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YOURNEWSQuestions? Contact Editor Rebecca Rose at 815-987-1379 or rrose@rrstar.com

LOCAL LOOP

From our readers

Do you have great pictures of nature? Anything from wild-life to beautiful flowers to scenic backdrops. Tell us whenand where you took the photo and what is special aboutit. We will run some in the newspaper and in our LocalLoop galleries. If there happens to be a person in the pho-to, too, be sure to tell us who it is. If you dont have a Lo-cal Loop account, create one. If you have a commentingaccount for rrstar.com stories, that username and pass-word will work.

Who is she? Diana Rose Dawson, 28, a singer/song-writer, was born and raised in Rockford, but now re-

sides and works in the Twin Cities area. In addition towriting and performing music, she also teaches pia-

no, voice, and songwriting. She performed in a freeconcert Sunday afternoon at Boylan Catholic High

School. Diana is married to Joe Dawson and has a

13-month-old daughter, Malia.

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Clubs/groups/boards?I am aliated with ASCAP(a performing rights or-ganization for songwrit-ers), NSAI (songwriting as-sociation), and I also stay

quite connected in my lo-cal community with momsgroups, organized churchevents, and networkingevents in the Twin Cities.What inspires you? I loveto aect the lives of othersin a positive way, and drawother people into a deeperrelationship with God. Us-ing music and songwritingto accomplish this is oneof the greatest joys of mylife. My husband and littlegirl inspire me daily as well,and I strive to make themproud of me.For fun? I love everythingmusic related, from writing

music, to playing it, to sing-ing, to watching live shows

of other bands. I also en-joy normal activities too,like biking, hiking throughnature, reading, watchinggirly movies, and hangingout with the ones I love.

Motto: Whatever you do inlife, do it with passion.People are surprised tolearn: I used to have ex-treme stage fright. It wasntuntil after gaining someconfidence in high schooland college that I realizedI was really meant to be aperformer. One of the peo-ple I have to thank mostfor helping me build thatconfidence was my highschool theater director, Vic-toria Sleger, who workedat Boylan High School forseveral years and, sadly,passed away this year. I willalways remember her and

be grateful to her for believ-ing in me.

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CREATIVE CAPTIONS

Each Monday in Your News, we ask readers to play

caption writer for a photo by The Associated Press.

For next week

The deadline to enter a caption is noon Thursday. Selectcaptions will run in print Monday. Send captions toRockford Register Star, c/o Creative Captions, 99 E.State St., Rockford, IL 61104. Or fax to 815-987-1365 oremail local@rrstar.com. All submissions may be editedfor length, accuracy and clarity. All submissions maybe published or distributed in print, electronic or otherforms. Contributions should be signed and include yourhome or business phone number.

What are you lookin at,Willis? This is MonkeyTown, come on in! Donna Brenner,RockfordHey mister with the cam-

era. So you work for Na-tional Geographic? You cantake my picture; I wontbite. But I prefer you takea side view showing mymuscles. Debra Morlen,RockfordAll you kids no monkeybusiness! John Dotzel,Stillman ValleyMirror, mirror on the car.Who is cuter than theyare? Eileen Oldejans,RockfordAll right students, line up.Swagger Course 101 is now

in session. Theodore Duckett,RockfordMust be Happy Hour atthe White House.

Delores Nevenhoven,BaileyvilleMonkey see, monkey do. Helen S. Greco,

RockfordThis toilet tipping has tostop, and we are the guysto get to the bottom of it! Ray Wol, Rockford

Get out of here! On-ly monkeys are allowedhere! Dorothy Borgmann,Leaf River

In this photo taken May12, a wild gray langurmonkey scowls as it

jumps on a car at a reststop on a road near Lee-la, in the state of Rajas-than, India. THE ASSOCIAT-ED PRESS

Changing in parkingAutomatic parking meters went livelast week at the citys four downtownparking decks, replacing live atten-

dants. We asked our Facebook fansfor their views.

Lake Geneva has these and theywork great. Cheri L. Connell

I wonder if more people would godowntown if parking was free. Barb Wilken

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Saving for retirementA Bank of America Merrill Edge studyreleased recently says the childrenand grandchildren of Baby Boom-

ers are saving for retirement as theybegin their careers. Gen Y mass af-fluent believe they will save on aver-age nearly $2.5 million for their re-tirement, compared to those workingmass auent ages 51-64 who antici-pate saving just $260,000.

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Dont toss that jarEmpty jelly, pasta sauce and picklejars can certainly go in the recyclingbin after being rinsed out. But reus-

ing them once, twice or for years isthe best way to honor the resourcesthat went into pro-ducing them. Havinga supply of glass jarson hand can also cutdown on the need tobuy plastic storagepieces. See tips onLife&Style board.

Our photographers are out and about look-ing for opportunities to snap a picture

of you. Have a suggestion on where we

should go? Email us at go@rrstar.com. Did you

take your own photo somewhere? Upload your

photos to our Out and About Local Loop online

gallery and well add them to our gallery online and

run some in print, too. Go to rrstar.com/localloop

and look for the Upload link. Give us the first and

last names of the people photographed and tell us

when and where the photo was taken.

Pec Thing antique and flea market

Shoppers and vendors packed the Winnebago County Fairgrounds on May 18 for the 33rd semi-annual PecThing antique and flea market in Pecatonica. PHOTOS BY MAX GERSH/ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR

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