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The city of DeKalb Municipal Annex Suite A is seen Monday. The DeKalb Crime Free Housing Program is searching for a new clerk after it learned that its former clerk, Ana Alva, tried to use her job at the agency to get a rent reduction during her home search.

By CHRIS BURROWS cburrows@shawmedia.com DeKALB – The fledgling DeKalb Crime Free Housing Program is searching for a new clerk after its last clerk asked a prospective landlord for a rent reduction while mentioning she worked for the bureau.

DeKalb city leaders declined to comment on their investigation into the Aug. 7 email former clerk Ana Alva sent from her city email address, but said she no longer worked for the city. Alva emailed owners of a three-bedroom home, asking them to ditch their property management company and to lease the property to her, her husband and two small children for $200 less than the listed rent.

“We are working on buying our own home in the future so we would be interested in a 2 year lease if possible,” Alva wrote in the email. “ ... Obviously with me working for the Crime Free Housing Department you will not have to worry about us causing any problems.”

Alva was the second employee hired for the program, which was created last year by city officials who spent two years discussing ways to reduce crime and improve property maintenance. Under the

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A problem was found and dealt with, so there should be goodwill, not bad will [with landlords]. ... I think I work hard, and most landlords would agree that I work hard at building bridges and forming relationships, and I expect that we’ll move forward in the same manner.”

new local laws, the city can prohibit a landlord from renting a certain property if that property is the site of three or more unlawful activities within a one-year period.

Carl Leoni, the crime free housing and inspections coordinator, regularly reviews police call logs and informs landlords of crimes that allegedly happened on their property. The bureau eventually will include three part time inspectors and will be funded through registration fees paid by local landlords.

Alva was hired in late spring, which means her six-month probationary period as a new employee was still underway in August, interim City Manager Rudy Espiritu said.

“She did not pass probation, so we are

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DeKALB – Corn Fest organizers will start closing parking lots in downtown DeKalb on Aug. 27 to prepare for the festival over Labor Day weekend.

The city-owned parking lots of Glidden, Ellwood and Haish, which sit between Oak and Locust streets off Second and Third streets, will host the carnival. Those lots will close at 4 p.m. Aug. 27 and remain closed until Sept. 2, according to a news release.

The parking lot at Fourth and Grove streets, which has 154 parking spots, will remain open throughout the festival.

This lot previously hosted the carnival before Corn Fest was moved to DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport in 2008 in light of construction downtown.

Corn Fest organizers announced Feb. 1 that they were moving the festival back downtown, where it had been held for about 30 years. The festival had been held the weekend before Labor Day to align with students returning to Northern Illinois University, but organizers pushed it back a week this year to Aug. 30 to Sept. 1 to align with Labor Day weekend.

“The downtown merchants are very excited to see the festival back where it began in downtown DeKalb,” festival chairwoman Lisa Angel said in an email. “They have been very accommodating to help us execute what needs to be done to have the festival including road closures, parking spaces, etc.”

Angel works for Shaw Media, which publishes the Daily Chronicle.

More roads will be closed at 3 p.m. Aug. 29: • Lincoln Highway between First and Fourth streets.

• Second Street between the railroad tracks and Oak Street.

• Third Street between the railroad tracks and Oak Street, except for traffic associated with First State Bank.

How are you planning to get to Corn Fest? Vote online at Daily-Chronicle. com.

About Corn Fest The 36th annual Corn Fest will be Aug. 30 to Sept. 1 in Downtown DeKalb, on Lincoln Highway between First and Fourth streets.

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Court may release ex-Egypt leader soon

By HAMZA HENDAWI The Associated Press CAIRO – A court ruling Monday raised the possibility of jailed ex-president Hosni Mubarak walking free soon, a move that would fuel the unrest roiling the country after the autocratic leader’s successor was removed in a military coup.

Underscoring the growing anger over Mohammed Morsi’s ouster, suspected Islamic militants ambushed two minibuses carrying off-duty policemen in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, forcing the men to lie on the

sand and shooting 25 of them dead.

“They were marked in advance by the attackers,” said Ashraf Abdullah, who heads the police branch the victims belonged to. He said the assailants checked the IDs of the men, who were not in uniform, to ensure they were policemen before opening fire.

The brazen daylight attack raised fears that the strategic desert region bordering Israel and the Gaza Strip could be plunged into a full-fledged insurgency.

The 25 slain police officers were given a funeral with full

military honors presided over

by Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim, who is in charge of the police, and the army’s chief of staff, Gen. Sedki Sobhi.

In a show of solidarity, the men’s coffins, draped in red, white and black Egyptian flags, were jointly carried by army soldiers and policemen, and interim President Adly Mansour declared a nationwide state of mourning to mark their deaths.

Despite the violence, Cairo, a bustling metropolis of some 18 million people, began to regain a sense of normalcy although the capital remained

under a state of emergency and a dusk-to-dawn curfew.

Daytime traffic was back to its normal congested levels and stores were open. Government employees returned to work and the Central Bank ordered banks, which were operating on a reduced 9 a.m.noon schedule, to remain open for an additional hour on Tuesday. A handful of protests erupted in various parts of the city, but they were small and led to no violence.

Mubarak, 85, has been in detention since April 2011, two

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An Egyptian armored vehicle and army soldiers stand guard Sunday outside the main Christian Orthodox Cathedral in the southern city of Assiut, Egypt. In the five days since security forces cleared two sitin camps by supporters of Egypt’s ousted president, Islamists have attacked dozens of Coptic churches along with homes and businesses owned by the Christian minority.

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8 DAILY PLANNER Today Weekly Men’s Breakfast: 8 a.m. at Fox Valley Community Center, 1406 Suydam Road, Sandwich.

Cost is $4 for food, conversation and bottomless cups of coffee or tea.

Easy Does It AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Weight Watchers: 9:30 a.m. weigh-in, 10 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 5:30 p.m. meetings at Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road (near Aldi), DeKalb.

Women with Cancer Network: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. third Tuesday each month at The Cancer Center at Kishwaukee Community Hospital. Women with Cancer Network is an opportunity for women with similar experiences to give and receive support, and share information. The group is free and no registration required. Visit www. kishhospital.org/programs or call 815-748-2958.

Cortland HEA: Afternoon unit of the Homemakers Education Association. For meeting time and location, call Carol at 815-8959668.

Open Closet: 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. at 300 E. Taylor St., DeKalb.

Clothes and shoes for men, women and children. 815-758-1388.

Alzheimer’s/Dementia Support Group for Caregivers: 1 p.m. at DeKalb Adult Day Center, 126 S. Fourth St. Call Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Rockford at 815-484-1300.

Clinton HEA: Evening unit of the Homemakers Education Association. For meeting time and location, call Pam at 815-264-3521.

Safe Passage Sexual Assault adults’ support group: 815-7565228; www.safepassagedv.org.

ESL and GED Classes: 6 to 8 p.m. at Esperanza en Unidad (Hope in Unity), 2225 Gateway Drive, Suite A. To register and for information, call George Gutierrez at 815-970-3265.

Hinckley Big Book Study AA: 6 p.m. at United Methodist Church, 801 N. Sycamore St. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Sycamore Kiwanis: 6 p.m. at Mitchel Lounge, 355 W. State St. 815-899-8740 or visit sycamorekiwanis.org.

Women’s “Rule No. 62 Group:” 6 p.m. at Federated Church, 612 W. State St., Sycamore. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Take Off Pounds Sensibly: 6 to 6:30 p.m. weigh-in, 6:30 p.m. meeting at CrossWind Community Church in Genoa. 815-784-3612.

Better Off Sober AA: 6:30 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Free Fit Club: 6:30 to 8 p.m. at International Montessori Academy, 1815 Mediterranean Drive, Sycamore. Call 815-901-4474 or 815-566-3580 for information.

Alcoholics Anonymous Tuesday Night Fellowship Group: 7 p.m. at The Church of St. Mary, 244 Waterman St., Sycamore.

815-739-1950.

Bingo: 7 p.m. at Genoa Veterans Club, 311 S. Washington St. Must be 18 or older to play. www. genoavetshome.us; contact Cindy at crmcorn65@yahoo.com or 815751-1509.

Fellowship group AA: 7 p.m. at St. Mary’s Memorial Hall, 322 Waterman St., Sycamore. 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com.

Good Vibes Al-Anon group: 7 to 8 p.m. at First Lutheran Church, 324 N. Third St., DeKalb. Wheelchair accessible entrance is on North Third Street. Parking available in lot on northwest corner of Third and Pine streets. Call Mary Ann at 815-895-8119.

Sexaholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. at 512 Normal Road, DeKalb (behind church in brick building).

815-508-0280.

Prairie Echoes women’s chorus: 7:15 to 10 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 900 Normal Road, DeKalb. 877-300-SING (7464); cathyinelburn@yahoo. com. www.PrairieEchoes.com.

American Legion Post 654 of Waterman/Shabbona/Lee: 7:30 p.m. at Clinton Community Center, 160 W. Lincoln Highway in Waterman. Call Loren Monsess at 815-264-3366.

Smoky Mirror AA: 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church. 33930 N. State Road, Genoa. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Narcotics Anonymous: 8 p.m. at 1201 Twombly Road in DeKalb; www.rragsna.org; 815-964-5959.

Program of Recovery AA: 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

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8 WHAT’S HAPPENING AT DAILY-CHRONICLE.COM? Yesterday’s most-commented stories:

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1. Security forces storm protester-held Egypt mosque 2. Insurance rejections of some treatments create tough times 3. O’Reilly: A chilly place for the president’s plans

1. 2013 Prep Football Preview 2. Police: Driver accused of DUI found passed out in car 3. Fire damages stairwell in DeKalb home

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8 TODAY’S TALKER

Judge bars evidence in Fort Hood shooting trial The ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT HOOD, Texas – A military judge blocked several key pieces of evidence Monday that prosecutors said would explain the mindset of the soldier accused in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, including his belief that he had a “jihad duty” to carry out the attack.

Prosecutors had asked the judge to approve several witnesses and various evidence to support what they allege motivated Maj. Nidal Hasan to kill 13 people and wound more than 30 others at the Texas military base. But the judge, Col. Tara Osborn, blocked nearly all of it.

Osborn barred any reference to Hasan Akbar, a Muslim soldier sentenced to death for attacking fellow soldiers in Kuwait during the 2003 Iraq invasion. Prosecutors wanted to prove that Hasan, an American-born Muslim, wanted to carry out a “copycat” attack, but the judge said introducing such material would “only open the door to a mini-trial” of Akbar.

She also said such evidence would result in a “confusion of issues, unfair prejudice, waste of time and undo delay.”

The judge said prosecutors also couldn’t introduce three emails, ruling that the needed redactions would make them irrelevant. The contents of the emails were never disclosed, but the FBI has said Hasan sent numerous emails starting in December 2008 to Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical U.S.-born Islamic cleric killed by a drone strike in Yemen in 2011.

The judge also told prosecutors that they couldn’t cite Hasan’s interest years ago in conscientious objector status and his past academic presentations. Osborn said such evidence was too old and irrelevant.

However, the judge will allow evidence about Internet searches on Hasan’s computer around the time of the attack and websites that Hasan had listed as “favorites.” Osborn said that information was more timely.

Military prosecutors opened the trial by saying they would show that Hasan felt he had a “jihad duty,” referring to a Muslim term for a religious war or struggle. After calling almost 80 witnesses during the last two weeks, prosecutors said Friday that they would begin tackling the question this week.

Monday’s ruling frustrated Reed Rubinstein, an attorney representing vic-

tims and their relatives in a civil lawsuit against the U.S. government. He said only in an “alternative universe” could the emails excluded by Osborn be irrelevant, and he blamed the government for dragging out Hasan’s case and making the evidence now too old to be considered.

“The reason for that is the procedural pretzels the government has tied itself in to protect Hasan,” Rubinstein said, noting how the trial was originally delayed because of a fight over whether Hasan could keep his beard, which violates military policy.

Rubinstein said that even if Hasan were found guilty, a conviction that comes without prosecutors introducing Hasan’s alleged ties to terrorists in the criminal trial would leave a distaste for survivors of the attack.

“From their standpoint they’re saying, ‘How can this be?’” Rubinstein said.

Prosecutors indicated Friday that they had between 15 and 25 witnesses left, though it wasn’t immediately clear how Monday’s ruling would shorten prosecutors’ case. Either way, Hasan was expected to get his chance to defend himself as early as Tuesday or Wednesday.

UK faces furor over detention Partner of NSA leaks reporter Glenn Greenwald detained, released The ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO – An American journalist who has written stories based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said Monday he’ll publish with more fervor after British authorities detained his partner.

London police detained David Miranda, who is in a civil union with reporter Glenn Greenwald, under anti-terror legislation at Heathrow Airport in London airport Sunday. Miranda arrived Monday in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives with Greenwald.

A defiant Greenwald promised he was going “to write much more aggressively than before” about government snooping.

“I’m going to publish many more things about England, as well,” he said in Portuguese at Rio’s international airport when Miranda arrived. “I have many documents about England’s espionage system, and now my focus will be there, too. I think they’ll regret what they’ve done.”

In Washington, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the U.S. government was tipped off by U.K. counterparts that Miranda would be detained, but that the U.S. had not requested the

action. The Brazilian government objected to Miranda’s detention, saying it wasn’t based on any real threat.

Miranda said he wasn’t threatened while detained at Heathrow, but confirmed that personal objects were taken from him.

David “I stayed in a room, Miranda there were six different agents, entering and leaving, who spoke with me,” he said. “They asked questions about my whole life, about everything. They took my computer, video game, Glenn cellphone, memory Greenwald thumb drives, everything.”

In London, a British lawmaker called for police to explain why Miranda had been detained and why it took nearly nine hours to question him.

Miranda was held for nearly the maximum time that British authorities are allowed to detain individuals under the Terrorism Act’s Schedule 7, which authorizes security agencies to stop and question people at borders.

Keith Vaz, chairman of Parliament’s

Home Affairs Select Committee, told the BBC, that “you have a complaint from Mr. Greenwald and the Brazilian government – they indeed have said they are concerned at the use of terrorism legislation for something that does not appear to relate to terrorism. So it needs to be clarified, and clarified quickly.”

Vaz said it was “extraordinary” that police knew that Miranda was Greenwald’s partner and that the authorities were targeting partners of people involved in Snowden’s disclosures.

The case drew the ire of rights groups.

“It’s incredible that Miranda was considered to be a terrorist suspect,” said David Mepham, the U.K. director at Human Rights Watch. “On the contrary, his detention looks intended to intimidate Greenwald and other journalists who report on surveillance abuses.”

Britain’s laws are not unique. U.S. customs officials can search the electronic devices of anyone entering the U.S. without a search warrant. According to a 2011 internal Homeland Security Department report, officers at the border can search the devices and in some cases hold on to them for weeks or months. The DHS has said such searches help law enforcement detect child pornographers or terrorists.

Embattled mayor a no-show at City Hall

By JULIE WATSON The Associated Press SAN DIEGO – City Hall opened as usual Monday but Mayor Bob Filner was nowhere to be found, still out of public view as he tries to survive a recall effort prompted by a cascade of sexual harassment allegations that led the entire City Council and many leading fellow Democrats to call for him to resign.

City Council President Todd Gloria said he didn’t know if Filner would make a public appearance on Monday, the day the mayor promised to return to work after receiving two weeks of therapy to address behavioral issues.

Filner is not obligated to show up but owes the people of San Diego an explanation of his whereabouts, Gloria said.

The city’s daily operations have been running fine without Filner, he said, and should the mayor appear it could make female employees uncomfortable.

“Those of us who have called on the mayor to resign know he is not being effective at this time,” Gloria said. “The

mayor’s presence is a distraction.”

The mayor has not made his schedule public. His spokeswoman Lena Lewis and lawyer James Payne did not respond to calls.

More than a dozen women have gone public with sexual harassment accusations against Filner. Some contend he cornered, groped and forcibly kissed them.

The accusations have Bob Filner prompted an avalanche of calls for Filner to resign and a recall effort that started Sunday. Hooters restaurants in San Diego even posted signs saying he’s not welcome.

Filner’s former communications director, Irene McCormack Jackson, filed a lawsuit claiming that he asked her to work without panties, demanded kisses, told her he wanted to see her naked and dragged her in a headlock while whispering in her ear. The latest accuser came forward Thursday – a 67-yearold great-grandmother and volunteer

city worker who assists senior citizens.

U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer are among a slew of California politicians who have called on the fellow Democrat to step down.

Filner has acknowledged that his behavior was unacceptable but has not termed it sexual harassment.

Filner, a feisty liberal who served 10 terms in Congress before being elected mayor last November has long had a reputation for berating employees and has been dogged by rumors of inappropriate behavior toward women. But nothing in his past approaches what has surfaced in the last six weeks.

“He is a ferocious campaigner, but this will be most difficult campaign of his life,” said Steve Erie, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego. “The allegations are like Chinese water torture, the way they keep coming out. It’s like drip, drip, drip. At this point, I’m waiting for the first woman who has been around Bob to say ‘he didn’t manhandle me.’ ”

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County drug court garners national honor Serves as model for other courts

By FELIX SARVER fsarver@shawmedia.com

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DeKalb County Drug and DUI Court Coordinator Marilyn Stromborg (left) and DeKalb County Presiding Judge Robbin Stuckert look through documents. Both Stromborg and Stuckert are long-standing members of the county drug court, which earned the distinction of “mentor court” in May. Mentor courts serve as models for all drug courts in the nation.

SYCAMORE — The DeKalb County Drug and DUI Court is helping similar programs help nonviolent drug addicts.

In May, the six-year-old program designed to help people whose criminal activity is influenced by their drug use was named a “mentor court” by the National Drug Court Institute. Mentor courts meet national drug court standards and serve as models for other courts across the nation.

DeKalb County drug court

coordinator Marilyn Stromborg said the local team feels lucky to be among the 10 mentor drug courts nationwide.

The team of attorneys, law enforcement and court officials are committed to the success of the court, she said.

“They even donate their time when they’re not working,” Stromborg said. “It’s all paid off by having a really fine drug court.”

Drug courts are drug abuse treatment programs that help nonviolent offenders overcome their addiction. In the program, participants undergo counseling and judicial supervision of their progress.

Sanctions or criminal court prosecutions are usually the result of participants who fail

to abide by the program.

Chip Criswell, a DeKalb County assistant public defender who joined the drug court team in June, credited his predecessors with the program’s success. Mentor courts provide a model for how drug courts should work, he said.

“We know drug courts work,” Criswell said. “... they only work if you do it correctly.”

Stromborg said the recidivism rate – or the percentage of participants later accused of another crime – for DeKalb County drug court graduates is 20 percent as of 2012. The Illinois prison recidivism rate is 51.7 percent.

“It doesn’t work for everyone but it does work,” she said.

Stromborg said the DeKalb County drug court applied to become a mentor court, which required submitting documents to the National Drug Court Institute, whose members see if the drug court’s practice is evidence-based and follows national standards.

The DeKalb County drug court stands out with its use of technology and well-organized documentation, Stromborg said.

“We’re fairly innovative in terms of what we do in the courtroom,” Stromborg said.

The county drug court is already serving as a role model for a drug court in Alabama.

Stromborg said the local drug court team was contacted in June about its handbook.

Student Quinn boosts Ill. interstate Fire department predicts increase scores speed limit to 70 mph in service requests perfect on ACT

By SOPHIA TAREEN The Associated Press

By CHRIS BURROWS cburrows@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Mary Lavoie has joined an elite group of test takers – one that fewer than one-tenth of 1 percent of high school students can say they belong to.

The DeKalb High School senior earned the best score possible – a 36 – when she took this summer the American College Testing Exam, commonly called the ACT. What’s more, she said she wasn’t even nervous.

“I had already taken it during the school year,” Lavoie said. “So I wasn’t too nervous, because I knew what was coming.”

The ACT includes tests in mathematics, English, reading and science, which are graded on a scale of 1 to 36. It offers a guideline that some colleges take into account for admissions, which means that a score of 36 likely opens some doors.

Lavoie, however wouldn’t say where she was looking for college, but noted she might go in the direction of math, science or engineering.

“I don’t have any applications out yet,” she said. “I’m still looking around.”

When she’s not earning top scores on national exams, Lavoie plays violin in the DeKalb High School orchestra and participates as a member of the National Honor Society as well as the math team. She’s also busy with a number of Advanced Placement, or AP, classes that enable high school students to earn college credits through tests, as well as additional classes at Kishwaukee College.

Her mother, Jennifer, said the high score speaks not only to Mary’s talents as a student but also to a team effort from Mary’s schooling as well as her parents.

“She’s very conscientious and self-disciplined. She always loved to learn, and has always embraced new experiences, and she loves to read and loves doing math problems,” Jennifer said. “ ... The environment at home that is conducive to learning is important.”

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CHICAGO – Motorists will be able to drive a little faster on Illinois’ rural interstates under legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Pat Quinn, a move that puts Illinois in line with dozens of states that already have a 70 mph or higher speed limit.

The law, effective in January, is targeted toward roadways in less populated areas and bumps up the speed limit from the current 65 mph.

Eight counties with urban areas, including Chicago’s Cook County, can opt out.

The Illinois State Police and Quinn’s transportation chief opposed the increase, arguing higher speeds would translate into more accidents, but neither pushed their objections Monday. The measure had wide support on both sides of the aisle.

Quinn focused on keeping

Illinois in line with regional and national trends. Several of Illinois’ neighboring states – Indiana, Iowa and Missouri – already have speed limits at 70 mph or more.

“This limited five milesper-hour increase will bring Illinois’ rural interstate speed limits in line with our neighbors and the majority of states across America, while preventing an increase in excessive speeding,” Quinn said in a statement.

The Chicago Democrat had been mum on his plans and didn’t host a bill-signing event as he often does for high-profile issues. His approval even surprised some bill sponsors.

Backers had pushed the measure as a way to improve safety as most drivers already travel over posted speeds.

“What’s the most dangerous is the disparity in speed,” said Democratic state Rep. Jerry Costello II, a sponsor

and former police officer.

He and fellow sponsor Republican state Sen. Jim Oberweis said the increase would create a more even traffic flow.

The Illinois law applies to four-lane divided highways and allows state officials some discretion – for instance if a roadway is old and can’t handle high speeds.

Illinois Department of Transportation Secretary spokeswoman Jae Miller praised a provision that lowers how much speeders can be over the limit – from 31 mph to 26 mph – before they can be charged with a misdemeanor.

“Lowering the speed threshold for reckless driving is good road safety policy,” Miller said in a statement.

“We are also encouraged that the law allows certain counties to opt-out and set a lower speed limit based on local needs.”

Fire damages stairwell in DeKalb home

By DAILY CHRONICLE news@daily-chronicle.com DeKALB – A fire caused about $15,000 in damage Monday morning to a house at 113 E. Roosevelt St. in DeKalb, fire officials said.

Officials believe faulty electrical wiring started the blaze.

They were called to the house at 5:57 a.m. for a report of a fire in the home’s rear stairwell.

By the time crews arrived, all occupants had been evacuated, and crews controlled the flames, which were contained to the stairwell area, within five minutes, according to the news release.

No injuries were reported.

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SYCAMORE – The Sycamore Fire Department reported Monday to the Sycamore City Council that it saw another year of increased emergency service requests.

It’s the third year in a row where requests for emergency service increased. There was a 2.4 percent increase from the previous year, according to the fire department’s annual report. The report was for fiscal 2013, which began May 1, 2012, and ended April 30. According to the report for fiscal 2012, requests for emergency service increased 3 percent from the year before.

Sycamore Fire Chief Pete Polarek said he wasn’t sure why there were increases in requests for emergency services last year.

“You can’t put your finger on it,” he said. “It could be people without health insurance, it could be people more reliant on city services.”

Polarek predicts an aging population will continue the increased demand for emergency services. The baby boomer generation – those born between 1946 and 1964 – make up about 29 percent of the population, he said.

By 2030, almost one in five Americans will be older than 65, he said.

“We anticipate as this group ages, they’re going to require some varied and essential services,” he said.

Those services would include the fire department’s

own emergency medical services.

The department saw a 2.7 percent increase in emergency medical service requests, with a slight increase in fire and slight decrease in nonfire incidents, according to the report.

Polarek said he also sees a lot of people without health care relying on government services for support they can’t get anywhere else.

“We see a lot more people rely on government services,” he Pete Polarek said, “not just emergency Sycamore medical serfire chief vices but services in general.”

S y c a more Mayor Ken Mundy praised the report for Ken Mundy keeping track Sycamore of current and mayor future trends with department services.

“It recognizes where we’ve been, where we are and where we’re headed,” Mundy said.

The department’s budget for fiscal 2013 was about $2.6 million, the same as the budget reported for fiscal year 2012. Personnel still accounted for 91 percent of the budget while commodities, contractual services, other services and equipment accounted for 9 percent of the budget, according to the report.

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Sen. Kirk seeking solutions to gang violence

By MICHAEL TARM The Associated Press CHICAGO – U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk said Monday he continues to push for congressional money and other potential solutions to combat street gang violence, and he even went on a ride-along with police through gangplagued parts of Chicago.

The Illinois Republican was stung by criticism earlier this year when he called for the arrest of up to 18,000 Gangster Disciple members, which critics said was a blunt, ill-conceived prescription for such a multifaceted problem.

Kirk, who met with law enforcement heads Monday

about gang violence, was asked at a news conference afterward if he had backed away from the idea of largescale arrests.

“No, I have not backed away,” he responded, adding that he raised the notion of mass arrests to “shock” and draw attention to the issue.

However, he acknowledged it might not be practical to make that many arrests at once.

The state’s junior senator also said he is supporting legislation in Washington, D.C., to boost funding devoted to fighting gang-related crime, including by allowing the Department of Justice to hire more prosecutors. Kirk also wants the Bureau of Alcohol,

Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to appoint an anti-gang coordinator for Illinois, which Kirk says has the highest number of gang members per capita in the nation.

At Monday’s news conference, Kirk disclosed he recently went on a ride-along with police through Chicago’s South Side as part of his pledge to more fully understand of the link between gangs and violence.

He used the vernacular of the street to describe how police were called to the scene of a shooting where Kirk said, “One guy got popped.”

The victim was a reputed gang member and survived a gunshot wound to his lower body, explained Chicago Po-

lice Chief Garry McCarthy, who accompanied Kirk on the ride-along through the city’s South Side.

“It was one of those situations that we run into frequently,” McCarthy said at the same news conference. “[The victim] was uncooperative. He didn’t tell us what happened.” There were no arrests in the case, he said.

Kirk’s office declined to provide details about his ridealong, saying only that it happened sometime during the July 4 recess, that Kirk didn’t witness the shooting or see the victim when police went to the scene. Multiple messages seeking comment from police spokesman Adam Collins were not returned Monday.

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8LOCAL BRIEFS Police: Driver in DUI case found passed out in car DeKALB – A 39-year-old DeKalb man is accused of driving drunk this weekend after his license was suspended in connection to a 2009 DUI arrest.

A resident found Sergio Noriega, of the 400 block of Fairlane Avenue, passed out about 6 a.m. Sunday in a yard in the 400 block of Best Avenue in DeKalb, court records show.

Noriega got in his vehicle and drove a few houses down on Fairlane Avenue, where a police officer found him passed out with his head hanging out of the car’s driver’s side window, court records show.

Noriega told police he had drank “a lot” of beer the night before, records show. He was

charged with aggravated driving under the influence, driving under the influence and aggravated driving with a suspended license.

The most serious charge is a felony typically punishable with probation or up to three Sergio years in prison.

Noriega Noriega posted 10 percent of his $15,000 bond Monday.

Police: Man broke into estranged wife’s home DeKALB – A 50-year-old DeKalb man accused of hitting a man he found with his estranged wife was released from jail Monday on electronic home

Unemployment rates rise in most U.S. states in July

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Unemployment rates rose in more than half of U.S. states in July and fewer states added jobs, echoing national data that show the job market may have lost some momentum.

The Labor Department said Monday that unemployment rates increased in 28 states. They were unchanged in 14 and fell in eight states – the fewest to show a decline since January.

Hiring increased in 32 states in July compared with June, the fewest to report job gains in three months. Seventeen states reported job losses. California, Georgia and Florida reported the largest job gains, while New Jersey and Nevada lost the most.

Nationwide, hiring has been steady this year but slowed in July. Employers added 162,000 jobs, the fewest since March. The unemployment rate fell to 7.4 percent, a 4½-year low, from 7.6 percent.

And while the job market has improved over the past 12 months, the gains appear to be benefiting southern and western states most of all.

Unemployment in the West fell to 7.9 percent in July. That’s down from 9.3 percent a year earlier and

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the biggest decline of the four regions. In the South, unemployment fell to 7.3 percent, from 7.8 percent a year ago.

Unemployment has barely dipped in the Midwest, to 7.3 percent from 7.5 percent in the past year. In the Northeast, it dropped to 7.6 percent from 8.4 percent.

Steve Cochrane, an economist at Moody’s Analytics, says southern and western states have seen steady growth in manufacturing jobs. And the South is also benefiting from lower taxes and cheaper labor.

“Some of the old, long-standing comparative advantages are re-emerging as drivers of growth,” he added.

California has propelled much of the gains in the West, adding 38,100 jobs in July to lead all states. And California has added 236,000 jobs in the past year, second only to Texas’s 293,000 jobs.

Unemployment in California has fallen to 8.7 percent in July from 10.6 percent 12 months ago – the biggest year-over-year drop of any state.

Another bright spot is Utah, which has gained the largest percentage of jobs in the past 12 months. Utah’s gains were in information technology, manufacturing and construction.

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Dennis Hamel, of the 1300 block of North 13th Street, was charged with home invasion, battery and criminal damage to property. The most serious charge, home invasion, typically is punishable Dennis with between Hamel six and 30 years in prison; probation is not an option.

Hamel went into his estranged wife’s DeKalb home about 11:43 p.m. Saturday and banged on her bedroom door, court records show. A fight ensued with the man who had been startled awake, and the man was struck in the ear and cheek, court

records show.

After the fight, Hamel got in a white van and rammed his estranged wife’s garage door twice, causing less than $300 in damage, court records show.

Hamel posted 10 percent of his $40,000 bond Monday. He is next due in court Sept. 12.

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Forest Preserve group meeting canceled SYCAMORE – The DeKalb County Board Forest Preserve Committee meeting scheduled for today has been canceled.

The committee will not meet at 6 p.m. in the county administration building’s conference room east at 110 E. Sycamore St., Sycamore.

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8POLICE REPORTS Note to readers: Information in Police Reports is obtained from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office and city police departments. Individuals listed in Police Reports who have been charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court.

Sunday, Aug. 18, for a warrant on violation of probation.

Sandwich Laurie A. Phillips, 50, of the 100 block of South Garfield Street, Hinckley, was arrested Sunday, Aug. 18, for a warrant on contempt of court.

DeKalb County Jaime C. Romero, 40, of the 400 block of West DeKalb Drive, Maple Park, was charged Sunday, Aug. 18, with domestic battery.

Chad M. Dann, 38, of the 800 block of Grandview Avenue, Roseville, Minn., was arrested

Waterman Jerome D. Newson, 28, of the 200 block of East Lincoln Highway, Waterman, was charged Saturday, Aug. 17, with unlawful violation of an order of protection, domestic battery and aggravated domestic battery.

State: Ill. power plant’s waste in groundwater The ASSOCIATED PRESS DANVILLE – Illinois environmental officials believe waste from a closed power plant in eastern Illinois is leaching into groundwater and could wind up in the Middle Fork River.

Contaminants in one or two of the three coal-ash ponds at Dynegy Inc.’s Vermilion Power Station are seeping into groundwater, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency spokesman Andrew Mason said. Coal ash is what’s left behind when coal is burned for power, and can contain a range of toxic substances. Mason told The News-Gazette in Champaign the groundwater under the site makes it into the river,

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something the company has acknowledged in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The 50-year-old power plant, which closed in 2011, is along the river near Kickapoo State Park. Dynegy is now studying the site as it draws up a proposal to stop the spread of contaminants.

It isn’t clear whether those contaminants are getting into the river yet, Dynegy’s chief administrative officer Carolyn Burke said.

The Middle Fork River was declared a National Scenic River in 1989, which prevents development along its banks for 17 miles near Danville, according to the state Department of Natural Resources.

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WILLARD E. DOBBECK Born: Nov. 17, 1912, in Lorain, Ohio Died: Aug. 17, 2013, in DeKalb, Ill. DeKALB – Willard Emmet Dobbeck, 100, of DeKalb, Ill., died Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013, at Kishwaukee Community Hospital, DeKalb.

Born Nov. 17, 1912, in Lorain, Ohio, the oldest child of John and Louise (Pratsch) Dobbeck, Willard married Mildred Gordon of Dover, Ohio, on Aug. 14, 1937.

He had a long career in the telephone industry, first working for the Lorain Telephone Company. In 1946, he accepted a position with Leich Electric in Genoa, and moved his young family from Ohio to Illinois. Leich Electric was acquired

by GTE Automatic Electric, and he served as factory superintendent there for many years, retiring in 1977.

Willard enjoyed travel, golf and bowling, and was active in community service. He joined the Genoa Lions Club one year after it was founded and continued to attend meetings regularly.

He is survived by his daughter, Carol (Richard) Beilke; granddaughters, Kathleen (Prakash) Thatte and Kristine (Ross) Oakland; grandsons, Scott Dobbeck and Mark (Alicia) Dobbeck; and great-grandchildren, Dr. Todd (Dr. Marissa Cardwell) Oakland, Sara (Brian) Oakland Bates, Erin Dobbeck, Morgan Dobbeck and Brady Dobbeck.

He was preceded in death by his wife; sister, Lois Dobbeck Oldham; son, David Dobbeck; and grandson, Steven Dobbeck.

Private graveside services will be held at a later date at Ridge Hill Memorial Park in Amherst, Ohio.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Willard Emmet Dobbeck Memorial Fund for DeKalb County Animal Shelter or Genoa Lions Club, sent in care of Anderson Funeral Home, P.O. Box 605, 2011 S. Fourth St., DeKalb, IL 60115.

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LEONA PAULINE (HUSTON) YOUSLING Born: June 1, 1920, in Olds, Iowa.

Died: Aug. 2, 2013, in Sun City, Ariz.

SUN CITY, Ariz. – Leona Pauline (Huston) Yousling, 93, of Sun City, Ariz., died Aug. 2, 2013, at her home in Sun Valley Lodge.

Born June 1, 1920, in Olds, Iowa, to John and Erma Huston, she met

and married John L. Yousling in Washington, Iowa, where he worked for Sorden Music Company.

They moved to Elkhart, Ind., in 1957, when John joined the Conn Company. In 1964, they moved to Sycamore, when he joined Wurlitzer. They retired to Sun City in 1987.

Leona was an active volunteer throughout her life. She had a reputation among her friends and family for her graciousness, hospitality and kindheartedness. She was an excellent cook and loved to entertain the many guests that filled their home. As a lover of music, Leona loved John’s extraordinary talent at the piano and organ keyboards, loved to sing and was a devoted choir member nearly all of her life. She was an involved leader at First Presbyterian Church, P.E.O. and a Stephen Minister.

She treasured her family and her Iowa roots above all else. Spending time with her four younger brothers, older sister and their families was always a special celebration and was cause for many family gatherings.

She is survived by her two daughters and their husbands: Jill Amidon Strickland (Bud) of Greensboro, N.C., and Sally Kimball (Steve) of Belle Plaine, Kan.; brother-in-law, Richard Yousling of Ottumwa, Iowa; grandsons, Peter Amidon and Richard Kimball; granddaughter, Robin Kimball; three great-grandchildren; two sisters-in-law; and numerous beloved nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 61 years; son, Jim; grandson, Gregory Amidon; and five siblings.

The family would like to thank her longtime doctors, George Cannon and John Donaldson and the staff at Sun Valley Lodge and Hospice of Arizona for their extraordinary support during Leona’s illness and final days.

A service to celebrate her life will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, at First Presbyterian Church of Sun City.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the church, 12225 N. 103rd Ave., Sun City, AZ 85351; PEO Chapter BT c/o Treasurer, 13619 N. 108th Dr., Sun City, AZ 85351; or The Stephen Ministry.

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Some analysts skeptical Obama to regulators: Enact Wall Street rules Mubarak will be freed

By JIM KUHNHENN The Associated Press

• EGYPT Continued from page A1 months after he was ousted in a revolution against his rule.

He was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison last year for failing to stop the killing of some 900 protesters in the 18-day uprising. His sentence was overturned on appeal and he is now being retried, along with his security chief and six top police commanders.

Two judicial officials said Mubarak could walk free this week or next after a criminal court Monday ordered his release in a corruption case in which he and his two sons were accused of embezzling funds for the maintenance of presidential palaces. His sons were ordered kept in custody.

Monday’s ruling, along with the fact that Mubarak had previously been ordered released in the killings of the

protesters opened the possibility of freedom for the former president, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. There will no longer be any grounds to hold him if a court accepts a petition by his lawyer requesting his release in a third case later this week or next.

Many analysts, however, expressed skepticism, saying the political cost of freeing the former leader, who was widely hated for widespread abuses and repression during his 29 years in power, could keep him in jail.

Leading rights campaigner Nasser Amin and rights lawyer Hoda Nasrallah said they did not expect Mubarak to be released, citing the country’s delicate political and security situation as well as past incidents when authorities brought up new allegations to prevent his release.

WASHINGTON – Three years after President Barack Obama signed a sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules, execution of the law is behind schedule with scores of regulations yet to be written, let alone enforced. Meeting privately with the nation’s top financial regulators on Monday, Obama prodded them to act more swiftly.

The president’s push comes as the five-year anniversary of the nation’s financial near-meltdown approaches. The law, when passed in 2010, was considered a milestone in Obama’s presidency, a robust response to the crisis that led to a massive government bailout to stabilize the financial markets.

But the slow pace of implementation has prompted administration concern that banks could still pose potentially calamitous risks to the economy and to taxpayers. Obama hoped to convey “the sense of urgency that he

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A Wall Street sign is seen May 11, 2007, at an entrance to the New York Stock Exchange. Three years after President Barack Obama signed a sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules, implementation of the law is behind schedule with scores of regulations yet to be written, let alone enforced. Obama was meeting with top banking regulators Monday for a status report with the five-year anniversary of the financial meltdown approaching this fall. feels,” spokesman Josh Earnest said before the president convened the meeting with the eight independent regulators in the White House Roosevelt Room.

Lehman Brothers collapsed into bankruptcy on Sept. 15, 2008, and the administration has wanted to use that dubious milestone to look back on the lessons of the crisis and progress so far to prevent a recurrence. In a

statement at the conclusion of the meeting, the White House said Obama commended the regulators for their work “but stressed the need to expeditiously finish implementing the critical remaining portions of Wall Street reform to ensure we are able to prevent the type of financial harm that led to the Great Recession from ever happening again.”

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way about the law, known as Dodd-Frank after its Democratic sponsors, Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Christopher Dodd.

Republican House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, an early opponent of DoddFrank, dismissed Obama’s meeting with the regulators, saying, “Much like Obamacare, Dodd-Frank is an incomprehensively complex piece of legislation that is harmful to our floundering economy and in dire need of repeal.”

The law set up a council of regulators to be on the lookout for risks across the finance system. It also created an independent consumer financial protection bureau within the Federal Reserve to write and enforce new regulations covering lending and credit. And it placed shadow financial markets that previously escaped the oversight of regulators under new scrutiny, giving the government new powers to break up companies that regulators believe threaten the economy.

Lincoln Highway to reopen Sept. 1 • CORN FEST Continued from page A1 Bank traffic will exit on Third Street and then take Locust Street to Fourth Street.

• The city’s Embrey parking lot, which sits behind the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce, 164 E. Lincoln Highway. A limited number of parking spaces will remain open for customers at Ches-

apeake Bagel Bakery, 112 S. First St. Lincoln Highway will reopen at 9 p.m. Sept. 1.

The city lots at Fourth and Grove streets and Second and Grove streets will remain open. Street parking will be available on Locust Street east of Fourth Street. Re:New DeKalb and Corn Fest Committee leaders thanked downtown businesses, residents and patrons for their patience.

DeKalb police chief: Program will continue • HOUSING Continued from page A1 now in the process of rehiring for her position,” Espiritu said.

Leoni said the email won’t affect his department’s ability to uphold its duty to landlords.

“A problem was found and dealt with, so there should be goodwill, not bad will [with landlords],” Leoni said. “ ... I think I work hard, and most landlords would agree that I work hard at building bridges and forming relationships, and I expect that we’ll move forward in the same manner.”

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KishHealth System unifies, relaunches brand

By CHRIS BURROWS cburrows@shawmedia.com DeKALB – The hospitals in DeKalb and Sandwich will have a shorter, simpler names starting Sept. 4.

Kishwaukee Community Hospital is set to become Kishwaukee Hospital, and Valley West Community Hospital will be known as Valley West Hospital.

The changes are part of a complete brand relaunch from KishHealth System that hopes to

provide a more unified branding to its buildings, departments and programs throughout the county by simplifying names and logos and bringing the company’s 16 websites under one roof.

“We did a significant amount of consumer research over the last year, and determined that a number

of consumers are not aware of the entities that make up the system,” KishHealth System Director of Marketing and Public Relations Theresa Komitas said. “We wanted to present a more unified and cohesive brand.”

Prior to the announced changes, many KishHealth System entities, such as the Cancer Center at Kishwaukee Community Hospital, the DeKalb County Hospice and Unlimited Performance Sports Medicine and Rehabilition, didn’t incorporate the KishHealth System name.

But starting Sept 4., the renamed KishHealth System Cancer Center, the KishHealth System Hospice and the KishHealth System Physical Therapy Center, all will incorporate the title.

The hospital network also is set to launch a new logo and tagline, “Be health empowered,” on Sept. 1.

“We really feel that [the new tagline] stands for our role and the consumers’ role in health care,” Komitas said. “We recognize that consumers have a choice when it comes to health care, and we want

Chamber selling tickets for duck race The Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce’s new giant duck sign arrived at Tobinson’s Ace Hardware on Aug. 12, and is moving to chamber member businesses around the community promoting the chamber’s 10th annual Great Genoa Duck Race and Family Fun Event.

The duck race will be held from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Sept. 7 at Carroll Memorial Park in Genoa. Ducks will be launched on the Kishwaukee River at 1:30 p.m. About 2,000 little plastic ducks are available for adoption. Two ducks cost $5, 12 cost $25, or a flock of 50 is $100. “Adopters” watch their ducks float down the river; the first three ducks to finish and the last duck to finish will earn their adopters cash prizes.

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A sign with information about the Great Genoa Duck Race and Family Fun Event is traveling around to Genoa Chamber member businesses. member businesses where the giant duck is displayed, from the chamber office and from chamber board members and ambassadors. Visit www. genoaareachamber.com for details.

Cogsley the Duck mascot will be on hand at the event to take photos with young fans. There will be a live radio broadcast by WLBK/WSQR, an inflatable bounce house, face painting, food

vendors, the Genoa-Kingston Fire Department and rescue squad, Genoa and Kingston police officers, a performance by the Genoa-Kingston High School band, games and vendors.

For more information about the event, sponsorship or registering as a vendor, visit the chamber website, call 815-784-2212 or email genoachamber@ gmail.com.

New this year, haircuts can be donated via a blog widget. Follow the conversation on Facebook and Twitter with the hashtag #shareahaircut.

Hair Cuttery donates one free haircut certificate (up to 100,000) to a child in need for every child’s haircut (18 years and younger) purchased during the month of August. The free haircut vouchers are valid up to Nov. 15.

“I have helped clients with their insurance needs for over 11 years, and my primary focus has always been on customer service,” Gruben said in a news release.

“Resource Bank is warm, inviting and very professional, and I am proud to have joined this team.”

Resource Insurance is an independent insurance agency with experienced agents in commercial, auto, home, agriculture, life, health and group products. Resource Insurance works with 18 individual insurance companies.

“Resource Insurance is very happy to have Missy Gruben as a new insurance adviser,” Steve Braser, director of insurance services, said in the release. “Her product knowledge and service experience will be an asset to our clients.”

Gruben can be reached at 555 Bethany Road in DeKalb or at 815-756-6321.

8BRIEFS Hair Cuttery launches ‘Share a Haircut’ Hair Cuttery, the largest family-owned and operated chain of hair salons in the country, expects to donate up to 100,000 back-to-school haircut certificates – a total of $1.6 million – in this year’s Share-aHaircut program.

This is the 14th year of the program.

Since the program’s launch in 1999, Hair Cuttery has donated more than 700,000 free haircut certificates to kids in need.

“Share-a-Haircut is about the ritual of preparing for a new school year,” Dennis Ratner, founder and CEO of Hair Cuttery, said in a news release. “A new haircut symbolizes a new start and new possibilities. We want kids to associate feeling good about themselves with getting ready for back to school.”

to provide them with the information to make the right choice.”

KishHealth System previously had separate websites for each of its programs and center. The Cancer Center at Kishwaukee Community Hospital had its own URL at www. kishcancer.org, but as part of the relaunch efforts, all 16 websites will now be housed in one place, at www. kishhealth.org.

“We think its easier for consumers to understand and easier to access the information on one website,” Komitas said.

Gruben joins Resource Insurance Missy Gruben has joined the staff at Resource Insurance, a department of Resource Bank, as an insurance adviser serving DeKalb and Ogle counties.

Before joining the Resource Insurance team, Gruben was employed with Country Financial. She is licensed in property, casualty, life, health and variable contracts.

As summer comes to a close, we all wonder where it went so fast. Although the thought of summer being over can seem a little disappointing to some, there is much to be excited about.

A new year of school for students, teachers and parents is about to begin. New friends, new challenges and new seasons for sports and activities are all just beginning.

It’s an exciting time for most when you think about the start of a new Huskie Football season, students preparing for their senior year and teachers preparing for a new year of fun with new students which are all part of the exciting times ahead.

As we welcome the new teachers to the school district and the new students to the area, we want to reach out to show them what a great community they are about to become a part of. The DeKalb Chamber will host its annual New Teachers Welcome Event at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. The event will serve a variety of purposes including introducing the new teachers to the community, presenting them with a welcome bag from local businesses and organizations, and raising funds for scholarships for local students attending local colleges or trade schools.

Also, Northern Illinois University students will be moving back to DeKalb, so it’s time for the annual Taste of Northern event (formerly known as Huskie Bash). The area will see an influx of students and their families later this week and this event is a great way to welcome them to our community. This event shows the pride in being in the Huskie family and is a

CHAMBER VIEW Matt Duffy fun way to provide a snapshot of what the area has to offer.

The DeKalb Chamber will be at the event handing out valuable information from our members and our office to help make these students more informed about the area.

With fall quickly approaching, it’s almost time to celebrate Oktoberfest. This year the DeKalb Chamber is helping celebrate a great year for the airport by hosting Oktoberfest at the DeKalb Airport. The airport has been honored as the 2013 Airport of the Year by the Illinois Department of Transportation’s Division of Aeronautics. Also earlier this year, Tom Cleveland, director of the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport, was inducted into the Illinois Aviation Hall of Fame. The Oktoberfest event will offer food, refreshments and fun at the airport including free helicopter rides, a chance to experience flight simulators with Kishwaukee Education Consortium, an up-close opportunity to check out some planes and other special vehicles, and more from DeKalb Chamber members such as FunMe Events. It’s an event that will definitely be a blast for all adults that you won’t want to miss.

To find out more about any of these events, be sure to visit www.dekalb.org or give us a call at 815-756-6306.

• Matt Duffy is executive director of the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce.

Sycamore, DeKalb chambers welcome Allstate

NAPA AutoCare Centers donation

The DeKalb and Sycamore chambers of commerce held a joint ribbon cutting at Patrick Shafer Allstate Insurance, 331 W. State St. in downtown Sycamore.

Members of the NAPA AutoCare Centers of DeKalb County recently donated a check for $586 to the DeKalb County Hospice. The donation was generated through a portion of oil changes sales at the following businesses: Archer Alignment, Barb City Auto, Bockman’s Auto Care, Milex Auto Care, Motor Works, Ritzs Southtown, Sauber Automotive, University Shell, 3-D Auto Repair, Illini Tire, Mikes Truck & Auto, and DeKalb County NAPA Auto Parts. Pictured (from left) are Mike Slavens of Milex Auto Care, Jon Bockman of Bockman’s Auto Care, Karen Hagen, executive director of DeKalb County Hospice, John Volkert of Barb City Automotive, and Tim King of DeKalb County NAPA Auto Parts.

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8 ANOTHER VIEW

8SKETCH VIEW

Breast cancer bracelets lead to free-speech fight

8VIEWS

I left my job over a digital hoodie image

By BRENDA HOWARD For the Washington Post A year and a half ago, a news story exploded out of Sanford, Fla. George Zimmerman, an armed, 28-year-old man of mixed white and Hispanic ancestry, followed and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-yearold African-American. The tragic episode was touched off because Zimmerman, out on neighborhood watch patrol, found Martin to be suspicious as he walked home from a store wearing a sweatshirt with a hood.

As more details emerged, the national media ran with the story, and along the way something became apparent to me. As captivating as this story was, with controversial elements touching on a range of issues from vigilantism to gun control, the component of race kept the conversation largely private.

Last month, when a jury found Zimmerman not guilty in Martin’s death, it wasn’t the end of the story. People young and old, black and white, took to the streets from coast to coast. For Zimmerman, too, much was not resolved; whatever you may think of him, he can’t be happy that he killed a young man with dreams and goals and loving parents who presented the most graceful bearing of grief I’ve ever seen.

I needed to do something. The Monday after the trial ended, I went to my job at a

small doctor’s office and made my computer desktop wallpaper (which was not viewable to the public) an image of a hoodie. This image had sprung up on the Internet and social media as an expression of support for the Martin family.

Then, at the end of the week, President Barack Obama made history. He said that Martin could have been him. Obama conveyed his experience being a person of color and told the world that his story wasn’t unique. Our president asked that we “do some soul-searching.” He let us know that he didn’t have much faith in politicians organizing conversations on race, but he said that he thought that in our families, churches and workplaces we might succeed.

But that’s not what happened with me.

On Aug. 1, my boss called me into his office.

During the two weeks since I had selected the hoodie image for my computer desktop, some of my co-workers had complained.

They felt this image, which could be seen only when I logged in or minimized all the windows open on my screen, was inappropriate. My boss told me I had to change it.

There was no room for discussion between him and me or me and them. There was no way to explain to anyone who felt frightened or threatened by the image that I wasn’t making some call to arms or a black-power salute or trying to express any anger at all. It was merely an image of a

piece of clothing worn by a young man who was wrongfully killed. By displaying it, I was simply saying that I was sad.

Despite Obama’s request that we work to advance the conversation on race, I was complicit that day in halting our progress on this task because I left the short meeting with my boss knowing that I couldn’t take the image down. I knew that he had every right to ask me to take it down, but I would not have respected myself if I had.

I didn’t know Trayvon Martin, but his story touched me. What made me feel sad about his death was not going to dissipate with the removal of an image from my computer screen. And although the anxieties of my co-workers might be assuaged with its removal, I knew, too, the silence that would be sure to follow would be misconstrued as progress. I wasn’t comfortable with that.

So, I went to my computer and composed a letter of resignation. It would be the last document I would ever complete at my workplace of six years. It wasn’t easy, but it also wasn’t hard. Either way, the real problem remained. When everything was said and done, the life of a young man who should have made it home safely that night still had been cut short.

• Brenda Howard, a Clinton, Md., resident, originally wrote this column for The Washington Post.

Use private not public funds for infrastructure fixes This Congress has been criticized for not passing many laws – and praised for that in some quarters. And it’s true that in quantitative terms its productivity has been low.

A major case in point is transportation.

Neither the Democratic-majority Senate nor the Republican-controlled House has passed a reauthorization of what was once known as the highway bill, which used to be done every five or six years.

This failure can be ascribed in part to partisan warfare and to intra-party differences. But it’s also due to the obsolescence of the federal funding scheme used since the Interstate Highway System was first authorized in 1956.

That was a successful piece of bipartisan legislation. President Dwight Eisenhower, with memories of leading a convoy across America’s primitive roads in 1919, believed the nation needed a system of superhighways to transport troops and materiel in case of foreign attack.

Several states had built limited-access toll roads, but there was an obvious need for coordination and for (disguised) subsidies for less affluent states. So a federal gas tax, a kind of user fee, would finance 90 percent of the cost of interstate highways, with states paying the other 10 percent.

For a long time the law worked as planned. Most of the interstate network was in place by the early 1970s. The last bit, the breathtaking Glenwood Canyon stretch of I-70 in Colorado, was opened in 1992.

In subsequent highway bills Congress added bells and whistles – funding for mass transit, for bike paths, authorization of a national 55 mile per hour speed limit. Committee chairmen built support for the bill

VIEWS Michael Barone by allowing members to earmark funds for projects in their states and districts.

Now this politically congenial system is broken. One reason is that gas tax receipts are flat-lining or declining. Higher gasoline mileage requirements – something Congress has also blessed – are responsible.

In the last decade, Congress has topped off the trust fund with general revenues.

But in times of sequestration it has predictably been unable to agree on doing more, and raising the federal gas tax has been a nonstarter.

Also hindering agreement has been the abolition of earmarks – the glue that held together the bipartisan coalitions for past transportation bills. As with the gas tax and mileage requirements, so too with earmark abolition, one politically attractive policy has undercut another.

Innovation News Brief editor Ken Orski estimates the trust fund would produce $240 billion over the next six years, but continuing current spending levels would cost $320 billion. And no one, he says, has any idea how to close this $80 billion gap.

The solution needs to be found outside the box. Federal funding may have been necessary to coordinate the design of the interstate system and to fund it in many states. But the interstates have been located and built, and differences in state income levels were much greater in the 1950s than they are today.

Federal funding may be enough to finance needed repairs and upgrades, Orski argues. But, he goes on, “as for large-scale reconstruction and system expansion projects that are beyond the states’ fiscal capacity to fund on a pay-as-you-go basis, let them be financed with long-term credit and private investment capital.” Tolls, another form of user fee, would provide the revenue.

This, he points out, is already happening in many states – the Beltway HOT lanes in Northern Virginia, New York’s Tappan Zee Bridge replacement, the East End Crossing over the Ohio River near Louisville.

A prime example is the proposed second bridge across the Detroit River to Windsor, Ontario. One-quarter of U.S.-Canada trade passes over the current 84-year-old Ambassador Bridge.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has gotten Canada to completely finance the construction of a new bridge through a public-private partnership. (Federal law authorizes state governors to negotiate the financing and location of U.S.-Canada bridges.)

The point here is that states and localities know their needs better than the federal government can. Private capital is available for investment in toll roads and bridges and can better assess profitability than logrolling members of Congress. Federal highway bills served America well for many years.

But it’s time to move on.

• Michael Barone, senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.

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Neon-colored rubbery bracelets bearing the message “I [heart] boobies!” in bright, white lettering proliferate on the wrists of U.S. middle school students. The bracelets feature prominently in the Keep a Breast Foundation’s campaign to raise breast cancer awareness.

But concerns about suggestiveness in the bracelets’ message prompted principals and school districts across the country to set rules against them, triggering opposition from free-speech advocates. One of many such disputes wound up in federal court.

On Aug. 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia upheld a lower court’s decision in favor of two Easton, Pa., middle school students’ right to wear the bracelets without fear of penalties.

With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, the two students had sued their school district after they spent a day and a half in in-school suspension and were barred from attending their school’s winter ball. The case raised constitutional questions about the balance between the allegedly lewd nature and level of distraction the bracelets presented versus the students’ right to free speech.

Correctly in this case, the trial and appellate courts acknowledged the confusing and slippery nature of limiting free speech in schools and cautiously sided with the bracelet wearers. There is not enough proof that the bracelets are sufficiently lewd or distracting to risk impinging on students’ right to free speech.

Previous federal court decisions have already made murky free speech rights in cases of potentially controversial student expression. In 1969, the Supreme Court upheld students’ right to wear black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. In 1986, the court upheld a school district’s right to punish a student who capitalized on a student government nomination ceremony by delivering a speech featuring an extended metaphor for sex. In 2007, the court sided with a school district’s decision to punish a student who hung a banner declaring “Bong Hits 4 Jesus.”

Many find the words on the bracelets offensive because, when spoken by a 14-year-old boy and unlinked to a social cause, their intent would be interpreted as such. The bracelet makers deny sexualizing a disease, but the suggestiveness and two-way meaning of the sentence are in fact the ploy that makes the bracelets popular among a certain crowd. “Boobies” elicits giggles.

Still, banning the bracelets to muffle laughter is not worth the high cost and future repercussions of overstepping students’ already limited rights to free speech — and the freedom to support what is at root a provocative campaign to generate breast cancer awareness, however distasteful it may be to students’ teachers.

The Washington Post

8 ANOTHER VIEW

Tax discussion must include growing health care burden Tax burden is a popular campaign issue used frequently in Wisconsin through the years because we traditionally rank higher than the national average in state and local taxes as a percentage of personal income.

The “latest” numbers are out for 2011, which show Wisconsin ranked 10th highest nationally, according to a recent report from the nonpartisan Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance. When fees are added our ranking drops to 14th. In 2011, Wisconsin’s total burden for total state and local taxes rose from 11.7 to 11.8 percent of income. In raw numbers, that’s $4,499 per person, 17th highest in the nation and 4 percent above the national average.

Knowing how much of our paychecks go to fund local and state government compared with taxpayers in other states is a good barometer when politicians come calling for higher taxes and/or fees.

But how much we’re spending is only one component when debating public policy, albeit a big one.

Another is what we’re spending our money on. And more and more the answer is simple even if solutions to address it are not: health care.

We like to blame state and federal lawmakers for not sending enough money back to the local level to fund schools, roads, law enforcement, environmental projects, etc. But the numbers show all of those needs are taking a back seat to the explosion in health care spending for the poor and near-poor.

Consider the following sobering numbers from the 2011-13 state budget period: • Medicaid enrollment stood at 1.1 million, or about one of every five people living in our state.

• Medicaid (taxpayers) covered 45 percent of all births in Wisconsin.

• In the past 20 years, Wisconsin’s population has grown 16 percent while Medicaid enrollment has grown 156 percent.

• One of every three children in the state was on Medicaid.

Any discussion of taxes and fees needs to include the health care issue. And the strain is only going to get worse as baby boomers head into their golden years.

Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

– U.S. Bill of Rights, First Amendment

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High pressure will keep us rain-free, warm and humid on Tuesday. The air mass overhead will be somewhat stagnant and an Air Quality Alert Day is in efect. Highs will reach the upper 80s. Humid and near 90 Wednesday. A cold front passes late at night triggering a few storms and cooling us to the low 80s Thursday. Sunday 90s return.

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Sports Emphasis

SECTION B

See Hub Arkush’s take on the Bears’ secondary. PAGE B3

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 Daily Chronicle

Sports editor Ross Jacobson • rjacobson@shawmedia.com

8MORNING KICKOFF

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Woman screamed, then Pistorius fired PRETORIA, South Africa – A woman screamed and then there was silence, according to South African prosecutors pressing a premeditated murder case against Oscar Pistorius. Next, the indictment says, witnesses heard gunshots and more screaming at the home of the Paralympic champion, who says he shot his girlfriend by mistake on Valentine’s Day. The sequence of events outlined Monday could bolster an argument that the double-amputee Olympian was intent on killing Reeva Steenkamp after an altercation and was not reacting fearfully to what he thought was an intrusion in his home, as he has said.

Prosecutors revealed a list of more than 100 witnesses, some of whom live in the gated community where she was killed.

Pistorius wept and prayed in court as he held hands with his brother and sister before being served with the indictment. The athlete will face an additional charge of illegal possession of ammunition when his blockbuster trial starts on March 3 in a court in the South African capital, Pretoria.

– Wire report

8WHAT TO WATCH Pro baseball Washington at Cubs, 7:05 p.m., CSN Chris Rusin (2-2, 3.06 ERA) goes to the mound for the Cubs in the second game of the four-game series against Dan Haren (7-11, 4.79 ERA) and the Nationals.

Also on TV...

Cycling USA Pro Challenge, stage 2, Aspen to Breckenridge, Colo., 3 p.m., NBCSN Little League World Series World Series, consolation, teams TBD, at South Williamsport, Pa., noon, ESPN World Series, elimination, teams TBD, at South Williamsport, Pa., 3 p.m., ESPN World Series, elimination, teams TBD, at South Williamsport, Pa., 7 p.m., ESPN2 Pro baseball Regional coverage, Arizona at Cincinnati or Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 6 p.m., MLB White Sox @ Kansas City, 7:10 p.m., WCIU Soccer UEFA Champions League, Maribor at Plzen, 1:30 p.m., FSN UEFA Champions League, AC Milan at Eindhoven, 1:30 p.m., FS1 CONCACAF Champions League, Houston vs. W Connection, at Marabella, Trinidad and Tobago, 7 p.m., FS1 WNBA Los Angeles at Seattle, 9 p.m., ESPN2

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BOYS GOLF PREVIEW

on accuracy

Photos by Monica Maschak – Vmmaschak@shawmedia.com

TOP: Sophomore Peyton Gatz hits range balls during a practice for the Indian Creek golf team Friday at Indian Oaks Country Club.

BOTTOM: Junior Jake Wieseler chips balls during practice.

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Sophomore Gatz working on short game to lower scores

By JAMES NOKES sports@daily-chronicle.com Peyton Gatz stood on the practice green with a tee, a ball and his putter.

The Indian Creek sophomore spent his free time this summer at Indian Oaks Golf Club in Shabbona focused on his putting pace. Without a commanding physical presence that will allow him to bomb and gouge the golf course, Gatz placed an emphasis on accuracy and set a lofty

goal to help lower his scores for his sophomore campaign.

“I don’t want to have any threeputts this year,” Gatz said. “I’ve spent the summer working on my speed. I put a tee behind the hole and don’t let the ball roll past it. I want to be able to take my two-putt and get out when I have to.”

If Gatz is around the green, he has the short game to get up-and-down for a par. But, as a freshman he’d run the ball too far past the hole with his putts. So, he worked to add more

length off the tee, but knows that to be effective, he’s got to be good at the tricky finesse shots that can turn a good round into a great round if executed properly.

“I’ve got a lot of confidence in my short game,” Gatz said. “It was threeputts that were my No. 1 disappointment last year. I’m not a long hitter, but have added some distance so I can be closer and hit a short iron or a wedge into the green.”

“I don’t want to have any threeputts this year. I’ve spent the summer working on my speed. I put a tee behind the hole and don’t let the ball roll past it. I want to be able to take my two-putt and get out when I have to.”

See GOLF, page B2

Indian Creek sophomore golfer

Peyton Gatz

MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE

NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOTBALL

The art of long snapping New Alabama bowl game to pit Sun Belt vs. MAC

By JOHN ZENOR The Associated Press

Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com

Northern Illinois’ Brian Mayer prepares to snap the ball during fall camp at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb.

NIU’s Mayer embraces snapping routine

By STEVE NITZ snitz@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Every long snapper has his routine, and it’s no different for Northern Illinois’ Brian Mayer.

The Huskies’ primary long snapper the past two seasons, Mayer gets in his stance, wipes his hands with a towel to remove the sweat, and looks back at the punter or holder.

Mayer puts one hand on the ball like he’s going to throw it, and puts his other one on top.

When it’s finally time for the snap, he’s basically pulling the ball, sliding his hands straight back and bending his elbows.

His forearms hit his inner

thighs and the ball is forced out of his hands.

“Basically you’re just pulling the ball back to the kicker or punter. You’re bringing your head through, watching your snap for about half a second,” the junior said after Monday’s practice at Huskie Stadium. “You want to bring your head through because that will create drive in your legs and everything. That’s where all the speed comes from.”

Mayer has had low and high snaps during his collegiate career, but he hasn’t had one that’s gone over someone’s head or hit the ground short.

It’s all about repetition.

NIU’s specialists head out to the field roughly 30-45 minutes prior to practice, and Mayer said he snaps roughly 75-100 times each workout.

“In practice, the more you practice it, the more routine it gets,” said Kevin Kane, the Huskies’ linebackers coach and special teams coordinator, who was a long snapper when he played at Kansas. “All it is is throwing a ball between your legs. There’s certainly little mechanical things you can correct and everything, but the more you can practice it and get into a good routine, the better you’re going to be.”

See SNAP, page B2

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Teams from the Sun Belt and Mid-American Conference will meet in a new bowl game in Alabama’s state capital, and both leagues are still hoping to reach another postseason deal.

ESPN announced its latest postseason game, the Camellia Bowl, Monday at Montgomery’s City Hall. It will debut in December 2014 under a six-year contract.

The game will be held at recently renovated 25,000seat Cramton Bowl, formerly host to the Blue-Gray game, before Christmas Day. The two leagues might not be done in finding new bowl deals.

Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson said his conference is hoping to sign a contract for a fourth game before the current bowl cycle ends, possibly in Little Rock, Ark., or Orlando.

The league, which is undergoing another membership makeover in the next two seasons, sent Louisiana-Monroe into the Independence Bowl last season when that game didn’t have a second eligible team with its contracted

conference.

“Six years ago, when it started, the Sun Belt was a fledgling conference,” Benson said. “We had two guaranteed (bowls). We quickly outgrew those two.

I think four is the right number.

“There’s probably another six-month window that’s still available to secure another bowl game before the 2014 season. We have not ruled out any of these potential bowl sites.”

MAC Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher expects to add a fifth bowl, but declined to mention specific cities.

“It’s part of the package we were putting together and we’re pleased with it,” Steinbrecher said. “I am really, really excited about the possibilities here.”

The MAC had a record seven bowl-eligible teams last season and has averaged nearly six over the past five years. Temple went 8-4 in 2010 and was shut out of the postseason.

The MAC already had deals to send teams to the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl in Detroit, the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise and GoDaddy Bowl in Mobile, Ala., plus status as a backup option for some of the ESPN-owned games.

SPORTS

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8PREP SCHEDULE TODAY Boys Golf Sycamore at Oswego Invitational at Blackberry Oaks, 7:30 a.m.

Indian Creek, Hinckley-Big Rock, Genoa-Kingston at Sandwich Invite at Edgebrook Country Club, 12:30 p.m.

Kaneland at Geneva quad, 2 p.m.

WEDNESDAY Boys Golf Indian Creek, Hinckley-Big Rock at Norsemen Scramble at Whitetail Ridge, 3:15 p.m.

THURSDAY Boys Golf DeKalb, Sycamore, Kaneland at Geneva Invitational at Mill Creek, 2 p.m.

Harvard at Genoa-Kingston, 4:15 p.m.Girls Golf Hinckley-Big Rock at Indian Creek, 4 p.m.

Harvard at Genoa-Kingston, 4:15 p.m.

SATURDAY Boys Golf Hinckley-Big Rock at Sandwich Invite at Prairie Lakes, 7:30 a.m.

Kaneland at Limestone Invite, 8:30 a.m.

Girls Golf Indian Creek at Rocket Invite at Rock River CC, noon Hinckley-Big Rock at night tournament at Valley Green, 8 p.m.

8SPORTS SHORTS DeKalb boys golf places fourth at invite The DeKalb boys golf team started its season with a fourthplace finish at the Boylan Invite.

The Barbs finished with a score of 314.

Connor Hoyle and Ben Melms each shot a 77 to lead DeKalb. Jacob Cook added a 79 while Austin Freeman finished with an 81.

“I thought it was a pretty successful first day. Connor and Ben had solid scores of 77,” Barbs coach John Cordes said. “Pretty pleased with where we finished.

Think it’s a good starting point.”

Schierholtz powers Cubs past Nationals CHICAGO – Nate Schierholtz homered twice and drove in a career-high six runs, powering Jeff Samardzija and the Cubs to an 11-1 victory over the Washington Nationals on Monday night.

Schierholtz connected for a three-run shot in the first and a two-run drive in the seventh in his fourth career multihomer game. He also had an RBI double in the third in the Cubs’ highest-scoring game since a 14-6 victory over Houston on June 23.

Nationals get OF DeJesus in trade with Cubs CHICAGO – The Washington Nationals have acquired outfielder David DeJesus in a trade with the Cubs.

The deal bolsters Washington’s bench as it tries to make an improbable late run for a playoff spot. Coming into the day, the Nationals trailed Cincinnati by 9½ games for the NL’s second wild-card slot.

The Cubs receive a player to be named in the deal. They also save about $2.5 million, including $1.5 million to buy out a 2014 option for $6.5 million.

NCAA reverses course on Marine playing at MTSU MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – The NCAA has ruled that a Middle Tennessee football player who spent five years in the Marines will be allowed to compete this fall and that he will have four years of eligibility remaining.

It’s a reversal from the NCAA’s earlier decision to rule Steven Rhodes was ineligible because he played in a recreational league during his military service. School officials had said earlier Monday that they were working with NCAA officials to come up with a solution.

Police: Australian player target of random killing DUNCAN, Okla. – Police say an Australian man who attended an Oklahoma college on a baseball scholarship was shot to death in a random act of violence by three teenagers who were “bored.”

Duncan Police Chief Dan Ford said Christopher Lane of Melbourne was found dead Friday.

Three boys, ages 15, 16 and 17, face a court appearance Tuesday.

– Staff, wire reports

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BEARS

MLB

Secondary locked in, but lacks depth BEARS INSIDER Hub Arkush LAKE FOREST – Other than Jay Cutler at quarterback, Martellus Bennett at tight end and Matt Forte and Michael Bush at running back, the only unit on the Bears where the starting lineup is set in stone is the secondary.

Competition for starting spots rages on the offensive and defensive lines and at linebacker, but Charles Tillman, Tim Jennings, Major Wright and Chris Conte have been penciled in as the starting cornerbacks and safeties since the curtain came down on the 2012 season in Detroit last year.

“You always look for cohesiveness in your units and we’ve had that in the secondary, so they’re coming along nicely, we like the way they work hard to get better every day,” defensive coordinator Mel Tucker said.

What a difference a year can make?

Heading into Bourbonnais last season, neither Conte nor Wright were guaranteed starting spots and Jennings had been benched late in the 2011 season and told if he didn’t improve his ball skills in the offseason he could be gone. All Jennings did was lead the league in interceptions and go to his first Pro Bowl in 2012, while Tillman earned his second straight Pro Bowl trip and a few Defensive MVP votes.

For Conte and Wright, things came a bit slower, but the continuity has helped.

“We’ve known each other almost three years now, so it’s definitely an advantage being able to spend the offseason and preseason together knowing that we’re going to be the guys back there,” Conte said. “Now we’ve

Lathan Goumas file photo – lgoumas@shawmedia.com

Bears safety Chris Conte runs with the ball during the first day of training camp July 26 in Bourbonnais. just got to keep everybody healthy.”

And therein lies the rub. As settled as the Bears are on their starting four, depth is a concern. Isaiah Frey seems to have a grip on the starting nickel job, leaving spots for at least two more cornerbacks and two more safeties.

Zack Bowman would appear to be the Bears’ No. 3 cornerback, and I asked him, having already made the team and been cut and re-signed once, if that experience has helped him at all in this roster battle.

“It’s part of the business,” Bowman said.

“There are some guys who know how to handle it and some guys don’t. Fortunately

for me, I had an opportunity to come back here, and my mindset is to make the best of the opportunity.”

Craig Steltz also appears to be in the driver’s seat for a No. 3 safety job, but the six-year veteran said he never takes anything for granted. “Every year, you’re just out competing. You know you can’t pay any attention to the numbers or anything.

You just go out and compete every day.”

A big advantage for Steltz and Bowman in their roster fights is that both are excellent special teams players. I asked Bowman if they’ve been told special teams will play a part in the final roster decisions and he told me.

“Everybody on our team is focused on special teams,” Bowman said. “That is a big part of our team. That’s my mindset.

Every day I go to special teams meetings, every day all the defensive backs go to special teams meetings.”

None of this is to say there aren’t still concerns in the secondary. Both Conte and Wright have more to prove in pass coverage and the pass rush will play a big part in the play of the safeties and Jennings as well. As big a year as the undersized corner had in 2012, there are concerns that at 5-foot-8 he still will face matchup problems with all the new supersized receivers.

There is no question, though, that the secondary was the most productive unit on either side of the ball throughout their time in Bourbonnais. And with three interceptions and two fumbles recovered in the first two preseason games, it appears this group is game-ready for Week 1.

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

Mayer differs from some by not using the laces • SNAP Continued from page B1 One thing Mayer does differently is not use the laces.

He said they hurt his spiral, so he snaps with the laces down.

“I’m a little bit different. I’ve never really seen anybody else snap without laces,” he said. “It’s pretty unique I guess you could say.”

Long snapper is a unique position in itself. Neither Mayer or Kane started in the position in a normal way, either.

Mayer didn’t really start doing much of it until his uncle pulled him aside at a family party and taught him before his junior year of high school at Sandburg in Orland Park. Solely a long snapper with the Huskies, Mayer came to NIU as a preferred walk-on but is now on scholarship. He said it’s not rare for a long snapper to get a scholarship right away, but that it’s tough.

Kane, an honorable mention All-Big 12 selection at linebacker in 2004 and 2005, wasn’t necessarily planning on long snapping in college, but ended up getting into it.

“It was one of those, who can long snap? I did it a little Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com bit in high school,” Kane said. “When I was a freshman Northern Illinois’ Brian Mayer smiles during fall camp at Huskie Stadium in in college they asked me to do it again, and I did it, and I never stopped.”

DeKalb.

Coach thinks Gatz’ experience can help lead team • GOLF Continued from page B1 Indian Creek coach Dave Olson said experience can also help Gatz as he leads the Timberwolves lineup.

Every course was new for Gatz last year. This fall, he’ll know the good bail out spots, the best angle to hit approach shots into a green and which pins can be attacked.

“He played a lot in the summer and has worked on his game,” Olson said. “This year I want him to take the step forward to lower his average and make fewer mistakes.”

As high as his non-three putt standard is, Gatz has his eventual sights set even higher.

“My goal is to qualify for state,” Gatz said. “I practiced and played a lot this summer and hope to do it. I worked on my distance and hitting the ball further down the middle of the fairway.

I want to get it in close because I have a good short game. I want to be ready to compete at state next year as a junior and place as a senior.”

“He played a lot in the summer and has worked on his game. This year I want him to take the step forward to lower his average and make fewer mistakes.”

Dave Olson Indian Creek golf coach

8Boys Golf Preview Capsules DEKALB

INDIAN CREEK

Coach: John Cordes (20th season) Key Players: Ben Melms, sophomore; Connor Hoyle, sophomore; Jacob Cook, junior Ready for impact: Austin Freeman, freshman Outlook: A veteran coach will have a young team to coach this fall. As John Cordes enters his 20th season as the Barbs’ coach, a promising youth movement is underway. A talented crop of players that played in highly competitive summer tournaments and saw plenty of action lest fall with continue to learn as they are tested on the varsity level.

Junior Jacob Cook made a run to sectionals last fall.

Ryan Schultz is the lone senior in the DeKalb lineup.

Cordes’ take: “We won’t have the experience of other teams, but we have a lineup that wants to and will go out and compete. We’ve got great chemistry.

It’s going to be an interesting and enjoyable fall watching players grow and seeing what they can accomplish.”

Coach: Dave Olson (Fifth season) Key players: Peyton Gatz, sophomore; Jake Wieseler, junior Ready for impact: Drew Headley, sophomore Outlook: A top five without a senior has learned how to compete by playing against varsity competition.

Olson’s take: “Last year the team learned more by being out and actually playing. We are swinging well and have had good practices so far. We want to go out and improve every day.”

GENOA-KINGSTON Coach: Mike Lauer (Third season) Key players: Jake Langford, senior; Tommy Lucca, sophomore; Nick Adamczek, sophomore Outlook: Perennially, the Cogs are in search of a consistent fourth score. This fall Genoa-Kingston will again be in a quest to develop a low score from players outside its top three. Nick Adamczek was the low qualifier and had breakout summer.

Lauer’s take: “Our ability to match last year’s success depends on if we can develop that fourth spot. We’ve got to find a way to improve between No. 4 and No. 8 in the lineup.”

HINCKLEY-BIG ROCK Coach: Kyle Donka (First season) Key Players: Daniel Small, junior Ready for impact: Hunter Sierstad, junior Outlook: The Royals will be in rebuilding mode as they search for a dependable score from a slew of inexperienced golfers.

KANELAND Coach: Mark Meyer (Ninth season) Key Players: Matt Yonkovich, senior; Brody Kuhar, senior Ready for impact: Stephen Cannell, senior; Jesse Denton, junior Outlook: A clear goal to qualify for the Class 2A state meet drove Kaneland last fall. While Matt Yonkovich and Brody Kuhar, one of the top No.1 and No. 1A tandems in the state, anchor the Knights’ lineup for their senior campaign, questions remain in the rest of the lineup.

Which is why Knights coach Mark Meyer will wait until the first week has passed before players set their goals.

Meyer’s take: “We had the most players in my nine years as coach try out. What we will need is the sophomores or juniors to step up and play well. Matt Yonkovich and Brody Kuhar played tournaments all summer and would take turns beating each other.

There’s a friendly competition at the top spot that makes them both better players.”

SYCAMORE Coach: Dave Burdick (Fifth season) Key players: Ryan Aurand, senior; Carly Hudon, senior Outlook: The Spartans won’t have the experienced, senior-laden group that challenged for the Northern Illinois Big 12 East title last fall.

• Hinckley-Big Rock coach Kyle Donka and Sycamore coach Dave Burdick could not be reached for comment – James Nokes, sports@daily-chronicle.com

AMERICAN LEAGUE Central Division W L Pct Detroit 73 51 .589 Cleveland 66 58 .532 Kansas City 64 59 .520 Minnesota 54 69 .439 White Sox 49 74 .398 East Division W L Pct Boston 73 53 .579 Tampa Bay 70 52 .574 Baltimore 67 56 .545 New York 64 59 .520 Toronto 57 67 .460 West Division W L Pct Texas 71 53 .573 Oakland 70 53 .569 Seattle 57 66 .463 Los Angeles 55 68 .447 Houston 41 82 .333

GB — 7 8½ 18½ 23½ GB — 1 4½ 7½ 15 GB — ½ 13½ 15½ 29½

Monday’s Results N.Y. Mets 6, Minnesota 1 Tampa Bay at Baltimore (n) Houston at Texas (n) Cleveland at L.A. Angels (n) Seattle at Oakland (n) Boston at San Francisco (n) Today’s Games White Sox (Joh.Danks 2-10) at Kansas City (E.Santana 8-6), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Rogers 3-7) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 6-4), 12:05 p.m., 1st game Tampa Bay (Cobb 7-2) at Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 8-5), 6:05 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 9-7) at N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 4-12), 6:05 p.m., 2nd game Minnesota (Pelfrey 4-10) at Detroit (Porcello 9-6), 6:08 p.m.

Houston (Cosart 1-0) at Texas (Blackley 1-1), 7:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Salazar 1-1) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 13-6), 9:05 p.m.

Seattle (J.Saunders 10-12) at Oakland (Gray 1-1), 9:05 p.m.

Boston (Peavy 9-5) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 2-4), 9:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games White Sox at Kansas City, 7:10 p.m.

Seattle at Oakland, 2:35 p.m.

Boston at San Francisco, 2:45 p.m.

Cleveland at L.A. Angels, 6:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 6:05 p.m.

Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 6:08 p.m.

Houston at Texas, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Results White Sox 5, Minnesota 2 Detroit 6, Kansas City 3 Baltimore 7, Colorado 2 Tampa Bay 2, Toronto 1, 10 innings Seattle 4, Texas 3 Houston 7, L.A. Angels 5 Oakland 7, Cleveland 3 N.Y. Yankees 9, Boston 6

NATIONAL LEAGUE Central Division W L Pct Pittsburgh 72 51 .585 St. Louis 71 52 .577 Cincinnati 71 54 .568 Cubs 54 70 .435 Milwaukee 54 70 .435 East Division W L Pct Atlanta 76 48 .613 Washington 60 64 .484 New York 57 66 .463 Philadelphia 55 69 .444 Miami 48 75 .390 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 72 52 .581 Arizona 64 59 .520 Colorado 58 68 .460 San Diego 56 68 .452 San Francisco 55 68 .447

GB — 1 2 18½ 18½ GB — 16 18½ 21 27½ GB — 7½ 15 16 16½

Monday’s Results Cubs 11, Washington 1 N.Y. Mets 6, Minnesota 1 Philadelphia 5, Colorado 4 Cincinnati 5, Arizona 3 Miami 6, L.A. Dodgers 2 St. Louis at Milwaukee (n) Pittsburgh at San Diego (n) Boston at San Francisco (n) Today’s Games Washington (Haren 7-11) at Cubs (Rusin 2-2), 7:05 p.m.

Colorado (J.De La Rosa 12-6) at Philadelphia (Cloyd 2-2), 6:05 p.m.

Arizona (Corbin 12-3) at Cincinnati (Cingrani 6-2), 6:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Beachy 2-0) at N.Y. Mets (Z. Wheeler 5-2), 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Capuano 4-6) at Miami (Ja.Turner 3-4), 6:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lynn 13-6) at Milwaukee (Lohse 8-8), 7:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (A.J.Burnett 5-8) at San Diego (T.Ross 3-5), 9:10 p.m.

Boston (Peavy 9-5) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 2-4), 9:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Washington at Cubs, 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 12:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Milwaukee, 1:10 p.m.

Boston at San Francisco, 2:45 p.m.

Pittsburgh at San Diego, 5:40 p.m.

Colorado at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.

Arizona at Cincinnati, 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Miami, 6:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Results St. Louis 6, Cubs 1 Miami 6, San Francisco 5 Arizona 4, Pittsburgh 2, 16 innings Baltimore 7, Colorado 2 Philadelphia 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Atlanta 2, Washington 1 Cincinnati 9, Milwaukee 1 San Diego 4, N.Y. Mets 3

NFL PRESEASON Thursday’s Results Bears, 22 San Diego 28 Cleveland 24, Detroit 6 Baltimore 27, Atlanta 23 Philadelphia 14, Carolina 9 Friday’s Results Buffalo 20, Minnesota 16 San Francisco 15, Kansas City 13 New England 25, Tampa Bay 21 Oakland at New Orleans (n) Saturday’s Results Arizona 12, Dallas 7 Cincinnati 27, Tennessee 19 N.Y. Jets 37, Jacksonville 13 Green Bay 19, St. Louis 7 Houston 24, Miami 17 Seattle 40, Denver 10 Sunday’s Result Indianapolis 20, N.Y. Giants 12 Monday’s Result Pittsburgh at Washington (n) Thursday’s Games New England at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Carolina at Baltimore, 7 p.m.

Friday’s Games Seattle at Green Bay, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Oakland, 9 p.m.

SPORTS

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Looking forward

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 • Page B3

Tony Stewart to miss rest of season

By DAN GELSTON The Associated Press

SPRINT CUP SERIES Irwin Tools Night Race Race time: 6:30 p.m., Saturday Site: Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, TN TV: ABC

NATIONWIDE SERIES Food City 250 Race time: 6:30 p.m. Friday Site: Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, TN TV: ESPN and WatchESPN

CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES UNOH 200 Race time: 7 p.m. Wednesday Site: Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, TN TV: FS1

Upcoming Sprint Cup schedule Saturday: Irwin Tools Night Race, Bristol, Tenn.

Sept. 1: Advocare 500, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Ga. Sept. 7: Federated Auto Parts 400, Richmond International Raceway, Richmond, Va. Sept. 15: Geico 400, Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet Sept 22: Sylvania 300, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, N.H. Sept. 29: AAA 400, Dover International Speedway, Dover, Del. Oct. 6: Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, Kansas Oct. 12: Bank of America 500, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, N.C. Oct. 20: Camping World RV Sales 500, Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega, Ala.

Out for the season with a broken leg, Tony Stewart turned to one of NASCAR’s most respected drivers to take over the No. 14.

At 54, Mark Martin is up for the challenge of taking the wheel for his good friend.

“Hopefully, we can turn the 14 car back over to Tony an even stronger organization than what it was when he stepped away and got injured,” Martin said. “That’s the thing that I really want to work hard to do, is when it’s all said and done with, I hope that they can look back and say they were glad that they had me as a part of the organization.”

Martin was released from his part-time schedule at Michael Waltrip Racing on Monday and will drive the No. 14 Chevrolet in 12 of the final 13 Sprint Cup races for Stewart-Haas Racing.

Stewart, a three-time Cup champion, will miss the rest of the season while he recovers from the broken right leg suffered in a sprint car crash Aug. 5 at Southern Iowa Speedway.

Nationwide Series driver Austin Dillon will drive the No. 14 on Oct. 20 at Talladega.

Dillon filled in for Stewart on Sunday at Michigan and finished 14th.

Martin entered 16 of 23 races as part of a shared ride in the No. 55 with Michael Waltrip at Brian Vickers at MWR. Vickers, who won this season at New Hampshire, will now drive the No. 55 Toyota for MWR in 12 of the final 13 races. He was originally scheduled to drive just three more times. Waltrip will race the No. 55 at Talladega as previously scheduled.

Martin has 40 wins and 56 poles in 870 career Sprint Cup starts.

“My motivation for racing is not for points, it’s for racing,” Martin said. “I want to race, and I want to finish.”

Martin gets his chance after Stewart’s injury cost him his shot at driving for a

AP file photo

Tony Stewart speaks at a press conference prior to practice for the NASCAR New Hampshire 300 Sprint Cup Series Camping World RV Sales 301 race July 12 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H. fourth championship. Stewart had one win this season and was a solid contender to make the Chase for the Sprint Championship. Martin will be the third driver in the No. 14 this season. Max Papis drove the Toyota in Stewart’s absence at Watkins Glen. The No. 14 car is 13th in the owner standings.

“Obviously, I’m disappointed to be out,” Stewart said in a statement. “But the team is in very good hands with Mark Martin and Austin Dillon. Mark is someone I’ve looked up to my entire career and I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. Austin is a great young talent, and he showed that Sunday at Michigan.”

Stewart is expected to return in time for preseason testing in January 2014.

“We expect a full recovery

by Daytona or close to it,” said Greg Zipadelli, competition director at Stewart-Haas Racing. “It may be able to be done earlier, it’s just not worth it. It’s a bad break to the leg, and he needs time to go through the process of healing, rehabilitation, all those things.”

Martin’s arrival was the

only transaction SHR was ready to announce on a busy day of musical seats.

Kurt Busch had reportedly been offered a deal to drive a fourth car next season for Stewart-Haas Racing, and is mulling that offer and others.

Stewart said last month the organization was not ready to expand to four cars in releasing Ryan Newman.

“Obviously, there’s options out there,” Zipadelli said. “We’re looking at everything that’s there. There is nothing done. Right now, we’re focused on (Newman), trying to win another race to make it into the Chase and getting Mark fitted up in this car and heading to Bristol to do the best job we can.”

Newman, who won at Indianapolis, is 15th in the standings and out of Chase spot with three races left until the 12-driver Chase field is set.

Stewart is 18th and dropping in the standings and Danica Patrick is 27th. SHR will remain at least a three-car operation next season when it adds Kevin Harvick.

Waltrip said Martin achieved all the goals both he and the team set when he began a 24-race schedule in the

No. 55 in 2012. Martin nearly won at Michigan before running out of fuel with four laps left.

MWR announced last week that Vickers will drive the No. 55 Toyota for a full Sprint Cup schedule beginning next season.

“No one wants to see Tony out of the 14, but I am appreciative of the opportunity to get more seat time in the 55 as a result,” Vickers said.

Waltrip said MWR would now turn its attention toward signing No. 55 crew chief Rodney Childers and keep him with Vickers for next season.

“Brian is poised to race for a championship,” Waltrip said. “The job he’s done in the 55 on a limited basis has been really impressive. To be able to be a part timer and grab a win like he did at Loudon, that’s just amazing in this day and age.”

It took some cooperation to get this deal done. Martin needed MWR and sponsors Aaron’s and Toyota to let him out of his deal to jump to SHR and drive a Chevrolet. Martin could now help send the No. 14 into the owner’s standings portion of the Chase and knock out an MWR team.

Sprint Cup leaders Points 1. Jimmie Johnson ................... 813 2. Clint Bowyer ........................772 3. Carl Edwards........................762 4. Kevin Harvick.......................749 5. Kyle Busch............................706 6. Dale Earnhardt Jr. ............. 688 7. Matt Kenseth.......................679 8. Brad Keselowski..................667 9. Kurt Busch ...........................665 10. Greg Biffle .........................663 11. Kasey Kahne ......................659 12. Martin Truex Jr. ................653 13. Joey Logano .......................646 14. Jeff Gordon ........................637 15. Ryan Newman ...................636 16. Jamie McMurray ...............622 17. Paul Menard.......................599 18. Tony Stewart ....................594 19. Aric Almirola ......................587 20. Jeff Burton ........................ 561 Money 1. Jimmy Johnson .......$6,565,912 2. Kyle Busch............... $4,645,191 3. Matt Kenseth..........$4,391,363 4. Brad Keselowski ... $4,332,302 5. Kevin Harvick..........$4,314,525 6. Carl Edwards .........$3,994,764 7. Dale Earnhardt Jr...$3,940,478 8. Jeff Gordon.............$3,856,606 9. Ryan Newman ....... $3,828,277 10. Joey Logano......... $3,753,703 11. Clint Bowyer..........$3,746,412 12. Martin Truex Jr. ....$3,716,934 13. Tony Stewart ........$3,710,624 14. Kasey Kahne ....... $3,648,028 15. Ricky Stenhouse Jr................... $3,561,956 16. Greg Biffle .............$3,394,519 17. Kurt Busch............ $3,387,273 18. Aric Almirola ........$3,380,898 19. Jamie McMurray . $3,243,828 20. Juan Pablo Montoya ............... $3,228,556 TOP 15 FINISHERS FROM SUNDAY’S SPRINT CUP RACE 1. Joey Logano, Ford 2. Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet 3. Kurt Busch, Chevrolet 4. Paul Menard, Chevrolet 5. Clint Bowyer, Toyota 6. Marcos Ambrose, Ford 7. Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet 8. Jeff Burton, Chevrolet 9. Greg Biffle, Ford 10. Carl Edwards, Ford 11. Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet 12. Brad Keselowski, Ford 13. Ryan Newman, Chevrolet 14. Austin Dillon, Chevrolet 15. Matt Kenseth, Toyota

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Thin-skinned groom berates guest for RSVP Dear Abby: I recently declined a wedding invitation because my spouse and I will be out of town on the date of the wedding. A few days after I sent the RSVP, I got an email from the groom saying he had “suspicions” that I wasn’t attending because I was bitter about not being in the wedding party.

I was shocked by the email. Not only do I not care about who is in the wedding party, I don’t think we’re such close friends that we should have been invited in the first place. I think it’s appalling that he would accuse someone who declined an invitation of having ulterior motives for not going.

I emailed him back, explaining that we will be out of town and how upset and disappointed I am that he would think something like that.

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips Wasn’t what he did a breach of etiquette? – Appalled in New York Dear Appalled: Yes, it was.

Your inability to attend the wedding appears to have brought to the surface the groom’s insecurity about his social relationships. I don’t blame you for being appalled.

The man’s behavior was inappropriate.

Dear Abby: My sister is 63, divorced, educated, intelligent, self-employed and receives monthly support from her ex-husband. The problem is she takes no responsibility for her health. She’s extremely overweight because she overeats and doesn’t exercise.

She complains every day that she feels “terrible.” (I call it self-pitying whining.)

Our other siblings think it is too late to confront her about it. I want to address the issue now, before she gains even more, or has a stroke or heart attack and, quite frankly, won’t be able to care for herself. I don’t want to see the responsibility fall on her three kids or us siblings. It’s not fair. She’s just too lazy to make necessary changes and constantly whines! Your thoughts? – Sibling Standing By Dear Sibling: The problem with “confronting” someone is that it usually makes the person being confronted defensive. In a case like this I don’t recommend it.

However, a family INTERVENTION might work. If the family members were to

get together and, as a group, talk to your sister about your concern for her health, it might be the wake-up call she needs.

No mention of “whining” should be made, but suggest that she might have a touch of depression that could be helped if she brings it to the attention of her doctor. Tell her you all love her, that you’re worried about her, and are willing to help her schedule an appointment with her physician if she’s willing. I think that would be a loving thing to do.

Dear Abby: When my wife and I go to a busy restaurant or a concert where we can pick up last-minute tickets, I often ask her to hop out of the car to find out if the wait times are reasonable or tickets are available while I wait in the car. I do this so I

won’t have to find a parking space until we’re sure we will be staying.

My wife says my doing this is tacky. I believe it is efficient. What are your thoughts, recognizing that I usually come up with the short straw on matters of manners? Thanks! – John K. in Windsor, Conn.

Dear John K.: Your request makes perfect sense to me.

Parking spaces are sometimes hard to find and valet parking isn’t cheap. However, because your wife resents doing this, either she should be the one to drive so you can “hop out,” or tickets and reservations should be made in advance either online or on the phone.

• Write Dear Abby at www.

DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Weighing risks of medication while pregnant Dear Dr. K: I take an SSRI for depression. I’m trying to get pregnant, but I’m worried about going off my antidepressant during pregnancy.

Can I continue to take an SSRI? Dear Reader: You can, but at some small risk to the baby.

But if you stop taking the SSRI while you are pregnant, you may increase your own risk of worsening depression during and after the pregnancy. So I don’t have an easy answer.

Treating depression is important for both your sake and your baby’s. Untreated depression during pregnancy increases your risk of postpartum depression. It also makes it more likely that your baby will be lethargic,

ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff irritable and underweight at birth.

But what kind of treatment? Medication is one option. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are the most common drugs prescribed for depression.

SSRIs include fluoxetine (Prozac), sertraline (Zoloft), citalopram (Celexa) and escitalopram (Lexapro).

Another option is “talk therapy.” This can be traditional one-on-one sessions with a therapist. It also can mean family therapy, involving you, your spouse and

possibly other family members. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a particular talk-therapy technique that can help you learn ways to think positively and solve problems. Even if your doctor says you need to continue taking medication along with talk therapy, you may be able to lower your dose or reduce the length of time you need the medication.

You can also explore other non-drug options. For example, consider exercise (under your doctor’s supervision) or mindfulness meditation to help manage your depression.

The risk to your baby from taking SSRIs during pregnancy is very small, but still real. SSRI drugs that are in your blood travel through the

placenta and enter the bloodstream of your developing baby. SSRIs during pregnancy are linked to increased risk of heart birth defects, respiratory problems and withdrawal symptoms in babies. Risk of miscarriage and premature birth may also increase. The FDA has labeled paroxetine (Paxil) unsafe for use during pregnancy.

Guidelines from the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommend medication for expectant mothers with severe depression. But for pregnant women with mild to moderate depression, they recommend psychotherapy.

That’s probably the most important point. If in the

years before pregnancy your depression has been severe, you will probably need medication along with talk therapy during the pregnancy. By “severe,” I mean you have had many episodes of depression, or episodes that are quite severe and make it very hard for you to function, or both.

Particularly if you have had severe depression in the past, and your past reaction to medications has been positive, the risk to you and your baby from not taking medication is probably greater than the risk of taking medication.

• Visit www.AskDoctorK. com to send questions and get additional information.

Teen: He told my best friend that he likes me Dr. Wallace: Zachary was my date for the Junior-Senior Prom. He is very nice, very cute and very shy, so I was surprised when he asked me to the most important school activity of the year. I had a wonderful time, but it was like pulling teeth to get him to hold a conversation.

Most of the evening I asked him questions and he would give me one-word answers like “yes,” “no” or “sometimes.”

This summer, we didn’t see each other much because I was visiting my grand-

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace mother in Cleveland for a month. But my sister is getting married in three weeks, and I’m going to invite him to the wedding. I’m positive he will say yes because he has told my best friend he really likes me and is working up the courage to ask me out again.

What can I do to get him to hold a conversation? He

8ASTROGRAPH

By BERNICE BEDE OSOL Newspaper Enterprise Association

TODAY – In the coming months, reevaluate what you have been doing and the direction you are heading. It’s never too late to make changes that can improve your life and future. Being confident in who you are and what you do will bring you closer to satisfaction and peace of mind.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Get out and mingle and you’ll make some interesting contacts. You have much to learn from your experience dealing with people from different backgrounds. Talks will lead to a new way to utilize your skills.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – A partnership’s success will be proportional to what you put into it. Your unique contribution to something that helps others will bring you recognition.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Don’t pay much attention to what others do or say – trust your own instincts. Taking time to observe how things unfold will be to your benefit. A bit of needed romance will improve your attitude.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Knowledge is key, and opening your mind to a variety of interesting concepts will result in positive changes. Not everyone who knows you will agree with your choices, but that’s OK. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Travel plans or a visit to someone who makes you happy will brighten your day. A personal proposal will lead to a change of plans. Prepare to make a sudden move and to roll with the punches.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Consider an alliance that will help stabilize your position or bolster your reputation. What’s offered can be beneficial if it’s tailored to the skills and knowledge that you can provide.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – You’ll face emotional deception when dealing with business or personal relationships. Ask questions if you feel you aren’t getting the whole truth. Consider making changes to accommodate your position, but stick to your principles.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – If you have something to offer, now’s the time to pitch it. Your innovative and inventive mind will dazzle those you encounter. Expect to be offered help or suggestions that will contribute to your success.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Your indecisiveness may upset someone, but it will help you come to a conclusion that works in the end. Weigh all the pros and cons before making a commitment.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Your generosity will be taken advantage of by a co-worker or colleague. Step back and look at what’s required, then offer no more than necessary. Spend time with loved ones and nurture the relationships that count.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Home is where the heart is, and it should be your main concern. Fixing up your place with the best interest of loved ones in mind will bring some much-deserved harmony. Plan a fun-filled evening.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Follow your plans through with a disciplined attitude. Cut back where you can and be moderate in all that you do. Focus on positive change, not on your failures.

is a big sports fan. – P.J., Orlando, Fla. P.J.: Asking shy people questions is a good way to get them to open up, but don’t ask questions that can be answered with a single word.

Instead of asking, “Do you like pizza?” say, “Pizza and French fries are two of my favorite foods. What are your favorite foods?” Or instead of saying, “Do you like sports?” say, “Who is your favorite baseball team?” and then “How did they do this summer?” His answers might be short and to the point, but

8SUDOKU

they won’t be just “yes” or “no.”

The idea is to get him to relax and start trusting you and feeling comfortable telling you what’s on his mind.

When the conversation door has opened a little bit, follow up with questions that require more detailed answers.

Be sure to listen to him and respond to what he says with questions and comments demonstrating that you’ve heard him.

Uncommunicative people often simply do not believe anyone else will care what

they have to say. Your job is to show him how interested you are in his ideas, opinions and feelings. Once he gets comfortable with the idea of sharing his thoughts, he’ll probably have a great deal to say. Then you will contact me again asking what you can do to keep him quiet!

• Although Dr. Robert Wallace is unable to reply to all letters individually, he will answer as many as possible in this column. Email him at rwallace@galesburg.net.

8CROSSWORD

BRIDGE Phillip Alder

Take control when you see the solution George Orwell said, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

At the bridge table, though, who controls the present often controls the future. In this deal, how should the defense go against four spades after West leads the diamond king?

North, a point-count addict, made a three-spade, game-invitational limit raise with a hand that is worth a game-forcing raise. Apply the Losing Trick Count. The North hand has only six losers: two spades (because you deduct one loser for a 10-card or better fit), one heart, two diamonds and one club. A limit raise shows eight losers; a game-forcing raise promises seven or fewer.

East wondered about intervening with four hearts, but knew that it was highly dangerous. However, note that five hearts goes down only one, which is very cheap if four spades is making. Those double fits are delicious.

At trick one, East should pause for thought. From where might four defensive tricks come? He can see the spade ace and presumably two diamonds, but what is number four?

Right – a club ruff in the East hand. However, if East plays a discouraging diamond four at trick one, West will probably shift to the heart queen. East must take control.

He overtakes the diamond king with his ace and switches to his singleton club.

East wins the next trick with his spade ace and returns the diamond four. West takes that and gives his partner the lethal ruff.

If you can see how to defeat the contract, grab the steering wheel.

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SYCAMORE

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ACCOUNTANT The Clausen Group, LLP DeKalb, IL Currently looking for an experienced accountant to join our growing firm. Applicants should be familiar working in a 'small business' oriented public accounting firm. Responsibilities include: Year-end close-out, income tax preparation, payroll processing and monthly writeup work. At least 3-5 years experience required, CPA designation preferred. Competitive salary and benefits package available.

Send resume via email to info@clausengroup.com To learn more about our firm visit us at clausengroup.com

Contact the Better Business Bureau www.chicago.bbb.org - or Federal Trade Commission www.ftc.gov

BARN SALE

NEWSPAPER DELIVERY CONTRACTORS WANTED

Hinckley Early morning Monday through Saturday.

1 year contract.

Call 815-756-4841 x2468, or toll-free 877-688-4841

BREEDER

Office Assistant Full Time position Computer Experience Required

Kishwaukee Medical Associates 954 W. State Street Sycamore, IL 60178 Send Resume or Apply in Person

DeKalb Park District

AntIques, antique furniture, spinning wheel, ice cream parlor set, tools, and much miscellaneous Advertise here for a successful garage sale!

Call 815-455-4800

Dryer. Maytag. Gas. White.

Great condition. $299.

630-973-3528 Microwave: Emerson, White, 14” x 21” x 12” tall $30. 815 861-8716 Work great, moving, need to sell within the week. $275/obo.

Refrigerator, great condition! $150.

815-382-5861 WASHER or GAS DRYER, used. $100 each OBO. Both working as of July. 815-508-7347

CAT – LOST South De Kalb County Area I'm lost, have you seen me? I was near Howison, McGirr and Perry, but could be anywhere.

Large neutered male, mostly white with brown patches on his back, and brown on top of face and back of head, and a darker fluffy tail, and was wearing a red collar. If you see me, please call my people at 815-501-9724. $500 FOR SAFE RETURN! Thank you.

DID ANYONE FIND A PET RABBIT? Has anyone found a small black and white Dutch rabbit on the south side of DeKalb? His name is Demarcus and we would love to have him back.

Please call 815-501-9760

seeks seasonal Park Maintenance and Construction personnel.

Experience preferred. Apply at:

ANTIQUE SEWING MACHINE – 1960's Singer 500A Slant-O-Matic AKA the “Rocketeer”. $150.

847-612-9963 Old Wood Milk Crates Misc Dairies & Dates, Good Condition, only 6 left, $25/ea.

Sycamore. 815-762-0382

1979 Schwinn Le Tour Mens Bike Good condition, 10 speed, Rack & wheel-powered light. Needs tires $50/obo. 815-762-8481

7 Disc, JVC, $50.

Hampshire, IL. 847-830-9725

TV 32” Insignia

Older works perfect, $60, 20” TV/VCR Toshiba, older, 20” TV/VCR Memorex $50/ea.

TV 32” Insignia

Older works perfect, 20” TV/VCR Toshiba, older, 20” TV/VCR Memorex $40/ea.

Hampshire, IL. 847-830-9725 TV – INSIGINA, Plasma Flatscreen, 42”, less than 1 year old, $400.

815-739-8065 Dekalb

HAIRSTYLIST FT and PT positions available for Odeon Family Salon located in DeKalb.

Apply in person 811 West Lincoln Hwy. DeKalb, IL. Call: 815-764-9027

OFFICE

Fast paced Sycamore company looking to add a motivated individual with strong work ethic to our Administrative staff. Candidate must possess strong written and verbal communication skills and be able to work effectively with our clients, sales team, and internal personnel. Experience with Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel is a must. Email resume to: sycamorejob@yahoo.com

QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER Circle Systems in Hinckley is seeking a Quality Assurance Manager. Email resume to: b.cursio@circlesafe.com WANTED CDL DRIVERS West Chicago company looking for CDL-B air brake drivers Experience in portable restrooms, street sweeping, roll-off trucks not mandatory www.khovng.com click on employment link for application Having a Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation or Event Coming Up? Share It With Everyone by Placing a HAPPY AD!

Daily Chronicle Classified 877-264-2527

DEKALB 2 HOUSE QUALITY GARAGE SALE

Friday, August 23

9 to 4

204 & 205 Greenwood Acres Drive Toddler to adult clothes, furniture, table saw, household, antique dishes, Kitchen Aid stand mixer, wedding and formal dresses, too much to list.

PUBLIC NOTICE

GM Saginaw 4 speed trans 5000 miles - $250 obo. 815-260-1636

Holley 600 CFM Electric Choke #1850-02 $75 815 260 1636 METAL WHEELS – 42” diameter.

Pair for $135. Huntley area.

847-515-8012 NEW Spare tire & rim w/bracket for mounting on boat trailer. Tire size-ST175/80D13, load range Dmax. load 1380 lbs@50PSI. $75.

Call Bill at 815-756-5888.

STORM DOOR - white, never used $90 (Dekalb) Comfort Bilt model 353939 Athens with window midview. In original package - never opened. 815-751-0115

1997 FORD THUNDERBIRD V-8 4.6 engine, alloy wheels. power seats / windows / sunroof.

Premium Sony CD,105,600 miles.

Green. Rust-free. Clean, gray interior, $2900. 815-570-1398

2006 Dodge Ram 1500 Pickup, $7500/obo, 136K Miles, V8, Quad Cab, White, Tow Package, DeKalb, 815-751-6035

DVD/CD PLAYER

Hampshire, IL. 847-830-9725

Hopkins Park 2nd floor 1403 Sycamore Rd., DeKalb

Gazebo- 10ft X 10ft Excellent condition. $75 815-756-7145 leave message

!!!!!!!!!!!

I BUY CARS, TRUCKS, VANS & SUVs 1990 & Newer

NordicTrack Classic Pro Skier.

Excellent condition / monitor does not work. $30. Sycamore 815-760-0256

2 full size, 3pc bedroom sets; kitchen table/5 chairs; computer desk; dining room table/6 chairs/hutch/buffet; vintage cedar chest. Call for info 225-931-4263 or 815-561-0188 BED SETS COLLEGE SPECIAL Factory Direct Mattresses Twin $99, Full $129, Queen $159, King $259 Can del. 815-703-3688

Will beat anyone's price by $300.

Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan

815-814-1964 or

815-814-1224 !!!!!!!!!!!

Dining Room Set

DEKALB 708 N. 13th St Saturday, August 24th 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Furniture sets, assorted kitchenware, table saw, lawn equipment, assorted household items. Great things for students moving into dorms.

Sycamore 625 Meadow

Marble table with 6 chairs. Original price $1200, selling for $275/obo.

815-382-5861 Drop leaf table w/2 matching chairs, light maple finish 40” round w/leaves raised, excellent condition, great for small area $140 630-232-1982 FOLDING TABLE, folds in half Extends up to 12' long, 30” wide.

Moves on rollers. $75 each, have 2. 847-515-8012 ROLL AWAY BED – Twin size.

Excellent condition. Almost new. $65. 847-659-1852 SWIVEL ROCKERS (2) – Matching Patterned fabric. Excellent Condition. $200 for the pair. Sold as set.

847-659-1852

Lots of household items, furniture, & much miscellaneous.

Chain Link Fence: 80' of chain link fence, 48” tall, plus 3 pieces less than 8' each, top rail for all, and 2 gates, posts are available, but have been cut off at ground $90. 815 861-8716

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Patio Pavers: 220 pressure-washed pavers, approx. 8” x 4”, covers 48 sq. ft. $80 815 861-8716

Thursday & Friday 8am

Heavy Duty Kent-Moore Engine Stand - $60. 815-269-1636

Medical Bed – Has rails on both sides & control buttons - $300 815-508-2739

Please send cover letter & resume to:

4-C: Community Coordinated Child Care Attn: Esther 155 N. Third St., Ste 300, DeKalb, IL 60115 EOE

Will BUY UR USED CAR, TRUCK, SUV,

MOST CASH WILL BEAT ANY QUOTE GIVEN!! $400 - $2000 “don't wait.... call 2day”!! * 815-575-5153 *

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS Citibank, N.A. as Trustee for Bear Stearns ALT-A Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2006-6 PLAINTIFF Vs. Gildardo Rubio; et. al.

DEFENDANTS 10 CH 00180 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 2/23/2012, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 9/26/13 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: PIN 08-23-428-016 Improved with Single Family Home COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 115 Elm Street, DeKalb, IL 60115 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and Plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the Court file to verify all information.

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road,

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS Green Tree Servicing LLC PLAINTIFF Vs. Jennifer M. Ward f/ka/ Jennifer M. Franck; et. al.

DEFENDANTS 12 CH 00651 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 6/13/2013, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 9/26/13 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: PIN 07-23-158-007 Improved with Residential COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 220 Adams Street, Malta, IL 60150 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful pursole chaser has the responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and Plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the Court file to verify all information.

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-12-32231.

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(Published in the Daily Chronicle, August 20, 27 & September 3, 2013.)

F12050055 WELLS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY- SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS Wells Fargo Bank, NA Plaintiff, vs.

Vicente Martinez; Maricela Mendez;

FOR SALE 5.83 ACRES OF COUNTRY LIVING MINUTES FROM TOWN

Starting @ $599, 2 Bedroom $683, 3 Bedroom Near the heart of NIU. Incl gas and forced air heat. Off street parking, lush grounds, on site laundry room. Outdoor pool, tennis and basketball courts, patios and balconies. Cats OK.

University Village Apts.

722 N. Annie Glidden Rd. 815-758-7859 DEKALB 2 BR Quiet 311 N. 2nd Near NIU No pets $675/mo+1st, last, sec. Refs req. 815-751-2546 dwelldekalb.com

DeKalb 2BR, Quiet Residential Neighborhood. $785/mo, incl heat, no pets, Section 8 OK. 815-758-1641

DeKalb 2BR,1BA Duplex

Exc cond/location. Garage, yard.

C/A, W/D, no smkg, $775/mo + 1st, last sec, ref. 815-761-7118

DEKALB 3 BEDROOM, 1 BATH Clean, freshly painted. $850/mo + security + utilities.

630-248-1939 DEKALB ADULT, QUIET, REFINED Building. 2 Bedroom Apt with homey environment. Car port. For mature living. Excellent Location!

No pets/smoking. Agent Owned.

815-758-6712

DeKalb Exc For Grad Studnts 2BR in quiet bldg, parking, heat incl, $800/mo. 815-895-5047

DeKalb Quiet Studio 1, 2 & 3BR Lease, deposit, ref, no pets.

815-739-5589 ~ 815-758-6439

DEKALB ~ 2 BEDROOM

Available now, variety of locations.

Appliances, clean and quiet.

815-758-6580

DEKALB ~ QUIET 2BR, 1BA

Near downtown, parking, laundry.

NO pets/smoking, agent owned.

815-756-2359 - 815-758-6712 DeKalb. 2BR, 2BA. W/D, 2 car garage, frplc. $900/mo+1st, last, sec dep.

630-906-7367 DEKALB: 2BR-$600 mo.

Newly remodeled. Avail. 8/25/13.

Nice Neighborhood. Water and garbage incl. 815-756-1424

HINCKLEY ROOMY 1 BEDROOM Carpet, appls. No pets. $500/mo.

815-786-2291

KIRKLAND UPPER 2 BEDROOM No pets/smoking. $550/mo + dep and utilities. 815-761-5574 Or 779-774-3042 ~ Lv Msg

DEKALB 1 BEDROOM Available Immediatley! Close to NIU, Free heat & water, quiet lifestyle. Varsity Square Apts.

815-756-9554 www.glencoproperties.com BIG APARTMENTS, LESS MONEY! Rochelle: 15 minutes from DeKalb 1 BR & 2BR Starting at $530 Recently updated!

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Waterman 10444 Crego Rd Inside- rain or shine

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Sat 8 – 4 1334 LARSON ST Books, tools, toys, games, kitchen items, collectibles, aquarium & reptile supplies & clothing. Cleaning out Garage & Basement!

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Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants Defendants.

12 CH 293 Property Address: 231 Ninth Street, Dekalb, Illinois 60115 NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALE Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a judgment of said Court entered in the above-entitled cause on November 8, 2012, I, Sheriff, Roger Scott of Dekalb County, Illinois, will hold a sale on September 12, 2013 , commencing at 1:00pm, at the Dekalb Public Safety Building, 150 N. Main St, Sycamore, IL 60178, Room . to sell to the highest bidder or bidders the following described real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said decree, to-wit: Commonly known as: 231 Ninth Street, Dekalb, Illinois 60115 P.I.N.: 08-23-339-013 First Lien Position; Single-Family Residence; Judgment Amount $88157.03 IN ACCORDANCE WITH 735 ILCS 5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) AND (H-2), 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(5), AND 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1), YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE PURCHASER OF THE PROPERTY, OTHER THAN A MORTGAGEE, SHALL PAY THE ASSESSMENTS AND LEGAL FEES REQUIRED BY SUBSECTIONS (g)(1) AND (g)(4) OF SECTION 9 AND THE ASSESSMENTS REQUIRED BY SUBSECTION (g-1) OF SECTION 18.5 OF THE ILLINOIS CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY ACT. Terms of Sale: CASH - 10% down at the time of sale and the balance due within 24 hours of the sale. All payments for the amount bid shall be in certified funds payable to the Sheriff of Dekalb County.

The person to contact for information regarding this property is: Steven J. Lindberg at FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, IL (866)402-8661. For bidding instructions, visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale.

This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I555650

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1996 JAYCO EAGLE LOW MILES Nice 1996 Jayco Eagle motorhome. 22 feet. Less than 60,000 miles. Spent its whole life in the Southwestern US. Asking $9,000.

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Genoa: 1200 sq. ft., 2BR, 1BA, hrdwd flrs, unfin. bsmnt, W/D, lrg fenced yrd w/shed, pets OK $1000/mo. 630-803-5757 LEE, 2400 sq ft Ranch Farmette on 4 acres, 3BD, 1.5 BA, totally updated. Fam Rm w/ vaulted ceiling, skylights, gas frplce. Unfin walkout bsmnt.Huge deck, sm dog ok.Nonsmoking. Well & Septic. Propane appliances, no garage. Full access to 40x40 barn w/ 2 horse stall/hay loft. 6-12 mo lease avail. $1405/mo. Loc Rt.30 & County Line, 18 miles SW of DeKalb.

815-824-2981 Malta Country Home. 3BR, 2BA All appls. Huge man-cave garage.

No pets/smoking. $950/mo.

815-825-2695 RENTAL HOME 88 & PEACE RD 2br/1ba/2.5 gar A/C, WD, DW. 925/mo call Laura 331-330-5353 SYCAMORE - HOME FOR RENT 828 Stanley Court; $2200/month; 4BR / 2.5Bath; in-ground pool, fenced; storage building; cul-de-sac lot, walk to schools and parks; dogs considered; call 815-501-3344

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS Citibank, N.A. as Trustee for Bear Stearns ALT-A Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2006-6 PLAINTIFF Vs. Gildardo Rubio; et. al.

DEFENDANTS 10 CH 00180 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 2/23/2012, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 9/26/13 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 7 IN BLOCK 2 IN MARTIN DODGE ADDITION TO DEKALB, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN BOOK "D" OF PLATS, PAGE 35, SITUATED IN THE CITY OF DEKALB IN THE COUNTY OF DEKALB AND STATE OF ILLINOIS PIN 08-23-428-016 Improved with Single Family Home COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 115 Elm Street, DeKalb, IL 60115 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

If the property is a condominium

prope y and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful pursole chaser has the responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and Plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the Court file to verify all information.

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-10-06738.

I554412 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, August 13, 20 & 27, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS Green Tree Servicing LLC PLAINTIFF Vs. Jennifer M. Ward f/ka/ Jennifer M. Franck; et. al.

DEFENDANTS 12 CH 00651 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 6/13/2013, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 9/26/13 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 11 (EXCEPT THE WEST 13 FEET THEREOF) IN BLOCK 9 IN THE ORIGINAL VILLAGE OF MALTA, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN BOOK "A" OF PLATS, PAGE 23 ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1856, IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PIN 07-23-158-007 Improved with Residential COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 220 Adams Street, Malta, IL 60150 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds,

Sycamore Woodgate 1607 Meadowbrook Ct., 3BR ranch, 1BA, W/D, A/C, refrig., stove, 2 car attch. gar., no smoking/pets, avail.

7/22, $1200/mo.+utils., 1st, last, sec. 815-739-5250

SYCAMORE ~ 630 S. CROSS Charming 1BR, appliances, W/D. No pets, no smoking. $675/mo + 1st & security. Agent owned.

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PlanitDeKalbCounty.com is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and Plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the Court file to verify all information.

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-12-32231.

I554410 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, August 13, 20 & 27, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE F12050055 WELLS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY- SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS Wells Fargo Bank, NA Plaintiff, vs.

Vicente Martinez; Maricela Mendez; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants Defendants.

12 CH 293 Property Address: 231 Ninth Street, Dekalb, Illinois 60115 NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALE Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a judgment of said Court entered in the above-entitled cause on November 8, 2012, I, Sheriff, Roger Scott of Dekalb County, Illinois, will hold a sale on September 12, 2013 , commencing at 1:00pm, at the Dekalb Public Safety Building, 150 N. Main St, Sycamore, IL 60178, Room . to sell to the highest bidder or bidders the following described real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said decree, to-wit: THE SOUTH 1/2 OF LOT 6 IN BLOCK 49 OF JONES ADDITION TO THE ORIGINAL TOWN (NOW CITY) OF DEKALB, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JANUARY 24, 1856, IN BOOK "A" OF PLATS, PAGE 8, SITUATED IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

Commonly known as: 231 Ninth Street, Dekalb, Illinois 60115 P.I.N.: 08-23-339-013 First Lien Position; Single-Family Residence; Judgment Amount $88157.03 IN ACCORDANCE WITH 735 ILCS 5/15-1507(c)(1)(H-1) AND (H-2), 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(5), AND 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1), YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE PURCHASER OF THE PROPERTY, OTHER THAN A MORTGAGEE, SHALL PAY THE ASSESSMENTS AND LEGAL FEES REQUIRED BY SUBSECTIONS (g)(1) AND (g)(4) OF SECTION 9 AND THE ASSESSMENTS REQUIRED BY SUBSECTION (g-1) OF SECTION 18.5 OF THE ILLINOIS CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY ACT. Terms of Sale: CASH - 10% down at the time of sale and the balance due within 24 hours of the sale. All payments for the amount bid shall be in certified funds payable to the Sheriff of Dekalb County.

The person to contact for information regarding this property is: Steven J. Lindberg at FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, IL (866)402-8661. For bidding instructions, visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale.

This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I555650 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, August 20, 27 & September 3, 2013.)

CASE NO. 13 P 95 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE IS GIVEN of the death of John E. Hennessy of DeKalb County, Illinois. Letters of Office as Administrator were issued to Terri L. Talbert and Trudy A. Hennessy on July 17, 2013, whose attorneys are KLEIN, STODDARD, BUCK & LEWIS, LLC, Attorneys at Law, 2045 Aberdeen Court, Sycamore, IL 60178.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court at the DeKalb County Courthouse, 133 West State Street, Sycamore, IL 60178, or with the representative, or both, within six months from the date of issuance of Letters of Office and any claim not filed within that period is barred.

Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to the attorney within ten days after it has been filed.

DATED: August 2, 2013 /S/ Maureen Josh CIRCUIT CLERK OF DEKALB COUNTY SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS Ronald G. Klein Attorney for the Estate of John E. Hennessy KLEIN, STODDARD, BUCK LEWIS, LLC 2045 Aberdeen Court, Suite A Sycamore, IL 60178 (815) 748-0380

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PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT M. GUEHLER, DECEASED. CASE NO. 13 P 51 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE IS GIVEN of the death of Robert M. Guehler of DeKalb County, Illinois. Letters of Office as Administrator were issued to Donna C. Guehler on April 10, 2013 whose attorneys are KLEIN, STODDARD, BUCK & LEWIS, LLC, Attorneys at Law, 2045 Aberdeen Court, Sycamore, IL 60178.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court at the DeKalb County Courthouse, 133 West State Street, Sycamore, IL 60178, or with the representative, or both, within six months from the date of issuance of Letters of Office and any claim not filed within that period is barred.

Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to the attorney within ten days after it has been filed.

DATED: August 2, 2013 /S/ Maureen Josh CIRCUIT CLERK OF DEKALB COUNTY, SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS Ronald G. Klein Attorney for the Estate of Robert M. Guehler KLEIN, STODDARD, BUCK LEWIS, LLC 2045 Aberdeen Court, Suite A Sycamore, IL 60178 (815) 748-0380

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(Published in the Daily Chronicle, August 6, 13 & 20, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DE KALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS

ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on August 2, 2013 a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of DeKalb County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as PLANTAGENETICS located at 3230 Sycamore Rd., #255, DeKalb, IL 60115.

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PUBLIC NOTICE ORDINANCE 14-05 ANNUAL BUDGET AND APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING THE 1ST DAY OF JULY 2013 AND ENDING THE 30TH DAY OF JUNE 2014 WHEREAS, The Board of Trustees of the Hinckley Public Library District, DeKalb County, Illinois, has prepared or caused to be prepared a tentative form of the Annual Budget and Appropriation for said Library District for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013 and ending June 30, 2014 and the same has been conveniently available for public inspection for at least thirty (30) days prior to final action thereon; and WHEREAS, a public hearing was held as to such Annual Budget and Appropriation Ordinance on August 12, 2013, notice of which was given on June 13, 2013 in The Daily Chronicle which is at least thirty (30) days prior thereto; and WHEREAS, all other legal requirements have been duly complied with by the Board of Trustees of the Hinckley Public Library District; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE HINCKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT, IN THE COUNTY OF DEKALB AND STATE OF ILLINOIS, AS FOLLOWS: Section 1: That the following sums, or so much thereof as by law may be authorized, be and the same are hereby budgeted, set aside and appropriated for the specified Library purposes for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013 and ending June 30, 2014; and the objects and purposes for which said appropriations are made, and the amounts thereby appropriated are as follows; to-wit: FOR CORPORATE PURPOSES [75 ILCS16/35-5]: 1. For salaries a. librarian and assistants 2. For library materials a. books, periodicals, audio-visual, etc.

3. For library sponsored programs 4. For library suppplies 5. For meeting expenses and dues 6. For postage and office expenses 7. For public relations and publicity 8. For telephone services 9. For box rentals 10.For equipment & repair, including microfilm

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BOATS SYCAMORE 3BR $1250 Also DeKalb 3BR, $750 1 car garage, laundry.

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$120,000.00 $16,900.00 $4,500.00 $1,800.00 $2,500.00 $1,800.00 $1,000.00 $2,500.00 $15.00 $2,000.00 $153,015.00 $9,000.00 $9,000.00 $1,600.00 $325.00 $5,515.00

Total technology

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$10,000.00 $800.00 $1,000.00 $1,000.00

For special purpose grants For publication of legal notices For legal services For contingency

Total other corporate expenses

$12,800.00

TOTAL CORPORATE EXPENSE

$191,255.00

FOR SOCIAL SECURITY FUND PURPOSES [40 O;CS 5/21-110; 21110.1]: 1. Social Security and Medicare Taxes $9,000.00 FOR ILL. MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT FUND [40 ILCS 5/7-105: 7-171]: 1. Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund $17,000.00 FOR AUDIT PURPOSED [75 ILCS 16/30-45 AND 50 ILCS 310/9]: 1. Contractual Services - audit $750.00 FOR LIABILITY, WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, RISK MANAGEMENT [745 ILCS 10/9-107]: 1. Insurance a. Public liability and property damage insurance $5,000.00 b. Worker's Comp. Insurance $900.00 c. Unemployment Insurance $800.00 2. Risk Management, Deductibles and Loss control $15,310.00 3. Legal Fees $30,000.00 TOTAL LIABILITY EXPENSE

$52,010.00

FOR BUILDING MAINTENANCE FUND [75 ILCS 16/35-5]: 1. Building Maintenance Costs: a. General maintenance $6,000.00 b. Rent $16,000.00 TOTAL BUILDING MAINTENANCE FOR SPECIAL RESERVE FUND [75 ILCS 16/40-50]: 1. Building Fund/Improvements TOTAL EXPENSES

$22,000.00 $48,500.00 $340,515.00

Section 2: Appropriated for the foregoing expenses from the following estimate of revenues, by source, anticipated to be received by the Library District in the fiscal year: Projected cash on hand July 01, 2013

$317,068.00

Miscellaneous gifts and donations Fines, lost/damaged materials Income of interest Special purpose grants Photocopies, cards, fax, and miscellaneous Corporate Replacement Tax Tax for General Corporate Library purposes Tax for Social Security purposes Tax for Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund Tax for Audit purposes Tax for Liability and Insurance Tax for Maintenance purposes

$20,000.00 $3,000.00 $1,500.00 $20,000.00 $6,000.00 $600.00 $140,000.00 $6,400.00 $15,600.00 $35.00 $6,518.00 $7,000.00

TOTAL ANTICIPATED REVENUE

$226,653.00

TOTAL ANTICIPATED REVENUE + CASH ON HAND

$543,721.00

LESS FY14 ANTICIPATED EXPENSES

$340,515.00

Expected cash on hand June 30, 2014

$203,206.00

Section 3: Any unexpended balances in the General Library Fund, and Maintenance Fund appropriations will be deposited into the Special Reserve Fund pursuant to a plan in accordance with Article 40 of Chapter 75, Illinois Compiled Statutes.

Section 4: The Secretary of the Hinckley Public Library District is hereby authorized and directed to publish this Ordinance at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the district.

Section 5: This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect after its passage, approval and publication as provided by law.

Passed by the Board of Trustees of the Hinckley Public Library District and approved by the President the 12th day of August, 2013

ATTEST: /s/ Donald Jack Haines Donald Jack Haines, Secretary

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF HINCKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT By: Karen S. Yaggie, Karen S. Yaggie, President

Posted: August 15, 2013 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, August 20, 2013.)

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