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2 Stateline News Sunday, July 27, 2008
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QUOTING
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The best way to ...
resolve their civil war is
to immediately begin to
remove our combat
troops. Not in six
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— Barack Obama
September 2007
STATELINE
BIRTHS
Girl, July 12, to Devyn Bentley
of Beloit
Boy, July 18, to Melissa
Gamez of Beloit
Girl, July 19, to Bob and
Shanda Moss of South Beloit
Girl, July 21, to Mynaisha
Cooper of Beloit
Boy, July 21, to Amy Jo and
Thomas Richter of Beloit
Girl, July 22, to Cesar and
Maria Avitia of Beloit
Girl, July 22, to Jade Gowman
and Dannie House of Beloit
Boy, July 22, to Brittney
Larson of Beloit
Boy, July 22, to Amy Tracy of
Beloit
STATELINE
DEATHS
July 15, Marcia Foat, 75, of
Beloit
July 16, Merilyn Hoffman, 68,
of Beloit
July 16, Otis Garrett, 84, of
South Beloit
July 16, Dawn Marie Blair, 58,
of Roscoe
July 17, Peter Michael
Ciaramita, 75, of Beloit
July 17, Harold W. Alcorn, 81,
of Rockton
July 17, Pauline M. Bondick,
90, of Roscoe
July 17, Dennis A. Freeman,
61, of Roscoe
July 18, Robert Thomas
Shinabarger, 79, of Beloit
July 19, Linda M. Erickson, 65,
of Machesney Park
July 20, Mark A. Bauer, 45, of
Beloit
July 20, Harriet June
Cushman, 77, of Beloit
July 22, Jeannette Merlet, 95,
of Beloit
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clean and professional their
areas are.
“Judges are looking to see if
kids are there and attentive and
personable, and that the animals
are clean and presentable,”
said Laura Jenson, the fair’s
beef project superintendent.
“Judges usually come three (to)
four times a day to check on
things.”
First-time exhibitor Brenna
Steed knew what was required
of her before she even decided to
enter her sheep.
“My friends showed sheep,
and it looked really fun,” said
the 10-year-old La Prairie 4-
H’er. “It’s been a really good
experience.”
Many times, exhibitors lean
on family members to help them
get through fair week.
“I’m the guy who lifts the
bales of hay and buckets of
water,” said Bill Conover of
Beloit, whose daughter Emma
Conover-Crockett showed a goat.
Emma, 13, a fourth-year
Newark-Beloit 4-H’er who also
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tion and remodeling portion just
started this week.”
After much planning, workers
broke ground on the $8 million
project July 9. The city has committed
$7.7 million toward construction
costs; the library plans
to raise an additional $1.8 million.
The city also began construction
in early July on Eclipse
Boulevard, which, according to
Lennex, will provide “much better
access for the public to that area.”
The new road will run between
Riverside Drive and Park Avenue
on the top of the bluff between
ABC Supply Co. and the Eclipse
Center.
“It was a year of solid work and
detail,” Beloit Public Library
Director Dan Zack said of project
planning. “Right now, they’re in a
demolition phase. They’re deconstructing
before they start construction.
The building is
stripped down inside, and then
they’re off to a good start.”
The city received the building
in a trade with Beloit Properties
Inc., which is affiliated with
Hendricks Development Group.
“We negotiated a swap with the
city of Beloit,” said Tim Weeden,
director of government affairs for
HDG, a subsidiary of ABC Supply
Co.
The city received a new site for
its library, while Beloit Properties
gets $200,000 and the old library
at 409 Pleasant St. downtown
(see related story).
Zack, who took over as library
director in January 2007, is
familiar with such projects, having
overseen a similar relocation
in Elgin, Ill.
“It makes it easier because you
know what to expect,” he said.
One thing library staff and
patrons will enjoy at the new
location is space, Zack added.
“We’re essentially doubling our
effective space,” he said. “It’s really
been a crunch trying to work
in the office and the work rooms
(in the current library).”
The current library uses 24,000
square feet, while the new facility
will occupy 54,000 square feet,
FOR THE RECORD
SARAH ZELLER/STAFF
Jocelyn Laux, 3, of Brodhead, steers a red convertible while riding a carnival ride Tuesday at the Rock County
4-H Fair in Janesville.
is involved in the clothing, knitting
and dog projects, has the
routine down pat.
“It was hard to figure everything
out at first, because everyone
expects you to know everything,
but I’ve gotten used to it,”
she said. “We have to be here a
lot because there are only three
from (Newark-Beloit 4-H) showing
goats.”
Demrow rotates from barn to
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Hendricks and her husband, the late Ken
Hendricks, who founded ABC Supply Co. and
served as a Beloit College trustee. “They’ve
always felt it was an import piece of the fabric
of the community.”
The college has a general idea of how the
building will be used, though a spokesman said
plans are not final.
“It will be a center for music and dance education
programs,” said Ron Nief, the college’s
director of public affairs. “In addition, it will
have facilities for our museums for outreach into
the community.”
Nief said the building would contain dance
and music studios, and possibly dance performance
areas. A symphony-style concert hall is not
with room to expand.
“The space is there to expand,
eventually,” Zack said. “(It’s) a
huge benefit.”
While that does not mean the
library will be able to update and
expand its collections immediately,
he hopes that, with additional
space, funding will become available.
“Now we have the room; next,
we need the budget,” Zack said,
adding that the library’s collection
is not keeping up with state
standards.
The library will be able to
expand its offerings, however,
with nearly twice as many
Internet-connected computer stations,
a quiet reading room for
periodicals, a 200-seat meeting
room and a cafe area with tables
and vending machines.
“It’ll have a separate children’s
program room,” Zack said, as well
as a children’s garden and “a
young adult area, which we’ve
never had before.”
The library’s 45 employees are
excited about the new facility.
“Everybody’s anxious to get in
this new library and take a look,”
Zack said.
Meanwhile, he is working to
finalize plans for the interior of
the building with the Milwaukee
firm Engberg Anderson. The city
will receive bids for furniture and
interior furnishings early this
fall.
Zack expects the project to be
barn to care for her animals,
and spends most of her time in
the beef barn to make sure her
steer has enough water.
“Chores don’t really stop,
because they need a lot of water
all day,” she said. “Last year it
was hot, so they drank a lot of
water.”
Conover said the fair teaches
his daughter responsibility.
“The best part for me is
in the works.
One thing that is certain,
Weeden said, is that parking
around the building will be
updated.
“We intend to do some
things with the parking lot
that will make it more useable,”
he said.
completed on schedule in late
March or early April.
“Everything seems to be going
very smoothly, and we’re still on
target, we think … we’re planning
on opening in April of next
year,” Zack said.
Once construction is complete,
the library will close temporarily
in order to relocate.
“We’re estimating (we’ll be
closed) two weeks,” Zack said.
City officials, meanwhile, are
looking forward to the finished
watching my kids interact with
their animals and show what
they’ve learned,” he said. “There
are a lot of these skilled, competent
young people taking care of
these complex tasks.”
Demrow wouldn’t trade the
experience for anything.
“Sometimes at the end of the
week, we wonder why we do it,”
she said. “But in the end, we’re
always glad we did.”
D. H ENDRICKS
The company also will make updates to the
building itself before turning it over to the college,
hopefully in time for the 2010 spring
semester.
“It’s pretty clear that nothing will happen to
the exterior, but the interior will need some renovations,”
Weeden said. “It’s a great, old building,
and it can be very useful.”
Nief agreed.
“We’re creating a state-of-the-art space,” he
said. “It’s going to be an extraordinary place for
the community to use.”
product.
“We’re certainly very excited
about it,” City Manager Larry
Arft said, adding the new facility
will “serve the community very
well for decades to come.”
Zack agreed.
“The building’s going to work
well from day one, and the building’s
going to last for decades,” he
said. “I think people are going to
be pleasantly surprised when
they see this new, modern
library.”
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