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Laura Machin in her Campton Hills home with her dogs, Finnegan and McGregor. Machin, who was adopted at birth, recently found several of her biological siblings.

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A great time at Gammon Coach House

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS

After a busy day of work on Tuesday, I scooped up my boyfriend and headed to Batavia for a dinner event that I was looking forward to.

Our destination? The Gammon Coach House at 3 S. Batavia Ave. The event?

A “Sixpoint Beer Dinner” that I knew just a little about before entering the restaurant on Tuesday.

My boyfriend and I arrived at the Coach House about 6:30 p.m. We were seated in the back of its cozy side room, which already was filled with quite a few people who also were there for the dinner event.

After settling into the scene, I noticed a mini menu on the table that out-

On page 3 of the Feb. 8 edition of the Kane County Chronicle, in the Out and About section, an incorrect date was listed for the upcoming Public Star Party at Peck Farm Park. The event takes place at 7 p.m. Feb. 16.

The Chronicle regrets the error.

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK Kathy Gresey lined what food and drink lay ahead – a five-course meal, with each course featuring food and a Sixpoint beer.

As I learned during the night, Sixpoint beer comes from the Sixpoint Brewery in New York.

Our menu included pretzel bites with Sixpoint Crisp ale; sliced meats and cheeses with Sixpoint Sweet Action cream-style ale; roasted chicken broth with julienne vegetables and cheese tortellini with Sixpoint Bengali Tiger IPA;

mushroom risotto with grilled wild boar sausage and Sixpoint Righteous ale; and chocolate stout pie with pretzel crust and Sixpoint 3Beans stout.

As each type of beer was served, a representative from Sixpoint Brewery spoke about the characteristics of that particular brew.

I thought it was great to try different types of beer with each course – something I don’t normally do at home or elsewhere.

In addition, I also liked discussing the different types of beer – as well as other beverages – with those at my table.

My boyfriend, a huge craft beer fan, was really getting into the conversa-

tion. He and I learned of quite a few beers that we’d never even heard of before and now want to try.

My favorite Sixpoint beer of the night was the Righteous ale, which is made with rye malt. Foodwise, I thought the chocolate pie stout was off the chain.

The evening was a lot of fun, and I have to thank the Gammon Coach House team for hosting the event.

A different beer dinner is scheduled to take place at the restaurant March 4.

•฀Kathy฀Gresey฀is฀editor฀of฀ the฀Kane฀County฀Chronicle.฀ Contact her at kgresey@ shawmedia.com or 630-8455368.

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8LOCAL BRIEFS St. Charles church sets Ash Wednesday services

$2,000 scholarship to be given to Geneva student

ST. CHARLES – Hosanna!

Lutheran Church will be offering mid-week worship services throughout the season of Lent beginning on Ash Wednesday.

Services on Wednesday will be at noon and 6:30 p.m. and will include Holy Communion and the imposition of ashes on the forehead.

During the rest of the Lenten season, these special midweek services will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays through March 27.

For information, call the church office at 630-584-6434, send email to Welcome@ HosannaChurch.com or visit www.HosannaChurch.com.

The church is at 36W925 Red Gate Road, St. Charles.

GENEVA – The Shelter Insurance Foundation will award a $2,000 scholarship to a Geneva High School graduate this spring. Shelter agent Mike Rinne sponsors and partially funds this scholarship. A committee of local high school officials and community leaders will select the recipient. They will consider applicants’ achievements, educational goals, citizenship, moral character and participation and leadership in school and community activities.

Applications and additional information will be available in early March. Applications are due by March 31. Interested seniors should contact their high school counselor, principal or Rinne at 630-454-4490. The

Shelter Insurance Foundation is sponsored by the Shelter Insurance Companies, which offer auto, home, life, farm and business insurance services to customers in 14 states.

Sensible Threadz to collect baby items ST. CHARLES – Sensible Threadz, 208 S. Kirk Road, St. Charles is collecting baby-related items throughout February for Healthy Families, a community program at VNA Health Care in Aurora. For a donation of such items as diapers, wipes, formula, toys, clothing, nursing pillows and play mats, customers will receive an instore credit of $5.

Contact Sensible Threadz owner Carol Frey at 630-5870736 for information. Store hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on

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Baker Memorial UMC to host services Sunday ST. CHARLES – Baker Memorial United Methodist Church will hold musically themed worship services at 9 and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. All music will be performed in a jazz style. Several of the church’s ensembles, including children’s choirs, the adult Chancel Choir, instrumentalists and soloists, will participate.

Gospel music will be highlighted April 14. Baker Memorial is at East Main Street and Fourth Avenue in downtown St. Charles.

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Where did you grow up?

Wheaton Pets? A Maltese-Chihuahua named Moose, a ball python for my son named Africa – because that’s where they’re from – and two fish. We don’t name them.

Who would play you in the movie of your life? Cate Blanchett First job? Baby-sitting As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A marine biologist. I became a substitute teacher instead.

A book or movie you’d recommend? “The Hobbit” by J. R. R. Tolkien, and the movie, “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.”

My favorite book is “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen.

Favorite charity? Feed my Starving Children Hobbies? Hiking. I volunteer at Brookfield Zoo. Do you speak another language? Yes, Spanish Do you play an instrument?

Clarinet Favorite local restaurant? Daddio’s Diner in Batavia What is an interesting factoid about yourself? I was with a touring puppet company for eight years. I operated all different kinds of Muppet-type puppets. Mostly we did Christian shows.

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Star party set for Feb. 16 in Geneva

WHAT: The Fox Valley Astronomical Society will host a free Public Star Party. The evening will begin with a short presentation in the Orientation Barn titled, “Magnetic Connection.” Then participants will head outside to see the moon, Jupiter, the Pleiades, and the Orion Nebula through group members’ telescopes, or participants can bring their own.

WHEN: 7 p.m. Feb. 16 WHERE: Peck Farm Park, 4038 Kaneville Road, Geneva INFO: For information, including a map to Peck Farm Park, visit www.fvastro.org.

Party for Chloe, the comfort dog

WHAT: Chloe, a trained golden retriever comfort dog on staff at Lord of Life Church in LaFox, is celebrating her second birthday. Chloe has visited and comforted people who have been affected by Superstorm Sandy and the shooting in Newtown, Conn.

WHEN: 10 a.m., Sunday

WHERE: 40W605 Route 38, LaFox INFO: For information, visit www.lolchurch.net.

Audubon Society meets at Hickory Knolls

WHAT: The Kane County Audubon Society has planned its monthly meeting. The program will be “Fool a Squirrel and Feed a Family,” featuring suggestions for outwitting those squirrels stealing bird food.

WHEN: 7 p.m. Wednesday WHERE: Hickory Knolls Discovery Center, 3795 Campton Hills Road, St. Charles INFO: For information, call 630-584-8386.

An evening with Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln on Feb. 24

WHAT: Spend an evening with Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln at the Batavia Depot Museum’s 11th Annual Lincoln Dinner Theater. The one-act play takes place in the White House at the end of the Civil War. The play is written and performed by Max and Donna Daniels, who are nationally known as full-time Lincoln history presenters. The cost is $37 and includes buffet dinner and performance.

WHEN: 5:30 p.m. Feb. 24 WHERE: Lincoln Inn Banquets, 1345 S. Batavia Ave INFO: Tickets are on sale at the Batavia Park District Civic Center, 327 W. Wilson St., the Eastside Community Center, 14 N. Van Buren St., or the Depot Museum, 155 Houston St. For information, call the Batavia Park District at 630-879-5235 or the Batavia Depot Museum at 630-406-5274.

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Geneva Friendly Seniors plan pizza party

WHAT: The Geneva Friendly Seniors Club will host a pizza party. The pizza party for those ages 50 and older includes a variety of pizza for meat lovers and vegetarians alike, B.I.N.G.O., and prizes from Autumn Leaves. The cost is $4 per person.

WHEN: 12:30 to 3 p.m. Wednesday WHERE: Sunset Community Center, 710 Western Ave., Geneva INFO: Register online at www.genevaparks.org or at Sunset Community Center.

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Nature Nerds gather at Wild Things GUEST VIEW Pam Otto Hands down, the outdoors is the best place to learn about nature and things wild.

But sometimes, time spent indoors can be enlightening, too.

Last Saturday was Wild Things, an all-indoor biennial conference described in promotional materials as “organized by Audubon Chicago Region in cooperation with the Habitat Project, the Volunteer Stewardship Network, and Chicago Wilderness through funding from the USDA Forest Service and US Fish & Wildlife Service.”

Which is a fancy way of saying that Nature Nerds and EcoGeeks came from miles around to renew old friendships, make new ones, network, bond, commiserate and learn, all within the mostly friendly confines of the University of Illinois-Chicago’s Student Center East.

The day began at 9 a.m. with concurrent keynote addresses on the importance of stitching together our greenspace and natural areas, along with a fascinating description of how wildlife is evolving around us. The 1,100-plus registrants were then turned loose to sit in on any of 89 30- and 45-minute breakout sessions, spaced throughout the day and interspersed with visits to the Wild Things exhibit hall and an extra-long lunch hour with book signings, poster sessions and more.

The result was an event filled with hour after hour of Gee Whiz! and Who Knew?!

Here’s a sampling of the sort of prime knowledge nuggets the St. Charles Park District attendees took back to our home base at Hickory Knolls: Researchers at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie are giving birding a run for its money. They have produced a gorgeous four-color publication, “Spider Watching at Midewin,” that details the habits and life cycles of a dozen different spider families that live within the 19,000-

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Visitors came from miles around to last week’s Wild Things conference. acre preserve – as well as most of northeastern Illinois.

My favorite fact there? Male spiders use many strategies to woo their mates, including drumming, web strumming and silken nuptial gifts, and every single one of them are designed to persuade and pacify the female. (Nice work, lady spiders!)

Check out the 30-page Spider Watching brochure at www.fs.usda.gov/midewin.

As if white nose syndrome

wasn’t enough to contend with, North American bats who survive this devastating fungal disease now have to contend with immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome – an equally injurious condition whereby the bats’ own immune systems slip into overdrive, attacking not only the fungus but also the bats’ wing tissue, making it difficult, if not impossible, to fly.

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track of such things, the common name of the eastern pipistrelle bat (Perimyotis subflavus) has been changed to a somewhat more descriptive tri-colored bat. (The species’ fur is black at the base, followed by a band of lighter brown, and dark at the tips.)

Singing insects, that group of songsters consisting primarily of crickets, grasshoppers and cicadas, are expanding their ranges. Naturalist Carl Strang of the Forest Preserve

District of DuPage County presented overviews of some eight different species of singing insects that can now be found well beyond what was considered their “natural” range.

Although it would be easy to ascribe these shifts to climate change, Strang pointed out that there may well be other factors at work. He noted that one insect, the broad-winged tree cricket, Oecanthus latipennis, is expanding its range southward as well as north.

I was excited to learn that insects with what could be the best bug names ever, the slightly musical conehead (Neoconocephalus exiliscanorus) and the handsome trig (Phyllopalpus pulchellus) are slowly heading in our direction. Though not yet present in Kane County, they are now in northern Indiana, an easy road trip away.

If this is the sort of information you find endlessly fascinating, get out your calendar and start X’ing off the days between now and 2015, when Wild Things will return. And to fill in the void, pick a day – pick many days! – to visit our area’s outstanding natural areas with your own favorite Wild Thing.

•฀Pam฀Otto฀is฀the฀manager of nature programs and interpretive services for the St. Charles Park District. She can be reached at 630-513-4346 or potto@stcparks.org.

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34/26 McHenry Statistics through 4 p.m. yesterday Belvidere 34/27 Temperatures Waukegan 35/28 34/30 High/low ....................................... 29°/20° Normal high ......................................... 33° Rockford Crystal Lake Deerfield Record high .............................. 53° (2009) Algonquin 36/30 35/28 34/29 34/28 Normal low .......................................... 18° Hampshire Record low ............................. -12° (2007) Schaumburg 35/28 Elgin 34/29 Peak wind ......................... NNW at 24 mph 34/29 DeKalb Precipitation 35/28 Tri-Cities Chicago 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. ........... 0.16” 35/28 34/30 Month to date ................................... 1.04” Normal month to date ....................... 0.38” Oak Park Year to date ...................................... 4.15” 34/30 Aurora Normal year to date .......................... 2.06” Dixon 40/28

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Fox River Stages 0-50 Good; 51-100 Moderate; 101-150 Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200 Unhealthy; 201-300 Very Unhealthy; 301-500 Hazardous Source: Illinois EPA

Weather History On Feb. 9, 1934, the temperature dropped to 11 degrees below zero in Philadelphia and 15 degrees below zero in New York City. The same arctic blast dropped the mercury to 51 degrees below zero in Vanderbilt, Mich.

Fld: flood stage. Prs: stage in feet at 7 a.m Friday. Chg: change in previous 24 hours.

Station Fld Prs Chg Station Fld Prs Chg Algonquin................. 3 ....... 1.14 ...... -0.05 Montgomery........... 13 ..... 11.78 ..... +0.02 Burlington, WI ........ 11 ....... 7.90 ....... none New Munster, WI .... 19 ....... 8.32 ...... -0.10 Dayton ................... 12 ....... 7.64 ..... +0.52 Princeton .............. 9.5 ........ N.A. .........N.A. McHenry .................. 4 ....... 2.47 ..... +0.20 Waukesha ................ 6 ....... 3.12 ...... -0.02

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8LOCAL BRIEFS Cougars offering Valentine Day’s package GENEVA – The Kane County Cougars will offer a second date for its Valentine’s Day dinner packages after the Feb. 14 date reached capacity. Packages are now available for Feb. 15. The event includes a private, candlelit suite for couples at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark, along with a dinner prepared and served by the Cougars catering staff.

Couples will receive a pair of ticket vouchers for a 2013 Cougars game. Interested couples can reserve a suite for $65.

The Cougars will be accepting a limited amount of reservations, which could be made no later than 5 p.m. Frid. ay. Call 630-232-8811 to place reservations with Cougars staff members Jenni Brechtel or Derek Harrigan.

Students should apply for healthcare scholarships High school students who intend to study healthcare in college have scholarship opportunities available through the Cadence Health Foundation.

There are three $2,500 scholarships available. The Olivia Smart Scholarship is awarded to two students from high schools in St. Charles, Batavia and Geneva.

Smart was a former head nurse

at Community Hospital in Geneva. The Margery Clark Burgess Memorial Scholarship is awarded to a high school student from Community School District 303. Burgess was a past student at St. Charles High School.

Applications for the scholarships are available through the guidance offices of the respective high schools or at the Cadence Health Foundation website, www.cadencehealth. org. Deadline for application is March 15.

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‘One Life’ will be shown at Charlestowne Mall ST. CHARLES – The BBC Films documentary “One Life” will be shown this month at the Charlestowne 18, 3740 E. Main St., St. Charles. It will be shown at 7 p.m. Feb. 21, noon Feb. 24 and 7 p.m. Feb. 27.

Grand opening set for Crystal Ranch Reiki Healing ST. CHARLES – A grand opening event for Crystal Ranch Reiki Healing is set from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, at 5N536 Longview Drive, St. Charles.

RSVP by calling Carol Kettley at 630-551-6965 or send email to crystalranch11@gmail.com by Monday.

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Brendan Casey Fermilab particle physicist “Fermilab: Science at Work,” Fermilab particle physicist Brendan Casey is shown in his Batavia home with his wife, Melissa, and their children.

Casey hopes that people who watch the movie have a better understanding of the people who work at Fermilab.

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“It’s surprising how often I talk to people in the community and find out they have never been to Fermilab,” he said. “This is a laboratory of their neighbors, and the public is welcome.”

Casey said he is pleased with how the documentary turned out.

“I think it is a pretty good representation of life at the lab,” he said.

Casey is one of several Fermilab scientists who are interviewed as part of the documentary.

“We did try to communicate their passion about their work and why they think it is important to the general public,” Brown said. “That is a way to bring people closer to the science. We didn’t want to make an industrial type of video.”

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BATAVIA – A new documentary sheds a new light on Fermilab scientists and the work they do.

“Fermilab: Science at Work” will be released on Tuesday. The documentary will be shown on Fermilab’s YouTube channel and will be given away in DVD form to Fermilab visitors.

Fermilab contracted with Clayton Brown and Monica Long Ross of 137 Films to create a short film documenting life at Fermilab.

“We tried to show scientists as real people, just like the rest of us,” Ross said.

Ross and Brown are part of the team that made the 2008 film “The Atom Smashers,” which spotlighted Fermilab and the search for the elusive Higgs boson, believed to give mass to matter that makes up the universe.

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• Saturday, February 9, 2013

CAMPTON HILLS – The family tree created by Laura Machin’s research into her adoption records resembles a made-for-TV movie.

Details were revealed to her this past year, after Illinois changed the law in 2011, allowing adoptees age 21 or older to receive copies of their original birth certificates. Before, adoptees would get birth certificates with their adoptive parents names, not their actual certificate with names of their biological parents.

Machin, 61, of Campton Hills, was adopted in 1951 and never knew anything about her birth parents.

“I can never remember being angry about it [being given up for adoption].

I wanted to know the circumstances real bad, but I always assumed that whoever birthed me did the best for me,” Machin said. “I didn’t think the worst. I thought the best.”

Not long after the law changed, Machin sent in the paperwork and began a journey to find out where she came from.

She said she never would have thought she was the seventh child of a woman who gave her up and that she one day would find two siblings and a bunch of half-siblings and a whole slew of nieces and nephews.

“My mother’s life reads like a novel,” Machin said.

•฀•฀• Machin learned she was adopted at 13, after overhearing her mother speaking to their dentist about his process of adopting a child. Her mother said she would tell her something important.

“She did not tell me much, only that she had some stillbirths and some miscarriages and that my father and her did not think they would be able to have children, so they adopted me because I needed a home,” Machin said.

“I was in shock. ... It was very short and sweet, and I was left stunned and that was about the end of the information I had gotten from her.”

Machin’s adoptive parents went on to have two children naturally after her adoption.

Machin said she does not know whether her birth mother ever tried to find her, as her adoptive mother would have intercepted any communication.

“When I was in my early 30s, my mother passed away,” Machin said.

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her biological siblings, Mary Closson and

More information about Illinois law Under the amended Illinois Adoption Act 750 ILCS 50, starting Nov. 15, 2011, adults born on or after Jan. 1, 1946, in Illinois who were surrendered or adopted, can request a non-certified copy of their original Illinois birth certificate, which typically includes the birth parents’ name(s), age(s) and place(s) of birth.

Birth parents can fill out a form to request that their identifying information remain confidential. Birth parents can still confidentially provide medical information, such as geneticallytransmitted disease, to the Illinois Adoption Registry and Medical Information Exchange to be released to an adopted or surrendered child.

Forms for birth parents and adoptees are avilable online at www.idph.state.il.us/vitalrecords/vital/non_certified.htm or by calling the Illinois Adoption Registry at 877-323-5299.

Source: State of Illinois

“My dad came up and gave me this little envelope, which is actually the legal document for my adoption and said my mother didn’t want me to have it. It was like ‘Over her dead body would I find anybody’ and my dad’s words were that he didn’t agree with it. He decided this was mine and I would have it.”

Papers dated May 10, 1951, finalizing the adoption, bear the signature of Richard J. Daley, when the former mayor was still the city clerk. It shows the names of her adoptive parents and that her name had been Elizabeth Ann with two last names, Gitchell and Watson.

And with the adoption papers was a certificate of her birth – naming her

Greg Gitchell.

adoptive parents as her parents.

It was not enough information to find out who her real birth parents were until Illinois changed the law and Machin sent in her application and $15 check to get a copy of her actual, original birth certificate.

A copy came in the mail the Friday before Mother’s Day. And there were the names: Mary Violet Watson and Leonard Fredrick Gitchell.

The last names were switched, possibly because an adoption was involved.

Machin got to work and, with the help of two genealogists, began collecting pieces of her ancestral puzzle.

•฀•฀• Machin’s birth mother, Mary Violet Watson, had her first child at 17, and was pregnant with her fourth when her husband was killed in France during World War II.

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Pieces of history start to come together over the years • FAMILY Continued from page 9 She had lived in both New York and in Chicago.

A few years later, the war widow with four children married a handsome war vet named Leonard Gitchell, and lived where his family was from in Michigan.

They had two more children, but then the marriage went on the rocks.

“They got divorced, but they were still co-habitating – they could not quite get away from each other,” Machin said. “She got pregnant with me and ran back to Chicago to stay with relatives ... she did not want my father to know.

That is what we are surmising.”

After her first husband died, Mary Watson received help from his parents with the first four children and the other set of grandparents were chipping in for the other two, Machin said. Apparently, Mary’s parents did not like Gitchell and did not want him in their daughter’s life, Machin said.

“He was supposed to be good looking and maybe a little bit of a cad,” Machin said. “When I was born, we believe there was pressure from the grandparents who were already helping out with six kids, ‘OK, you’re pregnant again; this one you have to give up for adoption.’ ” The older children were being cared for by grandparents, and the two youngest children were 2 and 5 years old, too young to realize their mother was pregnant. And her mother apparently was able to hide her pregnancy, Machin said.

This scenario, she said, comes from piecing the story together with help from her older brother and sister.

“They say she was an absolutely lovely woman and a great mom and that they can’t even fathom the idea that she would give up a child,” Machin said. “That was the story we surmised since we found each other. There are no written records. If there was any written contact, knowing my adoptive mother, she would have seen to it that it was burned.”

So at 28, Machin’s mother

gave birth to her seventh child at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago on Feb. 13, 1951 and named her Elizabeth Ann. Three days later, the baby became the daughter of a childless couple from Arlington Heights in a private adoption.

They renamed her Laurel Eileen – though Machin prefers to be called Laura.

•฀•฀• Machin did not spend her life searching for birth parents. It was just the fitting-in part that was missing, she said.

“It really came to light when I had my first child,” she said. “As I looked at him, I realized that this is the first person I’ve ever known who is blood-related to me. ... It feels different than anything else.”

It took the two genealogists all of two days to find her older siblings were Mary Closson of Michigan and Gregory Gitchell of Virginia and a half-sister Deedee from her mother’s first husband who also lived in Michigan. Both her birth parents were dead.

She contacted the three of them by letter, explained her

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search and sent a photo montage of her family, including her current husband and two sons by a previous marriage.

Her brother sent an email saying he would talk to his sisters and get in touch. And then her sister sent an email.

She wanted to see the document with her mother’s name on it. Machin sent it – and she recognized the signature of Mary Watson.

“She was shocked,” Machin said. “But she was like, ‘This is the real thing. Welcome to the family.’ ” At a reunion last year, Machin put a photo of her mother and her oldest son Jeremy at the same age together and saw an unmistak-

able resemblance.

“He’s his grandmother’s child,” Machin said. “The features are almost identical.

They say I look more like my grandmother on my mother’s side and my sister looks more like my mother. And she has a son that looks like Jeremy.”

As the siblings got to know each other, more pieces of her parents’ lives came to light.

“She [Mary Watson] remarried my dad six years later. They were together six or seven years, and then divorced again,” Machin said. “I have two more brothers from his marriage between the two marriages to my mother. I have more family than I know what to do with.”

By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com

A dream of a new east-west corridor in northern Kane County is at least 18 months to two years away from being ready for bids on the work.

This year, Kane County plans to spend $3.4 million for engineering and design of the proposed Longmeadow Parkway.

Carl Schoedel, director of Kane County Division of Transportation, said he expects the design work to take 18 to 24 months. It’s then that the county would be able to seek bids for the project.

But bids won’t go out until 100 percent of funding for the

project is identified, Schoedel said.

The county wants to pay for part of the parkway with a toll bridge over the Fox River.

Through tolls, both residents and nonresidents of the county would help pay for the road. Kane County also wants to look into federal funding for the project.

“It’s a huge undertaking for a local government,” Schoedel said. “A project of this size is more typical for a state government undertaking.”

About $9 million in federal money has been used for land acquisition for the project, according to an update fact sheet put out by the county.

The county has about 60 per-

By ASHLEY RHODEBECK arhodebeck@shawmedia.com

ST. CHARLES – Rick Moser knows that people want to support American-made products and has found research indicating people will pay more for products made in America.

For the last two years, he and a team of volunteers have worked to promote such products and the companies that make them through a St. Charles-based initiative called Proudly Made IN AMERICA. Moser, whose background is in strategic branding and marketing, said the idea stemmed from a conversation with some marketing, design and copywriter associates who were underemployed. They sought to create a campaign to help a cause, he said.

“Why not go big?” Moser said of tackling unemployment.

Proudly Made IN AMERICA aims to grow the sales of American-made products by promoting that aspect and to encourage more businesses to produce goods in America. Increased awareness should help increase sales and, in turn, should help create jobs, Moser said.

Michael Mertes, economic development coordinator for St. Charles, said it is a good thing that Moser and his team are drawing attention to the idea of

buying American-made products.

“I think it’s great to not only support and buy American but support and buy local as well,” Moser said.

Proudly Made IN AMERICA’s website, www.in-america. org, contains directories listing more than 30 businesses that produce American-made products. Illinois companies include Bison Gear and Engineering in St. Charles, Oak Street Bootmakers in Wheaton, SK Hand Tool in Sycamore and WeatherTech Automotive Accessories in Bolingbrook.

At first, Moser said, his team sought out businesses. Now, he said, businesses are seeking them out. Proudly Made IN AMERICA is asking participating businesses for a small donation to help over out-of-pocket costs for such items as office supplies and the website, he said.

The initiative is always looking for volunteers, Moser said.

Interested people can contact his team through the website’s About Us page, he said.

Proudly Made IN AMERICA plans to add videos and a madein America pledge to the site, Moser said.

It will “allow individuals and businesses to sign the pledge as an affirmation of their support,” he said.

where during rush hour it can take 50 minutes to travel a few miles on Routes 62, 72 and 31, according to the Kane transportation officials.

The division of transportation estimates that more than 200,000 vehicles a day cross bridges over the Fox River from Elgin to Algonquin, according to its fact sheet.

The parkway also would improve accessibility to businesses in Algonquin, Carpentersville, East Dundee and West Dundee and increase desirability to shop in the downtown districts, officials said.

Kane County estimates there would be $100 million growth in equalized assessed property values along the

Longmeadow Parkway corridor and that the corridor could create 12,800 permanent jobs.

Village boards of 10 area municipalities, including Algonquin, Carpentersville, East Dundee, West Dundee, Huntley, Hampshire, Lake in the Hills and Gilberts, have adopted resolutions supporting the bridge project.

Relieving traffic congestion in the area has been a priority in recent years. The widening of Rakow Road was completed last year and work began on the Algonquin Western Bypass, along with the widening of Route 31 from the Virginia and Klasen roads intersection to Rakow Road.

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cent of the land required for the $117 million parkway, Schoedel said.

Planners hope to build the road initially as two lanes, with hopes of widening it to four lanes as use of the parkway grows. The bridge would built so it could easily be widened to four lanes.

“The important thing is to make the connection ... from west of Randall Road to Route 62,” Schoedel said.

The project – about 5.6 miles of new road in the Algonquin-Lake in the HillsCarpentersville area from Route 62 to Huntley Road – is needed to relieve traffic congestion in northern Kane and southern McHenry counties,

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GENEVA – Geneva Commons soon will land another nationally recognized bar and eatery.

Bar Louie, a Texas-based chain of urban bars, is expected to open one of its newest locations at the former location of Red Star Tavern at 1602 Commons Drive, in the Geneva Commons shopping center along Randall Road.

The Geneva City Council granted Bar Louie a liquor license for the new location during Monday’s city council meeting.

Representatives of Bar Louie did not return calls for comment, and have not publicly announced when they might open their new bar and restaurant. But the company indicated on its website and in advertisements that it has begun hiring for the Geneva location.

Ellen Divita, economic development director for the city of Geneva, said the city welcomes the chain’s arrival in the city.

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OPINIONS OUR VIEW: THUMBS UP/THUMBS DOWN Thumbs down: The village of Elburn is going down a road that many Illinois communities recently have – it is considering whether to allow video gaming.

We recognize that video gaming is no longer out of the mainstream in western Kane County – there are gaming machines at Blackberry Bar and Grill just south of Elburn, and the village of Sugar Grove recently authorized video gaming.

Nonetheless, Elburn should think twice before copycatting what remains a dubious idea.

It is debatable how much video gaming machines help a business, but what is clear is that gambling often leads to addiction and generally preys upon people who can least afford to take financial hits.

Additionally, as Kane County Board member Drew Frasz accurately noted, money spent by gamblers does not create wealth as much as it redistributes it since that money would otherwise likely be spent elsewhere.

The topic in Elburn is expected to be revisited next week at a Committee of the Whole meeting.

Although some towns have OK’d video gambling based – in part – on the fact that neighboring communities have allowed it, we hope the trend goes the other way and that the practice in western Kane County stops at Elburn’s borders.

Thumbs up: In both the public and private sectors, employees have been forced in recent years to stretch themselves thin in a difficult economy.

Oftentimes it becomes clear that doing more with less is easier said than done, and creative solutions are required to avert major problems.

That is why we are heartened to see the village of North Aurora take steps toward creating a volunteer force that can assist the village’s police department in the case of emergencies or manpower shortages at special events, such as North Aurora Days.

The program would be a local offshoot of the national Citizen Corps volunteer group, which is overseen by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

North Aurora Deputy Police Chief Scott Buziecki is optimistic there will be substantial interest in volunteering once the program launches.

That would be a welcome development. The volunteer force looks like a terrific opportunity for civic-minded North Aurora residents to make a real difference in their community.

Sauceda will prove himself The Kane County Chronicle editorializes, “Even if [Rob] Sauceda were the best candidate for that job, [Chris] Lauzen should understand it’s questionable for him to seek to fill the spot with a political supporter of his.” I accept the paper’s skepticism, but reject its and Mike Kenyon’s assertion that his former primary challenger Rob Sauceda is not a good choice for the position of temporarily collecting the bills at the animal control shelter.

Just one pleasant year ago, the Chronicle endorsed my opponent in the important primary for the Kane County Board chairman race. However, we went on to win that contest with 70 percent of the vote. I am delighted to have literally tens of thousands of “political supporters.”

I hope that the more than 2,800 voters and their families who put up yard signs as “political supporters” are not automatically disqualified from helping me now that we are putting in place needed management and ethics reforms.

Did you notice that there were no laudatory editorials when I appointed supporters of my opponent

Editorial board J. Tom Shaw, publisher Jay Schwab

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GUEST VIEW Chris Lauzen (who had contributed thousands of dollars to beat us) or even five elected Democrats to important Kane County Board chairmanships? I did not see that balance in reporting and opinion.

Over the objections of some of my political supporters, I appointed political opponents because I believe that they are the most competent to fill the roles to serve our mutual constituents. Likewise, this is my firm assessment regarding Rob Sauceda.

Perhaps the Chronicle editorial board has forgotten that those whom they quote who criticize my selection were part of the decisions at animal control that resulted in three humiliating failures. Mike Kenyon, who – with his family – has sold millions of dollars worth of land to government units both before and during his tenure as a County Board member, supported the most recent selection for direc-

tor before this one that resulted in a $45,000 loss that had to be subsidized by taxpayers and a default on last year’s $93,000 mortgage payment. We will need to double-up on that payment later on in this year, with Rob’s help.

This is the sad context of the Chronicle’s criticism.

I am proud of my three- to fouryear friendship with Rob Sauceda and his family. I am deeply grateful for Rob’s and tens of thousands of voters’ “political support.” I appreciate that Rob and his family have contributed a grand total of $205 to bring 10 to 15 people to three of our annual Fay’s Pork Chop picnics. This is hardly payto-play cronyism.

Nine months from now, when the results are in from the animal control billing collection process, I will ask the Chronicle editorial board to retract their premature judgment – or I will apologize to you all for my management error.

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8SOUND OFF How sad to hear that Coultrap will be torn down. I am thankful that I was able to attend school there, send my children to school there, teach there and just enjoy its environment. I don’t agree with it being torn down, but in the best interest of our district, and with the money situation the way it is, I guess it is going to happen.

Farewell, Coultrap. You’ve enriched many lives and you will be missed.

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Don’t knock Oberweis

If it’s illegal, it can’t be legal I wanted to know what part of illegal does our governing body not understand.

How can illegal residents get driver’s licenses? Why do people not understand – that illegal means against the law, but they don’t enforce any of that.

The paper should find answers instead of mumbo jumbo. That’s my opinion.

Black is black and white is white, and that’s the end of it. Help out.

Don’t give them handouts Have you noticed lately that the same people who are out begging for money in Geneva and Batavia, off of Randall Road, it seems they get their Portillo’s and McDonalds or any other food that people give them, and they throw their garbage on the ground right there.

I’ve noticed the Batavia workers having to clean up their messes, and people just keep giving these same people money.

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How does it feel?

The Kane County Board members who were really

upset about having to sign up to speak at the executive committee, I want to ask them – how does it feel to be cut off from the people who are supposed to represent you?

You don’t like it because you are saying that you are elected to represent the people.

Impossible task There is a former LA policeman on a shooting rampage in California.

When did this former policeman have a mental exam to own a firearm? Before he was a policeman? During any time during his tenure as a police officer? Or after he was terminated from the police department?

Mental illness does not start at a specific time, with flags waving.

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‘Pride and Prejudice’ at Batavia Public Library BATAVIA – “Pride and Prejudice,” the classic tale of love and social commentary by 19th century novelist Jane Austen, is the One Book, One Batavia 2013 selection.

During February and March, Batavia Public Library, 10 S. Batavia Ave., will offer a book discussion and four programs inspired by the book and about its author. A book discussion will be held at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday at the library.

Copies of the book are available for checkout. At 2 p.m. March 3, the public is invited to spend time “In the Garden with Jane Austen” and with author Kim Wilson, who will discuss the role gardens played in the lives and loves of Austen and her characters.

Eileen Shafer, author of Royal Teas with Grace and Style, will demonstrate a favorite ritual of Jane Austen’s era during “Taking Tea with Jane Austen,” at 2 p.m. March 10.

On March 21, during Books Between Bites at noon, Diane Capitani, of the Jane Austen Society of North America, will examine the idea that money – not love – is what keeps the plot turning in “Pride and Prejudice.” Then, at 7 p.m., the library presents the One Book, One Batavia main event, “Jane Austen Speaks.”

During this program, actress Debra Ann Miller’s portrayal of the author will delve into Austen’s personal life.

All programs are free of charge.

Registration is required for all programs except the book discussion and Books Between Bites.

For information, visit www.OneBookOneBatavia. org, or call 630-879-1393, ext. 200.

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The person who called about “The stupid party” and Jim Oberweis, I don’t know much about the man, but I will tell you, as a senior, we get food delivered from Oberweis. No other store, and no other restaurant, will do it. Don’t knock Oberweis. You can knock the person but not the food.

But you fail to listen to the people, and you make us sign up for three minutes to speak at a board meeting, and then you turn around and do exactly what you want to do instead of what we ask you to do.

You’re bullying us.

Congratulations, Chris.

I know a lot of people are probably anti-you because you are doing things differently, but I’m glad you are giving these board members an opportunity to know what it’s like when they’re not a member of the executive committee, to be just like us.

We are little peons who are members of the public who elected these people to represent us, but they are not representing us but the big business and themselves.

Congratulations, Chris.

That’s exactly what needs to go on.

We need to have some order, and we need to have more public input. Thank you for treating these people who are not executive committee members like members of the public.

And that should go for every committee meeting.

If they are not members of that committee, they are members of the public, just like the rest of us who are not board members.

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Dad ‘n’ Me Dance set for Sunday

BATAVIA – Kelly Standing will speak at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Batavia Women in Business luncheon, delivering her message, “Jump from STANDING in Your Own Way to OutSTANDING in Your Field,” at Lincoln Inn Banquets, 1345 S. Batavia Ave. The cost is $25 for members and $30 for nonmembers and guests. Registration should be made by Sunday.

For information, contact the Batavia Chamber of Commerce at www.bataviachamber.org/ programs or call 630-8797134. For information about Batavia Women in Business, visit www.bataviawib.com.

GENEVA – The Geneva Park District has planned its Just Dad ‘n’ Me Dance, set from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Geneva High School, 416 McKinley Ave., Geneva.

The event will be an evening of dancing, entertainment and refreshments. Doors open at 5 p.m. for check-in and pictures.

All couples will receive a keepsake photograph.

The cost for residents is $10 per person, and the cost for nonresidents is $15 per person.

For information or to register, call 630-232-4542 or visit www.genevaparks.org.

– Kane County Chronicle

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Batavia Mayor Jeff Schielke (center, right) joins franchise owners Jamie (far left) and Murray Collier (center) to cut the ribbon Thursday for the new Chick-fil-A in Batavia.

Minimum wage proposal raises hope for workers, fear for employers

By JONATHAN BILYK jbilyk@shawmedia.com Should Illinois’ governor get his way, workers at the bottom of the wage scale soon could get a state-mandated pay raise.

But should state lawmakers increase the minimum wage, businesses and other employers of those earning the wages say it could create problems for employers and consumers.

In his 2013 State of the State address Wednesday, Gov. Pat Quinn told lawmakers in Springfield that he intends to push for legislation to boost Illinois’ minimum wage from $8.25 to $10 an hour.

Quinn’s proposal is similar to a proposal introduced in the state Senate in 2011 that would have raised the minimum wage to just over $10 an hour by 2014.

Quinn and others who support increasing the minimum wage say it’s needed to help families living at or beneath the poverty line survive.

Kimberly Drew, a policy associate with the Chicago-based Heartland Alliance, said the increase would largely go to those over the age of 20 working full-

time jobs.

She said the increase would help families and the state’s economy.

She pointed to a report issued in 2012 by the Economic Policy Institute that indicates increasing the minimum wage would act as an economic stimulus, putting more money in the hands of consumers likely to spend it immediately.

The report claims that increasing Illinois’ minimum wage to more than $10 a hour would help the wage keep pace with inflation and provide more than $3 billion a year to low-income families.

Businesses and their lobby groups take a different view.

The Illinois Retail Merchants Association, for instance, called the proposal “job-killing.” IRMA president David Vite said boosting the minimum wage would “only hurt those looking for a job and those who employ them in this challenging economy.”

That view was shared by employers in the Tri-Cities.

Craig Frank, owner of job recruiting firm Frank’s Employment in St. Charles, noted that Illinois already has the

fourth-highest minimum wage in the country.

He said raising the wage at this time would only deal another blow to the state’s relationship with business owners, who he said are fearful of Springfield.

“I think it’s a fallacy that this is going to help anyone,” Frank said.

Other business owners said they would have to to raise prices. Pete Spentzos, owner of Apple Villa Pancake House in Batavia, said he saw “no way to maneuver” his business or finances to just absorb any such increase.

He said he’d have “no other way” to keep his business operating than to pass the additional cost associated with paying his 40 workers on to his customers.

And at the St. Charles Park District, business manager Karen Schindel said the district likely would need to consider increasing user fees to absorb the cost of paying the increased wages to many of its 300 to 400 seasonal employees, including lifeguards, camp counselors and others who earn at or near the minimum wage.

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WEST CHICAGO – United States Golf Association rulestrained pro Jim Larson has planned a review of the most common rules situations plus a discussion of Prairie Landing’s local rules from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday at Prairie Landing Golf Club, 2325 Longest Drive, West Chicago. After the one-hour seminar, there will be discussion, lunch, cocktails, sports TV, golf swing evaluations, a putting contest and a card game.

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Fuller’s Fast Stop bought for $2 million

By JONATHAN BILYK jbilyk@shawmedia.com GENEVA – A gas station and convenience store on the city’s east side has come under new ownership.

Fuller’s Fast Stop, in the 1100 block of East State Street, Geneva, was sold last month to a Carol Streambased company affiliated with St. Charles-based Par-

ent Petroleum.

According to records made available by the Kane County Recorder’s Office, a corporation known as Angel Associates LP purchased the site at 1166 E. State St. on Feb. 4 for $2 million.

The Fuller company had operated the gas station and associated store since 2006, opening it alongside their namesake, Fuller’s Car

Wash.

The new owners, who are affiliated with Parent Petroleum Retail with offices in Carol Stream, could not be reached for comment on what they intend to do with the property.

Angel Associates has in recent years purchased a number of other gas station sites in Kane County and elsewhere in the Chicago

area, including six BP stations in Kane – in Batavia, St. Charles, South Elgin and Elgin – in 2010, for a total of $3.26 million, according to Kane County property records.

Geneva Economic Development Director Ellen Divita said the city had known that the group was interested in purchasing the site, but was not aware the sale had been

recorded with the county.

She said the new owners had briefly contacted the city with some questions, but had not formally met with city officials about their plans for the location.

Divita said she believed some aspects of those future plans for the Geneva Fuller’s Fast Stop could come before the Geneva City Council in the near future.

Perlman Fine Jewelry grand opening BATV to kick off ‘Project Publish’ reality series Sunday

By ERIC SCHELKOPF eschelkopf@shawmedia.com BATAVIA – The contestants have been chosen for BATV’s new reality show, “Project Publish.”

The show, which air for seven weeks, will broadcast live from BATV’s studios at Batavia High School starting at 2 p.m. Sunday through March 24. Each week, a performer randomly will be paired with a writer.

The contestants were chosen after recent auditions at the Batavia Public Library and St. Charles Public Library.

“It was really stiff competition,” BATV station manager Holly Deitchman said. A list of the seven writers and seven performers is at www.batv. us/project-publish.

The idea for the show came from local writer and St. Charles resident Richard Graves, host and creative director of “Project Publish.”

Graves had bemoaned the fact that writers have a hard time generating an audience dur-

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BATV community TV station intern and “ Project Publish” producer Kimberly Kozar heard Graves read the poem during last year’s Art in Your Eye festival in Batavia and decided to bring his idea to life.

“Project Publish” is one of several new shows that BATV is producing. Since the fall, BATV has been streaming live concerts from Kiss The Sky music store in Batavia and is working on a show called “Out on the Town.”

“It’s all about fun TV and hopefully getting more people to tune in,” Deitchman said.

Information about “Project Publish” is available by visiting BATV’s website at www. batv.us.

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Corey Perlman, owner of Perlman Fine Jewelry at 301 W. State St. in downtown Geneva, prepares to cut the ribbon during a grand opening ceremony presented by the Geneva Chamber of Commerce on Thursday. The shop fills the vacancy in the building located on a prominent corner in the downtown area.

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WASHINGTON – The Postal Service said Friday it lost $1.3 billion in the quarter ended Dec. 31 despite cutting costs 9.8 percent, as Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe called on Congress to authorize changes in its business model to halt unsustainable losses.

Cost savings and a 4.7 percent increase in shipping and package revenue offset a 3.1 percent drop in first-class mail revenue from the same period last year, when the post office lost $3.3 billion. Total revenue held steady at about $17.7 billion during the first quarter, the post office’s strongest period because of holiday mailings.

The Postal Service released financial results two days after Donahoe said he would end Saturday mail delivery without Congress’s approval if necessary, pressing lawmakers to act

on legislation to restore the post office’s financial viability.

“I’d like to say we can solve these problems on our own,” Donahoe said Friday at a postal board meeting in Washington. “The scale of our challenge requires major legislative reform to our business model. We do not want to be a burden on the American taxpayers.”

Donahoe said Wednesday that ending Saturday delivery of all mail except packages in August would save $2 billion a year. The post office wants to cut $20 billion of annual costs and says it can’t do it without congressional action.

House and Senate leaders said legislation to fix postal finances is a top priority this year, even as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nev., on Thursday joined other Democrats in questioning the legality of a unilateral halt of Saturday mail.

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By ERIC SCHELKOPF eschelkopf@shawmedia.com BATAVIA – This year’s Fourth of July fireworks show might be canceled unless organizers can raise $50,000.

The city’s Fourth of July fireworks are funded solely through private donations.

The show costs $40,000 to put on, said Mark Davis, Know more chairman of the Batavia Want more Fireworks information? Visit Committee. www.bataviafire“We need works.org. to raise more than that in case of cost overruns,” Davis said. “All of the reserves we had have been depleted. We’re down to almost nothing. The last four or five years we’ve been dipping into the reserves to keep the show going.”

Davis said the committee has had to use the reserves because donations and sponsorships have been down the last few years.

The committee will discuss the issue more at its meeting at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 20 at the Open Range Southwest Grill, 35 N. Water St. in downtown Batavia. The committee is also in need of more volunteers, and Davis welcomed anyone interested to attend the meeting.

To raise money for the fireworks show, Batavia’s firefighters and police officers will take on Batavia’s teachers in the fourth annual Books vs. Badges basketball game on March 10 at Batavia High School, 1201 Main St. The game will start at 5 p.m., and tickets are $5 for adults and $2 for seniors and children.

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8LOCAL BRIEFS Distict 303 to host events about suicide prevention ST. CHARLES – St. Charles School District 303 is presenting a special edition of Parent University as part of a series of events during the district’s Suicide Prevention Week. “Suicide Prevention: Teens at Risk, What All Parents Should Know” will be presented from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the District Awesome Parties arties • Great Open Play

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the Batavia Public Library, 10 S. Batavia Ave. This slide lecture by art historian Jeff Mishur looks at selected works from Picasso’s long career within their historical context.

The program is free, but registration is required. Register online at www.bataviapubliclibrary.org or call 630-879-1393, ext. 200.

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Larkin exacts revenge ROYALS CLINCH UEC RIVER TITLE OUTRIGHT BY TROUNCING GENEVA. PAGE 22 Sandy Bressner – sbressner@shawmedia.com

Geneva’s Cam Cook tries to get a shot past Larkin’s Daniel McFadden during the Vikings’ 72-52 loss to the Royals on Friday in Geneva.

Improvisation Bethany Orman (left) and the Batavia girls basketball team has worked around having only eight players on the roster by having the Bulldogs’ boys club basketball team practice with the team.

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By JAY SCHWAB jschwab@shawmedia.com GENEVA – Having already defeated Larkin once this season, the Geneva boys basketball team needed “a monumental effort” to turn the trick again, in Vikings boys basketball coach Phil Ralston’s estimation.

Geneva wasn’t close to making that happen Friday, so instead, the visiting Royals celebrated a monumental achievement of their own.

Larkin blasted Geneva, 72-52, in Upstate Eight Conference River play to cement what is believed to be Larkin’s first outright boys basketball conference championship in 20 years. St. Charles East needed to win out and have Larkin lose Friday to have a chance to tie for the title.

“It means a lot – I won’t lie to you,” Larkin coach Deryn Carter said. “I know some coaches will say conference isn’t [a huge deal]. It means a lot to us. It means a lot to what we’re trying to build, and it validates a lot of hard work that some seniors and juniors have put in. Hopefully the freshmen and sophomores in our program will realize what the hard work in our program will give them.”

Larkin (21-3, 10-2 UEC River) turned in a vintage performance, unnerving Geneva with fierce defensive pressure and benefiting from a productive blend of transition baskets, drives to the rim and 3-point marksmanship.

Geneva (16-7, 6-5 UEC River) played Larkin even at 13all through the first quarter but stumbled from then on, and faced a 33-24 deficit by halftime.

The Royals led by as many as 17 in the third quarter before the Vikings temporarily regrouped late in the third quarter and early in the fourth.

Geneva junior Chris Parrilli provided six points over consecutive possessions during the comeback attempt, hitting a 3-pointer, then drawing a foul on another 3-point try, making all three free throws.

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Geneva’s Chris Parrilli has his shot blocked by Larkin’s Andrew Jones during the Vikings’ 72-52 loss Friday in Geneva. The Royals clinched the Upstate Eight Conference River Division title with the victory.

Ralston bemoaned the delayed response to Larkin’s surge.

“You can’t be [17] down and then decide ‘Oh, now we’re going to play hard,’ ” Ralston said. “That’s the wrong time to do it.”

The Vikings twice came within nine points early in the fourth quarter before Larkin put the game away for good with an 11-0 burst that padded its lead to 65-45.

The Royals looked the part of a team that had every intention of sewing up a conference crown.

“They never let up. They were always pushing hard,” Parrilli said. “They knew what they wanted to do, and they did everything they could, executed everything and hit some shots.”

Geneva (22 turnovers) squandered twice as many possession as Larkin but Carter said his team’s dominance Friday was more multilayered than the turnover contrast.

“We’ve created turnovers against them in the past but in the half court, when they get into the half court, they’ve taken advantage of us and they’ve executed at a great level,” Carter said. “I thought we did a better job in the half court defensively.”

Senior guard Quentin Ruff scored a game-high 20 points for the Royals.

Like Larkin, Geneva placed three in double figures, but Connor Chapman and Nate Navigato were high scorers with 11 apiece. Navigato also grabbed seven re-

bounds, while Parrilli scored 10 points.

Friday marked the first Geneva loss to Larkin since Ralston came to town in 2008.

It might have been a fitting night for the streak to end as Larkin underscored its recent ascent with the conference championship.

“If someone’s going to hand out a coach of the year award, I think Deryn has done a tremendous job,” Ralston said.

“You take a look at where the program was five years ago, and for him to get these boys that he has playing at a high level like they are, I think it speaks volumes.

“This was a nice breakthrough year for them, and they certainly have earned everything that they’ve gotten so far.”

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REGIONALS BREAKDOWN Best first-round matchup: St. Charles North vs. Glenbard West at 4A Wheaton Warrenville South Regional, 7:30 p.m. Monday.

While a meeting of two sub-.500 teams may not seem glitzy on the surface, consider the way the North Stars (Upstate Eight Conference River Division) and Hilltoppers (West Suburban) have hung tough with top contenders in their respective leagues lately.

Toughest area regional: Class 4A St. Charles East Regional. This category had no contest from the time brackets were released last month, when the host Saints were slotted in an opening-round game despite splitting separate UEC River meetings with top-seeded Geneva in overtime.

Throw in Batavia – which has climbed to 18 wins after 13 last

Monday’s area opening round 3A, 4A regional games CLASS 4A St. Charles East vs. Lake Park at 4A St. Charles East Regional, 7:30 p.m.

St. Charles North vs. Glenbard West at 4A Wheaton Warrenville South Regional, 7:30 p.m.

CLASS 3A Wheaton Academy vs. Chicago VOISE Academy at 3A Wheaton Academy Regional, 6 p.m.

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Batavia coach Kevin Jensen talks to his team during a game last month. The Bulldogs are 18-10 going into Clemente at 3A St. Joseph Regional, the Class 4A postseason.

7:30 p.m. with us to help us.”

Bayram and junior point guard Liza Fruendt know the boys more than most because they are classmates. All eight are listed as team managers on Batavia’s Athletics 2000 website.

Barnes, Luke Daniels,

Mitch Davis and Dean Simoncelli attend most regularly, with Scott Banker, Alec Berry, Ethan Compton and Noah Cotten also figuring into the rotation. Many have been part of the student section for the 18-10 Bulldogs, even on the road.

season – and the Tri-Cities plot thickens.

Best area bet to win a regional: Burlington Central.

The youthful Rockets, who host a 3A regional, have won 10 of 11 games – including nine straight – since falling to potential regional final foe Kaneland in overtime last month. If Shelby Holt and Alison Colby can spark the inside scoring, BC could be in business.

“We’re excited for regionals. We all are,” said Holt, one of five freshmen on the team. “We want to see what we can do.”

Best potential regional championship game: Geneva vs.

St. Charles East at 4A St. Charles East Regional. A rubber match would only seem fair after each team scored a home overtime victory during the UEC River season. The Saints would need

to find an answer for the Vikings’ post-heavy effectiveness after taking on Batavia, another conference rival they split against, in a possible semifinal.

Potential dark horse: Batavia.

While the Bulldogs went just 1-3 against Geneva and East during the regular season, Batavia lost by just six and 10 points in its meetings with UEC River champ and archrival Geneva, a more competitive contrast to past seasons. “We would rather play those teams, teams that we know and we’ve played before and we get a shot at revenge,” Bulldogs junior post Erin Bayram said. “So I think that’s exciting for us. We have a chip on our shoulder, and we just really want to beat them.”

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Earlier this week, as Jensen convened the girls for a postpractice huddle, the three boys in attendance casually hoisted jumpers at the other

end of the floor, talking about mutual times that worked for them in the coming days.

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ATAVIA – Sometimes before world history class, John Barnes tells Erin Bayram he’s going to block one of her shots later that day.

Sometimes Barnes gets the chance. Sometimes he doesn’t.

Sometimes, he and the rest of the boys club at Batavia girls basketball practices simply serve as passers or pressers or go-betweens.

Since the start of the season, Barnes and seven fellow juniors have filled in as needed, scrimmaging, drilling and playfully trash-talking with a roster of eight Batavia girls.

His squad’s limited depth prompted Bulldogs coach Kevin Jensen to enlist the help of former players from his time in the boys program.

Their presence has balanced the equation while boosting the Bulldogs’ toughness entering next week’s Class 4A St. Charles East Regional.

“People walk by our practices and they’re like, ‘What?’ And they get really confused,” said Bayram, a 6-foot-2 center. “They don’t know if it’s a boy practice or a girl practice, and then they realize that they’re practicing

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“We always talked about Jensen, about us getting together to play again,” Barnes said. “I guess he thought of the idea to come and help out his girls team, and we were all up for it and thought it was a good idea.

And I think we do seem to help them a lot.”

Before thinking there are any battle-of-the-sexes tiffs, don’t.

Jensen’s primary motivation in asking the favor stemmed from a special rapport with his 2010-11 freshman boys basketball team, his final boys team before taking the reins of the varsity girls program the following season.

Jensen also coached a few of the boys in freshman football.

“I’ve gotten a pretty good relationship with them, so

I was able to say, ‘Look, do you want to do this?’ without it seeming like it was something goofy,” Jensen said. “They knew I was being serious, and they’ve been exceptionally mature about it, and I think the girls have, too.”

The girls also have been grateful – and humble. They aren’t ashamed to admit the contrast between boys’ and girls’ physicality and styles of play.

“Rebounding against a boy is so different than rebounding against a girl,” said Fruendt, the team’s leading scorer at about 20 points a game.

Added Bayram: “No girls play like they do, so when we go out into the game, we’re prepared to play girls that are aggressive.”

Barnes, who joked with Jensen about getting a state championship ring should the Bulldogs have a breakthrough in them, spoke re-

alistically about a possible return next season.

Batavia listed 11 players on its preseason sophomore roster and 18 on the freshman team, which figures to help ease the graduation of senior guards Grace Andrews, Mirandi Grizaffi, Sami Villarreal and Jenny Welday.

Jensen occasionally has promoted younger players during the final weeks of the regular season to keep starters fresh, but was unsure about any call-ups for Tuesday’s regional semifinal, which likely will be against host St. Charles East.

“I feel pretty confident about the eight,” he said.

“Even though it’s eight, the eight we’ve got, we’ve played pretty well as of late.”

He meant his team, but Barnes and Co. also could fit the bill. For now, there’s one honored ringer behind every Batavia girls basketball player.

“I feel pretty conident about the eight. Even though it’s eight, the eight we’ve got, we’ve played pretty well as of late.”

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NAPERVILLE – Neuqua Valley girls basketball coach Mike Williams retrieved a crutch from a hobbled fan late in Friday’s game against Geneva.

His intent was to help free a ball stuck between the backboard and the side of the rim.

As referees waved off the gesture moments later at the sight of a quicker solution, the full-circle symbolism had been etched. Play resumed, and Geneva capped a 54-46 victory in the Upstate Eight Conference championship crossover, coming unshackled just more than two months after the Wildcats blew them out.

In late November, these s a m e t e a m s Morgan met in Geneva, Seberger with the Vikings two days removed from losing point guard Michaela Loebel to a season-ending ACL injury and also without standout center Sami Pawlak.

“At the beginning of the season, we were an entirely different team from when we played them,” Vikings senior forward Kelly Gordon said.

“We were still shell-shocked from Michaela, but tonight we knew we had to come back with composure and fight ’til the end.”

UEC River champion Geneva (17-10) flipped the script against its Valley counterpart largely by following the same protocol it has since a 45-22 loss to the Wildcats (24-3).

Stay patient. Talk. Maybe even slow it down.

After committing an early barrage of turnovers that fed the Wildcats’ attack, Geneva adjusted after halftime and turned a two-point deficit at the break into a six-point edge entering the final quarter.

Junior guard Morgan Seberger, who paced the Vikings with 13 points, swished what coach Sarah Meadows called two “absolutely huge” 3-pointers in the first 30-plus seconds of the third quarter.

The only times Geneva looked back after seizing a 28-24 lead were when Meadows barked instructions during stoppages in play.

“This was a huge confidence boost going into the playoffs next week,” said Geneva junior Sidney Santos, who grabbed nine rebounds in the team’s fifth straight victory. “We wanted to take control, and after getting that first half out of our system, we did.”

Santos and the Vikings essentially played a completely different style than in the teams’ first meeting. Santos served as primary ballhandler – as she has since early December – while fellow 6-footer Abby Novak often defended the Wildcats’ backcourt. That combination, along with steady play from Pawlak, helped Geneva finish 10-2 in the River and win its final seven league games.

Although Valley Player of the Year Allison Hedrick dented Geneva for 15 points and eight rebounds, the Vikings’ commitment and discipline in their 2-3 zone kept any of her teammates from breaking through.

Neuqua Valley, which shot 1 for 19 from long range, finished 5 for 17 from the foul line compared to Geneva’s 20 of 27 effort.

Geneva’s ability to locate and impede the Wildcats’ motion offense after the break was also key.

“Just basically communicating with each other,” Gordon said. “We were talking a lot more, being aware of where the cutters were, letting each other know that they were coming and bumping the cutters.”

In her first action since tweaking her ankle about a week ago, Gordon had 11 points. Pawlak (10 points, nine rebounds) also scored in double figures for the Vikings.

“Hey, they’re a good team.

We’re going to be fine. It’s not the end of the world right now,” Williams said.

Sounds like a credo the Vikings adopted not too long ago.

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By JARED BIRCHFIELD editorial@kcchronicle.com MAPLE PARK – The DeKalb boys basketball team’s first win since late December did more than spoil Kaneland’s senior night.

The Barbs’ 50-45 victory Friday also prevented Kaneland from clinching a slice of the Northern Illinois Big 12 East Division crown.

A Knights win would have guaranteed at least a tie for first place.

“That’s the best four quarters of basketball we played all year,” DeKalb coach Dave Rohlman said. “We haven’t won since the 28th of December. We played some good stretches in that time but we just couldn’t get over the hump.”

The Knights started the fourth quarter down 38-33. They cut the Barbs’ lead to 43-41 halfway through the quarter but were unable to take the lead.

“It was really frustrating,” said Kaneland’s Dan Miller, who led all scorers with 17 points. “It seemed like we would get within two points every possession and then they would go down and get a bucket.”

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Kaneland’s Drew David (left) controls a defensive rebound against DeKalb’s Riccardo Pitts in the second quarter Friday of the Barbs’ 50-45 victory over the Knights in Maple Park.

A Miller layup with less than a minute to go returned DeKalb’s margin to two, 47-45.

The Knights immediately fouled Andre Harris on the Barbs’ next possession.

Kaneland senior Matt Lim-

brunner grabbed the rebound when Harris failed to connect on his free throw.

Kaneland held the ball until the clocked ticked down to 13.1 seconds but failed to score as a layup attempt rimmed out and

DeKalb (5-19, 3-5 NI Big 12 East) grabbed the rebound.

The Knights regained possession with 10.6 seconds to go and trailing by three after Harris sank a free throw.

The Barbs’ defense forced a

Kaneland turnover to seal the victory.

“At the end, we had a couple of decent looks and couldn’t tie the game,” Kaneland coach Brian Johnson said. “Our boys played hard. They were just not able to execute on the offensive end of the floor.”

Poor shooting plagued Kaneland (13-8, 6-2 NI Big 12 East) in the first half.

The Knights held a 17-16 lead at the half despite going 4 for 21 from floor.

“We had good shots – they just wouldn’t fall,” Johnson said “That was the story for us the entire game.”

Rohlman credited his defense for the victory, especially Pat Aves’ guarding of Drew David. The junior guard did not score for Kaneland.

“You got to look at the way Pat Aves guarded Drew David.

I thought he played phenomenal defense on him tonight,” Rohlman said.

John Pruett scored 16 points for the Knights, who have conference games remaining at Morris and at Rochelle.

Kaneland has lost two straight games after winning seven in a row beforehand.

BOYS BASKETBALL: ST. CHARLES 61, STREAMWOOD 43

Asquini heats up in St. Charles East victory

By DENNIS D. JACOBS editorial@kcchronicle.com STREAMWOOD – When the basketball wound up in the hands of Jake Asquini 60 feet from the basket with one second left in the third quarter Friday, there was a sense in the Streamwood High School gymnasium that – given the way the St. Charles East sophomore had been shooting after halftime – he might just make a shot from that distance.

He didn’t, but almost every other shot Asquini took in the second half was on target.

His 15 points – all after halftime – helped the Saints (14-8, 7-3) to a 61-43 victory as they attempted to stay alive in the Upstate Eight Confer-

ence River Division race.

Unfortunately for East, Larkin (10-2 UEC River) clinched the conference title with a 72-52 win at Geneva.

The Saints led just 35-32 when Asquini started his scoring rampage with 2:40 left in the third quarter. He scored the next 12 points of the game – all from beyond the arc – to put East up by 15.

“Once the first one goes, my confidence boosts up a lot,” Asquini said. “That’s kind of how I am.”

Asquini’s hot shooting forced the Sabres (10-17, 2-9 UEC River) to abandon the 2-3 zone they had employed with some success since the start of the game.

“The best way to break a zone is to shoot the ball well

and Jake did that for us in the second half,” East coach Pat Woods said. “I thought our kids did a good job of trying to find him as he started heating up.”

Streamwood switched to a man-toman defense in the fourth quarter, but Asquini still got open for Jake Asquini one more 3-pointer with 3:45 to play that put the Saints up by 18, 55-37.

“My teammates did a good job finding me for all those shots,” Asquini said. “I didn’t create any of them. They found me on all of those and I just knocked them down.”

Asquini’s ascendance coincided with the descent of Streamwood senior Joel Lightbourne. His 14 first-half points, mostly on short-range jumpers, boosted the Sabres to a 24-23 lead at the half, but the Saints held him to two points in the second half.

“We started with our bigger guy, [6-foot-6 junior] Dave Mason on him,” Woods said of East’s second-half defense.

“I thought he did a good job, but we wanted to get some different looks offensively. And then Ben [Skoog] regrouped and got back in and I thought he did a good job. We helped a lot on him, too.”

Skoog also had one of his better games offensively, scoring 11 points.

East’s aggressive man-to-

man defense forced the Sabres into 22 turnovers, twice as many as the Saints.

East also held a 29-23 edge in rebounding.

“I thought A.J. [Washington] and Ben were great on the boards and I thought that was a big factor, as well,” Woods said. “We emphasized rebounds [at the half]. That’s the one big thing we emphasized.”

Skoog snared five rebounds and Washington grabbed six to go along with seven points.

Washington’s first quarter steal and jam was the crowdpleasing highlight of the game.

Sophomore Cole Gentry (eight points) played a solid floor game for the Saints, who host Batavia tonight.

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Golf out of former Saints star’s system PREP ZONE Jay Schwab One of the best female golfers in St. Charles history doesn’t have much use for her clubs these days.

Megan Morgan, who won an IHSA individual state championship at St. Charles High and went on to be an All-American golfer at the University of North Carolina, said she has played “maybe five times in the past six or seven years.�

A 1994 St. Charles graduate, Morgan is among four former Saints who will be inducted tonight as Jodie Harrison Lifetime Achievement Award recipients before tonight’s boys basketball game against Batavia.

During her 20 years of golf – starting at age 4 – Morgan put her all into the sport. When it was over, Morgan had little trouble moving on. “It’s fun when I have a group of friends who just want to have fun,� Morgan said. “What’s not fun is when someone wants to play competitively, and the reason being now, when my customers or someone says ‘Hey, let’s go play golf, I’d like to play golf with you,’ my answer is ‘OK, but just so you know, I don’t hit out of sand traps anymore.’ “They’re like ‘What do you mean?’ I’m like ‘Well, if I get into a sand trap, I throw it out of the sand trap.’ The next question is ‘How do you keep score?’ I’m like, ‘I don’t.’ I don’t need to. I’ve been there. I just want to have fun.�

After wrapping up at UNC, Morgan spent a year as a professional golfer on the Futures Tour in 1999. She had some success – including a 5-underpar round at a tournament in downstate Decatur – but Morgan burned out quickly. “Having had the opportunity to do it all over again, I would do it very differently,� Morgan said. “I just didn’t think I wanted to do that for a living, so instead of just having fun with it and seeing where I could take it, I just constantly questioned

Award honorees Tonight’s Jodie Harrison Lifetime Achievement Award recipients (ceremony to take place before St. Charles East’s 6 p.m. boys basketball home game against Batavia): Megan Morgan (class of 1994, girls golf) Cori McCleod Allivato (class of 1996, girls track and field) Jon Duerr (class of 1961, football) Jeff Surges (class of 1985, basketball) doing that for a living. When I played golf in high school and college, I had school and a sorority and other avenues, other outlets I had available to be a three-dimensional person. “Whereas, when you go play professional golf, when you’re on the road, you’re with other golfers. You go home, you’re roommates with other golfers.

On your days off, you’re going to play golf. You talk about golf, you watch golf on TV. It is golf, golf, golf. God bless the rest of those girls that had a passion for the game that I just didn’t have.�

Morgan said she loved her college years at North Carolina, but her career as a Tar Heel might have contributed to draining the joy for golf that she had as a girl. “When you’re an athlete at UNC, if you’re not a national champion, you’re a failure,�

Morgan said. “So having that goal, when you’re in it, you don’t realize how high your standards that you set are at that school. Looking back, you’re like ‘Oh, my God.’ �

Morgan joked that St. Charles is like Los Angeles in that there are so many transplants, but she was an exception, logging most of her funfilled, formative golf rounds at St. Charles Country Club with family and friends. Her freshman year at St. Charles High was the first year the Saints fielded a girls golf program.

Morgan’s parents, Craig and Darlene, as well as her younger brother, C.J., still live in St. Charles.

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breathing room, 36-26, which is how the quarter ended.

“We definitely had the momentum at that point,” Carlson said. “We just wanted to keep it rolling and bury them.”

Elgin was not able to get closer than 41-32 in the fourth quarter. Strittmatter led Batavia with 15 points and 10 rebounds. Mike Rueffer added 11 points for the Bulldogs and Luke Horton chipped in with nine. Williams was the game’s high scorer with 27 points.

“Inconsistency on the offensive end is what worries me the most,” Sitter said. “We have guys who do the right thing onetime down the floor, and the next time they don’t do the right thing.

“It is too late in the season to be making mistakes, not knowing where you are supposed to be and what you are supposed tobe doing with the ball.”

Batavia took advantage of its height advantage to score many easy baskets in the lane. The Bulldogs also hit 25-of29from the line, while Elgin managed just 8-of-14. “[Our height advantage] was a big key for us going in,” Carlson said.

“Horton had a great game inside.”

“We’re smaller than any team we’ve played the entire year,” Sitter said.

“We’re used to that. Our post defense wasn’t very good today. A lot of reaching instead of moving our body and getting in the right spot.”

BOYS BASKETBALL: AURORA CHRISTIAN 55, MARMION 48

Aurora Christian explodes past Marmion

By CHRIS WALKER editorial@kcchronicle.com

AURORA – Three starters scored in double figures and Ryan McQuade gave the Eagles a lift off the bench to lead Aurora Christian to a 55-48 victory over Marmion in Friday’s Suburban Christian Conference Blue Division contest.

Jonathan Harrell, who helped the Eagles jump to a 12-0 lead, led the Eagles with 14 points. Cory Windle and Ryan Suttle added 13 points apiece as the Eagles led throughout and never allowed the Cadets to cut their deficit to less than three points.

“Windle got hot and got us a lead, and we played some zone defense and haven’t played much zone defense,” Aurora Christian coach Pat McNamara said. “I think that helped rebound-wise because [Marmion] is aggressive and plays hard.”

Marmion (9-16, 3-6) answered the 12-0 deficit with a 9-0 run, but wouldn’t get any closer the rest of

“I thought we just mailed it in during the irst half.”

Ryan Paradise Marmion boys basketball coach the evening.

Aurora Christian (13-11, 2-7) drained seven 3-pointers in the first half to take a commanding 33-20 lead at halftime.

“I don’t know what it is, but we have a track record of starting like that,” Marmion coach Ryan Paradise said. “I thought we just mailed it in during the first half. We didn’t do anything we worked on and didn’t get on their 3-point shooters.”

McQuade provided an emotional lift for Aurora Christian and managed to make an impact in limited minutes in his return from a knee injury.

Playing for the first time in nearly a month, McQuade knocked down

a 3-pointer and converted 4 of 4 free throws to finish with 7 points.

He also snagged a pair of rebounds and once again was a difference-maker defensively, taking two charges.

“The knee feels great,” McQuade said. “I’ve been doing a lot of rehab and it feels stable and strong. It felt great to get back out there, especially after a tough loss against Aurora Central.”

The Cadets cut the Eagles lead to 39-35 on a Jordan Glasgow 3-pointer with 38 seconds left in the thirdquarter, but Harrell recovered any lost momentum by sinking an offbalance three-pointer at the buzzer.

The Eagles opened the fourth quarter with a basket by Suttle and a 3-pointer from Zach Singers to extend their lead to double digits and the Cadets never got any closer than 50-44 with 1:05 remaining.

Junior Mike Sheehan led the Cadets with 17 points while Glasgow added 12 points and 5 rebounds.

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE BURLINGTON – Burlington Central boys basketball coach Brett Porto took a timeout with 3:10 remaining to challenge his team.

The Rockets had seen a 16-point, thirdquarter lead evaporate and trailed Richmond-Burton by four points.

“He said, ‘This is a defining moment for our season,’” forward Bryce Warner said. “He asked for all our effort.”

Central responded in just the manner Porto hoped, grabbing the lead and holding on for a 69-65 win in a pivotal Big Northern Conference East Division boys basketball game Friday night. The Rockets (10-13 overall, 8-1 BNC East) own first place with three remaining games.

R-B (8-15, 6-2) still has a shot with four remaining games, including the regularseason finale at home against Central.

Central was led by Moter Deng with 14 points and Reed Hunnicutt with 13. Warner was tough inside with a game-high 14 rebounds. Central’s second-chance points were crucial as it outrebounded R-B, 3829.

Central led 50-34 with 1:25 remaining in the third period, but R-B stormed back behind guard Chris Vlasak, who had three 3-point plays in the fourth quarter and led all players with 19 points. R-B took a 61-57 lead with 3:10 remaining.

GIRLS BOWLING East’s Crocker narrowly misses state cut: At Cherry Bowl in Rockford, St. Charles East junior Laura Crocker finished two pins shy of advancing to the second day of the IHSA state tournament. Her pinfall of 1,143 over six games ranked 31st among individuals from non-qualifying teams.

The top 30 move on, and Crocker trailed Conant freshman Angela Anzalone (1,144) by the slimmest of margins.

“Pretty tough, but not much you can say. Laura did her best,” Saints coach Mary Ann Carrell said. “It was a tough crowd. The scores were pretty low. I’ve never seen them that low.”

Crocker averaged a 190.5 on the day, 38.5 pins behind individual leader Emily Malone, a Rockford Jefferson senior.

Crocker’s top game was a 244 in the second game of the morning session.

St. Charles North senior Bobbi Jo Buhlman (1,064 series) and East sophomore Erin Heuer (1,061) also competed but did not advance.

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• Saturday, February 9, 2013

ELGIN – After allowing Elgin to nail five 3-pointers after the first quarter, Batavia’s boys basketball team got a little defensive during Friday’s Upstate Eight Conference River Division game against Elgin.

Contesting every shot and limiting Elgin to one shot most possessions, the Bulldogs shut the Maroons down for 7:33 in second quarter and went on a 14-0 run to take a 10-point lead en route to a 62-50 victory.

“That was a big goal defensively, to hold them to single-digit quarters,” said Mike Carlson, who had 14 points off the bench to boost the Bulldogs. “Our defense really led to our offense, shutting them down and getting easy shots.

“We attacked [Elgin star guard] Arie [Williams] on ball screens. We did a really good job of communicating. That was huge, making sure everyone knew where they were at.”

Carlson started the second quarter with two baskets to tie the score. The Bulldogs (10-12, 4-6 UEC River) took a 17-15 lead on a basket by Jake Pollack, and increased it to 20-15 on a 3-pointer

by Zach Strittmatter.

Carlson followed with two free throws and Tucker Knox capped the run with a three-point play.

“I thought we rebounded well,” said Batavia coach Jim Nazos. “I thought, position-wise, we were in a lot of good spots. The second and third quarters, there were a lot of things that went well for us defensively that created a little bit of a gap heading into the fourth.”

Elgin (11-12, 2-8) finally stopped the run when Williams hit two free throws with 27 seconds left in the half. Batavia held a 27-17 advantage going into halftime.

“Our shot selection wasn’t very good,” said Elgin coach Mike Sitter. “We settled for the first shot instead of the best shot. When Zach we didn’t hit it a few, it Strittmatter kind of steam rolled.

“We are a team of runs. When we are going good, everybody plays well.

And when things went bad in that second quarter, it started snow-balling.

We were on a bad roll. We just need to play more consistently.”

Elgin tried to claw back into the game, cutting the Bulldogs’ lead to 3326 late in the third quarter.

However, Carlson was fouled on a shot in the lane, and Elgin’s Isaiah Butler was assessed a technical foul for arguing the call.

Carlson went 3 for 4 from the freethrow line to give the Bulldogs some

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The Aurora Christian girls basketball team made program history Thursday night, winning its first regional championship with a comeback win against Seneca. The Eagles move on to Monday’s 2A Somonauk Sectional semifinal against Peru St. Bede. In his third year with the program, Eagles coach Jerry Tokars is proud of the strides made by his team, which also won its first Suburban Christian Conference Gold title and has set a singleseason wins record (19 and counting). Before Friday afternoon’s practice, Tokars chatted with Kane County Chronicle sports editor Jay Schwab about the exciting times for Aurora Christian. The following is an edited transcript:

Not [teaching] in the building, do you have any sense of what kind of feedback/response there’s been about the win?

If I judge by emails and stuff coming, I haven’t been [to school] yet, but I know with Facebook and emails to my own personal email, it looks like there’s quite a bit of excitement. … It took quite awhile for us to leave Wilmington High School last night. A lot of people

were celebrating pretty good, and rightly so.

What does it say about this group that they were able to accomplish this with just one senior?

Well, they’re pretty resilient. … We’ve had some comeback wins. We had some last year, so I would even think it started last year, although the freshmen weren’t around last year, but a lot of the returners from last year’s core did some of this. … I think probably one of the differences from the last couple years, I’ve seen a progression from the first year in the program, is with finishing games.

AURORA CHRISTIAN’S JERRY TOKARS

Do you think you guys are a better offensive team or a better defensive team?

We called up [several players] after the Thanksgiving tournaments, late November, early December. It turned out that many of them transitioned [successfully]. … Everyone from someone like Kirsten Madsen, who’s started the last several games, to several others who, whether because of foul trouble to starters or certain situations, have gotten in and contributed.

Well, I would say a defensive team. We’re still striving to get better offensively but defense has been one of the top three stress points I’ve been emphasizing since the first day I got to the program, and it will always be. It’s proven for us across all three years because when you are having an off night or can’t score like what happened in the fourth quarter [on Thursday], good defense kept us in the game until we recalibrated

PREP SCHEDULE TODAY Boys basketball: Batavia at St. Charles East, 6 p.m.; St. Viator at Geneva, 6 p.m.; St. Charles North at Elgin, 6 p.m.; Kaneland vs.

Wheaton Academy at Wheaton Academy Shootout, 7:30 p.m.; Marian Central at Marmion, 6 p.m.; Rock Island at Aurora Central Catholic, 7:30 p.m.; St. Edward at Aurora Christian, 7:30 p.m.; Round Lake at St. Francis, noon Girls bowling: IHSA state tournament MONDAY Girls basketball: St. Charles North vs. Glenbard West at 4A Wheaton Warrenville South Regional, 7:30 p.m.; St. Charles East vs. Lake Park at 4A St. Charles East Regional, 7:30 p.m.; Aurora Central Catholic vs. Clemente at 3A St. Joseph Regional, 7:30 p.m.; Wheaton

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Academy vs. Chicago VOISE Academy at 3A Wheaton Academy Regional, 6 p.m.

TUESDAY Boys basketball: Geneva at West Chicago, 7:30 p.m.; Kaneland at St. Charles North, 7:15 p.m.; Nazareth Academy at Aurora Central Catholic, 7 p.m.; Wilmington at Aurora Christian, 7:30 p.m.; Burlington Central at Marengo, 7:15 p.m.; Immaculate Conception at St. Francis, 7:30 p.m.; Benet at Wheaton Academy, 7:30 p.m.

Girls basketball: Geneva vs. TBA at 4A St. Charles East Regional, 6 p.m.; Batavia vs. TBA at 4A St. Charles East Regional, 7:30 p.m.; Kaneland vs. Sandwich at 3A Burlington Central Regional, 7:30 p.m.; St. Francis vs. Timothy Christian at 3A Prosser Regional, 7:30 p.m.

enough to put more points on the board.

You guys started out with eight girls. How much of a challenge has [depth] been?

What’s the early outlook for Monday?

St. Bede is a tough team.

They have a big center, I think

she’s 6-2, 6-3, and she’s a good size kid. She’s a [dominant] center in the middle on offense and defense, and I think she’s their leading scorer, but they have some other shooters, too, which kind of challenges you to defend inside and outside at the same time. We’re going to have to come up with a pretty good gameplan to stay with them, and give them a game. … We’re looking forward to the challenge, we really are. It should be fun and a great experience for a team that is only losing one player.

Is it a challenge to make sure they don’t have that satisfied mindset considering the program has never done this before?

It’s a logical question, and it very well could, but knowing this group, that’s been one of our major characteristics.

Many, if not all of them, play multiple sports, and they’re never satisfied, which I think is a great asset. We’ve got practice a little later this afternoon, and I guarantee they’re going to be ready to go at it and prepare for Monday. I don’t think it’s going to be a big problem. Nerves may be, but if you’re not a little nervous, something may be wrong.

Family resides in St. Charles • PREP ZONE Continued from page 30 Morgan resides in Chicago, where she works for Eurex, a European derivatives trading firm. Her work will keep her from enjoying tonight’s hall of fame induction in person. Morgan is scheduled to depart today on a long-planned business trip to Frankfurt, Germany.

Although she’s sorry the trip conflicts with tonight’s honor, she has few other regrets when it comes to her work in the trading industry.

“When I went down on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for the first time, I felt a passion,” Morgan said.

“I have a passion for free markets. I know that makes me sound like a geek, but I’m very passionate about my job today. I didn’t have that passion about golf.”

•฀Jay฀Schwab฀is฀sports฀ editor of the Kane County Chronicle. He can be reached at 630-845-5382 or jschwab@ shawmedia.com.

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This year, for its fourth year, novice and experienced horse riders will gather at the Bull Run Equestrian Center for its annual Boot Camp, which will be held beginning at 9 a.m. Feb. 23 and 24.

Bull Run’s annual Boot Camp is for those interested in learning or improving their jumping skills. Lynda Zema, professional trainer and Bull Run’s manager, leads the sessions in both flat work – the nonjumping skills riders and horses need for competition – as well as jumping.

Three sections offer all levels of instruction, and participants do not need to own horses to take part.

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Section 1 is a novice group, ideal for the green horse or a nervous rider.

Section 2 is for more seasoned horses and riders who are looking to polish their skills.

Section 3 is for horses and riders who demand a challenge and are ready to move up to a bigger jump.

The first day of instruction will cover flat work and gymnastic work, and the second day will include additional flat work as well as course work.

Each day will end with a question and answer session with Zema.

The cost of the boot camp is $85 for one day or $165 for the weekend.

For those bringing their own horses, ship-ins will be welcome for $10 a day and may arrive as early as Feb. 22 after 3 p.m.

A limited number of stalls will be available upon request for $35 a night or $65 for the weekend.

In addition, a limited number of Bull Run’s horses are available for lease for $50 a day or $90 for the weekend.

All riders are asked to wear breeches, boots and half chaps, as well as an ASTM-certified helmet.

For more details and an application, participants can contact Bull Run at 630-365-1376.

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Busy schedule leads to inattention to detail

Contrary to my claim in last week’s column, it seems my cable provider actually does have PBS in its lineup.

But of course. Yay! In other words, Holly and I can continue watching “Downton Abbey” without switching providers, watching it online or hunting up any more DVD’s (which we did because we caught the “Downton” bug two years after its debut).

After a consultation with a technology wizard – a.k.a. a teenager – I discovered that all I’d needed to do was use the search words “Masterpiece Theater” to find the series in the program guide. I struck-out when I searched for “Down-

TALES FROM THE MOTHERHOOD Jennifer DuBose ton Abbey,” however, which led to my erroneous conclusion that we didn’t get PBS. Of course, I merely could have read the channel guide the cable installer left behind when we switched providers last year, or paid closer attention when I hastily scrolled through the 500 channels looking for PBS, but what fun is

that? Attention to detail apparently isn’t my strong suit.

I’ll never forget the time I walked into Target, for example, completely oblivious to the fact that I’d neglected to blend my under-eye concealer – that magic makeup that allows me to at least appear well-rested and better able to fake the fact that I have my act together.

So yeah, I had about five or six goodsized dabs dotted under each eye and a couple of other places – you know, to cover those funky freckles and agespots, but I digress. Suffice it to say that it wasn’t until I’d shopped for more than 30 minutes, said hello to at least

six people I knew (including a friend with whom I spoke for several minutes – and even hugged, for Pete’s sake!) and checked out at the register that I realized my faux pax.

No, it wasn’t until I glanced into the rear-view mirror as I backed out of my parking spot that I noticed the colony of whitish dots I’d left behind, no doubt when the traffic light turned green on my way to the Batavia Target.

I laughed so hard that tears rolled down my face (right over the dang concealer, in fact, which never budged.

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Coheed and Cambria bringing adventurous music to Chicago justice as I can.

By ERIC SCHELKOPF eschelkopf@shawmedia.com It’s a busy week for New York band Coheed and Cambria.

The band on Tuesday released “The Afterman: Descension,” the second volume to “The Afterman: Ascension,” which debuted last October in the top five on the Billboard album charts.

Coheed and Cambria is touring this week in support of the album, and will play Saturday at Congress Theatre, 2135 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago.

Between The Buried and Me and Russian Circles also are on the bill. The show starts at 6:30 p.m., and tickets are $29.98, available at www.ticketfly.com.

Kane County Chronicle reporter Eric Schelkopf had the chance to interview Coheed and Cambria bassist Zach Cooper, who joined the band last year.

Eric Schelkopf: Did you consider yourself to be a fan before you joined the band?

ZC: Yeah, absolutely. I’ve been a fan for a long time.

ES: The band parted ways with previous bassist Michael Todd on a sour note. He had been in the band for

ES: I suppose you guys will be playing a good chunk from the new album Saturday. What should people expect from the show?

ZC: Definitely a good chunk of the set is new material. It being a double record, there’s a lot of new songs to play.

But I think we pretty much cover all of the records in the set.

ES: What do you like about the new record?

ZC: There’s a lot of things I Provided photo

Coheed and Cambria recently released the album “The Afterman: Descension,” and are performing at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Congress Theatre in Chicago. a long time. Did you feel pressure to fill those shoes?

ZC: At the very beginning, when I auditioned, I didn’t really feel any pressure. They were very supportive of just me playing the way I was playing; approaching things the way I would approach them.

So, the whole first couple of months that I was working with them, we were working on these two records and I felt kind of comfortable approaching things

with the way I would naturally approach them.

It wasn’t until we started rehearsals for the first tour that I did that I started to feel a little bit of that pressure. We were playing older songs, songs that I had listened to for years, and now I have to stay true to what Mike had played, but do it my own way.

That’s when I started to feel a little bit of that pressure. I just do my best to give them as much

like about it. I like the concept a lot. I really like the story that singer Claudio Sanchez came up with for it. I’m a big fan of the songs, obviously.

I’m just kind of overwhelmed by the whole thing right now.

There’s a lot for me to be excited about, especially being new to the process and everything.

ES: In my opinion, Coheed and Cambria is a pretty adventurous band.

Is that part of the reason that you like the band, that they are willing to take musical chances?

ZC: Definitely. That’s one of the things that I always liked about them. They’ll take risks.

You get to kind of take

chances, take risks, try new things. There’s an adventurous side to them.

ES: All of their albums have basically been concept albums. There’s not many bands willing to do that. Is that refreshing?

ZC: I think it’s kind of really

interesting. It’s beyond just being a series of concept albums, and it’s actually a concept driven band, which I think is really cool.

Nobody really does that.

Some bands will take a chance on doing a concept record at some point in their career. But the thing I felt was really special about this band was that the whole thing is concept driven.

ES: How do you think the last record fits in with the new record?

Do you think they are a good fit together?

ZC: I think they do fit pretty well together. If you follow the story arc, there’s a logical progression with the way the songs sort of go.

But I think even without that, there’s a lot of elements in both records that tie them together, and makes them one cohesive album.

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ST. CHARLES – Hickory Knolls Discovery Center has planned the February topic for its “Who Knew” series – Owl Be Seeing You – set from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 16.

The discovery center is located at 3795 Campton Hills Road, St. Charles.

Each month, there will be a different nature topic. This program is for ages 10 and older. Ages 10 to 14 must be accompanied by a paying adult.

The fee is $5 for residents and $7.50 for non-residents.

Advance registration is required.

For information, visit www. stcnature.org.

Jazz Showcase at House Pub set for Sunday ST. CHARLES – The House Pub is hosting a Jazz showcase with Alyssa and the Allgoods at 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10.

The House Pub is located

at 16 S. Riverside Drive in St. Charles.

There is no cover charge.

My Happy Place Yoga to host mini-mala event GENEVA – A mini-mala event is set from 1 to 2:15 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 16, at Going to My Happy Place Yoga, 316 Anderson Blvd., Geneva.

Mala is a series of repeating sun salutations, including meditations and breaks led by yoga professionals.

The cost is $15 for the special session, $5 for new students and free for existing students.

For information, visit www.

GoingToMyHappyPlace.com or call 630-402-4033.

Peace activist to speak at Temple B’nai Israel AURORA – Israeli peace activist Gershon Baskin will speak at Temple B’nai Israel at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17.

Temple B’nai Israel is located at 400 N. Edgelawn Drive in Aurora.

Baskin’s back channel negotiations with Hamas helped secure the release of Gilad Shalit after five years in captivity, states a news release.

During the presentation, Baskin will analyze the recent Israeli elections and prospects for peace.

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In her defense, perhaps she thought I had a skin condition or something. A condition, maybe, but it’s not on my face.

Geesh, had I been accompanied by my personal fauxpas police, a.k.a. my kids, this never would have happened.

They may not have witnessed this moment, but I know they’re on to me. Who knows what they’ll remember

about their childhoods, about their crazy mom?

Holly gave me a hint a few days ago, after we finally got caught up with the current season of “Downton” online (at PBS.org).

“Hey, Mom,” she asked, “do you remember how in third grade we missed my parent – teacher conference because we were home printing out the lyrics to “Do Your Ears Hang Low?” Seriously?

“No way! I have no idea what you’re talking about,” I replied, laughing and hoping it wasn’t true. We did go through a phase of singing it quite often but ... .

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school that morning Mr. Stanczak asked me where we were.”

Uh oh.

“But I remember going to that conference,” I said.

“That was the make-up,” she explained.

Oops! Well, my apologies, Mr. Stanczak, but apparently we really needed those lyrics. Right then, at that very moment. Because when the spirit moves you to sing, it’s no good to stop at just one verse.

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Ronald Colman (1891-1958), actor; Brendan Behan (1923-1964), playwright; Joe Pesci (1943), actor; Mia Farrow (1945), actress; Charlie Day (1976), actor; Tom Hiddleston (1981), actor.

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By BERNICE BEDE OSOL Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY – A number of impressive changes are likely to be made to your game plan in the year ahead. You’ve learned a lot from many past experiences, and now you should be ready to select some more fruitful targets.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – There’s a strong chance you’ll get an opportunity to disengage from an unproductive arrangement. Let go immediately without looking back.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Better insight can be acquired about something that you’ve been viewing from a purely intellectual level. Two important factors you need to consider are your feelings and emotions.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – If there is a project you’d like to launch but haven’t done so for one reason or another, you might get the perfect opportunity to let ’er rip. It would be a mistake to put it off any longer.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Begin to establish some loftier goals than those to which you’ve been accustomed. Even if you fall short of your mark, you’re still likely to exceed any of your old targets.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Don’t neglect any opportunity to acquire some interesting information that could be pertinent to your present affairs. You’ll find more than a few ways to use it to your advantage.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Listen attentively to any ideas brought to you.

There’s a very good chance you may learn about something that you didn’t even know existed and have a very good use for it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – An important matter you’re trying to negotiate could finally be settled today. Even if it involves some tedious processing, there’s a good chance everything will work out well.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – You’re not going to find a better day to start the diet or exercise program you’ve been promising yourself you’d begin. The odds are better than usual that you’ll reach your goal.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – It appears that you’ll get your chance to exercise greater management of something in which you’ve wanted to play a more active role. Don’t hesitate to assert yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – A constructive adjustment that could have an effect on your entire family can be made. Even if not everybody is ready to participate, they’ll hop on board later.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – It would help you immensely to make your immediate plans more concise and orderly. Put your focus only on the things you intend to complete within the next two weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Be alert for financial trends that could be personally rewarding. However, don’t expect an immediate harvest from what you plant now; give it some time to mature.

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Sylvester Stallone stars as Jimmy Bobo, a freelance hitman, in the film “Bullet to the Head.”

‘Bullet to the Head’ a fun title, fun film

By ED SYMKUS GateHouse News Service The last film to be so perfectly titled, to give viewers exactly what they thought they were going to get plotwise, was “Snakes on a Plane,” a bad movie that had only a good title going for it. That’s not the case with this mean, nasty, hardboiled movie that marks the return of Walter Hill (“Hard Times,” “Streets of Fire”) after more than a decade away from feature directing.

Based on the graphic novel of the same name, it’s about an aging, oldschool hitman who teams up with a young, hip cop in order to take down a bad guy’s operation in New Orleans.

It’s a great title, but it’s slightly inaccurate, as there are many bullets to many heads before the end credits.

The first of them comes immediately after the opening credits, which are prefaced by plenty of drugs and booze and nudity and cursing.

The odd part about all of this is that the movie, despite everything already mentioned, is so much fun. That’s due to a sharp script and a game performance by Sylvester Stallone as Jimmy Bobo, a freelance hitman

with rules and scruples and never a second thought about putting a bullet you-know-where. He’s a big lug, with a world-weary look, who won’t kill women or children, and trusts no one.

When he, against his will, gets hooked up with Detective Kwon (Sung Kang, the Korean actor from the “Fast & Furious” series), the stage is set for one of those uneasy partner relationships that we’ve seen so many times before. But the barbs flying back and forth in this one, are fresh and funny, and feel real. Some people are going to wince at a few racial slurs, but they fit right in with Bobo’s misguided attempts at humor and are nicely countered by Kwan’s incredulous “what-did-you-just-say?” facial reactions.

The film begins in a car and ends in a different car, and provides a ride that’s entrenched in ideas right out of the film noir genre. It even kicks off with a noir staple: a voice-over telling us about what’s to come.

“Here’s the story. This is the way it went down,” intones Stallone in his gruffest imitation of his own voice.

Things get and remain big and loud from that point on, with an array of characters including crooked politi-

cians, bad cops, a tattoo artist with a heart of gold (and a special relationship to Jimmy Bobo), and Keegan, a killer with a brutal, ruthless streak and a big smile (Jason Momoa, who recently starred in the remake of “Conan the Barbarian”). He’s reminiscent of the square-jawed actor Brian Thompson, who played the killer going after Stallone in the 1986 film “Cobra,” but Momoa has a lot more charisma and makes for a much tougher adversary.

Stallone, too, is far better in this film than his pal Arnold Schwarzenegger was in his recent “The Last Stand.” Come to think of it, “Bullet to the Head” is a far better film.

Kudos to Walter Hill, who hasn’t lost a beat as a director. In fact, this film would have fit right in with his terrific ’70s and ’80s films. It just wouldn’t have been so violent back then.

‘Bullet to the Head’ Writer: Alessandro Camon Director: Walter Hill Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang and Jason Momoa

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips tions to show my appreciation? – On The Way Out in New Jersey Dear On The Way Out: While goodbyes can be sad, your farewell party need not be morbid – particularly if you and your wife make it a celebration of life and let your guests know it in advance. If you’re afraid that saying what’s in your heart to each person individually will be emotionally draining, then deliver a speech or videotape one to be played at the event.

While reading your letter, I am reminded of a friend, Judith, whom I lost several years ago.

Judith had battled cancer for 12 years. After she had completed yet another round of chemo, some of her women friends gathered for a potluck luncheon at her place.

The wine was poured and we all glanced at each other, worried that toasting “health” might seem

inappropriate. Sensing the hesitation, Judy raised her glass and announced, “To LIFE!” And that, my friend, is exactly what your party should be all about.

Dear Abby: I’m a sixth-grade girl with a group of friends I like.

The problem is some of them constantly put themselves down.

It’s annoying to hear, “My hair is so messed up,” “I failed that quiz” (they got a B), “My paper is so bad” or “I’m so ugly.” None of these things are true.

How can I get my friends to stop complaining about themselves so much? –Tired of Hearing It in Boulder Colo.

Dear Tired of Hearing It: You can’t, so be patient with them because you appear to be more emotionally mature and self-confident than they are. At 12, it is not unusual for girls to become sensitive about their changing bodies, and some of their insecurity may be hormonal. That’s why they’re looking to others for reassurance.

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Patience and lifestyle changes relieve BPH

Dear Doctor K: I have BPH. I have some urinary symptoms, but because I work from home they’re not difficult to manage. Is there any danger in not actively treating my condition?

Dear Reader: Benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH, is the most common cause of prostate enlargement. As the name suggests, BPH is harmless; it does not lead to prostate cancer.

Up to two-thirds of men with BPH never develop any symptoms. Others find that BPH can make life miserable. You seem to be somewhere in between. The most common symptoms of BPH involve changes or problems with urination. They include: •฀A฀hesitant,฀interrupted฀or฀ weak urine stream; •฀A฀strong฀urge฀to฀urinate฀repeatedly throughout the day and night, even if there’s not a lot of urine in the bladder; •฀Leaking฀or฀dribbling฀urine; •฀A฀sense฀of฀incomplete฀emptying; •฀More฀frequent฀urination,฀ especially at night.

Even if you find your symptoms to be manageable, it doesn’t hurt to reassess every now and then. One way to get a sense of the severity of your symptoms

ASK DOCTOR K Anthony L. Komaroff is by calculating your urinary symptom score. I’ve put a copy of this questionnaire on my website, AskDoctorK.com.

If your symptoms don’t bother you too much, you and your doctor may choose to do nothing other than watchful waiting. This involves regular monitoring but no treatment. Most physicians advise against active treatment for men with mild symptoms because the side effects of the treatment can outweigh the potential benefits.

Even if you choose to forgo treatment, your doctor should regularly monitor you for complications. BPH can increase your risk of urinary tract infections and, possibly, bladder stones. The increased risk of infection comes from difficulty in fully emptying the bladder. If all the urine is not emptied out of the body, bacteria in the urine that remains inside the bladder can multiply rapidly.

If your symptoms become more burdensome, talk to your doctor about treatment options. Usually

a combination of lifestyle changes and medication can relieve the worst symptoms.

Lifestyle changes may include taking time to empty your bladder completely. Many of my patients with BPH say that if their urine stream stops, as if they have emptied their bladders, it will often start again if they just wait and continue to try to urinate. It also may help to avoid caffeinated or alcoholic beverages in the evenings. Your doctor may be able to substitute or adjust dosages of other medications you are taking that may affect urination.

Several medications exist to treat BPH. While medicines can cause side effects, they don’t in most patients, and many of my patients swear by the medicines I’ve prescribed. Also, surgical treatments are more effective and have fewer side effects than ever before.

Usually, though, patience and lifestyle changes can give sufficient relief, and that’s what I recommend first.

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by sitting in the hall

Dr. Wallace: My geometry teacher is very strict. Yesterday, I was five seconds late to her class, and she locked the door so I couldn’t get in. In fact, she slammed the door in my face. I knocked on the door, but she wouldn’t let me in. Rather than sit on the floor outside of her room, I went home because this was my last class of the day.

Now I’m in more hot water because she turned me in for ditching her class. My friend, who is in the same class, said that five minutes before the period ended, she unlocked the door and peeked out into the hall looking for me. Now I’ve got four hours of Saturday detention for cutting a class I really didn’t cut. It’s like a parent who kicks you out of the house, then calls the police to report you as a runaway.

This is the first time I’ve ever had to serve a detention for any reason. I feel ripped off.

My mother wants to go to the school to protest my detention, but I won’t let her do it. All this happened because I was late and that was my responsibility. I don’t need Mama to fight my battles. Please give me your thoughts.

I am aware that you are a former high school principal. – Nameless, Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Nameless: If what you emailed me is 100 percent factual, the teacher could have handled your fivesecond tardy in a more prudent fashion.

Locking you out of class wasn’t, in my opinion, a learning situation.

Students do not learn geometry sitting in the hall.

Instead of going home, you should have gone to an administrator’s or counselor’s

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace office and asked what you should do. Talk with your counselor about what you consider an unfair discipline. It’s possible the detention could be shortened since it is your first offense. If not, serve your detention, and don’t be late to class again.

Dr. Wallace: Jenny and I have been good friends for many years.

We’re both 13. Lately, Jenny has been acting rather strangely. Her main problem is that she tells “whopper” lies. It’s not just one or two a day; it’s about one or two every five minutes.

I’m tired of listening to all of her “fantasies,” and I’m considering dropping her as a friend.

I talked to my mom about the problem, and she told me I had to work things out myself.

Please give me your advice. – Sissy, Moncton, N.B. Dear Sissy: When people start telling fibs, it’s usually because something has happened to cause the person to lose self-confidence and to suffer from a lack of self-esteem. Talk to your friend, and tell her that you’ve noticed a recent change in her behavior that involved her fabricating a lot of stories.

Reaffirm your friendship with her and make her aware that you’ll always be there to listen and to help her when she needs help.

Never tell her the friendship is over, even if you decide to spend more time with others. That will only compound the problems she’s experiencing.

•฀Write Dr. Wallace at rwallace@galesburg.net.

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Dear Abby: I have enjoyed a good life. I have served my community. I have a wonderful wife, great children and good friends.

However, it now appears that the disease that has been kept at bay has progressed, and soon my days will end. I have accepted my impending death as best one can, and let few people know of it.

I would like to thank all the wonderful people who have been an important part of my life over the years, and I’m wondering how that might be accomplished.

I do not want to make them sad or receive condolences. I simply want them to know they were an important part of my life for which I am truly grateful.

I considered a party, but wondered if that might seem morbid.

Letters seem too distant, and phone calls would be hard on me.

While my death sentence is firm, and it will be soon, the exact date is impossible to know. Few of these people are aware that I am seriously ill, although I have been hospitalized many times.

Can you give me some sugges-

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The danger is around the finesse

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Henry David Thoreau said: “When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”

Many years ago, an expert married couple played together, and whenever the wife was the declarer, the husband turned on his portable CD player. As you might have guessed, they are not still married. But if running tunes through your mind helps you to relax and think more clearly, do it.

In today’s deal, what do you think of the bidding? After West leads his fourth-highest heart against three no-trump, what should South do?

The South hand has only 19 high-card points, but it has a very good five-card suit, one 10 and two nines. It also has seven control points (ace - 2; king - 1), which is normal for a two-no-trump opening. So I agree with South’s bid. And North, with 4-3-3-3 distribution, was playing the percentages in not using Stayman.

Declarer starts with seven top tricks: four spades, one heart, one diamond and one club. And there are at least three more winners available from the club suit.

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However, East won with his king and shifted to the diamond king.

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But when the finesse lost, the contract went down two.

If South had been humming, he would have won the first trick with dummy’s heart ace and taken the club finesse. Then he would have won at least 10 tricks.

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SuperNofa process.

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ST. CHARLES, 4 room, 2 bedroom, 1 bath, garage, $850/mo.

Immediate occupancy. Dorothy, L&C Rental, 630-624-1604.

ST. CHARLES, sm. country home, 4 room, 2 BR, 1 bath, bsmnt., gar. $850. Avail. now. Dorothy, L&C Rental, 630-624-1604.

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630-289-7484

ST. CHARLES, large 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath, laundry, air, heat incl.

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The requisite affidavit(s) having Christopher Rossman been filed, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVCounty Purchasing Director EN TO ALL DEFENDANTS IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED CAUSE, that said (Published in the Kane County action has been commenced in Chronicle, February 9, 2013.) said Court by the plaintiff, naming you as defendants therein and praying: (i) the Court to cause just PUBLIC NOTICE compensation to be ascertained and determined according to law IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE for the fee simple interest to the folSIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT lowing property: KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS That part of Lot 8 of Unit Number THE COUNTY OF KANE, a body 1, Fair Oaks Subdivision, accordcorporate and politic of the STATE ing to the plat thereof recorded OF ILLINOIS, September 26, 1958 as document Plaintiff, 871370, Plat Book 37, Page 47, v. in the Township of Campton, Kane Robert Randazzo, Alejandra Ran- County, Illinois described as foldazzo, Christine Kruse, the United lows: Beginning at the southwest States of America, BAC Home Loan corner of said Lot 8; thence North Servicing LP, Bank of America 17 degrees 03 minutes 27 seconds N.A., BAC Home Loan Servicing East (bearings assumed for deLP, CMG Mortgage Inc., Corner scription purposes only), 272.78 Stone National Bank and Trust feet along the westerly line of said Company, and Unknown Owners, Lot 8; thence South 00 degrees 32 Generally, minutes 48 seconds East, 52.63 Defendants.

DEKALB

Apt to share - heat & water incl.

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ST. CHARLES TOWNSHIP One bedroom, $650 month plus utilities, 630-880-2098

ST. CHARLES, 2 bedroom, 1

Proposals are due in the Kane County Purchasing Department by 4 p.m., February 25, 2013, when they will be publicly opened.

St. Charles Large 2BR, 1BA

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St. Charles Off/Ware Space 1,568sf - 19,000sf.

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The County of Kane is accepting proposals for an individual qualified to provide consulting services for the 2013 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) SuperNofa process.

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Shared bath & kit, $110-120/wk.

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FOR LEASE Newly Remodeled WAREHOUSE/OFFICE Great Location off of KESLINGER ROAD 1000 sq. ft. of Office w/Bath 2000 sq. ft. Warehouse 700 sq. ft. Mezzanine Storage Outdoor Storage Available

Generally, Defendants.

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No. 0127 BLACK CATS By Jeff Chen / Edited by Will Shortz

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Page 46 • Saturday, February 9, 2013 Lot 8; thence South 00 degrees 32 minutes 48 seconds East, 52.63 feet; thence South 17 degrees 38 minutes 11 seconds West, 93.84 feet; thence South 72 degrees 32 minutes 20 seconds East, 15.00 feet; thence South 17 degrees 09 minutes 51 seconds West, 40.82 feet; thence North 73 degrees 07 minutes 59 seconds West, 15.00 feet; thence South 16 degrees 45 minutes 52 seconds West, 14.32 feet; thence South 22 degrees 04 minutes 47 seconds West, 49.66 feet; thence South 15 degrees 28 minutes 18 seconds West, 19.97 feet to the southerly line of said Lot 8; thence South 87 degrees 08 minutes 22 seconds West, 11.88 feet along said southerly line to the point of beginning, in Kane County, Illinois. Said parcel contains 0.096 acres (+/-); and, (ii) to take such proceedings and enter such orders as necessary granting the County of Kane the fee simple interest to the property herein above described, ordering that the County of Kane enter upon such property and use the same upon payment of full compensation to the parties entitled therein, or to the County Treasurer, within such reasonable time as is fixed by the Court and (iii) that the Court retain jurisdiction of the cause to enter such further orders as may be necessary in said cause of action and for other relief and ; (iv) that summons has been issued out of this Court against you as provided by law, and, that this action is still pending and undetermined in said Court.

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on January 31, 2013 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, setting forth the names and addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as KORE Fire Service Consulting located at 584 Covered Bridge Drive, Elgin, IL 60124.

Dated: January 31, 2013. /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk (Published in the Kane County Chronicle, February 2, 9 & 16, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on February 6, 2013 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, setting forth the names and addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as PAULY FAMILY DENTAL GROUP located at 1940 West Galena Blvd, Suite 10, Aurora, IL 60506.

NOW, THEREFORE, unless you file your answer or otherwise make Dated: February 6, 2013. your appearance in said action in this Court, by filing the same in the /s/ John A. Cunningham office of the Clerk of the Circuit Kane County Clerk Court on or before March 4, 2013, AN ORDER OF DEFAULT MAY BE (Published in the Kane County ENTERED AGAINST YOU. Chronicle, February 9, 16 & 23, 2013.)

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court on January 31, 2013.

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/s/ Thomas M. Hartwell Thomas Hartwell, Clerk of the Circuit Court

J. Patrick Jaeger, Special Assistant States Attorney Attorney for: County of Kane P.O. Box 485 Geneva, Illinois 60134 Atty. No. 6188499 630-514-9353 jpjaeger@sbcglobal.net (Published in the Kane County Chronicle, February 2, 9 & 16, 2013.)

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COVENANT ❃

Batavia Covenant Church, Preschool

ASSEMBLIES OF GOD ❃

Sanctuary

1S430 Wenmoth Rd. (630) 879-0785 www.sanctuaryag.com Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m.

Sunday School for all ages at 9:00 a.m.

Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m.

Bible studies and children’s Bible clubs for all ages

BAPTIST ❃

Faith Baptist Church at Mill Creek

01S455 S Mill Creek Drive, Geneva, IL 60134 Phone: (630) 845-2532 Website: www.fbcmillcreek.org E-mail: secretary@fbcmillcreek.org Sunday: Coffee & Fellowship - 8:30 a.m.

Sunday School - 9:00 a.m.

Worship - 10:30 a.m.

Pastor Grant Diamond

First Baptist Church of Geneva

“Reach. Connect. Equip. Serve” East Campus (EC) 2300 South Street, Geneva Sunday: Traditional – 9:15 & 10:45 AM Worship Café – 9:15 AM West Campus (WC) 3435 Keslinger Road, Geneva Saturday Worship - 5:00 PM Sunday, Contemp. 9:15 & 10:45 AM Hand in Hand Christian Preschool: 630-208-4903 www.fbcg.com (630) 232-7068

CATHOLIC ❃

Holy Cross Catholic Church

2300 Main St., Batavia (630) 879-4750 Saturday Mass: 4:15 p.m.

Sunday Masses: 6:30, 8:00, 9:45 & 11:15 a.m.

Weekday Lenten Masses: 6:30 a.m., 8 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.

Holy Day Masses: 7:00 p.m. Anticipatory, 6:30 a.m., 12:10 p.m. & 5:00 p.m.

Confessions: Sat. After 8:30 a.m.

Mass & 3:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m.

Mon.- Fri. 7:00 a.m. - 7:55 a.m.

Tuesdays 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Chaplet of Divine Mercy: Tues. 8:30 a.m. & Sat. 4:00 p.m.

Eucharistic Healing Service & Chaplet, Tues. 6:00 p.m.

Rosary for Life: 1st Saturday of each month at 9:00 a.m.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: Sun. to Sat. 1:00 p.m.

Msgr Daniel Deutsch - Pastor

St. Patrick Catholic Church

(downtown) 408 Cedar St., St. Charles, IL 60174 Saturday, 6 p.m.

Sunday, 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. & Noon (Crane Road) 6N491 Crane Rd. St. Charles, IL 60175 Saturday, 4 p.m.

Sunday, 8:00 a.m., 9:45 a.m., & 11:30 a.m.

St. Peter Catholic Church

1891 Kaneville Rd., Geneva (630) 232-0124 Weekday Masses Monday-Thursday 7AM & 8AM Friday during Summer 7AM & 8AM Friday during School Year 7AM & 8:45 AM Saturday 8AM Weekend Masses: Saturday 4:30PM Sunday 7AM, 9AM, 11AM, 5PM Holy Day & Holiday Masses Call the church for Mass times on these special days Confessions: Monday through Friday, 7:30 -7:55 AM Saturday, 8:30-10:00 AM & 3:15-4:15 PM

1314 W. Main St., Batavia.

(630) 879-3721 bataviacov.com Sunday Worship Hours: • 9:00 am Contemporary Worship Service • 10:00 am Coffee (Fellowship Hall) • 10:35 am Traditional Worship Service Preschool: (630) 879-3795

LUTHERAN ❃

Bethany Lutheran Church 8 S. Lincoln St., Batavia (corner of Lincoln and Wilson) (630) 879-3444 www.bethanybatavia.org 9:00 am Traditional Service with Holy Communion on the 1st and 3rd Sundays, plus Festival Sundays 11:00 am Contemporary Service with Holy Communion on each Sunday Education Hour takes place between the two services from 10:00 am to 11:00 am for ages 3 years old-adult Nursery care is available throughout the Sunday morning.

Monthly Last Friday Community Supper 5:00-7:00 pm Free to the Community

Bethlehem Lutheran Church 1145 N. 5th Ave. St. Charles, IL 60174 1 mile N. of Rt. 64 on Rt. 25, (630) 584-2199 www.bethlehemluth.org Sunday Worship: 8:00 a.m./ 9:15 a.m./ 10:30 a.m.

Adult Learning, Sundays: 9:15 am/10:30 am Worship on Saturdays 5:30 p.m.

Uplift on Saturdays 6:30 pm Teen led Praise Gathering Bethelem Preschool Center: Full Day Child Care/Half dayPreschool 630-584-6027

Faith Lutheran Church LC-MS and full of Holy Spirit fire!

Vibrant worship Sundays 9:00 a.m.

Nursery open during worship Education Hour 10:30 a.m.

1745 Kaneville Rd., Geneva www.flc.geneva.org (630) 232-8420

Kane County Chronicle / kcchronicle.comK Geneva Lutheran Church “Serving Christ in the Heart of the Community” 301 South Third St., Geneva (630) 232-0165 www.genevalutheran.org Communion Worship Schedule Saturday – 5:30pm in Chapel Sunday - 9:00am in Sanctuary 10am - CoffeeHouse - free treats/beverages 10:15 am - Education Hour for ages 3 yrs.-adult Weekday Christian Ed. Program ages 2-5 yrs.

M-F, 9:30AM-12:30PM or 10AM-1PM Building is ADA compliant.

Immanuel Lutheran Church and School (Missouri Synod) 950 Hart Rd., Batavia (630) 879-7163 - Church Office (630) 406-0157 - School www.ImmanuelBatavia.org Pastor Ronald Weidler Pastor William Beckmann Pastor Donald Moll Principal Glenn Steinbrenner Saturday Worship: 5:30 p.m. (Traditional) Sunday Worship: 8:00 & 9:30 a.m. (Traditional) 10:45 a.m. (Contemporary) Monday Night Worship: 7:15 p.m. (Traditional), June 13-August 15.

Holy Communion will be celebrated the first and third weekends of the month at all services.

Nursery Care Available Immanuel Lutheran School Preschool 3’s to 8th grade.

St. Mark’s Lutheran Church & Preschool (Missouri Synod) 101 S. 6th Ave., St. Charles (Just South of St. Charles Library) (630) 584-8638 The Rev. Timothy P. Silber, Sr. Pastor Saturday – Traditional Worship at 5:30 p.m.

Sunday – Traditional Worship at 8:00 a.m.

Sunday – Traditional Worship at 9:30 a.m.

Sunday – Contemporary Praise Worship at 11:00 a.m.

All services elevator access St. Mark’s Nurturing Center Preschool for ages 2 – Pre K (630) 584-4850 www.stmarksstc.org

METHODIST ❃

Baker Memorial United Methodist Church Fourth Ave. & Main St., St. Charles Join Us for Traditional Worship 9:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. in the Sanctuary 9 a.m. Sunday School for all ages 10:30 a.m. Adult Sunday School Nursery Care Available Senior Pastor: Rev. Ronni Sue Verboom 630-584-6680 www.bakermemorialchurch.org

NONDENOMINATIONAL ❃

Hope Community Church

Worship Sunday 10:00am Baker Community Center 101 S. Second Street, St. Charles, IL 630-263-5698 Current-Warm-Informal-Serious See us on the Web www.hope-online.com

PRESBYTERIAN ❃

Fox Valley Presbyterian Church (USA) A Welcoming Church 227 East Side Dr., Geneva (630) 232-7448 (1 blk. N. of Rt. 38.)

(630) 232-7448 www.fvpres.com 8:30 a.m. Worship (informal) 10:00 a.m. Worship (traditional) 10:00 a.m. Church school Nursery Care Provided 8:30-11:00 a.m.

Adult Breakfast Club 8:30 a.m.

Confirmation (7-8th grd.) 4:00 p.m.

Youth Group 7:00 p.m.

The Growing Place Weekday Preschool We are a Stephen Ministry Church

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST ❃

Congregational Church of Batavia

21 S. Batavia Ave. (Rt. 31) Batavia 630-879-1999 www.congregationalchurch.org Interim Pastor, Greg Skiba Sunday Worship 9:00 & 10:30 am Nursery care available Sunday School 10:30 am for age 3-12th grade Wednesday 5-8 pm: LOGOS Children and Youth program Batavia Nursery School 630-879-9470

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PRE-OWNED ANDERSON BMW

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BUSS FORD

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Barrington & Dundee Rds. • Barrington, IL

815/385-2000

800-935-5913

www.andersoncars.com

www.raymondchevrolet.com

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REICHERT CHEVROLET

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SPRING HILL FORD

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888/600-8053

www.motorwerks.com

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TOM PECK FORD

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ST. CHARLES CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP

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AUTO GROUP - GARY LANG BUICK Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

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REICHERT BUICK 2145 S. Eastwood Dr. • Woodstock, IL

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www.bussford.com

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ANTIOCH CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP

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ZIMMERMAN FORD

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MOTOR WERKS CADILLAC

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O’HARE HONDA

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RAY CHEVROLET

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KNAUZ MINI

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GREGORY HYUNDAI

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O’HARE HYUNDAI

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LIBERTY NISSAN

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www.classicdealergroup.com

ANDERSON VOLKSWAGEN 360 N. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

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847-855-1500 www.Gurnee V W.com

LIBERTY VOLKSWAGEN

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375 Skokie Valley Hwy • Lake Bluff, IL

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847-CLASSIC (252-7742)

www.andersoncars.com

847-680-8000

847-604-8100

www.paulytoyota.com

888/682-4485

920 S. Milwaukee Ave. • Libertyville, IL

KNAUZ HYUNDAI

www.knauzhyundai.com

1119 S. Milwaukee Ave., Libertyville, IL

RAYMOND KIA

119 Route 173 • Antioch

815/459-7100 or 847/658-9050

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LIBERTYVILLE MITSUBISHI

490 Skokie Valley Road • Highland Park, IL

1035 S. Rt. 31, One Mile South of Rt. 14 Crystal Lake, IL

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LIBERTY KIA

www.libertyautoplaza.com

www.raysuzuki.com

515 N. Green Bay Rd. Waukegan/Gurnee, IL

www.arlingtonkia.com

920 S. Milwaukee Ave. • Libertyville, IL

888/446-8743 847/587-3300

CLASSIC TOYOTA/SCION

847/202-3900

www.classicdealergroup.com

23 N. Route 12 • Fox Lake

PAULY TOYOTA

www.garylangauto.com

CLASSIC KIA

RAY SUZUKI

815/385-2000

847-CLASSIC (252-7742)

MOTOR WERKS PORCHE

Barrington & Dundee Rds., Barrington, IL

River Rd & Oakton, • Des Plaines, IL

800/935-5913

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BULL VALLEY FORD/ MERCURY

www.raychevrolet.com

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771 S. Randall Rd. • Algonquin, IL

800/407-0223

866/469-0114

39 N. Rte. 12 • Fox Lake, IL

888/794-5502

877/226-5099

www.oharehonda.com

847-234-2800

www.clcjd.com

www.st-charles.mercedesdealer.com

AUTO GROUP GARY LANG MITSUBISHI

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AUTO GROUP GARY LANG SUBARU

225 N. Randall Road, St. Charles

888-538-4492

River Rd & Oakton, • Des Plaines, IL

775 Rockland Road • Lake Bluff IL 60044 (Routes 41 & 176 in the Knauz Autopark)

MARTIN CHEVROLET

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1107 S Rt. 31 between Crystal Lake and McHenry

ST. CHARLES CHRYSLER AUTO GROUP - GARY LANG DODGE JEEP 1611 East Main Street • St. Charles, IL CHEVROLET Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

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800/935-5923

AL PIEMONTE CHEVROLET

105 Rt. 173 • Antioch, IL

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888/800-6100

www.knauznorth.com

847/628-6000

630/584-1800

800-628-6087

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200 N. Cook Street • Barrington, IL

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