Mural artist Nick Gjonola (third from left) shakes hands with Patti Burkardt-Brewer while meeting her and other members of the Burkardt family on July 29, 2024. The William and Beverly Burkardt Family Foundation funded the mural Gjonola painted at Louise A. Quick Park in Polo. (Alexa Zoellner/Shaw Media)
Alexa Zoellner reports on Lee, Ogle and Whiteside counties for Shaw Media out of the Dixon office. Previously, she worked for the Record-Eagle in Traverse City, Michigan, and the Daily Jefferson County Union in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.
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