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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12, 2018
Broncos ready for second-third push A favorable match-up on the road waits for the Orangeville Broncos this Friday night and a possible win in conference action could go a long way in helping to determine which team will climb out of the pack in the Upstate race. Even though the trip well south to face the Ashton-Franklin Center Raiders could be a bit time-consuming, Broncos faithful won’t mind taking the trip themselves, to provide the extra boost. Orangeville has a statistically-winnable game in front of them and the Broncos are in the chase for the Upstate Crown. A continued path of success could be found, leading to next week’s important Upstate-implicating battle. The Raiders have struggled to find offense in Upstate play this season and are coming off a nearly “running clock” loss to front-running Aquin in the week three game, 41-6. AFC is 0-3 this season and has given up, on average, over 37 points a night. Aquin moved in front in the Upstate with its win. Milledgeville, which toppled Stockton in its headto-head match-up last Friday night, followed suit. The Broncos will get their chance to take down the Missiles next week, and they will be home when they get that shot to make it happen. A win this Friday night over AFC paired with a possible knockdown of Milledgeville in the week five game would put Orangeville in a very strong position to make the playoffs and possibly maintain its challenge for the NUIC-Title, by the time playoff brackets are being considered. The Broncos get their chance to reign in the Aquin Bulldogs as the second-third of the season comes to a close. Freeport Aquin will be in Orangeville to do battle on Friday,
Sept. 29. The Bulldogs could be looking at securing their own post-season consideration, by the time they get to Orangeville for the NUIC showdown in the week six game. The season closes for Orangeville with strong post-season prep-exams. They will travel to East Dubuque in the week eight game before setting their sites on Stockton in the regular season finale on Friday, Oct. 19. The Lady Broncos have been riding their own streak of success recently. They have won three of their past four head-to-head matches. 2-1 wins over River Ridge and Scales Mound preceded the only loss Orangeville has faced since the final week of August. In the Sept. 4 meeting with the State-polished Durand Lady Bulldogs, the 2017 State-finalists came away with the 2-0 decision. Orangeville followed up its only loss since a tournament match against Port Byron Riverdale in its own Volleyball Invitational, with a 2-1 win over rival Pecatonica. The host Lady Indians fell in the evening’s opener 25-20 but managed to come back to win game two by two, to move back to .500, with the 25-23 tally. Orangeville settled in, passed clean and set down points on its way to the 25-18 clincher and the 2-1 final in game three. This week began with NUIC face-offs with Milledgeville in Orangeville on Monday. On Tuesday the Broncos traveled south to face Freeport Aquin and on Wednesday, Sept. 13, the short road trip ends with a scheduled meeting with Dakota. The Lady Broncos get another shot at Durand next week when they stop home for a Sept. 19 meeting, before heading back out for games at East Dubuque and Forreston to help wind-down September play. Pecatonica visits for Homecoming on Wednesday, Sept 26.
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Commercial mural artist Nora Balayti is shown with the completed mural featuring the original owners of Lena Maid Meats, Wieland and Esther Kayser.
History featured in Lena Maid Meats mural When Laverne and Marcia Pax, owners of AJ’s Lena Maid Meats in Lena, finished re-painting their business building last summer, they took a long look and decided a 37 by 17-foot wall on the building’s north side needed something to break up the space. Enter Nora Balayti, a Dixon area commercial mural artist. After discussing a mural project with the Paxes, Balayti finished painting a beautiful mural on the building last week. Using the suggestions of Marcia and Laverne, she managed to blend the historical significance of the building with its continuous
place as one of the anchors of Lena’s business district. The Paxes provided Nora with a newspaper clipping photo of the original owners of Lena Maid Meats, Wieland and Esther Kayser, posing with a meat wagon during a parade in the late 1980s. That photo was replicated on the wall framed by a meat cleaver. “We wanted to keep the history of the building in place,” Marcia explained, “and we found the picture of Willie and Esther, so that history is featured on the wall.” The original Lena Maid Meats opened in 1952.
Nora Balayti is a Dixon High School graduate, who spent the last seven years doing work commercially in Chicago. She is proud of a human interest feature about her produced by WGN TV. Much of her work is done free hand, but she struggled a bit recently trying to tape a stencil onto the wall during windy conditions. She carefully selected color schemes and print fonts for visibility and aesthetics. The new mural slowed traffic as people drove by following Saturday’s fall festival parade. Several drivers stopped to compliment the Dixon artist on her work.
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