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Evergreen Village resident Larry Hunter smokes in front of his mobile home Tuesday. Hunter plans on looking at a farmhouse in Arkansas in the next month to possibly purchase it with the money he will be getting for his mobile home.

Action part of plan for flood-prone mobile park

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By ANDREA AZZO aazzo@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – Larry Hunter is eager to leave Evergreen Village Mobile Home Park near Sycamore for a warmer climate in Arkansas.

Hunter moved to Evergreen Village, 955 E. State St., six days before a 2007 flood, which damaged the repainting and recarpeting he had just completed in his home. Since then, the county has offered him $14,940 for his 1977 mobile home, an offer he doesn’t find completely fair.

“What gets me is they’re not even coming in and looking at the house,” Hunter said. “I keep mine nice and clean.”

DeKalb County officials closed on the sale of the floodprone property, which includes 33 acres of farmland and about 6 acres of railroad right-of-way nearby, on May 30. Property owner Frank Santoro agreed to sell Evergreen Village for $1.47 million on April 15, a day before a county-imposed deadline.

Since approving the sale of the purchase April 16, county officials have met with about 120 Evergreen Village residents within the past few weeks.

During one-on-one interviews, residents were told what their

DeKALB – While crews are working to repair the Base Line Road bridge, DeKalb County officials are already looking ahead to start more bridge projects in 2015.

Work on the Base Line Road bridge, located west of Route 23 south of Genoa, was expected Voice your to be finished last fall, but the harsh winter opinion delayed work for conWhich bridge is tractor Sjostrom and most important for Sons Construction, said DeKalb County engineer local traffic? Vote online at Daily-ChronNathan Schwartz.

“We were expecting icle.com. a normal winter and [a] contractor to be able to get a fair amount of work done during the winter,” Schwartz said.

During tonight’s highway committee meeting, officials will discuss a transfer of $7,154.02 from the local bridge fund to the township bridge fund to help pay for the $500,000 project, Schwartz said.

Other scheduled work includes replacing Keslinger Road bridge in Afton Township this fall. Officials also are looking to replace two bridges in Paw Paw Township and the

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Evergreen Village resident Miriam Ramirez and her two-year-old, Alondra, wait as Lee Courtney, with Land Acquisitions Inc., fills out paperwork during their one-on-one interview May 23 to discuss the price of her mobile home at the DeKalb County Administration Building in Sycamore. Ramirez, through a translator that the county supplied to help at these meetings, said she wasn’t sure where her family would move and if they would move before or after November, when she is expecting her second child. mobile homes were worth based on figures from the Marshall & Swift residential cost handbook. They also were told how much money they would receive for moving expenses.

County leaders have secured $7.1 million in state and federal emergency management grants to buy the property and relocate residents. Under the grant terms, residents must be relocated and the property returned to open space by June 30, 2015. Along with the nearly $1.5 million purchase price for the property, county officials have

budgeted about $3.7 million to relocate residents and about $1.9 million to purchase the mobile homes.

Officials began pursuing the grants after a 2007 flood damaged many mobile homes and forced the evacuation of the park. Since then, the park has flooded multiple times and was temporarily closed in 2008.

All residents have to be gone

by April 30. Officials have let Evergreen Village residents know about comparable homes in Edgebrook, Cortland, West Chicago, Elgin and Sandwich,

said Paul Miller, DeKalb County planning zoning and building director.

“As important as it is we get them out of a floodplain, they are being displaced,” Miller said. “They are losing their homes. We’re trying to make this as painless and smooth as we can for them.”

Lee Courtney, vice president of Land Acquisitions Inc., a consulting firm working with the county, met with some Evergreen Village residents. He

KABUL, Afghanistan – As a thin, tense-looking Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was handed over to U.S. forces, one of his Taliban captors leaned in and warned: “Don’t come back to Afghanistan. You won’t make it out alive next time.”

Then, the American soldier, wearing traditional loose-fitting Afghan trousers and a long tunic, was led away to a U.S. military helicopter, where he was patted down for explosives or other weapons before climbing aboard.

The weekend handover in the dusty desert was documented in a 17-minute video emailed to news organizations Wednesday by the Taliban, which touted the exchange of Bergdahl for five Guantanamo detainees as a victory, while

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“As important as it is we get them out of a floodplain, they are being displaced. They are losing their homes.

We’re trying to make this as painless and smooth as we can for them.”

Paul Miller DeKalb County planning zoning and building director

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In this image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on Saturday sits in a vehicle guarded by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan.

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8DAILY PLANNER

Today Safe Passage Domestic Violence support group: 815-756-5228; www.safepassagedv.org.

Kingston Community Garage Sales: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday. To add your name to the list, call 815-784-5572.

Weekly Ladies’ Brunch: 8 a.m. at Fox Valley Community Center, 1406 Suydam Road, Sandwich. Cost for these women-only events is $4 for food and conversation, along with bottomless cups of coffee or tea.

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

Feed My Sheep Food Pantry: 10 a.m. to noon at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1915 N. First St. in DeKalb. All are welcome.

Sycamore History Museum Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: Noon to 1 p.m. at Sycamore History Museum, 1730 N. Main St. Free local history presentation, coffee and cookies are offered to the public; donations are welcome. Contact Michelle Donahoe at Sychist@tbc.net or 815-895-5762. www.sycamorehistory.org.

Stroke Support Group: 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the NIU Speech Language Hearing Clinic, at Bethany and Route 23 in the former Monsanto building.

Contact Lilli Bishop at lbishop@niu. edu.

Magic – The Gathering: 4 p.m. upstairs at Sandwich Public Library, 107 E. Center St., Sandwich. Some cards will be provided, but players are encouraged to bring their own, if able. Suggested ages are 13 to 18.

Take Off Pounds Sensibly: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. weigh-in and 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. meeting, Sycamore United Methodist Church, 160 Johnson Ave. Call Lydia Johnson, chapter leader, 815-895-4618.

Open Closet: 5 to 7 p.m. at 300 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. Clothes and shoes for men, women and children.

815-758-1388.

Tri-County Kiwanis Club: 5:30 p.m. at Fox Valley Older Adult Services Center, 1406 Suydam Road, Sandwich. Contact Dave Wood at 815-751-8874 or 815-756-1680 or davidwood43@comcast.net.

ESL and GED Classes: 6 to 8 p.m. at Esperanza en Unidad (Hope in Unity), 2225 Gateway Drive, Suite A. To register and for more information, call George Gutierrez at 815-9703265.

Courage, Attitude, Resources & Encouragement Support Group – CARE: 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Kishwaukee Health Care, 2727 Sycamore Road in DeKalb. CARE is for patients with cancer or other serious illness and for family members. www.kishhospital. org.

Keep It Simple AA(C): 6 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com.

One Day Café AA(C): 6 p.m. at Waterman United Methodist Church, 210 W Garfield St., 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Weight Watchers: 6 p.m. weighin, 6:30 p.m. meeting Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road (near Aldi), DeKalb.

Computer Class – Facebook Intro: 6:30 p.m. in the meeting room at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Sign up online or at the Reference Desk or call 815-756-9568, ext. 220.

DeKalb County Amateur Radio Emergency Service: 7 p.m. on 146.73 megahertz. For information, call Bill Itter (N9EWA) at 815-8952020.

DeKalb County Marines Corps League, officers, detachment and auxiliary: 7 p.m. at Sycamore Veterans Home, 121 S. California St. For information, contact Peter May at sneakypete2@hotmail.com or 815-761-7732, or call 815-756-6625. www.dekalbcountymarines.com.

DeKalb Music Boosters: 7 to 8 p.m. in the DeKalb High School Band Room. More information about the DeKalb Music Boosters at http:// dekalbmusicboosters.wordpress. com/ Mourning After: 7 p.m. at Great Lakes Leadership Center, 526 N. Main St., Elburn, for young widows/ widowers, and young adults who have lost their partner to death. Call Conley Outreach at 630-365-2880 for directions and monthly topics.

Sandwich Steppers AA(C): 7 p.m. at Fox Valley Community Center, 1406 Suydam Road, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Free Fit Club: 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Sycamore Community Center, 138 Fair St., Sycamore. Featuring rotating cardio or yoga programs from various Beachbody workouts like Insanity, Body Gospel, Hip Hop Abs, Rev Abs and many others. Call 815901-4474 or 815-566-3580 for more information.

A Friend Of Bill’s AA(C): 8 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 33930 N. State St., Genoa, 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.

Blues Jam: 8 p.m. at O’Leary’s Restaurant and Pub, 260 E. Lincoln Highway in DeKalb.

Closed Discussion AA: 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com.

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Neighbors: Stabbing out of girls’ characters

By DINESH RAMDE The Associated Press WAUKESHA, Wis. – Neighbors of two Wisconsin girls accused of stabbing a friend nearly to death say they’re struggling to reconcile the allegations with what they know about the 12-year-olds and their upbringings.

Waukesha County prosecutors have charged the two girls in adult court with attempted homicide for allegedly stabbing a girl the same age in the woods.

The girls told detectives they conspired for months to kill the other girl in hopes of pleasing Slenderman, a fictional character they read about on a horror website.

Most residents in their Waukesha neighborhood didn’t want to talk to reporters Tuesday. They said they were still trying to wrap their minds around the allegations. But neighbors who did agree to talk said the girls came from good families and that the parents were responsible guardians who doted on their children.

Emily Edwards, 15, baby-sat one of the girls for about two years. She told The Associated Press the girl seemed to be a well-adjusted child who was never mean or violent. She said the girl never even picked on her younger brother, and if anything acted as a peacekeeper whenever others teased him.

“She was completely normal, nothing off about her. She was very social, friendly, outgoing,” Emily said, “which is what makes this whole thing so weird.”

Prosecutors said the two girls lured the victim into the woods Saturday and stabbed her 19 times, with one of the wounds coming within a millimeter of piercing a major artery near her heart.

The AP isn’t naming either girl because their cases could end up in juvenile court, where proceedings are closed to the public. The victim is identified in court documents only by her initials.

Emily said that as far as the girl she baby-sat, she often saw her family laughing and smiling together. She described the girl’s parents as “such nice people” who seem devoted to their two kids.

Paul Plotkin, another neighbor

The Associated Press CARSON CITY, Nev. – Don Quilici has snookered a few Carson City newcomers with bets that it would snow the week of his birthday in early May. Unsuspecting gamblers often don’t know that a sliver of the western Nevada city’s boundaries extend to Lake Tahoe and encompass Snow Valley Peak at a towering 9,214 feet.

“As an average, I’d win eight out of 10 years,” said Quilici, 80, a Carson City native.

Lately, though, he hasn’t been so lucky. That’s because Nevada’s capital city is getting hotter.

An Associated Press analysis of federal temperature records shows Carson City has warmed the most than any other city in the nation in the last 30 years.

The average temperature in Carson City has risen 4.1 degrees since 1984.

Boise, Idaho, came in second, posting a rise of 4 degrees. Las Vegas, known for its sweltering summers, was sixth, with an increase of 3.4 degrees.

But it’s the boost in summertime heat that really makes Carson City stand out.

The average temperature for June,

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The site in Waukesha, Wis., seen on Tuesday is where a bicyclist found a 12-year-old girl who had 19 stab wounds. Two 12-year-old girls are accused of stabbing the girl in the woods to please a fictional creature they learned about online. close to the father of one of the girls, said he was troubled by comments he’s seen online suggesting the parents must have been absent, negligent, addicted to drugs or worse.

“Anyone who knows them knows these are good people, a normal middle-class family,” said Plotkin, 44. “It just goes to show, no matter how hard you try to instill good morals, good values, things can still go wrong.”

The two girls live in the same apartment complex, which has about a dozen buildings scattered in an open layout with leafy trees. About a dozen small children played on a small playground in the center of the complex Tuesday afternoon, as parents watched from a distance.

The other girl’s family posted a note on their front door asking reporters to respect their privacy. One woman said

she couldn’t comment because the family asked her and other close friends not to talk to the media.

Another woman who lives three doors away said the family seems close-knit and sociable. Carolyn Nelson, a 71-yearold retiree, said whenever she runs into the family they’re friendly and always ready to lend a hand.

“They’re very nice. I can’t say anything bad about them,” she said. “I just feel sorry for the parents. I just don’t know how they can handle this. It’s just unbelievable.”

Anthony Cotton, an attorney for one of the girls, said he would push to get her case transferred to juvenile court, where more social services and mental health treatment would be available.

“She’s 12 and she has mental health issues,” Cotton said. “There’s no question that she needs to go to the hospital.”

July and August has soared 6.8 degrees over the past three decades, 2.2 degrees warmer than second-place Boise and 2.4 degrees higher than third-place Las Vegas.

The summertime average temperature is up from about 68 degrees to nearly 75.

Because the data on cities are based on one weather station and readings can be affected by urban heating and development, trends are not as scientifically robust as those of states or regions within states, but they do have value, said National Climatic Data Center monitoring chief Derek Arndt.

The change in Carson City is becoming noticeable in subtle ways.

Plants and trees are prone to bloom earlier, and more people are installing air conditioners. The systems were a rarity even a decade ago, when many residents didn’t want to spend the money when only a couple of weeks in August seemed insufferable.

Justin Anderson, owner of Anderson Heating & Air Conditioning, in operation for 32 years, said he “never knew that so many people didn’t have air conditioning before.”

David Ruf of Greenhouse Garden Center was surprised by the amount of

warming that’s taken place but not by the warming itself.

Ruf, whose father started the business 40 years ago, keeps meticulous weather records.

“When we started here, usually there was a temperature swing between night and day of 45 degrees,” Ruf said. “Now we seem to be 35 degrees.”

He and other long-time residents note Carson City’s geography. Nestled in a valley at the base of the Carson Range, the city is ringed by hills and mountains.

And as the city has grown, more roads, asphalt, homes and commercial development have cropped up – ingredients for heat absorption and urban warming.

In 1984, about 35,000 people lived here, government data say, and today the population is 55,000. Instead of fields and meadows, there are houses and commercial complexes.

Sam Lompa, who lives on a ranch in the heart of Carson City, feels the warming effects.

“When I was a kid, we never had any air conditioners,” said Lompa, 71, who grew up on the ranch. Now he uses fans and a swamp cooler but doesn’t fret much about the temperature.

Lennon’s books, manuscripts top auction estimates

By ULA ILNYTZKY The Associated Press NEW YORK – Whimsical drawings, poems and short stories from two humorous books John Lennon produced in the 1960s fetched skyrocketing prices at auction Wednesday, including $209,000 for a nine-page parody of Sherlock Holmes.

The manuscript, “The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield,” was the top lot in the sale and had been estimated to bring $50,000 to $70,000.

The material was created for the two critically acclaimed books Lennon published during the height of Beatlemania.

Sotheby’s said 100 percent of the 89 lots sold, with 83 percent selling above the

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pre-sale high estimate.

“In his Own Write” was a collection of 31 short stories and poems full of puns and spelling errors that was published in 1964. It was a big hit with reviewers who compared Lennon to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. It was followed a year later by “A Spaniard in the Works,” its title a pun on the British term “a spanner in the works,” similar to the American expression “a monkey wrench in the works.”

The collection belonged to Lennon’s British publisher, Tom Maschler, who held on to it for a half-century. Sotheby’s described it as the largest private collection of Lennon’s work to come to the market. Before becoming famous as a musician, Lennon, who was fatally shot

in 1980, trained as an artist at the Liverpool School of Art. A cartoon of a boy with six birds that appeared in “A Spaniard in the Works” sold for $27,500 on Wednesday. The drawing was used 30 years later as the cover for the Beatles’ single “Free as a Bird.”

The song was written by Lennon in 1977. Twenty-five years after the group’s breakup and 15 years after Lennon’s death, it was released with additional instrumentation and vocals from the other three band members in 1995. The cartoon had a pre-sale estimate of $12,000 to $15,000.

“The Fat Budgie,” a beloved nonsensical poem with the title written on the margin, sold for $143,000, well past its $35,000 pre-sale estimate.

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8CORRECTIONS A story on the front of the sports section in Wednesday’s Daily Chronicle about the DeKalb softball team’s 8-4 victory against McHenry in the IHSA Class 4A Jacobs Sectional semifinal misidentified one of the players who scored.

Mackenzie Riggs scored on Rachel Johnson’s single in the Barbs’ half of the fifth inning.

The Daily Chronicle regrets the error.

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In Sycamore, Pritchard talks unfinished business

By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – The leaky roof on the governor’s mansion is a prime example of the problems with the state of Illinois’ spending, State Rep. Bob Pritchard told a dozen senior citizens Wednesday.

Pritchard, a Hinckley Republican representing the 70th District, which includes much of DeKalb County, visited the Grand Victorian to talk about what was done – and not done – during the legislative session that ended last week with legislators passing a $35.7 million budget without Republican support.

“It comes back to the priorities of how we spend our money,” Pritchard said, referencing the Springfield mansion

If you go Rep. Bob Pritchard will host additional discussions this month. n 10:30 a.m. June 21, Big Rock Park District, 7S405 Madison Ave., Big Rock n 11 a.m. June 28, Genoa City Hall, 333 E. First St., Genoa where workers apparently had to remove furniture because the roof was leaking.

Beyond the problems with the mansion, Pritchard spent most of his time talking about issues that will need to be resolved after the November elections, such as the extension of the 2011 tax increase scheduled to end in January.

Pritchard also addressed some of the ballot measures

voters will face in November, including a non-binding referendum asking if they approve of increasing the minimum wage from $8.25 to $10 an hour for workers age 18 and older.

The non-binding referendum is a way to draw voters to the polls, Pritchard said.

He cautioned that representatives from colleges and park districts, entities known to offer minimum-wage jobs during the summer, have voiced concerns that raising the minimum wage would cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“That’s one of the trade-offs we have to think about when we say, ‘Sure, it makes sense,’ ” Pritchard said.

Pritchard said instead of boosting the minimum wage, he would like to double the

earned income tax credit from 10 percent to 20 percent of the federal earned income tax credit. About 900,000 low-income families took advantage of the tax credit in 2013, according to the state.

“To me, that would be a way of certainly helping those individuals without impacting their employers the way the minimum wage would,” Pritchard said. “Because it would be the state government making the contribution rather than the employer.”

Pritchard’ suggestion did little to sway resident Laura Halker, who later voiced support for the minimum wage hike.

“Students, college kids, I don’t care who they are, they should make a decent wage,” Halker said.

Fellow resident Sam Jones also stood in support of the increase, as well as creating jobs.

“The people need it because they’re so poor,” Jones said, adding he thought something should be done to cut outsourcing and keep factory jobs in America. “That would put a lot of people to work.”

Katie Dahlstrom – kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com

Gertrude Stelling looks over information provided by State Rep. Bob Pritchard, R-Hinckley, on Wednesday as Pritchard speaks about state issues at the Grand Victorian in Sycamore.

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D-428 accepts two principals’ resignations

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Flowers and a balloon are seen Wednesday near the southwest segment of the intersection of Main and Liberty streets in Maple Park. On Saturday, Kaneland Harter Middle School eighth-grader Parker Wolfsmith, 14, died near the intersection after he was hit by a train.

Visitation set for Maple Park teen Those interested in the Maple Park Police drop-in program should call 815-827-3286, and select mailbox four, or send an email at jsalisbury@villageofmaplepark. com.

Memorial fund established In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established. Checks may be made to the “Parker Wolfsmith Memorial” and mailed in care of P.O. Box 66, Elburn, IL 60119. Tributes may be forwarded to the same address or on the web at www. conleycare.com.

a very well-rounded young man,” Salisbury said.

Two sets of funeral arrangements have been made.

Wolfsmith moved into the Kaneland School District 302 boundaries before the beginning of his eighth-grade year, but he previously lived in McHenry.

In Kane County, the memorial visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m., with a wake service to begin 7 p.m. Friday at Conley Funeral Home, 116 W. Pierce St., Elburn. The Rev. Tim Sei-

gel, pastor of St. Gall Catholic Church, Elburn, will officiate.

A private family burial will follow cremation at a later date.

In light of the incident, Acosta said the police are planning to have railroad officials provide safety sessions on how to be safe around the tracks.

Acosta said he plans to view Union Pacific’s video as part of the investigation.

Mark Davis, a spokesman for Union Pacific, said most trains are equipped with recorders for many purposes, including pedestrian incidents, grade-crossing collisions and employee safety reviews. He said, typically, that those with the railroad police will show them to agencies, but Union Pacific does not turn over the tapes.

Harter Middle School had a promotion ceremony Tuesday night for eighth-graders completing their school year.

Kaneland Superintendent Jeff Schuler said there was an insert in the program for the event that addressed both Wolfsmith and Caitlyn Phillips, a Harter student in the same class who died last year while inline skating in Elburn.

Schuler said both Wolfsmith and Phillips’ parents attended the ceremony.

Tracy Williams D-428 board president

Senior, low vision expo planned in Sycamore “Now it’s not a Wright family or a Chesebro family,” Greenwald said. “We’re all a Founders family.”

Jermaine Redmond came to Littlejohn Elementary in 2011 after former principal Char Messmore retired.

Messmore, who serves as the district’s substitute administrator, has been acting as the principal at Littlejohn since the middle of May after Redmond took leave.

Redmond is still employed by the district, but his resignation also takes effect June 30.

Williams and Human Resource Director Connie Rohlman would not comment on Redmond’s leave.

The district posted both jobs Wednesday morning.

Once the application period ends, candidates will be interviewed by the superintendent and a selection committee.

Williams said both positions will be filled by the time the 2014-15 school year starts.

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Wolfsmith was killed Saturday night, when he was hit by a Union Pacific train at the crossing at Liberty and Main streets in Maple Park while trying to see how close he could get to the tracks, said Police Chief Mike Acosta, who is still investigating the incident. The drop-in center will be open at 3 p.m. today at the police station at 302 Willow St. in Maple Park.

Acosta said officers will be there “for those individuals who are still trying to deal with this tragedy.”

Josh Salisbury, who helps coordinate the drop-in center, said several had showed up as of Wednesday.

Wolfsmith had attended the police department’s dropin nights, which run from 6 to 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays at the station, but had not attended the night of the train incident.

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CORTLAND – The Cortland Fire Department will kick off its Fill the Boot fundraiser Friday for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Fire department members will be collecting money from 2 to 6 p.m. Friday, and June 13 and 20 at the intersection of Barber Greene and Somonauk roads.

The money raised will help support the MDA’s programs for research, specialized health care services and day-to-day support, including sending children with muscular dystrophy and related diseases to a weeklong summer camp.

“We really appreciate their service here in DeKalb. We wish them well in their new positions”

kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – DeKalb School District 428 is searching for elementary school principals after two resigned.

DeKalb school board members on Tuesday accepted resignations from Gina Greenwald, the principal of Founders Elementary School, and Jermaine Redmond, the principal at Littlejohn Elementary School.

“We really appreciate their service here in DeKalb,” board President Tracy Williams said. “We wish them well in their new positions.”

Gina Greenwald, who has been the principal at Founders since it opened three years ago, accepted a position as the principal of Hoover Wood Elementary School in Batavia School District 101.

Her resignation is effective June 30.

Greenwald has been with District 428 for nine years, serving as the principal at Wright Elementary for six years before the school was closed. Wright and Chesebro elementary schools combined to create Founders in the former Huntley Middle School.

Although she wasn’t actively looking for a new position, Greenwald said the opening in Batavia was closer to home and she felt Founders was running smoothly enough for her to leave.

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More Illinois veterans hospitals under scrutiny CHICAGO – Illinois members of Congress are increasing their scrutiny of veterans hospitals in the state after an internal review showing several dozen patients waited more than three months for appointments at two facilities.

Letters from Veterans Affairs officials to some U.S. senators – including Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois and Kansas’ two senators – last week disclosed that problems with delayed care and unauthorized wait lists existed at several

“That’s news to me which was not divulged in previous conversations with these administrators,” he said. “And so that may cause me to have to circle back to make sure I understood what they were telling me. That raises more questions.”

Representatives for the two hospitals could not be reached for comment. A regional spokesman, Shaun Shenk, responded with a VA statement acknowledging problems in reporting accurate wait times and referring to system-wide efforts to accelerate care.

Other lawmakers, mean-

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while, were planning visits to VA facilities in Illinois this week, including the Marion VA Medical Center. The VA’s Inspector General’s Office is conducting a nationwide review of facilities after allegations first emerged at a hospital in Phoenix that secret waiting lists were used to cover up long wait times.

In Illinois, most of the attention has been focused on a suburban Chicago hospital where several staff members and a union representative have come forward with similar allegations. Kirk, a Republican from Highland Park, has

asked the VA’s acting inspector general to investigate the allegations, including whether $16.6 million in bonuses to employees may have led to secret wait lists and scheduling manipulation.

“The VA will continue to be held accountable for this corruption until our nation’s veterans are given quality medical care in a timely manner. Anything less than that dishonors their immeasurable sacrifice,” Kirk said Wednesday.

The director of the Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital has denied there were secret waiting lists at the facility.

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VIRGINIA ALTENBERGER Born: July 16, 1959, in Aurora, Illinois Died: June 1, 2014, in Big Rock, Illinois BIG ROCK – Virginia Altenberger, 54, of Big Rock, Illinois, passed away peacefully at home Thursday, June 1, 2014.

She is survived by her two children, Amy Altenberger of Seattle and Lisa Altenberger of Big Rock; three siblings, Joe (Gerry) Antos of Victoria, British Columbia, David (Chris) Antos of Chicago and Linda (Tom) Petritsch of Big Rock; and nieces and nephews.

Virginia was born July 16, 1959, to Joseph Antos and Rose Antos (both of whom preceded her in death) in Aurora, Illinois, and moved with her family in 1962 to the Big Rock area.

She grew up on a beautiful wooded property, where she developed her love of nature and all animals.

She was a dedicated employee of AT&T for more than 35 years, while spending her free time enjoying her many interests such as reading books, cooking, and gardening. As a young woman, she competed in horse riding competitions, and she was passionate about the many horses she had throughout her adult life. She was especially devoted to her two dogs, Misty and Tamika, and her horse Mikey.

Virginia specifically requested that there be no funeral or visitation to mark her passing. She preferred to be remembered for the person she was, the life she lived and the memories she left behind. Thus, in lieu of a memorial service, her children ask that donations be made in her name to the nonprofit Illinois Equine Humane Center to honor her love of all animals. Donations may be made online at www.ILEHC.org or by sending a check to the ILEHC mailing address, P.O. Box 337, Big Rock, Illinois 60511.

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Alissa Jackson, 31, pleaded not guilty Wednesday DeKALB – The DeKalb Elks in southwestern Illinois’ St. Lodge No. 765 is inviting all DeKalb area veterans and their Clair County just hours after being charged with two felony spouses to a dinner in their counts of theft by deception. honor June 14.

Jackson, wearing an orange The event will include a jail jumpsuit, told a judge she flag retirement ceremony at would hire an attorney and 3:30 p.m., with check-in and cocktail hour starting at 4:30 was jailed on $100,000 bond.

Belleville police Detective p.m. and dinner at 5:30 p.m., Sgt. Mark Heffernan said according to a news release. investigators began scrutinizThe Elks Flag Day ceremony will start at 6:30 p.m. and will ing Jackson nearly a month ago after community members include awarding a flag to a reported their suspicions that local veteran.

The menu choice is meatloaf she was lying about having late-stage ovarian cancer. with mashed potatoes or Police ultimately found that allasagna with garlic bread; all meals include green beans and though the community staged a desert. Call the lodge at 815- several fundraisers meant to defray her supposed medical 756-6912 to make a reservaexpenses, Jackson never had tion. If you cannot make it to the lodge, the Elks would like cancer.

It was not immediately clear to deliver your dinner to you. for how long Jackson carried Call and place your order.

– Daily Chronicle out her alleged deceit or how much she profited from well-intentioned donors police Ill. woman accused of theft over cancer claims said were part of “Alissa’s Army.”

ST. LOUIS – An Illinois woman was charged WednesCicada hatch to make day with bilking thousands for noisy western Illinois of dollars in donations from GALESBURG – Late spring is hundreds of people she duped for months into believing she about to get a whole lot noishad terminal cancer, drawing ier in western Illinois, and the fish may not bite for a while, scorn from an investigator who labeled the alleged global either.

Born: May 9, 1928 in DeKalb, Illinois Died: May 31, 2014, in DeKalb, Illinois DeKALB – Roger Wennlund, 86, of DeKalb died Saturday, May 31, 2014, at DeKalb County Rehab and Nursing Center in DeKalb.

He was born May 9, 1928, in DeKalb, the son of Hjalmer and Neva (Peterson) Wennlund. Roger married Sonia Metzl on Aug. 19, 1950, at First Lutheran Church in DeKalb. He graduated from DeKalb High School in 1945. In 1950, he received his bachelor’s degree in education, then in 1962 received his master’s degree in education from Northern Illinois University. Roger taught at Sycamore Jr. High School from 1952 until 1985, where he also coached freshman/sophomore football, basketball, baseball and track. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict. During his summers off from teaching, he worked as a ranger at Rocky Mountains National Park for 24 years.

He is survived by his wife, Sonia of DeKalb; grandchildren, Ryan, Anna, Devan Wennlund; daughter-in-law, Anita Wennlund; and sister-in-law, Claire White.

He was predeceased by his parents; daughter, Dana Louise Zastrow; son, Dale Wennlund; and sister, Lucille Bush.

A memorial service will be held at noon Saturday, June 7, at Olson Funeral & Cremation Services, Ltd., Quiram Sycamore Chapel, 1245 Somonauk St., Sycamore. The memorial visitation will be held after the service until 2 pm at the funeral home. A memorial fund has been established for the family.

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That’s because a huge crop of cicada eggs laid 17 years ago are about to become loud, buzzing insects, University of Illinois Extension entomologist Phil Nixon said.

Nixon told the Galesburg Register-Mail that the noisy insects should start emerging this weekend.

“The cicadas will come out and males will sing to attract females for two to three weeks,” Nixon said. “Normally, they sing during the day when it’s sunny out.”

The bugs’ buzzing sound will be tough to get away from, he said. After they mate, the males will die while the female cicadas will live another few weeks, long enough to lay eggs that will themselves hatch as nymphs, fall to the ground and burrow in for another 17-year wait.

“Fish won’t bite this time of year because they’re stuffed with cicadas that die and fall onto the water; insect-eating birds will have more young; there will be more white-footed mice and deer mice because there will be gobs of food,” he said. “But they’ll starve to death next year or the year after because that food source won’t be there anymore.”

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ROCKFORD – Peggy Hoffman, 76, of Rockford, Illinois, passed into God’s welcoming arms on Thursday, May 15, 2014, at home with her loving and devoted husband, Stu, and caretaker, Glenda, at her side.

Peggy is finally at peace after being bitten by a neuro-invasive West Nile infected mosquito in September 2005. Her faith in God and her medical knowledge as a registered nurse never wavered as she fought the good fight.

Peggy A. Cadugan was born July 1, 1937, in Philadelphia, the daughter of Edward G. and Martha Sunderland Cadugan. Peggy was very proud of her Pennsylvania roots and remained in contact with some special childhood friends. Her family moved to Seattle and then to Rockford, where she graduated from West High School in 1955. When her family moved back to Pennsylvania, she remained in Rockford and graduated from Rockford Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in 1970.

She met Stuart Hoffman in 1988 and they were married April 7, 1990. For the two of them, after God, family was of utmost importance.

She and Stu were active members of Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church and were on several committees.

She is survived by husband, Stuart; son, Michael (Laura Grossenbacher) Duffey; daughters, Kwynn Duffey (Vincent) Nicholas and Stephanie Hoffman; son, Dustin (fiance’ Crystal Detzner) Hoffman; grandchildren, Alyson (Matt) Chumbley, Ryan Treanor, Christian Treanor and Nathan (Maggie O’Brien) Hoffman; brother, Ed (Nancy); Stu’s siblings, Tom (Louise) Hoffman, Nancy Bakanas and Lori (John) Roser; and many adoring nieces and nephews.

The family offers special thanks to Dr. Steve Diamond and staff, VNA Hospice and LSSI In Touch.

Peggy’s life will be celebrated with a memorial service at 11 a.m.

Saturday, June 7, preceded by the visitation at 10 a.m., at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 2715 S. Mulford Road, Rockford, with the Pastor Janet Wold officiating.

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In Poland, Obama sees a guidepost for Ukraine

By JULIE PACE The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland – A quarter century after Poland embraced democracy, President Barack Obama held up this nation Wednesday as a guidepost for neighboring Ukraine as it seeks to fend off an insurgency widely believed to be backed

by Russia that has rekindled Cold War-era tensions across Europe.

Obama also offered high-profile gestures of American support for Ukraine, holding talks for the first time with the former Soviet republic’s new president-elect and announcing long-sought assistance for the Ukrainian military, including body armor and night vision goggles. Later, in Brussels, Obama attended a

meeting of the Group of Seven major industrial nations, with the pointed exclusion of Russia from the gathering.

“The people of Ukraine are reaching out for the same freedom and opportunities and progress that we celebrate here today – and they deserve them, too,” Obama declared in a rousing address to 6,000 people gathered in an outdoor square in the heart of Warsaw.

The celebration marking the 25th anniversary of Poland’s first partially free election was the centerpiece of Obama’s twoday visit to Warsaw.

Shortly after his remarks, Obama traveled to Brussels where G-7 leaders were expected to issue stern warnings to Russia but hold off on imposing further economic sanctions.

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U.S. President Barack Obama (right) shakes hands Wednesday with Ukraine president-elect Petro Poroshenko in Warsaw, Poland.

Obama also met briefly with King Philippe and Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo.

Obama will close his trip in France on Friday, marking the

70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion during World War II. At the ceremony, Obama probably will have his first face-toface interaction with Russian

President Vladimir Putin since the crisis in Ukraine unfolded earlier this year.

Putin’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine as well as other threatening moves have rattled Poland and its neighbors, many of which have historic ties to Russia, but also deepening relationships with the West.

Seeking to offer assurances to those nervous nations, Obama vowed to come to the defense of Poland and other NATO allies, declaring that an attack on one member country would be an attack on them all.

He also reaffirmed his commitment to seeking congressional support for up to $1 billion for a “European Reassurance Initiative” that would boost the American military presence on the continent.

“After investing so much blood and treasure to bring Europe together, we refuse to allow the dark tactics of the 20th century to define the 21st,” he said.

Earlier Wednesday, Obama met for the first time with Petro Poroshenko, the billionaire candy maker who handily won Ukraine’s presidential election last month. The talks were an attempt to bolster the legitimacy of Ukraine’s new government, which Russia is yet to recognize.

Poroshenko will be inaugurated on Saturday with Vice President Joe Biden and other Western dignitaries on hand. Sitting side-by-side with Obama, Poroshenko thanked the U.S. for its support for “the Ukrainian people, for freedom, for democracy.”

Federal funds to pay for projects • BRIDGES Continued from page A1 Coltonville Road bridge in 2015.

The two bridges in Paw Paw Township are on South Paw Paw Road west of Goble Road, are within a half-mile of each other and were built in 1965. The project will use about $800,000 in federal mon-

ey, Schwartz said.

The Coltonville Road bridge, located between North First Street and Illinois 23 and spans across the Kishwaukee River, was built in 1975. That project is expected to cost about $2.5 million, so money will come from federal funds earmarked for major bridge projects, Schwartz said.

“All three structures have

aged, and they are showing their age,” Schwartz said.

The three bridges each have weight limit signs posted.

Officials plan to fund the majority of those three projects using federal money, Schwartz said, which largely comes from motor fuel taxes.

Bids for the Coltonville Road bridge will open in spring 2015.

Families of soldiers who died in search of Bergdahl want answers • SOLDIER Continued from page A1 debate rages in the United States over the deal and whether the 28-year-old from Hailey, Idaho, should be punished as a deserter.

U.S. lawmakers and others have complained that Congress should have been consulted, that the prisoner swap will embolden the Taliban to snatch more American soldiers, and that the released Afghans will filter back to the battlefield.

Closer to home, family members of servicemen killed in Afghanistan’s Paktika province in the months after Bergdahl’s disappearance on June 30, 2009, have said that their sons were killed searching for Bergdahl and say they want answers.

Among them are family members of Army Pfc. Matthew Martinek who grew up in Genoa, IL, and who, like Bergdahl, was serving with the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division in 2009. Martinek died as a result of wounds he suffered in an ambush attack on Sept. 4, 2009.

U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren, a Winfield Republican whose 14th Congressional District includes part of DeKalb County, said in a written statement that his familiy members were owed more information.

“Army Pfc. Matthew Martinek died in service to his country, remaining faithful to his oath and honoring his family through his bravery,” Hultgren said. “As a parent, my heart goes out to them as they have without a doubt suffered a terrible loss.

“The circumstances surrounding Pfc. Martinek’s death are still unclear, and his family deserves answers. We need to find out the details behind what happened – and why. Our courageous soldiers deserve nothing less.”

In Washington, Rob Williams, the U.S. national intelligence officer for South Asia, told the Senate intelligence committee Tuesday that four of the men are expected to resume activities with the Taliban, according to two senior congressional officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the session was classified.

Under the terms of the exchange, the five Taliban detainees will have to stay for a year in Qatar. There, they will be free to communicate with their comrades in Afghanistan by courier, one of the congressio-

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Robert Baird, an Evergreen Village resident for 29 years, plays with his bullmastiff, Chewy, on Tuesday after mowing the yard of his friend Larry Hunter. Baird said he and his family would stay at the Sycamore mobile home park until at least November.

County will help with move, expenses • MOBILE PARK Continued from page A1

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In this image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl sits in a vehicle guarded by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban have released a video showing the handover of Bergdahl to U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan. The video, emailed to media on Wednesday, shows Bergdahl in traditional Afghan clothing sitting in a pickup truck parked on a hillside. More than a dozen Taliban fighters with machine guns stand around the truck and on the hillside.

Bergdahl’s hometown cancels event amid furor HAILEY, Idaho – Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s hometown abruptly canceled plans Wednesday for a welcome-home celebration, citing security concerns over the prospect of big crowds – both for and against the soldier.

The town of 8,000 has been swamped with hate mail and angry calls over Bergdahl, whose release after five years of Taliban captivity in Afghanistan has touched off a debate over whether the 28-year-old should be given a hero’s welcome or punished as a deserter.

In Hailey, organizers of a celebration that had been scheduled for June 28 issued a statement saying the town doesn’t have the means to handle such an event, given the prospect of big crowds on both sides of the debate.

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The five include the former Taliban interior minister, who was described in a U.S. case file leaked by WikiLeaks as having had close ties to Osama bin Laden; the Taliban’s former deputy chief of intelligence; and a former member of a joint Taliban-al-Qaida cell.

The video of Bergdahl after five years in captivity showed a well-choreographed release, with the American sitting in a silver pickup truck while more than a dozen Taliban fighters with machine guns and faces largely covered by scarves

stand guard nearby and on a rocky hill overlooking the site.

Bergdahl, his head shaved, blinked frequently and looked tense as he peered out of the truck. At one point, he wiped his eye as if to get rid of some dust.

A Black Hawk helicopter lands, kicking up a cloud of dust. Two Taliban fighters, one carrying a white flag of truce tied to a long, crooked stick, lead Bergdahl, now wearing a gray shawl and carrying a plastic bag, halfway toward the chopper.

Three apparent members of U.S. special operations forces approach the group, shake hands with the two Taliban fighters and take Bergdahl toward the helicopter.

One of the three men pats down Bergdahl, while another takes the plastic bag from him and drops it on the ground.

Then they all climb into the helicopter.

According to a voiceover on the video, the handover took place around 4 p.m. Saturday in rugged Khost province, near the Pakistani border.

As the helicopter approaches, one of the Taliban men is heard warning Bergdahl not to come back. “You won’t make it out alive next time,” the man says in Pashto as some of the other fighters are heard laughing.

As if to underscore the point, similar words appear on the video in broken English: “Don come back to Afghanistan.”

Back in the U.S., Sue Martin, a friend of the Bergdahl family and owner of Zaney’s Coffee Shop in Hailey, said Bergdahl’s appearance in the video shocked her. She said he looked frail, tired and damaged.

said they considered the number of residents in each unit when giving the full quotes.

The county will hire a moving company for residents moving within 50 miles of Evergreen Village, Courtney said. They also can elect to move themselves, in which case they would receive about $1,200 to cover expenses.

Residents are not required to accept the offers the county makes them in comparable housing and can put the money they receive for their homes toward other housing.

“We’re very pleased with the reception of the trailer owners,” Courtney said.

“They pretty much all seem pretty happy with the benefits available to them.”

On the other hand, Hunter said he doesn’t think the process is fair, because he said, some neighbors are getting more money than they may deserve. Hunter pointed out he has central air conditioning in his home, while others don’t.

Hunter lives near the east bank of the Kishwaukee River, which is close enough

Evergreen Village Mobile Home Park resident Larry Hunter pets his cat on the back porch of his mobile home, which sits on the east bank of the Kishwaukee River, on Tuesday in Sycamore. that he can fish from his back porch. His home was damaged by flooding in 2007 and 2008.

Hunter plans on traveling to Mountain Home, Arkansas, in two weeks to see a farmhouse on a 10-acre property his Evergreen Village neighbor found.

“My house is from 1977,” Hunter said. “It would never hold up if I brought it with me.”

Meanwhile, Kim Doty has spent about $10,000 renovating her 1969 mobile home, but she also plans to leave it behind when she moves to Genoa by the end of June.

Doty, a resident at the mo-

bile park since 2001, received an offer of $12,600 for her home, plus moving fees.

“I guess that’s fair,” she said. “I’ve never been through this, either.”

Doty plans to move to a second-story apartment in Genoa, where her parents are from. She has a medical condition that requires her to receive oxygen.

Doty has mixed feelings about leaving her home of 13 years. Part of her wants to stay just to see officials tear down some of the mobile homes.

“I’m not as sad as I was,” she said. “It wasn’t much, but it was ours.”

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Daily Chronicle • www.daily-chronicle.com • Page A7 • Thursday, June 5, 2014

8OUR VIEW

8SKETCH VIEW

Low-carbon nuclear plants part of future

High Court spinning ties liberals up in knots Linda Greenhouse has been providing liberal spin on the Supreme Court for the New York Times for decades, first as a reporter and now as an opinion columnist.

She recently attacked the court for its “dangerous” conservatism, and in the process, inadvertently confirmed that conservatives have been right all along about the real dangers the court poses.

Greenhouse has long been an influential voice. In 1970, she publicized the claims of an academic that American law had never been concerned with protecting the lives of unborn children. Those claims have long been discredited. They nonetheless left an enduring mark, having made their way into Roe v. Wade, the court’s landmark abortion case.

Greenhouse was enough of a fixture of the legal landscape that when conservatives in the 1980s complained about how media coverage had pulled the justices leftward, they called it “the Greenhouse effect.”

In her column this week, Greenhouse writes that she has long insisted that law rather than politics drives the court’s decisions. The court under Chief Justice John Roberts has, however, stripped away this illusion by issuing “polarized” and “ideological” rulings, she argued. It has dismantled campaign-finance regulations, and its decisions on the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action have demonstrated “its obsession with race and drawing the final curtain on the civil rights revolution.”

She also faulted the court for a recent ruling about prayers at the beginning of townboard meetings. “The country didn’t need to have the religious culture wars reignited, but thanks to the court, that’s where we now are,” she wrote. Because other towns may change their practices in response to the ruling, “the Supreme Court’s ‘O.K. to pray’ is being quickly and unsubtly turned into a right to pray.”

This critique of the court was itself pretty ideological and not very self-aware.

VIEWS Ramesh Ponnuru If the court had ruled the other way on the Voting Rights Act – upholding it in full, rather than dismaying liberals by striking part of it down – it’s hard to believe Greenhouse would have found that decision evidence of a racial fixation.

She conceded that the affirmative-action case she discusses was decided 7-1, which is hardly polarized. Her objection was to the court’s having taken up the case at all. But the concession made a hash of her argument. We’re left to believe that the court’s conservatives took up the case because they’re so relentlessly ideological, and then absentmindedly settled for a consensus decision.

Her discussion of the town-prayer case was similarly baffling. Was the court supposed to issue its rulings with an eye on which controversy the country “needs to have”? Couldn’t a decision striking down the town’s practices have ignited controversy, too? (Would she have condemned such a decision for any ensuing controversy?)

And what’s the difference anyway between saying it’s OK for a town board to start its meetings with a prayer and saying it has a right to do so?

Yet if conservatives leave Greenhouse’s history and flawed arguments aside, they’ll find much to agree with in what she said.

She’s right, for one thing, that to evaluate the court’s work, it isn’t enough to look at voting patterns arrayed on a chart. It’s necessary to make, well, judgments, which “invites pushback and debate.”

She’s also right that the Supreme Court often acts in ways that reflect the policy views of the justices better than they do the Constitution – although this tendency is hardly unique to the conservative justices

or a novelty of the Roberts court. Think, for example, of those liberal justices of years past who have voted to declare the death penalty unconstitutional even though the Constitution explicitly countenances it.

I share the view that we should abolish capital punishment, but they were acting outside their legitimate authority.

Greenhouse is right, finally, to “wonder whether the Supreme Court itself has become an engine of polarization.” But again, her tense is off: The court has fueled polarization for a long time. Roe, especially, inflamed American politics. It nationalized an issue that had previously been handled at the state level; it imposed an extreme policy, effectively making even late-term abortions legal; and it told pro-lifers that their deepest beliefs were in violation of the country’s fundamental charter.

Greenhouse wrote that the court has been “wrong in refusing to give the political system breathing room to make fundamental choices of self-governance.” That’s exactly what Roe, and many other liberal rulings, also have refused to do.

For conservatives, then, the critique that Greenhouse presents as a revelation is old hat. We’ve said for a long time that the court decides policy questions it has no business settling, that it therefore has an outsized role in American life, and that its self-aggrandizement can distort our politics.

It would be nice if Greenhouse were next to acknowledge that conservatives have had a point about excessive judicial power all these years. But these are dangers that people can, perhaps, see only when they lose in court.

• Ramesh Ponnuru, a Bloomberg View columnist, is a senior editor for National Review, where he has covered national politics for 18 years, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a resident fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.

8VIEWS

Misconceptions over deal to get Bergdahl back

By FRED KAPLAN WASHINGTON – The news channels are blaring two misconceptions about the recovery of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for five years until this past weekend, when he was traded for five Guantánamo Bay detainees.

First, contrary to claims by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, and others, the Obama administration did not negotiate with “terrorists” to get Bergdahl back.

Second, contrary to messages conveyed

by President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, this is not an occasion for unblemished celebration.

The first point is politically important.

Many columnists and congressmen make a big point that America doesn’t negotiate with terrorists. Well, sometimes America does, but the key thing here is that the Taliban delegates, with whom U.S. officials have been negotiating in Qatar over the fate of Sgt. Bergdahl, are not terrorists. They represent a political faction and a military force in Afghanistan; they are combatants in a war that the United States is fighting.

In other words, Bergdahl was not a “hostage” (another erroneous term uttered by Rogers). He was a prisoner of war, and what happened Saturday was an exchange of POWs. The United States and practically every other nation that’s ever fought a war have made these sorts of exchanges for centuries.

In recent years, American officers have

turned over hundreds of detainees to the Afghan government, which in turn freed them in exchange for favors of one sort or another from the Taliban. During the Iraq war, American commanders frequently made similar swaps. The Israeli government (which can’t be considered soft on terror) trades prisoners with Hamas and Hezbollah all the time. In the most dramatic case, Gilad Shalit, an Army private abducted by Hamas, was traded for 1,027 Palestinian and Arab prisoners, 280 of whom had been serving life sentences for terrorist attacks against Israel.

The Israelis are particularly devoted to the commandment: Thou shalt not leave one soldier behind. The fate of Shalit was a national cause, and his release celebrated as a national holiday.

American culture is very different. My guess is that very few among us remembered – or had ever heard of – Bowe Bergdahl until his release made headlines last weekend. Still, the U.S. military cherishes this same principle (leave no soldier behind), and his recovery is cause for satisfaction – but not much more than that.

In a lengthy 2012 Rolling Stone article, Michael Hastings painted a picture of Bergdahl as a moralistic home-schooled adventurer, enticed by the romance of do-good soldiers (he tried to enlist in the French Foreign Legion), who studied Pashto, took the nation-building doctrine seriously, grew disillusioned with the Army’s mission and disgruntled by his own unit’s incompetence – and walked off into the mountains. On the

other hand, Nathan Bradley Bethea, a retired Army captain who served in the same battalion, recalled Bergdahl – in the Daily Beast and a BBC interview – as a mentally unstable misfit who should never have been allowed to join the service.

Either way (and the two portraits aren’t mutually exclusive), Bethea is probably right that soldiers from Bergdahl’s own unit “died trying to track him down.” Not in some Saving Private Ryan-like search, but aircraft and drones were probably diverted from normal military tasks in the hunt for Bergdahl, leaving several units unprotected in the process. (He has been promoted to sergeant, for service, during the years of his captivity.) Again, this is what servicemen and women do for comrades lost in harm’s way; it’s part of their mission, a vital aspect of military culture. But it feels more like a burden than a duty, if the lost soul got lost on his own free will.

And so, it felt a bit discordant when Hagel made a victory lap around Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, proclaiming, “This is a happy day, we got one of our own back.” And, although more understandable, it seemed a bit excessive, as well, when President Obama called it “a good day” while standing before the White House press corps alongside Bergdahl’s parents. A low-profile photo-op might have been more appropriate.

• Kaplan is the author of “The Insurgents” and the Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Nuclear power may have fallen out of fashion in parts of the world, but it remains a critical part of the mix in Illinois’ power-generating scheme.

If our state is to meet the emissions-reduction goals proposed this week by President Barack Obama’s administration, nuclear power plants will have to be part of the solution. Under Obama’s plan aimed at reducing greenhouse gases, Illinois would be charged with reducing by 30 percent the carbon dioxide emitted by its power plants by 2030.

Nuclear power is a low-carbon power source and should be treated like one by the federal government.

Illinois – a cradle of nucleFor the record ar science where important work on the Manhattan ProjDespite their benefits, ect was done – relies more proposals for wind farms heavily on nuclear power than any other state. Illinois’ and solar fields often 11 nuclear reactors supply 48 encounter public resistance, and state lawmakers have percent of all power generbeen slow to open the door ated in the state, more than to fracking operations, any other source. which pose their own risks.

Although they generate radioactive waste that must be securely stored for hundreds of years, nuclear reactors generate little in the way of carbon emissions.

Nuclear power facilities also employ more than 4,900 people in Illinois, with an annual payroll of about $400 million, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute, a Washington-based lobbying group for the nuclear power industry.

But our state’s nuclear reactors are aging, and Exelon Corp., which operates several plants in Illinois, has said it will close the plants if their financial outlook does not improve.

In fact, nuclear facilities should be considered a viable source of low-carbon power generation, on par with other such sources. In light of this, the state House last week passed a bipartisan resolution asking the federal government to adopt nuclear friendly rules in its new standards for nuclear plants set to be released this year.

Since Obama’s administration abandoned plans for a national nuclear fuel repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, there has been no movement toward creating a national, secure disposal facility for nuclear waste. More than 8,600 metric tons of nuclear waste are stored at plant sites in central and northern Illinois.

The names of nuclear sites where accidents have occurred are infamous: Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island in 1979, Ukraine’s Chernobyl in 1986, Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi in 2011. The Japanese disaster, the cleanup of which will take decades, has driven industrial countries, including Japan and Germany, to decommission their nuclear plants.

Barring a groundbreaking technological discovery or a major commitment to hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to extract natural gas, and renewable energy sources, it seems hard to envision Illinois being able to follow suit and still meet the emissions reductions goals being pushed as a means to combat global warming.

Despite their benefits, proposals for wind farms and solar fields often encounter public resistance, and state lawmakers have been slow to open the door to fracking operations, which pose their own environmental risks.

Illinois communities have coexisted and thrived because of the nuclear power plants that operate in their communities, and the state’s air has also been free of the carbon dioxide, soot, sulfur dioxide and other pollutants generated by the state’s next-most popular power source, coal-fired power plants.

Nuclear reactors will continue to be a vital part of Illinois’ power-generation capacity and they should be supported and maintained in a sensible and safe way for the future.

8 ANOTHER VIEW

China’s rulers fear their own people Twenty-five years after the Tiananmen massacre, you would think China’s Communist rulers would feel confident. China’s economy, by some measures, is poised to become the world’s largest. Its military has grown by leaps and bounds. Businessmen from every corner of the world pay court.

Yet their behavior suggests fear. They dare not let their people know what happened at Tiananmen Square. They employ tens of thousands of agents to watch over online conversations, blocking and censoring any hint of criticism. They knock down churches that become too popular. Increasingly, they bully, harass and imprison peaceful citizens who urge the regime to follow its own constitution.

Meanwhile, as the regime tries to show “the glorious, prosperous side of China,” said Hua Ze, an activist who was kidnapped by Chinese security agents in 2010.

Religious believers, people forcibly evicted from their homes, victims of China’s one-child and forced abortion policies.

“There are a lot of weaknesses built in that will come back to bite them,” she said, and then echoed her own words during her detention: “Even though we are persecuted, they are even more scared than we are.”

The Washington Post

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

– U.S. Bill of Rights, First Amendment

WEATHER

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7-DAY FORECAST

High pressure will remain in control over the northern Great Lakes today.

This will bring plenty of sunshine and cool air as surface winds shift out of the east and northeast. Not much change on Friday with mild days and cool nights. A cold front will arrive late Saturday with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Drier air will arrive Sunday.

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Sunset tonight ............................. 8:26 p.m.

Moonrise today ......................... 12:42 p.m.

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Dixon 76/49

Joliet 74/49

La Salle 77/53 Streator 77/52

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Evanston 67/50 Chicago 71/49

Aurora 74/46

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Arlington Heights 70/48

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Peoria 78/56

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Join Oak Crest for an evening of friendly competitive fun as we enjoy “Baby Boomer Trivia.” This event benefits the Oak Crest Good Samaritan Fund and will be held Saturday, June 21st at 7:00 p.m.

You are encouraged to form teams of six and sign-up by contacting the Oak Crest main office at (815) 756-8461. The cost is $10.00 a person with refreshments available for a nominal cost.

For additional information contact Joan Launer, Community Events Coordinator at (815)756-8461 or jlauner@oakcrestdekalb.org

Sports 8MORNING KICKOFF

AP photo

Super Bowl 50 to scrap Roman numerals NEW YORK – “Super Bowl 50” just looks better than “Super Bowl L.” X, V and I are nicely symmetrical, but with the unbalanced L in line for the 2015 season, the NFL decided to scrap the Roman numerals for a year.

The championship game in Santa Clara, California, on Feb. 7, 2016, will be known as “Super Bowl 50.”

The league has been contemplating this eventuality for nearly a decade, ever since the 40th edition ended with XL – which is not only visually pleasing but seemed an appropriate description of the extravaganza the Super Bowl has become.

Starting last April, NFL executives viewed more than 70 potential logos for the 2016 game. They found it’s hard to build an attractive image around what league vice president Jaime Weston calls “the lonely L.” Using the big 5-0 instead had the added benefit of emphasizing the significance of the Super Bowl’s 50th iteration. That allows the NFL to celebrate the milestone all season long.

“It’s a much bolder statement,” said Weston, the NFL’s VP for brand and creative.

In 2017 in Houston, though, the game will revert to “Super Bowl LI.” Adding that I to the end squares off the L and makes it more adaptable graphically, Weston said.

And the league has no desire to ditch the Roman numerals for good.

The NFL first started using them for the fifth Super Bowl in 1971. They have a practical value for a league whose regular season and championship game take place in different calendar years.

Then there are the more intangible benefits.

“It really does differentiate us,” Weston said.

– Wire report

8WHAT TO WATCH Pro basketball NBA Finals: Miami at San Antonio, 8 p.m., ABC LeBron James and Dwyane Wade can point to statistics showing just how close the 2013 NBA Finals were.

Tim Duncan doesn’t need them.

He can’t forget the way his San Antonio Spurs lost, especially since every replay brings another painful reminder.

The Spurs wanted a rematch, and so did basketball fans. It begins tonight in San Antonio.

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The Chicago Sun-Times columnist Rick Morrissey says the world won’t end when the Cubs and WGN part ways. PAGE B2

SECTION B Thursday, June 5, 2014 Daily Chronicle

CLASS 3A ROCHELLE SECTIONAL

TREML TOSSES NO-HITTER

Photos by Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com

ABOVE: After pitching a no-hitter, Sycamore team members pile on pitcher Colan Treml after beating Kaneland, 1-0, Wednesday in an IHSA Class 3A Rochelle Sectional semifinal.

TOP: Treml pitches to a Kaneland batter.

Weaver’s homer is the game’s only run

By LUKE SRODULSKI sports@daily-chronicle.com ROCHELLE – The no-hitter credited to Colan Treml may have been open to debate, but his third win of the postseason was not.

A solo home run to left field from junior center fielder Brett Weaver was all the offense Sycamore needed Wednesday afternoon.

Treml’s no-no led the way for the Spartans in a 1-0 win over Kaneland (18-16) in the Class 3A Rochelle Sectional semifinals.

The junior right-hander has yet to give up a run in the postseason, and he’s a huge

reason why Sycamore (25-12) will be playing in Saturday’s sectional final against either Rockford Boylan or Rochelle, who face off in the other semifinal at 4 p.m. today.

“Eighteen scoreless innings in the postseason.

That’s insane,” Sycamore coach Jason Cavanaugh said.

“When they were swinging at curveballs they were down, when they were taking them they were right there in the strike zone, and that makes any pitcher tough to hit.”

Both Treml and Kaneland sophomore Anthony Holubecki held no-hitters through

See SPARTANS, page B3

More online For all your prep sports coverage – stories, features, scores, photos, videos, blogs and more – log on to Dai-

Scoreboard Wednesday’s semifinal Sycamore 1, Kaneland 0 Today’s semifinal Rochelle vs. Rockford Boylan Catholic, 4 p.m.

Saturday’s championship Sycamore/Kanland winner vs. Rochelle/Boylan winner, 11 a.m.

• Winner advances to the Rock Island Supersectional

Treml’s past 8 days are heck of a stretch ROCHELLE – Three wins. Eighteen scoreless innings. A no-hitter.

That’s what Sycamore pitcher Colan Treml has been able to do since the Spartans opened the postseason May 28. That afternoon, Treml struck out seven Genoa-Kingston batters in a complete-game win.

In Saturday’s Class 3A Hampshire Regional final, Treml threw four scoreless innings in relief as Sycamore claimed a regional championship against Burlington Central.

Which brings us to Wednesday afternoon in Rochelle – Treml’s best per-

VIEWS Steve Nitz formance so far this postseason. In the Spartan’s 1-0 win over Kaneland in the Class 3A Rochelle Sectional final, Treml no-hit the Knights and didn’t walk a batter The no-hitter was controversial – Joe Panico’s second-inning dribbler to the left side of the Sycamore infield went past a diving Mark Skelley at third base, and shortstop Michael

See NITZ, page B3

DEKALB SOFTBALL

Barb’s Taylor learned slap-hitting technique on the fly

By TRAVIS ZUELLIG sports@daily-chronicle.com DeKALB – There is something interesting about DeKalb leadoff hitter Abby Taylor.

The sophomore shortstop is a left-handed slap hitter, but she didn’t always hit that way.

Taylor has worked hard over the past eight months to go from a right-handed hitter to a left-handed hitter, and Taylor and the Barbs, who will compete for the Class 4A Jacobs Sectional title Saturday, have seen success because of it.

Taylor had a big RBI single as part of the Barbs’ seven-run fifth inning in Tuesday’s sectional semifinal win over McHenry.

“It has been a lot of work,” Taylor said.

“A lot practice I have put into it. There has been a lot of hitting lessons and it’s been good.”

Taylor started the season playing shortstop and second base while batting Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com sixth in DeKalb’s strong order. However, DeKalb’s Abby Taylor prepares to bunt in the first inning of the Northern Illinois Big changes to the lineup have seen Taylor move up to the leadoff spot.

12 East game against Sycamore on May 2 at Northern Illinois University.

Scoreboard Tuesday’s semifinal DeKalb 8, McHenry 4 Wednesday’s semifinal Barrington 2, Rockton Hononegah 0 Saturday’s final DeKalb vs. Barrington, 3 p.m.

• Winner advances to the Barrington Supersectional Initially, Morgan Newport was batting first.

DeKalb Jeff Davis moved Newport to the No. 3 spot and moved Taylor up in the lineup, but there was still a gap with no true second batter.

After watching some Barbs games at the freshman and junior varsity level, Davis brought up Erin Karasewski to varsity.

Karasewski has filled that gap in left

See TAYLOR, page B3

SPORTS

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8PREP SCHEDULE SATURDAY Baseball Sycamore vs. Rochelle/Rockford Boylan in Class 3A Rochelle Sectional final, 11 a.m.

Softball DeKalb vs. Barrington in Class 4A Jacobs Sectional final, 3 p.m.

8SPORTS SHORTS Church softball league action continues Five games were played in the DeKalb County Church Softball League. Westminster Presbyterian defeated Sycamore Methodist, 9-4, behind five shutout innings from Katie Thurlby. Four hitters had two hits apiece for Westminster.

Sycamore First Baptist rolled Immanuel Lutheran 10-3. Josh Johnson had a double and two singles to help pitcher Ted Strack to another victory. CrossWind Community just did edge DeKalb Methodist, 7-6. Alyssa Tyrell picked up the win for CrossWind.

Hope Community beat Evangelical Free, 13-6, thanks to a seven-run sixth inning. Jake Gordon picked up his first win for Hope in the circle. Sycamore St. Mary came all the way back from being down 10-5 and passed Christ Community I, 11-10. Charlie Johnson was the winner and Jeff Maveus took the loss despite throwing six good innings.

The last game of the night saw Bethel Assembly breeze past Christ Community II, 16-2. David Harbecke picked up the win for Bethel and Kyle Schzlynski led the team in hitting. Five games are scheduled for Friday.

Noah joins Durant, LeBron as All-NBA selections NEW YORK – Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant has capped his MVP season by being the lone unanimous choice to the All-NBA first team.

Durant was a first-teamer on all 125 ballots, and made the top squad for the fifth time. Miami’s LeBron James got 124 first-team votes on the way to being selected for the eighth time, while the Los Angeles Clippers’ Chris Paul earned his fourth first-team selection.

Houston’s James Harden and the Bulls’ Joakim Noah are firsttime first-team choices.

Second-team All-NBA selections were San Antonio’s Tony Parker, Golden State’s Stephen Curry, the Clippers’ Blake Griffin, Houston’s Dwight Howard and Minnesota’s Kevin Love.

Portland’s Damian Lillard and LaMarcus Aldridge, Phoenix’s Goran Dragic, Indiana’s Paul George and Charlotte’s Al Jefferson were third-team selections.

Fire, Rapids play to scoreless tie COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – The Fire’s Juan Luis Anangono pushed a header wide in the 76th minute and the Fire settled for a 0-0 tie with the Colorado Rapids on Wednesday night.

Anangono broke free of Colorado defender Shane O’Neill and goalkeeper John Berner couldn’t recover in time to defend his goal. But with a wide open net.

Anangono’s header went just outside the left post.

The Fire (2-3-8) had its MLS-leading eighth tie.

Dillon Serna hit the crossbar in the final seconds of added time for Colorado (6-4-4).

49ers QB Kaepernick receives 6-year extension SANTA CLARA, Calif. – San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick received a new six-year contract extension Wednesday that keeps him with the franchise through the 2020 season.

The sides had made it a top priority to get a deal done before the start of training camp for one of the NFL’s best young quarterbacks. ESPN reported the deal is worth more than $110 million.

– Staff and wire reports

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DON ZIMMER: 1931-2014

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Former Cubs skipper dead at 83 The ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Don Zimmer, a most popular fixture in professional baseball for 66 years as a manager, player, coach and executive, died Wednesday. He was 83.

Zimmer still was working for the Tampa Bay Rays as a senior adviser, and the team said he died at a hospital in nearby Dunedin.

Zimmer had been in a rehabilitation center in Florida since having seven hours of heart surgery in mid-April.

“Today we all lost a national treasure and a wonderful man,” Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg said in a statement.

Zimmer started out as a minor league infielder in 1949.

Easily recognizable for the big chaw that always seemed to be in his cheek, he went to enjoy one of the longest-lasting careers in baseball history.

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Cubs manager Don Zimmer jokes with San Francisco Giants manager Roger Craig before the start of the opening game of the NLCS on Oct. 4, 1989, at Wrigley Field. Zimmer died Wednesday at age 83.

Zimmer played alongside Jackie Robinson for the only Brooklyn Dodgers team to win the World Series, was on the field with the original New York Mets, nearly managed the Boston Red Sox to a championship in the 1970s and was Joe

Torre’s right-hand man as the bench coach with the New York Yankees’ most recent dynasty.

“I hired him as a coach, and he became like a family member to me. He has certainly been a terrific credit to the game,” Torre said in a statement.

“The game was his life. And his passing is going to create a void in my life and my wife Ali’s. We loved him. The game of baseball lost a special person tonight. He was a good man,” he said.

A career .235 hitter in the big leagues, numbers never could define all that Zimmer meant to the game. He did have tremendous success, too – he earned six World Series rings and went to the postseason 19 times.

Zimmer’s No. 66 jersey had been worn recently by longtime Tampa Bay third base coach Tom Foley in tribute.

The Rays hosted the Miami Marlins on Wednesday night, and Foley was crying in the dugout.

Zimmer spent time in a lot of uniforms. He played for the Dodgers, Mets, Cubs, Cincinnati and Washington. He managed San Diego, Boston, Texas and the Cubs.

CUBS TO LEAVE WGN RADIO AFTER 90 YEARS

Life will continue without WGN For the listening audience, the Cubs-WGN Radio relationship always has been comforting, like a security blanket or macaroni and cheese.

That relationship is not going to be around much longer, and . . . how can I put this without offending those of you who grew up on Jack Brickhouse, Harry Caray and Pat Hughes?

Life will go on. Really, it will.

In 2015, Cubs games will move to the CBS Radio family of stations, including WBBMAM (780), ending an almost 90-year relationship between the team and WGN Radio. The Cubs already have opted out of their contract with WGN-TV, looking to hit the jackpot with regional TV-rights fees.

It’s another reminder that life is changing for the franchise and its fans, and that life can’t go back to what it was. To be clear, that’s a good thing. Although many of us are tired of the prodigious losing and can’t for the life of us understand why a major-market team’s major-league product has to be so bad while the rebuilding process continues, wholesale change should be mandatory after 106 years of failure on the field.

Everybody involved with the Cubs needs to get out of his or her comfort zone. The radio/

VIEWS Rick Morrissey TV thing is part of that, even if it’s not intentional in the extreme-makeover sense.

The economics are such that WGN Radio wanted out of the deal. ‘‘We’ve lost a lot of money on the Cubs, and we’ve stood behind their rebuild for years, and we offered to continue to lose a lot of money in the future, but not the kind of money that CBS is going to lose,” WGN Radio president and general manager Jimmy de Castro said Wednesday. ‘‘It’s just an amazingly layered deal.

I can’t figure it out. I’ve been around the broadcast business a really long time, and it makes no sense.”

What’s going on with the Cubs is like a going-out-of-business sale: Everything must go.

The cloying sentimentality.

The resistance to progress at Wrigley Field. The silliness involving the rooftop owners.

Has anybody with the Cubs considered a uniform-design change? I’m serious. If you want to send a message that you’re tired of losing, getting rid of the stuffed-animal logo

WHITE SOX

wouldn’t be a bad way to go.

A Cubs logo with sharp teeth?

Why not?

Somehow, I don’t think my idea will fly. This is the franchise that thought unveiling a fluffy mascot named Clark was smart.

For those of us of a certain vintage, hearing Brickhouse’s calls were part of daily life during baseball season. But that’s from another time. We’re lucky. Hughes on radio and Len Kasper on TV are about as good as it gets. They probably aren’t going anywhere, no matter where the Cubs broadcast their games.

The question is, where are the Cubs going? ‘‘They’re looking at Theo (Epstein’s) payroll and going out to try and get the most cash,’’ de Castro said. ‘‘They thought they were going to get more than they’re getting in radio. They thought they would get way more than they’ll ever get in television. In my opinion, step after step after step (that they’ve made) are PR nightmares. At the same time, they’ve lost [34] games this year, 288 games in the (previous) three years, and no one’s listening or watching.”

A move up the radio dial or a renovated ballpark complete with – gasp! – huge video

boards does not mean a World Series title is anywhere on the horizon. But stripping everything down in the organization and starting over is OK. If you say that by killing tradition, the Cubs are killing the only reason for fans to stick by the club, I won’t argue with you.

But at some point when there’s nothing left, only memories and a green ocean of empty seats at Wrigley Field, maybe the powers that be will realize the product between the lines is the only product that matters.

A century-plus of futility hasn’t seemed to get through to ownership over the years.

The more distance there is from the franchise’s sad history, the better. Don’t tell me that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Cubs fans cling to the past and have nothing to show for it but the same story over and over again.

That story won’t be on WGN for much longer. I can’t work up much anger about that, not when the story has had little to do with winning baseball games for the longest time.

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

CUBS 5, METS 4

Konerko happy with Castro leads way in low-key farewell tour Cubs’ ugly victory

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN dvanschouwen@suntimes.com LOS ANGELES – Paul Konerko’s farewell circuit around baseball has been relatively low-key, nothing close to the Derek Jeter goodbye tour.

Aside from the Cubs giving the White Sox’s No. 2 home run and RBI producer of all time a No. 14 from the Wrigley Field scoreboard, there hasn’t been much in the Paul Konerko w a y o f r e c ognition that this is Konerko’s final season at parks he’s playing his last game. The P.A. announcer in Houston made mention of it, which was nice.

“I want a new car everywhere I go,” Konerko sarcastically said with a grin before dressing for his final game at Dodger Stadium, home of the team he broke in with in 1997.

In reality, Konerko appreciates being appreciated but doesn’t long for any hoopla.

“The best way to put it is I expect to go through the season status quo,” Konerko said. “If something pops like it did at Wrigley, even better.

That’s really cool.”

Konerko does appreciate it. And he especially has enjoyed tips of the cap from

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By JOHN JACKSON at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m. Friday, CSN, AM-670 from players and coaches and kind words from fans.

“I’ve had enough coaches and players and fans in all these places, with things they’ve said, it’s been plenty for me,” he said. “Two months in, that’s the No. 1 thing that has caught me offguard. I didn’t think guys were watching or paying attention or even cared, but I’ve had a lot of people come out of their way to talk to me, and that’s pretty cool.”

In his part-time role, Konerko isn’t producing as he did during his prime, but that hasn’t stopped crowds at U.S. Cellular Field from consistently giving warm applause, cheers and “Paulie, Paulie” chants. It hasn’t gone unnoticed.

“I’ve heard nothing but positive things,” he said.

“It hasn’t been all great [Konerko was batting .198 with three homers and 14 RBIs]. There are days you’re looking bad or in a bad stretch and in the ondeck circle you hear positive things like, ‘Hey, you’re going to bust out here.’ The best way to repay that praise is to play hard and keep doing it.

It’s that simple.”

The Associated Press CHICAGO – Starlin Castro went 3 for 4 with three RBIs and the Chicago Cubs outlasted the New York Mets 5-4 Wednesday night in a mistake-filled game that featured a combined 13 pitchers.

Anthony Rizzo went 1 for 2 with two walks and two runs scored for the Cubs.

Lucas Duda had a two-run double to lead a Mets offense that again failed to get the clutch hit. New York left the bases loaded in the fifth and sixth innings without scoring.

The Mets have dropped two straight after winning three in a row and are 8-18 in one-run games.

Cubs starter Edwin Jackson (4-5) was victimized by his defense and his own lack of command, but managed to get through five innings, giving up five hits and five walks. Just one of the four runs he surrendered was earned.

Hector Rondon pitched the ninth for his seventh save in eight chances.

Mets starter Daisuke Matsuzaka didn’t make it through the fifth, allowing four runs on four hits and five walks in 4 1-3 innings. Reliever Dana Eveland (0-1) gave up a run in 2-3 of an inning to take the loss.

The Mets got off to a fast start, scoring three unearned runs in the first inning thanks

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Castro was playing behind second base in the shift but booted the ball to allow a run to score.

Duda then made the error more costly by doubling to left field to drive in two runs for a 3-0 lead.

The Cubs answered in the bottom of the inning with a pair of runs. Castro plated the first with a run-scoring single and the next batter, Nate Schierholtz, drove in the other with a groundout to first.

The Mets stretched the lead to 4-2 in the fourth when Ruben Tejada drilled a 2-0 pitch from Jackson six rows into the leftfield bleachers for a solo homer.

It was Tejada’s second in less than a week. He homered Saturday in Philadelphia to snap a streak of 552 homerless at-bats, the longest active streak in the major leagues at the time. The Mets had a chance to tack on runs in the fifth after loading the bases with two out, but Anthony Recker popped out to first base to end the threat.

The Cubs then pushed across three runs in the bottom of the inning for a 5-4 lead.

PLAYOFFS FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Thursday’s Game Miami at San Antonio, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s Game Miami at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, June 10 San Antonio at Miami, 8 p.m.

Thursday, June 12 San Antonio at Miami, 8 p.m.

Sunday, June 15 x-Miami at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, June 17 x-San Antonio at Miami, 8 p.m.

Friday, June 20 x-Miami at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

NHL STANLEY CUP FINAL Wednesday’s Game Los Angeles 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 (OT), Kings lead sereis 1-0.

Saturday’s Game N.Y. Rangers at Los Angeles, 6 p.m.

Monday’s Game Los Angeles at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, June 11 Los Angeles at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

Friday, June 13 x-N.Y. Rangers at Los Angeles, 7 p.m.

Monday, June 16 x-Los Angeles at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, June 18 x-N.Y. Rangers at Los Angeles, 7 p.m.

MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE Central Division W L Pct Detroit 31 24 .564 White Sox 30 30 .500 Cleveland 29 30 .492 Minnesota 28 29 .491 Kansas City 28 31 .475 East Division W L Pct TToronto 36 24 .600 Baltimore 30 27 .526 New York 29 29 .500 Boston 27 31 .466 Tampa Bay 23 37 .383 West Division W L Pct Oakland 37 22 .627 Los Angeles 31 27 .534 Seattle 31 28 .525 Texas 29 30 .492 Houston 25 35 .417

GB — 3½ 4 4 5 GB — 4½ 6 8 13 GB — 5½ 6 8 12½

Wednesday’s Results White Sox at L.A. Dodgers (n) Seattle 2, Atlanta 0 Oakland 7, N.Y. Yankees 4 Boston at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Toronto 8, Detroit 2 Miami 5, Tampa Bay 4 Baltimore 6, Texas 5 L.A. Angels 4, Houston 0 Minnesota 6, Milwaukee 4 St. Louis 5, Kansas City 2 (11 inn.)

Tuesday’s Results White Sox 4, L.A. Dodgers 1 Cleveland 5, Boston 3 Oakland 5, N.Y. Yankees 2, 10 innings Toronto 5, Detroit 3 Seattle 7, Atlanta 5 Miami 1, Tampa Bay 0 Kansas City 8, St. Louis 7 Baltimore 8, Texas 3 Houston 7, L.A. Angels 2 Minnesota 6, Milwaukee 4 Today’s Games Oakland (Pomeranz 5-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 8-1), 12:05 p.m.

Toronto (Happ 4-2) at Detroit (Verlander 6-4), 12:08 p.m.

Miami (Ja.Turner 1-3) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 2-5), 3:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Skaggs 4-3) at Houston (Peacock 1-4), 6:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Tillman 5-2) at Texas (Lewis 4-4), 7:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (W.Peralta 4-5) at Minnesota (Correia 2-6), 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Wacha 4-3) at Kansas City (Ventura 2-5), 7:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games White Sox at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m Oakland at Baltimore, 6:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Toronto, 6:07 p.m.

Boston at Detroit, 6:08 p.m.

Seattle at Tampa Bay, 6:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Texas, 7:05 p.m.

Houston at Minnesota, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Kansas City, 7:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Central Division W L Pct Milwaukee 35 25 .583 St. Louis 31 29 .517 Pittsburgh 28 31 .475 Cincinnati 27 30 .474 Cubs 22 34 .393 East Division W L Pct Atlanta 31 27 .534 Miami 31 28 .525 Washington 29 28 .509 New York 28 31 .475 Philadelphia 24 33 .421 West Division W L Pct San Francisco 38 21 .644 Los Angeles 31 29 .517 Colorado 28 29 .491 San Diego 27 33 .450 Arizona 24 36 .400

GB — 4 6½ 6½ 11 GB — ½ 1½ 3½ 6½ GB — 7½ 9 11½ 14½

Tuesday’s Results Washington 7, Philadelphia 0 Cincinnati 8, San Francisco 3 Seattle 7, Atlanta 5 Miami 1, Tampa Bay 0 Kansas City 8, St. Louis 7 Chicago Cubs 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Minnesota 6, Milwaukee 4 Arizona 4, Colorado 2 Chicago White Sox 4, L.A. Dodgers 1 Pittsburgh 4, San Diego 1

Wednesday’s Results Seattle 2, Atlanta 0 San Diego 3, Pittsburgh 2 Washington 8, Philadelphia 4 Miami 5, Tampa Bay 4 San Francisco 3, Cincinnati 2 Chicago Cubs 5, N.Y. Mets 4 Minnesota 6, Milwaukee 4 St. Louis 5, Kansas City 2, 11 innings Arizona at Colorado (n)

Today’s Games San Francisco (Bumgarner 7-3) at Cincinnati (Leake 3-4), 11:35 a.m.

Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 1-5) at Washington (Fister 3-1), 3:05 p.m.

Miami (Ja.Turner 1-3) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 2-5),3:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (deGrom 0-2) at Cubs (T.Wood 5-5), 6:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (W.Peralta 4-5) at Minnesota (Correia 2-6), 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Wacha 4-3) at Kansas City (Ventura 2-5), 7:10 p.m.

Arizona (Arroyo 4-4) at Colorado (Nicasio 5-3),7:40 p.m.

Friday’s Games Miami at Chicago Cubs, 4:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

Atlanta at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Washington at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

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BEARS

Spurs, Duncan get their Finals rematch

Jeffery’s stature, confidence soar

By BRIAN MAHONEY The Associated Press SAN ANTONIO – LeBron James and Dwyane Wade can point to statistics showing just how close the 2013 NBA Finals were.

Tim Duncan doesn’t need them.

He can’t forget the way his San Antonio Spurs lost, especially since every replay brings another painful reminder. The Spurs were on the verge of celebrating a fifth title in Game 6, and just two nights later were congratulating the Miami Heat on their second straight crown.

The Spurs wanted a rematch, and so did basketball fans. It begins Thursday in San Antonio.

“I think it’s great that these two franchises have this opportunity in back-to-back years to compete for a championship,” Wade said Wednesday. “Last year was an unbelievable series and ... it went down to the very end. We won the series by a total of five points, you know? That’s how close it was.

But it was a very even series. I think this year it could be another great series.”

From Tony Parker’s circus shot that stole Game 1 for the Spurs, to Ray Allen’s 3-pointer that saved Game 6 for the Heat, to James’ jumper that put away Game 7, almost every contest provided a new highlight. It deserved an encore, just like when the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers seemed to pick up right where they left off in the 1980s.

The NBA hasn’t had a finals rematch since 1998, when Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls beat Utah for the second straight season. San Antonio is considered a slight favorite this time, perhaps a little deeper, healthier and better than it was last year, and owning the home-court advantage this time.

The Spurs don’t need to change much to change the result. They outscored the Heat 684-679 over seven games, and there were 47 ties and 42 lead changes, according to STATS. “If you look at the numbers, the lead changes, the ties and the points in that series, it’s almost even,” James said. “So we did our part, they did their part.

“Both teams put themselves in a position to win an NBA championship, and we just happened to make one or two more plays to win it.”

Duncan, a three-time NBA Finals MVP who had been 4 for 4 at this stage, wasn’t on the floor when the Spurs couldn’t come up with a rebound just before Allen’s shot. He then missed a shot and follow attempt from right in front of the basket in the final minute of Game 7 with San Antonio trailing by two. Not even getting back to the finals again with the league’s best record can make him forget.

“It lasts. I have a very good memory, especially for my misses and losses. You keep those, you learn from them and you hope to change them next time,” Duncan said.

“That stuck with me and obviously it’s always in the back of my mind, and every time I see anything to do with that, it pops right back in.”

James had similar regrets in his first finals with Miami in 2011, but it’s been all smiles since.

The Heat are the first team to play in four straight finals since Boston from 1984-87, and can become the first three-time champion since the Lakers more than a decade ago.

But their focus is only on winning the next title, not reminiscing about the last couple.

“Last year is last year and we’re excited about it, but this trophy this year belongs to nobody,” James said. “It’s up for grabs.”

By ARTHUR ARKUSH aarkush@chicagofootball.com Alshon Jeffery will probably never crave the media attention like Brandon Marshall.

Jeffery might never put on the show in front of the JUGS machine his running mate did Tuesday, when Marshall nonchalantly hauled in one ball after the next with only one hand.

But like Marshall, Jeffery is long – both in stature and in confidence that the entire offense is poised to build on a breakthrough 2013 campaign.

“He’s great for both of us,” Jeffery said of Marshall after the Bears’ second open organized team activity.

Marshall should continue to be great for Jeffery and the Bears for the foreseeable future after signing a three-year extension last month.

“We want to be the best.

Every year we want to be the greatest receiving corps in the league. Not just me and Brandon, ... the whole offense.”

After erupting in his second season, finishing sixth in the league in receiving yards (1,421) and 10th in receptions (89), Jeffery’s confidence continues to build.

Jeffery told the Sporting News last week that he and Marshall – the first-ever pair of Bears receivers to play in

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The Bears’ Alshon Jeffery snags a Jay Cutler pass for a touchdown in the first half Oct. 6 against New Orleans at Soldier Field. the Pro Bowl together – “are at the top of the list as the two best receivers.”

He wasn’t exactly backing off that claim Tuesday, saying, “what did the numbers say last year?” but qualifying it with, “what we did last year was last year – we have to go out every year and prove ourselves.”

Jeffery will have extra incentive to prove himself in 2014. Creating his ultimate highlight is winning a Super Bowl, he said, but the thirdyear receiver is eligible for a new deal next offseason.

Can the Bears afford to shell out No. 1 receiver money to both of their towering pass

catchers? Is Jeffery worth No. 1 money? The re-signing of Marshall should continue to benefit Jeffery and the entire offense – but it also could make it difficult to gauge Jefffery’s true value. The need to consistently beat double teams hasn’t been there because of Marshall’s presence.

His dynamite 2013 season certainly puts him in the conversation for the NFL’s best No. 2 wideout.

Just don’t tell that to the ultracompetitive Jeffery, who said he wasn’t talking about his contract before perhaps doing so subconsciously.

“Who wants to be known as

a No. 2?” he asked while flashing a big smile. “Just overall competitiveness … why settle for second when you can be No. 1?”

No, Jeffery wasn’t purposely discussing his contract. But one person who surely will agree with the sentiment? Jeffery’s agent, Eugene Parker.

Of course, all of the contract talk is just speculation until Jeffery goes out and proves he can sustain his 2013 excellence after defenses spend a full offseason adjusting to Chicago’s gargantuan passing attack. Conversely, opponents must also continue to adjust to the Bears, now in Year 2 of coach Marc Trestman’s offense.

“The game is slowing down a lot more,” said Jeffery, adding that he intends to head back to Miami with Marshall to continue working after this phase of the offseason program concludes.

Jeffery said he’s humbled by the extra attention this offseason brought after his breakthrough campaign and first Pro Bowl nod. After soaring over Tim Jennings for a highlight touchdown during practice, he was as comfortable in front of the media as any time during his three years in Chicago.

Indeed, Jeffery is soaring in more ways than one these days.

Attorney: Donald Sterling agrees to sell L.A. Clippers

By TAMI ABDOLLAH The Associated Press LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling agreed Wednesday to sign off on selling the team he’s owned for 33 years to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion, bringing the possibility of a resolution to weeks of rumors, uncertainty and looming possibilities for legal action.

Although the agreement had not been officially inked Wednesday afternoon, according to an individual with knowledge of the negotiations who was not authorized to discuss them publicly, Donald Sterling’s attorney, Maxwell Blecher, said he “has made an agreement with the NBA to resolve all their differences.”

Sterling gave his consent to a deal that was negotiated by his wife, Shelly Sterling, to sell the team, Blecher said.

Representatives for Shelly Sterling and the NBA declined to comment.

The agreement was an about face for Donald Sterling, who just last week filed a $1 billion suit against the NBA in federal court alleging the league violated his constitutional rights by relying on information from an “illegal” recording that publicized racist remarks he made

to a girlfriend. It also said the league committed a breach of contract by fining Sterling $2.5 million and that it violated antitrust laws by trying to force a sale.

Blecher said that as a result of the agreement, the federal suit will now be dismissed.

Sterling’s comments to V. Stiviano included telling her to not bring black people to Clippers games, specifically mentioning Hall of Famer Magic Johnson. They resulted in a storm of outrage from the public and players and even prompted President Barack Obama to comment on what he called Sterling’s “incredibly offensive racist statements.”

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver ultimately decided to ban Donald Sterling for life and began efforts to force Sterling to sell the team.

For weeks, Donald Sterling said through his attorneys that he would fight the NBA’s decisions to try to force his ouster as a team owner. But last week Shelly Sterling utilized her authority as sole trustee of The Sterling Family Trust, which owns the Clippers, to take bids for the team and ultimately negotiate a deal with Ballmer.

Ballmer beat out bids by Guggenheim Partners and a group including former NBA All-Star Grant Hill.

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After hitting a home run, Brett Weaver is congratulated by coach Jason Cavanaugh while rounding the bases in the fifth inning Wednesday against Kaneland in the IHSA Class 3A Rochelle Sectional semifinal. Weaver’s home run was the only run of the game as Sycamore beat Kaneland, 1-0.

Treml strikes out 10 Kaneland batters in win • SPARTANS Continued from page B1 four innings, but there was plenty of action on the bases.

Sycamore had an error in each of the first three innings, the second one on a slow bouncer

by Joe Panico in which shortstop Michael Swanberg was thrown off by third baseman Mark Skelley diving in front of him and bobbled the ball.

The official box score gave Swanberg the error, keeping Treml’s no-hit bid alive.

Shortly afterward, the Spartans loaded up the bases against Holubecki in the third, but he coolly struck out Sycamore No. 3 hitter Nate Haacker to keep the shutout alive. One more scoreless inning later, Weaver stepped up to the plate in the fifth and promptly ended Holubeck’s no-hit bid.

“I got up in the count 1-0, and I got a good fastball to hit, and I hit it out of the park,” Weaver said. “He’s a good pitcher. He got me in the first at-bat, so I was looking in the

second at-bat to get back at him, and I got ahold of one.”

In the bottom of the sixth, Sycamore put runners on second and third with a double from senior first baseman Cooper Vinz, and that was the end of Holubecki’s day.

Reliever Nick Henne came in and got out of the jam.

It was up to the Kaneland offense to get the run back, but the Knights couldn’t produce against Treml, who had 10 strikeouts on the day.

Kaneland went three up, three down through the last three

innings, and a Nate Hopkins’ slow grounder wrapped it up.

Kaneland coach Brian Aversa said the scouting report was to go after Treml’s first pitch, when he likes to throw his fastball, but even that was unhittable Wednesday.

“I’ve just been trying to throw strikes, first-pitch strikes, and throw my curveball for a strike,” Treml said, “and I’ve just been, I don’t know, spot-on.”

Taylor has multiple tools Nelson likely to start for Spartans on Satruday • TAYLOR Continued from page B1 field and as the team’s No. 2 hitter.

Taylor, Karasewski and Newport all have speed to set the table for the rest of the lineup.

“That is why we have those three lefties at the top of the lineup,” Davis said. “Hopefully we can play a little small ball with a little bit of speed.

Then we have some big hitters coming up after that. We have some very athletic and versatile kids that can hit and also play small ball.”

For Taylor, she said that the hard work she has put into switching sides of the plate has paid off. She likes the ability to get on base in so many different ways.

“There are a lot of different tools I can use,” Taylor said.

“I can slap it, bunt it, hit it – there are so many different opinions I have.”

• NITZ Continued from page B1 Swanberg proceeded to bobble the ball, and Panico reached base safely.

It was going to be a tough play, I didn’t feel Swanberg was going to get Panico anyway, which is why I had it as a hit in my scorebook. But the official scorer at Rochelle called it an error. Either way, it was another great performance from Treml.

Treml struck out 10

Knights and often made the Kaneland batters look foolish with his two different breaking balls.

“My curveball was thrown for a strike and I was painting the corners,” Treml said. “To be successful, you have to throw your curveball for a strike, and then I have my wipeout curveball that starts in the middle and breaks to the other half of the plate where it’s like unhittable.”

What makes Wednesday’s outing more ridiculous is the

fact he threw a no-hitter on three days of rest, although according to Sycamore coach Jason Cavanaugh that was to Treml’s advantage.

Cavanaugh said Treml is actually better pitching with less rest, as his breaking balls get better with the more innings he pitches.

Right now, that’s probably good news for Sycamore.

In Saturday’s sectional final against the winner of today’s semifinal between Rochelle and Rockford Boylan, expect the Spartans to start senior

righty Cole Nelson – their No. 1 all season.

However, if Nelson should get in some trouble or if his pitch count just happens to get too high, expect Treml to be the next man in.

Certainly not a bad second option for Cavanaugh to go to.

• Steve Nitz is a sports writer for the Daily Chronicle. Write to him at snitz@ shawmedia.com and follow him on Twitter @SNitz_DDC.

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BELMONT STAKES

California Chrome favored in last leg of Triple Crown

By BETH HARRIS The Associated Press

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Spain’s Rafael Nadal hits a return to compatriot David Ferrer during their quarterfinal match of the French Open tennis tournament Wednesday at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris.

FRENCH OPEN

Nadal, Murray set up semifinal matchup

By HOWARD FENDRICH The Associated Press PARIS – Briefly, and only briefly, Rafael Nadal was in a difficult spot in the French Open quarterfinals.

For the first time in this year’s tournament, the eighttime champion dropped a set.

And this had to be on Nadal’s mind: His opponent, David Ferrer, could present real problems. Not only is Ferrer ranked No. 5, and not only was he the runner-up at Roland Garros a year ago – to Nadal, of course – but he also beat Nadal on red clay the last time they played each other.

So how did Nadal handle this test? Perfectly. From late in the second set, he won 10 games in a row, and 13 of 14 the rest of the way, to come back and beat Ferrer 4-6, 6-4, 6-0, 6-1, setting up a semifinal Friday against Wimbledon champion Andy Murray.

“At the beginning,” Nadal acknowledged, “David was playing with a higher intensity than me.”

But once Nadal made a key adjustment – deciding to dispense with his surprisingly off-target backhand as much as possible and instead do whatever he could to use his topspin-heavy forehand – he took over.

After committing 28 unforced errors across the windy first two sets, Nadal had zero in the third, and only three in the last.

“When I was able to hit with my forehand,” Nadal said, “I felt that I was in control.”

Ferrer, for his part, said that in the latter stages, “I lost my concentration, my focus.”

It was Nadal’s 33rd consecutive win at the French Open and improved his record in the event to 64-1. His only loss at the tournament came to Robin Soderling in the fourth round in 2009.

The Spaniard, who turned 28 on Tuesday, is not used to facing much in the way of hardship at Roland Garros. So Nadal took what he was able

At a glance A look at the French Open on Wednesday: Weather: Rain delayed start of play for three hours. High of 61 degrees (16 Celsius).

Men’s Quarterfinals: No. 1 Rafael Nadal beat No. 5 David Ferrer 4-6, 6-4, 6-0, 6-1; No. 7 Andy Murray beat No. 23 Gael Monfils 6-4, 6-1, 4-6, 1-6, 6-0.

Women’s Quarterfinals: No. 4 Simona Halep beat No. 27 Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 6-2; No. 28 Andrea Petkovic beat No. 10 Sara Errani 6-2, 6-2.

Stat of the Day: 0 – Number of unforced errors made by Nadal in the third set against Ferrer.

Quote of the Day: “Well, I would like to call Freud and ask him what he thinks about me and my twisted soul.” – Petkovic.

Today’s women’s wemifinals: Halep vs. Petkovic; No. 7 Maria Sharapova vs. No. No. 18 Eugenie Bouchard.

Today’s forecast: Mostly sunny.

High of 68 degrees.

to do against Ferrer as a good sign.

“At the end of the day, I am rather happy to have been able to turn the situation around,” said Nadal, who wasn’t thrilled to be put on Court Suzanne Lenglen, the second-largest arena, for the second time this year. “I managed to pull through, even though it was complicated.”

The route Murray took during his 6-4, 6-1, 4-6, 1-6, 6-0 victory over No. 23 Gael Monfils of France was far more circuitous, finishing right on the cusp of dusk after 9:30 p.m. In front of a crowd loudly pulling for Monfils at Court Philippe Chatrier, Murray was terrific at the outset, mediocre in the middle, then closed on a high.

After a brief discussion with a tournament official over whether there was enough sun to play the fifth set – the Roland Garros courts have no artificial lights – Murray made the whole thing moot.

He raced through that set in 21 minutes, winning 24 of 31 points, as Monfils appeared to stop trying.

“Everything happened very fast,” Monfils said.

Said Murray: “It was so dark at the end. Thankfully for me, he played a poor fifth set once I got ahead.”

Murray will be playing in the French Open semifinals for the second time; he lost to Nadal in 2011. In all, Nadal owns a 14-5 edge in their headto-head matches.

“I need to recover very well,” Murray said, “and try to be especially calm for that one.”

The other men’s semifinal will be No. 2 Novak Djokovic against No. 18 Ernests Gulbis.

Earlier, No. 4 Simona Halep of Romania and No. 28 Andrea Petkovic of Germany both moved into the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time. Thursday’s other women’s semifinal will be 2012 champion Maria Sharapova against 18th-seeded Eugenie Bouchard of Canada.

Halep beat 2009 champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 6-2, and Petkovic defeated 2012 runner-up Sara Errani by that very same score.

A year ago, Halep arrived at Roland Garros ranked 57th.

But over the past 13 months, she’s won seven titles. Petkovic, meanwhile, is enjoying a resurgence.

She made it to the top 10 in 2011, when she was the only woman to reach three major quarterfinals (although she went 0-3).

In late 2012, she hurt her right knee, and her ranking plummeted to 177th last year.

But she’s worked her way back, and after eliminating Errani, the gregarious Petkovic kissed her racket – something she said she’d never done before.

“I don’t know what happened to me. I was just overwhelmed by emotion,” Petkovic said. “I had no boy to kiss, so I kissed my racket, right?”

NEW YORK – California Chrome became the early 3-5 favorite Wednesday to win the Belmont Stakes and become horse racing’s 12th Triple Crown champion and the first in 36 years.

The Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner will face 10 rivals old and new Saturday at Belmont Park. Since Affirmed became the last Triple Crown winner in 1978, three Belmont fields with the same history on the line also drew 11 horses in 1981, 1988 and 2002.

“They better worry about me,” California Chrome trainer Art Sherman said.

California Chrome will break from the No. 2 post under Victor Espinoza, putting nine horses to his outside and giving Espinoza a good look at the early speed. Eleven Belmont winners have come out of that spot in the starting gate, the last being Tabasco Cat in 1994.

“I like number two,” Espinoza said. “Hopefully, it’s my lucky number.”

Racing fans looking for an omen will see California Chrome listed No. 2 in the betting program, the same number as 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, who won the Belmont by a record 31 lengths while setting a track record that stands for the 1 ½-mile race.

California Chrome went for his usual gallop earlier Wednesday, and Sherman was pleased.

“I feel better about this race than I have any other race, to be honest with you, just looking at the horse and saying, ‘Wow,’ ” he said. “I see how far he’s advanced. I know it’ll be tougher going a mile and a half, but this horse

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Exercise rider Willie Delgado hot walks California Chrome after a workout Wednesday in Elmont, N.Y. is a good horse. I think he’s the real McCoy.” Of California Chrome’s 10 rivals, four come into the Belmont off a five-week break.

Commanding Curve hasn’t run since finishing second in the Kentucky Derby on May 3; Wicked Strong has been off since stumbling and finishing fourth in the Derby.

Two other Derby horses, Samraat (fifth) and Medal Count (eighth), also skipped the Preakness on May 17.

Wicked Strong was a distant second choice at 6-1 and drew post No. 9. The colt is based at Belmont, and has one win in two previous races at the sprawling track.

“I’m pretty confident; as confident as I can be,” Wicked Strong trainer Jimmy Jerkens said. “I really like how he’s doing. It’s a big, prestigious race and people are going to take a shot, especially with the distance being a big question for everybody.”

None of the horses has run as far as they will Saturday, and few will ever be asked to do it again in their careers. Since most U.S. horses are trained for speed, the distance is unfamiliar and they aren’t regularly trained

to run that far. The Belmont is the longest of the Triple Crown races.

Four newcomers to the Triple Crown trail will try to derail California Chrome’s bid for history.

Tonalist was made the third betting choice at 8-1 odds and will break from the No. 11 post. The colt has experience over the track, having won the Peter Pan Stakes on May 10.

So are Commissioner and Matterhorn, both trained by Todd Pletcher, and Matuszak.

Commissioner, listed at 20-1, finished second in the Peter Pan, and 30-1 shot Matterhorn was fourth.

“We’re in the Belmont because we feel like they’re horses that want to stay the distance,” Pletcher said.

“They both need to improve and they both need to run their best races to be a part of it.”

Matuszak was second in the Federico Tesio at Pimlico on April 19, making him the most well-rested colt in the race. The 30-1 shot is trained and ridden by Hall of Famers Bill Mott and Mike Smith, respectively. Smith won last year’s Belmont aboard Palice Malice.

STANLEY CUP FINALS

Kings beat Rangers in OT opener

By GREG BEACHAM The Associated Press LOS ANGELES – Justin Williams scored 4:36 into overtime after a turnover by Dan Girardi, and the Los Angeles Kings beat the New York Rangers, 3-2, on Wednesday night in the Stanley Cup finals opener.

Williams was left alone in the slot after Girardi’s pass from his knees went straight to Mike Richards. Williams put his eighth goal of the postseason past Henrik Lundqvist, who made 40 saves and nearly stole an early win for the Rangers.

Jonathan Quick made 25 saves for the Kings, who moved one victory closer to their second Stanley Cup title in three years after a hair-raising opener.

Game 2 is Saturday at Staples Center.

Kyle Clifford had a goal and an assist for Los Angeles, and Drew Doughty scored the tying goal in the second period as the Kings overcame yet another early deficit in a postseason full of comebacks.

The Kings hadn’t won an overtime playoff game at home since May 6, 2001. Williams attributed the win to “resilience and believing. Certainly it was not the start we wanted, but we got the result we wanted.”

Benoit Pouliot scored on a breakaway and Carl Hagelin got a short-handed goal in the first period, but the Rangers spent much of the final two periods on their heels.

Lundqvist had several outstanding saves as the Swedish star began his attempt to win his first Stanley Cup, but had

no chance on Williams’ winner.

Los Angeles outshot New York 20-3 in the third period, becoming the first team to get 20 shots in a finals period in 16 years. The Kings also got a power play with 1:36 left, setting up a wild finish to regulation.

Moments after Hagelin was denied by Quick on yet another short-handed breakaway, Jeff Carter was stopped agonizingly short of a wraparound goal by Lundqvist, sending the Kings to their third straight overtime playoff game.

The tension-filled opener was a fitting start to the finals for two teams that traversed perilous paths to the first New York-L.A. championship playoff meeting since the Yankees-Dodgers World Series in 1981.

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CONCERTS IN THE PARK

DeKalb Municipal Band celebrates 160 years

By KATRINA J. E. MILTON

“We want to build and create an audience of people became the permanent conductor in 2012. who never came to concerts before,” Lundbeck said.

“It was a difficult decision to become the director,” “We want to draw people in, since all of he DeKalb Municipal Band, the country’s longest Lundbeck said. “I gave up my position the music will touch somebody, someas principal trombone, which I held for If you go continuous-running municipal band, is marking where, whether it is a kid with music 34 years, and I knew that it was going its 160th anniversary of free weekly outdoor n WHAT: DeKalb Municipal Band from ‘Frozen’ or an adult listening to to be hard to fill Dee Palmer’s shoes. concerts. concert Glenn Miller.” ...My goal as director is to keep the lega“It’s a pretty special summer,” Sue Huhta, the band’s n WHEN: 8 p.m. Tuesday The band’s first performance of the cy and integrity of the band alive while n WHERE: Dee Palmer Bandshell, publicist, said. “The band is 160 years old, which is season will be at 8 p.m. Tuesday, June moving in a new direction with a variety Hopkins Park, 1403 Sycamore remarkable for a city band.”

Road, DeKalb 10, in the Hopkins Park Dee Palmer of music in every program.”

The band formed in 1854 as a brass band, the DeKalb Bandshell. Concerts will be held at 8 The band plays between 15 and 18 Silver Cornet Band. By 1900, woodwind and percussion p.m. each Tuesday until mid-August. songs at each concert and will have instruments had been added, making the band a concert “The band is what it is because of the people that special concert events, such as a stargazing night with band in need of a conductor. Three generations of the come back year after year and play,” Huhta said. “This music from the movies “Star Wars” and “E.T.,” and a Palmer family led the band, ending with Dee Palmer, with be my 46th year with the band. ...I wouldn’t know children’s concert with songs from Disney and Pixar who was the band’s director from 1947 until 2011. what to do with my summer without the band.” movies.

Kirk Lundbeck, at first the band’s substitute director, kmilton@shawmedia.com

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July 3 –Trio July 10 – The Neverly Brothers July 17 – Shindig!

July 24 –Tropixplosion July 31 – Billy Croft & the 5-Alarm Aug. 7 – Kids Fun Back to School name, and presumably, the movie will the first Triple Crown winner since 1978.

Concert – 6 p.m. Jeanie B!, 7 p.m. Istvan and his Imaginary have you in tears as well; and “Edge of TV coverage begins at 3:30 p.m. on NBC, Band Tomorrow,” a PG-13 action sci-fi flick with the race scheduled for 5:52 p.m.

Jake Mack and The Last Stand: starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.

9:30 p.m. June 6, Hometown And the Tony goes to ...

Sports Bar & Grill, 241 E. Lincoln Treat yourself The Tony Awards take place Sunday Highway, DeKalb. Blues-based Friday is the start of two delicious days: rock and soul band out of Aurora. night, with Hugh Jackman as the host.

Doughnut Day and National Lemonade No cover charge. 21 and older The fun begins at 7 p.m. on CBS. To make Days. Doughnut Day, which generally show. it really interesting, hold a contest to see New Orleans Jazz Party: 7 to 10 takes place on Friday and Saturday, is a who can guess the most winners. The ofp.m. June 7, Faranda’s Banquet time to celebrate the delightful pastry. ficial Tony website – www.tonyawards.

Center, 302 Grove St., DeKalb.

And National Lemonade Days, which com – also links to a New York Times Featuring A Wing and A Prayer takes place through Sunday, is a time contest in which you can win an iPad. Dixieland Orchestra. Cabaret to celebrate summer’s best drink. Make setting includes dance floor and your own, go for a walk to go some or cash bar. Doors open at 6:30 Game on celebrate in your own way! p.m. Tickets: $20 in advance; The NHL and NBA finals both see action $25 at the door. Information: At the movies Triple Crown? this weekend. Time to throw some seriwww.justmakeithappen-dekalb. ous parties! Check your TV listings for com.

The big movies opening this week are The Belmont Stakes take place SaturDeKalb Municipal Band congame times.

“The Fault in Our Stars,” a PG-13 movie day, and California Chrome is running for certs: 8 p.m. Tuesdays, June based on the popular book of the same a shot at history – a win would make him – More Content Now 10 through Aug. 19, Dee Palmer Band Shell, Hopkins Park, 1403 Sycamore Road, DeKalb. No “General Dutton’s America”: SycEVENTS STAGE 10 through 12 and 17 through concert July 1. Free. www.

19, 2 p.m. July 13, Stage Coach amore History Museum, 1730 N. dekalbparkdistrict.com.

Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St., DeKalb.

Gurler House Folk Fest: Noon to 5 Main St., Sycamore.

Exhibition Stage Coach Players’ “12 Swing Dancing in DeKalb: 7 to www.stagecoachers.com. p.m.

June 21, Gurler House, 205 explores the life and times of Angry Jurors”: 7:30 p.m. June 10:30 p.m. June 17, O’Leary’s IVT’s “We the People”: 7 p.m.

Pine St., DeKalb. Performance General Everell Dutton including 5 through 7 and 12 through 14, Irish Pub & Grill (upstairs), 260 July 25 and 26, 2 p.m. July 27, schedule: Jim Kanas, noon to his role in the Civil War and how 2 p.m. June 15, Stage Coach E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. No Sandwich Opera House, 140 E. 1:45 p.m.; Balika & Friends, 2 he shaped Sycamore when he Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St., DeKalb. partner needed, casual dress, Railroad St., Sandwich.Tickets: to 2:45 p.m.; and Last Night’s returned. Admission: $5, free for www.stagecoachers.com. leather-soled shoes recom$10 at www.indianvalleytheatre.

Fun, 3 to 4:45 p.m. Free. Rain members and children younger Beth Fowler Dance Company’s mended. $5 admission com. location: Unitarian Universalthan 14. www.sycamorehistory.

“Dancing Thru the Decades”: (includes lesson at 7 p.m. at Stage Coach Players’ “Arsenic ist Fellowship of DeKalb, 158 org. 815-895-5762.

7 p.m. June 6 and 7, 2 p.m. June no additional charge). Water and Old Lace”: 7:30 p.m. Aug. 14 DeKalb Area Agricultural HeriN. Fourth St., DeKalb. www.

7 and 8, Egyptian Theatre, 135 provided; food and beverages through 16, and Aug. 21 through gurlerhouse.org. tage Association Exhibit GalN. Second St., DeKalb. Tickets: available for purchase. See 23, 2 p.m. Aug. 24, Stage Coach Kishwaukee Symphony Orches$15 to $25. 815-758-1225. www. lery: 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesdays BarbCitySwing.com for coming Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St., DeKalb. tra Summer Concert in the egyptiantheatre.org. and Sundays, Labor Day through dates and exceptions and look www.stagecoachers.com.

Park: June 26, Dee Palmer Band Sycamore/Rochelle PerformMemorial Day, or by appointfor the group on Facebook.

Shell, Hopkins Park, 1403 Sycaing Arts Academy’s “Circus ment, Nehring Gallery, 111 S. ART more Road, DeKalb. Free. www.

Circus”: 11 a.m. June 14, Second St., Suite 204, DeKalb.

MUSIC kishorchestra.org.

Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second Free. www.daaha.inc@gmail.

“The Difference Between” art Egyptian Theatre Live Lunch MuSt., DeKalb. Tickets: $18.50. com. 815-756-8737.

Sycamore Park District Sumexhibit: June 9 through 20, sic Series: Noon to 1: 30 p.m.

815-758-1225. www.egyptianmer Concert Series: 7 p.m.

The Art Box, 308 E. Lincoln Thursdays, June 12 to Aug. 21, theatre.org.

COMEDY Thursdays, Good Tymes Shelter, Highway, DeKalb. A study of the Van Buer Plaza (across from the Dance Dimensions’ “Best of Sycamore Sports Complex, Airhuman figure in photography, theater), DeKalb. Free. Schedule: Broadway”: 7 p.m. June 14, 2 REGIONAL port Road. Free. Concert hotline: digital and printmaking media by June 12 – Christopher Dobelman p.m. June 15, Egyptian Theatre, Zanies Comedy Night Club – St. 815-895-3202. www.sycamoreNathan Dulceak. Artist recepJune 19 – Mystical Whiskey 135 N. Second St., DeKalb. TickCharles: Various dates at Pheasparkdistrict.com. Schedule: tion: 6 to 8 p.m. June 12. Gallery June 26 – Stage Coach Players ets: $10 to $16. 815-758-1225. ant Run Resort, 4050 E. Main St. June 5 – Classical Blast! hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday “How to Succeed in Business www.egyptiantheatre.org.

Visit www.stcharles.zanies.com June 12 – Mandy Z & Rural Route through Saturday. Information: Without Really Trying” Stage Coach Players’ “How to for acts, prices and showtimes.

One 815-758-0313 or dan@dekalbJuly 3 – TBA Succeed in Business Without July 10 – Garage Orchestra June 19 –Lisa Rene Band gallery.com.

630-584-6342.

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Ensemble July 17 – The Conley Trio July 24 - Shattered Picks Aug. 7 – Fight With Monsters Aug. 14 – Bend in th Road Aug. 21 – TBA ONGOING ONGOING Northern Illinois University Community School of the Arts: NIU Music Building, 400 Lucinda Ave., DeKalb. Classes in music, art and theater for children and adults. www.csa.niu.edu or 815753-1450.

Bread & Roses women’s choral group rehearsals: 5:45 to 8 p.m. Sundays, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Annie Glidden Road, DeKalb. www.breadandroseschorus.org.

Indian Valley Community Band: 6 to 7:20 p.m. Mondays, Sandwich Middle School Band Room. Area musicians who enjoy playing for fun invited; no auditions.

DeKalb Festival Chorus rehearsals: 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. Mondays during the school year, NIU Music Building. www.dekalbfestivalchorus.org. Contact conductor Seth Houston at seth@sethhouston.com or 303815-0648.

Kishwaukee Barbershop Harmony Singers rehearsals: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays, First Congregational Church, 615 N. First St., DeKalb. Open to men of all ages. Contacts: Dave at 815895-5955 or Ed at 815-756-3004.

Prairie Echoes Chorus rehearsal: 7:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesdays, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 900 Normal Road, DeKalb. Singing, food, friendship and fun.

Kishwaukee Concert Band rehearsals: 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Wednesdays, band room at Door 16 of Huntley Middle School, 1515 S. Fourth St., DeKalb. All-volunteer band for anyone age 18 or older who has played a wind or percussion instrument in the past. No auditions needed. 815-899-4867 or 815-825-2350.

“The Way” acoustic coffee house: 6 to 8:30 p.m. first Saturday each month, DeKalb Christian Church, 1107 S. First St. 815-758-1833 or tomndcc@ aol.com.

8BRIEFS Sycamore summer concert series kicks off tonight Enjoy an evening picnic in the park with family, friends and great music.

Sycamore Park District’s Summer Concert Series kicks off its 10th season tonight.

This free concert series is held every Thursday throughout the summer at Good Tymes Shelter in the Sports Complex, just north of Route 64 on Airport Road. Bring a chair or blanket and picnic or purchase food on site. There will be no concert on June 26.

This year’s lineup is: June 5, Classical Blast; June 12, Mandy Z & Rural Route One; June 19, Lisa Rene Band; July 3, Trio; July 10, The Neverly Brothers; July 17, SHiNDiG!; July 24, Tropixplosion; July 31, Billy Croft & the 5-Alarm; Aug. 7, Kid’s Fun Back to School Concert with Jeanie B starting at 6 p.m. and Istvan and his Imaginary Band starting at 7 p.m.

To check on a concert’s status during inclement weather, call 815-895-3202.

For more information, visit www. sycamoreparkdistrict.com.

Festival of music and science at the park The 2014 Bright Futures program, the Science of Music, is staging its grand finale on Tuesday at Hopkins Park Shelter, prior to the first DeKalb Municipal Band concert of the season.

Sponsored by Northern Illinois University STEM Outreach, DeKalb County libraries, and the DeKalb Municipal Band, the Bright Futures Fair offers a night of free family fun with music, sound, science and technology.

Hundreds of children and parents throughout the area have learned about the science of music at hands-on events at the DeKalb, Cortland and Sycamore public libraries over the past several months. Children created instruments, made music and learned scientific principles related to sound. More hands-on activities will start at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Hopkins Park Shelter, including a musical Tesla coil, a PVC-pipe organ, acoustic art, face painting, Sno-cones and electrocuted hot dogs.

After the fair, families can stay for the opening concert of the DeKalb

Municipal Band’s 160th season.

For more information, visit http:// niu.edu/stem/community_programs/ Bright_Futures.shtml, or contact Debbie Pixton at 815-753-1898 or dpixton@niu.edu.

The Art Box features exhibit on the human figure

CCT seeking actors for camp Children’s Community Theatre is accepting registrations for it’s Beginner’s Imagination Camp, which has the theme of “Circus, Circus!” this year and will run from June 9 through 20.

Campers will be involved in creating a script for their group while taking part in daily sessions including acting, music, art, dance, theater games and costume creation.

Beginner’s Imagination Camp is open to students entering first through sixth grade in the fall. Camp sessions run from 9 a.m. to noon each day culminating in one public performance of “Circus, Circus!” on June 20. Cost of the two-week camp is $115.

CCT also is accepting registrations for its Advanced Imagination Camp featuring a production of the musical “Footloose.”

Advanced Camp is open to students entering seventh through 12th grade in the fall. Those graduating this spring also can enroll in the camp.

The camp runs for two weeks, June 16 through 29, and will conclude with three public performances of “Footloose.” A full, per-day schedule can be found on CCT’s website.

Cost of the two-week Advanced Camp is $140 and includes daily instruction, a cast T-shirt, participation in three public performances and dinner during the dress rehearsal.

Daily camp sessions for both camps are held at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 26555 Brickville Road in Sycamore, with all performances being staged at Sycamore High School.

To register, visit www.cctonstage. com.

Jazz party kicks off New Orleans Jazz Weekend What began as a Dixie jam session 20 years ago promises new beginnings for the A Wing and A Prayer Dixieland Orchestra of DeKalb.

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“The Difference Between,” a solo art exhibition by Kishwaukee College student Nathan Dulceak, will be on display at The Art Box, 308 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb, from Monday through June 20. This exhibition is in conjunction with Dulceak’s course work, which is the culmination of an independent study program focusing on a study of the human figure through photographic, digital, and printmaking media. A reception for the artist is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. June 12. For more information, call Dan Grych at 815-758-0313.

The first New Orleans Jazz Weekend kicks off at 7 p.m. Saturday with a jazz party at Faranda’s, 302 Grove St. in DeKalb. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.

Ragtime and jazz pianist Pauline Cultra and New Orleans jazz clarinetist Brian Patti will be guest performers.

There will be a cash bar and a dance floor. Tickets cost $25 at the door.

A jam session will be open during the last set of the evening. If interested, send email to john@justmakeithappendekalb.com before Friday.

On Sunday, a “N’Awlins Jazz Worship” will be held 9 and 11:30 a.m. at DeKalb’s First United Methodist Church, 321 Oak St. Both services are open to the public. The worship services will open 15 minutes early with a New Orleans Tribute that will include “Bourbon St. Parade,” “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans”

and “Sunday.”

A Wing and A Prayer Dixieland Orchestra will travel to Wayne on Sunday afternoon for the city’s annual Homecoming Parade and Ice Cream Social to be held from 4 to 6 p.m. This will be the group’s 20th year at the event.

Friends of Barb City Manor to cruise the Mississippi The Friends of Barb City Manor will host a public cruise presentation at 2 p.m. Friday at Barb City Manor Retirement Home, 680 Haish Blvd., DeKalb.

Join Phyllis Carder and Steven Johnson of Carder Travel to learn more about a Mississippi River cruise planned for Sept. 12 to 20 on board the American Queen steamboat. The cruise is a fundraiser for the Friends of Barb City Manor. All proceeds will go toward purchasing new equipment for

the facility.

The nine-day cruise provides a journey through America’s heartland. The trip begins with an overnight stay in St. Louis. On the voyage, travelers will discover the true inspiration behind Mark Twain’s beloved American classics in his hometown of Hannibal. Shore excursion stops include Dubuque, LaCrosse and Red Wing.

Enjoy a nightly five-course dinner prepared by award-winning chefs and top entertainers in the Grand Saloon.

The group price includes transfers from DeKalb to St. Louis, St. Paul to DeKalb, and trip cancellation insurance.

To RSVP for the presentation, call 815-756-8444.

For cruise reservations and information, call Phyllis Carder or Steven Johnson at Carder Travel Ltd. at 815756-1547.

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Puppets tell barbed wire story Salem Lutheran Church’s Puppet Praise Team will tell the story of Joseph Glidden’s barbed wire invention at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Glidden Homestead and Historical Center.

The team will perform an original skit on the lawn behind the historic brick barn at 921 W. Lincoln Highway as part of the homestead’s “Year of the Barn.” In case of rain, the program will be moved indoors.

The homestead will be open for tours and blacksmithing demonstrations from noon to 4 p.m. Tours are $4 for adults, and free for children younger than 14 and homestead members.

Puppet Praise is a team of 15 youth and adults from the Sycamore church who prepare skits and songs of faith for groups of all ages. Rod-arm puppets are manipulated from behind a curtained stage to illustrate a message with varied puppet personalities, as well as animal and creature puppets. Puppeteers use headset microphones to bring the puppets to life.

The team was established in 2000 under the direction of Carla Vanatta, the church’s associate in ministry. The team regularly participates in Salem worship services during the school year, and prepares outreach presenta-

tions for local care centers, churches and other organizations.

The Glidden Homestead has a variety of special events scheduled this summer, including Kids Fun Day at the Barn with games, a blacksmith activity and a petting zoo on June 22; an antique tool exhibit in July and the first-ever DeKalb County Barn Tour, in cooperation with the DeKalb Area Agricultural Heritage Association, on Aug. 9.

For more information about the homestead and this summer’s special programs, call 815-756-7904 or visit www.gliddenhomestead.org.

Beth Fowler dance show takes a trip down memory lane

‘Twelve Angry Jurors’ opens tonight

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The Beth Fowler School of Dance of Genoa and St. Charles promises its audience a trip down memory lane with its third production of the season, “Dancing Thru the Decades,” at the Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St. in DeKalb. Show times are 7 p.m.

Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday A high-energy mix of pop hits and dance music will lead a nostalgic journey through the decades beginning with the early rock ‘n’ roll of the 1950s, the up-tempo psychedelic tunes of the ‘60s, the classic rock and disco of the ‘70s and pop hits of the big-hair ‘80s.

The second half of the show will feature the pulsating rock of the ‘90s and urban hip hop and current hits of the new millennium.

Included will be award-winning pieces by the Beth Fowler School of Dance Performing Group. Award-winning dances are “Slow Me Down,” “Girls Night,” and “The Perfect Two,” choreographed by faculty member Brooke Fowler; “In

the Closet,” choreographed by faculty member Joey Hernandez; and “Just One Night All We Got” and “Toxic,” choreographed by faculty member Hannah Smith.

Other entertaining pieces will be performed by dance school groups and the Dance Company. Costumes will represent fashions popular in each decade.

Tickets cost $15 and $25 and can be purchased online at www.egyptiantheatre.org or by calling 815-758-1225.

Tickets also can be purchased one hour before each performance.

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Stage Coach Players will open “12 Angry Jurors” tonight. Directed by Tim Ball and written by Sherman L. Sergel, the play is adapted from the teleplay “Twelve Angry Men” by Reginald Rose. The show explores the difficulties encountered in the judicial process, among a group of people whose range of personalities adds intensity and conflict. As tempers flare and the arguments begin, the audience learns something about each member of the jury. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. today through Saturday and June 12 through 14 and 2 p.m. June 15 at the theater located at 126 S. Fifth St. in DeKalb. Tickets are available at www.stagecoachers.com or by calling 815-758-1940.

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Husband’s betrayal puts wife’s health at risk Dear Abby: I just found out my husband was arrested for being with a hooker. My inlaws (whom I love and adore) bailed him out of jail. No one said a word about it to me. I don’t know how to confront all of them with the fact that I know about this “dirty little secret.” What should I do? – Betrayed Wife Dear Betrayed: First, visit your gynecologist and ask to be treated for every STD known to man. Then invite your in-laws to a “family dinner,” tell them the cat is out of the bag and ask why this was kept from you. And while you’re at it, ask your mother-in-law (whom you love and adore) how SHE would feel if your father-in-law had possibly exposed her to an STD and it had been kept from her. The apple

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Dear Abby: I’ll bet this is an issue in many homes.

When my son “Chet” graduated from high school, we gave him a very nice graduation party, which included his friends and family. He received many gifts.

I gave my son thank-you cards, stamps, and a detailed list of whom to send the cards to. So far, he has refused.

Chet is normally thoughtful and considerate. I don’t know what to do. I’m embarrassed by his lack of gratitude.

I have told him we have received thank-yous from his

friends and that the cards can be brief. Should I send the thank-you notes myself, or just let it go? – Embarrassed Mom in California Dear Mom: If the amount of mail I receive from readers complaining that their gifts are not acknowledged is an accurate barometer, your problem is very common. Without being confrontational, ask your son why he refuses to thank the people who gave him gifts. If the answer is he doesn’t know what to say and he’s embarrassed that he has procrastinated, offer to help him by making suggestions.

You’re right; the thank-yous don’t have to be lengthy. But DO NOT write them for him.

Chet is a big boy and the responsibility is his.

Dear Abby: I am a divorced,

single woman in my 50s. I love my grandchildren dearly but am faced with a dilemma.

I work full-time and take my grandchildren some nights and on the one day I have off – usually on weekends.

I can’t plan things on a weekend without feeling I have made it difficult for my son and his wife to find someone to watch their children.

Her mom, a stay-at-home wife, watches them several days a week.

I want to continue spending time with my grandkids, but I also want the freedom to be there when I choose to be.

I realize finding a sitter you can afford and trust to watch your children is a challenge.

I have tried talking to my son, but it doesn’t seem to get through to him. I know I need

to do something, but what?

I’m afraid I won’t see the kids at all if I take a stand. – Lady On The Lake in Michigan Dear Lady: Check your calendar and plan some time for yourself – one or two weekends a month. Then tell your son and his wife which ones you will be AVAILABLE. Free baby-sitting services are hard to come by, and you are not giving yourself enough credit. If the unspoken threat is that it’s “all or nothing,” then, frankly, you should step back further and let your son and daughter-in-law shoulder even more responsibility for the children they brought into this world.

• Write Dear Abby at www.

DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Statins have benefits beyond low cholesterol Dear Dr. K: I had bypass surgery last year, and I’ve been on two different statins. But I had severe muscle and joint pain. Do I really need to be on a statin? The side effects are awful for me.

Dear Reader: Statins are the most widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs.

They significantly lower levels of harmful LDL cholesterol in the body. And they’ve been shown to reduce death, heart attack and stroke risk by up to 30 percent in people at high risk.

Although statins were developed with the goal of lowering LDL cholesterol, they turn out to have at least one other major benefit. They quiet the inflammation that is inside plaques of atherosclerosis in arteries of the heart, brain and other organs. That

ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff inflammation-fighting effect also protects against heart attacks and strokes. That’s the reason that recent authoritative guidelines recommend that people with, or at risk for, atherosclerosis take statins – regardless of their cholesterol levels.

Most people tolerate statins without a problem, but statins can cause side effects, including muscle and joint aches. I spoke to my colleague Dr. Jorge Plutzky, director of the Vascular Disease Prevention Program at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, about this problem. Here’s what he

shared: Muscle and joint aches typically go away gradually as your body adjusts to a statin.

If not, switching to a lower dose, a different statin, or an every-other-day medication schedule should help.

Another option is to take an over-the-counter coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) supplement along with your statin. CoQ10 replaces an enzyme depleted by statins. Advocates say it relieves and prevents muscle pain. These benefits have not been proven in rigorous studies, but the supplement is unlikely to hurt you. And it may allow you to continue taking your statin.

There’s another, far more serious, muscle-related side effect of statins that you may be concerned about. It’s called rhabdomyolysis, a

breakdown of muscle tissue that leads to the release of muscle fiber contents into the bloodstream. The symptoms of rhabdomyolysis are severe, body-wide aching, severe muscle weakness and cola-colored urine. They leave little doubt that something is terribly wrong.

Still, if you develop muscle aches with statin use, tell your doctor. A simple blood test can tell if your muscle is, in fact, breaking down. If not, your doctor will likely encourage you to remain on a statin because of its tremendous lifesaving potential.

If you simply can’t tolerate statins, ask your doctor about non-statin cholesterol-lowering medications. I’ve put a table listing several cholesterol-lowering drugs, along with their benefits and side effects,

on my website.

Fortunately, I’ve never had a patient who developed the rare muscle problem that statins can cause. But I have had patients who developed mild muscle symptoms. By adjusting the dose, or switching to another statin drug, the symptoms have disappeared.

And while I’ve enthusiastically spoken about the benefits that statins can have, please don’t misunderstand.

Statins are not for everyone, and they’re not the only way that people with atherosclerosis, or who are at risk for atherosclerosis, can protect themselves. Regular exercise and a heart-healthy diet are equally powerful, and add to the benefits of statins.

• Visit www.AskDoctorK. com to read more.

Teen: Why would anyone want to donate blood?

Dr. Wallace: A good friend of mine was injured in an automobile accident, and her parents are asking her friends to donate a pint of blood to help her out. I want to donate, but my dad won’t let me because he heard that donors can be in contact with sexually transmitted infections and other diseases.

Is this true, and why would anyone give blood if it is? – Nameless, Jacksonville, Florida Nameless: According to the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. Public Health Services and the Surgeon General,

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace there is no danger from giving blood at a blood bank.

The needles used for blood donations are always brand new and when used once, and only once, the needles are destroyed.

I hope your father reconsiders and permits you to help your friend in a time of need by donating a pint of blood.

Girls: Are teen girls receiving sex education informa-

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By BERNICE BEDE OSOL Newspaper Enterprise Association

TODAY – You are in a good position this year, but you could spoil your chances of success with negativity and anxiety. You have the knowledge and determination to achieve, but insecurities will weigh you down and hold you back. Strive to increase your self-confidence, and you will go far.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – This is not the time to be pushy.

Compromise is required. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Be sensitive, and let others have their say.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Get in touch with someone from your past. It’s time to revive an old friendship or flame. Make the first move, and see if a response is elicited.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – If you have been neglectful in any way, it’s time to make amends. Life is too short to waste your time arguing. Compromise is a good place to begin when dealing with an important relationship.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – A delightful surprise will brighten your day. Love and romance are highlighted, so spend some extra-special time with the people you love the most. Actions speak louder than words.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – You will get caught up in a dispute.

Before you make any suggestions, get the facts. Keeping the peace will be more difficult than anticipated. Be prepared to back away if necessary.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – You will be unsure of how to deal with an important decision. Go back to the people you have trusted in the past. Their input will help you to make the right choices.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Collaborative ventures should be avoided today. Do your homework. You can make a small investment pay off, but it must be on your terms. Work alone.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – It’s time to tackle home beautification and domestic chores. Yardwork, redecoration and reorganization are good ways to spruce up your surroundings and burn a few calories.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Imagination is only part of the equation for a successful effort. Changes need to be made, and now is the time to make things happen. You have waited long enough to reach your goals. Forge ahead.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Someone is trying to deceive you. Don’t believe what you are told. You will have to get the information firsthand if you want to discover the truth.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Don’t be afraid to say no. It’s good to offer help, but before you do, take care of your responsibilities. You don’t have to be superhuman. Take a break.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Do whatever it takes to enjoy life today. Your health will suffer if you’re constantly worrying. Go out and do something with the people who make you happy.

tion regarding abstinence and birth control before starting a sexual relationship? The answer is a resounding “NO!” According to a study released recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among girls who were sexually experienced, 83 percent said they didn’t get formal sex education until after they had their first sexual experience.

Most girls ages 15 to 17 in the study (91 percent) said they had completed an effective sex education class that included birth control

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and ways to say “No” to sex.

But for many of the sexually active female teens, the class was too late because they were already sexually active.

This represents a “missed opportunity” to introduce medically accurate information according to the researchers. The study also noted that only 15 percent of teen girls ages 15 to 17 used a birth control method at least “moderately” effective the first time they had sex.

It’s obvious that sex education classes should be lowered to provide 14-yearolds (high school freshmen)

with effective sex education information and opportunities to have important questions answered accurately and professionally.

While sex education classes could be improved, they have been the major reason for lowering the teen birthrate. In 2012 (the latest information date), the birthrate hit an all-time low of 29.4 per 1000 teens ages 15 to 19. In 1991, there were 84.1 births for every 1000 teens of the same age range.

• Email Dr. Robert Wallace at rwallace@galesburg.net.

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BRIDGE Phillip Alder

Keep control of a bad break Professor Shlomo Benartzi, an expert on various types of behavioral finance, said, “Selfcontrol is not a problem in the future. It’s only a problem now when the chocolates are next to us.”

Keeping the trump suit under control is often a problem of what to do now, at this trick. Today’s deal would trip the unwary or the perennially optimistic. How should South play in four spades after West leads the heart six?

East opened with a textbook vulnerable weak twobid, promising a good six-card suit and 6-10 high-card points.

South made a takeout double, and North cue-bid to indicate at least 12 high-card points.

South started showing fourcard suits in ascending order, and North raised to game in spades.

South has two losers in the red suits, so at first glance needs to find spades 3-2.

However, on closer inspection, declarer will notice that he can discard dummy’s heart losers on his club winners.

Without further thought, but perhaps after eating an orange cream or two, South would win with dummy’s heart ace, cash the two top trumps (getting the bad news), and take his three clubs, discarding dummy’s hearts.

However, when he next plays a diamond, West wins with his ace, draws trumps, and leads a heart, resulting in down four.

Often, when you must make use of a side suit, it is right to play on that suit first.

Here, declarer should win the first trick, draw one round of trumps, take his heart discards on the clubs, and play a diamond. Everything is then under control. South loses only two spades and one diamond.

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Chuck's Auto Center in Sycamore has openings for 2 experienced Techs.

IMPORT & DOMESTIC AUTOS & TRUCKS Must have own tools & work well with fellow employees.

Salary open. Apply to: Chuck Criswell at Chuck's Auto Center, Inc 1625 DeKalb Ave Sycamore, IL 60178 Phone: 815-899-1184 Fax: 815-899-5302

CONSTRUCTION CARPENTERS NEEDED!

Dynamic RN needed to assist with nursing administration in a skilled, long term care facility. Responsibilities include providing, planning, coordinating, and managing nursing care services, health education, and infection control monitoring.

Excellent benefits Retention bonus Competitive salary Apply at:

DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center 2600 North Annie Glidden Rd DeKalb, Illinois 60115 EOE

CCA Midwest, Inc. the largest Carpenter Contractor located in the Chicagoland area is presently seeking experienced residential Carpenter candidates for steady work in and around the towns of Joliet, Shorewood, Plainfield, Naperville, Aurora and Oswego.

Pay is determined by skill, ability and prior experience. We pay the highest in our market and we are the only residential carpenter contractor that provides FREE healthcare for the Employee, Employee + Spouse and Employee + Child (ren). An affordable premium contribution is required for complete family coverage. In addition we offer dental, vision and participation in the 401K Plan.

If interested in steady residential carpentry work and for immediate consideration and job assignment call 815-544-1699 and asked to be placed on the hiring list or email resume to: Humanresources@rdthiel.com You will get a return call from our field operations.

HEAVY DUTY TRUCK TECHNICIAN Truck / Trailer Repair Center seeking experienced full-time Heavy Duty Truck Technician.

Successful applicant must be able to efficiently & accurately diagnose & repair all malfunction breakdowns. 5+ years experience in field, basic computer skills, Mack truck or additional OEM certifications preferred.

Valid drivers license, have own tools. Must be physically able to handle heavy parts, tools. We provide competitive wage, vacation, uniform, 401k, insurance.

Send resume to: AXLE & EQUIPMENT SALES CO 1049 Paramount Parkway Batavia, IL 60510

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SAT & SUN JUNE 7 & 8 8AM - 4PM

June 6 & 7 Friday & Saturday 10am-4pm heavy bag w/frame, elliptical, bookshelves, kitchen set, dining room set, china cabinet,recliner, misc. furniture, kitchen /household items, books, DVDs

FRI & SAT, JUNE 6 & 7 8AM – 3PM

126 BERKSHIRE DR. Boys clothing 2T – size 6, Girls clothing 3 months – 4T, Misc.

Children's toys, Step 2 Toybox, Wagon, Tugboat sandbox, Carseat, Antique kindergarten table, Misc. Household.

DEKALB June 5 & 6

THURS, FRIDAY 8am – 4pm 1523 Crayton Circle

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44W311 Ellithorpe Road Behind Burlington Central H.S. Antiques, hand & yard tools, ifestock & hog gates, hog & cattle feeders, tin signs, pictures, crocks, oil lamps, tobacco tins, glassware, hunting items, farm memorabilia, kitchenware

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!

KINGSTON

145 VISTA TERRACE Jim Beam Bottles, Antiques, furniture, NASCAR, tools, household items

ANYTHING & EVERYTHING!

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INSIDE SALES We are expanding again!

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

This individual must possess great customer service skills on the phones, typing ability, a very good memory, and a basic ability to read breakdowns and drawings. Interested individuals may send a resume to: Valerie@sviintl.com

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DeKalb 1316 Stafford Thursday - Friday – Saturday 8am – 5pm

Huge Garage Sale Furniture, children's items, toys, baby & toddler clothes, adult clothes, snow blower & misc Having a Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation or Event Coming Up? Share It With Everyone by Placing a HAPPY AD!

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County Line Rd. & 38 Heritage Hills Sub-Div. FURNITURE, POOL TABLE, BAR, LOTS OF HOUSEHOLD, PAINTINGS, LAWN MOWER, TOOLS & MUCH, MUCH MORE ALL HAS TO GO!

LARGE ESTATE SALE! Fri. & Sat. June 6 & 7 9am-6pm Sun. June 8 10am-2pm Kenmore Washer and Whirlpool Dryer, 2 Full Size Br. Sets and other Furniture, Tools, 194050's Records, Shirley Temple Plates, Gone with the Wind Plates and Many Others, Crafts, Knitting and Sewing Etc., Antiques, Collectibles, Figurines, Depression Glass, Toys, Cups, Saucers and Ceramics and all Kitchenware.

SYCAMORE

Shabbona / Lee Townwide Sale Friday & Saturday June 6 & 7 8am – 5pm

THURS, FRI, SAT JUNE 5, 6, 7 9AM - 5PM 1617 OAK LANE Household, electronics, camera, men's & women's large size clothing, fishing, hunting, fire arms related, Knife close-out: SOG, Colt, S&W, books: novels, history, Military (some rare, some signed)

& MUCH MORE!

OVER 25 SALES! Good Deals!

Furniture, Desks, Sofa, Easy Chairs, Hot Tub, Antiques, Books, Babies & Kids stuff, Clothes, Crafts, Tool Cabinet, Trampoline, Yard & Garden, Bikes.

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FRI & SAT, JUNE 6 & 7, 8 – 4 SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 8 – 2.

toys, books, clothes, household, furniture, holiday decorations, craft items, entertainment center,

GENOA

FRI & SAT JUNE 6 & 7 9AM - 4PM 33680 E. PINE CIRCLE Tools, dishes, furniture, knick-knick shelves, luggage, exercise equipment

GENOA – Garage Sale 317 MONROE STREET Thurs. 6/ 5 thru Sun. 6/8 furniture, teacart, linens, exercise equipt, sewing machine, dishes, kitchen items, tools, jewerly + Lots of Misc !

Sunday will be fill a bag $5 or half price!

St. Charles

Maps & Address Locations will be available at the Kingston Village Hall all 3 days of the sale

JenAir Grill with cover and rotisserie, Patio Table and Chairs with Sunbrella Cushions and cover, TVs, Oak Chest of Drawers, matching Oak bedside tables, White Chest of drawers, Office Desk, maple Desk, Office book shelves, Small green book shelves, Elliptical, Children's tables with chairs, 5 Kitchen chairs, Pans, Dishes, Small Appliances, Vintage Tablecloths, Cook Books, Young Reader Novels and many more books, Folding Tables, Lawn Boy Mower, Flower Pots, Misc Lawn & Garden tools, file cabinets, 10 ft ladder, games, Wet Vac, Garage Storage Cabinet, Patio Umbrella, Crib with Mattress, Changing Table, High Chair, and much more.

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Antique Sale June 7 Saturday Only 8am - 3pm 309 N. 2ND ST.

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Primitives, tools, crocks, glassware & MISC!

MAPLE PARK HUGE MOVING SALE June 6 & 7th 9-4pm 8N198 Grand Arbor Lane RT 47 & Ramm Road Daily Chronicle Classified It works.

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CREDIT SPECIALIST CRYSTAL LAKE Shaw Media's suburban group is looking to add a Credit Specialist to our Client Financial Service team.

Shaw Media is a dynamic media company that publishes daily and weekly newspapers, monthly glossy magazines and produces a number of industry-leading websites.

In this customer relations driven role, the successful candidate will be familiar with credit principles and practices, highly organized and results driven. Candidates should have commercial collection experience, a customer service background, and possess the strong ability to multi-task and prioritize in our deadline driven environment. Basic Accounting knowledge & computer skills including Microsoft Word and Excel are required.

Key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to collection of accounts receivable for assigned territory, collaboration with other departments to ensure timely resolution of receivables and disputed items.

Shaw Media offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefit package.

Qualified candidates should send a cover letter and resume to: Recruitment@shawmedia.com or Apply Now at: www.shawsuburbanmedia.com/careers Shaw Media is a Drug Free Employer.

Pre-employment background check and drug screen required. This posting may not include all duties of position. EOE.

1615 Pine Trail June 5, 6, & 7, 8am - 4pm Lots of costume jewelry, records, books, carnival & vintage glass, knick-knacks, pictures, & much more.

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Multi-Family Garage Sales McLaren Manor Across from Southeast School (718 Locust Street)

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NORTH AURORA COME ONE - COME ALL!!

1509 Hawksley Lane Orchard Crossing Sub. Fri June 6 8:00 - 4:00 Sat June 7 8:00 -2:00 Books for all - kids, adults and teachers, Car seats, riding toys and so much more...

Multiple families selling!!

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Six original Hummel Wine Glasses.

The goblet is of gold plated hand cut crystal. Stem is porcelain gigure made by famous Hummel plant.

Six different figures. $200.00 Call 815-895-2877

LADIES SCHWINN TRAVELLER BIKE, 26” with basket, large seat. $40. 847-515-8012

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

815-761-6679

TREADMILL 120 lb. Weslo Treadmill, Excellent Condition. Need to sell due to health. $150 or best offer. Call AM – early afternoon, 847-609-2489, Sycamore.

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NOW ITS MY SALE! 1345 William St, Sycamore Fri 8-5:30 - Sat 8-2 Collectible dolls, bears, glassware, train sets, Longaberger baskets. Vintage cast iron bed, hand painted screen, furniture, household, craft items, sporting goods, electronics, books and much more!!!

Sycamore Please come help out a local family in need while getting everything you could want or need!

HUGE INDOOR SALE St. John's Lutheran Church

26555 Brickville Road Thursday, 12 – 6 Friday, 8 – 6 Saturday, 9 – 2 Clothing NB to 3XL, baby/kid items, holiday, knick-knacks, household, new/used Tupperware, dressers, wood headboard and so much more!

Monetary donations also accepted.

Retails $400, Asking $150 815-264-3570

Family room, “country cottage” couch, coffee table, chair, sm. table & love seat complete set $400 815-895-4659

HEAD/FOOT BOARD Queen size with 2 wooden slabs and metal braces + a mattress and boxspring, $150/all, you PU. 815-901-5503 Lv Msg Kitchen/Dining Room Set Round Wood Varnished Kitchen Table Set, 4 High Back & Padded Seat Chairs, $45.

815-522-6607 8a-9p Outdoor lounge chairs 2 w/ sturdy aluminum frames & weatherproof fabric. Small amount rust. $15 each obo. U-haul.

815-758-7867

Lawn Tractor - John Deere 214 48” deck, blower, push blade, weights, chains, Kohler engine, runs great $1,500/obo 815-761-3282

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(corner of Park Ave & Waterman St) The P. A. C. is full!!! HUGE estate sale. Furniture, antiques, appliances, sports, baby items, fabric & patterns, linens, books, name brand clothing (50¢ -$1), tons of yarn & craft supplies, shoes, electronics, bikes, toys, Christmas and holiday decorations, Cuisinart, designer bags, golf clubs, and SO SO much more!

This is a Missionary Athletes International fundraiser!

Sycamore Huge Neighborhood Garage Sale

Somerset Farm Condominiums Due to Road Construction-Take Somonauk Rd to Bethany Rd.Turn West-Go Around BarriersRoad is Open to Entrance

THUR, June 5 FRI, June 6 9AM – 4PM WINDSOR POINT CMTY GARAGE SALE June 7th 8 AM to 4PM

REFRIGERATOR White, Kenmore with top freezer.

Just one year old, excellent cond! $400 815-756-7588 Lv Msg

Fri., 6/6 8 - 5 Sat., 6/7 8 - ?

June 7 & 8 Saturday & Sunday 8am - 4pm 3N964 Longfellow Place

Please call 815-784-5572 With any Questions or to add your name to list.

Sycamore Multi-Family

Tools, Bicycles, Sewing Machine, Antique Wrought Iron Twin Bed, Wicker Loveseat, Dinette Table/4 Chairs, Garden Tools, Outdoor Fixtures, Little Girls Clothing, Hardware, Futon, Desk, Bike carrier, Gel Coat Twin Mattress Pad, General Household, Home Décor & So Much More.

Send your Help Wanted Advertising 24/7 to: Email: helpwanted@shawsuburban.com Fax: 815-477-8898

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR The Suter Company, a food manufacturer since 1925, has an immediate, fulltime opening for a Product Development Coordinator. This role's primary responsibilities include new product innovation, existing product enhancement and improving product development processes. The successful candidate will work in a test kitchen/lab environment and must have a sense of the interaction of food ingredients and their impact on the end product.

Job Requirements: ! Strong project management skills ! Attention to detail ! Ability to be a proactive team leader to coordinate activities across other departments of the company - Manufacturing, Quality Assurance and Customer Service ! Strong proficiency in a variety of computer applications - intermediate skills required in Microsoft Word & Excel ! Must be a self-starter who feels comfortable working independently and with limited direction ! 1 to 3 years working in a product development position, preferably in food manufacturing ! Effective communicator, both written and verbal ! Strong organizational skills to handle multiple tasks and projects while meeting deadlines.

We provide a work environment committed to safety, quality and continuous improvement. We offer a competitive benefits and compensation package. If you pride yourself on delivering excellent service that enhances customer satisfaction, please submit your resume to:

The Suter Company Attn: C. DeVlieger 258 May Street Sycamore, IL 60178 Email: cdevlieger@suterco.com Fax 815-895-0758 EOE

THURS – SAT, JUN 5 – 7 9AM – 5PM

630 BRIAR DR Off of Brickville Rd.

Band saw and Table saw, Tables and chairs, Dresser, Pool chemicals, Water skis, Artificial flowers, and much more!

815-899-3130 Advertise here for a successful garage sale!

Call 815-455-4800 Chronicle Classified 877-264-2527

Stair Lift Cover 8-9 steps, extensions available, Used 2 years by 87 year old woman - $400.

815-501-5950 or -0092 Call 10am-8pm

1000' Reel RG - 6 Cable Wire New, $25, Sycamore 815-895-5373 Fisher Stereo Receiver 220 watts, w/ speakers. $75. 815-756-4072

Golf Club Set with bag - $50 815-756-4072

www.HuskieWire.com All NIU Sports... All The Time

REAL ESTATE & PERSONAL PROPERTY AUCTION IN ORDER TO SETTLE THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM R. OSBORNE, THE FOLLOWING REAL ESTATE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY WILL BE OFFERED AT AUCTION LOCATED AT 1223 UNIVERSITY DRIVE, DEKALB, ILLINOIS. (LOCATED NORTH OF RT. 38 ON ANNIE GILIDDEN, TO LOREN, TURN WEST TO UNIVERSITY DRIVE. NORTH SIDE OF NIU CAMPUS.)

EARLY EVENING AUCTION TUESDAY JUNE 24TH STARTING AT 6:00 PM. THIS RANCH HOME IS ON THE NORTH EDGE OF THE NIU CAMPUS, IN A QUITE LITTLE SUBDIVISION OF SIMILAR TYPE HOMES. THE HOME HAS 3 BEDROOMS, CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONING, FULL BASEMENT, 2 CAR GARAGE. THE LOT IS 60X120 WITH CITY WATER AND SEWER. TAXES AR $3,993.00.

THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN OWNER OCCUPIED AND IS IN MOVE IN CONDITION. *THIS WOULD MAKE AN IDEAL INVESTMENT PROPERTY, FIRST TIME HOME BUYER OR HOUSE TO BUY AND LIVE IN WHILE ATTENDING NORTHERN. YOU CAN’T BEAT THE LOCATION!! INTEREST RATES ARE AT A HISTORIC LOW....TALK TO YOUR LENDER NOW AND COME WITH A VISION TO SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH A PROPERTY LIKE THIS AND BID YOUR PRICE AT AUCTION. OPEN HOUSE JUNE 8TH 11:00A.M.-1:00 PM. TERMS FOR REAL ESTATE AUCTION: $5,000 DOWN ON AUCTION DAY. BALANCE DUE JULY 24TH 2014. DEED TRANSFER, TITLE COMMITMENT IN SELLERS NAME PROVIDED

BY SELLERS. 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.

REAL ESTATE OFFERED AT 6:00 PM. FOLLOWED BY PERSONAL PROPERTY. WEED EATER RIDING LAWN TRACTOR W/ MOWER DECK, 18H.P.; BOLENS 30” CUT SNOWBLOWER; TORO RECYCLER LAWN MOWER, LIKE NEW! YARDMAN 6H.P. 21” CUT MOWER; WEBER GENESIS 5100 GAS GRILL; LUX-AIR UPRIGHT 5H.P. AIR COMPRESSOR; SEVERAL LADDERS MISC. HAND TOOLS; FLOOR JACK, JACK STANDS, SHOP VAC; WHEEL BARROW; LOTS OF YARD AND GARDEN TOOLS; SINGER 7182 COMMERCIAL BLIND STITCH SEWING MACHINE; MAYTAG OVERSIZE WASHER; KENMORE ELECTRIC DRYER; LOTS OF NICE FURNITURE INCLUDING SOFA; OAK END AND COFFEE TABLES; OAK PEDESTAL DINNING TABLE W/ 4 MATCHING OAK CHAIRS; 4 OAK SWIVEL COUNTER CHAIRS; KING -SIZE BED; DOUBLE BED; TWIN BED; GLIDER ROCKER; SEVERAL LAMPS; KENMORE VACUUM W/ POWER HEAD; LOTS OF DISHWARE, KITCHENWARE, GLASSWARE; AND MANY OTHER USEFUL HOUSEHOLD & HOUSEWARES ITEMS TO NUMEROUS TO MENTION. TERMS ON PERSONAL PROPERTY: CASH, CHECK, CREDIT CARDS, NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS, INJURY OR THEFT. ALL ITEMS SETTLED FOR ON SALE DAY. COME OUT AND JOIN US AT THE 1ST EARLY EVENING AUCTION OF THE SUMMER. PATRIOT DOGS LUNCH ON SITE. ALMBURG AUCTIONEERING INC. 815-825-2727, MALTA, IL ANDREW & STEVE

ESTATE OF WILLIAM R. OSBORNE All our auctions with pictures are advertised worldwide @ www.almburgauctions.com

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

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422 Ashton Dr.

THURS, FRI, SAT JUNE 5, 6, 7 8AM - 3PM

& MUCH MORE!

FRI, JUNE 6 9AM - 3PM SAT, JUNE 7 9AM - 2PM

June 6 & 7 Fri 9am-3pm Sat 9am-12pm

SYCAMORE 16391 Mt. Hunger Rd.

3 FAMILY

COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE

(Heritage Ridge Subdivision)

mission oak dining room table/chairs, bedroom set, oak dresser, sofa, buffet, black painted table, chest freezer, 2001 yamaha golf cart, patio furniture, adaddin telesensory vision machine and more !

HAMPSHIRE

MAPLE PARK

DEKALB

UMBRELLA TABLE- LOST

Saturday June 7 9am – 3pm

off of Northstate road

BARN SALE

DEKALB

Shabbona

12629 Northwood Dr

DEKALB

635 N. 4th Street

Lost Sunday afternoon 6/8 between Cortland and Sandwich.

New in box umbrella table.

Slid out of truck.

Mike 815-483-8956

June 5, 6, 7 Thurs, Fri, Sat 9am - 5pm girls clothes size 6mo–4t (.50 -.75/pc) lots of baby stuff, somthing for everyone!

49 years of Household items and furniture !

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?

GENOA

Coke crates w/bottles, 2 Sauder cabinets, chrome bar stools, Samsonite carry-on luggage, Longaberger baskets and holiday items, Christmas décor, vintage Pyrex, collector plates & display racks, kids desk chair, hardcover books, photo albums, picture frames, vintage glassware, craft cart, Indian dolls, computer keyboard, mens sport jackets & suits (42L 34W), jr clothing, infant boys, purses, misc housewares & home décor.

June 6 & 7 June 13 & 14 Friday & Saturday 9am – 2pm 10432 Perry Road

Heating & Air Conditioning Service Tech / Installer 5+ years experience in residential, commercial & refrigeration.

Call 847-293-0047

DeKalb 1423 Schade Lane

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Office Chair

!! !! !!! !! !!

$20 815-756-4072

AQUARIUM 55 gallon with hardwood stand. $100 815-520-4721

Ball Python Docile with aquarium, $75.

815-520-4721

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

WANTED! I Buy

I BUY CARS, TRUCKS, VANS & SUVs Will beat anyone's price by $300.

Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan

or

815-814-1224 !! !! !!! !! !!

Stamps

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Collections

For Junk Cars, Trucks & Vans with or without titles.

630-817-3577 or 219-697-3833

815-758-4004

Will BUY UR USED

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY 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.

CAR, TRUCK, SUV,

MOST CASH 1979 Lincoln Mark V

Cartier Centenial, immaculate! $8,800 815-508-2916

2008 Chevy Colorado Crew Cab loaded, excellent condition, $9,500 815-762-7124

DEKALB - BEAUTIFUL RANCH HOME FOR SALE 4 bed - 3 bath. Look-out finished basement. 1/3 acre. Close to shopping, NIU, and tollway. Call 815-761-6696 to schedule your private showing! $172,500

1990 & Newer

815-814-1964

Old Envelopes

sp prio by ng contact referenced above in Paragraph (1).

WE PAY THE BEST!

1995 Honda Magna VF750CD. 22,627 miles. Paint, tires, battery all recent. Includes two helmets and battery charger. $3000.

Tim 815-757-4472

WILL BEAT ANY QUOTE GIVEN!! $400 - $2000 “don't wait.... call 2day”!!

815-575-5153

FOR SALE – BRICK RANCH

DEKALB - 4 bedroom, 2bath, 2car garage, brick ranch w/ basement, near elem. middle, high schools and NIU. 815-758-1691 LOCAL NEWS WHEREVER YOU GO! Up-to-date news, weather, scores & more can be sent directly to your phone! It's quick, easy & free to register at Daily-Chronicle.com

Thursday, June 5, 2014 • Page C7

WATERMAN STATE BANK, Plaintiff, vs.

ROBERT C. RISSMAN, SHARON K. RISSMAN, UNKNOWN OWNERS and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

IN CHANCERY CASE NO. 13 CH 419 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered by the Court in the above entitled cause the property hereinafter described or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment, will be sold to the highest bidder.

(1) The name, address and telephone number of the person to contact for information regarding the real estate is: Jeff Weber, Vice President, Waterman State Bank, 248 West Lincoln, Waterman, IL 60556, Telephone Number: (815) 264-3201.

(2) The common address and other common description, if any, of the real estate is: 255 W. Cleveland Street, Waterman, Illinois 60556.

(4) A description of the improvements on the real estate is: residential.

(5) The real estate may be inspected prior to sale by calling the

(6) The time and place of the sale is July 10, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office, 150 N. Main Street, Sycamore, Illinois 60178.

(7) The terms of sale are: A. The sale shall be by public auction.

B. The sale shall be by open verbal bid.

C. The sale shall be conducted by the Sheriff of DeKalb County, or other duly authorized officer.

(8) Title will be conveyed subject to all general real estate taxes which are a lien upon the real estate, but have not yet become due and payable, and special assessments, if any, and easements and restrictions of record.

WATERMAN STATE BANK, Plaintiff, By: /s/ Timothy J. Conklin Timothy J. Conklin, One of Its Attorneys THE FOSTER & BUICK LAW GROUP, LLC 2040 ABERDEEN COURT SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS 60178 PHONE: (815) 758-6616 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 29, June 5 & 12, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS WESTERN DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, AS TRUSTEE FOR NOVASTAR MORTGAGE FUNDING TRUST, SERIES 2004-1, NOVASTAR HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-1 Plaintiff, -v.JAMES F. FEYERHERM, et al Defendant 3 : 13 CV 50137 JUDGE FREDERICK J. KAPALA NOTICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONER'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of

SELLER MOVING - MONTANA BOUND

pu dgm Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 1, 2013, Daniel Huntley, Special Commissioner appointed herein, will at 1:00 PM on June 19, 2014, at the DeKalb County Courthouse, 133 W State front door entrance, Sycamore, IL, 60178, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 804 NORTH 5TH STREET, Dekalb, IL 60115 Property Index No. 08-14-380032.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $112,894.90.

Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of auction payable to the Special Commissioner. The balance in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours, also payable to the Special Commissioner. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

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IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 263-0003. Please refer to file number C14-95332.

POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 263-0003 Attorney File No. C14-95332 Case Number: 3 : 13 CV 50137 TJSC#: 34-7423 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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

BIG APARTMENTS, LESS MONEY! Rochelle: 15 minutes from DeKalb 1 BR & 2BR Starting at $530 Recently updated!

Affordable heat.

Walk to shops!

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(Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 15, 22, 29 & June 5, 2014.)

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

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 $29,900 815-498-2067

You Want It? We've Got It! Classified has GREAT VARIETY!

877-264-2527 Daily-Chronicle.com

DeKalb 1BR $550, 2BR $650

Hillcrest Place Apts.

220 E. Hillcrest. 815-758-0600 hillcrestplaceaptsdekalb.com DeKalb - Large 2 Bdrm, 2 bathstove, fridge, D/W, W/D, A/C, security entrance, quiet bldg, no dogs 815-758-0079

DEKALB - SPACIOUS MARKET APARTMENTS Starting @ $599, 2 Bedroom $683, 3 Bedroom Near the heart of NIU. Incl gas and forced air heat. Off street parking, lush grounds, on site laundry room. Outdoor pool, tennis and basketball courts, patios and balconies. Cats OK.

University Village Apts.

722 N. Annie Glidden Rd. 815-758-7859

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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

1800 Sq. Ft 2 Story Home with 2 Full Baths Full basement, 2 car garage.

Priced at $179,900 Great access to the East or the West.

$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

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DEKALB ~ 1 BEDROOM Available July/Aug. Close to NIU, Free heat & water, quiet lifestyle. Varsity Square Apts.

815-756-9554 www.glencoproperties.com

DEKALB 1 BEDROOM Clean, quiet, 1 bath, appliances included, available now.

815-758-6580

SYCAMORE CLEAN 2BR,1BA W/D, D/W, next to park & schools. $720/mo, you pay utilities.

NO DOGS. 815-970-4640

Sycamore Country Setting 2 bedroom,1 bath, clean, quiet, new carpet. 815-758-6580 Or call for personal showing

DeKalb-206 Gurler St.-Newer, 2 lg BR, 1.5BA, appl, CA, bsmt, W/D, patio, 1 car gar. $900 + util, 1st/lst/sec. No pets – 1 yr lease 815-758-8335 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

DEKALB - Very nice 3 BR, 1 bath, large yard. Avail 6/15, pets ok. $1250/ mo + utilities, $1250 deposit. Agent owned. 815-739-1347

DeKalb 1BR With Study Stove, fridge, heat included.

815-748-4085

DeKalb 2BR, Hardwood Floors Basemen, W/D, large shed, $895.

ALSO 4BR, $1275. No pets/smoke.

815-762-4730

DEKALB ~ 227 N. 1

DeKalb 400 River Rd. 3BR,1BA

st

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

Large 2BR, carport, A/C, laundry.

Clean, quiet and secure. $750/mo.

J&A RE. 815-970-0679 DEKALB ADULT, QUIET, REFINED Building. 2 Bedroom Apt with homey environment. Car port. For mature living. Excellent Location!

No pets/smoking. Agent Owned.

815-758-6712

DeKalb Large 2BR, Near NIU 2 bath, newly painted in nice area.

Laundry, prkg, pets OK, $640+sec.

Avail 6/1. Keith 312-286-4278

DeKalb Quiet Studio 1, 2, 3BR

Lease, deposit, ref, no pets.

815-739-5589 ~ 815-758-6439

DeKalb Spacious Lower 2BR

Sycamore E. State St. AVAILABLE NOW! Newly remodeled 2 Bedroom CALL FOR DETAILS 815-245-6098 ~ 815-923-2521

Sycamore Newly Remodeled

Upper 3BR, $750 + gas & electric + dep, 1 year lease. No smkg/pets.

Agent Owned 630-204-6476

Kingston Efficiency Unit Appl, $330/mo+sec, 1 yr lease.

No pets/smkg. 815-975-4601

6 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Basement, Large lot, $1250/mo.

630-746-4646 ~ 815-375-4615

MALTA 4 BEDROOM 2 + car garage, large yard.

Pets neg, $1025/mo + 1st, last sec.

815-757-1045

Sycamore Upper 2BR Duplex

1.5BA, W/D in common area.

No pets/smoking, $700/mo + st 1 last security. 815-501-1378

Laundry, lrg yard, storage, garage avail. $750/mo. utilities not incl Avail 8-1 815-751-2937 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

DEKALB ~ 1530 Elmwood Ave

DEKALB – near downtown North 2nd Street, 800+ sq. ft. ideal for office, retail, salon, call for details, agent owned.

815-756-2359 or 815-758-6712

Sycamore ~ Nice 2 Bedroom Quiet Lifestyle On-site laundry.

Off St. parking. No pets/smoking.

815-501-1872 Waterman – Large 2 Bedroom with Garage. Stove, refrigerator, washer, dryer, air, no pets/smoking. Call 815-264-3996

Sycamore. 22X29' Shop/Storage 9' overhead door. $400/mo. Heat & Electric incl.

J&A RE 815-970-0679

Malta – Clean, cozy, quiet 1 Bedroom Upper Off street parking. Non-smoker.

815-981-8117

Malta Quiet, Upper 2 Bedroom Appl, a/c, laundry, water/garbage included + extra storage.

815-751-0480

ROCHELLE 1 & 2 BEDROOM Remodeled, clean and quiet.

Available now. 815-758-6580 or 815-739-5806

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 DeKalb: 2BR Townhome w/Study, C/A, W/D, Garage Townsend Management 815-787-7368 Sycamore 2BR twnhse. Fin bsmnt. C/A, W/D, Gar. $1100 TOWNSEND MANAGEMENT 815-787-7368

Sycamore 4 Bedroom, 3 Bath Great room, sun porch, all appl, garage, yard, nice neighborhood. $1000/mo+1st, last sec, no smkg.

Available now. 815-895-4071

Sycamore TH Like New 2BR Great location! 2BA, 2 car garage, skylights, appl, W/D, C/A, $935.

No pets. a 815-758-0123 Sycamore – Woodgate Condo 2 bedroom penthouse, quiet living, pool at clubhouse, garage, available June, great for grad students, $830/mo. Reduced rate for longer lease, credit check req'd, call John 630-240-1973

Shabbona ~ Spacious 2BR Newly painted, W/D hook-up.

No dogs, $635/mo + security.

847-738-2334

Stone Prairie 2BR, 2BA APT. Washer & dryer, central air, fireplace, exercise center.

Cat friendly. Private fishing. $765/mo.

Laing Mgmt.

815-758-1100 or 815-895-8600

The Knolls Hot new deluxe townhomes.

2 & 3 Bedrooms.

Garage, C/A, Basement. Pets?

Starting at $645

815-757-1907 Send your Classified Advertising 24/7 to: classified@shawsuburban.com Fax: 815-477-8898 or online at: www.daily-chronicle.com

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY WATERMAN STATE BANK, Plaintiff, vs.

ROBERT C. RISSMAN, SHARON K. RISSMAN, UNKNOWN OWNERS and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

IN CHANCERY CASE NO. 13 CH 419 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered by the Court in the above entitled cause the property hereinafter described or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment, will be sold to the highest bidder.

(1) The name, address and telephone number of the person to contact for information regarding the real estate is: Jeff Weber, Vice President, Waterman State Bank, 248 West Lincoln, Waterman, IL 60556, Telephone Number: (815) 264-3201.

(2) The common address and other common description, if any, of the real estate is: 255 W. Cleveland Street, Waterman, Illinois 60556.

(3) The legal description of the real estate is: THE NORTH HALF OF LOT 19 AND ALL OF LOT 20 IN BLOCK 2 IN LAMB'S ADDITION TO THE VILLAGE

OF WATERMAN, SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF DEKALB AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. (4) A description of the improvements on the real estate is: residential.

(5) The real estate may be inspected prior to sale by calling the contact referenced above in Paragraph (1).

(6) The time and place of the sale is July 10, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office, 150 N. Main Street, Sycamore, Illinois 60178.

(7) The terms of sale are: A. The sale shall be by public auction.

B. The sale shall be by open verbal bid.

C. The sale shall be conducted by the Sheriff of DeKalb County, or other duly authorized officer.

(8) Title will be conveyed subject to all general real estate taxes which are a lien upon the real estate, but have not yet become due and payable, and special assessments, if any, and easements and restrictions of record.

WATERMAN STATE BANK, Plaintiff, By: /s/ Timothy J. Conklin Timothy J. Conklin, One of Its Attorneys THE FOSTER & BUICK LAW GROUP, LLC 2040 ABERDEEN COURT SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS 60178 PHONE: (815) 758-6616 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 29, June 5 & 12, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS WESTERN DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, AS TRUSTEE FOR NOVASTAR MORTGAGE FUNDING TRUST, SERIES 2004-1, NOVASTAR HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-1 Plaintiff, -v.JAMES F. FEYERHERM, et al Defendant 3 : 13 CV 50137 JUDGE FREDERICK J. KAPALA NOTICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONER'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 1, 2013, Daniel Huntley, Special Commissioner appointed herein, will at 1:00 PM on June 19, 2014, at the DeKalb County Courthouse, 133 W State front door entrance, Sycamore, IL, 60178, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 51 IN L.C. MEAD SUBDIVISION A SUBDIVISION IN THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 4 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED DECEMBER 6, 1943 AS DOCUMENT NO. 180048 IN BOOK 'G' OF PLATS PAGE 89 SITUATED IN DEKALB COUNTY ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 804 NORTH 5TH STREET, Dekalb, IL 60115 Property Index No. 08-14-380032.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $112,894.90.

Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of auction payable to the Special Commissioner. The balance in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours, also payable to the Special Commissioner. The subject property is sub-

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bj prope y ject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 263-0003. Please refer to file number C14-95332.

POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 263-0003 Attorney File No. C14-95332 Case Number: 3 : 13 CV 50137 TJSC#: 34-7423 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 15, 22, 29 & June 5, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL

CIRCUIT COUNTY OF DEKALB ESTATE OF MARTHA SNIEGOCKI DECEASED. Case No. 14 P 51 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of Martha Sniegocki, of the City of DeKalb and State of Illinois. Letters of office were issued on the 14th day of May, 2014, to Joanne F. Rouse, whose attorneys are The Foster & Buick Law Group, LLC, 2040 Aberdeen Court, Sycamore, Illinois 60178.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court at the DeKalb County Court House, 133 West State Street, Sycamore, Illinois, 60178, or with the representative, or both, no later than 4:30 p.m. on or before the 10th day of November, 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 to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.

Joanne F. Rouse, Executor By: /s/ Kevin E. Buick One of her Attorneys

y Courthouse, 133 West State Street, Sycamore, Illinois 60178, or with the representative or both on or before the 29th day of November, 2014, or if mailing or delivery of a notice from the representative is required by Section 18-3 of the Probate Act of 1975, the date stated in that notice. Any claim not filed on or before that day is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered by the claimant to the representative and to the attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed. The estate will be administered without Court supervision administration unless an interested party terminates independent supervision administration by filing a petition to terminate under Section 28-4 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/28-4).

Richard Meyer, Co-Executor for the Estate of Mary M. Meyer, Deceased.

Kathryn E. Meyer, Co-Executor for the Estate of Mary M. Meyer, Deceased.

Charles E. Marshall ARDC#01774972 121 West DeKalb Street Post Office Box 488 Somonauk, Illinois 60552 815 498 2332

The Foster & Buick Law Group, LLC Attorneys at Law 2040 Aberdeen Court Sycamore, IL 60178 Phone: (815) 758-6616

CDH Lawgroup 2000 W. Galena Blvd, Suite 210, Aurora, IL 60506 630 859 3300

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 22, 29 & June 5, 2014.)

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 29, June 5 & 12, 2014.)

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PUBLIC NOTICE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS

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IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY M. MEYER DECEASED NO. 14 P 56 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given to creditors of the death of Mary M. Meyer. Letters of office were issued to Richard Meyer, whose address is 401 W. LaSalle Street, Somonauk, Illinois 60552, and Kathryn E. Meyer, whose address is 420 E. North Street, Somonauk, IL 60552, whose attorney of record is Charles E. Marshall, Post Office Box 488, 121 West DeKalb Street, Somonauk, Illinois 60552 and CDH Lawgroup, 2000 W. Galena Blvd, Suite 210, Aurora, IL 60506. Claims against the estate may be filed in the Circuit Clerk's Office, DeKalb County

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Plans & Specs are available at www.dot.state.il.us or email estimating@ currancontracting.com (815) 455-5100 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 29, 30, 31, June 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 & 10, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE

by gi that on June 3, 2014 a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of DeKalb County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as DEKALB INN located at 1815 E. Lincoln Hwy, DeKalb, IL 60115.

Dated June 3, 2014 /s/ Douglas J. Johnson DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder (Published in the Daily Chronicle, June 5, 12 & 19, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on May 21, 2014 a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of DeKalb County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as MR. MORBAL TREE REMOVAL SERVICES located at 740 Southmoor Dr., DeKalb, IL 60115 Dated May 21, 2014 /s/ Douglas J. Johnson DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder (Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 22, 29 & June 5, 2014.)

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