Swedish students seek host homes for two week Dixon visit
About 27 Swedish students from Malmo Latinskola plus one female teacher plan two weeks in Dixon ending Easter Sunday. They arrive March 31 attend Dixon High School first week, then enjoy Easter break with host families. Jim Nelson seeks local families with extra beds to host, provide meals and transport, and donations to rent a bus to O'Hare.
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Florida
Dixon
Malmo
Sweden
Malmo Latinskola
Chrysti Nelson
Rotary
Chrysti
Marie Sjodahl
Dixon High School
Jim Nelson
USA
Nelson
DHS
YMCA
Marie
O’hare
Rockford
Siberian teacher to arrive in Dixon for exchange program
Telegraph staff writer reports Nadezhda Naumenko, a Russian language and culture teacher from Siberia, will arrive in Dixon next week for a six month stay. She will be introduced at a city hall press conference and participate in the Dixon Dickson Sister Cities exchange, with 11 Dixon students set to visit Russia in March and a Dixon delegation planned for Siberia this summer.
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Dixon
Dickson
Nikolai Kartamyshev
Dixon Telegraph
William Shaw
Kartamyshev
Siberia
Naumenko
Illinois House backs riverboat gambling bill in 60 to 54 vote
The House narrowly approved a riverboat gambling bill despite no Republican votes. Myron Olson of Dixon opposed the measure while supporting higher circuit breaker relief for seniors and disabled, and opposing a $1000 homestead exemption increase that would harm local schools. The plan to raise homestead relief to $4500 fell five votes short. Senate action followed as the exemption did not advance in the House.
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Illinois
Myron Olson
R Dixon
Olson
Michael Madigan
Madigan
Thompson
Harlan Rigney
Freeport
Calvin Schuneman
Prophetstown
Senate
Polo fire barn destroyed after high winds aid From Polo Fire Dept
Six area departments battled a barn fire on Evergreen Road 12 23 p.m. to 6 p.m. The barn owned by Barry Blum contained twenty five pigs rescued by firefighters. Fire spread aided by strong winds, cause under investigation. Mutual aid from Milledgeville Oregon Mount Morris Forreston and Dixon Rural helped prevent spread to nearby structures.
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Telegraph
Polo
Evergreen Road
Pat McPherson
Evergreen Rd
Milledgeville
Oregon
Mount Morris
Forreston
Dixon
McPherson
Barry Blum
Emergency Food & Shelter aid list shifts for Illinois counties
Lee County will receive 22707 dollars through the Emergency Food and Shelter Program to aid residents facing utility shutoffs and hunger, with about 12000 directed to Dixon Paw Paw Ashton and Amboy pantries. Ogle County is removed from direct aid due to unemployment under 6.9 percent and fewer than 1000 unemployed in 1988 89, but remains eligible for set aside funds of 13507 dollars.
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Lee County
Congress
Ogle County
Illinois
Dixon
Paw Paw
Ashton
Amboy
Joan Sheridan
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA
Sheridan
American Red Cross
Catholic Charities USA
The
Salvation Army
United Way of America
Kelly Coughlin
Illinois Department of Public Aid
Hope Offer Protective Environment
HOPE
Rochelle Ministerial Association
Flagg Township
Oregon
Polo
Byron
Coughlin
State
Telegraph
Frank Hewitt
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Mautino
Lee
Ogle
Levy
Levis
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Levi's and
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Sterling
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