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Jon Sullivan gives his kids, Ada Sullivan (from left), 6, Michael Sullivan, 8, and Andrew Sullivan, 2, a snack at their DeKalb home after picking up the older two from school Wednesday. Sullivan has been a stay-at-home dad since right before the birth of his youngest son.

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ik Kousoulas became a stay-at-home father about 12 years ago, when a disability and diminished job opportunities kept him from working in construction.

Kousoulas, a married father of three children in Sycamore, collects disability and social security payments for a total of less than $700 a month, while his wife works at a fast-food restaurant.

While he wouldn’t say they are struggling financially, the family does not have Internet service at their home. But Kousoulas said his life is enjoyable.

“We live as simply as possible,” he said. “I make about everything we could possibly need.”

Kousoulas is part of a growing trend of stay-at-home dads. A new analysis from the Pew Research Center shows 16 percent of stay-at-home parents were fathers in 2012, up from 10 percent in 1989.

The research found illness or

disability was the main reason why fathers chose to stay at home full-time, followed by an inability to find a job. Another reason – being home to care for the family – more than quadrupled to 21 percent in 2012 from 5 percent in 1989.

Taking care of the family is the reason Genoa resident Matthew Evans gave for staying at home with his two daughters, ages 6 and 3 years. A former “grease monkey” in the automotive industry, Evans quit his job about 2½ years ago to help raise his younger daughter.

“I would rather stay at home and raise my daughters than throw my child into day care,” he said.

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DeKALB – Tyler Elementary School kindergarten teacher Kate Cardella just had to take a chalkboard home with her before the school was gutted and renovated.

Crews were removing desks, chairs and equipment Friday from Tyler Elementary, 1021 Alden Circle, DeKalb.

Friday marked the last day of school for students and the beginning of a massive renovation project.

“I wanted a piece of the school,” Cardella said.

Tyler Elementary’s $3.5 million renovation largely will be paid from the $21 million construction grant the district received. DeKalb School District 428 board members unanimously approved the project Feb. 4 so crews could replace floors, upgrade lighting, secure entrances and add classroom and support space. Every classroom also will receive a smart board, an interactive dry-erase board.

Perhaps the most important addition will be having doors. The 45-year-old school is the only one in the district without doors in the classrooms, with the exception of

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Kate Metzler, a summer crew employee for DeKalb Schools, pulls a trash can past a room Friday, the last day of school for Tyler Elementary students. Students were allowed to write on the walls of the school, which was built in 1969 as an open-concept building, because it will be gutted and renovated over the summer.

IDNR official: Young black bear moves on to Ogle County

By LAWERENCE SYNETT lsynett@shawmedia.com An American black bear that caused a stir in DeKalb County this week has moved on to Ogle County.

After more than a dozen sightings in DeKalb County starting Wednesday, the bear was spotted Friday afternoon in a large stack of timber on a farm in Ogle County, said Hank Frazier, Region 1 commander for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. The Ogle County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the bear was there, and the owner of the farm has no plans of running it off the property.

“We hope it will keep heading northwest, but he seems to be staying put for now,” Frazier

“Citizens did the right thing by allowing it to roam, and hopefully it will get back to its natural habitat where it belongs.”

Gary Dumdie DeKalb County Sheriff’s chief deputy said. “Hopefully, it is on the right path and going to head back to wherever it came from.”

Before ending up in Ogle County near Rochelle, there were four more sightings reported Thursday night into Friday morning in DeKalb County.

A resident reported seeing the bear about 9:20 p.m. Thursday near the intersection of Route 64

and Old State Road west of Sycamore, DeKalb County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Gary Dumdie said. A second sighting was reported about 11:10 p.m. near a retention pond at the Kishwaukee Family YMCA on Bethany Road in Sycamore.

Deputies were unable to locate the bear during a search of both areas.

A third sighting was reported about 6:30 a.m.

Friday near Fairview Road and Tower Road north of Interstate 88 in the western portion of the county, Dumdie said. A deputy searching the area was able to confirm that the bear was there.

At 7 a.m. Friday, a deputy located the bear resting under a tree near the intersection of Fairview and West County Line roads. A DeKalb resident Friday morning also reported

that his bird feeder was damaged by the bear, but it could not confirm that it was actually done by the animal.

The bear was first seen near Genoa about 8:20 a.m. Wednesday near the intersection of routes 72 and 23. A sheriff’s deputy later spotted it near Derby Line Road in a heavily wooded area close to the Ellwood Greens housing development.

“We did a good job and the right thing by letting the bear be itself and roam free,” Dumdie said. “Citizens did the right thing by allowing it to roam, and hopefully it will get back to its natural habitat where it belongs.”

The IDNR continues to monitor the bear, which they believe is the same animal recently spotted across northern Illinois.

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8DAILY PLANNER Today Monthly community breakfast: 7 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Kingston Friendship Center, 120 S Main St. Donation is $7. Carry-outs available.

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

Overeaters Anonymous Walkand-Talk meeting: 8 to 9 a.m. at the Northern Illinois University Lagoon, meeting at the NIU Lincoln Highway parking lot. www.oa.org; Call Marilyn at 815-751-4822.

NICE Food and Clothing Center: 8:30 to 11 a.m. Saturdays, by appointment other days, at 346 S. County Line Road in Lee. Serves southwest DeKalb County and southeast Lee County. 815-8242228.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday Night AA(C): 10 p.m. at 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com.

Sunday 24 Hours a Day AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Genoa American Legion Riders: 11 a.m. at Genoa Veterans Home, 311 S. Washington St., Genoa. 815784-5967.

Rockford Writers’ Guild: 1 to 3 p.m. at Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum, 411 Kent St., Rockford. The guild schedule – complete with maps and directions is available at www.rockfordwritersguild.com; click on “Meetings and Events for Writers.”

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

Society for Creative Anachronism Fighter’s Practice: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the East Lagoon located on the corner of Castle Drive and College Avenue on NIU Campus, DeKalb. Visit www. carraigban.org/ or call 815-7395788 or 815-986-5403 for other information. Middle Ages-Renaissance history re-enactors and those interested in “stepping into the past” are welcome.

Bread & Roses women’s chorus practice: 5:45 to 8 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 830 N. Annie Glidden Road in DeKalb.

For information, call Patty Rieman at 815-758-4897 or visit www. breadandroseschorus.org.

DeKalb County Illinois NAACP Adult Chapter: 6 to 7 p.m. at New Hope Church at Twombly and Annie Glidden roads in DeKalb.

Attendees discuss political, educational, social and economic equality to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. Contact Kevin Chambliss at tiger39217@ yahoo.com or 815-501-7583.

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

No Longer Hopeless AA(C): 7:30 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor, DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

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

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When breaking the rules works SPRINGFIELD – It probably wasn’t any kind of short con job – we weren’t playing for real money – but it sure could have been.

At the Illinois Press Association‘s annual convention here this week, the IPA organized its first Texas Hold ’Em poker tournament. The proceeds went to benefit the IPA board, so Northwest Herald Editor Jason Schaumburg, Shaw Media Group Editor Dan McCaleb and I signed up to play.

I’m not a regular gambler, but I know how poker works, and I don’t mind playing if it’s not for more than I can afford to lose. And I did make it to the final table, although I didn’t last long there.

Just as we were about to start the tournament, there were loud voices out in the hall. A few women, also here for the convention, were having a good time and, although they hadn’t signed up for the tournament, were invited in to play.

They didn’t seem to know much about how poker worked, and didn’t seem to mind if they won or lost. Naturally, they started cleaning people out left and right.

One woman in particular did well.

She almost never folded. She’d call people’s bets with bad hands, then the cards would break her way. At one point she kept betting a bad hand and ended up with a flush, good enough to win the hand. They had to explain to her how she’d won.

“Doesn’t it stink losing to someone who doesn’t know what they have?”

Schaumburg said to one unfortunate player who’d gone against her.

There was a “ringer” in the tournament, a woman who regularly plays in poker tournaments. She-who-never-folded took her out.

The ringer spent much of the rest of the night watching over the novice’s shoulder, often wondering aloud why she’d called one bet or another.

Then she’d win the hand.

It went on like that until the woman

EDITOR’S NOTE Eric Olson who never folded was among the final four players, with a big stack of chips in front of her. Then she played a hand the way she should have – and lost it all.

Her hand was a pair of aces, known as a “pocket pair.” It’s one of the best starts you can have in Texas Hold ’Em poker.

She went all in before any other cards were turned. One player called her substantial all-in bet with an 8 and a 9 of different suits.

When the first three cards were turned – the “flop” – there among them was another 8 and 9, giving the weaker player two pair. No other aces showed up on the board, and just when she’d played a hand in the proper way, shewho-never-folded was out.

It was stupefying.

First thought: When things are going your way, stick with what works.

Second thought: When money doesn’t seem real, people don’t show it the same kind of respect. The woman who never folded probably wouldn’t have played the way she did if she was gambling her money. Given what she didn’t know about poker, it’s doubtful she would have sat down to play in the first place.

It’s kind of the same situation with our state and federal governments. They deal in numbers in the billions and trillions of dollars, sums so large that they’re hard to really imagine and so immense that they’re beyond our ability to conceptualize.

What’s more, the tax dollars they spend are other people’s money, and because the state is always assured of bringing in more, legislators are free to keep betting big rather than having to worry about folding programs that we perhaps can’t afford.

When they spend too much in Illinois, they can always put off paying the bills – hence the multibillion-dollar backlog of unpaid bills at the state comptroller’s office.

At the federal level, the Treasury can actually print money. You can’t devalue money any more than simply having the power to make more of it.

No wonder that our federal deficit is so mind-bogglingly large. In the upcoming federal budget, which begins in October, the budget deficit will be about $500 billion, and that’s progress – it’s the lowest deficit since 2008.

Our national debt is about $17.5 trillion, a number so mind-bogglingly huge that we can’t really grasp it and so it just becomes something we write or say. One trillion is a thousand billions.

A trillion seconds ago, it was about 30,000 B.C. Seventeen trillion? Yeah, that’s a whole lot, but it’s no big deal. We’ll just print more money, and bet this hand, too.

Third thought: Defying conventional wisdom doesn’t always make you wrong. Almost everyone in the room that night knew more about poker than the woman who didn’t fold. We were all so sure that we knew better, and yet what she was doing that night was working.

Sometimes going against the grain really works. That’s where innovation, invention, and groundbreaking new ideas often come from – the people who say “why not?” when everyone else in the room says “no way.”

Of course, what we saw that night was more amusing than groundbreaking.

But for a Thursday evening in Springfield, that was good enough.

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Broadway cancer survivor mentors young singers NEW YORK – Five young, amateur singers assembled a little nervously in a rehearsal room recently near Times Square. This was the day they’d be mentored by a Tony Award-nominated star.

The five had overcome things teens should never have to – cancer, stroke, pneumonia, kidney disease and a parent fighting overseas. But they were put at ease as soon as they spotted the Tony nominee’s bald head.

“I am an ovarian cancer survivor,” Valisia LeKae told them.

LeKae, who had been diagnosed late last year and underwent several rounds of chemotherapy, made the act of mentoring these kids for an upcoming talent show hosted by Madison Square Garden even more poignant.

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“It definitely does because I went through Hodgkin’s lymphoma cancer,” said Falyn Vega, 14. “It’s like, ‘Wow, she went through it. I can do it too.’ It’s awesome.”

The annual Garden of Dreams talent show gives kids who have faced illness, homelessness, poverty or tragedy an opportunity to perform in front of family and friends on the Radio City Music Hall main stage. This year’s show will be held Tuesday and admission is free.

One of the children had written that she’d had the hardest time going through chemotherapy, something LeKae could relate to. “I knew exactly what she was talking about. I knew exactly what that moment felt like and the days after,” LeKae said. “But also seeing the other side of the rainbow.”

One by one, the five sang a song and waited for critiques from LeKae and Marishka Wierzbicki, a master vocal

coach and associate teacher at Liz Caplan Studios in New York.

Cassie Smyth, 16, performed “Warrior” by Demi Lovato and when she was finished, LeKae congratulated her on her song choice. But Smyth, who had a stroke in 2013, had kept her eyes mostly closed.

“The great thing about being a warrior is allowing everyone to see it in your eyes,” LeKae said. “You have nothing to be ashamed of. You don’t have to keep them closed. Connect with your audience.”

Later, Wierzbicki said she thought all five had great potential.

“They’re deep. They know things.

Some things they’re afraid of, but they have awareness and you can see that in the way they respond,” she said. “I don’t put kid gloves on to work with them because I don’t think that’s what they need.”

8STATE BRIEF Prayer service for Kane County teen hit by train ELBURN – St. Gall Catholic Church has planned a prayer service in remembrance of Parker Wolfsmith, a 14-yearold Kaneland Harter Middle School student who died last month after he was hit by a train in Maple Park.

The service will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at St. Gall, 120 W. Shannon St., Elburn. All ages and faiths are welcome to attend the event, which will begin with a discussion about the grieving process, followed by a prayer service in the church.

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DeKALB – It wasn’t easy for DeKalb resident Jeanna Meyer to find a church to perform a holy union ceremony with her partner Diane Johns-Meyer in 2002.

However, the couple was able to read their vows of commitment that year at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 615 N. First St., DeKalb. The couple had a civil union in 2011 and married in December.

“Our relationship is supported by other people in our congregation,” said Meyer, now a member of Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of DeKalb. “Our love is valued.”

Unitarian Universalist is not the only church in the area that marries same-sex couples. Equality Illinois, an organization that advocates for same-sex couples’ rights, has a list of churches in the state that perform same-sex ceremonies.

Local churches included in the list are St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 900 Normal Road, DeKalb; First Congregational United Church of Christ; Federated Church of Sycamore, 612 W. State St., Sycamore; Mayfield Congregational Church, 28405 Church Road, Sycamore; and Peace United Church of Christ, 311 E. First

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Jeanne Meyer (left) and wife Diane Johns-Meyer make dinner together Thursday in their DeKalb home.

The couple met in 1998 and were married in December 2013.

St., Genoa.

For some local churches, providing ceremonies for same-sex couples isn’t new, even though same-sex marriages became legal in DeKalb County in March and legal everywhere in the state June 1.

Some local same-sex couples are not planning on having a marriage ceremony anytime soon because, for them, the civil union marked the occasion. Under the law, marriages are retroactive to a couple’s civil union date.

The Rev. Joe Gastiger of the First Congregational United Church of Christ has been officiating same-sex ceremonies since October 2001, when he was the co-officiant for a lesbian couple’s ceremony.

Gastiger, who believes people are born with their sexual orientation, said some people misinterpret the Book of Leviticus as being against homosexuality when the book also condemns people for planting two different crops in the same field, having contact with the flesh of a pig and wearing clothes woven with two different kinds of fiber.

“That’s all thrown into the same category,” he said.

“These things were condemned in the prehistoric age.”

The Rev. Stacy Walker-Frontjes of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church also officiates same-sex marriages. She said churches should be safe havens for same-sex couples.

“Jesus tells us to love one another as he loved us,” she said. “He doesn’t say anything much about marriage. He talks a lot more about social justice.”

The Rev. Linda Slabon of Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of DeKalb, is gay herself. Her civil union with partner Toni Tollerud was in July 2011. That same month, Slabon helped lead an event in which 10 same-sex couples received civil-union licenses.

The legalization of samesex marriage in Illinois has been affirming, uplifting and overdue, Slabon said.

“We stand on the side of love,” she said. “Love is about embracing and widening the circle of respect.”

8LOCAL BRIEF Genoa Days ends today GENOA – The 79th annual Genoa Days festival wraps up today.

The Brett’s 5K Walk/Run will take place at 8:30 a.m. at Genoa-Kingston High School, 980 Park Ave. The 4-H children’s pet show will be held onstage at 10:30 a.m., and the Genoa Days

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DeKALB – The Daily Chronicle won the Illinois Press Association’s Patrick Coburn Award of Excellence in the Illinois Press Association’s annual Excellence in News contest Friday.

The trophy is awarded to newspapers with circulations less than 10,000 that win the most awards in the annual contest. The Daily Chronicle won nine first-place awards and placed in 27 other categories.

“Making a great newspaper and a great news website for DeKalb County on a daily basis takes a lot of creativity and effort from many people,” Editor Eric Olson said. “It’s really gratifying to see our journalists recognized for their work.”

The staff won Best Lifestyle Section and Best Sports Section. The sports staff won Best Sports News Coverage for “Orange Bowl makes immediate impact on NIU recruiting,” Best Web Project for “Heisman

history: Jordan Lynch’s journey to New York City,” and Best Sports Feature for an article exploring the Mid-American Conference’s midweek football games.

News Editor Jillian Duchnowski and former Daily Chronicle reporter David Thomas won the Best Coverage of Taxation for articles exploring tax increment financing districts. Former Daily Chronicle Photo Editor Rob Winner captured first place for photo illustration and personality portrait, while photographer Monica Maschak won Best Photo Series.

“A lot of talented people work hard every day to put together a great news website and newspaper for DeKalb County, and it is exhilarating to see them honored for their work,” Olson said.

The MidWeek also won two first-place awards. Editor Dana Herra won the personality portrait category for “A mother fights heroin,” while former reporter Curtis Clegg won Best General News Photo.

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Littlejohn and Jefferson elementary schools in DeKalb for 38 years from 1960 to 1998. She received her master’s degree in education specializing in reading at NIU, graduating with her son, James, in 1964.

Both Emma and Leo were active members of Newman Catholic Student Center at NIU, and also St. Mary Catholic Parish in DeKalb. She never tired of learning, and was proud that she had almost enough credits to earn her doctorate in education which she considered doing at the age of 92.

Emma’s classrooms were always magical, filled with learning, not just the three R’s, but also plays, songs, story-telling and art projects. Every year she would find a caterpillar for her science curriculum and students would watch it spin a golden chrysalis and morph into a beautiful Monarch butterfly flying around her classroom to the delight of her students and principal. Then there were the pollywogs, watching them grow legs and absorb their tails. Science came alive in Emma’s classroom.

She believed in the importance of physical activity. Everyone learned to play softball, especially the girls; she taught them to bat, to throw, to run ... never tell her that a “girl” could not do something. Every Thanksgiving her class shared a meal, drawing their own plates on a long piece of parchment, and eating finger foods, so no one would go without a party.

She knew her students, not just their names, but their families, their siblings, their likes, their dislikes, their talents, dreams and disappointments. To Emma there were no strangers, just friends she had not met yet … people would share their life story with her on a bus, in a train station, on the airplane, even camping … and they would say later, “I never tell anyone those things ... she is just so understanding.” Every year Emma would walk her entire class 3 miles to the Ellwood House, a national historic mansion to learn the local history, and she would do this even when she was 76 and 77, until she could do it no more. She retired from full-time teaching at the age of 78, although she planned to

return some day to the classroom.

In 2008, she celebrated her 90th birthday in Carmel Valley, California, where she played her harmonica with a mariachi band at a family reunion. Her energy and kindness for others were known to all who loved her. She would cry with her students while reading a chapter a day of “Little Britches,” “All Mine to Give,” or “Box Car Children.”

Her former students shared these memories with her family. She was happiest when surrounded by family, friends and her students. She loved to dance, sing, play the harmonica, watch movies, laugh and eat popcorn. She loved children of all ages, and they loved her.

Emma is survived by her sister, Marian Metzger of Columbus, Wisconsin; four children, Patrick, a dentist, of Mount Vernon, Washington, James, a lawyer, of Moberly, Missouri, Kathleen, a medical doctor, of Santa Cruz, California, and Maureen, a veterinarian, of Santa Cruz. She also is survived by 11 grandchildren and more than 30 great-grandchildren.

Emma was preceded in death by her parents, Hector and Helena Cromheecke of Columbus; brothers, Remi and Maynard; sisters, Mary Potenburg and Irene Pashley; and her beloved husband, Leo James in 2003. She also lost a beloved great-granddaughter, Gracie O’Loughlin, because of a rare form of spinal cancer, neuroblastoma.

Her family hopes they are dancing, singing and reading books together.

A memorial celebration of Emma’s life will be at noon Saturday, June 28, at St Jerome’s Catholic Church, 1550 Farnham St., in Columbus, Wisconsin. Family and friends may gather at 11 a.m. for a visitation. After a luncheon, there will be a songfest at St. Michael’s Catholic Cemetery in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where she will be reunited with her husband, Leo James Loughlin, on a gentle hillside overlooking Beaver Dam Lake where they would ice skate. The family will stay the weekend at the Campus Inn in Beaver Dam. Memories/condolences can be shared with the family in care of The Loughlin Family, 865 Pine Tree Lane,

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CARPENTERSVILLE – Jean D. Varner, 85, of Carpentersville, Illinois, passed away Thursday morning, June 12, 2014, at Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington.

Jean was born Feb. 2, 1929, in Chicago, the daughter of the late Michael and Wanda (née Grenz) Marinello.

Jean was a resident of the Carpentersville area for the past 57 years and a member of St. James Episcopal Church in West Dundee. Jean also was a member of the Sherman Hospital Ladies Auxiliary and the Dundee VFW 2298 Ladies Auxiliary.

Survivors include her children, Debbie (Richard) Paegelow, Wendy (Robert) Miller and David (Paula) Varner; grandchildren, Robert (fiancée Michelle Shackelton) Miller, Katie Miller, Stacie, Sean, Stephanie and Spencer Varner; and great-grandson, Brody Miller.

In addition to her parents, Jean was preceded in death by her sister, Ruth L. Marinello on Jan. 10, 2014.

Family and friends will gather for funeral services at 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 16, at St. James Episcopal Church, West Dundee. The Rev. Donald Frye, rector, will officiate. Burial will follow at Dundee Township East Cemetery. The visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. Monday, until the time of the service at the church.

Please omit flowers. Memorials can be made to St. James Episcopal Church, West Dundee.

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dren in Wisconsin and Illinois over a Born: Feb. 24, 1961, in Sycamore, successful 60-year Illinois teaching career, Died: June 12, 2014, in Maywood, from one-room, Illinois rural school houses teaching grades SYCAMORE – Teresa Kaye Holliday, kindergarten 53, of Sycamore, Illinois, died through eighth, Thursday, June 12, 2014, at Loyola and on through the Hospital, Maywood. open classrooms of Born Feb. 24, 1961, in Sycamore, the 1970s and ‘80s. the daughter of Leonard and Betty Her favorite was (Robinson) Ebright, Teresa married teaching fifth grade, James William Holliday on June 18, specializing in reading and science 1983, in Sycamore. “outdoor” education.

Teresa was a nurse for 31 years Emma was born March 5, 1919, in at Kishwaukee Hospital, serving Deansville, Wisconsin, the fifth child in the Intensive Care Unit for 18 in a family of six. Her parents, Hector years before becoming the nursing and Helene (Denolf) Cromheecke, supervisor, and then the hospital’s immigrated to the United States infection-control practitioner. from Belgium in the early 1900s. Her She loved flowers, and gardening father helped to build the railroad in and cooking.

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She is survived by her husband, As a child, Emma would wander Jim; sons, Adam and Alex, both of across the country road to a oneSycamore; father, Leonard Ebright room school house and watch the of Sycamore; mother and stepfachildren learning – she longed to be ther, Betty and Charles Primm of an elementary school teacher. On Sycamore; sister, Tammy (Eugene) O’Reilly of LaGrange; and stepsisters, June 3, 1936, at the age of 17, she graduated from Wisconsin Columbia Denise (John) Schaeffer of South County Normal School for Teachers Elgin and Diane (Jeff) Siekmann of and began teaching in a one-room Phoenix.

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In 1958, Emma graduated from LOUGHLIN Wisconsin State Teacher’s College Born: March 5, 1919, in Deansville, at Whitewater with a bachelor’s Wisconsin degree in elementary education Died: Dec. 24, 2013, in Santa Cruz, and accepted a teaching position California at Emerson Elementary in Madison, Wisconsin. From 1954 to 1959, Leo DeKALB – Emma (Cromheecke) received his master’s and doctorate Loughlin, 94, of DeKalb, Illinois, in educational psychology at the Unipassed away peacefully Dec. 24, versity of Wisconsin-Madison, with 2013, at her daughter’s home in the family spending summers at the Santa Cruz, California, surrounded Tent Colony on Lake Mendota. After by family. graduation, Leo accepted a position Emma, “Em,” was a loving, as professor of education, and later, energetic, dedicated wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, grandmother, department head, at Northern Illinois University, and the family moved to great-grandmother, teacher and DeKalb in 1960. Emma worked at friend. She taught hundreds of chil-

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SAN ANTONIO – In the moments after Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl arrived back in the United States following five years of captivity by the Taliban in Afghanistan, he was nervous but “looked good” and saluted a commanding officer who welcomed him home, military officials said Friday.

Bergdahl is working daily with health professionals to regain a sense of normalcy and move forward with his life, officials added.

Bergdahl’s family has not joined him since he arrived at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in Texas early Friday morning, and Army officials would not say when relatives might show up.

In a statement read at a news conference Friday, Bergdahl’s parents said they “are overjoyed that their son has returned to the United States” but asked for privacy.

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The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON – To the frustration of many of his supporters, President Barack Obama is backing away from immigration changes he could make on his own. He is kicking the issue to House Republicans instead, despite mounting evidence they won’t address the millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States.

This week, lawmakers from both parties summarily declared immigration-overhaul efforts dead after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor suffered an unexpected defeat at the hands of a fellow Republican who criticized him as too soft on the issue. But Obama still voices hope Congress will act.

“Our strategy has not changed,” said White House communications director Jennifer Palmieri. “The impetus for action remains on the House.”

It’s an approach that’s drawing friendly fire from immigration advocates who say Obama has been sitting on his hands long enough. For starters, they want immediate action to slow deportations.

But the White House wants to ensure that if and when an overhaul ultimately dies in Congress, Republicans can’t claim it was Obama who pulled the plug. Instead, Obama hopes his strategy will allow Democrats down the road to put all the blame on Republicans for failing to deal with immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

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Last month in the Oval Office, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson presented him with a basket of options he’d developed after the president personally ordered a review of how he could make deportation policy more humane, said a senior White House official. The official spoke only on condition of anonymity to describe a private meeting.

Johnson’s options were narrow and would affect only small groups of immigrants facing deportation, the official said – a far cry from the across-the-board freeze many immigration advocates are demanding.

Even so, Obama directed Johnson to hold off. Republicans were arguing that if

Obama acted unilaterally, he would prove he can’t be trusted to enforce immigration laws and would doom prospects for the legislative overhaul he so badly wants. So Obama decided to wait until it was certain House Republicans wouldn’t act during a narrow summertime window before the midterm elections.

For many lawmakers, that window closed this week. Cantor was trounced in his Virginia primary by an obscure, underfunded professor who had accused him of supporting “amnesty” and open borders.

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Officials said there is no timeline for the final step in Bergdahl’s reintegration process.

“We will proceed at his pace,” said Col. Bradley Poppen, an Army psychologist.

As far as Bergdahl’s interaction with relatives, Poppen said a soldier typically determines when to reunite with his or her family. Poppen declined to release further details, citing the family’s request for privacy. After the news conference, officials said they did not know if Bergdahl has spoken with his family.

Military officials declined to give details on what Bergdahl might remember about his capture or what he knows about the public uproar surrounding his capture and release.

In the short time he has been back on U.S. soil, Bergdahl, who can walk on his own, has been on a bland diet and has shown a fondness for peanut butter, officials said.

While at Brooke Army Medical Center, Bergdahl will have a “standard patient room” but will not have access to a TV, said Col. Ronald Wool, who is in charge of Bergdahl’s medical care.

“We will bring him up slowly to what has been transpiring over the last five years,” Wool said.

Bergdahl arrived speaking English, although officials indicated his speech had been impacted from being in captivity for so long.

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Shiite cleric urges Iraqis to defend country The ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD – Iraq’s Shiite clerical leadership Friday called on all Iraqis to defend their country from Sunni militants who have seized large swaths of territory, and a U.N. official expressed “extreme alarm” at reprisal killings in the offensive, citing reports of hundreds of dead and wounded.

U.S. President Barack Obama said he is weighing options for countering the insurgency, but warned Iraqi leaders that he would not take military action unless they moved to address the country’s political divisions.

Fighters from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant made fresh gains, driving government

forces at least temporarily from two towns in an ethnically mixed province northeast of Baghdad. The assault threatens to embroil Iraq more deeply in a wider regional conflict feeding off the chaos caused by the civil war in neighboring Syria.

The fast-moving rebellion, which also draws support from former Saddam Hussein-era figures and other disaffected

Sunnis, has emerged as the biggest threat to Iraq’s stability since the U.S. withdrawal in 2011. It has pushed the nation closer to a precipice that could partition it into Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish zones.

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ra to meet with military commanders late Friday, according to state TV. Militants earlier in the week overran military bases and several communities including the second-largest city of Mosul and Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit. Samarra, the site of a prominent Shiite shrine, sits between Tikrit and the capital.

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He warned that Iraq faced “great danger,” and that fighting the militants “is everybody’s responsibility, and is not limited to one specific sect or group.”

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Instead, the only thing that separated classes was the drywall that was installed starting in 1990s as more students attended the school.

Teachers also used filing cabinets, bookcases and movable dividers to separate one class from another, said third-grade teacher Debbie Pardridge. Pardridge has been teaching at Tyler the longest, having started there in 1992.

“Kids are so used to people walking through, they learned to block [the noise] out,” she said. “It’s amazing how much children learn to block it out, because they’re so used to it.”

Fourth-grader Kaleigh Parker said she’ll miss all the memories she has made since she was a kindergartner. Attending Tyler next year as a fifth-grader will be a new experience for all of the students, Kaleigh said.

“It’s like moving into a new house,” she said. “I hope I meet new people next year so I can tell them what we did here.”

Some students are used to change. Fourth-grader Elaina Swafford said the current lunch line used to be her kindergarten classroom. Still, she said she’ll miss having no doors, although things got a little noisy at times.

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Fourth-grader Melina Rudes said she is looking forward to the revamped school.

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“We always find a way together to make it happen,” Mitchell said. “That’s the Tyler way.”

Department of Children and Family Services and was more satisfied with her job, he said.

Meanwhile, Evans wasn’t getting as much satisfaction as he is now getting as a stay-athome dad.

“I find it a lot more rewarding than being out in [the] workforce,” he said. “I do dishes, the laundry, grill during grill season. It’s a job.”

DeKalb resident Jon Sullivan spent more than a year caring for his three children, but to bring in more money for the family, he is now working part-time as an assistant manager at a grocery store.

Sullivan still takes care of his kids when he isn’t working.

Sullivan was laid off from his job as a preschool teacher in 2012, so his time as a stay-athome dad was not voluntary.

He took his children to the park, read books with them and played with Play-Doh while looking for work. Once the school year started, he stopped job-searching.

“I don’t want to be in the same situation where they let me go again,” Sullivan said.

“What I’m doing now is pretty consistent.”

Besides, Sullivan said watching his children grow while being a stay-at-home dad was rewarding.

“It’s definitely worth it,” he said. “It’s something you can never get back.”

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8SKETCH VIEW

8OUR VIEW: THUMBS-UP, THUMBS-DOWN

Beekeepers keep bees buzzing

8LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Adding homes costs in the long run

contribute to the economy with greater individual income taxes and sales taxes paid. When modTo the Editor: est homes or apartment buildings This in response to the Daily are constructed, it usually is an Chronicle’s editorial of June 11, added burden to local govern“Housing Pace Hurting Area.”

While there are some short-term ment.

Our schools are over 60 percent benefits to increasing residential of our property tax burden and housing, it generally costs local adding children to the system is governments more than they expensive. return in taxes.

This is especially true in commu- Some of the other government nities with lower family incomes services that must be provided such as in DeKalb County. In high are police and fire, street maintenance, zoning and code enforceincome areas such as the North ment, our county courts and jail, Shore communities of Winnetka and Wilmette, their residents and health department.

The idea that communities wave impact fees for housing developments, I believe, is a terrible idea. One needs to look at the history of housing developments in our county to see why they were imposed in the first place.

For years, communities in DeKalb County overburdened our schools and services with new residents before the establishment of impact fees. Residential housing generally adds to the financial liability.

The point that Daily Chronicle article misses is that communities need commercial and industrial

growth that create jobs and also build the tax base. That type of development brings long-term prosperity to an area.

Unfortunately, only 4 percent of our tax base in DeKalb County is industrial. One can look to the Rochelle Global Intermodal Terminal to see economic growth and jobs in Ogle County. If my memory serves me, the city of DeKalb didn’t want the rail port.

In hindsight, it was a huge missed opportunity for the city of DeKalb and DeKalb County.

Stephen Reid

Media presents distorted view of America There is no question that a free, honest and unbiased press is a great asset to any free and fair society. A press characterized by integrity demands answers to hard questions from everyone, regardless of political affiliation.

When the media choose sides, it enables those on the selected side to ignore rules and conduct themselves as they please, having no one to whom they must answer.

Of course, this assumes the populace is largely asleep at the wheel and not demanding objectivity of the press.

Unfortunately, the “mainstream media” and the American people have conformed to this latter description in recent years, but I see signs of the people beginning to recognize the risks to both political and economic freedom imposed by the continuation of a journey down that pathway.

Like politicians, the media no longer enjoy the almost unanimous trust they once could take for granted. What has caused so much of the media to become biased and agenda-driven, and why has the partiality become so blatant?

I think the answer revolves around the fact that we as a nation are at a critical decision point. We are one or two national elections away from determining whether we want to continue down the road toward “utopia,” where all of our basic needs are met from cradle to grave, the only price being total subservience to the government, or alternatively, to reverse direction and go back up the road toward personal responsibility and embrace the “can-do” attitude and values that facilitated the rapid rise of America on the world stage.

The proponents of each of these lifestyles are convinced that they are right, and it will be difficult to convince them otherwise. Because many so-called “progressives” reject the traditional American way of life and wish to fundamentally change us, I think they have an obligation to fully

scene has produced great consternation VIEWS for many in the media who adhere to the “progressive” ideology. The fact that I had Ben S. a difficult upbringing and embraced the Carson concept of personal responsibility and hard work, rather than dependency, directly engage in the debate about why their vision opposes their narrative that people must depend on public support and remain loyal is better. Many of these liberals dwell in to the party that provides for their maintethe mainstream media and seem reluctant to engage in serious conversation. Instead, nance.

In fairness to many of the liberals, they attempt to ask leading questions because of that background and my of their opponents and then distort the storybook-like career in medicine, they answers in an attempt to diminish their considered me a brilliant role model and “enemy” in the eyes of the public. If they hero until it became clear that I reject the are successful, they never have to actually liberal model of “success.” At that point, address the real issue for which they have they deemed me a pariah who could no no real answers. longer think for himself, an obvious tool of It is encouraging that many people are seeing the light and ignoring the intellectu- conservatives. If they stopped for a minute and thought about how silly that sounds, ally bankrupt assertions of these agents of they might once again be able to find some resentment.

We should teach our children and every- noble bearings.

Many have said to me that the mainone in our spheres of influence to recognize stream media are hopelessly biased and these disgusting and dishonest techniques cannot be reformed. I included an analysis and reject them. As was the case on the of them in my latest book, “One Nation,” third-grade playground in elementary which is too extensive for this column, but school, it is best to ignore the name-callers the bottom line is this: No one is hopeless. and proceed with more important endeavWe should continue to try to engage all ors. media in conversations about important Over the past year, I have learned a issues, while rejecting their attempts at great deal about the press in America. It demonization and divergence. is not uniformly unfair with nefarious I think it is still possible for jaded memagendas, but a significant portion is. One bers of the press to realize that they have of the best ways to determine which news organizations are objective and which have a higher calling than blind and misguided loyalty to their chosen heroes, even at the an agenda is to keep a scorecard that lists risk of national destruction. Objective jourboth electronic and print media. When nalistic integrity can play a tremendous evaluating a story, check off whether it role in healing an ailing nation. The issues is concentrating on factual reporting or we face as a nation deserve the attention of demonization. If there is controversy, rational, mature and objective individuals determine whether both points of view are who have the courage to seek the truth, considered. If major stories of a political wherever it leads. nature are ignored or barely mentioned, that should raise suspicions about objec• Ben S. Carson is professor emeritus of tivity. neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University.

My emergence on the national political

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Thumbs-up: To trying to bring back the bees.

DeKalb County beekeepers suffered a devastating loss of 70 percent of their bees over the winter – a figure nearly twice their usual losses – which most attribute to the unusually harsh winter. But instead of retiring the hives, the beekeepers have purchased new young bees and are trying to bring their population back up. The work honeybees do as pollinators is vital.

About 30 percent of the food we eat comes from crops pollinated by creatures like bees and butterflies, and the struggle of honeybee colonies to survive in recent years should concern us all. The public can do their part by being careful about using pesticides.

Thumbs-up: To foster parents who ultimately adopt children in need. According to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, more than 15,000 children are in foster care across the state every year. This week, we featured Rebeccah Cies, who fostered more than 50 children over 20 years, but has given up her foster care license to focus on her three adopted children, while also continuing to support her three biological children. We tip our hats to her and all the other dedicated foster parents who decide to make the temporary situation permanent.

Thumbs-up: To efforts to restore Sycamore’s first motorized vehicle – a 1923 Stutz fire engine. The truck needs some sanding, repainting and minor work to get it running. Sycamore Fire Preservation Company, a nonprofit organization made up of former and current members of the Sycamore Fire Department, is trying to raise $25,000 to restore the vehicle. “If we don’t do something with it, then it’s gone,” said Marc Doty, Sycamore Fire Department’s assistant fire chief. “History is important to a lot of people.” To make a donation, call Doty at 815-895-4514.

Thumbs-down: To another elected official in Illinois being convicted of a crime. This time, Illinois state Rep. Derrick Smith was convicted of bribery and attempted extortion for taking $7,000 from a purported day care operator seeking a state grant. In a weeklong trial, prosecutors played secret recordings of the 50-year-old Smith, a Chicago Democrat, accepting 70 $100 bills – which he referred to as “cheddar” on tape – in exchange for a letter supporting a $50,000 state grant. The day care turned out to be fictitious and part of an FBI sting. Smith lost his 2014 primary battle in March but was supposed to finish out his term.

Instead, Smith will lose his seat once the verdicts are formally entered.

Thumbs-up: To another opportunity to eat locally grown food. DeKalb County Community Gardens is partnering with the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in DeKalb for a neighborhood farmer’s market later this month. Although locally grown organic produce often is a little more expensive, the Thrive neighborhood market and community garden will provide organically grown vegetables at pay-what-you-can prices, and shoppers are encouraged to bring their own produce as well. In a county where more than 90 percent of the land is used for agriculture, we should have access to more locally grown food. This new market, which opens at 11 a.m. June 28 and continues the last Saturday of each month, is another step to providing access to locally grown produce.

8 OUR VIEW

What dad deserves What’s the best Father’s Day gift you’ve ever given?

It’s not a tie. It’s definitely not a coffee mug, either.

Don’t get us wrong – your dad appreciated the thought. But if we’re honest with ourselves, there wasn’t much thought in those gifts, was there?

According to the Wall Street Journal and the National Retail Federation, we spend 41 percent more on Mother’s Day compared to Father’s Day. And, heck, mom deserves to be showered with love and gifts on that day – and more than that day.

Let’s not forget about dad, though. That love and For the record appreciation you have for him doesn’t have to be We may not take advanshown with your wallet, tage of every opportunity either. to say so, but dads deserve If you’re lucky enough every ounce of our thanks. that you get to do it in person, Sunday is an opportunity for sons and daughters across the area. Dad is more than a provider, grillmaster or any of the other stereotypes we assign to our fathers. Dads have made tremendous strides to be so much more than that.

So Sunday is about finding the way to show your dad you appreciate him. Maybe you haven’t found the words or actions to let him know. Maybe you just haven’t done it in a while. Maybe it’s been so long, you’ve forgotten how.

None of that matters. Sunday is the day to let dad know how thankful you are for everything he’s done for you. Every long talk, every piece of advice, every shared moment after a 12-hour day at work trying to provide for the family.

And yes, every ballgame, grillout and handyman fix, too.

We may not take advantage of every opportunity to say so, but dads deserve every ounce of our thanks.

Pride is a word that comes to mind when we think of fathers, and that we hope we make our own dad proud of what we’ve become as adults.

Forget the tie. Give dad a hug and a thank you today.

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7-DAY FORECAST

A beautiful start to Father’s Day weekend as high pressure settles in. Surface winds will be shifting out of the south/ southeast helping to warm temperatures to near-normal values for this time of year. Warm and humid weather will move in Sunday with showers and thunderstorms Sunday night into Monday.

Warm and sticky conditions along with a few storms through Thursday.

ALMANAC

TODAY

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MONDAY

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Mostly sunny and pleasant

P. sunny, warm and humid; evening storms

P. sunny, warm and humid; isolated storms

P. sunny, warm and humid; isolated storms

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Winds: S 15-25 mph

UV INDEX

Winds: S/SW 5-10 mph

Winds: SW 5-15 mph

Winds: E/SE 5-15 mph

Winds: E/NE 5-10 mph

Winds: E/SE 5-15 mph

REGIONAL CITIES

REGIONAL WEATHER

DeKalb through 4 p.m. yesterday

Temperature High ............................................................. 71° Low .............................................................. 50° Normal high ............................................. 80° Normal low ............................................... 58° Record high .............................. 93° in 1976 Record low ................................ 43° in 1978

Precipitation 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. ......... 0.00” Month to date ....................................... 2.39” Normal month to date ....................... 1.88” Year to date ......................................... 11.33” Normal year to date ......................... 15.01”

Sunrise today ................................ 5:19 a.m.

Sunset tonight ............................. 8:31 p.m.

Moonrise today ........................... 9:54 p.m.

Moonset today ............................. 7:06 a.m.

Sunrise tomorrow ........................ 5:19 a.m.

Sunset tomorrow ........................ 8:32 p.m.

Moonrise tomorrow ................ 10:40 p.m.

Moonset tomorrow .................... 8:15 a.m.

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Janesville 78/58

Kenosha 74/54 Lake Geneva 75/54

8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.

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AIR QUALITY TODAY

Rockford 78/56

Source: Environmental Protection Agency

Dixon 79/56

Joliet 78/55

La Salle 79/57 Streator 79/56

Source: National Allergy Bureau

Evanston 73/58 Chicago 78/57

Aurora 78/54

POLLEN INDEX

Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Waukegan 72/55

Arlington Heights 75/58

DeKalb 78/57

Main ofender ................................................... N.A.

0-50 Good, 51-100 Moderate, 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive groups, 151-200 Unhealthy 201-300 Very Unhealthy, 301-500 Hazardous

SUN and MOON

Hammond 76/57 Gary 75/58 Kankakee 79/55

Jul 12

A cloudburst on June 14, 1903, near Heppner, Ore., caused a lash lood on Willow Creek. The resulting 20-foot wall of water killed more than 200 people in just a few minutes.

Peoria 81/58

Watseka 79/55

Pontiac 79/56

NATIONAL WEATHER

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WEATHER HISTORY

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24-hr chg

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Tomorrow Hi Lo W 89 71 pc 89 79 t 75 60 t 88 73 t 82 65 s 84 63 s 62 49 c 85 66 s

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Jake Arrieta throws seven impressive innings, Starlin Castro (right) hits a two-run homer and the Cubs beat the Phillies, 2-1. PAGE B2

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2014 GIRLS TRACK & FIELD ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

Photo illustration by Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com

Sycamore junior Lilia Edwards – the 2014 Daily Chronicle Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year – took fourth place in the long jump in the Class 2A state meet last month. She also won the triple jump title and finished second in the long jump and 100-meter hurdles in a sectional meet.

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TALENTED, CONFIDENT, COACHABLE

Sycamore’s Lilia Edwards (center) competes in the final of the 100-meter hurdles in the Class 2A Freeport Sectional Meet in Freeport.

Edwards overcomes plenty of adversity in record-setting season

By LUKE SRODULSKI sports@daily-chronicle.com

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Philip Marruffo – pmarruffo@shawmedia.com

o one is more confident of Lilia Edwards’ abilities than Edwards herself, but don’t expect the reserved Sycamore junior to be the first to say it.

“She’s quietly confident,” Spartans girls track coach Joe McCormick said. “She’s confident but coachable, which makes her really special. To combine all three – talented, confident and coachable – that’s the key. That’s the magic number right there.”

It led to a Class 2A sectional title in the triple jump and second-place finishes in the long jump and 100-meter hurdles. It led to a fourth-place finish in the state meet in the long jump and appearances in the other two events. And it has led to her being named the 2014 Daily Chronicle Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year.

Despite all the accomplishments, Edwards left state with

mixed emotions about her performance. She didn’t qualify for the finals in her best event – triple jump – but she did better than expected in another.

“I really wanted to place in triple jump, that was my main goal,” Edwards said. “I wasn’t expecting to make it to the finals in long jump, but I was so happy about that. It was such a surprise.”

It was an impressive finish to the season after the setbacks she has faced. In last year’s conference meet, Edwards fractured her heel but still qualified for state in the triple jump.

Then, in this season’s indoor state meet, the Illinois Top Times in Bloomington, she was run over on the runway and fractured her elbow. The doctor ordered her to avoid jumping events for a month, so she was reduced to running sprints and relays instead of her typical events.

See EDWARDS, page B3

All-Area first team Lilia Edwards Sycamore, junior Sarah Grant Sycamore, senior Audrey Harrod Hinckley-Big Rock, freshman Kelsey Schrader DeKalb, senior Nicole Sreenan Kaneland, freshman

• First-team player capsules and second-team and honorable mention selections on Page B3.

All-Area schedule TODAY Girls track and field: Sycamore’s Lilia Edwards MONDAY Boys track and field TUESDAY Girls soccer WEDNESDAY Softball THURSDAY Baseball FRIDAY Female athlete of the year SATURDAY, JUNE 21 Male athlete of the year

STANLEY CUP FINAL: KINGS 3, RANGERS 2 (20T)

U.S. OPEN

Kings win the Cup

Kaymer sets 36-hole U.S. Open record

By GREG BEACHAM The Associated Press LOS ANGELES – Alec Martinez scored 14:43 into the second overtime, and the Los Angeles Kings won the Stanley Cup for the second time in three years with a 3-2 victory over the New York Rangers in Game 5 on Friday night.

Marian Gaborik scored a tying power-play goal with 12:04 left in regulation for the resilient Kings, who rallied from yet another deficit before finishing off the Rangers in the longest game in franchise history.

Jonathan Quick made 28 saves and Justin Williams scored an early goal as Los Angeles added a second title to its 2012 championship, the first in the franchise’s 47-year history.

After innumerable late chances, Martinez popped home a rebound of Tyler Toffoli’s shot. Martinez also scored the overtime winner to beat the Blackahwks in the Western Conference finals.

Williams scored an early goal and Quick made 23 saves for Los Angeles, which won three of the series’ first four games.

Chris Kreider scored a power-play goal and Brian Boyle added a short-handed score late in the second period for the Rangers, who were trying to avoid elimination again after winning Game 4 at Madison Square Garden.

Henrik Lundqvist stopped 40 shots in another standout performance, but Gaborik poked the tying goal between his legs on a rebound for his 14th goal in a spectacular postseason by the Kings’ late-season acquisition.

The finalists headed to overtime for the third time in their three games at Staples Center, and they needed a second OT period for the second time.

Both teams had tantalizing scoring chances in the first overtime, but couldn’t convert.

Ryan McDonagh hit Quick’s post with a long shot during an early power play.

By DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press

AP photo

Rangers defenseman Marc Staal pushes Kings center Trevor Lewis (22), who is already on his knees, during the second period of Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final on Friday night in Los Angeles.

PINEHURST, N.C. – Martin Kaymer is playing a brand of golf rarely seen in the U.S. Open. It might even be enough for soccer-mad Germany to pay attention.

The other 155 players at Pinehurst No. 2 certainly are.

Kaymer set the 36hole scoring record at the U.S. Open on Friday with Martin Kaymer another 5-under-par 65 – this one without a bogey – to build a six-shot lead over Brendon Todd and leave the rest of the field wondering if the 29-year-old German was playing a different course, or even a different tournament.

Leaderboard Martin Kaymer Brendon Todd Kevin Na Brandt Snedeker Brooks Koepka Dustin Johnson Brendon De Jonge Keegan Bradley Henrik Stenson

65-65–130 69-67–136 68-69–137 69-68–137 70-68–138 69-69–138 68-70–138 69-69–138 69-69–138

-10 -4 -3 -3 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2

“If he does it for two more days, then we’re all playing for second spot,” Adam Scott said.

Kaymer was at 10-under 130, breaking by one shot the record set by Rory McIlroy at rain-softened Congressional in 2011. He had an eight-shot lead when he finished his morning round. Todd made some tough par saves to keep bogeys off his card for a 67.

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SPORTS

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8SPORTS BRIEFS Cubs activate Sweeney, place Bonifacio on DL PHILADELPHIA – The Cubs have activated outfielder Ryan Sweeney from the disabled list and placed Emilio Bonifacio on it.

Sweeney started in center field and batted second against the Phillies on Friday night. He was on the DL since May 3 because of a right hamstring strain.

Sweeney was batting .200 with six RBIs coming into the game.

Bonifacio has right rib cage inflammation. He’s batting .266 with 13 stolen bases this season.

Hall of Fame coach Noll dead at 82 PITTSBURGH – Chuck Noll, Hall of Fame coach who won four Super Bowl titles with Pittsburgh, has died at 82.

Another year, another qualifying record at MIS BROOKLYN, Mich. – Kevin Harvick made Michigan International Speedway’s latest track record look routine.

In what is becoming an annual occurrence at MIS, Harvick pushed the track’s qualifying mark a little bit higher Friday, winning the pole for this weekend’s Sprint Cup race at 204.557 mph.

Harvick’s pole-winning speed was the fastest since Bill Elliott set the record of 212.809 mph at Talladega Superspeedway in April 1987.

Drivers have broken 200 mph with regularity at Michigan since the track was repaved before the 2012 season. Marcos Ambrose had a speed of 203.241 in 2012, the first time anyone won a pole at more than 200 mph since Elliott did it before horsepower-sapping restrictor plates were introduced at Talladega and Daytona.

ROYALS 7, WHITE SOX 2

NBA

Hot Royals take down Sox in opener

FINALS

By JOHN JACKSON The Associated Press CHICAGO – Lorenzo Cain had a two-run double to highlight a five-run first inning, Jeremy Guthrie pitched into the sixth inning and the Kansas City Royals extended their winning streak to five games with a 7-2 victory over the White Sox on Friday night.

Guthrie (3-6) allowed two runs and six hits in 52/3 innings to snap an 11-game winless streak.

Guthrie’s last win was April 9, against Tampa Bay. Next Eric Hosmer and Billy Butvs. Kansas City, 1:10 p.m. today, ler of the Sox WGN, AM-670 each had two RBIs, including a run-scoring single in the first inning.

Jose Quintana (3-7) never recovered from the slow start, allowing six runs and eight hits in six innings.

Jose Abreu went 1 for 4 with an RBI for the Sox. The Royals staked Guthrie to a five-run lead before he took the mound.

The first four batters – Nori Aoki, Omar Infante, Hosmer and Butler – all singled to make it 2-0 and fifth-place hitter Alex

Athlete from Fiji killed in Northern California SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A runner from Fiji was killed in a gang shooting in Northern California just weeks before he was set to attend the University of Louisiana, friends and authorities said.

Roy Ravana Jr. and another man, Kevin Ohta, were shot Monday in Sacramento County by two juveniles who opened fire with two handguns and a rifle on behalf of the Norteno street gang, prosecutors said.

Ohta, 21, is expected to survive, the Sacramento Bee reported.

The suspects, ages 17 and 16, have been charged as adults with murder and attempted murder. They were arraigned Wednesday but did not enter pleas, said Shelly Orio, a spokeswoman for the Sacramento County district attorney’s office.

The exact circumstances of the shooting were unclear. Sheriff’s Sgt. Lisa Bowman told the Bee it was not clear whether the victims fired any shots or whether they had any gang affiliations.

Game 4 of NBA Finals draws 9.3 rating on ABC NEW YORK – San Antonio’s victory over Miami in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night drew an average TV audience of 14,964,000 viewers and a 9.3 national rating on ABC.

Mystics defeat short-handed Sky WASHINGTON – Emma Meesseman took advantage of Elena Delle Donne’s absence for the Sky to finish with career highs of 16 points and 11 rebounds to lift the Washington Mystics to a 7968 victory over the short-handed Sky on Friday.

– Wire report

June 5 San Antonio 110, Miami 95 Sunday Miami 98, San Antonio 96 Tuesday San Antonio 111, Miami 92 Thursday San Antonio 107, Miami 86, Spurs lead series 3-1 Sunday Miami at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Tuesday x-San Antonio at Miami, 8 p.m.

Friday x-Miami at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

NHL June 4 Los Angeles 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 (OT) June 7 Los Angeles 5, N.Y. Rangers 4 (2OT) Monday Los Angeles 3, N.Y. Rangers 0 Wednesday N.Y. Rangers 2, Los Angeles 1 Friday Los Angeles 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 (2OT),

Kings win series, 4-1

MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE

AP photo

Royals base runner Nori Aoki (right) scores on an RBI single hit by Eric Hosmer as White Sox catcher Tyler Flowers waits for the ball during the first inning Friday at U.S. Cellular Field. The Sox lost, 7-2.

Gordon followed with a double to right field to make it 3-0.

After Quintana struck out Salvador Perez for the first out of the game, Cain stroked a double to left to drive in two more and made it 5-0.

The Sox got a run back in the bottom of the first on a sacrifice fly by Abreu. The Royals got it back in the top of the second on

a sacrifice fly by Hosmer.

The Sox loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom half of the inning as Alexei Ramirez and Dayan Viciedo singled and Alejandro De Aza walked, but they pushed across only one run – on a walk to Adam Eaton – to make it 6-2.

Guthrie struck out Tyler Flowers with no outs and then

struck out Gordon Beckham with one out after the walk to Eaton. Conor Gillaspie then flied out to center to end the inning.

The starters then settled down and neither team scored over the next four innings. Kansas City added a run in the seventh on Hosmer’s run-scoring single to make it 7-2.

CUBS 2, PHILLIES 1

Arrieta, Castro lead Cubs Cubs win opener in matchup of last-place teams

By ROB MAADD The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA – Even Starlin Castro knew Roberto Hernandez didn’t hit him on purpose.

Jake Arrieta threw seven impressive innings, Castro hit a two-run homer and the Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1, Friday night in matchup of last-place teams.

A strange ejection occurred in the sixth inning when Hernandez was tossed by plate umpire Mark Ripperger after hitting Castro on the left arm with a fastball. There were no previous warnings, hit batters or inside pitches. Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg also was ejected after he came out to argue.

“I don’t think he did it on purpose,” Castro said. “He’s a good friend of mine. I see him every day in the Dominican.

I don’t think he would do that on purpose. He told me, ‘I’m sorry.’ It’s not on purpose. I already know. He’s not like that.

He’s not that kind of person.”

The umpires didn’t see it that way.

“In our opinion he threw at the hitter,” crew chief Gary Cederstrom said.

Asked if a warning should’ve AP photo come first, Cederstrom said: “I Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro celebrates as he rounds the bases after thought the appropriate action hitting a two-run home run off Phillies starting pitcher Roberto Hernan- was taken.” dez during the fourth inning Friday in Philadelphia. The Cubs won, 2-1.

Hernandez was baffled. He

Next at Philadelphia, 2:05 p.m. today, CSN, AM-720 threw his arms up in disbelief on the mound before walking off the field to cheers from the crowd.

“I was very, very surprised,” he said. “I didn’t throw that on purpose. I wanted to continue to throw the ball down. I had two outs. I wanted to pitch into the next inning. I didn’t throw it on purpose. I wanted to keep pitching.”

Arrieta (2-1) allowed two hits and no runs, tying a career high with nine strikeouts. He didn’t give up a hit until Domonic Brown sliced a double just inside the left-field line with one out in the fifth.

“I had a good mix tonight, good velocity, good movement, good location,” Arrieta said. “With those three things, you’re going to have success.

It’s never easy to win and have success at a high level. But you do things the right way and learn, day in and day out, and try and get better at least one thing every time you come to the yard, you give yourself an opportunity to perform at a high level.”

The Phillies were seeking their first four-game winning streak since June 2 through 6.

Hernandez (2-5) allowed two runs and three hits in 5⅔ innings. He walked Anthony Rizzo leading off the fourth. Castro then drove his ninth homer out to left.

8WEEKEND TV SPORTSWATCH TODAY’S SCHEDULE Pro baseball Kansas City at White Sox, 1 p.m., WGN Cubs at Philadelphia, 2 p.m., CSN Minnesota at Detroit, 3 p.m., FS1 Washington at St. Louis, Cincinnati at Milwaukee or L.A. Angels at Atlanta, 6 p.m., Fox N.Y. Yankees at Oakland or Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 9 p.m., MLB Golf USGA, U.S. Open Championship, third round, 11 a.m., NBC World Cup soccer Colombia vs. Greece, Group C, 10:30 a.m., ABC Uruguay vs. Costa Rica, Group D, 1:30 p.m., ABC England vs. Italy, Group D, 4:30 p.m., ESPN Ivory Coast vs. Japan, Group C, 7:30 p.m., ESPN Auto racing 24 Hours of Le Mans, 7:30 a.m., FS1

(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

STANLEY CUP FINAL

Earnhardt leaves Newman momentarily stranded BROOKLYN, Mich. – Ryan Newman made it to Michigan, no thanks to Dale Earnhardt Jr. Newman thought he had arranged a ride on Earnhardt’s plane Friday morning. The problem was that Earnhardt forgot about that and left Newman at the Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina.

“It was just an honest mistake, I think,” Newman said. “He forgot. I don’t think it was by any means on purpose.”

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NASCAR, Nationwide Series, Ollie’s Bargain Outlet 250 qualifying, 9:30 a.m., ESPN2; race, 1 p.m., ESPN NHRA, Thunder Valley Nationals qualifying, 5 p.m., ESPN2 (same-day tape) NASCAR, Truck Series, Drivin’ for Linemen 200, FS1, 7:30 p.m.

Motorsports AMA Motocross, 1 p.m., NBCSN College Baseball World Series UC Irvine vs. Texas, 2 p.m., ESPN2 Louisville vs. Vanderbitl, 7 p.m., ESPN2 Track and field Adidas Grand Prix, 3 p.m., NBCSN Boxing Champion Demetrius Andrade (200-0) vs. Brian Rose (25-1-1), for WBO junior middleweight title; champion Ruslan Provodnikov (23-2-0) vs.

Chris Algieri (19-0-0), for WBO junior welterweight title, 9 p.m., HBO Cycling Criterium du Dauphine, Stage 7, Ville-la-Grand to Finhaut-Emosson,

France, 5 p.m., NBCSN (same-day tape) SUNDAY’S SCHEDULE Pro basketball NBA Finals, Miami at San Antonio, Game 5, 7 p.m., ABC Golf USGA, U.S. Open Championship, final round, 11 a.m., NBC Pro baseball Cubs at Philadelphia, 12:30 p.m., WGN Cleveland at Boston, 12:30 p.m., or Washington at St. Louis, 1 p.m., MLB Kansas City at White Sox, 1 p.m., CSN L.A. Angels at Atlanta, 7 p.m., ESPN Auto racing 24 Hours of Le Mans, midnight, FS1; finish of race, 8 a.m., FS1 NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Quicken Loans 400, noon, TNT NHRA, Thunder Valley Nationals, 10 p.m., ESPN2 (same-day tape) World Cup soccer Switzerland vs. Ecuador, Group E, 10:30 a.m., ABC

France vs. Honduras, Group E, 1:30 p.m., ABC Argentina vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina, 4:30 p.m., ESPN Women’s basketball WNBA, Phoenix at Minnesota, noon, ESPN2 Motorsports MotoGP World Championship, Grand Prix of Catalunya, 6:30 a.m., FS1 MotoGP Moto3, Grand Prix of Catalunya, 11 a.m., FS1 (same-day tape) MotoGP Moto2, Grand Prix of Catalunya, noon, FS1 (same-day tape) College Baseball World Series Texas Tech vs. TCU, 2 p.m., ESPN2 Mississippi vs. Virginia, 7 p.m., ESPN2 Cycling Criterium du Dauphine, final stage, Megeve to Courchevel, France, 10 p.m., NBCSN (same-day tape)

Central Division W L Pct GB 34 29 .540 — 34 32 .515 1½ 32 33 .492 3 33 35 .485 3½ 33 35 .485 3½ East Division W L Pct GB Toronto 40 29 .580 — New York 34 31 .523 4 Baltimore 34 32 .515 4½ Boston 31 36 .463 8 Tampa Bay 26 42 .382 13½ West Division W L Pct GB Oakland 40 26 .606 — Los Angeles 36 30 .545 4 Seattle 34 32 .515 6 Texas 32 34 .485 8 Houston 31 38 .449 10½ Detroit Kansas City Minnesota White Sox Cleveland

Friday’s Results Kansas City 7, White Sox 2 Toronto 4, Baltimore 0 Minnesota 2, Detroit 0 Boston 10, Cleveland 3 Atlanta 4, L.A. Angels 3 Tampa Bay 6, Houston 1 N.Y. Yankees at Oakland (n) Texas at Seattle (n) Today’s Games Kansas City (Duffy 3-5) at White Sox (Noesi 2-4), 1:10 p.m.

Cleveland (House 0-1) at Boston (Peavy 1-4), 3:05 p.m.

Toronto (Dickey 6-4) at Baltimore (B.Norris 5-5), 3:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Deduno 2-4) at Detroit (A. Sanchez 2-2), 3:08 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 3-3) at Houston (Cosart 5-5), 3:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 6-2) at Atlanta (Floyd 1-2), 6:15 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 4-4) at Oakland (Kazmir 7-2), 9:05 p.m.

Texas (J.Saunders 0-2) at Seattle (E.Ramirez 1-4), 9:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Kansas City at White Sox, 1:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 12:08 p.m.

Cleveland at Boston, 12:35 p.m.

Toronto at Baltimore, 12:35 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Houston, 1:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

Texas at Seattle, 3:10 p.m.

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

NATIONAL LEAGUE Central Division W L Pct Milwaukee 40 28 .588 St. Louis 35 32 .522 Pittsburgh 33 34 .493 Cincinnati 32 34 .485 Cubs 27 38 .415 East Division W L Pct Atlanta 35 31 .530 Washington 35 31 .530 Miami 34 32 .515 New York 30 37 .448 Philadelphia 28 37 .431 West Division W L Pct San Francisco 43 24 .642 Los Angeles 35 33 .515 Colorado 31 35 .470 Arizona 29 40 .420 San Diego 28 39 .418

GB — 4½ 6½ 7 11½ GB — — 1 5½ 6½ GB — 8½ 11½ 15 15

Friday’s Results Cubs 2, Philadelphia 1 Pittsburgh 8, Miami 6 (13 inn.)

Atlanta 4, L.A. Angels 3 Cincinnati 6, Milwaukee 5 St. Louis 1, Washington 0 N.Y. Mets 6, San Diego 2 Arizona at L.A. Dodgers (n) Colorado at San Francisco (n) Today’s Games Cubs (E.Jackson 4-6) at Philadelphia (Buchanan 1-3), 2:05 p.m.

Colorado (Bergman 0-1) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 4-3), 3:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Morton 3-7) at Miami (Wolf 1-2), 3:10 p.m.

San Diego (Hahn 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (Z. Wheeler 2-6), 3:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Latos 0-0) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 4-4), 6:15 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 6-2) at Atlanta (Floyd 1-2), 6:15 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 6-4) at St. Louis (S.Miller 7-5), 6:15 p.m.

Arizona (Collmenter 4-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Haren 6-4), 9:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Cubs at Philadelphia, 12:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Miami, 12:10 p.m.

San Diego at N.Y. Mets, 12:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 1:10 p.m.

Washington at St. Louis, 1:15 p.m.

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

Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 3:10 p.m.

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

Monday’s Games Cubs at Miami, 6:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at St. Louis, 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Arizona, 8:40 p.m.

Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m.

San Diego at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.

WORLD CUP GROUP G Germany Ghana Portugal United States

W 0 0 0 0

L 0 0 0 0

T GF GA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Monday At Salvador, Brazil Germany vs. Portugal, 11 a.m.

At Natal, Brazil Ghana vs. United States, 5 p.m.

Saturday, June 21 At Fortaleza, Brazil Germany vs. Ghana, 2 p.m.

Sunday, June 22 At Manaus, Brazil Portugal vs. United States, 5 p.m.

Thursday, June 26 At Recife, Brazil Germany vs. United States, 11 a.m.

At Brasilia, Brazil Portugal vs. Ghana, 11 a.m.

Pts 0 0 0 0

SPORTS

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ALL-AREA GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD FIRST TEAM Lilia Edwards Sycamore, junior Edwards was named the Daily Chronicle Girls Track Athlete of the Year after finishing fourth in Class 2A in the long jump. She also captured a sectional title in the triple jump.

Sarah Grant Sycamore, senior After a disappointing third-place finish at the sectional meet, Grant stepped her game up and finished fifth in Class 2A in the discus.

Audrey Harrod Hinckley-Big Rock, freshman Another youngster who made her presence felt, Harrod won the Class 3A sectional title in the 800 and finished sixth

at the state meet. She also finished sixth at sectionals in the 1,600.

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BEARS

Selfless Brown waits his turn

By JEFF ARNOLD

Kelsey Schrader DeKalb, senior Schrader capped her third straight appearance at the Class 3A state finals with an 11th-place finish in the 3,200-meter run. She also finished second at sectionals in the 3,200 and sixth in the 1,600.

Nicole Sreenan Kaneland, freshman Sreenan rapidly improved throughout the season and was running like a veteran by the postseason. She placed eighth in the 100-meter dash and third in the 400 at the Class 2A state meet and added a sectional title in the 100.

SECOND TEAM

HONORABLE MENTION

Courtney Carls Hinckley-Big Rock, sophomore Christina Delach Sr., Kaneland, senior Carly Fischer Genoa-Kingston, sophomore Chantel Kyler Indian Creek, junior Lauren Zick Kaneland, senior

Kristen Clark, Hinckley-Big Rock, senior Christina Dailey, Sycamore, senior Alyssa Feuerbach, Sycamore, sophomore Maddie Keifer, Kaneland, freshman Maggie Lalowski, Sycamore, senior Emily Schilling, Indian Creek, junior Elle Tattoni, Kaneland, junior

jarnold@chicagofootball.com LAKE FOREST – Any frustration James Brown experienced last season would be perfectly understandable.

But that’s not how the third-year Bears offensive tackle looks at it.

After competing for the starting right guard spot in training camp before making the 53-man roster, Brown never appeared in a game, forcing him to take in the entire season from the sideline.

Considering the way his NFL career has James Brown progressed – from being an undrafted free agent out of Troy to being a practice squad player and finally an emergency starter for the final three games in 2012 – establishing any continuity with the Bears hasn’t been easy.

But ask the 306-pound reserve and former Mississippi weightlifting state champion if he ever tires of not having a defined role outside of being a lineman asked to be constantly at the ready and Brown insists it’s not his style to complain.

“You don’t think about it,” Brown said matter-of-factly this week.

“It’s all about the team. Guys that are selfish think about themselves.

You’ve just got to think about the team. Wherever I can fit in and help the team out, that’s what I’m going to be about.”

Maintaining such a selfless attitude over the course of an entire season seems difficult. But rather

More online Visit ChicagoFootball.com for the latest Bears and NFL news. than focusing on how much he’s not playing – especially after finishing 2012 as a starter, albeit because of injuries – Brown insists he is fine carrying out the role the Bears have asked him to play.

Brown positioned himself heading into training camp last season as the possible starting right guard before quickly being beaten out for the position by Kyle Long. He spent the season locked into the two-deep depth chart all year, listed behind Long and Matt Slauson at both guard spots.

A year after his persistence on the practice squad and patience paid off, though, Brown never saw the field in 2013. Despite that, he spent the season sharpening his technique, believing that if he worked hard enough, it could pay off. But as he worked for the future, he found ways to prepare for the present, having learned from his 2012 season that an injury suddenly could propel him into the starting lineup.

Over 16 games last year, Brown’s attitude never wavered. Despite never being in a position to show in game situations how much he had improved, Brown tried to pick up information from the sideline that he could implement in practice the

next week. By doing so, he figured, his coaches would trust him enough to throw him into action if need be.

“Being a backup, you’ve got to go into the game thinking that you’re going to play – no matter what,” Brown said. “Then, if you don’t get called up, it is what it is.”

Brown’s demeanor won’t change heading into another season when his role, for the most part, seems uncertain. He has shifted from guard to tackle and will work for playing time as a swing tackle along with seventh-round rookie Charles Leno Jr., Michael Ola and Joe Long, among others. There are subtle changes, but the blocking schemes remain the same as they would be at guard, allowing Brown to continue to shore up his technique.

He constantly is picking the brain of teammate and starting left tackle Jermon Bushrod, who has encouraged Brown to keep focused on improvement and not to be sidetracked by what at times can be a numbers game that can become hard to ignore.

For now, Brown won’t allow himself to become consumed by again making the Bears’ regular-season roster or with how much he will play – if at all – if he’s there when the season begins. He instead will continue to push himself as hard as he can in practice, knowing there is only so much he can control at the end of the day.

“I’m just trying to play,” Brown said. “You go through practice and anything can happen. You just need to be ready. I’ve never been a selfish type player because I’ve got a great role no matter what and if you’re not needed here, they’ll send you home.”

NBA FINALS: HEAT VS. SPURS

Heat try to stop a machine

By BRIAN MAHONEY The Associated Press

Shaw Media file photo

Sycamore junior Lilia Edwards competes in the long jump finals during the Class 2A girls track and field state meet May 24 in Charleston. She finished fourth.

Edwards has bigger goals for ’15 off to the side,” Edwards said.

“And during meets, it’s really Continued from page B1 hard. You just have to take things by the moment and not worry But McCormick said it ultimate- about later events.” ly was a positive for Edwards, who It might get even tougher next has struggled with shin splints for year, when Edwards will set her several years. sights even higher. After setting “That turned out to be a blessSycamore records in the long jump ing in disguise,” he said. “Her four and triple jump, she wants to do events (triple jump, long jump, the same in both hurdle events.

100 and 300 hurdles) are the most Beyond that, she wants to make intense on the shins and the hips it to state in all four and medal in and the knees. … When she went more than one. back into the jump, her legs were These are lofty goals, ones that pretty fresh and springy.” probably wouldn’t be possible After how she came back after without the steps she took this the injury, McCormick said he season. McCormick said it was an probably will stick with that same “eye-opening” year for Edwards, plan next year even if Edwards whose work ethic and drive was isn’t injured. With four extremekicked up a notch. ly taxing events to compete in, it After the adversity, the comemight be a good idea. back, the disappointment and the Her schedule also was stressful surprises, Edwards will look back because of how close the events fondly on 2014. are to each other, leaving her with“I’m sad about the injury that I out much preparation time. had midseason,” she said, “but I’m “When practicing, you can’t fit really happy about the way things turned out.” it all in, so something gets pushed

• EDWARDS

MIAMI – The San Antonio Spurs left Miami last June looking so human, Tim Duncan nearly in tears talking about how close they were to another championship.

They don’t look human now.

They look like a machine.

Up 3-1 and shooting the ball at a level never seen in the NBA Finals, the Spurs headed home with a chance to wrap things up Sunday night in Game 5.

The Miami Heat, who were able to deny the Spurs last year, have two days to figure out what possibly can be done to do it again.

“They’re a high-oil machine and they move the ball extremely well,” LeBron James said. “They put you in so many difficult positions. If you’re not right on time, right on target, they’re going to make you pay for it.”

The Spurs won by 19 and 21 in the two games in Miami and are shooting 54.2 percent in the series. The NBA Finals record for a series of any length is 52.7 percent.

No team has overcome a 3-1 deficit in the finals, and the Heat were so thoroughly manhandled in Miami that the only reason to think they could be the first is what they did in the past.

Duncan said the memory of last season’s loss – the pain that’s driven the Spurs through this entire season – would “definitely come up” before Sunday.

“As I said, we know the caliber team they are, and we have a lot of respect for what they’re able to do,” Duncan said. “They’re able to throw it in another gear and they’re going to do just that. They don’t want this to be done.”

Duncan probably meant “done” as in the series. Of course, it also could mean the era.

Two off days were sure to be filled by talk of the Heat’s uncertain future, with James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh all eligible for free agency. Might such a one-sided beating convince James he had to leave to find a better roster elsewhere? Make him more resolute in his desire to stay and get the Heat back on top?

The two-time champions have more urgent concerns now.

“Did we expect to come here and

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Heat forward LeBron James (right) and guard Dwyane Wade sit on the bench during the last minutes of Game 4 of the NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night in Miami. The Spurs defeated the Heat 107-86.

Game 5 Miami at San Antonio, 7 p.m. Sunday, ABC lose two the way we did at home? No way,” Wade said. “But we also expect to go to San Antonio and put up a better effort and try to come out with another win. So we’ll get away from it [Friday], but we’ll still think about what we need to do to try to get another win to keep the series alive.”

James simply acknowledged the obvious, that the Spurs were the better team, when they swept his Cleveland Cavaliers in 2007 for the most recent of their four NBA championships. But he wasn’t supposed to be on the wrong side of the talent differential once he bolted for Miami, where the Heat would build a Big Three for this decade that would rival what San Antonio’s did the past decade.

But the Spurs go so far beyond Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili now. There’s Kawhi Leonard, who followed his career-high, 29-point night in Game 3 with 20 points and 14 rebounds Thursday and has done no worse than battled James to a draw over the past two games.

Or Boris Diaw, who wasn’t even

in the starting lineup until Game 3 and had eight points, nine rebounds and nine assists in Game 4, serving as one of the catalysts for the Spurs’ mesmerizing ball movement.

Individual players get hot all the time. The Spurs are on a teamwide hot streak.

“I just think we’re playing Spurs basketball,” Parker said. “We’re just moving the ball and we’re just playing the way we’ve been playing all season. We’d like to do a ‘good to great,’ the extra pass, and we preach that, and right now we’re clicking.”

It gets a little harder to keep that going when trying for that fourth win, the one the Spurs couldn’t quite get last year, when even the real freewheeling teams tend to tighten up a bit.

“I mean, every closeout game is very difficult, for all the obvious reasons,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said.

Especially if James delivers as so often when the Heat faced elimination, from his 45-point game in Boston in the 2012 Eastern Conference finals, to a triple-double against the Spurs in Game 6 last year, followed by 37 points in Game 7.

He might need to deliver something similar, or a championship reign could be over sooner than expected.

NCAA football, basketball players could make big money under plan Basketball players would do even better, with some earning more than $1 milOAKLAND, Calif. – Foot- lion over four years if schools ball players at big schools split their broadcast revenues could make several hundred equally with athletes. That figthousand dollars in their col- ure could rise even higher as lege careers if they were paid a billions of dollars in new teleportion of the broadcast rights vision contracts for the rights to games similar to what NFL to games are negotiated. players now get, under a modUniversity of San Francisel suggested by a sports econ- co economist Daniel Rascher omist. testified Friday that the fig-

By TIM DAHLBERG The Associated Press

ures are at the high end of his model because they come close to the 55 percent of broadcast revenue the NFL shares with its players. He pointed out on the witness stand that he did other models that would give players as little as 10 percent of revenues if they were allowed to share in broadcast rights.

Rascher’s testimony came under cross examination in a landmark antitrust tri-

al brought in federal court against the NCAA by former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon and 19 others. They are seeking an injunction that would allow players to band together and sell the rights to their names, images and likenesses (NILs), with the money likely being put in a trust fund and given to them after they leave college.

Just how much that money

would be likely would be the subject of long negotiations and other court fights. The NCAA already has indicated it will take the take the issue all the way to the Supreme Court if it loses in a bench trial before U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken, saying current model of “amateurism” is the best for both the football and Division I basketball players as well as the thousands of other athletes

in other college sports.

On a trial day dominated by talk about big money, Rascher spent nearly five hours on the stand laying out his studies on behalf of the plaintiffs. Most of them centered on how much money is being made in college sports and Rascher’s contention that colleges would not be hurt if they used some of the money now spend on facilities and coach’s salaries to pay athletes.

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WORLD CUP: USA

U.S. OPEN

Rimando appreciates tourney in spite of role

Ball mixup costs playing partners

By JANIE McCAULEY The Associated Press SAO PAULO – One day when Nick Rimando was at World Cup training camp last month in Northern California, his two children opened a lemonade stand back home in Salt Lake City to support their father and U.S. soccer.

Jett Nicholas and little sister Benny Rose were thrilled about getting ready to watch the tournament. And, barring injuries, that’s all their dad will do, too – though he has zero complaints.

Rimando has good-naturedly accepted and relished his role as a No. 3 goalkeeper counted upon to stay motivated and ready while pushing the Americans’ first two, Tim Howard and Brad Guzan.

Rimando, one of Major League Soccer’s top goalies in recent years, knows he will be a spectator in uniform for the Americans unless there’s a catastrophe.

No team has used three goalkeepers in a World Cup since Greece in 1994.

“Just completely honored, and I take a lot of pride being on this team,” said Rimando, who now is with Real Salt Lake. “I’m taking it all in and doing my part. My role is a different role than other players, and also a role that I need to be prepared if called upon. I’ve seen a lot of things go down where three goalkeepers play in one game.”

It’s rare, indeed.

In the 1994 World Cup in the U.S., each of the three Greek goalies played an entire match in the group stage, according to STATS. Greece was outscored 10-0 by Argentina, Bulgaria and Nigeria.

Rimando is hardly an unknown. The former UCLA Bruin got a shoutout Friday night from Dodgers star Yasi-

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U.S. goalkeeper Nick Rimando makes a save during practice Wednesday at the Sao Paulo FC training center in Sao Paulo. The U.S. will play in Group G of the World Cup. el Puig, who posted a photo on Twitter of himself in a Rimando jersey while wishing the goalie and the Americans good luck.

During training scrimmages, Rimando watches intently from the end line while Guzan is in goal, then jumps in for a turn.

In 2013, Rimando posted a 0.67 goals against average, the best mark by a U.S. goalkeeper with at least six matches since Guzan did so in 2008. Rimando is unbeaten with the national team in 14 matches in his six-year international career.

That reliability earned him a spot on coach Jurgen Klinsmann’s 23-man roster.

Rimando turns 35 Tuesday, a day after the U.S. opener. His kids are 6 and 4 – and earned a whopping $42 running their stand May 25.

“I’ll probably take it and put it in their piggy banks,” Rimando said. “He has a huge heart, that kid.”

Rimando’s teammates share that same sentiment about him.

“He’s been the best MLS goalkeeper for years now.

He doesn’t get any accolades

because he’s so consistent,” said midfielder Kyle Beckerman, also Rimando’s MLS teammate. “Every year he has a great year and it’s what people come to expect. That’s not who the accolades go to.

It goes to someone who surprises them. ... It’s great to see that even without those accolades Jurgen has been able to see how good he is and recognize the player he is without all the hoopla.”

Howard and Rimando have a blast trading barbs during keep-away drills when they are separated into their own tight-knit group in one corner of the field.

In fact, Howard still claims Rimando urinated on his foot sometime around 1999 – although Rimando won’t offer any details or recollections of what actually occurred.

“Nicky’s one of my favorite people in the world,” Howard said. “Nick and I have known each other half our lives. We were roommates together for seven years with the national team, U-17 and U-20. We were just reminiscing the other day about some stories. We could write a book.”

WORLD CUP ROUNDUP

Netherlands thrashes Spain The ASSOCIATED PRESS SALVADOR, Brazil – The Netherlands thrashed Spain, 5-1, Friday in the World Cup’s first shocker, toying with an aging team that has dominated global football for the past six years and avenging a loss in the 2010 final.

Although Spain still could advance out of the group stage, the match might have signaled the end of the run by a generation of Spanish stars whose quick passing, “tiki-taka” style delighted the world and helped them win the past three major tournaments.

It was the worst loss for Spain in the game’s showcase tournament since a 6-1 defeat to Brazil in 1950.

Chile 3, Australia 1: At Cuiaba, Brazil, Alexis Sanchez produced a dynamic perfor-

mance to lead Chile over Australia, scoring one goal and setting up another for one of the dangerous outsiders in the tournament.

Chile threatened to run away with the match in muggy Cuiaba when Sanchez poked home from close range in the 12th minute, before setting up Jorge Valdivia barely a minute later for the playmaker to finish from the edge of the area.

Mexico 1, Cameroon 0: At Natal, Brazil, Mexico overcame the torrential rain and two disallowed goals to beat Cameroon, picking up the three points it needed to have any chance of advancing from a tough group at the World Cup. Oribe Peralta scored in the 61st minute, giving Mexico its first win over win over an Af-

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rican team at the World Cup and justifying coach Miguel Herrera’s decision to start him ahead of striker Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez, arguably the country’s best known player.

Tournament host and favorite Brazil leads the group after a 3-1 win over Croatia in the opening game.

By JIM LITKE The Associated Press PINEHURST, N.C. – Whose ball is that anyway?

Playing partners Hunter Mahan and Jamie Donaldson finally came up with the right answer Friday – too late to do either much good.

Caught up in one of those mistakes you’re more likely to see at a junior tournament than the U.S. Open, each played the other’s ball after teeing off on No. 18 – although they were playing their ninth hole of the day. Neither realized the mistake until they arrived at the green. Both got slapped with a two-shot penal-

Friday at Pinehurst PINEHURST, N.C. – The second round of the U.S. Open at par-70, 7,562-yard Pinehurst No. 2: Leading: Martin Kaymer posted the best 36-hole score in the history of the U.S. Open with his second straight 5-under-par 65.

Pursuing: Brendon Todd, who shot 67 for a two-round total of 4-under 136, followed by Kevin Na and Brandt Snedeker at 3 under.

Departing: Masters champion Bubba Masters led an exodus of top players – including Hunter Mahan, done in by a two-shot penalty for playing the wrong ball – heading home after missing the cut.

Where’s Phil? Slipping. Mickelson, a runner-up at the U.S. Open a record six times, was at 3 over after following his opening evenpar 70 with a 73.

And Tiger? Still home and still recovering from back surgery, missing his second straight major and sixth since turning pro.

Key stat: Kaymer is ranked among the top five in every statistical category that matters – fairways hit, greens in regulation, birdies and total putts – except driving distance, where he ranked 13th.

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ty and missed the cut.

“It was 100 percent on me. I was the first one to the ball,” said John Wood, Mahan’s caddie.

He went on to explain that both players use “kind of an interesting slash across the number, which is not very common” to mark their balls.

“The only thing I can think of is I saw a slash and assumed it was Hunter’s. That’s all I can think of,” Wood added.

“But still, it’s hard to believe.

I don’t believe I did something that epically dumb, but I did.”

Mahan shouldered plenty of responsibility, as well.

“I mean, I don’t know, it was one of those things I couldn’t explain to you,” he said. “Off the

tee, it looked like that’s where my ball should have been, and I couldn’t explain to you how it ended up where it did.”

After sorting out the confusion on the green, both players walked back up the fairway and re-played the shot from the correct spot. Each wound up making a 6. Had they teed off on the next hole without doing so, both would have been disqualified under Rule 15.3.

Mahan, who was 2 under going into the hole, composed himself enough to birdie the next one. But he wound up shooting 37 on his back nine for a 72, and won’t be around for the weekend after finishing at 6 over for two rounds.

Kaymer ‘looks flawless’ • U.S. OPEN Continued from page B1 “I heard he played the No. 3 course. Is that true?” Kevin Na said after a 69 put him seven shots behind. “It’s unbelievable what he’s done. Is 4 or 5 under out there? Yes. Ten under out there? No, I don’t think so. I guess it was out there for him. I watched some of the shots he hit and some of the putts he’s made and he looks flawless.”

The six-shot lead after 36 holes tied the U.S. Open record first set by Tiger Woods at Pebble Beach in 2000 and matched

by McIlroy at Congressional.

Woods wound up winning by 15 shots. McIlroy won by eight.

“I played Congressional and I thought, ‘How can you shoot that low?’ And that’s probably what a lot of other people think about me right now,” Kaymer said.

At least a few of them allowed for some hope going into the weekend. Todd, who won the Byron Nelson Championship last month for his first PGA Tour win, will play in the final group today in his first U.S. Open.

Brandt Snedeker had a 68 and joined Na at 3-under 137.

Phil Mickelson was 13 shots behind after going back to his conventional putting grip and giving up too many shots. He had a 73.

A fast-moving thunderstorm dumped rain on Pinehurst overnight, although it didn’t make the course that much easier. The pins were in tougher locations. Trouble is waiting around any corner at Pinehurst No. 2. Kaymer rarely found it.

He opened with a short birdie on the par-5 10th hole, added birdie putts from 20 and 25 feet, and then hit a gorgeous drive on the par-4 third hole, where the tee was moved up to make it play 315 yards. His shot landed perfectly between two bunkers and bounced onto the green to set up a two-putt birdie.

And the lead kept growing.

“I look at the scoreboards.

It’s enjoyable,” Kaymer said.

“To see what’s going on, to watch yourself, how you react if you’re leading by five, by six. ... I don’t know, but it’s quite nice to play golf that way.”

It looks like a typical U.S. Open – except for Kaymer.

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The greeting card image of dad as an incompetent fool is increasingly out of sync with today’s fathers, many of whom spend as much time packing lunches and helping with homework as their own fathers spent in the Barcalounger.

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Honoring Dad Father’s Day cards make subjects the targets of jokes

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By KATHERINE SHAVER The Washington Post

here’s a good chance if you receive – or give – a Father’s Day card this weekend, Dad will be portrayed as a flatulent, beerobsessed, tool-challenged buffoon who would rather hog the remote, go fishing or play golf than be with the kids.

That’s what the greeting card industry thinks of dads. And apparently kids do, too, since so-called funny cards – obviously a subjective term – are the top sellers when it comes to honoring fathers.

But just who are these dads, and what century are they from?

“They’re about grilling – there are a bunch of those – or handyman stuff,” Peter Walker, 26, said as he looked at something for his father in the greeting card aisle at a CVS in Rockville, Maryland. So maybe a handyman card? “He’s an attorney – he’s not very handy.”

The greeting card image of dad as incompetent boob is increasingly out of sync with today’s fathers, many of whom spend as much time packing lunches and helping with homework as their own fathers spent in the Barcalounger.

But corny stereotypes still sell, greeting card companies say. The Father’s Day best seller for NobleWorks Cards, a New Jersey-based publisher of humorous greeting cards, says, “Keep Calm We Found the Remote.” The next best seller shows kids surrounding dad as he opens a card misspelled as “Happy Farter’s Day.” The third biggest seller shows “The Evolution of Dad” from ape to caveman to a guy hunkered down in front of the TV. An informal Washington Post survey of drugstores in the Washington metropolitan area found dozens of cards based on the same themes – some image of beer, golf, a fishing pole, a TV, a recliner, caveman, hapless handyman or a joke about flatulence.

Paul Raeburn, author of the new book “Do Fathers Matter? What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We’ve Overlooked,” said he’s found bungling dad cartoons dating back to the 1920s, long before Homer Simpson began belting out his forehead-slapping “Doh!” Such jokes, Raeburn said, might have been accurate through the 1960s, when fathers were primarily breadwinners and weren’t expected to know how to change a diaper or operate a toaster oven. Now, Raeburn said, he finds them offensive because they perpetuate a stereotype contradicted by studies showing that more men are leaving jobs to raise families or viewing their roles as nurturers more than economic providers.

“I think this is the last gasp of the ‘incompetent boob’ Father’s Day card figure,” he said. “It doesn’t fit anymore.

Humor is based on exaggerations of things we know to be true. ... But when the exaggeration refers to something that’s not really happening anymore, then it’s not funny anymore. It’s just odd and inappropriate and irrelevant.”

Matt Schneider, a “work-at-home” father of two young boys in New York and co-founder of the national City Dads Group, put it more bluntly: “Why do we celebrate mothers and all they do for their families, and we’re really denigrating dads? I don’t think anyone would send one of those cards to me, because they know I wouldn’t find it funny.”

So why do dad-bashing cards resonate on a holiday celebrating fatherhood?

Because, greeting card companies say, despite the more modern notion of fathers as capable, hands-on caregivers, such jokes exaggerating the do-nothing or dork-dad stereotype still ring true in many families, particularly with older fathers.

“These are generalizations of our cultural stereotypes, and these cards pick that up,” said Kathy Krassner, a spokeswoman for the Washington-based Greeting Card Association. “They’re

relatable, and they sell.”

Greeting card companies say funny cards work well for fathers who shy away from sentimentality, aren’t particularly close to their children or, most often, serve as the corny family jokester known for eliciting the “Oh, Dad” groan.

About 25 percent of Hallmark’s Father’s Day cards are in the humor category, compared with 15 percent of Mother’s Day cards. Men also appreciate punchin-the-arm, even immature, humor more than women do, companies say.

“The jokes aren’t usually about dad taking you to the baseball game – that’s not funny,” said Ron Kanfi, president of NobleWorks. “It’s hoarding the [TV] remote control or farting – that’s a lot funnier than him taking you to the movies. ... You try to give mom a fart joke for Mother’s Day, it probably won’t fly very well, but with dad you can.

“It’s poking fun,” Kanfi added. “It’s not insulting him.”

Tim Whyatt, an Australian cartoonist whose work appears on cards for American Greetings and NobleWorks, said dad-as-distant-goofball cartoons remain plenty popular, even as they become increasingly outdated. One of Whyatt’s Father’s Day cartoons shows three kids stuffed into a TV set facing a balding, shlumpy dad. One of the kids says to the mom, “It’s the only way we can get him to listen to us.”

In funny cards, Whyatt says, buyers want mothers portrayed “as the heroes” and fathers as “the butt of the joke.” Perhaps, he said, it’s because “humor likes to take potshots at the top dog,” a role fathers still play in many families.

“It’s really important to tap into what’s going on in people’s homes, or the cards won’t sell,” Whyatt said. He added: “I’m careful not to make dad into a complete idiot.”

Katherine Cerami, 28, of Bethesda, Maryland, said she bought such Father’s Day cards when she was younger because they made her laugh.

“If I saw something about the couch or the [TV] remote or putting your feet up and relaxing, I’d get it,” Cerami said. Her father, she said, “sort of has his chair and the shows and sports he watches.”

But this year, she opted for a more serious “From your loving daughter” card. Now that she’s older and out of the house, Cerami said, she didn’t want something so “stereotypical” or “cheesy,” and she couldn’t find another kind of funny card that fit.

Greeting card companies are listening. Hallmark officials say their offerings will increasingly show more involved dads, just as they have expanded over the years to include stepfathers, single dads and more active grandfathers.

Matt Gowen, editorial director for Hallmark’s humorous Father’s Day cards, said Hallmark focused this year on appealing to millennial dads. One card shows a dad with a goatee juggling a baby and two small kids as coffee cups and a baby bottle swirl around him.

Inside, the message says, “Only multitask in fun ways today.” Another shows two brawny men arm-wrestling. One says, “Gah! You been weightlifting?” The other answers, “Nope. Kid-carrying.”

“It’s the idea,” Gowen said, “that Dad is there, he’s plugged in and is a big part of the baby’s and child’s upbringing.”

Whyatt, the cartoonist, said he expects that greeting card companies soon will be requesting Father’s Day cartoons showing more dads like himself.

Working from home, Whyatt said, he’s “very hands-on” with his two sons, ages 2 and 3.

“I’ve stuck with the old image because it’s funnier,” Whyatt said. “I’m sure there’s a way to make the new image of fathers funny as well, but it would be a shame to lose making dad the butt of the joke. Even though we’re all changing, hopefully we’ll still be able to take a joke.”

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FAMILY TIME | Bird feeding faux pas? 5 no-fret fixes

Tip of the week Fabulous food, pretty presentation and attention to detail can earn you a reputation as an amazing host among your human guests. But when you serve your feathered friends, are you committing a feeding faux pas that you fear may prove unforgivable?

Birds may be small, but they pack long memories into those little craniums, and they won’t soon forget if you serve the wrong food, make a bad feeder choice or allow uninvited squirrels in on the action. Certain feeding missteps, however, are fairly easy to fix.

Faux pas No. 1 - Serving junk food.

You wouldn’t invite your friends over for a dinner party and serve them a bucket of take-out fried chicken, would you? Well, that’s essentially what you’re doing if you serve birds human food like bread, donuts or cookies, or stock feeders with seed mixes that are made up mostly of millet, other fillers

or low-quality seeds.

The fix: Fill feeders with quality options. Suet and dried mealworms (less messy than live mealworms) provide much-needed energy and fat, while quality seed blends incorporate only the seeds birds really like to eat, without the chemicals and mineral oil coating of cheaper brands. Visit www. coleswildbird.com to learn more about types of bird feed.

Faux pas No. 2 - Failing to keep guests safe.

Birds can be quite focused when they see feed they want. On the way to the feeder, birds can collide with windows, especially if the glass reflects the sky and trees or is very clean and clear.

Window collisions can be devastating, and even fatal, for birds.

The fix: Place feeders at least 30 feet from windows to avoid disorienting reflections. If you don’t have that kind of room, place feeders just 1 to 3 feet from windows in order to prevent birds from building up enough momentum for a potentially fatal collision.

Faux pas No. 3 - Tolerating uninvited guests.

Birds aren’t the only ones who love bird feed; squirrels are big fans of seeds and suet as well, and they’re experts at stealing seed from bird feeders. Left unchallenged, squirrels can drain feeders quickly, leaving nothing for the birds. They can also cause damage to feeders and frighten away more timid bird species.

The fix: You wouldn’t attack a pesky

8PRAIRIE FLOWERS Generosity appreciated in Somonauk To the Editor: Somonauk High School and Somonauk Summer Recreation are so very pleased to let everyone know that there will be two huge projects taken on this year. The old gym roof has been repaired and access paths are being added to both varsity baseball and softball fields.

A huge part of the funding for these projects came from DeKalb County Community Foundation and the Somonauk Nighthawks youth football organization. The Nighthawks have been dissolved and directed funds to be allocated back into the community. The Nighthawks provided most of the funding for the old gym roof and the high school finished off the project with some of the proceeds received from their grant. The high school then allocated the balance of their grant proceeds to the access paths. The high school received a $9,000 grant from DCCF that was written by Somonauk Summer Rec on their behalf.

The effort and generosity exhibited by the DCCF, Nighthawks and Somonauk Summer Rec are a testament to what can be achieved when a small group of motivated people pull together in the same direction. Somonauk High School can only attempt to show the appreciation for all the help involved in improving the venues for the students, parents, visitors and the community in general.

Thank you, Justin Snider Somonauk High School principal

Thanks for the warm welcome To the Editor: I would like to give my heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all of the people who sent “Mail Call” letters that I received during our recent return honors flight to Midway Airport. The letters were expressing your sincere thanks and appreciation for my service to our great country during World War II. They touched my heart, as did many of those who greeted me upon my return to Midway. If you read Friday’s issue of the Daily Chronicle, you found out that the reception at Midway was the highlight of my Honors Flight tour. Approximately 100 or more people were there to welcome me with “Thank you for your service,” said with a warm handshake. As I told the many I spoke to, “it was my honor to serve our country and its people.”

I would like to repeat that to all of you who sent “Mail Call” letters to me. Thank you very much from a proud American.

Joe Bussone Sycamore

Thanks for care after heart attack To the Editor: In mid-May I had a serious heart attack at 7 a.m. on a Sunday.

My wife gave me aspirin and called 911. Within five minutes the Sycamore Fire Department EMTs were treating me at my residence. They evaluated me and immediately identified that I was, indeed, having a heart attack and administered aspirin, nitroglycerin, put an IV in my arm, and whisked me away to Kishwaukee Hospital. Within just a few minutes the cardio emergency team at Kish prepped me and installed a stent in the main artery to my heart which was 100 percent blocked.

One hour later I was watching TV in the ICU. I want to thank the Sycamore Emergency Medical Technicians and the Fire Department for their outstanding response and care as well as the Cardiac Team at Kishwaukee Hospital for my survival and quick return to normal activity within one week of my heart attack. Thanks also to my friends and neighbors for their support. A special thanks to my very first responder, my wife, Betty.

William “Bill” Mitchell Sycamore

neighbor who showed up uninvited at your backyard barbecue, and you don’t want to harm squirrels either – just dissuade them from bothering bird feeders. One option is to stock feeders with a spicy food. Birds can’t taste the heat, but squirrels sure hate it. Or try distracting squirrels and other wildlife from bird feeders by serving them something even better.

Faux pas No. 4 - Overlooking the importance of ambiance.

You hang streamers and balloons for a birthday party, and light graceful tapers for an intimate dinner party. Birds care about ambiance, too. Shrubbery and trees provide birds places to hide from predators. A yard that lacks cover is not an appealing dining destination for birds.

The fix: Choose a calm, sunny location for feeders – spots east or south of your house will probably provide the most protection from cold northern winds. Plant shrubs and trees, put up a fence or plant a hedge row to provide cover. Since you’ll have to refill your feeders daily, be sure their location is accessible and convenient.

Faux pas No. 5 - Paper plates Would you invest time and money in preparing a gourmet meal only to serve it on paper plates? Of course not! Yet that’s comparable to how birds feel about a single feeder, a dirty feeder or one that doesn’t feature their preferred style of perch.

The fix: Offer multiple styles of feeders to appeal to the broadest range

of backyard birds. Tube feeders are a great, classic type of feeder that works for many different birds. An open-bowl design feeder makes it easy to serve suet, nuts and mealworms. Hummingbird feeders allow you to serve the nectar that hummingbirds love.

Fortunately, it’s easy to develop bird feeding etiquette. A few simple fixes will convince your feathered friends that your backyard is the destination of choice for discerning diners this season.

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Family Movie Night “Maleficent” Rated: PG Length: 97 minutes Synopsis: A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land’s fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her pure heart to stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces a battle with the invading king’s successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora.

As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom – and perhaps to Maleficent’s true happiness as well. – Walt Disney Pictures Violence/scary rating: 2.5 Sexual-content rating: 1.5

Profanity rating: 1.5 Drugs/alcohol rating: 1.5 Family Time rating: 2. A fantastic family film all around – it’s praised by critics, and it’s good for all but the youngest.

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

Book Report “Flora and the Flamingo,” by Molly Idle Ages: 4 to 6 Pages: 44 Synopsis: In this innovative wordless picture book with interactive flaps, Flora and her graceful flamingo friend explore the trials and joys of friendship through an elaborate synchronized dance. With a twist, a turn, and even a flop, these unlikely friends learn at last how to dance together in perfect harmony. Full of humor and heart, this stunning performance (and splashy ending!) will have readers clapping for more! – Chronicle Books

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Emily Post updates business etiquette tion, where a participant brings no ideas to the table but spends the time poohpoohing the ideas of others.

“Sure, there are going to be some ideas that you knock down for a certain reason, whether they conflict with a contract or it’s nothing like what the client is going to want, that sort of thing,” she said.

“But a brainstorming session needs to be the kind of open environment where you let things marinate, you let them percolate. It’s one of those places where being the negative Nelly, being the person who’s saying no, no, no, no all the time does not make you a team player and it does not make you smarter than everybody else. For me, that is the most annoying person to have on a team.”

By LEANNE ITALIE The Associated Press NEW YORK – Much has changed about workplace and business etiquette since Emily Post was dispensing advice herself.

Post died in 1960, but her family has carried on her love of good manners through the Emily Post Institute in Burlington, Vermont. The latest from the Posts is a third edition of “The Etiquette Advantage in Business,” released this month by William Morrow.

Great-great-granddaughter Lizzie Post said an update was needed to take into account the explosion in social media and digital communications, along with a more casual work environment in many fields.

Some highlights:

Social media and smartphones When you make a mistake, ‘fess up.

Post recalled a recent radio show call-in question that went something like this: “’I butt-dialed all of my business contacts while on a 10-hour hike over the weekend. What do I do and is there a term other than butt-dial that I can use?’ We say purse- or pocket-dial work, too, and apologize immediately using whatever communication you usually use for each contact.”

Generally, she said, avoid the urge to get all loosey-goosey. Use email, private message, text and voice mail very, very carefully.

“Unless you would feel comfortable posting it on a bulletin board in your town or screaming it to everybody that you know, don’t do it,” Post said.

Hugs and kisses

Working from home

“I’m always surprised at how much there is of this when I’m doing business.

I’m getting hugs and a kiss on the cheek as a hello. Usually it’s after the very first meeting. The very first meeting is still usually a handshake.”

But Post is a fan of hugs and kisses on the job after the first meeting, depending on your field. “I like feeling like I’m doing business with a person who I have a personal connection with. I know many people who want to keep professional professional and they don’t want to be hugging somebody that down the line they might have to say, ‘Look, we can’t work with you anymore.’”

You may know exactly how you want this to go, Post said, but your friends and neighbors may have other ideas.

“It’s really important to lay boundaries with friends, lovers, neighbors.

Let them know, ‘This really is my work day and I do need to focus and be focused and dropping by just isn’t something I can accommodate. I’d love to see you at 5.’”

Does that go for spouses, too? Is it OK for an at-office spouse to leave chores for the home-office spouse?

“No, not without talking about it first.

You need to talk about it ahead of time, because that really is a work day,” she said.

Post advises making a schedule and sticking to it. And she’s not an advocate of staying in PJs. “Take a shower, get dressed. It’s still your work day.”

Brainstorming Such think sessions have an etiquette all their own. Post warns against passively trying to control through rejec-

8BRIEFS Pest control without harmful pesticides DeKalb County Community Gardens will offer a presentation by the University of Illinois Extension educator Candice Miller on how to control pests without the use of pesticides.

The free presentation is open to the public. It will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Unitarian Universalist church located at 158 N. Fourth St. in DeKalb.

Pesticides are a collection of synthetic chemicals, designed to kill pests, however many pesticides also pose risks to people. The health risks depend upon the pesticide, but can range from irritation to skin and eyes, to carcinogens that may cause cancer. Some affect the nervous system, or some alter hormones within the body.

Studies also have found a connection between pesticides and ADHD in children.

Pesticides also affect the local environment. Pesticides have been found in water run-offs from properties where pesticides have been used, as well as

getting into the ground water.

Miller will provide information and alternative methods people can use that do not require dangerous chemicals. She will provide specific detailed instruction on organic methods of pest control that do not endanger people or the environment.

For questions or more information about the presentation, call Dan Kenney at 815-793-0950.

Craft vendors wanted for Somonauk Summerfest The Somonauk Summerfest Committee is seeking vendors for its annual craft fair, which will be held from 5 p.m. to dusk July 25, and 11 a.m. to dusk July 26. The craft fair will be located at Somonauk’s Community Park on South Gage Street.

The organizers welcome crafters, flea marketers and antique dealers to sell their wares at the event that has been gaining in size and popularity over the years. The fee to participate ranges from $15 to $45 depending on the size of space and number of days of participation.

Those interested in being a vendor should contact Susan Zarbock at 815-498-3974. The deadline to register is July 19.

Aside from the craft show, Summerfest will have a wide variety of entertainment at the family-friendly festival. The weekend will include a cruise night, vintage baseball game, food vendors, Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament, Bean Bag Toss Competition, truck pulls, kids play zone, beer tent and live music throughout the weekend.

There also will be several health displays during the fest including a booth from KishHealth System and eye screenings from Somonauk Lions Club.

The Pink Heels will have a pink fire truck on display and will be selling T-shirts to benefit breast cancer research.

There also are several sponsorship opportunities available.

For more information about Summerfest, call Somonauk Village Hall at 815-498-3500 or visit www.somonauksummerfest.com.

Somonauk library sets adult reading program The Adult Summer Reading Program at the Somonauk Public Library will begin Monday and run through Aug. 9. Any adult can sign up for the program during the eight-week period.

The program is easy to do, even if you are a busy parent or just a busy person. Participants will be asked to read materials of their choice in 30-minute increments, totaling 100 hours.

Participants can read the newspaper, magazine articles, read to their children, or read for pleasure.

New this year: Participants who read four titles from the “Fishing for a Good Book” tank and fill out a Book Rating Card for each, will automatically win a “special prize.”

All participants completing the program will receive something special from the library. During the eight weeks, a name will be drawn for a weekly fun prize.

For more information, call 815498-2440.

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Q: My mother has multiple sclerosis (MS) and the disease is progressing. Her goal is to stay at home and die there. I am unsure how to make that happen. I know we need to make changes to the home, such as installing ramps into the house, making renovations to the bathroom, and picking up throw rugs. Where do I begin to find out what to do, the cost and to know the person I am hiring is reputable and honest?

A: There are many ways to find someone to come into the home to make suggestions for home modification.

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Heirloom plants are longtime family friends HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?

By BARBARA LINDHOLM University of Illinois Extension DeKalb County Master Gardener In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in heirloom plants. A current trend in gardening involves learning about and growing antique or heirloom plants.

What exactly is an heirloom plant? Officially, a plant needs to have been introduced before 1950. Plants grown in America from the 1600s to 1950 would be considered heirloom status.

A secondary definition of heirloom plants would be plants handed down from generation to generation within a family. These plants are often sentimental favorites full of family memories and are a welcome component of the family’s current garden.

Enthusiasm for heirloom plants stems from the fact that they offer larger blooms and fantastic fragrance. Heirloom plants are different from hybrid plants because they are open-pollinated, which means that they self-pollinate or cross-pollinate and manage to keep identical or very similar characteristics to the original

mother plant.

Time for a brief history lesson.

In colonial times, plants served a purpose. Medicines, dyes, herbs and food for the family all came from the garden and allowed the early settlers to survive in the new world. So, as early as the 1600s, plants were a critical part of every day life in America.

Fast forward to the turn of the 20th century. Victorian gardens were all about the bling! Gardens of this era were very flamboyant showcasing bold colors and bold-sized plants, carpet beds of annuals in decorative shapes, and impressive garden ornaments and statuary.

Victorians also were all about giving their plants dramatic, emotional names. You would find in their gardens plants called bleeding heart, forgetme-not, love-in-the-mist and kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate.

During the World War I

time period, gardens returned to a more serious nature as Victory gardens appeared all over the United States, and families fed themselves with vegetable and fruit produce from their home gardens.

Throughout America’s history, our gardens have been our valued possessions helping us through difficult and also fun, creative times.

How can we add some history to our home gardens?

For authentic heirloom plants, there are catalogs that feature annuals, perennials and shrubs of bygone eras. Heirloom seeds can be purchased by mail order from organizations such as Seed Savers Exchange and Seeds of Change. To be historically correct in the world of roses, your rose selection must have been created before 1867.

For a more casual approach, plants can be added to your garden that mimic the heirloom version but are currently easier to locate and purchase.

Classic heirloom type plants are available in many forms. Annual options include bachelor’s button, larkspur,

pot marigold and love-in-amist, while bleeding heart, Oriental poppies and four-o-clocks are good perennial choices.

Many of the early heirlooms were biennial plants, and good current plants for this category are foxglove, hollyhock, forget-me-not and Sweet William. No dedicated Victorian gardener would be without a dramatic vine in their garden, and their and your current vine of choice would be either fragrant sweet peas or morning glories.

Travel back in time and let some old fashioned plants give new life to your home garden.

Lets keep historically valuable plants alive and growing for future generations to experience and enjoy.

• The Master Gardeners are available to answer your questions from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday at the University of Illinois Extension DeKalb County office in the Farm Bureau Center for Agriculture, 1350 W. Prairie Drive in Sycamore. Call 815758-8194 or email DeKalb_mg@ extension.uiuc.edu. Walk-ins Victorian favorite Bleeding Heart are welcome.

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This year’s vendors include: Rover’s K9 Snacks, Papa’s Natural Honey/Willow Creek Honey Farm, Beets and Beats Farm, Kiki’s Skin Care, Windy Acres, Crump Family Gardens,

Ledfoot’s Pet Bakery, South Street Coffee Inc., Larson’s Country Market Inc., Waterman Winery and Vineyards Inc., Monika’s Organic Bakery, KV Creations, Theis Farm II, Fox Flower Farm, Twin Garden Farms, DeKalb County Community Gardens and Ecoviolet Soap.

The market is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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This 2011 photo provided by Vanessa Giacoppo shows a waterfall in Iceland. Giacoppo took the photograph on a private tour of Iceland with a guide, Tony Prower, who takes visitors to waterfalls and other scenic spots where they can shoot beautiful pictures. Private tours are a growing industry, no longer the exclusive domain of wealthy travelers, thanks to websites that help tourists connect with locals. laysia, who wanted to show us every little detail,” he recalled with a laugh. “We tried to say, ‘We have to go to the bathroom, we have to go to eat.’ He said, ‘I’ll give you 15 minutes and then we’ll start the second half.’”

Vanessa Giacoppo of Hoboken, New Jersey, took a private photography tour in Iceland for $400 that included door-to-door transportation, as many private tours do. The guide drove her and her fiancé to waterfalls and other hardto-reach sites, and coached them on taking photos that were so good, she blew one

up to a 3-by-7-foot canvas.

“In terms of the price, you do everything when you travel for the experience,” she said.

“When were we going back to Iceland? We wanted to be able to capture that moment.”

Karmina Zafiro of San Francisco booked two private tours in Taiwan, one for food through Vayable and one to see Taroko Gorge, found through TripAdvisor. “After both tours, I felt like I’d made local friends. You made that personal connection. They weren’t selling me anything.

But they imparted that local flavor.”

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Earlier this spring, the Sycamore Women’s Club invited local author Beverly Finn author to present a program about her recently published book, “You Won’t Be Coming Back,” for members of the club. The book is an easy read, and it is a touching story of the heartaches the author recalls from her own life expressed in a way that makes it a charming story of a young girl who became a survivor who moved out of poverty and into the life of a respected professional, wife and mother. Following the program, the members decided Finn’s book would be a fine addition to the Sycamore Public Library. Pictured are Sally Stevens gifting book to Sarah Tobias in memory of former club member, Elaine Powers.

Women’s barbershop choir gets audience moving

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Prairie Echoes Chorus of DeKalb rocked the stage at the Midwest Harmony contest in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on May 17 with their barbershop rendition of “Hot, Hot, Hot.” The audience were out of their chairs swaying to the music. Director Donna Bates (right) and her quartet, Pizazz, also sang in the competition. The women’s barbershop chorus meets from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesdays at Community of Christ Church, 1200 S. Malta Road, DeKalb. For information, visit www.prairieechoes.com or call 815-761-5956.

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NEW YORK – I had one night only in Medellin, Colombia. It was Christmas and I was determined to see the city’s famous holiday lights.

An online search led me to LandVentureTravel.com, which specializes in private Medellin tours. By email, I booked a guide to meet my family at our hotel and take us to see the lights.

I found good reviews for the service on other websites, but felt nervous. What if the guide didn’t show? What if his driving was bad? What if the neighborhoods were scary?

But our guide was phenomenal. We not only loved the lights, but we genuinely connected with our guide about everything from the economy to politics. It was my first private tour, and it was a revelation – completely different from group tours with canned scripts and time wasted waiting for others to shop and use bathrooms.

Private tours are no longer the exclusive domain of wealthy travelers and high-end packages. Websites and social media have made it easy for travelers to book a personal guide. “There is a growing desire for this,” said Jamie Wong, founder of Vayable.com, one of the biggest sites connecting tourists with locals, offering 8,500 experiences in 800 cities. “We’re leaving the double-decker buses and prefab, packaged tours and entering an era of eclecticism where niche is becoming mainstream.”

Prices for personal tours are often but not always lower than group tours, ranging from $15 to hundreds of dollars, depending on location, duration and logistics. Tours4Tips charges nothing for walking tours of Santiago, Chile – participants pay what they wish at the end, with an average $12 tip. Our tour for four in Medellin was $140 – $35 per person, or half the price of a Christmas lights bus tour in New York.

Regardless of cost, personal tours are often more meaningful than packaged tours.

You not only get a customized itinerary, but you get to meet a local. Robin Samora of Boston paid $100 each for fourhour tours in Budapest and Prague. “We loved that the tour was personalized, with what we liked to do,” she said.

“We also had the ability to ask questions about any subject,” including what it was like to grow up under communism.

The hardest part is finding the tour of your dreams. Many travelers simply ask friends or use social media. Others search on blogs, TripAdvisor or Lonely Planet threads.

Tours on Vayable and other sites – ToursByLocals, UrbanAdventures, Rent-AGuide, Nomaders – tend to fall into obvious categories such as food, shopping, major attractions, history, art, architecture and outdoor adventures. But Vayable also lets users request a custom itinerary, which local guides then bid on.

Elisse Goldstein-Clark, who owns the Elkhorn Inn in Eckman, West Virginia, “was Googling to find foodie things to do in Rome – there are lots of foodie tours there.

But I started reading about truffle-hunting with a guide in Le Marche in rural Italy, and we changed our trip so we could go truffle-hunting.” She and her husband spent several hours on a bus getting there, but it ended up being “a foodie once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

Jeremy Hanson, a New Yorker who just graduated from law school, often finds guides through local travel agencies in the place he’s visiting. “These types of guides don’t have the infrastructure to man the phone and put up a website,” he explained. In Nicaragua, he found a guide for a volcano hike “essentially just by walking up and down the street and speaking to people in my broken Spanish.”

The only downside? Sometimes guides are too devoted.

“We had one in Malacca, Ma-

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TODAY – New opportunities will be revealed through associations with influential individuals who recognize what you have to offer. Reality may exceed your expectations where career changes are concerned.

Demonstrate your abilities and pursue your dreams. Change is upon you, so seize the day.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Financial security should be on your mind.

Scrutinize your spending history.

Long-term investments or an improved cash flow will help you save more than you spend.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – You’ll be feeling unsure of yourself today.

Getting involved in a creative project will keep your mind off your troubles. The satisfaction of completing something enjoyable will help to boost your spirits.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – If someone suggests a new health regimen, take note. Showing an effort to be the best person you can be will make you feel good about your personal accomplishments as well as attract compliments.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – If things are not progressing as you had hoped, make a change. Don’t confine yourself to old ideas and received wisdom. Look into new ways to use your skills in order to bypass obstacles.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Don’t let a careless remark ruin your day. By putting your best foot forward and doing your own thing, you will show everyone that you have what it takes to win.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Good fortune will be yours. You will find a favorable conclusion to a longtime problem, and others will go out of their way to help you. The future looks promising.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Your schedule will be chaotic.

Tackle jobs that have been hanging over your head. Your energy will be contagious, and everyone around you will be motivated to help.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – You cannot escape personal issues.

Don’t hide your true feelings.

Dealing with them head-on will help you to move forward. Positive action brings stellar results.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – You may have more money than you think. Take a look around and determine which items you no longer use.

Having a yard sale will bring you extra income.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Social functions are likely to lead to a special relationship. Take advantage of every invitation, and don’t be too shy to mingle. Your uniqueness will attract attention.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Expect people around you to be overly critical. Don’t take it personally. Instead, get involved in a new project that will allow you to interact and meet new people.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Reuniting with people from your past will emphasize how far you’ve come.

You will enjoy catching up and learning about the achievements and challenges that others have faced, as well.

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Two’s a crowd in bedroom shared by sisters Dear Abby: I’m a 14-year-old girl and I need my own bedroom. Ever since I was born, I have shared a room with my 17-year-old sister. Maybe it was OK when we were younger, but now it is impossible.

It’s crowded and annoying. I have no privacy, and I can’t decorate it how I want.

What makes this worse is that we have an extra room.

My parents refuse to consider it and won’t give me a reason.

It has gotten so bad I have moved into a closet. Every time I walk into my room I get a headache. I never hang out there anymore. Please help. – In The Closet in New York Dear In The Closet: Your parents may be hoping you can come to a truce with your sister without having to sacrifice their guest room. If you feel your bedroom is crowded, it must be the same for her.

If a truce isn’t possible, then you will have to continue hanging out in other parts of the house.

Although it may be inconvenient for you, your sister can’t help that she exists, and the sooner you accept it, the sooner your headache will lessen. As to redecorating the bedroom to suit your taste, be patient awhile longer. At 17, your sister should be nearly out of high school. In another year she’ll be 18, and the room

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips will be all yours if she plans on going to college or finding a job, roommates and independence.

P.S. At that point, don’t be surprised if you miss her.

Dear Abby: A friend I have known for about 10 years messaged me again tonight saying she was going to commit suicide. I tried to get her to go to a hospital, but she refused.

When I told her I was going to contact the police, she backed down a bit. This has become an almost-nightly occurrence.

She’s going through a rough patch right now. She’s breaking things off with her drug-addicted longtime partner. She is also underemployed, in danger of being evicted and has cancer.

It is tough on me to talk her down from the ledge every night. Many of her problems are of her own making, but she can’t seem to see that. She can’t afford therapy. I have taken her to Al-Anon, but she quit after a short time.

I don’t know what to do. I hate to break it off with her because I’m afraid she will kill herself. I am the only

friend she has left. How much longer do I hold on? – Sucked Dry in Kansas Dear Sucked Dry: Because your friend is calling nightly threatening to harm herself, it appears she is using you to vent. That’s all right if it’s consensual and you have the emotional strength to handle it. If you don’t, and because you describe yourself as emotionally depleted (“sucked dry”), I’m advising you to start screening your calls. I’m not advising you to shut her out completely, but to allow yourself not to answer your phone unless you are feeling up for it. And if she threatens suicide again, follow through on contacting the police.

Dear Abby: I have an attractive friend who was bypassed for a front-office promotion.

“Miranda” is pleasant, clean, efficient, energetic and had the same qualifications as the individual who was promoted. A management team member confided that the reason for Miranda’s lack of advancement “might” be due to the numerous tattoos – difficult to cover – on her arms and wrists, which the manager said isn’t the image the business wants to convey.

Is this discrimination? I think it’s unfair because Miranda is a good worker. She keeps asking me if I have any

ideas why she was bypassed.

Should I tell her? I don’t want to violate the manager’s faith in my confidentiality, even though I will be retiring soon.

– Loyal Friend in Massachusetts Dear Loyal Friend: Your friend’s obvious tattoos prevent her from presenting the corporate image your employer prefers be conveyed to clients who visit the front office. To my knowledge, people with tattoos are not members of a protected class, which would put an employer at risk for a discrimination suit.

Because Miranda continues to ask why she wasn’t promoted, and you have nothing to lose by telling her what you were told, I think you should level with her. She might prefer to work at a company where her chances for advancement aren’t stymied.

Dear Abby: I have two children who are not yet old enough for school. My mother-in-law watches them for free a few times a week.

She has been “trying” to quit smoking for the last couple of years.

Nine out of 10 times when I take my children to her, she asks me to bring her a pack of cigarettes. I feel obligated to do it because she watches my children for free.

I know I’m not doing her any favors, and I have asked others how I should handle this. They say I should make excuses like, “I don’t have any money with me,” or, “I forgot to get them.” I figure there’s only a few more years before she won’t have to watch my kids, so after that, I’ll never feel obligated to bring her smokes again.

Any advice? – Smoked Out in Wisconsin Dear Smoked Out: Yes. When you are done reading this, go online and see what the American Cancer Society and the American Lung Association have to say about the effects of secondhand smoke on children. Then, rather than lie to your mother-inlaw, the next time she asks you to bring her a pack when you drop off the kids, summon the courage to tell her no because it isn’t healthy for your children.

Dear Readers: I would like to wish a Happy Father’s Day to fathers everywhere – birth fathers, stepfathers, adoptive and foster fathers, grandfathers, and all of those caring men who mentor children and fill the role of absent fathers.

Love, Abby

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Good exercising involves more than just aerobics Dear Dr. K: You’ve written that a complete exercise program involves a combination of activities. Can you discuss these exercises? How often should I do them?

Dear Reader: All-around fitness calls for a combination of aerobic, strength, flexibility and balance exercises.

Let’s start with aerobic activities, which are great for burning calories and paring down unwanted fat. These activities – think of walking, biking, running and swimming – push large muscles to repeatedly contract and relax. They temporarily boost your heart rate and breathing, helping to build up your endurance.

Try to get at least 150

ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity (such as a brisk walk) or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity physical activity each week. (I’ve put a description of exercise intensity on my website, AskDoctorK.com, to help you judge how hard you’re working.)

Strength or resistance training works by forcing muscles to strain against an opposing force such as free weights or a resistance band.

Strength exercises build muscles and protect against bone loss. They also preserve functional strength. Func-

tional strength allows you to lift groceries, climb stairs, or sprint to the bus stop with ease.

Aim to perform a complete strength-training routine two to three times per week. Your routine should work all the major muscle groups. Give your body at least 48 hours to rest between strength-training workouts.

Flexibility exercises like stretching, yoga and Pilates gently reverse the shortening and weakening of muscles that typically comes with age.

Shorter, stiffer muscle fibers are more vulnerable to injuries. They contribute to back pain and balance problems.

Flexibility exercises help stretch and strengthen muscles. Well-stretched muscles

can more easily achieve their full range of motion, which makes it easier to reach, bend and stoop during daily tasks.

Perform flexibility exercises at least two to three times a week. Hold stretches for 10 to 30 seconds. Repeat each stretch four times.

Balance exercises help improve stability. They offer an excellent defense against falls, which can cause disabling bone fractures. Activities that enhance balance include tai chi, yoga and Pilates. You can do balance exercises two to seven days a week.

All my adult life, I took aerobic exercise very seriously. I jogged nearly every day. In the past 15 years, I’ve switched to a non-impact type of aerobic exercise with an

elliptical cross-trainer. But I never really took the other types of exercise seriously.

When my muscle bulk started to shrink (which it had never done earlier in life), I learned the value of strength training. And when I had a couple of thigh and calf muscle sprains, I learned the value of flexibility training.

I suspect that, before long, I’ll also be doing tai chi regularly. That’s not because it’s in vogue, but because of the proven health benefits I’ve reported in this column before. And also because a large fraction of the human race has been doing it for centuries – and swears by it.

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8TODAY’S WEEKEND PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Mr. Sikorsky 5 Conductor Zubin — 10 Frankness 16 Kind of sugar 21 Aria performer 22 Online note 23 Steep or soak 24 Ohio city 25 “By Jove!”

26 — Jean Baker 27 Bobby of “Wild One” 28 Talent seeker 29 Sled dog 31 Part of SPCA 33 Impart knowledge 35 Twice DI 36 Fix, as a skirt 37 Police bust 40 Where Ipanema is 41 Emcee 42 LP successors 45 Disencumber 46 The lady 48 Coral habitat 50 Think very likely 52 Chapeau securer 54 Fall short 55 Desert terrain 57 Abner’s partner 58 Going on 59 Wyo. neighbor 60 Laundry amount 62 Implied 66 Bask 67 Omens, to ancients 69 Pasture entrances 71 — -majeste 72 Capsizes (2 wds.)

74 Handle roughly 76 Prefix with “surgeon” 78 Open meadow 79 Pac-10 team 80 Conspicuous 83 Smiles coyly 85 “— la vista!”

88 Move crabwise

89 “The Zoo Story” penner 90 Holiday tradition (2 wds.)

93 Kitchen alcove 95 Lake — (Blue Nile source) 97 Hurler’s stat 98 First-rate 100 Half a fly?

101 Lean toward 106 USA-wide 108 Mopes 110 Entertain lavishly 112 Caterwaul 113 Kind of prof 115 Seam, in mining 116 Rocker — Jagger 117 Buying frenzy 118 Place for a pint 120 Large fishhook 122 Dice throw 123 Bleach 124 Picnic shelters 128 Pentagon grp.

129 Joule fraction 130 — kwon do 131 See — — glance 132 Tart 133 Auction signal 135 Benefit, often 137 Williams or Boitano 139 Natural elev.

140 Mr. Copland 142 Slip up 144 Stared down 148 Narrow-minded sort 150 Extinguished 153 Thick strings 155 Pretty 156 In plain sight 157 Time at bat 158 Oblong fruit 159 Sage or basil 160 Bad, bad Brown of song 161 Royal order 162 Primp 163 Lyric poems

DOWN 1 Footnote word 2 Billion, in combos 3 Almond-shaped 4 Tornado finder 5 Violinist Yehudi — 6 Got melodramatic 7 Seraglio 8 Youngest Cratchit 9 “Woe is me!”

10 Roughly 11 Some 12 Maritime prov.

13 Recital offering 14 Canadian doctor 15 Tiled anew 16 Reduce to pulp 17 Canine registry 18 Ads 19 — May Alcott

20 Thing 30 Be worthy of 32 Pitcher — Hershiser 34 Anthracite 38 Soyuz destination 39 Traded 41 Pertaining to blood 42 Tailor’s marker 43 Willem in “Platoon” 44 Ripped off 46 One-edged swords 47 Al the trumpeter 49 Consecrate 51 Muddy track 53 Foul the air 54 Wife, to a lawyer 56 Cartoon chipmunk 59 Exploding star

61 — ex machina 63 “People” person 64 River in France 65 Flirt with 67 Mil. rank 68 First-aid devices 69 Bake 70 Sahib’s address 73 Sell hot tickets 75 Adjutants 77 Saudi neighbor 81 — — see it 82 Hockey goal 84 Web-footed mammals 85 Veld scavengers 86 Psychics may see them 87 Ribs, slangily 91 Scepter go-with 92 Bikini sporter

93 Whatchamacallit 94 — on (inciting) 95 Exchange ideas 96 Wide st.

99 Synthesizer inventor 102 Marathon or 10K 103 Main artery 104 Bird call 105 Helen, in Spanish 107 Bounded along 109 Dashboard button 111 Sheik colleague 114 Novice newshawk 117 Grain bundle 119 — fide 121 Pharm. watchdog 122 Next-door 123 Serves (2 wds.)

124 Frolic 125 Like Etna 126 Caustic comeback 127 Unsavory 130 Plod along 134 “Lorna —” 136 Flowerpot spot 137 Carried, as by wind 138 Cheesy snack 140 LL.D. holder 141 Now, to Nero 143 Sgt. Preston’s gp.

145 Fed a line 146 Raison d’-147 Cotillion honorees 149 El Dorado loot 151 British title 152 Flight dir.

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GRAIN OPERATIONS MANAGER needed for Conserv FS in Dekalb County. Maintain grain quality & facility, load/unload trucks, supervise personnel, & manage safety standards. Required: H.S. Diploma, 5 yrs grain facility exp., willing to work extended hours & weekends, ability to weld & climb/work 150 ft above ground.

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MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR The Genoa Park District is hiring for the position of Maintenance Supervisor. Person must be proficient in all mechanical skills including: carpentry, electrical, plumbing, landscaping, HVAC, engine repair, and other skills deemed as necessary.

Please Mail Resume's to: Genoa Park District 400 E. Second St Genoa, IL 60135 Attn: Paul Bafia Or you can also email: pbafia@genoaparks.com Please no walk in's.

QA Inspector Blueprints, comparator, mic.

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Raynor offers a competitive compensation package and benefits, including medical, dental, life, and 401(k). If you are interested in an exciting career with a solid organization, please send your resume and cover letter with salary requirements to: Attn: Human Resources 1101 E. River Road Dixon, IL 61021 Fax 815/285-7133 E-mail: employment@raynor.com EOE

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HUGE SALE 417 W. Taylor Saturday, 6/14, 8am - ??

Lots of baby items, coach purses, girls clothes NB-9mo., toys, furniture, men and womens MXXL, furniture, walkers, bouncers, home decor and much more

DEKALB June 13 & 14 Friday & Saturday 8am – 6pm 3417 Comstock Ave Rivermist Sub-Div. Antiques, lawn/garden, baby boy clothes, lawn mower, much, much more ...

DEKALB June 14th Saturday 7am – 3pm 924 S. 2nd Street off of Taylor – Bradt sub. folding chairs, office chairs, shutters, weber grill, antique furniture, Murray snow blower, asst. household items.

CAT – LOST South DeKalb County. Large neutered male, mostly white with big brown patches and brown Maine Coon tail. May still have red collar. If seen, please call at 815-501-9724. Reward for safe return. We miss him.

Have you seen or know what happened to him?

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MUST SEE ~ Kitchen table set, Queen head board and frame, desk with bookshelf, HP printer, clothes, Wave Master bag plus exercise DVDs, some brand new items

DEKALB - Multi-family sale June 13th and 14th from 8-4 1911 Pebblecreek Ct. TONS of girl clothes sized newborn to 12, some boys clothes, & adult clothes. Baby & household items. Wii Fit, Guitar Hero, and Rock Band. FREE pea gravel

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11295 James Ct. 815-784-4294 tools large & small, drill press, dewalt radiel saw, lawn mower, lawn roller, extension ladder, hand tools, storage units/shelves, fishing poles, outside décor, misc. sports, lionel train, breyer horses, 15mm movie projector, several antiques oak pieces- library table, file cabinet, round coffee table, chest, desk, commode, tall cabinet, old singer sewing machine, Desk w/drop front, bellow coffee table, lots of misc. furniture, beer signs, longaberger baskets, designer purses, lots of home décor, clothes and much more!

ST CHARLES NEIGHBORHOOD SALE!!!

Tradition Neighborhood Garage Sale! Fri/Sat/Sun June 13-15.

Tradition Subdivision St Charles, off Red Gate between Randall and 31. Look for signs.

Many families participating Furniture (dining room, bedroom, game room, appliances), tools, garden items, household decor, womens and kids clothing/shoes, books, vintage, too much to list!

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Thursday, 6/12 3pm-8pm Friday, 6/13 8am-4pm Saturday, 6/14 8am-4pm Over 20 Houses!

Indoor & Outdoor furniture, home décor, household goods, electronics, hobby & craft items, children's toys & books, clothing, bikes, tools, and much more!

Something for everyone DON'T MISS!

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Edgebrook Community Annual Garage Sale Friday and Saturday June 13 and 14 9am-5pm Over 100 homes participating!

Furniture, Clothing, Appliances, Antiques and so much more!

SYCAMORE 1137 DANIEL CT. Thursday & Friday 8-4:30 Saturday 8-noon Furniture, inside and out, bedding, towels, Holiday decor, wall decor, kitchen items, and much more!

June 12, 13 & 14 8:30 am - 4:30 pm Kids toys and books, kitchen items, patio chairs, wheelchair, fireplace screen, puzzles, extension ladder, small step ladder, many miscellaneous items.

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Women's clothing 14-22, toys, elliptical, bicycles, books, grill, plants, picture frames, and lots more.

408 DOGWOOD LN. (The Knolls) 60 Years of Collectibles:

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1328 MARY WOOD CT. (Peace Rd. to Right at Fox Bend, then Left at Yorkshire North, then First right is Mary Wood Ct.) GIGANTIC GARAGE SALE! 3 piece sofa, window chest, desk, bookcases, Christmas items, Toro mower, tools, LPs, CDs, antique oval frames & furnishings, luggage, games, and freebies!

SYCAMORE JUNE 12, 13, 14 Thurs, Fri, Sat 8am – 5pm 1103 Alexandria Drive Townsend Woods Everything Goes, Crafters Delight must see, 100's of silk stem flowers, baskets, vases, crafting supplies, arrangements, wood stands and lots of Misc.

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CITY WIDE THURS, FRI, SAT JUNE 12, 13, 14 Heron Creek

North Grove Crossing HOA North Grove Crossing Townhomes Daily Chronicle Classified 877-264-2527

*ESTATE AUCTION* IN ORDER TO SETTLE THE ESTATE OF LLOYD COLLIER, THE FOLLOWING PERSONAL PROPERTY WILL BE SOLD AT NO RESERVE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER LOCATED AT 11921 RT. 38, DEKALB, ILLINOIS.

SATURDAY, JUNE 21ST STARTING AT 10:30 A.M. 1999 CADILLAC DEVILLE, 95,700 MILES. NORTH-STAR 32 VALVE V-8, FRONT WHEEL DRIVE. LEATHER, RIDE AND DRIVE, SER#1G6KD54Y3XU7952285; 1988 FORD TAURUS GL, 92,000 MILES, 3.0 ENGINE, 4 DOOR, RUNS GOOD, LOOKS ROUGH, SER#1FABP52U3JA125688. THIS IS A GREAT CAR FOR WORK OR 1ST TIME DRIVER; 1973 CHEVY C-30 DUALIE TRUCK W/ 12FT FLATBED. AUTO, V-8. THIS WOULD MAKE A GREAT FIELD TRUCK FOR OFF ROAD USE, SER#CCY333J169774. 1953 FORD JUBILEE TRACTOR W/ SUPERIOR HYD LOADER. 3PT, PTO, TRACTOR MAY BE RUNNING BY SALE DAY. 1953 SUPER M TRACTOR, SER#35301J NOT RUNNING, MISSING HOOD, M&W CLUTCH, MISSING SOME OTHER PARTS, GOOD RESTORATION PROJECT; 3PT. 6FT DISC; 10FT WHEEL DISC; JOHN DEERE 290 CORN PLANTER; JOHN DEERE 5FT PULL TYPE PTO MOWER; JOHN DEERE 55ABH 3BTM PULL TYPE PLOW; WE WILL HAVE HAY RACK LOADED WITH HAND TOOLS, PARTS AND HARDWARE ITEMS. LOTS OF OLD YARD AND GARDEN TOOLS, BUSHEL BASKETS, OLD CRATES, OLD BARN WINDOWS; 15 AND 12 GAL. CROCKS, 20 CASES FULL OF BALL AND MASON JARS; JACKS, LADDERS, REMINGTON ELECTRIC POLE SAW; OLD BRIGGS GAS ENGINES; DR WALK BEHIND WEED EATER; OLD 2-WHEELED GARDEN TRACTOR WITH NEWER 5H.P. RIGGS ENGINE; ANTIQUE WALKING POTATO PLOW; AGRI-FAB SPREADER; HOUSEHOLD ITEMS AND FURNITURE: SAMSUNG 32” FLAT SCREEN TV WITH STAND; LIKE NEW GE GAS DRYER, COMMERCIAL SUPER CAPACITY WITH GE MATCHING WASHER; FRIGIDAIRE SIDE BY SIDE REFRIGERATOR, VERY NICE; NICE SOFA AND MATCHING LOVE SEAT; SEVERAL EASY CHAIRS; SEVERAL DRESSERS; FLOOR AND TABLE LAMPS; 2 NICE 4-DRAWER FILE CABINETS; ANTIQUE SPINNING WHEEL; EDISON VICTROLA; OAK GLASS FRONT BOOKCASE; OLD STEAMER TRUNK; BATTLESHIP TOY BOAT OTHER COLLECTIBLE ITEMS; LOTS OF DISHWARE POTS, PANS AND KITCHENWARE AND MANY OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST AND COLLECTABLE TO NUMEROUS TO MENTION. TERMS: CASH, CHECK, CREDIT CARDS; ON SALE DAY, NOTHING REMOVED UNTIL SETTLED FOR, NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS INJURY OR THEFT. PICTURES ON WEB SITE WWW.ALMBURGAUCTIONS.COM ALMBURG AUCTIONEERING INC. 815-825-2727, MALTA, ILLINOIS. STEVE AND ANDREW.

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Local Distributor is looking for a motivated individual for a fast paced Inside Sales environment.

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AUCTION OF BUILDABLE LOTS & TO BE FINISHED TOWN HOME THE FOLLOWING REAL ESTATE WILL BE OFFERED AT AUCTION, HELD ON SITE AT 718 WINDING TRAIL, IN THE RIVER BEND SUBDIVISION, JUST EAST OF G-K HIGH SCHOOL ON RT. 72, GENOA, ILLINOIS.

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Rochelle Foods INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE MECHANIC Rochelle Foods, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hormel Foods Corporation, has immediate openings for 2nd and 3rd shift Industrial Maintenance Mechanics in the Rochelle, IL plant. This position requires the ability to maintain, troubleshoot and repair equipment in an industrial manufacturing environment

What are the advantages of working for Rochelle Foods?

THE FOLLOWING ITEMS WILL BE SOLD AT NO RESERVE AT AUCTION. LIKE MAJOR APPLIANCES, GE GAS STOVE; 2 GE REFRIGERATORS/FREEZERS; 3 GE MICROWAVES; 3 MINI FREEZERS OR FRIDGES; MOP BUCKET; UPHOLSTERED ARM CHAIRS ON WHEELS; OCTAGON WOODEN PEDESTAL TABLE; COPY MACHINE; BOOKSHELF’S; GLASS TOP COFFEE TABLES; NICE OFFICE DESKS; 4 LATERAL FILES; 5 BAGS 50# GRASS SEED; WEIGHT MACHINE; 4 ELECTRIC HEATERS; APPLIANCE DOLLY; CHAINS AND BINDERS; AREA RUGS; SHOVELS; 10FT FIBERGLASS STEP LADDER; SENCO AIR NAILERS; MILWAUKEE MITER SAW. AND MANY OTHER ITEMS TO NUMEROUS TO MENTION. PERSONAL PROPERTY TERMS: CASH CHECK CREDIT CARD. NOTHING REMOVED UNTIL SETTLED FOR. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS, INJURY OR THEFT. 10% BUYERS PREMIUM ON ALL PERSONAL PROPERTY.

Enrich life for 7 million families. Daily.

REAL ESTATE WILL BE OFFERED AT 10:00 A.M. OFFERING 718 WINDING TRAIL, A “TO BE COMPLETED” DUPLEX HOME IN THE OVER 55 YEAR-OLD SECTION OF THE RIVER BEND SUBDIVISION. THIS IS ½ OF THE DUPLEX THAT NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED BY THE OWNER. THE ELECTRIC IS BROUGHT TO THE PANEL, THE PLUMBING HAS BEEN ROUGHED-IN. AND THE INSIDE FRAMING HAS BEEN DONE. THIS UNIT HAS A FULL BASEMENT THAT NEEDS THE FLOOR POURED. ALL WINDOWS AND OUTSIDE DOORS ARE IN. ALL FIXTURES, MECHANICAL, HEATING AND COOLING, CABINETS, FLOORING, CEILING, WALLS AND ELECTRIC NEED TO BE FINISHED. THE LAYOUT IS A 2 BEDROOM, 2 CAR GARAGE WITH FULL BASEMENT.

At Alliance, our employees are empowered to shape our success on a daily basis. They are the industry’s brightest minds working with the latest technology, and their talents and efforts are rewarded with competitive compensation packages which include bonus, benefit and relocation plans. All within a fun, supportive culture that’s unparalleled in the pipeline industry.

✦Health care benefits including medical, dental, vision care, and prescription drug plan ✦ Excellent benefits package including educational assistance, vacation and holiday pay, 401(k) ✦ Competitive salary starting up to $24.96/hr and range from $21.85/hr to $27.21/hr, depending upon qualifications and shift assignment

ALSO OFFERING AT THE SAME LOCATION 4 BUILDABLE LOTS 4 LOTS LOCATED ON THE EAST END OF FOREST VIEW DRIVE, JUST WEST OF SYCAMORE STREET, IN GENOA, IL. THESE ARE CONTIGUOUS AND ARE 60’X110’ EACH. ALL LOTS AND DUPLEX WILL BE OFFERED SEPARATELY. PROPERTY CAN BE SHOWN BY CONTACTING AUCTIONEERS AT 815-739-3703.

TERM’S FOR REAL ESTATE AUCTION: $5,000.00 DOWN ON EACH PARCEL ON AUCTION DAY. BALANCE DUE ON OR BEFORE JULY 28TH 2014. TITLE COMMITMENT IN SELLERS NAME PROVIDED BY SELLERS. A 5% BUYERS PREMIUM WILL BE ADDED TO THE FINAL BID TO DETERMINE THE FINAL CONTRACT PRICE. PROPERTY BEING OFFERED AS IS, WITH OUT ANY CONTINGENCIES TO FINANCING APPRAISAL OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF CONTINGENCIES. ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE DAY OF SALE TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER ALL OTHER. ALMBURG AUCTIONEERING INC. 815-739-3703.

Maintenance Technicians – Instrumentation/ Controls and Mechanical Tampico, Illinois and Maquoketa, Iowa ADNO=910653

For details and how to apply www.alliancepipeline.com/careers

All our auctions with pictures are advertised worldwide @ www.almburgauctions.com

Appraisals Real Estate Liquidators 815-825-2727 Malta, IL

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Interested candidates may submit a cover letter and resume’ to Human Resources Manager, Rochelle Foods, LLC, 1001 S. Main St. Rochelle, IL 61068 or fax to (815)562-7136 or E-mail slelliott@hormel.com. You may also apply at Job Service in Rockford or Sterling.

Equal Opportunity Employer

DEKALB AREA PT & FT positions, M-F, all shifts, including weekends, $8.60/hr. Duties include sorting & transporting pallets, driving tuggers & fork trucks.

Background check, drug test & physical required. For more info call 800-543-8034, ext 411.

Leave your name & number or apply at: www.dsicorporation.com

INSIDE SALES

Send your Classified Advertising 24/7 to: Need Help Rebuilding, Repairing or Replanting?

JANITORIAL & PALLET SORTERS

TRUCK DRIVER CLASS A CDL For Gravel and Asphalt.

Call: 815-286-7710

Sycamore

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CONSTRUCTION CARPENTERS NEEDED!

With Our New Pay Package, Drives Now Avg. $1145/Wkly! *Dedicated Shipper *Midwest Lanes *Predictable Hometime *Rochelle Based Position Call 1-800-851-8651 or Apply Online at www.drivekb.com

Heating & A/C company in Sycamore is looking for experienced (5 years +) HVAC Install Technician & HVAC Service Technicians to join our company in a full time position. We offer: Sign on Bonus, Company Van, Holiday Pay and Vacation Pay. Commission based sales program. Salary is based on experience. Please email your resume & salary requirements to: HVACserviceposition@ yahoo.com

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SYCAMORE

Dresser, 72”L 29”H 19”D, 9 drawers, sycamore, make an offer, must haul 815-217-2292

HEAD/FOOT BOARD

THURS & FRI JUNE 12 & 13 9AM - 5PM SAT, JUNE 14 9AM - 2PM

1519 Daniel Court Dual power recliner couch, mission end tables, matching lamps, Dept 56 village lighted houses, mens and womans clothes, books, collectibles and numerous other holiday and household items and deals!

Advertise here for a successful garage sale!

Call 815-455-4800

COOKTOP/ELECTRIC

Whirlpool Gold, 5 burners. $400. 815-761-7271

BAR CLAMPS - Old Carpenters Bar Clamps, Notched Wood Beam, Cast Iron Stops, Approx 4'-5' long, $25 each, moving, Sycamore 815-762-0382 Framed Art - Autographed Cartoon Cell - Hanna/Barbera - Characters On Parade" Documented, Mint Condition $400 - Moving Sycamore 815-762-0382 MILK CRATES Old Wood Milk Crates - Assorted Dairies & Dates, Good Condition, 4 left, $25 each, Sycamore.

815-762-0382

CRIB SET - "Winnie The Pooh" Includes comforter, sheets, crib skirt, bumpers, wall clips, night light & 15 ft. of wall paper border. $45.

815-895-4659 Nancy

LADIES SCHWINN TRAVELLER BIKE, 26” with basket, large seat. $40. 847-515-8012 TRICYCLE - Radio Flyer Child Bike Tricycle. Red & Blue In Color, $22, DeKalb, 815-739-1953

Queen size with 2 wooden slabs and metal braces + a mattress and boxspring, $150/all, you PU. 815-901-5503 Lv Msg KITCHEN TABLE SET 4 leaves, expands from 42 in. round to 92 in., includes 6 chairs with padded seats. Need a truck. $100. 224-587-9335

OAK END TABLES (3)

I Buy Old Envelopes

RECLINER Big brown recliner, $30 firm.

224-587-9335

TV Stand w/ Storage

Excellent Condition - $40.

815-758-1436 afternoon

SKI MACHINE NORDIC TRAC PRO 1000 Never used, cost over $600, will sell for $300/obo.

815-761-6679

DESK - 52" x 24" Steel Desk , Lt beige color, wood grain top w/ small left side return, Includes: chair & lamp. Great shape, Excellent crafting center $95. Sycamore 815-762-0382

Stamps Collections 815-758-4004

Plastic Drum - White, 55 gal.

Great For Rain Barrel Project Sycamore. $25 OBO - Moving.

815-762-0382 WORK GLOVES - 120 pair, New, White, Adult Size, Washable, $40 for all, Moving, Sycamore 815-762-0382

Ladies Watch Rings (6) New, Colored Glass Insert, Silver Tone Case, Make Great Gifts! $7.50 each OBO. 815-762-0382

LAWN TOOL CADDY plastic, on casters, holds 20+ tools, great shape, 40"x 40"x 20" $25/OBO, Sycamore 815-762-0382

CABLE WIRE - 1000' Reel RG - 6 New, $25, Sycamore 815-895-5373 SHELVING UNITS 10 Metal Shelving Units & Tool Stands - Light To Medium Duty, most on casters - Assorted Sizes Moving $10-$40 Each. Sycamore.

815-762-0382 STEP LADDERS - 5 wood step ladders, Type lll, 200 lb rating, very good condition, 4' to 6' high, $15 each, moving, Sycamore 815-762-0382

Full Propane Tank $30 630-365-5888 Salvaged, 25' panels and 12'-6” panels, limited time. Call if interested. 815-895-5855 SHOES - Cherokee Black Casual Dress Tie Shoes, Boy's Men's Size 6, $5. 815-739-1953 SNEAKERS Sneaux Black Boy's Men's Size 7 Everyday Shoes, $5, DeKalb, 815-739-1953

Roku Box for netflix streaming on TV, like new $40 815-909-8905

WANTED!

All have storage, good condition! $60/all. Women's oak dressers, full size with mirror, excellent condition, $225.

Loveseat/Couch with built-in recliners, $75. 815-761-7271

GUARD RAIL Interior Wood Door - 36", golden solid oak, six panel style, right side hinges, Includes frame & privacy lock set installed Excellent Condition $75/OBO Sycamore. 815-762-0382

SLIDE - Little Tikes Large Slide With Option To Hook Hose To That Has A Sprinkler & Water Goes Down Slide, Teal Green Slide With Purple Steps, In Nice Shape, $50, DeKalb.

815-739-1953

Cat Tree Good condition, $20.

815-784-2857

MALTESE ~ FEMALE 5 months old, very friendly, shots up to date, good with kids, $550.

708-953-4468

Toro Powerlite Snowblower Great Condition, Runs Well, $175 708-908-0452 Cortland Do you have a News Tip or Story Idea?

Call 815-756-4841 Daily Chronicle

FOR SALE – BRICK RANCH

A-1 AUTO

Will BUY UR USED CAR, TRUCK, SUV,

MOST CASH WILL BEAT ANY QUOTE GIVEN!! $400 - $2000 “don't wait.... call 2day”!!

815-575-5153 !! !! !!! !! !!

1979 Lincoln Mark V

Cartier Centenial, immaculate! $8,800 815-508-2916

2006 HONDA CR-V LIKE NEW! 90K $13,000 with only 90K miles!

Dark Blue, AWD, Sunroof, 6 CD Changer. 815-899-3731

I BUY CARS, TRUCKS, VANS & SUVs

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.

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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

Minkota, 30# thrust, $80. New, never used. 847-683-2889

OUTBOARD MOTOR Johnson 4HP with cart, great shape, $275. 847-683-2889

Very Nice Fishing Boat 847-683-3546 1995 Honda Magna VF750CD. 22,627 miles. Paint, tires, battery all recent. Includes two helmets and battery charger. $3000.

Tim 815-757-4472

2005 H. D. FATBOY 4K miles, new, barely rode. $10,700 815-498-9835

Malta Quiet, Upper 2 Bedroom

University Village Apts.

722 N. Annie Glidden Rd.

Appl, a/c, laundry, water/garbage included + extra storage.

815-751-0480

MALTA, 1 BR, Upper $575/mo. + Electric.

Call: 815-762-0678

ROCHELLE 1 & 2 BEDROOM Remodeled, clean and quiet.

Available now. 815-758-6580 or 815-739-5806

815-758-7859

DEKALB ~ 1 BEDROOM Available July/Aug. Close to NIU, Free heat & water, quiet lifestyle. Varsity Square Apts.

815-756-9554 www.glencoproperties.com

3 BED, 2 BATH – 1232 sq ft Southmoor Estates, DeKalb

By Owner, See It Before List It Call & Show 815-899-6706 Complete Premium Renovation facebook.com/1024Pembrooke MOBILE HOME Countryside Estates, Sandwich 14 x 64' on lot 65 x 110' 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, new appliances and upgrades, garage, warranted home roof, beautiful wood panel interior, bright and spacious rooms, owner selling $25,000 815-498-2067 Chronicle Classified 877-264-2527 Daily-Chronicle.com

LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION!

DeKalb – 1 BR + Study. Refrig + Stove furnished. Water/Garbage included. Lease. No pets/smoking. $550 plus util. 815-758-2632.

DeKalb 1BR With Study DEKALB ~ 227 N. 1st 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

AVAILABLE NOW! Newly remodeled 2 Bedroom CALL FOR DETAILS 815-245-6098 ~ 815-923-2521

Sycamore Upper 2BR Duplex

1.5BA, W/D in common area.

No pets/smoking, $700/mo + 1st last security. 815-501-1378

Sycamore ~ Nice 2 Bedroom Quiet Lifestyle On-site laundry.

Off St. parking. No pets/smoking.

815-501-1872

CORTLAND / DEKALB 3 BED / TOWNHOME FOR RENT 3 Bed,1 1/2 bath, living room, kitchen, two car garage, basement washer/dryer hook up, snow removal, and landscape maintenance included. $1200/month association fee included available 06/15/14.

Call (815) 764-9454 Mel or Barb

Built 2006, 2 full bath, 2 car garage. New appl include W/D. Incredibly efficient, $1100/mo + utilities. Call for details.

815-236-2348

Clean, quiet, 1 bath, appliances included, available now.

815-758-6580 DEKALB 1 BEDROOM With study, stove, refrig, C/A. Garage, available August.

815-758-0079

Stove, fridge, heat included.

815-748-4085

Sycamore E. State St.

Cortland 3 Bedroom TH

DEKALB 1 BEDROOM

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COUNTRY! COUNTRY! COUNTRY!

Kingston Efficiency Unit Appl, $330/mo+sec, 1 yr lease.

No pets/smkg. 815-975-4601

DEKALB - SPACIOUS MARKET APARTMENTS 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.

Fishing Trolling Motor

A/C, W/D hook-up, no pets.

Available July 1st, $700/mo.

847-683-3442

GENOA - MOVE-IN READY!

Will beat anyone's price by $300.

For Junk Cars, Trucks & Vans with or without titles.

630-817-3577 or 219-697-3833

GENOA 1 & 2 BEDROOM

Malta – Clean, cozy, quiet 1 Bedroom Upper Off street parking. Non-smoker.

815-981-8117

Sycamore-Townhouse for sale.

Location, Location, Location. Walk historic Somonauk Street to downtown Sycamore. Approx 1900sq ft, 2 BR, 3 ½BA, includes Loft, finished bsmt/3rdBR plus 2 car gar.

1135 Arbor Ln. Call 815-8958361 9am – 7pm for appointment with owner. $159,900

Laing Mgmt.

815-758-1100 or 815-895-8600

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

815-784-4606 ~ 815-901-3346

DeKalb. 2 Excellent Starter OR Stopper Ranches! Call Adolph Miller RE 815-756-7845. Deal!!!

!! !! !!! !! !!

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

Cat friendly. Private fishing. $765/mo.

DEKALB: Recently Remodeled, 2BR Apts.-$750/m. Incl. heat, water, garb. & cable. W/D on premises. Nice Neighborhood.

Avail. July 1st. 815-756-1424

DeKalb - Large 2 Bdrm, 2 bath stove, fridge, D/W, W/D, A/C, security entrance, quiet bldg, no dogs 815-758-0079

Matt Hoffman 815-501-3351 Hoffman Realty www.hoffmanrealty.com

2BR, 2BA APT.

GENOA LARGE 1 BEDROOM

Hillcrest Place Apts.

3BD, 2BA, vaulted ceilings, fin bsment, htd & insulated 2 car garage w/epoxy floor, private backyard w/ concrete patio, shed & fountain. $167,250

Stone Prairie

Appl, W/D, garbage, off St parking.

No pets. $570/mo + security dep.

815-761-1975

220 E. Hillcrest. 815-758-0600 hillcrestplaceaptsdekalb.com

815-814-1224

JOBS ANNOUNCEMENTS STUFF VEHICLES REAL ESTATE SERVICES

DEKALB, NEAR NIU

Starting @ $599, 2 Bedroom $683, 3 Bedroom

WE PAY THE BEST!

DeKalb – Very clean and recently remodeled 1 BR upper apt. Nice downtown location w/ lots of parking. $540/mo. + electric. No pets.

1St/last+sec. dep. req. Water & Trash included. 815-739-5393 Studio $450 including heat.

1 bedroom, $530, cat allowed.

Call 815-501-9985 8am-8pm

DeKalb 1BR $550, 2BR $650

or

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DeKalb Spacious Lower 2BR Laundry, lrg yard, storage, garage avail. $750/mo. utilities not incl Avail 8-1 815-751-2937

GENOA LARGE 2 BEDROOM

815-814-1964

1960 Corvette - Dream Car, Red, White Coves w/Red interior, 283 Engine w/3 spd. Auto trans., Never out in bad Chicago weather, $45,000. 815-459-7744

Hinckley ~ Rimsnider Road Becherer Farm, approx 80 acres.

76.6 tillable acres with 2 story farm house and ranch house. $1,725,600. 859-630-5920

1990 & Newer

Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan

Handicap Ramp Van 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan 156k mi. $11,900.

Leave msg. 815-756-2564

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Shabbona ~ Spacious 2BR Newly painted, W/D hook-up.

No dogs, $635/mo + security.

847-738-2334 Having a Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation or Event Coming Up? Share It With Everyone by Placing a HAPPY AD!

DeKalb - Beautiful, clean 3 BR Townhome, 2.5 BA end unit. Large kit. w/ walk-in pantry & laundry, dining area, huge living room, family room/office and attached 2car gar. Close to Brooks Elementary, DHS, NIU, and Kish Hosp.

Easy access to the tollway and shopping. Tenant pays all utilities.

No smoking/ pets. Lawn care and snow removal provided. Available August. $1350 / mo. + deposit.

815-757-5707 DeKalb – 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, in Golf Course Community $1150/mo. 815-761-8639 www.dekalb-rental.com

DEKALB NEWER TOWNHOME FOR RENT- 3 BR 2 1/2 Baths 2 Car Gar. New appliances W/D Vaulted Ceilings Basement Storage $1,200.00 month. 630-217-7061

SYCAMORE 2 BEDROOM 2 bath, all appliances included.

C/A, no pets, $850/mo.

815-562-7368

DeKalb Quiet Studio 1, 2, 3BR

Lease, deposit, ref, no pets.

815-739-5589 ~ 815-758-6439

Sycamore TH Like New 2BR

Daily Chronicle Classified

Great location! 2BA, 2 car garage, skylights, appl, W/D, C/A, $935.

No pets. a 815-758-0123

877-264-2527 www.Daily-Chronicle.com

Daily Chronicle Classified 877-264-2527

FOR SALE - COUNTRY LIVING

FOR SALE NOW

3 Bdrms, 2 full baths, Full Basement. Stone Fireplace in Great Room. Huge Garage, Fenced Yard.

All appliances stay. Northwest side of DeKalb. $155,000

4 Bedrm, 2 Bathrm, Remodeled Home 100% USDA Rural Housing Loans available (must qualify).

Sometimes buying can be cheaper than renting!

$159,900 to own this 3 Bdrm, 1 1/2 Bath Country Home.

Kaneland schools. Quality Amish Kitchen Cabintry, all appliance stay, workshop/storage out building & a garage.

3 Bdrm, 2 Bathrm plus another Bedrm, Bathrm in finshed basement.

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY June 8 1 to 3 pm - 846 MEADOW LANE SYCAMORE

CALL NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR 815-739-9997

CALL NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR - NOW! 815-739-9997

CALL NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR 815-739-9997

CALL NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR - NOW! 815-739-9997

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PUBLICATION NOTICE TO: CREDITORS, CLAIMANTS AND UNKNOWN HEIRS

The Knolls Hot new deluxe townhomes.

2 & 3 Bedrooms.

Garage, C/A, Basement. Pets?

Starting at $645

815-757-1907 Cortland – 2 BR Duplex CA, 2 ½ car garage.

No pets. $800/mo Call 815-895-2626 Hinckley ~ 3 Bedroom 1.5 bath, W/D hook-up, gar, fridge stove, D/W, C/A, no pets/smkg. $935/mo + sec. 815-739-1250

Shabbona 2 Bedroom Appliances, W/D, A/C, nice yard.

No pets, garage, $685/mo + dep.

815-508-1636 Sycamore-2 story, 3 BR, 1.5 BA Freshly painted/new carpet, 1 car garage, 1st/sec dep + all utilities. $950/mo No pets/smoking 815-739-6174

Country Setting, Near Kish College and NIU, 2BR, 1.5BA, DR, den.

Bsmt, new hrdwd flrs, 2+car gar.

No smkrs, $1200. 815-762-4730

Dekalb - 622 Fisk Ave, Avail after Aug 1st- $1,200 per mo + gas & elec 2-3-Bed/1Bath-Jacuzzi tub; Living, Dinning, Rec, & Office. Laundry, Storage Area, Central-Air, 1 Car Garage, on St. ParkCall: 608.658.3858 DeKalb 2 Bedroom, Stove, Refrig W/D, large storage shed, yard with shade trees, no pets/smokers. $895.

815-762-4730

1. Notice is given of the death of James R. Pyle who died on March 26, 2013 a resident of Sugar Grove, Illinois.

2. The Executor for the estate and her address is: Krista Carls, 40 E. Church Street, Sandwich, Illinois 60548.

3. The attorney for the estate and his/her address is: Krista Carls P.C., 40 E. Church Street, Sandwich, Illinois 60548.

4. Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of DeKalb County, 133 West State Street, Sycamore, IL 60178, or with the Representative, or both by November 30, 2014, and 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 attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.

5. On April 22, 2013, an Order Appointing the Representative was entered.

6. 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 (Ill. Rev. Stat. Ch. 110 1/2, Par. 28-4).

Dated this 28th of May, 2014. /s/ Krista Carls Attorney KRISTA CARLS Krista Carls P.C. 40 E. Church Street Sandwich, Illinois 60548 Telephone 815-756-8000 Telefax: 815-786-8200 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 31, June 7 & 14, 2014.)

4 season room, frplc, hrdwd flrs.

Appl, W/D, bsmt, 1 car, $975/mo + utilities + $1000 sec, avail 7/1.

No pets/smoking. 815-748-4485

3 Bedroom, 1 Bath, $1000/mo.

Available Aug 15. 815-375-4615 KINGSTON HUGE 5 BEDROOM FARM HOUSE Available 8/1. All appliances, 2 car garage, $1350.00 + utilities. No smoking, no pets First & Security 815-751-4730

Kirkland 2 bedroom, 1 bath full basement w/ washer/dryer, nice yard, near park/school/church no pets $625/mo.815-762-6205

MALTA 4 BEDROOM 2 + car garage, large yard.

Pets neg, $1025/mo + 1st, last sec.

815-757-1045

Sycamore - 420 Charles 3 bedroom, 2 bath, $1150/mo.

Hardwood flrs, newer HI-efficiency furnace/AC, nice yard, deck.

Garage, stainless appl, pets ?

Available Now. 815-739-3740

DeKalb/Syc/Cortland. Office/Shop/ Warehouse. Price & Size vary!

Adolph Miller RE 815-756-7845 Kirkland – 414 W. Main St. (72) Approx 3000sf. parking lot, lease/option to buy. Five Star Realty 847-658-6556 ask for Marty

SECTION 00 10 00 REQUEST FOR BIDS Bids are requested by the Board of Education of Indian Creek CUSD No. 425, 506 S. Shabbona Road, Shabbona, IL 60550 for 2014 RePaving Work at Indian Creek High School and Waterman Elementary School. Work is to be carried out in accordance with Bidding Documents prepared by Basalay, Cary & Alstadt Architects, Ltd., 620 W. Lafayette St., Ottawa, IL 61350.

Project Description: The work consists of Asphalt Paving Work as indicated in the construction documents. Contract Type: Single prime lump sum contract.

Pre-bid Conference: June 17, 2014, 10:00 A.M. at Indian Creek High School, 506 S. Shabbona Road, Shabbona, IL. Sign in at High School Main Office. Site will be open for viewing at this date.

Owner reserves the right to disqualify bidders that do not visit the site at some time during the bid period.

Contact Dr. Pamela Rockwood, Supt., CUSD No. 425 (815-8242197) to schedule visits other than pre-bid conference. Other visits will be at the convenience of the Owner.

Availability of Bidding Documents: Bidding Documents will be available on and after June 11, 2014 and may be examined at the office of the Architect; at the office of the Board of Education, Indian Creek CUSD No. 425; at the office of Northern Illinois Building Contractors Association, 1111 S Alpine St., Rockford, IL; McGraw-Hill Construction Dodge, www.dodge.construction.com; www.reedplans.com; and at Illinois Valley Contractor's Association, 1120 First St., LaSalle, IL.

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DE KALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE WESLEY D. DVORAK, DECEASED. CASE NO. 14 P 58 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE IS GIVEN of the death of Wesley D. Dvorak of DeKalb County, Illinois. Letters of Office as Executor were issued to Ronald G. Klein on May 28, 2014, whose attorneys are KLEIN, STODDARD, BUCK & LEWIS, LLC, Attorneys at Law, 2045 Aberdeen Court, Sycamore, IL 60178.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court at the DeKalb County Courthouse, 133 West State Street, Sycamore, IL 60178, or with the representative, or both, within six months from the date of issuance of Letters of Office and 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 ten days after it has been filed.

DATED: May 29, 2014 /S/ Maureen Josh CIRCUIT CLERK OF DEKALB COUNTY, SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS Ronald G. Klein Attorney for the Estate of Wesley D. Dvorak KLEIN, STODDARD, BUCK LEWIS, LLC 2045 Aberdeen Court, Suite A Sycamore, IL 60178 (815) 748-0380

PUBLIC NOTICE

Submission of Bids: Bids will be accepted until 2:00 P.M., June 25, 2014 at the office of Basalay, Cary & Alstadt Architects, Ltd., 620 W. Lafayette St., Ottawa, IL 61350.

Bids will be publicly opened at that time.

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(Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 31, June 7 & 14, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, June 14, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE SECTION 000201 BID NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS FOR DEKALB PUBLIC LIBRARY The following bid notice was published on June 13, 2014 by DeKalb Public Library.

Trade Bid Packages bid at this time are as follows; #1 Concrete #2 Precast Architectural Panels #3 Structural Steel #4 Earthwork #5 Site Utilities #6 Asphalt Paving The DeKalb Public Library is providing an opportunity for qualified contractors to bid the construction of a new 52,000 sq. ft. DeKalb Public Library Addition and 16,000 sq. ft. Renovation with associated site work. Prospective and potential bidders must have previous work experience and projects of similar size and meet the criteria established by the DeKalb Public Library. Sealed bids are due on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at DeKalb Public Library, 308 Oak Street, DeKalb, Illinois 60115.

Public bid opening immediately following bid submission. Bid documents can be obtained by contacting Lance Tritsch or Dominick Lo Verde with Pepper Construction Company, 411 Lake Zurich Road, Barrington, Illinois at 847-3812760.

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, June 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE

DeKalb 400 River Rd. 3BR,1BA

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Prospective prime contract bidders may obtain Bidding Documents at the office of the Architect on or after above stated date by request, and by depositing $50.00 per set in the form of cash or check made payable to the Architect. Bidders will be limited to three (2) sets.

Requests for mailed sets of Bidding Documents must be accompanied by a remittance of $15.00 per set to cover mailing and handling costs. Such remittance must be in the form of a separate check made payable to the Architect. Deposits will be refunded upon return of the Bidding Documents in good condition, without markings, notations or other defacings, within ten (10) days after bid opening date.

Bid security in the amount of five percent (5%) of the Base Bid amount proposed, in the form of a certified check or cashier's check made payable to the Owner, or a Bid Bond, must accompany bids.

Selected bidder is required to provide a satisfactory performance bond and labor & material payment bond covering the full performance of the contract, irrevocable letter of credit or other security. The costs of the bonds are to be included in each contractor's bid proposal.

Selected Bidders must assure that all persons employed by Bidder, and all applicants for such employment, will not be discriminated against because of their race, creed, color, sex, age or national origin.

Selected Bidder will be required to pay prevailing rates of wages to all employees engaged in the project work. Such prevailing rates to be as determined by the U.S. Dept. of Labor for the area in which project is located.

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES R. PYLE, Deceased

Owner reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to waive any irregularities in the Bidding, and to award contract in Owner's best interests.

Case No. 2013 P 57 INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION

Board of Education Indian Creek CUSD No. 425

LEGAL NOTICE: NOTICE is hereby given that the DeKalb Park District intends to contract for the following items and services titled, "RIVER HEIGHTS GOLF COURSE PAVEMENT IMPROVEMENTS"; and that plans and specifications are on file and are presently available from Jason Mangum, DeKalb Park District, 1403 Sycamore Road, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, Telephone: (815) 758-6663 ext 124. Bids for said contract are invited and will be opened at the office of Jason Mangum, DeKalb Park District, 1403 Sycamore Road, DeKalb, Illinois 60115. The DeKalb Park District reserves the unrestricted right to reject any or all bids received, to waive or not to waive any informality, or to accept the bid considered to be in the best interest of the Park District. Contractor shall not pay less than the prevailing rates of wages to all laborers, workmen, and mechanics performing work under this contract, and shall comply with the requirements of the IL Wages of Employees on Public Work Act (820 ILCS 130/1-12).

Project is located at River Heights Golf Course and will consist of HMA resurfacing portions of the east parking lot and cart paths, reconstruction of a portion of the HMA parking lot and cart path to comply with ADA standards, PCC sidewalk and curb replacements, pavement striping, and minor drainage adjustments. Bid Opening: Tuesday, July 2, 2014 at 3:00 p.m., DeKalb Park District, 1403 Sycamore Road, DeKalb, Illinois 60115. Bid will be awarded, provided all necessary requirements have been met, at the regularly scheduled DeKalb Park District Board of Commissioners Meeting that begins at 7:00 PM, July 10, 2014.

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, & Kane County Chronicle, June 11, 12, 13 & 14, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR UNIFIED TELEPHONE SYSTEM CITY OF SYCAMORE Proposals are invited from qualified professional firms to provide a unified phone system for the City of Sycamore that integrates with the City's existing phone system installed at the City's Police Department. Detailed specifications and the format for presentation of the proposal are available in the City Clerk's office, City of Sycamore, 308 W. State Street, Sycamore, IL 60178 or online at www.cityofsycamore.com. All proposals are due by 4:30 p.m. on July 9, 2014.

pas establishing prevailing wage rates for construction to be the same as those in DeKalb County as determined by the Illinois Department of Labor. Anyone wishing to inspect the Ordinance may do so at the Law Office of Dale L. Stockley, 1471 North 42nd Road, Earlville, IL 60518.

Dated this 10th day of June, 2014.

Dale L. Stockley, Attorney for Victor Drainage District

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(Published in the Daily Chronicle, June 14, 2014.)

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PUBLIC NOTICE

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL For Website Design and Development - City of Sycamore Proposals are invited from qualified professional firms to design and develop the City of Sycamore's website.

Detailed specifications and the format for presentation of the proposal are available in the City Clerk's Office, City of Sycamore, 308 W. State Street, Sycamore, IL 60178 or online at www.cityofsycamore.com. All proposals are due by 10:00 a.m. on July 9, 2014.

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, June 14, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING A public hearing before the Planning Commission of the Village of Maple Park, Kane and DeKalb Counties, Illinois, will be held on Monday, June 30, 2014, at 7:00 p.m., at 302 Willow Street to consider the update of the Zoning Ordinance of the Village of Maple Park.

The proposed ordinance will be open to inspection at the Maple Park Village Hall, 302 Willow Street, Maple Park, Illinois, beginning on June 17, 2014. Persons wishing to appear at such hearing may do so in person or in writing.

Communications in writing may be filed with the Village Clerk, or at the public hearing.

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Public Notice is hereby given that on May 29, 2014 a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of DeKalb County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as BALLAS DISPOSAL located at 304 S. Wells, Sandwich, IL 60548.

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Dated May 29, 2014 /s/ Douglas J. Johnson DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder

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(Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 31, June 7 & 14, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on June 5, 2014 a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of DeKalb County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as PRO NAILS located at 1170 DeKalb Ave., Suite 103, Sycamore, IL 60178.

Dated June 5, 2014 /s/ Douglas J. Johnson DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder (Published in the Daily Chronicle, June 7, 14 & 21, 2014.)

Chronicle Classified 877-264-2527

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, June 14, 2014.)

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PUBLIC NOTICE ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE LEE COMMUNITY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR MAY 1, 2013 - APRIL 30, 2014 Beginning Balance

$ 139,047.88 RECEIPTS

DeKalb County Treasurer Lee County Treasurer Interest on Investments Illinois Replacement Tax Insurance Reimbursement

$

42,032.09 65,526.15 70.96 5,579.87 3,938.00

TOTAL RECEIPTS AND BALANCE

$ 256,194.95

DISBURSEMENTS BP Com Ed Guilfoyle Law Firm Ideal Insurance Illinois Finance Authority Illinois Fire Store Legler, Lee Liberty Mutual Insurance Nicor Post, Justin Robertt's Landscaping Shabbona Fire Protection All Other Disbursements under $1000

1,398.04 1,258.99 1,000.00 5,196.00 9,950.00 9,348.27 22,287.15 5,152.00 1,555.49 1,069.33 4,850.00 16,000.00 9,567.87

TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS

88,633.14 RECAPITULATION

Total Receipts and Balance Total Disbursements

$ 256,194.95 88,633.14

Balance on hand April 30, 2014

$ 167,561.81

Respectfully Submitted by Kevin Shafer, Treasurer, Lee Fire Protection District (Published in the Daily Chronicle, June 14, 2014.)

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