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Fire victim ‘well-liked’ Neighbors, principal remember McHenry girl who died
Another health board spot now empty Resignation comes 3 days after president’s ouster By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com
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McHenry Township Fire Protection District Chief Tony Huemann and a McHenry Township firefighter assess the damage to a McHenry home Friday. The fire engulfed the home on the 4500 block of West Parkway Avenue in McHenry early Friday morning. By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com McHENRY – Last summer, a neighbor gave little Dayana Garcia a new bicycle. Today, the memory of the smile that gift brought to her face is neighbors have to remember after the young girl died Friday morning in a house fire. She was 12 years old. Garcia was inside her family’s home in the Lakeland Park subdivision of McHenry when the fire broke out.
Her parents and three brothers escaped through what witnesses described as a leap from the home’s second-story windows. An autopsy revealed that Garcia died of smoke inhalation. She was remembered fondly by neighbors and those at Parkland Middle School, where she was a seventh-grader. “Dayana was a wonderful young lady who was well-liked by the entire Parkland staff and students,” Principal Mike Adams said in an email to the Northwest Herald. “This is a sad day for her
family as well as our entire school family.” Counseling was offered Friday at the school, he said. When emergency crews arrived at the 4510 Parkway Ave. home at 1:20 a.m., it was fully engulfed in flames, fire officials said. The McHenry Township Fire Protection District called for assistance from several area fire departments, and it took several hours to extinguish the blaze. Garcia was found dead inside
Inside In a separate incident, a 20-year-old man died Monday at his McHenry home down the street from where fire crews had an hour earlier responded to a fatal house fire. Page A7
Another member of the McHenry County Mental Health Board is stepping down, three days after the County Board voted to oust its president. Board Treasurer Sam Tenuto, a member since 2008, resigned effective Friday to take a management position with Pioneer Center for Human Services, the county’s largest social service agency. Staying on the board would constitute a conflict of interest because McHenry-based Pioneer Center receives Mental Health Board funding. Tenuto said his decision is about a better opportunity and has nothing to do with growing criticism of the Mental Health Board’s budget and spending or Tuesday’s ouster of former President Lee Ellis. Tenuto has worked for the past 20 years with Clearbrook, a service provider for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Tenuto’s resignation follows that of the Rev. Jim Swarthout, a former board member who stepped down five months ago to take a job with Rosecrance Health Network, which also receives board funding.
At a glance McHenry County Mental Health Board Treasurer Sam Tenuto has stepped down to accept a job as director of intellectual and developmental disability services for Pioneer Center for Human Services, which receives funding from the board.
See FIRE, page A7 See RESIGNATION, page A7
Ill. GOP official, lawmaker face backlash over gay marriage stance By SARA BURNETT The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – Two Illinois Republicans are finding that for all the talk nationally of the GOP becoming more inclusive and appealing to voters by softening stances on social issues, it’s difficult to actually follow through. The state Republican Party’s central committee will
meet today to consider firing Chairman Pat Brady, largely because he spoke out in favor of a bill to end Il- Pat Brady linois’ ban on Illinois GOP gay marriage. chairman And the only Republican state senator to vote in favor of same-sex
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positions earlier this year – some were thankful, others excoriated them. A conservative organization even posted Brady’s cellphone number online and his voice mail quickly filled up while on vacation with words he said he “didn’t know were in the Bible.” “This issue is not about me. It’s about the direction of the party going forward,” Brady said. “It just plays into
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CL CENTRAL STUDENT POSTS BAIL A Crystal Lake Central High School student was released on a bail Friday. Police say Luke Patrick Gildea, 17, planted a pin-hole camera in the boys locker room, where he recorded “subjects entering and leaving the shower room.” He faces one count of unauthorized video recording and one count of unauthorized video recording of a minor. For more, see page B1.
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marriage, Sen. Jason Barickman, has been chastised by his colleagues and a national organization Jason opposing the Barickman measure. R-Bloomington Brady and Barickman say they’ve heard from hundreds of people since taking their
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a national narrative of the GOP as closed-minded.” After a poor showing at the polls in November, national Republican Party leaders vowed to work harder to attract more young, moderate and minority voters – those who may be on board with the party fiscally speaking, but are turned off by the conservative views on social issues, such as immigration and gay
rights. Last month, more than 75 prominent Republicans, including four governors and advisers to former President George W. Bush, signed a legal brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Former first lady Laura Bush and former Vice
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