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4-H’s top gun Cole Haynes of rural Tonica missed only three shots out of 100 to claim the 2019 State 4-H Shotgun Shoot championship this fall at the Brittany Shooting Park in Bunker Hill.

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Tri-County Financial Group Inc. and H.F. Gehant Bancorp Inc. unveil agreement and their plan of merger MENDOTA — In a Nov. 1 news release, the board of directors of Tri County Financial Group Inc., the holding company for First State Bank, and the board of directors of H.F. Gehant Bancorp Inc., the holding company for H.F. Gehant Banking Co., announced the companies have signed a definitive agreement outlining the terms of the acquisition of H.F. Gehant Banking Co.

by Tri-County Financial Group through the merger of H.F. Gehant Bancorp with Tri-County Financial Group.

Subject to the parties receiving regulatory and shareholder approval by the shareholders of H.F. Gehant Bancorp and satisfying certain other closing contingencies set

forth in the definitive agreement, the parties anticipate the consolidation will be completed in either the first or early second quarter of 2020.

As part of the agreement, each party’s banking subsidiaries (H.F. Gehant Banking Co. and First State Bank) will be merged and after such merger will operate under the First State Bank name.

The release stated this consolidation will bring together two long-standing Illinois community banking institutions.

H.F. Gehant Banking Co. has approximately $59 million in total assets and has locations in West Brooklyn and Triumph.

First State Bank has approximately $1.137 billion in total assets and has locations in Mendota, Batavia, Bloomington, Geneva, LaMoille, McNabb, North Aurora, Ottawa, Peru, Princeton, Rochelle, Shabbona, St. Charles, Streator, Sycamore and Waterman.

Tim McConville is Tri-County Financial Group’s president and CEO. “We are excited for the opportunity to partner with an organization that is committed to true communi-

ty banking,” McConville stated.

“The combined solid core deposit base allows us to take advantage of asset growth opportunities in both the acquired markets and our broader market areas, and we look forward to the opportunities this transaction creates to enhance shareholder value,” McConville stated.

Bill Gehant, president and CEO of H.F. Gehant Bancorp, Inc., commented: “We are very pleased to be joining with a larger community bank that is committed to delivering a high level of customer service. We believe that this transaction will be beneficial to our shareholders, customers and employees, and it will allow us to offer a broader array of banking services to our customers.”

Tri-County Financial Group Inc. was advised by the investment banking firm of Raymond James and Associates Inc. and the law firm of Howard and Howard Attorneys PLLC. H.F. Gehant Bancorp Inc. was advised by the law firm of Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum and Nagelberg, LLP.

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University seeks data on 2019 season Information sought on odd growing year URBANA — Researchers and Extension specialists from University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences are asking Illinois growers to share basic planting, harvest and yield data with the college to learn from the extraordinary growing conditions experienced this year.

“What we have is a giant, unplanned and involuntary experi-

ment that is being conducted by Illinois farmers this year,” said Emerson Nafziger, professor emeritus in the U of I College of ACES. Using an anonymous online form, email, or the U.S. Postal Service, farmers can share very simple parameters from this year’s crop with researchers.

“The opportunity to collect a small amount of data on a large number of fields will help Extension provide better guidance if we find ourselves in this kind of situation again in the future,” said Chelsea Harbach, an Extension educator at the Northwest-

ern Illinois Agricultural Research and Demonstration Center near Monmouth. The researchers request data on the 2019 corn and soybean crop from fields in every county of Illinois, and encourage farmers to respond by the end of December 2019.

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2019 STATE 4-H SHOTGUN SHOOT CHAMPIONSHIP

High school junior moves on to nationals in trapshooting

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Cole Haynes of rural Tonica shoots during the 2019 State 4-H Shotgun Shoot championship at the Brittany Shooting Park in Bunker Hill. at state. The championship has earned him a place at the national 4-H shoot in Nebraska next June.

Nationals has become the next big target for him — in addition to keeping sharp by practicing with his dad; hunting in the fall and winter, and competing with the LaSalle County team in spring. Tommie said he and his son shoot approximately 100 targets per evening in a pasture near the house.

Haynes is not only Illinois’ reigning 4-H sharpshooter with a 12-gauge shotgun, but this past spring he was named to the TEACH Outdoors team, becoming a mentor to teach the LaSalle County shooting sports team members and other

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TONICA — Add “state champion” to the list of sharpshooting honors for Cole Haynes of rural Tonica.

Haynes missed only three shots out of 100 to claim the 2019 State 4-H Shotgun Shoot championship this fall at the Brittany Shooting Park in Bunker Hill.

“The first round, I hit 23 out of 25, which for me, that’s not very good.

My second box, I had a perfect box, 25,” he said. After lunch, he hit all 25 clay pigeons from a box, giving him 50 in a row. “In trap shooting, that’s pretty big to hit 25 twice in a row.”

Four of Cole’s teammates also participated at the state meet south of Springfield, and his dad and mom, Tricia and Tommie, attended as spectators. Tommie said fellow competitors and spectators start to pay attention when someone’s on the verge of a “straight 25.”

The Bailey Creek 4-H Club member (and longtime president) closed out with 24 out of 25, finishing with his personal-best score of 97.

Tommie said he, personally, has had a straight-25, but only once, and never a 50. He said his son wants to get a straight-75 patch next.

“I like the challenge of setting goals and working on it all season,” Cole said.

He’s the first LaSalle County 4-H member to place in the state competition, let alone win the champion buckle, his mom noted. He hit 94 targets to finish eighth last year

4-H’ers about safety in the outdoors and with and around firearms.

Haynes is a junior at LaSalle-Peru Township High School, where he also competes on the bass fishing team. He is the grandson of Marseilles’ Don and Karen Stillwell and of John Durdan of the Leonore area.

Since he was in third grade, he has been an officer in the Bailey Creek 4-H club, which meets at his grandfather’s building in Leonore.

More than 3,600 4-H members participate in one of the five 4-H shooting sports disciplines. Each fall, the oldest of those members compete in four state contests to determine the state winners and delegates to the National 4-H Shooting Sports Competition.

The shooting sports project teaches the responsible and safe handling of firearms, according to the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension service. Members must be involved in a club led by a certified volunteer who has completed the National 4-H Shooting Sports training.

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LOSTANT — After studying the negative impact that plastic has had on the oceans, the Student Council and science students at Lostant Grade School collaborated last year to help reduce some of the plastic in the landfills.

The students collected, cleaned, sorted and weighed various caps and packaged them 50 pounds per bag for transport. The students put a great deal of work into this project and learned the importance of precision, collecting data and working together.

The students collected a total of 400 pounds of caps, which was enough to order two Buddy Benches. After a long wait, the benches arrived in early October. These Buddy Benches are located on the playground.

Buddy Benches are used for students who may feel left out or without a buddy during recess. That student can sit on the bench and when others notice someone sitting there alone, they can invite the student to play. So, while reusing recyclable materials to help save the environment, the students are also working to make Lostant school a kinder, more inclusive environment.

After studying the negative impact that plastic has had on the oceans, the Student Council and science students at Lostant Grade School collaborated last year to help reduce some of the plastic in the landfills. The students collected a total of 400 pounds of caps, which was enough to order two Buddy Benches.

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RoseMarie Treml, executive director of the Sycamore Chamber of Commerce, talks Wednesday in her office about her career and life in Sycamore.

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Sycamore, getting people into town to eat at restaurants and shop at stores.

“That’s the Discover Sycamore part,” Treml said. “The other part is what most chambers do. ... We help businesses market and promote themselves to residents and to other businesses.”

Although Treml spends a lot of hours at working at the chamber — “She works hard. People have no idea the hours she works,” Mundy says — Treml is also involved in a number of local boards and non-profit events.

She serves as a director for the DeKalb County Economic Development Corporation, Kishwaukee Valley YMCA and Kishwaukee College Foundation. She is also on the City of Sycamore Growth Management Committee and City of Sycamore Economic Development Committee.

Dave Juday, former CEO at Sycamore-based IDEAL Industries, said he worked with Treml on many events, involving workforce development in the community.

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Hometown: St. Charles, Sycamore.

Alma mater: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Hobbies: I take a small cross-country trip annually — Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and home — on a 2013 Harley-Davidson Switchback. ful, we really have to have all folks working together, and she does a nice job of bringing the assets of the chamber into the larger community picture,” Juday said.

This past summer, Treml helped organize the Sycamore Strong fundraiser following a fire that destroyed a building at the city’s St. Albans Green apartment complex in July. More than 120 people were displaced by the fire that destroyed Building A of the complex.

The fire was on a Saturday night, and crews fought it into the early hours of Sunday. On Sunday morning, Treml said she received a call from David Miller of the band Back Country Roads.

“He said ‘We want to help,’” Treml remembered. Blumen Gardens

provided event space, and Taxco Restaurant organized local bars to provide alcohol, Sycamore United Methodist Church Youth Ministries designed and sold T-shirts and, by 4 p.m., Treml said, the fundraiser was planned. “It was put together literally within four hours.”

The event raised more than $73,000 for victims of the fire, Treml said, with community members dropping checks off in the office. Treml said Ideal helped by matching donations.

Each year, Treml also helps organize the 10K Sycamore Pumpkin Run during Pumpkin Fest. In 2009, she remembered, she brought the tradition abroad. Teaming up with the Illinois National Guard, Treml worked with a team to bring the Pumpkin Run to Kuwait.

When she’s not working, Treml said she likes to spend time with her two grown children, Keri, who teaches third grade in Michigan, and Colan, who will be graduating college shortly.

Treml said she couldn’t describe what makes the Sycamore community special. She said Mundy used to say once you dip your toes in the Kishwaukee River, you’ll be back.

“She’s a strong, professional woman,” Mundy said. “She’s a great mom, a great worker for the chamber, and a lovely, lovely lady.”

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YCAMORE — RoseMarie Treml noted that there are pumpkins on display near the stone welcome signs near Sycamore’s downtown, welcoming visitors to the historic district. People in the community had put them there around mid-October, preparing for the Sycamore Pumpkin Festival.

They were still there at the end of the month, undistributed for weeks, even after the festival.

“How many towns do you know that you could actually put pumpkins out on a corner of a Main Street and, and they’re still there?” she said. “That’s just the way it is in Sycamore. ... I wish I could tell you what it is because if I knew, I’d bottle it up and sell it.”

Treml has been executive director of the Sycamore Chamber of Commerce since 2002. She had lived in Sycamore for six years before then, but worked at the Geneva Chamber of Commerce working in events and marketing.

Earlier this year, she joined Shaw Media Illinois’ Corporate Advisory Board, a group of professional leaders from around northern Illinois who are helping the company as it charts its future course.

“Chambers (of commerce) have a huge impact on the community as a whole,” Treml said. “We do everything from helping businesses succeed to creating events to bring people downtown. ... It’s economic development.”

The Sycamore chamber has more than 500 members. Former Mayor Ken Mundy said that membership has probably doubled since Treml took over.

“The chamber has been a huge part of the city for so long,” he said.

“Rose strengthened the chamber’s position in the city.”

Mundy was Sycamore’s city treasurer when Treml was named executive director. He worked closely with her in that role, and their working relationship continued after he was elected mayor in 2005.

He said, at one point, some people on the City Council were skeptical about the city’s annual subsidy to the chamber and whether it was right to use public funds to fund the organization.

Mundy said Treml changed the view of the doubters.

The chamber of commerce serves several roles for the community, Treml said. It promotes tourism in

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