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2016 Business Directory Guide

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Genoa

Cortney Strohacker Executive Director Krissy Johnson Associate Director

Area Chamber of Commerce

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n behalf of the Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce, I would like to welcome you to our town. Genoa is an outstanding place to live, work, and grow a business. Whether you’re visiting for the day, looking for a new place to call home, or you’re already a resident of our thriving community…we guarantee you will love our community. Genoa is a quaint little town with a big heart and plenty of opportunities. Our rich history dates back to 1835, and the Chamber was established in 1956 to advocate for and support the prosperity of Genoa and area businesses. This year we proudly celebrate our 60th year as a Chamber. It is an exciting time to be a member of the Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce. We are always creating new networking and promotional opportunities to help our member businesses succeed and grow, including space to advertise on the Chamber website, business referrals, monthly networking opportunities, and continuing education. Other great events that allow our member businesses to gain visibility include the Home and Business Expo, Annual Golf Outing, Farmers Markets, The Cruisin to Genoa Car Show, Movies on Main Street, The Great Genoa Duck Race, and Celebrate the Season.

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We continue to partner with local government and other organizations to pursue improvements in the overall quality of life for the city, county, and region, particularly in the areas of transportation, education, healthcare, tourism, economic development, community development, and workforce development. Our success in achieving our mission and purpose is due to a collaborative effort from the Chamber Board of Directors, Chamber Ambassadors, City of Genoa, Chamber members, area professionals and community volunteers. Our online business directory and Area Guide are two resources the Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce provides to the local community. We continue to work with our “Explore Genoa” committee to encourage you to think local, shop local! By supporting the businesses in our directory, you are reinvesting in your community. To our current Chamber members, thank you for your continued support. For those of you considering relocating your business or opening a new business in Genoa, you will find that becoming a Chamber member is of great value to you. Genoa is thriving, come grow with us!

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Board of Directors

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Genoaâ€™s Volksfest Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers offer

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Contributing Writers: Aimee Barrows Stephen Haberkorn

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All information current as of January 2016

The Genoa Chamber Ambassador Club meets the first Friday of each month from 12:00-1:00pm. Meeting Dates for 2016 January 7th • February 5th • March 4th April 1st • May 6th • June 3rd July 1st • August 5th • September 2th October 7th • November 4th • December 2nd

Locations will rotate throughout our membership. Our scheduled ribbon cuttings will take place immediately following our meetings. We invite you to join our Ambassador Club and network with us. GENOA CHAMBER AMBASSADOR CLUB MISSION STATEMENT: The Genoa Ambassador Club of the Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce is a prestige public relations, booster and goodwill organization dedicated to a better community. It will concern itself with activities to enhance the image of the Genoa area Chamber of Commerce, create solidarity within the membership, and will bring about a greater appreciation among community citizens of what the Chamber stands for in terms of goodwill, civic participation, recognition and appreciation. AMBASSADOR CLUB MEMBERS: Carolyn Tobinson of Tobinson’s Ace Hardware (Ambassador Chairman) Cortney Strohacker (Genoa Chamber Executive Director)

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Cover During March 2015, the Genoa Public Library completed its long-held vision of investing in our downtown and community as a whole. The beautiful new building -- along with the remodeling of the old building into an event space – has boosted the available space from 3400 square feet to nearly 9000. With a modern building, an updated combination of books, movies and magazines and a suite of top-notch online resources, we are positioned to meet the community’s needs for many years to come. The Library offers blazing fast, free Wi-Fi via Northern Illinois Fiber Optic Network. Along with comfortable seating throughout, the new building features eight new computer workstations for public usage. The Library’s collection exceeds 20,000 items, however, cardholders have access to more than one million books, movies and audiobooks from our consortium of partner libraries. Deliveries occur three times each week, so there is little waiting time for ordered materials. The total building project cost $2.4 million with a vast percentage coming from a generous gift of the Robert Weiss estate. The balance of funding came from years of careful financial management. No taxpayer increases were required! Library cards are available to Genoa residents within the Library District’s boundaries. Out-of-district residents (Kingston and parts of Genoa) can obtain a Library card and its associated privileges at the same rate as district-wide taxpayers contribute. As always, the Genoa Public Library offers a variety of services for all ages – Summer Reading, Storytime, free movies, guest speakers, author visits and more. These are available to everyone (no library card required).

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Genoa’s Volksfest BY: Aimee Barrows Genoa’s first annual Volksfest offered the city’s residents and guests a little bit of everything… a nature walk, live music, familyfriendly games, a duck race and…. local craft beer. “It’s different than what everybody else was doing,” said Brian Wallace, one of the organizers of Volksfest, which means “people’s fest. “All the breweries were from within 60 miles of here. It’s all local, and it’s about keeping the money at home.” Genoa’s Cademon Brewing Co., The Forge in Sycamore and Prairie State Winery were the DeKalb County businesses represented. Other breweries included Warrenville’s Two Brothers Brewery, Geneva’s Penrose Brewing Company and Chicago’s Revolution Brewery. Wallace said it was important to him to feature only local breweries. “Those breweries are producing the same quality as those that are bottling beer and selling it from Colorado. It was high quality beer,” he said. “It’s important to buy local. The vendors were really excited about the fest and want to come back.” Visitors had the option of purchasing V.I.P tickets for $50, where from noon until 1 p.m., they enjoyed catered appetizers from Premier Catering. The festival continued from 1 to 5 p.m. where visitors could purchase general admission tickets for $25, where they were allowed up to 15 beverage samples. Wallace said the beer fest was a big hit with the public, and many people told him they were looking forward to it next year. “I have a group of friends who brew beer and I enjoy a good beer and thought it would be fun,” he said. “The city council was very gracious. Everyone was on board with the idea. There was no opposition.” Bonnie Hanson, secretary of the Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers, said Wallace was extremely passionate about the craft beer fest. She said she was “blown away” by his enthusiasm. “I thought it was a very creative idea,” she said. “Brian really

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wanted to do something different and it was really well-received. He was dedicated and worked so hard.” Volksfest, which was combined with Genoa’s annual duck race, was held Sept. 11-13. The weekend kicked off Friday night at Citizen’s Park with free, family-friendly live music by Wade Buzzard and the Crossroads Band with special guests TOW. The evening also featured games and a bounce house for children. Saturday began with a 5-kilometer or 10-kilometer Volksmarch, which is a free, noncompetitive walk that was open to the public. The 5-kilometer trail took the walkers behind Russell Woods and along the banks of the Kishwaukee River. The 10k route took the walkers through downtown Genoa. Participants walked at their own paces. They began anytime between 8 and 11 a.m. and finished up by 2 p.m. Carolyn Tobinson, founder of the Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers, the group that sponsored the Volksmarch, said some residents might have been a little hesitant to try it, simply because they’d never heard of it before. “These were new events, so people didn’t understand what it was all about,” she explained. “But now that people came out and did it, they get it. They say they’re going to be here next year. It was so fun.” Cortney Strohacker, executive director of the Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce, said about five local organizations, including the City of Genoa, Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers and the Chamber, worked together to put on the weekend’s events. “Instead of doing separate events, we wanted to come together and decided to do one big event,” she said. “Volksfest was a great way to highlight Genoa. There’s so much to offer here and to see people coming in from other places made it all worth it. And people from our town were so glad we brought an event to them.” Hanson said she was very proud of how the Genoa’s chamber and businesses worked with Wallace and Tobinson to make Volksfest a reality. She said it was a small group of community members who put together the entire event in about six months. “The key is we worked so well together, and that’s how things happen,” she said. “Carolyn and Brian had a vision for what they wanted. They combined their ideas and groups in Genoa came together to cooperate to give residents a great experience. I’m so impressed with this community.” Tobinson said the entire weekend was a wonderful opportunity to do something new in Genoa. “It was so worth all the hard work we put into it,” she said. “It was great to see people come out and enjoy themselves and bring

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DeKalb County Residents By: Aimee Barrows Most folks in Northern Illinois probably have never heard of a volksmarch, let alone participated in one. But long-time Genoa resident Carolyn Tobinson hopes her recreational group, Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers, will introduce local residents to the noncompetitive sport and foster a love of outdoor activities. “When I was stationed in Germany 35 years ago, every weekend a community had a volksmarch, which is an outdoor walk, and I suggested that we do this in Genoa,” Tobinson said. “It’s not competitive, so people can stroll and have a conversation. People really get into it and enjoy it. It’s a social activity as well as a physical activity.” The Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers hosted Genoa’s first annual Volksmarch, which began in Citizen’s Park, on Sept. 12 as part of the “Volksfest weekend.” About 70 people participated in the volksmarch, which means “people’s walk” in English. Participants had the option of walking a six-kilometer rural route, or a 10-kilometer route, which went through the Genoa’s downtown. Several participants came to the Volksmarch from Chicago, Madison, Wisconsin and Kansas. “One man wanted to walk in every county in Illinois, and DeKalb was his 45th county,” Tobinson said with a laugh. Tobinson, who founded the group, said the idea for Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers grew from Genoa’s SOARing Project, which is a group of community members who work on strategic planning for the city. She said the group conducted a lot of studies to see what people wanted in their town, and they found the residents wanted more events in Genoa. So she came up with the idea for the Volksmarch. “The best route to take to be sanctioned by the American Volkssport Association was to form a club, so we incorporated Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers. We’re now a member club of that association, and we’re the sixth club in Illinois to belong to it,” she said. “It’s unique that we can do a Volksmarch and other Volkssports.” Tobinson explained that the Genoa trail is sanctioned as a “year round course” for 2016, which means that anyone can walk the course any day of the year, not just during a volksmarch event. She hopes that members from other volkssport clubs will come to Genoa to walk the course, and stay afterwards to enjoy the city. “If people see they can stop here and walk, they’ll see Genoa and maybe have lunch here or shop here,” she said. “It’s another baby step to increasing tourism in our area.” Cortney Strohacker, executive director of the Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce, said the Wanderers focused on assets of Genoa that were never really highlighted. “They looked at things like the trail and the Kish River, which will be used for a canoeing event,” she explained. “They took assets we already have available to us and found ways to better use them.”

Brian Wallace, vice president of Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers, said he hopes the group gets people more interested in Genoa and what it has to offer. “We have a wonderful little town with a lot of nice little things,” Wallace said. “We’d like to see people want to actively take part in it. We’re not looking to many money, we just want to make things happen. There are no towns nearby that have this kind of group.” Strohacker described Genoa as a “hidden treasure,” and hopes the Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers will help make Genoa a “destination location.” “We want people from other towns to come here for the day to enjoy the path, the river, Walcamp,” she said. “We’re easy to get to. It’s a short drive from Elgin, Crystal Lake or Geneva. We want people to enjoy the river and a nice walk and then stop at the Prairie State Winery or Cademon Brewery. There are several unique stores here.” Wallace said one appeal of the group is that it’s very affordable to families. “Everything costs money, and what we’re trying to do with the Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers is to provide opportunities for fun outdoor activities that have little to no cost. There are so many activities you can do that are relatively free,” he said. Tobinson said the group is currently accepting new members, and hopes to grow the group. It costs $10 per family per year to join. “The opportunities are tremendous,” she said. “Now as a club we can sponsor events and do volksmarches in our area. I hope we’ll help rejuvenate the volkssporting community, and we’d like to branch out to other places in DeKalb County.” Bonnie Hanson, secretary of the Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers, hopes the momentum keeps growing for the group. “The path that was created for the volksmarch is beautiful so we hope more people take advantage of it,” she said. “The group gives Genoa another opportunity to showcase our beautiful city and community.” Tobinson said Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers already has more events in the works, including a snowshoeing and cross-country skiing event at Walcamp in Kingston on Feb. 6. The group is also hoping to host another Volksmarch at Jonamac Orchard next year.

“I want to talk to NIU to set up a 5k route down there,” she said. “We’d also like to do a kayaking and flash canoeing event on the Kishwaukee River in July.” Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers is important to Tobinson because she enjoys adventure and feels the group is a good way to help make Genoa a better place to live. “The volksmarch experience is more than just a walk. People can make great family memories and I just hope it takes off,” she said. “There are a lot of good people in Genoa. People help each other and they believe in this community and want to see it grow and prosper.” Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers plans to host the second annual Volksmarch next September. For more information about the group, email kvwanderers@gmail.com or visit their Facebook page. For more information about volkssporting, visit the American Volkssport Association’s website at ava.org.

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With help from local businesses and community members, the Genoa-Kingston School District is leading the way in DeKalb County STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education. Beginning this fall, Genoa-Kingston CUSD 424 has introduced curriculum from Project Lead the Way (PLTW) into their middle school. Project Lead the Way is the nation’s leading provider of K-12 STEM programs. PLTW uses tools such as computer-aided design software and robotics to teach students math, science and problem-solving skills. The Genoa-Kingston school district is the first in DeKalb County to incorporate the PLTW curriculum, and they plan to expand the program throughout all their schools and grade levels in the future. “We talk about the twenty fastest-growing careers,” said Genoa-Kingston school superintendent Joe Burgess, “and fifteen of them require a background in math or science. Lead the Way really hits hard on that. And 50% of the fastest-growing jobs in our country are in math, science and technology.” This initiative began about a year and a half ago during a school board retreat, with the suggestion of board member and Northern Illinois University faculty member, Dr. Kristin Brynteson , that they find a way to partner with Northern. Brynteson works with STEM and STEAM (which includes the Arts) education throughout the state. That led to Superintendent Burgess visiting the NIU College of Engineering and learning about Project Lead the Way. They suggested launching the program in the middle school. “It really comes from the Project Lead the Way mindset,” said Burgess of his discussions with PLTW and NIU engineers. “The high school, to them, is a little bit too late.” Burgess said that they are seeing, through the introduction of algebra and geometry into the middle school curriculum, that kids are able to deal with these concepts at a younger age. Kids are also more comfortable with the use of technology than their predecessors. Add to that the use of active learning in the project and problem-based curriculum, and Project Lead the Way makes perfect sense for students at this level. “For them, a chance to be hands-on and be active is really a good thing, especially at that age where their minds and bodies are changing by the week,” explained Burgess. “So you’re putting math and science in front of them in an active, engaged way. It’s really going to help hook them into exploring all the possibilities.” Burgess recently observed PLTW teacher Don McCunes’s Design and Modeling class, and at the end of the period two students came up to Mr. McCune and asked if they could come in on their own time and work on their projects. “Kids that age, that’s not a normal response,” said Burgess. “I saw some fire in their eyes, as they were really excited about what they were doing. I think once that happens, all of their learning is impacted, because they’re excited about coming to school every day.” Angelo Lekkas, Principal of Genoa-Kingston Middle School, is witnessing the fruits of the new curriculum, as well. “There is a lot of excitement around it,” said Lekkas. “The main thing is that we see all the excitement from the kids. The kids are talking to me in the hallway. They’re telling me about what they’re doing in class. They’re proud of their projects. And the

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excitement with the adults and in the community is what’s helping us support that.” Other than the school district paying for a week of professional development for the PLTW teacher, Don McCune, last summer, all of the funding for this initiative has come from local businesses and Genoa-Kingston area residents. The district purchased a mobile L.E.D. advertising sign that they display at middle school events and they use the sign to acknowledge their community benefactors. Of special note is Custom Aluminum Products, Inc. and the National Bank and Trust Company (NB&T). The proceeds from the fundraising campaign have paid for materials for the classes, such as 3-D printers and robot kits. The robot kits cost over a thousand dollars apiece and the district intends to buy twentyfive. “We know this is an opportunity that kids in the past didn’t have,” said Lekkas. “We’d always been looking for additional ways for kids to use the higher level thinking skills, problem solving, collaborative learning, and technology. This is just another example of a way that we can do this.” Burgess said that the school district’s relationship with the local business community is completely essential for the success of Project Lead the Way and similar endeavors. The Chamber of Commerce invited him to come speak about PLTW and they were really excited about it. “It’s resonated so well with people because they know where their money’s going to go,” said Burgess. “We get asked a lot out in the community, ‘Hey, is there anything we can do?’ Sometimes you don’t have an answer for that right off the top of your head. Now we feel like we have a couple things we can turn people to and they like it because they can see it.”

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The teacher on the front lines for Project Lead the Way is Don McCune. McCune was a combat engineer in the Army before becoming a history teacher at Genoa-Kingston Middle School. When he found out that there was a need for STEM education at the school, he got his my master’s degree in Educational Technology. In order to prepare to teach the Project Lead the Way classes, McCune took a week-long, intensive course at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There, he learned the overall philosophy of the PLTW STEM program, as well as doing all of the projects for the course. A large part of the training was learning to use Autodesk Inventor, a premier engineering program for computer-aided design (CAD). “I had done engineering and drafting in high school, and I’ve done a lot of woodworking and stuff with my hands throughout my life,” said McCune. “It came pretty naturally to understand how to do those things. Understanding how Autodesk Inventor does its 3D modeling, how you draw in two dimensions and expand – it’s called additive and subtractive modeling – was a learning experience, but I’ve

gotten to know it pretty well. I’m not an engineer by any means, but that’s really where the kids are starting, too.” McCune said that there is a myth that children are “digital natives” – meaning that they are automatically technology savvy and they know how to work things. He has not seen that to be the case, however. “Their ability to know how to do things is very limited to the video game consoles and the cell phones that they use. When it comes to the broader use of technology, the intelligent use of technology is not there.” McCune said some of his students struggle with basic skills such as keyboarding, using a ruler for measurements, drawing straight lines, and doing calculations with fractions. What he does see in his students, though, is a lot of passion. He has over thirty students in his technology club, for example. McCune says the philosophy of PLTW is hands-on learning without dumbing things down. It is difficult work with high standards and high expectations that is based on real-life applications. Students must complete each project successfully in order to pass. If a project doesn’t work, they must do it over. This year, McCune is teaching the twelve-week Design and Modeling course to 7th and 8th graders. Next year, he will again teach Modeling and Design to 7th graders and will introduce Automation and Robotics to the 8th graders. Eventually, PLTW courses will encompass all three middle school grades for twelve weeks a year (six weeks each semester). Down the road, the district hopes to expand the PLTW curriculum to all grade levels. The high school students will take full-year computer science, biomedical, and engineering courses, for example. All of the PLTW courses are aligned with the Common Core math and science standards. Mr. McCune has the geometry standards posted on the walls of his classroom. Currently, McCune’s students are designing and building a “lab skimmer,” which is a paper airplane that looks similar to a Star Wars landspeeder. The small vehicle must travel a distance along the ground after being propelled by a rubber band launcher. “I want them to know that they are already all engineers,” said McCune. “Engineers are people who use science and technology to solve problems. Engineers are important to their lives. Design doesn’t come from nothing. Your clothes and glasses, everything that is around us has been engineered by its broadest term.” McCune said that his students are doing some things in his PLTW classes that the math and science departments just don’t have time to do, so it is helping the students get more enrichment. Some kids may not be as good at math, but they work well spatially. It also gets

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them thinking about high school and careers afterwards. Superintendent Burgess stated in a school board meeting that they planned to have Northern Illinois University engineering students work with students in the PLTW classes and discuss all the opportunities for future careers with the classes. “There are a lot of people retiring that are going to leave room for those kinds of jobs,” said McCune. “I know a lot of factories are needing people who understand engineering as well as computer programming and robotics.” In fact, according to Lekkas, some of the Genoa-Kingston High School students are already doing internships at Custom Aluminum Products and other local businesses. Seventh graders in Mr. McCune’s current Design and Modeling class are already thinking about how the class is preparing them for the future. Noah Lane, 12, from Genoa said that he finds the PLTW classes more interesting and enjoyable because they use applied math. He likes doing construction and engineering. Hanna Chriss, 12, from Genoa said she wants to be an architect and that the PLTW projects help her with doing different kinds of conversions. Haley Lozano,12, from Genoa is interested in designing cars and cell phones and said that the class is improving her math skills. “We talked about engineering and working with electronics, so I thought that could be cool to do that,” said Lozano. Ava Focht, 12, from Kingston said that she was a little doubtful when she first started the class, but she really likes it because it has to do with engineering and technology. “I just find that the concept of learning about how everything’s made and how science works is very interesting, said Focht. “I think more schools should have lessons like this, because it’s a lot more involved in our society and technology is more involved than it used to be.” Joe Burgess worked in his family’s construction company for sixteen years before becoming a full-time principal and later a superintendent. He remembers hearing guys talk about how they’d wished they had something other than just shop class in school. “I reflect back on that and some of those people I knew and how their lives could have been different with this type of opportunity,” said Burgess. “I can think of a couple of electricians who were phenomenal with their hands and their minds and the way they could design and build stuff, but never really got past just being a laborer. What if they’d have had this type of class available? To me, if it can be a game-changer for a kid, that’s what we want to do. That’s why this intrigues me.”

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When the city of Genoa recently chose the new Chief of Police to guide the department into the future, they ended up going with a familiar face from their past. Robert Smith was appointed as Chief of Police on September 1, 2015 after serving as Acting Chief since April of 2015. Smith grew up in Genoa as the son of a Genoa police officer. He saw his father wearing the uniform every day and dreamed of one day following in his footsteps. “It’s an honor. It’s still kind of a shock,” said Smith. “I wake up sometimes and go, ‘Oh, I’m the Chief.’ “Who knows? If my dad were something else, I might have had a different path in life.” His path, however, seemed to inevitably lead him to his current position. After graduating from Genoa-Kingston High School, Smith enlisted in the Army and served for three years as a military police officer in Fort Knox, Kentucky. Upon returning, he worked for a year as a corrections officer with the Boone County Sheriff’s Department in Belvidere. In 1995, Smith began working for the City of Genoa as a patrol

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officer, and like his father before him, he served as a Sergeant in the department for many years before eventually being promoted to Chief. He was appointed Acting Chief in April, 2015 after the announcement of Ty Lynch’s retirement. And on September 1, 2015, the City Council unanimously approved the appointment of Smith as the new Chief of Police. Mayor Vicary noted Smith’s dedicated service to the area, his outstanding reputation in the community, his exceptional character traits, and his impressive accomplishments as Acting Chief as evidence that they found the right man for the job. Chief Smith has had extensive education and training to prepare him for this important position. He has earned an Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Kishwaukee College, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services and Master’s Degree in Organization Leadership from Judson University. He has also completed Staff and Command classes with the Northwestern University Law and Enforcement Leadership Program, as well as attending the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. “So now I’m getting thrown to the fire and get to actually use some of the stuff I learned,” joked Smith. Since beginning with the Genoa PD, Chief Smith has seen the city

double in size, while still maintaining its small town qualities. “A lot of people say nothing happens in a small town, but there’s quite a bit that happens here,” said Smith. “It’s not Chicago crime, but we do have a lot more hands-on community assistance. We’re able to provide a better service.” He views the citizens in town as customers and said they strive to go beyond the minimal action required when responding to a call. “We’ll follow up with you, and if you need something, we’re here. You won’t get that in a big city. You might get a cop to come to your house and you might not, because they’re busy. We’re busy, but we’re not that busy where we can’t provide the extra service,” said Smith. One of the reasons that Bill Lloyd, owner of Lloyd Landscaping and Old Barn Salvage, chose to locate his business in Genoa was that it seemed like a safe, friendly town. And he attributes part of that to the police department. “The police have a lot to do with that,” said Lloyd. “They’ve been great since we’ve been here. They’re here to serve and protect, but they’re also like friends and family. It makes for a nice community. I’m excited for [Chief Smith]; I’m sure he’s going to do a great job.” As the Chief, Robert Smith’s primary responsibilities involve the overall functions of the police department: scheduling, setting budgets, attending community events, making sure officers have the equipment they need, and approving the reports and making sure things are getting followed up on. He says that the most challenging part of his new job is time management, as he tries to balance all of his responsibilities. Being more of a hands-on person, he likes to take the calls and do things by himself, but now he has to give up some of that to others, or else he won’t get everything done that he needs to. “I make a lot of lists and I try to get things done off my lists, but there are always new things coming in every day that I didn’t plan for,” said Smith. “I came in today and there were three calls [right away]. I haven’t even been to my office, yet. I still have to do payroll. I still have to pay some bills. And I still manage the dog.” The dog is Smith’s partner, a black German Shepherd K-9 officer named Kane. Managing Kane is a big part of his duties. He was responsible for bringing the K-9 unit back after the previous dog’s owner left the department, and the city has invested a lot of resources to acquire, train, and care for Kane, who is a valuable asset to the community. Another important part of Smith’s job is attending to the local businesses. Officers patrol up and down the sidewalks throughout the day, meet with business owners and update their key holder information, so if something happens to their business they know who to call. Police officers also try to be present at community events, such as the ones the Chamber of Commerce sponsors downtown. And if a new business opens, the police department will be there for the ribbon cutting ceremony. “It’s basically hand-in-hand,” said Smith. “If they see me more, they’ll feel I’m more approachable where they can tell me, ‘Hey, we need this fixed,’ or ‘How about putting an extra patrol over here?’” Chief Smith also works with the City Council to change ordinances,

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if necessary, to help businesses on issues such as parking problems or public safety. “I compare my job to almost like a lawmaker, where I suggest changes in the city code,” said Smith. In fact, he recently helped changed a city code that required bartenders to get fingerprinted and pay a fee to the city for screening before they could be hired. The new rule leaves the background checks to the establishments themselves and requires only that bartenders be BASSETT certified, as required by the state. Local tavern and restaurant owners were extremely appreciative of this change. “I had asked about the reasoning for this requirement, given that the ordinance did not prohibit anyone with a record from being a bartender, only that they submit to a background check,” said Andrew Nordman, Owner of Cademon Brewing Co. “[Chief Smith] looked into the history of it, found no justification for its continued existence, and pushed to have the ordinance changed. It is a major improvement for us at Cademon, as it lowers the burden of onboarding new employees as we expand our operations in 2016.” Ted Aretos, owner of the Corner Grill on Main, said that the old rule was especially hard on small businesses that only employed one of two bartenders. If a bartender was terminated or quit, the owner would have to tend bar himself while new prospective bartenders were background checked and screened. “This rule was more stringent than many other towns that are even larger than Genoa, which slowed down the process of hiring and training bartenders,” said Aretos. Some of Chief Smith’s other accomplishments since taking over in April include updating the city’s Emergency Operations Manual, hiring additional part-time officers, acquiring squad car computers and video cameras, restoring in-house breathalyzer capabilities, and changing the vicious dog ordinance and part-time police standards ordinance. In the near future, Smith plans to update their accreditation process to better meet the needs and resources of the department. They are also looking at updating their violation adjudication process for parking tickets, by working with a collection agency to recoup some old fines in a more time and cost effective manner. Other short-term plans include updating the decals on the police cars to reflect the new city logo, establishing a chaplain program, specifically for death notifications, and setting up an officer reading program at the elementary schools. One of the biggest challenges Chief Smith faces in the future is that most of the officers in the department are older and will be leaving over the next 5-10 years, so he’ll eventually have to manage a brand-new department. He hopes to build up other people so that when he leaves there will be somebody in the department who can take his spot. He isn’t planning on that being any time soon, however. Smith said that he gets along well with the city officials, the mayor, the aldermen and administrators, and that “as long as our relationship is well, I will be here.” He added, “I’ve been here twenty years and I don’t expect to go anywhere for a while.”

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3 Roses Realty, Inc. 220 Stearn Dr. • Genoa 690-2843 • 3rosesrealty.com

Cademon Brewing Co., Inc. 217 W Main St • Genoa 827-6145 • cademon.com

Alan Browne Chevrolet 700 Pearson Dr. • Genoa 784-2511 • mychevy.biz

Century 21 New Heritage II 120 W. Oak Knoll Dr. • Hampshire 683-2000 • newheritage.com

All Natural Chiropractic 405 W. Main St. • Genoa 784-4455

City of Genoa 333 E. First St. • Genoa 784-2327 • genoa-il.com

Amato & Sheen 310 E. State St., Unit 4 • Sycamore 895-2100 amatoforstatesattorney.com

CMJ Technologies 114 S. California St. • Sycamore 899-2468 • cmjtech.net

American Family Insurance 119 W. Main St. • Genoa 784-5554 Assured Appliance And Heating & Air 121 N. Emmett • Genoa (847) 293-0047 assuredapplianceandhvac.com Banner Up Signs 1170 E. State St. • Sycamore 899-9211 • bannerupsigns.com Barnaby Printing Services 1620 DeKalb Ave. • Sycamore 895-6555 Becker Law Office 213 W. Main St. • Genoa 784-2695 Benzinger Printing 673 Park Ave. • Genoa 784-6560 • benzinger.com Beth Fowler School Of Dance 303 W. Main St. • Genoa 784-5658 bethfowlerschoolofdance.com Bill Lloyd Landscaping and Garden Center 662 Park Ave • Genoa (779) 382-0402 lloydlandscaping.com BonTer Solutions 314 Jake Lane • Hampshire Book of Numbers 112 N. Emmett St., Ste. A • Genoa 784-3410 • bookofnumbers.net Brian Bemis 1875 DeKalb Ave. • Sycamore 895-8105 • brianbemis.com

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DeKalb County Community Foundation 475 DeKalb Ave. • Sycamore 748-5383 • dekalbccf.org

Family Service Agency of DeKalb County, Inc. 14 Health Services Dr. • DeKalb 758-8616 • fsadekalbcounty.org

DeKalb County Community Gardens 303 Birchwood Ln. • DeKalb 793-0950 • dekalbgardens.org

Floor to Ceiling 2439 Bethany Rd. • Sycamore 756-8575 • floortoceiling.com

DeKalb County EDC 421 N. California St., Suite 200 Sycamore 895-2711 • dcedc.org DeKalb County Hospice 2727 Sycamore Rd. • DeKalb 756-3000 DeKalb County Veterns Assistance Commission 2500 N. Annie Glidden Rd., Ste. A DeKalb 756-8129 DeKalb Illinois Worknet Center 650 N. Peace Rd., Ste. B • DeKalb 901-0177 • illinoisworknet.com DNA Communications, Inc. 601 1st Ave. • Rochelle 562-4290 • dnacom.com Edward Jones Financial Advisor: Josh Kubiak 599 Pearson Dr., Ste. 2 • Genoa 784-3734 • edwardjones.com

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Genoa Community Women’s Club 318 S. Genoa St. • Genoa 761-0515

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Genoa Fitness Center 333 E. First St. • Genoa 784-3488 • genoaparks.org

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Genoa Smiles 619 E. Main St. • Genoa 784-5166

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Genoa Veterans Home Corp. 311 S. Washington St. • Genoa 784-5967 • genoavetshome.us

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Kishwaukee Education Consortium 21255 Malta Rd. • Malta 825-2000 • kecprograms.com

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Kishwaukee Valley Heritage Society 622 Park Ave • Genoa 784-5559 dekalb.illinoisgenweb.org/kishvalhistsoc

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Kishwaukee Valley Wanderers 403 Holly Ln. • Genoa 761-4660

Prairie State Winery 202 W. Main St. • Genoa 784-4540 • prairiestatewinery.com

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Kingston Mutual Insurance Company 420 W. Main St. • Genoa 784-5657

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Lynn’s Carpet Cleaning, Inc. P.O. Box 271 • Genoa 784-3385 • lynnscarpetcleaning.com Midwest Tents & Events 328 Dietz Ave., Ste. A • DeKalb 877-388-8368 • rentmidwesttents.com Morning Star Media 240 Edwards St. • Sycamore 899-0150 morningstarmediagroup.com NB&T 601 Pearson Dr. • Genoa 895-2125 • banknbt.com

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Slater-Butala Funeral Home 132 W. Main • Genoa 784-5191 butalafuneralhomes.com Slingerland & Clark, P.C. 114 W. State St. • Sycamore 895-5141 • slingerlandandclark.com Small Business Development Ctr @ WCC 18 S. River St., Rm. 268 • Aurora (630) 906-4143 • waubonsee.edu/sbdc St. Catherine’s Catholic Church 340 S. Stott St. • Genoa 784-2355 St. Mary’s Catholic School 222 Waterman St. • Sycamore 895-5215 • stmarysycamore.org State Representative Robert Pritchard 2600 DeKalb Ave. • Sycamore 748-3494 • pritchardstaterep.com

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Sycamore Integrated Health 920 W. Prairie Dr. Ste. J. • Sycamore 895-3354 sycamoreintegratedhealth.com

Walcamp Outdoor Ministeries 32653 Five Points Rd. • Kingston 784-5141 • walcamp.org

Sycamore Precision Machine 334 E. First St. • Genoa 784-5151 • sycamoreprecision.com Sylvan Learning Center 407 S. Sycamore St. Genoa 899-8909 • sylvanlearning.com T. Allen & Associates, LLC 502 E. Main St. • Genoa 784-6547 • tallencpa.com The Gracie Center P.O. Box 277 • Kingston 345-1924 • thegraciecenter.org

Walnut Street Daycare Center 201 Walnut St. • Genoa 784-2223 • walnutstreetdaycare.com

Alan Browne Chevrolet......................................... 24 Banner Up Signs................................................... 11 Blake Oil.................................................................. 9 Brian Bemis........................................................... 19 C21 New Heritage.................................................. 6 David Gingerich - Country Companies................ 19 Family Service Agency.......................................... 19

White Pony Woodworks 238 Herbert Rd. • Kingston (847) 204-1346

Genoa Smiles.......................................................... 9

Wild Harvest Family Resturant 682 Park Ave. • Genoa (779) 382-0375

Kingston Mutual...................................................... 9

Willard Aves Post 1010 American Legion 213 E. Locust St. • DeKalb 784-6688

The Pampered Chef 220 Koch Dr. • Genoa 784-4051 pamperedchef.biz/deeguzy

WLBKFM98.9/ AM1360,WSQRFM93.5/AM1180 2410 Sycamore Rd. • DeKalb 748-1000 • wlbkradio.com

Theisen Roofing 1122 Pleasant St. • DeKalb 758-8998 • theisenroofing.com

WOW! 14173 Birch Rd. • Genoa 784-3645

Thirty-One Gifts 1012 Persimmon Dr. • Genoa (847) 815-1553 mythirtyone.com/kristidunn

Younique by Danielle 304 W. Hill St., Apt. 3A • Genoa 988-9434 • epiclashesbydanielle.com

3 Roses Realty....................................................... 11

Waubonsee Community College Route 47 at Waubonsee Dr. Sugar Grove • (630) 466-7900

The Oak Club of Genoa 11770 Ellwood Greens Rd. • Genoa 784-5678 • oakclubgenoa.com

Tobinson Ace Hardware 361 Sycamore Rd. • Genoa 784-6004 • acehardware.com

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Your Graphix, INC 222 N. State St. • Genoa 762-1837 • your-graphix.com

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Genoa Pharmacy..................................................... 6

Heartland Bank..................................................... 18

Kishwaukee College............................................. 14 Kishwaukee Hospital............................................... 2 NAPA..................................................................... 14 NB&T..................................................................... 19 Northern Rehab...................................................... 6 ReMax Classic....................................................... 18 Resource Bank...................................................... 23 Seyller’s Inc............................................................ 14 Shaw Media.......................................................... 18 State Farm - Jack Godde...................................... 18 Tobinson Ace........................................................ 18 Trinity Lutheran Church........................................... 6

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