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OSHA to investigate farm site Illini Swine farmhand at hospital in serious condition

By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI jduchnowski@shawmedia.com

Photos by Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com

Stephannie Baccay (left), 17, and Lindsay Cooper, 16, both playing Triton’s daughters, share a laugh backstage Monday during rehearsal for the Penguin Project’s performance of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid Jr.” at Sycamore High School.

Gotta dance, gotta sing Penguin Project facilitates theater for youth with disabilities

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Charles Schelkopf Illini Swine general manager said about the employee “At this time, our biggest concern is with him and his family and his health,” said Schelkopf, who described the hospitalized farmhand as a dedicated employee of at least 20 years.

Officials with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s North Aurora Area Office opened an investigation into the incident

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DeKalb OKs hotel inspection program

news@daily-chronicle.com SYCAMORE – It was Friday night, and the stage was set.

Performers, dressed in costume for the first time, rehearsed their lines and songs.

With just six days until the first show, the cast and crew worked to ensure everything was ready to go when the curtains draw back for Thursday’s opening night performance of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid Jr.” on the stage at Sycamore High School.

When the spotlight shines down at each show, there will be something unique about who the audience sees: The performers, members of Children’s Community Theatre’s Penguin Project, are 10 to 22 years old and all have a disability.

Performers, called artists, are each assigned a peer mentor who helps them with every facet of the performance. The mentors work with their artists throughout the four-month rehearsal process, and assist on stage as needed.

The productions through the program give artists with disabilities

KINGSTON – The 47-yearold farmhand rescued from a manhole at a swine farm Monday was upgraded to serious condition at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford as federal authorities began an investigation.

The farmhand was airlifted from Illini Swine, 11469 Base Line Road outside Kingston, about two hours after his coworkers found him unconscious Monday 15 feet down a manhole, authorities said.

He was listed in critical condition about 3 a.m. Tuesday and improved during the day.

Illini Swine General Manager Charles Schelkopf said it would be premature for him to comment on the incident itself.

“At this time, our biggest concern is with him and his family and his health.”

By CHRIS BURROWS

John Rey, mayor of DeKalb, said inspections may begin as early as this week.

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ABOVE: Daniel Jacob, 22, paces backstage Monday during rehearsal for the Penguin Project’s performance of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid Jr.” at Sycamore High School.

LEFT: Cole Cada (left), 11, and Scott Heinsohn, 19, talk Monday before rehearsal.

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You start falling a little bit in love with some of the kids and their personalities. What you thought was a disability is now something you see makes them unique and a part of them.

Randy Caspersen about filming rehearsals for a documentary

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DeKALB – Off-duty DeKalb firefighters could begin inspecting local hotels and motels this week as the city prepares to host its first IHSA State Football Championship in late November.

With some resistance from hotel owners, the City Council unanimously approved an annual inspection and licensing program Monday for all six DeKalb hotels and their combined 398 rooms. Details were outlined in Chapter 55 of the city’s hotel code, and the program will apply to any future hotels and motels, too.

“It sounds like, by the end of this week, they could begin activity on those inspections,” Mayor John Rey said after the meeting. “Clearly, one of our concerns was to address those cleanliness and hospitality issues in the hotels and motels prior to guests and visitors arriving in our community.”

City staff worked with the DeKalb Fire Department to come up with a set of guidelines for the inspections,

which will include fire and electrical safety standards, interior and exterior sanitary requirements and licensing rules. The annual inspections will be completed by off-duty DeKalb firefighters for at least this year.

“Realistically, we have the proposed guidelines, and we have three personnel that are trained and ready to start,” City Attorney Dean Frieders said. “... Our intention is to start as soon as possible and work with the hotels to address any issues that are out there.”

City leaders halved the fee amounts for this year after council members reviewed the proposal Sept. 9, but that didn’t address all of hotel owners’ concerns.

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8 DAILY PLANNER Today Business Networking International: 8 a.m. at 920 W. Prairie Drive, No. M, Sycamore.

Home-schoolers activities: 8:45 to 11:45 a.m. in Sycamore.

Hands-on classes and field trips.

Contact Lisa at 815-748-0896 or gakers@tbc.net.

Free Blood Pressure Clinic: 9 to 11 a.m. at Valley West Community Hospital, 11 E. Pleasant Ave., Sandwich. 815-786-3962 or www. valleywest.org.

WWII Combat Flyers breakfast: 9 a.m. at Sycamore Parkway Restaurant. Any capacity, any branch of the service. 815-756-2157.

Fresh Beginnings AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

New Beginnings AA(C): 10 a.m. at 120 Main St., Kingston. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Our Savior’s Lutheran Church Fall Salad Luncheon: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 2465 W. Sandwich Road, Sandwich. Tickets are $8 a person. Proceeds from the luncheon will be used to pay the mortgage. Tickets will be available at Farmer’s Daughter in Sandwich or at the door. 815-786-6876.

Kishwaukee Kiwanis: 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Hopkins Park Community Room in DeKalb. www.

KishKiwanis.org; email Amy Polzin at APolzin87@yahoo.com.

Exchange Club of DeKalb/Sycamore: Noon to 1 p.m. at Lincoln Inn, DeKalb. Guests are welcome.

Call John Hughes at 815-991-5387.

“Newcomers” Group: Noon at Cafe 72, 682 Park Ave., Genoa. For information, call 815-784-2626.

Sycamore Rotary Club: Noon at Blumen Gardens, 403 Edward St., Sycamore.

24 Hours A Day Brown Bag AA(C): 12:05 p.m. at Newman Center, 512 Normal Road, DeKalb,.

800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Kishwaukee Valley Heritage Museum: 1 to 5 p.m. at 622 Park Ave. in Genoa. Call 815-784-5559 for appointments other days.

Memories of DeKalb Ag: 2 to 4 p.m. at Nehring Gallery, Suite 204, 111 S. Second St., DeKalb. Free. Open to all. www.dekalbalumni.org.

Consumer Advocacy Council of DeKalb County: 3:45 p.m. at Reality House, 631 S. First St., DeKalb.

All consumers of mental health services and the public welcome.

Weight Watchers: 5 p.m. weigh-in, 5:30 p.m. meeting at Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road, (near Aldi) DeKalb.

Safe Passage Domestic Violence support group: 815-7565228; www.safepassagedv.org.

Came to Believe AA(C): 6 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Chess Game Play: 6 to 8 p.m. at Sycamore Public Library, 103 E. State St., Sycamore. Free. All ages and skill levels. info@dekalbchess. com; www.DeKalbChess.com.

North Avenue Pass It On AA(C): 6:30 p.m. at North Avenue Baptist Church, 301 North Ave., Sycamore. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com.

Northern Illinois Reiki Share: 6 to 7 p.m. at Center for Integrative BodyWork, 130 N. Fair St., Sycamore. www.yourcfib.com, 815-8996000; info@yourcfib.com.

Cortland Lions Club: 7 p.m. at Lions Shelter House at Cortland Community Park. 815-756-4000.

Narcotics Anonymous: 7 to 8 p.m. at United Church of Christ, 615 N. First St., DeKalb. 815-9645959. www.rragsna.org.

Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators: 7 p.m. in the lower level conference room at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Free. Email dekalbscbwi@ yahoo.com.

Sycamore Lions Club: 7 p.m. at MVP’s Regale Center, 124½ S. California St., Sycamore. www. sycamorelions.org; contact Jerome Perez at Sycamorejerry@ comcast.net or 815-501-0101.

Bingo Night: 7:15 p.m. at Sycamore Veterans Club, 121 S. California St. 815-895-2679.

Kishwaukee Concert Band rehearsals: 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Huntley Middle School, South Seventh and Taylor streets, DeKalb.

No auditions necessary; the band is open to wind or percussion instrumentalists age 18 and older.

815-899-4867 or 815-825-2350.

Celebration Chorale practices: 8 p.m. Wednesdays at First United Methodist Church, 321 Oak St., DeKalb. Call Sally at 815-739-6087.

Hopefuls AA(C): 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

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Kenyatta declares end to bloody siege The ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenya’s president proclaimed victory Tuesday over the terrorists who stormed a Nairobi mall, saying security forces had “shamed and defeated our attackers” after a bloody four-day siege in which dozens of civilians were killed.

President Uhuru Kenyatta said the dead included 61 civilians whose bodies have been recovered so far and six security forces, while after 175 were injured, including 62 who remain hospitalized.

Three floors of the mall collapsed and several bodies were trapped in the rubble, said Kenyatta. His office later said a terrorist’s body was among those in the debris.

Five other extremists were killed by gunfire and another 11 suspects had been arrested, he said; authorities had previously announced the arrest of seven at the airport and three elsewhere.

“These cowards will meet justice as well as their accomplices and patrons, wherever they are,” Kenyatta said, in a televised address to the nation.

Kenyatta, 51, has visited wounded survivors in the hospital and made other emotion-filled speeches about the terrorist attack, which has been the harshest test of his leadership since he became president in April.

“Fellow Kenyans, we have been badly hurt and feel great pain and loss.

But we have been brave, united and strong,” said Kenyatta, the son of the country’s founding president, Jomo Kenyatta. “Kenya has stared down evil and triumphed.”

Kenyatta’s statesman-like demeanor over the terror crisis is at odds with the charges he faces at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in which he is after to have incited violence following Kenya’s 2007 elections.

Kenyatta declared three days of national mourning starting today.

BOSTON – Forty attorneys general sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday urging the agency to meet its own deadline and regulate electronic cigarettes in the same way it regulates tobacco products.

The letter, co-sponsored by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, and which includes Illinois, says e-cigarettes are being marketed to children through cartoon-like advertising characters and by offering fruit and candy flavors, much like cigarettes were once marketed to hook new smokers.

At the same time, e-cigarettes are becoming more affordable and more widely available as the use of regular cigarettes decline as they become more expensive and less socially acceptable.

“Unlike traditional tobacco products, there are no federal age restrictions that would prevent children from

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Relatives of Johnny Mutinda Musango, 48, weep after identifying his body Tuesday at the city morgue in Nairobi, Kenya. Musango was one of the victims of the Westgate Mall hostage siege. Kenyan security forces were still combing the mall on the fourth day of the siege by al-Qaida-linked terrorists.

At the Westgate Mall, there were no immediate signs of the Kenyan Security forces closing their operation.

Two Kenyan soldiers who had recently been inside the mall told The Associated Press shortly before the president spoke that the operation was effectively finished, but they said security forces were still combing the facility and had not definitively cleared all the rooms inside. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were under orders not to speak to the media.

Kenyan forces had for two days said they were in the “final phase” of the operation, only to be battled back by the militants inside the building.

Explosions rang from the upscale Westgate Mall in Nairobi throughout Tuesday, and the chatter of gunfire from inside the building could also be heard. Fresh smoke rose from the

building in the afternoon.

The Kenyan Red Cross had previously said 62 people had been killed, and it seemed certain that the number of confirmed deaths would rise as security forces search the building.

Nairobi’s city morgue had already braced for the arrival of a large number of bodies of people killed, an official said.

Kenyan Red Cross spokesman Abbas Gullet said it was still not known how many more may be dead inside the building.

“It is certainly known that there are more casualties,” he said.

A government official told The Associated Press that the morgue was preparing for up to an additional 60 bodies, though the official didn’t know an exact count. The government official insisted on anonymity so he would not face retribution.

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obtaining e-cigarettes, nor are there any advertising restrictions,” DeWine wrote.

Electronic cigarettes are metal or plastic battery-powered devices resembling traditional cigarettes that heat a liquid nicotine solution, creating vapor that users inhale. Users get nicotine without the chemicals, tar or odor of regular cigarettes.

E-cigarettes are being advertised during prime-time television hours at a time when many children are watching, according to the letter, which has led a surge in sales and use.

The health effects of e-cigarettes have not been adequately studied and the ingredients are not regulated, the letter said.

“People, especially kids, are being led to believe that e-cigarettes are a safe alternative, but they are highly addictive and can deliver strong doses of nicotine,” Coakley said.

Citing a National Youth Tobacco Surveys conducted by the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention, the attorneys generals said 1.8 million middle and high school students said they had tried e-cigarettes in 2012, mirroring increases in the use of the product by adults.

The letter urges the FDA to meet an Oct. 31 deadline to issue proposed regulations that will address the advertising, ingredients and sale to minors of e-cigarettes. The decision has been delayed in the past.

Tom Kiklas, co-founder and chief financial officer of the industry group, the Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association, agrees that e-cigarettes should be regulated as tobacco products. The group represents dozens of companies involved in the manufacture and sales of e-cigarettes.

“We’re in agreement with responsible restrictions on the marketing and sales of these products,” including a ban on marketing aimed at children, he said. “What I cringe at is when e-cigarettes get demonized.”

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Illinois officials urge farmers to stay safe during delayed harvest The ASSOCIATED PRESS SPRINGFIELD – Heavy rains that delayed planting across much of central Illinois this spring also means a later harvest in some areas, prompting concerns that farmers could push too hard to get crops out of the fields and put themselves at increased risk of injuries or fatalities.

“When harvest time comes, farmers’ main goal is to get it out of the fields and into elevators,” Rochester farmer Larry Beaty said. “Sometimes we push too hard, go too fast and things happen before you know it.”

The warnings come after Illinois experienced its safest harvest season

in 35 years last year, with just 12 fatalities, largely because of a drought that meant farmers were spending less time harvesting, driving equipment on roadways and filling grain bins.

The deaths occurred between July 2012 and 2013, and about two-thirds involved roadway collisions, tractor rollovers or pedestrians being run over, according to COUNTRY Financial, which released data during last week’s National Farm Safety and Health Week. There were 38 fatalities in the 2011-2012 season. The (Springfield) State Journal-Register reported most area farmers won’t start harvesting corn for another week.

University of Illinois professor Bob

Aherin, who coordinates the school’s Agriculture Safety and Health Program, said farmers are “antsy” to get into the field.

“We think this year will be a much bigger crop and the risk will be greater,” he said.

Third-generation farmer Ben Ladage said he grew up surrounded by safety training and warnings from his father and grandfather.

“You knew it’s dangerous. The old fellas missing arms and legs were how you knew,” said Ladage, of Auburn.

“Modern technology has given us the advantage. It beats our stupidity. The precautions are in place to keep us safe, if we just slow down.”

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A central Illinois corn and soybean farmer cultivates his field April 4 in preparation for spring planting in Waverly. Officials say Illinois farmers had the safest season in decades last year, with a dozen farm-related fatalities.

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Local history book highlights county’s industry

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Bob Boey of DeKalb shares stories about the Anaconda Cable and Wire Co. at the DeKalb County Economic Development Corp.’s business roundtable Tuesday on the site of the former company’s Sycamore location. Boey was an engineering manager of the company in its heyday.

SYCAMORE – Bob Boey didn’t grow up in DeKalb County, but he has become well known here in the past 32 years as a business and community leader.

“Many friends have asked me, ‘What’s a guy who grew up in Hong Kong ... doing in Sycamore and DeKalb?’ ” he said.

In fact, the county’s booming industrial sector prompted Boey to uproot his family from New York City and come to Sycamore, where he helped set up Anaconda Cable and Wire’s engineering headquarters across from its 650,000-square-foot manufac-

turing facility.

Much has changed since then.

The DeKalb County Economic Development Corp. focused on changes within the county’ s industrial landscape at a roundtable presentation Tuesday at the former Anaconda Cable and Wire location at 449 N. California St. in Sycamore. DCEDC’s leaders wrote and researched a chapter on the topic for the upcoming local history book “Acres of Change.”

“Acres of Change” is a 50year sequel to a history book titled “From Oxen to Jets” which was published in 1963,” said Jerry Smith, a former DCEDC president and book

contributor.

“The DeKalb County Historical and Genealogical Society thought that it was appropriate to do a 50-year update of that history,” he said.

In the 1970s, manufacturing jobs made up 22 percent of the county’s workforce, compared with just 10 percent today, according to the presentation. Even so, the county has seen economic growth as industrial and commercial priorities have shifted.

“The [DeKalb County] economy has expanded significantly over the last 25 years, outpacing residential development,” DCEDC President Paul Borek said. “That’s what you want to see to ex-

pand and diversify the economy and attract commercial and industrial development and jobs for our residents.”

In the works since 2010, “Acres of Change” brought together 18 community members to write on topics from education and religion to government and service organizations and how they’ve changed over the past half century. The book is slated to hit shelves in November.

“It has been an exciting project to research and write, and a long process,” Smith said. “Folks will find this book ... will be very colorful, very insightful and certainly full of history – pictures, personality profiles, facts and figures.”

Belman helping shape plans D-424 board unanimously approves fiscal 2014 budget on mental health board Executive director post now full time

“We took quality time in the search for the director, and we feel Sandra comes with a great background to work with the board.”

By FELIX SARVER fsarver@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Sandra Belman is helping the DeKalb County Community Mental Health Board plan its long-term goals to improve the services the board provides.

Belman, the first full-time executive director of the board in three years, is assisting the board in its strategic plan to adjust future needs of mental health services in the area. Board members chose Belman in August when they realized a full-time executive director, was needed to shepherd their strategic plan that was developed last year.

“We took quality time in the search for the director and we feel Sandra comes with a great background to work with the board,” said Cynthia Luxton, president of the DeKalb County Community Mental Health Board.

The board plans, evaluates, coordinates and funds mental health services in DeKalb

Cynthia Luxton President of the DeKalb County Community Mental Health Board County, according to its website. The board funds programs that help people with mental disorders, substance abuse issues and developmental disabilities.

In 2009, the board chose Mark Parrish to be a full-time executive director. When he left in 2010, Donna Moulton was chosen to be a part-time director, Luxton said. Questions arose whether the board needed the position to be full time and whether it could save money by having the position be part time.

“It was something that was pointed out to us by the agencies we fund,” she said.

After some discussion with DeKalb County Board members, mental health agencies and Moulton, the position was reduced to half time, Luxton said. The salary range for a part time executive director

was $30,000 to $40,000 while the salary for a full-time position is between $50,000 and $75,000.

Moulton decided to leave the position when board members realized they needed a full-time director to formulate and fulfill their strategic goals but Moulton had other responsibilities. Luxton said everyone on the board saw Moulton doing a good job but needed “more of what [she] did.”

Belman, who was previously the director of health family initiatives at Rockford-based La Voz Latina, said she’s been working with mental health issues for several years.

“It’s a very basic public health issue, and it’s really hard to have any other type of health status if your mental health status is not functional,” she said.

By FELIX SARVER fsarver@shawmedia.com GENOA – While state revenue is decreasing for Genoa-Kingston School District 424, some school officials are hopeful the district will balance its budget in the near future.

At Tuesday’s school board meeting, Brad Shortridge, assistant superintendent for the district, presented the school budget for fiscal 2014, which began July 1. Board members unanimously voted to adopt the budget. Board President Paul Kruse was not present at the meeting.

The district projected an overall deficit of about $1.1 million for this year and school officials managed to reduce the deficit for its operating funds by almost half.

The operating fund deficit is about $543,000.

The reductions in the deficit came as a result of reducing outside services or equipment by about $600,000. More than $100,000 was saved in the past two to three years by combining administrator positions and having adminis-

trators take on more responsibilities.

In March, more than a dozen teaching positions, support staff and the freshman sports program were cut in a bid to cut $600,000 from the district’s budget. Since then, six of the teachers in music, math, science and reading have returned. The freshmen sports program was reinstated after faculty members found ways to raise money to save it.

District Superintendent Joe Burgess said school officials are staying positive about the future of the school’s budget. He said the goal is to eventually balance the budget and keep a healthy fund balance at about 50 percent of its operating funds expenses, which is board policy.

“If things work out, if everything works out right … we might come close to, hopefully, that balance,” he said.

In Shortridge’s presentation for the current fiscal year, he included $1.1 million the district receives for handling the payroll from the Kishwaukee Education Consortium. For this year, expenses are expected to be

about $19.97 million and revenues are expected to be about $19.23 million. The overall deficit is projected to be about $740,000.

School officials anticipate a fund balance – or savings – of about $12.6 million by the end of the current fiscal year, which is June 30.

The district’s revenue decreased from last year as a result of 9 percent reduction in state revenue. Shortridge said state revenue will continue to decrease if the district’s enrollment keeps shrinking. General state aid for the school district is based on enrollment and attendance.

Last year, the district’s enrollment was 1,883 students and this year enrollment is an estimated 1,854.

“We hope we start getting some more enrollment,” he said.

Board member Kerri Sosnowski said she was concerned about the decreasing revenue coming from the state but thought the district manages its finances well.

“I think our district does a very good job of managing the funds we have,” she said.

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Penguin Project coordinator Joe King said the program has helped his son, Daniel, who has Down syndrome, gain confidence.

“Before we did this, I had no idea how much he has been capable of,” King said.

AGING OUT AND MOVING ON The DeKalb chapter of the Penguin Project started four years ago, and some artists who have been there since Day One are now aging out of the program.

This can be a difficult transition for some, said mentor Samantha Hepcker, who is studying to become a special education teacher.

This year will be 22-yearold Sharon Schramer’s last.

What she’ll miss the most, Schramer said, is the friends she has made.

“I think I’ve learned a lot,” Schramer said. “I want to continue my acting. I want to do Stage Coach Players someday.”

Penguin Project director Tracey Busby said she will “terribly” miss the students aging out.

“What I’ve seen in them is growth in the ability to follow directions, camaraderie and social interaction and just blossoming into positive personalities, playing characters different than themselves and holding onto that,” Busby said.

King’s son is also leaving the program after this year.

“He’s very sad,” King said.

“You don’t want to bring it up because it’ll upset him.”

Hepcker’s artist from last year, Nicole, is handling her exit from the program differently.

“She’s sad she’s leaving, but she reminds everyone how old she is and how independent she is,” Hepcker said.

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Jacob Ihm, 15, plays Sebastian during rehearsal Monday for the Penguin Project’s performance of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid Jr.” at Sycamore High School.

“Before we did this, I had no idea how much he has been capable of.”

Joe King Penguin Project coordinator said about his son, Daniel, who has gained confidence ‘THE PENGUIN PROCESS’ This year’s Penguin Project cast will be in another production: A documentary film crew of students from Northern Illinois University has followed the artists and peer mentors since rehearsals began in May. The film’s working title, “The Penguin Process,” will focus on the artists of the DeKalb chapter and document the Penguin Project’s origins in Peoria.

Randy Caspersen, director and executive producer of “The Penguin Process,” said he hopes to have the film finished by next summer. A rotating crew of eight or nine peo-

ple – all media students at NIU – are assisting with the film.

The idea to film the Penguin Project came last year on a Sunday morning, when Caspersen was driving to the gym listening to a radio interview done by King. Caspersen then attended Penguin Project’s performance of “Beauty of the Beast” and pitched the documentary idea to King.

Since then, the crew has followed the Penguin Project every step of the way, missing only one rehearsal this year.

“You start falling a little bit in love with some of the kids and their personalities,” he said. “What you thought was a disability is now something you see makes them unique and a part of them.”

Courtney Oakes, a second-year graduate student in the film crew, said she has loved seeing the transformation artists had from Day One to now.

“They sing and dance better than I ever could,” Oakes said. “I don’t see disabilities. I see awesome things.”

If You Go n What: The Penguin Project’s performance of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid Jr.” n When: 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; 2 p.m.

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Obama, Rouhani back resumption of nuke talks The ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS – Hopeful yet unyielding, President Barack Obama and new Iranian President Hasan Rouhani both spoke up fervently for improved relations and a resumption of stalled nuclear talks Tuesday at the U.N. – but gave no ground on the long-held positions that have scuttled previous attempts to break the impasse.

The leaders’ separate appearances at the United Nations General Assembly came amid heightened speculation about a thaw in U.S.-Iranian relations after the election of Rouhani, a more-moderate

sounding cleric. In fact, officials from both countries had quietly negotiated the possibility of a brief meeting between Obama and Rouhani.

But U.S. officials said the Iranians told them Tuesday that an encounter would be “too complicated” given uncertainty about how it would be received in Tehran. Instead, Obama and Rouhani traded their public messages during addresses hours apart at the annual U.N. meetings.

Obama said it was worth pursuing diplomacy with Iran even though skepticism persists about Tehran’s willingness to back up its recent overtures with concrete actions to

answer strong concerns at the U.N. and in many nations that the Iranians are working to develop a nuclear bomb.

“The roadblocks may prove to be too great, but I firmly believe the diplomatic path must be tested,” Obama said adding that while he was “encouraged” by Rouhani’s election, the new president’s “conciliatory words will have to be matched by actions that are transparent and verifiable.”

Rouhani, making his international debut, said Iran was ready to enter talks “without delay” and insisted his country was uninterested in escalating tensions with the U.S. He said Iran must retain the right to en-

Insurance rates for Illinois may be lower than projected The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO – Gov. Pat Quinn’s administration gave residents a partial glimpse Tuesday of what they might pay for coverage on Illinois’ new health exchange, days before the online marketplace that will help form the backbone of President Barack Obama’s health care law opens for business.

Some of the prices are lower than expected, but it’s still unclear whether that’s because there will be less choice among doctors and hospitals covered in the networks of some plans, or whether a few insurers are simply offering bargain prices hoping to gain customers who will stick with them for years to come.

Quinn’s office announced

the monthly rates for the lowest-cost plan for a 25-year-old nonsmoker will be $120 in Chicago or $128 in Peoria. For a 40-year-old nonsmoker, the monthly cost of the cheapest plan would be $152 in Chicago or $163 in Peoria. For a 55-yearold nonsmoker, the monthly premium for the cheapest plan would be $266 in Chicago or $284 in Peoria.

Smokers will pay more: a 25-year-old Chicago smoker will pay $132 a month for the cheapest plan, for example.

Illinois is still waiting for final federal approval for 165 health plans offered by eight insurers: Aetna Life Insurance Company, Coventry Health and Life Insurance Company, Coventry Health Care of Illinois Inc., Health Alliance Medical Plans Inc., Health Care

Service Corporation (Blue Cross), Humana Health Plan Inc., Humana Insurance Company and Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Company.

Most Illinois residents will be able to choose from at least 34 plans when the marketplace goes live Oct. 1. In some parts of the state, the choices will be even greater.

Consumers must wait until next week to learn exactly how much they’ll pay. New tax credits will lower costs for some, depending on household income.

The lower-than-expected prices publicized by the governor’s office are indeed low compared to federal projections, said one independent expert on health insurance pricing.

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.

DeKalb city David J. Bemis, 54, of the 17000 block of Anderland Road, DeKalb, was charged Saturday, Sept. 21, with criminal damage to a vehicle.

Albertano Aquino-Villaneuva, 50, of the 800 block of North 14th Street, DeKalb, was charged Sunday, Sept. 22, with domestic battery.

Chloe B. Johnson, 22, of the 800 block of Crane Drive, DeKalb, was arrested Sunday, Sept. 22, on an in-state warrant and charged with trespass to land.

Kiahini S. Simmons, 21, of the first block of South Waller Avenue, Chicago, was arrested Sunday, Sept. 22, on an in-state warrant and charged with obstructing justice and trespass to land.

Cynthia A. Welch, 44, of the 200 block of Gurler Street, DeKalb, was charged Sunday, Sept. 22, with retail theft.

Dylan J. Blackstone, 20, of the 1100 block of Rushmoore Drive, DeKalb, was charged Sunday, Sept. 22, with domestic battery, unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia and obstructing justice.

Brennan C. Dewild, 24, of the 300 block of West Street, Kingston, was charged Monday, Sept. 23, with unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia and retail theft.

DeKalb County Jacquelyn M. Martin-Ferguson, 22, of the 11650 Baseline Road, Kingston, was charged Tuesday, Sept. 24, was arrested on a Van Buren County, Mich., warrant for criminal sexual conduct.

Anton C. Howell, 21, of the 1400 block of Twombly Road, DeKalb, was charged Monday, Sept. 23, with domestic battery.

Leo R. McGarry, 52, of the 300 block of West Eight Street, Belvidere, was charged Monday, Sept. 23, with aggravated driving under the influence, improper lane use, no insurance and no driver’s license.

Sycamore Brittney N. Forston, 29, of Sycamore, was arrested Wednesday, Sept. 18, on a failure-to-appear warrant.

Investigation to take at least 3 months • OSHA Continued from page A1 after receiving a report about it from the media, OSHA spokesman Scott Allen said.

An employer is required to report an incident involving a fatality or three workers being hospitalized, Allen said.

“Our investigator or investigators will begin by talking to the employer, employees, and any potential witnesses to try to find out what was going on there,” Allen said.

The investigation will explore whether proper workplace regulations were followed; Illini Swine could be fined and ordered to address any concerns that are found, Allen said.

He expected the investigation would take at least three months.

DeKalb County Sheriff Chief Deputy Gary Dumdie said the employee went into the manhole Monday to do maintenance on a manure pit at the swine farm, which is east of Pleasant Hill Road

south of Kingston. Two other men went down to check on him after no one had heard from him for a period of time and found him unconscious about 6 p.m.

The other two workers remained with him as emergency crews assembled, Dumdie said. After the rescue, crews took the two farmhands who helped the first worker to Kishwaukee Hospital, Dumdie said.

A nursing supervisor said those two men were not at the hospital Tuesday afternoon.

New ordinance won’t affect extended stays • INSPECTION Continued from page A1 money was as much of an issue,” said Vicky Torres, the DeKalb Best Western’s general manager. “... I just think it’s the organization of the plan.”

The fees associated with the inspections program are intended to offset the cost of the inspections and are tied to the number of rooms. Next year, the fees will return to the full level of $720 a year for the smallest to $1,700 for the larg-

est current hotels in DeKalb.

Hotel owners voiced concerns for customers that stay longer than 30 days, but Frieders said the new ordinance wouldn’t affect such stays.

“The ordinance does not intend to prohibit [long-term stays],” he said. “What the ordinance does intend to prohibit is adverse public consequences that can occur when those long-term stays occur without minimum sanitation standards being met.”

Rey, 3rd Ward Alderwoman Kristen Lash and 5th Ward

Alderman Ron Naylor agreed with 4th Ward Alderman Bob Snow the inspection program will be reviewed and could be tweaked after the initial round.

“I think we need to inspect the hotels/motels this year, find out what kind of shape they’re in, and then I would ask staff to come back after the initial inspections and give a report to council,” Snow said.

“Then we can sit down with the hotel managers and maybe work out a more effective procedure.”

rich uranium, but vigorously denied his country was seeking to build a nuclear weapon.

“Nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction have no place in Iran’s security and defense doctrine, and contradict our fundamental religious and ethical convictions,” Rouhani said. “Our national interests make it imperative that we remove any and all reasonable concerns about Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.”

He strongly criticized the economic sanctions imposed on Iran as part of the effort to persuade its leaders to open its nuclear programs to international inspection.

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President Barack Obama addresses the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

Police: DeKalb woman sexually abused boy

By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI jduchnowski@shawmedia.com DeKALB – A 26-year-old woman accused of forcing a young boy in her care to perform sex acts on her remained in DeKalb County Jail on Tuesday with $1 million bail.

Cynthia D e K a l b Warren police began investigating Cynthia Warren, of the 1300 block of West Lincoln Highway, based on a report from the Illinois Department of Children and

Family Services, Lt. Bob Redel said. The boy was younger than 13 years old.

“We talked to her, and she corroborated a lot of the things he said,” Redel said.

She was arrested Monday and charged with predatory criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse. The more serious charge, predatory criminal sexual assault, typically is punishable by between six and 30 years in prison.

The investigation remains ongoing, as police think the abuse had been going on for the past year or two, Redel said. Warren is next due in court Oct. 22.

8LOCAL BRIEFS Semitrailer tips over on I-88 ramp, no injuries DeKALB – State police are investigating what made a semitrailer roll onto its side on the east-bound exit ramp from Interstate 88 to Annie Glidden Road.

At about 2:45 p.m., the semitrailer rolled on to its side and into the right ditch along the ramp, State Police Master Sgt. Chadd Brody said. Nobody was injured, and no hazardous materials were spilled.

While the lane was partially blocked, the ramp was not closed until 4:20 p.m. when a load of tires in the trailer needed to be transported into another container, he said. After that the truck was expected to be raised upright.

Brody said truck enforce-

Born: July 6, 1943, in Mount Vernon, Ill. Died: Sept. 20, 2013, in Fargo, N.D. PARK RAPIDS, Minn. – Roy M. Anderson, 70, of Park Rapids, Minn., died Friday, Sept. 20, 2013.

He and his wife, Carol, lived in DeKalb, where they raised their children, and Roy worked as a police officer for 21 years. They moved to Park Rapids in 1991.

Memorial Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, at St. Peter Catholic Church in Park Rapids.

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WILBUR L. RAND Born: Nov. 4, 1924, in Esmond, Ill. Died: Sept. 22, 2013, in DeKalb, Ill. DeKALB – Wilbur L. Rand, 88, formerly of Creston, Ill., and Winterhaven, Fla., died Sunday, Sept.

22, 2013, at Bethany Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center in DeKalb.

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Oktoberfest set for Oct. 5 at Veterans Home GENOA – The Genoa Lions Club will host its 5th Annual Oktoberfest from 3 to 10 p.m.

Oct. 5 at the Genoa Veterans Home, 311 S. Washington St. Admission is $5, and the first 200 attendees receive a free beer mug, according to a news release. The Relics will perform from 3 to 5 p.m., while Hitman Rockband will perform from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and Shuvlhed will perform from 8 to 10 p.m.

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Wilbur was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters; an infant daughter, Laurel Denise Rand, in 1949; wife, Marye, in 2000; and daughter, Cheryl Castell, in 2012.

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8SKETCH VIEW

Ex-NFL player shows way to achieve success

Village idiots take aim at Miss America A couple of months ago, I got an email from Supreet.

Supreet is in the 11th grade. He shops at Walmart and plays basketball. His father came to this country from India and both are Sikhs, followers of a centuries-old faith founded in the Punjab region. Supreet wanted to tell me what it is like being a Sikh in America.

He wrote about how, after 9/11, his father became “perhaps the most hated man in our small town.” He wrote about how his dad had to stop wearing the turban Sikh men use to cover their “kesh,” the hair their faith forbids them to cut. He wrote about bullying and depression suffered by young Sikhs. He wrote about black boys who taunted him as “Osama’s son.”

He wrote about Wade Michael Page, who in 2012, shot 10 people, killing six, at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, likely thinking it was a mosque. He wrote about how President Obama canceled a visit to a Sikh holy site in 2010, which some people thought was because male visitors are required to cover their heads and Obama didn’t want anyone calling him a Muslim.

“But Sikhs are NOT Muslims,” wrote Supreet. “Why do we keep getting labeled as Muslims?”

It is a plaintive question with which the new Miss America would doubtless sympathize. Nina Davuluri of New York state won the crown last week, becoming

VIEWS Leonard Pitts the first Indian American to do so. Her triumph was marred by an eruption of – pardon the tautology – ignorant bigotry on social media.

“Audrey Graham” tweeted, “Miss America is a terrorist. Whatever. It’s fine.”

“Luke Brasili” tweeted, “9/11 was four days ago and she gets miss America?”

“De La Rutherford” tweeted, “Congratulations, Al-Qaeda. Our Miss America is one of you.”

And you are almost – almost – less appalled by the bigotry than by the slackjawed, knuckle-dragging, dull-eyed ignorance of people so stupefyingly uninformed that they can’t even hate straight. Miss America’s parents are Hindus. Hindus are not Muslims, either. Not that hating them would be acceptable even if they were.

And not that the distinction will matter to the folks quoted above. All dark-skinned people with exotic names or unfamiliar customs are Muslim terrorists to that bunch of nuclear physicists.

Some of us are not beauty pageant fans.

Indeed, some of us find them archaic outposts of retrograde sexism. But surely all of us can agree that if we are going to have

such pageants, they should not be stained by xenophobic prejudice.

Nina Davuluri deserves better. So does Supreet. Their families, after all, chose this country. Consider what that means: To give up everything you have always known and of all the other options available, decide that this is where you want to be.

Presumably, one factor in that choice was America’s promise: Here you are equal, here you are free, here you may rise to whatever height aspiration and hard work will take you.

So the treatment they have received is not just ugly, but embarrassing, and not just embarrassing but promise-breaking.

Jonah Carlin and others like him need to read the writing on the demographic wall.

What was exotic and unfamiliar yesterday is shopping at Walmart and shooting hoops today. Change is coming; that fact is non-negotiable. But our success or lack thereof in incorporating that change will determine what America is 50 years from now.

Step one: Decide if we are serious in what we claim ourselves to be. In other words, we can either keep America’s promise or else stop making it.

• Leonard Pitts is a columnist for The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, Fla., 33132. Readers may contact him via e-mail at lpitts@miamiherald.com.

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The mass shooting America barely noticed ed. People continued to argue about the new Miss America.

I emailed a friend in North Carolina, What number of dead here would it have asking if I just didn’t have a sense of how taken to give the nation pause? Twelve shaken the rest of the country was by what people were fatally shot at the Navy Yard in had happened. Maybe it was like when a Washington last week, and America hardly bomb goes off and those at the impact site noticed. are rendered temporarily deaf to the chaos President Barack Obama perfunctorily around them, I said. noted that “yet another mass shooting” had No, he replied, there really isn’t any occurred. He required no moment to get con- noise. trol of his emotions, as he had at the lectern To an extent, I was just as guilty. I went after the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. home and giggled through some silly games Perhaps because he knew that the massawith my daughter before tucking her in. I cre of 20 children and six educators, and didn’t hold her endlessly – terrified, broken his subsequent attempts to jump-start the – as I did after Newtown. I kissed her on the gun-control debate, changed nothing when head and, after a few lullabies, I walked out it came to meaningful violence prevention. of the room and watched some television. I He knows that our country is still beholden was not unbothered or unmindful of what to a Congress that blanches at the thought of had transpired that day. But unlike after an unfavorable NRA voting record while it Newtown – where children my daughter’s tries more than 40 times to repeal a law mak- age had died horrifically – I was not uning affordable mental health care available glued. to those who desperately need it.

When violence of this magnitude hapIn the first hours after the shootings, Ma- pens in your city and you are unscathed, rejor League Baseball thought it might hold a lief sets in – it wasn’t you. But the next day, game a few blocks away. I’d like to believe it hit me harder. I learned that my coworkthat dignity and reason and compassion er’s cousin was killed at the Navy Yard. And prevailed in the late afternoon, when the that my daughter’s teacher spent the day game was postponed, but my gut tells me it panicked because her husband works two was just logistics. floors below where Aaron Alexis perched Meanwhile, my Facebook and Twitter and took aim. feeds were full of the usual. A poor perforUnless you know us, the men and women mance at the gym lamented. Pictures of a who work and live in Washington are conpretty sunset snapped. Dinner plans debatsidered faceless, pointless bureaucrats. We

By CYNTHIA McCABE The Washington Post

pay taxes, yet do not have a vote in Congress. Our work and our city are held up as symbols of everything wrong with politics, government and media. Tourists from “Real America” ask us for directions on the subway or to snap a photo of their family in front of a landmark. Then they go home and talk about how terrible Washington is.

Nice to meet you, too.

When 12 people are massacred in the District, it’s not people dying in Real America.

The nation does not stand “D.C. Strong.”

After Hurricane Katrina, everyone who’d ever sucked down a drink on Bourbon Street claimed the Big Easy as their home.

When 12 people are shot dead in This Town, our nation shrugs collectively and offers justifications for its apathy. There were no children involved. It wasn’t in a part of the city familiar to outsiders. It wasn’t at a nationally known and revered event, like the Boston Marathon. It was in a military building, not a commercial workplace.

Beyond the Beltway, Americans can be forgiven for not knowing the geography of the city. That the site of the massacre is about a block from a park where kids splash in a fountain.

What cannot be forgiven is the dehumanization of a town and the uninterest when 12 people who work there do not make it home.

• Cynthia McCabe, a local author, writes the Brunch Bird blog, where a version of this piece first appeared.

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Parents who want their children to achieve success in life usually encourage youngsters to choose role models for inspiration.

Area families don’t have very far to look, as far as we’re concerned.

Just set their sights on Sean Considine of Byron.

By doing so, parents and kids will see how an area young man, through hard work and a true appreciation of the people in his life, thrived while achieving great things.

How great?

How about being a member of the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens?

Considine, 31, capped his 8-year NFL career as a member of the league’s very best team, where the veteran safety played on special teams.

How about being drafted by the NFL? For the record Considine was a fourthround pick by the PhiladelHard work, teamwork, inphia Eagles in the 2005 draft. novative thinking, and devoHow about playing for tion to family constitute the the University of Iowa footpillars of success for Sean ball team?

Considine. Let young people Considine made the allbenefit by his example.

Big Ten team as a safety for the Hawkeyes.

How about playing on a state championship high school football team?

Considine played on Byron’s 1999 state title team; he also made the all-state team twice.

But Considine’s athletic success did not come at the expense of academic success, as he recently told Oregon High School students during a Relay for Life assembly.

“I was committed to being the hardest worker I could. Not just in football, or the weight room, but in the classroom,” he said.

And when people get together for a common goal, Considine said, “The sky is the limit.”

Considine, who lives in Byron with his wife and children, continues to be living proof of his philosophy. Intrigued by the growing popularity of farmers markets, he joined forces with a Creston meat and catering shop to create a mobile market featuring fresh meat.

His idea is unique to the state of Illinois, Considine discovered as he dealt with state regulators. But the best part, he says, is that each night he can go home to his family.

Hard work, teamwork, innovative thinking, and devotion to family constitute the pillars of success for Sean Considine. Let young people benefit by his example.

8 ANOTHER VIEW

Attacking the poor rather than fighting poverty Public assistance has not kept pace with rising poverty nationally over the past five years, and it’s been worse in Michigan, where about a quarter of our kids live in poverty and real wages for most workers are lower than they were three decades ago.

It’s a wearisome story to keep telling, but the majority of our lawmakers never seem to tire of passing legislation that targets low-income citizens.

The latest example came last week, when lawmakers in both the state House and the Senate passed bills that would deny unemployment benefits to people who refuse to take a drug test required by employers and require community service for people receiving government assistance.

Unfortunately, this is going to make sense to a lot of people who’ve bought into the myth that people on public benefits are more likely to be dependent on illicit drugs or are just generally lazy, something that seems to describe the mindset of at least one Republican Senator.

“There is absolutely nothing wrong with requiring folks to have a little skin in the game,” said state Sen. Joe Hune of Hamburg Township, speaking about the community service requirement.

These bills and others like them tap a culture of meanness that permeates our political discourse here and nationally. Legislation that targets benefit recipients for suspicion-based drug testing and allows for the denial of benefits if a child is truant from school are pending in Senate.

And while such legislation may satisfy a desire to identify scapegoats, they’ve never been proven effective. The prevalence of illicit drug use among welfare recipients, for the record, is only slightly higher than the general population, less than 5 percent according to most studies. Psychiatric disorders, on the other hand, especially major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, are more prevalent than illicit drug dependence among welfare recipients.

Advanced treatment for both issues, rather than punitive policies, would do far more to remove barriers to work for chronically unemployed.

The majority of lawmakers, however, are less interested in identifying and implementing evidence-based solutions than they are in humiliating people at the bottom of the economic ladder.

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Precipitation 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. ......... 0.00” Month to date ....................................... 0.77” Normal month to date ....................... 2.61” Year to date ......................................... 28.45” Normal year to date ......................... 28.61”

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Sunset tonight ............................. 6:47 p.m.

Moonrise today ......................... 10:47 p.m.

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La Salle 78/53

Evanston 69/56 Chicago 71/52

Aurora 72/50

Streator 77/52

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Waukegan 68/49

Arlington Heights 72/52

DeKalb 72/50

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Hammond 72/52 Gary 72/51 Kankakee 76/50

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Pontiac 78/52

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Sports

DeKalb’s Dre Brown (right) continues to carry the rushing load for the Barbs this season. This and more in this week’s prep football insider. PAGE B3

SECTION B Wednesday, September 25, 2013 Daily Chronicle

Sports editor Ross Jacobson • rjacobson@shawmedia.com

8MORNING KICKOFF

PREP SOFTBALL

Winona State-bound Genoa-Kingston’s Keegan to play for Warriors

By ROSS JACOBSON

AP photo

rjacobson@shawmedia.com

Deep Blackhawks look for 2nd straight title CHICAGO – The last time Chicago won the Stanley Cup, the team was dismantled during the offseason and a frustrating title defense ended in the first round of the playoffs.

Not so much this time. When the Blackhawks hit the ice next week for their opener against Washington, it will be a very familiar group.

Jonathan Toews and Co. are all set to go for their second consecutive NHL title and a historic third in five seasons.

There was no salary-cap purge this summer, leaving the Hawks largely intact as they try to become the first team to repeat since the Detroit Red Wings won it all in 1997 and 1998.

Last year was a dream season for the Hawks, who set an NHL record by recording at least one point in the first 24 games. They finished with the league’s best record in the regular season, and then beat the Boston Bruins in six games for the franchise’s fifth championship.

What followed was a productive offseason that eliminated any potential distractions before the Hawks reported for training camp. Physical winger Bryan Bickell returned with a four-year contract after he might have been able to grab a bigger deal in free agency.

Goaltender Corey Crawford, defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson, coach Joel Quenneville and general manager Stan Bowman agreed to extensions.

Here are areas to watch for the reigning champion: Marian Hossa, who turns 35 in January, was hampered by a back problem during the Stanley Cup finals and missed time during the preseason with an undisclosed upper-body injury.

The biggest variable could be Brandon Saad, who was a finalist for the Calder Trophy last season awarded to the NHL’s top rookie. The 20-yearold Saad, who had 10 goals and 17 assists in 46 games, got a tryout at second-line center during training camp before he was moved back to left wing.

Nikolai Khabibulin is beginning his second stint with the Hawks after he signed a one-year deal to take Ray Emery’s place as the backup for Crawford.

– Wire report

8WHAT TO WATCH Pro baseball Pittsburgh at Cubs, 1:10 p.m., WGN White Sox at Cleveland, 6:10 p.m., CSN Tampa Bay at New York Yankees, 6 p.m., ESPN LA. Dodgers at San Francisco, 9 p.m., ESPN Women’s college volleyball Indiana at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m., BTN North Carolina State at North Carolina, 7 p.m., ESPNU UCLA at USC, 9 p.m., ESPNU

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File photo by Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com

Genoa-Kingston catcher Paige Keegan throws to first base for an out on a sacrifice bunt in April 2012 during the bottom of the fourth inning in Sycamore. Keegan, the 2013 Daily Chronicle Softball Player of the Year, has committed to play softball at Winona State.

Paige Keegan wanted to weigh her college options just a little bit longer following her offer from Winona State.

But after a visit to the Minnesota campus and a month of deliberating, the Genoa-Kingston senior

catcher knew Winona was where she wanted to play, making a verbal commitment to play softball for the Warriors this week.

“I went to go visit there at the end of the season last year,” Keegan said. “I realized that Winona was the one for me. Everything I wanted was at Winona.”

Keegan was named the

2013 Daily Chronicle Softball Player of the Year as a junior.

She set a Genoa-Kingston school record with a .612 batting average, slugged better than 1.000 and had 11 walks to only three strikeouts.

Keegan hit five homers and drove in 29 runs.

See KEEGAN, page B3

BOYS SOCCER: DeKALB 7, SYCAMORE 0

SHOWCASING THEIR DEPTH

Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com

DeKalb’s Akim Suraji faces Sycamore’s Jarrett Brown in the first half of the soccer match Tuesday at DeKalb High School. DeKalb won, 7-0. Check out game highlights at Daily-Chronicle.com.

Barbs prevail with six players scoring in Northern Illinois Big 12 East match

By ANTHONY ZILIS sports@daily-chronicle.com DeKALB – The DeKalb soccer team already had plenty of talent to go around entering the 2013 season. With return-

ing Daily Chronicle All-Area first teamer Sean Woodford bolstering an attack that also includes junior Trevor Freeland and several other talented players, the Barbs would have been a tough team with

what they had returning.

Then, they added their two starting forwards during the summer, seniors Akim Suraji and Dylan Hottsmith, and they became a whole lot better. The Barbs showed off their offen-

NIU FOOTBALL

Huskies ‘excited’ to play at Northwestern in 2014

By DAILY CHRONICLE STAFF sports@daily-chronicle.com Northern Illinois will face Northwestern for the first time since 2005 when the teams play in Evanston on Sept. 6, 2014, officials from both schools announced Tuesday morning.

NIU athletic director Sean Frazier was thrilled to add the Wildcats to NIU’s schedule.

“I am extremely excited to add Northwestern, a high-quality opponent, to our 2014 football nonconference schedule,” Frazier said in a news release. “Declining attendance at college football games is a national trend and scheduling has been identified as a prime factor in the decline.

I am continually evaluating our future football schedules, and the addition of this game is just the first announcement regarding concerted efforts to

More online Check out Tuesday’s Northern Illinois football news conferences from DeKalb – log on to HuskieWire.com. improve our football schedule, connect with our alumni base in the Chicago region, increase exposure for NIU and promote the NIU Huskies as a national brand.”

Northwestern has an NIU connection in athletic director Jim Phillips, who was NIU’s AD from 2004 to 2008.The Wildcats are 6-0-1 all-time against the Huskies, and all the games have been in Evanston.

In the team’s last meeting in 2005, NIU scored with six seconds left, only to lose 38-37 when quarterback Phil Horvath’s two-point conversion

pass fell incomplete. On Sept.

29, 1990, Northwestern broke a 14-game losing streak with a 24-7 win over the Huskies.

NIU coach Rod Carey said the game is good for everyone involved.

“Really excited and glad that they got that worked out. We’re excited about the game,” Carey said during Tuesday’s news conference at the Yordon Center. “I think it’s going to be great for our fans, for their fans, for the Chicagoland area. I just think that it’s a game that is a real positive all the way around for us.”

Huskie sophomore tight end Desroy Maxwell grew up in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side, but moved to Evanston during his senior year of high school and still has family there.

See NORTHWESTERN, page B4

sive depth in a 7-0 win over Sycamore on Tuesday with six different players scoring.

“The past years, we’ve really had only one way to attack,” Freeland said. “This year, it’s nice, we have a lot of different

people who can put the ball in the back of the net, and if you’re not on your best game, someone else is, they score and it all goes well for us.”

See DEPTH, page B3

Nonconference game is a win-win situation DeKALB – Northern Illinois’ football game against Northwestern on Sept. 6, 2014, makes sense for everyone.

It’s great for NIU. The Huskies want their shot at an in-state opponent like the Wildcats, who have had a nice run of success under Pat Fitzgerald.

It’s a short trip for not only the team, but NIU fans in the area. How many NIU grads in the suburbs will be able to drive an hour or so to Evanston to check out the game?

Props to Sean Frazier for his first nonconference football game scheduled as the athletic director. Fans surely hope it’s a sign of things to come.

From Northwestern’s standpoint, it gets more fans into a stadium that is rarely filled to its capacity of about 47,000. The Wildcats are sort of out of place in the Big Ten. It’s a small, private institution (8,367 students, according to NU’s football media guide), and the only private school in the conference.

VIEWS Steve Nitz Unlike a state school such as Illinois or NIU, a lot of Northwestern students aren’t from the Chicago area, and there isn’t a huge base of alums in the area, which is the case for a number of Big Ten schools.

The Wildcats’ average attendance of 35,697 last year ranked last in the conference despite the fact they finished the season in the Top 25 and won their first bowl game in more than 60 years.

During the past two seasons, Northwestern has played a home nonconference schedule consisting of teams like Maine, Boston College, Western Michigan, Vanderbilt, South Dakota and Syracuse.

None are sexy opponents, and I doubt any brought as big of a contingent of fans as NIU will.

See NITZ, page B4

SPORTS

Page B2 • Wednesday, September 25, 2013

8PREP SCHEDULE TODAY

Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE Central Division W L Pct 91 66 .580 87 70 .554 83 73 .532 66 90 .423 62 95 .395 East Division W L Pct x-Boston 95 62 .605 Tampa Bay 88 69 .561 New York 82 75 .522 Baltimore 81 76 .516 Toronto 72 85 .459 West Division W L Pct x-Oakland 94 63 .599 Texas 85 71 .545 Los Angeles 76 80 .487 Seattle 68 89 .433 Houston 51 106 .325 x-clinched division

Boys Soccer Serena at Hinckley-Big Rock, 4:30 p.m.

Boys Golf Hinckley-Big Rock, Indian Creek at Little Ten Conference meet at Whitetail Ridge, 1 p.m.

Rochelle at DeKalb, 4 p.m.

Genoa-Kingston vs. Byron at Prairie View GC, 4 p.m.

Boys Cross Country Sycamore, DeKalb at Byron Invite, 4:15 p.m.

Volleyball Genoa-Kingston at Richmond-Burton, 6 p.m.

Girls Cross Country Sycamore, DeKalb at Byron Invite, 4:15 p.m.

Girls Golf Hinckley-Big Rock, Indian Creek at Little Ten Conference meet at TBD, 1 p.m.

Genoa-Kingston vs. Byron at Prairie View GC, 4 p.m.

Girls Tennis Bartlett at DeKalb, 4:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay Cleveland Texas Kansas City New York

THURSDAY Boys Soccer DeKalb at Rochelle, 4:30 p.m.

Morris at Sycamore, 4:30 p.m.

Yorkville at Kaneland, 4:30 p.m.

Indian Creek at Hiawatha, 4:30 p.m.

Marengo at Genoa-Kingston, 4:30 p.m.

Boys Golf Sycamore at Oswego, 4 p.m.

Hinckley-Big Rock vs. Somonauk at Indian Oaks, 4 p.m.

Indian Creek at Genoa-Kingston, 4:15 p.m.

Volleyball Yorkville at DeKalb, 6 p.m.

Sycamore at Morris, 6 p.m.

Rochelle at Kaneland, 6 p.m.

Leland-Earlville at Indian Creek, 6:30 p.m.

Hiawatha at Hinckley-Big Rock, 6:45 p.m.

Girls Golf Hinckley-Big Rock vs. Lisle, Somonauk at Riverbend, 4 p.m.

Indian Creek at Genoa-Kingston, 4:15 p.m.

Girls Swimming DeKalb/Sycamore at Sterling, 4:30 p.m.

Girls Tennis Rockford Lutheran at DeKalb, 4:30 p.m.

8SPORTS SHORTS Sycamore, Kaneland in top five of Class 5A poll Sycamore and Kaneland football teams both remained in the top five of the Associated Press Class 5A football poll after Week 4.

Kaneland stayed at No. 3 while Sycamore remained at No. 4, where each has been for the past two weeks. Montini remained the unanimous No. 1 as voted by 15 media members.

The Knights defeated Streator, 42-0, in Week 4 while Sycamore shut out Geneseo, 19-0, at home. The Maple Leafs were ranked No. 3 in Class 4A.

White Sox’s Keppinger to have shoulder surgery CLEVELAND – White Sox infielder Jeff Keppinger will have season-ending surgery on his right shoulder.

Keppinger will have the operation Thursday in Chicago, manager Robin Ventura said before the Sox opened a two-game series against Cleveland.

Keppinger has been playing with discomfort in his shoulder since spring training. He batted .253 with four homers and 40 RBIs in 117 games, primarily playing second and third base. Ventura said the injury affected Keppinger’s throwing more than his hitting.

Ventura said the decision to have the surgery before the season ended was so Keppinger can begin a rehab program immediately and be ready for spring training.

Keppinger, who signed a three-year contract in December, ends the season with a six-game hitting streak.

After batting just .202 in April, he hit .312 in August and September.

– Staff, wire reports

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The Bears’ coach Marc Trestman discusses a late fourth quarter time out with head linesman Mark Hittner during a game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Bears on Sept. 15 at Soldier Field. Head coaches such as Trestman are so focused on the field that they rarely spend time talking to players on the sideline.

Roaming the sideline at NFL games The Bears improved to 3-0 this weekend with a win on the road against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Shaw Media’s Hub Arkush and Tom Musick discuss:

Musick: Hub, more than 12 million of us watched the Bears-Steelers game from our couches and beanbag chairs and exercise balls and wherever else people sit. But you were down on the sidelines at Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field for the game. What’s that experience like? Do you ever worry that you might be stampeded?

Arkush: Gee Tom, funny you should ask. Apparently both Laura Oakman and Pam Oliver of Fox have had some close calls recently, but I’ve found if you’re paying attention it’s actually a pretty safe place to be. To be clear, both Pam and Laura are pros who are good at what they do, and stuff happens, but it’s pretty hard to get in harm’s way when you’re watching what’s going on, on the field.

Of course as more NFL teams continue to put more and more sponsors and fans on the field in search of the almighty greenbacks, there are bigger traffic jams down there all the time.

Musick: You just gave me an idea to open up a nightclub

TAKE 2 Hub Arkush and Tom Musick face off and call it The Sideline. Everybody would want to be there.

I’m picturing a long, narrow building with the bar on the opposite side of the white line.

Anyway, I know Roger Goodell might try to taze you if you spill off-the-record beans, but what’s one thing you have learned as a sideline reporter that everyday, TV-watching football fans might not know?

Arkush: I’m sure this will shock our audience, but there are some gentlemen down there with horribly foul mouths who, for reasons I’ll never understand, are constantly yelling at people on the other side of the field to go do things that are clearly anatomically impossible. What’s up with that?

Also, many players and coaches spend more time surfing the stands – for whatever it is they may be looking for – than they do watching the game, a number of coaches are really funny when they get mad, and placekickers and punters are some of the most

polite people in the world.

From a football perspective, there is a lot more coaching and a lot less motivating than you’d expect. Coaches’ conversations with players are mainly about the photos being taken during the game and adjusting the X’s and O’s rather than trying to get guys to win one for the Gipper.

Musick: Hmm, I bet most players are busy scanning the stands to look for, um, their moms. Yeah, that’s it. Their moms. So, from your point of view on the sideline, does it seem as if some teams are more organized and better prepared than others? I ask this because the Bears are playing the Detroit Lions this weekend. The Bears strike me as a pretty disciplined group.

The Lions, not so much.

Arkush: Actually, Tom, most NFL sidelines are organized and run pretty much the same way. Players tend to sit or stand together in units when they come off the field. Most of the starters will sit or head

for the water or stationery bike when they come off and not really watch the game. In today’s stadiums, you see a lot more guys watching on the jumbotrons from the bench, but after they’ve been off for a while, if the other unit is still out there, they’ll get up and watch the game live.

Reserves are always up on the sideline watching with the coaches when their unit is on the field, either hoping to get sent in or ready if they’re needed.

Head coaches rarely talk to players. That’s left to position coaches, with the boss usually laser-focused on the field.

Other than the fact that Marc Trestman rarely changes facial expressions more than once a quarter, while Jim Schwartz is as animated as they come and liable to go off like a Roman candle at any moment, you won’t see a lot of differences in the two sidelines this Sunday.

As for the guys looking for their moms in the stands, ah huh. Mom and any of the local talent that may be in the immediate vicinity.

Musick: Yes, exactly. Do you think the Lions would mind if we sent some pizzas to their sideline this weekend? I think Nate Burleson could use a getwell-soon gift.

PREP ROUNDUP

DeKalb girls volleyball defeats Rochelle Cogs fall: Burlington Central beat Genoa-Kingston, 3-0.

By DAILY CHRONICLE STAFF sports@daily-chronicle.com The DeKalb girls volleyball team remained unbeaten in Northern Illinois Big 12 East play with a 25-10, 25-14 win over Rochelle.

Josie Carpenter and Courtney Wagner each finished with five kills as the Barbs improved to 9-2 and 3-0 in conference play.

Madison Lord had 18 assists and two blocks for DeKalb, while Nicole Schladt finished with 14 digs and four aces.

Timberwolves top Hiawatha: Indian Creek defeated Hiawatha, 25-11, 25-21, to improve to 3-7 and 2-1 in Little Ten play. Hannah Mathews had seven digs and nine aces for Indian Creek, while Kayla Kauffman had four aces and three digs. Rebekah Goodrich finished with three kills and three aces, while Josie Diehl had six kills and a block. Emma Goodrich finished with two kills and two blocks.

“I was proud of the way they came out the first game. We served well in the first game,” Indian Creek coach Stephanie Crutcher said. “Game 2 was kind of the exact opposite for us so we need to play with consistency.

GIRLS SWIMMING Co-op remains unbeaten: The

More online For all your prep sports coverage – stories, features, scores, photos, videos, blogs and more – log on to Daily-Chronicle.com/dcpreps.

GIRLS TENNIS Spartans lose conference match: Yorkville defeated Syca-

DeKalb-Sycamore co-op beat Woodstock, 104-52. Alexa Miller won both the 200- and 500-yard freestyle races for DeKalb-Sycamore, while Kylie Olson got victories in both the 200 IM and 100 butterfly. Bailey Flemming won the 100 backstroke while Jensen Keck took first in the 100 breaststroke.

Olson, Emily Cook, Kayleigh Kozlowski and Alexa Miller won the 400 freestyle.

“Overall, we showed our depth today,” DeKalb-Sycamore coach Leah Eames said. “In the 200 free, which was the first individual event, we took 1,2,3 in that.”

more, 3-2. Angelina Ye and Alexa Farris each had singles wins for Sycamore. Ye won, 6-2, 6-0, and Farris got a 6-1, 6-0 victory.

“Very close [match], we played very well,” Spartans coach Dave Hillmer said. “It could have gone either way, we just missed out.”

Sycamore is now 7-4.

Barbs fall: Rochelle defeated DeKalb, 3-2.

Knights get NI Big 12 win: Sammie Schrepferman got a 6-1, 6-0 win at No. 1 singles for Kaneland in a 4-1 win over Morris. Madi Jurcenko and Jelly Emmanouil earned a 6-1, 6-3 victory at No. 1 doubles, while Colleen Landers and Stephanie Karolewicz won, 6-4, 6-2, at No. 2 doubles and Mallory Dugan and Kaylee Sheaff got a 6-2, 6-1 victory at No. 3 doubles.

The Knights are now 7-2.

BOYS SOCCER Knights get win: Kaneland

BOYS GOLF Kuhar medals in Knights win:

beat Rochelle, 3-1, behind two goals from Arsim Azemi and another from Anthony Parillo.

Kaneland is now 4-4-2 and 1-1-1 in conference play.

Kaneland’s Brody Kuhar shot a 37, good for medalist honors, as Kaneland beat Morris 155-164.

Matt Yonkovich had a 38 while Jesse Denton finished with a 39.

GIRLS GOLF Cogs top Lutheran: G e noa-Kingston beat Rockford Lutheran, 227-234, behind a 46 from Andrea Strohmaier. Katie Thurlby added a 52 for G-K, who is now 5-11.

T’wolves 2nd in triangular: Lauren Frances shot a 46 to lead Indian Creek as the Timberwolves took second in a triangular with Sandwich and Aurora Central Catholic. The Indians finished with 190 points to win the meet, while Indian Creek had 203 and Aurora Central Catholic shot a 217.

Delany Bend had a 47 for the T’wolves, while Kate Drendel shot a 54 and Ellie Gatz and Katherine Nolan each finished with a 56.

Sandwich’s Anna Gripe was the meet medalist, shooting a 42.

“Our girls played good but Sandwich had a really good team score,” Indian Creek coach Keith Haag said. “They played really well as a team.”

WILD CARD W L 88 69 87 70 85 71 83 73 82 75

Sandwich golf team took ninth at the Minooka Invitational, finishing with a score of 355. Wilson Wright shot an 86 for Sandwich, while Blake Andrew finished with an 89.

GB — 8½ 17½ 26 43

Pct WCGB .561 — .554 — .545 1½ .532 3½ .522 5

Tuesday’s Results Cleveland 5, White Sox 4 Toronto 3, Baltimore 2, 10 inn.

Tampa Bay 7, N.Y. Yankees 0 Houston at Texas (n) Detroit at Minnesota (n) Boston at Colorado (n) Oakland at L.A. Angels (n) Kansas City at Seattle (n) Today’s Games White Sox (Axelrod 4-10) at Cleveland (Salazar 1-3), 6:05 p.m.

Oakland (Straily 10-7) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 10-8), 2:35 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Price 8-8) at N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 4-13), 6:05 p.m.

Toronto (Rogers 5-8) at Baltimore (B.Norris 10-12), 6:05 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 6-9) at Texas (M.Perez 9-5), 7:05 p.m.

Detroit (Scherzer 20-3) at Minnesota (Correia 9-12), 7:10 p.m.

Boston (Peavy 11-5) at Colorado (Chacin 149), 7:40 p.m.

Kansas City (E.Santana 9-9) at Seattle (Iwakuma 13-6), 8:10 p.m.

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

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 6:05 p.m.

Toronto at Baltimore, 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 7:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 7:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Central Division W L Pct z-St. Louis 93 65 .589 z-Pittsburgh 90 67 .573 z-Cincinnati 90 68 .570 Milwaukee 70 87 .446 Cubs 65 92 .414 East Division W L Pct x-Atlanta 93 64 .592 Washington 84 74 .532 New York 72 85 .459 Philadelphia 72 85 .459 Miami 58 100 .367 West Division W L Pct x-Los Angeles 90 66 .577 Arizona 79 77 .506 San Diego 73 83 .468 San Francisco 72 84 .462 Colorado 71 86 .452 z-clinched playoff berth x-clinched division

GB — 2½ 3 22½ 27½ GB — 9½ 21 21 35½ GB — 11 17 18 19½

WILD CARD W L Pct WCGB x-Pittsburgh 90 67 .573 — x-Cincinnati 90 68 .570 — x-clinched playoff berth Tuesday’s Results Pittsburgh at Cubs (n) Atlanta 3, Milwaukee 2 N.Y. Mets 4, Cincinnati 2 Philadelphia 2, Miami 1 St. Louis 2, Washington 0 Boston at Colorado (n) Arizona at San Diego (n) L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco (n) Today’s Games N.Y. Mets (Matsuzaka 2-3) at Cincinnati (Latos 14-6), 11:35 a.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 19-8) at St. Louis (S.Miller 14-9), 12:45 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Liriano 16-7) at Cubs (Arrieta 3-2), 1:20 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 10-10) at Atlanta (Maholm 10-10), 6:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Hamels 8-14) at Miami (B.Hand 1-1), 6:10 p.m.

Boston (Peavy 11-5) at Colorado (Chacin 149), 7:40 p.m.

Arizona (Delgado 5-6) at San Diego (Kennedy 6-10), 9:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Nolasco 13-10) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 13-9), 9:15 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Arizona at San Diego, 5:40 p.m.

Milwaukee at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 9:15 p.m.

NFL NATIONAL CONFERENCE Bears Detroit Green Bay Minnesota

W 3 2 1 0

Dallas Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Washington

W 2 1 0 0

New Orleans Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay

W 3 1 1 0

Seattle St. Louis San Francisco Arizona

W 3 1 1 1

North L T Pct PF PA 0 0 1.000 95 74 1 0 .667 82 69 2 0 .333 96 88 3 0 .000 81 96 East L T Pct PF PA 1 0 .667 83 55 2 0 .333 79 86 3 0 .000 54 115 3 0 .000 67 98 South L T Pct PF PA 0 0 1.000 70 38 2 0 .333 68 36 2 0 .333 71 74 3 0 .000 34 57 West L T Pct PF PA 0 0 1.000 86 27 2 0 .333 58 86 2 0 .333 44 84 2 0 .333 56 79

AMERICAN CONFERENCE Cincinnati Baltimore Cleveland Pittsburgh

W 2 2 1 0

New England Miami N.Y. Jets Buffalo

W 3 3 2 1

Houston Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville

W 2 2 2 0

Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego

W 3 3 1 1

North L T 1 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 East L T 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 South L T 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 West L T 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0

Pct .667 .667 .333 .000

PF 75 71 47 42

PA 64 64 64 76

Pct 1.000 1.000 .667 .333

PF 59 74 55 65

PA 34 53 50 73

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PF 70 68 60 28

PA 82 48 56 92

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PA 71 34 67 81

Monday’s Result Denver 37, Oakland 21 Thursday’s Game San Francisco at St. Louis, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Bears at Detroit, noon N.Y. Giants at Kansas City, noon Seattle at Houston, noon Baltimore at Buffalo, noon Arizona at Tampa Bay, noon Indianapolis at Jacksonville, noon Cincinnati at Cleveland, noon Pittsburgh vs. Minnesota at London, noon N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, 3:05 p.m.

Washington at Oakland, 3:25 p.m.

Dallas at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Denver, 3:25 p.m.

New England at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Open: Carolina, Green Bay Monday, Sep. 30 Miami at New Orleans, 7:40 p.m.

NHL PRESEASON

MONDAY’S LATE RESULT BOYS GOLF Indians 9th at Minooka: The

GB — 7 13 14 23

Tuesday’s Results New Jersey 2, Philadelphia 1 Ottawa 3, Toronto 2 Nashville 2, Tampa Bay 1 Dallas at Colorado (n) N.Y. Rangers at Edmonton (n) Anaheim at Los Angeles (n) Vancouver at San Jose (n) Today’s Games Columbus at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Washington, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Calgary, 8 p.m.

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DeKalb’s Brown carries rushing load

By ROSS JACOBSON

A closer look at the prep football scene

rjacobson@shawmedia.com

UNDER THE RADAR TONY TATE DeKalb, so., WR Tate caught his first touchdown of the season last week and DeKalb seems to be finding more ways to get the ball to its speedy wideout.

Tate also has a rushing touchdown on the season.

STATS OF THE WEEK 42: Points scored by DeKalb in the first half of the Barbs’ 56-28 win over Ottawa.

128: Total yards allowed by Sycamore’s defense in a 19-0 shutout of Geneseo.

The Maple Leafs had scored 129 points in their previous three games.

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To say Dre Brown has been contained by opposing defenses would be an overstatement – the DeKalb junior leads the area with 532 yards on 7.2 yards a carry this season.

But teams were certainly focusing on Brown throughout the first three games of the season, taking him out of the game as much as they could. Brown’s star impact hadn’t been fully felt until the Barbs’ 56-28 win over Ottawa on Friday, when he rushed for 164 yards on 15 carries as DeKalb showed the Pirates some new looks.

“We changed up a couple of little things just to get him the ball a little bit more,” coach Matt Weckler said. “Our normal offense is a read offense, and defenses can take him away, and then the quarterback will pull it and do some other things. But this week, we did a little more base-blocking stuff and made sure he got the ball.”

Brown had three runs of at least 26 yards in the win, and he finished with 179 total yards and four touchdowns.

“All he needs is a little crease and he’ll take off and go,” Weckler said.

Sycamore defense steps up: With so many weapons, it’s no surprise the Sycamore offense has garnered the majority of the attention surrounding the 4-0 Spartans. After all, they put up 136 points total in their three games leading up to Geneseo.

The question mark was the defense, which hadn’t held an opponent to less than 20 points in 2013. Against DeKalb in Week 3, Sycamore gave up 26 first-half points before holding the Barbs scoreless for the final two quarters, but it would need a much better effort to contain the Maple Leafs.

The Spartans held Geneseo to 128 total yards, and Jack Dargis and Josh Hunt each had fumble recoveries on the way to shutting out a team that had run all over its first three opponents.

Ben Niemann, Devin Mottet and the Sycamore offense has proven to be very explosive, but now the defense has shown it can shut down some of the area’s best.

“I thought we had a good defensive game plan,” Sycamore coach Joe Ryan said. “I thought

our kids played with much more energy tonight defensively ... Hopefully, they can continue to play well.”

G-K leading BNC: Genoa-Kingston is in the driver’s seat in the Big Northern East. There’s certainly a long way to go, but the Cogs sit at 2-0 in conference play and control their own destiny.

However, G-K started the same exact way last season, losing to St. Edward and Rockford Lutheran the first two weeks of the year before getting wins over Richmond-Burton and Rockford Christian to move to 2-2. The Cogs won just one more game the rest of the year.

Friday’s game against Burlington Central will go a long way towards the Cogs’ conference title and playoff aspirations.

“It’s nice to be 2-0 in the division,” G-K coach Travis Frederick said. “But Central’s going to have something to say about that next week. It’s homecoming. Sometimes those kind of distractions can get in the way. We’re going to focus on being all business this week.”

• Steve Nitz, Anthony Zilis and Luke Srodulski contributed to this report.

Can our five local teams qualify for the postseason?

POWER RANKINGS 1. Kaneland (4-0) The Knights shut out Streator in their first game without running back Jesse Balluff.

2. Sycamore (4-0, 1-0 Northern Illinois Big 12 East) Spartans’ defense had bounce-back performance in shutout of Geneseo.

3. Hiawatha (3-1) The Hawks are now on a three-game winning streak 4. DeKalb (2-2, 0-1 NI Big 12 East) DeKalb’s offense looking better each week.

5. Genoa-Kingston (2-2) The Cogs win second in a row with solid win at Rockford Christian.

All five area teams won last week, and their games weren’t even close. Every team posted a double-digit margin of victory, and the closest game was a 40-27 win by Hiawatha over Westminster Christian.

According to IHSA records dating back to 1996, an area sweep hasn’t occurred in the past 18 years, certainly an impressive accomplishment for an area that now boasts a collective record of 15-5 through four weeks.

Considering that our five teams combined for only 23 regular season victories in 2012, progress has certainly been made over the past year. All five

VIEWS Ross Jacobson schools are in great position for a playoff berth and the case can be made that each team is better than its 2012 version. At the very least, every team has matched or improved upon its record through Week 4 from one year ago.

Kaneland and Sycamore are both 4-0 and ranked in the top 5 of The Associated Press Class 5A poll, Genoa-Kingston is undefeated in the Big Northern

Conference while Hiawatha rides a three-game winning streak.

Could this be the best season for local football teams in recent memory?

Not so fast.

Because the last two seasons have seen only Sycamore and Kaneland qualify for the postseason, it’s easy to forget how strong area football was back in 2010.

That year the area teams posted a combined regular season record of 30-15 and Kaneland, Sycamore, G-K and DeKalb all qualified for the playoffs. The Knights lost to Montini in the state semifinals while Sycamore was taken out by the Broncos in

the second round. The Cogs and Barbs each lost in the first round.

Inevitably this season will be defined by playoff berths and the area has never seen all five qualify for the postseason.

A clean sweep in Week 4 was another part of a great start, but can every team finish the job over the last five games and get to that first weekend in November?

That would be historic.

• Ross Jacobson is the sports editor of the Daily Chronicle.

He can be reached via email at rjacobson@shawmedia.com and follow him on Twitter @RossJacobson.

VOLLEYBALL: KANELAND 2, SYCAMORE 0 (25-23, 25-14)

Keegan reunited with former travel teammate

Knights rally for win in two games

• KEEGAN

By ROSS JACOBSON rjacobson@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – Sycamore volleyball coach Eric Nore called the Spartans’ threegame victory over Yorkville last Thursday one of the most intense matches he’s coached.

But on Tuesday against Kaneland, Nore didn’t see the same spark out of his team as Sycamore let a six-point lead slip away late in the first game and then couldn’t recover in the second game of a 25-23, 25-14 loss to the Knights.

“We were pretty much in control the entire time and they made a little bit of a push and for whatever reason, unlike we did this past Thursday ... there was something missing tonight,” Nore said.

Sycamore jumped out to

an early lead as the Spartans played clean and took advantage of some service and hitting errors from Kaneland.

A kill from Mattie Hayes off the set from Kendra Larson put the Spartans (5-6, 1-2 Northern Illinois Big 12 East) up 15-9, and Mallory Wolf followed with an ace to extend Sycamore’s lead to seven. “[Nore] would rather have us be aggressive in our serving than miss it in the net,” senior Emily Young said of Sycamore’s serving. “Rather have it float way over to the back wall just so we’re being aggressive.”

Down 19-13, Kaneland rallied to win 12 of the final 16 points and sealed a win in game one off a kill from Ellie Dunn.

“I think we waited to be motivated,” Kaneland coach Kerri McCastland. “I think all as-

pects of the team game, serves, defense, hitting, I think it all kind of came on.”

Kaneland (8-8, 2-1) continued its stellar play into the second game. The Knights’ defense picked up and Kaneland won five consecutive points to take a 17-8 lead before closing the match out in two games.

Hayes led the Spartans with five kills while Young had four kills and also recorded an ace.

Dunn had six kills and three blocks for the Knights. Riley Hannula also finished with six kills. “[Kaneland] played extremely well. They had a really rough start then they started getting a few kills and they hung there and they kept fighting,” Nore said. “They pretty much dominated us in the second game.”

DeKalb coach worried about long layoff • DEPTH Continued from page B1 DeKalb coach Brent McIntosh said he was worried that a week-long layoff would mean rust at the opening whistle on Tuesday, but that wasn’t the case.

Three minutes in, the Barbs (7-1, 2-0 Northern Illinois Big 12 East) opened the scoring when a cross from Woodford found Freeland, and the junior tapped the ball into the open goal. Two minutes later, Hottsmith found Woodford, who was able to finish inside the penalty area.

Hottsmith’s turn to add his name to the scoresheet came with just more than 18 minutes left in the half, when Woodford played him through before he slotted his shot home, and Suraji scored two minutes later on a pass from Freeland.

“You could tell right away that everybody on the pitch wanted to be involved, everybody out on the field wanted the ball, you could tell that everybody wanted to be part of the buildup,” McIntosh said.

“So I was mostly pleased coming into the first half with the appetite for the game and how we really came out and approached it.”

Stephen Darko scored with just a few minutes to go in the first half off a pass from Logan Brown before Freeland assisted Suraji’s second goal early in the second. Defender Owen Sawyer

closed out the scoring with 29 minutes to play in the second half when he knocked home a rebound on a corner kick.

Sycamore (1-10-1, 0-2-1) could have ended the shutout midway through the first half, but Kendryck Rand’s chip hit the bottom of the crossbar and bounced just inches away from the end line.

“I think we got ourselves so built up in our mind that we overplayed,” said Sycamore coach Dave Lichamer.

“We knew going in that if you

make a mistake, they’re going to jump all over it, they’re going to capitalize on it, and we overplayed and they made us pay for it … Next time we play them, we need to account for their speed. Every spot has speed at it, so it’s going to be tough to try to figure out what we’re going to do to deal with that next time around.”

While the two new guys of top receive plenty of credit, McIntosh said they couldn’t operate without the team’s strong returning nucleus.

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Continued from page B1 Keegan joins former Kaneland shortstop Alysson O’Herron, who is now a freshman at Winona State.

While making her decision, Keegan received advice from Winona freshman Lexi Perez, who was a teammate with Keegan for the Wasco Diamonds travel softball team last season.

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“She absolutely loved it.

It was nice to get input on it,” Keegan said. “She was saying that everything was relaxed and laid back, that coach [Greg] Jones is a good coach.”

Winona State is considered one of the premier Division II softball programs in the country. The Warriors went 37-14 last season, winning the NCAA Division II Central 2 Region before losing to Central Oklahoma in the Super Regional.

“That program is so good and they play at such a high level,” Keegan said. “Every year they compete for a championship at the D-II level.”

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

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Carey not worried about defense

By STEVE NITZ snitz@shawmedia.com DeKALB – After three games, Northern Illinois football ranks 90th in the nation in scoring defense, giving up an average of 31 points a contest.

The Huskies rank 100th in total defense with an average of 448 yards allowed a game.

NIU coach Rod Carey doesn’t think his defense is broken by any means. He said his team needs to get out to better starts and execute better.

Each week, the Huskies have been stronger in the second half of games. NIU is giving up an average of only 9.7 points after halftime. Carey wants to see better starts.

“It’s not like a major fix, major scheme change needs to happen,” Carey said during Tuesday’s weekly news conference. “I think we’ve got to get out to a faster start. We’ve got to have our cleats under

us, and we have to respond earlier.”

NIU has forced eight turnovers, and the Huskies’ turnover margin of plus-1.50 is 11th in the country. “[Credit] comes all across the board,” linebacker Boomer Mays said of the defense’s propensity to force turnovers.

“It starts on the D-line, linebackers, DBs. Basically, everybody does their part.”

Other notes from Tuesday’s news conference: • Carey still doesn’t have a timetable on tailback Akeem Daniels’ return. The senior has yet to participate in a full practice.

• Carey reiterated that quarterback Jordan Lynch is fine. He missed a couple of plays in the second half of Saturday’s win over Eastern Illinois.

“He had bumps and bruises like everybody,” Carey said.

“He’ll be fine. I’m sure his bruise isn’t completely away

yet, but he’ll be fine.”

• The Huskies’ average of 85.5 penalty yards a game ranks 118th in the nation. NIU committed 14 penalties for 119 yards. The Panthers had 14 for 126 yards.

“I wish I could generalize it. When you have 14, you have every type of penalty. It’s a lot of things, so we have to control what we can,” Carey said. “The ones that are controllable in there, we have to get those eliminated and out of our deal. So, we’re going to work hard to do that.”

Tight end Luke Eakes said some of the penalties against Eastern Illinois were because NIU lost its composure.

“They came out and they were talking trash. We just kind of talked right back and then everyone started pushing each other after the whistle and stuff,” Eakes said. “We weren’t detailed enough to keep our composure. It got the best of us sometimes.”

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• NITZ Continued from page B1 It’s a good situation for everybody.

I’ve always been an advocate of NIU playing Illinois and Northwestern a lot more. Rivalries are a great part of college football, and it’s a shame that the Huskies have only played the Wild-

each other in Denver every season.

For now, next year’s game in Evanston is a nonconference game fans can get excited about.

• Steve Nitz is the NIU beat reporter for the Daily Chronicle. He can be reached via email at snitz@shawmedia.com and follow him on Twitter @SNitz_DDC.

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“I’m excited. Get to go

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Flavors of fall come together for bisques, chowders and chilis

By ALISON LADMAN The Associated Press

T

here is something so perfect, so satisfying about a bowl of warm squash bisque on a cool fall evening. And it is such a versatile dish, it is easily doctored in so many ways.

Using that blend of versatility and comfort as our inspiration, we created a fast and easy squash bisque that becomes a base for whatever autumn flavors you are craving. You could, of course, keep it basic and simply top this bisque with a dollop of sour cream. But we also suggest six variations of toppings, including shrimp, bacon and pulled pork.

You also could make the bisque vegan by substituting vegetable broth for the chicken broth and almond or soy creamer for the heavy cream.

Caramelized Onion And Squash Bisque Start to finish: 1 hour Servings: 8 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 2 large sweet onions, diced 2 medium shallots, chopped 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon dried Italian herbs or herbes de Provence 2 tablespoons apple cider

vinegar 1 1/2 pounds cubed, peeled butternut squash 3 to 4 cups low-sodium chicken broth 1 cup heavy cream Ground black pepper

In a large saucepan over medium-high, heat the vegetable oil. Add the onions, shallots, salt and herbs, then sauté for 5 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium and continue to cook, stirring often, until the onions are soft and brown, about another 20 minutes.

Add the vinegar and deglaze the pan. Add the squash and 3 cups of the broth, then bring to a simmer. Cover and cook until the squash is completely tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Working in batches, transfer the soup to a blender and purée until smooth. Alternatively, purée the soup in the pot using an immersion blender. Either way, take care when blending hot liquids.

Return the bisque to the heat and stir in the cream. If a thinner bisque is desired, thin the soup with the remaining cup of broth. Heat until just hot.

Season with salt and pepper.

Nutrition information per serving of bisque (not including toppings): 200 calories; 130 calories from fat (65 percent of total calories); 15 g fat (7 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 40 mg cholesterol; 16 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 4 g sugar; 3 g protein; 280 mg sodium.

Top it off with any of the following SPICED SHRIMP AND SCALLIONS: Toss 12 ounces of small cooked shrimp with 1 teaspoon five-spice powder. Top with sliced scallions.

ASIAGO AND APPLE: Stir 2 finely diced apples into the bisque, then bring back to a simmer. Top with shredded Asiago cheese.

BARBECUE PULLED PORK: Stir together 2 cups of shredded/ pulled cooked pork with 1/3 cup barbecue sauce. Top the soup first with the pork, then a dollop of sour cream and chopped fresh cilantro.

TWO CORN AND HERBS: Cook

1 cup of thawed frozen corn kernels on high in a skillet with 1 tablespoon of oil until lightly browned. Stir the kernels into the bisque along with 2 tablespoons each of chopped fresh tarragon, thyme and chives.

Finish by topping the bisque with salted, buttered popcorn.

PEPPERED JACK: Stir in 1 diced red bell pepper and 1/4 cup diced pickled jalapeños. Top with shredded pepper jack cheese.

MAPLE BACON BLUE: Stir in 1/2 cup crumbled crisped bacon and 1/4 cup maple syrup. Sprinkle with crumbled blue cheese.

Caramelized Onion And Squash Bisque AP photo

Hispanic, Asian flavors combine for quick chili

By J.M. HIRSCH

1/2 cup sweet white miso 6 ears corn, husks and silk removed (or 3 cups frozen corn kernels, thawed) Salt and ground black pepper 2 limes, cut into wedges, to serve Chopped fresh cilantro, to serve

The Associated Press A robust chili that’s on the table in just 30 minutes?

Thanks to a blending of Hispanic and Asian flavors, it’s easy.

I started with the base of an average turkey chili – some onions, jalapeños, garlic, ground turkey and white beans. Nothing unexpected there. But all those basics get a serious flavor boost from an unexpected ingredient – sweet white miso. It’s the same stuff used in the soup you slurp at the sushi bar.

Miso is an underappreciated ingredient. It effortlessly amps the savory-salty flavor of anything it touches, particularly in wet rubs and other sauces for meat. In this recipe, it replicates in just minutes a depth of flavor you’d normally need a long simmer to attain. And don’t be put off by the “sweet” in the name. Sweet white miso isn’t really sweet, just milder

Turkey And Corn Chili With Sweet White Miso AP photo

than darker miso.

The chili is finished with corn kernels cut from the cob and just barely heated, preserving their fresh flavor and texture. And to tie everything together, the chili is finished with cilantro and lime juice.

Turkey And Corn Chili With Sweet White Miso Start to finish: 30 minutes Servings: 8

2 tablespoons canola oil 1 large yellow onion, diced 1 to 2 jalapeno chilies, finely chopped (for less heat, discard the inner ribs and seeds) 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 teaspoon ground cumin 2 1/2 pounds (40 ounces) lean ground turkey 15-ounce can white kidney or navy beans, drained 1 quart low-sodium chicken broth

In a large saucepan over medium-high, heat the oil. Add the onion, chilies, garlic and cumin, then sauté until the onion is just starting to brown, about 8 minutes. Add the turkey and sauté, breaking up any large clumps, until browned, about 10 to 12 minutes. Add the kidney beans, chicken broth and miso.

Bring to a simmer, stirring often to dissolve the miso, then cook for 5 minutes.

Meanwhile, one at a time stand each ear of corn on its wide end.

Use a serrated knife to saw down the length of the cob to remove the corn kernels. Add the corn to the chili, then return to a simmer and cook for another 5 minutes.

Season with salt and pepper.

Serve with lime wedges and cilantro.

Nutrition information per serving: 370 calories; 120 calories from fat (32 percent of total calories); 14 g fat (3 g saturated;

0 g trans fats); 80 mg cholesterol; 28 g carbohydrate; 4 g fiber; 7 g sugar; 36 g protein; 610 mg sodium.

FOOD

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High-heat can transform cauliflower

By ELIZABETH KARMEL The Associated Press The first time I roasted a head of cauliflower was a pivotal food moment for me. It changed my vegetable eating life. Before that, I was able to eat one or two pieces of cauliflower, and even then only if they were smothered in cheese sauce. But once I learned how roasting dramatically changes the flavor of cauliflower, I could eat an entire head straight up. It’s really that good.

I still remember watching the pale ivory cauliflower changing colors and emitting these dark, caramelized cabbage-y scents from the oven. I was skeptical, but patient. My patience paid off.

Even after making it dozens of times, it still amazes me that something as simple as high-heat roasting can transform this vegetable from something lackluster into something that you – quite literally – can’t stop eating. So, I thought to myself, I wonder what would happen if I roasted cauliflower, then turned the intensely flavorful florets into soup?

The results? A silky, luxurious and ultimately satisfying soup that is simple. The key of course is the high-heat roasting of the cauliflower before pureeing it into a soup. High-heat roasting concentrates the sugars in the vegetable and gives it a depth and nuttiness that cannot be coaxed out of it any other way.

I lightly season the soup with salt, white pepper and fresh thyme. Chicken stock, or veggie stock if you prefer, and half-and-half thin it out to a soup-like consistency. I also serve the soup with a sprinkle of crisp country ham or apple wood smoked bacon to dress it up. Other than those few supporting ingredients, it is the roasted cauliflower that steals the show.

This rich and delicious soup is deceptively healthful and can be made even more so by using milk instead of half-and-half.

The best news is that it is really three recipes in one.

You can serve the roasted cauliflower on its own, make the soup as the recipe states, or create a “mash” or puree by decreasing the amount of liquid by half when pureeing (serve as a substitute for mashed potatoes).

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Light color, deep flavor in white chili

Potato And Greens Soup With Parmesan Toasts

By SARA MOULTON The Associated Press

Roasted Cauliflower Soup with Bacon and Thyme Start to finish: 1 1/2 hours (30 minutes active) Servings: 8 2 heads cauliflower (about 4 1/2 pounds total) 1/4 cup olive oil Kosher salt 1 quart chicken broth (or more for a thinner soup), divided 1 pint half-and-half 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme, plus 8 sprigs to garnish Pinch of white pepper 10 slices apple wood smoked bacon (or 3 slices country ham), minced and cooked Heat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with cooking parchment, or with foil lightly misted with cooking spray.

Use a paring knife to carefully cut out and discard the core of each head of cauliflower, then cut the heads into large florets. Place the florets in a large bowl and drizzle with the olive oil. Toss to coat evenly. Sprinkle with about 2 teaspoons of salt, tossing to coat.

Arrange the florets in a single layer on the prepared baking sheet. Roast for 30 minutes, then use tongs to flip the florets, then roast for another 30 minutes, or until the florets are deeply caramelized and golden.

Transfer the florets to a blender and add 2 cups of the broth.

Puree, then add the half-and-half and puree for another 3 minutes, or until completely smooth. The puree should be very thick. With the blender running, add the remaining broth, the thyme and white pepper. Taste and adjust seasonings.

The soup can be transferred to a saucepan and gently heated, or refrigerated overnight before reheating and serving. The flavor is best when it is allowed to rest overnight.

When ready to serve, garnish each bowl with a bit of cooked bacon and a sprig of fresh thyme.

Nutrition information per serving: 340 calories; 240 calories from fat (71 percent of total calories); 26 g fat (9 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 40 mg cholesterol; 16 g carbohydrate; 5 g fiber; 6 g sugar; 11 g protein; 1100 mg sodium.

• Elizabeth Karmel is a grilling and Southern foods expert and executive chef at Hill Country Barbecue Market restaurants in New York and Washington, as well as Hill Country Chicken in New York. She is the author of three cookbooks, including “Soaked, Slathered and Seasoned.”

Roasted Cauliflower Soup With Bacon And Thyme

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Flexible, healthy soup packs flavor Soup can include prosciutto or be vegetarian This soup is a stick-toyour ribs flexitarian special.

Make it with chicken broth and prosciutto and you end up with a carnivore’s delight. Make it with vegetable stock and no prosciutto and you’ve got a vegetarian’s delight. Either way, it’s plenty hearty. The potatoes give it body and creaminess.

The spinach and kale give it earthiness and a bright green color.

The greens also happen to be nutritional superstars – both spinach and kale are terrific sources of vitamins A, C and K, not to mention fiber. For folks who generally find kale a little too assertive, the time to eat it is now, in the cooler months, when its taste is milder. And given kale’s current “it” vegetable status, you’ll certainly have no trouble finding it at the store. Some supermarkets even carry the bagged shredded leaves, as convenient as pre-washed lettuce or shredded slaw mix.

For the potatoes, I went with Yukon gold because I like their buttery taste and because they hold their shape when cooked, unlike high-starch, thick-skinned baking potatoes. However, any potato will do as long as you cut it into 1-inch chunks.

If the only spuds you have on hand are baking potatoes (such as russets), just be sure to peel them first. Otherwise, the skin will be too chewy in the soup.

There’s very little fat in this recipe. The vegetarian version uses just 2 tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil and half an ounce of grated Parmigiano-Reggiano. A little bit of that justly celebrated cheese goes a long way. And carnivores can keep the fat content low by trimming off the prosciutto’s fat.

What’s that? The little Mario Batali devil on your shoulder insists the flavor will go bye-bye along with the fat? Not necessarily.

I was thrilled to discover that if you briefly bake the

EVERYDAY DINNERS Sara Moulton prosciutto on a rack in the oven, it becomes downright bacon-esque – crisp, salty and redolent of pork. Just be sure to pull the prosciutto out of the oven before it is completely crisp. It will continue cooking even outside the oven. If it doesn’t reach the desired state within a minute or two, slide it back into the oven and give it another quick jolt.

Now you’ve got all the flavor you – or your inner Mario – could ask for. Just keep an eye on the salt in the rest of the recipe. Both the cheese and the meat are high in sodium.

Potato And Greens Soup with Parmesan Toasts Start to finish: 1 hour (40 minutes active) Servings: 4 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided 1 cup finely chopped yellow onion 1 tablespoon minced garlic 1 pound Yukon gold (or other thin-skinned potatoes), cut into 1-inch chunks 4 to 5 cups low-sodium chicken or vegetable broth 1/2 cup dry white wine 6 cups packed torn kale leaves 6 cups packed baby spinach leaves 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes, or to taste Salt 1/4 pound thinly sliced prosciutto Twelve 1/2-inch-thick diagonally cut slices of baguette 1/2 ounce finely grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese Heat the oven to 400 degrees F. In a large saucepan over medium, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil.

Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook, stirring for 1 minute. Add the

potatoes, 4 cups of the stock and the wine. Bring to a boil, cover the pan and simmer for 10 minutes.

Add the kale, cover the pan, then simmer for another 10 minutes.

Add the spinach and the pepper flakes, cover, and simmer for another 5 minutes.

Working in 2 batches, transfer about 3 cups total of the soup solids with a little added broth each time, to a blender and puree until smooth. Be careful, hot foods expand in the blender. Return the puree to the saucepan, add salt to taste and the additional cup of stock if necessary to achieve the desired texture. Heat until hot.

Meanwhile, set a wire rack over a rimmed baking sheet. Arrange the prosciutto slices in a single layer on the rack, then bake on the oven’s middle rack for 10 to 12 minutes, or until they begin to crisp. Remove the rack from the sheet pan and set it on the counter to let the prosciutto cool. When cool, crumble the prosciutto.

Arrange the baguette slices in single layer on the sheet pan and brush them with the remaining tablespoon of olive oil. Bake them on the oven’s middle shelf until golden brown, 8 to 10 minutes.

Sprinkle the grated cheese evenly over them, return the slices to the oven and bake until the cheese is just melted, 1 to 2 minutes.

To serve, ladle the soup into 4 bowls, then top each portion with some of the prosciutto crisps and 3 toasts on the side.

Nutrition information per serving: 630 calories; 120 calories from fat (19 percent of total calories); 13 g fat (3 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 25 mg cholesterol; 96 g carbohydrate; 8 g fiber; 5 g sugar; 31 g protein; 1,640 mg sodium.

• Sara Moulton was executive chef at Gourmet magazine for nearly 25 years, and spent a decade hosting several Food Network shows. She currently stars in public television’s “Sara’s Weeknight Meals” and has written three cookbooks, including “Sara Moulton’s Everyday Family Dinners.”

The first time I ate white chicken chili, it was wrapped in a burrito. And I fell instantly in love.

Of course, I’d always been a fan of tomato-based red chili, but the white version – flavored with green chili peppers and thickened with sour cream – struck me as cleaner. And I didn’t miss the sometimes cloying sweetness that tomatoes bring to red chili.

So here is my lightened-up version of white chicken chili. It can be eaten straight up by the bowl, over rice (preferably brown), or spooned into a whole-wheat tortilla. To make this dish creamy without any cream, I thickened it by mashing up some of the white beans.

Combined with a tiny bit of reduced-fat sour cream, the mashed beans provide this impeccably slimmed-down chili with an unexpectedly luxurious texture.

Good flavor and thickening ability aside, white beans also happen to be a powerhouse of good nutrition. They’re a terrific source of fiber – which means this chili will fill you up – and a very good source of folate and manganese.

As written, this recipe isn’t especially spicy. But if you wanted to heat it up, you can lose the canned chilies in favor of fresh ones. Poblanos – roasted, peeled and chopped – would be perfect, as would chopped and sauteed jalapeños and serranos.

And don’t forget the garnishes. Even though they require extra work, I can’t recommend them highly enough. They add so many layers of flavor and texture to the finished bowl of chili.

White Chicken Chili with Lime Start to finish: 1 hour (30 minutes active) Servings: 6 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 1 cup finely chopped yellow onion 1 red bell pepper, cored and chopped 1 pound ground chicken or turkey 1 tablespoon minced garlic 1 1/2 tablespoons chili powder 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1/2 cup white wine (optional) 1 1/2 cups low-sodium chicken broth (use 2 cups if not using the wine) Two 15 1/2-ounce cans white beans, drained and rinsed 4 1/2 -ounce can chopped green chilies (use less if you prefer a very mild chili) 1/2 cup reduced-fat sour cream Salt and ground black pepper To serve: Chopped scallions Chopped fresh cilantro Grated low-fat Monterey Jack cheese Lime wedges In a large nonstick or stick-resistant skillet over medium, heat the oil. Reduce the heat to medium-low, add the onion and red pepper, then cook for 5 minutes, or until the onion is softened. Add the chicken and cook, breaking up the any large pieces, until the chicken is no longer pink, about 5 minutes.

Add the garlic, chili powder, flour, cumin and oregano and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Add the white wine, if using, and the broth in a stream, whisking. Bring the mixture to boil and simmer for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, use a fork to mash 1 cup of the beans. Add both the whole and mashed beans and the chilies to the chili and simmer for 10 minutes. Stir in the sour cream and cook until hot. Season with salt and pepper.

Ladle the chili into bowls and accompany at the table with scallions, cilantro, cheese and lime wedges.

Nutrition information per serving: 410 calories; 120 calories from fat (29 percent of total calories); 13 g fat (4.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 75 mg cholesterol; 41 g carbohydrate; 9 g fiber; 3 g sugar; 29 g protein; 430 mg sodium.

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3M awards stethoscopes to KC nursing students Fifteen first-year nursing students at Kishwaukee College were the recipients of Littmann Stethoscopes from the Community Support Group at 3M. Jon Pruitt and Donna Engh, co-chairs of the 3M Community Support Group, were on campus on Sept. 10 to award the stethoscopes to the students.

The nursing students who received Littmann stethoscopes are: Loretta Hughes, Aurora; Karen Mullis, Cortland; Ellyn Clark, Jaclyn Gaul, Megan Hayes, Vanessa Howell, Susan Hurm, George Jideonwo, Jessica Sullivan, and Alicia Velasquez, DeKalb; Kylie Kowalski, Elburn; April Letherman and Lindsay O’Hern, Kirkland; Melissa Bone, Shabbona; and Stefanie King, Sycamore.

The Community Support Group is the local arm of 3M that provides charitable assistance and support. Although the national 3M Corporation provides recognizable support in a variety of ways, including scholarships to Kishwaukee College and other educational institutions across the country, the Community Support Group is designed to be community-specific by

volunteering, assisting, and donating in ways that are unique to the local community.

In 2010, 3M employee Mike Ryan, who was the chairman of the Community Support Group at the time, had suggested providing the Littmann stethoscopes to deserving Kishwaukee College nursing students. Ryan’s wife is an alumnus of the Kishwaukee College program, and he recalled the expense of purchasing the necessary equipment, including stethoscopes. The Littmann Stethoscope is manufactured by 3M and is considered the “Cadillac” of stethoscopes.

This fall marked the seventh semester visit to the Kishwaukee College campus for Pruitt and Engh to distribute the Littmann stethoscopes to deserving nursing students.

They look forward to many more visits in the future to assist the students who have chosen nursing as their profession.

For more information on Kishwaukee College, visit www.kishwaukeecollege.edu; for more information on the 3M Corporation, visit www.3m.com.

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The Community Support Group at 3M in DeKalb awarded Littmann Stethoscopes to 15 first-year nursing students at Kishwaukee College. Pictured (from left) on campus with the stethoscopes are: (front row) Jaclyn Gaul, Lindsay O’Hern, Karen Mullis and Stefanie King; (middle row) Jon Pruitt, co-chair, 3M Community Support Group, Ellyn Clark, Jessica Sullivan, Loretta Hughes, April Letherman, George Jideonwo, Megan Hayes and Donna Engh, co-chair, 3M Community Support Group; (back row) Vanessa Howell, Melissa Bone, Alicia Velasquez, Kylie Kowalski and Susan Hurm.

8BRIEFS Loren Goodrich earns Growmark scholarship Loren Goodrich, a crop sciences major with a focus in biotechnology and molecular biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the recipient of a scholarship from Growmark Inc. She is the daughter of Jared and Cary Joe Goodrich of Shabbona.

This year, the regional agricultural supply and grain marketing cooperative presented 46 scholarships totaling more than $44,000 to students majoring in agriculture or accounting from 16 colleges and universi-

ties. The scholarship program has been in place for more than 50 years.

Growmark is a regional cooperative providing agriculture-related products and services, as well as grain marketing in 43 states and Ontario, Canada. Growmark owns the FS trademark, which is used by affiliated member cooperatives.

More information is available at www.growmark.com.

Sycamore student takes part in Butler program Adam Loellke of Sycamore was one of 557 Butler Univer-

sity students to participate in Bulldogs Into the Streets, a large-scale single day of community service hosted by the Butler Volunteer Center.

This year’s event partnered with 17 Indianapolis organizations including Gleaners Food Bank and Holliday Park.

The 2013 event had the most student participants in the program’s 19-year history.

Butler is a nationally recognized comprehensive university that offers more than 60 undergraduate areas of study, eight pre-professional programs, and 19 graduate programs. Around

4,700 students are enrolled at Butler, representing 45 states and 49 countries.

DeKalb student joins Monmouth fraternity Jacob Marx of DeKalb has joined Sigma Phi Epsilon, a national fraternity at Monmouth College.

The Greek life community at Monmouth has been an important part of the college for more than 140 years. Monmouth is the founding college of women’s fraternities Pi Beta Phi (1867) and Kappa Kappa Gamma (1870).

There are currently eight active organizations on campus,

and Greeks make up nearly one quarter of Monmouth’s student population. The college’s chapters take academic excellence seriously, which they consistently display by keeping their GPA higher than the all-campus average.

Marx is the son of David and Dawn Marx of DeKalb.

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Sister who’s out of control needs reins pulled Dear Abby: I’m 21, and my 16-year-old sister is out of control. She told me she smokes marijuana, drinks alcohol, abuses painkillers and recently mentioned she does coke.

Abby, she is beautiful, and I don’t want to see her do this to herself. She’s living with me about an hour away from my parents because Dad is an alcoholic and he abuses our mother. I brought my sister here to get her away from all that because I know what it was like growing up there.

I’m having trouble giving her advice to stay away from those things because I did them, and I feel like a hypocrite. My parents can’t get through to her, either.

Please help. – Trying To Be A Big Sis Dear Trying: You’re lucky

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips you were able to straighten out without becoming addicted to any of the substances you experimented with, but your sister may not be so lucky. Because she’s out of control, you MUST step in and put a stop to it for her sake.

Your sister needs counseling, and if she is going to remain your responsibility, it is imperative that you assert control. Talk to her school counselor about getting her the help she needs. You may have to drug-test your sister on a random basis as a condition of her continuing to live

with you. Kits are available at your pharmacy.

Stop feeling guilty, stay strong, and you may be able to steer your sister back on the right path.

Dear Abby: I’m a 23-yearold soldier in the Army, currently deployed overseas.

I’m less than a month away from returning home to my husband. However, I have not been faithful to him during my tour. I have had sex with several people over here, and if that’s not complicated enough, I appear to be pregnant. I don’t know what to tell my husband. I actually still kind of love him. Advice? – Deployed And Pregnant Dear Deployed: You need to make certain you are pregnant and that this is not a false alarm. Whether you are

or not, you have some difficult decisions to make.

While it won’t be pleasant, you and your husband are due for an honest conversation upon your return. If you both “still kind of” love each other, forgiveness is possible, and couples have been known to get beyond this and have successful marriages.

Dear Abby: The “rule” that white pants can be worn only from Memorial Day to Labor Day needs to be amended. I love my white pants. They go with nearly everything, and I almost cry when they must be stored away for another nine months. Ridiculous! My proposal would be to extend the grace period so it begins on Easter Sunday and lasts until Halloween. How does that sound? – Marilyn in San

Marcos, Calif.

Dear Marilyn: You will be delighted to know that according to “Emily Post’s Etiquette, 18th Edition,” that old rule about wearing white no longer applies. What’s important isn’t the color, but the weight of the fabric.

Here in Southern California, summer can start late and continue through October. Lightweight fabrics such as cotton and linen are acceptable during hot weather, and when the temperature drops, “winter whites” in wool, corduroy, silk and satin are common, although usually in off-white shades rather than a stark one.

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Chronic stress causes cells to age prematurely Dear Dr. K: For years I’ve heard that chronic stress is bad for your health, but recently I heard something that made me take this seriously: Stress causes our cells to age faster. Is this really true?

Dear Reader: I’ll bet you’re talking about research showing that stress affects the telomeres. These structures are a part of every cell in our body. And if that’s what you’re asking about, it really is true. In fact, it’s part of a discovery so important that it was honored with the Nobel Prize.

The telomeres are the ends of the chromosomes, the structures inside each cell that contain the genes.

Over time, the telomeres get shorter. When they get short

ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff enough, the cell dies.

What does this have to do with stress? Chronic stress leads to shorter telomeres.

The first study that showed this was published in 2004.

The senior author, professor Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California-San Francisco, was one of the scientists awarded the Nobel Prize. The study included mothers caring for chronically ill children. The women under the greatest stress had the shortest telomeres. It was as if their cells were 10 years older than the women under

the least stress.

Since that study, many other studies of people of all ages, in different kinds of stressful situations, have come to the same conclusion: Chronic stress leads to shorter telomeres – to cells that are “older” and closer to the end of their lives.

Most of these studies have been done in older adults, but some have been done in younger adults. For example, young pregnant women exposed to major stress during their pregnancies (such as from the illness or death of a parent) have shorter telomeres than young pregnant women with relatively stressfree pregnancies.

This even is true in children. Children exposed to lots

of violence appear to develop shorter telomeres. Chronic stress in childhood, like physical abuse, can lead to shorter telomeres that remain short into middle age.

Professor Blackburn puts it this way: “Telomeres powerfully quantify life’s insults.”

What does having “older” cells have to do with health?

A growing number of studies show that people with shorter telomeres are much more likely to develop certain types of cancers, heart disease and dementia. In fact, some experts are predicting that we will soon be routinely measuring the length of a person’s telomeres as part of assessing his or her health.

Could stress-reduction

techniques slow cellular aging? In a review article published last year in the scientific journal Nature, professor Blackburn says the answer probably is “yes.” She describes preliminary studies of stress reduction combined with increased physical activity and dietary changes.

It appears from these studies that the telomere shortening may be slowed.

The story of telomeres and cell aging is a prime example of how scientists interested in how our cells work can make unexpected discoveries about what makes us sick – and how to prevent it.

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

Teen: Why are little brothers always brats?

Dr. Wallace: I’m 13 and have two younger brothers, ages 7 and 9. These two boys are brats and do everything possible to upset me. They get their kicks out of making me angry. They spy on me, lie about me, laugh at me, steal from me, squeal to my parents about me, read my diary and pester my friends, who despise them.

Why are little brothers always brats? My grandmother thinks these two little devils are cute little angels. – Nameless, Seattle, Wash.

Nameless: Younger brothers aren’t always brats, and siblings anywhere in the

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace birth order are capable of filling that role. What can you do about it? Screaming at these “little angels” won’t do the trick, and punishing them is, at best, a temporary solution.

Your brothers pester you because they enjoy seeing you get upset and angry.

Your best recourse is to refuse to play your part.

Don’t become overwrought by their little games! I realize

8ASTROGRAPH

By BERNICE BEDE OSOL Newspaper Enterprise Association

TODAY – Talk about your concerns and feelings and make a decision that helps fulfill your needs in the year ahead. You have a lot of potential; you just need to make the moves to unlock it. Don’t hesitate to branch out and take some chances.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Question beliefs that are not meeting your expectations and challenge what you are not satisfied with in your life. Change is brewing, and it must not be ignored.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Visiting new places and meeting new people will broaden your perspective and help you gain greater confidence as you venture down a new path. Favorable changes at home will unfold.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Put a little force behind whatever you decide to do. What you learn will help you make valuable assessments that will lead to improvements in your home and work lives.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Take responsibility for a touchy situation and show everyone what you are able to do. Don’t let opposition cloud your vision; you’ve got the skills to turn the ship around.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Don’t let pending issues get you down. Step up and take care of anything that is costing you emotionally, financially or physically. Your success will be impressive.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Push to make the changes that will improve your position and financial future. Deals can be made and contracts signed during this cycle. Don’t let an emotional matter stand in your way.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Don’t leave anything to chance. Discuss important matters thoroughly before you make a decision.

Moderation will be necessary to avoid a sticky situation. Don’t fold under pressure.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Focus on self-improvement rather than trying to change others. Discipline and hard work will bring you praise and greater opportunities. Take time to nurture important relationships.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Be open to suggestions and welcome any assistance that’s offered. Working with others will ensure that you get things done on time. A change in your social life will do you good.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Take a unique approach, and you will attract interest. Concentrate on the relationships you enjoy and consider how you can use these connections to the max.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Deal cautiously with matters pertaining to your health and family life. Added pressure is likely to lead to arguments if you cannot come to an agreement. Prepare to modify your plans.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Don’t back down if you’re up against a wall. If you know what’s required to get something done, don’t hesitate to take charge. A relationship will undergo some duress.

Show compassion, but don’t be gullible.

this will be difficult, but believe me, if you ignore them, they will soon realize that pestering you is a waste of time. My guess is that it will take about a week.

When they get it into their heads that you won’t be the “goat” any more, they’ll have to find someone else to bother. Let’s hope it’s not Grandmother... But maybe it might be better grandmother than you. Grandmothers know how to successfully take care of little brats.

Dr. Wallace: I’m a ninth-grader, and I really enjoy being in high school. I go to all the athletic events,

8SUDOKU

but I don’t attend the school dances after home-football games because our church does not condone dancing of any kind. One of my good friends attends some of the dances and has asked me to join him. I told him that I’m not allowed to dance. He then said that he doesn’t dance either; instead, he hangs around talking to kids about the game and school stuff.

I’d really like to go to one to see what it is all about, but I know my parents would say no. If the gathering was called an after-game hangout, I probably would be allowed to attend. Any help would be

BRIDGE Phillip Alder

nice! – Albert, Phoenix, Ariz.

Albert: I agree that very few students actually dance at after-game campus “dances.” Your friend was right.

These dances turn out to be supervised “gab sessions.”

Have your parents ask for permission to observe one of these events for a few minutes so they can evaluate whether or not it’s proper for you to attend. This should not cause a problem. Most principals will allow parents to have a peek at school functions.

• Email Dr. Robert Wallace at rwallace@galesburg.net.

8CROSSWORD

Listen closely to the auction Thomas Fuller, an English curate, author and historian who died in 1661, said, “If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.”

If thou art a bridge player, be never deaf nor blind.

Listen carefully to the auction and watch closely every card played.

In today’s deal, South did not draw the logical conclusion from the auction. Look at his hand. He dealt and opened one spade, West overcalled one no-trump (strong), and North responded three diamonds. After East passed, what should South have done?

West’s choice of overcall would not have appealed to everyone. It described the hand strength, but hid her five-card major.

North’s three-diamond response described her hand well – a good long suit and nothing else. (With a strong hand, she would have doubled for penalty.) South had no extra values and no good fit for diamonds, so he should have passed, reaching a contract that could have been made.

Three no-trump, though, had no chance. West, thinking that her partner had no points, led the heart two, which was theoretically fourth-highest. She purposely falsecarded.

South, thinking West had the spade ace and queen, won with his heart jack, played a diamond to dummy’s jack, and led a club to his queen.

West won and continued with the heart nine. South won and played another diamond, but West took her ace and cashed her three heart tricks.

East discouraged in spades, and South also pitched two spades. Then West accurately exited with a club, leaving South stuck in his hand. The contract went down four.

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Woodbury Walking Club

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Woodbury Walking Club meets each Monday after school at Woodbury Elementary in Sandwich. They were especially excited this week when they wore the pedometers purchased with funds granted by the Valley West Hospital Community Wellness partners. Most of the children walked at least two miles, or 4,400 steps during the 45-minute Walking Club meeting.

Renegade Regiment begins fall competitions

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Collision Repair Technology students hold up the banner indicating the Kishwaukee College program has been awarded one year of Professional Development Program – Education Edition curricula from the I-Car Foundation. PDP-EE is the industry standard for certification of collision repair professionals.

Kish College program receives I-Car donation

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The Sandwich High School Renegade Regiment began its fall competitive season on Sept. 14 with a performance at Amos Alonzo Stagg High School in Palos Hills. The group was awarded Outstanding Colorguard, Outstanding Visual Performance, and tied for second place within its class. On Sept. 15, they competed at Graylsake North High School where they received Best Colorguard, Best Percussion and First place in Class A competition. The Renegade Regiment will perform Saturday in Wheaton and at the Sandwich High School Homecoming game on Oct. 4.

The Collision Repair Technology Program at Kishwaukee College has been awarded one year of Professional Development Program – Education Edition curricula materials for the academic year.

“I-Car PDP is recognized as the industry standard in professional shops,” Greg Brink, CRT faculty, said in a news release.

“This donation – which is worth about $4,000 – allows our students to complete the I-Car curricula and graduate with I-Car certification, making them even more employable. This is a great testament to the quality of our CRT program.”

The PDP-EE curricula consist of 16 programs of instruction and 15 online modules in the Non-Structural Technician and Refinish Technician training.

“PDP-EE is I-Car’s new model for CRT training,” Brink said in the release. “When our students complete this training, they will be certified at Pro-Level 1 for the two programs. This enhances their employability because I-Car certified shops – espe-

cially those that are Gold Level Certified – must have Pro-Level techs on staff. Our graduates coming out of school already certified means the shops do not have to pay for the I-Car training. The students have it already.”

Brink plans to make the most of his donated year of PDP-EE curricula and is thrilled that Kishwaukee College CRT students will gain long-term real-world benefits from the donation.

“This is extremely generous of the Collision Repair Foundation and we are very grateful to have been selected as a recipient of the PDP-EE training,” he said in the release.

For more information on the Collision Repair Technology Program at Kishwaukee College, contact Greg Brink at 815825-2086, ext. 3280, or at gregory.brink@ kishwaukeecollege.edu.

For more information on I-Car, visit www.i-car.com or www.collisioncareers. org.

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Have a friend give you NOUNS, ADJECTIVES and VERBS. Then read the silly story aloud. Prepare for big laughs!

The scientists at Kid Scoop Laboratories performed a very L uunusual rocket experiment. They ffilled a _________ __________ with a gallon of ____________ , w and cup of ______________ and a small amount of ___________ Standards Link: Number Sense: Solve problems with addition.

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As you would expect, it didn’t

A rocket needs a propellant – fuel to push it up into the air. NASA rockets use fuels such as liquid hydrogen.

But to launch a soda bottle rocket, air pressure does the trick!

DEFINITION PRESSURE PLASTIC ROCKETS BOTTLE BUCKET LAUNCH GIANT FUELS SMALL MODEL HIGH MARS SODA PUMP

Standards Link: Physical Science: Students know when force is applied to an object, it will speed up or change direction.

Toothpick

Inflation needle

A clean, empty 2 liter soda bottle

A cork or stopper that fits the bottle

A bicycle pump

to make their rocket.

A bucket

Find the words in the puzzle. Then look for each word in this week’s Kid Scoop stories and activities.

_________ very well at all. But they didn’t give up!

L R E S O H L G P E E T R C R L I M K L

They constructed a new rocket

D E U E A A U G T T

powered by ____________ and

O K S M N P M S H T

freeze-dried ___________ . This

M C S T E K C O R O

time, the rocket rumbled and

F U E L S S L D A B

began to _________ across the

U B R C I T S A L P

lab. The rocket crashed into a

N C P L A U N C H H

crate of _____________ which

N O I T I N I F E D

made a _______________ mess.

Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

Finally, the Kid Scoop scientists had a great idea. Using soda pop and mints, they were able to launch a ___________ 20 feet

Use the toothpick to make a small hole in the cork, just large enough for the inflation needle to fit through.

Fill about 1/3 of the bottle with water.

Insert the cork firmly into the mouth of the bottle.

Insert the inflation needle through the cork. Place bottle in bucket facing away from you.

Start pumping air rapidly into the bottle. Countdown to lift off has begun!

OBSERVATION: Describe what happened when you added more QUESTION: Does adding more water water to your bottle rocket. affect the rocket?

Words like buzz and boom sound like the noise they describe.

These words are onomatopoeias. Can you find others in today’s newspaper?

Standards Link: Phonemic Awareness: Distinguish initial sounds in words.

HYPOTHESIS: Your thoughtful guess about what you think might happen.

CONCLUSION: Was your hypothesis correct?

Standards Link: Science Inquiry: Conduct simple experiments.

The air wants to escape from the bottle and it pushes the water against the stopper.

The rocket will take off when the stopper can no longer withstand the pressure in the bottle.

The force of the water powers the rocket into the air.

Standards Link: Science Inquiry: Conduct simple experiments.

Rocket Words

into the air. They added more

Search through the newspaper and circle words that start with the letter “r,” like rocket.

Then sort the words into columns by the number of syllables.

the sky was filled with flying

Standards Link: Spelling: Students identify syllables correctly.

soda pop, more mints and soon

objects such as a ___________ ___________ , a ____________ ___________ and dozens of

Kid Scoop Sponsored By

____________ ____________ !

It took several days to clean up the lab, which was covered in ____________ ____________ .

Pretend you could win a ride into space on a rocket. Write a paragraph telling why you should win that prize.

DOWNTOWN SYCAMORE

The experiment proved that soda pop, mints and ______________ will make a big mess every time!

Standards Link: Language Arts: Use nouns, adjectives and verbs correctly.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 “Mmmm Cereal” Photo by: Karen

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Physical Therapy Aide/Receptionist

Custodial / Maintenance

HEAD CUSTODIAN DeKalb HS - 2nd Shift Custodial, Maintenance, and Supervisory exp. preferred.

Apply online at www.dekalbcounty.org/ROE/ jobopenings.html

Facilities Manager Oak Crest Accredited retirement community seeks professional for new position. Responsible for planning, budgeting, departmental operations, project & risk management for thirty acre campus & facilities.

Strong leadership skills & customer service focus expected. Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management or related field & 3-5 years of relevant experience.

Submit resume & salary history in confidence by 10/03/13 to mwest@oakcrestdekalb.org or 2944 Greenwood Acres Dr DeKalb, IL

MAINTENANCE Experience in minor plumbing, electrical & HVAC. Repairs as well as painting & apartment maintenance required. Must have valid drivers license.

needed to work in Physical Therapy clinic 30-40 hours/ week. Multi-tasking self-direction and ability to work in a fastpaced environment is a must.

Friendly and outgoing personality preferred. Duties include scheduling, billing, assisting physical therapists in patient care. Previous experience a plus, but willing to train the right person.

Please mail your resume to: HR Dept., 3266 Resource Parkway, DeKalb, IL 60115 or fax to: 815-756-1841

Property Manager FT & PT rental agent/property manager wanted for busy rental office.

Good computer skills, strong work ethic, ambition and energetic. Own form of transportation req'd. Previous Property Mgmt. exp. pref'd. Hrs M-F 10am-5:30. Sat. 10am-2pm.

Send resumes to: 120 N. Annie Glidden Rd. DeKalb IL 60115 Fax resume 815-756-1679

RECEPTIONIST A friendly WEEKEND receptionist with both excellent communication & customer skills is needed. Professional appearance & the ability to work weekends a must. Southmoor Estates 815-756-1299

Seasonal Kuipers Family Farm in Maple Park hiring seasonal help weekends only. Positions include: experienced cashiers and general staff members. Must be at least 16.

Visit our website: www.KuipersFamilyFarm.com/ employment on how to apply.

RETAIL GROCERY STORE ASSISTANT MANAGER

CAT - LOST Smoke is grey with bronze eyes, and maroon paws. He is declawed in the front. He was last seen wearing a sparkly red collar with a white border, and a pink tag with my phone number. He also has a spot on his right upper leg where a patch of hair is growing back in.

He's EXTREMELY affectionate.

I miss him dearly.

He also comes to "Mokie."

He was last seen on Oakview Lane, Saturday afternoon (the 14th).

If you have seen him, or know someone who has, please either call or text Steph at (815) 9700069. REWARD IF RETURNED

Spotters/Shuttle Drivers DeKalb: A leading Illinois transportation company is seeking the best, safest and most qualified CDL A Drivers, for Spotting and Shuttling in the DeKalb area. We have newer models and wellmaintained equipment and offer great pay and excellent benefits.

Contact Michelle Olbrecht at: 773-922-2293

Driver

Currently Hiring Part Time Drivers

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Large Retail Distributor in Dekalb, IL * Variety of Schedules Available * No Touch Freight * Up to $200 / Day CDL-A w/1 year T/T exp.

Hazmat end. Preferred.

800-879-7826 www.ruan.com/jobs

HR OFFICE ASST. - PT 1-2 Yrs HR Exp. Or 2-5 Yrs Office Exp. Apply at: www.kishwaukeecollege.edu click on Employment.

Looking for our 2 lost cats, a father and daughter look alike. Beautiful long hair orange tabbies both have 4 white paws, white chest, and tummy. Beith Rd and Meredith Rd, could be in Maple Park or Virgil, or anywhere. If you have see either one, please call or text 630-7095471. Large reward if found.

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Friday & Saturday 9am – 4pm

407 S. Sprague St. Some Antiques, Small Appliances, Dishes, Pans, Wide Variety of Housewares, Gardening Tools.

All in Good Shape.

New Items on Saturday.

SYCAMORE LARGE ESTATE OF BARBARA & CARL GROVES WALLIN Antiques, Primitives, Vintage THURS-SUN 10-4

2211 COLTONVILLE RD. Lifelong residents & involvement in Dekalb & Sycamore Historical Socities.

ACCUMULATION! COMPLIMENTARY COFFEE AND DONUTS KATHY'S ESTATE SALES 847-363-4814

Cortland GARAGE & CRAFT SALE

159 W. Pine Ave & next door at

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THURS, 8-4; FRI, 8-4 & SAT, 8-12

Antiques and collectables, ANTIQUE HOWARD PIANO, saddles and tack, sets of dishware, tools, Furniture, Washer, Dryers, Ladder Rack 1999 SAAB CONVERTIBLE, car topper, lawnmowers, snowblowers, generator, dog runs, bikes, doors, windows, all kinds of household items, toys

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!

DEKALB

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Seymour of Sycamore The Inventor of Aerosol Spray Paint has the following position available:

MANUFACTURING SUPERVISOR Must have a minimum of 5 years experience as a Shop Floor Direct Supervisor in a high speed industrial manufacturing environment.

A basic mechanical aptitude. Experience in Microsoft Word and Excel. Primarily to work our 2nd Shift, but also needs the flexibility to work any of our production shift schedules. A working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing Techniques.

We offer comprehensive benefits package.

FRI 9/27 & SAT 9/28

9-4

2826 & 2905 Greenwood Acres Dr STUFF!! household, furniture, holiday decor, boys bike, some vintage,boys, mens, womens clothing, much much misc.

HIGHER PRICED ITEMS: 1940's Red Rocket Sled, Kabar, long sleeve wedding gown sz 10, Full length Mink/fox coat, uncut patterns 300+, Mohawk sign, barbie clothes, 1980"s M.O.T.U. collectibles/dolls. (reasonable offers accepted) Always worth checking out!!!

Dekalb

Thurs, Fri, Sat 8:30am-4:30pm 848 Kensington Blvd

EARLVILLE Town-Wide Garage Sales SAT, SEP 28 8AM - 3PM Food & Maps Available.

BARGAINS!

GENOA

White & Blue Tags ½ price 1-2 pm

Questions?

Want to Participate in the Sale?

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ST CHARLES

6N293 OLD HOMESTEAD RD

Furniture, refrigerator, holiday decor, knick knacks, children & adult clothing, books, and much more.

EVERYTHING MUST GO.

16038 Quigley Rd. Off of Airport Rd.

Misses clothing, accessories.

Miscellaneous household excellent condition.

Sycamore 725 Cambridge Place

Waterman

Furniture, antique & vintage, tools, toys. You name it!

Advertise here for a successful garage sale!

Call 815-455-4800

HAMPSTERS – 3 Free Hampsters, 2 male 1 female, cage is included.

Very sweet, caged separately.

815-793-3694.

UGG's – Muted Pale Pink Ladies Ugg's, worn twice, size 9 women's $90.00 firm 815-370-8759

WASHER & DRYER Roper, Electric, Heavy Duty, Extra Large Capacity $250 for pair, 815-761-8121

ANTIQUE FULL SIZE FARM BED LICENSE PLATES Great condition. 1922-1928, most are in pairs. $25 each.

847-515-8012 SEWING MACHINE - SINGER Great condition. Oak cabinet.

4 drawers. $150.

847-515-8012

Friday 8:30am - 4pm Saturday 8:30am – 1pm

Wanted: Old Oriental Rugs Any size or condition.

Call Toll Free 1-800-660-8938

Bike ~ 20” Girls

With basket, good condition, $30.

815-895-4040 Radio Flyer Red Scoot About Ride On Kids Toddler Bike w/Bell & Seat That Adjusts As Child Grows Best For 1-2 Year Old, $18, DeKalb.

815-739-1953.

27508 Devine Way Off Plank Rd.

HUGE SALE Down-Sizing After 30 Years.

Hand Tools, Lawn Tools, Lawn Furniture, TVs, VCRs, Furniture, Sporting Goods & More!

Friday- 27th Saturday- 28th

9-4 9-2

Holiday and Home Decor Household Items 2- 50cc Motor Scooters and a 2 Place Motor Cycle Trailer Tools Toys File Cabinets Clothing Furniture Books Jewelry

TVs (2). 27” Phillips & 32” JVC Not flat screen. Like new. $25/each. 815-899-2145

Bowflex SelecTech 552 Dumbells

Rapidly switch weights 5 lbs-5.25lbs, 2.5lbs increments to 25lbs, NIB $349 815-895-4040 Treadmill Exerciser Walk or jog; No motor, better fitness, easy storage. $55.00 Call evenings 815-756-1095

Firewood for sale - Cherry and seasoned mixed hardwood. Split, stacked, delivered. Ready to burn.

815-291-6999

A-1 MATTRESS SETS. NEW IN PLASTIC. Twin $99, Full $129, Queen $159, King $259 w/warr.

Can deliver. 815-703-3688 Bed Frame, King. Good cond. $45 815-758-0915 Bed – Twin size, Maple $50. 815-333-5236 evenings Book Case. Brown. $25 815-758-0915 Chair & Ottoman. Blue & yellow floral on white. $150 815-751-4679 Couch, red plaid w/coordinating chair & ottoman. Excellent cond. $400 FIRM. 815-784-6161 Couch. Broyhill. Blue & white plaid. $200 815-751-4679 DESK - Beautiful Rolltop Oak Desk Completely refinished 5 drawers/1 door (all lock) Cubbies inside rolltop. $1,100. 815-825-2275 Mahogany Desk - (inlays in top) Totally refinished; 42" wide 8 drawers, brass handles $200.00 815-825-2275

Precious Moments Dated 1987 Club Figurine, "Love Is The Best Gift Of All", Great Condition, No Box, $8, DeKalb. 815-739-1953.

Precious Moments Wedding Figurine "The Lord Bless & Keep You" E-3114, Great Condition, No Box, $8, DeKalb. 815-739-1953

DVD/CD PLAYER 7 Disc, JVC, $40.

Hampshire area. 847-830-9725 Send your Classified Advertising 24/7 to: classified@shawsuburban.com Fax: 815-477-8898 or online at: www.daily-chronicle.com

DeKALB

6-Speed Snapper Mower 21" steel deck rear wheel self-propelled mulcher mower with bag. 4 cycle, serviced regularly. Great Condition. $100 (815) 895-5206 Echo String Trimmer 2-cycle gas trimmer, model GT-2000. Barely used. Excellent condition. $125 (815) 895-5206

Conduit Bender 1/2", $20, Sycamore. 815-895-5373 DRILL - Makita Drill w/Battery, Charger & Case, $25, Sycamore, 815-895-5373 DRILL - Milwaukee 4' Right Angle Drill, $190, Sycamore.

815-895-5373 Old Carpenters Wood Clamps; 4' notched wood beams, cast metal marked The Black Brass Co. Mendoro, IL Good Condition $65. 815-761-8121 Table Saw. Delta. 10” blade. $250 815-751-4679 WIRE RACK - Ideal 25 Spool Heavy Duty Wire Rack, $160, Sycamore.

815-895-5373

Back To Life Machine

Great for a bad back, like new! $200/obo 815-909-8905 Wheel Chair – Jet 7, Battery Powered - $200 815-286-5165 evenings

BASKET - Picnic Style Wooden Basket, New With Handle & Pie-Cake Wood Tray Insert, $15, Sycamore. 815-895-5373 Heavy Duty New Backpacks Assorted Designs - Lifetime Warranty - $15 - Sycamore.

815-895-5373 NFL New Black & White Reebok FGT Cleats w/Anti-Friction Lining, Size 10.5, $25. Sycamore.

815-895-5373.

Potty Chair - Blue & White, Like New, Made By Summer. $15.

Sycamore. 815-895-5373.

SHOES - Boys/Men's Adidas Cleats Shoes, Size 6, $5, DeKalb. 815-739-1953 SNEAKERS - Men's Boy's Sneaux Black Sneakers Size 7 Everyday Shoes, $5 DeKalb. 815-739-1953

OLD WOOD PLANK TABLE 8' Long, Chairs Available $365. 815-761-8121

GUITAR ~ YAMAHA

6 string, accoustic, excellent condition! $300/obo 815-909-8905

SOFA & LOVESEAT

Cream with light pattern, excellent condition! $200 815-758-6834

Table - Small Octagon Mahogany table. 2 chairs, Glass

Sycamore

Fri, Sat & Sun 7:30am – 3pm

TV/VCR. Toshiba. Works great. Only used in guest rm. $40. Hampshire area. 847-830-9725

Recliner. Leather. Like new.

Light yellow/gold. $300.

815-751-4679

HUGE MULTI-FAMILY Boys & girls clothes, playhouse, sand table, dbl stroller, Loving Family dollhouse & other misc items

Printer Cartridges - One brand new, but open HP 53A printer cartridge.

Fits HP LaserJet P2015. Printer died, so do not need anymore.

Brand new these cost $70 plus, asking $50. Also included is a used cartridge that might have some life in it. 815-895-7486.

20% OFF TONS OF VINTAGE ITEMS!

6' Tall Headboard & 31” tall foot board. $125. 815-899-4141

Friday 9/27, 12-5 Saturday 9/28, 8-5

DEKALB

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SAT, SEPT 28 8-2

130 W. Adams

Children's Clothing (Infant - Preteen Size 5) Jackets, Shoes, Toys Bikes, Riding Toys, Baby Equipment & Furniture, Educational Items, Halloween costumes, Games, Videos, DVD's, Books & Bedding

Furniture, table saw, assorted kitchen items, men & women clothes, kids games, books, misc.

1145 FOX HOLLOW DR.

VINTAGE SALE

FALL & WINTER

MULTI-FAMILY SALE 621 Charles Street

SAT, SEPT 28 9-3

INDOOR

GREAT DEALS ON

Tools, tool boxes, air compressor, wheels & tires, diecast cars, magazines, & assorted household.

3 HOUSE GARAGE SALE

WILLOW NOOKS

Multi Family Sale Fri & Sat 8am-3pm

SYCAMORE

Free kittens to good homes 815-286-3301

top, 36” round. Exc. Cond. $150.

630-232-1982

120 gal saltwater tank w/everything $800, 55 gal piranha tank w/ cherry stand $250 , Commercial tanning bed $1000 , Exercise equipment - various $ , lots of extra stuff. Call and come look 815-501-6694 Bedding. King. Blankets, Sheets, Mattress Pad. $10/each.

815-758-0915 Blender: Oster, White, 10 Speed Like New. $18. Sycamore.

815-895-5373.

BOWLS - New Set Of 3 - Apple Design Ceramic Bowls, 1-Large, 1-Medium, 1-Small & Ceramic Apple Design Matching Pitcher, $20, Sycamore. 815-895-5373 Quilt. Blue. King.

Excellent condition. $25 815-758-0915 LOCAL NEWS WHEREVER YOU GO! Up-to-date news, weather, scores & more can be sent directly to your phone! It's quick, easy & free to register at Daily-Chronicle.com

AIR CONDITIONER - Large, 240 Volt AC, In Great Working Order, $140, Sycamore. 815-895-5373.

SLED - Little Tikes Baby Infant Child Red Sled W/Back Support & Carrying /Pulling Rope, Like New, $20, DeKalb. 815-739-1953

Air Hockey Table. Electric.

Sportcraft. 6' oval. $65 Hampshire area. 847-830-9725

Child Vanity & Pink Chair - Little Tikes Vanity Has White Lift Up Lid w/ "Mirror" Underneath That Child Can See Themselves In & Compartments Of Different Sizes For Storage.

Can Be Used As A Desk Also. $22, Sycamore. 815-895-5373.

Fisher Price Toddler/Child Musical Laugh & Learn Smart Bounce & Spin Pony Ride On. Yellow/Tan Horse On Green Platform. Like New $20. Sycamore. 815-895-5373.

Daily Chronicle Classified 877-264-2527

100% HOME LOAN, MUST QUALIFY

DEKALB 733 Haish Blvd

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Custom Built 4BR, 2.5BA Beautiful Oak Woodwork Throughout! Four Season Room & Hot tub.

Quiet Cul de Sac location.

“Priced to Sell!”

CALL Marilyn Yamber

Remodeled Country Home. DeKalb Schools. ½ Acre. 4 BR. USDA Rural Financing Program.

CALL NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR 815-739-9997

815-758-7368 Yamber Real Estate & Property Management

PRICE REDUCED SELLER SAID, GET IT SOLD!

Truck Driver Supervisor Join Dart Container Corporation the world's largest foam cup manufacturer and one of the leading producers of quality foodservice packaging products.

We are in need of a Truck Driver Supervisor.

You will be responsible for the overall supervision, dispatching, scheduling, and efficient operation of our fleet drivers.

Qualified applicants must have at least 2 years previous supervisory experience, at least 1 year dispatching experience, excellent organizational, interpersonal, communication skills, and familiarity and ability to use a computer.

For immediate consideration please apply online at

Please forward resume and salary history to:

www.dart.jobs

jobs@seymourpaint.com or apply: 917 Crosby Ave, Sycamore

Dart Container Corporation 310 S. Evergreen, North Aurora, IL 60542

Equal Opportunity Employer

SAT, SEPT 28 9-12 & 1-2

September 26, 27, & 28 Thursday & Friday (8-5), Saturday (8-12)

Cherry dining room table & 6 chairs, claw foot, very elaborate measures approx. 10 feet with 2 leaves $800. Solid wood bunk beds $150, self propelled lawn mower, leather scraps, kitchenware, glassware, collectibles, lots of good stuff! Rain or shine.

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North School Children's Clothing & Toy Resale

South of Genoa off Route 23, 1/2 mile west on Baseline Road

Thursday - Saturday 8am-6pm

1-800-266-6204

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Malta

DeKalb 1509 Hulmes Drive

JOBS, JOBS and MORE JOBS! No Resume? No Problem!

Dedicated to Diversity. EOE

THURS, FRI, SAT, SUN 9AM - 5PM

Tool chest, rolltop desk, oak corner cabinet, table & chairs, lawn edger, elect tools, furniture, lots of garage sale items.

CRAFTS: Bird houses, benches, stools, a variety of fall, Halloween & Christmas crafts.

CAT – LOST South DeKalb 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 Was wearing a red collar. If you see me, please call my people at 815-501-9724. $500 FOR SAFE RETURN! We miss our big boy.Thank you.

SYCAMORE

COUNTRY

1892 Platbooks, antique books, glassware, sterling, furniture, tools, lawn mowers, 1960's Honda 50 scooter, John Deere snow blower, Golden Globe, boxing robe, WWI & WWII items. YEARS OF

To apply call Eden's Garden Apts: 815-758-8045 or stop in at: 2355 Williams Way in DeKalb.

IN DEKALB full time position 40 + hours Retail experience is necessary Duties to include: ~Buying perishables and dry goods ~inventory control ~stocking goods and managing proper rotation of goods ~ managing storefront cleanliness ~cashier duties including balancing cash drawers ~greeting of customers ~answering phones ~unloading orders and lifting up to 40 lbs.

Send replies to attn: Grocery Store Asst. Mgr. c/o Classified, 1586 Barber Greene Rd. DeKalb, IL. 60115

DEKALB

EOE m/f/v/d

EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FOR A GROWING BUSINESS ENTREPRENEUR – INVESTOR Over 22,000 sq. ft. -- 2 Phase Building - zoning M2 Sycamore

All appliances. Move-in ready townhome. Fireplace.

Great Location. 2BR, 2 Full Baths.

CALL NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR 815-739-9997

CALL NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR 815-739-9997

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Page D2 • Wednesday, September 25, 2013 Picnic Table ~ Fisher Price Excellent condition! $40 815-895-4040 Radio Flyer Inchworm Bouncing Caterpillar Ride On, Has Red Hat & Red Seat & Green Body On Four Wheels, $15, Sycamore.

815-895-5373.

RIDE ON - Little Tikes Teal Coupe , Car Has Floor Board & Handle For Parent To Push Smaller Child & Floor Board Can Be Taken Out & Child Can Move The Car Around With Their Feet. Car Has Steering Wheel & A Beeping Horn, $25, DeKalb, 815-739-1953.

DeKalb 3 BR, large kitchen.

Stove, Fridge, DW, AC. Fenced Yard. Garage.

815-758-0079

MOVE IN SPECIAL 1ST MONTH FREE 2200 square foot light industrial/commercial space for rent. Office space size varies 14X14 foot overhead door. Easy access to I-88. $1,100/month Contact: Dan 815-754-6484

DEKALB 3-4 Bedroom Ranch Style, basement, garage, all appliances, NO Smoking, No Pets, $1200. 815-758-0591

Genoa 3 + Bedroom Ranch

Stove, fridge, heat & water incl.

No pets/smoking. 815-298-0423

2009 Hyundai Elantra Excellent condition, less than 24,000 miles, air, power windows, keyless entry. $11,000 815-761-8268

1996 Ford F250 7.3 Power Stroke, Cab+1/2, 4WD, runs great, some rust. (815) 739-5230.

1997 GMC x-cab 2WD ½ ton p/u very clean, no rust, good miles, $4950 Call Brian 815-756-1069 or cell 815-757-4524

Stove, refrig, W/D, fireplace.

Rustic look, 1st , last sec, $975/mo Near GMS 815-762-3240

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

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Cute, Cozy Upper 1 Bedroom Sycamore, hrdwd flrs, lovely yard.

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1978 Ford Thunderbird $2500 Call or text to 815-901-7429

Sycamore 2BR $775/mn (no pet disc.) 1st flr, off-st prkng, pets, quiet, strg, W/D. New carpet, flr. 630651-8301, mgalli@gallinet.net

SYCAMORE 2BR DUPLEX Updated, washer/dryer, large yard, garage. $750/mo + security.

630-479-4577

SYCAMORE CLEAN 2BR,1BA W/D, D/W, next to park & schools. $725/mo, you pay utilities.

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Hillcrest Place Apts.

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Avail now, 847-845-4021

Sycamore ~ Large, Quiet 1BR

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Storage space. $750 a month + gas/electricity. 815-895-3238

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722 N. Annie Glidden Rd. 815-758-7859

DEKALB 1 BEDROOM

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No pets/smoke. 815-762-4730

DeKalb 1BR Basement Apt. Off-St parking, quiet area.

Partly furn, $700/mo + util incl.

No pets/smkg. 815-793-5011

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Downtown. Excellent conditon.

Move in special. $675/mo.

630-778-8023 DeKalb – 929 Greenbriar 2 & 3 BR, C/A, DW, W/D, 1 car garage. Available Now. 815-895-6357 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 Large Upper 2BR Available October 15.

815-748-5054

Sycamore: 1BR w/den, 950 sq ft., 1.5BA, secured entrance building, C/A, all appl., lndry on site, pets OK, $740/mo. 815-899-7551

Waterman Upper 1 Bedroom

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Clean, quiet residential building.

815-758-6580

DEKALB ~ QUIET 2BR, 1BA

Near downtown, parking, laundry.

NO pets/smoking, agent owned.

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Malta 2 Bedroom Duplex Appliances, W/D hook-up, no pets. $650/mo. 815-562-7368 Malta- 1 Bedroom efficiency.

No smoking. $575 includes utilities. 815-981-8117

Rochelle 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath 4 Bedroom, 2 Bath 28'x56' (1568 sq ft) New a/c & handicap ramp $79,500 815-508-9622 Leave a message

GENOA 1000 SQ FT. IN TOWN, OVERHEAD DOOR, FORMER DANCE STUDIO, $375/MO. OFFICE OR ELECTRICAL 847-721-4940

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Dated August 28, 2013 /s/ John Acardo DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder (Published in the Daily Chronicle, September 11, 18 & 25, 2013.)

Garage, $675/mo + utilities + dep + lease. No pets/smoking.

815-786-2513

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630-650-1180

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630-926-1174 ~ 630-527-9188

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Call 815-739-9237

AT YOUR YOUR SERVICE DEKALB: 2BR, 1.5BA, C/A, off st. parking, no pets/smoking,1 year lease. $625/mo+1st, last, sec & utils. Refs req. 815-508-0308

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815-757-1907 2 BED/2 BATH DUPLEX FOR RENT 2bed / 2bath plus den, washer/dryer, dishwasher, garage. $875 Pets OK. Avail now. Casey 630-631-8200 Cortland. 2BR. Clean. All appls, 1.5BA, A/C. Laundry hook-up.

2 story. Incl appls. 1 car garage. $775/mo. 630-556-3330

DEKALB - 2, 3 & 4 BR duplexes with attached 2 car garage.

1 mo security & 1st mo rent.

Move in before winter!

Call 815-758-8048 or stop in : Eden's Garden Apts 2355 Williams Way, DeKalb DeKalb. Nice 2BR Ranch w/full basement. Location! $850+utils.

Adolph Miller RE 815-756-7845 Dekalb: Knolls, 1200 sq ft ranch, 3BR, 2BA, new paint & floors, all appl., C/A, bsmnt, lndry hookup, 2 car attchd gar No pets/smoke $1000/mo. 815-464-8646 Rochelle 3BR, 1BA, 2.5 Car Gar. Fenced back yard, part fin bsmt, W/D hook-up, C/A, $775/mo. + dep. No pets. 815-751-6419

Clare - 2BR 1.5 BA Ranch w/2 car att. gar. Nestled in the woods, FP, propane heat w/CA, 3/4 bsmt. Off of a gravel road. Clare PO, Kirkland School Dist. Appl. supp. Util not incl. Asking $1200/mo. + dep.

Serious inquires only.

815-522-3548.

CORTLAND 3 BEDROOM 2 full bath, appl, full bsmt, fenced back yard, 2 car gar, $1200/mo.

Available 10/15. 815-761-6663 DEKALB - 2BR 1BA, Appliances, A/C Garage, Lawn Care - Snow Removal Included, No Smoking, No Pets, $850. 815-758-0591 DeKalb 1BR, Quiet established neighborhood. 611 N. 5th. New kitchen w/ dishwasher, main floor W/D, front porch. 1-car garage. $625/mo. 815-895-6357

DEKALB 2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH Available Now. Quiet, residential area, walk to downtown. Appl incl.

815-758-6580 DeKalb 2BR, Den, Family Room with fireplace, D/W, garage with work shop. Bsmt. $995, no pets/smoke. 815-762-4730

DEKALB 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH Utility room w/W/D, C/A, gas stove & refrig. Off St. parking for 2, water & sewer incl, near NIU. $950/mo.

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Great location! 2BA, 2 car garage, skylights, appl, W/D, C/A, $935.

No pets.

815-758-0123

GENOA ~ 1 BEDROOM No pets, $445/mo + sec dep.

Agent Owned 815-766-1513

SANDWICH 1-2 BEDROOM

Only $500/mo + utilities. Also a 2BR $650/mo + utilities. No pets.

815-970-3282

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DEKALB ~ 1 BEDROOM 1967 Correct Craft Mustang I/B. 16 ft. 289 V8. 4 barrel, new carb, 600cfn. Holly dominator. New timing chain. Intake manifold, water pump. Mallory electronic ignition.

Excellent for skiing & pleasure.

Looks & runs great. $4500 OBO. 815-784-5216 or 815-721-3915

1st floor, 208 W. Sycamore St. Heat furnished, no pets, Coin W/D. $610/mo. 815-973-8290

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

DeKalb Studio 2nd Floor

Maple Park: 2 or 3 BR in country. $1100 mo. No pets. Remodeled, 2 1/2 car garage, includes soft water, lawn mowing & snow removal.

1st/last/sec. 815-895-9224.

SYCAMORE ~ 2BR, 1BA

Within walking distance of downtown, parks and schools.

1st/last/sec. 630-854-6161

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$600/mo, heat included. Stove, refrig, water. No pets/smoking.

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Starting @ $599, 2 Bedroom $683, 3 Bedroom

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PUBLIC NOTICE DeKalb. 3BR, 1BA Ranch House.

Available now. $900/mo+utils.

Call Barry 815-757-9040 DeKalb. 3BR, 1BA. 403 Wood St. $850/mo. Quiet, super-safe for nature lovers, great area, fenced in park-like setting, huge trees. Eat-in kitchen, W/D, garage.

Pets & Sect 8 OK. Utils+dep.

Oct 1-Nov 1 move-in.

815-739-3740

DeKalb 2 BR Lower, $720.

1999 Volkswagen Golf TDI 280K mi. Gray. Good condition.

Runs great! $3500 OBO 920-539-7778

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DE KALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE DIVISION

Interior / Exterior Painting Wallpaper Hanging / Stripping And Other Home Repairs

IN THE INTEREST OF BELLA AGUILAR A Minor No. 13 JA 27

30 Years’ Experience

NOTICE BY PUBLICATION

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NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU, ADRIAN GONZALEZ, ADRIAN GOMEZ, OR ALL PUTATIVE FATHERS of Said Minor, respondents, and to all whom it may concern, that a Petition was filed under the Juvenile Court Act by the DeKalb County State's Attorney in the Circuit Court of DeKalb County, on July 2, 2013; and that in the courtroom usually occupied by Honorable Judge Matekaitis, a status hearing and setting of adjudicatory hearing shall be held upon said Petition on October 4, 2013, at 9:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter as this case may be heard, to have the minor declared to be a ward of the Court, and for other relief under the Juvenile Court Act. The Court has authority in this case to take from you the custody and guardianship of the above named minor and to terminate parental rights, and if the petition requests termination of parental rights the parent may lose all parental rights to the child and the parent will not be entitled to further written notices of publication notices in this case except as required by Supreme Court Rule 11.

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UNLESS YOU APPEAR at the above named hearing and show cause to the contrary, AN ORDER OR JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED IN THE PETITION. September 23, 2013 /s/ Maureen A. Josh CLERK OF THE COURT (Published in the Daily Chronicle, September 25, October 2 & 9, 2013.)

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