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Alex T. Paschal/apaschal@saukvalley.com

In preparation for budget talks, a Rock Falls Public Works panel started the prioritization process Thursday to begin determining which roads should move to the top of the list for repairs. Among the candidates is Third Avenue from West Second Street to First Avenue.

A branch on a Dixon native’s family tree might have been cut short, had it not been for the actions of a certain lifeguard – and future president.

Which roads get first crack?

City begins process of prioritizing which streets it would like to see fixed ​BY PAM EGGEMEIER peggemeier@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5570 @pam_eggemeier

ROCK FALLS – The city is making progress with fixing roads, but there is no shortage of candidates for the next capital projects list.

When Rock Falls voters approved a half-cent sales tax increase in April 2015, it doubled the revenue from that source. The money must be used for infrastructure, and the city promised residents that roads would be its main focus.

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Dixon’s own Ronald Reagan, shown here during his time as a lifeguard at Lowell Park

BY LOUISE BRASS For Sauk Valley Media

DIXON – Ronald Reagan was often mentioned during the recent national election, and touted as a wise leader and a true patriot.

Although the 40th president made his name on the national and world scene, memories of his teenage years in Dixon have been cherished by many since long before he entered the political arena.

He was especially lauded by those he saved from drowning in the Rock River in the 1920s. Notches were cut on a log every time he saved a swimmer, totaling 77.

Who were the people Reagan saved when he was a lifeguard at Lowell Park?

STERLING

Fix it up or tear it down

City moving forward with court action to demolish building ​BY PAM EGGEMEIER peggemeier@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5570 @pam_eggemeier

STERLING – The city has started court proceedings that would authorize demolition of a dilapidated commercial building just east of the Moose Family Center.

The property at 2607 E. Lincolnway is owned by David Barajas Sr., but it has been vacant for many years.

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REAGAN continued on A34

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A musical First 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., the show at 6. Food and drinks will be sold at McKendrie Street Cafe.

Each musician or band performs for 15 minutes, playing various styles of acoustic music. Admission is by donation. Call 815-973-0942 for more information.

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High-flying history in Sterling

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Pop on by to band concert

STERLING – Actress and historian Leslie Goddard will portray Amelia Earhart at the Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society meeting, which begins at 2 p.m. Sunday at Ryberg Auditorium in CGH Medical Center, 100 E. LeFevre.

She will take people back to 1937, when Earhart was attempting to set a new record by becoming the first person to fly around the world at its equator. People can also learn about Earhart’s flights that secured her a place in aviation history.

Admission is free.

Refreshments will be served.

Call 815-622-6215 for more information.

STERLING – The Sterling Municipal Band’s 23rd annual Pops Concert begins at 7 p.m. today at Abiding Word Church, 806 E. Lynn Boulevard. The band has musicians from all over the Sauk Valley and northwest Illinois.

The free concert will include the theme from “The Muppet Show,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and “Aba Daba Honeymoon,” and director Jon James will perform a duet of “Fandango” with trombonist Bryan Anton.

The Saxophonic Sounds will perform during intermission.

Call Jon or Cathy James at 815-6221681 for more information.

Amelia Earhart

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Farmers market in winter? Yep!

DIXON – The Dixon Winter Farmers Market will be open from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Saturday in the lower level of Loveland Community House, 513 W. Second St. It’s open the first and third Saturdays through April, and is accessible to wheelchairs.

The market offers fresh and local produce, meats, eggs, honey, baked goods, jams and jellies, all-natural soaps and skin care products, jewelry, kids’ things, and more.

Audiologist Lydia Doty will be on hand to talk to customers about hearing issues.

Find Dixon Winter Farmers Market or call 815-244-4451 for more information.

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Feast your eyes on eagles

FULTON – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mississippi River Project’s 33rd annual Bald Eagle Watch runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Lock and Dam 13, off state Route 84, near Fulton. Educational programs and environmental exhibits will be available at Clinton Community College, 1000 Lincoln Blvd., Clinton, Iowa.

A bus will take people back and forth from the college to the lock and dam; parking is limited at the lock and dam.

Refreshments will be provided at the viewing area, and visitors can enter the lock and dam to view educational material and warm up.

Call the 815-2593628 or 815-2732732 for information.

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COMMUNITY WATCH of Lee; 1 p.m. Tuesday; two counts of burglary; taken to Lee County Jail on $25,000 bond and given notice to appear in court.

Travis R. Hanlin, 25, of Mount Morris; 2 p.m. Monday; warrant; taken to Lee County Jail on $50,000 bond.

Joel C. Bloom, 20, of Dixon; 10:14 a.m. Saturday; two counts of delivery of a controlled substance, two counts of possession of a controlled substance, and a warrant for failure to appear; posted $50,000 bond.

Daniel E. Troutman, 19, of Dixon; 2 a.m. Saturday; possession of marijuana (30 to 500 grams); posted individual bond and given a notice to appear in court.

Shane B. Emry, 20, of Colorado Springs, Colorado; 2 a.m. Saturday; possession of alcohol as a minor; posted individual bond and given notice to appear in court.

Nicole R. Pfeiffer, 38, of Dixon; 11:11 p.m. Dec. 30; driving on a revoked registration; posted individual bond.

Patricio Ruiz-Delgado, 38, of Jefferson, Wisconsin; 8:52 p.m. Dec. 30; no insurance, no valid driver’s license; posted cash bond and given a court date.

Timothy W. McCauley, 27, of Rantoul; 8:16 p.m.

Dec. 30; Whiteside County warrant for failure to appear on a possession of marijuana charge; posted cash bond.

Ann F. Finnestad, 42, of Steward; 1:40 a.m. Dec. 30; driving under the influence, no insurance; posted individual bond.

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Correction In May 2010, Nicole M. Rutherford was a suspect in a string of break-ins or attempted break-ins to churches and homes in several counties, including Lee and Ogle, but ultimately she was charged in only one, in Winnebago County, where she was sentenced to drug court.

A story in SV Weekend incorrectly stated she was arrested in more than one break-in that year.

We regret the error.

POLICE Sterling Police

Irene Batley, 61, of Sterling; 3:21 p.m. Wednesday at East Fifth Street and 16th Avenue; expired registration; state citation issued.

Balwinder Singh, 22, of Sterling; 12:20 a.m.

Thursday at East Second Street and Second Avenue; improper signal, no valid driver’s license; state citation issued.

Dixon Police

Brandon R. Vincent, 23, homeless; 4 p.m. Wednesday; delivery of marijuana; taken to Lee County Jail on $50,000 bond and given notice to appear in court.

Gabriel D. Hawkins, 30, of Dixon; 4:40 a.m. Sunday; aggravated battery; taken to Lee County Jail on $50,000 bond.

Tyler S. Randolph, 21, of Dixon; 8 p.m. Dec. 30; possession of marijuana (30 to 500 grams) with intent to deliver, and possession of marijuana (30 to 100 grams); posted $10,000 bond.

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Brandon J. Fancher, 26, of Dixon; 5:24 p.m.

Wednesday; warrant – failure to appear non-payment on contempt charge; posted cash bond.

Zachary K. Lightner, 28, of Dixon; 610 p.m. Tuesday; warrant – failure to appear on a contempt charge; posted cash bond.

Michael J. Honeycutt, 19,

Justin T. Bennett, 25, of Mount Morris; Wednesday; possession of a controlled substance and failure to appear; given notice to appear in court.

Bradley J. Overcash, 26, of Byron; Wednesday; failure to appear; given notice to appear in court.

Tracy McBee, 39, of Rochelle; Wednesday; failure to appear; posted cash bond.

Antonio A. Walker, 42, of Rockford; Wednesday; failure to appear; given notice to appear in court.

Ramon D. Woodson, 22, of Rockford; Wednesday; failure to appear; given notice to appear in court.

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Ballot hearing pushed back a week

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

MORRISON – The ruling on whether two Sterling school board members may stay on the ballot to retain their seats will have to wait a week.

Gonzalo Reyes, 63, filed an objection Dec. 28 to the petitions that Terry McGuire, 52, and Marc A. Geil, 42, filed to run in the April 4 consolidated election, but Reyes’ attorney was in court and unable to attend Thursday’s public hearing. Reyes, a former school board member who also served as vice president, is also running for election.

A three-person electoral board, consisting of Whiteside County Clerk Dana Nelson, Circuit Clerk Sue Costello, and state’s attorney designee Tom Senneff, granted Reyes a

See the filings

Terry McGuire

Marc A. Geil

continuance until 10 a.m. next Thursday. Reyes’ attorney is William Lee of Morrison-based Ludens, Potter & Lee. McGuire, vice president of marketing and communications for Halo Branded Solutions, will not be able to attend the rescheduled hearing because he will be out of town Sunday through Thursday. Geil will serve as his proxy.

Reyes’ objections to the petitions are three-fold: that neither McGuire nor Geil ...

• Specified whether they were running for a 4- or 2-year term

Go to shawurl.com/2z41 to read Gonzalo Reyes’ objection to Sterling school board members Terry McGuire and Marc A. Geil’s petitions.

Go to shawurl.com/2z42 to read the board members’ petitions.

Go to shawurl.com/2z3z and shawurl.com/2z40 to read the state statutes pertaining to petitions stating candidacy for office.

To attend

A public hearing will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in Room 117 of the Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox St. in Morrison, where a three-member panel will determine whether two Sterling school board members’ names will remain on the April 4 election ballot.

Go to whiteside.org or call 815-772-5189 for more information.

• Specified whether they were running to represent the Sterling Township or outlying townships • Listed the legal name of the district: Community Unit School District #5.

Incidentally, McGuire took over for Reyes in

August 2011, when the 9-year board member stepped down to be an art teacher at Challand Middle School, where he still works.

McGuire won re-election unopposed in 2013, as did Geil, who is seeking a third 4-year term.

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The city now receives an estimated $818,000 a year from the sales tax.

The only other viable income source cities have for fixing roads is the state Motor Fuel Tax. That revenue continues to shrink, and came in at about $225,000 last year.

Most of the city’s MFT money is still being used to pay the 20-year bond on the West Second Street project done in 1999.

The extra sales tax money has enabled the city to do road, curb and gutter, and sidewalk projects at a faster pace, as well as put away a minimum of $100,000 each year for larger projects. The city is targeting Buell Road, which carries an estimated $800,000 price tag.

“We’re putting away about $200,000 for Buell Road this year, and we’re thinking we can do that rebuild in 2018,” City Administrator Robbin Blackert said.

The city’s Public Works panel started the prioritization process Thursday, as budget time draws closer.

“Decisions must be made for budgeting purposes at our next meet-

What’s next The Rock Falls Public Works Committee will pick up its roads discussion when it next meets at 8:15 a.m.

Feb. 2 at City Hall, 603 W. 10th St. The agendas will be posted at rockfalls61071.net and at City Hall. Call 815-622-1100 for more information. ing,” Blackert said. “A lot of decisions will be made next month because I’d like to pass a budget at the April 4 council meeting.”

Rough estimates were in on two projects that could be done this year. One of the roads is Galt Avenue from West Fourth to West Fifth Street. It isn’t a large area, but it could be complex and costly.

City Engineer Brian Frickenstein said road reconstruction alone would cost about $155,000, but if new storm sewer and water main infrastructure is added, the cost jumps to about $365,000.

Frickenstein also had estimates for work at Third Avenue, but they were based on recently completed work done on Seventh Avenue. That project area would cover Third Avenue from West Second Street to First Avenue.

“The estimates were prorated according to the size difference of the areas,” he said. “Based on that, the Third Avenue

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project would be about $750,000, and another $315,000 if new water main is installed.”

The Third Avenue area is about twice the length of the Seventh Avenue project.

Of the city’s $818,000 capital projects budget, $400,000 is tentatively devoted to road resurfacing.

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Sue Colbert, a Dixon native and Naperville businesswoman, shows some of the Ronald Reagan memorabilia she and her family have collected at her family business, Colbert Custom Framing & Art Printing in Naperville.

Alex T. Paschal/apaschal@saukvalley.com

The city has started court proceedings that would authorize the demolition of a dilapidated commercial building across the street from Northland Mall, just east of the Moose Family Center. The property at 2607 E. Lincolnway is owned by David Barajas Sr., but it has been vacant for many years.

Louise Brass/For Sauk Valley Media

Rescued swimmer and Reagan met up again during ’76 presidential campaign REAGAN

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Although legend has it they mostly were women, he saved at least one man: Ralph Cronk, said his great-niece, Sue Colbert, a Dixon native and Naperville businesswoman.

Colbert has kept the story alive by devoting a wall of memorabilia honoring “Dutch” Reagan at her family’s business, Colbert Custom Framing & Art Printing, 1283 S. Naper Blvd. in Naperville.

Colbert, her husband, Kevin, and daughter, Stephanie, the general manager, developed the business, and Stephanie will take over early this year.

“The story we are told is that my uncle, who was blind, was swimming in the Rock River and got in over his head,” she said. “Ronald Reagan fished him out. Reagan was probably about 17 years old.”

Cronk trained guide dogs for the blind, and also was a piano tuner. His great-niece has commemorated Reagan by displaying framed memorabilia, historical photographs, and Dixon Telegraph news clips about Reagan.

Among their many projects, including preserving memorabilia of sports, business and political notables, are the framed, larger-than-life-sized graphics at the Northwest Territory Historic Center in Dixon.

Colbert, a sports writer for the Telegraph in the 1980s when Reagan was president, never has forgotten her roots. She likes to say: “I went to school with Ronald Reagan – only 50 years apart.”

She tells customers and groups touring the business the story of how Cronk was saved, and how her family’s support for Reagan’s legacy has influenced her life. Her goal is to move back to

Submitted by Sue Colbert

Ralph Cronk, shown here in an anniversary portrait with his wife Mary, fondly told his family members about the day Ronald Reagan saved him from the Rock River – back when Reagan was about 17 years old.

Dixon with her husband Reagan’s parents, Nelle and live on land they own and John, also welcomed near Lowell Park. people of other races “President Reagan is when they found no weljust such a reminder of come at area hotels, Colhow things could be in a bert said. small town: hard work, “His father, a traveling honesty, integrity, lim- salesman [and member ited government,” she of St. Patrick Catholic said. “Another fascinat- Church] was very, very ing thing about him is against any kind of dishis mother, Nelle Rea- crimination. If it came gan. She looks so stern in to a hotel that wouldn’t pictures, but apparently allow Jews or blacks to that’s how people took stay there, he wouldn’t pictures then. She was stay there, either. He a very lively person. She would sleep in his car,” was involved in Dixon and his son followed suit, – in chautauqua drama she said. and cultural events. I Colbert is the daughter think her love of plays of Tom and Shirley Fosinfluenced ‘Dutch.’” ter. Tom was a member A c c o r d i n g t o t h e of the Dixon Lions Club National Preservation when Reagan was made Society, Reagan’s mother an honorary member, was an active member of she said. Her parents also First Christian Church in were among the GOP delDixon, where he some- egates invited to Reagan’s times taught Sunday first inauguration in 1981, school. She started him while Colbert was attendon his acting career by ing Northern Illinois Uniencouraging him to par- versity in DeKalb. They ticipate in church plays. brought her back a white The Reagans lived at cowboy hat, a symbol 816 S. Hennepin Ave., often associated with now the Ronald Reagan Reagan.

Boyhood Home, during The Fosters later his teen years. The fam- became guides at the ily offered rooms to peo- Reagan home. ple newly released from By the time of Reagan’s prison, to help them get funeral in 2004, Tom had their lives back together. died, but Colbert sat with

her mother at the commemoration service and then walked with hundreds of people along Hennepin Avenue, to the park named for Reagan, and watched the flyover in his honor. It was the route Reagan took from his church to his home every Sunday, Colbert said.

When Reagan visited Dixon in 1976 while campaigning, and crowds gathered at Dixon High School to see him, Ralph Cronk had a front-row seat. Reagan picked him out of the crowd, and Cronk reminded Reagan that he had saved him from drowning many decades ago.

Colbert knows their interaction, word-forword: “Fifty years ago, you fished me out of the river,” Cronk said.

“Would you like to try it again?” Reagan quipped.

Needless to say, Cronk declined the offer with a big smile, Colbert said.

As for the log with the 77 notches, “I think it disintegrated many years ago,” she said.

But the memories of a young lifeguard who would be president remain indelible.

Flood-related issues add sense of urgency to officials’ actions BUILDING

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The last business to inhabit the structure was a Dog n Suds drivein restaurant.

The city filed the petition Dec. 21, and a case management hearing is scheduled for April 17 in Whiteside County Court.

“If we get the demolition order, and the owner doesn’t repair or demo the building himself, we would have the authority to do it,” City Manager Scott Shumard said.

Although the city might consider it costprohibitive to bring the building up to code, by law, the owner must make that decision. The clock is ticking, though, now that the matter is headed to court.

Neighbors have lodged complaints about the building, and when the weather recently put a large hole in the roof, the city said it was the last straw.

An infrastructure matter added to the city’s sense of urgency: Addressing a damaged culvert at the property is high on the city’s stormwater sewer priority list. Engineers have determined that even if the culvert wasn’t damaged, it still would contribute to

What’s next

A case management hearing in the civil case is set for 9 a.m.

April 17 at the Whiteside County Courthouse in Sterling. flooding problems on East Lincolnway. The culvert doesn’t have as much capacity as the culvert that runs under the road.

“The hydraulic analysis showed there is significant drainage coming from the culvert that causes backup toward Northland Mall,” Shumard said. “Trees and power lines are also in the way of the culvert work.”

If Barajas doesn’t address the culvert issue, the order also would allow to city to take care of the problem. A dated estimate from 2011 puts the cost of removing the culvert at $164,000.

The property had been in foreclosure proceedings since 2014, but the bank released the mortgages to the owner on Dec. 22. Tax payments have been made on the property.

Barajas said Thursday that he had no comment, citing pending litigation.

A concrete block building east of Barajas’ building was demolished about 2 weeks ago.

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Homelessness goal falls short PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Pledges by President Barack Obama and a national nonprofit organization to end homelessness among veterans did not meet their goal. But advocates see improvement, and the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday that “we should be there” within a couple of years.

Homelessness among veterans has been effectively ended in Virginia, Connecticut and Delaware and in about 35 communities, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

But many veterans still sleep on the streets elsewhere.

Still, as Obama’s term ends, advocates call the national push a success because many veterans did get homes, and the ambitious goal created urgency. About two dozen nonprofits, government officials and homeless veterans in 17 states and Washington spoke with The Associated Press about the effectiveness of the effort and the challenges they faced.

“It has been the best kind of failure I’ve experienced,” said Chris Ko, director of homeless initiatives for the United Way of Greater Los Angeles. “It’s black and white. Did we reach it?

No. Did we succeed in the broader effort? Will we end veteran homelessness because of this national push? Yeah.”

The Obama administration set a goal in 2010 of ending homelessness among veterans in 2015, and first lady Michelle Obama challenged mayors nationwide to do so in 2014.

Though the deadline passed without the goal being met, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness says it won’t rest until every community has reached the goal.

The nonprofit Community Solutions also ran a campaign to end veteran homelessness by the end of 2015 and chronic homelessness 1 year later, called “Zero: 2016.” That work continues under a new name, “Built for Zero.”

VA Secretary Robert McDonald called on his agency and its partners Thursday to house as many veterans as possible in 30 days, saying that homelessness typically increases after the holidays and that winter is a tough time.

The number of homeless veterans nationwide is down 47 percent, or about 35,000 people, since 2010, but there are still roughly 40,000 more, HUD said in August.

To get homeless veterans into permanent homes, the Obama administration used a

program that was created in 2008 and combines rental assistance from HUD with case management and clinical services from the VA. Nearly 90,000 socalled HUD-VASH vouchers have been awarded, with $635 million appropriated for vouchers from 2008 to 2016. Many places were able to house most of their homeless veterans, but vouchers became harder to use as the housing market tightened.

Some areas harbor enough resources to solve the problem, but they’re spread across multiple agencies, making coordination difficult, Community Solutions said. Officials in communities that have effectively ended veteran homelessness, including Bergen County, New Jersey, and San Antonio, say the key was better coordination among government agencies and nonprofits.

There has also been a national shift in how people who are the hardest to house, including addicts and the mentally ill, are helped. They used to have to get medical treatment, get sober or take other steps to qualify for housing. That wasn’t working, HUD says, so now they get housing first, then are pointed toward help to confront root causes of their homelessness.

New Mexico reduced its number of homeless veterans from roughly 1,000 in 2015 to about 115.

“The most important thing we’ve learned in the last couple of years is we can make veteran homelessness almost completely go away,” said Hank Hughes at the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness.

Hughes and others worry momentum will stall if President-elect Donald Trump cuts funding for social programs. Trump’s team didn’t respond to a request for comment for this article. He has said he wants to rein in government spending and reform the VA but didn’t say much about homelessness during the campaign.

In Chicago, nearly 3,000 homeless veterans have been housed since January 2015, leaving slightly less than 650 awaiting housing, according to the nonprofit All Chicago.

“Would it have been great if everyone met their goal? Of course it would’ve,” said Traci Strickland, who supervises homeless programs at a community mental health center in West Virginia. “We didn’t meet the goal for everybody, but we met the goal for a lot of people.”

SPRINGFIELD (AP) – About 30 Illinois Army National Guard members who served in Afghanistan during the past year have returned home during the past few weeks.

Officials say members of the 233rd Military Police Company based in Springfield came home after completing a post-mobilization program at Fort Bliss, Texas.

The soldiers were mobilized in January

Susan L. Glover DIXON – Susan L. Glover, 70, of Dixon, died Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling. She was employed by the state of Illinois before her retirement.

Susan was born Oct. 8, 1946, in Monmouth, the daughter of George Wilbur and Goldie Arlene (Gonigam) McKelvey. She married William Robert “Bill” Glover Sr. on Jan. 23, 1968, in Monmouth. He preceded her in death on Aug. 19, 2012. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Dixon, Sister Cities Association, and a lifetime member of VFW. Susan enjoyed doing activities with her husband, Bill, raising labs, fishing, boating, and traveling.

She is survived by one daughter, Michelle (Kevin) Countryman of Freeport; one stepson, William R. “Bobby” Glover Jr. of Alexis; one

sister, Patricia (Fig) Taylor of Kirkwood; three grandchildren, Korin Karst and Natalie and Ryan Countryman; four great-grandchildren, Emily and Garrett Karst, Ella Grace Norwood, and Aubrie Wright; and many nieces and nephews.

Susan also was preceded in death by her parents and one brother, William McKelvey.

Visitation will be from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, and the memorial service at 2:30 p.m.

Saturday, at PrestonSchilling Funeral Home in Dixon, with the Rev. Bunyan Cocar, pastor of First Baptist Church in Dixon, officiating. Burial of cremated remains will be at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens in Dixon.

A memorial has been established in her name.

Visit prestonschillingfuneralhome.com to send condolences.

Donald L. Porter ROCK FALLS – Donald L. Porter, 52, of Rock Falls, died Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, at CGH Medical Center.

Don was employed by Northwestern Steel & Wire as an electrician, and also worked for Porter Brothers Asphalt and Sealing. He loved spending time with family and friends. Some of his favorite activities included hunting, fishing, trapping, and the great outdoors.

He enjoyed weightlifting and helping others achieve their goals, as well. Don always will be remembered for his positive attitude and his great sense of humor.

Don was born June 27, 1964, in Sterling, the son of Clinton and Norma (Broers) Porter.

Survivors include his parents, Clinton and Norma Porter of Rock

Falls; two sons, Matthew (Savana) Porter of Sterling and Joshua Porter of Rock Falls; and one brother, Steve Porter of Rock Falls.

He was preceded in death by his maternal and paternal grandparents.

Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, and the funeral at noon Saturday at Abiding Word Church in Sterling, with the Rev. Scott Porter, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be at Riverside Cemetery in Sterling.

The memorial will be gifted for an automatic door opener for handicapped accessibility at Abiding Word Church.

Schilling Funeral Home and Cremation in Sterling is handling arrangements.

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Duane H. Bracke ALBANY – Duane H. Bracke, 67, formerly of Prophetstown, died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, at home.

Duane was born Oct. 27, 1949, in Geneseo, the son of Hubert and Gertrude (Tillie) Bracke. He married Kathryn Maes on Jan. 23, 1971, in Prophetstown.

Duane farmed for more than 20 years, and was employed by Rock River Lumber and Grain for 17 years, retiring in 2011. He was a member of St. Catherine’s Catholic Church in Prophetstown.

Survivors include his wife, Kathryn; three daughters, Kimberly (Brian) Perkins of Fort Garland, Colorado, Dawn (Brian) Tiesman of Port Byron, and Heather (Doyal) McCoy of Elk Grove, California;

one son, Adam (Stephanie) Bracke of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania; one sister, Beverly (Neal) Olinger of Annawan; and five grandchildren, Addison and Lauren Tiesman, James and Celeste McCoy, and Abigail Bracke.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Visitation will be from 9:15 to 10 a.m. Saturday, with the rosary recited at 9 a.m. at St. Catherine’s Catholic Church in Prophetstown. Celebration of the Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the church, with the Rev. Zdzislaw Francis Wawryszuk, celebrant.

Burial will be at Riverside Cemetery in Prophetstown.

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Gregory Manzano ROCK FALLS – Gregory Manzano, 45, of Rock Falls, died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria.

McDonald Funeral Homes is handling arrangements.

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2016 as part of a personal security detail. The 233rd was responsible for escorting general officers, VIPs, U.S. and foreign dignitaries, advisers and NATO officials throughout Kabul and the region.

They also guarded the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. military base.

Nine of the soldiers were awarded the Bronze Star. One was given the Meritorious Service Medal. Nineteen received the army Commendation Medal.

Others have yet to be awarded.

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FUNERAL SERVICES FOR THE WEEK ​ Friday visitation: ▼ Casey J. McCormick of Amboy, 5-8 p.m. at MihmJones Funeral Home in Amboy. ▼ Friday funeral: John E. Fane of Dixon, 10:30 a.m. at PrestonSchilling Funeral Home in Dixon. ▼ Saturday visitations: Anne M. Corcoran of West Brooklyn, 9-10:30 a.m. at St. Mary Church in West Brooklyn.

Donald L. Porter of Rock Falls, 9 a.m.-noon at Abiding Word Church in Sterling.

Duane Bracke of Albany, 9:15-10 a.m. at St. Catherine Catholic Church in Prophetstown.

Paul S. Walls of Rock Falls, 10-11:30 a.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls.

Thomas Z. Estes of Princeton, 11-noon at Norberg Memorial Home in Princeton.

Steve Shiaras of Dixon, noon-1 p.m. at Jones Funeral Home in Dixon.

Susan L. Glover of Dixon, 1:30-2:30 p.m. at Preston-Schilling Funeral Home in Dixon.

Robert Boothe of Polo, 2-5 p.m. at St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Polo. ▼ Saturday funerals:​ Duane H. Bracke of Albany, 10 a.m. at St. Catherine Catholic Church in Prophetstown.

Anne M. Corcoran of West Brooklyn, 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary Church in West Brooklyn.

Casey J. McCormick of Amboy, 11 a.m. at MihmJones Funeral Home in Amboy.

Linda L. Renois of Rock Falls; 11 a.m. celebration of life at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Sterling.

Paul S. Walls of Rock

Falls, 11:30 a.m. at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls.

Thomas Z. Estes of Princeton, noon at Norberg Memorial Home in Princeton.

Donald L. Porter of Rock Falls, noon at Abiding Word Church in Sterling.

Steve Shiaras of Dixon, 1 p.m. at Jones Funeral Home in Dixon.

Arlene M. Blum of Polo, 1 p.m. Memorial Mass at St. Mary Catholic Church in Polo.

Susan L. Glover of Dixon, 2:30 p.m. at Preston-Schilling Funeral Home. ▼ Sunday visitation: Bill N. Feather of Sterling, 11:30-2 p.m. at Schilling Funeral Home of Sterling. ▼ Sunday funerals: Robert Boothe of Polo, 1:30 p.m. at St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Polo.

Dale Endress of Mount Carroll, 3-5 p.m. memorial gathering at Law-Jones Funeral Home in Mount Carroll.

Mary Jane Clinker of Dixon, 5-8 p.m. with rosary recited at 7 p.m. at Jones Funeral Home in Dixon. ▼ Monday funeral: Mary Jane Clinker of Dixon, 10 a.m. at St. Anne Catholic Church in Dixon. ▼ Jan. 13 visitation: Lucien Kroll “Skip” Laswell, of Byron; 5 to 7 p.m. at Farrell-Holland-Gale Funeral Home in Byron, with rosary at 6:45 p.m. ▼ Jan. 14 funerals: Douglas Payne of Amboy, 4 p.m. celebration of life at Amboy Community Building.

Lucien Kroll “Skip” Laswell, of Byron; 10 a.m.

Mass of the Resurrection at St. Mary Catholic Church in Byron.

Paul S. Walls ROCK FALLS – Paul S. Walls, 73, of Rock Falls, died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

Paul was born July 12, 1943, in Violet Hill, Arkansas, the son of Vernon and Opal (Tate) Walls.

He was employed at Northwestern Steel and Wire in Sterling for 28 years.

Surviving are two sons, Michael (Amy) Walls of Rock Falls and Roger Walls of Florida; one daughter, Beverly Frost of Florida; one sister, Betty (Lou) of Arkansas; three brothers, Lonnie (Imogean) Walls, Carl (Jan) Walls, and Don-

ald (Sondra) Walls, all of Arkansas; four grandchildren; and one greatgranddaughter.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two sons, Rodney Paul Walls and Randy Walls; one daughter, Sue Glover; and three brothers, Glen Walls, James Walls, and Norman Walls.

Visitation will be from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, and the funeral at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls.

A memorial has been established.

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Casey J. McCormick AMBOY – Casey J. McCormick, 54, of Amboy, died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, at Aperion Care in Amboy.

He was born Jan. 24, 1962, in Dixon, the son of Thomas and Sue Ann (Blake) McCormick. He had worked as a certified nursing assistant at the Franklin Grove and Amboy nursing homes and also had worked at Dean Foods in Dixon. Casey enjoyed bingo, trivia and karaoke.

He is survived by one sister, Corinne (Steve) Powers of Dixon; brothers Thomas Shawn (Gayla) McCormick of

Rock Falls and Kelly McCormick of Marengo; eight nieces and nephews; 12 great-nieces and great-nephews; and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at MihmJones Funeral Home in Amboy. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Timothy Draper officiating. Burial will be at St. Patrick Cemetery in Amboy.

A memorial has been established.

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WASHINGTON | OBAMACARE LEGISLATION

Ryan: Lawmakers will act this year on health care WASHINGTON (AP) – Lawmakers will act this year on bills not simply repealing President Barack Obama’s health care law but replacing it as well, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday.

The remarks by Ryan, R-Wisconsin, suggested a faster schedule than some had expected on reshaping the nation’s health care system. While Republicans have said they plan to vote this year on dismantling Obama’s law, Ryan went a step further, saying they also would write legislation to replace it in 2017.

It won’t be easy.

Despite unifying for years behind the notion of dismantling Obama’s 2010 law, Republicans have yet to rally behind a plan for replacing it, stymied by divisions over how to do it and pay for the changes.

“Our legislating on Obamacare, our repealing and replacing and transitioning, the legislating will occur this year,” Ryan told reporters, using a nickname for the law.

Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said by “legislating,” Ryan meant lawmakers will write leg-

“Our legislating on Obamacare, our repealing and replacing ... will occur this year.”

Paul Ryan

House Speaker islation and vote on it.

With Donald Trump set to become president on Jan. 20, Republicans running Congress now face the political imperative to deliver on their oft-repeated promises to erase and replace the health law.

Democrats, who helped Obama enact the law without any GOP votes,

are defending Obama’s overhaul but are outnumbered in the House and Senate.

No. 2 Senate GOP leader John Cornyn of Texas said writing a new health care law would be a top priority in his chamber but stopped short of saying senators would complete that this year.

“The Senate operating

at warp speed is still nothing compared to what the House can do,” he said in a brief interview.

GOP Ohio Gov. John Kasich, whose state is covering hundreds of thousands of additional people under the health care law’s Medicaid expansion, expressed concerns to reporters in Cleveland about whether Congress would follow repeal with a replacement.

“What are we going to tell 700,000 people, you don’t get health care anymore?” said Kasich, who challenged Trump for his party’s presidential nom-

ination. “It’s always easy to repeal, but the key is, what are you going to put in its place?”

Republicans want to abolish the law’s penalties for individuals who don’t buy policies and for some larger businesses that don’t cover employees. They want to ease federal coverage requirements and have proposed providing tax credits to help people afford coverage.

Since the new Congress convened this week, Republicans have taken initial, procedural steps toward voiding the law.

PRESIDENTIAL CABINET

Former Indiana senator selected to lead national intelligence Tribune News Service

WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump plans to pick former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats to head the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, overseeing 17 intelligence agencies, according to a transition official.

If he is confirmed by the Senate, Coats would face a daunting task as the

bridge between Trump and the intelligence community. Trump has begun openly feuding with intelligence agencies over their conclusion that Russia hacked into Democratic computers to influence the election.

Coats recently concluded a term in the Senate, after also serving there from 1989 through 1999.

He has also served as the

U.S. ambassador to Germany.

Coats, who served on the Senate intelligence Dan committee, Coats could also face a challenge in reconciling his own hawkish views on Russia with Trump’s far friendlier posture toward

President Vladimir Putin, Coats was banned, along with Arizona Sen. John McCain and a handful of other members of Congress and White House officials, from entering Russia in 2014 for backing U.S. sanctions against the country following Russia’s annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine.

“While I’m disappointed that I won’t be able to go

on vacation with my family in Siberia this summer, I am honored to be on this list,” he said at the time.

Coats also spent years as a lobbyist between 2000 and 2010, working on behalf of a variety of clients in defense, pharmaceuticals, financial services and private equity, among other industries, according to public records. His clients

included Lockheed Martin, a company Trump recently criticized for the high price of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Trump ran against Washington’s revolvingdoor lobbying culture, using “drain the swamp” as a prominent slogan.

Yet he has chosen several former lobbyists for senior positions in his administration.

MEXICAN BORDER

Trump administration might pursue border wall without new bill WASHINGTON (AP) – Congressional Republicans and Donald Trump’s transition team are exploring whether they can make good on Trump’s promise of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border without passing a new bill on the topic, officials said Thursday.

Under the evolving plan, the Trump administration would rely on existing legislation authorizing fencing and other technology along the southern border.

Congress would be asked to ensure that enough money is appropriated to take additional new steps – but would not pass a stand-alone bill authorizing a big new wall.

The potential approach was confirmed by two congressional officials and a senior transition

official with knowledge of the discussions; all spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. The officials emphasized that no final decisions had been made.

The approach could come as a surprise to some but could avoid a legislative fight Trump might lose if he tried to get Congress to pass a stand-alone bill authorizing the kind of border wall he promised during the campaign.

AP

A Donald Trump supporter flexes his muscles with the words “Build The Wall” written on them as Trump speaks at a campaign rally April 15 in Plattsburgh, New York.

It’s not clear how much could be done along the 2,000-mile border without additional actions

by Congress. Lawmakers passed the Secure Fence Act of 2006, but most of those 700 miles

have already been built.

Some areas are in much better shape than others, though, and long stretches are made up of fencing that stops vehicles but not pedestrians.

But whatever steps might be taken without Congress’ approval

“focused on Illinois” and is trying “to minimize the distractions” and his time out of state.

Bruce Rauner is Rauner amid a state budget impasse with Democratic lawmakers. Trump is to

take the oath of office Jan. 20, just 5 days before Rauner is scheduled to give the State of the State speech in Springfield.

Rauner has said that he has friends in Trump’s incoming administration and expects Illinois to have a good relationship with the president-elect.

What can be done

IN BRIEF Illinois governor will not attend inauguration CHICAGO (AP) – Republican Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner says he won’t be in Washington later this month for GOP Presidentelect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Rauner says he’s

would be likely to fall short of the extravagant new wall on the border that Trump repeatedly said Mexico would pay for. And despite Congress’ involvement in

approving any spending, such an approach might also open Trump to charges of going around the House and the Senate to take unilateral actions, something he repeatedly criticized President Barack Obama for doing.

A spending bill including money for border construction could also provoke a legislative showdown given potential opposition from Senate Democrats.

Still, several lawmakers and congressional officials said the administration could have significant flexibility in taking additional steps without Congress’ approval.

“There’s a lot of things that can be done within current law,” said

Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Florida, a longtime proponent of comprehensive immigration reform, though he emphasized that a lasting solution on immigration would take action by Congress.

Trump’s vow to build an impenetrable, concrete wall along the southern border was his signature campaign proposal.

“Build the wall!” supporters would chant at his rallies. “Who’s going to pay for it?” Trump would ask them. “Mexico!” Trump often promised the wall would be built of hardened concrete, rebar and steel as tall as his venues’ ceilings, and would feature a “big, beautiful door” to allow legal immigrants to enter.

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ote to readers: The Sauk Valley Media Editorial Board presents the SVM Editorial Board Roundtable. Several members of the Editorial Board offer their responses to a question of the week. Some questions will be of a serious nature, and some won’t be. Members might agree on an issue one week, but not the next week. Regardless, we certainly encourage public feedback.

Question of the week: There’s been a lot of talk about Illinoisans pulling up stakes and leaving.

If you had to move to another state, which would you choose?

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hile I enjoy nothing more than sitting on a beautiful beach soaking up the sun, I cannot see myself living on one.

I’m pretty much a Midwestern girl at heart. I love to watch the seasons change in the Midwest.

The colors that change throughout the seasons I have not found to be quite as beautiful anywhere else.

I enjoy the lush greens in the spring, flowers in the summer, beautiful

I

grew up in a small town in Missouri, and I often joke that they left the town’s gate open one night when I was 18. I left and have never returned, and that’s been more than 40 years ago.

Ironically, it was the opportunities that Illinois provided me that brought me here, and I have called Illinois home for the majority of those 40 years.

I’ve often thought that I’d move back to that small town, as the majority of my family is still there and evidently they didn’t know that the gate was open.

But now as I’m getting closer to retirement, I’m wondering whether

I

’ve been lucky. I grew up in rural Illinois, between two creeks, and got to love the land without having to worry about politics and economics.

When it came time for college, I lucked out again. Threw a dart at a map, and wound up at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which by chance had a great j-school, and words cannot describe how unbelievably amazing is the desert Southwest.

Then I followed my best friend to California. Imagine life in your 20s, with all there is to discover, in the land of eternal sun-

golds and reds in the fall, and yes, even the fluffy white stuff in the winter.

Jennifer Plus the Heintzelman people of advertising the Midwest director are just good people.

Friendly, hardworking and neighborly.

So with all that said, probably Wisconsin if I had to move, maybe just over the Illinois border.

heading back to my original home is the way to go. As I get older, my Sam dislike of Fisher the cold and publisher snow grows.

My oldest daughter moved to the Atlanta area nearly 2 years ago, and I’m learning that Georgia might just be a viable option, as the weather is a lot nicer.

However, I’ve got a few years left before I have to make that decision. Other than the winter months, I’ve thoroughly loved calling Illinois home.

Time will tell. shine and rank eccentricity. Sheer heaven.

I found majestic Montana Kathleen on my own.

Schultz Plains and news editor mountains and the mighty Missouri. Lots of fish, the occasional moose, hardly any people at all. The greatest open records laws on the books, and no sales tax.

Pick one? I can’t. I would prefer to sample the rest of the American smorgasbord. It’s a trailer, my dog, and a nomad’s life for me.

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WASHINGTON POLITICS

It’s jump-to-conclusions vs. wait-and-see on Russia hacks Intelligence community has been less than candid President-elect Trump stirred yet more controversy Saturday night when, as he entered his New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, he said he is not convinced the intelligence community is sure about allegations Russian hackers sought to influence the election.

“I just want them to be sure, because it’s a pretty serious charge,” Trump told reporters, “and I want them to be sure.”

The next morning, Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, scoffed at Trump’s statement. “This is the overwhelming judgment of the intelligence community and, frankly, all of the members of the intelligence committees in Congress, Democrats and Republicans,” Schiff said on ABC Sunday. “None of us have any question about this.

The only one who does apparently is Donald Trump.”

That is not the case.

There are, in fact, members of the intelligence committees who do have questions about this. Yes, many Republicans believe Russian hackers tried to mess with the U.S. presidential campaign in some way, mostly because they believe Russian hackers are always trying to

byronYORK Byron York, chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner, writes a column for United Feature Syndicate.

mess with U.S. systems and institutions. But when it comes to solid information on precisely what was done, and on evidence of motives, many Hill Republicans are mostly in the dark – because the intelligence community has kept them there.

Remember that before Christmas, the intelligence community refused to brief the House Intelligence Committee, telling lawmakers they can wait until intel officials finish the investigation ordered by President Obama. In response, House committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes argued that the director of National Intelligence was “obligated to comply” with a House request, and that the committee was “deeply concerned” by the DNI’s “intransigence.”

The intelligence community’s response: Fuhgeddaboudit.

SO THE WAIT TO learn more goes on. Meanwhile, a number of Democrats are arguing that the evidence is so overwhelming that Congress must establish a special investigating committee, even though there will already be multiple

“The argument is taking place in the context of deep distrust of the intelligence community among some Republicans.”

Byron York

Washington Politics columnist “And so I want them to be sure.”

Now, some of the same people who in 2002 and 2003 pushed for war based on erroneous intelligence – Sens.

John McCain and Lindsey Graham are two – are pushing to take a hard line on Russia.

IT’S NO SURPRISE that some Republicans – lawmakers who have no illusions about Russia and its hacking in the past – want to see more evidence before going all-in on the new allegations.

At the very least, they want to know what the intelligence community knows before signing off on a special congressional investigation of the hacking.

Meanwhile, Trump himself is signaling there’s more to the story that he knows but the public doesn’t. “I know a lot about hacking,” he said Saturday night.

“And hacking is a very hard thing to prove. So it could be somebody else.

And I also know things that other people don’t know, and so they cannot be sure of the situation.”

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thank the community, businesses and individuals who made our eighth annual Free Thanksgiving Dinner such a success.

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Editorial Board Jim Dunn Sam R Fisher Sheryl Gulbranson Jennifer Heintzelman Jeff Rogers Kathleen Schultz Peter Shaw

investigations of the Russia matter in the standing committees of Congress.

“Elections and the peaceful transfer of power are the foundational elements of our democracy,” said Sen. Ben Cardin, ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “They have been attacked and undermined by the world’s most destabilizing major power.”

“An attack against our election system is an attack on our very way of life and must not go unchallenged,” added Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The argument is taking place in the context of deep distrust of the intelligence community among some Republicans. Some GOP lawmakers believe the IC has been – to put it diplomatically – less than forthcoming about Benghazi, intelligence concerning the Islamic State, and intel concerning Osama bin Laden.

Already wary, they became more so when the IC refused to brief the House about the Russia affair.

There’s a greater context, as well. Many times during the campaign, Trump declared the Iraq War a “big, fat mistake.”

At Mar-a-Lago, Trump referenced the intelligence debacle that led to the war. “If you look at the weapons of mass destruction, that was a disaster, and they were wrong,” Trump said.

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Carlson taking over Kelly’s spot on Fox Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson will fill the Fox News Channel anchor chair being vacated

by Megyn Kelly, who is heading to NBC. The network announced Thursday that Carlson will take over the 9 p.m. Eastern slot after Kelly does her final edition of “The Kelly File” on Friday.

Tucker The move Carlson means Fox is solidifying its block of politically right-leaning commentary programs in prime time, as Carlson, 47, will fill the hour between Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity.

Kelly’s program, while not completely without opinion, had been more newsdriven.

Carlson’s 6 p.m. time period will be filled by a news program with Martha MacCallum called “The First 100 Days” that will focus on the early months of the presidency of Donald Trump.

MacCallum, who has been with Fox News since 2009, will also take Kelly’s spot in special event coverage.

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NEW YORK — Greta Van Susteren, who left Fox News in September over a contract issue, has landed at cable news competitor MSNBC. Van Susteren will anchor a nightly 5 p.m. program, “For the Record with Greta Van Susteren,” for the NBCUniversal-owned channel.

Based out of Washington, she will begin Greta Vansusteren Monday.

Van Susteren’s hiring, which has been in the works for weeks, follows the announcement that Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly is joining NBC News.

Kelly will not have a role on MSNBC. Van Susteren left Fox News suddenly when her contract was opened for renegotiation in September. The anchor, who had been with Fox News since 2002, had a clause in her deal that tied her commitment to the employment of the network’s former chairman, Roger Ailes. Ailes left Fox News in July amid sexual harassment charges made against him.

Van Susteren, 62, is a lawyer who gained cable news prominence as a legal analyst during CNN’s coverage of O.J. Simpson’s murder trial. She was a prime-time host on CNN 8 years before joining Fox News.

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10 tons of ice, Frozen royalty, a drink bar made of ice – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg at this winter wonderland

​BY ANDREA MILLS amills@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5575

hen teeth chatter and coats feel too thin, it just has to be time for the Icestravaganza.

With a dash of royalty, ice sculptures and a variety of activities, the fifth annual Icestravaganza is a must-see Jan. 14 at the Freight House, 421 W. River Drive. Professional ice sculptors will create more than 10 intriguing sculptures. Medieval-themed and interactive pieces will be assembled from 20,000 pounds of ice.

But that’s not all – the snow princess and ice queen from “Frozen,” Anna and Elsa, will be on hand to greet guests and have their photos taken with them from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Other family features include indoor kids activities, such as crafts, story time by Davenport Public Library staff, and cookie decorating.

Adults need not feel left out in the cold. Gift certificates will be given away by Necker’s Jewelers, and the farmers market will be open until 4 p.m. for visitors to buy local items.

Then stick around to see the ice sculptures after sunset when the lights are turned on, turning the cold creations into fairy-tale masterpieces.

For folks who’d like a cold drink, the Icestravaganza will serve them up – on a bar made of ice. An adults-only beer and cocktail tasting will be from 6 to 8 p.m. The focus will be on Front Street Brewery craft beer and cocktails from the Artisan Grain Distillery and Mississippi River Distilling Co. Look for the bar made of ice and ice drink luges. Afterward, the music will start, with performances at 8 p.m. in the Front Street Tap Room.

Tickets for the tasting are $5 in advance, and are limited. Go to downtowndavenport.com

The flip of a switch makes the frozen wonders at the Icestravaganza even more wonderful, when colored lights add another dimension to the event’s ice sculptures. Icestravaganza takes place Jan. 14 in Davenport, Iowa. for ticket details.

While you’re in the area, you might want to explore some other sites during the Icestravaganza; the Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau at 102 N. Harrison St., can be of help.

Office hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

If you can’t make it to the Icestravaganza, but want to check out the businesses, Front Street Brewery is at 208 E. River Drive (pub and eatery); Artisan Grain Distillery is at 318 E. Second St.; and the Mississippi River Distilling Co. is at 303 N. Cody Road, in LeClaire, Iowa.

Winter certainly isn’t a time to stay in the warm house. Hit the road and enjoy coldweather entertainment. Let hot chocolate be a reward later.

Photo submitted by Quinn Kirkpatrick

If you go ...

What: Icestravaganza When: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 14 Where: Freight House, 421 W. River Drive, Davenport, Iowa Information: downtowndavenport.com or Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau, 800-747-7800

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Toddler’s style stirs up family tensions Dear Abby, My brother and sisterin-law have been dressing my 2-year-old nephew, “Charlie,” in dresses and pink clothes. They say these are what the boy has chosen. To me, a toddler will pick out whatever gets his attention at the moment, and children that age have only a rudimentary understanding of gender.

It would be one thing if Charlie were old enough to understand and still insisted he felt more comfortable in girls’ clothing. But at his age I feel what they’re doing will only confuse him. Keep in mind, I do not believe this is a transgender issue. I think people who are transgender should dress and act the way

none of our business? Are we overreacting? Would it be best to approach my brother to tell him our concerns?

– Too Young to Understand

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

they feel. I just feel that age 2 is too young to determine this.

My parents (the boy’s grandparents) are worried and angry. My sisterin-law knows this upsets my mother and yet it’s like she’s taunting her with texts and pictures of Charlie in pink and/or dresses.

Should we be worried about this or should it be

Dear Too Young, It is likely that Charlie is going through a phase and doing something he has seen other people do. But more important than what his mother buys for him is how others respond to it. A family’s negative reaction sends a strong message. If Charlie is innocently testing out his/ her authentic self, his grandparents’ negative response will signal that they disapprove of who he is, which could have lasting ramifications for him.

Counselors at PFLAG

(Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) have told me that many parents say that, looking back, they realize that by disapproving, they had sent their child the message that they couldn’t accept him/ her. One child had suicidal thoughts at the age of 5 because of it. (And yes, sometimes children that young do act on the impulse.)

Dear Abby, I often read and enjoy the Pennies From Heaven stories that your readers send and decided to share mine.

Although it doesn’t involve a penny, it’s very special to me.

My grandmother and I had a special bond, and part of it was sand dollars. She taught

me their meaning and would mail me postcards with pictures of dollars on them. When she passed away, I inherited the gold sand dollar necklace she had often worn.

I moved into a new home several years ago, and during the home inspection, I found a sand dollar in the pantry! Everything had been emptied out of the house except for that lone sand dollar propped upright on a shelf. When I saw it, I knew immediately who it was from, and I felt so blessed. It’s comforting to know we are being watched over by our loved ones.

– Sand Dollar Blessing Dear Blessing, Your letter made

me smile. I wish you had mentioned what your late grandmother explained to you about the meaning of sand dollars, because from what I have read, some people associate them with Christian beliefs, while others insist they are “coins” scattered by mermaids. Whichever meaning your grandmother ascribed to them, it’s clear from what you have written that she was dearly loved. Thank you for sharing.

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 Friday, Jan. 6 Open pool, open cards, open Wii games, and computer lab, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

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

Coffee, 8 a.m., Mount Morris Senior Center, 9 E. Front St., 815-734-6335.

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

Yoga with Dr. Rama Shankar, 9 a.m., Home of Hope Cancer Wellness Center, 1637 Plock

Drive, Dixon, 815-288-4673.

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

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

Wii bowling, 9 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815-562-5050.

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

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

Beginning line dancing and Elvis Day, 11 a.m., Whiteside

County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-6229230.

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.

Euchre, Pinochle, Bridge, noon, Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle, 815562-5050.

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

Mexican Train dominoes, 12:30 p.m., Whiteside Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

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

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

Duplicate bridge, 12:30 p.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815288-9236.

Pinochle, 1 p.m., Post House Community Center, 100 W.

Second St., Dixon.

Farkle, 1 p.m., Robert Fulton Community Center and Transit Facility, 912 Fourth St., Fulton, 815-589-3925.

Dinner, 5-7 p.m., American Legion Post 12, 1120 W. First St., Dixon, 815-284-2003.

Mexican food, 5-8 p.m., Rock Falls VFW, 217 First Ave. Bingo, 7 p.m. Rock Falls American Legion, 712 Fourth Ave. Breaded pork chop dinner, American Legion Post 12, 1120 W. First St., Dixon, 815-2842003.

Saturday, Jan. 7 Singles of Sauk, meet and eat at Smoked on Third, 14 E. Third

St., Sterling, 815-631-1541 for details.

Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-noon, Twin City Market, indoors, 106 Avenue A, Sterling, 815-6268610.

Dixon Winter Farmers Market, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., lower level, Loveland Community House, 513 W. Second St., 815-2444451.

Mexican food, 5-8 p.m., Rock Falls VFW, 217 First Ave. Sunday, Jan. 8 Euchre Tournament, 12:45 p.m. sign-in, play at 1:05 p.m., Whiteside County Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-6229230.

SUPPORT GROUPS, CLUBS AND SERVICES Saturday, Jan. 7 Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m., closed, Big Book, United Methodist Church, 201 E. Chicago Ave., Davis Junction.

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

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, 815-8572315.

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

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

Narcotics Anonymous, noon, in the back of Lifescape Community Services, 1901 First Ave., Sterling, 815-535-3748, 24-hour hotline 844-678-7684.

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

Overeaters Anonymous, 5 p..m., lower-level entrance, Church of God, 816 S. Clay St., Mount Carroll, 630-709-7807.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., open, First Presbyterian Church, 1100 Calvin Road, Rochelle.

Chapter 410 of the Experimental Aircraft Association, 7:30 p.m., terminal building, Whiteside County Airport, 10950

Hoover Road, Rock Falls, 815-626-1249.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., steps and traditions, closed, Village of Progress, 710 S. 13th St., Oregon.

Sunday, Jan. 8 Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 a.m., closed; noon, open; 1 p.m., closed, Spanish; 7 p.m., closed, Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 10 a.m., open, barn, Horizon View Farm, 2422 N. River Road, Oregon.

Sauk Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Group, 10 a.m.noon, open, Big Book, back door, 1503 First Ave., Suite D, Rock Falls.

Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society, 2 p.m., Ryberg Auditorium, CGH Medical Center, 100 E. LeFevre Road, Sterling.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., closed, Church of St. Anne, 401 N. Cherry St., Morrison.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, clearance required, BAAbble on for Life Prison Group, 815973-6150.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., open, Rochelle Community Hospital, 900 N. Second St. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., closed, Spanish, St. Patrick Catholic Church, 236 Kelly Drive, Rochelle.

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

Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., closed, 304 Seventh Ave. W, Lyndon.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed (4), Mount Morris Senior Center, 9 E. Front St.

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Friday, January 6, 2017

ASSEMBLY OF GOD

933 Mekeel Rd., Dixon, Rt. 52 S.E. 815-284-3090 Michael Donoho, Pastor Sunday 9:30am - Adult Bible Studay & Morning Fellowship Sunday 10:30am - Worship Service & Childrens Church & Nursery Wednesday 7:00pm - Adult bible Study

FAITH ASSEMBLY OF GRAND DETOUR

Ridge Road, Dixon, 652-4488 Jon Marx, Lead Pastor Morning Worship 10:00 a.m.

CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH

313 Van Buren Ave., Dixon 288-2453 Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Morning Worship 10:45 a.m., Sunday Evening 5:00 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7:00 p.m.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

111 East 2nd, Dixon, 284-6823 Bunyan & Rachel Cocar - Co-Pastors Sunday School 9:15, Worship 10:30, Bible Study is on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m.

NORTHSIDE BAPTIST

Dan Bentz, Pastor 598 Riverlane, Dixon, 288-5212 (1 Mile West On Dixon-Sterling Freeway) Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Worship Wed. 7:00 p.m.

Awana Wednesday 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

3 years thru 6th grade

SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH

501 W. 3rd St., Dixon, 288-1566 Pastor Gary Sorrell Sunday School 9:30 Morning Worship 11 a.m.

Mid Week Prayer Service 6 p.m. Wed.

FAITH DISCOVERY CHURCH

801 W. Oregon St., Polo, 815-946-3588 Jeremy Heller, Pastor Sunday School 9:00 am Worship Service 10:00 am, Nursery Available Non-denominational Christian Church Visitors Welcome

ST. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC

612 S. Highland, Dixon, 284-7719 Father Bernard Sehr Confessions 3 p.m., Sat. Mass 4:30 p.m.

Sun. Mass 8:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 6:00pm

ST. FLANNEN CATHOLIC

2nd & Shelhammer, Harmon Rev. Timothy Draper, Priest Sunday 9:00am Worship Weekdays as Scheduled

ST. MARY CATHOLIC

Walton Road, Walton Rev. Timothy Draper, Priest Saturday 6:00pm Worship, Weekdays as Scheduled

SAINT PATRICK CATHOLIC

Rt. 1, Maytown Rd., Maytown Rev. Randy Fronek, Priest Saturday, 6:00 p.m.

Weekdays as Scheduled

CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH White Pines Campus

Meeting Sundays at 10:00 AM 205 N. Jefferson Avenue, Polo ~ 815.837.5255 whitepines@crossroadscn.com Pastor ~ Chris Bradshaw Associate Pastor ~ Eric Jackson Chris Bradshaw ex 302 Contemporary worship & relevant Bible teaching Join us after services for coffee, snacks & fellowship Kidzlink Children’s Ministry (nursery-5th grade) ~ during adult services Crave Youth Group (6th-12th grade) ~ Wednesday nights 7PM www.crossroadscn.com

MENDOTA CHURCH OF THE NAZERENE

1209 Sixth Street, Mendota, 539-6232 www.mendotanaz.org Rev. Dick Schaill, Senior Pastor John Robinson, Worship Leader Sunday School 9:30-10:30 (all ages) Sunday Morning Worship 10:45-12:00 Soul Fire Prayer Meeting 7:00pm Tuesday Bible Study 7:00pm Wednesday Praise/Worship Practice 7:30pm Friday

EAST JORDAN UNITED METHODIST

22027 Polo Rd, Sterling IL 815-626-0104 Pastor Jim Miller

www.saukvalley.com

614 Orchard St., Dixon

GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH

ST. PATRICKS OF AMBOY

ST. ANNE’S CATHOLIC

1104 N. Brinton Ave., Dixon, 288-3131 Father Antoni Kretoroicz, Priest Confessions Sat. 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Mass Saturday 5:00 p.m., Sunday Service 8:30, 10:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

RIVER VALLEY CHURCH

415 E. 3rd Street., Sterling Sunday Morning Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

GREATER LIFE CHURCH

1403 Hemlock, Dixon, Steve Young, Pastor 815-284-8680 Bible Study, Thursday 7:00 p.m., Sunday Praise & Worship 10:00 a.m., Sunday Home Groups CALL

EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH

102 S. Seminary St., Mt. Morris, 734-4942 Sunday School All Ages 8:30 a.m., Inner-Mission Fellowship Time 9:30 a.m., Worship service 10:00am, with nursery

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY

ST. JAMES EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

321 W. 2nd St., Dixon, 288-4719 Sunday Service 11 a.m.

Service every Wednesday 7:30 p.m.

U.S. 52 & Red Brick Rd., Dixon, 815-288-2447, 815-994-0509 Robert Dunbar, Pastor Sun. School 9:45, Sun. Worship 10:45 a.m.

Ladies Bible Study Wednesday 9:00 a.m.

PINE CREEK CHRISTIAN CHURCH

Penn Corner on Lowell Park Rd., Polo, 946-3949 Sun. School 9:30, Worship 10:30

FOURSQUARE GOSPEL CHURCH

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

N. Galena & E. Morgan, Dixon, 288-1778 Gary Wilson, Pastor Worship 10:15 a.m.

Wednesday Night 6:30 p.m.

2709 16th Ave., Sterling, 625-1229 William F. Stocks, Bishop Sacrament Meeting 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 10:45 a.m.

Primary for children: 10:45 Priesthood, Relief Society & Young Women: 11:45

COWBOY CHURCH ON THE ROCK

LINCOLN AVENUE CHURCH OF GOD

704 Lincoln Ave., Dixon, 288-1142 Pastor Mike Worrel 573-703-7503 www.lincolnave.org Wednesday 6-7pm: Jump Kids (birth to 5th), Jump Moms, Fusion Youth & Adult Bible Study Sunday 10:30am: Worship, Children’s Church and Jump Kids

CHRIST OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH

Missouri Synod, 284-4554, 2035 IL Rt. 26, Dixon Pastor David Andermann, Worship 9 a.m.

Sunday School and Education Hour 10:15 a.m.

MENDOTA FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

900 Monroe Street, Mendota 815-539-6232 Pastor Timothy Kaiser Sunday School 9:30 a.m. all ages Sunday Morning Worship 10:00 a.m.

Bible Study Saturday 1:00 p.m.

TURNING POINT COMMUNITY CHURCH

106 Gaston St., Prairieville 815-445-5912 Bible study Tuesday 6:00 p.m.

Sunday worship service 10:30 a.m.

Handicapped accessible - everyone welcome.

ST. BRIDE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

All are welcome Vicar: Rev. Barbara Harrison Seward Sunday Schedule: 10 AM Holy Communion with Music Fellowship and Coffee after the 10 AM service Contact information: 1000 IL Route 64 W, Oregon 815-732-7211 saintbrides@gmail.com, www.saintbrides. org

FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH

14206 E. Flagg Rd., Rochelle, 815-562-7575 Sunday Worship 8am & 10:30am Youth Sunday School 9:15 am Adult Sunday School Classes 9:15am Choir Wednesday at 7:00pm Jr. High Ministries Wednesday 7:00pm E-mail: faithlc@rochelle.net

FAITH UNITED METHODIST

702 E. Dixon Street, Polo, 815-946-3212 Rev. Karen Hundrieser, Pastor Sunday School at 9:00 am Sunday Morning Worship at 10:00 am All are welcome to our multi-generational congregation. Nursery service provided during the service. Handicapped accessible.

944 Stony Point Rd., Dixon, 288-2625 Don Beasley, Pastor Sunday Celebration of Worship 10:00 a.m.

Wed. Christian Education 6:30 p.m.

GRACE FELLOWSHIP

2128 IL Route 38, Ashton, 815-453-7464

Pastor Jeremy Horton

Sunday Worship Service 9 a.m.

37 S. East Avenue, Amboy

(farm bureau building)

Pastor Brian McWethy

Sunday Worship Service 10:15 a.m. www.graceisforyou.com

DIXON CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN

215 N. Court, Dixon, 284-2711 Sun. School 10:45, Worship 9:30 a.m.

SAUK VALLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH

SAUK VALLEY ISLAMIC CENTER

202 E. Fellow St., Dixon -815.284.4868 Friday Prayer 12:15-1 pm Open to Public ~ All Denominations.

Sunday School 9:45am

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF AMBOY

960 Rt. 52, Amboy, 857-2225 Pastor Barbara Otten Sunday Worship 9:00, Fellowship 10:00 am Sunday School 9:40 - 10:15

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH

1013 Franklin Grove Rd., Dixon, 284-2804 Saturday 5:30 p.m.Worship, Sunday 8:00 a.m. Traditional Worship, 9:15 a.m. Education and Fellowship, 10:30 a.m. Contemporary Worship Web Site: www.immanueldixon.org Bright Beginnings Daycare & Preschool 285-1033

ST. PAUL LUTHERAN

421 S. Peoria Ave., Dixon, 288-2757 Pastor: Robert C. Kinnear Sat. 5:30pm Traditional Service Sun. 8:30am Traditional Service 9:30am Sunday School/Bible Study 10:45am Contemporary Service Mon. 10:00 am Prayer Team Visitors welcome. www.stpauldixon.org, email: Office@stpauldixon.org

EAST GROVE UNION CHURCH

449 E. Reuter Rd., Amboy 376-6661 One mile east of Route 26 Pastor Rick Wulf 440-5321 Sunday Morning Service 9:00 am Sunday School 10:30 am Other services and activities announced.

Please join us.

SUBLETTE UNION CHURCH

500 W. Main St., Sublette, 849-5914 Pastor Kris Johnson Sunday Worship Service 9:00 am Kid’s Klub Wednesday 6:30-7:30 pm

ASHTON UNITED

METHODIST CHURCH

906 Richardson Ave., Ashton, 453-2328 Pastor Laura Crites Sunday Worship 9am, Sunday School 10:15am

CHANA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

606 Main Street, Chana Pastor Chan Ik Choi chanaumc@gmail.com Sunday: Adult & Children’s Education 9 am Worship Service 10:30 am Holy Communion celebrated the first Sunday of each month.

Open Hearts - Open Minds - Open Doors.

FIRST UNITED METHODIST

202 S. Peoria Ave., Dixon, 284-2849 Tim Mitchell, Senior Pastor Heewon Kim, Associate Pastor Saturday Worship 5:00 pm Chapel Sunday Services 10:00 am in Sanctuary Nursery available 8:30am - 11:30am Cross Current Youth 4:30 pm Sunday 9:45 am Powerhouse Kids www.fumcdixon.org

FRANKLIN GROVE UNITED METHODIST

203 W. Middle St., Franklin Grove, 456-2456 Pastor Laura Crites Sunday School 9:30a.m.

Sunday Worship 10:45 a.m.

CHURCH OF ST. MARY CATHOLIC

211 N. Franklin Avenue - Polo Rectory phone: (815) 946-2535 Rev. Louis F. Tosto, Parochial Administrator Sunday Mass: 10:30 a.m.

REYNOLDS UNITED METHODIST

2496 Reynolds Rd, Ashton - 815-453-2513 Rev. Sheamus Enright, Pastor - 847-9758974 Sunday 10 a.m. - Family Worship / Children’s Church Bible Study Wednesday 9:30 a.m. www.reynoldsumc.net • Handicapped Accessible

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

498 IL. Rte. 2, Dixon, 288-7000 Sunday Worship 10 a.m., nursery provided.

Tuesday evening praise and prayer 6 p.m. www.saukchurch.com

1140 Inlet Rd., Lee Center 815-456-2432 Pastor Jack M. Briggs Worship at 10:30am

702 W. Lynn Blvd., Sterling 815-499-6552 Pastor Bill Sullivan Saturday Evening Service 6:00pm Sunday Traditional Service 8:30am Sunday Contemporary Service 10:45am

11038 E. IL RT 38 Rochelle 815-562-7750 Pastor: Greg Duncan Sunday School: 8:30am, Sunday Worship 9:30am Nursery & Children’s Church during Morning Service, Youth Sunday 6pm, Prayer Wednesday 7PM

NEW LIFE LUTHERAN

106 S. Walnut, Franklin Grove 815-456-2432 Pastor Jack M. Briggs Worship at 9:00am

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

Please check our website and Facebook page for additional services 131 N. Court, Dixon, 284-3849 Randy Sizemore, Pastor Sun. School 9:15 a.m., Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

123 S. Hennepin, Dixon, 288-1222 Pastor Lynn Bond Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m.

Coffee Fellowship 10:30 a.m.

Wise men and women of various faiths have told us that we should never return evil for evil, but should conquer evil with acts of kindness and goodness. The Dhammapada puts it this way: “Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world; through love alone they cease. This is an eternal law.” Saint Paul advises us in the twelfth chapter of Romans to “Never repay injury with injury” and then quotes the Proverb “If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.” (Proverbs 25:21-22) Saint Paul concludes his kindly advice by saying “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” (Romans 12:21) The curious part of the quoted proverb is the notion that in being kind to someone who has harmed you, you will be “heaping burning coals on his head,” which sounds plainly vindictive.

Without knowing what the exact meaning and implication of this phrase is, and scholars have suggested everything from inciting anger in your enemy to giving them coals to carry home for their own hearth, perhaps the best interpretation is that in doing so you will be remonstrating against your enemies’ evil and causing them to have remorse. They will indeed carry these hot coals home with them, but these coals will be their own conscience, reminding them they will always be burned by vengeance.

– Christopher Simon

ST. LUKE’S EPISCOPAL

Corner of 3rd St. & Peoria Ave., Dixon Ph: 815-288-2151 Web page: stlukesdixon. org Rev. Mary Ann Rhoades, Deacon SUNDAY Eucharist 10:15 a.m., followed by Coffee and Fellowship

BETHEL EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST)

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF FRANKLIN GROVE

815-677-7566

707 1st Ave., Sterling, 815-625-0442 Reverend Peg Williams, Rector 9:00a.m. Sunday Holy Eucharist Wednesdays spoken Holy Eucharist Noon, Bible study and soup supper at 5:30.

Every Third Friday at 5:30 Younger adults gathering. Pastoral care, confession and reconciliation by appt. gracechurchstg.org

32 N. Jones, Amboy, IL Rev. Timothy Draper, Priest Saturday Evenings 4:30 p.m.

Sunday 7:30 a.m. & 10:30a.m.

Conquering Evil With Good

Leviticus 19:18

ROCK RIVER BAPTIST

Sunday Fellowship 8:30am Sunday School 8:50am, Worship 10:00am Handicap accessible and air conditioned www.EastJordanUMC.org

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THE BRIDGE CHURCH

HARMON UNITED METHODIST

202 North Grove Street, Harmon, 359-7302 Pastor Leanne Keate Worship 8:30 a.m.

Junior Church for ages 12 and under during morning worship.

LIGHTHOUSE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

4938 S. Daysville Road, Oregon, 732-7264 Chan Ik Choi, Pastor Sunday School: 9 a.m. Kindergarten -6th Sunday Morning Worship: 9:00 a.m.

The church is handicapped accessible.

Visitors and newcomers are always welcome.

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Beating of mentally disabled man shown live Four charged with hate crimes in connection with Dec. 31 attack CHICAGO (AP) – Four black people were charged with hate crimes Thursday in connection with a video broadcast live on Facebook that showed a mentally disabled white man being beaten and taunted, threatened with a knife and forced to drink from a toilet.

The assault went on for hours, until Chicago police found the disoriented victim walking along a street, authorities said.

The suspects, who were jailed, can be heard on the video using profanities against white people and President-elect Donald Trump.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said investigators initially concluded that the 18-yearold man was singled out because he has “special needs,” not because he was white. But authorities later said the charges

resulted from both the suspects’ use of racial slurs and their references to the victim’s disability.

It’s also possible that the suspects were trying to extort something from the victim’s family, police said. The man’s parents reported their son missing Monday and told authorities they later received text messages from people who claimed to be holding him captive.

The victim was a classmate of one of the attackers and initially went with that person voluntarily, police said.

“He’s traumatized by the incident, and it’s very tough to communicate with him at this point,” police Cmdr. Kevin Duffin said.

Excerpts of the video posted by Chicago media outlets show the victim with his mouth taped shut and slumped in a corner of a room. At least

two assailants cut off his sweatshirt, and others taunt him off camera. The video shows a wound on the top of the man’s head.

One person pushes the man’s head with his or her foot.

A red band also appears to be around the victim’s hands. He was tied up for 4 to 5 hours, authorities said.

During the video, the victim does not appear to make any attempt to defend himself or to escape his attackers. He is a suburban Chicago resident described by Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson as having “mental health challenges.”

“There was never a question whether or not this incident qualified as being investigated as a hate crime,” Johnson said. But “we need to base the investigation on facts and not emotion.”

Police said there is no indication the attack was linked to the Black Lives Matter movement, as some social media hashtags implied.

Tesfaye Cooper

Brittany Covington

Tanishia Covington

Jordan Hill

“There was never a question whether or not this incident qualified as being investigated as a hate crime.”

Eddie Johnson

Chicago police superintendent The incident began Dec. 31, when the victim and one of the suspects, 18-year-old Jordan Hill, met at a suburban McDonald’s to begin what both the victim and his parents believed would be a sleepover, police said.

Instead, Hill drove the victim around in a stolen van for a couple of days, ending up at a home in Chicago, where two of the other suspects lived, Detective Duffin said.

The victim told police what began as playful fighting escalated, and he

was bound, beaten and taunted with racial slurs and disparaging comments about his mental capacity.

Most hate crimes are connected to the victim’s race, but hate-crime charges can be sought in Illinois if a victim’s mental disability sparked an attack, though it is rare.

In addition to hate crimes, the four were charged with kidnapping, aggravated battery and aggravated unlawful restraint. Three were also charged with burglary.

Family members of the victim spoke briefly to reporters Thursday at a suburban hotel but declined to comment on the allegations or the investigation.

Neal Strom, who is acting as a family spokesman, told The Associated Press that the victim has had “profound emotional and physical disabilities throughout his life.”

He did not elaborate.

In Washington, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the beating demonstrated “a level of depravity that is an outrage to a lot of Americans.” He said he had not yet spoken to President Barack Obama about the attack in the president’s hometown.

Cook County prosecutors identified the suspects as Brittany Covington and Tesfaye Cooper, both of Chicago, and Hill, of suburban Carpentersville. All are 18. A fourth suspect was identified as 24-year-old Tanishia Covington, also of Chicago.

Mobile video is changing how the world witnesses crimes NEW YORK (AP) – Mobile video is changing the way we witness crime, from live footage of a mentally disabled man tortured by four assailants, to a recording that led to the manslaughter conviction of an Israeli soldier, to the body cameras designed to keep police accountable.

We’re all still wrestling with the implications.

In theory, such videos should make it easier to hold criminals, including police officers who violate the law, accountable. In practice, that hasn’t always worked out the way proponents had hoped, although smartphone video played a big role in elevating public awareness of police violence.

And sometimes the presence of a camera might actually encourage criminal activity, or at least deter bystanders

from helping victims.

Last year, an Ohio woman plead not guilty to charges of rape, kidnapping and other crimes for live-streaming the rape of a friend on Periscope, Twitter’s live-streaming app. Prosecutors said Marina Lonina continued to film the assault despite the victim’s cries for help, caught up in the attention the livestream was getting. Lonina’s attorney said she was recording the attack as evidence.

Facebook’s role Facebook says it does not allow people “to celebrate or glorify crimes” on its site. It has already removed the original video of the Dec. 31 Chicago incident for that reason.

But the social network does allow crime video when people share it “to condemn violence or raise awareness about it,”

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Facebook, for instance, wrote in a blog post that it would allow a violent video posted by someone who used it to help find the shooter, but would remove it when posted by another person who mocked the victim or celebrated violence.

Facebook generally tries to avoid making such judgments, preferring to rely on algorithms that automatically filter out banned content such as pornography. When it makes exceptions, it often wades into difficult territory – such as the time it was forced to restore the Pulitzer Prize-winning

“napalm girl” photo after removing it because it features a naked child, blind to the photo’s historical context and significance.

“We understand the unique challenges of live video,” Facebook wrote in its July blog post after footage of a dying Philando Castile, bleeding inside a car after he was shot by police, went viral.

Facebook Live is an important product for Facebook, and in recent months the company has gone to great lengths to promote it with notifications, sidewalk ad displays and TV commercials. The vast majority of live streams don’t involve crime, and Facebook is unlikely to rein back the product just because of a

few difficult situations.

It’s “unfortunate” that acts of violence and terror have come to represent live streams, said Benjamin Burroughs, a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas focused on emerging media, in an email to The Associated Press.

Video evidence Online crime footage has been around much longer than live streams.

While live broadcast gives them a sense of immediacy, many live videos only go viral well after the fact. So it might not really matter whether a video is live or not, just that it’s a concrete record of a crime that happened, visible to all who dare to click.

Even then, video evidence doesn’t necessarily lead to criminal convictions. In South Carolina, a white police officer was charged with the 2015 shooting of an unarmed black man after a traffic stop. A video shot by a bystander clearly shows Keith Scott being shot eight times in the back.

But the jury was unable to reach a verdict and forced a mistrial.

In another case in Ohio, the two sides in the trial clashed over a video from a police officer’s body-worn camera that showed him shooting an unarmed man after a traffic stop. That case also ended in mistrial.

The officer, Ray Tensing, will be retried.

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Craftsman brand sold to Stanley Sears continues to sell the tools NEW YORK (AP) – After controlling the Craftsman name for 90 years, troubled department store operator Sears said it will sell the famous tool brand to Stanley Black & Decker Inc. Stanley, which makes and sells tools under the DeWalt and Black & Decker names, wants to grow the Craftsman brand by selling its products in more stores outside of Sears. Today, only 10 percent of Craftsman products are sold in other stores.

Sears said it will continue to sell Craftsman, including at its Kmart and Sears Hometown stores.

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1927 when it bought the trademark for $500.

Sears has struggled, losing money for years as its revenue fell. The company also announced plans Thursday to close 150 stores, about 10 percent of its total 1,500 locations.

The Sears location in Sterling is not on the list of closings.

And last week, the company said it received a credit facility for up to $500 million to provide it with cash as it sells assets.

Shares of Sears Holdings Corp., which are down about 48 percent in the past 12 months, rose 3 cents to close at $10.39 Thursday.

Stanley will pay Sears about $900 million for Craftsman, which includes $525 million when the deal closes this year, $250 million after 3 years and a percentage

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An assortment of Craftsman wrenches at a Sears store in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania are shown, in 2011. of sales for 15 years. After 15 years, Sears will start paying Stanley 3 percent of the Craftsman sales it makes. Shares of Stanley, based in New Britain, Connecticut, rose $1.87

to $118.35.

Stanley said it plans to hire more workers and open a new U.S. plant to make more Craftsman products, but didn’t provide details.

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The hottest car color for 2017 might be a kind of blue, according to one paint company.

The number of blue vehicles made in 2016 increased 3 percent in luxury, midsize and compact cars, says PPG, a multibillion-dollar multinational paint company based in Pittsburgh.

PPG expects the number of blue vehicles to increase and take a chip out of white, the standard-bearer that accounts for 25 percent of vehicles made in North America. Black and silver are tied for second at 19 percent, with our favorite being Vesuvio Gray on the Alfa Romeo Giulia, while blue was just 10 percent but coming on strong.

Why the increase in blue?

“Blue is a very versatile color for the automotive

“Blue is a very versatile color ... a blue coating can do a lot to enhance a vehicle’s style” Jane Harrington PPG manager

market, because subtle shifts in hue, chroma and flake appearance of a blue coating can do a lot to enhance a vehicle’s style or distinguish a brand,” Jane Harrington, PPG manager, said in a statement.

That helps explain all the metallics. Here’s a few of our favorite names, if not colors, from 2016. The names automakers use to describe their vehicles’ coats can be more colorful than the colors.

Ford lit up the Detroit auto show in 2014 when

it reintroduced the GT supercar in what was at the time called Oval Blue. In the 2016 Ford Focus it was Kona Blue, which is a rich blue, not to be confused with the brighter Lightning Blue Metallic on the 2017 Ford Escape.

Infiniti’s Hermosa Blue might mean “beautiful” in Spanish but to us it was reminiscent of that dark blue on one side of the sky when the other side is lit by sunrise.

Long Beach Blue Metallic looked better on the BMW M2 sports coupe than the dark but reflective Mediterranean Blue on the 340i, but everything on the M2 looked good.

Buick’s blue on the new Cascada convertible was as uninspired as its name, Deep Sky Metallic.

Mazda had a softer, almost greenish blue in Eternal Blue Mica on the

2017 Mazda3.

Our favorite was the Graphite Blue Metallic on the 2017 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S. Everyone who commented on the car commented on its color. It was a kind of sky gray meets powder blue that might be the birth of the cool blue.

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Numbers game Purdue’s Caleb Swanigan notched his 13th double-double of the year in Thursday’s 76-75 win over Ohio State – the team’s 16th game.

GIRLS BASKETBALL | NEWMAN 68, BUREAU VALLEY 47

Comets calm Storm Newman spreads wealth in TRAC East win over BV

BY ADAM FEINER afeiner@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5550 @AdamFeinerSVM

STERLING – Balanced scoring was the name of the game for the Newman girls basketball team Thursday night in their Three Rivers East matchup against Bureau Valley.

Four Comets scored in double figures in their 68-47 win over the visiting Storm.

“This was one of our best offensive performances of the year,” Newman head coach Brandon Kreczmer said. “Since the Dixon tournament, our focus has been on executing and breaking down our sets.

They found the open girl tonight.”

The game was only tied once. In the first quarter, BV’s Saige Barnett found Marissa Mungia with a crisp pass from the top of the key to knot things up at 6. Kelsey Simpson put the Comets back in front for good on the following possession with a 3, as Newman led 13-9 after the first quarter.

Bureau Valley had a chance to climb back in the game due to Newman’s fouling issues. The Storm reached the bonus just 30 seconds into the second quarter, and went 8-for-8 from the free-throw line thanks to 11 Newman fouls in the first half.

But Newman kept finding holes in Bureau Valley’s zone trap defense. Every Comet who entered in the second quarter scored.

Still, the Storm trailed just 30-27 at halftime thanks to a 3 from Barnett and a bucket from Christen Hurley just before the buzzer.

“In the first half, we were just fouling too much,” Kreczmer said, “giving them easy points. We were being lazy by reaching.

Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com Better defense will lead to better offense, Newman’s Chloe Klein (left) and Mary Jensen harass Bureau Valley’s Christen Hurley and it did.” (center) during the third quarter of Thursday night’s Three Rivers East game in Sterling.

Newman came out of the break on fire. The Comets pulled away after halftime for a 68-47 victory.

The Comets drained their first three shots of the third quarter, and scored on six of Star of the game: Madison Craft, Newman, 13 points, 6-for-6 FTs, 3 steals their first seven possessions to build a Key performers: Christen Hurley, BV, 20 points; Saige Barnett, BV, 14 points, 4 3-pointcomfortable 41-30 lead. Madison Craft and ers, 8 rebounds, 2 assists; Mary Jensen, Newman, 14 points; Mady Ferris, Newman, 12 Mary Jensen each scored six points in the points, 6 rebounds; Kelsey Simpson, Newman, 12 points, 5 assists third on 3-for-3 shooting.

Up next: BV at Fulton, 4:30 p.m. Saturday; St. Bede at Newman, 7:30 p.m. Monday CALM continued on B34

WRESTLING | OTTAWA 36, STERLING 29

Old ‘mo’ turns against Warriors

teddy GREENSTEIN Chicago Tribune sports reporter.

He can be reached at tgreenstein@ tribpub.com.

Is it finally THE year for ’Cats?

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or years, for decades, forever, Northwestern basketball has been on the outside looking in.

Now, with a shade less than half of their season in the books, the Wildcats are on the inside looking out.

Which is to say they did enough in November and December for bracketologists to project them as an “in” come March.

And enough for Jay Bilas, the ESPN analyst who knows college buckets better than you know your own life history, to make this bold proclamation on Twitter last week: “Northwestern is a fun team to watch, and will play in the NCAA Tournament.”

Not “might,” not “could” ... “will.”

“I’ve watched them a lot,” Bilas said by phone. “Scottie Lindsey is really good.

Vic Law stretches you out and makes shots. Bryant McIntosh is one of the better playmakers in the country. They have won some important games. And you also have to look at the quality of the losses.”

The Wildcats lost by two at Butler on a step-back jumper with less than a second to go. They led Notre Dame on a neutral court with 20 seconds to play before losing by four.

OK ... but as CBSSports.com analyst Jerry Palm put it: “If all you have is close losses, then you don’t have much.”

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Sterling unable to hold off Ottawa

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STERLING – Momentum in a wrestling dual can be big ... until it ends.

Sterling racked up 22 straight points in a four-bout string in Thursday’s NIB-12 West dual with Ottawa for a 16-point lead, but with five bouts to go, the Pirates reversed the momentum and ran away with a 36-29 win at Musgrove Fieldhouse.

Down 13-7 after the first five bouts, Sterling (9-6, 2-2 NIB12 West) powered through the middle and upper weights.

Turner Garcia won a 14-0 major decision over Jacob McCarens at 152 before Elias Edmondson scored a 2-minute, 48-second pin over Jake Ahearn at 160 to Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.com put Sterling ahead. Tyson Hall Sterling’s JJ Thompson (top) takes down Ottawa’s Alex Shreve (170) followed with a 55-second during their 182-pound bout Thursday at Musgrove Fieldhouse. pin of Tre Fritz, and JJ ThompThompson won by pin, but the Warriors lost the dual 36-29. son (182) won an exciting bout

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by pin over Alex Shreve in 1:22.

Thompson and Shreve traded reversals twice in a span of 30 seconds, and the two were already tied 8-8 after the first minute.

“He had a big reach, but it was very slow,” Thompson said, “so I capitalized on what I could.

I hit my high crosses as fast as I could. Once he got to the ground, he knew how to use his body weight and knew how to throw me and roll me around.”

Thompson put an end to the flurry of action by getting a big hold on Shreve. He grabbed a wrist, pulled a hip, popped his head under Shreve’s arm, and rolled him to his back. That’s a move the Sterling wrestlers call a “coffee grinder.”

“The coaches were yelling at me to do a coffee grinder,” Thompson said. “I listened to what I had to do.”

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Guard Bryant McIntosh (30) is one of the biggest reasons why many pundits believe this is the season Northwestern will finally make its first trip to the NCAA Tournament.

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So long, Sooners Joe Mixon Oklahoma RB will join fellow Sooners RB Samaje Perine & skip senior season and enter NFL Draft, according to multiple media reports.

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George McCaskey: Bears not for sale If there were such a thing as a not-for-sale sign, maybe George McCaskey would put one on the front lawn of 1920 Football Drive in Lake Forest so he wouldn’t have to keep saying it: His family will not sell the Bears.

The topic is popular among fans whose patience has expired after 31 years without a Super Bowl championship, one playoff appearance in the last 10 seasons, and six consecutive missed postseasons.

But McCaskey, the team chairman, said Thursday for the umpteenth time that the team is not for sale.

“Nothing has changed,” McCaskey said during an in-studio appearance on WSCR-AM 670. “I’ve said it the same way every time. We have no intention of selling. My brother Pat says it very well: ‘We intend to hold onto the Bears until the second coming.’”

Tannehill ruled out against Steelers Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill was ruled out of Sunday’s playoff game at Pittsburgh, and backup Matt Moore will start for the fourth week in a row.

The Dolphins announced the decision Thursday after determining Tannehill still isn’t ready to practice because of a sprained left knee.

“It felt like it was the right thing to do,” coach Adam Gase said, “just so we can move on in this week and not play, ‘What are we going to do?’ and focus on what we’re doing right now with Matt.”

Chris Berman ESPN personality will give up regular on-air NFL & MLB spots to become spokesman for network; he will still appear on air on occasion.

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Trio of Raiders score 14 Hochstatter scores 1,000th point; Marcos fall to Dakota

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Stephen Brooke, Adam Hart and Garrett Sanford each scored 14 points as the Raiders beat Durand 70-42 in NUIC East play at home.

AFC led 24-8 after one quarter and 41-18 at halftime.

Dakota 62, Polo 57: The Marcos were outscored 37-20 in the second half after taking a 37-25 lead into halftime in an NUIC loss at home.

Justin Young scored 14 of his game-high 18 points in the first half for Polo, while Brady Webb added 11 points.

Five Indians scored in double figures in the comeback win.

Amboy 49, Pecatonica 40: Jordan Hochstatter passed the 1,000-point milestone in the Clippers’ NUIC East victory at home.

East Dubuque 41, Eastland 33:

The Cougars trailed just 30-27 heading into the fourth quarter, but scored only two points over the final 6 minutes in an NUIC West loss in Lanark.

Brighton Haverland’s 15 points paced Eastland. Hunter Sherman led a balanced East Dubuque effort with 12 points.

Milledgeville 57, Orangeville 34:

The Missiles scored 22 points in the first quarter to cruise past the

Thursday’s stars Jordan Hochstatter, Amboy basketball, passed 1,000 career points Justin Young, Polo basketball, 18 points Brighton Haverland, Eastland basketball, 15 points Tyler Yocum, Dixon bowling, 657 series, 240 & 223 games Kyle Lundquist, Oregon bowling, 605 series, 226 high game Belvidere 3,629, Oregon 3,038: Broncos at home.

Kyle Ottens scored 27 points, The Hawks lost all three game by hitting 11 of 14 from the free- at least 123 pins in dropping a throw line. Cade Schave added dual at Town & Country Lanes.

Kyle Lundquist’s 605 game and 16.

Galena 48, West Carroll 37: 226 game led Oregon, which also The Thunder led 12-10 after got a 576 series and a 211 high one quarter, but Galena jumped game from Justin Poole.

Joe Gallagher’s 664 series paced ahead in the second quarter, then outscored West Carroll 15-6 Belvidere, which had every bowler roll at least one 200 game. in the fourth to pull away.

Dawson Wurster led West Men’s basketball Carroll with 16 points.

Sauk Valley 77, Malcolm X 72: The Skyhawks scored 49 secondBowling DeKalb 3,302, Dixon 3,261: The half points to rally past Malcolm Dukes dropped a nonconference X in Chicago. dual at Plum Hollow, losing two Garrett Duffin led the way with of the three games and the total 16 points for the Skyhawks, and Malcolm Mabry had 15 points pinfall.

Tyler Yocum led Dixon with a and 10 rebounds. D’Angelo 657 series, which included games Millon and Sean Chislom also of 240 and 223. Jarod White had had 10 rebounds as Sauk enjoyed a 573 series, and games of 203 a 52-41 edge on the boards. and 221. Lucas Lauer added a 554 Karson Arrenholz had 13 points and seven assists, and Laron Carr series and a 222 high game.

Nicklaus Eberly led the Barbs added 13 points. with games of 256, 213 and 258 David Payne led Malcolm X with for a 727 series.

22 points, hitting six 3-pointers.

Walker takes the lead at Kapalua PGA champion Jimmy Walker began the new year with an 8-under 65 to take the first-round lead Thursday in the SBS Tournament of Champions.

Jim Herman started strong and finished with five pars for a 67.

Daniel Berger and Jason Dufner were among those at 68.

Defending champ Jordan Spieth struggled to make putts and was even par with two holes to play.

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• Faith at Morningstar 7 p.m.

• DeKalb at Sterling • Dixon at Oregon 7:30 p.m.

• Prophetstown at Bureau Valley • Erie at Rockridge • Fulton at Riverdale

Girls basketball 5 p.m.

• Faith at Morningstar 7 p.m.

• Sterling at Kaneland 7:30 p.m.

• Amboy at Forreston • Polo at AFC • Lena-Winslow at West Carroll • River Ridge at Eastland

Boys bowling 4:30 p.m.

• South Beloit at Dixon

Girls bowling 4:30 p.m.

• South Beloit at Dixon

Boys swimming 4:30 p.m.

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• Erie-Prophetstown, St. Bede at Kewanee

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• W. Michigan at Akron, CBSSN 6 p.m.

• Rhode Island at Dayton, ESPN2 • Iona at Monmouth, ESPNU 8 p.m.

• Oakland at Valparaiso, ESPN2 • Kent St. at Ohio, ESPNU

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NHL | BLACKHAWKS 4, SABRES 3, OT

The Washington Redskins fired defensive coordinator Joe Barry and other members of the coaching staff.

The team on Thursday announced the firings of Barry, defensive line coach Robb Akey, defensive backs coach Perry Fewell and head strength and conditioning coach Mike Clark. Coach Jay Gruden said Monday he thought ultimately it would be his call about which members of his staff were retained.

The Chicago Cubs would like to host a bowl game at Wrigley Field.

President of Business Operations Crane Kenney tells the Chicago Tribune the team intends to start hosting a bowl game after the ongoing overhaul to the 103-year old ballpark is completed. They would need a few years to find title sponsors and align with conferences.

Wrigley Field was the longtime home of the NFL’s Chicago Bears before they moved to Soldier Field. More recently, Northwestern met Illinois there in 2010.

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The Blackhawks’ Patrick Kane (left) shoots and scores the winning goal past Sabres goalie Anders Nilsson (31) in overtime, as the Sabres’ Rasmus Ristolainen (55) and Evander Kane (9) defend Thursday night in Chicago. The Blackhawks won 4-3.

Kane nets game-winner in overtime Blackhawks rally late to end a three-game home losing streak

BY JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer

CHICAGO – Patrick Kane scored 56 seconds into overtime, Artem Anisimov had two goals, and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Buffalo Sabres 4-3 on Thursday at the United Center.

Jonathan Toews set up Kane’s 12th goal when he forced Anders Nilsson to make a left pad save. The rebound went right to Kane, who knocked it into the open side of the net before Nilsson could recover.

Ryan Hartman also scored for the Blackhawks, who had dropped five of six. Kane also had two assists against his hometown team, and Corey Crawford made 17 stops in Chicago’s 10th consecutive victory against Buffalo.

“Nothing better than beating Buffalo, right?”

a grinning Kane said as he addressed the crowd after the game.

Kyle Okposo had a goal and an assist for the Sabres, and Ryan O’Reilly had two assists in his return from an appendectomy. Jack Eichel also scored, and Nilsson finished with 39 stops.

The game was tied at 2 when O’Reilly found Eichel for a one-timer from the left circle at 1:10 of the third. It was Buffalo’s second powerplay goal in three opportunities, and Eichel’s eighth goal in 17 games this season.

The Sabres then kept the action away from Nilsson for much of the third. The Blackhawks finally broke through when Kane got a backhander to the net and Anisimov knocked in the rebound with 2:04 remaining in regulation.

Buffalo also jumped in front in each of the first two periods, only to have Chicago rally each time.

Marcus Foligno intercepted a clearing attempt by Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook in the first and beat Crawford on the glove side for his sixth of the season at 7:21.

But Hartman responded for the Blackhawks, splitting Okposo and Sabres defenseman Taylor Fedun before sending a hard wrist shot over Nilsson’s glove at 16:20.

Chicago outshot Buffalo 20-6 in the first, but Hartman’s seventh of the season was all it could manage against Nilsson.

The teams exchanged two more goals 18 seconds apart in the second. After Chicago was whistled for too many

men on the ice, Okposo stuffed one home from the side of the net for his team-best 12th goal.

Anisimov then sent a wrist shot over Nilsson’s glove for his team-best 17th of the season, tying it at 2 with 1:32 remaining in the period.

Notes: O’Reilly had an appendectomy during the NHL’s holiday break and missed four games.

D Josh Gorges also returned to Buffalo’s lineup after he missed Tuesday’s 4-1 victory against the New York Rangers with a hip injury, but F William Carrier was scratched with an illness. ... Blackhawks F Marian Hossa returned after missing five games with an upper-body injury. ... Blackhawks D Brian Campbell was a healthy scratch. ...

Sabres C Zemgus Girgensons turned 23 on Thursday.

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THURSDAY’S SCOREBOARD SVCC basketball Thursday’s results at Chicago MEN

SAUK VALLEY 77, MALCOLM X 72 SVCC (7-7) Karson Arrenholz 3 7-7 13, Sean Chislom 1 3-4 5, Garett Duffin 6 2-6 16, Malcom Mabry 4 7-10 15, Devin Johnson 2 4-4 8, Laron Carr 3 4-5 13 D’Angelo Millon 2 3-6 7. Totals: 21 30-42 77.

MALCOLM X Anderson 0 1-2 1, Odon 2 3-3 7, Witherspoon 4 4-5 12, Payne 8 0-0 22, Grace 1 0-0 2, Flemming 4 2-7 10, Allen 0 2-4 2, Green 1 0-0 2, Irons 4 1-3 9, Harris 1 1-2 3, McBean 1 0-0 2. Totals: 26 14-28 72.

Halftime – Malcolm X 40-28. 3s – SVCC 5 (Carr 3, Duffin 2), Malcom X 6 (Payne 6).

WOMEN

SAUK VALLEY 70, MALCOLM X 55 SVCC (6-7) Jaida Carson 2-17 1-4 6, Courtney Rogers 3-8 0-0 8, Tori Edelman 2-3 0-0 4, Dabriona Williams 4-14 11-15 20, Kennedy Kuykendall 5-16 2-2 16, Alexi McCloud 2-7 0-2 5, Carol Hammelman 0-1 1-2 1, Bailey Schrader 2-7 1-2 7, Tressa Schuler 2-3 0-0 5. Totals: 22-76 16-27 70.

MALCOLM X (1-14) Walker 13-24 4-8 34, Chears 6-11 2-2 14, Williams 3-8 1-2 13, Luckett 0-5 0-0 0, Lane 0-4 0-0 0, Rance 0-1 0-0 0, Dialla 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 22-53 7-12 55.

Sauk Valley 14 29 15 12 — 70 Malcolm X 13 10 10 22 — 55 3s – SVCC 10-32 (Kuykendall 4, Rogers 2, Carson, Williams, McCloud, Schuler), Malcolm X 4-9 (Walker 4). Rebounds – SVCC 42 (Williams 9), Malcolm X 47 (Williams 13).

Assists – SVCC 18 (Hammelman 7), Malcolm X 11 (Chears 6).

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• Reed-Custer vs. Newman, 3:30 p.m.

• East Aurora vs. Rock Falls (girls), 5 p.m.

• Providence St. Mel vs. Winnebago, 6:30 p.m.

• Chillicothe IVC vs. Rock Falls, 8 p.m.

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• Belvidere North vs. Sterling, 11:30 a.m.

• Willowbrook vs. Lake Forest Academy, 1 • Kankakee vs. Belvidere North, 2:30 • Lake Forest Academy vs. United Township, 4:14 • Sterling vs. Willowbrook, 6 Monday, Jan. 16 • Belvidere North vs. Lake Forest Academy, 10 a.m.

• Kankakee vs. Sterling, 11:30 a.m.

• United Township vs. Willowbrook, 1 • Kankakee vs. Belvidere North, 2:30 • Lake Forest Academy vs. Willowbrook, 4:15 • Sterling vs. United Township, 6

Manny’s Shootout at Mount Carroll Saturday, Jan. 14 • Fulton Unity vs. West Carroll (girls), 8:30 a.m.

• Fulton Unity vs. DePue, 10 a.m.

• Prince of Peace (Iowa) vs. Sterling (girls), 11:30 a.m.

• Prince of Peace (Iowa) vs. Milledgeville, 1 • Messmer (Wis.) vs. Newman, 2:30 • Prophetstown vs. Forreston, 4 • West Carroll vs. Easton Valley (Iowa), 5:30 • Rockford Christian vs. Bettendorf (Iowa), 7 Thursday’s results at Ashton

AFC 70, DURAND 42 DURAND Nielson 1 0-0 2, Spickler 4 1-2 9, McLean 0 0-0 0, Klein 0 0-0 0, McCartney 1 0-1 2, Schultz 0 0-0 0, Proctor 0 0-0 0, Broge 6 0-0 13, Robbins 3 5-5 11, Conroy 2 1-1 5.

Totals: 17 7-9 42.

AFC Levi Meurer 4 0-2 8, Tyon Davis 3 0-0 6, Cody Penick 1 0-0 2, David Atkinson 0 0-0 0, Max Lipold 0 0-0 0, Caleb Drew 1 0-0 2, Michael Thompson 0 0-0 0, Garrett Sanford 6 1-2 14, Hunter Kvool 0 0-0 0, Stephen Brooke 5 1-3 14, Joe Uphoff 2 0-1 4, Adam Hart 3 8-8 14, Garrett Drew 2 2-3 6.

Totals: 27 12-19 70.

Durand 8 10 16 8 — 42 AFC 24 17 16 13 — 70 3s – Durand 1 (Broge), AFC 4 (Brooke 3, Sanford). at Milledgeville

MILLEDGEVILLE 57, ORANGEVILLE 34 ORANGEVILLE Getz 0 2-2 2, Guy 5 2-3 12, Minnaert 1 1-2 4, Alber 4 0-0 8, Parriott 1 0-0 2, Sullivan 0 0-0 0, Boomgarden 0 0-0 0, O’Haver 3 0-0 6. Totals: 13 4-5 34.

MILLEDGEVILLE Dylan Alexander 0 0-2 0, Kyle Aude 1 1-2 4, Chase Hutchison 0 0-0 0, Drake Dublo 0 0-0 0, Cade Schave 6 2-7 16, Buddy Bibler 1 0-1 2, Kyle Ottens 7 11-14 27, Nate Rahn 0 0-0 0, Curt Strauss 3 2-2 8.

Totals: 18 16-28 57.

Orangeville 8 8 14 4 — 34 Milledgeville 22 9 11 15 — 57 3s – Milledgeville 5 (Schave 2, Ottens 2, Aude). at Polo

DAKOTA 62, POLO 57 DAKOTA Knox 0 0-0 0, Alexander 3 3-5 12, Rankin 3 4-4 10, Drake 6 0-2 12, Duncan 5 0-0 10, Holste 4 0-0 8, O’Connor 4 2-6 10.

Totals: 25 9-17 62.

POLO Mason Wright 3 0-0 8, Brady Webb 3 4-5 11, Trevin Woodin 1 0-0 2, Braiden Soltow 2 2-2 6, Dakota Meyer 1 0-0 3, Jake Simpson 0 0-0 0, Reid Taylor 3 2-5 8, Justin Young 7 4-8 18. Totals: 20 12-20 57.

Dakota 12 13 24 13 — 62 Polo 18 19 13 7 — 57 3s – Dakota 3 (Alexander 3), Polo 5 (Wright 2, Webb 2, Meyer). at Lanark

EAST DUBUQUE 41, EASTLAND 33 EAST DUBUQUE Kieffer 1 0-0 2, Bowman 1 0-0 3, Quinn 4 0-0 8, Sullivan 2 0-0 5, Heller 2 0-1 5, Kluesner 0 0-0 0, Boyer 2 1-2 6, Sherman 3 6-8 12. Totals: 15 7-11 41.

EASTLAND Kaden Henze 0 1-2 1, DJ Heeren 3 0-0 6, Brett Swalve 1 0-0 2, Ethan Christians 2 3-6 7, Brighton Haverland 5 5-6 15, Eric Langarica 1 0-0 2, Josh Dickman 0 0-0 0.

Totals: 12 9-14 33.

East Dubuque 16 5 9 11 — 41 Eastland 7 11 9 6 — 33 3s – East Dubuque 4 (Bowman, Sullivan, Heller, Boyer). at Mount Carroll

GALENA 48, WEST CARROLL 37 GALENA Wilhelm 0 0-0 0, C. Bauer 0 0-0 0, Hyde 1 1-2 3, Spillane 4 2-6 10, Kruse 2 1-5 6, Holland 2 9-13 13, Lorento 0 0-0 0, D. bauer 5 2-4 13, Bell 1 1-2 3. Totals: 15 17-32 48.

WEST CARROLL Kody Plattenberger 2 0-0 4, Kaleb Plattenberger 0 0-0 0, Dawson Wurster 7 2-5 16, Luke Jones 1 0-0 2, Caleb Stines 0 0-0 0, Jordan Anderson 0 0-0 0, Jacob Dunk 3 1-2 7, Justin Appel 3 2-2 8. Totals: 16 5-9 37.

Galena 10 12 11 15 — 48 West Carroll 12 8 11 6 — 37 3s – Galena 2 (Kruse, D. Bauer).

Girls basketball Thursday’s results at Newman

NEWMAN 68, BUREAU VALLEY 47 BUREAU VALLEY Nicole Wirth 0-0 0-0 0, Courtney Hoagland 0-1 0-0 0, Saige Barnett 5-11 0-1 14, Heather Williams 1-5 2-2 4, Addison Moreland 1-8 3-4 5, Christen Hurley 7-20 4-4 20, Hannah Williams 0-0 0-0 0, Marissa Mungia 1-1 0-0 2, Maddy Mares 0-0 2-2 2.

Totals: 15-46 11-13 47.

NEWMAN Delaney Hinrichs 1-3 1-2 3, Mady Ferris 4-7 3-3 12, Teagan McKenna 0-2 0-0 0, Hannah Wilson 0-1 0-2 0, Lauren Wilson 0-0 2-4 2, Kelsey Simpson 5-16 0-0 12, Mary Jensen 7-14 0-0 14, Madison Craft 3-6 7-8 14, Payton Murray 3-7 1-4 7, Chloe Klein 2-2 0-0 4. Totals: 25-58 14-23 68.

Bureau Valley 9 18 10 10 — 47 Newman 13 17 20 18 — 68 3s – BV 7-17 (Barnett 4), Newman 4-13 (Simpson 2, Ferris, Craft). Rebounds – BV 16 (Barnett 8) Newman 29 (Ferris 6).

Assists – BV 8 (Barnett 2, Moreland 2), Newman 11 (Simpson 5). Steals – BV 7 (Wirth 3), Newman 12 (Craft 3). Blocks – BV 0, Newman 1 (Klein). Turnovers – BV 23, Newman 19. Fouls – BV 18, Newman 16. Technical – Moreland. at Morrison

MORRISON 58, ORION 44 ORION Stropes 0 0-0 0, Moore 1 2-8 5, McCunn 0 0-0 0, Lodge 0 0-0 0, Mohr 0 0-0 0, Taets 3 0-0 6, Schultz 3 1-1 7, DeVoss 2 0-0 4, Smolenski 5 10-10 20, Terronez 0 0-0 0, Parsons 1 0-0 2. Totals: 15 13-19 44.

MORRISON Emma Melton 2 0-2 5, Makayla Troutman 0 0-0 0, Emma Sitzmore 3 2-2 8, Jaeden Workman 5 0-0 14, Kassidee Church 7 1-4 15, Shayna Vanderleest 0 2-2 2, Lauren Vos 3 0-0 6, Mackenzie Petkus 0 0-0 0, Madison Steines 0 0-0 0, Peyton Tegeler 3 0-0 8. Totals: 23 5-10 58.

Orion 11 14 11 8 — 44 Morrison 17 13 16 12 — 58 3s – Orion 1 (Moore), Morrison 7 (Workman 4, Tegeler 2, Melton). at Fulton

ERIE 39, FULTON 37 ERIE Riley Redell 5 0-0 13, Whitney Bramm 2 4-7 8, Montana Lawson 1 0-0 3, Jenna Saad 0 0-0 0, Taylor Steimle 3 1-2 7, Hannah Schanze 0 0-0 0, Madison Newton 1 1-2 3, Skylar Steimle 2 1-2 5. Totals: 14 7-13 39.

FULTON Whutney Wynkoop 2 0-0 4, Jordan Price 3 8-12 14, Abby Willging 2 1-2 6, Faith Kennedy 4 0-0 11, Brooke Huizenga 0 0-0 0, Racheal Huizenga 0 1-2 1, Rylee Leitzen 0 0-0 0, Emily Schipper 0 1-2 1. Totals: 11 11-18 37.

Erie 8 9 10 12 — 39 Fulton 13 7 8 9 — 37 3s – Erie 4 (Redell 3, Lawson), Fulton 4 (Kennedy 3, Willging). at Prophetstown

PRINCETON 37, PROPHETSTOWN 30 PRINCETON Fisher 1-6 0-0 2, Meredith 0-0 0-0 0, Mall 0-7 1-2 1, VanDenBusshe 0-2 0-0 0, Rawlings 0-0 0-0 0, Murray 9-13 5-5 24, Hochstatter 0-0 0-0 0, Dumyahn 0-0 0-0 0, Forrsitall 0-0 0-0 0, Grieff 1-4 0-0 2, Oeder 3-8 2-4 8, Jensen 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 14-40 8-11 37.

PROPHETSTOWN Jayden Grunder 1-2 0-0 2, Aly Wetzell 0-0 0-0 0, Hannah McKinney 0-2 0-0 0, Michelle Cooney 0-2 0-0 0, Lexi Rangel 6-20 0-0 16, Dena Johnson 1-9 0-0 2, Courtney Pierceson 3-12 2-2 8, Heidi Gallagher 0-0 0-0 0, Olivia-Hope Toppert 1-4 0-0 2. Totals: 12-51 2-2 30.

Princeton 12 11 6 8 — 37 Prophetstown 10 5 6 9 — 30 3s – Princeton 1-6 (Murray), Prophetstown 4-19 (Rangel 4) at Pecatonica

PECATONICA 72, POLO 25 POLO Rilley Peterson 1 1-2 3, Kezie Dusing 3 2-2 11, Lizzy Stamm 0 3-4 3, Hanna Blunhoff 2 0-0 4, Lani Bergstrom 1 0-0 2, Justine Grozny 1 0-1 2. Totals: 8 6-9 25.

PECATONICA Southard 6 4-4 17, Mehlhausen 1 0-0 3, Miller 1 0-0 2, Schulze 1 0-0 3, Kunkel 0 0-0 0, Rehberg 1 0-0 2, Mund 7 0-0 15, Speer 1 0-0 2, Greene 1 0-2 2, Ponder 8 0-0 16, Burton 5 0-0 10. Totals: 32 4-6 72.

Polo 4 8 7 6 — 25 Pecatonica 24 8 23 17 — 72 3s – Polo 3 (Dusing 3), Pecatonica 4 (Southard, Mehlhausen, Shulze, Mund)

Boys bowling Thursday’s results at Plum Hollow, Dixon

DeKALB 3,302, DIXON 3,261 DeKALB Christopher Canaday 183-142-192–517; Nicklaus Eberly 256-213-258–727; Jacob Hanson 181-145-177–503; Clayton Lindgren 187-154-177–518; Logan Zarek 168126-191–485; D.J. Stiles 215-192-145– 552. Totals: 1,190-972-1,140–3,302.

DIXON Jarod White 149-203-221–573; Geoffrey Baker 170-165-150–485; Branden Rex 149-150-179–478; Tyler VanQuathem 181-154-179–514; Lucas Lauer 173-222159–554; Tyler Yocum 240-223-194–657.

Totals: 1,062-1,117-1,082–3,261. at Town & Country Lanes, Mt. Morris

BELVIDERE 3,629, OREGON 3,038 BELVIDERE Greg Suthers 169-224-212–605; Brock Irwin 195-232-196–623; Joe Gallagher 209-209-246–664; Anthony Gutierrez 191230-128–549; Aaron Rochon 164-234196–594; Kevin Jenks 153-226-215–594.

Totals: 1,081-1,355-1,193–3,629.

OREGON Eddie Buttens 193-176-178–547; Justin Poole 180-211-185–576; Kyle Lundquist 198-181-226–605; Petr Smid 126-168132–426; Caleb Zellers 107-125-111–343; Charles Gatz 154-172-215–541. Totals: 958-1,033-1,047–3,038.

Girls bowling Thursday’s results at Blackhawk Lanes, Sterling

UNITED TOWNSHIP 2,893, STERLING 2,334 UNITED TOWNSHIP Sky Stout 212-198-182–592; Ashlyn Burkeybile 136-152-190–478; Makayla Penderson 233-175-182–590; Sam Miner 213204-138–555; Leah Burkeybile 248-215215–678. Totals 1,042-944-907–2,893.

STERLING Jasmynne Brinkmeier 147-130-186–463; Jamie Riley 129-124-176–429; Zoey Paone 161-145-176–482; Hannah Stout 156-173152–481; Kyleigh Glazier 181-181-117– 479. Totals 774-753-807–2,334. at Town & Country Lanes, Mt. Morris

OREGON 3,202, BELVIDERE 3,038 BELVIDERE Elyce Turnipseed 173-116-133–422; Lexy Sherman 187-189-151–527; Holley Steelberg 257-187-165–609; Hannah Wgidby 201-148-138-487; Hannah Lowery 117147-177–440; Hailey Carter 185-200-168– 553. Totals: 1,120-986-932–3,038.

OREGON Taylor McKenzie 153-142-128–423; Abby Hopkins 161-172-177–510; Victoria Barnhart 174-258-188–620; Alexis Duncan 155181-181–517; Maddy Bradfield 211-163188–562; Caitlyn Kaltenbrun 207-149-214– 570. Totals: 1,061-1,065-1,076–3,202.

Wrestling Thursday’s results at Musgrove Fieldhouse, Sterling

OTTAWA 36, STERLING 29 106 pounds – Luke Fleming (O) major dec Kolten Smith 13-3; 113 – Riley Hanson (O) dec Julian Rodriguez 6-5; *120 – Rafael Munoz (O) major dec Andrew Rodriguez 12-4; 126 – Ethan Harsted (O) dec Issac Figueroa 8-1; 132 – Noah Garcia (S) major dec Bradley Ruger 9-1; 138 – Isaiah Figueroa (S) dec Nick Stehl 4-3; 145 – Micah Kruger (O) pin Ethan Edmondson 1:34; 152 – Turner Garcia (S) major dec Jacob McCarens 14-0; 160 – Elias Edmondson (S) pin Jake Ahearn 2:48; 170 – Tyson Hall (S) pin Tre Fritz :55; 182 – JJ Thompson (S) pin Alex Shreve 1:22; 195 – Evan Schaibley (O) pin Moises Lopez 2:40; 220 – Chaz Shreve (O) major dec Pedro Rodriguez 12-4; 285 – Teegan Gregor (O) pin Jacob Capes :51. * – starting weight Records: Ottawa 12-2 (3-0 NIB-12 West), Sterling 9-6 (2-2)

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GIRLS ROUNDUP

Erie rallies to beat Fulton Fillies win at home; Prophets, Marcos fall in league games

By SVM Sports Staff

After trailing most of the game, the Erie Cardinals rallied for a 39-37 victory over the Fulton Steamers in a Three Rivers West contest Thursday night in Fulton.

Riley Redell hit three 3-pointers and finished with 13 points and eight rebounds for the Cardinals, who trailed 13-8 after one quarter and 20-17 at halftime before outscoring the Steamers 22-17 in the second half.

Taylor Steimle added seven points and eight rebounds, and Whitney Bramm chipped in eight points and five assists for Erie.

Jordan Price hit 8 of her 12 free throws and led Fulton with 14 points. Faith Kennedy knocked down three 3s and added 11 points.

Morrison 58, Orion 44: The Fillies buried seven 3-pointers in a balanced attack to pick up a Three Rivers West win at home.

Jaeden Workman hit four of those 3s and finished with 14 points and five rebounds for Morrison, while Kassidee Church had 15 points, four rebounds and four steals.

Emma Sitzmore and Peyton Tegeler scored eight points each, with Sitzmore grabbing 11 rebounds, and Tegeler chipping in seven boards.

Thursday’s stars Lexi Rangel, Prophetstown basketball, 16 points, 6 steals, 3 rebounds Jaeden Workman, Morrison basketball, 14 points, 4 3-pointers, 5 rebounds Riley Redell, Erie basketball, 13 points, 3 3-pointers, 8 rebounds Victoria Barnhart, Oregon bowling, 620 series, 258 game Ann Smolenski hit all 10 of her free throws and led the Chargers with 20 points.

Princeton 37, Prophetstown 30: Lexi Rangel had 16 points,

six steals, three rebounds and an assist in the Prophets’ Three Rivers East loss to the Tigers at home. She hit four 3-pointers.

Courtney Pierceson added eight points, five rebounds, four steals and three assists for Prophetstown.

Anna Murray led Princeton with 24 points and 10 rebounds.

Pecatonica 72, Polo 25: The Marcos got outscored 24-4 in the first quarter and never recovered.

Kenzie Dusing hit three 3-pointers to lead Polo with 11 points.

Four Pecatonica players scored in double figures, with 10 different Indians scoring at least a point.

Girls bowling United Township 2,893, Sterling 2,334: The Golden Warriors fell in

a dual at Blackhawk Lanes.

Zoey Paone had the high series with a 482. and Hannah Stout was just one pin back with a 481. Jasmynne Brinkmeier had Sterling’s high game with a 186.

Leah Burkeybile had a 248 game and 678 series for UT. Oregon 3,202, Belvidere 3,038:

The Hawks got better with each game while the Bucs got worse, leading Oregon to a dual victory at Town & Country Lanes.

Victoria Barnhart’s 620 series with highlighted by a 258 second game for the Hawks, while Caitlyn Kaltenbrun added a 570 series that included games of 207 and 214.

Holley Steelberg led Belvidere with a 609 series and a 257 game.

Women’s basketball

Sauk Valley 70, Malcom X 55: The

Skyhawks scored 28 points off 34 Malcolm X turnovers in a Region IV road win in Chicago.

Dabriona Williams had six steals to go with 20 points and nine rebounds. Kennedy Kuykendall scored 16 points, and Carol Hammelman dished out seven assists.

Breneka Walker led Malcolm X with 34 points.

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t The Storm didn’t help themselves out, as six turnovers in the third put them in a hole they couldn’t climb out of.

The dagger may have come with 6.5 seconds left in the quarter. Simpson lobbed the ball up to Jensen on an inbounds play, and the senior forward beat the buzzer to make it a 20-point quarter for the Comets, and they led 50-37.

A 7-0 Newman run to open the fourth effectively put the game out of reach. Turnovers and missed shots doomed BV, as it got its first basket of the fourth with under 4 minutes to go on a 3 from Barnett.

In all, the Storm turned it over 23 times, a stat that’s been hurting them Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com all season long.

Newman’s Kelsey Simpson (left), Mady Ferris (center) “It’s tough when you turn and Lauren Wilson all reach for an offensive rebound it over 23 times,” first-year during the first quarter of Thursday’s game against BV head coach Jim Nugent said. “Those have been Bureau Valley.

Madison Craft Newman sophomore

Christen Hurley Bureau Valley junior

our problem all year. We’ll get back at it in practice.

We won’t dwell on this loss too much. We get to play them one more time at our place. We’ll look forward to that and prepare.”

Hurley paced the Storm scoring with 20. points.

Barnett added 14 points, with 12 of those coming on four 3-pointers.

Craft and Jensen led the Comets with 14 points each. Craft was 7-for-8 from the free-throw line, and also nabbed three steals. Simpson dished out five assists in addition to her 12 points, while 5-foot-2 point guard Mady Ferris collected six rebounds to go with her 12 points.

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t Thompson hasn’t seen a full slate of wrestling action this year, but the sophomore is getting used to his spot at 182 pounds for the Golden Warriors.

“It was nice to have JJ back in the lineup,” Sterling coach Jeff Gale said. “He’s kind of been in and out all year, just as things shape up going into regionals. It’s just nice to see guys wrestling at the weight they’re going to be at for regionals.”

Thompson’s match was where Sterling’s momentum ended, up 29-13, and Ottawa’s momentum started.

Ottawa’s Evan Schiabley pinned Moises Lopez at 195 in 2:40, and Chas Shreve scored a 12-4 major decision against Pedro Rodriguez at 220. Shreve led 10-4 with 20 seconds to go before getting the necessary takedown to earn his team a bonus point.

That set up the 285-pound bout between Ottawa’s Teegan Gregor and Sterling’s Jacob Capes, one in which Gregor took just 51 seconds to not only get a pin, but also tie the match at 29.

“I came with the mindset that I’m going to beat him,” Gregor said. “I came for the team points. It was a great team effort, and everyone pitched in their part.”

The matches wheeled around to the lightweights, and Luke Fleming (106) and Riley Hanson (113) came through to give the Pirates (12-2, 3-0) their first win over Sterling in

Philip Marruffo/pmarruffo@saukvalley.com

Sterling’s Turner Garcia tangles with Ottawa’s Jacob McCarrens in their 152-pound bout Thursday night at Musgrove Fieldhouse.

5 years. Fleming scored a 13-3 major decision over Kolten Smith by getting late-bout takedowns, and Hanson won a close 6-5 decision over Julian Rodriguez.

Rodriguez, who needed a pin for the team win or a tech fall to force a tie, scored a takedown as the first-period buzzer sounded to tie the bout at four. Hanson, however, got a quick wrap and scored a takedown 11 seconds into the second period.

“We started off the match pretty slow, and then picked it up,” Thompson said. “We made a few mistakes and they cost us some matches, but we got to learn and grow from this.”

Ottawa is off to its best start in 10 years, and has clinched a share of

the division championship before a crucial match with LaSalle-Peru next week. Pirates coach Peter Marx likes the direction his team is heading despite fighting through injuries.

One of those injuries bumped McCarens up a weight class, and late in his bout he saved a couple of team points by holding off Garcia’s final takedown attempt.

“We’ve been preaching all year long that it’s more team than it is individual,” Marx said. “Sometimes you’ve got to put kids in bad situations. We had to bump [McCarrens] up to 152 because of an injury, and he fought his butt off to save a couple of points. All of the kids stepped up and wrestled incredibly well.”

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Friday, January 6, 2017

THURSDAY’S SCOREBOARD

BIG TEN ROUNDUP

Huskers drop Iowa in OT Northwestern falls to Gophers; Boilers edge Ohio St. By the Associated Press

Glynn Watson Jr. scored a career-high 34 points, Tai Webster made the goahead free throw in the last minute of the second overtime, and Nebraska held off Iowa 93-90 on Thursday night in Lincoln.

The Cornhuskers (9-6, 3-0 Big Ten) followed up surprising road wins over Indiana and Maryland with a victory in their conference home opener.

They are 3-0 in league play for the first time since 1975-76.

The Huskers had a chance to win in regulation, but Evan Taylor missed two free throws with 1.3 seconds left.

Peter Jok scored 34 points to lead Iowa (9-7, 1-2), which saw its fivegame win streak against Nebraska end.

Webster finished with 23 points and seven assists for the Huskers, Jeriah Horne added 12 points and Michael Jacobson had 13 rebounds.

Webster went to the line after Jok fouled out with 54.6 seconds left. He made the first and missed the second, leaving the Huskers with a one-point lead.

Horne made two more free throws with 17.4 seconds to play. The Hawkeyes still had two chances to win, but Jordan Bohannon missed a shot and, after Taylor missed two more free throws, Brady Ellingson was off with his desperation 3-point try at the buzzer.

Nebraska struggled with free-throw shooting in regulation, making just 8 of 19, but needed Taylor to make just one of two to likely win it in regulation.

Minnesota 70, Northwestern 66: Amir Cof-

fey scored 17 points, and Nate Mason hit eight free throws in the final 26 seconds to lead Minnesota to a victory in Evanston.

Coffey nailed three

NFL playoffs Wild-card round Saturday’s games Oakland at Houston, 3:35 p.m. (ESPN) Detroit at Seattle, 7:15 p.m. (NBC) Sunday’s games Miami at Pittsburgh, 12:05 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Giants at Green Bay, 3:40 p.m. (FOX) Divisional round Saturday, Jan. 14 Seattle, Green Bay or N.Y. Giants at Atlanta, 3:35 p.m. (FOX) Houston, Oakland or Miami at New England, 7:15 p.m. (CBS) Sunday, Jan. 15 Pittsburgh, Houston or Oakland at Kansas City, 12:05 p.m. (NBC) Green Bay, N.Y. Giants or Detroit at Dallas, 3:40 p.m. (FOX)

College football Bowl glance Monday’s game College Football Championship Tampa, Fla. Alabama (14-0) vs. Clemson (13-1), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Men’s basketball Big Ten

AP

Iowa’s Isaiah Moss (4) drives to the basket against Nebraska’s Evan Taylor (11).

Moss scored 17 points, but the Hawkeyes fell in double overtime to Nebraska, which is now 3-0 in conference.

3-pointers. Mason came through at the line near the end to finish with 12 points, and the Golden Gophers (14-2, 2-1 Big Ten) picked up another impressive road win after beating then-No. 15 Purdue in overtime on Sunday.

They wiped out a seven-point deficit in the second half and handed Northwestern (12-4, 1-2) its second straight loss after winning nine in a row.

Bryant McIntosh scored 21 and had five assists for the Wildcats. The junior became the 34th Northwestern player to hit the 1,000-point mark and tied assistant Pat Baldwin for second on the program’s assist list with 452.

Vic Law added 14 points and eight rebounds. But the Wildcats took the loss after tying a program record with 13 straight home wins dating to last

season.

The Gophers were leading 62-57 after Amir Coffey scored on a put-back with 1:27 remaining. But Northwestern did not go quietly.

Scottie Lindsey hit two free throws to make it a three-point game with 28 seconds left. Mason, who had 31 points and 11 assists against Purdue, answered with a pair. But McIntosh scored on a layup to pull Northwestern back within three with 19 seconds remaining.

Purdue 76, Ohio State 75: Ohio State fought

back furiously from a 10-point deficit in the second half against No. 20 Purdue in Columbus, but a desperate rally came up just short.

Purdue’s Caleb Swanigan hit a free throw with 5 seconds left and the Boilermakers held off a final Ohio State rush.

Trevor Thompson made a layup to tie the score at 75 with 15 seconds left but missed a subsequent free throw that could have put the Buckeyes ahead. Swanigan was fouled on the other end and hit his first free throw but missed the second.

Micah Potter grabbed that rebound and got it to JaQuan Lyle, but his driving shot at the buzzer for the win was off the mark.

Swanigan and Vincent Edwards paced with Boilermakers (13-3, 2-1 Big Ten) with 16 points apiece, and Dakota Mathias added 14. Isaac Haas had 10 rebounds.

Purdue won despite hitting just 1 of 9 shots from beyond the 3-point line in the first half and were only 8 for 23 for the game.

The Boilermakers shot 42.9 percent from the field overall, compared with 44.1 percent for Ohio State.

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Thursday’s box scores

NEBRASKA 93, IOWA 90, 2 OT IOWA (9-7) Cook 6-8 2-3 14, Pemsl 3-6 4-6 10, Jok 12-24 5-6 34, Bohannon 2-10 0-0 6, Moss 7-15 2-2 17, Uhl 1-1 0-0 2, Baer 2-4 0-0 5, Wagner 1-3 0-0 2, Ellingson 0-3 0-0 0, Williams 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 34-77 13-17 90.

NEBRASKA (9-6) Morrow 4-5 1-4 9, Jacobson 3-9 1-2 7, Watson 11-18 5-6 34, Taylor 3-9 0-5 6, Webster 7-16 8-12 23, Horne 3-11 4-6 12, McVeigh 1-1 0-0 2, Roby 0-0 0-0 0, Tshimanga 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 32-70 19-35 93.

Halftime-Nebraska 37-34. End Of Regulation-Tied 74. End Of 1st OvertimeTied 83. 3s-Iowa 9-29 (Jok 5-11, Bohannon 2-7, Baer 1-3, Moss 1-5, Williams 0-1, Ellingson 0-2), Nebraska 10-23 (Watson 7-8, Horne 2-10, Webster 1-4, Taylor 0-1).

Fouled Out-Watson, Jok. ReboundsIowa 45 (Baer 11), Nebraska 38 (Jacobson 13). Assists-Iowa 11 (Bohannon 3), Nebraska 18 (Webster 7). Total FoulsIowa 23, Nebraska 18.

MINNESOTA 70, NORTHWESTERN 66 MINNESOTA (14-2) Murphy 3-7 1-4 7, Lynch 4-10 4-4 12, McBrayer 3-10 1-2 7, Mason 2-8 8-9 12, Coffey 7-12 0-3 17, Hurt 1-1 0-0 3, Curry 0-1 0-0 0, Konate 2-2 0-0 4, Springs 3-6 0-0 8. Totals 25-57 14-22 70.

NORTHWESTERN (12-4) Law 4-12 4-4 14, Pardon 4-6 1-2 9, McIntosh 7-15 5-5 21, Lumpkin 0-3 0-0 0, Lindsey 4-12 2-2 10, Skelly 2-9 0-0 4, Taphorn 2-3 0-0 5, Benson 0-0 0-0 0, Brown 0-0 0-0 0, Ash 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 24-63 12-13 66.

Halftime-Northwestern 39-35. 3s-Minnesota 6-19 (Coffey 3-6, Springs 2-5, Hurt 1-1, Murphy 0-1, Curry 0-1, Mason 0-2, McBrayer 0-3), Northwestern 6-26 (McIntosh 2-5, Law 2-5, Taphorn 1-1, Ash 1-3, Lumpkin 0-1, Lindsey 0-5, Skelly 0-6).

Fouled Out-Lumpkin. Rebounds-Minnesota 37 (Lynch 8), Northwestern 30 (Law, Pardon 8). Assists-Minnesota 16 (Mason 7), Northwestern 13 (McIntosh 5). Total Fouls-Minnesota 10, Northwestern 16.

A-7,215 (8,117).

State schedule Tuesday’s result Miami (Ohio) 69, N. Illinois 67 Wednesday’s results Bradley 74, Evansville 63 Illinois St. 74, Missouri St. 71, OT Loyola 77, N. Iowa 66 S. Illinois 80, Indiana St. 74, OT W. Illinois 82, S. Dakota St. 74 Thursday’s results Morehead St. 85, E. Illinois 75 E. Kentucky 78, SIU-Edwardsville 61 Texas-Rio Grande 83, Chicago St. 64 Today’s game Detroit at Ill.-Chicago, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s games DePaul at Seton Hall, 11 a.m. (CBSSN) E. Illinois at E. Kentucky, 1 p.m.

Illinois St. at Indiana St., 1 p.m.

Oral Roberts at W. Illinois, 2 p.m.

New Mexico St. at Chicago St., 2:05 p.m.

S. Illinois at Missouri St., 3 p.m.

SIU-Edwardsville at Morehead St., 3:15 p.m.

Cent. Michigan at N. Illinois, 3:30 p.m.

Loyola at Bradley, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s game Oakland at Ill.-Chicago, 4 p.m.

t What you need is victories over NCAA tournament teams. The Wildcats potentially have two, against Wake Forest and Dayton.

They could have snagged a third Thursday night when Minnesota came Welsh-Ryan Arena, but the Gophers won 70-66.

An early season Ratings Percentage Index is about as reliable an indicator as a minute of time to measure global warming, but still ... the 13-2 Gophers had a Big Tenbest RPI of 10 entering Wednesday (Northwestern was 46), and are coming off a victory over Purdue at Mackey Arena.

“Northwestern’s next six games[Minnesota, at Nebraska, at Rutgers, Iowa, at Ohio State, Nebraska] are either teams they have to beat or teams they will be competing with for tournament spots,” Palm said. “It’s a disappointing year for the Big Ten, so it’s a little tougher to résumébuild.”

The only rock-solid tournament teams appear to be Wisconsin and Purdue. Indiana, which has lost three straight but beat Kansas and North Carolina, has an RPI of 139.

“Right after exams, stuff like this happens,” Bilas said. “In 2009, North Carolina was No. 1 in the country and lost two of its first three conference games. Nobody touched ‘em the rest of the year.

“I think the [Big Ten] is really good and balanced. It will be easier to clip teams at the top of the league, but some at the bottom are a lot better.”

Bilas said if Northwestern makes the tournament, it will be “a huge national story.” To get there, the Wildcats need to beat teams like Minnesota and hope Wake Forest (20 RPI) and Dayton (29) win big.

Palm believes selection committee members will take Northwestern’s quality losses into account

Conference Overall

W-L Pct. W-L Pct. Michigan St. 3-0 1.000 11-5 .688 Nebraska 3-0 1.000 9-6 .600 Wisconsin 2-0 1.000 13-2 .867 Maryland 1-1 .500 13-2 .867 Minnesota 1-1 .500 13-2 .867 Northwestern 1-1 .500 12-3 .800 Purdue 1-1 .500 12-3 .800 Illinois 1-1 .500 11-4 .733 Michigan 1-1 .500 11-4 .733 Iowa 1-1 .500 9-6 .600 Penn St. 1-2 .333 9-7 .563 Ohio St. 0-1 .000 10-4 .714 Indiana 0-2 .000 10-5 .667 Rutgers 0-3 .000 11-5 .688 Tuesday’s result Wisconsin 75, Indiana 68 Wednesday’s results Michigan 72, Penn State 69 Michigan St. 93, Rutgers 65 Thursday’s results Purdue 76 Ohio St. 75 Nebraska 93, Iowa 90, 2 OT Minnesota 70 Northwestern 66 Saturday’s games Michigan St. at Penn St., noon (ESPN) Maryland at Michigan, 2:15 p.m. (ESPN2) Illinois at Indiana, 4 p.m. (ESPNU) Sunday’s games Northwestern at Nebraska, 1:15 p.m. (BTN) Wisconsin at Purdue, 3:30 p.m. (CBS) Rutgers at Iowa, 3:30 p.m. (BTN) Ohio St. at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m. (BTN)

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Northwestern’s Vic Law drives against Michigan State’s Joshua Langford (rear) during a game in East Lansing, Mich. The Wildcats have several quality losses, including the one to the Spartans, which could look good in March. if the Wildcats are on the bubble, going head to head with another team’s profile.

“It’s the amorphous body-ofwork thing,” Bilas said. “It’s whatever they want it to be. The target changes every year.”

Bilas believes this will be the year.

NU coach Chris Collins hopes his fellow Dukie is right, but knows there’s still a lot of work to do.

“It’s nice to get that respect, and it’s great that people are taking note that we have talented players, but we have more season left than we’ve played. We have to show up every night.”

Top 25 schedule Tuesday’s results No. 3 Kansas 90 Kansas State 88 No. 6 Kentucky 100 Texas A&M 58 No. 7 West Virginia 76 Texas Tech 77, OT No. 13 Wisconsin 75, No. 25 Indiana 68 No. 14 North Carolina 89, Clemson 86, OT No. 24 Florida 70, Mississippi 63 Wednesday’s results No. 18 Butler 66, No. 1 Villanova 58 No. 2 Baylor 65, Iowa State 63 No. 8 Duke 110, Georgia Tech 57 No. 23 Notre Dame 77, No. 9 Louisville 70 No. 10 Creighton 85, St. John’s 72 Pittsburgh 88, No. 11 Virginia 76 No. 15 Oregon 83, Washington 61 N.C. State 104, No. 21 Virginia Tech 78 Thursday’s results No. 4 UCLA 81, California 71 No. 5 Gonzaga 95, San Francisco 80 No. 17 Arizona 66, Utah 56 No. 19 Saint Mary’s 81 BYU 68 No. 20 Purdue 76, Ohio State 75 No. 25 Southern Cal vs. Stanford, late Saturday’s games No. 1 Villanova vs. Marquette, at Wells Fargo Center, 6:30 p.m.

No. 2 Baylor vs. Oklahoma State, 6 p.m.

No. 3 Kansas vs. Texas Tech, 6:15 p.m.

No. 5 Gonzaga at Portland, 9 p.m.

No. 6 Kentucky vs. Arkansas, 7:30 p.m.

No. 7 West Virginia vs. TCU, noon No. 8 Duke vs. Boston College, 1 p.m.

No. 9 Louisville at Georgia Tech, 1 p.m.

No. 10 Creighton at Providence, 1 p.m.

No. 12 Florida State vs. No. 21 Virginia Tech, 1 p.m.

No. 14 North Carolina vs. N.C. State, 7 p.m.

No. 15 Oregon at Washington State, 6 p.m.

No. 16 Xavier vs. St. John’s, 1:30 p.m.

No. 17 Arizona vs. Colorado, 8:30 p.m.

No. 18 Butler at Georgetown, 11 a.m.

No. 19 Saint Mary’s (Cal) at San Francisco, 10 p.m.

No. 22 Cincinnati at Houston, 8 p.m.

No. 23 Notre Dame vs. Clemson, 2 p.m.

No. 24 Florida vs. Tennessee, 4:15 p.m.

No. 25 Indiana vs. Illinois, 4 p.m.

Sunday’s games No. 4 UCLA vs. Stanford, 7 p.m.

No. 11 Virginia vs. Wake Forest, 7 p.m.

No. 13 Wisconsin at No. 20 Purdue, 3:30 p.m.

No. 25 Southern Cal vs. California, 9 p.m.

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Record Pts Prv 1. Villanova (59) 14-0 1619 1 2. Baylor (6) 13-0 1532 4 3. Kansas 12-1 1503 3 4. UCLA 14-1 1406 2 5. Gonzaga 14-0 1357 7 6. Kentucky 11-2 1280 8 7. West Virginia 12-1 1179 11 8. Duke 12-2 1090 5 9. Louisville 12-2 1063 6 10. Creighton 13-1 1015 10 11. Virginia 11-2 954 12 12. Florida St. 14-1 902 20 13. Wisconsin 12-2 865 14 14. North Carolina 12-3 785 9 15. Oregon 13-2 771 21 16. Xavier 12-2 634 17 17. Arizona 13-2 613 18 18. Butler 12-2 477 13 19. Saint Mary’s (Cal) 12-1 416 19 20. Purdue 12-3 405 15 21. Virginia Tech 12-1 293 — 22. Cincinnati 12-2 258 23 23. Notre Dame 12-2 250 24 24. Florida 10-3 193 25 25. Indiana 10-4 74 16 25. Southern Cal 14-1 74 22 Others receiving votes: Minnesota 56, Clemson 23, Miami 16, Maryland 6, Kansas St 5, Iowa St. 3, Seton Hall 3, Northwestern 2, VCU 2, UNC Wilmington 1.

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Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 24 11 .686 — Boston 21 14 .600 3 New York 16 19 .457 8 Philadelphia 9 24 .273 14 Brooklyn 8 26 .235 15½ Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Atlanta 20 16 .556 — Charlotte 20 17 .541 ½ Washington 16 18 .471 3 Orlando 16 21 .432 4½ Miami 11 26 .297 9½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 26 8 .765 — Milwaukee 18 16 .529 8 Indiana 19 18 .514 8½ Chicago 18 18 .500 9 Detroit 17 21 .447 11 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio 29 7 .806 — Houston 28 9 .757 1½ Memphis 22 16 .579 8 New Orleans 14 23 .378 15½ Dallas 11 25 .306 18 Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Utah 22 15 .595 — Oklahoma City 21 16 .568 1 Portland 15 22 .405 7 Denver 14 22 .389 7½ Minnesota 11 24 .314 10 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 31 5 .861 — L.A. Clippers 24 14 .632 8 Sacramento 15 20 .429 15½ L.A. Lakers 13 25 .342 19 Phoenix 12 25 .324 19½ Thursday’s results Brooklyn 109 Indiana 121 Charlotte 114 Detroit 115 Utah 93 Toronto 101 Atlanta 99 New Orleans, 94 Oklahoma City 116 Houston 118 Phoenix 102 Dallas 95 San Antonio 127 Denver 99 L.A. Lakers at Portland, late Today’s games Houston at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

New York at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

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

Memphis at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Miami at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games New York at Indiana, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Denver at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Utah at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Charlotte at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Portland, 9 p.m.

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 39 24 9 6 54 119 90 Ottawa 37 20 13 4 44 94 98 Boston 41 20 17 4 44 98 101 Toronto 37 17 12 8 42 113 109 Tampa Bay 40 19 17 4 42 114 117 Florida 39 16 15 8 40 93 108 Detroit 38 16 17 5 37 93 109 Buffalo 38 14 15 9 37 85 106 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Columbus 37 27 6 4 58 126 79 Pittsburgh 38 25 8 5 55 133 107 N.Y. Rangers 41 27 13 1 55 141 103 Washington 38 24 9 5 53 110 83 Philadelphia 40 20 15 5 45 118 125 Carolina 38 17 14 7 41 99 103 New Jersey 39 16 16 7 39 92 115 N.Y. Islanders 36 15 15 6 36 104 113 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 41 24 12 5 53 113 101 Minnesota 36 23 9 4 50 113 76 St. Louis 39 20 14 5 45 110 115 Nashville 38 17 14 7 41 109 103 Winnipeg 41 19 19 3 41 113 122 Dallas 39 16 15 8 40 100 117 Colorado 38 12 25 1 25 77 129 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 38 23 13 2 48 95 82 Anaheim 40 20 12 8 48 109 109 Edmonton 40 20 13 7 47 115 107 Calgary 40 21 17 2 44 109 112 Los Angeles 38 19 15 4 42 94 92 Vancouver 40 19 18 3 41 100 116 Arizona 38 11 22 5 27 82 124 Note: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday’s results Edmonton 4 Boston 3 Columbus 0 Washington 5 Nashville 6 Tampa Bay 1 Carolina 4 St. Louis 2 Buffalo 3 Chicago 4, OT Minnesota at San Jose, late Detroit at Los Angeles, late Today’s games Toronto at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m.

Nashville at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Carolina at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Arizona at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s games Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, noon Winnipeg at Buffalo, noon Minnesota at Los Angeles, 3 p.m.

Montreal at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Washington at Ottawa, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Boston at Florida, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

Dallas at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 9 p.m.

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

Thursday’s box score

BLACKHAWKS 4, SABRES 3, ot Buffalo 1 1 1 0—3 Chicago 1 1 1 1—4 First Period-1, Buffalo, Foligno 6, 7:21. 2, Chicago, Hartman 7, 16:20.

Second Period-3, Buffalo, Okposo 12 (O’reilly, Ristolainen), 18:10 (pp). 4, Chicago, Anisimov 17 (Kane, Kempny), 18:28.

Third Period-5, Buffalo, Eichel 8 (Okposo, O’reilly), 1:10 (pp). 6, Chicago, Anisimov 18 (Keith, Kane), 17:56.

Overtime-7, Chicago, Kane 12 (Hjalmarsson, Toews), 0:56.

Shots on Goal-Buffalo 6-6-8–20. Chicago 20-9-11-3–43.

Power-play opportunities-Buffalo 2 of 3; Chicago 0 of 2.

Goalies_Buffalo, Nilsson 6-3-4 (43 shots39 saves). Chicago, Crawford 14-8-3 (2017).

A-21,824 (19,717). T-2:21.

Referees-Brad Meier, Brian Pochmara.

Linesmen-Brian Mach, Bryan Pancich.

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Wideout redemption

Foster latest to wreak havoc in middle for Tide

Williams, Cain to play in first CFP title game

BY JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer

BY PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Reuben Foster arrived at Alabama as a coveted prospect with an Auburn tattoo. He’ll leave having made another kind of mark.

The top-ranked Crimson Tide middle linebacker worked his way up gradually from hard-hitting special teamer to starting inside linebacker, and now to a unanimous All-American, Butkus Award winner, and highly regarded NFL prospect.

It’s not the easiest or quickest path to stardom for one of the nation’s top recruits, who has become one of the Tide’s biggest stars heading into Monday night’s national championship game against No. 2 Clemson in Tampa, Florida.

Even his own teammates seem impressed by the hard-hitting Foster, whose 103 tackles are 27 more than anybody else on the nation’s top defense.

“A true beast,” said Alabama wide receiver Calvin Ridley, adding that he wouldn’t want to get hit by him.

“Everybody’s running to the ball, but you just see him like flying past everybody,” defensive tackle Da’Ron Payne said.

Foster had to battle his way to this point after arriving from Auburn High School, where he had once committed to Tide rival, Auburn.

He had the Auburn tattoo on his right forearm changed to honor his cousin, former Auburn player Ladarious Phillips, who died after being shot at an off-campus apartment.

Predictably, the college switch drew some heat from folks in Auburn, especially when it took Foster two seasons to work

CLEMSON, S.C. – Clemson co-offensive coordinator Jeff Scott walked over to receiver Deon Cain shortly before the Tigers left the locker room to face Ohio State with a smile and a simple message: “Welcome to the playoffs.”

It has been a long, fretful jpourney to the national title game for both Cain and Mike Williams, two of Clemson’s most dynamic receivers. Williams had to watch the 45-40 loss to Alabama last January from the sideline after a frightening neck injury in the first quarter of the season opener knocked him out for the year.

For Cain, it was his own mistake that cost him.

He was sent home along with two other players – suspended for breaking team rules – 2 days before Clemson’s 37-17 win over Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. Cain also missed the national championship loss.

Now, both are back and eager to make an impact against No. 1 Alabama (14-0) on Monday night.

“They’re very excited,” teammate and fellow receiver Artavis Scott said. “Who wouldn’t be when you’re playing for a national title?”

Williams was a 1,000yard receiver clearly marked as Clemson’s main target in 2015 when he collided with the goal post stanchion making a touchdown catch against Wofford. Williams laid still for several uncomfortable minutes until he was strapped to a backboard and taken off the field on a cart.

The diagnosis was serious – a neck fracture – but Williams made a strong recovery and an even stronger return in

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Linebacker Reuben Foster (10) leads the vaunted Crimson Tide defense with 103 tackles this season. his way into the starting lineup. Now, he’s the primary play-caller and joins defensive end Jonathan Allen as Alabama’s biggest defensive stars.

Foster said he got serious about mastering the defense after joining the fraternity Omega Psi Phi in 2015.

“Everything changed when I pledged Omega,” Foster said. “I had to learn about all the history of Omega Psi Phi. I was like, ‘Dang, I’m learning all this but I can’t learn this defense.’ I said I might as well go ahead and take the chance and really learn this, the ins and outs of the defense.”

The 6-foot-1, 225-pounder also dropped some 20 pounds during the offseason with the help of team nutritionist Amy Bragg. Bragg would send him daily text messages and gave him a list of things not to eat, but she also took a more hands-on role during some mealtimes.

“She’d fix my plate for me,” Foster said. “She knows I’m a momma’s boy. If I fix my plate, I won’t eat it. But if she fixes up my plate, she’ll fix it up nice.”

He has followed in a succession of star middle linebackers from Rolando McClain and Dont’a Hightower to C.J. Mosley and Reggie Ragland, three NFL first-round picks and a second-rounder.

Foster returned for his senior season with designs on graduating – he got his degree in December – along with improving on the field and becoming a firstround pick. Now, he’s regarded as a likely high first-rounder who figures to go 3-for-3 in checking off those goals.

“It’s a great feeling,” he said. “I never knew that a middle linebacker can be in that conversation. [Top 5], that’s outstanding.”

Foster played a big role in probably Alabama’s biggest play in the 24-7 semifinal victory over Washington. He was closing in on Huskies quarterback Jake Browning, whose swiftly unloaded pass was picked off and returned for a touchdown

by Ryan Anderson.

The oft-smiling Foster is also one of the team’s more popular players, well-liked by teammates and defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt.

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Clemson wide receiver Mike Williams (7) has worked his way back from a neck fracture last season to become the go-to target for the Tigers.

2016, with team highs of 90 catches for 1,267 yards and 10 touchdowns.

“I’ve gotten better in all parts of my game,” Williams said. “Running routes, blocking, reading defenses; that was my goal.”

Williams thought he had nothing more than a bruise until he felt his body tingling and go numb. There was no surgery, and Williams said the same day it happened doctors told him he’d be able to play again. But it was difficult for him to watch games and not be able to participate.

“We were winning all the time so I just thought, ‘Good job,’” the 6-foot-3 Williams said. “But we lost the national championship game and I thought, ‘What if I were out there?’”

It’s a question Cain wondered, too.

He was so remorseful about his mistake – Cain still won’t discuss specifics about what he did wrong – that he shut off his phone and did not watch Clemson’s loss to Alabama. During his time away from the field, Cain decided to work his way

back onto the Tigers and rebuild the trust with his teammates dented by his suspension during last year’s playoff run.

“I put this program on a pedestal because they’ve done a lot of stuff to help me,” he said. “I just wasn’t mature enough to see the opportunity they were giving me.”

Cain, like Williams, has made the most of his time back on the field.

He leads the Tigers’ front-line receivers with 19.1 yards per catch, with 640 yards on 33 grabs.

His nine touchdowns are second behind Williams.

Williams’ time at Clemson will end after the national championship, with the junior set to leave the Tigers for the NFL draft, where projections have him as likely the first receiver to be picked. He could’ve left last season and finished his rehab in the pros, but instead returned for a final college season.

“I’m really happy for him with all he’s been through,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. “He’s better for having come back.”

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CASE NO. 14 CH 35 Property Address: 1202 Dillon Avenue, Sterling, Illinois 61081 NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALEIFF SALE Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a judgment of said Court entered in the above-entitled cause on April 6, 2016, I, Sheriff, Kelly C. Wilhelmi of Whiteside County, Illinois, will hold a sale on February 2, 2017 , commencing at 10:00am, at The Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, IL, 61270, to sell to the highest bidder or bidders the following described real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said decree, to-wit: P.I.N.: 11-20-251-005; 11-20-251-006; 11-20-251-007 First Lien Position; Single-Family Residence; Judgment Amount $88693.41#.41 IN ACCORDANCE WITH 735 ILCS 5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) AND (H-2), 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(5), AND 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1), YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE PURCHASER OF THE PROPERTY, OTHER THAN A MORTGAGEE, SHALL PAY THE ASSESSMENTS AND LEGAL FEES REQUIRED BY SUBSECTIONS (g)(1) AND (g)(4) OF SECTION 9 AND THE ASSESSMENTS AND COURT COSTS REQUIRED BY SUBSECTION (g-1) OF SECTION 18.5 OF THE ILLINOIS CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY ACT.Terms of Sale: CASH - 10% down at the time of sale and the balance due within 24 hours of the sale. All payments for the amount bid shall be in certified funds payable to the Sheriff of Whiteside County.

The person to contact for information regarding this property is: Sales Department at ANSELMO LINDBERG OLIVER LLC 1771 West Diehl Road, Suite 120, Naperville, IL 60563 (866) 402-8661. For bidding instructions, visit www.alolawgroup.com 24 hours prior to sale.

This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

ANSELMO LINDBERG OLIVER LLC 1771 W. Diehl Rd., Ste 120 Naperville, IL 60563-4947630-453-6960 | 866-402-8661 | 630-428-4620 (fax) Attorney No. Cook 58852, DuPage 293191, Kane 03126104, Peoria 1794, Winnebago 3802, IL 03126232 foreclosure@ALOLawGroup.com THIS LAW FIRM IS DEEMED TO BE A DEBT COLLECTOR. R410 December 30, January 6 & 13 2017

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT LEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN AMBOY, Formerly Known as and Successor in Interest to Franklin Grove Bank, Plaintiff, v.

JASON O. PARKS, UNKNOWN OWNERS, and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

16 CH 91 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants That this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of the following Mortgage regarding the following described premises: That Part of Lots One (1) and Two (2) of the Northeast Quarter (NE 1/4) of Section Thirty-three (33), Township Twenty-two (22) North, Range Ten (10) East of the Fourth Principal Meridian, Lee County, Illinois, according to the Plat thereof made for Samuel C. Lehman by L.B. Neighbor, County Surveyor, and recorded in Book “A” of Plats on Page 55, lying North of the centerline of Old Mill Road, more particularly described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the Northwest corner of said Lot One (1); thence Easterly along the North line thereof, a distance of 713.69 feet; thence Southwesterly at an angle of 76 degrees 08 minutes 10 seconds as measured counterclockwise from the last described course, a distance of 358.59 feet to the centerline of “Old Mill Road”; thence Northwesterly along said centerline, at an angle of 88 degrees 49 minutes 03 seconds as measured counterclockwise from the last described course, a distance of 179.48 feet; thence Westerly along said centerline, being an arc of a curve, concave Southerly, having a radius of 1030.24 feet and whose chord forms an angle of 169 degrees 08 minutes 21 seconds as measured clockwise from the last described course, an arc distance of 390.58 feet; thence Southwesterly, along said centerline, at an angle of 169 degrees 08 minutes 21 seconds as measured clockwise from the last described chord, a distance of 59.24 feet to the West line of said Lot One (1); thence Northerly, along said West line, at an angle of 85 degrees 02 minutes 27 seconds as measured counterclockwise from the last described course, a distance of 280.23 feet to the Point of Beginning, all situated in the County of Lee and State of Illinois.

COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1480 Old Mill Road, Franklin Grove, IL 61031 which said Mortgage was made by: Jason O. Parks, to Franklin Grove Bank, as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Lee County, Illinois, as Document No. 2007005941, which was modified by Modification of Mortgage, recorded as Document No. 2010003583 and which was modified again by Modification of Mortgage, recorded as Document No. 2013003194; 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 Lee County Court Facility 309 S. Galena Ave. Dixon, IL 61021

STATE OF ILLINOISIN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUITMORRISON, WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS

Sterling Park District hereby provides public notice that an audit of its funds for the period May 1, 2015 through April 30, 2016 has been made by Reifler, Sharps, Schuetz, Ltd, and that a report of such audit dated April 30, 2016 has been filed with the County Clerk of Whiteside, in accordance with 30 ILCS 15/0.01 et seq.

The full report of the audit is available for public inspection at 1913 Third Avenue during regular business hours 8:00 am5:00 pm Monday through Friday except for Holidays.

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BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, vs.

VIOLETA L. JARAMILLO and BMO HARRIS BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FKA HARRIS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FKA AMCORE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF OGLE

Denise A. McCaffrey Clerk of the Circuit Court Lee County, Illinois

Douglas E. Lee Ehrmann Gehlbach Badger Lee & Considine, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 215 E. First St., Suite 100 P.O. Box 447 Dixon, Illinois 61021 (815) 288-4949 (815) 288-3068 (FAX) lee@egblc.com NOTE: This law firm is deemed to be a debt collector.

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IN RE THE ESTATE OF RICKIE JAY BIER, Deceased, No. 16-P-97 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of Rickie Jay Bier, who died on November 2, 2016, in Ogle County, Illinois. Letters of Administration/Representation were issued on December 16, 2016 to Lucille Mayer of 4495 Hwy 30 SE, Medina, ND 58467, as Executor of the Estate, whose attorney is Timothy J. Freiberg of Freiberg Law Offices, 4320 Spring Creek Road, Rockford, IL 61107.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Court, Ogle County Circuit Court, 106 S. 5th Street, Oregon, IL 61061, or with the representatives, or both, on or before (whatever date is 3 months from the first date of publication), 2017, and any claim not filed by such date is barred.

Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to the attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed.

Dated this 23rd day of December, 2016.

Timothy J. Freiberg FREIBERG LAW OFFICE 4320 Spring Creek Road Rockford, IL 61107 (217)801-2733 Attorneys for Executor of the Estate, Lucille Mayer Dec. 23, 30, 2016, Jan. 6, 2017 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS

In the Matter of the Estate of Arthur R. Worthington, Deceased.

No. 2016-P-160 Notice is given to creditors of the death of Arthur R. Worthington. Letters of Office were issued on December 13, 2016 to Patrick Worthington, as independent executor, whose attorneys of record are shown below.

The estate will be will be administered without court supervision, unless under Section 28-4 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/28-4) any interested person terminated independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the clerk.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Circuit Clerk of Whiteside County, 200 East Knox Street, Morrison, Illinois 61270, or with the representative, or both, on or before June 31, 2017 or, if mailing or delivery of a notice from the representative is required by Section 18-3 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/18-3), the date stated in that notice. Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the clerk must be mailed or delivered by the claimant to the representative and to the attorneys within 10 days after it has been filed.

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CASE NO. 16-CH-131 PROPERTY ADDRESS: 17289 TIMBER DRIVE STERLING, IL 61081 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION

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on or before February 10, 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: December 19, 2016.

NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF AUDIT REPORT OF STERLING PARK DISTRCT

NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Violeta L. Jaramillo, Defendant, this case has been commenced in this Court against you and others, asking for foreclosure of the Mortgage held by the Plaintiff on the property located at 17289 Timber Drive, Sterling, IL 61081, more particularly described as: #bed as: Lot 10 of Hickory Hills Subdivision of part of the East Half of the East Half of Section 6 and a part of the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 5; all in Township 21 North, Range 7 East of the 4th P.M., Whiteside County, Illinois; according to the Plat thereof recorded July 9, 1954 in Plat Book 9, page 25.

Permanent Index Number: 11-06-476-002 Commonly known as: 17289 Timber Drive, Sterling, IL 61081 UNLESS YOU FILE your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this cause in the Office of the Clerk of this Court at the WHITESIDE County Courthouse, 200 East Knox Street, Morrison, IL 61270-2819 on or before January 30, 2017, A JUDGMENT OR DECREE BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU FOR RELIEF ASKED IN THE COMPLAINT FOR FORECLOSURE. THIS COMMUNICATION IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT,AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC Attorneys at Law P.O. Box 740 Decatur, IL 62525 111 East Main Street Decatur, IL 62523 Telephone: (217)422-1719 Fax:(217)422-1754 Email: Non-CookPleadings@hsbattys.com December 30, 2016 & January 6 & 13 2017 F14030133 CHOH IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUITWHITESIDE COUNTY- MORRISON, ILLINOIS JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Plaintiff, vs.

LuAnne M. Trujillo aka LuAnne Trujillo; Illinois Housing Development Authority; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants Defendants.

CASE NO. 14 CH 35 Property Address: 1202 Dillon Avenue, Sterling, Illinois 61081 NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALEIFF SALE Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a judgment of said Court entered in the above-entitled cause on April 6, 2016, I, Sheriff, Kelly C. Wilhelmi of Whiteside County, Illinois, will hold a sale on February 2, 2017 , commencing at 10:00am, at The Whiteside County Courthouse, 200 E. Knox Street, Morrison, IL, 61270, to sell to the highest bidder or bidders the following described real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said decree, to-wit: LOTS EIGHTEEN, NINETEEN AND TWENTY, IN BLOCK 9 IN WEST STERLING, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE WEST HALF OF THE WEST HALF OF THE EAST HALF OF SECTION TWENTY, TOWNSHIP TWENTY-ONE NORTH, RANGE SEVEN EAST OF THE FOURTH P.M., IN WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS..

Commonly known as: 1202 Dillon Avenue, Sterling, Illinois 61081 P.I.N.: 11-20-251-005; 11-20-251-006; 11-20-251-007 First Lien Position; Single-Family Residence; Judgment Amount $88693.41#.41 IN ACCORDANCE WITH 735 ILCS 5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) AND (H-2), 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(5), AND 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1), YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE PURCHASER OF THE PROPERTY, OTHER THAN A MORTGAGEE, SHALL PAY THE ASSESSMENTS AND LEGAL FEES REQUIRED BY SUBSECTIONS (g)(1) AND (g)(4) OF SECTION 9 AND THE ASSESSMENTS AND COURT COSTS REQUIRED BY SUBSECTION (g1) OF SECTION 18.5 OF THE ILLINOIS CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY ACT.Terms of Sale: CASH - 10% down at the time of sale and the balance due within 24 hours of the sale.

All payments for the amount bid shall be in certified funds payable to the Sheriff of Whiteside County.

The person to contact for information regarding this property is: Sales Department at ANSELMO LINDBERG OLIVER LLC 1771 West Diehl Road, Suite 120, Naperville, IL 60563 (866)4028661. For bidding instructions, visit www.alolawgroup.com 24 hours prior to sale.

This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

ANSELMO LINDBERG OLIVER LLC 1771 W. Diehl Rd., Ste 120 Naperville, IL 60563-4947630-453-6960 | 866-402-8661 | 630428-4620 (fax) Attorney No. Cook 58852, DuPage 293191, Kane 031-26104, Peoria 1794, Winnebago 3802, IL 03126232 foreclosure@ALOLawGroup.com THIS LAW FIRM IS DEEMED TO BE A DEBT COLLECTOR. R410 December 30, January 6 & 13 2017

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DIXON 3 or 4BR, LR, DR, kitchen, Lg. laundry room, 2 car garage 1yr lease. Avail.

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The ideal candidate should have at least five years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably in the plastic film and sheet industry.

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Bartender/Waitress needed at Wagon Wheel Restaurant.

Apply in person at 1711 W. 4th St., Sterling

Casey's General Store accepting applications for Store Manager Rock Falls IL. location 1st Ave. Food Service Leader Rock Falls IL Dixon Ave. Food Service Leader and Shift Leader Dixon IL. Each position is Full time with benefits.

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Sterling Township Highway Department has immediate openings for part time snow plow drivers. CDL a plus and drug screening required.

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SERVICE DIRECTORY SAUK VALLEY

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STORAGE UNITS Multiple Sizes Starting at $35 OUTSIDE STORAGE NOW AVAILABLE No appt. needed Located inside MOORE TIRES 2411 E. Rt 30 Rock Falls (815)625-3764

License-Bonded Insured NO JOB TOO SMALL All your home Improvement needs Remodeling of baths, basements & kitchens Custom showers Siding-Decks etc.

815-440-3519

Gutters

Cleaning Service

“Area's #1 Roofing Contractor IL Lic# 104-015191 Licensed, Bonded & Insured •Roofing •Siding •Windows •Decks •Additions •Garages & More Residential & Commercial Call now to schedule your FREE Estimate!

Will beat any leading competitor price 815-590-2677

Roofing/Siding

Interior & Exterior Light Carpentry Pressure Washing 35 Years Experience Insured - References Cell #815-440-2202

2001 Mercedes ML 320, 132K, AWD, hitch, reliable. $5250.

Call 815-312-0037

• Births

“Area's #1 Roofing Contractor IL Lic# 104-015191 Licensed, Bonded & Insured •Roofing •Siding •Windows •Decks •Additions •Garages & More Residential & Commercial Call now to schedule your FREE Estimate!

Will beat any leading competitor price 815-590-2677

Illinois License #104.016127 Bonded/Insured •Roofing •Siding • Windows •Doors •Additions• •Garages •Drywall •Decks and more Free Estimates 815-213-0556

Serving the Sauk Valley Area for over 15 years.

•Garages •Additions •Roofing •Siding •Windows •Gutters •Interior/Exterior •New Construction & Re-Construction Residential, Industrial, Commercial •Licensed •Bonded •Insured FREE Estimates 815-213-0704

Snowmobile Repair Snowmobile Repair

Frank's Performance

Snowmobile & ATV Service Repair & Accessories Your Local Amsoil Dealer!

Be Ready Before The Snow Flies!!

10576 Buell Rd. Rock Falls 815-622-9370

Snowplowing ❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋

MATT'S SNOWPLOWING Sterling Rock Falls Residential & Commercial Most Driveways $20 LOWEST PRICE GUARANTEED 815-590-1677 ❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋❋

Please call 815-677-9216 to set up your appointment today!

Tree Service ✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤

BRAD'S TREE SERVICE

A division of Timber Industries, LLC. Tree & Limb Removal Stump Removal Storm Clean-up Mulch & Firewood •Free Estimates •Fully Insured 815-857-3674 Cole's Complete Tree Service Tree Trimming Stump Removal Licensed and Insured *Free Estimates* 25HR Emergency Service Will meet or beat any written tree estimates.

Call 815-718-2997 Now accepting credit/debit cards Donnie Cole colestree service@outlook.com

WILKINS TREE & LANDSCAPING Simple Trimming Simple Price Fully Insured Licensed Timber Buyer in IL FREE Estimates Selling hardwood lumber & firewood 815-631-4340

TV Repair

TELEVISION IN HOME REPAIR 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE! Work on all Brands & Models Old or New Serving the Sauk Valley and More Call Ron for a free quote at 815-561-0011 Dixon, IL

• Reunions

• And More

625-3600 or

284-2222

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Whitson CPAs, LLC

•Family Owned Accounting Firm •Downtown Dixon We pride ourselves in offering Quality Services at Competitive Rates.

•Currently Offering free initial consultations regarding tax preparation services.

• Graduates

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2013 CADILLAC SRX FWD LUXURY

ONLY 25K MILES! LOADED W/LEATHER INTERIOR, HEATED SEATS, SUNROOF & MUCH MORE!

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CERTIFIED

• 12-Month/12,000-Mile Bumper-toBumper Warranty • 6-Year/100,000-Mile Powertrain Limited Warranty CHEVROLET BUICK GMC • 24/7 Roadside Assistance • 172-Point Vehicle Inspection and No Worries.™ Reconditioning Process • New, Exclusive 2-year/24,000-Mile • 3-Day/150-Mile Customer Satisfaction Guarantee Standard CPO Maintenance Plan

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2016 Chevy Impala LTZ Silver.................................................... $24,900* 2016 Chevy Suburban LT Silver.................................................... $49,900* 2016 Chevy Impala Limited LTZ Black .................................................... $19,500* 2015 Chevy 3500 Crew Cab LTZ Diesel White.................................................... $46,900* 2015 Chevy Cruze 2LT Red ...................................................... $16,900* 2015 Chevy Equinox FWD Gray ..................................................... $23,900* 2015 Chevy 1500 Double Cab Z71 4x4 Gray ..................................................... $31,500* 2014 Chevy 1500 Crew Cab LT 2WD White.................................................... $26,900* 2014 Chevy Impala Limited LTZ Gray ..................................................... $15,500* 2014 Chevy 1500 Crew Cab 4x4 LTZ Gray ..................................................... $33,500*

2014 Chevy Impala 2LT, Leather Red ...................................................... $17,900* 2014 Chevy 1500 Double Cab 4x4 LTZ Blue...................................................... $31,500* 2013 Chevy Impala LTZ Maroon ................................................ $14,500* 2013 Chevy 2500 Reg Cab 2WD Black ................................................... $19,500* 2013 Chevy Silverado 1500 4x4 LT Ext Cab, Leather, Red ......................................... $25,900* 2013 Chevy Traverse AWD LT, White.................................................... $20,900* 2013 Chevy Equinox FWD ILT Silver.................................................... $16,900* 2013 Chevy 1500, 2WD, X-Cab Blue...................................................... $20,900* 2013 Chevy 1500 4x4 Crew Cab Z71 LT Green ................................................... $28,500* 2013 Chevy Camaro 2SS Red ...................................................... $25,500* 2013 Chevy Suburban LT, 4x4 Black .................................................... $34,500*

QUALITY USED CARS, TRUCKS, SUV’S & VANS 2010 Chevy Crew Cab, Z71, LTZ, Sunroof, 4x4, Red...............................................................$18,500* 2011 Chevy Equinox FWD LT Maroon ....................................................................................$11,500* 2011 Chevy Equinox AWD 2LT Maroon..................................................................................$11,500* 2012 Chevy 1500 LTZ 4x4 Z71, Red.......................................................................................$25,500* 2013 Cadillac SRX FWD Luxury Black....................................................................................$26,000*

815-849-5232 1-800-227-5203

“Great Deals, Great Service, Since 1926” OR AFTER 6PM

HIGHWAY 52 • SUBLETTE, IL

(815) 849-5251

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Fireplaces

• Residential • Commercial • Industrial * Fully Insured * Hot Water We do everything including house washing, gutters, pool areas, brick/ stone walls, decks & patios and commercial businesses.

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Done right the first time!

Call 815-441-0246

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Maximize your profits and increase your yields with a world-class crop management system!

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Mobil Pressure Wash Service • Commercial, • Residential & • Semis You name it.... we clean it!

Call Ben 815-590-2694

1994 Buick LeSabre, 182K mi. $1600/obo. 815499-6150.

2002 Chevy Malibu,130k + mi. new tires, runs great.

New Price $2,100 OBO 815-219-2734

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Farm Services

Power Washing

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We are licensed & insured to buy vehicles. Running or non running, scrap, Ect. 7 days a week.

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Dumpster Rental for Clean-ups & Construction Small & Large containers avail.

Tidy Bug Inc. Dixon, IL tidybuginc.com 815-456-3001

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2005 Nissan Altima 144K mi.

Good cond. Lots of new parts. Heated leather seats. $2700/obo.

815-973-9600

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DAN'S HOME REPAIR Professional Painting Interior & Exterior Snow Removal Licensed bonded and Insured.

Proudly serving your community for 15 years

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BALAYTI PAINTING

Dumpster Rental

New furniture & beds wholesale.

Also used twin, full, queen, king beds.

Electric lift recliner, washer, dryer, refrig., sofas, dresser, recliner, table/ chairs.

815-718-4385

www.allsafe center.com

Wood burning stove, 24”x24”x 24”, partial envelope, fire brick lined. Good cond. $275. I can load.

815-973-3223.

Wooden high chair $20. 815-7321492

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Painting

Farm Fresh Eggs Free Delivery Fri-Saturday morn. $3.50 a dozen.

(2 doz. Min) Duck Eggs Avail.

815-626-4380

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Tax Services

Haul/Clean Service JOHN'S CLEANUP & REMOVAL Anything goes!!

Estate Cleanups PHONE 815-622-0240

Eastpoint Poolstick - Breakdown with case $15 815-284-1094

Heavy wood bar, 6x2 w/4 bar stools $275/obo.

Call 815-946-2892.

High-Security Storage Solutions and Much More!

Serving the Sauk Valley Areas for over 15 years •On the Job Manufactured • Expert Installation •Competitive prices •Best Quality Materials, Guaranteed •5” and 6” Seamless Gutters for Residential, Industrial & Commercial Needs •Leaf Free Gutter Protection Systems •Licensed •Bonded •Insured FREE Estimates 815-213-0704

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815-625-4165

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www.praterpaintand waterproofing.com

Over 30 years of experience

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The Softener Man

Pronto Power Chair, M41 Series.

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Alterations

Swanson Snow Removal

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Genl. Contracting

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Owner Tod Reynolds 815-535-1459

Water Softeners

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Furniture Restoration Strip, Refinish, Repair Re-glue, Touch-ups.

Custom Woodworking & Finishing Shop Anselmo's Inc. 1235 W. LeFevre Rd., Sterling 815-625-3519

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2016 Dodge Challenger

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2016 Ford Fusion SE

2015 Ford Focus SE’s

2015 Chevy Sonic LT

13,999

$

or $329 Mo**

SALES NICK MELSNESS

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3 TO CHOOSE

16,987*

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$

MANAGER MIKE PARENT

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$

or $219 Mo**

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$

or $193 Mo**

300 + HP V-6 Great on Fuel Economy Easy on Insurance

Navigation

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2015 Ford Fiesta SE

2014 Chevy Cruze LT

2013 Chevy Impala LT

or $179 Mo**

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2014 Nissan Altima

ONLY 1 AT THIS PRICE!

12,999*

10,999*

$

0 DOWN!

$

or $163 Mo**

or $179 Mo**

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$

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or $263 Mo**

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$

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7,999*

$

$

or $149 Mo**

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10,987*

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*Plus tax, title, license & doc fee. Payments based on 3.99% APR financing for 75 months with approved credit with vehicles up to $10,000 - $1,000 down, vehicles $10,000-$20,000 - $2,000 down, vehicles $20,000 - $25,000 - $3,000 down, vehicles $25,000+ - $5,000 down. Photos for illustration only. Dealer not liable for errors. **Plus tax, title, license & doc fee. Payments based on 2.99% APR financing for 72 months with approved credit and $2000 down. Photos for illustration only. Dealer not liable for errors.