‘I want to leave humble’
NICIL throws surprise party for former executive director
STERLING – Kathy Fischer thought her boyfriend, Steve Zuidema, took the day off work to go to his dentist in Rockford.
That’s what he said, but he was fibbing.
It was part of his elaborate story to get her to visit the nonprofit Northern Illinois Center for Independent Living. NICIL serves people with disabilities in Lee, Ogle, Whiteside, Carroll and Jo Daviess counties, and Fischer recently left there after 23 years, 15 as executive director.
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