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Shot fired during fight in DeKalb Several people involved in altercation at the Travel Inn

By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI jduchnowski@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Two people were injured and a shot was fired without striking anyone in a fight Friday afternoon in the Travel Inn parking lot, DeKalb police said.

Two groups of five or six people each had a fight about 12:30 p.m. in the parking lot at 1116 W. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb Police Commander John Petragallo said. During the fight, one person was hit in the head with a gun and another suffered a hand injury; paramedics did not need to

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take either to the emergency room.

“As one of the groups fled the scene, a round was fired from the gun,” Petragallo said.

Police detained a man who was part of the group that was fleeing, Petragallo said. They took about 10 witnesses to the police station for interviewing

and cordoned off the Travel Inn parking lot and the adjacent Precision Car Wash, 1120 W. Lincoln Highway.

Police from Northern Illinois University, Sycamore and the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office responded, as well as DeKalb paramedics. Emergency vehicles were parked in Lincoln Highway’s center-turn lane west of Annie Glidden Road for about two hours. DeKalb police’s investigation continued Friday evening.

Police do not believe the incident was related to the alleged methamphetamine lab

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DeKalb police arrested three DeKalb people in connection with that operation.

Thomas M. Wilkinson, 29, was charged with cooking and distributing methamphetamine.

His wife, Malgorzata Dutkowska, 24, allegedly bought over-the-counter medication for Wilkinson and drove him to buy other materials in the past. Jeffrey R. Podjaski, 25, allegedly bought over-the-counter medication for Wilkinson on Oct. 26 in exchange for some of the methamphetamine produced that day.

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Police and firefighters cordoned off the parking lot at Travel Inn at 1116 W. Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, where a shot was fired during a fight Friday.

DeKalb’s new police station will be significant upgrade

Cuts to food benefits worry Ill. residents

By SOPHIA TAREEN The Associated Press

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Jeremiah Wilson works Wednesday in the communications center inside the new DeKalb police station.

By JOHN SAHLY jsahly@shawmedia.com DeKALB – If he wasn’t sure before that the new DeKalb police station was in the right place, Police Chief Gene Lowery had it confirmed for him during construction.

Lowery said several Northern Illinois University students have visited the station at 700 W. Lincoln Highway in the past few months, attempting to make a report.

“So we serviced them, we got an officer down here to make the report, but it just pointed out to us, that students will be more interactive with us.

That’s good,” Lowery said.

“We’re not going to be tucked away down on Fourth Street.”

This month, the 35,000-square foot, $12.7 million building should open to the public, Lowery and officials told the Daily Chronicle this

week.

The transition to the new station is in the final stages, Lowery and officials said this week, with information technology, furniture, door security systems, programming and some flooring among the few things left to finish before a few moving trucks will take over everything else from the old station in city hall to the new building.

DeKalb police Cmdr. Jason Leverton said there are plans for a public open house once the station opens, with a target of late November.

“We’ll pretty much have it all opened up,” Leverton said.

“We’ll have officers stationed in the building to answer questions and pretty much anybody will be welcome to do that.”

Lowery and Leverton emphasized the building will

ABOVE: A view of the roll call room at the new DeKalb police station.

LEFT: A view of the patrol break area is seen Wednesday.

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CHICAGO – When Larry Bossom lost his information technology job a few months ago, he turned to a Chicago food pantry and the federal food stamps program to help make ends meet. On Friday, the 41-year-old became one of roughly 2 million Illinois residents whose food stamps benefits are being reduced.

“It’s been a nice stopgap,” he said while picking up cereal and other goods at St. Ignatius Food Pantry on the city’s North Side. “You always figure out how to get by.”

Friday was the first day a temporary benefit from the 2009 economic stimulus bolstering food stamp money was not available. A family of four could see up to $36 less a month through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The cut also comes as federal lawmakers are negotiating further reductions to the program, which has more than doubled in cost since 2008.

The change will affect about 47 million Americans.

In Illinois, about 349,000 seniors and disabled people and roughly 886,000 children statewide will see reductions, according to the Illinois Hunger Coalition.

“This couldn’t have come at a worse time,” said Diane Doherty, executive director of the coalition that runs a hunger hotline. “It’s right before the holidays, and right before it’s more difficult for parents because there’s so much hype about presents and their fear about whether or not they’re going to have a Thanksgiving dinner.”

Along with disappointment and anxiety about further cuts, many low-income residents complained Friday that people simply didn’t know they were coming. State and federal officials said it will take several days for people to see exactly how much money they’ll be down each month.

Larry Bossom One of 2 million Illinois residents whose food stamps benefits are being reduced.

By the numbers n A family of four could see up to $36 less a month through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. n The change will affect about 47 million Americans. n About 349,000 seniors and disabled people affected in Illinois n Roughly 886,000 children affected statewide

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8 DAILY PLANNER Today Weight Watchers: 7:15 a.m. weigh-in, 7:45 a.m. and 9 a.m. meetings Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road (near Aldi), DeKalb.

Hinckley Area Food Pantry: 8 to 9 a.m. at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, 324 W. McKinley Ave. Food distribution is available.

Overeaters Anonymous Walkand-Talk meeting: 8 to 9 a.m. at The Federated Church, 612 W. State St., Sycamore. www.oa.org; Call Marilyn at 815-751-4822.

NICE Food and Clothing Center: 8:30 to 11 a.m. Saturdays, by appointment other days, at 346 S. County Line Road in Lee. This nondenominational food pantry serves the southwest part of DeKalb County and the southeast area of Lee County. 815-824-2228.

It Is What It Is AA(C): 9 a.m. at St. Catherine’s Church, 340 S. Stott St., Genoa. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

As Bill Sees It AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Learning to Live Al-Anon group: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Newman Catholic Center annex, Normal Road in DeKalb. llc904@hotmail.com.

Narcotics Anonymous: 10 to 11 a.m. at United Church of Christ, 615 N. First St., DeKalb. www. rragsna.org; 815-964-5959.

Knights’ Saturday Burgers and More: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at DeKalb Knights of Columbus Club, 1336 E. Lincoln Highway. Open to the public.

Burger buffet: Noon to 2 p.m. at Genoa Veterans Home, 311 S. Washington St. Open to the public.

Group Hope: Noon to 1:30 p.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 511 Russell Road in DeKalb. This free support and discussion meeting is for NIU students and DeKalb community residents. Volunteer community facilitators are sought.

Contact Charles Smith at 815-3989628 or visit www.grouphope.org or www.dbsalliance.org.

Lightning games: 1:30 p.m. at Genoa Veterans Club, 311 S. Washington St. www.genoavetshome.us or contact Cindy at crmcorn65@ yahoo.com or 815-751-1509.

Monthly community family-style dinner: 5 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. seatings at Kingston United Methodist Church, 121 W. First St. Donation is $9 for adults and $4 for children. Call Kingston UMC at 815-784-2010.

Back to Basics AA(C): 6:30 p.m. at Cortland Methodist Church, 45 Chestnut St., Cortland. Last Saturday is open meeting. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

AA Speaker Open Meeting: 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Saturday Night AA(C): 10 p.m. at 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Sunday 24 Hours a Day AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

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

Sandwich Swings!: 4 to 6 p.m. at Plano American Legion Post 395, 510 E. Dearborn St., Plano.

Singles welcome. Casual dress.

Cash bar available. Admission is $5 a person. 815-570-9004.

Society for Creative Anachronism armored fighting practice: 4:30 p.m. behind Stevenson North at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. For Middle Ages-Renaissance history re-enactors. Visit www.carraigban.org or call 815739-5788 or 815-986-5403.

Bread & Roses women’s chorus practice: 5:45 to 8 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 830 N. Annie Glidden Road, DeKalb. For information, call Patty Rieman at 815-758-4897 or visit www.breadandroseschorus.org.

DeKalb County Illinois NAACP Adult Chapter: 6 to 7 p.m. at New Hope Church at Twombly and Annie Glidden roads in DeKalb. Contact Kevin Chambliss at tiger39217@ yahoo.com or 815-501-7583.

Steps And Traditions AA(C): 6 p.m. at Masonic Hall, Route 23, Genoa. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com.

No Longer Hopeless AA(C): 7:30 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Any Lengths AA(C): 8 p.m. at Federated Church, 612 W. State St., Sycamore. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

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EDITOR’S NOTE Eric Olson Meaghan Gulke calls the Marines deployed overseas “my boys.”

One of those boys is her husband, Brett Gulke, a 2009 Sycamore High School graduate and a corporal with the Marine Corps 3/7 H&S Company.

He left the family’s home near the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif., a couple of weeks ago. He’s still in the United States, but soon he will be in Afghanistan for anywhere from two to 15 months.

Meaghan’s not sure when Brett will rejoin her and their two children, 2-year-old Torrie and 8-month-old Bryce.

But she knows from experience that she’ll have little contact with her spouse while he’s overseas, and she has to stay strong and keep busy.

“When you don’t have something to do and all you do is sit around and think about that person, it can do really bad things,” Meaghan Gulke said.

One of the ways she’s trying to keep busy is by gathering enough miles to walk to Afghanistan and back. It was an idea devised by a Marine Family Readiness Officer on the base, she said.

“She’s like, ‘Let’s walk to Afghanistan,’ ” Meaghan Gulke said. “First team to walk to Afghanistan and back, we’ll see if we can’t get the boys a prize.”

The prize could be anything from a meal of “civilian food” such as hamburgers and hot dogs instead of the usual MREs, or a 72-hour leave where soldiers have access to the Internet and can contact their families, or maybe even a chance to come home a couple of weeks early, Meaghan Gulke said.

But the idea of walking to Afghanistan isn’t just to try to win something for her boys. It’s also to show them how much people back home support them.

Brett Gulke enlisted in the Marines not long after graduating from high school, and he loves his hometown.

“My husband is so proud to be from Sycamore,” she said. “The reason he joined the Marine Corps was because of Sycamore. He wanted them to be safe.”

Meaghan Gulke decided to reach out to some of the hometown people to get them involved in her effort. She’s spoken with Heather Eade, marketing and communications director at the Kishwaukee YMCA, and they’re working to organize a walking event there on Nov. 22, Brett Gaulke’s birthday.

Eade says the YMCA would like to host an event.

She also reached out to Sycamore Mayor Ken Mundy, who had an idea: Why not donate the miles logged by the more than 1,800 runners in the Sycamore Pumpkin Run 10K on Sunday?

Mundy said he and Sycamore Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rose Treml agreed it would be a good idea, and so they donated more than 11,300 miles to the cause from the more

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Brett Gulke enlisted in the Marine Corps after he graduated from Sycamore High School in 2009. than 1,800 runners who participated.

“It’s a sign of support to not only Cpl. Gulke but his family and all the other deployed troops abroad,” Mundy said. “ … They’re Sycamore people, and we’re very happy to hear about this and be able to respond so favorably.”

It’s about 7,600 miles from Kabul, Afghanistan, to Twentynine Palms, and Gulke said the Pumpkin Run miles put their total at 15,672 miles, more than enough to go there and back. Now she wants to try to do it again.

As we spoke on Friday, Meaghan Gulke was busy packing for a trip to Sycamore. She, her two children and a service dog plan to return to the area Wednesday. Meaghan and the children will be staying with Brett’s parents, Scott and Karla Gulke. Karla Gulke is a kindergarten teacher at North Elementary School.

The Kishwaukee YMCA should be able to host an event on its running track Nov. 22, which is Brett’s 23rd birthday.

Meaghan Gulke envisions an event where people from the community can show up, wear red and walk to support Brett Gulke and other soldiers overseas.

“It’s a friendly thing, kids can do it, families can do it, anybody can do this,” Meaghan Gulke said. “It’s the easiest and most thoughtful thing you can give to a soldier.

“This will mean more than somebody sending money or food, this will mean so much more to know that someone loves them and supports them back here in the States.”

We’ll have more details on the effort as they are shored up. Of course, we hope for Cpl. Gulke’s safe return.

Guess I contributed: I was one of

those 1,800-plus runners in the Pumpkin Run last weekend.

I can hear you saying, “Good for you, Olson.”

Now, it was exciting to be a part of that big pack of people running down the streets and past the farm fields on a beautiful sunny morning. But dear reader, I’m not one of those people who tries to rub fitness in your face.

It’s hard to do too much of that when you’re in your 30s and you get beat out by a 78-year-old man.

That’s what happened to me. It was in the last mile. I’d had enough. I was just trying to finish the race. I’d made a point to let all of the real runners pass me by, sticking to a somewhat leisurely pace.

In the thick of that burning, stinging last mile, just as we were coming into the homestretch, a man pulled up on my right.

“I’m 78 years old,” he said.

As in, you’re clearly not, guy. And if I can finish this race, you’d better be able to.

That was enough for me. I finished the race. The race times show that the faster runner was Ludwig Mueller of Elgin, the only 78-year-old man in the race.

He beat me by 14 seconds.

I sure hope he signs on again next year. For one, it’s inspirational to see older people still active and challenging themselves and doing things that a lot of people wouldn’t attempt at any age.

Also: Next year I’m gunning for him.

• Eric Olson is the editor of the Daily Chronicle. Reach him at 815-7564841 ext. 2257, email eolson @shawmedia.com, or follow him on Twitter @ DC_Editor.

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Efforts to unionize part-time professors on the rise

By SAM HANANEL The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Thousands of part-time college professors are joining labor unions, a growing trend in higher education that’s boosting the ranks of organized labor and giving voice to teachers who complain about low pay and a lack of job security at some of the nation’s top universities.

The move to unionize at campuses from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., to Tufts University near Boston follows a shift in hiring practices at colleges that rely more than ever on adjunct faculty to teach classes.

Last month, adjuncts at Tufts be-

came the latest to join the 2.1 million member Service Employees International Union, which has been aggressively targeting college instructors. Adjuncts at Georgetown formed a union with SEIU in May, and parttime instructors at nearby American University joined the union last year.

SEIU now represents more than 18,000 members at 10 colleges and universities, compared with 14,000 five years ago. The union is preparing to file for elections at more colleges in the Los Angeles, Seattle and Boston areas.

Adjunct professors now make up more than half of all college faculty nationwide; in the 1970s, about 70 percent of college instructors were ten-

ured professors or on a track to tenure.

Unlike full professors, most adjuncts earn just a few thousand dollars per class, with scant benefits and little job security.

“What started out decades ago as a way to supplement experience on college campuses by using adjunct professors has flipped,” said Malini Cadambi, SEIU’s national director of higher education. “They are the majority of faculty labor on many campuses now, and their position has not improved.”

Kip Lornell, an adjunct music professor at George Washington University in the District of Columbia, has been teaching students for 25 years and is the author of 13 books on American

music. He earns less than $23,000 a year teaching three classes at GWU. By contrast, a full professor at the university earns an average salary of $156,000 a year, according to data compiled by the American Association of University Professors.

Lornell says conditions have improved since GWU adjuncts formed a union in 2006 and won a contract two years later. Salaries are 20 percent higher, and the university now pays minimum rates of $3,500 or $4,030 per 3-credit course, depending on the lecturer’s degree. The university also now has to go through certain procedures before deciding not to bring an instructor back.

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By FELIX SARVER fsarver@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – Police said a woman accidentally drove into the wall of a day care center in Sycamore.

The driver of a green 1993 Toyota Camry hit the gas instead of the brake of her vehicle, which smacked into the outside wall of the Two Rivers Head Start Agency, 2425 Bethany Road, said Sycamore police officer Steve Elbrecht.

Nobody was injured.

The wall of the building had been torn open and a sign for 15-minute parking was flattened, with the sign torn off

the pole. Elbrecht said he inspected the inside of the building and found the only interior damage was cracked drywall.

Sycamore Fire Chief Pete Polarek said the children in the building remained there after the incident. The damage to the building was minor, with no main structural components of the steel-frame building affected.

Elbrecht said the driver would not be cited for the accident.

Sycamore police officers, Sycamore fire officials and Sycamore Building and Engineering Department officials responded to the scene.

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DeKALB – The intersection of Routes 23 and 38 will be closed for up to a week starting Nov. 11 so Union Pacific Railroad crews can repair the at-grade railroad crossing in the area.

The roads will be closed for a block in each direction, according to a news release from the DeKalb Public Works Department. Local traffic will be allowed on Route 38 east of Fifth Street and west of Third Street and on Route 23 north of Locust Street and south of Grove Street, the release states.

Detour routes for truck traffic will direct vehicles driving north

on Route 23 to take Fairview Avenue east to Peace Road, Peace Road north to Barber Greene Road, and then Barber Greene Road west to Route 23.

Traffic going south on Route 23 will be directed to use the same route in reverse order.

The detour route for traffic driving west on Route 38 will be south on Peace Road to Fairview Drive, west on Fairview Drive to Route 23, south on Route 23 to Harvestore Drive, west on Harvestore Drive to South First Street, north on South First Street to Fairview Drive, west on Fairview Drive to Annie Glidden Road, and then north on Annie Glidden Road to Route 38. Traffic going east on

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The driver of a car Friday accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake in her vehicle and drove into the building housing the Two Rivers Head Start Agency at 2425 Bethany Road in Sycamore.

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Building department officials issue building permits to people or contractors who want to construct a home in the area. The permits are issued after building plans are reviewed and found to comply with the local zoning code, Sauter said. Most of the applications for building permits have been coming from general contractors, Sauter said.

Sycamore Mayor Ken Mundy thinks the number of single-family home permits issued for this year is excellent for the community, adding he will be grateful for whatever impact they have on local businesses.

“When houses are built, it affects so many businesses down the line,” he said.

However, he doesn’t see it as a sign of a booming housing market because there are still reports of foreclosures.

But the amount of permits issued for this year shows signs of life, he said.

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SYCAMORE – Home building is making a comeback in Sycamore.

City Hall has issued the most permits for building new homes in six years, although it’s still a far cry from the numbers they saw before the housing bubble burst.

As of Thursday, the Sycamore Building and Engineering Department has issued 25 building permits for single-family homes, said John Sauter, Building and Engineering director. The permits were issued for homes in subdivisions including Reston Ponds, Sycamore Creek, Heron Creek, North Grove Crossings and Krpan’s Parkside Estates.

The home building activity is a positive sign, Sauter said.

“We’re excited to see those numbers increase, and we’re hopeful that would continue into next year,” he said.

Sauter said this year’s 25 permits are the most the city has issued since 2007, when it granted 75. The number of permits declined until 2010, when 19 permits were issued.

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District moves to fire teacher facing child porn charges

By ASHLEY SLOBODA asloboda@shawmedia.com ST. CHARLES – School officials in St. Charles are moving to fire a Sycamore man arrested this week on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography.

Jerome McCauley, 45, was charged Monday after police searched his home in the 300 block of Grant Street in Sycamore. Court records show he acknowledged having between 1,000 and 1,500 images and five to 10 videos of child pornogra-

phy, some showing 12-year-old girls.

St. Charles School District 303 soon will begin the dismissal process, Superintendent Don Schlomann said. McCauley is a 19-year employee with District 303 who taught seventh-graders and coached volleyball at Wredling Middle School. He was placed on leave after his arrest.

Parents waiting outside the school Friday afternoon had mixed reactions about his arrest. Some withheld judgment, saying it’s a matter for

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

DeKalb County Troy A. Walker, 44, of the 400 block of Lisbon Street, Sandwich, was charged Wednesday, Oct. 30, with violation of an order of protection.

Kodi T. Rosenberg, 21, of the 2300 block of Overlook Court, Naperville, was charged Thursday, Oct. 31, with driving under the influence.

Sycamore Richard F. Sullivan Jr., 56, of St. Charles, was charged Saturday, Oct. 26, with DUI, driving with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08 percent, unlawful transportation of alcohol, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and speeding.

8OBITUARIES BENTON E. BASTIAN Born: July 17, 1926, in Hinckley, Ill. Died: June 6, 2012, in Aurora, Ill. AURORA – Benton E. Bastian, 85, of Aurora, Ill., passed away on June 6, 2012.

Ben donated his body to medical research and will now be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors on Nov. 6, 2013, on Ben and Margaret’s 59th wedding anniversary.

Ben is survived by his wife, Margaret; daughters, Donita Link, Sondra (Kenneth) Christoffel, Marna Bastian and Deanna (Marshell) Crider; son, Ray Bastian; and grandchildren, Robert A. Lyle, Amber (Joshua) Slaughter, Gregory Christoffel, Benjamin Link and Caleigh Link.

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WILLIAM R. JACISIN Born: Feb. 21, 1944, in Brooklyn Township Died: Oct. 31, 2013, in DeKalb, Ill. DeKALB – William Ronald Jacisin, 69, of DeKalb, Ill., died Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, at DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center, DeKalb.

Born Feb. 21, 1944, in Brooklyn Township, Lee County, Bill married Rita Gaspers on Dec. 14, 1984, in Dwight. A machinist, Bill was a member of Sycamore Gun Club and loved Labrador retriever dogs.

He is survived by his aunts, Fern Eggers and Iva Underwood; cousins, Linda Dombrowski and Richard (Nancy) Eggers; and many special friends.

He was preceded in death by his wife and parents.

The private family graveside service will be held at a later date at Brooklyn Cemetery, Compton, with View a complete list of Daily Chronicle obituaries by clicking on the calendar dates

the Rev. Al Meyer officiating.

In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to the William R. Jacisin Memorial Fund, sent in care of Anderson Funeral Home, P.O. Box 605, 2011 S. Fourth St., DeKalb, IL 60115.

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WILLIAM R. OSBORNE Born: Oct. 25, 1942, in Sycamore, Ill. Died: Oct. 29, 2013, in Sycamore, Ill. DeKALB – William R. Osborne, 71, of DeKalb, Ill., died Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, at Kindred Hospital in Sycamore.

Born Oct. 25, 1942, in Sycamore, the son of Nobel and Mercedes (Moudy) Osborne, he married Toni Thomas on April 10, 1977, in DeKalb.

William was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He worked for Barber-Greene in DeKalb for 20 years, then was employed by Northern Illinois University as a stationary engineer, retiring after 20 years of service.

William enjoyed watching car races, especially NASCAR, and was a longtime member of the DeKalb Moose and the American Legion.

Survivors include his daughter, Jeannette (Adam) Antink; two grandsons, William Antink and Victor Antink; and several cousins.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and wife, Toni, in 2008.

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law enforcement now. Others said McCauley’s arrest came as a shock because he was well-liked by students and always acted professionally.

McCauley was placed on administrative leave with pay Jerome when District McCauley 303 learned of his arrest, Schlomann said.

The leave became unpaid once he was charged.

A retired teacher is han-

dling McCauley’s classes, Schlomann said, noting there are plans to post the position.

The coaching responsibilities likely will be assigned in the spring, he said. “[DeKalb County State’s Attorney Richard Schmack] has been very helpful,” Schlomann said. “We now have a copy of the police report, which tells us the details of the case.”

Police began the investigation in August when a Sycamore detective assigned to Internet crimes found an IP address associated with some-

one who might have possessed child pornography, police said.

After a series of subpoenas and search warrants, police recently connected McCauley to the child pornography. McCauley reportedly collected the material in a file-sharing program that allowed other users to download it.

McCauley’s bond was set at $1 million Tuesday. He would have to post $100,000 bail to be released from the DeKalb County Jail.

Schlomann said he expects the school board will begin

the 90-day process for dismissal at its regular meeting this month.

“The only alternative with that is if there is a resignation,” he said.

If convicted of the most serious charge he faces, McCauley would be sentenced to six to 30 years in prison.

Schlomann said if McCauley is convicted, the district would go through the process with the state to remove his teaching license.

McCauley is next due in court Nov. 13.

Treasurer tweets a mix of work, politics

By KERRY LESTER The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – Dan Rutherford’s Twitter account chronicles the Illinois treasurer fixing home appliances, jogging on the treadmill and eating his sister’s famous goulash.

It also highlights the gubernatorial candidate’s regular practice of tacking political events onto official government travel funded by state taxpayers.

Most politicians go to great lengths not to publicize when they switch between government and campaign work – even in Illinois, where experts say ethics laws separating them aren’t as specific as the federal government’s rules.

Rutherford, however, uniquely broadcasts even the most mundane details of the trips through Twitter, a catch-all for his personal, government and campaign activities.

“Just arriving to the DuPage Township Republicans Sunday Brunch fundraiser where I will be the guest speaker,” Rutherford tweeted one Sunday last fall. Hours later, he posted that he was speaking at a Joe Neal for Illinois Senate event and at a fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Bobby Schilling.

Those fundraisers came during his stay in the Chicago suburbs to promote the

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Illinois state Treasurer Dan Rutherford speaks with attendees during an I-Cash event Aug. 1 at the Jackson County Courthouse in Murphysboro. The I-Cash program helps individuals discover unclaimed property. The 2014 gubernatorial candidate regularly tacks political events onto official government travel funded by state taxpayers.

I-Cash program, which reconnects Illinois residents with financial property they mis-

placed. While the costs were hardly exorbitant – he stayed at a Red Roof Inn for $70 a

placed in boxes and on a truck, with the goal of filling the truck with toys.

Donated toys must be new, unwrapped and have a minimum value of $10.

Last year, DeKalb County Toys for Tots and The Salvation Army, which distributes the toys collected in DeKalb

County, served more than 2,500 children from 988 families throughout the county.

The ages of the children ranged from newborn to 17 years old.

The DeKalb campaign continues until Dec. 7. The toys will be distributed by The Salvation Army on Dec. 17. Anyone wanting to donate money, volunteer

night – the reports that Rutherford filed with the state don’t mention the political events but justify the expenses for “performing duties as state treasurer.”

Rutherford explains his constant tweeting as an attempt to bolster his human side during the campaign.

He also defends his mixing of activities as the byproduct of him working long hours for Illinois.

“I don’t apologize for any of the travel I or my staff put in,” he told The Associated Press in an interview. “I do personal stuff sometimes during the workday because I’m working 24/7.”

The AP found more than 20 such mixed-purpose trips by Rutherford over an 18-month period through a review of his social media posts, expense reports and official schedule.

Half a dozen were in Chicago, where the treasurer has an office, but the others were in smaller towns across the state tied to the unclaimed property events.

Now one of four Republicans running for governor in 2014, he topped all six state constitutional officers for state-paid trips during that time, according to the state comptroller’s travel records.

Even Gov. Pat Quinn spent less, as he seldom makes overnight trips when he doesn’t stay in the governor’s mansion in Springfield or his home in Chicago.

8LOCAL BRIEF Toys for Tots to kick off in DeKalb today DeKalb County Toys for Tots will kick off the 2013 Christmas season today.

The event will take place from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the Walmart parking lot just left of the doors on the store’s grocery side. Toys will be

to assist in the campaign, request a box or request a toy should visit www.toysfortots.org and select DeKalb County, Illinois; email toysfortots60115@comcast.net; or call DeKalb County Toys for Tots coordinator Kathi Hogshead Davis at 779-777-5896.

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Gunman kills TSA agent at LAX, wounds 2 others The ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES – A man carrying a note that said he wanted to “kill TSA” pulled a semi-automatic rifle from a bag and shot his way past a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, killing one Transportation Security Administration officer and wounding two others, authorities said.

The gunman was wounded in a shootout with airport police and taken into custody, authorities said. His condition was not disclosed.

The attack at the nation’s third-busiest airport sent terrified travelers running for cover and disrupted more than 700 flights across the U.S., many of which were held on the ground at LAX or not allowed to take off for Los Angeles from other airports.

The TSA late Friday identified the slain officer as Gerardo I. Hernandez, 39. He is the first TSA officer killed in the line of duty in the 12-year history of the agency, which was founded in the aftermath of 9/11.

The FBI and Los Angeles Airport Police identified the gunman as Paul Ciancia, 23, of Pennsville, N.J. He had apparently been living in Los Angeles. A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss

the investigation publicly, said Ciancia was wearing fatigues and carrying a bag containing a one-page handwritten note that said he wanted to kill TSA employees and “pigs.”

The official said the rant refers to how Ciancia believed his constitutional rights were being violated by TSA searches and that he’s a “pissed-off patriot” upset at former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

The note and the gunman’s rifle each had an orange TSA inspection sticker on it.

Ciancia had at least five full 30-round magazines on him, said the official, who was briefed at LAX on the investigation. The official said Ciancia was shot in the mouth and leg by two airport police officers. Another official briefed on the incident at LAX who could not speak publicly said the gunman had been shot four times but was “stable” when he was transported to the hospital.

Early Friday afternoon, Ciancia’s father in New Jersey had called authorities for help in finding his son after the young man sent one of his siblings a text message about committing suicide, Pennsville Police Chief Allen Cummings said.

The chief said he called Los Angeles police, which sent a patrol car to Ciancia’s apartment. There, two roommates

said that they had seen him Thursday and that he was fine, according to Cummings.

Cummings said that the Ciancias – owners of an auto body shop – are a “good family” and that his department had had no dealings with the son.

The attack began around 9:20 a.m. when the gunman pulled an assault-style rifle from a bag and began firing inside Terminal 3, Airport Police Chief Patrick Gannon said. The terminal serves such airlines as Virgin America, AirTran, Spirit Airlines, Horizon Air and JetBlue.

The gunman then went to the security screening area, where he fired more shots and went into the secure area of the terminal, Gannon said. Officers exchanged fire with him and seized him, Gannon said.

As gunfire rang out, panicked travelers dropped to the ground. Those who had made it past security ran out of the terminal and onto the tarmac or took cover inside restaurants and lounges.

“We just hit the deck. Everybody in the line hit the floor and shots just continued,” said Xavier Savant, who was waiting in the security line where the shooting took place. He described it as a “Bam! Bam! Bam!” burst of gunfire.

Savant said people bolted through the metal detectors and ran into the terminal.

URBANA – The University of Illinois plans to open an office in China later this year.

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Groups seek control of GOP agenda The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON – Virtually unknown outside Washington, a coalition of hard-line conservative groups is fighting to seize control of the Republican agenda.

Tea party allies like the Club for Growth, FreedomWorks and Heritage Action for America showed their might by insisting that the GOP embrace the government shutdown that hurt the nation’s economy and the party’s reputation.

Now emboldened, these groups are warning that their aggressive agenda-push ing tactics aren’t over – and they’re threatening retribution against Republicans who stand in their way.

“They refuse to learn,” Chris Chocola, a former Indiana congressman who leads the Club for Growth, says of lawmakers who buck the will of right-leaning groups. His group is already seeking or supporting primary challengers for 10 congressional Republican incumbents seeking

re-election next fall.

Mainstream GOP groups – such as Karl Rove’s American Crossroads or the party’s formal campaign committees – question their more conservative counterparts’ role, fed up by their outsized influence in shaping the party’s current agenda.

For decades, interest groups like the National Rifle Association have shaped debates on single issues. But Republicans suggest that not since the Christian Coalition of the 1990s have outside forces played such a sweeping, integral role in guiding Republican priorities as the tea party-led fiscal conservatives have in the ongoing budget debate.

“You have a small group in Congress that has become the surrender caucus,” argues Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger.

“They’ve surrendered their voting card to the wishes of these outside groups.”

Such divisions on display between the Republican Party’s pragmatic and ideological wings – and their affiliated outside groups – carry huge

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risk for the GOP heading into the 2014 midterm congressional elections. Republicans will seek to win power in the Senate and preserve their narrow House majority next fall.

But primaries that leave eventual nominees battered and broke for the general election could hamper that goal.

Nevertheless, tea party-aligned groups already are spending millions of dollars calling on compromise-minded Republican lawmakers from New Hampshire to Idaho to embrace more aggressive tactics against President Barack Obama’s agenda.

This is their message as Congress wrestles with health care implementation, considers immigration reform and gets ready for new rounds of debt talks: Republicans who

work with the Democratic president do so at their peril.

It appears that no Republican is too large for these groups.

The Senate Conservatives Fund – founded by tea party hero and former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint – has launched television ads against Republican leaders, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who helped craft the recent budget compromise that ended the shutdown. It also has criticized Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona and Sen. Jonny Isakson of Georgia.

The Club for Growth also is targeting Oregon Rep. Greg Walden, despite his role as leader of the campaign committee charged with preserving the Republican House majority. The group already has launched a website entitled, “Primary My Congressman,” and so far identified 10 potential campaigns to unseat Republican incumbents.

That group and others also are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to support a challenge against longtime Re-

publican Sen. Thad Cochran, of Mississippi, in hopes of persuading him to retire. And the Tea Party Patriots is going after Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois and Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire.

Behind the scenes, GOP campaign officials are urging donors to fund mainstream groups to counter the conservative outfits. These officials are doing so even as they question the right-flank’s ultimate effectiveness, given that its groups, although vocal, typically have far less money compared with other organizations standing with Republicans from the establishment wing.

The most powerful Republican allies from the last election – mainstream Republican groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, American Crossroads and its sister organization Crossroads GPS – poured more than $212 million combined into the 2012 election. Combined, the Club for Growth, Heritage Action and the Senate Conservatives Fund spent $21 million.

U.S. drone NSA leaker seeks world’s help strike kills In letter, Snowden asks for clemency against U.S. charges Taliban leader

By GEIR MOULSON and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER The Associated Press

The ASSOCIATED PRESS PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A U.S. drone strike Friday killed Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, in a major blow to the group that came after the government said it had started peace talks with the insurgents, according to intelligence officials and militant commanders.

Mehsud, who was on U.S. most-wanted terrorist lists with a $5 million bounty, is believed to have been behind a deadly suicide attack at a CIA base in Afghanistan, a failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square and other brazen assaults in Pakistan that killed thousands of civilians and security forces.

The ruthless, 34-year-old commander who was closely allied with al-Qaida was widely reported to have been killed in 2010 – only to resurface later.

But a senior U.S. intelligence official Hakimullah said Friday the Mehsud Pakistani Tali- U.S. received positive conban leader firmation that Mehsud had been killed. Two Pakistani intelligence officials also confirmed his death, as did two Taliban commanders who saw his mangled body after the strike. A third commander said the Taliban would likely choose Mehsud’s successor on Saturday.

“If true, the death of Hakimullah Mehsud will be a significant blow to the Pakistani Taliban [TTP], an organization that poses a serious threat to the Pakistani people and to Americans in Pakistan,” said Michael Morell, a former acting CIA director who retired in August and has championed the drone program. His comments came in a statement emailed to The Associated Press.

There is increased tension between Islamabad and Washington over the drone attacks, and Pakistan is also trying to strike a peace deal with the Taliban.

The group’s deputy leader was killed in a drone strike in May, and one of Mehsud’s top deputies was arrested in Afghanistan last month.

The intelligence officials and militant commanders said Friday’s drone attack that killed Mehsud hit a compound in the village of Dande Derpa Khel in the North Waziristan tribal area. Four other suspected militants were killed, they said, including Mehsud’s cousin, uncle and one of his guards. They did not have the identity of the fourth victim.

BERLIN – The U.S. refused to show any leniency to fugitive leaker Edward Snowden on Friday, even as Secretary of State John Kerry conceded that eavesdropping on allies had happened on “automatic pilot” and went too far.

Snowden made his appeal for U.S. clemency in a letter released Friday by a German lawmaker who met with him in Moscow.

In it, the 30-year-old American asked for international help to persuade the U.S. to drop spying charges against him and said he would like to testify before the U.S. Congress about the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities.

Snowden also indicated he would be willing to help German officials investigate alleged U.S. spying in Germany, said Hans-Christian Stroebele, a lawmaker with the opposition Green Party and a member of the parliamentary committee that oversees German intelligence.

Stroebele met with HansSnowden for Christian three hours Stroebele Thursday, a Opposition week after Greens explosive allawmaker legations that the NSA had monitored Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone prompted her to complain personally to President Barack Obama. The alleged spying has produced the most serious diplomatic tensions between the two allies since Germany opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

In his one-page typed letter, written in English and bearing signatures that Stroebele said were his own and Snowden’s, the American complained that the U.S. government “continues to treat dissent as defection, and seeks to criminalize political speech with felony charges that provide no defense.”

“However, speaking the truth is not a crime,”

TORONTO – A lawyer for Toronto’s embattled mayor accused the city’s top cop of acting as “judge, jury and executioner” Friday, a day after police said they had obtained a copy of a long-rumored video that appears to show Rob Ford puffing on a crack pipe.

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Snowden wrote. “I am confident that with the support of the international community, the government of the United States will abandon this harmful behavior.”

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki would not respond directly to Snowden’s appeal, but said the U.S. position “has not changed.”

“Despite recent reports or recent pronouncements from Mr. Snowden, as we’ve stated many times before, he’s accused of leaking classified information, faces felony charges here in the United States and we believe he should be returned as soon as possible, where he will be accorded full due process and protections applicable under U.S. law,” Psaki said.

Stroebele said Snowden appeared healthy and cheerful during their meeting at an undisclosed location in Moscow. The German television network ARD, which accompanied Stroebele, said the Germans were taken to the meeting by unidentified security officials under “strict secrecy.”

Snowden “said that he would like most to lay the facts on the table before a committee of the U.S. Con-

gress and explain them,” Stroebele said.

The lawmaker, a prominent critic of the NSA’s alleged activities, said Snowden “did not present himself to me as anti-American or anything like that – quite the contrary.”

Merkel this week sent German officials to Washington for talks on the spying issue.

Germany’s parliament also is expected to discuss the NSA’s alleged spying on Nov. 18.

Snowden’s appeal came as Kerry conceded that because of modern technology, some NSA activities had gone too far and were carried out without the knowledge of Obama administration officials.

“The president and I have learned of some things that have been happening, in many ways on an automatic pilot, because the technology is there,” Kerry said Thursday, speaking in a video link to an open government conference in London.

“In some cases, some of these actions have reached too far and we are going to try to make sure it doesn’t happen in the future,” Kerry said, adding that ongoing reviews of U.S. surveillance will ensure that technology is not being abused.

Snowden was granted a one-year asylum in Russia in August after being stuck at a Moscow airport for more than a month following his arrival from Hong Kong.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Snowden got asylum on condition that he wouldn’t harm U.S. interests.

Snowden’s exact whereabouts in Russia and his activities there have been a mystery, though there has been wide speculation that he is under the control of Russia’s security services.

Stroebele was tightlipped about where he met Snowden.

The German politician said he had no contact with the German Embassy in Moscow nor with Russian authorities other than a passport control officer – although he did not explain who the security officials mentioned by German television were.

Snowden’s lawyer says his client has accepted a technical-support job with a major Russian website but refused to name it.

“He enjoys living in Russia. ... We have opportunities to visit cultural events. We have opportunities to show him our places of interest,” attorney Anatoly Kucherena said.

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“The chief said yesterday there is no evidence to charge him criminally in reference to this tape so what the heck?”

Morris said.

Ford was elected mayor three years ago on a wave of discontent simmering in the city’s outlying suburbs. Since then he has survived an attempt to remove him from office on

conflict-of-interest charges and has frequently made news for his increasingly erratic behavior.

Allegations Ford had been caught on video smoking crack first surfaced in May. Two reporters with the Toronto Star and one from the U.S. website Gawker said they saw the video but they did not obtain a copy.

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Building features many upgrades Officer Chad McNett describes the function of the sally port and its features Wednesday at the new DeKalb police station.

• POLICE Continued from page A1 have a major effect on bringing the police force up to a modern standard from its current conditions on the first floor of the municipal building at 200 S. Fourth St. Communications and dispatchers already have made the move to the new building, and saw an upgrade from three dispatch stations to five, along with a technolgy upgrade.

“We’re coming from a facility that has long outlived its usefulness, and in many ways is not as safe or as efficient as this new facility,” Lowery said. “So this facility is professionally designed to meet the needs of a modern police department.”

Among the significant upgrades in the new building, the department has a separate booking area with its own entrances and exits designed for a safer process for police and arrestees. Duress buttons are throughout the booking area in case a situation gets out of

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hand and additional officers are needed. And the overnight holding cell for intoxicated arrestees has a drain and can be flushed from outside the cell.

The records room also is separate from the rest of the department for the first time, allowing members of the investigations department have their own workspaces, and evidence technology has seen a major upgrade.

“I think one of the best parts of the building is just being able to functionally separate our duties,” Leverton said. “Because right now we step over each other all the time.”

Lowery was especially ex-

cited about is the training/ community room on the second floor. He views it as a way to integrate more with the community.

“We’re already scheduling classes for the officers,” he said. “We’ll have a lot more training available to us that we’ve never had before, so that’s huge for us internally.”

All that’s left now is to move.

“I almost describe it like we’re kids in a candy store or kids waiting for Christmas,” Lowery said. “We can’t wait to rip the paper off of those gifts and get in. But we’re being as patient as we can, trying to temper ourselves.”

Potential for more program cuts increasing worry • FOOD AID Continued from page A1 Liliana Gonzalez, who came to the Chicago pantry with her two children, heard about the change for the first time Friday. The fast-food worker said she’d probably be cutting back on meat purchases.

“It’s difficult,” she said.

Officials with the Illinois Department of Human Services, which administers the federal program in Illinois, said they notified people through an automated help line, social media and fliers at local offices. But the federal government shutdown put them behind because of uncertainty about whether there

would be a food stamp program, said IDHS spokeswoman Januari Smith. She said mailing notices to all Illinoisans in the program would cost at least $500,000, money that isn’t available.

“We did our due diligence to notify people the best we could,” Smith said.

How much a person gets in benefits varies based on factors such as food prices and income. In the past five years, the number of people in SNAP has spiked with the downturned economy.

Sara Avelar, 23, has three children ranging in age from 10 months to 5 years old. She estimated that her benefits were down roughly $50 a month. The unemployed woman has been living with family

and looking for cashier work.

“It’s like two cans of formula,” she said while picking up dried beans and canned goods at the Chicago pantry.

The food stamps program has been a target of Republicans looking to reduce federal spending. Farm bills passed by both the House and Senate would slash food stamps on top of Friday’s reductions.

Zorita Morales, 45, and her son get about $300 a month in the program. She hadn’t seen what the bottom line was for her, but the potential for more federal cuts had the unemployed woman worried as she picked up her monthly staples in Chicago.

“I’m already looking for work,” she said. “I don’t know what I’m going to do.”

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8NATION BRIEF Obama says al-Qaida now more active in Iraq WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama pledged Friday to combat an increasingly active al-Qaida in Iraq but stopped short of announcing new commitments of assistance sought by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Al-Maliki came to the Oval Office requesting additional aid, including weapons and help with intelligence, to fight insurgent violence that has

spiked in Iraq since American troops left in 2011.

Al-Maliki declined to discuss the details of his request for U.S. assistance.

Obama said the best way to honor those killed in the Iraq War would be to bring about a functioning democracy. Al-Maliki’s critics have accused him for years of a heavy-handed leadership that refuses to compromise and, to some, oversteps his authority against political enemies. But Obama

only praised the prime minister for working to include Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.

The United States already provides military aid to Iraq, the legacy of an unpopular war that cost Americans nearly 4,500 troops and more than $700 billion. The White House said among equipment the U.S. has sent since pulling troops out are military planes, helicopters, patrol boats and a surface-to-air missile battery.

– Wire report

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8OUR VIEW: THUMBS UP, THUMBS DOWN

8SKETCH VIEW

Kish College unveils its ‘science wing’

8LETTERS TO THE EDITOR What’s radical about seeking solutions?

To the Editor: Democrats, Republicans and the media like to call the tea party radical and blame us for the recent federal government shutdown. I think radical is a government that created more than $17 trillion in national debt.

Government spending is out of control, and Democrats and Republicans don’t seem sincere in addressing the problem. They address every issue with more spending and propose budgets with automatic increases without any regard for the national debt.

That is radical to me.

The tea party isn’t to blame for the government shutdown. It is impossible to be in the minority and cause the government to shut down. Lack of compromise

by Democrats and Republicans

caused the government shutdown.

President Barack Obama, Democrats and Republicans never seem to want to fix the issues they are required to address – like border security, a balanced budget and protecting the rights and liberties of American citizens. Instead, they pick and choose to do whatever is on their own personal agenda.

The tea party is the only grassroots group that addresses issues without increasing taxes or the size of government.

Is that radical?

Dan McIntyre Genoa Board member, DeKalb County Illinois Tea Party

Pumpkin Run not ‘green’ To the Editor: This year’s Sycamore Pumpkin

Run took a big step backward.

After the Sycamore Chamber of Commerce announced last year that the Pumpkin Run was “going green,” it was disappointing to see nary a recycling receptacle at this year’s event.

When you host 2,000 people, it is unconscionable to not plan for managing waste in a sustainable manner. To state that the race is “going green” and not fulfill that commitment is “greenwashing.”

The worst part is the message to all the participants that recycling and conservation are not important.

Our family has participated in every Pumpkin Run since its inception in 1979. Sycamore is our hometown.

We began voicing our concerns about the waste produced at the race when bottled water replaced paper cups of water at the finish.

Made from petroleum, a nonrenewable natural resource, plastic bottles more often than not end up in landfills. Bottled water is also an unnecessary and expensive substitute for perfectly good tap water.

Thousands of plastic cups used at the race for beer and other beverages were thrown away in trash containers because recycling was not an option offered. A more sustainable choice would have been paper cups.

I contacted the race organizers with these suggestions before the race, but I have not received a response. I hope these concerns will be taken into consideration and that at next year’s Pumpkin Run, there will be an improvement in the management of the waste.

Mary Alice Jacob Masonick Elgin

Americans encouraged to join welfare nation My parents were children during the Great Depression and it scarred them, especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood: Adults standing in so-called “bread lines,” children begging in the streets.

My grandfather was a New York City cop, and so my dad did not suffer as others did. But he never forgot the brutal scenes and worked hard his whole life to build some financial independence.

Fast-forward to the Great Recession of 2008, when millions of Americans lost jobs and equity in their homes. No bread lines but much pain. The Obama administration responded by pouring trillions of dollars into stimulus and rescue programs, some of which succeeded in stabilizing tottering banks and auto companies.

But along with that, the president and his acolytes openly encouraged Americans to use the welfare system. And now the entitlement culture has exploded.

According to the Census Bureau, more people in America today are on welfare than have full-time jobs. There is a culture of dependency being created that is truly shocking.

A recent study by the Cato Institute concludes that welfare now pays more than minimum-wage work in 35 states. So why

VIEWS Bill O’Reilly enter the workforce at the bottom if the government will give you the same compensation for sitting on your butt?

Some believe the Democratic Party, which champions the entitlement culture, is doing so to assure future votes from those receiving benefits. And right now, about half of all American households are getting some kind of compensation from the feds.

Some of that, such as Social Security and Medicare, has been earned. But nearly 50 million Americans are receiving food stamps, and 83 million are on Medicaid.

The United States became the world’s strongest economy by folks working hard.

Layabouts and people who game the system actually harm our country. Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when it’s not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

And that’s what the Obama administration is doing. How else can you explain a 40 percent rise in food stamp recipients

in just three years (2009 to ’11, the last statistics available) and an increase of 15 percent in federal disability payments over the same period of time? Is the workplace that dangerous? Really?

As a person who has worked extremely hard for more than 40 years, I don’t want my tax dollars going to drunkards and drug addicts. And in America, there is no substance testing for welfare recipients.

Every time that comes up, the civil liberties lobby screams.

America has become a much weaker nation since 2001. The wars we have fought to protect ourselves against terrorism have drained our treasury and created a deep distrust of authority. The hope and change espoused by President Obama has led to chaos in the health care arena and a massive entitlement industry that is growing larger every day Unless the voters wise up and get back to self-reliance and responsible government, this nation will continue down the Nanny State road. That path is unsustainable. But even worse, it is un-American.

• Veteran TV news anchor Bill O’Reilly is host of the Fox News show “The O’Reilly Factor” and author of many books, including the newly released “Killing Jesus.”

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Thumbs up: To improving the learning environment at Kishwaukee College. College officials this week marked the official opening of the campus’ “science wing,” a $13 million addition that adds 11 classrooms, 10 science labs, faculty offices and a student art gallery. The community college is an important asset for adults looking to resume their education and for recent high school grads continuing their education and possibly looking to avoid some of the costs of a four-year university. The new science labs feature updated equipment, more windows and will allow the college to offer more diverse courses.

Thumbs up: To local teams in the IHSA’s football playoffs. This season, teams from DeKalb, Sycamore, Genoa-Kingston and Kaneland high schools all reached the playoffs. Although not all of the teams can win the title, reaching the postseason in the only high For the record school sport that doesn’t automatically allow all teams Although not all of the in is an accomplishment.

Thumbs down: To broken teams can win the title, promises. Despite President reaching the postseason in the only high school sport Barack Obama’s assurancthat doesn’t automatically es that if you liked your allow all teams in is an insurance plan, federal health reforms would allow accomplishment. you to keep it, many of the 14 million people who buy insurance independently received cancellation notices this week because their plans do not conform to the standards set by the new health care law, which mandates coverage of more services. Administration officials say those whose policies are canceled will be able to find better plans at a lower cost. We suppose that’s if the federal website, www.healthcare.gov, ever works properly.

Thumbs up: To staying in business. A trio of longtime patrons of The House Cafe announced this week that they had purchased the business from owner Jan Pascolini, who decided several months ago not to renew the cafe’s lease when it ended at the end of October. The business will be closed for a few weeks while the new owners make the transition and get paperwork in order, but it is expected to reopen soon and with few changes. More important than the changes they do or do not make is that a successful business will continue to bring people and revenue to the community, and downtown DeKalb will not add another empty storefront to its inventory.

Thumbs up: To a great weekend of high school theater. DeKalb High School is staging “Alice in Wonderland,” Sycamore High School is presenting “Little Shop of Horrors” and Genoa-Kingston High School is performing “Life Cycles.” It’s great to see art and talent thriving in the community. If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, how about taking in a show?

8 ANOTHER VIEW

Texas law a ‘substantial obstacle’ to abortion rights A federal judge in Texas has ruled that some of the state’s draconian new restrictions on abortion are unconstitutional and exposed the fiction that lawmakers in Austin were mainly interested in protecting women’s health. In fact, the new law, which was set to take effect Tuesday, was nothing more than a backdoor method of closing abortion clinics.

U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakal recognized that, finding the law’s effect would include severing access to abortion clinics for many or most women. The judge also said the legislation would deprive abortion doctors of their right to provide what they regard as the best treatment for their patients.

Judge Yeakal tried to halt the implementation of restrictions that would take away the right to choose from hundreds of thousands of women. Responding to an emergency appeal from the Texas attorney general, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Thursday reinstated most of the provisions Judge Yeakal deemed unconstitutional. About a dozen clinics will not be able to perform abortions beginning Friday.

The Texas bill is one of several around the country designed to decrease the availability of abortions. The intent – in North Carolina, Mississippi, Ohio, Virginia and elsewhere – is to use legislation to roll back the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

The judiciary is a logical impediment to that strategy. In court, the Texas attorney general’s office argued the law would protect women and the life of the fetus.

It requires that doctors who perform abortions at clinics have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic. The measure would close as many as a third of the state’s 36 abortion clinics. That provision of the law, Judge Yeakal wrote, “is without a rational basis and places a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus.”

An appeal of the district court’s decision already has been filed to the 5th Circuit Court. No doubt this case will go to the Supreme Court. Still, Judge Yeakal laid down a marker for common sense and for women’s right to choose.

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

– U.S. Bill of Rights, First Amendment

WEATHER

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7-DAY FORECAST

High pressure will build in to our west.

This will result in a chilly northwesterly wind keeping temperatures a good 8-10 degrees below normal. Overnight lows will dip below freezing by Saturday night. Sunday looks sunny and cool with Monday warming to near normal thanks to strong southerly winds. There is the potential for soaking rains next Wednesday.

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BEARS GAMEDAY

SECTION B Saturday, November 2, 2013 Daily Chronicle

Hub Arkush, Kevin Fishbain and Tom Musick break down the Bears’ Week 9 matchup with the Packers. PAGES B4-5

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IHSA PREP FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS SCOREBOARD CLASS 6A CLASS 5A No. 15 DeKalb................................6 No. 12 Hampshire .........................0 No. 2 Batavia.............................. 48 No. 5 Kaneland............................35

CLASS 5A No. 15 Antioch at No. 2 Sycamore, 2 p.m. today

CLASS 4A No. 13 Genoa-Kingston at No. 4 Geneseo, 1 p.m. today

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CLASS 6A PLAYOFFS: BATAVIA 48, DEKALB 6

Postseason appearance brief Friday night with the DC Preps Twitter feed

VIEWS Ross Jacobson

6:20 p.m.:

DeKalb heading in right direction

Rainy, cold conditions... This is upset weather.

7:09 p.m.: 2nd play of the game, Dre Brown goes 69 yards for a touchdown. DeKalb 6, Batavia 0 after blocked kick.

7:14 p.m.: Kevin Green answers for Batavia with a 9-yard run. Batavia 7, DeKalb 6.

7:20 p.m.: Anthony Scaccia goes in untouched from six yards out.

Batavia 14, DeKalb 6.

7:22 p.m.: DeKalb fumbles its 2nd straight fumble, and the Barbs will start on the 1-yard line.

7:35 p.m.: End of first quarter: Batavia 14, DeKalb 6.

7:41 p.m.: Kevin Green takes it in from 12 yards out. Batavia 21, DeKalb 6.

7:47 p.m.: DeKalb is now 2-for-2 on 4th down conversions in its own territory this half. The drive continues.

7:49 p.m.: Dre Brown fumble. Batavia takes over at its own 37.

7:54 p.m.: Anthony Scaccia runs it in from 12 yards out. His second TD makes it Batavia 27, DeKalb 6.

8:05 p.m.: Behind the block of Kevin Green, Scaccia gets his 3rd TD of the game. Batavia 35, DeKalb 6 after the conversion.

8:08 p.m.: Halftime: Batavia 35, DeKalb 6.

8:33 p.m.: Missed tackles hurt DeKalb once again, and Scaccia breaks off a 59-yard TD run. Batavia 41, DeKalb 6.

9:05 p.m.: Blake Crowder takes it in from 7 yards out. Batavia 48, DeKalb 6.

Running clock.

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DeKalb running back Dre Brown outruns a group of Batavia defensive players in the first quarter of a Class 6A first-round playoff game Friday night in Batavia. The Barbs lost, 48-6.

Barbs’ surprise season ends in 1st round

By LUKE SRODULSKI sports@daily-chronicle.com BATAVIA – On the second play from scrimmage, DeKalb junior running back Dre Brown found a hole up the middle and took a handoff 69 yards for a touchdown and, he hoped, a momentum-builder.

It wasn’t to be.

DeKalb wouldn’t reach the end zone again, and No. 2-seeded Batavia (9-1) rode a seemingly unstoppable running game to a 48-6 win over the visiting No. 15 Barbs (5-5) on Friday night in the first round of the Class 6A playoffs. Brown led the Barbs with 185 yards, while the Bulldogs were paced by 146 yards and four touchdowns from Anthony Scaccia The post-game was somber, but senior quarterback Jack Sauter was able to look past the disappointment and acknowledge the Barbs’ accomplishments this year.

“We made huge strides this year, so you can’t overlook that just because of a playoff loss,” he said. “We’re just excited because we’ve got DeKalb football going

More online Check out the highlights from Friday night’s DeKalb-Batavia Class 6A first-round playoff game at Daily-Chronicle.com/dcpreps.

in the right direction now.”

It looked as though DeKalb might have a chance to keep its surprise season alive, but the Barbs weren’t able to parlay the score into defensive momentum.

Scaccia returned the ensuing kickoff 70 yards, and just more than a minute after Brown’s touchdown, Bulldogs running back Kevin Green answered from 12 yards out.

Batavia could not be stopped. Even with an accurate quarterback in Micah Coffey, the Bulldogs elected to run. In the second quarter, Green reached the end zone again, followed by two more touchdowns from Scaccia.

“They’re big and physical,” DeKalb coach Matt Weckler said. “They took it to us up front from the very beginning.”

Batavia didn’t punt in the first half and scored on all five possessions, taking

a 35-6 lead into the break.

After Batavia wore down the Barbs for mostly short runs in the first half, Scaccia opened the second half by breaking a tackle and going 54 yards for the touchdown.

When the Bulldogs got the ball back on an interception, they looked poised to initiate the running clock rule that starts at a 40-point margin, but DeKalb senior defensive back Ethan Graves recovered a fumble to stop the drive.

Batavia was slowed down for a short time, and a Blake Crowder touchdown meant the clock would run for the final 8:57 of DeKalb’s season.

Weckler will get many of the accolades for taking the Barbs to the playoffs in his first season, but he deflected credit onto the seniors who helped lead them there.

“For some of these guys, they’ve been putting their heart and soul into this program for four years-plus, and I thank them,” Weckler said. “It’s important for the younger guys in our program to realize the importance of what those guys did.”

BATAVIA – Bright yellow signs lined the fence by the south end zone Friday night at Batavia High School.

Each one, featuring a large outline of the state of Illinois, signified an IHSA playoff appearance for the Bulldogs, who have qualified for the postseason 15 of the past 18 years.

Over two decades, Batavia has played itself into an annual title contender, placing second in 2006 and winning Upstate Eight Conference titles after the former Western Sun Conference split in 2009.

DeKalb, making its first playoff appearance in three years and third since 1989, isn’t there yet, and the Barbs fell to Batavia, 48-6, in the first round of the IHSA Class 6A playoffs.

It was another learning experience for a team that was short on games played but not on talent. There was obvious progress made when, less than a year ago, DeKalb football didn’t seem to have a direction or an identity heading into the offseason.

The flashes of offensive brilliance were evident all season, extending from the back-and-forth first half against Sycamore in Week 3 to Dre Brown’s 69-yard touchdown run on the second play of the game Friday, giving the Barbs a quick, but brief, 6-0 lead.

Yet they were just that: flashes. Consistency will come.

The Barbs are young.

There are key pieces on both sides of the ball that will graduate this year, but the vast majority of the roster will return one year more experienced.

See JACOBSON, page B7

BOYS SOCCER: CLASS 1A STATE SEMIFINALS

Cogs’ playoff run falls one match short of state final in the 29th minute when senior forward Mitchell Schwartzkopf, the team’s leading scorer, scored his 30th goal of the year.

“In the first half, we had no complaints with the way we Scoreboard played,” G-K coach Randy Tate said. “Actually, we thought we Friday’s state semfinals outplayed them. We got that Herscher 4, Genoa-Kingston 1 first goal and they came back Gibault Catholic 3, F.W. Parker 0 [with a goal] on a misplay. I Today’s third-place match thought we played a very good Genoa-Kingston vs. F.W. Parker, first half. We were right in it 3 p.m. and really confident.”

Today’s championship match The Cogs and Tigers were Herscher vs. Gibault Catholic, knotted up at 1 heading into 5 p.m. the locker room for the halftime break, but G-K’s play eargoal of the season. ly in the second half proved to “We were doing well and be its downfall. we always come out strong,” The Tigers scored two goals Lechuga said. “We look for within 30 seconds of one aneach other. They found me, I other early in the second half. saw an open shot, took it, and Schwartzkopf struck again I saw it was going in. I thought with his 31st goal to put HerRob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com that was the start of a good half scher up, 2-1, before junior and a good game.”

Tommy Hansen reacts after Genoa-Kingston lost to Herscher, 4-1, in a Class 1A state semifinal at the Corn See COGS, page B8 Herscher tied the score at 1 Crib in Normal. The Cogs will play F.W. Parker in the third-place match today.

Lechuga scores 1st goal, but G-K can’t hang on at the Corn Crib

By TODD MARVER sports@daily-chronicle.com NORMAL – The GenoaKingston boys soccer team’s first appearance in the state semifinals in school history Friday is likely a day the Cogs would rather forget.

The Cogs had their streak of four straight shutouts and seven-match winning streak snapped in a 4-1 loss to Herscher in the Class 1A state semifinals at the Corn Crib.

Four goals is the most the Cogs have surrendered in a match since a 5-0 defeat to Burlington Central on Oct. 5.

G-K sophomore forward Juan Lechuga opened the scoring for the Cogs in the ninth minute of play with his 12th

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8PREP SCHEDULE TODAY Football Genoa-Kingston at Geneseo in Class 4A first round, 1 p.m.

Antioch at Sycamore in Class 5A first round, 2 p.m.

Boys Soccer Genoa-Kingston vs. Chicago F.W. Parker in Class 1A third-place match at Corn Crib in Normal, 3 p.m.

Boys Cross Country Sycamore, Kaneland, DeKalb at Class 2A Belvidere Sectional, 10:40 a.m.

Hinckley-Big Rock, Genoa-Kingston, Hiawatha at Class 1A Oregon Sectional, 11 a.m.

Girls Cross Country Sycamore, Kaneland, DeKalb at Class 2A Belvidere Sectional, 10 a.m.

Hinckley-Big Rock, Genoa-Kingston, Hiawatha at Class 1A Oregon Sectional, 10 a.m.

TUESDAY Volleyball Sycamore vs. Dunlap in Class 3A Princeton Sectional semifinal, 7 p.m.

8SPORTS SHORTS

AP source: Cubs interview Ausmus for manager’s job

CHICAGO – A person familiar with the situation said the Cubs are interviewing former catcher Brad Ausmus for their manager’s job.

The person spoke Friday on the condition of anonymity because the search is to be confidential.

Ausmus works in San Diego’s front office as a special assistant to the general manager. He also managed Israel’s team for the World Baseball Classic.

FAU assistant coach said he saw Pelini use drugs Carl Pelini’s surprising departure from Florida Atlantic took another turn Friday, when school officials released sworn affidavits from two people – including a member of Pelini’s staff – alleging that the football coach was seen using marijuana and cocaine.

FAU assistant coach Matt Edwards told officials that he witnessed Pelini smoking marijuana Oct. 19 in Key West, Fla., the Saturday of an off week for the Owls. That was echoed by another person, Allison Stewart, who also said she got a text message from the now-former Owls coach one day later in which he was “admitting that he uses drugs on occasion.”

Edwards remains on the staff, and is expected to be coaching today when Florida Atlantic plays host to Tulane in Boca Raton, Fla. Brian Wright has replaced Pelini as head coach, on an interim basis.

Jaguars WR Blackmon suspended indefinitely JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Justin Blackmon has been suspended indefinitely without pay for another violation of the NFL’s substance-abuse policy.

Blackmon previously was suspended the first four games of this season for violating the policy.

So this is at least his third violation in about 18 months. And the Jaguars are acknowledging he has a problem.

“All of us who are a part of the Jaguars family care very deeply about Justin and his well-being,” general manager Dave Caldwell said in a statement. “That said, he must be held accountable and accept the consequences announced today by the NFL.

Jeter and Yankees reach $12 million, 1-year deal NEW YORK – In a sign of confidence, Derek Jeter will return to shortstop next season. The New York Yankees agreed Friday to a $12 million, one-year deal with their captain.

Jeter, who will turn 40 in June, was limited to 17 games this year after breaking his ankle in the 2012 playoffs. He spent four stints on the disabled list in the most frustrating season of his 19-year career.

– Wire reports

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BULLS

NFL

Rose & Co. building chemistry Rose not worried about slow start

New Orleans Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay

By JOE COWLEY

Seattle San Francisco Arizona St. Louis

Former DeKalb football player and Iowa freshman running back LeShun Daniels Jr. finished with eight yards rushing in Iowa’s overtime win against Northwestern.

College football: Michigan at Michigan State, 2:30 p.m. today, ABC Marmion’s Ryan Glasgow and Graham Glasgow, DeKalb natives, look to help the Wol-

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Bulls guard Derrick Rose (right) talks with center Joakim Noah during the first half of Thursday night’s game against the New York Knicks at the United Center. pick-and-roll and he can also beat you with the pass.

“You just stay patient, keep working the game and it will come around. I’ve seen him enough now to know he’s a scorer.”

But the blame shouldn’t just fall on Rose.

In a system like Thibodeau’s, the philosophy is predicated on five-man offense, five-man defense. Considering Tuesday in Miami was the first time Jimmy Butler, Rose, Luol Deng, Joakim Noah and Carlos Boozer have started a game together, well, of course the chemistry is in catch-up mode.

Noah missed all but one preseason game because of a groin strain, Rose sat out a game with a sore knee and Butler was battling with a banged up left knee.

“It’s something that’s just going to come with time,” Rose said. “It was only the second game. People are looking at it like we’ve played 10, 20 games already. We’re just trying to get used to each other, and that’s something that’s going to come quick, knowing the guys we have, how we’ve dedicated ourselves to this game and to this team.”

The good news is that in

opening the 2013-14 campaign by taking on two playoff teams from last season, the Bulls are 1-1 as they go through the growing pains.

Imagine the level of play once they all get on the same page.

“I wouldn’t say we’re lost, but the chemistry part, it can always get better,” Rose said.

“I think we have a great upside. I think we can be a great team.”

• Joe Cowley covers the Bulls for the Chicago Sun-Times. Write to him at jcowley@suntimes.com.

’Murf’s ’Mote Kevin Murphy verines pick up another win.

Graham is set to make his fourth straight start on the offensive line. This time, at center.

College football: Minnesota at Indiana, 2:30 p.m. today, BTN Will Jerry Kill make the trip? Yes. Kill, a former NIU and current Minnesota coach, watched the Minnesota-Nebraska gamer from above in the box with his assistants, still on leave from his regular responsibilities while he’s managing his epilepsy.

This was the third straight game he wasn’t in charge, with defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys taking over on the sideline, but he gave the players a

pep talk before and after the game and at halftime.

Kill made the trip to Evanston the last time the Golden Gophers were on the road.

season, the Bulls will play a team that didn’t qualify for last year’s playoffs.

Geneva graduate and Michigan State senior outsider hitter Lauren Wicinski has been a force the Spartans. Wicinski, who spent her first two years at NIU, has helped the Spartans to a 17-5 start to the season before Friday’s match.

back-to-back game on consecutive nights.

SET THE DVR Women’s volleyball: Penn NHL: Calgary at Blackhawks, State at Michigan State, 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, CSN today, BTN This is the Hawks’ third

NFL: Vikings at Cowboys, noon Sunday, FOX Doug Free, a former NIU football player and Dallas offensive lineman, looks to help the Cowboys maintain a lead in the NFC East.

MUST-SEE TV Pro basketball: Bulls at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m. today, WGN For the first time this

CATCH THE HIGHLIGHTS LATER College football: Miami (Fla.) at Florida State, 7 p.m. today, ABC No. 3 Florida State opened up as a 21-point favorite earlier in the week against the seventh-ranked Hurricanes.

Yikes. And the Hurricanes barely edged Wake Forest last week. Expect the “tomahawk chop” early and often.

• Agree? Disagree? Is someone from the Daily Chronicle coverage area going to be on TV? Let Kevin Murphy know at kmurphy@shawmedia.com.

8WEEKEND TV SPORTS SCHEDULE TODAY’S SCHEDULE Pro hockey Blackhawks at Winnipeg, 2 p.m., WGN AHL, Wolves at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m., WCUU Pro basketball Bulls at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m., WGN College football Northern Illinois at Massachusetts, 11 a.m., WPWR-50 Illinois at Penn St., 11 a.m., ESPN Wisconsin at Iowa, 11 a.m., ABC Ohio St. at Purdue, 11 a.m., BTN Virginia Tech at Boston College, 11 a.m., ESPN2 Army at Air Force, 11 a.m., ESPNU Bethune-Cookman at NC Central, 11 a.m., ESPNEWS Northern Iowa at Illinois St., 1 p.m., CSN Navy at Notre Dame, 2:30 p.m., NBC Northwestern at Nebraska, 2:30 p.m., BTN Michigan at Michigan St., 2:30 p.m., ABC Minnesota at Indiana, 2:30 p.m., BTN Georgia vs. Florida, 2:30 p.m., CBS Clemson at Virginia, 2:30 p.m., ESPN

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North W L T Pct PF PA 6 3 0 .667 217 166 3 4 0 .429 150 148 3 5 0 .375 148 179 2 5 0 .286 125 153 East W L T Pct PF PA New England 6 2 0 .750 179 144 N.Y. Jets 4 4 0 .500 143 211 Miami 4 4 0 .500 174 187 Buffalo 3 5 0 .375 176 213 South W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 5 2 0 .714 187 131 Tennessee 3 4 0 .429 145 146 Houston 2 5 0 .286 122 194 Jacksonville 0 8 0 .000 86 264 West W L T Pct PF PA Kansas City 8 0 0 1.000 192 98 Denver 7 1 0 .875 343 218 San Diego 4 3 0 .571 168 144 Oakland 3 4 0 .429 126 150 Thursday’s Result Miami 22, Cincinnati 20 (OT) Sunday’s Games Minnesota at Dallas, noon Tennessee at St. Louis, noon Atlanta at Carolina, noon New Orleans at N.Y. Jets, noon Kansas City at Buffalo, noon San Diego at Washington, noon Philadelphia at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Cleveland, 3:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at New England, 3:25 p.m.

Indianapolis at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Open: Arizona, Denver, Detroit, Jacksonville, N.Y. Giants, San Francisco Monday’s Game Bears at Green Bay, 7:40 p.m.

Shaw Media sports copy editor Kevin Murphy picks his top sporting events to watch on TV this weekend with a spotlight on local graduates:

College football: Wisconsin at Iowa, 11 a.m. today, ABC

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LOCALLY SPEAKING College football: Northern Illinois at UMass, 11 a.m. today, WPWR-50

Green Bay Detroit Bears Minnesota Dallas Philadelphia Washington N.Y. Giants

jcowley@suntimes.com The wait for Derrick Rose to return to the court was exhausting at times.

Filled with hope that the surgically repaired left knee would get him on the court on several different occasions last season, only to be stomped out with the cruel reality that it wasn’t happening.

The ultimate test of patience.

Next And a test that continues at Philadelphia, for different 6:30 p.m. today, reasons.

WGN, AM-1000 Rose knows his 29 percent shooting from the field through the first two regular-season games is unacceptable. He’s well aware that a point guard shouldn’t have nine turnovers to only seven assists.

His message Friday?

Breathe, it’s coming.

“My game is going to come to me,” Rose said. “The more I just go out there and play, I’ll get in rhythm. Me playing through my mistakes, and I’m grateful that Thibs (coach Tom Thibodeau) has been allowing me to play through them and give me my same minutes.”

Then again, considering Rose is the face of a franchise and a city, Thibodeau doesn’t have much choice.

“We do a lot of shooting, but when he was shooting great in the preseason, no one was talking about his shooting,” Thibodeau said. “If he doesn’t shoot well for a game or two, that’s fine, but he scores a lot of different ways. He scores in transition, pushing the ball up the floor, he can catch-andshoot, he’s very effective in the

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

West Virginia at TCU, 2:30 p.m., ESPNU Iowa St. at Kansas St., 2:30 p.m., FS1 Auburn at Arkansas, 5 p.m., ESPN2 Oklahoma St. at Texas Tech, 6 p.m., FOX Tennessee at Missouri, 6 p.m., ESPN Pittsburgh at Georgia Tech, 6 p.m., ESPNU Colorado at UCLA, 6:30 p.m., FS1 Alabama St. at Kentucky, 6:30 p.m., CSN Miami at Florida St., 7:07 p.m., ABC Texas-El Paso at Texas A&M, 8 p.m., ESPN2 Nevada at Fresno St., 9:30 p.m., ESPNU Horse racing NTRA, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, 2:05 p.m., NBCSN NTRA, Breeders’ Cup World Championships, 2:30 p.m., NBCSN NTRA, Breeders’ Cup Classic, 7 p.m., NBC Golf PGA Tour-WGC, HSBC Champions, final round, 10 p.m., TGC

Auto racing Formula One, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix qualifying, 8 a.m., CNBC; 12:30 p.m., NBCSN (same-day tape) NASCAR, Sprint Cup, AAA Texas 500 final practice, 1 p.m., FS1 NASCAR, Nationwide Series, O’Reilly Auto Parts 300, 2:30 p.m., ESPN2 Women’s volleyball Penn St. at Michigan St., 7:30 p.m., BTN Soccer Premier League, Chelsea at Newcastle, 6:40 a.m., NBCSN Premier League, Manchester United at Fulham, 8:55 a.m., NBCSN Premier League, Arsenal vs.

Liverpool, 12:30 p.m., NBC MLS playoffs, conference semifinals, leg 1, New England at Sporting KC, 7 p.m., NBCSN MLS playoffs, conference semifinals, leg 1, Portland at Seattle, 9 p.m., NBCSN SUNDAY’S SCHEDULE Pro hockey Calgary at Blackhawks, 6:30 p.m., CSN

Pro football Minnesota at Dallas, noon, FOX Kansas City at Buffalo, noon, CBS Pittsburgh at New England, 3:25 p.m., CBS Indianapolis at Houston, 7 p.m., NBC Auto racing Formula One, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, 6:30 a.m., NBCSN NASCAR, Sprint Cup, AAA Texas 500, 2 p.m., ESPN Figure skating ISU, Grand Prix, Skate China, 12:30 p.m., NBC (same-day tape) Soccer Premier League, Swansea at Cardiff, 9:55 a.m., NBCSN Men’s, Wisconsin at Northwestern, 2 p.m., BTN MLS playoffs, conference semifinals, leg 1, New York at Houston, 2:30 p.m., NBC MLS playoffs, conference semifinals, leg 1, Real Salt Lake at LA Galaxy, 8 p.m., ESPN Running New York City Marathon, 8 a.m., ESPN2; 3 p.m., ABC (same-day tape)

EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L Pct 2 0 1.000 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 Atlantic Division W L Pct Philadelphia 2 0 1.000 Toronto 1 1 .500 Brooklyn 1 1 .500 New York 1 1 .500 Boston 0 2 .000 Southeast Division W L Pct Atlanta 1 1 .500 Charlotte 1 1 .500 Miami 1 2 .333 Orlando 1 2 .333 Washington 0 2 .000

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Houston 2 0 1.000 — San Antonio 1 0 1.000 ½ Dallas 1 1 .500 1 Memphis 1 1 .500 1 New Orleans 0 2 .000 2 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Minnesota 2 0 1.000 — Oklahoma City 1 1 .500 1 Portland 1 1 .500 1 Utah 0 1 .000 1½ Denver 0 2 .000 2 Pacific Division W L Pct GB Phoenix 1 0 1.000 — Sacramento 1 0 1.000 — Golden State 1 1 .500 ½ L.A. Clippers 1 1 .500 ½ L.A. Lakers 1 1 .500 ½ Friday’s Results Orlando 110, New Orleans 90 Philadelphia 109, Washington 102 Charlotte 90, Cleveland 84 Milwaukee 105, Boston 98 Atlanta 102, Toronto 95 Minnesota 100, Oklahoma City 81 Houston 113, Dallas 105 Memphis 111, Detroit 108 (OT) Brooklyn 101, Miami 100 Portland 113, Denver 98 Utah at Phoenix (n) L.A. Clippers at Sacramento (n) San Antonio at L.A. Lakers (n) Today’s Games Bulls at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m.

Houston at Utah, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Portland, 9 p.m.

Sacramento at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Brooklyn at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 5 p.m.

Boston at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Phoenix at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Atlanta at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts 12 11 1 0 22 13 8 2 3 19 11 8 1 2 18 14 7 4 3 17 13 6 5 2 14 13 5 6 2 12 14 5 7 2 12 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts San Jose 13 10 1 2 22 Anaheim 14 10 3 1 21 Phoenix 14 9 3 2 20 Vancouver 15 9 5 1 19 Los Angeles 14 9 5 0 18 Calgary 12 5 5 2 12 Edmonton 14 3 9 2 8 Colorado Blackhawks St. Louis Minnesota Nashville Dallas Winnipeg

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EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Toronto 14 10 4 0 20 48 32 Tampa Bay 13 9 4 0 18 43 33 Boston 12 8 4 0 16 35 22 Detroit 13 7 4 2 16 29 34 Montreal 14 8 6 0 16 40 27 Ottawa 13 4 6 3 11 39 43 Florida 13 3 8 2 8 26 46 Buffalo 15 2 12 1 5 23 43 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 14 10 4 0 20 45 33 N.Y. Islanders 13 5 5 3 13 42 43 Washington 13 6 7 0 12 41 38 Carolina 13 4 6 3 11 26 39 N.Y. Rangers 12 5 7 0 10 20 37 Columbus 12 5 7 0 10 33 33 New Jersey 12 3 5 4 10 26 37 Philadelphia 12 3 9 0 6 20 37 Two points for a win, one point for OT loss Friday’s Results N.Y. Islanders 5, Ottawa 4 (SO) Washington 7, Philadelphia 0 Pittsburgh 4, Columbus 2 Tampa Bay 3, Carolina 0 St. Louis 4, Florida 0 Minnesota 4, Montreal 3 Colorado 3, Dallas 2 (OT) Detroit at Calgary (n) Today’s Games Blackhawks at Winnipeg, 2 p.m.

Anaheim at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Carolina at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Florida at Washington, 6 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Detroit at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

Nashville at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

Phoenix at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Calgary at Blackhawks, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at Ottawa, noon New Jersey at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

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CHARLOTTE BOBCATS

Jordan: Tanking games no way to build a franchise

By STEVE REED The Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Michael Jordan scoffs at the idea of tanking games.

The fiery 14-time All-Star who helped the Bulls to six NBA championships simply doesn’t have it in his makeup to intentionally lose games this season just so his Charlotte Bobcats can get a better draft pick next year.

Forget that the NBA likely would hand down a hefty fine and fans probably would boycott if a team admitted to doing that, the Bobcats owner said purposely losing games is just not part of his competitive DNA. “I don’t know if some teams have thought of that. That’s not something that we would do,” Jordan told The Associated Press on Friday. “I don’t believe in that.”

He then laughed heartily and said, “If that was my intention, I never would have paid (free-agent) Al Jefferson $13 million a year.”

It’s not that the Bobcats couldn’t use a player such as Andrew Wiggins at Kansas or Duke’s Jabari Parker – two college freshmen who many view as potential NBA stars.

Jordan, 50, hasn’t been able to translate his on-court success to winning as an NBA owner and executive. The Bobcats are just 62-168 in his three full seasons as majority owner. They were 21-61 last season.

Still, he doesn’t believe there are shortcuts to winning.

While the 2014 NBA Draft offers hopes to fledgling teams with a host of talented players, Jordan made it clear he isn’t thinking about losing.

“It’s not guaranteed [the player] you are going to get is going to be that star anyway,” Jordan said. “I did read that certain teams are thinking about doing it. But I’m not one of them.

“So let’s alleviate that conversation.”

Jordan, relaxed and at ease at the Bobcats headquarters hours before his team’s regular-season home opener, has been widely criticized for his failures with the Bobcats and for his struggles in the front office with the Washington Wizards.

He said some of that comes with the territory.

“It’s somewhat unfair, but you come to expect it,” said Jordan, who became the majority owner of the Bobcats in 2010. “You set certain standards as a player that transcend whatever you do. It goes where you go. You will

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Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan smiles as he talks about the progress his team is making during an interview Friday in Charlotte, N.C. be wearing that around your neck, so that when people see the name they expect the results.

“It’s somewhat unfair but it is what it is. I don’t let it define me.”

However, Jordan said he remains committed to the Bobcats and said he’s tried to be transparent with the fans about the direction of the team.

This past offseason he used the amnesty clause on forward Tyrus Thomas, a move that took his hefty contract off the books.

Jordan still has to pay Thomas $18 million, but the move freed up that money under the salary cap as part of a one-time policy under the new collective bargaining agreement. The Bobcats used that money to sign Jefferson to three-year, $41 million contact and to re-sign guard Gerald Henderson for $18 million over three seasons.

“I mean, that was a statement,” Jordan said of his commitment to the Bobcats. “I still have to pay more than $17 million, but it was a move that we needed to make to build and go get a guy like Big Al.” Jordan also feels like he finally has the right man in charge in new coach Steve Clifford, a long-time NBA assistant who took over for Mike Dunlap, who was fired after one season.

“We’re focused on what we’re trying to do,” Jordan said. “I think the direction we’re moving is positive. ... It is baby steps. Every now and again you have a hiccup. But I must admit that we’re headed in the right direction and I’m very happy with that.”

The Bobcats, however, along with other small market NBA teams, are at a disadvantage with potential free agents such as LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh – who all could be a part of the 2014 class.

The stars want to go “where the lights are,” Jordan said.

He said last year he didn’t

think the new CBA did enough to help level the playing field for small-market teams in terms of helping them land – or keep – a high-profile difference maker in free agency.

A year later, after seeing the system at work, he has eased up on that stance.

“It’s better,” Jordan said. “We are still going through and seeing the full effects of it. From a business standpoint, if you operate your team in the right way, it gives you a chance to break even or be profitable. And it makes it more difficult for your talent to get up and go somewhere else.

“You can provide more advantages than other teams to keep your player. It’s a fair assessment that if you get your star you can get parity within the league. I think parity is starting to happen within the league.”

Jordan doesn’t feel players orchestrating deals that land a trio of stars in big markets to form a “big three” is necessarily good for the game.

“I’m not a big advocate for it,” Jordan said. “I came from an era where it didn’t happen.

If that happened to evolve from the draft, then you seemed pretty smart.”

Now he’s trying to make that happen in Charlotte.

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Packers WCIU, AM-780, 105.9-FM breaks down this week’s Bears game: PACKERS

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Forte, McCown could help turn the tide against rivals BEARS INSIDER Hub Arkush The first thing you need to realize about the Bears’ trip to Lambeau Field Monday night is these are not your father’s Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears.

When was the last time the Bears were one of the NFL’s worst defenses, but one of the game’s most explosive offenses? Not in my lifetime.

As the Bears prepare for the Packers, they are ranked 27th in the NFL in total defense, 31st in average gain per play allowed, 31st sacking the quarterback and 29th in points allowed, but they’re actually fourth in the league in average gain per offensive play and second in points scored.

Somewhere there are cows jumping over the moon.

Not everything is different in Green Bay. The Packers are still No. 2 in total offense, first in average gain per play, third in third-down efficiency, seventh in time of possession and third in points scored. But when was the last time the Packers were fourth in the NFL running the football?

And if you look on the other side of the ball, you’ll find a Packers defense that was near the bottom of the league last year but is now 11th in total defense, fourth vs. the run, fifth sacking the quarterback and 10th in third-down efficiency.

The only statistic that actually favors the Bears in this game is one you’d expect with the Bears at +7 turnover ratio and the Packers at - 2, but even that is misleading.

The Bears have actually turned the ball over 11 times to just nine for

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Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) gets tackled by Minnesota Vikings outside linebacker Chad Greenway (52) in the second half Sunday in Minneapolis. the Packers.

The new fearsome Packer ground game is keyed by rookie Eddie Lacy, who’s piled up 446 yards on 112 carries for a 4.0 average, while James Starks has chipped in 244 more with a 6.0 average and rookie Jonathan Franklin has averaged 5.6 a pop on 19 carries.

What is so troublesome about the Packers rushing attack is it’s the main reason they are seventh in the league in time of possession while the Bears are just 21st. The key to helping the Bears drowning defense is to keep it off the field.

Then, of course, there’s Aaron Rodgers who, in spite of all of the Packers’ injuries on offense, has compiled a 108 passer rating and is still the NFL’s fourth-rated quarterback behind only Peyton Manning, Philip Rivers and Drew Brees.

Improvements on the Packers de-

fense have come from a better team approach and significant individual improvements from defensive end Johnny Jolly, who is back after three years away from the game due to off-the-field issues. The move of Brad Jones to inside linebacker, a shift from defensive end to linebacker for Mike Neal and big bounce back seasons from B.J. Raji, A.J. Hawk and Sam Shields have helped.

One fascinating matchup to watch will be the occasions when massive nose tackle Ryan Pickett lines up on Bears rookie Kyle Long, and whether or not the Bears blockers and Josh McCown can handle the Packers’ fifth-rated pass rush.

Will the moment be too big for McCown and all those Bears rookies getting their first taste of the NFL’s oldest rivalry, or can the Bears force the Packers into a shootout and find a way to have the ball last?

For those of you who say “No way, the Bears just don’t have the horses with all their injuries,” there is this.

Seven of the past 10 meetings have been decided by eight points or less, and these two have combined for more than 37 points just twice in the last 10 meetings.

Obviously the fact the Packers have won the past six and eight of the past nine doesn’t inspire great confidence for Bears fans, but if the Bears are willing to make Matt Forte the focal point of the offense and McCown just takes care of the football, stranger things than a Bears upset have happened.

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LAKE FOREST – More than nine years have passed since Lovie Smith stood behind a lectern and announced his first priority as the new head coach of the Bears.

“Our No. 1 goal – the No. 1 goal we’ll have – is to beat the Green Bay Packers,” Smith said.

Long story short: Smith failed to achieve his No. 1 goal with enough consistency, particularly in the previous few years, and the Bears eventually showed him the door.

He lost his final six games against Green Bay to finish with an 8-11 record against his neighbors to the north.

Now, it’s Marc Trestman’s turn to go up against the Dairy Dynasty.

If you expected any big Packersbased proclamations from Trestman after Friday’s practice, then you haven’t been paying attention for the past several months.

Trestman told reporters in September that he didn’t believe in rivalry games because the concept was disrespectful to other nonrivalry opponents, and he followed that up by acknowledging this week that the Bears-Packers rivalry carried added importance “to this community.”

In other words, the rivalry exists, albeit beyond the boundaries of Halas Hall.

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BEARS INSIDER Tom Musick ship goals. Neighbors near the Illinois-Wisconsin border know it. Couples who cheer for opposing sides know it. And you can bet players in the Bears’ locker room know it.

Bears offensive coordinator Aaron Kromer seems to understand the bigger picture. When asked whether he needed to speak to his players – particularly his rookies on the offensive line – about the nature of the rivalry, Kromer shook his head.

“I don’t have to say anything about the rivalry because they hear it in the locker room, they hear it around town, they hear it downtown,” said Kromer, who has 23 years of coaching experience but is in his first season with the Bears.

“Those kind of things just happen.

The only thing we talk about in our room is what we have to do to get our job done successfully.”

The chatter extended to the locker room after the Bears wrapped up their indoor practice.

Rookie right tackle Jordan Mills grew up in Louisiana, but his eyes lit up as he discussed the rivalry, which started in 1921 at Wrigley Field. The upcoming game will mark the teams’ 187th meeting, with Chicago holding a 92-88-6 edge but having lost the past six.

As Mills spoke, he listed off

names, starting with George Halas and Vince Lombardi.

“They’ve been going at it for years,” Mills said. “Dick Butkus, Ray Nitschke, going back to that famous play that Vince Lombardi used to draw on the board and everything like that. I’m a football junkie, so I watch all of that.

“It goes back to the one person that started the league, George Halas. It’s a true inspiration and it’s humbling just to be a part of this team, and to actually play and represent in his honor and his name and his organization is like no other.”

That’s great stuff.

Does anyone really think another team will be offended by Mills saluting the rivalry? Somewhere out there, are the San Diego Chargers clenching their fists and swearing?

Of course not.

It was easy to poke fun at Smith for his comment regarding the Packers. I did so, and many others did the same. After all, shouldn’t Smith’s No. 1 goal have been to win the Super Bowl?

In retrospect, though, we owe Smith an apology.

Because for the Bears to win a Super Bowl, they will have to beat the Packers.

And to beat the Packers, the Bears must understand that it’s not just any other game.

• Shaw Media sports columnist Tom Musick can be reached at tmusick@shawmedia.com and on Twitter @tcmusick.

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By STEPHEN HAWKINS The Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas – Jeff Gordon acknowledges that most of his answers will be similar when asked about his championship chances, usually along the lines of wait and see what happens.

Gordon is just glad the tone of the questions has changed with three races left in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

“Man, the thing is, I love just the fact that we’re in the conversation right now,” Gordon said Friday. “I’m just excited that we’re not talking about me retiring and what changes need to happen to our team. I mean, you’ve got to understand those are the conversations and questions I’ve been getting asked most of the season and I understand. Our

results and our stats have not been good enough to have any other questions be asked.”

Gordon certainly has made the most of getting an unprecedented 13th spot in the Chase.

The four-time Cup champion has moved up to a season-high third in points going into Sunday’s race at Texas, the highbanked, 1½-mile track with which he admittedly has had a love-hate relationship.

After getting his first victory of the season last weekend at Martinsville, Gordon moved within 27 points of Joe Gibbs Racing driver Matt Kenseth and his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jimmie Johnson.

“We’re not going into anything hoping or wishing anything bad on anybody. We’re just proud to be where we’re at, and just hope that we can keep that up,” Gordon said.

“We’ve got momentum, we’ve

Johnson was third at 195.943, even brushing the wall coming hard out of the fourth turn, and Kenseth was sixth at 195.518.

“I was committed to the throttle off of Turn 4 and just kind of ran out of room,” Johnson said. “And I hate to admit it, but at one point I think I had my eyes shut because I knew there was going to be contact. I just didn’t know how much. But, I just grazed the wall and scratched the sticker for the bumper cover and tail light on the back of AP photo the car.”

The 42-year-old Gordon Driver Jeff Gordon leans and looks out from the garage Friday before practice for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup series race at the Texas Mo- won his last Cup title in 2001, and got into this year’s Chase tor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. only two days before the opengot a lot of excitement within both Johnson and Kenseth. ing race. NASCAR ruled that Carl Edwards, the only he had been denied the ability the team, we’re going to the three-time Cup winner at to fairly race his way into the race track having fun.”

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“The first couple of years that we were here, it didn’t go so well,” he said. “When I think way back when this track was first built, a very challenging race track. There were times we were really fast but couldn’t get to the finish.

Then we were finally able to pull off a victory, and the last couple of times we’ve been here, we’ve actually been very competitive ... Yeah, I would say it’s a bit of a love-hate, but recently it’s been more love than anything else.”

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The DeKalb-Sycamore co-op girls swimming team last weekend raised money for the Cure for Grace Fund, which originally was created to help support former teammate Grace Waller throughout her cancer treatments. Members of the team are: back row (left to right): Erin Dewitt, Rachael West, Sam LeBlanc, Katie Arndt, Bailey Flemming; middle row (left to right): Kate Barresi, Jensen Keck, Kylie Olson, Holly Baker, Ana Flavia Michelini, Colette LeBlanc; Front: Edith Reynolds; Not Pictured: Kylee Ackland

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Kaneland’s Isaac Swithers (23) dives into the end zone for a touchdown Friday against Hampshire at Kaneland High School in Maple Park. The Knights won, 35-0.

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By JARED BIRCHFIELD sports@daily-chronicle.com MAPLE PARK – Kaneland’s defense held the Hampshire football team scoreless for the first time this season, blanking the Whip-Purs, 35-0, Friday night in the opening round of the IHSA Class 5A playoffs.

The Knights held Hampshire (6-4) to less than 100 yards in total offense, three first downs and intercepted two Nick Mohlman passes.

The only downside for the Knights was an injury to Brandon Bishop in the third quarter. The senior did not get up after colliding with a Hampshire defender while recovering a punt. He was taken to an local hospital by the paramedics.

“They owned the line of scrimmage,” said Hampshire coach Dan Cavanaugh. “They held (Nick) Kiel-

basa down (the team’s leading rusher), they held our receivers down.

They dared us to run the ball and we couldn’t get anything.”

Kaneland (9-1) scored its first touchdown of the night near the end of the first quarter. A 4-yard run by Isaac Swithers with 2:56 left in the frame capped an 81-yard, six-play drive.

Swithers also scored the team’s second touchdown four minutes into the second quarter on a 1-yard run.

The Knights increased their lead to 21-0 on a 6-yard pass from Drew David to Conner Fedderly with 1:57 left in the half.

Hampshire had a hard time getting its offense going in the first half.

Kaneland limited the Whip-Purs to nine plays in the first quarter.

It appeared that Hampshire might get the first touchdown of the game

when David’s first pass of the evening was intercepted at the Knights’ 15-yard line. The Whip-Purs were not able take advantage as they turned the ball back to Kaneland on a fumble.

Hampshire, stymied by penalties in the second quarter, finally got a drive going after Kaneland’s third touchdown at the end of the half.

Mohlman connected on his first two completions of the night to get the Whip-Purs to the Knights’ 24-yard line, but Hampshire was not able to cross the goal line before time expired.

The Knights added two more touchdowns in the third quarter on a 4-yard run by Nate Dyer and 14-yard pass from David to Tyler Slamans.

The Knights will take on the winner of today’s contest between Joliet Catholic (8-1) and Chicago Urban Prep (6-3) next weekend.

Team raises funds to help sink cancer

By DAILY CHRONICLE STAFF sports@daily-chronicle.com The DeKalb-Sycamore co-op swimming team last weekend honored former swimmer Grace Waller.

The team completed 20 500-yard swims, representing the 20 rounds of chemotherapy Waller endured throughout her treatment for osteosarcoma.

Waller, now swimming at Oakland University in Michigan, holds five varsity and five pool records at DeKalb, most of which were set during her freshman and sophomore seasons.

After surgery, Waller no longer could swim the individual medley and breaststroke, but managed to set the 500 free record after her recovery.

“Grace’s record in the 500 freestyle is a testament to her inner strength, drive and determination to not only win the fight against cancer, but to persevere to achieve her goals,” co-op coach Leah Eames said. “In her final swim, she broke the record that she had been eyeing since her freshman

year.”

The co-op’s swim raised money for the Cure for Grace Fund, which originally was created to help support Waller throughout her cancer treatments.

Waller has been cancer-free for three years and the fund now contributes to organizations dedicated to cancer research, prevention and treatment. It also aims to increase the qualify of life of cancer patients. Recently, the fund purchased iPads for cancer patients on the pediatric floor of the Rush Memorial Children’s Hospital.

“I couldn’t be more pleased with the effort and excitement the girls have brought to the fundraiser,” Eames said. “The team collected donations prior to their swim and will continue to collect throughout the month of November.”

Donations can be sent to DeKalb Athletics (Attn: Coach Leah Eames) at 501 W. Dresser Road, DeKalb, IL 60115.

Checks can be made payable to the Cure for Grace Fund.

Barbs could be league favorite for next season • JACOBSON Continued from page B1 It’s a stark contrast to the rest of the Northern Illinois Big 12 East as frontrunners Sycamore and Kaneland will both lose senior classes that have been key to those teams’ successes over the past three years.

Both programs have proven they can restock quickly, but they will undoubtedly feel the effect of graduation.

In fact, DeKalb may be the favorite in the conference going into next season.

DeKalb hasn’t quite arrived. Another year under first-year coach Matt Weckler and an offseason with leadership – both players and coaches – already in place should allow DeKalb to take another step forward, much like the three-win improvement that occurred in 2013.

Undoubtedly, the Barbs are headed in the right direction.

And when DeKalb hosts its 2014 home opener, their own initial sign of progress – in whatever tangible form athletic director Bryon Houy chooses – will already be in place.

• Ross Jacobson is the sports editor of the Daily Chronicle. He can be reached via email at rjacobson@shawmedia.com and follow him on Twitter @RossJacobson.

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By LaMOND POPE Sun-Times Media SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Corey Robinson remembers visiting Navy when his dad, David, had basketball reunions.

“I grew to love the atmosphere there,” Corey Robinson said.

Navy was always on his mind as an option. And then Notre Dame offered him a football scholarship.

“I came up here and saw how incredible it was,” Robinson said. “I had to say, ‘Sorry pops, I’m going in a different direction.’ ” The freshman receiver and the Irish square off against the Midshipmen today.

David Robinson went to Navy before embarking on a legendary NBA career with the San Antonio Spurs. Corey Robinson said his dad took the news of his decision to attend Notre Dame well.

“I think he was happy because he was telling me horror stories,” Robinson said. “I think he tried to scare me out of it. “… He said he didn’t get any

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No. 23 Michigan at No. 24 Michigan State, 2:30 p.m. sleep the whole time. And he’s a smart guy and he told me he got some bad grades his first couple of years. And I was like, ‘Hmm, I don’t know if that’s for me or not.’ I think he was actually happy when I told him I wanted to go somewhere else.”

Robinson has five catches for 101 yards. He caught his first touchdown pass last week at Air Force.

“He’s spent a lot of time learning the game of football,” quarterback Tommy Rees said. “He’s a big guy (6-foot-4), he can go up and get it for us.

… He wants to be the best that he can be.”

Robinson and William Fuller became the third freshmen duo to catch touchdowns in the same game for Notre Dame.

“When I scored the touchdown, it was so surreal. I didn’t know what to do. Should I celebrate? I didn’t even know,” Robinson said. “I asked Will the same thing and he didn’t know what to do either. It was so surreal, the whole moment, all my teammates are congratulating me. It was a really cool special moment.”

Another will occur today.

“I have to talk to my dad about this and make sure he is wearing my jersey or wearing Notre Dame or wearing something as oppose to Navy,” Robinson joked. “I think my grandpa, who also served in the Navy, might be wearing Navy.

“I don’t know. There’s a lot of Navy happening right now. I need to change that.”

Note: Nick Watkins, a cornerback from Bishop Dunne Catholic School in Dallas, made an oral commitment to Notre Dame on Friday, according to multiple reports.

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G-K to play in 3rd-place match today • COGS Continued from page B1 Brody Ryan scored his seventh goal of the season to give the Tigers a two-score lead.

“I don’t know what happened,” Tate said. “I don’t know if it was just a mental mistake or what. That one’s a mystery to me. That first goal took a lot of wind out of us and we weren’t prepared and they caught us again.”

Ryan tallied his second goal of the match in the 50th minute to propel the Tigers to a 4-1 advantage, the match’s final score.

“We wanted to do it big and we’ve never made it this far,” Lechuga said. “In the first half after the first goal, we thought we had a chance to bring back a first-place title or maybe second. This meant a lot to all of us. It wasn’t about just making it to state; it was about getting farther. We didn’t want to just make it here, we wanted to win.”

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“Have you ever tried one on? If you did, you’d know,” says Tacey Powers, national merchandise manager for Nordstrom. “They are part of the everyday wardrobe.

You own a sneaker, you own a flip-flop, you own an Ugg.” The original boot style is still the most popular, but Ugg has branched out to include more fashion-y silhouettes and loungewear. Home products such as blankets and decorative pillows will be offered this holiday season. Almost every item is touched, even if it’s hidden at the base of the heel, by the signature sheepskin lining.

“You have to be comfortable in Ugg. You have to feel good. Our tag line is, ‘Feels like nothing else.’ We want them to be the go-to pair in your closet for everything,” says Ugg Australia President Connie Rishwain. “We don’t want to be the pretty pair you never wear.”

The peak of Ugg’s pop-culture trendiness was in the early 2000s, when Hollywood starlets made them part of their uniform with short denim miniskirts. Never mind that they were cruising the sunny beaches of Malibu, Calif.

Now it’s evolved into a “Goldie-Hawn-in-Aspen look,” says Adam Glassman, creative director at O, The Oprah Magazine, and that’s how you should wear them: with leggings and a long sweater, or jeans and a fur-trimmed parka. Or like you just don’t care.

“Ignore the rest of your outfit. It’s nearly impossible to build an outfit around them,” he says.

However, don’t wear them with socks. Not because they’ll look bad, but you’ll be missing out on the sheepskin sensation that makes them special.

LOYALTY Nordstrom’s Powers says part of Ugg’s staying power comes from consumers who replace worn-out products with new ones. Since the line isn’t dictated by “trends,” shoppers come back for the same thing over and over again. She compares it to a favorite running shoe.

Also, notes Powers, people always refer to the brand name – it’s never the fuzzy moonboot or shearling slipper. The products are pricey, she allows, but she has no complaint about quality or cut corners. (Nordstrom.com lists a pair of women’s classic short boots at $154.95.)

“One of the things I love about them is that they are such a genuine company and the customer comes first to them. That breeds longevity,” she says.

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Ugg Australia is launching home products, which company president Connie Rishwain says are a logical extension for a brand known for cozy comfort. Ugg Australia’s now-classic boots in their comfy, cozy glory are still going strong after 35 years, having just celebrated their anniversary last month at all the company-owned stores.

BACKSTORY The beach bums actually had a similar idea to Ugg Australia founder Brian Smith, who brought these boots from Down Under to southern California in the 1970s.

They were particularly popular with male surfers.

But Deckers Outdoor Corp. bought Ugg in 1995 and saw its potential with young women. “We inherited its inventory and its customers,” says Rishwain, “but what blew my mind was the sell-through. We were pretty much a fourth-quarter brand, but it pretty much sold out year-round.”

Ugg wasn’t going to be a one-hit wonder, however, says Rishwain, who has been with the brand since the Deckers deal. With success came a confidence to create

Put Ugg boots in the category of Wellington rain boots or the all-purpose cardigan “cozy” that DKNY has offered year after year, Oprah’s Glassman says. “It’s totally consumer driven. Every high-end designer has done a version of Uggs in his or her own line.”

He counted three pairs in his office the other day – and it’s only October. “I am probably the only person in fashion who’ll tell you how much they love their Uggs,” he says.

Not true, actually. In previous interviews over the past year, Rachel Zoe and Michael Kors have sung their praises. And it’s always a similar tune: They are for the moments when comfort counts and conditions allow.

They’re not really for the times when you’re making a major fashion statement, but how many of those do you really have?

Glassman recalls a glitzy black-tie event during a snowstorm. “Everyone was so glammed up, but I was tired of ruining my fancy – and expensive – shoes, ruining my pants. I brought a little shopping bag with my tuxedo shoes, I switched them inside and checked in my Uggs at the coat check. It was a little awkward – a little Melanie Griffith in ‘Working Girl’ – but when we left, it was still snowing. I changed again, walked outside, and everyone said, ‘Wow, you were the smartest guy here.’”

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FAMILY TIME | Three tips for cooking with children

Tip of the week Once temperatures start to drop, keeping kids active can be a difficult task as weekends migrate away from park visits and Little League games to more time spent indoors. Luckily, there are plenty of things you can do in your own home to keep children engaged and help limit their video game and TV time. One of those things is cooking together, which reinforces math, science and reading comprehension skills while building great memories. Keep your household free of the winter blues by following these simple steps to a

successful and fun time with kids in the kitchen: • Establish good habits. Set good habits for your children by teaching them to wash their hands before, during and after cooking. Kid-friendly tools, like a small step stool or hightech faucet, can help make reinforcing these habits even easier. Let your little sous-chefs know that they should wash their hands with soap and warm water for 20 seconds, by helping them count or singing the “Happy Birthday” song twice. Remember to set a good example by washing your own hands before and after eating and during the cooking process, as needed.

• Different stages for different ages.

Understanding which tasks your child is capable of doing is important. Children under 5 years old enjoy observing how recipes are compiled and can help out with small tasks like setting the table, while school-age children

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can strengthen their math skills as they help combine ingredients for recipes and practice cooking basics, like cracking an egg. This stage is a great time to introduce the importance of choosing nutritious ingredients for everyday cooking, which can help lay the groundwork for a healthy lifestyle.

Tap teenagers for help by encouraging them to choose the menu or explore new and exciting cuisines.

• Timing is everything. Avoiding a tight schedule is important. Instead of involving children in the dinner rush, enlist their help on a weekend afternoon when there is plenty of time for questions, experiments or careful demonstrations. Choose a time when everyone is well-rested and not easily frustrated. Plan ahead when deciding what recipe you will cook together. For younger kids, consider starting with a simple dish that has fewer than five ingredients like a fruit salad or an easy

muffin recipe. A pizza assembly line allows children to show their creativity by choosing their own mini-crusts, sauces, cheese and toppings.

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Family movie night “Romeo and Juliet” Rated: PG-13 Length: 118 minutes Synopsis: It’s the latest incarnation of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” on the screen. This one stars Douglas Booth and Hailee Steinfeld.

Violence/scary rating: 3 Sexual-content rating: 2.5 Profanity rating: 2.5 Drugs/alcohol rating: 2 Family Time rating: 3. It’s a decent movie for teens to watch, but it’s not the best screen adaptation.

(Ratings are judged on a five-point scale, with 5 being “bad for kids” and 1 being “fine for kids.”)

Book report “Ivy and Bean (Book 10): Ivy and Bean Take the Case,” by Annie Barrows Ages: 6 and older Pages: 129 Synopsis: Watch out, you diabolical masterminds! There’s a new detective on Pancake Court: Bean! She laughs at danger! She solves even the most mysterious mysteries! What? There aren’t any mysteries? Then Bean and her assistant, Ivy, will make some! – Chronicle Books LLC

Did you know?

A recent U.K. Millennium Cohort Study found that children who don’t have a regular bedtime are less wellbehaved than children who have a regular time to go to bed.

Feeding birds through the winter Wild animals are facing a strenuous time of year as winter settles in. University of Illinois Extension educator Peggy Doty will offer Winter Bird Feeding, an informational program to guide people in providing appropriate winter food for their feathered friends, from 3 to 4 p.m. Nov. 18.

Doty will display some commercial food types and show pictures of the species these seeds will attract.

Information will be offered as to what food to avoid, feeder care, water requirements, and budgeting for the winter commitment of feeding local non-migratory species.

“Many birds become dependent on a food source, so once we start feeding the birds, it can be detrimental to stop before spring,” Doty said.

Understanding a bird’s behavior

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will help attract and keep many species coming to your feeders, she said.

“Some birds will only feed on the ground, some on flat surfaces, while others prefer a feeder well off the ground,” she said. “Providing multiple feeding options will attract a larger variety of birds for viewing.”

This program also will offer some basic bird watching techniques to help the novice birder better identify their winter guests.

The program fee is $5, and will be taught at the Extension office inside the DeKalb Farm Bureau building, 1350 W. Prairie Drive in Sycamore. Register by calling 815758-8194 or online at web.extension. illinois.edu/bdo. Early registration is recommended; the program may be canceled if enrollment is determined to be too low by Nov. 15.

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New Sycamore Lions

NIU dance marathon raises money for children’s hospital

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Winners named in pie-eating contest

The public is invited to the Kishwaukee Valley Art League’s next meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of DeKalb, on the corner of North Fourth and Locust streets in DeKalb.

Jim Dester will give a demonstration of scanography, or scanner photography. In scanography, artists use a flatbed photo scanner with a secondary device to capture digitzed images. It differs from document scanning because atypical objects, often threedimensional, are scanned and often appear almost lifelike due to the level of detail.

Dester was born and raised on a farm in Oklahoma. He holds a degree in industrial technology from Northern Illinois University and worked for 30 years in the printing and manufacturing of business forms industry. Photography has been his passion for more than 50 years and he is constantly evolving as an artist by using new technologies.

The art league is a nonprofit organization that meets the first Thursday of each month. There is no fee or membership obligation to attend. Refreshments will be served.

The Sycamore Kiwanis Club held its annual Pumpkin Pie Eating Contest during last weekend’s Sycamore Pumpkin Festival.

Competitors gathered on the courthouse lawn to quickly eat pieces of pie to win a monetary prize. Many of the adult participants come back every year to defend their titles and enjoy the competition and the pie. DJ Kurtzman, Bridget McMillion, Robert McMiller and Jonathan Kurtzman have won multiple years in a row.

This year there were 54 children and adults in the contest.

The pumpkin pies were purchased at Hy-Vee in Sycamore.

The following people were winners in their age categories.

Ages 5 and younger First – Jay Dee, Genoa Second – Olivia Walley, Janesville, Wis. Third – A.J. McNeill, Schiller Park Fourth – Payton Garretts, Genoa Ages 6 to 10 First – Rachel Klumpp, Sycamore Second – Will Hazelton, Cortland Third – Troy Harris, Waterman Fourth – Sam Krull, Sycamore Ages 11 to 15 First – Lucas Krull, Kansas City, Mo. Second – Jonathon Kurtzman, Sycamore Third – Mason Waddell, Sycamore Fourth – Nathan Davis, Sycamore Age 16 and older First – DJ Kurtzman, Sycamore Second – Bridget Coghlin McMillion, Chicago Third – Adam Gaulike, Kirkland Fourth – Robert McMiller, Sycamore

Farmland group hosts speaker Sunday The DeKalb County Farmland Foundation will host speaker John Church of the Conservation Foundation at 2 p.m.

Sunday at the Ellwood House Visitor Center, 509 N. First St. in DeKalb.

Church will discuss ways to achieve the DCFF purpose of preserving farmland for future human needs.

The public is invited to attend.

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The Sycamore Lions Club recently inducted four new members, Kevin Berry, Karel Waska, Aaron Gerdes and Art Fisers, bringing the club’s membership up to 49 members. Pictured (from left) are District Governor Mario Gumino; Kevin Berry and his sponsor Ryan Genz; Karel Waska and his sponsor Bruce Wallace; Aaron Gerdes; club president Chuck Christensen, Gerdes and Fiser’s sponsor Brian Bickner; and Art Fisers.

Eagle project cleanup in Genoa

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On Oct. 19, Tyler Walker led an Eagle Scout project at Lions Park in Genoa. Volunteers from Boy Scout Troop 71, the Genoa Lions Club, Genoa Township Park District and others cleared brush and dead trees along the drainage area. The cleanup enhanced the aesthetics and safety of the park. The City of Genoa picked up and mulched all the brush and branches after the project was complete.

Northern Illinois University will hold its first-ever Dance Marathon from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Nov. 23 at the Campus Recreation Center.

Dance Marathon is a philanthropic event benefiting Children’s Miracle Network.

All of the proceeds raised at the NIU event will support Children’s Miracle Network hospital Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. According to marathon organizers, more than 2,000 children from the region including DeKalb received care at that hospital over the past year.

Dance Marathon participants dance for eight hours straight. Dancers must remain on their feet for the full eight hours. Families receiving care at Lurie Children’s Hospital also will participate. Live dance groups and DJs will perform throughout the event, and there will be other activities, including Lurie families sharing their stories.

The NIU event is sponsored by the Panhellenic Council, with the support of other student organizations. The event is entirely student-run. The fundraising goal for this inaugural event is $20,000.

Participants can sign up online to dance as a group or an individual. Each dancer raises money through a personalized web page. There is a $20 registration fee per person, which includes a T-shirt and food throughout the event.

To register, visit www. helpmakemiracles.org/ event/NIUDM and click Register Now. To donate, visit www. helpmakemiracles.org/participant/NIUgeneral.

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Extension websites help people enjoy autumn Fall is the favorite time of year for many people. It brings with it crisp air, beautiful colors, and distinctive opportunities for food and fun. University of Illinois Extension offers a variety of websites that will help people take advantage of those opportunities.

Apples and More provides detailed information for everyone from the serious apple grower down to the avid apple eater. Apple varieties are described and explained for their best eating and/or baking uses, and multiple articles address how to grow apples in different areas of the country as well as problems

that may occur. There are recipes tested by an Extension educator, an “Apples: A Class Act” curriculum for teachers, a list of apple orchards around the state, and a list of apple festivals held across the country.

Visit the site to learn fun apple facts and nutrition information. http:// urbanext.illinois.edu/apples/default.cfm Pumpkins and More brings out the kid in all of us. Read the history of the Jack-o-Lantern (it involves an Irish myth and a man nicknamed ‘Stingy Jack’). Experiment with pumpkin recipes (anyone for pumpkin-amaretto cheesecake?) and

find pumpkin farms and pumpkin festivals. And learn about the largest pumpkin pie ever made – 350 pounds! http://urbanext.illinois. edu/pumpkins/default.cfm Bulbs and More gives the flower gardener all the information needed to get ready for the coming year. Fall is the prime time for planting hardy spring-flowering bulbs, and there is a detailed section on the planting and care of bulbs. A selection of bulbs (and when they flower) is available, as well as detailed information on landscaping with bulbs. There is a list of links to other websites on this topic, including some state-spe-

Sweet corn sales benefit Feed’em Soup project For the second year, Ben Drake planted sweet corn at the county corn plots and sold it with the intention of donating the proceeds to a local food charity.

During the months of July, August and September, Drake sold 6,000 ears of sweet corn, provided by Beck’s Seed, and collected $1,500 from his Sycamore farm stand. Drake, a director of the DeKalb County Corn & Soybean Growers, turned the sales money over to the commodity organization, which then donated it to Feed’em Soup.

Drake presented the check to Feed’em Soup volunteer Noelle Stanbery. Feed’em Soup Community Project offers meals to those in need every Wednesday evening. It also operates a food pantry and clothing closet for its guests.

All meals are cooked with the freshest ingredients and provide well-balanced nutritious meals. Located in downtown DeKalb, Feed’em Soup is open to the public.

Meals are provided on a “paywhat-you-can” basis, so that those who can pay for their meal can do so, while those who cannot can eat for free.

cific sites, and a Q&A section that addresses many problems most bulb gardeners face. http://urbanext. illinois.edu/bulbs/index.cfm The Miracle of Fall is a website for anyone who appreciates the spectacular display of fall colors, particularly in the northern climes. Read a list of foliage updates to learn the peak times for fall colors around the country. Find the most scenic locations to drive and hike. If you can’t make a trip, browse through the foliage photos or check out foliage cams around the country that are updated throughout the day.

There also is a list of foliage trees

and their colors and fall festivals by state. http://urbanext.illinois.edu/ fallcolor/default.cfm The Great Corn Adventure is an interactive website for kids featuring Zea Mays. Zea takes children through a number of different topics, including “What Is Corn and What’s the Story?,” “A Year in the Life of an Ear,” “Harvest Time,” “Where’s It Go?,” and “It’s a Lot More than Cornflakes.” Children learn the importance of corn around the world as Zea shows them how corn is grown, harvested, distributed, and used. http://urbanext.illinois.edu/fallcolor/default.cfm

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Ben Drake and Megan Carrier present a check for $1,500 to Noelle Stanbery (left) of Feed’em Soup, on behalf of the DeKalb County Corn & Soybean Growers. The money was generated from sales of sweet corn. The sweet corn was grown in the county plots and was donated

by Beck’s Seed.

Quick as lightning, even without their wheels, these Barbed Wire Betties built and put up the remaining walls to the 2013 Habitat for Humanity Build in DeKalb. Pictured (from left) are Amber Kantorowicz, Lee Clark, Wendy Rissman and Virginia Tilton.

Feed’em Soup relies on donations and business sponsors to help achieve its mission.

Stanbery was grateful for

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the donation from the Corn & Soybean Growers and said the money will be used to buy nutritious food for families in the community.

Fido’s tail wagging could reveal more than you think

By MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer NEW YORK – The way Fido wags his tail might reveal more about him than you know.

Just ask another dog.

A few years ago, researchers discovered a subtle difference in how dogs wag their tails.

When a dog sees something positive, such as its owner, it tends to wags its tail more to its right. The wagging tends to go left when it sees something negative, like an unfamiliar dominant dog.

Now, the same Italian researchers report that other dogs pick up on that difference, and it’s reflected in their behavior and even their heart rates. Experts say the tail-wagging difference appears to be one way that dogs gauge how other dogs will respond to them.

“It’s just fascinating that dogs pick up on it,” said Evan MacLean, co-director of Duke University’s Canine Cognition Center. For humans, he said, “it’s a difficult thing to see.”

MacLean was not involved with the study, reported Thursday in the journal Current Biology.

Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trento in Italy, an author of the study, said

Fido is not deliberately sending a message.

Instead, the tail-wagging behavior stems from how different emotional cues activate different parts of the brain, he said in an email.

For the experiment, Vallortigara and co-authors used videos of a dog or its silhouette, wagging its tail mostly to one side or the other, or not wagging at all. They showed the videos to 43 dogs, including such breeds as Rottweilers, beagles, boxers, border collies and German shepherds as well as mongrels.

When the dog in the video wagged mostly to its left, the sign of a negative response, observer dogs tended to have faster heartbeats than when it wagged the other way or not at all. Their behavior also indicated a higher degree of stress.

Alexandra Horowitz, who studies mental abilities of dogs at Barnard College in New York, said that the wagging difference is probably not a primary signal between Fido and Rover in daily life, but it may play a minor role.

——— Online: Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biology

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Right at Home: Furniture makers nail it

By KIM COOK The Associated Press If you lived in a comfortable home in 17th century France or 19th century England, your chairs might well have been embellished with nail-head trim. It was a clever, decorative way for craftsmen to secure materials to upholstered furniture.

Another old fastener, the rivet, also was commonplace in manufacturing and shipbuilding centuries ago.

Now, both nail-heads and rivets are having a moment in contemporary décor. On some pieces, they reinforce traditional elegance. On others, they offer an urban, edgier aesthetic.

“We’re seeing nail-head trim – this 400-year-old detail – in lots of new applications, creating bold looks,” says Seattle interior designer Timothy De Clue.

Lisa Ferguson, an interior designer in Toronto, trimmed a pair of armless coral chairs with a decorative, antique-brass nail-head design along the skirt. She says both brass and warm satin detailing evoke classic glamour.

“It almost always gives the perception of a more luxurious piece, while adding texture,” Ferguson says.

But be mindful of inexpensive trims if you want a luxe look, she adds.

“Attention to detail and craftsmanship is what differentiates the good from the best. Pay special attention to the scale and spacing of the nail heads in relation to the piece of furniture, and always go for metal individual heads over rows of plastic if it is in your budget,” she says. (www.lisafergusoninteriordesign.com) Ballard Designs has a selection of tufted and untufted headboards that you can customize in different fabrics and then finish with brass or silver nail heads. (www.ballarddesigns.com) Homegoods has some little slipper chairs in fun colors like peony pink, lime green and rich purple, embellished with silvery trim.

The trim also edges a svelte bench – covered in a green, white and black classic pattern – perched on sleek black legs. All the pieces have a Palm Beach house vibe. (www. homegoods.com) Designer Jonathan Adler also

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The cage of riveted metal on these Ludlam pendant lamps gives the lighting fixture an industrial look.

The Portsmouth chair evokes the structure of old sailing vessels, with nailhead trimmed upholstery.

The Alpine Estates hair on hide ottoman puts a modern spin on Old West furniture.

Nail-head trim works well with textured materials; Jayson Home’s Bretton shelf unit is covered in burlap and trimmed in brass nails. (www.jaysonhome.com) Arhaus has a series of interesting chairs that combine recycled leather seats with backs upholstered in woven fabric; the materials meet at a nail-head border.

The Portsmouth chair and settee incorporate the deconstructed trend in furniture with a more refined,

is a fan of the nail. His Channing screen, named after Bette Davis’ character in the movie “All About Eve,” is a white lacquered room divider studded with polished nickel nail heads. He also plays with the motif in an irreverent tabletop confection: a clear acrylic obelisk filled with construction nails.

“Nail heads hit just the right note for today. They’re the perfect combo of twinkly glamour and edgy attitude,” Adler says.

The Warp side table is crafted of woven, riveted strips of aluminum.

The Colburn coffee table from Arhaus is reminiscent of a steamer trunk. finished look. Exposed framing along the backs and woven, grainsack-textured upholstery are accented with nail trim. The Alpine Estates ottoman is part of a collection of pieces that put a contemporary spin on western style with cowhide, nail-head and wood trim. Or evoke the early days of ship travel with the Colburn steamer trunk, crafted of chestnut leather and set with antique brass nail heads. (www. arhaus.com)

Jayson Home also plays off the vintage industrial vibe in today’s decor with rivet detailing on distressed-iron and steel side tables, reminiscent of turn-of-the-century or shipboard tables.

The retailer’s Warp and Weft accent tables, made of riveted, recycled woven aluminum, reference World War II aircraft. There is a series of Ludlam pendant lighting fixtures here, too, crafted of caged iron slats and hammered rivets.

To bee? Hobbyist hives require time and money of your bee yard work. You might even meet a potential partner to help you shoulder the load.

By KELLEN HENRY The Associated Press NEW YORK – There’s no shortage of buzz about beekeeping these days.

From environmentalists worried about disappearing colonies to foodies seeking locally sourced liquid gold, lots of new beekeepers are itching to roll down their sleeves.

With cities like New York lifting beekeeping bans, and with a wealth of new books, online videos and meet-up groups, learning the basics is easier than ever.

But as a hobbyist beekeeper myself, who once moved a hive full of bees from Washington, D.C., to New York during a career change, I can also tell you that the sweet rewards of homemade honey don’t come without some sticky practical challenges.

One of those, of course, is facing the bees themselves.

“You can learn 99 percent of beekeeping on YouTube, but you need to know that when you’re actually there and you’re digging into a box filled with 50,000 stinging insects, that you’re good with that,” said Chase Emmons, managing partner and apiary director at Brooklyn Grange, a rooftop farm in New York that offers some hands-on training at its hives.

Whether you’re creating a small business or just planning to enjoy your own honey, here are some realistic pointers on the money, space and neighborly grace required of a beekeeper.

Location, location, location Where you keep your bees is an important part of how to keep them. A sunny, out-of-the-way spot with good drainage is best. Scope out a location that won’t trip up unsuspecting neighbors, curious pets or repairmen.

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Beekeeper Kellen Henry replaces her Feedback Farms hive on Oct. 16 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, in New York. Though New York reversed a long-standing ban on tending to honeybees in 2010, there are issues beyond legality that potential beekeepers should consider. Beekeeping, especially in an urban area, requires space, time and cooperation with the surrounding community.

Your hive should also be convenient for frequent inspections. Remember you’ll be carrying equipment and removing heavy boxes of honey at harvest time. If you have to scale a rickety roof ladder to see your bees, you might be tempted to neglect your duties.

Make sure your landlord is on board and beekeeping is legal in your city. Then take some time to sell the idea to your neighbors. Emmons recommends coming armed with a few jars of honey to sweeten the deal.

“The last thing you need is unhappy neighbors,” he said.

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Not just a walk in the park The good news is you don’t have to hire a bee sitter when you leave town on vacation.

Once the hive is up and running, the bees are quite self-sufficient in their daily needs. But preventing pests and swarms, as well as extracting honey, will require some time and even some

hard, physical work over the course of the year.

A deep hive chamber full of honey can weigh as much as 90 pounds, and actively managing your hive will require lifting and maneuvering those bulky boxes. You’ll also be suiting up in heavy clothing and working in the hot sun.

As a new beekeeper, you should make time to attend a class or meet-up group on top

Before you take gold out of your hive, you’ll have to put some in. It might cost you around $400 to get set with wooden hive equipment, tools and the bees themselves, though much of your equipment can be used for several years before being replaced.

Shop around before ordering, and appraise deluxe, all-in-one kits carefully. They may be easier than buying equipment a la carte but they often include supplies you don’t really need. If you’re handy, you’ll also find ample specs online for building some of your own equipment.

When it comes to purchasing, there’s strength in numbers. Joining a bee group is a good way to get in on cheaper bulk orders or shipping discounts, swap used equipment and pass the hat on big purchases, like pricey honey extracting equipment.

Scratching the itch Using good practices and inspecting the hive at

appropriate times can go a long way toward minimizing stings. But they will happen from time to time.

Assuming you don’t have a severe allergy to apitoxin, the venom in honey-bee stings, the worst you’ll have to endure is some local pain, itching and swelling that’s treatable with over-the-counter medicine.

If you’re afraid of bee stings, remember it’s OK to go heavy on the protective clothing if it encourages you to visit the hive, especially while you’re getting used to handling the bees. Don’t let beekeeper machismo intimidate you into doing hive inspections in a T-shirt if it makes you nervous.

In general, be flexible to trying a different approach if yours isn’t working.

“When you have 10 beekeepers in a room, you’re going to have 12 opinions.

Humans have been doing it for 10,000 years and there are really strong opinions,” Emmons said. “Go with what you’re comfortable with.”

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TODAY – Don’t sit back when taking a progressive, front-and-center position will open doors. Let your imagination run wild and your determination lead the way. This is a year to make things happen and do things your way. You can build your dream and secure your position.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Stay on top of any situation that has the potential to run amuck. Extravagance or overindulgence could interfere with your progress. Keep it simple and within your budget.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Look for openings to present what you have to offer. Following through on your promises must be your intent, or you will damage your reputation. If you make a pledge, keep it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Everyone will bend to what you want, but you must be careful to keep everything transparent and out in the open. Keep your record clean.

You have too much to lose and everything to gain.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – You will have to remain focused if you intend to do your own thing and avoid interference. Be ready to make an unexpected change that will throw anyone challenging you off track.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – If you can dream it, you can get it right now by using your intuition, imagination and determination. The sky is the limit, so shoot for the stars.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Sign up for something with the intent to win.

Your heart is ready to explore any avenue that promises equality. A personal gain is based on what you have to offer.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Being forthright and ready to take action will show your strength and courage, moving you into a position of control. A partnership will help you appreciate unfamiliar traditions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Base what you do next on what motivates you the most. Refuse to take care of demands and responsibilities that don’t belong to you. You will call the shots and reap the rewards.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – If you take part in an event that teaches you something, it will encourage you to engage in activities with people who will enrich your life. An opportunity will begin with friendship.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Your emotions will spin out of control if you let little things get to you. Leave your routine behind and enjoy the company of someone who is fun to be with.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – You will learn something valuable if you observe others. Attending a conference or lecture will lead to an informative discussion with someone who can help you restructure an idea with successful results.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Don’t give in to aggressive behavior. Set your own strategy and move in a direction that allows you to use your skills and to enjoy life’s more toothsome moments.

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Expecting young wife faces adult decisions Dear Abby: I am 19 and a new bride. My husband is in the Army. We’re very happy, but I just found out that I’m pregnant – I’m not sure how far along yet – and I feel torn about what to do.

My husband wants a child very badly, but he did say he would support whatever decision I make. While I have no objection to having a child, I know my family will make me feel guilty if I do by saying they are disappointed, that I should have waited and that I’m “throwing my life away.”

Abby, I am so confused. I don’t know what to do. I want my family to support me and be there when I have our first child. – Pressured And Confused Dear Pressured: Was your family disappointed and saying you were throwing your life away when you married your husband? If the answer is no, then why would they accuse you of doing so because you are pregnant?

You are an adult, albeit a young one, and a wife. The first thing you need to do is see a gynecologist and find out how far along you are.

Your next step is for you and your husband to decide if you are emotionally and financially ready to be parents.

No one can decide this for you, but your family’s possi-

wrong? – Jim In California Dear Jim: Of course not.

Your son’s fiancee appears to have serious insecurities.

I sincerely hope you won’t allow her to control your ble “disappointment” should lives and your relationships, not enter into your decision. because if you do, this is just If they are not supportive, the beginning of how she will your in-laws might be. try to control you – and your Dear Abby: Before my son son. This is Shelby’s problem.

SHE will have to deal with it. met his fiancee of five years, Please do not make it yours.

“Shelby,” he went with another girl, “Dana,” for three Dear Abby: I have friends who exclude me or take off years. During that time we became good friends with Da- with other friends before I can get to where they are meeting. na’s parents (the “Smiths”).

What can I do to get them After the breakup, we stayed to call me? Why am I their in touch with the Smiths and whipping post? – Friend-Chalgo out occasionally. lenged in Overland Park, Kan. Recently, Mrs. Smith Dear Challenged: Friends invited us to her husband’s don’t treat friends the way retirement party. When we told our son we were going, he you are being treated. There is nothing you can do to get them mentioned it to Shelby, who to behave differently. You are told us we were being disreletting them do this because spectful to her by continuing you’re hoping that if you our relationship with the ignore their insensitivity and Smiths.

Shelby’s position is that all rudeness, they will accept you.

Please stop trying to cling ties to Dana and her family to them. Join activities where should have been severed you’ll meet people with whom when the boyfriend/girlyou REALLY have something friend relationship ended. in common. If you do, you will Our position is the Smiths became friends of ours before be much happier than you are Shelby was in the picture, and today.

Dear Abby: I recently found we don’t think we are being out that after 13 years of mardisrespectful to anyone by riage, my son and daughtercontinuing our relationship in-law are expecting a child; with this couple. Are we my first grandchild! I was

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips

overjoyed at the news. They live about 1,000 miles away from me.

I mentioned to my son that I have been looking at flights and want to come out a week before her due date so I’ll be there for the big moment, and stay three to four weeks to help with the baby. I was shocked when he told me they don’t want me to visit until at least three weeks after the birth, and stay for one week MAX. He said my daughter-inlaw will need time to heal, and they both need time to adjust to being parents before they have guests. I am not a “guest.” I am the grandmother! I was also told not to expect to take care of the baby because it is “their” job.

It hurts so bad not to be wanted to share in the joy of the new baby. I have always dreamed of watching my grandchild take his or her first breath, and see the look on my son’s face when he holds his child for the first time.

Is there anything I can do to change their minds and allow me to be there for my son at this important moment? Do you agree that they are being unreasonable and cruel? – Family First in Florida Dear Family First: I’m sure you are a loving mother, but

I don’t agree, and I doubt you can change their minds.

If it is going to take three weeks for your daughter-inlaw to heal, it appears the baby’s birth will be by C-section, and she will need time to regain her strength. The new parents will also need time to adjust to the baby’s sleep and feeding schedules. They will be sleep-deprived, and she will be nursing every few hours and not up for company.

While you have always dreamed of being present at your grandchild’s birth, the reality is your son and daughter-in-law would prefer this intimate moment be shared by them alone. I’m sorry you are hurt, truly. Let them know you are willing to help them in any way you can on their terms, and take your cues from them. Do not take any of this personally.

Dear Readers: Once again, here is my “timely” reminder that daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday – so don’t forget to turn your clocks back one hour before bedtime.

• Dear Abby is written

by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby. com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Bright-light sneezing has undetermined cause Dear Dr. K: Often when I step outside from a dark room into the sunlight, I sneeze. Why does this happen?

Dear Reader: My colleague, Dr. Robert Shmerling, looked into this question once. I learned from him that there are many people like you, and even more who suddenly sneeze when they move suddenly from a warm environment to a cold one (or vice versa).

Why do we sneeze in the first place? It’s a complex reflex we all are born with, as it protects our lungs. It begins with nerve endings in the soft membranes that line the nose. When something irritating enters the nose with the air we breathe in and

ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff lands on the membranes, the nerve endings react. These triggers send messages to the throat, chest and abdomen to contract to forcefully rid the nasal passage of its contents.

The sneeze forcibly ejects nasal air back out of the body (and away from the lungs).

It’s similar to vomiting when we’ve eaten something that the stomach really doesn’t like. The irritating substance that came down through the mouth gets ejected right back out through the mouth.

If sneezing is supposed to protect the lungs, why would anyone sneeze when he or she steps into the sunlight? How does sunlight threaten the lungs? It doesn’t. Something has gone wrong with the reflex: It is triggered for no good reason.

No one knows why some people sneeze at the sight of bright light. It’s possible that bright light triggers the other nerves involved in sneezing.

Maybe the light flooding into the eye, or squinting in reaction to bright light, causes a crossed signal of sorts, making the body think a sneeze is in order.

Another unknown is why the muscles of the face, including the eyelid muscles,

are also involved in sneezing. Scientists think the eyes might shut during a sneeze to keep out flying particles.

(Though the idea that you cannot keep your eyes open during a sneeze is a myth. If you tried hard enough, you could probably do it.)

Humans actually expel more material from our mouths when we sneeze than from our noses. That’s why it’s important to cover both your mouth and nose when sneezing.

Dr. Shmerling tells me that he once saw an Internet video of a woman sneezing every time she walked from the shadowy spot of a room into the bright light near a window. Apparently she was

using this sensitivity to light – called “photic” sneezing – to audition for an allergy medication commercial. She found a profitable use for her “talent.”

Photic sneezing is harmless and can actually be useful. Ever have that annoying “need-to-sneeze” feeling, but the sneeze just won’t come? Look briefly at a light.

Often that will encourage the sneeze.

If you really want to avoid sneezing next time you come out of a dark space, keep your sunglasses handy. One study found they could prevent the photic sneeze.

• Visit www.AskDoctorK. com to read more.

8TODAY’S WEEKEND PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Admires oneself 7 Yellow pigment 12 Guffaw 17 Statistic 21 Two trios 22 Fiction, e.g.

23 Come afterward 24 Declare frankly 25 Materialize 26 Tijuana sign-off (2 wds.)

28 Flooring piece 29 Grass skirt go-with 30 “Hot Lips” player 32 “Get real!” (2 wds.)

33 Ten Roman soldiers 35 “Quite contrary” lass 37 Shows fright 38 You, formerly 39 Worked like a dog 40 Hit the sack 42 First space lab 43 Library slogan 44 Matisse, for one 45 Bay or city 47 Brook 48 Dingbat 49 Chewing — 52 Negatives 53 Form glaciers 54 Went with 55 “Bootnose” of hockey 59 Disquiet 61 Mouth-watering 62 Nose stimulus 63 Liverpool chap 64 Like river bottoms 65 Some kids 66 Inaugurate 67 Persuaded gently 68 Fit — — tied 69 Dinosaur preservers 70 Fuel carrier 72 — boom 73 Lennon’s wife 74 Oktober ending 75 Quail family 76 Zenith

77 Music or dance 80 Tech-support callers 82 Seals a package 83 Spill the beans 84 Toddler’s perch 85 Bricklayer’s supply 87 Fixes the fight 88 Swerve 89 Equivocator’s response 90 Deed holder 91 Margarita ingredient 92 Jet set 94 Prove successful (2 wds.)

95 Tweet 96 Hamelin visitor 97 Paddy crop 98 Except 99 Ultimate degree 100 Rubber-tree sap 101 Cut into cubes 102 Leafed through 104 Dispute settler 107 Quick kiss 108 Wrench target 109 Charming 113 Not as robust 114 Three-seater 115 Cracked buckwheat 117 Novelist — Bagnold 118 List price 119 Brief note 120 Orchard units 122 Former California fort 123 Redding of blues 124 Car accessory (2 wds.)

127 South Seas paradise 129 Foot covering 130 Wanted-poster word 131 Ocean, in Mongolian 132 Street crosser 133 Farm worker 134 — nous 135 Feel nostalgic 136 Took an apartment

DOWN 1 Choir selections 2 Abolish 3 Lapse 4 Cousteau’s summer 5 Patricia of “Hud” 6 Hone a razor 7 Hamlet’s intended 8 Volcano feature 9 Throngs 10 This, in Havana 11 Power agcy.

12 Chartered 13 Writer — Dillard 14 DOD division 15 Rev the engine 16 Jet speed reducer 17 Rich dude (2 wds.)

18 Emulate Earhart 19 More wintry

20 Suit material 27 Taj — 31 Boat runways 34 Counting-out start 36 Still 38 Londoner’s tube 39 Not as wacky 41 Bright flower 43 Wild disorder 44 Rock climber’s aid 46 “Simpsons” barkeep 47 Antarctic explorer 48 Consumer advocate 49 Zest 50 Civil War side 51 Aussie metropolis 53 Coral islets 54 A bit obtuse 55 Jai —

56 Place to herd wild horses (2 wds.)

57 Just scrape by 58 Conducted 60 Corroded, as acid 61 Legal wrong 63 Anvil, to a doctor 65 Game fish 66 Bullring shouts 67 Purse item 69 HI or AK, once 70 Fumbler’s word 71 “— been had!”

72 Dueler’s pride 74 Misgivings 75 Hoopster 76 Toward shelter 78 Argue back 79 Some canines 81 Porch adjunct 82 It “keeps on

ticking” 83 — noire 84 Okla. neighbor 85 Swab the deck 86 Run up a tab 87 Less green 88 Minor weakness 89 Sorts socks 91 Quart, plus 92 Susan Lucci vamp 93 Dampen a stamp 94 Wrinkle-nosed pooch 96 Femur neighbors 98 Go swimming 100 “Hi- —, Hi-Lo” 101 Clear the windshield 102 Russian writer 103 Fitting 104 “Lady Soul”

105 Allotted amount 106 Opinionated 107 Hair goo 108 Stock car grp.

110 Consecrate 111 Strong point 112 Swirled around 113 Academic rookies 114 “Night Moves” singer Bob 115 — Lumpur, Malaysia 116 Vows venue 119 Execs 120 Hillside, to Angus 121 Use a coupon 125 Coffee dispenser 126 Actress — Williams 128 Biddy

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Tom Batiuk & Chuck Hayes

Wiley The Duplex

Glenn McCoy

Beetle Bailey

Mort Walker Blondie

Dean Young & Denis LeBrun

Frank & Ernest

Bob Thaves Dilbert

Scott Adams

Monty

Jim Meddick Zits Hi and Lois

Rose is Rose

Pat Brady & Don Wimmer Arlo & Janis

Soup to Nutz

The Family Circus

Rick Stromoski Big Nate

Bill Keane

The Argyle Sweater

Scott Hilburn

Stone Soup

Grizzwells

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Jimmy Johnson

Lincoln Pierce

Jan Eliot

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We offer a competitive salary and great benefits.

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Substitute Bus Drivers Hiawatha Community Unit School District #426 is currently looking for substitute bus drivers for the district. Starting hourly rate is $12.00. Hiawatha CUSD will train for the position and pay all associated costs for the position.

If you wish to apply, please complete the on-line application at the DeKalb County Regional Office of Education at the following link: http://www.dekalbcounty.org/ ROE/jobopenings.html.

Questions may be directed to the District Office at:

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Apply in person at:

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Located in Section 28 & 33 of Flagg Township Farm being surveyed Located 2 miles west of Rochelle, IL at the end of Center Road, ½ mile south of Illinois Route 38 Contact us for a complete brochure with maps and details at 815-936-8978

Please see complete application requirements and apply on-line at on Sauk's website at www.svcc.edu (click on Job Opportunities).

Sauk Valley Community College Att: Human Resources 173 Illinois Route 2 Dixon, IL 61021 Email: employment@svcc.edu EOE

220 E. Hillcrest. 815-758-0600 hillcrestplaceaptsdekalb.com

Will BUY UR USED

Chronicle Classified 877-264-2527

Psychology 103 - Intro to Psych- T/Th 8:00-9:15 am Psychology 215 - Social Psych - T/Th - 11:00-12:15 pm Master's degree in psychology or related field with 15 graduate credit hours in psychology required.

DeKalb 1 & 2BR Starting $605

You Want It? We've Got It!

A-1 AUTO

Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan

Nursing 130 - Fundamentals (Clinical) - CGH Thurs - 3:00- 5:00 pm Fri - 7:00- 11:00 am Registered IL Nurse license (or eligibility for licensure), 2 years experience in clinical nursing, and master's degree in nursing required.

Cute, Cozy Upper 1 Bedroom

DeKalb For Sale!

Cat~Free To Good Home

Math 121 - College Algebra - T /Th- 6:00-7:40 pm Master's degree in math or a related field with 15 graduate credit hours in math required.

CORTLAND, Spacious 2 BR, W/D hookups, $750 or $775 w/garage.

Plus utilities and security. No pets.

Call Sue: 815-762-0781

GENOA 1000 SQ FT. IN TOWN, OVERHEAD DOOR, FORMER DANCE STUDIO. $350/MO. OFFICE ELECTRICIAN, ETC 847-721-4940

Radiators

SOFA - La-Z-Boy double recliner sofa; blue. One "popped" spring, fixable. Approx. 80” long.

FREE. Call 815-825-2542

English 101 Composition I - T/Th 8:00-9:15 am English 101 Composition I - F 9:00-11:45 am English 101 Composition I - Th 6:00-8:45 pm English 103 Composition II - M/W 3:30-4:45 pm English 103 Composition II - T/Th 8:00-9:15 am Master's degree in English or related field with 15 graduate credit hours in English required.

BIG APARTMENTS, LESS MONEY! Rochelle: 15 minutes from DeKalb 1 BR & 2BR Starting at $530 Recently updated!

Affordable heat.

Walk to shops!

(815) 562-6425 www.whiteoakapartments.net Now accepting Visa, M/C, Discover

Sycamore, hrdwd flrs, quiet.

Appl, laundry, no pets/smoking. $600/mo + lights. 815-895-5211

GM, from late 60s, early to mid 70s, need to recore, brass tanks, auto trans type, as is, $45 for all.

815-827-3418

Food Avail.

Admission $5.00 630-881-4176 (Booths Avail.)

WORK GLOVES - 120 pair, New, White, Adult Size, Washable, $40 for all, Moving, Sycamore. 815-762-0382

SYCAMORE 2 BR MOBILE HOME FSBO Many upgrades. Large enclosed carport with garage door/opener All appliances and window coverings stay Located in Edgebrook Mobile Home Court. $18,000 or best offer.

Call 815-899-6607 or 815-7618790 or 262-339-6237.

Available Dec/Jan. Close to NIU, Free heat & water, quiet lifestyle. Varsity Square Apts.

815-756-9554 www.glencoproperties.com

Metallic gray, 57K miles.

Automatic, PW & PL. Great condition & VERY CLEAN!

Will beat anyone's price by $300.

Accounting 100 Basic Accounting M/W 4:00- 5:45 pm Accounting 101 Financial Accounting - T 6:00-9:40 pm Master's degree in accounting or related field with 15 graduate credit hours in accounting required.

SYCAMORE Open House This Saturday, 11/2/13, 10am-2pm!

1519 Sparkhayes Dr. Beautiful newly remodeled and landscaped home. 3-4 bedrooms, 2 full. Walking distance to both Middle / Elementary Schools. $164,900 630-768-9314

2007 FORD FOCUS SE BAG - New Fiskars Blue Canvas Zippered Bag w/Handle & Inside Compartments for Individual Storage. Great For Crafting, Scrapbooking or other $15, Sycamore 815-895-5373

GUITAR ~ YAMAHA

Sauk Valley Community College seeks innovative individuals for the following openings:

DeKalb—2 BR lower $695 + Deposit & Lease. Available now!

Stove, fridge, heat & water incl.

No pets/smoking. 815-298-0423

Stamps

6 string, accoustic, excellent condition! $300/obo 815-909-8905

Wine Entertainment Set, Napa 7-Piece New Hand Painted, Includes 4-12oz. Goblets, 9" Cheese Dome 2-pc. Set & Decanter, $20, Sycamore.

815-895-5373.

For Junk Cars, Trucks and Vans No Title, No Problem. Same Day Pick-Up. 630-817-3577

I Buy

Power Chair by Pride Jazzy 7 yrs. old, Good Condition, New Seat & Batteries - $375 OBO 815-508-2739 9a-7p

2014 SPRING ADJUNCTS

We Pay The Best!

Push Lawnmower

John Deere JS63C, Self Propelled, Looks & Runs Like New $175 obo. 815-757-8007

TRAVEL AGENT

DELIVER the Verizon telephone books 18+ yrs w/insured vehicles to deliver in Dekalb, Sycamore, Rochelle areas. Also looking for Office Clerks & Loaders. Starts Oct 31st. Get paid within 72 hours upon completion. 800-979-7978 8 & 4:30 pm, M-F, Refer to job# 30128-a EOE

MTD 31cc, 2 cycle, YMGBV3100 Nice condition, $50.00 815-827-3418

145 HOLLISTER AVE.

Carder Travel LTD seeks experienced Travel Agent. 3 yrs of travel exp. and working knowledge of Worldspan helpful.

Athletic Department Office Assistant - PT

WANTED!

Mulching Blower/vacuum

ALWAYS INVESTIGATE BEFORE INVESTING ANY MONEY

815/522-6676

phylliscarder@hotmail.com Carder Travel LTD 2410 Sycamore Road DeKalb, IL 60115

Dog Kennel – 12 x 6 x 6 chain link; good condition. $100. 815-825-2703

David Klein, Auctioneer License #441.001928 www.soycapitalag.com

Jaret Wicker, Broker (800) 532-LAND (5263)

3 Bdrm Ranch with full basement. 1st Floor L Room plus F Room. UPDATED Furnace, C/A, Windows, Roof, Wiring,and alot more.Appliances included. $124,000 NOW REDUCED to $115,000

CALL NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR 815-739-9997

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DeKalb - 1BR Apt Avail NOW $450/mo, Includes heat & Internet.

W/D in building, 831 Kimberly Call Pittsley Realty (815)756-7768 DEKALB - 2BR 1BA Apt Avail Now Updated Kitch & Bath, W/D in bldg 827 Charles, $600-$650/mo Call Pittsley Realty (815)756-7768 DeKalb - 2BR 1BA Apts Avail Now Heat included, W/D in bldg 831 Kimberly, $500-$550 Call Pittsley Realty (815)756-7768 DEKALB - 3 bedroom 12th St. Garage, lots of storage. Small pets ok. $860/month. 815-758-4539

DeKalb - Spacious 2 Bedroom Upstairs Apt in Duplex

Sycamore - Luxury 2BR 2BA Condo Granite, SS, Fireplace, 2C Gar. Available NOW! 954 Arvle Circle Call Pittsley Realty (815)756-7768

SYCAMORE 3BR, 2.5BA Fox Brier Townhouse available.

All appls incl W/D, 1 car garage, balcony, $1100/mo. Call Barry 815-757-9040

DeKalb 3BR, FR, Garage, Bsmt.

Sycamore TH Like New 2BR

Great location! 2BA, 2 car garage, skylights, appl, W/D, C/A, $935.

No pets.

815-758-0123

Near downtown, behind DeKalb Post Office. Large living room, dining room, study, enclosed front and back porches. W/D in basement, garage, storage space. $750/mo + gas & elect.

815-895-3238

Sycamore: TH for rent or sale, 2BR w/loft, 2.5BA, full bsmnt, all appl., new carpet, fireplace, 2 car gar., $1350/mo. 815-899-5057

DEKALB - SPACIOUS MARKET APARTMENTS

Hot new deluxe townhomes.

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

University Village Apts.

722 N. Annie Glidden Rd.

The Knolls 2 & 3 Bedrooms.

Garage, C/A, Basement. Pets?

Starting at $645

815-757-1907

815-758-7859

DeKalb 1-2 Bedroom Duplex

DEKALB - Large 4 BR, 3BA 2 Story Duplex, Full basement, W/D, 2.5 Car Gar, 724 Grove St. Call Pittsley Realty 815-756-7768

DeKalb 2BR, New Appliances & Carpet, Just Painted, Gas Heat, C/A. No Pets. Gar. Incl. $785/mo Avail 11/1 630-697-9102

DeKalb 2, 3 & 4BR Duplexes With attached 2 car garage.

1 mo security & 1st mo rent.

Move in before winter!

Call 815-758-8045 or Stop In: Eden's Garden Apts 2355 Williams Way, DeKalb

Full bath, huge kitchen, driveway parking, $730/mo. A MUST SEE! 815-756-1777 Sorry no dog/smkg.

DeKalb 2BR, New Kitchen, Safe Parking, $650. Large 1BR, $580.

Studio, $495, utilities included.

No pets/smoke. 815-762-4730

Lease, deposit, ref, no pets.

815-739-5589~815-758-6439 Exc cond/location. Garage, yard.

C/A, W/D, no smkg, $750/mo + 1st, last sec, ref. 815-761-7118

DeKalb Spacious Lower 2BR

DeKalb. Nice 2BR Ranch w/full basement. Location! $795+utils.

Adolph Miller RE 815-756-7845

DEKALB ~ 2 BEDROOM Clean, quiet residential building.

Park-like setting, close to schools.

815-758-6580

DEKALB ~ QUIET 2BR, 1BA

Near downtown, parking, laundry.

NO pets/smoking, agent owned.

815-756-2359 - 815-758-6712 DeKalb. 111 S. 9th 2BR 1000+ sq ft. Brand new everything! $800/mo+1st/last/sec. Call Bonnie: 815-756-6820

GENOA LARGE 2 BEDROOM A/C, W/D hook-up, no pets.

Available Dec 1st, $700/mo.

847-683-3442

Malta Quiet, Upper 2 Bedroom Appl, a/c, laundry, water/garbage includes + extra storage.

815-751-0480

Malta ~ 1 Mo Rent FREE!

2 Bedroom Duplex, Appliances, W/D hook-up, no pets, $650/mo.

815-562-7368

ROCHELLE ~ 2 BEDROOM

Remodeled, available now.

Clean and quiet, $550/mo.

815-758-6580 ~ 815-901-3346 Rochelle: lrg 3BR upper, heat paid, formal dining, lrg kitch., encl. front & back porch, 2 car gar., $790/ mo., 1st, last, sec., small pet considered w/dep., no smoking, avail. 12/1, 815-757-1045

Stone Prairie 2BR, 2BA APT. Washer & dryer, central air, fireplace, exercise center.

Cat friendly. Private fishing. $765/mo.

Laing Mgmt.

815-758-1100 or 815-895-8600 Sycamore - 2BR 1BA Apt Avail Now Updated Kitch & Bath, W/D in bldg 1611 Maness Ct. $625/mo Call Pittsley Realty (815)756-7768

SYCAMORE CLEAN 2BR,1BA W/D, D/W, next to park & schools. $710/mo, you pay utilities.

NO DOGS. 815-970-4640

SYCAMORE ~ 2BR, 1BA

Within walking distance of downtown, parks and schools.

1st/last/sec. 630-854-6161 st

Sycamore: Twin Gables, 1 mo. half price, 950 sq. ft., quiet lifestyle, secured entrance, pet friendly. Call 815-899-7551

WATERMAN UTILITIES INCLUDED 2 Bedroom,1 bath $790 1 Bedroom, 1 bath $650 Walk to schools and downtown, Housing Authority accepted.

310 N Elm, Waterman IL just south of DeKalb.

630-205-7078

DEKALB 2 BR/1 BA condo in DeKalb near I88, shopping, NIU. All appliances, garage, central air. Small pets OK. $1050. 630-485-0508.

DeKalb 4 Bedroom, 1 Bath on College Ave. Available Immed. $1200 + 1st, last security, no pets.

815-757-5079

DeKalb ~ Quiet Neighborhood 3BR, 1BA, appl, C/A, basement, W/D hook-up, $975/mo + 1st, last sec, no smkg. 815-901-1295 DeKalb-3 BR, finished basement, W/D, stove, refrigerater. 2 car garage, storage building. $1200 mo 815-264-3996 DEKALB: 204 Delcy Drive.

3 BR, 2 BA, hardwood floors, appliances, W/D, CA, full basement.

Attached 1-car garage. $1075 + utilities. 815-756-8165 SHABBONA 2BR, 1 BA, rural setting, bsmt with W/D. 1 car garage. $780 + utilities. 815-751-1762 SYCAMORE - 3BR 1.5BA House Large Yard, Garage, Quiet Street 421 Home Street, $975/mo Call Pittsley Realty (815)756-7768

DEKALB Cute, sunny room for single female student/professional. $350/mo incl utils.

630-518-1432

DeKalb 2BR,1BA Duplex

718 N. 11th St., W/D, large yard, near park, gas incl. $850/mo+sec Pet friendly. 815-501-8343 lndry, lrg yrd, storage, $750/mo. utilities not included 815-751-2937

$895. Large home, BIG yard. $1175. 3BR, attached gar, $795.

No pets/smoke. 815-762-4730

Call Us!!!

We have some Great Deals!!!

Adolph Miller RE 815-756-7845

DeKalb Quiet Studio 1, 2, 3BR Dekalb Spacious 2BR

DEKALB 3 BEDROOM 2 full baths, Large 3-car garage, quiet residential area, close to school. All appliances, $1100/mo + security. No smoking, no pets.

1155 S. Fifth Street, call Swanson Real Estate 815-378-8359 or 815-228-7019 DEKALB 3-4 Bedroom Ranch Style, basement, garage, all appliances, NO Smoking, No Pets, $1200. 815-758-0591

The Village of Maple Park corporate authorities will consider formal approval of the Jurisdictional Boundary Line Agreement between the Village of Maple Park and the Town of Cortland at their meeting on December 3, 2013, at 7:00 p.m.

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS

Case No. 13-P-135 INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION PUBLICATION NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Notice is given of the death of Susan F. Walker, who died on September 30, 2013, a resident of Esmond, Illinois. The Representative for the estate and her address is: Joan F. Young, 1930 Colleen Drive, Los Altos, CA 94024. The attorney for the estate and her address is: Janis M. Tupy, Esq., Tupy & Tupy, Ltd., 303 E. Hillcrest, DeKalb, IL 60115.

Claims against the estate may be filed on or before May 5, 2014.

Claims against the estate may be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court, 133 W. State Str., St. Sycamore, IL 60178, or with the Representative, or both. Any claim not filed within that period is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the Representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.

Tupy & Tupy, Ltd. 303 E. Hillcrest DeKalb, IL 60115

PUBLIC NOTICE

Dekalb: Large Ranch duplex w/ 3BD, 2BA, full basement & 2 car attached garage, lndry hookup, New interior. No pets/smoking. $1000/mo. 815-464-8646

Sycamore. 22X29' Shop/Storage 9' overhead door. $400/mo. Heat & Electric incl.

J&A RE 815-970-0679

JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARY AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE VILLAGE OF MAPLE PARK AND THE TOWN OF CORTLAND

SYCAMORE - 3BR 2.5Bath 2 Story 2 Car Gar Full Bmnt New Wind, Drs, Carp, Paint, Appliances $1150 (1st Last Sec) No Pets, Smoking 815-895-2684

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

2 BR hardwood floors upgraded kitchen washer and dryer, basement - $875 at 202 Maple 630-443-9072 DEKALB - 2BR 1BA, Appliances, A/C Garage, Lawn Care - Snow Removal Included, No Pets, $850.

815-758-0591 DeKalb - 3 BR, 1 BA, 2-car gar., 2 Story, All Appliances, no pets, $1075/mo. 1st + sec.

Call Dan 815-757-1691 or Tom 815-762-5752

DEKALB 2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH Available Now. Quiet, residential area, walk to downtown. Appl incl.

815-758-6580

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PUBLIC NOTICE GENOA PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT ANNUAL REPORT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2013 Cash Balance July 1, 2012

$179,121

Receipts: Personal Property Taxes Property Tax Refund Replacement Taxes Rent Gifts Grants Fees & Fines Interest & Dividends Miscellaneous Total Receipts

212,150 5,773 2,737 9,030 1,973 11,162 7,038 186 558 250,607

Total Cash Available

429,728

Disbursements: Amazon.com Auto-Graphics, Inc. Book Look Children's Plus Inc. Country Mutual Insurance Company Demco Frontier Gale Group Junior Library Guild Kavanagh Scully Sudow White Frederick NICOR Overdrive Patricia Andersen Pennyworthy Prairie Cat Quill Corporation Rainbow Book Co. Service Concepts ServiceMaster T. Allen and Associates Waste Management Miscellaneous Vendors Under $1000 Total Vendors

2,595 3,949 3,819 1,466 2,976 1,109 2,870 1,634 2,394 3,285 1,806 1,500 4,037 3,015 1,025 1,699 2,948 1,090 1,000 3,038 3,025 17,836 69,160

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to 65 ILCS 5/11-129 of the Illinois Municipal Code, the Village of Maple Park and the Town of Cortland are considering entry into a certain Jurisdictional Boundary Line Agreement which would fix rights and obligations for territory between the two municipal entities.

A copy of the proposed Jurisdictional Boundary Line Agreement is available for public inspection at the Maple Park Civic Center, 302 Willow Street, Maple Park, Illinois, and the Cortland Town Hall, 59 South Somonauk Road, Cortland, Illinois, during normal business hours.

by gi that on October 22, 2013 a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of DeKalb County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as KATI FLOWERS located at 107 W. Navaho Ave, Shabbona, IL 60560.

Douglas DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder

ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on October 24, 2013 a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of DeKalb County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as ECOVIOLET located at 1504 Bradley Ln., Sycamore, IL 60178.

Dated October 24, 2013 /s/ Douglas J. Johnson DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder (Published in the Daily Chronicle, October 26, November 2 & 9, 2013.)

ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on October 24, 2013 a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of DeKalb County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as ELEKTRAJENS JEWELRY located at 1400 W. Lincoln Hwy. Apt. D12, DeKalb, IL 60115.

Dated October 24, 2013 /s/ Douglas J. Johnson DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder (Published in the Daily Chronicle, October 26, November 2 & 9, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given

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

ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE

/s/ Douglas J. Johnson

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, November 2, 9 & 16, 2013.)

Public Notice is hereby given that on October 30, 2013 a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of DeKalb County, Illinois, setting forth the names and

Daily Chronicle Classified 877-264-2527 www.Daily-Chronicle.com

PUBLIC NOTICE KISHWAUKEE COLLEGE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT For The Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2013 Community College District 523 Counties of DeKalb, Ogle, Lee, Boone, Kane Winnebago and LaSalle, State of Illinois Total District Assessed Valuation: Total District Bonded Debt: Tax Revenues:

$2,025,605,331 $64,738,730

Education Fund Operations and Maintenance Fund Bond and Interest Fund Liability, Protection, and Settlement Fund Audit Fund Public Building Commission Operation and Maintenance Fund Operation and Maintenance Fund (Restricted) (Protection, Health, and Safety Levy) Public Building Commission Rental Fund Prior Year Adjustment

Extensions $5,570,415 $1,519,204 $3,525,251 $1,517,319 $70,859

Rates 27.50¢ 7.50¢ 17.39¢ 7.47¢ 0.35¢

$0

0¢

$785,773 $0 $21,154

3.87¢ 0¢ .07¢

STATEMENT OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES For The Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2013 Operations & Education Maintenance Fund Fund AUDITED REVENUE BY SOURCE

Bond & Interest Fund

Other Tax Funds

Local Government Local Taxes Corporate Personal Property Replacement Taxes Chargeback Revenue Other (List) TOTAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT

5,701,686

1,556,224

3,479,166 1,478,003

163,698 0 0 5,865,384

44,649 0 0 1,600,873

0 0 0 0 0 0 3,479,166 1,478,003

State Government ICCB Credit Hour Grants ICCB Equalization Grants ICCB Career and Technical Education Grant All Other ICCB Grants Other (List) TOTAL STATE GOVERNMENT

1,894,788 2,282,505 167,041 5,290 0 4,349,624

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0

13,488 0 0 0 13,488

0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0

6,385,161 1,494,097 0 7,879,257

2,022,591 0 0 2,022,591

365,551 0 0 365,551

0 0 0 0

0 0 8,978 0 26,890 35,868

0 32,397 0 0 24,262 56,659

0 0 554 0 0 554

0 0 0 0 0 0

18,143,622

3,680,123

3,845,271 1,478,003

8,417,046 2,612,441 1,833,750 345,335 0 0 564 0 4,779,894 17,989,030

0 0 0 0 0 0 3,680,123 0 0 3,680,123

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3,996,889 678,693 0 0 0 854,151 3,996,889 1,532,844

39,243

0

278,605

0

Federal Government Dept. of Education Dept. of Labor Dept. of Health and Human Services Other (List) ARRA TOTAL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Student Tuition & Fees Tuition Fees Other Student Assessments TOTAL TUITION AND FEES Other Sources Sales and Service Fees Facilities Revenue Investment Revenue Nongovernmental Grants Other (List) Gifts TOTAL OTHER SOURCES TOTAL REVENUE

PUBLIC NOTICE

Dated October 30, 2013

PUBLIC NOTICE

Dated October 22, 2013

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, November 2, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE

g post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as SOLIS CONCRETE SERVICES located at 719 Birch Dr., Kirkland, IL 60146.

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, October 26, November 2 & 9, 2013.)

Published by: Cheryl Aldis, Town Clerk, Town of Cortland

PUBLIC NOTICE

DeKalb. Handyman's Office Suite. Heated garage w/storage facility. Office space avail now.

TOWNSEND MANAGEMENT 815-787-7368

SANDWICH AIRPORT Unique office space 750 sq ft to 3000 sq ft from $600 also attached 4000 sq ft hangar available. Sandwich Airport 815-786-7411

The Town of Cortland corporate authorities will consider formal approval of the Jurisdictional Boundary Line Agreement between the Village of Maple Park and the Town of Cortland at their meeting on December 9, 2013, at 7:00 p.m.

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SUSAN F. WALKER, Deceased

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, November 2, 9 & 16, 2013.)

WINTER STORAGE

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AUDITED EXPENDITURES BY PROGRAM REPORTS OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES SHABBONA VILLAGE LIBRARY (Flewellin Memorial Library) May 1, 2012 to April 30, 2013 SAVINGS-Balance Forward Interest on Savings Transfer from checking account Transfer to Checking Account SAVINGS-Balance Balance Forward Receipts: Book Sales Copier County Taxes Donations Interest on Checking Rural Fees Transfer from Savings Total Receipts

$

3,252.67 14.90 $3,267.57

$4,041.62

TRANSFERS $78.00 111.60 23,926.85 676.45 31.95 400.00 $25,246.85

Excess (of Deficiency) of Revenues over Expenditures

Expenditures: Books, Periodicals & DVDs $3,415.74 Checks, Safety Deposit Box & Ser. Charge 15.00 Computer/Internet 1,815.81 Gas Utility 655.05 Insurance 947.55 Library Services 340.00 Maintenance 255.00 Mileage 554.40 Office 570.25 Professional Fees 1,026.50 Salaries 12,176.50 Employer Soc .Sec./Medicare 931.53 Supplies 33.58 Total Expenditures $22,815.11

193,835

0

126,987

(54,841)

BEGINNING FUND BALANCE as of July 1, 2012

4,798,692

0

2,382,831

(56,989)

ENDING FUND BALANCE as of June 30, 2013

4,992,527

0

2,509,818 (111,830)

Kishwaukee College offers courses and programs to meet community needs.

The offerings include: vocational and technical education for persons who wish to gain job skills, or those who wish to improve their skills to prepare for advancement; two year baccalaureate oriented programs for students who wish to transfer to senior colleges and universities; adult basic and secondary education program for non-high school graduates; courses for adults who are seeking to further their education and/or enrich their cultural environment; trips and tours and Kids' College.

Specific programs in the vocational/technical area include degrees and certificates in: agriculture, automotive, computer information systems, criminal justice, diesel power technology, drafting and design, early childhood education, electronics, horticulture, manufacturing, marketing and management, nursing, office systems, quality control, radiology, therapeutic massage, and welding.

Balance

$6,473.36

TOTAL FUND BALANCE

$9,740.93

Savings Balance Checking Balance Nicor Escrow Accrued Payroll Taxes

Instruction Academic Support Student Services Public Services/Continuing Education Organized Research Auxiliary Enterprises Operation & Maintenance of Plant Scholarships, Student Grants, and Waivers Institutional Support TOTAL EXPENDITURES

$3,267.57 6,485.16 147.20 (159.00) $9,740.93 /s/ David Highland President

Students planning to transfer to a four-year college or university may elect to fulfill the Associate of Arts, the Associate of Science, The Associate in Fine Arts-Student Emphasis, The Associate in Fine Arts-Art Education Emphasis, or the Associate in Engineering Science Degrees. Careful planning of their education programs with a counselor/advisor facilitates the students' transfer to a four-year college or university. Counselors/advisors assist students in planning programs and selecting courses, incorporating Kishwaukee College's degrees requirements as well as the transfer requirements of the school the student plans to attend.

STAFF FUNCTION Instruction Academic Support Student Services Public Services General Institutional Support Operations & Maintenance

FULL-TIME 72 9 22 0 114 33

PART-TIME 249 0 8 0 211 4

TOTAL STUDENTS 1,900 4,921 4,298

FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT 585 3,126 2,825

Gross Wages under $25,000 Adrienne Costanza, Keven Drake, James Kline, Brian Mihalik, Mark Pahnke, Craig Pierce, Dorothy Quigley Gross Wages over $25.000 Jennifer Barton Total Wages 124,276 Total Disbursements 193,436 Cash Balance June 30, 2013 $236,292

STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF DEKALB Subscribed and sworn to before me, a Notary Public this 22nd day of May, 2013 /s/ Michelle Ganco (SEAL) Notary Public

ENROLLMENT

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, November 2, 2013.)

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, November 2, 2013.)

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OFFENSE Pos.Name (No.) Ht. Wt. Yr. QB Mike Wegzyn (11) 6-5 225 So. RB Lorenzo Woodley (20) 6-0 215 Fr. WR Bernard Davis (88) 6-1 180 So. WR Elgin Long (16) 5-10 189 So. WR Tajae Sharpe (1) 6-2 185 So. TE Rob Blanchflower (87) 6-4 260 Sr. LT Anthony Dima (70) 6-7 302 Sr. LG Tyrell Smith (69) 6-5 295 Fr. C Matt Sparks (78) 6-4 290 So. RG Vincent Westcarr (79) 6-4 330 Sr. RT David Osei (59) 6-4 290 Sr.

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NO. 21 NORTHERN ILLINOIS (8-0, 4-0 MAC WEST) AT MASSACHUSETTS (1-7, 1-3 MAC EAST) 11 A.M. TODAY AT GILLETTE STADIUM IN FOXBORO, MASS. TV: WPWR-50 | Radio: AM-1360, AM-670, 98.9-FM Latest updates: HuskieWire.com

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Name (No.) Ht. Wt. Yr. Jordan Lynch (6) 6-0 216 Sr. Cameron Stingily (42) 6-1 244 Jr. Rob Sterling (47) 5-10 231 Jr. Da’Ron Brown (4) 6-0 194 Jr. Tommylee Lewis (10) 5-7 155 Jr. Luke Eakes (83) 6-3 250 Jr. Tyler Loos (75) 6-5 282 Jr. Jared Volk (77) 6-3 315 Sr. Andrew Ness (55) 6-3 286 So. Aidan Conlon (61) 6-3 287 So. Ryan Brown (78) 6-6 283 Jr.

DEFENSE Pos. Name Ht. DT Galen Clemons (49) 6-2 DT Robert Kitching III (92) 6-1 DE Brandon Potvin (95) 6-1 DE Justin Anderson (50) 6-5 OLB Ed Saint-Vil (6) 5-11 ILB Stanley Andre (35) 6-2 OLB Jovan Santos-Knox (17) 6-2 CB Trey Dudley-Giles (9) 5-11 CB Randall Jette (4) 5-11 S Joe Colton (25) 5-10 S Devin Brown (10) 5-11

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Northern Illinois gained 75 points in the USA Today Coaches Poll after last week’s 59-20 win over a one-win Eastern Michigan team. Fresno State gained only 10 points after beating 3-4 San Diego State, even though it was in overtime. Style points matter, and the Huskies can gain some this week.

SPECIAL TEAMS Pos. Name Ht. PK Brendon Levengood (96) 6-1 P Colter Johnson (91) 6-4 KR Trey Dudley-Giles (9) 5-11 PR Trey Dudley-Giles (9) 5-11

the season, Jordan Lynch’s name is coming up more and more in the national media. The Minutemen have given up 436 yards of offense a game (10th in the MAC) and 227 rushing yards (11th). Lynch easily could boost more videogame like numbers this week.

1. Will NIU win big?

2. Who plays behind Stingily?

Tailback Cameron Stingily is probable this week, and if he plays, Stingily will get the majority of the carries. How will the other carries be split between James Spencer and freshmen Draco Smith and Joel Bouagnon?

Schedule/Results 1-7 OVERALL, 1-3 MAC EAST Aug. 31 at Wisconsin L, 45-0 Sept. 7 vs. Maine L, 24-14 Sept. 14 at Kansas State L, 37-7 Sept. 21 vs. Vanderbilt L, 24-7 Oct. 5 at Bowling Green* L, 28-7 Oct. 12 vs. Miami (Ohio)* W, 17-10 Oct. 19 at Buffalo* L, 32-3 Oct. 26 vs. Western Michigan* L, 31-30 Today vs. Northern Illinois* 11 a.m.

Nov. 16 vs. Akron* Noon Nov. 23 at Central Michigan* Noon Nov. 29 at Ohio* TBA * - Mid-American Conference game

3. Jordan Lynch’s numbers Eight games into

4. Defensive steps UMass is averaging 10.6 points a game. The Minutemen gain only 284 yards of total offense.

NIU’s defense has looked better and better as the season has gone on.

NIU running back James Spencer

5. Staying healthy The last thing NIU wants in a game like this is to suffer any sort of injury. The big test with Ball State is next, and the Huskies need to be at full strength.

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GAMEDAY PREVIEW

Minutemen progressing, but NIU still 23.5-point favorite Huskies counting on defense to keep on improving

MAC standings

WEST DIVISION MAC W L Ball State 5 0 Northern Illinois 4 0

By STEVE NITZ Toledo 3 1 snitz@shawmedia.com Central Michigan 2 2 Western Michigan 1 4 DeKALB – Like any program Eastern Michigan 0 4 that makes the transition from EAST DIVISION the Football Championship SubMAC division up to the Football Bowl W L Subdivision, the move hasn’t Buffalo 4 0 been easy for UMass.

Ohio 3 1 As was expected, the MinuteBowling Green 3 1 men struggled last year in their Massachusetts 1 3 initial season on college footAkron 1 4 ball’s top level, going 1-11.

This year has been a little bet- Kent State 1 4 ter, with UMass already equaling Miami (Ohio) 0 4 its 2012 win total, defeating Miami (Ohio), 17-10, at Gillette Stadium in Week 7. The Minutemen had a chance to beat Western Michigan last week, getting to within one point of the Broncos with 22 seconds remaining, but UMass coach Charley Molnar decided to go for a two-point conversion, and quarterback A.J. Doyle’s pass intended for Elgin Long went out of the end zone.

Despite the somewhat modest improvements, UMass still is struggling on offense, only averaging 10.6 points a game.

However, UMass’ 30-point effort last week was its second-highest point total in its two years in FBS. “They were really struggling offensively to score points, and then last week they score 30 points, and really it should have been 32 and (UMass should have) gotten the win,” NIU coach Rod Carey said. “So confidence is an

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Today’s Games Northern Illinois at Massachusetts, 11 a.m.

Kent State at Akron, 2:30 p.m.

Eastern Michigan at Toledo, 6 p.m. amazing thing for these 18- to 22-year-olds. All of a sudden you get it and all of a sudden you start playing a lot better.”

However, Doyle, who took over as starting quarterback in UMass’ 24-14 loss to Maine on Sept. 7, won’t play against NIU, who’s ranked No. 17 in the BCS standings, because of an injury.

Mike Wegzyn, who started 11 games last season and the team’s first two games this year, will take his place. Wegzyn has completed 52.4 percent of his passes for 330 yards and two touchdowns, while Doyle has a 56.5 completion percentage for 1,045 yards and five scores.

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Schedule/Results 8-0 OVERALL, 4-0 MAC WEST Aug. 31 at Iowa W, 30-27 Sept. 14 at Idaho W, 45-35 Sept. 21 vs. Eastern Illinois W, 43-39 Sept. 28 at Purdue W, 55-24 Oct. 5 at Kent State* W, 38-24 Oct. 12 vs. Akron* W, 27-20 Oct. 19 at Central Michigan* W, 38-17 Oct. 26 vs. Eastern Michigan* W, 59-20 Today at Massachusetts* 11 a.m.

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Nov. 20 at Toledo* 7 p.m.

Nov. 26 vs. Western Michigan* 6 p.m. * - Mid-American Conference game

Ross Jacobson and Steve Nitz face off

Surprises, disappointments for Huskies so far this year

Nitz: Northern Illinois is sitting in good shape at 8-0, and there has been more BCS talk each week. People expected the Huskies to be good this season, but I did not expect them to be unbeaten at this point.

Which player has been NIU’s biggest surprise so far?

Jacobson: A lot of people will point to Cameron Stingily and his emergence in the NIU backfield, but I’ll go to the other side of the ball and pick out Dechane Durante. Jimmie Ward gets much of the notoriety – and deservedly so – but Durante has been a stellar counterpart at safety in his first season as the starter.

Durante, who is taking the place of Demetrius Stone, already has more tackles (40) and interceptions (three) than he did all of last season. Durante also has two forced fumbles.

Nitz: Great point on Durante, NIU’s safety tandem has been excellent so far this season.

To me, Stingily is an easy answer.

The guy had one carry a season ago and has been one of the better tailbacks in the Mid-American Conference this year.

Another huge boost has been defensive end Perez Ford, who like Stingily, is a product of Romeoville High School. Ford leads the Huskies with

six tackles for loss and is tied for the team lead with 3.5 sacks. I think a lot of people, including myself, wondered why his redshirt was burned last year, but he credits playing in 2012 for this year’s success.

Jacobson: In terms of disappointments, it actually was really hard for me to find anybody in particular.

The obvious candidates are the other running backs outside of Stingily, like Keith Harris, Akeem Daniels and Giorgio Bowers, but those are mainly injury-related or off-field issues.

There was a lot of hope for Juwan Brescacin coming into this season, but he just hasn’t been too productive. He has only 14 catches on the season and Jordan Lynch really seems to look for Tommylee Lewis and Da’Ron Brown, who have combined for 91 receptions.

It might be nit-picking, especially because NIU spreads the ball around so much, but Brescacin hasn’t done much outside of the Purdue game, in which he had four receptions for 65 yards and a touchdown.

Nitz: I also expected more from Brescacin, although like you said, NIU is deep at the receiver spot, and the depth is better with Angelo Sebastiano healthy again.

Although I mentioned the safety play as something that has been huge for the Huskies, I think we could see more at corner. The Huskies have struggled at times on the outside, and the injury to the top cornerback Sean Evans has not helped. Coach Rod Carey said he had hoped to have him back this week. NIU is going to need him on the field Nov. 13 when Ball State and quarterback Keith Wenning come to DeKalb.

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Daily Chronicle sports editor Ross Jacobson and sports reporter Steve Nitz spend their days covering the area’s sports scene. Occasionally, they give their viewpoints on those local sports. In this installment of their Take 2 column, they discuss NIU’s surprises and disappointments so far this season.

NIU’s defense has improved as the season has gone on. Each opponent’s yardage total has decreased every week since the Purdue game. This afternoon, the Huskies will have a chance to shine. Last year, NIU’s 63-0 win over the Minutemen at Huskie Stadium was its only shutout of the season.

“Yeah, the last few weeks I feel like we’re steadily progressing and building on each week,” middle linebacker Boomer Mays said. “I think that’s key in what we’re doing to establish ourselves as a defense.”

Should the Huskies, 23.5-point favorites, improve to 9-0, the talk of returning to another BCS bowl won’t stop.

By all accounts, the NIU has done a good job of ignoring the outside talk.

“We know our rankings,” Mays said, “but we have the mindset of every week, we’re 0-0, and we have to face our next opponent, and we’re looking forward to Saturday.”

Pos. Name Ht. Wt. Yr. NG Anthony Wells (91) 6-3 276 Sr. DT Ken Bishop (93) 6-1 308 Sr. DE George Rainey (46) 6-2 222 Sr. DE Joe Windsor (97) 6-0 236 Sr. MLB Boomer Mays (45) 6-0 230 So. OLB M. Santacaterina (45) 5-10 210 Jr. OLB Jamaal Bass (6) 5-10 225 Jr. CB Marlon Moore (21) 5-9 180 So. CB Jhony Faustin (5) 5-8 179 Sr. SS Jimmie Ward (15) 5-11 192 Sr. FS Dechane Durante (1) 6-2 196 Jr.

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