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A celebration of community The Lena Lions Fall Festival is a celebration of community and it seems fitting that Dr. Shokry Tawfik will be honored in the festival parade on Saturday, Sept. 11. Tawfik retired recently after 37 years as a family physician at the FHN Family Healthcare Center-Lena. He will serve as the parade grand marshal, passing by the Oak Street home where he and his family lived for years. They often invited friends from church over to enjoy the annual parade, he said. “My family and myself feel greatly blessed to be part of Lena and the surrounding community,” he said. It seems the feeling is mutual, which is why the Lions chose the longtime doctor as
their 2021 honoree, said Bill Crichton of the Lions club. “Lena is a small town and small towns need people willing to do that little extra to help others. The Lions club is an organization that does that, and we look for others in our area that do the same,” Crichton said. “Dr. Tawfik ran his practice in Lena for more than 35 years and is a very respected physician. People trusted his judgment. “Lena was very fortunate that Dr. Tawfik and his family chose Lena to call home.” Tawfik is modest about the honor, saying he never expected such recognition. “I feel very honored and humbled by their selection,” he said. The parade, expected to draw about 100 units, will
start at noon Saturday at the Old School Apartments. Some other highlights of the Lena Lions Fall Festival will include: • Live music by Just For Kicks at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10 • Carnival rides by Skinner’s Amusements in the downtown parking lot • The Fall Festival 5K Run/ Walk, sponsored by the Lena Community Park District, starting with registration at 7:30 a.m. Saturday and the run/walk at 8:30 a.m. at Lions Park • Live music by Cross Cut at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday • Plenty of food, including the Lions’ pork chop on a stick and food from the LeWin Sports Association and the Knights of Columbus.
Legislative ethics bill in doubt as deadline looms By Jerry Nowicki CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
The House sponsor of a long-debated ethics bill that failed in the House last week said she will bring it up for another vote if lawmakers come back to the Capitol within a 15-day constitutional window in which such an action would be allowed. But House Republicans who pulled their support from the bill say it’s time to go back to the drawing
board. Senate Bill 539, the bipartisan negotiated ethics bill, initially came up for vote after 1 a.m. June 1, with House Republicans stating a number of concerns and calling it “watered down” before it passed the House 113-5 and the Senate 59-0. Among other things, the bill would have prohibited legislators and constitutional officers from engaging
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Lena festival honors beloved doctor, offers weekend fun
• A 50/50 cash raffle and a raffle for a Polaris ATV and other prizes.
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Dr. Shokry Tawfik, who recently retired from his longtime Lena practice, will serve as the grand marshal of this year’s Lena Lions Fall Festival parade on Sept. 11.
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Just For Kicks will play hits from the 1960s to today during their Sept. 10 appearance at the Lena Lions Fall Festival. The band is set to play at 7 p.m. in downtown Lena.
in “compensated lobbying” of a municipality, county or township “on behalf of any lobbyist or lobbying entity that is registered to lobby” the General Assembly or the executive branch. The same would have applied to elected and appointed executive or legislative officials of county, municipal or township governments.
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Enjoy the sights of nature on guided tour
A view of the Native American effigy mounds, like this thunderbird mound, will be included in this month’s guided tours of the Casper Bluff Land & Water Reserve near Galena. The tours are set for 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21. Attendees will also stop at the Casper Bluff overlook over the Mississippi River and observe the restored native prairie in full bloom. The tours cost $10 per person and registration is required by going online to the Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation at www.jdcf.org/events.
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