Farm Safety Week Aims to Reduce Slow-Move Farming Dangers
The Lee County Farm Bureau and local dealers urge awareness as planters return to fields in April. Tests show a 30 mph speed differential creates 30 times higher crash risk between vehicles. SMV signs and decals will be sold below cost, with locations listed in Dixon, Franklin Grove, Amboy, Sublette, and Am boy for protective gear and clothing.
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Lee County Farm Bureau
National Safety Council
John Scott
Country Companies Insurance Company
Scott
Lee County Board
Lee County
Farm Bureau
Dixon Equipment Co
Dixon
Hummel
Warm weather spurs bogus home repair schemes warned
Dixon Police Chief Robert Short cautions residents about confidence men arriving in warm weather to peddle unfinished blacktop seal coating roofing or chimney repairs. They seek access to homes while finishing the job for an inflated price and often steal money jewelry or valuables. Call 288 4411 if victimized.
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Dixon
Robert Short
Short
Open Sesame center hops to raise funds for MD
Five Open Sesame Day Care Center children led a Hop a Thon raising over 100 dollars each and contributing to a total of 2374.14 dollars at the Rockford district effort. More than 120 youngsters participated by pledging hops in three minutes. Center director Nancie Dempsey notes the local fund drive supports research for more than 350 district residents.
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Telegraph
Lori Fagan
Open Sesame Day
Dixon
Michelle Helfrich
Josey Nicholson
Chad Whitney
Krystal Theisinger
Anthony Morgan
Jeff Reinke
Rockford
The
Muscular Dystrphy Association
MDA
Reinke
Open Sesame
Nancie Dempsey
State Board of Ed plans six town meetings on school finances
The Illinois State Board of Education will host six town meetings on school funding, starting Monday at Sauk Valley Community College Little Theatre. About six lawmakers were invited, with three missing including Myron Olson who called the timing poor. Several legislators voiced options, with Schuneman and Mautino planning to attend and discussing a potential half percent income tax increase earmarked for schools. The session aims to gather input from Quad Cities to Rockford school personnel.
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Illinois State Board of Education
Sauk Valley Community College
Little Theatre
Illinois House
Myron Olson
R-Dixon
Olson
State Board
House
Springfield
Michael Madigan
Calvin Schuneman
Prophetstown
Schuneman
Richard Mautino
Spring Valley
Madigan
Cook County
Richard Daley
Chicago
Daley
Mautino
Quad Cities
Rockford
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Darrell Webs
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Fresno
California
Valley Medical Center
University of
Ilinois
American College of Physicians
American Society
American Medical Association
Illinois State Medical Society
Lee County Medical Society
Mary Ann
Erik and
Nathan
EDIC
Physicians & Surgeons
E. 1St Street
Illinois
State Board of Ed
SVCC
ST Ett
St. Mary’s Church
Walton, Ill
Raffles & Door
Milledgeville
Cochran St. Milledgeville, IN
Lee Co
Dixon Equipment
Shaffer’s Shop
Bonnell
Ew.g. Leffelman & Sons
eLee F.S. Inc
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