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Eddie Weingartner, 54, of Marengo enters the McHenry County Workforce Center in search of employment July 25. Weingartner has been working temporary jobs for the last two years after he was laid off from his job in industrial software in April 2009. Weingartner is one of about 80,000 longterm unemployed people across Illinois who were affected when federal unemployment benefits were cut 16.8 percent as part of widespread federal spending cuts known as the sequester.

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By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com MARENGO – Eddie Weingartner is about six weeks into his most recent stint with unemployment.

His hope, of course, is that he doesn’t reach 10 or 12 or 15 weeks.

But for Weingartner and oth-

ers, worst of all could be reaching the 27-week milestone – the point at which unemployment benefits no longer are funded by the state, but instead by the federal government.

Thanks to the widespread federal spending cuts known as the sequester, federal unemployment aid targeting the long-term unemployed – those

jobless for between 27 and 73 weeks – has been significantly cut this summer. In Illinois, the benefits were cut by 16.8 percent starting June 10, effectively reducing by an average of $51 the unemployment checks of 80,000 Illinois residents receiving the benefits.

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Deadlines are looming in August for property owners in five McHenry County townships to appeal their assessments.

Owners in Grafton Township have until the end of business Monday, and the deadlines arrive throughout the month for property owners in Alden, Coral, Hebron and McHenry townships.

Property owners have 30 days from when their township’s assessments are published in a newspaper of record to appeal if they so choose. The deadlines for four townships – Greenwood, Hartland, Richmond and Seneca – have passed.

The record number of appeals that the McHenry County Assessor’s office has received in recent years has prompted it to ask the county’s 17 township assessors to push up their timetables. The office has received the assessment books from five other townships for review, which likely will be published this month, Supervisor of Assessments Robert Ross said.

“We’re in a good position because the assessors have gotten their work in early.

We’re in a much better position than we’ve been at this time before,” Ross said.

In past years, the first townships typically weren’t ready to publish until late

When to appeal Deadlines to appeal their assessments are approaching for property owners in several McHenry County townships. n Grafton Township property owners have until Monday. n Alden Township property owners have until Aug. 19. n Coral Township property owners have until Aug. 21. n Hebron Township property owners have until Aug. 28. n McHenry Township property owners have until Aug. 30.

The deadlines for property owners in Richmond, Greenwood, Seneca and Hartland townships have passed.

Source: McHenry County Office of Assessments

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Quinn signs bills to help ex-offenders get jobs, 2nd chance

By SARA BURNETT The Associated Press CHICAGO – Gov. Pat Quinn signed a series of bills Saturday he said will help ex-offenders get jobs so they can stay out of prison and become productive members of society.

The Chicago Democrat said the measures also will give

judges and prosecutors more options for sentencing non-violent criminals. He noted more than half of Illinois inmates return to prison within three years of their release, many because they go back to committing crimes to provide for themselves or their families.

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dividuals shouldn’t face a life sentence of no job prospects and no opportunities to better themselves just because they have served time in prison,” Quinn said during a ceremony at a church on Chicago’s South Side. “These new laws will help them get back on their feet, contribute to their communities and keep one

offense from becoming a lifelong barrier.”

The measures also could help Quinn gain support among progressive voters in advance of a 2014 Democratic gubernatorial primary. Former White House chief of staff Bill Daley, also a Chicago Democrat, has said he’s running against Quinn. Four Republi-

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Smoke ’em if you got ’em With last week’s signing by Gov. Pat Quinn of a bill that allows the medical use of marijuana, Illinois became the 20th state to defy the federal government regarding legal pot.

Illinois also solidified itself as the state that likes to swat at flies while the backyard deck is burning to the ground.

Consider this: In addition to medical marijuana, Illinois lawmakers this past legislative session also OK’d a puppy lemon law that allows new pet owners to receive a replacement or refund from the pet store if their dog or cat dies within 21 days of purchase.

With our state’s five public pension systems underfunded by $100 billion and gobbling up more of its operating expenses each day, did we get any kind of meaningful pension reform?

No. But we got medical marijuana, a puppy lemon law and this: The General Assembly also passed a bill that will allow convicted felons to seal their criminal records for offenses such as burglary, theft, possessing a stolen vehicle, drug possession, drug distribution, prostitution and forgery.

We don’t have pension reform, but we have a bill that would allow some felons to hide their convictions from the public.

Lawmakers also approved a speed-limit increase on rural interstates from 65 to 70 mph.

What did they do with pension reform? Passed it off to another committee as the systems bleed the state to the tune of $17 million a day, every day, that reform doesn’t happen.

There’s a cliché in there somewhere about rearranging the furniture on the deck of the Titanic, but I won’t go there.

••• Good riddance: Embattled Metra

VIEWS Dan McCaleb Board Chairman Brad O’Halloran resigned his post late last week. As is customary in Illinois politics, he did so without accepting any responsibility for the turmoil he helped cause at the commuter rail agency.

Well done, sir.

O’Halloran led the push to get rid of former CEO Alex Clifford, who received a hysterical $718,000 severance package – paid for by taxpayers – in exchange for his silence about patronage at Metra.

But as outrage grew over the blatant misuse of taxpayer money, Clifford’s allegations of unethical interference at Metra from some of the state’s most powerful politicians, including House Speaker Michael Madigan, became public.

On his way out the door, O’Halloran dismissed Clifford’s allegations as “a lot of hooey” in one breath, while in the next he whined that the powerful politicians whom Clifford accused weren’t receiving the same level of criticism as O’Halloran was.

Well, which is it, Mr. O’Halloran?

Either the allegations are false or Madigan and the others deserve the same criticism you do (Madigan has been widely criticized, by the way. I’m not sure where O’Halloran’s been.)

But O’Halloran essentially wants it both ways. In Illinois politics, I guess that’s called status quo.

O’Halloran is one of four Metra Board members who’ve resigned since the Clifford severance scandal became public.

It’s time to clean house and start over.

••• The Pioneer Center for Human Services made big news late last week with the announcement that it is close to buying the former Family Service and Community Mental Health building off Route 31 in McHenry for $2.25 million.

Before I go any further, I need to disclose that I am a volunteer member of Pioneer Center’s Board of Directors, and I voted to move forward with the purchase.

In some circles, the building has been referred to as the Taj Mahal of nonprofit buildings. Less than a decade ago, Family Service faced criticism for erecting the 41,493-squarefoot facility because of its size and cost. And the hefty monthly mortgage payments contributed to the agency’s financial collapse last summer.

Pioneer Center already was pushing the limits of its facilities before it started picking up hundreds of Family Service clients. Pioneer was going to need to add space anyway. Since last summer, those seeking behavioral health services from Pioneer has nearly tripled.

And at $2.25 million, Pioneer Center is buying this vacant building at a fraction of its original cost. Pioneer Center also is healthy financially, and it is putting to good use one of the many vacant buildings in McHenry County.

The community, and most importantly Pioneer’s clients, will benefit from the decision.

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E-cigarettes revive old tobacco ad playbook

By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM The Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. – Companies vying for a stake in the fast-growing electronic cigarette business are reviving the decades-old marketing tactics the tobacco industry used to hook generations of Americans on regular smokes.

They’re using cab-top and bus stop displays, sponsoring race cars and events, and encouraging smokers to “rise from the ashes” and take back their freedom in slick TV commercials featuring celebrities like TV personality Jenny McCarthy.

The Food and Drug Administration plans to set marketing and product regulations for electronic cigarettes in the near future. But for now, almost anything goes.

“Right now it’s the wild, wild west,” Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

Electronic cigarettes are battery-powered devices made of plastic or metal that heat a liquid nicotine solution, creating vapor that users inhale. Users get their nicotine without the thousands of chemicals, tar or odor of regular cigarettes. And they get to hold something shaped

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Companies like NJOY and Blu Ecigs are advertising on TV, forbidden for cigarettes for more than 40 years. The Food and Drug Administration plans to set marketing and product regulations for electronic cigarettes in the near future. like a cigarette, while puffing and exhaling something that looks like smoke.

So far, there’s not much scientific evidence showing e-cigarettes help smokers quit or smoke less, and it’s unclear how safe they are.

But the marketing tactics are raising worries that the devices’ makers could tempt young people to take up something that could prove addictive.

The industry started by selling e-cigarettes on the Internet and at shopping-mall kiosks. It has rocketed from thousands of users in 2006 to several million worldwide who have more than 200

brands to choose from. Some e-cigarettes are stocked in prime selling space at the front of convenience-store and gas-station counters – real estate forbidden to the devices’ old-fashioned cousins.

Analysts estimate sales of e-cigarettes could reach $2 billion by the end of the year.

Some say the use of e-cigarettes could pass that of traditional cigarettes in the next decade. Tobacco company executives have even noted that e-cigarettes are already eating into traditional cigarette sales.

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Companies like NJOY and Blu Ecigs are advertising on TV, forbidden for cigarettes for more than 40 years. LOGIC has placed mobile billboards on taxis in New York City. Swisher International Inc., maker of Swisher Sweets cigars, is sponsoring race cars promoting its e-Swisher electronic cigarettes and cigars and has a two-year deal to become the official e-cigarette of the World Series of Poker.

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by No. 3 U.S. tobacco company Lorillard Inc. last year, also has sponsored an Indy car and the 2013 Bonnaroo music festival, and its website features a cartoon character nicknamed “Mr. Cool” boasting the benefits of its e-cigarette – evoking the days of Joe Camel.

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State fair will celebrate Ill. farmers’ resiliency The ASSOCIATED PRESS SPRINGFIELD – Resiliency could well be the theme of the 160th Illinois State Fair.

The annual celebration of Illinois agriculture comes a year after a historic drought that scorched corn and soybean crops throughout the Midwest, dried cattle pastures and diminished hay supplies.

That drought was followed by this spring’s heavy rains, which saw 35 counties declared federal disaster areas.

“Illinois farmers are veterans of resilience,” Illinois Department of Agriculture Director Bob Flider said, noting the fair will be a chance for them to celebrate the crops they continue to proudly produce, despite ongoing challenges.

“The reality is that people will pitch in and work,” he said.

Showcasing that hard work of the state will be an “Our Illinois” event in the governor’s tent, which puts local product and attractions on display, encouraging residents to shop locally. Fairgoers will see some new additions as well as old-standbys at the 10-day event, which begins Thursday.

The fried novelty of the year will be Oreo cookies encased in cookie dough and batter and then deep-fried. The fair’s $5.5 million operations budget has increased slightly compared to last year’s $4.8 million, fair spokesman Jeff Squibb said.

Admission prices have remained flat, with adults paying a $7 entry fee and $3 for a child’s admission. Veterans and seniors continue to get free admission on special days.

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The fair’s “Anything’s possible” music series lineup includes evening grandstand performances by country stars Toby Keith and Kip Moore, pop artist Ke$ha, and rock musicians John Mayer and the band Journey. The grandstand will also be the site of harness racing and auto racing on some days.

The “Happy Hollow” portion of the fairground will be the site for a re-vamped Cross Fit competition, with teams from across the state competing to be labeled the fittest.

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OAK CREEK, Wis. – In the aftermath of shooting rampages in Colorado, Virginia and elsewhere, victims’ families have clashed over how to distribute money donated by well-wishers. But after a gunman killed six worshippers at a Milwaukee-area Sikh temple last year, survivors and their families vowed not to let money divide them.

In the weeks following the August 2012 shooting, $1.1 million in donations poured in to the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin from the U.S., India, Canada, England and elsewhere. Contributions came from individuals, corporations, churches, other Sikh temples and even elementary school children.

Among the victims were a 41-year-old mother of two, her family’s primary breadwinner, and an 84-year-old man who retired decades earlier. Their different life circumstances raised difficult questions: Do their families

deserve an equal share of the money? Or should the families of younger or higher-earning victims receive more?

In the end, on the advice of outside counsel, temple leaders divided it equally among all six families. It was a controversy-free decision, said Harcharan Gill, a temple trustee.

“There were no issues about, ‘Why did you give this much to this person?’ They’re all just thankful for what they got,” Gill said. “There was some rethinking about the need basis, about the age in life. But the people advised us that a life is a life and the value is the same.”

Each family’s total amounted to more than $125,000. The family of another victim, a 65-year-old priest who has remained nearly comatose since he was shot in the head at close range, also received about the same amount. Another priest was shot twice in the abdomen and survived; his family got about $75,000.

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2 injured in Chicago water tank fall file suit CHICAGO – Two people injured when a century-old water tank fell from a Chicago condominium building are suing the building’s owner. The complaint filed Friday in Cook County court seeks unspecified damages.

In a statement, attorney Richard F. Burke Jr. said Lauren Hussar, 27, and Jack Baginski, 29, were outside the North Side building Wednesday when the wooden water tank fell about nine stories. He said it crashed on the ground next to them, sending debris and water flying.

Authorities have said the tank was about eight feet wide and 12 feet tall and was full of water.

Quinn plays nice with Walker at meeting MILWAUKEE – Gov. Pat Quinn said he wants to work with his neighboring states and won’t “engage in kicking the shins of other governors.”

The Democratic Quinn’s comments came Saturday during a break at the National Governors Association meeting. Quinn was asked how he feels about Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker trying to lure Illinois businesses to Wisconsin.

Walker also repeatedly denigrates Illinois for raising taxes and its pension crisis.

Quinn said he sees Illinois and Wisconsin as being part of a regional economy and it doesn’t do any good to have governors trying to recruit businesses from one state to the other.

Ill. couple pulls neighbor from burning home ALTON – A southwestern Illinois couple is winning praise for rescuing an 82-year-old woman

Time Warner Cable’s blackout of CBS continued Saturday, and neither side indicated a resolution of their dispute over fees is imminent.

Time Warner dropped CBS Friday in several cities, including WBBM in Chicago, leaving three million customers nationwide without the network’s programs.

The issue is fees that the cable company pays CBS to air its programs.

Each has accused the other of making unreasonable demands.

On Saturday the two sides even seemed to disagree on the status of negotiations. A Time Warner spokeswoman said Saturday afternoon that negotiations are ongoing. CBS said it expects talks to resume soon, but the decision rests with Time Warner.

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In sluggish economy, new jobs low-paying

By PAUL WISEMAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The 162,000 jobs the economy added in July were a disappointment. The quality of the jobs was even worse.

A disproportionate number of the added jobs were part-time or low-paying – or both.

Part-time work accounted for more than 65 percent of the positions employers added in July. Low-paying retailers, restaurants and bars supplied more than half July’s job gain.

“You’re getting jobs added, but they might not be the best-quality job,” says John Canally, an economist with LPL Financial in Boston.

So far this year, low-paying industries have provided 61 percent of the nation’s job growth, even though these industries represent just 39 percent of overall U.S. jobs, according to Labor Department numbers analyzed by Moody’s Analytics. Mid-paying industries have contributed just 22 percent of this year’s job gain.

“The jobs that are being created are not generating much income,” Steven Ricchiuto, chief economist at Mizuho Securities USA, wrote in a note to clients.

That’s one reason Americans’ pay hasn’t kept up with even historically low inflation since the Great Recession ended in June 2009. Average hourly pay fell 2 cents in July to $23.98 an hour.

Among those feeling the squeeze is Elizabeth Wilkinson, 28, of Houston. After losing a $39,000-a-year administrative job at Rice University in January, Wilkinson found work at an employment agency for $15 an hour. Yet she’s had to supplement that job with part-time work as a

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“This morning I put $1.35 worth of gas in my car because that is all the money that I had,” Wilkinson said via email. “It’s very difficult to survive on $30,000 [a year], and I am living paycheck to paycheck.”

Part-time work has made up 77 percent of the job growth so far this year. The government defines parttime work as being less than 35 hours a week.

Analysts say some employers are offering parttime over full-time work to sidestep the new health care law’s rule that they provide medical coverage for permanent workers. (The Obama administration has delayed that provision for a year.)

Weak economies overseas have also reduced demand for U.S. goods and, as a result, for better-paying U.S. jobs in manufacturing. Government spending cuts have taken a toll on some middle-class jobs, too.

Many employers also have discovered that they can use technology to do tasks more

cheaply and efficiently than office workers used to do.

And some have found that they can shift middle-class jobs to low-wage countries such as China.

By contrast, most lower-paying jobs – from waiters to home health care aides – can’t be automated or shipped abroad.

“You’re always going to have jobs in the retail sector,” says Michael Evangelist, a policy analyst with the National Employment Law Project, which advocates on behalf of low-wage workers.

Consider Mike Ulrich, 30, who earned a master’s degree in public administration in May from the University of Colorado. Ulrich hasn’t been able to find work that requires a college degree. Instead, he works at a hardware store in Spokane, Wash., earning the state’s minimum wage: $9.19 an hour.

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Top officials meet to discuss terror threat against U.S. embassies The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON – Top U.S. officials met Saturday to review the threat of a terrorist attack that led to the weekend closure of 21 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Muslim world and a global travel warning to Americans. President Barack Obama was briefed following the session, the White House said.

Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, led the meeting and then joined Lisa Monaco, Obama’s assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism, in briefing the president, the White House said in a statement.

“The president has received frequent briefings over the last week on all aspects of the potential threat and our preparedness measures,” according to the statement.

Among those at the meeting Saturday afternoon were the secretaries of state, defense and homeland security and the directors of the FBI, CIA and the National Security Agency, according to the White House. Also attending was Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

In an interview Friday with ABC News, Dempsey said officials had determined there was “a significant threat stream” and that the threat was more specific than previous ones. The “intent is to attack Western, not just U.S.

interests,” he said.

The global travel warning was the first such alert since an announcement before the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The warning comes less than a year since the deadly September attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, and with the Obama administration and Congress determined to prevent any similar breach of an American embassy or consulate.

The State Department’s warning urged U.S. travelers to take extra precautions overseas. It cited potential dangers involved with public transportation systems and other prime sites for tourists, and noted that previous attacks have centered on subway and rail networks as well as airplanes and boats.

Travelers were advised to sign up for State Department alerts and register with U.S. consulates in the countries they visit.

The statement said that al-Qaida or its allies might target either U.S. government or private American interests.

The alert expires on Aug. 31.

The State Department said the potential for terrorism was particularly acute in the Middle East and North Africa, with a possible attack occurring on or coming from the Arabian Peninsula. The diplomatic facilities affected stretch from Mauritania in northwest Africa to Afghanistan.

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Obama likely to miss goal of doubling U.S. exports The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON – Back in January 2010, President Barack Obama set a lofty goal of doubling U.S. exports in five years. With just 18 months to go to 2015, that target seems to be slipping beyond reach and has vanished from White House talking points.

Blame tepid U.S. manufacturing growth, the lingering weak global economy, and a stronger U.S. dollar, which makes it harder to sell American goods and services overseas.

Monthly export numbers have been mostly stagnant this year. And only a scant 6,000 manufacturing jobs were added last month, according

to Labor Department jobs statistics released Friday.

“The goal of doubling exports keeps getting harder to achieve, not easier,” said Alan Tonelson, research fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Council, which represents about 2,000 mostly family owned manufacturing companies. “We’re actually backsliding, not making progress.”

Obama and administration officials counter by asserting that 7.2 million jobs – 500,000 of them in manufacturing – have been added since job losses bottomed in March 2010, two months after Obama set his doubling-exports goal.

“Over the past four years, for the first time since the

1990s, the number of manufacturing jobs hasn’t gone down.

It’s gone up. Now we have to build on that progress,” Obama said this week in Chattanooga, Tenn., after similar stops in Illinois, Missouri and Florida the week before.

Actually, the number of overall manufacturing jobs has changed little over the past 12 months.

Those 500,000 “new” manufacturing jobs have been cited before by Obama, going back to his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention last September. The lack of a significant progress since then underscores how hard it will be to reach his goal of doubling U.S. exports by the end of next year.

Fort Hood and the rarity of military executions The ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS – Hundreds of unarmed soldiers, some about to deploy to Afghanistan, were waiting inside a building for vaccines and routine checkups when a fellow soldier walked in with two handguns and enough ammunition to commit one of the worst mass shootings in American history.

Maj. Nidal Malik doesn’t deny that he carried out the November 2009 attack at Fort Hood, Texas, which left 13 people dead and more than 30 others wounded. There are dozens of witnesses who saw it happen. Military law prohibits him from entering a guilty plea because authorities are seeking the death penalty. But if he is convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that starts Tuesday, there are

likely years, if not decades, of appeals ahead.

He may never make it to the death chamber at all.

While the Hasan case is unusually complex, experts also say the military justice system is unaccustomed to dealing with death penalty cases and has struggled to avoid overturned sentences.

Eleven of the 16 death sentences handed down by military juries in the last 30 years have been overturned, according to an academic study and court records. No active-duty soldier has been executed since 1961.

A reversed verdict or sentence on appeal in the Hasan case would be a fiasco for prosecutors and the Army.

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“What seems so simple is in fact relatively complicated.”

Hasan is charged with 13 specifications of premeditated murder and 32 specifications of attempted premeditated murder. Thirteen officers from around the country who hold Hasan’s rank or higher will serve on the jury for a trial that will likely last one month and probably longer.

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Nigeria: Doctors treat children of world’s worst case of lead poisoning The ASSOCIATED PRESS LAGOS, Nigeria – The Nigerian village that suffered one of the world’s worst recorded incidents of lead poisoning is now habitable and doctors can start treating more than 1,000 contaminated children, a doctor and a scientist from two international agencies said Friday.

For some, it already is too late to reverse serious neurological damage, said Dr. Michelle Chouinard, Nigeria country director for Doctors Without Borders, told The Associated Press on Friday.

Some children are blind, others paralyzed and many

will struggle at school with learning disabilities, she said.

Doctors Without Borders uncovered the scandal in 2010 but nothing was done until this year about the worst-affected village, Bagega, because the federal government did not provide a promised $3 million, the group said.

The poisoning caused by artisanal mining from a gold rush killed at least 400 children, yet villagers still say they would rather die of lead poisoning than poverty, environmental scientist Simba Tirima told the Associated Press on Friday. Villagers make 10 times as much money mining as they do from

farming, he said.

Managing five landfills with nearly 460,000 cubic feet of highly contaminated soil, and teaching villagers how to mine safely are major challenges to prevent new contamination, he said.

“That’s a big, big worry. But I am joyful that for the kids who will be born in Bagega, we have at least removed one of the major strikes against them because they have so many strikes against them – nutritional problems, diseases ...” said Tirima, who is the field operations director in Nigeria for TerraGraphics International Foundation.

that have been blamed for deadly violence against Indian interests in Afghanistan in the past.

The bombing comes at a time when Afghanistan and India are both trying to patch up relations with Pakistan.

Islamabad considers Afghanistan its strategic backyard, and has always viewed India – with which it has fought several wars in the past 65 years – as a rival here.

The Lyon, France-based international police agency says that the alert follows “the escape of hundreds of terrorists and other criminals” in the past month.

The alert calls on Interpol’s 190 member countries to help determine whether these events are coordinated or linked, the organization said in a statement Saturday.

Interpol says it issues such alerts fairly regularly, the last one 10 days ago following jailbreaks from Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison and the Taji prison near Baghdad.

The alert also comes a day after the U.S. issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans about a possible al-Qaida attack.

8WORLD BRIEFS At least 9 killed in attack on Indian consulate KABUL, Afghanistan – Three suicide bombers tried to attack the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city on Saturday, sparking a shootout with guards on a bustling downtown street that left at least nine civilians dead, official said.

The attack, which ended when the militants detonated a car bomb that left charred debris scattered in central Jalalabad near the Pakistan border, did not appear to damage the consulate itself, and Indian officials said all of the facility’s staff escaped unharmed.

The Taliban denied responsibility for the attack, and suspicion instead fell upon Pakistan-based terrorist groups

Interpol makes warning linked to prison breaks PARIS – Interpol has issued a global security alert in connection with suspected al-Qaida involvement in several recent prison escapes including those in Iraq, Libya and Pakistan.

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Uncertainty over how much time long-term unemployed will feel effects of sequester cuts • UNEMPLOYED Continued from page A1 For Weingartner, who lost his job at an Arlington Heights industrial software company in 2009 and has since held a couple of short-term positions through a temp agency, it’s a scary proposition to think his already sub-$200 unemployment check might shrink.

“I’ve been on unemployment for six weeks already, and no prospects right now,” he said. “You hope that something will kick in in the next couple of months.”

An automatic 10 percent sequestration cut went into place after Congress and President Barack Obama’s administration failed to reach a budget deal by an established March 1 deadline.

Illinois’ unemployment cut of 16.8 percent is steeper because it took the state a few months to implement the reductions. For Illinoisans and the residents of at least 31 other states that similarly delayed the reductions, according to the Pew Research

About unemployment insurance Cuts to federal long-term unemployment aid in Illinois n Number of residents receiving long-term unemployment benefits: 80,000 n Percentage cut from unemployment as of June 10: 16.8 percent n Average long-term unemployment check: $320 n Cut to average long-term unemployment check: $51

Source: Illinois Department of Employment Security Center, that means cuts must be higher to make up for lost time.

And there’s no word yet on whether the cuts will end when the federal fiscal year changes over in October.

“We’ve been given no direction yet as to whether or not that sequestration will continue past Sept. 30,” said Greg Rivara, public information officer for the Illinois Department of Employment Security.

A climb to 9 percent unemployment in June in McHenry County means that plenty of locals are hoping for an end to the widespread cuts.

Angie Reeks, emergency assistance coordinator at The Salvation Army of McHenry County, said she’s seen firsthand the consequences of the cuts to benefits.

Reeks puts together files on those seeking aid, then combs through resources of The Salvation Army and other area social service agencies to get individuals the help they need.

“I’ve had quite a few people come in here that are unemployed,” Reeks said. “I’ve had several comment that they’ve had their unemployment [benefits] taken away or reduced.”

Illinois residents receive unemployment checks that range from $51 a week to $562 a week. The average check is about $320, Rivara said.

For residents relying on those checks for basic needs, any reduction hurts.

“How do you pay the rent?”

Reeks said. “You can’t pay the rent, let alone pay the utilities, let alone feed your children.”

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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (left) casts his vote Wednesday in Harare. Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Saturday the election is “null and void” because of alleged violations in the voting process, but Mugabe has denied vote rigging.

Mugabe declared winner in disputed vote in Zimbabwe The ASSOCIATED PRESS HARARE, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe’s electoral panel on Saturday declared that longtime President Robert Mugabe had won re-election by a landslide, a result that could exacerbate tensions in the country, where the 89-yearold’s chief rival and former coalition partner has accused him of poll-rigging.

Mugabe seemed set to strengthen his hold over Zimbabwe after the state Election Commission said his party won 158 of the 210 parliament seats. That gives it a two-thirds majority in the legislature – enabling it to amend a recently approved constitution that provides for democratic reforms. Challenger Morgan Tsvangirai’s party, which had gambled that a high turnout in its favor would overcome any alleged fraud in the vote, captured 50 seats and two went to independent candidates.

According to the results, Mugabe won 61 percent of the vote, compared to 33 percent for Tsvangirai, who had been prime minister in a tense power-sharing deal with the president. Officially, Mugabe, who has been in power for 33 years, gets another five-year term in office.

Tsvangirai rejected the results as fraudulent and called for fresh elections. He urged a peaceful response to the alleged massive rigging by Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party, which has the muscle of the security forces to deter any groundswell of street protests.

In contrast to an election marked by deadly attacks in 2008, the vote Wednesday was mostly peaceful and African poll monitors, while concerned about reported irregularities, seemed mostly relieved it was not violent.

Britain and the United States were more forceful in their criticism of the voting process, although Mugabe has

based his career in part on sparring with Western powers and there is little chance their disapproval will sway him.

That leaves the opposition with few options for countering Mugabe, who presides over a country that still has economic problems but enjoys some measure of stability compared to a period of soaring inflation years ago.

Tsvangirai said his Movement for Democratic Change party has in its possession evidence of massive rigging

by Mugabe’s party in the just-ended polls and will challenge results in court.

“People of Zimbabwe must be given another chance to participate in a free, fair and credible election. They have been shortchanged by a predetermined election,” he said.

He added his party will not “participate in any government institutions” in protest but stopped short of saying it will boycott its reduced seats in the Harare parliament.

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Some hope program cuts ex-offenders recidivism rate • EX-OFFENDERS Continued from page A1 Rep. Art Turner, a Chicago Democrat and lead sponsor of the bill, said he’s hopeful more employers will take advantage of the credit.

“Programs like this must be part of a creative approach to reducing recidivism and addressing the larger challenges of unemployment and violence in our communities,” he said.

Another bill creates a “second-chance probation” option for nonviolent offenders. It allows some convictions to be cleared from a person’s record after successful completion of at least two years of probation. It was sponsored by Rep. Tom Cross of Oswego, the Republican leader in the Illinois House, and Sen. Linda Holmes, an Aurora Democrat.

The other legislation ensures motions to seal or expunge a criminal record are heard in a timely manner and that court orders are deliv-

ered to the proper authorities.

Saturday’s bill signings come one day after Quinn signed legislation to add several nonviolent felonies to the list of offenses for which records may be sealed. The offenses include theft, retail theft, forgery, possession of burglary tools and possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance.

Previously records were only eligible to be sealed for people convicted of prostitution or drug possession.

The new law requires a person to wait four years from the termination of their last sentence before asking for their records to be sealed. They also would have to pass a drug test within 30 days before filing their petition. If a judge grants the petition, the records can no longer be seen by most potential employers, except by court order. Law enforcement agencies, however, still have access, and if the person is later convicted of another crime the court may order their sealed records to be unsealed.

County assessments determine property owner’s share of taxes On the Net

• APPEALS Continued from page A1 July. Last year, the two largest townships by population, Algonquin and Grafton, did not publish until the end of October and mid-November.

This resulted in a last-minute deluge for the Board of Review because those two townships made almost half of the appeals it had to process.

Assessments, or one-third of a property’s value, determine a property owner’s share of county, municipal, school, township and other taxing districts’ extensions for property-tax bills due the next year.

Property-tax bills cannot go out until the value of every parcel in the county is finalized.

Last year the county fielded almost 10,000 assessment appeals for this year’s tax bills. Frustrated property owners have broken consecutive records as property-tax bills have stayed the same or increased despite the fact that home values have plummeted.

By comparison, a decade ago, the county received only 677 appeals.

The tax cap, which was meant to help taxpayers by keeping taxing bodies to an inflationary rate of increase,

8WORLD BRIEF Fresh U.S. penalties will greet Iran’s new leader WASHINGTON – As Iran’s new president takes over, fresh U.S. penalties against the country appear to be a done deal.

Seventy-six senators have written President Barack Obama demanding tougher punishment on Iran’s economy until the Islamic republic scales back its nuclear program. It also urges Obama to consider military options while keeping the door open to President diplomacy.

Barack The Senate letObama ter comes days after the House overwhelmingly passed new restrictions on Iran’s oil sector and its mining and construction industries.

Senators are expected to take up the same sanctions package in September.

The Obama administration is concerned Congress’ effort could undercut Iran’s relative moderate President-elect Hasan Rouhani, who takes office Sunday.

The U.S. believes Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons.

Iran insists its program is for peaceful energy and research.

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Visit co.mchenry.il.us/departments/assessments/Pages/ UnderstandingAssessments.aspx for information on the property-tax process, as well as information on how to appeal an assessment. hurts taxpayers when property values go down. When values decline, a possibility that state lawmakers never considered, the cap ensures that governments can receive the inflationary increase if they so choose.

While some governments have spurned the increase, many others have taken it.

The rate of inflation taxing bodies will be able to use for next year’s bills is 1.7 percent.

Assessments for Nunda and Dorr townships should be published over the next few weeks, with Chemung, Dunham and Riley townships to follow later this month, Ross said. His office has not yet received the assessment books from Algonquin, Marengo and Burton townships.

A new state law would allow Ross, if needed, to seize a township’s books and finish the job if they are not turned in by the Oct. 15 deadline.

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Opinion

John Rung President and Publisher

Dan McCaleb Group Editor

Jason Schaumburg Editor

Sunday, August 4, 2013 • Page A9 • Northwest Herald • NWHerald.com 8OUR VIEW

8SKETCH VIEW

Reforming the region’s transportation “Bureaucratic Frankenstein” is a pretty apt description of the boards that govern public transportation in the Chicago region.

It was used last month by Bill Daley, who is running for the 2014 Democratic nomination for governor, to describe the Regional Transportation Authority. He alleges the agency spends $33 million a year but does little. The RTA has financial oversight of the region’s three transit agencies – Metra, Pace bus and Chicago Transit Authority.

Metra makes headlines almost daily: Ousted CEO Alex Clifford – who left with $718,000 separation agreement – has alleged he was forced out because he would not turn a blind eye to patronage requests, some of which lead up to powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan.

The scandal has caused four board members – including the chairman – to quit.

It’s embarrassing, although not surprising, to again see another example of the dysfunction that is Illinois politics so prominently on display.

There have been several proposals on how to reform Metra, such as restructuring it, moving it under the governor’s control, and abolishing the RTA. We have another suggestion: create one board that oversees all public transportation in the region.

The RTA, created in 1974, is the third-largest public transportation system in North America and provides more than 2 million rides a day on the 7,200 route miles in a six-county region, according to its website.

It has financial and budget oversight for the three service boards – CTA, Metra and Pace.

CTA, Metra and Pace boards determine levels of service, fares and operational policies for their respective agencies.

This being Illinois, these board members are, of course, annually compensated. The RTA is governed by a 15-member board and a chairman, who each makes $25,000. The seven CTA board members make $20,000 each, and the 11 Metra board members get $15,000 each. The 12 members of Pace get $10,000 each.

If each has a full board, that’s $825,000 in taxpayer money annually spent on their salaries. They also get taxpayer-funded health care, deferred compensation, life insurance and retirement benefits, although Gov. Pat Quinn recently signed a bill into law that strips those from future members of all four boards.

It makes more sense to have one agency set priorities and oversee all public transportation needs for the Chicago region. Each of the six counties in the region would have a representative on the board – selected through a popular vote every two years by the residents of each respective county, so officeholders are accountable directly to taxpayers. Cook County can have three elected members.

The existing board structure is bloated bureaucracy, and it does not best serve the needs of the public. It’s time for a radical change.

8IT’S YOUR WRITE Kind Samaritans

Immigration policy

To the Editor: At 10 p.m. Friday, July 26, my son and I took our dog, Crooky, for a walk to Three Oaks Recreation Area. A cat surprised us all, and Crooky took chase across Three Oaks Road. He made it across, but when he headed back toward the park, a car struck him. The car drove off, but two wonderful couples who saw everything stopped to help us.

I want to thank them from the bottom of my heart. Crooky did not survive the head trauma, but we always will remember these kind Samaritans who provided comfort and guidance, called the police and the animal hospital, directed traffic, and gave up their blanket as a stretcher.

Thank you also to Tracy Weigel and to the Cary police officers for their support. To the driver of the car who hit Crooky, I would like to say that I am not angry. It was an accident, and I forgive you for leaving the scene.

To the Editor: Since 1986 and now again in 2013, the American government is trying to fix the illegal immigrant problem. It looks like in all these years, the Senate has not learned that you must first close the border tight to the illegal immigrants.

All the present illegal immigrants have to be registered in the next six months and have an American citizen sponsor, who guarantees them a place to live and a place to work for a year. No welfare.

They must have a clean police record with fingerprints and a healthy physical record. Every year in January, the illegal immigrants have to report in at the U.S. Postal Service. My wife and I and our immigrant friends had to fulfill the above requirements in the early 1950s.

If the government would do it this way, it could pick the healthy and honest ones for citizens instead of just buying votes for themselves.

Lita Simanis

Peter Jung

Cary

Huntley

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of them applies to the court for relief, then both attorneys must withdraw from the case, leaving both parties without a lawyer unless they act very quickly.

Recently, the past president of the Illinois State Bar Association, John Locallo, stated that he was opposed to legislative passage of the Uniform Collaborative Law Act. My opposition to the Collaborative Law Act is that when divorcing parties need their divorce lawyers the most, their lawyers must abandon them.

H. Joseph Gitlin Woodstock

As Mideast burns, Obama administration repeats mistakes Egypt is in turmoil again. Syria is embroiled in civil war. Iran continues building a nuclear device.

Militants in Iraq have killed more than 4,000 people so far this year, more than 800 of them in July alone, according to the aptly named Iraq Body Count.

And what is Secretary of State John Kerry’s focus? It is the neverending Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Again facing U.S. pressure, Israel has agreed to renewed peace talks. It rejected demands from the Palestinian side for withdrawal from “occupied” lands and the freezing of new “settlements” as preconditions, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did agree to release 104 Palestinian prisoners, most of them convicted of murdering Israeli civilians in terrorist acts, “in stages” and “in accordance with the

circumstances of their progress” in the peace negotiations.

Let me assume the role of an Old Testament prophet and declare: There will be no progress, because the Palestinian side will accept nothing less than the complete annihilation of Israel and the removal of every Jew from what they regard as their land.

Let’s put it in a way most people would understand. If you find a serial killer has broken into your home, would you negotiate with him, or would you defend yourself with your registered gun?

In announcing Israel’s participation in negotiations, Netanyahu issued “an open letter to Israeli citizens.” In it, he called those he would release from prison “depraved people.” They are not likely to become less depraved after their

VIEWS Cal Thomas release. Like most terrorists, there is a high probability they will rejoin the battle to obliterate Israel.

The prime minister also said: “In the next nine months, we will consider whether there is a Palestinian element opposite us that, like us, truly wants to end the conflict between us.” Save your breath.

There isn’t, because the Palestinian definition of ending the conflict is simple: They win.

As for the promise that prisoners will be released should negotiations progress, let’s see how that has worked in the past.

Middle East expert Daniel Pipes

8SPEAK OUT

Q “What’s your favorite thing about the McHenry County Fair?”

SPEAK OUT ON FACEBOOK “The small-town feel and bringing the kids and seeing the smiles on their faces.”

Tawny Schellhaass Lake in the Hills

Editorial Board: John Rung, Dan McCaleb, Jason Schaumburg, Kevin Lyons, Jon Styf, Kate Schott, Stacia Hahn

“Family, and I feel safe with the kids.”

“Riding the Ferris wheel.”

Connie Fischer Woodstock

Jacob Penrod Cary

Northwest Herald asked this same question on its Facebook page. At right are a few of the responses.

8THE FIRST AMENDMENT

has listed some of them: In 1985, Israel exchanged 1,150 prisoners for three captured Israelis. In 2000, Israel exchanged 450 Arab prisoners for three Israeli bodies and one live hostage. In 2008, five Arab prisoners, including, writes Pipes, “the psychopath Samir al-Kuntar” and 199 Arab bodies were swapped for two Israeli bodies. And in 2011, 1,027 Palestinian prisoners were given up for one man, Gilad Schalit.

In none of these exchanges was the so-called “peace process” advanced. The Palestinians, seemingly, get what they want by not conceding anything. Nor are they forced to live up to their promises and agreements. Israel does all the conceding and gets nothing in return, except more terror and new threats of war.

In 2010, a poll sponsored by The Is-

“Our son is a firstyear 4-H’er. We’re looking forward to seeing all of the kids’ exhibits.”

Kristine Fossmeyer Huntley

raeli Project, a Jewish-American organization, found most Palestinians refuse to accept the idea of Israel as a Jewish state and that while some accept the concept of two states, they regard it as a first step toward one state ruled by Palestinians.

In the face of so much evidence that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not be ended by more Israeli concessions and prisoner releases, why is Secretary of State Kerry continuing to pursue what hasn’t worked and can’t work, given the ideological and religious motivations of the Palestinian side?

Maybe it’s because this administration has no foreign policy and pressuring Israel is as close as it can get to one. Meanwhile, the rest of the Middle East burns.

• Email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribune.com.

“My favorite part of the fair is taking my son to the truck and tractor pulls. We have been doing it since he was born. He is 3 now and he looks forward to it every year.”

Eric Lane Wonder Lake

“Love seeing the wide variety of 4-H projects that the kids have worked on all year.”

Michelle Aavang, Greenwood

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8COMMUNITY NEWS

McHENRY WALKING EVENT TO BE SEPT. 21 McHENRY – An area event affiliated with the sixth annual nationwide Friends of the Poor Walk, put on by the St. Vincent DePaul Society, will be Sept. 21 in McHenry.

Walkers will raise funds and awareness for those in need in the McHenry, Johnsburg and Ringwood area. All of the money will be used to help feed, clothe and provide shelter for those in need.

Registration will begin at 8 a.m., with the 3-mile walk starting at 9 a.m. at Veterans Memorial Park in McHenry.

As part of the festivities, Star 105.5 radio personalities Joe Cicero and Tina Bree will broadcast live from the event.

For information, call Jim Thennes at 815-365-0455 or Chuck Cebuhar at 708-5339897.

More information can be found at www.fopwalk.org.

Fire district adjusting jobs Changes ahead for Algonquin-LITH department’s leadership structure

By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com Changes in the leadership of the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District are continuing.

After the April hiring of Patrick Mullen as fire chief to replace Kevin Rynders, the district now is looking to replace two assistant chiefs.

John Gaughan, assistant chief of administration, did

not have his contract renewed at the end of April and is being replaced by a director of management services. That job will be a civilian position, board President Rick Naatz said.

The director of management services would handle human resources responsibilities, manage employee benefit programs and risk management, administer worker’s compensation, over-

Multiuse route would cost $1.4M

FLEET 17 TO HOST BOAT PARADE

– Northwest Herald

TRUCK TO PROVIDE FOOD AT CHURCH McHENRY – The McHenry chapter of the St. Vincent DePaul Society will sponsor a food truck from 9 a.m. Aug. 17 until all the food is distributed at St. Patrick’s Church, 3500 N. Washington St. The truck will provide food for about 200 people and will be distributed on a first-come, firstserved basis.

Tickets will be distributed beginning at 8:30 a.m., with one ticket per household. Recipients are asked not to begin forming a line until 8:30 a.m.

Participants are asked to bring their own containers for the food distribution.

– Northwest Herald

8LOCAL BEST BET

MUSEUM TO HOST TRANSPORT EVENT UNION – The 23rd annual Vintage Transport Extravaganza will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Illinois Railway Museum, 7000 Olson Road, Union. The event will feature autos, trucks, buses, emergency vehicles and preserved railway equipment.

Admission is $14 for adults, $12 for seniors, $10 for children, free for children younger than 3.

For information, call 815-9234000, 800-BIG-RAIL or visit www.irm.org.

8LOCAL DEATHS Leland F. “Bud” Anderson 78, Poplar Grove

By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com

Photos by Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com

Cross County Farmers 4-H member Samantha Bauman, 14, of Union walks her sheep back after auctioning it off Saturday at the 4-H livestock auction at the McHenry County Fair in Woodstock.

4-H’ers show off projects Teens say preparing animals for fair is hard work, but fun

By CYNTHIA WOLF editorial@nwherald.com WOODSTOCK – Mike Pfeifer of Barrington and Rahn Pfeifer of McHenry stood for a while Saturday evening taking in the quiet strength of the massive steers in the George Dahm Memorial Beef Barn.

More than frozen, chocolate-covered bananas on a stick or ferris wheels or games, the 4-H exhibits, for the Pfeifers, were the big draw at the McHenry County Fair, which concludes Sunday.

“It’s amazing how powerful they are,” Mike Pfeifer said as his uncle reached out to pat an enormous black steer. “They could knock you over by moving their head. At the same time, they’re so gentle and friendly and nonchalant about everything.”

Four powerful fans blew down on the three steers in the stall where the Pfeifers paused. Two of the three had been declared champions – one the grand champion market beef and carcass beef, and another the reserve champion market beef.

The steers were the projects of 19-year-old Jacob Walters and his 17-year-old sister, Jacqueline Wal-

Johanna Copel 81, Algonquin Mary Rose Mai 88, Crystal Lake Terry Lee Riley 51, Crystal Lake OBITUARIES on page B5

Hebron Helping Hands 4-H member Josh Meier, 15, of Hebron plays on his cellphone Saturday while watching over his family’s pigs at the county fair. ters, both of Hebron. Jacob’s steer, 1,290-pound Tito, received grand champion honors, while Jacqueline’s, 1,180-pound Bud, was dubbed reserve champion.

See 4-H, page B3

It’s amazing how powerful they are. They could knock you over by moving their head. At the same time, they’re so gentle and friendly and nonchalant about everything.”

Mike Pfeifer on the nature of steers

On the Net For more coverage and event listings for the McHenry County Fair, visit NWHerald.com/fair.

sshinneman@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – A resident of PADS transitional living home has inspired the Woodstock Public Library to drop a longstanding rule that banned those staying at the home from checking out books.

Residents of transitional living facilities in either Woodstock or the rural Woodstock library district now can get a library card that provides a similar use to the card that rural residents

To see photos from the McHenry County Fair’s 4-H livestock auction, visit NWHerald. com.

Inside For a full schedule of McHenry County Fair events, see PAGE B3.

Woodstock library to issue cards to residents of PADS

By SHAWN SHINNEMAN

Marion Irene (Collier) Anderson 75, Poplar Grove

See JOBS, page B3

Huntley looks to add path

by Rt. 47

– Northwest Herald

BARRINGTON – Fleet 17 Boaters on the Fox will host their 23rd annual Venetian Night Boat Parade on Aug. 17.

The parade on the Fox River will start at 6:30 p.m. at the Fox River Preserve Marina in Barrington and end at Port Edward Restaurant in Algonquin.

Boaters who participate will be eligible for prizes.

To enter a boat, call 847-7721817 or visit www.fleet17.org.

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“It does give them the ability to check out the materials, but doesn’t give them the same full benefits that a city resident would get, but city residents are supporting the city with their property taxes.”

HUNTLEY – A $1.4 million project in Huntley would for the first time allow runners and bicyclists to navigate the retail area along Route 47, south of Kreutzer Road, without touching the busy state highway.

Village administrators presented the project during a Village Board meeting Thursday and asked for approval on a state grant application that would cover the majority of the $1.4 million. The village would be responsible for $289,390 if awarded the grant.

Despite some concerns with pedestrian safety, the board tentatively supported the grant application. Trustees are scheduled to take an official vote on the project during their Thursday board meeting.

“It’s for the betterment of the entire village,” Village President Chuck Sass said. “It does makes sense to connect [the path].”

The proposal would create a roughly milelong multiuse path for walkers, runners and bicyclists along the east side of Route 47, starting from the north side of Kreutzer Road and stretching south to Oak Creek Parkway, near the entrance of Sun City Huntley.

It would give pedestrians an interconnected pathway throughout the Huntley downtown and allow them to access the Huntley Park District grounds on west Main Street, once the Kreutzer Road extension is complete next summer.

It also provides off-road access for residents wanting to shop at the Walmart, Jewel and other retailers along

See BIKE PATH, page B5

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Nick Weber, director of the Woodstock Public Library receive.

For about 10 years, the library hadn’t issued cards to those with the PADS address of 14411 Kishwaukee Valley Road, Woodstock. Library Director Nick Weber said the rule was enacted about 10 years ago after several inci-

dents where PADS residents checked out materials, then left the PADS home without returning the items to the library.

“It does give them the ability to check out the materials,

See LIBRARY, page B5

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Signs warn of road Marengo man killed in Mich. crash work ready to start Reports: 64-year-old ejected from vehicle that rolled over; 2 injured along Route 120 NORTHWEST HERALD

By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com We’ll start this week’s Detour installment with some projects that haven’t gotten much attention: • ROUTE 120: Signs have popped up in Woodstock near the Route 120/Route 47 intersection warning drivers to expect delays for upcoming work. A $2.2 million resurfacing project is underway between Route 14 and Charles Road through town.

• ROUTE 14: Eastbound Route 14 in Fox River Grove is down to one lane as workers rebuild the town’s Metra station. The backup is pretty bad during morning rush, so budget yourself some extra time.

• ROUTE 22: The Illinois Department of Transportation on Monday is scheduled to begin repaving and patching Route 22 from Route 14 to U.S. Route 12 in the villages of Fox River Grove, Lake Barrington and North Barrington. With Route 22 being used as an alternate route for the closed Miller Road

by Lake County, there could be increased traffic delays, according to the North Barrington village website.

• McHENRY AVENUE: Expect slowdowns due to shoulder work ongoing at Crystal Lake South High School.

• MASON HILL ROAD: Mason Hill Road is closed east of Country Club Road as a fulldepth repaving project has begun.

• FLEMING ROAD: The rebuilding of Fleming Road between Route 120 and Country Club Road is done, and the scenic drive, now pothole-free, is open to traffic.

• WESTERN BYPASS: Watch for workers and delays as workers continue a $33 million project to build a 2-mile, four-lane highway west of downtown Algonquin to relieve congestion on Route 31.

Algonquin Road between Main Street and Meyer Drive will be down to one lane through this fall. Watch for lane closures on Route 31/ Main Street. South Main Street has one lane closed between Edgewood and Huntington drives, and North Main Street has one lane closed between Cary-Algonquin Road and Linden Avenue.

Huntington Drive will remain closed between Circle Drive and South Main Street through summer 2014. A detour to Edgewood Drive is posted.

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• CRYSTAL LAKE ROAD: Work is ongoing on a $1.28 million project to resurface and improve traffic signals on Crystal Lake Road in McHenry, from Bull Valley Road to Route 120.

• INTERSTATE 90 AND ROUTE 47: Be prepared for slower traffic along Route 47 as work continues to create a full interchange. The completion date for the $69 million project is set for late fall.

• CHARLES MILLER ROAD: Work is ongoing to create another two-lane span over the Fox River and widen Miller Road to four lanes with dedicated turn lanes from Route 31 to River Road.

A pattern change moving both directions of traffic onto the new bridge span is tentatively scheduled for Aug. 12.

The first phase, which consists primarily of building the new span and improving the intersection of Miller and River roads, will cost about $12 million and is anticipated to be finished by the end of October, weather permitting.

• LAWRENCE ROAD BRIDGE:

A 64-year-old Marengo man was killed Friday when he was ejected from a vehicle that rolled over in a crash in Michigan, according to reports in several Michigan-based media organizations.

Jesus Pena was one of four people traveling in a Jeep that was involved in the crash on Interstate 196 near 88th Ave-

nue in Zeeland Township on Friday afternoon, according to the Holland Sentinel.

According to the Sentinel, Pena was pronounced dead at the scene after he was ejected from the Jeep. Injured in the crash were the driver, Jennifer Pena, 31, and a 7-year-old girl, both of Marengo, and a teenage girl from Tucson, Ariz., according to the Sentinel’s report.

The girl was in serious but

stable condition Friday, and the teen was in good condition, the Sentinel reported.

According to Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Jennifer Pena was in fair condition Saturday night.

Witnesses told police that Jennifer Pena apparently lost control of the Jeep, which rolled from the eastbound lane of the interstate to the westbound side of the roadway, and came to rest near the shoulder, according to the Holland Sentinel’s report.

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WOODSTOCK: GOING GREEN

Defenders recycling drive to be in Woodstock NORTHWEST HERALD

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WOODSTOCK – The Environmental Defenders of McHenry County will collect recyclables from 9 a.m. until noon Saturday in front of the Farm Bureau, 1102 McConnell Road in Woodstock.

The Defenders accept household batteries, car batteries and lithium and button batteries. They also collect fluorescent tubes, clean Styrofoam, VHS and cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, packing

Here are a few of the electronic items that can be dropped off at the Defenders recycling drive: n computers n phones n printers n clean microwaves peanuts and reusable, unpopped bubble wrap.

A donation is requested for fluorescent bulbs and batteries to offset the costs

involved in processing them.

Electronics, such as computers, phones, printers, clean microwaves and electronic toys are accepted. TVs and computer monitors will be accepted for a donation of $10 to $35.

The Defenders hold a recycling drive on the second Saturday of each month, alternating between McHenry in odd-numbered months and Woodstock in even-numbered months. People may drive up and drop off their

Lawrence Road is down to one lane with a temporary traffic signal as workers replace the bridge over Piscasaw Creek. Weidner Road is closed at its intersection with Lawrence Road. The project is scheduled to be done at the end of October.

• HILL ROAD BRIDGE: Hill Road southeast of Richmond remains closed while workers replace a bridge over the north branch of Nippersink Creek. Work is expected to be finished in September.

• JOHNSBURG ROAD: Only westbound traffic is allowed to travel along the road from Chapel Hill Road to Cherokee Drive. Eastbound traffic is being rerouted through a Route 31, Route 120, Chapel Hill Road detour.

A pattern shift moving traffic onto the new pavement is tentatively scheduled for Aug. 10.

• McHENRY COUNTY COURTHOUSE: The Russel Court route to the courthouse and sheriff’s office is open, but being repaved. Employees aside, the best way to avoid this road work is to stay out of trouble.

• READ ALL ABOUT IT: You can sign up at NWHerald. com/newsletter to get a weekly email update on road projects throughout construction season. You also can find updates online at NWHerald. com/construction.

• ROUTES 31 AND 176: Through traffic is slowed to a crawl as workers continue a $10.18 million improvement of the five-point intersection.

You might want to seek an alternate route during work

Sources: McHenry County Division of Transportation, Village of Algonquin, Illinois Department of Transportation, Illinois Toll Highway Authority, Dorr Township

WOODSTOCK: SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT

Woodstock police will target stop sign violators NORTHWEST HERALD WOODSTOCK – Woodstock police will engage in a special enforcement initiative targeting stop sign violators during August.

As part of this initiative, officers will be paying special attention for such violations, according to a department news release. At times, officers will be assigned for limited periods to write tickets for dangerous driving behaviors, such as failure to come to a full stop or yield the right-ofway.

The purpose of this traffic enforcement initiative is to change driving behaviors and

encourage motorists to voluntarily comply with traffic laws, according to the release.

Detail officers and permanent beat officers will choose any stop intersection within the community or their beats to enforce stop sign or traffic control device violations.

Several complaints about vehicles failing to stop at the stop signs in and around the Square Park have been received. Officers will pay special attention to this area.

Questions about the traffic initiative or any traffic-related issues may be directed to Sgt. Dennis Leard at 815-3382131 or dleard@woodstockil. gov.

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NBC station in Grand Rapids, Mich., reported that the accident happened shortly before 5 p.m. Friday and that the Jeep first clipped a semitrailer. The roadway was closed until nearly 9 p.m.

The driver of the semitrailer was reportedly not injured.

Jesus Pena and the girl, who were in the backseat, were ejected from the Jeep.

The Holland Sentinel reported that the front-seat riders were wearing seat belts; none of the media reports specified if those in the backseat were wearing theirs.

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For information about the recycling schedule and types of materials accepted at each location or to access the Green Guide recycling directory which is put out annually by the Lou Marchi Total Recycling Institute at MCC, visit the Defenders’ website at http://www.mcdef.org/ recycling_information.htm, call 815-338-0393 or find them on Facebook.

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Like many teens involved in 4-H, the Walters siblings have been attending the McHenry County Fair and other fairs and shows since they were children. For them, the fair is both fun and business.

Because their steers fared so well in judging, they were sold at the Sale of Champions and captured handsome prices of $4 a pound for Tito and $3.30 a pound for Bud. Both of the Walterses said it’s a reflection on the effort they put into their projects, which included twice daily washings, blow dries, about 50 pounds of feed a day, and keeping the steers in an air-conditioned space that promotes greater hair growth.

“You learn so much” from 4-H participation and raising cattle, Jacqueline Walters said. “You learn the responsibility of taking care of the animals.

“You learn from talking to the people you buy from and the people who buy from you … you learn a lot about a good work ethic and keeping your priorities straight.”

Seventeen-year-old Eric Martin of Marengo High

contract administration.

“I believe the district would benefit in terms of expertise and economics having a civilian with experience in these specific administrative functions serve in the management services position,” Mullen said in an email to the Northwest Herald.

According to the district’s job advertisement, the salary for the management services director is expected to range from $82,750 to $100,375. Gaughan’s salary was $115,200 when his employment with the district ended.

Naatz said having a management services director is part the district’s efforts to go in a different direction.

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Ryan Ledebuho, 13, of Burlington keeps his friend’s calf company Saturday during the 4-H livestock auction at the McHenry County Fair in Woodstock.

School agreed. He and his sister, Ashtyn, presented and sold their steers at the fair, too.

The fair, though, is as much about fun as it is about recognizing the hard work that went into the preparation for it, he said.

Brianna Sheehan, 16, of Huntley, who also showed and sold a steer at the fair, said it’s a blast to show off the projects and gain some recognition – and also to hang out for several days with all of the other kids who are doing the same.

Janelle Seegers, her boyfriend, U.S. Navy Engineman 3rd Class Kory Worden, and

Seegers’ 4-year-old daughter, Olivia, indicated they’re grateful that people like the Walterses, Martins and Sheehan do what they do.

The trio marched right past the carnival rides and games and headed straight for the sheep, goats, rabbits, dairy cows and other animal exhibits when they arrived at the fair Saturday.

“I’ve been going here since I was her age,” Seegers said, nodding at Olivia, who was preoccupied with a miniature horse sighting.

“I saw that pony and it looked like my dog,” Olivia said. “Oh, I see more ponies! I want to pet them.”

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members said at the time that they wanted to run the district with a more business-like approach.

In other leadership changes, Virgil “Corky” Corless, who was defeated in April in his re-election bid to the fire district’s board of trustees, was appointed to the fire protection board of commissioners last month.

The board of commissioners oversees the testing of firefighter candidates, firefighter discipline and the promotion process.

Corless was one of two people to apply for the position. Naatz said Corless had more experience than the other applicant, Charles Parker of Algonquin.

“The other individual had no prior ... fire-related experience,” Naatz said.

Corless replaces Jay Atherton, who resigned from the commission.

tion has been vacant since the middle of last year, Mullen wrote. The position was held by Tim Littlefield, who now is the administrative captain.

District officials have advertised the pay for the next assistant fire chief to be between $109,500 and $114,000.

The assistant fire chief will help with strategic planning, budget administration, data analysis, policy development and emergency preparedness coordination, among other things, according to the job advertisement.

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8OBITUARIES LELAND F. ‘BUD’ ANDERSON Born: May 31, 1935; in Wagner, S.D. Died: July 27, 2013; in Rockford POPLAR GROVE – Leland F. “Bud” Anderson, 78, of Poplar Grove, passed away suddenly Saturday, July 27, 2013, at OSF St. Anthony Medical Center, Rockford.

He was born May 31, 1935, in Wagner, S.D., son of R.F. and Blanche (Youngbluth) Anderson.

They moved to Illinois in 1942. Bud served as SP5 from 1959 to 1964 and served in Korean War. He married Marion Irene Collier on Aug. 10, 1957, in Chemung. They had 56 wonderful years together.

Bud was employed as a rural milk hauler, and worked at Starline, Autolite, Union Special and Deans. He loved the outdoors so he worked for many farmers either milking cows or grain farming. He worked at Biggins Plumbing and Suhr Plumbing in the Poplar Grove area.

Recently, he was found driving a tractor in the spring and fall on the Bullard Farm or weed eating or mowing at the Boone County Fairgrounds. He was a lifetime member of the Belvidere Moose Lodge 295 and American Legion Boone Post 77. He loved to fish, camp, shoot the bull at the local coffee shop and spend time with family and friends.

Bud is survived by his two children, Robin (Karl) Kindberg of Caledonia and Randy (Elyse) Anderson of Bradenton, Fla.; and four grandchildren, Kelly, Karrie and Timothy Kindberg, and Brittany Anderson. They were the highlights of his life. He also is survived by two sisters, Karen Collier of Southaven, Miss., and Dorothy Vierck of Harvard; a brother, Jerry Anderson of Union; a sister-in-law, Eleanor Swanson of Belvidere; two brothers-in-law, Harold (Mary Lou) Collier of Chemung and Roger Paulson of Tennessee; and several special nieces, nephews, cousins and close friends.

Bud was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Emma Jean Anderson and Marlys Paulson Rudsinski; sister-in-law, Margaret Toombs; and five brothers-in-law, Albert Collier, Robert Swanson, Vince Vierck, Jay Toombs and Bobbie Saunders.

Bud had a heart of gold and wanted to help anyone who needed and wanted nothing in return.

Joint funeral services with his wife, Marion, will be at 10 a.m.

Monday, Aug. 5, in Buck-Wheeler-Hyland Funeral Home, 218 W. Hurlbut Ave., Belvidere. The visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 4, and from 9 to 9:45 a.m. Monday. Interment will be in McHenry County Memorial Park, Woodstock. A luncheon will be at Evangelical Covenant Church, 220 E. Harrison St., Belvidere, immediately following the service.

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MARION IRENE ANDERSON Born: Aug. 28, 1937; in Harvard Died: Aug. 3, 2013; in Poplar Grove POPLAR GROVE – Marion Irene (Collier) Anderson, 75, of Poplar Grove, passed away Saturday, Aug.

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She was born Aug. 28, 1937, in Harvard, the daughter of Harry W. and Irene (Saunders) Collier. She married Leland F. “Bud” Anderson on Aug. 10, 1957, in Chemung. They had 56 wonderful years together.

Marion was previously employed at Admiral, Mectronics, K-mart, Maplecrest nursing home and Poplar Grove grocery store. She was actively involved in the Women of the Moose, Prairie, Pomona and Illinois State Grange, past 4-H leader, Evangelical Covenent Church, Awanas and Belvidere North music boosters. She enjoyed traveling, camping, visiting the casinos and mostly playing bingo and spending time with her family and friends.

Marion is survived by two children, Robin (Karl) Kindberg of Caledonia and Randy (Elyse) Anderson of Bradenton, Fla.; and four grandchildren, Kelly, Karrie and Timothy Kindberg, and Brittany Anderson. They were the highlights of her life. She also is survived by one sister, Eleanor Swanson of Belvidere; one brother, Harold (Mary Lou) Collier of Chemung; one half-sister, Marie Bauman of Woodstock; two sisters-in-law, Karen Collier of Southaven, Miss., and Dorothy Vierck of Harvard; two brothers-in-law, Jerry Anderson of Union and Roger Paulson of Tennessee; and several special nieces and nephews, cousins and close friends.

Marion was preceded in death by her husband, Bud, on July 27, 2013; two brothers, Albert Collier and Bobbie Saunders; one sister, Margaret Toombs; three brothers-inlaw, Jay Toombs, Robert Swanson and Vince Vierck; three sistersin-law, Emma Jean Anderson, Marlys Paulson Rudsinski and Hilda Saunders; and four half-brothers, five half-sisters and all of their spouses.

Joint funeral services with her husband, Bud, will be at 10 a.m.

Monday, Aug. 5, at Buck-Wheeler-Hyland Funeral Home, 218 W. Hurlbut Ave., Belvidere. The visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 4, and from 9 to 9:45 a.m. Monday at the funeral home.

Interment will be in McHenry County Memorial Park, Woodstock.

A luncheon will be at Evangelical Covenant Church, 220 E. Harrison St., Belvidere, immediately following the service.

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Her brother, Paul Rauschert of Cary, preceded her in death.

The daughter of the late Etta (nee Thoms) and Paul Rauschert, she was born March 22, 1932, in Elgin.

She graduated from Northwestern University School of Medicine in Evanston in 1954 with a degree in physical therapy. She also received a master’s degree in special education from DePaul University and a master’s degree in outdoor education from Northern Illinois University.

As a Northwestern graduate, she worked with young polio victims in Northern Illinois. A lifelong learner, she transitioned to sharing her boundless talent, spending three decades with Summit School, a school for children with learning disabilities, as a founding teacher.

The children she brought into this world along with the students she nurtured and guided at Summit School carry on her legacy. She also was loved and respected by her many friends and colleagues.

An active community volunteer, Joan was Founder’s Favorite for Founders’ Days in Algonquin for her years of support and leadership of Art in the Park and other Founders’ events.

She also gave her time and energy to the Algonquin Historical Commission to preserve the village’s history and heritage.

An adventurous spirit, she and her husband set foot on every continent. They celebrated the new millennium drinking champagne and watching the sunrise in Antarctica, laughed at the blue-footed boobies on the Galapagos Islands, reached to the heights of Machu Pichu, camped in the rain forests of the Amazon, marveled at the terra cotta warriors in China, locked eyes with elephants peering into their safari tent in Zimbabwe and spent countless hours in the roundabouts of their beloved Europe.

And if that wasn’t enough she was a private pilot, logging many miles in the sky.

Please join her family in celebrating her life. Service is at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, at Emmett’s Restaurant, 128 West Main St., Dundee. Donations may be given in lieu of flowers to the food bank of your choice or the U.S. Olympic Committee at TeamUSA.org/give.

Wait-Ross-Allanson Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Algonquin, is in charge of arrangements.

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Born: March 22, 1932; in Elgin Died: Aug. 1, 2013

Born: Oct. 15, 1924; in Chicago Died: July 28, 2013; in Crystal Lake

ALGONQUIN – Johanna (“Joan,” “Doanie”) Copel (nee Rauschert), 81, of Algonquin, lived her life with grace, dignity and resilience, which she demonstrated through the last two years of a difficult illness.

Joan took flight from this world on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013.

She leaves her beloved husband of 56 years, Roger; and her cherished children, Marguerite and her husband Ron of Guilford, Conn., Nicole and her husband Brad of La Veta, Colo., and Roger (Sam) and his wife Evie of Grand Junction, Colo.

She was the proud grandmother of two adored granddaughters, Allison and Tess. She also leaves her sister, Maryette McLaren of Roanoke, Va.

CRYSTAL LAKE – Mary Rose Mai, 88, of Crystal Lake, passed away Sunday, July 28, 2013, at home. She was born Oct. 15, 1924, in Chicago, to Frank and Filemina (Julio) Cioffo. In 1972, she married Robert M. Mai. Mary, the first-generation daughter of Italian immigrants, was an excellent cook and very proud of her extraordinary Italian dishes.

She was a loving mother who also loved to entertain and socialize with her many friends. She was a member of St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church.

She was the loving wife of Robert; mother to Dennis Armbruster

and his wife, Anne (Peljo); daughter of Frank and Filemina Cioffo; sister to Rose Fabian, Matthew Cioffo, Patsy Cioffo and Michael Cioffo; and aunt to Robert Fabian, Mark Fabian, Tim Fabian, Dawn Fabian, Brian Fabian, Filemena Staffa, Desiree Linkevitch and Allison.

Services will be private. To leave online condolences, visit www. querhammerandflagg.com.

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MARY BETH OLSEN Born: Aug. 16, 1949; in Chicago Died: Aug. 1, 2013; in Marengo MARENGO – Mary Beth Olsen, 63, of Marengo and formerly of Crystal Lake and McHenry, passed away Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, at her home.

She was born Aug. 16, 1949, in Chicago, the daughter of Sylvester and Elizabeth Stepke. They preceded her in death.

She is survived by her beloved husband, John R. Olsen, whom she married April 2, 1970, in Tampa, Fla.; her loving daughter, Laura (Kevin) Herrick; her cherished grandchildren, Thomas, Jacqueline and Andrew Herrick; her dear sister, Kathy (Pete) Esgro; and many nieces and nephews.

Mary Beth was a 1967 graduate of Irving-Crown High School and a member of the North American Flyball Association.

The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5, at KahleMoore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Road, Cary. The funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, at the funeral home. Burial will be in Windridge Memorial Park.

For information, call the funeral home at 847-639-3817 or visit kahlemoore.com.

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TERRY LEE RILEY Born: April 17, 1962; in Belvidere Died: July 31, 2013; in Woodstock CRYSTAL LAKE – Terry Lee Riley, 51, of Crystal Lake and formerly of Belvidere, died Wednesday, July 31, 2013, in Centegra Hospital – Woodstock.

She was born April 17, 1962, in Belvidere, the daughter of Darrell Luepkes and Connie (Cummings) Bone. She married Gary Riley on March 21, 1980, in Belvidere. Terry had worked as dispatch for CWTS, a trucking company; and for PMI, a photo shop. She loved to hunt and fish.

Survivors include her loving husband, Gary; son, Brandon Riley of Belvidere; daughter, Amanda Slater and son-in-law Jason Asbury of Crystal Lake; five grandchildren; mother, Connie (Ron) Bone of Belvidere; father, Darrell Luepkes; and brothers, Robin Bone of Madison, Wis., and Darrell Luepkes of California.

The funeral will be at 11 a.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 7, in Buck-Wheeler-Hyland Funeral Home, 218 W. Hurlbut Ave., Belvidere, with Pastor Emeritus the Rev. Eugene Wille officiating. Burial will be in Owen Center Cemetery. The visitation will be from 10:30 a.m. until the service Wednesday in the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may go to the family.

To express condolences online, visit www.buckwheelerhyland. com.

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Some trustees worry about path’s safety risks • BIKE PATH

Continued from page B1 Route 47, south of Kreutzer Road. If awarded the grant, the village would have about 18 miles of pathways within its limits.

Trustee John Piwko said the interconnected path would allow for unprecedented pedestrian access throughout the downtown and provide residents a safe alternative to navigate Route 47.

Piwko has pushed for a large-scale path system since being elected to the board in 2007. He said he one day would like to see a path that extends as far as Big Timber Road, south of Interstate 90.

“I know it’s not going to happen overnight,” Piwko said. “But it’s a good chunk

of path that we got with this project.”

Trustees Harry Leopold and Ronda Goldman had concerns that the multiuse path at the Sun City Huntley entrance would put pedestrians’ safety at risk.

Both were concerned that the busy, six-lane intersection could lead to more accidents.

“I’m thinking about the possibility of accidents and people not paying attention. ... There are a lot of issues.

It’s a high-traffic area with a lot of trucks,” Goldman said.

Village Manager Dave Johnson said that staff would proceed with the grant application and have engineers examine the potential safety problems at the intersection. The village has until Aug. 20 to apply for the grant.

Library board approved policy changes Thursday • LIBRARY

Continued from page B1 but doesn’t give them the same full benefits that a city resident would get, but city residents are supporting the city with their property taxes,” Weber said. “I think it’s a good compromise for everybody.”

The individuals will be able to check out up to three items at a time and download books on electronic devices. They’ll also have continued access to the computers.

The card won’t allow members access to materials from other libraries, and they won’t be able to use their library cards elsewhere – a privilege city members enjoy and rural members can pay for.

The card will expire every six months but is renewable. Individuals can stay at the PADS transitional living home for up to two years.

The library board unanimously approved the policy changes Thursday night, Weber said.

The issue had come into the spotlight last month when Brien Cron, a homeless man currently living at PADS transitional living home, spoke out about being denied a library card.

Cron, 41, who works at Brown Printing Co. in Woodstock, had said the experience made him feel like a “second-rate citizen.”

Upon hearing Friday that his words had brought forth a change, he was in high spirits.

“That’s just awesome news,” said Cron, who likes to read books on computer coding, among other topics.

“I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of new signups at the local library.”

Weber, who started with the library in January, said he was happy the issue had been brought to his attention, and that a compromise could be reached.

Cron was complimentary of how the library handled the situation.

“I’m really happy that they passed it, and they understand,” he said. “Kudos to the library for doing the right thing.”

8FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Stanley Clark: A celebration of life will be at 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, at Kingswood United Methodist Church in Buffalo Grove. For information, call Beidelman-Kunsch Funeral Homes & Crematory at 630355-0264.

Stasy B. Heile: A memorial gathering will be from 9 a.m.

Monday, Aug. 5, until the funeral Mass celebration at 10 a.m. at Saint Raymond de Penafort Church, 301 S. I-Oka St., Mount Prospect. Inurnment will be in Saint Michael the Archangel Cemetery in Palatine.

Leslie P. Meusling: The visitation will be from 1 to 4 p.m.

Sunday Aug. 4, at Ehorn-Ad-

ams Funeral Home, 9625 Main St., Hebron. The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 5, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 9812 St. Albans St., Hebron. Interment will be in Linn-Hebron Cemetery in Hebron with military honors. For information, call the funeral home at 815-648-2054.

Paul B. Rich: There will be a memorial gathering from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5, followed by a memorial service at 5:30 p.m. at Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home, 107 W. Sumner St., Harvard. Paul’s cremains will join those of his parents at the family farm. For information, call the funeral home at 815-943-5400.

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Tough-out Bombers finally defused

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By JOE STEVENSON joestevenson@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – The Crystal Lake Bombers proved harder to wipe out than some action-movie villain, which made the manner of their demise at the McHenry County Youth Sports Association Summer International Championships seem fitting.

The Bombers, who faced elimination from the losers’ side of the 15U Silver Bracket for five consecutive games, were tantalizingly close to advancing to the championship game. The Bombers held a lead three times from the sixth inning on. And every time the Mac N Seitz Royals regained the lead or tied the score.

Finally, Mac N Seitz’s Carter Young ripped an opposite-field, bases-loaded single inside the left-field line to score a pair of runs and send the Royals to the championship game with a 10-9, eight-inning victory at Lippold Park.

The Bombers started 0-6 in the tournament – 0-5 in pool play, then an opening-round loss in bracket competition – but found their stride. They were playing their 12th game of the tournament, their seventh in the past four days.

“Those kids were running on empty,” Bombers coach Mike Krueger said. “Our pitching was deep and that helps a lot. Everybody was battling to the end. They just don’t give up.”

The Bombers finished in third place in the Silver Bracket. The only other local team in the 15U tournament, the Illinois Hitmen, tied for fifth in the Gold Bracket after losing to Hitters (Wis.) Baseball, 4-3, Saturday.

See BOMBERS, page C3

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Crystal Lake Bombers’ Luke Tevyaw runs to third base during Saturday’s MCYSA game against Mac N Seitz Royals at Lippold Park in Crystal Lake.

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Cubs’ bullpen catcher Andrew Lane warms up pitcher Blake Parker during a Tuesday game against the Milwaukee Brewers at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Lane is in his third season as the Cubs’ bullpen catcher.

Bullpen catchers fill important roles behind the scenes

By MEGHAN MONTEMURRO mmontemurro@shawmedia.com

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ndy Lane was going about his normal Thursday routine at his home in Phoenix when he heard his phone ring.

On the other end was Cubs reliever Kerry Wood, who Lane often caught during the offseason.

“What are you doing Sunday?” Wood asked, to which Lane explained he’d likely be going to church.

“Well, you might want to show up to the Cubs’ facility,” Wood responded.

Lane was unaware that Wood and other Cubs pitchers he regularly worked with, like reliever Sean Marshall, put in a good word to the front office when the bullpen catcher position became available in 2011.

Lane, an infielder during his three seasons in the minors which included a stint with the Cubs, followed Wood’s suggestion and arrived at the Fitch Park complex in Mesa, Ariz., that Sunday. He

Cubs’ bullpen catcher Andrew Lane was offered a bullpen catcher job three days before the start of the 2011 season by then-Cubs general manager Jim Hendry. immediately went to work during a three-hour tryout, throwing batting practice and then caught pitcher Randy Wells’ bullpen session.

As soon as he finished, thenCubs general manager Jim

Hendry offered Lane the bullpen catcher job – three days before the season started. Lane took the night to weigh the life-changing moment.

“It’s a job I took where I could stay in baseball and I jumped

at the opportunity,” Lane said.

“I miss playing, but how many guys show up and wear a uniform every day? … It beats going to an office every day. My office is ivy and grass and people yelling at you.”

Lane, like most of the 34 major league bullpen catchers, grew up wanting to play major league baseball.

While catching pregame bullpen sessions and warming up relievers during the game is a given, bullpen catchers’ duties sometimes include hitting grounders to infielders or fielding throws from the outfielders. And it almost always includes throwing batting practice.

“We don’t have very many guys who can throw BP and everyone thinks it’s easy but it’s not,” White Sox bullpen catcher Mark Salas said. “You’ve got million-dollar players in there kind of eyeballing you if you don’t throw strikes.”

See BULLPEN, page C9

BEARS

Past, present converge at Family Fest practice Butkus embraces new-look Bears

Bears new regime starts fresh There is a lot more that is new about this Bears football team than just the coaches and some of the players.

It appears general manager Phil Emery wanted a culture change along with his coaching change and that process is off to a very good start through the first full week of training camp.

Lovie Smith was a winning football coach, but he couldn’t win the games that really mattered. As time went by and it appeared that the Bears would continue to be good, but not good enough, Smith’s relationship with the media went from casual to tolerant, then to dismissive and finally

BEARS INSIDER Hub Arkush it appeared at times to be dismissive and disgusted.

Believe me, I understand nobody cares how tough our jobs in the media might be or what the people we cover might think of us. But Smith’s problem and, therefore the Bears problem, eventually became that through the media, Bears fans began to feel the coach and quite possibly the organization might feel the same about them as Smith

See ARKUSH, page C8

CHICAGO – Dick Butkus tackled countless players during his Hall of Fame career with the Bears.

Now, Butkus is tackling important causes. He hosted the inaugural Chicago Sports Legacy Event on Saturday in a skybox suite at Soldier Field while thousands of fans enjoyed the Bears’ Family Fest practice on a perfect summer night.

To learn more about what Butkus is doing to promote youth coaches and encourage young athletes to make the right decisions, visit www. butkusfoundation.org.

AP photo The Bears’ all-time great Bears coach Marc Trestman (right) watches during the team’s Family sat down for a conversation Fest practice on Saturday at Soldier Field. about his foundation and his

BEARS INSIDER Tom Musick former team.

What should people know about this event?

Well, with the Butkus Foundation, we had meetings with the Blackhawks and the Bulls about instead of always honoring pro players, let’s get down to the bare facts.

Where does it really start?

It starts with youth coaches, volunteer coaches, high school coaches.

See MUSICK, page C6

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Bears fans at family fest, I’m a big fan of random/different/unique jerseys. Guy in a Thomas Jones uni is the leader in the clubhouse. Kevin Fishbain – @kfishbain

Golf: PGA Tour-WGC Bridgestone Invitational, final round, 11 a.m., TGC; 1 p.m., CBS Tiger Woods looks to hold onto his lead going into the final day of the tournament.

Woods shot a 2-under-par 68 Saturday to maintain his seven-stroke lead. He shot a career-tying best 61 Friday.

Quarterback Kevin Kolb’s chances of earning the Buffalo Bills starting job were nearly upended by a wet and slippery rubber mat.

Kolb, who is locked in a competition with rookie first-round pick EJ Manuel, avoided serious injury to his left knee when he slipped and stumbled awkwardly while switching fields between practice drills Saturday.

August brings a wave of MLB waiver trades. Below are three Chicago area baseball players who could find a new home by the end of the month:

Follow our writers on Twitter: Tom Musick – @tcmusick Jeff Arnold – @NWH_JeffArnold Joe Stevenson – @NWH_JoePrepZone

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1. White Sox’s Alex Rios 2. Cubs’ Kevin Gregg 3. White Sox’s Alexei Ramirez

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FACE OFF Ephraim Lee School: Marian Central Year: Senior Sport: Football

1. Who are three of your favorite TV characters?

SpongeBob Squarepants, Batman and Huey from “The Boondocks.”

2.

What professional sports team has the best uniform?

Cincinnati Bengals.

3. Which teammate inspires you?

Our lineman Shane Kirwan, he’s always in the weightroom working hard and never skips a workout. He’s always trying to get better.

4. What would you change about your sport?

I don’t think I would change anything. Besides the concussions, I like it the way it is.

5. What are some good words to live by?

“Nothing is impossible.”

Kevin Wilde School: Cary-Grove Year: Senior Sport: Soccer

1. Who are three of your favorite TV characters?

Barney Stinson on “How I Met Your Mother,” Michael Scott on “The Office” and Ron Swanson on “Parks and Recreation.”

2.

What professional sports team has the best uniform?

Borussia Dortmund.

3. Which teammate inspires you?

Mike McKune. He was able to single-handedly change games. Even in tough situations, he was calm and managed to come out on top. The rest of us always looked to him and he never once let us down.

4.

What would you change about your sport?

Have kick-ins instead of throw-ins when the ball goes out of bounds.

5. What are some good words to live by?

“Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking.”

Lauren Opatrny School: McHenry Year: Junior Sport: Cross country and track

1. Who are three of your favorite TV characters?

Sheldon, Howard and Raj from “Big Bang Theory.”

2.

What professional sports team has the best uniform?

I like the Cubs’ uniforms.

3. Which teammate inspires you?

Brianna Ferguson always has a positive attitude every single day and pushes everyone to the limit.

4. What would you change about your sport?

Not having to get up so early on race days.

5. What are some good words to live by?

“Do what makes you happy.”

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ike it or not, baseball is making news again with regard to performance enhancing drugs. Sports editor Jon Styf and columnist Tom Musick discuss:

Musick: Help. I’m wrestling with a double standard that I know is foolish, that I can’t seem to overcome. When I hear about baseball players using PEDs, I get mad. I want them suspended. I want justice served. When I hear about football players doing the same thing, I shrug.

Styf: Soon enough, the NFL cheats will be suspended like the cycling and baseball ones for HGH and all kinds of sophisticated acronyms like that. I’m beyond being appalled at someone shooting themselves up or downing some sort of illegal concoction to get an advantage. It’s bad practice, all of it. But the line between legal and barely legal, as Ali G once asked Attorney General Richard Thornburgh about (excuse the obscure reference), is ever shifting.

Musick: Booyakasha. Yes, there is plenty of gray area in the fight between good and evil in sports. But it seems pretty black and white to me that Ryan Braun, Alex Rodriguez and the rest of the Biogenesis Bunch have tried to cheat the game. That said, I think this has been a great couple of weeks for baseball. Not only is Bud Selig angry at the cheaters, but other players are angry, too. About time.

Styf: The other players being angry strikes me as being about as sincere as Braun saying he did nothing wrong. I’ll generalize now and state that the majority of pro athletes I’ve spoken to don’t come off as open and honest when they’re holding court with the media. They’re saying what they want you to hear and what they want you to repeat, in most cases. They’re thinking about their image and distancing themselves from ostracized players like A-Rod, Jose Canseco and ... Sammy Sosa.

Yep, I went there.

Musick: I guess the best way to test the players’ sincerity is for the baseball players to push the union to agree to harsher penalties right here, right now. Fifty games for a first-time offender is nothing when players stand to gain millions by inflating their muscles and their statistics.

You don’t need an apology for bringing up Slammin’ Sammy’s name. I remember loving baseball in the summer of 1998. I completed zero homework the night Mark McGwire hit No. 62 off of Steve Trachsel.

Maybe if I studied harder (or at all) that night, I could have been an engineer.

Styf: I once wanted to be an accountant.

That fell through when I fell in love with Detroit Tigers baseball, bad baseball. I’m sure Damion Easley and Luis Gonzalez and Billy Ripken (oh, that practical joke bat handle baseball card) were no angels.

I know Bobby Higginson wasn’t. But back to baseball that actually matters. I assume it’s in the game, and I assume the game has changed significantly. When I look back on this 10 years from now, I’m sure I’ll remember Yasiel Puig’s first month as being a lot better than it was. That’s what we tend to do. The sad part of the influx of enhancing drugs is that it took a lot of that away. The late ’90s and early 2000s feel like a wasteland to me. Brady Anderson and Damion Easley were way cooler then than now.

Musick: You can add A-Rod to that group.

Styf: But I never respected him. So for me, nothing has changed. Except for not having to dislike him any more.

Musick: Fair enough. When he was a young phenom, I fell for the act. I won’t do it again! (Yes, I will.)

Former Northwest Herald columnist Kevin Kaduk now oversees all of Yahoo! Sports blogs, including Big League Stew, which encompasses all things baseball. In a season when the Pittsburgh Pirates are among the games’ best and the Cubs and White Sox are among the worst, Kaduk has enjoyed emerging storylines complete with the on-going performance enhancing drug issue, which is expected to claim another big fish in Alex Rodriguez, whose New York Yankees visit U.S. Cellular Field starting Monday – the day Major League baseball is expected to move forward with suspensions.

For the last five or six years, it seems like a season hasn’t passed without at least one big name kind of falling into the [PED] trap. Whether it was Manny Ramirez or Melky Cabrera or Bartolo Colon. I think the thing that’s surprised me is how big of an issue MLB has made this and how much Bud Selig has made this his own pet project and that he’s going to really lay down the law no matter what kind of stain it leaves on the game. It seems he really wants to send a message and with this being the final years of his commissionership, I think he thinks this will really be part of his legacy – that he was so tough on the steroid users. I think it remains to be seen how the public will view that. But I’m watching the Pirates pull off a great season, I’m seeing teams like the Orioles and Indians being competitive and they’ve found this competitive balance in baseball. I think [Selig] should be as proud of that and saying that’s his legacy – that they’ve been able to bring some of these small markets back into play instead of [just] going after these guys.

I think people are just tired of [the PED scandal].

At some point, you’re just going to have to accept it’s part of the game. If you’re a real baseball fan, why are you going to invest your time in something that you cry and bellyache over so much?

[Fans] can only do so much hand-wringing and I think a lot of that was done already with Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds and now we have a new round of it. The outrage gets tiring. At some point you have to say, ‘Look – it’s out there, it’s a fact of life’ and you have to acknowledge that baseball was never a pure game like some of the old-guard journalism people want to pretend it was. It never has been. People have always looked for an edge. So it’s like how much emotional capital can you invest into this?

You just want to sit down and watch a baseball game.

It’s crazy. I can’t remember a season when Chicago was more indifferent to both teams in my lifetime. I think a lot of that has to do with the Blackhawks stretching so far into June so you didn’t have to pay attention to [the Cubs and Sox] and why would you? The White Sox are looking at their first 100-loss season of my lifetime and the third or fourth overall. On the North Side of town, I think there’s a little more reason to watch with all of these youngsters – you want to see Junior Lake come up and see him do well.

It’s nice to get someone like [Alfonso] Soriano out of the way and even a guy like Anthony Rizzo – who may be struggling, but who is what – 24?

This is the part you want to be interested in and be invested in.

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Former Northwest Herald columnist Kevin Kaduk says baseball fans just need to accept the fact the game has never been clean and that substance use is just part of the game.

8SPORTS SHORTS Fire edge Union CHESTER, Pa. – Mike Magee scored his league-leading 14th goal in the 75th minute to lift the Fire over the Philadelphia Union, 2-1, on Saturday.

Magee scored a goal in his third straight game and has eight goals in 10 games since coming to the Fire from the L.A. Galaxy.

The Fire are 2-0-1 in their past three games.

Catchings helps Fever beat short-handed Sky

blocked shots.

INDIANAPOLIS – Tamika Catchings had 17 points and 10 rebounds to lead the defending-champion Fever to a 79-58 win over the short-handed Sky on Saturday night.

Karima Christmas scored 12 points, including two timely 3-pointers in the third quarter for the Fever (9-10). Catchings also had five steals and four

Franklin wins 5th gold, Ledecky sets another WR BARCELONA, Spain – Missy Franklin made history at the world swimming championships – and she might not even be the most impressive swimmer on her own team.

This much is for sure: The future of the American team is in very good hands with these

Golden Girls.

Franklin won her fifth gold medal of the championships with a dominating victory in the 200-meter backstroke Saturday, tying the record for most titles by a woman at the every-other-year world meet.

Katie Ledecky came along next and wrapped up a brilliant meet with her fourth gold medal and second world record, this time in the 800 freestyle.

Keselowski wins Nationwide race in Iowa NEWTON, Iowa – Brad Keselowski took control with 35 laps left to win the NASCAR Nationwide race on Saturday.

The Sprint Cup driver has won in his last three Nationwide starts, also topping the field at Richmond in April and Kentucky in June.

Points leader Austin Dillon led a race-high 116 laps, but gave

up a huge lead following a late caution. Keselowski, the only Sprint Cup driver in the field, took control a few laps later for his second Nationwide win at Iowa.

Sam Hornish Jr. was second, followed by Brian Vickers, Dillon and Kyle Larson.

Keselowski, like every other driver in the field, spent much of the race looking at the back of Dillon’s No. 3 car.

– Wire reports

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MCYSA SUMMER INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Hitmen have ‘pretty good run’

By JOE STEVENSON joestevenson@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – The Illinois Hitmen left the McHenry County Youth Sports Association Summer International Championships tying for fifth place in the 15-and-under Gold Bracket, yet feeling they could have done more.

The Hitmen fell to Hitters (Wis.) Baseball, 4-3, on Saturday in a losers’ bracket game.

The Hitmen, comprised of players from Hampshire, Genoa-Kingston, Jacobs, Marian Central and Woodstock, have 158-16 record over the last three seasons.

“We didn’t play up to par, but we got some wins,” Hitmen coach Dave Rominski said.

The Hitmen lost to Wisconsin Elite, 7-4, Friday to fall to the losers’ side. Hitters pitcher August Pfaff threw a complete game against the Hitmen Saturday to put the Hitters two victories from playing for the title.

“We didn’t play to our full potential,” said Hitmen shortstop Trey Schramm, a junior at Hampshire. “We still had a pretty good run. We were hitting some balls hard. We played good solid defense, but we couldn’t get the timely hits.”

The Hitmen will merge into Top Tier, one of the Chicago area’s top travel programs, next year.

“They’re taking our whole team,” Rominski said. “All our kids want to go play in college and that’s an elite program that gets a lot of exposure.”

In the 15U Gold Bracket, the Mac N Seitz Red Sox defeated Wisconsin Elite, 4-3, in 10 innings to advance to the championship game.

Illinois Elite meets Wisconsin Elite at 9 a.m. Sunday with the winner advancing to play the Red Sox, who have not lost, in the championship of the double-elimination tournament.

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McHenry Cobras’ Ian Grubich runs toward third during the sixth inning of Saturday’s 13U MCYSA Summer International Championships game against Select Baseball at Lippold Park in Crystal Lake. ry County Hurricanes won three games Saturday to advance to the semifinals in the Gold Bracket, which was single elimination.

The Hurricanes defeated the Woodstock Lightning (10-0), Perfect Game (5-1) and Hitters (Wis.) Baseball (11-0) to make it to Sunday’s 11 a.m. semifinal game against Select Baseball Gold. The winner advances to the 2 p.m. championship game.

“It was the best day of baseball these boys have put together all year,” Hurricanes coach Keith Nisenson said.

“We outscored three quality teams, 26-1. We hit the heck out of the ball, we pitched well and played great defense. We did everything right.”

The Hurricanes are 39-27-1 for the season, but Nisenson said he intentionally organized a challenging schedule.

“If someone told me we’d be playing on Sunday in this tournament, in the final four teams, I’d have said, ‘Unlikely,’ ” Nisenson said. “But we’re here.”

The McHenry Cobras saw their season come to an end with an 8-6 loss to Select Gold, 8-6, in a 13U Gold Bracket game

Saturday. That bracket is single elimination, so the Cobras finished at 52-20-2 for the season.

“It’s been a nice run,” Cobras coach Mike Stewart said.

“We have one more in us.”

The Cobras started with 10 of their current 12 players as 9-year-olds. They lost five next year who have to move up in age, but replaced three of them through recent tryouts.

The Cobras finished 3-1 in their pool and knew Select Gold would be tough, despite its 1-3 pool record.

“We’ve played against them since we’re 9,” Stewart said.

“We’ve been battling back and forth. Our kids know each other, so even though it was a tight game, they were talking to each other. [Select] is a great team with great kids.”

Select went on to win its next two games to reach the semifinals.

The Algonquin Storm will play the Lake in the Hills Thunder at 8 a.m. Sunday in on Silver Bracket semifinal, with the Crystal Lake Bombers and Mount Prospect Mavericks meeting in the other.

That championship game is set for 2 p.m.

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Elimination game filled with tension • BOMBERS Continued from page C1 Later, the Iowa Diamond Hawks defeated Mac N Seitz, 12-2, for the Silver Bracket championship.

“It was a tremendous effort by the whole team,” said Bombers shortstop Nik Subaric, who will be a sophomore at Jacobs. “We battled back hard from losing six straight. This is outstanding.”

The drama from the bottom of the sixth until the end was intense. There were numerous times when a hit or an out could have ended the game before Young’s single actually did. Mac N Seitz trailed, 5-2, in the sixth and rallied for five runs. Four of those were scored with two outs.

The Bombers came back to grab an 8-7 lead on RBI singles from Trevor Ranallo and Subaric. Just before Ranallo, Tyler Carlson had drawn a walk

“You’re just in that moment. You’re not thinking about yourself or anything. You’re not thinking about girls. You’re just thinking about what you can do. You have to love it.”

Jarryd Cabusao, Crystal Lake Bombers catcher

to load the bases after being down to his last strike.

Mac N Seitz tied the score in the bottom of the seventh and Marc Miguel doubled in Steve Krueger for another Bombers’ lead.

“You get to the point where you just want to do anything for your team to win,” said Bombers catcher Jarryd Cabusao, a sophomore at Marian Central. “You’re just in that moment. You’re not thinking about yourself or anything.

You’re not thinking about girls. You’re just thinking about what you can do. You have to love it.”

Subaric said there was tension in earlier elimination games, but not like Saturday’s.

“Oh, my gosh,” Subaric said. “It was so intense. It was stressful yesterday, but I knew we were going to win that game. I really thought we were going to win this one, too. I’m glad to see my teammates all in it.”

Eventually, Mac N Seitz loaded the bases with one out and Young ended the drama.

“We have really good families and really good kids, that makes my job easier,” Mike Krueger said. “They left it all out there.”

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GOLF ROUNDUP

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FIVE-DAY PLANNER

Woods just ordinary, still leads by 7

TEAM

The Associated Press

Sunday’s post time: 1 p.m.

First, $10,500, Claiming $7,500, 3 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares), One And One Sixteenth Miles 1 Holycow Shes Sassy Torres 122 3-1 2 It’sallaboutred Contreras 122 12-1 3 Cecileabration Graham 119 6-5 4 Red Lite Nite De La Cruz 122 7-2 5 Saint Patty Ann Colvin 115 20-1 6 Perfect Stranger Esquivel 117 4-1 Second, $40,000, AOC $40,000, 3 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares), Five Furlongs (Turf) 1 Somali Byrd Felix 122 6-1 2 Mein Fancy Lantz 119 20-1 3 Gypsy Melody Esquivel 119 4-1 4 Are You Dancing Graham 122 6-1 5 Taty’s Gold Roman 122 9-2 6 Ultimate Class Torres 124 5-2 7 Little Nip Baird 122 3-1 Third, $29,000, Claiming $50,000-$40,000, 3 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares), Six Furlongs 1 Betterlegsonatable Emigh 118 5-2 2 Great Red Beauty Felix 118 2-1 3 R Next Escapade Graham 118 3-1 4 Magdalenka Vigil 118 20-1 5 Lady Dozer Hill 117 6-1 6 You Bought Her Castro 118 4-1 Fourth, $10,500, Claiming $7,500, 3 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares), Five And A Half Furlongs 1 Salutethehero Torres 119 7-2 2 Romance the Devil Esquivel 114 12-1

at Detroit 6:08 p.m.

CSN AM-670

BRIDGESTONE INVITATIONAL Saturday At Firestone Country Club (South Course) Akron, Ohio Purse: $8.75 million Yardage: 7,400; Par: 70 Third Round Tiger Woods 66-61-68—195 -15 Henrik Stenson 65-70-67—202 -8 Jason Dufner 67-69-67—203 -7 Luke Donald 67-69-68—204 -6 Bill Haas 67-68-69—204 -6 Chris Wood 66-68-70—204 -6 Miguel Angel Jimenez 71-69-65—205 -5 Keegan Bradley 66-68-71—205 -5

THURSDAY

at Philadelphia 6:05 p.m.

CSN AM-720

at Philadelphia 6:05 p.m.

CSN AM-720

at Philadelphia 12:05 p.m.

CSN AM-720

N.Y. YANKEES 7:10 p.m.

WGN AM-670

N.Y. YANKEES 7:10 p.m.

WGN AM-670

* U.S. Open Cup match

ON TAP SUNDAY

6 p.m.: PGA Tour, Reno-Tahoe Open, inal round, at Reno, Nev., TGC

TV/Radio MLB BASEBALL AP photo

Tiger Woods hits from the sand to the seventh green during the third round of the Bridgestone Invitational on Saturday at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio.

12:30 p.m.: Arizona at Boston, TBS 1 p.m.: L.A. Dodgers at Cubs, WGN, AM-720 6 p.m.: White Sox at Detroit, CSN, AM-670 7 p.m.: Atlanta at Philadelphia, ESPN

AUTO RACING

NFL PRESEASON strokes back after a 67, and Luke Donald (68), Bill Haas (69) and Chris Wood (70) followed at 6 under.

Women’s British Open: At St. Andrews, Scotland, Inbee Park wanted tough conditions at St. Andrews to try to make up an eight-shot deficit in her pursuit of a fourth straight major.

It turned out to be too tough for anyone.

The third round was suspended by gusts that topped 40 mph

and kept golf balls from staying put on the greens. After waiting six hours for the wind to calm, players were told to return Sunday morning for a marathon finish.

3M Championship: At Blaine, Minn., Tom Pernice Jr. moved into position for his second Champions Tour title, shooting a 7-under 65 to take a two-stroke lead over Tom Kite. Pernice had a 13-under 131 total at TPC Twin Cities after opening with a 66.

GOLF 9 a.m.: Women’s British Open Championship, inal round, at St. Andrews, Scotland, ESPN2 11 a.m.: PGA Tour-WGC, Bridgestone Invitational, inal round, at Akron, Ohio, TGC 1 p.m.: PGA Tour-WGC, Bridgestone Invitational, inal round, at Akron, Ohio, CBS 1 p.m.: Web.com Tour, Mylan Classic, inal round, at Canonsburg, Pa., TGC 3 p.m.: Champions Tour, 3M Championship, inal round, at Blaine, Minn., TGC

ARLINGTON PARK ENTRIES

MCYSA SUMMER INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

4 Chas Tom Sanchez 119 12-1 5 Gerry With a G Perez 121 10-1 6 Melo Mason Torres 121 3-1 7 Moreno’s Mine Roman 121 4-1 8 Pumpkin Pusher Martinez 119 15-1 Eighth, $10,500, Maiden Claiming $12,500-$10,000, 3 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares), Seven Furlongs 1 Givem Hell Harriet Montalvo 119 30-1 2 Argue the Toss Graham 124 15-1 3 Elusive Knoll Esquivel 119 3-1 4 Sofia’s Jonathan Perez 124 12-1 5 Lioness Lahr Hill 121 6-1 6 Wedding Trifecta Castro 121 7-2 7 Mama Martini Geroux 119 15-1 8 Off the Street Baird 119 5-1 9 Sweet Charise Desormeaux 124 6-1 10 Boo in the Woods Martinez 121 8-1 Ninth, $13,000, Starters allowance $5,000, 3 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares), One Mile (Turf) 1 Solicitude Vasyutov 124 15-1 2 S S Dessert First Colvin 114 8-1 3 Latika Love Graham 121 2-1 4 Electric Boat Diego 121 20-1 5 Modesta Martinez 121 8-1 6 A. J.’s Love Perez 121 30-1 7 Mykukubird Sanchez 121 8-1 8 Basilio’s Thunder Torres 121 15-1 9 Lemondropspritzer Emigh 121 5-1 10 Winning Star Esquivel 116 4-1

$17.95; $1 Pic 3 (2-1/7-6), $15.40 Fifth - Purse $16,000, SOC $14,000-$7,500, 3 yo’s & up, Six Furlongs 4 Catfeinated, Torres $10.40 $4.00 $3.00 1 Luck With a Kiss, Esquivel $2.80 $2.60 3 De Green Light, Roman $4.40 Late Scratches: Espresso Race Time: 1:12.60 $2 Daily Double (6-4), $33.80; $2 Exacta (4-1), $31.20; $0.10 Superfecta (4-1-3-7), $32.99; $0.50 Trifecta (4-1-3), $53.95; $1 Pic 3 (1/7-6-4), $61.90; $0.50 Pic 4 (2-1/7-64), $70.85 Sixth - Purse $23,000, Starters allowance $30,000, 3 yo, One And One Sixteenth Miles (Turf) 3 Welcome Aboard, Desormeaux $6.00 $3.80 $3.00 1 Before You Know It, Castro $4.40 $3.40 5 Dance With Kitten, Graham $3.60 Race Time: 1:47.42 $2 Daily Double (4-3), $29.40; $2 Exacta (3-1), $25.60; $0.10 Superfecta (3-1-5-2), $9.68; $0.50 Trifecta (3-1-5), $19.90; $1 Pic 3 (6-4-3), $72.30 Seventh - Purse $29,000, Claiming $50,000-$40,000, 3 yo’s & up, One And One Sixteenth Miles (Turf) 7 Adios Nardo, Martinez $6.00 $3.40 $2.40 3 Eleven Final Fours, Desormeaux $3.20 $2.80 5 Fun On the Bayou, Perez $3.80 Race Time: 1:45.74 $2 Daily Double (3-7), $33.20; $2 Exacta (7-3), $14.00; $0.10 Superfecta (7-3-5-2), $15.72; $0.50 Trifecta (7-3-5), $24.15; $1 Pic 3 (4-3-7), $68.00 Eighth - Purse $10,500, Claiming $5,000, 3 yo’s & up, Six Furlongs 9 Shanes Gold, Torres $14.40 $8.20 $6.20 8 Powerful Zen, Perez $4.80 $4.00 6 Cocky Bull, Castro $6.80 Race Time: 1:12.06 $2 Daily Double (7-9), $63.20; $2 Exacta (9-8), $67.60; $0.10 Superfecta (9-8-6-3), $165.89; $0.50 Trifecta (9-8-

6), $192.70; $1 Pic 3 (3-7-9), $124.30 Ninth - Purse $23,000, Claiming $25,000, 3 yo’s & up, Five Furlongs (Turf) 2 There’s No Telling, Geroux $13.80 $6.40 $3.20 4 Heart Doctor, Martinez $7.80 $3.60 5 Artful Bee, Roman $2.80 Late Scratches: Urban Renewal Race Time: :58.34 $2 Daily Double (9-2), $101.00; $2 Exacta (2-4), $81.80; $0.10 Superfecta (2-4-5-3), $29.66; $0.50 Trifecta (2-4-5), $63.50; $1 Pic 3 (7-9-2), $261.10; $0.10 Pick 9 Jackpot (1-2-1/7-6-4-3-7-9-2), $260.63 Carryover $85,821.00 Tenth - Purse $14,000, WCL $16,000, 3 yo’s & up, One And One Sixteenth Miles (Turf) 2 Easy Enigma, Vasyutov $9.80 $5.60 $3.80 8 Christinas Charm, Felix $14.20 $5.60 7 Slammin Rose, Torres $2.80 Late Scratches: See No Stars, D Fifty Race Time: 1:47.40 $2 Daily Double (2-2), $58.40; $2 Exacta (2-8), $148.00; $0.10 Superfecta (2-8-7-5), $194.38; $0.50 Trifecta (2-87), $95.50; $1 Pic 3 (9-2-2), $537.60 Eleventh - Purse $38,000, Maiden special weight, 2 yo, Five And A Half Furlongs 4 High Roll, Torres $6.00 $3.20 $2.40 1 Ex Pirate, Geroux $3.60 $2.60 2 Roman Officer, Esquivel $8.80 Late Scratches: Cool Cowboy, My Crafty Friend, Myorion Race Time: 1:05.45 $2 Daily Double (2-4), $40.40; $2 Exacta (4-1), $21.60; $1 Super High 5 Jackpot (4-1-2-10-6), $1,7508.60; $0.10 Superfecta (4-1-2-10), $37.56; $0.50 Trifecta (4-1-2), $25.95; $2 Consolation Double (2-5), $10.20; $1 Pic 3 (2-2-3/4/5/8), $72.30; $0.50 Pic 4 (9-2-2-3/4/5/8), $599.80; $0.50 Pic 5 (7-9-2-2-3/4/5/8), $2206.50; $1 Pic 6 (3-7-9-2-2-3/4/5/8), $37.30 Carryover $3,701.00

73-68-66—207 -3 69-70-68—207 -3 71-67-70—208 -2 67-71-70—208 -2 70-68-70—208 -2 72-66-70—208 -2 67-69-72—208 -2 67-69-72—208 -2 72-71-67—210 E 69-72-69—210 E 69-72-69—210 E 74-67-69—210 E 70-71-69—210 E 66-74-70—210 E 72-68-70—210 E 72-68-70—210 E 70-69-71—210 E 70-68-72—210 E 69-68-73—210 E 70-72-70—212 +2

LPGA

CHAMPIONS TOUR

WOMEN’S BRITISH OPEN

3M CHAMPIONSHIP

Saturday At The Old Course St. Andrews, Scotland Purse: $2.75 million Yardage: 6,672; Par: 72 Partial Third Round Play suspended by high wind; scheduled to resume 12:15 a.m. Sunday a-amateur Cristie Kerr 71-74-75—220 +4 a-Lydia Ko 69-76-75—220 +4 Minea Blomqvist 71-74-76—221 +5 Shanshan Feng 69-76-76—221 +5 Gwladys Nocera 74-71-78—223 +7 Moriya Jutanugarn 72-73-79—224 +8

Saturday At TPC Twin Cities Blaine, Minn.

Purse: $1.75 million Yardage: 7,114; Par: 72 Second Round Tom Pernice Jr. 66-65—131 Tom Kite 68-65—133 Jay Don Blake 68-66—134 Rod Spittle 68-66—134 Corey Pavin 65-69—134 Kirk Triplett 71-64—135 John Riegger 66-69—135 Bart Bryant 66-69—135 Mark Wiebe 64-71—135

TRAVEL BASEBALL OPEN TRYOUTS Bombers Baseball will be holding tryouts for the 2014 baseball season. Teams will hold off season training sessions at Players Choice Academy, instruction given by former High School coaches, College and Professional players.

Depending on age group teams will participate in several tournaments in 2014. Bombers baseball is committed to preparing and developing players for the future. Bombers are an affiliate of Crystal Lake Park District and are also a Host Team for the MCYSA / Nation’s Baseball International Summer Championships. Bring spikes, wear baseball attire including jersey or tee with # on it. Arrive 15 minutes prior. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT www. clbombers.com, CLICK ON TRYOUTS AND DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM TO SAVE TIME.

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Noon: NASCAR, Sprint Cup, GoBowling.com 400, at Long Pond, Pa., ESPN 1 p.m.: IndyCar, Indy Lights, at Lexington, Ohio (sameday tape), NBCSN 2 p.m.: IndyCar, Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio, at Lexington, Ohio, NBCSN 6 p.m.: NHRA, Northwest Nationals, at Kent, Wash. (same-day tape), ESPN2

EXTREME SPORTS 2 p.m.: X Games, at Los Angeles, ABC 4 p.m.: X Games, at Los Angeles, ESPN

TENNIS 2 p.m.: ATP World Tour, Citi Open, championship, at Washington, ESPN2 4 p.m.: WTA, Southern California Open, championship, at Carlsbad, Calif., ESPN2

BETTING ODDS

COMMUNITY BASEBALL

3 Mindy Can Dance Contreras 119 10-1 4 Annie Bellum Graham 119 2-1 5 Jukebox Gem Colvin 115 6-1 6 She’s Intoxicated Baird 119 3-1 7 Sunday Choir Castro 119 6-1 Fifth, $23,000, Claiming $25,000, 3 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares), Five Furlongs (Turf) 1 Take What You Can Felix 121 3-1 1a Hoist the Colors Geroux 121 3-1 2 Ganesha Graham 118 8-1 3 Flo’s Strawberry Hill 121 7-2 4 Stay Foolish Martinez 118 8-1 5 Millennium Star Vigil 121 4-1 6 Bedroom Eyes Castro 121 9-2 7 Distant Mesa Esquivel 113 5-1 Sixth, $39,000, Maiden special weight, 2 yo, F (fillies), Five And A Half Furlongs 1 Pistols Drawn Castro 119 8-1 2 Dreamofjean E. Baird 119 9-2 3 Sunshine Caris Esquivel 114 8-1 4 Lady Silvette Contreras 119 15-1 5 Oh Suzanna Geroux 119 6-1 6 Alittlebitofcandy Graham 119 5-1 7 Stephensclassygal Perez 119 6-1 8 Tangueray Miss De La Cruz 119 15-1 9 Zibby Do Vigil 119 5-2 Seventh, $24,000, Maiden Claiming $50,000$40,000, 3 yo’s & up, Five Furlongs (Turf) 1 J C Fifty Esquivel 116 6-1 2 Keep On Shining Graham 121 8-1 3 Well Mannered Hill 121 2-1

Adam Scott Zach Johnson Steve Stricker Rickie Fowler Richard Sterne John Merrick Bubba Watson Jim Furyk Phil Mickelson Ian Poulter Justin Rose Martin Kaymer Rory McIlroy Ryan Moore Hideki Matsuyama Angel Cabrera Jamie Donaldson Harris English Kiradech Aphibarnrat Peter Hanson

7 p.m.: Hall of Fame Game, Dallas vs. Miami, at Canton, Ohio, NBC

HORSE RACING

GOLF WGC/PGA TOUR

WEDNESDAY

INDIANA 7 p.m.

WCUU

ARLINGTON PARK RESULTS

First - Purse $38,000, Maiden special weight, 3 yo’s & up, One Mile 1 Moshaagib, Graham $4.60 $2.60 $2.10 2 Empire Knight, Castro $3.80 $3.00 3 Best Request, Perez $3.20 Race Time: 1:38.85 $2 Exacta (1-2), $16.00; $0.10 Superfecta (1-2-3-6), $2.91; $0.50 Trifecta (1-2-3), $8.85 Second - Purse $14,000, Claiming $16,000, 3 yo’s & up, One And One Sixteenth Miles 2 Touched the Clouds, Castro $3.00 $2.40 $2.20 6 Sgt. Major Ross, Vasyutov $10.20 $7.00 7 El Chuvasco, Torres $5.00 Race Time: 1:48.30 $2 Daily Double (1-2), $7.00; $2 Exacta (2-6), $33.00; $0.10 Superfecta (2-6-7-4), $54.49; $0.50 Trifecta (2-6-7), $59.70 Third - Purse $14,000, Claiming $16,000, 3 yo’s & up, One And One Sixteenth Miles 1 Little Frances, Graham $4.20 $3.00 $2.60 2 Dani Nikki, Esquivel $5.00 $3.40 4 Call Me Classy, Sanchez $5.20 Late Scratches: Sligo Rose Race Time: 1:48.40 $2 Daily Double (2-1), $9.00; $2 Exacta (1-2), $18.60; $0.10 Superfecta (1-2-4-5), $22.49; $0.50 Trifecta (1-2-4), $34.30; $1 Pic 3 (1-2-1/7), $8.00 Fourth - Purse $13,000, Starters allowance $5,000, 3 yo’s & up, Five Furlongs (Turf) 6 J. Pa, Felix $7.80 $3.00 $3.00 5 Stig’s Deputy, Montalvo $2.60 $2.20 1 Gimme a Double, Castro $3.80 Late Scratches: Santa, Carson’s Hawk Race Time: :57.42 $2 Daily Double (1-6), $21.20; $2 Exacta (6-5), $14.60; $0.10 Superfecta (6-5-1-3), $9.48; $0.50 Trifecta (6-5-1),

N.Y. YANKEES 7:10 p.m.

CSN AM-670

TUESDAY

D.C. UNITED* 7:30 p.m.

Payouts based on $2 bet except for Trifecta (.50) and Superfecta (.10) Saturday’s results

MONDAY

L.A. DODGERS 1:20 p.m.

WGN AM-720

By RUSTY MILLER AKRON, Ohio – Even when Tiger Wood is just good, he’s capable of distancing himself from everyone else.

Woods followed one of the best rounds of his life with a solid 2-under-par 68 Saturday in the third round of the Bridgestone Invitational, giving him a seven-shot lead and setting him up for a remarkable eighth victory at Firestone Country Club.

Unlike in a second-round 61 that could easily have been a 59 or even lower, Woods didn’t recover from all of his errant shots. He bogeyed the ninth, 14th and 16th holes, failing to bounce back from mediocre shots.

Yet he still was good enough to put himself in position for yet another lopsided victory, one that will likely mark him as the player to beat next week in the PGA Championship at Oak Hill.

Woods was at 15-under 195.

He began the third round with a seven-shot lead after rounds of 66 and the career-best 61 – the fourth time he has gone that low, also matching the tournament record originally set by Jose Maria Olazabal in 1990.

Henrik Stenson was second after a 67. Jason Dufner was eight

SUNDAY

15U Tournament Gold Bracket Saturday’s Results Game 41: Illinois Elite 3, Minnesota Bandits 0 Game 42: Hitters (Wis.) Baseball 4, Illinois Hitmen 3 Game 43: Illinois Elite 12 , Hitters (Wis.) Baseball 4 Game 44: Mac N Seitz Red Sox 4, Wisconsin Elite 3, 10 inn.

Sunday’s Games Game 45: Illinois Elite vs. Wisconsin Elite, 9 a.m.

Game 46: Mac N Seitz Red Sox vs.

Winner Game 45, noon, championship Game 47 (if necessary): Winner Game 46 vs. Loser Game 46 (if loser has only one loss), 2:30 p.m.

Silver Bracket Saturday’s Games Game 121: Mac N Seitz Royals 10, CL Bombers 9, 8 inn.

Game 122: Iowa Diamond Hawks 12, Mac N Seitz Royals 2, championship 13U Tournament Gold Bracket Saturday’s Results Game 1: Hardknocks Landsharks 12, Japan 2 Game 2: Select Baseball Gold 8, McHenry Cobras 6 Game 3: Hitters (Wis.) Baseball 9, Warren Blue Devils 8 Game 4: McHenry Co. Hurricanes 10, Woodstock Lightning 0 Game 5: BC KC Prospects 14, CL Cardinals (Blue) 6 Game 6: Team DeMarini 5, Pleasant Prairie Predators 2 Game 7: WOYS Stars 5, Rockford Big Dogs Elite 2 Game 8: Dynasty Blue 6, Naperville Renegades American 3 Game 9: Hardknocks Landsharks 10, Longhorns Elite 9 Game 10: Select Baseball Gold 10, Franklin Killer Bees 8 Game 11: Hitters (Wis.) Baseball 16, BOSS Orange 13 Game 12: McHenry Co. Hurricanes 5, Perfect Game 1 Game 13: BC KC Prospects 8, Brazil 3

Game 14: Next Level Tornadoes 11, Team DeMarini 1 Game 15: Great Lakes Baseball Elite 4, WOYS Stars 3 Game 16: Wisconsin Wildcats 8, Dynasty Blue 7 Game 17: Select Baseball Gold 4, Hardknocks Landsharks 1 Game 18: McHenry Co. Hurricanes 11, Hitters (Wis.) Baseball 0 Game 19: Next Level Tornadoes 11, BC KC Prospects 6 Game 20: Great Lakes Baseball Elite 4, Wisconsin Wildcats 3 Sunday’s Games Game 21: Select Baseball Gold vs.

McHenry Co. Hurricanes, 11 a.m., Lippold Park Game 22: Next Level Tornadoes vs.

Great Lakes Baseball Elite, 11 a.m.

Game 23: Winner Game 21 vs. Winner Game 22, 2 p.m.

Silver Bracket Saturday’s Results Game 101: Algonquin Storm 17, Sri Lanka 0 Game 102: Oswego Cobras 4, Aruba Braves 3 Game 103: LITH Thunder (Gold) 7, Puerto Rico Apaches 5 Game 104: CL Cardinals (White) 7, LITH Thunder (Black) 0 Game 105: CL Babe Ruth 9, Team Acceleration 1 Game 106: Mount Prospect Mavericks 3, Hampshire Hawks 2 Game 107: CL Bombers 13, CL Cyclones 3 Game 108: Cary Trojans 6, Bonaire Rangers 1 Game 109: Algonquin Storm 11, Oswego Cobras 1 Game 110: LITH Thunder (Gold) 13, CL Cardinals (White) 6 Game 111: Mount Prospect Mavericks 10, CL Babe Ruth 0 Game 112: CL Bombers 7, Cary Trojans 5 Sunday’s Games Game 113: Algonquin Storm vs. LITH Thunder, 8 a.m., Lippold Park Game 114: Mount Prospect Mavericks vs. CL Bombers, 8 a.m., Lippold Park 11U Tournament Gold Bracket Saturday’s Games Crown Point Dogs 6, Milwaukee Angels 0 Team Houston 8, Crown Point Dogs 0, championship

AUTO RACING NASCAR SPRINT CUP GOBOWLING.COM 400 LINEUP After Friday qualifying; race Sunday At Pocono Raceway Long Pond, Pa. Lap length: 2.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 180.654.

2. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 180.639.

3. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 180.18.

4. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 180.004.

5. (78) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 179.695.

6. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 179.601.

7. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 179.533.

8. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 179.329.

9. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 179.144.

10. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 179.094.

11. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 178.937.

12. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 178.848.

13. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 178.667.

14. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 178.508.

15. (51) A J Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 178.501.

16. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 178.409.

17. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 178.264.

18. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 178.26.

19. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 178.056.

20. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 178.031.

21. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 177.982.

22. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 177.658.

23. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 177.592.

24. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 177.508.

25. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 177.441.

26. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 177.239.

27. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, 177.221.

28. (55) Mark Martin, Toyota, 176.991.

29. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 176.942.

30. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 176.838.

31. (30) David Stremme, Toyota, 176.821.

32. (7) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 176.267.

33. (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 176.098.

34. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 175.86.

35. (83) David Reutimann, Toyota, 175.743.

36. (36) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, 175.179.

37. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, Owner Points.

38. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

39. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, Owner Points.

40. (35) Josh Wise, Ford, Owner Points.

41. (32) Timmy Hill, Ford, Owner Points.

42. (19) Alex Kennedy, Toyota, Owner Points.

43. (33) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

GLANTZ-CULVER LINE MLB LINE UNDERDOG LINE National League at Cincinnati -130 St. Louis +120 at Pittsburgh -190 Colorado +180 at Milwaukee -120 Washington +110 Los Angeles -125 at Cubs +115 at Philadelphia -130 Atlanta +120 American League at Detroit -220 White Sox +200 at Baltimore -190 Seattle +180 at Minnesota -170 Houston +160 at Los Angeles -145 Toronto +135 at Oakland -125 Texas +115 Interleague Cleveland -120 at Miami +110 Kansas City -130 at N. York (NL) +120 at Boston -180 Arizona +170 at Tampa Bay -210 San Francisco +190 at San Diego -120 N. York (AL) +110 FAVORITE

NFL Preseason Sunday Hall of Fame Game At Canton, Ohio FAVORITE TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Miami 2½ (33) Dallas Thursday at Tampa Bay 3 (35) Baltimore at Tennessee 2 (35) Washington at Cleveland 4 (35) St. Louis at Atlanta 3 (36½) Cincinnati at San Francisco 3 (35½) Denver Seattle 1½ (35½) at San Diego Friday at Carolina 2 (34) Bears at Jacksonville OFF (OFF) Miami at Detroit 4 (36) N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia 4 (40) N. England at Green Bay 3½ (35) Arizona at New Orleans 3 (36½) Kansas City at Minnesota 1 (35) Houston at Oakland OFF (OFF) Dallas Saturday at Pittsburgh 2½ (35½) N.Y. Giants Aug. 11 at Indianapolis 3 (36) Buffalo Off Key Miami plays Aug. 4 Dallas plays Aug. 4

TRANSACTIONS PROS BASEBALL National League CUBS — Designated OF Julio Borbon for assignment.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Placed C Gerald Laird on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 26. Reinstated OF B.J. Upton from the 15-day DL. Sent OF Jordan Schafer to Gwinnett (IL) for a rehab assignment.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Released LHP Ted Lilly.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Sent RHP Marco Estrada to Nashville (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

NEW YORK METS — Placed 3B David Wright on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Mike Baxter from Las Vegas (PCL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Placed RHP Jonathan Pettibone on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Monday. Designated RHP J.C. Ramirez for assignment. Selected the contract of RHP Zach Miner from Lehigh Valley (IL). Recalled RHP Ethan Martin from Lehigh Valley.

FOOTBALL National Football League BEARS — Signed TE Leonard Pope to a one-year contract. Waived TE Brody Eldridge.

BUFFALO BILLS — Signed WR Terrell Sinkfield CLEVELAND BROWNS — Re-signed OL Dominic Alford. Released LB Adrian Moten.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed OL Rokevious Watkins. Released OT Mike Tepper.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released OL Elvis Fisher and WR Lavasier Tuinei.

Travel Baseball Tryouts for the 2014 Season 11/12U Sun 8/4

12p-2p

Merryman Park #6

Sat 8/10

12p-2p

Merryman Park #6

13/14U Sun 8/4 Sun 8/11 15/16U Sat 8/3

10a-12p Merryman Park #7 10a-12p Merryman Park #7 2p-4p

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Injuries crop up again for Bears at Family Fest

By KEVIN FISHBAIN kfishbain@shawmedia.com CHICAGO – In front of 29,000 fans at Soldier Field, the Bears held practice for their annual Family Fest, which concluded with players signing autographs for the kids.

“It was exciting to be out here tonight. You could see our players just had a blast out here. Their effort was at a high level,” coach Marc Trestman said.

As it has been for the past four practices, though, the story for the Bears centered on injuries. Wide receiver Earl Bennett left and was evaluated for a concussion.

Cornerback Kelvin Hayden injured his left hamstring and is considered week to week, and defensive end Cornelious Washington sprained his elbow.

Julius Peppers and Alshon Jeffery were tended to as well, but it was purely precautionary for hamstring tightness.

The Bears did get some

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Bears wide receiver Earl Bennett (80) goes in for a catch as cornerback Zackary Bowman defends Saturday during the Bears’ annual Family Fest at Soldier Field in Chicago. good news on the injury front, as Corey Wootton was in pads after missing the last practice with a hip injury. He only participated in individual drills.

On the field, the practice was very similar to what we’ve seen from the Bears in Bourbonnais. This one did start with an up-tempo, two-

minute-drill look.

“We have to remember that it was still just practice eight, and we have to improve as a football team,” Trestman said.

“I’m sure coming out here and being in this crowd helped our energy after seven practices.”

New Bear: Tight end Leonard Pope had his first practice after signing with the Bears on Saturday. The 6-foot-8 veteran is hard to miss, and certainly looks the part.

“Obviously experience, going into the eighth year in the league,” Pope said about what he can bring to the team. “It’s not going to be easy, I’ve got to work my way. … I know what it takes to be the type of player that I need to be, so I’m just working my way up the ladder right now.”

Pope will be competing with Steve Maneri, Kyle Adams, Fendi Onobun and Gabe Miller to back up starter Martellus Bennett.

Team defense: During introductions, the offensive players came out one-by-one, and then the announcer called the secondary, yet no defensive backs came out of the tunnel. Then the unit came out as a group, and the linebackers and defensive line did as well.

“It’s not going to be easy, I’ve got to work my way. … I know what it takes to be the type of player that I need to be, so I’m just working my way up the ladder right now.”

Leonard Pope newly signed Bears tight end

Quick hits: The biggest roar from the crowd came on a long touchdown pass to Devin Aromashodu, who beat Isaiah Frey. … Jay Cutler opened up practice with a threadthe-needle type pass to Brandon Marshall, just out of the reach of Lance Briggs. … With Hayden out, Frey worked as the first-team nickel corner.

Rookie wideout Marquess Wilson got reps with the second team, as did undrafted rookie Zach Minter.

Butkus: Bears will win 11, 12 games • MUSICK Continued from page C1 We want them to set precedents for what teamwork is all about and to play for fun. I come across parents that say, you know, “little Johnny’s going to play in the NFL.” And he’s 11 years old. And I say, “I don’t want to bust your bubble, but little Johnny’s got a one-in-a-billion chance. Why don’t you let him play for fun?” I just remember all the coaches that I had in the city and all of that. They helped me build the foundation of what I ended up to be.

What makes a good youth coach?

I think someone that’s able to get the kids to enjoy whatever sport they’re doing. It’s a game, and play it as such, and have fun playing it. That’s the whole thing. Along the way, you learn how to be a good teammate and the sacrifices you’ve got to make for somebody else instead of this, “Me, me, me, I, I, I” world. Just have fun playing.

When you look at the Bears practicing below, how has this game changed?

The speed of it has changed. They talk about running the ball, but they’re throwing for records all of the time. For old timers, I think they’ve got, what, 22 days of training camp? They can’t have two double sessions in a row.

What do you think when you hear that?

(Chuckles) I think, “What the heck did we do so wrong by having six exhibitions and playing in every game and being at camp two weeks before that?”

So has the game changed for the better or for the worse?

I don’t know. For the buck, they’re getting a big bang out of it.

Is it strange to you that the Bears have an offensive minded

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Bears quarterback Jay Cutler rushes past the defense Saturday during the team’s annual Family Fest at Soldier Field in Chicago. head coach?

I think it’s maybe about time. Because, that’s the way it is. I mean, everybody swears up and down, “Oh, defense will win.” But we’ve had some pretty good defenses and we haven’t won. And I go back to ’85, broadcasting with Hub [Arkush]. Everybody talks about their great defense – and they were an outstanding defense – but shoot, they scored points.

Maybe it’s because they had a lot of opportunities because of the defense.

I haven’t seen much of the Bears [this summer], but I know about [Marc] Trestman and his history with quarterbacks in other places. He’s always done well with them.

He just might be the guy for [Jay] Cutler. With an improved offensive line, I think they’ll become a threat for us on offense.

real quickly that it’s a business. I played nine [seasons], he played 13. Those injuries creep up. You still know where to go and everything, but it’s just kind of frustrating that you know you can make certain plays, but your body’s not enabling you to do that. Sometimes, you’ve got to face the music and think of it as a business. Hey, that’s life.

Who said it’s fair?

No one will remember this if you’re wrong. How many wins do you predict for the Bears this season?

I think they may win 11 or 12. The only thing is, I think their division is going to be a lot tougher. Everybody is improving. You still have Green Bay. I do think the longer you have that offense on the field, it’s going to help our defense.

We should have some good, close games.

You’re a Hall of Fame linebacker.

What do you think when you look down on the field and you don’t see No. 54 (Brian Urlacher)?

When you were playing, I bet you didn’t mind taking a rest on the sidelines and watching the offense march down the field.

Everything comes to an end. It’s sad the way it ended, supposedly. I don’t know the particulars, but he went away with a bad taste in his mouth, I guess. And when I look back, I did, too.

(Chuckles) Back then, I was about to sit down, and it was an interception or a fumble and I’d have to run back.

What was that like for you?

Well, you suddenly learn

• Northwest Herald sports columnist Tom Musick can be reached at tmusick@shawmedia.com and on Twitter @tcmusick.

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Honeymoon for new coaching staff underway • ARKUSH Continued from page C1 appeared to feel about us Thus there was a public hue and cry for Smith to be replaced and Emery seized on the coach’s failure to make the playoffs as a reason for change.

Emery could have had his pick of the best candidates and clearly he sought an offensive bent in his choice to follow 20 years of defensive coordinators in Dave Wannstedt, Dick Jauron and Smith. But I believe he also sought a coach who understood that Smith was often his own worst enemy in how he communicated his message.

It will be weeks, possibly not until the end of the 2013 season, before we know whether or not Marc Trestman’s offense and perhaps even Trestman himself will be successful with the Bears.

But I can report for you right now that the effort to repare the rift Smith created between the team and the public is well on its way to success.

Don’t misunderstand, Trest-

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man and his Bears will have to win to keep everyone happy over the long haul. However, while that work is being done, both Trestman and Emery have reopened the lines of communication with the media, and therefore with the fans in a way that is paying dividends already.

I suspect Trestman’s soft and very understated delivery when meeting with the media both in a gang or one-on-one interviews is just his nature. But he is polite, patient and personal in a way that has many members of the media, including yours truly, have never seen in an NFL Coach.

For the most part he still doesn’t tell us much and in most cases he shouldn’t. But he doesn’t ignore questions, he certainly doesn’t dismiss them and he does seem to be trying to communicate his philosophy and goals to us without giving away too much.

When Trestman approaches the media after every practice and starts by asking everyone how they’re doing, most often with what seems to be a truly genuine smile it may be a tad hokey but

The one redeeming quality of the Bears annual fan night is the reminder it gives us of what this football team means to the Chicago area and Bears fans everywhere. At 5:30 Saturday night, a full hour and a half before the beginning of what is really just a glorified practice, the walkways around Soldier Field were jammed with fans, the parking lots were all either full or close to it and there was a buzz in the air usually reserved for playoff games in other cities. I still have no idea what this team will be this year but its fans continue to be among the most devoted in all of sports.

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it’s also extremely refreshing. On a number of occasions, I’ve seen him realize that he may not have addressed a question directly or communicated exactly what he wanted to and he takes the time to go back and try again and get it right.

Who knows whether these guys will get to or win a Super Bowl? We do know anything less will be failure. But I believe they’ve accomplished their first goal. The tension which was so palpable between the old regime

and its fans and the media is gone.

The honeymoon that any new coach gets has begun.

Eventually the honeymoon will end. The next step is to win.

What I believe this regime understands is with the trust they are trying to build they may be able to buy the extra time they may need to make that happen.

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Leonard Pope became the second best tight end on the team the minute he signed his contract.

Martellus Bennett can both catch and block, Pope will be Leonard Pope the blocking specialist and Fendi Onobun is now odds on favorite to be No. 3.

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Lesson learned at fan night, thank God the coaches and staff aren’t individually introduced before every game. I was as embarrassed for them as they appeared to be.

• Hub Arkush covers the Bears for Shaw Media and HubArkush. com. Write to him at harkush@ shawmedia.com.

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Vikings confident with rookie punter The ASSOCIATED PRESS MANKATO, Minn. – Jeff Locke has replaced Chris Kluwe as Minnesota’s punter, and the newcomer couldn’t be much different than his predecessor.

Yes, they both came from UCLA, but Locke doesn’t play bass guitar in a band. He’s not on Twitter that much. He probably won’t publicize his political views.

If there’s any position in professional football where pizzazz is optional, it’s the punter.

Kluwe’s outsized personality was the exception and, well, part of the reason Locke was drafted by the Vikings in the first place.

Taken in the fifth round, Locke impressed the Vikings enough for them to release their outspoken veteran and move on with a rookie.

Bills’ Kolb hurts knee: At Pittsford, N.Y., Quarterback Kevin Kolb’s chances of earning the Buffalo Bills starting job were nearly upended by a wet and slippery rubber mat.

Kolb, who is competing with rookie firstround pick EJ Manuel, avoided serious injury to his left knee when he slipped and stumbled awkwardly while switching fields between practice drills Saturday.

Coach Doug Marrone said the injury does not appear to be serious.

He called it “a bump,” and listed Kolb “day by day.”

THE CRYSTAL LAKE CYCLONES BASEBALL CLUB will be holding tryouts for their 2014 teams.

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TIGERS 3, WHITE SOX 0

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Record for futility within Sox’s reach

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN Chicago Sun-Times DETROIT – The White Sox had the last laugh after a major league scout warned before the 2012 season that they might lose 100 games.

They finished 85-77.

Turns out the scout’s prophecy was a year too soon.

And if you consider this year’s roster wasn’t much different before general manager Rick Hahn began dismantling it last month, maybe the scout was on to something.

The only thing the Sox (4068) are on to is a backpedaling chase to catch the worst teams in a franchise history that dates to 1901. Their lowly win percentage, which fell to .370 after a 3-0 loss to the Detroit Tigers, would rank sixth among all-time worst Sox teams. The team record for losses, 106, belongs to the 1970 team; the record for worst win percentage belongs to the 1932 team (49-102, .325) in the era before the 162-game schedule.

There is a silver lining. The Sox trail the Houston Astros (36-73) by five losses for the first pick in the 2014 draft, and early indications are it will be a good year to own a toptwo pick, which Hahn would treasure when next June rolls around.

The consensus best college prospect is North Carolina State left-hander Carlos Rodon, he of the mid-to-upper 90s fastball and putaway slider.

Rodon was the first Division I Golden Spikes Award finalist as college baseball’s best player when he was a freshman. The top high school player is Clovis (Calif.) High School shortstop Jacob Gatewood, a 6-5 190-pound phenom who put on quite the home run exhibition on Home Run Derby night at the All-Star Game.

CENTRAL DIVISION W L PCT Detroit 63 45 .583 Cleveland 61 49 .555 Kansas City 55 52 .514 Minnesota 47 60 .439 White Sox 40 68 .370 EAST DIVISION W L PCT Boston 67 45 .598 Tampa Bay 65 45 .591 Baltimore 61 50 .550 New York 56 52 .519 Toronto 50 59 .459 WEST DIVISION W L PCT Oakland 64 46 .582 Texas 61 50 .550 Seattle 51 59 .464 Los Angeles 50 58 .463 Houston 36 73 .330

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Also projected in the top five at this early stage: Vanderbilt right-hander Tyler Beede, Louisville right-hander Nick Burdi, California high school catcher Alex Johnson, Florida high school pitcher/ shortstop Nicholas Gordon.

Since they were 24-24 May 26, the Sox are playing worse than any team in baseball, and if that trend isn’t reversed in the last 54 games, they’ll make a run at picking first. Since May 26, they are 16-44 for a .267 win percentage.

The current players and coaching staff, of course, care nothing about a top pick.

“I’ve been on some bad teams,’’ said Adam Dunn, who played on five that lost 90 or more including one that lost 100, “but … this really is unbelievable. I know we have guys who can hit, I know we have guys who can pitch.’’

Asked how to escape this downward spiral, manager Robin Ventura said, “cross home plate.’’

“You’re never numb to it,’’ he said of the losing. “I don’t think that’s the word. You just get frustrated and you wait for it to turn. When you struggle [and] your frustration sets in, you still have to be able to block it out and play.’’

• Daryl Van Schouwen is a sportswriter for the Chicago Sun-Times who can be reached at dvanschouwen@ suntimes.com.

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Los Angeles Dodgers’ Tim Federowicz scores on an RBI single Saturday hit by Carl Crawford that also scored Skip Schumaker during the sixth inning against the Cubs at Wrigley Field.

DODGERS 3, CUBS 0

Samardzija ponders future

By TONI GINNETTI Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO – Jeff Samardzija has only one victory in his past four decisions after a 3-0 loss Saturday to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

But his more significant decision is coming in October.

That is when negotiations will resume in earnest to try to reach a long-term agreement with the pitcher Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer has said “you can see pitching the first game of a playoff series.’’

Samardzija has more than proven himself as a baseball player, putting to rest the doubters who thought former general manager Jim Hendry took too great a risk in giving the Notre Dame football star a five-year, $10 million contract – including a $2.5 million signing bonus.

Samardzija, 28, always has said it won’t be just about money. The native of northwest Indiana already has made more than $17.5 million from the Cubs despite being three years away

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It’s safe to assume he wants the same thing management wants – to be part of a winning team that will contend for championships.

“He’s a guy we’d love to try to build around,’’ Hoyer said Saturday. “We love his makeup, his competitiveness, his swagger, his ‘stuff.’

“We haven’t gotten to an agreement, and we don’t want to talk about the details of negotiations. But obviously it’s something that will be a priority when the season ends.’’

Samardzija’s future has been in the forefront now with the trades of veteran pitcher Matt Garza and Alfonso Soriano. He is the last player remaining from the championship teams of 2007 and 2008 when he was a young reliever in his first

major league seasons.

He has said often that he wants to stay, and though that looks to be his future, the uncertainty of contracts is on his mind.

Samardzija has a 2.42 ERA in four starts since the All Star break (7 ER, 26 innings) and had a quality start Saturday, going six innings allowing three earned runs, with nine strikeouts.

But his team is also struggling to score runs since Soriano’s departure.

“It’s hard to replace that kind of guy who can carry you for a week or two,’’ manager Dale Sveum said.

“That’s a difficult thing to replace.’’

He also knows Samardzija can be an equalizer on the mound when he has control of his fastball, which he didn’t have on Saturday.

“I’ve said before, the fastball control will dictate every outing, and he didn’t have it today,’’ he said.

• Toni Ginnetti is a sportswriter for the Chicago Sun-Times who can be reached at tginnetti@ suntimes.com.

Playoff money ‘life changing’ for bullpen catchers • BULLPEN Continued from page C1 Brewers bullpen catcher Marcus Hanel estimated he catches at least 200 pitches every day, added to his handling long toss or throwing batting practice.

“Anyone thinks they can do this job,” Hanel said.

“People don’t understand how much throwing [is involved].”

For the love of the game Unlike the players they work alongside for nearly nine months each year, bullpen catchers don’t make millions.

Bullpen catchers typically make less than six figures.

Considered a taboo topic, bullpen catchers themselves aren’t sure how much their counterparts make. Every team is different, but the biggest payoff comes from playoff shares awarded to the teams that make the postseason.

Last year, the players playoff pool total was more than $65 million with the money being allotted based on how far a team advanced.

The World Series champion Giants were awarded $377,002 for a full share.

Players on each team then vote on who should receive a share, which can be a full share, partial share or cash awards.

“They’re very generous about that,” Dodgers bullpen catcher Rob Flippo said of the ballplayers awarding playoff shares. “It’s potentially life-changing money.”

Most teams carry one bullpen catcher, however the Red Sox and Athletics have no official position.

Six organizations – Indians, Tigers, Astros, Mets, Padres and Dodgers – have two. Most bullpen catchers arrive at the ballpark five to six hours before the game. They are technically members of the coaching staff.

“The pitching staff we have is pretty amazing. [Max] Scherzer goes 13-0 and that’s the guy I play catch with

every day,” Tigers bullpen catcher Jeff Kunkel said.

“You feel like you have a little part in that and try to help as much as you can.”

Flippo said he typically throws batting practice while the other bullpen catcher, Fumi Ishibashi, will work with any pitchers who need to throw. During games, Flippo and Ishibashi are used to catching certain relievers but often share the responsibility.

“It’s not that difficult, it just requires a little bit more organization,” Flippo said of having two catchers. “Having another guy makes it a little easier. Pitchers have another guy they can throw to if they want.”

When waiting to throw batting practice or catching a pitcher, they sometimes get rid of scuffed or dirty baseballs and rub baseballs to make sure they have the same feel as game balls.

“You’re basically a rover and you do whatever anyone needs you to do,” Lane said.

“But your main job is obviously to catch and make sure [pitchers are] warm. A lot of guys ask for your feedback because you’re the one who catches them.”

There are differing philosophies in providing feedback to pitchers during bullpen sessions. Some bullpen catchers don’t speak unless spoken to while others readily tell pitchers how they’re throwing.

“I try to be as positive as I can, but guys want you to be honest with them,” Kunkel said. “Most of the time everything’s good. ... But guys are always working on stuff and want to know honestly if it looks different or if you can see something.”

A job for the young, old Salas, 52, is in his second stint with the Sox, having rejoined the organization in 2008 as bullpen catcher after holding the position from 1995 to ’99. The main advantage of being an older bullpen catcher, Salas said, is the ability to more easily earn pitchers’ respect, especially since he

played eight years in the majors at the position.

“I’m the bullpen babysitter,” Salas said. “You’re a father figure out there.”

While he was strong defensively behind the plate, Hanel, 41, realized after 11 minor league seasons he would never hit well enough and retired when he was 27. He immediately joined the Brewers, the team he grew up watching at County Stadium.

Hanel now has a charitable organization, “Koos For Kids,” helping terminally ill and disadvantaged children in southeast Wisconsin. Last winter, the organization, created in 2005, bought 1,100 new coats that were given to kids in need in Milwaukee and Racine.

“I’ve been given a platform to do these things and I’m just trying to use it,” Hanel said.

Unforgettable opportunities, memories Oct. 26, 1999, is a day Braves bullpen catcher Alan Butts, 49, will never forget.

On the field at old Yankee Stadium, Butts stood along the foul line next to the ballplayers and Braves coaches listening as long-time Yankees public address announcer Bob Sheppard called his name before Game 3 of the 1999 World Series in front of 56,794 fans.

“It doesn’t get any better than that, you know?” said Butts, who has spent 21 years in the organization, recently ending his role of coordinating the scouting of Braves’ opponents in order to spend more time with his three children. “I can’t even imagine what being a player and that feels like. It was fun.”

That experience was nearly topped less than a year later when Butts threw to Cincinnati Reds outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. during the Home Run Derby at Turner Field.

Butts was part of Bobby Cox’s All-Star Game staff and was in charge of throwing practice pitches to Griffey’s workout group earlier that day.

When they finished, Griffey asked Butts to throw to him during the event, an experience Butts called “unbelievable.” Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa ultimately beat Griffey in the final, 9-2.

“That last round or so, you really get into it a lot,” Butts said. “And you try to be perfect sometimes and I found out you can’t be perfect.”

Remembering the scene where the Dodgers stunned the 97-win Cubs team in 2008 – taking two games at Wrigley in the National League Division Series en route to the three-game sweep – Flippo couldn’t hold back a smile reminiscing about one of his favorite memories since joining the staff.

“Coming here for the playoffs was awesome – watching Manny [Ramirez] hit a home run and James Loney hit a grand slam in [Game 1] of the playoffs,” Flippo said.

Challenging job Hanel has made the same walk down to the visitor’s bullpen at Wrigley Field nearly 266 times during his 14 seasons as the Brewers’ bullpen catcher.

By now, Hanel knows some of the Cubs season ticket holders who sit only a few feet behind him. Of course, Cubs fans dish some good-natured barbs to Hanel and the rest of the Brewers sitting on the green bench in the bullpen, and he said it “can be pretty fun” interacting with them.

However, once the game begins, Hanel is usually on high alert. With the bullpens at Wrigley situated in foul territory along the outfield, foul balls have a tendency to send guys scattering as they approach the bullpen like a missile.

But the most dangerous part of Hanel’s and his counterparts’ job when at Wrigley is actually warming up pitchers. The LED board in right field, which was put in last year, makes it difficult for the bullpen catchers to pick up the ball as it approaches the plate, especially during

night games.

Its brightness, combined with the incorporation of white numbers and lettering, makes the ball blend into the background.

The Cubs reportedly made changes during last season after some visiting teams complained about the board affecting their bullpen catchers’ vision. When told of the supposed alterations, Hanel said, “Nothing has changed, no,” adding that “it’s dangerous.”

“This is now probably one of the scariest places to catch,” Hanel said. “When you have your big league catchers come down, they’re freaking out because it’s difficult. That’s the hard part of it.”

Hanel explained Wrigley’s LED board setup often forces him to catch defensively when a pitcher throws a ball at catcher-mask level or higher – usually ducking his head and blindly lifting his glove in hopes of catching it – because he can’t see the ball at all.

Also, Hanel, Lane and others must work extra hard at Wrigley to prevent a ball from getting past them and rolling onto the field, delaying the game. Hanel said some relievers will avoid throwing certain pitches for fear of skipping one past him and hitting first-base coach Garth Iorg.

Ishibashi learned first hand Thursday during Starlin Casto’s sixth-inning at-bat when Ishibashi couldn’t corral a pitch from Dodgers righthander Chris Withrow. The ball skipped past Ishibashi, finally rolling to a stop a couple of feet from home plate. Home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt had to call time to allow the bat boy to retrieve the ball. But in spite of the unique bullpen challenges at Wrigley, Flippo, who is in his 12th season in the position, said he enjoys the yearly visits to the ballpark.

“It’s old, but I think the history of it outweighs the fact that it’s an old stadium,” Flippo said. “It’s a great atmosphere and a great place to be part of a baseball game.”

GB — 3 7½ 15½ 23 GB — 1 5½ 9 15½ GB — 3½ 13 13 27½

Saturday’s Games Detroit 3, White Sox 0 Kansas City 4, N.Y. Mets 3, 12 innings Oakland 4, Texas 2 Seattle 8, Baltimore 4 Boston 5, Arizona 2 Cleveland 4, Miami 3 Minnesota 6, Houston 4 Tampa Bay 2, San Francisco 1, 10 innings N.Y. Yankees at San Diego, (n) Toronto at L.A. Angels, (n) Sunday’s Games White Sox (Rienzo 0-0) at Detroit (Porcello 8-6), 12:08 p.m.

Cleveland (Kazmir 6-4) at Miami (Eovaldi 2-1), 12:10 p.m.

Kansas City (E.Santana 7-6) at N.Y. Mets (Z.Wheeler 4-1), 12:10 p.m.

Arizona (McCarthy 2-4) at Boston (Doubront 7-5), 12:35 p.m.

Seattle (J.Saunders 9-10) at Baltimore (W.Chen 6-3), 12:35 p.m.

San Francisco (Moscoso 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Ro. Hernandez 6-11), 12:40 p.m.

Houston (Peacock 1-3) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 4-9), 1:10 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 7-7) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 11-6), 2:35 p.m.

Texas (D.Holland 8-6) at Oakland (Griffin 10-7), 3:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 4-9) at San Diego (Kennedy 3-8), 3:10 p.m.

Monday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at White Sox, 7:10 p.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 6:05 p.m.

Boston at Houston, 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 7:10 p.m.

Texas at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.

Toronto at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE CENTRAL DIVISION W L PCT Pittsburgh 66 44 .600 St. Louis 64 45 .587 Cincinnati 61 50 .550 Cubs 49 61 .445 Milwaukee 46 64 .418 EAST DIVISION W L PCT Atlanta 66 45 .595 Washington 54 56 .491 Philadelphia 50 60 .455 New York 49 59 .454 Miami 43 66 .394 WEST DIVISION W L PCT Los Angeles 60 49 .550 Arizona 56 54 .509 Colorado 52 60 .464 San Diego 51 59 .464 San Francisco 49 60 .450

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Saturday’s Games L.A. Dodgers 3, Cubs 0 Kansas City 4, N.Y. Mets 3, 12 innings Atlanta 5, Philadelphia 4, 12 innings Pittsburgh 5, Colorado 2 Boston 5, Arizona 2 Cleveland 4, Miami 3 Tampa Bay 2, San Francisco 1, 10 innings Cincinnati 8, St. Louis 3 Washington 3, Milwaukee 0 N.Y. Yankees at San Diego, (n) Sunday’s Games L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 8-3) at Cubs (Villanueva 2-7), 1:20 p.m.

Cleveland (Kazmir 6-4) at Miami (Eovaldi 2-1), 12:10 p.m.

Kansas City (E.Santana 7-6) at N.Y. Mets (Z.Wheeler 4-1), 12:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lynn 12-5) at Cincinnati (Leake 10-4), 12:10 p.m.

Arizona (McCarthy 2-4) at Boston (Doubront 7-5), 12:35 p.m.

Colorado (Nicasio 6-5) at Pittsburgh (A.J.Burnett 4-7), 12:35 p.m.

San Francisco (Moscoso 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Ro. Hernandez 6-11), 12:40 p.m.

Washington (Jordan 1-3) at Milwaukee (Lohse 7-7), 1:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 4-9) at San Diego (Kennedy 3-8), 2:10 p.m.

Atlanta (A.Wood 1-2) at Philadelphia (Cl.Lee 10-4), 7:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Atlanta at Washington, 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis, 6:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at San Francisco, 9:15 p.m.

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Umpires–Home, Greg Gibson; First, Jerry Layne; Second, Hunter Wendelstedt; Third, Alan Porter.

T–3:15. A–40,490 (41,019).

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INSIDE TODAY BUSINESS 2 BUSINESS Time Capsule. Page D3 • Faces & Places. Page D2 • Chamber Calendar. Page D2

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Consider commitments before joining a board. Page D2

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Dave Says Skimping on a down payment can be costly. Page D3

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“Women wear all kinds of hats, and they’re struggling to balance all of that, the business side as well as the family aspect.”

Victoria Cook, The Center for Guilt-Free Success

– Email ccashman@shawmedia. com.

Residences of Lake in the Hill opening Aug. 5 LAKE IN THE HILLS – The Residences of Lake in the Hills, a new affordable housing development for seniors, will have a grand opening at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 5 at 2601 Village Hall Drive, Lake in the Hills.

The development features 10 studio, 62 one- and 20 two-bedroom units offering affordable rents for seniors 55 and older.

Joining Dan Kotcher, of DKI, the developer, at the grand opening will be U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam; Mary Kenney, executive director of the Illinois Housing Development Authority; Tina Hill, chairwoman of the McHenry County Board; and Paul Mulcahy, Lake in the Hills village president.

The $20.5 million project was completed through public-private partnerships undertaken by the Illinois Housing Development Authority, JP Morgan Chase, McHenry County and Chicago Federal Home Loan Bank. The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity also provided a $300,000 grant to make the complex energy-efficient.

Shootout recalled in Richmond Memories of a May 10 shootout with three suspected bank robbers in Richmond were recalled last week.

Two Chicago-area men charged with trying to rob the Associated Bank branch pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in federal court.

The foiled bank heist left an accomplice dead in the parking lot along Route 12.

The Richmond Spring Grove Chamber of Commerce shares the bank parking lot where the drama unfolded.

Laura Ferris, executive director of the Richmond Spring Grove Chamber of Commerce, brought a visitor to a common area in the office building that included tables, chairs, a sink and refrigerator.

“This where the FBI huddled up,” she said. “In the refrigerator they moved all my stuff to the side and put a sign in front of it that said ‘Not FBI.’” Ferris said she was at a seminar in Ringwood as events unfolded. “I got a text that said there was a shooting. So I said I have to leave in case I have to do a press release. I tried to get back, but got stuck in traffic.

“When I finally got to talk to an agent, I said I need to get back in there because my laptop’s in here and all my stuff. He said, ‘M’am, this is an FBI crime scene, you’re not crossing our line.’

“You don’t understand, I said.

I need to get a press release out,” Ferris said, laughing now at her persistence in trying to put out a press release. “And he said, ‘It’s not going to happen today.’”

Ferris pointed to a north corner of the parking lot where orange paint on the pavement marks where the suspect’s car had been.

More orange marks in front of the chamber office showed were the FBI was parked, “waiting for all this to happen.”

“We were locked out for three days after the shooting,” Ferris said. “Who would have thought.”

Roberto Favela, 34, of Chicago, and Aaron Russell, 40, of Orland Hills, sat through the short arraignment in Chicago last Tuesday showing little emotion. They pleaded not guilty to multiple charges, including attempted bank robbery.

The two men were arrested outside the bank after FBI agents who had been tracking them surrounded their vehicles, according to the federal complaint. Tony Starnes, 45, of Chicago, was shot dead as he tried to flee and rammed his car into an FBI agent’s car; Russell was in a back seat, a mask dangling from his neck and several guns nearby, the complaint says.

At the time, Russell and Starnes were under investigation for their suspected roles in the robbery of several Chicago-area jewelry stores and a bank in Poplar Grove, according to the complaint. Russell allegedly told investigators after his arrest that, in the words of the complaint, “the goal was not to hurt anyone inside the bank, but that the firearms were real.”

Russell and Favela were charged with one count each of attempted bank robbery, conspiracy to commit bank robbery and using firearms during a violent crime. Russell, a convicted felon, also was charged with illegally possessing firearms.

Attempted bank robbery carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years; conspiracy to commit bank robbery has a maximum of five years; and carrying firearms during a crime of violence carries a mandatory consecutive sentence of five years to a maximum of life in prison.

Both remain in federal custody.

Their next court date is Aug. 13.

8BUSINESS ROUNDUP

Brokerocity opens new office in West Dundee

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Victoria Cook laughs while leading a Success Circle of local businesswomen at Roots Education Center in Lake in the Hills. Cook leads these monthly circles through her business, the Center for Guilt-Free Success, which helps women in the business world.

Striking a balance Coaching business expands training opportunities

By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com CARY – With a small son at home, a teenage nephew to raise and a growing business to manage, Victoria Cook was always feeling torn.

“I soon found myself feeling a little guilty when I was at work and away from [my son] and when I was with my family and spending time there, I also felt the pull and the twinges of guilt of, gosh, all the things that are not getting done, the inbox overflowing,” Cook said.

That guilt inspired the name behind her business coaching enterprise, originally the Guilt-Free Coach but rebranded the Center for Guilt-Free Success last fall.

The new name comes with expanded training offerings and more in-person events, including Success Circles where women entrepreneurs can get advice and share stories.

“I’ve walked in their pumps, and I came out the other side. Have I done everything perfect? Absolutely not, but I feel like I’ve got tools and resources that I’ve been able to use in my own life and then can teach and help my clients use in theirs.”

Cook also works with men, but she finds her message of learning how to balance personal and professional obligations resonates more with women.

She also finds women are more likely to struggle with promoting their business or feel awkward charging for their services.

WEST DUNDEE – Brokerocity Inc., a full-service real estate agency, has opened in a new location at 601 W. Main St., West Dundee.

The 1,500-square-foot office features a client reception area, private and large conference rooms, individual offices and work station areas.

An open house at the new location will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 15. There will be free food, beverages, treats, activities, face painting for children, giveaways and tours of the 1845 historic landmark building. For information, call 847-984-9500.

New Odyssey performs at Concert in the Park

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Mallory Sills (left) listens to Victoria Cook’s tips on being a successful businesswoman at Roots Education Center in Lake in the Hills.

The Center for Guilt-Free Success What: A marketing and business training enterprise that offers classes and coaching to help entrepreneurs grow their business and find clients Phone: Contact owner Victoria Cook at 847-701-4739 Website: www.CenterForGuiltFreeSuccess.com.

“Women wear all kinds of hats, and they’re struggling to balance all of that, the business side as well as the family aspect,” she said.

“They just indulge in way too much guilty behavior.”

Much of the guilt comes from three key areas, she said.

The first is the should

or shouldn’t dilemma, in which women are trying to live up to everyone’s expectations – family, cultural beliefs and societal norms – without having a clear idea of what is important for them and their business.

The second is what Cook calls the type A trap.

It’s when women continually try to meet their own self-imposed high standards without reevaluating whether those still work.

And the final area is the three O’s, overwhelmed, overworked and overcommitted.

Cook offers her advice in step-by-step instructions and tangible ideas, she said.

It’s helpful to have a woman’s perspective, said Lauren Young, the owner of Freshly Baked Com-

munications and one of Cook’s clients. Her company, along with Roots Education Center, also hosts some of Cook’s live events.

“It’s like talking to a friend,” Young said. “I feel like I can be completely honest. Even if you have a successful business, there are always things you can improve or challenges you’re facing. I feel like I can be honest with her and get real feedback.”

Cook hopes to continue to expand training opportunities and hold more live events. As her brand grows, she hopes to trademark her approach and license it out to other coaches to use.

She works primarily with small business owners in the service sector, including accountants and chiropractors.

McHENRY – The McHenry Area Downtown Business Association will be hold the summer’s last Concert in the Park featuring New Odyssey from 5 to 9 p.m. Aug. 8 at Veterans Memorial Park.

Little Chef restaurant will have hotdogs, bratwurst, sauerkraut, potato salad and chips; Harms Farm will offer roasted corn on the cob; and MJ’s Coffee Bar will have coffees, smoothies and sweets.

Beer and wine also will be available.

$1,983 for owner of oldest car from dealer McHENRY – As part of its 30th anniversary celebration, Gary Lang Auto Group is inviting customers in to see who has the oldest Gary Lang vehicle still on the road in their possession.

It must have been the original owner (or descendent) and have the paperwork to prove it. Vehicles must be model year 1990 and older.

Since the dealership opened in 1983, the winner will get a check for $1,983. To enter, visit Gary Lang Auto Group, 1107 S. Route 31, McHenry.

The winner will be announced on Sept. 7 at an event at the dealership.

For information, visit www.

GaryLangAuto.com.

– From local sources

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Consider commitments before joining a board Congratulations, you have volunteered to serve as a board member!

Often the strength of a community is measured by the organizations that serve it. Youth athletics, social services, business leagues and educational foundations all enrich our community, and the heart and soul of most nonprofits is the volunteer board members who devote their time and energy to the organizational mission.

But are you ready for the challenge?

One of my most important duties as a nonprofit consultant is to assist board members in understanding their roles and responsibilities.

But those responsibilities will start before you say “yes” to the job.

Let’s take a walk through the process of becoming a board member, in five easy pieces. Hopefully you will gain a fresh perspective on your potential role as a board member of a nonprofit organization.

NONPROFITS Nancy Gonsiorek • Easy Piece One: Support the mission. The organizational mission should be clearly stated in the bylaws and the IRS form 990. Make sure you are joining the board for the right reason, which is to faithfully carry out the mission of the organization, not to make friends or win influence for personal gain.

• Easy Piece Two: Look in the mirror. Consider the contribution you will bring to the organization.

Do you have background and training that will add value? Equally important, what will be expected of you? A board commitment always includes personal time and energy; however, there may be monetary commitments, and you may be expected to recruit donors and/ or volunteers. Be certain you fully

understand the expectations and are comfortable carrying them out.

• Easy Piece Three: Do your homework before you commit. It’s easy to do a quick background check.

Request and carefully review corporate bylaws, policies, and procedures. Make sure the organization is compliant with governmental agencies. Take a close look at the annual reporting information. Nearly all nonprofits report operations annually on IRS form 990. This is a public document and you can find copies on the website, Guidestar.org.

Lastly, obtain a copy of the audited financial statements, if available. Inquire about the auditors’ letter on internal control which would address deficiencies and weaknesses discovered during the course of the audit. Don’t be afraid to seek assistance in understanding these documents because financial oversight will be an important part of your job as a board member.

• Easy Piece Four: Personalities matter. Meet the existing board and attend several meetings. Meet the director and staff, as you will work closely with them as they carry out directives of the board. This will give you a taste of the personalities and the organizational strengths and weaknesses that you will inherit as a board member.

Too often board members join and then leave an organization within a few months because of personality differences or the discovery of poor operational health. You can learn a lot about an organization from getting to know the players.

• Easy Piece Five: Know your role. Board member duties can vary among organizations. Of course, if you have already followed my first four easy pieces, then this should be easy. Don’t be too quick to judge and question. Pay attention and learn the history.

Provide productive contribu-

tions and earn the respect of your colleagues before you make suggestions for opportunities. Finally, remember that old saying: there is no “I” in “team.” Your governance powers exist only when making decisions alongside a majority of your fellow board members.

Serving as a board member can be a satisfying volunteer experience, providing you prepare for the role. My five easy pieces will lead to better boards, better organizations; and that makes our community a better place to live!

• Nancy Gonsiorek is a Certified Public Accountant providing audit, tax and consulting services to nonprofit organizations. Her firm, Nancy L. Gonsiorek, CPA, LLC is based in Crystal Lake. She can be reached at 815-455-9462 or via email at NancyGonsiorek@comcast.net.

Past articles can be found at www.

NancyGonsiorek.com.

8FACES & PLACES Nuno takes key role at Joule Technologies McHENRY – Rafael Nuno recently joined Joule Technologies where he will serve as operations manager responsible for manufacturing processes, quality and meeting customer delivery requirements.

Before coming to Rafael Nuno Joule, Nuno spent 23 years at Motorola, including the past eight years as a regional program manager in new product development and product launch for Motorola’s smart mobile phones and tablets.

Joule Technologies, named the McHenry County Economic Development Corp. Small Business Champion in 2011, has been recognized as an industry leader in the design and manufacture of test fixtures for electronic assemblies.

“Joule is known for innovative products and customer service in the electronics test field,” Joule President Don Wallin said.

“Rafael’s mindset and his experience will allow us to reduce our lead times and increase out of box quality – creating a customer experience that is world class.”

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Dr. Patrick McEneaney (left) and Dr. Jim Massaro of Cary-Grove Foot & Ankle Center.

Massaro marks 20 years at Cary-Grove Foot & Ankle

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Gary Lang Auto Group’s annual Classic Car Show raised $2,870 for the McHenry County Salvation Army’s school supply drive. Pictured at the check presentation at Gary Lang Auto Group, 1107 S. Route 31, McHenry, are (from left); Garry Lowder, Linda Hunter-West and Major Nancy Lowder, all with the Salvation Army; and Gary Lang, president of Gary Lang Auto Group. Car show participants were asked to donate $5 per entry and bring school supplies to the event. Many people donated more than $5. The drive helps children in need get school supplies and a backpack. “We think it’s important to give back to the community that we serve,” Lang said. “And what better way is there to give back than to help children get the supplies they need to help them with their education?”

Good Shepherd earns achievement award BARRINGTON – Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital has been recognized by the American College of Cardiology Foundation’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry ACTION Registry–GWTG Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2013.

The award recognizes Good Shepherd Hospital’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients, and signifies the Barrington hospital has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients to standard levels of care as outlined by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical guidelines and recommendations.

CARY – In 20 years Dr. Jim Massaro has seen a lot of feet – big feet, little feet, tall feet and small feet.

Massaro came to Cary in July 1993 to start his practice, Cary-Grove Foot & Ankle.

“I was drawn to Cary. It is a tight-knit community with a real family focus,” Massaro said. “This was where I wanted to create my practice and establish my family.”

Opening his doors 20 years ago he had four patients on his first day. He spent the next several years getting involved in the community, serving for many years on the board of the Cary Grove Chamber and as one of its presidents and getting involved in community organizations.

“Being involved in your community is key to developing a successful practice,” Massaro said. “When colleagues ask me how have I established myself, I turn around and ask them, ‘When you go to the grocery store, how many people do you

know?’ I care about knowing the person down the street.”

As his practice has grown, Massaro has developed a reputation for offering quality and compassionate care.

“Your feet are the foundation of your body,” he said. “I carefully listen to the needs of my patients as we work together to achieve healthy feet.”

Today, Cary-Grove Foot & Ankle Center sees 700 patients a month. To help with all the feet they meet, Massaro has added an up and coming foot surgeon to his practice, Dr. Patrick McEneaney.

To what does Massaro attribute his successful 20 years?

“Really doing it,” Massaro said. “You have to get involved in your community and that’s doesn’t mean just signing up, it means really contributing time and money to help your community succeed.”

The practice is located at 113 W. Main St., Cary.

For information, visit www. carygrovefootandankle.com or call 847-639-5800.

8WALL STREET WEEK IN REVIEW

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The McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce celebrated a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Alexander’s Jewelry and Loan II Ltd., 4300 W. Elm St., McHenry. Pictured (from left) are: Kurt Rice, A Better Water Treatment Co.; Gina Kappler, The Gum Gal; Johnny Prizant and Scott Weiss, owners; J.P. Garcia, manager; Suszan Worzala, LegalShield; Tim Stewart, Executive Leadership Coach.

8CALENDAR Monday, Aug. 5 • 7 p.m.: SOHO meeting at Goodwill Industries of Northern Illinois, 2006 N. Richmond Road, McHenry. The McHenry chamber’s support group for Small Office Home Office helps small business owners become the best entrepreneur they can be through sharing marketing ideas, financial skills, and day-to-day frustrations. The group is co-chaired by Suszan Worzala, LegalShield 815-302-1334 and Tom Riggs, Any Key Computer Services, 815-331-6910.

Tuesday, Aug. 6 • 7:30 a.m.: Crystal Lake Business Network, Algonquin Bank & Trust, 4049 West Algonquin Road, Algonquin. Information: Laura Sinnaeve, 847-204-4899.

• 7:30 a.m.: Crystal Lake chamber’s Referral Exchange Network, Exemplar Financial Network, 413 E. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. Information: Kevin Bruning, 815-455-3000.

• 7:30 a.m.: Crystal Lake chamber’s Business 2 Business Network, Benedict’s La Strata, 40 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake.

Information: Mike Daniele, 815-356-2126.

• 5 to 7 p.m.: Allstate Insurance & Financial Services-Bonick/ Fresh Look Interiors mixer, 10 Virginia Road, Crystal Lake.

• 5 to 7 p.m.: After-hours mixer for SOHO at Goodwill Industries of Northern Illinois, 2006 N. Richmond Road, McHenry.

Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and beverages.

Wednesday, Aug. 7 • 7 to 8:30 a.m.: Woodstock LeTip, Vaughan’s Restaurant, 790 S. Eastwood Drive, Woodstock. Information: Richard Toepper, 815-338-9900.

• 7 a.m.: McHenry County LeTip, Brunch Café, 414 S. Rt. 31, McHenry. Information: David.Lammers@edwardjones.com.

• 7:30 a.m.: Crystal Lake Referral Network, Colonial Café, 5689 Northwest Hwy., Crystal Lake. Information: Holly Emrich, 815-382-1899.

• 8 a.m.: Cary Grove Referral Network, Cary Bank & Trust, 60 E. Main St., Cary.

Information: Shirley Rochford, 847-3414104.

• 8 a.m.: Lighthouse Business Network-

ing, St. Barnabas Lutheran Church, 8901 Cary-Algonquin Road, Cary. Information: Richard Sansone, 847-516-0433; Steve Randahl, 847-769-6285.

• 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.: New member breakfast orientation, Cary Grove chamber office, 445 Park Ave., Cary. Light breakfast included.

• 11:30 a.m.: Huntley general membership meeting, Kosta’s Gyros, 4053 W. Algonquin Road, Algonquin. Topic will be “Crucial Conversations,” a course that teaches skills for creating alignment and agreement by fostering open dialogue around high-stakes, emotional, or risky topics – at all levels of your organization.

Cost: $15, lunch included. RSVP by calling 847-669-0166, or visit www.huntleychamber.org.

• 6 to 8 p.m.: Cary Cruise Night. ’50s and ’60s Muscle Car Night.

Thursday, Aug. 8 • 7:45 a.m.: Power Partners of Cary Grove, Century 21/Sketchbook 20 Northwest Hwy., Cary. Information: Ryan Fain, 815-353-8600.

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36.75 45.32 45.99 52.15 462.54 60.48 35.77 61.66 70.44 72.30 40.22 45.72 63.27 11.25 36.22 30.62 91.95 38.05 17.50 36.95 906.57 35.00 195.16 56.49 53.56 57.50 16.60 99.20 31.89 13.82 56.03 11.50 84.29 17.20 25.35 46.08 95.80 14.19 8.14 71.50 35.65 78.75 50.98 42.60 41.64

14.66 13.97 18.29 11.32 11.53 24.69 27.39 10.15 17.57 27.70 21.18 19.27 16.44 3.40 16.38 27.41 9.35 175.35 11.49 13.23 26.23 5.31 13.86 9.44 12.64 21.37 18.16 12.36 15.95 2.17 19.86 22.72 11.53 17.14 27.71 16.80 15.52 22.31 24.35 15.98

35.81 43.55 44.10 49.61 424.99 57.55 35.53 60.07 71.48 75.62 40.48 42.38 58.65 10.38 33.84 31.00 92.27 26.91 16.30 34.96 894.51 33.85 195.73 54.42 52.51 56.02 15.95 99.00 33.81 11.39 57.30 11.06 83.15 18.94 24.59 44.05 92.26 13.48 6.94 70.81 32.60 76.28 48.49 41.11 39.53

35.52 41.43 42.44 47.98 440.35 55.60 36.09 61.49 70.12 64.81 40.13 41.21 57.62 8.91 33.24 32.60 90.35 27.06 14.33 31.08 834.00 33.71 202.40 50.65 48.80 52.12 13.00 98.35 31.04 10.12 59.29 11.46 79.48 20.14 23.59 48.13 85.97 12.94 5.49 67.84 30.48 74.87 46.09 39.23 37.53

52-week range 29.98 33.33 36.90 36.63 385.10 45.19 32.71 55.61 57.86 49.59 35.58 33.42 47.30 5.35 27.45 28.40 84.70 17.55 8.96 19.25 636.00 24.37 184.78 35.50 41.35 42.00 8.16 83.31 26.26 5.94 45.61 4.84 67.39 11.30 15.00 38.40 66.83 8.68 1.80 58.01 17.45 67.37 31.88 30.82 34.40

38.77 48.00 47.00 52.61 705.07 60.74 39.00 64.79 74.60 79.45 43.43 46.33 63.47 11.31 36.25 38.94 95.49 38.49 17.68 37.71 928.00 37.28 215.90 56.93 55.25 58.76 16.88 103.70 36.43 13.87 64.72 14.92 87.06 24.47 28.42 68.77 96.50 14.56 8.26 73.50 36.74 79.96 51.62 43.00 42.28

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Not enough down payment?

Dear Dave,

DAVE SAYS Dave Ramsey

When is it OK to purchase a house without making a 20 percent down payment?

– Hannah

Dear Hannah, When you’re willing to pay private mortgage insurance (PMI). And that’s not something you want to do.

PMI costs about $75 a month per $100,000 borrowed.

So, if you borrow $200,000 on a home, and you don’t put down at least 20 percent on the transaction, you’ll have to pay out an extra $150 a month as part of your mortgage payment.

Private mortgage insurance does nothing for you except pay your mortgage company in the event they have to foreclose on you and they lose money. PMI is foreclosure insurance that protects the lender, and you get to pay for it if you don’t make a 20 percent down payment. In the scenario I mentioned before, that would be an additional $1,800 a year on a $200,000 loan. In a sense, that’s an extra 0.9 percent on your interest rate. That’s what it feels like.

So you can see that PMI is not a positive thing. Often, a first-time homebuyer will purchase a house with 10 percent down then pay the other 10 percent as quickly as possible in order to get rid of the PMI. Stay away from it, Hannah. It’s nasty stuff!

– Dave

Dear Dave, I have a close friend whose 17-year-old daughter is going

to college to become a high school band director. Her daughter wants to take out student loans to attend an expensive private school, and tuition alone over four years will cost $100,000. I feel this is a really bad idea, but I don’t know how to talk to her about this.

– Natalie

Dear Natalie, I’m sure your friend and her family are nice people.

But what we’ve got here is a little teenage girl who has her heart set on something, and no one has told her no in a while. You’re getting ready to help introduce a new word into her vocabulary, because what you’ve described to me is stupid.

Listen, I love high school band directors. It just doesn’t make sense to spend over $100,000 on a degree to become one. Most of them make about $30,000 a year, so the return on investment for this kind of thing is terrible.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a band director, English teacher or a doughnut shop owner, you need to figure out what you’re going to make versus what you spend to get there.

Make sure you talk to your friend directly, not her daughter. If you do that, you’ll end up branded as mom’s mean friend. Use your relationship and history

together to help her see this is a train wreck waiting to happen. My suggestion would be for her daughter to live at home, work, and attend a community college for a couple of years. Then, when she transfers to a four-year school, make sure it’s a state institution and she keeps working.

The trick is to kindly and gently maintain enough influence to guide these two weak people away from a horrible decision. At the same time, you’ve got to be strong enough to call mom out for not stepping up and providing proper guidance. Mommies who don’t try to stop their babies from doing things this dumb are known as bad mommies.

People who spend $100,000 to $150,000 to make the kind of money that’s waiting on her daughter are either young and inexperienced, or they’re what are known as fools.

I’m sure you’ll find a nice way to say it, but basically your friend needs to grow a backbone and tell her daughter no.

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Photo provided by the McHenry County Historical Society

The Ambler General Store in Chemung Charles E. Ambler was born in Chicago in 1872, arrived in Chemung in 1906, lived there for 47 years and was the proprietor of the general store. He first formed a partnership with Jim Westerman and Clinton Carr to establish the store, and later became the sole owner. The store is the nearest building in this early 1900s photo.

Chemung was established as a town in 1844.

At its height of development it had four dry

goods stores, a drugstore, a blacksmith store and a wagon shop. When the railroad moved its base of operations to Harvard, the town’s rapid growth came to an end.

The Ambler store also served as the post office. Charles Ambler was postmaster from 1907 to 1942. When the post office was closed in 1943, Ambler mailed a post card to himself. It read “This is the last piece of mail postmarked at this office.”

– Dave • Dave Ramsey is America’s trusted voice on money and business. He’s authored four New York Times bestselling books: Financial Peace, More Than Enough, The Total Money Makeover and EntreLeadership. The Dave Ramsey Show is heard by more than 6 million listeners each week on more than 500 radio stations. Follow Dave on Twitter at @DaveRamsey and on the web at daveramsey.com.

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How to Lead Pain Free Performance Reviews By: Marnie E. Green, author of

Painless Performance Conversations: A Practical Approach to Day-to-Day Workplace Discussions (Wiley, 2013) Before you initiate a potentially painful conversation with an employee about a performance issue, take a moment to clarify the behavior you have observed that is leading you to have the conversation.

If you begin the conversation with your perception of the employee’s attitude, he or she is likely to resist your conversational efforts. Instead, lead with the behavior you have observed.

The Goal: To Change the Behavior When you focus the conversation on employee attitude, you will likely get a defensive reaction.

The reaction is the natural fight-or-flight response. If the employee feels attacked, whether it is emotionally, personally, or physically, the reaction is to withdraw or fight back.

When feeling under attack, the employee will stop listening and become more concerned about his or her next response rather than a solution.

Raising the issue of an employee’s attitude may increase that employee’s awareness that a problem exists. However, the employee may not agree with how you have defined his or her attitude, as it is an intangible observation, and may be more inclined to offer a defense than to listen to what you have to say.

You might say that an employee’s attitude is lazy or unenthusi-

astic, but really, the employee is feeling tired and burned out. You might label the employee’s attitude as defiant, yet the employee may actually be feeling scared.

Remember, your goal as a manager is to help the employee change the behavior, and you can change behavior only if you minimize the defensiveness in the conversation by focusing on what the person is doing rather than who the person is or what you think of him or her.

Once you have had an impact on the employee’s behavior, a change in attitude might follow.

Although your ultimate goal may be to affect the employee’s attitude, start with behavior.

Choreographing the Conversation Employee performance conversations can be delicate. If you focus on the person and his or her attitude, you are referencing that person’s character, value, and worth as a human being; in short, your focus on attitude quickly becomes personal. When you focus on observable behaviors, you identify specific factual evidence that is affecting the workplace, and in the process, you take the individual’s character out of the conversation.

By factually stating the situation and focusing on what the person did or didn’t do, rather than on who the person is, it will be easier for you and the employee to have a non-defensive conversation.

The following table illustrates what it sounds like to focus on the employee’s attitude versus the employee’s behavior.

FOCUS ON ATTITUDE FOCUS ON BEHAVIOR

“You have such a negative outlook that your coworkers don’t want to work with you anymore.”

“When you don’t greet your coworkers in the morning, they perceive that as disinterest. This makes them less willing to work with you.”

“Lately, you are not giving enough priority to your status reports, which makes me think you don’t care.”

“Threetimesthismonththestatus report deadlines were not met.”

“You seem to be distracted and more careless with your work recently.”

“Your reports have included 10 percent more errors this month than in the past three months.”

“You know, Zachary, you come across as a know-it-all in meetings, and your teammates resent your contributions.”

“You interrupted your teammates at least five times during the meeting. When you do this, they feel as if you do not value their work.”

Focus on Attitude First “You have such a negative outlook that your coworkers don’t want to work with you anymore.” “When you don’t greet your coworkers in the morning, they perceive that as disinterest. This makes them less willing to work with you.”

“Lately, you are not giving enough priority to your status reports, which makes me think you don’t care.” “Three times this month the status report deadlines were not met.”

“You seem to be distracted and more careless with your work recently.” “Your reports have included 10 percent more errors this month than

in the past three months.”

“You know, Zachary, you come across as a know-it-all in meetings, and your teammates resent your contributions.” “You interrupted your teammates at least five times during the meeting.

When you do this, they feel as if you do not value their work.”

In each example above, virtually the same message is being delivered. In the left column, where the focus is on attitude, the employee is more likely to respond defensively. The employee is less likely to respond defensively to the statements in the right column because they are statements of behavior.

In performance conversations, there is a greater opportunity for you to explore the root cause of the behavior and help the employee improve, rather than trying to define the employee’s attitude.

Excerpted with permission of the publisher, Wiley, Painless Performance Conversations:

A Practical Approach to Dayto-Day Workplace Discussions

by Marnie Green. Copyright (c) 2013 by Marnie Green. This book is available at all bookstores and online booksellers.

Author Bio: MarnieE.Green(Chandler,AZ)is author of Painless Performance

Conversations: A Practical Approach to Day-to-Day Workplace Discussions (Wiley, 2013) and the Principal Consultant of the Management Education Group, Inc., a firm which supports the performance management practices of over 100 client organizations. She provides valuable step-by-step programs and facilitation services that create more confident government leaders.

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Heat, gas, water, D/W included.

Pets extra. 847-707-3800

CRYSTAL LAKE Large, Sunny 2BR,1BA, 1st floor Apt in Duplex Porch overlooks Crystal Lake, may have boat. Newly remodeled. Excellent location, good schools, No pets. $1,395/mo. 630-655-2888 Cell 630-899-8899

Driver

NEWSPAPER DELIVERY Looking for Contractors to deliver newspapers early morning 7 days per week.

I am an Experienced Caregiver with ref. Care for elderly. PT. 5-8 hrs. daily. Mon-Fri. Some weekends. 847-361-9542 lv msg.

Become a State Licensed REAL ESTATE HOME INSPECTOR Learn how at our FREE Open House 1pm Sat. August 17th 700 N. Lake St, Mundelein, IL. 847-322-9467 www.LearnInspections.com State Licensing Class Begins 9/20

HANDYMAN

Woodstock Upper 1 Bedroom

ISLAND LAKE 2 BEDROOM Quiet building, no pets. $825 + security. 847-526-4435 Lake in the Hills: 2BR, 2BA, new paint, new carpet, balcony $950/mo. Broker Owned 815-347-1712 Marengo Large 1 & 2 BR most utilities included $650 & UP Broker Owned 815-347-1712 Marengo. Large 3BR. Newly decorated. Large yard.

Pets OK. $800/mo.

815-575-2446 Marengo: Lg 2 bdrm unit avail Immed. $750. All appl W/D, Dishwasher & micro furnished.

Cent Air. No pets/no smoking.

Sec dep, lease req. Tenant pays electric, cable. 224-858-7377

McHenry $199 Move-In Special Large 1BR, from $699. 2BR, 1.5BA from $799. Appl, carpet and laundry. 815-385-2181

MCHENRY ~ 2BR, 2BA

WOODSTOCK

WOODSTOCK ~ 1 & 2BR

SILVERCREEK

Free water, sewer, garbage. No pets. $700 - $825/mo. Pete @ Harding R. E. 815-334-2617

1 & 2 Bedroom ❍ ❍

Affordable Apts.

Garage Included

FOX LAKE 1 BR,

MCHENRY 2 BEDROOM

WOODSTOCK 2 BEDROOM

$705/mo + security deposit.

815-363-1208

Laundry on site, $825/mo., FREE heat, water and gas, close to Sq. 815-236-5921

Kitchenette, $155/wkly, utilities included. 847-962-4847 or 847-587-0605

NECKLACE

Anything to do with Wood We can Fix or Replace Doors and Windows Sr. Disc. 815-943-4765

Thin gold chain holding several lockets and religious medals.

Lost in Crystal Lake on Route 14, between Joseph's & Jewel Food Store on Saturday, July 20.

REWARD! 815-459-6107

Polish Lady Cleaning Large or Small, I can do it all 815-382-5614 FREE ESTIMATES

Jack Russell Mix, young male, found in Barrington, 847-381-4100

FOX LAKE ~ GOOD VALUE! Very large 1 bedroom, dining area.

Balcony, storage and laundry in building, no dogs, $695-$725.

Agent Owned 815-814-3348

"Ceremonies of the Heart"

POLISH LADY will clean your Home/Office. FREE ESTIMATES.

Rev Anne 847-431-4014 Weddings, Blessings, Memorials, Christenings

815-334-9380

Woodstock: 1BR & 2BR, main floor, $600 & up, Broker Owned 815-347-1712

2 car garage. Full basement. $1100/mo. 815-482-8080

McHenry 2-3BR, 2-3BA Almost New! 2 car, appls. Rent To Own, $1150-$1250/mo. Pets OK. Available now. 815-385-5525

Woodstock Intentionally Quiet

2BR, 2nd floor, includes heat, non-smoking. $750/mo + deposit.

815-206-4573 Being the FIRST to grab reader's attention makes your item sell faster!

800-589-8237 www.nwherald.com

1.5 Bath, A/C, Stove, Refrigerator, Garage, No Pets. Broker Owned.

847-683-7944 HURRY!!

Woodstock. 2BR, 2BA, all appls, garage, AC. $1000/mo+utils +sec dep. NO PETS. 815-338-5103

Algonquin TH. 2BR, Loft, 1.5BA, 2 car garage. All appliances. W/D. Ceiling fans, Patio. $1300/mo.

847-513-2977 Gurnee. 2BR+Loft. 1.5BA. Near Six Flags, Gurnee Mills. Good schools. Great location. $1600/mo. 262-697-9990

HEBRON 2BR CONDO All Appliances Included with W/D, Patio/Deck. $785 - $875.

Garage Available. 815-455-8310

Fox Lake. Vacation Village, 2 BR, end unit, hdwd floors, sm. pets ok. 847-651-9906 Harvard: 3BR, lrg yard, $1050/mo. + utils. & sec., no pets, call Larry at Prudential First Real Estate 815-943-7911 Johnsburg 3BR, 1BA brick ranch with 2 3/4 det garage, hardwood floors, georgeous! 4009 Dolores Ave. Long term lease $1245/mo.

Land Management Properties 815-678-4771 Lake in the Hills. 3BR, 2BA Ranch. 2.5 car det garage, wrap around deck. Long term lease. $1295/mo. 24 Hilly Lane.

Land Management Properties.

815-678-4771

MARENGO PRIVATE FARM 30 AC/Woods + Barn, 7-9 Horses with additional fee. 5BR, 3BA, gas heat/a/c, wood flrs, bsmt, garage. $1650/mo. 312-607-6406

McHenry Patriot Estates & Prairie Lake Townhomes 1 or 2 bedroom starting at $1250.00. .

2 car garage, pet friendly free health club membership.

815-363-5919 or 815-363-0322

MCHENRY Crystal Lake 4BR On Fox River 200 ft waterfront, boat, dock, deck, 1.5 acres. New carpet, tile. 2BA, C/A, $1395/mo. 708-296-4476

www.cunat.com

Highlight and border your ad!

FOX LAKE, 1 Br, Vacation Village, Gated, Incl. Pool access and lndry.

Avail 8/1. $595/mo.

Call Robert: 708-243-4316

Crystal Lake Cute 3BR, 1BA Fenced yard, Prairie Grove schools, nr Fox River, new deck and garage. $1275/mo.

847-833-5104

Crystal Lake Renovated 3BR 1.5BA, large laundry rm, lrg yard.

Garage, close to metra & schools. $1450/mo. 815-451-2169 Crystal Lake: small 3BR, 1 car gar, bsmnt, fenced yard, $1050/mo.

Broker Owned 815-347-1712

HUNTLEY NEWER 2BR TH 1 FREE adult pool/fitness membership. Clean, move in cond. Attach gar, $1160/mo. 708-456-1620

www.HuskieWire.com All NIU Sports... All The Time

QUIET COTTAGE FOR RENT Nice quiet one bedroom cottage for rent. All utilities included. Plenty of parking. 7 minutes from downtown McHenry. Rent $725 security deposit required. For more information call Anna 773-552-1702 McHENRY – Whispering Oaks Ranch. 2BR, 1 BA. 1 block to Ft. McHenry. No Smoking/Pets. $1100 + sec dep. 1110 Manchester Mall.

Call 815-814-3547.

McHenry. 3BR, 1BA ranch style home on a crawl space with fenced yard and 1.5 att garage, all hard oak wood floors, a showplace!

615 McHenry Ave. $1195/mo.

Land Management Properties 815-678-4771

HARVARD AREA Huge 3BR, 2BA loft apt. Quiet. Frplc, W/D, C/A. Fish/Swim. Pets ok. $1025/mo.

815-648-2716

Polish Lady Will Clean Residential/Commerical Properities.

Call Barbara 847-668-9594

MCHENRY 2ND FLOOR APARTMENT In town 2nd fl 2 BR utilities incl, large yard, washer, garage $780 month + $780 security dep.

815-482-0746 815-790-0818

MARENGO 3BR, 2½ BA TH

WOODSTOCK 3 BEDROOM

Hampshire Harvard Woodstock

Fox Lake 1BR 2 Months Free!

All appliances, D/W, W/D, C/A. Riley school, no dogs. $795/mo + utilities + sec. 815-540-3295

Woodstock - 2BR 2BA. Some appl. Close to park. Broker owned. $997/mo. 815-236-6361

Small bldg, $800/mo, no pets/ smoking. Heat incl, near metra.

Garage available. 815-344-5797

Call 815-526-4434

MARENGO 2BR, 1.5BA CONDO

1.5BA, 1st floor laundry room. basement, 2 car garage. $1050 + sec. 815-568-6311

Crystal Lake ~ 1BR, 2 Floor

Laundry on-site, no pets, Sect 8 OK, $690/mo + sec.

847-812-9830

Lake in the Hills. Coventry. 3BR, 2.5BA TH. 2 car gar. Huntley SD. All SS appl. Frplc. W/D. Small pets ok. $1550/mo. 847-875-9932

MARENGO 2BR DUPLEX

McHenry -Large studio/1BR some utilities included, balcony $675 and up Broker Owned 815-347-1712

nd

Quiet Bldg. LR, den with office.

Heat, water, trash incl + laundry. $750/mo. 815-482-1600

Nice, quiet, newer bldg. Balcony, fresh paint, new carpet, A/C. No pets. $850/mo. 847-343-4774

Routes now available in:

1 year contract.

Great References. 224-858-4515

www.cunat.com

Crystal Lake 1BR $760

BE YOUR OWN BOSS!

Fox Lake 2+BR View of Lake Newly Remodeled! Basement, Appliances, Close to Metra. $950/mo. Mark @ 847-489-6606

McHenryCountySports.com is McHenry County Sports Having a Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation or Event Coming Up?

Harvard Large 2 & 2.5BR, 2BA Newly remodeled, hardwood flrs, porch, deck, bckyrd. $795-$825 incl all util, no pets.815-943-0504

Share It With Everyone by Placing a HAPPY AD!

Northwest Herald Classified 800-589-8237 www.nwherald.com

Woodstock Studio $585/mo+sec.

Efficiency $550/mo + sec.1-BR $650/mo + sec, all 3 furn'd w/all utils incl. No Pets. 815-509-5876

Woodstock $277,000

HEBRON, 1st floor apt. and duplex, 2 Br, 1 Ba, heated garage, appliances, newly remodeled and deck with ramp. $750 + sec.

815-648-2355 Have a photo you'd like to share?

Upload it to our online photo album at NWHerald.com/MyPhotos

3207 Hidden Lake Drive Debbie Wolff (815) 338-7111

SUN 1-3

To Advertise Your Open House Listing Call 815-526-4453 Mon.-Fri. 8:00am-5:00pm DEADLINE: Wednesday @ 2:00pm

Golf Rd. (Rt. 58) • Hoffman Estates, IL

800/935-5909 www.motorwerks.com

ANDERSON BMW

AVENUE CHEVROLET

360 N. Rte. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

1998 W. McKee at Randall Road Batavia, IL

888/682-4485 www.andersoncars.com

BILL JACOBS BMW 1564 W. Ogden Ave. • Naperville, IL

800/731-5824 www.billjacobs.com

KNAUZ BMW

866/233-4837 www.avenuechevrolet.com

MARTIN CHEVROLET 5220 W. Northwest Highway Crystal Lake, IL

www.KnauzBMW.com

MOTOR WERKS BMW Barrington & Dundee Rds. Barrington, IL

800/935-5913 www.motorwerks.com

MOTOR WERKS CERTIFIED OUTLET Late Model Luxury PreOwned Vehicles 1001 W. Higgins Rd. (Rt. 71) or 1000 W. Golf Rd. (Rt. 58) • Hoffman Estates, IL

111 S. Rte 31 • McHenry, IL

815/385-2000 www.bussford.com

SPRING HILL FORD www.springhillford.com

105 Rt. 173• Antioch, IL

847/669-6060

800/628-6087

www.TomPeckFord.com

www.antiochfivestar.com

866/561-8676

ZIMMERMAN FORD

www.raychevrolet.com

2525 E. Main Street • St. Charles, IL

CRYSTAL LAKE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE

RAY CHEVROLET 39 N. Rte. 12 • Fox Lake, IL

RAYMOND CHEVROLET

630/584-1800 www.zimmermanford.com

www.raymondchevrolet.com

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

815/338-2780 www.reichertautos.com

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

888/794-5502

1107 S Rt. 31 between Crystal Lake and McHenry

www.garylangauto.com

866/480-9527

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

CRYSTAL LAKE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE

O’HARE HONDA River Rd & Oakton, • Des Plaines, IL

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

888/794-5502 www.garylangauto.com

AL PIEMONTE CHEVROLET

www.arlingtonkia.com

RAYMOND KIA 119 Route 173 • Antioch, IL

224/603-8611

847/604-8100 www.knauzlandrover.com

847/234-2800

1051 W. Higgins • Hoffman Estates, IL

409A Skokie Valley Hwy • Lake Bluff, IL

847/604-5050 www.Knauz-mini.com

LIBERTYVILLE MITSUBISHI 1119 S. Milwaukee Ave.• Libertyville, IL

847/816-6660 www.libertyvillemitsubishi.com

847/741-2100

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

815/459-7100 or 847/658-9050 www.paulytoyota.com

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

888/682-4485 www.andersoncars.com

BILL JACOBS VOLKSWAGEN www.billjacobs.com

800/935-5913

866/469-0114

815/385-2000

MOTOR WERKS CERTIFIED OUTLET Late Model Luxury Pre-Owned Vehicles

www.rosenrosenrosen.com

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

888/682-4485 www.andersoncars.com

800/935-5913

BIGGERS MAZDA

www.motorwerks.com

1460 S. Eastwood Dr. • Woodstock, IL

1320 East Chicago Street The Mazda Machine on Rt. 19, Elgin, IL

800/407-0223

847/628-6000

LINE AD DEADLINE: Tues-Fri: 3pm day prior, Sat: 2pm Fri, Sun-Mon: 5pm Fri OFFICE HOURS: Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm PHONE: 815-455-4800

1200 E. Chicago St. Elgin, IL

2211 Aurora Avenue • Naperville, IL

111 S. Rte 31 • McHenry, IL

www.bullvalleyford.com

ELGIN TOYOTA

800/720-7036

771 S. Randall Rd. • Algonquin, IL

Barrington & Dundee Rds. Barrington, IL

www.raysuzuki.com

888/794-5502

ROSEN HYUNDAI

MOTOR WERKS INFINITI

888/446-8743 847/587-3300

www.garylangauto.com

www.motorwerks.com

847/426-2000

888/794-5502 www.garylangauto.com

www.elgintoyota.com

BUSS FORD LINCOLN MERCURY

770 Dundee Ave. (Rt. 25) • Dundee, IL

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

Barrington & Dundee Rds., Barrington, IL

www.oharehyundai.com

www.sunnysidecompany.com

AUTO GROUP GARY LANG SUBARU

MOTOR WERKS PORCHE

815/385-7220

BULL VALLEY FORD/ MERCURY

KNAUZ MINI

www.billjacobs.com

Route 120 • McHenry, IL

www.piemontechevy.com

1564 W. Ogden Ave. • Naperville, IL

800/731-5760

River Rd & Oakton, • Des Plaines, IL

CALL FOR THE LOWEST PRICES IN CHICAGOLAND

SUNNYSIDE COMPANY CHRYSLER DODGE

375 Skokie Valley Hwy • Lake Bluff, IL

www.knauzhyundai.com

5404 S. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

www.clcjd.com

LAND ROVER LAKE BLUFF

LAND ROVER HOFFMAN ESTATES

888/553-9036

888/800-6100

BILL JACOBS MINI

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

www.elginhyundai.com

CRYSTAL LAKE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE

815/459-7100 or 847/658-9050

23 N. Route 12 • Fox Lake

300 East Ogden Ave. • Hinsdale, IL

www.sunnysidecompany.com

O’HARE HYUNDAI

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

RAY SUZUKI

AUTO GROUP GARY LANG MITSUBISHI

www.billjacobs.com

www.antiochfivestar.com

PAULY SCION

815/385-2000

BILL JACOBS LAND ROVER HINSDALE

847/888-8222

775 Rockland Road Routes 41 & 176 in the Knauz Autopark • Lake Bluff, IL Experience the best…Since 1934

800/935-5393 www.motorwerks.com

PAULY TOYOTA

815/385-7220

KNAUZ HYUNDAI

200 N. Cook Street • Barrington, IL

111 S. Rte 31 • McHenry, IL

www.raymondkia.com

888/204-0042

800/628-6087

BUSS FORD LINCOLN MERCURY

www.billjacobs.com

881 E. Chicago St. • Elgin, IL

105 Rt. 173 Antioch, IL

800/407-0223

1400 E. Dundee Rd., Palatine, IL

847/202-3900

ELGIN HYUNDAI

200 N. Cook St. • Barrington, IL

1460 S. Eastwood Dr. • Woodstock, IL

800/295-0166

Route 120 • McHenry, IL

MOTOR WERKS CADILLAC

BULL VALLEY FORD/ MERCURY

ARLINGTON KIA IN PALATINE

SUNNYSIDE COMPANY CHRYSLER DODGE

ANTIOCH CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP

www.Knauzcontinentalauto.com

www.oharehonda.com

847/683-2424

www.garylangauto.com

847/234-1700

888/538-4492

206 S. State Street • Hampshire, IL

888/794-5502

AUTO GROUP - GARY LANG CHEVROLET

www.motorwerks.com

888/800-6100

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

www.motorwerks.com

800/935-5913

www.clcjd.com

FENZEL MOTOR SALES

409 Skokie Valley Hwy • Lake Bluff, IL

www.garylangauto.com

Barrington & Dundee Rds. Barrington, IL

5404 S. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

AUTO GROUP GARY LANG KIA

MOTOR WERKS SAAB

www.st-charles.mercedesdealer.com

www.bullvalleyford.com

MOTOR WERKS HONDA

800/935-5923

888/800-6100

847/395-3600

800/628-6087

AUTO GROUP - GARY LANG CADILLAC

5404 S. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

www.clcjd.com

118 Route 173 • Antioch, IL

877/226-5099

KNAUZ CONTINENTAL AUTOS

13900 Auto Mall Dr. • Huntley, IL

www.antiochfivestar.com

815/338-2780

www.infinitihoffman.com

www.martin-chevy.com

AUTO GROUP - GARY LANG BUICK

www.reichertautos.com

888/280-6844

TOM PECK FORD

105 Rt. 173 • Antioch, IL

2145 S. Eastwood Dr. • Woodstock, IL

225 N. Randall Road • St. Charles, IL

888/600-8053

ANTIOCH CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP

REICHERT BUICK

1075 W. Golf Rd. Hoffman Estates, IL

800 Dundee Ave. • East Dundee, IL

www.motorwerks.com

www.garylangauto.com

MERCEDES-BENZ OF ST. CHARLES

815/459-4000

800/935-5909

888/794-5502

INFINITI OF HOFFMAN ESTATES

ANTIOCH CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP

407 Skokie Valley Hwy. • Lake Bluff, IL

847/604-5000

BUSS FORD

BARRINGTON VOLVO 300 N. Hough (Rt. 59) • Barrington, IL

847/381-9400

1001 W. Higgins Rd. (Rt. 71) or 1000 W. 1000 W. Golf Rd. (Rt. 58) Hoffman Estates, IL

800/935-5909 www.motorwerks.com

PRE-OWNED KNAUZ NORTH 2950 N. Skokie Hwy • North Chicago, IL

847/235-8300 www.knauznorth.com

EMAIL: classified@shawsuburban.com, helpwanted@shawsuburban.com ONLINE: www.nwherald.com/classified FAX: 815-477-8898

CLASSIFIED

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com

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CROSSWORD FAST WORK By Andrew Reynolds / Edited by Will Shortz

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One might involve your work, while a few others are likely to pertain to your social life.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You’ll figure out how to reach someone whom you’ve thought of as being cold and aloof. You’ve been misreading this individual, and will now find him or her warm and welcoming.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- This is an excellent day to make a long-contemplated change that could improve your finances.

Once you iron out any wrinkles, make your

move.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- If you feel that you have to make an important decision that involves others and could have far-reaching effects, it’s important to have the courage of your convictions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- A situation in which you’ve worked hard for something that is being denied you is likely to be rectified today. It pays to keep the faith.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Although you have established a valuable contact, thus far you haven’t handled a

relationship to the best of your advantage, or even to the other party’s. Try to make up for lost time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Don’t give up on something worthwhile that you’ve been pursuing. The results you’ve been hoping for could be much closer than you think.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Your mental acuity can be your greatest asset. If you think resourcefully, there’s no doubt that you’ll have the ability to interest the right people and get the help you need.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- You’ll

have the rare knack of being able to turn an unusual development to your advantage.

Once you get on a roll, you might do this in two or more instances.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Don’t delegate an important chore to a less-talented person. This can be a rewarding day for you, provided you select the right person to do the job -- it might have to be you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Allow your extremely perceptive mind to spot where your best chances for making a good profit lie. Your instincts should be right on the

money, so pay attention to them.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Because you’ll work effectively in most group involvements today, try to avoid solitary pursuits.

When all is said and done, the results will be exceptionally gratifying.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Don’t be hesitant in attempting to fulfill an important ambition. Numerous challenges will awaken all kinds of latent talents that you may not have known existed.

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Easy fit, size 33 waist, 30L, never worn, $10.00.

Women's Capri's, size 20, white, washable, Alfred Dunner, sz 20. $10. And, black pair of women's pants, size 20, $10.

815-923-2296 Men's Leather Coat – Black – Size 40 – Very Good Condition $25. 815-363-9636 Watch Winder – Dual Purpose -for automatic timepieces, Glass show case, Jewelery drawer, Gloss cherry finish. Great gift for your love of timepieces $175 obo 815-385-1734 9-11am or 4-6pm

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ANTIQUE SEWING MACHINE within wood cabinet Great Shape 55.00, Johnsburg 815.245.1558 Baseball Cards. Stars, Sets,Rookies.

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BRASS BED $200

Air Conditioner: GE 120 WATT $50 779-444-2042

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Kenmore, good condition, $125.

815-388-6302 DRYER - Kenmore 600 Series.

Needs heat element. U-haul from my garage 20. Johnsburg.

815.245.1558 Dryer. Maytag. Gas. White.

Great condition. $299.

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GE Profile: Top Freezer/Refrigerator -25cu ft. $250; 30” Gas Stove - $250; Dishwasher - $100 & Above Stove Microwave - $100.

White, Excellent Condition 815-455-1258 aft. 5pm Microwave 0.7 cu ft. $18 815-363-5716 Microwave: BARELY USED 30” Overhead with fan, $50.

815-742-1631 Microwave: Panasonic $15 779-444-2042 REFRIGERATOR Whirlpool 36" Gold Series white side x side refrigerator with ice maker and water dispenser.

Good condition. $325 cash only.

815-519-1342 Crystal Lake Tappan Oven – Like New, Used Less than 1 month, Electric, Built in Unit, Black, Self Cleaning, $50 815-790-8213 Upright Freezer. Kenmore. 15.2 cu ft. Almond. Very clean, works good. $100. 815-236-7191

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Steamer Trunk. Oak and Steel banded. Older than 1849.

Good condition. $75.

Call after 6pm: 815-759-3865

Antique Desk with leather top/chair, 23”x22”x30”, $200.

224-381-5675

Burger King Toys

Star Wars, Toy Story, Simpsons, M&M. 1997-99. Orig pkg. $10/ea.

847-807-9156

Hand carved, Mickey Mouse.

Folk art from 1949, $395.00.

815-578-0212 WINDSOR CHAIRS - 4 $35 for all, firm 847-515-8012 ZENITH AM-FM Table Radio from the 60's - very good condition wood cabinet $90.

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Jamis Pro Citizen. Good condition $400 815-703-9652 Schwinn Bicycles - '60s era - Men's & Women's, very good condition, $65 ea. 815-344-5770

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Schwinn Tandem $225 Montgomery Ward Open Road $50 Western Auto Western Flyer $50 815-575-1591

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4 Antique Solid Oak Doors $120. 815-344-1406 Double Hung Window 3'6” W x 4'6” H, Brown Clad Insulated Glass & Screen $40 815-459-5983 Flooring, oak 600 square feet, good condition, $75/OBO 847-404-2843 9a-8p.

Wall Furnace – Natural Gas w/blower – Thermostat controlled, 6' H x 14” W x 12” D – Ideal for shop/garage or one room in a house $100 obo 815943-3305 or 815-575-4495

Boston Paper Shredder $12 630-624-8250 DESKS Liquidating ~ Tan metal cubicles, office supplies, resume folders and stationary, $400.

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CHINA CABINET

With glass doors, 60+ years old, good condition! $300.

815-356-0883 Coca Cola Salt & Pepper Shakers – Very Good Condition – Never Used $15 815-363-9636

Dresser ~ 1940's Antique

with Round Mirror, $250.

847-951-7097 Football Cards.

Stars & Lots of Rookies. Price range $1-$40. Call: 815-338-4829 for your favorites Lamps – Beautiful 2 piece matching set w/ new shades, Excellent Condition. $15 815-385-4400 Magazine Collection Sheep, Country Today, Backwoods Home - $400. 815-569-2277 Records - 78 LP's - From 30's, 40's & 50's. Have approx 15002000 on pallet. You pick up $100. 847-639-8076 Cary Star Wars Limited Edition Monopoly Game – Sealed, 1977-1997, 5 Brass Imperial Coins, 8 Pewter Characters, Numbered & Dated Game Board $50. 224-587-5076 9am-8pm

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ANTIQUE SCHOOL DESK – classic & very sturdy, ready for your creative touches. $45.

815 477-9023

Camera: Digital, Fuji 4.1 mega pixels new in box $20 847-515-3986

HANDY-ANDY Toy, Tool set in wooden case. From the 50's in nice condition. Made in Poland. $65. 815-675-2155.

CD PLAYER ~ SONY Holds 400 CD's, excellent condition! $75 815-578-0212 CD RECORDER Built-in turntable and cassette player for transfer. $95. 815-578-0212

3 pc. speaker system: DBX brand for home stereo. 6" passive sub woofer & 2 remote speakers. good condition. $125. 815-675-2155

Computer Desk: solid oak, armoire, w/ 3 drawers and lots of storage, $275. 815-356-0883

ATC computer battery back up $20 262-203-0244

Loud Speaker: CPI. Heavy aluminum. Works Great $20. 815-363-9636

Brother electronic typewriter, instructions included $50 262-203-0244

PSP 3000 comes w/2 games, case, charger included $60 815-823-2929

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Comforter Set - King Size

STEREO: Hitachi Tuner-Amplifier Double cassette recorder/Semi-automatic Turntable. $35.00. Best time to call: Noon – 6:30pm.

815 943-2331 TV: Toshiba, 36” Color - Works Great $35. 847-409-1838

Bar Bell Set w/Weights $25 847-639-5113 Exercise Bike Schwinn Adjustable. $25 847-639-5113

Exercise Machine Weider Master Trainer Exercise Machine In good shape. $100

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Home Gym/Free Weights. Wilson. $35 847-587-4922 Pedal Exerciser – Welby Workout for Arms, Legs, Floor or Table Use. Computer w/6 functions. Paid $30, Asking $20. 847-669-6306 Rowing Machine Vitamaster Adjustable. $25.

847-639-5113 Stamina 885 Air Resistance Bike w/ touch pad for monitoring functions - scaner, timer, speed, distance, calories) $75 Call before 7PM 847-658-4944 Stationery Bike. Health Rider. $20 630-624-8250

Treadmill Pro Form, excellent condition $120.

847-516-8015

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Vitamaster Power Pro, heart rate controlled treadmill, EXC COND! $125/obo 815-861-3270 Treadmill: Sears Proform Crosswalk GT, $150 815-356-0883 Weight Bench & Weights - $35.

815-321-3707 Workout Machine: Weider Platinum 600 Good shape, Runs great. $100 obo 815-566-1155

Taylor-Way Disk for 3 point tractor hitch 6' wide, $300/OBO 815-648-2016 Western-style leather saddle $150. Call Michael 815-236-9120.

Fireplace: Real Flame Brand Solid wood, cherry/mahogany color. Excellent Condition!

40” H x 46” W x 13” D, uses gel fuel. $375. 815-236-5342 Pot Belly Stove – Uses 30 gal.

Drum - $75. 815-363-9636

2 Folding chrome stools w/wood seats. New $35 ea. 623-888-1538

Off White, includes Comforter, Shams with Pillows, Maroon Velor Skirt, Pillows & 72” Round Tablecloth, Used 2 Days, $65.

847-854-7980 DINING TABLE Formal solid oak dining table, glass top with 6 matching chairs. Glass is tempered, measures 42x72. Chairs are white covered and in great shape. Only damage is one lower leg has bite marks. Paid $1300 (including Scotch Guard) new, will sell for $390. Call Darlene: 619-204-0001 McHenry

DRESSER ~ OAK

Very nice condition! $150.

847-951-7097

Entertainment Center - Oak 65”x62”x24” (32” TV), $400.

224-381-5675

ENTERTAINMENT CENTER

FOLDING TABLE, folds in half Extends up to 12' long, 30” wide.

Moves on rollers. $75 each, have 2. 847-515-8012

Kitchenware – Krups Thermal Programmable Coffee Maker Model FMF-514- $75; Baratza Maestro Plus Coffee Grinder - $75; 6 Saki Sets, made in Japan - $50 815-459-9072 Oreck Platinum Vacuum Cleaner: 1 yr old, original price $600, selling for $200/OBO please call 815-403-2915 Sewing machine, Singer, portable, new in box $65 847-515-3986 Vacuum – Hoover – Self-Propelled Wind Tunnel – Good Condition $20. 847-497-4104

Girl's bedroom set, dollhouse design 150.00 815-355-3215

Glider Chair Oak, Ottoman incl evergreen cushions, $75 847-807-9156 HEADBOARD, FRAME, MATTRESS, BOX SPRING – TWIN $75. Call 815-356-5826

IKEA Odda Twin Bed Frame

w/3 storage drawers under bed White. $175/OBO 847-659-1464 King size bed frame, plantation style 125.00 815-355-3215 Kitchen Set - Table & 4 Chairs – Solid Oak, $115. 815-568-8036 Mattress. Brand New. Sealy.

Queen. $400 815-568-3621 POWER RECLINER – Best Brand w/ hand remote. Purchased at Classic Oaks. Almost New – Like New. Brown toned. $250 OBO. 847-659-1852 Red Leather Couch & Love Seat Great Condition, $300 obo 847-516-2711

ROCKING CHAIR

$50.00.

224-381-5675

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Solid wood, $70 815-385-4353 Roll Top Desk and chair.

Dark walnut. $100 815-385-4353 ROOM DIVIDER - Hand carved wood room divider: Very ornate hand carved honeycomb & grape vine design details in hardwood. 3 panel 60” wide by 72”. Tall, absolutely gorgeous. $185. Call Dennis at 224.629.3600 (leave message)

Room dividers (2): rattan $50 815-385-4353 SOFA TABLE, Smoked Glass, oak base, $50 815-385-4353 Sofa: Antique sofa, 2 arm chairs, very well built 250.00 815-355-3215

2 Twin Beds – Wicker Headboard, Box Spring & Sealy Mattress $400. 815-790-8213

Stearns & Foster Mattress – Queen, Boxsprings & Frame $175. 847-409-1838

Bar stools w/tan seats: Rattan 815-385-4353

Brass Bed & Footboard Queen size, $200.

815-385-9383

CABINET ~ OAK

TV/Entertainment Center, $100.

You buy and get a FREE TV! 815-385-2496 ~ 847-409-2490

Table & Chairs - Formica top, white leather & Brass, One of a Kind. $200. 815-459-8811 TABLE & CHAIRS 48" Round solid oak pedestal with 18" leaf. 6 cane back chairs on castors. $395. 815-307-8317

TABLE - IKEA

With 4 chairs, like new! $95.

815-742-1631

Chair & a half: upholstered, w/ ottoman, a bit worn, floral pattern, $75 815-575-4858

Table: round oak 50” $70

Chair- Office Task Desk Chair

Tables Glass & 2 End Tables

Gray & Black. Good Cond. $35.

847-659-1464

KING SIZE BED SKIRT - Creamed colored, cotton w/beautiful hand crocheted trim, very pretty, excellent condition, $45, 815-477-9023.

Kirby G4 Vacuum w/attachments, storage caddy, bags, portable, shampooer, spray gun. It does it all! $125. 623-888-1538

solid oak w/ 27 TV. Great for family or kids room, $175.

815-356-0883 Fancy Baker's Rack: White Iron, 7' Tall x 3' Wide x 15” Deep. $300obo 4-8pm. 815-923-2687

Solid Oak 42” Round Pedestal Table w/2 leafs, 4 chairs, Like new $225. 623-888-1538

Bedroom Set – 5 piece, Queen Size 4 poster Bed, Matching Nightstand, Dresser & Armoire. $325 815-568-8036 Bombay table: pedestal, 24 round, 26 high $60 847-515-3986

Keurig – Barely Used, Single or Double Cups, Holds 8 cups of Water, $75 firm. 623-680-1637

KITCHEN CABINETS 1950's real pine cabinets, great for garage or basement. About 8 pieces all knotty pine. Must see to appreciate. Also the pieces of pine left over.

Asking $150. Call see how wonderful these items are. 847-529-2802

2 Lane Recliners - Brown Leather Great Shape - $100 ea. Cash 815-459-8811 after 4pm

4/$200

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Portable Electric use on counter for drinks or fancy food. Works good, $20. 815-455-3555

815-385-4353

Wet/Dry Vacuum – 3Hp, 20 gal. Good shape , Strong $45. 815-479-0492

Edger/Trimmer

Yard Man, 3.75HP, $125.

847-854-7980 EVERGREEN TREES - 2 beautiful very healthy Dwarf Alberta Spruce trees, bright green foliage, densely branched, retains a perfect conical shape, 5-6 foot tall, 4 feet wide, Buyer to dig up and transport.

2 @ $65. 815 477-9023 Folding Chairs (4). Wood Slatted.

Pre-1950's. Original Jewel Tea Co. Asking $99/all. 815-338-4829 Gas Powered Weed-Wacker: YARD-MAN, very good condition.

Starts & runs well. Very Powerful. $55 815-675-2155 Kidney Shape pond insert & 2 waterfall trays, $50 262-203-0244 Lawn Aerator - Pull behind tractor 40" very good condition. $40 firm.

815-675-2155.

Lawn Mower – YardMan For Parts Needs Blade $10. 847-658-3641 Call Mornings Lawn Mower: cordless, Newton, cordless electric, $125 815-363-5716

Power Edger: Heavy Duty Sears, gas powered, original $275, asking $100 Johnsburg 815-385-5935 Riding Lawn Mower: Mohen, 36” cut, Runs nicely! Great Shape! $150. 815-943-5319 TRACTOR ATTACHMENTS Gravely walk behind tractor attachments. 38" mower deck $125, snow blower $225. 262-877-2730 WOODS RD6000 MOWER DECK 60", 3 point attachment. $850. 262-877-2730

YARD SWING

Reclining with 2 seats with basket and cup holder, complete with pads, $75. 815-943-7757

TV Stand for Flat Screen

14” vertical, metal or wood, on metal stand, durable speed, like new! $175/obo 708-363-2004

Coffee Table - Solid maple, Excellent condition. $100. 815-321-3707 Curio cabinet, blond color 50.00815-355-3215

DESK

45”x22”x31”, $150.00.

224-381-5675

DINING ROOM SET Dining room table with 1 leaf; lighted china cabinet.

Black lacquer with mirror inserts.

Very good condition. $250 815-353-7427

22 Rifle Scope: Weaver D6.

Needs caps for adjusters $20. 815-363-9636 WINCHESTER 12 GA SHOTGUN Semi-Auto. Great Condition $250. 815-354-7364 Woodstock

6 chairs table, 2 lvs, cover pads, matching 7ft china cabinet w/glass doors, $500. 815-261-8230 Dining room set: Antique, table, 6 chairs 100.00 815-355-3215

AQUASCAPE POND

Dining Room Set: includes table, six padded chairs, and china cabinet.

Dark oak, $150, see photo online, Crystal Lake, 815-479-9609

All water fall and skimmer boxes all filters, 2-pumps 1/3 &1/6 hp, 2 floating deicers, all hoses & filters Great Bargain - $400obo 815-353-9262 or 815-353-8714

DINING ROOM TABLE with leaf & 6 padded chairs in neutral fabric, $250. Table measures 71.75" L, 42" W & 29.5" H. Leaf adds 12".

See pic online at NWHerald.com.

847-669-1944

Beautiful Bone China Plates-Set of 6 Royal Albert Moonlight Rose 101/2-inch Dinner Plates- 22-Carat Trim - Dishwasher safe. $100 Cash only -pick up in Geneva. Email: amkks@ymail.com

Dining Table & Chairs

Brass floor lamps,w/shades, 3 way switch, $40 ea. or both for $75. 623-888-1538

Solid Pine, 40x54 with 12” leaf. $175/obo 847-858-4486

WE'VE GOT IT! Northwest Classified 800-589-8237 www.NWHerald.com

BAND SAW

BELT SANDER

Craftsman 6”x48” on metal stand, 9” disk sander on side. $175, very good condition! 708-363-2004 DREMEL DRILL Craftsman Rotary with Dremel FlexShaft & Motor. $35.

815-575-4858 Gas Generator : AGTronics, Electronic Ignition – New, 8Hp Briggs & Stratton Engine 450-800 amps, 2 – 1/10 single phase, 240 single phase breaker $399 firm. 815-479-0492

Gas Trimmer Plus Blower 3-piece Canister Set w/matching cookie jar. White ribbed ceramic w/locked vacuum seals & wooden spoons – Moving $40. 623-888-1538

Dining Room Set, Oak

Find. Buy. Sell.

All in one place... HERE! Everyday in Northwest Classified

Massage Table. Earthlite. Portable. $150 815-703-9652 MOTORIZED POWER WHEELCHAIR, Pride Jazzy Z-Chair, Excellent condition, $350, Crystal Lake, 815-236-4434

Scooter Outdoor ~ Rascal Works great, $400/firm.

815-653-4612

Walker Rollator

Like new with brakes and basket. $60. 815-653-4612

4 5' sections of 6 inch bee vents $35 815-648-2016 Army Boxes 12” sq. x 4' long, Steel, Lockable For Storage, Food, Guns, Papers, Tornado Supplies. Very Handy $65, 815-569-2277 Bath vanities: 2 oak vanities w/ stone basin, 1 24” @ $50 and 1 26” like new @ $70 815-675-2216 Marble top, faucet, like new, remodeling, “ REDUCED” only $50.

815-355-0599 BOOKS - Western mostly, paper back & hard cover.

Asking Price: 50 cents to a dollar.

Best Time To Call: 8:00AM – 6:00PM 847-458-4062

CERAMIC TILE

Cobalt blue and hunter green. $15/box, 20 boxes total.

815-653-4612 Cisco VOIP phone systems and AT&T phone systems – Ethernet – All for $95obo. 815-337-2911

DINNERWARE - 46 PIECES

Set of Fairwinds, The Friendship of Salem, brown, exc cond, $350.

847-807-9156 Electric Adapter & Resent Plug for your Shore Station Wheel Lift $50. 815-790-8213

Ryobi 31CG 15”, Starts and Runs Like New - $25 815-334-9038 7am-6pm

Ladders: NEW 7', & 8' Top

Fine Woodworking and Fine Home Building Magazines, Multiple Years.

815-385-5145 Muscle Book: Antique Cars $12 630-624-8250 PHONE CASE OTTERBOX COMMUTER MODEL phone cover for SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 all black, no screen protector incl., Purchased for $34.95, ASKING ONLY $15, Cash Only, Crystal Lake 815-690-0527 Text or lv msg PHONE CASE: OTTERBOX COMMUTER MODEL phone cover for HTC ONE M7 grey & pink, no screen protector incl., Purchased for $34.95, ASKING ONLY $15, Cash Only, Crystal Lake 815-690-0527 Text or lv msg Pony Cart, seats 2, rubber tires. Call Michael 815-236-9120 Porcelain dolls. $5/each 779-444-2042 R/C Light Simulator for Computer Over 70 aircraft to fly and 25 realistic flying sights, $95.

815-578-0212 Safety Net for Trampoline brand new, 14 feet, $99.

815-742-1631 Star Wars R2D2 Pop/Beer Cooler - $35 815-455-2066 aft. 6pm

CYMBOL - 15” Crash Sabian

Xplosion. Great Condition, $85.

847-404-7806 DRUM HEADS – Brand New. Evans EC2s. 12”, 13” & 16” toms. 14” snare. 20” bass. $85.

847-404-7806 DRUM PAD – Brand New. HQ, 12”x12” Evans Real Feel. Realistic Durable Texture. $25.

847-404-7806 Guitar. Westone Spectrum DX 1986. Mint cond. Incl case. $175. 815-578-0212

Brand Step, w/ paint/tool shelf.

Fiberglass & Alum. $65, $75 save sales tax. Moving.

815-455-3555

Piano & Bench: Kimball Upright Manufactured in 1962, Maple Wood, Needs Tuning, U Haul $300/obo 815-482-6884

MULTI METER Micronta Range Doubler 22-204C. $15 815-575-4858

Pianos Quality Pre-Owned Pianos Delivered & Warrantied

PATIO UMBRELLA

Miller Genuine Draft – New, yellow & Black, For Outdoor Use. $35 815-790-8213

SCROLL SAW 18”, variable speeds, wood, like new! Many blades, $95/obo. 708-363-2004 Shop Vac. 1.5 gal. $15 630-624-8250 McHenryCountySports.com is McHenry County Sports

All puppies come with * Health Warranty * Free Vet Visit * Free Training DVD * Financing Available

Petland 6126 Northwest Hwy (Next to Jewel, Rt 14 & Main 815-455-5479

CINNA 2 month old female Orange DSH. Life is a beat and I plan to dance to it. Sometimes I just want to turn myself loose.

Want to make time for the things that matter? www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

FISH TANK

San Diego Chargers on 8/15 and Cleveland Browns on 8/29 2 tickets per game. Located on Bears side, along 15 yard line. $150/per pair or best offer.

Call Dan 815-790-3844

ALGONQUIN

2046 Waverly Ln Sat & Sun 9-2 All Prices Negotiable! Must See Sale! Tons of Kitchen Items, Xmas Halloween & Easter Decor, Electronics, Home Decor, Clothes, Books & More! Honda Motorcycle $1,000! Everything Must Go! Make An Offer!!!

CRYSTAL LAKE 583 Glenn Ridge

GARTH 5 year old male Retriever mix.

By the time I finish a run, everything I'm thinking changes.

The bad gets better. The good gets amazing. I'm just so grateful to be alive. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400 Golden Retriever Puppies. 4 generations excellent OFA. Light color.

Ready. Vet checked, see online ad 815-337-4624 Invisible Fence Dog Collars – For use with your invisible fence system 2 collars, $50. 815-790-8213 Kittens (2) 12 weeks old. Must go together to a wonderful home.

Call before 4pm. 224-333-0734 KITTENS.(2) Female & male, need to be together, TABBIES TIGER STRIPED, brown, beige, lovely & playful, FREE TO GOOD HOME 847-639-3916

Racing Wheel & Pedals – MC2 for Playstation Systems 1 & 2, Xbox & Gamecube, Includes: Durable stick, shift, gas/brake pedals, & steering wheel. In original box.

Excellent Condition - $55 815-356-9620 Radio Flyer Blaze Interactive Riding Horse - Includes comb & feeding carrot accessories. Like New! Asking $75 /obo. New - $150.

815-568-6880

V.Smile learning system.

W/2 controllers and 4 games. $60. 847-659-1464

Antique and Modern Guns Old Lever Actions, Winchesters, Marlins, Savages, etc. Old Pistols and Revolvers. Cash for Collection.

FFL License 815-338-4731

Lionel & American Flyer Trains 815-353-7668 WANTED TO BUY: Vintage or New, working or not.

Bicycles, Outboard motors, fishing gear, motorcycles or mopeds, chainsaws, tools etc. Cash on the spot. Cell: 815-322-6383

Aug 3 & 4, Sat & Sun 10am-5pm Kids Items, Clothes, & Household Items, & SO MUCH MORE!!!

CRYSTAL LAKE

SIERRA 3 1/2 year old female Torti DSH I never want to settle for good enough. I intend to find my perfect match. Do you think love is in the air...for us? www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

FRI, SAT, SUN AUG 2, 3, 4 9AM - 5PM 660 WOODLAND DRIVE A Couple of Old Dealers Selling Lots of Good Stuff At GREAT Prices!

Antiques, Vintage Xmas, furniture, jewelry & LOTS MORE! YOU HAVE TO SEE IT...

TO BELIEVE IT!

CRYSTAL LAKE MULTI FAMILY

WEBER Smokey Grill -18” New Condition - $50 815-344-1699 Window AC Unit – Fedders Model A3X05FZA, 5000 BTU. Very Good Condition- $45. 815-363-9636

Team Jennifer is hosting an online auction to raise money for the Chicago Get Your Rear In Gear 5k run/walk.

The auction will be 10 a.m. Aug. 3 to 3 p.m. Aug. 10.

Items in auction include handmade jewelry, Mary Kay products, artwork, and gas cards.

Auction can be accessed at www.32auctions.com/jen.

Team Jennifer is walking in memory of Jennifer Edgerton who passed away on March 23, 2013 at the age of 37. All funds raised will go to the Cancer Coalition,a non-profit organization working to educate and increase screening rates for colon cancer.

For information, call Shaun Will at 815-260-1818.

CRYSTAL LAKE

Airsoft gun: Stinger P311 6mm Works like new, $23 815-823-2929 Bear Compound Bow, Adjustable wt., Used very little, very good condition $149. 815-363-9636 Field & Stream - scrapeline hangon stand, brand new. Light weight w/ large platform & seat. $85 obo 815-566-1155 Field & Stream primetime lite climbing stand. brand new $150 obo 815-566-1155

HUGE INDOOR SALE Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun. 8am – 5pm

Antiques, Glass, 50's Kitchen & Items, Furniture, Clothing, Tools AND MORE.

211 GLEN AVE Furniture: 1950's and 1970's.

Vintage Tell City and Willette golden beryl maple. Lawn and garden tools, rowing machine, Franciscan Earthenware.

Entire household must go.

1405 Lilac Lane Friday August 2nd and Sunday August 4, 8-4.

Mchenry

FRI, SAT, SUN 8A-4P 5104 Greenbrier Dr.

MCHENRY

FRI, SAT, SUN AUG 2, 3, 4 9AM - 3PM 1718 RYAN ST. Household & kitchen items, LOTS of books, furniture, jewelry & SO MUCH MORE!

MCHENRY

MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND 113 Koa Street One mile south of Route 176 off of Roberts Road.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday -- August 1, 2, 3, 4 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Crafts supplies, wedding and baby shower favors, some antiques and much more.

Too much to list.

Huntley

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August 3 & 4 Sat 9am-4pm Sun 9am-3pm

Sat 8/3 9am-4pm Sun 8/4 9am-2pm 10710 Grand Canyon Ave Basketball hoop, Wii system, tools, decorations, and much much more!

2009 Red Barn Road

The Lincoln Highway Buy-Way is back, Thursday, August 8 to Saturday August 10!

Fri/Sat 9-5... Sun Noon to 4 Antiques, LIKE NEW American Made Amish & Mission furniture.

Lazy Boys. kitchenware, artwork, tools, much more.

ECKEL'S MCHENRY FLEA MARKET

Town-wide sales will be in Fulton and Ashton! The DeKalb Area Women's Center will have flea market items! Rochelle businesses will have great sales! Stop for lunch at the Methodist Church in Morrison! Sales in Illinois are part of a five-state event.

3705 WEST ELM MON 4-8, THURS & FRI 11-5 SAT & SUN 8-5 815-363-3532

For locations and details, visit: illinoislincolnhighway association.org

We place FREE ads for Lost or Found in Classified every day!

Call: 800-589-8237 or email: classified@shawsuburban.com

Multi-family garage sale

9005 Oriole Trl. (off Thompson)

Saturday-Sunday, 8/3-8/4 8am-5pm.

10406 Button Rd

rd

Wonder Lake

Garage sale : furniture, lamps, clothes, dishes, kitchen items, tools, yard maintenance items, books, plants, and much more!

Magnum Hunter Xl hang on stand, Oversized platform & footrest. Brand new. $60 obo. 815-566-1155

SKIS ~ (2) SETS

A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING.

All proceeds from this garage sale will go to Michelle HedgeBarker Memorial fund.

LINCOLN HIGHWAY BUY-WAY

With bag, 1pair of poles & boots. $40.

224-523-1569

Golf, Exercise Equipment, Clothing, Books, Jewelry, American Girl, Dishware...

Hampshire

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McHenry Fri, Sat & Sun. 8am – 4pm

Household, furniture, kid's clothing, women's & men's clothes, women's plus size clothes sizes 22-32.

Antique Furniture, Cabinets, & Misc Items.

PADDLE BOAT

Furniture, Tools, Household & Misc. Small Engine, Holiday décor & Much More!

Near Ackman & Golf Course

Gorilla - King Kong HX climber Brand new. $150 obo 815-566-1155 Gorilla king kong HX hang on stand Brand new. $100 obo.

815-566-1155 Ladder Stand - Basic 2 man stand. Brand New $100 obo 815-566-1155 Ladder stand - Deluxe w/double foot platform, seat & gun rest. Brand new -$150 obo 815-566-1155

METAL BASKETBALL HOOP - $25 (DeKalb) Metal basketball hoop.

Black color. Call 815-751-0115

Deerwood Subdivision

FRI, SAT, SUN 9AM - 4PM Dovercliff Way

HARVARD

THURS, FRI, SUN. 9-4 POOL CHEMICALS - 18 3” chlorine tabs, 10 lbs of alkalinity increaser 15lbs. ph pluse 1 bottle of 50 new test strips and other miscellaneous pool chemicals. $50. call any time 847-989-5599

712 Woodridge Trail

Auction to benefit Cancer Coalition

48W781 Immelman Ln. WEBER grill igniter kit Brand New!, For Genesis Silver/Gold/Platinum 2002 & Newer. $10. 815-347-8251

Fri & Sat, 9am-4pm Sun 9am-2pm

“HUGE”

LABRADOR PUPPIES - M & F, black, brown & yellow. Great hunting & show line.

Vet checked, shots.

McHenry

808 N. John St.

55 gallon with wood stand and lights, $125. 847-212-6504

SNARE DRUM STAND – Very Heavy Duty – Gibralter. Very Good Condition. $55. 847-404-7806

SNARE DRUM – 14”x5” Maple Gretch. Excellent Condition. New Heads. List $240, sell $120.

847-404-7806 SNARE DRUM CASE – New. Humes & Berg. 6.5”x14”. 1½” soft liner w/ strap. 847-404-7806

TENT – Sleeps 8. +8 sleeping bag.

Canvas tote for tent. $75 total.

815-385-9383 Turkey Decoy: Full Strut Tom w/movable fan. Brand new in box. $45 obo. 815-566-1155

Bears Preseason Tickets

Aqua Mate - 4 person paddle boat blue, Great Condition, all parts working $200obo. Great price don't miss this one. 815-353-9262 or 815-353-8714 PING-PONG TABLE New, rarely used, $50.

815-575-1388 Scout hang on tree stand Armrests, shooting rail, saddle bags & footrest. oversize platform. $85 obo 815-566-1155

815-334-8611

Summit Viper Infinity Climbing Stand. Brand new $175 obo 815-566-1155 Tent – Family Size - 9' x 17, Canvas, $60. 847-497-4104

Turkey Decoy: Primos Killer B Brand New - Never Used. $70 obo 815-566-1155

Grease Gun w/flex hose Very Good Condition. $15.

815-363-9636 Hooded Gas Grill (used) Paid $300, asking $85. Call Michael 815-236-9120.

Leather Saddle (Western Style) Call Michael 815-236-9120.

MAGAZINES~FREE

Spring Clean-Up Mulch, brick patios, tree removal, maint work.

Insured. 815-355-2121

Adorable Puppies

Electric Lift for Wheel Chair or Scooter – Harmar AL055 Operates w/power inside vehicle, 200lb capacity - $400.

815-527-7362

ORTIZ LANDSCAPING

CHINA CABINET

China Cabinet: Antique $150 815-355-3215

12x36, with or without motor on custom wood bench. $125/obo. 708-363-2004

Luggage Set Top Brand and cond.

American Tourister. Not canvas sides, 2 pieces 7x24”, 7x20”, $40.

815-455-3555

40”x19”x23”, $150.00.

224-381-5675

Oak, 58” longx33”high, $10.

815-823-2929 WICKER DRESSER - White w/6 drawers, glass top & mirror.

61"W x 33"H x 25"D. Excellent Condition. $99. 815-527-1005.

Wood Lathe ~ Craftsman

Lawn Mower: Murray, 6HP, 22” blade, runs great, $50/OBO 847-516-8015

AIR COMPRESSOR - pancake type.

Runs well, it's a oil type pump so it will last longer than the oilless type $75. 815-675-2155

With glass doors, 50 + years old. $250.00 224-381-5675

Wire Spool Racks

Electrical, 2 wheel, 4 wheel, $85/ea 847-302-7009

Bathroom Vanity 48” Oak Base Concrete fountain top, “Little boy looking into bird bath” $35 262-203-0244

and 1 coffee table, $150/all 815-444-9550 TRUNK-like rattan coffee and end tables. $75 815-385-4353

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TABLE SAW ~ Professional – 10” tilting arbor, 1Hp - 3' x 5' table w/wheels, portable or stationary, Excellent Condition $200. 815-479-0492

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FAMILY CARE Childhood cancer survivor returns home to help mother diagnosed with Stage IV of the disease

FESTIVAL Entertainers to share stories at Larsen Park

The Whole Nine Yards Kerth remembers freedom of childhood adventures on Lake Nicaboyne

FARM AID Master gardener Joe Menotti leads parishioners’ effort to grow sweet corn on unused church land, donate crop to local food pantries

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We will accept one color photo for weddings and engagements. We will accept two color photos – wedding and current – for anniversaries.

Photos not accompanied with a self-addressed, stamped envelope will not be returned. They may be picked up at the Crystal Lake office after publication.

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ON THE COVER Joe Menotti, master gardener for Light of Christ Lutheran Church in Algonquin Photo by Kyle Grillot kgrillot@shawmedia.com

Questions? Email trkerth@yahoo.com

Watching my wake to see where I’m going I suppose today you’d be considered a bad parent – maybe even a criminal – if you let your 12-year-old son hop into a leaky rowboat on a rustic lake and oar his way out of sight right at daybreak, knowing you wouldn’t see him again until suppertime.

Still, that was how I was raised when my family took our yearly trip to Lake Nicaboyne in northern Wisconsin. And I can’t imagine living a life that hasn’t been anchored in such adventure and trust.

Dad always rented a boat to hang his green 5-horse Johnson motor on, and he puttered onto the lake at least once a day for some serious fishing. He usually let me come along if I wanted to, and I was glad to go along with him.

But it was hard for me to resist my solitary odysseys in my own leaky boat. So if he wanted to sleep a little later or if the weather looked a bit too drizzly for him to venture forth, I didn’t mind.

I would save up my allowance all year to be able to rent my own boat, which I think came at the princely sum of $5 a week. The paint on the old oars was cracked and chipped so badly the sodden wood would double its weight by the time I reached the far end of the lake.

The boat, too, would gain sloshing tonnage as I rowed. It had a slatted wooden platform at the bottom, and that would keep my feet dry as long as the water never got deeper than a couple inches, when it became necessary to pull up onto the little rocky island at the far end of the lake to bail it out with a dented Maxwell

House coffee can.

Still, wet feet were no concern to a young Odysseus facing the trials a northern Wisconsin lake might toss in his way.

I would usually troll along the shore, hoping to pick up a bass near the lily pads in front of the lodge, or maybe a northern pike along the gravel point near the far end of the lake.

But the far shore a mile away was my true destination, for it was there I might turn off into the big, weedy bay and be truly out of sight from the cabin, just in case Mom or Dad were keeping tabs.

The bay ended in a floating peat bog, where, if I dared to get out of the boat, I might walk in a magical land that was neither earth nor water. The peat grew so densely there, small tamarack trees sprouted and grew to 20 feet or so, a sparse forest rising from the muskeg.

But under the peat was water, so the land undulated as I walked. The tamaracks swayed like metronomes with the vibrations of my footsteps, and if I wasn’t careful where I stepped, my foot might break through the peat. I would sink to my hips, with my feet dangling in cool, black water that never reached bottom. I always ventured out onto the bog barefoot, ever since the first year when I took an illadvised step and the peat swallowed one of my black Converse sneakers.

It was here that the loons nested, and they protected their young fiercely. A curious young Odysseus might find himself assailed by gabbling harpies if he strayed too close to the new chicks, too fluffy and

buoyant to dive to safety.

It was here, too, the bullfrogs, turtles and water snakes basked in the sun, and no adventure could be considered a success until at least one of each had been captured, studied and released back into the water.

Along the way, there were other lesswelcome captures, as well, and every day ended with a careful search behind ears and between toes for ticks and leeches that had decided to spend the day on an adventure of their own.

But that was a long time ago. It has been a half-century and more since I sat in that rowboat, oaring my way backward across a lake, watching the familiar shoreline from which I departed shrink in the distance.

Still, sometimes I like to sit for a quiet moment and remember those days when I was 12 years old and master of my own leaky boat, striking off backward on my solitary odyssey across a lake with my wake spreading out behind me like parentheses around my past and adventure waiting for me at the far end of the lake.

Trusting my blind course toward an unseen future.

Watching my past recede.

Then – as now – the best way to travel is to watch your wake to judge if your ongoing course has been true.

• Tom “T. R.” Kerth is a Sun City resident and retired English teacher from Park Ridge. He can be reached at trkerth@ yahoo.com.

From Lily Lake to Lakemoor

124 S. Randall Road Algonquin

Historical Society looks at village’s beginning NORTHWEST HERALD WOODSTOCK – The McHenry County Historical Society will examine the political climate of Lakemoor before its founding.

The Society’s Perkins Hall Players will present “Path to Lakemoor – The Dissolution of Lily Lake” at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the old Seneca Township Hall, now Perkins Hall, at the corner of Franklinville and Garden Valley Roads southwest of Woodstock.

In September 1941, emotions were running high inside Lily Lake. There were questions that surrounded the village’s incorporation in 1938 – including the validity

of votes and its boundaries.

There were allegations of assault and political interference, contempt of court and fraud. It led to what the press described as “riotous behavior.”

The players re-enact the night residents gathered at the town hall, where McHenry Township Supervisor Math N. Schmitt agreed to host a public meeting in an effort to stop the feuding and rancor.

Period clothing is encouraged for this free event. Light refreshments will follow.

There are no restrooms, and avoid parking along Franklinville Road.

For information, call 815923-2267 or visit www.gothistory.org.

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Smoked pork revised for summer

By STEPHANIE WITT SEDGWICK The Washington Post In the winter, roast pork with roasted root vegetables is one of my go-to easy meals, especially since the USDA lowered the minimum cooking temperature for pork to 145 degrees, ensuring juicier results for today’s leaner “other white meat.”

I summer-ize that meal in hot weather. The pork goes on the grill, where it’s cooked over indirect heat. The root vegetables are replaced by grilled summer corn and lots of grilled scallions. A judicious dose of maple syrup complements the natural sweetness of both.

Before the meat goes on the grill, you’ll need to soak 1½ cups of wood chips (of your choice) in water for an hour.

Smoked Pork Loin With Corn Salad

Smoked Pork Loin With Corn Salad Makes about 8 servings For the pork: One 3-pound boneless pork loin 2 teaspoons dried fines herbes or a combination of dried minced herbs of your choice 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 tablespoon good-quality maple syrup 1 tablespoon olive oil For the corn salad: 6 large or 8 small ears corn, shucked 3 bunches scallions (trimmed), tough dark green tops removed 2 tablespoons olive oil Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons good-quality maple syrup 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar For the pork: Place the pork loin on a piece of plastic wrap large enough to wrap the meat. Sprinkle the loin all over with the fines herbes, salt and pepper.

Whisk together the maple syrup and oil in a small bowl,

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then pour the mixture over the meat, rubbing it in to coat evenly. Seal with the plastic wrap and place in a shallow dish. Refrigerate for at least 6 hours and up to 12 hours.

Prepare the grill for direct and indirect heat. If using charcoal, light the charcoal in a chimney starter and let the briquettes burn until the flames subside and a light layer of ash covers the briquettes (20 to 25 minutes). Dump the lighted coals into 2 mounds (or, preferably, into two half-moon-shaped briquette baskets) on opposite sides of the grill. Place a drip pan between the piles of coals and fill it halfway with water. If using gas, with a two-burner grill, set one burner to medium and leave the other unlit; with three or more burners, set the outside or front and rear burners to medium-low and leave the center burners unlit. The directheat temperature should be 375 degrees F. Lightly coat the grill rack with oil; place it on the grill.

Meanwhile, transfer the pork loin to the counter to rest for

30 minutes.

For the corn salad: Rinse the corn in water, then wrap the still-damp ears individually in aluminum foil. When the grill temperature reaches 375 degrees F., arrange the foilwrapped ears on the direct-heat side of the grill. Close the lid and cook for 20 minutes, turning the corn every 5 minutes.

Adjust the heat as necessary to maintain a constant temperature. When the corn is done, transfer to a baking sheet, still wrapped, to rest for 10 minutes.

Toss the trimmed scallions with 1 tablespoon of the oil.

Season with salt and pepper to taste. Once the corn comes off the grill, arrange the scallions on the direct-heat side of the grill. Close the grill lid and cook for 3 minutes, then uncover and use tongs to turn the scallions over. Cook uncovered for 2 minutes, being careful to avoid charring the scallions too much. Transfer them to a plate.

If using a gas grill, place wet wood chips in a smoker box.

Place the smoker box on the grill according to the manufacturer’s directions. If using a charcoal grill, divide the drained wood chips between the two mounds of charcoal or the charcoal-filled baskets.

Close the grill lid so the temperature returns to 375 degrees. Discard the plastic wrap from the pork loin, then place the meat on the indirect-heat side of the grill. Close the lid and cook for 55 to 75 minutes, turning the meat over halfway through the cooking; the pork is done when an instant-read thermometer placed in the thickest part of the loin registers 145 degrees F. The loin should be evenly browned. Transfer the pork loin to a cutting board to rest for 20 minutes (uncovered).

While the pork loin is on the grill, discard the foil from the corn. Cut off the kernels, letting them fall into a mixing bowl.

Chop the grilled scallions into kernel-size pieces, then add them to the bowl. Stir in the remaining tablespoon of oil, the maple syrup and the vinegar. Season with salt and pepper to taste; toss to thoroughly combine. Taste, and adjust the seasoning as needed.

Slice the rested pork loin and serve it with the corn salad spooned on top or alongside.

Nutrition per serving: 400 calories, 41 g protein, 30 g carbohydrates, 14 g fat, 4 g saturated fat, 95 mg cholesterol, 140 mg sodium, 4 g dietary fiber, 8 g sugar.

8FARMERS MARKETS The following is a list of farmers markets in McHenry County and regional area.

McHenry County CARY FARMERS MARKET, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 29, Metra north commuter parking lot at High Road and West Main Street (off Route 14), Cary.

Wide selection of fresh fruits and vegetables, baked goods, cheeses, meats, flowers, plants and more. Sponsor: Cary Grove Area Chamber of Commerce. Information: 847-639-2800 or www.carygrovechamber. com.

CRYSTAL LAKE FARMERS MARKET, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays through Oct.

12, Depot Park (next to downtown train depot), Woodstock and Williams streets, Crystal Lake. Fresh produce, flowers, baked goods and more will be available for purchase. Information: 815-479-0835 or www. downtowncl.org.

HARVARD FARMERS MARKET, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 26, at the intersection of Routes 14 & 173, on the grounds of Central Elementary School, Harvard. Offering fresh local fruits and vegetables in season, baked goods, bedding plants and hanging baskets and more. Information: 815-770-0400 or www. harvardfarmersmarket.net.

HUNTLEY FARMERS MARKET, 8 a.m. to 1

p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 5, Coral Street, between Church and Woodstock streets, on the Square, Huntley. Homegrown fruits and vegetables, local honey, plants, freshcut flowers, baked goods, organic soaps and more. Information: 847-515-5200 or www.huntley.il.us.

McHENRY FARMERS MARKET, 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 29, Veterans Memorial Park, Pearl and Court streets., McHenry. Offering an assortment of organic food, fruits, vegetables, local specialties and crafts. Information: 815363-2100 or www.ci.mchenry.il.us.

WOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKET, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays and Saturdays through

Oct. 29, on the Square, Woodstock. Variety of organic vegetables, natural beef, gourmet cheese, plants, baked goods, soap, candles, and more. Information: 815-3385164 or www.woodstockfarmersmarket. org.

Regional SPRING HILL MALL, 8 a.m. to noon Fridays through Sept. 13, Routes 72 and 31, West Dundee. Market vendors offer locally grown fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables, baked goods, gourmet olive oil and vinegar, Italian specialties, jams, farm-fresh meats and poultry and more. Information: 847428-2200 or www.springhillmall.com.

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By JAMI KUNZER jkunzer@shawmedia.com Storytime is reaching beyond the walls of the library with the first Larsen Park Storytelling Festival.

Families are invited 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday to picnic and enjoy professional storytellers, a puppeteer and musical entertainers at the park, 1211 Pyott Road, Lake in the Hills.

Hosted by the Algonquin Area Public Library, the Lake in the Hills Parks and Recreation Department and Algonquin’s Events and Recreation Department, the festival is a beginning of what organizers hope will be an annual event.

“This could be big,” said Virginia Freyre, community outreach and adult services librarian for the Algonquin Area Public Library. “We’re going to see how it goes.”

The event is free, and those involved have volunteered their time. Among the storytellers and performers are Darlene Neumann, Paddy Lynn, Vlada Bernhardtz, Jennifer Kaap, A. Denise Farrugia, Silva Kraft-Walker and the Choral-Aires Chorus, a chapter of the Sweet Adelines.

Organizers hosted the event near the Algonquin Lake in the Hills Interfaith Food Pantry in hopes those stopping by for assistance also might stop at the park for the festival.

Following is a description of the entertainers as provided by organizers: • Neumann is a storyteller and library media specialist who specializes in world folktales and stories about growing up on a southern Illinois farm – some bittersweet and some very funny.

• Lynn is a professional actress, storyteller and drama teacher for more than 25 years and has written several children’s stories. She directs children’s plays because of her passion for theater and love of children. Her storytelling programs include multi-cultural stories, Native American stories, stories of mystery and intrigue for Halloween and beyond and several history programs, as well. Paddy has

IF YOU GO WHAT: Larsen Park Storytelling Festival WHEN: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday WHERE: Larsen Park, 1211 Pyott Road, Lake in the Hills.

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• Bernhardtz, who grew up in Africa and Europe, brings a wealth of folktales from many corners of the world. Her audiences enjoy the wit and wisdom of generations and cultures weaved into her stories.

• Kaap, the “Silly Librarian,” has presented storytimes in libraries, bookstores, schools, restaurants, parties and community events throughout Illinois and California. She works at the Dundee Library and lives in Elgin.

• Farrugia, a library youth services manager and member of the Lincoln Story League, tells tales that are funny, touching or have a quality of magic in them. What is most important in storytelling are the tales themselves that become a part of people’s lives, she said. Her repertoire includes folktales and literary tales from children’s literature, many with audience participation.

• Kraft-Walker is a children’s librarian who loves to get preschoolers laughing into literacy with her mostly furry puppet family. Plum Crazy Puppets selects only the best from children’s literature and uses a variety of puppetry styles and techniques to delight children with soul-stirring stories topped with wiggles, giggles and grins.

• Choral-Aires Chorus is a chapter of the Sweet Adelines, who have placed in the top 10 choruses at international competitions for the past 30 years. The chorus will provide musical interludes between storytellers with a small quartet, A La Carte. This group of women will sing barbershop style arrangements for your listening pleasure.

8HOME & GARDEN EVENTS To have an event listed in this calendar, fill out the form at PlanitNorthwest.com/forms, email calendars@nwherald.com or mail the information along with a contact name and phone number to Calendar Listing, the Northwest Herald, P.O. Box 250, Crystal Lake, IL 60039-0250.

DINNERWARE SHOW & SALE, 19th annual, continues 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 4, Players Indoor Sports Center, 1740 Quincy Ave., Naperville. Dealers from 11 states will sell Early American pattern glass, carnival glass, depression glass, and more. Offering repairs and glass identification services.

Admission: $7 adults good for both days, free for children younger than 12. Information: www.midwestglassandpottery.com.

BONSAI SOCIETY EXHIBIT & CLASS, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 10, Klehm Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 2715 S. Main St., Rockford.

Learn the history and philosophy of this elegant horticultural technique in the 1 p.m. class from Bill Horschke of the Rock River Bonsai Society. There also will be an exhibit of Bonsai trees displayed.

Cost: $5 public, free for members.

McHenry County McHENRY FLEA MARKET, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, 3705 W. Elm St. (formerly Sullivan Foods), McHenry. Indoor flea market featuring more than 85 vendors.

Open all year. Admission: $1 or free with one paid admission and a nonperishable item for the FISH food pantry. Information: 815-363-3532 or www.mchenryfleamarket.net.

Regional ANTIQUE AMERICAN GLASS &

Information: 815-965-8146 or www.klehm.org.

GRAYSLAKE ANTIQUE MARKET, second Saturdays and Sundays, Lake County Fairgrounds, Peterson & Midlothian roads, Grayslake.

Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Admission: $7 adults (good for both days), free for children younger than 12. Information: 715-526-9769 or www.zurkopromotions.com.

KANE COUNTY FLEA MARKET, first weekends, Kane County Fairgrounds, Route 64 and Randall Road, St. Charles. Hours: Noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. Featuring hundreds of dealers. Food served all day.

Admission: $5 adults each day, free for children younger than 12.

Free parking. Information: 630377-2252 or www.kanecountyfleamarket.com.

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‘People are hungry here’ Kyle Grillot – kgrillot@shawmedia.com

Master gardener for the Light of Christ Lutheran Church in Algonquin Joe Menotti (right) and farmer Dan Fruin of Huntley meet on an acre of land planted with sweet corn at the northeast corner of Long Meadow Parkway and Sleepy Hollow Road. Menotti came up with the idea this year to plant sweet corn on the undeveloped land owned by the church.

Once harvested, the sweet corn will go to 12 food pantries in McHenry County and one in Carpentersville.

Church turns unused land into crop for food pantries

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church in Algonquin has found its own way to feed the hungry by turning some undeveloped land into a cornfield.

Parishioners soon will harvest more than an acre’s worth of corn and give it to area food pantries as a refreshing addition to the canned goods often given out.

“We know people are hungry here,” said Sharon Rogers, associate pastor at Light of Christ Lutheran Church in Algonquin. “It doesn’t do a whole lot of good to talk to them about God when their bellies are growling.”

The church had bought about 18 acres of land at Long Meadow Parkway and Sleepy Hollow Road in Algonquin upon putting its current building up for sale in 2008.

The plan was to build a new, bigger ministry on that land. But the church has been unable to sell its current location at 100 Hanson Road, Rogers said, and needs the money from the sale to fund a new building. “It’s a great challenge to have, not to have enough room in your church,” she said.

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Farmer Dan Fruin of Huntley inspects a piece of sweet corn.

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Farmer Dan Fruin of Huntley lifts Colton Reeves, 1, of Huntley on an acre of land planted with sweet corn in Lake in the Hills. With the help of Colton’s parents, Katie Reeves and Adam Reeves (right), Fruin was able to plant the sweet corn and care for it.

• CORN Continued from page 5 The church also rents space at Westfield Community School, down the road from the 18 acres of undeveloped land it bought.

“In the meantime, the land was going unused,” Rogers said. “We began to think outside of the box as we became aware of a growing need in the community.”

A master gardener and church member, Joe Menotti already had planted a garden at the church a couple of years ago, with produce going to area food pantries. He came up with the idea to plant sweet corn on the undeveloped land.

Doing so actually works in the church’s favor for tax purposes because the land can be zoned as agricultural.

Tom’s Farm Market of Huntley donated the seed needed for the corn. And farmer Dan Fruin of Huntley, whose family rents nearby acreage to farm on, agreed to plant the corn at no cost to the church.

“It was the right thing to do,” Fruin said.

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The entire effort came together quite easily, Rogers said.

“It’s something that I don’t think has been done in this area before,” she said.

“I think it’s one of the challenges in the suburbs.

People think everyone has pretty nice houses, ... but there are people trying to keep a roof over their heads and people have less food for their tables,” she said.

And that includes parishioners at Light of Christ, she said.

The church had become inspired to help area food pantries after learning of a dramatic increase in families eligible for free and reduced school breakfasts and lunches. A Northern Illinois Food Bank video about “Hungry Kate: The Girl with a Bellyache” also resonated with them, Rogers said.

The entire effort benefits all involved, Menotti said.

“The church is going to be better off because the land is being used, and I think it’s going to be something that the congregations can really appreciate and look to with pride,” he said.

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I believe my children think we OWE them baby-sitting duties. I don’t mind baby-sitting once in a while, when I feel like it. But I don’t feel like it when the parents want to go out and party, or they tell me at the last minute, “little Susie needs some Grandma time,” or they want to go to the gym because they don’t want to give up the freedom they had before their children came along.

What are your thoughts on boundaries for this generation of parentswho-want-it-all at the expense of my generation who, back in the day, if a neighbor kid couldn’t baby-sit, we just stayed home? I know I should have set some rules at the beginning, but I’m starting to feel resentful of their expectations. – Wants Some Freedom, Too, In Minnesota

Dear Wants Some Freedom, Too: There is truth to the saying “good fences make good neighbors,” and the philosophy applies to many circumstances. Setting clear boundaries makes for healthier relationships.

Keep in mind many grandparents would love to have your “problem.”

But as you stated, your problem was in not setting ground rules from the beginning.

Because you feel resentful, it’s time to have a frank talk with your children and say as much as the grandkids may “need” Grandma time, Grandma also needs Grandma time.

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without a wife.

My wife told me this was the first house she lived in that had a dishwasher. She was so proud of it. I could never understand why she would wash the dishes before putting them into the dishwasher. Now I have to do it myself, I understand why. My question is, is there a detergent that will actually CLEAN the dishes?

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If you and your late wife were married 20 or 30 years and the dishwasher was already installed in the house when you moved in, it is now practically an antique. Because you have tried several brands of detergent and your dishes aren’t getting clean, you probably need a new dishwasher. (And I do

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I feel like I am being consumed by misery, and I don’t want to feel like this anymore. Please tell me what to do. – Searching For Happiness Dear Searching For Happiness: The feelings you describe can be symptoms of chronic depression, which is a treatable illness. That’s why I’m urging you to discuss them with a physician. A combination of medication and talk therapy can help you feel better again, so don’t put it off.

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like to know what the priest meant about the grief.

Dear Reader: Alcoholism is a disease of paradoxes, and this is one of them. It may seem inconceivable now that you are sad to see something go that was killing you, but when you’re desperate, a bad friend is better than no friend at all.

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ease the immediate pain of his losses, he loses families, jobs, friends, cars and finally sanity or life itself. It’s ironic the very thing he uses to ease the pain only serves to inflame it.

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Amanda Armstrong (left) and her mother, Veronica Armstrong, pose for a portrait outside their Crystal Lake home. Amanda, who beat a very rare form of bone cancer when she was younger, moved in with her mother after Veronica was diagnosed with Stage IV adenocarcinoma.

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hours removing it.

It’s been nearly two decades since then.

Years since she was quoted as a child with the adultlike wisdom cancer often brings: “Cancer isn’t prejudiced. Cancer has no conscience. Cancer has no rules.

Veronica Armstrong pulled out seven photo albums that tell the story of her daughter’s battle with cancer.

Then 10, Amanda Armstrong smiled weakly from a hospital bed. Her body frail from chemotherapy, her head was covered with a purple-flowered cap full of angel pins she’d collected from family and friends.

Cancer has no limits or time.”

To Amanda, that was all history. Cancer lost. She won.

She picked up the cap, now sealed in a plastic bag.

“I eventually got to the point where I couldn’t wear it,” she remembered. “It was just too heavy.”

She glanced through the photographs along with old, laminated newspaper clippings about her yearlong struggle at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital with a cancer that made medical history.

“It’s a little surreal. I kind of forgot about all this,” she said.

Then a call came from her mother.

“I have adenocarcinoma,” her mother told her.

In Stage IV, the cancer had started in the 53-year-old’s lungs and spread to her brain. She’d need radiation, chemotherapy, just as her daughter did years ago.

Amanda had orbital osteosarcoma, basically a tumor in her right eye socket. While the type of bone cancer wasn’t necessarily rare, its location was, and surgeons

Cancer was no longer history.

And just as they fought in the past, the mother and daughter would forge ahead together.

At age 27, Amanda moved back into the Crystal Lake bedroom she grew up in as a child.

Married in May, she brought her husband with her.

She met Yabin Zhao, or “Joe” as he’s called in America, while studying in Japan. The two say it was love at first sight.

“We were supposed to start off as friends, but it didn’t work that way,” Amanda said.

They both were studying at Sophia University in Japan, where Amanda had transferred to learn advanced level Japanese.

Japanese music had drawn her in as a child, and she vowed one day to figure out what the singers were saying.

She had determination, wanted to live life to the fullest, a motivation instilled in her during those hospital stays in which a return home wasn’t guaranteed.

“It probably made me strong, gave me a sense of urgency to do things in life,” she said. “I still feel like I should be doing something with my life, proving myself. ...

“Learning another language was not an easy task after receiving so much radiation. There were a lot of kids that didn’t make it. For their sake, I want to be the best I can be.”

A couple of years at McHenry County College after graduating in 2004 from Prairie Ridge High School, and Amanda was off on an adventure.

Regularly tested, cancer no longer posed a threat.

“At 19, they finally said I’m all clear,” she remembered. “I’m free to go out into the wild.”

She’d earned a bachelor’s degree in Asian studies, with a minor in Japanese language, from Temple University in Japan before heading to Sophia University.

Zhao earned his master’s degree in marketing.

Originally from China, he and Amanda were married there.

“I spent all this money to learn Japanese, and I marry a Chinese guy,” she said with a laugh. “But we love each other, and here we are.”

Veronica attended the wedding.

Her daughter sensed something was off with her mother. She seemed tired, and it was if her face drooped.

Amanda worried then, even more when she found out her mother had gotten into a minor car accident. She missed a turn on Bull Valley Road, hit a bush.

Tests at the hospital revealed the cancer.

A few weeks later, Amanda was home.

“It wasn’t what I was expecting.

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‘Here we are again’

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Amanda Armstrong (left) and her mother, Veronica Armstrong, tend to the horses at their Crystal Lake home. BELOW: Amanda and Veronica lead the horses out to graze. “She’s always running around,” Amanda said of Veronica. “You wouldn’t notice she actually has cancer.”

‘Let it go’

It’s a little odd. We went through all of this when I was 10 and now here we are again. Some of the chemo

she’s had, I’ve had. I’ve been there before,” she said. “It’s like reliving the past almost.”

A massage therapist, Veronica had to quit her job. She’s completed radiation, along with one round of chemotherapy. Another four rounds are coming.

She no longer can drive, but Amanda’s there to take her where she needs to be, monitor her health.

She’s amazed at how well her mother’s doing. Advancements through the years have eased the impact of treatments.

“She’s always running around,” Amanda said, pointing out Veronica had left the room again, this time to clean a bird feeder in the kitchen. “You wouldn’t notice she actually has cancer.”

The family has no idea how this latest battle will turn out.

The prognosis for those in Stage IV cancer typically isn’t optimistic,

with some statistics showing a 10 percent survival rate.

Still, Amanda’s odds weren’t always positive either.

And the family says they have plenty going for them.

“So many positive prayers, I can actually feel it,” said Veronica, her bare head wrapped in a bandana.

“It’s like it comes in ocean waves.”

She admits to feeling frustrated, and flattened by surges of self pity sometimes.

But she confronts those feeling head-on.

“Alright universe, what do I have to change?” she asked when the diagnosis came. “You’ve probably been giving me signs and I’ve been ignoring them. You’ve got to knock me down so I pay attention.”

When the negativity almost becomes too much, she tells herself: “Let it go. Let it go. Let it go.”

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The event will be hosted by their children.

Nancy Chytry and David Loch were married Aug. 10, 1063, at St. Eugene Church in Chicago. They first lived in Norridge after their marriage.

He was an operating engineer with the Local 150 for 48 years

David and Nancy Loch

until his retirement April 2002. He belongs to a U.S. Marines unit in McHenry.

She was a quality control inspector for Bally/Midway. She has been retired since 1984.

Both are involved in the Local 150 Retirees Club in Lakemoor.

They also both work for Toys for Tots. They enjoy traveling and are planning a 50th anniversary cruise in the fall to Nova Scotia.

They have a son, Michael Loch of Fox Lake, and a daughter, Debbie Loch of Chicago.

They also have a grandchild, Holly Loch.

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Parisek MacKenzie WOODSTOCK – Announcement has been made of the engagement of Rachel Ann Parisek of Woodstock and Thomas John MacKenzie of Harvard.

She is the daughter of Steven and Mary Parisek of Woodstock. He is the son of Thomas and Caren MacKenzie of Harvard.

The bride-to-be is a 2011 graduate of Woodstock High School.

Her fiancé is a 2011 graduate of Harvard High School. He is serving with the U.S. Marine Corps in Jacksonville, N.C. Their wedding will be later this year.

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DELAVAN, Wis. – Kelly Ann Pedersen and David Scott Hurckes, both of McHenry, were married in a double-ring ceremony Saturday, May 11, 2013, in Delavan, Wis. The Rev. Marcia Boyer officiated.

She is the daughter of Michael and Shirley Pedersen of Elkhorn, Wis. He is the son of Bob and Debbie Hurckes of Crystal Lake, and Ann Hurckes of Antioch.

Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a beaded ivory lace trumpet gown with an illusion halter neckline and matching sash.

She carried a bouquet of pink and ivory roses with purple hydrangea and purple calla lilies.

Matron of honor was Allyson Meigs of Genoa City, Wis. Bridesmaids were Stephanie Ritter of Wonder Lake, Lisa Cooper of Johnsburg, Holly Delulio of Johnsburg, Megan Young of Wonder Lake, Kristine Smiesko of Ingleside and Kim Jensen of McHenry. Flower girl was Kailey Delulio of Johnsburg.

Best man was T.J. Hurckes of McHenry. Groomsmen were Brad Mathe of Richmond, Charlie Madsen of McHenry, Marc Honea of McHenry, Kyle Frost of Johnsburg, Brian Ghera of Johnsburg and Justin Regner of Fort Collins, Colo. Ushers

CHICAGO – Announcement has been made of the engagement of Amanda Peck and John Pizarek, both of Chicago.

She is the daughter of Jack and Cindy Thomas of Decatur. He is the son of Rick and Marge Pizarek of Crystal Lake.

The bride-to-be is a 2011 graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in food science and a 2012 graduate of the University of Minnesota with a degree in sensory science. She is a sensory scientist at PepsiCo in Barrington.

Her fiancé is a 2007 graduate of Prairie Ridge High School and a 2011 graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree

Kelly Ann Pedersen David Scott Hurckes were Colin, Ethan and Jared Ritter, all of Wonder Lake, and Logan Meigs of Genoa City, Wis. Ring bearer was Brody Meigs of Genoa City, Wis. The reception took place at the Lake Lawn Resort in Delavan.

The bride is a 1996 graduate of Johnsburg High School, a 2001 graduate of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb and a 2012 graduate of Ohio University in Athens. She is a clinical investigation nurse for Baxter Healthcare in Round Lake.

The bridegroom is a 1997 graduate of Johnsburg High School. He is a sales manager at BHFX in Arlington Heights.

They reside in McHenry.

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John Pizarek Amanda Peck in molecular biology. He attends dental school at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

They have plans for an Oct. 19 wedding.

8MAKING YOUR ANNOUNCEMENT Births, engagements, weddings and anniversaries are printed for free in the Planit Style section every Sunday in the Northwest Herald.

Engagement announcements must be received no later than three weeks before the wedding date. Wedding announcements are accepted up to six months after the wedding date.

We will accept one photo for weddings and engagements. We will accept two photos – wedding and current – for anniversaries. Photos not accompanied with a self-addressed, stamped envelope will not be returned.

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Why is the engagement ring worn on the third finger of the left hand? And why is diamond the preferred stone to be given?

Ancient Egyptians believed that the vein of love ran directly from the heart to the top of the third finger of the left hand. So a simple assumption created the tradition that still is practiced to this day.

Diamonds are the hardest natural substance on our planet (and on some meteors). They are 4 times harder than the next hardest gemstone which is ruby and sapphire. The only way to cut diamonds is by using other diamonds and diamond dust.

It is very difficult to scratch or break a diamond, however nothing is indestructible. If you place a diamond in an oven at around 1405 degrees, it will simply vanish without even an ash remaining. Only a small amount of carbon dioxide will be released.

If you put a diamond on your tongue it will cool your tongue. Diamonds are great conductors of heat. The diamond will actually pull the heat from your tongue which will cause it to feel cooler.

The largest diamond ever found was 3106 carats and was named the Cullinan after the gentleman who openend the mine in which it was discovered.

The name diamond comes from the Greek word “adamas” which means “unconquerable.”

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Boyce Hayes NEW YORK, N.Y. – Announcement has been made of the engagement of Gwendolyn Boyce and Mark Hayes, both of New York.

She is the daughter of Sandford Boyce of Chicago and Mary Philomena Boyce of Louisville, Ky. He is the son of Lee and Debbie Hayes of Crystal Lake.

The bride-to-be is a 1998 graduate of Woodlands Academy in Lake Forest, a 2002 graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science in advertising and a 2007 graduate of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville with a Master of Business Administration degree. She is the brand director of Dos Equis beer at Heineken in New York City.

Her fiancé is a 1995 graduate of Crystal Lake Central High School, a 2000 graduate of the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Sci-

CRYSTAL LAKE Asher James Klutts, 7 pounds, 10 ounces, 19.25 inches, was born June 27, 2013, at Good Shepherd Hospital, Barrington, to Thomas and Rebecca Klutts of Crystal Lake. He joins a sister, Carrington, 2. Maternal grandparents are Wayne and Carol Schutz of Crystal Lake. Paternal great-grandparents are Odean and Lina Klutts of Marengo.

Nichole “Nickie” Stokes, 10 pounds, 11 ounces, 22 inches, was born July 18, 2013, at Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago to Karina Yextor and Rick Stokes of Crystal Lake. She joins a sister, Sabrina Stokes, 4.

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Mark Hayes Gwendolyn Boyce ence in computer engineering and a 2008 graduate of the University of Colorado in Boulder with a Masters of Business Administration. He is a senior product manager at AppNexus in New York City.

They plan to be married Sept. 7 in Louisville, Ky.

Damian Wayne Johnson, 6 pounds, 3 ounces, 19 inches, was born July 23, 2013, at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, Barrington, to Jessica (Thoma) and Bradley Johnson of McHenry. Maternal grandparents are Tracy and Kenneth Thoma of McHenry. Paternal grandparents are Linda and Ron LaRouche of Bull Valley. Maternal great-grandmother is Bonnie Buttermore of McHenry.

WONDER LAKE Elliot James Fitzgerald, 7 pounds, 3 ounces, 20 inches, was born June 5, 2013, at Centegra Hospital – McHenry to Maureen Fitzgerald of Wonder Lake. Paternal grandparents are Jim and Jane Fitzgerald of Wonder Lake.

Jax Vincent Weston, 6 pounds, 15 ounces, 19 inches, was born July 21, 2013, at Centegra Hospital – McHenry to Angela and Jay Weston of Wonder Lake.

Maternal grandparents are Vince and Eileen Marzano of McHenry. Paternal grandparents are Joe and Pam Weston of Lake Geneva, Wis.

Asking for cash still a breach of etiquette Instead of a traditional registry, I’d like to set up a down-payment fund to help us purchase a house. What’s the best way to approach this?

Asking for cold, hard cash is still a definite no-no, editorial director Darcy Miller said. But there are websites now, such as hatchmyhouse.com, that make it easy to create a registry that directs gift-giving toward a bigger

goal. Just remember there will still be guests who want to give you a physical present, so have at least one traditional registry available. And if you simply can’t squeeze another salad bowl into your cupboard, think of what else you could use for a new home. A gift card to Home Depot, for example, will help offset costs that you would otherwise incur buying light fixtures, plants,

car tools or gardening gear. What you save there will ultimately allow you to allocate more of your funds toward buying your home.

My uncle has made it clear he’d like to speak at the ceremony, but the readings have been assigned out, and we already have an officiant. How do I say no?

Chances are you’ve allotted a

certain amount of time for the I do’s.

Explain this to your uncle and tell him you’d prefer he showcase his razor-sharp wit and sense of humor with a toast at the rehearsal dinner.

Customarily, that’s where family and friends share more informal memories and well-wishes for the couple.

– New York Times Syndicate

MINI-REVIEWS & LOCAL SHOWTIMES OF CURRENT MOVIES ON SCREEN NOW

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“The Smurfs 2” HH 1/2

“THE CONJURING”

“R.I.P.D”

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Sunday, August 4

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 10:00 a.m., 4:50, 7:30, 10:20 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 11:20 a.m., 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 p.m.

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 9:50 a.m., 3:15, 8:50 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 7:25, 9:40 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 2:50, 5:30, 10:55 p.m.

STARRING: Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris PLOT: The Smurfs team up with their human friends to rescue Smurfette, who has been kidnapped by Gargamel since she knows a secret spell that can turn the evil sorcerer’s newest creation – creatures called the Naughties – into real Smurfs.

RATED: PG for some rude humor and action TIME: 1 hour, 45 minutes VERDICT: A sequel largely unwarranted other than for box office and promotional purposes, the unimaginatively titled “The Smurfs 2” should have little trouble scaling stratospheric heights similar to its predecessor with undiscriminating young audiences and their chaperones, weary from near-unrelenting summertime caregiving. The Smurfs director Raja Gosnell (“Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” ‘’Scooby Doo”) has built his career with cute-critter pics and other family fare, and his middlebrow track record remains unblemished with the Smurfs’ big-screen return.

With a primarily impressionable young target audience, the returning screenwriting team of J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Jay Scherick and David Ronn, along with Karey Kirkpatrick (“Charlotte’s Web,” “Chicken Run”), has no problem frequently repeating lines, gags and life lessons to near-numbing effect. Beyond a few chuckle-worthy one-liners and some amusing visual comedy, there’s not much to engage adults, although the wee ones should be distracted enough. In his final film role, Jonathan Winters reprises the beneficent Papa Smurf with the requisite twinkle in his voice, but takes a backseat to Katy Perry’s bewildered, wounded and ultimately outraged Smurfette.

Harris and Jayma Mays, as the parents of a young boy appropriately named Blue (Jacob Tremblay), acquit themselves good-naturedly enough, although it’s Brendan Gleeson as Patrick’s well-intentioned but misunderstood stepfather, Victor Doyle, who really shines in an all-out turn that gleefully showcases his considerable comic gifts. Azaria is equally antic as the incompetent wizard beset by the uneven, if unrelenting, team of Smurf rescuers featuring George Lopez, Anton Yelchin and John Oliver.

With the exception of Gargamel’s awkwardly rendered CGI cat cohort Azrael, the mix of animation and liveaction appears fairly seamless in a 3D

THEATERS Classic Cinemas Woodstock 209 Main St., Woodstock, 815-338-8555 www.classiccinemas.com AMC Lake in the Hills 12 Randall Road, Lake in the Hills, 800-fandango www.amctheatres.com/LakeHills McHenry Downtown Theatre 1204 N. Green St., McHenry, 815-578-0500 http://cyouatthemovies.com Regal Cinemas 5600 W. Route 14, Crystal Lake, 800-fandango www.regmovies.com

RATINGS HHHH - Excellent HHH - Recommended HH - Not recommended H - Awful rendition that helps keep the movie from slipping into the overly saccharine variation favored by the fully animated 1980s TV series. – Justin

Lowe, The Hollywood Reporter

“The Wolverine” HHH STARRING: Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima, Famke Janssen PLOT: Summoned to Tokyo to bid farewell to an old, dying friend, Wolverine (Jackman) finds himself in the middle of warring factions of the man’s family, corrupt politicians, Yakuza and ninjas. After saving the man’s granddaughter (Okamoto) Wolverine discovers he is losing the healing ability that keeps him immortal.

RATING: PG-13 for sequences of intense science-fiction action and violence, some sexuality and language TIME: 2 hours, 6 minutes VERDICT: As directed by James Mangold (“3:10 to Yuma”) the second solo Wolverine feature (the first should be forgotten) strives mightily to separate itself from the look and conventions of the modern comic book movie. It succeeds handsomely for most of its running time before succumbing to a standard comic book climax. The Japanese locations and milieu lend a unique look and feel, and Jackman’s morose soul carries the themes of death and rebirth.

A fight atop a speeding bullet train is a standout action sequence. – Jef-

frey Westhoff, Northwest Herald

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“SHARKNADO” Sunday, August 4 Regal Cinemas – 12:05 a.m.

Sunday, August 4

“THE SMURFS 2”

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 2D: 10:15, 11:30 a.m., 12:40, 3:05, 8:00, 10:30 p.m.; 3D: 6:15 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 12:00, 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 12:00, 2:15, 4:30, 6:45 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 2D: 10:30 a.m., 1:00, 3:40, 6:50, 9:30, 11:55 p.m.; 3D: 11:30 a.m.

Sunday, August 4

“GROWN UPS 2” Sunday, August 4 AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 12:40, 3:05, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 12:30, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35 p.m.

McHenry Outdoor Theater – 11:10 p.m. (preceded by “The Smurfs 2”) Regal Cinemas – 11:25 a.m., 2:05, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 p.m.

“THE HEAT” Sunday, August 4 AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 10:05 a.m, 12:45, 3:45, 6:30, 9:30 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 9:15 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 10:50 a.m., 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 p.m.

“THE LONE RANGER” Sunday, August 4 Regal Cinemas – 11:40 a.m., 3:00, 6:20, 9:35 p.m.

“MONSTERS UNIVERSITY” Sunday, August 4 Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 12:25, 2:45, 5:05 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 10:00 a.m., 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:10, 11:45 p.m.

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 2D: 9:45, 10:45 a.m., 12:15, 1:30, 2:15, 2:45, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:15, 11:45 p.m.; 3D: 10:15 a.m., 12:45, 3:30, 10:15 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 2D: 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 p.m.; 3D: 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 2D: 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 p.m.; 3D: 12:00 p.m.

McHenry Downtown Theatre – 12:30, 3:15, 6:30 p.m.

McHenry Outdoor Theater – 9:10 p.m. (followed by “Grown Ups 2”) Regal Cinemas – 2D: 10:20 a.m., 12:50, 3:20, 6:00, 8:30 p.m.; 3D: 11:00 a.m., 1:30, 4:00, 7:20 p.m.

“TURBO” Sunday, August 4 AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 2D: 9:45 a.m., 5:30, 8:20 p.m.; 3D: 12:05 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 12:00, 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05 p.m.

McHenry Downtown Theatre – 1:00, 3:30, 6:00 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 12:00, 2:30, 4:55, 7:15, 9:45 p.m.

“2 GUNS” Sunday, August 4 AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 11:00 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 8:45, 10:00, 11:30 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 10:40 a.m., 1:20, 2:20, 4:20, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40, 10:40, 11:20 p.m.

“THE WOLVERINE” Sunday, August 4

“PACIFIC RIM” Sunday, August 4 AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 12:10, 5:45 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 11:50 a.m., 7:55 p.m.

“RED 2” Sunday, August 4 AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 10:50 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 1:00, 3:35, 6:10, 8:45 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 1:00, 3:35, 6:10, 8:45 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 10:55 a.m., 1:50, 5:00, 7:50, 10:35 p.m.

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 2D: 10:00 a.m., 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:55, 11:20 p.m.; 3D: 2:30, 5:25 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 2D: 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 p.m.; 3D: 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 2D: 1:30, 7:00 p.m.; 3D: 4:15, 9:45 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 2D: 10:10 a.m., 1:10, 2:10, 4:10, 5:10, 7:10, 11:10 p.m.; 3D: 11:10 a.m., 8:10 p.m.

“WORLD WAR Z” Sunday, August 4 Regal Cinemas – 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:00 p.m.

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