| 15-year-old heads up effort to fight grandma's cancer
There are many ways to fight cancer: drugs, homeopathic medicines, chemotherapy, radiation. It can also be fought with a grandchild's love.Shirley Smalling, 69, got the phone call one year ago this month and the doctor was brief and to the point: You have infiltrating ductal carcinoma - in layman's terms, breast cancer.“That's not the news you want to hear," Smalling said.With heavy hearts, the family gathered at Smalling's Dillard Road farm as usual that Sunday after church for lunch.The weekly gathering has always been a special event for Shirley and Victor Smalling's three children and five grandchildren.“As long as I can remember, it's always been lunch at Grandma's house after church," said Victoria Dickson, the Smallings' 15-year-old granddaughter. “The first word out of everyone's mouth as babies is 'grandma.' "Shirley Smalling has endured months of radiation treatment and is now taking medication to fight the disease.Victoria, always the organizer in the family, has decided to tackle the disease in her own way.“I was sitting in church one Sunday and it just came to me," she said.
Crystal Lake man indicted in fatal punch at bar
A Crystal Lake man has been indicted on first-degree murder and aggravated battery charges after an altercation outside a bar in September turned fatal, authorities said Thursday.
Bail was set at $750,000 for Dustin Goy, 30, of the 1000 block of Barlina Road at a hearing Wednesday in McHenry County Circuit Court, authorities said
Goy is accused of punching Anthony Carlsen, 45, in what witnesses said was an unprovoked attack Sept. 9 outside The Cottage at 6 E. Crystal Lake Ave., said Crystal Lake Deputy Police Chief Dennis Harris. Carlsen, of Crystal Lake, died of his injuries a week after the attack.
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Preserve Redding's small-town scale
These things don't help the local economy but keep everyone living paycheck to paycheck. OK, so the high-rises will only be downtown. How long will that last? The determination of an environment is happening here, folks. Look at Chico's success, without big high-rises. Oh, that's right, they have a state university, something we could have had a few years back. The folks who think we need big buildings need to move to the city. Get out of my town! Valerie Ford Cottonwood Stop the endless big-box sprawl I just read with great horror that tall buildings and more space for big box stores are to be given serious consideration by the Redding Planning Commission. This knowledge was as if being in a nightmare of the most frightening kind. Architecturally, Redding has some exemplary examples of buildings that enhance our local character and many others that just blow aesthetics right out the window.
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