LOSTANT/TONICA – A new educational survey has been rolled out to test the ability of schools to meet standards that will help students suc-ceed.
The “5Essentials” sur-veys have been given to teachers, students and parents throughout the country to seek opinions on whether their local schools are meeting three or more of the five crite-ria, which are purported to increase a child’s effec-
tive learning 10 times more than schools that meet two of the standards or less.
According to the uchi-cagoimpact.org web-site, 5Essentials is an evidence-based sys-tem designed to drive improvement in schools
nationwide. The 5E sys-tem measures changes in a school organization through its survey and provides individualized actionable reports to schools, districts, par-ents, and community partners, and profession-al development to school
leadership and teachers.But does the system
actually do what it’s purported to do? While Lostant Grade School Superintendent Sandra Malahy applauds the effort, she’s not confident of the follow-through.
“I think it’s important
to give everyone – teach-ers, parents, students – a chance to give us feed-back on how we’re doing and what kind of job we’re doing teaching our students,” Malahy said. “But this survey is based
LOSTANT — The Lostant School Board took action on the fol-lowing items at its meet-ing Feb. 20:
• Heard from second-grade teacher Cindy Boldt about the book “FOCUSED on a Safe Drive,” written by Field-crest students. The stu-dents visited her class-room and donated a book to the classroom and every second-grade student. The board rec-ognized the students for a job well done and thanked them for the book donations.
• Heard from board member Paul Janus-ick about Fund 80 with particular attention to the workers compensa-tion and unemployment payments and missing expenditure item for workers compensation insurance.
• Heard from board president Mike Phillips about the new pension reform bill submitted by Rep. Lou Lang (D-Skok-ie.)
• Heard the staff received crisis preven-tion intervention during the February in-service.
• Discussed a staff request to change the grading policy to weight-ed grades. The board members received a spreadsheet reflecting area schools’ policies for weighted grades from teacher Joe Buchanan, who asked the board to give the staff approval to create a weighted grad-ing policy to be submit-ted for approval at the March board meeting. Board members asked
questions and voiced concerns for consider-ation. Several audience members supported the staff request to consider weighted grades.
• Approved changes to the high school tuition cap on a split vote. On a 4-2-1 vote, the board approved changes to the high school tuition cap based on the second lowest tuition charge by removing the high school family contribution cap, which is currently $600, and waived the 2013-14 school jump. Board members Phillips, Dian-na Ioerger, Cindy Bur-car and Andy Urbanows-ki voted in favor of the change. Board members John Wever and Janus-ick voted no while board member Lisa Lindstrom passed.
• Heard from Superin-tendent Sandra Malahy the Illinois State Board of Education Finan-cial Profile number for the FY13 school year. Lostant’s rating is 3.65 out of 4.00.
• Approved a request from the RtE students to hold a fundraiser at the last two volleyball games.
• Approved a request from Mrs. Maggio for use of the school building for the alumni open house, to be held from 10 a.m. to noon April 20.
• Heard the next scheduled destruction of records will be July 2013.
• Received a request made by the Tonica School District to termi-nate the existing Base-ball I.G.A. for the sum-mer 2013 season.
LOSTANT — The Lostant Vol-unteer Fire Department has pur-chased new vehicles that will bring better and more services to the residents of the district.
“We’re proud of our department and equipment just like all the volunteer fire departments in our area,” said Andy Forrest, Lostant chief. “These two vehicles are defi-nitely an upgrade for us.”
The department purchased a 2012 International 4-door cab pumper that replaced a 1985 Chevy pumper and added a brush truck to the list of tools they have available to them. The pumper has the ability to pump 1,250 gallons per minute and has a 30-gallon class A foam system. The cost was $230,000.
“The brush truck responds to field fires and brush fires,” Forrest said. “It’s a 2012 Ford F350 with
four-wheel drive and an extended cab pickup truck. It holds 225 gallons of water and 10 gallons of foam.”
Forrest said it will also pull the ATV Polaris the department already owns for any off-road situation. It was made by U.S. Tanker in Wisconsin and cost $85,000, turnkey ready.
The Lostant Volunteer Depart-ment is a tax supported depart-ment. Tax dollars, donations and
fundraisers paid for 90 percent of the new equipment.
The department has 28 firemen, 15 EMTs, and two first respond-ers. The EMTs operate under EMS Chief Joe Frietag but Chief Forrest oversees the total operation of the department.
“We’re available to respond 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” Forrest said. “Our department pro-vides great coverage for our area and we are very proud of what we do.”
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Parents Mike and Lisa Templeton perform with six oldest children
LOSTANT – The Tem-pleton Family Band of Lostant has been enter-taining groups all over the state of Illinois and beyond since 2007. Parents Mike and Lisa Templeton and their six eldest children form the band that plays traditional bluegrass and gospel music as well as Celtic, Cajun, and 1950s music.
Lisa Templeton said the group is more busy in June through October, although Christmas-time performances keep them busy in December. The group is well known for their great harmonies and unique features they add to their performances. Current features includes band members clogging as well as the youngest per-former, Joseph, doing an Irish-jig.
The family is home-schooled and that is how the music began. Lisa became interested after she read she could teach herself piano.
“I got a book and some-one gave us a friend’s piano,” she said. “So I started teaching myself and did that with the three older children. Then we were given some harmon-icas for Christmas. My oldest son Michael wanted to play ... he grabbed that thing and after a while he started playing very well.”
Lisa said word of mouth has gotten them noticed. They started by playing at small group events, funer-als and churches. People in attendance enjoyed their work and started spreading the word about how good the band was.
The Templetons learned about the Bluegrass Jam (that has since closed down) and started per-forming there. Templeton said that the people were nice and encouraging when they performed.
They family would also get new instrument ideas from watching others play at the Jam. Templeton said that with each instru-ment, either she or Mike would teach themselves and then one of the kids would express interest and start to pick it up.
“It wasn’t planned,” she said. “Through the jams we started playing more and more instruments and involving more and more children.”
Oldest daughter Lidia Templeton said she has always liked the fiddle, and that is her main instrument.
Her brother Albert said fiddles are harder to learn because you have to learn to bow the strings.
“It’s very strenuous on the bowing that such, but like I said, there are differ-ent aspects and challeng-es on each instruments but overall each one’s fun to learn,” he said.
Olivia, the next oldest daughter, has just con-quered the bass violin. Lisa is very proud of her and mentioned she played most of their last show on the bass.
Olivia said she always wanted to learn that, or the banjo or the fiddle.
“I started off on the fiddle, then Dad started teaching me with Joseph on the bass,” she said. “Then I practiced it and got very good at it. I really only started to practice it last summer.”
Lisa said that they are learning a lot of various
sound systems. Each kind presents its own set of challenges.
“It’s a whole new feel for us and we’ve been learning all the time,” she said. “He, (Mike) would like to take care of that more and work to give us a better sound.”
The Templetons found that sometime it wasn’t about what others were playing, but the size of the instrument to the child. Son Andy found this true when he started learning how to play the mandolin. Lisa said Andy “fit” the size of the mandolin, so he was chosen to learn it.
Second oldest son Albert writes most of the music for the band. Albert is a history fan and bases a lot of his music writing on actual local historical
events.“I have around 33
songs,” he said. “If we want to put songs on a CD, we don’t have to pay royalties.”
Albert said he likes writ-ing different songs around and about the area.
“There are a lot of inter-esting things that no one has written songs about,” he said. “I thought it was really neat because it was like writing stories and that.”
Lisa said they are start-ing work on a new CD which will have mostly original music.
“Albert has written most of the songs,” Lisa said. “The title track is called ‘Cherry Mine.’ He wrote a song about the Cherry Mine disaster.”
Oldest son Michael
Templeton played several instruments before find-ing the banjo.
“When we started to play we all picked up the same instruments. We all had the fiddle for a while. I didn’t really pick up gui-tar but Albert and dad did,” he said. “Then dad went to pick up another guitar for Albert and he came out of the music store with a banjo. We got a book and learned the bluegrass style of play-ing with the three fingers picking. Dad and Albert and I started learning that, Albert went back to the guitar, but I liked doing it.”
All the Templeton chil-dren sing in their perfor-mances. Albert is the face of the Templeton band doing most of the talking during the performances. The children, along with their parents, sing harmo-nies that have enhanced their performances.
Playing approximately 35-40 dates a year, all the Templeton children learn how to pull their own weight. Albert said it takes about an hour to make sure the trailer is packed before a performance.
The family has special clothing they wear when performing.
“We used to wear more of a matching thing with white button shirts, black pants and all — we even had cowboy hats on in the pictures on the cover of our first CD,” Lisa said.
Now she said they wear nicer dress clothing to show respect to those who have booked them for their gig.
Over the years, the Tem-pleton Family has won a variety of awards. In 2008 they were the winners of the talent showcase at the Greater Downstate Illinois Bluegrass Festival in Springfield. They also in 2009 took first place in the Southern Illinois Bluegrass and BBQ Festi-val held in Salem.
To learn more about the Templeton Family band, visit their website at tem-pletonfamilyband.com.
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USDA to survey farmers about their 2013
planting intentions
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Over the next several weeks, the U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will survey tens of thou-sands of growers about their 2013 planting intentions. The results of this survey will help all participants in the agriculture sector deter-mine what to expect this growing season after a drought-hampered 2012 season. In addition to grain growers, NASS will also survey thousands of pork producers about their hog and pig inven-tories and spring farrow-ing intentions.
“The information we collect from produc-ers during the first two weeks of March estab-lishes a trend that we’re likely to see in the entire growing season,” said Bob Bass, NASS’ Nation-al Operations Division director. “This year, after a weather-plagued 2012 season, it’s more important than ever to understand planting intentions for this year.”
Most survey par-ticipants should have received their question-naires in the mail and can now respond via NASS’s secure website or by filling out and mailing the forms back. Trained NASS interviewers will visit those who do not respond to answer any questions they may have and to help them fill out their survey forms.
“These surveys require a pretty quick turnaround so that the information is as cur-rent as possible,” Bass said. “Not only do we publish the Prospective Plantings and Quarterly Hogs and Pigs reports on March 28, but we also recognize that farmers have a very busy time ahead of them and we want to let them get back to the task at hand as soon as possible.”
As with all of its sur-veys, NASS keeps all individual responses confidential. The pub-lished reports will include only national and state aggregate data, ensuring that no indi-vidual operations can be identified.
IVCC BoardOGLESBY — Following
a restructuring of Illinois’ Local Workforce Investments Areas (LWIA), Illinois Valley Community College will no longer be a Dislocated Workers Center hub — ending a nearly 30-year arrangement — IVCC trust-ees learned on Feb. 19.
Under the consolida-tion plan presented by Pam Furlan, executive director of the Business Employment Skills Team (BEST), part of Workforce Area No. 4 (Carroll, Ogle, Whiteside and Jo Daviess counties) will be combined with all of No. 12 (Bureau, LaSalle, Lee and Putnam counties).
IVCC’s nine DWC employees, whose posi-tions were contingent upon a contract with BEST, will be terminated with regret effective June 30 but will have an oppor-tunity for employment within the restructured LWIA.
“Each of these individu-als has done a fine job of representing the college while capably serving their constituents,” said IVCC President Jerry Corcoran. “They are pro-fessionals, and I will miss them. The good news is we’ve been told that DWC clients will not experience any disruption in ser-vices.”
DWC staff said the pro-gram began at IVCC in 1984.
In other business, the board followed the recom-mendation of its audit-finance committee and increased tuition begin-ning this summer session.
In anticipation of declin-ing state funding, lower property values and a 2 percent drop in credit hours, trustees approved a 10 percent increase. The $9.22 increase — from $84.38 to $93.60 — and a 1-cent hike in the universal fee, bring the cost of one credit hour at IVCC to $101. The state average for combined tuition and universal fee was $107.89 in 2013.
High school students enrolled in Early Entry College courses will pay $46.80 per hour, one-half the tuition rate and no universal fee.
“In 2002 the communi-
ty college system received $313 million from the state for 5.9 million credit hours,” said Corcoran. “In 2013, our system is receiving $288 million for 7 million credit hours. That is what is driving the financial challenges we face today.”
The committee also approved fee changes on 226 courses: Increases on 164 courses, decreases on 48, adding fees to four existing courses and adding fees to eight new courses. In addition, the committee approved tuition and fee increases for truck driver training totaling $545 and bring-ing total program costs to $3,963.
In other business, the board approved requests for purchases (RFPs) and bids for equipment and technology for the Peter Miller Community Technology Center total-ing more than $1 million. Training equipment will be purchased for eight pro-grams: computer network-ing, industrial electricity, wind, manufacturing, CAD/Drafting, electronics, industrial maintenance and HVAC.
An additional $546,000 in equipment has been acquired through the capi-tal campaign. The build-ing will also showcase an estimated $500,000 in “Smart classroom” equip-ment for rooms and labs.
IVCC will work with Krueger International through the Illinois Public Higher Education Cooperative to determine PMCTC furniture and fix-ture needs.
In other business, the board approved:
• The purchase of $14,711 in welding instruc-tional materials from the Hobart Institute of Welding Technology.
• Tenure for instruc-tors Keith King, biology, Adam Oldaker and Nora Villareal, English, and Jennifer Savoia, nursing and the appointment of Amy Smith as director of institutional research. A graduate of Scott Community College in Bettendorf, Iowa, and the University of Iowa, Smith was a research analyst at Heartland Community College in Normal.
• Accepted with regret the resignation of nursing
instructor Christine Foster at the close of the spring semester. Foster will return to work as a nurse practitioner in Naperville.
• Designated the 2014 fiscal year as July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014; assigned Corcoran to pre-pare the tentative budget and approved the budget calendar.
• The 2014 trustee budget and printing fees for students in Jacobs Library, the Learning Commons and the Ottawa Center’s open lab. Students will be charged 5 cents for black-and-white copies and 25 cents for color. The $13,762 in equipment needed to manage the system will be offset by the fees.
• Hiring Identity Theft Loss Prevention for infor-mation security consulting at a cost of $7,300.
• Inactivation of the AAS in sustainable hor-ticulture, the AAS in landscape maintenance and the certificate in hor-ticulture effective May 18. The action was based on “unsustainable enroll-ments,” said Corcoran. Horticulture program coordinator Lauri Carey will continue teaching transfer agriculture or horticulture courses as well as adding biology courses to her load.
The board learned:• Marketing specialist
Kim Stahly resigned effec-tive Jan. 23 from the com-munity relations office. Stahly of Streator was a 14-year IVCC employee.
• Non-tenured faculty renewed for 2013-14 are Mary Black, lab instructor in developmental math; Christine Blaydes, CNA; Carmen Hartford, biology; Shane Lange, automotive technology; Jared Olesen, sociology; Anthony Ruda, fitness center; and Samantha Whiteaker, nursing.
• In his monthly construction update, Corcoran reported zinc panel installation is pro-gressing well on the south side of the PMCTC, and installation of both eleva-tors has begun. Drywall and soffit, electrical rough-in, painting, lights, diffusers and sprinkler trim could be completed over the next several weeks. On east campus, the addition to the auto
and welding facility and new maintenance building is going well. Substantial completion on the main-tenance building is set for March 8.
• The LPN program’s 100 percent pass rate (23 of 23 — up from 96 percent the previous year) on the 2012 NCLEX compares favorably to the state average 85 percent and national rate of 84 percent. IVCC’s RN pass rate of 90 percent (56 of 62, up from 86 percent) compared to the state’s 91 percent rate and equaled the national pass rate.
• The IVCC Foundation’s ninth annual Irish Night is Saturday at the LaSalle Knights of Columbus. Doors open at 6:30; the Larkin and Moran Brothers of Chicago will play from 7 to 11 p.m. Admission is $15 in advance or $20 at the door.
• For the first time, IVCC hosted the IHSA Girls Class 1A Basketball Sectional Feb. 11 and 14. More than 1,250 fans attended to see Putnam County, Annawan, Newark and Hinckley-Big Rock compete for the champi-onship won by Annawan.
• IVCC’s David Kuester, Norm Engstrom, Don Zellmer, Betsy Klopcic, Jenna Stinson, Donna Stone, and the Improv captains and team, in cooperation with Follies Theatre Productions, presented a workshop for 120 students and teachers at Peru Catholic recently. PC students will write stories featuring a char-acter or characters with disabilities, and Horizon House staff will review the stories before IVCC’s creative team turn them into performances for the school. Student authors will be recognized.
• The annual Career Day Expo, sponsored by Illinois Valley Building and Construction Trades Council, will be March 8 in IVCC’s automotive tech-nology building.
• Welcomed new trustee Everett Solon of Streator who was appointed to a two-year term Feb. 7.
March 10 — Leonore Village Board, Leonore Fire Station, 7:30 p.m.
March 11 — LaSalle County Board, Room 250, 6 p.m.
March 11 — Lostant Village Board, 7:30 p.m.
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PRINCETON — Wil-liam Van Dierendonck of Princeton and his 1940 Hupmobile recently won a very prestigious award from the Antique Auto-mobile Club of America (AACA).
Van Dierendonck won the AACA’s President’s Cup for the Central Divi-sion at the organization’s 77th annual meeting held in Philadelphia, Pa., on Feb. 9.
“I was shocked to be nominated for this award and really, really sur-prised to win the national award,” he said. “I never have heard anybody win-ning the first time they were nominated. It is unusual to be picked the first year you are nomi-nated. I talked to one guy who had been nominated five times before he was picked.”
In addition to the Presi-dent’s Cup, Van Dieren-donck also won a blue tag showing he was the 2012 winner that is displayed on the front of his 1940 Hupmobile.
“There are 59,000 mem-bers in the AACA, and everybody thinks their car, whether it is a Ford, Chevrolet, Dusenberg or Hupmobile, is the best car in the world,” he said. “
AACA membership encompasses the world and helps to preserve automotive history. Van Dierendonck’s name will be on a plaque at the AACA’s museum in Her-shey, Pa.
The other President’s Cups awarded at the AACA’s national meeting for the eastern and south-eastern divisions were given to the owners of a 1929 Willys-Knight and a 1956 Packard.
President’s Cup awards are given for outstand-ing restoration of a 1921 through 1942 automobile entered in each division. This award was estab-lished in 1960 by the AACA.
The event, called the Emmys of the car restora-tion business, highlights 70 cars chosen for nation-al awards by 12 national directors who attend car shows and pick the ones to be nominated for a
series of awards presented at the annual meeting.
Since he won a junior and senior meet in the same year, Van Dieren-donck and his 1940 Hup-mobile also qualified to go to the grand national from June 27-29 in Moline this year.
Van Dierendonck’s 1940 Hupmobile was the very first one of the 1,300 Hupmobiles ever sold to go off the assembly line.
“This is a very presti-
gious car,” he said. “The rarity of this car shows it is one of the best special interest cars because of its history, backgrounds and looks.”
Van Dierendonck first saw the 1940 Hupmobile at a swap meet in Peca-tonica and later bought it from Larry Kern of Princ-eton, who had bought it from a guy living in Lacon. It took him about 26 years after buying it to totally restore the classic car.
Van Dierendonck’s 1940 Hupmobile has a shark nose, not a coffin nose, like some earlier models. He has docu-mented through the Hupmobile Club that this car was the first one ever built with this design.
Hupmobiles were made from 1909 to 1940 with the car company being the fifth largest car manufacturer in the 1920s.
• Discussed staffing and budget for the 2013-14 school year.
• Discussed the IASB Starved Rock Spring meeting. Phillips and Lindstrom said board members should pay their own registration considering the district financial situation. The meeting is March 14.
• Approved a request from the Lostant Base-ball Association for use of the baseball fields for the summer 2013 sea-son on a split vote. On a 5-0-2 vote, the board approved the request, with no obligation for the district to mow the fields and pending proof of lia-bility insurance naming Lostant School. Janusick and Wever passed.
• Received a copy of the annual Health/Life
Safety audit and correc-tive actions.
• Heard from Malahy that all classroom heat-ers had been repaired or cleaned.
• Approved disburse-ments in the amount of $28,874.46.
• Approved the follow-ing reductions in work force: Reduce the physi-cal education/computer position to part-time; and reduce the certified staff by one FTE position.
• Directed Malahy to direct teachers to submit a calculation formula for eighth grade class rank to be approved by the board; mail tuition notice let-ters to all current and pending LaSalle-Peru Township High School students; and inves-tigate procedures to submit a physical edu-cation waiver to the Illinois State Board of Education.
on a Chicago model that’s in use. I had no input into shaping the survey to our area, and I don’t believe it addresses the concerns of our smaller school. I’m a little con-cerned with the validity of this program.”
Still, the school is tak-ing part in the surveys.
“I took the survey myself, so I got a chance to see what it address-es,” said Malahy. “I’m sure we’ll get some use-ful information, but I’m not sure some of it will be particularly useful, or even useful at all.”
Malahy said there has been 100 percent teach-er participation, but there are some reporting problems.
“They had our staff down as having 32 teach-ers,” Malahy said. “We only have 12, and 42
students. So they have us listed as only 30 per-cent participation. I’ve explained it to them and they said they’ll make the corrections at the end of the surveys, what-ever that means. I’m hav-ing concerns about the survey because of this kind of data entry.”
Tonica Superintendent John Suarez is also dubi-ous about the results of the survey, but for differ-ent reasons.
“I’ve talked to admin-istrators from other schools and in some cases — with a staff of 20 or so — the state super-intendent has received 50 teacher responses,” Suarez said. “The prob-lem is anyone can take any of the quizzes. A stu-dent can take a parent’s survey or a teacher’s sur-vey; and you can take it multiple times.”
Suarez said there is no way to monitor who takes which quiz, how
many times they take it, or even if they’re taking it for the right school district. He said the state has some good inten-tions here, but the data is going to be corrupt.
“The problem is, the state superintendent wants this information added to the school’s annual report card,” said Suarez. “I hope some-where somebody says, ‘Whoa, wait a minute.’ because the data isn’t reliable.”
The 5Essentials was created based on more than 20 years of research by the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research on schools and what makes them successful. What the Chicago Consortium has found is schools that are well organized, safe and supportive are much more likely to be suc-cessful.
Specifically, research-ers determined five
essential components for school success:
• Effective leaders: The principal works with teachers to implement a clear and strategic vision for school success.
• Collaborative teach-ers: The staff is com-mitted to the school, receives strong profes-sional development, and works together to improve the school.
• Involved families: The entire school staff builds strong relation-ships with families and communities to support learning.
• Supportive environ-ment: The school is safe and orderly. Teachers have high expectations for students. Students are supported by their teachers and peers.
• Ambitious instruc-tion: Classes are aca-demically demanding and engage students by emphasizing the applica-tion of knowledge.
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Farm Service Agency announces program updates
William Van Dierendonck of Princeton displays the President’s Cup he won for his 1940 Hupmobile at the 77th annual meeting of the Antique Automobile Club of America on Feb. 9 in Philadelphia, Pa.
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SPRINGFIELD — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Direc-tor Scherrie Giamanco announced the Ameri-can Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 extended the authorization of the Food, Conserva-tion, and Energy Act of 2008 (the 2008 Farm Bill) for many Com-modity Credit Corpora-tion (CCC) commodity, disaster, and conserva-tion programs through 2013.
The extended pro-grams include, among others: the Direct and Counter-Cyclical Pay-ment Program (DCP), the Average Crop Rev-enue Election Program (ACRE), and the Milk Income Loss Contract Program (MILC).
FSA began sign-ups for DCP and ACRE for the 2013 crops Feb. 19. The DCP sign-up peri-od will end Aug. 2; the ACRE sign-up period will end June 3.
The 2013 DCP and ACRE program provi-sions are unchanged from 2012, except that all eligible participants in 2013 may choose to enroll in either DCP or ACRE for the 2013 crop year. This means that eligible produc-ers who were enrolled in ACRE in 2012 may elect to enroll in DCP in 2013 or may re-enroll in ACRE in 2013 (and vice versa). All dairy producers’ MILC con-tracts are automati-cally extended to Sept. 30. Eligible producers therefore do not need to re-enroll in MILC. Additional, more spe-cific details regarding certain modifications to MILC will be released soon.
FSA will provide pro-ducers with information on program require-ments, updates and signups as the informa-tion becomes available. Any additional details will be posted on FSA’s website.
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It was fairly late one evening last week, and the Illinois Valley area had just a day earlier experienced its first major snow storm of the season. Go figure ... the last few days of Feb-ruary — just when we were about to think we had it made — and Mother Nature pulled some shenanigans. What an unpredictable old woman she is ...
Anyway, most of you who know me also know I’m not a fan of snow. I try not to complain too much because after all, I’ve made the conscious decision to set up residency in the Midwest. If the snow is up to my elbows ... well, it’s nobody’s fault but my own.
But back to that night ... It was rel-atively late by my standards ... probably close to 10 p.m., and I remembered I had left some-thing in my car. Ugh! The last thing I wanted to do was trudge through the cold and snow and retrieve the belongings I had left in my vehicle. Mumbling about my own forgetfulness, I threw on my jacket and headed to the garage.
Leaving the warmth of my home, the first thing that hit me when I stepped outside was the damp chill, yet for some reason, it didn’t really bother me. Actually, it felt some-what invigorating, and quite frankly, I even thought about taking a brisk walk in the wintry weather. OK ... I didn’t get that nutty, but the thought did cross my mind.
While I could hear someone pushing snow several blocks away, it was basically quiet ... still ... serene. I stood there for a minute, lost in that silence, and I don’t mind telling you, I savored the moment. I don’t know ... maybe it’s just as quiet on other nights when four or five inches of snow aren’t blanketing my world, but for some reason that night, the white quiet hit me.
I stood there for a few more minutes and realized the silence was interrupted by a slight breeze rustling through the pines in the back-yard. I noticed a set of tracks between my house and garage and determined it had been a rabbit who had hopped under the arbor that joins the two structures. In a few months, aromatic wisteria blooms will adorn that arbor, but for now, the snow clung to the bare branches like lovers on a cold winter night.
Coyotes in the distance howled ... seem-ingly a perfect accompaniment to the winter symphony. I couldn’t help but think, and worry too, about the four-legged creatures of the night. Are they cold, hungry? My mind wandered to the two-legged creatures as well, knowing there are folks who call the streets their home, regardless of the season. And to think I was annoyed I had to leave the confines of my warm home to retrieve something from my vehicle. Shame on me.
The pristine landscape outside my door was really quite beautiful. All the flaws that nor-mally catch my attention were gone, covered by that thick, white blanket of snow — perhaps Mother Nature’s way of telling me I need to see beyond the obvious, regardless of the season ... or maybe her way of reminding me how vibrant the spring will seem, once this winter wonder-land disappears.
Other than myself and the person pushing snow several blocks away, I saw no one else — most of my neighbors’ homes were dark, and the affair between myself and Mother Nature seemed intimate. It was just her and me, and for the first time in a long time, I was able to see past her blustery and brutal ways and rel-ish her intrinsic and natural beauty.
Like a photographer captures an image, I stood there for a few seconds longer, hoping to preserve this scenic and solitary winter por-trait and commit it to memory, where I can take it out now and then ... especially when the world gets a little bit too nutty.
5 PerspectiveFriday, March 8, 2013 • The Tonica News • 5
The Editorial Page
Sam R FisherPublisher
Terri Simoneditor
The Tonica News
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A winter affair
“I would rather see them take away Monday
instead. No one mails things on Monday.”
James Rak, Lostant
“I don’t really like it. But people with post office mailboxes will still get
delivery.”Betty Chasteen, Tonica
“In instances when I am waiting for billing, it might be inconvenient. It’s OK, however, not to get my
bills. But it’s going to be hard on the elderly.”Marlene Warnell, LaSalle
“It’s going to be kind of inconvenient for the
rural people.”Robert Breckenridge, Lostant
“I think they ought to keep it the way it was.”
Jerry Hildabrand, Tonica
Oops, our bad.
I’ve always been interested in Japanese culture, especially the samurai and the philosophy of Bushido.
The code of Bushido requires loyalty and responsibility to one’s lord. After all, the literal trans-lation of samurai is “to serve.” Thus, it is imperative to respond to the needs of one’s superiors, whether voiced or tacitly implied.
While for many, the code of Bushido is a hard path, in some people it should be a require-ment.
We all have ‘masters,’ people to who we owe some loyalty if mere-ly by employment or religious beliefs or ideals. Only by abiding by the requirements of those mas-ters does one find true fulfillment.
Illinois’ elected officials have more masters than most people: the entire population of Illinois. In order to do their job, they have to fulfill the needs of the populace. While it is impossible
to meet every need of each indi-vidual (since many would be contradictory), certain things are universal: the incredible debt incurred by our state government is tantamount.
Thus far, these public servants have seen fit to do nothing except bury their heads and pray the situation will take care of itself. However, like the barbarians at the gate, this issue is going nowhere unless someone does something serious ... and soon.
Anything that will help allevi-ate this financial crisis will obvi-ously impact residents of the state in profound ways — most notably, the state employees who will suffer cuts to their pensions due to the extraordinary burden placed on the system by the ser-vants that were assigned the task
to protect us in the first place. There’s a big difference between the pension of a state clerk and an Illinois Senator, but both will see cuts in their financial outlook, the difference being the senator can afford it. The clerk is a differ-ent story.
Is there anything we can do? We can remind the servants the barbarians are at the gate, and something must be done. But that something should not be com-pletely at the expense of the peo-ple they are pledged to protect.
Governments like to “declare wars” — “The war against pover-ty,” “The war against drugs,” etc. It would help immensely if the next war they declare is “The war against unnecessary spending just to fatten our wallets.”
I’m not going to hold my breath.Suddenly, land across the Mis-
sissippi looks better and better all the time.
Putnam County Record Staff Writer Ken Schroeder can be reached at [email protected].
The code of Bushido and the Illinois Congress
KenSchroeder
COMMENTARY
TerriSimon
On the street The U.S. Postal Service has decided to do away with Saturday delivery in August. What do you think of delivering mail on Saturdays?
First Amendment“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
LOSTANT — It is a team effort at St. John the Baptist Catholic church in Lostant. The Rev. Luke Poczworows-ki, along with the Rev. Hanns Fonder and Dea-con Fran McGann of the Franciscan order, keep St. John’s running smoothly each week.
Fonder, Poczworowski and McGann oversee four area churches besides St. John’s. They cover St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Wenona, St. Anne’s Catholic Church in Tolu-ca, Sacred Heart Catho-lic Church in Rutland and St. Patrick’s Catho-lic Church in Minonk. Between the five par-ishes, Poczworowski said there are more than 570 families that participate actively in church life.
“Our theme is many churches, one commu-nity,” he said.
Fonder and Pocz-worowski celebrate at least one Mass per day in each church. St. John’s hosts Mass on Thursdays at 8 a.m. and on Sun-days at 8:30 a.m. each week. The priests like to mix it up, so their parish may see first one and then the other each week. Baptisms are done on the second and fourth Sundays of each month.
“Father Hans and I take turns, we change it every week,” Pocz-worowski said.
The women of St. John’s have a compas-sion ministry. Their Altar and Rosary group do funeral lunches for families. Poczworowski said the ladies donate all the foods except for an
occasion when a family may pay for the meat served at a luncheon.
At St. John’s the boys and girls work as altar servers. Members of the parish also read the scriptures at the services as lectors. Some mem-bers perform the role of Eucharistic ministers and help with commu-nion. Members also usher and help with col-lections at each service.
St. John’s has a small group of parishioners who sing.
“We would call them cantors at St. John’s,” Poczworowski said.
At Christmas and Eas-ter the youth perform and play musical instru-ments in the service.
The religious educa-tion program is called ‘READY” and it takes care of all five parishes. READY stands for Reli-gious Education and Development of Youth. This program is held for St. John’s members at St. Mary’s Church in Weno-na from 10 to 11 a.m. each Sunday.
To become a mem-ber of the church at St. John’s all an interested person has to do is reg-ister. However, Religion Class In Adults (RCIA) is offered to adults who are thinking of coming to the church and being
baptized and confirmed. The class starts each fall and ends at the Easter service.
St. John’s and the other churches are start-ing a process for shut-ins.
“We are in the pro-cess where when people are at home and cannot come to church, we send a Eucharistic minister to give the body of Christ,” Poczworowski said.
Hospital visits are a bit of a challenge due to the Health Insurance Porta-bility and Accountabil-ity Act (HIPAA) privacy rules.
“You are not supposed to tell who is in the hos-pital and how they are doing,” Poczworowski said. “Our parishioners have to call us otherwise we do not know that they are in the hospital.”
There are pictures of members of the parish that are in the Armed Forces in the lobby of St. John’s church. Poc-zworowski said the parishioners pray regu-larly for the people in the Armed Forces.
In May there is a Mass said for fire department and paramedics person-nel.
“St. Flora is the patron saint of fire department and paramedics. All five parishes participate.
The women then come together and host a lun-cheon afterwards,” Pocz-worowski said.
A Fall Festival with all churches participat-ing is held at St. Mary’s each year. Fish fries are held during Lent by the Knights of Columbus at St. Anne’s church and once in a while in St. Mary’s church for all the parishes to attend. Breakfast by Knights of Columbus is held a cou-ple times a year at St. Patrick’s and St. Mary’s church for all the parish-es. An Easter Egg Hunt for the children in all of the parishes is held at St. Pat’s and St. Anne’s churches.
Poczworowski said his parishioners have taken ownership of the par-ishes.
“They want the Father to administer the sacra-ments, and they will try to take care of all the other worldly things so to say,” he said. “People tell me that they will take care of the buildings, the grounds, They say ‘You make sure we receive the sacrament.’”
Poczworowski said it’s a good arrangement.
“They just take owner-ship, and it’s wonderful,” he said. “We just want them to increase their spiritual life.”
Local women observe World Day of PrayerLOSTANT — “I was
a stranger and you wel-comed me” was the pro-gram held for World Day of Prayer, observed March 1 at the Lostant United Methodist Church.
World Day of Prayer is a worldwide ecumenical movement of Christian women of many tradi-tions who come together to observe a common day of prayer and action each year on the first Friday in
March.This year’s worship
service and Bible studies reached into Jesus’ iden-tification with “the least of these” in Matthew 25, and drew on customs of hospitality found in the book of Leviticus to paint a picture of welcoming the stranger.
Ladies from the com-munities of Leonore, Lostant and Tonica were invited to this program.
Those participating were Norma Lightle, Rhoda Hobneck, Dianna Ioerger, Janet Rose, Sandy Tarr, Betty Scott, Marcia Krei-ser, Jo Hartenbower, Max-ine Brierly, Gladys Alle-man, Judy Weiner, Donna
Smaling, Mary Jane Ste-phens, Julie Novakowski and the Rev. Mark Nova-kowski.
The Ladies Evening Cir-cle of the Lostant United Church hosted the event this year.
Tonica School library to receive grant
‘X’ the text and prevent TBI
Medicare program planned
Charity basketball game set
TONICA — Secre-tary of State and State Librarian Jesse White has awarded Fiscal Year 2013 School District Library Program Grants totaling almost $1.4 million to 642 Illinois public school districts. Nearly 1.7 mil-lion students served by school library media pro-grams will benefit from the grants. The Tonica Grade School will receive a $735.50 grant.
“As a former public school teacher and admin-istrator, I know our school libraries are so important in helping students learn and prepare themselves for the future,” White said. “Several studies in recent years have shown that students perform bet-ter in the classroom in school districts that have
strong library media pro-grams. Illinois was the first state to implement a school district grant program, and I’m pleased that we can continue to provide school libraries with some of the finan-cial resources they need to produce well-educated students.”
Grants were awarded based on a formula of 75 cents per student, with a minimum grant award of $735.50. The School Dis-trict Library Grant Pro-gram provides funds that can be used for things like the acquisition of library materials to support read-ing for academics and enjoyment, library sub-scriptions to electronic resources, or improved technology to support stu-dent research.
PERU – March is Brain Injury Awareness Month.
Traumatic Brain Inju-ries (TBI) can happen anytime, and anywhere, to anyone. The Illinois Valley Brain Injury Club-house is proud to join advocates across the country to recognize March as Brain Inju-ry Awareness Month to honor millions of people who continue to live life to the fullest despite living with a brain injury.
This year, the Illinois Valley Brain Injury Club-house would like to bring special awareness to tex-ting and driving. Distract-ed drivers pose a deadly risk to everyone on the
road. Be safe and remind everyone: “No text is worth a TBI.” Make a habit of turning the cell phone off or to the silent mode before you get into a car. Take the ATT pledge at itcanwait.com.
If a person is experienc-ing numbness, excessive drowsiness, severe head-aches, weakness in arms or legs, dizziness or loss of vision, slurred speech, loss of consciousness or confu-sion, vomiting or nausea, seek medical attention for brain injury or stroke. If there is a need in a family for a TBI resource, contact the Illinois Valley Brain Injury Clubhouse at 815-992-5271.
LASALLE — Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illi-nois will present a free, informative program on Medicare and Medicare Supplement Plans from
1:30 to 2:30 p.m. March 13 at the LaSalle Public Library, 305 Marquette St. in LaSalle.
To R.S.V.P, call 815-639-7192.
PERU — For the fourth consecutive year, a team of Illinois Valley Commu-nity Hospital physicians, helped by other members of the IVCH staff, will play a charity basketball game against a squad drawn from the ranks of three local Rotary clubs.
This year’s contest will be at 6:30 p.m. March 15 at Parkside School in Peru.
Admission to the game will be free but donations will be accepted, with proceeds to be divided between the Illinois Val-ley Food Pantry and the IVCH Foundation.
The Peru Rotary Club, LaSalle Rotary Club and Illinois Valley Sunrise Rotary Club will all be
contributing players to the Rotary team.
The IVCH team roster will include Chief Exec-utive Officer Tommy Hobbs, Dr. Steve Lukan-cic, Dr. Mark Fernan-dez, Dr. James Vaiana, Dr. Scott Millington, Dr. Paul Bonucci, Dr. Robert Pode, laboratory technol-ogist Dale Martyn, mate-rials management direc-tor Jonathan Allen and physical therapist James Schaefer.
Members of the Rotary team will include Steven Schweickert, Mike Starih, John McCormick, Andy Hurst, Rob Ankiewicz, Chris Vaske, Mark Cross, Steve Lamis, Matt Baker, Matt Merboth, Jeff Grove and Simon Kampwerth.
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Recipe corner
Tonica Grade School
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With the Lenten season upon us, I thought you might like to try some great seafood recipes. Give ‘em a try and see what you think.
Salmon and Potato Casserole4 potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced3 tablespoons all purpose flour1 16-ounce can salmon, drained and flaked1 medium onion, chopped1 10 3/4-ounce can cream of mushroom soup1/4 cup waterGround nutmeg
Place half of potatoes in greased crock pot slow cooker. Sprinkle with half of flour, salt and pep-per. Cover with half of salmon, sprinkle with half of onion. Repeat layers in order. Combine soup and water. Pour over potatoes-salmon mixture. Dust with nutmeg. Cover and cook on low 7 to 10 hours.
Beer Batter FishFish fillets (enough for meal); I like codSaltPepperPancake mix, Hungry Jack, extra light1 12-ounce can of beer
Use enough pancake mix with the can of beer to make a batter that doesn’t coat the fish too heavy but still does not run off the fish when dipped into it. Salt and pepper each fish to taste. Dip into batter and then into hot oil that has reached temperature of 375°. Fry until brown on one side then turn over and brown other side. Remove to platter and eat.
Saucy Skillet Fish1/2 cup all-purpose flour1 1/4 teaspoons salt1 teaspoon paprika1/8 teaspoon pepper2 pounds halibut, haddock or salmon fillets1 medium onion, sliced1/3 cup butter1 1/2 cups sour cream (12 ounces)1 teaspoon dried basil1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
In a large re-sealable plastic bag, combine the flour, salt, paprika and pepper. Add fish and shake to coat (if using fillets, cut into serving size pieces first). In a skillet, sauté onion in butter until tender, remove and set aside. Add fish to the skillet, cook over medium heat for 3 to 5 minutes on each side or until the fish flakes easily with a fork. Remove fish to a serving plate and keep warm. Add sour cream, basil and onion to the skillet, heat through (do not boil). Serve over fish. Garnish with parsley.
Do you have a seafood recipe you’d like to share with other readers? Email it to me at [email protected]. Please remember to include your name, address and telephone number (telephone number won’t be published). Happy fish-ing!
Breakfast menusMarch 11 — Choice of oatmeal, cereal or yogurt,
toast, milk, juice.March 12 — Choice of pancakes, cereal or yogurt,
toast, milk, juice.March 13 — Choice of scrambled eggs, cereal or
yogurt, toast, milk, juice.March 14 — Choice of French toast, cereal or
yogurt, toast, milk, juice.March 15 — Choice of cinnamon roll, cereal or
yogurt, toast, milk, juice.
Lunch menusMarch 11 — Hamburger or cheeseburger, French
fries, carrots with dip, fruit cup.March 12 — Chicken fajitas strips or peanut but-
ter and jelly, salad with dressing, tortilla, frozen fruit side kick.
March 13 — BBQ on a bun, steamed broccoli, fruit cup, flavored noodles.
March 14 — Taco in a bag or peanut butter and jelly, taco meat, cheese, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, dressings, salsa, fruit cup, nacho corn chips.
March 15 — Super nachos and cheese or catfish nuggets, refried beans, lettuce, corn chips, bananas with chocolate sauce.
ActivitiesMarch 11 — ISAT make up; softball away at 3:45
p.m. at Oglesby, bus leaves at 3:15.March 12 — ISAT make up.March 13 — ISAT make up; 4 p.m., softball at
Wallace, bus leaves at 3:15 p.m.March 14 — Market Day.March 15 — End third quarter.
March 11 — Ham ball with pineapple sauce, sweet potatoes, peas, citrus cup, wheat bread.
March 12 — Swedish meatballs, rotini noodles, zuc-chini and tomatoes, tossed salad and dressing, blush-ing pears, wheat roll.
March 14 — Turkey sandwich on wheat bread, potato salad, broccoli, diced peaches, mayonnaise.
March 15 — St. Patrick’s party – Corned beef, pars-ley red potatoes, cabbage and carrots, lime gelatin with mixed fruit, shamrock cookie, rye bread.
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Birth AnnouncedGross
Brian and Sara (Ford) Gross of rural Tonica are the parents of a daughter, Mary Catherine, born Feb. 18 at Illinois Valley Community Hospital in Peru. She was welcomed home by two siblings, Mia and Noah.
Grandparents are Rita and Gary Ford of Tonica, and Dennis and Carol Gross of LaSalle. Great-grandparents are Burdette and Elaine Ford of Tonica.
Mary Catherine was baptized on March 3 at St. Mary’s Parish in Utica by the Rev. Monsignor James Swaner. Godparents are Walt and Nancy Zukowski of Peru.
Erica Dodge, Kaylie Thomas Urban, Carter Dodge and John Davis pose by the 8-foot tall snowman they built in front of, and with car parts from, Ace Auto Salvage in Tonica during last week’s snow storm. The kids used spark plugs for the eyes, a lug nut cover for the nose, timing pulleys for the buttons, a piece of serpentine belt for the mouth, hydraulics from a trunk lid for arms, a pair of work gloves for the hands and a caution traffic cone for the hat.
We want to hear from you – From you, for you is an interactive section for readers to share their photos and other works of art. For information on how to make a submission, contact Putnam County Record Staff Writer Ken Schroeder at [email protected].
From you, for you
How smart is your right foot?The following was sent in by reader John Rep-
holz. You have to try this … it takes two seconds. I
could not believe this! And there’s nothing you can do about it! You and I both know how stupid it is, but before the day is done, you are going to try it again, if you’ve not already done so. This will boggle your mind, and it will keep you trying over and over again to see if you can outsmart your foot, but, you can’t. It’s pre-programmed in your brain!
1. Without anyone watching you (they will think you are goofy), and while sitting at your desk in front of your computer, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.
2. Now, while doing this, draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.
I told you so!
Library cornerLaSalle Public Library
March 12 — 9:30 a.m., “Babies and Books”; 10:45 a.m., “Tots and Tales”; and 11:45 a.m., “Story time express ... Fun on the run!”.
PADS board to meetPERU — Illinois Valley PADS, a local homeless shel-
ter, will have its monthly board of directors meeting at 6:30 p.m. March 11. The meeting will be at Lily PADS Boutique at 4471 Progress Blvd. in Peru. The public is invited.
Visit www.ivpads.com for additional information about the organization of PADS and Lily PADS and to volunteer at either shelter in Peru or Ottawa and also at Lily PADS. Questions should be directed to Mary Jo Freeman, PADS secretary, at 815-252-2240.
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Arbor Day Foundation giveaway
NEBRASKA CITY – The Arbor Day Founda-tion is making it easier for everyone to celebrate the arrival of spring through planting trees. Those who join the Arbor Day Foundation in March will receive 10 free white flowering dog-wood trees.
The free trees are part of the non-profit founda-tion’s Trees for America campaign and will be shipped postpaid at the right time for planting between March 1 and May 31, with enclosed planting instructions. The 6- to 12-inch trees
are guaranteed to grow or they will be replaced free of charge.
Arbor Day Foundation members also receive a subscription to “Arbor Day,” the foundation’s bimonthly publication, and “The Tree Book,” which contains informa-tion about tree planting and care.
To become a member of the Foundation and receive the free trees, send a $10 contribu-tion to Ten Free Dog-wood Trees, Arbor Day Foundation, 100 Arbor Ave., Nebraska City, NE 68410 by March 30.
Tips for avoiding norovirusSPRINGFIELD – No doubt you
probably know of someone who has been sick with a “stomach bug” this year, typically caused by norovirus. Norovirus causes vomit-ing and diarrhea and is very con-tagious. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 80 percent of norovirus outbreaks occur from November to April. The CDC esti-mates that more than 20 million people, or about one in every 15 Americans, are infected with noro-virus.
“Norovirus is the most com-mon cause of stomach illness in the country,” said Illinois Depart-ment of Public Health Director Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck. “However, the easiest way to avoid becoming ill is to wash your hands. Viruses can contaminate surfaces and objects
touched by someone who is ill. If your hand then comes in contact with your mouth, chances are you will end up becoming ill.”
Norovirus can spread quickly from person to person in crowded places like schools, long-term care facilities and daycare centers. A person who is ill and prepares or serves catered meals or food in a restaurant can contaminate food, causing others to become ill.
Symptoms of norovirus infection usually include diarrhea, vomit-ing, nausea and stomach cramp-ing. Other, less common symp-toms may include low-grade fever, chills, headache, muscle aches and general sense of fatigue. Norovi-rus illness is usually not serious and most people are better in a day or two. But, norovirus illness can be serious in young children,
the elderly and people with other health conditions. According to the CDC, norovirus causes more than 70,000 hospitalizations and 800 deaths in the U.S. each year.
Tips for avoiding norovirus:• Frequently wash your hands,
especially after toileting and before eating or preparing food.
• Thoroughly clean and disinfect contaminated surfaces immediate-ly using a bleach-based cleaner. Or use one part bleach to nine parts water (1:10 dilution).
• Increase the frequency of cleaning high touch surfaces such as door knobs.
• Do not work as a food handler while you are ill with diarrhea or vomiting.
For more information on norovi-rus, log onto www.idph.state.il.us/public/hb/hbnorovirus.htm.
–––––––––––––––– Legals ––––––––––––––– IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 13TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
LA SALLE COUNTY - OTTAWA, ILLINOISBank of America, N.A. ) PLAINTIFF ) VS )Terrill J. Heroux a/k/a Terrill Heroux a/k/a )Terrill J. Heroux Sr.; et. al. ) DEFENDANTS )
12 CH 00397NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE
OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 11/8/2012, the Sheriff of LaSalle County, Illinois will on 4/11/13 at the hour of 8:00 a.m. at Governmental Complex North Lobby 707 Etna Road Ottawa, IL 61350, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of LaSalle and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bid-der for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: PIN 26-16-401-000 Improved with Single Family Home COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 2103 E. 875th RoadTonica, IL 61370 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assess-ments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confir-mation by the court. If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchas-ers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common inter-est community, purchasers other than mortgag-ees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole respon-sibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the sub-ject premises. The property will NOT be open for inspec-tion and Plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the Court file to verify all information. IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-12-24800.I510188Published in the Tonica News Mar. 1, 8 and 15, 2013.
the date of mailing or delivery, whichever is later. Any claim not filed within the above periods are barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the Representatives and to the Attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.
Wayne Paprocki, Executor of the Estate of Agnes M. Glupczynski, Deceased
c/o Perona, Peterlin, Andreoni & Brolley, LLCJames A. Andreoni4110 Progress BoulevardPeru, IL 61354Published in the Tonica News Mar. 3, 8 and 15, 2013.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 13TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
LA SALLE COUNTY - OTTAWA, ILLINOISBank of America, N.A. PLAINTIFF Vs.Terrill J. Heroux a/k/a Terrill Heroux a/k/a Terrill J. Heroux Sr.; et. al. DEFENDANTS
12 CH 00397NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE
OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursu-ant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 11/8/2012, the Sheriff of LaSalle County, Illinois will on 4/11/13 at the hour of 8:00 a.m. at Governmental Complex North Lobby 707 Etna Road Ottawa, IL 61350, or in a place oth-erwise designated at the time of sale, County of LaSalle and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate:
THAT PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 32 NORTH, RANGE 2, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 16; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 10 MINUTES 06 SECONDS WEST 1352.39 FEET ON THE SOUTH LINE OF THE SAID SECTION TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 10 MINUTES 06 SECONDS WEST 315.00 FEET OaN THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID SECTION 16; THENCE DUE NORTH 345.76 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 10 MINUTES 06 SECONDS EAST 315.00 FEET; THENCE DUE SOUTH 345.76 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, ALL SITUATED IN VERMILLION TOWNSHIP; SITUATED IN LASALLE COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
PIN 26-16-401-000
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
LASALLE COUNTY, ILLINOIS - PROBATE DIVISION
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF )AGNES M. GLUPCZYNSKI, Deceased. )
No. 13-P-36NOTICE TO HEIRS AND LEGATEES
WILL ADMITTED Notice is given to unknown heirs of Agnes M. Glupczynski, deceased, who are heirs or legatees in the above proceeding to probate a will and whose name or address is not stated in the petition to admit the will to probate, that an order was entered by the court on February 19, 2013, admitting the will to probate. Within 42 days after the effective date of the original order of admission you may file a petition with the court to require proof of the will by testi-mony of the witnesses to the will in open court or other evidence, as provided in section 6-21 of the Probate Act of 1975 (755 ILCS 5/6-21). You also have the right under 81- of the Probate act of 1975 (755 ILCS 5/8-1) to contest the validity of the will be filing a petition with the court within 6 months after admission of the will to probate.
James A. AndreoniAttorney for the Agnes M. Glupczynski Estate
4110 Progress BoulevardPeru, IL 61354
Phone: (815) 224-4102Published in the Tonica News Mar. 1, 8 and 15, 2013.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
LASALLE COUNTY, ILLINOIS - PROBATE DIVISION
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF )AGNES M. GLUPCZYNSKI, Deceased. )
No. 13-P-36CLAIM NOTICE
Notice is given of the death of Agnes M. Glupczynski, 1251 LaHarpe Street, LaSalle, Illinois, 61301 on January 9, 2013. Letters of office were issued on February 19, 2013 to Wayne Paprocki, 3639 Pebble Beach Road, North Brook, Illinois, 60062-3109, as executor, whose attorney is James A. Andreoni of Perona, Peterlin, Andreoni & Brolley, LLC, 4110 Progress Boulevard, Peru, Illinois, 61354. Claims against the estate may be filed in the Office of the Circuit Clerk, Probate Division, LaSalle County Courthouse, 119 West Madison Street, Ottawa, Illinois, 61350, or with the repre-sentative, or both, within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. If claim notice is personally mailed or delivered to a creditor of the above estate, then the claim must be filed in the above entitled cause within three months from
Improved with Single Family Home COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 2103 E. 875th RoadTonica, IL 61370 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The bal-ance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condi-tion. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. If the property is a condominium and the fore-closure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The success-ful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. The property will NOT be open for inspection and Plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the Court file to verify all information. IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-12-24800.I510188Published in the Tonica News Mar. 1, 8 and 15, 2013.
