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cense, is Suspended or Revoked

March 31

Loves Park

April 5

8:47 a.m., N. Second St./Sheridan Dr., Loves Park, Jeffery Johnston, 55, charged with Driving While Driver’s License, Permit, or Privilege to Operate Motor Vehicle is Suspended or Revoked, Operation of Uninsured Motor Vehicle, Operation of Motor Vehicle When Registration Suspended for Noninsurance

7:30 p.m. Harlem Road, Loves Park, Rayford Newble, 41, charged with Criminal Trespass to Real Property

3:48 p.m., Auburn St./N Court St., Rockford, Wesley Hall, 36, Warrant Service

11:30 p.m., E. Riverside Blvd./Sage Dr., Loves Park, Cassandra Jensen, 31, Warrant Service

10:58 p.m., N Alpine Road, Loves Park, Debra Devine, 37, charged with DUI - Under the Influence of Drugs or Combination of Drugs

11:30 p.m., E. Riverside Blvd./Sage Dr., Loves Park, Javariese Gary-Knight, 27, charged with Failure to Secure Child Under 8 Years in Appropriate Child Restraint System, Possession Adult Use Cannabis In Passenger Area of Motor Vehicle - Driver, Driving While Driver’s License, is Suspended or Revoked, Other moving violations, Operation of Uninsured Motor Vehicle

9:15 p.m., E Riverside Blvd./Browns Pkwy., Loves Park, Jaime Argiewicz, 34, Possession Adult Use Cannabis In Passenger Area of Motor Vehicle - Driver, Speeding - Over Statutory Limit, Driving While Driver’s License, is Suspended or Revoked April 4

2:20 p.m., Windsor Road/N. First St., Loves Park, Billy Crawford, charged with Operation of Uninsured Motor Vehicle, Other equipment violations, Driving While Driver’s License, Permit, or Privilege to Operate Motor Vehicle is Suspended or Revoked, Possession Adult Use Cannabis in Motor Vehicle Outside Approved Container - Driver

11 p.m., W. Riverside Blvd., Rockford, Richard Wynne, 31, charged with Possession Adult Use Cannabis In Passenger Area of Motor Vehicle - Driver , Speeding

April 3

2 a.m., E Riverside Blvd./N Second St., Loves Park, Willie Penix, 31, charged with Possession Adult Use Cannabis in Motor Vehicle Outside Approved ContainerPassenger Trent Lane, Loves Park, Robert Walton, 61, Warrant Service

2 a.m. E Riverside Blvd./N. Second St.,Loves Park, Sincer Burns, 19, charged with Other equipment violations, Registration/Title violation, Possession Adult Use Cannabis In Passenger Area of Motor Vehicle - Driver

April 1

3:15 p.m., N. Second St., Loves Park, Tony Murphy, 60, Contempt of Court/Civil Judgment - FTA - Failure to Appear Warrant

4:30 p.m., Pennsylvania Ave./East Dr., Loves Park, Shaunia Jones, 24, charged with Traffic signal violation, Driving While Driver’s Li-

Back in the saddle

Brush up on farm and rural safety

Something Green

2:12 p.m., Forest Grove St., Loves Park, Abbigail Davisson, 28, charged with Harassment by TelephoneWith the Intent to Threaten Any person at Called Number :

March 30

Luke Sigley, 27, 6:30 a.m., Renn Hart Hills Road, Loves Park, charged with Unlawful Use or Possession of Weapon by Felon or Person in Custody DOC Facility, Reckless Discharge of a Firearm, Firearm Owner’s Identification Card Required

7:50 a.m., Forest Hills Road/Riverside Blvd., Loves Park, Fernando Medrano Banuelos, Jr,, 23, charged with Operation of Motor Vehicle When Registration Suspended for Noninsurance, Operation of Uninsured Motor Vehicle,m Possession of Cannabis - more than 30g but less than 100g Machesney Park

April 8

9:30 a.m., 1515 West Lane Road, Machesney Park, Mason Joseph Crain, 24, charged with Deceptive Practices - Bank-Related Fraud - False Statement, Possession Stolen Fraudulently Obtained Checks

2:45 p.m., West Lane Road/ Mitchell Road, Machesney Park, Andres Eduardo Montano-Plaza, 23, charged with Operating a Motor Vehicle With No Valid License

The rain and warmer weather the last week or two have boosted the greenery around us. The tree buds are bringing forth leaves; grass is growing; mowing has started; and we are starting to see fertilizer and farm equipment on the road. It’s time to brush up on ways to safely share the road this spring as we Start Seeing Farmers again.

Please stay alert, be patient, and when you see farm equipment ahead, slow down. Here are a few safety tips and reminders for both motorists and farmers to help prevent accidents on the roads during planting season:

Motorists:

• Reduce speed when encountering farm equipment on public roads. Flashing amber lights mean “CAUTION”.

• Slow down when you see the Slow-Moving Vehicle (SMV) Emblem – the orange and red reflective triangle warns you that the tractor or anhydrous ammonia tanks travels at a slow rate of speed.

• Keep a safe distance from the farm equipment so the farmer can see you. If you can’t see his mirrors, he can’t see you!

• Pass wide, large farm equipment only if you know conditions are safe and you are sure the farmer will not be making a left-hand turn. Be

cautious when pulling back in.

• It is illegal to pass in a no passing zone or within 100 feet of an intersection, railroad crossing, or bridge.

• Be prepared to yield to wide equipment.

• Always wear a seat belt and heed the road’s speed limit.

• Watch for the farmer’s indication of a turn. Newer equipment has one or more amber lights flashing rapidly to indicate a turn. Older equipment is typically not equipped with turn signals so watch for farmer’s hand signals.

Farmers:

• Plan travel to avoid rush hours, bad weather, the busiest roads, and the time before daylight and after dark.

• Be obvious to motorists by proper use of reflective SMV emblems on any implement of husbandry operated on public roadways. It is the law!

• Use reflective marking tape and reflectors on the

extremities of equipment.

• Turn on hazard lights mounted on farm equipment and turn off fieldwork lights for all roadway travel.

• Install mirrors that are wide enough for you to see what is following you.

• Always use turn signals to indicate plans to turn into fields or driveways.

• Be aware of traffic –oncoming, in front of you, and following behind you.

• If road and shoulder conditions are safe, pull over temporarily to allow traffic to pass.

• Slow down on turns and curves. Check the traffic behind you.

• Minimize the width of equipment as much as possible. You may not interfere with traffic in the adjoining lane.

• When practical, truck larger equipment to the next location.

Grain Bin Safety Stop Signs

Winnebago-Boone Farm Bureau is offering free Grain Bin Safety Stop Signs for Winnebago-Boone Farm Bureau members. The signs have the following message: “Always lockout all moving equipment

Always guard or cover all

floor openings

Never work alone in a bin

Always wear a harness and lifeline

Do Not ‘walk down the grain’

Don’t become a statistic!”

Tag Out for Safety Tag Out for Safety packets are also available at the Winnebago-Boone Farm Bureau office. These packets are available to farmers for use with grain bins, around augers and other machinery.

Tag Out protects a worker by warning others not to turn on equipment while working inside bins, servicing augers or other machinery. It is a minimal safety procedure for farmers who are not subject to OSHA regulations.

The best practice is to Lock Out and Tag Out equipment. Tag Out works by disconnecting all energy sources and tagging the off position by the person working on the equipment. The tag warns others to prevent them from turning on equipment. No one else can remove the tag.

Please contact the office at 815-962-0654 if you would like Grain Bin Stop Signs or Tag Out Kits.

Wishing everyone a safe planting season!

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Slices of life

Yesterday the TV was playing in the background and I thought I heard Homer Simpson say one of what I thought was the most prolific quotes of all time.

“Why can’t all hills go down?”

This gave me cause to pause. Homer certainly has a point. Why do hills have to go up? Doesn’t that just make things harder?

I smile writing this.

Why can’t all hills go down is the question, and a good one at that.

And here is the truth. (Are you ready, Homer?)

All hills do go down. On both sides. Every day. 24/7. All hills go down. It just depends on your perspective on the matter. Or, perhaps better put, where you are coming from - or going to.

If you are at the top of the hill, no matter which way

you look, your hill gestures downward. If you are at the bottom of the hill, the opposite is true. For most of life, we go up and we go down in equal increments. That’s physics - and gravity. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Physically, yes. Mentally, no.

All hills go down

and ups.

All hills go down. But they also go up. The same hill may be headed both ways at any given day or moment, depending on who is climbing or descending. This is because the hills themselves don’t change. Read that again. The. Hills. Don’t. Change. We do.

We change. Our perspective changes. It’s up to us. And only us.

A glass that is half full or half empty. Skies mostly blue or partially cloudy. Life starting at 40 or just

Because climbing a hill can be just as easy and rewarding as descending one. Going up can be equally as beneficial as sliding down.

It’s all how you see it.

It’s all how you experience it. Ups and downs. Downs

beginning.

Hills going up or down. Take your pick, because it is your choice. It’s a choice each of us makes. Every day: to put one foot in front of the other and believe we are moving down the hill - whether gravity is against us or not. Belief in where we are going is half the battle.

More than half.

We climb and we descend, and in-between we breathe and grow. We see the sun rise and set, the moon go through her cycles. The world changes and we keep

moving - up and down, down and up. Through it all, we find our truth in what surrounds us. Is the hill leading us upward, or downward? Was today easyor hard? What will tomorrow bring?

How will we choose to perceive that?

Why can’t all hills go down? I guess it’s a rhetorical question because they all do. They already do.

At the start of this column, I posed this question from Homer Simpson. But you know what? I can’t find this particular quote anywhere on

the Internet, so perhaps it’s the Mandela effect, or I made it up, or something even weirder than that.

Either way, having all hills go down is worth a thought - or even two, because if you learn to see life that way, maybe the hills you face will change their slope and their scape.

Thanks, Homer.

Jill Pertler is an awardwinning syndicated columnist, published playwright and author. Don’t miss a slice; follow the Slices of Life page on

Weekly connection

Early spring weather and Palm Sunday

Last month the calendar said that spring had arrived. Indeed, the calendar on the wall and the weather outside do not seem to be in sync as of yet.

Just about the time spring supposedly got here we were blessed with nearly a foot of fresh snow. I even had to climb up on my roof and scrape the fourfoot drifts off so my roof wouldn’t collapse. Then suddenly a few days later our high was 72 degrees and there were reports of tornadoes touching down in the area.

I’ve noticed that the birds have really been singing the last couple of weeks whenever the sun shines

in the morning even if it’s quite chilly. It’s funny in such cold weather to hear the birds chirping and singing like if it is warm springtime.

About a month ago I saw a flock of geese flying north, and I got excited that warm weather was soon behind. Yesterday, I saw a flock of geese heading back south. There seems to be a lot of confusion out there.

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A few years ago, we had a bird clock on the wall that chirped every hour, and sometimes it would chirp very slowly.

It did this whenever the battery ran low. It was strange how the cat used to go walking by the clock and just stop and stare when it started to chirp in this way.

Old Fluffers couldn’t understand what was going on with the slow southern drawl of the bird. It was pretty funny.

Holy Week has come and gone, and I wish there was a way to make the Resurrection season last longer.

Actually, I guess there is. That’s the reason we

celebrate communion the first Sunday of each month.

In the most humble way, Jesus, the Son of God, stepped out of the glory of heaven and came to earth to be born as an infant, not in a king’s castle like He deserved, but in a stable. That happened of course, at Christmas.

Jesus never owned anything on this earth, and he never even traveled more than fifty miles from his home town. He should have been treated better than all the Presidents, Kings, Popes, Prime Ministers, rock stars or even the greatest athletes that ever walked this earth.

Yet the only parade He

ever received was riding into Jerusalem on a donkey the very week He was to die as the sacrifice for our sins.

As He rode into the city, the religious leaders told Jesus to tell the people to stop shouting praises to Him.

Jesus said, if I tell them to be quiet then the rocks and stones will cry out praises. Jesus knew He was the Messiah of God, the only begotten Son of God, who was about to die for the sins of all who believe.

He knew He was God, yet He was treated like a criminal, disrespected, crucified, and murdered.

Praise God that wasn’t the end of the story. He died, but He rose from the dead on Resurrection morning, and He lives today seated at the right hand of God the Father in heaven.

By gaining victory over sin and death, He has provided salvation for all who believe. What a Savior!

Until next week, God bless.

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Boats

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Campers and RVs

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Farm Machinery

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