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Illinois Report Card pleases PHSPHS beats state average on PSAE, but falls behind last year’s number

By Zita [email protected]

PRINCETON — The Princeton High School (PHS) report card was released Oct. 31.

Information on average class size, average teacher salary, student test scores,

student attendance levels and much more are avail-able through www.illinois-reportcard.com.

“In general, PHS is pleased with our report card results. However, we realize this is only one measure of student suc-cess,” said PHS Superin-tendent Kirk Haring.

In the past, report cards indicated whether a school met the feder-ally-mandated adequate yearly progress (AYP) stan-dards. However, the 2013-14 report cards do not include AYP. The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) received a waiver for No Child Left Behind from the U.S. Depart-ment of Education, which means the state of Illinois no longer has to track AYP.

According to the ISBE,

the U.S. Department of Education invited states to request flexibil-ity for them-selves, their districts and schools, so indi-vidual schools may better focus on improv-ing student learning and instruction quality. Illi-nois’ flexibility request was granted in April of this year.

Although there is no

mandated AYP in Illi-nois, PHS always has and always will strive for improve-

ment and prog-ress in all areas,

Haring said.“PHS is proud of

our students and staff for exceeding the state average on the PSAE (Prai-rie State Achievement Exam) and the measure-ment of Ready For College Coursework,” Haring said.

The PHS report card

shows the school exceed-ed the state average on the PSAE by four percentage points with a composite (reading and math com-bined) score of 58 percent, which means 58 percent of all PHS students met or exceeded the state stan-dards.

While these numbers are above the state stan-dards for the PSAE, PHS did fall behind last year’s

Small wind power: Making a big dealBy Goldie Currie

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PRINCETON — The Bureau County Board is looking to loosen up its regulations on small wind power.

The board’s Zoning Committee recently was approached by a Bureau County resident who was looking to get a condi-tional use permit for a wind generator less than 100 kilowatts.

On Tuesday, board member Mike May-nard explained the resi-dent was going through the lengthy three-step process required by the county to get the permit. The process includes a public hearing, zoning board of appeals approv-al and then to the county board for a final approval.

“It’s going to take three months because of the process he has to go through for a conditional use permit. Every wind-mill that’s put up, regard-less of its size, has to go through that process,”

Maynard said. “I think we need to re-look at that zoning from a standpoint of a homeowner wanting to put one up. I think it’s kind of extreme to have to go through those steps.”

Maynard further explained he’s heard in other surrounding coun-ties, a person can just walk into an office and get a permit for wind gen-erators less than 100 kilo-watts.

Board member Loretta Volker, who also sits on the Zoning Committee, explained that in Bureau County it’s a lengthy pro-cess because the county’s ordinance is based on the “huge wind farms.

“Unfortunately we didn’t see this trend hit-ting in,” she said.

It seemed to be a con-sensus among the board members the ordinance be changed to allow a more reasonable process for residents seeking to purchase wind genera-tors under 100 kilowatts.

Board member Robert

BCUW dedicates 2015 campaign to KennedyBy Goldie Currie

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PRINCETON — In an effort to recognize the devoted service a long-term board member com-mitted to her community, the Bureau County Unit-ed Way (BCUW) Board has dedicated their 2015 campaign in memory of

Sandra Kennedy.Kennedy served the

BCUW for 30 years before she passed away earlier this year in February at the age of 70.

BCUW Executive Direc-tor Andrea Anderson explained how Kennedy strongly believed in the work of BCUW, and after her passing, the board felt the need to spotlight Ken-

nedy’s dedication to the organization.

“Sandra embodied that volunteer mentality to service and felt the BCUW was the one because it touched so many. We felt she would make an example of what it takes to make things happen,” she said,

Kennedy was the kind of person who was always

giving and trying to make an impact and difference, Anderson said.

“There are needs out there, and our commu-nity thrives on resources that are there to help us in those ‘what if’ situations, and I think Sandra set the standards by showing us with just a few min-utes here and there what a difference it really can

make,” she said.BCUW Board mem-

ber Judd Lusher served on the board with Ken-nedy for nearly 17 years. He talked about her loyal-ty to the organization and how she knew every bit of history related to the BCUW. Kennedy’s copi-ous notes provided board members with needed information at their fin-

gertips.“If we ever needed to

know a detail from the past or wondered wheth-er we did this or that from a past campaign, she would know the answer,” he said. “She was the sec-retary and took absolutely perfect minutes.”

Jean Babcock, a former

BCR photos/Goldie CurrieStudents at Logan Junior High School on Thursday were among thousands of students across the United States and other countries participating in sports stacking in an effort to set a Guinness World Record for “World’s Largest Sport Stacking Event.” Read more about this event on Page 3.

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Cornerstone Community Wellness Center is underwayPratt: ‘We hope to provide services to enrich physical, mental and spiritual health’

By Zita [email protected]

SHEFFIELD — The Cornerstone Commu-nity Wellness is aiming to open its doors Feb. 1. Located on the edge of Sheffield right off of Routes 6/34, Cornerstone Community Wellness is under construction and aiming for its opening in February.

The center was created out of the founders’ wish to “love thy neighbor” as God had instructed them, and they felt it was the best way to serve God and their community.

Cornerstone Commu-nity Wellness Executive Director Elizabeth Pratt said, “We (Cornerstone Community Wellness directors and volunteers) hope to provide services to enrich physical, mental and spiritual health.”

The center will offer: A physical fitness center; health education classes; substance abuse support; workshops on topics such as grief, loss and anxiety; classes on financial orga-nization; cooking and other life skills; opportu-nities to serve others and support local organiza-tions; a Christian book club; and a Bible study in a Christian non-denomi-national environment.

Pratt said center direc-tors want to help people overcome barriers that may prevent access to their services.

Cornerstone Communi-

ty Wellness wants to offer parents the opportunity to take a break and fully engage themselves in the center’s services. There-fore, Cornerstone will offer on-site child care for parents who are busy utilizing center services. The volunteer child care workers will be required to have their certification in First aid and CPR.

The organization aims to minimize service costs as much as possible by functioning on a little to no cost basis, said Pratt. She hopes this will allow for more people to get involved.

Cornerstone also aims to eliminate the stigma that occasionally occurs when people seek help. The various services and constantly changing cal-ender events offer ano-nymity to their services, said Pratt.

Cornerstone Communi-ty Wellness is functioning entirely through the work of volunteers, including the facility renovations. Pratt said this nonprofit organization will be fund-ed primarily through pub-lic support and potential-ly grants.

The center’s board of directors greatly appre-ciates the extensive work of various volunteers who have already donated and made Cornerstone Com-munity Wellness center possible.

“Ultimately, we want to connect people to each other and their commu-nity (in a broad sense, not

just within their zip code). We want to help people to learn about themselves and grow as individuals, so that they can love and serve their neighbors. We hope to be a place for fel-lowship, hope and trust,” Pratt said.

Cornerstone Commu-nity Wellness asks people to support the center in whatever means possible. Pratt said prayer, volun-teer work and donations are all equally important to the center.

Anyone wanting to help should go to the Corner-stone Community web-site at www.ccwell.org, send donations to 302 N. Mason St., P.O. Box 57, Sheffield, IL 61361, or email Pratt at [email protected].

Comment on this story at www.bcrnews.com.

Cornerstone Community Wellness Center Executive Director Elizabeth Pratt (above) stands amid the ongoing construction work at the center. At left, the center is located on Routes 6/34 on the east side of the road as one enters Shef-field. Cornerstone, which will offer a wide variety of activities for all ages, is planning on opening in February 2015.

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Stacked!Logan students participate in Guinness World RecordsPRINCETON — Did

you know stacking and un-stacking plastic cups is an energizing, brain-ac-tivating and world-re-cord-setting activity?

On Thursday, students at Logan Junior High School, along with thou-sands of other partici-pants took part in what Guinness World Records terms the “World’s Larg-est Sport Stacking Event.”

During the course of Guinness World Records Day, Sport stackers from all reaches of the world stacked and down-stacked various pyramids in prescribed patterns at lightening speed for at least 30 minutes, all com-bined with a variety of fit-ness activities.

This year, sights were set on 600,000 stackers

participating as sport stacking with Speed Stacks continues to gain popularity around the world.

Last year, 555,932 stack-ers participated to break the previous year’s STACK UP! record of 483,658. Tens of thousands of stackers took part in this activity from across the United States and around the world in countries such as Hungary, Germa-ny, Israel, South Korea, New Zealand, Colom-bia and Taiwan. In addi-tion, many school see this event to benefit local communities by stacking for a good cause.

According to Bob Fox, WSSA founder and execu-tive director, the Guinness event, is a wonderful way to bring together sport

stackers across the globe.“Sport stacking is an

activity enjoyed by all ages and cultures. It promotes hand-eye coordination, brain activation, fitness, teamwork, speed and lots of fun,” he said. “This is the ninth year we’ve teamed up with Guinness World Records, and we’re excited to have another shot at breaking a world record.”

Sport stacking with Speed Stacks is in more than 40,000 schools and youth organizations worldwide.

It’s appealing to teach-ers and students because it’s easy to learn, but chal-lenging to master. Ben-efits include improved reaction time, hand-eye coordination, concentra-tion and focus.

Logan Junior High School physical education teacher Chris Anderson oversaw this year’s event in Princeton.

BCR photo/Goldie CurrieLogan Junior High School students participate in the ninth annual World Sport Stack-ing event during their physical education class on Thursday.

Small business, entrepreneur resource expo is Tuesday

OGLESBY — A Small Business and Entrepre-neur Resource Expo is being held from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 18 at Illinois Valley Community College in the Peter Miller Community Technology Center, Rooms CTC 124/125.

This expo is to assist small businesses and entre-preneurs in finding oppor-tunities to locate their business, identify financial resources, discover pro-grams for labor issues and learn about other business resources. Each resource will be giving an “elevator speech” of what their orga-nization has to offer small businesses and entrepre-neurs. Attendees will then have the opportunity to speak individually with the resource representatives from whom they want to

get more information.“This Expo is being held

to assist businesses and entrepreneurs in the region in connecting to resources that will help them grow and strengthen their busi-ness,” says Kevin Linde-man, economic develop-ment district director of the North Central Illinois Council of Governments.

Making credit acces-sible to small business-es and entrepreneurs is crucial to our continued economic recovery. Small businesses employ one-half of all Americans, and they account for about 60 percent of overall job cre-ation. Knowing where to turn for help can often be an intimidating task. The Small Business and Entre-preneur Resource Expo is that opportunity to meet with representatives from

organizations provid-ing loans, direct financial assistance, and additional types of support.

“As a business consul-tant to small businesses, I highly recommend this valuable business expo to anyone seeking informa-tion on starting a business as well as those currently in business. The 2014 Small Business and Entrepreneur Resource Expo is a great way to explore new busi-ness strategies for a busi-ness start-up and expan-sion,” advised Bev Malo-oley, director of the Small Business Development Center.

The Small Business and Entrepreneur Resource Expo is free, but advance registration is required. To register, email Dianna at [email protected] or call 815-433-5830.

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Parr fire still being investigatedBy Zita HenneBerry

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PRINCETON — The investigation continues into the Sept. 23 fire that destroyed the rural Princ-eton residence owned by Ernie Parr.

On Tuesday, Princeton Fire Chief Chuck Wool-ley confirmed the inves-tigation is ongoing by the sheriff’s department and the state fire marshal. There is no time frame as to when the investigation

will be completed and a final report filed.

Woolley said the state fire marshal has turned the investigation over to the insurance companies. He explained with this magnitude of damage, insurance companies have the capacity and drive to determine a cause that may allow for them to recuperate possible losses.

As reported earlier in Bureau County Repub-lican, the Princeton Fire Department respond-ed about 2:45 p.m. Sept.

23 to the rural Princeton home. Upon arrival, the home was fully involved in the fire. Mutual aid was provided by more than 10 emergency personnel units. Firefighters were on the scene until about 10:30 p.m. that day. No injuries were reported. The home and its contents were a total loss, according to Woolley.

Former BCR Senior Staff Writer Donna Barker con-tributed to this story.


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composite score, where 65 percent of Princeton students met or exceeded those standards. In 2013, the state had 53 percent meeting or exceeding the standards.

The Ready For College Coursework is a score, showing the percentage of students who scored at least a 21 on the ACT test. PHS’ Ready For College Coursework score this year was 55 percent, beat-ing the state which came in at 46 percent.

While PHS did well in the above areas, they fell behind the state in their four-year graduation rate. The four-year graduation rate at PHS was 83 per-cent, however, the state’s four-year graduation rate was 86 percent.

The report card said PHS’ average class size is 16 students per class ver-sus 21 for the state aver-age.

Regarding how much money PHS spends on

each student for instruc-tional purposes, the report card said PHS spends a few more dol-lars than the state. PHS spends $7,797 per stu-dent; the state average is $7,094 per student.

PHS also had a lower percentage of student attendance than the state. The PHS student atten-dance was at 94 percent. The state’s student atten-dance rate was 95 per-cent.

The Illinois Report Card website provides the 2013-14 report cards for all public schools through-out Illinois. Schools can be found on the website by name, name of the dis-trict or by address.

The website also pro-vides information on the educators at Princeton Township High School District 500. The Illinois Report Card showed 34.6 percent of all the teachers had a bachelor’s degree, while 65.4 percent have earned their master’s degree. In comparison to 2010, the numbers are nearly reversed; 60.2 per-

cent of PHS teachers at that time had a bachelor’s degree, and only 39.8 per-cent had their master’s degrees.

The report card also lists the average teachers’ salaries. Teachers in the district earn on average $61,132 a year, compared to the state’s average teacher salary of $62,444. Regarding the adminis-trators at PHS, the aver-age salary is $99,823, a decrease from 2012 when the average PHS adminis-trator salary was $112,289.

The new online report card has a new format. It offers a quick glimpse of information catego-rized by subject material. The Illinois Report Card website encourages peo-ple to stay informed and become engaged, so they may be partners in their children’s educations.

The ISBE stated, “The Illinois State Board of Education is committed to making Illinois’ Pre-K to 12 system the strongest in the nation.”


Albrecht commented, “If it’s a 40 or 50 kilowatt wind generator, so what?”

“We shouldn’t both-er people putting these on their property. We shouldn’t make it this hard for these people,” he said.

Maynard said people are out trying to sell the generators; it’s something that creates revenue, and the county board should support it by making it easier to obtain one.

“Solar and wind is going to be a fact of life, and we

shouldn’t make it this dif-ficult to get a small wind generator on someone’s farm,” he said.

In other news, the board:• Announced a board

re-organizational meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 1.

• Approved entering into intergovernmental agree-ment with Marshall Coun-ty for a county line bridge replacement. Steve Sond-geroth, chairman of the Transportation Commit-tee, explained Marshall County is the lead agency in the project, and the cost share for Bureau County will be $68,072.

• Approved a county

maintenance resolution, which is an annual doc-ument submitted to the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). Sondgeroth explained it’s an estimate of main-tenance costs the county plans to spend in the next year. The maintenance items include things like patching mix, solutions for erosion control, gravel, rock and salt mixtures for ice control, traffic marking paint, etc. This year the county submitted a total price of $986,000, which will be filed for Motor Fuel Tax (MFT) funding.


BCUW executive direc-tor, worked with Kennedy during the 10 years she served as director.

Babcock described Ken-nedy as a timeless woman who devoted her life to public service.

She said if Kennedy knew about the campaign ded-

ication she would be the first to say, “Oh, I didn’t do anything.

“Sandra was a very unas-suming women, and her priorities on the board were centered always around the funded agencies and all the work they do for clients and patients,” she said.

Seeing the 2015 cam-paign being dedicated in memory of Kennedy is a wonderful tribute, said

Babcock.“Everything the United

Way stands for is what San-dra stood for. She was all about people in need. This would absolutely please her to have this campaign dedicated to her,” she said. “She was absolutely a val-ued member, and it was my pleasure to have worked with her for 10 years.”


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Jobs finally returning to the Illinois Valley

Unemployment drops 2.5 percentage points in the last year

By Ken SchroederShaw Media Service

The monthly unem-ployment numbers from the Illinois Department of Employment Security and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics are out, and as usual it’s a good news, bad news scenar-io for local residents, as well as the state of Illi-nois.

Unemployment fig-ures have continued their steady drop nation-wide with the U.S. figures dropping to 5.6 percent in September, the low-est figure since June 2008 and a change of -0.3 per-cent since last month.

Illinois has seen the greatest improvement in unemployment figures

since September 2013. Unemployment in the state has dropped 2.5 percentage points in the last year. In addition, unemployment numbers have gone for the sixth straight month. Accord-ing to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, approx-imately 427,000 people are unemployed in Illi-nois.

H o w e v e r , t h e long-standing tradition of Illinois’ unemploy-ment percentage being higher than the national average continues, with 6.6 percent of eligible workers out of work, a full percentage point above the national fig-ure. Even with the drop in unemployment rate, the state has the sev-enth-highest unemploy-

ment rate, with Rhode Island carrying the dubi-ous honor of the worst rate in the nation at 7.6 percent.

Since data has been collected, Illinois has had either the same or lower unemployment rates only six times.

Locally, the figures are still worse, with the Ottawa-Streator met-ropolitan area — which includes Bureau, LaSalle and Putnam counties — registering an average of 7.6 percent unemploy-ment. However, that is an upward change of more than a percent-age point, which means employment in the area is finally starting to catch up with the rest of the state.

Statewide, the most growth has been seen in leisure and hospitality (8 of 12), mining and con-struction (7 of 12) and wholesale trade (7 of 12).

Meeting MinutesLadd Village

BoardLADD — The Ladd Vil-

lage Board conducted the following business at its Oct. 28 meeting:

• Heard a report of an ongoing issue with air in the water lines at the apartments located next to the water treatment plant. Superintendent Englehaupt asked and received permission to involve Chamlin & Asso-ciates on the problem.

• Discussed the issue of power factor correc-tion and heard the Illinois Municipal Electric Agen-cy (IMEA) has offered its support. They have offered to analyze the system, determine where the capacitor banks might work and approximate costs – all at no cost to the village. It was sug-

gested the village would receive more benefit by using its Energy Efficien-cy Program funds for new street lighting rather than by correcting the power factor.

• Heard attorney Barry report the IMEA would be receiving a $6.5 mil-lion refund from Ameren due to a long-standing transmission dispute. Each IMEA member will receive a proportionate rebate over a four-month period starting in Decem-ber or January.

• Heard chief Gaefcke thank the Street Depart-ment for its help with the Halloween Hustle 5K Run and the fire department for its help with the Hal-loween Parade.

• Heard the 125th Anni-versary Committee has requested the village con-sider allowing open alco-hol in a designated area

during the celebration next July. Barry will study the alcohol ordinance and advise.

• Donated $280 to Project Success for four Thanksgiving and four Christmas holiday bas-kets.

• Approved a building permit for Brian and Deb Brandner to construct a three-car garage at 336 S. Main Ave.

• Heard Mayor Grivetti thank acting chief Randy Dean for the fine job done during Gaefcke’s military absence.

• Reviewed informa-tion on grant opportuni-ties received from North Central Illinois Council of Governments.

• Approved the Sep-tember 2014 Treasurer’s Report.

• Authorized the pay-ment of bills in the amount of $115,999.01.

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Bookwalter sentenced to prisonPRINCETON — A Princeton man has

entered a plea of guilty in Bureau County Court to the Class 1 felony of residential burglary and the Class 4 felony of unlaw-ful possession of a controlled substance.

Christopher A. Bookwalter, 23, of Princeton entered his plea of guilty on Nov. 5 before Associate Circuit Judge C.J. Hollerich. He was sentenced to serve seven years in the Illinois Department of Corrections on the residential burglary charge and two years on the unlawful possession of a controlled substance offense. He was also ordered to pay fines, fees and court costs.

Bookwalter was represented in court by Bureau County Assistant Public Defend-er James Andreoni. Prosecuting the case was State’s Attorney Patrick Herrmann.

On June 4, the Princeton Police Depart-ment stopped a vehicle in which Book-walter was a passenger. The police locat-ed bags of a white powdery substance on

Bookwalter. Those bags were sent to the crime lab and later were determined to be heroin. He was indicted by the Bureau County grand jury for possession of her-oin on Sept. 15, 2014.

On Aug. 17, the police responded to several calls involving Bookwalter steal-ing items from an apartment where he was a guest. While investigating those matters, a 28-year-old Princeton man advised Princeton Police Department he had subdued an intruder at his resi-dence. When police arrived, they found Bookwalter to be in possession of items from the victim’s residence.

Bookwalter was previously sentenced to the Department of Corrections for burglary in 2012 after his probation was revoked. He also has a misdemeanor conviction in 2012 for driving under the influence, criminal trespass to a motor vehicle and illegal consumption of alco-hol by a minor.

Bureau County SheriffDUI

Brady K. Nordstrom, 25, of Tiskil-wa was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and improper lane usage at 9:59 p.m. Nov. 8 on 1200 North Avenue west of 1625 East Street in Wya-net Township.

Criminal damageDevin N. Parker, 21, of Spring Valley

was arrested for criminal damage to property at 6:15 p.m. Nov. 9 at Lakev-iew Mobile Estates in DePue.

AccidentsA 17-year-old Princeton boy was

involved in an accident at 4:51 p.m. Nov. 11 on 2400 East Street about eight tenths of a mile north of 2400 North Avenue in Ohio Township.

Mckenna A. E. Johnson, 26, of Man-lius hit two turkeys at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 12 on 1550 North Street about one half mile west of Route 40 in Concord Township.

Deer accidentsKenneth M. Rodgers, 87, of Sheffield

hit a deer at 8:05 p.m. Nov. 8 on 2150 North Avenue about one fourth mile west of 550 East Street in Gold Town-ship.

Mark E. Bickett, 53, of Princeton hit

a deer at 6:04 a.m. Nov. 7 on Route 26 about one fourth mile south of 1950 North Avenue in Princeton Township.

Raymond M. Schaab, 70, of Putnam hit a deer at 8:15 a.m. Nov. 7 on Route 29 at the intersection with 700 North Avenue in Arispie Township.

Debbie J. Boswell, 49, of Kewanee hit a deer at 11:33 a.m. Nov. 8 on Route 6 about one fourth mile east of 1200 East Street in Wyanet Township.

Gail M. Butzen, 56, of Sterling hit a deer at 7:31 p.m. Nov. 9 on Route 40 at the intersection with 2700 North Ave-nue in Greenville Township.

Trudi A. Colby, 39, of Princeton hit a deer at 11:11 p.m. Nov. 7 on 1250 North Avenue about three fourths of a mile west of 1950 East Street in Princeton Township.

Paul D. Brousseau, 58, of Walnut hit a deer at 5:10 p.m. Nov. 8 on Route 92 about one half mile east of 700 East Street in Greenville Township.

Amanda M. Haun, 35, of Tiskilwa hit a deer at 6:18 p.m. Nov. 12 on 1250 West Avenue about one mile west of 1950 East Street in Princeton Township.

Sagan L. Ozburn, 26, of Princeton hit a deer at 6 a.m. Nov. 4 on Interstate 180 southbound about one mile north of 700 North Avenue in Arispie Township.

Police reports

Two men arrested in StreatorSTREATOR — Jason E. Watson, 38, of

Streator was charged with one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver, and Jason M. Duvall, 38, of Streator was charged with criminal trespass to state supported land and unlawful possession of a controlled substance in the 600 block of North Everett Street in

Streator at 10:35 p.m. Nov 5.Tri-Dent agents were assisted by offi-

cers from the Streator Police Depart-ment in the investigation regarding illegal narcotics activity at HALC prop-erty.

Watson and Duvall were transported to the LaSalle County Jail to await a felony bond hearing.

ObituariesDoneeta Reed

TISKILWA — Doneeta A. Reed, 51, of Tiskilwa died at 8:05 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014, at home in Tiskilwa.

She was born Feb. 6, 1963, in Kewanee to Arthur and Betty (Nye) Reed.

Surviving are her life partner, Mark Matuszyk of Tiskilwa; two daughters, Ashley Smith of Galva and Samantha Matuszyk of Galva; one son, Jacob Matuszyk of Galva; her father, Arthur (Pat Antrim) Reed of Bradford; her mother, Betty (John) Bauer of Tiskilwa; two brothers, Art (Chris) Reed of Tiskilwa and Mike Reed of Tiskilwa; several nieces and nephews; several great-niec-es and great-nephews; one aunt, Mary (Wayne) Swearingen of Kewanee; and three uncles, Don Reed of Sparland, Donald (Midge) Ingle of Kewanee and Frank Reed of Bradford.

She was preceded in death by both set of grandparents; and her dog, Penny.

She worked at Pines Trailer in Kewanee and Hornbaker Gar-dens in Princeton.

She had a passion for the outdoors. She loved fishing, hunting and gardening, and raised paint and quarter horses. She was a member of the Paint Horse Association. She loved playing poker with family and friends. She loved her farm and a truck named Brown.

Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, at Mount Bloom Cemetery, Tiskilwa, with the Rev. Doug Kirkpatrick offi-ciating. Burial will be in Mount Bloom Cemetery, Tiskilwa.

There will be no visitation. Memorials may be directed to her mother, Betty Bauer.The Grant-Johnson Funeral Home, Princeton, is in charge

of arrangements. Online condolences may be left at www.grant-johnsonfh.com.

Richard KirkpatrickGRAND RAPIDS,

Mich. — Richard G. “Glen” Kirkpat-rick, 85, of Grand Rapids, Mich., for-merly of Princeton, passed away Thurs-day, Nov. 6, 2014.

Private burial was held Monday, Nov. 10, at Oakland Cemetery in Princ-eton.

Obituary deadlines

Deadlines for obituaries are 2 p.m. Monday for Tuesday’s paper, 2 p.m. Wednes-day for Thursday’s paper and 2 p.m. Friday for Satur-day’s paper.

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PerspectiveBureau CountyRepublican

Serving Bureau County SinCe 1847

Sam R FisherPublisher

Terri Simoneditor

Burton’s balladI was in the newsroom when I heard my dear

neighbor, Burton Doty, had passed away. In hind-sight, I shouldn’t have been so surprised; he was 88 years old, and I knew he had some complica-tions from a recent surgery. Still ... when I heard the words, “We have an obit for Burton Doty,” I stopped short in my tracks, and before I knew it, that knot in my throat was growing bigger and big-ger.

I’ve known Burton for 17 years. He was the first neighbor I met when we moved to Sheffield. With boxes still unpacked, he walked across the street and introduced himself. He had a kind face, and I knew I liked him. Before he left, he said, “If you two need anything, just let me know.” And I knew he meant it. That seems like a long time ago. I remember moving to Shef-field like it was yesterday, but as we all know, time has a way of moving so quickly.

After our initial introduction to Bur-ton, I don’t mind telling you the stories I could relate are many. Our conver-sations may have been short ones throughout the years, but they were frequent ... and always memorable. Seldom did I walk away without a smile on my face. It was fun to neighbor with Burton.

I learned quickly that Burton was a legend in town, and nearly everyone who has lived there for any length of time has a Burton story. I could prob-ably use this entire newspaper page to talk about all the stories Burton told me through the years or all the antics of which Burton was a part. Burton loved and lived life to its fullest, and as one of his buddies said so eloquently, “Burton didn’t always drink lemonade.”

Throughout the years — usually standing out in one of our yards, I heard stories of Burton’s youthful days, especially his mischief. The stories seemed well-rehearsed, almost as if he’d told them many, many times. I’d laugh, and his eyes would twinkle. He always had a joke for me too. Some-times, we talked about local and world problems. He loved Sheffield, and he believed in all the right things; he worried when someone or something didn’t seem right or appropriate.

As Burton grew older, we made a point of taking him home-cooked meals and other treats. He was always on our Christmas gift list. On the flip side, there were always two chocolate rabbits in our mailbox on Easter morning with a note that said, “From Peter Cottontail,” aka Burton. In the sum-mer months, sweet corn and other fresh vegetables would find their way to our door, again compli-ments of our dear neighbor.

One of my favorite memories of Burton was his front porch. In the summer months, he’d bring a TV onto the porch. Many times I’d be coming home from a late meeting at 10 p.m. or so, and I could see Burton’s TV from a good ways down the street. When I got closer, I could see that Bur-ton had nodded off and was sound asleep on the porch. I still smile at the memory. Other nights, Burton would host a fairly raucous card party on his front porch. There was lots of “lemonade,” lots of good-natured shouting, lots of fun going on between Burton and his buddies. With my win-dows open, I often had to turn up the TV to hear over all the shenanigans across the street.

Since Burton’s death on Nov. 5 and subsequent funeral, most everyone you talk with in Sheffield have a Burton story to tell. They are stories that bring smiles to faces that will miss his stories and his face. Every story tells of a man who will be missed by many.

When I think about that, I have to believe Burton lived a full life, and I hope when it’s my time to knock on those pearly gates, people will remember me with as much gusto and with as many smiles as Burton’s life has generated.

So here’s a toast to Burton Doty ... “lemonade,” of course!

BCR Editor Terri Simon can be reached at [email protected].

Terri Simon

Self-absorbedTechnology stinks. Allow me to

explain.Last Saturday, I inadvertently took

a selfie. For those of you who are not familiar with the term “selfie,” I’m referring to those annoying little photos that people are constantly taking of themselves with their fan-cy-schmancy smart phones.

The aforementioned photo occurred because I got a text mes-sage from my wife wondering what I was doing. I was at a craft show, and being the technology-savvy person I am, I decided to take a photo of what I was doing instead of telling her about it. I am just so hip and cool. And possibly a little groovy.

Well, somehow, I accidentally hit a button that flipped the camera around and it took a crooked picture of three-quarters of my head instead of my intended target. To make mat-ters worse, I not only accidentally took a photo of myself but I com-pounded the problem by acciden-tally sending it to my wife. Stupid technology.

I, for the most part, have been a steadfast opponent of selfies of any kind. The only use I see for them is as self-incriminating evidence as to your whereabouts in a criminal trial. Nothing good can come from a selfie unless you’re a prosecuting attorney.

The rest of my family, however, thinks differently. My college-aged son is a big proponent of the selfie. So is my 9-year-old daughter. They both think nothing of snapping a picture of themselves doing any-thing and everything, anywhere and everywhere.

They have now influenced my wife into thinking that she needs to be

taking her own selfies. Unfortunate-ly, and more to the point, she thinks that I need to be in her selfies. There are two problems with this.

The first is, as my daughter has pointed out on numerous occasions, a “selfie” with more than one per-son in it, is no longer a “selfie” but has become a “groupie” or some other silly term like that. The phrase becomes mathematically obsolete.

The second, and most obvious problem is that I don’t want to be in the photos. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a thing about being photographed. I always fig-ured that some day, a long time from now, after I have joined an organized crime family and become an informant against said family, it would be much easier to enter the witness protection program with less photographic references of myself floating around. I’ve seen the movie “Goodfellas,” and I know how the system works.

To further illustrate my point that selfies are inherently evil, let me tell you another little story. Earlier this summer, I was fishing with two of my brothers-in-law when I caught a decent-sized walleye. It wasn’t a keeper, but it was a walleye never-theless, and it also happened to be my first fish of the year. For some unknown reason, and going against everything I believe, I vainly decided

that this would be the perfect time for a selfie.

Picking the fish up in my left hand and holding it next to my sun-dap-pled cheek, I attempted to operate the camera on my phone with my right hand. Finally figuring out how to snap the picture, I proceeded in photographically preserving this timeless moment for all of posterity. I believe I even said “Say cheese!” so that the fish would know when to smile.

Evidently, walleyes have an aver-sion to the word “cheese” because upon hearing it, the lifeless, dormant beast suddenly sprang to life, slap-ping its’ tail into the side of my head, knocking my sunglasses off of my face and setting my ever-stylish Chi-cago Cubs baseball cap askew upon my rather startled skull. Rendering me dazed and disheveled, I darn near fell out of the boat. Not from the furious fish attack but from the instability of the watercraft as my brothers-in-law rolled about the deck, convulsing in fits of laughter. It was a proud moment, and I possess a digital memory of the event. Stupid technology.

I learned some valuable lessons that warm summer day out on that lake. I realized that vanity, like the well-muscled tail of a freshwater fish, can be a dangerous thing just waiting to hurt you.

But most importantly, I learned to never do dumb things in front of my brothers-in-law because they can act like real jerks sometimes.

You can contact Greg Wallace at [email protected]. You can follow him on his blog at http://gregwallaceink.blogspot.com.

Greg Wallace

COMMENTARY

Civil War? What Civil War?“History is written by the victors.”

Winston Churchill (rumored, not proven).

I used to believe that was the case. It made sense, especially in ancient history when invading countries would abolish the writings and reli-gions of the conquered and do their best to erase the culture.

These days, it’s written by the school boards — or at least a school board.

In Jefferson County in Colorado — which basically takes up Denver as well, but they have a different school district — the school board will be voting on a motion that will direct the history teachers to place an empha-sis on teaching only the sections that would “promote a citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free-market system, respect for authority and respect for individ-ual rights.” The sections shouldn’t “encourage or condone civil disorder, social strike or disregard of the law.” Periods of civil unrest are to be avoid-ed, if not left off of the curriculum entirely — I’d love to see the chapter of American history from 1861 to 1865, according to the school board.

As a result of this odd decision, more than 1,000 high school students

— who apparently know whitewash when they see it — have walked out of class in protest.

The proposal comes from recent-ly-elected board member Julie Williams — part of the board’s con-servative majority, all of which were elected in November. Her reasoning is unique to say the least.

“There are things we may not be proud of as Americans,” she said. “But we shouldn’t be encouraging our kids to think that America is a bad place.”

Let me take time out for a moment to point something out. Historically, America is a bad place. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying we’re all evil people; but our history is full of events that can certainly be con-strued as evil.

The Trail of Tears. The taking of Native American land and relocating those people to the least habitable place in the country. Slavery (which,

granted, is a practice we brought with us from England and western Europe). Kent State. All of these events were perpetrated by our gov-ernment or our citizens.

We are also the only nation that has used a nuclear weapon against another country. And when we did, it wasn’t a military site we nuked. It was two civilian populations. If any other nation did any of these, we’d be in there in full military force.

Ignoring these events is equivalent to the Nationalist Party of Germany’s indoctrination policies 70 years ago. I’m sure you remember how that worked out. If not, ask a World War II vet.

Yet we’ve done good things, too. Part of living in a country — any country — is knowing its history — accepting the bad with the good. Nations that don’t, often have a ten-dency to bring their “perfect” societ-ies onto others rather forcefully.

Patriotism is taking the bad with the good. Refusing to accept your country has committed crimes against humanity is fanaticism. And hubris. And just plain ignorant.

Shaw Media Staff Writer Ken Schro-eder can be reached at [email protected].

Ken Schroeder

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increase for Illinois Community College District 506 for2014 will be held on November 24, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. atthe Board Room on the campus of Sauk Valley CommunityCollege.Any person desiring to appear at the public hearingand present testimony to the taxing district may contactMelissa M. Dye, Director of Business Services, SaukValley Community College, 173 Illinois Route 2, Dixon,Illinois 61021 (phone 815/835-6253).

II. The corporate and special purpose property taxesextended or abated for 2013 were $5,224,094.The proposed corporate and special purpose taxes to belevied for 2014 are $5,853,000. This represents a 12.04%increase over the previous year.

III. The property taxes extended for debt service and publicbuilding commission leases for 2013 were $1,489,915.The estimated property taxes to be levied for debt serviceand public building commission leases for 2014 are$1,119,050. This represents a 24.89% decrease over theprevious year.

IV. The total property taxes extended or abated for 2013were $6,714,009. The estimated total property taxes to belevied for 2014 are $6,972,050. This represents a 3.84%increase over the previous year.

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Life&Arts Opening reception — The opening reception for this year’s mini-tree festival will be at 6:30 p.m. Friday. See Page 10.

Proudly serving — Princeton native Ryan Risatti is serving with Electronic Attack Squadron 130 (VAQ-130). See Page 9.

Community NotesInformational meeting

PRINCETON — The Bureau County Health Department will hold an informa-tional meeting about the Affordable Care Act at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Princeton Public Library. Open enrollment for the new health law begins Nov. 15. There will be a 20-minute presentation followed by time for questions. Participants will also be able to get one on one enrollment help. For more information, call 815-875-5403.

Holiday potpourriTISKILWA — A holiday potpourri will

be from 2 to 6 p.m. Nov. 21 and from 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 22 at the Cotter residence, 9137 1725 East St., Tiskilwa. Numerous hand-crafted decorative items, wreaths, ornaments, Christmas items, purses, baby items and baked goods will be for sale. Free coffee and cookies will be available.

‘Rounding Third’PRINCETON — Festival 56 will pres-

ent “Rounding Third” at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 28-29 and Dec. 5-6 and at 2 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Grace Performing Arts Center, 316 S. Main St., Princeton. Tickets are $26, $24 for seniors and $13 for students under 18. For tickets, or more information, visit 815-879-5656 or visit www.festival56.com.

Historical presentationPRINCETON — The Shadows of the

Blue and Gray/Princeton Civil War Commit-tee will present An Evening with Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln, a one-act presentation revisit-ing the events in the lives of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, at 7 p.m. Nov. 22 at the Prairie Arts Center, 24 Park Ave. East, Princeton. This event is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome.

Democrats meetingDEPUE — The DePue/Bureau County

Democrats will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the DePue VFW. Topics of discussion will be: building the base; helping local candi-dates; and the Christmas party. Food will be served after the meeting.

Grief, loss supportPRINCETON — Bureau Valley Volun-

teer Hospice will host its monthly grief and loss support group at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the chapel at Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton. Anyone that has lost a loved one is invited to attend.

Make and take craftPRINCETON — The Prairie Arts Coun-

cil will offer free children’s Christmas crafts from noon to 4 p.m. Nov. 22 at the Prairie Arts Center in Princeton for chil-dren ages 4 to 12. This event is free and open to the public.

Turkey and ham supperSHEFFIELD — The Sheffield Methodist

Church will hold a turkey and ham supper from 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 22. Tickets are $8 for adults, $4 for children. Carry-out is available and delivery is available to Shef-field residents by calling the church.

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Ladd Christmas Walk on Dec. 13LADD — “There’s Snow Place Like

Ladd” 2014 Christmas Walk will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. Dec. 13 in Ladd. Activities include horse-drawn wagon rides, kids’ crafts and activities, plus pictures with Santa, Grace the white-tailed deer, musicians and carolers, a storyteller, and plenty of food are part of the schedule. Ladd businesses and orga-nizations will sell Christmas wreaths,

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World War II exhibit in TiskilwaTISKILWA — The Museum on Main in

Tiskilwa will host a special World War II exhibit through Nov. 30.

During World War II, former Tiskilwa resident Reid Bowers flew a North Ameri-can P-51D Mustang as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army 334th. His son, Bob Bow-ers, has compiled an impressive collection

of items related to his dad’s bomber-pilot days, and the military memorabilia is now on display in a special exhibit. Named “Sweet Arlene” for his wife, this bomb-er carried Reid on numerous missions between Nov. 16, 1944, and May 7, 1945. A model plane replica is the focal point of the special exhibit.

Upcoming events at Princeton UMCPRINCETON — The First United

Methodist Church in Princeton has announced upcoming events.

The church’s Mission Possible Kids chapter will be participating in Samari-tan’s Purse’s Operation Christmas Child. The Mission Possible Kids agents will be filling shoeboxes with gifts and other items for needy children around the world. They will also include a short note and picture of themselves in the shoebox. Shoeboxes will be decorated and filled at 6 p.m. Wednesday. For more information on this particular mission or the Mission Possible Kids program, contact the church at 815-872-2821.

The church is offering “Taste & See

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Echoes of Ebola seen in 1950 Widmark filmPRINCETON — A dead-

ly disease is brought to America from a foreign land.

Public health officials scramble to contain it.

Sound familiar?It’s not the Ebola virus

but the pneumonic plague that has a public health official, played by Princ-eton’s own Richard Wid-mark, racing to stop an outbreak before it spreads nationwide.

This special installment of the Widmark Wednes-day film series begins at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Princeton Public Library. Admission is free.

Widmark stars in a 1950 film noir drama with Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Ged-

des, Jack Palance and Zero Mostel.

Filmed on location in New Orleans, the grit-ty movie adds several twists to the storyline of the recent Ebola scare: those infected are under-world figures who don’t want to be found, and the outbreak is kept secret from the public so peo-ple exposed to the disease don’t flee the city.

Widmark, a 1932 grad-uate of Princeton High School, acted in more than 70 movies from 1947 until 1991. He would have turned 100 years old this year.

Widmark T-shirts will be available for sale at the movie.

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An open house to celebrate the 90th birthday of Shirley Carter will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 22 in the conference room at the AmericInn.

Shirley was born Nov. 18, 1924. She and her hus-band, Everett, have three children, Sharon (Lisle) Vaughn of Dallas, Texas, Linda Bracken of Hazelcrest and James (Linda) Carter of Princeton. They also have five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Family and friends are invited to stop by to help Shirley celebrate this special day. It is requested that gifts be omitted.

Princeton native serves with VAQ-130By Navy Office of Community

Outreach Public Affairs

OAK HARBOR, Wash. — A Princ-eton native is serving with Electron-ic Attack Squadron 130 (VAQ-130), also known as the “Zappers”.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Risatti is an aviation structural mechanic with VAQ-130, a Whidbey Island-based squadron that operates the Navy’s newly-designed electronic warfare aircraft, the EA-18G Growl-er. Each aircraft has two seats, is more than 60 feet long, may weigh up to 66,000 pounds (max gross) and can travel more than 1,100 miles per hour and nearly 2,070 miles on a tank of gas.

As a 27-year-old with numerous responsibilities, Risatti said he is learning about himself as a leader, sailor and a person. He added that it is an exciting time to be in the Navy, and enjoys working on one of the Navy’s newest aircraft platforms.

“The Growler is very complex air-craft, it’s been a lot of fun to learn about this aircraft and see the latest and greatest in electronic warfare up close,” said Risatti.

Risatti is proud of the work he is doing as part of the squadron’s 174-member military team who help protect America on the world’s oceans.

Sailors’ jobs are highly varied with VAQ-130. Approximately 32 officers and 142 enlisted men and women make up and keep all parts of the squadron running smoothly — this includes everything from maintain-ing aircraft airframes and engines, to processing paperwork, handling weaponry and flying the aircraft.

“Every day I feel an extraordinary

amount of pride to serve alongside our great Nation’s most inspir-ing men and women,” said Cmdr. Eric Illston, VAQ-130’s command-ing officer. “Our team is filled with hardworking and highly qualified professionals who hold uncommon levels of responsibility and account-ability in support of our mission: To win in combat with trained air-crew and combat ready aircraft whenever called upon to support and defend the Constitution of the United States through the military element of power. Their work ethic, commitment, enthusiasm and esprit de corps are second to none!”

The EA-18G Growler is the fourth major variant of the F/A-18 family of aircraft that combines the prov-en F/A-18F Super Hornet platform

with a sophisticated electronic warfare suite. Built to replace the EA-6B Prowler, the Growler is the first newly-designed electronic war-fare aircraft produced in more than 35 years. The aircraft also retains all of the F/A-18E/F’s multi-mission capabilities with its validated design and the capability to perform a wide range of enemy defense suppression missions.

As a member of one of the U.S. Navy’s newest electronic warfare aircraft platforms, Risatti and other VAQ-130 sailors are proud to be part of a warfighting team that readily defends America at all times.

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Prairie Arts Council readies for Christmas mini-tree festival

PRINCETON — The Prairie Arts Council is pleased to announce the upcoming Christmas mini-tree festival held each year at the Prairie Arts Center, 24 Park Ave. East in Princeton.

An opening reception is planned for 6:30 p.m. Fri-day. The public is invited to come and enjoy some specially prepared holi-day drinks and appetizers while listening to music, visiting with friends and

enjoying the holiday dec-orations.

A display of mini-Christmas trees, holiday wreaths and table top designs uniquely themed, decorated and donated by local artisans and businesses will be offered as a silent auction item to help raise funds in support of community arts programming offered by the Prairie Arts Coun-cil.

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Christmas mini-tree festi-val will be 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays and from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 7. Bidding will close at 3 p.m. Dec. 7 and win-ners will be announced at 3:30 p.m. Winners do not need to be present to win. Visitors may contin-ue bidding until 3 p.m. Dec. 7 either by stopping in during open hours or by calling the Prairie Arts Center at 815-875-2787.

Photo contributedKim Frey (left) and Deb Young preview some of the mini-trees to be offered for silent auction at the PAC’s fifth annual Christmas mini-tree festival Nov. 21 to Dec. 7.

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Supporting Breast Cancer AwarenessOctober was Breast Cancer Awareness month, so in honor of all the ladies who have battled this disease, Princeton Curves had a contest among its members for the best decorated bra. Any of the members could decorate a bra and from Oct. 28 to Oct. 30 ladies paid $1 per vote to cast their ballots on the bras they liked the best. The bras were hung from the ceiling and displayed throughout the building. The money collected benefited Breast Cancer Awareness.

‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’LASALLE — Stage 212

will kick off the holiday season on a humorous note with their special production of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.” Adapted by Barbara Rob-inson from her best-sell-ing young adult book, “The Best Christmas Pag-eant Ever” tells the story of a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant and being faced

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Saturday, November 15, 2014 • 13

28 — That’s how many years the Spring Valley Walleye Club hosted the Master Wall-eye Circuit Tournament before electing to go in another direction next year.

BCR photo/Kevin Hieronymus

Those Lion eyesLogan Junior High School’s Darren Scaggs eyes the bucket after rebounding his own free throw in Tuesday’s seventh-grade B game at Pannebaker Gym vs. Ottawa St. Francis. He made the shot.

2014-15 PHS girls basketball preview

Tigresses strive to get better each day

2014-15 L-O girls basketball preview

Lady Lions to play hard, smart, together

By BCR SpoRtS [email protected]

The girls basketball season gets underway this week at a gym near you. Here’s a rundown of the dif-ferent venues:

At Princeton: The Princeton Holiday Tournament sponsored by the PHS Boosters tips off Mon-day. Princeton will be in the Blue Pool along with LaMoille-Ohio, Putnam County and Streator. The White Pool consists of defending champ Stark County, Midland, Bureau Valley and Midland.

Monday’s openers pit Stark County vs. Midland at 5 p.m., Henry vs. BV at 6:30 p.m. and Princeton vs. L-O at 8 p.m.

On Tuesday, Princeton returns to face Streator at 6:30 p.m. followed by PC vs. L-O. After a night off, the action returns Thursday with BV facing Stark County at 5 p.m., L-O vs Streator at 6:30 p.m. and HS vs. PC at 8 p.m.

Bureau Valley faces Midland in Friday’s night cap.

Saturday’s finals will start up at 3 p.m. with the seventh-place

contest, followed by fifth place at 4:30 p.m., third place at 6 p.m. and first place at 7:30 p.m., matching the two pool winners.

At Oregon: The Hall Lady Dev-ils will debut under new coach Brian Hollman at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in Pool C play vs. the host Lady Hawks. Hall comes back in pool play at 7:15 p.m. Thursday vs. Pecatonica.

Hall will get the day off Friday, returning to play twice in Satur-day’s finals.

At Brimfield: The St. Bede Lady Bruins will return to the Brimfield Turkey Tournament, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Friday vs. LeRoy. The round-robin event, which coin-cides with a boys tournament, will also match SBA vs. Brimfield at 3 p.m. Nov. 22, Kewanee at 5 p.m. Nov. 25, Wethersfield at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 28, and Princeville at 12:30 p.m. Nov. 29.

• Boys tournaments starting up the week of Nov. 24-29 include Orion (Princeton), AFC (L-0), Oregon (St. Bede), Seneca (Hall) and Williamsfield (DePue).


By Dan [email protected]

PRINCETON — Being better today than they were yesterday. That is the goal of the 2014-15 Princ-eton Tigresses girls’ bas-ketball program as they look to get their season started on a positive note after having a couple down years.

Third-year head coach Kevin Hieronymus, who is 9-48 in his first two sea-sons, believes the expe-rience of having seven returning varsity players from last year’s squad will finally be enough to get this program back on the right track.

“We’ve had a few down years, but we are striving to be competitive in every

game we play this year. I believe we can,” Hierony-mus said. “Now, my girls have to believe they can be winners.”

Senior co-captain and guard Danielle Hughes believes the more expe-rienced and deep group this Tigress team has will translate to more produc-tion and wins on the court.

“Almost every day before practice we preach the phrase, ‘Be better today than you were yesterday.’ It’s a very broad statement, but it’s our goal this sea-son,” Hughes said. “If we outwork ourselves from the previous day, then we have improved. And get-ting better is ultimately going to win us games.”

By BCR SpoRtS [email protected]

LAMOILLE — Hard. Smart. Together. Behind the leadership of three-year varsity player Eliza-beth Geuther and seniors Ragen Forbes and Amanda Chasteen, the Lady Lions plan to put that motto into play under first-year head coach Holli Rapp.

“I am excited and know that we have 13 girls including Melanie Chasteen, who is not able to play because of a knee injury, that believe in each other and will put the team first,” Rapp said.

“We will be young, but I think we will surprise peo-ple.”

Rapp said Geuther is running the floor well,

providing solid leadership, stepping up on defense and “really is on a mis-sion.”

While neither Forbes or Chasteen played last year, Rapp said they are doing “some little things for us.”

Forbes is an athlete who has a knack for the ball, Rapp said, and she is “excited to see her in a game because she has done some little things for us in early season practic-es defensively much like she did on the volleyball court.”

Rapp looks for Amanda Chasteen to provide some valuable minutes and “leadership much like she provided on the softball field last spring.”

Tigresses baskeTbaLL aT a gLance:

School: Princeton.Nickname: Tigresses.Conference:

TRAC East.Coach: Kevin

Hieronymus (third year).

Last year: 3-25.Who’s back: Brianna Bara-

jas (Sr., 5-9/F-C), Taylor Clark (Sr., 5-10/F), Ste-phenny Farrell (Sr., 5-8/F), Danielle Hughes (Sr., 5-6/G), Ivy Rhodes (Jr., 6-0/C), Anna Sims (Sr., 5-5/G), Michaela Strom (Jr., 5-6/G), Alison Van Den Bussche (Sr., 5-7/F).

Who’s new: Brooke Hier-onymus (Jr. 5-7/F), Abby Jaques (Sr. 5-9/G-F), Bri-anna Legner (Jr., 5-9/F), Madison Menzel (Jr., 5-11/C), Anna Murray (Fr. 5-6/G), Sarah Ray (Jr., 5-7/G), Stevie Seitz (Jr., 5-7/G-F), Sierra Storm (Sr. 5-7/G).

Last year’s advancement: Lost to St. Bede first round regionals 49-37.

Lady Lions baskeTbaLL aT a gLance:

School(s): La Moille -Ohio.

Nickname: Lady Lions.Conference: Little Ten.Coach: Holli Rapp (first

year).Last year:

10-15.Who’s

back: Elizabeth Geuther (Sr., 6-1/C).

Who’s new: Amanda Chasteen (Sr., 5-7/F-C), Paige Conner (So., 5-9/G-F), Maddi Deery (Fr., 5-9/F), Karly Forbes (Fr., 5-5/G), Ragen Forbes (Sr. 5-5/G-F), Cheyanne Hansen (Fr., 5-5/G), Erin Hosto (So., 5-6/G-F), Jasmine Kahly (So. 5-3/G), Lexi Loftus (Fr., 5-7/G-F), Maddie Pear-son (So. 5-9/F), Hanna Pinter (So., 5-8/F),

Last year’s advancement: Lost to Indian Creek in regional finals 51-31.

MWc to return to spring Valley

By Kevin [email protected]

SPRING VALLEY — The cold of the approaching winter is set-tling in, but talks of spring fish-ing are just heating up in the Illinois Valley.

The Cabela’s Master Walleye

Circuit announced on Wednes-day a partnership with the Spring Valley Boat Club to bring its tournament back to Spring Valley next March. The Spring Valley event became available when the Spring Valley Walleye Club elected in August to no longer host it. The SVWC instead will now host the new Illinois River Walleye Classic on March 28-29.

Ryan Vecchia, board mem-ber with the Spring Valley Boat Club, said while he was disap-

pointed with the Walleye Club’s decision, he is happy to be able to keep the MWC Tournament in town.

“It ran fine — years and years with the Walleye Club … Maybe this is better for everything,” said Vecchia, who teamed with Bill Elliott to place second in the local 2012 MWC Tournament. “It does bring money to town. I work at Happy’s, and everybody I know buys their gas here.

“The Walleye Club kept it going for years and years and

did a great job, and the out of state guys who have been fish-ing for years and years didn’t want to stop coming down here because it’s fun. lt’s like a big reunion for us. Fishing’s good, hopefully, most of the time.”

The MWC Spring Valley Tour-nament will now come a week earlier, running March 20-21 out of the Boat Club, which has supported the tournament throughout the years, providing fish fries, lunches and slips for the fishermen.

Barto Landing is already booked that weekend with the Carpenter’s Union Tournament on March 21 and the Illinois Walleye Trail on March 22.

The Spring Valley Tourna-ment will be the second stop on the MWC schedule, which starts March 6-7 in Stockton, Mo. MWC Senior Tournament Director Dan Palmer said this year’s MWC 12-stop schedule and programming has some-

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Senior Brianna Barajas will co-captain this year’s team with Hughes.

“We have a lot of returning kids with some new exciting faces. With 16 girls on the team, the practices have been com-petitive,” Hieronymus said.

Although heavy with depth and upperclass-men, both Hughes and Hieronymus fully expect freshman guard Anna Murray to be instrumen-tal in the upcoming cam-paign and in the future of Princeton basketball.

“I am extremely excit-ed and have high expec-tations about the season this year. We were a young team last year, and it has just given us more and more experience coming into the season,” Hughes said. “I’m also excited to have freshman Anna Murray up with us. Anna played with us during the summer and has a lot of talent, and she’s only going to get better. She’s going to be a great addi-tion to the team this sea-son.”

Other new faces expect-ed to impact the Prince-ton Tigresses this season are senior guard/forward Abby Jaques and senior guard Sierra Storm, who did not play last year, and junior guard/forward Ste-vie Seitz, a transfer from Wethersfield.

Returning letterwinners from last year include Barajas and Hughes along with seniors Taylor Clark (5-10 F), Stephenny Far-rell (5-8 F), and Alison Van Den Bussche (5-7 F) and juniors Michae-la Strom (5-7 G) and Ivy Rhodes (6-0 C).

Rounding out the 2014-15 Princeton Tigresses are juniors Sarah Ray (5-7 G), Brooke Hieronymus (5-7 F), Brianna Legner (5-9 F) and Madison Menzel (5-11 C).

“I’m extremely excit-ed about this season. We have more girls and

have improved a lot. We also have our returning coaching staff, who are extremely supportive on and off the court,” Bara-jas said. “We all have the right mindset and will do whatever we can to be successful.”

Princeton opens its sea-son as it plays host to the Princeton Holiday Tour-nament hosted by the PHS Boosters, starting at 8 p.m. Monday vs. LaM-oille-Ohio. They will also face Streator (6:30 p.m. Tuesday) and Putnam County (8 p.m. Thursday) in pool play.

“We’re a family. You can have an amazing team full of people who don’t know each other, but to be great, you have to really care about your teammates. Keeping the confidence and trust we have in one another is going to make us stand out together as a team.” Hughes said.

PHS will play in the Three Rivers East Division this year with the realign-ment of the conference, picking up Amboy, New-man and Bureau Valley to go with Hall, Kewanee and St. Bede.


Along with the three seniors are five sopho-mores and four freshmen, including five from the Ohio part of the co-op. They won the BVEC con-ference two years ago under assistant L-O coach Adam Spencer.

Sophomore guards Jas-mine Kahly and Paige Con-ner will be looked upon to provide some added expe-rience after seeing reserve action as freshmen last year.

Rapp called Kahly “a gamer, who truly loves the game of basketball and would probably play it 365 days a year.”

Conner, Rapp said, will provide a variety of options for the team. “She is tall and lanky and can hit an outside shot,” she said.

Freshmen Maddi Deery from Ohio will see plenty of playing time in the post along with sophomores Hannah Pinter and Maddi Pearson.

The remainder of the roster includes guards including Ohio freshmen Lexi Loftus and Cheyanne Hansen, LHS sophomore Erin Hosto and freshman Karly Forbes. Rapp sees

that group only getting better as the season pro-gresses.

“They all get along. The seniors are excited to have the freshmen and sopho-mores playing with them. They mix with each other very well,” Rapp said.

The first-year head coach knows her team will face a very tough schedule starting out at the Prince-ton Holiday Tournament this week, opening at 8 p.m. Monday vs. the host Tigresses. Rapp said their goal is to get better each night.

Depending on the per-sonnel on the floor, Rapp said the Lady Lions will feature a variety of defen-sive alignments mixing up from zone, man and other defenses

“I believe it may depend on the opposing teams lineup, but most of it will depend on our lineups,” Rapp said.

The Lady Lions coach said every girl on her ros-ter was competing for a starting role heading into the season.

“I like to believe that each day everyone has to earn their job,” Rapp said. “I was always taught its not who starts the game that matters but who fin-ishes the game because we

want to be in every game at the end.”

Rapp sees Indian Creek as the favorite in the Little Ten with Newark, Serena and HBR all as formidable foes.


thing for everyone.“We want to provide an affordable

opportunity for all walleye anglers to compete, provide them all with the recognition they deserve, and allow them to have a great time while they’re at it,” Palmer said in a MWC release.

Palmer noted the schedule is set in “wet cement,” meaning the Cir-cuit does not anticipate any changes — but unforeseen amendments are possible.

“We want to let all of our anglers know that due to the size and scope of the MWC as a national organi-zation, some states we are visiting will not issue permits for 2015 yet — and some not until after the first of the year. So our schedule is always tentative based on those permit approvals,” Palmer said.

“Occasionally, we are forced to move an event due to those issues, but we wanted to get the schedule out as soon as it was possible based on the best information available to us, so that our TWF clubs and MWC

anglers nationwide can plan their seasons accordingly.”

Vecchia, who said he will likely fish in both of the local events, will work with Palmer soon to get all the logistics figured out for the tour-naments, including weigh-ins and parking.

Bill Guerrini, executive director of the Spring Valley Walleye Club, reiterated Thursday the SVWC had an amicable split with MWC, its decision based solely on financial decisions. It had been a move in the making the past few years.

“We thanked them for 28 years of partnership, and we wished them the best. A decision was made finan-cially in the club’s best interest, so we can continue to do the proj-ects we need to,” said Guerrini, not-ing the club’s support of the Illi-nois River restocking program and upkeep of Barto Landing.

“Over the years, the MWC has been bought and sold several times, and each time the amount of profit-ability coming back to the local club has been cut back and back. Now with this new group taking over, nothing comes back locally.”

Guerrini said the SVWC had to pay

a slight fee between $3,000 to $5,000 each year to hold the MWC tourna-ment and come up with about 40 rooms a night for the MWC workers.

By now running their own tour-nament, Guerrini said they will have the means to continue to sup-port their local projects. The SVWC donate $5,000 to the LaSalle Hatch-ery every year, Guerrini added.

The SVWC’s inaugural Illinois River Walleye Classic will be limited to the first 100 teams. Entry fee is $400 per team with an 80 percent payout of $32,000, including $12,000 to the winning team, based on a full field.

“Nothing changes, except we won’t have the MWC logo attached to it and Cabela’s sponsorship and all that,” Guerrini said.

Entry forms are available at Spring-Valley-Walleye.org or by calling Guerrini at 815-663-6141. All profit goes to the Illinois River Stocking Project.

The next upcoming tournament is Nov. 29 for the SVWC’s Member’s Only Tournament. Fees are $60. Visit www.spring-valley-walleye.org to sign up.


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ScoreboardBasketball

Junior high boysAt Toulon

7th grade: bV north 38, stark County 30. bVn (7-2): Davis 26, nugent 7. sC: Adams 13, rouse 12.

8th grade: bV north 36, stark County 31. bVn (8-1): n. Johnson 12, shipp 11, Erickson 10. sC: Porter 11, Wilson 9, browning 8.At Buda

7th grade: bV north 45, bV south 10. bVn (8-2, 3-0): Davis 17, nugent 9, batten 7. bVs: hartz 3, DeVenney 3.

8th grade: bV south 50, bV north 21. bVn (8-2, 2-1): Erickson 10. bVs: Paup 19, gustafson 14, barnett 12.At Princeton (PCA)

A game: Princeton Christian Academy 37, Dimmick 26. PCA: Wolbrecht 20, grey 8, henrickson 8, harris 1.At Princeton (St. Louis)

B game: st. Louis 44, Princeton Christian Academy 13.

high sChooL girLsPrinceton Holiday Tournament

Blue Pool: Princeton, LaMoille-ohio, streator, Putnam County.

White Pool: bureau Valley, Midland, henry, stark County.

Monday: stark County vs. Midland, 5 p.m., henry, vs. bV, 6:30 p.m., Phs vs. L-o, 8 p.m.

Tuesday: Midland vs. henry, , 5 p.m., Phs vs. streator, 6:30 p.m., PC vs. L-o, 8 p.m.

Thursday: bV vs. stark County, 5 p.m., L-o vs. 6:30 p.m., Phs vs. PC, 8 p.m.

Friday: streator vs. PC, 5 p.m., stark County vs. henry, 6:30 p.m., bV vs. Midland, 5 p.m., 8 p.m.

Saturday: 7th place - 4th blue vs. 4th White, 3 p.m., 5th place - 3rd blue vs. 3rd White, 4:30 p.m., 3rd place - 2nd blue vs. 2nd White, 6 p.m.,first place- 1st blue vs. 1st White, 7:30 p.m.

Visit www.bcrnews.com/sports for more scoreboard/pairings.

Princeton girls basketball varsity schedule

11/17 LaMoille-ohio, 8 p.m.*11/18 streator, 6:30 p.m.*11/20 Putnam County, 6:30 p.m.*11/22 Princeton Tournament, TbA.11/29 Mendota, 7:30 p.m.12/1 newman, 7:30 p.m.+12/4 Amboy, 7:30 p.m.+12/8 at st. bede, 7:30 p.m.+12/11 bureau Valley, 7:30 p.m.+12/16 at Midland, 7:30 p.m.12/20 at st. bede Tourney TbA12/22 at st. bede Tourney, TbA12/23 at st. bede Tourney, TbA1/6 at Dixon, 7 p.m.1/8 hall, 7:30 p.m.+1/12 Kewanee, 7:30 p.m.+1/15 at newman, 7:30 p.m.+1/19 at Amboy, 7:30 p.m.+1/22 st. bede, 7:30 p.m.+1/24 rckrd Christian Life, 2:30 p.m.1/26 at bureau Valley 7:30 p.m.+1/27 indian Creek, 7:30 p.m.2/2 at hall, 7:30 p.m.+2/5 at Kewanee, 7:30 p.m.+2/7 henry/L-W, 7:30 p.m.* Princeton Holiday Tournament+ Three Rivers East game

LaMoille-Ohio girls basketball schedule

11/17 Princeton, 8 p.m.*11/18 Putnam County, 8 p.m.*11/20 streator, 6:30 p.m.11/22 Princeton Tournament, TbA11/24 at galva, 7:30 p.m.11/25 at bureau Valley, 7:30 p.m.12/2 Amboy, 7:30 p.m.12/4 Earlville-Leland, 7 p.m.+12/6 at Amboy shootout, noon.12/8 at somonauk, 7 p.m.+12/11 at Kirkland, 6:30 p.m.+12/13 at AFC, 7:30 p.m.12/15 indian Creek, 7 p.m.+12/18 at hbr, 7 p.m.+12/22-27 at st. bede Tourney, TbA1/8 newark, 7 p.m.+1/10 stark County at ohio, 2:30 p.m.1/15 at serena, 7 p.m.+1/19-23 Little 10 Varsity

Tournament at iC, TbA.1/26 henry, 7:30 p.m.1/29 Paw Paw, 5:30 p.m.+2/2 DePue at ohio, 7:30 p.m.+2/9 regionals, TbA* Princeton Holiday Tournament+ Little Ten Conference game

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DEPOT/AMTRAK WORKER(s)This is a part-time position with an hourly rateof $8.25 - $9.00. Multiple shifts are requiredseven days a week. The City seeks applicantswith a high school diploma (or GED equivalent),and the ability to lift up to 50#s. Must be able towork in both hot and cold extremes and present agood public image. Responsibilities will includegreeting Depot/Amtrak passengers and assistingthem with their travel. In addition, some lightcleaning will be required. Applications maybe picked up weekdays 8:30 am-4:30 pm atPrinceton City Hall, 2 S Main Street, Princeton,IL 61356. The City of Princeton will acceptapplications until position(s) are filled. (EOE)

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CAREGIVER JOBS AVAILABLE!Henry County Health Department

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SEASONAL Help Wantedfor winter & springmonths. Looking for hardworkers with experiencedriving a forklift and/or aflatbed trailer, but othersmay apply. Must havevalid drivers license.Apply within: AgVenture,124 West Progress Drive,Princeton. For more info:815-879-7333

AT&T Bluetooth phonesystem (TL 92371). In-cludes base & 3 additionalhandsets (4 phones total).$35. 815-347-2464

Bostitch staple gun kit.18 gauge (SX1838K).Only 5 hours use. $85.Call 815-347-2464

Antique mirror, 26”x36”$35; quilted bedspread,full size, $10; Graco um-brella stroller, $10.

Call 815-875-3538

1968 CHEVY IMPALA, 2door, hard top, red. GoodShape. $7,000. For sale ortrade. Call 309-895-7941

35”x60” kitchen table$50; 2 kitchen chairs $5each; Analog TV 23”, $25;TV stand $15; twin bed(rails included) $15.

Call 815-872-2555

3 wheel walker, basketseat, $70; Jazzy eliteelectric power chair,good condition. Completepackage $700. 815-872-2555

BULLINGTON-ISAACSONCONSTRUCTIONHas opening for

Experienced REMODELCARPENTER

with leadership andcustomer relational skills.Please apply in person at:

106 South Main StreetOffice, Princeton

Bureau County SeniorCitizens Association

taking applications forpart-time DRIVERS.

Must pass DOT physicaland drug screening. Appli-cations can be picked upat 16 West Marion Street,Princeton. Monday–Friday8am–4pm

Maytag Bravo washer,used 1 year $500; MaytagNeptune dryer $200; freestanding basketball hoop$50. Call 309-912-8833

4'x8' Double decker tableon wheels made of 2'x4'plywood construction pre-viously used as a train ta-ble. $200. 815-699-2641

*Hotpoint 21 cu ft. up-right freezer, Good condi-tion; *Triple dresser with9 drawers & chest of fourdrawers - matching. $75for pair. Will sell separate;*Hoover floor mate;*Collection of PreciousMoments (all or choice).

Call 815-303-8583

Interior door 36”x80”$25; insulated exteriordoor 36”x80” $45; 21”self propelled snow blow-er $50. 815-875-1670

LOST: KEYS in SpringValley on a Remember 9-11 keyring. Call or text309-826-9394 if found

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228 • Help Wanted

228 • Help Wanted

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434 • MiscellaneousSales

434 • MiscellaneousSales

446 • Farm Products

448 • Pets &Livestock

450 • Under $1000 450 • Under $1000 460 • Garage Sales

-600-Transportation

614 • Car Sales

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Deal of the week. 42”Panasonic HD PlasmaTV, new $630, asking$150. Perfect condition &picture. 815-875-3167

Immediate Openings for:*OFFICE MANAGER/ACCOUNTANT and

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[email protected]: Adult neuteredmale mixed breed. Friend-ly, housebroke, approx.65#, short nosed, tan withblack mask. Found nearQuaker Church and Rt. 89.Owner or interested partyplease call 815-882-2000

Med-Lift recliner chair,beige, near perfect condi-tion, functions like new.Seat: 21”x19”. $500.

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In Search Of Christian Fi-nancial Partner to RehabHouses. We do the workand you provide the mon-ey. We split profits.

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Barnyard light new in thebox $20; Gun vice & restfor cleaning a gun. $20;Autoharp $30. Call 815-878-1209

PRINCETON 11 NorthChurch Street. Saturday,November 15, 8am-5pm.

MOVING SALE.Electric hospital bed, bathbench, bedside commode,wheel chair, lift chair,walker, treadmill, dehu-midifier, washer & dryer,misc. household items

Shiba Inu, 3 year old fe-male, has been spayed,and has had 1 year shots.Red in color. Has papers.

Call 815-303-1090

Girls Huffy 16” bicycle,beautiful, like new, $20; 2pair aluminum crutches,7' adjustable. $10.

Call 815-878-5851

ParaprofessionalPosition. Spring Valley

Elementary SchoolDistrict 99 has an openingfor a temporary full-timePARAPROFESSIONAL.

The successful candidatemust be fluent in bothSpanish and English; holdIllinois Certification for aParaprofessional; andcommunicates and workswell with students, par-ents and staff. Bilingualskills are required. District99 is an Equal OpportunityEmployer. Please send aresume and cover letterto: Kimberly Lisanby-Bar-ber, Principal John F.Kennedy School, 800North Richards Street,Spring Valley, IL 61362.

Phone 815-664-4601;Fax 815-664-4213

Wanted: Part-TimeSECRETARY

for St. Louis School.Send resume to: St. LouisSchool, 631 Park AvenueWest, Princeton

New Pulaski Lighted Tra-ditional Curio, with 4shelves (3 Glass) 32”x57”x14”, perfect condition$350; Unique AntiqueJapanese Chest SideBoard/Server 45”x32”x20”, beautiful $250; New28 piece Queens ChinaBlack Rooster 28 pieceDishes, beautiful, no chipsor cracks, $100.

Call 815-878-1516

Garden bench, $25; Bak-ers rack, $75; gliderrocker with ottoman, $40.

Call 815-875-2162

DONATE NOW!“The animals are crying”

Tri-County Humane Soci-ety. LaSalle, Bureau, Put-nam Counties.Call 815-875-6145 or815-872-9781 or senddonation to: PO Box 1601,LaSalle, IL 61301

SEASONED FIREWOODfor sale. (Walnut, Cherry,Oak). $75 half face cord.$150 full face cord. 309-883-5367 / 815-437-9151

2007 Cub Cadet $400,LT1045, 46” deck, hydro-stat, runs, cracked cylin-der block, low hours, win-ter project. 815-872-1906

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BUREAU COUNTY FARMLANDPUBLIC AUCTION

58.21+/- ACRESArispie Township, Bureau County, Illinois

The following described real estate will be offered for sale by Public Auction.Look for this and upcoming Auctions on www.rickrediger.com

THURSDAY,NOV. 20, 2014

10:00 A.M.SALE DAY LOCATION: “The Shed” 401 W. Main St., Wyanet, IL 61379815-699-7999LOCATION: SW ¼ of SE ¼ of Section 26, Arispie Twp., Bureau County,Illinois. 1 ½ miles west of IL Rte 39 on Kentville Road (700N), North sideof Blacktop Road 700N.DESCRIPTION58.21 +/- surveyed acres with 41.33 tillable acres. Tillable acres with soiltypes including: Greenbush (38.8%), Muscatine (12.1%), Rozetta, Arter-berry (11.7%), Fayette, Hennepin, Buckhart, Morely, Osco and Strong-hurst. A Surety crop productivity index of 127.9.TAXES: Tax ID # 22-26-400-005 and #22-26-400-007. 2013 taxes paid in2014 were $650.34.3.8 acres CRP - $161.00/acre – expires 9/30/19.Plat locations, Aerial Photos and Soil Maps available on www.rickrediger.com.TERMS AND CONDITIONS:1) Parcel will be sold on a per surveyed acre basis.2) Survey provided by Seller.3) The successful bidder will be required to enter into a standard purchaseagreement contract. A Buyer’s Premium of 1% of the high bid will becharged to the buyer and added to the bid amount to arrive at the con-tract purchase price. 10% of the purchase price will be due immediatelyfollowing the auction. The balance will be due and payable on or beforeDecember 22, 2014.4) The Seller shall provide a title insurance policy in the amount of thepurchase price of the subject property.5) The estimated 2014 taxes due and payable in 2015 will be credited bySeller to Buyer. All subsequent real estate taxes will be the responsibilityof the Buyer.6) The property is being sold in “AS IS” condition, with no implied warran-ties of any kind.7) The information is believed to be accurate. However we strongly urgeall prospective buyers to thoroughly research all pertinent data and to drawtheir own conclusions.8) All announcements made the day of the sale take precedence over anypreviously printed material.9) For additional information or to view the property contact Rick Rediger,Auctioneer at 815.699.7999.

BAN LIMITED PARTNERSHIP andJOHN NORDSTROM TRUST – Sellers

Attorney for Seller: Michael English10 Park Ave. West, Princeton, IL 61356 - 815.875.4555

Number System will be Used – I.D. RequiredNot Responsible for Accidents

REDIGER AUCTION SERVICE BRUMMEL REALTY, LLCRick Rediger, Auctioneer Scott Brummel, Broker

815-699-7999 630-553-3200www.RickRediger.com www.BrummelRealty.com

OPENTENANCY2015

OPENTENANCY2015

UPCOMING FARMLAND AUCTIONSSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2014

TIME: 10:00 A.M.Seller:BLAISDELL ESTATE

80 ACRESWheatland Township • Bureau County, IL

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 2015TIME: 10:00 A.M.

Seller:PLOTNER ESTATE320 ACRES

Penn Township • Stark County, ILFor Information and Farm Packet

Call 815-872-1852 or Email: [email protected] AUCTION COMPANY, PRINCETON, ILAUCTIONEERS: TOM AND MARY TUMBLESON& TIFFANY FOESView Listing on website: www.tumblesonauction.com

REAL ESTATE OPEN HOUSETHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014

TIME: 4:00-6:00 P.M.

PROPERTY I106 W. Washington St., Streator, IL

PROPERTY II406 & 408 S. Bloomington St., Streator, IL

Unique Real Estate Opportunity-Vintage Victorian 4 Bedroom Home & 5 Flat Brick Exterior Rental

Property which is Located Right Next Door TO BE SOLD AS ONE UNIT!View Full Listing of Real Estate and Personal Property& Photos on website: www.tumblesonauction.com

AUCTION TO BE HELDSATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2014

TIME: 10:00 A.M.SELLER:PETER & DARLETTE MATHISENAttorney: Gerald Drendel • 511 E. Main St., Streator, IL • 815-673-4344

TUMBLESON AUCTION COMPANY, PRINCETON, ILEmail: [email protected] Or Phone: 815-872-1852AUCTIONEERS: TOM AND MARY TUMBLESON& TIFFANY FOES

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BIDSBerlin Township

Road District is accept-ing sealed bids on a 20004x4 GMC pickup truckwith snow plow. Thishas a tilt box with ACand PW. this is avail-able for inspection any-time by calling Highwaycommissioner BruceGibson at 815-994-5082.Bids will be opened onDecember 8, 2014 at6:00 p.m. at the Berlin

Township Hall. BerlinTownship Road Districtreserves the right toaccept or reject any bid.Published in the BureauCounty Republican Nov.8, 11, 13, 15, 18, 20 22,25, 27, 29, Dec. 2 and4, 2014.

BIDSStarved Rock Lodge

seeks bids for the fol-lowing: Contract forHVAC service and

Contract for Plumbingservice. Contractor tocomply with provisionsof the “Prevailing WageAct” 820 ILCS 130/1et.Seq. Any perspectivecontractor must attenda Pre-Bid meeting. Formore information or toobtain a scope of workcontact John at 815-993-4486.Published in the BureauCounty Republican Nov.15, 2014.

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SPRING VALLEY 1 bed-room apartment. Stove,fridge & water furnished.Central air. Washer/dryerhookup. Off-street park-ing. Redecorated. $400/month + security deposit.Call 815-664-4386

ONE BEDROOM, one bath,all appliances, washer &dryer & garage space,large basement. $550 permonth and $500 deposit.Call Mary 815-915-7251

FOR RENT: 1 Bedroom,upstairs apartment, down-town Princeton. $375 amonth. Call AndersonMosshart, 815-875-4660

1 BEDROOM downstairsapartment available now.$625/month plus deposit.No pets or smoking. Allutilities furnished, 1garage stall, laundry inbasement. New carpeting,painting. 1years lease re-quired. 815-228-7350

2 Bedroom apartment on2nd floor of apartmentbuilding. All utilities fur-nished. No pets or smok-ing. 1 garage stall, laundryin basement. Years leaserequired. Available now.$650 month rent.

Call 815-228-7350

GRANVILLE 2 bedroombungalow in nice largecity lot. Specially paintedinterior. $550 a month, in-cludes water. References.

Call 956-453-6270

PRINCETON In The Coun-try, 2 bedroom apartment.Access to lake for fishingavailable. Water, sewer,garbage provided. $550 amonth + deposit. Refer-ences & application re-quired. 815-303-1865

PRINCETON Coachlight, 1& 2 bedroom apartments,$450/$500. Carport.Garbage included. Laun-dry available.

Call 815-878-7965

PRINCETON 2-3 bedroom.Neat & clean. Stove andrefrigerator. New furnace,central air. Low utilities.Good location. Nice yard.References required.

Call 815-875-3166/815-875-3861

PRINCETON Fritz Apart-ment for rent. Quiet liv-ing, heat/water furnished,2 bedroom, living room/dining room/kitchen/bath.Starting at $550 permonth, includes carport.References and depositrequired. 815-879-6021

BUREAU 1 & 3 bedroomapartments available. Bothspacious apartments withlots of storage. Quietbuilding. Yard shared bytenants. Security depositrequired. No pets. Nosmoking. 815-878-3084

PRINCETON 2 bedroom.heat & utilities included.Deposit, no pets. $625 amonth. Call 815-303-7066 / 815-303-7621

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767 • MobileHome Sales

768 • Homes For Sale

768 • Homes For Sale

771 • Farms For Sale

856 • Apartment Rentals

856 • Apartment Rentals 856 • Apartment Rentals 858 • Homes for Rent

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All real estate advertis-ing in this newspaper issubject to the FairHousing Act whichmakes it illegal to ad-vertise “any preference,limitation or discrimina-tion based on race, col-or, religion, sex, handi-cap, familial status ornational origin, or an in-tention, to make anysuch preference, limita-tion or discrimination.”Familial status includeschildren under the ageof 18 living with par-ents or legal custodi-ans, pregnant womenand people securingcustody of children un-der 18.This newspaper will notknowingly accept anyadvertising for real es-tate which is in viola-tion of the law. Ourreaders are hereby in-formed that alldwellings advertised inthis newspaper areavailable on an equalopportunity basis.To complain of discrim-ination call, HUD toll-free at 800 669-9777.The toll-free telephonenumber for the hearingimpaired is800 927-9275

PRINCETON Small, 2 bed-room house. New floor-ing, central air, basement,garage. $550 a month.Call 815-875-1923

Mobile Home for Sale byowner. Nice, clean 3 Bed-room, 2 Full Baths, all ap-pliances included, CentralAir, Large covered deck,Utility Shed, located atMaples Acres, Princeton.Call Kathy daytime 815-699-2206 or 815-699-7032 evenings

155 Acres - 2 TractsAUCTION - November 21

Quality Soils/2 miles Eastof LaRose or 25 milesNortheast of Peoria inMarshall County/LorandaGroup/800-716-8189/

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PRINCETON 2 Bedroom.Hardwood floors, garage,washer & dryer. No pets.No smoking. $650/month+ utilities. Deposit re-quired. 815-872-0544

3 Bedroom Mobile Homefor sale. $2,000 down,$188.02 per month for 3years + lot rent.Also 2 or 3 bedroom forrent, $300/$400.

Call 815-303-2948

PRINCETON 2 bedroomapartment. Includes allutilities, except gas, in-cludes cable. $500 amonth + deposit.

Call 815-973-4058

PRINCETON 1 bedroom,recently remodeled. Greatneighborhood. Lease, de-posit. $425. 810 SouthEuclid. Call 217-766-8497

WYANET 1 bedroomhouse. Hardwood floors.Newly decorated. Deposit.No pets or smoking. Callfor info: 815-699-2686

PRINCETON 2 bedroomapartment. Laundry onsite. $515 per month,lease & deposit required.

Call 309-238-0168

2010 Harley-DavidsonStreet Glide Trike. Excel-lent, loaded. 12,000 miles.$28.50. MUST SEE! 815-719-0037/217-414-3453

PRINCETON 1 BedroomApartment for Rent.

$400 a month.Call 815-464-8456

PRINCETON Large, onebedroom, off-street park-ing, laundry facility, nopets. $450 + electric.

Call 815-875-8100

PRINCETON Corner, 2story home for sale. Canbe single dwelling or 2apartments. In need of re-pair. Call 815-872-5431

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INVITATION FOR BIDSThe City of Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois

will receive sealed bids for:Liquid Fuel System Upgrades

until 2:00 p.m. local time on the 18th day ofDecember, 2014 at 2:00 at the Princeton City Hall, 2South Main Street, Princeton, IL 61356.

The plans and specifications are on file with thesaid City of Princeton for viewing purposes only.

Bids shall be received for the aforementioneditems.

Copies of the bid documents may be pur-chased for $20.00 from BHMG Engineers, Inc., 630Jeffco Blvd., Arnold, Missouri 63010, ConsultingEngineers for said City.

A pre-bid meeting will be held at 11:00 a.m. onDecember 2, 2014 at the Power Plant, 1 North MainStreet, Princeton, IL 61356.

A certified check or bank draft on a respon-sible, solvent bank, or a satisfactory bid bondexecuted by the bidder and an acceptable suretycompany, payable to the City of Princeton, Illinois,Keith L. Cain, Mayor, or Government Bonds or cashin the amount of not less than five percent (5%) ofbid, shall be submitted with each bid.

The bid shall be marked to identify bid packagecontents, reference specification B1236 K001.

The successful bidder will be required to:• Purchase bid documents, effectively establishing

them as a registered bidder for this project.• Furnish in duplicate the following executed

documents:• Non-Collusion Affidavit• Bid Form• Bid Bond, Certified Check or Money Order• Qualifications Package• And any other documents as required by

the specifications.The Contractor must agree to pay the most

current prevailing wage as set forth by the IllinoisDepartment of Labor.

No bid shall be withdrawn after the opening ofbids without the consent of the City for a period ofsixty (60) days after the scheduled time of closingbids.

The said City of Princeton reserves the right toreject any or all bids and to waive any informalitiesin bidding, and to determine and accept the bidmost advantageous to the City.

City of PrincetonKeith L. Cain, Mayor

Date: November 17, 2014Published in the Bureau County Republican Nov.11, 13, 15, 18, 20 and 22, 2014.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THETHIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF

ILLINOIS, BUREAU COUNTYNORTH CENTRAL BANK, )

Plaintiff, )v. )

KATHLEEN L. MARENDA a/k/a KATHY L. )MARENDA, an Illinois resident, JOSEPH S. )MARENDA, an Illinois resident, )COLLECTION PROFESSIONALS, INC., an )Illinois corporation, INTERNAL REVENUE )SERVICE, UNKNOWN OWNERS, and )NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, )

Defendants. )Case No.: 14 CH 80

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OFFORECLOSURE ACTION

Notice is hereby give to UNKNOWN OWNERS,NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, and other parties who

claim some right, title, interest or lien in or to thefollowing described real estate that the above cap-tioned mortgage foreclosure suit is now pending inthe Circuit Court of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuitof Illinois, Bureau County.

The names of all Plaintiffs and the case numberare identified above. The Court in which said actionwas brought is identified above. The name of thetitle holder of record is Joseph S. Marenda andKathleen L. Marenda.

A legal description of the real estate sufficientto identify it with reasonable certainty is as follows:

Lot 2 in Marenda’s addition to the Cityof Spring Valley, County of Bureauand State of Illinois, Excepting andReserving, however, the underlying coaland fireclay together with the right todig, mine and remove the same from thesurface of said premises.

PIN: 24-03-201-008Common address: 3 15 W. Caroline, Spring

Valley, Illinois 61362Identification of the Mortgage sought to be fore-

closed is as follows:Name of Mortgagor: Joseph S. Marenda and

Kathleen L. Marenda a/k/a Kathy L. MarendaName of Mortgagee: North Central BankDates of Mortgages: April 24,2008Date and Place of Recording: April 30, 2008,

Bureau CountyIdentification of Recording: Document No.

2008R02317NOW THEREFORE, unless you file your

answer to the Complaint in the suit or otherwisefile your appearance in the said Court on or beforeDecember 19, 2014 default may be entered againstyou at any time after that day and the judgment

entered in accordance with the prayer of theComplaint.

Dated: November 5, 2014/s/By: Brian A. Peterson

Simpson Peterson250 E. Main St., Suite 402Galesburg, Illinois 61401Telephone: (309) 343-6152Facsimile: (309) 343-5103ARDC NO. 6290446Published in the Bureau County Republican Nov. 8,15 and 22, 2014.

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