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Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> DeKalb resident Debbie Thompson looks over fiction books at the DeKalb Public Library on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Thompson visits the library at least once a week.
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Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com

DeKalb resident Debbie Thompson looks over fiction books at the DeKalb Public Library on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Thompson visits the library at least once a week.

  • Jeff Engelhardt – jengelhardt@shawmedia.com<br /> Flippin Eggs employee Jeff McMaster works with volunteers behind a wall of gifts in the kitchen during the diner's annual free Christmas community meal event Sunday.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Army Spc. Andrew Shores (right) is welcomed home by Warriors Watch Rider Russ Miller, of Burbank, outside First State Bank in Waterman before being escorted to the home of his fiancé in Shabbona, Ill., Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. Shores, a 2008 Indian Creek High School graduate, had been serving in Afghanistan since March of this year.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Army Spc. Andrew Shores is welcomed home by well wishers, law enforcement and fire fighters outside First State Bank in Waterman before being escorted to Shabbona, Ill., Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. Shores, a 2008 Indian Creek High School graduate, had been serving in Afghanistan since March of this year.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Ryan Swartzendruber, 21 and his brother Brett, 13 (at right), both volunteering with Goodfellows, bring a handful of gift bags out of Blumen Gardens to deliver to families on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Goodfellows volunteers carry gift bags out of Blumen Gardens to load up and deliver to various families in the area on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Brian Kozumplik uses his phone's GPS to find a DeKalb home that he and his family were searching for to deliver a gift bag from Goodfellows on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> The Kozumplik family (from left) Zak, Rik, Cindy and Brian deliver a bag of gifts from Goodfellows to a family in DeKalb, Ill. on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012.
  • Jeff Engelhardt – jengelhardt@shawmedia.com<br /> Kyler Yeomans grabs his dove Bartholomew after making it appear simultaneously with a balloon pop during his magic show at Hope Haven Tuesday.
  • An employee from Tri-State Towing inspects the damage on an SUV that rolled over on Barber Greene Road. The driver was taken to Kishwaukee Community Hospital.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Anita Turner's seventh grade homeroom students at St. Mary's School in Sycamore, Ill. chats amongst themselves as Turner (not pictured) takes attendance before their morning mass on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Turner's current 24-student classroom is 422.5 square feet in size, with class sizes likely to exceed 30 in the coming years, according to St. Mary's School Principal Ross Bubolz. The school's expansion is slated to open for the 2014-15 school year and Turner will have a 776 square foot room.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Alex Smith (center) participates in the morning prayer in Anita Turner's seventh grade homeroom at St. Mary's School in Sycamore, Ill. before mass on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Turner's current 24-student classroom is 422.5 square feet in size, with class sizes likely to exceed 30 in the coming years, according to St. Mary's School Principal Ross Bubolz. The school's expansion is slated to open for the 2014-15 school year and Turner will have a 776 square foot room.
  • DeKalb City Clerk Diane Wright looks over the nominating petition of First Ward Alderman David Jacobson. Jacobson is running for the mayor of DeKalb.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> The line for returns at the DeKalb Best Buy was relatively short on Thursday afternoon.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Customer service agent Kellie Ratfield (front) is handed a receipt for a returned tablet case at Best Buy in DeKalb, Ill., Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Passersby check on the driver of a rolled over vehicle on West Lincoln Highway just east of Peace Road in DeKalb, Ill., Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Library director Dee Coover (left) and Teresa Iversen, head of reference, look over books to decide which ones will stay and go to make room for office space on the third floor of the DeKalb Public Library on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. The Illinois Public Library released $8.5 million to give the DeKalb library toward its construction and renovation plan, so long as library leaders can raise local matching funds by June 30.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Youth services manager Theresa Winterbauer helps a group of children with a craft project at the DeKalb Public Library on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> DeKalb resident Debbie Thompson looks over fiction books at the DeKalb Public Library on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Thompson visits the library at least once a week.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Andres Rufino, a freshman at NIU, does some studying for finals on the fourth floor of the Founders Memorial Library in DeKalb, Ill. on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Cindy Garcia, a junior at NIU, prepares for her English 207 final at Founders Memorial Library in DeKalb, Ill. on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012.
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