 aces the DeKalb Barbs 25-13, 16-25, Rachel Cobert, Erie, 11 kills, 28-26 in a NIB-12 crossover 6 blocks, 8 digs, 2 aces match at Musgrove Fieldhouse.

Jay Borum, Sterling, 10 kills, Martin had 12 kills, seven digs 9 digs, 6 aces and three aces, while Borum finished with 10 kills, nine digs and Lauren Meurer, AFC, 58 digs Aubree Schmitt, Newman, six aces for the Warriors (18-7).

9 kills, 3 blocks Jamy Trancoso added nine digs, Megan Loos stuffed 4.5 blocks, and Taylor Hendrix had 3 blocks. Sydney Wilhelm spiked five kills Jordyn Koett set 16 assists, and for the Clippers (6-12, 1-7), while Hallie Nauman added four kills Alli Olson dished 14 assists.

Oregon def. Mendota 25-14, and two blocks. Madeline Ely 25-16: Emy Wright’s 12 kills led dished 23 assists, and Kennedy the Hawks in a Big Northern West Dinges chipped in 14 digs.

Riverdale def. Morrison 13-25, victory on the road.

Wright also had five digs 26-24, 25-21: Peyton Kennedy led and three aces, while Delaney Morrison with 10 kills, 13 digs and Mahoney finished with 24 assists two aces in a Three Rivers West and six digs for Oregon. Sommer loss in Port Byron. Brooke Stralow Rhea had seven kills and six digs. had 17 assists and six blocks, and Newman def. Amboy 13-25, Lakin Goodman had eight kills for 25-19, 25-19: Aubree Schmitt the Fillies (9-10, 5-5). had nine kills and three blocks as Fulton def. Prophetstown 25-19, 25-21: Chelsea Lesniewski led the Comets won in Sterling.

Also for Newman (10-11, 5-4 the Steamers with five kills, eight Three Rivers East), Mady Ferris points, three aces and seven digs had 27 digs, Mariah Staebell had in a TRAC West match at home.

13 assists, and Julie Hurd had 10 Betsy Leonard had four kills, points and five kills. two blocks and seven points for

Fulton (8-10, 6-3), and Camerin Huizenga added five kills, three assists and six points.

Claire Milnes and Clare Kramer spiked six kills each for the Prophets, while Kassi Henrekin dished 14 assists and Shelby Adams added 18 digs.

Bureau Valley def. Kewanee 25-20, 25-14: The Storm remained

undefeated in Three Rivers East play with a win at home.

Heaven Bennett and Lindsey Hoffert spiked seven kills each, with Hoffert adding two blocks for BV (17-4, 8-0). Val Reuter had seven digs and three aces, and Sydney Lebahn set for 20 assists.

Orion def. Erie 14-25, 26-24, 25-20: Savannah Mettler, Rachel

Cobert, and Peyton Rus pounded 11 kills each, but it wasn’t enough as the Cardinals lost a Three Rivers West match at home. Cobert added six blocks, eight digs and two aces, while Rus had 15 digs and Mettler had 10 digs. Mary Chapman had 34 assists and 11 digs.

Durand def. AFC 25-23, 13-25, 25-18: The Raiders dropped an

NUIC East match in Ashton. Lauren Meurer had 58 digs, and Cassidy Koning added 25 digs and nine kills for AFC (14-11, 4-5).

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The Blackhawks’ Michal Handzus handles the puck during a preseason game. The Blackhawks have pared down their roster just in time to get under the cap before the start of the regular season.

Roster ready for Hawks’ opener Bowman makes final tweaks

BY CHRIS KUC Chicago Tribune

Stan Bowman graduated from Notre Dame in 1995 with a degree in finance.

That has come in handy during the NHL’s salarycap era, as the Blackhawks general manager, perhaps more than anyone in the league the last few seasons, has had to work the numbers hard to get his team compliant.

On Tuesday, Bowman made the final tweak to the Hawks’ opening day roster for the 2014-15 season when he placed winger Brandon Mashinter on the injured list before submitting his 23-man list to the league.

“We’re under the cap, and the league has approved it,” Bowman said. “We’re ready to go.”

Bowman said the Hawks are within $100,000 of the $69 million cap ceiling, but nevertheless, the roster is set for the season opener against the Stars on Thursday night in Dallas.

“We knew we would get something done,” Bowman said. “You have to work that out. We’re like a lot of teams [in that] we’re close to the cap. … We’re going to do our best to be successful in this system.”

It is a system that often creates difficult decisions, such as the trading of defenseman Nick Leddy to the Islanders on Saturday to create room under the cap. Not only is a 23-year-old blue liner with 258 career games and a Stanley Cup championship under his belt off the team, his replacements are rookie Trevor van Riemsdyk and journeyman Kyle Cumiskey.

“It’s always tough when you have to trade young players,” Bowman said.

“Nick has been a great Blackhawk. But it’s a situation that we had to make a move.

“We had a lot of discussions about different options. That’s the one that ultimately came down to being the one that made the most sense.”

There has been very little turnover on the team that fell a goal short of the Stanley Cup Finals last season when it lost to the Kings in overtime of Game 7 of the Western Conference finals.

Among the 13 forwards on the roster, only two will be new to the Hawks this season: veterans Brad Richards and Daniel Carcillo. Among the eight defensemen, van Riemsdyk and Cumiskey are new faces. The goaltenders remain Corey Crawford and Antti Raanta.

Hawks President John McDonough said he had faith Bowman would crunch the numbers to make things work, and was in touch with his GM throughout the process, “every day.”

“Stan is incredibly thorough, very analytical,” McDonough said. “There are always four or five different options that are being juggled. He’s a great consensus-builder.

He asks the opinion of many people. He counts on his people to help make these decisions, but ultimately, it’s on him.”

After an offseason of assembling the roster, Bowman is eager for the season to begin to see how the Hawks match up as they seek their third Cup in 6 years.

“Definitely this is the start of something big, hopefully,” Bowman said.

“We’ve prepared ourselves, [and] now is when the real fun starts. You want to see how everything that you’ve planned out comes to be. Some things probably will be better than we expected, some things we’ll have to make adjustments.”

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Rock Falls senior Carrigan Chouinard lines up his putt on the second hole at Park Hills West in Freeport.

Chouinard finished with an 89 to advance to next Monday’s sectional.

Shaw won the 500 freestyle (6:13.57) by 24 seconds, and teamed with Bushman, Kennedy Halsmer and Abbey Blackbourn to win the 200 freestyle relay. Shaw also anchored the winning 400 freestyle relay, the premier race in the sport.

“It’s such a great race, and to have the chance to anchor, that is so much fun,” said Shaw, who swam her four events with athletic tape around her right leg, protecting a torn lateral meniscus. “I really enjoy swimming, and I feel like I have to do my part and help the team.”

Sterling shined in the sprint events, as freshman Kerry Mullen led the way. She made it hard not to be noticed, as she showed off her speed with big kicks and powerful strokes in the two sprint events.

Her speed has given her the role of anchoring the 400 free relay.

With about 4 weeks until the sectional meet, Mullen has only been getting faster. She missed the first week of practice with an illness, and had to work her way back into shape. She had some rough sets in practice, but has been able to get back to where she wants to be.

She won the 50 and 100 freestyle

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Sterling’s Nina Malki swims in the 200 IM during Tuesday’s meet against Byron at the Duis Center. Malki finished in fourth with a time of 1 minute, 230.29 seconds. events Tuesday, and there wasn’t do during the race,” Mullen said. any doubt. She won the 50 by “That technical stuff is going on in more than a second, and touched the head, but once I hit the water, first in the 100 by nearly 2 seconds. it all goes away, and I’m just think“At first, it was pretty hard to get ing, ‘Go.’” back into it,” Mullen said. “But Sterling coach Jamie Ruiz said once I got going, it was easier and that she and Mullen have talked easier for me.” about qualifying for state, and She has the best shot on the team hopes the freshman can become a at qualifying for state this season, four-time state qualifier. but knows that shaving time off in “She definitely has that potenthe short distance races is brutal tial to go and get those state cuts,” work. If the start and turn in the 50 Ruiz said. “We know we can’t bank isn’t perfect, it can mean missing on placing first in our sectional, so out on valuable time. we have been working to get here “When I’m on the blocks, all I’m there. She just has so much natuthinking about is what I need to ral talent.”

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In their last full 18-hole event, the NIB-12 tournament last Wednesday under ideal conditions at Oak Ridge in LaSalle, the Golden Warriors posted a disappointing 349 team total. It was good for third among five teams.

That proved to be a wake-up call for the postseason.

“Your season can come to an abrupt end if you don’t play a good round,” said Sterling coach C.J. Wade, “so I think that got us more focused. We had a couple of good practices in there, and played well today.”

Leading the way was Hurley, who earned medalist honors with a 3-overpar 75. He carded an evenpar 36 on the front side, and needed just 11 putts in the process.

On the back, he threeputted twice and made four bogeys, but finished the round with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 18th.

“Making putts early is important, to build a little confidence,” Hurley said. “I had four straight one-putts to start the day, so I was kind of feeling it. It’s a good confidence booster knowing you don’t have to be as sharp with your ballstriking, and knowing you can still get up-anddown pretty well.”

Lucas Campbell was next for Sterling with an 86, good for 11th place.

Nick Ceruzzi was 15th with an 88, while Ryan Blackburn rounded out the counting scores with a 90.

There were just two scores in the 70s: Hurley with 75, and Princeton’s Ian Nichols with 78. Narrowly missing that mark was Rock Falls’ Aaron Frank, who carded an 80.

Frank finished with birdies on two of his last three holes, including a holed wedge from about 90 yards on the 16th hole. He and teammate Carrigan Chouinard, who finished at 89, qualified individually for sectional.

The Rockets were in the hunt for a team berth, but came up just short with a 352 score, five behind Alleman.

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Dixon junior Jake Bonnell reacts to his shot on No. 16 at Park Hills West in Freeport. Bonnell shot an 87 to advance to next week’s sectional.

“It was the same thing my sophomore year, when Logan White and I made it out,” Frank said.

“It’s just a lot better, being able to experience everything as a team. It’s really bittersweet right now. I’m glad that I made it out, but I wanted to play as a team at least one last time.”

Cooper Kilberg (91) and Matt Long (92) had the other counting scores for the Rockets.

Dixon posted its best 18-hole score of the season with a 371, good for seventh place. Leading the way for the Dukes were a pair of sectional qualifiers, Jacob Bonnell

and Cole Ruckman.

Each had interesting finishes, from different ends of the spectrum.

Bonnell had a kick-in birdie on his second-tolast hole of the day, No. 8, then drained a roundending 15-footer for birdie on No. 9 to cap off an 87.

“I knew I needed to finish really strong to actually compete,” Bonnell said. “I knew it was going to be close.”

Ruckman was on track for a score in the mid-80s until running into trouble on his final two holes, also No. 8 and No. 9. Through 16 holes, Ruckman noted he had been hitting his

driver straight and true, but found trees off the tee on the last two holes.

That led to a pair of double bogeys, and had him thinking the worst.

“I feel really fortunate,” Ruckman said. “Looking at the scores, I was really anxious, and didn’t think I was going to make it.”

The cutoff for individual sectional qualifying turned out to be 90, a score turned in by three Geneseo players.

The Maple Leafs, who won the NIB-12 West regular season and conference tournament titles, posted a score of 355 and finished fifth.

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Opponents may give hint at bid Gertrude Stein said, “We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.”

When the opponents are in the bidding, they are giving you information about their hands. You may shut your eyes, but do not close your ears.

Listen closely and use that data to your benefit. Do not sit there with earmuffs on.

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In this deal, East had an interesting decision over two spades: double or three hearts?

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ing missed. Preferring to aim for the most likely game, East plunged in with three hearts.

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South should have played the spade two from dummy.

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ROUNDUP

Trio of golfers advance to sectional Two Thunder boys, one Marco get out of Eastland Regional; Dixon soccer falls

By SVM Sports Staff

Three local golfers advanced out of the Class 1A Eastland Regional on Tuesday afternoon at Lake Carroll Golf Club, with a fourth missing out after losing in a playoff.

West Carroll’s Cameron Ehlers (85) and Anthony Mendoza (88), and Polo’s Christopher Rademacher (92) all punched their tickets for next Monday’s 1A Seneca Sectional.

Eastland’s Curt Strauss nearly joined them, but lost to River Ridge’s Tim Speight in a playoff after the two initially tied for the 10th and final advancing spot with matching 94s on the par-72 course.

Stockton’s Aric Jordan was medalist with an 80, as the Blackhawks won the team title with a 332,

Tuesday’s stars Megan Grady, Amboy cross country, won EP Invite Bryson Reyes, Newman cross country, won EP Invite easily beating runnerup Pecatonica (359).

Galena was the final advancing team with a 362, eight shots better than Forreston.

BV competes in Kewanee: The Storm’s

season came to an end at the 1A Wethersfield Regional, as they finished 12th as a team (436) and did not qualify an individual for next week’s sectional.

Mercer County (340), Cambridge (357) and Sherrard (357) were the top

three teams, while Sherrard’s Grant Morse fired a 74 to win medalist honors.

Girls tennis

Morrow 6-3, 6-0 to seal the team win. Newman dropped the other two doubles matches.

Boys soccer Rockford Lutheran 4, Winnebago 2, Dixon 0: Dixon 1: The Duchesses’ lone win came at No. 2 The Dukes (6-10-1, 5-6-1 doubles in a Big Northern BNC West) allowed one goal in each half in a Big loss at home.

Jacqueline Fazekas and Northeren West loss at Alane Bratt teamed up for Winnebago. a 7-5, 4-6, 7-5 victory at Dixon keeper Nick No. 2 doubles. Stephanie LaSage made four saves in Tressel lost in three sets the loss. at No. 2 singles for Dixon Boys cross country (2-13).

Comets roll at ErieNewman 3, St. Bede 2: Prophetstown: Newman Emily Long won at No. 1 had five of the top six finand Sydney Ybarra won at ishers on its way to taking No. 2 singles for Newman the team title at the Eriein a Three Rivers East win Prophetstown Panther at Hegeler Park.

Invite. The Comets had 18 The Comets (5-8) won points, while runner-up the top doubles match, Galva had 46. as Anne Vits and Chan- Bryson Reyes covered tel Ordean dispatched the 3-mile Erie course in Brianna Lou and Gabby 16 minutes, 39 seconds,

just ahead of teammate Chris Ahlers, who was second in 16:40.

Drew Rosengren (4th, 16:44), Quincy Coomes (5th, 16:50), and Ethan Nash (6th, 16:53) rounded out Newman’s top five.

Amboy’s James Blackburn was eighth in 16:57.

Also finishing strong were Erie-Prophetstown’s Braedon Bonnell (10th, 17:54) and Ohio’s Johnee Schulte (11th, 17:59).

Girls cross country Panthers edge Comets:

Erie-Prophetstown (53 points) edged Newman (55) for top honors in the E-P Panther Invite held at Lake Erie Golf Course.

Leading the way for the Panthers was Corrie Reiley, who took second in 19:25. Olivia DeWitte was fifth in 21:09.

Teagan McKenna (3rd, 20:36) and Haley Simpson (4th, 20:44) led the way for the Comets.

Amboy’s Megan Grady won the race in 19:06. Jennifer Popovich was sixth for the Clippers in 21:28.

Women’s tennis

Sauk Valley 7, Rock Valley 2: The Skyhawks fin-

ished the regular season with a 6-3 record after beating the Golden Eagles at home.

The Skyhawks swept the three doubles matches, and got singles wins from Mary Alice Oswalt, Ashlyn Berogan, Kristina Long, and Molly Hendricks. The Skyhawks’ two losses both went to third-set tiebreakers.

Sauk Valley hosts the Region IV tournament on Friday and Saturday.

BOYS GOLF | 1A BYRON

Tough field leaves Hawks out Oregon fourth at PrairieView

BY ANDY COLBERT Shaw Media

BYRON – In a normal year, Oregon’s score of 341 would be enough to advance out of a 1A golf regional. The Byron 1A regional was not normal on Tuesday, and Oregon failed to advance as a team to the sectional.

“This is a tough regional,” Oregon coach Jim Spratt said. “Whoever gets out has a good chance of getting out of the sectional. I wouldn’t be surprised if all three teams make it.”

Besides perennial power Byron, the IHSA assigned defending state runner-up North Shore Country Day, and a strong Westminster Christian team. Add Rockford Christian to the mix, and Spratt knew his team would need to be in the same form it was when it won two major tournaments earlier in the year.

Oregon finished fourth with a 341. North Shore Country Day, which had four scores between 74 and 80, took first with 309.

Byron was second with 321, and Rockford Christian had a 335 to claim the final team spot.

The best individual score mustered by Oregon was an 84 by Carson Buck.

Matt Myers was close behind with an 85, followed by Taylor Brubaker and Mitchell Nehrkorn with 86s.

Buck, Myers, and Brubaker qualified for the sectional.

“It was a tale of two halves for them,” Spratt said.

For example, Nehrkorn

went 47-39 after a quadruple bogey on No. 6.

“I really played bad on the front. I’m surprised I did so much better on the back,” Nehrkron said.

Buck was at 40-45, and Myers 40-45. Brubaker did have a 43-43, but needed pars on the final three holes to salvage the round.

“I couldn’t find the fairways,” Brubaker said.

“I missed a lot of 10- to 15-foot putts I normally make here. But, there is a big difference between an 86 and 89, and making those pars helped.”

In a three-man playoff for the 10th and final qualifying spot, Brubaker had a par to edge out Nehrkorn and Ricky Martinez of Westminster Christian.

On the playoff hole, Brubaker hit his drive wide right, and Nehrkorn went left. Martinez hit two out of bounds, ending his chances.

Brubaker found the green and two-putted for his fourth consecutive par.

Nehrkorn needed a chipin, but did not come close.

“It’s a strange anomaly to have almost four qualifiers and to have two of them in a playoff against each other,” Spratt said.

Drew Miles of North Shore Country Day was a medalist with a 74.

Tyler Black had a 91, and Dominic Marchetti had a 98, as the other two Oregon golfers.

The three Oregon golfers will travel to Seneca on Monday to compete in the sectional.

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Oregon’s Matt Myers lines up his putt Tuesday during the 1A Byron Regional at PrairieView Golf Course. Myers shot an 85.

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Fulton’s Lucas Wiebenga chips onto the green Tuesday during the 1A Morrison Regional at Prairie Ridge Golf Course. Wiebenga shot an 88 to advance to the Seneca Sectional.

Klein improves putting to lead Clippers KLEIN

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He birdied hole No. 3, and was just a 12-foot putt away from an eagle.

While he missed out on the stroke, it gave him enough motivation to sharpen his shots on the green to lead him to a third-place finish – just 1 week after not making the top 10 at the Three Rivers tournament.

“My putting was really on the spot today,” Klein said. “I was chipping the ball real good, and that really helped. I wanted to improve my putting. I had a lot of putts at conference, and had two three-putts today.”

Klein finished behind Riverdale’s Tyler Bussert (77) and St. Bede’s Joseph Dudek (79). Bussert had the best round on the front nine with a 39, while Klein marched through the back nine with a meet-low 38.

For Amboy, which won the conference meet for the first time since 1976, Tuesday marked the first time that the Clipper program advanced to the sectional as a team.

In addition to Klein and Kozeal, Jake Lucas and Logan Thake each shot a 94, with Tracer Mills adding a 98 and Caleb Sarff a 101.

“It was somewhat disappointing because I know, and they know, that we can shoot better,” Amboy coach Zach Ross said. “I’m glad we

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Erie’s Levi Floming advanced out of the 1A Morrison Regional on Tuesday by shooting an 88. He was the lone Cardinal to advance. made it through. Sam had a great day today. In the last week and a half, he’s been playing phenomenal golf for us. He had 26 putts for today, and was really striking the ball.”

Seven locals also advanced, including Morrison’s Brock Smith, who ended play with a 95, his worst round of the year. He tied with Newman’s Matt Wagenecht and Hall’s Matt Hoscheid, and at the end of play, the trio found themselves needing to tee off for one more hole for the tenth and final qualifying spot.

Smith’s second shot on the par-4 ninth hole landed beyond the hole and near the fringe.

He missed his birdie attempt from 11 feet by 2 inches on the left, but sank for par from 2 feet, while Hoscheid and Wagenecht – who led their respective teams – bogeyed.

“The putt was really nerve-wracking,” Smith said. “I didn’t think a 95 was going to make the cut, and when I found out that I was going to a playoff, I was pretty excited.”

The Mustangs finished in sixth with 381, also sending Noah Hogue (81) to the sectional. Fulton finished in fourth with 367, with Lucas Wiebenga (88), Brett Terrock (91), and Justin Petersen (93) advancing.

“I think the three that

qualified know where they can shoot after today,” Fulton coach Tyler Swanson said. “I’m happy that they advanced.”

Prophetstown (385) sends Jackson Westen (91) and Jackson Ames (91) to the sectional.

“We had a rough day,” Prophet coach Karen Wiersema said of her team. “They were very nervous coming in today.

It was a tough course.”

Erie’s lone sectional qualifier was Levi Floming (88).

“It was tough today,” Erie coach Ryan Winckler said.

“It was a difficult course in tough conditions. I’m happy for Levi. He’s struggled this year, and is starting to play much better golf right now.”

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MLB | NLDS | CARDINALS 3, DODGERS 2

Boys golf Tuesday’s results Class 2A Freeport Regional at Park Hills West, Freeport Par 72 (Top 3 teams & 10 individuals not on those teams advance to 2A Grayslake Sectional on Monday, Oct. 13) Team scores 1. Freeport 337, 2. Sterling 339, 3. Alleman 347, 4. Rock Falls 352, 5. Geneseo 355, 6. Princeton 361, 7. Dixon 371, 8. Rochelle 395, 9. Stillman Valley 402, 10. Winnebago Top 5 individuals 1. Ryan Hurley (Sterling) 75, 2. Ian Nichols (Princeton) 78, 3. Aaron Frank (Rock Falls) 80. 4. (tie) Kasey Steil (Freeport), Dalton Love (Alleman) 81 Advancing individuals Nichols (Princeton) 78, Frank (Rock Falls) 80, Colby Robbins (Princeton) 84, Eric Dellett (Geneseo) 85, Jacob Bonnell (Dixon) 87, Cole Ruckman (Dixon) 89, Carrigan Chouinard (Rock Falls) 89, Brian Bozzer (Geneseo) 90, Ryan Ford (Geneseo) 90, Austin Jump (Geneseo) 90 Other Sterling scores: Lucas Campbell 86, Nick Ceruzzi 88, Ryan Blackburn 90, Nick Olds 92, Brady Bostelman 113 Other Rock Falls scores: Cooper Kilberg 91, Matt Long 92, Bronson Mintun 93, Nolan Moeller 94 Other Dixon scores: Anton Halla 95, Jackson Jeffery 100, Patrick Johnson 109, Zach Healy 126

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The Cardinals’ Matt Adams (32) celebrates with first-base coach Chris Maloney after hitting a three-run home run in the seventh inning against Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw during Game 4 of their NL Division Series on Tuesday in St. Louis. The Cardinals won the game 3-2, and won the series 3-1.

Cards get to Kershaw Adams’ homer sends St. Louis into NLCS

BY R.B. FALLSTROM AP Sports Writer

ST. LOUIS – Matt Adams could barely contain his enthusiasm – and he didn’t really try, either. He thrust both arms in the air while still in the batter’s box, and added a couple of big hops to his home run trot as he approached first base.

A stunned Clayton Kershaw, bent over at the waist with his hands on his knees, watched from the mound as the long drive off Big City’s bat propelled St. Louis to a fourth straight NL Championship Series.

“Some people are calling it the Big City Leap,” Adams said. “I was just super-excited, I didn’t know what I was doing ...

I knew I was jumping for joy.”

The Cardinals tagged Kershaw in the seventh inning for the second straight time, riding Adams’ go-ahead, threerun homer to a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday for a 3-1 win in the best-offive Division Series.

“I don’t think I touched the ground the whole

Up next • NLCS, Game 1, Giants at Cardinals, 7:07 p.m. Saturday (Fox/95.7 FM) way around the bases,” Adams said. “Definitely the highlight of my career. ... I will never, ever forget this.”

Neither will Kershaw.

The Cardinals sent the Dodgers home for the second postseason in a row with a win over Kershaw. Last year, it was in Game 6 of the NLCS. “The season ended, and I was a big part of the reason why,” Kershaw said.

“I can’t really put it into words. Just bad deja vu all over again.”

With their rotation well-rested, the Cardinals will play San Francisco in the NLCS, which starts Saturday.

They will open at home against the Giants.

Trevor Rosenthal allowed two runners in the ninth before getting Carl Crawford on a grounder for a gameending forceout for his third save of the series.

At AT&T Park in San Francisco, fans cheered

when the rival Dodgers were eliminated.

“It was awesome, everything we did throughout that game,” starter Shelby Miller said. “It was a heck of a game and a lot of fun, I know that.”

An overwhelming favorite to win his third NL Cy Young Award in 4 years, Kershaw’s October résumé is a wreck.

Kershaw dropped to 1-5 with a 5.12 ERA in 11 postseason games, including three relief appearances early in his career. He has lost four straight starts to St. Louis over the past two postseasons.

“I’ve had success against them, too,” Kershaw said. “It just seems like one inning gets me every time. And obviously, that’s not success.”

While the Cardinals advanced to their ninth NLCS in 15 years, the defeat was a huge disappointment for the NL West champion Dodgers, who remain without a pennant since winning the 1988 World Series.

“It’s awful,” catcher A.J. Ellis said. “It’s devastating. It just kind of rehashes those old memories.”

MLB | NLDS | GIANTS 3, NATIONALS 2

Another Giant leap into NLCS Pence’s great catch propels San Francisco to victory

BY JANIE MCCAULEY AP Baseball Writer

SAN FRANCISCO – Joe Panik scored the goahead run in the seventh inning on Aaron Barrett’s bases-loaded wild pitch, and the Giants beat the Nationals 3-2 on Tuesday to return to the NLCS. The wild-card Giants took Game 4 in the bestof-five Division Series and eliminated the Nationals by scoring on a basesloaded walk, a groundout, and a wild pitch. Hunter Pence turned in a defensive gem in right field.

Santiago Casilla put the potential tying run aboard in the ninth on a two-out walk to Bryce Harper, then retired Wilson Ramos on a grounder to end it. Casilla was mobbed on the mound as fireworks shot off from the center-field scoreboard.

San Francisco travels to St. Louis for Game 1 on Saturday. It’s a rematch of the 2012 NLCS, when the Giants rallied from a 3-1 deficit on the way to their second World Series championship in 3 years.

Top 5 individuals 1. Tyler Bussert (Riv) 77; 2. Joseph Dudek (SB) 79; 3. Sam Klein (Amb) 80; 4. Noah Hogue (Morr) 81; 5. Cameron Mayo (Riv) 86 Advancing individuals Hogue (Morr) 81; Lucas Wiebenga (Ful) 88; Levi Floming (Erie) 88; Brett Terrock (Ful) 91; Caleb Dzierzynski (PC) 91; Jackson Westen (Proph) 91; Justin Petersen (Ful) 93; Jackson Ames (Proph) 93; Mitch Aimone (PC) 93; Brock Smith (M) 95* * – won playoff Other Amboy results: Griffin Kozeal 89, Jake Lucas 94, Logan Thake 94, Tracer Mills 98, Caleb Sarff 101 Other Fulton results: Dustin Rowland 97, Jake Outzen 106, Jason Sikkema 108 Other Morrison results: Ben Tegeler 97, Kyle McCoy 108, Anthony Tenboer 121, Colton Smith WD Other Prophetstown results: Grant Ames 96, Jordan Taylor 105, Andrew Reutzel 117, Kyle Sigel 122 Other Erie results: Tanner Brockway 98, Russell Johnson 112, Brandon Howell 113, Trey Anderson 124, Caden Swift 149 Newman results: Matt Wagenecht 95, Seiler Noble 103, Shawn Rosengren 111, Dillon Gallentine 120, Brady Fowkes 121 Class 1A Byron Regional at PrairieView, Byron Par 72 (Top 3 teams & top 10 individuals not on those teams advance to the 1A Seneca Sectional on Monday, Oct. 13) Team scores 1. North Shore Country Day 309, 2. Byron 321, 3. Rockford Christian 335, 4. Oregon 341, 5. Westminster Christian 348, 6. Elgin Academy 355, 7. Indian Creek 357, 8.

Northridge Prep 357, 9. Rockford Christian Life 380, 10. Harvest Christian Academy 421, 11. Guerin 421, 12. Chicagoland Jewish 427, 13. Hinckley-Big Rock 443, 14.

Keith Country Day 452, 15. Faith Lutheran Top 5 individuals 1. Drew Miles (North Shore) 74, Trent Snodgrass (Byron), Dennis (Byron) 76, 4. (tie) Brandon Bishoff ford Christian), Charles MacVicar Shore) 77

2. (tie) Reedy (Rock(North

Advancing individuals Andrew Howard (Westminster Christian) 80, Joseph Egan (Northridge Prep) 81, Peyton Gatz (Indian Creek) 82, Mitchell Peterson (Christian Life) 83, Frankie Bisconti (Elgin Academy) 83, Carson Buck (Oregon) 84, Paul DiFranco (Northridge Prep) 84, Matt Myers (Oregon) 85, Dillon Rejman (Westminster Christian) 85, Taylor Brubaker (Oregon) 86 Other Oregon scores: Mitchell Nehrkorn 86, Tyler Black 91, Dominic Marchetti 98 Class 1A Eastland Regional at Lake Carroll, Lanark Par 72 (Top 3 teams & top 10 individuals not on those teams advance to the 1A Seneca Sectional on Monday, Oct. 13) Team scores 1. Stockton 332; 2. Pecatonica 359; 3.

Galena 362; 4. Forreston 370; 5. Polo 386; 6. East Dubuque 391; 7. River Ridge 394; 8. West Carroll 399; 9. Pearl City 405; 10.

Eastland 412; 11. Aquin 421; 12. LenaWinslow 422; 13. Dakota 467 Top 5 individuals 1. Aric Jordan (Stock) 80; 2. (tie) Cameron Upmann (Stock), Kane Hyde (Gal), Markus Edler (Forr) 81; 5. Reed Spangler (Gal) 83 Advancing individuals M.Edler (Forr) 81; Cameron Ehlers (WC) 85; Dylan Lange (ED) 86; Kyle Jensen (LW) 86; Anthony Mendoza (WC) 88; Bryan Edler (Forr) 88; Brett Sisler (LW) 91; Evan Bull (PC) 92; Christopher Rademacher (Polo) 92; Tim Streight (RR) 94* * – won playoff Other Polo scores: Brix Clayton 96, Tristin Woodin 99, Mack Llanas 99, Trevin Woodin 103, Matthew Handel 104 Other West Carroll scores: Aaron Haring 112, Matt Haring 114, Tristen Ritchie 151 Eastland scores: Curt Strauss 94, Austin Poffenberger 102, Collin Eubanks 108, Dillon Schoeny 108, Jordan Selman 111

Boys cross country Tuesday’s results Panther Invitational at Erie Country Club 3 miles Team scores 1. Newman 18, 2. Galva 46, 3. Ridgewood 98, 4. Erie-Prophetstown 103, 5. Rockridge 108, 6. Orion 162 Top 5 individuals 1. Bryson Reyes (N) 16:39, 2. Chris Ahlers (N) 16:40, 3. Bryant VanDeWostine (G) 16:41, 4. Drew Rosengren (N) 16:44, 5.

Quincy Coomes (N) 16:50 Other Newman runners: 6. Ethan Nash 16:53, 22. Quentin Larson 18:35, 23. Matt Hodge 18:41, 38. Jeremy Henson 19:55, 41. Sam Jungerman 20:19, 42. K.C. Knack 20:20.5, 43. Connor Knack 20:20.7, 44.

Brandon Burke 20:24, 49. Drew Henson 20:50, 55. Andy Burke 21:27 Erie-Prophetstown runners: 10.

Braedon Bonnell 17:54, 25. Vince Bramm 19:11, 28. Jared Cole 19:27, 30. Kyle Behrens 19:30, 36. Josh Bowling 19:52, 53. Travis Shipp 21:19, 62. Josh Wheeler 22:33 Amboy runners: 8. James Blackburn 16:57, 47. Thomas Molln 20:35, 54. Paul Meyer 21:23, Ohio runner: 11. Johnee Schulte 17:59 Eastland runners: 19. Tyler Dambman 18:32, 31. Hunter Todd 19:38

Girls cross country

Up next • NLCS, Game 1, Giants at Cardinals, 7:07 p.m. Saturday (Fox/95.7 FM)

Class 1A Morrison Regional at Prairie Ridge, Morrison Par 71 (Top 3 teams & top 10 individuals not on those teams advance to the 1A Seneca Sectional on Monday, Oct. 13) Team scores 1. Riverdale 338; 2. St. Bede 350; 3.

Amboy 357; 4. Fulton 367; 5. Putnam County 380; 6. Morrison 381; 7. Prophetstown 385; 8. Hall 392; 9. Erie 411; 10.

Marquette 413; 11. Newman 438; 12.

Earlville-Leland 463

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Giants right fielder Hunter Pence makes a leaping catch on a ball hit by the Nationals’ Jayson Werth during Tuesday’s game in San Francisco. The Giants won 3-2.

Tuesday’s results Panther Invitational at Erie Country Club 3 miles Team scores 1. Erie-Prophetstown 53, 2. Newman 55, 3. Amboy 83, 4. Orion 104, 5. Galva 133, 6. Eastland 140, 7. Ridgewood 172, 8.

Rockridge 183 Top 5 individuals 1. Megan Grady (A) 19:06, 2. Corrie Reiley (EP) 19:25, 3. Teagan McKenna (N) 20:36, 4. Haley Simpson (N) 20:44, 5. Olivia DeWitte (EP) 21:09

Other Erie-Prophetstown runners: 14. Ashlynn Steel 22:09, 15. Mikayla Bolton 22:31, 21. Emily Hanover 23:15, 22. Chance Johnston 23:22, 25. Heather Strike 23:46, 34. Stephanie Sandrock 24:49, 40. Calya Crane 25:31 Other Newman runners: 10. Kelsey Simpson 21:48, 20. Kate Bonnell 23:07, 23. Natalie Amezola 23:35, 29. Jillienne Roe 24:05, 37. Lauren Henson 25:20, 41. Elizabeth Oswalt 25:31, 44. Madaline Grove 25:52 Other Amboy runners: 6. Jennifer Popovich 21:28, 11. Erin Hosto 21:51, 33.

Madeline Foster 24:44, 38. Brenna Rieker 25:20, 39. Caitlin Boers 25:27, 50. Ally Gascoigne 26:52 Eastland runners: 13. Megan Schmieder 22:04, 19. Leah Kuper 22:58, 35. Anna Kuper 24:53, 42. Lexis Macomber 25:36, 49. Cecelia Guerrero 26:21, 54. Sammy Sohl 27:21

Girls swimming Tuesday’s results at Duis Center, Sterling

BYRON 120, STERLING 62 200 medley relay – 1. Byron (Kennedy Halsmer, Kaylee Rice, Abbey Blackbourn, Abby Ganong) 2:03.70; 2. Byron (Samantha Brosend, Megan Hale, Alissa Helfrich, Laura Williams) 2:17.13; 3. Sterling (Katrina Sandefer, Hannah Hubbard, Avery Edwards, Mariyah Martinez) 2:26.72 200 freestyle – 1. Gretchen Bushman (B) 2:11.07; 2. Kylie Shaw (B) 2:12.44; 3. Avery Edwards (S) 2:31.16; 4. Hannah Schlosser (B) 2:33.54; 5. Gwen Kermott (S) 2:41.66 200 individual medley – 1. Abbey Blackbourn (B) 2:31.16; 2. Abby Ganong (B) 2:44.24; 3. Kaitlyn Freimuth (B) 2:52.03; 4. Nina Malki (S) 3:05.46; 5. Hannah Hubbard (S) 3:08.88 50 freestyle – 1. Kerry Mullen (S) 25.68; 2. Kennedy Halsmer (B) 27.86; 3. Kaylee Rice (B) 28.64; 4. Alissa Helfrich (B) 30.10; 5. Mariyah Martinez (S) 30.26 100 butterfly – 1. Micheala Busch (S) 1:05.69; 2. Abbey Blackbourn (B) 1:08.69; 3. Kaylee Rice (B) 1:15.78; 4. Avery Edwards (S) 1:24.78 100 freestyle – 1. Kerry Mullen (S) 57.72; 2. Kennedy Halsmer (B) 59.34; 3. Samantha Brosend (B) 1:08.60; 4. Kelly Reinke (B) 1:09.68; 5. Gwen Kermott (S) 1:10.76 500 freestyle – 1. Kylie Shaw (B) 6:13.57; 2. Katrina Sandefer (S) 6:37.68; 3. Hannah Schlosser (B) 7:01.13; 4. Nina Malki (S) 7:11.09; 5. Alissa Helfrich (B) 7:17.81 200 freestyle relay – 1. Byron (Blackbourn, Bushman, Halsmer, Shaw) 1:49.35; 2. Sterling (Busch, Martinez, Sandefer, Mullen) 1:52.32; 3. Byron (Freimuth, Reinke, Williams, Hale) 2:03.25 100 backstroke – 1. Gretchen Bushman (B) 1:08.25; 2. Abby Ganong (B) 1:17.22; 3. Katrina Sandefer (S) 1:17.79; 4. Samantha Brosend (B) 1:19.74; 5. Claire Steinhagen (S) 1:31.01 100 breaststroke – 1. Micheala Busch (S) 1:17.57; 2. Megan Hale (B) 1:21.19; 3.

Laura WIlliams (B) 1:28.01; 4. Kaitlyn Freimuth (B) 1:30.95; 5. Hannah Hubbard (S) 1:35.85 400 freestyle relay – 1. Byron (Bushman, Rice, Ganong, Shaw) 4:12.79; 2.

Sterling (Busch, Edwards, Martinez, Mullen) 4:15.17; 3. Byron (Schlosser, Helfrich, Reinke, Brosend) 4:44.25 1-meter diving – 1. Kallie Zuidema (S) 199.70; 2. Michaela Spanbauer (B) 184.65; 3. Kaylyn Rice (B) 114.05

Girls tennis Tuesday’s results at Emma Hubbs Tennis Courts Page Park, Dixon

ROCKFORD LUTHERAN 4, DIXON 1 Singles 1. Kaitlyn Larson (RL) def. Katie Hammitt 6-4, 6-0 2. Sydney Hicks (RL) def. Stephanie Tressel 4-6, 6-0, 6-4 Doubles 1. Brooke Honzel, Hudley Turner (RL) def.

Aleasha Penn, Allison Newman 6-0, 6-3 2. Jenna Fry, Paige Nordlof (RL) def.

Rachael Turffs, Sara Ackerson 6-2, 6-4 3. Jacqueline Fazekas, Alane Bratt (D) def.

Sophie Prabhakar, Miri Khiner 7-5, 4-6, 7-5 Record: Dixon 2-13

x-Thursday, Oct. 16: St. Louis at San Francisco, TBA (FS1) x-Saturday, Oct. 18: San Francisco at St. Louis, TBA (Fox) x-Sunday, Oct. 19: San Francisco at St. Louis, TBA (FS1) Tuesday’s NLDS box scores

CARDINALS 3, DODGERS 2 Los Angeles ab DGordn 2b 4 Crwfrd lf 5 AdGnzl 1b 4 Kemp rf 4 HRmrz ss 3 Ethier cf 2 Uribe 3b 4 A.Ellis c 2 Puig pr 0 Kershw p 2 P.Baez p 0 League p 0 JuTrnr ph 1

Singles 1. Emily Long (N) def. Laura Faletti 1-6, 6-1, 10-3 2. Sydney Ybarra (N) def. Molly Considine 4-6, 8-6, 11-9 Doubles 1. Anne Vits, Chantel Ordean (N) def. Brianna Lou, Gabby Morrow 6-3, 6-0 2. Rachel Sickley, Mercedez Brayton (S) def. Makayla Murphy, Olivia Murillo 6-4, 6-2 3. Julia Browning, Madison Billhorn (S) def.

Alani Cook, Fabi Murillo 6-3, 7-5 Record: Newman 5-8

Women’s tennis Tuesday’s results at Sauk Valley C.C.

SAUK VALLEY 7, ROCK VALLEY 2 Singles 1. Mary Alice Oswalt (SV) def. Savannah Myers 7-6 (7-3), 6-0 2. Ashlyn Berogan (SV) def. Alyssa Wolfe 6-2, 6-2 3. Kristina Long (SV) def. Kelsey Wilson 6-3, 6-1 4. Jessica Mena (RV) def. Gabi Trujillo 6-4, 2-6, 10-7 5. Vanessa Covarrubias (RV) def. Jessica VanOosten 6-2, 5-7, 13-11 6. Molly Hendricks (SV) def. Anna Alamilla 6-2, 6-1 Doubles 1. Oswalt, Hendricks (SV) def. Myers, Wolfe 6-2, 6-1 2. Berogan, Trujillo (SV) def. Covarrubias, Alamilla 6-2, 6-3 3. VanOosten, Long (SV) def. Mena, Jenny Casarotto 6-3, 6-3 Record: Sauk Valley 6-3

MLB playoffs DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5; x-if necessary) National League San Francisco 3, Washington 1 Oct. 3: San Francisco 3, Washington 2 Oct. 4: San Francisco 2, Washington 1, 18 inn.

Monday: Washington 4, San Francisco 1 Tuesday: San Francisco 3, Washinton 2 St. Louis 3, Los Angeles 1 Oct. 3: St. Louis 10, Los Angeles 9 Oct. 4: Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 2 Monday: St. Louis 3, Los Angeles 1 Tuesday: St. Louis 3, Los Angeles 2

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) American League (All AL games televised by TBS) Baltimore 0, Kansas City 0 Friday: Kansas City (Shields 14-8) at Baltimore (Tillman 13-6), 7:07 p.m.

Saturday: Kansas City at Baltimore, 3:07 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 13: Baltimore at Kansas City, TBA Tuesday, Oct. 14: Baltimore at Kansas City, TBA x-Wednesday, Oct. 15: Baltimore at Kansas City, TBA x-Friday, Oct. 17: Kansas City at Baltimore, TBA x-Saturday, Oct. 18: Kansas City at Baltimore, TBA National League St. Louis 0, San Francisco 0 Saturday: San Francisco at St. Louis, 7:07 p.m. (Fox) Sunday: San Francisco at St. Louis, TBA (FS1) Tuesday, Oct. 14: St. Louis at San Francisco, TBA (FS1) Wednesday, Oct. 15: St. Louis at San Francisco, TBA (FS1)

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ab r h bi MCrpnt 3b 4 0 0 0 Grichk rf 4 0 1 0 Hollidy lf 4 1 1 0 Rosnthl p 0 0 0 0 JhPerlt ss 2 1 1 0 MAdms 1b 3 1 1 3 YMolin c 3 0 0 0 Jay cf-lf 1 0 0 0 Wong 2b 3 0 0 0 SMiller p 1 0 0 0 Maness p 0 0 0 0 Kozma ph 1 0 0 0 Gonzals p 0 0 0 0 Tavers ph 1 0 0 0 Neshek p 0 0 0 0 Bourjos cf 0 0 0 0 Totals 31 2 8 1 Totals 27 3 4 3 Los Angeles 000 002 000 — 2 St. Louis 000 000 30x — 3 DP–Los Angeles 1, St. Louis 2. LOB–Los Angeles 9, St. Louis 3. HR–Ma.Adams (1).

S–Kershaw.

IP H R ER BB SO Los Angeles Kershaw L,0-2 6 4 3 3 2 9 P.Baez 1 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 League 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 St. Louis S.Miller 5 2/3 5 2 2 3 4 Maness 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 Gonzales W,2-0 1 1 0 0 1 0 Neshek H,3 1 0 0 0 0 1 Rosenthal S,3-3 1 1 0 0 1 1 Kershaw pitched to 3 batters in the 7th.

HBP–by P.Baez (Jay), by S.Miller (H.Ramirez). WP–Kershaw.

GIANTS 3, NATIONALS 2 Washington

San Francisco ab r h bi ab r h bi Span cf 4 0 0 0 GBlanc cf 4 0 1 1 Rendon 3b 4 0 0 0 Panik 2b 4 1 2 1 Werth rf 3 0 0 0 Posey c 4 0 2 0 LaRoch 1b 4 0 0 0 Pence rf 3 0 1 0 Dsmnd ss 4 1 1 0 Sandovl 3b 3 0 0 0 Harper lf 3 1 2 2 Belt 1b 4 0 0 0 WRams c 4 0 1 0 BCrwfr ss 4 1 2 0 ACarer 2b 3 0 0 0 J.Perez lf 3 1 0 0 GGnzlz p 1 0 0 0 Vglsng p 2 0 1 0 Schrhlt ph 0 0 0 0 J.Lopez p 0 0 0 0 Roark p 0 0 0 0 MDuffy ph 1 0 0 0 Blevins p 0 0 0 0 Strckln p 0 0 0 0 Zmrmn ph 1 0 0 0 Romo p 0 0 0 0 Thrntn p 0 0 0 0 Ishikaw ph 1 0 0 0 Barrett p 0 0 0 0 SCasill p 0 0 0 0 RSorin p 0 0 0 0 Totals 31 2 4 2 Totals 33 3 9 2 Washington 000 010 100 — 2 San Francisco 020 000 10x — 3 E–G.Gonzalez (1). LOB–Washington 5, San Francisco 10. 2B–Harper (1). HR– Harper (3). S–J.Perez.

IP H R ER BB SO Washington G.Gonzalez 4 4 2 0 1 1 Roark 2/3 2 0 0 0 0 Blevins 1 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 Thornton L,0-1 1/3 2 1 1 0 0 Barrett 1/3 0 0 0 2 0 R.Soriano 1 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 San Francisco Vogelsong 5 2/3 2 1 1 2 4 J.Lopez 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 Strickland W,1-0 1 2 1 1 0 1 Romo 1 0 0 0 0 0 S.Casilla S,2-2 1 0 0 0 1 1 WP–Barrett.

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE Buffalo New England Miami N.Y. Jets

W 3 3 2 1

Indianapolis Houston Tennessee Jacksonville

W 3 3 1 0

Cincinnati Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland

W 3 3 3 2

San Diego Denver Kansas City Oakland

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at Hegeler Park, Peru

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East L T 2 0 2 0 2 0 4 0 South L T 2 0 2 0 4 0 5 0 North L T 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 West L T 1 0 1 0 3 0 4 0

Pct .600 .600 .500 .200

PF 96 123 96 79

PA 89 107 97 127

Pct .600 .600 .200 .000

PF 156 104 88 67

PA 108 87 139 169

Pct .750 .600 .600 .500

PF 97 116 114 103

PA 76 80 108 105

Pct .800 .750 .400 .000

PF 133 116 119 51

PA 63 87 101 103

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

East L T Pct PF Philadelphia 1 0 .800 156 Dallas 1 0 .800 135 N.Y. Giants 2 0 .600 133 Washington 4 0 .200 112 South W L T Pct PF Carolina 3 2 0 .600 104 Atlanta 2 3 0 .400 151 New Orleans 2 3 0 .400 132 Tampa Bay 1 4 0 .200 103 North W L T Pct PF Detroit 3 2 0 .600 99 Green Bay 3 2 0 .600 134 Minnesota 2 3 0 .400 101 Chicago 2 3 0 .400 116 West W L T Pct PF Arizona 3 1 0 .750 86 Seattle 3 1 0 .750 110 San Francisco 3 2 0 .600 110 St. Louis 1 3 0 .250 84 Thursday’s game Indianapolis at Houston, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday’s games Jacksonville at Tennessee, noon Detroit at Minnesota, noon Baltimore at Tampa Bay, noon Denver at N.Y. Jets, noon New England at Buffalo, noon Carolina at Cincinnati, noon Pittsburgh at Cleveland, noon Green Bay at Miami, noon San Diego at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

Dallas at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.

Washington at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.

Chicago at Atlanta, 3:25 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

Open: Kansas City, New Orleans Monday’s game San Francisco at St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.

W 4 4 3 1

PA 132 103 111 136 PA 120 143 141 156 PA 79 106 126 131 PA 86 83 106 119

College football Top 25 schedule Friday’s game No. 25 Stanford vs. Washington St., 8 p.m.

Saturday’s games No. 1 Florida St. (5-0) at Syracuse, 11 a.m.

No. 2 Auburn (5-0) at No. 3 Mississippi St., 2:30 p.m.

No. 3 Mississippi (5-0) at No. 14 Texas A&M, 8 p.m.

No. 5 Baylor (5-0) vs. No. 9 TCU, 2:30 p.m.

No. 6 Notre Dame (5-0) vs. North Carolina, 2:30 p.m.

No. 7 Alabama (4-1) at Arkansas, 5 p.m.

No. 8 Michigan St. (4-1) at Purdue, 2:30 p.m.

No. 10 Arizona (5-0) vs. USC, 9:30 p.m.

No. 11 Oklahoma (4-1) vs. Texas, at Dallas, 11 a.m.

No. 12 Oregon (4-1) at No. 18 UCLA, 2:30 p.m.

No. 13 Georgia (4-1) at No. 23 Missouri, 11 a.m.

No. 16 Oklahoma St. (4-1) at Kansas, 3 p.m.

No. 19 East Carolina (4-1) at South Florida, 6 p.m.

No. 22 Georgia Tech (5-0) vs. Duke, 11:30 a.m.

NHL Today’s games Montreal at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 9 p.m.

San Jose at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

Thursday’s games Columbus at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Washington, 6 p.m.

Boston at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Florida at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Ottawa at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Colorado at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Arizona, 9 p.m.

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14-071592 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, MORRISON, ILLINOIS

IN THE CIRCUIT OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT LEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, IN PROBATE

MIDFIRST BANK

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HAROLD E. VAN HORN, Deceased.

NO. 2014 P 61 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given to creditors of the death of Harold E. Van Horn, P.O. Box24, Walnut, IL 61376, as Executor of this estate, whose attorneys of record are Ehrmann Gehlbach Badfger Lee & Considine, LLC, 215 E. First Street, Ste. 100, P.O. Box447, Dixon, Illinois 61021.

The estate will be administered without court supervision, unless under section 28-4 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/28-4) any interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the clerk.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court at 309 S. Galena Avenue, Dixon, Illinois 61021, or with the representative, or both, on or before the date which is six (6) months after the date of the first publication of this Claim Notice, or, if mailing or delivering of a notice from the representative is required by section 18-3 of the Probate Act of 1975, the date is stated in that notice. Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.

Angela Van Horn Executor Dana M. Considine Ehrmann Gehlbach Badger & Lee, LLC Attorneys for Independent Administrator 215 E. First Street, Ste. 100 P.O. Box 447 Dixon, IL 61021 (815) 288-4949 (815) 288-3068 (FAX) considine@egblc.com September 24, October 1, 8, 2014

PLAINTIFF, -vsDAINA L. AUDETTE A/K/A DAINA AUDETTE; HSBC FINANCE CORPORATION, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO HOUSEHOLD BANK; HSBC BANK USA, N.A.; DEFENDANTS

14CH 37 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE

Public Notice is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment entered in the above entitled matter on July 16, 2014; Kelly C. Wilhelmi, Sheriff, 400 N. Cherry Street, Morrison, IL 61270, will on November 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, at Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 East Knox Street 3rd Floor Lobby, Morrison, IL 61270, sell to the highest bidder for cash (ten percent (10%) at the time of sale and the balance within twentyfour (24) hours, the following described premises situated in Whiteside County, Illinois.

Said sale shall be subject to general taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and any prior liens or 1st Mortgages. The subject property is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title or recourse to Plaintiff.

Upon the sale being held and the purchaser tendering said bid in cash or certified funds, a receipt of Sale will be issued and/or a Certificate of Sale as required, which will entitle the purchaser to a deed upon confirmation of said sale by the Court.

Said property is legally described as follows: LOT 3 IN PLAINVIEW SUBDIVISION NO. 1, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE 4TH P.M., IN THE CITY OF ROCK FALLS, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JUNE 10, 1953 IN BOOK 9 OF PLATS, PAGE 14, IN WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 704 West 19th Street, Rock Falls, IL 61071 Permanent Index No.: 11-33-402-004 Improvements: Residential Structure UNKNOWN Units UNKNOWN Bedrooms UNKNOWN Garage UNKNOWN Bathrooms UNKNOWN Other UNKNOWN The property will NOT be open for inspection prior to the sale.

The judgment amount was $53,508.10. Prospective purchasers are admonished to check the court file and title records to verify this information.

For Bid Amount contact: Sale Clerk Shapiro Kreisman & Associates, LLC f/k/a Fisher and Shapiro, LLC 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 291-1717 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT IF YOUR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THIS DEBT HAS BEEN EXTINGUISHED BY A DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY OR BY AN ORDER GRANTING IN REM RELIEF FROM STAY, THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED SOLELY TO FORECLOSE THE MORTGAGE REMAINING ON YOUR PROPERTY AND IS NOT AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT THE DISCHARGED PERSONAL OBLIGATION. October 1, 8, 15 2014

Estate of Patricia J. Mathew Deceased No. 2014-P-117 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given to creditors of the death of Patricia J. Mathew. Letters of Independent Administration were issued on October 2, 2014, to Gerald W. Mathew, whose attorneys of record are shown below.

The estte will be administered without court supervision, unless under Section 28-4 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/28-4) any interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the cler.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Circuit Clerk of Whiteside County, 200 East Knox Street, Morrison, Illinois 61270, or with the representative, or both, on or before April 2, 2015, or, if mailing or delivery of a notice from the representative is required by Section 18-3 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/18-3), the date stated in that notice. Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the clerk must be mailed or delivered by the claimant to the representative and to the attorneys within 10 days after it has been filed.

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No. 14 P 115 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of HELEN M. MELTON. Letters of Office were issued to JAMES W. MELTON, 1325 13th Street, Erie, Illinois 61250, and ANN E. DINGES, 420 12th Avenue B, Erie, Illinois 61250, as Independent Co-Representatives, whose attorneys are WARD, MURRAY, PACE & JOHNSON, P.C., 202 E. 5th Street, Sterling, Illinois 61081 Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Court, Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 East Knox Street, Morrison, Illinois 61270, or with the Representative, or both, on or before April 1, 2015, and any claim not filed within that period is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the Representative and to the attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed.

Dated this 25th day of September, 2014.

James W. Melton and Ann F. Dinges Independent Co-Representatives Daniel C. Hawkins WARD, MURRAY, PACE & JOHNSON, P.C. Attorneys for Estate 202 East Fifth Street, Sterling, IL 61081-0400 (815) 625-8200 October 1, 8, 15, 2014

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS

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LEGAL NOTICE FOR FORECLOSURE SALE PUBLIC AUCTION OF REAL ESTATE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2014 – 2:30 P.M. 1020 LINCOLN STREET, ROCK FALLS, IL 61071

At the premises I, Lyle Dirks, having been designated by the Circuit Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, Whiteside County, Illinois in the case entitled Sterling Federal Bank, F.S.B., Plaintiff v. Brenda B. Elgin and Christina M. Elgin, Defendants, case No. 2014 CH 47 ST as sale officer, to conduct the sale, will sell the following described property at public auction to the highest qualified bidder. LEGAL DESCRIPTION: The West 50 feet of the East 100 feet of the North 150 feet of Lot M-35 of Martin Estates Subdivision of part of the Southeast Fractional Quarter of Section 22, part of the Southwest Fractional Quarter of Section 23, part of the Northwest Quarter of Section 26 and part of the Northeast Quarter of Section 27, all Township 21 North, Range 7 East of the 4th P.M., County of Whiteside and State of Illinois, commonly known as 1020 Lincoln Street, Rock Falls, IL 61071. DESCRIPTION: 6 room, 1 ½ story home with 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, and partial basement with 1501 square feet of living area located on a good street. INSPECTION: Contact Melissa Majewski at Sterling Federal Bank, 815-622-3369 to determine if property is available for inspection.

TERMS OF SALE: 10% down day of sale, balance upon delivery of deed and possession. All funds shall be CASH, BANK DRAFT, or CERTIFIED CHECK. Sale is subject to taxes for 2013 and all subsequent years.

TAXES WILL NOT BE PRORATED. A contract embodying the terms of this notice and such additional terms as deemed appropriate, will be signed by the sale officer on behalf of the court and by the buyer at the time of the sale. Any sale is subject to court approval. Any specific restrictions on property or title will be announced day of sale. Announcements day of sale take precedence over any printed material.

LEGAL NOTICE FOR FORECLOSURE SALE PUBLIC AUCTION OF REAL ESTATE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2014 – 2:00 P.M. 606 EAST FIFTH STREET, ROCK FALLS, IL 61071

At the premises I, Lyle Dirks, having been designated by the Circuit Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, Whiteside County, Illinois in the case entitled Sterling Federal Bank, F.S.B., Plaintiff v. Brenda B. Elgin and Christina M. Elgin, Defendants, case No. 2014 CH 47 ST as sale officer, to conduct the sale, will sell the following described property at public auction to the highest qualified bidder. LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Sub-lot 5 of the Subdivision of Lots 1, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 10 in Block 17 in Arey’s Addition to the City of Rock Falls, situated in the County of Whiteside and State of Illinois, commonly known as 606 East Fifth Street, Rock Falls, IL 61071. DESCRIPTION: 1 ½ story home with 7 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, approximately 1324 square feet of living area with a partial basement and a 2 car attached garage. INSPECTION: Contact Melissa Majewski at Sterling Federal Bank, 815-622-3369 to determine if property is available for inspection. TERMS OF SALE: 10% down day of sale, balance upon delivery of deed and possession. All funds shall be CASH, BANK DRAFT, or CERTIFIED CHECK. Sale is subject to taxes for 2013 and all subsequent years. TAXES WILL NOT BE PRORATED. A contract embodying the terms of this notice and such additional terms as deemed appropriate, will be signed by the sale officer on behalf of the court and by the buyer at the time of the sale. Any sale is subject to court approval. Any specific restrictions on property or title will be announced day of sale. Announcements day of sale take precedence over any printed material.

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14-071592 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, MORRISON, ILLINOIS MIDFIRST BANK PLAINTIFF, -vsDAINA L. AUDETTE A/K/A DAINA AUDETTE; HSBC FINANCE CORPORATION, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO HOUSEHOLD BANK; HSBC BANK USA, N.A.; DEFENDANTS

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Public Notice is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment entered in the above entitled matter on July 16, 2014;

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Kelly C. Wilhelmi, Sheriff, 400 N. Cherry Street, Morrison, IL 61270, will on November 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, at Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 East Knox Street 3rd Floor Lobby, Morrison, IL 61270, sell to the highest bidder for cash (ten percent (10%) at the time of sale and the balance within twentyfour (24) hours, the following described premises situated in Whiteside County, Illinois.

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Said sale shall be subject to general taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and any prior liens or 1st Mortgages. The subject property is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title or recourse to Plaintiff.

MSRP ....................... $21,085 DISCOUNT ................... $1,060 MFG REBATE ............... $1,750

Your Price!

$18,275

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Upon the sale being held and the purchaser tendering said bid in cash or certified funds, a receipt of Sale will be issued and/or a Certificate of Sale as required, which will entitle the purchaser to a deed upon confirmation of said sale by the Court.

Said property is legally described as follows: Commonly known as 704 West 19th Street, Rock Falls, IL 61071 Permanent Index No.: 11-33-402-004 Improvements:

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Residential Structure UNKNOWN Units UNKNOWN Bedrooms UNKNOWN Garage UNKNOWN Bathrooms UNKNOWN Other UNKNOWN The property will NOT be open for inspection prior to the sale.

The judgment amount was $53,508.10. Prospective purchasers are admonished to check the court file and title records to verify this information.

MSRP ....................... $27,860 DISCOUNT ................... $1,391 MFG REBATE ............... $1,500

Your Price!

$24,969*

For Bid Amount contact: Sale Clerk Shapiro Kreisman & Associates, LLC f/k/a Fisher and Shapiro, LLC 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 291-1717 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT IF YOUR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THIS DEBT HAS BEEN EXTINGUISHED BY A DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY OR BY AN ORDER GRANTING IN REM RELIEF FROM STAY, THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED SOLELY TO FORECLOSE THE MORTGAGE REMAINING ON YOUR PROPERTY AND IS NOT AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT THE DISCHARGED PERSONAL OBLIGATION. October 1, 8, 15 2014

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MSRP ........................ $23085 DISCOUNT ................... $1,162 MFG REBATE ............... $1,500

Your Price!

$19,923* *Tax, title, license & doc fees not included. Dealer not responsible for errors. Offer Expires 10-31-14.

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EMPLOYMENT

Contact us to place an ad call 815-626-7653 815-284-7653

Search for local job listings at saukvalley.com/jobs/ BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES 501

EMPLOYMENT

NOTICEPURto the SUANT Business Opportunity Sales Law of 1995, every business opportunity must be registered with the Illinois Securities Department. Protect yourself and get the facts before you hand over your hard earned money by contacting the Illinois Secretary of State's Securities Department at 1800-628-7937. This notice provided as a public service by Sauk Valley Classifieds.

Brechon Farm Services, Inc. is looking for Farm Help FT or PT $18/hr.

Send resumes to: 1270 IL. State Route 26 S.

EDUCATION

Dixon, IL 61021

Brechon Farm Services, Inc. is Now Hiring for Mechanics FT or PT $30/hr.

Send resumes to: 1270 IL. State Route 26 S. Dixon, IL 61021

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AIRLINE MECHANIC CAREERS START HERE GET FAA CERTIFICATION TRAINING. FINANCIAL AID IF QUALIFIED. JOB PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE. GET STARTED BY CALLING AIM 800-481-8312

HEALTH / MEDICAL

505

504

CNA's We are looking for experienced and dedicated professionals to assume key full and parttime positions on our day and night We offer: shifts!

Excellent starting vacation wage; pay; paid time off; holiday pay; medical, dental, and vision; and much more! For an immediate and confiinterview, dential apply in person or Lynette at call (815) 284-3393.

Dixon

Healthcare & Rehab 800 Division St Dixon, IL 61021

EMPLOYMENT

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Amboy C.U.S.D. #272 is seeking applicants for the following position: BUS DRIVERS To apply go to www.leeogle.org and complete the application.

Brechon Farm Services, Inc. is looking for Payroll Person, FT or PT. Must be proficient in QuickBooks.

Send resumes to: 1270 IL. State Route 26 S. Dixon, IL 61021

Brechon Farm Services, Inc. is Now Hiring truck drivers FT or PT $18/hr.

Send resumes to: 1270 IL. State Route 26 S. Dixon, IL 61021

Angelo's III accepting applications for part time Pizza Maker. Apply in person at 2405 W. 4th St., Sterling, Mon. Tues, Thurs., Fri. 10am-4pm. No phone calls.

Butler Transport Your Partner in Excellence.

Drivers Needed.

Great Hometime.$650.00 sign on bonus! All miles paid. 1-800528-7825 www.butlertransport.com Hiring Part-time Truck Driver. CDL required. Passport preferred. Located in Dixon. Please send resume and wage requirements to: humanresources.

dixonil@gmail.com

EMPLOYMENT

505

Business Office Manager, Full-Time Familiarity with basic accounting and human resources principles preferred.

Experience with payroll and benefits administration also helpful.

Must be able to pass a thorough background check and be comfortable working directly with residents.

Apply to Angela Mehlbrech, Administrator Tammerlane HealthCare Centre, 3601 16th Ave., Sterling, IL 61081 amehlbrech@ tammerlanehc.com

Fax: 815-6260275

CDL Class A Truck Driver Needed for an immediate position.

Local Driving, Home every night.

Competitive wages paid. Please call 815-288-2255.

DRIVERS: CDL CLASS A DRIVERS Dedicated Runs Between Gary, IN & Jefferson City, MO (Can Live Anywhere in Between) Company Drivers: * Sign-On $1,000 Bonus Average $1,000-$3,000 Weekly Paychecks Late Model * Trucks * Excellent Owner Benefits Operators: *$5,000 Sign-On Bonus *Full Family Medical Insurance Available * Lease Purchase Available Requirements: * 1 Year CDL-A Driving Exp. Must be Willing to Obtain Tank & Hazmat QUALITY CARRIERS Call:888-472www.6440 Work4QC.com Flatbed Drivers Mileage Starting Pay up to .41 cpm.

Health Ins., 401K, $59 daily Per Diem pay. Home Week800-648ends.

9915 or www.boydandsons.com

EMPLOYMENT

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NEW TODAY Flash Happy Portrait is a new, fun, creative walk-in portrait studio opening at Northland Mall st Nov. 1 . We are looking for energetic and up beat people to join our team.

Fill out your application at: tinyurl.com/lsr26hl

FULL TIME MARKETING SPECIALIST is needed covering cities such as Moline, Kewanee, Rockford and other surrounding territories. Healthcare exp. and exp. in dealing with seniors and doctors is preferred. Exp. level determines base salary.

Very competitive pay. Apply online: www.VCPHome HealthCare.com

Hiring Part-time General Manufacturing Position.

Located in Dixon.

General maintenance duties, mechanically inclined, ability to lift up to 50lbs. Please send resume and wage requirements to: humanresources. dixonil@gmail.com

Local Tree Service looking for qualified bucket, climbers, and grounds workers.

Driver's License a must! Class B & CDL preferred, good work ethic, full-time seasonal work. Call 815-857-3674

NEW TODAY Mr. Nifty Cleaners needs a presser. Please apply in person, 1102 E. 4th Street, Sterling.

815-625-9386.

EMPLOYMENT

505

Human Resource Coordinator Flex-O-Glass Inc., a 90 year old manufacturer of plastic products, currently has an opening for an experience Human Resource Coordinator for our facility in Dixon, IL. The qualified individual will be responsible for assisting in the day to day operations of the Human Resource function and duties within our facility. For more info. go to monster.com *Drug screen/physical, background check and team interview. *Competitive salary and excellent benefit package.

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit resumes to: dixon@warps.com No phone calls please. EOE

Northern Grain Marketing is seeking Experienced CDL drivers. Immediate openings for local grain hauling. Hours will vary. To inquire call Tom Wilson @ 815-973-3016

EMPLOYMENT

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NOW HIRING for Wait Staff. Part time. Must be 18 or older. Apply in person at Joe's Pizza, 119 S. Peoria Ave., Dixon. No phone calls please.

TO OUR

READERS:

Sauk Valley Media does not knowingly accept advertising which is in violation of the law. Likewise, we do not knowingly accept advertising which is fraudulent or has malicious intent.

While we attempt to screen advertising with potential fraud, it is impossible to screen all potential problems.

We strongly encourage our readers to exercise caution and common sense, particularly when dealing with companies with which you are not familiar.

Need to place an ad?

Call us 625-3600 284-2222

FLOOR TECHN HNI NICIA IAN AN POSITION Full Time Experience Required Apply At: Franklin Grove Living & Rehabilitation Center 502 N. State St. Franklin Grove, IL 815-456-2374 FAX: 815-456-2250

Prescott Brothers Ford/Chrysler in Princeton has immediate openings for qualified candidates in the Service Department.

*Journeyman Technician *Entry Level Technician

COMPLIANCE DATA/ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR Wahl Clipper Corporation, a global manufacturer of branded consumer and professional products, has an exciting opportunity for an energetic and team-oriented individual to fill the role of Compliance Data/ Administrative Coordinator at Wahl Clipper Co., in Sterling, IL. This role will provide administrative support and maintains a global management information system to ensure regulatory, product, supplier and customer information is organized and available when needed. This position will also perform the various administrative activities related to the Company’s global insurance and claim management program.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Advance education in Business Management and/or Operation Management is desired. The Candidate must have a complete understanding of data management. They must be proficient in Windows; and Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point computer programs. An understanding of AS400, Bill of Material and Product Data Management Systems is preferred. This position must be detailed oriented with a high degree of accuracy. The position requires organizational /analytical skills and good deductive reasoning. He/She must be able to travel internationally occasionally. This Candidate must be receptive to continuing education. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.

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Sauk Valley Media 3200 E. Lincolnway Sterling, IL 61081

OPENING SOON Abi’s @ The Plum Hollow Family Center is looking for individuals for our NEW Craft Beer Tap Room, Private Video Gaming Parlor and Premium Coffee House.

Manager – Individual with Bar and Staff Management Experience.

Prior knowledge in Craft Beers and Managing Operations a plus.

Craft Beer Specialists – Seeking Bartenders with Home Brewing and/or Craft Beer Service.

Gaming Concierge – A dedicated host/hostess that will cater to the needs of our gamers.

Barista – An individual with experience or a desire to be trained as a professional Barista.

All applications must be submitted in person.

Apply at Plum Hollow – 1933 IL Rt 26, Dixon.

$$ Earn Holiday Cash $$ Streets

*No phone calls please*

In addition openings exist in the following areas: Wait Staff Front Counter Staff Kitchen Staff Pin chaser

Wahl Clipper Corporation Attn: Staffing & Training Manager Sterling, IL 61081 www.wahl.com EEO/Disabled/Vets/M/F Email: djones@wahlclipper.com

Towns

Prescott Brothers in Princeton offers competitive wages, health insurance, paid training and vacation. Ford or Chrysler diesel certification is a plus. Please send resume and qualifications or apply in person to: Rob Hammitt, Service Manager Prescott Brothers-Princeton 1502 West Peru Street Princeton, IL 61356

Telegraph 113 S. Peoria Dixon, IL 61021

815-625-3600 ext. 5301

POSITION OPENINGS Pre-K Teacher: Rochelle. 40 hours/wk., school-year; Minimum of a BA in Early Childhood Education or closely related field.

Pre-K Teacher Assistant: Sterling. 30hrs./wk., school-year and fullyear options; Minimum of AAS in Early Childhood Education, Child Development or related degree with a minimum of 18 credit hours in ECE. Pre-K Teacher: Sterling. 40 hrs./wk.; full-year; Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in early childhood, child development or related field.

Sterling Infant- Toddler Teacher: 40 hrs./wk.; full year. Bachelor’s Degree in early childhood, child development or closely related field.

Parent-Child Educator: Oregon. 30 hrs./wk., full year. Minimum of AAS in Early Childhood Education, Child Development or related degree with a minimum of 18 credit hours in ECE. Family Specialist: Full-year, salaried position. Minimum of a BA in Human Services, Social Services or closely related field. Responsible for overall compliance with Head Start family services regulations.

Previous management and supervisory experience required.

For information and application contract Tri-County Opportunities Council at 815-625-7830 or visit our website at www.tcochelps.org. Tri-County Opportunities Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Provider. Applications from women, individuals with disabilities, veterans and people from diverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

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

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

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B R A T I CALL O N TODAY S • Births

• Graduates • Reunions

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The First Rule of advertising is catching their eye.

The Second Rule is sustained, repeated advertising.

Advertising doesn’t cost, it PAYS! Get your money’s worth, advertise in the Telegraph or Daily Gazette and reach over 46,000 readers!

For information call

284-2222

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MOBILE HOMES FOR RENT

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STERLING GARAGE SALES 624

MORRISON Tall Pines Mobile Home Community

has a mobile home available for rent! $350$450. Call Kristine for details.

815-772-8943

WAREHOUSE / 330 STORAGE THE WAREHOUSE AT 301 100,000sq.ft. Of Indoor, Heated, Secure Storage Car, Truck, Boat or RV storage $29/mo.

Monthly QuarterlyYearly Leases Available 301 W. 3rd St. Sterling, IL www.warehouse 301.com 815-535-6054 Want to Rent Secure, heated storage building for multiple cars, boats, etc.

For 6 mos. during winter, Dixon area.

(Oct.-April) 815-440-2392

LOANS

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

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

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

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

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

312-832-0500

Wed. 8-4 614 W. 10th St. Girls jackets, Nike sweatshirts, tops, & womens 4-4X, few mens clothes.

Lots of things to choose from!

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES 705 I Buy: Antique furniture, fishing tackle, toys, post cards junk. 815-445-6151

APPLIANCES

710

CLOVER HILLS

RENT TO OWN TV’S APPLIANCES

815.625.8529 Dirt Devil Vacuum Cleaner. $15 815288-6200 GE Side by side Refrigerator. Very good cond. $300 815-284-2082 Reliable, LIKE NEW used appliances, cmsappliance.net (815)626-1003 White Whirlpool gas stove, clean great cond. $175.

815-626-6479

HOBBIES & CRAFTS

740

Sell your crafts!

Booth fee $10-$20 month.

Call/text 815-441-3141 for details.

Between Friendz in Morrison

FOOD PRODUCE

750

Fairhaven Fruit Farm- Fresh Picked Apples & More!

Ambrosia, Sonata, Gala, Golden Del. & our own Baker's Mix. Local Honey & Dipping Caramel New Hours: Thurs.-Sat. 9am5pm, Sun. 12-5 Closed Mon-Wed 815-499-1856

FURNITURE

755

3 oak bar stools, back and seat are upholstered. $75 815-946-2024 48” Formica top table with 4 captains chairs $100.

Drop leaf table with 2 chairs $50 815-284-2570

FURNITURE

755

6 kitchen chairs, good condition. $50 815-946-2024 All Mattress Sets New in plastic.

Twin $99, Full $129, qu. $159, King $259. W/ Warr. Can deliver.

815-703-3688 Hide-A-Bed, good cond., country blue, $100 815677-4492 Loveseat, tan, good cond., $100 815-677-4492 Mattress sets: $99, Full Twin $129, Queen $159, King $199. Will deliver! Kern Mattress Outlet, call 309452-7477.

Newman Comet bookcase, blue/silver. $45 815-6311743 Oversized stuffed chair, rust & brown. $100.

815-6258895.

PETS & PET SUPPLIES 775

WANT TO BUY 795

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

Want to buy- silver and gold coins and scrap.

Pay top price! Will come to you if need be.

815-625-0966

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!

MISCELLANEOUS 796 FOR SALE

LAWN MOWERS

779

Rock Falls Rockets bookcase, green & black, $45.

815-631-1743

Toro e-Cycler 36Volt Rechargeable mower. $200. 815284-2082

Sterling Warrior Bookcase, blue & gold, $45 815-6311743

LAWN & GARDEN

Wood kitchen table & chairs. Exc. cond. $75. Call 815-625-8895

MEDICAL SUPPLIES

762

MEDICAL SUPPLIES/ MISC Acorn Stairlifts.

The AFFORDABLE solution to your stairs! **Limited Time-$250 Off Your Stairlift Purchase!** Buy Direct & SAVE. Please call 1-800-912-5230 for FREE DVD and brochure.

PETS & PET SUPPLIES 775 2 barn cats, free to good home, 815718-2986 Adult Blue tick coonhound, been hunted some, free to good home only.

Call on evenings. or 815-772-4963 815-499-1428 Free Kittens to good home: 2 yellow tabby and 2 gray. Litter trained.

815-915-9472 Golden Doodles ready now.

Apricot & sugar. $600. 563-2127307 Lab pups AKC fox red & yellow. Top pointing lines. Vet work done. $350.

815-718-3084

781

Ag Fab Chipper shredder vac, 8 hp, exc. shape, $650 815-622-0087

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

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

WANT TO BUY 795 Cash 4 Gold Silver, Coins & Antiques 815-564-9061 CASH for unexDIABETIC pired TEST STRIPS & STOP SMOKING ITEMS!Free Shipping,Best Prices, 24hr Payment.

Hablamos Espanol.

Call 888-440-4001 www.TestStripSearch.com

1½ ton HYDRAULIC jack, hold in 1 hand. $20 Call 815-732-1492 7 pairs of Work pants. Lee's 3, 38x29, 1, 38x30, 1, 40x30. Work Sport 42x28 Levi's 38x30 worn. All for $20 815-625-3706 Billy Joel Artwork Christmas concert prof. framed $20.

815-732-1492 Handicap Ramp 20ft long. Portable w/railing. $75. 815677-0614 HIGH SPEED INTERNET 855-527-9656 www.agsltech.com

Invacare Pronto M51 electric scooter, new batteries, $500/obo 815-9739978 Log Cabin for hunters. Toilet, stove, heater and refrigerator, all isolated easy to move. $1,500 815-994-3339 PY-1275 Gamo whisper air rifle w/ noise reducer 1200 FPS. W/ HD case!

Like new. $200 815-625-8423 ROLL-A-WAY bed w/mattress. Good condition $85 obo 815-732-1492 Samsung 22 inch computer monitor, works great. $35 815-652-5188 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 Twin, full, queen, king beds. 3pc.

Dbl. rec. sectional, dryer, recliner, gas stove, sofa, upright chest, washer.

815-718-4385

FARM EQUIPMENT

855

Grain Vac, super chrome/vac, 510 STD. Stored inside.

815-499$4,500 9598

CLASSIC CARS

904

1949 Buick Roadmaster 4 Dr. Ready to paint, good meExtra chanics. parts car included 815$5500 obo 284-3507 1950 Chevy 4 dr., $10,500/obo 815625-4364. See at Woodside 28649 Drive, Rock Falls.

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 $38!

Special must be mentioned at time of ad placement.

Offer expires 12/31/14 No Commercial Advertising, Pets, Garage Sales, Wood/ Fuel, Tickets/ Travel or Real Estate

1988 Dodge runs Carovan great! Good family or work car. $850 815-994-3339 1994 Lexus 400, roof, AC, sun chrome wheels, sharp car, $3000 obo 815-973-9978 1999 Chevy Prizm Sedan 4dr., new ignition, front tires, brakes, & wheel bearing replaced. $1500 815-3035244 1999 Oldsmobile Good Aurora. cond. No Rust. Silver. 4Dr. $1,800 815-590-4120 2003 Toyota Corolla 100K, $4800 & 1998 Camry, 138K, $3200. Call 815626-4991

NEW TODAY 2007 Ford Focus SES, good cond., no rust, 97,500 mi.

815-677$5500 6910 2009 Toyota Camry LE, power windows locks & seat, CD, 4cyl. Auto.

90K, $9,800 815973-4255 2014 Toyota Camry SE. Excellent condition. Asking 21,000. 815440-3594 creditautosales dixon.com Always over 100+ vehicles to choose from.

AUTOMOBILES

905

HAVING TROUBLE wording your ad? Call our classified department today. We'll be glad to help you. 626SOLD or 284SOLD.

S.U.V.S

909

2005 Yukon Denali XL, loaded, very clean, new brakes & rotors, $12,000 815-298-2046

TRUCKS

910

1986 INTERNA4300, TIONAL DT466 10 speed road ranger, 18' dump box with debris gate and debris tarp. Can bee seen at Weigle Automotive (815)6524620.

1999 Dodge quad cab 125k. mi., transmission, ator, battery. great. $4,400 772-2246

1500 4X4. new radiRuns 815-

2000 Chevy S10, regular cab, long bed w. liner, new battery & brakes, runs great! Remote start, 136k mi. $1,850 Call 815288-4106 2003 Dodge Ram 1500, 4x4 loaded, well maintained.

180k. mi. $6,000 815-761-0929

PARTS & ACC.

925

Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon Fiberglass - blackTonneau $350.

815-566-9852

MOTORCYCLES

935

1970 Kawasaki 175 CC Bushwacker, Collectors item. $800815-445-2301 2006 Harley Ultra Tour Glide, new brakes, battery, back tire. 24K mi. $13,000/obo. 815625-7024.

2007 Honda Trike 600 CC. 1976 Mark 5 Lincoln. 50k. mi.

4 chrome rims w/ tires, less than 300 miles on them.

305/35/R24 Call 815-564-7913 Beautiful 2004 Harley 1200 Sportster, well maintained, dark purple color. Runs and excellent. rides Only 16K mi. Ask$3400/OBO. ing markmusselman@ comcast.net

A.T.V.S

936

2009 Polaris 550, 184 miles 815-4997700

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Items belonging to the Bette Sherman Estate, Robin Berg, Daly Family, Dorothy Shank, Ethel Marie McKay, Randy Donegan & others. Viewing will be Saturday, October 11 between 9 am & 12:00 noon. Shed is FULL! Second ring (furniture, etc) will start at 6:00 pm.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014 – 10:00A.M. 300 7THAVENUE, ROCK FALLS, IL61071

Real Estate: 2 bedroom, story and a half home with basement and detached garage. Approximately 816 square feet of living area with a fenced in backyard. Good condition and location. Legal description: The South 50 feet of Lot 1, in Block 39 in the re-plat of Block 36 and of the East Half of Block 39, of A. L. Merrill’s Subdivision of the Southeast Quarter of Section 28, Township 21 North, Range 7 East of the 4th P.M., situated in the County of Whiteside, in the State of Illinois. Terms of Real Estate: 10% down day of sale , balance and possession in 30 days. Personal Property: Whirlpool stackable washer/dryer (like new), Limed Oak dining table and 4 chairs with matching buffet, 2 recliners, 2 bedroom sets, couch, fireproof Hercules 4 drawer file cabinet, Kelvinator refrigerator, 1930’s china cabinet, desk and chair, 4 cane sectional chairs, drop leaf Formica table, console stereo, hurricane lamp, Carnival glass, miniature children’s dishes, old coffee grinder, cast iron cars and bull dogs, old oil lamp with reflector, feed sacks – one from RB&W, antique scale, cuckoo clock, household items, linens, etc., John Deere lawn mower, Toro lawn mower, Eclipse push mower (like new), J.D. Thatcher, garden and hand tools, etc., 2000 Buick Century with 56,000 plus miles (Good Condition). Announcements day of sale take precedence over any printed material.

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Maytag washer & dryer; Whirlpool refrigerator; 2 Wood’s upright freezers; numerous tables, chairs, buffets; usual kitchenware & sm appliances; cookbooks; SS sink; folding chairs; sofa; loveseat; coffee & end tables; lamps; mirrors; computer desk; file cabinets; desks; armoire; Kimball organ; metal wardrobe; beds; dressers; chests; cedar chests; jewelry chest; lg assort jewelry; bedding & linens; Singer in cabinet; dress form; bookshelves; walkers; knickknacks; holiday decorations; binoculars; golf clubs; kids toys; games; Barbie dolls & clothes; few Matchbox cars; vacuums; benches; lawn furniture; bicycles; Schwinn scooter; few fishing poles; Yard Machine & Toro push mowers; lawn sweeper; yard tools; step ladders; scaffold; saw horses; Craftsman 12” band saw-sander; pipe clamps; car ramps; ’99 Chevrolet Lumina, 62,067 miles; lots more miscellaneous.

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The farm will be sold on a dollar per acre basis based on surveyed acres.

The successful bidder will be required to pay ten percent (10%) down the day of the auction and the balance will be due on or before January 15, 2015. Taxes for 2014 will be provided as a credit to the purchaser based on 2013 taxes. The farm is leased for the 2014 crop year and the Seller shall retain the income for 2014. Open tenancy for 2015. A title policy in the amount of the purchase price, subject to standard and usual exceptions, will be furnished to the buyer at closing. All announcements made day of sale take precedence over previous advertised or announced terms and/or conditions. Seller has the right to accept or reject any and all bids. Current survey will be provided.

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8 ft. walnut wardrobe (excellent condition), 12 drawer chest of drawers, 2 twin beds, bunk beds, 5 drawer dresser, dining table with extra leaves and 8 chairs (nice), 4 cane back chairs, 2 flowered loveseats, sun room table with 4 cane chairs, 2 leather matching chairs, oval inland table, Lyon Healy oak piano (good condition), bar stools, rugs, linens, dishes, pots and pans, several beautiful pictures, Kenmore refrigerator, draftsman table, ping pong table, Pellet gun with scope, weight bench with weights, Toro snow blower, 3 good bicycles, 5 sets of golf clubs, Isabelle Bloom figurines, books, tools, lawn chairs, 13 ft. power electric chair for stairs, and many other items. NOTE: ALL FURNITURE IS OF GOOD QUALITY. DO NOT MISS THIS SALE.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2014 – 10:00A.M. 1900AVENUE G, STERLING, IL Bad weather date: Sunday, October 12, 2014 at 11:00A.M.

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THE UNDERSIGNED WILL OFFER THE FOLLOWING TRACT AT PUBLIC AUCTION AT WISE GUYS BANQUET ROOM 2205 NORTH MAIN STREET PRINCETON, IL 61356.

This farm represents some of the most productive soils in Illinois. The farm is well located just 2 miles East of Ohio, Illinois bordering State Route 92 on the South and 2300 East Street on the West.

TRACT 1: 116 +/- Acres located in part of the Southwest Quarter of Section 12 Ohio Township (T18N R 9E) Bureau County, Illinois. PPN: 04-12300-005. 2013 Taxes payable 2014 were $3,910. The PI is Estimated at 140 using Optimum Crop Productivity Rating For Illinois Soils. Soils on the farm consist of Buckhart Silt Loam, Osco Silt Loam, Muscatune Silt Loam, Osco Silt Loam and Sawmill Silt Loam. Tillable acres are estimated at 109.1 per FSA records. The farm will be offered as a single tract.

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