Optifast Program Heads to KSB Swedish American Hospitals
KSB Hospital Dixon and Swedish American Hospital Rockford join to offer Optifast a 26 week hospital based weight loss program for patients 50 pounds over or 30 percent above ideal weight. Medical director Dr Tim Appenheimer leads a team including Joyce Miller Rita Findley and Peggy Fuller with orientation sessions starting December 19 and the program beginning mid January. The plan features medically supervised rapid weight loss aided by nutrition education exercise and ongoing group support with insurance coverage partly paying costs.
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KSB Hospital
Dixon
Swedish American Hospital
Rockford
Tim Appenheimer
KSB
Appenheimer
Joyce Miller
Rita Findley
Peggy Fuller
Fuller
Findley
Amboy to decide fate of bed and breakfast inn plan
AMBOY city council schedules a special meeting to decide if Shirley Dewey can open a bed and breakfast at 35 N. Mason St. pending a special use permit and zoning change from residential to general commercial. Dewey links sale to permit approval. council weighs nearby opposition and impact if sold later. Mayor McCracken backs the project as a local asset.
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Telegraph
Amboy
Shirley Dewey
Ed Sullivan
N. Mason St
Rich Bumba
Dewey
Gary Schultz
Ken McCracken
McCracken
Ashton Christmas Walk Promises Community Cheer and Deals
Ashton business leaders host the Home For The Holidays Christmas walk from 2 to 7 pm Saturday featuring a house walk pony cart rides carolling a live nativity at Bible Church and a home decorating contest Tickets are four dollars per adult with no children Babysitting will be available during the house walk House owners include Verlin and Judy Harp Bert and Carol Kemp Dick and Ruth Mailler and David and Nona Sveum chili supper at Ashton High School 5 to 8 pm Tickets available at local downtown businesses and host families.
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Ashton
Ashton Business Boosters
Bible Church
Patty Beehle
Shear Delight Hair Salon
Ashton High School
Ron’ Food
Shear Delight
Hewert’s Handlebar
Ashton Hardware
the Huddle
Ashton Drug Store
Double R Diner
Verlin
Judy Harp
Quarry Road
Bert and
Carol Kemp
North Fourth Street
Brown
Dick and
Ruth Mailler
North Third St
David and Nona Sveum
Tracy Ave
Book exchange brings new reading to Ohio children
Ohio students from kindergarten to eighth grade donated about 250 books this week for a school book exchange. Children trade used titles for coupons to buy others, encouraging collecting and sharing. Librarian Lois Dremann says the program, first of its kind in Ohio, boosts excitement as more books arrive. unclaimed titles go to Friends of the Library or local hospitals.
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Telegraph
Ohio
Lois Dremann
Dremann
U S Seeks Forfeiture Of Hemminger Farm In Drug Case
U S Attorney Ira Raphaelson filed in Rockford Federal District Court to seize the 235 acre Carroll County farm of Wanda and Harold Hemminger. The suit alleges use for growing processing and storing 3000 pounds of marijuana with a 3 million street value as part of a wider narcotics operation.
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Telegraph
U.S
Ira Raphaelson
Rockford
Carroll County
Dixonites
Wanda
Harold Hemminger
Savanna
Hemmingers
Hemminger Farm
Grand Jury
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Keith Syfert
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CoronaCaic
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