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Post-graduation agricultural career options

Post-graduation agricultural career options

Ag Communications, Winnebago-Boone Farm Bureau We are halfway through the month of May and for anyone in school, that means summer is near. For some of them, that means graduation is near. This year will mark four years since I have graduated high school and a whopping one whole semester […]

 
 

Lincoln and Boone County

Lincoln and Boone County

By Anne Eickstadt Editor As part of a statewide campaign to place portraits of Abraham Lincoln in county courthouses throughout Illinois, on May 4 a high quality portrait was unveiled at the Boone County Courthouse. The original of this image was taken in Springfield by photographer Alexander Hesler on June […]

 
 

Safety Town Day Camp: A Flora Grange Community Service Project

Safety Town Day Camp: A Flora Grange Community Service Project

Registrations for Flora Grange’s 17th Annual Safety Town Day Camp are now being accepted. The four-day camp is free for children aged five through eight. The camp will take place at the Boone County Fairgrounds at the main dining hall at 8847 Rte. 76 from Tuesday, June 12 to Friday, […]

 
 

New exhibits on display at Vintage Wings & Wheels Museum

ANNE EICKSTADT PHOTO Belvidere Daily Republican
	Dan and Annette Rubino have loaned a model White Steam Car to the Vintage Wings & Wheels Mu-seum. The model runs on steam and is radio con-trolled.

The Poplar Grove Vintage Wings & Wheels Museum held its official 2018 seasonal grand opening on Saturday, May 5. Displays this year feature a quarter scale replica of a White Steam Car…

 
 

Belvidere High School All Sports Award Night

ANNE EICKSTADT PHOTO Belvidere Daily Republican
	The 2017/18 All Conference Team athletes gathered on the stage to receive a standing ovation during Belvidere High School’s All-Sports Awards Night.

On Tuesday, May 8, the Belvidere High School took the time to honor outstanding athletes. Friends and family gathered in the Performing Arts Center with the teams to cheer them in their accomplishments.

 
 

Two Belvidere churches to join together

ANNE EICKSTADT PHOTO Belvidere Daily Republican
	Pastor Adam Reardon and Dr. Rev. Robert Kopp and their congregations are now sharing the same facilities as they overcome denominational barriers.

“It’s an amazing thing going on,” said Dr. Rev. Robert Kopp of First Presbyterian Church on the corner of Lincoln and Main. “With Adam and Redemption Church joining us. It’s part of a vision I have had…”

 
 

Tiptoeing through the spring wildflowers

ANNE EICKSTADT PHOTO Belvidere Daily Republican
	BCCD volunteer Brian Hale identifies wildflowers throughout Kinnikinnick Creek Conservation Area.

Kinnikinnick Creek Conservation Area drew a select group of people on Saturday, May 5 to learn about identifying wildflowers from the Boone County Conservation District. BCCD volunteer Brian Hale led the group around the parking area and deep into the woods…

 
 

Playground grant, ambulance service bring discussion in Belvidere

Playground grant, ambulance service bring discussion in Belvidere

By Bob Balgemann Reporter The receipt of a $20,000 grant for playground equipment and extension of a five-year agreement for ambulance service brought discussion among aldermen during a recent committee of the whole meeting. The General Mills Foundation Hometown Grant making Program once again has invested some grant money in […]

 
 

Today is the day the crossing guards have their picnic

ANNE EICKSTADT PHOTO Belvidere Daily Republican
	Ken Nettleton (in purple) is delighted that the Crossing Guard Picnic he started 50 years ago is still going strong to celebrate kids who help other kids in Boone County.

Anyone who passed by the Boone County Fairgrounds on Tuesday, May 8 would have seen school buses, Belvidere Police Dept. vehicles, and Boone County Sheriff’s Dept. cars. The occasion was the 50th Annual Crossing Guard Picnic.

 
 

Laughter and tears mark dispatcher’s retirement

Rosie was accompanied to the Boone 2 fire engine, carefully placed into its passenger seat, and escorted home.

Rose Ann White worked as a dispatcher for Boone County for over 38 years. During that time she has spoken with many distraught, hysterical, or angry people having a very bad moment in their lives. She would calm them and send police officers, sheriff’s deputies, firefighters…

 
 
 
 
 
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