Dixon Theatre Renovation Aims To Kick Off New Era
Dixon Theatre Renovation Inc unveils plans for a 400000 dollar community drive to match a 3100000 dollar state grant. Funds total one million required for repair with 600000 in building value counted. Volunteers start phone solicitations and a mailed appeal goes to 2500 residents.
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Dixon Theatre
Bob Bloemker
Dixon Theatre Renovation, Inc
Department of Commerce and Community Affairs
DCCA
Bloemker
Dixon
Myron Olson
R-Dixon
DTRI
Usf&g
Olson
Pow Wow at SVCC Feeds 700 With Picnic Games
Sauk Valley Community College held its annual Pow Wow Days picnic with faculty staff and administrators serving hot dogs and hamburgers to over 700 attendees. Activities included faculty student volleyball tricycle races wheelchair races and a DJ.
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Sauk Valley Community College
Office of Student Activities
Tracs
Mike Venier
Dixon
Autumn Arrives as Equinox Signals Shorter Days
Summer ends as autumn begins with the equinox at 8 20 p m Friday. Wayne Wendland of the Illinois Water Survey notes days will shorten and Dixon sees cooler averages this year. Compared to 1988 drought, this summer brought 13.48 inches of rain versus 3.55 last year and 10.25 inches as normal.
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Telegraph
Wayne Wendland
Illinois Water Survey
Dixon
Wendland
Ogle County dealers message signals drug war effort
Ogle County officials intensified a long running anti drug campaign following a May 1988 sweep by the Blackhawk Area Task Force, a joint effort with Lee Whiteside agencies that arrested hundreds of pushers and users. The series notes how local enforcement responds to national drug control calls.
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Telegraph
Oregon
Bush
Ogle
Lee, Ogle and
Whiteside
Blackhawk
Focus on FOCUS region drug crackdown continues in Ogle County
Ogle County Sheriff Jerry Brooks says the focus remains on the county drug problem with an undercover task force conducting ongoing arrests though on a smaller scale than last year. He notes a definite impact on drug availability over the past year as investigators target major dealers.
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Ogle County
Jerry Brooks
Brooks
USAir jetliner crashes into East River near LaGuardia
A USAir Boeing 737 400 crashed after takeoff from LaGuardia, broke into three pieces in the East River. At least three dead and 49 injured. survivors clung to wings or awaited rescue as divers and rafts worked amid submerged wreckage and a mobile medical clinic was set up near the site.
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New York
UPI
Usair
East River
LaGuardia
Charlotte
N.C
Nancy Vaughan
United States
Aloha Airlines
Hilo
Honolulu
Jack Casey
Cable
Casey
Merrill Trilling
Maurice Howard
USA
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Mari
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LaGuardia Airport
New York City
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