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Volunteer Visitors of Northwestern Illinois hosts Stockton open house event EDITOR
Hospice volunteers provide different levels of support, talent and ability to the patients and families they serve. Some volunteers work directly with patient care, providing much-needed respite breaks to family members, running errands while lending emotional support and companionship. Other hospice volunteers assist with fundraising efforts, special projects and clerical work that supports clinical services and patient care. Volunteer Visitors of Northwestern Illinois is one such organization and while celebrating an open house staged by members of the Stockton Chamber of Commerce, guest speakers provided information about the organization and its goals for the future. “We’re here today for a ribbon cutting to let people know that we’ve changed our name,” said Volunteer Visitors Board President Leslie Niemann. “Changing our name by one little word affords us the ability to expand our services to more people in the community and to include Carroll and Stephenson Counties in our service area.” The organization was formerly known as Volunteer Hospice of Northwestern Illinois but is now, Volunteer Visitors of Northwestern Illinois. “Folks don’t have to be terminally ill to receive our services,” Nieman said. “That means if you have an accident and you’re homebound we can come and help you. Volunteer visitors will come out to your house read to you, play cards with you, or just be with you so you are not alone in your home.” Volunteer Visitors Executive Director Joanne Robinson said the visitors can also give a caregiver some respite time. “Maybe a care recipient sleeps most the time, but through our visitors services the caregiver will always
know that someone is there,” she said. Volunteer Visitors of Northwest Illinois also offers a lending program that provides medical and palliative care equipment, and the organization maintains a bereavement program. Volunteer Visitors is actively recruiting volunteers. “We talk to people and hopefully they’ll talk to people,” said Robinson. “We put ads in the newspapers to say we have training classes. We put posters out. And, we need volunteers for more than patient care. We also need volunteers for office work and for our fundraising efforts.” The Volunteer Visitors of Northwest Illinois current focus is expansion. “We will be serving a three county area and we want to work more with the nursing and assisted living homes in the area,” Robinson said. “There are a churches and organizations that are doing some of the same things we’re doing, and if we can work together we can serve more people. Serving more people is really our biggest goal.” She said there are no fees or charges for the Volunteer Visitor services as the organization is funded by very generous people in the community, by fundraiser projects, businesses that donate to support their efforts, and a yearly appeal. “We are very grateful for all the volunteers that we do have,” said Robinson. “If we didn’t have a volunteer base we wouldn’t be able to do this.” Again, all Volunteer Visitor services are without fee and projects including the Bereavement Program and the Lending Program are funded by donations and fundraising projects. Stockton Chamber of Commerce President Marci Schubert acknowledged the Chamber’s participation in the event saying, “It’s always important to recognize businesses especially volunteer businesses for their service to our community.”
She said Volunteer Visitors is a notable organization because it reinvents itself continuously. “A lot of the Volunteer Visitors
board members are also board members at the Chamber and that says a lot about the support this community offers,” said Schubert. “Volunteer
Visitors do a lot both in and outside of our immediate community and the organization provides many valuable services.”
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The Stockton High School Band gets the crowd up and ready to cheer on their Blackhawks.
Stockton falls to Dakota in round one upset By Trent Scheids REPORTER
The seven-seed Stockton Blackhawks hosted the 10-seed Dakota Indians for the opening round of the playoffs. Despite being the higher seed, Stockton fell to an upset by the Indians. It was Dakota’s first ever playoff victory over the Blackhawks. After driving the ball down to the Indian’s one yard line, the Dakota defense managed to halt the Blackhawks for a turnover on downs. It took just six plays for the Indian’s
to drive the length of the field, as a touchdown and a failed two point conversion gave Dakota a six point lead. Stockton surrendered a touchdown run, followed by a touchdown pass to Carter Drake, putting the Blackhawks in a hole down 20-0 late in the first half. Dakota’s Trey Engelbrecht opened things up in the third with a touchdown run, putting the Indians up 27-0. A flashy punt return from Engelbrecht on led for another touchdown run on the next drive as Dakota opened up a
34 point lead. A Stockton touchdown pass late in the third would be the Blackhawks only score of the day, as a two point conversion pushed the score to 34-8. Trey Engelbrecht had a huge day as he found his way into the end zone once again with a 57-yard touchdown run, giving Dakota a 41-8 lead. Yet another Dakota score led to a running clock late in the fourth, as they eventually ran out the clock, completing the upset over the Stockton Blackhawks.
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