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Running on Faith A lot of babies have been kept warm and dry, thanks to a local teen BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN

STERLING – Six years ago, Brigette Vasquez, a Whiteside County Health Department caseworker, drove to the Sandrock family home and picked up donations of a couple bags full of baby clothes, diapers and the like, items that had been organized by a then-9-year-old Faith Sandrock on the family’s dining room table. These days, the family needs a shed on its property to store the baby bounty, and last month, they packed a truck and trailer to the gills and drove donations to the department. It won’t be long and Faith, now 16, will be able to drive donations over herself. She’ll get her driver’s license Wednesday. But she’s been driving an effort to fill one of the county’s biggest needs since founding the Help Keep Babies Warm & Dry program 6 years ago. Donations are accepted year-round at New Life Lutheran Church in Sterling for families in need of baby supplies. Between the Sandrocks, the congregation, community, and a generous donation from Thrivent Financial, the program delivered 14,158 items, nearly 10 times the number Vasquez picked up in 2010. “My faith has grown so much through this,” said Faith, a sophomore at Rock Falls High School. “I see the need, and it inspires me to see the importance of continuing to give.” Faith loves hearing from the health department’s

caseworkers about the smiles – and tears of joy in many cases – on clients’ faces when they receive goods they otherwise couldn’t afford. And while Faith isn’t seeking credit, it warms her heart that Vasquez tells families where the donations came from. What’s less than heartwarming is the fact that the department will likely go through the items in about 5 weeks. “It just makes you want to do more and collect more, because there’s a big need that needs to be filled,” she added. And to think it all started with a Bible lesson. During a children’s sermon, pastor Bill Sullivan picked Faith to come up and gave her $5, telling her to turn it into something bigger by the next week. “She was just a young child when it started,” Sullivan reflected. “And the program has grown along with her faith. It’s been impressive to see the way it’s taken on a life of its own.” The program is one of several at the church, which also has a Giving Tree program that helps families in need and seniors at Christmastime. “This congregation has been amazing,” said Faith’s mom, Kathy, who helms the Giving Tree program. Sullivan said the church has bumped its tithe up from 10 to 15 percent, and that its benevolence giving eclipsed $120,000 this year. He said that half of it will stay in the Sauk Valley. “I think a lot of what we’ve done here developed out of that initiative

that Faith started,” Sullivan said. Thrivent donated $500 toward purchasing items last year. This year, it contributed $550 – $300 toward buying items and $250 toward fundraising. And those adorable fliers you might have seen around town? Visual Imaging in Fulton designed them, and donated its services. Faith plays volleyball, basketball and softball, is a member of the youth group and the sophomore class president on the Student Council. Oh, and she and a couple of classmates helped start up the school’s new Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter. “I love being busy, and I think I get it from him,” Faith said, pointing to her father, Gary. “That’s very gratifying, and I’m very proud of her,” he said. And for those with the desire to follow her lead? “Just go for it,” Faith said. “You’re not going to get turned down, if you’re trying to do a good thing.”

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Since its inception 6 years ago, here’s how many items the Help Keep Babies Warm & Dry progam has collected, purchased and delivered to the Whiteside County Health Department: 2010...................1,474 2011...................1,708 2012...................2,687 2013...................4,835 2014* ...............12,609 2015.................14,158 * – First year Thrivent Financial donated funds

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MORRISON – In an acknowledgement of the area’s ongoing, and growing, heroin epidemic, several Whiteside County law enforcement agencies are considering getting on board Dixon/Lee County’s Safe Passage program. In the next few weeks, police agencies in Whiteside and Lee counties will attend a Law Enforcement Opioid Summit to brainstorm ways to attack the supply side of the drug problem, and to collaborate on ideas to ramp up enforcement, six agencies said in a news release late Tuesday afternoon. An exact date has not yet been set for the conference, but part of the conversation there will be about bringing the Morrison, Rock Falls and Sterling police and the Whiteside County Sheriff’s Department to the Lee County sheriff’s/Dixon Police Department Safe Passage Initiative, established Sept. 1. The program encourages addicts to turn themselves over to police, who then help them get treatment. So far, 30 people have been successfully

placed through the cooperative. “One death is too many, and this trend is deeply disturbing,” Rock Falls Police Chief Tammy Nelson said in the release. “As public safety officials, we have to change the way we look at this epidemic to stop this pattern and save lives.” Four people are believed to have died in the past several weeks as a result of heroin overdoses – three in Whiteside County and one in Lee County, police said in a news release today. In the past 2 years, there have been 26 heroinrelated deaths reported in Whiteside County. “We knew we had to make a change to assist our residents, and today, 3 months into Safe Passage, we are making a difference,” Lee County Sheriff John Simonton said. “We must expand these resources to ... ensure citizens in every community can get the help they need.” Whiteside County Sheriff Kelly Wilhelmi and Sterling Police Chief Ron Potthoff were not available for comment.

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trespassing at the warehouse (an old shoe factory) at 1300 Christiana Terrace Stanley A. around 8 Szydelko p.m. Friday. Szydelko told them he found the juveniles inside. Officers also learned Szydelko entered the building, fired a shot into the air “while in the vicinity of the three juveniles, and threatened the juveniles.” A search of his home and warehouse Monday turned up enough evidence to arrest him, Chief Danny Langloss said, and more charges could be pending.

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OREGON – Tests done on two bullets found in the casket of a 1948 murder victim earlier this year revealed no new information about a decades-old unsolved double homicide. A handgun given to the Ogle County Sheriff’s Department also was tested. On Tuesday, Sheriff Brian VanVickle released the findings of Illinois State Police Crime Lab tests done on a .32 caliber handgun turned over to investigators and on the two .32 caliber bullets found in Stanley Skridla’s casket when his remains were exhumed from Calvary Cemetery, west of Rockford, on May 28. “An analysis of the bullets revealed only one bullet was suitable for comparison, and that bullet was not fired from the submitted .32 caliber handgun,” VanVickle said in a news release. The other was too corroded to test. Skridla’s nephew, Stephan Skridla, 62, Rockford, requested the exhumation in an effort to solve the murders of his uncle, then 28, and his date, Mary Jane Reed, then 17, on a lover’s lane just outside of Oregon. The Ogle County Sheriff’s Office reinvestigated the deaths 10 years ago. Those findings indicated that the possible culprits likely were dead. “We believe all the

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DIXON â€“ The Dixon School Foundation is doing something this year thatâ€™s guaranteed to blow the top off its annual raffle. Organizers are promising a payout of at least $2,500 to a lucky ticketholder in the trivia competitionâ€™s raffle. Thatâ€™s a switch from the usual set-up, when a winner would get half the ticket take. The event is slated for Feb. 6 at Reagan Middle School. Organizers expect at least 20 teams to sign up and hope to raise $10,000 for the foundation. Last year was the highwater mark for the raffle, with $1,166 in tickets sold, meaning a $583 payout. â€œWe thought maybe we could blow the top off this thing with the guarantee,â€? the eventâ€™s founder and organizer, Tom Wadsworth, said. â€œWe wanted to stoke the pot to make sure thereâ€™s a huge take.â€? And when they say they want to stoke the pot, theyâ€™re putting their money where their mouth is. Should ticket sales fall shy of $2,500, the difference will come out of the foundationâ€™s budget. Every dollar beyond $2,500 will benefit the

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