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BELOIT â Beloit residents were urged to get vehicles off the roadways, avoid putting snow in the street and to clear their sidewalks in light of the icy, rainy and snowy winter storm predicted to strike Tuesday afternoon.
Beloit Department of Public Works (DPW) Director Laura Williamson said crews were getting equipment ready and checking to make sure the fleet was ready for the past few days.
Workers began applying a pretreatment on streets Tuesday morning.
The National Weather Service was forecasting 5 to 7 inches of snow and freezing rain Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday morning.
Once the snow hit Tuesday afternoon, crews were going to plow the main roadways to ensure people could get home from work.
But his latest as a fundraiser was not something he ever anticipated being in his job description.
Sommer, who also serves as the Hononegah High School boys bowling coach, dove head-first into the fundraising game when six people were shot, three of them fatally, at Don Carter on Dec. 26.
âThere is no game plan for anything like this,â Sommer said. âWe are just taking this thing hour-by-hour and doing everything we can to rally behind the families of the victims. We have two really outstanding options for those that are looking to help out.â
On Monday, Sommer started a GoFundMe account entitled âDon Carter Lanes Shooting Victims & Families Ofâ, which will benefit all six families equally. The initial goal was to raise $60,000.
For most of us the end of 2020 canât come quick enough. Goodbye. Good riddance.
It has been a year of challenges, in a sense, a lost year. Families, individuals, businesses largely have been hanging on, waiting for the pandemic to abate and better times to return. For some, it has been catastrophic. There have been empty chairs around too many dinner tables during the holidays.
So as the calendar turns and 2021 arrives, with vaccines beginning to go into arms, all thoughts turn to better times ahead. It will come slowly, not overnight, and will require more diligence and, yes, sacrifice. But with science and public health practices there is hope in the new year.
Iâm back.
Not that I ever really went away.
As announced at the time, my last official day as the BDNâs editor was Nov. 20 after 44 years with the paper. An old friend and colleague, Sid Schwartz, assumed regional editor management duties for the Adams Publishing Group of Southern Wisconsin, including Beloit. Sidâs calling the shots now, with a talented team in Beloit, and heâll be good at it.
Meanwhile, BDN subscribers know Iâve always had a lot of thoughts and opinions about, well, nearly everything going on around the Stateline Area, in Wisconsin, in Illinois, and now and then the country as a whole. Fact is, I have enjoyed opinion writing for decades and, at the risk of being a bit immodest, a multitude of industry awards for those efforts suggests I have some knack for it.