NWH-9-14-2013

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Byron..................... 0 Harvard ............... 35

Hampshire ...........21 CL Central ........... 46

Rich.-Burton ....... 28 Genoa-King......... 29

CL South...............13 Dundee-Crown ....14

Cary-Grove...........16 Huntley ................13

Jacobs ................. 20 Prairie Ridge......... 0

North Boone ........18 Marengo ............... 0 Woodstock N...... 28 McHenry ............. 35

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Castle owners sue FRG officials Strohls say home tour ordinance violates their First Amendment rights By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com FOX RIVER GROVE – The owners of the Bettendorf Castle in Fox River Grove filed a lawsuit Friday against village

officials that alleges a newly passed ordinance violates their First Amendment rights. The Village Board on Sept. 5 approved an ordinance that requires residential homeowners to obtain a special-use

Architect defends work on Capitol

permit to give tours of homes with architectural or historical significance. Attorney Robert Hanlon, who filed the lawsuit in McHenry County Court, said the ordinance was designed to

target his clients Michael and Judy Strohl, who have been giving tours in recent years of their home modeled off a castle in Luxembourg. The ordinance amendment, the lawsuit states,

violates the Strohls’ First Amendment protection to free speech, freedom of association and the right to peaceably assemble.

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Renovation project costing $50 million By KERRY LESTER The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – The architect of the Illinois Capitol said Friday he’s being unfairly targeted by Gov. Pat Quinn’s administration for renovations to the building that critics say are unnecessarily extravagant. J. Richard Alsop III says Quinn’s calls to have him “reigned in” are “unwarranted and completely out of Voice line.” your After reopinion ports that a $50 million renoShould ren- vation project ovation of the to the Capitol’s Illinois Capitol west wing included spendbuilding be ing $670,000 halted? Vote for three sets online at of copper-platNWHerald. ed doors and com. $80,000 apiece on two chandeliers, Quinn halted funding for future renovations until a review can be done. Alsop, who’s held the job since 2009, said his office is only one player in the renovation process and says it did the best it could with the resources it had. “We were given a direction. The [project’s] scope was agreed to long before I got here. Money was appropriated long before I got here,” Alsop said Friday after a previously scheduled meeting in Springfield with the four-member Capitol Architect Board, which oversees him. Lawmakers approved the project as part of a $31 billion

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CASA Advocate Manager Jorie Siemens of Island Lake walks behind volunteers Angie Harris of Algonquin, Whit Sears of Woodstock, Iris Douglas of Huntley and Frank Doud of McHenry as they go from the McHenry County Courthouse to the prison for fingerprinting during Court Appointed Special Advocate training Friday in Woodstock.

Making a difference in a child’s life By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Retirement bored Evey Davis, so she decided to create happy endings for the children she knew needed it most. Davis, a former special education teaching assistant in District 200, saw firsthand the

CASA volunteers help find permanent homes for abused and neglected kids difficulties foster children had adjusting to school and making friends. And all too often, once those friendships were made, the student would just not show up one day and Davis knew it

was because the student had gone on to another foster home. Now a Court Appointed Special Advocate, Davis has spent more than four years helping abused and neglected children

See CAPITOL, page A8

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PROPOSED HOUSE CONCERNS SOME A proposed annexation of a half-acre of land along Gardner Road has some potential neighbors concerned about stormwater runoff. A developer wants the village to annex three lots of vacant land at 212 Gardner Road in the Bayview subdivision so he can build a house and connect to the village’s sanitary sewer system. For more, see page B1.

Terry Pirro (left) of Woodstock and his daughter, Brianna Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com

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find permanent living situations by acting as a voice for those children in court proceedings. Whether it is stopping a run of five different foster homes for a child or watching a 15-month-old boy finally be adopted by loving grandparents

See CASA, page A8

How to help To find out more information about how to help the McHenry County CASA, visit www. casamchenrycounty.org or call 815363-5920.


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