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BY DAVID GIULIANI AND KIM WATLEY

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STERLING – Yesterday’s blinding snow is gone, only to be replaced by today’s bit-ter cold.

But at least the wind has died down.

The pile driver that pound-ed the Sauk Valley on Tues-day and Wednesday, dump-ing 11 to 15 inches of snow over most of Lee, Ogle and Whiteside counties, has grown cold and relatively calm. Expect a high of 9 today, with a wind chill near 30 below.

Things should be better than the day before, when most area residents were

snowed in – a few without power – and told to stay off the roads if they could.

All area schools were shut down, as were nearly all gov-ernment offices.

Many schools will remain closed today, because many rural roads and side streets still need to be cleared, and because of the bone-chilling temperatures.

In a nod to Wednesday’s treacherous conditions, Sterling, Rock Falls and Dixon post offices closed, as did many businesses, with notable exceptions, includ-ing the 24-hour Walmart in Sterling.

Digging out

A WhiteoutWednesday for local shoppers

Alex T. Paschal/[email protected]

Tom Higley Sr. tosses snow onto a 6- or 7-foot pile while clearing the driveway at his Third Street home in Dixon. Most people, grownups and kids alike, got a “snow day” Wednesday, thanks to the blizzard that dumped a foot or more of snow across the Sauk Valley.

Roads still blocked, cars stuck in snow

Philip Marruffo/[email protected] Brian Grummert of Grummert’s Hardware in downtown Sterling blows the sidewalk in front of his store clear of snow Wednesday. Grummert’s was one of a few downtown businesses to open in the wake of the worst winter storms in recent years.

BY DAVID GIULIANI [email protected]

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STERLING – If you like to shop at Walmart without fac-ing the crowds, Wednesday would have been your day.

The trouble: Getting there. Walmart was one of the few

open businesses on East Lin-colnway. The light was on at register 19 during the morning. Later, register 17 came online. Few customers showed up.

The store’s parking lot was well plowed, but the entrance still had some snow, causing at least one pickup truck with-out four-wheel drive to spin its wheels when exiting.

Alex T. Paschal/[email protected] Shawna Homan digs out her car in Sterling Wednesday afternoon. Today’s forecast calls for a high of 9 degrees, but a wind chill near 30 below.

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Most of the city’s snow routes were cleared by morning, Sterling Police Lt. Tim Morgan said.

“But they’re having a hard time keeping them up due to drifting. Most of the secondary roads haven’t been touched. Stay home if possible. Only go out in an emergency,” Morgan said Wednesday morning.

Police helped move stranded vehicles around town, and Lynn Boule-vard had its share, he said. There weren’t any major collisions that he was aware of.

West Lynn Boulevard in Sterling was closed from Avenue E (YMCA Way) to West LeFevre because of blowing, drifting snow. Sterling police barricaded the road, so people who needed to get to and from town were advised to take LeFevre, Fourth Street or another alternate route.

Both the Dixon and Ster-ling police departments provided rides to essential emergency personnel, so area departments were properly staffed.

Dixon Police Sgt. Troy Morse said the main streets in town weren’t bad.

“The plows have been out all night. They’ve been hitting them up pretty good. There are some side roads in town where they’ve had to pile up snow,” Morse said.

Some cars were stuck on side roads, he said.

“We’re still telling peo-ple to limit their travel as much as possible, espe-cially if you don’t have a four-wheel-drive vehicle. We’re still getting people who are stuck. We have to get people out of the snow,” he said.

The Lee County Sheriff’s Department reported that state Route 38 between Dixon and Ashton was the only main road open. All others in the county were deemed impassable.

Members of Lee Coun-ty’s Emergency Service Disaster Agency had been responding to calls since 3 p.m. Tuesday, said its director, Kevin Lalley.

“We have been pretty busy,” he said. “We still have some stranded motorists out there, and none of us have had any sleep yet.”

“What people need to think about before ventur-ing out in a situation like this is, ‘Is it worth my life?’ Even a car or truck with four-wheel drive doesn’t do well on 6-foot drifts,” Lalley said.

One driver was stranded for nearly 24 hours, he said. Because the drifts

surrounding the motorist were so large, the Nation-al Guard’s Humvees were unable to get to him. Plows also tried clearing the area, but the drifts kept the street impassable.

“The wind was the big-gest issue, because it was creating drifts, some that were bigger than the Humvees. The plows would clear a road, and not be a mile down the street before snow had blown back onto them,” Lalley said.

In Rock Falls, the snow routes were open, Police Chief Michael Kuelper said.

“The plows are getting to the side streets as quickly as they can. We have had no major accidents at this time. We have a lot of stalled vehicles on road-ways. The plows have to get around them,” he said.

ComEd reported that 242 customers were with-out power Wednesday afternoon – about the same number throughout the day.

Jim Fox, a ComEd spokesman, said 115 of the customers were from townships near Sterling, while 107 were in the Ore-gon area. A handful were in Mendota, Mount Mor-ris and Dixon.

He said snow-covered roads were making it hard

to get to certain places to fix problems.

“We’ve got crews work-ing 16-hour shifts. We are in contact with the coun-ties to find out when the plows are coming out,” he said.

In Ogle County, courts and government buildings will remain closed today, Sheriff Michael Harn said in a news release.

As of 2:45 p.m. Wednes-day, roadways remained impassible, treacherous and closed, Harn said.

He instructed all non-emergency traffic to stay off state and county high-ways until roads were cleared, he said in the release.

“If you choose to travel, it will be at your own risk,” Harn warned. “The sher-iff’s office cannot guar-antee a rescue if motor-ists become stranded. Bitter temperatures and below-zero wind chills are predicted [tonight] into Thursday morning,

which will only add to the dangerous conditions.”

Harn’s orders were fine with Ogle County plow drivers, whose objec-tive was clear Wednes-day morning: Get a path through.

“First we want to get a hole punched through on every county road to access stranded motor-ists,” Ogle County High-way Engineer Curtis Cook said. “Then we’ll go back through and plow more later.”

Cook said crews were working in tandem – some with the county’s large maintainers (grad-ers) moving ahead of a plow.

“We have three main-tainers with a truck, one with the end loader and a truck, and the rest of the trucks are working in pairs,” he said. “Some of the drifts are taller than a pickup truck.”

Plow drivers worked a regular shift Tuesday – 4 a.m. to 5 p.m. – then hit the county roads again early Wednesday.

“Some of our guys stayed at the shop last night in Oregon and some of them went home,” he said. “It took us about 4 hours early [Wednesday] morning to get to Mount Morris to pick up some of our drivers who couldn’t make it back in.”

His department also was working with local town-ships.

“We’ve been trying to help each other out when we can.”

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POLICE & FIRE Sterling Police

Summer D. Harmon, 33, of Sterling; 2:13 a.m. Tuesday at Locust Street and First Avenue; operating an uninsured motor vehicle;

posted driver’s license.Everette E. Yates, 62, of

Rock Falls; 3:27 a.m. Tues-day at West Fourth Street and Avenue G; disobeying a traffic control light; posted bond.

Elaine F. Winebrenner, 49, of Sterling; 5:35 a.m. Tuesday at East LeFevre Road and 16th Avenue; dis-obeying a stop sign; posted driver’s license.

Melissa L. Felder, 30, of Sterling; 5:39 a.m. Tuesday in the 2000 block of 16th Avenue; Whiteside County warrant – obstructing a court order; posted $300.

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Trevis Mayfield/[email protected] Russell Bonnell, 59, kicks up a blizzard of his own as he blasts the snow off his driveway at 825 S. Hennepin Ave. in Dixon.

The forecast Today, sunny. High

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Friday, sunny. High around 19. Southwest wind 10-15 mph. Wind chill readings to 19 below in the morning. Friday night, not as cold. Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent

chance of light snow. Low around 14. South wind 10-15 mph. Wind chill readings to 1 below.

Saturday, mostly cloudy. High in the upper 20s. Saturday night, coudy. Low in the lower 20s.

Sunday, mostly cloudy. High in the upper 20s. Sunday night, mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow. Low around 18.

Source: National Weather Service

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CHESTER (AP) – The Illinois Workers’ Com-pensation Commission is taking steps to make sure the public can review all claims and settlements following a newspaper’s ongoing investigation.

The Belleville News

Democrat reports Wednesday that the workers’ comp commis-sion also will appoint an internal auditor to review award procedures and reassign some arbitrators.

The newspaper has reported about claims paid to 389 guards and other workers at the max-imum-security Menard Correctional Center in Chester.

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When, or if, the snow melts, road construc-tion season will be right around the corner.

That will include state Route 2, where work between Oregon and Byron will resume April 1.

A 4 - m i l e s t r e t c h between Stronghold, about 1 mile north of Oregon, and the bridge over the Leaf River just north of Camling Road, will be closed.

“Local traffic for home-owners will be allowed,” Chad Pink, senior proj-ect engineer with the Illinois Department of Transportation, told Byron Rotary members Jan. 27.

A stretch between Cam-ling Road and Byron will be closed in 2012.

“We will be taking out culverts and building four retaining walls,”

Pink said. “We are also realigning the road.”

The stretch between Byron and state Route 72 will be a signal-con-trolled construction zone.

R o u t e 2 b e t w e e n Stronghold and Mud Creek Road will be wid-ened, and at Stronghold it will be raised 4 or 5 feet, Pink said, to “about the 100-year flood height.”

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der will be place through the area. The edge of the Rock River will be filled and raised to road height.

Part of Route 2, at Town Line Road just south of Byron, will be straight-ened.

Plans call for 2, 590 trees to be planted to replace those removed for construction.

“We are also adding a prairie south of Byron,” Pink said.

To aid drivers, IDOT will make four passing zones – two in north-bound lanes totaling 1.7 miles and two in the southbound lanes total-ing 1.2 miles. And turn lanes will be put in.

The $25 million proj-ect will be completed in 2012. “The road will be reopened (Nov. 18) for the winter,” Pink said. The road is scheduled to close again April 2, 2012, to complete construction.

Route 2 work to begin April 14-mile stretch will be closed during part of 2-year project

Shaw News ServiceRoad construction season is right around the corner. That will include state Route 2, shown here, where work between Oregon and Byron will resume April 1. The $25 million project will be completed in 2012.

BY VINde WellS [email protected]

Shaw News Service

OREGON – Several Oregon school adminis-trators will serve at dif-ferent posts next year.

The new assignments are part of an effort to consolidate the elemen-tary complex into one unit, Oregon Elementary School, with a principal and associate principal, Superintendent Tom Mahoney said Monday.

Although the move won’t save the district money, it will improve curriculum, Mahoney said.

“What it does is create continuity in the curric-ulum between Jefferson and Etnyre,” he said.

The school board

plans to hire a new ele-mentary principal.

Etnyre Wing Principal Mike Lawton will assume the district activities director post, and Jeffer-

son Wing Principal Mary Malloch will become the associate principal at the elementary school.

Activities Director Kip Crandall will replace Jeff

Fitzpatrick as principal at D.L. Rahn Junior High.

The school board will not renew Fitzpatrick’s contract at the end of this school year.

Oregon considers schools consolidation

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DIXON – Times have been changed for today’s book-signing by Ronald Reagan’s youngest, Ron Reagan, author of “My Father at 100.”

Reagan was to have signed books from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Reagan Boyhood Home, 816 S. Hennepin Ave. Now he will arrive closer to 4 and must leave by 5:15 p.m., Connie Lange, the home’s executive director, said in an e-mail Wednesday.

Those who have bought or intend to buy a copy of the book at the home and have it signed by Reagan are asked to come around

3:15. Num-bers will be drawn to order the signings.

The gift store also w i l l b e open.

The event is a fund-

raiser for the Home, which is why only books bought through the Home will be signed, Lange has said. The book costs $29.95; many were ordered in advance but some may yet be avail-able today.

Learn more at www.ron-aldreaganhome.com, [email protected] or 815-288-5176.

Today’s book-signing at Boyhood Home moves to a new time

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CHICAGO (AP) – A new report says that if Illinois improved its childhood vaccination rate to the level of the best-perform-ing state, then 28,000 more young children would be up-to-date on six recom-mended shots.

The Commonwealth Fund released a state-by-state scorecard on chil-dren’s health Wednesday. The report compares state performance on 20 indica-tors of children’s health.

Iowa had the best perfor-mance on childhood vac-

cinations, with 84 percent of Iowa children receiving all recommended doses of six key vaccines. In Illinois, 73.4 percent of children got those vaccines.

The Commonwealth Fund is a New York-based foundation supporting health policy research.

The Illinois Department of Public Health cautions that it’s difficult to com-pare state vaccination rates that are based on rep-resentative samples. The department says it strongly promotes immunizations.

Health scorecard saysIllinois can improve

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STERLING – Registra-tion is under way for a free 6-week workshop designed to help people improve and enhance their relation-ships with young people.

The workshop, presented by Lutheran Social Servic-es of Illinois and other area organizations, will meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Feb. 15

and 22, and March 1, 8, 15, and 22 at Wesley United Methodist Church, 2200 16th Ave.

The program is based on 40 developmental “assets” as defined by the Search Institute.

Registration is required by Feb. 11; call LSSI at 815-626-7333. Childcare will be provided; participants are asked to make the request when they call.

Asset-building workshop nears

CHICAGO (AP) – Admis-sion to Chicago’s famous summer food festival will remain free.

The administration of

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley on Tuesday turned down the lone bid from a private venture to operate the Taste of Chicago.

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Authorities: 4 die during blizzard

CHICAGO (AP) – Authori-ties are investigating wheth-er the deaths of four people during this week’s blizzard were all weather-related.

A LaSalle County man, 44, died after leaving his stranded car along a rural road and apparently trying

to walk home in the blizzard. Lake County authorities say a 48-year-old man who was found Wednesday inside his running vehicle in Grayslake appeared to have died from natural causes.

Police in Chicago suburb of Lyons say a 58-year-old man died late Tuesday after collapsing while shoveling snow.

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR THE WEEK ▼ Thursday visitations:

Ira “Clark” Kelly of Dixon, 2-8 p.m., with Elks memorial service at 8 p.m., at Preston-Schilling Funeral Home, Dixon.

Oscar Countryman of Comp-ton, 4-8 p.m. at Torman Funeral Home, Paw Paw.

Joseph Heitzler, formerly of Prophetstown, 5-8 p.m. at Bosma-Gibson Funeral Home, Prophetstown.▼ Thursday visitations:Helen Blei of Dixon, 10-11

a.m. at Mihm-Jones Funeral Home, Dixon.

Linda Harms, formerly of Sterling, 4-6 p.m. at McDonald Funeral Home, Rock Falls.

Marian Thomas of Sterling, 4-7 p.m. at Schilling Funeral Home, Sterling.▼ Thursday funerals:Helen Blei of Dixon, 11 a.m.

at Mihm-Jones Funeral Home, Dixon.

Clinton Moats of Dixon, 2 p.m. at Dixon Church of the Brethren.

Linda Harms, formerly of Ster-

ling, 6 p.m. at McDonald Funeral Home, Rock Falls.

Marian Thomas of Sterling, 7 p.m. at Schilling Funeral Home, Sterling.▼ Friday visitations:Doris Haag Oelerich, for-

merly of Sterling, 10-11 a.m. at McDonald Funeral Home, Sterling.

Dennis Bell, formerly of Sterling, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at McDonald Funeral Home, Rock Falls.

Robin Toole of Sterling, 2-8

p.m., with family present from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m., at Preston-Schilling Funeral Home, Dixon.

Don Kirst of Prophetstown, 3-6 p.m. at Garland Funeral Home, Tampico.

Douglas Meyer of Morrison, 4-7 p.m. at Bosma-Renkes Funeral Home, Morrison.▼ Friday funerals:Oscar Countryman of Comp-

ton, 10 a.m. at Paw Paw Meth-odist Church.

Ira “Clark” Kelly of Dixon, 10:30 a.m. at First Christian

Church Disciples of Christ, Dixon.

Joseph Heitzler, formerly of Prophetstown, 11 a.m. at St. Mary of the Fields Catholic Church, Hooppole.

Douglas Meyer of Morrison, 11 a.m. at Fenton United Meth-odist Church.

Doris Haag Oelerich, formerly of Sterling, 11 a.m. at McDonald Funeral Home, Sterling.

Dennis Bell, formerly of Ster-ling, 2 p.m. at McDonald Funeral Home, Rock Falls.

▼ Saturday visitations:Mary Chesmore of Sterling,

noon to 1 p.m. at McDonald Funeral Home, Rock Falls.▼ Saturday funerals:Don Kirst of Prophetstown,

9:30 a.m. at Garland Funeral Home, Tampico.

Robin Toole of Sterling, 11 a.m. at Preston-Schilling Funeral Home, Dixon.

Mary Chesmore of Sterling, 1 p.m. at McDonald Funeral Home, Rock Falls.

OBITUARIES

PROPHETSTOWN – Glen Scott, 80, of Prophetstown, died Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, at Prophets Riverview Good Samaritan Society, Prophetstown.

Arrangements are being completed by Bosma-Gib-son Funeral Home, Prophetstown.

Glen Scott MOUNT CARROLL – Phyllis Miller, 82, of Mount Car-

roll, died Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, at FHN Hospital, Freeport.

Arrangements are being completed by Frank-Law-Jones Funeral Home, Mount Carroll.

Phyllis Miller

STERLING – Mary I. Chesmore, 80, of Sterling, died Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, at Sterling Pavilion.

Due to the weather, memorial service has been rescheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday at McDonald Funeral Home, Rock Falls, with the Rev. Donald Ahles of St. Mary Catholic Church, Sterling, officiating. A gather-ing of family and friends will be from noon to 1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Mary Chesmore

POLO – Daniel Doug-lass, 58, of Polo, died Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, at his home.

He was born Jan. 15, 1953, in Chicago, the son of Ruth and W. Bernard Douglass. He married Holly Hoover on July 16, 1977.

He and his five siblings worked at their father’s candy companies in Chi-cago.

Survivors include his wife; three sons, Ethan (Amber) of Los Angeles, Christian of Champaign, a n d L o g a n o f R o c k Island; four brothers, John (Emily) of Green O a k s , M i n n . , W y l i e (Ardyth) of Libertyville,

and Daniel’s twin, David ( S u s a n ) a n d R o b e r t (Teresa), both of Park Ridge; and one sister, Susan (Martin) of Park Ridge.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and father-in-law, Rob-ert Hoover.

Cremation rights have been accorded.

A memorial has been established to St. Jude C h i l d r e n ’ s R e s e a r c h Hospital, 501 St. Jude P l a c e , M e m p h i s , TN 38105. Arrangements were completed by Polo Family Funeral Home.

Visit www.polofami-lyfuneralhome.com to send condolences.

Daniel Douglass

STERLING – Marian Genevieve Thomas died Satur-day, Jan. 29, 2011.

Due to the weather, visitation has been rescheduled to 4 to 7 p.m., followed by the funeral at 7 p.m., today at Schilling Funeral Home, Sterling, with the Rev. Paul Judd of First United Methodist Church, Sterling, offici-ating. Private burial will be at a later date.

A memorial has been established.

Marian Thomas

DIXON – Jack Burnell Sr., 74, of Dixon, died Wednes-day, Feb, 2, 2011, at his home.

Arrangements are being completed by Preston-Schil-ling Funeral Home, Dixon.

Jack Burnell Sr.

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Around 9:30 a.m., most of the vehicles on East Lincolnway were plows. Few others dared venture out.

Walmart store greeter Robin Snider said he had been at the store since 2 p.m. Tuesday because he lives in Dixon.

Just east of the store on state Route 2, a Sterling police officer was post-ed to prevent any traffic from going toward Dixon. Drifts had made the road impassable.

Snider said he had been up most of the night.

“I dozed for a little bit in the breakroom,” he said, adding that he also had some caffeine to stay awake.

While the 24-hour Wal-mart was open, the Smart-Style hairstyling shop, which is in the store, was closed “due to weather,” according to a sign.

McDonald’s on East Lincolnway was one of the few restaurants open, but it was only serving customers at the drive-through.

Walgreens also perse-vered, but no customers were at the store around 10 a.m.

“Some people are com-ing in to get a few staples,” clerk Grace Sodawasser said.

She said about five or six employees showed up – all of whom live close by. The pharmacy opened

late because the weather prevented the pharmacist from getting in on time, she said.

The Shell service sta-tion on East Lincolnway also was keeping its doors open. But no newspapers were available until 9:30 a.m. and even then, only the Daily Gazette.

Manager Sheila Bittner said it was busy when the station opened at 5 a.m.

“A lot of snow plow driv-

ers came first thing in the morning. Now it’s kind of slow,” she said. “If people need gas, they can get it.”

On Locust Street, the Pete Harkness Auto Group dealerships were open.

On Tuesday, Harkness’ Kathleen Maxfield said the snowstorm wouldn’t affect the dealerships’ operations. And true to her word, she and others showed up to work. That was the case with other

area dealerships, as well. Maxfield thanked Hark-

ness, for having a plow come through her Sterling subdivision to help her get to work.

“He helps everyone out,” she said.

The dealership had seen a handful of customers as of noon, she said.

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STERLING – The hospitals in Sterling and Dixon had enough staff on hand Wednes-day, despite a blizzard that kept many people snowed in, officials said.

“We’re holding our own,” said Kristie Geil, vice president of nursing at CGH Medical Center in Sterling.

The hospital had asked Tuesday if employees could volunteer their four-wheel-drive cars to help take their co-work-ers to work, Geil said.

Nine people volun-teered their cars, but only three were needed, she said.

CGH started taking people in their four-wheel drives before 11

p.m. Tuesday, when a shift change happened.

Geil said the hospital made arrangements for some people to stay overnight to ensure proper staffing.

“We had an area of the hospital that we closed off where staff were sleeping, and we got some rooms at Coun-try Inn and Suites,” she said.

KSB Hospital in Dixon closed all of its outly-ing clinics, but the main hospital was running “pretty much” as normal, spokesman Tom Dem-mer said. Many employ-ees were working longer shifts than usual.

“If people weren’t able to make it in on time, others stayed longer so there would be continuity of care,” Demmer said.

The DaVita kidney dialysis clinic in Dixon was closed Wednesday, while Sterling’s stayed open.

Mary Anderson, DaVi-ta’s regional operations director, said the clin-ics rearranged patients’ dialysis schedules so they could avoid going in Wednesday. In Dixon, all of the patients were able to reschedule for either Tuesday or today, so the clinic could shut its doors Wednesday.

“We extended our hours on Monday and Tuesday to accom-modate patients who thought they couldn’t make it in because of the weather,” she said.

DaVita put some employees in hotels to ensure proper staffing, Anderson said.

Halls of local hospitals weren’t deserted Wednesday BY DAVID GIULIANI [email protected]

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STERLING – When bliz-zards hit, they’re usually worse in the Chicago area.

During this week’s storm, 20.2 inches of snow dropped on Chicago, making it the third worst on record, according to the National Weather Service.

Rockford, by compari-son, got 14.3 inches.

The weather service doesn’t get snowfall totals in Whiteside or Lee counties, probably because the agency doesn’t have any weath-er spotters in these areas. They are the vol-unteers who report pre-cipitation amounts.

Rockford – some 50 miles northeast of Ster-ling – is a good indicator of what this area got in snowfall, said Jim Allsopp, a meteorologist with the weather service.

“The storm was heavier in the Chicago metro area. We get some addi-tional moisture out of Lake Michigan,” Allsopp said.

Rockford’s worst storm on record was in Janu-ary 1918, when 16.3 inches fell. Chicago’s was in January 1967, with 23 inches. Chi-cago’s top five storms on records were worse than Rockford’s 1918 blizzard.

The 1967 storm didn’t even register among Rockford’s top 10 bliz-zards, according to the weather service.

Allsopp said his agency is seeing much variability in snowfall levels around northern Illinois in the lat-est storm. That’s likely because of the drifting, which causes uneven levels of snow, he said.

“Even experienced observers have a hard time measuring in this situation,” he said.

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CHICAGO (AP) – A win-ter blizzard of historic proportions wobbled an otherwise snow-tough Chicago, stranding hun-dreds of drivers for up to 12 hours overnight on the city’s showcase lakeshore thoroughfare, halting air traffic and giving many schoolchildren their first snow day Wednesday.

Across Illinois, matters were not much better, as state officials restricted access to several inter-states to enable crews to help stranded motorists and clear snow-covered roads. About 90,000 utility customers were without power, and authorities are investigating whether the storm contributed to at least four deaths.

C h i c a g o r e s i d e n t s awoke to official word

that the storm forecasted to be among the worst in decades had lived up to expectations: As of mid-day, it registered as the third most severe in city history with 20.2 inches having fallen at O’Hare International Airport.

Snow drifts in the area reached 7 feet. And along the Chicago lakefront, gusts of wind were mea-sured at 70 mph.

Multiple lanes of cars and buses became stuck on the northbound lanes of the city’s iconic Lake Shore Drive because of multiple accidents Tues-day evening. Hundreds of abandoned vehicles remained buried by snow drifts Wednesday – including a bus with its door open, its two-way radio still on and snow blowing inside, building up on the driver’s seat.

Several drivers were returning to their cars Wednesday morning after being evacuated to a nearby hospital to get

warm a few hours earlier.“It was stay in the car or

freeze,” said Jacq Collins, an artist from San Fran-

cisco who was stuck in his car from 6 p.m. Tuesday to 2 a.m. Wednesday.

Some commuters were

frustrated after waiting for hours in snowbound cars and buses for informa-tion, but Collins said res-

cue workers were on the scene quickly and assured motorists they would eventually get to everyone.

“How can you be angry about a weather phenome-non?” Collins said. “There’s nothing they could have done to prevent this. They did a great job getting peo-ple to safe places.”

Officials struggled to rescue motorists over-night and guided some to stranded city buses to keep warm. City work-ers used open south-bound lanes to access the stranded people and offer medical assistance.

Some commuters said the mood slipped from jovial to apprehensive and even to panic.

“The bus driver kept yelling, ‘We are all gonna die,’” said Ron Nelson, 51, a salesman who was stuck on a bus before being taken to a nearby hospital. He said it wasn’t clear if the driver was jok-ing, but “nobody thought it was funny.”

Chicago, Illinois laid low by massive snowstorm Around 90,000 customers left without power

AP Eileen Black takes pictures Wednesday inside of a Chicago Transit bus that was stranded overnight on Lake Shore Drive. A winter blizzard of historic proportions wobbled an otherwise snow-tough Chicago, stranding hundreds of drivers for up to 12 hours overnight.

CHICAGO (AP) – Lindsey Wilson was on Lake Shore Drive, but she couldn’t tell where. It was dark, and the snow swirling around the stranded bus made it impossible to see anything but the closest cars.

There was talk among her fellow commuters of 25-foot waves washing up from Lake Michigan and about when the bus might get going, but nobody knew anything – not the driver, not the 311 opera-tors passengers were call-ing, and not the shiver-ing motorists climbing aboard to keep warm after firefighters pulled them from their cars.

When a group of pas-sengers decided enough was enough and started to walk, she joined them.

“I got 100 feet, every-thing was an orange hue, there was snow in my face, I couldn’t see any-thing, I turned around and couldn’t see the bus and I thought I was going to die,” she said Wednes-day morning.

Wilson was among hun-dreds of people in at least 1,500 vehicles – by an Associated Press count – who found themselves trapped on Chicago’s most famous stretch of road for as long as 12

hours Tuesday night and Wednesday morning dur-ing one of the worst snow storms in the city’s his-tory.

City officials later said that the number of cars topped 900.

In the morning light, the

roadway looked like rush hour had been stopped in time.

Three lanes of cars clut-tered the road with snow reaching as high as the windshields. Some cars were almost completely buried.

Blizzard leaves cars stranded 12 hours on Lake Shore Drive

AP Hundreds of cars are frozen still on Lake Shore Drive. The winter blizzard gave many Chicago schoolchil-dren their first snow day.

CHICAGO (AP) – A fearsome storm spread a smothering shroud of white over nearly half the nation Wednesday, snarling transportation from Oklahoma to New England, burying parts of the Midwest under 2 feet of snow and laying down dangerously heavy ice in the Northeast that was too much for some buildings to bear.

Tens of millions of peo-ple stayed home. The hardy few who ventured out faced howling winds that turned snowflakes into face-stinging needles. Chicago’s 20.2 inches of snow was the city’s third-largest amount on record. In New York’s Central Park, the pathways resem-bled skating rinks.

The storm that result-

ed from two clashing air masses was, if not unprecedented, extraor-dinarily rare for its size and ferocious strength.

“A storm that produces a swath of 20-inch snow is really something we’d see once every 50 years – maybe,” National Weath-er Service meteorologist Thomas Spriggs said.

Across the storm’s path, lonely commuters struggled against drifts 3 and 4 feet deep in eerily silent streets, some of which had not seen a plow’s blade since the snow started a day ear-lier. Parkas and ski gog-gles normally reserved for the slopes became essential for getting to work.

“This is probably the most snow I’ve seen in

the last 34 years,” joked 34-year-old Chicagoan Michael George. “I saw some people cross-country skiing on my way to the train. It was pretty wild.”

Although skies were beginning to clear by mid-afternoon over much of the nation’s midsection, the storm promised to leave a blast of bitter cold in its wake. Overnight temperatures in the upper Midwest were expected to fall to minus 5 to minus 20, with wind chills as low as minus 30.

The system was blamed for at least 10 deaths, including a homeless man who burned to death on New York’s Long Island as he tried to light cans of cooking fuel.

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Norm WymbsDelray Beach, Fla.

This newspaper’s edito-rial page editor asked that I pen a few words about President Ronald Reagan. That took me back a few years when I wore one of many different career hats.

It was in early 1975, while functioning as a political columnist for a local paper, that I first met Ronald Reagan. Ron was traveling the country as a spokesman for General Electric Corp. Because of his past as a popular motion picture star and a successful two-term gov-ernor of California, folks took to his plain language of American patriotism. When President Richard Nixon was forced from office, there was much talk of Reagan heading a third-party campaign.

Boca Raton, Fla., in 1975, was what most would clas-sify a “one-horse” town, except for its unusually large and luxurious Boca Hotel and Club. GE sched-uled Reagan to speak at a business meeting being held there, but for some unexplained snafu, had neglected to arrange his transportation out.

My editor, learning of the stranded Reagan, offered to get him a chartered air-craft to fly the several hun-dred miles to Jacksonville, his next stop, in return for an exclusive interview.

Harriet and I joined Ronald Reagan on a small dusty airstrip the next morning. As many of you know, when you asked for Norm, you also got my constant companion and wife, Harriet. My main objective that day was to feel out Ronald’s interest in going for the presiden-cy. In that first interview, we encountered one of the appealing aspects of Ronald Reagan’s public persona.

During the entire visit, lasting almost an hour in the hot Florida sun and steadily blowing sand and dust, enduring ques-tions he must have heard at every stop on his tour, he never lost his pleas-ant composure. In many boring and redundant meetings over the years, we were to observe Ron never showed impatience or irritation with his audi-ences.

While I talked politics, Harriet raised more per-sonal questions concern-ing his constant travel and absence from fam-ily. To her questions, he shrugged and replied the trying times our country

was enduring required that concerned citizens needed to take the time to transmit the counsel of hope he tried to express.

To my questions, he smilingly responded, “I have no intention of run-ning for president, and I’m certainly not going to leave the Repub-lican Party!” He didn’t go so far as to invoke the famous deni-al of General Sherman after the Civil War, but it appeared implicit in his statement.

As he boarded the small plane waiting for him, he turned with a smile and waved. “That’s a thankless job; I don’t know why anyone would want it!”

As the small craft sped down the airstrip, I turned to Harriet.

“Well what do you think?”

In her quiet, incisive way, she said with a grin: “He’s running!”

Harriet and I quickly entered the fray in sup-port of Ronald Reagan. For the next 12 years, I served as Palm Beach County’s elected representative on the Republican State Committee and Harriet as an elected precinct cap-

tain on the county com-mittee. We made no bones about our affiliation as we became members of Citizens for Reagan (the oft-referred-to “California Mafia”), and I also served as a regional finance chairman and member of his Presidential Transition

Foundation. Our relation-

ship changed when the presi-dent asked us to step in and help the struggling local committee trying to restore Ronald’s boy-hood home in Dixon. As he didn’t want a political taint to the historic ren-ovation, he now suggested that we just become

personal friends who were helping his home-town supporters. Our contacts with the White House would henceforth be as personal friends of Ronald and Neil Reagan.

Space limitations for this article prevent relat-ing the many personal memories of those years with Ron. Suffice it to say that, during the many meetings, we found the personable president to be a rather shy and retir-ing individual in private. When on one of his many governmental initiatives,

his true crusading and forceful personality took over in spades!

After his retirement, he often, rather wist-fully, wondered why he just couldn’t be plain old Ronald Reagan without all the Secret Service and constant police protec-tion his status required.

Ronald and Harriet often got into deep dis-cussions concerning our mutual Christian faith. She was a true scholar of the Bible, and he was get-ting almost weekly les-sons from the Rev. Billy Graham. Ronald was very comfortable in what he knew was to be his ulti-mate salvation as a Chris-tian. That faith showed forth quite clearly in his simple but eloquent letter to the American public when he announced his coming final battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

During one of our pri-vate discussions with Ron, I asked what he thought of the media’s obsession with declaring for each major public fig-ure a “legacy,” which was to then become their sig-nature mark in history.

He expressed dismay that we were becoming so shallow in viewing his-tory that a single event or decision should become the major, if not the only, memory of many years of public service.

“I would hope people remember me as a dedi-cated citizen striving always to do what was best for my country and people, even though not always as successfully as I planned!”

Amen, Ron!

Note to readers – Philan-thropists Norm Wymbs and his late wife, Har-riet, were instrumental in helping to preserve the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home in Dixon, and also in creating the Dixon His-toric Center in a building once Reagan’s elementary school.

From a dusty Florida runway to vital historic preservation

Norm and Harriet Wymbs became Reagan’s friends,and then helped lead local efforts to preserve his legacy

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the person-able presi-dent to be

a rather shy and retiring individual in private. Norm Wymbs

Questionscounty’s ‘bet’ on truck stop

CHArLie CoNNerDixon

Regarding the pro-posed truck stop at U.S. Route 30/Interstate 39 interchange, if this is truly a promising busi-ness opportunity, the investors will do it with-out county help, and the county will collect the sales tax without the outlay of taxpayer money.

A very wise busi-nessman always told me, “Never bet on the come,” which is exactly what this county board is doing. This economy could sour again very easily, and it is my opin-ion that this $1.3 million would serve us better in the bank than in the cornfield.

County deficit seems to have disappeared

rAy DimmiGDixon

Thank you for every-one’s input on the pro-posed truck stop. I now believe I understand the financial details.

If I understand this cor-rectly, Lee County does not have any deficit at all; this is in fact not the fourth year in a row with a deficit, and we have plenty of cash. This is very good news.

I need to find out what the board is investing in so I can enhance my own portfolio. It is not often you can be more than $1 million in the hole and, 2 months later, have plen-ty of cash.

A n o t h e r b u s i n e s s that certainly will ben-efit from the truck stop would be Heartbreak-ers. This should be my final input on this topic (maybe).

Employeesgo all out for United Way

Tom KiTsoN Dixon

and DeNise DyKemAMorrison

Employees of Anchor Coupling Inc. in Dixon stood up to the code of commitment for their community and showed how responsible they can be. Last year was a very hard year for our community, as was the case around the whole country.

Toward the end of the year, we were seeing the light of improvement within our business, and we needed to shine the positive on our commu-nity. Anchor employees stepped up to the plate and hit a grand slam, winning not only the Goal Buster Award for Lee County United Way but also the Employee Excellence Award with an increase of 62 percent in donations.

We had some fun along the way with a tailgate-party theme and employ-ees buying hot dogs and chili dogs in their favor-ite team jerseys, along

with a bake sale and a 50/50 raffle that raised an additional $544 for United Way.

They didn’t stop there. Families were in need for their children for Christ-mas, and we helped out 20 area kids that might not have gotten anything and made their Christ-mas a little merrier. As one employee put it, “It’s time to give back.”

We have a great group here in Dixon and hope to “pay it forward” even more for the community in 2011.

Note to readers – Denise Dykema is the human resource manager, and Tom Kitson is section manager and a United Way board member.

Neighbors will not stop trying to poach jobs

eArL CooKChadwick

This is in reply to your article about other states and how they should quit using Illinois’ new tax increase to get jobs in their states.

Ha. What makes you think they even want to? Stop and think about it. More jobs in those states, more taxes to put in their coffers.

I had a reply written about your previous arti-cle regarding the increase and totally agreed with it – first time I can recall a good article from you.

I had something writ-ten to put in there, but now it doesn’t matter. The only thing I will comment on is what Hot Rod said when they rail-roaded him out of office on something I person-ally feel was being done to get him out.

Remember what that was? I hope so, because if you don’t, then when it comes time to vote again, you may give Quinn another mandate for what will be ailing us then – such as jobs lost, businesses lost, and right where we’re at now with no money in the state’s coffers.

P.S. – Sorry to say, I voted for him, and a mandate isn’t three counties out of 102.

Film deals with Middle East’s woes

TeresA bLANCHArDDixon

There is a documen-tary movie by Theodore Pike at prisonplanet.tv titled “Why the Mid-East Bleeds.” The documen-tary is quite long and is not for children.

Allyn and Ted Pike nar-rate the movie and tell how the Israeli govern-ment bulldozed Palestin-ian houses and displaced the people.

Pike also explains the ancient history of Zion-ism. “He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the strang-er, and giveth him food and raiment.” (Deuter-onomy 10:18)

Einstein said some-thing to the effect of, Do not participate with that with which you do not agree.

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BY DAWN C. CHMIELEWSKI AND MEG JAMES MCT News Service

LOS ANGELES – To paraphrase Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert, “Hollywood, we have a problem.”

The industry that was supposed to be immune to economic downturns looks like it’s going to have some re-entry prob-lems as the economy begins to recover.

Broad swaths of the entertainment business declined in 2010. DVD sales were off 13 percent. Music CD purchases plummeted 19 percent. Video game sales as well as concert and theater attendance also fell. Even the turnout for America’s favorite pastimes – base-ball and NASCAR – was down. And swift changes in technology will make it difficult for Hollywood to capture pre-recession levels of revenue.

So much for the value of escapism.

But perhaps most omi-nously, last summer the pay-television industry

suffered an unprec-edented net loss – for the first time – of customers, a yellow warning light that consumers may no longer regard cable TV as a must-have utility on par with electricity and phone service.

Cable and satellite subscriptions, DVD sales and video rent-als long have been the profit pillars that sup-ported Hollywood. Although media execu-tives continue to boast “content is king,” recently released year-end data suggest enter-tainment companies are vulnerable to the same disruptive forces that imperiled the music and newspaper industries.

“The studios and the content companies have become increasingly aware of the problem, but they seem collec-tively paralyzed about what to do about it,” said Craig Moffett, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.

2010 now looks to be a watershed year in the

confluence of two pow-erful trends.

The first of those forces, technology, is enabling people to get entertainment in cheap-er and easier ways.

And the second, the anemic economy, is widening the gulf between the haves and the have-nots, making it tougher for some con-sumers to justify paying for cable or tossing a new DVD into the shop-ping cart.

“Right now it is a tale of two cities,” Moffett said. “On the high end, people can’t go up-market fast enough,” he said, referring to affluent consumers who are buying the latest in mobile phones, portable tablets, or Internet-con-nected TV sets. “Then you have this other half of the country that is being largely ignored in this discussion.”

The “other half” encompasses the lower 40 percent of American earners, who, after pay-ing for food, housing

and transportation, are left with just $100 a month to pay for health care, clothing, phone service – and entertain-ment, Moffett said.

One of them, Rebekah Atkinson, a graduate of Biola University in La Mirada, Calif., found herself making neces-sary sacrifices after los-ing her job two years ago. She disconnected her mobile phone and sliced her food budget to make ends meet. The 30-year-old La Jolla, Calif., resident ultimate-ly found a job that paid 60 percent of her previ-ous paycheck. A year later, her husband lost his job, precipitating another round of house-hold cuts.

“The cable bills were starting to come up higher and higher. Before we knew it, we were paying $200 a month on the cable package,” Atkinson said. “That’s a car payment for some people. It had to go.”

The most profound

shift among consumers has been toward renting movies and away from buying them, which has enormous financial consequences for Hol-lywood.

Thanks to the prolifer-ation of Redbox kiosks, which offer $1-a-night movie rentals, cost-con-scious consumers have an inexpensive alterna-tive to buying the DVD for $19.99 – represent-ing a significant blow in revenue to the studios. Blu-ray high-definition discs were expected to pick up the slack, but consumers have been slow to embrace the more expensive format.

High-speed broadband access, now available to two-thirds of all homes, is also helping to cap the onetime home video gusher.

Services such as Netflix Inc. are able to pump a carousel of movies instantly into the home via the Internet for only $8 a month. The popu-larity of the company’s streaming service has

skyrocketed: 66 percent of Netflix’s 17 mil-lion subscribers use it, eliminating the need to receive DVDs in the mail through Netflix’ trademark red enve-lopes or to run out to the corner video store.

Studio revenue from home video rentals amounted to less than $1.7 billion in each of the last two years, com-pared with $2.97 billion in 2001 – more than a billion-dollar drop in less than a decade, according to market researcher Screen Digest.

“Studios get a double negative whammy from rental’s strength,” said Tom Adams, principal media analyst for Screen Digest. “Transactions are growing, but con-sumer spending is not, because they’re getting ‘em cheaper.”

Meanwhile, theater attendance last year was off nearly 5 percent compared with 2009, as exhibitors charged more for movies in 3-D.

TV, film stalwarts besieged by technology Redbox, Netflix, other services change how industry tries to bounce back from the recession

MCT News Service file photos LEFT: Enrique Cruz and his wife Darlene Cruz return some DVDs at the Red Box movie rental vending machines outside Tony’s Finer Foods in October 2009 on 4600 W. Belmont in Chicago. RIGHT: Steve Swasey, vice president of corporate communications for Netflix, is interviewed at the company’s Orlando distribution center in August 2009.

IN BRIEF Richmond Hill season starts soon

GENESEO – Richmond Hill Players will open a new season with its presentation of the Lee Blessing drama “Independence.”

The show will be pre-sented Thursdays through Sundays, Feb. 10 through Feb. 20 at the Barn Theater in Geneseo. Emmalee Mof-fitt of East Moline will direct the show.

The small town of Inde-pendence, Iowa, is the life-long home of Evelyn Briggs. Her oldest daughter, Kess, a university professor in Minneapolis, has come home at the request of her sister Jo, who is concerned for their mother’s emotional health. Youngest sister Sherry, salty-tongued and amoral, wants only to fin-

ish high school so she can leave home for good. The show is a powerful study of a family divided against itself. It blends humor and telling insights as the characters probe for the personal truths they des-perately need to reveal and accept.

The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the curtain opens at 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Sundays are 4 p.m. mati-nees; doors open at 3 p.m. Reservations are recom-mended and can be made by calling the Richmond Hill box office at 309-944-2244 or by visiting the website at www.rhplayers.com.

Valentine’s dinner coming to Dixon

DIXON – Sweethearts

can enjoy an early Valen-tine’s Day dinner and have a chance at winning an overnight stay Feb. 12 at the Brandywine, 441 state Route 2.

Christ Lutheran School will sponsor the dinner. Social hour will be from 5 to 6 p.m., with an Italian buffet served from 6 to 7 p.m.

A dessert auction will be held, closing at 7 p.m., and the Rock River Jazz Band will perform from 7 to 8 p.m.

Valet parking will be avail-able.

Tickets are $30 each, or $50 per couple and are available through Friday at Christ Lutheran School, 2000 18th Ave., Sterling, or The Frame Shoppe, in Grummert’s Hardware, 424 Locust St., Sterling.

For more information, call

the school at 815-625-3800.

McMillen & Co. to ‘Raise the Roof’

LEAF RIVER – McMillen & Co., a Leaf River band led by Phil McMillen, will play dance music from the ‘50s through the ‘80s from 1 to 4 p.m. Feb. 12 during a special edition of Leaf River’s fundraising series at River Valley Complex, 605 S. Main St.

The series is called ‘Raise the Roof’ because they were set up to raise money for roof work need-ed in the gymnasium.

A donation is requested; light refreshments will be available.

Next month, the sched-ule will return to the third Friday evening, March

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Dear Annie: I am a 30-something

woman and was in a relationship with another woman for 2 years. “Angie” was physically, emotionally and mentally abusive toward me.

She decided many times to break off our relation-ship, but would then realize she missed me. She would e-mail, text, call, send letters, etc., until I gave in and we would date again. Then the abuse would start back up, and she would leave me again so I would be “safe.”

This off-and-on-again business took almost as big a toll on my self-esteem and self-worth as the physical abuse.

We currently have not spoken in 4 months, but in the past 3 days, Angie has twice managed to be where I am. When I see her in unplanned ways like this, I have anxiety attacks.

She knows it upsets me because she apologizes, even though she obvi-ously is making it a point to be in my presence.

I talked to my lawyer, and he is going to send her a threatening letter saying to refrain from all contact or a restraining order will be filed.

Annie, I know this is the right thing to do, but since I made the deci-sion, I feel guilty. I don’t want to hurt Angie. She

has feelings the same as anyone else. We had some good times, and she is someone I once loved deeply.

I know I need to protect myself and my sanity, and yes, I am getting into counseling again. But I also feel sadness over los-ing the relationship. How can I stop feeling guilty for hurting her?

– Confused

Dear Confused: Many abuse victims feel

responsible for both the happiness of the abuser and the success of the relationship, and when you take the necessary steps to extricate your-self, guilt is a common consequence.

By deliberately put-ting herself in your path, Angie is attempting to manipulate those feel-ings and possibly win you back. We are glad you are getting back into coun-seling. It will help you realize that Angie’s feel-ings are no longer your concern.

Guilt common in an abusive relationship

Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar’s syndicated column appears during the week through Creators Syn-dicate.

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What’s going on

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Community events

Friday, Feb. 4

Whiteside County Genealo-gists meeting, 9 a.m., Sauk Val-ley Area Chamber of Commerce meeting room, 211 Locust St., Sterling, 815-626-2700.

B-County Special Education Cooperative, 9-11 a.m., Holiday Inn, 2105 First Ave., Rock Falls, 815-622-0858.

Mercy Nursing Services free blood pressure clinic, 9:30 to 11 a.m., Oliver’s Food Pride, Dixon.

Bible study, 10 a.m., Oregon Healthcare Center.

Narcotics Anonymous, 10 a.m., open, 403 13th Ave., Sterling, 815-718-9150.

KSB Hospice Bereavement Support Group, 10 a.m., KSB Hospice, Commerce Towers, Suite 111, Dixon, 815-284-5710.

Reality Check NA group, noon

and 6 p.m., 10 E. Fourth St., Ster-ling, open.

Sauk Valley Group of Alcohol-ics Anonymous, noon, closed, 102 1/2 W. Second St., Rock Falls.

Twin City Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, noon and 7 p.m., Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

AA Gratitude Group, noon, 6 p.m., and 10:30 p.m., 91-92 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon. Open.

Celebrate Recovery Christian Support Group and 12-Step Program, 6:30 p.m., Harvest Time Bible Church, 1802 Dixon Ave., Rock Falls, 815-626-1234.

Scrapbook Club, 7-10 p.m., Erie United Methodist Church basement, 811 Eighth St., Erie. 309-659-7452.

Reformers Unanimous addic-tion abstinence program, 7-9 p.m., First Baptist Church, 24 N.

Mason Ave., Amboy, 815-857-2682.

Saturday, Feb. 5

Saturday Morning Courage to Change Al-Anon Group meet-ing, 8 a.m., Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Sterling, 815-625-2669.

AA Gratitude Group, 9 a.m., open, women’s, and noon, open, 91-92 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon.

Bariatric Support Group, 9:30 a.m., Rochelle Community Hospital cafeteria, 900 N. Second St., 815-562-6986.

Illowa Sport Flyers, 10 a.m., Erie Airpark, 8689 Star Road, Erie, 309-659-2721.

Mercy Nursing Services free blood pressure clinic, 11 a.m. to noon, Walmart, 1901 First Ave., Rock Falls.

Reality Check NA Group, noon,

10 E. Fourth St., Sterling, open.Twin City Group of Alcoholics

Anonymous, 12:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., Bazaar Americana, 609 W. Third St., Sterling.

Mercy Nursing Services free blood pressure clinic, 1 to 2:30 p.m., Save-A-Lot, Rock Falls.

Spiritual Principles NA Group, 7 p.m., Grace Episcopal Church, 707 First Ave., rear entrance in alley, Sterling, 815-632-0740.

Sauk Valley Group of Alcohol-ics Anonymous, 7 p.m., open, 102 1/2 W. Second St., Rock Falls.

Chapter 410 of the Experi-mental Aircraft Association, 7:30 p.m., at Whiteside County Airport terminal building, Rock Falls, 815-626-1249.

Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., closed, Village of Progress, 710 S. 13th St., Oregon.

Out&aboutThrough Feb. 28Bald Eagle Trolley ToursStarved Rock, Route 178 and

Route 71, Utica. Be mesmerized by the beautiful bald eagles. Ride the trolley to the Illinois Waterway Visitor Center for eagle viewing and an educa-tional program. Includes lunch during the week and brunch on Sunday in the main dining room. Dress warmly, bring binoculars, spotting scopes, and cameras. For more information, phone 800-86-7625 or visit www.starvedrocklodge.com on the Web.

Through Feb. 26Galena Bald Eagle bus toursGuided 4-hour tours of bald

eagle wintering communities. Learn and view the bald eagle’s habits, life history, preserva-tion efforts and threats to its future. Reservations required. Bus departs from Stoney Creek Inn, 940 Galena Square Drive, Galena. Phone: 815-594-2306 or visit www.eaglenature.com/bustours on the Web.

Through April 23Rockford Art MuseumPause and Affect: Gregory

Scott and Joan Truckenbrod. Cutting-edge video by painter/photographer Scott and digital art pioneer Truckenbrod. These Chicago artists create interac-tive stories that question visual reality. Rockford Art Museum, 711 N. Main St.; hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission: adults, $7; students/seniors, $3; children younger than 12 and museum members, free; Donation Day every Tuesday. Call 815-968-2787 or visit rockfordartmuseum.org.

Feb. 4-May 8Crystal Cork Art Quarterly,

No. 11“WW2, A Visual Journey,” oil

paintings by Dixon artist Todd Lorenc. Free opening reception, 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 12 at The Crys-tal Cork Wine Shoppe, 219 W. First St., Dixon. For information, call 815-285-3496 or visit www.thecrystalcork.com.

Feb. 4Reagan Tea and Luncheon

11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at Dixon Historic Theater, 205 W. Fifth St. Soup, sandwiches and music. Tickets are $10; reserva-tions required, call 815-288-3886.

Feb. 4-6Reagan Birthday Celebra-

tion100th birthday dinner for Rea-

gan, 6 p.m. Feb. 4 at Tampico Middle School, hosted by R&B Dutch Diner. Rock River Jazz will play from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. Tickets are $35 per person. Reservations are required. For more information or tickets, call or visit R&B Dutch Diner, 105 S. Main St., 815-438-2096. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 6 at the Historical Museum, 119 Main St., Tampico. This year is the Centennial Celebration with tours of his birthplace con-ducted. Contact Joan Johnson at 815-622-8705 or visit [email protected] on the Web.

Feb. 11-20103rd Chicago Auto ShowFeb. 11-19 from 10 a.m. to 10

p.m.; Feb. 20 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the McCormick Place, 2301 S. Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago. First staged in 1901, the largest auto show in North America utilizes 1.3 million square feet. Admission: $11 for adults; $7 for seniors.

Feb. 12-13Ballet Quad Cities“Love Stories – A Performance

of Mixed Repertoire,” at Holz-worth Performing Arts Center, North High School, 626 W. 53rd St., Davenport, Iowa. Shows are 8 p.m. Feb. 12, and 4 p.m. Feb. 13. Tickets: Adults – $22; seniors – $15; students and children – $10. Tickets at www.midwestix.com, or call 515-244-2771, or at the door one hour prior to the performance, check or cash only.

Feb. 12-1351st annual Ice Fishing

Derby and Winter FestivalThirsty Turtle on Channel

Lake, Antioch, with a satellite at Sand Bar on Lake Marie, Antioch. Hosted by the Northern Illinois Conservation Club with more than $5,000 in cash and prizes to be awarded. Back by popular demand is the Ice Shanty Contest. Visit www.

antiochchamber.org or call 847-395-6422 for more information.

Feb. 14-15“A Walk Down Memory

Lane” with Frank Sinatraat Starved Rock Lodge, routes

178 and 71, Utica. For more information, phone 800-868-7625. Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the smooth ballads and swinging hits of the incompa-rable Frank Sinatra, performed by the “Dakota.”

Feb. 18-2031st annual Rockford Home

ShowFriday 4 to 8 p.m.; Saturday

10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Indoor Sports Center, 8800 E. Riv-erside Blvd., Loves Park. The Home Show is the ideal place to shop for new products, services, ideas, concepts and expertise on interior and exterior design. Phone 815-877-8043 or visit www.showtimeproduction.net on the Web.

Feb. 19

Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration Concert

2 and 4 p.m. at Historic Dixon Theatre, 114 S. Galena Ave. In celebration of former President Ronald Reagan’s centennial birthday. Perfor-mances by Dixon Municipal Band, Dixon High School Choir, Eureka Chamber Choir, Rock-ford Lutheran Civic Choral and Clinton River Choir. The con-cert also will feature the world premiere of “Reagan of Illinois,” composed by David Holsinger. For the 8 p.m. performance, a special VIP reception will pre-cede the show at Fifth Third Bank, next door to the Theatre, only for those purchasing spon-sorship box seats. Admission $20-$75 for online purchases, plus any additional facility fees. $25-$80 for box office purchases, plus any addi-tional facility fees.

All tickets are $5 more at the box office.

Sponsorship box seats are $660-$1,000.

Harris Winter WonderlandDavis Park, 320 S. Wyman St.,

Rockford. Outdoor ice skating at 12,000-square-foot synthetic ice rink and skating trail. Hours: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday; 6

to 10 p.m. Friday; 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday; 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $3; skate rental is $2. 815-987-8800.

Feb. 24“Moby Dick Rehearsed”A modern play at NIU writ-

ten by controversial filmmaker Orson Welles.

A troupe of actors begins an impromptu rehearsal of a play, written by one of its members, based on the American novel, “Moby Dick.”

What begins as a staged read-ing on an empty stage becomes a full theatrical production of American literature’s most famous whale and its obsessed hunter. Call NIU School of Theatre and Dance at 815-753-1337 or go to niu.edu/theatre.

Feb. 26Vintage Clothing & Jewelry

Shop10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at The

Hemmens Cultural Center, 45 Symphony Way, Elgin. Tickets: $6. Two full floors filled with 75 booths of the finest vintage fashion exhibitors anywhere. Phone 847-931-5900 or visit www.hemmens.org on the Web.

March 2“The Wizard of Oz”at the Coronado Performing

Arts Center, 314 N. Main St., Rockford. Musical celebration of the iconic 1939 MGM film, in which Dorothy, Toto and their friends travel down the Yellow Brick Road to the magical Land of Oz. For more information, phone 815-965-2722 or visit www.coronadopac.org on the Web.

March 4-640th annual Rockford Boat

ShowFriday 4 to 8 p.m.; Saturday

10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Indoor Sports Center, 8800 E. River-side Blvd., Loves Park.

Featuring 2011 boats, motors and trailers, travel resorts and vacation information. Latest in marine equipment with fac-tory representatives on hand to answer questions.

Huge discounts on boats and motors; it’s a buyers market. Phone 815-877-8043 or visit www.showtimeproduction.net on the Web.

Thursday, Feb. 3

Bingo and name that tune, 8:45 a.m. to 10 a.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle.

Book sale, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., LOCCA/Dixon Senior Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Exercise class, 9:15 and 10:30 a.m., Lee County Council On Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Bingo, 1 p.m., Sterling Women of the Moose, 2601 E. Lincolnway, Sterling.

Euchre, 1 p.m., Sterling Moose Club, 2601 E. Lincolnway, Sterling, 815-622-8220.

Tacos, 4-7 p.m. raffles, 7 p.m., Latin American Social Club, Ster-ling, 815- 625-8290.

Tacos, Tostadas and Enchila-das, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Good Times Grill, Tampico, 815-438-2110.

Bingo, 5:30 p.m., Mount Morris Moose Lodge, 101 Moose Drive. Kitchen opens at 4:30 p.m.

Mexican Train Dominoes, 6 p.m., Tampico Area Community

Building, 106 W. Market St., Tam-pico, 815-535-3665.

Friday, Feb. 4

Book sale, 9 a.m. to noon, LOCCA/Dixon Senior Center, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Pinochle, 12:15 p.m., Hub City Senior Center, 401 Cherry Ave., Rochelle; 815-562-5050.

Mexican Train Dominoes, 12:30-4 p.m., Whiteside Senior Center, 1207 W. Ninth St., Sterling, 815-622-9230.

Duplicate Bridge Club, 12:30 p.m., Lee County Council On Aging, 100 W. Second St., Dixon, 815-288-9236.

Teen Turf annual chili-soup supper, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Boehle Youth Center, 235 W. Main St., Amboy. Cost $5. Movie night at 7 p.m., Amboy High School, 140 S. Appleton Ave., Amboy.

Creamed Chicken and Biscuits Dinner, 5-7 p.m., American Legion Post 12, 1120 W. First St., Dixon, 815-284-2003.

Bridge

Bridge

One of William Shake-speare’s most famous speeches begins, “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely play-ers: They have their exits and their entrances.”

In bridge, all the cards are merely players in the hands of men and women. And this week we are watching our entrances to winners. In today’s example, how should South play in three no-trump after West leads the spade queen?

What would you open with the South hand? It looks like a two-no-trump bid, but if you count two control points (as they are called) for each ace and one point for each king, a “normal” two-no-trump opening contains

seven points. This hand has nine. If your range for two no-trump is the tournament-world 20-21, you should upgrade and open two clubs. But if you use a 20-22

or 21-22 range, open two no-trump. Your hand’s lack of intermediate cards (10s, nines and eights) is a draw-back.

South starts by counting his top tricks. Here, there are seven: two spades, two hearts, one diamond and two clubs. He will get one extra trick from clubs if the missing cards split 3-2, but he will still need to make something of dummy’s diamond suit.

Declarer shouldn’t take the diamond finesse, because the suit will become blocked whether the finesse wins or loses. Instead, he should play second hand low and take the first trick in his hand with the king, keeping dummy’s ace as a later entrance. Then he continues with the ace and another diamond, which gives him three diamond tricks and nine in all.

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Sauk Valley Newspapers • A9www.saukvalley.comThursday, February 3, 2011


CAIRO (AP) – Support-ers of President Hosni Mubarak charged into Cairo’s central square on horseback and camels brandishing whips while others rained firebombs from rooftops in what appeared to be an orches-trated assault against anti-government protesters trying to topple Egypt’s leader of 30 years. Three people died and at least 600 were injured in the uncontrolled violence.

The protesters accused Mubarak’s regime of unleashing a force of paid thugs and plainclothes police to crush their unprecedented, 9-day-old movement demand-ing his ouster, a day after the 82-year-old president refused to step down. They showed off police ID badg-

es they said were wrested from their attackers. Some government workers said their employers ordered them into the streets.

Mustafa el-Fiqqi, a top official from the ruling National Democratic Party, told The Associated Press that businessmen connected to the ruling party were responsible for what happened.

The notion that the state may have coordinated vio-lence against protesters, who had kept a peaceful vigil in Tahrir Square for five days, prompted one of the sharpest rebukes yet from the Obama adminis-tration.

“If any of the violence is instigated by the gov-ernment, it should stop immediately,” said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

The clashes marked a dangerous new phase in Egypt’s upheaval: the first significant violence between government sup-

porters and opponents. The crisis took a sharp turn for the worse almost immediately after Muba-rak rejected the calls for

him to give up power or leave the country, stub-bornly proclaiming he would die on Egyptian soil.

His words were a sharp blow to the protesters. They were also a signal to a country that had been holding its breath to see

if Mubarak would fall that authorities want to turn back the clock to the tight state control enforced before last Tuesday.

In the wake of Mubarak’s speech, his supporters turned up on the streets Wednesday in signifi-cant numbers for the first time. Some were hostile to journalists and for-eigners. Two Associated Press correspondents and several other journalists were roughed up in Cairo. State TV reported Tues-day night that foreigners were caught distributing anti-Mubarak leaflets, apparently trying to depict the movement as foreign-fueled.

The scenes of mayhem were certain to add to the fear that is already run-ning high in this capital of 18 million people after a weekend of rampant loot-ing and lawlessness and the escape of thousands of prisoners from jails in the chaos.

Mubarak backers attack anti-government protesters Many speculate government was behind assault

AP Egyptian anti-government protestors gather Wednesday in Alexandria, Egypt. The banner in background reads “Before – Hope. After – Killing,” while showing a picture of a man atop a weapon and in a hospital bed.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House said Wednesday that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has a chance to show the world “exactly who he is” by bringing desperately needed change to his country now.

Press secretary Robert Gibbs decried the bloody violence in Cairo, where pro-government forces clashed with protest-ers a day after Mubarak announced he would not seek re-election in September. That wasn’t good enough for the pro-testers, who want him out now.

Gibbs declined to spec-ulate whether the govern-ment was behind the vio-lence. Protesters contend plainclothes police are among the pro-govern-ment attackers.

“The president found the images outrageous and deplorable,” the press secretary said.

Gibbs said no decision had been made on cut-

t i n g o f f the $1.5 billion in a n n u a l a i d t h e U.S. pro-v i d e s Egypt but t h a t i t was still u n d e r

review. Gibbs reiter-ated President Barack Obama’s call from Tues-

day night that transition in Egypt must begin now – but he didn’t explain exactly what that meant or say whether Mubarak should resign immedi-ately.

“Now means now,” Gibbs said at the White House briefing.

“The people of Egypt need to see change, the people of Egypt need to see progress,” he said.

White House: change is needed now

MCT News Service

NEW YORK – CNN’s Anderson Cooper and his production crew were attacked by a group of demonstrators in Egypt on Wednesday. Reporting from Cairo, Cooper said during a phone interview that he was punched in the head multiple times by supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, and that the mob also assaulted his crew and destroyed their equipment.

“There’s a number of individuals who have come on the pro-Muba-rak side today to get into a fight,” said Cooper, who added that pro-Mubarak agitators are targeting anyone with a camera. “They’re beating up people in the streets. We just heard a long vol-ley of shots. We’re see-ing more molotov cock-tails being thrown, and

it’s dark now, so it seems even more risky now that night has come.”

Cooper said that the violence marked a turn-ing point for the protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. “For the past eight days, it’s been anti-Mubarak demonstrators and we haven’t seen weaponry demonstrated by pro-testers,” he said. “But starting early (Wednes-day) morning, a large group of pro-Mubarak protesters were gather-ing under my live shot location and starting to throw rocks. They’ve been out in large groups today. It’s definitely been a change of tactics that we’ve seen on the streets.”

This isn’t the first time that Cooper has become part of the story he’s cov-ering. While reporting in Haiti early last year, he carried an injured boy away from a chaotic looting scene. Asked if he believes it’s important to draw the line between journalism and first-person reporting, he said

that getting involved in the story wasn’t his choice. “There wasn’t any action that I took in any way to get involved,” he said. “I would definitely prefer to keep myself out of being punched in the head.”

“To me, the story today is not me being attacked, it’s the melee that con-tinues,” he added. “This is a stunning develop-ment, and it’s not clear what kind of impact it’s going to have. Is it going to enrage people who’d been standing on the sidelines to see these anti-Mubarak protest-ers attacked in such an organized way, with the Egyptian military stand-ing by not doing any-thing to intervene? Per-haps. Will it scare peo-ple? Maybe it will have that effect. We don’t know.”

CNN’s Anderson Cooper, crew attacked by pro-Mubarak mob Host punched in the head, group destroys equipment President

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WASHINGTON (AP) – A Republican drive to repeal the year-old health care law ended in party-line defeat in the Senate on Wednesday, leaving the Supreme Court to render a final, unpredictable ver-dict on an issue steeped in political and constitution-al controversy.

The vote was 47-51.Moments earlier, the

Senate had agreed to make one relatively minor change in the law, voting

to strip out a paperwork requirement for business-es.

President Barack Obama, who has vowed to veto any total repeal of his sig-nature legislative accom-plishment, has said he would accept the change. It does not directly affect health care.

Republicans conceded in advance their attempt at total repeal would fall short. But they also said they had accomplished an objective of forcing rank and file Democrats to take a position on an issue that reverberated in the 2010 campaign and may play a role in 2012.

Senate Republican lead-er Mitch McConnell said the vote marked an oppor-tunity for Democrats who voted for the bill last year “to listen to those who have desperately been try-ing to get your attention.”

“To say, yes, maybe my vote for this bill was a mis-take, and that we can do better,” McConnell said.

Democrats worked to minimize any political repercussions, a concern for a party already acutely aware it must defend 23 seats – and its shrunken Senate majority – in the 2012 elections.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the

Republican repeal move-ment would “take away a child’s right to get health insurance and instead give insurance companies the right to use asthma or diabetes as an excuse to take away that care.”

“It would kick kids off their parents’ health insur-ance,” Reid said. “It would take away seniors’ rights to a free wellness check.”

Democrats also coun-tered with the proposed repeal of the law’s require-ment that businesses, charities, and state and local governments file income tax forms every time they purchase $600 or more in goods.

Senate Republicans lose vote on health care law Dems said repeal movement would hurt Americans

AP Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Ken-tucky wraps up a meeting with reporters, Tuesday on Capitol Hill, where he announced that he was intro-ducing an amendment to repeal the health care law.

WASHINGTON (AP) – An orbiting NASA telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search for alien life, spot-ting more than 50 poten-tial planets that appear to be in the habitable zone.

In just a year of peer-ing out at a small slice

of the galaxy, the Kepler telescope has discovered 1,235 possible planets outside our solar system. Amazingly, 54 of them are seemingly in the zone that could be hospitable to life – that is, not too hot or too cold, Kepler chief scientist William Borucki said.

Until now, only two planets outside our solar system were even thought to be in the “Goldilocks zone.” And both those discoveries are highly disputed.

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amount,” Borucki said. “It’s amazing to see this huge number because up to now, we’ve had zero.”

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Steelers (14-4) vs. Packers (13-5)

When: 5:30 p.m. SundayWhere: Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TexasTV: FoxLine: Packers by 2½

Old friends turn into worthy foes on Sunday

AP Dick LeBeau and Dom Capers both are considered gurus of the 3-4 defense. They will match wits Sunday as defensive coordina-tors for the Steelers and Packers in Super Bowl XLV.

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Philip Marruffo/[email protected]’s George Canales is ranked second at 215 pounds in Class 2A going into Satur-day’s regional at Rock Island. Canales has his eyes on a state title.

Class 2a roCk island Class 1a stillman valley

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AFC senior a force on mat, diamond

By BRIAn WeIDMAn [email protected] 800-798-4085, ext. 551

Dillon McCannon is an ath-lete who likes being in charge, be it on the wrestling mat or the baseball diamond.

The Ashton-Franklin Cen-ter senior is putting together a banner senior season in wrestling. Heading into the Stillman Valley Regional on Saturday he’s 28-4, with all four of his losses coming to opponents ranked according to Illinois Matmen: Sher-rard’s Seth Whan (twice), Newman’s R.J. Troye and Dakota’s Tim Stahl.

McCannon’s favorite move is to get foes in is a headlock. If successful, the bout is usu-ally over.

“That’s how I’ve got-ten most of my pins this season,” said McCannon, ranked seventh by Illinois Matmen. “It’s not easy to do, but when you get somebody in that position, you can usually finish him off.”

“He’s caught me in it a couple of times,” AFC coach James Jackson said, “and it’s not very pleasant.”

A 4-year wrestler, McCan-non is seeking his first trip to state. He was a sectional qualifier as a junior, but did not advance.

“That’s been my goal since the end of last season,” he said. “Coach has been work-ing me hard on getting more takedowns, and I think that’s really helping me.”

Wrestling, however, takes a back seat to McCannon’s first love when it comes to sports – baseball. He’s the catcher for the Raiders, and is also available to pitch an inning or two if the pitching staff gets stretched too thin.

“You’re in control being the catcher and I like that,” McCannon said. “You’re the leader of the team, guys are looking to you to lead and I like being in that position.”

McCannon is ranked fifth in his class with a 3.9 grade point average and plans to be a pre-med major in college. He’s narrowed his college choices to North Central and Beloit.

Ultimate WarriorCanales begins postseason push toward title

By LARRy BRennAn [email protected] 800-798-4085, ext. 550

George Canales has big plans.

Canales wants a state wres-tling championship in this, his senior season. Canales was a 1A state qualifier at 189 pounds for Newman his sophomore year, then placed third at 189 for Dixon last season.

Now at Sterling, Canales (26-2), who is ranked No. 2 at 215 pounds by Illi-nois Matmen, is aiming even higher. He’ll start his push for another state berth Saturday at the Rock Island Regional, which also includes No. 8 Rock Island, Galesburg, Geneseo, LaSalle-Peru, Ottawa, and Streator. Sterling is ranked No. 9.

“Anything less than a state championship is unaccept-able,” Canales said. “I have a goal and I’ll do anything I can to meet it. I’ve been

wrestling for 14 years and I’m ready for it to pay off. I’ve worked too hard for somebody to beat me out.”

Coming so close last sea-son added fuel to Canales’ fire.

“In my semifinal I lost 1-0, and then the guy that beat me [Geneseo’s West Cath-cart] lost 2-1 in the final,” Canales said. “That just

showed how close I was.”Canales was 0-4 against

Cathcart last season. This season he doesn’t figure to meet Cathcart, the No. 1-ranked 285-pounder, in the postseason.

“He’s going heavyweight [285], as far as I know,” Canales said. David Rauch/[email protected]

AFC senior Dillon McCannon has his sights set on his first trip to the state wrestling meet. That journey begins Satur-day at the Class 1A Stillman Valley Sectional.

Rock IslandWhen: 10 a.m. SaturdayLocal teams: SterlingOther teams: Galesburg, Geneseo, LaSalle-Peru, Ottawa, Rock Island, StreatorLocals to watch: Tyler Balsley 140, Stevie DeWitt 152, George Canales 215

SycamoreWhen: 9:30 a.m. SaturdayLocal teams: DixonOther teams: Burlington Central, Freeport, Hamp-shire, Kaneland, Rochelle, Sycamore, Wheaton Acad-emyLocals to watch: Austin Rhodenbaugh 112, Zach Lehman 135, Blaine Green-walt 189

Class 2A regionals

Advancement: First, second, third place wrestlers in each bracket advance to Rochelle sectional.

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McCannon fileHigh school: AFCClass: SeniorFyI: Currently 28-4 at 189 pounds and ranked sev-enth by Illinois Matmen. ... Also plays baseball for the Raiders. ... Has a 3.9 grade point average and plans to be a doctor

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LeBeau, Capers fathers of 3-4 defenseBy JAIMe AROn

AP Pro Football Writer

ARLINGTON, Texas – Every so often, Dom Capers pulls out the humongous, handwritten playbook from his first year as a defensive coordinator in the NFL. He likes showing it to younger coaches to emphasize how much more labor went into designing plays before such things became computer-ized.

Dick LeBeau remembers that exact playbook quite well, too.

“I was the guy that had to draw it,” he said, chuckling.

That’s only the beginning of the tale about an important document in recent NFL his-tory and the close relation-ship between the defensive signal-callers who will be matching wits in the Super Bowl, LeBeau for the Pitts-burgh Steelers and Capers for the Green Bay Packers.

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• Amboy at Riverdale• Prophetstown at Kewanee• Wethersfield at Morrison• Pecatonicat at AFC• South Beloit at Milled-geville• Lena-Winslow at East-land

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MLB

Piniella to join Giants’ staff

SAN FRANCISCO – For-mer Cubs manager Lou Piniella will join the world-champion San Francisco Giants as a consultant.

Piniella, who stepped down from his Cubs’ post last August to tend to his ailing mother, apparently will work for the Giants from his home in Florida. He worked with Giants general manager Brian Sabean when both were with the New York Yan-kees in the 1980s.

Panel at Wrigley Field blows off

CHICAGO – A portion of a structural panel above the press box at Wrigley Field “broke away” during Tuesday’s snow storm and scattered debris out-side the ball park, officials said.

Chicago police cordoned off parts of Addison and Clark Streets and side-walks around the park, while Cubs officials worked with the city to monitor the situation and ensure there weren’t any public safety issues, Cubs spokesman Peter Chase said.

NFL

Lovie Smith’s mother dies

GLADEWATER, Texas – The mother of Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith has died in an East Texas hospital at the age of 77.

Mae Smith had long suf-fered from diabetes. Greg-ory Dearion of Dearion & Davis Funeral Parlor in Gladewater said her funeral is scheduled for Saturday afternoon at Jarvis Chris-tian College in Hawkins, Texas.

Dearion said Smith’s hus-band died in 1996.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Former USC player arrested

LOS ANGELES – Former Southern California back-up quarterback Mitch Mustain was arrested on suspicion of selling pre-scription drugs in the San Fernando Valley, police said Wednesday.

Mustain, 22, was arrested by West Valley narcotics officers shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday and booked on $30,000 bail, Officer Bruce Borihanh said.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Hoosiers lose Watford to broken hand

Christian Watford, Indiana’s leading scorer and rebounder, suffered a broken left hand in Sunday’s 84-83 overtime loss at Michigan State and is sidelined indefi-nitely after undergoing surgery Tuesday.

Indiana, which defeated Minnesota on Wednesday, already has been playing without injured starters Maurice Creek and Ver-dell Jones III.

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Garrett Webb, Newman 35-3 .921Chris Denning, Rock Falls 25-4 .862Brandon McCullough, E-P 25-11 .694Ricky Rowe, Oregon 21-10 .677Gauge Spahnie, E-P 13-8 .619 Anthony Hahn, AFC 21-13 .617

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Jake Snow, Newman 39-3 .928Mitch Mallary, E-P 27-6 .818Branden Cater, Sterling 9-2 .818Austin Rhodenbaugh, Dixon 29-12 .707Tylr Dolan, Morrison 22-14 .611Carlos Gutierrez, Rock Falls 9-6 .600

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Jordan Lopez, Sterling 29-7 .805Pepe Cervantes, Rock Falls 21-9 .700Mahali Granados, Oregon 12-9 .571Byron Howlett, AFC 14-13 .518

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Maxx Hubbard, Newman 34-3 .918Brandon Meadows, E-P 23-6 .793

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Jon Ortman, Newman 34-3 .918Nick Temes, Amboy 31-3 .911Zach Lehman, Dixon 29-8 .783Jake Kaecker, AFC 24-13 .648

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Both born and raised in small towns in southern Ohio, they became friends in the mid-1980s, when they were coach-ing defensive backs on different NFL teams and often scouting the same college players. They became colleagues in 1992, when Bill Cowher became coach of the Steelers and hired them on his inaugural staff, Capers as defen-sive coordinator and LeBeau in charge of the secondary.

Capers and LeBeau lived together for six months, spend-ing most of their time building that playbook. It was quite a chore, and it became so thick because they weren’t sure whether they would use four linemen and three linebackers as Cowher preferred, or three linemen and four linebackers as Capers preferred. That meant every play had to be drawn twice, once for each defensive front – and LeBeau did all the drawing.

“I was never so glad to go to camp in all my life,” he said.

Capers’ 3-4 won out, and they soon discovered it worked best while using a wrinkle advocated by LeBeau: the zone blitz.

What started as a way to coun-ter the Run ‘n Shoot and West Coast offenses that were domi-nating at the time turned into the start of a defensive revolu-tion that’s swept across much of the league, re-establishing the Steelers as an NFL power – and a defense-first power, at that – and

earning these coaches wide-spread respect as being among the best in the game.

“I think history has proven that we had some good ideas,” LeB-eau said.

Just look at what their clubs did this season.

The Steelers allowed the fewest points in the NFL (232, or 14.5 per game), and the Packers were a close second (240, or 15.0). This is the first Super Bowl in 28 years pitting the top two defenses from the regular season, a surprising tidbit considering all the talk that defenses win championships.

LeBeau and Capers use the scheme differently, tailored mostly to their talent.

But even that is pretty similar.The Steelers have a dynamic

linebacker in James Harrison

and a big-time playmaker in the secondary in Troy Polamalu, while the Packers have a dynam-ic linebacker in Clay Matthews and a big-time playmaker in the secondary in Charles Woodson. Polamalu was the AP Defensive Player of the Year, with Mat-thews the runner-up. Woodson won the award last year, and Harrison the year before that.

“This is probably the only Super Bowl ever that the players from either team could jump in the defensive huddle and under-stand the terminology and prob-ably run the defense,” LeBeau said. “I’m sure the nomenclature is different, but they could fig-ure it out. Certainly if you gave them two days of practice, either team could run the other team’s defense.”

He’s talked to North Central about playing baseball, and may also wrestle there.

At Beloit, he’d play baseball and football, and also follow in the footsteps of his older brother, Jared, a senior at the school and a member of the football team. The team’s starting center, he injured his knee in the first game this past fall and plans to play again next

season. He’s already been elected a team captain.

“He pushes me a lot,” Dillon said of Jared. “He comes back and wrestles with the team sometimes, and he throws everybody around because he’s bigger than everybody else. His goal for me is to beat what he accomplished in high school, and so far I’m doing that, with some high finishes in tourna-ments. He’s proud of me. He’ll never say that to me, but he’s told our parents that.”

“I think it gives me an advantage. Not that I don’t think I could have beat Cathcart. But, now I can really focus on one person, instead of a few people. I’ll have the No. 1 guy [Crystal Lake Central’s Austin Marsden] at sec-tionals.”

Canales isn’t expect-ing to get tested much at regionals.

“I don’t think I should have too much competition, but I’m

not taking anybody for granted,” he said. “I’ll wrestle them like they’re No. 1 in the state.”

Canales also likes his team’s chances of mak-ing some postseason noise.

“I think we have a good shot to go far as a team,” he said. “I think we can be better than our rank-ing. We’re a different team right now than we were. I think we deserve to be higher than No. 9, and I think we’ll show people that.”

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NFL playoffsDivisional PlayoffsSaturday, Jan. 15

Pittsburgh 31, Baltimore 24Green Bay 48, Atlanta 21

Sunday, Jan. 16Chicago 35, Seattle 24N.Y. Jets 28, New England 21

Conference ChampionshipsSunday, Jan. 23

Green Bay 21, Chicago 14Pittsburgh 24, N.Y. Jets 19

Pro BowlSunday’s result

At HonoluluNFC 55, AFC 41

Super BowlSunday, Feb. 6

At Arlington, TexasPittsburgh vs. Green Bay, 5:30 p.m. (Fox)

College footballCHAMPAIGN — Illinois’ 2011 recruit-

ing class:• Willie Beavers, dl, 6-5, 310, Southfield-Lathrup, Southfield, Mich.• Chris Boles, ol, 6-5, 315, Central Catholic HS, Toledo, Ohio• Darrius Caldwell, dl, 6-5, 210, Mays HS, Atlanta• Ralph Cooper, lb, 6-1, 222, Fairfield Central HS, Winnsboro, S.C.• Valdon Cooper, rb/db, 5-10, 170, Elbert County HS, Elberton, Ga.• Jon Davis, te, 6-3, 230, Middleton Eastern, Louisville, Ky.• Henry Dickinson, lb, 6-4, 210, Memphis University HS, Memphis, Tenn.• Tony Durkin, ol, 6-3, 260, Andrew HS, Tin-ley Park, Ill.• Justin DuVernois, p, 6-1, 190, St. Thomas Aquinas HS, Plantation, Fla.• Josh Ferguson, rb, 5-10, 180, Joliet Catho-lic HS, Naperville, Ill.• Pat Flavin, ol, 6-7, 260, Benet Academy, Lisle, Ill.• Jordan Frysinger, wr, 6-0, 175, Corning HS, Corning, N.Y.• Zeph Grimes, db, 5-11, 212, Bamberg-Ehrhardt HS, Bamberg, S.C.• Chris Jones, dl, 6-5, 305, Raines HS, Jack-sonville, Fla.• Ted Karras, ol, 603, 292, Cathedral HS, Indianapolis, Ind.• Dondi Kirby, db, 6-3, 190, Gateway HS, Monroeville, Pa.• Kenny Knight, wr, 6-4, 190, Country Day HS, Beverly Hills, Mich.• Matt LaCosse, qb, 6-6, 220, North HS, Naperville, Ill.• Scott McDowell, ol, 6-5, 280, Central HS, Hinsdale, Ill.• Kenny Nelson, dl, 6-6, 245, Cass Tech HS, Detroit• Nick North, db, 6-1, 195, McArthur HS, Hollywood, Fla.• Chris O’Connor, dl, 6-5, 240, Andrew HS, Tinley Park, Ill.• Reilly O’Toole, qb, 6-4, 215, Wheaton War-renville South HS, Wheaton, Ill.• Eaton Spence, db, 6-0, 175, Glades Bay HS, Belle Glade, Fla.• Clint Tucker, dl, 6-2, 285, East St. Louis HS, East St. Louis, Ill.• Jeremy Whitlow, wr, 6-2, 190, Central Catholic HS, Cleveland, Ohio• Donovonn Young, rb, 5-11, 215, Katy HS, Katy, Texas

Men’s basketballTop 25 ScheduleWednesday’s results

No. 5 Duke at Maryland (late)No. 17 Syracuse 66, No. 6 Connecticut 58No. 7 San Diego State at Colorado State (late)No. 8 BYU at Wyoming (late)No. 12 Villanova 75, Marquette 70No. 14 Missouri at Oklahoma State (late)Indiana 60, No. 18 Minnesota 57No. 22 Utah State vs. Nevada (late)No. 25 West Virginia 56, Seton Hall 44

Thursday’s gamesNo. 1 Ohio State vs. Michigan, 6 p.m.No. 9 Notre Dame at DePaul, 8 p.m.No. 20 Washington at Oregon State, 8 p.m.No. 21 Arizona at Stanford, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 5No. 2 Kansas at Nebraska, 3 p.m.No. 3 Texas vs. Texas Tech, 8 p.m.No. 4 Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati, 5 p.m.No. 5 Duke vs. N.C. State, 5 p.m.No. 6 Connecticut at Seton Hall, 6 p.m.No. 8 BYU vs. UNLV, 3 p.m.No. 10 Kentucky at Florida, 8 p.m.No. 12 Villanova vs. No. 25 West Virginia, 11 a.m.No. 13 Georgetown vs. Providence, 11 a.m.No. 14 Missouri vs. Colorado, 6:30 p.m.No. 15 Louisville vs. DePaul, 7 p.m.No. 16 Texas A&M vs. Baylor, 1 p.m.No. 17 Syracuse at South Florida, 1 p.m.No. 20 Washington at Oregon, 3 p.m.No. 21 Arizona at California, 7 p.m.No. 22 Utah State vs. Boise State, 8:05 p.m.No. 23 Vanderbilt vs. South Carolina, 12:30 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 6No. 1 Ohio State at No. 18 Minnesota, 1 p.m.No. 9 Notre Dame vs. Rutgers, 11 a.m.No. 19 Wisconsin vs. Michigan State, noonNo. 23 North Carolina vs. Florida State, 1 p.m.

State scheduleTuesday’s results

Bradley 69, Creighton 61SE Missouri St. at SIU-Edwardsville (late)

Wednesday’s gamesBowling Green at N. Illinois (late)Illinois St. at N. Iowa (late)Drake 65, S. Illinois 44

Thursday’s gamesLoyola Chicago at Wright St., 6 p.m.Ill.-Chicago at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Oakland, Mich. at W. Illinois, 7 p.m.SIU-Edwardsville at S. Dakota, 7 p.m.Chicago St. at Houston Baptist, 7:35 p.m.Notre Dame at DePaul, 8 p.m.

Big Ten standings Conf. AllOhio State 9-0 22-0Purdue 7-3 18-5Wisconsin 6-3 16-5Minnesota 5-5 16-6Illinois 5-4 15-7Michigan State 5-4 13-8Penn State 5-5 12-9Michigan 3-6 13-9Northwestern 3-7 13-8Indiana 3-7 12-11Iowa 1-8 8-13

Tuesday’s resultsWisconsin 66, Purdue 59Illinois 68, Penn State 51

Wednesday’s resultsIndiana 60, Minnesota 57Michigan State at Iowa (late)

Thursday’s gameMichigan at Ohio State, 6 p.m. (ESPN)

Saturday, Feb. 5Illinois at Northwestern, noon (CBS)Iowa at Indiana, 3 p.m. (ESPN2)

Sunday, Feb. 6Michigan at Penn State, 11 a.m. (BTN)Michigan State at Wisconsin, noon (CBS)Ohio State at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (ESPN)

INDIANA 60, No. 18 MINNESOTA 57

MINNESOTA (16-6)Mbakwe 3-7 1-3 7, Williams 2-6 0-2 5, Iverson 1-4 1-2 3, Sampson III 4-11 2-2 10, Hoffarber 4-12 4-6 15, Ahanmisi 0-0 0-2 0, Hollins 4-9 3-5 13, Armelin 2-5 0-0 4. Totals 20-54 11-22 57.INDIANA (12-11)Sheehey 1-5 2-2 4, Pritchard 5-5 2-2 12, Elston 3-8 2-2 8, Hulls 3-9 2-2 8, Rivers 1-5 0-0 2, Oladipo 1-4 3-4 5, Moore 0-0 0-0 0, Jones III 4-7 2-2 12, Capobianco 0-0 0-1 0, Roth 3-10 0-0 9. Totals 21-53 13-15 60.Halftime–Indiana 33-21. 3-Point Goals–Minnesota 6-18 (Hoffarber 3-8, Hollins 2-5, Williams 1-3, Sampson III 0-2), Indiana 5-24 (Roth 3-10, Jones III 2-3, Oladipo 0-1, Rivers 0-1, Sheehey 0-2, Elston 0-2, Hulls 0-5). Fouled Out–None. Rebounds–Min-nesota 36 (Mbakwe, Sampson III 9), Indi-ana 35 (Pritchard 7). Assists–Minnesota 9 (Iverson, Mbakwe 3), Indiana 9 (Hulls 6). Total Fouls–Minnesota 13, Indiana 20. Technical–Oladipo. A–16,168.

NBAEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division W L Pct GBBoston 37 11 .771 —New York 25 23 .521 12Philadelphia 22 26 .458 15New Jersey 15 35 .300 23Toronto 13 37 .260 25

Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 34 14 .708 —Atlanta 31 18 .633 3½Orlando 31 18 .633 3½Charlotte 21 27 .438 13Washington 13 35 .271 21

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 33 14 .702 —Indiana 19 27 .413 13½Milwaukee 19 27 .413 13½Detroit 17 32 .347 17Cleveland 8 41 .163 26

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBSan Antonio 40 8 .833 —Dallas 33 15 .688 7New Orleans 32 18 .640 9Memphis 25 24 .510 15½Houston 22 28 .440 19

Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 30 17 .638 —Utah 29 20 .592 2Denver 28 20 .583 2½Portland 26 22 .542 4½Minnesota 11 36 .234 19

Pacific Division W L Pct GBL.A. Lakers 34 15 .694 —Phoenix 22 24 .478 10½Golden State 20 27 .426 13L.A. Clippers 19 28 .404 14Sacramento 12 34 .261 20½

Wednesday’s resultsAtlanta 100, Toronto 87Indiana 117, Cleveland 112Philadelphia 106, New Jersey 92Charlotte 97, Detroit 87Dallas 113, New York 97Memphis at Minnesota (late)New Orleans at Oklahoma City (late)Portland at Denver (late)Milwaukee at Phoenix (late)Houston at Utah (late)Chicago at L.A. Clippers (late)

Today’s gamesMiami at Orlando, 7 p.m.Milwaukee at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

NHLEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division W L OT Pts GF GAPhiladelphia 33 13 5 71 174 134Pittsburgh 33 15 4 70 161 117N.Y. Rangers 29 20 4 62 151 130N.Y. Islanders 16 28 7 39 123 166New Jersey 17 30 3 37 103 147

Northeast Division W L OT Pts GF GABoston 29 15 7 65 155 114Montreal 28 18 5 61 133 125Buffalo 23 21 5 51 137 144Toronto 20 25 5 45 128 156Ottawa 17 27 8 42 114 169

Southeast Division W L OT Pts GF GATampa Bay 32 15 5 69 158 154Washington 27 15 10 64 142 132Atlanta 24 20 9 57 153 170Carolina 25 20 6 56 155 158Florida 22 22 6 50 134 135

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

W L OT Pts GF GADetroit 31 13 6 68 173 148Nashville 27 17 7 61 136 122Chicago 27 20 4 58 164 143St. Louis 22 20 7 51 130 146Columbus 23 22 5 51 134 159

Northwest Division W L OT Pts GF GAVancouver 32 10 9 73 169 122Minnesota 26 19 5 57 131 134Colorado 25 19 6 56 161 165Calgary 25 21 6 56 147 154Edmonton 15 26 8 38 122 168

Pacific Division W L OT Pts GF GADallas 30 16 5 65 148 141Anaheim 28 20 4 60 140 146Phoenix 25 18 9 59 152 150San Jose 26 19 6 58 144 141Los Angeles 27 22 2 56 143 125

Wednesday’s resultsDetroit 7, Ottawa 5Pittsburgh 3, N.Y. Islanders 0Florida at Montreal (late)Vancouver at Phoenix (late)Los Angeles at Edmonton (late)San Jose at Anaheim (late)

Today’s gamesDallas at Boston, 6 p.m.Carolina at Toronto, 6 p.m.New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.Nashville at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Calgary at Atlanta, 6 p.m.Minnesota at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Friday’s gamesFlorida at New Jersey, 6 p.m.Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.Columbus at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Washington at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.Edmonton at St. Louis, 7 p.m.Chicago at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

By K.C. Johnson Chicago Tribune

LOS ANGELES – Carlos Boozer is averaging 19.9 points and 10.2 rebounds, solid numbers for a Bulls team that is a half-game behind the Heat for the Eastern Conference’s second-best record.

Yet the two-time All-Star also has missed 18 games to two separate injuries and the conference’s for-ward picture is crowded when it comes to All-Star worthy reserves.

TNT will announce All-Star reserves tonight.

“I know I missed some games with my broken hand, but I feel like I am deserving of an All-Star appearance,” Boozer said. “If not, I’m not going to be disappointed. There are a lot of guys who feel they are deserving. If I am there, I will be extremely happy. I’ll tell you that.”

Coaches vote for reserves, and placed Boozer on the 2007 and 2008 Western Conference All-Star teams, though he missed one of those games to injury.

“It’s a huge honor because the coaches pick you,” Boozer said. “I would love to represent the Bulls with DRose in that game. It’d be a huge honor. It’d be something I’d look forward to doing if I was able to. If not, I’ll

go home and see my kids in Miami.”

The Celtics’ Kevin Gar-nett and Paul Pierce, the Heat’s Chris Bosh, the Hawks’ Josh Smith and the Bulls’ Luol Deng also will receive consider-ation.

nba | bullswedNesdAy’s sCoreBoArd

Boozer in the mix for All-Star nodReserves to be announced tonight

Up nextWhat: Bulls at War-riorsWhen: 9:30 p.m. Sat-urdayTV/Radio: WGN-WMVP-AM (1000)

APThe Bulls’ Carlos Booz-er makes a layup over Indiana Pacers defender Josh McRoberts on Jan. 29 in Chicago. Boozer is averaging a double-double and is a possible All-star selection.

B4 • Sauk Valley Newspapers PREP BASKETBALL Thursday, February 3, 2011

Boys basketballNorthern Illinois Big 12 West

Conf. AllGeneseo 5-1 8-10Sterling 4-1 10-13Streator 3-3 12-7Ottawa 3-3 5-15LaSalle-Peru 2-4 5-13Dixon 0-5 4-16

Tuesday, Feb. 1• Alleman at Dixon, ppd. to 7:30, Feb 7• Sandwich at Ottawa, ppd. to 7:30, Feb. 12• Streator at IVC, ppd. TBA

Friday, Feb. 4• Ottawa at Geneseo, 7:30

Saturday, Feb. 5• Geneseo at Glenbard South, 3• Dixon at Sterling, 7• Streator at LaSalle-Peru, 7:30

NCIC Conf. AllRock Falls 5-2 17-5St. Bede 5-2 14-5Illinois Valley Central 5-2 14-5Princeton 4-3 11-10Mendota 1-6 8-15Hall 1-6 8-16

Tuesday, Feb. 1• St. Bede at Lowpoint-Washburn, ppd. TBA• Streator at IVC, ppd. TBA

Friday, Feb. 4• Mendota at St. Bede, 7:30• Princeton at Hall, 7:30• Rock Falls at IVC, 7:30

Saturday, Feb. 5• Riverdale at Rock Falls, 7:30• St. Bede at Ottawa Marquette, 7:30

Three Rivers Conf. AllKewanee 11-0 19-2Newman 6-3 12-7Erie 6-4 13-11Riverdale 6-4 15-7Prophetstown 5-5 13-8Morrison 3-5 7-15Amboy 3-6 9-14Bureau Valley 2-7 5-14Fulton 1-9 6-16

Tuesday, Feb. 1• Amboy at Fulton, ppd. to 7:30, Feb. 8

Thursday, Feb. 3• Kewanee at Bureau Valley, 7:30• Morrison at Amboy, 7:30• Riverdale at Newman, 7:30

Saturday, Feb. 5• Amboy at Newman, 6:30• Bureau Valley at Morrison, 6:30• Erie at Kewanee, 6:30• Riverdale at Rock Falls, 6:30

Big Northern West Conf. AllOregon 5-1 14-5Winnebago 5-1 13-6Rockford Lutheran 3-3 11-9Byron 2-3 14-5Stillman Valley 1-4 11-8Genoa-Kingston 1-5 10-10

Tuesday, Feb. 1• Byron at Genoa-Kingston, ppd. to 7:30, Feb. 3• Lutheran at Winnebago, ppd. to 7:30 Feb. 9• Oregon at Stillman Valley, ppd. TBA

Thursday, Feb. 3• Byron at Genoa-Kingston, 7:30

Saturday, Feb. 5• Stillman at Winnebago, 7• Genoa-Kingston at Lutheran, 7• Byron at Oregon, 7:30

NUIC East Conf. AllForreston 9-0 15-4Aquin 8-1 16-4South Beloit 5-2 14-6Pecatonica 6-3 10-10Dakota 5-4 13-7Orangeville 5-5 12-9Durand 3-6 11-10Polo 2-6 7-12Milledgeville 1-8 3-18Ashton-Franklin Center 0-9 2-16

Monday, Jan. 31• Dakota 57, Durand 56• Orangeville 72, Black Hawk (Wis.) 70

Thursday, Feb. 3• AFC at Aquin, 7:30• Dakota at Orangeville, 7:30¨• South Beloit at Pecatonica, 7:30

Saturday, Feb. 5• Aquin at Polo, 2:30• Durand at Dakota, 7:30• Orangeville at South Beloit, 7:30• Forreston at Pecatonica, 7:30• Milledgeville at AFC, 7:30

NUIC West Conf. AllEastland 9-0 19-2West Carroll 6-2 14-5East Dubuque 6-2 13-5Lena-Winslow 4-3 7-10River Ridge 4-4 7-12Scales Mound 3-4 9-8Warren 2-6 5-11Stockton 2-5 5-16Galena 2-6 6-10Pearl City 0-7 1-17

Monday, Jan. 31• East Dubuque 53, Scales Mound 38

Tuesday, Feb. 1• River Ridge at Stockton, ppd.• Galena at Scales Mound, ppd to Feb. 16

Wednesday, Feb. 2• Lena-Winslow at West Carroll, 7:30

Thursday, Feb. 3• Eastland at Pearl City, 7:30 • Galena at Warren, 7:30• West Carroll at Stockton, 7:30

Friday, Feb. 4• Scales Mound at River Ridge, 7:30

Saturday, Feb. 5• Lena-Winslow at Eastland, 7:30• Pearl City at West Carroll, 7:30

Girls basketballNorthern Illinois Big 12 West

Conf. AllSterling 7-1 19-8Ottawa 6-2 17-5Geneseo 5-3 20-5Dixon 3-5 11-13Streator 2-6 3-18LaSalle-Peru 1-7 6-16

Tuesday, Feb. 1• Sterling at Alleman, canceled• Ottawa at West Aurora, ppd. to 7:15, Feb. 8 • Hall at LaSalle-Peru, ppd. TBA

Wednesday, Feb. 2• Earlville at Streator, 7:30

Thursday, Feb. 3• LaSalle-Peru at Geneseo, 7:30

Friday, Feb. 4• Dixon at Ottawa, 7:30• Sterling at Streator, 7:30

Saturday, Feb. 5• Davenport North at Geneseo, 2:30

NCIC Conf. AllSt. Bede 8-1 21-6Rock Falls 6-3 13-10Hall 5-3 15-8Illinois Valley Central 3-5 9-13Mendota 3-6 8-15Princeton 1-8 10-15

Tuesday, Feb. 1• Rock Falls at Rochelle, canceled• Hall at LaSalle-Peru, ppd. TBA• IVC at Peoria Christian, ppd. TBA

Wednesday, Feb. 2• Mendota at Annawan, 7:30

Thursday, Feb. 3• Mendota at Earlville-Leland, 7:15• Hall at IVC, 7:30• St. Bede at Princeton, 7:30

Friday, Feb. 4• Mendota at Rock Falls, 7:30

Saturday, Feb. 5• Orion at Rock Falls, 6

Three Rivers Conf. AllRiverdale 11-1 22-2Newman 10-2 17-6Prophetstown 9-2 15-10Kewanee 8-4 15-11Erie 6-6 11-11Morrison 3-9 5-20Amboy 3-10 9-15Bureau Valley 2-10 9-17Fulton 2-10 4-20

Monday, Jan. 31• Kewanee 59, Fulton 27• Milledgeville 59, Morrison 50

Tuesday, Feb. 1• Amboy at Riverdale, ppd. to 7:30, Feb. 3• Bureau Valley at Prophetstown, ppd. to 7:30, Feb. 5• Erie at Newman, ppd. to 2:30 Feb. 5• Fulton at Morrison, ppd. to 7:30 Feb. 5

Thursday, Feb. 3• Amboy at Riverdale, 7:30• Prophetstown at Kewanee, 7:30• Wethersfield at Morrison, 7:30

Friday, Feb. 4• Morrison at Kewanee, 7:30• Newman at Fulton, 7:30• Prophetstown at Erie, 7:30• Riverdale at Bureau Valley, 7:30

Saturday, Feb. 5• Erie at Newman, 2:30• Bureau Valley at Prophetstown, 7:30• Fulton at Morrison, 7:30

Big Northern West Conf. AllRockford Lutheran 9-0 21-0Oregon 4-4 16-9Stillman Valley 4-4 15-8Winnebago 4-5 10-14Genoa-Kingston 3-5 12-11Byron 1-7 10-11

Tuesday, Feb. 1• Rockford Christian at Lutheran, ppd.• Stillman at Oregon, ppd. to 6, Feb. 5

Friday, Feb. 4• Oregon at Genoa-Kingston, 7:15• Stillman Valley at Lutheran, 7:15• Winnebago at Byron, 7:15

Saturday, Feb. 5• Stillman Valley at Oregon, 6

NUIC East Conf. AllForreston 11-0 18-7Dakota 9-1 17-5Orangeville 8-3 15-8Aquin 8-3 14-10Milledgeville 5-6 11-13Pecatonica 4-6 8-13Ashton-Franklin Center 4-7 13-10Durand 3-6 9-12Polo 1-10 1-22South Beloit 0-11 2-18

Tuesday, Feb. 1• Dakota at Aquin, ppd. to 3, Feb. 5• Durand at Forreston, ppd. to 7:30, Feb. 3• Orangeville at Polo, ppd. to 6:30, Feb. 3• Pecatonica at AFC, ppd. to 7:30, Feb. 3• South Beloit at Milledgeville, ppd. to 7:30, Feb. 3

Wednesday, Feb. 2• South Beloit at Harvard, 7:30

Thursday, Feb. 3• Orangeville at Polo, 6:30• Durand at Forreston, 7:30• Pecatonica at AFC, 7:30• South Beloit at Milledgeville, 7:30

Friday, Feb. 4• Dakota at Polo, 7:30• Durand at AFC, 7:30• Forreston at South Beloit, 7:30• Orangeville at Milledgeville, 7:30• Pecatonica at Aquin, 7:30

Saturday, Feb. 5• Dakota at Aquin, 3

NUIC West Conf. AllRiver Ridge-Scales Mound 11-0 23-1Pearl City 8-1 22-3Eastland 7-3 18-9Galena 6-4 10-12Lena-Winslow 5-4 13-10Stockton 4-7 7-17East Dubuque 2-7 2-13West Carroll 1-8 3-19Warren 1-10 2-22

Tuesday, Feb. 1• East Dubuque at Galena, ppd to Feb. 3• Lena-Winslow at Eastland, ppd. to 7:30, Feb. 3• West Carroll at Pearl City, ppd. to 6, Feb. 5

Thursday, Feb. 3• East Dubuque at Galena, 7:30 • Lena-Winslow at Eastland, 7:30• River Ridge at Potosi, 7:30

At A GlAnce

Class 4A W-L Pts LW1. Simeon (8) 19-0 80 12. Benet 22-0 69 23. East St. Louis 18-4 51 54. Warren 18-3 47 45. De La Salle 16-2 34 86. O’Fallon 15-5 33 37. Thornton 16-1 32 68. Auburn 14-4 24 –9. Lyons 16-2 13 –10. Farragut 17-3 12 9Others receiving votes: Normal Com-munity 10, Danville 10, Belleville West 8, Downers Grove South 6, Glenbard East 6, Homewood-Flossmoor 3, Boylan 1, St. Ignatius 1.

Class 3A W-L Pts LW1. Peoria Notre Dame (12) 20-0 120 12. Rock Island 19-2 107 23. Peoria Central 15-4 90 54. Morgan Park 14-5 58 35. Manual 14-5 53 45. Mater Dei 20-1 53 77. Galesburg 20-3 49 88. Lincoln 20-3 36 99. Hillcrest 15-6 23 69. Centralia 20-2 23 10Others receiving votes: Brooks 13, Carver 10, Crane 10, Crete-Monee 9, Mahomet-Seymour 6.

Class 2A W-L Pts LW1. Hales Franciscan (13) 16-3 139 12. Breese Central 20-2 112 23. Murphysboro (1) 24-0 111 34. Teutopolis 19-2 94 45. Paxton-Buckley-Loda 19-0 90 56. Nashville 17-3 55 77. El Paso-Gridley 18-3 49 88. Rockford Christian 19-0 42 109. Macomb 16-4 23 610. St. Anthony 17-4 14 9Others receiving votes: Kewanee 10, Pittsfield 10, Westville 7, Pana 3, Leo 3, Illinois Valley Central 2, Fieldcrest 2, Paris 2, Rock Falls 2.

Class 1A W-L Pts LW1. Salt Fork (9) 20-1 125 12. Newark (3) 19-1 111 23. Orion 22-3 81 44. Eastland 18-2 75 35. Trico 21-2 72 66. Madison 13-5 67 77. Windsor (1) 18-2 39 58. West Central 20-2 38 89. Brimfield 20-2 32 910. Nokomis 18-3 25 10Others receiving votes: Deer Creek-Mackinaw 21, Forreston 9, Dwight 6, Cerro Gordo 5, Camp Point Central 4, Woodlawn 3, Springfield Calvary 1, Chris-man 1.

Class 4A W-L Pts LW1. Bolingbrook (7) 17-2 78 12. Edwardsville (1) 23-2 67 33. Whitney Young 18-2 66 24 .Fenwick 23-2 51 44. Bartlett 23-1 51 56. Libertyville 24-0 39 67. Hononegah 24-3 30 78. DeKalb 20-2 16 99. Trinity 21-3 12 810. Proviso East 22-2 11 –Others receiving votes: East St. Louis 9, Chicago Heights Marian 9, Geneva 1.

Class 3A W-L Pts LW1. Montini (11) 26-1 119 12. Springfield (1) 22-2 107 33. Springfield Southeast 22-1 85 24. Highland 21-2 74 45. Richwoods 23-3 68 56. Mater Dei 19-1 59 87. Galesburg 22-5 48 78. Sacred Heart-Griffin 16-7 27 69. Centennial 23-3 21 –10. Morton 21-4 20 9Others receiving votes: Rock Island 12, Hampshire 8, Geneseo 5, Peoria Cen-tral 2, Hillcrest 2, Sterling 2, Grayslake 1.

Class 2A W-L Pts LW1. Bloomington C.C. (11) 22-0 119 12. Quincy Notre Dame (1) 23-0 103 23. Rockford Lutheran 22-0 95 34. Pana 24-2 77 45. Riverdale 24-2 62 56. Illini West 22-2 48 87. Nashville 22-3 45 68. Teutopolis 19-4 29 109. El Paso-Gridley 22-1 21 910. Bismarck-Henning 24-3 20 7Others receiving votes: Mount Carmel 13, Olney 8, St. Thomas More 6, Bishop McNamara 4, Breese Central 4, Prairie Central 3, Sherrard 2, Williamsville 1.

Class 1A W-L Pts LW1. Havana (5) 26-2 116 22. Hinckley-Big Rock (1) 24-3 99 13. River Ridge-S.M. 24-1 84 44. Cowden-Herrick (3) 20-4 82 35. Annawan 21-5 76 56. Ottawa Marquette (3) 24-2 70 87. West Central (1) 21-3 55 68. Stark County 23-3 46 79. Shiloh 22-4 20 1010. Ridgeview 20-5 15 9Others receiving votes: Central A&M 12, Illini Bluffs 12, Wethersfield 10, Routt 8, Salt Fork 3, Pearl City 3, South Fulton 2, Villa Grove 1, Eastland 1.

AP BAsketBAll Poll | Girls

AP BAsketBAll Poll | Boys

Girls Postseason pairings

CLASS 1A

Polo RegionalMonday, Feb. 7

• Game 1, No. 4 Ashton-Franklin Cen-ter vs. No. 5 Fulton, 6 p.m.• Game 2, No. 3 Milledgeville vs. No. 6 Polo, 8:10 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 9• No. 1 Prophetstown vs. Game 1 win-ner, 6 p.m.• No. 2 Erie vs. Game 2 winner, 8:10 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 11• Championship, 7:30 p.m.Winner to Aquin Sectional, Feb. 14-17

Lena-Winslow RegionalMonday, Feb. 7

• Game 1, No. 4 Stockton vs. No. 5 Warren, 6 p.m.• Game 2, No. 3 Galena vs. No. 6 East Dubuque, 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 8• No. 1 River Ridge-Scales Mound vs. Game 1 winner, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 9• No. 2 Lena-Winslow vs. Game 2 win-ner, 7:30 p.m.


Forreston RegionalMonday, Feb. 7

• Game 1, No. 4 Aquin vs. No. 5 Peca-tonica, 6 p.m.• Game 2, No. 3 Forreston vs. No. 6 Hiawatha, 8:10 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 9• No. 1 Pearl City vs. Game 1 winner, 6 p.m.• No. 2 Eastland vs. Game 2 winner, 8:10 p.m.


Durand RegionalMonday, Feb. 7

• Game 1, No. 4 Alden-Hebron vs. No. 5 South Beloit, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 9• No. 1 Dakota vs. Game 1 winner, 6 p.m.• No. 2 Orangeville vs. No. 3 Durand, 8:10 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 10• Championship, 7:30 p.m.Winner to Aquin Sectional, Feb. 14-17

Putnam County RegionalMonday, Feb. 7

• Game 1, No. 4 Putnam County vs. No. 5 LaMoille, 6 p.m.• Game 2, No. 3 Amboy vs. No. 6 DePue, 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 8• No. 1 Ottawa Marquette vs. Game 1 winner, 6 p.m.• No. 2 Annawan vs. Game 2 winner, 8:10 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 10• Championship, 7:30 p.m.Winner to Midland Sectional, Feb. 14-17

CLASS 2A

West Carroll RegionalMonday, Feb. 7

• Game 1, No. 4 Morrison vs. No. 5 West Carroll, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 9• No. 1 Riverdale vs. Game 1 winner, 6 p.m.• No. 2 Rock Falls vs. No. 3 Newman, 8:10 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 11• Championship, 7:30 p.m.Winner to Bureau Valley Sectional, Feb. 14-17

Christian Life RegionalTuesday, Feb. 8

• Game 1, No. 4 Christian Life vs. No. 5 Rockford Christian, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 10• No. 1 Rockford Lutheran vs. Game 1 winner, 6 p.m.• No. 2 Winnebago vs. No. 3 North Boone, 8:10 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 11• Championship, 7:30 p.m.Winner to Bureau Valley Sectional, Feb. 14-17

Genoa-Kingston RegionalMonday, Feb. 7

• Game 1, No. 4 Genoa-Kingston Regional vs. No. 5 Harvard, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 8• No. 1 Stillman Valley vs. Game 1 win-ner, 6 p.m.• No. 2 Oregon vs. No. 3 Byron, 8:10 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 10• Championship, 7:30 p.m.Winner to Bureau Valley Sectional, Feb. 14-17

Mendota RegionalMonday, Feb. 7

• Game 1, No. 4 Princeton vs. No. 5 Bureau Valley, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 8• No. 1 St. Bede vs. Game 1 winner, 6 p.m.• No. 2 Hall vs. No. 3 Mendota, 8:10 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 10• Championship, 7:30 p.m.Winner to Bureau Valley Sectional, Feb. 14-17

CLASS 3A

Geneseo RegionalMonday, Feb. 14

• Game 1, No. 4 Sterling vs. No. 5 Dixon, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 15• No. 1 Rock Island vs. Game 1 win-ner, 6 p.m.• No. 2 Galesburg vs. No. 3 Geneseo, 8:10 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 17• Championship, 7:30 p.m.Winner to Metamora Sectional, Feb. 21-24

PostseAson PAririnGs

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Points

Grace Kennay, AFC sr. 16.2S. Lambrigtsen, Oregon fr. 15.9S. Cesarek, Newman sr. 14.4Cassie Reiley, P’town so. 12.9Paige Last, RF sr. 12.4Brooke Bailey, Dixon fr. 12.3B. Richardson, Newman sr. 12.3L. Hernandez, Sterling sr. 12.2K. Moore, Newman sr. 11.6A. Hammelman, Sterling jr. 11.2Courtney Blair, Eastland sr. 11.1Jessie Jacobson, BV sr. 11.0T. Ruter, Eastland sr. 10.7Sam Neahring, BV jr. 9.5Brianna Herin, M’ville sr. 9.4K. Nauman, Amboy sr. 9.3Devyn Absher, AFC so. 9.2L. Bellows, Oregon sr. 9.2R. Walters, P’town so. 9.0

Assists

Cassie Reiley, P’town so. 4.9S. Cesarek, Newman sr. 3.9Paige Woolley, BV sr. 3.9Holly Nicklaus, Dixon sr. 3.7Paige Last, RF sr. 3.2Sam Shepard, BV sr. 3.2M. Mammosser, RF so. 3.1Taylor Corcoran, Amboy jr. 3.0Brianna Herin, M’ville sr. 2.8L. Hernandez, Sterling sr. 2.7S. Lambrigtsen, Oregon fr. 2.7Kayla Moore, Newman sr. 2.7Nicole Renner, Sterling sr. 2.6Anna Corcoran, Oregon sr. 2.3Jessie Jacobson, BV sr. 2.1Kerby Kniss, Eastland sr. 2.1Grace Kennay, AFC sr. 2.0

Rebounding

Melody Kaecker, AFC sr. 8.5Sam Neahring, BV jr. 7.7Michelle Fuller, Amboy jr. 7.2Courtney Blair, Eastland sr. 7.1A. Hammelman, Sterling jr. 6.9Angie Minnick, Sterling sr. 6.5Jordan Giddings, RF so. 6.4Kelsie Stafford, P’town sr. 6.4Maisie Mahoney, Oregon jr. 6.3Devyn Absher, AFC so. 5.9B. Richardson, Newman sr. 5.9Jordan Pontnack, Oregon jr. 5.6Holly Nicklaus, Dixon sr. 5.5Katie Nauman, Amboy sr. 5.4M. Mammosser, RF so. 5.2Taylor Ruter, Eastland sr. 4.9Sam Shepard, BV sr. 4.9Kaitlon Busser. Newman sr. 4.8Paige Last, RF sr. 4.8Autumn Smith, Amboy so. 4.8Catie Cox, Dixon jr. 4.6Kayla Moore, Newman sr. 4.6S. Workman, M’ville sr. 4.6

Steals

Paige Woolley, BV sr. 4.8Alexis DawTyne, M’ville sr. 3.4S. Lambrigtsen, Oregon fr. 3.4Sarah Cesarek, Newman sr. 3.1Riley Walters, P’town so. 3.0Kayla Moore, Newman sr. 2.7Sam Neahring, BV jr. 2.7A. Hammelman, Sterling jr. 2.4Brittlyn Dillow, Dixon sr. 2.2Sam Shepard, BV sr. 2.2A. Borota, Eastland sr. 2.1Melody Kaecker, AFC sr. 2.1

Points

Sam Ford, Oregon sr. 27.2Josh Stanley, SC so. 21.6Jake Junis, RF sr. 19.6Brady Edwards, WC jr. 17.4Eann Cox, Erie sr. 16.0Nate DeVenney, BV sr. 15.5Erik Renkes, Fulton jr. 15.1David Vroman, SC so. 14.6Ashton Hutton, Fulton sr. 14.1Drew Pace, Sterling sr. 14.0Jordan Schaller, Erie jr. 13.6Isaac Weber, SC so. 13.5Shane Geary, Polo jr. 12.7Tim Wilson, Newman jr. 12.7Dylon Smith, Morrison sr. 11.7Eric Naples, WC jr. 11.3Bill Bos, Morrison jr. 10.9Caleb Miller, Sterling sr. 10.8Tyler Brashaw, WC sr. 10.6K. Neubauer, M’ville sr. 10.6Assists

Eric Naples, WC jr. 4.5Dagin Buck, Polo sr. 4.1Eann Cox, Erie sr. 3.8Will Bird, Morrison sr. 3.7J. Blessman, Newman sr. 3.6Tyler Brashaw, WC sr. 3.6Sam Ford, Oregon sr. 3.4Erik Renkes, Fulton jr. 2.9Shay Brown, RF sr. 2.8Jake Junis, RF sr. 2.6Sam Noble, Oregon sr. 2.6Shaq Coleman, WC sr. 2.5Michael Geary, Polo jr. 2.5Eli Townsend, Sterling sr. 2.5

Rebounds

Jordan Schaller, Erie jr. 11.7Sam Ford, Oregon sr. 10.9Isaac Weber, SC so. 10.4Bill Bos, Morrison jr. 9.8Ashton Hutton, Fulton sr. 8.4Brady Edwards, WC jr. 8.2Derek Ports, Polo jr. 8.2Aaron Clardie, SC so. 8.0Caleb Miller, Sterling sr. 8.0K. Neubauer, M’ville sr. 7.4Tim Smith, Oregon jr. 7.2Dylon Smith, Morrison sr. 6.9Steven Armoska, RF so. 6.3Steve DeMay, BV sr. 6.3Jake Junis, RF sr. 6.2Steals

J Blessman, Newman sr. 2.7Brady Edwards, WC jr. 2.4Tim Wilson, Newman jr. 2.4Tyler Brashaw, WC sr. 2.2Shane Geary, Polo jr. 2.1Ashton Hutton, Fulton sr. 2.0Drew Pace, Sterling sr. 2.0Shay Brown, RF sr. 1.9Shaq Coleman, WC sr. 1.9Jake Junis, RF sr. 1.8A. Rivera, Sterling jr. 1.8Trae Tiesman, Fulton jr. 1.8Blocks

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IN RE THE ESTATEOF HARLAN LEEFRY,Deceased.

No. 2011 P 1NOTICE OF CLAIM

DATE

NOTICE IS HEREBYGIVEN of th death ofHarlan Lee Fry. Lettersof Office were issuedon Janary 4, 2011 toCorrine E. Canon, 20121st Avenue So., #19,Fort Dodge, IA 50501,as Executor.Claims against the es-tate may be filed in theOffice of the CircuitClerk, Lee CountyCourthouse, 309 S.Galena Avenue, Dixon,IL 61021, or with theRepresentative, orboth, not later thanJuly 21, 2011. Anyclaim not filed on orbefore that date isbarred. Copies of aclaim filed with theClerk must be mailedor delivered by theclaimant to the Repre-sentative and to theattorney within 10days after it has beenfiled.Corrine E. Canon asExecutor of the Estateof Harlan Lee Fry,Deceased.

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NOTICEPublic Notice is here-by given that on Jan-uary 28, A.D. 2011, acertificate was filed inthe office of the Coun-ty Clerk of WhitesideCounty, Illinois, settingforth the names andpost-office addressesof all of the personsowning, conductingand transacting thebusiness known asLove-4-Tatts locatedat 25190 Front St.Sterling, IL 61081.Dated this 28th day ofJanuary, A.D. 2011.

Dana NelsonCounty Clerk

February 3,10,17,2011

"THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBTAND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE"W10-1030Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, asIndenture Trustee, for New Century HomeEquity Loan Trust 2005-4;Plaintiff,VS.Brian Slaunwhite Carla Slaunwhite; et. al;Defendants.Case No. 10 CH 82Judge Presiding.NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE OFREAL ESTATEMORTGAGE FORECLOSURENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to ajudgment heretofore entered by the said courtoccurred in the above entitled cause, SheriffKelly C. Wilhelmi, Sheriff of Whiteside County,Illinois, will on March 3, 2011, at the hour of10:00 AM at Whiteside County Courthouse,Third Floor Lobby, 200 E. Knox St., Morrison, IL61270, sell at public auction to the highest bid-der for cash, all and singular, the following de-scribed real estate in the said judgment men-tioned, situated in the County of Whiteside,State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall besufficient to satisfy such judgment to wit:THE EASTERLY 73 1/2 FEET OF LOT TWELVEIN BLOCK 31, WEST OF BROADWAY, IN THECITY OF STERLING, IN WHITESIDE COUNTY,ILLINOIS.C/K/A: 311 6th Avenue, Sterling, IL 61081PIN: 11-22-351-009The person to contact regarding information re-garding this property is: Sales Dept., TheWirbicki Law Group, 33 W. Monroe St., Suite1140, Chicago, IL 60603. Any questions re-garding this sale should refer to file numberW10-1030. The terms of the sale are Cash.10% at time of sale, with the balance due within24 hours. The property is improved by: SFH.The Property is not open for inspection prior tosale.The real estate, together with all buildings andimprovements thereon, and tenements, heredi-tament and appurtenances thereunto belongingshall be sold under such terms.Russell C. Wirbicki (6186310)Diana A. Carpintero (6274662)Kenneth J. Nannini (3121924)Denelle L. Cooper (6257751)The Wirbicki Law GroupAttorney for Plaintiff33 W. Monroe St., Suite 1140Chicago, IL 60603Phone: 312-360-9455Fax: 312-572-7823W10-1030

January 20, 27, February 3, 2011

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THEFOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOISESTATE OFFERN E. STROPES,DECEASED

IN PROBATEDOCKET NO. 2011-P-11

CLAIM NOTICENotice is given of the death of FERN E.STROPES, Whiteside County, Illinois. Letters ofoffice were issued on January 19, 2011, toDAVID W. STROPES of 3621 Sunrise RanchRd., Southlake, TX 76092, as Independent Ex-ecutor, whose attorney is John W. Bean ofNASH NASH BEAN & FORD, LLP, 445 U.S.Hwy. 6 East, P.O. Box 63, Geneseo, IL 61254.Claims against the estate may be filed in theCircuit Clerk's office, Whiteside County CourtHouse, Morrison, Illinois, 61270 or with the rep-resentative or both, on or before the 27th day ofJuly, 2011, or, if mailing or delivery of a noticefrom the representative is required by Section18-=3 of the Probate Act of 1975, the date stat-ed in that notice. Any claim not filed within thatperiod is barred. Copies of a claim filed with theClerk must be mailed or delivered to the repre-sentative and to the attorney within 10 days af-ter it has been filed.

David W. Stropes as Executor ofthe Fern E. Stropes Estate

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"THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBTAND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE"W09-2103IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 14TH JU-DICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY -MORRISON, ILLINOISWells Fargo Bank N.A., as Trustee, for Car-rington Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2006-NC1 Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certifi-cates;Plaintiff,VS.Roy Dale Megli; et. al;Defendants.09 CH 197NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE OFREAL ESTATEMORTGAGE FORECLOSURENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to ajudgment heretofore entered by the said courtoccurred in the above entitled cause, SheriffKelly C. Wilhelmi, Sheriff of Whiteside County,Illinois, will on March 3, 2011, at the hour of10:00 AM at Whiteside County Courthouse,Third Floor Lobby, 200 E. Knox St., Morrison, IL61270, sell at public auction to the highest bid-der for cash, all and singular, the following de-scribed real estate in the said judgment men-tioned, situated in the County of Whiteside,State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall besufficient to satisfy such judgment to wit:PART OF LOT 1, BLOCK 8 OF SAYER`S ACRESNO. 1 SUBDIVISION LOCATED IN THE SOUTH1/2 OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 21 NORTH,RANGE 7 EAST OF THE FOURTH PRINCIPALMERIDIAN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COM-MENCING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OFSAID LOT 1; THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY ONTHE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 1, 95FEET; THENCE NORTHERLY PARALLEL WITHTHE WESTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 1, 170FEET; THENCE WESTERLY PARALLEL WITHTHE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 1, 95FEET TO THE WESTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT1; THENCE SOUTHERLY TO THE PLACE OFBEGINNING.C/K/A: 2203 Steven Street, Rock Falls, IL 61071PIN: 11-26-402-015The person to contact regarding information re-garding this property is: Sales Dept., TheWirbicki Law Group, 33 W. Monroe St., Suite1140, Chicago, IL 60603. Any questions re-garding this sale should refer to file numberW09-2103. The terms of the sale are Cash.10% at time of sale, with the balance due within24 hours. The property is improved by: SFH.The Property is not open for inspection prior tosale.The real estate, together with all buildings andimprovements thereon, and tenements, heredi-tament and appurtenances thereunto belongingshall be sold under such terms.Russell C. Wirbicki (6186310)Diana A. Carpintero (6274662)Kenneth J. Nannini (3121924)Denelle L. Cooper (6257751)The Wirbicki Law GroupAttorney for Plaintiff33 W. Monroe St., Suite 1140Chicago, IL 60603Phone: 312-360-9455Fax: 312-572-7823W09-2103


THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBTAND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILLBE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE10-044582

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

WHITESIDE COUNTY, MORRISON, ILLINOISPHH MORTGAGE CORPORATIONPLAINTIFF,-vs-JOHN P. BRITT; DIANE C. BRITT A/K/A DI-ANE CECILIA BRITT; UNKNOWN OWNERSAND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTSDEFENDANTS

10 CH 257PUBLICATION NOTICE

The requisite affidavit for publication havingbeen filed, notice is hereby given you Diane C.Britt a/k/a Diane Cecilia Britt and UnknownOwners and Non-Record Claimants.Defendants in the above entitled suit, that thesaid suit has been commenced in the CircuitCourt of Whiteside County, by the said Plaintiffagainst you and other defendants, praying forthe foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveyingthe premises described as follows, to wit:LOT 1 AND PART OF LOT 3 IN THE RESUBDI-VISION OF BLOCK 8 IN KNOX'S ADDITION TOTHE CITY OF MORRISON, AND BLOCK 7 INJOHNSON AND GRIDLEY'S ADDITION TO THECITY OF MORRISON AND PART OF NORTHAND JOHNSON STREET DESCRIBED AS FOL-LOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THEWESTERLY LINE OF LOT 3 WHICH IS 144FEET NORTHERLY FROM THE SOUTHWEST-ERLY CORNER OF SAID LOT 3; THENCEEASTERLY ALONG A LINE PARALLEL WITHTHE SOUTHERLY LINE OF BLOCK 8 INKNOX'S ADDITION, A DISTANCE OF 84 FEET;THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG A LINE PARAL-LEL WITH THE WESTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT3 TO THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF THE ALLEY;THENCE WESTERLY ALONG THE SOUTHER-LY LINE OF THE ALLEY WHICH IS ALSO THENORTH LINE OF SAID LOTS 3 AND 1, TO THENORTHWESTERLY CORNER OF SAID LOT 1;THENCE SOUTHERLY ON THE WEST LINE OFSAID LOTS 1 AND 3 TO THE PLACE OF BE-GINNING, SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OFWHITESIDE, IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.Commonly known as 506 North GeneseeStreet, Morrison, IL 61270Permanent Index No.: 09-18-227-009and which said Mortgage was made by John P.Britt and Diane C. Britt Mortgagors, to Mort-gage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., asNominee for AMCORE Bank, N.A. as Mort-gagee, and recorded in the office of theRecorder of Deeds of Whiteside County, Illinois,Document No. 2515-2008.And for other relief; that summons was duly is-sued out of the said Court against you as pro-vided by law, and that the suit is now pending.Now therefore, unless you, the said abovenamed defendants, file your answer to theComplaint in the said suit or otherwise makeyour appearance therein, the office of the Clerkof the Circuit Court of Whiteside County, in theCity of Morrison, Illinois, on or before the 30thday after the first publication of this noticewhich is March 8, 2011. Default may be enteredagainst you at any time after that day and ajudgment entered in accordance with the prayerof said Complaint.Nicholas J. PolydorosFisher and Shapiro, LLCAttorneys for Plaintiff2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301Bannockburn, IL 60015(847)291-1717 Ext. 4264Attorney No: 6300572

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"THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ADEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINEDWILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE"W09-2103IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 14THJUDICIAL CIRCUIT WHITESIDE COUNTY -MORRISON, ILLINOISWells Fargo Bank N.A., as Trustee, forCarrington Mortgage Loan Trust, Series2006-NC1 Asset-Backed Pass-ThroughCertificates;Plaintiff,VS.Roy Dale Megli; et. al;Defendants.09 CH 197NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE OFREAL ESTATE MORTGAGE FORECLOSURENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant toa judgment heretofore entered by the saidcourt occurred in the above entitled cause,Sheriff Kelly C. Wilhelmi, Sheriff of WhitesideCounty, Illinois, will on March 3, 2011, at thehour of 10:00 AM at Whiteside County Court-house, Third Floor Lobby, 200 E. Knox St.,Morrison, IL 61270, sell at public auction tothe highest bidder for cash, all and singular,the following described real estate in the saidjudgment mentioned, situated in the Countyof Whiteside, State of Illinois, or so muchthereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy suchjudgment to wit:C/K/A: 2203 Steven Street, Rock Falls, IL61071PIN: 11-26-402-015The person to contact regarding informationregarding this property is: Sales Dept., TheWirbicki Law Group, 33 W. Monroe St., Suite1140, Chicago, IL 60603. Any questions re-garding this sale should refer to file numberW09-2103. The terms of the sale are Cash.10% at time of sale, with the balance duewithin 24 hours. The property is improvedby: SFH. The Property is not open for in-spection prior to sale. The real estate, together with all buildingsand improvements thereon, and tenements,hereditament and appurtenances thereuntobelonging shall be sold under such terms.Russell C. Wirbicki (6186310) Diana A. Carpintero (6274662) Kenneth J. Nannini (3121924) Denelle L. Cooper (6257751) The Wirbicki Law Group Attorney for Plaintiff 33 W. Monroe St., Suite 1140 Chicago, IL 60603 Phone: 312-360-9455 Fax: 312-572-7823 W09-2103


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1585 WINNETKA ST., DIXON, ILLINOISAt the Old Lee County Courthouse, 121 W. Third Street, Dixon, Illinois, I, Sheriff John Varga,having designated by the Circuit COurt of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Lee County, Illinois in the case entitled STERLING FEDERAL BANK, F.S.B. V. WILLIAM J. MADDING, LACRETIA A. MADDING, AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, case No. 10 CH 84 as sale officer, to conduct the sale, will sell the following described property at public auction to the highest qualified bidder.LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Lots 23 and 24 in Block 12 in Woodland Shores Subdivision No. 1,located in Sections 10 and 15, Township 21 North, Range 8 East of the 4th P.M., according to the Plat thereof recorded December 20, 1963 in Book”F” of Plats, pages 82 and 83,situated in the County of Lee and State of Illinois.DESCRIPTION: 1 bedroom, 1 bath bungalow located on 3 lots, 0.47 acres, 768 above ground sq. feet, finished basement with additional bedroom and recreation room, 1 car garage, concrete patio, commonly known as 1585 Winnetka Street Dixon, Illinois.INSPECTION: Contact Lloyd Henry, Sterling Federal Bank, F.S.B., 110 E. Fourth Street,Sterling, Illinois 61081; 815-622-3413 to determine if the property is available for inspec-tion.TERMS OF SALE: 10% down day of sale, balance upon delivery of deed and pos-session. All funds shall by CASH, BANK DRAFT, or CERTIFIED CHECK. Title policy will be furnished. Sale is subject to taxes for 2010 and all subsequent years and subject to the right of United States of America to redeem the property for one hundred and twenty days from the date the sale is confirmed. TAXES WILL NOT BE PRORATED. A contact embodying the terms of this notice and such additional terms as deemed appropriate,will be signed by the sale officer on behalf of the court and by the buyer at the time of the sale. Any sale is subject to court approval. Any specific restrictions on property or title will be announced day of sale. Announcements day of sale take precedence over any printed material.

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Attorneys for Estate:Stephen C. Myers - Myers, Berry, O’Connor & Kuzma, Streator, Illinois

Contact: For Sales Brochure or additional information

Email: [email protected]

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2009 Chevrolet Cobalt #B0406 .... $11,999*

2009 Nissan Versa #B0412............. $11,995*

2009 Mitsubishi Galant #B0399... $13,999*

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2004 Kia Sedona$7,995*#B0418A

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2007 Chevrolet Trailblazer$17,999*#B0429

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2001 Dodge Caravan #B0363B ........ $6,995*

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2005 Ford Focus ZX4 #B0423A ....... $8,999*

2005 Chevrolet 2500HD #B0398A $18,999*

2006 Chrysler Pacifi ca #B0369B . $12,995*

2007 Dodge Caravan #B0427........ $13,995*

2007 Chevrolet Malibu Maxx#B0410 ......................................................... $12,999*

2007 Chevrolet Silverado #B0420 ......................................................... $25,995*

2007 Dodge Ram #B0428................. $24,999*

2008 Toyota Camry #B0403 ........... $18,999*

2009 Chevrolet Impala #B0394 .... $11,999*

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2009 Chevrolet Cobalts LT, 3 to Choose, 30+ MPG ......................................................... From $9,999*2005 Ford 500 SE, Clean Car, Tons of Room, Only 84,000 Miles...................................................$7,999*2004 Chevrolet Cavalier, Sport, Sunroof, Chromes, Nice!............................................................$6,999*2003 Dodge Grand Caravan, Low Miles, Extra Clean, Leather, 1 Owner!! ..................................$8,999*2003 Ford Windstar LX, Only 63,000 Miles, Clean Clean Machine!..............................................$7,999*2002 Dodge Durango SLT, Leather, Moonroof, 3rd Seat, Only 93,000 Miles, Very Nice! .............$9,999*2002 Dodge Grand Caravan SE, Clean Trade, New Transmission! .............................................$4,999*2000 Chevrolet Cavalier, Sunroof, Very Clean! New Tires, Auto/AC ............................................$5,499*1999 Ford Expedition XLT, 3rd Seat...............................................................................................$5,999*

2010 CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRYTouring, Like New! Loaded with Nice Equipment

Priced Like Most 08’s! SALE $19,999*

DEAL OF THE WEEK

2008 NISSANALTIMA 2.5S

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2010 NISSAN SENTRA SR

Only 8,000 Miles, Sunroof

2010 CHEVROLETMALIBU LT

V6, Like New, Only 29,000 Miles

2010 FORD FUSIONOnly 13,000 Miles

2009 PONTIAC VIBE GTOnly 17,000 Miles, Loaded

2007 VW JETTAOnly 28,000 Miles

2010 TOYOTACOROLLA “S”

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2 to Choose!

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$13,999*

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$12,999*

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$11,999*

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$12,999*

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1824 N. Locust Street

(815)625.2700STERLING CHEVROLET

*Prices do not include tax, title, license and doc fees. All sale prices after all available rebates. **1.9% for 36 months with ALLY

Bank. With approved credit. Not everyone will qualify. †Must own a ‘99 or newer GM vehicle to qualify for full rebate. MPG per

www.fueleconomy.gov. See dealer for details. Pictures are for illustration purposes only. Dealer not liable for errors. All pricing

ends 2/15/2011. A39 month lease at 12,000 miles per year. Plus tax, title, d&h Lease payment with $2,999 cash or

trade equity cash cap reduction. ALLY Bank with approved credit. Not everyone will qualify. See dealer for details.

$16,788*

Power Seat, Heated Seats, Sunroof,

6 CD Changer, Anti-lock Brakes, STK #Q663

$14,788*

8-way Power Seat, 8 Speaker Sound System,

Remote Vehicle Start, Leather Seats, STK #Q672

STK #404

$12,988*

Leather Seats, Heated Seats, All Wheel

Drive, Cruise Control, STK #Q607A

$17,988*

Very Low Miles, 2.4L 4-cyl. Engine, Anti-lock

Brakes, Keyless Entry, Traction Control,

Full Factory Warranty, STK #Q560

STK #410

$23,988*

Keyless Entry, Cruise Control, XM Radio,

Factory Warranty, Alloy Wheels, STK #Q639

$12,988*

Stabilitrack, 2.2L Ecotech Engine, Automatic,

Anti-lock Brakes, STK #Q567

www.sterlingchevy.com

$8,910*

STK #165MSRP $15,810Discount -$1,900Rebate -$3,000ALLY Bonus -$1,000Loyalty† -$1,000

$14,945*

STK #205

MSRP $19,345Discount -$1,900Rebate -$1,500Loyalty† -$1000

SalePrice

SalePrice

$12,988*

Electronic Traction Control,

Anti-lock Brakes, 6-way Power Seat,

Full Factory Warranty, STK #Q611

STK #307

$159Leasefor

PerMonthA

MSRP $23,140

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$199Leasefor

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MSRP $24,520 MSRP $18,570

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PerMonthA

IF YOU ASKED US TO CALL YOUWHEN WE HAD A GREAT DEAL -

THIS IS YOUR CALL!ASSEENASSEE

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