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Wanted: County administratorCounty board members meet

at the drawing board

By Goldie [email protected]

PRINCETON — The Fees and Salaries Commit-tee of the Bureau County Board went to the draw-ing board on Thursday

to begin putting togeth-er a job description for the future county board administrator position.

Using the previous job description of the posi-tion from 2007 as a foun-dation, the board mem-bers combed through the

document as they brain-stormed areas that needed to be added or subtracted to the foundation.

Discussion was led by board member Steve Sondgeroth.

Board member Tom Dobrich started out by saying he felt the 2007 description of the position was a great start of what he felt the county is looking for today, but he agreed

the description needed updating and revisions.

In a general discus-sion about the position, it became clear the com-mittee is leaning toward the idea the administra-tor would be a human resources “go-to” person.

“What we would want this administrator to do for us is be that person elected officials could go to help them with their

employees,” Dobrich said.County board mem-

ber Marshann Entwhistle added the county needs a person to develop policies for all elected officials to use as a general guide for various issues.

It was agreed by all that the administrator would not be a supervisor over the elected officials, but more a collaborator and guide to efficiently solve

matters related to policy.“They would collaborate

with elected officials with a goal to set a policy that works across the board,” said Dobrich.

“We need someone that has the skills set to work and present informa-tion in such a way that an elected official says, ‘I can see the value in that,’”

Manlius Fire gets grant

Money will be used to aid in firefighter safety

By Goldie [email protected]

MANLUS — The Man-lius Fire Protection Dis-trict is $19,539.25 rich-er thanks to the Small Equipment Grant Pro-gram, which provides funds to various fire departments around the state.

Manlius was chosen as one of 50 fire depart-ments to receive money this year through the state program.

The departments are able to use the money on safety equipment, pro-tective clothing, breath-ing apparatus and other tools for firefighters.

Manlius Fire Protec-tion District was the only department in Bureau County to receive a por-tion of the total $945,845 investment.

Aaron Roush, Manlius fire chief, was pleased upon hearing about being chosen for the grant.

“It’s a huge relief for a small department,” he said. “With the rising costs of everything, it’s weight of the shoulders for something you’d nor-mally have to wait three or fours years to save for.”

Roush said the fire pro-tection district will use the money to replace about 25 air cylinder bot-tles, which are used for the breathing apparatus firefighters wear when entering a structure fire.

Roush said the typical air cylinder bottle can last about 15 years. He said the grant came at the right time as Manlius’

equipment was coming up on their last years to be used, and the district would have had to use money out of their pock-ets for the replacement.

“As far as safety, it’s a huge thing for us. It will help keep everyone safe and will keep our equip-ment up to date, so when we show up on scene, we won’t want to worry about someone’s safety,” he said.

According to a press release issued by Gov. Pat Quinn’s office, the investments for the Small Equipment Grant pro-gram are supported by a small percentage of the fire insurance sales sold in Illinois.

The Illinois State Fire Marshal’s office received 328 applications request-ing more than $6.9 mil-lion in funding this year. The Small Equipment Grant committee, com-prised of members of the fire service, exam-ined the applications in a blind review and rec-ommended the $945,845 in available grant money to be awarded to 50 of the fire departments who submitted applications. The departments were eligible for grants up to $26,000.

“This grant program is a critical resource in these tight times for municipal budgets,” Illinois State Fire Marshal Larry Mat-kaitis said. “These funds help first responders obtain the right equip-ment and tools that meet current safety standards.”

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Report card time in DePueOtto: ‘We

have a gap to close’

By Zita [email protected]

DePue — “There real-ly isn’t anything on the school report card that we aren’t already working on,” said DePue District Superintendent Randall Otto.

The school report cards for all public schools in Illinois were released in late October and provide

a range of information about Illinois schools. Information on class size, teacher and administrator salaries, students’ average test scores, and more can be found through the Illinois Report Card Website (illi-noisreportcard.com).

“Our test scores have been historically low, however unlike many dis-tricts, we made the change to straight Common Core a few years ago,” said Otto, “It wasn’t until now that our students were getting

tested on what they had been learning.”

The recent scores at DePue Schools fell below

the state average. The Ready For College Coursework (RCC) score provides the

percentage of students who scored a com-bined score of

21 or higher on the ACT. The RCC

score in DePue was 17 percent, compared to 46 percent in the state.

The Prairie State Achievement Exam (PSAE) tests students in both reading and mathemat-ics. The report card shows

the DePue district had 31 percent of its students meet the state standards in these areas. The state average was 54 percent.

“We hope that we will see an increase in our scores as time goes on,” said Otto. He explained the school has imple-mented various programs to raise test scores faster, where quality results have already been seen.

In past years, DePue had a high graduation rate with 100 percent of its students graduating in four years in 2011. How-ever, in the past two years

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Elks delivering baskets, good cheer

By Goldie Currie [email protected]

PRINCETON — The Prince-ton Elks Lodge is revving up for its annual Christmas basket dis-tribution.

This year, Princeton Elks members plan to fill and distrib-ute 120 baskets to low income families throughout Bureau County.

The Christmas basket tradi-tion started 62 years ago, accord-ing to Princeton Elks Trustee Penny Best. In its first years, members were able to distribute 12 bushel baskets to families. The food to fill baskets was col-lected and brought in by mem-bers each year.

Later on down the road, the Princeton Elks decided to include either one boy or one girl toy to baskets that were going to homes with children.

Like today, the baskets were hand-delivered to families just shortly before Christmas.

The baskets have always included enough food for fami-lies to cook and enjoy through-out Christmas day.

This year, the Princeton Elks were able to raise $5,221.50 which goes to purchasing all foods for the baskets.

Each year on the day before the baskets are delivered, the food is taken to the lodge and unloaded. Filling stations are set up, and Best said anywhere from 100 to 150 volunteers show up to put together the baskets.

The Princeton Elks partners with the Bureau County Food Pantry and Western Bureau County Food Pantry as they pro-vide names of families who are selected to receive the baskets each year.

The Princeton Elks have received help from several com-munity groups and local busi-nesses over the years that have contributed to the food baskets program.

This year, Best said the local band, The Generics Goodies Band, are selling its new Christ-mas album at $5 a CD and decid-ed to donate their sale proceeds to the Christmas baskets.

“It’s just a wonderful, wonder-ful program that we enjoy doing each year,” Best said.

The Christmas baskets will be distributed between 9 a.m. and noon on Saturday, Dec. 21.

Recipients of the baskets have to be home to accept them, Best said. If no one is home, the bas-kets cannot be left.


Princeton Lodge continues 62-year tradition of good citizenship

BCR photo/Goldie CurrieVanessa Hoffeditz (seated left), director of the Tri-County Council Opportunities Food Pantry in Princeton, Mary Lanham (seated right), manager of the Western Bureau County Food Pantry in Sheffield, Penny Best (back row, from left), Princeton Elks Club trustee; Les Wooden, Princeton Elks Club Leading Knight and Marie Roth, Exalted Ruler of Princeton Elks Club, pose with some of the new toys which have been collected for the Elks annual Christmas toy and food basket distribution.

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Geronimo Energy donates to Buddy Bags programGeronimo Energy project manager Tom Swierczewski (left) presents a $500 check to Pastor Brenda Lovick of the Manlius Trinity Lutheran Church, which houses and orchestrates the Buddy Bags program for the Bureau Valley School District. Buddy Bags sends home food for children to eat during the weekend and other times when they are not in school. The $500 check will go toward replenishing the food supply.

Wyanet: Taxes to increase slightlyBy Becky kramer

[email protected]

WYANET — Taxes will be increasing in Wyanet, but not by much. The Wyanet Village Board adopted the 2014-15 tax levy at the meeting Tues-day night. The board approved a 3.99 percent increase, which will bring the village $4,707 in total new revenue.

Village Clerk Shelley Teske indicated the tax rate is increasing from 1.582 percent to 1.686 per-cent.

Due to declining equal-ized assessed valuation, the village will still lose tax money in the upcoming year.

Health insurance for vil-lage employees is increas-ing by 9.6 percent. The board voted unanimously to pass half of the increase, 4.8 percent, on to the employees.

Forty new water meters

have been installed in the village. The village work-ers have encountered a few problems where water softeners are installed close to the meters. Resi-dents will need to unhook any appliance next to the meter before their sched-uled appointment for replacement.

Residents are able to contact Teske at the vil-lage hall to schedule their replacement time.

The board approved purchasing an additional 50 meters.

Village workers also were busy replacing bro-ken drainage tile at the corner of Fifth Street and Maple Street. The repairs will cost approximately $20,000, but the village saved at least $20,000 by completing the work themselves.

The board would like to remind residents they are allowed two, 35-gallon gar-bage cans per week. Cans must not weigh more than

50 pounds and must not have garbage sticking out of the top. Extra bags need to have stickers attached. There is a $10 charge if the rules are broken.

In other news:• Police Chief Todd Mar-

quez provided the board with his monthly activity report.

• There is still an open-ing on the board. If anyone is interested, they should contact Wyanet Village President Bruce Hand.

• There was discussion about providing residents with an after-hours vil-lage number in case of an emergency. Teske is going to look into a couple dif-ferent possibilities.

• The new pump for the fluoride tank has been installed.

• Several new trees will be planted in the parks.

The next scheduled meeting will be at 7 p.m. Jan. 13 in the village hall.


Crundwell attorney: Restitution achieved; Crundwell should get pension

By Shaw media Service

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DIXON — The fate of pensions earned by former Dixon Comptroller Rita Crundwell could hinge on whether the city has been made whole – monetarily speaking – after her theft of nearly $54 million.

Crundwell’s attorney, Ruth Robinson, filed a motion in federal court last week to argue that the city had recovered nearly all of its losses. That’s part of the reason, she asserted, that her client should not have her retirement funds seized by the government and put toward restitution to the city.

“Here the restitution as ordered by the court was for the purpose of compen-sating the victims of the defendant’s fraud, the city of Dixon,” Robinson wrote. “To that end, that purpose has been achieved.”

Additionally, Robinson said the pension funds, which total $90,565.86, were not included in the assets identified for for-feiture before Crundwell entered a guilty plea last year, so there has been no due process for them to be turned over to the city.

Citing court cases, Rob-inson said restitution is meant as a civil remedy for the victim, not a puni-tive judgment against the defendant.

“Although some balance of restitution no doubt remains, the vast majority of the restitution, over $50 million has been paid to the victim, with approxi-

mately one-quarter of that coming from property of the defendant,” Robinson wrote in her motion.

The city has received about $9.3 million from the sale of Crundwell’s assets, including her homes, farm and horses. The city also settled a lawsuit with its former auditors and bank for $40 million, of which legal fees took about $10 million.

The Illinois Pension Code exempts retirement funds from seizure, which was noted in the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund’s motion to the court. IMRF argued that despite her felony convic-tion, Crundwell is entitled to the pension.

Crundwell is serving 19 years, 7 months in fed-eral prison in Waseca, Minn. She is expected to be released in 2030, when she’s 77.

Upon release, Crundwell will have to pay 10 percent of her net monthly income toward restitution, Robin-son noted, which would include the pension reim-bursements.

“The remainder of those funds will be required for her support,” Robinson wrote. “Given the fact that the victims in this case have obtained near resti-tution presently and are financially solvent and doing well, it would seem that the court should put the onus on the defendant to support herself upon her release and to not end up on public aid.”

In her motion, Robinson included comments by Mayor Jim Burke, who had said that Dixon was “the

most financially solvent city in the Midwest,” which was indirectly a result of the Crundwell scandal.

“I think it’s ridiculous,” Burke said in an interview Monday. “For one thing, she owes the city millions of dollars, by a court order. With that meager 30 cents an hours or whatever she gets, she’ll never be able to pay that back.”

The mayor said he wrote a letter to Judge Phil-ip Reinhard a few weeks ago to object to any funds going to Crundwell. Burke said he thought it was important for the judge to know how Dixon residents feel.

The turnover motions – for the IMRF fund and Nationwide Retirement Solutions fund – were pre-sented in federal court in Rockford in September.

At the time, Nation-wide did not object to the motion but asked that 20 percent of the $17,461.36 be kept for taxes, said Joe Stewart of the Financial Litigation Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s office.

A Nov. 5 deadline to file a motion contesting the turnover was set by Judge Reinhard, who also denied Crundwell’s request for a court-appointed attorney. That deadline was extend-ed to last Friday, after Rob-inson became Crundwell’s attorney. The defense motion was filed Thursday.

Robinson didn’t imme-diately respond Monday to a request for comment.

The government has until Dec. 19 to reply to Crundwell’s motion.


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Smith is new Walnut Board memberBy Nita [email protected]

WALNUT— The Wal-nut Village Board recent-ly approved a new board member.

Sharon Smith was unanimously approved to fill the village board seat, vacated by the resignation of Deb Quinn. Immedi-ately following the vote, acting village President Dennis Grobe gave the oath of office to Smith, and she took her seat at the board table.

Grobe also report-ed he had been in dis-cussions with Joe Birkey, village auditor and Rob LeSage, village attorney; those two village repre-sentatives explained to Grobe the board could pay for the engineering invoices currently being received in conjunction with the upcoming sewer improvement project by borrowing money from other village funds with the understanding those funds would be repaid when the Illinois EPA loan funds are received by the village.

By borrowing from other funds to pay for the engineering invoices, the village will be able to save interest if the village obtained a bank loan to pay these invoices. The board agreed with Grobe that paying in this man-ner is a much more cost effective way to cover these expenses.

The proposed sewer improvement project is still scheduled to begin in June 2015. The current sewer plant building may be demolished before that time, but the main groundbreaking will be in June.

The village clerk and the village treasurer are asking the village to buy a new combination print-er/fax/copier for the vil-lage office. A bid in the amount of $4,832 had been obtained from SBM Business Equipment Cen-ter, Sterling. There would be an additional $156 charge each month for all maintenance, toner, etc. The board approved the request.

In other business at the village board meeting, Grobe stated the Gener-

al Liability Workman’s Compensation insurance premium will be decreas-ing for 2015 by $136. This decrease in premium is due to the village’s expe-rience module number dropping below 1.00 to .98. Anything over 1.00 causes an increase in the cost of this insurance. The experience module number is raised and low-ered dependent upon the number of workmen’s compensation cases filed with the insurance com-pany.

Tiffany Pistole, village clerk, proposed holiday hours for taverns located within the village limits. Her proposal was for the following: Christmas Eve — taverns would serve last drinks at 6 p.m. with the tavern to be emptied and closed by 6:30 p.m.; New Year’s Eve — taverns to serve last drinks at 2 a.m., with the tavern to be emptied and closed by 2:30 a.m. These proposed times were approved by the board.

The next Village Board Meeting will be on its reg-ularly scheduled day of Dec. 15.

added Sondgeroth.It was also discussed

the county administrator would be a “go-to” person if one of the county offic-es was looking for a new employee. The adminis-trator could be one who would assist in finding a

person with the right skill set for the needed job, would warrant the posi-tion and confirm it was in the county’s budget to hire that new person.

Sondgeroth said the administrator would have to have the skills set to assist the offices in find-ing employees.

While the committee is still in the beginning stag-

es of developing the posi-tion, Sondgeroth said he plans to meet with elected officials to get their input on what they feel is need-ed out of the position.

The committee plans to meet again at 5 p.m. Dec. 18 to continue discussion and planning for the posi-tion.


the four-year graduation rate in DePue has dropped below the state average. In 2013 DePue had 78 per-cent of its students gradu-ate, while the state had 83 percent. This year, DePue saw a graduation rate of 81 percent, compared to the state’s average of 86 per-cent.

“Our graduation rate went down because we have had a rise in ‘super seniors’ the last couple of years,” said Otto. He explained, these students return to get their diplo-mas, but because they do not graduate with their original class, the numbers become skewed.

After leaving DePue Schools, 33 percent of stu-dents enroll in college with-in 12 months and 46 per-cent do within 16 months. In the state, 69 percent of students enroll in college within 12 months, and 73 percent within 16 months.

However, while at school

in DePue, students have a 95 percent attendance rate, same as the state. In recent years, the DePue atten-dance rate has been one or two percentage points higher than the average rate within the state.

The DePue district is a smaller school than the average in the state with an average class size of 17 students. The average in the state is 21 students per class.

DePue also has a small-er instructional spend-ing rate than the average in the state. The instruc-tional spending per pupil includes the money spent on activities directly deal-ing with instruction and student/teacher interac-tion. Instructional spend-ing per pupil in DePue was $6,924, whereas the state’s average was $7,094. These amounts have both seen a gradual increase over the last few years.

DePue has seen finan-cial changes in other areas as well. The average teacher salary in DePue has dropped in the last

year from $43,414 in 2013 to $40,232 in 2014. Otto explained, this is due to the influx of younger teachers within the district. In the state the current average teacher salary is $62,434.

The average adminis-trative salary, however, has increased in the last year. Otto said, “The slight increase in administrative (salary) is because I am getting into the pipeline for retirement.”

The average DePue administrative salary has risen from $83,430 in 2013 to $85,092. The current average administrative sal-ary in the state is consider-ably higher at $101, 096.

Otto said these results and more can be found through a link on the DePue District’s website, www.depueschools.org.

“I guess the only thing that I would like to have our parents realize is that their students are learning. We have a gap to close, and we are working diligently on that,” he said.


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Meeting MinutesIVCC Board

OGLESBY — Illinois Val-ley Community College trustees agreed to a five-year lease extension on Dec. 11 which will keep its satellite campus in Ottawa at least through 2019.

The board agreed to the same leasing costs it signed in 2009 for the 11,000-square-foot Otta-wa Center at 321 W. Main St. IVCC will pay $12 per square foot the first two years, $13 the third year and $14 the final two. The city of Ottawa will also pro-vide janitorial services and $10,000 in IT upgrades.

“The city has been an indispensable and thoughtful partner in this mutually beneficial arrangement,” said IVCC President Jerry Corcoran. “Thousands of students on the east side of our district have taken advantage of the convenience and qual-ity the IVCC Ottawa Center offers them.”

Ottawa Mayor Robert Eschbach, in attendance at the meeting, said, “This partnership has had the wonderful result of provid-ing the opportunity for a great many students from Ottawa and the district’s east side to benefit from IVCC’s many high-quality programs.

“Prior to the opening of the Ottawa Center, many of these students could afford neither the cost nor the time to travel to the Oglesby campus,” Eschbach said. “We are proud of a productive part-nership that has included a significant financial com-mitment by the city and hope to be working with IVCC for many years.”

The board also approved a tax levy of $11,516,762, a

4.41 percent increase from the 2013 extension. Due to tax rate limitations for the Education and Operations and Maintenance levies, the college rarely collects the entire levy request, said Vice President for Business Services and Finance Cher-yl Roelfsema.

In other action, the board approved:

• The appointment of Heather Seghi as dental assisting program instruc-tor and coordinator. A graduate of IVCC and a stu-dent at Illinois State Uni-versity, Seghi worked as a dental assistant at Alliance Dental Group in Oglesby.

• Bids totaling more than $1.7 million for Phase 3 work that includes con-struction of a student cen-ter, cyber café and emer-gency medical services lab and classroom. Apparent low bidders as general contractor and electrical contractor are Vissering Construction of Streator at $964,000 and JB Contract-ing of La Salle for $524,550. The Capital Develop-ment Board will issue the awards.

• In a related move, the board approved a request to the Capital Develop-ment Board to lower the Phase 3 contingency from 10 percent to 5 percent, a difference of $88,556.

• Health reimbursement accounts for employ-ees enrolled in the High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP). Reimbursements remain at $2,500 for indi-viduals and $5,000 for both ‘employee plus 1’ and fam-ily coverage. As of Jan. 1, 2016, HDHP will be the only coverage option for employees.

• Contracting with Hurst Review Services to provide a three-day live review

for nursing students pre-paring for the state board NCLEX examinations. Cost is $21,450 or $275 per stu-dent.

• The purchase of $25,948 in network fiber optic equipment from Bur-wood Group.

• Setting its 2015 meet-ing schedule for 6 p.m. the second Thursday of each month. Meetings will be Jan. 15 (an exception), Feb. 12, March 12, April 9, May 14, June 11, July 9, Aug. 13, Sept. 10, Oct. 8, Nov. 12 and Dec. 10.

The board also learned:• A total of 51 students

were served and 356 credit hours generated for spring semester at the Dec. 4 “Express Registration” at Ottawa Center. A similar program is planned for main campus from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6.

• The massage therapy program celebrated its graduation Wednesday with all graduates hav-ing passed their nation-al board exams for state licensure. “Program coor-dinator Cherie Monter-estelli and fellow faculty members can be proud of their 100 percent pass rate since implementing our new curriculum,” said Corcoran.

• A committee has been formed to ensure com-pliance with the state law mandating IVCC be smoke-free by July 1.

• A concrete pad will be poured this week for the Art in Architecture sculp-ture near the secondary entrance to the CTC and installation of the sundial could occur late next week.

• A new surface on park-ing Lot No. 1 and the addi-tion of an ADA parking lot in front of the CTC are vir-tually complete.

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Kay WrightHENRY — Kay E. Wright,

74, of rural Henry passed away Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014, at Kindred Hos-pital in Peoria.

Kay was Jan. 11, 1940, in Peoria to Charles and Mayme “Too-tie” (Koch) Moore. She married Merrill G. Wright on Nov. 29, 1957, in Henry. He survives.

Also surviving are three sons, John (Lynne) Wright of Tiskilwa, Dan (Michele) Wright of Henry and Ron (Brenda) Wright of Henry; and six grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and an infant son, Joey Wright.

Kay graduated from Sparland High School. She was a member of Boyd’s Grove United Methodist Church, Bradford. Kay was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.

Private memorial and graveside services were held Thursday, Dec. 11.

Memorials may be directed to the donor’s choice.

The Grant-Johnson Funeral Home, Bradford, is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be left at www.grant-john-sonfh.com.

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Police reports

Illinois State PoliceAccidents

A two-vehicle accident involving drivers Ryan J. Markham, 31, of Prince-ton and Cheryl R. Shan, 33, of Spring Valley occurred on Interstate 80 near Mile Marker 70 at 5:22 a.m. Dec. 8. Markham was charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. Shan was charged with operating an uninsured motor vehicle.

A one-vehicle accident involving driver Benjamin S. Csiszer, 34, of Somonauk occurred on Interstate 39 near Mile Marker 51 at 11:40 p.m. Dec. 7.

Spring Valley PoliceAccident

A 17-year-old Mark boy was transported to St. Margaret’s Hospital after a one-vehicle accident on U.S. Route 6 near Mary Street at 4:14 p.m. Nov. 30. The boy was charged was with driving too fast for conditions and improper lane usage.

Ohio High SchoolOHIO — The Ohio High

School Board of Education met in regular session on Nov. 24 with the following action taken or discussed:

• During audience participa-tion, Barb Bolin, an employee of Geronimo Energy spoke about the Walnut Ridge Wind Farm Project. President Harold Albrecht asked her to explain why the name of the project owners often changes during the process. Bolin explained this is very common. It doesn’t mean one company has deplet-ed its funding, it just goes through different stages and sometimes it changes hands through those different stages as the project matures based on that company’s expertise. The project is on track for start-ing construction in the spring of 2016 and finishing construction by the end of 2016. Bureau Valley will receive a majority of the wind turbines, but the Ohio School Districts will receive from 15 to 20 percent, which comes to about 16 turbines. Bolin explained the company feels not only should the school districts, Sauk Valley Communi-ty College, Ohio Township, Ohio Fire District, Ohio Library and Bureau County Soil & Water Conservation District receive tax revenue, but the owner, who comes from a small town, feels they should give back to the communities through charitable funding. A committee of local citizens will be put together to decide what projects the chari-

table funding donations will go to. Bolin thanked the board for considering the resolution of support.

• Board secretary Kelly Becker read the resolution in support of the Geronimo Ener-gy Wind Project proposed to the board. The resolution was approved.

• In new business, super-intendent Sharon Sweger told the board Princeton’s superin-tendent inquired if any of the district’s boys would be inter-ested in the wrestling team. It’s already too late this year, but something to consider for next year. Also, the LaMoille Schools superintendent talked to Sweger about an interest survey concerning co-oping soccer and dance. The board gave Sweger the go ahead to get information from students if there is any interest and continue discussions with both districts.

• Approved the resolution of estimated amounts for tentative levy as presented. There is no need for a levy hearing.

In the superintendent’s report, Sweger reported:

• Enrollment is 36 students in the grade school.

• Dennis Parkins, the archi-tect for the district, met with Sweger about the window bid specs including how she wants them split by districts and also split by partial project or full project. Parkins came back with an associate and measured the windows. He suggested starting the project in the spring, because labor

sometimes runs cheaper in the spring than summer as long as the work does not interfere with spring testing (noise affecting the students). The window installation should only affect one classroom at a time.

• By code, Sweger has to report to the board all FOIA requests she receives. This month she has received two. The first one wanted to know if the school had any painting or drywall work done between June of last year to present and they had not. The second one wanted the names of teachers who had absences in a certain time range and what they put down for their reason. Swe-ger was able to give them the teachers’ names and dates, but it violates confidentiality to say the reason for absence.

• Sweger, principal Jason Wilt, the school counselor and five parents met to look at ideas to address possible holes in College and Career Readiness at 7 p.m. Nov. 3. The commit-tee reviewed what is currently being done and what additional things they should be doing.

Principal Jason Wilt reported:• The Student Council had

a blood drive on Nov. 3. They had a good turnout and did a nice job.

• The Veterans Day program was very nice. There was a good turnout from the commu-nity including a few veterans in the crowd. The teachers and students did a nice job organiz-ing, and performing and speak-ing. Junior high teacher Jim Ellwanger, who served in Desert

Storm, did a presentation of his experience.

• Thanksgiving Feast was on Nov. 24. Thanks to parents and staff who volunteer their time to make the Thanksgiving Feast a success.

• The girls’ basketball started with the Princeton Tournament. They won one game, which was a great start for their season. The boys’ began with the AFC Turkey Tournament.

• The Christmas Concert was Dec 3.

• The school participated in the GI GO Fund again, which is where the staff pays $5 and they could wear jeans on Veter-ans Day. The school raised $60 to send to the program.

• The staff and administra-tion picked seven students to go with Wilt to a Youth Lead-ership Summit at IVCC. There were three speakers who talked about students and leadership roles. Wilt hopes students ben-efited from the program.

• Wilt talked about the PARCC Test the school will be doing this year. This will be a benchmark year because the school will be testing 100 per-cent Common Core. This year the high school will be tested in English and Algebra.

There was no need to go into executive session. The board approved to release the exec-utive session minutes from the Oct. 27 board meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 p.m. The next regularly scheduled meeting will be at 7 p.m. Dec. 15 in the school library.

Meeting Minutes

IIA Foundation offering scholarshipsBLOOMINGTON — Agriculture students

and Illinois Farm Bureau (IFB) members and their children may apply for college scholar-ships offered by the IAA Foundation, Illinois Farm Bureau’s charitable arm. Seventy-four scholarships, ranging from $1,000 to $7,500 per year, will be awarded in total of $179,800 for the 2015-2016 school year.

“We are pleased to help students through our growing scholarship program, which offers a wide variety of support to farm families, Illinois Farm Bureau members, and to those pursuing careers in agriculture “ said Susan Moore, director, IAA Foundation. “It is a great privilege to support our next generation of leaders, and encourage continuing education in agricultural fields.”

Students may apply for a variety of schol-arships, including three IAA Foundation Top Scholarships, where winners will each receive $7,500 awards. Another $7,500 award goes to the Illinois Farm Bureau Legacy of Leadership scholarship winner.

Students studying crop science and pursu-ing a master’s degree related to research are

eligible for the Illinois Soybean Association Crop Science Scholarships. Ten $4,000 schol-arship will be awarded to junior level majors. Recipients are then eligible for an additional $4,000 in this renewable program, providing a total of $8,000 for his or her junior and senior year of college.

Twenty-five $1,200 scholarships are avail-able to students from specific southern Illinois counties as part of the Dorothy and Wilhelm-ine Ratermann Memorial Scholarships.

Twelve Prairie Farms Dairy scholarships each worth $2,000 are available to patrons and employees of the company. An additional two $1,000 scholarships are available to produc-ers affiliated with the St. Louis District Dairy Council.

An additional 12 scholarships, ranging from $1,000 to $1,500, are available to students that meet certain criteria, including area of study, place of residence, previous 4-H experience and college or university attended.

Students receiving IAA Foundation Schol-arships who are enrolled in the Agriculture Department at Illinois State University or

Southern Illinois University may be eligible for additional scholarship funds from the Univer-sity. This partnership furthers the IAA Founda-tion’s effort to encourage top students to con-tinue their education at an Illinois institution.

All applicants must be high school seniors accepted for enrollment or students already enrolled at an accredited college, university or community college. Scholarships are awarded for exceptional academic ability, leadership and financial need. Previous winners of an IAA Foundation scholarship are eligible to apply again.

A full listing of available scholarships, eligi-bility guidelines and application documents are available at the Foundation website, www.iaafoundation.org. Completed applications must be postmarked on or before Feb. 1, 2015.

For more information, contact your county Farm Bureau, the IAA Foundation at 309-557-2230 or e-mail [email protected]. The Mission of the IAA Foundation, Illinois Farm Bureau’s charitable arm, is to fund education, research, and charitable activities that benefit Illinois farm families and agriculture.

Donations wanted for third annual PROMise salePRINCETON — The First United Methodist

Church of Princeton is accepting donations of new and gently used prom, pageant, home-coming and special occasion dresses for little girls, young ladies and women, as well as

accessories including jewelry, purses and shoes for the third annual PROMise sale. New this year, any who donates a prom dress five years or newer will receive a VIP pass to get into the sale the night before to shop. Proceeds of the

2015 PROMise sale will benefit the Bureau County Food Pantry and FUMC Children and Youth Ministries. Dress donations may be dropped off at the church, located at 316 S. Church St. For questions, call 815-872-2821.

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Terri Simoneditor

O TannenbaumThe shortest distance between

a young husband/father and a Merry Christmas is a straight line. I learned that the hard way.

When my son was little, my wife and I thought it would be nice to take our small family to a Christmas tree farm to cut down our own tree. We wanted a nice memory to add to our family’s history. Well, it started out nice.

I remember it was a crisp, wintry Saturday morning when the three of us ventured over the hills and through the woods in pursuit of the perfect tree. When we pulled into the tree farm, snowflakes were gen-tly wafting through the pine-scent-ed air.

I pulled up in the proprietor’s barnyard and asked if I could bor-row a tree saw. He handed me one and instructed me on where to go and what kind of tree I should look for. I believe that he mentioned something about making sure that we chose one with a nice straight trunk but I apparently wasn’t lis-tening.

We drove my little Toyota pick-up out to the field where the trees grew in nice evenly-spaced rows. There were all sorts to choose from. I believe that my wife’s only caveat was she wanted a relatively clean tree that wouldn’t shed its’ needles. My son told me to not get a Charlie Brown tree.

We were tromping through the snow when we suddenly saw it. There it was in all of its’ evergreen glory. It was a beautifully shaped specimen that probably stood about six feet in height. It was all by itself, and we couldn’t believe that every-one else had unexplainedly passed it by. This was our lucky day.

I dropped down into a frigid snow drift, crawled under to the point where the saw made contact with the trunk and started cutting away. After I had felled the tree with my mighty lumber-jacking skills, we paid for it and were on our merry way.

Upon reaching our home, I

snatched the tree out of the bed of the pickup and started to prepare it for the tree stand. This was the first real good look that I got of the con-dition of the trunk. It’s funny how a tree can appear so straight and even on its outer branches and not be quite so straight on the inside.

The lower half of this particular tree’s trunk basically formed the shape of an “S.” And not a nice sim-ple, Helvetica-style “S.” It was more in the style of a Gothic “S” with all sorts of serifs and curves creatively drawn out by one of the world’s fin-est calligraphers. In other words, it wasn’t very straight.

In my young, optimistic mind, all I had to do was figure out where the true center of gravity existed for this particular tree and get its weight centered and lock that tree stand down like it was nobody’s business. I confidently reassured myself it was all just a matter of mathematics and physics. Unfortunately, I was an art major.

I spent quite awhile cutting off a lot of the curvy log and balancing it just so in the dark green tree stand. Once I finally got the stand secured, I carefully positioned it in the cor-ner of our living room. As we dec-orated it, I told my family to make sure the ornaments were scattered about so that the weight was dis-tributed evenly, so as to not tip the center of balance in one direction or the other. I nervously held my breath as we strung all of the spark-ly, blinking lights and silver garland. I sweated as each glass ball was placed on carefully selected branch-es. After what seemed like several long hours of intense tree decorat-ing, the three of us stepped back to view our handiwork. It was beauti-ful and stood tall, straight, solid and

true. I finally felt as though every-thing would be OK.

And then our pet kitten, named Michael Jordan, sauntered into the room. My blood pressure rose. What would the feline do to the tree? Would it survive? He wan-dered over to one the lower hanging balls, lightly batted it with his paw and walked away. I smiled and exhaled as Michael Jordan left the room.

I then turned my gaze back onto the tree. Here I was with my little family, standing proudly in front of our first real Christmas tree. My heart pumped with pride.

Evidently my heart pumped a lit-tle too much because it’s vibration caused the tree to come crashing to the ground. My family stood with their mouths agape as I quite literally “lost it.” A steady stream of four-letter epithets came out of my mouth as I picked up the crooked conifer to show it who was boss. While it was still fully-decorated and the lights still plugged in and turned on, I drug it backwards out the door to our front stoop in the cold, dark December night air to hack, cut and chop off the trouble-some part of the tree. My son was visibly frightened; my wife was mut-tering something about me “ruining Christmas;” and Michael Jordan was nowhere to be found. Ahhhhh ... holiday memories.

When I brought the tree back into our humble abode, it stood probably all of four-and-a-half feet tall with big empty spots where the branches had broke off in the door-way. I still had to secure it to an end table with fishing line to hold it upright. We basically had a sparse, crooked Christmas bush. I could actually see the top of the angel’s head.

That was many, many years ago and I learned a valuable lesson that day. We now own an artificial tree.

You can contact Wallace at [email protected]. You can follow him on his blog at http://gregwallaceink.blogspot.com.

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COMMENTARY

It’s in the bag!I made the comment the other day that I wish I

could just give all my Christmas presents in the bag in which they came home from the store. Ultimately, that would mean I wouldn’t have to wrap anything and spend countless hours (many of them late-night hours) running up and down the basement steps, searching for the right box, the right wrapping paper and the other necessary items needed to hide the contents that live inside the bag.

Oh sure, there’s a part of me that would love to have the time to elegant-ly wrap and create a gift that could be photographed and pictured in any of the magazines I get that depict the perfect-ly-wrapped Christmas present. But back to reality, my friends. The clock is ticking, and as usual, the hours in the day don’t accurately facilitate a Martha Stewart lifestyle.

I made the mistake of glancing at the calendar the other day and actually counting up how many days were left before Christmas … I shouldn’t have done it because the next thing I knew, I had myself in a tail-spin of unfinished holiday projects and not enough time to accomplish all of them. In this crazy little head of mine, I began the daunting task of prioritizing which things I could get finished … and which things might have to wait until next year ... again. The longer my mental lists became, the more frustrated I got.

I don’t wear a watch for a reason — actually, there are a couple of reasons. First, unless I have an appoint-ment, I don’t really care what time it is. And second, I always feel like watches are more of a countdown to the next event — a ticking little device that causes me to create more havoc in my head than anyone really needs. Ideally, I’d just like to get up when I wake up ... go to bed when I’m tired ... and let everything else fall into place. They tell me that’s called retirement; I’ll probably never know the joy of that lifestyle either.

I’m not sure why things tend to creep up on me at this time of the year. It’s not a secret that Christmas is coming. Just once, I’d like to be one of those people who just happen to mention to everyone at the Hal-loween party that their Christmas shopping is finished and wrapped; their Christmas cards are just waiting for Thanksgiving to pass before they’re in the mail; and the Christmas cookie dough is in the freezer, just wait-ing to be baked closer to Christmas. What the heck is that all about? Come on!

I don’t mind telling you I laughed out loud in my office as I wrote that last paragraph. What a pipe dream that is! That will never, ever be me. Even if the Publisher’s Clearing House drove up to my door and allowed me to turn in my resignation ... i.e. retirement, I would still, no doubt, be wrapping gifts on Christmas Eve, kicking myself for not writing enough Christmas cards, have non-existent sugar plums dancing in my head, and wondering where the time went.

OK, I know I’m sounding a bit selfish now, but all I really want for Christmas ... is Christmas. I don’t want all the stuff — the chaos, the disarray, the bedlam, the topsy-turviness, the holy (literally) mess this holiday can create ... and does produce in my life at this time of the year. All I really want is to enjoy the season, the reason for the season, the family and friends I love so dearly, the beauty the holiday brings ... and a couple of Grandma’s iced sugar cookies too.

I wonder how you wrap that up? Or could you just put it in a bag and give it to me that way?

I love the feelings this holiday evokes, but I detest the chaos it brings. As the season evolves and Christ-mas draws near, may we all be able to find some peace during this wonderful holiday.

As for me ... I’ve got this Christmas ... in the bag!BCR Editor Terri Simon can be reached at tsimon@

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Life&Arts Births announced — Meet the newest arrivals to the area on Page 8. Birth announcements run every Saturday.

Party planned — Princeton Public Library will host a life-sized Candy Land holiday party on Thursday. See .

Make Someone Happy• Happy anniversary on Monday to Lori and David

Compton. From your friends at Princeton Rotary.

Community NotesBingo at Moose Lodge

PRINCETON — The Princeton Moose Lodge will host a bingo night at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Doors will open at 5 p.m. and sandwiches will be available for pur-chase. The lodge will continue to host bingo the first and third Tuesday of each month. The lodge is at 1339 N. Euclid Ave. in Princeton. For more informa-tion, call the lodge at 815-879-5261.

Preschool screening in WyanetWYANET — A preschool screening for children in

the Bureau Valley School District will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Jan. 17 at Bureau Valley Wyanet Elementary School. Anyone interested in having their child attend the preschool screening must register by Jan. 7 by calling Bureau Valley Wyanet at 815-699-2251.

Princeton Community Band will present concert Dec. 21

PRINCETON — The Princeton Community Band will present Solstice Serenade at 3 p.m. Dec. 21 in the Sally Skinner Council Auditorium at Princeton High School. The guest conductor will be Brandon Stover, director of bands for Princeton Elementary Schools. The concert showcases holiday favorites and other selections to brighten up the shortest day of the year. Pieces include “An English Christmas,” “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “White Christmas” and “Electricity (Race Around the Circuit).” The Princeton Community Band, an all-volunteer group of area musicians from teens through retirees, invites the public to attend this concert of seasonal music free of charge. Donations are also welcome.

Camera club to hold Christmas dinnerPRINCETON — The Photography Unlimited Cam-

era Club will hold its Christmas dinner and program at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 17 in the Bureau County Republican’s meeting room. The dinner will be a potluck with the club providing the meat and drinks. Members should bring their own table service and a dish to pass. After the meal the program will be presented by Doug and Eileen Leunig from Peoria. Their web page is www.pur-posedrivenart.org. They specialize in a technique called “painting with light” using high powered flashlights and a digital camera to give a magical quality to landscapes and other compositions. For more information, see the Photography Unlimited Facebook page.

New Year’s Eve party plannedPRINCETON — The Generics Goodies Band and

the Princeton Moose Lodge have announced a New Year’s Eve party will be at 7 p.m. Dec. 31 at the lodge. There will be a $15 cover charge which includes party favors, snacks and champagne, and cake at midnight. A cash bar will be available. R.S.V.P. by calling 815-878-2548 and leaving a message.

Two YSB directors receive awards

OTTAWA — Lisa Gus-tafson, LCPC, director of treatment for Youth Service of Illinois Valley (YSB), and Cynthia Rob-inson, LSCW, director of Juvenile Justice Services at YSB, recently received awards from the Illinois Probation and Court Ser-vices Association (IPCSA). Both directors received the Exemplary Service Award and were honored at the IPCSA awards ban-quet in Champaign.

The Exemplary Service Award is presented to an individual(s) from the community who, in the opinion of the Executive Board of the Association, has served to further pro-bation and court services through their dedication and commitment within the private sector.

Tracy Burke-Carriere, incoming president of IPCSA stated, “the work Cindy and Lisa do is invaluable to this jurisdic-tion and the families with whom we all work. You

PTHS 70th reunionPRINCETON — Four members and three guests met

for lunch at the Underground Inn for their 70th Prince-ton Township High School reunion Sept. 14.

Those in attendance toasted to all the past members of the class and to those who are the survivors.

A high point of the reunion was a phone call from Cal-ifornia by John Anderson. Each member talked to john who then led in the class yell, “There ain’t no flies on us.”

A brief time was spent visiting.

Photo contributedMembers attending the 70th Princeton Township High School reunion were Marjorie Wilkinson Obermeyer, Galen Goodale and Jane Baxter Gronwald.

Card Shower

ThompsonA card shower is being held to celebrate

the 90th birthday of Roberta “Bobby” Thompson. Cards may be send to her at: Greenfield Retirement Home, 508 Park Ave. East, Room 150, Princeton, IL 61356.

PJWC holds awards banquet, Club Night OutPRINCETON — The

Princeton Junior Woman’s Club members met Nov. 13 for their annual awards banquet and Club Night Out. The club celebrated with special guest speak-er Nedda Simon and her husband, Don. Nedda is the founder of Freedom House and a member of the GFWC Woman’s Club of Princeton.

Nedda, along with PJWC members, gathered dona-tions of new or gently used bath towels, washcloths and hand towels, which were presented to the Freedom House domestic violence shelter in Princ-eton.

Freedom House has an acute (and ongoing) need for donations of bath tow-els, washcloths and hand towels for their residents. If you have donations of this nature, or of any other, contact Freedom House directly at 815-872-0087 and follow them on Facebook, www.facebook.com/freedomhouseilli-nois.

PJWC members contin-ually work with Freedom House to help address

needs for the shelter and we would love to see the public join in help-

ing meet this need and provide the shelter with ample towels for victims.

both deserve this honor 100 times over!” Burke-Carriere is also with Bureau County Probation Services.

Frank Vonch, YSB execu-tive director, accompanied them to the banquet and was on hand for the presen-tation at YSB as well. Vonch said, “Because of the work of Lisa and Cindy, many children and families in Illinois experience positive outcomes in spite of the cir-cumstances and situations they have been living with. They both contribute great-ly to the level of excellence for which YSB continues to strive.”

Library will host life-sized Candy Land partyPRINCETON — The

Princeton Public Library will host a life-sized Candy Land holiday party for children in pre-K through fourth grade from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday. Partici-pants may come in the PJs or street clothes.

The popular children’s game will be brought to life by costume characters like King Candy, Grandma Gingersnap, Lord Licorice and Queen Frostine. Par-ticipants will take a candy walk to King Candy’s Cas-tle, the Peppermint Forest, Gumdrop Mountain, Lolli-pop Forest and the Ginger-bread House to earn candy treats. Additional activities

include a story time and decorating cupcakes.

Advanced sign up is required for this family friendly evening. Email [email protected], call 815-875-1331, ext. 2213, or stop by the Youth Services desk by Monday.

The Princeton Public Library is located at 698 E. Peru St. in Princeton. All programs at the Princeton Public Library are free and open to all. For more infor-mation on upcoming pro-grams and on Princeton Public Library services, go to www.theprincetonli-brary.org or call 815-875-1331.

Photo contributedMark Krueger (from left), director of the 13th Judicial Cir-cuit Probation and Court Services Department, and Tracy Burke-Carriere, are pictured with Exemplary Service Award recipients Cynthia Robinson and Lisa Gustafson.

Roberta Thompson

Photo contributedPrinceton Junior Woman’s Club members gathered and then donated new or gently used bath towels, washcloths and hand towels to Freedom House.

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Xi Mu Epsilon chapter donates coatsDiane Podolak (from left), Sharron Klingel, Connie Lind and Donna Sorcic of Xi Mu Epsilon Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi are pictured with some of the $600 in new coats their organization donated to the annual Coats for Kids Drive sponsored by the Bureau County Food Pantry, Kramer’s Kitchen and Service Master Restoration. Other recent donations from Beta Sigma Phi include $1,000 to the Elks Club of Princeton for their Open Table Thanksgiving dinner and $1,000 to the Elks Club Christmas toy drive. Pres-ident Diane Podolak commented, “Our sorority is pleased to make these donations from the proceeds of the annual Homestead Arts and Craft Show.”

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RNA donates to food pantryThe New Bedford Royal Neighbors of America donated eight turkeys, along with all the trimmings, to the Western Bureau County Food Pantry in Sheffield on Nov. 19. Pictured (front row, from left) are Mary Etheridge, Joanne Nelson, Patsy Swanson and Polly Lick-hart from the Royal Neighbors, along with the many volunteers from the food pantry.

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Thanksgiving baskets donatedColonial HealthCare and Rehabilitation Centre recently donated Thanksgiving baskets to area seniors. The staff collected donations of all the items needed for a “traditional Thanksgiving dinner” and donated a meal to individuals that might not have family in the area to share the holiday with or might not have the means to purchase the items on their own. Pictured with the items collected Denise Hayes (from left), Arin Peterson, Luane Olson, Cami Emmerson and Julie Ioder.

Births Announced

Honor Rolls

ChocMonique (Mata) and Roberto Cuz Choc

of Spring Valley are the parents of a son, Christopher Cuz, born Nov. 29 at St. Margaret’s Hospital in Spring Valley. He weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces, and mea-sured 19 1/2 inches in length. He was welcomed home by one brother, Victor Adrien Gomez, 2, and one sister, Natalia Gomez, 3.

GabrielseSteve and Katy (Bernard) Gabrielse

of Mark are the parents of a son, Jack Steven, born Dec. 8 at St. Margaret’s Hospital in Spring Valley. He weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces, and measured 19 inches in length. He was welcomed home by one brother, Luke, 2. Maternal grand-parents are Robert and Sheila Bernard of Toluca, and Dennis and Nanette Gillan of Arlington. Paternal grandparents are

Steve and Judy Gabrielse of Hennepin. Great-grandparents are LaVern and Ann Bernard of Toluca, and Emma Zielinski of Hennepin.

GarretsonGreg and Kerri (Hostetler) Garretson of

Tampico are the parents of a daughter born Dec. 3 at Illinois Valley Community Hospital in Peru.

PhillipsJoshua Edgar Phillips and Toni-Lynn

Battaglia of Peru are the parents of a son, Ryker Edgar-Anton, born Dec. 5 at St. Margaret’s Hospital in Spring Valley. Maternal grandparent is Anton Battaglia of LaSalle. Paternal grandparents are Edgar Phillips of LaSalle and Stacey Phil-lips of Oglesby. Great-grandparents are Anne Rodda of LaSalle, and Edgar and Marie Phillips of LaSalle.

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High Honor RollEighth grade: Michelle Arrate, Juan

Avila, Brooke Bianchi, Alec Boehm, Tori Bogatitus, Steven Brust, Antho-ny Buchanan, Shannon Casey, James DeAngelo, Paisley Dhesse, Mya Dietman, Gianna Elias, Erik Enriquez, Morgan Filippini, John Fousekas, Tristan Gon-zalezMitchell, Alaina Hannon, Kallie Hansen, Matti Heiden, Anna Herrmann, Devan Janssen, Richard King, Rayme Loehr, Samuel Lucas, Hailey Newton, Rose Puentes, Amber Regalado, Chance Resetich, Elian Rivera, Gertrude Sav-itch, Christian Stefaniak, Stefanie Vil-lalobos-Vargas and Alex Wertz.

Seventh grade: Cecilia Aldana, Paige Blackburn, Cecilia Ceballos, Sarah Croas-dale, Dillon deJong, Jeffrey Delaney, Daniela Diaz, Abigail Draper, Kaitlin Duever, Hanna Goodrum, Averi Hansen, Kendall Hansen, Hanah Hart, Kennedy Keegan, Addison Konczak, Gracie Marti-naitis, Kayleigh Matsko, Marisia Matsko, Destiny MorganDeLao, Olivia Novero, Leonardo Ochoa, Kelton Pelzer, Desree Petzel, Maxwell Puentes, Grant Resetich, Regina Scarpaci, Madeline Spayer, Han-nah Vanko, Aleksandar Vasic and Cole Wozniak.

Sixth grade: Aaron Baltikauski, William Bates, Sophie Bergagna, Levi Bland, Marissa Boehm, Paiziah Chounard, Jac-lyn Cinotte, Nichole Delaney, Nicholas Fousekas, Rayghan Haase, Madeline

Hannon, Jackson Heiden, Kerrigan Her-rmann, Violet Hurtado, Payton Johnson, Morgan Krewer, Jordyn Meyer, Luis Morales, Zoe Morris, Mark Parlier, Genn-aro Piccolo, Payton Plym, Aleksander Puentes, Arianna Soto, Dante Temple-ton-Teasley and Logan Zeglis.

Fifth grade: Arthur Argubright, Damion Beyer, Eder Carbajal-Castelan, Chloe Carroll, Sean Casey, Connor Craig, DeAn-gelo, Mia Ann, James Domkuski, Maggie Filippini, Colin Finklea, Drake Garland, Keaton Garncarz, Jenisis Greening, Dom-inic Guerrini, Paul Hart, Aidan Jones, Gabriel Lucas, Adrian Macias-Zesati, Thomas Matlock, Callie Meyer, Ethan Plym, Avril Ruiz, Caleb Savitch, Kiersten Shevokas, Christopher Tucker, Victoria Ullrich and Kierra Wozniak.

Honor RollEighth grade: Alexis Alejos, Delaney

Hawton, James Kellerman and Alexan-dria Kinkin-Racicot.

Seventh grade: Brayden DeBates, Rob-ert Harrison, Christopher Krueger, Rhi-annon Skoog, Jonathan Tang and Jacob Wilson.

Sixth grade: Josie Barroso, Brayden Bickett, Alec Bulak, Kylie Craig, Andrew Esquivel, Devon Floyd, Otto Fronczke, Kasandra Garibay, Sicelia Harper, Victor Heredia, Hunter Hernandez, Christopher Insco, Jesse Kaszynski, Kayleigh Kirsch, Lana Ramsey, Tresdon Rybarczyk, John Savitch and Haylie Steele.

Fifth grade: Isaiah Delao, Alexis Hur-tado, Kaeden Keegan, Veronica Martin, Yovanna Reyes, Nathan Stowe and Dilon Ziano.

Children’s assessment clinic setPRINCETON — Princ-

eton Elks Lodge 1461, in cooperation with the Illi-nois Elks Children’s Care Corporation, will sponsor a free children’s orthopedic assessment clinic from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Jan. 15 at Perry Memorial Hospital in Princ-

eton. Dr. Richard Erickson of Carol Stream will be the clinician in charge.

The clinic is by appoint-ment only. To make an appointment, call the Illi-nois Elks Children’s Care office at 800-272-0074. There are no charges for

any services at this clinic.No medical referral is

necessary for the clinic but physicians are welcome to refer patients to the clinic for a specific reason or second opinion. School nurses are welcome to refer children and families to the clinic.

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Illinois Farm Bureau members set policy, accept awardsThe Illinois Farm Bureau

(IFB) is home to a wealth of fond and familiar traditions, first and foremost being the promotion and support of agricultural and farming traditions.

Yet, for many Illinois farmers, the tradition that means the most is the grassroots, member-driven decision making that stems from the IFB’s annual meet-ing. Each year, Illinois farm-ers gather in December to meet, discuss issues facing agriculture and set policy for the coming year.

During this year’s annual meeting, held Dec. 6-9 in Chicago, members and guests were recognized as awards were given, listened to keynote speeches and even heard from several elected officials.

Bureau County Farm Bureau was recognized for its outstanding programs. Members were acknowl-edged for their efforts by earning a Gold Stars in Ag Literacy, Commodities and Marketing and Member

Relations; Silver Stars were awarded in Health and Safe-ty, Local Affairs, Communi-cations and Promotions and Policy Development; and a Bronze Star was awarded for Legislative and Political Process.

Bureau County commit-tees were awarded for their accomplishments by earn-ing a Gold Stars for Wom-en’s Committee, Prime Timers Committee and Young Leaders Committee activities. The county was also recognized for its joint efforts with other county Farm Bureaus by receiving a Gold Star for Multi-County Programs.

Annual meeting attend-ees also continued the tradition of steering the organization’s policy. Mon-day, Dec. 8, delegates had a chance to conduct the nec-

essary business to prepare for the coming year and the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) annual meeting.

Four delegates and two alternates attended the annual meeting represent-ing 1,157 voting members in Bureau County. Delegates were Bill Naffziger, Rex Elmore, Curtis Marcum and Joe Olson. Alternate delegates were Evan Hultine and Rob Sharkey.

Delegates called on the

Illinois Farm Bureau Board to develop a strategy to attract future generations of farmer leaders. The request was included in a “Sense of the Delegate Body,” one of two resolutions approved during the 2014 IFB annual meeting in Chicago. The other called on Congress to reinstate Section 179 small business expensing at the $500,000 level.

Several delegates stressed the need for IFB to engage younger members and not ignore declining member-ship trends.

“The concern I heard on the delegate floor was: How do we engage more of the younger members, get them actively involved in the organization,” said Mark Gebhards, IFB execu-tive director of government affairs and commodities.

IFB plans to work with county Farm Bureaus and report back recommenda-tions to delegates at next year’s annual meeting. Delegates also called on Congress and President Barack Obama to “swiftly” reinstate Section 179 and other business tax pro-visions, which expired at the end of 2013. They also urged the next Congress to work on permanent tax law “that provides certainty for farmers and small business-es and enables economic

expansion.”“Failure to extend these

provisions represents a tax increase, and repeated failure to extend them per-manently injects instability and uncertainty into the economy and weakens con-fidence in the job market,” according to the resolution.

As we wrap up a success-ful 2014 IAA Annual Meet-ing, we continue to plan for our 100th annual meeting of the Bureau County Farm Bureau. This event will take place, Thursday, Jan. 29 at Wise Guys in Princeton. Our guest speaker for the eve-ning will be Robert Easter, president of the University of Illinois.

Call today to reserve your tickets to attend our busi-ness meeting and annual dinner and help celebrate the 100th year of this out-standing organization.

Jill Frueh is the manager at the Bureau County Farm Bureau.

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Photo contributedBureau County Farm Bureau members attended the IAA annual meeting Dec. 6-9. Pictured (left to right) are Bill Naffziger, BCFB President and Bureau County delegates Curtis Marcum, Rex Elmore and Joe Olson.

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13 Sports

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Kewanee beat St. Bede; Princeton wrestlers split triangular. See Page 14

Hunters shoot more deer this year in IllinoisSurprise, I thought sure this year’s

deer totals would be less than last year’s. But according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resource’s totals, Illinois came in with a higher total in 2014.

During the first segment, we were down 51,830 from 55,708. But we bounced back during the second seg-ment 24,717 up from 18,483. That’s up 34 percent. Bureau County raised its total by 41 to 1,027 over last year’s 986.

The big surprise, and I have yet to confirm it, is that Jackson County may have upended the perennial winner, Pike, for largest harvest. An outdoor magazine had Jackson as the winner, but the DNR had Pike winning by 49.

One Bureau County buck that did not get away was dropped by Tabetha Morton of Princeton. Her husband, Steve, is a colleague of mine at PHS and fellow bus driver. We were having coffee before our morning route, and I was talking about Bureau County and the fact I didn’t have the results yet.

He pulled out his cell phone and said, “Check this one out.” It was the picture you see in the newspaper.

His wife, Tabetha, had gone out to the timber with her dad on Saturday

of the second portion of deer season. They had left their house early and had gotten in her stand by 5:30 a.m.

She had not seen any deer during the first season. She told me that she was tired and all she wanted to do was get in her stand, wait for a deer, shoot it and go home to bed. She thought for a while that this was going to be another deer-less day, but around 7 a.m., a deer runs out of the cornfield and toward her in the timber. He stopped at about 40 yards, and she decided to shoot. She missed. She told me she was shaking so bad that he got away. But he didn’t get away. He stopped again at about 40 yards, and she gathered up all the composure she could and shot again.

The deer ran about 20 yards and stopped and fell down and rolled down a hill. She texted her dad that

she had dropped a deer and asked him to come help her. She said she was still shaking like crazy as she came down the ladder. She was happy she made it without falling.

Dad showed up with the pickup, and they went to get the deer. They drug it up the hill and field dressed it. It turned out to be a nine-point buck.

This was her first deer, and she was so proud and excited. I’ll bet Dad showed some emotion also. Congrat-ulations, Tabetha!!!

Coming up locally in January will be the 2015 annual Bureau Creek Gobbler’s NWTF Banquet. The date will be Saturday, Jan. 24, and the loca-tion is the Met. The doors will open at 5 p.m., and dinner starts at 6 p.m. One thing different this year will sure-ly make the public happy is that the banquet tickets have been reduced to $35. The committee hopes to fill the banquet hall.

In my next column, I will try to inform you of all the guns, paintings and outdoor gear that will be up for auction. One thing of interest will be a pre-banquet gun raffle. This will feature a 9mm Diamondback Pistol. Only 100 tickets will be sold for this gun.

Photo contributedTabetha Morton of Princeton holds the nine-point buck she shot during the firearm second season.

BCR photos/Mike Vughn

BV South wins BVECAbove, Bureau Valley South players celebrate after winning the BVEC Thursday over rival Bureau Valley North, 47-25. Below, Bureau Valley North’ Dallas Hardy (left) and Bureau Valley South’s Nate Paup play during the championship game.

BV defeats Princeton girls

By Dan [email protected]

PRINCETON — A high school basketball contest lasts a full 32 minutes, and it can be difficult if not nearly impossible to be successful on the court if you cannot sustain consistent play throughout the contest.

The Bureau Valley Storm pulled away late and took advantage of the inconsistent play of the Princeton Tigresses Thursday enroute to a 58-35 victory in Prouty Gymnasium.

Princeton took their first possession of the second half and looked to swing the momentum their way early as an inbounds play underneath the Tigresses basket sprung junior guard/forward Stevie Seitz open for a trey.

Senior center Brianna Barajas added a fast break lay in to cut the Tigresses lead to 31-25 with 6:04 to play in the third.

“In the first part of the season, we were playing real-ly well and our defense was really what got us there. It just seems like the more pressure on the better our defense plays,” BV coach Tiffany Gonigam said. “When we get down and just play halfcourt defense, we seem to sit back, but if we can put the pressure we seem to move around a lot better and that causes frustrations for the other team and eventually opens up things offensively for us.”

Princeton’s hopes of a comeback were nearly instantly erased as senior forward Heaven Bennett answered on the next possession and knocked down a jump shot from the elbow that sparked a furious 10-0 BV run that lasted just over two minutes.

BV continued to add to their lead for the remaining 11:46 outpacing the Tigresses 18-10.

“We just needed to keep it going. We really grabbed the momentum there right away. If we could have grabbed another bucket and cut it to four maybe we could have kept it going,” Princeton coach Kevin Hieronymus said. “We didn’t ride that wave long enough. It would have been nice to ride that longer, and Bureau Valley is a solid team and met our chal-lenge and pushed on for the win.”

Each team had difficulty getting their footing early as they combined for 21 first-half fouls, but BV was able to build a lead forcing 17 first-half turnovers by the Tigresses compared to only seven by the Storm.

“We got into the bonus early and had too many

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Wilcoxen coaches 1,000th gameKen Wilcoxen coached his 1,000th game Tuesday at Bureau Valley North in the Bureau Valley Elementary Conference tournament held at Malden Grade School.

Princeton wrestlers split triangularPrinceton High School’s

wrestlers split a triangular meet with Fulton and Put-nam County/Hall Thurs-day. Fulton beat Prince-ton 43-27 while Princeton beat Hall/Putnam County 53-12. Princeton’s Tyler Wood at 113 won by forfeit over PC-Hall and by pin-fall over Fulton’s Kaecker at 2:45 in the second period. Luke Marselle at 120 won by forfeit over PC-Hall and by fall over Fulton’s Ford at 1:06 in second period. Jeremy Whited at 126 won by forfeit over PC-Hall and over Fulton’s Heinitz 18-7. Wetsel won by forfeit at 138

over PC-Hall and beat Ful-ton’s Field 8-1. Wyatt Baker at 145 lost to Fulton’s Grant by pinfall and to PC-Hall’s Charlie McCook by pinfall. Denver Wyatt at 152 lost to Fulton’s Smith and beat PC-Hall’s Joe Berg 7-5. Drew Pranka at 170 beat Ful-ton’s Pidde and PC-Hall’s James Hall. Jacob Smith at 195 lost to Fulton’s Fleet-wood and won by forfeit over PC-Hall. Skyler Spen-cer lost to Fulton’s Lentz at 220 and won by pinfall over PC-Hall’s Marco Uribe at heavyweight at 5:10. Chaz

Williams beat Fulton’s Balk at 285 and PC-Hall’s Isaac Marquez at 220 8-3.

PC-Hall’s Charlie McCook at 138 defeated Fulton’s Aaron Abbot by pinfall.

Girls basketballLaMoille-Ohio 52, Kirk-

land 32: “We played hard and played smart,” said L-0 coach Holli Rapp. “We had nice balance and played strong. Liz Geuther had 15 points and six rebounds. Jasmine Kahly added 11

while Maddi Deery buck-eted 10.

Ottawa 39, Hall 19: Otta-wa Lady Pirates downed the Hall girls squad 38-19. Ellen Herrmann had six points to lead Hall’s scor-ing.

Boys basketballHall’s JV squad defeated

Chicago Longwood 53-48 in Wednesday night action at the Colmone Classic. Other games were Field-crest downing Chicago Alcott 79-42 and Mendota beating Mooseheart 70-54

turnovers. We had a good talk at halftime, and we came out with a lot of energy and got a three by Stevie (Seitz) and followed that with another bucket and cut the lead to six, and we needed to sustain that start but we let them open it back up and win the ball game,” Hieronymus said. “It was a great start but we have to play more than just the opening few minutes.”

Bennett stepped up in a huge way for the Storm,

grabbing a double double on 7-of-15 shooting for 17 points while grabbing eight rebounds.

“We’ve just been wait-ing for her to get back to her game and get comfort-able after missing most of last season. Tonight was a big breakthrough for her. I think tonight will give her confidence, and she’ll be able continue to play well from here on out,” Gonigam said.

Seitz led the way for the Tigresses, knocking down 3-of-7 from distance to fin-ish with 10.

“We just had to push

through tonight, and we knew it would be a big game for us. The girls exe-cuted the way I wanted them to for the most part, and they definitely played their hearts out,” Gonigam said.

Notes: Princeton won 2-of-3 contests Thursday night as the sophomore Tigress squad won 55-27. Sophomore Max Dumyahn and freshman Sara Grieff led the way for the Prince-ton offense with 10 points each while sophomore Michela Mall added 8. The JV squad also edged Storm 38-32.

Bureau ValleyFrom Page 13

St. Bede’s Tristin Phegley (23) and Kewanee’s Raeshonda Chan-dler (22) scramble for a loose ball during Thursday night’s Three Riv-ers Confer-ence East game.

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Boiler Girls down St. BedeBy Mike Landis

Special to the BCR

KEWANEE — The Kewanee Boiler Girls won their fourth straight game and moved to 3-0 in the Three Rivers East with Thursday night’s home win over St. Bede.

Blair Bullock had the hot hand for the Boiler Girls in the opening quarter, scoring nine points to help the hosts to a 16-5 lead. St. Bede converted two steals into points and went on a 7-0 run to trim the deficit to 16-12 late in the first frame.

A second quarter drought hampered St. Bede’s come-back as the visitors went more than five minutes without a hoop. Kewanee extended its lead to 24-12 before Brianna Lau finally scored for the Lady Bruins at the 2:53 mark.

Rachael Moraski closed the half with a steal and score at the buzzer to put the Boiler Girls in front 31-18.

Kewanee maintained a 41-29 lead after three quarters, and Bullock gave the Boiler Girls their largest lead of the night on a 3-pointer to start the final eight minutes.

Bullock led the Boiler Girls (7-2) with 16 points, followed by Raeshonda Chandler with 12 and Moraski with 10. Julia Pohar topped the Lady Bruins with 13 points.

St. Bede won the sophomore contest 37-33. Mitrese Smith topped Kewanee with 14 points, and Chase Ledford led St. Bede with 12 points.

BCR photos/Dan DwyerLeft, Bureau Valley’s Heaven Bennett looks for a teammate to pass the ball to during Thursday night’s 58-35 win over Princeton at Prouty Gymnasium. Above, Princeton’s Brianna Barajas closely guards a Bureau Valley player.

Kewanee 53, St. Bede 40:

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE13TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

COUNTY OF BUREAU -PRINCETON, ILLINOIS

WELLS FARGO BANK, NA )Plaintiff, )

vs. )PAVIA DEFOE AKA PAVIA DE FOE AKA )PAVIA J. DEFOE; WELLS FARGO BANK, )N.A.; UNKNOWN OWNERS )AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS )

Defendants, )12 CH 122

NOTICE OF SALEPUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursu-

ant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in theabove entitled cause Intercounty Judicial SalesCorporation will on Wednesday, January 14,2015, at the hour of 9:00 a.m., HB Wilkinson TitleCo., 108 Park Avenue West, Princeton, Illinois61356, sell to the highest bidder for cash, thefollowing described mortgaged real estate:

Commonly known as 12 WestministerDrive, Spring Valley, Illinois 61362.

P.I.N. 18-26-302-010.The improvement on the property consists

of a single family residence. If the subject mort-gaged real estate is a unit of a common interestcommunity, the purchaser of the unit otherthan a mortgagee shall pay the assessmentsrequired by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 ofthe Condominium Property Act.

Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds,balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. Norefunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspec-tion.

For information call The Sales Departmentat Plaintiff’s Attorney, Freedman AnselmoLindberg LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville,Illinois 60563-1890. (630) 453-6960. For Biddinginstructions visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hoursprior to sale. F12100021I637331Published in the Bureau County RepublicanDec. 13, 20 and 27, 2014.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14TH • 1-3 P.M.1310 S. Main St., Princeton

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, BUREAU COUNTY, ILLINOISCAUSE NO. 12-TX-1(1): TO THE FOLLOWING NAMED PERSONS (AND IF DECEASED,

TO THEIR UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES), AND TO THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, ANDTO ALL INTERESTED DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES THEREOF, INCLUDING AMONGOTHERS BUREAU COUNTY CLERK , BUREAU COUNTY TREASURER , BUREAU COUNTY

STATES ATTORNEY , ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL, ILLINOIS DEPT OF EMPLOYMENTSECURITY, ILLINOIS PUBLIC AID FIELD CONSULTANT, ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF

REVENUE, STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPT OF HEALTHCARE & FAMILY SERVICES (PUBLICAID) GENERAL COUNSEL, CITY OF SPRING VALLEY, AND TO OCCUPANTS, UNKNOWN

OWNERS AND PARTIES INTERESTED IN THE PARCELS HEREINAFTER NAMED:Parcel Number Owners/Parties Interested Cert Number Street Or Common Address03-08-453-017 SIAMANTOURAS, GUS 201100016 122 S. MAIN ST.03-08-453-017 SIAMANTOURAS , DAWN 201100016 122 S. MAIN ST.03-08-453-017 SIAMANTOURAS , GUS 201100016 122 S. MAIN ST.03-08-453-017 SIAMANTOURAS ET UX, GUS 201100016 122 S. MAIN ST.03-08-453-020 TRACY, SHIRLEY 201100018 128 S. MAIN ST.04-09-333-025 FARRELL ET AL, RANDALL L. 201100026 S. MAIN ST.04-09-333-025 JOHNSON, MARY C 201100026 S. MAIN ST.04-09-333-025 KAMENETZKY, JULIE 201100026 S. MAIN ST.04-09-333-025 PETERS, BECKY 201100026 S. MAIN ST.04-09-333-025 LADD, JAMES 201100026 S. MAIN ST.04-09-333-025 JOHNSON,DOUGLAS H 201100026 S. MAIN ST.07-01-100-011 LEE ET UX, CLARENCE E. 201100043 OFF 2370 AVE N11-32-101-005 TURPEN ET UX, ROBERT G. 20110007211-32-101-005 PORTFOLIO RECOVERY

ASSOCIATES LLC 20110007212-27-402-007 NAGEL, NANCY 20110008414-34-333-007 ALTIZER, KENNETH R. 201100108 CROSS ST.14-34-333-007 MILA INC.

DBA MORTGAGE INVESTMENTLENDING ASSOCIATES INC 201100108 CROSS ST.

14-34-333-007 MILA INCDBA MORTGAGE INVESTMENT LENDINGASSOCIATES INC 201100108 CROSS ST.

14-34-333-007 BLATT HASENMILLERLEIBSKER & MOORE LLC 201100108 CROSS ST.

14-34-333-007 MELINDA G. SAMMONS 201100108 CROSS ST.14-34-333-007 MILA INC DBA MORTGAGE INVESTMENT

LENDING ASSOCIATES INC 201100108 CROSS ST.16-17-301-012 KURTH ET UX, EDWARD J. 20110017516-17-301-012 CITIZENS FIRST NATIONAL BANK 20110017516-35-476-052 WESTFALL ET UX, TIMOTHY R. 20110018716-35-476-052 HOMETOWN NATIONAL BANK 20110018716-35-476-052 WELTMAN WEINBERG & REIS

CO. LPA 20110018716-35-476-052 BLATT HASENMILLER

LEIBSKER & MOORE LLC 20110018717-24-102-003 MASON, RAYMOND 201100193 PERU ST.17-34-203-014 JACKSON, SHARON M. 201100197 3043 ARLINGTON DR.17-34-203-014 PAT SULLIVAN FIELD CONSULTANT-

LIENS & ESTATES 201100197 3043 ARLINGTON DR.17-34-203-014 DENISE MOSLEY 201100197 3043 ARLINGTON DR.17-35-454-008 SANCHEZ, DANIEL 201100218 OFF E. 2ND ST.17-35-454-009 SANCHEZ, DANIEL 201100219 112 E. 2ND ST.18-24-327-015 DESERF, CRAIG S. 201100247 MINESHAFT RD.19-10-451-015 TROYER, CINDY 201100318 106 E. MAIN ST.

TAKE NOTICE THAT THE ABOVESAID PARCELS WERE SOLD ON NOVEMBER 1, 2012, FORGENERAL TAXES FOR THE YEAR 2011 AND PRIOR YEARS, AND THAT THE PERIOD OF REDEMPTIONFROM SUCH SALE EXPIRES MAY 26, 2015. TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT A PETITION FOR ORDERDIRECTING ISSUANCE OF TAX DEEDS HAS BEEN FILED IN THE ABOVESAID CAUSE AS TO THEABOVE-NAMED PARCELS BY BUREAU COUNTY, AS TRUSTEE, AND THAT ON JUNE 17, 2015 AT 11:30AM, ROOM 210. SAID PETITIONER WILL APPLY FOR AN ORDER THAT A TAX DEED ISSUE AS TOEACH ABOVESAID PARCEL NOT REDEEMED ON OR BEFORE MAY 26, 2015. /S/ BUREAU COUNTYAS TRUSTEE, PETITIONER.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT THE COUNTY CLERKADDRESS: 700 S. MAIN STREET, PRINCETON, IL 61356 TELEPHONE: (815) 875-2014

Published in the Bureau County Republican Dec. 13, 20 and 27, 2014.

CHERRY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT

CHERRY, ILLINOISStatement of Receipts and Disbursements

for the year beginning June 1, 2013and ending May 31, 2014.

ReceiptsBalance on hand, beginning

June 1, 2013 $79,816.33Property Taxes 21,013.18Personal Property Replacement Tax 630.53Illinois Municipal League Fire

Insurance Tax 4,332.68Interest 126.78Refunds 4.61Bond Proceeds 100,000.00

Total Receipts 126,107.78Receipts and Beginning Balance $205,924.11

DisbursementsUtilities 2,423.86Telephone 1,462.49Gasoline and Equipment Maintenance 1,756.47Insurance 300.00Professional Fees 5,900.64Trustee Fees -Office Supplies and Expense 297.65Bond Payments -Bond Interest 1,992.67Capital Outlay - Building 54,113.92

Total Disbursements $68,247.70Recapitulation

Total receipts and beginning balance $205,924.11Less total disbursements (68,247.70)

Balance on Hand May 31, 2014 $137,676.41Published in the Bureau County Republican Dec.13, 2014.

PUBLIC NOTICEVegetation Management Activities in Adams,

Alexander, Bureau, Calhoun, Champaign,Christian, Clinton, DeWitt, Franklin,

Hamilton, Henry, Jackson, Jefferson, Jersey,Johnson, LaSalle, Logan, Macon, Macoupin,Madison, Marion, Marshall, Mason, Massac,

McLean, Menard, Monroe, Montgomery,Morgan, Peoria, Pike, Pulaski, Putnam,Randolph, Saline, Sangamon, St. Clair,

Tazewell, Vermilion, Washington, White,Williamson, Woodford Counties,

and Nearby AreasPlease be advised that Ameren Illinois will

perform vegetation management in your area in thenear future. Our professional vegetation manage-ment specialists will be managing vegetation ontransmission rights-of-way that could affect ourelectric lines. This vegetation management workis necessary to protect the integrity of the electricsystem and to prevent potential safety hazards.

This work might include: aerial or manual trim-ming, removal of vegetation, mowing, applicationof environmentally-safe herbicides, and inspec-tions. Interested persons may call the Ameren tollfree number 1-800-232-2477 or visit our website atwww.ameren.com/transmisson to understand anypotential dispute resolution opportunities, process-es, rights and/or remedies. Customers and propertyowners may appeal the particular vegetation workplanned on their property by 1) calling the Amerentoll free number mentioned above referencingCODE TMT or 2) accessing the website mentionedabove referencing CODE TMT or 3) contacting theIllinois Commerce Commission Consumer ServicesDivision at 1-800-524-0795. Common addresses ofproperties affected by the planned vegetation man-agement have been provided to the office of themayor of any affected municipality and the office ofthe county board chairman of any affected county.

Sincerely,Ameren Illinois

Published in the Bureau County Republican Dec.13, 2014.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE13TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

COUNTY OF BUREAU -PRINCETON, ILLINOIS

WELLS FARGO BANK, NA )Plaintiff, )

vs. )PAVIA DEFOE AKA PAVIA DE FOE AKA )PAVIA J. DEFOE; WELLS FARGO BANK, )N.A.; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON- )RECORD CLAIMANTS )

Defendants, )12 CH 122

NOTICE OF SALEPUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursu-

ant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in theabove entitled cause Intercounty Judicial SalesCorporation will on Wednesday, January 14, 2015,at the hour of 9:00 a.m., HB Wilkinson Title Co., 108Park Avenue West, Princeton, Illinois 61356, sell tothe highest bidder for cash, the following describedmortgaged real estate:

LOT TWELVE (12), CAMBRIDGESUBDIVISION TO THE CITY OF SPRINGVALLEY, COUNTY OF BUREAU ANDSTATE OF ILLINOIS, EXCEPTINGTHEREFROM THE UNDERLYING COALAND FIRECLAY, TOGETHER WITH THERIGHT TO DIG, MINE AND REMOVETHE SAME FROM THE SURFACETHEREOF.

Commonly known as 12 Westminister Drive,Spring Valley, Illinois 61362.

P.I.N. 18-26-302-010.The improvement on the property consists of

a single family residence. If the subject mortgagedreal estate is a unit of a common interest communi-ty, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgageeshall pay the assessments required by subsection(g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium PropertyAct.

Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, bal-ance within 24 hours, by certified funds. Norefunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.For information call The Sales Department at

Plaintiff’s Attorney, Freedman Anselmo LindbergLLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois60563-1890. (630) 453-6960. For Bidding instruc-tions visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior tosale. F12100021I637331Published in the Bureau County Republican Dec.13, 20 and 27, 2014.

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