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TWIN CITIES | THE SPIRIT OF GIVING NEWMAN STUDENTS HELP WITH SPECIAL DELIVERIES
We need our fair share Counties’ traffic flow and state’s cash flow don’t match up, and local leaders want that to change BY RACHEL RODGERS rrodgers@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5529 @rj_rodgers
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Newman students Mary Jensen (from left), Mady Ferris, Terissa Brininger and Madalyn Wilson load a Thanksgiving meal into a car Tuesday morning in the Sterling Township office’s parking lot during the Sterling and Coloma townships’ annual Thanksgiving meal giveaway. This year, 992 meals, including turkeys, milk, pumpkin pie, bread and vegetables, went to Sterling and Rock Falls families in need.
STERLING
Come check out our pad Homeless shelter officials urge local clergy to come see what they have to offer BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN cheimerman@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5523 CHeimerman_SVM
STERLING – Local clergy whose churches are not yet involved with Twin Cities PADS’ mission are invited to take a peek behind the curtain – or more accurately, behind the secure entryway. The local shelter will host its second annual pastors breakfast at 9 a.m. Dec. 1. Clergy are invited to come bless the shelter, have some doughnuts and see what makes the shelter a place that’s as safe as it is homey. Smack dab in the middle of the main room is one of the shelter’s most recent additions and a timely holiday gift: a brand-new leather couch and recliner set donated anonymously. “It gives a nice home look and feel,” Executive Director Myles Newberry. “We’ve got one guy who probably didn’t leave that recliner last night. He sat there all night watching The History Channel after he got his chores done.” SHELTER continued on A44
DIXON – Area counties are advocating for a fairer share of state transportation dollars. Local roads carry about 40 percent of total traffic throughout the state, but municipalities are receiving only about 21.5 percent of transportation revenue to reinvest in those roads, Lee County Engineer Dave Anderson said. A resolution is circulating across local governments throughout the state calling for 40 percent of highway user fees. Those fees includes motor fuel tax dollars and motor vehicle revenue from the Secretary of State’s office. “We’re trying to get back to having a more equitable and stable funding source for local roads,” Anderson said. The Lee, Ogle and Bureau County boards approved resolutions favoring the increase during the past 2 weeks, and the Whiteside County Board plans to vote on the resolution next month. The last time funding matched up pretty evenly with the traffic volume was in 1983, when communities received 38 percent of transportation revenue and carried about 39 percent of total traffic. “There’s been quite a divergence since then,” he said. According to the resolution, local governments statewide received about $561 million in motor fuel tax funds in 2014. If the highway user fee funds nearly doubled to 40 percent, that could mean an extra $577 million going toward county highways, city streets, township roads and other systems in the transportation network. SHARE continued on A44
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Myles Newberry, executive director of the Twin Cities PADS shelter, talks about the donation of a new couch and recliner the shelter received from an anonymous donor. The shelter will host its second annual pastors breakfast Dec. 1, in the hopes of bolstering its volunteer base.
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Read this story at saukvalley.com to hear what a brand new leather couch has done for Twin Cities PADS.
BUSINESS
Looking for a new main squeeze? One’s coming to Sterling, and it will offer healthy drinks and ‘snacky things’ BY KATHLEEN A. SCHULTZ kschultz@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5535 @KathleenSchul10
STERLING – A couple whose passion for decades has been helping the community find health, happiness and balance through nutrition have found a new, tasty way to spread the love.
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Veronica and Paul Machnicki, of Sterling, who with their daughters, have operated Health and Nutrition Plus since about 1996, are opening Main Squeeze, a juice, smoothie and coffee shop next to the Subway at 2501 E. Lincolnway. In addition to lattés, espressos, hot and cold teas and fresh fruit drinks, Main Squeeze will serve fresh-baked
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breads, healthy pastries, cheeses and other “snacky things,” Veronica said. Best of all: The smoothies and juices can be customized for each customer. Feeling a little low on energy? Got a cold coming on? Trying to detox? The Machnickis, proponents of alternative ways to ward off illness, have a recipe for that.
Start the presses ... early!
Because today’s edition is as stuffed as a Butterball with Black Friday inserts, we wrapped things up early to give our hardworking crew plenty of time to crank up the presses and get all the sales fliers into today’s edition. That means coverage of Tuesday-night events, and some lottery numbers, won’t make it into today’s paper. As always, you can check in at saukvalley.com for news updates, and we’ll catch up on all the news that’s fit to print in Friday’s editions. Our offices will be closed, and we won’t publish Thursday. Normal office hours and publishing will resume Friday. So, when you’re done digging in to your holiday feast, feast your eyes on the fliers in today’s paper, make your list (check it twice!), map out your Black Friday strategy – and have a happy and safe Thanksgiving!
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