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Burn and learn Multiple departments take advantage of a unique training exercise presented by Tonica firefighters. / Page 3 Vol. 145 No. 40 One Section - 8 Pages

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Senator visits U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth pays a visit to Marquis Energy’s ethanol plant. / 4

TONICA The Tonica Volunteer Fire Department spent a

lot of time in August practicing on how to extricate crash victims entrapped in multiple-vehicle accidents. / 2

ILLINOIS VALLEY The Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra

will open its 70th season on Sept. 28 with a new conductor, Dr. Daniel Sommerville. / 5

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TONICA — During August, the Tonica Volunteer Fire Department conducted multiple vehicle extrication exercises.

These gave the newer and less-experienced members the opportunity to become familiar with some of the rescue equipment the department currently has available. Department members who are state certified roadway extrication specialists explained the operating capabilities of the tools.

Rescue personnel were presented with different situations they may encounter at accident scenes. One simulated accident scene required extrication operations to be performed on two vehicles at one time.

Some of the things covered included scene safety, command and control, vehicle stabilization, and patient access and removal. Various tools utilized included a hydraulic spreader and cutters, scene lighting, rescue air chisels, rescue high pressure air bags, a saws-all, cribbing, hi-lift jacks and rescue struts.

The exercises involved a multiple-vehicle accident requiring the safe removal of automotive glass, removal of the roof of the vehicle, the doors and seats, and the displacement of the steering wheel and dash.

The current rescue tools the Tonica department has are air-over-hydraulic, pneumatic and electric powered.

At these extrications, representatives from various fire equipment companies demonstrated newer cutters, spreaders, rams and combi-tools that are only battery powered. The advantage to these tools is they don’t require hoses or cords to be connected between the tool and the power source. The newer tools meet or exceed the performance capabilities of the current

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One simulated accident scene during a recent training exercise required extrication operations to be performed on two vehicles at one time by Tonica Volunteer Fire Department firefighters. tools and are NFPA compliant.

The department is evaluating various battery powered rescue tools that may reduce extrication time. If a decision is made to purchase these newer style rescue system tools,

fundraisers will be announced to help defray the cost.

The Tonica Volunteer Fire Department is an emergency service provider that is not supported by property taxes.

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Fire-damaged house set afire, extinguished, set afire again and again

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• Friday, September 13, 2019

TONICA — Firefighters from several local fire departments gathered just outside Tonica on Sept. 7 for a valuable training exercise that could end up saving their lives and the lives of others.

While firefighters regularly train in purpose-built structures capable of simulating many of the obstacles they can potentially face when entering a burning building, there’s no substitute for the real thing.

“You can watch all the YouTube training videos you want, but until you feel the heat and experience the zero visibility of a real fire, you just can’t know what it’s really like.

These types of exercises will help our firefighters survive,” Tonica Volunteer Fire Department Training Officer Rick Turri said.

The Tonica fire department organized and hosted the exercise which was held at the family home of Tom and Karla Goskusky. Their home caught fire earlier this spring, and while Karla said Tonica firefighters responded “extremely fast” and quickly put out the fire, insurance adjusters ruled the home a complete loss because of the estimated repair costs.

Tom and their two sons, Mitch and John, are all firefighters. Tom and Mitch work with the Tonica department, and John is with the Cedar Point Fire Department.

After the family agreed to allow the exercise, Turri pursued the multiple required permits for such an event.

“We used to be able to do these types of exercises more frequently, but there’s a lot of red tape involved now with the state and the EPA. You also have to have a permit from the state historical society so they can make sure Lincoln never slept here and those types of things,” he said.

Fires were repeatedly set in the home, extinguished, and then set afire once again so another training group could enter the building to fight the blaze. At a later date, the structure will be knocked down and the site cleared.

“This exercise is great for our younger firefighters because it reinforces command and control, accountability, and also helps them learn how to read smoke and fire conditions in a real environment,” Turri said.

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ABOVE: Despite being quickly extinguished, the damage caused by the fire that occurred earlier in the spring was determined by insurance adjusters to be a complete loss. The Tonica Volunteer Fire Department then pursued all necessary permits required to hold a controlled burn training exercise in the structure. BELOW: The former home of Tom and Karla Goskusky was repeatedly set afire and extinguished as teams of firefighters entered the building to practice a variety of training methods and exercises.

While the day provided invaluable, realistic training for the firefighters, it also might have hit a little too close to home, quite literally, for the Goskusky family.

“The first room on fire that we had to put out was my own bedroom, so that felt a little weird,” Mitch said.

Karla, while appreciative of the type of training the day provided,

also shared the pain of watching her family’s home burn again.

“This was my grandparent’s home, my parents grew up here, I grew up here, and my children grew up here, so this is hard,” she said.

She said the family farm is only a few years away from becoming one of the state’s Centennial Farms, so that only added to her sense of loss.

“I hate that this happened on my watch, so to speak,” she said.

She also lamented all of the work her family had done to improve the home over many years.

“I waited so long to have a big wrap-around porch, and now it’s gone after we just finished it,” she said.

She said the family will build another home on the site, but added it will be a smaller home and that it just won’t be the same as the multi-generational home she was once again watching burn.

Firefighters participating in the training included members of the Tonica, Cedar Point, Leonore, Oglesby and some suburban fire departments, as well as students from the LaSalle-Peru Area Career Center.

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Sen. Duckworth tours Marquis’ ethanol plant She calls on Trump to fix ethanol exemptions

BY JEANNINE OTTO Shaw Media HENNEPIN — U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth toured the Marquis Energy ethanol plant in Hennepin Sept. 3 and called on the Trump administration, along with her fellow senators, to take action to stop the bleeding in the U.S. ethanol industry.

Duckworth’s visit, which included a tour of the plant with Mark Marquis, CEO of Marquis Energy, focused attention on the issue of small refinery exemptions.

Those exemptions have been granted in large numbers to major oil companies, including Exxon and Chevron, under the Trump administration, prompting claims from the ethanol industry and farm groups of abuse of the refinery exemption program.

“Bailing out billion-dollar oil companies at the expense of American farmers goes against the goals

of the RFS (Renewable Fuel Standard) and it hurts the Midwest,” Duckworth said after her tour.

In June, Duckworth and a bipartisan group of her fellow senators introduced the RFS Integrity Act. The bill would make the small refinery exemption application process viewable to the public.

“We will actually know who is applying for them, why they are getting the exemption and how large of an exemption,” Duckworth said.

Duckworth said she is working on getting co-sponsors for the bill and hopes to move it out of committee, but she voiced concerns that it could be held up from a full Senate vote.

“Everything depends on Mitch McConnell and whether it comes to the floor for a vote, and it’s highly unlikely that he would allow that to progress, but I am going to continue to work on that and also to find a House companion as well,” Duckworth said.

After the announcement in mid-August that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had granted another round of refin-

ery exemptions, 31 in all, Marquis Energy announced that it was cutting production at its Necedah, Wis., ethanol plant.

Marquis said the Hennepin plant continues to run at its full, 100-million-gallon capacity. The Hennepin plant was built in 2007 and uses 130 million bushels of corn a year, producing a million gallons of ethanol every day and about 3,000 tons of dried distiller grains, a byproduct of ethanol production, which is used as livestock feed.

“Our plant here at Hennepin is one of the most efficient in the world, and we are still running this plant at full rate. There are a lot of plants that have reduced their run rate because of the profitability situation that is all tied back to these small refinery exemptions,” Marquis said.

In his view, Marquis said, the best solution to help ethanol producers and farmers who supply corn to the plants would be to reallocate the gallons lost in the small refinery exemptions.

Re c e n t ly, P re s i d e n t T r u m p announced via his Twitter account

that he had a major announcement coming regarding the ethanol issue.

“I’m a little bit concerned about this supposed announcement that’s going to come out is not going to reallocate those gallons back into blending ethanol, that there are going to be some infrastructure programs and some flex-fuel vehicle programs that really won’t have any immediate help for the ethanol industry,” Marquis said.

Marquis added that the exemption issue and the continuing exemptions could put a crimp in rural support for Trump as the 2020 election season nears.

“I was a Trump supporter from day one. I thought maybe a business guy could fix some of the things with the economy, and I think he’s done that to some degree, created more jobs and a good economy. With regard to supporting agriculture, I think we feel like we have been let down a little,” Marquis said.

He said he hopes that farmers and other elected officials, including House members, speak up as well.

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LASALLE — Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra Board President Andrea Kowalski welcomes a new conductor.

After a year-long search, Dr. Daniel Sommerville was chosen from a field of talented conductors to be the 18th music director and conductor for the IVSO’s 70th anniversary season. He has an exciting season planned, which includes music from past decades and special soloists Chicago Symphony Orchestra trumpeter John Hagstrom and Rachel Barton Pine, who also performed for IVSO’s 50thand 60th-season celebrations, plus “The Nutcracker” ballet in December.

The orchestra’s first season was 1949–1950. Dr. Sommerville will strive to continue to fulfill the IVSO’s mission: to entertain and inspire the community by performing live orchestral music. He has programmed the following concerts for the upcoming season: • Showtime! — Saturday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m. at Illinois Valley Community College Dr. Mary Margaret Weeg Cultural Centre. The concert will feature guest artist Jennie Judd, soprano, on music from Broadway, with a special tribute to Marvin Hamlisch, plus music by Leonard Bernstein, Richard Rogers, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and more.

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Breakfast Sept. 16 — Pancake on a stick, granola/yogurt, cereal, fruit, cheese stick, juice, milk.

Sept. 17 — Biscuits and gravy, granola/yogurt, cereal, fruit, cheese stick, juice, milk.

Sept. 18 — Fruit yogurt parfait, granola/ yogurt, cereal, fruit, cheese stick, juice, milk.

Sept. 19 — Create-your-own sandwich (toast, sausage, egg, cheese), granola/yogurt, cereal, fruit, cheese stick, juice, milk.

Sept. 20 — Poptart Friday, granola/ yogurt, cereal, fruit, cheese stick, juice, milk.

Lunch Sept. 16 — Meatball sub, Mozzarella cheese, cottage cheese, grape tomatoes, fruit, milk.

Sept. 17 — Nachos bar (choice of chips, meat, cheese cup, refried beans, peppers), fruit, milk.

Sept. 18 — Chicken rings, mashed potatoes, corn, fruit, milk.

Sept. 19 — Rotini pasta, cucumbers, garlic bread, fruit, milk.

Sept. 20 — French bread pizza, marinara, broccoli, sidekick, milk.

Tonica Grade School Breakfast Sept. 16 — Biscuit and sausage gravy or cereal, toast, granola, yogurt, fruit, juice, milk.

Sept. 17 — Waffle and syrup or cereal, toast, granola, yogurt, fruit, juice, milk.

Sept. 18 — Cheese omelet or cereal, hash browns, toast, granola, yogurt, fruit, juice, milk.

Sept. 19 — Sausage, egg and cheese croissant or cereal, toast, granola, yogurt, fruit, juice, milk.

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Sept. 20 — Pizza bosco stick, lettuce and salad dressing, carrots, fruit, gelatin with Cool Whip, milk.

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TONICA — Sunday, Sept. 15, will be the kick off day for another season of Sunday school at the Tonica United Methodist Church.

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IN THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF LASALLE COUNTY Estate of DEBORAH A. TAVARES, Deceased.

No. 2019-P-164 NOTICE TO CLAIMANTS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the death of DEBORAH A. TAVARES. Letters of office as Independent Executor were issued on July 30, 2019 to WALTER SCOTT BILLIOT, 1017 S. 4th Street, Lafayette, Indiana 47905 and whose attorney is M.G. GULO & ASSOCIATES, LTD., 123 S. Monroe Street, Streator, Illinois 61364.

The estate will be administered without Court supervision, unless under Section 5/284 of the Probate Act (Ill. Compiled Stat. 1992, Ch. 755, Par. 5/28-4) any interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the Clerk.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, 119 W. Madison Street, Ottawa, Illinois 61350, on or before March 10, 2020, or if mailing or delivery of notice from the representative is required by Section 5/18-3 of the Probate Act of 1975, the date stated in that notice. Any claim not filed within that period is barred.

Copies of any claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the estate representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed with the Clerk.

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TO ALL WHO, IT MAY CONCERN: Take notice that a Petition was filed in the Circuit Court of LaSsile County, Illinois, for adoption of a child named GRAHAM ALLEN WRIGHT. Now, therefore, unless all whom it may concern file your answer to the Petition in the action or otherwise file your appearance therein, in the said Circuit Court of LaSalle County, Room 201, in the City of Ottawa, Illinois, on or before the 15th day of October, 2019, a default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition.

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The Board of Education of Lostant CUSD 425, located at 315 West 3rd Street, Lostant, Sate of Illinois, will hold a Public Hearing to receive testimony regarding its application for a waiver from Section 17-1.5 of the Illinois School Code (Limitation of Administrative Costs).

The Hearing will be held at Lostant School in the Board Room, 315 West 3rd Street, Lostant, IL 61334, on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.

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The Hearing will be held at Lostant School in the Board Room, 315 West 3rd Street, Lostant, IL 61334, on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.

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