Amboy plans new Wasson Road water treatment plant
Amboy will proceed with a new water treatment plant on Wasson Road after the city council authorized Bernie Klingenberg to secure an IEPA permit. The project requires a $240,000 loan, with estimated rates rising about $3 per month for the average user.
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Patty Glantz
Amboy
Wasson Road
Bernie Klingenberg
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Willett Hofmann & Associates, Inc
Klingenberg
IEPA
Willett Hofmann & Associates
Center
Bluff
East Street
South East Avenue
Jones Street
Main Street
Illinois Department of Transportation
Gary Schultz
IDO
Reagan Day celebrated in Dixon as first anniversary event
Ronald Reagan Day marked in Dixon with 264 fifth graders touring the Reagan Home and 60 visitors at the Visitors Center. Marlin Misner praised student conduct and vowed a bigger, broader yearly celebration, while local hosts recalled Reagan’s Dixon childhood ties and memories as the day’s events unfolded.
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Dixon
Ken
Mary Wendland
Ronald Reagan
Mary
Grant
Megan
Bill Thompson
Reagan
Thompson
Marlin Misner
The
Ronald Reagan Home Preservation Foundation
Misner
Robert Aubry
California
Wendland
Helen Nicely
Tampico
Rock River
Heart Month volunteers raise funds and teach CPR locally
Volunteers gather to contact Special Gifts donors and organize block walks to boost Heart Month fundraising, aiming for 28 080 dollars after last year’s 24 000 in Lee County. Dixon firefighters offer CPR training at City Hall with state certification, film aids, and practice on dummies for 2 dollars per person.
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Telegraph
American Heart Association
Center
Leo Eccles
Dixon
Eccles
Lee County
Dixon City
Neil Friel
Friel
KSB Hospital
Fire Department
HFAP program aids farm families via SVCC offerings
SVCC continued from page 1 checked with area legislators to see if there were programs to help. The HFAP provides free tuition books and fees to qualified farm families for retraining or starting college. Eligibility includes farm operation decline or debt ratio criteria. Contact Geirnaeht or Sam Maupin for information and support services such as job seeking skills and child care reimbursement.
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Hoffman
SVCC
Geirnaeht
HFAP
the College
Sam Maupin
Illinois Valley Community College
Kish seeks building expansion at Kishwaukee College
Kishwaukee College outlines a 1990 plan for four major additions or remodels totaling about 88,700 gross square feet to provide classrooms labs and offices for agriculture horticulture automotive technology industrial technologies adult basic education and student services. A fall referendum will ask voters to approve bonds to fund the project with an estimated cost around 9.9 million dollars. final costs await architectural planning and definite financial needs. Richard Johnson & Associates of Rockford is hired for the project.
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Malta
Kishwaukee College
Richard Johnson & Associates
Rockford
Two Polo youths charged in burglary
Two Polo youths were arrested by the Ogle County Sheriff’s Department on felony burglary charges for allegedly breaking into Olsen’s Elevator in Polo and stealing four new Echo chain saws valued at 1200 dollars. Jerry Zellers, 17, Polo, is jailed awaiting trial. a 16 year old Polo youth is charged as well.
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Oregon
Ogle County
Three Arrested on Burglary Charges in Oregon
Ogle County deputies report three men arrested for a Dec 31 burglary at Rude's Custom Butchering on Pines Road. Stolen were nine whole hog carcasses 20 cured hams 1500 pounds of meat a meat slicer a tenderizer and three firearms valued around 10000. Suspects Robert Groth 20 Polo Jamie Fager 19 and Keith Reynolds 22 all jailed.
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Oregon
Rude
Pines Road
Ogle County
Robert Groth
Polo
Jamie Fager
Keith Reynolds
Governor’s European trip costs detailed in records
The $169,250 European trip covered Thompson and six staff members plus security and Commerce staff. Taxpayers paid $34,078.49 for travel of three lawmakers. includes Chicago aides and aides to the governor. Police and travel costs for security, chauffeur services, artist gifts, and Milan opera tickets are itemized with total potential rise as more reports arrive.
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Thompson
State Department of Commerce and Community Affairs
Jack Schaffer
R-Cary
Ted Lechowicz
D-Chicago
Richard Luft
D-Pekin
Larry Hicks
Dount Vernon
Thomas Ewing
R-Pontiac
Barbara Bond
Fields
State Comptroller’s Office
Illinois
Milan
la Scala Opera House
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Red Cross
Kish
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