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Patricia Schmidt, 49, of Sycamore, sits at the defense table Jan. 28 during the first day of her trial.

An open letter from Patricia Schmidt Note to readers: The following is an open letter from Patricia Schmidt, who was acquitted April 3 on charges of reckless homicide and aggravated reckless driving in a crash that killed Tim Getzelman and Lexi Weber.

To the parents of Tim Getzelman and Lexi Weber:

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Dawn Weber (second from right), mother of Lexi Weber, holds hands with family during a ceremony July 15, 2012, in honoring Tim Getzelman and Lexi Weber at the Sycamore Fire Department Fire Station No. 2.

Parents of victims in fatal crash say apology rings hollow, question motivation behind her words

By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI jduchnowski@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – A week after she was acquitted of reckless homicide, Patricia Schmidt apologized to the families of the 21-year-olds killed in the February 2011 crash in a letter to the Daily Chronicle.

Schmidt, 49, of Sycamore, said she prayed daily for Tim Getzelman and Lexi Weber, who died after Schmidt’s truck blew a red light at Route 23 and Peace Road and smashed into the Pontiac Grand Am that Getzelman was driving. She said her defense attorney instructed her not to talk Tim with the couple’s families.

“Starting the evening of Mon- Getzelman day, Feb. 21, 2011, I cried for the two young people who died in the accident, whose names I did not yet know,” Schmidt wrote. “I asked my attorney repeatedly if I could talk to someone in the young people’s families. Each time I was told: ‘absolutely not!’

Lexi “Please understand that in all my Weber years, I have never had anything even close to this happen.”

Getzelman’s and Weber’s families acknowledged her letter, including her promise not to drive again, and said they would continue working to change state laws on driving with a seizure disorder.

Tamara Getzelman, Tim’s mother, and Dawn Weber, Lexi’s mother, prepared a written statement together Friday.

“We will continue to honor our children’s memory by changing the laws,” the families’ statement read. “Perhaps when the time is appropriate, Patricia Schmidt will agree to testify in support of the ‘Tim & Lexi Law,’ thus making all families safer in the state of Illinois.”

Trial testimony revealed that Schmidt likely had a seizure just before the crash. Andrew Ta, a board-certified neurologist at Midwest Neurology in DeKalb, diagnosed her with a seizure condition in April 2007 and was comfortable with her driving, a factor DeKalb County Judge Robbin Stuckert said factored heavily in her not guilty verdict after a trial that spanned months.

Most states require those with seizure condi-

On the Web For video from the Schmidt trial, visit Daily-Chronicle.com or scan the QR code with your smartphone.

More inside Daily Chronicle Editor Eric Olson writes that Schmidt’s apology cannot change what happened, but it helps humanize the woman from the courtroom. Page A2 tions to have a seizure-free period before they are allowed to drive, and some also require doctors to report epilepsy conditions. According to the Epilepsy Foundation, Illinois does neither.

In her letter, Schmidt said she had started many letters to the families during the three years the criminal case was pending, but never sent them.

“I know the pain of losing dear friends, friends’ children and my own parents, but I can’t imagine the anguish of losing a child you have loved and raised,” Schmidt wrote. “When you saw me sitting silently at the courthouse, it was not because I did not want to come apologize to you, but because of my attorney’s instruction. I tried to stay calm and pay attention, but I felt I was being cold and rude, not the way I was raised to behave.”

She acknowledged that Tim Getzelman, a Sycamore High School graduate, and Lexi Weber, a Kaneland High School graduate, had promising futures.

Weber wanted to become a teacher and supported Feed’em Soup, a nonprofit organization that has a children’s section called Lexi’s Corner in her honor. Getzelman had earned his basic EMT license and was hired as an intern by the Sycamore Fire Department in September 2008.

For the Weber and Getzelman families, though, the public apology rang hollow. They said Schmidt still wasn’t taking personal responsibility for her actions by citing her attorney.

“It has taken 1,146 days for Patricia Schmidt to issue an apology for causing the deaths of our children,” the families’ statement read. “From the evening of Feb. 21, 2011, never once has she reached

See SCHMIDT, page A9

All good defense attorneys will tell you, “No matter how sorry you are, do not talk to the families!”

Starting the evening of Monday, Feb. 21, 2011, I cried for the two young people who died in the accident, whose names I did not yet know.

I asked my attorney repeatedly if I could talk to someone in the young people’s families. Each time I was told, “absolutely not!” Please understand that in all my years, I have never had anything even close to this happen.

I was raised to say that I was sorry to the family of anyone who had passed on, no matter the circumstances, but especially this night and in this circumstance.

When I was finally told Tim’s and Lexi’s names and ages, my heartache for you became permanent in me. My faith teaches that souls entering Heaven are healthy, whole and worry free. I thanked God for that, however knowing their young lives were cut short made me cry more.

However, again your losses were always my concern, first and foremost. I know the pain of losing dear friends, friends’ children and my own parents, but I can’t imagine the anguish of losing a child you have loved and raised.

When you saw me sitting silently at the courthouse, it was not because I did not want to come apologize to you, but because of my attorney’s instruction. I tried to stay calm and pay attention, but I felt I was being cold and rude, not the way I was raised to behave.

Through these terrible three years, I’ve written many letters to you, but, they remained unsent. And because I felt it was unwise and perhaps you would find it disrespectful, I didn’t respond to any social media posts.

I have remained quiet publicly, but expressed all my feelings in counseling sessions, during which I learned that I needed to let my faith sustain me in my grief over Tim and Lexi. For three years I have prayed for grace and peace to enter your hearts, as well as mine.

I pray for your children every single day without fail. And on special days, like birthdays and such, I ask them to be extra close to you.

Now that I’ve explained why I have been silent and less than forthcoming about the accident with you directly, I want to tell you … I am sorry!

I don’t expect you to be able to forgive me. My remorse and regret over Tim’s and Lexi’s deaths are permanent and profound. I will not be applying for a driver’s license, ever.

Tim and Lexi, as I’ve discovered in these three years, were fantastic young people, who had wonderful plans for their futures, legions of faithful friends and proud parents and families.

I hope you don’t find it disrespectful of me to refer to them by their given names. I do so because I will be living with Tim and Lexi in my heart and mind till my last day.

Patricia Schmidt Sycamore

By LAWERENCE SYNETT lsynett@shawmedia.com Genoa officials were outraged to learn that the return of a passenger rail service to Rockford no longer includes a stop in their city.

Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday announced a $233 million state capital investment that will restart Amtrak service between Rockford and Chicago as early as next year. The state’s original plan included stops in Genoa and Freeport, but in the new agreement, stops will be located in Elgin, Huntley and Belvidere.

“The whole way this was handled was disgraceful,” Genoa Mayor Mark Vicary said. “We just found out about this [ThursGov. Pat day] night. It’s a travesty, and it Quinn was taken away from us in the darkness of the night.”

Service will begin with one round trip daily between Chicago’s Union Station and a temporary station located in Rockford.

Service would expand the following year and eventually connect the new route west to Dubuque, Mark Vicary Iowa, state officials said.

Genoa mayor The Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce was sending letters to members last week encouraging them to reach out to Quinn to voice their support for the city stop.

“We had no idea this was something that was going to happen,” said Cortney Strohacker, the chamber’s executive director. “We were looking forward to the economic development opportunities it would bring, and were looking forward to not only having Amtrak available for us, but for others who wanted to come to Genoa.”

The service was originally planned to run on Canadian National Railway tracks, but after years of failed negotiations with the

See AMTRAK, page A9

U.S. won’t issue visa for Iranian envoy to U.N.

By JULIE PACE The Associated Press WASHINGTON – In a rare diplomatic rebuke, the United States has blocked Iran’s controversial pick for envoy to the United Nations, a move that could stir fresh animosity at a time when Washington and Tehran have been seeking a thaw in relations.

The Obama administration said Friday that the U.S. had informed Iran it would not grant a visa to Hamid Aboutalebi, a member of the group responsible for the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

While U.S. officials had been trying to persuade Iran to simply withdraw Aboutalebi’s name, the announcement amounted to an acknowledgment that those efJay Carney forts had not been successful.

“We’ve communicated with White House the Iranians at a number of levels spokesman and made clear our position on this – and that includes our position that the selection was not viable,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said. “Our position is that we will not be issuing him a visa.”

Aboutalebi is alleged to have participated in a Muslim student group that held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days during the embassy takeover. He has insisted his involvement in the group Muslim Students Following the Imam’s Line was limited to translation and negotiation.

Hamid Babaei, a spokesman for the Iranian U.N. Mission, said the decision was not only regrettable but “in contravention of international

See IRAN, page A9

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Apology given but pain remains Although we’ve written countless stories about Patricia Schmidt’s trial and acquittal, she didn’t become a real person to me until Friday morning.

That’s when I picked up my phone and heard her voice on the other end.

Before Friday, Schmidt was but a two-dimensional character – the face in the police booking photo, the woman sitting stoically at a defense table in a DeKalb County courtroom, or tearfully hugging a family member after her acquittal April 3 on charges of reckless homicide and aggravated reckless driving.

Schmidt called because she wanted to send the letter that appears on the front of today’s Daily Chronicle, in which she offers the apology that some say is too little, too late.

The specifics of our conversation I agreed to keep private. But as we talked, I realized that she does in fact understand the gravity of what happened, and the pain caused by the terrible crash in February 2011.

Perhaps reading her words today will make Schmidt seem more real for others as well. Maybe in some small way, her words can help.

It has been more than three years since Tim Getzelman and Lexi Weber, both 21, were killed when their vehicle was hit by the speeding pickup driven

by Schmidt. They were young people with bright futures, and family and friends who loved them.

Schmidt was driving more than 70 mph when she ran a red light at Route 23 and Peace Road and crashed into the vehicle carrying Weber and Getzelman.

Doctors said Schmidt likely suffered a seizure before the crash, but the neurologist treating her for a seizure disorder had not forbidden her to drive.

Her compliance with doctor’s orders was a key factor cited by Judge Robbin Stuckert in finding her not guilty.

The verdict aside, people have won-

EDITOR’S NOTE Eric Olson dered – how could Schmidt not at least apologize? Could she be so cold as not to care about the damage done?

No. It would take a special kind of sociopath not to understand or care, and after but a few interactions with her, it is apparent Schmidt is not that kind of person.

Schmidt did what most people probably would if they were accused of a crime they maintained they did not commit. She listened to her lawyers and kept quiet.

At last, more than three years after the crash, we have confirmation that she’s sorry. But even the most eloquent of apologies does not change what has happened. For the Getzelman and Weber families, the gnawing sense of pain and emptiness that comes from losing a loved one will never go away.

The thought of losing a child – especially in a way so senseless – is heartbreaking, to the point that parents shudder even to put themselves in the place of Tim’s and Lexi’s parents.

No one should be surprised that their response to Schmidt is spiked with resentment.

Schmidt’s saying that she is sorry, that she’s been sorry all along, that she plans never to drive again – it can’t take back what happened. Simply following the dictates of common decency won’t raise her stature in the eyes of some.

All the same, Schmidt needed to speak. The families of Tim and Lexi needed to hear her, even if they decide not to accept her apology. The community, of which she remains a part, needed to hear her, too.

It is easy to think terrible things about someone who has never had the

chance to be human, who has never publicly spoken their piece. They can be whatever it pleases us to imagine, and we are free to hate that imagined persona as much as we like.

Sometimes when people finally speak, they reinforce our worst suspicions, as Jack D. McCullough did in his creepy jailhouse interview with CBS’ “48 Hours” after his conviction in the killing of Maria Ridulph.

That’s not the case with Schmidt.

She sent her letter with the knowledge that it will be picked apart, that strangers could write more nasty comments about her. She also understands why, and that there’s nothing she can do to change it.

There will be no legal punishment for Schmidt. But if she is the person of conscience she professes to be in her letter, then it’s also clear that she hasn’t escaped this crucible unscathed.

Can her apology bring closure? For those who feel this loss most acutely, there may never be true closure.

But it can be a step toward a future where the friends and family of Tim and Lexi can honor their memory with random acts of kindness and not feel as though there has been neither justice nor remorse for what happened that day in February 2011.

In their statement, Dawn Weber and Tamara Getzelman say that maybe Schmidt should testify on behalf of a plan to change Illinois law on when people with seizure disorders can be allowed to drive. That would be something more than words, which are all Schmidt can offer now.

“I am sorry,” Schmidt wrote.

What more can any of us really say?

• Eric Olson is editor of the Daily Chronicle. Reach him at 815-756-4841, ext. 2257, email eolson@shawmedia. com, or follow him on Twitter @DC_Editor.

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Searchers race to find jetliner; no new signals heard The ASSOCIATED PRESS PERTH, Australia – With no new underwater signals detected, the search for the missing Malaysian passenger jet resumed Saturday in a race against time to find its dying black boxes five weeks after families first learned their loved ones never arrived at their destination.

The ocean search area has been condensed, as ships and planes hunted for any clue that could help find Flight 370, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing with 239 people on board, mostly Chinese.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told Chinese President Xi Jin-

ping that he was confident signals heard by an Australian ship towing a U.S. Navy device that detects flight recorder pings are coming from the Boeing 777. Officials believe the plane flew off course for an unknown reason and went down in the southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia.

“We’re getting into the stage where the signal from what we are very confident is the black box is starting to fade,” Abbott told reporters Friday in Shanghai, referring to the plane’s flight data and cockpit recorders. “We are hoping to get as much information as we can before the signal finally expires.”

Search crews are running out of

time because the batteries powering the recorders’ locator beacons last only about a month, and that window already has passed. Finding the devices after the batteries fail will be extremely difficult because the water in the area is 15,000 feet deep.

Two sounds heard a week ago by the Australian ship Ocean Shield, towing the ping locator, were determined to be consistent with the signals emitted from the black boxes. Two more pings were detected in the same general area Tuesday.

“We are confident that we know the position of the black box flight recorder to within some kilometers,” Abbott said. “But confidence in the approxi-

mate position of the black box is not the same as recovering wreckage from almost 4½ kilometers beneath the sea or finally determining all that happened on that flight.”

Abbott told the Chinese leader that the next steps will be a “very long, slow and painstaking process.”

An Australian air force P-3 Orion, which has been dropping sonar buoys into the water near where the Ocean Shield picked up the sounds, detected another possible signal Thursday, but Angus Houston, who is coordinating the search, said in a statement that an initial assessment had determined it was not related to an aircraft black box.

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DeKalb’s finance director resigns Occurred in wake of city manager’s new plan to review financial policies

By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – The city of DeKalb is without a finance director after Laura Pisarcik resigned the same week city Manager Anne Marie Gaura announced financial consultants would review the city’s financial policies and procedures.

Gaura said Pisarcik resigned on March 7 and her employment with the city ended the same day. Gaura acknowledged there is a separation agreement between the city

and Pisarcik, but declined to disclose the details.

“She resigned her position to pursue other opportunities,” Gaura said.

Mayor John Rey declined to comment, saying Gaura was the spokeswoman on the matter.

The finance director in DeKalb is responsible for monitoring the city’s cash flow by overseeing purchasing, accounts payable and accounts receivable, water billing and tax collection, and preparing the city’s budget.

Pisarcik started with the

city as finance director in January 2011. Her salary was $97,948 with an additional $42,068 in benefits, making her total compensation $140,016, Gaura said.

Pisarcik’s resignation came two days after Gaura’s March 5 announcement that she wanted outside experts to review the city’s financial and purchasing procedures and budget process as part of her financial responsibility initiative. At the time, Gaura noted that some purchases in excess of $20,000 had been made without City Council approval in

accordance with policy, and said that “certain policies” needed revisions.

Gaura has already contracted with GovTemps USA LLC to do the financial review, but the council must vote to authorize spending up to $45,000 for the services.

Gaura said Pisarcik’s resignation and her call for a financial review were unrelated.

Assistant City Manager Rudy Espiritu has served as interim finance director since March 10. He receives an additional $205 a week for serving in the interim position.

Officials do not expect to start a search for a new finance director until the next fiscal year starts on July 1, which will coincide with the city receiving results from a pay, compensation and classification study.

Gaura she did not foresee any interruptions to the city’s budget process because of the finance director vacancy.

DeKalb officials created the finance director position in 2010 based on the recommendations from financial consulting firm Executive Partners Inc.

8LOCAL BRIEF NIU police identify staff member found dead Northern Illinois University police have identified the staff member found dead of natural causes in the Neptune Hall dormitory Wednesday as 31-year-old Adam Riegle, of DeKalb.

Riegle was a residence hall director at NIU, according to his obituary. Riegle’s wife found him about 11:45 a.m.

Wednesday at the Neptune Hall dormitory after she came back from lunch, DeKalb County Coroner Dennis Miller said.

NIU police, the DeKalb Fire Department and ambulances responded to the scene.

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Bench at Sycamore park honors boy killed in crash

By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – As the sun set over Sycamore Lake Rotary Park, Tonda Ranken ran her fingers over a picture of her 11-year-old son, Matthew, who was killed in a crash last year.

The picture is featured on the bench commemorating Matthew Ranken in the park where he loved to fish with his brother Aaron. Matthew Ranken’s family gathered Friday to dedicate the concrete memorial bench, which sits on the south side of Sycamore Lake Rotary Park.

“This is where he would be now if he was here,” Tonda Ranken said.

Kane County Judge James Hallock on March 26 sentenced Benjamin Black, 29, of Sycamore, to 12 years in prison for driving with heroin in his system during the crash that killed Matthew.

Black was driving his SUV about 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27, 2013, near the intersection of Route 64 in Kane County when he crashed into the back of a Chevrolet Cavalier, authorities said. The crash killed Matthew and severely injured 19-year-old Teale Noble, also of Sycamore; both were passengers in the Cavalier. Matthew’s older brother, Nick Weber, of Sycamore, was driving.

The bench also features a poem Tonda Ranken wrote

in Matthew’s voice asking his loved ones to cherish the memories they shared with him. She said the poem came to her with ease because he never wanted to see people sad.

“This is a happy moment.

This is a good thing for us,” she said. “I don’t want people to forget him and I know they won’t.”

Matthew’s dad, Larry Ranken said the bench, while wonderful, couldn’t make up for what he’s lost.

“I hate that I have to come here to see him,” Larry Ranken said. “I should be able to pull in my driveway and have him hug me like he did every night.”

The informal gathering

was marked with tears, but also laughter and smiles. The family played with Noble and Weber’s son, Jett Weber Noble, whom they plan to spend plenty of time with at the bench. They also comforted each other and traded stories of Matthew.

“It’s never going to bring my brother back, but it’s a nice way to remember him,” Weber said as Aaron fished in the background.

Tina Scott, Tonda Ranken’s sister, pictures the family having picnics and visiting with Matthew at the bench to bring the family some solace.

“After the accident all I can remember is darkness,” Scott said. “This is a little bit of light.”

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Tonda Ranken (right), Matthew Ranken’s mother, shares a moment with Teale Noble as they sit in front of Matthew’s memorial bench on Friday at Sycamore Lake Rotary Park. Noble was severely injured in the crash that killed 11-year-old Matthew. Kane County Judge James Hallock sentenced the driver, Benjamin Black, to 12 years in prison.

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Quinn, Rauner spar on funding for education The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO – Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican businessman Bruce Rauner held little back in their first meeting of the 2014 campaign, with Rauner telling an influential teachers union that Quinn has broken his promises on issues from school funding to taxes, and the governor calling his opponent “the biggest threat to public education” in Illinois.

The swipes came during a sometimes-rowdy meeting of the Illinois Education Association in Chicago – a crowd of more than 1,000 that clearly favored Quinn but was not unanimous in its support.

Both candidates went into

Friday’s event with some baggage. The union is suing Quinn and other lawmakers over legislation approved last year to cut public-employee pensions. And the group was among several unions that helped fund TV ads during the GOP primary attacking Rauner. The Winnetka venture capitalist became a target by repeatedly railing against “government union bosses” and calling Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker – who stripped public workers of most bargaining powers after his 2010 election – one of his role models.

Rauner sought Friday to reassure the crowd of his commitment to teachers and education, saying “eliminat-

ing collective bargaining is not part of my agenda” and pledging that he would make education funding a top priority.

Rauner, who’s making his first bid for public office, also noted that he and his wife have given millions of their personal fortune to provide merit pay for teachers and scholarships for poor children. And he criticized Quinn for cutting funding to schools by some $600 million – cuts that led to teacher layoffs and larger class sizes.

“Pat Quinn has broken his promises on pensions, on taxes, on education funding repeatedly,” Rauner said.

“That’s a fact. You guys know it. We can all look it up.”

Quinn says the cuts were due to huge increases in the state’s annual pension payments, a problem he believes was resolved when the Legislature approved last year’s pension overhaul.

The Chicago Democrat, who’s seeking his second full term, wants to increase education funding by $344 million in the next fiscal year and by $6 billion over five years. Those increases are dependent on legislators approving Quinn’s plan to make a temporary income tax hike passed in 2011 permanent – an increase Rauner opposes but Quinn says is necessary.

“If we want excellent schools, we’ve got to pay for it,” Quinn said.

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Gov. Pat Quinn (left) and his Republican rival, Bruce Rauner, shake hands after they appeared together for the first time before the 2014 general election during the annual meeting of the Illinois Education Association on Friday in Chicago. IEA president Cinda Klickna, who moderated the event, stands between them.

8STATE BRIEF Chicago archbishop says church seeking successor CHICAGO – Chicago’s archbishop said the Roman Catholic Church has told him it will begin searching for his successor because of his “uncertain” health as he undergoes chemotherapy.

Cardinal Francis George

spoke Friday about upcoming canonizations of two popes and his health, almost a month after being hospitalized for flu-like symptoms and dehydration.

He said the lengthy, formal process has not begun, but will start soon. The 77-year-old spiritual leader of Chicago’s more than 2 million Catholics said

he’d like to meet his successor.

He’d hoped to travel to the Vatican later this month, but said: “I don’t want to do something dangerous.”

Treatment of the cancer near his right kidney has resumed after being interrupted during his recent hospitalization.

Charles, the fifth of six children born to Norris Paul Palmer and Pearl Lucille Coe. He graduated from high school in 1969, entered the U.S. Marine Corps that same year and served proudly for six years, which included two tours of Vietnam.

Norris worked at South Valley Water Reclamation Facility from 1984 to 2011. He held the positions of pretreatment director and director of operations and was twice awarded the national award for Best Pretreatment Program as well as earning Employee of the Year in 2005.

He was a faithful member of Great Harvest Church. He loved being outdoors, whether it was camping, fishing or working in the yard. He was a successful gardener and loved canning his harvest and sharing it with friends and family.

Norris is survived by his loving family, including his wife, Brenda Jo Palmer; two sons, Paul and Lonny; daughter, Jamie; and 17 grandchildren (10 of which are by marriage).

His family is deeply sorrowful to have lost him from this world, but they rejoice in knowing he is now walking with his Heavenly Father.

Funeral services were held April 4, at Goff Mortuary, 8090 S. State St., Midvale, Utah.

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Brandie Miller on June 16, 2007, and they spent the next seven happy years together.

He was a loving husband, son, brother, nephew and cousin who will be deeply missed by his family and many friends.

Adam was a member of English Congregational United Church of Christ in Big Rock. He was a graduate of Danville High School in Danville. Adam received his undergraduate degree from Monmouth College and his graduate degree from Illinois State University. He enjoyed working with students and was employed as a residence hall director by Northern Illinois University. Adam loved spending time with his family. He enjoyed drawing and movies, and was especially fond of history.

He is survived by his wife, Brandie Riegle of DeKalb; parents, the Rev. William and Rene Riegle of Big Rock; brothers, Philip Riegle of Elmhurst and Benjamin Riegle of Big Rock; maternal grandparents, Phil and Sandy Hoy of Evansville; paternal grandparents, Bill and Joan Riegle of Kentland, Ind.; father- and mother-in-law, Kim and Patty Miller of Milledgeville; brother-in-law, U.S. Army Spc. Austin Miller of Denver, Colo.; sister-in-law, Stephanie (Zach) Stanley of Coleta; niece, Laikin Stanley of Coleta; as well as many aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and students.

He was preceded in death by his grandmother, Bobbie Hoy. Funeral services will be at 4 p.m.

Saturday, April 12, at Nash-Nelson Funeral Home, 1001 E. Garfield St., Waterman, with the Rev. Kathy Lawes officiating. Interment will be private. Friends may visit from 1 p.m. Saturday until the hour of service at the funeral home.

Memorials in Adam’s name may be directed to the Northern Illinois Food Bank.

Arrangements by Nelson Funeral Homes & Crematory. For information, visit www.NelsonFuneralHomes.com or call 815-264-3362.

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8OBITUARIES JENNIFER LIENAU Born: July 2, 1984, in Oxford, Ohio Died: April 4, 2014

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DeKalb High School senior Will Ferguson winks at the audience, flanked by friends, after finishing his dance performance of Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” Friday night at DeKalb High School. Ferguson won the beauty pageant style competition. BELOW: DeKalb High School senior Will Ferguson is crowned 2014 Mr. DHS.

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By STEPHEN HABERKORN news@daily-chronicle.com Seven contestants competed for the title of Mr. DHS in the DeKalb High School auditorium Friday night, with proceeds going to charities selected by the participants.

Senior Will Ferguson was voted the winner by a panel of judges that included Assistant Principal Jennie Hueber, teachers Brad Vest and Al Gonzales, security assistant Nikki Gunn and Mr. DHS 2013, Andrew Stratton.

The first runner-up was Evan Guest and the second runner-up was Augie Jesmer.

The other contestants were Dylan Hottsmith, Misha Ryzhov, Joey Oxnevad and Skyler Weishaar.

The emcees were Maddie Alger, Karina Lexa, Rachael West and Sophie Vivero.

The contestants, who were selected by their peers at DeKalb High School, competed in six categories: dance, casual wear, school spirit, talent, formal wear, and Q & A. Ferguson said it was a great honor just to be in the competition and believes that he will represent his school well as Mr. DHS. “I put a lot of hard work into it, everyone did. … See-

charity and said what he’ll miss most from his time at DeKalb High School is the late starts and the teachers.

Judge Al Gonzales said that what elevated Ferguson was that he kept it pretty serious, demonstrated his talent early on and had a strong question and answer session.

“I liked that he had confidence. He was sure of himself.

He also seemed like he knew where he was coming from.

He wasn’t just saying what he thought was the right answer.”

The one thing that stood out the most for Gonzales during the evening, though, was the glow stick dance performed by Skyler Weishaar.

“I like anything that kind of breaks the mold and that was actually pretty rad,” he said.

100 block of West Roosevelt Street, DeKalb, was charged Friday, April 4, with retail theft.

Sade Barge, 20, of the 900 block of Normal Road, DeKalb, was charged Friday, April 11, with marijuana possession and retail theft.

Dominique N. Pulliam, 20, of the 900 block of Normal Road, DeKalb, was charged Friday, April 4, with retail theft.

David J. Banegas, 28, of 1500 block of Timberwood Court, Sycamore, was arrested Friday, April 4, on an in-state warrant.

Lauren E. Haag, 19, of the 800 block of Fotis Drive, DeKalb, was charged Saturday, April 5, with keeping a disorderly house.

Casey M. Fick, 18, of the 9N500 block of Arrowmaker Pass, Elgin, was charged Saturday, April 5, with underage drinking.

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

DeKalb city Tyler A. Shipon, 19, of the 1400 block of Ashwood Drive, Elgin, was charged Friday, April 4, with marijuana possession.

Angela L. Vanderpluym, 24, of the 700 block of Butternut Lane, Elgin, was charged Friday, April 4, with disorderly conduct.

Michael A. Howell, 33, of the 300 block of South First Street, DeKalb, was charged Friday, April 4, with retail theft.

Caitlin R. Bohannon, 23, of the

Devonta T. Moore, 24, of the 300 block of North Elm Street, Waterman, was charged Thursday, April 10, with aggravated domestic battery, domestic battery and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Maurice Winters, 46, of the 200 block of McMillan Court, Cortland, was charged Thursday, April 10, with possession of drug paraphernalia and obstructing identification. He also was arrested on an outstanding warrant.

Northern Illinois University Nakala M. Griffin, 19, of the 800 block of Russell Road, DeKalb, was charged Wednesday, April 9, with battery.

NORRIS P. ‘JR’ PALMER Born: Sept. 3, 1951, in St. Charles, Ill. Died: March 28, 2014, in Taylorsville, Utah TAYLORSVILLE, Utah – Norris P. “JR” Palmer, 62, of Taylorsville, Utah, went to be with the Lord on March 28, 2014.

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I’m well-rounded and I fit in every aspect of the stuff that I think makes a student,” said Ferguson.

He thought his well-received “Single Ladies” performance during the talent competition may have contributed most to his winning. Ferguson and two of his friends mimicked the famous Beyoncé video while dressed in tight black shorts and sleeveless shirts.

Ferguson, who participated in madrigals and acappella, said the most memorable part of the event for him was getting to perform a song he wrote.

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HIGHLAND VILLAGE, Texas – Jennifer Lienau, 29, of Highland Village, Texas, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday, April 4, 2014.

Born July 2, 1984, in Oxford, Ohio, to Andrew Pitsch and Nancy Johnson Pitsch, Jennifer married Nathan Lienau on June 11, 2006, at White Pines Wedding Canyon in Mount Carroll. She was a member of the Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas.

Jennifer is survived by her husband, Nathan; parents, Andy and Nancy Pitsch; sisters, Whitney Pitsch and Tori Pitsch (husband, Andy) Nuetzel; brother, Ethan (wife, Amy) Pitsch; grandparents, Paul and Jeanne Johnson; nephews, Abraham and Gus; and niece, Emelyn.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Joe and Dorothy Pitsch.

A memorial service to celebrate Jennifer’s life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 19, at First Baptist Church in Sycamore.

The family requests memorial contributions in Jennifer’s name to be made to the Sycamore First Baptist Church Missions Department, 530 W. State St., Sycamore, IL 60178.

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Dreams dashed in fatal W E R B A college tour bus crash BURGER & The ASSOCIATED PRESS ORLAND, Calif. – It was a busload of opportunity: young, low-income, motivated students, destined to become the first in their families to go to college, journeying from the concrete sprawl of Los Angeles to a remote redwood campus 650 miles north.

Those dreams were shattered for some Thursday in an explosive freeway collision that left 10 dead – students, chaperones and both drivers – and dozens hospitalized.

Desperate families awaited word about loved ones Friday, while investigators tried to figure out why a southbound FedEx big rig swerved across the grassy divide of California’s key artery before sideswiping a car and slamming into the tour bus, which burst into a furious blaze.

The Serrato family, whose identical twin 17-year-old daughters set off on the adventure on separate buses Thursday, had a panicked, sleepless night. Marisol made it to their destination, Humboldt State University, but there was no word from Marisa, who had been aboard the now-gutted bus.

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Myvett’s manager Kyle Farris said he was “extraordinary,” and that he connected with their children “on a level few others could, and he contributed to their wellbeing in such a positive and profound way.”

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A Facebook photo shows Haywood flashing a shining diamond engagement ring on her finger and kissing Myvett in December near the Louvre Museum in Paris.

The bus was among three Humboldt had chartered as part of its two-day Preview Plus program to bring prospective students to tour the Arcata campus, according to university officials. Before launching the event Friday, university Vice President Peg Blake’s voice broke as she asked a crowded theater for a moment of silence in honor of everyone affected by the accident.

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8NATION BRIEFS Reporters who probed NSA surveillance back in U.S. NEW YORK – Two reporters central to revealing the massive U.S. government surveillance effort returned to the United States on Friday for the first time since the story broke and used the occasion to praise their exiled source: Edward Snowden.

Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras of The Guardian became a story of their own amid speculation they could be arrested upon arriving Glenn Greenwald at Kennedy Airport. They were instead confronted by only reporters and photographers before fighting through Laura Poitras traffic en route to a midtown Manhattan hotel to receive a George Polk Award for national security reporting.

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The late Bud Zumwalt’s most Admiral lasting legacies Elmo “Bud” are removing Zumwalt Jr. obstacles that prevented women and minorities from advancing and taking actions that made life easier for sailors.

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Police: Bullying not part of school stabbing

By JOE MANDAK The Associated Press MURRYSVILLE, Pa. – No evidence has surfaced yet to show that a boy charged in a stabbing rampage at his high school was targeting any particular student, and efforts to establish a motive are stalled because the suspect isn’t talking and many victims remain hospitalized, a police chief said Friday.

“At this point I don’t have anybody that, you know, was targeted,” Chief Thomas Seefeld said. “I know the issue of bullying has been brought up but his attorney has even said ... that bullying is not part of this and we have no evidence or reason to believe that it is.”

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A bouquet of flowers is taped to a stairway rail Thursday near the closed entrance to Franklin Regional High School near Pittsburgh in Murrysville, Pa. A knife wielding student injured more than 20 people Wednesday in a stabbing attack at the school. dent Franklin Regional High School east of Pittsburgh.

Charges against him include four counts of attempted homicide and 21 counts of aggravated assault.

Five students remained

hospitalized Friday, with four – one 15-year-old, two 16-yearolds and one 17-year-old – in critical condition, hospital officials said. Three others were released.

Hribal used two kitch-

en knives he brought from home, his lawyer has said, in an apparent random attack on other students that began just minutes before the start of classes in a crowded hallway, setting off a stampede.

Police said Hribal flailed away with the knives down a long stretch of a hallway, leaving blood on the walls and floor.

Two of the most seriously wounded students were found in a classroom, but it was not known whether they had just sought refuge there or were attacked there, the chief said.

Police cannot get information from Hribal because his attorney, who is seeking a psychiatric evaluation of the boy, “has lawyered him up,” Seefeld said.

“It’s a little hard to get his side of things right now,” he said.

The rampage, which po-

lice said lasted only minutes, was stopped when Hribal was tackled by an assistant principal.

After being taken into custody, he made statements suggesting he wanted to die, a prosecutor has said.

The chief said Friday that the boy said “he wanted someone to kill him.”

The chief and District Attorney John Peck said they are limited in what information they can release because they still have a crime to prosecute, unlike some other school attacks that ended with student gunmen killing themselves.

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“I don’t know of anything right now, you know, that would reveal any motive.

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8NATION BRIEFS Mickey Rooney to be laid to rest in Hollywood

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LOS ANGELES – Mickey Rooney will be laid to rest alongside Hollywood royalty.

A judge signed off Friday on an agreement between Rooney’s survivors to have the actor buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, the final resting place for such luminaries as Cecil B. DeMille, Jayne Mansfield and Douglas Fairbanks.

Rooney died Sunday at age 93. He had purchased a burial plot in Ventura County, where he and his estranged wife, Jan, lived, but his estate’s executor, attorney Michael Augustine, said Rooney really wanted to be buried in Hollywood or at a cemetery for veterans.

DETROIT – A federal judge has approved bankrupt Detroit’s plan to settle a bad multimillion-dollar pension debt deal with two banks.

Judge Steven Rhodes made his decision Friday morning on the city’s agreement to pay $85 million to UBS and Bank of America.

Detroit had pledged casino tax revenue in 2009 as collateral to avoid defaulting on pension debt payments, which allowed the city to get fixed interest rates on pension bonds with the banks. But the deal became too costly when interest rates plunged.

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Kamron Kroeger (right) presents Tamara Getzelman with a quilt made by her family during a ceremony July 15, 2012, honoring Tim Getzelman and Lexi Weber at the Sycamore Fire Department Fire Station No. 2.

Attorneys commonly advise clients not to talk with victims’ families • SCHMIDT Continued from page A1 out to our families to express her sympathy or remorse. Instead, she chose to issue a public apology, thus drawing attention to herself.”

Defense attorney Matthew Haiduk, who has offices in Crystal Lake and Geneva, said attorneys commonly advise their clients not to talk with victims’ families or apologize because prosecutors could use their words against them.

Prosecutors could say an apology is a sign that one knows they are guilty.

“If you’re sorry about something, it’s because you know you caused harm,” Haiduk said. “... The reality is that most of the time they are horribly remorseful, but strategically it’s a bad idea to say anything.”

From the parents of Tim Getzelman and Lexi Weber: It has taken 1,146 days for Patricia Schmidt to issue an apology for causing the deaths of our children.

From the evening of Feb. 21, 2011, never once has she reached out to our families to express her sympathy or remorse. Instead, she chose to issue a public apology, thus drawing attention to herself.

Per her defense, it is her doctor’s fault she was driving; she took no personal responsibility. It is her attorney’s fault she couldn’t apologize; again she takes no personal responsibility.

The citizens of DeKalb County will be relieved to know that she has publicly stated she “will not be applying for a driver’s license, ever.”

We will continue to honor our children’s memory by changing the laws. Perhaps when the time is appropriate, Patricia Schmidt will agree to testify in support of the “Tim & Lexi Law,” thus making all families safer in the state of Illinois.

Study follows BP spill workers 4 years after disaster, questions on long-term health remain The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHALMETTE, La. – When a BP oil well began gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico four years ago, fisherman George Barisich used his boat to help clean up the millions of gallons that spewed in what would become the worst offshore spill in U.S. history.

Like so many Gulf Coast residents who pitched in after the April 20, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, Barisich was motivated by a desire to help and a need to make money – the oil had destroyed his livelihood.

Today he regrets that decision, and worries his life has been permanently altered.

Barisich, 58, says respiratory problems he developed during the cleanup turned into pneumonia and that his health has never been the same.

“After that, I found out that I couldn’t run. I couldn’t exert past a walk,” he said. His doctor declined comment.

Barisich is among thousands considering claims under a medical settlement BP reached with cleanup workers and coastal residents. The settlement, which could benefit an estimated 200,000 people, received final approval in February from a federal court.

It establishes set amounts of money – up to $60,700 in some cases – to cover costs of various ailments for those who can document that they worked the spill and developed related illnesses, such as respiratory problems and skin conditions.

It also provides for physical examinations every three years for up to 21 years, and it reserves a worker’s right to sue BP over conditions that develop down the road, if the worker believes he or she can prove a connection to the spill.

Some 33,000 people, including Barisich, are participating in a massive federal study that aims to determine any short -term or possible long-term health effects related to the spill.

“We know from ... research that’s been done on other oil spills, that people one to two years after ... had respiratory symptoms and changes in their lung function, and then after a couple of years people start to return to normal,” said Dr. Dale Sandler, who heads the study overseen by the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, an arm of the National Institutes of Health.

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TOP: Bert Ducote poses for a picture on his boat March 7 at the Lake Catherine Marina in New Orleans. Ducote has had dozens of boils appear on his skin, which he claims are the result of being in direct contact with crude oil while performing cleanup work during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. ABOVE: George Barisich poses for a photo Feb. 28 on his boat in Chalmette, La. Barisich, a fisherman, used his boat to help clean up the millions of gallons of oil that would become the worst offshore spill in U.S. history. is ask the question: Well, after five years or 10 years are people more likely to develop heart disease, or are they more likely to get cancer?” Sandler said in an interview with The Associated Press. “And I’m sure that’s what people who experienced this oil spill are worried about.”

At a Friday news conference, Sandler discussed some of the study’s early findings.

She said depression and anxiety are common in and around disaster sites, but there are in-

Talks with Canadian National Railway unsuccessful • AMTRAK Continued from page A1 Montreal-based company, officials were able to finalize an agreement to switch to a new route that used tracks owned by Metra and the Union Pacific Railroad.

Guy Tridgell, spokesman for the Illinois Department of Transportation, said because

negotiations with Canadian National were unsuccessful, officials went with their second option.

“Our preferred choice all along was to go to Genoa using Canadian National Railway [tracks], but we were unable to reach an agreement on that,” Tridgell said. “Negotiations were not as fruitful as we had hoped, and in order to get this important service to Rockford,

we decided on another option.”

Longtime Genoa resident Brenda Jarog, who has advocated for a train stop in the city for years, was shocked by the announcement.

“What they are telling small towns is that we don’t matter,” said Jarog, owner of Specialty Gifts. “We are a small town, and as long as we are quiet they are going to bypass us like we don’t exist.”

Jarog said she plans to continue her fight for a stop in Genoa.

“We are going to take this to [Gov. Pat] Quinn and show him why we need a train station in Genoa,” she said. “Genoa has been cut off for too long now, and we have to do something about it.”

The last time rail service was offered from Chicago to Rockford was 1981.

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ment with Iran to halt progress on Tehran’s disputed nuclear program. Officials are in the midst of negotiating a long-term agreement to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon.

Officials said Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman, the chief U.S. negotiator in the nuclear talks, informed Iranian officials involved in discussions in Vienna this week about the visa decision. The White House said it did not expect the negotiations, which are due to resume next month, to be affected by the matter.

Despite some signs of progress in relations, many U.S. lawmakers continue to eye Iran skeptically, and Tehran’s choice of Aboutalebi sparked outrage from both Democrats and Republicans. The House and Senate unanimously passed legislation expanding the grounds for barring entry into the U.S. to include indi-

viduals engaged in terrorism.

Carney would not say Friday whether Obama would sign that bill, but he said the president did share its sentiments.

The administration’s decision to block Aboutalebi’s nomination drew praise from both parties, including Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, the chief sponsor of the congressional legislation. In an interview with Fox News, Cruz said he appreciated the president “doing the right thing and barring this acknowledged terrorist from coming into the country.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. said allowing Aboutalebi into the U.S. “would have been a slap at all American victims of terrorism, not just those taken hostage in 1979.

We’re glad the Obama Administration made this choice, and Iran should stop playing these games. “

dications that cleanup workers were more likely to suffer mild to moderate depression than others living in Gulf Coast counties and parishes where economies and livelihoods were affected by the spill.

“After we took into account where people lived and other factors, it does appear that the prevalence of depression was about 30 percent higher among those who had cleanup jobs than among those who did not,” Sandler said. “The preliminary trends were similar

for anxiety.”

She cautioned that the findings were preliminary and added that it is too early to tell whether exposure to oil or chemical dispersants might account for the difference.

The study is funded by NIH, which received a $10 million award from London-based BP, part of $500 million the oil giant has committed to spend over 10 years for environmental and health research.

Researchers compiled a list of 100,000 candidates, drawn from sources including rosters of mandatory safety classes that cleanup crews attended and from records of people who were issued badges permitting access to oiled areas.

They reached nearly 33,000 for interviews, mostly cleanup workers but also some who applied for cleanup work but were not hired. Of those, about 11,000 went through physical examinations that included blood and blood pressure tests and measurements of lung function. Water and air samples taken during the spill also will be used to attempt to pinpoint how much exposure workers may have had to toxic substances.

Sandler said Friday that about 4,000 of those who had physical exams will be invited to take part in a second round at medical facilities at one of two locations: The University of South Alabama in Mobile or LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. Meanwhile, all of the original participants will be encouraged to keep taking part in surveys in the project, which Sandler hopes will continue for at least 10 years.

Fisherman Bert Ducote says he knows physical and emotional pain from having worked the cleanup. Ducote said dozens of boils have turned up on his neck, back and stomach since the spill – and he theorizes that his problems stem from the cleanup.

Ducote said he spent months handling the boom used to corral oil. Even with protective gear and rubber boots, he said his shirt often got wet with the combination of crude oil, sea water and chemical dispersant.

Ducote, like Barisich, said he is filing a claim under the medical settlement.

“That has been a disaster in our lives,” said Ducote, from the town of Meraux, in coastal St. Bernard Parish. “The little amount of money they’re trying to give us, it’s never going to replace our quality of life, our health.”

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As host country for the United Nations, the U.S. must provide rights to persons invited to the New York headquarters. However, exceptions can be made when a visa applicant is found to have engaged in spying against the U.S. or poses a threat to American national security.

Denying visas to U.N. ambassadorial nominees or to foreign heads of state who want to attend United Nations events in the U.S. is extremely rare, though there appears to be precedent. According to a paper published by the Yale Law School, the United States

rejected several Iranians appointed to the U.N. in the 1980s who had played roles in the embassy hostage crisis or other acts against American citizens.

Iran’s choice of Aboutalebi had pinned President Barack Obama President between con- Barack gressional pres- Obama sure to deny the envoy entry into the U.S. and the White House’s delicate diplomatic dealings with Tehran. After more than three decades of discord, U.S. and Iranian officials have started having occasional direct contact, including a phone call last fall between Obama and new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

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Fees can shrink average worker’s 401(k) savings The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON – It’s the silent enemy in our retirement accounts: High fees.

And now a new study finds that the typical 401(k) fees – adding up to a modest-sounding 1 percent a year – would erase $70,000 from an average worker’s account over a four-decade career compared with lower-cost options. To compensate for the higher fees, someone would have to work an extra three years before retiring.

The study comes from the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. Its analysis, backed by industry and government data, suggests that U.S. workers, already struggling to save enough for retirement, are being further held back by fund costs.

“The corrosive effect of high fees in many of these retirement accounts forces many Americans to work years longer than necessary or than planned,” the report, released Friday, concludes.

Most savers have only a vague idea how much they’re paying in 401(k) fees or what alternatives exist, though the information is provided in often dense and complex fund statements. High fees seldom lead to high returns. And critics say they hurt ordinary investors – much more so than, say, Wall Street’s high-speed trading systems, which benefit pros and have increasingly drawn the eye of regulators.

Consider what would happen to a 25-year-old worker, earning the U.S. median income of $30,500, who puts 5 percent of his or her pay in a 401(k) account and whose employer chips in another 5

percent: • If the plan charged 0.25 percent in annual fees, a widely available low-cost option, and the investment return averaged 6.8 percent a year, the account would equal $476,745 when the worker turned 67 (the age he or she could retire with full Social Security benefits).

• If the plan charged the typical 1 percent, the account would reach only $405,454 – a $71,000 shortfall.

• If the plan charged 1.3 percent – common for 401(k) plans at small companies – the account would reach $380,649, a $96,000 shortfall. The worker would have to work four more years to make up the gap.

(The analysis assumes the worker’s pay rises 3.6 percent a year.)

The higher fees often accompany funds that try to beat market indexes by actively buying and selling securities. Index funds, which track benchmarks such as the Standard & Poor’s 500, don’t require active management and typically charge lower fees.

With stocks having hit record highs before being clobbered in recent days, many investors have been on edge over the market’s ups and downs. But experts say timing the market is nearly impossible. By contrast, investors can increase their returns by limiting their funds’ fees.

Most stock funds will match the performance of the entire market over time, so those with the lowest management costs will generate better returns, said Russel Kinnel, director of research for Morningstar.

“Fees are a crucial determinant of how well you do,” Kinnel said.

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8LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ‘Angel’ of medicine nominated for Nobel To the Editor: I have an amazing story to tell you about a most wonderful, charitable person named Catherine Hamlin, who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Catherine lives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We met her when my late husband Frank and I went to Ethiopia for four years in the 1990s.

Catherine and her late husband, Reg, were both OB/GYN doctors. They arrived in Ethiopia as 24-year-olds with plans to spend about three months, and they never left.

Catherine turned 90 in January with her patients and son,

Richard, surrounding her. Richard made a statement that he was her only son, but she had 35,000 daughters!

Catherine and Reg started a hospital in Addis Ababa now known as the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Hospital. An obstetric fistula is a hole between the vagina and rectum or bladder caused by prolonged obstructed labor (sometimes lasting as long as 6 or 7 days), leaving a woman incontinent.

These types of fistulas often happen when young girls in remote villages have difficult labors, and there is no doctor to perform a cesarean section. Because of the effects of the fistula, the girls are often ostracized by their

villages.

When they eventually find a way from their villages to her hospital, she and her staff care for them in a dormitory-type room until they are well enough to be operated on.

Catherine and her husband devised an operation that they have taught many doctors to rid women of the fistula problem.

When they recover, the women are given new clothes and money to return home.

Most importantly, Catherine Hamlin has given countless girls and young women their lives back. There are now clinics throughout Ethiopia staffed by midwives she has trained.

For more on this story, I suggest

you read columnist Nicholas Kristof’s piece on her from the Feb. 5 New York Times.

Catherine learned in January that she had been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by the Ethiopian government.

I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am for her. Frank and I had many lunches with Catherine, and one of my sons and daughter and their spouses were also fortunate to have met her. My daughter remarked, “I just talked to an angel,” when she met her.

Let’s hope that the Nobel committee recognizes this angel as well.

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Keeping conservatives focused on the big picture Imagine a situation in which there is an earthquake that destroys a suspension bridge over a deep canyon.

A passenger train is speeding toward the location, and those in charge realize there is a potential problem ahead but choose instead to argue about the ambient temperature in the passenger cars, the food service and whether they will reach their final destination on time. A few people are quite disturbed when they learn of the tragedy about to unfold if the train isn’t halted, but they are labeled as “alarmists” who really are not sophisticated enough to understand the situation.

Obviously, I am referring to our nation and the impending disaster that awaits us if we continue on a course of ever-expanding government control of our lives, fiscal irresponsibility, unwise energy policies and a laissez-faire attitude regarding our world leadership responsibilities.

Conservatives and other thinking individuals must recognize that we are in dire straits. They must adopt a sense of urgency in order to prevent irreparable damage to the concept of a nation where people are free to pursue their dreams without interference – as long as they are not harming others.

They should not be arguing among themselves over petty differences and refusing to support individuals who largely agree with them about the direction of the country but perhaps have some disagreements about issues that easily could be resolved after the disaster has been averted.

It is troubling to see members of the tea party being attacked by establishment conservatives, and vice versa. If they get angry when their candidate loses in a primary race and refuse to support the winner, they are playing right into the hands of the progressives, from whom they could learn much.

Currently, there are two major visions for America. Liberals envision an overarching central government that controls all of the resources and ensures “equitable” redistribution in a way that prevents anyone

astonishing that many are unable to fathom this danger and thus dismiss it – much like those in charge of the passenger train speeding toward danger.

Liberals have just as many disagreements among themselves as conservatives.

Still, in order to accomplish their goals, they from suffering hardship, regardless of their have learned to put aside their differences lifestyle and life choices. and create large, loyal voting blocs. SomeThe conservative vision emphasizes times they make empty promises, but by repersonal responsibility and a governmenpeating them often, people actually believe tal role confined by the U.S. Constitution.

This is the vision that was embraced by our that they are benefiting, when, in fact, the opposite may be occurring. founders.

Liberals appear to be quite comfortable The liberal vision, however, seems to be with a health care bill that was passed with rapidly gaining momentum, even though obvious deceit emanating from the highest many of its proponents would argue that levels of government. Very much like the either the government is not really trying radical Islamists who believe any means to take control, or authority is a necessary function in its role of determining qualifica- is acceptable to accomplish their goals, many in the liberal movement are willing to tions for licenses, setting standards and esrelegate to the sidelines the Judeo-Christian tablishing such things as age requirements values that so rapidly elevated our country. for public school attendance.

Conservatives shouldn’t emulate this These big-government proponents also deception, but they ought to learn to present argue that Obamacare is no more intrusive a united front to harness the power and on our freedoms than other forms of govenergy necessary to reverse the downward ernment regulation. This indicates a lack of understanding of the liberal nature of gov- spiral of the greatest nation in the history of ernmental control, which eventually results the world.

We must look at the big picture and conin authoritarian oversight of virtually every aspect of our lives. By encircling businesses, centrate our efforts on establishing responeducational institutions and health care en- sible fiscal policies, fair taxation, responsiterprises with massive regulatory shackles, ble energy and environmental policies, and empowerment through education. Many the government eventually will be able to social issues can be dealt with in time, inshut down virtually any entity that refuses cluding entitlement reform. To worry about to cooperate with its mandates.

For example, recently, the last lead-smelt- these issues before addressing the failing ing plant in the United States was shut down economy is a mistake. by the Environmental Protection Agency for The dismal state of the current economy, violating some of those regulatory shackles. as indicated by the falling labor-force parThat certainly could be seen as a victory ticipation rate, is conducive to the further for some who are interested in decreasing development of big-government programs. the amount of ammunition available to gun By the same token, the policies that will owners. result in an explosion of the economy will Putting the Internal Revenue Service make entitlement reform much easier. in charge of the enforcement of the compoIf we focus on the big picture, everyone nents of Obamacare establishes a situation will win. where the most feared government agency is empowered to wreak havoc on the lives • Ben S. Carson is professor emeritus of of citizens who express dissent. It is quite neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University.

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Thumbs up: To Northern Illinois University Jazz Ensemble Director Ron Carter, who conducted his last concert at NIU on Thursday. Carter is retiring this spring after 20 years of directing the nationally renowned ensemble. Since June 1998, the jazz studies program at NIU has been rated as one of the top 10 graduate jazz programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report and has won a slew of awards. Professor Carter will certainly be missed.

Thumbs down: To the “Heartbleed” online security flaw. A glitch in some Internet security systems has potentially exposed millions of passwords, credit card numbers and other sensitive information to hijacking.

But it’s probably not something everyday users need to worry too much about, says David Galica, owner of Armor Technologies, a web hosting and computer repair firm in DeKalb. Hackers can exploit the glitch, but they can only siphon off small bits of information at a time. Piecing the data into anything usable would take a lot of computing power and time, and many sites already have repaired the glitch. “The odds of somebody actually retrieving enough information to affect regular users is very small, and the reality is that most people are not going to change their passwords,” Galica said. “I’m not going to change mine.”

Thumbs up: To building bridges. Thirty-one local families are playing short-term host to 50 high school students and 10 adults from 10 Southeast Asian countries through NIU’s Southeast Asia Youth Leadership program. The program teaches students about a variety of topics, including civic engagement and cultural orientation. Students gain a broadened worldview they can use to make positive developments when they return home, and both visitors and hosts can benefit from the wider view and deeper understanding that comes from exposure to another culture.

Thumbs down: To Genoa losing out on a stop on the planned Amtrak passenger rail line that will connect Rockford with Chicago for the first time since 1981.

This week, state officials said the new line would bypass Genoa in favor of stops in Huntley, Elgin, and Belvidere. City officials said they had no idea the plan had changed and Genoa Mayor Mark Vicary called the state’s handling of the process “disgraceful.” The Illinois Department of Transportation promptly laid the blame on Canadian National Railway, which it said was being too difficult in negotiations. We hope the fight is not over; as it stands the real losers are the people of Genoa.

Thumbs up: To Kim Mattei, of Sycamore, and other military grandparents. Mattei watched her now 18-month-old grandson for part of his parents’ almost six-month deployment with the U.S. Air Force. Senior Airman Adam Burton, 24, and Senior Airman Nikki Burton, 23, were deployed to southwest Asia together with the 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron late last year. They picked up their son from Mattei’s house Thursday. We thank them and other military personnel for their service, along with the grandparents and other family members who support them.

8 ANOTHER VIEW

Photojournalist’s slaying diminishes eyes of world You probably didn’t know who Anja Niedringhaus was until she was slain in Afghanistan last week. But for years, you’ve been seeing the world through her eyes. The photographs you will either recognize or wish you’d been paying attention at the time.

Her calling was to capture the humanity of the moment: joyous, tragic or that vast space of life in between.

How much better might we appreciate our own culture had she turned her lens on us? But her work for The Associated Press was in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan – the places where the most violent history of our age has unfolded. Her work in Iraq won a Pulitzer Prize.

Journalists’ lives increasingly are in peril. Their work was more widely respected in war zones of generations past. Reporters Without Borders says 70 were killed on the job in 2013. More have died in Iraq than in any previous war. Niedringhaus was the 26th to die in Afghanistan.

There is another peril diminishing our eyes on the world: Fewer media companies that can afford to send journalists overseas in an age when information is assumed to be available to consumers free or at little cost.

As recently as a decade ago, nearly every major American newspaper and other media outlet had bureaus in key cities and routinely sent reporters and photographers around the globe for lengthy assignments. Today, news agencies like The Associated Press still have a presence in places like Afghanistan, but only few newspapers and websites do more than parachute in for big stories and then leave to keep down costs.

Bloggers cannot show us life in Afghanistan. TV, including cable, shows major events but rarely can put them in perspective. Pictures and videos from unknown sources appear online, but motivations and credibility of the posts may be in doubt.

Since 1846, the AP cooperative has been the eyes and ears of member media in Washington or Moscow or Kabul. This is the family that mourns Niedringhaus today.

We are part of that family, and we join them.

San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News

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7-DAY FORECAST

Get ready for a shorts and t-shirts weather, as strong southerly winds bring temperatures into the 70s. A disturbance will slide across the Wisconsin border bringing a chance of late-day showers and thunderstorms. Sunday will be wet with periods of showers and a few thunderstorms. Locally heavy rain is possible. Rainfall amounts between 1-2 inches. The cold returns Monday.

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Sports

Niklas Hjalmarsson and the Blackhawks are shut out, 4-0, by the Capitals in Washington. PAGE B4

8MORNING KICKOFF

SECTION B Saturday, April 12, 2014 Daily Chronicle

MARENGO 7, KANELAND 4

Doomed by 1 bad inning AP file photo

A year after, Boston and its people heal BOSTON – Every time Roseann Sdoia comes home, she must climb 18 steps – six stairs into the building, another 12 to her apartment. It is an old building in Boston’s North End, with doors that are big and heavy, not an easy place for an amputee to live.

When she left the hospital, a month after the Boston marathon bombing, she had a choice: She could find another place to live, one more suitable for someone who wears a prosthetic that replaces most of her right leg. Or, she could stay.

“Early on when all this happened, so many people were telling me to move out of the city and move out of my apartment because of the stairs and I don’t have an elevator and parking is not very convenient,” she recalls.

“But I have been able to get past all of that.”

In that, she mirrors Boston itself.

“I have to tell you, honestly, Boston is a better city now than it was before,” said Thomas Menino, Boston’s former mayor. “People learned how to deal with each other, they had to deal with a tragedy.”

Not that it’s been easy.

Three people were killed at last year’s Boston Marathon, and more than 260 were injured, and the legacy of trauma and lost limbs remains – as does the shock of having endured a terrorist attack on Marathon Monday.

Nor can Bostonians forget the fear that gripped a city locked down in the midst of a manhunt.

But Boston has been able to get past all of that. Copley Square no longer is littered with impromptu tributes to the dead and injured; they now are on display in an exhibit at the Boston Public Library, where Robert White of Lynn saw meaning in every teddy bear and pair of sneakers: “Every last one of the items says ‘Boston Strong’ or ‘I will return next year.’ ” – Wire report

Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com

Kaneland starting pitcher Courtney Davis delivers to a Marengo batter during the second inning Friday in Maple Park. The Knights lost, 7-4.

Errors, walks major issue for Knights in 4-run 3rd inning

By TRAVIS ZUELLIG sports@daily-chronicle.com MAPLE PARK – One bad inning.

That was the difference in the Kaneland softball team’s contest against Marengo on Friday afternoon.

Errors and walks were a major issue for the Knights as Marengo scored four runs in the top of the third inning – without a hit, and eventually squeezed out a 7-4 victory.

“Any time you give a team five or six outs in an inning, you are going to pay for it most of the time. We paid for it today,” Kaneland coach Brian Willis said. “There were six runs that were unearned and we should have been able to cut those off at the plate.”

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All four runs were credited to Kaneland starting pitcher Courtney Davis. She walked three batters in the inning before being pulled with the bases loaded and one run already scored. Anissa Becker relieved Davis.

The first batter Becker faced hit a groundball to Morgan Weber. The ball got by the second baseman and two more runs scored. The final run came

Bulls rally for victory

By ANDREW SELIGMAN The Associated Press

Golf Masters, 2 p.m., CBS

• The rest of the weekend TV sports schedule on Page B2.

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response] was important to score that run and get the lead right back,” Marengo coach Dwain Nance said.

“Our kids are resilient. They believe in themselves and they believe in each other. It was a great team win today.”

Marengo scored two more insurance runs in the top of the seventh to cap its scoring.

The Knights mustered five hits on the afternoon. Paige Kuefler went 2 for 3 with a double and a run scored. Meg Cohrs finished with a double and an RBI. “We are making some improvements, but we are still not up to playing to our ability yet. Hopefully, we will get there pretty soon,” Willis said. “Once we do those basic routine things, we will be all right.”

BULLS 106, PISTONS 98

8WHAT TO WATCH Bubba Watson surged to the Masters lead with a spree of birdies on the back side Friday, positioning him for a weekend run at his second green jacket in three years.

“I’m trying to get the jacket back,” Watson said. “I want that feeling again.”

in on a fielder’s choice.

Weber made up for the error in the bottom of the fourth inning. Her tworun home run with one out capped a four-run rally to tie the score.

“We just started seeing the ball and hitting it like we are capable of doing.

It was a one-inning wonder, unfortunately, and we are struggling with the bat. I have confidence we will snap out of it,” Willis said.

The Indians responded with a run in the top of the fifth. Back-to-back hits

by Mariah Dionne and Veronica Ruelius put runners on the corners. Dionne eventually scored on an Abby Kissack sacrifice fly to give the Indians a 5-4 lead.

“Our kids are still learning how to find ways to win and I thought [the

AP photo

Bubba Watson points to his tee shot on the ninth hole during the second round of the Masters on Friday in Augusta, Ga.

MASTERS

Bubba goes on birdie binge Leaderboard Bubba Watson John Senden Thomas Bjorn Jonas Blixt Adam Scott Jordan Spieth Fred Couples Jim Furyk Jimmy Walker

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AUGUSTA, Ga. – Of all the things that can smother a person, a green jacket wouldn’t immediately come to mind as an obvious instrument of suffocation.

You’ve won the Masters, wowing the crowd with a ridiculously daring shot on the second playoff hole, and you have a name, Bubba, that brings a smile to the face of anyone with a heartbeat. What possibly could go wrong?

Nothing, really. And

VIEWS Rick Morrissey everything.

Bubba Watson won that green jacket in 2012, then spent the next year basking in it and dealing poorly with it. There are worse ways to go through life than being a Masters champion who struggles afterward, but if

See MORRISSEY, page B3

CHICAGO – They lost their star and they lost one of their best supporting players. The Bulls never lost their way, though.

Now, they have home-court advantage for at least one playoff series and the lead in the race for the third seed in the Eastern Conference.

D.J. Augustin scored 24 points, Taj Gibson added 17, and the Bulls rallied from 18 down to beat the Detroit Pistons, 106-98, for their seventh straight win Friday night.

Carlos Boozer finished with 18 points. Mike Dunleavy Jr. scored all of his 14 in the second half, and the Bulls kept their longest win streak of the season going.

They moved a game ahead of Atlantic Division leader Toronto for third in the East, with the Raptors losing to the New York Knicks.

The Bulls also clinched homecourt advantage in the first round of the playoffs with Brooklyn falling to Atlanta.

“Right now, we’re just focused on basketball and making plays for each other, moving forward and getting better,” Gibson said. “That’s the only thing we’re focused on right now. Everything that’s gonna come with success is gonna come. But right now, we remember how nobody was on our bandwagon at the beginning of the year, how that felt.”

The bandwagon started to empty out once Derrick Rose tore the meniscus in his right knee in No-

Next at New York, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, CSN, AM-1000 vember, cutting short his comeback after the former MVP sat out last season following surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.

There was even more room on it after the Bulls dealt Luol Deng to Cleveland in early January. But rather than come apart, they came together.

The Bulls lead the Eastern Conference with 35 victories since Jan. 1, and the latest sure was a wild one.

They trailed by 56-38 at the half after getting dominated inside by Andre Drummond but turned things around in a big way after that.

The Bulls outscored Detroit, 3224, in the third quarter to pull within 10 and went on a 15-0 run in the fourth to turn an eight-point deficit into a 90-83 edge.

The Bulls then hung on in the closing minutes to keep their streak going.

They pulled this one out even though they got dominated by Drummond, who scored 26 and tied a career-high with 26 rebounds.

Rodney Stuckey scored 22 points and Brandon Jennings added 17 but the Pistons lost for the 18th time in 20 road games.

See BULLS, page B4

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8PREP SCHEDULE TODAY Baseball Sycamore at Ottawa, 10 a.m., noon DeKalb at Belvidere North, 10 a.m., noon Genoa-Kingston at Mendota, 10 a.m., noon Kaneland at Sterling, 10 a.m.

St. Edward at Indian Creek, 10 a.m.

Westmont at Hinckley-Big Rock, 10 a.m., noon Softball DeKalb at Cary-Grove, 10 a.m., noon West Chicago at Sycamore, noon, 2 p.m.

Batavia at Kaneland, 10 a.m.

Girls Soccer Harlem at DeKalb, noon Stillman Valley at HinckleyBig Rock, 10 a.m.

Sycamore at Hononegah, 12:30 p.m.

Kaneland at West Aurora Invitational, TBA Boys Track Kaneland at East Moline Invite, 10 a.m.

Girls Track DeKalb, Kaneland, Sycamore at Kaneland’s Jill Holmes Invite, 10 a.m.

Boys Tennis DeKalb at Crystal Lake South quad, 9 a.m.

Badminton DeKalb at Yorkville Invite, 9 a.m.

8SPORTS SHORTS

SPORTS Cubs top Cardinals in 11th inning

NIU baseball wins at Eastern Michigan The Northern Illinois baseball team opened its series with Eastern Michigan with a 10-2 win over the Eagles on Friday in Ypsilanti, Mich.

The Huskies (8-22-1, 4-6 Mid-American Conference) had 12 hits and turned four double plays in the contest.

DeKalb graduate Brian Sisler had a double and three RBIs for NIU, while Tommy Hook had an RBI triple and three runs scored.

Anthony Andres threw seven innings and struck out two hitters to get the victory.

The teams will play Game 2 of their series at 2 p.m. today.

NIU softball splits twinbill with Ball State The Northern Illinois softball team split a doubleheadeer with Ball State on Friday at Mary M. Bell Field.

The Huskies opened the day with a 2-0 win over the Cardinals in Game 1, but the Cardinals came back to win Game 2, 7-4.

NIU (16-19, 4-4 Mid-American Conference) pitcher Jessica Sturm threw a complete-game, two-hit shutout in the first game while striking out six.

The Huskies will host a doubleheader against Miami (Ohio) at 2 p.m. today, with the second game to follow.

NIU women’s tennis earns nonconference win The Northern Illinois women’s tennis team defeated Cardinal Stritch, 6-0, Friday in the Huskies’ final nonconference match of the season.

NIU’s Nelle Youel earned a 6-1, 6-0 win at No. doubles for the Huskies, while Youel and Arantza De La Torre earned an 8-0 win at No. 1 doubles.

Former Hawks All-Star Lou Hudson dies at 69 ATLANTA – Lou Hudson, the smooth-shooting Hawks star who averaged more than 20 points during 13 NBA seasons, died Friday.

He was 69.

– Staff, wire reports

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Cubs baserunner Mike Olt (right) scores on a single by Nate Schierholtz as Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina waits for an off-target throw in the eighth inning of Friday night’s game in St. Louis. The Cubs won 6-3 in the 11th inning. The game ended too late for a story to appear in this edition.

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Boston at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

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Phoenix at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Utah at Denver, 8 p.m.

NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE

WHITE SOX 9, INDIANS 6

Gillaspie leads Sox past Indians

NIU to hold X’s and O’s with the Pros clinic NIU will hold its second annual X’s and O’s with the Pros Men’s Football Clinic from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Yordon Center.

Former Huskies on hand will include Garrett Wolfe, Ryan Diem, Brad Cieslak, as well as Dan Graham, who played center for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1989, and Sycamore graduate Jason Schepler, who signed with the Tennessee Titans in December.

Cost for the event is $125.

Participants will receive a behindthe-scenes tour of the NIU locker room and Chessick Practice Center.

Register by calling the Huskie Athletic Fund at 815-753-7225. For more information, email huskieathleticfund@niu.edu.

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Sale gets 1st win vs. Cleveland since May 2012

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By PATRICK ROSE

nine walks, including walking in two runs.

Gillaspie hit a sacrifice fly in the Sox’s two-run third inning, helping them build a 3-0 lead. Adam Dunn, who had two hits and walked twice, singled and scored on Alejandro De Aza’s base hit in the fourth.

Sale, who went 0-4 with an 8.61 ERA in four starts against Cleveland in 2013, was unable to protect the lead. Asdrubal Cabrera had a two-run double in the fifth, and then scored the tying run on Nick Swisher’s single.

The Sox grabbed the lead for good in the bottom half.

Gillaspie singled in Adam Eaton, and Carrasco was lifted for Marc Rzepczynski after striking out Jose Abreu for the second out of the inning.

Rzepczynski walked Dunn to load the bases and then walked in a run as Dayan Viciedo came back from an 0-2 count to give the Sox a 5-3 lead.

The Associated Press CHICAGO – Conor Gillaspie had a career-high four RBIs, leading Chris Sale and the White Sox to a 9-6 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Friday night.

Sale (3-0) pitched five innings in his first win against Cleveland since May 1, 2012.

The left-hander allowed three runs and six hits while throwing 105 pitches.

The Sox have captured the first two games of their first series of the year against the Indians, who had a 17-2 record against the Sox last season. They play again today and Sunday.

Indians starter Carlos Carrasco (0-2) was tagged for five runs and six hits in 4⅔ innings. It was another shaky start for the right-hander, AP photo who allowed five runs in 5⅔ White Sox batter Alexei Ramirez connects for an RBI-single against the innings of a 7-3 loss to MinCleveland Indians during the seventh inning of Friday night’s game at nesota in his season debut.

Cleveland pitching issued U.S. Cellular Field. The Sox won, 9-6.

vs. Cleveland, 1:10 p.m. today, WGN, AM-670

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Michigan St.’s Payne honored at Wooden gala the gala three days after the death of Lacey Holsworth of St. Johns, Mich., who was stricken LOS ANGELES – Adreian with neuroblastoma in 2011.

“She wouldn’t want me to be Payne of Michigan State was honored at the John R. Wood- sad,” Payne said. “It’s hard.”

The crowd stood to applaud en Award gala Friday night for his friendship with a can- Payne, who spoke softly in accepting the award, saying he cer-stricken 8-year-old girl.

Payne received the first Out- nearly didn’t travel to Los Angereach Award at the Los Ange- les after the girl’s death but was les Athletic Club. He attended encouraged to by her father.

By BETH HARRIS

The Associated Press

“He told me Lacey would want me to come out,” Payne said. “It’s not just for me, it’s for her. That’s the main reason why I came.”

Payne met Holsworth during one of her hospital stays just months after the death of the grandmother who raised him.

Payne brought the girl to Michigan State games over the last two years, texted with her daily, and

brought her on the court during Senior Day and the Big Ten tournament in Indianapolis.

“It was a great moment, especially for our team,” he said.

“To be able to share with Lacy just made it even better. I feel like a part of her family.”

Michigan State lost to Connecticut in the East Regional final of the NCAA tournament March 30.

8WEEKEND TV SPORTSWATCH TODAY’S SCHEDULE Pro hockey Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 2 p.m., NBC Blackhawks at Nashville, 7 p.m., NBCSN Pro baseball Boston at N.Y. Yankees, noon, FS1 Cubs at St. Louis, 1 p.m., CSN Cleveland at White Sox, 1 p.m., WGN Colorado at San Francisco, 3 p.m., MLB L.A. Dodgers at Arizona or Houston at Texas, 7 p.m., MLB Golf Masters, third round, 2 p.m., CBS Auto racing United SportsCar Championship, 5 p.m., FS1 IndyCar, Grand Prix of Long Beach qualifying, 5 p.m., NBCSN (same-day tape) NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Southern 500, 5:30 p.m., FOX NHRA, Four-Wide Nationals qualifying, 8 p.m., ESPN2 (same-day tape)

Motorsports AMA Supercross, 9:30 p.m., FS1 Horse racing Throughbreds, Blue Grass Stakes, 3:30 p.m., FS1 Men’s hockey NCAA tournament, championship, Union (N.Y.) vs. Minnesota, 6:30 p.m., ESPN College baseball Arkansas at LSU, noon, ESPN2 UCLA at Arizona, 9:30 p.m., ESPNU College softball Oklahoma at Baylor, 4 p.m., ESPN Washington at stanford, 9 p.m., ESPN2 Men’s lacrosse Michigan at Ohio St., 10 a.m., BTN Soccer Premier League, Tottenham at West Bromwich, 8:55 a.m., NBCSN MLS, Fire at Montreal, 3 p.m., WPWR-50 Prep basketball Nike Hoop Summit, USA Junior National Select Team vs. World Select

y-Anaheim x-Colorado x-St. Louis x-San Jose x-Blackhawks x-Los Angeles x-Minnesota x-Dallas

GP 80 80 81 80 81 81 81 81

W 52 52 52 49 46 46 43 40

L 20 21 22 22 20 28 26 30

OT 8 7 7 9 15 7 12 11

Pts 112 111 111 107 107 99 98 91

GF 259 247 248 241 262 203 204 234

GA 204 212 188 197 213 170 199 226

Phoenix Nashville Winnipeg Vancouver Calgary Edmonton

80 80 82 80 81 81

36 36 37 35 35 28

29 32 35 34 39 44

15 12 10 11 7 9

87 84 84 81 77 65

212 202 227 189 208 198

227 234 237 217 236 268

EASTERN CONFERENCE z-Boston y-Pittsburgh x-Tampa Bay x-N.Y. Rangers x-Montreal x-Philadelphia x-Columbus x-Detroit

GP 80 80 81 81 81 80 81 81

W 53 51 45 45 45 41 42 38

L 18 24 27 31 28 30 32 28

OT 9 5 9 5 8 9 7 15

Pts 115 107 99 95 98 91 91 91

GF 255 244 239 218 214 227 228 219

GA 173 200 215 192 204 226 214 230

Washington 81 38 30 13 89 235 239 New Jersey 81 34 29 18 86 194 206 Ottawa 80 35 31 14 84 232 263 Toronto 81 38 35 8 84 231 255 Carolina 81 35 35 11 81 201 225 N.Y. Islanders 81 33 37 11 77 221 264 Florida 81 29 44 8 66 194 265 Buffalo 80 21 50 9 51 153 240 Two points for win, one point for OT loss x-clinched playoff spot; y-clinched division; z-clinched conference Friday’s Results Washington 4, Blackhawks 0 N.Y. Islanders 3, New Jersey 2 (SO) Carolina 2, Detroit 1 Tampa Bay 3, Columbus 2 Dallas 3, St. Louis 0 Winnipeg 5, Calgary 3 Colorado at San Jose (n) Today’s Games Buffalo at Boston, 11:30 a.m.

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 2 p.m.

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

Toronto at Ottawa, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Florida, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Nashville, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

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

MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit White Sox Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota Tampa Bay Toronto Boston New York Baltimore Oakland Seattle Los Angeles Texas Houston

Central Division W L 5 2 6 5 5 6 4 5 4 6 East Division W L 6 5 6 5 5 6 5 6 4 6 West Division W L 6 3 5 3 4 5 4 5 4 6

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GB — 1 2 2 2½

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GB — — 1 1 1½

Pct .667 .625 .444 .444 .400

GB — ½ 2 2 2½

Friday’s Results White Sox 9, Cleveland 6 Boston 4, N.Y. Yankees 2 Toronto 2, Baltimore 0 Tampa Bay 2, Cincinnati 1 Minnesota 10, Kansas City 1 Houston at Texas (n) N.Y. Mets at L.A. Angels (n) Detroit at San Diego (n) Oakland at Seattle (n) Today’s Games Cleveland (Masterson 0-0) at White Sox (Paulino 0-1), 1:10 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 12:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Cincinnati, 12:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m.

Toronto at Baltimore, 6:05 p.m.

Houston at Texas, 7:05 p.m.

Detroit at San Diego, 7:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

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Team, 6 p.m., ESPN2

NHRA, Four-Wide Nationals, 7 p.m., ESPN2 (same-day tape) SUNDAY’S SCHEDULE Motorsports Golf MotoGP Moto3, Grand Prix of the Masters, final round, 1 p.m., CBS Americas, noon, FS1 Pro baseball MotoGP Moto2, Grand Prix of the Tampa Bay at Cincinnati or Wash- Americas, 1 p.m., FS1 ington at Atlanta, noon, MLB MotoGP World Championship, Cubs at St. Louis, 1:10 p.m., WGN Grand Prix of the Americas, 2 p.m., Cleveland at White Sox, 1:10 p.m., FS1 CSN College softball Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7 p.m., ESPN Michigan at Michigan St., 11 a.m., Pro basketball BTN Oklahoma City at Indiana, noon, College baseball ABC Nebraska at Minnesota, 2 p.m., Bulls at New York, 6:30 p.m., CSN BTN Pro hockey Soccer Detroit at St. Louis, 11:30 a.m., NBC Premier League, Manchester City Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m., at Liverpool, 7:30 a.m., NBCSN NBCSN FA Cup, semifinal, Hull City vs.

Dallas at Phoenix, 8 p.m., NBCSN Sheffield, 10 a.m., FS1 Auto racing Premier League, Chelsea at SwanIndy Lights, 1:30 p.m., NBCSN sea City, 10 a.m., NBCSN (same-day tape) College baseball IndyCar, Grand Prix of Long Beach, Texas at Oklahoma, 2:30 p.m., 3 p.m., NBCSN ESPNU

Central Division W L Milwaukee 8 2 Pittsburgh 6 4 St. Louis 5 5 Cubs 4 6 Cincinnati 3 7 East Division W L Washington 7 3 Atlanta 6 4 Miami 5 6 New York 4 5 Philadelphia 4 6 West Division W L Los Angeles 7 4 San Francisco 6 4 Colorado 5 5 San Diego 3 6 Arizona 4 9

Pct .800 .600 .500 .400 .300

GB — 2 3 4 5

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GB — 1 2½ 2½ 3

Pct .636 .600 .500 .333 .308

GB — ½ 1½ 3 4

Friday’s Results Cubs 6, St. Louis 3 (11 inn.)

Philadelphia 6, Miami 3 Tampa Bay 2, Cincinnati 1 Atlanta 7, Washington 6 (10 inn.)

Milwaukee 4, Pittsburgh 2 L.A. Dodgers 6, Arizona 0 N.Y. Mets at L.A. Angels (n) Detroit at San Diego (n) Colorado at San Francisco (n) Saturday’s Games Cubs (Villanueva 1-2) at St. Louis (Wainwright 1-1), 1:15 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Cincinnati, 12:10 p.m.

Colorado at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.

Miami at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 7:10 p.m.

Detroit at San Diego, 7:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

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KANELAND

Thielk bulks up, breaks weightlifting record

By JAY SCHWAB jschwab@shawmedia.com It was only a couple years ago that Kaneland junior Zack Thielk was close to ground zero in the weight room.

“My freshman year, I could only bench like 95 pounds,” Thielk recalled. “... I didn’t get really strong until sophomore year, and then this year after I tore my ACL, my upper body just got really strong. I just worked on my upper body for most of the time until I could squat again.”

Thielk, a three-sport athlete from Sugar Grove, set an Illinois record for 16-17-year-olds last Saturday at the World Cup Bench Press and Dead Lift Championships in Wisconsin Dells, Wis. Thielk was credited with a 347-pound bench press, although he said he actually maxed out at 370 on

his final attempt, but it did not count because he was shooting for 380.

Thielk is an offensive lineman in Kaneland’s football program as well as a heavyweight wrestler and track and field thrower. Thielk was the football team’s starting center until he suffered a season-ending ACL tear in the Knights’ Week 6 win against DeKalb.

With limited training options in the aftermath of his Nov. 1 ACL surgery, the 6-foot-1, 280-pound Thielk set his sights squarely on the weight room. His devotion paid off Saturday.

Thielk said he was one of only a handful of teenagers in the competition in Wisconsin Dells, which primarily consisted of grown men.

Thielk said he wasn’t flustered by being so much younger than most of the competitors.

“I figured I’m just there, so I’ll try

to do the best I can do,” Thielk said. “I didn’t [worry about the older lifters], and they were pretty nice. … They were helping me because they heard it was my first competition. They thought I was older than I was.”

Thielk called weightlifting “probably my favorite thing to do,” saying his older brother, Nick, and Kaneland senior offensive lineman Joe Komel – a Central Michigan recruit – helped inspire his passion for bulking up.

Although Thielk is king of the weight room at Kaneland these days, he said there are other members of the football program who can rival him if they adopt his work ethic.

“They need to show up more and show up consistently,” Thielk said.

“I’ve never missed a day of lifting. I think that’s part of the reason I’ve gotten stronger. They have potential

MASTERS

(to catch up), I’m not going to lie.”

Kaneland senior quarterback Drew David said it’s apparent Thielk is “pretty proud” of his record-setting lift, but said Thielk hasn’t been boasting too much.

“Ever since the first time I’ve seen him in the weight room, he’s a tank,” David said. “He was a junior this year and he was definitely one of our strongest guys we had on the team. He’s really impressive. I’m not surprised to hear any of that.”

Thielk missed the entire wrestling season while recovering from his ACL tear and hopes to be medically cleared in time for most of the outdoor track and field season.

He said he likely will participate in the same weightlifting competition in Wisconsin next year, and preliminary has set a 425-pound lift as his goal.

David zeroing in on college options: David, the Knights’ three-year starter at quarterback, remains uncertain of his college plans, but is holding out hope for a walk-on opportunity at a Division I, Football Championship Subdivision program.

David planned to visit Northern Iowa on Friday and said a visit to Illinois State next week also might materialize. He said he has nothing against going the D-II or D-III route – as many of his past and present teammates have – but he decided if he is going to play college football, he’d rather take a shot with a D-I program, even if it meant walking on.

“For me, I kind of wanted to try and do something different, kind of try and catch lighting in a bottle, I guess,” David said. “... You hear all kinds of crazy stories. It’s something I just wanted to kind of try.”

PREP ROUNDUP

Bubba keeps it simple, leads by 3 Kowalski homers, earns ‘W’

By DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. – Bubba Watson won the Masters two years ago with his brand of “Bubba golf,” producing shots of raw skill and wild imagination. His strategy now is to keep it simple, and he is halfway to another green jacket.

Watson took over Augusta National on Friday with 75 minutes of brilliance and power.

On another demanding day of crispy greens and swirling wind, he ran off five straight birdies on the back nine and wound up with a 4-under-par 68 for a threeshot lead over John Senden.

There’s nothing fancy about his golf, except for his outrageous length. He has made only two bogeys in 36 holes. He has missed only eight greens.

“It’s not science here,” Watson said. “It’s try to hit the greens. And if you’re hitting

MASTERS Friday at Augusta National Golf Club Augusta, Ga. Yardage: 7,435; Par: 72 Second Round a-amateur Bubba Watson 69-68—137 -7 John Senden 72-68—140 -4 Thomas Bjorn 73-68—141 -3 Jonas Blixt 70-71—141 -3 Adam Scott 69-72—141 -3 Jordan Spieth 71-70—141 -3 Fred Couples 71-71—142 -2 Jim Furyk 74-68—142 -2 Jimmy Walker 70-72—142 -2 Jamie Donaldson 73-70—143 -1 Stephen Gallacher 71-72—143 -1 Russell Henley 73-70—143 -1 Kevin Stadler 70-73—143 -1 Kevin Streelman 72-71—143 -1 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano 75-69—144 E Lucas Glover 75-69—144 E Matt Kuchar 73-71—144 E Louis Oosthuizen 69-75—144 E Brandt Snedeker 70-74—144 E Lee Westwood 73-71—144 E K.J. Choi 70-75—145 +1 Stewart Cink 73-72—145 +1 Henrik Stenson 73-72—145 +1 Steve Stricker 72-73—145 +1 Mike Weir 73-72—145 +1 Steven Bowditch 74-72—146 +2 Brendon de Jonge 74-72—146 +2 Rickie Fowler 71-75—146 +2 Bill Haas 68-78—146 +2 Bernhard Langer 72-74—146 +2 Hunter Mahan 74-72—146 +2 Larry Mize 74-72—146 +2 Thorbjorn Olesen 74-72—146 +2 Ian Poulter 76-70—146 +2 Justin Rose 76-70—146 +2 Vijay Singh 75-71—146 +2 a-Oliver Goss 76-71—147 +3 Billy Horschel 75-72—147 +3 Thongchai Jaidee 73-74—147 +3 Miguel Angel Jimenez 71-76—147 +3 Martin Kaymer 75-72—147 +3 Chris Kirk 75-72—147 +3 Francesco Molinari 71-76—147 +3 Nick Watney 72-75—147 +3 Gary Woodland 70-77—147 +3 Darren Clarke 74-74—148 +4 Jason Day 75-73—148 +4 Sandy Lyle 76-72—148 +4 Joost Luiten 75-73—148 +4 Rory McIlroy 71-77—148 +4 Jose Maria Olazabal 74-74—148 +4 Failed to qualify Sang-Moon Bae 72-77—149 +5 Luke Donald 79-70—149 +5 Victor Dubuisson 74-75—149 +5 Ernie Els 75-74—149 +5 a-Matthew Fitzpatrick 76-73—149 +5 Sergio Garcia 74-75—149 +5 Marc Leishman 70-79—149 +5 Phil Mickelson 76-73—149 +5 Ryan Moore 77-72—149 +5 Charl Schwartzel 73-76—149 +5 Webb Simpson 74-75—149 +5 Harris English 74-76—150 +6 Zach Johnson 78-72—150 +6 Graeme McDowell 72-78—150 +6 D.A. Points 78-72—150 +6 Ian Woosnam 77-73—150 +6 Ken Duke 75-76—151 +7 John Huh 75-76—151 +7 Dustin Johnson 77-74—151 +7 Hideki Matsuyama 80-71—151 +7 Angel Cabrera 78-74—152 +8 Graham DeLaet 80-72—152 +8 Derek Ernst 76-76—152 +8 Matt Jones 74-78—152 +8 David Lynn 78-74—152 +8 Matteo Manassero 71-81—152 +8 Mark O’Meara 75-77—152 +8 Patrick Reed 73-79—152 +8 Keegan Bradley 75-78—153 +9 Robert Castro 73-80—153 +9 Branden Grace 84-69—153 +9 Trevor Immelman 79-74—153 +9 a-Chang-woo Lee 80-73—153 +9 Jason Dufner 80-74—154 +10 Y.E. Yang 77-77—154 +10 Matt Every 77-78—155 +11 a-Jordan Niebrugge 81-74—155 +11 Scott Stallings 75-80—155 +11 a-Garrick Porteous 76-80—156 +12 Boo Weekley 73-83—156 +12 Tim Clark 79-78—157 +13 Peter Hanson 78-81—159 +15 Craig Stadler 82-77—159 +15 Tom Watson 78-81—159 +15 a-Michael McCoy 78-83—161 +17 Ben Crenshaw 83-85—168 +24

Friday at Augusta AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) – A brief look at the second round of the Masters on Friday: Leading: Bubba Watson, at 7-under-par 137 after a second-round 68 Trailing: John Senden also shot 68 and was three shots back at 4-under 140.

Bye-bye Lefty: Phil Mickelson didn’t have any 7s on his scorecard like the day before, but missed the cut anyway after a 73 that put him at 149.

It was the first time Mickelson missed the cut at the Masters since ’97.

Shot of the day: Watson’s curling 40-footer for birdie on 14 for his third birdie in a row. the greens, that means you’re obviously hitting your tee shots well. So that’s all I’m trying to do is just hit the greens ... maybe throw in a birdie here or there. That’s what I’ve

done the last two days and it’s worked out so far.”

Watson made bogey on the 18th hole with a shot that bounced left of the green and into the gallery. He finished at 7-under 137, giving him the largest 36-hole lead at the Masters since Chad Campbell in ’06.

Senden qualified for the Masters a month ago with his win at Innisbrook. After a rugged start, he played the final 14 holes with six birdies and no bogeys for a 68 that puts him in the last group at a major on the weekend.

Adam Scott also made a late recovery with three birdies on the back nine to salvage a 72, along with his hopes to join Tiger Woods, Nick Faldo and Jack Nicklaus as the only players to win back-to-back at Augusta. Scott was four shots back at 141, along with Thomas Bjorn (68), Jonas Blixt (71) and Jordan Spieth, who looked solid on the greens and shot a 70.

Winning came with a price • MORRISSEY Continued from page B1 you’ve been blessed with an excess of natural talent and a burning desire to win, it can start to seem like a big waste.

Two words describe Watson’s drop from fifth in the 2012 FedEx Cup rankings to 38th in 2013: perfectly understandable.

“I was still celebrating my green jacket,” he said in response to a reporter’s question Friday. “How many green jackets you got? If you had one, you would celebrate it for a year or two.”

Trust me, if a sportswriter won a green jacket, he’d celebrate by buying purple pants to go with it.

Watson has moved on, sartorially and athletically, as a five-birdie stretch Friday proved. It propelled him to a 4-under-par 68 and a threestroke lead over John Senden after two rounds of the Masters.

Bubba on a birdie binge?

Beautiful.

The good ol’ boy from Bagdad, Fla., storming through Augusta National again? This could get good.

Last year at this time, Watson still was holding court as the defending Masters champion. That meant news conferences and the traditional champions dinner. It meant being pulled in every direction on the compass. He was not equipped to handle it. Nobody is, really, but he perhaps more than most. He finished tied for 50th.

“You’ve got to think about where I’ve come from,” he said.

“My mom had two jobs to pay for my golf. My dad worked in construction. When you think about that and where I am in my career and where I am with my young family, you think about how great this was. “... So when you think about that, it’s an accomplishment for a guy named Bubba, with my mom, my upbringing. My year, my career was complete after that win.”

The upset would have been if Watson had handled all the obligations of being Masters champion with aplomb and had a better year in 2013 than

he did in 2012.

This year? This year felt like a burden had been lifted.

“The champions dinner was not about me,” he said. “I could enjoy (it) this time and listen to some of the stories. I was in awe when I was the champion, when it was my dinner. You’re sitting there amongst the great champions that are in there.

This year, I got to be just a bystander, just one of the guys.”

He is not one of the guys.

He never has been one of the guys. He never has had a swing coach and never had a lesson, a rarity in a sport as neurotic as golf. Most of these pros view self-help the way doctors view bloodletting.

But look at the self-made man now. On Friday, he reduced Holes 12 through 16 to embers. The two par-5s were not a surprise. He’s a long hitter, and every par-5 has a come-hither look for him. The other holes at Augusta play a little more hard-to-get. No problem. He made a long putt on the par-4 14th that broke left like an Indy car.

Afterward, someone asked him to offer an example of his athleticism. He said he hit a nine-iron 186 yards Thursday.

“I guess that’s all right,” he said.

Yeah, that’s all right.

By definition, a guy named Bubba is corndogs, muscle shirts and carnivals. Augusta National is supposed to be about exclusiveness and exclusion. What’s wrong with this picture?

But somehow it all works perfectly. On Friday, the fans were tickled that he was back in the lead, but not as tickled as he was.

“What I’m trying to do is go back to being a kid again and just rejoicing,” he said. “I’ve said this whole year is about rejoicing.”

In other words, don’t be so hard on yourself when you have a bad round. Enjoy what you’ve done. Envision the good things ahead.

And whatever you do, forget about 2013.

• Rick Morrissey is a Chicago Sun-Times columnist. Write to him at rmorrissey@suntimes.com.

DAILY CHRONICLE STAFF sports@daily-chronicle.com Katie Kowalski went 2 for 4 at the plate – picking up her first career home run – and earned the win in the circle for the DeKalb softball team in an 8-5 win over Hindsale Central on Friday in Hinsdale.

Kowalski improved to 3-1 on the season. Morgan Newport finished 4 for 4 for the Barbs (7-3).

The score was tied at 5 after five innings before the Barbs pushed through two Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com runs in the sixth and another in the seventh.

Morgan Weber is congratulated by her Kaneland softball teammates T’wolves win LTC game: In- after hitting a home run in the fourth inning against Marengo on Fridian Creek defeated Paw Paw, day in Maple Park. The Knights lost, 7-4.

17-3. invite: Sycamore edged sec- Belvidere in a nonconference ond-place Burlington Cen- game on the road.

BASEBALL Royals lose LTC game: HinckT’wolves remain unbeaten: tral, 113-105, at the eight-team ley-Big Rock lost to Newark, Tim Sommerfeld was 4 for 5 Huntley Invitational.

Sycamore’s Mark Stice 22-1, in five innings in a Little with a double and a triple for Indian Creek in an 11-4 win won the 3,200 (10:25.2). Alex Ten Conference game. over Paw Paw. Brock Meyers Handel won the 800 (2:02.4) and Evan Short won the shot GIRLS SOCCER finished 2 for 3.

Timberwolves win nonconThe Timberwolves are 4-0. put (51-0). ference match: Indian Creek defeated Spring Valley Hall, SOFTBALL LATE THURSDAY Hawks drop nonconference 11-0, in a nonconference BOYS TRACK Sycamore wins Huntley game: Hiawatha lost, 8-5, to match in Waterman.

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Hawks blanked in D.C.

By JOSEPH WHITE

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The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The playoff-bound Blackhawks were coasting, and the out-of-it Washington Capitals were trying to act like a team that still had heart.

The result was a late-season game with a preseason feel, noteworthy for Alex Ovechkin’s NHL-leading 51st goal and a shutout from the goalie who seemingly was skittish about facing his former team earlier in the week.

Ovechkin and the Capitals beat the Hawks, 4-0, Friday night, an impressive-looking result that didn’t mean much.

Washington still isn’t going to make the playoffs for the first time since 2007, and the Hawks are locked into finishing third in the Central Division.

“They’re getting prepared for the playoffs and resting up a bit,” Capitals forward Eric Fehr said, “so you don’t want

at Nashville, 7 p.m. today, WGN, AM-720 to take too much out of a game like that.”

Jay Beagle had his first career two-goal game, and Nicklas Backstrom also scored as the Capitals won their fourth straight, a winning streak that’s rings hollow in D.C. “We want to finish off good,” Backstrom said. “The last few games we’ve been playing all right, even if the games are a little more like a scrimmage.”

About the only thing that can be said about the Hawks is that they actually participated in the game, and that’s probably a stretch.

“We’ll throw it in the garbage can,” Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. “We’ll learn a little bit from it, but certain-

ly we’re not happy about the way things played out. But it was one of those games.”

Quenneville, who had planned to rest some players over the final two games, gave defenseman Duncan Keith the night off and subbed goalie Corey Crawford after two periods. Still, forward Patrick Sharp was looking for a bit more effort.

“It’s the NHL. We’re professionals,” Sharp said. “We should be ready to go.”

The Hawks had their fourgame winning streak snapped.

The defending Stanley Cup champions have a potential concern as they prepare for a run at another title: They have lost eight of 10 on the road, scoring only 15 goals in those games.

“It’s just a game we can definitely look past and move on to the next one,” Crawford said. “I don’t know, let’s just forget about it. I don’t know what else to say.”

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Augustin had 12 points in the fourth quarter. Gibson scored 11 in the period and had two blocks during the decisive run, which he also started with a pair of free throws with just over 10 minutes left and the Bulls down 83-75.

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Designers offer tips for flea-market shoppers you love it, but get the wiring updated by a professional. Flynn usually estimates an extra $50 to $75 per fixture for updating the wiring, so keep that cost in mind as you bargain.

By MELISSA RAYWORTH The Associated Press

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he arrival of spring means that flea markets are reopening for business around the country.

Shoppers will hunt for treasures amid acres of used goods. A few will come home with just the right vintage art or quirky piece of furniture to make their home more beautiful.

Jaime Rummerfield, co-founder of Woodson & Rummerfield’s House of Design in Los Angeles, sometimes mixes flea-market finds with high-end new furnishings to decorate the homes of her celebrity clients.

“The beauty of flea markets,” she says, “is you never know what you will find.

There’s nothing like being outdoors or in a place off the beaten path rummaging through old treasures.”

Los Angeles-based interior designer Brian Patrick Flynn, creator of the FlynnsideOut design blog, also hunts for vintage pieces: “I shop second-hand regardless of my project’s budget or client’s level of taste,” he says. “Vintage and thrift is the best way to add one-of-a-kind flair to a space without insanely high cost.”

There is luck involved, of course. But skill also plays a role. As you browse crowded tables of used things this spring, how can you find the treasures that will give your home an infusion of style while avoiding decorating disasters?

Here, Flynn, Rummerfield and another interior designer who shops for vintage decor – Lee Kleinhelter of the Atlantabased design firm and retail store Pieces – tell how they do it.

WHEN TO GO Winter and early spring are perfect for flea-market shopping, says Flynn.

“Since ‘thrifting’ and ‘antiquing’ are often associated with gorgeous weather and weekend shenanigans, many people shy away from hunting for their vintage finds when it’s cold or gloomy,” he notes, so go now and go early.

“I usually show up just as the flea market opens to ensure I see every new item as it’s put out on display,” he says. “When you wait until the end of a flea market’s run to check out its stuff, you’re likely to find mostly leftovers, things priced too

MIX AND MATCH Be on the lookout for pieces you can use together. “You don’t need multiples of the same chair or sofa to make a room work,” Flynn says. “Stick with those which have similar scale and proportion, then recover them in the same fabric.”

Once you get home, use flea market finds sparingly, Flynn says, mixing them in with the pieces you already own: “A few big pieces mixed with some smaller ones added to your existing stuff can instantly take an unfinished space and make it feel way more finished and remarkably personal.”

MONEY ADVICE LEFT: Designer Brian Patrick Flynn had this 1960s era glass and chrome chandelier found for $150 at a flea market rewired before installing it in a dining room. Flynn suggests always splurging on electrical and upholstery updates to add longevity to vintage finds.

RIGHT: Flynn says that just adding one or two vintage touches, like this 1970s chrome rocker, to a space can instantly add a sense of history to a room. To ensure a room feels balanced, Flynn likes to have at least three vintage items for every new one added. highly which others passed over, or things that are just way too taste-specific for most people to make offers on.”

TIME TRAVEL Rummerfield occasionally finds signed artwork and ceramics by noteworthy artists at flea markets and antique malls.

“It is amazing to see what people cast away,” she says. “I personally hunt for Sasha Brastoff ceramics because of his unique California heritage as a set decorator and artist.” She also has found vintage Billy Haines chairs and Gio Ponti lighting at flea markets.

So read up on the designers and artists from your favorite periods, and then hunt for their work or impressive knockoffs.

A single flea market might offer goods from every decade of the 20th century. Can you put a lamp from the 1970s on a table from 1950? Yes, if the shapes and colors work well together, Kleinhelter says.

If your home has contemporary decor, Rummerfield says it can be powerful to

add one statement piece – a side table, say, or a light fixture – from a previous era.

But “a little bit goes a long way. Use vintage in moderation with contemporary spaces,” Rummerfield says. “It will highlight the uniqueness of the vintage item. You don’t necessarily want to live in a time capsule.”

FIXER-UPPERS You may assume that old upholstered furniture should be avoided, especially if the fabric looks dirty or damaged. But these designers say it’s actually a great thing to hunt for: “Hands down, upholstery is the best deal to walk away with at flea markets. Just make sure you train your eye to pay no attention to the existing fabrics,” Flynn says. “Zero in on the lines of the frames instead.”

Kleinhelter agrees: “I usually gravitate toward the bones and frames of vintage pieces, and I make them my own by adding fun fabric or lacquering the base.”

The same goes for lighting. Buy it if

“The best way to get an amazing deal is to buy a bunch of different items from the same vendor,” says Flynn. “This way, they can actually lower their prices since you’re guaranteeing them more sales, which in turn also makes their packing up and leaving much easier.”

You should bargain, but don’t go so low that you’ll insult the seller. “If something is marked $185, it’s probably not ideal to offer $50,” Flynn says. One option is to negotiate for a 25 percent to 35 percent discount.

And do bring cash. “Mom and pop dealers don’t have the luxury of taking credit cards due to the charges acquired,” Flynn says. “If you bring enough cash with you, you’re more likely to be able to negotiate successfully.”

PERSONAL TASTE Above all, choose items that delight you.

“I never focus on eras or hunt for specific designers,” Kleinhelter says. “Pick what you like.”

And be open to serendipity.

“When I’m looking for furniture, I always stumble across a good vintage jewelry or clothing vendor and end up with a fun bauble of a bracelet or necklace,” Rummerfield says. “Prices are usually so reasonable, you come away with a good amount of loot. It is always a day well spent.”

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FAMILY TIME | How to plan the perfect Easter egg hunt

Tip of the week From the White House lawn to the family living room, children of all ages will soon be searching behind bushes and couches to find that last treasured egg. If you don’t have an Easter egg hunt to attend in your community this year, consider planning your own and inviting all the neighbors to participate.

Here are some tips for planning the perfect Easter egg hunt: • Find out what kids want: Kids each have their favorite items they’re hoping they’ll find in their baskets. To deliver the best gifts from the Easter Bunny, you have to think like the kids.

• Pick the right eggs: Load up on eggs of all shapes and sizes. Plastic

eggs are the best for hiding, because if an egg isn’t found, it won’t spoil and cause a mess later. Plastic eggs are very colorful, making them easier to spot by both little children and older kids alike. If you’re inviting a lot of younger children to the egg hunt, consider placing several eggs in a soft Easter basket and placing it under a tree to make it faster and easier for kids to find.

• Invite the Easter Bunny: Rent an Easter Bunny costume and ask someone to wear it to welcome guests of all sizes to your Easter egg hunt. Ask someone else to be a digital photographer who can email your guests photos taken of their kids posing with the Easter bunny – parents will appreciate the opportunity to have their kids take a picture with the Easter Bunny without having to make a special visit to the local mall. Hang a personalized egg hunt banner in the yard and decorate the area with streamers and balloons to give your backyard a festive feel.

• Prepare for rain: April showers aren’t outside of the scope of possibilities, so prepare for a rainy day situation. You don’t want a handful of disappointed children at the party.

Utilize furniture and the garage to hide eggs throughout the house. Prepare a map of the house and how many eggs are in each room so kids who aren’t familiar with the layout of the home can still find their fair share of hidden eggs.

• Consider treats that aren’t candy: Don’t limit your Easter party treats to just sweets. Stuffed bunnies make the perfect companion for young kids, and are a great gift to hide along with the eggs. Parents will appreciate that there are options to take home other than candy, and kids will have something to keep for years to come.

With these tips, you’ll have a successful Easter egg hunt that your friends and neighbors – and their children – will be talking about for weeks to come.

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Family movie night “Noah” Rated: PG-13 Length: 138 minutes Synopsis: A man is chosen by God to undertake a momentous mission of rescue before an apocalyptic flood destroys the world.

Violence/scary rating: 4 Sexual-content rating: 2 Profanity rating: 1.5 Drugs/alcohol rating: 2 Family Time rating: 3. This is sort of your standard PG-13 movie as far as suitability for the family. Also realize that there are some differences from the Bible story you may know.

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

Book report “Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children),” by Ransom Riggs Ages: Young adult

Pages: 400 Synopsis: “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” was the surprise best seller of 2011 – an unprecedented mix of YA fantasy and vintage photography that enthralled readers and critics alike. Publishers Weekly called it “an enjoyable, eccentric read, distinguished by well-developed characters, a believable Welsh setting, and some very creepy monsters.” This second novel begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended. Having escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. Along the way, they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises. Complete with dozens of newly discovered (and thoroughly mesmerizing) vintage photographs, this new adventure will delight readers of all ages. - Quirk Books

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8PRAIRIE FLOWERS Thanks for helping Tyler Fun Fair To the Editor: On behalf of the Tyler Elementary PTO, we would like to thank all of the businesses that donated to our Fun Fair on Feb. 28. The money raised will go toward activities and equipment for the students and faculty of Tyler Elementary School.

Donations were from: Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Becky Beck’s Jewelry, Bill Cho’s Tae Kwon Do, Bill White’s C.A.R. Hospital, Burritoville, Cate Cardella, Charter Fitness, Chesapeake Bagel Bakery, Chicago Bears, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Wolves, China House, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Creative Therapeutics, Dairy Queen, DeKalb Corn Fest, DeKalb Florist, DeKalb High School Athletics, DeKalb Park District, Domino’s Pizza, Egg Haven Restaurant, Ellwood House, Farm & Fleet, Flippin’ Eggs, Four Seasons Sports, Funway, Garden Market, Geneva Eye Clinic, Glidden Campus Florist, HyVee, Ideal Industries, IHOP Restaurant, Imagine’ Salon, Jonamac Orchard, Kids Stuff, KishHealth Systems, Midwest Museum of Natural History, Nestle, Noodles and Co., Olympia Chiropractic, Perfect Silhouette, Resource Bank, Rockford Ice Hogs, Kat Schnorr, Studio One Salon & Spa, Sycamore Speedway, Taco Bell, TupperwareJennifer Petricig, Volcano Falls Adventure Park, Walmart and Kishwaukee Family YMCA. We would like to thank our principal Andria Mitchell and the faculty and staff at Tyler Elementary School.

They helped the PTO in preparation for the Fun Fair and this would not have happened without their support!

We also would like to thank our parents and our local groups and organizations that volunteered their time.

We appreciate all of you taking time out your busy schedules to volunteer at the Fun Fair. Thank you all for supporting our students!

With Tiger Pride, Dawn Sibley and Carolyn Swafford Co-presidents Tyler Elementary School PTO

Thanks for supporting the arts To the Editor: The Northern Illinois University Community School of the Arts held an inspiring event on March 15. The Performathon brought talented musicians and visual artists to the Music Building at NIU for an extraordinary fundraiser.

I’m very pleased to report that donations to date have totaled more than $6,300! This money all goes into our scholarship fund. Since we began the scholarship program in 1993, we have provided 752 scholarships to young students in the community and raised more than $91,000.

On March 15, we heard nearly 50 talented community school students perform for more than three hours.

We heard solos and duets, young children and adults, marimbas, violins, pianos and cellos.

Thank you to the students and their teachers and to the many volunteers who made this day possible.

Thanks also to the many local businesses and organizations who donated through advertising or raffle prizes: Austin’s Violin Shop, Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Culver’s of Sycamore, Egg Haven Pancakes & Café, Hauser-Ross Eye Institute, Hy-Vee, IHOP, Ken Spears Construction Inc., KishHealth System, Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra, NIU Liberal Arts and Sciences Office of External Programs, Midwest Museum of Natural History, NIU Art Museum, NIU Credit Union, NIU School of Theatre and Dance, Noodles & Co., Northern Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Ollie’s Frozen Custard, Piano Forte of Chicago, Rockford Symphony Orchestra, Rosita’s Mexican Restaurant, Stage Coach Players, State Farm Insurance DeKalb, Trittenhaus Design and Walmart.

It’s great to live in a community that supports the arts.

Deborah Booth Director NIU Community School of the Arts

Sandwich women’s expo a success To the Editor: The Sandwich Area Chamber of Commerce would like to thank everyone who came out for their fifth Lights.

Camera. Action! Women’s Expo. The event was held at the Party Lodge, music was provided by Marc Thomp-

son and food was provided by The Little Marketa and Angie’s Sugar Buzz Bakery.

The expo committee greatly appreciates the businesses that sponsored the event: Spotlight Premier Members – Castle Bank & KishHealth System Hollywood Boulevard Sponsors – COUNTRY Financial Shaken Not Stirred Sponsors – Derailed Bar, Heartland Bank & Trust Co., The Waters Dental Group Official Soundtrack Sponsor – Kendall Printing, Mike’s Auto Body, Studio 30 Six Graphic Design & Marketing Walk of Fame Sponsors – Just In Time Heating Air Conditioning Refrigeration Plumbing, Earthmover Credit Union Swag Bag Sponsor – Aurora Area Convention & Visitors Bureau Water Sponsor – KishHealth System A thank-you also is extended to the volunteers that helped make the event possible. Volunteers that helped with the expo included Kathy Martin and Ashley Crawford of COUNTRY Financial, Stacy Skillin of Mike’s Auto Body, Mary Grumieaux, Michelle Kolka of Heartland Bank & Trust Co., Kathy Kohler of Willow Office & Marketing Solutions, Cindy Johnston of KishHeath System, Denise Krafft of Castle Bank, Annette Powell of Kendall Printing, Justin Norquist and Janeen Henrichs of Just In Time Heating Air Conditioning Refrigeration Plumbing, Tom Churchill of Nelson Multimedia, Beca Weber, Mackenzie Scheidecker, Alethia Hummel and Pat Voga of the Sandwich Area Chamber of Commerce.

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Grateful for pet program To the Editor: Recently I discovered a wonderful group of people.

I would like more elderly pet owners to know about them. It is the HomeBuddies program. I began the program since signing up for Meals on Wheels – another wonderful program.

As a disabled widow, my only income is Social Security. I cannot afford to give my little dog the care he needs. This program delivered free dog food. I’ve also been told they have some toys, etc.

Courtney helped us get started. She also delivered his food. She referred us to TAILS Humane Society Shelter and the veterinary clinic. My dog has had all overdue shots and tests at no cost to me. Today I set appointments for micro chip and neutering. They’re free.

My little Gizmo is my constant companion; my life would be very lonely without him.

I also want to say thank-you and God bless to all involved.

TAILS can be reached at 815-758-2457 and Meals on Wheels at 815-758-5703.

Nancy Hall Genoa

Hospice thanks volunteers To the Editor: As we celebrate National Volunteer Week, April 6 through 12, we would like to take the opportunity to thank the volunteers of KishHealth System Hospice.

At KishHealth System Hospice we have volunteers who work directly with our patients and families by giving generously of their time, compassion and care. They provide support by reaching out to the terminally ill and their loved ones during a time of serious need.

We also have volunteers who provide support to the program by giving unselfishly of their time by baking, doing office work, delivering items and helping with mailings, sewing and assisting with fundraising. All of our volunteers share their time and talents so generously. Without them, the work of KishHealth System Hospice could not continue.

It is our privilege to know our volunteers and to work side by side with them. With utmost gratitude, we thank all of the wonderful, caring and compassionate people who help make this important work of KishHealth System Hospice possible.

Sue A. Goudy Volunteer program coordinator KishHealth System Hospice

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Queency Hebel is pictured receiving a grant from Oak Crest Board President Mary Jo McAdams.

Oak Crest awards employee grant Twice a year for 15 years the Community Relations Committee of the Oak Crest DeKalb Area Retirement Center Board of Trustees has awarded a grant in the amount of $300 to a deserving employee to pursue educational or enrichment programming.

This grant is in addition to the annual Employee Scholarship designed for employees or their dependents pursuing an undergraduate degree/program of study.

This year’s grant was awarded to Queency Hebel, who has worked in the Resident Services Department since August 2010. She completed her Certified Nurse’s Aide training and is continuing her studies in the field of health care by pursuing a nursing degree at Kishwaukee College. She is looking forward to applying all that she has learned and her work-related

experiences into the growing field of medicine.

“Oak Crest’s commitment to the people working at Oak Crest extends beyond the workplace,” executive director Stephen Cichy said in a news release. “This grant provides employees with financial support to pursue their interests; whether they are in the areas of academics or life enrichment.

Oak Crest employees have applied the grant from everything to music lessons to language courses.

“Our organizational vision is to be recognized as the innovative leader in long-term care and services. This vision applies not only to the people who make their homes here, but to the people who make Oak Crest home,” he said in the release.

Oak Crest is located at 2944 Greenwood Acres Drive in DeKalb.

Troop 2810’s Nelson earns Eagle Scout rank Brandon Nelson, a member of BSA Troop 2810 chartered at Salem Lutheran Church and a Sycamore High School senior, was recently awarded the Eagle Rank, the highest award achievable in Boy Scouts. Brandon is the son of Ken and Kate Nelson of Sycamore.

Nelson first joined Cub Scouts in 2002 with Cub Scout Pack 102 chartered by Southeast Elementary School.

He earned all five Cub Scout ranks and the Arrow of Light, the highest award given in Cub Scouts. In 2007, he crossed over into Boy Scouts Troop 2 then later transferred to Troop 2810.

There he attended numerous campouts and summer camp, and earned 21 merit badges.

Nelson also held various leadership positions including two terms as Senior Patrol Leader, experienced a Boundary Waters High Adventure Trip, and spent more than 42 hours working on his Eagle Project renovating St. Mary’s Cemetery in Maple Park. His project took 235 combined hours of service.

Nelson’s Eagle ceremony was held

Brandon Nelson in conjunction with fellow Eagle Scout Alex Handel at Salem Lutheran Church in Sycamore. It included the presentation of the Eagle scouts, guest speaker state Rep. Bob Pritchard, presentation of the Eagle Scout Medal, Eagle Scout Badge, Mother’s and Father’s Pins and Mentor’s Pin and concluded with a reception.

Nelson plans to remain active in scouting contributing to Troop 2810.

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Plant help desk opens Monday “I need help reading my seed catalog.“ “I’m not sure when to start seeds for my cool weather vegetables.” “How will the drought effect my lawn?”

University of Illinois Extension DeKalb County Master Gardeners offer a free service answering garden questions such as these at the Horticulture Help Desk. The help desk will be open from 9 a.m. to noon Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays starting April 14. Starting April 28, hours will be 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday.

Master Gardeners research topics about insects, trees, shrubs, plants, vegetables, fruits, gardens, lawns and more. Master Gardeners supply research-based answers to questions, and take time to find the information you need for your specific circumstance. Master Gardeners do not make house calls, but you are free to bring samples to the University of Illinois Extension DeKalb County office, located in the Farm Bureau Center for Agriculture building at 1350 W. Prairie Drive in Sycamore.

Reach the Master Gardeners by calling in a question at 815-758-8194 or stop by the office.

Or send questions via email to uiemg-dekalb@ illinois.edu. Master Gardener volunteers will ask some diagnostic questions to understand your horticulture situation, then will call back after they have done their research.

Clients are encouraged to email or bring

in photos or drop off samples of their troubled plants, trees or shrubs. Here are some helpful tips for collecting samples: • Bring in or email photos of the plant. Be sure to include the surrounding environment.

• If possible bring in the entire plant if appropriate, especially if it is a vegetable, annual or perennial flower.

• Woody plant samples should be as large as practical. Collect samples from areas that are still alive and showing symptoms.

• Do not collect dead plants. Often their tissues have been invaded by other fungi and bacteria and the original pathogen is no longer detectable.

• Collect several plant specimens showing a range of symptoms. Collect both healthy and damaged plant parts.

• Provide as much background and related information as possible. Make note of flooding, shade, environmental changes, pesticides used and fertilizer history. Watch for any observable patterns or uniformity.

• It may be necessary to wait until the plant blooms for a botanical identification.

• After collecting samples, do not expose them to direct sunlight. Keep them cool and do not allow them to dry out. Weeds tend to wilt quickly, consider placing them between two pieces of moist paper towel and bring them in as soon as possible.

Open House at Kishwaukee Country Club Dates: April 23rd and May 14th • Free round of golf w/carts for a foursome if you attend an Open House or take a tour of the club • Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres • Short presentation of the Club’s amenities

Please call PGA Professional David Paeglow at (815) 762-4408, kishpga@gmail.com for more information about the Open House and memberships

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These Divas Will Dish…and Cook!

Divas Dish for Glidden Homestead NIU’s Barsema Alumni & Visitors’ Center The 6th annual fund-raising and taste-testing event to benefit the J.F. Glidden Homestead & Historical Center, featuring tried and true family recipes prepared by “celebrity” chefs.

Entertainment by “Cymbal!”

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! Sample their delicious offerings Saturday, April 26!

Linda Anderson Debbie Armstrong/ Stacie Haugk Lucio Bortolin/ Laura Frankiewicz Roberta Brunner Cadette Girl Scout Troop 543 St. George Orthodox Church Jan Devore Sarah Glidden DeMink Gwen Fox Katherine Gannon Janet Glidden Marge Hash Svetlana Henrikson Jayne Higgins Brooke Hiland Jeff Lawson Susan Johnson Jeanette Johnson Destiny Johnson John Latsis/ Juan Malacara Janann Marshall Team Jim Morel Dale Osterle Amy Polzin Becky Sisler Olga Sokolov Camille Tate Team Phil Bennett Marcia Wilson

White Choc Crème Brule, raspberries Taco Dip Pasta (shells, spinach, cheese) Dessert surprise Italian Pepper Bread Loukaniko Jezebel Appetizer Sarah’s Splendid Sloppy Joes Amish Cinnamon Bread Beef Burgundy with goat cheese Mom’s Pork & Sauerkraut Rice Pudding Chicken Salad with cranberries Grandma’s Chick. Soup, German noodles Bulgogi and Rice Bites Appetizer Delight Homemade Bread & Jam Johnson’s Chunky Chili Great-Grandma’s Lay Down Cake Cupcakes Cold Israeli Cous Cous Salad Greek Pasta Salad Bavarian Apple Torte Oatmeal/Craisin Cookies Fresh Spring Rolls Bortsch Soup Italian Specialty Chicken ala King Cranberry Pineapple Minis

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April 12 & 13 Civil War Encampment Knights Park, Sandwich Hosted by the Sandwich Park District, the Sandwich Historical Society and the 10th Illinois Regiment. This free event will featuree an encampment with tents, artillery, campfire and more depicting an authentic civil war camp. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. on 2 p.m. on Sunday.

2 for $50 or $30 each; ($21, tax-deductible)

Cash bar Tickets available at the Daily Chronicle, Castle Bank locations, Glidden Homestead Museum, and from Divas chefs & Glidden Board members.

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April 12 & 13 “Love’s Labor’s Lost” Holmes Student Center, NIU, DeKalb In this effervescent romantic comedy, the King of Navarre and his friends make a pact to immerse themselves in their studies.

When the Princess of France arrives with her ladies in waiting, the young men’s hearts melt along with their resolution.

Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $16 for general admission, $13 for seniors and $8 for NIU students. niu.edu April 13 Illinois International Film Festival Egyptian Theatre, DeKalb The Illinois International Film Festival offers a vast selection of world wide films, the Screenplay Competition and Filmmaker Q & A’s.

Tickets are $10 each. Starts at 9 a.m.

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The Joseph F. Glidden Homestead & Historical Center is an important historic DeKalb gem, featuring the house and barn where Glidden invented “The Winner” barbed wire in 1874.

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Area Scouts aid tornado-stricken Washington Participating units

By KATRINA J. E. MILTON kmilton@shawmedia.com Over the last weekend of spring break, DeKalb County Boy Scouts made history.

On March 28 and 29, more than 150 local Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Scout leaders traveled to Washington, Ill. to help with tornado recovery. While Scout troops and packs routinely travel to provide disaster relief, this was the first time in Boy Scout history an entire district traveled to help another district.

On Nov. 17, a tornado touched down in Washington. At its peak, the tornado had an EF4 intensity, meaning peak winds reached between 166 and 200 mph. According to local news reports, the tornado caused two deaths and about 120 injuries, and damaged or destroyed between 250 and 500 buildings.

With the help of volunteers, the residents of Washington are rebuilding and restarting their lives.

“I grew up in central Illinois,” said Hugh Bisco, a Scout leader with both Troop 18 and Pack 141 in Sycamore. “I knew people who lost their homes. The day after the tornado happened, the Scouts wanted to go down and help. That’s what Scouts do – they help those in need.”

In December, three Boy Scout troops from DeKalb County traveled to Washington to help with the tornado relief. When they returned, the stories they told sparked an excitement in other Scouts, and leaders began planning a second trip during spring break. Both Sycamore and DeKalb public schools had spring break the same week, leading Scouts throughout the entire district to plan a trip together.

Sean Staats, 16, a Life Scout with Troop 13, went on both the December and March trips.

“It was sad the first time I went down, but this time, the mood was better,” he said. “People were starting to rebuild and there was a sign of hope.”

DeKalb: Pack 131, Pack 173, Troop 13, Troop 32, Troop 33, Crew 32 Kirkland: Troop 26, Crew 426 Sycamore: Pack 141, Pack 822, Troop 16, Troop 18, Troop 40, Troop 2810 Waterman: Pack 339

ABOVE: DeKalb County Scouts pose with a heap of debris they gathered from the front yard of a home in Washington, Ill., that was nearly destroyed by a November tornado that struck the town.

LEFT: DeKalb County Cub Scouts pick up debris in front of a house that was almost destroyed by the November tornado that struck Washington, Ill. Provided photos

In Washington, some of the Boy Scouts had their first glimpse of the destruction a tornado can cause.

They saw a crumpled radio tower, rubble and litter scattered in fields, tarps covering holes in buildings, and sections of roofs missing from houses. In some houses, only the foundation with a closet or bathroom remained.

“I never saw anything like it before, except on the news,” 10-year-

old Max Wray of Troop 18 said. “In real life, it’s worse. On TV, you see just that one picture, that one area.

When you’re there, the whole town is like that. Where the tornado was, you could see houses almost torn in half.”

The Boy Scouts arrived on Friday and spent the weekend in Washington. The Scouts, leaders, and members of their families were hosted by the Roanoke United Meth-

odist Church in the nearby town of Roanoke, which provided them with dinner and a place to sleep. Trinity Lutheran Church of Roanoke gave the Scouts breakfast on Saturday morning, and Bethany Community Church in Washington fed the Scouts lunch and provided trucks, trailers, and supplies to collect bags of debris and bring them to trash bins and dump piles.

Scouts picked up small debris, such as screws, bolts, drywall, glass, and insulation scattered on the ground. The younger boys cleaned the fronts of houses and yards, while the older boys helped clean sidewalks, streets and a golf course.

“Usually that golf course is

open all year round, but it’s been closed since the tornado,” said Mike Hudspeth, a Scout parent and the activities coordinator for Troop 18.

“The farms are too debris-filled and muddy. The farmers cannot farm and will lose a whole year’s worth of income.”

One tornado victim was emotional as she greeted volunteers, Scouts recalled. The tornado blew out the windows and tore the roof off the single mother’s home, and she and her 3-year-old daughter have only recently moved back in. Drivers honked and waved at the Scouts as they passed, and residents often came out of their houses to thank the volunteers.

“The people there really needed and wanted our help,” said Gavin Gartman, a 13-year-old Tenderfoot from Troop 13. “An elderly lady with a blind husband hired somebody to clean her yard, but they did a really bad job. Since they didn’t do the best job, we helped her. Afterwards, she was so grateful, she even gave us a small donation.”

The Boy Scouts are already planning a follow-up trip to continue the relief efforts. Though the next trip will probably not have the entire district traveling together, many of the scouting units plan to return.

“I’m sure that a lot of the troops and packs will go down there again,” Bisco said. “After all, the Boy Scout slogan is, ‘Do a good turn daily.’ The fact that the entire district went down together says something about the people of DeKalb County. They’re giving people and they care about others.”

Public Health Week focused on awareness, prevention “Public Health: Start Here” is the theme of National Public Health Week 2014, an initiative of the American Public Health Association supported by the DeKalb County Health Department. This year, the public health community is focusing on raising awareness of the importance of prevention.

Today, 7 in 10 deaths in the U.S. are related to preventable conditions such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer, according to the county health department.

“Investing $10 per person each year in proven, community-based public health efforts could save the nation more than $16 billion within five years,” DeKalb County Public Health Administrator Jane Lux said in a news release.

The Affordable Care Act is one recent

development that is impacting public health services. The ACA is designed to shift the health system from focusing on treating the sick to proactively keeping people and communities healthy and safe, Lux said in the release.

According to the Illinois Association of Public Health Administrators, 1 in 3 Illinois households receives direct services from a health department, such as WIC supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children, immunizations, tobacco control and health education. Adding in environmental health services focused on food and water safety would likely increase the impact to almost every household, Lux said.

To learn more about the health department’s programs and services, visit health. dekalbcounty.org or call 815-758-6673.

Extension offers program on pest control in the garden ing the environment.

This is the second session of the spring series. The next program titled “Bargain Gardening” is set for May 6 at 1:30 p.m. and May 8 at 6:30 p.m.

Cost per session is $5 or $12 for the series. Advance registration is needed by April 21 to ensure adequate space and materials. In addition, sessions may be cancelled for insufficient registration. Phone or email the University of Illinois Extension office for more details, 815-758-8194, mpetra@illinois. edu or web.extension.illinois.

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The Four Seasons Gardening program from University of Illinois Extension, continues with a session titled, “Pest Control Strategies in the Garden.” The program will be offered at 1:30 p.m.

April 22. The session will be presented via teleconference at the DeKalb County Extension office at 1350 W. Prairie Drive in Sycamore.

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Prairie Echoes celebrates spring Prairie Echoes Chorus of Sweet Adelines jumps into spring with a new location, new songs, new costumes and new voices.

The chorus’ three new members, Valerie Pittman, Kristen Christian and newest member as of March, Valsia Best, are excited to perform on stage in Grand Rapids, Mich. The Sweet Adelines convention is held May 15 to 18 at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel. Quartet competition is the evening of May 16 and chorus competition is during the day May 17. Several choruses of all sizes will compete

Ken and Bess (Patterson) Andersen 50th Wedding Anniversary Ken and Bess (Patterson) Andersen were married 50 years ago May 2, 1964 at St. Catherine’s Catholic Church in Genoa, IL. They are the proud parents of five children: Nick (Michelle), Matt (Julie), Sara, Jenni, and Martha (Terry). These children are the proud parents of Ken and Bess’ absolutely amazing grandchildren: Kristina (Eric), Samantha, Joey, Marisa, Andrew, Alex, Jacob, Bethany, Reba, Jack, Ben and Everett. They even have two entirely excellent great-grandchildren (Kristina and Eric): Adam and Piper.

Ken has worked as a carpenter and in land development his entire career.

Bess has worked at The Church of St. Mary in Sycamore for 36 years. They enjoy volunteering, traveling, spoiling grand and great-grandchildren with ice cream at any time, day or night, and spending time with family and friends.

They will be celebrating this milestone at the 8 a.m. mass on Sunday, May 4, 2014 at the Church of St. Mary, Sycamore, IL. Following mass, an open house will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the St. Mary Memorial Hall, 344 Waterman Street, Sycamore, IL. All family and friends are invited to celebrate. No gifts, please. adno=0267929

from Illinois and Wisconsin. Prairie Echoes will represent DeKalb in the small chorus division. The chorus will perform a special song package complete with costumes, choreography and script between songs.

The chorus is meeting at a new location – Community Church of Christ Church’s Fellowship Hall, 1200 S. Malta Road, DeKalb. Meetings are held from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesdays. All women who enjoy singing are invited to join.

For information, call 815-761-5956 or visit www.PrairieEchoes.com.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Johnson 50th Wedding Anniversary

Michael and Jodine (Wilcoxen) Johnson were married, April 5, 1964 at Sheridan Methodist Church, Sheridan, Il. Michael is retired from Country Financial. Jodi is a retired Cosmetologist.

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Come & Worship Easter Sunday April 20th

Celebrate Easter with Mayfield Congrega�onal Church A historic church with a message of welcome and grace for the 21st century

28405 Church Road, Sycamore Google map at

www.mayfieldchurchucc.org Maundy Thursday, April 17: Potluck Salad Supper, 6 p.m.

Communion & Tenebrae Service, 7:15 p.m.

Easter Sunday, April 20: Easter Fire & Reflec�on Time (outdoors), 7:30 a.m.

Potluck Breakfast, 8:30 a.m.

Worship, 10 a.m.

Immanuel Lutheran

Church and Student Center 511 Russell Rd., DeKalb • 756-6669 www.godwithusilc.org

Palm Sunday April 13 10 AM Worship Service Maundy Thursday April 17 7 PM Communion, Choir Cantata of Tenebrae Easter Sunday April 20 10 AM Easter Resurrection Worship Service

First Lutheran Church First Lutheran (a congregation of the ELCA) (acongregation congregationof ofthe theELCA) ELCA) (a Church

Sunday, April 13......... 8:00 and 10:30 AM...........Palm Sunday Services Thursday, April 17...... 7:00 PM ............................Maundy Thursday Service Friday, April 18 ........... 1:00 and 7:00 PM.............Good Friday Services Sunday, April 20......... 7:00 AM ............................Easter Sonrise Service 8:15 AM ............................Easter Breakfast Served 9:15 AM ............................Children’s Activity 10:30 AM ..........................Easter Festival Service

Come celebrate Easter with us at Bethel Assembly of God! Two Easter morning services at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Children’s Church & a Nursery both services.

Easter Breakfast at 9:30 131 W. Elm St, Sycamore 815-895-4740 bethelofsycamore.org You’re invited!

Westminster Presbyterian Church All are welcome!

830 N. Annie Glidden Rd - DeKalb 815-756-2905 Maundy Thursday, April 17, 7 pm Communion Worship Service Good Friday, April 18, 7 pm Chancel Choir Performance of Requiem by G. Verdi soloists: Brian Balika, Andrea James, Grace Shanks, Jennifer Weydert

Easter Sunrise Service, 7:30 am with Praise Band and Easter Breakfast at 8:30 am Easter Worship Service, 10 am Brass, Hand bells and Chancel Choir

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Holy Week Week Holy Maundy Thursday Thursday Maundy Good Friday Friday Good Saturday Easter Easter VigilVigil Allservices services - 7:00 All 7:00PM PM

Rev. Marty Marks and Rev. Kay Krueger

Holy Week Schedule

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First Congregational United Church of Christ 615 North First Street, DeKalb Easter Service at 10:00 a.m. All are welcome. www.uccdekalb.com

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Communion Service 7:00 p.m.

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Sunrise Service 7:00 a.m.

Easter Breakfast 7:30 a.m.

Traditional Service 9:00 a.m.

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First Baptist Church of Sycamore Easter Activities …

Cross Walk Friday, April 18th at 11:15AM at Glad Tidings Assembly of God in DeKalb Community Good Friday Service April 18th at noon at Glad Tidings with special guest speaker Kerry Hughes of Davis Junction FBC Good Friday Service April 18th at 7PM

Traditional Service 9:00 a.m.

SHINE Service 11:30 a.m.

160 Johnson Avenue Sycamore, Illinois 60178 www.sycamoreumc.org 815-895-9113 Holy Week and Easter Schedule Saturday Service, April 12 5:00 p.m. Worship Service with “Steps” Spring Choral Celebration Palm Sunday, April 13 8:30 & 10:00 a.m. Worship Services with “Steps” Spring Choral Celebration

Easter Sunday April 20th All Sunday School and shepherding groups meet at regular times.

Baby and toddler nurseries available.

9:00AM Traditional Service 10:30AM Contemporary Service

Maundy Thursday, April 17 7:00 p.m. Service with Holy Communion led by the Confirmation Classes of 2014 & 2015 (Upper Room Drama Experience) Good Friday, April 18 7:00 p.m. - Service led by LIFE Missions Youth Easter Saturday, April 19 5:00 p.m. Worship Service

Sunday PM- service and all activities are canceled

530 W. State St., Sycamore (815) 895-3116 email: fbcnewsong@gmail.com

Easter Sunday, April 20 8:30 & 10:00 a.m. Worship Services

“The people of Sycamore United Methodist Church will reach out to make Disciples of Jesus Christ”.

Evangelical Lutheran Church Of St. John, (Missouri Synod) Holy Worship Schedule Maundy Thursday with Holy Communion Noon and 7:00 pm Good Friday, 7:00 pm Easter Vigil Saturday, 6:00 pm

Easter Sunday 6 am Sunrise Service with Holy Communion 8 am Easter Service with Holy Communion 10:30 am Easter Service with Holy Communion Easter Breakfast 7:00 am -10:00 am Serving: Scrambled Eggs, Sausage Links, Biscuits and Gravy, Fruit Cups, Toast, Coffee Cake, Orange Juice, Milk and Coffee

26555 Brickville Road (Brickville And Motel Roads), Sycamore Phone: 815-895-4477 For Further Information

Salem Lutheran Holy Week Services Sunday of the Passion 5:00 Saturday, April 12th 8:00 & 10:30 Sunday, April 13th

Easter Vigil 5:00 Saturday, April 19th

Easter Sunday 8:00 Festival worship (Signed for the Deaf) 10:30 Festival worship

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Northern Illinois gardeners welcome spring

By BARBARA LINDHOLM

HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?

DeKalb County Master Gardener Welcome to another year of “How Does Your Garden Grow?” Spring signals the new gardening season as we try to forget the very difficult conditions we endured this long, cold winter. It is time to look forward to the return of some of our favorite spring flowers such as columbine and bluebells. Time, also, to learn about new varieties of plants and new gardening trends.

Let’s get started.

In addition to the new trends and plants, it is always fun and interesting to explore the new “buzz words” for 2014. We will be hearing about ground up gardening, super foods/super models and bee-nificials.

Ground up gardening is the process by which fresh garden produce is grown and ends up on our dinner table.

This trend includes home vegetable gardening, edible landscaping and community gardens which all have been on the rise for the past five years.

Super foods/Super models is the new trend to grow highly nutritious foods using non- traditional growing methods. Topping the charts for super foods is anything made with kale and the use of microgreen forms of vegetables and herbs.

Super models are made up of unconventional containers used to grow flowers, vegetables and herbs indoors.

This includes growing under lights, in recycled plastic containers of all shapes and sizes and window boxes placed on indoor windowsills. These more unique systems will be perfect for anyone living without outdoor gardening space.

However, if outdoor space allows, more conventional containers are a great option for growing some of the new vegetables. New vegetables for 2014 include Mascotte bush bean, Pick a Bushel cucumber, Patio Baby eggplant and Cayennetta pepper. All are easy to grow in containers and produce good yields.

A very important trend this year is bee-nificials. The survival of bees and other pollinators is absolutely essential for our gardens

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A medical fundraiser for the Christine Baie Benefit Fund will be held at 6 p.m.

Thursday at Mustang Bar & Grill, 102 S. Third St., Malta.

A $10 donation will be taken at the door. Matching funds are being applied for through the Thrivent Care In Communities Program for the cover charge and auction.

Jim and Justin of Modern Day Romeos will play from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. headlining an evening of entertainment, raffles and a live auction.

Karaoke by Shooteroke will be from 6 to 9 p.m.

Christine Baie is a childhood cancer survivor of Hodgkin’s Disease and was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Funds raised will go to cover medical bills, transportation to and from Northwestern Hospital in Chicago for treatment and living expenses during treatment.

Donations also can be made at any Resource Bank; ask to deposit to the Christine Baie Benefit Fund, or donate online at www.youcaring.com – search for Christine’s name to donate.

Tickets for the 50/50 raffle are available now or at the event. Call Rebekah at 815-5014535 or Amy at 630-688-5939 for advance purchase.

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penstemons, coneflowers and sunflowers (helianthus).

Non-native plants preferred by bees include lavender, hysop, zinnias and most of the herbs.

Now its time to take a look at some of the new flower varieties for 2014.

The All American Selections judges have selected the following annual plant as their choices of plants to consider for your garden this year: petunia African Sunset, sunflower Suntastic, gaura Sparkle White, New Guinea

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Early spring columbine and bluebells. and our total environment.

Colony Collapse Disorder has severely impacted the bee population.

How can we help? Bees are looking for two things – nectar and pollen. As garden-

ers, we can help by growing plants that are rich in nectar and pollen. The No. 1 plant type to grow to assist the bees are native plant varieties.

Some suggestions include asters, black-eyed Susans,

impatiens Sweet Orange and penstemon Arabesque.

The perennial plant of the year is Northwind, which is a native switchgrass. There are two exciting things about this plant. First, it is only the third decorative grass ever selected for this honor, and second, it was found right here in northern Illinois near Elgin. Approximately 400 plants are entered annually in this important competition.

Northwind has attractive blue-green leaves and can grow to a stately 5 feet tall. It prefers full sun but will tolerate light shade. It has been assigned a zone 4 hardiness rating. Good news!

It is not popular with deer.

Northwind is a polite grass that grows columnar and is therefore not invasive to your other garden plants.

One last suggestion for your 2014 garden is the use of the Sweet Spot Roses. These roses are designed for use in our northern Illinois climate.

They are colorful, great for growing in the ground or in a container and are available in Ruby, Yellow, Peach and Calypso. Each rose, regardless of color, has a decorative orange-pink center spot.

The new plants and trends offer us so many interesting and fun options for 2014. The master gardeners wish you a very happy and productive gardening season.

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For the month of April, Kendall Rink is showing her snowglobe collection displayed in the youth services department at the Sycamore Public Library.

Kendall is a fifthgrade student at North Grove Elementary.

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As part of the annual Illinois Pork Producers Association Legislative Day, hundreds of pork and cattle producers descended on the State Capitol March 25. A key part of the day is recognizing and honoring the 2014 IPPA family of the year. Gerald and Nancy Hartmann of Maple Park were selected as this year’s Family of the Year. The Hartmanns are a fourth-generation family who were represented in the Capitol by one of their sons, Doug Hartmann, and his wife Kathy. The Hartmanns are pictured on the floor of the Illinois Senate with state Rep. Bob Pritchard, R-Hinckley, and state Sen. Dave Syverson, R-Rockford.

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Over the past two years, the Sycamore Men’s 16-inch Softball League has sold T-shirts to help support the league, as well as make a difference in the community. This spring, the league made a $500 donation to Feed’em Soup. “Our league has been a part of the community for over 60 years as has been supported by the generosity of team sponsors throughout the years. We thought it was time for us to do something to give back to another organization in our community,” league vice president Kevin Spartz said in a news release. To learn more about the league, visit www.sycamore16inch.com.

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TODAY – If you mingle with imaginative and talented people, you’ll come across many promising chances to move forward. Your career path may take some unexpected turns, but you will be able to overcome any difficulties and exceed your expectations. Shoot for the stars.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Improvements to your diet and exercise routines will help you look and feel better. Try different options, set some realistic goals and build a program you can stick with.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Be sure to include recreational or social events in your plans. Free yourself from daily drudgery and embark on a day of fun and entertainment with youngsters or close friends.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – You may have bitten off more than you can chew. Don’t get discouraged. Don’t let criticism get you down. Be proud of your accomplishments and keep moving forward.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Outline your future travel plans. You may want to explore somewhere new or revisit a special location. Share your thoughts and plans with someone important.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Don’t feel disheartened by circumstances. Take a second look at your previous efforts, and you will find a more advantageous route to your personal goals.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Re-evaluate your career goals. You could capitalize on a novel idea that you’d set aside. An unconventional opportunity will come your way through a previous friend or colleague.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Divulging too much personal information could backfire on you. Don’t say anything that could be misinterpreted by others. Avoid making an impulsive purchase or promise.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Your unselfish actions will lead to a meaningful, long-lasting relationship. Investigate and take advantage of any opportunity that brings you in contact with people harboring similar desires.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Be truthful but sensitive in your dealings with loved ones. Hurtful words aren’t easily forgotten. A broken promise can lead to a disturbing feud with an important person in your life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – It’s time to get active. A brief change of pace will brighten your mood.

Consider traveling to a place that will help recharge your energy level and spur you to action.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Don’t shortchange your abilities. Believe in your skills, and don’t be limited by fear of the unknown. Listen to people who will help you find imaginative ways to showcase your talents.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Love is in the air. Make special plans or set aside time for someone you think is special. Use past successes to assist you in devising a progressive approach to the future.

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Joy of having a service dog lessened by curiosity Dear Abby: I use a service dog, and I’m constantly barraged with requests to pet him. Other people who use service dogs warned me this would happen. Although the ADA does not require him to wear a vest, I bought one for him that reads, “Do Not Pet,” which he wears in public.

They ask me anyway!

They also ask what I use the dog for. Sometimes I’m tempted to say, “First, tell me about your medical history and then I’ll tell you mine.” I don’t mind quietly and discreetly discussing with a store owner what my dog does, but for a stranger to walk up and expect me to share personal information is rude.

As excited as I am about how my dog has expanded my life, I do not want to spend my time answering strangers’ questions or hearing about every dog they’ve ever owned.

Obviously, I’m still learning what it means to live with a service dog. Would you kindly share with your readers proper etiquette with service dogs and their owners? – Living Larger in Washington State Dear Living Larger: I’m happy to. But you must be realistic.

If you have a service dog,

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips you must accept that people will be curious. However, what many people fail to understand is that when a service dog is out in public, the animal is WORKING, and should not be distracted from its task – which is ensuring the well-being of the owner.

The basics for interacting with service dogs are: 1. Always speak to the person first. Do not try to distract the dog.

2. Never touch the service dog – or ANY dog, for that matter – without first asking for and receiving permission.

3. Do not offer food to the animal.

4. Do not ask personal questions about the handler’s disability or otherwise intrude on his or her privacy.

5. Do not be offended if the handler refuses to chat about the service dog.

Dear Abby: My son “John” and daughter-in-law “Bree” recently announced their second pregnancy via email, and asked that we keep the news in the immediate family for now.

I was so happy and excited

that I notified my sister. She is my best friend and lives in another state. As it turns out, my sister shared the news with her daughter, who is good friends with Bree. My niece then texted congratulations to her.

At the end of the day, I received a nasty, dramatic phone call from Bree. She was furious that I had revealed her secret. My heart sank. It wasn’t my intention to hurt her in any way. I apologized profusely, but now I’m afraid that this may have solidified the wedge between us because our relationship was never very close to begin with.

I realize I was wrong and apologized. What more can I do to make this the joyful occasion it should be? – Now What? in North Carolina Dear Now What?: Now you pay the penalty for leaking the news, and gracefully accept that you will be relegated to the second tier when it comes to announcements from your son and daughter-in-law. Perhaps you can eventually get back in their good graces by respecting their wishes in the future.

Dear Abby: This “issue” with my wife may seem trivial, but it’s making me crazy. I like to cook; she doesn’t. When I cook it’s an expression of

love, and our family sits down together to enjoy the meal. We don’t watch TV and we don’t answer the phone. Sounds ideal, wouldn’t you say?

The problem is, after I put the food on the table, my wife gets up and starts pulling other food from the fridge to microwave. Or she’ll start making a salad.

These last-minute additions make me furious. She knows it, but won’t stop.

Either she “doesn’t want the leftover to go bad” or she thinks something is “missing” from the table.

I say she should prepare these additions while I’m making dinner so everything will be on the table at the same time, or else forget it.

What do you think? – Steaming In The Kitchen in Texas Dear Steaming: Is the layout of your kitchen conducive to tandem cooking? If it’s not, that may be why your wife goes in there after you’re no longer using it. Do you tell your wife what you will be preparing for dinner and ask if there is anything else she wants included? That may prompt her to think ahead so she wouldn’t have to get up and leave the table.

If the answer to my questions is yes, then there may be something going on in your

relationship for which she’s trying to punish you.

Dear Abby: My daughter goes to a preschool in a church where we are not members. Pastor “Joe” is very involved with the classes, often chatting with the parents and calling them by their first names.

I have seen him around town various times, but I’m never sure how to address him. I feel strange calling him “Pastor” since he isn’t my minister. On the other hand, calling him “Joe” doesn’t quite seem right either.

How should a man of the cloth be greeted on the street?

– Feeling Awkward in Jamestown, N.Y. Dear Feeling Awkward: I think you’re asking the wrong person. Why not ask HIM how he’d like to be addressed? I remember a delightful priest in Chicago, who when meeting people would immediately say, “Call me John.” I used to refer to him as Father CallMe-John.

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Add strength training for well-rounded exercising Dear Dr. K: I’d like to start strength training, but I have lots of questions. What should I know before I begin?

Dear Reader: Strength-training exercises are those that force your muscles to strain against an opposing force, like a dumbbell or elasticized band. There’s a lot you need to know before you begin. I’ll answer several common questions to help get you on your way. (I’ve put several more strength-training tips on my website.)

• What are “reps” and “sets”? Most strength-training routines call for lifting and lowering a weight eight to 12 times. These repetitions are called “reps” for short. One exercise repeated eight to 12

ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff times is called one set. A complete workout includes two to four sets of eight to 12 exercises that, combined, exercise all the major muscle groups.

• How often should I strength-train? Try to perform a complete strength-training routine two to three times a week.

• How much rest do my muscles need? Allow at least 48 hours for muscles to recover between strength-training workouts. So, if you work out on Monday, wait until Wednesday for another session.

• What is good form? Good form means aligning your body correctly and moving smoothly through an exercise. Focus on slow, smooth lifts and controlled descents.

• How much weight or resistance should I use? Choose a weight that allows you to do only eight to 12 repetitions.

The last one or two reps should be difficult. When you can comfortably perform 12 reps, increase the amount of weight.

• How long should I rest between sets? Rest for about one minute between sets.

• Should I warm up and cool down? Warm up for five to 10 minutes before you exercise, and cool down for five to 10 minutes at the end. Marching in place and

gently swinging your arms, or using a treadmill or exercise bike, are excellent ways to warm up. To cool down, walk slowly until your heart rate and breathing are close to normal. Then do some stretching.

Remember, a well-rounded exercise program includes aerobic, balance and flexibility exercises, in addition to strength training.

I’ve done aerobic exercises at least five days a week, at least 30 minutes each day, for most of my adult life. I was a skeptic about adding strength training to my exercise program. In part, I was worried that the time I spent with strength training would reduce the amount of time I had to do aerobic exercises.

Several colleagues here at Harvard who are exercise experts convinced me otherwise. They pointed out that I was going to start losing muscle mass, particularly in my upper body, if I didn’t do strength training. And that substituting strength training for aerobic exercises did not reduce the cardiovascular benefits of aerobic exercise.

About 10 years ago, I began an every-other-day routine: strength training one day, aerobic exercise the next. I know my upper-body muscle mass has benefited, and I’m convinced I haven’t sacrificed any cardiovascular benefits.

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104 Small change 105 Racoon’s coat 106 “K-K-K- —” (1918 tune) 109 Untold centuries 110 Wrote a bad check 111 Vagabonds 115 Carthage loc.

116 Bear constellation 117 Precipice 118 Swimmer’s onepiece (2 wds.)

119 Composure 121 Video-game pioneer 123 Matrix 125 Fine cotton thread 126 Iris center 127 Waterloo resident 128 Flowerpot spot 129 Gauguin’s prop 130 Coeur d’— Idaho 131 Sweet liqueur 132 Renter’s document 133 Saw logs

DOWN 1 Film critic 2 Martini extra 3 Specks of dust 4 Ghosts 5 “Evil Ways” rockers 6 Majorette’s gait 7 Film critic Pauline — 8 Mineral suffix 9 Trattoria offerings 10 Inclined 11 Air rifle (2 wds.)

12 Archaeological site 13 Screw things up 14 Paintings 15 Cashmere kin 16 Urban transport 17 Levin or Gershwin

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Q: My mother has had multiple hospitalizations recently. She lives out of state. Should I bring her closer to my home? I think about it often, especially as she needs more care. I work full time and have a family of my own. The thought of moving my mother, finding her an apartment or other living accommodations is overwhelming. My mother has many friends who visit and she is still going out when she feels well. When is the right time to move my mother?

A: That is a good question. There is no right or wrong answer, but you need to make a list of the pros and cons of moving your mother. Some of the benefits are that you are able to oversee and manage her medical needs plus oversee services in the home. It is not an easy task to oversee the needs of your mother, and you also need to think about the effect it will have on your work and family life. The negative is, you are moving your mother out of the comfort of her home to another state. If your mother moves locally and she has friends in her current location, you need to find a place for her to live where there could be a social network for her to make new friends. You also need to include your mother in the discussion and come up with a line in the sand when it is time to make the right move. When/if you decide to move your mother, consider hiring a geriatric care manager, both in your location and in your mother’s location to help you coordinate the medical piece, suggest living arrangements, assist you with finding physicians, help with insurance issues, etc.

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• Debbie Gitner is vice president of the New England Chapter of Geriatric Care Managers. Linda Sullivan is a nurse and care manager certified. Together they are owners of ElderCare Resource Services in Massachusetts, helping families navigate resources for seniors. Contact them at 508-879-7008; toll free at 866-280-2308; fax 508-405-0963; www.eldercareresourceservices.com.

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APPRENTICES Applications will be taken for the Iron Workers Local #393 Apprentice Training Program, May 12-16 and May 19-23, from 12:30 pm ONLY. All applicants will be ranked and put on a future hire list. Applicants must be 18 years or older and able to pass a pre-employment drug test. You MUST bring the following documents at time of application: proof that you lived in Local #393 jurisdiction from 513 to 5-14 (bank stmts or utility bills), birth cert., social security card, high school diploma or equivalent & valid Illinois drivers license.

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CDL DRIVER Mariani Nurseries is seeking experienced CDL driver for our Garden Prairie, IL location. This position is responsible for transporting product via both semi and box truck vehicles. Apply in person at 7865 Garden Prairie Road, Garden Prairie, IL or call (847) 810-6986 if you are interested.

The Geology & Environmental Geoscience department at Northern Illinois University is accepting applications for a Laboratory Manager position.

For additional information and application information please go to www.niu.edu/employment, or call 815-753-6000.

Applications are also available at 1515 W. Lincoln Hwy, DeKalb, IL. AA/EEO

MAINTENANCE I POSITION Position requires performance of basic maintenance in a 190 bed nursing home. Duties include basic electric, plumbing, HVAC, drywall / finishing, grounds keeping, snow removal, and custodial services.

The right candidate must be a self-starter who can problem solve and work independently.

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Airport Line Service (part time)

Cashier (part time) Civil Engineering Intern (seasonal full time) Applications, deadline information & complete job descriptions may be obtained from: Human Resources, 200 S. Fourth St., DeKalb or www.cityofdekalb.com.

Applications are required, resumes may be included.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The DeKalb County Youth Service Bureau is seeking an Executive Director.

For employment details visit www.dcysb.com

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2600 North Annie Glidden Rd DeKalb, Illinois 60115 OR Fax resume: 815-217-0451 Attn: Steve O' Bryan

Maintenance Technician Full time plus benefits, experience preferred.

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Lost giraffe stuffed animal at Jack Hanna Egyptian Theatre show, Sunday 4/6. Willing to give reward for safe return.

Please call 815-901-5763.

LATERAL Patrol Officer for the purpose of establishing an eligibility list.

Application Deadline is May 7, 2014.

Requirements & application packets may be obtained from: Human Resources, 200 S. Fourth St., DeKalb or www.cityofdekalb.com

SERVICE TECHNICIAN Culligan of DeKalb is recruiting for Service Technician. Duties will include customer service, product and parts replenishment, equipment checks and maintenance and housekeeping responsibilities. Experience with basic plumbing materials and the ability to analyze symptoms and troubleshoot equipment is a must. Training in water treatment equipment repair and service will be provided. Clean driving record is required as a suitable candidate will work within multiple counties. Pre-employment physical, drug screen and the ability to lift up to 50# mandatory.

Interested parties may respond with your resume to claskey@uswatercompany.com No telephone calls will be accepted for this position.

BAKERY COUNTER HELP Cash register and food exp a plus.

15-30 hrs per week. Tue-Fri. DeKalb area. Send your info to: Send your contact info to bakery102-employment@yahoo.com

GROUNDSKEEPER PT Outdoor Groundskeeper needed year round for lg. home in Big Rock, IL Mon-Fri 8am-1:30pm, $10/hr. Must be flexible with schedule and be able to do heavy lifting, min. 35 Ibs. Must have valid drivers license and be able to speak English. Email resume to eahrdept@gmail.com or fax to 630-556-3287 Having a Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation or Event Coming Up? Share It With Everyone by Placing a HAPPY AD!

SYCAMORE COMMUNITY FLEA MARKET Saturday, April 12 8 AM - 3 PM St. Mary's Parish Center 322 Waterman, Sycamore Come support the Youth Mission trip & find treasures for yourself!

213 Delcy stDrive (off North 1 St)

Multi-Family Sale Thur, 4/10 Fri,4/11 & Sat, 4/12 9-5 Many items for men, women & kids of all ages. A taste of what to expect: tools, (right angle drills, misc electrical) princess bike, tricycles, Little Tikes parent push coupe car, outdoor toys, kids rocking chair, gift & new items, household, Tobi steam cleaner, 3-1qt crockpot circular set, staionary, videos, toys, collectibles, candles, picture frames, glass containers, vintage ironing board, board games (some vintage), dog cage, wood toy holder w/ 12 plastic bins, seasonal spring & Easter basket fillers, books, clothes, boys cleats, much misc. Too much to mention!

Flat-top stove, self-clean oven, Kenmore, great condition,Includes separate stove hood - $125.

815-756-6832, leave message

High Chair – Solid Wood

by Lehman Babyguard 75 yrs. old, Excellent Condition w/ Original seat & back fabric cushion - $85 Sycamore area 815-762-0919 8am-6pm NASCAR Collectible 8 x 10 signed photo of Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon & Kasey Kahne - $5 each.

815-895-5732 NASCAR Jeff Gordon Limited Edition Tin - 2 decks playing cards & Jeff Gordon replica race car from Winner's Circle, New In Box $10. 815-895-5732

DECK STAIN New, $4/gallon, several colors. 815-479-1000

LEE, IL West Kirke Gate

Precious Moments Wedding Figurine, "The Lord Bless & Keep You" E-3114, Great Condition, No Box, $8, DeKalb. 815-739-1953.

Kocaso 10.1 Tablet PC with keyboard & case. New, never used paid $200, Asking $150.

815-501-8714 leave message.

Nordic Track – Classic Pro Skier Great Condition - $125.

779-382-0209

Smaller with 4 wooden chairs. $150. 630-232-1982

SYCAMORE

Sycamore High School Field House

Dynasty Classic III Decorator Rug 100 % wool pile, 3'3” x 5'5” Made in Belgium, Blues & Natural Color - $45 Sycamore Area 815-762-0919 8a-6p

(Spartan Trail)

SAT, APRIL 12 9-12 & 1-2

Display Case – Solid Oak 72”L x 22”W x 40”H w/ glass front & top, Interior light & glass shelves w/storage shelf - $225 Sycamore Area 815-762-0919 8am-6pm

Kitchen Table & 4 Chairs Like New - $40.

815-784-2857

White & Blue Tags ½ price 1-2 pm

GREAT DEALS ON

Spring/Summer Children's Clothing (Infant - Preteen Size 5) Jackets, Shoes, Toys Bikes, Riding Toys, Baby Equipment & Furniture, Educational Items, Games, Videos, DVD's, Books & Bedding

Open House Sunday's 1-3PM

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HOSPITAL BED Invacare, model 5000 and mattress, $250. 630-363-6717

Adidas Everyday Shoes - Boy's Men's Size 7.5, $5, DeKalb, 815-739-1953.

Aluminum Multi - folding ladder $100 815-758-3848 Boy's Men's Nike Cleats Shoes, Size 5.5, $5, DeKalb, 815-739-1953.

Cherokee Black Casual Dress Tie Shoes - Boy's Men's Size 6, $5, DeKalb, 815-739-1953.

Child Bike Helmet w/Blue Strap, White In Color & Has Picture Of Kangaroo On Front & Says Kangaroo, $5, DeKalb.

815-739-1953.

Compost Tumbler $30. 815-756-4072 Diodora Cleats Shoes Boy's Men's Size 8, $5, DeKalb, 815-739-1953.

Dog Crate Kennel Cage, Collapsible W/Removeable Tray For Small Dog, $22, Sycamore. 815-895-5373.

Full Propane Tank $30 630-365-5888 Sewing Machine – Used The New Home Sewing Machine, made in USA, Very good condition, Includes instruction book $39. 815-895-8268 9am-6pm

29955 Ellen Drive

I BUY CARS, TRUCKS, VANS & SUVs

In peaceful Ellen Oaks, Beautiful brick/cedar 3 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath ranch on 1/2 acre lot with mature trees, remodeled 2008.

Hardwood, carpet, ceramic flrs, A/C, deck, quartz counters and SS appl,1st floor laundry, frplc, full basement, 2-1/2 car gar.

Sycamore School District.

$218,000

1990 & Newer

815-739-1734 or 815-895-4480

Will beat anyone's price by $300.

White Picket Fence Wood Display Holder - 42" x 27.5" when closed & 42" x 52" when open. There are 3 rows of eye hooks on each side, for a total of 72 hooks. Very nice display to show jewelry or other Items - $30. 815-739-1953.

KITTENS (2) Calico, beautiful, 1 blonde, 1 black white, hand raised, litter trained. 815-498-9128

SNOWBLOEWR ~ TORO

Sycamore –Trailer for sale Edge Brook Trailer Park $4,000 815-528-2582

Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan Hinckley ~ Rimsnider Road

815-814-1964

Becherer Farm, approx 80 acres.

76.6 tillable acres with 2 story farm house and ranch house. $1,725,600. 859-630-5920

or

815-814-1224

Little Tikes Teal Coupe Car Has Floor Board & Handle For Parent To Push Smaller Child & Floor Board Can Be Taken Out & Child Can Move "Ride or Drive" The Car Around With Their Feet. Car Has Steering Wheel & A Beeping Horn, $25, DeKalb. 815-739-1953.

Radio Flyer Inchworm Bouncing Caterpillar Ride On, Red Hat & Red Seat & Green Body On Four Wheels, $15, Sycamore. 815-895-5373.

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SYCAMORE: FOR SALE OR LEASE Sycamore Commercial Unit, Great Location, approx. 2300sq ft, Heated Floor, 14' Overhead Door, Floor Drain, Office, Loft 815-761-6898

DeKalb 1BR, Large Den Newer carpet, good parking, near NIU and downtown. No pets/ smoke, $575. 815-762-4730 Large 2BR, carport, A/C, laundry.

Clean, quiet and secure. $750/mo.

J&A RE. 815-970-0679 DEKALB ADULT, QUIET, REFINED Building. 2 Bedroom Apt with homey environment. Car port. For mature living. Excellent Location!

No pets/smoking. Agent Owned.

815-758-6712

DEKALB LOWER LEVEL STUDIO

Lease, deposit, ref, no pets.

DeKalb Very Nice 1BR-2BR Lrg kitchen, full bath, all util incl.

No smkg, $750. 815-756-1777

DeKalb ~ 857 ½ Ellwood Ave. Small Upper ~1BR, fenced yard, $425/mo. ~ single occupancy 815-758-4615 ~ 815-375-4615

CAR, TRUCK, SUV,

MOST CASH WILL BEAT ANY QUOTE GIVEN!! $400 - $2000 “don't wait.... call 2day”!!

DEKALB 1 BEDROOM

Dekalb- Quiet 1BR upper $550 security. No pets/smoking.

815-508-5270

Available Dec/Jan. Close to NIU, Free heat & water, quiet lifestyle. Varsity Square Apts.

815-756-9554 www.glencoproperties.com

WE PAY THE BEST! For Junk Cars, Trucks & Vans with or without titles.

630-817-3577 or 219-697-3833

2008 Yamaha Roadstar Silverado 1700cc 5500 Miles. Excellent Condition. $7100. Call 847-778-4526

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 - Now Available Updated 2BR, 1BA, $750/mo + sec, no pets 815-909-6199 CORTLAND Large 2BR, 2BA Unit.

All appls included. $800/mo.

TOWNSEND MANAGEMENT 815-787-7368

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. 3BR. New carpet & refinished hardwood floors. New furn, & A/C. New appls. Near NIU campus. $860/mo+utils.815-501-5839

Malta Quiet, Upper 2 Bedroom Appl, a/c, laundry, water/garbage included + extra storage.

815-751-0480

ROCHELLE 1 & 2 BEDROOM Remodeled, clean and quiet.

Available now. 815-758-6580 or 815-901-3346

JOBS ANNOUNCEMENTS STUFF VEHICLES REAL ESTATE SERVICES

DeKalb 1BR $550, 2BR $650

Hillcrest Place Apts.

220 E. Hillcrest. 815-758-0600 hillcrestplaceaptsdekalb.com

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Waterman Garden Apt. Community 215 East Duffy Rd, Single Story Building Independent Living

1 Bedroom, Income Based Community Room, Laundry Facility Must be 62 years of age or older, or handicap/disabled, regardless of age.

Professionally Managed by PPM, LLC. This Institution Is An Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer.

Phone 815-264-3492 TDD 800-525-0857

SYCAMORE GREEN APARTMENTS

Daily Chronicle Classified It works.

Rent Starting at: 1BR - $524-$544 2BR - $560-$580 On-site Management On-site Laundry Off Street Parking No Pets Temporarily accepting applications from households who are not income eligible Please stop by or call for an application 1117 S. Cross St. Sycamore, IL 815-895-9594

Questions?

Sycamore-Lease/Sale 427 Borden Ave. 17,692 s f building 6,140 s f office/flex space $50/s f Sale. $4.50/s f Lease Ruthanne Trunda, CCIM 815-739-1849 Richard Hoffman 815-522-3255

Commercial Brokerage

Clean, quiet, 1 bath, appliances included, available now.

815-758-6580

815-739-5589 ~ 815-758-6439

Want to Participate in the Sale?

DAILY CHRONICLE CLASSIFIED

815-758-7859

DEKALB 1 BEDROOM

DeKalb Quiet Studio 1, 2, 3BR

Will BUY UR USED

Industrial Properties

Sycamore-Lease/Sale 417 Borden Ave. 22,555 s f building 2,000 s f office/dock $50/s f Sale. $4.50/s f Lease

University Village Apts.

722 N. Annie Glidden Rd.

A-1 AUTO

NO STROLLERS!

Contact North School 815-899-8209 CC/DEBIT CARDS OK www.syc427.org/north

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

DEKALB QUIET 2 BEDROOM

Collections

CAN'T GET ENOUGH BEARS NEWS?

Starting @ $599, 2 Bedroom $683, 3 Bedroom

1 bath, parking, laundry.

NO pets/smoking, Agent Owned.

815-756-2359 - 815-758-6712

815-758-4004 Little Tykes Twin Race Car Bed Red, 94”L x 58”W, 36”H at headboard, Like new, with small shelf & toy box under hood, $150/OBO 815-895-4105 9am-6pm

DEKALB - SPACIOUS MARKET APARTMENTS

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Mega Blocks Child Storage Chair With Over 100 Duplos & Mega Blocks That Store Under Seat In Chair, Good for Child Ages 1-3, $15. DeKalb. 815-739-1953.

NEW American Girl Bitty Baby Doll Set w/ Doll, Book & Star, Includes Deluxe 15 Piece Layette Collection; Dress, Cardigan, Pants, Tights, Shoes. Rattle, Bottle, Bib & Hangers All In a Satin Storage Suitcase.

All new & in original packaging $150 for all, 815-739-1953

DEKALB - 2BR 1BA Apt Avail Now Quiet upper unit, W/D in bldg 230 S. 9th Street $575/mo Call Pittsley Realty 815-756-7768

With kitchen, bath, off St. parking. $460/mo incl heat, no pets.

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815-575-5153 Child Spiderman Rectangular Table With Solid Steel Construction & Wooden Table Top New In Box, $12, DeKalb. 815-739-1953.

DEKALB - 1BR 1BA Apt Quiet location, W/D, Vaulted ceilings, Central A/C, $650/mo Call Pittsley Realty 815-756-7768

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Sneaux Black Sneakers - Boy's Men's Size 7 Everyday Shoes, $5, DeKalb, 815-739-1953.

BEDROOM SET Heywood-Wakefield, 3 piece. $400/obo 815-752-2948

Spacious 6BR, 2.5BA, 2584 sq ft.

Detached 3 car gar, lease or cash.

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Table ~ Maple, Drop Leaf

10HP, electric start, $200.

630-251-0266 ~ 630-363-6717 LORD OF THE RINGS CHESS SET Collectible Limited Edition Chess Set from Noble. Pewter Pieces with 3D Board. MINT $400.

815-754-6081 Precious Moments Dated 1987 Club Figurine "Love Is The Best Gift Of All", Great Condition, No Box, $8, DeKalb. 815-739-1953.

DeKalb. REDUCED! Nice, Clean 2BR Ranch. Only $74,900.

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Radio Flyer Red Scoot About Ride On Kids Toddler Bike w/Bell & Seat That Adjusts As Child Grows Best for 1-2 Year Old, $18, DeKalb, 815-739-1953

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Girl's Disney Princesses Two Wheel Bike, 12.5" Wheels, $18, DeKalb, 815-739-1953.

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Folk, country, primitive and HOLIDAY decor. Floral arrangements, full kitchen, large wicker assortment, purses, clocks, glassware, crystal, kids toys, etc.

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Qualified candidates should apply online by April 21, 2014.

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DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center has a part-time position available for an Education Coordinator. Position requires a dynamic, self-starter LPN or RN to develop and present educational programs to employees, residents, and the community.

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SYCAMORE ! MCLAREN MANOR LARGE 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH. W/D, fireplace, garage, near school. $1200/mo.

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Sycamore Stonehedge Drive 3 Bdrm, 1.5 Ba, 1 car gar, A/C W/D, Unfin. Bsmt. $1,100/mo +sec, 630-234-0002

Sycamore TH Like New 2BR Great location! 2BA, 2 car garage, skylights, appl, W/D, C/A, $935.

No pets. a 815-758-0123

Sycamore E. State St. AVAILABLE NOW! Newly remodeled 2 Bedroom CALL FOR DETAILS 815-245-6098 ~ 815-923-2521

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815-758-1100 or 815-895-8600 SYCAMORE 2 BED 1 BATH 1 CAR GARAGE C/A D/W W/D ON SITE 210 MAERTZ DR $800. 630-441-8671

DeKalb-Stunning 3BR 2+BA Condo 2Car Gar, Basement A must see! $1300/mo Call Pittsley Realty 815-756-7768

DeKalb/Summit Enclave 2BR 1.5BA, W/D, garage, $750/mo + security.

630-654-9756 DEKALB: 2BR townhouse. Lg rooms. A/C, W/D, full bsmt. Offstreet parking. 1st/last/sec. Avail.

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3BR, DR, New Kitchen, Baths 3 car garage, big yard. Near Kish college & NIU. No smoke/pets. $1195. 815-762-4730 DEKALB - 3BR 2BA House Garage, Fenced Yard, W/D 548 Kendall, $1150/mo Call Pittsley Realty 815-756-7768

DeKalb/Sycamore Prof Office Ste Private entrance, generous parking in clean, modern building. $400-$750/mo. 815-751-4440

DeKalb all new, 3 Bdrm, 1 bath, stove, fridge, microwave, dishwasher, garage, A/C, laundry room 815-758-0079 Genoa- 2 BR House for rent Avail May 1st. $725/mo + deposit.

815-784-5108 Malta- 116 S. 3rd St. Spacious 3 BR, 1 BA $750/mo 1st/lst/sec. Absolutelty no Pets. 630-365-9215 WATERMAN 3 BEDROOM RANCH Partial finished basement, appl, W/D, 1 car gar, C/A, no pets/smkg. $900, avail 6/1. 815-756-1940

/s/ Maureen A. Josh Circuit Clerk

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS AMERICAN MIDWEST BANK, an Illinois State Banking Corporation, as successor to THE AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK OF DEKALB COUNTY, a National Banking Corporation, Plaintiff, VS. CHARLES A. NUNN, and NANCY E. NUNN, Defendants.

Case No. 13 SC 1307 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION

Dekalb: 3 Bdr, 2 Bath. Ranch 2 car att. gar, bsmt, laundryhook-up, no pets/smoking $1000/mo. 815-464-8646 Sycamore - Duplex 2 bdrm, new decor, new furn, A/C, deck ,garage w/opener, $870/mo. Betsy Smith 815-895-2488 or 815-751-1025 SYCAMORE'S FINEST DUPLEX - 2BR RANCH. Garage, Basement, Yard. $1075. June 1. 417-581-1588.

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commenced against you in this Court asking for Money Damages in the amount of $6,565.94 and other relief.

Unless you file your response or otherwise file your appearance in this cause in the office of the Circuit Clerk of the DeKalb County, Courthouse at 133 W. State Street, Sycamore, Illinois 60178 on or before the 13th day of May, 2014, a judgment and any other relief may be granted as prayed for by the Plaintiff.

DEKALB - 4 Bedroom, 2 Bath on Lincoln Hwy, near downtown.

Large kitchen, family room and living room, Fenced yard, basement, Hardwood floors. No pets. $1400 per month. Duff Properties, LLC. duffpropertiesllc@gmail.com 815-827-3434 815-482-4155 DeKalb 1 Bedroom with den/office Appl, basement, attached garage.

No pets, $675/mo + lease, deposit references req. 815-758-6439 or 815-739-5589

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The requisite Motion for Notice by Publication having been heard on April 2, 2014 and being approved at said hearing, notice is hereby given, to Charles A. Nunn and Nancy E. Nunn, Defendants in the above-entitled cause, that the above-entitled Small Claims action was filed on December 3, 2013 and is now pending.

Notice is given to Defendants Charles A. Nunn and Nancy E. Nunn, that this cause has been

Katharine M. Peterson 1985 DeKalb Ave. Sycamore, IL 60178 (815) 787-2360 Katharine.Peterson@americanmidwestbank.com ARDC # 6309903 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, April 5, 12 & 19, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RUBY N. DEITZMAN, Deceased 14-P-37 INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION PUBLICATION NOTICE TO: CREDITORS, CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES 1. Notice is given of the death of Ruby N. Deitzman, who died on September 3, 2013, a resident of Resource Parkway, 9238 Sycamore, Illinois 60178.

2. The Representative for the es-

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Stunning turn of the Century home in Steward, IL

4,500 Sq Ft, totally remodeled, move-in ready! 54 ft wrap around porch, hdwd flrs, 4 Bd, 2.5 Ba, custom kitchen & 34 car garage. Easy access to I39 & !88. $279,900.

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pr tate and his/her address is: Charles A. Deitzman, 110 Day Flower Circle, Davis Junction, Illinois 61020.

3. The Attorney for the estate and his/her address is: Peter Thomas Smith, SMITH & MEYER LLC, 1958 Aberdeen Ct., Ste. 1, Sycamore, Illinois 60178.

4. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before September 26, 2014. Claims against the estate may be filed with the Clerk of the DeKalb County Circuit Court, 133 W. State St. , Sycamore, IL 60178, or with the Representative, or both.

Any claim not filed within that period is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the Representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.

original mitting the Will to Probate, you may file a petition with the Court to require proof of the validity of the Will as provided under section 621 of the Probate Act (IL Rev. Stat.

Ch. 110 1/2 Par. 6-21).

7. Within 6 months after the effective date of the original Order Admitting the Will to Probate, you may file a petition with the Court to contest the validity of the Will as provided under Section 8-1 of the Probate Act (IL Rev. Stat. Ch. 110 1/2 Par. 8-1).

8. The estate will be administered without Court supervision unless an interested party terminates independent supervision administration by filing a petition to terminate under Section 28-4 of the Probate Act (IL Rev. Stat. Ch. 110 1/2 Par. 28-4).

5. On March 26, 2014, an Order Admitting the Will to Probate, and Appointing the Representative was entered.

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 29, April 5 & 12, 2014.)

6. Within 42 days after the effective date of the original Order Ad-

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