Mortgage burning marks Dixon Family YMCA dream fulfilled
Sunday ceremony at 3 p.m. in the Dixon Family YMCA gym commemorates completion of a long building project. Since 1872 the Y grew from a small Dixon group to a full facility with pool and gym, mortgage debt of 279000 to be repaid by local banks and community supporters including United Way and KSB Hospital.
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YMCA
Dixon Family Ymca
Y’s
Jason Ayers
Billy Sunday
Dixon
Third Street
Galena Avenue
The
Dixon Ymca
Dixon National Bank
Mark Hanke
Dixon United Way
KSB Hospital
Tax help offered at Lee County Senior Center
The Lee County Senior Citizens Center opened Tuesday providing free tax form assistance to area seniors. Rodney and Rita Roop used the service with volunteer Harland Chamberlain helping. Dixon hosts tax help Tuesdays noon to 3 30 p m while Amboy dates February 20 and March 20 at the Jaycees building also from noon to 3 30 p m.
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Lee County
Harland Chamberlain
Dixon
Amboy
Jaycees
Three youths charged in Loves Park library murder
Murder case unfolds as charges for three youths emerge after an anonymous tip led to suspects. Investigators say Ster wielded the knife in the attack on Roger Reger at a Loves Park library, where a weapon was recovered. Reger died hours later from a neck wound.
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Lowes Park
Darryl Lindberg
Ogle County Sheriff’s
Logic
Ster
Roger
Loves Park
Lindberg
Reger
Young
Rockford Memorial Hospital
Ron Canode
Airbags Move Into Cars Seen As Growing Feature
Telegraph staff report area buyers show little priority for airbags or passive restraints in new cars. Dealers note awareness and education will raise resale value as airbags become more common, with 1990 models required to have passive belts. Officials cite belt use growth and lives saved by belts amid evolving safety option adoption.
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America
Earl Wilson
Don Mullery World of Cars
Ron Drummond
Riverside Chevrolet
Cadillac Geo, Inc
Bob Nemmers
Ken Nelson
Buick
National Highway Safety Administration
Cyndi Stenzel
Lee County Health Department
Lee County
Tim Bivins
Former Dixonite gets 20 years in prison
James K. McKay a 28 year old former Dixon resident was sentenced to twenty years for armed robbery and aggravated battery in an Oregon case tied to Castle Rock State Park last February. He pleaded guilty on June 1 and faces a forthcoming hearing on the aggravated battery charge. Authorities arrested him February 26 at his girlfriend’s trailer with assistance from multiple sheriff departments and Dixon Police.
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Sterling Ymca
Hey
John Shadrach
Shadrach
David Rymer
Yeats
North
Galena Ave
YMCA
Richard Durkes
Oregon
Dixon
Castle Rock State Park
James K. McKay
McKay
Terry Arbogast
Castle Rock
Dennis Schumacher
Arbogast
Schumacher
Ogle County
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Roxanna Petroleum Products Corporation
Henry Hey
Mr Ymca
D.R. Lovett
H.O. Lovett
Master Gifts Division
Durkes
Don R. Lovett
Arnold Spangler
Dean Harrison
Cheeseman Construction Company of
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Telegraph
Mark Sauer
Jim Young
Krent Lum Miniblini
Lee Allyn Tatent On
Kinney Warner
Downs
Canon, Cohen
WANDA
Mason Street
Polo
Illinois
Bogast
David Bruce
E.N.T
Sterling
Rock Falls
Miller Road
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