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RECOGNIZING AGRICULTURE

‘A great achievement’

Martinez, 41, has no prior criminal record

By ANDREA AZZO aazzo@shawmedia.com

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The Dekalb County Farm Bureau Foundation Board, including former president Allan Aves (to the right of the sign), pose with the Illinois State Historical Society sign that was unveiled Monday at the DeKalb County Farm Bureau in Sycamore.

Marker celebrates 102 years of DeKalb County Farm Bureau

By KATIE DAHLSTROM

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kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – The past 102 years of the DeKalb County Farm Bureau have been about looking toward the future of agriculture – a trend Mark Tuttle wants to continue.

Tuttle, the president of the DeKalb County Farm Bureau, reminded a crowd of about 25 people about the county’s agricultural tradition Monday during a ceremony to unveil a historic marker outside the farm bureau building at 1350 W. Prairie Drive.

“It’s a way of life,” Tuttle said.

“It’s important that we keep it a way of life.”

The marker denotes the enterprising and forward-thinking ways that sparked a grassroots movement to improve crop production in DeKalb County, as well as the innovations that come from the organization.

The DeKalb County Farm Bureau started in 1912, the first to form in Illinois and among the first in the country. Spurred by concerns about the county’s declining soil fertility, a group of farmers, bankers and businessmen formed the DeKalb County Soil Improvement Association.

In 1912, a group of DeKalb farmers, bankers and businessmen formed the DeKalb County Soil Improvement Association. It became the DeKalb County Farm Bureau in 1926. Today, it has 6,500 members.

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The Dekalb County Farm Bureau President Mark Tuttle speaks Monday before the unveiling of the Illinois State Historical Society sign at the DeKalb County Farm Bureau in Sycamore.

They decided to hire William Eckhardt, a soil expert who examined how to improve soil and crop production.

Over the years, the DeKalb County Soil Improvement Association evolved, becoming the DeKalb County Farm Bureau in 1926. Among the organization’s storied past is the beginning of the DeKalb brand of hybrid seeds, Tuttle said.

Members of the DeKalb Area Agricultural Heritage Associa-

tion worked for months to have a historical marker put in place outside the farm bureau building, which was built in 1996. The group had to convince officials with the Illinois State Historical Society that the farm bureau should be commemorated. It is the second in a series of three historical markers to be revealed this fall.

The recognition was long overdue, said Kirkland farmer Allan Aves, who served as the

president of the DeKalb County Farm Bureau from 1977 to 1986.

Aves removed the cloth from the marker Monday during the ceremony, a smile moving across his face as he did.

“It’s a great achievement that’s finally been recognized,” Aves said. “There’s so many achievements, it’s hard to pick out No. 1.”

For Larry Mix, the president of the DeKalb Area Agricultural Association Board, the history of the local farm bureau represents the power of a few people. Namely, the people who farmed the soil association 102 years ago after realizing they could come

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DeKALB – Bond was set at $500,000 Monday for the Sycamore woman police say waited for her estranged husband’s girlfriend to return home early Saturday so she could try to slice a vital artery in her neck.

Nicholle M. Martinez, 41, of the 1800 block of Kerrybrook Court, is expected to ask a judge Friday to reduce her bond on accusations of attempted murder and aggravated battery. Family members had indicated Monday that they could post $10,000 for Martinez to be released while her case is pending.

Martinez has worked for the past nine years as a lab technician at Valley West Hospital, defense attorney Nicholle M. Loren Blumenfeld said. Blu- Martinez menfeld said Martinez has five children, three of whom are younger than 11, is a graduate of Northern Illinois University and is not a danger to the community.

The victim was treated at Kishwaukee Hospital in DeKalb and released Saturday, DeKalb police have said.

Martinez is accused of stabbing the woman in the neck repeatedly about 4 a.m. Saturday in the victim’s apartment complex’s parking lot on the 1300 block of Sycamore Road in DeKalb, according to court records.

Martinez told investigating officers that she intended to knock the woman unconscious with a large rock and then sever an artery in her neck to kill her “humanely,” court records show. She also told police she had plans to dispose of the body and hide evidence, according to court records.

Martinez brought with her two knives, including a box cutter-style knife, as well as gloves and a mask.

Martinez waited for the woman to come home about 4 a.m. Saturday, crept up on her and hit her with a large rock, but the woman fought back as Martinez was cutting her with the box cutter-style knife, according to court records.

A man who knew both women saw the victim in her car fighting with Martinez in the parking lot and pulled Martinez away before calling police, court records show.

When he asked Martinez why she was stabbing the woman, Martinez replied, “You know why,” according to court records.

Martinez has no previous criminal history, Assistant State’s Attorney Jessica Finley said. If she is able to post the necessary bail to be released from jail while her case is pending, she will not be allowed to have any contact with the victim. If convicted of attempted first-degree murder, she could face between six and 30 years in prison.

County clerk candidates to appear at forum after ethics complaint Johnson: ‘I have done nothing that violates the law’

By JESSI HAISH jhaish@shawmedia.com DeKALB – DeKalb County Clerk and Recorder candidate Trent Taylor wants tonight’s forum to be about candidate qualifications, not the ethics complaint his father-in-law filed against his opponent.

Meanwhile, Republican Doug Johnson, the sitting clerk and recorder, denies wrongdoing.

Steve Walt, Taylor’s father-inlaw and a DeKalb County Board member from 2006 to 2010, filed a complaint alleging Johnson and a county clerk employee improperly distributed campaign materials July 17 at a Senior Health Fair in DeKalb.

“If there is an investigation into the purported allegation against me by my opponent’s campaign, I am certain that I have done nothing that violates the law,” Johnson said in a pre-

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pared statement Friday.

Johnson did not immediately return calls for comment Monday, but both Johnson and Taylor, a Democrat, are expected at a candidates forum tonight hosted by the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce at the Egyptian Theatre,

135 N. Second St. in DeKalb.

Participating candidate will be available to speak with voters in the theater lobby from 6 to 7 p.m. before the on-stage forum for contested races begins at 7 p.m.

Other candidates for contested races include Democrat Christopher Porterfield and Republican Dianne Leifheit facing off for a DeKalb County Board District 8 seat and Republican Craig Genteman and Democrat Jim Luebke competing for a DeKalb County Board District 9 seat.

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didates, Regional Superintendent of Schools Amanda Christensen, a Democrat; County Sheriff Roger Scott, a Republican; and County Treasurer Christine Johnson, a Republican, will attend the meet and greet, as well.

In the clerk and recorder’s race, Walt said one of his relatives – not Taylor – noticed Johnson and employee Lynne Kunde handing out campaign materials, including hand fans and bags. He took a photo, which

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DAILY PLANNER DEKALB Kishwaukee Sunrise Rotary Time: 7 a.m. today Place: Kishwaukee Hospital, 1 Kish Hospital Drive Information: Dan Monaghan, president, 815-901-5326 Salvation Army Food Pantry Time: 9 a.m. to noon today Place: 830 Grove St. Call 815-756-4308 to volunteer.

Those needing food pantry assistance should be prepared to show a state-issued photo ID and proof of DeKalb residency.

Friends of the DeKalb Public Library Book Sale Time: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today Place: DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Information: 815-756-9568, ext. 260, or friends@dkpl.org Where to Look for Jobs Time: 9 a.m. today Place: Illinois workNet Center, 650B N. Peace Road Living with Cancer: Chair Yoga Time: 9:30 a.m. today Place: KishHealth System Cancer Center Information: 815-748-2958 Little Learners Time: 9:30 a.m. today Place: Youth services department of the DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Books, music, and puppets woven together for children 2 to 5.

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Classes for Spanish Speakers Time: 6 to 8 p.m. today Place: 330 Grove St., at the corner of Grove and Fourth streets Information: 815-970-3265 Spanish speakers are invited to learn English at free English as a Second Language classes.

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DeKALB COUNTY LIFE Barry Schrader Ellen Oderkirk Froelich turns 84 years old next week, is sharp as a tack, and spent some time reminiscing with me on the weekend of her 65th DeKalb High School class reunion recently.

She and her husband, Dean, had driven here from their Ohio home and were given a tour through her childhood home on the NIU campus by Vice President of Operations Bill Nicklas and his staff. It was a sentimental journey back to the “old home place,” where she and her two sisters were raised by Burt and Allene Oderkirk beginning in the 1930s during the Great Depression era.

She remained in that home (now known as 253 North Annie Glidden Road) until marrying her sweetheart Dean in 1950, when they moved into the nearby carriage house that had once served as a barn for Annie Glidden.

Ellen was born Oct. 5, 1931, in Oak Park when her folks were living in LaGrange. Soon after that they bought Annie Glidden’s farm house and about six acres in DeKalb, where Mr. Oderkirk had been hired to help purchase and manage the farms of the Babson Brothers. He set up an office in one corner of the carriage house, which was heated by a wood stove at that time. He conducted the Babsons’ business there for several years before moving to a downtown DeKalb location.

As a child, Ellen remembers every foot of that property and buildings, even an old barn that sat out back with a basement that had a ramp up to ground level for the horses. It was torn down when she was quite young. Then there were the pine trees at the back of the property from which her family selected their Christmas tree each year to place in the front window of the living room. The three girls’ stockings were hung on the fireplace mantle and usually held fruit, nuts, some hard candy and maybe a doll for each of them. The family’s andirons still remain with the fireplace today, she noticed.

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Ellen Oderkirk Froelich and her husband Dean recently visited their old home at 253 North Annie Glidden Road in DeKalb, then went to the Ellwood House and Museum where the Oderkirk playhouse now resides. They relived his proposal to her by sitting on the same porch where he asked for her hand in marriage 64 years ago.

Then she told about the animals they raised, including sheep, goats and a pig named Sausage, that were kept in the big fenced yard that ran around the property.

One time while their parents were away, the girls brought their black and white pony named Billy into the house and up the stairs to their front bedroom. They had quite the time getting that pony to walk back down the stairs. But they did it with no damage to rug or walls, just before their mother returned.

She also mentioned that their father bought a Jersey milk cow with the intention of teaching his daughters how to milk, just in case they married a farmer, I suspect. Ellen said the finest horse she ever owned was Mister Copper King that came to them from the Ellwood family. After graduation she attended Northern for two years.

But since her father had just died, the family needed to regroup, and she had to go to work.

Soon after, her suitor Dean (an NIU Huskies lineman and basketball player) proposed to her. They were married nine days before he went off to war in Korea.

The proposal was steeped in local history. They were sitting on the little porch of the playhouse (now back at the Ellwood Mansion where it had been originally) and he asked for her hand in marriage. She said yes.

The family converted the carriage house into an apartment for the newlyweds. The first floor was an open living area with a small kitchen, which remains today, and a large bedroom upstairs plus a closet and small bathroom with shower. That bedroom is where they placed the cribs for their first two sons – Kevin and Keith. Dean remembers the French doors on the back (west side) of the apartment opened out onto a cement patio that had an overhead trellis with vines growing over it. The doors are still there, but the exit is boarded up for now.

One final question for her: How did it feel returning to her childhood home? “A real joy to visit the old house and feel its warmth. It has such good bones,” she added.

• Barry Schrader can be reached via email at barry815@sbcglobal.net or at P.O. Box 851, DeKalb, IL. 60115. His column appears every other Tuesday.

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Dairy Queen asks Sandwich to change its name

By DOUG OLESON doleson@shawmedia.com SANDWICH – Bizarre – that’s what Sandwich Mayor Rick Olson called a tongue-in-cheek request that the city change its name as part of a promotional stunt.

On Monday, Dairy Queen requested that Sandwich, Illinois, and two other similarly named towns change their name to Wrap in honor of the fast food chain’s new chicken wrap 5 Buck Lunch.

In a news release, Barry Westrum, executive vice president of marketing for American Dairy Queen Corporation, said the company was “offering an opportunity for the city to break away from the pack and be the first in the nation to be named Wrap.”

The release went on to say Dairy Queen would donate to the nearest Children’s Miracle Network Hospital in the name of Wrap, Illinois, and would

donate blankets to the city “to help the needy stay wrapped up and warm this winter.”

Lauren Simo of Pierson Grant Public Relations in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, said the company doesn’t really expect anyone to change their name.

“This is kind of something done in really good humor,” she said. “It was kind of funny to ask them to change their name to Wrap.”

Olson said he first heard about the request when a Dairy Queen spokesperson called him two weeks ago. When he informed her it’s up to the City Council to make that decision, she offered to drop off samples of the lunch for the council.

Since Olson and other town officials were scheduled to attend a meeting in Itasca to discuss a new police station, the food was delivered to the police department instead.

Olson noted that Sandwich doesn’t even have a Dairy Queen. The nearest location is in Yorkville, about 10 miles

away.

“Now, if they wanted to announce they were opening a Dairy Queen in town, we’d be open to that,” he said.

Olson said this isn’t the first time the city has received such a request. In 1996, Campbell’s Soup wanted to add soup to the town’s name.

“That was kind of cool,” he said.

“They had a mock parade.”

Olson said the city also was once approached by Kentucky Fried Chicken, which had 10 people dressed as founder Colonel Sanders parachute into the local airport to have their new chicken sandwich evaluated by the Sandwich police.

Ironically, Sandwich wasn’t even named after a sandwich. According to the city history, Sandwich is named after Sandwich, New Hampshire, the hometown of “Long John” Wentworth, an influential Chicago politician who helped develop the community and got the Chicago, Burlington, Quincy Railroad to stop in town.

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS Afghan president sworn in, cal stage, the new president was the brutal Islamic State group. locked into an uneasy partnerpaving way for U.S. pact Netanyahu: Hamas, KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan- ship with his defeated rival, Abdullah Abdullah, who became Islamic State share creed istan swore in Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai as its second elected president Monday, embarking on a new era with a national unity government poised to confront a resilient Taliban insurgency by signing an agreement with the United States that would guarantee a continuing American military presence.

As Hamid Karzai left the politi-

the country’s first chief executive. With a hug for the cameras, both sides appeared determined to reach across factions and avoid a descent into an abyss similar to what has happened in Iraq, where the government’s failure to mend lingering sectarian divisions following a full U.S. withdrawal helped give rise to

Netanyahu also lashed back at Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who accused Israel last week of carrying out war crimes UNITED NATIONS – In a and waging a “war of genocide” blistering speech to the United during the fighting in Gaza. NetNations, Israeli Prime Minister anyahu said Hamas committed Benjamin Netanyahu warned “the real war crimes” in Gaza Monday that Hamas and the Is- by using Palestinian civilians as lamic State group are “branches human shields. of the same poisonous tree,” Addressing the U.N. General both bent on world domination Assembly’s annual ministerial through terror, just as the Nazis meeting, the Israeli leader arwere. gued that Israel’s fight against

Hamas and the U.S. military campaign against the Islamic State are part of the same cause – the defeat of Islamic extremism.

Netanyahu railed against world leaders for simultaneously condemning the Jewish state for its war with Hamas and praising President Barack Obama for attacking Islamic State militants and other extremists in Syria and Iraq.

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NIU investigating small fire at Watson Hall

Sycamore fire contained to basement of home

DeKALB – A fire that likely started in a restroom of a Northern Illinois University building caused about $1,200 in damage Monday, fire officials said.

The DeKalb Fire Department responded to an activated fire alarm about 12:13 p.m. Monday at NIU’s Watson Hall and saw light smoke coming from partially opened windows, according to a city of DeKalb news release.

Firefighters found heavy smoke conditions in a Watson Hall bathroom and put it out within five minutes, the release states. Crews remained on the scene for about an hour and a half to vent out smoke, according to the release.

The DeKalb Fire Department is helping NIU police with the investigation, the release states.

SYCAMORE – It took firefighters about five minutes to put out a fire at a Sycamore home, but clearing all the smoke took 30 more minutes, fire officials said.

Sycamore firefighters were called at 12:23 p.m. Monday to a fire at a home on 406 E. High St. in Sycamore. The fire is believed to involve a dehumidifier that was in the basement, Sycamore Fire Chief Pete Polarek said. Firefighters still were investigating the cause of the fire Monday, he said.

Firefighters used positive pressure fans to clear the smoke after putting out the small fire with a portable fire extinguisher, Polarek said.

“The smoke was everywhere, short of the rooms that were closed off,” he said.

A portion of High Street was closed when firefighters were at the scene.

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By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – A Rockford-based developer hopes razing two blighted buildings on Sycamore Road will spark interest in the property.

Crews on Monday tore down the former Nelson veterinary offices at 2131 Sycamore Road, which Pankaj Mahajan, the director of development for property owners First Rockford Group, believes will attract potential developers.

“Sometimes you have to clean it up to give them a better imagination of what could be there,” Mahajan said. “So we’re getting rid of some ugly buildings.”

First Rockford Group bought the buildings in January. Mahajan said there has been some interest since then, but things have moved very slowly compared to other developments. The company also owns the DeKalb Market Square center anchored by Kohl’s, as well as the shopping center anchored by Big Lots.

Two users currently are interested in the former veterinarian clinic property, Mahajan said, although he could not detail what ones. He said , ultimately, the property will be big enough for one of the potential users.

Roger Hopkins, DeKalb’s economic development consultant, said the city needs more fashion apparel retail-

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Taylor: Allegations insult to taxpayers • COUNTY CLERK

ney Richard Schmack, who said a police agency determined the photo to be real, and shows an elderly woman ac- referred the allegation to the cepting a red hand fan with a State Appellate Prosecutor’s Republican elephant logo and Office.

Taylor said the alleged acthe wording: “Doug Johnson, DeKalb County Clerk and Re- tions are an insult to taxpayers, however, he wants today’s corder.”

Walt sent the picture to forum to be about candidates’ DeKalb County State’s Attor- qualifications for the job.

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Crews from N-Trak demolish the buildings of the former Nelson veterinary offices at 2131 Sycamore Road in DeKalb on Monday, September 29, 2014. Located right along a commercial corridor of DeKalb, property owners First Rockford Group believes clearing the buildings will attract potential developers. ers, restaurants and a book store. City leaders hope to get some leads for new business during a trade show featuring the International Council of Shopping Centers on Oct. 7.

On top of the Sycamore Road corridor, areas such as west Lincoln Highway, downtown DeKalb and the shopping center at the Annie Glidden Road and Hillcrest Drive intersection also are prime for development, Hop-

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kins said.

He, like Mahajan, thinks clearing the property is a business-savvy move.

“It’s going to make the property more attractive in appearance and more attractive to developers,” Hopkins said.

City officials last year considered establishing a tax increment financing district that would have included the former vet clinic and art annex, but that plan died in

December. The special districts allow the city to divert property tax money into an account that is used to rehabilitate blighted areas.

The city would have had to annex the vet clinic if it wanted to include it in a tax increment financing district.

The city has not annexed the property.

Mahajan said he expects to start the annexation process by next spring or summer, with development to follow.

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By JOHN O’CONNOR The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – Illinois House Republicans, fearing that majority Democrats could take money away from their suburban Chicago school districts in a postelection vote, have thrown up prominent if symbolic opposition on Senate-approved legislation to overhaul state funding for public education.

The resolution offered this month by Downers Grove Rep. Ron Sandack and co-sponsored by two-fifths of the GOP caucus, along with two Democrats, decries what it says is Sen. Andy Manar’s “piecemeal reallocation” of schoolhouse funding that will cause hundreds of districts “deep budget reductions and financial uncertainty.”

Manar fired back Monday, telling reporters at the state

Capitol, “there is a cost to not getting this right in the state budget and it’s severe.”

The Bunker Hill Democrat’s plan won Senate approval in May. Manar, noting months of effort to get other lawmakers’ input, said the Senate action followed a year of intense, statewide discussion Andy Manar a n d d e r i d e d Republican implications that it “just fell out of the sky and onto school districts.”

It would revamp the complex school-aid funding formula – untouched since 1997 despite changes in population and wealth distribution – to ensure it funnels more money based on poverty, instead of other standards, to local schools overly reliant on crumbling property tax bases.

Tuttle: We need to use this as a reminder to look forward • FARM BUREAU Continued from page A1 up with their own solution to declining crops.

“Not all the great innovations are technical and scientific in nature,” Mix said.

“I think the farm bureau was blessed with a group of individuals who had that foresight to realize they weren’t stuck with the conditions and the agriculture they had at that particular time.”

DeKalb County’s 2,000 farms generate about $458 million in agriculture product sales annually, according to farm bureau staff. Corn, soybeans, hogs and cattle make up most of the county production.

Tuttle, a fourth generation farmer from Somonauk, sees the future of the farm bureau

in educating people without a farm background about agriculture. The DeKalb County Farm Bureau runs an active Ag in the Classroom program that has reaches 1,700 students.

The agency also offers a Summer Agricultural Institute for area educators.

Farm bureau leaders also engage lawmakers to ensure as the number of farmers dwindles, their voices still are heard.

“We today need to use this as a reminder to us that we need to look forward,” Tuttle said. “We need to advance ag-literacy, because there are fewer and fewer farmers each year. We’re two and three generations removed from the farm. It’s important that our message gets out to not only just the non-farm public, but those who make decisions about farmers.”

DeKalb County Tyler B. Royer, 24, of the 1600 block of Avalon Court, St. Charles, was charged Monday, Sept. 29, with driving under the influence.

Matthew Casemont, 25, of Lookout Lane, St. Charles, was

charged Monday, Sept. 29, with littering from a motor vehicle and illegal transportation of alcohol.

Seth V. Boncouri, 18, of the 2700 block of North Eola Road, North Aurora, was charged Saturday, Sept. 13, with underage drinking.

DeKalb city Kenneth E. Sitzes, 28, of Branden A. Cater, 21, of the the 800 block of Ridge Drive, 800 block of Fotis Drive, DeKalb, DeKalb, was charged Saturday, was charged Saturday, Sept. 13, Sept. 13, with domestic battery. with keeping a disorderly house. Mychele J. Bullock, 21, of the Venice A. Arevalo, 20, of the 17700 block of South Wentworth 2200 block of Skokie Drive, Avenue, Lansing, was charged Rockford, was charged SatSaturday, Sept. 13, with possesurday, Sept. 13, with battery, sion of marijuana. underage drinking and resisting, Deland J. Deere, 20, of the obstructing or disarming an 1400 block of Gordon Avenue, officer.

Calumet City, was charged Sat-

urday, Sept. 13, with possession of marijuana.

Joshua E. King, 20, of the 800 block of Edgebrook Drive, DeKalb, was charged Saturday, Sept. 13, with keeping a disorderly house.

Kusum D. Reddy, 23, of the 3100 block of Village Court, Janesville, Wisconsin, was charged Sunday, Sept. 14, with possession of marijuana.

Rashaud D. Bomar, 20, of the 200 block of North Avenue, Sycamore, was charged Sunday, Sept. 14, with aggravated domestic battery.

cated to Corpus Christy, Texas where he continued to work in his trade and build a number of homes in that area.

Upon returning to Kirkland he resided with his long time companion, Darlene Bruder, together they enjoyed the peace and tranquility of the country. She also provided him with care and support when his health began to decline. He enjoyed attending sports events of his children and grandchildren.

He is survived by two daughters, Kathy (Rick) Hodgkinson, Kirkland, Nancy (Al) Lloyd of Rapid City, SD; and son, Michael (Carla) Lawrence of Austin, TX; six grand-children, Micah (Gwen) Lawrence, Cody Lawrence, Wes (Scarlett Nielsen) Hodgkinson, Joshua (Heather) Lloyd, Luke Lloyd and Hannah Lloyd; eight great-grand-children; sister, Donna Tangerose of Kirkland; and

several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; daughter, Billie Jean Lawrence; grandson, Joel Lloyd; grand-daughter, Christy Hodgkinson; brother, Raymond Lawrence; sister, Laura Wiegartz; and mother of his children, Shirley (Uphoff) Lawrence.

In honor of Robert’s request there will be no formal service, however, there will be a celebration of his life on Saturday, October 4th at the Kirkland Fire Department between the hours of 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.

A memorial to be established at a later date. Any contributions to be made to Kathy Hodgkinson.

Christenson Funeral Home & Cremation Center assisted the family.

Cremation rights have been accorded. Burial will be private at a later date in Maple Cemetery in Kirkland.

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He was born on November 23, 1930, to Marion “Dutch” and Helen (Decker) Lawrence in Mayfield Township. Robert was raised in Kirkland and attended school there. He selected to follow his father’s footsteps and became a well-known builder and contractor.

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You don’t have to search to find special events in Sycamore. The Farmers Market is open on Sundays through September while Tuesdays on the Town has something downtown for all ages. One event to mark on your calendar now is the 53rd annual Pumpkin Festival, Oct. 22-26. Decorated pumpkins, arts and crafts, games, food, souvenirs and a parade highlight this year’s event.

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By ANDREA AZZO aazzo@shawmedia.com SANDWICH – After getting laid off from her job as a debt collector in February, Ericka Van Dee started a business picking up dog waste from Sandwich yards.

“Someone’s got to do it. Why not me?” she said. “It’s a job that nobody likes to do.”

In June, Van Dee officially started Poody Doody, a dog waste removal service. She cleans 12 yards a week for 22 different dogs. Van Dee cleans yards in Sandwich but wants to expand the service to DeKalb, Ottawa, Earlville and Yorkville.

Van Dee also is in the process of Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com copyrighting a report card sysEricka Van Dee, owner of Poody Doody, cleans up after two canine clients in the Fairtem she uses that categorizes how healthy a dog’s waste is. Categories wind Subdivision in Sandwich on Thursday. Van Dee removes dog waste from about 10 yards a week. range from “pooptacular,” meaning there is nothing wrong with Here’s how the service works: a big their yard is and how often they the waste, to “What the poop was potential client calls Poody Doody would like Van Dee to clean it. Cost that?,” which can mean Van Dee depends on the size of the yard; it found fluff from a stuffed animal in at 815-786-POOP (7667) to tell Van the waste.

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Sycamore chamber welcomes assistant CHAMBER VIEW Rose Treml cal to our economy.

The support that local merchants give the community is not only monetary, but it also includes time. The community events that help to make Sycamore what it is would not be possible without the local businesses; they devote many hours to local nonprofit agencies that help make Sycamore a community we all can be proud to live in. Consider the many events that happen in downtown Sycamore, many of them organized by the local merchants: Cinco de Mayo, Taxco Restaurant; Ladies Night Out, D & D Jewelers; Street Dance, PJ’s Courthouse Tavern; Block Party, MVP’s.

We want to keep our local merchants here, so we need to support them just like they support us. Ask yourself if it is worth a couple extra dollars to keep Sycamore a vital community? Let’s show the merchants our support and shop local first.

• Rose Treml is executive director of the Sycamore Chamber of Commerce.

than a quarter acre yard, Van Dee said.

Costs also can be increased if there is a considerable amount of waste in the yard.

“If you haven’t picked up in a month, the pick-up cost is going to be more than just $10,” she said.

Clients sign an agreement allowing Van Dee to come to their property during her hours of operation of dusk to dawn. When she is there, she uses a lobby dust pan and rake-style brush to remove the waste as she inspects the yards two or three times, she said. Then she leaves the report card in their door.

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Cindy Kyler is the Sr. Executive Assistant & Corporate Meeting Planner with Sonoco Alloyd and has been with the company for 17 years. In her professional career, she has responsibility of meeting planning for the entire Alloyd division, manages and coordinates holiday, charity-drive and milestone events for the 250 employees in the DeKalb facility, and directs all day-to-day business of the executive team.

Outside the office, Cindy selflessly works with volunteer groups benefiting ill and underprivileged children, animal rights, and adults with life threatening illnesses. Her heart knows no limit to giving, and encourages others to join her in charity drives, fund-raisers and volunteer activities. Frequently winning over the entire Sonoco Corporation (10,000+ employees) with her charismatic passion for giving, Cindy is able to use her professional position as a platform for getting others motivated and involved in her causes.

Cindy believes strong communities are built by strong and dedicated individuals who selflessly “give back” to their fellow residents and community organizations. With the right drive, ambition and dedication, Cindy believes all women are cable of accomplishing anything she sets her mind to. Her recipe for success is “Never stop learning, caring, or living and you’ll always be rich in life”.

The ATHENA Award Reception will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, October 28, 2014 in the Lincoln Ballroom at the Red Roof Inn & Suites, DeKalb, IL. The public is invited to attend - tickets are $30 each.

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We are very excited to introduce Amber Gerardy as our new Events and Marketing Assistant for the Sycamore Chamber of Commerce.

Gerardy serves as the events and marketing specialist for the chamber and Discover Sycamore.

She has a bachelor’s degree in communication and media studies from Amber Northern Gerardy Illinois University, where she completed coursework in communication systems, training and consulting, advertising, corporate advocacy, internet studies and media production.

We are thrilled to have Gerardy join the chamber staff. With her background in advertising, media production and corporate advocacy, she will be a tremendous asset not only to the chamber but also to the business community. One of Gerardy’s responsibilities will be to help promote shopping locally.

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Van Dee wanted to start the service because she said it had a low start-up cost and because she loves dogs. She owns a French bulldog Boston terrier mix named Sassy.

Lanette Yingling, owner of MidDay Play in Sandwich, suggested Van Dee start the service because no one else in the area provides it.

Yingling even refers customers of her at-home dog daycare to Poody Doody. “[Van Dee] is the only one,” Yingling said. “It’s really needed, especially for people who have multiple big dogs, as well as the elderly.”

Since joining the Sandwich Area Chamber of Commerce earlier this year, Van Dee has been a go-getter entrepreneur who loves animals, said chamber executive director Alethia Hummel.

“She’s really taking the time to make sure your pet is healthy,” Hummel said. “She takes time to look at stuff that we, as owners, don’t want to look at.”

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Scots to remain, controversy to continue Last week, the voters of Scotland, in a heavy turnout and from age 16 and up, decided not to disunite what has been arguably one of the most successful and beneficial nations in the past 307 years, the necessarily clunkily named United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

It was a relatively close-run thing: 45 percent voted for an independent Scotland, just 383,000 fewer than voted for Scotland to remain part of the now-not-necessary-to-berenamed UK. Had Queen Elizabeth II not allowed herself to be overheard telling a churchside crowd that Scottish voters should “think very carefully” about the issue, the result might have been closer, as polling suggested it would be.

Actually, something like panic broke out when, days before, a single poll showed the independence side ahead. The leaders of the three UK parties – Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, Labour’s Ed Miliband and Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg – scampered north to Scotland and promised to devolve even more powers from the UK parliament in Westminster to the Scottish Parliament established by Tony Blair’s Labour government in 1999.

When the Scottish Nationalist party won a majority in that parliament in 2011, First Minister Alex Salmond immediately pushed for the referendum. With rules that stacked the deck: 16-year-olds could vote, but Scots outside Scotland, including those in the British military, could not.

Scotland’s grievance may have been based in nostalgia for Braveheart and the poetry of Robby Burns. But it also was rooted in opposition to a central government that locals deemed hostile – something like Texas in President Obama’s America or New York in George W. Bush’s.

million people, and 25 million in 2010.

The United Kingdom has a harder time devolving power and decentralizing public policy because 85 percent of its people live in England. At 7 a.m. the morning after the Scottish referendum’s paper ballots Scotland’s once world-dominating heavy were counted, Cameron emerged from No. 10 Downing Street and promised, “Just as industries – shipbuilding, steel – were Scotland will vote separately in the Scottish shut down by the 1980s, and many blamed Parliament on their issues of tax, spendConservative Prime Minister Margaret ing and welfare, so too England, as well as Thatcher. Once closely divided between Wales and Northern Ireland, should be able the two major UK parties, Scotland elected exactly one Conservative MP to Parliament to vote on these issues.”

That raised the issue dubbed “the West in 2010, versus 41 Labourites, 11 Lib Dems Lothian question,” in 1977 by Tam Dalyell, a and six Scottish Nats. left-wing Scottish Labour MP: How is it fair Salmond painted an alluring picture to let Scottish MP’s vote on policies affectof an independent Scotland, blessed with ing England when English MP’s can’t vote North Sea oil wealth and expanding its on the same policies affecting Scotland? already large welfare state. But North Sea Barring Scottish MPs from voting on Enproduction is falling and, as Thatcher said, the problem with socialism is that you even- gland-only issues might make it impossible for Labour to effectively govern the UK. In tually run out of other people’s money. the current Parliament, Conservatives hold Nonetheless, Scotland is not the only a solid majority of English seats, but they’re region that has been eyeing secession. In a minority in the whole Parliament, forced Spain’s Catalonia, centered on Barcelona, to govern in coalition with the Liberal the regional parliament is calling for a Democrats. secession referendum – which Madrid said Could a Scottish Labour MP ever again is unconstitutional. Italy’s Veneto region, wield the power that Gordon Brown did like Catalonia and unlike Scotland, more as Chancellor of the Exchequer and then prosperous than its country at large, has Prime Minister over a 13-year span? supported the secession-minded Northern Somehow I suspect the British will mudLeague.

Americans have a hard time understand- dle through. But the lesson seems to be that, ing the secessionist impulse. Our own expe- in a decentralizing age, it’s hard to get the rience with secession resulted in a war that right balance between national unity and regional autonomy. took 600,000 lives in a nation of 38 million.

The equivalent death toll today would be 5 million.

• Michael Barone, senior political And our federal system allows Amerianalyst at the Washington Examiner, is a cans to vote with their feet for states with resident fellow at the American Enterprise agreeable public policies. In 1970, my home Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor state of Michigan had 9 million people. In and a co-author of The Almanac of Ameri2010 it had 10 million. In 1970, Texas had 11 can Politics.

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U.S. should remain detached: This is not our fight

By BERNARD E. TRAINOR Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his band of Islamic State zealots received international attention for their brutality and lightning sweep across Iraq, but the United States should know better than to respond with a clarion call to battle. We have already been burned trying to solve the Rubik’s cube of the Middle East. U.S. actions in the region should remain calculating, patient – and detached.

The Islamic State presents a problem to be managed, not a war to be won. Much of what it occupies in Syria and Iraq is useless desert. The situation is stabilizing, largely because of limited U.S. airstrikes, and the immediate crisis is over. The Iraqi Kurds have stiffened their defenses, and Shiites backed by Iran are defending Baghdad. Even Anbar Province’s Sunni tribes pose a problem for the interlopers.

The Islamic State blitzkrieg can be seen as the latest iteration of the struggle for ascendancy by radical Muslims, but at the core it is a local matter, and brutality is unfortunately part of the package. The U.S. role should be limited to helping Kurdish forces and the new Baghdad government better organize to keep the pressure on,

with U.S. airstrikes contingent on their progress. The president’s attempt to form an international posse to assist makes sense, and the results have been reasonably encouraging. France and a fistful of Arab states already are actively engaged.

But it is a stalemate in the making. The United States could break the stalemate by introducing ground combat forces, but all that would achieve is the recovery of lost ground. Meanwhile, the Islamic State could dodge and feint, drawing U.S. troops into the Syrian maelstrom. There is no appetite in the United States for that.

The idea of destroying the Islamic State, an expression of a centuries-old goal to establish a caliphate in the Muslim world, and restoring stability is nonsense.

Stability, in the peaceful sense of the word, is a chimera. More realistic would be to accept a tolerable level of violence within the region so long as no faction that is a direct U.S. threat achieves dominance. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s view is that the Islamic State poses only a “strategic threat ... long term.” Terrorism, from myriad Islamist groups, is the more clear and present danger.

The situation in Mesopotamia is a violent game of mistrust and self-inter-

est. The Saudis despise the Iranians but will cut deals with them if doing so is in their interest. Iran will play any card necessary to achieve regional hegemony, while Turkey is coy about its own quest for preeminence. The gulf states talk out of both sides of their mouths. Syrian dictator Bashar Assad uses the Islamic State to create problems for other rebels.

Iraq plays at democracy as long as it can subjugate the Sunnis. Shiites and Sunnis fight each other while carrying on intramural warfare with their kinsmen.

The double-dealing is almost endless. It doesn’t make sense to us, but it does to the players.

After more than a decade of frustration and humiliation, the United States should have learned that the Middle East is no place for Wilsonianism on steroids.

Obama cut his teeth as a community organizer on the mean streets of Chicago. He should be wary of journeying too far into a bad neighborhood when he sees one.

• Bernard E. Trainor, a retired Marine lieutenant general, is co-author of “The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama.”

Few federal government agencies have grown as quickly as U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which includes the 21,000 agents, double the number in 2004, who patrol the nation’s frontiers with Mexico and Canada. That growth has been accompanied by an alarming number of incidents involving the use of lethal force, particularly along the Mexican border and all too frequently under circumstances that suggest the agency is indifferent or hostile to the most basic standards of restraint, transparency and self-policing.

Reports by news organizations and independent experts – including one report that was suppressed

by Customs and Border Protection for more than a year – have finally prompted the agency to address its problems with accountability. The agency’s new commissioner, R. Gil Kerlikowske, a former police chief in Seattle and Buffalo, has proposed serious reforms.

The question now is whether an organization that badly needs change, and the National Border Patrol Council, the union that represents some 17,000 agents in the field, will be receptive to reform.

Kerlikowske’s ideas for revamping the agency’s policies and culture are far-ranging. Soon after taking office in March, he initiated a review of hundreds of incidents since 2009 involving agents’ alleged misconduct and use of deadly force; 155 such incidents remain under review.

The most promising measure under consideration involves outfitting thousands of Border Patrol agents with wearable cameras, which could provide independent evidence of incidents involving misconduct. Kerlikowske said the agency is purchasing and preparing to test various cameras.

Video footage of encounters between uniformed law enforcement and civilians has been in increasing use in police departments across the country with positive results. We hope the National Border Patrol Council will support the use of the cameras. Agents have some legitimate privacy concerns about the terms of the cameras’ use – especially when they are turned on and off. But cameras can help transform conduct in a vital law-enforcement body.

Washington Post

ANOTHER VIEW

Civil rights martyrs deserve gold medal U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran, Mississippi Republicans, have joined Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, in sponsoring legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Freedom Summer civil rights martyrs James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, an appropriate honor for their sacrifice for justice in Mississippi in the summer of 1964.

Chaney was from Meridian; Goodman and Schwerner were from New York.

The Wicker-Cochran-Gillibrand bill joins a bill filed in April by U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the senior member of the Mississippi U.S. House delegation, seeking the gold medal.

The three men, who sought nothing more than to help black Mississippians in the east central Mississippi area to secure and practice their constitutional right to vote, were brutally murdered June 21 in a Ku Klux Klan conspiracy that involved Neshoba County law enforcement, then buried in the levee of a farm pond.

Mississippi’s justice for African-American citizens in 1964 was ignored as if slavery had never been abolished, and it extended into the judiciary. While seven of the conspirators were convicted in 1967 of federal civil rights violations in the case, it was 41 years before just one person, Edgar Ray Killen, a sometimes Baptist preacher and logger, was indicted for their murders. He has been described as the organizer of the mob that kidnapped and executed Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.

Thompson’s bill (H.R. 4409) states succinctly why the medal should be given: “To award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner to commemorate the lives they lost 50 years ago in an effort to bring justice and equality to Americans in Mississippi during Freedom Summer.”

“These men paid the ultimate sacrifice to bring justice and equality to every American,” said Wicker. “Their courageous actions in the face of danger helped turn the course of history in the United States.”

The three young men were killed June 21, and their bodies, thanks to an anonymous informant, were unearthed six weeks later.

The Congressional Gold Medal is the highest civilian award given by Congress, and it is given to persons whose achievements have an impact on American history and culture that is likely to be recognized as a major achievement long afterward.

Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner’s sacrifice and achievement qualifies in spirit, fact and longevity.

We hope congressional action can be completed in calendar year 2014, underscoring the 50th anniversary of their deeds.

Northeast Mississippi Journal (Tupelo, Miss.)

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WEATHER TUESDAY

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7-DAY FORECAST

Expect a 20-degree drop in temperatures from Monday. On Tuesday, following the passage of a cold front, our winds will turn northwesterly and temperatures will hover in the low 60s under cloudy skies. Sun and temperatures in the 70s will return Wednesday, but a disturbance will trigger storms Thursday and Friday. It’ll be unseasonably chilly and breezy Friday through

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Partly sunny and mild

Cloudy and breezy with scattered storms

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Temperature High ............................................................. 79° Low .............................................................. 52° Normal high ............................................. 69° Normal low ............................................... 46° Record high .............................. 86° in 1986 Record low ................................ 30° in 1992

Precipitation 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. ......... 0.00” Month to date ....................................... 2.64” Normal month to date ....................... 3.15” Year to date ......................................... 26.09” Normal year to date ......................... 29.15”

Sunrise today ................................ 6:50 a.m.

Sunset tonight ............................. 6:39 p.m.

Moonrise today ........................... 1:02 p.m.

Moonset today .......................... 11:03 p.m.

Sunrise tomorrow ........................ 6:52 a.m.

Sunset tomorrow ........................ 6:37 p.m.

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Rockford 66/47

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Dixon 67/46

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Joliet 64/46

La Salle 68/50 Streator 70/49

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Evanston 59/51 Chicago 62/49

Aurora 66/46

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Waukegan 56/47

Arlington Heights 60/49

DeKalb 63/48

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Peoria 75/55

Pontiac 72/49

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WEATHER HISTORY A cold outbreak sent temperatures into the teens as far south as western Kansas on Sept. 30, 1985. On the same day, Grand Island, Neb., had 3.80 inches of snow.

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HARVARD 2, GENOA-KINGSTON 0

Cogs stung in 2nd half

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Morrissey: Bulls’ season hinges on Rose again For most of his life, Derrick Rose didn’t have doubters, other than the people who doubted whether he could jump over a backboard, and they should have known better. Now he has skeptics in bulk.

It’s understandable that there are fans who have lost faith in the Bulls star guard. A player has two serious knee injuries and plays only 49 games in three seasons, there are going to be trust issues.

This might not change many hearts and minds around town, but Rose certainly isn’t doubting himself. The guy who asked “Why not me?’’ for the MVP award before the 2010-11 season is asking “Why not us?’’ while discussing an NBA title for the Bulls in the next few years.

“I know I’m going to win a championship soon,” he said.

The Bulls had Media Day on Monday at their new practice facility, the Advocate Center, named for the health-care network. Some of you will say that’s an appropriate place for a guy who has suffered a torn ACL in one knee and a torn meniscus in the other. There’s no doubt he was the center of attention Monday. For all the new additions – Pau Gasol, Nikola Mirotic and Doug McDermott – this season hinges on Rose, as it always does. He’s the Man, even though he has been the invisible kind for too long.

– Rick Morrissey, rmorrissey@suntimes.com

WHAT TO WATCH MLB playoffs: Oakland at Kansas City, 7 p.m., TBS The Royals made one of the boldest trades in franchise history two years ago. The A’s made a similarly aggressive move just a couple of months ago.

The results of both will be in the starting spotlight tonight.

For the Royals, it’s “Big Game James” – James Shields, the centerpiece of a deal with the Rays that finally pushed the long-downtrodden franchise into the postseason for the first time in 29 years. For the A’s, it’s Jon Lester – the postseason star of the Red Sox last season who was acquired

by Oakland at the trading deadline just for this moment.

Soccer UEFA Champions League, Roma at Manchester City, 1:30 p.m., FS1 UEFA Champions League, Chelsea at Sporting Lisbon, 2 a.m. (Wednesday), FS1 (delayed tape)

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HARVARD – For at least one half Monday night, the Genoa-Kingston boys soccer team kept Harvard off the scoreboard.

Then the shots started pouring in. After playing their way to a scoreless tie by intermission, the Cogs relinquished a pair of second-half goals and fell to host Harvard, 2-0, in Big Northern East play.

“We held them for as long as we could,” Cogs coach Randy Tate said. “We made a couple mistakes and they capitalized on them. Story of the game there.”

The first mistake came in the 54th minute. Rather than controlling a missed shot and taking possession, the ball bounced free

More online For all your prep sports coverage – stories, features, scores, photos, videos and more – log on to Daily-Chronicle.com/dcpreps. in the box. That allowed Jerry Martinez, a senior midfielder for Harvard, to pick it up and put a shot past the G-K defense for a goal.

Later in the half, the Cogs let a pass from midfield get through. Junior forward Mauricio Mercardo controlled it, then fired a shot from the top of the box. The ball hit the top crossbar, then bounced in.

See COGS, page B2

Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com

Genoa-Kingston’s Tommy Hansen heads the ball during the first half of Monday’s match against Harvard in Harvard. The Cogs lost, 2-0.

STERLING 3, SYCAMORE 2

Spartans taken down Sullivan, Ye sweep singles play in defeat

By JAMES HIGH sports@daily-chrnoicle.com SYCAMORE – After winning Saturday’s tournament in Woodstock, the Sycamore girls tennis team was trying to continue its hot streak against Sterling on Monday.

Despite strong performances from singles players Kathryn Sullivan and Angelina Ye, Sycamore lost, 3-2.

Ye, building on her firstplace finish Saturday, was nearly perfect as she defeated Sterling’s No. 1 singles player Allie Prescott, 6-0, 6-0.

Kathryn Sullivan had played doubles in Woodstock on Saturday, but was moved back to her normal singles spot against Sterling. She also shutout her opponent, Aly Meeks, 6-0, 6-0.

But the Sycamore doubles teams could not win a match.

No.1 doubles partners Sam Matalonis and Jackie Cole lost, 6-3, 6-0, and No. 2 doubles partners Kelli Johnson and Neriah Garbes lost, 6-1, 6-3. The No. 3 tandem of Alex Tritt and Maddie Pawola lost, 6-2, 6-4.

Coach Dave Hillmer said that the doubles needed to play better.

“I don’t know if they were still tired from Saturday or what,” Hillmer said. “I’m going to have to try to wake them up before the next time we play.”

A tough Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference loss means the Spartans will have to step up their game. Hillmer did not say whether he would be switching up the doubles partners for their next match. The Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com Spartans play host to Rochelle Sycamore No. 1 singles player Angelina Ye serves to Sterling’s Allie Prescott during her 6-0, 6-0 victory Monday afternoon at Syca- today in another NI Big 12 East more High School. The Spartans lost 3-2, despite Ye’s victory. matchup.

BEARS

Bears may not have answers With the first quarter of the 2014 season in the record books, the Bears are exactly where you expected them to be, aren’t they?

Certainly fans would be happier if the team was 4-0, but the talk all summer was about the brutal first-half schedule, the bulk of it on the road, and it seemed everyone had the Bears at 1-3, or best case at 2-2.

They still have plenty of time to get things right.

The problem is the Packers might have exposed some blemishes that have been brewing below the surface, and I’m not sure the answers to them are on this Bears Sandy Bressner – sbressner@shawmedia.com roster.

Green Bay Packers receiver Jordy Nelson hauls in a Aaron Rodgers In his postmortem news touchdown pass over Bears defensive back Kyle Fuller in the first quar- conference Monday, coach ter of Sunday’s game at Soldier Field. The Bears lost, 38-17.

Marc Trestman talked about

BEARS INSIDER Hub Arkush what went wrong against the Packers.

“We didn’t get any kind of extensive pass rush. We didn’t win the one-on-ones inside when we had the opportunities to win the one-onNext ones. [Packers quarterback at Carolina, Aaron Rodgers] noon, Sunday, just had too FOX, AM-780, much time. We 105.9-FM rushed four.

We did very little blitzing. We felt like the best way to beat him was to

try and get a pass rush and play coverage behind him.”

Unfortunately, as we all know, they didn’t get that done up front.

Trestman also expressed concern about the play of his secondary.

“I think that, fundamentally, we’ve got to be better,” Trestman said. “We had some missed assignments back there, we had some guys where they shouldn’t have been, that was No. 1.

“I think, particularly because we played so much zone, that we’ve got some cleaning up to do with our coverages. We didn’t play as well as we can play and it starts with fundamentals and technique.”

See ARKUSH, page B2

2 SPORTS • Tuesday, September 30, 2014 • Section B • Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com PREP SCHEDULE TODAY Volleyball Burlington Central at GenoaKingston, 5 p.m.

Yorkville at Kaneland, 6 p.m.

Hiawatha at Newport, 6:45 p.m.

Hinckley-Big Rock at LaMoille, 7 p.m.

Boys Soccer Genoa-Kingston at Richmond-Burton, 4:30 p.m.

Hiawatha at Harvest Christian Academy, 4:30 p.m.

DeKalb at Sterling, 6 p.m.

Sycamore at LaSalle-Peru, 6 p.m.

Hinckley-Big Rock at Princeton, 6:30 p.m.

Girls swimming Dekalb-Sycamore at Morris, 5 p.m.

Boys golf Hinckley-Big Rock at Westminster Christian, 4 p.m.

Girls golf Hinckley-Big Rock vs. Indian Oaks, at St. Edward, 4 p.m.

Indian Creek girls vs. Aurora Catholic, at Indian Oaks, 4 pm.

Girls tennis Morris at DeKalb, 4:30 p.m.

Rochelle at Sycamore, 4 p.m.

WEDNESDAY Boys golf Sycamore, DeKalb, Kaneland at Northern Illinois Big 12 tournament, Ottawa, 8 a.m.

SPORTS SHORTS NIU soccer’s Annala earns MAC honor Northern Illinois freshman goalkeeper Amy Annala was named Mid-American Conference Defensive Player of the Week on Monday.

Annala finished with 19 saves in weekend wins over Central Michigan and Toledo.

She leads the MAC with 63 saves for the Huskies, who are 2-0 in conference play for the first time since 1998.

“We’re very happy for Amy. She’s very deserving of this award after the tremendous weekend she had,” NIU coach John Ross said in a news release. “This is also a complete team award for the outstanding defensive effort we had last weekend in getting two huge results on the road.”

NIU men’s golf 12th at Jack Nicklaus invite The Northern Illinois men’s golf team had its best team score of the year Monday, finishing with a three-round score of 908, good for 12th place at the 12-team Jack Nicklaus Invitational in Columbus, Ohio.

The Huskies’ Jordan Wetsch tied for 14th with a threeround score of 218.

“I’m very glad and happy for Jordan today,” NIU coach Tom Porten said. “He did what he had to do today to grind out pars and I was very pleased with his performance. He was a great leader for us this weekend.”

Harnish signed to Vikings’ practice squad The Minnesota Vikings signed former Indianapolis Colts and Northern Illinois quarterback Chandler Harnish to their practice squad Monday, the team announced.

Harnish was the 2012 NFL Draft’s “Mr. Irrelevant,” a title given to the last player selected overall. He was inactive for several games as a rookie before being released and resigned to the practice squad, and he spent the entire 2013 season on the Colts’ practice squad, as well.

Hinch hired to manage Astros HOUSTON – A.J. Hinch was hired as the manager of the Astros on Monday, and general manager Jeff Luhnow is confident he’ll be the man to return Houston to success.

Hinch takes over for Bo Porter, who was fired Sept. 1 in his second year and replaced on an interim basis by Tom Lawless. The Astros finished 70-92 and fourth in the AL West.

– Staff, wire reports

PREP ROUNDUP

MLB

DeKalb soccer tops Jacobs Smith, Freeland score early in Barbs’ victory

By DAILY CHRONICLE STAFF sports@daily-chronicle.com

opponent for us,” DeKalb coach Brent McIntosh said. “I was real pleased to get the early lead, obviously, but I was real pleased with how we hung on with some really good team defending.”

Royals top T’wolves: Hinckley-Big Rock defeated Indian Creek, 7-0.

and Josie Diehl had five kills.

“We just came out flat; we were quiet tonight,” Indian Creek coach Stephanie Crutcher said. “They said afterwards that wasn’t (like) them, but we couldn’t find a way to get ourselves fired up.”

BOYS GOLF VOLLEYBALL Cogs get win: Nick AdamczyThe DeKalb boys soccer team Barbs get victory: DeKalb de- ck shot a 38 for Genoa-Kingston

earned a 2-0 win over Jacobs on Monday. The Barbs jumped on Jacobs early, getting a goal from Jared Smith in the first minute and a tally from Trevor Freeland in the fifth minute.

Leo Marquez assisted Smith’s goal, while Smith had the assist on Freeland’s.

DeKalb is 8-3-2.

“I was real pleased with our approach in tonight’s game.

Jacobs is a real good (Class) 3A

BEARS NOTES

Trestman: ‘O’ fell short, too

feated Ottawa, 25-8, 22-25, 25-10, behind 11 kills from Kayla Schafer and nine from Kate Hickey.

Nicole Schladt added 16 digs for the Barbs.

T’wolves fall: Crossroads Academy defeated Indian Creek, 25-22, 25-11. Jacklyn Bouma had two aces and four digs for the Timberwolves (9-5), and Bailey Martenson had 12 digs.

Rebekka Boehne finished with six assists for Indian Creek

89. H-BR’s Sophie Peters was second with a 90. Katherine Nolan had a 103 for the Timberwolves, and Ellie Gatz finished with a 116 and Rachel Frances had a 117.

“With Delaney, I’m very proud of her. She’s worked very hard on her game,” Indian Creek coach Keith Haag said. “It came to its fruition, especially here in the last couple weeks.”

Zimmerman, Hensley lead Cogs in a 166-187 win over Stillman Valley at Prairie View. Nick in loss: Stillman Valley topped Genoa-Kingston, 202-275. Megan Gargani had a 39 for the Cogs.

Zimmerman and Kelly Hensley each shot a 66 for G-K. GIRLS GOLF Royals win LTC Meet: Hinckley-Big Rock took first at the GIRLS TENNIS Barbs fall: Harlem topped Little Ten Conference Meet, shooting a 386. Somonauk was DeKalb, 3-2. Ellen Green earned second with a 411, and Indian a 6-2, 6-3 win for the Barbs at No. 1 singles, and Katie Koca Creek finished third with 425.

Indian Creek’s Delaney Bend and Emily Christensen won at was the medalist, shooting an No. 1 doubles.

Doing her part

PLAYOFFS WILD CARD Today: Oakland (Lester 16-11) at Kansas City (Shields 14-8), 7:07 p.m. (TBS) Wednesday: San Francisco (Bumgarner 18-10) at Pittsburgh (Volquez 13-7), 7:07 p.m.

(ESPN) DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5) American League All AL games televised by TBS Baltimore vs. Detroit Thursday: Detroit (Scherzer 18-5) at Baltimore (Tillman 13-6), 4:37 or 5:07 p.m.

Friday: Detroit at Baltimore, 11:07 a.m. or 2:07 p.m.

Sunday: Baltimore at Detroit, 2:45 p.m. x-Monday: Baltimore at Detroit x-Wednesday, Oct. 8: Detroit at Baltimore Los Angeles vs. Oakland-Kansas City winner Thursday: Oakland-Kansas City winner at Los Angeles, 8:07 or 8:37 p.m.

Friday: Oakland-Kansas City winner at Los Angeles, 8:37 or 9:07 p.m.

Sunday: Los Angeles at Oakland-Kansas City winner, 6:37 p.m. x-Monday: Los Angeles at Oakland-Kansas City winner x-Wednesday, Oct. 8: Oakland-Kansas City winner at Los Angeles National League Washington vs. San Francisco-Pittsburgh winner Friday: San Francisco-Pittsburgh winner at Washington 11:07 a.m. or 2:07 p.m. (FS1) Saturday: San Francisco-Pittsburgh winner at Washington, 4:37 p.m. (FS1) Monday: Washington at San Francisco-Pittsburgh winner (FS1 or MLBN) x-Tuesday, Oct. 7: Washington at San Francisco-Pittsburgh winner (FS1) x-Thursday, Oct. 9: San Francisco-Pittsburgh winner at Washington (FS1) Los Angeles vs. St. Louis Friday: St. Louis (Wainwright 20-9) at Los Angeles (Kershaw 21-3), 5:37 p.m. (FS1) Saturday: St. Louis at Los Angeles, 8:37 p.m.

(MLBN) Monday: Los Angeles at St. Louis (FS1 or MLBN) x-Tuesday, Oct. 7: Los Angeles at St. Louis (FS1) x-Thursday Oct. 9: St. Louis at Los Angeles (FS1)

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

By KEVIN FISHBAIN kfishbain@shawmedia.com LAKE FOREST – The pass rush didn’t work, and the Bears couldn’t afford blitzing a quarterback such as Aaron Rodgers, so what was the solution?

Maybe a little more help from the offense.

“I think it’s all a part of continuity football,” coach Marc Trestman said Monday. “We’ve got to hang on to the football.

We went into the game thinking that if we could have the ball for 36 minutes, we’d Marc Trestman eliminate [Rodgers’] opportunities to make plays.”

Trestman also lamented some of the penalties on both sides of the ball, the overall play from the defensive line and the offense’s inability to take advantage of two red-zone chances after studying Sunday’s 38-17 loss to the Packers.

The offense did the defense no favors in a game the Bears clearly expected to be a shootout, starting with two trips to the red zone that resulted in three points, but also the two picks.

“Offensively, we don’t throw the two interceptions, he’s not on the field as long – he was having a good day, but at the end of the day, we didn’t do the things to play continuity football, either,” Trestman said. “... Our inability to score in the red zone on two occasions changed our opportunities, so we couldn’t get to the fourth quarter and get that done.”

The run game did its job, but as Trestman said, the turnovers were part of the difference in a game the Bears had to be close to perfect the way Rodgers played.

“You take the turnovers out of it, it’s a different game,” he said.

“We didn’t play enough continuity football to get it done. But we were in a place where we could have made it a football game in the fourth quarter. We took it away from ourselves by turning the ball over.”

Secondary struggles: The front seven didn’t get its job done effectively, but the defensive backs also had a rough day against Rodgers – like most DBs do.

Kyle Fuller got a quick introduction to Rodgers when he was beaten by Jordy Nelson for a touchdown.

“Coming in we knew he was a great quarterback. But there were things on the defense that we could have been better at just as far as being more disciplined and having better execution,” he said.

Carey’s debut: The Bears used a two-back set often to start Sunday’s game, something they had not shown. That led to one of the bright spots: rookie Ka’Deem Carey.

“I think a lot of people got to see what we see in him,” Trestman said. “He’s a hard runner, he’s physical, he doesn’t back down, his pads are down, he’s got great quickness and great vision in the hole.”

Atlanta Carolina New Orleans Tampa Bay Arizona Seattle San Francisco St. Louis

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AMERICAN CONFERENCE Cincinnati Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland Buffalo Miami New England N.Y. Jets

Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com

Sycamore’s No. 2 singles player Kathryn Sullivan returns a serve against Sterling’s Aly Meeks during Monday afternoon’s match at Sycamore High School. Sullivan won her match, 6-0, 6-0, but the Spartans lost, 3-2.

Tate applauds Cogs’ effort in defeat • COGS Continued from page B1 In the first half, the Hornets (14-4, 11-0 BNC East) had fired a fury of shots, but they either sailed wide, high or junior goalkeeper Andrew Caldwell scooped them up. That changed.

In the second, those attacks kept coming, but the Cogs (105-1, 7-4) weren’t as fortunate.

“They play a fast game,” Tate said. “They’re very good with possession of the ball, and they move it well. … They’re definitely the best team we’ve faced.”

The Hornets defeated the Cogs, 1-0, on Sept. 16. Again, they had trouble creating chances Monday, and often found themselves backpedaling against a tough attack from Harvard.

G-K did have a good opportunity in the early minutes of

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Genoa-Kingston’s Matthew Cieslica (left) and Harvard’s Mauricio Mercado run after the ball during the first half of Monday’s soccer match. the second – a free kick from about 15 yards out – but the shot from senior midfielder Erik Tomlinson sailed wide.

Tate, however, applauded his team’s effort against Harvard, which remains undefeated in conference play.

“I couldn’t ask for any more effort out of my kids,”

he said. “I told them that at the end of the game, and I told them that at halftime. We put everything into it. It’s just the speed of the game was a little bit quicker. We were clearing the ball more instead of trying to make the passes. And we really couldn’t make any passes.”

Not much reason to think ‘D’ will improve • ARKUSH Continued from page B1 But is it “fundamentals and technique,” or is it talent?

And why don’t veteran players know their assignments four games into the season?

To be clear, Jared Allen and Jeremiah Ratliff are the Bears’ two best defensive linemen and they didn’t play against the Packers. Their returns should help.

But we don’t know how soon they’ll be back and with both at the age of 32, we know they have not yet shown they are the players they once were.

Then there’s Lamarr Houston, who the Bears spent $35 million on to play defensive end. I don’t believe he can be effective on the end, and although he can make a difference at the three technique, he hasn’t so far, and that’s where the Bears want to see Ratliff.

“I think they were obviously paying close attention to him,” Trestman said of Houston against the Packers. “I thought he played extremely hard. Statistically, that’s not going to show up, obviously.

We’d like to see more show up, but his effort level throughout the game was extremely high.”

Effort is great and important, but it doesn’t pay the bills.

Trestman has the same problem at safety and nickel.

I have no doubt Ryan Mundy, Chris Conte, Danny McCray and Isaiah Frey can improve their fundamentals. But none of them ever has been productive starting DBs in the NFL before, and all but Frey are veterans.

Why should we believe they’re going to get better?

The Bears went out during the offseason and added Allen, Houston, Trevor Scott, Austen

Lane, Israel Idonije, Mundy, McCray, M.D. Jennings and Adrian Wilson via free agency to try to make the defense better. But did anybody else want any of those players other than Allen and Houston?

Lance Briggs and D.J. Williams have struggled at linebacker, as well, but at least with Shea McClellin, Jon Bostic, Khaseem Greene and Christian Jones all on hand trying to learn the position, there is hope there is talent in the pipeline.

Granted, Will Sutton and Ego Ferguson offer hope on the interior of the defensive line, as well, but it’s impossible not to wonder if the Bears actually have the horses in house to become a playoff defense.

• Chicago Football editor Hub Arkush can be reached at harkush@chicagofootball.com or on Twitter @Hub_Arkush.

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Thursday’s Result N.Y. Giants 45, Washington 14 Sunday’s Results Green Bay 38, Bears 17 Houston 23, Buffalo 17 Indianapolis 41, Tennessee 17 Baltimore 38, Carolina 10 Detroit 24, N.Y. Jets 17 Tampa Bay 27, Pittsburgh 24 Miami 38, Oakland 14 San Diego 33, Jacksonville 14 San Francisco 26, Philadelphia 21 Minnesota 41, Atlanta 28 Dallas 38, New Orleans 17 Open: Arizona, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Seattle, St. Louis Monday’s Result Kansas City 41, New England 14 Thursday’s Game Minnesota at Green Bay, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Bears at Carolina, noon Cleveland at Tennessee, noon Tampa Bay at New Orleans, noon Houston at Dallas, noon St. Louis at Philadelphia, noon Atlanta at N.Y. Giants, noon Buffalo at Detroit, noon Baltimore at Indianapolis, noon Pittsburgh at Jacksonville, noon Arizona at Denver, 3:05 p.m.

Kansas City at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at New England, 7:30 p.m.

Open: Miami, Oakland Monday’s Game Seattle at Washington, 7:30 p.m.

NHL PRESEASON Monday’s Results N.Y. Rangers 6, Philadelphia 3 Detroit 3, Toronto 0 Minnesota 4, Pittsburgh 1 Columbus 3, Nashville 0 Dallas 5, Florida 4 Edmonton 3, Winnipeg 1 Arizona 4, Vancouver 2 Today’s Games N.Y. Islanders at Boston, 6 p.m.

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

Ottawa at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

Carolina at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Colorado at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Los Angeles at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Montreal at Blackhawks, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Arizona at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE WEST DIVISION MAC Overall W L PF PA W L PF PA Toledo 2 0 76 51 3 2 188 178 N. Illinois 0 0 0 0 3 1 140 104 W. Michigan 0 0 0 0 2 2 141 125 E. Michigan 0 0 0 0 1 3 48 183 Cent. Michigan 0 1 28 42 2 3 99 139 Ball St. 0 1 23 34 1 3 86 88 EAST DIVISION MAC W L PF PA Bowling Green 1 0 47 42 Buffalo 1 0 35 27 Ohio 1 0 17 14 Akron 0 0 0 0 Kent St. 0 1 14 17 Miami (Ohio) 0 1 27 35 UMass 0 1 42 47

Overall W L PF PA 3 2 188 218 3 2 169 172 3 2 104 121 2 2 82 79 0 4 40 151 0 5 98 159 0 5 125 200

Saturday’s Results Virginia Tech 35, W. Michigan 17 Akron 21, Pittsburgh 10 Ohio 34, E. Illinois 19 Bowling Green 47, UMass 42 Buffalo 35, Miami (Ohio) 27 Virginia 45, Kent St. 13 Toledo 42, Cent. Michigan 28 Saturday’s Games Kent St. at N. Illinois, 4 p.m.

Ball St. at Army, 11 a.m.

E. Michigan at Akron, 1 p.m.

UMass at Miami (Ohio), 1:30 p.m.

Ohio at Cent. Michigan, 2:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Bowling Green, 2:30 p.m.

Toledo at W. Michigan, 7 p.m.

Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com • Section B • Tuesday, September 30, 2014 •

Looking forward

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Searching for his new normal

SPRINT CUP SERIES 1. Brad Keselowski ............. 3,000 2. Jeff Gordon...................... 3,000 3. Joey Logano .................... 3,000 4. Jimmie Johnson.............. 3,000 5. Kevin Harvick.................. 3,000 6. Matt Kenseth.................. 3,000 7. Denny Hamlin ................. 3,000 8. Kyle Busch ...................... 3,000 9. Ryan Newman ................ 3,000 10. Dale Earnhardt Jr. ........ 3,000 11. Carl Edwards ................. 3,000 12. Kasey Kahne.................. 3,000 13. AJ Allmendinger.............2,077 14. Kurt Busch......................2,073 15. Greg Biffle.......................2,072 16. Aric Almirola .................. 2,061 17. Kyle Larson........................859 18. Clint Bowyer ......................817 19. Jamie McMurray ..............805 20. Paul Menard ......................781 21. Austin Dillon...................... 779 22. Brian Vickers .................... 765 23. Marcos Ambrose ............. 702 24. Martin Truex Jr. ............... 679 25. Casey Mears..................... 653 26. Tony Stewart.................... 639 27. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. .........613 28. Danica Patrick.................. 597 29. Justin Allgaier....................515 30. David Gilliland ..................446 31. Michael Annett ................. 422 32. David Ragan......................409 33. Cole Whitt......................... 401 34. Reed Sorenson................. 395 35. Alex Bowman ................... 345 36. Josh Wise .......................... 343 37. Ryan Truex .........................193 38. Michael McDowell............178 39. Travis Kvapil ......................173 40. Jeff Burton ...........................87 41. Terry Labonte ......................77 42. David Stremme...................75 43. Bobby Labonte................... 54 44. Parker Kligerman............... 54 45. Michael Waltrip ................. 48 46. Juan Pablo Montoya ..........47 47. Alex Kennedy.......................47 48. Dave Blaney........................ 46 49. Brett Moffitt ....................... 44 50. David Reutimann................37

Stewart takes another step in healing process

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KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – Slowly and somberly, Tony Stewart is trying his best to find his new normal.

He might never again be the “Smoke” the racing world knew before Aug. 9, the night a sprint car he was driving struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr. at an upstate New York dirt track.

The three-time NASCAR champion was fiery on the track, so quick-witted he never lost a verbal spat, and a larger-than-life personality throughout the garage.

Stewart, without a doubt, was the heart and soul of NASCAR. Now, some seven weeks after Ward’s death, the driver affectionaly referred to as “The People’s Champion” is struggling to find his footing.

Stewart spent three weeks in seclusion at his Indiana home, and although he returned to racing Aug. 31, he’s been a shell of his former self.

He’s incapable of hiding when he’s having a tough day, he wears his emotions all over his body, and he’s not yet comfortable sliding back into his old, familiar routines.

Stewart loved racing and women and a good practical joke, and now struggles to relax enough to even smile in public.

It made Monday a huge step for Smoke, who held his first news conference since a grand jury decided last week not to charge him in Ward’s death. Aside from a statement he read when he returned to the track at Atlanta and an interview last week with The Associated Press, Stewart had remained silent since Ward’s death.

But he knew avoiding the questions was one of the

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NASCAR driver Tony Stewart listens during a news conference Monday at Stewart-Haas Racing in Kannapolis, N.C. day test with his three SHR teammates.

That’s the normal he needs. Stewart needs to be with his team, needs to be in a race car, needs to return to a routine. After four below-average races in his return, he finally turned a corner Sunday at Dover – his 14th-place finish was his best since the middle of July.

“We’ve still got some work to do,” crew chief Chad Johnston radioed Stewart on the final lap, “(but) P-14 is a far cry from what we’ve had the last couple weeks. So we’ll build on that and go to next week.”

Did a more focused effort have anything to do with the weight of a possible criminal charges being lifted four days earlier? Stewart doesn’t know. He doesn’t think so, but he likely doesn’t realize how miserable he’s looked outside of his race car.

He said both his heart and his head are into his job, but Sunday was the first race in which it showed. He doesn’t think a 14th-place finish is “anything to brag about,” but realizes his wins will come in curious shapes and sizes going forward.

“I think at this point in my career as a driver, when you make that decision to put the helmet on, you have to know in your heart that you’re

IN THE PITS Jenna Fryer many things preventing him from getting on with his life.

So he sat down in front of a sterile gray backdrop at Stewart-Haas Racing wearing jeans, sneakers and a shirt void of any sponsor logos.

He took 29 questions over 36 minutes about his grief, his change in priorities and his future in racing.

He tried twice at small jokes – the room laughed – but Stewart didn’t smile. He can’t grasp what’s appropriate right now, has no idea if anything ever will be the same.

“I honestly think every day, things will get better, and things will get easier.

And I think it will for Kevin’s family, as well. Time heals,” he said. “I don’t know that it will ever be normal again, but (I’ll) find a place to settle into and (I’ll) do the best (I) can.

“Whether I ever get back to [normal] or not, hopefully, through this I will somehow be a better person. That’s all I can hope for.”

When he was done, Stewart exited out the back and headed to nearby Charlotte Motor Speedway for a two-

ready to go, you’re ready to do it,” he said.

Now he must navigate his way back into society, something he’s avoided for seven weeks. He admitted he’s “let my team down” in not being engaged with teammates Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch and Danica Patrick as he’s grieved, and a schedule once so packed with appearances and autograph sessions has been wiped clean.

It’s made time stand still on too many days, and after facing a room full of reporters Monday, he believed he was ready to resume the off-track commitments that come with his job.

“I think that’s another step of making forward progress, getting back to trying to resume what was the best of a normal life before this,” he said.

Nobody knows if he ever will be his old self again.

Everyone hopes a version of the old Smoke will come back, but it also is possible any changes will be for the better.

Although his charity, compassion and generosity rank at the top of NASCAR, Stewart could be prickly, moody and mean. He kept people at arm’s length, made poor personal choices and never seemed capable of finding the happiness he craves.

Perhaps the new Smoke will indeed be different, but in a good way.

“I want to be happy again and find peace,” he said last week in his AP interview.

“It’s easy to get so focused on certain goals in life that you just forget about other things in life that are important – your friends, your family, your relationships. This has put a lot bigger emphasis on things that you’ve not necessarily put a lot of emphasis on in the past.”

• Jenna Fryer is The Associated Press’ auto racing writer.

SPRINT CUP WINNERS 1. Brad Keselowski ......................5 2. Joey Logano.............................4 2. Jeff Gordon...............................4 4. Dale Earnhardt Jr. ..................3 4. Jimmie Johnson.......................3 6. Carl Edwards ...........................2 6. Kevin Harvick...........................2 8. Aric Almirola............................ 1 8. Kasey Kahne ............................ 1 8. Kurt Busch ............................... 1 8. AJ Allmendinger...................... 1 8. Kyle Busch ............................... 1 8. Denny Hamlin.......................... 1 NATIONWIDE SERIES 1. Chase Elliott ..................... 1,034 2. Regan Smith ....................1,008 3. Ty Dillon...............................988

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Aging caregiver must find time for herself Dear Abby: How can I convince my aging, sick sister-in-law that her feeble husband’s care is too much for her at this point? She can barely care for herself, yet she must help him eat, get out of chairs – everything short of chew his food for him. I have tried telling her she deserves respite care of some kind, to no avail.

Have you any ideas how I can convince her she is literally killing herself and deserves some assistance?

Their three daughters are no help at all to them. They turn a blind eye from their parents’ situation. – Relative Who Cares in Ohio Dear Relative: I can think of a few things you might do

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips to help. The first would be to talk to the daughters and explain your concerns for their mother’s health – because if she doesn’t get some respite care, SHE could die before their father does. Be sure to point out that if that happens, their father’s care would become THEIR responsibility.

When they realize the effect it would have on their own lives, it might motivate them to do something.

The second would be to do some research and see what options are available for

part-time caregivers or senior day care centers where her husband would be safe and looked after while your sisterin-law has a few precious hours to herself. The man’s doctor could guide you.

Then have a frank talk with her and explain that for her to be as effective a caregiver as she obviously wants to be, she’s going to have to take better care of herself because the track she’s on right now could cost her her own health or even her life, and that’s no exaggeration.

Dear Abby: I’m a 29-year-old single man who is hard of hearing. I have a steady job and plans for a good future, but I’m having trouble in the dating world.

I would love to have a special someone in my life, but I’m shy. I have a hard time talking with the girls who live in my area. I can hear people pretty well unless they mumble or talk quietly, or face away from me when they speak.

I have asked people to repeat what they say (I try not to do it often) if I missed something. They get frustrated and so do I, and then they say, “Never mind!”

I try so hard to hear people. But it seems the harder I try, the less it seems worth it to find a relationship. Any tips on dealing with impatient and non-understanding people? – Frustrated in Wisconsin

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Dear Frustrated: As people age, many of them encounter the problem you are trying to cope with now at your young age. Hearing loss is difficult because it is often subtle and can be extremely isolating for the person who has it.

My first tip would be to avoid noisy places for meeting women, if you can. My second would be to be upfront about your hearing loss right off the bat. If a woman finds you attractive, she will find ways to accommodate the problem. And if she doesn’t, then she wasn’t the right candidate for a relationship in the first place.

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Survival is Hands-only CPR best for treating cardiac arrest top priority Dear Dr. K: I thought CPR involved chest compressions, breathing into a person’s mouth and checking their pulse. But my daughter told me that the “new” CPR involves only chest compressions. Is this correct?

Dear Reader: That’s right.

Since 2008, the American Heart Association has recommended “hands only” cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if an adult suddenly collapses.

Cardiac arrest is usually to blame when someone collapses and stops breathing. It occurs when the heart’s electrical system malfunctions.

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In contrast, when people faint they also lose consciousness for a brief period, but they don’t stop breathing. You don’t want to perform CPR when someone has fainted, so be sure you have determined if the person is breathing.

If someone goes into cardiac arrest, first call 911, then immediately perform CPR. Place the palm of your non-dominant hand on the center of the person’s chest.

If, like most people, you’re right-handed, you would place the palm of your left hand on

the center of the chest.

Then with the dominant hand (your right hand, in this example), push down forcefully onto the top of your left hand, at about 100 times a minute. Pushing down this way squeezes blood out of the heart and keeps it flowing throughout the body. Every part of that person’s body needs a constant circulation of blood. The brain needs it most: If it doesn’t have a circulation of blood for more than four minutes, brain cells start to die.

In adults with cardiac arrest, this hands-only approach is just as effective – and possibly better – than CPR with rescue breathing. That’s because a person who suddenly collapses has a fair amount of oxygen

in his or her bloodstream and doesn’t need the extra oxygen supplied by rescue breathing.

Stopping compressions for rescue breathing may do more harm than good because it temporarily stops blood flowing to the brain.

All 911 operators are trained to give verbal cues for CPR. You can put your phone on speaker and ask the operator to talk you through the steps. The operator will count out loud to help you administer compressions at about 100 beats per minute.

CPR can be the difference between life and death. It keeps blood circulating until the person’s heart can be shocked back into a normal rhythm with an automated external defibrillator (AED).

Emergency personnel will bring and use an AED. Many public areas have AEDs, which use voice prompts, lights and text messages to guide users (even someone who hasn’t been trained) through the steps.

The AHA, American Red Cross and other organizations offer classes on CPR and using a public defibrillator. You can also learn CPR by using a smartphone app or watching a brief video at www.heart. org/HandsOnlyCPR. It’s worth the time and effort.

Four out of every five cardiac arrests happen at home, so the person you save is likely to be someone you love.

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Teens need parental guidance, not smothering Dr. Wallace: I’m 16 and still not allowed to date or even to go out with my girlfriends in the evenings. In fact, even if I’m just going out with my girlfriends, I have to give my dad a complete itinerary of my plans. I’m a trustworthy and dependable teen, and I understand my dad’s concern for his only daughter, but I think this is ridiculous. He acts like he’s afraid I’m going to have sex every time I walk out the front door, but he and I both know that this is not going to happen!

I really do love my father, but lately, when it comes to my social life, I’m beginning to hate him. I have no social life at all because I’m always

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace stuck at home every weekend watching stupid programs on television. It makes me mad because my 14-year-old brother can come and go as he pleases and he is allowed to stay out until midnight on the weekends. And if I do get to go anywhere I’m grounded if I get home one minute after 9 p.m.

Please don’t say I should have a long talk with my dad because I did this and his only reason was that “Your brother is a boy and you’re a girl.”

I feel like I’m in prison and

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living under a dictator. My mom is no help because she says whatever he says goes.

Can you offer any advice for me? I’d appreciate it. – Nameless, Schererville, Indiana Nameless: Sometimes being an overly strict parent can cause just as much damage as being too lenient. Teens need guidance from wise parents – not excessive smothering.

Talk with a favorite teacher, counselor or the school nurse. Ask this person to speak with your father face to face and encourage him to “lighten up” a bit on his overbearing restrictions and suggest that you be allowed to at least attend a few school

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TODAY – Do your best to get ahead this year. Your creative juices will be flowing, making it important that you have a myriad of projects on the boil. Keeping fit and healthy should be a priority, so that you have the strength to tackle whatever comes your way.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Meet up with someone you want to get to know better. Prepare to make big changes. It’s likely you will be recommended for a promotion or an unusual opportunity.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – You will come out on top if challenged. Not only will you be able to think fast, you will play a critical role in helping someone with a pressing problem.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Engage in a heart-to-heart talk with someone you have an issue with. Be direct to avoid confusion. Don’t let anxiety get the better of you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Persuasiveness will evade you today. Refrain from initiating a partnership. Equality will be difficult to maintain in any relationship you venture into. Go it alone in order to reach your goal.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Don’t engage in personal talks regarding assets or secrets. Your wit and charisma will be entertainment enough. Someone influential will have a profound effect on your future.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Go to great lengths to avoid disputes among your peers. You will ruin a chance for advancement if you take sides. Observe and collect information to help get ahead. Don’t meddle.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – An offhand remark will strain an important relationship. Physical activity will keep you out of trouble. Unexpected delays will turn a happy experience into a headache.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Lending money or picking up the tab will not impress anyone. Pitfalls lie ahead if you fall prey to a fast-talking scam artist who guarantees wealth and prosperity.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Your best option will be listening to and deciphering what’s actually going on around you. Once you have gathered all the information, you will be able to make an informed choice.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – If you pace your actions, you will get a lot done. Don’t hesitate to delegate tasks if you think you are falling behind. A solid effort will help to clinch the deal.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – You will have the power of persuasion working for you, and a beneficial partnership is on the horizon.

Keep some details secret so that you are not left in a vulnerable position.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Remove yourself from the hustle and bustle of everyday routine, and put your worries aside. A day of relaxation or time spent doing something you enjoy will boost your spirits.

functions for fun Many times parents will heed the advice of an intelligent person who is not a family member.

Dr. Wallace: I understand why some people do not enjoy going to class reunions because they weren’t popular when in school and they feel they wouldn’t be popular at a reunion.

I happen to enjoy attending my reunions to “rub it in” to the popular students that I turned out much better than they did. I “float” among them bragging about my many successes. I smile when the “best of the best” became alcoholics, drug abusers, had abortions and

lost their houses when the bank foreclosed because of missed mortgage payments.

And, of course, many had kids who were in trouble with the law.

After my miserable days as a student, I deserve this. – Nameless, Peoria, Illinois Nameless: I’m glad that you enjoy attending class reunions, but I thought the main purpose was to meet and greet old classmates and discuss good times at the high school.

But, you paid your share of necessary reunion expenses and that entitles you to “float and brag.”

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

CROSSWORD

Laurence J. Peter, who was a Canadian educator, said, “If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three.”

We have been looking at deals with two potential trump suits, not three.

By far the best analysis of the subject was written by Albert Morehead for his book, “Morehead on Bidding.” This was updated by Alan Truscott and your Present Author under the title “On Bidding.” It was an easy job because it was such a good book. Sadly, it has been out of print for years, but maybe you can find a copy online.

In today’s deal, the problem is not locating the best trump fit, but landing in a game contract that can be made.

North-South have only one eight-card fit. Five diamonds, though, can be defeated if East establishes his club trick quickly. Then the defenders will take two hearts and one club.

Reaching a 4-3-fit contract is always difficult. Here, South’s three-heart cue-bid asks North to bid three notrump with a heart stopper.

When North cannot oblige, he shows three-card spade support. (With four spades, he would have raised on the previous round.) Then South, with such strong spades, goes with the 4-3 fit, the only game that cannot be defeated.

West leads the heart three.

East takes two tricks in the suit and – best – plays a third round.

Ruffing this trick will be fatal unless the trumps are breaking 3-3. Instead, South discards a club. If East either plays a fourth heart or shifts to the club king, declarer can win, draw trumps and claim.

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DeKALB COUNTY-SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. PLAINTIFF VS GILBERTO CORRAL; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; DEFENDANTS 12CH 191 7916 MINNEGAN ROAD WATERMAN, IL 60556 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on September 20, 2012, DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF in DEKALB County, Illinois, will on November 6, 2014, in 150 N. Main Street, Sycamore, IL 60178, at 1:00 PM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of DEKALB, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: TAX NO. 11-29-200-003 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 7916 MINNEGAN ROAD WATERMAN, IL 60556 Description of Improvements: SINGLE FAMILY HOME WITH DETACHED CAR GARAGE. The Judgment amount was $383,610.12. Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH". The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AF-

FOR SALE ONE GREAT VERSATILE HOME SINGLE FAMILY OR 2 UNIT

TER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1206644 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

I626572 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, September 23, 30 & October 7, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE SHERIFF'S SALE - State of Illinois, County of DeKalb, ss. Circuit Court of DeKalb County, County Department, Chancery Division.

TCF National Bank, Plaintiff, vs.

Paula J. Lofgren a/k/a Paula Lofgren; Wineberry Homeowners' Association; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants., Case No. 14 CH 30.

Public notice is hereby given that, pursuant to a Judgment made and entered by said Court in the above entitled cause, the Sheriff of Dekalb County, Illinois, will on Thursday, November 6, 2014, at the hour of 1:00 p.m., at the Dekalb County Public Safety Building, 150 N. Main Street, Sycamore, Illinois, sell at public auction the following described premises and real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in DeKalb County, Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment, to wit: Improved with: SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCE Commonly known as: 677 BLACKSTONE COURT, DEKALB, IL 60115 Permanent Index No.: 08-03450-018 Sale shall be under the following terms: 10% of the highest bid in the form of cash, cashier's check or certified check at the time of sale and the balance within 24 hrs. in the form of cash, cashier's check or certified check.

The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, any prior first mortgage, 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 in-

ify formation. 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 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).

735 ILCS 5/15 1507.1. Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund. (a) Upon and at the sale of residential real estate under Section 15 1507, the purchaser shall pay to the person conducting the sale pursuant to Section 15 1507 a fee for deposit into the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, a special fund created in the State treasury. The fee shall be calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser to the person conducting the sale, as reflected in the receipt of sale issued to the purchaser, provided that in no event shall the fee exceed $300.

No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lien or acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. Upon confirmation of the sale under Section 15 1508, the person conducting the sale shall remit the fee to the clerk of the court in which the foreclosure case is pending. The clerk shall remit the fee to the State Treasurer as provided in this Section, to be expended for the purposes set forth in Section 7.31 of the Illinois Housing Development Act. 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: David T. Cohen, David T. Cohen & Associates, Ltd., Plaintiff's Attorneys, 10729 W. 159th Street, Orland Park, IL 60467, Tel No. (708) 460-7711.

PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT, YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS LAW FIRM 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, September 23, 30 & October 7, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE

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Nordic Track – Treadmill, 2 years old, excellent cond. $200 815-748-4582

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INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE" W11-4647 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISION The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York as Trustee for the Certificateholders of CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2007-OA7, Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2007OA7; Plaintiff, VS. Robert J. Quimby, Sr., Individually and as Trustee under the provisions of a Trust Agreement dated March 18, 2005 and known as Trust No. 2005-001; Defendants.

Case No. 12 CH 423 Judge Presiding NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to a judgment heretofore entered by the said court occurred in the above entitled cause, Sheriff Roger Scott, Sheriff of DeKalb, Illinois, will on November 6, 2014, at the hour of 01:00 PM at DeKalb County Sheriff`s Office, 150 North Main Street, Sycamore, IL 60178 , sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate in the said judgment mentioned, situated in the County of DeKalb, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy such judgment to wit: C/K/A: 602 West South Street, Kirkland, IL 60146 PIN: 01-26-177-001; 01-26177-002 The person to contact regarding information regarding this property is: Sales Dept., The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 W. Monroe St., Suite 1140, Chicago, IL 60603. Any questions regarding this sale should refer to file number W114647. The terms of the sale are Cash. 10% at time of sale, with the balance due within 24 hours.

The property is improved by: Single Family Home. The Property is not open for inspection prior to sale.

The real estate, together with all buildings and improvements thereon, and tenements, hereditament and appurtenances thereunto belonging shall be sold under such terms.

Russell C. Wirbicki (6186310) Laurence J. Goldstein (0999318) James A. Meece (6256386) Christopher J. Irk (6300084) Thomas J. Cassady (6307705) Daniel J. Gruber (6309148) Joseph S. Davidson (6301581) The Wirbicki Law Group LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 33 W. Monroe St., Suite 1140 Chicago, IL 60603 Phone: 312-360-9455 Fax: 312-572-7823 W11-4647 pleadings.il@wirbickilaw.com

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This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law.

Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD tollfree at 1-800-669-9777. The tollfree telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

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HARLAN C. STRAUSS; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, DEFENDANT 14 CH 54 Address: 709 High Terrace Dekalb, Illinois 60115 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 7, 2014, I, Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois, will on November 13, 2014 at the hour of 1:00 PM at the DeKalb County Public Safety Building, 150 N. Main Street, Sycamore, IL, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb, State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: COMMON ADDRESS: 709 High Terrace, Dekalb, Illinois 60115 P.I.N.: 08-15-326-006 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

THE JUDGMENT AMOUNT WAS: $217,182.88 Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds; the balance, by certified funds, is due within twenty four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to 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 shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which 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 representations as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the Court file to verify all information.

Pursuant to 735 ILCS 5/151512, the amounts of any surplus bid will be held by the sheriff until a party obtains a Court Order for its distribution, or for 60 days following the date of the entry of the order confirming sale, at which time, in the absence of an order directing payment of the surplus, it may be automatically forfeited to the State without further notice.

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 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: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Johnson, Blumberg & Asso-

y: on, rg ciates, LLC, 312-541-9710, telephone. Please refer to file number IL 14 9618.

Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois Johnson, Blumberg, & Associates, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite 1125 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Ph. 312-541-9710 Fax 312-541-9711 JB&A # IL 14 9618 I624342 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, September 30, October 7 & 14, 2014.)

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University Village Apartments Will Open Their Waiting List for 1 and 2 Bedroom Section 8 units, only for an extended period of time. Please note we are only accepting applications for 1 & 2 bedroom units. You can apply in person, at University Village Apartments 722 N. Annie Glidden Road, DeKalb, Il 60115 or call 815-758-7859 for an application.

DEKALB: 2BR Apts.-$625/mo.

Incl. water, garb, Nice Neighborhood.

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GENOA 1 & 2 BEDROOM

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Sycamore E. State St.

$425/mo, no pets. FREE heat.

815-784-5828 Malta upper Lg. 3-4 BR, hrdwd floors, pocket doors, W/D, Strg Rm, deck/yard,avail 10-1 $700/mo+sec 815-761-2259

Newly remodeled 2 Bedroom CALL FOR DETAILS 815-236-4051 ~ 815-923-2521

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Sycamore Upper 2BR $850/mo Lower 1BR or 2BR, $900/mo.

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pe gar ng information regarding this property is: Sales Dept., The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 W. Monroe St., Suite 1140, Chicago, IL 60603. Any questions regarding this sale should refer to file number W114647. The terms of the sale are Cash. 10% at time of sale, with the balance due within 24 hours.

The property is improved by: Single Family Home. The Property is not open for inspection prior to sale.

The real estate, together with all buildings and improvements thereon, and tenements, hereditament and appurtenances thereunto belonging shall be sold under such terms.

Russell C. Wirbicki (6186310) Laurence J. Goldstein (0999318) James A. Meece (6256386) Christopher J. Irk (6300084) Thomas J. Cassady (6307705) Daniel J. Gruber (6309148) Joseph S. Davidson (6301581) The Wirbicki Law Group LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 33 W. Monroe St., Suite 1140 Chicago, IL 60603 Phone: 312-360-9455 Fax: 312-572-7823 W11-4647 pleadings.il@wirbickilaw.com

duals pr ly in possession of the subject premises. 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 YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1206644 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale.

I626572

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, September 30 & October 7 & 14, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DeKALB COUNTY-SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. PLAINTIFF VS GILBERTO CORRAL; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; DEFENDANTS 12CH 191 7916 MINNEGAN ROAD WATERMAN, IL 60556 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on September 20, 2012, DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF in DEKALB County, Illinois, will on November 6, 2014, in 150 N. Main Street, Sycamore, IL 60178, at 1:00 PM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of DEKALB, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 4, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 29; THENCE WESTERLY ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID SECTION 29, A DISTANCE OF 546.55 FEET; THENCE SOUTHERLY AT AN ANGLE OF 90 DEGREES 25 MINUTES MEASURED CLOCKWISE FROM THE LAST DESCRIBED COURSE, A DISTANCE OF 1432.5 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE NORTHWESTERLY LINE OF THE CHICAGO AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY RIGHT OF WAY; THENCE NORTHEASTERLY AT AN ANGLE OF 23 DEGREES 00 MINUTES MEASURED CLOCKWISE FROM THE LAST DESCRIBED COURSE AND ALONG SAID RIGHT OF WAY LINE, A DISTANCE OF 1394.92 FEET MORE OR LESS TO THE EAST LINE OF SAID SECTION 29; THENCE NORTHERLY AT AN ANGLE OF 157 DEGREES 45 MINUTES MEASURED CLOCKWISE FROM THE LAST DESCRIBED COURSE AND ALONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID SECTION 29, A DISTANCE OF 151.74 FEET MORE OR LESS TO POINT OF BEGINNING, IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS. TAX NO. 11-29-200-003 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 7916 MINNEGAN ROAD WATERMAN, IL 60556 Description of Improvements: SINGLE FAMILY HOME WITH DETACHED CAR GARAGE. The Judgment amount was $383,610.12. Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH". The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals present-

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, September 23, 30 & October 7, 2014.)

SHERIFF'S SALE - State of Illinois, County of DeKalb, ss. Circuit Court of DeKalb County, County Department, Chancery Division.

TCF National Bank, Plaintiff, vs.

Paula J. Lofgren a/k/a Paula Lofgren; Wineberry Homeowners' Association; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants., Case No. 14 CH 30.

Public notice is hereby given that, pursuant to a Judgment made and entered by said Court in the above entitled cause, the Sheriff of Dekalb County, Illinois, will on Thursday, November 6, 2014, at the hour of 1:00 p.m., at the Dekalb County Public Safety Building, 150 N. Main Street, Sycamore, Illinois, sell at public auction the following described premises and real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in DeKalb County, Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment, to wit: PARCEL ONE: LOT 27-2 IN WINEBERRY P.U.D. PHASE 2 RESUBDIVISION NO. 1, A RESUBDIVISION OF LOTS 25 AND 27 OF LOT 107 IN WINEBERRY P.U.D. PHASE 2, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MARCH 31, 2004 IN PLAT CABINET #9 AT SLIDE NO. 100-B, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2004005788, IN THE CITY OF DEKALB, DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PARCEL TWO: EASEMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF PARCEL ONE FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS AS CONTAINED IN THE DECLARATION RECORDED AS DOCUMENT NO. 2003007369.

Improved with: SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCE Commonly known as: 677 BLACKSTONE COURT, DEKALB, IL 60115 Permanent Index No.: 08-03450-018 Sale shall be under the following terms: 10% of the highest bid in the form of cash, cashier's check or certified check at the time of sale and the balance within 24 hrs. in the form of cash, cashier's check or certified check.

The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, any prior first mortgage, 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 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).

735 ILCS 5/15 1507.1. Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund. (a) Upon and at the sale of residential real estate under Section 15 1507, the purchaser shall pay to the person conducting the sale pursuant to Section 15 1507 a fee for deposit into the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, a special fund created in the State treasury. The fee shall be calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser to the person conducting the sale, as reflected in the receipt of sale issued to the purchaser, provided that in

pur prov no event shall the fee exceed $300.

No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lien or acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. Upon confirmation of the sale under Section 15 1508, the person conducting the sale shall remit the fee to the clerk of the court in which the foreclosure case is pending. The clerk shall remit the fee to the State Treasurer as provided in this Section, to be expended for the purposes set forth in Section 7.31 of the Illinois Housing Development Act. 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: David T. Cohen, David T. Cohen & Associates, Ltd., Plaintiff's Attorneys, 10729 W. 159th Street, Orland Park, IL 60467, Tel No. (708) 460-7711.

PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT, YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THIS LAW FIRM 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, September 23, 30 & October 7, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION ("FANNIE MAE"), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PLAINTIFF vs.

HARLAN C. STRAUSS; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, DEFENDANT 14 CH 54 Address: 709 High Terrace Dekalb, Illinois 60115 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 7, 2014, I, Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois, will on November 13, 2014 at the hour of 1:00 PM at the DeKalb County Public Safety Building, 150 N. Main Street, Sycamore, IL, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb, State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 5 IN SECOND ADDITION TO COLLEGE VIEW, A SUBDIVISION OF A PART OF OUT LOT "B" OF GARDEN PLACE ADDITION TO THE CITY OF DEKALB, AS PER THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN THE RECORDER'S OFFICE OF DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS ON JUNE 11, 1957 IN PLAT BOOK "J", PAGE 62, AS DOCUMENT NO. 286923, SITUATED IN THE CITY OF DEKALB, COUNTY OF DEKALB AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. COMMON ADDRESS: 709 High Terrace, Dekalb, Illinois 60115 P.I.N.: 08-15-326-006 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

THE JUDGMENT AMOUNT WAS: $217,182.88 Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds; the balance, by certified funds, is due within twenty four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to 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 shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which 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 representations as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the Court file to verify all information.

Pursuant to 735 ILCS 5/151512, the amounts of any surplus bid will be held by the sheriff until a party obtains a Court Order for its distribution, or for 60 days following the date of the entry of the order confirming sale, at which time, in the absence of an order directing payment of the surplus, it may be automatically forfeited to the State without further notice.

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 YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE

(HOMEO ), 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: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Johnson, Blumberg & Associates, LLC, 312-541-9710, telephone. Please refer to file number IL 14 9618.

Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois Johnson, Blumberg, & Associates, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite 1125 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Ph. 312-541-9710 Fax 312-541-9711 JB&A # IL 14 9618 I624342

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