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Newspaper
Dixon Telegraph
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1990
Page
3
Rochelle Police Department reports 9 750 calls for service in 1989 and 241 cases handled by the investigation division including 188 felonies and 53 misdemeanors. The year saw 3 armed robberies 359 criminal arrests 1 236 traffic arrests 87 DUIs 91 battery cases and six aggravated sexual assaults.
PACA learned the Department of Children and Family Services approved nearly all requested programs with a total net grant of 5815 more than anticipated. Funds will launch a Big Brothers Big Sisters program, a Natural Helper initiative, a motivational speaker series, library books, and Polo Community Preschool materials with training by Sinnissippi Mental Health Center and Youth Service Bureau services.
Rochelle Township High School plans a 3.395 million gym project funded by a 22 cent per 100 assessed valuation bond issue. The district aims to pass the measure in March, with bonds retired over six years while taxes may decline as older bonds retire. The new gym would adjoin the old facility on the football field, and the district projects rising enrollment beyond 1,000 students within six to nine years.
The Dixon Park District weighs two requests to place statues in city parks at tonight’s meeting. A six foot marble sculpture Wings of Peace and Freedom may be donated by Nick Tanev for John Dixon Park, with Triangle Park as second choice. The Rock River Viet Now group seeks a memorial statue site near the river.
The victim, a Woosung man, remains in serious condition at Saint Anthony Medical Center after a Friday crash on Valentine Road in Lincoln Township. Royal L. Wells Jr., 31, drove a station wagon off the road into a ditch about 2 p.m. Friday, per the Ogle County Sheriff's Department.
A Mount Carroll man, 28, was arrested Thursday by the Ogle County Sheriff's Department on a charge he abused a 7 year old Polo girl in November. The department investigated the alleged abuse with the Department of Children and Family Services.
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