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BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN

STERLING – It’s Aly Wet-zell’s favorite part of the day: From 12:30-2:30 p.m., she gets to hang out with a toddler at Kiddie Kampus Preschool.

That realization, her instructor said, is invalu-able. So is the alternative, given the sensitive nature of caring for little ones.

“This might turn you off to teaching, too – and that’s OK,” said Mary Sue Neubauer, a former St. Mary School kindergarten teacher who’s run the Whi-teside Area Career Center’s Early Childhood Education program for 7 years. “You can figure that out in here. Good for you. Don’t waste your time in college, if it’s not for you.”

As for the Alys of the world?

“She’s a natural,” she said. “Lots of girls, they get it. They have a great work ethic, and that’s something I can’t teach.”

Every week, Aly gets to hang out with a new 3- to 5-year-old. Last week, she and Aubrey were coloring hearts for Valentine’s Day.

“This is so much fun, and it’s the best part of my day,” the Prophetstown High School junior said. “I love having a new kid every week. Aubrey is really awe-some. She’s really smart, and hopefully she’ll go to kindergarten next year.”

Neubauer has 63 students in three blocks – about one student for each little one. She’s also got a lengthy waiting list of parents who hope to get their kids into the preschool in the fall.

She’d like to always have a waiting list. Not just because the cost is low, relatively speaking – $300 yearly for the morning ses-sion and $200 for the after-noon session.

“It’s a lot of word of mouth,” Neubauer said. “I always say our reputa-tion is great, but you know what? It could go downhill in a heartbeat, too.”

That’s where her right-hand woman, Diane McK-eel, comes in. The program’s assistant, and also a local ele-mentary fixture, she not only brings a lot of experience to the room, but she also brings a lot of parents to their door.

“She knows what these little ones need, and she

loves it,” Neubauer said. “And she also brings a lot of little ones to our pro-gram, just because every-one knows her and loves her.”

While safety is the number one goal, getting the toddlers ready for kindergarten is another chief priority. Some have limited language skills upon arrival, and Neubauer urges her students to keep talking to them, keeping engaging them, keep asking them questions. It’s a joy to watch the little ones flourish, she said.

For instance, Rylie was giddy as she and Newman junior Maddie Ferris col-ored hearts, then counted the Sweet Tarts that cor-respond with that color. Maybe she was just giddy because she got to eat them after counting them. But Maddie is an awful lot of fun, she said.

“She likes to play, just like me,” Rylie said.

Maddie was inspired by her cousin, Stacy Dirks, who works in speech pathology with the elderly. She plans to attend Sauk Valley Com-munity College, then trans-fer to Illinois State Universi-ty. She toured the center her sophomore year, eager to find out whether she’s really cut out for early education.

“I think this is showing me I can really do this,” Maddie said. “No matter what kind of day I’m having, I find that when I get to be with the kids, everything gets better.”

Neubauer gets to watch her students flourish, too. Erie High School student Christy Graszer wasn’t the most extroverted student she’s had, but there she sat

in front of a couple of dozen little ones, helping them count on the calendar. After identifying the patterns of the hearts on the calendar in unison, she took another angle, she said.

“Today is our Valen-tine’s Day party, but over here is the real Valentine’s Day,” she said, pointing at Sunday, Feb. 14. “So we should count how many days until we get to that day.”

“What she’s doing today is big for her,” Neubauer said of Graszer.

Neubauer enjoys getting students into internships in their second year, to truly make sure they’re in it for the long haul. The work-based learning site could be a day care center, pre-school program, elementa-ry school, or a more special-ized area, such as special ed or social work.

But she’s also referred those who weren’t quite cut out for early ed, but perhaps instead were cut out for math, to her hus-band, Jeff, a teacher at Sterling High. She’s also referred a student to a nursing home.

Whether students end up in early ed or not, Neu-bauer hopes they walk out more prepared to foster children, regardless of the capacity.

“This is a great life skill. I don’t want them to hit their kids, or to yell at their kids. And some of their home lives are like that. If we can show them how far kindness can go, and how to break that pattern, it’s so important to me, for when they become par-ents.”

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ABOVE: Newman High School junior Maddie Ferris counts with Rylie during Kiddie Kampus Preschool, part of the Early Childhood Educa-tion program at Whiteside Area Career Center in Sterling. Ferris plans to attend Sauk Valley Community College for 2 years before trans-ferring to Illinois State University, and credits the career center’s program with showing her she is, in fact, cut out for early education.

LEFT: Prophetstown High School junior Aly Wetzel laughs with Aubrey as they color hearts for Valentine’s Day. Click on this story at saukvalley.com to see what an afternoon is like in the Early Childhood Education pro-gram at Whiteside Area Career Center.

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Two sides don’t see eye-to-eye on how to return an aging star of downtown to a starring role

BY JERMAINE PIGEE AND KATHLEEN A. SCHULTZ

DIXON – A world-renowned playwright and Dixon native wants to buy the Historic Dixon Theatre and turn it into a major regional entertainment venue.

The nonprofit board that has managed the theater since 1997 has said no thanks, citing what it con-siders a meager $80,000 offering for a building one member says is worth $3 million to $6 million.

The problem is, the theater, built in 1922 and now rented only for the occasional event, is owned by the county.

Probably.“The details on the Dixon Theatre are really murky,”

county board Chairman Rick Ketchum said.Jeanie Linders, writer and producer of “Menopause:

The Musical” and owner of an event-planning and production company, approached the theater group around April 2014, ultimately offering $80,000 for the building, which she said could be the centerpiece of a downtown art district.

The price reflects the fact that it needs major reno-vations and repairs. Before she can book shows, “the dressing rooms need to be updated because they are in bad shape. The ceiling in the theater is falling down and the walls are crumbling on the side,” she said.

Tom Elmendorf, head of Dixon Theater Renovation Inc., does not dispute that – in fact, his group has been trying to raise funds for years to restore the venue to its former glory.

But he’s also not happy that Linders wants to own and operate the theater all by herself, sans his nonprofit orga-nization. He turned her down.

After learning the county actually held the deed, however, Linders went to that board to plead her case.

Eight months later, she was ready to throw in the towel. To her mind, the theater board wasn’t being reasonable, the city’s hands were tied, and the county didn’t seem to care.

In a December 2014 email to a Dixon civic leader that she also agreed to share with Sauk Valley Media, she expressed her frustration:

“ I t s e e m s t h a t a f t e r 8 months it has been determined that the Dixon The-atre is under the owner/operation of the ‘board’ that has been running it (or not) for the last many years ... and the option of my team getting the chance to license and pro-fessionally run it are slim to none.

“This is sad, since I had everything from Kenny Log-gins and Lord of the Dance for St. Patrick’s Day and a gospel/Christian music night to a women’s empow-erment conference and partnerships with other enti-ties, like Stage Left, on the books.

“... such activities would anchor the development of the Downtown Arts District, bringing tourists, income and development to the town. ... The bigger plan, which the theater monies would anchor, including the studio/galleries/food court space ... is also flushed by this, since the theater under professional operation is the financial and cultural anchor.

“The building literally is being held hostage ... and neither the county (who doesn’t care) or the city has any jurisdiction,” Linders wrote.

It’s not that the county doesn’t care, Ketchum said. Board members, in fact, recognize that the theater is underutilized, and they “would like to get it to where it’s more useful, and get rid of the liability. We [the county] don’t even have insurance on it,” he said.

“Our thoughts were, if we sold for $80,000 to $100,000, somewhere in there, and she got it back on the tax rolls and brings tourism back to town, it’s a win-win for everyone.”

On the other hand, the Elmendorfs – Tom and his wife Jodi – have put a lot of “sweat equity” into the theater the last 20 years, and members also would like to do right by them, Ketchum said.

A handful of people and groups have managed and renovated the theater over the years. The Elmendorfs

got involved in the mid-1990s. After Jodi landed a lead part in a show in 1994, she had roles in other shows over the next few years. Tom and their two children got involved with each show each year.

“We were always here,” Jodi Elmendorf said in a 2012 interview with SVM. “It kind of became a family affair. It was something we all felt passionate about. It was something we could do together.”

The Elmendorfs joined the volunteer board that over-sees the theater, and they have devoted themselves to renting and restoring the theater ever since.

“The county has spent no money on the theater itself, at all,” Tom Elmendorf noted. “They hold the deed, but we run it. We have to maintain it, restore it and pay for the utilities.”

But despite the seeming impasse, the issue is not dead.

County board members have discussed it at least twice in closed session, and recently, at the November and December meetings, Ketchum said.

They have asked Lee County Assistant State’s Attorney Matt Klahn to sort out the details, and have brought Dixon City Attorney Rob LeSage and other city officials into the discussion.

Ketchum said Thursday that he plans to talk to Klahn about his findings, or lack thereof, and have another closed-session discussion with the board at its March meeting.

How’d we get here?Here’s how the ownership confusion came about:In June 1997, Dixon Theater Renovation deeded the

facility to the Lee County Metropolitan Exposition Audi-torium and Office Building Authority – a county agency that, according to county records, still owns the tax-exempt building.

The plan was, because the nonprofit did not have the standing to go after state grant money, the county would.

At the same time, the county leased the building back to the nonprofit, whose job it would be to take the money the county raised and actually do the res-

toration work.Ketchum said his understanding is that “Springfield

didn’t follow through, so we could never apply for grant money.”

The lease, which was for 1 year, never was renewed. The county never raised any money for the theater, and, because any rental money raised was to be put back into the building, Dixon Theater Renovation never has paid the county any money to lease it.

“Nothing shows why the agreement was never renewed,” Elmendorf said. “I’ve researched it and the county has researched it, but nothing has changed.”

“If you go back and look, you can’t even see when the [Lee County Metropolitan Exposition Audito-rium and Office Building Authority and Dixon The-ater Renovation] were legally formed,” Elmendorf said. “You also can’t find where the boards were dissolved.”

So, who has say-so over the downtown landmark?Klahn spent weeks trying to untangle the knot, but

came up empty.Deciding who the rightful owner of the building

likely will require going to court and letting a judge decide, he said.

“The county wants to get out of the situation, but that is up to the county board members,” Klahn said. “There were no intentions for this to be a county-run asset. The easiest thing for the county to do at this point is deed it back to the DTRI.”

The theater, which is rented out for events such as concerts, plays, dance recitals, and weddings, does not pay the county any money for use of the theater, because it is a nonprofit, Klahn said.

Linders is willing to reconsider, if a resolution can be reached.

“All I wanted to do was help out Dixon and the peo-ple who are trying to redevelop Dixon,” she said. “A lot of people in town are disappointed, and I know that for a fact.

“It doesn’t make sense to turn down the opportu-nity to help your town grow and be more profitable.”

But as far as Elmendorf is concerned, it’s a no-go. Unless and until the matter is resolved, the four-member theater board, which also includes Earl Sholders, Craig Miller and Tim Deem, will conduct business as usual.

“[Linders’] intentions are really good, but the prob-lem is, she wants everything to either be her way, or no way,” Elmendorf said. “She drew up a lease, but it virtually pushed DTRI out of the picture.”

His group wants to continue to oversee the building, but “she said no, because she doesn’t have that little bit of control,” Elmendorf said.

“We think she has great intentions of bringing reve-nue to the city, she just has bad intentions of how she is going about doing it.”

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About the theaterThe Historic Dixon Theatre, 114 S. Galena Ave., has

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DIXON – The bad news is no one won the Queen of Hearts drawing at the Dixon VFW Thursday night.

The good news is next week’s jackpot has soared to more than $100,000.

For nearly 10 months now, the Dixon VFW has been holding a Queen of Hearts fundraiser to help raise money for its building fund. The object of the game is to guess where the queen of hearts is hiding. This week, like 38 that came before it, the queen remained elu-sive – and that means there’s a veritable king’s ransom – $111,860 – to be won next week (or the week after, or the week after that, or … )

When the game start-ed, 54 standard playing cards, which included the two jokers, were placed face down on a board and each card was given a number. People have been buying tick-

ets – six for $5 – and on the back of each one, they put their name, phone number, and the number under which they think the queen is lurking. Each week, the tickets are put in a barrel and if the winning tick-et has the correct card, they win. If no one gets the correct card, another drawing is held the next week on a Thursday.

After Thursday’s draw-ing – in which the unlucky card was picked: a six of clubs – there are 14 cards left on the board.

The person who finally picks the queen of hearts will win 70 percent of the jackpot if he or she is present for the drawing. 15 percent will be given to Dixon charities and the remaining 15 per-cent will go to the VFW.

The winner, if not pres-ent, will still receive 60 percent of the jackpot. The rest of the money will go to the VFW and Dixon charities.

$111,000 game of hide and seek

BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN

STERLING – As the last full practice before Senior Night wrapped up, Gaby DeLafuentes perfectly

summed up the first 6 years of the Shooting Stars pro-gram at Newman Central Catholic High School.

“This is amazing!” she yelled.For 6 years, the cheerleading program for special

needs students has spread love and camaraderie through the Sauk Valley. When the Shooting Stars’ beloved Comets take on Three Rivers rival Rockridge at home at 7:30 Friday night, it will be Senior Night.

For two of the Shooting Stars’ four original members – DeLafuentes and Sterling High School student Tyler Johnson – it will also be their last performance as Shoot-ing Stars.

“Are you gonna go all out for Senior Night?” Newman senior cheerleader Hillary Grennan, one of several who perform with the Shooting Stars, asked Johnson during practice.

“Yeah,” he answered without hesitation, “because we’re walking out together.”

They’ve been all but tethered together for 4 years. Tyler insists he’s never been nervous for a perfor-mance, even though he serves as a base, a backspot, and the vocal leader who yells “Loyalty Begin!” to begin the cheer “Loyalty.”

“It has to come from him, because I’m the total oppo-site,” his mom, Ann Walters said. “If you put me in front of everybody, I’d be a ball of nerves.”

Maybe it’s the camaraderie, which goes far beyond cheering. In between cheers, Aubrie Wolf chatted up another original member, Emma Cooperrider, about

the upcoming Bi-County Special Education Coopera-tive prom.

“You’ve got your dress? What color is it?!” she begged, her eyes wide.

“Green,” Emma replied.“Green? That’s great!” Wolf answered.Tess Magnafici is an original member, too, and her

mom, Lisa, marveled at how much it means for her daughter to put on the uniform and be welcomed into a group.

The welcome mat is getting longer and wider. New-comer Tori Humphries, a Morrison student, not only gets to cheer for the Shooting Stars, but for her Mor-rison Mustangs, too.

“When her school saw her cheering with us, they just had to have her cheering for them, too,” the pro-gram’s coach, Susie LeMay said. “But she can never wear red when they play here.”

LeMay would like to get more schools and students involved, and credits her current Stars’ parents for helping fill out the squad.

Humphrey’s fellow Morrison students give her some friendly ribbing, and she gives it right back.

“They keep telling me at school that I can’t wear blue to the games, and I say, ‘OK. Well, I don’t care,’” she said, busting out laughing.

“It makes her feel like one of the other kids,” her dad, Kent, said. “She’s not excluded anymore. She’s part of the group. She was cheering with her Newman friends, and her Morrison fans were cheering for her cheering for Newman. That was really great. That support is just excellent.”

LeMay assembled the squad in 2009 and since then,

it’s earned the Sparkle Effect Spotlight award in 2012. The next year, Johnson was honored with the Superstar of Spirit award from Sparkle Effect, a nonprofit that pro-motes inclusion of students with disabilities in school-based cheerleading and dance programs.

LeMay and Walters alike aren’t prepared for the emotions that will come out Friday night.

“I’m pretending it’s not there, how’s that?” LeMay said. “I have no idea how Friday’s going to go.”

Tyler will graduate in December. He works at Self Help Enterprises, but his mom worries about the tall task of replacing Shooting Stars in his life.

“This is hard. It’s very hard,” Walters said. “They’ve come together as a family, and it’s literally like we’re graduating and moving on. As of right now, there isn’t a whole lot out there for him. As far as activities, we’re not really sure what’s going to be out there for him. This has been home for 6 years.”

So do Tyler a favor: When he and his fellow Shooting Stars emerge from the circle Friday night to perform to “Cheerleader” by OMI, clap along. Try to clap as loud as Tyler and his fellow cheerleaders. Try to sing along as loudly as Gaby and Elizabeth Crow, who belted out every single lyric during Wednesday’s practice.

Now that would be a tough feat to pull off.

Tyler Johnson cheers Friday night with New-man’s Shooting Stars

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Yogurt SauceMakes: 8 pattiesCanned salmon is a lot

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and with the right spices, can be just as tasty. When adding the diced veg-etables to the flaked salm-on, fold the ingredients together gently so that the salmon doesn’t break up. You might have to pick small pieces of skin, car-tilage and bone out of the fish, but don’t worry if you miss it — they are com-pletely edible. I used red (sockeye) salmon.

For lemon yogurt sauce

1 cup plain nonfat yogurt

1 teaspoon finely grat-ed lemon zest

1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

! cup chopped fresh mint or parsley, if avail-able, or " teaspoon dried tarragon

Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

For salmon cakes2 (7"-ounce) cans

salmon, drained" cup finely diced

onion" cup finely diced celery" cup corn kernels,

canned or frozen (thawed, if frozen)

Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

" cup mayonnaise1 tablespoon Dijon

mustard1 teaspoon drained

pickle relish1 teaspoon fresh lemon

juice" teaspoon Worcester-

shire sauce! teaspoon paprika2 dashes Tabasco

sauce1 egg1" cups crushed

cracker crumbs (prefer-ably saltines), divided

2 tablespoons unsalted butter

2 tablespoons corn oilMake lemon yogurt

sauce by combing all of the ingredients in a small bowl. Refrigerate, cov-ered, until needed.

For salmon cakes, care-fully flake the salmon into a bowl, discarding any small bones, cartilage, and skin. Add the onion, cel-ery, corn, salt and pepper. Fold together with a rub-ber spatula. Set aside.

In another bowl, combine the mayonnaise, mustard, pickle relish, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, paprika, and Tabasco sauce. Fold these ingre-dients into the salmon mixture.

Lightly beat the egg. Using the rubber spatula, fold into the salmon mix-ture along with ! cup of the cracker crumbs. Place the remaining cup of cracker crumbs on a din-ner plate.

Form the salmon mixture into eight 3-inch pat-ties. Carefully coat them with the cracker crumbs. Refrigerate, loosely cov-ered, for 1 hour.

When ready to make salmon cakes, melt the butter with the oil in a 10-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat. Cook the salmon cakes, four at a time, for 3 to 4 minutes per side, pressing down slightly on them with the back of the spatula and adding more butter or oil to the skillet if necessary. Remove to paper towels to drain.

To serve, spoon 2 table-spoons of lemon yogurt sauce onto the center of eight medium-sized plates.

Place a salmon cake atop the sauce in the center of each plate. Serve immedi-ately.

– epicurious.com

Baja-Style Fish Tacos with

Mango SalsaServes: 8This is the quintessential

fish taco – crunchy and sweet, with just a hint of tangy citrus. Even people who say they don’t like fish (i.e. your kids) will love them.

For slaw1 bunch cilantro.

chopped! small head of green

cabbage, very thinly sliced! small head red cab-

bage, very thinly sliced4 scallions, sliced1 teaspoon finely grat-

ed lime zest3 tablespoons fresh

lime juiceKosher salt and freshly

ground black pepper, to taste

For salsa2 mangoes, peeled, pit-

ted and diced" small red onion,

finely diced1 jalapeno, minced2 tablespoons fresh

lime juice2 tablespoons finely

chopped cilantroFor fish

2 pounds cod or other mild white fish fillets

1 cup all-purpose flour1 cup white rice flour2 teaspoons kosher salt2 cups club sodaVegetable oil for frying

For tacos16 small corn tortillas,

warmed (32 if you would like to use 2 per taco)

Hot sauce, avocado slices, chopped cilantro, sliced jalapeno and lime wedges, for serving

Make slaw: Separate stems and leaves from cilan-tro; coarsely chop leaves. In large bowl, toss cilantro with cabbages, scallions, lime zest and lime juice. Season to taste with salt and pepper and set aside.

Make salsa: Combine mango, onion, jalapeno, lime juice and cilantro in a bowl; stir to combine. Taste, adding more salt and lime juice as desired. Set aside.

Cut fish fillets on the diago-nal into 1-inch strips. Whisk all-purpose flour, rice flour and salt in a medium bowl. Gradually whisk in club soda until no lumps remain; adjust with more club soda or rice flour as needed to make it the consistency of thin pan-cake batter – it should be pourable, but thick enough to coat the fish.

Heat 2 inches oil in a large pan over medium-high heat to 350 degrees. Working in batches, coat fish in batter, letting excess drip off, then carefully place in oil (to avoid splattering, lower fish into oil pointing away from you). Be careful not to overcrowd the pot or the oil temperature will drop, and fish might stick together. Fry fish, turning occasionally with a slotted spoon, until crust is crispy and golden brown, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack set inside a rimmed baking sheet; season imme-diately with salt.

While fish is frying, use tongs to heat tortillas one at a time in a hot pan, until slightly charred and puffed in spots, about 1 minute per side. Transfer to a plate;

cover with a clean kitchen towel to keep warm or wrap a stack of tortillas in a sheet of foil and keep warm in a 350-degree oven.

Top tortillas with fried fish, slaw and salsa. Serve with hot sauce, avocado slices, chopped cilantro, sliced jalapeno and lime wedges.

– Adapted from “Tacolicious” by Sara Deseran

(Ten Speed, 2014)

Garlic Noodles and Shrimp

Serves: 2 to 3This stir-fry comes

together in minutes. It’s perfectly fine to buy indi-vidually frozen, head-off, peel-on shrimp, but avoid ones that are limp, slimy or falling apart, or smell like ammonia (signs of decay). If you like your shrimp spicy, add a little dried red chili pepper. You can find fresh Chi-nese noodles at most Asian markets.

16 ounces fresh Chi-nese wheat or egg noo-dles, or 12 ounces dried

8 ounces broccoli florets, cut into 3⁄4-inch chunks (about 2 cups)

12 ounces peeled, dev-eined shrimp

2 teaspoons Chinese rice wine (shaoxing) or dry sherry

" teaspoon salt, or to taste

" teaspoon ground black pepper

2 tablespoons veg-etable oil

2 tablespoons minced garlic

2 to 5 teaspoons minced jalapeno

1 cup thinly slivered

red bell pepper1 cup sliced onion1 cup thinly slivered

carrots2 tablespoons soy

sauceIn an 8- to 10-quart pan

over high heat, bring 3 to 4 quarts water to boil. Pull noodles apart and drop into water; stir to separate. Boil gently just until noo-dles are barely tender to the bite, 2 to 3 minutes for fresh, 5 to 6 minutes for dried. Add broccoil to the noodles. Cook just until broccoli is bright green, about 30 seconds. Drain noodles and broccoli, rinse well with hot water, and drain again.

In medium bowl, mix shrimp, wine, salt and pepper.

Set 14-inch wok over high heat. When pan is hot, after about 1 minute, add oil and rotate pan to spread. Add garlic, jalape-no, bell pepper, onion and carrots. Stir-fry until onion begins to brown, 1 to 2 min-utes. Add shrimp mixture and stir-fry until shrimp are pink, about 2 minutes.

Reduce heat to medium. Add noodles with broc-coli and soy sauce. Stir-fry until noodles are hot and ingredients are well blend-ed, 2 to 3 minutes. Add salt to taste, if needed. Transfer to serving dish or individual plates.

– “The Hakka Cookbook: Chi-nese Soul Food From Around

the World” by Linda Lau Anusasananan (University of

California Press, 2014)

Fight off fish fatigueStep out of your seafood comfort zone

This garlic noodles and shrimp stir-fry comes together in minutes. If you like your shrimp spicy, add a little dried red chili pepper.

Tribune News ServiceThese Baja-style fish tacos with mango salsa are the quintessential fish tacos – crunchy and sweet, with just a hint of tangy citrus.

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Tri-County Opportunities CouncilPosition Openings

Pre-KTeacher Assistant: Dixon 30hrs./wk.school-year minimumof AAS in Early Childhood Education,Child Development or

related degree with a minimum of 18 credit hours in ECE.

Pre-K Teacher: Rochelle/Sterling 40hrs./wk.; school year.Minimum of Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Educa-tion, Child Development or closely related degree with a

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Bus Monitor: Sterling and Dixon 20 hrs./wk.. school year; Min-imum of high school diplomas of GED and excellent drivingrecord. Must have held a valid drivers license for a minimum

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Food Service Worker: Sterling 30 hrs./wk. full-year. Minimum ofhigh school diploma of GED.Valid Illinois drivers license.

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EMPLOYMENT 505 EMPLOYMENT 505 EMPLOYMENT 505 CHILD CARE 512 AREA

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ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES 705

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FURNITURE 755

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NO INDIVIDUAL,unless licensed orholding a permit asa childcare facility,may cause to bepublished any ad-vertisement solicit-ing a child careservice.* A child-care facility that islicensed or operat-ing under a permitissued by the Illi-nois Department ofChildren and Fami-ly Services maypublish advertise-ments of the ser-vices for which it isspecifically li-censed or issued apermit. Sauk ValleyMedia stronglyurges any parent orguardian to verifythe validity of thelicense of any facil-ity before placing achild in it's care.*Family homes thatcare for no morethan three (3) chil-dren under the ageof twelve or whichreceive only chil-dren from a singlehousehold, for lessthan 24 hours perday, are exemptfrom licensure asday care homes.The three childrento whom this ex-emption applies in-cludes the family'snatural or adoptedchildren and anyother persons un-der the age of 12whether related orunrelated to theoperator of the daycare home. (DCFSRule, Part 377.3(c))

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Dental Reception-ist for busy office.Full time position.Successful candi-date will havestrong peopleskills, team orient-ed, computer skillsand ability to multi-task. Past experi-ence in dental/medical environ-ment not neces-sary, but helpful.

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Local chemicaland fertilizer com-pany has openingsfor seasonal truckdrivers. Applicantsmust have a cur-rent medical cardand a minimum ofa Class B CDL.

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Self Help Enter-prises accepting

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Enterprises2300 W. LeFevreSterling, IllinoisQuestions call 815-626-3115

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DixonHealthcare & Rehab

800 Division StDixon, IL 61021

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Mon., some workcould be Sun-

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plus hotels paid. Call Phil

815-973-4054

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