Some Interesting Folks in Dekalb, Illinois-- Part 2

Some more people we talked with during our trip to Dekalb to see the Huskies on Parade.


BLACK MAGNETIC RIBBONS

I parked outside the University Center while Liz went inside to purchase the black magnetic ribbons commemorating the horrible event on Valentine's Day when five NIU students were killed. These had been sold out when we last visited campus in late May for a friend's graduation.

Liz came back and said the Bookstore no longer sold them. She talked with the manager (or at least we think she was the manager). We had talked with her back on the Tuesday after the murders and she was irate at Village Commons Bookstore which hadn't closed during the week of mourning. They already had items for the event. She didn't because the University Center had been closed.

When we went back in May, VCB didn't have anything and they told us that only the University Bookstore could sell those items. Of course, as I said before, they were out. Now, the University Bookstore couldn't sell the items either because of an article in the student newspaper, the Northern Star, saying that no donations were being made to the February 14th Scholarship Fund from the sale of the items. She said they were selling them at cost, but the administration took away the ribbons anyway.

Regardless, someone should be able to sell the commemorative items.


HOW ABOUT $3 GAS!!!

Saw that gas in Dekalb and Sycamore was going for $2.05 to $3.10 (that's $3.04.9 to $3.09.9). Then, at the Marathon station on Lincoln Highway by the new bridge over the Kishwaukee, we saw it at $3 ($2.99.9). I was beginning to think we'd never see gas that "cheap" again. Stopped for gas.

Talked with the station owner and told him I didn't think I'd ever see $3 gas again and he said I'd better enjoy it now as after the elections, no telling where the price will go.

I had expected Big Oil to drop gas prices before the election, but would have figured they'd start it earlier this summer. FINALLY, A LITTLE RELIEF!!!


PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE DOGS

At one of the last Huskies on Parade sites we went to as the sun was setting, "Justice" out off Sycamore Road, we saw a guy taking pictures of him. We talked some and found out it was his intention to get pictures of all the Huskies on Parade. We talked about our search and he of his. There were some we couldn't find because they had been removed or were inside. He said he was thinking of a poster of the dogs.

He said he worked for the university archives and he knew Kay who is the director of the Lincoln Highway Association in Illinois.

I'll be writing more about the Huskies on Parade.

Sure Enjoyed Our Trip Out to Dekalb to see the Huskies. --RoadDog