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Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Laurie Dougherty, a certified Refuse to be a Victim Instructor, explains the importance of a home alarm system during a seminar at the DeKalb Elks 765 Lodge in honor of Antinette "Toni" Keller on Tuesday night. The program provided personal safety strategies and safety tips to avoid getting into a dangerous situation that could lead to a person becoming a crime victim.
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Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com

Laurie Dougherty, a certified Refuse to be a Victim Instructor, explains the importance of a home alarm system during a seminar at the DeKalb Elks 765 Lodge in honor of Antinette "Toni" Keller on Tuesday night. The program provided personal safety strategies and safety tips to avoid getting into a dangerous situation that could lead to a person becoming a crime victim.

  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Kim Mauthe reaches for a watering hose next to her poinsettias in a greenhouse at Kishwaukee College during her fall crops class on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. Mauthe chose to go back to school in fall of 2007, eight years after she received her bachelor's degree, because she wanted to pursue a job that was more satisfying. She is set to graduate in May 2012 with associate's degrees in nursery, greenhouse and landscape design.
  • By ANDREW MITCHELL – amitchell@shawmedia.com<br /> Sycamore firefighters work to free an elderly woman trapped in her car after crashing through a window at the restaurant, Johnny's Charhouse Thursday. No injuries were reported.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Kim Mauthe checks on some of her plants in a greenhouse at Kishwaukee College during her fall crops class on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. Mauthe chose to go back to school in fall of 2007, eight years after she received her bachelor's degree, because she wanted to pursue a job that was more satisfying. She is set to graduate in May 2012 with associate's degrees in nursery, greenhouse and landscape design.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Quincy Kimble pulls his gloves on as he prepares to give injections to a practice pad (on table) with classmate Kharisa Chapple (left) in their Maternal Health Nursing class at Kishwaukee College on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. Kimble, 25, returned to school in the summer of 2009 after being laid off earlier that year. He is scheduled to complete his nursing degree in May 2012.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Quincy Kimble simulates giving medicine through an IV line, with the injected liquid being caught in the white jar, in his Maternal Health Nursing class at Kishwaukee College on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. Kimble, 25, returned to school in the summer of 2009 after being laid off earlier that year. He is scheduled to complete his nursing degree in May 2012.
  • Kim Colness (right) and Susan Mizgalski check mail barcodes and sort letters into trays at Provident Direct in downtown Sycamore. The business is expanding and its mail-sorting equipment will soon be moved across the street to recently-purchased office space at 216 South California St.<br /> <br /> By NICOLE WESKERNA - nweskerna@shawmedia.com
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Quincy Kimble gives an injection to his practice pad in his Maternal Health Nursing class at Kishwaukee College on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. Kimble, 25, returned to school in the summer of 2009 after being laid off earlier that year. He is scheduled to complete his nursing degree in May 2012.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Angela Montgomery (left) explains a time she was put in an uncomfortable situation as Thelma Holderness listens during a safety seminar that was held at the DeKalb Elks 765 Lodge in honor of Antinette "Toni" Keller on Tuesday night.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Pepper spray was one of the personal defense devices that Laurie Dougherty discussed during a seminar at the DeKalb Elks 765 Lodge in honor of Antinette "Toni" Keller on Tuesday night.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Laurie Dougherty, a certified Refuse to be a Victim Instructor, explains the importance of a home alarm system during a seminar at the DeKalb Elks 765 Lodge in honor of Antinette "Toni" Keller on Tuesday night. The program provided personal safety strategies and safety tips to avoid getting into a dangerous situation that could lead to a person becoming a crime victim.
  • Jeff Engelhardt – Sam Cottone (left), Ben Cottone (middle) and Keanan Uebel (right) carry their pillow cases of candy to the next house as they trick-or-treat Monday in Sycamore. The Cottone's house is one of the most festive in the neighborhood as it features a "Dead End Cemetery" display.
  • Jeff Engelhardt – jengelhardt@shawmedia.com <br /> Jane Levinsky, owner of Studio One Salon and Day Spa, hugs Craig Mathey after receiving the Athena Award Tuesday at Hopkins Park in DeKalb. Mathey nominated Levinsky for the award, which is given every year to a local woman who demonstrates excellence in their profession, assists women in realizing leadership potential and is active in the community.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Kaylee Meyer and Cassidy Sunleaf, fifth-graders at Genoa Elementary, read 'You Read to Me, I'll Read to You' aloud during a designated reading time in Mrs. Hill's class on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Amber Niedermeier (left), a fifth grade teacher at Genoa Elementary goes over a story in a reading group of four students including Jennifer Guzy (center), Veronica Torres (pointing) and Grant Caudill on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Rebecca Zekoff, a fifth-grader at Genoa Elementary School, looks up from her textbook as reading specialist Marie Leahy poses a question about the story they were working on called 'Back in the Lifeboat.' The two were working one-on-one to build Zekoff's reading comprehension skills on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Sebastian Acevedo, a fifth-grader at Genoa Elementary School, uses his pencil to follow along in the text as he reads aloud to Sandra Rease. Rease, an aide at the school, was working with Acevedo and one other student on reading skills on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011.
  • Volunteers finish harvesting a cornfield in Genoa Saturday morning for Carol and Glenn Bolander. Carol has continued to fight breast cancer since she found out that her cancer had returned two years ago. Dozens of people helped the Bolanders finish harvesting their 380 acres of corn in a single day.<br /> <br /> By NICOLE WESKERNA - nweskerna@shawmedia.com
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Rebecca Zekoff, a fifth-grader at Genoa Elementary School, gets up close to her textbook while working on reading comprehension skills in a one-on-one session with reading specialist Marie Leahy (not pictured) on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> David and Chad Carrington's pumpkin entry modeled after the 1960 film "The Time Machine" won the 2011 Lions Club President's Award as seen at the Sycamore Pumpkin Festival on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Richard Larson, of the county highway department, keeps watch on the ground he is reshaping with a road grader in the process of extending the shoulder and widening the ditch on a section of Glidden Road south of Highway 64 on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011.
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