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Balancing a budget a top priority DeKalb County Board District 8 candidates look to bring in more revenue Election Central

By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Finding ways to bring in more revenue to ensure DeKalb County has a balanced budget will be a top priority for the candidates vying for a County Board District 8 seat.

Democrat Christopher Porterfield, 63, and Republican Dianne Leifheit, 71, both of DeKalb, said they support an application in the works from the county and the DeKalb County Economic Development Corporation to create an enterprise zone.

The enterprise zone would offer state and local incentives to businesses and industry developing or expanding in designated areas.

County officials will need to designate those areas with caution, Porterfield said, to protect the small town and agricultural

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feel of DeKalb County while expanding the tax base. He said the county needs to evaluate its use of reserve funds.

“You can do that for a little while,” Porterfield said. “But you can’t make that a practice. The public needs to be involved in the discussions. We need to look at revenue and make decisions.”

District 8 covers parts of DeKalb and Sycamore. It runs from First Street east to the Kishwaukee River, from Bethany Road to north of Coltonville Road in the

northern section and from First Street to Sycamore Road in the south.

Leifheit, who was appointed to represent District 8 in August after Julia Fullerton resigned, agreed the county needs to stop spending from reserves and look at growing revenue through the enterprise zone.

“What would really solve it is if you had more manufacturers, more houses,” Leifheit said. “If that doesn’t happen, we’ll have to look at things very closely.”

This is the first elected office for Leifheit, who retired as the general manager and accountant for DeKalb Radio Studios.

She currently works in accounts receivable at Northern Illinois University. Leaders with the DeKalb County Republican Party caucused her onto the ballot in June.

Porterfield also is new to the public office arena. He retired as the senior as-

About the candidates Name: Christopher Porterfield Age: 63 Town: DeKalb Occupation: Retired from NIU, now works parttime at NIU

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Name: Dianne Leifheit Age: 71 Town: DeKalb Occupation: Retired from DeKalb Radio Studios, Inc., now works at NIU sistant director of NIU’s admissions office two years ago. He currently works at NIU part time.

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Officials say to NIU grad takes home top move Annie award at annual reception Glidden house

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By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Northern Illinois University Foundation officials decided the 113-year-old home a group of DeKalb County residents wanted to restore will have to be moved or demolished.

The message came from Mike Malone, the president and CEO of the NIU Foundation, which owns the house at 253 N. Annie Glidden Road and leases it to NIU. At a meeting Tuesday, Malone told leaders from the Annie Glidden Agrarian Society, who have been working on a plan to restore the home, that the foundation would not allow it to be restored in its current location.

Foundation officials offered to sell the home to an established 501(c)(3) charitable organization for $1 and contribute up to $50,000 to offset the costs to move it.

Malone said there are not plans in place to demolish the property, but because it is one of the most valuable pieces of undeveloped land near campus, redevelopment could happen within the next six years.

“I have no idea what it will be,” Malone said. “But I feel that property will be occupied by a new building by 2020.”

He added, “In good faith, we couldn’t encourage someone’s investment in the property where it currently is.”

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Wendy West-Krauch, with Siepert West Financial Consulting, accepts the 2014 Athena Award at the 25th annual Athena award and Women of Accomplishment ceremony Tuesday at the Red Roof Inn in DeKalb. See more photos at Daily-Chronicle.com. able,” West-Krauch said to about 200 people who gathered for the annual kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com Athena and Women of AccomplishDeKALB – Wendy West-Krauch ment award ceremony at the Red spent little time talking about her- Roof Inn. “And I really think the self after receiving the 2014 Athena winner in all this is the community Award on Tuesday. because they benefit from all these “I come to this every year and lis- fantastic women.” ten to what all these ladies have done West-Krauch, 41, started to make for the community and it’s unbeliev- DeKalb home while she was attend-

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ing Northern Illinois University.

After graduating in 1996, she formed Ditamore-West Investment Services with friend and mentor Bob Ditamore. In 2003, she formed Wendy West Financial Consulting, a firm she ran until 2010 when she partnered with local CPA firm Siepert and Company to form Siepert West Financial Consulting, where she re-

mains as a partner today.

When she’s not working, WestKrauch is serving on one of many boards, including the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce, the DeKalb Area Retirement Center, Ladies Night Out and Kishwaukee United Way.

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Becoming an American Some eligible immigrants say no to U.S. citizenship

By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ The Associated Press MIAMI – More than an estimated 8.5 million immigrants living in the U.S. were eligible for citizenship in 2012. Yet fewer than 800,000 took the leap, according to the latest Department of Homeland Security numbers.

If statistics hold, nearly 60 percent of the remainder eventually will – a percentage that has been slowly rising.

Still, there are many holdouts. Immigrants give a variety of explanations as to why, most commonly: • The cost of the process that most of the time takes seven years. It usually costs $680, although fee waivers are available for some, and the cost is often multiplied by several family members; • A lack of English. Immigrants must demonstrate basic knowledge of U.S. history and government and pass an English proficiency language exam, unless they are over 50, and then certain waivers may apply.

• The potential loss of benefits from their native land, such as the ability to freely travel and work across Europe.

Still others say they simply don’t see the need. Here, some legal permanent residents explain their reticence in their own words to The Associated Press.

LANGUAGE BARRIER Nancy Alvarez, 35, came to the United States a decade ago from Havana. She ticks

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one. The Norwegian Seafarer’s labor union representative acknowledges the practical benefits.

“If I wanted to live or work in Europe one day, I could do that without much difficulty. And my children can have Norwegian citizenship through me.”

Although in Norway, individuals must give up their citizenship to become Americans, other European countries allow people to retain dual citizenship.

Lena Dyring, a representative for the Norwegian Seafarers’ labor union, stands in front of Port Miami on Oct. 2 in Miami.

PLANNED TO GO BACK off the list of jobs she’s held since then: nursing assistant, notary, childcare worker, school nutritionist. She has half a dozen diplomas and certificates, but the one she doesn’t have: citizen. Alvarez blames her lack of English skills.

“I should have studied English when I first came here,” she says. But in the Miami suburb of Hialeah where she first landed, everyone spoke Spanish. Only a few years later did she notice that even employers doing business primarily in Spanish still wanted an English speaker.

By then, she was working all day, coming home to prepare meals for her husband, son and new baby. With only one car and a spouse working nights, she says she would have had to take the bus and find someone to watch her baby. And with cutbacks to county education programs, few classes were offered.

“Now I’m too embarrassed,” she said.

THE EUROPEAN PASSPORT “I guess it’s an emotional thing,” said Lena Dyring, as to why she hasn’t sought to become a U.S. citizen. “I’d have to renounce my Norwegian citizenship. “It’s not that I don’t like the U.S. I love it here. It would be almost to renounce my family, my background.”

Dyring came to the U.S. in 2005 with her husband, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Colombia. The two met at a bar in Norway.

She still isn’t used to some American customs: the hello hug – or in Miami, the hello kiss – and the “how are you?” greeting. In Norway, people don’t ask that question until halfway into the conversation when they really want to hear an answer, she says.

But her decision to opt out is more than an emotional

Maria Jimenez has been a U.S. resident for decades and counsels other immigrant women on becoming politically empowered. But she rarely talks about her own immigration status.

“I’m too ashamed to tell friends I’ve been here so long and haven’t done it,” she said of becoming a citizen.

Jimenez came to the U.S. from the Jalisco, Mexico, town of San Juan de los Lagos in 1986, to help her brother and his wife care for their newborn. That year Congress passed a massive immigration bill, which allowed millions of those in the country illegally to get their green cards.

Jimenez was among those.

“We always thought we would go home. We never thought we were going to stay. But the time kept passing,” she said. “We tried to go back several times but couldn’t find work. And our families depended on us for the money.”

India slides, U.S. gains in gender equality ranking

By KATY DAIGLE The Associated Press NEW DELHI – Indian women still face some of the world’s worst inequality in access to health care, education and work, despite years of rapid economic growth, according to a survey of 142 nations released Tuesday.

The annual Gender Gap Index by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum showed India falling to 114th place, after being ranked 101st out of the 136 countries surveyed last year. That puts India below other fast-developing nations including South Africa, ranked 18th, China at 87 and Brazil at 71.

Nordic nations led the world in promoting equali-

ty of the sexes, as they have for many years, with Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark occupying the top five spots.

The United States climbed three places to 20th, thanks to a narrowing wage gap and more women occupying political offices.

“Achieving gender equality is obviously necessary for economic reasons. Only those economies who have full access to all their talent will remain competitive and will prosper,” Klaus Schwab, WEF founder and executive chairman, said in a statement.

Yemen, Pakistan and Chad remained at the bottom of the index, which ranks countries based on data reported by international organizations in

four categories: health and survival, access to education, economic opportunity and political participation.

Overall, the report said gender equality is improving worldwide, with 105 countries becoming more equal since the forum launched the index in 2006 and health and education access being the most egalitarian across the globe.

“Much of the progress on gender equality over the last 10 years has come from more women entering politics and the workforce,” said the report’s lead author, Saadia Zahidi, who heads the forum’s Gender Parity Program.

India ranked a high 15th for female political participation, with some of its most powerful positions in govern-

ment recently occupied by women.

But it was among the bottom 20 in terms of income, literacy, work force participation and infant survival.

China also has a low ratio of girls born to boys, which contributed to the country falling 18 spots. The highest-ranking Asian country was the Philippines, in ninth place.

Experts cautioned that the index, pitting countries against one another, may not reflect improvements on the ground.

For example, while Ireland improved its overall score slightly, it still fell from sixth to eighth place as Nicaragua, Rwanda and Denmark moved up.

Retail skirmish blocks Apple Pay at checkout line

By MAE ANDERSON The Associated Press NEW YORK – Plan on paying in stores with your shiny new iPhone 6? Not so fast.

Retailer resistance to Apple Pay had been expected because Apple hasn’t offered incentives to install pricey point-of-sale terminals and train staff on its new mobile payment system. But the decision to not accept Apple Pay by retailers that already have contactless terminals in the checkout line is a “skirmish” rooted in competition.

Big merchants like McDonald’s, Macy’s and Foot Locker

are all accepting Apple Pay. But a consortium of retailers called Merchant Customer Exchange plans to offer a rival mobile payment system next year which could direct debit customers’ checking accounts, instead of using a credit card.

It also will be designed to track customer buying patterns to be able to offer targeted promotions. In the meantime, some of the group’s biggest members, like CVS, 7-Eleven, Best Buy and WalMart, are nixing so-called NFC payments even though they already have the pointof-sale technology in stores.

Other retailers that aren’t part of MCX, like Starbucks and Taco Bell, are opting to develop their own mobile payment services, and so aren’t taking Apple Pay either. Queries into Merchant Customer Exchange were not returned.

“Retailers [that are part of Merchant Customer Exchange] are certainly going to give it a go on their own, they spent the last few years and money developing this,” said eMarketer analyst Bryan Yeager. “Ultimately if there’s enough consumer demand for it in the long run, maybe they will accept Apple Pay, but they’re very much intent

on trying to make a go at their own mobile wallet.”

Although nascent, the appetite for mobile payment is growing. Mobile commerce is expected to total $305.7 billion in 2014, up 15.7 percent from the prior year, according to eMarketer.

Apple Pay launched Oct. 20. On Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the new mobile payment system had over 1 million activations in the first three days after it became available, and is now more widely used than any competing payment system. He called the dispute with retailers a “skirmish.”

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LOCAL BRIEF Minor damage reported in Sycamore mulch fire SYCAMORE – No one was injured during a mulch fire Tuesday morning at an apartment complex in Sycamore, fire officials said.

Sycamore Fire Department received a call about 10:45 a.m. Tuesday of a fire near a gas meter at the Unit D apartment on 255 North Sacramento Street in Sycamore, Sycamore Assistant Fire Chief Marc Doty said.

The fire burned the plastic of a tricycle sitting atop the mulch, but no one was in the apartment during the incident, Doty said. Doty estimated the fire caused about $100 in damages.

Nicor crews arrived on scene to inspect the gas meter, but Doty said the fire was not connected with the gas meter.

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District 4 candidates focused on county budget

By ANDREA AZZO aazzo@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – Joseph Bassett, the challenger in the race for DeKalb County Board member from District 4, thinks one potential solution to the county’s budget issues is bringing commuter rail service here.

The incumbent, Anthony Cvek, said that’s a proposal he’s heard before.

“Several newer members have asked to do this,” said Cvek, a Sycamore Republican who has represented District 4 on the board since December 2012. “This is a decision to fall on Metra. We can’t impose upon them.”

Bringing a Metra service to

DeKalb is what Bassett, a Sycamore Democrat, is suggesting could attract new businesses and more people.

Joseph Bassett is trying Bassett to unseat Cvek in the district, which covers the southwestern portion of Sycamore Township.

“The most important thing is Anthony making DeKalb Cvek and Sycamore a place which is going to continue to attract working people who like the quality of life Sycamore has to

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offer,” Bassett said.

Both District 4 candidates say the county budget is their top concern. A county budget of $77.1 million was proposed during a September meeting.

The proposed budget shows $800,000 being used from the county’s fund balance to help the county break even for the year.

However, Cvek isn’t con-

vinced that Metra would be willing to come to DeKalb County. Instead, Cvek said his concerns about the county spending between $800,000 and $1 million each year of its reserves could be addressed differently.

Cvek said he would support a hiring freeze to alleviate budgetary concerns. He said he has made a hiring freeze proposal in past committee meetings only to be shut down. Still, he is a proponent of crafting early retirement incentives, as well as bringing in new employees at a lesser pay grade.

“I don’t think there’s a need to reinvent the wheel,” Cvek said. “I think we should take a look at how other counties

Bassett said his background as president and CEO of Dawn Equipment Company in SycaName: Joseph Bassett more, an agricultural technolAge: 34 ogy manufacturing company, Party: Democrat would help him make fiscally Town: Sycamore responsible decisions.

Occupation: President and CEO This is the second time Basof Dawn Equipment Company in sett has run for office. In 2012, Sycamore he lost a three-candidate race in District 4.

Name: Anthony Cvek “I view it as my duty,” he Age: 32 said. “If everybody sits on the Party: Republican sidelines, then you don’t get a Town: Sycamore diversity of voices.”

Occupation: Real estate profesAs for Cvek, he said he sional and broker would focus on the budget if re-elected.

“It’s not just cutting. It’s not have crafted [early retirement] just raising revenue,” Cvek to best serve the needs of those said. “We need to look at a little in DeKalb County.” bit of both.”

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Helping out Toys for Tots in Sycamore

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Marine Corps applicant Eric Gutierrez, 18, of Chicago, serves food to customers Tuesday at the Sycamore Culver’s as part of Toys for Tots kickoff. Ten percent of all sales went to DeKalb County Toys for Tots.

Passenger in Monday crash remains critical

By ANDREA AZZO aazzo@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – Two Sycamore teenagers remained hospitalized, one in critical condition, after a Monday crash in which the vehicle they were riding in left the road and struck a utility pole outside DeKalb.

DeKalb County Sheriff’s police said Connor Shaver, 17, of Janet Street, was driving west on Rich Road west of Lucas Road when the vehicle left the road on the south side around

12:40 p.m. Monday at a high rate of speed. The Nissan slammed into a utility pole, then rolled over several times, police said in a news release.

The passenger in the vehicle, Morgan Witmer, 18, of Eli G. Jewell Street, remained in critical condition Tuesday at OSF St. Anthony Medical Center in Rockford. Witmer was unconscious after the crash and was flown to the hospital by Lifeline helicopter.

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CRIME BRIEFS Bond reduced for man accused of battery

DeKalb man pleads not guilty to child porn SYCAMORE – A DeKalb man formally pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 50 counts of child pornography.

Brenton Strobert, 21, of the 100 block of Andresen Court, would be required to Brenton register as a sex Strobert offender for life if convicted of child pornography.

Strobert is accused of borrowing the laptop of a person he was staying with on Jan. 5 and possessing at least 26 images of child pornography on the laptop, including images of girls younger than 13, court records show.

Police said Strobert admitted the images were his, saying he has had a problem being aroused by young nude girls between 8 and 12 years old since he was 15 or 16 years old, court records show.

Strobert could face probation or between three and seven years in prison if he is convicted of possession of child pornography. He is next due in court Nov. 25.

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SYCAMORE – A DeKalb County judge drastically reduced bond Tuesday for a Lemont man accused of kicking his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach in Cortland.

Presiding Judge Robbin Stuckert lowered bond from $100,000 to $9,000 Tuesday for Patrick M. Eby, 21, of the 16100 block of New Avenue.

Eby, the father of the unborn baby, Patrick was charged M. Eby with aggravated battery and domestic battery after police said he kicked his girlfriend when her roommate tried to separate the two about 1:30 a.m. Friday, court records show.

DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputies responded Friday to Kishwaukee Hospital, where the woman was treated and released, according to court records.

Eby is not allowed to have contact with the woman or any complaining witness, and he is required to seek employment if the victim’s father does not allow Eby back to work with him, Stuckert said.

If Eby is convicted of aggravated battery, the more serious charge, he could face probation or up to five years in

prison. He is next due in court Nov. 25.

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ents, Debbie and Mel Witmer, can do so until 6 tonight at the restaurant they own, O’Leary’s Restaurant and Pub, 260 E. Lincoln Highway in downtown DeKalb. The cards will be delivered to the hospital Thursday.

Shaver remains in stable condition, which a nursing supervisor said was better than serious condition, at Kishwaukee Hospital in DeKalb. The incident is under investigation and charges are pending, police said.

She gets her hair from her mom.

Her eyes from her dad.

And her drugs from her grandma’s medicine cabinet.

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By DAVID MERCER The Associated Press CHAMPAIGN – Announcements that hundreds of jobs will be coming to Illinois at a new fertilizer plant and for online retailer Amazon highlighted the starkly different prescriptions for reviving the Illinois economy from Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican challenger Bruce Rauner.

Quinn joined Amazon Vice President for Global Policy Paul Misener in Chicago Tuesday to hail the company’s plans for 1,000 new jobs in the state by 2017, new distribution centers and potentially other facilities. The appearance followed a Monday announcement that Chicago technology company Coyote Logistics plans to add 500 jobs.

State officials also confirmed that Cronus Chemicals LLC had chosen Illinois over Iowa to locate a $1.4 billion fertilizer plant that will employ 175 in eastern Illinois, plus a Chicago headquarters with another 25 employees.

The Associated Press first reported the company’s plans late Monday night.

“This is an exciting day,” Quinn said of the Amazon announcement. “Tomorrow’s another day, and we have another exciting announcement,” Quinn said, referring to plans to officially unveil

the Cronus project Wednesday in Tuscola, about 20 miles south of Champaign.

But Quinn’s challenger in next Tuesday’s election, Republican businessman Bruce Rauner, said that while the jobs announcements are nice, Pat the state would Quinn do better if it depended less on “special deals” to lure companies considering building or expanding. Both the planned fertilizer plant and Coyote Logistics’ plans include millions of dollars in state incentives.

“Frankly, if we reduced our overall tax burden and our overall regulatory burden, and kept a level playing field, we could get far more companies coming to Illinois and that will be a big priority for us,” Rauner said during a stop in Arlington Heights.

Quinn takes every opportunity to say the Illinois economy is coming back and asks voters to give him a second term to see it through. Rauner says Illinois is lagging behind its Midwestern neighbors in economic performance and is hostile to business. The state needs a radical change in direction to revive the economy, he says.

The state government has

a $100 billion pension deficit and a plan to cut that number faces legal challenges.

Illinois has the lowest debt rating of any state and its unemployment rate consistently runs higher than the national rate. It has sometimes resorted to cutting tax-break deals with companies such as Sears Holdings Corp to keep them in Illinois.

Quinn says that when he took office the state was being hammered by recession. More recently, he has celebrated seven straight months of declining unemployment.

The jobless rate in Illinois is now 6.6 percent. That still lags the 5.9 percent national rate but is the lowest the state rate has been since July 2008, six months before Quinn took office.

While Amazon’s Misener said the timing of his company’s announcement was “a complete coincidence,” a spokesman for the state Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity said that agency had been in regular contact with Cronus Chemicals hoping the announcement would happen before the election.

“Yes, we wanted everybody to know about that before the election,” department spokesman David Roeder said.

Company officials were not immediately available for comment.

By KERRY LESTER The Associated Press CHICAGO – A labor union that endorsed Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn’s re-election campaign in Illinois has donated money to an unlikely source – the Libertarian candidate running against him.

The move by the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 is an apparent attempt to siphon away votes from Republican Bruce Rauner in the tight race.

The group paid for glossy household mailers that describe Libertarian Chad Grimm as “the only true conservative choice for governor,” noting his opposition to abortion and his support of gun rights. The same mailings describe Rauner as a “Chicago liberal.”

While officials from the 23,000-member union acknowledge that a majority of their membership supports Quinn, they say they are “committed to offering a viable choice for members who do not support Democrats.”

Rauner, a Winnetka businessman who made fighting “government union bosses” a focus of his primary campaign, isn’t it, they say.

“Nearly half of our members in Illinois pull Republican ballots in a typical primary election, so it is important that these members have the opportunity to back a candidate that will not attack their livelihood,” spokesman Ed Maher

wrote in a statement last week to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Maher, who declined comment to The Associated Press for this story, said in the statement that the stakes in the election were “too high” for any member to sit out.

In addition to the $200,000 donation from the operating engineers to a political action committee to pay for ads and mailers, Grimm, a fiscal conservative who believes in minimal government, received a direct $30,000 boost from the union earlier this month. A review of campaign finance records shows that the operating engineers also donated more than $45,000 since June to a ballot access initiative helping the Libertarians defend against Republicans’ legal attempts to have their candidates thrown off the ballot.

The 33-year-old Peoria gym manager, whose campaign war chest stood at a mere $100 on Sept. 30, said he has no qualms about accepting help from a union that has formally endorsed Quinn.

“I’m not going to turn it down,” Grimm said. “I can’t possibly get behind everybody’s motivations for wanting to help out.”

But Rauner’s spokesman, Mike Schrimpf, sought to paint Grimm’s views as extreme while downplaying the legitimacy of his candidacy.

“Illinoisans ... understand that a vote for Grimm is the same as voting for Pat Quinn,” Schrimpf said.

DeKalb County Dion T. Weekly, 35, of the 100 block of West Comanche Street, Shabbona, was charged Saturday, Oct. 25, with driving under the influence, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

James E. Rogers, 64, of the 1000 block of North Bridge Street, Yorkville, was charged Sunday, Oct. 26, with driving under the influence.

Jehremy Klecan, 30, of the 100 block of West Street, Kingston, was charged Tuesday, Oct. 27,

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Chad Anderson, 42, of the 28300 block of Lukens Road, Sycamore, was charged Tuesday, Oct. 28, with domestic battery.

Northern Illinois University Roy E. Harper, 35, of the 1100 block of West Lincoln Highway, DeKalb, was charged Friday, Oct. 24, with having an open container upon a public way.

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of Carl and Edna (Anderson) Thorn, Lynn first married James Snyder and later Robert Heagy.

After graduating from high school, Lynn earned her radio operator’s communication license and was very proud to use this training in work related to the Armed Services during World War II in Washington, D.C. She lived in many areas of the country as the wife of a Marine, eventually settling in Beloit, Wisconsin, where she worked for more than 20 years for Fairbanks Morse Engine.

Lynn celebrated life every day and will be greatly missed.

She was the cherished mother of Phil Snyder and Barbara (Frederick) Schwantes. She was the proud grandmother of Frederick W. (Rebecca) Schwantes, Catherine (Sean) Peters and Blake and Garret Snyder. Lynn adored her great-grandchildren, Ricky, Alexandra and Samantha Schwantes.

In addition, she is survived by her brother, Earl (Nevada) Thorn; niece, Jean (David) Voss; and nephew, Tracy Thorn.

The family thanks Dr. Ahmad, her extended family, and the nurses, CNAs and staff at Oak Crest for their excellent care and compassion.

The memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, November 1, 2014, at Oak Crest ETHELYN HEAGY Chapel, with Pastor Jim Allen Born: May 21, 1927; in New Hope, officiating. Interment of cremated WI remains will be at Greenview Died: Oct. 27, 2014; in DeKalb, IL Memorial Gardens in East Moline Ethelyn A. “Lynn” Heagy, age 87, at a later date. Cremation is by of DeKalb, passed away Monday, Anderson Funeral Home Crematory.

October 27, 2014, at Oak Crest In lieu of flowers, memorial DeKalb Area Retirement Center. contributions can be made to the Born May 21, 1927, in New Hope, Wisconsin, the daughter Oak Crest Good Samaritan Fund,

Grandpa Miller called him Catfish for his love of fishing. He loved snow mobiling with friends and family looking forward to the first snow and riding with Kyla. He saved his smiles for the special times and when he did smile it lit up the room and all the hearts in it.

RYAN M. RACHAS Visitation will be from 4:00 to Born: April 19, 1980; in DeKalb, IL 6:00 p.m. Memorial service from Died: Oct. 24, 2014; in Shabbona, IL DAVID C. PICKETT SR. 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the United Born: May 29, 1943 Church of Christ Shabbona on Ryan Michael Died: Oct. 25, 2014 October 29,2014.

Rachas, 34, of Memorials may be made to the Shabbona passed David C. Pickett, family to be established at a later away on Friday, Sr., 71, of DeKalb October 24, 2014, date. died Saturday, at his home.

October 25, 2014, PENELOPE R. SAMO Ryan was at Kishwaukee Born: May 27, 1955 born in DeKalb, Hospital.

Illinois to Gary and Debbie (Miller) Died: Sept. 28, 2014 He was born Rachas April 19, 1980. He has an May 29, 1943, in Penelope “Penny” R. Samo, 59 Batter Creek, MI. older brother Keith of Denver and years old, passed away September a younger sister Shanna (Randy) The son of Charles 28, 2014.

Thorpe of Byron. And the loves R. and Ardella She grew up in Malta, IL from of his life, daughter, Kyla, 12; and M. (Anthenat) kindergarten through High school.

Pickett. He married Dolores “Dee son, Johnathan, 10 months. His She went to college in Wisconsin. adoring Grandmas, Delores Miller Dee” Carcio on Feb. 28, 1997, in She was loved and now missed by of Shabbona and Grandma, Ruby Florida. her family.

Rachas of DeKalb.

David was a graduate of the Survivors, mother, Beverly Samo; He was preceded in death by his DeKalb High School, Class of 1961 siblings, Hope (Keith) Baker, of Grandpa, Warren Miller and his and attended Kishwaukee ComDeKalb, Richard (Val Trisha) Samo, munity College, where he studied Grandpa, Tony Rachas. of DeKalb, Curtiss (Tina) Samo, of Ryan was employed with Prevencriminal justice. He was a veteran of the U.S. Airforce, serving during tative Maintenance in Rochelle. He Rochelle, and Michele Samo, of was a hard worker no matter what Arizona; and nieces & nephews. the Vietnam Era. Preceded in death by father, After serving as a police officer the job at hand or where the job Wayne (Babe) Samo; nephew, Brian needed doing.

He loved working with the City of DeKalb, the Baker; and grandparents.

DeKalb County Sheriff and later as in his shop on the semi or being a Ashes were spread in the mounright hand man to his Dad. Ryan’s a detective, he resigned after 10 tains in Arizona. passion was the out doors, his years of service.

He was a faithful member of the Fellowship Baptist Church in DeKalb. David was an avid Chicago sports fan and enjoyed watching the Bears, Bulls and Born Jan 1925 - Passed Away 2009 Blackhawks play.

Survivors include his wife, Dee God saw he was getting tired Dee; three children, David C. And a cure was not to be, Pickett, Jr., Traci Louise (John) Thompson and family and ChristoSo He put His arms around him pher (Mary) Johnson and family; And whispered, “Come with Me.” seven grandchildren; one sister, With tearful eyes we watched him suffer Vernadel (Andy) Schavland; aunt And saw him fade away, Charlotte Anthenat; sister-in-law, Donna (John) Stoddard and famAlthough we loved him dearly ily; niece, Nikki (Eric) Elliott and We could not make him stay. family and nephew, Jeff (Adrien) A golden heart stopped beating Schavland and family.

He was preceded in death by his Hard working hands to rest, parents.

God broke our hearts to prove to us Dee Dee and Vernadel would like He only takes the best to thank Carolyn and her family for the love they have shown to Love you, David’s family.

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Evelyn M. Funkhouser, age 78, of Sycamore, died Monday, October 27, 2014, at Kishwaukee Hospital in DeKalb, IL. She was born January 9, 1936, in Ramsey, Illinois, the daughter of Virgil and Ida Mae (Spires) Rhodes. She married Ray T. Funkhouser on July 6, 1958, in DeKalb.

She was a member of the Sycamore Baptist Church.

Evelyn is survived by three sons, Brent Funkhouser of Sycamore, Brandon (Dena) Funkhouser of Sycamore, Bryan (Mary) Funkhouser of Geneva, IL; six grandchildren, Vicky, Matthew, Andrew, Stephanie, Dylan and Kyle; and five great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her sister, Verla; and her husband, Ray. She was also preceded by her dogs Cleo, Schatzie, Benji, Biscuit, and Scotty. She knows her new home will include her canine “babies”, too.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., on Saturday, November 1, 2014, at Olson Funeral & Cremation Services, Ltd., Quiram-Sycamore Funeral Chapel, 1245 Somonauk St., Sycamore, IL 60178 with The Reverend Stephen Persson, officiating. Visitation will be from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m., at the funeral chapel preceding the services. Burial will be at Fairview Park Cemetery in DeKalb, IL. A memorial fund is established for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

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Answers demanded as Ebola raises management questions

By JIM KUHNHENN The Associated Press WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s commander in the fight against Ebola was expected to operate below the public radar. But did that mean invisible?

Ron Klain has barely been seen, and a week before midterm elections, Obama is pressing to dispel criticism that the government can’t manage the Ebola crisis.

The White House’s behindthe-scenes coordination of the Ebola response is being severely tested, while the Pentagon and states like New York and New Jersey take public steps that are far firmer than federal guidelines. That’s creating the appearance of a crazy quilt of Ebola measures.

“The CDC is behind on this,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday. “Governors ultimately have responsibility to protect the public health of people within their borders.”

Some public health law experts say the government could have anticipated differences in approaches and acted sooner to establish federal guidelines for states to follow.

“What happened is the case showed up in New York and New Jersey, those two governors respond, knee-jerk reaction, ... then you see the federal government catch up to that a little bit,” said James G. Hodge Jr., a professor of public health law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. “It would have been more beneficial if CDC’s guidance had come out, gosh, maybe a week or so ago.”

White House officials say Klain was brought in for his management skills and ability to coordinate the work of agencies that range from the Pentagon to the Department of Health and Human Services, leaving most of the talking to the public health doctors at the Centers

Calif. AG: 18.5M residents’ info exposed

BY BRANDON BAILEY The Associated Press LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.

– Personal information about more than 18.5 million Californians was hacked, stolen or otherwise exposed last year and as many as one-third of those people will become victims of fraud, California Attorney General Kamala Harris said Tuesday in a new report on data breaches in the nation’s biggest state.

Retailers, banks, health care providers and other organizations reported 167 different

nurses who treated a patient who contracted it in West Africa,” Obama said.

White House officials bristle at the suggestion that the administration has mismanaged the response. They have cited their reliance on science and best health practices for every decision they have made, and health professionals have said the CDC has so far acted prudently.

Administration officials have raised concerns about the steps taken by New York and New Jersey while also arguing that those actions have received outsized attention. As for measures taken by the Army to quarantine some troops returning from West Africa, the White House argues that is a special circumstance that shouldn’t apply to civilians.

“We’re starting to see an emerging consensus from other states about the policies that can be best implemented to protect their civilians,” spokesman Earnest said.

Without mentioning the New Jersey and New York policies, Obama himself said that restrictions that are too confining could dissuade health care workers from volunteering to help fight Ebola in West Africa where an outbreak of the disease has killed thousands.

As many as one third of people whose information is exposed in a data breach will subsequently suffer some kind of fraud, Harris adds in the report, citing estimates by Javelin Strategy and Research, a California firm that tracks financial industry trends. More than half of the breaches reported in California involved malicious attempts by hackers or cyber-criminals who were determined to steal customer data, according to the report, which said “trans-national criminal organizations” appear to be responsible in many cases.

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White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Klain, who has been in the job since last Wednesday, has been dealing with the various agencies of the government to streamline the federal response. He has met virtually daily with Obama including a lengthy Sunday meeting with the administration’s Ebola team.

“The impact of his work is already being felt both here at the White House but across the government,” Earnest said Tuesday.

Obama has tried to place his own imprint on the government’s response, making sure photographers captured images of him meeting with the Ebola team and embracing Nina Pham, one of the Dallas nurses who recovered after contracting the disease. On Tuesday he called U.S. workers in West Africa and delivered a statement from the South Lawn before leaving on a campaign trip to Wisconsin.

“It’s also important for the American people to remind themselves that only two people so far have contracted Ebola on American soil: the two Dallas

breaches in the state during 2013. That’s six times more than the 2.5 million accounts hacked in 131 breaches in 2012, and represents nearly half of the state’s 38 million residents. The alarming increase in malicious hacking and accidental leaks due to poor information security was mainly because of breaches at Target stores and Living Social, an online marketplace.

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House GOP attacks Obama in ads

By DAVID ESPO The Associated Pres WASHINGTON – House Republicans rolled out late-campaign attack ads tying Democrats to an unpopular President Barack Obama on Tuesday as the chief executive embarked on a round of travel to boost gubernatorial candidates in a half-dozen states.

One week before election day, the TV ad wars neared a crescendo in the battle for Senate control.

In the area around Louisville, Kentucky, campaign officials said target voters could expect to see an average of 97 commercials related to the contest in the final week.

The region is ground zero in the race between Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes.

Republican hopes of capturing the Senate received a boost in Kansas, where the Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund announced support for embattled Sen. Pat Roberts

in his race with independent Greg Orman – after opposing the 78-year-old incumbent in the GOP primary.

“We’ve been counting on you, Kansas. You’re a Republican state, for goodness sakes!” exhorted Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, lending his tea party star power to the incumbent.

Republicans must pick up six seats to gain a Senate majority. They appear certain of at least three – in West Virginia, Montana and South Dakota – and there are nine other competitive races, including six for seats currently in Democratic hands.

Not even Democrats claim they have a chance to win control of the House midway through Obama’s second term, and Republicans angled for gains in areas where the president ran well in 2012.

The party’s congressional committee unveiled ads in 11 races, and gave the president a featured role in most.

“Under Barack Obama, West Virginia has lost 5,000 coal jobs,” says one, targeting

Democratic Rep. Nick Rahall.

“Send Obama a message.

Defeat Ann Kirkpatrick,” says a second, airing in Arizona.

Obama’s political itinerary through Election Day was strong evidence of the dilemma facing Democrats.

The president has traveled sparingly this fall, buffeted by poor approval ratings and a need to manage fears that an Ebola epidemic ravaging West Africa could find its way to American shores.

Obama’s travel plans for the next few days run to Wisconsin, Michigan, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. He won all six in 2012, and all host gubernatorial races this fall.

His first stop, in Milwaukee, was arguably the most politically significant. Republican Gov. Scott Walker faces a challenge from Mary Burke in a close race.

In a difficult political season, Democrats say they hope to pick off a handful of Republican-held House seats. They are on defense in far more

than that, and a party official disclosed that top leaders had raised $500,000 during the day from candidates facing little or no challenge – money that will go to help vulnerable Democrats.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said it was advertising on television for 27 seats in the campaign’s final week, 22 that they currently control and five held by Republicans.

“She’d privatize Medicare and Social Security, too. ...

That’s change we can’t afford,” says one, aimed at Martha McSally, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Ron Barber in Arizona.

The DCCC said Mariannette Miller-Meeks, running against Rep. Dave Loebsack in Iowa, “partnered with a company that outsourced hundreds of jobs overseas to India.”

The TV ads were non-stop in Kentucky, where the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee returned to the airwaves after an absence of three weeks in a race that is tilting McConnell’s way.

River of lava crackles, creeps toward Hawaii town The ASSOCIATED PRESS PAHOA, Hawaii – After weeks of slow, stop-and-go movement, a river of asphalt-black lava crept within yards of a home in a Big Island community on Tuesday.

The lava crackled and smoked as it advanced toward the two-story structure in Pahoa Village, smothering an expanse of vegetation.

Residents of the small town have had weeks to AP photo prepare for what’s been de- A Hawaii Volcano Observatory geologist stands on a partly cooled scribed as a slow-motion section of lava flow Saturday near the town of Pahoa on the Big Isdisaster. Most have either land of Hawaii. Note the thin red horizontal line of molten lava visible already left or are prepared along the bottom third of the photo. to go. At least 50 or 60 strucImelda Raras lives on said she and her husband tures – including homes and businesses – are in the area Apaa Street, which was hit are ready to go to a friend’s by the lava Sunday. She home if officials tell them likely to be hit.

they should leave.

“We are still praying,” Raras said. “I hope our home will be spared.”

Over the weekend, the lava crossed a road in Pahoa Village, a main town in the island’s rural Puna district.

On Tuesday morning, civil defense officials said it was about 510 yards from Pahoa Village Road, which goes straight through downtown.

Josiah Hunt, who has a farm in a part of Puna not immediately threatened by the lava, described the sounds, smell of burning grass and the warmth of the lava: “The popping and sizzling and all the methane bursts that are happening in the distance ... mixed with the birds chirping and the coqui frogs.”

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NATION BRIEFS Southern Baptists tell pastors: Hold line on gays NASHVILLE, Tenn. – More than a thousand evangelical pastors and others – gathered for a three-day conference to steel the resolve of Christians who preach that gay relationships are sinful – were asked a simple question: How many live in a state that recognizes same-sex marriage?

Hands rose all across the convention hall.

“This moral revolution is happening at warp speed,” said the Rev. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. “This is a real challenge to us on biblical authority.”

Speakers at the event said they understood they were on the losing end of the culture war on marriage.

But they were prepared to be the voice of a moral minority because gay marriage is a “rejection of God’s law,” Mohler said. He said evangelicals needed to have “a lot of agonizing conversations” about how to move forward.

PSU board votes down new look at 2012 report STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Penn State’s trustees on Tuesday voted against taking a fresh look at the 2012 university-commissioned report into how the Jerry Sandusky molestation scandal was handled, disappointing many who have criticized the report as deeply flawed and unfairly damaging to the institution.

The board voted 17-9 against a resolution backed by alumni-elected trustees that would have set up a group to comb through the report and seek answers from Louis Freeh, the former FBI director who led the team that produced it.

Many alumni have been critical of the board’s handling of the aftermath of the

scandal and particularly how the school treated late football coach Joe Paterno, prompting a successful trustee election effort.

“There is no downside, none at all, if we review the report,” said Bob Jubelirer, an alumni trustee – and former state senator – who joined the board this year.

“This is controversial – it has damaged this university.”

The debate demonstrated the deep divide among board members about what to do regarding the report, which concluded Paterno and top administrators concealed key facts about Sandusky’s abuse to avoid bad publicity.

NYC launching systemwide review of jail suicides NEW YORK – New York City is using a $400,000 federal grant to review suicides and acts of self-harm in city jails with an approach commonly applied when things go wrong in the medical and aviation industries, officials said Tuesday.

The review – dubbed the “sentinel event” approach – is a way to identify systemic breakdowns by investigating occurrences such as suicides and unravelling the chain of events that preceded them, but not for the purposes of punishment.

“What we hope to have at the end of the day is really not a study that we can dust off and put on a shelf but a way forward of acting,” said Elizabeth Glazer, director of the mayor’s office of criminal justice.

“That’s the purpose of it is that things change.”

The Associated Press reported in June, based on city and state investigative documents, that procedures designed to prevent vulnerable inmates from harming themselves weren’t followed in at least nine of the 11 jail suicides since 2009.

– Wire reports

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Smoke and flames rise from an Islamic State fighters’ position in the town of Kobani during airstrikes Tuesday by the U.S.-led coalition seen from the outskirts of Suruc near the Turkey-Syria border.

Iraqi Kurds to fight extremists in Syria The ASSOCIATED PRESS

Officials say Kim Jong Un had ankle surgery

By KIM TONG-HYUNG The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea’s spy agency said Tuesday it has solved the mystery of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s 6-week public absence, which set off a frenzy of wild speculation around the world.

The National Intelligence Service told legislators that a foreign doctor operated on Kim in September or October to remove a cyst from his right Kim Jong Un ankle, according to Park Byeong-seok, an aide for opposition lawmaker Shin Kyung-min. The aide said the spy agency also told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing that the cyst could recur because of Kim’s obesi-

ty, smoking and heavy public schedule.

After last being seen in state media on Sept. 3, Kim reappeared on Oct. 14 hobbling with a cane, but smiling and looking thinner.

The speculation during his absence was particularly intense because of the Kim family’s importance to impoverished, nuclear-armed North Korea. The family has ruled the country since its founding in 1948.

Lim Dae-seong, an aide to ruling party lawmaker Lee Cheol-woo, who also attended the briefing, said the spy agency identified Kim’s condition as tarsal tunnel syndrome.

The syndrome, which is often painful, is caused by the compression of a nerve, sometimes because of a cyst. Surgery is generally seen as a last resort after other treatments are unsuccessful.

Hostage ‘reports’ for captors The ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT – A captive British photojournalist has been used by the Islamic State group to take on the role of a war correspondent in the extremists’ latest propaganda video.

In the video, made public on Monday, John Cantlie calmly stands before a camera in what he identifies as the embattled Syrian town of Kobani. He asserts in the video that Islamic State group fighters have pushed deep into the town despite airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition and that they are winning the battle against Kurdish forces.

The strange spectacle of a

prisoner who has admitted to being afraid for his life being used as a spokesman is the latest of example of the IS’s attention-getting approach to propagating its message and its threats.

The Associated Press could not independently verify the video as authentic, although some of the images, including footage the Islamic State group says was shot by a drone, appear to be Kobani, a town near the Turkish border. Sporadic gunfire can be heard in the background. At one point in the 5½-minute report, a Turkish flag can be seen flying atop a grain silo; Cantlie is not in the same shot.

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IRBIL, Iraq – Thousands of cheering, flag-waving people gave a noisy send-off to a group of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga troops who left Tuesday for Turkey – the first step on their way to help their Syrian brethren fight Islamic extremists in the embattled border town of Kobani.

The unprecedented mission by the 150 fighters to help fellow Kurds in their battle with the Islamic State group came after Ankara agreed to allow the peshmerga cross into Syria via Turkey – although the Turkish prime minister reiterated that his country would not be sending any ground forces of its own to Kobani.

A U.S. State Department official confirmed that peshmerga fighters are on their way to Kobani but did not know when they were expected to arrive.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to be identified in discussing the issue.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told the BBC that sending the peshmerga was “the only way to help Kobani, since other countries don’t want to use ground troops.”

The Islamic State group launched its offensive on Kobani and nearby Syrian villages in mid-September, killing more than 800 people, according to activists. The Sunni extremists captured dozens of Kurdish villages around Kobani and control parts of the town. More than 200,000 peo-

ple have fled across the border into Turkey.

The U.S. is leading a coalition that has carried out dozens of airstrikes targeting the militants in and around Kobani.

The deployment of the 150 peshmerga fighters, who were authorized by the Iraqi Kurdish government to go to Kobani, underscores the sensitive political tensions in the region.

Turkey’s government views the Syrian Kurds defending Kobani as loyal to what Ankara regards as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. That group has waged a 30-year insurgency in Turkey and is designated a terrorist group by the U.S. and NATO. Under pressure to take greater action against the IS militants – from the West as well as from Kurds inside Turkey and Syria – the Turkish government agreed to let the fighters cross through its territory. But it only is allowing the peshmerga forces from Iraq, with whom it has a good relationship, and not those from the PKK. Peshmerga spokesman Halgurd Hekmat said the fighters were flying Tuesday to Turkey and from there would cross into Syria. He gave no further details.

A convoy of Toyota land cruisers and trucks with cannons and machine guns headed toward the Iraqi Kurdish area of Dohuk on the way to Turkey.

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West-Krauch shares honor Top U.N. Ebola official: with family, her colleagues New cases poorly tracked • CEREMONY

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA The Associated Press

Continued from page A1 She also delivers Meals on Wheels when needed.

Outside of work and volunteering West-Krauch is an avid NIU Huskie supporter and enjoys going for rides in her Jeep with her husband, Shane, and their two dogs.

In addition to commending the other five women nominated for the award, WestKrauch also shared the honor with her family and colleagues at Siepert West, who she said have supported her in everything she’s done.

West-Krauch is the 25th woman to be honored with the award in DeKalb. The DeKalb Chamber of Commerce has sponsored the Athena Award, which started in Michigan in 1982, since 1990. The award recognizes women who have excelled professionally and philanthropically and empower other women to reach their full potential. There were six nominees this year.

“I am so honored and so grateful,” West-Krauch said.

“All these women have done so much for the community. I really believe all of us deserve this.”

Before the Athena nominees, were introduced, Women of Accomplishment awards were a presented to Evelina Cichy, a retired vice president of Kishwaukee College; Mary Lynn McArtor, a retired nurse and teacher in the school of nursing at NIU and Kishwau-

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Mary Lynn McArtor, a 2014 Women of Accomplishment honoree, hugs Alice Freier, the 2006 Athena Award recipient, at the award ceremony Tuesday at the Red Roof Inn in DeKalb.

Top awards Athena Award: Wendy WestKrauch Women of Accomplishment: Evelina Cichy, Mary Lynn McArtor, Donna Schultz Xidis

Voice your opinion What woman in your life have you learned the most from? Vote at Daily-Chronicle.com. kee College; and Donna Schultz Xidis, a retired family and consumer science teacher and costumer at DeKalb High School.

Jill Tritt, vice chair of the chamber executive committee, told the crowd about WestKrauch before she was announced as the winner. Tritt applauded West-Krauch’s pas-

sion for financial education and working with clients.

“Wendy is an advocate of financial health,” Tritt said.

“She is a mentor to developing professionals and a trusted ally in the DeKalb business community.”

Ann Lehan, the 2013 Athena recipient, introduced WestKrauch as an affirmation of the influence women have in DeKalb. Lehan noted the unending enthusiasm, positive energy, love and support as reasons that make West-Krauch a shining example of positive mentorship and professional standards.

“She leads with strength of character and a manner that many people admire and aspire to emulate,” Lehan said. “She is highly altruistic, giving selflessly of her time and energy to others.”

Group had a plan to restore the Glidden home from 1950s state • GLIDDEN Continued from page A1 Agrarian society co-founder and Daily Chronicle columnist Barry Schrader, who was at the meeting Tuesday, wasn’t happy with the foundation’s decision. He believes moving the house would cost more than the $50,000 his group was prepared to raise. The agrarian society is not established as a charitable organization, but has partnered with the DeKalb County Community

Gardens, which is.

“It feels like a monumental task to complicate things,” Schrader said. “It’s a daunting task. Not what we had in mind.”

The group had planned to restore the home to its 1950s state so an international student group could use it; DeKalb County Community Gardens would have used the carriage house. Although he hadn’t had time to discuss the decision with the rest of the group, he said moving the property would take away from the heritage of the

home.

Glidden, who lived there from about 1906 to 1928, grew asparagus, corn, alfalfa and raspberries there, winning a state award for her high corn-crop yields. The NIU foundation bought the home and 4.6 acres for $200,000 in 1977 from the Oderkirk family.

Schrader said if anything good has come from the past two months working with NIU Foundation officials, it’s that the roof was restored so the house will be protected during the winter.

KAMPALA, Uganda – Authorities are having trouble figuring out how many more people are getting Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone and where the hot spots are in those countries, harming efforts to get control of the raging, deadly outbreak, the U.N.’s top Ebola official in West Africa said Tuesday.

“The challenge is good information, because information helps tell us where the disease is, how it’s spreading and where we need to target our resources,” Anthony Banbury told The Associated Press by phone from the Ghanaian capital of Accra, where the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, or UNMEER, is based.

Health experts say the key to stopping Ebola is breaking the chain of transmission by tracing and isolating those who have had contact with Ebola patients or victims. Health care workers can’t do that if they don’t know where new cases are emerging.

“And unfortunately, we don’t have good data from a lot of areas. We don’t know exactly what is happening,” said Banbury, the chief of UNMEER. Banbury, who visited the three most affected countries last week, said it was “heartbreaking” to see families torn apart by Ebola as they struggle to care for sick loves ones while also hoping to avoid infection.

He said he is hoping for a new approach in Liberia as the U.N. and its partners work to improve the capacity of communities to safely bury victims.

Over the past week, Banbury met with the presidents of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, where the vast majority of the more than 10,000 Ebola cases have occurred, the U.N. said.

Meanwhile, the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong

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Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (right) gives U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power what is known as the “Ebola hand shake” during a news conference Tuesday in the city of Monrovia, Liberia. The United States will help fight Ebola over “the long haul,” Power said on a trip to the West African countries hit by the outbreak.

Kim, said the three countries need at least 5,000 more health workers to effectively fight the epidemic.

Kim said Tuesday that he is worried about where those health workers can be found given the widespread fear of Ebola. Quarantining health workers returning to their home countries – as some U.S. states are doing – could also hurt recruitment efforts. The World Bank president spoke alongside U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and African Union Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where the AU is headquartered.

As more countries close their borders with or severely restrict travel from the affected countries, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf pleaded Tuesday with the world to not turn its back on those suffering.

“We’d just like the international community to continue to see this as a global threat, that stigmatization, exclusion, restriction is not the appropriate response to this,” she said.

She spoke alongside Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador

to the U.N. who is also touring the worst-hit countries this week. Power reiterated that the best way to keep Americans safe is to help the West African countries fight the disease.

“We’re not just looking to bend the curve, we’re looking to end the curve,” she added.

Although Western governments and aid groups have stepped up Ebola aid in recent months, the U.N. says more support is needed. The U.N.’s target is to quickly isolate 70 percent of Ebola cases and to achieve a similar percentage for safe Ebola burials.

“They are extremely ambitious (goals), given the geographical spread of the disease, the numbers of people infected, the very poor information on exactly where those infected are and what the transmission patterns are,” Banbury said. “The three things we need the most are people, supplies and money. The most critical right now are people, health workers in particular, trained health care workers, but also people who can manage these Ebola treatment facilities.”

Porterfield seeks more input from residents on a sober-living home • DISTRICT 8 Continued from page A1 While they also shared the position that DeKalb County jail needs to expand, the candidates disagreed on the future of a sober-living facility for men as part of the coun-

ty’s Drug Court program.

While Porterfield said he supported a sober-living home, he wants to get more input from residents about where the facility should be located. Along with finances, keeping the public informed and engaged with county action topped his priority list.

Leifheit, on the other hand, said she thinks another agency, not the county, should be behind the sober living house.

“I’m not against any kind of halfway house,” Leifheit said. “The problem is: Where do you put it and who wants it next door?”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Don’t overlook Gov. Quinn’s successes

Note to readers

To the Editor: Bruce Rauner and his supporters say he will change how Springfield works and the only thing that matters in this election is the economy. However, I haven’t heard how he’ll do it and change without definition is a risky venture at best.

Rauner said Gov. Pat Quinn “failed” in his first term as governor. The Illinois employees’ pension fiasco has been a major reason Illinois is struggling, and anyone who has a state-funded pension should understand the state has been underfunding pensions since the 1970s. When Quinn ran for his first term, the problem had grown so much, the legislature had no choice but to fix it and that meant raising revenue, cutting spending or borrowing money.

Borrowing had already made it worse and members of both parties were against the spending cuts suggested by Republican candidate for governor in 2010, Bill Brady.

Despite this, Quinn has done some good for Illinois. For example, he signed marriage equality and medical marijuana laws last summer. Brady and Rauner would have vetoed those bills and the legislature did not have the votes to overturn them. These are social issues, but other than being

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the right thing to do, let’s think about them. Have you been to a wedding recently? It’s business.

Caterers, reception halls, gifts and on and on. The medical marijuana law creates 82 small businesses – dispensaries and cultivation centers – to help in the treatment of many medical conditions.

Quinn championed both bills.

Unemployment since Quinn’s election has fallen to around 6.5 percent from nearly 12 percent.

Ford and Chrysler have increased their employee base in Illinois.

Nippon Sharyo opened a facility in Rochelle.

Quinn will push for a minimum-wage hike, Rauner may or may not sign a bill if it gets to his desk. Are you pro-Union? Public education? Rauner certainly isn’t.

But really, when it comes down to reaching across the aisle as Rauner says he’ll do, remember this.

Rauner said, “If we sort of have to do a do-over and shut things down for a little while, that’s what we’re gonna do.” Quinn and Speaker of the House Michael Madigan butted heads often in his first term and they’re both Dem-

ocrats. Rauner called Madigan corrupt and whether you agree or not, how much progress do you expect Illinois to make when our governor must work with perhaps the most powerful man in Illinois politics after calling him corrupt?

know all of this comes at a cost, and that cost comes in the form of property taxes, and with the referendum comes the call for increased property taxes.

To my mind, it would be money well spent. We would not have the great park district resources Tim Ball we have today had it not been for DeKalb folks before us being willing to step up and invest the time, money Vote ‘yes’ to improve and resources into setting up the Sycamore parks district we see today. I believe To the Editor: it is now our time as citizens to I would like to take a moment step up, commit the money and to talk about an important issue improve the park district not only facing Sycamore residents in the for ourselves but for our own sons, coming weeks. That issue is our daughters and grandchildren. park district.

As a young adult just getting Residents of the Sycamore Park ready to start a family, I feel as District will vote on a referendum though it is my duty to leave in November that is critical not things better than I found them. only to the Vision 20/20 plan, but I want my kids to have all the to the district itself. The district opportunities in the world to enis hoping to use this money to joy their childhood, and a strong, build a much-needed community vibrant park district is part of center, a long overdue sledding that. Not to mention the fact that hill and dog park, and maintain a strong park district, combined the great resources we already with the great schools we already have, such as the golf course. have, is going to help the sale I have been attracted to Sycprice of any home in the city! amore since I moved here from As the noise increases during Michigan five years ago. Certainly, the upcoming election cycle, I I knew about the great schools, implore you to look around the but also quickly found out what community, commit to making it great recreational amenities better, and vote “Yes” for Sycaexisted in the park district. This more Parks on Nov. 4. made it an easy decision for me to finally buy a house and settle Brian Lance Sycamore down in the city. However, I

An Illinois Senate bill that has made its way to the House could have a dramatic effect on school funding at the local level.

If it is approved by the full state legislature, Senate Bill 16 – also known as the School Funding Reform Act of 2014 – would divide Illinois school districts into winners and losers. The same would be true in DeKalb County, where for some districts, the losses would be crippling.

Three of the county’s eight school districts would receive more money under the new guidelines proposed, For the record led by DeKalb’s District 428.

According to Illinois State We agree. All of our local Board of Education calcuschool districts have been lations using data from the hurt by the lack of state 2011-12 school year, DeKalb support in recent years schools would receive about – many are operating at $1.3 million in additional a deficit in part because funding, or $238 more per the state is not funding student. schools at 100 percent of Genoa-Kingston District its “baseline” level.

424 also would gain funding Yet the inability of the to the tune of about $344,000, state to help with elementaor $183 a student, and Hiry education has not stopped awatha District 426 would see lawmakers from proposing an additional $317 a student, new “unfunded mandates” about $172,000 more. with each passing year.

In all, the “winners” would see a funding increase of about $3.7 million.

But the effects of the proposal on the losing schools in some cases could be devastating, making this plan unacceptable.

Hinckley-Big Rock District 429 would be the county’s loss leader, giving up the maximum $1,000 a student, almost $712,000.

Sycamore District 427 would give up more than $590,000; Somonauk School District 432 would sacrifice $121,000; Sandwich would lose $61,000.

Indian Creek District 425 would also take a big hit, sacrificing more than $880 a student, about $667,000.

“This … translates to a loss of 83 percent of our state educational funds,” District 425 Superintendent Pamela Rockwood wrote in a letter to district residents this month. “... With this in mind, I urge each of you to contact our local House Rep. Tom Demmer at rep@tomdemmer. com to express your concern on our potential loss of educational funds from the state,” Rockwood wrote.

We agree. All of our local school districts have been hurt by the lack of state support in recent years – many are operating at a deficit in part because the state is not funding schools at 100 percent of its “baseline” level.

Yet the inability of the state to help with elementary education has not stopped lawmakers from proposing new “unfunded mandates” with each passing year.

Even the most prudent local school board would be hard-pressed to adjust to a $1,000-a-student reduction in state aid. The funding scheme proposed in Senate Bill 16 would almost certainly lead to an attempt to increase already-high local property taxes in several local school districts.

Failing that, it could potentially mean drastic cuts to education – fewer teachers, higher student-to-teacher ratios and fewer programs.

Senate Bill 16 simply is not the answer to school funding reform. It does nothing to create new funding for education, instead redistributing what is already available.

It’s simply another attempt at a revenue grab by Chicago’s Democratic political machine.

Equitable funding for schools is an issue that should be addressed. It should be done through a more broadbased, non-rushed approach, however, where major stakeholders can be brought to the table to discuss potential solutions. A perfect fix might not exist, we’re confident a better solution than Senate Bill 16 is out there.

Like Superintendent Rockwood, we encourage DeKalb County homeowners to contact legislators around the state to demand a more thoughtful approach.

Holding onto memories for my Aunt Millie CHICAGO – It was the summer of 1969 the first time I came here, two months shy of my 12th birthday.

Mom had brought us to visit my father’s family, most of whom I knew only as characters in the old man’s stories or voices on a long-distance call. Presented with their California nieces and nephews for the first time, my aunts and uncles did the obligatory cooing over us, made the obligatory inquiries as to progress in school.

Then the adults retired to their own conversations. Grown-ups in that era, you may recall, did not spend a lot of time socializing with kids.

They were great eminences who towered over our lives, unknowable as mountains.

My aunt Millie was different. She swept in, gathered us up, and took us to the museum to see the dinosaur bones. When you are 11, there is nothing better than dinosaur bones. Unless it’s ice cream, which we also had. I remember my father’s youngest sibling as, well ... young

VIEWS Leonard Pitts (she’d have been in her middle 30s then), pretty, feisty, stylish and fun. She was like a rainbow seen against sepia tones.

So it is painful to find myself here, a few days past my 57th birthday, going to see her in a place that cares for people with Alzheimer’s.

You would know Aunt Millie in a flash. She is the only one dolled up to the nines every day: church dress on, makeup applied, nails done, a flowered hat sitting low on her head, the very definition of all dressed up, and nowhere to go.

She asks us – my wife is with me – how we found her here. She asks if she lives here now.

She asks if she has to pay anything. She tells me my head has gotten so big. She asks what happened to her car. She weeps.

Ruin is the destiny of all flesh. This, I understand. But there’s something especially cruel when ruin takes the mind before the flesh. Without our memories, what are we? We are the equation after the blackboard has been wiped, the sandcastle after the wave – smeared images and shapeless shapes melting into the sand.

When you no longer remember yourself, those who love you must do it for you.

We spend two afternoons with Aunt Millie. On the first, as it happens, the facility has brought a band in to play. Aunt Millie wants to go, so we do. One of the songs is, “The Way You Do the Things You Do.” Because I am congenitally unable to not act a fool when Temptations classics are played, I put an arm around Aunt Millie and serenade her, thankful the music is too loud for anyone to hear me. To my surprise, Aunt Millie puts her arm around me and returns the favor. I’m watching her lips and she is nailing the words.

She remembers.

And we rock back and forth, clowning, singing. “You got a smile so bright, you know you could have been a candle...”

It is one of those moments you watch yourself from outside yourself, knowing even as you live it that it is special, that it contains a pearl of grace.

The next day, we find her walking down the hall, coming home, she insists, from the movies. She asks how we found her. She is surprised to learn she lives here now. I change the subject, tell her I really enjoyed singing with her at the party yesterday.

She frowns. “What party?” she asks.

It is another piece of her, lost to her. But I will keep it for us both.

• Leonard Pitts is a columnist for The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, Fla., 33132.

Readers may contact him via email at lpitts@ miamiherald.com.

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High pressure will build in to the south. This will bring ample sunshine along with breezy westerly winds.

Temperatures will be running a good 8-10 degrees below normal. Clouds will thicken Thursday with a chance of a few sprinkles. Windy and chilly weather will arrive on Halloween and continue through the weekend.

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Temperature High ............................................................. 55° Low .............................................................. 50° Normal high ............................................. 57° Normal low ............................................... 37° Record high .............................. 73° in 1989 Record low ................................ 19° in 1976

Precipitation 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. ........ Trace Month to date ....................................... 2.42” Normal month to date ....................... 2.59” Year to date ......................................... 28.51” Normal year to date ......................... 31.84”

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NIU BASKETBALL MEDIA DAY

NIU is going ‘in right direction’ Montgomery: Men making progress “I thought our talent level had to get better. We just didn’t have the players in place,” Montgomery said DeKALB – When Mark Montgom- at NIU’s annual media day Tuesday ery walked on the NIU Convocation at the Convocation Center. “I thought Center floor for the first time when guys worked hard, they bought into he took the NIU job after the 2010-11 the system, they graduated, they season, he knew his team was a “ways moved on. Good things have hapaway” from realistically competing pened. But it’s a process. at the top of the Mid-American ConSee MONTGOMERY, page B2 ference.

By STEVE NITZ

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Bennett still stressing defensive play More online

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For all the latest coverage of Northern Illinois University men’s and women’s sports – including stories, features, columns, previews, scores, photos, videos, blogs and more – log on to HuskieWire.com.

DeKALB – When Danny Pulliam describes Northern Illinois women’s basketball coach Kathi Bennett’s defensive system, the first word that comes to mind is unity.

When Bennett took the NIU job before the 2010-11 season, she brought with her the pack-line defensive sys-

tem made famous by her father – former Wisconsin head coach Dick Bennett.

The pack-line involves the on-ball defender pressuring the ball-handler, and the other four defenders crowding in a “pack” behind an imaginary line a few feet in front of the 3-point line – a temporary line with duct tape

See BENNETT, page B2

CLASS 3A HAMPSHIRE VOLLEYBALL REGIONAL

BC sweeps Cogs, earns finals berth

BY TRAVIS ZUELLIG sports@daily-chronicle.com HAMPSHIRE – In Game 1 between the Genoa-Kingston volleyball team and Burlington Central, neither team was giving an inch.

Both squads were fighting hard to get the upper hand early.

Unfortunately for the Cogs, Burlington Central took the opening game and the Rockets used that momentum to take over the second game.

The Rockets rolled to a 27-25, 25-14 victory over G-K. “In all honesty, that is the best that we have shown up in any match this entire season. I couldn’t be prouder to have this team as my

More online For all your prep sports coverage – stories, features, scores, photos, videos, blogs and more – log on to Daily-Chronicle.com/ last team,” said Cogs senior setter Breea Rogalla.

The young Cogs (26-10) team led early in the first game. After trading points throughout most of Game 1, Burlington Central pulled away to an 18-13 lead and looked to be in control.

G-K charged back with an 11-2 run. Rogalla served

See COGS page B3

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Kaneland’s Rachel Kintz spikes the ball through St. Edward blockers Megan Barth (left) and Cecile Rapp on Tuesday during the second game of the Hampshire Class 3A Regional volleyball semifinal. Kaneland beat St. Edward in two games, 25-21 and 25-22.

Kaneland endures Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com

Genoa-Kingston’s Erika Hansel spikes the ball over Burlington Central’s Alexis VanHiel on Tuesday during the second game of the Hampshire Class 3A Regional volleyball semifinal. Burlington Central beat Genoa-Kingston in two games.

Knights in regional final with victory

BY TRAVIS ZUELLIG sports@daily-chronicle.com HAMPSHIRE – It may not have been the prettiest match that the Kaneland volleyball team has played this season, but the Class 3A Hampshire Regional’s top seed advanced.

The Knights pulled away late in both games against St.

Edward, as Kaneland won 2521, 25-22 to advance to the regional championship.

“I think in the beginning, we were a little nervous because it was the first round of regionals,” Riley Hannula said. “We definitely got better as it went on, and then in the second game, we came out confident.”

CLASS 2A HAMPSHIRE SOCCER SECTIONAL: WHEATON ACADEMY 3, KANELAND 0

Wheaton Academy too much for Knights

By JAY SCHWAB jschwab@shawmedia.com HAMPSHIRE – The Kaneland boys soccer team found out firsthand why Wheaton Academy is considered a front-runner to win this year’s IHSA Class 2A state championship.

The Warriors dominated the Knights, 3-0, in Tuesday’s IHSA Class 2A Hampshire Boys Soccer Sectional semifinal.

Asked what the Knights would have needed to pull the upset, Kaneland coach Scott Parillo

quipped “Divine intervention.”

“We may have played our perfect game and it may not have been good enough,” Parillo said.

“They’re bigger, stronger, faster. But we didn’t give up. We just kept hanging in there, and unfortunately it wasn’t our day.”

Wheaton Academy (21-1-1) led, 2-0, at halftime, benefiting from an early own goal after a free kick and pocketing a second, first-half goal from speedster Reid Culberson off a Grant Rougas assist.

Kaneland remained in strik-

ing distance for much of the second half but Wheaton Academy’s Lucas Hoepner supplied the Warriors’ third goal with 14:30 to play in the match.

Wheaton Academy’s margin would have been considerably wider were it not for a couple balls caroming off the post and several strong saves from Knights goalkeeper Andrew Mathys.

“The big stage, he decided to shine a little bit, so that’s good,” Parillo said of his junior goalkeeper. “Very happy for him.”

Kaneland had a late, apparent goal from Felipe Speraggi disallowed by offsides, much to the chagrin of the Knights crowd.

Despite the defeat, Parillo pointed happily to Kaneland’s 139-2 record after a poor start to the season.

“That’s a heck of a difference from 1-4-2,” Parillo said. “We finally jelled. It took us awhile. It wasn’t always pretty. It was fun, though.”

The Warriors advance to face Belvidere North in Friday’s sectional final.

Hannula led the Knights with six kills. Kaneland had a real team effort when it came to kills with Elizabeth Dunn finishing with five kills, Rachel Kintz getting six and Annmarie Franz having three.

Hannah Nuert had two kills and 15 assists.

See KNIGHTS, page B3

Kaneland’s Jack Wolf (11) and Wheaton Academy’s Ty Seager (20) go after the ball during their sectional semifinal game Tuesday night at Hampshire High School.

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Royals run wild in Game 6

MLB PLAYOFFS WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) All games televised by Fox

Girls volleyball Class 4A Huntley Regional: DeKalb vs. Huntley, 6 p.m.

Class 3A Hampshire Regional: Kaneland vs. Burlington Central, 6 p.m.

Class 1A Paw Paw Regional: Newark vs. Indian Creek, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday: San Francisco 7, Kansas City 1 Wednesday: Kansas City 7, San Francisco 2 Friday: Kansas City 3, San Francisco 2, Saturday: San Francisco 11, Kansas City 4 Sunday: San Francisco 5, Kansas City 0, San Francisco leads series, 3-2 Today: San Francisco (Peavy 6-4) at Kansas City (Ventura 14-10), 7:07 p.m. x-Wednesday: San Francisco at Kansas City, 7:07 p.m.

NFL NATIONAL CONFERENCE Detroit Green Bay Bears Minnesota

WHAT TO WATCH Pro basketball Bulls at New York, 7 p.m., ESPN Oklahoma City at Portland, 9:30 p.m., ESPN Pro hockey Detroit at Washington, 6:30 p.m., NBCSN

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Indian Creek advances to VB regional final

Huskies post record graduation rate Northern Illinois athletics posted an 89 percent Graduation Success Rate in the NCAA’s annual report, which was released Tuesday.

The Huskies’ average is 7 percentage points better than the national Division I average. It’s also the seventh straight year NIU has topped 85 percent.

NIU football had a GSR of 91 percent, the eighth-best mark in the country among FBS schools and best in the Mid-American Conference.

NIU men’s basketball had the highest GSR in program history at 83 percent, 11 percentage points higher than the national average.

Mississippi State, FSU top first playoff list Mississippi State, Florida State, Auburn and Mississippi are the top four teams in the first College Football Playoff rankings.

The first of seven Top 25 rankings done by a 12-member selection committee was released Tuesday night. The selection committee will pick the four teams to play in the national semifinals and set the matchups for other four marquee New Year’s Day bowls that are part of the playoff rotation.

Oregon was fifth and Alabama was sixth.

The final rankings will be released Dec. 7, the day after the most of the conference championships are decided.

Bailey calls it a career after 15 years in NFL DENVER – Champ Bailey has decided to retire after a 15year NFL career that included 12 Pro Bowl berths, a record for a cornerback.

Bailey’s agent, Jack Reale, said from Atlanta that Bailey had opportunities to play this season but decided to pursue other opportunities.

Bailey spent five years in Washington and 10 in Denver.

– Staff, wire reports

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SPORTS BRIEFS Rebekka Boehne had 11 assists to help Indian Creek reach the final of the Class 1A Paw Paw Regional with a 2725, 25-18 win Tuesday over Hinckley-Big Rock.

Bailey Martensen had 12 digs and Josie Diehl had eight kills for the Timberwolves (21-11), who advance to the final against Newark at 6 p.m.

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Rose says right stuff about Anthony, but ...

By JOE COWLEY jcowley@suntimes.com Derrick Rose has said all the right things since Carmelo Anthony decided to return to the New York Knicks rather than sign with the Bulls as a free agent during the summer.

Rose used phrases such as, “Who wouldn’t be disappointed?” and “I’m not mad with his decision.”

At times, he actually sounded like a guy who wanted Anthony as a teammate.

Those were only words, however. His actions indicated something quite different.

“Why would Derrick want Melo on his team, taking touches away?” one former NBA

coach said recently. ‘‘It’s not a good fit for him. [Rose’s Adidas] brand doesn’t need to share the arena with the Jumpman [Anthony’s Nike brand].”

The Sun-Times reported that Rose angered the Bulls when he blew off a recruitment dinner with Anthony in late July. Rose did speak with Anthony briefly after a workout earlier that day, but he did so reluctantly.

Maybe the most telling aspect of the entire summer was Rose’s explanation about why he was willing to recruit big man Pau Gasol, asking for his cell number and calling him.

“But that’s someone that I knew I could play with,” Rose said of Gasol. “You think about Pau, him now being in the East

– what he’ll be able to achieve with the way we play, the way we dump the ball in the post a lot – it could be great.”

That’s why the Bulls’ regular-season opener Wednesday against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden isn’t your normal first game.

“It’s really exciting,” center Joakim Noah said. “It’s a lot of stories, obviously, for you guys to write about. But when you step between those lines, those stories don’t really mean anything. I understand where you’re coming from, but we have different perspectives when it comes to the game.”

Even if Rose had gotten down on a knee for Anthony, it’s possible the Knicks – with the extra

$45 million they could pay him – always were going to be his choice. For at least one night, though, Anthony’s decision will play out to be right or wrong.

“I think we just want to prove that we can beat any team, that we’re an elite team in this league,” shooting guard Jimmy Butler said, doing his best to downplay the idea that the Bulls will try to make Anthony feel that he didn’t choose wisely. “And I think the first step to achieving that, proving that, is [beating] the New York Knicks in New York.”

Forward Taj Gibson, who attended the Anthony dinner, said there were no hard feelings.

“That’s all in the past,” Gibson said.

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Seniors will help teach younger teammates • BENNETT Continued from page B1 is put up for NIU’s practices in the NIU Convocation Center.

“I think the toughest part of it is you have to be willing to let your person go and help with somebody else’s,” said Pulliam, a senior guard on the Huskies.

“I think sometimes people think it’s going to be a knock on them if their person scores.

It’s not about if your individual person scores. It’s about stopping everybody physically.”

Heading into her fifth season at the helm of the Huskies, Bennett has players who are used to the system, and have the valuable experience it takes to utilize it. Despite going 11-19 last year, the Huskies finished second in the league in scoring

defense at 64 points per game.

This year, she’s going to need her core group of seniors – Pulliam, Hinckley-Big Rock grad Jenna Thorp and Amanda Corral, who will miss the first few games of the season after surgery on her hand, to help lead the way offensively and defensively.

“Defensive points allowed is something that we believe in and that’s not going to change,” Bennett said. “That’s kind of who we are and that’s kind of who we hang our hat on and that’s our identity.”

Thorp said that when she first got to NIU, it took some time for her to really get comfortable in the system. Now, she’ll help show the younger players the ropes.

“I think Danny and Amanda and I have been around, so

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Northern Illinois University women’s basketball coach Kathi Bennett speaks during a news conference on media day Tuesday at the NIU Convocation Center. we know what coach expects,” Thorp said. “I think that helps to let our freshmen know, try to help them out on the sidelines.”

Bennett’s goal is to be a topfour team in the MAC this year.

A lot of that will hinge on her

team’s senior production.

“It’s going to be a really interesting season. I think that it’s anybody’s ballgame,” Bennett said. “We’re really excited to make a championship run, that’s for sure.”

Huskies seem to be 2 or 3 deep at all positions • MONTGOMERY Continued from page B1 “If you do it the right way and you recruit the right kids, it takes time. I thought last year’s team definitely got it started in the right direction.”

Montgomery, after 10 years as an assistant at Michigan State, took over for Ricardo Patton – who had a disastrous tenure as the Huskies’ head coach.

It was a rough start for Montgomery. His first two seasons produced 10 wins combined.

Last year, the Huskies improved to 15-17 and advanced to the second round of the MAC Tournament in Cleveland.

To Montgomery, 2014-15 is a new journey for his program.

The Huskies return key players such as center Jordan Threloff, a DeKalb High grad, as well as guards Travon Baker, Aaron and Aaric Armstead, and Don-

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Northern Illinois University men’s basketball coach Mark Montgomery speaks during a news conference on media day Tuesday at the NIU Convocation Center. tel Highsmith, who was leading the team in scoring at 10.5 points a game last season before tearing his ACL in December.

NIU adds Purdue transfer Anthony Johnson, who will play primarily at shooting

guard, and Kansas State transfer Michael Orris, who will share point guard duties with Baker.

“It’s the first year I can say we have no freshmen that we have to rely on. That’s kind of

exciting,” Montgomery said. “I think our student-athletes have been through the wars. They understand the travel, they understand the other teams in the league. They understand the toughness and how hard it is to win on the road.”

Montgomery said he feels as if his team is 2 or 3 players deep at each position.

He joked that it makes him sleep better knowing the Huskies have more options.

This season, Montgomery wants his team to get out and run, pressing and getting in more of a fast-break mode.

“In practice it’s been great.

That fast-paced basketball, that’s one of the things I think I do best, and I love doing it, ... getting open on the fast break,” Orris said. “With the players that we have, the fast break looks pretty awesome. I’m excited about that.”

Tuesday’s Results Anaheim at Blackhawks (n) Minnesota at Boston (n) Winnipeg at N.Y. Islanders (n) Los Angeles at Philadelphia (n) New Jersey at Pittsburgh (n) Ottawa at Columbus (n) Buffalo at Toronto (n) Arizona at Tampa Bay (n) St. Louis at Dallas (n) San Jose at Colorado (n) Montreal at Calgary (n) Carolina at Vancouver (n) Today’s Games Detroit at Washington, 6:30 p.m.

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IHSA

IHSA announces bylaw amendment plan On Tuesday, the Illinois High School Association announced 16 by-law amendment proposals, ranging from separating public and private schools in postseason play to adding a preseason football game.

The IHSA Legislative Commission is scheduled to review the proposals beginning on Monday, before they are voted on later in December. Discus-

PREP VOLLEYBALL

Barbs rally to reach regional title match

BY JOEY KAUFMAN jkaufman@shawmedia.com HUNTLEY – For a moment, everything seemed like it was spiraling.

The No. 3 DeKalb girls volleyball team had built up a 15-6 lead in the first set, looked in control and put No. 2 Belvidere North on its heels.

Then, in a flash, it watched its lead drift away, as the Blue Thunder went on a 14-4 run to pull ahead for good and steal the opening set of the Class 4A Huntley regional semifinal matchup.

Everything, though, was not lost. DeKalb went on to take the next two games in back-and-forth fashion to top Belvidere North 21-25, 25-22, 25-22, and advance to the regional championship game, where it’ll meet up with a familiar foe.

“It just came down to knowing that we had that lead in game one,” DeKalb coach Kyle Milborn said, “and we just let some minor errors get to us, getting over that and winning.”

On Thursday, the Barbs will get another crack at top-seeded Huntley.

A year ago, the Barbs fell to the Red Raiders in three sets in a regional title game in Rockford. The year prior, it was the Barbs who got past Huntley.

“I know our girls are excited,” Milborn said, smiling. “I’ve watched them a few times. They’re scrappy. It’s going to be a dogfight.”

Against Belvidere North, DeKalb got key contributions from its experienced upperclassmen. Senior outside hitter Kate Hickey and junior middle hitter Heather Bemis tallied nine and seven kills, respectively, and delivered late in sets.

But perhaps the biggest hit came from a freshman. Caught in a tight finish in the third set, a set that had already seen six lead changes, Jessa Henry, a 5-foot-11 middle hitter, stepped up to put it past the defense and give the Bars a late 22-20 lead.

The kill also gave them the ball back – and momentum – after a service errors on the previous play.

“She took some big swings,” Milborn said. I couldn’t have been happier her. I mean, as a whole, I think a lot of kids stepped up, and that’s what I loved about. It wasn’t just two or three kids. Our whole team stepped up.”

Junior setter/opposite Morgan Newport and sophomore setter/opposite JC Longeville also had 16 and 13 assists. Senior Nicole Schladt also had 11 digs.

Huntley had won earlier on Tuesday, sweeping No. 4 Jacobs 25-15, 25-9, lifted by a balanced attack that was led by sophomore outside hitter Alyson Dixon and junior outside hitter Erin Erb who had seven and six kills.

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sion will also be next month held at various town meetings across Illinois.

Chief among the proposals are two that could revamp the football playoff structure. One, which had been announced by the West Suburban Conference earlier in June, motions to create two postseason classifications systems: one for boundary schools and one for non-boundary schools. It’s the first such proposal since the 1990s.

Under the proposed revi-

sion, public and private schools could meet in the regular season, but no longer in state-run postseason events.

The second, following a submission from Sycamore Principal Tim Carlson, would group football into two-year, predetermined districts based on enrollment, designed to eliminate conferences and ease schools’ scheduling burdens.

After schools are grouped into eight classes, they would then be placed into geographical-

ly-based regions, determined by the IHSA. The top four teams in each region would make the playoffs.

Conference stability was cited as the primary rationale for the proposal. Over the last five years, 20 conferences have changed alignment because of departures or additions, according to Carlson, and four new conferences have been created.

The Fox Valley Conference and the Big Northern Conference have both been affected by con-

ference realignment in the last year, as seven McHenry County schools have announced they will leave after the 201516 school year to form the new Kishwaukee River Conference.

Additional proposals included a preseason scrimmage for football that might be held on the Friday or Saturday before the regular season kicks off.

Special teams plays, however, would be prohibited.

Boys and girls tennis could also be divided into two class-

es for postseason play, according to a proposal submitted by Chicago Christian Athletic Director Eric Brauer, intended to create a more level playing field for smaller schools.

According to data provided

by Brauer, 107 out of the 128 singles qualifiers were from schools with enrollment of more than 1,000. And since boys tennis began in 1935, and no school under 1,000 students has ever placed in the top two of the state tournament.

Genoa-Kingston doomed by starting games slowly • COGS Continued from page B1 for most of the run.

The Rockets (30-6) rebounded to take a 25-24 lead.

A Rachel Hughes kill tied the game for the Cogs before Burlington Central scored he final two points to close out the game.

“In the first game, we had a lot of unforced errors,” Rocketsd coach Marv Leavitt said. “You are going to be in trouble with serving and hitting out. So, we real-

Mistakes and hitting errors led to a lot of points for both sides.

Hughes and Erika Hansel Breea Rogalla led the Cogs with three kills Genoa-Kingston senior setter apiece. Rogalla ended her final game with nine assists and a kill. ly cut those down the second self out of that hole.

“I honesty love every sin“We haven’t been able game and our serving consistently got them out of sys- to start strong – we usually gle one of them so much,” the end strong. Sometimes, that senior said. “G-K has not had tem.”

Burlington Central came bites us in the butt like it did a better team walk through out strong in Game 2 and tonight,” Cogs coach Keith this school in over 20 years, didn’t waste any time build- Foster said. “They went out and I am so proud to have led ing a lead. G-K was down by fighting. They didn’t make it that team this far.”

Emily Bozich, who finas few as four points early in easy for Burlington Central the game, but couldn’t dig it- to get through us.” ished with seven kills, led

“G-K has not had a better team walk through this school in over 20 years.”

the Rockets. Maddie Barry and Mackenzie Whitmer each had nine assists. Alyssa DeTamble had five kills. The Rockets were playing with key outside hitter Lauren Wiltsie, who has an injured foot.

“We played great,” Leavitt said. “We were without our all-area player Lauren Wiltsie. So many girls came through tonight, big time.”

The Rockets advance to face Kaneland in the championship match at 6 p.m.

Thursday.

Kaneland will take on Burlington Central for the title ing that it was mostly nerves that they got out of their sysContinued from page B1 tem and that they can come back and play,” Violett said.

Kaneland (24-8-1) coach “One thing about this team is Cynthia Violett said she was that they have grit and heart.” happy the team won the match, St. Edward took an earbut knows things can improve. ly lead in Game 1, but the “We got it done. I was hop- Green Wave let Kaneland

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By the 1950s Halloween decorations were being made of hard plastic, and in the 1990s a strange sponge-like plastic was popular for soft jack-o’-lanterns. Pre-1950 Halloween memorabilia is scarce, so prices are high. But beware: Many reproductions of early paper jacko’-lanterns and Halloween candy containers have been made in Japan. New mail order catalogs sell copies of old pieces along with new life-size witches, ghosts, skeletons and zombies, as well as tombstones, black cats and huge blow-up monsters and spiders.

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hang around, and the Knights closed out the game outscoring St. Edward 16-10, with Hannula getting four of the final five Kaneland kills.

“Once we start playing like a team, you can see it on the court,” Hannula said. “And, when we are not playing as a

stances. It must meet flammability standards and the parts and decorations must be securely fastened.

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I am pleased they got it done,” Violett said. “Definitely, there are some things to work on.”

The Knights will play Burlington Central in the title match at 6 p.m. Thursday.

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Time to check batteries as well as clocks Dear Abby: Smoke alarms are one of the greatest fire safety success stories of our time. Since they were introduced in 1975, home fire deaths have been cut in half, even as the nation’s population has increased by half. But far too many people let the batteries in their smoke alarms wear out, or even remove them to avoid occasional nuisance alarms.

And too many people – and their families – pay for their neglect or poor judgment with their lives.

About 2,500 people a year die in structural – mostly residential – fires. According to the National Fire Protection Association, more than

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips 60 percent of them – over 1,500 people – are dying in homes that had either no smoke alarms or no working ones.

That’s more than three people a day.

This fall marks the 27th consecutive year the International Association of Fire Chiefs will partner with Energizer, the manufacturer of batteries, flashlights and lanterns, in the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery program. Together, we’re asking people to test their exist-

ing batteries or install fresh ones in their smoke alarms in conjunction with the end of daylight saving time on Sunday, Nov. 2. It takes only a few minutes. This will not only give families critical early warning time to escape a fire, but also helps to protect our firefighters by reducing the likelihood they’ll have to enter a burning home to rescue someone still inside.

Your daily column helps people improve their lives.

Please help me save lives by printing my letter. Thank you, Abby. – Fire Chief G. Keith Bryant, IAFC President Dear Chief Bryant: You’re welcome. It’s tragic to read and hear about families who

have died because of something that could have been so easily prevented.

Readers, I’m giving you notice. Friday is Halloween, and Saturday night at bedtime is when you’ll be turning your clocks back to standard time. Please remember to add smoke detector batteries to your shopping list this week.

No procrastinating!

Home fires happen more frequently during the cold winter months, so protecting yourselves and your families at this time of year is particularly important.

Dear Abby: I have a T-shirt I bought when I was younger and wilder. It has a filthy message on it, so I can’t

donate it to charity, and I’m even embarrassed to throw it out. I’d hate to, because I have worn it only once. It seems wasteful to throw out something in such good shape.

What should I do? – More Mature Now Dear More Mature: People who wear T-shirts with filthy slogans send a message that they either agree with what it says or think it’s funny.

Because the shirt no longer “speaks” for you, wear it when you’re alone in your house, or admit you made a mistake in buying it and turn it into a dust rag.

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Nonsurgical treatments often help knee pain Dear Dr. K: I saw my doctor because of aching pain in my knee, which sometimes buckles unexpectedly. He says I have chondromalacia. What is this, and what can I do to relieve the pain?

Dear Reader: The joints in your body are cushioned by cartilage. This tough, rubbery tissue covers and protects the ends of bones inside a joint, allowing them to glide smoothly against one another as the joint moves.

With chondromalacia, the cartilage inside a joint softens and breaks down. The ends of the bones can rub together, causing pain. Chondromalacia can affect any joint, but the most common location is inside the knee. (I’ve put an illustration of this area on my

ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff website, AskDoctorK.com.)

The part of the knee that is affected most often is the kneecap (also known as the patella). The kneecap is a little oval-shaped bone with an undersurface covered by cartilage.

As chondromalacia causes more cartilage to soften, it can crack or shred into a mass of fibers. Bits of cartilage can float inside the joint, irritating the cells that line it and provoking them to produce fluid. In severe cases, the cartilage can wear away completely. That causes pain

of the kneecap, in the front of the knee, around the side or even behind the knee.

Chondromalacia of the knee is usually related to injury, overuse, and poorly aligned muscles and bones around the knee joint. It is especially common in runners, joggers, skiers, soccer players, cyclists and other athletes who repeatedly stress their knees.

Workers who spend a lot of time kneeling are also more likely to develop this problem.

The most common symptom is a dull, aching pain in front of the knee, behind the kneecap. The condition also can make your knee joint “catch”: You suddenly have trouble moving it past a certain point, or it may buckle unexpectedly.

Nonsurgical treatments often relieve knee pain within a few months. Your doctor may recommend: • Applying ice for pain or swelling.

• Taking acetaminophen (Tylenol) to relieve pain.

• Taking a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, others), to ease pain and swelling.

• Starting exercises to strengthen the muscles around your knee. (A physical therapist can design an exercise program for you.)

• Avoiding kneeling, squatting and high-impact exercises.

• Using knee tape, a brace or a special sleeve to keep your kneecap aligned properly.

• Wearing inserts called orthotics inside your shoes to keep your foot in proper position – neither turned in or out too much – when you bear weight on that foot, and the knee above it.

If nonsurgical treatments fail, or if you have severe symptoms, your doctor may recommend arthroscopy.

This surgical procedure uses miniature instruments inserted through small incisions to repair joint problems.

Damaged cartilage can be removed during the surgery.

If necessary, your doctor also can correct the alignment of knee structures to help to reduce wear and tear.

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Unconditional love is best parenting advice Dr. Wallace: I read your column regularly and appreciate your handling of difficult teen problems. I’m the mother of three teenage daughters and would be thrilled if you could help me become a better parent. In a sentence or two, please give me guidance on the most important duty a parent can perform to be the best possible mother or father. I do realize that there are many duties, but I want only what you think is paramount. – Mother, Orlando, Florida Mother: Teens must know that they share unconditional love with their parents. Without unconditional love from parents, children can feel abandoned and that can result

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace in a huge emotional hangup that can lead to serious problems. Many parents say they love their children, but when asked if they feel loved, the child often responds with a “No.” When unconditional love is shared, it is forever!

Dr. Wallace: I’m 12 and I want a bicycle for my birthday. My mom said that my grandparents will buy one for me if I wear a helmet when I’m riding it. What a bummer! People will think I’m a nerd if I wear a helmet.

Please tell my parents that it

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is OK to ride a bike without a helmet. – Kenneth, Ft. Walton Beach, Florida Kenneth: Bicycling has become a very popular activity and many bike riders do wear helmets. The reason is that recent reports indicate that every year there are more than 500,000 bicycle-related injuries that are treated in hospital emergency rooms throughout the United States and Canada. Sadly, there are over 1,200 bicyclists fatally injured each year. Bicycle accidents kill more young people under the age of 18 than poisons, falls or firearms.

Thank your grandparents and your parents for your bicycle, and also for the safety helmet that could save your

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TODAY – This is the year for you to be more assertive. Discipline and sticking to a strict regimen will help you reach your goals.

Most importantly, it’s necessary to make sure that others know you mean business. You will make great progress if you are firm, decisive and proactive.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Friends and relatives will question what you are trying to accomplish. Your impulsive nature and effervescent disposition will attract attention and bring about a personal challenge.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – It’s vital that you keep meticulous records of your personal expenditures and assets.

You work hard, but money has a way of slipping through your fingers if you become too complacent.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – You will have to decide whether a romantic relationship has become too one-sided. If you do not share the same depth of feeling, a serious discussion is in order.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Trust your intuition if something doesn’t feel right, and make the necessary alterations. Use discretion, and refrain from being too forthcoming with your opinions to avoid being put in a vulnerable position.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – An unusual creative project will get you heading in a new direction. Not only will you make new acquaintances, but you will also discover abilities and skills you didn’t know you had.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Find a quiet corner where you can reflect on your personal life and explore your emotions.

Soul-searching will give you a better understanding of your motivations, needs and wants.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Let your charm lead the way. New friendships will develop if you mingle. Attend events that bring you into contact with those who share your favorite pastimes.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Read the fine print. Make sure you understand what’s included and what isn’t. It’s up to you to be diligent and to ask questions before you sign on the dotted line.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – You may be feeling anxious or temperamental. You won’t be helping anyone if you fly off the handle. Keep your opinions to yourself for now.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Things will improve if you work alone.

You will accomplish more without distractions or interruptions and if you eliminate jobs that have been put on hold for too long.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Take advantage of your high energy and clear thinking so you will be able to accomplish your goals and open up time to do things you enjoy.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – You will face ups and downs regarding family matters. Listen to complaints and work to rectify the problems that exist before they have a chance to escalate. It’s essential to cooperate.

life. They care about your safety, and so do I. Dr. Wallace: I dated a girl for over a year, but we separated because we both wanted to date others. Even though we were sexually active, we didn’t love each other. We both went on with our lives until about six months ago when my older (by two years) brother started dating my ex-girlfriend. They met at a party of a mutual friend and really hit it off. I was surprised, but I didn’t say anything.

Last week, my brother said that he and my ex are engaged, but haven’t set the wedding date. This didn’t surprise me; it absolutely shocked me! They plan to be

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married in Mexico.

Now comes the difficult choice. I want to tell my brother that his future wife and I had been sexually intimate, but I’m not so sure that telling the truth would be helping my brother or simply causing him more problems.

I’d appreciate your advice on this. They will be living in Mexico and living with her parents. – Nameless, Somewhere in Texas Nameless: Say nothing about your relationship with your brother’s fiancee. Offer nothing on your own, and if asked, don’t lie, just simply say nothing – as long as you live!!

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Distribution results in aggression Joey Adams, a comedian and columnist, said, “The computer can do more work faster than a human because it doesn’t have to answer the phone.”

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could phone your friendly bridge pro when you have a problem at the table?

How would you analyze the bidding in this deal, and what is West’s best opening lead against four spades doubled?

When East opened one diamond, South would have liked to describe his two-suiter immediately, but he could not. A two-diamond Michaels Cue-Bid would have shown both majors, and an Unusual Two-No-trump overcall would have indicated hearts and clubs (the two lowest-ranking unbid suits).

West made a negative double to show four hearts (or perhaps five with insufficient strength to respond two hearts).

North cue-bid two diamonds to indicate a maximum pass with at least three-card spade support. Then East jumped to three hearts, which was a slight overbid. Now South decided to keep his club suit hidden. And East’s rebid persuaded West to double four spades.

When the opponents bid game and your side has the balance of power, a trump lead is usually best – as it is here (but admittedly tough to find).

After winning the first trick, West shifts to a diamond. South will win with dummy’s ace, play a club to his ace, and ruff a club, but East can overruff and return his last trump, which results in down two.

If West leads a diamond, South just has to be careful to ruff the first club with dummy’s spade eight or 10. Then he can escape for down one.

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722 N. Annie Glidden Rd. 815-758-7859 DeKalb – 1 BR upper.

Avail Nov 1st. Water/garbage incl.

Lease. No pets/smoking. $550 plus util. 815-758-2632.

DeKalb 1BR with Den, $595 incl heat/water. ALSO 1BR, new kitchen & bath, $625 incl heat/water.

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Sycamore Quiet Upper 2BR 1 bath, W/D, no pets/smoking. $700/mo + 1st, last security.

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DESK - Totally Refinished Brass handles 42” width $75 815-825-2275 Dining room table, 6 chairs & china cabinet $200 Call 815-825-2275 Four Swivel Kitchen Chairs Good condition, $20.

815-784-2857 Little Tikes Red Twin Race Car Bed. Spoiler Shelf, and Toy Box. Full Box Spring And Mattress. Nascar 4 Pillow Cases and Comforter, Jeff Gordon Pillow Sham, and Valance.

Nascar Locker and 3 Drawer Night Stand. $400 OBO 630-552-3882

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Cortland- Large house, garage, large Lot (approx 130x130). Can be zoned Commercial. CASH Only $39,900 815-739-6170 ROCHELLE - 3 bedroom 1 bath large fenced yard 6 car driveway garage low taxes less than 1 mile to I-88 central AC full basement appliances included. $81,500 or For Rent $800/mo.

109 Southview Dr, Rochelle.

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DeKalb – LOCATION! 3 Bays/Office Parking. Rte 38. Adolph Miller 815-756-7845 Prime Spot!!

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Large yard, deck, garage.

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DeKalb ~ Near Downtown North 2nd St, 1200 + Sq Ft. Ideal for office, retail, salon.

Call for details, Agent Owned.

815-756-2359 Or 815-758-6712

Dekalb – Frost-Free Storage SQ. Footage Avail, Winter Storage, Cars-RV's, Boats...$.75 sq. ft. call for info 630-886-0835 INDOOR STORAGE SPACE KINGSTON AREA, SECURE BUILDING. 815-751-4730

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CORTLAND - CONDO FOR RENT 1100 sq ft, 2 BR 2 BA condo for rent in Cortland. Condo includes kitchen appliances, washer/dryer, and a carport. Rent is $850 per mo, available immediately. Contact Brandon or Kari at 815-957-0272.

EDGEBROOK TOWNHOMES $980 - $1100 4-5 BEDROOM Quiet Lifestyle 2 Full Baths Central Air

Dwell DeKalb Realty 815-751-2546 Sycamore TH Like New 2BR Great location! 2BA, 2 car garage, skylights, appl, W/D, C/A, $950.

No pets.

815-758-0123

CORTLAND ~ 2BR DUPLEX Bsmt, appl, W/D hook-up, garage.

No pets/smkg, $800/mo + lease, deposit & ref. 815-758-6439

WINDOWS (3) 1998 Ford Crown Victoria

DEKALB - SUPER NICE LARGE Furnished Room for single female.

Cable/Wi-fi/util & laundry facilities incl. $375/mo. 630-518-1432

RV's, Campers & Boats - Indoor & secure, West of Sycamore. Owner resides on property 815-825-2571

DEKALB ~ 2 BEDROOM Clean, quiet, 2 bath, appliances included, available now.

815-758-6580

Kingston: 2 BR, Stove + Refrigerator Furnished, Washer + Dryer Hook Ups, First + Security. $875.00 815-784-2371

Sycamore Upper 1.5 Bedroom

SYCAMORE, NEAR DOWNTOWN Large upstairs one bedroom apartment, historic neighborhood, fireplace, hardwood floor, utilities paid, no pets, available November, $650/month, security deposit and first month rent required. 815-757-2580.

DeKalb – Near Downtown 3 bedroom, $850/mo.+sec.

1 bedroom $475/mo.+sec.

815-517-0060 815-517-1088

DeKalb- 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath House by NIU. 1st/lst/sec. $1200/mo 815-501-3057 DeKalb–2 bedroom Farmette, On hard surface road, Recently updated ! $900/mo.

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DeKalb Sunny 2BR $725 Includes heat and water.

Near the heart of NIU. Incl gas and forced air heat. Off street parking, lush grounds, on site laundry room. Outdoor pool, tennis and basketball courts, patios and balconies. Cats OK.

DeKalb 3BR, Den, Office, Garage $985 ALSO 3BR, DR, 1st floor utility room, $875, no pets.

815-762-4730 DEKALB, Clean 3 Br, 1 Ba, fenced yrd, Deck, 2 car gar., Appl, W/D, $890/mo. + 1st, last, sec. No smoking. 815-895-4167

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Cortland Spacious 2 Bedroom W/D hookup with garage. $775/mo + utilities + sec, no pets.

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1 bath, remodeled, appl. Country setting, close to downtown Genoa.

815-784-4606 ~ 815-901-3346

Christmas Tree ~ Blue Spruce

Washer & dryer, central air, fireplace, exercise center.

Cat friendly. Private fishing. $765/mo.

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1968 Z28 CAMARO 502, 5 speed, clean. $35,000/obo.

815-861-5125

Contact Jose Malave at: 773-922-2293

Light automotive repair.

Experience not necessary.

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2005 FORD EXPEDITION EDDIE BAUER 4X4 WINTER IS COMING! Loaded 86,200 Leather-heated / cooled front, second buckets, third power, DVD, Roof Rack, Sun Roof, Tow Package, $11,000 OBO. 630-406-6805 leave message

Ultrasonic Bark Control, runs on 9v battery or A/C adaptor, indoors/ outdoors. Original cost: $108.

Asking $50/obo.

Call 815-757-7893 M-F after 4:30pm, anytime Sat/Sun.

FIREPLACE for built in wall, 24x36 box, screen glass door.

815-758-0591 $150 DeKalb

43x48 crank style with screens, $35/obo.

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10” Radial Table Saw Sears Craftsman, includes sturdy metal stand - $150.

815-899-4867 CABLE WIRE 1000' Reel RG - 6 New, $25, Sycamore 815-895-5373 DRILL - Milwaukee 4" Right Angle - $190, Sycamore, 815-895-5373

Furniture, Antiques, Graniteware

Kenmore, used only for 9 months. Warranty until 2016. $300/ea. 815-761-0158

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Full time Maintenance position available, 1-2 years of experience in a health care environment.

Exceptional customer service, positive attitude, initiative and follow-thru expected. Carpentry, plumbing, electrical, painting, grounds work etc. Some weekend, evening, holidays. Supervisory experience a plus.

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340 South Ave

Dryer, Maytag, gas runs/looks great asking $150 815-286-9922

Local Journeymen Electricians Looking for work in the DeKalb area. Must be able to

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PUBLIC NOTICE MANLEY, DEAS, KOCHALSKI, LLC One East Wacker Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60601 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS, NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, Plaintiff, v. CHRISTIAN PAWOLA, AKA CHRISTIAN F. PAWOLA; WINEBERRY OF DEKALB HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants, Case No. 14 CH 221 The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, Christian Pawola, AKA Christian F. Pawola; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of the 23 Judicial Circuit, DeKalb County, Illinois by the said plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to-wit:

PUBLIC NOTICE Treasurer's Annual Report Summary of Condition Village of Malta Date: May 01, 2013 - Apr 30, 2014; Fund Beg Bal Revenues Expenses End Bal 01 GENERAL $594,785.05 $1137981.97 -$628762.22 $1104004.80 03 AUDIT $6,553.16 $12964.83 -$18525.00 $992.99 05 INSURANCE $547.37 $22437.96 -$24231.00 $-1245.67 09 FICA $20,425.27 $14958.61 -$14418.16 $20965.72 10 IMRF $31,782.20 $6981.16 -$11467.78 $27295.58 11 MFT $112,282.86 $32928.12 0 $145210.98 12 TIF $55,464.15 $367198.66 -$377289.52 $45373.29 57 WATER/SEWER $402,518.92 $241478.49 -$215596.48 $428400.93 Totals : $1,224,358.98 $1836929.80 $1290290.16 $1770998.62 GY MARKETING,$33497.04; COMMONWEALTH EDIRevenue Summary: Property Tax/TIF, $474408.03; Road & BridgeTax, SON,$12259.11; FRONTIER,$3634.07; IL DEPT OF $11936.55; Sales Tax, 45711.80; Utility REVENUE, $9395.00;ILLINOIS E.P.A., $6711.36; Tax,$77852.02; license,$1215.21;Building Per- JC ROACH,$16814.99; LANG'S EQUIPMENT, mits,$513.78; Income Tax, $123596.23;Personal $3309.27; MENARDS LUMBER, $6368.34; MUNIProperty Tax, $2381.46; State Use Tax,$54242.62; CAP INC. 5757.50; MALTA LIONS CLUB $5,000; Court Fines,$13411.57; Other Fines, $28.40; Water NICOR NORTHERN ILLINOIS GAS,$7166.39;PATTEN Sales,$123354.16; Sewer Charges, $75750.28; INDUSTRIES $25,000; PETTY CASH $2953.33; US Capital Improvement/Debt Ret.,$41623.03; Invest- BANK NA, $18064.91; US DEPARTMENT OF TREAment Income,$4419.07; Garbage Disposal, SURY MED., $5421.07; VIKING CHEMICAL COMPA$90180.09 Other Revenues, $696377.50;Total NY,$9967.04; WIPFLI,$36145.00; WILLS BURKE Revenues, $1836929.80.

KELSEY ASSOC. $54813.35; DEKALB COUNTY SHERRIF $9,530; ;Other under $2,500.00, Total Disbursement $2,500 or Greater: ARNDT AUTOMOTIVE $5513.13; BOB KYLER EXCA- $48229.27. Payroll Summary: $15,000 or less: VATING $2904.65; BANK OF NEW YORK, Jamie Colbert, Vince McCabe, Donald Haeffner, Jerry $294112.33; CLARKE ENVIRON. MOSQUITO, Thompson, Steve Meisch, Laurie Patterson, Jamie $4157.56; CONSERV FS INC.,$15996.95;DEKALB Wilson, Rudi Ziegler, Mason Lang, Mary Johansen, COUNTY GOV. $ 6604.95; FOSTER & BUICK LAW Tyler Kaelin, Christine Harbeck Cassie McGuire.

GROUP,$24458.50;; ILL. MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT, $15,000-$25,000: Gary Ikeler, Russel Stokes, Floyd $15063.33; ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL LEAGUE, Grubb, Freddy Wilson, Glenn Gustafson, Dave Walk$24479.00; PAYROLL $139376.53; US DEPART- er. $35,000-$45,000: Debbie Lang, James Kaelin.

MENT OF TREASURY FICA,$23488.54; EMPLOYEE BENEFITS, $13156.20; FISCHER EXCAVATING Debbie Lang, Comptroller, Oct. 24, 2014 CO.,$268440.57;US DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY FIT,$22666.61; VILLAGE OF MALTA,$17539.08; (Published in the Daily Chronicle, October 29, WASTE MANAGEMENT $80537.29; AMEREN ENER- 2014.)

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Unit 32-1 of Wineberry P.U.D. Resubdivision No 1, a Resubdivision of Lots 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and Lot 101 in Wineberry P.U.D., according to the plat thereof recorded November 17, 2003 in Plat Cabinet 9 at slide No. 84-A as Document No. 2003033400, and certificate of Correction recorded November 21, 2003 as Document No. 2003033839 in the City of DeKalb, DeKalb County, Illinois.

629 Kenwood Court, Dekalb, IL 60115 0803451023 Now, therefore, unless you, Christian Pawola, AKA Christian F. Pawola; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, and the said above named defendants, file your answer to the complaint in said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the office of the Clerk of the 23 Judicial Circuit, DeKalb County, Illinois, on or before December 12, 2014, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint.

Shara A. Netterstrom One of Plaintiff's Attorneys Shara A. Netterstrom (6294499) MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff One East Wacker, Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60601 Telephone: 312-651-6700 Fax: 614-220-5613 Attorney No.: 6294499 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, October 29, November 5 & 12, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE

g oral comments regarding the budget. The County Board is anticipated to adopt a final budget at their regular monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. on November 19, 2014 for the Fiscal Year that begins January 1, 2015.

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, October 25 & 29, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given of a hearing for Budget, Appropriation and Levy purposes for Milan Township on Wednesday, November 12, 2014, at 6:00 p.m. at the Milan Township Building.

Paula Kyler, Clerk (Published in the Daily Chronicle, October 29, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE The following are the times and locations of early voting sites in DeKalb County for the General Election being held on November 4, 2014.

The DeKalb County Administration Building (Lower Level) 110 E. Sycamore St. Sycamore, IL 60178 Serving ALL County Precincts Week 1: October 20 October 26 Mon - Fri 8:30am - 4:30pm Saturday 9:00am - 12Noon Sunday 10:00am - 4:00pm Week 2: October 27 November 2 Mon - Fri 9:00am 7:00pm Saturday 9:00am - 5:00pm Sunday 10:00am - 4:00pm

pa 310 E. Railroad St. Sandwich, IL 60548

/s/ Douglas J. Johnson DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder

Serving Precincts: Sandwich 01, 02, 03, 04, 05; Somonauk 01, 02; Paw Paw 01; Squaw Grove 01, 02; Clinton 01, 02; Victor 01; Shabbona, 01

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, October 15, 22 & 29, 2014.)

Available Dates: October 20 - November 1, 2014 Mon., Wed., Thur., Fri. 9:00am - 4:00pm Tuesday 12Noon - 7:00pm Saturday 9:00am - 12Noon

ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE

Kirkland Village Hall 511 W. Main St. Kirkland, IL 60146 Serving Precincts: Franklin 01, 02; Kingston 01, 02, 03; Genoa 01, 02, 03, 04; South Grove 01; Mayfield 01 Available Dates: October 20 - November 1, 2014 Mon., Wed., Thur., Fri. 9:00am - 4:00pm Tuesday 12Noon - 7:00pm Saturday 9:00am - 12Noon

Northern Illinois University Holmes Student Center (Blackhawk Annex) Intersection of Lucinda and Normal DeKalb, IL 60115 Serving ALL County Precincts Available Dates: October 20 - November 1, 2014 Mon., Wed., Thur., Fri. 9:00am - 4:00pm Tuesday 12Noon - 7:00pm Saturday 9:00am - 12Noon

Public Notice is hereby given that on October 21, 2014 a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of DeKalb County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as: TANGIER HOOKAH LOUNGE located at 327 E. Hillcrest Dr., DeKalb, IL 60115.

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, October 29, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on October 3, 2014 a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of DeKalb County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as: LAKE MICHIGAN VACATIONS located at 435 John Marshall Ln, Sycamore, IL 60178.

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/s/ Douglas J. Johnson DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder (Published in the Daily Chronicle, October 22, 29 & November 5, 2014.)

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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Malta-Milan MultiTownship Assessing District will take place on Tuesday, November 11, 2014, at 6:45 p.m., at the Malta Fire Department.

Paula Kyler, Clerk

AT YOUR SERVICE

Dated October 21, 2014

(Published in the Daily Chronicle & Midweek, October 15, 22 & 29, 2014.)

BUDGET HEARING The Finance Committee of the DeKalb County Board will hold a public hearing on the County's proposed FY 2015 Budget at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 in Conference Room East of the DeKalb County Administration Building, 110 E. Sycamore Street, Sycamore, Illinois 60178 (815895-7127). Summaries of the proposed budget are available now for public review from the DeKalb County Finance Office, in the offices of the DeKalb County Clerk, Genoa City Clerk, and the Sandwich City Clerk, as well as on the internet at www.dekalbcounty.org. Interested citizens are invited to attend said hearing and make either written or

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Smoky Slow Cooker Vegetarian Chili AP photo

Short ribs, chili need slow cooker to shine Red wine, beef a match made in heaven

Vegetarian chili sidesteps common pitfalls

By SARA MOULTON -

By J.M. HIRSCH The Associated Press

The Associated Press Many people love the idea of a slow cooker because it seems so simple – open the pot, insert ingredients, cover the pot, turn on the heat, then leave it alone. Eight hours later, you uncover the pot and spoon out a perfectly cooked, and perfectly delicious, dinner. It’s a miracle.

And indeed that’s exactly the way it works with some slow cooker dishes. But if it’s a deeply flavored meat dish, you’ll have to spend as much time prepping it as you would if you were cooking it on top of the stove or in the oven.

There’s just no way to brown your meat or vegetables within the moist confines of a slow cooker.

Searing meat in a small amount of hot oil creates what’s known as the Maillard reaction – the meat turns a pleasing brown color and tastes that much better in the finished dish. The same is true for the low and slow browning of onions; the process not only tenderizes the onions, it deepens their color and concentrates their flavor.

After sautéing all of these items and transferring them to the cooker, there will be some brown bits left in the bottom of the skillet. These are concentrated meat and onion juices that you’d be crazy not to take advantage of. So the next step is to deglaze the pan. In this case I used red wine – red wine and beef are a match made in heaven – but any liquid will do the trick.

I turned up the heat to simmer and reduce some of the wine, which tamps down its alcoholic edge and concentrates its flavor. Then I added just a few cups of chicken broth.

At this point, you might be wondering why anyone would bother to make short ribs with a slow cooker if it requires as much hands-on effort as braising them in an oven. It’s because nothing beats the low and steady temp of a slow cooker when it comes to producing the tastiest and most tender short ribs you’ve ever eaten.

Red Wine-Braised Slow Cooker Short Ribs Start to finish: 4 to 5 or 9 to 10 hours, depending on slow cooker setting (1 hour active) Servings: 8

Slow cookers have legions of fans. I am not among them.

Whatever I make ends up either tasteless mush or wildly overcooked or – on days when I’m really shining – both mushy and wildly overcooked.

Also, I resent it when slow cooker recipes require me to pre-cook ingredients before adding them to the slow cooker. But I accept that I am in the minority. I understand that many people who are not me somehow find these devices useful. I applaud those people.

And in their honor, I created a slow cooker recipe that is everything I think so many are not – easy and tasty. No browning or other pots are needed for this dump-and-go vegetarian chili that truly takes just 10 minutes to assemble in the morning. It then can be ignored until you get home from work.

Smoky Slow Cooker Vegetarian Chili Start to finish: 4 to 8 hours (depending on slow cooker) Servings: 12

Horseradish Sauce Start to finish: 5 minutes Makes 1/2 cup 2 tablespoons bottled horseradish 6 tablespoons sour cream 1/4 teaspoon grated lemon zest Kosher salt and ground black pepper In a small bowl, whisk together the horseradish, sour cream and lemon zest. Season with salt and pepper.

Nutrition information per tablespoon: 25 calories; 15 calories from fat (60 percent of total calories); 2 g fat (1.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 10 mg cholesterol; 1 g carbohydrate; 0 g

Red Wine-Braised Slow Cooker Short Ribs

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Horseradish sauce (recipe inset) Season the ribs with salt and pepper.

In a large skillet over high, heat half of the oil. Add half the ribs, reduce the heat to medium-high and cook until the ribs are browned 5 pounds English-cut beef short on all sides, about 3 minutes a side. ribs (bone-in), divided Transfer the ribs and most of the Salt and ground black pepper oil to a 5- to 7-quart slow cooker.

3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive Repeat with the remaining ribs and oil, divided 1½ cups thinly sliced yellow onion oil. Transfer the second batch of ribs to the slow cooker, but leave about 2 medium carrots, medium 2 tablespoons of the oil in the skillet. chopped Reduce the heat under the skillet 1 tablespoon minced garlic to medium-low and add the onion 2 tablespoons tomato paste 1 sprig fresh thyme (or 1 teaspoon and carrots. Cook, stirring occasionally, until golden brown, 20 to 25 dried thyme) minutes. Add the garlic and cook 1 bay leaf for 1 minute. Add the tomato paste, 750-milliliter bottle red wine 2 cups low-sodium chicken broth thyme and bay leaf and saute for 2 minutes. Transfer the vegetable 5 tablespoons all-purpose flour mixture to the slow cooker.

1/3 cup water Return the skillet to medium heat 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard and add the wine. Bring the wine to 1 tablespoon lemon juice

Vegetables are sautéed before being added to the slow cooker.

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a boil and simmer until it is reduced to about 1 cup. Transfer to the slow cooker, then add the broth. Cover the slow cooker and cook on low for 9 to 10 hours, or on high for 4 to 5 hours, or until the meat is very tender and falling off the bone.

Use tongs to transfer the ribs to a platter and let stand until they are

cool enough to be handled.

Meanwhile, strain the liquid in the slow cooker through a mesh strainer into a large saucepan, discarding the solids. Skim off any fat that floats to the surface, then bring to a boil over medium-high heat.

Whisk together the flour and water. In a steady stream while

1 large yellow onion, diced 1 large sweet potato, peeled and diced 3 cups peeled and cubed butternut squash (about a 2½ pound-squash) 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes 3 cups vegetable broth 1/2 cup red wine 15-ounce can kidney beans, drained 15-ounce can great northern or other white beans, drained 8-ounce bag frozen bell pepper strips 6-ounce can tomato paste 6 cloves garlic, minced Juice of 1 lime 1 tablespoon sugar 1 tablespoon cocoa powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon chili powder 1 teaspoon smoked paprika Salt and ground black pepper Hot sauce, to taste Sour cream, to serve Chopped fresh cilantro, to serve Tortilla chips, lightly crushed

whisking, add half of the flour mixture to the cooking liquid. Bring the sauce to a boil and whisk in more of the flour mixture, if necessary, to achieve the desired consistency.

The sauce should be thick, but still easily poured. Simmer for 5 minutes.

Whisk in the mustard and lemon juice, then season with salt and pepper.

Meanwhile, discard the bones and trim any excess fat and gristle from the rib meat. Add the ribs to the saucepan and cook gently just until heated through. To serve, arrange rib meat on each plate and spoon some of the pan sauce over and top with some of the horseradish sauce.

In a 6-quart slow cooker, combine all ingredients except the salt and pepper, hot sauce, sour cream, cilantro and tortilla chips. Stir well, then cover and turn on the cooker.

Let cook on high for 4 to 6 hours or on low for 6 to 8 hours. The chili can be served any time after the squash and sweet potato are tender.

When ready to serve, taste, then season with salt, pepper and hot sauce. Alternatively, leave out the hot sauce and offer it at the table for each diner to adjust heat as desired. Serve topped with sour cream, cilantro and crushed tortilla chips.

Nutrition information per serving: 790 calories; 460 calories from fat (58 percent of total calories); 51 g fat (23 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 230 mg cholesterol; 13 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 4 g sugar; 52 g protein; 640 mg sodium.

Nutrition information per serving: 250 calories; 60 calories from fat (24 percent of total calories); 6 g fat (2.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 10 mg cholesterol; 40 g carbohydrate; 9 g fiber; 8 g sugar; 9 g protein; 670 mg sodium.