The Huntley Farmside

              Volume 40 No. 2
Your hometown newspaper
Thursday, January 13,2000
© 2000 Press-Republican Newspapers
Inside
A Huntley party
Huntley Banking Center just celebrated their third annual Fred Ahrens Day.
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A brave new world
Area hospitals are offering higher-quality technology, procedures and medicine in the new century.
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Talcing a stand
The Huntley Farmside states its position on the proposed Safe Neighborhood Act.
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Park District nears school purchase
by Christopher Petersen
The Huntley Farmside
The Huntley Park District is getting closer to purchasing the South Elementary School build¬ ing for use as a community cen¬ ter.
At a public input meeting held last week, members of the Park
District listened to community opinion on what should be done with the building.
Betsey Warrington, recre¬ ational director for the Park District, said that the one thing most everyone wanted to see in the community center was a swimming pool facility.
"They were pretty supportive
of it," Warrington said. Among the other suggestions residents had for the community center were preschool classrooms, a computer area, an auditorium and a senior center.
Warrington said preschool classrooms would take pressure off of the Diecke Community Center, and that the Huntley
Seniors' Club is outgrowing its space at Congregational Church.
Warrington said that most of the ideas had a good chance of being included in the 63,000 square-foot building.
"I didn't see anything that
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Huntley senior taking crown to Springfield
by Christopher Petersen
The Huntley Farmside
Krista Jurs
Press-Republican photo by David Ewart
Serenity in the wind
With the fall harvest of corn near the silos and a crop of hay in the foreground, Don and Judy Riedl have farmed this Huntley land for 60 years. Judy Riedl formerly wrote for more than 15 years for the Huntley Farmside.
Huntley will be well represented at the Miss Illinois County Queen Pageant, to be held this weekend at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Springfield.
Krista Jurs, a senior at Huntley High School, will be representing McHenry County as Miss McHenry County. She was named Miss Huntley in May, but at first, she wasn't con¬ sidering trying out for the pageant at all.
Even though she remem¬ bers watching the pageant at the McHenry County Fair when she was a little girl working at the 4-H booth, she had never thought about trying out her¬ self, until her mother gave her the applica¬ tion for the Miss Huntley competition. Krista decided on a whim to enter the pageant, and was given the crown over three other com¬ petitors.
"I was surprised," Krista said, "I wasn't going into it thinking I was going to win." She then went on to win the Miss McHenry County pageant, which earned her the spot in the 41st Miss Illinois County Queen con¬ test.
Krista said she hasn't prepared her per¬ sonal interview yet about what she would do if crowned Miss Illinois County Queen.
"But out of 72 girls, you can't go in there expecting to win," Krista said.
Along with her pageant crowns, Krista is involved in a number of activities at her school and community. She has been a mem¬ ber of the Huntley 4-H for 10 years, is presi¬ dent of the National Honor Society at Huntley High School, and is her student council's sec¬ retary.
Krista,   who   begins   college   at   the
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