10 Thursday, February 18, 2016
The Regional News
DEATH NOTICES Mavis A. Crowhurst Mavis A. Crowhurst age 85, formerly of Beverly in Chicago. Beloved Wife of the Late Robert G. “O’Babe” Crowhurst Fond Mother of Tom (Pam) of Palos Park, Leslie Susan Crowhurst of Rockford, Jeffrey (Sharon) of Ottawa, Nancy (Cary) Schultz of Tinley Park, Larry (Judy) of Mokena, Carrie (Nyls) Nyman of Susanville,CA, Scott (Kym) of Mokena, Judy Crowhurst of Los Angeles, CA. and Mark ( Michelle ) of Palos Heights. Loving Grandmother of 19 and Great Grandmother of 13. Dear Daughter of the Late Martin and Margaret Peterson. Sister of the Late Carol Kopp. Former employee of Palos Community Hospital. She attended the Art Institute of Chicago. Graduate
Dennis P. Czuprynski
Parade Queen visits City Hall Orland Park native Erin Mulcahy, Queen of the 2016 St. Patrick’s Day Parade, recently visited the Chicago City Hall accompanied by members of her court and the Shannon Rovers Pipe Band. Mulcahy presented Alderman Edward M. Burke with a formal invitation to attend the downtown parade, which steps off at noon on Saturday, March 12, from the corner of Columbus and Balbo. Mulcahy is a resident of Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood and is employed at the Leo Burnett Company in human relations. She is a graduate of Columbia College. Mulcahy was chosen from more than 80 contestants to lead the parade.
HOUSES OF WORSHIP Wayside Chapel A Sunday morning Family Service will be held on Feb. 21 at 10 a.m. at The Center at 12700
Southwest Highway in Palos Park. Led by Rev. Chris Hopkins, the monthly service is for families with children of any ages, and
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will focus on gratitude this month. Leona B. Young Leona B. Young, nee Birney, age 98, of Orland Refreshments and fellowship folPark, passed away at home in Orland Park on Feb. low the service. For more, call 5. Leona was born at home in Chicago on January 361-3650.
What drives veterinary fees
Dear Dr. Fleming, Why have vet bills gone up so high in the past few years? I know that you all have had to raise your fees due to loss of income to the online drugstores and increased all- around costs, but even so the fees seem to be getting pretty high. Mark, Palos Park Dear Mark, Loss of income to Internet sales is insignificant in the big picture. Clinics that concentrate their efforts on providing good medical and surgical care have, for the most part, been unaffected by online stores. There are multiple reasons why veterinary fees have risen rapidly over the past few years, two of which I will mention. First, we have all seen the arrival of veterinary corporations and their dramatic influence on fees. Corporations are gobbling up traditional practices at an ever-increasing pace. Business (equity) investors (businessmen, not veterinarians) from the East and West coasts are the new “owners” of more and more veterinary hospitals and clinics. Corporations are not “bad” or “evil” but they have no soul; they exist in and for themselves and their investors. These new owners, back on their respective coasts, don’t know that Sally Johnson has recently become a single mom and is struggling financially or that Mr. and Mrs. Cornwell have been clients for 30 years and are now having trouble making ends meet. It’s corporate, that’s just the way it is. Corporate fees are high, both inherently and unashamedly. Many of these corporate practices offer world-class care for pets and with that care comes world-class fees. For those people who can afford it I say they will be well served. Their pets will receive the finest care in the world. One does not have to be wealthy to afford this level of care but if you are not wealthy you should have a pet health care saving account for a rainy day to dip into or have pet insurance. This trend is unstoppable. And, by the way, don’t be disgruntled with the veterinarian(s) at the corporate facility – the profits are flowing to the investors, not the vets. The vets don’t set the fees either. The corporate phenomenon has affected small practices nationwide. Small business owners saw these new corporate-driven fees and were astounded. Eventually it was found that small private clinics could raise their fees and still be less expensive than the equity guys. These new fees have allowed small clinics to pay their staffs better, buy new equipment, send staff for special training and have a little buffer in the bank to help those truly in need. Secondly, and equally important as a factor in the recent cost increases seen in veterinary med-
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Dennis P. Czuprynski, age 56, of Orland Park, died on Feb. 11. Beloved husband of 33 years to Patricia A., nee Fear. Loving father of Erin and Sarah. Devoted son of Dorothy (nee Tyrakowski) and the late Frank Czuprynski, Sr. Cherished brother of Cheryl (John) Spano, Candy (late Frank) Susarrey, Frank Jr., Mike (Darlene), David (Beth), Geri (Jeff) Vlasicak and the late Francis Steven. Dearest son-in-law of Hank and Claire Fear. Dear brotherin-law, uncle and great uncle of many. Visitation was held Feb.14. Funeral Service Feb. 15 at Colonial Chapel in Orland Park. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, memorials to Lupus Foundation of America preferred.
of Morgan Park High School. Visitation Sunday, February 14th from 2 until 8 p.m. Chapel Service Sunday, February 14th, 6:00 p.m. at the Kerry Funeral Home, 7020 W. 127th Street, Palos Heights, Il. 60463. Interment for immediate family on Tuesday February 16th 12:00 PM. Meet at Visitors Center 11:45 AM. at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, Illinois. In Lieu of Flowers Memorials to Oasis for the Blind in care of Orland Christian Church 7500 Sycamore Orland Park Illinois 60462 or Ottawa Pavilion Nursing Home 704 East Glover Ottawa, IL. 61350 For Additional Information please call Van Henkelum Funeral Home 708 448-3530 3, 1918. Leona was the primary caregiver to her daughter the late Barbara Jo for 40 years. Barbara Jo was the longest living quadriplegic connected with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago at the time of her death. This was largely attributed to the excellent at home care she received. Leona was secretary of Young & Sons Construction Co., her husband’s firm. Beloved wife of the late Vincent Young. Loving mother of James (Susan) Young, William Eric Young and the late Patricia (Kenneth) Johnson, Barbara Jo Styles and Richard Young. Cherished grandmother of , Kathryn (John III) Glass, Elizabeth Johnson, David (Jeanette) Godsted and Tracy Yelen. Dearest great-grandmother of ten. Visitation was held Feb. 14 at Colonial Chapel in Orland Park. Additional visitation Feb. 15 at Trinity Evangelical Covenant Church, in Oak Lawn until time of Funeral Service. Burial was private at Oak Hill Cemetery, Chicago. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to Trinity Evangelical Covenant Church or the American Porphyria Foundation, 4900 Woodway, Suite 780, Houston TX 77056.
SIMPLE GIFTS Moraine Valley seeks formal dress donations Moraine Valley is collecting gently used special occasion and bridesmaid dresses, accessories for the community college’s Dream Come True Project. The dresses will be given away free of charge to local high school girls on Saturday, April 2, from 9 to 11 a.m., in Building S, Room 117, on the main campus, 9000 W. College Pkwy, Palos Hills.
LEGAL NOTICE Dresses of all styles and sizes that are in good condition will be accepted. Shoes, purses, jewelry, and other accessories also will be accepted. Donations can be brought to the Multicultural Student Affairs Department in Room 201, on the second floor of Building S, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information about making a donation, call Nereida Perez at 974-5475.
icine, is student loans. When I graduated 35 years ago employed (non-owner) veterinarians were paid on salary. You worked 5070 hours per week at whatever time and on whatever date your in Hip Replacement Surgery: DiLucas Chiropractic free boss said. You might know one rect Anterior vs. Posterior Apworkshop on No. 1 diet Supplied photo day in advance when you’d have proach,” led by board-certified Meet Sue and Molly from Orland a day off to plan a picnic with A free wellness event for Heart Orthopaedic Surgeon Daniel Park. Molly is Sue and Rich’s 9-yearyour family. Nowadays many Healthy Awareness Month is of- Weber, M.D. employed vets are paid on their old Havanese. fered at Lucas Chiropractic CenDr. Weber will discuss hip anatdaily production. You figure it they are shocked as they enter ter, 12413 S. Harlem Ave., Palos omy, common causes of hip pain out from here. If Sally Jo owes the real world and find that their Heights. and when to consult a physician $180,000 in student loans and she starting salaries are quite low and A free workshop on the No. 1 about your pain. He also will disis paid a percentage of how many their debt horribly high. Another Diet of 2015 will be held from cuss the surgical treatment options dollars she brings in every day, young graduate I spoke with re- noon to 1 p.m. or 6 to 7 p.m. in total hip replacement, including what do you think will happen to cently said the fed money “was on Wednesday, Feb. 24. RSVP anterior, posterior and posterolatmany of her charges (unless she is like Monopoly money.” And, these by calling 361-5455 or email paeral hip replacement surgery. Saint Sally)? Any working person students cannot legally default on tientcare@lucaschiro.com The program is 6:30 p.m. (in any business) who is paid on these loans. They are saddled with Wednesday, Feb. 24, at Palos production must struggle mightily $1,500, $1,800, or $2,000 monthly Community Hospital Auditoriwith the temptation to increase school loan payments before they Hip replacement surgery um, 12251 S. 80th Ave. in Palos that bill. What has gone wrong? even learn how to be a productive program at Palos Hospital Heights. To register, visit PaloWhen I graduated vet school diagnostician. Palos Community Hospital will sCommunityHospital.org or call in l981, I had some student debt Our profession is currently in host a free presentation, “Options 226-2300. that took Connie and me 10 years trouble with this problem. There to pay it off. Our tuition back are meetings constantly going on then was reasonable and we lived at state and national levels addressmeagerly. I was on an Air Force ing this issue. The young vets need scholarship that paid my tuition, to be paid a living wage and that books and fees and gave us $464 falls upon us older employers to do dollars a month to live on. Con- so. In turn, we have to raise our nie worked as a legal secretary. fees. The young vets, who find We lived in a mobile home in a themselves paid on production, student area in Gainesville and have found a partial answer: inwe had a nice screened-in porch crease their billable charges. There with a lot of plants, access to a is the elephant in the room. We pool and a great garden. Come to are old-school and pay our fullthink about it, that was one of the time vets on salary and our relief best places we ever lived. Our big vets hourly. I’ve been hourly or night was to make a homemade pizza and watch James Herriot on salary since I was 15 years old. PBS Saturday nights. We had little Even if we were to ever pay on spending money. More like none. production I know my vets would A few years ago the federal not engage in some of the creative government took over the student invoicing that I have seen. Not too long ago I had the plealoan industry (that’s what went sure to meet a veterinarian who is wrong) and like a drunken sailor a past president of the American things went wild. States stopped paying the veterinary schools to Veterinary Medical Association. educate the veterinary students be- During a lecture she mentioned cause the feds started giving the that our profession is still highly money that they had previously esteemed in America. At the break paid to the schools directly to the I told her that do I agree that our students. A lot of federal money. profession still seems to be highly As I heard from one student at esteemed, but that I personally am Purdue University recently, there concerned that the ever-increasing was no limit on how much he fees issue will erode that public could borrow. Say what? The good will. She immediately agreed LEGAL NOTICE schools saw the goose and started and when I asked her what she raising tuition and fees towards thought was driving the fee issue Mars. Many students graduating she instantly said “student debt”. Our profession will continue today have loans of a couple of hundred thousand dollars and they to struggle with these issues as are looking at a starting salary of we go forward. I think that the best thing we can do in our daily $60,000 to $80,000. Many naive students didn’t, workplace is to just try to be fair and don’t, care about their future in providing our services. I hope to financial situation. They had, and instill this idea into the “veterinary have, their minds full trying to children” coming up behind me. learn all the vet stuff. They have It will be an interesting challenge. The happiest man is he who no idea what the real world is like. They think when the get their learns from nature the lesson of DVM degree everything will be worship. rosy. When they finally graduate — Ralph Waldo Emmerson
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY BANK, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO MIDAMERICA BANK, FSB Plaintiff, -v.JANUSZ LASSAK, JANINA LASSAK, STANDARD BANK AND TRUST AS TRUSTEE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF A TRUST AGREEMENT DATED THE 15TH DAY OF APRIL, 2009, AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 20560, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 13 CH 18961 12622 SOUTH 82ND AVENUE Palos Park, IL 60464 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 14, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 15, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: THE EAST 1/2 (EXCEPT THE NORTH 458 FEET) OF BLOCK 14, IN FREDERICK H. BARTLETT’S PALOS PARK SUBDIVISION OF THE SOUTH EAST 1/4 OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 37 NORTH, RANGE 12 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS Commonly known as 12622 SOUTH 82ND AVENUE, Palos Park, IL 60464 Property Index No. 23-26-414-007-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $485,075.30. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in AS IS condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff s attorney: WELTMAN, WEINBERG & REIS CO., LPA, 180 N. LASALLE STREET, SUITE 2400, Chicago, IL 60601, (312) 782-9676 FAX 312-782-4201 Please refer to file number WWR#10104985. If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee s attorney. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. WELTMAN, WEINBERG & REIS CO., LPA 180 N. LASALLE STREET, SUITE 2400 Chicago, IL 60601 (312) 782-9676 Attorney File No. WWR#10104985 Attorney Code. 31495 Case Number: 13 CH 18961 TJSC#: 35-18091 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.