Budweiser Chili Cookoff enters 10th year at Plum Hollow
About 30 teams signed up for the Muscular Dystrophy fundraiser to be held Sunday at Plum Hollow from noon to 5 p.m. KSB Hospital and Dixon Motors return to defend or win trophies. Nine judges plus three crowd pickers assess chili while entertainment by Craze runs from 1 to 5 p.m. A Las Vegas trip prize, Indy show car display, and bids to donate entry fees add to the event. Entries close Thursday noon with a $25 fee.
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Plum Hollow
Dave Cain
LRB Distributors
Cain
KSB Hospital
Dixon Motors
Dixon
Hey Brothers
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Anheuser- Busch
Raynor Motor Sports
Las Vegas
Polo Jaycees
LRB
MDA
Mount Morris to Replace Sidewalks Across Town
Streets Trustee Steve Mongan told the Mount Morris Village Board work begins Friday on replacing sidewalks. Private contractor Steve Swanson will start with the high school area and uptown sidewalks from the old credit union to Front Street. Project cost is estimated at 10 000 to 12 000 dollars, with actual costs decided after removal. Local businesses will share in the costs. Mongan will contact them this week and update at the September meeting. Work is slated for late September or mid October, taking about a week for the uptown section. Funds come from the streets department budget. Residential sidewalk work continues. Mayor Elmars Kalnins will swap chairs with Trustee Rod Kelsey, moving Kelsey from parks and recreation to public properties.
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Mount Morris
Telegraph
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Mount Morris Village Board
Steve Swanson
Leaf River
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Swanson
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Old Credit Union
Front Street
Village Board
Streets
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Rod Kelsey
Parks and Recreation Department
Kalnins
Public Properties Department
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Rochelle Dist 231 revises budget for 89 90
Rochelle Elementary School District 231 reports a projected $46,000 surplus by the end of the 1989 90 fiscal year after revised estimates. Board members and Superintendent Joe Thiele discussed figures, noting initial $19,000 deficit and increased revenues including $250,000 state aid. A public hearing is set for Sept 12 at 7 p.m. in the Junior High. Enrollment projections show about 1 321 in K 6 and 350 in Rochelle Junior High this fall.
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Rochelle
Board of Education
Joe Thiele
Thiele
Rockford man found guilty again in Monroe Center burglary
Rockford resident Christopher D. Lamb, 29, was found guilty for the second time of a 1984 residential burglary in Monroe Center after an Ogle County bench trial. The retrial followed an appellate reversal over use of grand jury testimony. A sentencing hearing set for Sept. 13 will credit over four years already served.
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Oregon
Monroe Center
Christopher D. Lamb
Ogle County
F. Lawrence Lenz
Robin Minnis
Lamb
Illinois
Lenz
Illinois Governor Thompson Eyes Europe Trade Tour
Governor James Thompson plans a mid September overseas mission to Italy France Austria and Spain with officials from the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs and business and labor leaders. The trip aims to promote trade tourism and economic development, with Milan Paris Vienna and Barcelona Madrid Seville on the itinerary and a Chicago Symphony Orchestra appearance in Paris.
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James Thompson
Italy
France
Austria
Spain
Dave Fields
Thompson
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Illinois
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Paris
Vienna
Barcelona
Madrid
Seville
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Symphony
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Chicago
Richard Daley
Fields
Jim Thompson
You. Thompson
Moscow
Comptroller’s
Europe
Lee County starts budget process with nursing home dispute
Lee County advances a preliminary budget deemed largely solid by Finance Committee Chair Mike Schrauth. Hearings begin with county officials as the Nursing Home budget faces a setback and may be revised with consultants. The committee approved 41,100 emergency funding for three sheriff cars, noting Caprice models replace unavailable Dodges.
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Telegraph
Lee County
County Finance Committee
Mike Schrauth
Lee County Nursing Home
John Edmunds
Schrauth
Edmunds
Bivins
Dixon man gets five years for probation violation in cocaine case
Robert Janacek, 39, of Dixon, now at Menard Correctional Center, was sentenced by Lee County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Hornsby to five years for violating probation by possessing cocaine when arrested April 2 by DeKalb police. He earlier faced eight years on DeKalb charges and a 1988 multi county drug sweep conviction. The new term runs concurrently with the eight-year DeKalb sentence.
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Dixon
Menard
Illinoisment of Corrections
Lee County
Thomas Hornsby
Janacek
DeKalb
Task Force One
DeKalb City
Dan Fish
Man charged with damaging squad car in Dixon incident
Lee County Sheriff Tim Bivins said Michael Bushman 20 of Dixon has been charged with felony criminal damage to a squad car after the June 14 1988 incident at Precision Automotive. The car windows were shattered the red lights and siren destroyed with total damage of 1829 warrants issued for two others arrests pending Bushman appeared in circuit court with bond set at 3000 Nine petitions filed for four Dixon School Board seats with August 21 as candidate filing start and August 28 end Elections on November 7
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Lee County
Tim Bivins
Michael Bushman
Precision Automotive
Cement Ave
Bivins
Dixon School Board
Dave Keeley
Tom Conley
Donna Drew
Linda Bacher
Kirby Holland
Bill Zinnen
John Cover
Tom LeMoine
Phillip Slagle
Tom Shepherd
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