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Dundee-Crown forced to move on without leading rusher Lane CAMP SEASON GETS UNDERWAY
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Connor Cappittelli, 8, of Crystal Lake blows out his flaming marshmallow while making s’mores July 3 during the Young Explorers Summer Day Camp at Veteran Acres Park in Crystal Lake.
Programs designed to keep kids active By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com
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RYSTAL LAKE – Excited, 5-year-old Declan Malone told the class at the Crystal Lake Nature Center what he knows about rocks. “When you smash them with a hammer, they break into pieces and dust,” the Crystal Lake boy said. The class is just one example of the sprucing up of summer programming being done by park districts and city parks and recreation departments throughout the county, offering new classes and expanding existing offerings. The Crystal Lake Park District has had a flurry of interest in its programs and ran out of summer brochures within a month. The “Rock On!” class, for instance, has been offered for the past three years, but this was the first time enough people signed up to run it, outdoor education supervisor Jess Day said.
Lexi Yeates, 10, of Crystal Lake listens to scary stories around the campfire during the Young Explorers Summer Day Camp at Veteran Acres Park. Declan, along with the seven other kids enrolled in “Rock On!”, learned multiple facts about rocks, such as how to describe them. They tested the shapes by throwing them down the steep hill next to the Nature Center – and then scrambling down after them to retrieve them. They discovered which ones were soft and which ones couldn’t
be scraped by a penny or the head of a screw. They described the rocks’ colors and then dunked them in water to see whether they changed. They learned about the different ways rocks are formed and looked at fossils, including a piece of the exoskeleton of an arthropleura, a
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Becky Vidales, program coordinator at Woodstock Water Works, on the Tween Night program
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“They must have that alarm bell ringing in their ears and the best way to do that is to hit them in the wallet,” he said at a news conference in downtown Chicago. Legislators, whose relationship with the governor has grown increasingly tense in recent weeks, said Quinn’s actions wouldn’t help matters, and
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By SHAWN SHINNEMAN WOODSTOCK – Brien Cron is many things. Employee. Techie. College graduate. Homeless man. He’s the first to admit he’s made his fair share of mistakes. They’ve led him recently to the PADS transitional living home, 14411 Kishwaukee Valley Road in Woodstock. It’s an address that, for about 10 years, has come with the inability to check out books from the local library.
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Two McHenry County residents nearly died from overdoses caused by synthetic marijuana use over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, according to the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office. The people involved were in their mid-20s and suffered the overdoses on Friday in the Wonder Lake area, Undersheriff Andrew Zinke said. For more, see page B1.
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State Rep. Jack Franks (left), D-Marengo, and state Rep. Mike Tryon, R-Crystal Lake, said the real problem on pensions was Gov. Pat Quinn’s lack of leadership.
Homeless hoping to check out books
“It’s just someplace for tweens to go in the evenings. There’s no parents and no little kids. They have the place to themselves.”
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CHICAGO – Gov. Pat Quinn suspended Illinois lawmakers’ pay Wednesday, following through on his warning of consequences if they failed to come up with a solution to the state’s nearly $100 billion pension crisis, the worst of any state nationwide. The Chicago Democrat said he used his line-item veto power in a budget bill that was on his desk, and vowed to not accept a salary himself until a deal has been reached. Lawmakers, who receive an annual salary of $68,000 and additional pay for leadership positions, would have to vote to reject his changes if they want to get paid. Quinn, who has made pension reform his main focus for nearly two years, said he wanted to spur lawmakers into action.
The 41-year-old is speaking out after being denied a library card by the local library – and his voice just might bring about a change. For years, the Woodstock Public Library has turned away men and women with the address of the PADS transitional home, where the homeless can stay for up to two years.
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