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On the right path to $300,000 All the T’s are crossed, and so are some fingers, as city tries again to get grant to right the blight

BY RACHEL RODGERS rrodgers@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5529 @rj_rodgers

DIXON – The city is hoping to land a $300,000 federal grant that could pair nicely with its bike path expansion project.

Dixon is one of hundreds of cities competing for an Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Assessment Grant that provides funds to expand, redevelop or reuse blighted properties.

Only one of the 218 grants awarded last year went to an Illinois entity – the

city of Chicago – but City Manager Cole O’Donnell is hopeful that more grants will be funneled into the state this time around.

The city filed its application this week spelling out the need for the funding and the benefits it would bring, as well as letters of support and other materials.

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O’Donnell said the $2 million grant the city received in October to extend its bike path 1.6 miles could help its chances of garnering a brownfields grant, because the route goes through a potential brownfields area.

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Judge Joyce takes the bench Former state’s attorney is living her dream, hopes to be a role model ​BY ASHLEY CADY acady@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5521 @ashleycady_svm

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Sterling High School students Reuben Luna and Cara Alexander talk about their experience in the vocational classes they are enrolled in through Sauk Valley Community College on Wednesday night at the school board meeting in the high school library. Luna, a senior, is taking welding, while Alexander will complete her nursing certificate in the spring.

Sauk-cess stories Despite initial trepidation about sending SHS classes to college, the move has passed the test with students

From left: Sterling High School students Reuben Luna and Cara Alexander, Sterling High School Principal Jason Austin, and Jon Mandrell, vice president of Sauk Valley Community College, speak to members of the Sterling school board Wednesday evening about the transition of some vocational courses to Sauk.

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BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN cheimerman@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5523 CHeimerman_SVM

STERLING – Ever the diplomat, Sauk Valley Community College’s vice president, Jon Mandrell, just smiled and shrugged.

Sterling High School junior Cara Alexander had just told Mandrell’s self-declared partner, Sterling High Principal Jason Austin, that she’d rather stay at Sauk than head back to the high school after her nursing classes.

“I love going to Sauk,” Alexander said during Wednesday’s school board meeting. “Going from Sauk back to the high school, I wish I could just stay at Sauk the whole day.”

The school board had to make some mighty painful cuts back in March. Among their decisions was to transition some vocational classes from the Whiteside Area Career Center to Sauk, in order to save about $50,000.

Health occupations, welding and criminal justice were moved to Sauk via a new partnership.

If Alexander and senior Reuben Luna have missed out on anything, they wouldn’t know it. Neither took any courses at WACC, but they both had rave reviews for their education at Sauk.

“My instructors are amazing,” Alexander said. “I’ve learned so much through them – not only the basics of nursing, but also how to empathize for people.”

MORRISON – Trish Joyce Wednesday became Whiteside County’s former state’s attorney, taking up the gavel in her new position as 14th Judicial Circuit Court judge.

The 57-year-old was sworn in Wednesday morning in Rock Island, and will be based at the courthouse in Morrison. The circuit serves Whiteside, Rock Island, Henry and Mercer Trish counties.

Joyce The state Supreme Court chose Joyce, one of three applicants, to serve the last 2 years of John Hauptman’s term; he retired Dec. 5.

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OGLE COUNTY

Resident: Jail and tourism don’t mix Board urged to consider carefully where it puts a proposed lock-up

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OREGON – An Oregon man doesn’t think a new jail would exactly do wonders for the city’s tourist trade.

Bryan Zobeck told the Ogle County Board on Tuesday that Oregon Together, a community organization working toward development, has identified the downtown and the riverfront as development and tourism areas, but Zobeck said he feels “the placement of the jail could interfere with that.”

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INSIDE TODAY In the spirit of Christmas, SVM Entertainment Editor Lucas Pauley is willing to give the Griswolds another shot, but don’t look for Clark and the rest of the gang to end up on his list of festive favorites. But you can find out what music, movies and other entertainment made his Christmas list, in this week’s Planit: A9-11

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POLICE Sterling Police

Brylan T. Dickinson, 19, of Rock Falls; 10:54 a.m. Tuesday at Locust and West 14th streets; failure to yield or stop at an intersection; given state citation.

Betty J. Duncan, 19, of Sterling; 10:54 a.m. Tuesday at Locust and West 14th streets; no valid driver’s license; given state citation.

Alma A. Janz, 32, of Sterling; 4:45 p.m. Tuesday at Washington School; Whiteside County warrant – failure to appear on a traffic offense, Lee County warrant – failure to appear on a contempt charge; taken to Whiteside County Jail.

Vivian J. Balder, 59, of Lee; 9:07 p.m. Tuesday at Fourth Avenue and Third Street; no insurance; given state citation.

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Travis H. Horton, 26, of Dixon; 7:50 a.m. Wednesday in the 500 block of Countryside Lane; Lee County warrant – failure to appear; posted bond.

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Richard J. Christensen, 70, of Rochelle; Monday; predatory criminal sexual assault of a child; held in Ogle County Jail in lieu of bond.

Michael Johnson, 31, of McHenry; Tuesday; petition to revoke and failure to appear; taken to Ogle County Jail.

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Attorney: Rod Blagojevich has shown model behavior in jail CHICAGO (AP) – Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is asking a U.S. appeals court to nullify his 14-year prison term and order a third sentencing hearing, with a lawyer arguing on his behalf that the Democrat’s model behavior behind bars and other factors justified a reduction in his sentence.

Attorneys for the Chicago Democrat filed the appeal late Tuesday night with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The filing comes in the wake of Blagojevich’s resentencing on Aug. 9,

when trial Judge James Zagel refused to lower the original 14-year sentence.

The 7th Circuit had ordered that August resentencing after tossing five of Blagojevich’s 18 convictions in 2015. The 60-year-old’s remaining convictions include trying to trade an appointment to President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat for campaign cash.

Prosecutors will have a chance to respond to the filing and oral arguments would then be schedule before a three-judge

panel of the Chicagobased appellate court.

The latest appeal argues that Zagel should have considered Blagojevich’s good behavior in prison, citing more than 100 letters from fellow inmates who describe Blagojevich helping them, including as a history tutor and in advising them on how to land a job once their released.

“The effect of [Judge Zagel’s] ruling was to say to the defendant, ‘no matter how hard you try or what you achieve, I will never alter my opinion of you,’” Blagojeviches attorney, Leonard Goodman, wrote in the more than 50-page filing.

Many of the letters portrayed Blagojevich

This appeal, as previous ones, is a long shot.

In its ruling last year, the 7th Circuit stated that – even with the five tossed counts – reimposing the same 14-year sentence could be entirely appropriate. So, it seems unlikely they’ll now criticize Judge Zagel for doing just that.

Blagojevich attended the sentence through a video line from his federal prison in Colorado, apologizing in a statement before Zagel announced the identical sentence imposed 5 years earlier.

“I wish I could turn back the clock and make different choices,” Blagojevich said. “These have been hard years.”

Schock wants corruption trial delayed SPRINGFIELD (AP) – Former Illinois U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock has asked a federal judge to delay his corruption trial until the summer.

In a filing Wednesday, Schock’s attorneys said

they need more time to go through “voluminous” paperwork that they have yet to receive from prosecutors in the case.

Schock’s trial is currently scheduled to

begin Feb. 7 in Springfield. His attorneys are asking the judge to delay the trial until at least July.

The 35-year-old Republican from Peoria pleaded not guilty earli-

er this month to charges that he misused government and campaign money for personal use. Schock has said he is innocent, referring to the spending in question as “honest

mistakes.”

The 24-count federal indictment was unveiled last month. It was the culmination of a 19-month investigation that included two grand juries.

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– known as brash in his days as governor – as humble and selfeffacing, as Rod well as an Blagojevich i n s i g h t f u l life coach and lecturer on everything from the Civil War to Richard Nixon.

Zagel said at the August resentencing that he had gone through all the letters. But he said Blagojevich’s fellow inmates had not seen the same evidence jurors saw of Blagojevich’s corruption.

And he said Blagojevich’s exemplary behavior behind bars wasn’t relevant to deciding the right punishment.

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The proliferation of rapidly evolving synthetic opioids has become so fierce that the DEA says they now constitute an entire new class of drugs, which are fueling the deadliest addiction crisis the United States has ever seen.

The fentanyl-like drugs are pouring in primarily from China, U.S. officials say – an assertion Beijing maintains has not been substantiated. Laws cannot keep pace with the

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ELECTION 2017 | CANDIDATES FILE

Challengers in Whiteside, Carroll Contested races kema and Patrick Fortney and newcomers Kimberly Plummer and Vincent Lombardo are running for four seats on the East Coloma-Nelson school board.

Incumbents Michael Lewis, Howard Janssen, Roger Carlson and Stephen Mulvaney and newcomer John Howard are seeking to fill five spots on ​the Rock Falls High School board.

All four incumbents – Troy Ebenezer, Janel Stahr, Shelley Chappell, and Laura Shipman – are running for the Rock Falls Elementary School board.

Incumbents Natalie Moeller, Chad Goff and Joseph Schueler and newcomer Erin M. Buchholz are ​s eeking to fill four available seats on the Montmorency school board.

For the Sterling Park District Board, incumbents David Stutzke and Kip Aitken and newcomer Richard Andersen filed for two 4-year positions.

Newcomer Linda Logan is seeking the one 6-year spot available on the Coloma Township Park District Board in Rock Falls.

In Morrison, City Clerk Melanie Schroder is running again for her 4-year position, as is Mayor Everett Pannier.

Incumbents also filed again in Ward 1, with Dale Eizenga turning in a petition to return to his 4-year post, and Kenneth Mahaffey running for his 2-year position. In Ward 2, incumbents Michael J. “Mick” Welde and Harvey D. Zuidema each filed to run for a 4-year seat, but no one filed for the open 2-year slot. Newcomer Josh West filed to run for a 4-year seat in Ward 3. In Ward 4, incumbent Arlyn Deets filed for a 4-year position, while fellow

BY ASHLEY CADY AND PHILLIP HARTMAN Sauk Valley Media

Time’s up to file to run for office in the April 4 consolidated election.

The deadline for those who want to serve on school boards, park districts, village councils and the like was Monday.

Following are the names of those who filed in some, but not all, of those races, in Whiteside and Carroll counties:

In Whiteside County In Sterling Township, Ted Harts, Angela Schneider and Dan Murray have filed for the supervisor job now held by Matt Howze. Mark Hensen is challenging incumbent Highway Supervisor Dana Stutzke, while Assessor Mary Lawrence and Clerk Francis Leal are seeking re-election with no opposition.

Four incumbents – Ruth Stanley, William McGinn, Thomas Ausman and Don Harts – and newcomers Ken Duncan and David Oberbillig are running for four township trustee seats.

In Coloma Township in Rock Falls, incumbent David Balanton is running against newcomer Sindy Sotelo for Supervisor. Incumbents Ruthie Rodgers, Mary Crebo and Pam Erby are all running unopposed for their positions. Mary Richardson, Peggy McFadden, Randy Conkling and newcomer Charlotte Downey are running for four trustee seats.

Marc Geil, Terry McGuire and James Brotheridge Jr. are running for re-election to the Sterling School Board. Gonzalo Reyes and Pamela Capes will be running for the first time.

Four full-term and one unexpired-term seats are available.

Incumbents Chris Bui-

incumbent David Helms filed for the 2-year slot.

In Lyndon, Trustee Douglas R. Dunlap filed to run for mayor, while incumbents Paul Engwall and Dwaine Sikkema and newcomer Gary Sutton are running for three open trustee seats. All are 4-year terms.

Incumbent Steve Swanson and newcomer Terry Strike both filed to run in Prophetstown’s mayoral race. Incumbent Daryl Drennan filed for the Ward 1 alderman post, while newcomer Joshua Hovey is challenging Richard Byell for the one open slot in Ward 2. Greg Schmitt is running again for Ward 3. Constance Jensen filed to run again for city clerk, and Eileen Detra is seeking to return as treasurer. All are 4-year positions.

In Tampico, Rob Sigel and Todd Tornow both filed for two 2-year unexpired commissioner seats. Both are newcomers.

In Carroll County Three incumbents filed for four 4-year positions in the Chadwick-Milledgeville school district: Sandra Baylor-Schmidt and Bradley Smith, both of Milledgeville, and Shelly D. Kappes of Chadwick.

In the Eastland district, for Lanark and Shannon, four people filed for three 4-year positions: incumbents Steven Snider and Jennifer L. Sturtevant, and newcomers Anthony Preston and Lawrence E. Hasken, all of Lanark.

Four incumbents also filed for the four 4-year openings on the West Carroll school board: Beverly Kilpatrick of Mount Carroll in District 1, John McIntyre of Savanna in District 3, Frederick Tipton of Savanna in District 6, and Jessica Edwards of

Thomson in District 7.

In Milledgeville, incumbent Galen Wirth is running again for village president. Three trustee spots are open, with incumbents Gene Behrens, Wayne Sprecher, and William Stage returning petitions. All are 4-year posts.

Incumbent Mount Carroll Mayor Carl Bates is seeking another 4-year term. In aldermanic races, Jeff Elliott filed for Ward 1, and incumbents Joe Grim for Ward 2 and Mike Risko for Ward 3.

Julie Cuckler is running to continue as city clerk.

Four candidates have filed for the Savanna mayor post, vacated by Tony McCombie after her Nov. 4 electoral victory over Mike Smiddy as 71st District state representative. Turning in petitions for the 4-year post were Gary M. LaShelle, Chris Lain, Anna Rice, and William L. Nemec.

James Friedenbach filed for the 4-year slot in Ward 1, and Samantha Ritchie filed for the 4-year post in Ward 2. In Ward 3, Patrick K. Sanchez filed for a 4-year post, while Sara DeSpain Purdom turned in a petition for a 2-year unexpired seat. Roger L. Husband filed for a 4-year post in Ward 4. All alderman candidates are new, except for Sanchez.

No one filed for Savanna city clerk.

Incumbent Shannon Mayor Bonnie Heckman-Foust is running for another 4 years, against challenger Amanda Klinefelter. In trustee races, five people filed for three seats: incumbents Mike Alvey, Linda Stevens, and Trent Robinson, and newcomers Shirley Schrader and Douglas Moll.

Chadwick, Lanark, and Thomson filings were unavailable Wednesday.

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Police said they have identified three more children who were sexually abused by Joseph R. Hannon, a former gymnastics instructor whose employer says was hired without a criminal background check.

In a letter sent to some parents this week, Energym owner Andy Morreale said the club “typically checked the backgrounds of all of our noncompetitive adult instructors.”

But it didn’t check Hannon, 21, of Sycamore, who has been charged with criminal sexual abuse of a child and predatory

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criminal sexual assault of a child.

Hannon had been arrested several times in DeKalb County and was on felony probation in an October 2013 drug case when he was hired.

Hannon has been in custody since Dec. 7, when he was arrested on charges that he sexually abused a 9-year-old girl during an open gym session Nov. 25 at Energym. The incident was captured on video, police said.

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a child.

On Monday, Sycamore Police Chief Glenn Theriault told the City Council that three more victims had been identified.

POLO – City Clerk Susie Corbitt is seeking a change of office in the April 4 consolidated election.

She is challenging Mayor Doug Knapp for his post. Knapp, a former alderman, is completing his first 4-year term as mayor. Corbitt has served as city clerk since 1993.

The filing period for the spring election was Dec. 12 to 19.

Sydney Bartelt is the lone candidate running to replace Corbitt as city clerk, and Kristine Clothier is running unopposed for another term as city treasurer.

Only one alderman race is contested. In Ward 3, Marvin L. Bushman and Keith S. Chesnut are seeking the post now held by Cheryl Galor, who chose not to run again.

In Ward 1, Justin Grobe is running unopposed, and in Ward 2, James Busser is also running without opposition.

Both currently hold those seats.

For the Polo school board, two candidates, Dave Bucher and Justin Brown, are seeking two 2-year seats. Running for three 4-year board posts are Matt Mekeel and Kelli O’Leary-Call, both incumbents, and newcomer Robert Cassens.

In Oregon Candidates in two local districts are running

without challengers in the April 4 consolidated election.

For the Oregon Park District, incumbents Dan Engelkes and Dave Bakener are seeking two 4-year terms on the board.

The situation is similar in the Oregon School District, where four candidates, all currently seated on the board, are running for four posts.

Mike Guzman, Corey Buck, Stephanie Hall, and Bryan Wills are seeking 4-year terms on the board.

The city will not have an election this spring, because the mayor and four commissioners are all elected to 4-year terms in April 2015.

In Mount Morris A former Mount Morris village president is seeking to regain the post in the April 4 Consolidated Election.

Greg Unger, who served two terms as president and several years as trustee, is challenging Village President Dan Elsasser for the post.

Elsasser defeated Unger by 20 votes in April 2013.

Four residents have thrown their hats in the ring for three village trustee seats.

Jerry Stauffer, Jim Hopkins, Buck Cowen, and Mike Fay are seeking the 4-year posts.

Current trustees Jon Murray, Don Sorenson, and Tim Harvey did not seek re-election to the board.

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OBITUARIES Comella A. ‘Cam’ Stevens STERLING – Comella A. “Cam” Stevens, 79, of Sterling, died Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, after an automobile accident near Santa Rosa, New Mexico.

She was born March 20, 1937, in Hinton, West Virginia, the daughter of Loman and Marie (Fleshman) Crane. She was united in marriage to Ray McMillen in 1954.

He died in 1958. She then married Elverson “Earl” Stevens on Dec. 5, 1960, in Covington, Virginia.

She worked for Sterling Steel Ball for 20 years, retiring in 1992.

She previously drove a school bus, and worked for Thomeway Lines.

She was a member of Lane United Methodist Church in West Virginia.

Cam enjoyed dancing or “boogieing down” as she liked to call it, and cooking for family and friends. Cam adored her grandchildren and loved spending time with them.

Those left to honor

her memory include her husband; her children, Marilyn (Rick) Mickelson of Sterling, Ray McMillen of Sterling, and Sharon (Curt) House of Sterling; one sister, Carol Hill of Rock Falls; eight grandchildren, Tara, Travis, Michael, Victoria, Jessica, Priscilla, Christie, and Ryan; 10 great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; and her beloved K-9 companions, Jake and Bobby.

She also was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Erma Zickafoose and Delores Gwinn; and two brothers, Lawrence and Lewis Crane.

Visitation will be from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Friday, with the funeral at 1:30 p.m. Friday at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls, with Pastor Dalmus Meeks officiating. Burial will be at a later date at Wallace Memorial Cemetery in Crawley, West Virginia.

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ILLINOIS | EDUCATION

Standstill doesn’t stop school funding overhaul Commission making ‘meaningful progress’ on new formula SPRINGFIELD (AP) – Despite a standstill over the Illinois budget, a group of bipartisan lawmakers has been meeting more often in recent weeks to devise a plan to overhaul state funding for public schools.

Although Illinois’ top leaders aren’t meeting to discuss the state budget, members of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s education funding reform commission told the Springfield Bureau of Lee Enterprises newspapers they’re optimistic that the group will be able to come up with at least outlines of a new school funding formula.

“We’ve made meaningful progress on an incredibly difficult issue,” said Republican state Sen. Jason Barickman.

Rauner set a Feb. 1 deadline for the group to complete its work when he announced its formation in July.

Barickman said that if reform is going to happen, the group, and ultimately the Legislature, must come to a consensus on complex issues, such as property taxes and achieving parity among school districts.

The point person for Senate Democrats on school funding issues, Sen. Andy Manar, said he believes the group will be able to at least complete “a set of specific recommendations that could be the framework of legislation.”

He’s optimistic the commission

can produce a bill before Feb. 1.

No recommendations have been put on paper yet, but the governor and lawmakers on both sides say they acknowledge that Illinois is among the worst states in the nation when it comes to providing equitable funding for students in its poorest schools districts.

A recent report from Advance Illinois, an education advocacy group, noted that Illinois currently spends 81 cents educating students from low-income families for every dollar it spends educating students from wealthier ones.

Long-term proposals aimed at fixing the problem have not been approved because, if passed, the proposals would either take money away from wealthier districts or vastly increase state spending on public education.

Curtis A. Hagen STERLING – Curtis A. Hagen, 75, of Sterling, died Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, at CGH Medical Center.

Born June 5, 1941, in Dubuque, Iowa, he was a son of Eldo and Bernadine (Schlake) Hagen.

Curt worked for Haskell’s and formerly worked at Prescott’s and Hank Bright RV Center for many years.

He enjoyed ‘57 Chevy cars, going to the Cordova dragstrip, fishing, traveling to Iowa, spending time with his dog, Koda, drinking beer with friends, and listening to his favorite Jim Croce song “Rapid Roy.” Surviving are his significant other, Donna Janssen of Sterling; two daughters, Sher-

ri (Craig) Simester of Rock Falls and Shelly Turnbull of Springfield; a son, Rick (Patty) Hagen of Springfield; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Roger and Owen Hagen.

Cremation rites have been accorded. There will be no services. The family requests that in Curt’s memory, have a beer and remember the fun times you had with Curt, and celebrate his life.

Arrangements are under the direction and care of McDonald Funeral Home & Crematory in Rock Falls.

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Frank J. Angone Jr. STERLING – Frank J. Angone Jr., 81, of Sterling, died Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

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Jerry L. Elder ROCK FALLS – Jerry L. Elder, 60, of Rock Falls, died Monday, Dec. 19, 2016.

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She’ll complete her CNA certificate in the spring. Luna has taken welding from Scott Gillihan and will continue his welding classes at Sauk after graduating in the spring.

“Just going there was an experience I never thought I would have, being at Sauk and learning from teachers who know their stuff,” Luna said. “Whenever I asked Scott a question, he always had the answer.”

Board member Sarah Nitz asked whether either student had any issues with transportation or scheduling, to which

they answered “no,” and “not really,” respectively.

Alexander had to pick CNA over AP courses that were scheduled at the same time, but is happy with her choice.

“As a whole, I’d rather take CNA,” Alexander said. “It’s going to do more for me and the career I want to go into.”

Austin and Mandrell both admitted that transportation to Sauk, whereas students previously just walked across the street to WACC, concerned them at the outset, but it’s been pretty

smooth sailing.

“It was really seamless,” Austin said. “I think both of us were surprised it went so well.”

Superintendent Tad Everett said another early concern was whether it was appropriate to put high school kids on campus with college students, but the Sterling kids have their own dedicated space, which Mandrell said is basically right where you enter the college’s west mall.

Everett said whereas there were often waiting lists at WACC – especially

for health occupations – there’s no need to wait at Sauk.

Sterling High students still take commercial food service, automotive technology and building trades at WACC, while computer technology and early childhood education are taught at the high school.

Mandrell said students who tackle their advanced welding certificate, which can be done in a year or faster, might not have to attend school at all after graduating high school.

“They’re highly employable people, and welding jobs are out there. We don’t want to keep them 2 years if we don’t have to. We want them out in the workforce.”

the outgoing secretarygeneral stopped Wednesday at Abraham Lincoln’s tomb. He said the 16th president “exemplified how a leader can inspire people to unite and reconcile and integrate.”

While in Springfield, Ban also visited the Abra-

ham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

Ban became leader of the U.N. in 2007. His

successor is former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres, who takes over in January.

To attend

The Sterling school board next meets at 7 p.m.

Jan. 25 in the high school library, 1608 Fourth Ave. Go to sterlingpublicschools.org, or call 815-6265050 for more information.

IN BRIEF U.N. Secy. General pays visit to Illinois SPRINGFIELD (AP) – United Nations SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon has traveled to Illinois in his final days in office.

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The path extension is one of 33 projects throughout the state receiving a piece of a $30.7 million pie from Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program grants, which require the recipients to make a 20 percent local match.

The city plans to extend

the bike path about 2,800 feet east on River Street toward Raynor Garage Doors and west on River Street connecting to First Street and following the viaduct to Seventh Street.

“There weren’t many deficiencies in our last brownfields application, and I think we have strengthened our application with the ITEP grant,” O’Donnell said.

The brownfields assess-

More info

Today is the deadline to file for an Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Assessment Grant.

Go to epa.gov for more information on brownfields grants. ment grant would pay for soil testing and developing an action plan for the blighted area.

Mayor Li Arellano Jr. said the city is applying for a communitywide assessment so grant

funds could be used for any property the city owns.

The city could then apply for a different grant category that would go toward cleaning up the property.

About a year ago, the city and engineering firm Fehr-Graham identified about 30 sites that could qualify as brownfields, and they hosted an open forum for input on any locations they might have missed.

Arellano said the information they gathered provided a foundation for their application.

“The overall goal is to take land that might not

be developable, create an action plan for the properties and clean them up,” he said.

Sterling is also throwing its hat in the ring for a $300,000 brownfields grant to clean up the Lawrence Brothers building on the riverfront, which it bought 6 years ago. The city has applied for the grant since 2011, to no avail.

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The board approved a design concept Nov. 15 that would put the proposed jail in the 100 block of South Sixth Street, across the street from the judicial center.

But Zobeck , who lives at 100 S. Seventh St., asked the board to carefully consider where to put the new jail.

The plan calls for a building that would house 180 to 200 prisoners and cost an estimated $25 million.

The design would mean

South Sixth Street will be closed to traffic with a sally port across what is now the street connecting the new detention center to the judicial center.

The sally port will be large enough to accommodate at least six vehicles to easily transport prisoners to court or

bring in federal prisoners to lodge them in the jail.

A concept drawing for the building shows the front of the brick jail facing north, lining up with the north side of the judicial center.

The building would be designed to not look like a jail.

The board also ...

• Approved a resolution that prohibits county employees from selling anything for personal gain on county property.

• Declared Dec. 30 as Tommy Whetsel Day in honor of the Byron resident who is retiring at the

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“I’m very grateful to Justice [Thomas] Kilbride and the other Supreme Court justices for having faith in me and selecting me for this appointment,” she said. “Being on the bench has always been a dream of mine, something that I’ve aspired to.”

Her best assets are her familiarity with many different types of law, and her experience as both a defense attorney and a prosecutor, which will help her remain unbiased, she said.

Helping establish the Whiteside County Drug Court was one of her biggest accomplishments as state’s attorney, she said.

“I was always very interested in specialty courts that try to deal with a person’s addictions, rather than simply looking at punishments.”

Her goal as a circuit court judge is to make sure that court services are available to everyone regardless of their social or economic status, and to continue to work on new ways of addressing old problems.

“I’m hoping that I can make a difference in the

criminal justice system.”

As the county’s first female circuit court judge, Joyce is feeling some pressure.

“It’s daunting,” she said.

“I feel a lot of responsibility to do my very best job, not only to inspire other females who aspire to the bench, but also to present a good example to all lawyers who wish to become a judge some day.”

(Third District Appellate Court Judge Vicki Wright, of Sterling, a former member the Whiteside County state’s attorney’s staff, was an associate circuit judge in the 14th from 1991 to 2006, when she won the appellate seat. Associate judges do not preside over felony criminal cases.)

It may be 2 years away, but Joyce already plans to run for the 6-year judgeship in 2018.

The county board appointed Terry Costello, her first assistant state’s attorney, to take over her duties until a permanent state’s attorney can be appointed. Four people

have applied for the top prosecutor’s spot; whoever is chosen must be a Democrat, like Joyce, and will be filling out the last 2 years of her term.

She had nothing but great things to say about Costello.

“He’s got a really good head on his shoulders,” she said.

Joyce, who lives in her native Sterling with her goldendoodle, Happy, is a Newman Central Catholic High School grad.

She got her bachelor’s from Aurora University and her law degree from Drake University.

It has been a difficult few months for her – she was out of state in October when, as a pedestrian, she was struck by a car and seriously injured – so the news of her appointment could not have come at a better time.

Although she is still recovering, she is ready to take on this new challenge.

“On the bench, I don’t have to do much gymnastics,” she joked.

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Jim Morin, MorinToons Syndicate

Include Ronald Reagan Home on your gift list What we think The Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home has attracted thousands of visitors since it opened to the public in the 1980s. It now needs numerous repairs estimated at $85,000. Please consider making a donation to support this project.

“R

epairing Reagan’s residence” was the headline on a front-page story in Saturday’s SV Weekend.

“Boyhood home seeks donations for overdue maintenance” was the secondary headline.

Several photos showed the start of roof repairs on the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home at 816 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon, where young Reagan lived from 1920 until 1932, when he graduated from college.

And the story described how 3 decades of deferred maintenance created a host of home repair needs, estimated at $85,000, for the former dwelling of the 40th president.

On the to-do list: • Paint the house and visitors center.

• Repair rotted siding and windows.

• Replace back porch roof.

• Ultimately install new roofs on both buildings.

• Rehab the bathrooms and garage.

• Install new furnaces.

• Trim and remove trees.

• Repair interior water damage.

• Install rain gutters.

Reagan friend Norm

How to donate Checks may be sent to Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, 810 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon, IL 61021.

Contributions may be made online through the home’s website, reaganhome.org.

Wymbs was a major force in the Reagan home restoration in the 1980s, but Wymbs is no longer in the picture, having passed away earlier this year.

The responsibility for restoration work now rests with a volunteer board.

We salute local history enthusiast Pat Gorman for taking on leadership of the Reagan home in July and identifying the various repairs that are needed.

Now, it’s up to the public to come through with donations to help pay for them.

Contributions can be made through the home’s website, reaganhome.org.

Checks can be sent to Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, 810 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon, IL 61021.

During this season of giving, we encourage donations to this worthy cause.

THE READER’S VOICE

Lights up, trees on for tribute to vets BURT FULLER Rock Falls

Thank you to all the people who donated lights for this year’s tribute to veterans. Thank you to Jim, the owner of C and S Tree Trimming and Removal, for use of his lift bucket.

The tribute is at 1101 W. 21st St. in Rock Falls.

A special thanks for the volunteers, Eric, Stacy, and Mya, Brent and Debbie Wise who are the owners of Dreamcatchers, and my son, Danny Fuller. I just couldn’t do it without him. He’s my heart and my backbone to all this.

Special thanks to all the folks at Sauk Valley Media.

Complaints on columnist and baseball stats DON KELSEY Sterling

My No. 1 complaint is the articles by Ann McFeatters. She is so anti-Trump, she refuses to even give him a chance. Everything he says or does, in her opinion, is negative.

She apparently has missed (or ignored) anything Hillary or Obama has done to make this country a mess. Apparently, personal emails are fine to use for government business, as one example.

The Koran is in, the Bible is out; many other examples, but she would just pooh-pooh them and t Editorials

say, that is just deplorable Republican talk. I am an independent voter, and yes, I did vote.

My No. 2 complaint is your sports editor. All summer long he had news articles on the Chicago Bears (I am a Bears fan, by the way), but not one time did he put in the Top 10 baseball player stats. In previous years, it was in daily, as it should be.

Maybe he is a White Sox or a Cardinals fan, and as the Cubs had players high in most categories, possibly he was jealous?

Note to readers: SVM’s sports editor, Ty Reynolds, who is a Cubs fan, said extensive coverage of the Cubs was part of SVM’s sports pages this past season. However, daily listings of league leaders have not been published in recent years.

STATEHOUSE INSIDER

State’s fate: Stuck in a movie plot Public, reporters can’t see what’s going on, can’t trust participants’ versions, either There is a very famous Japanese film called “Rashomon” that involves different characters giving different accounts of a murder.

Some descriptions of the film describe these varying accounts as contradictory and self-serving.

For some time now, it feels like Illinois has been doing its own version of “Rashomon” with the closed-door talks going on.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s the talks between Gov. Bruce Rauner and the four legislative leaders or the working groups that are supposedly trying to hash out some agreement on things like workers’ compensation and government consolidation and school funding reform and pension reform and all of the other stuff.

One participant says progress is being made, while another says things are at a standstill. One participant says everyone is sincere about finding a compromise, while another says peo-

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ple aren’t acting in good faith. Distressingly, these observations usually fall along party lines.

No one but the participants knows what’s really going on. So to get some idea, the public and the news media are dependent on how those participants describe events after the fact.

But that also means acknowledging that any of those participants will be putting their spin on things, not to mention that people can interpret things differently even without some ulterior motive.

If you’re looking for a solution here, sorry, don’t have one. There’s a notion that these meet-

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ings should be open to the public so people can see first-hand what’s going on. That idea’s been tried in the past and proved utterly useless. It mainly served to bring out the thespian qualities of the participants.

So Illinois being under a perpetual “Rashomon” effect may just be another thing we’ll have to get used to, like having no state budget and a mountain of unpaid bills.

Assessing the current state of non-communication going on between Rauner and the Democratic leaders, Treasurer Mike Frerichs remarked, “It’s going to be tough to find common ground when you won’t even agree to meet with the other side.”

Survey results ‘fairly’ obvious It was interesting to see that the state is conducting a survey of what people think of the Illinois State Fair.

This survey is being conducted after the fair this year reported a 13 percent drop in attendance.

At the same time, when those attendance numbers were announced in September, fair officials said overall revenues remained about

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Cost of living rises; hurry up, Mr. Trump!

BILL SANDERS Sterling

I am writing about some of the sad news in the Gazette the past week.

Water rates up $4, property taxes up 5 percent, and electric up $2 per month, and a friend getting a ticket for talking on phone while driving.

Then the bad news came Thursday from Social Security, that my benefits after taking out for Medicare would only be $1.40 a month.

Please hurry up, Mr. Trump, and make America great again.

the same, which didn’t sound like a panic situation.

Still, the Department of Agriculture is asking people who attended the fair this year what they liked about it and what they’d like to see done differently. That’s good as far as it goes, but remember, the people they are surveying still went this year.

If they’re worried about the drop in attendance, shouldn’t they be surveying the people who didn’t go?

The answers will be interesting, especially because fair people since forever have said weather more than just about anything else determines the success of the fair.

Not much the state can do about that.

Oh, and another question being posed is what people think of the overall appearance of the fairgrounds.

Uh, why bother? The place hasn’t been kept up for decades, and everyone knows it. It looks shabby and there’s no public money to fix it, hence creation of the fair foundation to raise private money.

Posing that question to people who enjoy attending the fair is like asking for a poke in the eye.

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Americans sign up for insurance 6.4 million people enrolled in Obamacare, 247,818 in Illinois WASHINGTON (AP) – “Obamacare” seems to be holding its own.

The administration said Wednesday that 6.4 million people have enrolled for subsidized private coverage through HealthCare.gov, ahead of last year’s pace.

Despite rising premiums, dwindling insurers and the Republican vow to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law, about 400,000 more people signed up through Monday than for a comparable period in 2015, the Health and Human Services Department said.

In Illinois, 247,818 people have signed up for coverage through the website. This number is up from last year according to HHS. “[Wednesday’s] enrollment numbers confirm that doomsday predictions about the marketplace are not bearing out,” said HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell.

Still, it’s too early for supporters of the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, to say “I told you so.”

It’s unclear whether the administration will meet its target of 13.8 million sign-ups. That’s partly because the share of new customers is down when compared with current consumers re-upping for another year.

New customers are 32 percent of the total this year versus 40 percent around the same time last year. Administration officials said they’re going to focus on getting more new customers between now and the end of open enrollment Jan. 31.

Encouraging signs for HealthCare.gov Other vital signs for HealthCare.gov were encouraging.

“There are zero signs that the ACA’s marketplaces are in danger of imminent collapse,” said Larry Levitt of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, who has followed the health care law from its inception.

That carries an implicit warning for Presidentelect Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, who have promised to move quickly to repeal the law. That repeal would be followed by a GOP-inspired replacement. Although immediate changes affecting 2017 are unlikely, the whole process could take several years, creating uncertainty for people with coverage.

As if on cue, Democratic governors Wednesday fired off a letter to GOP congressional leaders, calling the repeal plan “nothing more than a Washington, D.C., baitand-switch” that would leave millions uninsured and shift to states an estimated $69 billion in uncompensated care costs over a decade.

How to sign up Visit healthcare.gov to access the insurance marketplace. Open enrollment ends Jan. 31, 2017.

The statistics released Wednesday are for 39 states served by the federal online insurance marketplace. Numbers from states running their own markets have not been fully tallied and will be added later, raising the total. Toward the end of this month, several million current customers who are being re-enrolled automatically will be added to the count.

Some of the biggest sign-up numbers so far are coming from states Trump won in the presidential election, including Florida (1.3 million); Texas (776,000); North Carolina (369,000); Georgia (352,000) and Pennsylvania (291,000). Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s home state of Indiana had 119,000 residents enrolled.

Premiums increase Premiums for a midlevel benchmark plan in HealthCare.gov states are going up an average of 25 percent next year, driven by lower-thanexpected enrollment and higher medical costs.

At the same time, about one-third of U.S. counties will have only one marketplace insurer next year because some major commercial carriers have left the market, and many nonprofit insurance coops created by the law have collapsed.

The impact of premium increases has been softened by the law’s subsidies, which are designed to rise if the cost of insurance goes up.

A study last week from the nonpartisan Center for Health and Economy found that the average monthly subsidy will increase by $76, or 26 percent, from $291 currently to $367 in 2017.

But that means taxpayers will fork over nearly $10 billion more for subsidies.

And subsidies don’t help all customers. Some make too much money to qualify. And an estimated 5 million to 9 million people buy individual policies outside HealthCare.gov and state markets that offer financial assistance.

Independent analyst Caroline Pearson of the consulting firm Avalere Health said the administration should be concerned about the apparent slowdown in new consumers.

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Abbott................................ 38.24 Alcoa.................................. 30.43 Alphabet Inc.....................812.20 AltriaCorp.......................... 67.27 Amazon.com....................770.60 American Express............. 75.32 Apple.................................117.06 Archer-Daniels.................. 46.13 Arris-Group....................... 31.29 AT&T.................................. 42.36 Autonation........................ 49.54 Bank of America............... 22.63 Boeing...............................157.48 BorgWarner....................... 40.57

BP....................................... 36.78 Casey’s..............................125.34 Caterpillar......................... 93.82 CenturyLink...................... 23.77 Chevron............................117.91 Cisco.................................. 30.42 Citigroup........................... 60.75 CocaCola........................... 41.57 ConAgra............................. 38.00 Dean.................................. 21.72 Deere & Co.......................103.09 Disney...............................105.56 Donaldson......................... 42.95 DuPont.............................. 75.46 Exelon................................ 35.14 Exxon................................. 90.28 FifthThird.......................... 27.69 Ford................................... 12.64 GE...................................... 32.13 HawaiianElectric.............. 33.65 Hewlett Packard............... 15.14

HomeDepot.....................136.83 Intel Corp.......................... 36.98 Intl Bus Mach...................167.33 IntlPaper............................ 53.95 JCPenney............................. 9.05 JohnsonControls.............. 42.81 Johnson&Johnson...........115.31 JPMorgan Chase............... 86.75 Kraft-Heinz....................... 86.61 Kroger................................ 35.21 Leggett&Platt.................... 49.63 Manpower......................... 90.49 McDonald’s......................123.18 Merck&Co......................... 59.43 Microsoft........................... 63.54 MidlandStates................... 35.33 3M.....................................178.43 Monsanto.........................105.21 Newell................................ 46.17 Nike.................................... 52.30 Parker-Han.......................142.39

Pfizer.................................. 32.40 Pepsico.............................104.70 Proctor&Gamble............... 84.28 RaymondJames................. 72.64 Republic............................ 57.29 Sears Hldg........................... 9.89 SensientTech.................... 78.73 Sprint................................... 8.41 Staples................................. 9.70 TheTravelers....................122.57 UnitedContinental........... 75.72 UnitedTech......................110.49 USBancorp........................ 52.17 USSteel.............................. 36.47 Verizon.............................. 52.97 Walgreen........................... 85.85 WalMartMexico................ 17.83 WalMartStores.................. 71.24 WasteMgt.......................... 70.69 Wendy’s............................. 13.94

Commodities The following quotations are provided as a community service by Sterling Futures: Corn: March 3.47 ¼; May 3.54; Dec. 3.78 Soybeans: Jan. 10.06 3⁄4; March 10.17; May 10.26 ¼

Soybean oil: March 36.34; July 36.73 Soybean meal: March 313.60; July 319.80 Wheat: March 3.99 ½; July 4.26 ½ Oats: March 2.23 ¼; July 2.24 ¼

Live cattle: Dec. 113.27; Feb. 116.22; Apr. 114.45 Feeder cattle: Jan. 130.22 March 126.20 Lean hogs; Feb. 64.90; Apr. 68.00; June 76.85 Sugar: March 18.20 Cotton: March 70.13

T-Bonds: Dec. 148 30/32 Silver: Dec. 15.95 Gold: Dec. 1130.00 Copper: Dec. 2.4915 Crude: Feb. 52.50 Dollar Index: Dec. 103.03 Ethanol: March 1.524

PEORIA

Caterpillar sales paint a bleak picture Tribune News Service

PEORIA – The latest snapshot of new Caterpillar Inc. equipment sales paints a bleak picture for future revenue projections, with the exception of machinery sales in Asia.

Overall retail machinery sales worldwide were down 12 percent in October and 17 percent in November, compared to the same months last year, according to a report filed Tuesday with the Securities and

Exchange Commission.

Energy and transportation sales were down 28 percent and 25 percent, respectively.

Retail machinery sales in the Asia/Pacific region, however, rose by 12 percent in October and 11 percent in November, according to the filing.

The percentages are based on unaudited reports voluntarily provided by Caterpillar’s independent dealers.

“Caterpillar believes

that this supplemental information may help readers better understand Caterpillar’s business and the industries it serves, particularly in light of the time delay between Caterpillar’s sales to dealers and dealers’ sales to end users,” the company wrote in a statement accompanying the figures.

The company reported $11 billion in sales and revenue in the fourth quarter of 2015, a decline of nearly 23 percent from

$14.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2014. Caterpillar claimed $47 billion in sales and revenue for all of 2015 and projects $39 billion for this year. Final figures for 2016 will be released with the fourthquarter earnings report in January.

The most recent projections for sales and revenue in 2017 place the midpoint at $38 billion, and Caterpillar responded to the worsening outlook with a round of layoffs last week.

RETAIL

Shoppers still prefer brick-and-mortar Tribune News Service

Online shopping may be the new norm – especially when it comes to scouring for good deals – but a new report finds that, despite a sea change in consumer behavior, American shoppers still fancy the old-fashioned,

brick-and-mortar experience.

Roughly eight in 10 people, or 79 percent, have purchased something online, according to the latest findings from the Pew Research Center, which conducts public opinion polling and sur-

veyed a nationally representative panel of U.S. adults in December 2015.

The figure represents a drastic, four-fold increase from 16 years ago, when the firm first asked about online shopping in a June 2000 survey and found that just 22 percent of

Americans had engaged in the behavior.

Yet, even with the proliferation of e-commerce, a majority of Americans, or 64 percent, prefer making purchases at actual stores as opposed to buying online when all things are equal, Pew found.

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Young teen acting out needs to find new role Dear Abby, I am writing regarding my almost 13-year-old daughter. She’s a sweet girl but lately has been involved in a lot of drama.

Recently my husband and I saw what we believe to be two hickeys on her neck, one on each side.

She has denied, denied, denied it, but we know what we know.

I’m worried because a few months ago she was called into her counselor’s office for “roasting.”

She was asked to roast two specific girls, and the information got back to them and back to the counselor. Our daughter is not allowed to date, and although she has friends who started dating at 10 or 11, I don’t allow her to go to their homes. I do allow them to come to

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our home instead.

I just need to know how to handle this situation before it gets out of control. I have tried talking calmly and patiently with her, but it doesn’t work.

She believes she knows it all and I know nothing.

–Unsure in New Jersey Dear Unsure, Girls who mock oth-

ers and say cruel things are less “nice” than you would like to believe.

It’s a form of bullying.

You need to nip this in the bud. A way to handle your daughter’s misbehavior would be to institute consequences for getting called to the counselor’s office and/ or lying to you and your husband. By consequences, I mean the removal of privileges – cellphone, television, internet, or having friends over for a period of time.

Also, if your daughter is coming home with hickeys, she might have too much unsupervised time on her hands. So if you haven’t already, involve her in supervised activities such as church youth groups, sports and

special-interest clubs if her school offers them. If she’s going to a friend’s house, be sure an adult will be there.

Parenting is a full-time job. In time your daughter will mature and this, too, will pass. But for now she needs watching.

Dear Abby, My best friend – who is 19 – was concerned that she might be pregnant because her period was late. She told me that she and her husband [yes, she’s married] have been having unprotected sex.

Lo and behold, she took multiple tests and she is pregnant.

I know they are not ready to have a baby, even though she says she’s excited. They are living in a hotel, and she

doesn’t have a job. Her husband’s mom doesn’t even know they’re married. I feel bad, but it makes me not want to be her friend anymore because of the choices she’s made and where she has ended up. Any advice?

– Don’t Know What To Do Dear Don’t Know, Yes. If you prefer not to be part of her drama – and it doesn’t take a crystal ball to see that there is likely to be plenty – back off. And tell her honestly that you are not equipped to handle her problems right now.

Dear Abby, I sent out save-the-date notices for my wedding in November. One couple

has stopped talking to me and refuses to tell me why. Must I send them an invitation to my wedding?

– Wedding Blues Dear Wedding Blues, According to Emily Post, the rules of etiquette dictate that “everyone who receives a save-thedate card must receive an invitation.” However, because the couple has stopped speaking to you, do not be surprised if you hear nothing from them.

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.

COMMUNITY EVENTS Thursday, Dec. 22 Biscuits and gravy, 7 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-5625050.

Open pool, open cards, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815622-9230.

Coffee, 8 a.m., Mount Morris Senior Center, 9 E. Front St., 815734-6335.

Open pool, open cards, open Wii games and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Burn exercise class, 8:309 a.m., Polo Area Senior Services, 101 E. Mason St., 815-946-3818.

Pool players, 8:30 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St.,

Oregon, 815-732-3252.

Kings on Corner cards, 9 a.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815622-9230.

Bingo and popcorn, 9-10 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Boot Scootin’ Seniors, 9:15 a.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815-7323252.

Wii Bowling and cards, 10 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815562-5050.

Canasta, 10 a.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Bags, 10 a.m., Mount Morris Senior Center, 9 E. Front St., 815734-6335.

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

Zumba class, 10:30 a.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-2889236.

Lifescape lunch, 11:30 a.m., Post House Community Center, 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, Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Mexican Train, noon, Polo Area Senior Services, 101 E. Mason

St., 815-946-3818.

Euchre, noon-3 p.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Hand and Foot card game, 12:15 p.m., Rock River Center, 810 S. 10th St., Oregon, 815732-3252.

Hand and Foot card game, 12:30 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Pinochle, 12:30-3 p.m., Big Room, Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Bingo, 1 p.m. Sterling Women of the Moose, 2601 E. Lincolnway.

Crocheting, knitting and crafts, 1 p.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Euchre/500 games, 1-2 p.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon.

Euchre, 1 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-8220.

Euchre, 1-3 p.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

Trap shooting, 2 p.m. until no shooters, Coleta Sportsmen’s Club, the corner of Pilgrim and Blue Goose roads, 815-3362191.

Exercise group, 4 p.m., Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815-589-3925.

Mexican food, 5-8 p.m., Rock Falls Veterans of Foreign Wars, 217 First Ave. Mexican Train dominoes, 6 p.m., Tampico Area Community

Building, 106 W. Market St., 815535-3665.

Bingo, 7 p.m., Latin American Social Club, 2708 W. Fourth St., Sterling, 815-625-8290.

Friday, Dec. 23 Coffee, 8 a.m., Mount Morris Senior Center, 9 E. Front St., 815734-6335.

Stretch & Move, 9 a.m., Mount Morris Senior Center, 9 E. Front St., 815-734-6335.

Bridge, noon, Polo Area Senior Services, 101 E. Mason St., 815946-3818.

Mexican Train, 12:30 p.m., Mount Morris Senior Center, 9 E. Front St., 815-734-6335.

Mexican food, 5-8 p.m., Rock Falls VFW, 217 First Ave. Bingo, 7 p.m. Rock Falls American Legion, 712 Fourth Ave.

SUPPORT GROUPS, CLUBS AND SERVICES Friday, Dec. 23 Mercy Nursing Services free blood pressure clinic, 9:3011:30 a.m., Oliver’s Corner Market, 748 N. Brinton Ave., Dixon.

Bible study, 10 a.m., Oregon Living & Rehab Center, 811 S. 10th St. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed, St. Paul Lutheran Church, 114 S. Fifth St., Oregon.

Alcoholics Anonymous Gratitude Group, noon, open; 6 p.m. open, lower level, Loveland Community House, 513 W. Second St., Dixon.

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

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, noon, open, this is your meeting; 7 p.m., open, Grapevine, back door, 1503 First Ave., Rock Falls.

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

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., women’s, closed, back

door, Reformed Church Parsonage, 703 14th Ave., Fulton.

Al-Anon-Alateen, 7 p.m., 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, 815857-2682.

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

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed (6), Church of God, 816 S. Clay St., Mount Carroll.

Saturday, Dec. 24 Overeaters Anonymous, 9 a.m., Gateway Faith Fellowship parsonage, 701 14th Ave., Fulton, 563-321-8577.

Overeaters Anonymous, 9 a.m., lower-level entrance, Church of God, 816 S. Clay St., Mount Carroll.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m., closed, Big Book, United Methodist Church, 201 E. Chicago Ave., Davis Junction.

Alcoholics Anonymous Gratitude Group, 9 a.m., open; noon, open; 6 p.m., open, lower level, Loveland Community House, 513 W. Second St., Dixon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 9:30 a.m., closed, former St. Anne Grade School, 32 N. Jones Ave., Amboy, 815-857-2315.

Women’s Alcoholics Anonymous, 10:30 a.m., closed; 7 p.m., closed, 808 Freeport Road, Sterling.

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, noon, open, Old Timers; 7 p.m., open, family fun night, bring a friend, back door, 1503 First Ave., Suite D, Rock Falls.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, closed; 7 p.m. closed (5), Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Narcotics Anonymous Hope Without Dope, noon, in the back of Lifescape Community Services,

1901 First Ave., Sterling, 815535-3748, 24-hour hotline 844678-7684.

Overeaters Anonymous, 5 p..m., lower-level entrance,

In what represents a rather varied group of inductees, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has chosen folk singer Joan Baez,

British progressive rock band Yes, New York-born rapper Tupac Shakur, Seattle grunge band Pearl Jam, English poprock group Electric Light Orchestra and slick rock group Journey to join the

From Hospital to Home.

institution for 2017.

In addition, Chic founding member, producer and guitarist Nile Rodgers will be inducted as an honoree for the hall’s award for musical excellence.

– Tribune News Service

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ENTERTAINMENT | HOLIDAY FAVORITES

Can’t do Christmas without them Entertainment editor shares his favorites of the season

B

efore you read this, I need you to do a few things.

Relax and get comfortable. Find peace in your heart. Go to a Christmas happy place.

Need help?

Do you remember the part in the Bill Murray movie “Scrooged” when the little boy, Calvin, finally speaks and tells Frank (Billy Murray) the final lines of the Christmas production: “God bless us, everyone.”

Then, Frank leads everyone in singing “Put a Little Love in Your Heart.”

Gulp. Heart-warming stuff.

Never seen it?

How about when the Peanuts gang yells “Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!” and the entire group sings “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” in 1965’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas”?

Ahhh, the feels.

I brought you to this place because I need to tell you something.

Yes, some of our dedicated readers might remember that my good buddy and SVM’s projects and enterprise editor, Christopher Heimerman, dropped this

Coming soon Next week, SVM’s Jeff Rogers, Christopher Heimerman and Lucas Pauley will share their favorite albums of 2016. It’s now an annual tradition.

Curious what we thought the past 2 years?

Go to shawurl.com/2bm3 and shawurl.com/2yj1 for the best according to Rogers.

Go to shawurl.com/2yiz and shawurl.com/2yj2 for Heimerman’s favorites.

Go to shawurl.com/2yj0 and shawurl.com/2yj3 for Pauley’s picks.

lucasPAULEY Lucas Pauley is the entertainment editor for Sauk Valley Media. You can reach him at lpauley@ saukvalley. com or 815625-3600, ext. 5576.

truth-bomb in a similar column 2 years ago.

But here it goes. … I don’t like “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.”

Let the hate mail commence.

Listen, friends, I know that might be like getting coal in your stocking to some of you.

Some of you might have the sudden urge to wash my mouth out with soap like Ralphie’s mom did in “A Christmas Story.”

I’m sorry. But you know what? I’m making a promise.

I wrote last week about tastes in music and how they might change over the years, similar to our tastes for certain foods.

Well, I’m going to give Chevy Chase and company another chance.

It’s been a while. Maybe it’s funny now?

Lucas Pauley/lpauley@saukvalley.com

SVM Entertainment Editor Lucas Pauley has a healthy obsession with collecting DVDS. His collection includes a fair share of Christmas movies, some of which are shown here.

In the meantime, here’s they’re all there in this some Christmas enterspecial, including Big tainment I can’t do with- Bird and the “Sesame out.

Street” gang and the • “A Muppet Fam“Fraggle Rock” crew. It ily Christmas” was first can be found on Youbroadcast in December Tube. Do it. “The Mup1987. I was born 7 months pet Christmas Carol” is earlier. Thankfully, my par- pretty good, too. ents taped the TV special • The classic 1960s on VHS, and my dad TV specials, “A Charstill has it. It’s 52 minlie Brown Christmas,” utes of amazingness at “Rudolph the Red-Nose Fozzie’s mom’s house.

Reindeer,” “Frosty the I’ve got a soft spot for Snowman,” and “Dr. The Muppets. SeriSeuss’ How the Grinch ously, I once was allowed Stole Christmas,” are all to rank The Muppets in amazing. They always this very newspaper. And will be.

• “Elf” is Will Ferrell at his most-wholesome. It’s proof that he doesn’t need swear words to be funny.

The film, released in 2003, is hilarious, fun and the best straight-forward Christmas movie made in the new millennium.

• I also love movies that spark the debate of what qualifies as a Christmas movie. For me, those include “Die Hard,” “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” and “Edward Scissorhands.”

• You can’t forget the classics, no matter how much they’ve been shoved in our faces. The 1946 film “It’s a Wonderful Life” and 1983’s “A Christmas Story” are great. They will always be great. You could play them for 2 (!!!) days straight, on repeat, and I’ll still feel that way.

• Mentioned above, the 1988 film “Scrooged” is one of my favorites.

Billy Murray is one of my favorite humans on the planet.

• It’s a little sappy at times and it has its flaws, but the 2005 film “The Family Stone” features a great cast and a family full of relatable characters during a difficult Christmas.

• When it comes to the music, I usually gravitate toward the classics sung by legends: Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald.

• Like the softer vibes?

I really enjoy Sufjan Stevens’ 2006 album “Songs For Christmas” and the “Holidays Rule” compilation record featuring Paul McCartney, The Head and The Heart and The Civil Wars is great.

• Michael Bublé, Harry Connick Jr., and She & Him do a good job singing the classics, too.

Whatever you enjoy during the holidays, I hope you find some time to enjoy it with friends, family or a giant cup of hot chocolate.

Happy holidays!

doors photographer. In his exhibit, he explores the Midwestern riverbanks from a kayak.

Little has spent many hours walking through the woods and fields of Illinois. His vibrant paintings reflect his admiration of nature and the Midwestern landscape.

Go to quadcityarts.com for more information.

At Woodlawn Arts Academy STERLING – The annual Winter Art Exhibit is open through Feb. 10 in the halls and lounge at the facility, 3807 Woodlawn Road.

The exhibit features work from award-winning professional local artists Shirley Guay and Graydon Cafarella, as well as artwork by students at the academy.

Admission is free.

Go to woodlawnartsacademy. com or call 815-626-4278 for more information.

calendar? Are you a bar that offers live entertainment? Send an email with the band’s name, booking number and website or Facebook page, and gig or event schedule, or the bar’s event schedule, to Lucas Pauley at lpauley@saukvalley.com.

At The Cooler ROCK FALLS – There will be an open mic night from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. today, and Alborn Theory will play from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday at the bar, 311 W. Second St. At Cragel’s PROPHETSTOWN – Reflex Blues will play from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dec. 31 at the bar, 345 Washington St. Upcoming: Jan. 21, Dys Functional Gents; and Feb. 11, Problem Child At Maggie’s Idle Hour MOUNT MORRIS – Gina Venier and Dozzi will play at 8 p.m. today at the bar, 115 S. Wesley Ave. At The Rusty Fox STERLING – Chameleon, a local jazz trio, will play holiday favorites and more tunes from 8 to 11 p.m.

Friday at the bar, 1 E. Third St. At Whiskey Barrel Saloon ROCK FALLS – Super Red Hot Karaoke & DJ will provide entertainment from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. today, and Rock Star Rodeo will play from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday at the bar, 305 W. Second St. Upcoming: Dec. 30, Dirt Road Rockers with Zach Zurcher

WHAT’S GOING ON

ART EXHIBITS At CGH Medical Center STERLING – The Holiday 2016 Exhibit is on display through Jan. 27 at the healing art gallery “Spirit of the Heart” in the Main Clinic Atrium.

The free show features selections from CGH employees, volunteers and physicians. Several pieces will be sold, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the CGH Auxiliary.

Featured artists include: Linnea Koch, photography; Heather Shore, mixed media; Dr. Peter Toth, photography; Todd Swanson, photography; Lew Wescott, wood carving; Linda Von Holten, acrylics; Tim Pashon, photography; Kayleigh Rogers, acrylics; and Danica Bock, mixed media.

The gallery is in the north hallway between the hospital and the main clinic at CGH Medical Center, 101 E. Miller Road.

Email info@cghmc.com for information.

At Freeport Art Museum FREEPORT – “Building Layers: Modern Encaustic,” is on display

through Jan. 14 at Freeport Art Museum, 121 N. Harlem Ave. The exhibit offers a study of modern encaustic painting through works by Chicago-area artists Maja Bosen, Carol Hamilton, Cindy Lesperance and Amy VanWinkle.

Encaustic is a wax painting technique that dates back to the first century and nearly disappeared until the past century, when prominent artists such as Diego Rivera and Jasper Johns experimented with the medium, which continues to experience a resurgence.

Go to freeportartmuseum.org for more information.

Art at Loveland DIXON – The art collection at Loveland Community House and Museum, 513 W. Second St., as well as the museum’s many other exhibits, can be viewed from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday or by appointment. Guided group tours can be scheduled by contacting Steve Wilson at swilson@lovelandcommunityhouse. org or 815-284-2741.

Visit lovelandcommunityhouse. org for a virtual tour of the museum, and for more information.

The event is free to the public.

At The Next Picture Show DIXON – “The National Watercolor Traveling Exhibit” will run through Jan. 3 at the gallery, 113 W. First St. The exhibit consists of 31

paintings by artists from around the world selected after being juried into the National Watercolor Society International Exhibit last year in San Pedro, California.

More than 1,000 entries were submitted to the competition, with six countries represented.

To be included, the painting must be primarily water-based media on a paper surface and unvarnished. Pastel or collage, if used, must be in conjunction with the water media. The water media must be the dominant element.

Clarence and Valerie Butcher are the exhibiting artists at the gallery through Dec. 31.

The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free; donations are welcome. Go to thenextpictureshow.org or call 815-2854924 for more information.

Art throughout Dixon Larry Gaskill’s work is on display at First National Bank of Amboy, 1314 N. Galena Ave. The work of Larry Bond is on view at Sauk Valley Bank, 300 Walton Drive.

Janet Beiler’s work is on display at the offices of Ward, Murray, Pace and Johnson, 226 W. River St. The work of Bob Logsdon can be seen at Heritage Square, 620 N. Ottawa Ave. At River Arts Center CLINTON, Iowa – The Clin-

ton Art Association’s Annual Membership Show is on display through Christmas at the gallery, 229 Fifth Ave. South.

Works in several mediums from 31 area artists are featured.

Admission to the exhibits is free.

Call 563-243-3300, or go to riverartsinc.org, clintonartassociation. com or find River Arts Center on Facebook for more information.

At SVCC DIXON – The work of Susanne Nestory, who teaches drawing and foundations at Bradley University, will be on display through Jan. 24, with a special reception from 4 to 6 p.m. the last day, in the art gallery on the second floor on the east end of campus, 173 state Route 2.

According to a news release, she is “committed to developing a personal language within the realm of nonobjective painting.”

Admission is free to the exhibits and receptions.

Contact Sauk art professor Glenn Bodish at glenn.s.bodish@ svcc.edu or 815-835-6250 for more information.

At Quad City International Airport Gallery MOLINE – Trent Foltz’s photography, and oil paintings by Jeff Little of Bloomington will be on display through December at the gallery, 2200 69th Ave. Foltz, of Geneseo, is an out-

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Thursday, December 22, 2016

MOVIE REVIEW | ‘FENCES’

Family drama relevant to our times

BY RAFER GUZMAN Tribune News Service

‘Fences’

“Fences,” August Wilson’s heartfelt, rough-hewn play about a working-class black family in postwar Pittsburgh, had its debut in 1983 but feels exceptionally relevant today.

Its themes of financial struggle, imperiled masculinity and the elusive American dream have the potential to speak to all colors in the wake of a racially polarizing presidential election. The film version of “Fences,” directed by and starring Denzel Washington, arrives in theaters with excellent timing.

Washington plays Troy Maxson, a once-promising baseball player who aged out of the game by the time the major leagues began admitting blacks. He was too early, says his wife, Rose (Viola Davis), but facts aren’t easy for Troy to face. “There ought never have been a time called too early,”

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Denzel Washington and Viola Davis are shown in a scene from the family drama “Fences.” he says. Now in his 50s, Troy is a garbage collector. He proudly calls himself a good provider, though he seems bitter about it, too.

Troy is a fearsome and complicated father figure, as tyran-

nical as Big Daddy in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and as pitiable as Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman.” He wrote off his first son, Lyons (an excellent Russell Hornsby), the minute he left home, but Troy’s athlet-

3 out of 4 stars Plot: In 1950s Pittsburgh, a blue-collar African-American struggles with his unrealized dreams.

Cast: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Jovan Adepo Rating: PG-13 (language and some sexual themes) Running time: 2 hours, 18 minutes Showtimes: The movie begins its run at 5 p.m. Saturday at Carmike Sauk Valley 8, 4110 30th Ave., Sterling.

The movie will be shown at 1:05, 4:10, 7:15 and 10:20 p.m. on Christmas Day. Go to carmike.com for more. ically gifted younger son, Cory (Jovan Adepo), remains under his thumb. For Troy, a man’s home is his castle, even if it’s a modest row house with a backyard fence that never seems to get built.

“Fences” is an actors’ showcase, which is both its strength and weakness. Washington is magnificent as Troy, especially as he grows older and his poor choices take their emotional toll. Equally fine are Davis, as the family’s longsuffering rock, and Stephen Henderson as Bono, Troy’s loyal and much wiser friend.

A final meeting between the two men, after Troy has damaged his family beyond repair, is easily the film’s most poignant scene.

Even so, “Fences” feels more about performances than about deeper themes.

Though shot in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, the film can’t quite escape the unseen limits of a three-walled stage, which makes this story seem specific rather than universal. In the end, “Fences” is a finely crafted drama, if not the cry from the heart that Wilson intended.

WHAT’S GOING ON BANDS AND BARS Dec. 31 ​Bad Phoenix farewell tour DIXON – Bad Phoenix, a local alternative rock band, is parting ways, but not before a final show from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The Corner Spot, 510 Chicago Ave.

COMEDY Feb. 4 Ron White in Rockford ROCKFORD – Comedian Ron White will bring his “cigar-smoking, scotch-drinking” shtick to the stage at 7 p.m. at Coronado Performing Arts Center, 314 N. Main St. White has sold more than 14 million albums, been nominated for two Grammys, and over the

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past 9 years has been one of the top three grossing stand-up comedians on tour in America, according to a news release.

Tickets are $43 or $53, and available at Ticketmaster.com, at the box office, or by calling 815868-5222. VIP packages are also available.

Go to coronadopac.org for more information.

CONCERTS Dec. 31 The King on NYE CLINTON, Iowa – Travis LeDoyt, an Elvis impersonator, will perform at 9 p.m. in the Oakwood Grand Ballroom at Wild Rose Casino & Resort, 777 Wild Rose Drive.

Tickets are $10. To attend, you must be 21 or older and have a Wild Rose Players Club card, which is free.

Tickets are available at clinton. wildroseresorts.com or by calling 800-457-9975.

Jan. 6 First Fridays in Mount Morris MOUNT MORRIS – The First Fridays Open Stage music show returns to Pinecrest Grove Community Center and Theater, just off McKendrie Street at 500 Evergreen Lane.

Registration begins at 5:30 p.m., with the show at 6. Food and beverages will be sold at McKendrie Street Cafe.

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are acoustic, and a professional sound system is provided. The music will include country, bluegrass, blues, gospel, folk, soft rock, and eclectic mixes of the different styles. Admission is by donation. All musicians and spectators are welcome. Call 815-9730942 for more information.

Upcoming: Feb. 3 Annual concert at church STERLING – The Sterling Municipal Band will present its 23rd annual Pops Concert at 7 p.m. at Abiding Word Church, 806 E. Lynn Boulevard.

While the concert is free, the evening features hors d’oeuvres and a dessert buffet for $25 at 6:30. Doors will open at 6.

The program will include the theme from “The Muppet Show,”

“Bohemian Rhapsody,” and “Aba Daba Honeymoon.”

Director Jon James will perform a duet of “Fandango” with trombonist Bryan Anton.

The Saxophonic Sounds will perform during intermission.

Reservations are due Dec. 31 and can be made by sending a check to Sterling Municipal Band, 404 W. 9th St., Sterling, IL 61081.

The band features musicians from the Sauk Valley and northwest Illinois.

Call Jon and Cathy James at 815622-1681 for more information.

March 4 Experience Journey’s hits DIXON – Kevin Chalfant’s “Journey Experience” will hit the stage

from 8 to 10 p.m. at Historic Dixon Theatre, 114 S. Galena Ave. Chalfant is a singer from Streator who filled in for Journey’s lead singer, Steve Perry, for a short time in 1993 and ‘94.

During the show, Chalfant will perform all the hits that made Journey famous.

The singer also performed with members of Journey in The Storm and The Vu. Tickets are $25 for general admission; $75 for VIP – front two rows; $50 for a soundcheck, pre-concert upgrade; and $40 for balcony box seats.

They are available at mti.ticketleap.com or by calling 815622-3309, ext 502.

Find the event on Facebook for more information.

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MOVIE REVIEW | ‘SING’

An addictive combo of cute animals, pop music

BY KATIE WALSH Tribune News Service

‘Sing’

Illumination Entertainment, the team behind the Minions, branches out into the world of all talking, dancing, singing creatures great and small, mashing that up with the wildly popular phenomenon of singing competition reality shows. The result, “Sing,” is an amusing riff on genres, a “Zootopia Idol,” if you will, and it comes as a surprise that someone hadn’t thought of this combination already.

But while the film takes its introductory cues from shows like “American Idol,” “The Voice” and “X Factor,” with an all-too-brief audition montage that is jam-packed with truly wonderful moments (A water buffalo crooning Crazy Town’s “Butterfly”? Twerking bunnies?

All that and more), it transforms into an old school backstage musical that celebrates the magic of putting on a show.

Matthew McConaughey voices shyster theater owner Buster Moon, a koala with a passion for the art of the stage and some seriously overdue bills on the mortgage for his beloved Moon Theater. He’s a scrappy,

2.5 out of 4 stars Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Taron Egerton, Scarlett Johansson, Nick Kroll, Seth MacFarlane, John C. Reilly Directed by: Garth Jennings Running time: 1 hour, 48 minutes Rated: PG for some rude humor and mild peril.

Showtimes: The movie will begin at 4:10, 6:15 and 9:30 p.m. today at Carmike Sauk Valley 8, 4110 30th Ave., Sterling. It’s also being shown at 4, 6:30 and 7 p.m. at Sterling Theater, 402 Locust St. Showtimes continue throughout the holiday weekend. Go to carmike.com for more.

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A scene from the animated film “Sing” is shown. The combination of pop music and cuddly animals will prove to be an addictive combination for children and adults alike, says Katie Walsh. lovable, ever-optimistic guy – and eternal salesman – who believes that when you hit rock bottom, the only way to go is up. His buddy, Eddie (John C. Reilly), a slacker rich kid llama, is a soft touch, but even he is done investing his parents’ money in Buster’s misguided productions.

Buster lands on the idea of putting on a singing competition, and soon fliers are picked up by every aspiring vocalist in town, lured by the promise of a $100,000 prize (which Buster

doesn’t have). But Buster is thrilled by the crop of talent he turns up, including the mother of 25 piglets, Rosita (Reese Witherspoon), who belts Katy Perry with the best; mouthy mouse Mike (Seth MacFarlane), styled straight out of the Rat Pack; porcupine rocker chick Ash (Scarlett Johansson); British gorilla crooner Johnny (Taron Egerton); and German technorave pig Gunter (Nick Kroll).

Each singer has his or her own personal story and obstacles to overcome, and so the plot feels

overly busy, frantic even, as we zip all over town, checking in on Rosita’s struggle to balance raising her kids while following her dreams, Ash’s relationship problems, Johnny’s desire to break free of his father’s robbery gang, etc., etc., on and on. There’s even the story of

WHAT’S GOING ON FARMERS MARKETS In Dixon DIXON – The Dixon Winter Farmers Market will be open from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Jan. 7 in the lower level of Loveland Community House, 513 W. Second St. The market will be from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the first and third Saturdays through April, and is accessible to wheelchairs.

The producer-only market allows produce, food products, or crafts that a vendor or immediate family member has grown or made. Space limitations prevent restaurant or brick-andmortar retail businesses from taking part.

The market has expanded this year and includes a wide selection of fresh and local produce, meats, eggs, honey, baked goods, jams and jellies, all-natural soaps and skin care products, jewelry, kids’ things, needlework, dog treats, and home decor.

Soup and sandwich lunches will be sold.

Visit facebook.com/dixonwinterfarmersmarket or contact DWFM2015@gmail.com or 815244-4451 for applications and more information.

In Sterling STERLING – The Twin City Market is open from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday in the historical Twin City Produce Building, 106 Ave. A. Find the market on Facebook, go to twincityfarmersmarket.com, or call 815-499-7268 for a list of vendors, upcoming events and more information.

FASHION Feb. 18 Find fashion downtown DIXON – The 815 Market will present The Dixon Fashion Show from 6 to 9 p.m. at The Next Picture Show, 113 W. First St. Doors open at 5.

Fancy Farmhouse, That Fit Mom, and The Asterisk Boutique will provide clothing. Maggie Love Hair & Makeup will do hair and makeup.

The reception will feature a DJ, food, cocktails and a professional photo booth.

Admission is free, but seating is limited. Black-and-white attire is preferred.

Reservations can be made by messaging The 815 Market on Facebook.

Find participating businesses on Facebook for more information.

FUN FOR A CAUSE Jan. 26 Free meal at church MORRISON – There will be a free community meal from 5 to 6:30 pm. at First Presbyterian Church, 100 E. Lincolnway.

Soups, sides, salads, drinks and desserts will be served.

Email office@firstpresmorrison. com or call 815-772-3510 for more information.

HISTORY LOVERS Jan. 8 Hear story of Earhart STERLING – Leslie Goddard, an actress and historian, will provide the free program at the next Sterling-Rock Falls

Historical Society meeting at 2 p.m. at Ryberg Auditorium in CGH Medical Center, 100 E. LeFevre.

Goddard will take attendees back to 1937, when Amelia Earhart was attempting to set a new record by becoming the first person to fly around the world at its equator.

In the living history program, you can learn about Earhart’s experiences as the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by airplane in 1928 and fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932.

Goddard will explain how Earhart “learned to fly, what inspired her adventurous spirit, and

why she set off in 1937 for an around-the-world flight,” according to a news release.

Goddard has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in theater, and doctorate from Northwestern University. She works full-time as a historical interpreter and public speaker.

Refreshments will be served.

Call 815-622-6215 for more information.

KARAOKE Dec. 31 Party with the James Gang OREGON – Karaoke with the James Gang from 8 p.m. to

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“Finding Dory” will be shown from 6 to 8 p.m. at Franklin Grove Library, 112 S. Elm St. Children younger than 8 need parental supervision.

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As the competition starts to crumble, bearing the pressure of too many dreams and not enough resources, the singers start to realize it’s not about the prize money but about their tight-knit group getting together to show off their talents for whoever will watch, wherever they can. They learn that the most important lesson is to share their gifts and find their voices.

The soundtrack is full of wellknown crowd-pleasers, deep cuts and a truly catchy original song, the pop-rock number “Set it All Free” sung by Johansson as Ash. The combination of pop music and cuddly animals will prove to be an addictive combination for children and adults alike – kids were up and dancing in the theater as the credits rolled. It’s a cute movie with genuinely funny moments (keep an eye out for the koala car wash), and some great tunes to boot.

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Thursday, December 22, 2016 Numbers game The Louisville Cardinals have won 54 of their last 55 home non-conference games following a 73-70 win over Kentucky at the Yum! Center on Wednesday.

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Enshrined in the Hall Dixon man sends scorecards to Cooperstown

Cubs confident in new closer

BY BRIAN WEIDMAN bweidman@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5551 @BrianWeidman

The Chicago Cubs winning the World Series 7 weeks ago touched a lot of lives, and now Wendell Snell of Dixon can count himself among that crowd in a special way.

Thanks to his late father, Tom, Snell has some Cubs memorabilia located in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

Wendell Snell, 87, considers himself more of a football fan, specifically of the Chicago Bears, than a baseball fan.

When the Cubs started off strong last spring, however, and continued to win in the summer and fall, he got on board.

“I’d watch a game or listen to a game, if I didn’t have anything better to do,” he said.

When the Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in 10 innings on Nov. 2 to win the World Series for the first time in 108 years, it got Snell to thinking: his dad was a big Cubs fan, and just might have some valuable artifacts from long ago tucked away somewhere in the house.

Tom Snell was born in 1895 and raised in Gilson, Illinois, before moving to Eagle River, Wisconsin, in the early 1920s.

He built and operated a resort there until about 1938.

That was also a year in which the Cubs won the National League pennant, overtaking the Pirates down the stretch. It was highlighted

by Gabby Hartnett’s “Homer in the Gloamin,” a walk-off shot as darkness approached in lightless Wrigley Field to win a key late September game against Pittsburgh.

In Eagle River, Tom Snell

Ready to hunt

BY PAUL SKRBINA Chicago Tribune

A 300-pound bear didn’t stand a chance against the newest Cubs closer, Wade Davis, which does nothing but add to Joe Maddon’s confidence.

During an off day in Toronto in 2010, Davis, then with the Rays, killed a bear with a crossbow while on a hunting trip with some teammates.

Maddon said during a recent interview with MLB Network that he has few worries about the man the World Series champion Cubs received in exchange for outfielder Jorge Soler.

“I’m pretty confident about this guy who was eye to eye with a black bear in the middle of the Canadian woods,” Maddon said. “Having [Davis] at the end of our bullpen will make it very stern once again.”

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Dixon’s Wendell Snell shows off a copy of one of his father’s scorecards from the 1938 World Series. His father listened to the games on WGN radio and kept score as the Yankees swept the Cubs. Wendell found the scorecards and sent them to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. followed the Cubs by radio on almost a daily basis.

“WGN broadcast all of the games,” Wendell Snell said, “and that was the only radio station that we could get up there. He rigged the antenna to make sure that generally we could get WGN. Being an avid Cubs fan, he listened to all of the games.”

When the Cubs won the N.L. pennant, they were matched up against the A.L. champion New York Yankees in the World Series. The Bronx Bombers featured a pair of all-time greats in center

fielder Joe DiMaggio and first baseman Lou Gehrig.

The Yankees won the first two games in Chicago, 3-1 and 6-3, then completed the sweep by winning 5-2 and 8-3 in New York.

In Eagle River, Tom Snell hung on every word of the WGN broadcast, and kept detailed scorecards as well.

“He’d listen to all of the games that he could when he wasn’t working,” Snell said.

“Then when the World Series came on, he was glued to the radio, so to speak, and he kept every play-by-play from

that World Series.”

Guests at the resort in Eagle River signed a ledger, and the baseball scorecards wound up in the back of the ledger.

In 1943, Tom Snell moved to Dixon for a pair of reasons.

He accepted a job at the Green River Ordnance plant, a munitions factory complex located just outside of Amboy that produced bazooka ammunition, artillery shells, naval shells, bombs, rifle grenades, fuses and rockets for use during World War II. HALL continued on B24

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Wade Davis steps in as the new closer for the Cubs, and Joe Maddon has a lot of confidence in him.

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Spencer Davis steps down as Bureau Valley football coach Says move is to ‘do what’s best’ for family

BY KEVIN HIERONYMUS khieronymus@bcrnews.com

MANLIUS – After much speculation, Spencer Davis will not return as head football coach at Bureau Valley.

The Bureau Valley School Board accepted Davis’ resignation at Tuesday’s board meeting.

Davis was suspended for the Storm’s Week 8 game with Riverdale for an undisclosed incident which BVHS Principal Eric Lawson called a coaching ethics violation.

He returned for the Week 9 victory (53-30) over Morrison as well as the Storm’s opening-round playoff loss (54-14) to Lena-Winslow.

In the end, Davis said he chose family over football.

“I’m going to do what’s best for my family and we’re going to move on from coaching,” he said. “I think

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Spencer Davis file Bureau Valley coach: 2014-16 Record at BV: 15-13 Playoffs: 1 trip, 2016, lost to LenaWinslow 54-14 in the first round. the program has come a long way in the last couple years. Good luck to Bureau Valley in the future. I’ve got to do what I think what’s best for my family as a father first and that’s what we’re doing. .... I think it’s best for both parties to go their separate ways.”

Davis and his family will be moving out of the Bureau Valley district and start at a new school after the new year. He said wanted to give his family a fresh start.

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STEPS DOWN continued on B44 Spencer Davis (center) leaves Bureau Valley after 3 years as head coach of the football program. He had a record of 15-13 with the Storm.

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Cubs draw 5 Sunday TV games To the World Series victors go the spoils.

And the Cubs, who won the franchise’s first title since 1908, won’t have to wait long for another national audience.

The team is scheduled to appear on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball game of the week five times in 2017, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Opening Night, April 2 at St. Louis.

In all, the Cubs are scheduled to face their rivals three times in the game of the week. The teams also will meet June 4 and July 23, both at Wrigley Field.

The Cubs’ game against the Red Sox at Fenway Park on April 30 and a matchup against the Yankees at Wrigley Field on May 7 also are on the schedule.

NFL

Peterson may not play vs. Packers Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson did not practice on Wednesday and his outlook for the game against Green Bay on Saturday is in question.

Peterson said he had “a couple of nicks” that he was getting treatment and recovering after playing his first game in 3 months on Sunday.

Peterson played 12 snaps in his return from surgery for a torn meniscus in his right knee, but the Vikings lost to the Colts, 34-6.

Minority coaching list assembled The diversity group that works with the NFL on its hiring practices has recommended a list of minority head coaching candidates that includes offensive coordinators Anthony Lynn of Buffalo, Terry Robiskie of Tennessee and Harold Goodwin of Arizona and defensive coordinators Teryl Austin of Detroit, George Edwards of Minnesota and Vance Joseph of Miami.

The one non-coordinator on the list is Raheem Morris, the wide receivers coach and assistant head coach of the Falcons.

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• Orion at Dixon Girls basketball 7:30 p.m.

• Dixon at Orion Boys bowling 3:45 p.m.

• Oregon at Rockford Lutheran Girls bowling 3:45 p.m.

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ABOVE: Wendell Snell points to Lou Gehrig’s name on a scorecard his father kept of the 1938 World Series between the Yankees and Cubs.

BELOW: Snell received a letter from the Baseball Hall of Fame after sending in the scorecards, thanking him for his gift.

Cubs’ win inspires Snell to search for scorecards t Also, many of the guests at his resort in Eagle River were from the Dixon area, and it would be a way to reconnect with them.

Tom Snell died in 1976, and the ledger that contained the names of Eagle River resort guests went to his son, Wendell.

When the Cubs won the World Series, Wendell tracked down the ledger – and the scoresheets from the 1938 World Series.

“I looked it up, and sure enough I found them, all of the original copies,” Snell said.

Snell then called the Baseball Hall of Fame to see if they would be interested in the scoresheets. A person instructed him to send the material to Cooperstown.

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“I got a phone call as soon as they got them, and they were pretty excited about it,” Snell said.

Shortly after that, Snell received some paperwork from the Baseball Hall of Fame. It was a

Deed of Gift, stating that the scoresheets were now property of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Helen Stiles, a library associate at the hall of fame, was the contact person for Snell.

“She said they pre-

sented the copies to the board of directors of the hall of fame, and they voted unanimously to have them placed permanently in the hall of fame,” Snell said.

“That’s where they are today.”

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Petra Kvitova could return to tennis in about 6 months, the surgeon who operated on the two-time Wimbledon champion’s left hand said Wednesday.

Kvitova was injured Tuesday when a knife-wielding intruder attacked her at her home in the town of Prostejov. The attacker is still at large and police have asked the public for help.

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The World Series champion Chicago Cubs acquired star closer Wade Davis from the Kansas City Royals for outfielder Jorge Soler. The trade was announced Dec. 7 at the winter meetings.

Injuries derailed Davis during title defense in KC HUNT

CONTINUED FROM B1 t Davis, a two-time All-Star, was 2-1 with a 1.87 ERA and 27 saves in 45 games last season, and spent the first half of July and all of August on the disabled list with a right forearm injury.

He helped lead the Royals to the World Series title in 2015, and is 19-4 with a 1.18 ERA, 47 saves and 234 strikeouts in 182 2/3 innings pitched over the last 3 years.

Maddon said he talked with Davis after the deal became official earlier this month.

“He’s well,” Maddon said of

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Wade Davis file Career (8 years): 3.53 ERA, 47 saves, 334 games, 88 starts.

As a starter with Tampa Bay (2010-11) and Kansas City (2013) had a 31-31 record.

2016: 45 games, 27 saves, 1.87 ERA, suffered a right forearm strain in July.

2015: 69 games, 17 saves, 0.94 ERA; made three appearances in the 2015 World Series, allowing no runs.

Davis’ health. “There’s no concern going into the season. I’m really excited. He’s going to make us a really good bullpen again this year.

“This guy knows how to pitch.

It’s not just throwing one pitch and trying to blow people away.”

Davis, a 6-foot-5, 225-pound right-hander, will make $10 mil-

lion this season and will be a free agent after the 2017 season.

He was acquired to replace Aroldis Chapman, who re-signed with the Yankees after coming to Chicago from there in trade.

Davis and Maddon spent four seasons together in Tampa, where Davis was predominately a starter.

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WEDNESDAY’S SCOREBOARD Boys basketball Wednesday’s box score at Peru

NEWMAN 55, ST. BEDE 39 NEWMAN Cade Gorzny 0 0-0 0, Drake Forster 0 0-0 0, Kyle Schmitt 1 0-0 3, Gehrig Koerner 0 0-0 0, Eli Leffelman 5 0-4 10, Brady Osborne 2 0-1 4, Clayton Yde 0 0-0 0, John Wilson 4 0-0 8, Travis Williams 8 1-3 19, Devon House 4 2-3 10, Ethan Hafner 0 0-0 0, Kalen Smith 0 0-0 0, Luke Olson 0 0-0 0. Totals 24 4-13 55.

ST. BEDE Kinsela 1 0-0 2, Sapp 1 0-0 2, Sons 1 0-0 2, Marendia 0 0-0 0, Poundstone 1 0-0 2, Kunkel 2 0-1 4, Dose 8 3-5 20, Hsing 0 0-0 0, Manning 1 0-1 2, Funfsihn 2 1-2 5.

Totals 17 4-9 39.

Newman 12 15 9 19 — 55 St. Bede 13 5 7 14 — 39 3s - Newman 3 (Williams 2, Schmitt), St. Bede 1 (Dose) Post-Christmas tournaments

Eastland Holiday Tournament

Pool A: Amboy, Eastland, Fulton, LaMoille, Stillman Valley Pool B: Byron, Galena, Polo, Prophetstown, South Beloit Monday, Dec. 26 • Amboy vs. Stillman Valley, 9 a.m.

• Galena vs. South Beloit, 10:30 a.m.

• Fulton vs. Amboy, noon • Eastland vs. LaMoille, 1:30 • Polo vs. Galena, 3 • Byron vs. Prophetstown, 4:30 • Stillman Valley vs. Eastland, 6 • South Beloit vs. Byron, 7:30 Tuesday, Dec. 27 • Fulton vs. LaMoille, noon • South Beloit vs. Prophetstown, 1:30 • LaMoille vs. Amboy, 3 • Fulton vs. Stillman Valley, 4:30 • Byron vs. Polo, 6 • Eastland vs. Amboy, 7:30 Wednesday, Dec. 28 • Prophetstown vs. Polo, noon • Stillman Valley vs. LaMoille, 1:30 • Galena vs. Prophetstown, 3 • Polo vs. South Beloit, 4:30 • Byron vs. Galena, 6 • Eastland vs. Fulton, 7:30 Thursday, Dec. 29 • Fifth place, 1:30 • Fourth place, 3 • Third place, 4:30 • Second place, 6 • First place, 7:30

Cliff Warkins Memorial Cardinal Classic

at Erie A=Annex; HS=High School Pool A: Erie, Wethersfield, Knoxville, Morrison, Stockton, Stark County Pool B: Bureau Valley, Lena-Winslow, Mercer County, Orion, Peoria Heights, Riverdale Tuesday, Dec. 27 • Bureau Valley vs. Mercer County, 5:30 (A) • Morrison vs. Stockton, 5:30 (HS) • Riverdale vs. Lena-Winslow, 7 (A) • Stark County vs. Knoxville, 7 (HS) • Orion vs. Peoria Heights, 8:30 (A) • Erie vs. Wethersfield, 8:30 (HS) Wednesday, Dec. 28 • Stockton vs. Erie, 8:30 a.m. (A) • Bureau Valley vs. Lena-Winslow, 8:30 a.m. (HS) • Morrison vs. Stark County, 10 a.m. (A) • Peoria Heights vs. Riverdale, 10 a.m. (HS) • Knoxville vs. Wethersfield, 11:30 a.m. (A) • Orion vs. Mercer County, 11:30 a.m. (HS) • Riverdale vs. Bureau Valley, 1 (A) • Stark County vs. Stockton, 1 (HS) • Mercer County vs. Peoria Heights, 2:30 (A) • Wethersfield vs. Morrison, 2:30 (HS) • Lena-Winslow vs. Orion, 4 (A) • Erie vs. Knoxville, 4 (HS) Thursday, Dec. 29 • Stark County vs. Erie, 3 (A) • Peoria Heights vs. Lena-Winslow, 3 (HS) • Knoxville vs. Morrison, 4:30 (A) • Orion vs. Bureau Valley, 4:30 (HS) • Wethersfield vs. Stockton, 7:30 (A) • Mercer County vs. Riverdale, 7:30 (HS) Friday, Dec. 30 • Crossover game, 1:30 (A) • Crossover game, 1:30 (HS) • Crossover game, 3 (A) • Crossover game, 3 (HS) • Crossover game, 7:30 (A) • Championship game, 7:30 (HS)

State Farm Classic

at Bloomington-Normal NW=Normal West H.S. IW=Illinois Wesleyan (first day only) Tuesday, Dec. 27 Game 1: Annawan vs. Prairie Central, 10 a.m. (IW) Game 2: Bloomington Central Catholic vs.

El Paso-Gridley, 11:30 a.m. (IW) Game 3: Rock Falls vs. Piasa Southwestern, 1 (IW) Game 4: Quincy Notre Dame vs. Peoria Christian, 2:30 (IW) Game 5: Aurora Christian vs. St. Thomas More, 4:30 (IW) Game 6: Stanford Olympia vs. Downs TriValley, 6 (IW) Game 7: St. Joseph-Ogden vs. Fieldcrest, 7:30 (IW) Game 8: Kankakee Bishop McNamara vs.

IVC, 9 (IW)

Taylorville Holiday Tournament

Purple Pool: Mt. Zion, Rantoul, Sterling, Chicago Corliss Gold Pool: Galesburg, Rochester, Dunlap, Taylorville Wednesday, Dec. 28 Game 1: Sterling vs. Corliss, 4:30 Game 2: Dunlap vs. Galesburg, 5:30 Game 3: Rantoul vs. Mt. Zion, 7 Game 4: Taylorville vs. Rochester, 8:30 Thursday, Dec. 29 Game 5: Mt. Zion vs. Corliss, 9 a.m.

Game 6: Rantoul vs. Sterling, 10:30 a.m.

Game 7: Galesburg vs. Rochester, 12 Game 8: Taylorville vs. Dunlap, 1:30 Game 9: Corliss vs. Rantoul, 4 Game 10: Rochester vs. Dunlap, 5:30 Game 11: Sterling vs. Mt. Zion, 7 Game 12: Taylorville vs. Galesburg, 8:30 Friday, Dec. 30 Game 13: Gold #3 vs. Purple #4, 9 a.m.

Game 14: Gold #4 vs. Purple #3, 10:30 a.m.

Game 15: Gold #2 vs. Purple #1, 12 Game 16: Gold #1 vs. Purple #2, 1:30 Game 17: 7th place, 4 Game 18: 5th place, 5:30 Game 19: 3rd place, 7 Game 20: 1st place, 8:30

Newman Christmas Classic

Tuesday, Dec. 27 • Paw Paw vs. Ridgewood, 4:30 • Oregon vs. Alleman, 6 • Paw Paw vs. Newman, 7:30

Wednesday, Dec. 28 • Oregon vs. Paw Paw, 4:30 • Ridgewood vs. Alleman, 6 • Oregon vs. Newman, 7:30 Thursday, Dec. 29 • Paw Paw vs. Alleman, 6 • Ridgewood vs. Newman, 7:30 Friday, Dec. 30 • Ridgewood vs. Oregon, 6 • Alleman vs. Newman, 7:30

54th annual Plano Christmas Classic

(first 2 days only) Monday, Dec. 26 Game 1: Fenton vs. Morris, 9 a.m.

Game 2: Princeton vs. Lisle, 10:30 a.m.

Game 3: Yorkville Christian vs. Yorkville, 12:30 Game 4: Coal City vs. John Hope, 2 Game 5: Hinckley-Big Rock vs. Mendota, 3:30 Game 6: Forreston vs. Peoria Notre Dame, 5:30 Game 7: IMSA vs. LaSalle-Peru, 7 Game 8: Dixon vs. St. Bede, 8:30 Tuesday, Dec. 27 Game 9: Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, 3:30 Game 10: Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 loser, 5 Game 11: Game 5 loser vs. Game 6 loser, 6:30 Game 12: Game 7 loser vs. Game 8 loser, 8 Game 13: Game 1 winner vs. Streator, 9 a.m.

Game 14: Game 2 winner vs. Newark, 10:30 a.m.

Game 15: Game 3 winner vs. Kaneland, 12:30

Game 16: Game 4 winner vs. Burlington Central, 2 Game 17: Game 5 winner vs. Ottawa, 3:30 Game 18: Game 6 winner vs. Plano, 7 Game 19: Game 7 winner vs. Sandwich, 8:30 Game 20: Game 8 winner vs. Northridge Prep, 5:30

Girls basketball Wednesday’s box score at Oregon

OREGON 46, SERENA 44 SERENA Smith 3 2-2 9, Johnson 0 0-0 0, Muffler 0 0-0 0, Gunier 1 0-0 3, Tuftie 0 0-0 0, Hook 3 1-2 7, Holdiman 3 1-2 9, Mirgannegg 1 1-4 3, Harris 2 0-0 4, Arend 4 0-2 9.

Totals 17 5-12 44.

OREGON Emily Perkins 4 1-2 9, Gylian Finch 2 1-5 5, Hannah Wolber 0 0-0 0, Addie Kitzmiller 1 0-0 3, McKenna Sadler 0 0-0 0, Meredith Gelander 1 6-8 8, Allyse Ketter 2 0-0 4, Bailey Montavon 5 1-2 11, Jessica Hunt 3 0-0 6, Lani Morris 0 0-0 0. Totals 19 9-17 46.

Serena 9 8 14 13 — 44 Oregon 14 11 8 13 — 46 3s - Serena 5 (Holdiman 2, Smith, Sunier, Arend), Oregon 1 (Kitzmiller) Post-Christmas tournaments

Dixon KSB Holiday Classic

Tuesday, Dec. 27 Game 1: Byron vs. Newman, 9 a.m.

Game 2: Belvidere North vs. Sterling, 10:30 a.m.

Game 3: Rochelle vs. Eastland, noon Game 4: United Township vs. Aquin, 1:30 Game 5: Stillman Valley vs. Serena, 3 Game 6: LaSalle-Peru vs. Oregon, 4:30 Game 7: Dixon vs. Boylan, 6 Game 8: Hall vs. Freeport, 7:30 Wednesday, Dec. 28 Game 9: Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner, noon Game 10: Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner, 1:30 Game 11: Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner, 3 Game 12: Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner, 4:30 Game 13: Game 9 winner vs. Game 10 winner, 6 Game 14: Game 11 winner vs. Game 12 winner, 7:30 Thursday, Dec. 29 Game 16: Game 9 loser vs. Game 10 loser, noon Game 17: Game 11 loser vs. Game 12 loser, 1:30 Game 18: Game 13 loser vs. Game 14 loser, 3 Game 20: Game 16 loser vs. Game 17 loser, 4:30 Game 19: Game 16 winner vs. Game 17 winner, 6 Game 15: Game 13 winner vs. Game 14 winner, 7:30 Consolation bracket (all games at Reagan Middle School) Pool A: TBA Pool B: TBA Wednesday, Dec. 28 • 1 vs. 2, noon • 3 vs. 4, 1:30 • 2 vs. 3, 3:30 • 5 vs. 6, 5 • 7 vs. 8, 6:30 Thursday, Dec. 29 • 1 vs. 4, 9:30 a.m.

• 1 vs. 3, 11:30 a.m.

• 2 vs. 4, 1 • 6 vs. 7, 2:30 • 5 vs. 8, 4 • 5 vs. 7, 6 • 6 vs. 8, 7:30

Cliff Warkins Memorial Cardinal Classic

at Erie A=Annex; HS=High School Pool A: Stockton, Rockridge, Wethersfield, Erie, Galva, Bureau Valley Pool B: Monmouth-Roseville, Knoxville, Orion, Morrison, Mercer County, Fulton Tuesday, Dec. 27 • Mercer County vs. Morrison, 8:30 a.m.

(A) • Erie vs. Bureau Valley, 8:30 a.m. (HS) • Fulton vs. Monmouth-Roseville, 10 a.m.

(A) • Rockridge vs. Wethersfield, 10 a.m. (HS) • Knoxville vs. Orion, 11:30 a.m. (A) • Stockton vs. Galva, 11:30 a.m. (HS) • Bureau Valley vs. Rockridge, 1 (A) • Monmouth-Roseville vs. Mercer County, 1 (HS) • Wethersfield vs. Stockton, 2:30 (A) • Orion vs. Fulton, 2:30 (HS) • Galva vs. Erie, 4 (A) • Morrison vs. Knoxville, 4 (HS) Wednesday, Dec. 28 • Bureau Valley vs. Galva, 5:30 (A) • Fulton vs. Knoxville, 5:30 (HS) • Stockton vs. Rockridge, 7 (A) • Monmouth-Roseville vs. Morrison, 7 (HS) • Erie vs. Wethersfield, 8:30 (A) • Mercer County vs. Orion, 8:30 (HS) Thursday, Dec. 29 • Morrison vs. Fulton, noon (A) • Wethersfield vs. Bureau Valley, noon (HS) • Orion vs. Monmouth-Roseville, 1:30 (A) • Rockridge vs. Galva, 1:30 (HS) • Knoxville vs. Mercer County, 6 (A) • Erie vs. Stockton, 6 (HS) Friday, Dec. 30 • Crossover game, noon (A) • Crossover game, noon (HS) • Crossover game, 4:30 (A) • Crossover place game, 4:30 (HS) • Crossover game, 6 (A) • Championship game, 6 (HS) State Farm Classic at Bloomington-Normal NC=Normal Community H.S. BC=Bloomington Central Catholic IW=Illinois Wesleyan (first day only) Tuesday, Dec. 27 Game 1: Peoria Christian vs. Bloomington Central Catholic, 10 a.m. (NC) Game 2: Danville Schlarman vs. Alleman, 11:30 a.m. (NC) Game 3: St. Joseph-Ogden vs. IC Catholic, 1 (NC) Game 4: Rock Falls vs. El Paso-Gridley, 2:30 (NC) Game 5: Annawan vs. Bishop McNamara, 4:30 (NC) Game 6: Rockford Lutheran vs. Prairie Central, 6 (NC) Game 7: Brimfield vs. St. Thomas More, 7:30 (NC) Game 8: Camp Point Central vs. LeRoy, 9 (NC)

Amboy Holiday Tournament

Red Pool: AFC, Plano, Ridgewood, Marquette B l a c k P o o l : Amboy, Forreston, Somonauk, Indian Creek Monday, Dec. 26 • Plano vs. Ridgewood, 3 • AFC vs. Ottawa Marquette, 4:30 • Forreston vs. Somonauk, 6 • Amboy vs. Indian Creek, 7:30 Tuesday, Dec. 27 • Marquette vs. Plano, 3 • Ridgewood vs. AFC, 4:30 • Indian Creek vs. Forreston,6 • Amboy vs. Somonauk, 7:30 Wednesday, Dec. 28 • Marquette vs. Ridgewood, 3 • AFC vs. Plano, 4:30 • Somonauk vs. Indian Creek, 6 • Amboy vs. Forreston, 7:30 Thursday, Dec. 29 • 7th place, 3 • 5th place, 4:30 • 3rd place, 6 • 1st place, 7:30

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA y-New England 12 2 0 .857 365 233 Miami 9 5 0 .643 315 314 Buffalo 7 7 0 .500 358 314 N.Y. Jets 4 10 0 .286 242 358 South

W L T Pct PF PA Houston 8 6 0 .571 250 294 Tennessee 8 6 0 .571 340 323 Indianapolis 7 7 0 .500 362 339 Jacksonville 2 12 0 .143 260 359

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North W L T Pct PF PA 9 5 0 .643 341 276 8 6 0 .571 306 263 5 8 1 .393 288 293 0 14 0 .000 220 408 West W L T Pct PF PA 11 3 0 .786 377 336 10 4 0 .714 319 274 8 6 0 .571 299 258 5 9 0 .357 366 366

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East W L T Pct PF PA 12 2 0 .857 366 258 10 4 0 .714 272 250 7 6 1 .536 345 343 5 9 0 .357 316 299 South

W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 9 5 0 .643 469 358 Tampa Bay 8 6 0 .571 313 322 New Orleans 6 8 0 .429 406 392 Carolina 6 8 0 .429 337 352 North

W L T Pct PF PA Detroit 9 5 0 .643 301 285 Green Bay 8 6 0 .571 363 339 Minnesota 7 7 0 .500 264 259 Chicago 3 11 0 .214 248 320 West

W L T Pct PF PA y-Seattle 9 4 1 .679 298 235 Arizona 5 8 1 .393 340 325 Los Angeles 4 10 0 .286 197 328 San Francisco 1 13 0 .071 264 434 x-clinched playoff spot; y-clinched division Today’s game N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 7:25 p.m.

Saturday’s games Atlanta at Carolina, noon Washington at Chicago, noon N.Y. Jets at New England, noon San Diego at Cleveland, noon Miami at Buffalo, noon Tennessee at Jacksonville, noon Minnesota at Green Bay, noon Indianapolis at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.

Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 3:25 p.m.

San Francisco at Los Angeles, 3:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at Houston, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday’s games Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 3:30 p.m.

Denver at Kansas City, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 26 Detroit at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

x-Dallas N.Y. Giants Washington Philadelphia

College football Bowl schedule Tuesday’s result Boca Raton (Fla.) Bowl Western Kentucky 51, Memphis 31 Wednesday’s result Poinsettia Bowl BYU (8-4) vs. Wyoming (8-5), late Today’s game Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Boise Idaho (8-4) vs. Colorado State (7-5), 6 p.m.

(ESPN) Friday’s games Bahamas Bowl Nassau Eastern Michigan (7-5) vs. Old Dominion (9-3), noon (ESPN) Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas Navy (9-3) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-5), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Dollar General Bowl Mobile, Ala. Ohio (8-5) vs. Troy (9-3), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday Hawaii Bowl Honolulu Middle Tennessee (8-4) vs. Hawaii (6-7), 7 p.m. (ESPN)

Men’s basketball Big Ten schedule Wednesday’s results Penn St. 96, Morgan St. 55 Illinois 75, Missouri 66 Michigan St. 77, Oakland 65 Purdue 91, Norfolk St. 45 Today’s games Austin Peay at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Furman at Michigan, 6 p.m. (BTN) Houston Baptist at Northwestern, 7 p.m.

Delaware St. at Iowa, 8 p.m. (BTN) UNC-Asheville at Ohio St.m 8 p.m. (ESPN2) State schedule Wednesday’s results Indiana St. 88, E. Illinois 85 Marquette 89, SIU-Edwardsville 56 TCU 74, Bradley 42 Today’s games Chicago St. vs. SE Missouri St., at Las Vegas, 2 p.m.

Roosevelt at Ill.-Chicago, 7 p.m.

Tenn.-Martin at S. Illinois, 7 p.m.

DePaul vs. Wyoming, at Las Vegas, 7:30 p.m. (FS1) Illinois St. at Hawaii, 12:30 a.m. (Fri.) Top 25 schedule Wednesday’s results No. 1 Villanova 90, American 48 No. 2 UCLA vs. Western Michigan, late No. 4 Baylor 89, Texas Southern 63 No. 5 Duke 72, Elon 61 No. 10 Louisville 73, No. 6 Kentucky 70 No. 7 Gonzaga 102, South Dakota 65 No. 8 N. Carolina 85, Northern Iowa 42 No. 12 Virginia at California, late No. 13 Butler 81, Vermont 69 No. 15 Purdue 91, Norfolk State 45 Clemson 62, No. 22 South Carolina 60 Today’s games No. 3 Kansas at UNLV, 8 p.m.

No. 16 Indiana vs. Austin Peay, 6 p.m.

No. 19 Saint Mary’s vs. South Carolina St., 9 p.m.

No. 23 USC vs. Missouri State, at Las Vegas, 10 p.m.

No. 24 Cincinnati vs. Marshall, 6 p.m.

Wednesday’s box score

ILLINOIS 75, MISSOURI 66 MISSOURI (5-6) Puryear 5-10 7-9 17, Woods 3-4 1-2 7, VanLeer 2-8 0-0 5, Phillips 5-12 1-2 14, Hughes 1-11 0-0 3, Jackson 1-3 0-0 2, Barnett 1-6 1-2 4, Nikko 0-1 2-2 2, Smith 0-0 0-0 0, Walton 0-0 0-0 0, Geist 4-6 4-4 12. Totals 22-61 16-21 66.

ILLINOIS (10-3) Black 0-2 0-0 0, Thorne 4-5 0-2 8, Coleman-Lands 4-8 2-2 12, Hill 6-12 7-10 21, Abrams 1-4 0-0 3, Finke 1-2 1-2 4, Morgan 6-11 7-8 19, Williams 1-2 0-0 3, Tate 1-3 3-6 5, Lucas 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-49 20-30 75.

Halftime–Illinois 39-29. 3-Point Goals– Missouri 6-19 (Phillips 3-5, Barnett 1-3, VanLeer 1-4, Hughes 1-5, Puryear 0-1, Geist 0-1), Illinois 7-17 (Hill 2-4, ColemanLands 2-5, Finke 1-2, Williams 1-2, Abrams 1-3, Tate 0-1). Fouled Out–Abrams, VanLeer. Rebounds–Missouri 27 (Puryear 9), Illinois 36 (Morgan 11). Assists–Missouri 9 (VanLeer 3), Illinois 11 (Tate 6). Total Fouls–Missouri 22, Illinois 21. Technicals–Phillips, Morgan. A–12,409 (21,000).

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 20 8 .714 — Boston 16 12 .571 4 New York 15 13 .536 5 Brooklyn 7 20 .259 12½ Philadelphia 7 21 .250 13 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Charlotte 16 13 .552 — Atlanta 14 15 .483 2 Washington 13 15 .464 2½ Orlando 13 17 .433 3½ Miami 9 20 .310 7 Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 21 6 .778 — Indiana 15 15 .500 7½ Chicago 14 14 .500 7½ Milwaukee 13 14 .481 8 Detroit 14 17 .452 9 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio 23 5 .821 — Houston 21 8 .733 2 Memphis 19 12 .613 5½ New Orleans 10 21 .323 14½ Dallas 7 21 .250 16

Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Utah 18 12 .600 — Oklahoma City 17 12 .586 ½ Portland 13 17 .433 5 Denver 12 17 .414 5½ Minnesota 9 19 .321 8 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 25 4 .862 — L.A. Clippers 21 8 .724 4 Sacramento 12 17 .413 13 L.A. Lakers 11 20 .355 15 Phoenix 8 21 .275 17 Wednesday’s results Cleveland 113, Milwaukee 102 Memphis 98, Detroit 86 Minnesota 92, Atlanta 84 Oklahoma City 121, New Orleans 110 Washington 107, Chicago 97 Houston 125, Phoenix 111 Sacramento 94, Utah 93 Dallas at Portland, late Today’s games Boston at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Orlando at New York, 6:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Miami, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Friday’s games Chicago at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Golden State at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Houston at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Miami at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Washington at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Denver, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Toronto at Utah, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Portland, 9 p.m.

Dallas at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s box score

WIZARDS 107, BULLS 97 WASHINGTON (107) Porter 3-5 0-0 8, Morris 4-10 0-0 8, Gortat 7-9 0-0 14, Wall 9-14 5-7 23, Beal 7-18 6-8 21, Oubre 1-4 2-2 4, Smith 2-5 2-3 6, Burke 3-5 0-1 6, Thornton 5-9 0-0 10, McClellan 2-3 3-4 7. Totals 43-82 18-25 107.

CHICAGO (97) Gibson 8-12 1-3 17, Lopez 3-5 0-0 6, Rondo 1-10 0-0 3, Butler 6-20 8-9 20, Wade 7-20 5-6 19, McDermott 4-11 0-0 10, Mirotic 4-10 0-0 11, Felicio 3-3 0-0 6, Grant 2-4 1-1 5. Totals 38-95 15-19 97.

Washington 22 33 22 30 —107 Chicago 33 23 21 20 — 97 3s-Washington 3-18 (Porter 2-4, Beal 1-7, Wall 0-2, Oubre 0-2, Thornton 0-3), Chicago 6-21 (Mirotic 3-6, McDermott 2-6, Rondo 1-2, Wade 0-1, Grant 0-2, Butler 0-4). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsWashington 44 (Gortat, Morris 11), Chicago 49 (Butler, Gibson 11). Assists-Washington 23 (Wall 9), Chicago 25 (Rondo 10).

Total Fouls-Washington 20, Chicago 18.

Technicals-Washington defensive three second, Wall, Washington team, Chicago defensive three second, Chicago team.

A-21,358 (20,917).

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 32 21 7 4 46 101 70 Ottawa 33 19 11 3 41 86 88 Boston 34 17 14 3 37 80 83 Tampa Bay 33 16 14 3 35 95 92 Florida 33 15 13 5 35 81 90 Buffalo 31 12 11 8 32 69 83 Detroit 33 14 15 4 32 79 93 Toronto 31 12 12 7 31 87 94 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 33 21 7 5 47 116 92 N.Y. Rangers 35 23 11 1 47 115 82 Columbus 30 21 5 4 46 101 63 Philadelphia 35 20 11 4 44 110 104 Washington 31 19 8 4 42 83 69 Carolina 31 13 11 7 33 82 87 New Jersey 32 12 13 7 31 75 98 N.Y. Islanders 32 12 14 6 30 85 101 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 35 22 9 4 48 101 84 Minnesota 31 19 8 4 42 91 60 St. Louis 34 18 11 5 41 96 98 Nashville 32 15 12 5 35 94 90 Dallas 34 13 14 7 33 86 104 Winnipeg 35 15 17 3 33 91 104 Colorado 31 11 19 1 23 65 99 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 33 20 12 1 41 84 73 Edmonton 34 17 12 5 39 100 92 Anaheim 34 17 12 5 39 95 97 Calgary 35 17 16 2 36 90 102 Los Angeles 32 16 13 3 35 81 81 Vancouver 33 14 16 3 31 84 101 Arizona 32 11 16 5 27 72 101 Note: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s results Philadelphia 3, Washington 2, SO Edmonton at Arizona, late Today’s games Pittsburgh at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.

Boston at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Winnipeg at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Friday’s games Minnesota at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Washington, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Boston at Carolina, 6:30 p.m.

Detroit at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Colorado at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

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Blackhawks center Dennis Rasmussen (70) is part of the team’s third line, along with Richard Panik and Marcus Kruger, that has been particularly effective of late.

Third is the word for Blackhawks Chicago’s No. 3 line delivering top-notch production of late

BY CHRIS HINE Chicago Tribune

Even as the Blackhawks lost another player to injury on Tuesday – winger Marian Hossa – coach Joel Quenneville did his best to keep one of his most productive lines intact.

That’s the third line of Dennis Rasmussen, Marcus Kruger and Richard Panik.

On paper, it appears to be more of a defensive line, but of late those three players have helped the Hawks find some secondary scoring. Panik scored his ninth goal of the season in the Hawks’ 4-3 loss to the Senators on Tuesday. The goal came early in the third as the Hawks were trying to erase a two-goal deficit.

Panik had another chance later in the period to tie it, but he was bothered by a defender on a breakaway and his shot went wide off the post. Panik has two goals in his last four games, while Rasmussen scored in the Hawks’ victory over the Blues on Saturday.

“They’re responsible in ways,” Quenneville said of the unit. “You have two guys [Kruger and Rasmussen] who can take faceoffs. We use them in our own end a lot. Sometimes we’ve been matching them up against top lines and if they can outscore that group, it’s a real plus for us.

“But they spend some zone time, they get good cycles shifts, and they’ve all been managing the puck well. It’s an area where there’s

Season stats Rasmussen: 3 goals, 3 assists Kruger: 2 goals, 8 assists Panik: 9 goals, 6 assists some improvement in our game.”

“He’s so dangerous every single time he plays. … He’s got a weapon with his shot,” Quenneville said. “He’s got a weapon with play recognition, his passing, one-timers over to [Patrick Kane] and options with the defensemen as well coming through the gut. He’s an amazing player.”

Russian sniper: Artemi Panarin had another goal on Tuesday night off a one-timer from the left circle. It is becoming a habit for the second-year winger.

That was Panarin’s eighth goal via the slap shot, according to NHL. com. Panarin leads the league in that statistic, outpacing Canadiens defenseman Shea Weber, who had seven entering Wednesday.

Strong thirds: If you look at the numbers, it is easy to tell in which period the Hawks have been most effective this season – the third.

The Hawks have 28 goals in the first period compared with 24 goals against. In the second, they have 31 goals scored, 36 allowed.

In the third, however, they have scored 35 goals and allowed just 20. The 20 goals allowed in the third was the second-best mark in the NHL entering Wednesday.

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LOCAL ROUNDUP

Newman knocks off St. Bede Williams leads Comets with 19; Hawks edge Serena

By SVM Sports Staff

Oregon 46, Serena 44:

ets outscored them 15-5 in the second quarter.

Travis Williams led Newman (9-0) with 19 points. Eli Leffelman and Devon House each scored 10.

St. Bede got 20 points from Jon Dose.

Girls basketball

The Newman boys basketball team trailed after one quarter, but went on a run in the second to beat St. Bede 55-39 on Wednesday in a TRAC East game in Peru.

The Bruins led 13-12 after one before the Com-

The Hawks edged Serena at the Blackhawk Center.

Bailey Montavon led Oregon with 11 points.

Emily Perkins added nine and Meredith Gelander scored eight.

Oregon led 14-9 after one quarter and 25-17

at the half. Serena rallied with 14 points in the third to cut the Hawks’ lead to two, but Oregon held on in the fourth.

Wrestling

Lena-Winslow 49, Rock Falls 27: The Rockets fell

to the Panthers in a dual held in Lena.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

Illini beat Mizzou for fourth year in a row AP

The Bulls’ Dwyane Wade (3) shoots as the Wizards’ Jason Smith tries to defend during Wednesday’s game in Chicago.

Wall, Wizards too much for Bulls Washington wins for just third time this season on the road By the Associated Press

CHICAGO – John Wall had 23 points and nine assists, and the Washington Wizards rallied past the Chicago Bulls 107-97 on Wednesday night for their third road victory of the season.

Trey Burke and Marcus Thornton came off the Washington bench to spark a decisive fourthquarter burst.

After the teams entered the period tied at 77, Burke and Thornton combined for 10 points to give the Wizards a 91-85 lead.

Chicago closed to 97-93 with less than 3 minutes left, but Bradley Beal, Marcin Gortat and Wall followed with baskets to seal it.

Beal finished with 21 points, while Gortat had 14 points and 11 rebounds. Burke scored 10 and Thornton six.

Wall did not attempt a shot in the opening 9:30, then scored 19 points in the final three quarters.

Jimmy Butler led a balanced Chicago offense with 20 points, and

Dwyane Wade added 19. Rajon Rondo had 10 assists.

The Wizards overcame an early 13-point deficit to post their fourth victory in the last five games.

They are 3-9 on the road.

The Bulls lost for the fourth time in five games to conclude a 1-2 homestand.

Chicago jumped out to a 33-22 lead on the strength of 62.5 percent shooting from the field. Butler and Taj Gibson led the way with nine and eight points, respectively.

In the second quarter, Wall capped a late 9-0 run with a fast-break dunk that gave his team a onepoint advantage.

After a timeout, Chicago regrouped to take a 56-55 lead at halftime.

Tip-ins Wizards: F Otto Porter (back spasms) sat out the second half. . Washington swingman Danuel House (broken right wrist) remained out.

Bulls: G Michael CarterWilliams (sprained left wrist) could resume 2-on2 drills this week.

Bureau Valley seeking coach after Davis resigns STEPS DOWN

CONTINUED FROM B1 t Davis had a 15-13 record in 3 years as BV coach. He said BV won a total of five or six games as a program his first year to winning 16 last year and sees promising things ahead for the Storm.

Lawson said Wednesday the school must post the opening internally in the district for 10 days.

Then it will open the job up to see what interests there may be externally.

Lawson said he already has received interest from a couple external candidates, and while nothing formal, he anticipates one or two coach-

es on staff to have an interest.

“We haven’t really set a time period, but want to make sure the next person we hire obviously does a good job,” Lawson said.

Assistants on the Storm staff include long-time assistant Craig Johnson, the head sophomore coach, Phillip Pryzybla, Chris Lindsey and Dave Moore. Moore directed Bureau Valley to the 2005 state championship before departing to Princeton, where he coached from 2008-11.

Davis previously resigned as the varsity girls basketball coach prior to the start of the season, having run the summer program.

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points and 14 rebounds in 17 first-half minutes, when the Boilermakers (11-2) built a commanding 53-25 lead over the Spartans (3-10).

By the Associated Press

Malcolm Hill scored 21 points and Maverick Morgan had a doubledouble to lead Illinois to a 75-66 win over Missouri on Wednesday in St. Louis.

Morgan hit 7 of 8 free throws and finished with 19 points and 11 rebounds. Jalen Coleman-Lands scored 12.

The Illini (10-3) have won six in a row, including the last four in the border series.

Kevin Puryear led Missouri (5-6) with 17 points. Terrence Phillips had 14 points and Jordan Geist added 12.

Michigan St. 77, Oakland 65: Freshman Nick

Ward scored a seasonhigh 25 points and grabbed nine rebounds in his first start, helping Michigan State pull away to beat Oakland in East Lansing, Mich.

The Spartans (8-5) closed their non-conference season with a desperately needed win, coming off a loss to Northeastern.

Penn St. 96, Morgan St. 55: Lamar Stevens

No. 15 Purdue 91, Norfolk St. 45: Caleb Swani-

scored 20 points, while Tony Carr and Payton Banks had 11 apiece as the Nittany Lions (8-5) cruised to a win in State College, Pa.

gan had a career-best 32 points and 20 rebounds – his fourth consecutive double-double – and No. 15 Purdue defeated Norfolk State in West Lafayette, Ind., the Boilermakers’ sixth straight victory.

Swanigan, who is averaging 23 points and 15.3 rebounds during the past four games, had 20

AP

Illinois guard Malcolm Hill (right) is fouled by Missouri’s Kevin Puryear as he drives to the basket Wednesday at Scottrade Center in St. Louis. opening Big 12 Conference play.

Bane had three 3-pointers for the Frogs (11-1), who are 9-0 at home this season.

Koch Bar had eight

TCU 74, Bradley 42:

Desmond Bane scored 18 points and had seven rebounds as TCU never trailed in a victory over Bradley in the Horned Frogs’ last game before

points and nine rebounds for Bradley (5-8), which has lost three in a row and five of six. Bar was one of three Braves who finished with eight points.

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Will the real Ohio St. please stand up?

Inconsistent Buckeyes work to smooth out passing game before semifinal matchup

BY MITCH STACY AP Sports Writer

Fiesta Bowl

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Whether Ohio State can beat Clemson in the College Football Playoff next week could depend on which version of the wildly inconsistent Buckeyes offense shows up to play in the desert.

Will it be the score-at-will unit that averaged more than 53 points through the first five games and blew away Nebraska and Maryland 62-3 on back-toback Saturdays in November?

Or the bunch that bumbled to an upset loss at Penn State, and looked nearly as off-kilter in narrow wins over Northwestern and Michigan State, with spotty pass protection, receivers who can’t get open, and J.T. Barrett running for his life?

Much of that will be determined by Barrett and whether he can help shore up the Buckeyes’ uneven aerial attack and complete passes down the field against a Clemson defense with four All-ACC first-teamers.

He and his receivers say that’s been a large part of the focus in practices leading up to the Dec. 31 Fiesta Bowl.

“What I see from J.T. is he’s got his head down and he’s going to work,” wide receiver Noah Brown said. “He knows what he needs to work on, and he knows what we need to work on.”

Make no mistake, Ohio State (11-1, No. 3 CFP) is in the national playoff because of Barrett, the unflappable Texan who’s never the fastest guy on

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J.T. Barrett (center) has the Buckeyes back in the playoff after a season in which Ohio State’s offense at times looked unstoppable and at other times, looked like it could barely get going. the field and doesn’t have the best arm, but time after time put the team on his back and found a way to win. The fourthyear junior has lost only three times as Ohio State’s starting quarterback.

Barrett’s supporting cast included a 1,000-yard rusher in freshman Mike Weber, AllAmerican hybrid back Curtis Samuel, and one of the best defenses in college football.

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Ohio State contends it can be fixed by bowl time.

“We’re putting a lot more emphasis on the passing game to continue to develop that,

both in protection and routes and quarterback play,” said cooffensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Tim Beck. “I like what I see.”

As is typical of Barrett, there hasn’t been a lot of handwringing. Even when the passing game looked its worst, he insisted there was nothing terribly wrong that couldn’t be fixed with a couple tweaks. He doesn’t think he’s too conservative about letting go of the football, noting his 24 touchdowns against just five interceptions.

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“That’s 2 seconds you’ve got to make your mind up [whether to throw], and also just protect the football, so I feel like I have done a good job with that,” he said.

One of Barrett’s greatest attributes is his ability to take personal responsibility for winning games. Never was it more on display than in the Michigan game, when he ran for 125 yards and a TD against a Wolverines defense that took nearly everything else away from Ohio State’s offense.

And no play was bigger than fourth-and-1 from the 15 in the second overtime, when Barrett faked a handoff to Samuel, stepped left and chugged forward, head down, crashing toward the first down by inches. Samuel ran it in for a touchdown on the next play to win the game.

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West used the Unusual No-trump to show at least 5-5 in the minors. North’s three-club cue-bid (the cheaper) promised at least game-invitational values in the lower-ranking of the other two suits; here, hearts. (A response of three hearts would have indicated the values for a single raise. A threediamond cue-bid would have guaranteed five-plus spades and game-going values. A

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South possessed a key piece of information: that East had only one club. So, declarer won with dummy’s club ace, drew trumps ending on the board, cashed the diamond ace, ruffed a diamond, took the top spades, ruffed a spade and ruffed the diamond jack. Then he led the spade five and discarded a club from the board.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUITWHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, PLAINTIFF, VS. KENNETH K FRAZEE; DEBRA J FRAZEE, DEFENDANTS. 15 CH 80 1303 MAIN STREET ERIE, IL 61250 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by the Court in the above entitled cause on May 18, 2016, Sheriff of Whiteside County will on January 5, 2017, in Whiteside County Courthouse, Third Floor Lobby 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, IL 61270, at 10:00 AM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of Whiteside, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: TAX NO. 20-06-430-004 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1303 Main Street, Erie, IL 61250 Description of Improvements: The Judgment amount was $44,851.25 Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH". The successful bidder must deposit 10% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9 (g)(1) and (g)(4).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http://ilforeclosuresales.mrpllc.com.

Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, P.C., Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 N. Dearborn St. Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60602.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT LEE COUNTY - DIXON, ILLINOIS RIDGESTONE BANK Plaintiff, -v.THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNKNOWN OWNERS, AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendant 16 CH 38 NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 14, 2016, the Sheriff of Lee County will at 10:00 AM on January 5, 2017, at the Lee County Courthouse, 112 E. Second Street, DIXON, IL, 61021, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 108, 110 E. DIVISION STREET, Amboy, IL 61310 Property Index No. 02-15-15-456-029; 02-15-22-203-022 The real estate is improved with a commercial property.

The judgment amount was $594,082.81.

Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; the balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours.

The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9 (g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: CHUHAK & TECSON, P.C. , 30 S. WACKER DRIVE, STE. 2600, CHICAGO, IL 60606, (312) 444-9300. Please refer to file number 19918.58785.

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Notice is hereby given that on or about December 19, 2016, the Commissioners of said Union Drainage and Levee District #1 of the Towns of Erie and Fenton, Whiteside County, Illinois have filed their financial Report for the current year. Commissioners have waived their fees and costs. Any objections to said Financial Report must be filed with the Circuit Clerk of the Court within 10 days after the publication of this notice.

Susan E. Ottens, Circuit Clerk Courthouse – Whiteside County 200 E. Knox Street Morrison, IL 61270

William R Shirk Law Office of William R. Shirk, P.C. Attorney for said District 301 East Main Street Morrison, IL 61270 Tele: 815-772-7231 Fax: 8159772-4599

December 22, 2016

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS COMMUNITY STATE BANK OF ROCK FALLS, Plaintiff, v.

COREY EVENSON a/k/a COREY R. EVENSON; ELEANOR EVENSON a/k/a ELEANOR C. EVENSON; UNKNOWN OWNERS; and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

No. 16 CH 115 ST NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Corey R. Evenson, 1102 W. 6th St., Rock Falls, Illinois 61071 That this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of the following Mortgages regarding the following described premises: Parcel 1 Sub-lot 14 of Resubdivision of Lots 1, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 10 on Block 17, in Arey?s Addition to the City of Rock Falls, Whiteside County, Illinois; according to the Plat thereof recorded May 4, 1892 in Book 5 of Plats, page 27, all situated in the County of Whiteside and State of Illinois.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUITWHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS

RIDGESTONE BANK Plaintiff, -v.-

KENNETH K FRAZEE; DEBRA J FRAZEE, DEFENDANTS. 15 CH 80 1303 MAIN STREET ERIE, IL 61250 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by the Court in the above entitled cause on May 18, 2016, Sheriff of Whiteside County will on January 5, 2017, in Whiteside County Courthouse, Third Floor Lobby 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, IL 61270, at 10:00 AM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of Whiteside, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment:

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNKNOWN OWNERS, AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendant 16 CH 38 NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 14, 2016, the Sheriff of Lee County will at 10:00 AM on January 5, 2017, at the Lee County Courthouse, 112 E. Second Street, DIXON, IL, 61021, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate:

Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH".

The successful bidder must deposit 10% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g) (4).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http://ilforeclosuresales.mrpllc.com.

Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, P.C., Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 N. Dearborn St. Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel. No. (312) 346-9088. Please refer to file# 259207 PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT, THE PLAINTIFF'S ATTORNEY IS DEEMED TO BE A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

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which said Mortgage was made by: Corey R. Evenson and Eleanor Evenson, to Community State Bank of Rock Falls, as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Whiteside County, Illinois, as Document No. 2011-02181; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending.

Parcel 2 The West 50 feet of the South 125 feet of Block 6 of James A. Patterson?s Subdivision of the North Half of the Northwest Quarter of Section 34, Township 21 North, Range 7 East of the Fourth Principal Meridian, all situated in the County of Whiteside and State of Illinois.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT LEE COUNTY - DIXON, ILLINOIS

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, PLAINTIFF, VS.

Lots 6,7 and 8 in block 1 in teats and blagg's addition to the Village of Erie, Whiteside County, Illinois, excepting that part used and occupied for railroad purposes.

TAX NO. 20-06-430-004 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1303 Main Street, Erie, IL 61250 Description of Improvements: The Judgment amount was $44,851.25

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PARCEL 1: LOTS NINETEEN (19), TWENTYTWO (22) AND TWENTY-THREE (23) IN BLOCK TWENTY-THREE (23) IN WYMAN'S ADDITION TO THE TOWN (NOW CITY) OF AMBOY, ALL SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF OF LEE AND STATE OF ILLINOIS PARCEL 2: A PART OF LOT FOUR (4) IN BLOCK FOUR (4) IN THE ORIGINAL TOWN (NOW CITY) OF AMBOY, LEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT 4; THENCE RUNNING SOUTHEASTERLY ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT 4, 13 FEET; THENCE IN A NORTHERLY DIRECTION TO A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 4, 20 FEET EAST OF THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT 4; THENCE WEST 20 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, ALL SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF LEE AND STATE OF ILLINOIS Commonly known as 108, 110 E. DIVISION STREET, Amboy, IL 61310 Property Index No. 02-15-15-456-029; 02-15-22-203-022 The real estate is improved with a commercial property.

The judgment amount was $594,082.81.

Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; the balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g) (4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.

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COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 301 E. 12th St., Rock Falls, IL 61071 which said Mortgage was made by: Corey R. Evenson and Eleanor C. Evenson to Community State Bank of Rock Falls, as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Whiteside County, Illinois, as Document No. 2012-01968; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending.

NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court: Clerk of the Circuit Court Whiteside County Courts Facility, Eastern Division 101 E. Third St. Sterling, IL 61081 on or before January 13, 2017, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT. Dated: November 28, 2016.

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Astrograph Making snap decisions will lead to regret and could leave you in an awkward position.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2016 CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Moderation will be important. Whether shopping, socializing or engaging in robust conversation, keep in mind that life is simple until one opts to make it complex.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Don’t feel the need to take on too much responsibility over the holiday season. You owe it to your family to spend some downtime with them.

Set your priorities straight.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- A personal or physical change will turn out better than anticipated. Make preparations that will help you head in the best direction possible. Express your feelings with affection.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Tie up unfinished business.

Stay focused on building strong relationships with the people who can influence your future. Make romance a priority. A commitment or an offer looks promising.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- You can mix business with pleasure in order to form better alliances with your peers. Engaging in open discussion and familiarizing yourself with what others like or expect will help you advance.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Socializing with friends is encouraged, as long as you aren’t indulgent. A discussion with a personal or professional partner will turn sour.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Make romance and your health and children priorities.

Your actions will be what count when it comes to your personal life. Don’t take on responsibilities that don’t belong to you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -Express your feelings and do something special. Make travel plans or engage in something unique that will enlighten you and bring you closer to making an important decision.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Take care of any year-end tasks that an older relative is having trouble doing. It will end up being fulfilling for you, and the thanks you receive will be worth your while.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -Keep your life simple and refuse to overspend just to appease someone. You cannot buy love or forgiveness.

Truth, affection and genuine concern will be what win someone over to your side.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Offering your time to help a cause you believe in is fine, but don’t feel you have to pay for others’ problems or mistakes. Charity begins at home.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Make changes at home that will add to the year-end festivities. Aim to bring joy to the people you love through gestures of kindness and small offers of gratitude. ©2016 UFS

CELEBRITY CIPHER

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Please screen respondents carefully when giving an animal away.

Your pet will thank you!

SNOWBLOWERS

Thursday, December 22, 2016

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