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It has been a heartbreaking week for the Rockford community after two separate stabbings have left five people dead.

ROCKFORD — Cars started to line up as early as 9 a.m. Tuesday for a food giveaway that was scheduled to begin at noon in the parking lot of New Missionary Baptist Church. Before the first boxed crate of food was placed into a vehicle, the line of automobiles was snaking out of the parking lot and more than 200 yards down West Riverside Boulevard. "Even though there are a lot of food banks and food pantries and all of that kind of stuff, as you can see there is still a great need," the Rev....

Audio for the feature story. Violet Johnicker is the pastor of Brooke Road United Methodist Church in Rockford. Johnicker said her father was excited about and supported her to decision to be a minister and her mother understood the life because she herself was a preacher’s kid.   Brooke Road United Methodist Church. Credit https://www.facebook.com/TheBrookeRockford Johnicker’s maternal grandfather, Reverend Warren Seyfert, was a minister in the United Church of Christ in the 1970s. He d...