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Identifying violence Study: More than a third of teens are victims of abuse By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com Shortly after the news broke in July of a domestic murder-suicide in Harvard, Molly Horton sat with her teen group trying to find the right thing to say. The details were mind-boggling: Miguel Andrade, a 19-year-old, had entered the home of the 17-year-old mother of his child, Jackie Flores, in the early morning of July 25. He demanded to see their 9-month-old baby, police say, and while Flores’ mother fled with the child, Andrade shot Flores once in the home. He then chased her through the neighborhood, catching her in a neighbor’s backyard and shooting her again, this time fatal-
ly, before turning the .22-caliber revolver on himself. How do you make sense of that? Horton, children’s advocate at Turning Point of McHenry County, a domestic violence agency, had to try because she was leading a group of people about Flores’ age who were either victims of domestic violence themselves or had seen it up close. “I had nothing to say, no way to explain it,” Horton remembered. “And I had girls say, ‘That could have been me. That easily could have been me.’ ” In retrospect, the Harvard incident validates the seriousness of teen dating violence.
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How to get help Victims of teen dating violence can call the McHenry County domestic abuse hotline at 1-800-892-8900, or the national hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE. If individuals are unsure whether they should take that step, experts suggest talking to parents, friends or school counselors about the problems they’re facing.
As temperatures reach the hottest levels this summer, McHenry County schools are scrambling to cool off students in buildings that largely are not air conditioned. Tuesday’s high is expected to reach into the mid-90s, with the heat index exceeding 100 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. School administrators are rotating students and teachers into air-conditioned rooms, limiting outdoor activities and bringing out fans to keep temperatures down and students focused during the first month of school. “[The heat] takes a toll not only on the students, but on the teachers, too,” said Vic Wight, principal of Prairie Grove Elementary and Prairie Grove Junior High. “It has an effect on their energy level.” At the connected building, Prairie Grove Junior High has air conditioning, but in most rooms the elementary school does not. Wight said the administration has plans in place to get the younger students into cooler rooms, including a “Buddy Reading” system where the elementary students walk over to the junior high and read with the older students. Wight also sent elementary teachers a schedule of when junior high
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Obama awards Medal of Honor to Afghan war veteran By TOM RAUM The Associated Press WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama bestowed the nation’s highest military award, the Medal of Honor, on Army Staff Sgt. Ty Carter on Monday, saluting the veteran of the war in Afghanistan as “the essence of true heroism,” one still engaged in a battle against the lingering emotional fallout of war. Carter risked his life to save an injured soldier, resupply ammunition to his comrades and render first aid during intense fighting in a remote mountain outpost four years ago. “As these soldiers and families will tell you, they’re a family forged
in battle, and loss, and love,” Obama said as Carter stood at his side and members of his unit watched in the White House East Room. Then as an Army specialist, Carter sprinted from his barracks into a ferocious firefight, a daylong battle on Oct. 3, 2009, that killed eight of his fellow soldiers as they tried to defend their outpost – at the bottom of a valley and surrounded by high mountains – from the onslaught of a much larger force of Taliban and local fighters. Still suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, Carter stood nearly emotionless during the ceremony, although a faint smile crossed his face near the end that turned into a broad grin as Obama hung the
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medal and its blue ribbon around his neck and the audience – which included 40 members of the recipient’s family – answered with a rousing standing ovation. Later, Carter told reporters outside the White House that winning the medal had been “one of the greatest experiences” for his family and that he would “strive to live up to the responsibility.” He also said he wanted to help the American public to better understand the “invisible wounds” still afflicting him and thousands of others. “Only those closest to me can see the scars,” Carter said, reading his statement. He said Americans
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Eastview Elementary teacher Kevin Pokorny headed back to school two weeks ago with the task of teaching a manageable group of fifth-graders. Pokorny is now responsible for teaching 21 students versus the 36 who were in his class last year. The lightened load allows him to spend more time individually with students.
Cheryl Trione was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer that has metastasized to her liver. She’s had two surgeries and is halfway through six months of chemotherapy. But some of the bills from her first surgery in February still haven’t come in. That’s why her friends, family and the staff at Johnsburg High School are holding a benefit. For more, see page B1.
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President Barack Obama awards U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ty M. Carter the Medal of Honor on Monday during a ceremony at the White House.
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