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COLLECTIVE BARGAINS Municipalities use garage sales to bring communities together
Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com
Omar Barz sifts through a bin of winter hats and scarves at the annual community garage sale Friday at the Bridges of Rivermist in DeKalb. Residents of this house had a moving sale.
By DANA HERRA dherra@shawmedia.com KINGSTON – If you happen to see what looks like a miniature kangaroo hopping about, there’s nothing wrong with your eyes. Her name is Willow, and her human family would very much like to have her back. Willow is a 14-month-old baby wallaroo – basically a smaller version of a kangaroo. Wallaroos are marsupials that are indigenous to Australia. She is about 2 feet tall, gray and weighs between 15 and 20 pounds. She is the pet of the Cleveland family, and went missing about 8 p.m. Tuesday from their home near Glidden and Cherry Valley roads in Kingston. “She was outside with me, and I went inside to help my boys with a math problem,” Jenny Cleveland said. “I realized I forgot to bring her in with me. It had been about a 20-minute time span, and when I went back out she was gone.” Willow has spent time outdoors by herself before, Cleveland said, but has never before run away. Although wallaroos
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Willow, a baby pet wallaroo, was reported missing Tuesday evening in rural Kingston. can run fairly fast, she said, it’s not common for them. “They’re grazers. Unless they’re being chased by a dog or something, they don’t just allout run,” Cleveland said. “It’s more like a cow, just moving along grazing.”
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Who to call
By STEPHANIE HICKMAN shickman@shawmedia.com
If you see the baby wallaroo, call the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office at 815895-2155 or DeKalb County Animal Control at 815-758-6673.
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onna Borthwick doesn’t consider herself a garage sale expert. But her driveway has seen its share of garage sales since she moved to the Bridges of Rivermist subdivision in DeKalb in 2005. She doesn’t do it for the money, but rather the convenience of being able to get rid of old items her family no longer uses. “I like to make a few bucks,” she said. “But it’s more about moving [stuff out].” Voice your Borthwick wrapped up anopinion other successful neighborhood Do you plan to garage sale, hold a garage which she helped sale this sumcoordinate at the mer? Vote online Bridges of Rivat Daily-Chroni- ermist last weekcle.com. end. With the weather warming up, garage sales have been in full swing across the county. With multiple neighborhood garage sales taking place this time of year, some communities, such as Sycamore, are providing residents with the opportunity to sell items at citywide events. Discover Sycamore will host its fifth annual “Treasures from the Attic” community garage, yard and sidewalk sale June 13 to 15. Discover Sycamore Director Lauren Diehl said the event at-
Baby wallaroo goes missing in rural Kingston
Median CEO pay rose to $9.7M in ’12 By CHRISTINA REXRODE
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Leah Stanton of Malta buys a few picture frames from Edna Carter during the annual community garage sale at the Bridges of Rivermist in DeKalb. Carter used the opportunity to have a moving sale. come to Sycamore and peruse the garage sales,” she said. For $20, residents can be a part of the sale, where they can set their own sale hours on the assigned dates.
tracts about 100 participants each year. The popular community gatherings draw visitors from places far beyond the city limits, Diehl said. “You would not believe the number of phone calls from people from outside the area who want to
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CEO pay has been going in one direction for the past three years: Up. The head of a typical large public company made $9.7 million in 2012, a 6.5 percent increase from a year earlier that was aided by a rising stock market, according to an analysis by The Associated Press using data from Equilar, an executive pay research firm. CEO pay, which fell two years straight during the Great Recession but rose 24 percent in 2010 and 6 percent in 2011, has never been higher. Companies say they need to pay CEOs well so they can attract the best talent, and that this is ultimately in the interest of shareholders. But shareholder activists and some corporate governance experts say many CEOs are being paid far above what is reasonable or what their performance merits. Pay for all U.S. workers rose
The highest paid CEO was Leslie Moonves of CBS, who made $60.3 million. Five of the 10 highest-paid CEOs were from the entertainment and media industry.
1.1 percent in 2010, 1.2 percent in 2011 and 1.6 percent last year – not enough to keep up with inflation. The median wage in the U.S. was about $39,900 in 2012, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. After years of pressure from corporate governance activists unhappy about big payouts, many companies have revamped their compensation formulas. They have awarded a bigger chunk of compensation in stock to align pay more closely to performance, become more transparent about how compensation decisions are made and in some cases promised to claw back pay from fired executives.
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