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i .2 DAILY CHRONICLE, Tuwday, July 1 4, 1 998 Keeping things clean Community Digest 4 a. if Cortland water tower put out of service The water tower which supplies public water to the Town of Cortland is has been taken out of service as of Monday, July 13 for painting. The residents of Cortland who use public water are being asked to conserve water. Residents are advised not use public water for any nonessential purposes, such as watering lawns, washing cars or filling swimming pools. Also, do not let the water run in your sinks when it is not being used.

The Town of Cortland is asking for voluntary support of this water conservation request A mandatory water conservation order will be imposed if necessary. A notice will be put on the marquee sign at the Town Hall when the water tower is back in service. Country music talent search scheduled The local playoff for the Jimmy Dean Country Music Talent Search Contest will be held Sunday, Aug. 9, 1 p.m., at WLUV Radio, 2272 Elm wood Road, Rockford. The $5 entry fee must be received at station by Aug.

2 for each participant. Selected entrants will advance to compete at the Illinois State Fair; that winner will go to Nashville for a chance at $50,000 and a recording contract. For more information, call (815) 877-9588. Growing Place to hold garage sale The Growing Place Inc. will have a garage sale Saturday, July 18, 8 a.m.

to 2 p.m., at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 830 Annie Glidden Road, DeKalb. In addition to the sale of children's toys and clothing, there will be a raffle for two Princess Beanie Babies. Tickets are $2 or three for winners need not be present. Tickets are on sale at The Growing Place, 909 S. Fourth St.

in DeKalb, across from Kentucky Fried Chicken. Children's toys and clothing in good condition will be accepted and may be dropped off at The Growing Place. St. Paul's Women's Guild to host supper The Women's Guild of St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Hinckley, will be holding a summer supper on Wednesday, July 15, beginning at 4:30 p.m.

Served will be barbecue, ham sandwiches, German and American potato salad and many assorted salads, homemade pie and ice cream. The church is air-conditioned and handicapped-accessible. Cost is $6 "for adults, $3.50 for children 6-12, and free for children younger than 6. AARP to hold meeting at Senior Center A meeting of AARP will be held Thursday, July 16, 2 p.m., at the Senior Citizens Center, 330 Grove DeKalb. 4-C to give workshop on abuse and neglect Community Coordinated Child Care (4-C) is offering a workshop titled "Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect" on Thursday, July 16, 7-9 at 4-C, 155 N.

Third fourth floor, DeKalb. This workshop will give providers some information on how to recognize signs of child abuse. The presenters are Margaret Allison, 4-C nurse, and Emily Hummel, 4-C social worker. Preregistration is required. To register, call 4-C at 758-8149, extension 226, or outside DeKalb, Cortland and Sycamore, call (800) 848-8727, extension 226.

This workshop is free to 4-C members and $20 for nonmembers. Nathan VanVlerah, 3, gives his dad, Matthew, a helping hand washing his truck Sunday afternoon at their home on Fairlane Avenue in DeKalb. It is a scene many area residents will have the opportunity to duplicate over the next several days, as there Ben Franklin offers bead-stringing demo Ben Franklin Crafts will offer craft technique demonstrations during the month of July. A one-hour demonstration on basic bead stringing will be given Thursday, July 16, beginning at 1 p.m. Learn skills to create new jewelry or repair old jewelry.

There is no charge for demonstrations. Space may be limited. Participants must be 14 years or older. For more information, call Julie at 895-301 1 or stop by 341 W. State Sycamore.

1) is little chance of precipitation. peeled to reach the low 90's, with the rest of the week. with existing debts. However, he advised the council to consider how it will address improvements and additional drains on the system. "What has happened is that we are certainly able to support the debt service and normal Mundy said in April.

"We are in a position now where we are fine; we have reserves that are there to cover the difference between the collection and the amounts paid out, but we don't want to see that widen to the point where it's a problem." will not be a fee for building a one-bedroom unit. Developers of mobile homes will be charged as if they are building a house with the corresponding number of bedrooms. The impact fee ordinance passed by a 4-3 vote. Aids. Kris Povlsen, Steve Kapitan, Miguel Checa and Conboy voted for the fees.

Aids. Amy Polzin, Aaron Raffel and Gregory voted against them. In order to pass the school impact fee, the council first had to amend the city's Unified Development Ordinance. As the UDO previously read, it action how farming contributes to the economy. "The most valuable commodity we have is farming, and I hope you don't destroy it," Simonson said.

"Once you pave over the richest farmland in the world, it's gone forever." Aid. Miguel Checa, Fourth Ward, was the only aldermen to vote against the annexation agreement Aldermen salaries The DeKalb City Council postponed debate on an ordinance that would have set salaries for aldermen at $7,210 a year. A study done by the City of DeKalb showed the city pays its council members thousands of dollars more than many comparable Hutchinson of the NIU Office for State and Federal Relations said the proposed act correcting the reporting requirement would cut the cost of creating and maintaining such a database. He also said the act would return responsibility for those federal reports to the individual families. didate's old ad, focusing instead on gun-control measures Poshard has supported: tougher penalties for gun crimes, bans on "cop-killer" bullets, restrictions on carrying concealed weapons.

Silverman said he did not know why Poshard proposed repealing the gun owner's ID card, and Poshard refused to discuss his gun-control position at a news conference on another topic Despite bis earlier vote, Poshard Bridge club announces July 9 winners The DeKalb Duplicate Bridge Club announces the winners from the July 9 game: First place Glen Orr and Loren Vandegraft Second place Florence Barshinger and Archie Millotte Bridge players are invited to games each Thursday, 7 p.m., at Oak Crest Retirement Center, DeKalb. 7. have aging water mains that are too small. "We're halfway to where we should be," Edwards said. "As the town grows, it can't survive off (the existing Edwards said the Sycamore Finance Committee will review Snider's numbers and present a recommendation at an upcoming meeting.

In a budget hearing earlier this year, Sycamore Treasurer Ken Mundy said the city can survive like to think we would have used it," Shur said. "Just because we have more money available, that doesn't mean that suddenly more projects become necessary." There is a provision in the ordinance that could allow developers of apartment complexes to avoid the fees. If a developer can prove he or she will only be renting to college students or senior citizens and not adding children to the local schools then the fee can be waived. The fee for a three-bedroom apartment will be $319. Two bedrooms will cost $133, and there In other According to the terms of the annexation agreement, whoever buys the property must submit an overall concept plan for the entire property in order to get it annexed into the City of DeKalb.

"Nobody could turn a shovel full of dirt until they get their heads together and come up with a concept plan for the entire property that's acceptable to the Plan Commission and the city council," said DeKalb City Planner Russ Famum. DeKalb resident Cliff Simonson pleaded with the council not to annex the property. Simonson brought a bag of groceries to the meeting including a loaf of wheat bread, com flakes, shredded wheat and soy flour in an attempt to show the council NIU officials estimate the cost of complying with the law will cost the university $200,000 this year alone. The total cost for all universities nationally is $125 million. To comply with the new tax credits, NIU will have to create a separate database to keep track of all the students who are eligible.

Robert proposal to eliminate the Illinois' Firearm Owner's Identification card people are required to obtain before buying guns. One of Ryan's commercials includes a 1984 Poshard newspaper ad complete with unflattering picture that says, "Glenn Poshard is firm! He opposes any form of gun control!" Poshard campaign manager Josh Silverman shrugged off his can Chronicle PhptoANDY POHLr Temperatures today were similar conditions expected Such problems may come up sooner rather than later. Sycampc must consider how to pay for wafer main and sidewalk repairs nearljw. central business district during "the next two years. Earlier this year, the Illinois Department of Transportation announced $2.8 million in repairs along routes 23 and 64 will begin in 1999.

Sycamore intends to fork over an additional $1.5 million to repair water mains and sidewalks along those routes at the same time. would have taken a super-majority (five of seven votes) to pass the in pact fees. Since the council was divided 4-3 on the issue, the pro-impact members knew they didn't have enough votes, so they brought about the UDO change. The city council passed a water connection impact fee last May. he water fee for a three-bedroom house is $1,050.

The money raised by the water fee will be used to offset the costtf building a new city well and storage tower. cities. Aid. Ken Gregory, Seventh Ward, wants to lower DeKalb's salaries. "I think we owe it to the taxpayers to fall in line with what other comparable cities are Gregory said.

Some council members said fhey want to research the issue more to see how much time aldermen Tin other cities put in. But Aid. Miguel Checa, Fourth' Ward, said he opposes lowering oity-council salaries. tw-, "The more we erode the small-financial support the city coujidr-gets, the advantage will go to candidates who have private sponsors' behind them," Checa said. The council is scheduled to debate the issue at its July 27 meeting.

just wee au otner tax credits. "We think this should be treated' no differently than any other credit," he said. -i ft Hutchinson said the act has since-picked up 97 other co-sponsors, lin the House and 19 more co-sponsors, in the Senate since it was proposed. has said he now favors a ban on assault weapons. His staff says fie wants to see the Brady bill's waiting period replaced by a system of instant background checks for gijn buyers, a system scheduled to kiflc inthisfalL The Ryan campaign said the nejv commercials will run for about tijo weeks, although not in Poshard's home territory of Southern Dlinqi, where gun control is a tough selLi Winning lottery numbers SPRINGFIELD, 111.

(AP) Here are the winning numbers WATER, from page 1 future growth hinges on the limitations of the city's existing water and sewer system. Sycamore's water tower holds about 750,000 gallons, but daily usage hits more than a million gallons a day, according to Sycamore Mayor Jim Edwards. The existing system can handle Sycamore's needs, Edwards said, but future growth is a concern. Along with the limited storage capacity, several areas around town Impact IMPACT FEES) from page 1 If DeKalb would have implemented impact fees five years ago, the city would have already collected $771,000, according to a study done by the city's Community Development Department. DeKalb School Board President George Shur said that if the school district had been getting impact fees for the last five years, then the $12.3 million referendum it passed last November would have sought less money.

"While this is pure conjecture, if there had been a $770,000 pot there when we passed the referendum, I'd Council annexes Wright Farm The DeKalb City Council has approved an annexation agreement for 173 acres of land, commonly known as the Wright Farm, by a 6-1 vote. In a subsequent vote, the council annexed 15 acres of the property so it can be developed into housing. The Wright Farm is on the west side of DeKalb, north of W. Taylor Street and west of the Knolls subdivision. The DeKalb County Community Foundation owns the property and plans to sell it to the highest bidder, presumably to be developed.

But the charitable organization was having trouble selling it while it was outside city limits. BILL, from page 1 Social Security numbers, and since many students are still under their parents' financial care, it is actually the parents who are eligible for the tax credits. The university has to change the way it tracks its students to comply with the new tax credit laws. RYAN, from pagt 1 "My strength is that as governor, I can work with both sides to get things done," he says. Meanwhile, Ryan portrays Poshard, a five-term congressman, as an extremist who opposes even the most reasonable gun control measures.

As evidence, Ryan cites Poshard's votes against the Brady bill waiting period and the assault-weapons ban, along with his selected Monday in the Dlinois State Lottery: Pick Three-Midday 3-6-9 Pick Three-Evening 6-3-9 Pick Four-Midday 4-2-2-8 Pick Four-Evening 2-7-2-0 Little Lotto 03-10-17-21-29 Estimated Lotto jackpot: $25 million Estimated Big Game jackpot: $7 million Daily Ghronicle Entered as periodicals postage paid at the post office at DeKalb, IH. 60115. USPS 150-00 Published by the Pulitzer Community Newspapers, Inc. dairy. Postmaster Send address changes to the Daily Chronicle, P.O.

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