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8 DAILY PLANNER Today Safe Passage Domestic Violence support group: 815-7565228; www.safepassagedv.org. Weekly Ladies’ Brunch: 8 a.m. at Fox Valley Community Center, 1406 Suydam Road, Sandwich. Cost is $4 for food, conversation and bottomless cups of coffee or tea. Back To Basics AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Feed My Sheep Food Pantry: 10 a.m. to noon at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1915 N. First St., DeKalb. All are welcome. Sycamore History Museum Brown Bag Lunch lecture: Noon to 1 p.m. at Sycamore History Museum, 1730 N. Main St. Free. Coffee and cookies offered to the public. Donations are welcome. Contact Michelle Donahoe at Sychist@tbc.net or 815-895-5762. www.sycamorehistory.org. Stroke Support Group: 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the NIU Speech Language Hearing Clinic, at Bethany and Route 23, in the former Monsanto building. For patients, their families and other interested individuals. Email Lilli Bishop at lbishop@niu.edu. Take Off Pounds Sensibly: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. weigh-in and 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. meeting, Sycamore United Methodist Church, 160 Johnson Ave. Call Lydia Johnson, chapter leader, 815-895-4618. Courage, Attitude, Resources and Encouragement Support Group: 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Kishwaukee Health Care, 2727 Sycamore Road, DeKalb. For patients with cancer or other serious illness and for family members. www. kishhospital.org. Open Closet: 5 to 7 p.m. at 300 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. Clothes and shoes for men, women and children. 815-758-1388. ESL and GED Classes: 6 to 8 p.m. at Esperanza en Unidad (Hope in Unity), 2225 Gateway Drive, Suite A. To register, call Dr. George Gutierrez at 815-970-3265. Keep It Simple AA(C): 6 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. One Day Café AA(C): 6 p.m. at Waterman United Methodist Church, 210 W. Garfield St. 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com. Weight Watchers: 6 p.m. weigh-in, 6:30 p.m. meeting Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road (near Aldi), DeKalb. Homework Help Nights: 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Neighbors’ House, Fifth and Pine streets, DeKalb. Free help for DeKalb fourth- to 12th-graders. neighborshouse@ tbc.net or 815-787-0600. DeKalb County Amateur Radio Emergency Service: 7 p.m. on 146.73 megahertz. Call Bill Itter (N9EWA) at 815-895-2020. DeKalb County Marines Corps League, officers, detachment and auxiliary: 7 p.m. at Sycamore Veterans Home, 121 S. California St. For information, contact Peter May at sneakypete2@hotmail. com or 815-761-7732, or call 815756-6625. www.dekalbcountymarines.com. Mourning After: 7 p.m. at Great Lakes Leadership Center, 526 N. Main St., Elburn. For young widows/widowers and young adults who have lost their partner to death. For information, call Conley Outreach at 630-365-2880. Sandwich Steppers AA(C): 7 p.m. at Fox Valley Community Center, 1406 Suydam Road. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Free Fit Club: 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Sycamore Community Center, 138 Fair St., Sycamore. Call 815-9014474 or 815-566-3580 for more information. A Friend Of Bill’s AA(C): 8 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 33930 N. State St., Genoa. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Any Lengths AA(C): 8 p.m. at Federated Church, 612 W. State St., Sycamore. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Closed Discussion AA: 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.
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Bowlers surprise WWII veteran The bowlers of the Business and Professional League at Mardi Gras Lanes wanted to do something special for their oldest member Tuesday. Don Mattson of Malta rounded out the season with an average of 145 despite a pinched nerve in his neck. The 89-year-old is a World War II veteran, so fellow bowler Pat O’Donnell figured they shouldn’t pass up an opportunity to thank Mattson for his service. “We need to say thank you to those who have served and those who still serve for the freedom we have,” O’Donnell said. “I think that’s important to do.” O’Donnell arranged for Marine Staff Sgt. Chase Kovarik to surprise Mattson at the league banquet with a baseball cap and patch, as well as a few kind words. Kovarik, a Marine recruiter living in Maple Park, described how Mattson enlisted in 1943, ultimately sending $25 out of each month’s $50 paycheck back home. “There’s no ex-Marine; there’s no former Marine,” Kovarik explained. “There’s only Marines.” As Mattson received a standing ovation, Kovarik thanked him for being part of the Greatest Generation. Mattson, meanwhile, was surprised by the presentation. “That’s a long time ago, 1945,” Mattson said. “I’m glad to still be around and able to bowl.” In fact, 1945 was just a few years
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Marine Staff Sgt. Chase Kovarik of Maple Park shares a laugh with World War II Marine veteran Don Mattson, 89, of Malta on Tuesday at Mardi Gras Lanes in DeKalb. Mattson was attending an end-of-season banquet for his bowling league when Kovarik dropped in to surprise Mattson and thank him for his service with a hat and a patch. alma mater. Kovarik spends most of his time, though, as a Marine recruiter in DeKalb. He enlisted the summer before his senior year in high school and left for boot camp in San Diego in June 2002, later serving as a helicopter crew chief. Now, he tells young people that being a Marine is a calling. “It’s not a job,” Kovarik said. “It’s a lifestyle.”
before Mattson started bowling. He’s been knocking down pins for 65 years, and was inducted into the DeKalb Area USBC’s Hall of Fame in 1995. He expects to be back for the next season. “I’m planning on it,” Mattson said. “If I’m still here.” Recruiting future heroes: Kovarik does presentations like this from time to time. About 18 months ago, he helped ensure a plaque with Lance Cpl. Michael Finley’s name was hung in Hinckley High School. Finley was killed in action in Vietnam in 1967, but his parents wanted to make sure he was memorialized at his
• Jillian Duchnowski is the Daily Chronicle’s news editor. Reach her at 815-756-4841, ext. 2221, or email jduchnowski@shawmedia.com.
8 TODAY’S TALKER
3 arrested, charged in Boston probe This photo released Wednesday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in a federal criminal complaint, shows fireworks from inside a backpack belonging to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaeva.
By BRIDGET MURPHY and DENISE LAVOIE The Associated Press BOSTON – Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were arrested and accused Wednesday of trying to protect him by going into his dorm room and getting rid of a backpack filled with hollowed-out fireworks three days after the deadly attack. The three 19-year-olds were not accused of any role in the bombing. But in a footnote in the court papers outlining the charges, the FBI said that about a month before the tragedy, Tsarnaev told two of them that he knew how to make a bomb. Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, both of whom came to the U.S. from Kazakhstan, were charged with conspiring to obstruct justice by concealing and destroying evidence. Robel Phillipos, who graduated from a Cambridge high school with Tsarnaev, was charged with lying to investigators about the visit to Tsarnaev’s room. According to the FBI account, just hours after surveillance camera photos of the Boston Marathon suspects were flashed around the world April 18, Tsnarnaev’s friends suspected he was one of the bombers and removed the backpack along with a laptop from Tsarnaev’s room at the University of
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Massachusetts Dartmouth. One of them later threw the backpack in the garbage, and it wound up in a landfill, where it was discovered by law enforcement officers last week, authorities said. In the backpack were fireworks that had been emptied of their gunpowder. The lawyers for the Kazakh students said their clients had nothing to do with the bombing and were just as shocked by the crime as everyone else. Phillipos’ attorney, Derege Demissie, said outside court: “The only allegation is he made a misrepresentation.” At a court appearance, the Kazakh students did not request bail and will be
held for another hearing May 14. Phillipos was held for a hearing on Monday. If convicted, Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov could get up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Phillipos faces a maximum of eight years behind bars and a $250,000 fine. Three people were killed and more than 260 wounded on April 15 when two bombs exploded near the marathon’s finish line. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died after a gunfight with police days later. His 19-year-old brother was captured and lies in a prison hospital. Their mother has said the allegations against them are lies.
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8CORRECTIONS The front-page story in Wednesday’s Daily Chronicle about arrests in a police investigation into crack cocaine dealing contained incorrect information. Police arrested Antonnio Sanders, 31, of Chicago on Tuesday, but Terry M. Griffin, 31, of Chicago, and Christopher E. Bell, 29, of Chicago, were still at large. The Daily Chronicle regrets the error. ••• Accuracy is important to the Daily Chronicle, and we want to correct mistakes promptly. Please call errors to our attention by phone, 815-756-4841, ext. 2257; email, news@daily-chronicle.com; or fax, 815-758-5059.
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Report shows violence, gore, gunplay persistent in TV shows The ASSOCIATED PRESS
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NEW YORK – Violence, gore and gunplay were staples on prime-time TV even in the most sensitive period directly after the Newtown school shooting. A study of 392 prime-time scripted programs on broadcast networks shown during the month after Vice President Joe Biden’s January meeting with entertainment industry executives on the topic revealed that 193 had some incident of violence,
according to the Parents Television Council. Some are cartoonish – quite literally, with Homer strangling Bart for mouthing off on “The Simpsons” – but there is plenty of gunplay, stabbings and beat-downs. Here’s a sample of the incidents captured by the PTC between Jan. 11 and Feb. 11: • A woman on Fox’s “The Following” jams an ice pick into her eye. • A man threatens hospital workers on NBC’s “Chicago Fire” with a gun before he’s disabled with a Taser.
Real life has continued to intrude on TV entertainment as the months go by. NBC pulled an episode of its serial killer drama “Hannibal” after the Boston Marathon bombing, as did ABC with a “Castle” episode where a character stepped on a pressure-sensitive bomb. Some Newtown parents objected to a recent “Glee” episode that depicted a school shooting. “I think it is only going to get worse,” said Dr. Victor Strasburger, pediatrics professor at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine,
who has written frequently on the topic of violence in the media. He said media executives are “not willing to own up to their public health responsibilities.” TV executives are reluctant to talk about violent content, and when pressed question any link between what they air on TV and aggressive behavior in real life. Schedules get shifted around when tragic events are in the news, but there’s no indication they have changed the types of programs being made.