PRSRT STD U.S. Postage Paid Permit #250 Dwight, IL 60420 ** ECRWSS ** Local Customer IT’S EE! FR Volume 21 • NuTmber 50 h e Proudly servPing the area saince 1999 peWednesdr ay, December 11, 2019 BREAKFAST WITH SANTA, held December 7 at Cherry Red Roasters in Dwight, was a huge success! Breakfast, dancing, crafting and of course, SANTA!! photos by Shayla Loring Photography - More Dwight Christmas Photos on Page 12 - Fight Like a Girl Area Youth’s Story Stresses Importance of Donations Tenley Koger is a three-year old from Mazon who was diag - nosed with Acute Lymphoblas - tic Leukemia B-Cell February 18, 2019. She is the daughter of Caleb and Tanya Koger, of Mazon, and niece of Bo and Christy Partney of Dwight. In March, she had a massive GI bleed that caused seizures and resulted in hemorrhagic shock and received 30 pints of blood, as well as ten more of platelets and plasma to slow the bleed down for surgery. Tenley spent the next 16 days in ICU, ten of those days on a ventilator and the last six days having to learn to walk again and trusting everyone around her again. In July, she received a chemotherapy that is known for causing allergic reactions and Louise Davis: other minor side effects. Tenley took it to another level and 104 Years Old Today ended up with pancreatitis and TENLEY KOGER, being held, is a three-year old from Mazon diagnosed with Acute Lym - was hospitalized until the pain phoblastic Leukemia B-Cell February 18, 2019. Above, Tenley’s family, left to right, Landon, December 11, 2019 subsided. Tanya, Tenley, Caleb and Karson Koger. A week later, she returned by Rachael Reynolds-Soucie there were only 25 in her class. with a pseudocyst on her pan - Tenley has had well over 80 “She’s very old school prim creas and spent another week in blood product transfusions in Louise Davis has been a fix - and proper,” Forneris said. the hospital. the last nine months. This will ture in Dwight for more than Louise went to nursing By September, she had re - continue for the next two years, half a century, and today, school in the 1930s, and covered from the pancreas is - and she will hopefully continue Wednesday, Dec. 11, she turns worked at Illinois Research sues and the cyst had shrunk to need less blood. 104 at Heritage Health where Hospital in Chicago and then as and did not need surgery. Blood is a very important she resides. a railroad nurse with Illinois Since September, she has component in blood cancer She was born in 1915, 15 Central. had a few emergency room vis - treatment. The patient is taking years before the Great Depres - In 1943, at the height of its for fevers and viruses, but medications and chemothera - sion, 54 years before man World War II, she enlisted in has been doing well overall. pies that suppress the bone landed on the moon, and the Navy as a charge nurse, November 15 was her last marrow (what makes our decades before the dawn of the serving until 1945. She was sta - intense chemotherapy and last blood) and sometimes it can’t Internet. tioned at San Diego, Pearl Har - weekly trip to Chicago before make any blood and needs help She was the youngest of five bor and then Great Lakes, one beginning the maintenance with transfusion. sisters. She grew up in of only 800 nurses in the entire phase with monthly visits. This Platelets also play an impor - Walker’s Grove on the north - fleet. phase is the last phase of treat - tant role and are always needed west side of Plainfield. The She worked on hospital ment and will continue until for donation. house she grew up in is still ships in the burn unit. Forneris May 16, 2021. Medications cause our there, said her great-nephew, said she didn’t talk much about Tenley had received 30 bags blood to not be able to clot Matt Forneris, of Joliet. His her days in the war, likely hav - of blood, as well as ten more properly and sometimes our grandmother, Mildred Vertin, ing seen much pain and suffer - different blood products. Blood bodies are unable to make any was Louise’s sister. ing of soldiers wounded as they cancer chemotherapies cause platelets due to medications, Her father was a third gen - island-hopped from mission to our bodies to not be able to chemotherapy, and diseases/ eration farmer in the area and mission. She said they’d often hold or make our own blood – conditions. she attended Plainfield schools come back in bad shape. requiring many transfusions. (continued on page 3) Tenley Koger through high school, when (Continued on page 3) Page 2 Wednesday, December 11 , 201 9 The Paper FOR THE RECORD Mobile Food Pantry Tickets Issued December 3: 1:04 p.m., by Dwight Police Dwight Police arrested Claude in South November 28: Pawel K. Moore, 22, of Dwight. Moore Reszka, 37, Bradley, operate had a warrant from Indiana. He Wilmington uninsure motor vehicle; Anita was taken to Livingston Cty. Barnabas, 41, Bloomington, Jail; 2:51 p.m., Dwight Police Dec. 16 driving 15-20 MPH above were dispatched to 801 S. On Monday, December 16, limit; Nichole M. Howell, 25, Franklin St. The officer advised at 4:00 p.m., Catholic Chari - Peoria, driving 21-25 MPH there had been a minor acci - ties’ Mobile Food Pantry will above limit; Lamont D. White, dent with no injuries. The acci - be distributing food at St. 47, Chicago, fail to stop at in - dent occurred in the parking lot Lawrence Church (135 Rice tersection, fail to stop at inter - at 317 W. Waupansie, on pri - Road in South Wilmington) in section. vate property. Tiffany Gamble, the church parking lot (snow, of Dwight, was driving a rain, or shine). Persons in the police report Catholic Charities and the Dodge Ram. Jeffrey Froelich CHIEF PAUL JOHNSON, right, encourages newly-certified firefighters to support each other are innocent of any charges Northern Illinois Food Bank was driving a Dodge Caravan. as they begin their fire service careers. until proven guilty in a court of Both vehicles were backing have partnered to deliver nutri - law. when they struck each other; tious food (meat, produce, and 11:48 p.m., Dwight Police nonperishable items) to people 3 Written Warnings were alerted of a theft having in need. Speeding – 1; only one red just occurred at 600A W. Participants are asked to taillight – 1; no registration Mazon. The officer stopped the take bags, laundry baskets, or plate light – 1. vehicle as it was leaving the boxes to transport food and business. Arrested was Desti - grocery products to their vehi - Dwight Police Blotter nee Carrillo, 20, of Streator, for cles. Shopping carts will be November 28: 9:04 p.m., theft, as well as for having an available. A representative Dwight Police assisted Illinois in-state warrant. from Catholic Charities will be State Police with the investiga - available at this event to ex - tion of a hit-and-run crash hav - plain additional services pro - ing occurred on N/B I-55. vided by the agency. November 29: 8:29 p.m., You do not have to be Dwight Police assisted Dwight Catholic to participate. For EMS with an unconscious sub - more information about ject on the Amtrak. Weekly Ambulance Runs Catholic Charities, visit November 30: 8:08 a.m., by Dwight EMS catholiccharitiesjoliet.org. Dwight Police were dispatched December 1: Bannon, med - to 600A W. Mazon Ave. for a ical, Morris. theft. Arrested was Timothy December 2: Mazon, med - Shepherd, 40, of Pontiac. He ical, Morris. was taken to Dwight Police December 3: Northbrook, Department, where he posted medical, St. James; Mazon, no No Dwight bond and was given a court patient. date. December 4: Mazon, med - Food Pantry December 2: 1:55 p.m., ical, Morris; South St. – Em - Dwight Police were dispatched ington, trauma, refusal, mutual in December to the 100 block of John St. aid – Emington-Campus. The Dwight Food Pantry, DWIGHT FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT Class of 2019 Academy Graduates, pictured, The officer was advised a December 5: Mazon, med - held on the fourth Wednesday front, from left, Casandra Walsh, Maricela Morales, Judah Wessman, Anthony Sims, Brandon meter was taken off the build - ical, Morris; Prairie, medical, of every month at the Pioneer Sheldon, Desperado Walker, Tyler Gutzman; and, back, James West. ing, causing a loss of power. Morris. Gothic Church, 201 N. Franklin St., from 1:00-2:00 p.m., will not hold the Pantry in December. Dwight However, Love Boxes will The Paper be distributed Saturday, De - Locally Owned Christmas cember 14, to qualifying & Operated households. P.O. Box 245 204 E. Chippewa for Kids Dwight, IL 60420 Drop-off 815-584-1901 Fax: 815-584-2196 and Delivery e-mail: All Christmas for Kids [email protected] shoppers need to drop off BATTALION CHIEF AND ACADEMY DIRECTOR www.thepaper1901.com wrapped gifts at the Dwight United Methodist Church on CRAIG COUSINS, above, Mark and Mary Boma Thursday, December 12, be - congratulates the academy • Publishers • tween 11 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. and shares with their families If you wish to help deliver the hours of dedication and DEPUTY CHIEF JUSTIN DYER, right, presents academy The Paper the gifts, be at the church Sat - training that it takes to be - graduate Judah Wessman with his Basic Operator Firefighter is published urday morning, December come a firefighter. certificate. every 14, by 9 a.m.