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🌱 Sauk Valley enrollment grows as Illinois community colleges lose students

Dixon, Illinois Patch AM: a 4 min read

Cheers Dixon! We’re back, helping you stay up to date with what’s happening. Let's take on the day together! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Sauk Valley enrollment grows as Illinois community colleges lose students
  • A look at Dixon's firefighter pensions and the fund behind them
  • Meet the Dixon teachers keeping Tools for School going year-round

Also on today's calendar: Rendezvous Arts Presents: ~Nois Quartet & Diana Leviton Gondek and 6 more events.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Clouds and sun, a few showers, with a high of 58 and low of 37 degrees.
  • Thursday: Breezy and cooler, temps: high: 44, low: 30.
  • Friday: Breezy in the morning, with a high of 43 and low of 26 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Some Illinois community colleges are losing students. Others are bucking the trend (shawlocal.com) — Sauk Valley Community College in Dixon posted a 6.7% enrollment increase this fall, even as Illinois community colleges overall lost students. President Jon Mandrell credits much of the growth to dual-credit high school classes, which account for a quarter of enrollment, along with career and technical education programs.
   

2. Dixon firefighters retirees paid $1.9 million into their pension fund and have collected an estimated $14.2 million (nwillinoisnews.com) — Dixon's firefighters pension fund was 97.9% funded at its latest state valuation, with $475,918 in promised benefits not covered by assets. A news outlet's analysis estimates 22 retirees collected $14.2 million through April 2025 after contributing $1.9 million during their careers, while noting its calculation can overstate some retirees' payments.
   

3. Dixon's Tools for School unpacks hope for children (shawlocal.com) — Dixon's Tools for School helps students get free backpacks and supplies, with support continuing beyond its annual giveaway when needs arise during the school year. Three volunteer teachers lead the program, which distributed 564 bags in August and brought together services including haircuts, shoes and health care.
   

4. Obituary-Betty A. Summers (theradar.online) — Betty A. Summers, a member of Grace Point Church in Dixon, is remembered for her love of family outings, camping and shopping. She married Richard Summers in Dixon in 1970 and leaves a large family, including two children in Dixon and 99 grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Wednesday November 11
  • 6th Boys Basketball vs Morrison
    Rock Falls Middle School, 1701 12th Ave, Rock Falls
    4:00 pm
    • Thursday November 12
  • 6th Boys Basketball vs Sauk Valley
    Rock Falls Middle School, 1701 12th Ave, Rock Falls
    4:00 pm
    • Saturday November 14
  • ZOWA Live: Tough Guys ft Jim Duggan →
    The Classroom Bar & Lounge at Parties on Pope, 207 Pope Street, Nelson
    4:00 pm

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  • Sauk Valley Community College posted a job opening for Adjunct Faculty - Human Anatomy and Physiology in Dixon. Apply here.
  • TreeHouse Foods, Inc. posted a job opening for Maintenance Supervisor in Dixon. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Dixon here.

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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