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Kish, new president reach accord Laurie Borowicz’s contract with community college starts Jan. 11 By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN bkeeperman@shawmedia.com MALTA – Laurie Borowicz will begin her tenure as Kishwaukee Community College’s fifth president with a threeyear contract and an annual salary of $175,000, records show. Borowicz’s contract, which has been approved by the college’s Board of Trust-
ees, begins Jan. 11, a week well] and has before second-semester classexperience in es begin. The contract will the classroom,” end June 30, 2019. Borowicz he said. “Kishreplaces Tom Choice, who waukee is like announced plans to retire in a family, and June. Choice’s last day will they wanted Laurie be Dec. 31. someone that Borowicz was the ideal Borowicz fit that model.” candidate for the job, board Borowicz Chairman Bob Johnson said. currently is the vice presi“Campuses always want dent of student services for someone [who communicates Northcentral Technical Col-
lege in Wausau, Wisconsin. Under her contract, KCC will pay Borowicz $1,500 a month for six months as a temporary housing allowance so she can live in the area while she relocates. The college will also reimburse her for moving expenses. Johnson said that the process of choosing a new president was elaborate. The board hired the association of
community college trustees to create a profile of the ideal candidate based on what people on campus said they wanted from their future president. More than 50 people applied and the board narrowed the choice down to four finalists through the process of interviews, campus tours and taking into account comments and feedback from
faculty, support staff and students. Kishwaukee Community College is a two-year school that offers more than 70 occupational degrees and certificates along with five transfer degrees. It employs more than 400 people with a student body of more than 9,000. In fiscal 2016, its budget was
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THE RECOVERY OF ETHAN MENGES
Taliban insurgency grows in Afghanistan By LYNNE O’DONNELL The Associated Press
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Ethan Menges smiles while sitting in his sister Brittney Menges’ Rockford living room Dec. 14 as he recounts how he proposed to his fiancée Jordon Mathieu. Menges moved in with his sister the day before. Menges had all four of his limbs amputated in September after a life-threatening battle with a virus that spread to his bloodstream and put him in a coma after collapsing Jan. 22.
Creating the future Former G-K athlete moving toward goals after amputations By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN bkeeperman@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Ethan Menges went home for the first time in more than a year this month, after spending months in and out of surgeries and rehabilitation after the amputation of all four of his limbs. Now, the 2010 Genoa-Kingston High School alumnus has returned to the area – he is staying with his sister, Brittney Menges, in Rockford – and said he is working to stay positive as he struggles with independence and daily tasks such as showering, brushing his teeth and cooking. Simple tasks such as opening a piece of mail
can take up to 15 minutes, he said. It can be a particular mental challenge, since the man was an athlete in his high school days. He ran track, played baseball and was the co-captain of the varsity basketball and football teams. “Little things take a substantial amount of time,” he said. “Frustration can build quickly over those small things.” It started last year when Menges developed a viral infection that quickly spread. He was in a coma for a week and no one knew if he would survive. After lying in the hospital for a week, he developed bed sores and
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Brittney Menges, Ethan Menges’ sister, puts together an adaptation device made from PVC pipe they ordered online that helps Ethan put on his shorts by himself Dec. 14 in her Rockford home.
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KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide attacker rammed an explosives-laden motorcycle into a joint NATO-Afghan patrol Monday, killing six American troops in the deadliest attack on international forces since August. Two U.S. troops and an Afghan were wounded. The soldiers were targeted as they moved through a village near Bagram Airfield, the largest U.S. military facility in Afghanistan, NATO and Afghani officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility. A U.S. official confirmed that six American troops were killed and two wounded. An Afghan was also wounded. The official was not authorized to discuss the incident publicly so spoke on condition of anonymity. “Our heartfelt sympathies go out to the families and friends of those affected in this tragic incident, especially during this holiday season,” U.S. Army Brig. Gen. William Shoffner, head of public affairs at NATO’s Resolute Support base in the Afghan capital Kabul, said in a statement. In New York, Police Commissioner William Bratton said Monday that a New York City police detective, Joseph Lemm, was one of the six Americans killed in the attack. Lemm was a 15-year veteran of the New York Police Department and worked in the Bronx Warrant Squad. Bratton said Lemm served in the U.S. National Guard and, while a member of the police force, he had been deployed twice to Afghanistan and once to Iraq. He leaves behind a wife and three children. In Washington, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the nation’s thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families and their loved ones, and that the U.S. will continue to work jointly with Afghans to promote peace and stability in their country. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in statement called the attack “a painful reminder of the dangers our troops face every day in Afghanistan.” It was the deadliest attack on foreign troops in four months. On Aug. 22, three American contractors with the RS base were killed in a suicide attack in Kabul.
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Miss Universe show, host apologize for crowning wrong woman winner The Associated Press NEW YORK – The Miss Universe pageant and host Steve Harvey doubled down on the apologies Monday after an excruciating live television moment – announcing incorrectly that Miss Colombia had won and then taking the crown from her head to give to a rival from the Philippines. The fallout from Sunday’s show made Harvey an online symbol of “oops” moments, drew a reaction from Colombia’s president and even a gloating tweet from Donald Trump, the pageant’s former owner. As televised on Fox, the contest was down to Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo of Colombia and Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines when Harvey, a first-time Miss Universe host, proclaimed Gutierrez the winner after a long dramatic pause. Music swelled, Gutierrez was fitted for a sash, given flowers and a crown was placed on her head. That made it two straight Miss Universe winners for Colom-
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Steve Harvey holds up the card showing the winners after he incorrectly announced Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez at the winner at the Miss Universe pageant Sunday in Las Vegas. bia, where the pageants are taken seriously. She bathed in applause for nearly two minutes before Harvey slowly made his way back onto the stage. “I have to apologize,” he said. “The first runner-up is Colombia.” The camera switched to a bewildered-looking Wurtzbach, who came back on the stage to get the crown as the same celebratory music repeated. Harvey said she’d be taking her first walk as
Miss Universe, but mostly she stood immobile. A woman stood in between the two contestants, trying to comfort Gutierrez by rubbing her back. Two minutes later, the comedian who hosts his own daytime talk show as well as the game show “Family Feud” returned, saying “let me just take control of this.” Harvey explained on the air that he misread the card he was given with the names of the winners. Colombia was
listed as the first runner-up, and he’d been confused with how it was written. He held up the card for the camera. “It is my mistake,” he said. “Still, it’s a great night. Please don’t hold it against the ladies. We feel very badly, but it’s still a great night.” Harvey later tweeted an apology to the women and viewers. “I feel terrible,” he wrote. The Miss Universe organization also issued an apology Monday. Wurtzbach later said she was happy to win, but confused and concerned for her rival. She said she tried to approach her backstage, but the Colombian contestant was crying and surrounded by a crowd of women. “I did not take the crown from her,” Wurtzbach said. Celebrations quickly turned to anger in Colombia, where the hashtag “Respect the Crown” was the country’s top trending topic on Twitter. Even the president was upset. “They put the crown on her head,” President Juan Manuel Santos said Monday. “The photos are there to prove it. To me, as a Colombian, she is still Miss Universe.”
Vegas suspect: She’s stressed living in car By SALLY HO and KEN RITTER The Associated Press LAS VEGAS – A homeless woman accused of slamming a car carrying her 3-year-old daughter into a crowd of pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip told authorities she was stressed out after being chased by security guards from parking lots where she had been trying to sleep before the crash, according to a police report obtained Monday. Lakeisha N. Holloway, 24, resided in Oregon and had been in Las Vegas for about a week in her 1996 Oldsmobile sedan, parking it at garages throughout the city, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said. After her arrest, Holloway “described a stressful period today where she was trying to rest/sleep inside her vehicle with her daughter but kept getting run off by security of the properties she stopped at,” the police report states. “She ended up on the Strip, ‘a place she did not want to be,’ ” the report quoted her as saying. “She would not explain why she drove onto the
sidewalk but remembered a body bouncing off her windshield, breaking it.” Investigators said Holloway had run out of money and she and her daughter had been living in the car. Police believe she was headed to Dallas to find her daughter’s father after they had a falling out. Holloway is accused of intentionally mowing down people on a Lakeisha N. busy stretch of Las Vegas BouHolloway levard, killing a woman from Arizona and injuring dozens of others on Sunday night. After the crash, she parked at a casino a few blocks away, told a parking attendant that she had run down people and asked the valet to call 911, Lombardo said. Her daughter, who was in the backseat, was not hurt. The sheriff said Holloway was stoic when police arrived, showed no resistance and spoke coherently about what happened. He declined to elaborate on what she said. “She didn’t appear to be
distressed due to her actions. That’s the best way I can describe it,” Lombardo said. Authorities declined to comment on a potential motive and said they were struggling to piece together Holloway’s background. She had changed her name to Paris Paradise Morton in October, according to Oregon court records. Several years ago, Holloway, a graduate of an alternative high school, received an award for overcoming adversity from the nonprofit Portland Opportunities Industrial Center. In 2012, she told The Skanner, a newspaper that covers Portland’s African-American community, that she was homeless during her freshman year in high school. Holloway’s cousin, Lashay Hardaway, told The Oregonian that Holloway worked hard to provide for her daughter. The crash happened in front of the Paris and Planet Hollywood casino-hotels and across from dancing water fountains of the Bellagio hotel-casino. Droves of visitors to the stretch walk from one
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FDA eases restrictions on blood donations from gay men By MATTHEW PERRONE The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The nation’s three-decade-old ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men was formally lifted Monday, but major restrictions will continue to limit who can give blood. The Food and Drug Administration said it is replacing the lifetime ban with a new policy barring donations from men who have had sex with a man in the previous year. While the one-year ban has been criticized by activ-
ists it matches policies in other countries, including Australia, Japan and the U.K. Gay rights activists said the new policy is a “step in the right direction,” but falls short. “It continues to stigmatize gay and bisexual men,” said David Stacy, of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest U.S. gay rights group. “It simply cannot be justified in light of current scientific research and updated blood screening technology.” Monday’s policy shift was first proposed in late 2014
and follows years of lobbying by medical groups and gay rights groups, who said the previous ban was outdated and perpetuated negative stereotypes. Dr. Peter Marks of the FDA said the change is “backed by sound scientific evidence” and will “continue to protect our blood supply.” The FDA considered eliminating all restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, but concluded that would increase the transmission of HIV through the blood supply by 400 per-
cent. “An increase of that magnitude is not acceptable,” Marks told reporters. All U.S. blood donations are screened for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. But there is a roughly 10-day window between initial infection and when the virus can be detected by current testing techniques. The American Red Cross estimates the risk of getting an HIV-positive blood donation is 1 in 1.5 million for all U.S. patients. About 15.7 million blood donations are collected in the
U.S. each year. The lifetime ban was put in place during the early years of the AIDS crisis and was intended to protect the blood supply from what was then a little-understood disease. The FDA concluded that moving to a one-year abstinence requirement would not change the safety of U.S. blood donations, based primarily on data from Australia. That country has had a one-year rule for active gay and bisexual men for over 10 years.
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Sycamore approves property tax levy and four abatements By KATIE SMITH ksmith@shawmedia.com
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Volunteer John Challand (right) puts cranberry sauce in a bag for volunteers Sydney Alger (center), 13, and sister Martine Alger (left), 17, as clients pick up food baskets Monday at the St. Vincent de Paul food bank at St. Mary in DeKalb.
DeKalb-area families get special holiday baskets
Society of St. Vincent de Paul provides Christmas dinner By RHONDA GILLESPIE rgillespie@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Tonya Patton may not know what her three children will have underneath the Christmas tree this year, but because of a special holiday food giveaway, she is sure there will be food on the family’s table. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul usually opens the doors to its food pantry every Tuesday. But Monday, 175 DeKalb-area families were able to pick up a turkey, a box of other food items for fixings, along with a bag of fresh potatoes as the organization hosted its ninth annual Christmas Basket program. “It means a lot,” Patton, 34, said of the bundle of food she picked up. “Otherwise, my kids wouldn’t have a Christmas dinner.” Her children range in age from 7 to 11. Ursula Sullivan said St. Vincent de Paul collected money for weeks to purchase food from the Northern Illinois Food Bank for Monday’s event. The area parishes of St. Mary Catholic Church in DeKalb, St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Sycamore and the Newman Catholic Student Center at Northern Illinois University contributed both financially and with volunteers.
SYCAMORE – The Sycamore City Council on Monday unanimously voted in favor of four debt service levy abatements and a property tax levy that will increase the average homeowner’s city tax bill between $15 and $22 next year, The property tax levy amounts to $2,777,800 in addition to a Sycamore Public Library levy of about $1,020,300. The proposed $3 million corporate levy would result in a tax rate of about 78 cents per $100 equalized assessed value, city documents show. After reviewing five options at the last meeting, council members preferred a levy plan that would keep the amount the city collects for general operations steady at $1.4 million, while increasing its contribution to police and firefighter pension funds by $126,200 to about $1 million. “I think we’ve done a good job over time to help
to keep the levy down and control taxes and keep them balanced between sales and use-type taxes and fees, verses property taxes,” 1st Ward Alderman Alan Bauer said. The council also approved to abate the 2003, 2007, 2009, and 2012 bond issues. The levied amounts for the 2003, 2009 and 2012 bond series will be abated in their entirely, while about $43,000 of the 2007 levy of roughKen Mundy ly $198,000 will Sycamore be abated. The mayor debt service will be paid from the 2007 bond fund, which receives most of its money from a general fund transfer, city documents show. “The abatement process is pretty automatic here anymore, but it’s not to be taken lightly because these are hundreds of thousands of dollars that won’t be in the tax levy, because we have
other revenue sources to deal with this debt service,” Mayor Ken Mundy said. The debt service for the 2012 bond issue will be paid by the 2012 bond proceeds fund, which gets most of its money from general, capital, and motor fuel tax fund transfers, city documents show. This abatement alone will save more than $50,000 of taxpayers’ money, City Manager Brian Gregory said. Most of the remaining debt service for the 2003 bond issue was refunded in January 2013 through proceeds from the 2012 refunding bond issue, city documents show. The remaining levy of $5,420 was abated in its entirety and will be paid from the 2003 bond fund, which receives its money from capital fund transfers. The $275,075 levy of 2009 was also abated in its entirety, with plans to pay debt service from the 2009 bond fund, which gets a majority of its money from sales tax, city documents show.
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Confirmation students Raphael Saltigerald (right), 13, and Torrance Sharp (left), 13, help put food into Shameka Mays’ van Monday outside the St. Vincent de Paul food bank at St. Mary in DeKalb. The recipients flowed through the cafeteria of St. Mary Church, on Fisk Avenue in DeKalb, where the food was distributed. Families who received baskets yesterday can also come back to the regular pantry event today. “This is a little something extra special,” Sullivan said, “so that they have Christmas dinner.” Sullivan, the Christmas Basket program coordinator, said the faith organization hosts the extra giveaway to help to make sure that DeKalb area families have a special holiday meal. There were 175 families expected to get food. Additionally, 359 children in the participating families each
got $15 Target gift cards. Terry Berg runs the regular weekly food pantry. She said the extra holiday giveaway is usually well received and appreciated by the families who get food. “They look forward to this. It eases their stress over the holiday, just to know that they are going to have (food) for a big dinner on Christmas Day,” said Berg. Berg added that the annual distribution is a tribute to St. Vincent de Paul, the patron saint of charity. “We stand for charity, for helping the poor, and for lifting people up,” she said. “We want them to know that we are here for them, and we’re happy that we can do it.”
SUGAR GROVE – The Kaneland School District 302 Board will meet at 7 p.m. Dec. 29 at Kaneland Harter Middle School in Sugar Grove to vote on a new four-year contract with the Kaneland Education Association. Harter Middle School is at 1601 Esker Drive in Sugar Grove. Last week, both sides announced in a news release that a tentative agreement
was reached between the school board and the organization that represents the district’s teachers. KEA members have ratified the agreement. The release indicated that the terms of the agreement would not be available until ratification by the KEA and school board was complete. Negotiations took place for months, and – in November – KEA members had voted “in favor of moving forward with an intent to strike.” Teachers recently had staged informa-
tional picketing sessions, and KEA members had appeared to speak during the public comment portion of school board meetings to urge board members to come to an agreement. In last week’s news release, both sides stated that the board and KEA “worked hard to develop an agreement that meets the needs of our teachers, students and community without a disruption to the school year. We look forward to working together moving forward.”
1 firefighter injured fighting Sandwich plastics factory fire By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN bkeeperman@shawmedia.com SANDWICH – A fire that destroyed Gord Industrial Plastics in Sandwich last week also injured a Sandwich firefighter and took 10 different departments 16 hours to put out. The fire began around 10 p.m. Wednesday night, and firefighters didn’t extinguish the blaze until Thursday afternoon, according to Sandwich Fire Chief Don Rimgale. “It was a steel building,” he said. “It was like an oven. So there was a fire in an oven that contained nothing but plastic
and wood enough to keep it burning for days.” The fire sparked in the northeast corner of the about 50,000 square-foot building, located at 1310 E. Sixth St., Sandwich. The cause of the fire and whether or not foul play is suspected have not been determined yet, Rimgale said. “We’re still working in conjunction with the state fire marshal and the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives,” he said. “This is going to take some time.” Five employees were inside the building when the fire
started and two were taken to a hospital with injuries. A Sandwich firefighter was also injured, with a suspected torn knee ligament, Rimgale said. The building was a total loss. “I don’t have a damage estimate yet, but I know it’s going to be big,” he said. Sycamore, Hinckley, Big Rock, Somonauk, Crystal-Kendall County, Little Rock-Fox, Montgomery, Oswego, Plainfield and Sugar Grove assisted in fighting the blaze. Rimgale said that between 60 and 80 firefighters helped in the effort.
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Texas man charged in wife’s 1973 death in Illinois hospital The ASSOCIATED PRESS ROLLING MEADOWS– A Houston-area man charged last week with killing his 19-yearold wife more than 40 years ago in suburban Chicago is being held without bond while he is hospitalized in Illinois. Donnie Rudd, 73, didn’t appear in court Monday because he is being treated at a suburban Chicago hospital for a bacterial skin infection, defense attorney Tim Grace said. A new bond hearing has been scheduled for Thursday. Rudd, a former lawyer who was disbarred for dishonesty in 1994, was arrested last week at his apartment in Sugar Land, Texas, on charges he killed Noreen Kumeta Rudd. Noreen Rudd was reported killed in a car accident in Barrington Township in 1973, less than a month after they were married. Police responding to the scene found Donnie Rudd cradling his wife’s head inside the vehicle, prosecutor Maria McCarthy said. Authorities now believe Donnie Rudd killed her by hitting her on the head and staged the accident to cover up her murder. McCarthy said an officer who tried to help Noreen Rudd at the scene of the crash found a large hole in her head. She said Donnie Rudd told
authorities a vehicle had pulled into his lane and he swerved to avoid an accident. He said Noreen Rudd was thrown from the car after it left the roadway and must have hit her head on a rock that was found nearby, smeared with blood, McCarthy said. No autopsy was conducted, but a coroner’s inquest determined she died as a result of the crash. Grace said Monday the charges are “unjustified.� “Sometimes bad things happen and no one’s at fault,� Grace said. “That’s our position of what happened here.� Noreen Rudd’s body was exhumed in 2013 and an autopsy conducted. McCarthy said authorities determined her injuries were consistent with multiple blows to the head, and inconsistent with being thrown from a vehicle. Three years ago, police in Arlington Heights, Illinois, started reinvestigating a separate death of a woman who was shot in the head in 1991. They questioned Donnie Rudd as part of that case, authorities said Monday. They said they questioned Donnie Rudd about Noreen Rudd’s death during those conversations, and that inconsistencies in his statements led them to have the remains exhumed.
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ROCKFORD – An indoor water park in northern Illinois is still closed months after a health department found health and safety violations. The Rockford Register Star reports the Winnebago County Health Department closed CoCo Key at the Clock Tower Resort in
August. The health department found pools with too little chlorine, a lack of certified pool operators and other problems. Steve Hsu is president of Texas-based Beltway Hospitality, which manages the hotel and waterpark. He said the company is addressing the health and safety violations. – The Associated Press
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State switches from ACT to SAT The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO – The state of Illinois will stop giving the ACT college entrance exam and instead has contracted to give high school juniors the rival SAT, according to state records. The company that offers the ACT has filed a protest with the state seeking to cancel Illinois’ new contract with the College Board, which offers the SAT, the Chicago Tribune reported. The threeyear contract is worth $14.3 million, state records show. Illinois has given the ACT for free to 11th graders for 15 years. A new law took effect in Illinois this past summer requiring a college entrance exam be included in the state test-
ing cycle. The state’s ACT contract ended by that time and the state launched a competitive process for a new contract, which state records show the SAT won with a proposal that was $1.37 million less than the ACT over three years. The College Board said in a statement that more Illinois students would benefit from taking the SAT. In response to the SAT contract, the ACT filed a protest on Dec. 15 with state procurement officials. Those officials say several outcomes of the protest are possible, including the state restarting the competitive process. ACT spokesman Ed Colby said the company is “analyzing the submitted proposals and working within the process dictated by procurement require-
ments.� Meanwhile a state budget impasse in Illinois means there is no budget for statewide college testing. That led to dozens of districts earlier this school year signing up for ACT testing, some at their own cost. The College Board also has been working with some Illinois school districts that would like to give the SAT this spring. That means schools across Illinois could be offering the SAT, the ACT or both. The graduating class of 2015 in Illinois had 157,047 students from public and private high school take the ACT. That’s compared with fewer than 6,000 students who graduated high school in 2015 in Illinois who took the SAT.
Prosecutor: No indictment in woman’s jail death By MICHAEL GRACZYK The Associated Press HEMPSTEAD, Texas – A grand jury decided on Monday that no felony crime was committed by the sheriff’s office or jailers in the treatment of a black woman who died in a Southeast Texas county jail last summer. But prosecutor Darrell Jordan said the Waller County grand jury reached no decision on whether the trooper who arrested 28-year-old Sandra Bland should face charges. The grand jury will return in January to consider that issue. The Chicago-area woman was pulled over July 10 by a Texas state trooper for making an improper lane change. Dashcam video showed their interaction quickly became confrontational and she was arrested for assault. Bland was taken in handcuffs to the county jail in nearby Hempstead, about 50 miles northwest of Houston, and remained there when she couldn’t raise about $500 for bail. She was discovered dead in her jail cell three days later, hanging from a cell partition with a plastic garbage bag used as a ligature around her neck. Bland’s relatives, along with supporters fueled by social media postings, questioned a medical examiner’s finding that Bland killed herself. Cannon Lambert, an attorney representing Bland’s family, said Monday the deci-
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Cannon Lambert Sr. (left), attorney for Sandra Bland’s family, speaks at a news conference Monday in Chicago. Bland’s family said they have no faith in a grand jury that’s considering criminal indictments in her death in a Texas jail last summer. The family criticized the grand jury proceedings in Waller County, Texas. Lambert talks to reporters as Bland’s sisters (standing from left) Shante Needham, Sharon Bland, and Sierra Cole join mother Geneva Reed-Veal (center) and sister Sharon Cooper. sion is consistent with what the family believes has so far been an attempt by authorities to cover up the events after Bland’s arrest. “They continue to do things we are disappointed in,� he said. Bland’s mother and sisters spoke at a news conference in Chicago before Monday night’s announcement, where they said they had no faith in the grand jury. Bland’s mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, said she wants to see all the evidence and is frustrated by delays in the case. Attorney Larry Rogers acknowledged grand juries usually meet in secret, but
said the process “screams of a cover-up.� He said lawyers haven’t been able to examine a Texas Rangers report on the incident because it’s grand jury evidence. In the days after her death, county authorities released video from the jail to dispel rumors and conspiracy theories that Bland was dead before she arrived at the jail or was killed while in custody. County officials said they themselves received death threats. Her arrest and death came amid heightened national scrutiny of police and their dealings with black suspects, especially those killed by of-
ficers or who died in police custody. “After presenting all the evidence as it relates to the death of Sandra Bland, the grand jury did not return an indictment,� Jordan said after the grand jury met Monday for about 11 hours. “The grand jury also considered things that occurred at the jail and did not return an indictment.� Jordan is one of five special prosecutors appointed by the county’s district attorney, Elton Mathis. “Having an independent committee to evaluate the case, that can be a positive thing in a situation like this,� Brian Serr, a law professor at Baylor University said. Among evidence presented in the secret grand jury proceedings were the findings of a Texas Rangers’ investigation. “There’s nothing in there that shows anything happened but she killed herself,� Mathis had said. Lambert said late Monday he believes prosecutors’ decision to have the grand jury return in January is another attempt to delay releasing the report. He said he expects to ask a federal judge to compel Texas authorities to turn over the document. Bland’s sister didn’t immediately respond to a phone message requesting comment on the grand jury’s decision, and Reed-Veal couldn’t be reached for comment late Monday.
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Regime change debate creating odd 2016 alliances publicans want to topple Assad.” The Syrian president is a “bad man,” he added, but so too was Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, whom the U.S. helped overthrow in 2011. And Cruz noted that Gadhafi and former Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak assisted the U.S. “in fighting terrorists.” Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, echoed that sentiment in Saturday’s Democratic debate, saying it is “relatively easy for a powerful nation like America to overthrow a dictator.” What is very hard, he said, is “to predict the unintended consequences and the turmoil and the instability that follows after you overthrow that dictator.” Much of the campaign discussion centers on Assad, who has presided over a nearly five-year civil war that’s left at least 250,000 thousand people dead, spurred the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II and created a vacuum allowing Islamic State militants to seize territory throughout Syria and neighboring Iraq. To some candidates in both parties, those are reasons enough to help groups on the ground in Syria remove the country’s embattled leader from power. Rubio, in an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday, said the argument that the U.S. has no vested interest in Assad is wrong. “Why are there hundreds of thousands of refugees destabilizing Europe, tens of thousands trying to come to America?” asked Rubio, a Florida senator.
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Continued from page A1 his arms and legs had to be amputated because no blood was flowing to them. Now he uses prosthetic limbs and has many goals. “I want to be able to stand at my wedding,” Menges said. “And I want to be mobile enough on my legs that I can have some quality dances with my future wife.” Menges proposed to his now-fiancée Jordon Mathieu while he was still in the hos-
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WASHINGTON – America’s 2016 presidential candidates are split on promoting regime change in the Middle East, but not along the usual party lines. GOP contenders Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are finding common cause with Democrats Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley in suggesting it’s better to keep authoritarian leaders – including Syria’s Bashar Assad – in power as a bulwark against extremism. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is aligned with Republican contenders Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Chris Christie in casting Assad’s ouster as key to defeating the Islamic State. The divide reflects a nation still grappling with its role in the world after President George W. Bush’s eight years in office, when regime change was at the center of U.S. foreign policy, and trying to decide how best to combat the rising threat posed by IS. The twisted alliances among the candidates raise the prospect of a political role-reversal in the general election, in which the Democratic nominee could be more hawkish than the Republican. Cruz is among the most vocal in challenging the idea that the U.S. should depose dictators – or support others’ efforts to do so – to fight extremists in the Muslim world. “We need to learn from history,” Cruz said in last week’s Republican debate. “Obama, Clinton and far too many Re-
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By KATIE SMITH ksmith@shawmedia.com DeKALB – A chain of rehabilitation and fitness centers has opened a new location where DeKalb residents can take their aches and pains. Athletico Physical Therapy opened Dec. 8 in a 3,900-square-foot space at 2237 Sycamore Road in DeKalb. The center offers a free 30-minute screening for anyone who suspects they might benefit from working with a physical therapist. Services include personalized treatment plans for issues such as back and neck pain, sports-related injuries, muscle strains and sprains, and joint and replacement therapy, physical therapist and facility manager David Kolzow said. “I can treat a vast majority of diagnoses, but I have specialized training with dealing with the endurance populations like runners, as well as overhead athletes like baseball and volleyball players,” Kolzow said. In Illinois, physical therapy must be prescribed by a doctor. Athletico accepts all major insurance providers, excluding Medicaid. From there, Athletico staff members will develop a personalized treatment plan for each patient, Kolzow said. “Their first appointment is a formal evalu-
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ation of any biomechanical deficiencies they may have,” he said. A patient could be asked to perform a number of exercises while Kolzow watches for symptoms such as muscle weakness, compromised balance and joint issues, he said. Although Athletico has 330 locations in more than nine states, the management at DeKalb’s facility was trained locally. Kolzow has lived in Sycamore for the past seven years and received his training from Northern Illinois University’s undergraduate and graduate programs. “As an alumnus of NIU and resident of Sycamore, I am eager to foster patient relationships and work with each patient to achieve their individual goals,” Kolzow said. “AthKatie Smith – ksmith@shawmedia.com letico has extreme focus on quality customer David W. Kolzow is a physical therapist and facility manager at Athletico Physical Therapy, 2337 Sycamore service, and an ethical business culture that will be practiced at the DeKalb location.” Road, in DeKalb.
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AT&T awards community foundation DAILY CHRONICLE The DeKalb County Community Foundation won an AT&T Investing in Illinois Award for its nonprofit work. The foundation received $5,000 from AT&T to be distributed to the DeKalb County Long Term Recovery Corp. through its DeKalb County Disaster Recovery Fund. The DCLTRC provides direct assistance to the Fairdale community recovering from an F4 tornado in April. “There are great nonprofit organizations improving lives in Illinois. By supporting these organizations, we’re strengthening the communities we serve,” Jaci Kator, AT&T external affairs manager, said in a news release. State Rep. Bob Pritchard nominated DeKalb County Community Foundation for the recognition. The AT&T awards provide resources and recognition to organizations and programs that improve lives in their communities and the state. “We appreciate the financial support of partners like AT&T and many others who have responded to the needs of the Fairdale area,” DCCF Executive Director Dan Templin said in the release.
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The Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce would like to wish you a spectacular holiday season. We are grateful for our supportive business and community members who continue to invest in and support Genoa and all of DeKalb County. A special thank you to everyone that came out Dec. 4 to help “Celebrate the Season” in downtown Genoa. It was a wonderful evening welcoming Santa to town. Our annual community tree-lighting ceremony was extra special this year. Mayor Mark Vicary proudly counted down as a record-breaking crowd gathered and watched the newly lit tree come to life. Adding to the festivities this year was music coming from the newly placed speakers in downtown Genoa. Santa gave gifts to all of our contest winners. Congratulations to all of our coloring contest winners, Alec Johnson (kindergarten), Veronica Young (first grade), Abby Henry (second grade), Amelia Wellman (third grade), Faith Thompson (fourth grade), and Lilly Mueller (fifth grade). The Merry Main Street Award for the best decorated business went to the Corner Grill on Main. The
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The Genoa chamber could not put on these community events without our fantastic sponsors. Gingerbread House contest sponsored by Latsis Bakery was won by Jack Johnson. Thank you to all of our contest participants. The Genoa chamber could not put on these community events without our fantastic sponsors. Thank you to all of our Celebrate the Season sponsors: KishHealth System, Custom Aluminum, Heartland Bank, NB&T, 3 Roses Realty, Stephen Alan Salon, Hills Tap, Sycamore Precision, Walnut Street Day Care, Prairie State Winery, G.K. Trailblazers and our media sponsors WLBK and WSQR radio. Thank you for your investment in our community. It is an exciting time to be a member of the Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce.
We are always creating new connection and promotional opportunities to help our member businesses and community succeed and grow, including space to advertise on the Chamber website, business referrals, monthly networking opportunities, and continuing education. Mark your calendars for March 5. Our Annual Home and Business Expo is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Genoa-Kingston High School, 980 Park Ave., Genoa. The Home and Business Expo is fun for the whole family … rain or shine. Visit our website at any time for more information on any of our upcoming events or on becoming a Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce Member, www. genoaareachamber.com. I guarantee you will feel right at home with information at your fingertips to keep you connected to our members’ businesses and all the products and services they offer. May you have peace and joy this holiday season, and here’s wishing you the very best in the New Year.
• Cortney Strohacker is executive director of the Genoa Area Chamber of Commerce.
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Cindy Green-Deutsch is the Assistant Branch Manager for TCF Bank on the campus of Northern Illinois University. She received her bachelorʼs degree in Physical Education from Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois in 2001 and continued her education at Western Illinois University with a masterʼs degree in Sport Management in 2003. While obtaining her masterʼs Cindy worked as a graduate assistant with Leathernecks marketing and continued down the collegiate marketing path until 2009. During that time she held positions within athletics at the University of Notre Dame, back to Western Illinois University, and finally to Northern Illinois University. She then changed career paths and has held her current position at TCF Bank ever since. At TCF, Cindy participates as part of sales management team in supervision, sales, and operations of the branch. Cindy resides in Shabbona with her husband, Jamie, and step-children Christian, Anthony, and Taylor. She serves as a volunteer EMT for the Shabbona Fire Department, a Deacon for the Shabbona United Church of Christ, the sponsorship chair for the Shabbona Hometown Events Committee, and is a member of the DeKalb Elks Lodge with her husband. When not volunteering, working, or spending time with family, she enjoys golfing, softball, and crafting.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Reconsider removal of Bibles at Holmes Centerl
My naive question is, “What is the problem?” That Bible has recorded in it over 3,500 years of history and To the Editor: The story “Bibles removed from NIU wisdom. Nothing has been added to it in the past 2,000 years. student center hotel rooms” in the If Gaylor chooses not to read it, Dec. 11 edition of the Daily Chronicle that is fine. Leave the drawer closed. included a paragraph concerning If she chooses no religion at all, Annie Laurie Gaylor, who represents that is her privilege (although her the Freedom From Religion Foundafoundation is a religion and belief tion as their co-president. system, too, just one that denies “To her chagrin, the hotel room God). The TV in the room probably she occupied had a donated copy of shows sexually explicit scenes, mura Gideon International Bible in the ders, theft and other crimes against drawer.” humanity that might be offensive to The Bibles were subsequently her and many others. Should the TVs removed from the guest rooms be removed from the rooms? at Northern Illinois University’s The room also has Wi-Fi, which Holmes Student Center Hotel. This she could use to connect to religious is the result of political correctness websites, but she may choose not to run amok. Please read the Bill of use them. That same Wi-Fi could also Rights, First Amendment, as quoted be used to access pornography, posfrequently on this page of the paper. sibly even child pornography, which About religion, a portion of that law is illegal and offends many. Should says “or prohibiting the free exercise that service be removed? thereof.” Gaylor may visit a library which
has a copy of the Bible. Should they be required to remove it from their shelves? It seems to me that the free exercise of religion in this case is being infringed in a way that affects more people than those few who are offended by having a Bible tucked into a closed drawer. Please explain the harm that may come from Biblical statements such as, “love your neighbor as yourself,” or “be strong and courageous.” But then again, I am naive. I might ask that if the Freedom from Religion Foundation has an authoritative work that provides comfort, guidance, assurance and comfort, or even their position, let the hotel management place that in the drawer also, alongside the Bible. Holmes Student Center management, please reconsider this issue.
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To the Editor: I appreciate your attention to the issue of the removal of Gideon Bibles from the guest rooms at Northern Illinois University’s Holmes Student Center Hotel, despite your unfortunate and perhaps unintended conflation of Constitutionalists with alcoholics (Dec. 16 our view) NIU certainly avoided unnecessary, costly, and unwinnable legal entanglements. However, I prefer to believe the NIU officials took the action they did because it was proper and legal and in accordance with the Constitution of the Unived States, particularly the establishment clause in the First Amendment, which incidentally is printed at the bottom of your opinions page.
The first week of October saw a considerable waste of time and resources at two area college campuses. On the campus of the College of DuPage on Oct. 5, a bomb threat forced the cancellation of evening classes. That same week, on Oct. 8, Northern Illinois University’s campuses were temporarily evacuated after a bomb threat was made against the school. Police here conducted searches of all campus buildings, while students and staff – including dorm residents – had to find someplace else to go on a fall night. Luckily, there was a pre-planned “Midnight Madness” basketball event scheduled, and the Convocation Center was the first building cleared. There is some evidence to suggest that these kinds of threats are becoming more common. According to The Associated Press, an analysis by National School Safety and Security Services, a Cleveland-based consulting firm, found a 158 percent increase in the number of threats schools received in a five-month span in 2014 compared with the same period the previous year. More than a third of those threats were sent electronically, and almost a third led to evacuations. Ten percent of schools closed for at least a day, the consulting firm found. The problem was repeated Dec. 15, when a person emailed threats against the public school districts in New York and Los Angeles. In New York, law enforcement officials determined the threat wasn’t credible and school continued as usual, while in Los Angeles schools were closed. The increase in these kind of threats – and understandable pressure that school and other officials feel to take even flimsy threats seriously in the wake of recent terror attacks – has sparked national calls for stiffer penalties against perpetrators. But what good are potential penalties if they’re never enforced? In Illinois, a person convicted of falsely making a terrorist threat – basically, someone who makes a threat they know to be a hoax – already can be sentenced to from four to 15 years in prison. If they say they’ve placed a bomb in a school, they can be required to reimburse agencies that expend resources looking for it. That penalty seems about right. What might help reduce these kinds of threats is if more people were caught and made to answer for what they’ve done. No one has been held accountable for the threats made in October, which no doubt cost tens of thousands dollar. People feel a sense of security when they’re sitting behind a computer far away from their intended target. They think they can’t be caught when they leave an unsigned note in a restroom. Shattering that by making an arrest in one of these cases – and securing a conviction with a meaningful prison sentence – might make the next person think twice.
ANOTHER VIEW
There won’t be brokered national convention No illusion of privacy All around the political blogosphere you can find folks smacking their lips over the prospect of a “brokered” Republican national convention. They look forward to the spectacle of delegates assembling in Cleveland with no candidate having a majority, of multiple ballots with governors, floor demonstrations after nominating speeches, congressmen running as favorite sons and delegates demanding that state delegations be polled. Political junkies relish the idea of watching hours of convention proceedings with the same frisson of ignorance about the outcome that makes sports broadcasts the only live TV still commanding a large audience. I have bad news for those looking forward to a brokered convention. It. Isn’t. Going. To. Happen. That’s because it’s impossible for party national conventions to serve the same function they did for more than a century after the first Democratic National Convention assembled in Baltimore in May 1832. Over those years, the national convention was a unique communications medium, the only place where politicians from across the nation could meet face-to-face, conduct confidential negotiations and reach an agreement. In those days, men of business – and the few women of business – communicated with each other in written letters. Presidents and party chairmen, like business executives and middle managers, spent their days reading their correspondence and dictating responses to stenographers and secretaries. At the end of the day, they would proofread the letters, sign them and see that they were put in the mail. One such man of business was James A. Farley, Franklin Roosevelt’s postmaster general and 1932 and 1936 campaign manager, who signed all his correspondence in green ink. In his memoirs, Farley wrote how
VIEWS Michael Barone he arrived at Chicago’s Union Station for the 1932 national convention with no idea how many delegates his candidate had or how he could put together enough votes for the nomination. There was no medium in which he could engage in serious negotiations except face-to-face during the convention. Farley also explained how he correctly predicted that Roosevelt would carry 46 of 48 states in 1936. During the fall campaign, he took the extraordinary step of placing a long-distance phone call every week to one well-informed politician in each non-Southern state. To double check, he placed another long-distance call to each the weekend before the election. Long-distance calls in those days were placed through operators and were expensive – $1 a minute when average earnings were maybe $50 a week. The first direct distance-dialing call was not placed until 1951. They weren’t available in major cities until the late 1950s and countrywide in the 1960s. In those days, politicians outside of Congress didn’t see much of each other in person. Train travel was time-consuming and plane travel hazardous. Regularly scheduled jet travel began when the Boeing 707 was launched in 1958. It’s no coincidence, then, that the last multi-ballot national convention was in 1952, when Democrats nominated Adlai Stevenson. As long-distance calls and jet flights became more common, some of the communication that could occur only at the convention started happening earlier. The parties’ switch to choosing most del-
egates in primaries, between 1968 and 1972, also changed things. Before many delegates were chosen by party bosses and did their bidding, like the Tammany, New York, mayor who, when asked who his police commissioner would be, said, “They haven’t told me yet.” You had to wait until the convention to see how these people would vote. Not so after 1968, when CBS’ Martin Plissner conducted the first media delegate count. Network delegate counts were vindicated in the close 1976 contest between Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. In 1984, Walter Mondale, just short of a majority after the last primary, got commitments from additional delegates and gave their names and numbers to Associated Press delegate counter David Lawsky. By noon the next day, he was effectively nominated. So what happens if no Republican candidate emerges with a delegate majority from the 2016 primaries and caucuses? Does everybody wait for the convention to convene in Cleveland to see who emerges as the nominee? The answer is yes – if you do a few things first, such as ban long-distance telephone calls, ban jet travel, ban media delegate counts and shut down the Internet. Then the national convention can function again as national conventions did up through the 1950s. Otherwise, the negotiations and shenanigans that used to go on only at national conventions will be happening all around us – as they already are and have been for many months. • Michael Barone, senior political analyst at the Washington Examiner, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.
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THE FIRST
AMENDMENT
on social media
Facebook is a $245 billion business built on two comforting notions. One is that the people who see the family pictures, political rants and cat videos that you share on the social networking site are your friends. The other is that your communications over the “community” of 1.5 billion people can be private. Both of these ideas turn out to be wrong – at least some of the time – and the nation is replete with stories of “private” messages between “friends” that have gotten the sender divorced, fired or jailed. Now the notion of social media privacy has become an issue in the aftermath of the San Bernardino mass killing in which one of the shooters was a Pakistani national who may have made statements about her commitment to jihad and the terrorist Islamic State. According to FBI Director James Comey, the woman may have made these statements – which, he said, were private messages, not posts on a timeline – before she was granted a visa to come to the United States to marry the other San Bernardino shooter. But her social media profile had not been reviewed as part of the application process,. Questions of privacy on social media go beyond the war on terror and are being discussed in a variety of law enforcement contexts. Where do we as a society draw the line between sensible security measures and Orwellian intrusion into private lives? Strong arguments can be made on both sides of the privacy-versus-security divide, but when it comes to the privacy of Facebook posts, it should not be a tough call. Information sent over Facebook and other social media platforms should not be considered private communications – not by the people who use the platforms, and not by law enforcement agencies looking to prevent crimes. Monitoring content and paying attention to who’s talking to whom in a public space is not an erosion of our civil liberties; it’s just common sense. Facebook, which is one of the world’s most valuable companies, would like you to believe that you can enter its community and it will protect your privacy. But that is not a promise that even Facebook honors. Participating in social media is an exercise in public speech, and has all the benefits and consequences that come along with it.
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WEATHER TUESDAY 7-DAY FORECAST
Dry weather will highlight Tuesday across the region, but this will be short lived. An area of low pressure will usher in mild air on Wednesday, but also clouds and periods of rain. Cooler air will follow behind this storm, but it will still remain above average. Expect dry weather to last through the end of the week.
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Phillips stuffs stat sheet for Loras By JAMES NOKES sports@daily-chronicle.com
Kaitlin Phillips stuffed the stat sheet Sunday. The Hinckley-Big Rock grad helped the Loras women’s basketball team snap a two-game losing streak Sunday with a 62-48 win against Webster in the Cruzin’ Classic in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Phillips had 10 points, seven assists and eight rebounds for the Duhawks (5-4). Loras and Phillips, a senior guard, have an 11-day break before their next game Jan. 1 against Washington University in St. Louis. Bailey Gilbert had six points and four rebounds for Carthage in a 58-52 loss Sunday at Olivet College in Michigan. The freshman guard, from Sycamore, had two 3-point for the Reds (4-5). The North Central women’s basketball team’s high octane offense picked up two straight wins, a 104-88 victory Thursday on the road against Benedictine and a 109-97 triumph Saturday against Dubuque. After going scoreless against Benedictine, sophomore guard Caroline Heimerdinger had six points in 13 minutes against Dubuque. The Kaneland grad averages 4.1 points and 2.1 rebounds a game for the Cardinals. North Central (5-4) is next in action at the Otterbein University Smokey Ballenger Classic on Monday and Dec. 29. DeKalb graduate Paige Wogen was scoreless in eight minutes of action for Rock Valley (9-4) in a 90-86 home win Dec. 15 against Kennedy King College. Julia Moll had three points and two rebounds for Beloit in a 91-68 home win Saturday against Monmouth. The sophomore guard from Sycamore has played in all nine games for the Buccaneers (4-5) and averages 13.4 minutes a game. A 77-72 overtime win against Mid Michigan on Dec. 13 kept the Rock Valley men’s basketball team undefeated in DeKalb alum Jace Kitchen’s freshman season. The Golden Eagles (15-0) blew a 16-point halftime lead, but outscored the Lakers, 15-10, in overtime. Kitchen had two points and four rebounds. See NEXT LEVEL, page B2
Selfless senior Iroegbu provides spark By JESSE SEVERSON jseverson@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Northern Illinois senior guard Chuks Iroegbu doesn’t shoot a lot of 3-pointers because that’s not his job for the Huskies. Instead, Iroegbu has been valuable by playing within himself this season, providing the Huskies with efficient shooting and the little things as the team is off to its best start in years. NIU Media Services photo “He plays off the ball and Northern Illinois University senior Chuks Iroegbu brings the ball he knows how to get behind down the court during a home game at the NIU Convocation Center. the defense and then he gets
Next for N. Illinois
games of the season, perhaps Iroegbu’s best performance of the year came off the bench Roosevelt Saturday against Florida Inat Northern ternational. He finished with Illinois, 7 p.m. 15 points on 6-for-7 shooting today, AM– with all six baskets coming in the paint, three of which 1360 occurred while he was fouled on the play – and the Huskies an and-one,” NIU coach Mark won, 78-75, in double overtime Montgomery said. “He gets to improve to 8-2 on the season. something in transition and “I don’t try to do too much,” then he gets an offensive re- Iroegbu said. “I just try to do bound. Sometimes it’s the lit- what the team needs of me. tle things you do and Chuks (On Saturday) the team needdefinitely (does) that.” See IROEGBU, page B2 After starting the first eight
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOTBALL
‘Bittersweet’ finale
Daily Chronicle file photo
Northern Illinois receiver Juwan Brescacin scores a touchdown Oct. 24 against Eastern Michigan at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb. Brescacin wraps up his NIU career Wednesday when the Huskies face Boise State at the Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego.
Brescacin closes out NIU career in Poinsettia Bowl against Boise State By JESSE SEVERSON jseverson@shawmedia.com
J Poinsettia Bowl NIU (8-5, 6-3 MAC) vs. Boise State (8-4, 5-3 MWC), 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, ESPN, AM-560, AM-1360, 98.9-FM
uwan Brescacin originally made the move from Canada to the United States after his sophomore year of high school for a chance to garner attention on the basketball court. Seven years later, the 6-foot-4 senior receiver was carried off the field by his younger teammates as part of a team tradition in his final practice with the Northern Illinois football team Monday. “It’s bittersweet to have the last practice because you’re looking forward to the game, but you know
Juwan Brescacin stats Year Rec Yards Avg TD 2012 11 223 20.3 0 2013 33 499 15.1 6 2014 31 445 14.4 6 2015 21 286 13.6 1 TOTALS 96 1,453 15.1 13 that it’s the last time playing with these guys,” Brescacin said. “You know that it could be the last time playing football, so you want to make the most of it.” It could be a grand final game
for Brescacin and the rest of the Huskies seniors when they face Boise State in the Poinsettia Bowl at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. In his four years at NIU, the receiver has had 96 catches for 1,453 yards and 13 touchdowns – with an average of 15.1 yards a reception. Although his numbers are slightly down this season, he had six catches for 112 yards in the 2621 loss to Ohio in the regular-season finale, including a 62-yard reception. Perhaps the finest moment of his career came in the 2014
See BRESCACIN, page B2
NORTHERN ILLINOIS 68, BRADLEY 64
Lehman’s performance gives NIU win By JESSE SEVERSON jseverson@shawmedia.com
Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com
Northern Illinois’ Ally Lehman brings the ball down court in the Huskies’ 68-64 win Monday over Bradley at the NIU Convocation Center in DeKalb. Lehman had 27 points.
DeKALB – Northern Illinois junior guard Ally Lehman would not let the Huskies lose. Lehman flirted with a triple-double, took the game over in the second half and made the game-sealing free throws to help NIU survive for a 68-64 win over Bradley on Monday at the NIU Convocation Center. Lehman finished with 27 points, 14 rebounds, six assists and two blocks in 38 minutes for her sixth double-double of the season – and went 7 for 9
shooting with 19 points and nine rebounds in the second half. “The thing about Ally Lehman is she isn’t just scoring,” NIU freshman Courtney Woods said. “She’s rebounding, she’s getting her teammates up. It’s the entirety of her as a player. You feed off it. She makes plays and it makes you feel like you can make plays.” During one stretch midway through the fourth – with the Huskies trailing by five – Lehman went on a 7-0 run by herself, including making a 3-pointer, diving for a loose ball, coming up with a block and scoring the go-ahead
layup. “I think [her diving for the loose ball] was the play where if you were at the game and saw it, you’d say that’s the turning point and tipped the scale,” NIU coach Lisa Carlsen said. “I think that kind of hustle motivates us to play at a different level.” Woods also helped spark the Huskies offense with 10 of her 13 points off the bench coming in the second half – including a 3-pointer from the right corner with two minutes remaining. With the Huskies leading by four in the closing seconds, Bradley’s Whitney Tinjum
scored a layup and was fouled on the play. However, Tinjum missed the free throw and Lehman came up with the rebound that forced a jump ball – giving NIU the ball with 4.1 seconds. The ball was in-bounded to Lehman, who was fouled and fell hard to the floor before eventually getting up and sealing the game by making both free throws. The Huskies (6-4) have won two consecutive games for the second time this season and are off until they open a stretch of three road games, starting with Chicago State on Dec. 30 in their final nonconference game.
2 SPORTS • Tuesday, December 22, 2015 • Section B • Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com LOCAL SCHEDULE TODAY Boys basketball Sycamore at Marengo tournament, TBA Girls basketball Sycamore at Oswego East tournament, TBA Kaneland at Ottawa tournament, TBA Prep gymnastics DeKalb-Sycamore at Oswego invite, noon Men’s basketball Roosevelt at Northern Illinois, 7 p.m.
WHAT TO WATCH Pro hockey Montreal at Minnesota, 7 p.m., NBCSN Blackhawks at Dallas, 7:30 p.m., CSN San Jose at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m., NBCSN College football Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Akron vs. Utah State, at Boise, Idaho, 2:30 p.m., ESPN Boca Raton Bowl, Temple vs. Toledo, at Boca Raton, Fla., 6 p.m., ESPN Pro basketball Dallas at Toronto, 6:30 p.m., NBA Men’s basketball Diamond Head Classic, Auburn vs. New Mexico, at Honolulu, 1:30 p.m., ESPNU Troy at Mississippi, 3 p.m., SEC Diamond Head Classic, BYU vs. Harvard, at Honolulu, 3:30 p.m., ESPNU Miami at LaSalle, 4 p.m., CBSSN Kennesaw State at Indiana, 5 p.m., BTN Clemson at Georgia, 5 p.m., SEC South Florida at Seton Hall, 5:30 p.m., FS2 Georgetown at Charlotte, 6 p.m., CBSSN Iowa State at Cincinnati, 6 p.m., ESPN2 Michigan State vs. Oakland, at Auburn Hills, Mich., 6 p.m., ESPNU Delaware at Villanova, 6 p.m., FS1 Vanderbilt at Purdue, 7 p.m., BTN American at LSU, 7 p.m., SEC Southern Utah at Butler, 7:30 p.m., FS2 St. John’s vs. South Carolina, at Uncasville, Conn., 8 p.m., CBSSN California at Virginia, 8 p.m., ESPN2 Mercer at Ohio State, 8 p.m., ESPNU George Washington at DePaul, 8 p.m., FS1 Diamond Head Classic, Oklahoma vs. Washington State, at Honolulu, 10 p.m., ESPNU Kansas at San Diego State, 10 p.m., CBSSN Diamond Head Classic, Northern Iowa vs. Hawaii, at Honolulu, midnight, ESPNU
MIAMI BEACH BOWL: NO. 25 WESTERN KENTUCKY 45, SOUTH FLORIDA 35
Doughty wins finale as WKU tops South Florida The ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI – Brandon Doughty’s final game at Western Kentucky perfectly epitomized his career with the Hilltoppers, with a slow start followed by a record-setting finish. Doughty threw for 461 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 25 Western Kentucky overcame an early 14-point deficit to beat South Florida, 45-35, in the Miami Beach Bowl on Monday. Doughty finished the season with 5,055 yards for the Hilltoppers (12-2), the 14th time in FBS history that a quarterback has reached the 5,000 mark. His six-year career at the school – it took him three to become the starter – ended with these numbers: 1,023 completions, 12,855 yards and 111 touchdowns. “Brandon is a great quarterback,” USF Willie Taggart said. “Not only did he do it against us, he did it against everybody.”
BOYS BASKETBALL: MARENGO’S E.C. NICHOLS CLASSIC – WOODSTOCK 60, SYCAMORE 59
Sycamore falls to Woodstock at buzzer By MIKE DeFABO mdefabo@shawmedia.com MARNEGO – Trailing by one point Monday with six seconds remaining, Sycamore looked for yet another buzzer beater to extend its run in Marengo’s E.C. Nichols Classic. In the opening round of the tournament, Jack Mizgalski grabbed a rebound and put it back to send Saturday’s game into overtime, where the Spartans beat Richmond-Burton, 57-49. Monday, with a trip to the semifinals on the line, the Spartans again drew up one last play. Senior forward Brett Bemis faded away along the baseline, but his shot rimmed out and Woodstock’s Vannis Smith, who banked in a 3-pointer seconds earlier, grabbed the rebound to secure the 60-59 victory. The Spartans (4-5) will continue in the consolation bracket against Crystal Lake Central at 3 p.m. today. “We were just trying to get a shot off,” Sycamore coach Andrew Stacy said. “In that situation, you want to make sure you give yourself a chance. We got a look. It just didn’t go in.”
Sycamore was led by Mizgalski with 20 points. Bemis scored 15 and Ty Sulaver had 11. The Spartans twice led by double figures in the game. Sycamore held a 20-6 advantage after one quarter, but the Blue Streaks pulled with 24-22 because of a 16-4 run to start the second quarter. The Spartans again went up by double figures, 44-34, late in the third quarter before the Blue Streaks inched back into the game. Rather than pointing to the contested bank-shot 3-pointer that won Woodstock the game, Stacy was looking back at some of the other missed opportunities. “Everybody thinks the last possession of the game wins or loses it,” he said. “But the first possessions of the game in the first half are equally as important. “In a one-possession game like that, you think about all the free throws you missed, all the turnovers we had. You think about all the missed layups, how many times we didn’t come up with a defensive rebound and gave them second chances. We talk about playing every possession. Every possession matters.”
SPORTS BRIEFS Maric named MAC West Player of the Week
Northern Illinois big man Marin Maric was named the Mid-American Conference West Player of the Week, the league announced Monday. Maric averaged a double-double (17 points, 10 rebounds) in two games for the Huskies, who lost at Ohio State before a double-overtime win against Florida International. It is the first time in his career the sophomore has won the award. He is tied for the team lead in scoring (12.2) and is sixth in the conference with 8.2 rebounds a game. He has scored in double figures in six consecutive games, averaging 14.3 points and 9.5 rebounds in that stretch. The Huskies (8-2) host Roosevelt at 7 p.m. today.
Sycamore girls knocks off Metea Valley
The defense of the Sycamore girls basketball team clamped on Metea Valley on Monday in a 43-22 win at the Oswego East tournament. Kate Majerus led the Spartans (5-3) with 11, while Tayia Hopkins and Lauren Goff each scored seven. The Spartans let Metea Valley score just four points in the second half. Sycamore faces the tournament’s No. 1 seed and host school at 10 a.m. today. – Staff reports
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Iroegbu sparks NIU against FIU • IROEGBU Continued from page B1 ed me to come in and give a spark, and I came in and gave us a spark. Whether the team needs offense or defense, I’ll come in and do it.” The 15 points were not a season-high for the senior from Sacramento, California – he had 16 points and eight rebounds in a win over South Dakota – but Montgomery said he provided a spark for the Huskies when they needed it early against Florida International. Midway through the first half, the Panthers jumped out to a 13-4 lead while the NIU offense looked disjointed, shooting 2 for 12 at the time. Then Iroegbu came in and scored five points – including a three-point play that tied the score – during the Huskies’ 11-0 run that gave them the lead. “Chuks doesn’t have an ego,” Montgomery said. “He actually won the game with his energy in the first half. We’re down 13-4 and he’s the 10th man to come off the bench and he gave us that spark. The next thing you know, it’s 1313. His effort got us back in the game.” Iroegbu is averaging 6.8 points and 2.6 rebounds a game and has a team-high .591 shooting percentage in 16.1 minutes. Evidence of his lack of an ego comes from his attitude after moving to the bench the past two games – in favor of a more traditional power forward in freshman Jaylen Key. “I came off the bench last year,” Iroegbu said. “I’m just ready to go whenever. If I start, I start. If I don’t start, I don’t start. Whenever I get in the game, I’m giving it my full effort.” NIU junior guard Aaric Armstead firmly spoke about his teammates’ new status as a nonstarter. “It’s not about who starts the game, it’s about who finishes,” Armstead said after the win Saturday. Down the stretch against the Panthers, Iroegbu was on the floor plenty for the Huskies. At the end of the first overtime, he had a dunk with eight seconds left that kept the Huskies in the game. With two minutes left in the second overtime, he had the assist on Armstead’s 3-pointer that gave NIU the lead for good. “He plays within his game and that’s what we need,” Armstead said. “We need guys to play within their game. Everybody knows he was our spark (Saturday). He comes in and gets rebounds, scores points. It just got everybody going.”
Northern Illinois receiver Juwan Brescacin (right) is tackled by Akron cornerback Malachi Freeman on Oct. 12, 2013, at Huskie Stadium.
Akins now Brescacin isn’t ruling out CFL career 10-4 at 125 • BRESCACIN with Buffalo Continued from page B1 Mid-American Conference Championship, in which he had seven catches for 83 yards and a highlight-reel one-handed touchdown reception in the Huskies’ 51-17 win over Bowling Green. “I feel like I’ll always remember that MAC Championship,” Brescacin said. “That one’s special because I had a big role in it, and coming back after losing to (Bowling Green) in the previous year’s MAC Championship, it just meant a lot.” It took several turns in his life to get Brescacin to the point where he was making one-handed catches for the Huskies. Growing up in Mississauga, Ontario – located about 18 miles west of Toronto – Brescacin was more of a basketball player than a football player. He started playing football after his mother, Diana, pointed out a sign for it in the fourth grade and suggested it to her son. After playing both basketball and football from fourth to seventh grade, Brescacin focused solely on basketball,
which he deemed his first athletic love. It wasn’t until 10th grade when he came back out for football, playing quarterback for the junior varsity team. Then the family decided to have Brescacin move by himself to attend Culver Military Academy in Indiana, giving him a better chance to get noticed by college basketball recruiters. “It was really hard the first two months, I was really homesick,” Brescacin said. “That had never happened to me. I didn’t know when I would be going home next. I had never missed a Christmas or a Thanksgiving before.” Brescacin said attending Culver felt like a normal high school, only with a heightened sense of discipline. It was that discipline, having designated study times and making sure the barracks were cleaned properly, that helped Brescacin manage his time as a Division I football player at NIU. “I feel like I had a step on most of my teammates when it came to managing time,” he said. In just two years at Culver, he broke school records for single-season receptions (44),
receiving yards (697) and receiving touchdowns (12) and career receptions (70), receiving yards (1,314) and touchdowns (19). Former NIU coach Eddie Faulkner recruited Brescacin when Faulkner still was a coach at Ball State. Faulkner continued to recruit the receiver when he joined the Huskies’ staff and while Brescacin also had a few looks in basketball – including from NIU – he didn’t think about trying to attempt to play both. “I knew how much that would wear on your body,” he said. Brescacin graduated from NIU this month, leaving the game against Boise State as his last moment with the Huskies. As his successful career comes to a close, Brescacin said he understood the Poinsettia Bowl could be his final football game but hasn’t ruled out playing in the Canadian Football League, or even the NFL. “There’s thought of that,” Brescacin said of the CFL, which has a specific quota of roster spots for Canadian players. “But the ultimate goal is obviously going to the NFL.”
• NEXT LEVEL Continued from page B1 Metro State University of Denver has reeled off three straight wins to move to 6-5 on the season. DeKalb grad and Roadrunners’ junior forward Andre Harris had eight points, five rebounds and two blocks in a 69-53 win Friday against Chadron State. In a 74-60 win Saturday against Regis, Harris had four points. The University at Buffalo wrestling team split a dual meet Saturday in Pennsylvania with a 28-12 win against Clarion and a 19-12 loss to Appalachian State. Kyle Akins (10-4 at 125 pounds) pinned Clarion’s Travis Jones in the opening dual. The redshirt freshman from Sycamore improved to 2-0 in the dual with an 11-7 win against Appalachian State’s Vito Pison. His former Spartans’ teammate Christopher Malone is a freshman at Loras and lost 19-4 to Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Connor Price on Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee, at the 2015 Gator “Boots” Duals.
NFL NATIONAL CONFERENCE x-Green Bay Minnesota Bears Chicago Washington Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Dallas y-Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans y-Arizona x-Seattle St. Louis San Francisco
North W L T Pct PF PA 10 4 0 .714 347 265 9 5 0 .643 296 272 5 9 0 .357 302 363 5 9 0 .357 289 352 East W L T Pct PF PA 7 7 0 .500 316 332 6 8 0 .429 318 362 6 8 0 .429 373 358 4 10 0 .286 246 324 South W L T Pct PF PA 14 0 0 1.000 449 278 7 7 0 .500 302 312 6 8 0 .429 311 353 5 9 0 .357 350 432 West W L T Pct PF PA 12 2 0 .857 445 269 9 5 0 .643 370 248 6 8 0 .429 241 294 4 10 0 .286 202 339
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East W L T Pct PF PA 12 2 0 .857 435 269 9 5 0 .643 344 272 6 8 0 .429 341 336 5 9 0 .357 278 361 South W L T Pct PF PA Houston 7 7 0 .500 275 301 Indianapolis 6 8 0 .429 285 372 Jacksonville 5 9 0 .357 343 380 Tennessee 3 11 0 .214 269 359 North W L T Pct PF PA x-Cincinnati 11 3 0 .786 378 243 Pittsburgh 9 5 0 .643 378 287 Baltimore 4 10 0 .286 292 360 Cleveland 3 11 0 .214 253 387 West W L T Pct PF PA Denver 10 4 0 .714 308 259 Kansas City 9 5 0 .643 365 257 Oakland 6 8 0 .429 319 356 San Diego 4 10 0 .286 280 348 x-clinched playoff spot; y-clinched division y-New England N.Y. Jets Buffalo Miami
Thursday’s Result St. Louis 31, Tampa Bay 23 Thursday’s Result N.Y. Jets 19, Dallas 16 Sunday’s Games Minnesota 38, Bears 17 Atlanta 23, Jacksonville 17 Houston 16, Indianapolis 10 Carolina 38, N.Y. Giants 35 New England 33, Tennessee 16 Washington 35, Buffalo 25 Kansas City 34, Baltimore 14 Seattle 30, Cleveland 13 Green Bay 30, Oakland 20 San Diego 30, Miami 14 Cincinnati 24, San Francisco 14 Pittsburgh 34, Denver 27 Arizona 40, Philadelphia 17 Today’s Game Detroit 35, New Orleans 27
NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 34 25 7 2 52 120 88 35 20 11 4 44 96 83 35 20 11 4 44 90 85 32 17 9 6 40 89 79 34 17 11 6 40 90 86 34 17 16 1 35 95 90 32 15 15 2 32 90 97 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 32 20 10 2 42 81 71 San Jose 33 16 15 2 34 88 91 Vancouver 35 12 14 9 33 89 102 Arizona 32 15 15 2 32 87 102 Calgary 33 15 16 2 32 87 112 Edmonton 34 14 18 2 30 88 105 Anaheim 32 12 15 5 29 60 82 Dallas Blackhawks St. Louis Minnesota Nashville Colorado Winnipeg
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Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 35 20 12 3 43 104 87 32 19 9 4 42 104 83 33 17 9 7 41 86 85 34 18 12 4 40 93 80 34 17 12 5 39 104 102 34 17 14 3 37 86 80 34 14 16 4 32 79 89 31 11 13 7 29 77 86 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 33 25 6 2 52 105 71 N.Y. Islanders 35 19 11 5 43 96 82 N.Y. Rangers 35 19 12 4 42 101 91 New Jersey 34 16 13 5 37 79 84 Philadelphia 34 15 12 7 37 74 92 Pittsburgh 33 16 14 3 35 76 84 Carolina 34 13 16 5 31 80 101 Columbus 36 13 20 3 29 88 112 Two points for a win, one point for OT loss Montreal Boston Detroit Florida Ottawa Tampa Bay Buffalo Toronto
Monday’s Results N.Y. Islanders 5, Anaheim 2 Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 3 Pittsburgh 5, Columbus 2 Washington 2, Carolina 1 Nashville 5, Montreal 1 Dallas 6, Minnesota 3 Toronto at Colorado (n) Winnipeg at Edmonton (n) Today’s Games Blackhawks at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. St. Louis at Boston, 6 p.m. Anaheim at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m. New Jersey at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. Vancouver at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m. Ottawa at Florida, 6:30 p.m. Montreal at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at Calgary, 8 p.m. Toronto at Arizona, 8 p.m. San Jose at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m. Wednesday’s Games No games scheduled Sunday’s Results Blackhawks 4, San Jose 3, OT Florida 5, Vancouver 4, SO Boston 2, New Jersey 1, SO Tampa Bay 5, Ottawa 2 Detroit 4, Calgary 2 Washington 7, N.Y. Rangers 3
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Central Division W L Pct 18 7 .720 16 11 .593 15 11 .577 16 12 .571 11 18 .379 Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 17 12 .586 Boston 15 13 .536 New York 14 15 .483 Brooklyn 8 20 .286 Philadelphia 1 28 .034 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 16 10 .615 Atlanta 18 12 .600 Orlando 16 12 .571 Charlotte 15 12 .556 Washington 12 14 .462 Cleveland Indiana Bulls Detroit Milwaukee
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GB — 3 3½ 3½ 9 GB — 1½ 3 8½ 16 GB — — 1 1½ 4
Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 24 5 .828 — Dallas 15 12 .556 8 Memphis 15 14 .517 9 Houston 15 14 .517 9 New Orleans 8 19 .296 15 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 18 9 .667 — Utah 12 14 .462 5½ Denver 11 16 .407 7 Minnesota 11 17 .393 7½ Portland 11 19 .367 8½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 26 1 .963 — L.A. Clippers 16 12 .571 10½ Phoenix 12 18 .400 15½ Sacramento 11 17 .393 15½ L.A. Lakers 4 23 .148 22 Monday’s Results Brooklyn 105, Bulls 102 Washington 113, Sacramento 99 Boston 113, Minnesota 99 Orlando 107, New York 99 Houston 102, Charlotte 95 Atlanta 106, Portland 97 San Antonio 106, Indiana 92 Utah 110, Phoenix 89 Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers (n) Today’s Games Memphis at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. Dallas at Toronto, 6:30 p.m. Detroit at Miami, 6:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Denver, 8 p.m. Wednesday’s Games New York at Cleveland, 6 p.m. Sacramento at Indiana, 6 p.m. Houston at Orlando, 6 p.m. Memphis at Washington, 6 p.m. Boston at Charlotte, 6 p.m. Dallas at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. San Antonio at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Portland at New Orleans, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 7 p.m. Detroit at Atlanta, 7 p.m. Denver at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Utah at Golden State, 9:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.
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Be courteous when visiting those who are hospitalized Dear Abby: I have been a nurse for 35 years, and over time, I have noticed a decline in simple courtesy from people who visit friends or relatives in the hospital. Several things visitors should keep in mind: 1. If you don’t know what room the patient has been assigned, ask. Don’t wander in and out of rooms until you find the right one. 2. Be prepared to give the first and last names of the patient when asking for directions. 3. Abide by the visiting hours and the number of persons allowed into a patient’s room at one time. Remember,
DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips patients need dedicated time for treatments and procedures. 4. Do not bring small children to the hospital unless they are visiting their parent or sibling. You needlessly place them at risk by exposing them to infections. 5. Make sure any food you bring to the patient is allowed by the physician. 6. Never question the staff for information regarding the patient’s diagnosis or con-
dition. It is against the law for a health care provider to divulge patient information to an unauthorized individual. Ask the patient. 7. Get permission before plugging in your cellphone charger. 8. When taking the elevator, use public elevators. And when the doors open, stand back and allow the occupants to safely step out before entering. – Patient-Centered Nurse
In California Dear Nurse: If readers take
to heart your suggestions in the spirit they were given, everyone will benefit. That visitors would charge into hospital elevators, wander
the halls, barge into patients’ rooms and drag small children into sickrooms is an indication there has been not only a decline in courtesy but also common sense. Patients are in hospitals because they need intensive treatment and rest. Creating a party atmosphere in which the patient is expected to entertain numerous “guests” is physically and emotionally draining and a danger to the person’s health. Dear Abby: My ex-husband, “Charles,” is dying, and we have decided to get remarried before he dies so he won’t be alone at the end. (And also so I can receive his VA benefits
when he’s gone.) Is this morally wrong? I do take care of him, but not all the time because Charles likes living with his uncle and will remain there after we marry. I guess I just have a little guilt trip going on. – Guilt Trip In Texas Dear Guilt Trip: Charles earned his benefits. I see nothing morally wrong with people providing for someone they care for after their death. Unless Charles was coerced into his generosity, I can’t see why you should feel guilty. • Write Dear Abby at www. dearabby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Moderate exercise can help prevent sudden cardiac arrest Dear Dr. K: My wife saw
something on the news about a man who died of sudden cardiac arrest while jogging. Now she doesn’t want me to exercise. I’d really love to get my running shoes back on. What can I tell her to ease her worries? Dear Reader: I read your letter as I was cooling off after exercising. So your question is timely. Your wife’s concerns are understandable, but probably misguided. I spoke to my colleague Dr. Aaron L. Baggish, the associate director of the Cardiovascular Performance Program at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital. He confirmed what I thought I knew. Sudden cardiac arrest is
ate-intensity exercise is actually the best way to prevent sudden cardiac arrest. There is solid scientific evidence people who exercise regularly are less likely to develop carcaused by a lethal type of irregular heart rhythm called diac arrest. Even people with heart disease who go through ventricular fibrillation. The lethal rhythm causes the heart a carefully supervised exerto stop pumping blood – it just cise program are less likely to sort of quivers. If that rhythm have a cardiac arrest. Here’s what can be confusis not immediately reversed ing: In all people, a cardiac – such as by a defibrillator arrest is more likely to occur machine – it results in death. when the heart is working Sudden cardiac arrest can hard than when it’s not. So, occur in a person with or without known heart disease. suppose you exercise for 30 minutes each day. That means Probably the most common cause is atherosclerosis of the you don’t exercise for the remaining 1,410 minutes in arteries of the heart, which that day. Your risk of cardiac reduces the blood supply to arrest per minute is greater some of the heart muscle. while you exercise. The most important point to make is regular, moderNevertheless, a recent
ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff
study found exercise-related heart deaths are quite rare; they account for just 5 percent of sudden cardiac arrest cases. In the study, researchers reviewed 1,247 cases of sudden cardiac arrest in middle-aged men and women over a period of 11 years. Of these, only 63 cases occurred during exercise. Most occurred in men, and most of these men were jogging, playing basketball or cycling. In the majority of cases, the cardiac arrest didn’t come out of nowhere. Two-thirds of the people who had cardiac arrest had known heart disease. And nearly one-third of them had experienced typical cardiovascular symptoms during the week before the sudden cardiac arrest, including chest
pain and breathlessness. This study offers two points of reassurance. First, exercise-related cardiac arrest is rare. The second important message is heart disease often gives warning signs. Heed this message. If you feel any chest pain during exercise, have difficulty breathing or even feel more drained than usual, stop and call a doctor for advice. So if your doctor, who knows your medical condition, agrees, tell your wife regular exercise will reduce your risk of sudden death during your remaining years together. • Write to Dr. Komaroff at www.askdoctork.com or Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.
Teen assumes she’s in serious relationship after two dates Dr. Wallace: I recently met a really nice guy at a party for a mutual friend. He asked for my phone number and said he’d give me a call. A few days later, he called and we made plans for the next weekend. We went out and had a great time, and he said he’d like to go out with me again. I told him I’d like that. Last week he called again, we went out again, and we both had a super time. Then yesterday, I saw him walking with another girl at the mall. They seemed quite buddy-buddy and seemed to have eyes only for each other. At first, I was glad they didn’t see me, but then I felt like confronting them. I finally changed my mind and just left without them seeing me. I have been upset ever since then because I finally
’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace found a guy I thought was worth dating and then I find him making goo-goo eyes at another girl. I still think he might call me again, but I’m not sure what to do if he does. Should I tell him off and not go out with him again, or should I just keep quiet and let him tell me about this girl when I confront him about her while we’re on our next date? – Nameless, Jackson-
ville, Florida Nameless: Patience,
patience, young lady. You might be jumping to a number of possible false conclusions. You’ve only gone out with him twice; you aren’t
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actually “going” with each other. This means he hasn’t betrayed you simply by being at the mall with another female. But more importantly, the girl he was with could have been a relative or just a friend. Jealousy does strange things to our perceptions. My advice is to say nothing about seeing him at the mall. He continues to date you, so it’s obvious he likes you very much. I’d leave it that way. But if you can’t, when you feel the time is right, ask him if he is dating someone else now and see what happens. Maybe you didn’t “chicken out” when you failed to confront him at the mall. Instead, you simply exercised reason and good sense. Let’s hope so. Dr. Wallace: My younger
SUDOKU By EUGENIA LAST Newspaper Enterprise Association
TODAY – Explore new territory and expand your interests, but don’t make impulsive changes based on what others do or say. Be your own guide and follow the path that makes you feel most comfortable. Choose your route in order to become a leader. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Business and personal relationships will develop through networking functions and social activities. Attend an industry party and explore the possibilities. Romance will enhance your life. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – You’ll have some good ideas that, once developed, will help you bring in extra cash. Take action and discuss your plans with someone you feel is a good sounding board. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Offer your help to a cause you believe in. Find out what you can do to assist older relatives during the taxing festive season. Someone you love will give you something special. ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Don’t go into battle with someone who just wants the best for you. Self-discipline and personal changes that could improve your image, appearance or reputation will pay off. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – The sky is the limit. If you aim high, you will finish what you start. Picking up odds and ends for the upcoming festivities will get you in the spirit of the season. Romance is encouraged. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Stay focused or you will misinterpret a situation or offer. Read between the lines and don’t leave anything to chance. If you want to make a change, do your research first. CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Put your heart into making your home ready for the holiday season. Spending time with friends, family or children will brighten your day. Update your look in order to receive compliments. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Control your emotions and avoid getting into a spat. At work and at home, you are best off keeping the peace. Make personal improvements instead of trying to change others. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – If you control whatever situation you find yourself in, you will be deemed a hero. Your insightful way of handling others will result in an unexpected surprise. Romance will improve your personal life. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Don’t run yourself ragged trying to take care of demanding people who have little concern for your well-being. Focus on yourself, not those who take advantage of you. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Your imagination will lead you in a wonderful direction. Creative ideas will help you incorporate comfort and convenience into your living quarters. Someone you love will surprise you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Bring about changes that will improve your life. Put an end to bad habits and unsavory influences. Choose your lot in life. Don’t let others determine where you’ll end up.
sister is a very pretty girl with beautiful blonde hair and a great figure, but for some reason she doesn’t seem interested in dating. She’s 17, and all she seems to think about is studying for good grades, playing the piano, and planning to be a fashion model. I do think that part of the reason she isn’t thinking about dating is because she is very shy. I am 18, a student at Indiana University and have had fun dating this year for several school events. Now I’ve been trying to think of ways to get her started going out on dates. Do you think it would be a good idea to ask my boyfriend’s best friend to ask her out? They have seen each other before, and my boyfriend told me that his friend thinks my sister is cute.
I’ve been thinking that a double date with this guy and my boyfriend and me would help her get started so she could enjoy more school activities and events and lose some of her shyness. – Name-
less, Bloomington, Indiana Nameless: Ask your sister
if she would like for you to set her up with this boy for a double date. If she says yes, then proceed with your plan. But if she isn’t interested, forget it. Many 17-year-olds have chosen not to begin dating. All this means is that they have minds of their own and have begun to make their own decisions. Believe me, when your sister is ready to date, she won’t need you to play Cupid! • Write to Dr. Wallace at rwallace@galesburg.net.
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ADVICE & PUZZLES 3 BRIDGE Phillip Alder
After one, two or three rounds James Thurber, a wit best known for his cartoons and short stories, which were published primarily in “The New Yorker” magazine, said, “One (martini) is all right, two is too many, three is not enough.” Does that apply to rounds of trumps in this deal? South is in four hearts. The defenders begin with two rounds of diamonds. After ruffing, should declarer draw one, two or three rounds of trumps, given that they are splitting 3-2? I agree with North’s raise to two hearts because it guarantees three-card support. Yes, the hand has 10 losers when the normal number is nine. If you use two-overone game-force, you might respond one forcing no-trump, but when North rebids two hearts, South will assume his partner has only on a doubleton and will undervalue his hand. South has 10 winners: three spades, five hearts and two clubs. But he must be careful while driving out the club ace and king. Suppose declarer draws one round of trumps before attacking clubs. Then it might go: club to the king, club to the ace, club ruff by East for down one. What if declarer draws all of the trumps, leaving himself with only one? Then the play goes: club to the king, diamond ruffed by South, club to the ace, cash two diamond tricks. Two rounds of trumps are just right. Suppose East wins the first club and leads a diamond. South ruffs and drives out the club ace, but if West tries a fourth diamond, declarer ruffs on the board, crosses to his hand with a spade, draws the last trump, and claims.
• Tuesday, 4 PageCOMICS XX • Day, Date, 2012 December 22, 2015 • Section B • Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com COMICS
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Brian Crane Pearls Before Swine
For Better or For Worse
Non Sequitur
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Lynn Johnston Crankshaft
Tom Batiuk & Chuck Hayes
Wiley The Duplex
Glenn McCoy
Beetle Bailey
Mort Walker Blondie
Dean Young & Denis LeBrun
Frank & Ernest
Bob Thaves Dilbert
Scott Adams
Monty
Jim Meddick Zits Hi and Lois
Rose is Rose
Pat Brady & Don Wimmer Arlo & Janis
Soup to Nutz
The Family Circus
Rick Stromoski Big Nate
Bill Keane
The Argyle Sweater
Scott Hilburn
Brian & Greg Walker Jim Borgman & Jerry Scott
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Lincoln Peirce
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