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LEFT: North Grove Elementary School Principal Ryan Janisch talks about the all school fundraiser with the PTO on Friday during an assembly. The Sycamore school was built six years ago and has 416 students enrolled. The students raised $19,413.19 during the fundraiser.

ABOVE: Cameren Reynolds (center), a third-grader at North Grove Elementary School reacts to winning a night’s stay at Key Lime Cove and waterpark passes during the raffle Friday during an assembly. Cameren was the top fundraiser at the Sycamore school. Sycamore School District 427 saw a 2 percent decrease in enrollment from the 2009-10 school year to the 201314 school year.

Student numbers dip Most DeKalb County school districts seeing enrollment drops

By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com Genoa-Kingston District 424 Superintendent Joe Burgess knows if his district keeps losing students at the rate it is now, leaders are about five years away from considering consolidating elementary schools.

District 424 lost 183 students, a little more than 9 percent, between the 2009-10 school year and last school year, fall enrollment counts from the Illinois

Judge: Pension law is unconstitutional

By JOHN O’CONNOR and KERRY LESTER The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – An Illinois judge tossed out a landmark law Friday intended to fix the nation’s worst government-employee pension crisis, ruling that the plan lawmakers adopted less than a year ago violates the state constitution’s ban on reducing retirement benefits once they’re promised.

The ruling will be appealed to the state Supreme Court, the Illinois attorney general’s office said.

The pension patch that legislators and Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn OK’d last December was intended to make up for years of government under-

according to the most recent available data from the state.

So the same districts that were scrambling to handle climbing enrollment a decade ago are now faced with the different, but equally threatening, problem: how to balance budgets, in some cases by cutting staff or programs, while still attracting new families.

Burgess has watched the number of students drop since

State Board of Education show.

It’s hitting the district’s budget and pushing leaders to find alternate uses for rooms intended to hold classes.

“You hope to see things turn around,” Burgess said. “We have to maintain our buildings and programs so that if people are locating to the DeKalb County area, they want to move here.”

Area school districts as a whole lost 3 percent of students between 2009 to last school year,

funding that had left the state’s retirements accounts roughly $100 billion short of what they need to cover benefits promised to employees.

But Sangamon County Circuit Judge John Belz didn’t buy the argument that in times of crisis, the state’s sovereignty – essentially, its “police powers” – allow it to impose extraordinary measures.

“The state of Illinois made a constitutionally protected promise to its employees concerning their pension benefits,” Belz wrote in a six-page opinion. “Under established and uncontroverted Illinois law, the state of Illinois cannot break its promise.”

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See ENROLLMENT, page A10

School enrollment District Genoa-Kingston D-424 Indian Creek D-425 Hiawatha D-426 Sycamore D-427 DeKalb D-428 Hinckley-Big Rock D-429 Sandwich D-430 Somonauk D-432

2009-10 2013-14 Change 2,020 1,834 9 percent decrease 848 763 10 percent decrease 605 611 1 percent increase 3,814 3,738 2 percent decrease 6,018 6,249 4 percent increase 761 695 9 percent decrease 2,461 2,264 8 percent decrease 995 821 17 percent decrease Source: Illinois State Board of Education

Sycamore names police chief

By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI

Glenn Theriault’s bio

jduchnowski@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – Glenn Theriault took the exam to apply to be a police officer at his brothers’ insistence, expecting to be rejected and go to law school instead.

Lo and behold, he was offered a position at the Elgin Police Department about 20 years ago and joined two brothers in the profession.

He worked his way up to the rank of operations commander, and will be retiring from that department to replace retiring Sycamore Police Chief Don Thomas in January.

“What better community could you want to raise your family in?” said Theriault, who lived in Sycamore for 5 years several years ago. “It’s what I explain to people as a

Age: 42 Family: Wife, 14-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter Education: Bachelor’s degree in law enforcement administration from Marian University and a master’s degree in public administration from Northern Illinois University Career: 20 years with the Elgin Police Department

to Thomas’ annual salary of $109,505, Sycamore City Manager Brian Gregory said.

They’ll consider the contract ager with approval from the Dec. 1, and Theriault is schedCity Council, so aldermen uled to start Jan. 5. will consider a three-year Theriault was one of contract for Theriault in which his annual salary will See POLICE, page A9 be $107,600, which is similar Photo provided

Glenn Theriault has been selected as Sycamore’s next police chief, pending approval from the Sycamore City Council.

Mid-American small town.

It’s really a great community to return to.”

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DEKALB Annual Holiday Craft and Norwegian Bake Sale Time: 7 – 10:30 a.m. Saturday Place: Trinity Lutheran Church, 303 S. Seventh St. Information: 815-756-7374 All-You-Can-Eat Country Breakfast will be at the same time. Cost is $7 for adults and $4 for children.

Yesterday’s Reader Poll results

Today’s Reader Poll question

Do you fish?

What’s the longest you’ve worked for the same employer?

Only rarely: 42 percent I never have: 28 percent Yes, occasionally: 25 percent Yes, even on the ice: 5 percent

DeKalb Elks Lodge Vendor and Craft Fair Time: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday Place: DeKalb Elks Lodge, 209 S. Annie Glidden Road Information: cgreendeutsch@ yahoo.com The vendor and craft fair will benefit the Kishwaukee United Way.

• Less than 5 years • 5-10 years • 10-20 years • 20-35 years • More than 35 years

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‘Holiday Traditions’ at the Ellwood House Museum Time: 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday and 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Sunday Place: Ellwood House Museum, 509 N. First St. Cost: $8 adults, $3 ages 6-17, children under age 6 free Information: 815-756-4609 DeKalb Festival Chorus Presents Handel’s ‘Messiah’ Time: 7 p.m. Saturday Place: First Lutheran Church, 324 N. Third St. Cost: $12 individual, $25 family, $8 students Information: 815-517-0243 or www.dekalbfestivalchorus.org ‘Got Broadway Rhythm, Everybody Dance!’

Time: 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday Place: Huntley Middle School Auditorium, 1515 S. First St Cost: $16 adults, $13 seniors, $8 students Information: 815-753-1600 or www.niu.edu/theatre Northern Illinois University School of Theatre & Dance presentation features eight dance numbers from popular Broadway musicals. The performance may not be appropriate for children younger than 12.

Glidden Homestead Tours Time: Noon – 4 p.m. Sunday Place: Glidden Homestead, 921 W. Lincoln Highway Cost: Adults $4, children 13 and younger free Information: 815-756-7904 or www.gliddenhomestead.org ‘Get the Picture?’ Reception Time: 2 – 4 p.m. Sunday Place: DeKalb Area Women’s Center Galleries, 1021 State St. Information: 815-758-1351 See cameras and accessories through the years, from vintage glass plates through disposables and modern digital.

Beloved Community Potluck and Community Conversation Time: 5 – 7 p.m. Sunday Place: New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 1201 Twombly Road Information: 815-793-4644 or 815-508-2836 Call if coming or bringing a dish to pass.

Society for Creative Anachronism Fighter’s Practice Time: 6 – 8 p.m. Sunday Place: Liberty Park, off Shipman Place Information: www.carraigban. org

LEE N.I.C.E. Food Pantry Time: 8:15 – 11 a.m. Saturday Place: 346 S. County Line Road

SYCAMORE Blood Drive Time: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturday Place: Bill Cho, 1598 DeKalb Ave. Information: 815-895-2008 or www.heartlandbc.org Holiday Arts & Crafts Market Time: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday Place: Old Train Depot, 475 DeKalb Ave. Information: 815-790-6111 Hosted by Kishwaukee Valley Art League. More than 30 artisans will sell items such as jewelry, ceramics, paintings, woodworking, and photography.

Free Movie: ‘White Christmas’ Time: 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday Place: Sycamore Theatre, 420 W. State St.

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They’re bringing in trash EDITOR’S NOTE Eric Olson For better or worse, more trash – and more cash – have begun rolling into DeKalb County.

In August, Waste Management and the county agreed the company could get a jump on plans to start trucking more garbage into the area and burying it in the DeKalb County landfill, just south of Interstate 88 near Cortland.

The only real clue was the smell. Back when the weather was warm and the wind was right, that pungent landfill smell would pop you in the nose as right around the time when the signs on I-88 announced you’d entered the “DeKalb Area.”

Some residents even complained to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency about it.

The amount of trash deposited in the expanded landfill has steadily grown.

In August, according to county records, there were 18,000 tons of trash sent here.

September’s total was about 25,000 tons. In October, it was around 30,000 tons.

The fee revenues have begun to add up for DeKalb County government, too. August’s take was about $84,000.

September’s was $114,000. October’s was almost $140,000.

The ramp-up isn’t over, either. For 2015, the county’s financial projections call for Waste Management to take the amount of trash they dump into the landfill to the contractual limit of 500,000 tons a year, said Peter Steffan, the county’s finance director.

At that level, the county estimates it will collect about $2.2 million in tipping fees next year, and that estimate might be on the conservative side, Steffan said.

“We’re just going to see how it goes next year,” Steffan said. “Based on how this has grown, it looks like they’re inching up to that level.”

The DeKalb County Forest Preserve District will get

expand the jail,” Scott said.

“Until then, we need to have staff that can deal with the increase in population and the increased number of people we have to transport.”

Jails and prisons are typically a low priority when it comes to spending public money. A tax increase referendum to expand the jail was turned down multiple times, most recently in 2006, which is how we got in this garbage situation in the first place.

But the thing to remember Daily Chronicle File Photo about a jail is that it’s not A waste management employee uses a tarp to cover the active landonly a place where the guilty fill site April 5, 2010, at Waste Management in Cortland. The daily are held. By the letter of the act of covering the active site with plastic and soil is contain garlaw, people held there awaitbage and odors as well as keep disease carrying rodents and birds ing trial are innocent until out of the landfill. proved guilty in court.

It is Scott’s responsibilIn October, Scott and Lt. $100,000, the county’s Solid ity, as well as our own, to Joyce Klein told the county’s Waste Program, which fokeep them safe while they Law and Justice Committee cuses on recycling, will take are jailed. It is also Scott’s another $200,000, Steffan said. that the jail’s average daily responsibility and ours to population so far this year The plan for the remainensure that the corrections was 142, a more than 40 ing $1.9 million, along with percent increase from 2007, officers are safe. many millions to come, apBut having a ratio of two parently remains to use it for according to the meeting minutes. Meanwhile, the or three corrections officers expanding the county jail, a for 80 to 90 inmates, a situaproject that could cost almost county jail staff had detion Scott said “does happen $30 million, although County creased by one, to 27.

Jail guards put in more Board members said they frequently” in an interview than 2,000 hours of overtime don’t want to spend more this week, doesn’t sound safe in 2013 and will rack up more for anyone. than $23 million. than that this year, Scott told That’s the plan, unless The money the county the committee members. In lawsuits from the Regional will collect through this the past couple of months, Transportation Authority project will continue comtwo prisoners have attemptover airline fuel purchases ing in long after the jail is ed to hang themselves, but costs the county $2 million done. The county’s deal with didn’t succeed only because or so in annual sales tax Waste Management requires officers were able to get to revenue. the company to deposit 22 them in time, he said.

We should all hope that million tons of trash on the The county jail is just doesn’t come to pass. If you site. If the property changes around the corner from believe DeKalb County Sherdowntown Sycamore, but it’s hands, the new owner will iff Roger Scott, who makes the have the same requirement. out of sight, out of mind for situation at the lockup sound most of us. At least, it will That means, even if they like a ticking time bomb. be until officers can’t get to dump as much as they can The jail has 89 beds, but someone who’s decided to every year, it will take Waste they can’t all be in use all the hurt themselves or someone Management more than 40 time. Men and women have else. years to meet the requireto separated. Some prisoners “Nobody really grasps ment, Steffan said. need to be isolated from othwhat goes on,” Scott said.

That’s a lot of garbage, ers for a variety of reasons.

Scott said he needs more and a lot of money, too. Let’s The functional capacity of corrections officers. He said hope that it can be used for the lockup is more like 72 he needs four more, but he some public good in the years beds, Scott said, but they’re knew he’d never get them all, holding 80 to 90 people at so he asked for two. He didn’t ahead because that landfill is certain to get a lot larger. any given time and sending get those either, although 40 to 50 more to other jails, a an increase in state funding • Eric Olson is editor of the service for which the county might make that possible in Daily Chronicle. Reach him pays dearly.

January. at 815-756-4841 ext. 2257, email On weekends, prisoners Even if the county apare held in interview rooms, proves the new jail guards, it eolson@shawmedia.com, or left to sleep on floors, Scott won’t solve the real problem. or follow him on Twitter @ “What we truly need is to said.

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Buffalo faces flooding after snow

By CAROLYN THOMPSON The Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. – Residents of western New York may soon have to worry about water in their basements as well as the snow on their roofs.

After a three-day onslaught that dumped a historic 7 feet of snow on the Buffalo area and killed at least 12 people, the sun came out Friday, but so did predictions of flooding caused by rain, temperatures up to 60 degrees and blocked catch basins.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state would send pumps, boats, helicopters and high-axle vehicles that can operate in 4 to 5 feet of water.

“If we’re lucky we won’t need any of it,” he said. “But prepare for the worst and hope for the best.”

The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for Sunday through Wednesday. Officials urged people to put off nonessential travel so snow removal efforts could progress. Cuomo reopened a 132-mile stretch of the state Thruway that had been closed since Tuesday, but several exit ramps remained closed along the westernmost 75 miles.

Local travel bans were beginning to be lifted Friday so delivery trucks can bring in food and other essentials to de-

parks in suburban Cheektowaga and West Seneca on Thursday because roofs were buckling. At least 90 small roof collapses involving carports and other structures had been reported by Friday morning, in addition to damage to a pharmacy and a metal warehouse operated by a Christmas decorations company, where damage was estimated in the millions.

Some farm animals had been injured in damaged barns, Tobe said.

Friday’s improved weather inspired some homeowners to climb onto roofs to shovel off the snow and reduce the danger AP photo of collapse.

“Five hours yesterday and that’s just Volunteer firefighters ride snowmobiles along Clinton Street on Thursday in West the beginning,” John Normile of Lake Seneca, N.Y. A new blast of lake-effect snow View said as he and his daughter and her pounded Buffalo for a third day. The snowfall boyfriend cleared up to 6 feet of snow from could leave some areas with nearly 8 feet of the roof of his ranch-style home.

Weather Service meteorologist Jon snow on the ground when it’s done.

Hitchcock said there might be trouble pleted supermarkets, the governor said. with drainage as snow and the uncollectHe warned, however, that the lifted ban ed autumn leaves underneath blocked catch basins. was not a signal that “all is fine.”

“The biggest flood threat would be on More than 30 major roof collapses, most involving farm and flat-roof build- Monday when temperatures are at their ings, were reported overnight, officials warmest,” he said. “There could be genersaid Friday, and warm temperatures al urban flooding.”

The American Red Cross issued an apcould make the snow even heavier.

Richard Tobe, the deputy Erie County peal for blood donations in the Rochester executive, said more than 50 people were area, saying the snowstorms caused the evacuated from several mobile home cancellation of more than 50 blood drives.

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Time capsule discovered in Barbland demolition

By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – DeKalb Park District leaders have figured out where to move memorial bricks from Adventures in Barbland playground, but now they need to answer another question that surfaced during demolition.

What’s inside a time capsule from 1993 found at the site?

“I think it’s plans for the park,” project manager Todd Bex. “and a couple things from 1993.”

Bex said crews found it under a section of benches they removed. The originally thought it was a drainage tile, but uncovered a cylinder with

How to help To contact DeKalb Park District Executive Director Jason Mangum about the time capsule discovered at Adventures in Barbland, call 815-758-6663 ext. 124 or email jmangum@dekalbparkdistrict.com.

‘Time Capsul 1993” written in black maker on the side. The label was, indeed, spelled incorrectly.

Park District Director Jason Mangum is planning an event to open the time capsule, but it will sit in his office until then.

He’s trying to find people involved in burying the

capsule 21 years ago, and encourages people who were involved to call him.

Meanwhile, they plan to install about 600 bricks from the playground at the nearby flagpole in the spring.

They’ve removed all the bricks from the area for now because people were starting to take them, Mangum said.

“We want to re-purpose them and create something really nice,” he said.

Crews in late October removed the playground at 900 Garden St., near the former Chesebro Elementary School because the wooden structure was outdated and not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act standards.

The demolition came as a

surprise to Sycamore resident Arlita Simon, who bought a brick for her mother, Rita Kirk, when the playground was built in 1993.

Kirk lived in DeKalb from 1993 until she died in 1999. Simon said she used to take her children to the playground at 900 Garden St. to show them “grandma’s brick.”

She hasn’t visited the brick in a few years, but she said it was a comforting thought to know it was there.

“I suppose it would be fine if it’s going to be put into some other project in DeKalb,” Simon said. “I just thought if it was just going to be piled up somewhere, I’d rather have it in my garden.”

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DeKalb Park District capital project crew members Tom Boyce (from left) and Roger Olsen and projects manager Todd Bex hold the time capsule they found while demolishing the Adventures in Barbland playground.

LOCAL BRIEFS Tips sought about stolen electronics CORTLAND – Police are seeking information about electronic components used in studio-recording and DJ equipment that were stolen from a self-storage unit.

The incident happened during the past several months from a self-storage unit on Stephanie Drive in Cortland, according to a news release.

Anyone with information should call DeKalb County Crime Stoppers at 815-8953272 or email crimestoppers@ dekalbcounty.org. Crime Stoppers pays a cash reward of up to $1,000 for anonymous tips.

DeKalb library hosting winter reading club DeKALB – DeKalb Public Library is starting a winter reading club with a theme of “The Together is Better” for children up to age 12 and their families.

Participants will log their reading between Dec. 1 and Jan. 1 and earn a free book,

according to a news release.

In addition, children’s choir Vocal Voices will carol at the library at 3 p.m. Dec. 9, and the library will host a “Polar Express” event and movie at 10 a.m. Dec. 13.

Tweens will be able to make holiday cookies at 6:30 p.m.

Dec. 16.

A Holiday Shenanigans event will feature the Rodriguez Family Quintet, holiday snacks, hot cocoa, read-alouds, activities and games at 7 p.m. Dec. 18, the news release states.

At the end of the month, library staff will show Disney’s “Frozen” at 2 p.m. Dec. 30 and host a Frozen Princess Party by Royal Remembrance at 1 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 31.

Families may visit the Youth Services Desk at the library, 309 Oak St., to register, receive a calendar of events, and get more information. They also may call Theresa at 815-7569568 ext. 250.

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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.

Memorial mass for Catherine A. (Smith) Grimm will be Saturday, November 29th at 11:00 a.m. at Christ the Teacher University parish, 512 Normal Road, DeKalb, IL. She is a Sycamore High graduate of 1973 and the daughter of Mary and the late Everell Smith.

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ISABEL J. PARRISH Born: Jan. 17, 1930; in Sandwich, IL Died: Nov. 21, 2014; in Shabbona, IL Isabel J. Parrish, age 84, of Plano, IL, passed away on Friday, November 21, 2014, at the Prairie Crossing Living and Rehabilitation Center in Shabbona, IL. She was born on January 17, 1930, in Sandwich, IL, the daughter of Richard and Nina (Parisot) Dreishmire.

She was a lifelong resident of the area. To her friends and family she was known as Iz or Izzy. She was united in marriage to Robert Parrish on November 1, 1948 and they spent the next 40 happy years together until his passing on August 6, 1989.

Izzy was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary Post 395 in Plano, IL. She had been a member of the Illinois Norsk Rosemalers Association, enjoyed painting and was known for her rosemaling.

She had also been a member of the Little Rock Township Cemetery Board. She and her husband Bob owned and operated a local business, Sandwich Iron Foundry, for many years. In her life she bowled in local leagues, golfed, and enjoyed spending time in Las Vegas, NV. She is survived by one daughter, Polly; two sisters, Charlene Denault of Shabbona, IL and Marcille Voss of Somonauk, IL; as well as many nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Bob; her parents, Dick and Nina Dreishmire; and one brother, David Dreishmire.

A Memorial Service will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, November 24, 2014, at the Larson-Nelson Funeral Home, 1010 W. South St., Plano, IL. Interment will be private. Friends may visit from 2:00 p.m. until the Hour of Service on Monday, November 24, 2014, at the Larson-Nelson Funeral Home in Plano, IL. Memorials in loving memory of Izzy may be directed to a charity of the donor’s choice.

Arrangements by Nelson Funeral Homes & Crematory, (630)5537611 or www.NelsonFuneralHomes.com.

Christopher J. Boone, 41, of the 1100 block of Market Street, DeKalb, was charged with burglary.

Amanda J. Brown, 35, of the 1100 block of Market Street, DeKalb, was charged recently with burglary.

Tytianna M. Doty, 19, of the 800 block of Kimberly Drive, DeKalb, was charged Saturday, Nov. 8, with battery and criminal damage to property.

Melissa R. Grizely, 19, of the 300 block of Foxfire Drive, Lake Zurich, was charged Saturday, Nov. 8, with underage drinking.

Caitlyn N. Maloney, 19, of the 900 block of Pheasant Ridge Drive, Lake Zurich, was charged Saturday, Nov. 8, with underage drinking.

Jerome V. Fields, 25, of the 600 block of Annie Glidden Road, DeKalb, was charged Saturday, Nov. 8, with

Born: Sept. 10, 1945; in Sycamore, IL Died: Nov. 20, 2014; in Sycamore, IL

Jeremy L. Lloyd, 34, of the 9200 block of Aldrich Road, Sycamore, was charged Wednesday, Nov. 19, with domestic battery.

Northern Illinois University Sean R. Fallon, 24, of the 600 block of Russell Road, DeKalb, was charged Wednesday, Nov. 19, with driving under the influence.

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Travis Catalina, director of social services for the DeKalb Salvation Army, takes donated turkeys out of a shopping cart during WLBK’s “Let’s Talk Turkey” donation event Friday. Nearly 850 families have registered with The Salvation Army for extra food help this Thanksgiving. As of noon, 121 turkeys and $2,676 had been donated at the event.

Illinois prepares for immigration action the U.S. illegally.

The announcement infuriated Republicans, who said CHICAGO – Obama travels Obama overstepped his presito his home state next week to dential authority. Obama said detail his executive actions, lawmakers should approve a which potentially shield from proposal to overhaul immigradeportation as many as 5 mil- tion laws that is stalled in the lion immigrants living in the GOP-led House.

U.S. illegally.

Here’s a look at where ILLINOIS’ RECEPTION things stand in Illinois: The mood at a viewing party in Chicago’s heavily-MexiOBAMA’S ACTION can Pilsen neighborhood was Obama used his executive celebratory and somber. powers to change U.S. immiActivists who made Illigration laws, saying during a nois a leader in immigrants’ speech Thursday night that rights movements said many enforcement would focus on families no longer have to live “felons, not families.” in fear. But others who said Those who stand to benefit action was long overdue were most are immigrants who’ve frustrated because many othlived in the U.S. illegally for ers won’t see benefits. more than five years but The Illinois Coalition for whose children are citizens Immigrant and Refugee Rights or permanent residents. Af- launched a website for upter background checks and dates – www.ILisReady.org fees, those individuals will be – and planned weekend celeable to obtain work permits. brations. Meanwhile, Illinois Obama is also expanding a Attorney General Lisa Madi2012 directive that deferred gan warned of potential scams deportation for some young in the wake of the announceimmigrants. ment, such as demanding fees The move could impact less for fraudulent immigration than half of the estimated 11.2 services. million immigrants living in Illinois’ Democratic leadThe Associated Press

STATE BRIEFS Study shows impact of military in Illinois SPRINGFIELD – A new study shows the military and defense industry supports $13.3 billion in economic activity in Illinois.

The statewide economic impact study was released Thursday by the Lt. Governor Sheila Simon’s Office and the Illinois Chamber of Commerce Foundation. It also shows the industry has helped create 150,000 jobs and supports about 2 percent of the state’s gross domestic product.

Scott Air Force Base near Belleville, the Rock Island Arsenal in the Quad Cities and the Naval Station Great Lakes have the largest impact. The study shows the three bases support 85,000 jobs and contribute $9.1 million to the Illinois economy.

Simon says the new figures should help prove the importance of Illinois military bases,

in case Congress decides to realign or close bases in the next two years.

140 frozen turkeys stolen from market WATERLOO – Police in southern Illinois are investigating the theft of 140 frozen turkeys from a locked refrigerated trailer outside a meat market.

The pre-Thanksgiving thefts happened sometime between Monday evening and when Schneider’s Quality Meats and Catering in Waterloo opened Tuesday morning, the Belleville News-Democrat reported.

Store owner Mark Lengacher said surveillance video from a neighboring business shows a van filled with 35 cases of turkeys. Waterloo Police Chief Jim Trantham said he is hopeful that video will give officers more information.

– Wire reports

ers, including some who have played key roles in national reform efforts, praised Obama.

“President Obama is using his pen to help the country and we celebrate his courage,” said U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, who has long pushed for an overhaul and helped mobilize activists.

But Illinois Republicans, including U.S. Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Aaron Schock, said in a joint statement that the plan ignores the U.S. Constitution and does “more harm than good.”

ILLINOIS IMMIGRANTS Six states including Illinois are home to more than half of the immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, according to a November study by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.

However, the immigrant population in Illinois dropped by about 30,000 between 2009 and 2012, to about 475,000 people. Researchers attributed the change to fewer immigrants from Mexico crossing the border.

Illinois already has some of the country’s strongest policies benefiting immigrants.

Fall harvest nearly complete in central Illinois PEORIA – A successful harvest season is wrapping up in central Illinois as farmers finish gathering their corn and soybean crops from the fields.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that 94 percent of the state’s corn and 95 percent of soybean harvest had been completed as of Sunday. Although prices have fallen about $2 a bushel for both corn and soybeans, experts and farmers alike agree that the yields have made this harvest a success, The [Peoria] Journal Star reported.

“This was a great year, one of the best on record with corn yields over 200 bushels

an acre,” Peoria County Farm Bureau manager Patrick Kirchhofer said.

The national yield average for corn is 173.4 bushels an acre, while the soybeans are at 47.5 bushels an acre, according to the federal agency.

“We were seeing yields of more than 70 bushels an acre in some soybean fields. You’d run into plants with the disease and the yield-per-acre would drop to 50 bushels or so. Normally, you’d be happy to get 50 bushels of soybeans in an acre,” said Mike Hoeft, who farms in the Delavan area. “The yields may be the best I’ve ever had. Of course, prices are down on the Board of Trade.”

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affected by a crop disease that has reduced yields in soybean fields across central Illinois.

“The corn has been consistently good. On the soybean side, results have been good but we’ve seen some sudden-death syndrome,” said Mike Schachtrup, a Peoria County farmer who tends to 6,000 acres in several neighboring counties. “I think this area and Springfield became ground zero for a lot of the sudden-death. On some of the flat, black soil, I think it was a case of too much moisture.”

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James Alan Wennemar, 69, of Sycamore passed away suddenly Thursday, November 20, 2014, at home.

Born September 10, 1945, in Sycamore; the son of Herman and Margaret M. (Howe) Wennemar. Graduate of Sycamore High School. Married Martha Lovellette December 21, 1978, in Las Vegas.

James worked for Ideal Industries as a design engineer. He was an avid Bears fan, always taking time to watch every game. He also enjoyed golf, trips to casinos with his wife, watching his grandchildren, and being with his family.

Survivors include his wife, Martha; children, David (Laurie) Wennemar, Dana Klassen, and Barb Scarborough; grandchildren; siblings, Agnes (Bill) Keller and Carl (Angela) Wennemar.

Predeceased by his parents; and brother, Alvin Wennemar.

Visitation will be Tuesday, November 25, 2014, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at Olson Funeral & Cremation Services, Ltd., Quiram Sycamore Funeral Chapels, 1245 Somonauk Street. Funeral service will be at 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 25, at Quiram Sycamore Funeral Chapel, with Pastor Stephen Persson officiating.

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Delbert R. Isham, 46, of the 300 block of Hickory Street, DeKalb, was charged Saturday, Nov. 8, with domestic battery.

Joseph R. Dinardo, 52, of the 900 block of West Dresser Road, was charged Saturday, Nov. 8, with domestic battery and intimidation.

Ian D. Flynn, 29, of the 200 block of West Locust Street, DeKalb, was charged Saturday, Nov. 8, with unlawful possession of firearms and air guns, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Shataja T. Johnson, 25, of the 900 block of Crane Drive, DeKalb, was charged Sunday, Nov. 9, with retail theft.

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Woman, 93, marks 75 years with same company

By JAY REEVES

In an image from video, Frances Moore, 93, puts a tag on a necklace at Bromberg & Co. jewelry Tuesday in Mountain Brook, Ala. Moore has worked for the company for 75 years.

The Associated Press MOUNTAIN BROOK, Ala. – Frances Moore was hired to help out for the holidays at an Alabama jewelry store in 1939, and she’s still there.

The 93-year-old Birmingham woman is celebrating 75 years as an employee of the family-owned Bromberg & Co., which dates to 1836 and is one of the nation’s oldest family-owned retailers.

“Frances is a remarkable person,” said Bromberg’s Presi-

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Moore was hired to polish silver at Bromberg’s on Nov. 21, 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president and before

the United States entered World War II. She made $8 a week initially, but she was happy since the trolley ride to work only cost only 7 cents. She soon transferred to gift wrap. By about 1970, Moore was managing the company’s multimillion-dollar jewelry inventory.

“I didn’t think I’d live 75 years let alone work for somebody 75 years,” Moore said Monday as she put tags on rings and bracelets for sale.

Moore said her parents taught her to work hard and

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“Anything I wanted to do in the store I started going it,” she said. “I’d go move from one department to the other because I just like going around in the store and looking at the pretty things.”

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By KEN THOMAS The Associated Press NEW YORK –Hillary Rodham Clinton voiced support Friday for President Barack Obama’s use of executive actions to protect about 5 million immigrants from deportation, setting up a sharp contrast with Republicans on an issue that could play a leading role in the next presidential campaign.

“I think the president took an historic step and I support it,” Clinton said in an appearance at the New York Historical Society, embracing her fellow Democrat’s moves to address immigration.

The former secretary of state, a potential Democratic presidential candidate, said Obama’s actions were in line with previous moves by Democratic and Republican presidents alike and urged Congress

to “follow the lead” of a measure approved in the Senate in 2013. She also placed the efforts in the context of families, many of whom she said are longtime residents raising children and paying taxes.

It was Clinton’s first public comments on Obama’s immigration orders, which have been harshly criticized by many Republicans in Congress who accuse Obama of overstepping his executive powers.

Study: CEOs in year’s10 big mergers to get $430M

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Clinton issued a statement shortly after Obama’s speech Thursday night expressing support.

Charging hypocrisy, the Republican National Committee released a Web video earlier in the day that included the audio of an April 2008 Clinton speech in which she criticized President George W. Bush’s use of signing statements and other means “to transform the executive into an imperial presiden-

cy.”

Clinton spoke about the immigration plan during an interview with Walter Isaacson, the biographer and CEO of the Aspen Institute, at the event.

Clinton said she was studying the life and presidency of Theodore Roosevelt and discussed the need for Americans to find a “common purpose.”

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Ready for Hillary, a Democratic super PAC unaffiliated with Clinton, convened the meeting of 200 financial backers and Clinton insiders to prepare for a campaign.

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The CEOs who’ve decided to sell in the 10 biggest U.S. deals this year are set to rake in an estimated $430 million in “golden parachute” payments, according to a study done by pay-tracking firm Equilar at the request of The Associated Press. Translation: It would take the typical American household 830 years of work to get what the average CEO will receive in one fell swoop.

The payoffs are often negotiated when CEOs are hired.

They’re designed to compensate chief executives for losing their jobs and years of big pay so they won’t stand in the way of a sale that is good for shareholders.

But some critics say the packages are so lavish, they can be an incentive to strike iffy deals.

Among the grab-bag of goodies in some packages are selling bonuses, cash for agreeing not to join a rival, severance, cash to help pay taxes, and lumpsum compensation for giving up corporate cars and other corner-office perquisites. The biggest haul is in the form of stock that the CEOs arguably could have gotten if they didn’t sell. But they would have had to run their companies for several more years and, in many cases, hit certain performance goals.

Numerous studies have shown that many M&A deals are bad for shareholders of the combined companies in the long run. Since the financial crisis six years ago, big companies have mostly resisted the urge to merge. But not recently. On Monday alone two deals worth a combined $100 billion

NATION BRIEF Marine with robotic leg braces gets Bronze Star SAN DIEGO – Marine Corps officials said a special operations officer left paralyzed by a sniper’s bullet in Afghanistan walked using robotic leg braces in a ceremony to award him a Bronze Star. The event Friday at Camp Pendleton also marked the retirement of Capt. Derek Herrera after 8 ½ years in the Marine Corps.

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So far this year, about $3.2 trillion worth of deals have been announced globally, the most since 2007, according to data provider Dealogic.

Some of the payouts in the 10 big deals this year kick in only if the CEOs both sell their companies and lose their jobs after the deals are complete, a higher hurdle than in years past. Some of the deals are still in negotiation, and most haven’t closed yet.

A breakdown of CEO pay in some of the biggest mergers in 2014: Allergan’s David Pyott: $100 million. Most of the money is in the form of stock options he was awarded in previous years.

Those options have rocketed in value as Allergan shares have more than doubled in 12 months. Without the deal to sell to Actavis, Pyott would have had to wait four years for all the options to “vest,” which allows him to claim ownership and convert them to shares. If he loses his job after the deal closes, he gets to own them right away.

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He also will receive $40 million worth of “restricted” shares meant to keep him working hard on the job for years. Normally, Marcus would have had to wait five years to pocket all the shares.

Covidien’s Jose Almeida: $49 million. His pay for selling to rival medical device maker Medtronic will be mostly in the form of stock awards. He also will get $84,000 in “perquisites and benefits,” including 12 months of outplacement services.

Biomet’s Jeffrey Binder: $45 million. Nearly all the pay is in stock awards that he would have had to wait years to receive if he didn’t sell the orthopedic products company. He gets this money even if he keeps his job, what’s known to pay experts as a “single trigger.” The April sale to rival Zimmer is still pending.

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Official: Ferguson grand jury still meeting

By ALEX SANZ and JIM SALTER The Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. – Activists, authorities and the family of Michael Brown called for calm Friday as a grand jury drew closer to an announcement in the Ferguson police shooting.

But a spokesman for St. Louis County’s top prosecutor said the panel is still in session.

There was no indication when the grand jury would render a decision on whether to indict Ferguson officer Darren Wilson in the death of Brown, who was 18 and unarmed when he was killed.

Ed Magee, a spokesman for county Prosecutor Bob McCulloch, said Friday in an email to reporters that the grand jury is still reviewing the case. The time, date and place for a news conference announcing the decision has not been decided, he wrote.

Wilson, 28, reportedly told the grand jury he feared for his life Aug. 9 as Brown, who was

6-foot-4 and nearly 300 pounds, came at him. Witnesses said Brown was trying to surrender and had his hands up.

The shooting of a young black man by a white police officer led to protests, some of which turned violent. Demonstrations have continued for more than three months, though the number of protesters has dwindled and violence has become uncommon.

Still, there were signs of rising tension.

Protesters were arrested Thursday outside Ferguson police headquarters for the second night in a row after around 40 demonstrators blocked South Florissant Road. One of the three people arrested pushed an officer and was hit with pepper spray, according to St. Louis County Police spokesman Brian Schellman.

Calls for peace and restraint emanated from several quarters – business owners, civil rights leaders and outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder.

The most prominent appeals

Theriault underwent extensive interviews • POLICE Continued from page A1 about 40 candidates, who were narrowed to four finalists and then interviewed by panels made up of aldermen, city staff, local law enforcement, Sycamore fire and police commissioners and the Fraternal Order of Police.

“Glenn is a very knowledgeable person, and approachable,” Mayor Ken Mundy said. “He comes across as a likable individual, both with our department and the other departments he’ll be working with here: DeKalb, the sheriff, and NIU.” Thomas announced he

would retire Jan. 2 in July, and recently accomplished a goal he set for the final months of his administration: Sycamore police are the 17th agency in the state and the first in DeKalb County to be accredited through the Illinois Law Enforcement Accreditation Program.

Complimenting his predecessor for running the department well, Theriault said he plans to spend his first month on the job learning everyone’s names and learning the inside ropes to avoid making changes too quickly.

“Going through the interview process,” Theriault said, “you’re really an outsider looking in.”

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Anthony Gray, attorney for the family of Michael Brown, speaks as National Action Network Ferguson chapter president the Rev. Carlton Lee (right), listens during a news conference Friday in St. Louis County, Mo. Gray and Lee spoke about preparations as residents wait for a decision from the grand jury on whether to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown. came from Brown’s father, Michael Brown Sr. “Hurting others or destroying property is not the answer,” Brown said in the video released by the group STL Forward. “No matter what the grand jury decides, I don’t want my son’s death to be in

• PENSION Continued from page A1 The law slightly reduced employees’ retirement-fund contributions, but also reduced benefits – the part the lawsuit successfully argued is barred by the Illinois Constitution, which protects against action to “impair or diminish” pension allowances.

Both Quinn, who made the pension overhaul a cornerstone of his last term of office, and Republican Bruce Rauner, who defeated Quinn in this month’s election, urged the high court to decide the matter quickly.

Rauner issued a statement calling the decree “the first step in a process that should ultimately be decided by the

Illinois Supreme Court,” while Quinn spokesman Grant Klinzman proclaimed confidence that the court “will uphold this urgently needed law that squarely addresses the most pressing fiscal crisis of our time.”

Separately on Friday, Sangamon County Associate Circuit Judge Steven Nardulli began the process for refunding more than $60 million to the pensioners.

This all gives Rauner an even bigger headache when he takes office in January.

He’s pledged to roll back a temporary Quinn tax increase but must deal with state spending projections for the first half of the year based on revenue from extending the tax hike, as Quinn proposed.

explicitly mention Ferguson, but it did reference demonstrations over the past few months that have “sought to bring attention to real and significant underlying issues involving police practices.”

“I know from firsthand experience that demonstrations

More Cosby shows being canceled

By FRAZIER MOORE The Associated Press NEW YORK – Stage performances by Bill Cosby in Las Vegas, Illinois, Arizona and South Carolina have been canceled as more women come forward accusing the entertainer of sexually assaulting them many years ago.

Officials at the Treasure Island hotel and casino on the Las Vegas strip said Friday they mutually agreed with the comedian to cancel his Nov. 28 performance. No reason was given by the Diamond Desert casino in Tucson, Arizona, for canceling his Feb. 15 show.

Two other appearances,

scheduled for April in Champaign, Illinois, also were called off Friday, as was a February show in Florence, South Carolina.

Producers said Cosby, 77, still planned to bring his comedy routine to a Bill Cosby sold-out theater in Melbourne, Florida, Friday night, and at least 31 other shows remain on his schedule through May 2015.

The allegations by at least six women that Cosby sexually assaulted them after giving them pills many years ago also prompted the cancellation of

TV interviews and projects on NBC and Netflix. Reruns of “The Cosby Show” have been pulled off the air.

Some of the women are going public again after initially coming forward around 2005, when Andrea Constand filed a civil suit alleging that she was sexually assaulted by Cosby. The Pennsylvania woman’s lawyer said other women were prepared to make similar claims, but the case was settled before trial.

Tamara Green, a California attorney, was among those who had agreed to testify. She later said Cosby tried to sexually assault her in her Los Angeles apartment around 1970, when

she was a model and an aspiring actress.

She said Cosby asked her to help him raise money to open a private dance club. When she got sick shortly after starting the project, she said Cosby gave her two pills that made her almost lose consciousness, took her to her apartment, undressed her and then took his clothes off.

“I got really angry,” she told The Associated Press in an interview Friday. She recalled screaming and trying to break a window with a lamp as she fought off Cosby’s advances.

He eventually left, leaving two $100 bills on her nightstand, she recalled.

Agency: Schools helped Lanza’s mom ‘appease’ him The ASSOCIATED PRESS

Statement becomes ‘first step in process’

vain. I want it to lead to incredible change, positive change, change that makes the St. Louis region better for everyone.”

Holder issued a general reminder to police to prepare for demonstrations and to “minimize needless confrontation.”

The video message did not

like these have the potential to spark a sustained and positive national dialogue, to provide momentum to a necessary conversation and to bring about critical reform,” Holder said in the video.

“But history has also shown us that the most successful and enduring movements for change are those that adhere to nonaggression and nonviolence,” he added.

Eddie Hassaun of the civil rights group Justice Disciples urged protesters not to be confrontational and for police to follow suit.

“We’re looking for the action on the other side to be equally as committed to peace in the streets and peace for the demonstrators and peace for those who want to protest,” Hassaun said.

City, county and state leaders Friday announced a “rules of engagement” agreement between police and roughly 50 protest groups. The pact is aimed at preventing violence on both sides.

HARTFORD, Conn. – Adam Lanza’s parents and educators contributed to his social isolation in the years before he carried out the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre by accommodating – and not confronting – his difficulties engaging with the world, according to a state report issued Friday.

The Office of the Child Advocate, which investigated Lanza’s upbringing to glean lessons for preventing future tragedies, concluded that Lanza’s parents, education team and others missed signs of

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how deeply troubled he was and opportunities to steer him toward more appropriate treatment.

Lanza killed his mother then shot his way into the Newtown school on Dec. 14, 2012, and gunned Adam Lanza down 20 children and six educators before committing suicide.

Lanza’s obsessions with firearms, death and mass shootings have been documented by police files, and investigators previously

concluded the motive for the shootings may never be known.

In exploring what could have been done differently, the new report honed in on his mother, Nancy Lanza, who backed her son’s resistance to medication and from the 10th grade on kept him at home, where he was surrounded by an arsenal of firearms and spent long hours playing violent video games.

“Mrs. Lanza’s approach to try and help him was to actually shelter him and protect him and pull him further away from the world, and that in turn turned out to be a very

tragic mistake,” said Julian Ford, one of the report’s authors, at a news conference.

The authors said Lanza’s parents tried to obtain help for him in variety of ways, but they did not know which path to take and appeared not to grasp the depth and severity of his disabilities.

His parents were divorced, and Lanza had not seen his father for two years.

After 2008, his parents did not appear to seek any mental health treatment for him, and there was no sustained input from a mental health provider after 2006, according to the report.

NOTICE-PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE OF PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX INCREASE FOR GENOA TOWNSHIP PARK DISTRICT I. A public hearing to approve a proposed property tax levy increase for Genoa Township Park District for 2013 will be held on December 1, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. at Genoa City Hall, 333 East First Street, Genoa, Illinois.

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Enrollment in D-427 falling as fast as some • ENROLLMENT Continued from page A1 about 2009 when the housing market collapsed. State data shows the district had 2,000 students in the 2009-10 school year and a little more than 1,800 last year.

The 2013-14 data are the most recent data available from the state. Although state officials received enrollment counts for the current school year in September, they are checking the records for accuracy and refused to provide this year’s data.

Based on counts taken this year, however, Burgess knows the downward trend has continued. The district has put ancillary services such as literacy programs, computer labs and special education services in a handful of classrooms not being used in the district’s three elementary schools.

Sycamore School District 427 has done the same thing with four swing classrooms at North Grove Elementary School, which was built in 2009. Enrollment in District 427 hasn’t dropped as much as in other districts – initial counts indicate the district has about 40 more students this year than last year overall – but it has seen some losses.

About 50 students, or more than 10 percent of the entire school, have left since last year because of the evacuation at Evergreen Village Mobile Home Park, North Grove Principal Ryan Janisch said.

“Every Friday it’s a couple of goodbyes,” Janisch said.

“We had six goodbyes [Friday].”

Falling enrollment can

also create money problems for schools. School districts receive about $5,500 from the state a student, which is already prorated from the full amount of $6,100 the state pledges. With fewer students comes less state funding, meaning districts have to consider cutting staff.

In Sandwich School District 430, staff took a voluntary pay freeze last school year. The district laid off 11 teachers and 13 paraprofessional staffers for the current school year as the district handles a $700,000 deficit. The reductions have pushed class sizes to around 25 students, about 6 students more a class than they used to be.

“As we move up, the kindergarten classes have been smaller,” Superintendent Rick Schmitt said. “The district hasn’t been replenished by those younger grades.”

According to state data, each grade from kindergarten through fifth grade in District 430 has an average of 145 students, almost 40 students less than the average of 184 students a grade in sixth through 12th grade.

Schmitt said the district has tried to weather the storm, but eventually leaders will need to look for more staff cuts because employee costs account for 80 percent of the district’s budget. It will have to be a careful evaluation, however, so the district doesn’t cut programs that might attract the families of future students.

“Special education is mandated and other programs, like electives, students need those to graduate,” Schmitt said.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Christmas not for celebrating money, greed To the Editor: October wasn’t even over and the retailers were off and running.

Fake Christmas trees and trimmings were on display, ads and stories began to appear on TV and in the papers. The hype had begun.

What should be a day more concerned with reverence and hope for mankind has deteriorated into something called “the holidays.”

The celebration has become one of money and greed.

Spend to show your family you love them. Use that credit card to shower them with gifts they may not need, want, or use. The pres-

sure has become so intractable that many resort to giving cash or gift cards. It’s much less stressful, as Christmas should be.

As a child, I remember elders telling how, as children, they received one gift for Christmas, and maybe an orange.

The holidays have become a form of propaganda, an effort to get people to reject the truth and influence a change in their behavior or thinking.

The giving and receiving of gifts is not a prerogative. The wise men gave gifts to baby Jesus, not to each other.

Jesus gave of himself, as also did the “Little Drummer Boy,” and so should we. That is closeness,

love and caring – that is Christmas. Charles Schulz’s Linus knew the meaning of Christmas, and finally, so did Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge.

Yes, there are economic consequences. But gifts can be given at any time of the year.

There may be an argument for giving gifts to children, or a gift of appreciation to a family member or friend. But again, gifts can be given at any time.

The word “holiday” refers to a religious day, a day intended for leisure and/or recreation and the suspension of business, which businesses do, after taking it to the limit in a quest for profit.

Along with Thanksgiving and

New Year’s, which are completely different, the story of the Christ child is beginning to read: “The wise men followed the star to Bethlehem, where they found baby Jesus in the manger. And they called it ‘the holidays.’ ” Papers will report how much money was spent and how much profit business made. What they won’t report is what the holidays did for “Goodwill toward men.”

Whatever the moneyed interests want to call it, there will always be those who will still call it Christmas and celebrate its true meaning and import.

Have a very merry money.

John R. Beck Sycamore

Gruber, Obama don’t fool us Jonathan Gruber set off a firestorm of controversy, at least in the conservative media, with the recent revelation of his comments about the “stupidity of the American people,” which allowed the Affordable Care Act to be passed.

In essence, he admitted that the bill was written in a way that would allow its purveyors to characterize it as the cure-all and salvation for a health care system that was in trouble, with no danger of their deception being discovered by a populace that is trusting and naive. He obviously never intended for his comments to make it into the public sphere and did not consider the fact that someone is always recording on their smartphone.

What is truly disturbing is the fact that our government is willing to engage in the purposeful deception of the populace in order to thrust its secretive agenda onto an unsuspecting populace and a sycophantic mainstream media.

As I have said many times before, Obamacare was never about health care; it was about government control and wealth redistribution. If there was real concern about the uninsured, it would have been much cheaper and considerably less complex to simply give all of the uninsured Cadillac health plans for life.

I am a firm believer that health care reform was and is needed, and I have been advocating for it for several years. It needs to be done correctly, though, and in a way

VIEWS Ben S. Carson that does not create different levels of access and treatment.

There is no question that the American people are distracted by sports and entertainment and that we confer godlike status on actors and some athletes. There is also no question that we could do more to enhance our knowledge about important issues.

However, to assume that the American people are stupid and uncaring and to design programs and speeches around that assumption is arrogant, disrespectful and, frankly, very shortsighted. As has famously been said, “You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

This most recent revelation by the unmasking of one of the chief architects of Obamacare is far from the first and only indication of a pattern of deception and manipulation by the current administration. There appears to be overt contempt for the intelligence of the populace by people who would have us believe that the Benghazi disaster was caused by an ill-defined and little-watched video, and that there was not even a smidgen of evidence

of wrongdoing surrounding the “phony” Internal Revenue Service scandal, and that the government would never engage in spying on its own citizens without cause.

Unfortunately, the administration knows that it can say virtually anything, and that there are some people who are so desperate to believe that it will be accepted as truth. They also know that many members of the mainstream media subscribe to their same ideology and will protect them, regardless of the consequences.

Only people who doubt the analytical ability of the populace would believe that giving people free phones and generous entitlements could purchase their loyalty forever. Only people who think the populace consists of morons would believe that they could keep delaying the employer mandate portion of Obamacare until after an important election, and that people would not realize that they were being manipulated.

The recent election results indicate the resurgence of an informed populace in our nation. Even though the awakening is not complete, I believe Gruber may be proved wrong about the intellect of the American people.

• Ben S. Carson is professor emeritus of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University and author of the new book “One Nation: What We Can All Do To Save America’s Future.”

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AMENDMENT

Thumbs-up: To a plan to turn a DeKalb County Community Gardens site into a working farm that provides employment to people with intellectual disabilities.

This is an ambitious undertaking with multiple beneficiaries. Kudos to the Community Gardens for taking it on, and to the Heinsohn family for donating the use of 10 acres of land to make it a reality.

Thumbs-down: To more uncertainty facing the state of Illinois. Another blow against the controversial pension reform bill passed last year was struck Friday, when a Sangamon County judge found that the plan was unconstitutional.

Both Governor-elect Bruce Rauner and Gov. Pat Quinn have urged the matter to be forwarded to the Supreme Court. The way things have gone so far, we’d recommend that Rauner start thinking about alternative ways to address Illinois $100 billion in unfunded pension obligations.

Thumbs-up: To replenishing the walleye population in Shabbona Lake. Although the Illinois Department of Natural Resources stocks game fish in the lake, fishermen also do their part through donations and by paying fishing derby fees.

On Thursday, $3,000 from anglers and others was used to add about 1,500 walleye to the lake. The lake is a great resource for people who enjoy fishing and it’s good to see those same people helping to keep it that way by adding to the fish population and ensuring that anglers continue to visit.

Thumbs-up: To holiday giving. The Salvation Army’s annual Red Kettle Campaign kicked off in DeKalb and Sycamore this week with a goal of raising $80,000. Last year, the kettles took in $83,000.

There are several ways to help the cause – not just putting money in the kettle – including bell ringing, donating food and helping with distribution. Call 815756-4308 for more information. Donations also can be made online at www.salarmydekalb.org.

Thumbs up: To DeKalb Park District leaders for researching a time capsule found at the former Adventures in Barbland playground.

Some community members were upset that park district leaders had the playground, originally built in 1993 at 900 Garden St., removed because they said it was outdated and not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act standards.

Nonetheless, we were happy to hear that park district officials have preserved the bricks engraved with local names and will install them at a nearby flagpole in the spring. We were also happy to hear park district officials are searching for people involved with time capsule crews found near a section of benches.

If you were involved, contact DeKalb Park District Executive Director Jason Mangum at 815-758-6663 ext.

124 or jmangum@dekalbparkdistrict.com.

ANOTHER VIEW

GOP must respond to immigration plan For a guy who was finally fulfilling a promise he first made more than six years ago, President Barack Obama didn’t seem too happy about it. Maybe that’s because he knows his plan to defer deportations for about 5 million undocumented immigrants – outlined Thursday night – is a partial and temporary fix.

His speech had the usual hallmarks of a political set piece: the appeals to American ideals of equality and opportunity, the vignette about a striving immigrant, a clumsy bipartisan invocation of his predecessor. His only real emotion, however, came in a flash of irritation at criticism from congressional Republicans that he was overstepping his authority. “To those members of Congress,” he snapped, “I have one answer: pass a bill.”

Easier said than done, as he knows too well. It was also a tacit admission of the main weakness of his plan.

It is no substitute for congressional action. It covers only half the population of undocumented immigrants, and does not increase visa levels for immigrants of all skill levels to come to the United States. Perhaps most important, it is only temporary. The next president could rescind these orders. Obama would have done better to give the new Republican Congress a chance to take up immigration reform rather than issue an executive order. But he didn’t, and now the ball is in the Republicans’ court.

What can they do? They can shut down the government, but that would be shooting themselves in the foot, because Americans blame Congress for such extremism. They can try to prevent the president from carrying out his orders by withholding funding from federal agencies, which will draw a presidential veto. They can use Obama’s action as an excuse to do nothing on other major issues – say, tax reform or trade. And they can complain endlessly, which they will do anyway.

They do have another option: the chance to govern.

It’s time for Republicans to put up or shut up. By now it’s clear what they’re against – amnesty. But what are they for? They can’t avoid that question any longer.

Now they don’t have the luxury of sitting back and criticizing everything Democrats propose. They’re in charge, and they need to start acting like it.

If their criticism of Obama’s executive action is to have any credence, they need to back it up with action of their own. A great starting point, is the bipartisan bill the Senate passed last year. Obama has made the first move. The new Congress needs to respond constructively – because this problem is a long way from being fixed.

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By DAILY CHRONICLE sports@daily-chronicle.com In her last event of the day – and what could have been the last event of the year for any DeKalb-Sycamore co-op girls swim team member – Jensen Keck prolonged her season for another day.

The junior finished in 11th in the preliminaries of the 100-yard breaststroke at the IHSA state girls swimming championships Friday in Evanston, qualifying for today’s consolation final.

“It was a great way to finish it off,” coach Melanie Chambers said.

Jensen will not be able to take higher than seventh after finishing in 1:04.99, shaving .51 off her seeding

back.

“She did a great job of getting up and refocusing,” Chambers said.

“There was a couple hours break and she did a great job of reminding More online herself of her goals. She got up and did what she needed to do.”

For all your prep sports coverage – stoThe 200-medley relay team of ries, features, scores, photos, videos, blogs Keck, Kylie Olson, Sarah Hein and and more – log on to Daily-Chronicle.

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DeKalb-Sycamore co-op junior Jensen Keck competes in the 100-yard breaststroke Friday at the IHSA girls swimming state championships Friday at Evanston Township High School in Evanston. Keck qualified for the consolation final that is today and will have a chance to finish seventh overall.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL SPOTLIGHT: WESTERN MICHIGAN

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Western Michigan’s head coach P.J. Fleck and his team get ready to enter the field before a game against Purdue on Aug. 30 in West Lafayette, Ind. Purdue won, 43-34. Fleck, a Kaneland grad and former Northern Illinois receiver, has led the Broncos to seven wins this season after one win last season.

Former Northern Illinois receiver, Kaneland grad is turning around a rival MAC football program

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rom almost the instant he starts speaking, P.J. Fleck’s energy is both unmistakable and unavoidable.

His words travel at a fast and yet strangely comfortable rate of speed and Fleck’s voice – youthful for even that of the country’s youngest Football Bowl Subdivision coach – is full of the unique brand of enthusiasm that makes P.J. Fleck, well. ...

P.J. Fleck.

At only 33, the second-year Western Michigan coach knows what some people think of him.

Quite frankly, he couldn’t care less.

Those who don’t know him mistake his high-octane personality for arrogance. They confuse his style of running his program much in the

Note to readers This story first published in the most recent edition of the Chicago Football magazine. Chicago Football will publish 26 times a year, weekly during the Bears season, and include in-depth features like this on the Bears, Illinois college football programs, and Chicago-area prep football programs and athletes. It also will include Hub Arkush’s expert analysis on all things football, a high school rivalry of the week, and so much more. same manner they think of a used car salesman trying to pawn an old clunker onto an unsuspecting teenager eager to buy his first set of wheels.

From the gimmicky catch phrases Fleck uses to the live D.J. that

he employs to work his Western Michigan practices, blasting everything from Drake and Lil’ Wayne to Springsteen and Kenny Chesney to create crowd noise, Fleck openly admits that his leadership style – much like his personality – isn’t for everyone.

That, too, is perfectly fine with Fleck, who from the outside can appear at first glimpse to be much more style than substance. But talk not only to Fleck, but to the people who know him best, and one thing becomes abundantly clear.

P.J. Fleck is no used car salesman.

“He can seem like a phony sometimes,” former NIU coach Joe Novak said. “People who meet him and who don’t really know him ask, ‘Is he really real?’ But that’s the way he is. That’s the way he’s

Scott Walstrom file photo – NIU Media Services

Former NIU receiver P.J. Fleck brings enthusiasm to life and football. always been and that’s the way he carries himself.”

Here’s the thing: Enthusiasm,

both for life and for football, is not a one-time deal with Fleck. It’s not about making a good first impression on people. It’s about choosing to live life with passion – a trait of Fleck’s that Fleck himself knows can be a positive, but often can be misconstrued as a negative – and living at that level each and every day.

With Fleck, what you see is what you get.

“There’s no B.S. in him,” said Utah running backs coach and former 49ers coach Dennis Erickson, who coached Fleck in San Francisco for two seasons. “It’s all about doing it and I’m sure that’s how he treats his players. To me, that’s how you succeed in this business.

“You tell ’em how it is and you tell them what you want.”

See FLECK, page B3

BUCCANEERS AT BEARS, NOON SUNDAY, FOX, AM-780, 105.9-FM

Bears, Buccaneers a lot alike If Sunday’s meeting with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers comes down to Lovie Smith and/or Josh McCown, the Bears could be in trouble.

Certainly, everyone understands why so much is being made of Lovie’s return after his nine-year tenure as Bears coach that ended two seasons ago.

But the reality is his new team is 2-8. And coming into Chicago at the end of November, it will be more than a little disappointing to Bears fans if they stay close H. Rick Bamman file photo – hbamman@shawmedia.com enough to the Bears over 60 minFormer Bears coach Lovie Smith looks at the field after the Bears’ 23-17 loss to Seattle utes for Smith to be able to impact in 2012 at Soldier Field. Smith, Tampa Bay’s current head coach, and the Buccaneers the game with any coaching decisions or special motivation. play the Bears on Sunday.

BEARS INSIDER Hub Arkush The same can be said of McCown.

Through 10 games his offense is 28th in total yards, 28th running the ball, 19th in passing and 25th in points scored.

It should be tailor made for a Bears defense that finally bounced back Sunday at home against a similarly challenged Vikings offense.

If McCown is making plays that dictate the outcome of the game, there will be some very unhappy

locals.

The season has been a struggle for the former Bears quarterback, who missed five starts with a thumb injury and has managed only an 82.6 passer rating compared to the 109.0 he posted in Chicago last season.

McCown has thrown only six touchdowns and given up six interceptions after posting a 13-to-1 TD/INT ratio last year.

While the Bears will attempt to pressure McCown early and often, Jared Allen and Willie Young know it will be almost as important to keep him in the pocket.

See ARKUSH, page B4

2 SPORTS • Saturday, November 22, 2014 • Section B • Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com LOCAL SCHEDULE TODAY College wrestling Buena Vista vs. Northern Illinois, 10 a.m.

Tiffin vs. Northern Illinois, 2 p.m.

Girls basketball DeKalb at Warhawk tournament, Waubonsie Valley Kaneland at Immaculate Conception invite, 9 a.m.

Genoa-Kingston at Oregon tournament; Hiawatha at Elgin Academy Thanksgiving Tournament, TBA Indian Creek at IMSA Hoops Happenings, TBA Boys bowling DeKalb at Plainfield North Invitational, 9 a.m.

Sycamore at Guilford Survivor tournament, 1:30 p.m.

Men’s basketball Lake County at Kishwaukee, 3 p.m.

Women’s basketball Lake County at Kishwaukee, 1 p.m.

SUNDAY College volleyball Northern Illinois at MAC tournament

BLACKHAWKS

NFL

Salary cap likely to affect Hawks

By MARK LAZERUS mlazerus@suntimes.com EDMONTON, Alberta – Here’s the nightmare scenario for the Blackhawks.

The fading Canadian dollar, currently valued at about 89 cents, stays stagnant, or worse, continues to fall. The NHL’s all-important hockey-related revenue takes a hit, while player salaries continue to be paid in U.S. dollars. And the salary cap – expected to rise as much as $5 million thanks to a $5.2 billion Canadian TV contract – barely rises above the current level of $69 million, if it rises at all.

With more than $65 million tied up in 15 players – including $21 million for Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane alone – in 2015-16, the Hawks might have just a few million dollars to spend and at least six roster spots to fill, with Brandon Saad and Marcus Kruger due significant raises as restricted free agents.

The math doesn’t work.

“Obviously, if the cap doesn’t

go up and we keep the exact same team – no, that wouldn’t work,” Hawks general manager Stan Bowman said.

What seemed far-fetched four months ago when Toews and Kane signed their massive eight-year contract extensions now seems distinctly plausible as fear spreads around the league that the cap might not rise much next season. For teams such as the Hawks, Bruins, Kings and Flyers, who are all right up against the cap, it could prove calamitous.

It already was almost inevitable that at least one highly paid member of the Hawks’ “core” would have to be jettisoned next summer to keep the team under the cap. If the number stays around $69 million, the Hawks might have to lose two such players. Patrick Sharp (signed through 2016-17 at $5.9 million a season), Brent Seabrook (signed through next season at $5.8 million) and Bryan Bickell (signed through 2016-17 at $4 million) are among the possible cap casualties who

could fetch a bounty of prospects and draft picks in trades.

The Hawks don’t want to move any of them. But they might not have a choice.

“We’ve been through this type of talk before,” Bowman said. “I’ve always been cautious to make predictions, good or bad, about the cap. It’ll be what it is, and we’ll figure it out. I’m not really focused on that point right now. If it doesn’t go up a lot or if it stays the same, we’ll find a way to make it work.”

That’s basically Bowman’s job description – to have contingency plans in place. And few GMs around the league have been better at massaging and maximizing the cap as Bowman has since the Hawks’ post-Stanley Cup cap purge in the summer of 2010.

“We’ve been doing that for a while, not just because there are rumors,” Bowman said.

“That’s our job, to be prepared.”

Bowman wouldn’t say if the cap uncertainty has or will affect negotiations with Saad and Kruger. Saad figures to triple

or quadruple his current salary of $764,000, and Kruger is due a raise from his $1.325 million deal.

Joel Quenneville has said that the 2010 team played with a sense of desperation and urgency, knowing that the cap crunch was coming and that it was their last chance to win a championship together. The current group doesn’t face quite the same apocalyptic scenario, but no matter what happens with the cap, there’s likely to be some significant retooling, if not rebuilding.

Not that Bowman has any regrets about the Toews and Kane contracts. Especially considering both could have made even more on the open market. It’s just the cost of doing business.

“The one thing that trumps everything is you need great players on your team, and great players make a lot of money,” Bowman said. “So I would much rather be in the position where you’ve got them and you try to make your cap work than to not have them.”

Bulls trail Portland after first quarter

NATIONAL CONFERENCE Detroit Green Bay Bears Minnesota Philadelphia Dallas N.Y. Giants Washington Atlanta New Orleans Carolina Tampa Bay Arizona San Francisco Seattle St. Louis

CHAMPAIGN – Malcolm Hill led Illinois with a career-high 16 points and added six rebounds in a 107-66 victory over Austin Peay on Friday night.

A 13-2 run midway through the first half pushed the Illini’s lead to double-digits and Austin Peay (1-3) never threatened in the second half.

Five players reached double figures for Illinois (3-0).

– Staff, wire reports

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Pct .700 .700 .300 .300

PF 299 261 205 204

PA 251 212 263 256

Pct .400 .400 .318 .200

PF 238 261 215 194

PA 255 252 300 279

Pct .900 .600 .600 .400

PF 237 211 260 185

PA 176 212 215 258

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland New England Miami Buffalo N.Y. Jets Indianapolis Houston Tennessee Jacksonville Denver Kansas City San Diego Oakland

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Pct .650 .636 .600 .600

PF 224 288 261 216

PA 221 263 181 195

Pct .800 .600 .500 .200

PF 323 249 200 174

PA 218 180 204 265

Pct .600 .500 .200 .100

PF 310 229 168 158

PA 253 204 250 282

Pct .700 .636 .600 .091

PF 293 261 218 176

PA 224 195 192 285

Thursday’s Result Oakland 24, Kansas City 20 Sunday’s Games Tampa Bay at Bears, noon Green Bay at Minnesota, noon Cincinnati at Houston, noon Cleveland at Atlanta, noon Tennessee at Philadelphia, noon Detroit at New England, noon Jacksonville at Indianapolis, noon N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, noon Arizona at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.

St. Louis at San Diego, 3:05 p.m.

Washington at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.

Miami at Denver, 3:25 p.m.

Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 7:30 p.m.

Open: Carolina, Pittsburgh Monday’s Game Baltimore at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m.

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

Third-year Northern Illinois head women’s golf coach Kim Kester signed a pair of players for the 2015-16 season on Wednesday.

The Huskies added Kelly Anderson (Wheaton Warrenville South) and ventured to the Lone Star State to add Brielle Ward (Frisco, Texas/ Wakeland).

“We are very excited to have Kelly and Brielle join the Huskie family. Both players are extremely competitive and will help take NIU golf to the next level,” Kester said in a news release. “Not only are they great golfers but great people as well. They excel in the classroom and both have a strong passion for volunteering in their communities.”

Anderson took 15th place at the 2014 IHSA Class AA state finals out of 114 competitors and shot 160 at Medinah Country Club for the Medinah Country Shrine Junior Invitational.

Hill’s scores 16, leads Illinois past Austin Peay

PF 188 330 215 181

WESTERN CONFERENCE

NIU women’s golf signs two players

The Northern Illinois women’s tennis team added another international player, signing Anja Bebic to a National Letter of Intent this week.

Bebic, a native of Metkovic, Croatia, will become the latest international Huskie in the women’s tennis program.

There are currently five foreign players on the team’s roster.

NIU women’s tennis head coach Tanya Gombera expects big things out of her first signing when Bebic joins the Huskies for the 2015-16 campaign.

“Anja is a very athletic player and we expect that she could be an immediate impact for the team next season,” Gombera said. “Her tennis ability, work ethic and personality will be great assets to NIU women’s tennis, and she has already accomplished a lot in her native Croatia.”

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AMERICAN CONFERENCE

SPORTS BRIEFS

NIU women’s tennis team adds recruit

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Pts 26 25 23 23 22 18 17

GF 54 50 55 43 53 56 49

GA 40 39 39 47 41 68 64

Pts 29 27 26 26 23 18 14

GF 58 61 53 66 59 49 48

GA 53 60 44 57 60 62 65

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 21 15 5 1 31 59 52 21 13 6 2 28 75 59 21 13 8 0 26 57 52 19 10 4 5 25 54 45 18 9 5 4 22 50 47 20 10 8 2 22 63 62 17 7 5 5 19 38 44 20 5 13 2 12 34 69 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 18 13 3 2 28 68 40 N.Y. Islanders 19 13 6 0 26 64 56 Washington 19 9 7 3 21 55 52 N.Y. Rangers 19 8 7 4 20 52 58 New Jersey 19 8 9 2 18 47 56 Philadelphia 18 7 9 2 16 53 58 Carolina 19 6 10 3 15 45 58 Columbus 19 6 11 2 14 47 68 Two points for a win, one point for OT loss Montreal Tampa Bay Boston Detroit Ottawa Toronto Florida Buffalo

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Bulls center Joakim Noah (right) shoots over Portland forward LaMarcus Aldridge during the first half Friday in Portland, Ore. The game ended too late for this edition. Read more about this game at Daily-Chronicle.com.

WHITE SOX

Sox sign LaRoche to 2-year, $25 million deal

By SETH GRUEN sgruen@suntimes.com The White Sox officially moved on from the Paul Konerko era Friday, signing veteran first baseman Adam LaRoche to a twoyear, $25 million contract, USA To- Adam LaRoche day reported.

LaRoche, 35, hit .259 with 26 home runs and 92 RBI last season with the Washington Nationals.

He will split time between the designated hitter spot and first base with 2014 American League Rookie of the Year Jose Abreu. That might be an adjustment for LaRoche who has spent his entire career playing in the field. In his 11 seasons, he has made six starts as a desig-

nated hitter.

LaRoche won a Gold Glove in 2012. But with Abreu considered the future of the organization at first base, he should get the majority of the starts at first. The addition of LaRoche does provide manager Robin Ventura a better fielding option when the situation may dictate the necessity.

At minimum, it should help keep Abreu fresh throughout the year.

The Sox have had a productive week with the signings of reliever Zach Duke and LaRoche, addressing two of their biggest needs this offseason heading into next month’s winter meetings in San Diego.

With the retirement of Konerko and the departure of Adam Dunn in a trade last season with Oakland, the Sox needed to look to add power to

their lineup this offseason, particularly on the left side. The left-handed hitting LaRoche’s home run and RBI totals both would have ranked second on the Sox last season.

LaRoche is coming off the best three-year power stretch of his career. After hitting a career high 33 homer runs in 2012, he followed that up with seasons of 20 and 26 home runs.

He also has proven dependable during the last three years, having played in at least 140 games. Most encouraging, LaRoche’s 108 strike outs was his second-lowest total in seasons in which he has played at least 140 games.

The move makes the Sox lineup even stronger after a 2014 campaign in which the team tied for seventh in Major League Baseball with 155 home runs and ranked 13th with

660 runs scored. Depending on where Ventura slots LaRoche he could help to break up right-handed hitters Abreu and Avisail Garcia, another prized young Sox player who was limited to only 46 games with the club before tearing the labrum in his left shoulder.

LaRoche spent the past four seasons with the Nationals. Washington didn’t look to re-sign him because the organization wants to move Ryan Zimmerman from third to first base. While with the Nationals, LaRoche provided a much-needed veteran presence on a team with promising young talent.

Presumably the Sox are hoping he can have the same effect on a team with a similar dynamic. The move appears to validate suggestions by the organization that team will contend for the playoffs this season.

Indian Creek girls hoops rolls past host IMSA at tourney • FINAL Continued from page B1 Olson, Keck and Flemming are juniors and Hein is a freshman, leaving first-year coach Chambers excited for next season.

“They did great,” Chambers said. “I’m really proud. They dropped a lot of time just to qualify and they dropped even

more time this weekend which was very gratifying.”

GIRLS BASKETBALL G-K falls to Prophetstown: Julie Galauner and Jesi Nay scored seven points each but it wasn’t enough for the Genoa-Kingston girls basketball team in a 45-33 loss to Prophetstown on Friday in the Oregon tournament.

Karli Lancaste and Kayleigh Engels scored six each for the Cogs (1-2), who play two games tomorrow starting at 12:30 p.m. against with Fulton.

Indian Creek crushes IMSA: Indian Creek got back on track at the IMSA tournament, rolling past the host team, 49-16.

MaKayli Vann scored 13 points, Jacklyn Bouma had nine, Madison Russell added

eight and Josie Diehl had eight for the Timberwolves (2-2).

H-BR falls to Aurora Central Catholic: Hinckley-Big Rock finished play in the Tim Humes Breakout Tournament in Somonauk, losing, 49-30, to Aurora Central Catholic.

Karrigan Cowan led all scorers with 11.

The Royals play their home opener Monday against IMSA.

Friday’s Results N.Y. Rangers at Buffalo, ppd., snow N.Y. Islanders 5, Pittsburgh 4, SO Boston 4, Columbus 3, SO New Jersey at Edmonton (n) Today’s Games St. Louis at Ottawa, 2 p.m.

Montreal at Boston, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

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

Columbus at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at Washington, 6 p.m.

Florida at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Carolina at Colorado, 8 p.m.

New Jersey at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Blackhawks at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

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

Sunday’s Games Blackhawks at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Winnipeg, 3:30 p.m.

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

Arizona at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L Pct 8 4 .667 7 6 .538 5 6 .455 5 7 .417 3 10 .231 Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 10 2 .833 Brooklyn 5 7 .417 Boston 4 7 .364 New York 3 10 .231 Philadelphia 0 12 .000 Southeast Division W L Pct Washington 8 3 .727 Atlanta 6 5 .545 Miami 6 6 .500 Orlando 6 8 .429 Charlotte 4 9 .308 Bulls Milwaukee Cleveland Indiana Detroit

GB — 1½ 2½ 3 5½ GB — 5 5½ 7½ 10 GB — 2 2½ 3½ 5

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct 11 2 .846 9 3 .750 9 3 .750 8 4 .667 6 4 .600 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 8 3 .727 Utah 5 7 .417 Denver 4 7 .364 Minnesota 3 8 .273 Oklahoma City 3 11 .214 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 8 2 .800 L.A. Clippers 7 4 .636 Phoenix 8 5 .615 Sacramento 7 5 .583 L.A. Lakers 3 9 .250 Memphis Dallas Houston San Antonio New Orleans

Friday Results Bulls at Portland (n) Phoenix 122, Philadelphia 96 Orlando 105, Charlotte 100 Atlanta 99, Detroit 89 Toronto 124, Milwaukee 83 Memphis 117, Boston 100 San Antonio 121, Minnesota 92 Washington 91, Cleveland 78 Brooklyn 94, Oklahoma City 92 L.A. Lakers at Dallas (n) New Orleans at Denver (n) Utah at Golden State (n) Today’s Games Miami at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

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

Dallas at Houston, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Washington at Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Utah, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s Games L.A. Clippers at Memphis, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Miami, 5 p.m.

Portland at Boston, 5 p.m.

Golden State at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

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

Thursday’s Results L.A. Clippers 110, Miami 93 Sacramento 103, Bulls 88

GB — 1½ 1½ 2½ 3½ GB — 3½ 4 5 6½ GB — 1½ 1½ 2 6

Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com • Section B • Saturday, November 22, 2014 •

WEEKEND TV SPORTSWATCH TODAY Auto racing Formula One, qualifying for Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (delayed tape), midnight (Sunday), NBCSN College football Indiana at Ohio State, 11 a.m., BTN Minnesota at Nebraska, 11 a.m., ESPN Penn St. at Illinois, 11 a.m., ESPN2 SMU at UCF, 11 a.m., ESPNews Northwestern at Purdue, 11 a.m., ESPNU Kansas at Oklahoma, 11 a.m., FS1 Yale at Harvard, 11:30 a.m., NBCSN Southern Illinois at Illinois State, CSN+ Bethune-Cookman vs. Florida A&M, at Orlando, Fla., 1 p.m., ESPN Classic Wisconsin at Iowa, 2:30 p.m., ABC Maryland at Michigan, 2:30 p.m., BTN Mississippi at Arkansas, 2:30 p.m., CBS Arizona at Utah, 2:30 p.m., ESPN Boston College at Florida State, 2:30 p.m., ESPN2 Syracuse at Pittsburgh, 2:30 p.m., ESPNU Louisville at Notre Dame, 2:30 p.m., NBC New Hampshire at Maine, 2:30 p.m., NBCSN South Florida at Memphis, 3 p.m., ESPNews Stanford at California, 3 p.m., FS1 Missouri State at Northern Iowa, 4 p.m., CSN Miami at Virginia, 6 p.m., ESPN2 Samford at Auburn, 6 p.m., ESPNU Missouri at Tennessee, 6:30 p.m., ESPN Oklahoma St. at Baylor, 6:30 p.m., Fox Richmond at William & Mary, 6:30 p.m., NBCSN Southern Cal at UCLA, 7 p.m., ABC Florida Atlantic at Middle Tennessee State, 7:30 p.m., CSN Boise St. at Wyoming, 9:15 p.m., ESPN2 Fresno St. at Nevada, 9:30 p.m., ESPNU Golf LPGA, Tour Championship, third round, at Naples, Fla., 12:30 p.m., TGC PGA Tour of Australasia, Australian Masters, final round, at Melbourne, 8:30 p.m., TGC European PGA Tour, Tour Championship, final round, at Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 1:30 a.m. Sunday, TGC Men’s college basketball Lamar at Indiana, 7 p.m., BTN Boise State at Wisconsin, 9 p.m., BTN Prep football IHSA Class 8A playoffs, semifinals, Stevenson at Glenbard West, 1 p.m., CSN Pro hockey AHL, Iowa at Wolves, 7 p.m., WCUU Blackhawks at Edmonton, 9 p.m., WGN Soccer Premier League, West Bromwich at Chelsea, 8:55 a.m., NBCSN Premier League, Arsenal vs. Manchester United, at London, 11:30 a.m., NBC SUNDAY Auto racing Formula One, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 6:30 a.m., NBCSN Canadian football Playoffs, conference finals, Montreal at Hamilton, noon, ESPN College football NCAA, FCS Championship Selection Show, at Charlotte, N.C., 10 a.m., ESPNU Golf LPGA, Tour Championship, final round, at Naples, Fla., 12:30 p.m., TGC Men’s college basketball Florida St. vs. UMass, at Uncasville, Conn., 11 a.m., ESPNU Puerto Rico Tip-Off, fifth place, teams TBD, at San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1 p.m., ESPNU Notre Dame vs. Providence, at Uncasville, Conn., 1:30 p.m., ESPN2 USF at N.C. State, 3 p.m., ESPNU N.C. Central at Creighton, 3 p.m., FS1 Puerto Rico Tip-Off, third place, teams TBD, at San Juan, Puerto Rico, 3:30 p.m.

ESPN2 Puerto Rico Tip-Off, championship, teams TBD, at San Juan, Puerto Rico, 5:30 p.m., ESPN2 Charleston Classic, third place, teams TBD, at Charleston, S.C., 5:30 p.m., ESPNU Sacred Heart at Ohio State, 6 p.m., BTN Charleston Classic, championship, teams TBD, at Charleston, S.C., 8 p.m., ESPN2 Pro football Tampa Bay at Bears, noon, Fox Miami at Denver, 3:25 p.m., CBS Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 7:20 p.m., NBC Pro hockey AHL, Rockford at Wolves, 4 p.m., WCUU Blackhawks at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m., CSN Soccer Premier League, Crystal Palace vs.

Liverpool, at London, 7:30 a.m., CNBC Premier League, Tottenham at Hull City, 9:55 a.m., NBCSN Men’s college, NCAA Tournament, Indiana vs. Xavier, Bloomington, Ind., noon, BTN MLS, playoffs, conference finals, first leg, New England at New York, 12:30 p.m., NBC MLS, playoffs, conference finals, first leg, Seattle at Los Angeles, 4 p.m., ESPN

SPORTS 3

Fleck says Western Michigan has become a ‘true football team’ else here – I’m someone else.

I’m an ordinary guy working to accomplish extraordinary things with a lot of extraordinary people around me.

“But the word ‘else’ doesn’t mean ‘do more.’ It just means ‘do it a different way and find a new way to do it.’ I think every day, we reinvent ourselves of how we can make the vision.

The vision never changes. The plan never changes. But every day, we change what our best is to make this program better.”

more than 100, forcing Fleck to connect with each of his players Continued from page B1 in unique ways. Before the season, Fleck spent countless Fleck will be the first to adhours considering the personalmit that a personality like his ities of his players, understandcan take some getting used to. ing the importance of reaching When he was hired at Western them on an individual level. He Michigan in 2013 after workcreated lesson plans for team ing as a receivers coach both meetings and position group at the Division I level (NIU and meetings alike, making sure Rutgers) and with the NFL’s that each of his players was Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Fleck clear on the team’s mission. wasn’t shy about putting his Ask Fleck the reason for personality out there. the drastic turnaround from To truly create a sustainhis first season in Kalamazoo able culture, Fleck knew West••• to his second and he makes it ern Michigan’s program had very clear. to have Fleck’s finger prints all Before he spent two years “We’ve become a football over it. Entering his first head with the 49ers, Fleck worked team – a true team,” Fleck coaching job, Fleck understood as a sixth-grade social studies said. “We were so far from that his vision for the future teacher – a position that not being a football team when I and his plan to change the only helped him understand first took the job and I knew culture in Kalamazoo would people, but taught the forthat taking the job.” mean everything. mer Kaneland High School Getting the Broncos to this, Fleck took over a program standout how to manage his however, hasn’t come without that in 108 years has won two classroom. work.

Fleck threw himself MAC championships – the last The job provided Fleck with into changing the culture of coming in 1988 – and that is an educational approach that his program, making sure he winless in its five postseason he has carried over to running was genuine in his approach, bowl appearances. When he his program at Western Mich- knowing that if his players was hired as the Broncos’ igan. With 105 players under couldn’t trust him, his prohead coach, Fleck introduced his watch, Fleck chooses to gram was going nowhere. a “Row The Boat” mantra that run his team like a school But again, building a raphe created, building on the rather than taking on the allport with his players required idea that if Western Michibusiness-all-the-time mentality time. While Fleck needed time gan’s program was going to that others in his field choose to understand what he was move forward, everyone had to employ. working with, his players to do their part.

Like he did years ago with needed time to learn who was It wasn’t long before woodhis students, Fleck provides coaching them and to embrace en rowing oars emblazoned his players room to grow.

Fleck’s personality, which with Western Michigan logos He gives them a stake in a they quickly discovered wasn’t were hanging in businesses Broncos team that went 1-11 in an act that many mistake all over Kalamazoo, helping Fleck’s first season, but that is Fleck’s energy for. create an environment Fleck now 7-3 overall and 5-1 in the “He’s going to tell you believed could be special.

Mid-American Conference, as it is,” Western Michigan But buying into Western tied with NIU and Toledo for quarterback Zach Terrell said.

Michigan football, Fleck’s first place in the MAC’s West “You always know where you players soon discovered, stand and what he’s always meant buying into Fleck’s big- Division.

Fleck’s time teaching midthinking. He’s going to keep ger-than-life personality. For dle school provided him with it real with you, which is Fleck, that meant one thing a lesson: He had to deliver the something that a lot of people – being himself every hour of same message, but do it in respect because they’d rather every day – whether people know where they stand than understood him and liked him a multitude of ways so each individual received the full having a coach who’s always or not. benefit of the message Fleck hiding behind his desk.”

“I’m different – I can tell was trying to get across.

That’s simply not Fleck’s you that – I’m very different,” His classroom has gone style. Brutally honest almost Fleck says with a slight chuckle. “I think we do something from one of 30 students to one of to a fault, Fleck’s age has prov-

• FLECK

en beneficial, allowing him to relate with them on their level.

Whether it be understanding the social media practices they engage in or appreciating the music they listen to, Fleck’s youthful exuberance is a big part of who he is and is, perhaps, a big reason why the Broncos have turned things around as quickly as they have.

But as much as Fleck can appreciate the success the Broncos have had this season – they have won five straight games heading into Saturday’s clash with rival Central Michigan – Fleck had to move past the hardships of last season’s 1-11 finish.

In his own words, Fleck and his program had to keep rowing. For Fleck, it hasn’t been the first time.

things that a normal baby should do, but when the baby came out, there’s a heart defect and there’s nothing that you can do about it,” said Fleck, who has a four-year-old son and daughters who are 2 and 1. “You know that for three months, knowing that every day, you’re talking about going through life knowing that the baby is going to pass.

“But that’s life and things happen in life and it’s not what happens to you, it’s how you react.”

So as he did after he lost his son, Fleck kept rowing after the Broncos won only one game in his first season as a head coach. A year later, Fleck’s program is in a much different place, having been made stronger by the adversity it was forced to deal with.

Through it all, Fleck has ••• maintained the same positive energy he put on display when Ask Fleck where his “Row he was hired. Where some the Boat” mantra came from see arrogance, Fleck sees a and he will tell you a story. choice to approach life with a He will tell you of the glass half-full mentality when months of 2010 that he and he could easily tackle his his wife spent waiting for day-to-days much differently their second son, Colton, to be considering what he has gone born. The Flecks were already through to get to this point.

Again, he gets it. People parents to one son when aren’t sure what to make of doctors informed the young his zeal and passion for life. couple that Colton would be They’re convinced it’s not real. born with a heart condition But Fleck knows otherwise, that would almost immediatechoosing to remain comfortly take the newborn from his able in his own skin, knowing parents.

It was necessary for Fleck’s deep down he can only be who he really is. wife to carry the baby to full “In this day and age, everyterm, forcing the couple to go one wants to put on an act,” through the entire pregnancy Fleck said. “I do the things I knowing their son was going do because it’s me. It’s not for to die. When Colton was born, the Flecks held Colton in their show or for an act. I am who I am and I’m not afraid to be me. arms for a matter of seconds, watching him pass away right “To get to know me, you before their eyes. have to spend a lot of time “You never get over somearound me or else you’re just thing like that when you lose going to think I’m just energy a child – especially the way we or cocky or arrogant – whatevhad to do it knowing the baby’s er you think it may be. But it’s there inside and it’s moving truly who I am and I want to and kicking and doing all the give that to others.”

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4 SPORTS • Saturday, November 22, 2014 • Section B • Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com Who has the edge? Bears vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers Bears rushing offense vs. Buccaneers run defense Tampa is 22nd in the league, allowing 118.0 rushing yards a game, but a more telling stat is their yards-a-carry average is only 4.0. Gerald McCoy at defensive tackle, and then linebackers Mason Foster and Lavonte David form a solid group of run stoppers, though the Bucs have allowed seven runs of 20 yards or more. When the Bears commit to the run, they have success, and the Bears’ offensive line, plus Matt Forte and Marc Trestman’s creativity should give them a slight advantage on the ground.

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and 4.0 a carry. They do have Logan Mankins to run behind, and are good off the left side of the line, which is Bears passing offense vs. Bucca- where the Bears struggle defending neers pass defense the run, allowing 5.4 yards a carry off Kind of like the Bears’ offense, the the left guard and 5.9 off the left tackBucs’ defense has been a disappoint- le. Still, the Bears’ run defense has ment, especially in this category. really improved up the middle, and Tampa Bay is giving up the third-most with Lance Briggs showing flashes passing yards a game (266.1) and of a younger version of himself last opposing quarterbacks have a 100.9 week against Minnesota, the Bears rating. The 68.3 percent clip that the should win this battle if Lovie Smith Bucs allow passing is second-worst wants to “get off the bus running.” in the league, despite big-money Edge: Bears corner Alterraun Verner, 2013 second-round pick Johnthan Banks Buccaneers passing offense vs. and safety Dashon Goldson. Martellus Bears pass defense Bennett should have an advantage Josh McCown is a smart, efficient against former Bears safety Major quarterback who avoids mistakes, Wright. Lovie Smith’s Cover-2 and and he also has a good idea of what to McCoy’s pass rush give the Bucs the expect from the Bears’ defense. The Bears’ pass rush did a better job last best chance, as zone defenses have week against Teddy Bridgewater, but crippled the Bears’ passing offense McCown has much better weapons at times, but the Bears’ weapons should get the job done here, coming in Mike Evans and Vincent Jackson, two players who can get open quickly off a highly productive game against to help neutralize any rush from the Minnesota. front four. Tim Jennings played his best Edge: Bears game of the season last week against Minnesota, but the Bucs’ receivers are Buccaneers rushing offense vs. much better, especially Evans, who Bears run defense Charles Sims has taken over a Bucs has been a beast. If the Buccaneers pull the upset, it’s because the Bears’ rushing game that is averaging only pass defense gives up chunk plays like 85.8 yards a game on the ground

Special teams assessment Similar to the Bears, the Bucs aren’t much of a threat in the return game – Marcus Thigpen’s longest kickoff return is 28 yards. Patrick Murray is 11 of 15 kicking field goals this season, and normally solid punter Michael Koenen has a net average of only 35.5 yards. The Bears’ best weapon on special teams, Robbie Gould, missed his only field goal attempt in the past four games. Marc Mariani could boost the return game, and kickoff coverage has been solid. Neither unit is spectacular, so we’ll call this one even.

Edge: Push Sunday’s overall edge The Bears can win this game – should win this game – especially by winning the battle on third down.

They are 44 percent on offense, compared to the Bucs’ rate of 38 percent. As bad as the Bears have been on defense, the Buccaneers are worse on third down (45 percent), whereas the Bears limit opponents to first downs on 41 percent of third downs. The talent gap is clear for the Bears against a young Bucs team that may have won last week, but that was against a bad Washington team.

We’re trying to ignore some of the obvious intangibles here involving Lovie Smith and Josh McCown, but simply put, the Bears are the better team, and should be able to finally stack wins, coming off their best all-around performance (in terms of yards gained and allowed, not points) of the season.

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offense, but they are coming off their best performance of Continued from page B1 the season last week against Washington.

The Bears may get a huge He has escaped 13 times break. One of the Bucs’ two this year for 80 yards, a 6.2 best players and real difaverage, and two touchference makers, weakside downs. linebacker LaVonte David, Some of the Bucs’ offenhas been limited all week by sive struggles come from an an injured hamstring. inability to run the football.

Smith’s defense, which Their rookie sensation of spins off that position, fortwo years ago, Doug “Muscle merly with Derek Brooks and Hamster” Martin has been Lance Briggs, is extremely unable to stay healthy ever vulnerable if David is unable since, and backups Bobby to go or less than 100 percent.

Rainey and Charles Sims The best matchup of the spend as much time on the game that could be worth the training table as they do in price of a ticket all by itself the huddle.

The perception of this Bucs will have All Pro three technique Gerald McCoy on Bears team is that offensive line guard Kyle Long a good part woes in recent years make it impossible for them to consis- of the afternoon.

McCoy can be a tently move the ball. But the game-wrecker if Long doesn’t acquisition of Evan Dietearn at least a draw. rich-Smith at center, former The Bucs spent a small All Pro Logan Mankins at left fortune on Michael Johnson guard and Anthony Collins to rush off the right edge, at left tackle was expected to give them a formidable front. which could challenge tackle Jermon Bushrod, but JohnIt has not worked out that son has disappointed to date. way.

Tampa also spent big Where the Bucs can scare on Alterraun Verner at you is at wide receiver with cornerback and invested a Pro Bowler Vincent Jackson on one side and rookie sensa- second-round pick on Johntion Mike Evans on the other. than Banks in 2013 to man the other corner, and they’ve At 6-foot-5 each, they can done enough to cause Smith remind you of Brandon Marto get away from his Tampa 2 shall and Alshon Jeffery and and play some man-to-man. pose a real challenge for Tim The Bears hope they will Jennings and Kyle Fuller. try it against Marshall and The real puzzle of these Jeffery.

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GE offers the latest in lighting technology with its new iTwinkle holiday light sets and pre-lit Christmas trees. Each of the bulbs holds three LEDs – red, green and blue – that can be combined to create thousands of color choices.

Jazz up your holidays with the latest in lights

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lark Griswold would be proud.

Thanks to advances in lighting technology, suburban dads (and moms) across the country have a lot to choose from when it comes to creative ways to deck their halls for the holidays this year.

Forget about white incandescent lights and animatronic reindeer.

Think lasers. Think smartphones. And hundreds, if not millions, of color choices.

Most of these apps have a range of up to 150 feet, meaning you can control the action from across the yard or while plopped on your couch watching “It’s A Wonderful Life” (or the Griswolds in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”) for the 10th time.

“No longer do you have to venture outside to plug in your lights,” says Sarah Koniniec with California-based Technical Consumer Products.

TCP recently unveiled a smart home lighting system known as Connected by TCP, which links to a home’s Wi-Fi or mobile network and is controlled via smartphone, computer or a special remote.

PROJECTED LASER LIGHTS

Using small spotlights, this technology projects thousands of tiny pinpoints of red, green or red RGB LIGHTS AND green lights onto your home or any other hard Single light bulbs that hold three LEDs – red, surface. California-based BlissLights offers them green and blue – are the secret behind a new catfor $179 or $199 each, depending on whether the egory of holiday lights that offer up lights are in motion. to 16 million color combinations.

To a passerby, “at first glance, Online Known as RGB lights, they can they look like traditional holiday be dialed up or down in a variety of rope lights, but actually they float ways via a smartphone app. And be- www.lights.com freely across the house’s exterior, cause their color range is so varied, iTwinkle: plants and more to create a display they can be kept up year-round and that neighbors will think took hours http://itwinklelight.com used for any number of holidays to design and hang,” BlissLights Lumenplay: – Halloween, the Fourth of July, spokeswoman Natalia Barclay says. http://www.lumenplay.com Easter, you name it.

There are no cords or wires Christmas Décor: Lumenplay offers the most colors http://christmasdecor.net/cdi2/ involved with the laser lights, says by far at more than 16 million. The Nick Burks of Atlanta-based PinBlissLights: exotic lighting system doesn’t come nacle Lighting Group. http://www.blisslights.com cheap ($79.99 for a starter pack) and “For people who live in the Pinnacle Lighting Group: is only available in 10-foot strands. northern part of the country, it’s www.pinnaclelightinggroup.com But you can string as many as 500 extremely helpful when you have lights together on one controller, to take them down and it’s zero which comes with the starter pack. degrees outside,” he says. “Instead GE also offers RGB lighting technology with of taking a string of lights down in January, just its new iTwinkle light sets and pre-lit Christmas unplug the fixture and put it in a box and you’re trees, while Texas-based decorating firm Christmas done.”

Décor is offering the lights as an option for holiday BATTERY-POWERED LIGHTS customers this year.

This technology has been around a while but ‘SMART’ LIGHTS was mostly limited to smaller, incandescent light All the talk of RGB technology leads right into strands that you’d put in a window box or small the next holiday lighting trend this year – “smart” porch display. lights or lighting systems controlled by your smartNow they come in LED strands up to 30 feet long phone. with batteries that are much more powerful and Both the Lumenplay and iTwinkle systems are longer-lasting. Many feature auto-timers and butoperated via apps available for Apple and Android tons that control blinking and other patterns. phones. With just a swipe of your screen, you can At online retailer Lights.com, you can connect dim or brighten outdoor lights, set them to music, up to six strands of battery-powered lights for a or choose new colors and patterns. total of 600 LED lights on one battery pack, spokesWith iTwinkle, you can even record a greeting to woman Aimee Majoros says. play, like “Happy Holidays” or “Merry Christmas,” You know what that means? 180 feet of energyspokeswoman Amanda Hayes says. saving holiday sparkle.

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Homeowners looking for something unique in holiday lighting can find it in projected laser lights. Using small spotlights, the technology shown in this photo, provided by Pinnacle Lighting Group, projects thousands of tiny pinpoints of red, green or red and green lights onto your home or any other hard surface.

Battery-powered lights have been around a while, but were mostly limited to smaller, incandescent light strands you’d put in your window box or a small porch display.

Now they come in LED strands up to 30 feet long with batteries that are much more powerful and longer-lasting. Up to six strands of these lights from Lights.com can be connected for a total of 600 LEDs on one battery pack.

2 LIFESTYLE • Saturday, November 22, 2014 • Section C • Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com

FAMILY TIME | Protecting your home during the holidays

Tip of the week When you think of the holidays, celebrations, presents and friends likely come to mind – not crime. Unfortunately, burglaries increase at this time of year, and your home could be a target. With a few simple safety precautions, you can protect your property, your family and your valuables now and well into the new year.

“Taking steps to protect your home during the holidays isn’t radically different from what most people should be doing the rest of the year,” says Thomas Leman, a retired 27-year veteran of the police force and criminal justice professor at Argosy University Online. “The problem is that most people get lured into a false sense of security and tend to let their guard down, thinking that crime won’t happen to them.”

Take precautions today to protect your home and deter criminals. Consider these five simple steps: Step 1: Decorate with care: When it comes to holiday decorations, modesty is definitely the best policy, says Leman. “While you may love the look of a Christmas tree in your front window, expensive decorations on display can be a signal that there are valuables inside your home worth a criminal’s time. Gifts under the tree are the most blatant of these displays and are a welcome invitation for thieves.”

Leaving gifts tucked away until the last possible minute is a quick and easy safety precaution. If you must display presents, make sure they are out of sight from any windows or doorways.

Step 2: Lock it up: Whether you are home, running errands or away on vacation, take care to close and lock all doors and windows. Remember to set alarms, too. “Given that most people have extra valuables and gifts in their homes during this time, it’s a good idea to practice home safety whether you’re there or not,” says Leman. Leman adds that a simple dowel placed in a sliding glass door or window can be an inexpensive way to secure vulnerable entrance points. “Alarms or closed circuit video surveillance sys-

PRAIRIE FLOWERS Autumn Craft and Treasures Market a success To the Editor: The 42nd annual Sycamore Music Boosters Autumn Craft and Treasures Market held during the recent Pumpkin Festival weekend at the Sycamore High School Field House was a tremendous success!

It is with deep gratitude that we thank all of our Music Booster families – each parent, student, family member, friend, teacher and staff member that volunteered at the Craft Fair fundraiser! Whether you baked pies, worked a shift, sent a donation, attended the craft fair, or helped in any other way, you helped support our mission: “Enriching the quality of music education, performance and awareness in the Sycamore schools and community.”

Our appreciation also is extended to the Craft Fair vendors, Sycamore School District administration, athletics and custodial staff, the Suter Company, Italian Dreams, Country Store and Catering, Elleson’s Bakery and Sycamore Park District. We extend our sincere gratitude to everyone who assisted in making this another successful fundraiser during the Pumpkin Festival weekend!

With much appreciation, Ken Olson Sycamore Music Booster president Cathie Lohse, Amy Cuthbert, Peggy Diemer, Brian Jungmann, Deb Loitz, Kathy Reuter, Bob Atkins and Lisa Smith Autumn Craft and Treasures Market committee

Thanks to Taxco Restaurant To the Editor: Last week my wife, daughter and I had a fine Mexican dinner at Taxco in Sycamore.

I was asked by the server if there were any veterans here.

I replied, “Yes, me.” She said my meal would be free. Wow, how nice. I felt a bit guilty about that since I already ordered one of the more expensive meals. But on the way out, I just had to thank the owner for this. He was especially gracious in how he thanked ME for my service. I won’t forget this.

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tems are a great and inexpensive way to protect your home,” he adds.

Step 3: Light the night: A well-lit and well-groomed home provides an important measure of safety. “The better the lighting in your home and yard, the fewer places there are for criminals to lurk,” says Leman. USAA recommends the 3 foot/6 foot rule: trim branches to 6 feet off the ground and shrubs down to 3 feet to minimize hiding places for burglars.

Step 4: Dispose smartly: It’s best not to alert strangers to the new 70-inch flat screen in your home by leaving the box on the curb for refuse pickup. “When it comes to big-ticket items and valuables, boxes on the curb can be an advertisement for the new valuables in your home,” cautions Leman. “Take the time to break down boxes and recycle them or put them on the curb over time and inconspicuously.”

Step 5: Be a tricky traveler: Be proactive about home safety if you have holiday travel plans. Never let mail or newspapers pile up at your home, as it is an instant indicator you are not there. Have a neighbor collect mail and newspapers or have your service stopped by calling the post office and newspaper provider. “Set your lights

and television on timers,” suggests Leman, who also advises homeowners to have a neighbor park their car in your driveway intermittently to keep up the appearance that someone is coming and going.

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Family movie night “Interstellar” Rated: PG-13 Length: 169 minutes Synopsis: A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. By director Christopher Nolan.

Violence/scary rating: 4 Sexual-content rating: 1 Profanity rating: 3 Drugs/alcohol rating: 2.5 Family Time rating: 3. A decent film for older kids in your family.

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

Book report “Blizzard,” by John Rocco Ages: 3 to 5 Pages: 40

Synopsis: “Blizzard” is based on John Rocco’s childhood experience during the now infamous Blizzard of 1978, which brought 53 inches of snow to his town in Rhode Island. Told with a brief text and dynamic illustrations, the book opens with a boy’s excitement upon seeing the first snowflake fall outside his classroom window. It ends with the neighborhood’s immense relief upon seeing the first snowplow break through on their street. In between the boy watches his familiar landscape transform into something alien, and readers watch him transform into a hero who puts the needs of others first. John uses an increasing amount of white space in his playful images, which include a gatefold spread of the boy’s expedition to the store. This book about the wonder of a winter storm is as delicious as a mug of hot cocoa by the fire on a snowy day. – Disney-Hyperion

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U of I Extension educator takes Master Gardener program to South Korea Travel can truly open up one’s eyes to a completely different world and can be absolutely life-changing. This certainly was University of Illinois Extension Horticulture Educator Candice Miller’s experience when she visited South Korea last fall.

Miller provides horticulture programming to residents in the northwestern Illinois counties of Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Winnebago, Boone, DeKalb and Ogle counties.

Miller was chosen to give a presentation on youth gardening at the 2014 Korean Master Gardener International Conference held at GyeongGi-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services in South Korea in September. Her presentation focused on giving the newly established Korean Master Gardener Program ideas on how to start youth gardens in their communities.

She shared some examples of successful youth gardening programs in her counties and outlined the process of establishing a youth garden. In addition, she shared a few activities that local

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Candice Miller Master Gardeners use, like an activity called Calling All Insects that helps youth understand how insects can communicate with each other using sounds.

Master Gardeners are a group of volunteers trained in horticulture to help their local communities. The mission of the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener program is, “Helping Others Learn to Grow.”

The idea of taking the Master Gardener program to South Korea was begun in 2011 by a graduate student at the University of Kentucky. She witnessed the program and thought it would be a great program to take to her native South Korea. Since then, Korea has trained 207 Master Gardeners, who have similar projects as the volunteers in the U.S. A major theme of the conference was urban agriculture and horticulture, as one of the goals of GARES is to promote and educate more urban farmers. The Korean government sees the Master Gardener program as playing a pivotal role in promoting urban agriculture in the country.

Presentations were given on a variety of volunteer management and horticulture topics, and two days of garden tours wrapped up the conference.

Assembly celebrates drug, alcohol prevention More than 100 community members came together on Oct. 21 to celebrate drug and alcohol prevention efforts in DeKalb County during the DeKalb County Partnership for a Substance Abuse Free Environment (DCP/SAFE) Coalition’s 25th annual Assembly. Each year the coalition takes this time to reflect on the previous year, recognize community members for their commitment and look ahead to the future.

At this year’s assembly, nine local organizations and individuals were

awarded Certificates of Appreciation for their continued support of DCP/ SAFE as well as their dedication and commitment to making DeKalb County a safer and healthier place through their prevention efforts. This year’s awardees included Target National Night Out, Joe Burgess, Tim Vincent, Brenda Jergens, Camp Power, Good Life Academy, Kris Aves, Chris Graver and Shawn’s Coffee House.

DCP/SAFE also awarded the Excellence Award to Mary Hess of DeKalb.

This award is given to an individual or organization that has demonstrated excellence in their efforts to reduce alcohol and substance abuse among DeKalb County youth. Hess received this award for her work with the Ben Gordon Center’s Prevention and Education program, DeKalb County KEYS Initiative, Camp Power, DeKalb School District Board of Education, and other youth-involved programs in the community.

For more information on DCP/SAFE, visit www.bengordoncenter/prevention.

BRIEFS Dance center hosts holiday bazaar Northern Illinois Dance Center, 2180 Oakland Drive, Sycamore, will hold a Booster Holiday Bazaar from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday The event will feature local and home-based businesses. Come of the participants are: Thirty-One, Wildtree, Usbourne Books, Pampered Chef, Young Living Essential Oils, Chloe & Isabel, Time is Money, D Edge Photography, Origami Owl, Crocheting Momma, Jamberry Nails, Shaklee, Dove Chocolates, Mary Kay, Scentsy, Tupperware, Pure Elements of Awesome, Younique and more.

The event is free to attend, and a portion of sales from the event will help support the dancers at Northern Illinois Dance Center.

Make holiday gifts in your kitchen Holiday gifts don’t have to be extravagant and expensive. University of Illinois Extension Educators Candice Miller and Marilyn Csernus will present “Holiday Gifts from Your Kitchen & Garden” from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 3.

They’ll teach some fun and easy gifts you can make from what’s grown in

your garden and what you have in your kitchen.

This is a hands-on workshop where participants will take home their crafts created during the class. Participants will have the opportunity to make an herbal moisturizing body scrub, herbal energizing facial scrub, holiday evergreen wreath with dried herb, flower, and fruit accents, as well as some surprises from the kitchen. All recipes will be shared. The cost for this program is $25, and it will be held at the DeKalb County Extension office, 1350 W. Prairie Drive, Sycamore. Preregistration is required by Dec. 2.

To register or for more information, contact the University of Illinois Extension office at 815-758-8194 or visit web.extension.illinois.edu/bdo.

Program to discuss 2014 Farm Bill decisions Numerous farmers and agricultural land owners have questions about the 2014 Farm Bill. What are my commodity program options? How do I update program yields for covered commodities? Should I reallocate my base acres?

Should I enroll in Agriculture Risk Coverage or Price Loss Coverage? Or both?

What about the Supplemental coverage

Option? What tools and resources are out there to help me decide?

Join DeKalb County FSA and University of Illinois Extension to discuss “The 2014 Farm Bill: Making the ARC/ PLC Decision” at the DeKalb County Farm Bureau, 1350 W. Prairie Drive, Sycamore. The program is free and open to the public.

Topics will include: • 2014 Commodity Program Overview and Descriptions – Janeen Vogeler, executive director of DeKalb County FSA • Online Comparison Tools to Help Make Your Decision – Andy Larson, small farms educator, and Russ Higgins, commercial crops educator, University of Illinois Extension • SCO: The Supplemental Coverage Option – Jason Johnson, insurance specialist with 1st Farm Credit Services • Making Your Choice Official with FSA: Process and Timeline – Janeen Vogeler, executive director of DeKalb County FSA • Q&A and additional scenarios with the presenters (as necessary) This meeting will be repeated twice in order to accommodate the schedules of as many agricultural producers and landlords as possible. The program

will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Dec. 17 and 7 to 8 p.m. Dec. 18.

To register, call the University of Illinois Extension office at 815-758-8194, or visit web.extension.illinois.edu/bdo and look for “Register Online” on the right-hand side. There is no fee for this program, but an RSVP is requested in order to guarantee space and materials.

Those who need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this program, should call 815-758-8194.

NIU Cares Day seeking projects Northern Illinois University has thousands of helping hands looking for meaningful projects to tackle on NIU Cares Day, April 18.

NIU Cares Day was created in 2009 to allow the university to express its gratitude to the DeKalb-Sycamore community for its continued support of NIU. Since that time, NIU students have provided thousands of man hours working on projects for schools, libraries, clubs and even individuals.

During the event, NIU provides students with transportation to and from worksites across the community, and even supplies some basic tools needed to complete certain projects.

All that participating project sites must

provide is a job that requires willing workers. There is no charge associated with the event.

Past projects have included painting rooms and buildings for schools and service organizations, cleaning out basements and attics for the elderly, providing manpower to help local organizations prepare for or staff events, cleaning up vacant lots, performing yard work for homeowners who can no longer do the work themselves, planting gardens and many other jobs around the community – more than 130 job sites in all last spring.

The work for these jobs is provided by students from across campus, including members of NIU’s Greek community, athletes, clubs and individual students, all looking to give back to their adopted community.

Organizers of this year’s event are especially hoping for more substantial projects for student teams.

Online applications are now available at http://niucaresday.niu.edu, and have a priority deadline of Jan. 24, although early registration will assist in this process. Questions should be directed to Destiny McDonald, Assistant Director for Community Service in SILD and coordinator of the event, at 815753-6511 or dmcdonald@niu.edu.

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Enjoy water fixtures all year by winterizing their ponds going, and use cold and frost-tolerant landscaping for visual interest,” said Tavia Tawney, technical services manager for Aquascape Inc. in Chicago.

Tips for preparing your pond for the winter freeze-up: • Remove debris before it can decompose. That prevents organic rot, loss of oxygen and an accumulation of toxic gases. “But the bigger problem comes if you stir it up,” Folsom said. “That can turn up bacteria that will be harmful to fish in winter.”

• Use netting. Cover the water with a screen, sweep the surface with a long-handled net or install skimmers like those used to vacuum swimming pools.

• Prune. Pinch off aquatic plants as they die back.

Reposition your hardy potted water lilies into deeper water.

“Tropical plants will die after a hard frost and should be removed then, or you can bring the tropicals inside the house

for winter,” Tawney said.

• Use a bubbler or tank heater if you have fish. “We use an aerator bubbler to add oxygen to the pond if the falls are turned off,” Tawney said.

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“Pay attention and know how much water you’re using below the ice. You have to keep that flow topped off.”

Ensure that water lines and fixtures are drained if you do decide to turn them off so they won’t expand with freezing and break, Folsom said.

“Running water, on the other hand, prevents icing. That’s one of the reasons I tell people to keep them running.”

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A weeknight wine from Portugal that drinks like a special occasion Rain was an infrequent occurrence during the 2009 growing season in the Douro region of northeast Portugal.

A spring that was an unpredictable mixed bag of weather events was hardly a harbinger of a hot, dry summer.

Despite a challenging growing season, Quinta de Roriz turned out a stellar blend.

Winemaker spotlight If Quinta de Roriz, Prazo de Roriz Tinto 2009 ($16) was a film, it would be a critically acclaimed box office hit. It would appeal to critics and audiences alike.

With 5,000 cases produced, this vintage should be available at your local wine store. It’s a great value – a weeknight wine that drinks like something you’d open on a special occasion.

There are five grape varieties and their respective percentages listed on the specifications sheet for this wine.

An additional percentage is reserved for other varieties and fruit such as raspberries.

“Those kind of flavors, particularly raspberry, have been side by side with the mineral character, the hallmark of Prazo de Roriz profile along the years,” said Rui Ribeiro, the U.S. Ambassador for the Symington Family Estates.

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UNCORKED James Nokes “That comes from the specific terroir of Quinta de Roriz/ Quinta da Perdiz and the blend of Tinta Barroca, Tinta Roriz, Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Francisca, creating wine with plenty of finesse and elegance.”

While the dry growing season may have imparted more fruit over the mineral notes in 2009, according to Ribeiro, the terroir of the Douro lends itself to produce wines with acidity, structure and full fruit flavor. Once again, a wine with fruit grown in a mountain environment captures my attention.

The raspberry notes are clean and clear. There’s a black cherry tea note that pleasantly presents itself. The minerality, which Ribeiro said “creates complexity and improves the freshness,” is unmistakable and keeps the fruit tastes vibrant. The tannins are very easygoing; the mouth feel is full, yet inviting.

It’s an ideal companion to any meal, played perfectly with beef stew on a cold night last week, and is a great wine to transition into bolder winter reds.

Pat and Carol (Wales) Hertzner of DeKalb will be married 50 years on Friday, December 5, 2014. Carol and Pat were married Saturday, December 5, 1964, at the First Lutheran Church DeKalb.

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Quinta de Roriz is located in the Douro region of northeast Portugal.

“The Douro is one of the oldest demarcated wine regions in the world, since 1756. That means beyond the large quantity of Portuguese varieties, which offer a unique diversity, there is a deep knowledge about the main ones – Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barroca – which permit us to set up the right approach according to what type of wine and profile we are looking for,” Ribeiro said.

“The Douro valley has particular soil and climate conditions in a mountain vineyard atmosphere, which makes this place probably the toughest viticultural environ-

ment of the world, well known for the unique range of flavors and concentration – naturally low yields – balanced with a distinctive acidity. Inside of the region we have pure expressions of terroir at those places like Quinta de Roriz, Quinta da Perdiz where the wines show world-class character consistently along the years.”

They have three children: Donna (Alex) of DeKalb, Bill of DeKalb and Brad (Delinda) of Sycamore; and 6 grandchildren: Alexander, Natasha, Loren, Kalee, Amanda and Vanessa. They have 2 great granddaughters: Niellie and Av’a.

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• James Nokes writes a bi-weekly wine column for the Daily Chronicle. He’s been tasting, touring and collecting in the wine world for several years. Contact him at news@ daily-chronicle.com.

Spanish-language volunteers needed for Chile trip Do you have a passion for teaching English to English language learners? Are you seeking a way to put your Spanish speaking skills to good use?

If so, then Rotary District 6420, which serves Rotary clubs in northwest Illinois, has an opportunity for you.

District 6420 will be sending a Vocational Training Team of up to six people to Combarbala, Chile, in June to help English language teachers develop stronger skills sets and develop new strategies and methodologies to better help their students develop stronger English language skills.

The population of Combarbala, 250 miles north of Chile’s capital, Santiago, is nearly 4,700. The community serves a rural area of 7,380 people. Rotary is seeking applicants from within Rotary District 6420 boundaries who have a minimum two years of experience teaching English language learners or with ESL programs and who are fluent in Spanish. Skill sets such as curriculum development, teaching methodologies and using limited resources to the maximum are a plus.

Rotary membership is not a requirement, although the team leader must be a

Rotarian.

“This project is being timed so teachers can have an opportunity to participate and share their skills with peers from another country.

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In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Prairie Crossing, a supportive living community in Shabbona, recently donated $450, proceeds from a chili supper and bake sale on Oct. 16, to the KishHealth System Foundation to benefit the KishHealth System Cancer Center.

Pictured (from left) are Julie Koch, Prairie Crossing activities director, Pete Moland, Doc Herrmann, Phyllis Herrmann, Joyce Castagna and Marta Davis, Prairie Crossing administrator.

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Somonauk Summer Recreation recently received a $2,500 grant from the DeKalb County Community Foundation. The money will be used for the Varsity Softball path, which will be completed in 2015. Approximately $17,000 in additional funding is needed to finish the project, which will have a total cost of approximately $44,000. The foundation has, to this point, contributed $14,000 in grants toward the project.

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Rick Lindner, president of the Sandwich Lions Club, presented a $1,200 check to Cindy Worsley, executive director of Fox Valley Older Adult Services, to help fund the FVOAS roof restoration project. Thanks to donations and grants from area foundations, FVOAS is two-thirds of the way to reaching its goal of paying for the restoration of the roof to eliminate the leaks that have been a growing problem for many years.

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TODAY – Prepare to jump into action and go after what you want. Use any opposition you encounter to keep you on your toes. This is a year of growth and victory. Plan your strategy and head for the finish line.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Don’t forget the people who have helped you get where you are. The support and inspiration you have obtained should be sincerely acknowledged, and rewards should be given to those who deserve them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Expect the unexpected. An old debt is likely to be repaid. Financial gains are likely, along with an opportunity to improve your current living situation. Proceed with passion.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Avoid a battle of wills. There will be no winner if your argument divides people you care about. Be diplomatic and keep the peace.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Love is highlighted. A good deed you perform for a friend will prove fortunate for you as well. Your compassion and understanding will not go unnoticed.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – A relaxing day trip will help you wind down from your hectic schedule. You will be introduced to someone who will have an important impact on your future. Romance is on the horizon.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Make your home a welcome environment for all who enter. Friends and family will offer fabulous suggestions and lend helping hands to bring your vision to life.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – You can’t run away from unpleasant situations. Emotional pressures are best resolved once and for all. Get everything out in the open in order to move forward without looking back.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Don’t take your destiny lightly. Fun and games have their time, but your real task is to guarantee that you are successful. Love is in the stars.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Have faith in your abilities. Keep on your chosen path regardless of what everyone else does. You won’t get far if you give in to what others want.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Love is highlighted. A relationship can be improved with a little tender loving care. Your charm and charisma will help you win favors and get the help you need to reach a personal goal.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Get involved in interest groups, volunteer projects or community outreach.

You will gain refreshing new insight and meet interesting people who will help immensely with future decisions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Put last-minute touches in place to perfect an important project. Focus on your finances and how to improve your living arrangements. If you look, you will find a way to market your ideas.

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Teen afraid to talk to parents about OCD Dear Abby: I’m 13 and I’m afraid I may have OCD. I want to find out, but what’s standing in my way is that sometimes my parents think I make stuff up to get attention.

I’m afraid to tell them, but I know if I do, it will answer my question. Can you give me some advice? – Anonymous in Ohio Dear Anonymous: Be brave and talk to your parents about your fears. They are your best friends, and you should be able to talk to them about anything – particularly anything that bothers you. However, before you do, make a list of the behaviors that cause you to think you may have OCD, and when you approach them, read them what’s on it. That way, if you become nervous, you won’t forget anything.

Dear Abby: My daughter and her boyfriend have been dating for three years. They are now in their first year of college and she gets upset when he texts other girls and Snapchats them. He makes her feel like she’s overreacting, but I can understand her fears that he is being unfaithful. What do you think about social networking and how it can affect relationships and even marriage? – Wise Mom in North Carolina Dear Wise Mom: If someone wants to be unfaithful, social

sonable to not allow our kids to be over there unless they declaw that cat? – “Discatified” in Wisconsin Dear “Discatified”: Cats do not normally “attack” chilnetworking makes it easier dren out of nowhere. Before than ever. But men and wom- you insist they declaw their en who are ready to settle pet, perhaps you should indown and make a commitvestigate what led up to your ment do not look for outside child being scratched. Could adventures, no matter how your child have done somethey go about it. thing that caused the animal If your daughter is inseto react defensively? If that cure about what her boyfriend might be the case, then your is doing, she may have good son should be taught about the reason. If she’s right about her proper handling of animals, hunches, the time has come because declawing a cat is for BOTH of them to meet and not minor surgery. It’s like date other people. Because she having the tips of one’s fingers has spent so much of her teens amputated, and some cities with only this young man, the have outlawed the practice. prospect may frighten her.

Dear Abby: My wife and I But please explain that this have been married 13 years. will be her chance to mature Early on, we struggled to have and grow. As a “Wise Mom,” children and needed reproI’m sure you can get the mesductive specialists in order to sage across. have our two beautiful girls, Dear Abby: My children ages 4 and 8. were over at my in-laws’ reDuring my wife’s second cently. When we came to pick pregnancy she had minithem up, they told us their strokes. We were advised cat had scratched our son. against another pregnancy, Sure enough, there were five which surprisingly happened scratch marks on his face, two months ago. Faced with circling his left eye. the difficult decision of In the past we have reccontinuing the pregnancy ommended they have the cat and risking my wife’s health, declawed so this wouldn’t or ending the life of a child happen. They told us that cats we would never see, know or can make mistakes just like raise, we chose the latter. kids do. We do not share their My wife feels I’m not grievopinion. Would it be unreaing because I’m trying to show

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little, if any, emotion. I assure you I hurt inside enormously. How can I reassure her of such, while trying to be a “strong man”? And how do we avoid the stigma associated with our choice by those who may have known about the pregnancy? Never has the quote “Don’t judge people until you have walked a mile in their shoes” rung so true. – Dad of Two Flowers and One Angel Dear Dad: I’m sorry about your loss, and for the pain you and your wife are experiencing. However, while I appreciate that you are trying to be strong and put on a brave face, that may not be what she needs right now. A grief therapist could help you two reconnect on an emotional level and communicate your feelings more effectively with each other.

As to your worries about “stigma” for ending a pregnancy that put your wife’s life at risk, there shouldn’t be any. While bringing a new life into the world is wonderful, your wife has a greater responsibility to her two little girls. They need their mother – as do you.

If anyone has the gall to make a negative comment, her response should be that the pregnancy was terminated because her doctors told her that carrying it to term might have resulted in her

death. Anyone who would judge your wife after hearing that isn’t worth her time or yours. Trust me on that.

Dear Abby: I was at my eye doctor’s yesterday, sitting in a small waiting room waiting for my eyes to dilate. There were five of us in there, quietly thumbing through magazines or listening to a TV on a low volume.

A woman in her 20s walked in and joined us. No sooner did she sit down than her cellphone rang. For the next half-hour she proceeded to talk loudly. I was so annoyed and distracted it was all I could do not to grab that phone out of her hand. Other people looked her way, but no one said anything.

There was no sign requesting people to turn off their phones. Abby, what can be done about cellphone rudeness? – Miffed in Massachusetts Dear Miffed: Someone should have gotten up, complained to the office manager that the extended phone call was intrusive and disturbing everyone, and suggested that a sign be posted telling patients that cellphones are to be used only in emergencies.

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Healthy behaviors improve odds for longer life Dear Dr. K: Eat right. Don’t smoke. Stay active. Can you give me some motivation to keep up these healthy behaviors?

Dear Reader: I think I get your message. This column frequently presents information from scientific studies about healthy lifestyle. But information alone may not be enough to change behavior – and it’s hard to change behavior, particularly when you enjoy it. Information doesn’t equal motivation.

I’m not an expert on how to motivate people, but here’s how I motivate myself. I ask myself what I want from life.

In terms of health, I want to live as long as possible, free of

ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff suffering and with my faculties intact. Then I’ll be able to love and be loved, and to enjoy the things I most enjoy, for as long as possible.

So the next question is: How do I get there? And I don’t mean how do I guarantee I’ll live a long life, free of suffering and decrepitude.

Because there are no guarantees in life, only odds. You want to know what the odds are that you’ll achieve your goals, and what you can do to improve your odds. At least

that’s what I want to know.

How do I find out what my odds are, and how to improve them? I believe in science. I don’t believe that any single scientific study is infallible, no matter how impressive it seems. But I believe that the collective information from many well-done studies is the best, and maybe the only, way I’ll ever learn what I need to know.

For example, in a recently published study, a research team followed nearly 17,000 men and women, aged 17 years and older, for 18 years.

They meticulously collected information on the lifestyle, the illnesses, and the life or death of the study partici-

pants. In other words, they studied more than 300,000 years of human experience.

They compared study participants who ate a healthy diet, got enough physical activity, drank alcohol in moderation and never smoked to those who engaged in none of these healthy behaviors. The first group lived an average of 11 years longer. It’s just the latest study that says that the lifestyle we call “healthy” really is good for our health.

There’s more good news.

The same healthy lifestyle practices that cause you to live longer make those extra years healthier. Healthy lifestyle does not just prolong your decrepitude.

Even more good news: You don’t have to banish all unhealthy practices from your life, always and forever. What matters is your usual behavior. Take me, for example.

Does Doctor K always follow the healthy lifestyle advice he gives in this column? Some questions answer themselves.

Information motivates me – and so does emotion. If family and friends encourage me along the path I’ve chosen, and if I don’t want to disappoint them, I’m more likely to follow that path. I hope this advice will help you find the motivation you need to stay healthy.

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TODAY’S WEEKEND PUZZLE ACROSS 1 From the – (hyph.)

6 Wielded an axe 11 Unearth (2 words) 16 Bizarre 21 Stair post 22 Of the hipbone 23 Rock tumbler stone 24 Scent 25 Fight locale 26 Island off Naples 27 Bylaws 28 Yellow fruit 29 Dressy accessory 30 Prima – evidence 32 Very important 34 Recipe meas.

36 Sea cliff dweller 37 Firms up 39 Provides capital 41 Car-wash step 43 Cummerbund sites 45 Utter nonsense 47 Doglike scavenger 49 Dew’s opposite 51 Presidents, at times 54 Tine 55 On the horizon 56 Wind resistance 60 Petroleum component 61 Name in tractors 62 Texas river 64 Actress – Hartman 65 White-hat wearer 66 “Gigi” composer 67 Undersized 68 Prickly flora 70 Lime-based drink 71 Divers’ finds 73 Midler or Davis 74 Lament 75 Sediment 77 Squirrel hangouts 78 Builds an appetite 79 Many shepherds 80 Warns a jaywalker 82 Fred Sanford’s

friend 83 Cameos, maybe 84 Buttonholes 87 Sammy and Danny 88 Proboscis 89 Strong and healthy 93 “Bird Dog” brothers 94 Auto-racing family 95 Durango dude 97 ATM code 98 1960s quintet The Left – 99 Ad 100 Popeye’s pal 101 Like a good cake 103 NFL events 104 Facetious tributes 106 Hindu princes 107 Tell jokes 108 Ooze out 110 Little foxes 111 Rookie surfer 112 Cowpoke’s crony 113 Room to – 115 Of flowing water 116 Change colors 117 Etna’s island 120 Horned animal 122 Oahu neighbor 124 Table salt 128 Horde 129 Mind reader’s gift 131 Febrero follows it 133 PC character code 135 Animal park 136 Russian lake 138 Aristocrats 140 Glee 142 Cold-shoulders 144 Pooped out 145 Kapitan’s command (hyph.)

146 Pierre’s school 147 Bathrobe size 148 Paves the way 149 Sassy girl 150 Dressed to the – 151 Lend – –

DOWN 1 Pesky insects 2 Spooky 3 Chirp 4 DDE was one 5 Canute’s foe 6 Minor setbacks 7 Galahad’s mother 8 Used a doormat 9 Hearing aid?

10 604, in old Rome 11 Flitting 12 Edible lizard 13 Exasperates 14 Sporty truck 15 Annoying one 16 Frat letters 17 S&L offering 18 Uh-uhs

19 Retail giant 20 Opens wide 31 Eager 33 Castle that danced 35 Said “!@#$%&!”

38 Porticos 40 Chronic nags 42 Decadent 44 “– be an honor!”

46 Avoid cancellation 48 Nostalgic time 50 Suggestive 51 Corruptible 52 Piano piece 53 “– French hens ...”

54 Sneaks a look 55 Cousins’ moms 57 Enemy survey 58 Square columns 59 Puts on weight

61 Wharves 62 Flaky 63 Public tiff 66 Oozes out 67 Orchestra section 69 “Witness” extras 72 Cox of “RoboCop” 73 Jo March’s professor 74 Farm machine 76 “Jaws” menace 78 More ironic 79 Huxtable player 81 Tanker 82 Krypton and xenon 83 Frisks about 84 Mortgages 85 Weasel out of 86 Jumpy

87 Stretchy fabrics 88 Bedouin 90 Of bees 91 Cotton thread 92 “– the Dragon” 94 Long overcoat 95 Seize by force 96 Grinding material 99 Not rainy 100 Arroyo 102 Nash of humorous poems 105 Gives a thumbsup 106 Helicopter blade 107 Pie-chart lines 109 Air-pump meas.

111 Best policy?

112 Downy fruits 114 Answers a charge

115 Hunt and Evans 116 Steal cattle 117 Whacked, of old 118 Ancient Greek colony 119 Truckers with handles 121 Long sandwiches 123 Burr or Spelling 125 Sky blue 126 Chain dance 127 Dangerfield persona 130 Cushy job 132 Bad or good sign 134 Cuba, to Castro 137 Right, to Dobbin 139 Kimono sash 141 Here, in Le Havre 143 Leia’s rescuer

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GE offers the latest in lighting technology with its new iTwinkle holiday light sets and pre-lit Christmas trees. Each of the bulbs holds three LEDs – red, green and blue – that can be combined to create thousands of color choices.

Jazz up your holidays with the latest in lights

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lark Griswold would be proud.

Thanks to advances in lighting technology, suburban dads (and moms) across the country have a lot to choose from when it comes to creative ways to deck their halls for the holidays this year.

Forget about white incandescent lights and animatronic reindeer.

Think lasers. Think smartphones. And hundreds, if not millions, of color choices.

Most of these apps have a range of up to 150 feet, meaning you can control the action from across the yard or while plopped on your couch watching “It’s A Wonderful Life” (or the Griswolds in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”) for the 10th time.

“No longer do you have to venture outside to plug in your lights,” says Sarah Koniniec with California-based Technical Consumer Products.

TCP recently unveiled a smart home lighting system known as Connected by TCP, which links to a home’s Wi-Fi or mobile network and is controlled via smartphone, computer or a special remote.

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Using small spotlights, this technology projects thousands of tiny pinpoints of red, green or red RGB LIGHTS AND green lights onto your home or any other hard Single light bulbs that hold three LEDs – red, surface. California-based BlissLights offers them green and blue – are the secret behind a new catfor $179 or $199 each, depending on whether the egory of holiday lights that offer up lights are in motion. to 16 million color combinations.

To a passerby, “at first glance, Online Known as RGB lights, they can they look like traditional holiday be dialed up or down in a variety of rope lights, but actually they float ways via a smartphone app. And be- www.lights.com freely across the house’s exterior, cause their color range is so varied, iTwinkle: plants and more to create a display they can be kept up year-round and that neighbors will think took hours http://itwinklelight.com used for any number of holidays to design and hang,” BlissLights Lumenplay: – Halloween, the Fourth of July, spokeswoman Natalia Barclay says. http://www.lumenplay.com Easter, you name it.

There are no cords or wires Christmas Décor: Lumenplay offers the most colors http://christmasdecor.net/cdi2/ involved with the laser lights, says by far at more than 16 million. The Nick Burks of Atlanta-based PinBlissLights: exotic lighting system doesn’t come nacle Lighting Group. http://www.blisslights.com cheap ($79.99 for a starter pack) and “For people who live in the Pinnacle Lighting Group: is only available in 10-foot strands. northern part of the country, it’s www.pinnaclelightinggroup.com But you can string as many as 500 extremely helpful when you have lights together on one controller, to take them down and it’s zero which comes with the starter pack. degrees outside,” he says. “Instead GE also offers RGB lighting technology with of taking a string of lights down in January, just its new iTwinkle light sets and pre-lit Christmas unplug the fixture and put it in a box and you’re trees, while Texas-based decorating firm Christmas done.”

Décor is offering the lights as an option for holiday BATTERY-POWERED LIGHTS customers this year.

This technology has been around a while but ‘SMART’ LIGHTS was mostly limited to smaller, incandescent light All the talk of RGB technology leads right into strands that you’d put in a window box or small the next holiday lighting trend this year – “smart” porch display. lights or lighting systems controlled by your smartNow they come in LED strands up to 30 feet long phone. with batteries that are much more powerful and Both the Lumenplay and iTwinkle systems are longer-lasting. Many feature auto-timers and butoperated via apps available for Apple and Android tons that control blinking and other patterns. phones. With just a swipe of your screen, you can At online retailer Lights.com, you can connect dim or brighten outdoor lights, set them to music, up to six strands of battery-powered lights for a or choose new colors and patterns. total of 600 LED lights on one battery pack, spokesWith iTwinkle, you can even record a greeting to woman Aimee Majoros says. play, like “Happy Holidays” or “Merry Christmas,” You know what that means? 180 feet of energyspokeswoman Amanda Hayes says. saving holiday sparkle.

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Homeowners looking for something unique in holiday lighting can find it in projected laser lights. Using small spotlights, the technology shown in this photo, provided by Pinnacle Lighting Group, projects thousands of tiny pinpoints of red, green or red and green lights onto your home or any other hard surface.

Battery-powered lights have been around a while, but were mostly limited to smaller, incandescent light strands you’d put in your window box or a small porch display.

Now they come in LED strands up to 30 feet long with batteries that are much more powerful and longer-lasting. Up to six strands of these lights from Lights.com can be connected for a total of 600 LEDs on one battery pack.

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FAMILY TIME | Protecting your home during the holidays

Tip of the week When you think of the holidays, celebrations, presents and friends likely come to mind – not crime. Unfortunately, burglaries increase at this time of year, and your home could be a target. With a few simple safety precautions, you can protect your property, your family and your valuables now and well into the new year.

“Taking steps to protect your home during the holidays isn’t radically different from what most people should be doing the rest of the year,” says Thomas Leman, a retired 27-year veteran of the police force and criminal justice professor at Argosy University Online. “The problem is that most people get lured into a false sense of security and tend to let their guard down, thinking that crime won’t happen to them.”

Take precautions today to protect your home and deter criminals. Consider these five simple steps: Step 1: Decorate with care: When it comes to holiday decorations, modesty is definitely the best policy, says Leman. “While you may love the look of a Christmas tree in your front window, expensive decorations on display can be a signal that there are valuables inside your home worth a criminal’s time. Gifts under the tree are the most blatant of these displays and are a welcome invitation for thieves.”

Leaving gifts tucked away until the last possible minute is a quick and easy safety precaution. If you must display presents, make sure they are out of sight from any windows or doorways.

Step 2: Lock it up: Whether you are home, running errands or away on vacation, take care to close and lock all doors and windows. Remember to set alarms, too. “Given that most people have extra valuables and gifts in their homes during this time, it’s a good idea to practice home safety whether you’re there or not,” says Leman. Leman adds that a simple dowel placed in a sliding glass door or window can be an inexpensive way to secure vulnerable entrance points. “Alarms or closed circuit video surveillance sys-

PRAIRIE FLOWERS Autumn Craft and Treasures Market a success To the Editor: The 42nd annual Sycamore Music Boosters Autumn Craft and Treasures Market held during the recent Pumpkin Festival weekend at the Sycamore High School Field House was a tremendous success!

It is with deep gratitude that we thank all of our Music Booster families – each parent, student, family member, friend, teacher and staff member that volunteered at the Craft Fair fundraiser! Whether you baked pies, worked a shift, sent a donation, attended the craft fair, or helped in any other way, you helped support our mission: “Enriching the quality of music education, performance and awareness in the Sycamore schools and community.”

Our appreciation also is extended to the Craft Fair vendors, Sycamore School District administration, athletics and custodial staff, the Suter Company, Italian Dreams, Country Store and Catering, Elleson’s Bakery and Sycamore Park District. We extend our sincere gratitude to everyone who assisted in making this another successful fundraiser during the Pumpkin Festival weekend!

With much appreciation, Ken Olson Sycamore Music Booster president Cathie Lohse, Amy Cuthbert, Peggy Diemer, Brian Jungmann, Deb Loitz, Kathy Reuter, Bob Atkins and Lisa Smith Autumn Craft and Treasures Market committee

Thanks to Taxco Restaurant To the Editor: Last week my wife, daughter and I had a fine Mexican dinner at Taxco in Sycamore.

I was asked by the server if there were any veterans here.

I replied, “Yes, me.” She said my meal would be free. Wow, how nice. I felt a bit guilty about that since I already ordered one of the more expensive meals. But on the way out, I just had to thank the owner for this. He was especially gracious in how he thanked ME for my service. I won’t forget this.

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tems are a great and inexpensive way to protect your home,” he adds.

Step 3: Light the night: A well-lit and well-groomed home provides an important measure of safety. “The better the lighting in your home and yard, the fewer places there are for criminals to lurk,” says Leman. USAA recommends the 3 foot/6 foot rule: trim branches to 6 feet off the ground and shrubs down to 3 feet to minimize hiding places for burglars.

Step 4: Dispose smartly: It’s best not to alert strangers to the new 70-inch flat screen in your home by leaving the box on the curb for refuse pickup. “When it comes to big-ticket items and valuables, boxes on the curb can be an advertisement for the new valuables in your home,” cautions Leman. “Take the time to break down boxes and recycle them or put them on the curb over time and inconspicuously.”

Step 5: Be a tricky traveler: Be proactive about home safety if you have holiday travel plans. Never let mail or newspapers pile up at your home, as it is an instant indicator you are not there. Have a neighbor collect mail and newspapers or have your service stopped by calling the post office and newspaper provider. “Set your lights

and television on timers,” suggests Leman, who also advises homeowners to have a neighbor park their car in your driveway intermittently to keep up the appearance that someone is coming and going.

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Family movie night “Interstellar” Rated: PG-13 Length: 169 minutes Synopsis: A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. By director Christopher Nolan.

Violence/scary rating: 4 Sexual-content rating: 1 Profanity rating: 3 Drugs/alcohol rating: 2.5 Family Time rating: 3. A decent film for older kids in your family.

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

Book report “Blizzard,” by John Rocco Ages: 3 to 5 Pages: 40

Synopsis: “Blizzard” is based on John Rocco’s childhood experience during the now infamous Blizzard of 1978, which brought 53 inches of snow to his town in Rhode Island. Told with a brief text and dynamic illustrations, the book opens with a boy’s excitement upon seeing the first snowflake fall outside his classroom window. It ends with the neighborhood’s immense relief upon seeing the first snowplow break through on their street. In between the boy watches his familiar landscape transform into something alien, and readers watch him transform into a hero who puts the needs of others first. John uses an increasing amount of white space in his playful images, which include a gatefold spread of the boy’s expedition to the store. This book about the wonder of a winter storm is as delicious as a mug of hot cocoa by the fire on a snowy day. – Disney-Hyperion

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year an average of 20,000 U.S. children younger than 5 are hospitalized because of flu complications.

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U of I Extension educator takes Master Gardener program to South Korea Travel can truly open up one’s eyes to a completely different world and can be absolutely life-changing. This certainly was University of Illinois Extension Horticulture Educator Candice Miller’s experience when she visited South Korea last fall.

Miller provides horticulture programming to residents in the northwestern Illinois counties of Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Winnebago, Boone, DeKalb and Ogle counties.

Miller was chosen to give a presentation on youth gardening at the 2014 Korean Master Gardener International Conference held at GyeongGi-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services in South Korea in September. Her presentation focused on giving the newly established Korean Master Gardener Program ideas on how to start youth gardens in their communities.

She shared some examples of successful youth gardening programs in her counties and outlined the process of establishing a youth garden. In addition, she shared a few activities that local

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Candice Miller Master Gardeners use, like an activity called Calling All Insects that helps youth understand how insects can communicate with each other using sounds.

Master Gardeners are a group of volunteers trained in horticulture to help their local communities. The mission of the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener program is, “Helping Others Learn to Grow.”

The idea of taking the Master Gardener program to South Korea was begun in 2011 by a graduate student at the University of Kentucky. She witnessed the program and thought it would be a great program to take to her native South Korea. Since then, Korea has trained 207 Master Gardeners, who have similar projects as the volunteers in the U.S. A major theme of the conference was urban agriculture and horticulture, as one of the goals of GARES is to promote and educate more urban farmers. The Korean government sees the Master Gardener program as playing a pivotal role in promoting urban agriculture in the country.

Presentations were given on a variety of volunteer management and horticulture topics, and two days of garden tours wrapped up the conference.

Assembly celebrates drug, alcohol prevention More than 100 community members came together on Oct. 21 to celebrate drug and alcohol prevention efforts in DeKalb County during the DeKalb County Partnership for a Substance Abuse Free Environment (DCP/SAFE) Coalition’s 25th annual Assembly. Each year the coalition takes this time to reflect on the previous year, recognize community members for their commitment and look ahead to the future.

At this year’s assembly, nine local organizations and individuals were

awarded Certificates of Appreciation for their continued support of DCP/ SAFE as well as their dedication and commitment to making DeKalb County a safer and healthier place through their prevention efforts. This year’s awardees included Target National Night Out, Joe Burgess, Tim Vincent, Brenda Jergens, Camp Power, Good Life Academy, Kris Aves, Chris Graver and Shawn’s Coffee House.

DCP/SAFE also awarded the Excellence Award to Mary Hess of DeKalb.

This award is given to an individual or organization that has demonstrated excellence in their efforts to reduce alcohol and substance abuse among DeKalb County youth. Hess received this award for her work with the Ben Gordon Center’s Prevention and Education program, DeKalb County KEYS Initiative, Camp Power, DeKalb School District Board of Education, and other youth-involved programs in the community.

For more information on DCP/SAFE, visit www.bengordoncenter/prevention.

BRIEFS Dance center hosts holiday bazaar Northern Illinois Dance Center, 2180 Oakland Drive, Sycamore, will hold a Booster Holiday Bazaar from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday The event will feature local and home-based businesses. Come of the participants are: Thirty-One, Wildtree, Usbourne Books, Pampered Chef, Young Living Essential Oils, Chloe & Isabel, Time is Money, D Edge Photography, Origami Owl, Crocheting Momma, Jamberry Nails, Shaklee, Dove Chocolates, Mary Kay, Scentsy, Tupperware, Pure Elements of Awesome, Younique and more.

The event is free to attend, and a portion of sales from the event will help support the dancers at Northern Illinois Dance Center.

Make holiday gifts in your kitchen Holiday gifts don’t have to be extravagant and expensive. University of Illinois Extension Educators Candice Miller and Marilyn Csernus will present “Holiday Gifts from Your Kitchen & Garden” from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 3.

They’ll teach some fun and easy gifts you can make from what’s grown in

your garden and what you have in your kitchen.

This is a hands-on workshop where participants will take home their crafts created during the class. Participants will have the opportunity to make an herbal moisturizing body scrub, herbal energizing facial scrub, holiday evergreen wreath with dried herb, flower, and fruit accents, as well as some surprises from the kitchen. All recipes will be shared. The cost for this program is $25, and it will be held at the DeKalb County Extension office, 1350 W. Prairie Drive, Sycamore. Preregistration is required by Dec. 2.

To register or for more information, contact the University of Illinois Extension office at 815-758-8194 or visit web.extension.illinois.edu/bdo.

Program to discuss 2014 Farm Bill decisions Numerous farmers and agricultural land owners have questions about the 2014 Farm Bill. What are my commodity program options? How do I update program yields for covered commodities? Should I reallocate my base acres?

Should I enroll in Agriculture Risk Coverage or Price Loss Coverage? Or both?

What about the Supplemental coverage

Option? What tools and resources are out there to help me decide?

Join DeKalb County FSA and University of Illinois Extension to discuss “The 2014 Farm Bill: Making the ARC/ PLC Decision” at the DeKalb County Farm Bureau, 1350 W. Prairie Drive, Sycamore. The program is free and open to the public.

Topics will include: • 2014 Commodity Program Overview and Descriptions – Janeen Vogeler, executive director of DeKalb County FSA • Online Comparison Tools to Help Make Your Decision – Andy Larson, small farms educator, and Russ Higgins, commercial crops educator, University of Illinois Extension • SCO: The Supplemental Coverage Option – Jason Johnson, insurance specialist with 1st Farm Credit Services • Making Your Choice Official with FSA: Process and Timeline – Janeen Vogeler, executive director of DeKalb County FSA • Q&A and additional scenarios with the presenters (as necessary) This meeting will be repeated twice in order to accommodate the schedules of as many agricultural producers and landlords as possible. The program

will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Dec. 17 and 7 to 8 p.m. Dec. 18.

To register, call the University of Illinois Extension office at 815-758-8194, or visit web.extension.illinois.edu/bdo and look for “Register Online” on the right-hand side. There is no fee for this program, but an RSVP is requested in order to guarantee space and materials.

Those who need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this program, should call 815-758-8194.

NIU Cares Day seeking projects Northern Illinois University has thousands of helping hands looking for meaningful projects to tackle on NIU Cares Day, April 18.

NIU Cares Day was created in 2009 to allow the university to express its gratitude to the DeKalb-Sycamore community for its continued support of NIU. Since that time, NIU students have provided thousands of man hours working on projects for schools, libraries, clubs and even individuals.

During the event, NIU provides students with transportation to and from worksites across the community, and even supplies some basic tools needed to complete certain projects.

All that participating project sites must

provide is a job that requires willing workers. There is no charge associated with the event.

Past projects have included painting rooms and buildings for schools and service organizations, cleaning out basements and attics for the elderly, providing manpower to help local organizations prepare for or staff events, cleaning up vacant lots, performing yard work for homeowners who can no longer do the work themselves, planting gardens and many other jobs around the community – more than 130 job sites in all last spring.

The work for these jobs is provided by students from across campus, including members of NIU’s Greek community, athletes, clubs and individual students, all looking to give back to their adopted community.

Organizers of this year’s event are especially hoping for more substantial projects for student teams.

Online applications are now available at http://niucaresday.niu.edu, and have a priority deadline of Jan. 24, although early registration will assist in this process. Questions should be directed to Destiny McDonald, Assistant Director for Community Service in SILD and coordinator of the event, at 815753-6511 or dmcdonald@niu.edu.

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Enjoy water fixtures all year by winterizing their ponds going, and use cold and frost-tolerant landscaping for visual interest,” said Tavia Tawney, technical services manager for Aquascape Inc. in Chicago.

Tips for preparing your pond for the winter freeze-up: • Remove debris before it can decompose. That prevents organic rot, loss of oxygen and an accumulation of toxic gases. “But the bigger problem comes if you stir it up,” Folsom said. “That can turn up bacteria that will be harmful to fish in winter.”

• Use netting. Cover the water with a screen, sweep the surface with a long-handled net or install skimmers like those used to vacuum swimming pools.

• Prune. Pinch off aquatic plants as they die back.

Reposition your hardy potted water lilies into deeper water.

“Tropical plants will die after a hard frost and should be removed then, or you can bring the tropicals inside the house

for winter,” Tawney said.

• Use a bubbler or tank heater if you have fish. “We use an aerator bubbler to add oxygen to the pond if the falls are turned off,” Tawney said.

“Once we are continuously below 20 degrees Fahrenheit,

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Turning off a garden’s water fixtures may not be necessary, depending on where you live, said Keith Folsom, president of Springdale Water Gardens in Greenville, Virginia. “Their wintertime effect is always different and attractive with the use of landscape lighting and the right plants.”

“We had an extremely cold winter here last year but it wasn’t a problem,” he said.

“Pay attention and know how much water you’re using below the ice. You have to keep that flow topped off.”

Ensure that water lines and fixtures are drained if you do decide to turn them off so they won’t expand with freezing and break, Folsom said.

“Running water, on the other hand, prevents icing. That’s one of the reasons I tell people to keep them running.”

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A weeknight wine from Portugal that drinks like a special occasion Rain was an infrequent occurrence during the 2009 growing season in the Douro region of northeast Portugal.

A spring that was an unpredictable mixed bag of weather events was hardly a harbinger of a hot, dry summer.

Despite a challenging growing season, Quinta de Roriz turned out a stellar blend.

Winemaker spotlight If Quinta de Roriz, Prazo de Roriz Tinto 2009 ($16) was a film, it would be a critically acclaimed box office hit. It would appeal to critics and audiences alike.

With 5,000 cases produced, this vintage should be available at your local wine store. It’s a great value – a weeknight wine that drinks like something you’d open on a special occasion.

There are five grape varieties and their respective percentages listed on the specifications sheet for this wine.

An additional percentage is reserved for other varieties and fruit such as raspberries.

“Those kind of flavors, particularly raspberry, have been side by side with the mineral character, the hallmark of Prazo de Roriz profile along the years,” said Rui Ribeiro, the U.S. Ambassador for the Symington Family Estates.

Pat and Carol Hertzner 50th Anniversary

UNCORKED James Nokes “That comes from the specific terroir of Quinta de Roriz/ Quinta da Perdiz and the blend of Tinta Barroca, Tinta Roriz, Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Francisca, creating wine with plenty of finesse and elegance.”

While the dry growing season may have imparted more fruit over the mineral notes in 2009, according to Ribeiro, the terroir of the Douro lends itself to produce wines with acidity, structure and full fruit flavor. Once again, a wine with fruit grown in a mountain environment captures my attention.

The raspberry notes are clean and clear. There’s a black cherry tea note that pleasantly presents itself. The minerality, which Ribeiro said “creates complexity and improves the freshness,” is unmistakable and keeps the fruit tastes vibrant. The tannins are very easygoing; the mouth feel is full, yet inviting.

It’s an ideal companion to any meal, played perfectly with beef stew on a cold night last week, and is a great wine to transition into bolder winter reds.

Pat and Carol (Wales) Hertzner of DeKalb will be married 50 years on Friday, December 5, 2014. Carol and Pat were married Saturday, December 5, 1964, at the First Lutheran Church DeKalb.

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Quinta de Roriz is located in the Douro region of northeast Portugal.

“The Douro is one of the oldest demarcated wine regions in the world, since 1756. That means beyond the large quantity of Portuguese varieties, which offer a unique diversity, there is a deep knowledge about the main ones – Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barroca – which permit us to set up the right approach according to what type of wine and profile we are looking for,” Ribeiro said.

“The Douro valley has particular soil and climate conditions in a mountain vineyard atmosphere, which makes this place probably the toughest viticultural environ-

ment of the world, well known for the unique range of flavors and concentration – naturally low yields – balanced with a distinctive acidity. Inside of the region we have pure expressions of terroir at those places like Quinta de Roriz, Quinta da Perdiz where the wines show world-class character consistently along the years.”

They have three children: Donna (Alex) of DeKalb, Bill of DeKalb and Brad (Delinda) of Sycamore; and 6 grandchildren: Alexander, Natasha, Loren, Kalee, Amanda and Vanessa. They have 2 great granddaughters: Niellie and Av’a.

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Ron and Paula Coe 40th Anniversary

• James Nokes writes a bi-weekly wine column for the Daily Chronicle. He’s been tasting, touring and collecting in the wine world for several years. Contact him at news@ daily-chronicle.com.

Spanish-language volunteers needed for Chile trip Do you have a passion for teaching English to English language learners? Are you seeking a way to put your Spanish speaking skills to good use?

If so, then Rotary District 6420, which serves Rotary clubs in northwest Illinois, has an opportunity for you.

District 6420 will be sending a Vocational Training Team of up to six people to Combarbala, Chile, in June to help English language teachers develop stronger skills sets and develop new strategies and methodologies to better help their students develop stronger English language skills.

The population of Combarbala, 250 miles north of Chile’s capital, Santiago, is nearly 4,700. The community serves a rural area of 7,380 people. Rotary is seeking applicants from within Rotary District 6420 boundaries who have a minimum two years of experience teaching English language learners or with ESL programs and who are fluent in Spanish. Skill sets such as curriculum development, teaching methodologies and using limited resources to the maximum are a plus.

Rotary membership is not a requirement, although the team leader must be a

Rotarian.

“This project is being timed so teachers can have an opportunity to participate and share their skills with peers from another country.

Retires who have teaching experience are also encouraged to apply,” P. Carter Newton, Rotary District 6420 Vocational Training Team chair, said in a news release. “This is an opportunity for northwest Illinois residents to share their skills and of themselves to help those living in another part of the world. We believe that this project will help Combarbala’s young people take advantage of future

educational and occupational opportunities.”

A link to the application can be found on the left navigation bar of the district’s website, rotary6420.org. For information, call 815-238-0318 or email cnewton@galgazette. com. Completed applications can be emailed no later than Dec. 20.

Ron and Paula (Shuck) Coe will be celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary on November 23. They were married in the Waterman Presbyterian Church November 23,1974. Ron works at Caterpillar, Inc. Paula is an instructor at Waubonsee Community College. They have three children: Adam, Zach, and Amber. adno=0299533

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Bethany Rehab donates to KishHealth

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In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Prairie Crossing, a supportive living community in Shabbona, recently donated $450, proceeds from a chili supper and bake sale on Oct. 16, to the KishHealth System Foundation to benefit the KishHealth System Cancer Center.

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Somonauk recreation receives grant

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St. Charles North High School Sat. Dec. 13 • 7:00 pm Sun., Dec. 14 • 2:00 pm

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Somonauk Summer Recreation recently received a $2,500 grant from the DeKalb County Community Foundation. The money will be used for the Varsity Softball path, which will be completed in 2015. Approximately $17,000 in additional funding is needed to finish the project, which will have a total cost of approximately $44,000. The foundation has, to this point, contributed $14,000 in grants toward the project.

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Lions donation helps fund FVOAS roof

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Rick Lindner, president of the Sandwich Lions Club, presented a $1,200 check to Cindy Worsley, executive director of Fox Valley Older Adult Services, to help fund the FVOAS roof restoration project. Thanks to donations and grants from area foundations, FVOAS is two-thirds of the way to reaching its goal of paying for the restoration of the roof to eliminate the leaks that have been a growing problem for many years.

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TODAY – Prepare to jump into action and go after what you want. Use any opposition you encounter to keep you on your toes. This is a year of growth and victory. Plan your strategy and head for the finish line.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Don’t forget the people who have helped you get where you are. The support and inspiration you have obtained should be sincerely acknowledged, and rewards should be given to those who deserve them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Expect the unexpected. An old debt is likely to be repaid. Financial gains are likely, along with an opportunity to improve your current living situation. Proceed with passion.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Avoid a battle of wills. There will be no winner if your argument divides people you care about. Be diplomatic and keep the peace.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Love is highlighted. A good deed you perform for a friend will prove fortunate for you as well. Your compassion and understanding will not go unnoticed.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – A relaxing day trip will help you wind down from your hectic schedule. You will be introduced to someone who will have an important impact on your future. Romance is on the horizon.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Make your home a welcome environment for all who enter. Friends and family will offer fabulous suggestions and lend helping hands to bring your vision to life.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – You can’t run away from unpleasant situations. Emotional pressures are best resolved once and for all. Get everything out in the open in order to move forward without looking back.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Don’t take your destiny lightly. Fun and games have their time, but your real task is to guarantee that you are successful. Love is in the stars.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Have faith in your abilities. Keep on your chosen path regardless of what everyone else does. You won’t get far if you give in to what others want.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Love is highlighted. A relationship can be improved with a little tender loving care. Your charm and charisma will help you win favors and get the help you need to reach a personal goal.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Get involved in interest groups, volunteer projects or community outreach.

You will gain refreshing new insight and meet interesting people who will help immensely with future decisions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Put last-minute touches in place to perfect an important project. Focus on your finances and how to improve your living arrangements. If you look, you will find a way to market your ideas.

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Teen afraid to talk to parents about OCD Dear Abby: I’m 13 and I’m afraid I may have OCD. I want to find out, but what’s standing in my way is that sometimes my parents think I make stuff up to get attention.

I’m afraid to tell them, but I know if I do, it will answer my question. Can you give me some advice? – Anonymous in Ohio Dear Anonymous: Be brave and talk to your parents about your fears. They are your best friends, and you should be able to talk to them about anything – particularly anything that bothers you. However, before you do, make a list of the behaviors that cause you to think you may have OCD, and when you approach them, read them what’s on it. That way, if you become nervous, you won’t forget anything.

Dear Abby: My daughter and her boyfriend have been dating for three years. They are now in their first year of college and she gets upset when he texts other girls and Snapchats them. He makes her feel like she’s overreacting, but I can understand her fears that he is being unfaithful. What do you think about social networking and how it can affect relationships and even marriage? – Wise Mom in North Carolina Dear Wise Mom: If someone wants to be unfaithful, social

sonable to not allow our kids to be over there unless they declaw that cat? – “Discatified” in Wisconsin Dear “Discatified”: Cats do not normally “attack” chilnetworking makes it easier dren out of nowhere. Before than ever. But men and wom- you insist they declaw their en who are ready to settle pet, perhaps you should indown and make a commitvestigate what led up to your ment do not look for outside child being scratched. Could adventures, no matter how your child have done somethey go about it. thing that caused the animal If your daughter is inseto react defensively? If that cure about what her boyfriend might be the case, then your is doing, she may have good son should be taught about the reason. If she’s right about her proper handling of animals, hunches, the time has come because declawing a cat is for BOTH of them to meet and not minor surgery. It’s like date other people. Because she having the tips of one’s fingers has spent so much of her teens amputated, and some cities with only this young man, the have outlawed the practice. prospect may frighten her.

Dear Abby: My wife and I But please explain that this have been married 13 years. will be her chance to mature Early on, we struggled to have and grow. As a “Wise Mom,” children and needed reproI’m sure you can get the mesductive specialists in order to sage across. have our two beautiful girls, Dear Abby: My children ages 4 and 8. were over at my in-laws’ reDuring my wife’s second cently. When we came to pick pregnancy she had minithem up, they told us their strokes. We were advised cat had scratched our son. against another pregnancy, Sure enough, there were five which surprisingly happened scratch marks on his face, two months ago. Faced with circling his left eye. the difficult decision of In the past we have reccontinuing the pregnancy ommended they have the cat and risking my wife’s health, declawed so this wouldn’t or ending the life of a child happen. They told us that cats we would never see, know or can make mistakes just like raise, we chose the latter. kids do. We do not share their My wife feels I’m not grievopinion. Would it be unreaing because I’m trying to show

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips

little, if any, emotion. I assure you I hurt inside enormously. How can I reassure her of such, while trying to be a “strong man”? And how do we avoid the stigma associated with our choice by those who may have known about the pregnancy? Never has the quote “Don’t judge people until you have walked a mile in their shoes” rung so true. – Dad of Two Flowers and One Angel Dear Dad: I’m sorry about your loss, and for the pain you and your wife are experiencing. However, while I appreciate that you are trying to be strong and put on a brave face, that may not be what she needs right now. A grief therapist could help you two reconnect on an emotional level and communicate your feelings more effectively with each other.

As to your worries about “stigma” for ending a pregnancy that put your wife’s life at risk, there shouldn’t be any. While bringing a new life into the world is wonderful, your wife has a greater responsibility to her two little girls. They need their mother – as do you.

If anyone has the gall to make a negative comment, her response should be that the pregnancy was terminated because her doctors told her that carrying it to term might have resulted in her

death. Anyone who would judge your wife after hearing that isn’t worth her time or yours. Trust me on that.

Dear Abby: I was at my eye doctor’s yesterday, sitting in a small waiting room waiting for my eyes to dilate. There were five of us in there, quietly thumbing through magazines or listening to a TV on a low volume.

A woman in her 20s walked in and joined us. No sooner did she sit down than her cellphone rang. For the next half-hour she proceeded to talk loudly. I was so annoyed and distracted it was all I could do not to grab that phone out of her hand. Other people looked her way, but no one said anything.

There was no sign requesting people to turn off their phones. Abby, what can be done about cellphone rudeness? – Miffed in Massachusetts Dear Miffed: Someone should have gotten up, complained to the office manager that the extended phone call was intrusive and disturbing everyone, and suggested that a sign be posted telling patients that cellphones are to be used only in emergencies.

• Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Healthy behaviors improve odds for longer life Dear Dr. K: Eat right. Don’t smoke. Stay active. Can you give me some motivation to keep up these healthy behaviors?

Dear Reader: I think I get your message. This column frequently presents information from scientific studies about healthy lifestyle. But information alone may not be enough to change behavior – and it’s hard to change behavior, particularly when you enjoy it. Information doesn’t equal motivation.

I’m not an expert on how to motivate people, but here’s how I motivate myself. I ask myself what I want from life.

In terms of health, I want to live as long as possible, free of

ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff suffering and with my faculties intact. Then I’ll be able to love and be loved, and to enjoy the things I most enjoy, for as long as possible.

So the next question is: How do I get there? And I don’t mean how do I guarantee I’ll live a long life, free of suffering and decrepitude.

Because there are no guarantees in life, only odds. You want to know what the odds are that you’ll achieve your goals, and what you can do to improve your odds. At least

that’s what I want to know.

How do I find out what my odds are, and how to improve them? I believe in science. I don’t believe that any single scientific study is infallible, no matter how impressive it seems. But I believe that the collective information from many well-done studies is the best, and maybe the only, way I’ll ever learn what I need to know.

For example, in a recently published study, a research team followed nearly 17,000 men and women, aged 17 years and older, for 18 years.

They meticulously collected information on the lifestyle, the illnesses, and the life or death of the study partici-

pants. In other words, they studied more than 300,000 years of human experience.

They compared study participants who ate a healthy diet, got enough physical activity, drank alcohol in moderation and never smoked to those who engaged in none of these healthy behaviors. The first group lived an average of 11 years longer. It’s just the latest study that says that the lifestyle we call “healthy” really is good for our health.

There’s more good news.

The same healthy lifestyle practices that cause you to live longer make those extra years healthier. Healthy lifestyle does not just prolong your decrepitude.

Even more good news: You don’t have to banish all unhealthy practices from your life, always and forever. What matters is your usual behavior. Take me, for example.

Does Doctor K always follow the healthy lifestyle advice he gives in this column? Some questions answer themselves.

Information motivates me – and so does emotion. If family and friends encourage me along the path I’ve chosen, and if I don’t want to disappoint them, I’m more likely to follow that path. I hope this advice will help you find the motivation you need to stay healthy.

• Visit www.AskDoctorK. com to read more.

TODAY’S WEEKEND PUZZLE ACROSS 1 From the – (hyph.)

6 Wielded an axe 11 Unearth (2 words) 16 Bizarre 21 Stair post 22 Of the hipbone 23 Rock tumbler stone 24 Scent 25 Fight locale 26 Island off Naples 27 Bylaws 28 Yellow fruit 29 Dressy accessory 30 Prima – evidence 32 Very important 34 Recipe meas.

36 Sea cliff dweller 37 Firms up 39 Provides capital 41 Car-wash step 43 Cummerbund sites 45 Utter nonsense 47 Doglike scavenger 49 Dew’s opposite 51 Presidents, at times 54 Tine 55 On the horizon 56 Wind resistance 60 Petroleum component 61 Name in tractors 62 Texas river 64 Actress – Hartman 65 White-hat wearer 66 “Gigi” composer 67 Undersized 68 Prickly flora 70 Lime-based drink 71 Divers’ finds 73 Midler or Davis 74 Lament 75 Sediment 77 Squirrel hangouts 78 Builds an appetite 79 Many shepherds 80 Warns a jaywalker 82 Fred Sanford’s

friend 83 Cameos, maybe 84 Buttonholes 87 Sammy and Danny 88 Proboscis 89 Strong and healthy 93 “Bird Dog” brothers 94 Auto-racing family 95 Durango dude 97 ATM code 98 1960s quintet The Left – 99 Ad 100 Popeye’s pal 101 Like a good cake 103 NFL events 104 Facetious tributes 106 Hindu princes 107 Tell jokes 108 Ooze out 110 Little foxes 111 Rookie surfer 112 Cowpoke’s crony 113 Room to – 115 Of flowing water 116 Change colors 117 Etna’s island 120 Horned animal 122 Oahu neighbor 124 Table salt 128 Horde 129 Mind reader’s gift 131 Febrero follows it 133 PC character code 135 Animal park 136 Russian lake 138 Aristocrats 140 Glee 142 Cold-shoulders 144 Pooped out 145 Kapitan’s command (hyph.)

146 Pierre’s school 147 Bathrobe size 148 Paves the way 149 Sassy girl 150 Dressed to the – 151 Lend – –

DOWN 1 Pesky insects 2 Spooky 3 Chirp 4 DDE was one 5 Canute’s foe 6 Minor setbacks 7 Galahad’s mother 8 Used a doormat 9 Hearing aid?

10 604, in old Rome 11 Flitting 12 Edible lizard 13 Exasperates 14 Sporty truck 15 Annoying one 16 Frat letters 17 S&L offering 18 Uh-uhs

19 Retail giant 20 Opens wide 31 Eager 33 Castle that danced 35 Said “!@#$%&!”

38 Porticos 40 Chronic nags 42 Decadent 44 “– be an honor!”

46 Avoid cancellation 48 Nostalgic time 50 Suggestive 51 Corruptible 52 Piano piece 53 “– French hens ...”

54 Sneaks a look 55 Cousins’ moms 57 Enemy survey 58 Square columns 59 Puts on weight

61 Wharves 62 Flaky 63 Public tiff 66 Oozes out 67 Orchestra section 69 “Witness” extras 72 Cox of “RoboCop” 73 Jo March’s professor 74 Farm machine 76 “Jaws” menace 78 More ironic 79 Huxtable player 81 Tanker 82 Krypton and xenon 83 Frisks about 84 Mortgages 85 Weasel out of 86 Jumpy

87 Stretchy fabrics 88 Bedouin 90 Of bees 91 Cotton thread 92 “– the Dragon” 94 Long overcoat 95 Seize by force 96 Grinding material 99 Not rainy 100 Arroyo 102 Nash of humorous poems 105 Gives a thumbsup 106 Helicopter blade 107 Pie-chart lines 109 Air-pump meas.

111 Best policy?

112 Downy fruits 114 Answers a charge

115 Hunt and Evans 116 Steal cattle 117 Whacked, of old 118 Ancient Greek colony 119 Truckers with handles 121 Long sandwiches 123 Burr or Spelling 125 Sky blue 126 Chain dance 127 Dangerfield persona 130 Cushy job 132 Bad or good sign 134 Cuba, to Castro 137 Right, to Dobbin 139 Kimono sash 141 Here, in Le Havre 143 Leia’s rescuer

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CHILD CARE PROVIDER Evangelical Lutheran of St. John 26555 Brickville Road Sycamore, IL. is seeking a child care provider for Sundays from 7:30 am til Noon. Salary commensurate with exp. and training. Apply in person 9am-1pm Mon.-Thurs.

Or send resume to: office@stjohnsycamore.org

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Dart Container Corporation

Experience in office procedures and Computer applications necessary. Must be available mornings, afternoons, evenings and weekends.

Apply in person at:

Schwinn Exercise Bike $25. 815-786-8127

H & R Block, 818 Lincoln Hwy, Junction Center, DeKalb, Mon, Tues, and Thurs 9-5

BEDROOM SET

SYCAMORE INSIDE

CERTIFIED NURSE ASSISTANT DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center has part & full time positions available for CNA's.

Competitive salary Excellent benefits Uniform allowance Attendance incentive

FRI & SAT NOV 21 & 22 9AM - 3PM

15880 Mount Hunger Rd. Everything Must Go! Advertise here for a successful garage sale!

Call 815-455-4800

Apply at:

DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center 2600 North Annie Glidden Rd DeKalb, Illinois 60115 EOE

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Clothing ~ Women's Tops

Good quality & condition, size XL – 2X, 30 to choose from. $2 - $3/each.

Hampshire Area. 847-830-9725 Costa Del Mar Sunglasses Mens black Fantail with blue 580 lenses. Brand new with tags.$210 Great X-Mas gift. 815-260-9004 Fall/Winter Jacket – XL men's St. Johns Bay, tan color, excellent condition - $8. 815-895-9593

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$10,000 PRICE REDUCTION ZONING IS R-3 GROUP HOUSING IS ALLOWED

has a great opportunity for you.

For immediate consideration please apply online at

www.dart.jobs Dart Container Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all candidates for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

King bed with mattress, stainglass look in headboard with 2 lights with a 5 drawer upright dresser, 6 drawer low profile dresser and nightstand, $400.

815-301-5663 DESK - 52" x 24" Steel Desk, 3 Pieces, Lt Beige Color, Wood Grain Top, w/ Small Left Side Return, Includes - Chair Great Shape, $75. Sycamore 815-762-0382 after 4PM DESK - Totally Refinished Brass handles 42” width $75 815-825-2275 DINING ROOM SET - Includes Large China Cabinet, Table with 6 chairs and 2 leaves. Chairs have green cloth seats and caning on the backs. Asking $300. Call Sharon at 815-751-8478 Dining room table, 6 chairs & china cabinet $200 Call 815-825-2275 End Table w/ 2 Drawers Light Wood, Very Sturdy, Good Condition $20. 815-895-9593

Includes 2 controllers, mic & 12 games plus manual, excellent condition - $150.

815-508-0629 10a-9p

Water Purifier Reverse Osmosis

Three stage system. Under Sink Water Purifier. Hooked up, but never used, (paid $500) Sell for $100.

847-830-9725

Kimball Console Piano

Great condition – Looks almost new, only needs someone to play it - $399. 815-761-7466 Wurlitzer Organ Funmaker 545, Nice!

2 keyboards – older style $150. 815-758-4602

STEP LADDERS 3 wood step ladders, Type lll, 200lb. Rating, very good condition, 4' to 5' high, $15 each, Sycamore 815-762-0382 After 4pm WORK GLOVES - 120pair, New, White, Adult Size, Washable, $40 for all, Will Separate, Sycamore 815-762-0382 After 4:00 PM

Christmas Tree ~ Blue Spruce Beautiful 7.5', white lights with remote control, full branches, easy assembly, EXC COND! Original $400, sell for $120/obo.

630-934-4040

TORO POWERLITE SNOWBLOWER Great Condition, Runs Well, Winter is coming! $150 OBO 708-908-0452 Cortland

Wooden Thomas Set Child's wooden play table suitable for train set - $75.

815-991-5721 evenings

WANTED! I Buy Old Envelopes

Collections 815-758-4004

SUN, NOV 23 1-3

219 N. MAIN ST. 4 bedroom, 3 bath, 3000 sq ft built by skilled craftsmen in the mid 1800's. Features a grand entry, orig maple, mahogany and restored hand-crafted oak, original fireplace, lead and curved glass windows, custom window treatments, marble in baths.

1st floor bedroom with full bath.

Updated with today's amenities.

Perfection throughout.

$345,000 Connie Ott Swanson Real Estate 815-378-8359

Hinckley ~ Rimsnider Road approx 80 acres 76.6 tillable acres w/2stry farm house & ranch house $15,000 per tillable acre +houses. $1.6M 859-630-5920

CAR, TRUCK, SUV,

WILL BEAT ANY QUOTE GIVEN!! $400 - $2000 “don't wait.... call 2day”!!

815-575-5153

I BUY CARS, TRUCKS, VANS & SUVs

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

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

Sue 815-762-0781

1990 & Newer

DeKalb Sunny 2BR $725 Includes heat and water.

Will beat anyone's price by $300.

220 E. Hillcrest. 815-758-0600 hillcrestplaceaptsdekalb.com

Hillcrest Place Apts.

Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan

815-814-1964 or

815-814-1224 !!!!!!!!!!!

DeKalb (2) Units Available 1BR $475 with W/D & 2BR $550.

Both remodeled, heat and water paid.

815-739-9055 DEKALB - Downtown DeKalb cute 2 bedroom upper above store, newer appliances, flooring, central air & furnace. Available now. $600 plus utilities. 630-327-7147 DEKALB - New Flooring 3BR 2 bath apt with garage, ctrl air, near schools & Rt 23. No dogs or smkg. $900/mo + util. 630-450-5372

DEKALB - SPACIOUS MARKET APARTMENTS Starting @ $432, 1BR; $599, 2 BR; $683, 3 BR.

WE PAY THE BEST! For Junk Cars, Trucks & Vans with or without titles.

630-817-3577 or 219-697-3833

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. John Deere Gator 625i XUV Olive, Black Bench Seat, Power Bed Lift, Bed Liner, 88 hours: $9500. 630-263-3907

815-758-7859 DeKalb 1BR, New Kit/BA $585.

2BR, near town, $575/mo.

3BR, Newer kit, $685/mo. No pets/smokers. 815-762-4730

DEKALB ~ 235 NORTH 1st Large 2BR, carport, A/C, laundry.

Clean, quiet and secure. $750/mo.

J&A R. E. 815-970-0679

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455 W. Division St. Coal City, IL 60416

2 Unit Now – Could be a Single Family.

NEW Roof, 1st flr Kitchen is huge. Great location.

All Appliances.

Will BUY UR USED

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Christmas Tree – Artificial 7' pre-lit lights, w/stand (paid $225) selling for $30/obo.

815-508-4550

Home Entertainment Center-Solid wood frame 5' wide 4' tall w/glass front door and storage area for DVDs. Also, Cabinet on caster wheels and reclining rocking chair.

Call for appt 815-758-5208 Small Side Table - Early American Solid Pine, Dark Brown Stained Finish, Approximately 28 x 19 inches Very good condition, $45.00 815-762-0382 After 4:00pm

A-1 AUTO

Sump Pump 12 Volt – New in box $50. 815-593-0625

Coal City Meadows Apartments

Join the world's largest foam cup manufacturer and one of the leading producers of quality single-use foodservice products. We are currently looking for qualified applicants for the following positions:

UTILITIES MECHANIC SHIPPING SUPERVISOR LOCAL DRIVER

Aluminum - $175 815-751-2337

5 BAR CLAMPS - Old Carpenters Bar Clamps, Notched Wood Beam, Cast Iron Stops, Approx 4'-5' long, $25 OBO each, Sycamore 815-762-0382 After 4:00 PM

Holiday Barbies

2000 Ford F-350 4x4 Auto, gas engine. 162K miles, with 7.5' Western Unimount plow $3750 obo Add'l 8.5' Western Unimount plow $1500 815-748-3782

Pickup Topper NINTENDO WII SYSTEM

2002-2004-2006-2007 $30 each or all 4 for $100.

847-370-8774 MILK CRATES Old Wood Milk Crates - Assorted Dairies & Dates, Good Condition, 5 left, $25 each or all 5 for $20. each - Sycamore.

815-762-0382 After 4:00 PM

Office Assistant

Milk Crates – 2 Prairie Farm, Golden Rod & Bowmen Dairy Milk Crates - $12 each or all for $40. 815-757-6242 afternoons

WASHER – G.E. Profile 4 water levels, 4 wash/rinse temps, 3 wash/spin speeds, extra rinse cycle, various wash cycles, liquid bleach dispenser, excellent condition $165. 815-761-7466

Framed Art Autographed Cartoon Cell - Hanna/Barbera - Characters On Parade" Documented, Mint Condition $400. Moving, Sycamore 815-762-0382 After 4PM

Part-time Legal Secretary for busy Sycamore law firm.

Flexible hours. Good keyboarding and general office skills a must.

Send resume to: pfloyd0212@gmail.com

position available. Experience in office procedures and computer applications necessary.

Must be available mornings, afternoons, evenings, and weekends.

Apply in person at:

815-909-6958 Refrigerator – 21 cu. ft., w/ split adjusting shelves, on wheels for easy moving good condition, works great - $170.

815-761-7466 Side by Side Refrigerator/Freezer GE - 36”W x 31”D, Very Good Condition $150, 815-895-6893 after 5pm

Lawn Mower – 21” cut, Bolens, has bagger, mulching mower $40. 815-895-9593

1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments Must be 62 years of age or older or disabled regardless of age.

Please Call: 815-634-0878 An Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer.

Managed by Professional Property Mgt, LLC.

Publisher's Notice: All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation of discrimination." Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law.

Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD tollfree at 1-800-669-9777. The tollfree telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

DeKalb Clean, Spacious 2BR Upper Apt in nice downtown location. Plenty of parking, $700 + gas & elec + 1st, last sec. Water, trash incl, no pets. 815-739-8862

DeKalb Cozy 2 BR, Near NIU & downtown, residential area. Safe, off-St parking, $580 + utilities.

No pets/smokers. 815-762-4730 DEKALB Large One Bedroom Apt 630-768-5962

DeKalb Quiet Studio 1 & 2BR

Lease, deposit, ref, no pets.

815-739-5589 ~ 815-758-6439

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

815-758-6580

DELUXE 1 & 2 BEDROOM APTS Laundry in units. Free water, NO PETS, Appliances.

Ready NOW. $1000/mo.

815-757-5546

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Sycamore – Woodgate Condo 2 bedroom penthouse, quiet living, pool at clubhouse, garage, available by Dec 1st , great for grad students, $895/mo. credit check required, small/medium Dog OK, with additional monthly cost. call John 630-240-1973

GENOA 1 & 2 BEDROOM 1 bath, remodeled, appl. Country setting, close to downtown Genoa.

815-784-4606 ~ 815-901-3346

DeKalb Brick 2BR, Exc Condition/ Location. Garage, yard, basement, appliances, W/D, $1100/mo.

1211 N. 1 st St. 815-758-0600 DeKalb, Very Nice Duplex, 3 bedroom, 1 ½ bath, 2 car gar. cleaning service provided ! $1250/mo. 815-739-2315 HINCKLEY - 3 Bedroom 2.5 bath duplex ready now. Great location in Hinckley. MUST SEE! $1,300.

Call Brian 847-772-8831

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

Call for details, Agent Owned.

815-756-2359 Or 815-758-6712 DeKalb, small contractor office/storage unit available $310/mo.

815-758-1218

Dekalb~OFFICE Space: 151 W. Lincoln Highway

(between Castle Bank and American Liquors).

Approx. 880sq. ft., multiple rooms, all utilities included in rent.

Parking lot adjacent to building.

Available January 1.

(815) 787-3519

Send your Classified Advertising 24/7 to: Email: classified@shawsuburban.com Fax: 815-477-8898 or online at: www.daily-chronicle.com

DeKalb/Sycamore. Nice 1-2 person office space! Utils included!!

Adolph Miller RE 815-756-7845

Sycamore ~ Office Suite 1st. Floor, 4 Room Suite Handicap Accessible, Private Parking, close to Courthouse, Add'l Space Available $1200/mo. 815-895-2488

Pictures increase attention to your ad!

DeKalb - Aircraft Storage $285/mo. Cars, RV's, Boats, 75¢ sq ft. Call for details.

630-886-0835

PUBLIC NOTICE Bid Notice CRESTON - 101 W South St 3-4Br, 2 bath. $1095 + utilities 1st, Last, Sec. 815-751-1915.

DEKALB - 803 S 1st St, 3br, 1.5ba, att Garage, Cent AC, DW, W/D, Fenced yard, $950/mo, 1st+sec, avail now, 847-845-4021

Shabbona ~ Spacious 2BR Newly painted, W/D, appl, A/C. No dogs, $650/mo + security.

847-738-2334

DEKALB 842 SOUTH 1 st St. Large 4BR, 2BA, large yard, bsmt.

W/D hook-up. 815-758-4615 or 815-375-4615

Stone Prairie 2BR, 2BA APT.

DeKalb Near Kish College & NIU

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

Cat friendly. Private fishing. $765/mo.

2 story brick, all new interior, 3BR, 1.5BA, 3 + car garage, $1100.

No pets/smokers 815-762-4730 Dekalb, Newer 3 bedroom, 1½ bath, full bsmt, attach gar, fenced yard, no pets/smkg 1st/last/security $1250/mo. 815-748-3782

Laing Mgmt.

815-758-1100 or 815-895-8600

MALTA ~ 22730 MALTA RD. 3BR, 1BA, appl, W/D, 2 car gar.

No pets/smoking. $800/mo + util.

651-955-7988

Sycamore – upper 2 bedroom, 1 bath, off street parking, W/D on premises, no pets $695/mo. 815-895-6211 SYCAMORE ~ 3 BEDROOM

Sycamore 3 Bedroom

1 bath, $700/mo + heat and utilities. No pets, no smoking.

630-816-9352

1.5 bath, W/D, garage, no pets/ smoking, $850/mo + 1st, last sec.

815-761-0817

Sycamore ~ (2) 2 Bedroom

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

Newly renovated, 1 bath 1 car garage in nice, quiet neighborhood. 815-895-2488 SYCAMORE, 316 KISHWAUKEE 3 bedroom ranch, 2 full bathrooms, dining and living room, finished basement, all appliances, 1.5 car garage, large fenced in yard. $1200/mo. 815-895-2017.

SYCAMORE: NEWER 2BR Upper.

CA. DW. W/D on Site. Off-Street Prkg. No pets/smoking. $695 Incl.

Wtr/Grbg J&A RE 815-970-0679

DeKalb/Sycamore-2 to 3 Bedroom Townhouses. Visit tv-realty.com or Call Tom 815-378-7962

Sycamore TH Like New 2BR

Great location! 2BA, 2 car garage, skylights, appl, W/D, C/A, $950.

No pets.

815-758-0123

DON'T NEED IT? SELL IT FAST!

Sycamore, 409 Parkside 3 bedroom ranch, dining & family rooms, attached garage, Lg yard, $950/mo. 847-741-2000

Room for working man. $350 includes utilities.

Need good references.

Call 815-758-7994 after 10 A.M.

Sycamore 2 Roommates Needed 4 bedroom home, full priviliges, pets OK, garage avail, $750/mo + utilities. 815-762-5008 Lv Msg

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Board of Trustees Sycamore Public Library Sycamore, Illinois

DON'T NEED IT? SELL IT FAST! Daily Chronicle Classified Call 877-264-2527 or www.daily-chronicle.com

Daily Chronicle Classified Call 877-264-2527

Notice is hereby given to potential Bidders that Swedberg & Associates, Inc. as Construction Manager at risk, will receive bids and contract for services on behalf of Sycamore Public Library, Board of Trustees for the following project: Sycamore Public Library Roofing Removal and Replacement Project #2014-075 located at 103 E. State St., Sycamore, IL 60178. In general the work includes removal and replacement of 3,500 +/- SF of low-sloped EPDM and 8,270 +/- SF of steep-slope asphalt shingle roof systems and related architectural sheet metal. Access Bidding Documents (drawings and specifications) electronically by contacting Ms Michele Dvorak at Swedberg & Associates, Inc. at 815-895-9116 or via email at MDvorak@swedbergs.com between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm Monday though Friday.

Bidding Documents may be examined at the office of the Construction Manager, Swedberg & Associates, 1135 E. State Street, Sycamore, IL 60178 by appointment only. Hard copies will also be available (limit one set) for purchase at the office of the CM on or after the above date by request for $100.00 non-refundable in the form of cash or check made payable to the CM. Documents can be picked up or shipped. A Federal Express or UPS account number will be required for all shipments. Lump sum sealed bids will be received until 2:30 pm, prevailing time, on Tuesday, December 9th, 2014 at the Sycamore Public Library, 103 E. State Street, City of Sycamore, County of DeKalb, State of Illinois. Bids will be opened and read aloud immediately following. All bids received after said date and time shall not be considered and returned unopened. All bids must be submitted on the forms furnished in the Bidding Documents. The project will be bid as a Lump Sum roofing proposal. Each Bid must conform and be responsive to all pertinent Bidding and Contract Documents. Bids shall be submitted on or before the specified closing time in an opaque sealed envelope marked "Sycamore Public Library, Roofing Removal and Replacement, Project #2014-075" on the outside and addressed to: Mr. Steve Swedberg, Project Manager, Swedberg & Associates, Inc, Construction Manager, c/o Sycamore Public Library, 103 East State Street, Sycamore, IL, 60178. Bids may be held for a period of 90 days from the date of bid opening for the purpose of reviewing the Bids and investigating the qualifications of Bidders prior to awarding the contracts. Bid security in the form of a bid bond, cash or certified check made payable to Swedberg & Associates, Inc. equal to 10% of the base bid amount shall be submitted with the bid. 100% Performance and Labor and Material Payment Bonds, and Certificate of Insurance will be required from the successful bidder. The Construction Manager and Board of Trustees of the Sycamore Public Library reserves the right to reject any or all bids or parts thereof, to waive any irregularities or informalities in the bidding procedures and to award the contracts in a manner serving the interest of the Library. Additionally they reserve the right to amend the bid documents, including the plans and specifications, Scope of Work Notes and Supplemental Conditions, at any time prior to the bid opening, with reasonable notice to the plan holders. This project is subject to the State of Illinois Prevailing Wage requirements for Sycamore Public Library, and as such the provisions of the Prevailing Wage Act shall be complied with in all applicable work to be performed at the Library (www.sycamorelibrary.org). Questions regarding the content of the Bid Documents are required to be submitted in writing to Steve Swedberg, Swedberg & Associates, Inc., 1135 East State Street, P.O. Box 333, Sycamore, IL, 60178 (email: steve@swedbergs.com, telephone: 815-895-9116, fax: 815-895-9324). A MANDATORY prebid meeting and walk-through will be held at the Sycamore Public Library in Sycamore, on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at 10:00 am.

Call 800-589-8237 or email:

(Published in the Daily Chronicle November 22, 2014)

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2349 Pioneer Way Sycamore 4 2.1 $299,900 Coldwell Banker Honig-Bell, Mark Southwood, 815-519-7761

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1221 Loren Dr DeKalb 3 2 $142,000 Century 21 Elsner Realty, Dennis Maakestad, 815-739-5926 843 S 8th St DeKalb 3 2 $144,900 Century 21 Elsner Realty, Carol Boesche, 815-761-5796 3221 Meadow Trail E DeKalb 4 2.5 $224,900 Century 21 Elsner Realty, Gayle Wuori, 815-757-1107

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11-1 133 North Stott Street Genoa 3 2.0 $149,500 Coldwell Banker Honig-Bell, Joline Suchy, 815-751-6101

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970 Buckingham Ln Sycamore 2 2 $127,000 Century 21 Elsner Realty, Sharon Sperling, 815-793-3030

45 Bluebell Ave Cortland 4 2.5 $189,900 Century 21 Elsner Realty, Maria Pena Graham, 815-757-3529

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