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The wait is over for ‘At Any Price’ Moviegoers will get opportunity to identify county locales in film By DAVID THOMAS
If you go Showtimes for “At Any Price” at Carmike Market Square Cinema in DeKalb for the coming week: n Today to Tuesday: 1:15 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:45 p.m. n Wednesday: 12:15 p.m., 3:15 p.m., 6:10 p.m., 8:45 p.m. n Thursday: 1:15 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:45 p.m.
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dthomas@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Every boy learns how to shave, but few can say they were taught by Dennis Quaid. The sons of Ann Oduber can make the claim. Aaron, 11, and Jacob, 12, portrayed younger versions of Quaid’s sons in the movie “At Any Price,” which was filmed in DeKalb in 2011. Zac Efron plays the older version of one of Quaid’s sons. Oduber, a Christian education coordinator at the First Lutheran Church in DeKalb, accompanied her boys during their two days of
Where do you prefer to watch movies? Let us know at daily-chronicle. com. filming. She described the whirlwind of activity that occurs on a movie set. “At one point, I was still tying one of their shoes on when the director said, ‘Real mom, please get out of the scene,’ ” Oduber said. Almost two years after the cast and crew came to DeKalb, the film “At Any Price” will be shown at
Carmike Market Square Cinema, 2160 Sycamore Road in DeKalb, starting today. The movie has seen limited release in the United States, with a couple of theaters in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles showing it. Oduber, who has seen the movie, described “At Any Price” as having an interesting story and as “an indie film that’s making a crossover into the mainstream.” “I can see now why Dennis Quaid is getting rave reviews for his role,” she said.
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Actors Zac Efron (left) and Dennis Quaid in a scene from the movie “At Any Price” that was filmed in October, 2011 on Kevin and Linda Herrmann’s farm hear Hinckley.
Senate OKs union-backed pension deal By SARA BURNETT The Associated Press
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Alex Scott, 14, and David Scott, 8, play parachute with their foster brother, who cannot be identified, in the front yard of their adopted family’s home May 3 in DeKalb. Roger and Marcia Scott have fostered more than 40 children since 1985. Of those children, the Scotts have adopted five.
Sheriff’s family has fostered more than 40 children, adopted 5 By STEPHANIE HICKMAN
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shickman@shawmedia.com Some people call Roger and Marcia Scott crazy. Others have called them extraordinary. They think of themselves simply as parents. Over the past 25 years, the Scotts have taken in more than 40 foster children, and their family continues to grow. “I thought I would do this for a few years, help out a few children, and then he would retire and we’d be off on our own,” Marcia Scott said. “But it just never happened that way.” DeKalb County Sheriff Roger Scott and Marcia’s family consists of five adopted children: Tom and Angie, both 22; Ebony, 19; Alex, 14; and David, 8. They currently are fostering a 5-year-old boy with special needs and a 16-month-old girl. The DeKalb couple also have three grown
DeKalb County foster care numbers (as of April 30) n 103 children placed in out-ofhome care n 64 children in foster care n 38 children living with relatives n 1 in institution or group home n 2,500 children legally free for adoption Source: State of Illinois
Marcia Scott plays with a foster child (left), who cannot be identified, and her adopted son, David Scott (right), 8, in their DeKalb home. biological children and nine grandchildren. Although the Scotts have gone the extra mile in helping children in need, there are many more who still need help. The Illinois Department
of Children and Family Services reported nearly 15,000 children in Illinois were placed in foster care, group homes or institutions last year, while about only 1,700 are adopted each year.
More than 100 of the children placed in foster care in Illinois live in DeKalb County. Eileen Liezert – the northern Illinois regional vice president of Children’s Home and Aid, a private agency that places children in foster homes – said the need for foster parents is on the rise as the agency receives an additional 50 to 75 children a year.
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Senate voted Thursday to send a union-supported pension reform bill to the House, leaving lawmakers with two competing proposals for dealing with the nation’s worst state pension crisis just weeks before the Legislature is scheduled to adjourn. The Senate voted 40-16 Thursday to advance a measure sponsored by Senate President John Cullerton. The Chicago Democrat negotiated the plan with some of the state’s largest public-employee unions. Cullerton says it’s the only option for addressing the nearly $100 billion crisis that is constitutional, and the unions have agreed not to file a lawsuit if the measure is signed into law. But House Speaker Michael Madigan prefers a plan he sponsored and the House approved last week that he says could save three times more money than Cullerton’s proposal. Gov. Pat Quinn backs Madigan’s measure, as do Senate Republicans. But rather than take up Madigan’s proposal in the Senate, Democrats there opted to go with Cullerton’s union-friendly plan. The question now is whether one leader will succumb to the other’s approach or if another deal can be reached on a problem that lawmakers have failed to solve for years, even as states across the country took action on their own pension problems. Madigan predicted after Thursday’s vote that his bill – which unilaterally cuts retirement benefits – will ultimately be enacted. He said he hasn’t decided whether he would call Cullerton’s bill in his chamber. “I think the bill passed by the House is a good, solid bill, well-thought out, it has a broad base of support and it ought to be passed by the Senate,” the Chicago Democrat said. “And I think they will pass it.” Quinn, who has said fixing the problem is his top priority, told reporters Thursday that Madigan’s plan should get a vote in the Senate before the end of the month. “I think it’s important for them, members of the Senate, [to] take a look at everything,” the Chicago Democrat said. “But ultimately it’s important for (Madigan’s proposal) to get a vote.” But Ron Holmes, a spokesman for Cullerton, said it didn’t appear Madigan’s proposal had enough votes to pass the Senate. He noted four Republicans voted with Democrats on the union-supported bill Thursday, and that a bill similar to Madigan’s failed to get the 30 votes needed for approval when it was before the chamber earlier this year. “If there’s some sort of shift that says we can get to 30 votes [on Madigan’s bill], the Senate president will take that into account,” Holmes said. Cullerton’s plan would give workers and retirees a choice in retirement benefits. Current workers would choose among three different benefit packages, while retirees would choose between two.
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