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Kaupas running in Republican primary BRIAN STANLEY bstanley@shawmedia.com WILL COUNTY – Recently released documents show a candidate for Will County sheriff was suspended during his time with the Illinois State Police for trying to skim a finder’s fee.

Ken Kaupas, a sheriff’s deputy chief, was suspended for 10 days in May 2002 from the state police for improper conduct.

Kaupas, a second-cousin of Sheriff Paul Kaupas, is a retired state police captain who is running in the Republican primary.

Kaupas was not accused of putting the scheme into action and getting money from it. And, he said, he continued to hold supervisory positions until his

retirement from the state police seven years later.

But the report on the suspension, distributed by a supporter of Kaupas’s opponent in the March primary, likely will become an issue in the campaign.

“I would like to comment on several aspects of this report, but won’t while it is under review by my campaign advisors,” Kaupas said.

From November 2001 to January 2002, Kaupas’ secretary, Karen Larson, was to receive $18 an hour to transcribe wire recordings from organized crime and drug investigations, according to investigators, but Kaupas arranged for off-duty clerical workers to perform the work at a lower rate.

“Kaupas would receive $1 per hour compensation as a finder’s fee for securing extra clerical help.

Larson would receive $2 per hour and the clerical staff would receive $15,” the report said. “Larson

was reluctant to enter into this business relationship, but due to Kaupas’ position she felt obligated to agree to the arrangement.”

Sam Nolan, who was then director of state police, said Kaupas “failed to truthfully answer questions” when asked about the incident in February 2002 and asked Larson to withhold information from the investigation.

Kaupas said that in the years after the suspension, he was put in charge of the state police intelligence section, a federal task force and a state police district before retiring in 2009.

He also said that he was not suspended without pay but forfeited 10 vacation days.

Retired Sheriff’s Lt. Stephen Knickrehm recently emailed the case documents to members of the Police Chief’s Association of Will County along with a letter indicating his alarm if Kaupas was elect-

ed sheriff.

“I’m very concerned.

That’s not the kind of leadership the department needs,” Knickrehm said Wednesday. Knickrehm said he was given the reports from an anonymous source.

The State Board of Elections shows Knickrehm has contributed $1,600 over the past year to Kaupas’ opponent in March’s Republican primary, Nick Ficarello.

Ficarello said Tuesday that Kaupas’ record shows he is not a good candidate for the November election.

“I believe Ken Kaupas would not be able to pass a background check for a probationary officer on the sheriff’s department based on his past history, much less qualify to run for sheriff,” Ficarello said.

Kaupas and Ficarello are the two Republican candidates in the primary. There are three candidates in the Democratic primary.

closure of the Jefferson Street Bridge at the end of last year, when planned maintenance led to lengthy repair work.

Nathan Nemanich. Honors: Alex Esparza, Alexander Gregurich.

Sixth-grade high honors went to: Alberto Perfecto.

will hold a Scotch Doubles bowling night beginning at 8:30 p.m. Feb. 1.

Admission is $25 a person and includes three games, shoe rental and tableside snacks and pizza.

Proceeds from the event benefit the JTHS athletic programs, activity and athletics director Chris Olson said in a news release.

Register by Tuesday. Visit www.jths.org for the registration form. Make checks payable to JT Boosters and send your payment to JTHS District 204, C/O Chris Olson – Bowling, 300 Caterpillar Drive, Joliet.

QUICK NEWS Surprise: Joliet bridge reopens early JOLIET – It was a pleasant surprise for Joliet commuters Tuesday afternoon when the Jackson Street Bridge reopened – just one day after IDOT announced a week-long closure for planned maintenance work.

The Illinois Department of Transportation announced the closure would begin Monday and last until Friday, but IDOT spokeswoman Jae Miller said electrical work was completed sooner than expected.

The state’s early reopening of the bridge follows an extended three-month

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St. Mary Nativity first trimester honor roll St. Mary Nativity School has announced its first trimester honor roll.

Eighth-grade high honors went to: Nia Autman, Samantha Garza, Megan Giaudrone, Petaine Ahonto.

Honors: Trevor Ferguson, Taylyn Paris, Emily Poole.

Seventh-grade high honors went to: Audrey Collofello, Reese Hafner, David Lozano,

Bradley Williams Jazz Trio to perform The Bradley Williams Jazz Trio will perform at Joliet Junior College’s first Musica Viva concert of the year at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Fine Arts Theatre on the Main Campus, 1215 Houbolt Road in Joliet. The public is invited and admission is free.

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ON THE COVER Shirley Smith, owner of Shirley’s Dance Studio, has been teaching dance for 56 years. Smith is seen here posing for a portrait Wednesday at Times III Performing Arts Studio in Joliet. See story page 3.

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DANCE INSTRUCTOR TAKES A BOW Crest Hill honors, celebrates Shirley Smith

By VIKAAS SHANKER vshanker@shawmedia.com CREST HILL – A ballet class 74 years ago witnessed the start of a special homegrown talent in Crest Hill.

It was Shirley Smith’s first dance class at age 3, and she hasn’t stopped dancing since.

“The moment I took that first class I loved it,” Smith said. “I always say, ‘You have to teach them to love the art before you teach them the art.’ ” Smith was honored by the Crest Hill City Council on Tuesday night with a resolution recognizing the 50th anniversary of her dance studio, which has passed down to her daughter and granddaughters and is now known as Times III Performing Arts Academy.

“Shirley’s Dance Studio has become a symbol of the industry and good citizenship of the people who founded Crest Hill and devoted so much of their energy to make the city of Crest Hill a congenial place to live and work,” the resolution stated.

City council members said Smith is an iconic figure in Crest Hill from the work she does shaping children into capable young men and women through dance, to the contributions she gives to the Joliet Kiwanis Club and St. Anne Catholic Church.

Louise Newbury, whose four daughters learned under Smith, now drives her grandson to classes at Times III. She also joins the Times III dance troupe

as a “room mom” to all the international and cross-country competitions.

“She’s an institution,” said Newbury, who has known Smith since 1972. “And we’re all a big family. She teaches respect. And she has transformed kids generation after generation.”

Smith’s daughter and Times III owner Jodi-Ann Kasky took over operations of Shirley’s Dance Studio and changed the name to reflect her own life and philosophy, triplet daughters and the three pillars of dance – ballet, tap and jazz.

But Kasky said her mother is a great role model and still teaches at the studio.

“It’s an honor to be Shirley’s daughter,” Kasky said, explaining that she and her mom collaborate well to progress the dance studio. “She’s like a whole package with everything that she has done. And that’s what I try to give my own children.”

Smith and Kasky’s teaching style involves discipline in more than just dance. Staff at Times III say both of them make sure students show respect to their parents, faith, community and work.

“Working with her, most of all, has taught me responsibility,” said Jenae Prince, a former student of Smith who has stayed as an instructor with Times III for 13 years.

Smith is also deeply involved with the Crest Hill community, earning Woman of the Year honors for St. Anne Catholic

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Shirley Smith (left) poses for a portrait with her daughter, Jodi-Ann Smith (right) and her three granddaughters (front to back) Kelsie, Hailey and Julie-Ann (all 11). Smith opened Shirley’s Dance Studio in 1957 and her daughter took it over in 2005 renaming it Times III Performing Arts Academy where Smith still teaches.

Church last year and directing the Joliet Kiwanis Shows for years.

“Besides being a good teach-

er, she’s a good producer,” said Keith White, chairman of the Theater Department at Lewis University, and a former stu-

dent of Smith.

White met Smith through the Joliet Kiwanis Club shows in the early 1980s. “You know when you work with Shirley, you’re really going to work,” he said.

Smith grew up learning dance, and when she turned 13 she started helping teach classes as a demonstrator. The teaching roles helped Smith earn some money so she could pay for her education.

Smith’s dance career brought her to stages across the country. But while touring in New York, Smith realized she wanted to teach others what she had learned and wanted to stay close to family in Crest Hill. So she came back and started Shirley’s Dance Studio out of her father’s basement in 1957.

When Smith started dancing, ballet, tap and tumbling were the main styles. But through her years of teaching, the instructions evolved to include jazz, hip hop and other dance forms.

“Dance itself hasn’t changed,” Smith said, using ballet as an example of a style that exemplifies classical dance.

“The type of music changed.”

Now, Times III includes several forms of dance.

“What she has done for many of the young people in Crest Hill is unbelievable,” Mayor Ray Soliman said at Tuesday’s council meeting. “Because she not only taught them, she mentored them. And probably now most of them are in professional roles throughout their lives.”

WHAT SHE HAS DONE FOR MANY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN CREST HILL IS UNBELIEVABLE. BECAUSE SHE NOT ONLY TAUGHT THEM, SHE MENTORED THEM. AND PROBABLY NOW MOST OF THEM ARE IN PROFESSIONAL ROLES THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES.” Ray Soliman, Crest Hill mayor

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Plainfield’s Bin 48 to close next month

By ERIC SCHELKOPF eschelkopf@shawmedia.com PLAINFIELD – The Bin 48 Wine Bar and Grille in downtown Plainfield will close next month.

Owner Kathleen Hammack recently announced on Bin 48’s Facebook page that she will be retiring.

The restaurant’s last day will be Feb. 16.

Bin 48, at 24205 W. Lockport St., has been open since 2009. The restaurant’s fiveyear lease expires March 1.

“On behalf of me and my family, I sincerely thank you for the honor of serving you and for all of your support throughout the years,” Hammack said in the message. She could not be reached for comment.

Bin 48 is located across

“On behalf of me and my family, I sincerely thank you for the honor of serving you and for all of your support throughout the years.”

Kathleen Hammack Bin 48 Wine Bar and Grille owner the street from the former Fiesta Mexicana Grill and Cantina, which closed its doors in November.

Bin 48’s menu includes steak, salmon, pasta and burgers. In addition, the restaurant has an extensive wine list. The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner.

“It’s going to be missed,” said Plainfield Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Tasha Menard. “I definitely wish them the best of luck in the future.

It was a very loved restaurant. You would see a lot of people in the summer sitting on their patio.”

The restaurant also has been a strong supporter of the Plainfield Area Chamber of Commerce, Menard said.

“They were a member of the chamber and supported our local events that we put on,” she said.

Menard said she hopes that a new restaurant will open in the building.

“I would like it to stay a restaurant, especially with it being on that end of town,” Menard said.

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Bin 48 Wine Bar and Grille in downtown Plainfield recently announced that it will close Feb. 16 as owner Kathleen Hammack plans to retire. The restaurant, at 24205 W. Lockport St., has been open since 2009.

Joliet increases mandated land donations for parks

By FELIX SARVER fsarver@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Real estate developers can expect to contribute more neighborhood park land in Joliet along with paying engineering review fees for the first time.

City council members approved two ordinances Tuesday amending subdivision regulations allowing for larger park site contributions from developers along with requiring fees for engineering review that assess public roads, sewer systems and lighting in sub-

divisions.

In the past, city officials required developers to make a contribution to park districts consisting of 7.5 acres of land for every 333 lots or dwelling units within residential subdivisions and planned unit developments.

Park district officials have argued that acreage is not enough to address the recreational needs of the neighborhood parks and requested 10 acres for every 333 lots or dwelling units, which city council members granted Tuesday.

At a Nov. 19 council land use committee meeting, Dominic Egizio, Joliet Park District director, made a recommendation to committee members for larger park spaces.

“If you look at the newer subdivisions, the parks are heavily used,” he said at the meeting. “They need to be bigger. We need to have more of them in those subdivisions.”

He said park districts in Channahon, Lockport and New Lenox have park land contributions set at roughly 10 acres.

“If you look at the newer subdivisions, the parks are heavily used. They need to be bigger. We need to have more of them in those subdivisions.”

Dominic Egizio Joliet Park District director For the first time, city officials are now requiring developers to pay engineering review fees. In the past,

the city has absorbed these expenses but constrained budgets and escalating costs have led to officials finding ways to off-set them, according to city records.

City manager James Hock said engineering reviews typically assess the physical structures of a development such as street design or storm water systems.

At the meeting, he said city officials surveyed other local communities and found that Joliet was one of the few that did not charge

potential developers for engineering reviews. “[It’s] not to be too excessive but to cover our expenses,” he said about the fees.

Fees vary depending on what is being reviewed. But a review of a preliminary plat would cost $235 plus $12 per acre. For the final plat, the fee would be equal to 2½ percent of the estimated cost of public improvements within the development. Credit against this fee would be given equal to that paid in the review of the preliminary plat.

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Seven-Day Forecast for Will County TODAY

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Weather History Browning, Mont., had a world record 100-degree-plus change on Jan. 23, 1916. After a morning reading of 44, arctic air dropped the temperature to 56 below zero overnight.

Peotone 7/-6

Kankakee 6/-5

Almanac Joliet Regional Airport through 3 p.m. yesterday Temperatures High/low ................................................... 16°/-7° Normal high/low ...................................... 31°/16° Record high ....................................... 55° in 1986 Record low ....................................... -14° in 1984

Precipitation 24 hours through 3 p.m. yest. ....................... trace Month to date .............................................. 1.42” Normal month to date .................................. 1.33” Year to date ................................................. 1.42” Normal year to date ..................................... 1.33”

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New city manager meets with Joliet business community

By LAUREN LEONE–CROSS lleonecross@shawmedia.com When Russ Slinkard, chief executive of the Joliet Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry, first got word last year that Thomas Thanas was vacating his position as city manager, he took his concerns to the city council.

“Thanas had worked so closely with the business community and the county, and you just never know if that is going to be picked up by the next person,” Slinkard said Wednesday on his meeting with council members last year.

But Slinkard said he is no longer concerned after Wednesday’s chamber of commerce luncheon at Harrah’s Casino, where the new city manager, Jim Hock, presented his economic development plans for the city.

Slinkard said he thinks Hock is on track to accomplish what Thanas, a longtime Joliet resident and a former city attorney, had set out to do.

“I feel confident things are right on track. He’s really on top of things and without missing a beat,” Slinkard said.

Wednesday marked Hock’s second meeting with the city’s business community, but his first as city manager.

“I attended the luncheon they had last month,” Hock said. “That was Thanas’ last day, and I was starting the next day, so he did the presentation.”

Hock gave business leaders an update on the city’s plans to revitalize the downtown area, including

“I feel confident things are right on track.

He’s really on top of things and without missing a beat.”

Russ Slinkard chief executive of the Joliet Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry building a new transit center, installing fiber optic, and opening up Chicago Street to run through the downtown area.

Hock said the city hired a parking consultant for “just under $20,000” to advise the city on how to prepare for the future.

An analysis is likely to include advice on whether the city should continue with paid meter parking on the streets. The study is expected to take about six weeks, he said.

Shawn West, the newly appointed executive director of Will-Grundy Medical Center, questioned Hock on whether he has given academic institutions enough say in the planning.

“I know they want to attract businesses but you have to have a well-educated workforce. I didn’t really see any components to address that,” West said.

“What’s happening is we’ve got great schools here, but unfortunately some of the students come here, get a great education, and then leave to go to Chicago.”

Hock sat at a table with several state and city officials, including Slinkard, Arvid Johnson, president of University of St. Francis, State Sen. Pat McGuire, D-Joliet, Lawrence Johnson, vice president of Silver Cross Foundation, Joliet

Mayor Thomas Giarrante, along with others.

Hock said Wednesday he’s working with the council in developing a strategic plan for Joliet. He said once the plan is formed, it will be plugged into the budget so the city is spending money appropriately.

Hock came to Joliet

from Carpentersville, where he was the community development director, and previously was city manager in Park Ridge. A Michigan native, he served as assistant city manager in Sterling Heights, a city with a 130,000 population and a large industrial base and that’s on the outskirts of Detroit.

Hock said Sterling Heights has some similarities to Joliet in demographics, economy and geography. Hock, who lived in Arlington Heights before becoming city manager, said Wednesday he moved into a place located in the city center just last week.

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Crest Hill: Buy your stickers and tags Price goes up after March 31

By VIKAAS SHANKER vshanker@shawmedia.com CREST HILL – City officials are urging Crest Hill residents to buy and display mandatory vehicle stickers and animal tags, which are on sale at the clerk’s office until March 31.

Residents are required by city ordinance to buy and display 2014 vehicle stickers for every vehicle they own in the city after March 31. Stickers must be bought and displayed within 30 days of obtaining a vehicle, or within 30 days of moving inside the city limits.

Not displaying the sticker after March 31 will

result in a $50 penalty fee added to each sticker cost.

The costs for each type of vehicle are $10 a automobile, $4 a moped, $8 a motorcycle, $2 a antique car on display or storage, and $2 a household with senior citizens.

Costs for trucks are $10 a Class A-B, $40 a Class C-F, $45 a Class G-K, and $50 a Class L-R. Residents also are required to buy tags for their cats or dogs. The tags must be attached to a leash worn by the pet within city limits. Animal tags are $5 a pet.

There are many ways to buy the stickers and tags.

Residents can buy the

ticket in person at the clerk’s office at city hall, mail an application with all the correct information to the clerk’s office, place the application and payment in the white drop box in front of city hall, or purchase the stickers at the Hillcrest Currency Exchange at 1701 N. Larkin Avenue for an additional $2 fee.

The clerk’s office is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“We are giving extended hours to those who want to wait,” City Clerk Vicki Hackney said.

Extended hours are from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

March 22, and from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. March 31.

Frankfort reports progress on two utility projects THE HERALD–NEWS FRANKFORT – The village this week announced updates on two utility projects.

Work on two water main replacement projects should be completed this spring, the village said.

The bid for the work was approved this week.

Water mains will be replaced on Evergreen Drive in the Krusemark subdivision and on St. Andrew’s Way in the Prestwick subdivision.

The foundation has been installed for a new

water tower at 80th Avenue and Steger Road, which is to be completed in spring 2015. The village said the $5 million project is on schedule.

Construction at the site will include a well house to be bid out later this year and built in 2015.

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Fire hits luxury home on Merganser Court

By BRIAN STANLEY bstanley@shawmedia.com PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP – No one was injured when a fire caused serious damage to a luxury home Wednesday.

Damage was estimated at between $300,000 and $400,000.

Deputy Fire Chief Jon Stratton said residents smelled smoke earlier, but some time passed before they called 911 at 9:39 a.m. suspecting fire was in the chimney chase area of the fireplace.

“That appears to be where it originated,” Stratton said.

Residents were able to escape before firefighters arrived at the two-story home on Merganser Court.

“We saw light smoke from the chimney stack when we arrived, but opened up the walls and found heavy fire within,” Stratton said.

Fire also spread between levels. Stratton said one firefighter fell through the second floor but was able to stop himself before falling to the floor below.

Stratton estimated the house sustained between $300,000 and $400,000 worth of damage.

Fire destroys vacant Plainfield Township building

By BRIAN STANLEY bstanley@shawmedia.com PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP – Fire destroyed a vacant sheet metal building Tuesday night.

Deputy Fire Chief Jon Stratton said the building

in the 2400 block of Plainfield Road was being renovated.

“They had some plumbing work done earlier in the day and later smelled smoke. It looks like [the fire] got inside the walls,” Stratton said.

The fire was reported about 6:15 p.m. and crews arrived to find heavy smoke coming from inside, Stratton said. No one was injured.

The building is owned by J & M Truck Rental, which operates next door. A J & M

employee said Wednesday the building was scheduled to be rented in February.

The last occupant of the building was CarHop, a used-car dealer specializing in customers with bad credit that opened in August 2012 and closed last year.

NEWS BRIEFS College financial aid workshops set Joliet West High School will host a financial aid presentation and FAFSA workshop at 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, in the Joliet West auditorium, at 401 N. Larkin Ave. The presentation will cover the many forms of financial aid available to students such as grants, scholarships, work study and loans and how to apply for each.

The FAFSA Completion Workshop will be at 6 p.m.

Feb. 4, in the Joliet West Computer Labs.

The workshop will provide families the opportunity to complete the FAFSA with assistance from staff.

To fill out the FAFSA, applicants must bring their Social Security number, records of income such as tax

forms, information about assets like savings and stock information, a driver’s license, proof of date of birth, month and year of marriage, separation, divorce, or other change of marital status and Alien Registration Number if the student is not a U.S. citizen.

Participants must sign up for the workshop. Email Christine Ebenroth at cebenroth@jths.org to reserve a spot.

Community blood drive planned for Feb. 5 JOLIET – The Will County State’s Attorney’s Office will partner with Heartland Blood Centers and local mom Jennifer Babec to host a community blood drive from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 5, at the Will County State’s Attorney’s Office, 121 N. Chicago St., Joliet.

Heartland’s mobile coaches will be parked in the state’s attorney’s office lot directly across the street from the Rialto Square Theatre in downtown Joliet.

Appointments can be made by calling Jennifer Babec at 815-325-4282, or by visiting Heartland Blood Centers online at www.heartlandbc. org.

Walk-in donors also will be welcome on the day of the blood drive. Donations take about 30 minutes.

Police continue to investigate river death JOLIET – Police are asking the public for any information about a man whose body was found in the Des Plaines River in October.

Shortly before 5 p.m. Oct. 26, a barge crew saw the body of Leslie Bridges, 24, floating in the east side

of the river, north of the Interstate 80 bridge.

Det. Patrick Schumacher said Wednesday police are still investigating the cause of his death and the circumstances surrounding how his body got into the water.

Schumacher said Bridges was residing at Daybreak Shelter at the time of his death, but he and many of his associates are from the south side of Chicago.

“He also frequented Evergreen Terrace and Bicentennial Park, so he may have been there shortly before his death,” Schumacher said.

Schumacher said investigators did not find any signs Bridges was despondent before his death.

Anyone with information is asked to call Schumacher at 815-724-3039.

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Arrest made in gas station robbery

By BRIAN STANLEY bstanley@shawmedia.com

Michael Hale

UNIVERSITY PARK – Police say the man who held up a gas station Tuesday evening was caught a few blocks away.

Chief Ed Bradley said about 5:30 p.m. a man wearing a sweatshirt with the hood pulled over his head walked into Speedway, 24520 Western Ave., and showed a gun to the cashier.

After taking money from the register, the bandit fled on foot.

No employees or customers were injured, Bradley said.

“The employees did exactly what they were sup-

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Fire leaves 4 homeless

By BRIAN STANLEY

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Smoke is seen rising from a fire-damaged house in the 700 block of Patterson Road.

posed to and contacted us immediately so we could start searching the area,” Bradley said.

Police found Michael D. Hale, 43, hiding in a wooded area about 20 minutes later.

“We found the money, we

found the gun and he was positively identified by witnesses,” Bradley said.

Hale, of the 1700 block of South Dixie Trail in Crete, was arrested on a charge of armed robbery and booked into the county jail.

Former publisher instrumental in Bolingbrook Park District

By BOB OKON

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JOLIET TOWNSHIP – Four people were left homeless Tuesday after fire damaged a house on Patterson Road.

East Joliet Deputy Fire Chief Kirk Kelly said firefighters found heavy smoke and flames when they arrived about 5:30 p.m. at the one-story structure in the 700 block. Kelly said one person was home when fire broke out, but was able to escape without injury.

“It took us about 30 minutes to get under control and caused heavy smoke and fire damage,” Kelly said.

Investigators believe the blaze started from an electrical cord, Kelly said.

The Red Cross arranged lodging for the residents Tuesday night.

Barbara A. Kovach, a co-publisher of the former Beacon newspapers who was instrumental in the development of the Bolingbrook Park District, diedDec. 29, 2013, at her home in Sun City, Ariz.

Barbara, and the late Joseph Kovach, acquired the Beacon, which was a newsletter at the time, in the early 1960s when they moved to Bolingbrook from Massachusetts.

“They turned it into their livelihood,” daughter Kim Kovach told The Herald-News. “When they started it, it was done in our house.”

The Kovaches eventually moved the business office into Romeoville.

The Beacon had editions in Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Lockport and Lemont at one point, Kovach said. They sold the business in the early 1980s.

The couple did not have previous newspaper experience and had met in school while studying physical therapy in Massachusetts, Kovach said.

“They had a variety of interest and jobs, but the newspapers became their career,” Kovach said.

“Dad loved the writing, and mom loved the selling.”

BarbaBarbara A. ra Kovach Kovach handled the sales end of the business, while Joseph ran the editorial part of the newspaper, her daughter said.

Kovach also was very active in the community. She led the referendum effort to create the Bolingbrook Park District in 1970, according to the news release. She served on the park board from 1970 to 1977 and was board

president from 1972 to 1973.

“Both my parents wanted a community to raise children in,” Kovach said. “The Beacon was their business, but it also facilitated making sure the community they were raising their kids in was a good community.”

The couple traveled after selling the newspaper, which became part of the Sun Newspaper Group in Romeoville before ceasing publication in 2010.

Barbara and Joseph Kovach divorced in 1989. Barbara eventually moved to Arizona in 1994 and remained active in a variety of interests while also serving as board president for the West Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Glendale, Ariz.

She is survived by daughters, Karen Kovach, Kandi Kovach and Kim, and numerous relations.

A daughter, Katti, died in 1968 from leukemia.

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Morris aldermen dispute over city bill Larson, Feeney disagree over phone system

By CHRISTINA CHAPMAN–VAN YPEREN cchapman@shawmedia.com MORRIS – Two of the city’s aldermen got into a heated discussion Monday night regarding the payment of a bill.

Last month, Alder man Randy Larson voted against the payment of a bill of more than $5,000 to Black Box Network Services, the city’s phone system. The payment is for a maintenance contract for the system.

Larson is the head of the Building and Grounds Committee, which is the oversight committee for the Morris Municipal Services Facility where the phone system is used. Because of this, Larson has to approve it.

Alderman Brian Feeney asked about where this situation stood just before the close of the Morris City Council meeting.

“I’m trying to work on a better contract,” Larson said. “If you want to approve it Mr. Feeney, you can.”

Feeney expressed concern that the city might be at risk right now if the system was to malfunction

“I’m trying to work on a better contract. If you want to approve it Mr. Feeney, you can.”

Randy Larson Morris alderman and the bill was not paid.

“I’m just saying we need some type of protection,” Feeney said.

Larson replied that he was reassured the city’s insurance would cover any costs if a major incident was to occur.

He said he has been working with the company for the last month to see if some adjustments can be made. Most recently, he was passed on to another employee he said and is waiting to hear back.

Larson’s issue is that the bill is high compared to how much maintenance the city has actually required. Last year, he said the city used it about seven times, which does not equate to how much the city pays in for the maintenance contract.

“As the system gets older, the more likely there will be problems,” said Al-

derman Bill Martin. “And I think it is imperative that the police department [always has phones].”

Larson agreed, but said he does not want the city paying anymore than it has to.

Feeney asked City Attorney Scott Belt if the council could approve the payment of the bill. Belt said if it is on the agenda in the future, the bill could be voted on, but it could not Monday because it was not an agenda item.

In other business, the council also officially approved City Clerk John Enger’s resignation effective Feb. 3.

Enger announced earlier this month he is resigning because of health issues. In spring 2013, Enger was out of work for several months because of illness, but returned in the fall.

Enger first started with the city in 1977 as the city treasurer, which he held until spring 1981 when he was elected as Third Ward alderman. His first term as alderman ended in 1985 at which time he was re-elected. But after about two years, he resigned to become city clerk in 1987.

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Grundy to update comprehensive plan

By JESSICA BOURQUE

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jbourque@shawmedia.com MORRIS – Grundy County opened its doors to business owners, residents and municipalities Wednesday when it held a series of comprehensive plan workshops to gather input from all of the county’s stakeholders.

“It’s very important that this plan expresses what everyone wants so we need their input,” said Heidi Miller, Grundy County interim administrator.

Thanks to a $250,000 Ike grant from the state, Grundy County is updating its comprehensive plan for the first time since 2005.

The plan is being drafted by Chicago consulting firm Houseal Lavigne and will be based on input from residents, businesses and municipalities. The 20-year plan will outline specific improvements and strategies for land use, transportation, facilities, parks and other areas.

“We’re seeing a tale of two counties in Grundy County,” said Douglas Hammel, senior associate for Houseal Lavigne. “The county is facing an interesting identity crisis.”

Hammel said keeping the balance between industrial development and rural character is a major concern for several of the Grundy County stakeholders they have talked to.

Another is creating more economic development and lowering unemployment.

“Grundy is a community that’s really on the edge,” Hammel said. “It’s on the next frontier of the Chicago region.”

Hammel, and fellow associate Jaemi Jackson, held three interactive

n Who: Grundy County resi-

dents and business owners. n Why: To be involved in the county’s planning process and provide data for the new plan. n How: The survey can be found at www.hlplanning.com/ portals/grundy. n When: The survey will close within the next two weeks.

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ABOVE: Representatives from various Grundy County municipalities came to the county’s comprehensive plan workshop Wednesday. The county is updating it’s plan for the first time since 2005.

RIGHT: Grundy County Board Chairman Ron Severson (left), Interim Administrator Heidi Miller and other board members pinpointed development projects on a Grundy County map during one of three comprehensive plan workshops Wednesday. workshops Wednesday, including the visioning workshop, which was open to residents. The first two were for businesses and municipalities.

Representatives from Coal City, Morris, Braceville, South Wilmington, Minooka and Mazon attended the municipal meeting and brainstormed a list of about 20 issues the county needs to address in the plan.

Some of the most prominent issues discussed were economic development and collaboration between the county and municipalities.

“Once we can identify the challenges and issues, we can start coming up with solutions,” Hammel said during the meeting.

The county also has set up an online survey for residents and businesses so the county can gather more

data and input to consider when drafting the plan.

The survey will close in a few weeks, but until then, it can be found on the Grundy County comprehensive plan website, www.hlplanning.com/portals/grundy.

The plan is long overdue for an update as it has been nine years since the county has re-evaluated their comprehensive plan.

“Typically, you should

update the plan every 5 to 10 years, but it is very, very expensive,” Miller said.

The plan is being funded with $125,000 from the $250,000 Community Development Block Grant the county received in 2008.

CDBG Disaster Recovery Program – commonly known as the “Ike” program – was started in 2009 to help communities address disaster relief, resto-

ration and economic revitalization in areas affected by natural disasters in 2008.

The 2008 flood that affected the Coal City and Morris areas caused the Illinois River to crest at a record of 24.84 feet and qualified Grundy County for an Ike grant.

“This money is coming back in order to work on the drainage system, but as a stipulation, they also wanted the county to update their comprehensive plan,” Miller said.

The $250,000 grant was split in half with $125,000 funding the Claypool Drainage drainage project in Coal City and remaining funds going toward drafting the new comprehensive plan.

The county has been working on the plan since it’s initial meeting Dec. 9 and is almost done with the data-gathering and public outreach phase, Miller said.

With the data that is gathered, Houseal Lavigne will develop preliminary recommendations for the county to review. After the recommendations are reviewed, Hammel said they will release a public draft of the plan that can be commented on by Grundy residents.

“The plan is for 15 to 20 years, but we hope it will be updated every two to three years,” Hammel said.

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OBITUARIES SHARQUECE LASHIRL BAKER Born: July 19, 1997; in Joliet Died: Jan. 18, 2014; in Joliet Sharquece LaShirl Baker ”Shar”, born July 19, 1997, to Johnny and Rosie Baker, Shirley Walsh and Kevin Underwood, Sr. at Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, IL. She departed her life suddenly on January 18, 2014.

She confessed Christ at an early age. She was a student of Joliet West High School, where she was an avid basketball player.

Sharquece had awesome knowledge of the Bible. She will be greatly missed by those who knew and loved her.

Sharquece was preceded in death by her cousin, Keyshaunna Lucas, her father, Kevin Underwood, Sr., one uncle; maternal and paternal grandparents.

She leaves to cherish her memories; her mothers; Rosie Baker and Shirley Walsh, her father, Johnny Baker, sisters; LaShell (Stan) Abbott, Mary Baker, Mary Underwood, Iisha and Takya Dingle, brothers; Jimmy (Stephanie) Baker, and Kevin Underwood, Jr., aunts; Serena, Sylvia (Ronald) Hanko, Tambra Lindsey, Joyce Moore, Wilma (Minister Joseph) Smith, of Joliet, IL and Detrich and Valerie of Kankakee, IL, uncles; Robert (Marlene) Walsh, John (Rowena) Lindsey, Martin Moore and Johnny (Evelyn) Walsh, 15 nieces, and nephews, special friends; Jade, Tyler, Tre, Jainae, special nephew; DyJon Abbott, special cousins; Jaida Anderson and Robert Johnson and a host of family and friends.

Visitation will be held on Friday, January 24, 2014 10:00AM to 12:00 noon at St. Paul M.B. Church, 1404 S. Briggs St., Joliet, IL. Service at 12:00 noon, Pastor Edward Martin, Jr., officiating. Interment following at Elmhurst Cemetery, Joliet, IL. Minor-Morris Funeral Home 112 Richards St. (815) 723-1283

CHRISTINE B. BENINGO Christine B. Beningo, age 93, passed away peacefully Saturday, January 18, 2014, at Presences St. Joseph Medical Center.

Survived by her son-in-law Michael (the late Eleanor) Horkey; 3 grandsons Jonathan, Todd, and Adam Horkey.

Preceded in death by her husband John Beningo.

Funeral Service Friday, January 24, 2014, at 7:30 pm at the Woodlawn Funeral Home. Father Jankowski Officiating. Private entombment Woodlawn Memorial Park I. Visitation Friday January 24, 2014 6:00 pm until time of service.

In lieu of flowers memorials to the Horkey family would be appreciated.

LOUISE BETTI Louise “Tootsie” Betti, passed away peacefully at Sunny Hill Nursing Home, Saturday, January 18, 2014. Age 90.

Survived by a niece, Pamela (Elwood) Dixon of Jennings, LA; two cousins, Adrianna Vidmar and Sylvia Smeets.

Preceded in death by her parents Ausilio “Bacco” and Mary (nee Visconti) Betti; a brother, Dominic Betti; and a sister-in-law, Josie Betti.

Born Valentines Day in 1923, and a lifelong Joliet resident. She was a longtime caregiver to her mother Mary. A member of the Church of St. Anthony, the Altar and Rosary Guild. A longtime resident at Sunny Hill.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at the Church of St. Anthony, 100 Scott Street, on Friday, January 24, 2014, at 10:00 AM. Interment Resurrection Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials to

OBITUARIES , the Joliet Area Community Hospice will be appreciated. Visitation will be held at the church from 9:00 AM until the time of services.

7, ily in Custer Park. He attended country grade school, graduated from Reed Custer High Class of 1951, then joined the United States Army between the years of 1953-1956.

On April 11, 1959 he married his wife of 54 years, Marilyn (nee Davito) Campbell.

Dick retired from Com Ed, following 35 years of employment, plus farmed on the family farm with his dad, Roy W. Campbell. Lifetime JOSEPH A. BRAGG, JR. member of the Will County Farm Bureau, member and usher at St. Born: Oct. 26, 1969; Joliet, IL Died: Jan. 18, 2014; Shorewood, IL Rose of Lima Catholic Church, Custer Park Grade School Board, Braidwood Knights of Columbus Joseph A. Bragg, #1574, lifetime member of the age 44, passed National Rifle Association, the away Saturday, National and State Trappers January 18, 2014.

Association, and the Wilmington Born October 26, 1969 in Joliet,IL. Life Bowling League. He enjoyed Trapshooting and in 1959 won 1st long resident of Shorwood, IL. Preceeded in death by his father, place at the Illinois Farm Bureau Doubles Shoot and in 1962 won 2nd Joseph A Bragg Sr.; paternal place in the Illinois Farm Bureau grandparents, Adolphus Bragg, Individual Shoot.

Pauline Bragg Duelly; maternal In 2008, Richard had a stroke that grandparents, Ira Cox and Edith heavily paralyzed his right side. He Cox. enjoyed driving his John Deere Survived by his loving mother, gator, planting his garden, picking Martha Bragg (nee Cox); sister, his asparagus, and “shooting Donna (Joe) Kren; brother, Daniel (Carla) Bragg; nieces and nephews, orders.” His work was never done.

In 2010 he was diagnosed with Tamra, John, Michael Kren; Aidan, bone cancer.

Terrick, Zyler, Easton Bragg; Richard donated most of his numerous uncles, aunts and garden produce. He loved his farm, cousins. had a great sense of humor, and Memorial Service will be held was a devoted caregiver to family Saturday, January 25, 2014 at members.

11:00am at Minooka Bible Church, Surviving are his devoted wife, 412 North Wabena, Minooka, IL Marilyn (Davito) Campbell; loving 60447 children, Susan (Douglas) Carrier of In lieu of flowers, the family is Naperville, IL, Sally (Daryl) Stohl of accepting donations to help with Ottawa, IL, and Daniel Roy (Kelli funeral costs.

Leasure) Campbell of Bethesda, MD; cherished grandfather of Kyle RICHARD W. CAMPBELL Beyer, Amy Beyer, Melissa Beyer, Jonathan Carrier, Stephan Carrier, Born: Oct. 24, 1933; Coal City, IL Died: Jan. 21, 2014; Custer Park, IL Morgan Campbell, Henry Richard Campbell, and Christopher Stohl; very fond brother-in-law of Pat (late Richard W. Ken) Anderson of Joliet, IL, Donald Campbell - “Doc” Davito of Port Richey, FL, Jack “Dick” Age 80, of (Ginny) Davito of Fort Lauderdale, Custer Park, IL, FL, Diane (John) Bohrer of Joliet, and passed away peacefully at home Karen Taylor of Mesa, AZ; and sisters, Diane (Frank) Jirousek and with his family at Joyce (Joe) Palermo. his side on Preceding him in death are his Tuesday, January parents, Roy (2006) and Lorene 21, 2014.

Born October 24, (1991); in-laws, John Davito (1989) 1933 in Coal City, IL and Mary (nee Higgins) Davito to the late Roy and (1997).

Visitation will be at the R.W. Lorene (nee Menietto) Campbell. At the age of 7, Richard moved to the family farm

Thursday, January 23, 2014 • Page 15 Patterson Funeral Homes, Ltd. & Crematory, Braidwood Chapel, Friday, January 24, 2104, from 3:007:00 p.m. Family and friends will meet at the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, Saturday, January 25, at 10:00 a.m. for Mass of Christian Burial with Rev. Steve Bondi officiating. Interment with military honors will be at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Braidwood, IL. Please omit flowers. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts in his name may be directed to Hospice of Kankakee Valley, St. Rose Parochial School, or Donor's Choice.

For more information and to sign his online guestbook, please log onto www.rwpattersonfuneral homes.com.

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ROSE A. CASTELLI Rose A. Castelli (nee Wlodarski), Age 83, entered eternal life on Tuesday, January 21, 2014.

Rose is survived by her beloved children, Richard Kroviak, Mike Kroviak, Carol (Anthony) Doszak, John (Connie) Kroviak, Mary (Phil) DiGrazia, and Virginia (Steve) Wojtonik; cherished grandchildren, Michelle Wilhelmi, Jessica Mrozek, Candi and Philip Juarez, Tina Kilgore, Phillip K. and Kristina DiGrazia, and Brandon Lorenz; also survived by numerous great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Preceded in death by her parents, Felix and Agnes Wlodarski; loving daughter, Janice Kroviak; William S. Kroviak; and Marino Castelli.

Rose spent many years working as a seamstress for Continental Cleaners, Minarich Bridals, Tom's House of Beauty, and White Carriage Bridals. Rose was also a member of the Slovenian Women's Union Branch #20. Rose loved to bowl and she especially enjoyed polka dancing at the Knights of Columbus and the Slovenian Home.

She will be greatly missed by all who knew her.

Special thanks to the staff at Meadowbrook Manor and Edward Hospital for the exceptional care provided.

A Celebration of Rose's life will begin on Saturday, January 25, 2014 with prayers in the funeral home chapel beginning at 10:30 a.m. then driving in procession to St. Anne Catholic Church in Crest Hill for a Mass of Christian Burial to be held at 11:00 a.m. Interment to follow at Woodlawn Memorial Park. Visitation will take place, Friday, January 24, 2014 from 2:00 p.m. until 9:00 pm at Tezak Funeral Home, 1211 Plainfield Road, Joliet, 60435.

Obituary and Tribute Wall for Rose A. Castelli at www.tezakfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements entrusted to:

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, 20 , b 4:00PM and 8:00PM, at Reeves Funeral Home, 75 North Broadway (one block North of Illinois Route 113) in Coal City. A memorial service will follow Friday morning, January 24th, at 10:00AM in the funeral home. Inurnment with full military honors will be in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood.

Online guest book: www.ReevesFuneral.com Cremation services and memorial arrangements have been made under the direction and care of Reeves Funeral Homes, Ltd. in Coal City. 815-634-2125

The Herald-News / TheHerald-News.com h, , both of Kankakee, IL, uncles; Robert Walsh, John (Rowena) Lindsey, Martin Moore, all of Joliet, Anthony (Evelyn) Walsh of Holiday, Florida, her special friends; Xavier Travis, Alan Ferguson, special cousins; Iisha Dingle, Shaniqua Williams, and a host of family and friends.

Visitation will be held on Friday, January 24, 2014 10:00AM to 12:00 noon at St. Paul M.B. Church, 1404 S. Briggs St., Joliet, IL. Service at 12:00 noon, Pastor Edward Martin, Jr., officiating. Interment following at Elmhurst Cemetery, Joliet, IL. Minor-Morris Funeral Home 112 Richards St. (815) 723-1283

WARREN E. DUNBAR Born: Sept. 7, 1935; Joliet, IL Died: Jan. 21, 2014; Morris, IL Warren E. Dunbar, age 78, of Goose Lake, and formerly Joliet and Phillips, Wisconsin, passed away Tuesday January 21, 2014, at Morris Hospital.

Born September 7, 1935 in Joliet, Warren was a son of the late George and Dorothy BarnettDunbar. He was raised in Joliet and honorably served in the United States Army. Warren retired from Gardner Warehouse in Joliet and will be remembered for his enjoyment of hunting and fishing.

Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Shirley; whom he married on May 29, 1958; two sons, Mike (Cindy) Dunbar of Goose Lake and Ed (Laurie) Dunbar of Braceville; three grandchildren, Michael, Jr. (Callie) Dunbar of Goose Lake, Jennifer (Keith) Munsell of Minooka and Bailey Dunbar of Gardner; one great granddaughter, Emily Munsell; four brothers and two sisters, Art (Marie) Dunbar, Harry (Ruby) Dunbar, Roy (Mickey) Dunbar, Darlene (George) Ballantine, Mary (Jack) Quirk and Robert Dunbar; and three sisters-in-law, Kay Dunbar, Diane Dunbar and Mary Lou Dunbar; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Warren was preceded in death by his parents; and brothers and sisters, Dorothy (Bliss) Olsen, George Dunbar, Harold Dunbar, Francis (Donna) Dunbar, Jerry Dunbar and Barbara Dunbar.

Cremation rites have been accorded and the family will receive friends TODAY, Thursday, January 23, 2014, between the hours of

d many nie phew Preceded by parents; and one sister, Edith Rogers.

A Memorial Service for Nancy will be held on Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at Plainfield United Methodist Church, 15114 S. Illinois St., Plainfield, IL, where visitation will be held from 1:00 p.m. until time of services. The Rev. Dr. Eun-Hye Choi will officiate.

Memorials in her name to Plainfield United Methodist Church, Joliet Area Community Hospice or Alzheimers Association would be appreciated.

Arrangements by Fred C. Dames Funeral Home. For more information: (815) 741-5500 or www.fredcdames.com

NANCY L. PALMER Born: Sept. 19, 1934; Joliet, IL Died: Jan. 16, 2014; Bolingbrook, IL Nancy L. Palmer (nee Fox), age 79.

Formerly of Elwood and Plainfield, Born: Feb. 15, 1993 passed away Died: Jan. 18, 2014 Thursday, January 16, 2014 at Meadowbrook Manor, Bolingbrook.

Keyshaunna Born September 19, 1934 in Joliet, Lashay Lucas she was the daughter of Frederick ”Monte”, born February 15, 1993 to and Fern (nee Donisch) Fox, and was a 1952 graduate of Joliet Keith Lucas and Township High School. She was a Sylvia (Ronald) member of Plainfield United Hanko. She Methodist Church and a former departed this life suddenly, Saturday, member of Richard Street Methodist Church of Joliet.

January 18, 2014 due to injuries Nancy was a devoted mother, sustained in an automobile grandmother and greataccident. She confessed Christ at an early age. She was a student at grandmother and will be remembered as a wonderful Joliet Junior College. She was homemaker who loved to bake and employed at Willow Home Care. garden.

She will be greatly missed by Surviving are her five children, those who knew and loved her.

Ken (Kristine) Vallrugo of Sarasota, Keyshaunna was preceded in FL, Cheryl (Bill) Reichert of Minooka, death by her cousin, Sharquece Baker, brother, Keith Lucas, Jr., one Mark "Luke" (Maribeth) Palmer of Plainfield, Gwen (Brad) Ullrich of uncle, maternal and paternal Phoenix, AZ and Dawn (Jay) grandparents.

Johnson of Carefree, AZ; 12 She leaves to cherish her memories; her parents, Ronald and grandchildren, Christiee, Chase, Stephanie, Dane and Ashley Sylvia Hanko (Walsh), her father, Keith Lucas, Sr., two sisters; Tamika Vallrugo, Kylie Underhill, Corey Schoenwald, Breanne Reichert, Walsh, Bridgett Lucas, brothers; Marissa and Zack Palmer, Isabella Keith Lucas, Anthony Lucas, Ullrich and Max Johnson; two greatDemario Waddell, her nieces, grandchildren, Zoey Underhill Tanzania, Keiontae, Diamond, Kamilia, two nephews; Maki, Kamar, Weber and Ryder Schoenwald; one brother, Robert (Dee) Fox of Bull her aunts; Rosie (Johnny) Baker, Shoals, AR; two sisters, Fern Sarena (Keith) Walsh, Tambra (George) Angelos of Plainfield and Lindsey, Joyce Moore, Wilma JoAnn (Rolla) Moore of New Lenox; (Joseph) Smith, all of Joliet, IL, and many nieces and nephews.

Detrich Walsh, Valerie Walsh, both

KEYSHAUNNA LASHAY LUCAS

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8OBITUARIES LILLIAN R. VANDARAKIS

(815) 741-5500.

Born: March 23, 1935; Cicero, IL Died: January 19, 2014; Joliet, IL

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Illinois House Speaker W. Robert Blair II bangs the gavel Jan. 7, 1975, during the 78th General Assembly in Springfield.

Blair, who was elected to the Illinois House in 1964 and served as speaker from 1971 to 1975, has died at age 83.

Former Ill. House Speaker Blair dies

By KERRY LESTER The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – Former House Speaker W. Robert Blair II, who helped modernize the Illinois Legislature and swiftly established a legacy as a visionary unafraid to ruffle feathers, has died, his wife said Tuesday. He was 83.

Blair was elected to the Illinois House in 1964 and served as speaker from 1971 to 1975. His tenure was known in part for efforts to expand staff, make in-depth research more easily accessible to members and for his push to establish the Regional Transportation Authority.

Blair died Saturday following a long illness, his wife Rozanne Blair told The Associated Press.

Former Gov. Jim Edgar, who worked for Blair from 1972-73, said Blair commanded respect for his political courage at a time when the role of speaker was often a revolving door.

“Next to (former Gov.) Jim Thompson, he was the brightest guy I dealt with in Springfield,” Edgar told the AP. “He had a good

understanding of the big picture.”

Kent Redfield, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Springfield, said Blair had the foresight to understand that the growing Chicago region needed a stable transportation system coordinated under one umbrella.

That plan was particularly unpopular among constituents in the suburban district he represented, many of whom felt they were footing the bill for Chicago’s transportation problems. Blair was voted out of office in 1974, the year the Watergate scandal propelled Democrats across the country into office.

As speaker, Blair also pushed through spending of nearly $1 million on Capitol renovations.

Steve Brown, spokesman for House Speaker Michael Madigan, recalled a visit by Blair to see recent statehouse refurbishments.

“He made a lot of positive comments and recalled the time he spent years ago,” Brown said.

Blair is also remembered for surviving a fierce challenge to the speakership by then-Rep. Henry Hyde in 1973. Hyde later went on

to serve in Congress for 30 years, steering the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton.

“It was as brutal of a speaker battle as you’d ever had,” Edgar said.

Mike Lawrence, a longtime statehouse reporter and former director of Southern Illinois University’s Paul Simon Institute, described Blair as both “cunning” and “colorful.”

“Those qualities may not have put him at the top of the good-government list, but they helped make him very effective in the legislative arena,” Lawrence said.

Yet, the House’s method of using cumulative voting to elect members, along with the unpopularity of his RTA push, made Blair’s speaker as tenure brief.

Born in Clarksburg, W. Va., Blair moved to Illinois in 1955, after graduating from West Virginia University. In addition to his time in the Legislature, he served in the Air Force, ran a real estate company, and served as chairman of the Illinois Transportation Study Commission.

Lillian R. Vandarakis (nee Bolz) Age 78.

Beloved wife and mother passed away Sunday, January 19, 2014 at Presence St. Joseph Hospice with her family by her side.

Born in Cicero, IL, March 23, 1935 to the late Eric H. Bolz, Sr. and Ruth H. Krause (nee Kaehlert), she moved to Joliet in her youth.

Lil was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Gus Vandarakis whom she married November 16, 1958 at All Saints Greek Orthodox Church; dear mother of Angelo Evan (Phyllis) of Joliet, Connie Michael of Philadelphia, PA, Toni Lynn of Joliet, and Dimitria "Dee" (Pam) of Lombard; loving Oma of Maggie and Mali Fenning (Connie); sister of Eric H. Bolz, Jr. (Joan) of Colorado Springs, CO, Elmer (Eva) Bolz of Security, CO, Bob (Carol) Bolz of Crest Hill and Skip (Donna) Bolz of Wilmington.

Preceded in death by her brothers, Wayne, Emil, Dutch (Gloria) and Bruce; loved by many nieces and nephews.

Lil left a supervisor position at Illinois Bell to raise her family. She proudly earned her G.E.D. In 1971, after deferring High School to raise her four younger brothers. While Lil was able, she enjoyed painting, ceramics, knitting, crocheting, and cross-stitch. She had an eye for fashion, flowers, and jewelry. She was an avid reader and Jeopardy player. A gracious host and cook, Lil loved laughing with family and friends. She will be missed by all.

Funeral Services for Lillian R. Vandarakis will be Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 9:15 a.m. from the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black at Essington Rds., Joliet, to All Saints Greek Orthodox Church for services at 10:00 a.m. Interment Woodlawn Memorial Park.

In lieu of flowers, memorials in her name to All Saints Greek Orthodox Church or Presence Hospice would be appreciated.

Visitation Friday 3:00-7:00 p.m. with Trisagion Services at 5:00 p.m. at the funeral home. For information

IN MEMORIAM

Edward “Spike” Ambrozich 10/2/25 – 1/23/06 Our love is a bond that can never be broken, by distance, time, or even death.

Love forever, wife Dolores

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Illinois Medicaid pursues housing as health care

By CARLA K. JOHNSON The Associated Press CHICAGO – Broderick Alexander lived on the streets for more than two years in Chicago, but since 2005, he has slept in his own apartment. A case manager visits once a month, helping the 48-yearold set goals as part of a program that links housing to health care.

Knowing he has a safe place to return at night, Alexander said, helps him focus on taking his medications and staying out of the emergency room.

“My five- to seven-year goal is to become independent of all social service programs and leave this housing opportunity for someone else to have,” Alexander said, adding that he is looking for a job as a commercial truck driver.

Since the 1990s, a movement toward housing-ashealth care that started in New York City has spread to several cities, including Chicago, Seattle and

Toronto. In Illinois, Gov. Pat Quinn now wants to expand such supportive housing – typically apartments with subsidized rent and help from social workers – by using federal and state Medicaid dollars.

Quinn’s administration is making its pitch by promising future savings in health care costs. Federal rules don’t allow states to build housing or pay rent with federal Medicaid money, but states can seek permission to try new approaches.

At a legislative committee hearing held Wednesday in Chicago, officials said the Quinn administration’s entire Medicaid waiver proposal – which goes beyond housing to restructure much of the state’s Medicaid system – would bring in, if approved, $3.2 billion in new federal funds over five years.

Illinois will post its proposal online Feb. 7, then public feedback will be taken for 30 days before the plan is sent to federal Med-

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Broderick Alexander, 48, sits Friday in his apartment on Chicago’s west side. Alexander lived on the streets for more than two years, but since 2005, he’s slept in his own apartment. icaid officials on March 10.

“The ability to stabilize people in housing is very important. We view it as critical to the success of our efforts,” said Illinois Deputy Gov. Cristal Thom-

as, who is leading the initiative for the governor’s office.

The idea is to target poor adults who are homeless or living in institutions because of disabilities, such

as severe mental illness or substance abuse. Although the research is mixed on whether the approach saves taxpayer dollars when housing costs are included, some studies have

2013, but officials say there’s more work to be done.

vehicles.

According to the National Weather Service, lows will hover just above zero in Chicago until Friday.

Illinois Tollway officials say drivers should stay with their vehicle if it breaks down and call motorist assistance at *999, Illinois Tollway dispatch or Illinois State Police.

Officials remind drivers to keep cellphones charged, tires properly inflated and gas tanks at least half full

in winter weather. They also suggest keeping a cold weather safety kit in the car that includes gloves, boots, blankets, water and a flashlight.

shown it can save money in health care by reducing emergency room visits and hospital stays.

The Illinois plan sketches out how insurance companies with Medicaid contracts could get financial bonuses for finding housing and support teams for homeless and institutionalized patients. The plan is one piece of a 78-page draft Medicaid waiver that needs fleshing out before it’s submitted for federal approval.

The Illinois Medicaid program covers 2.8 million people with a budget of $17.8 billion. With an expansion of Medicaid under the new federal health care law, the program could soon cover 3 million poor and disabled Illinois residents – and the waiver being sought by the state would touch almost all those people.

Quinn last week created the Office of Health Innovation and Transformation to oversee the waiver and coordinate the program’s numerous parts.

NEWS BRIEFS Kirk announces bill to combat gang violence CHICAGO – U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk says a new federal spending bill includes about $18.5 million in additional money to combat gang violence.

Kirk was joined by Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and other Illinois law enforcement officials at a news conference Tuesday in Chicago.

Kirk said Illinois leads the

country in gang members per capita. The Illinois Republican said “it is time the federal government steps up and provides our local police with the assistance they need to stop violence.”

The money will be used to target gangs of “national significance.”

Kirk has been pushing for several months for more federal resources to combat gangs, particularly in Chicago.

The city’s murder rate fell in

Tollway deploys extra help for drivers CHICAGO – The Illinois Tollway is offering assistance to drivers as it gets colder this week.

Officials say their “Zero Weather Road Patrols” will be out during the week when temperatures or wind chills fall below zero. The patrols look for drivers in disabled

U of I honors Roger Ebert’s journalism CHAMPAIGN – The University of Illinois will honor the late film critic Roger Ebert with its 2014 Illinois Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism.

The university says Ebert’s

widow, Chaz Ebert, will accept the award at a Feb. 11 ceremony in Chicago.

Winners are chosen by university journalism faculty but Ebert is the first University of Illinois graduate to receive it.

Past winners include former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.

In 1975 he won the first Pulitzer awarded to a film critic.

– Wire reports

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Syrian peace talks stuck over Assad’s future

By LORI HINNANT and MATTHEW LEE The Associated Press

MONTREUX, Switzerland – Furiously divided from the start, representatives of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the rebellion against him threatened Wednesday to collapse a peace conference intended to lead them out of civil war.

Assad’s future in the country devastated by three years of bloodshed was at the heart of the sparring, which took place against a pristine Alpine backdrop as Syrian forces and rebel fighters clashed across a wide area from Aleppo and Idlib in the north to Daraa in the south.

U.S. and U.N. officials said merely getting the two sides in the same room was something of a victory, but U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon’s claim that the discussions were “harmonious and constructive” was at odds with the testy exchange when he

tried to get the podium from Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem.

“You live in New York. I live in Syria,” Moallem angrily told Ban. “I have the right to give the Syrian version here in this forum. After three years of suffering, this is my right.”

With little common ground, the two sides were to meet separately Thursday with a U.N. negotiator, Lakhdar Brahimi, who said he still did not know if they were ready to sit at the same table when talks begin in earnest Friday. But, Brahimi said, both sides had shown some willingness to bend on local cease-fires and delivery of humanitarian aid, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said they were also working on possible terms for a prisoner exchange.

The Western-backed opposition said Assad’s departure was their starting point, echoing the position laid out by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

“The resolution cannot be about one man’s – or one family’s – insistence on clinging to power,” Kerry said.

The response from the government delegation was firm and blunt.

“There will be no transfer of power, and President Bashar Assad is staying,” Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi told reporters.

The two sides seemed impossibly far apart in opening statements in the Swiss city of Montreux, famed for its stunning mountain views and mellow jazz festival. The waterfront road was barricaded by roadblocks and hundreds of security forces, with boats patrolling the shores of Lake Geneva day and night.

The small-town venue was chosen in haste when a watchmakers’ convention left Geneva hotels booked.

That made for some potentially awkward encounters – some of the opposition

were staying in the same hotel as the Syrian government delegates, as were the Americans.

Complicating matters, Assad’s delegates and the Western-backed opposition Syrian National Coalition both claimed to speak for the Syrian people. But the coalition has little sway with rebel brigades, who largely oppose talks with the government. And the government, Kerry said, has no legitimacy or loyalty among people devastated by war.

Overshadowing the conference was Ban’s last-minute decision to invite – and then disinvite – Iran, which has funneled billions of dollars and Shiite fighters to Assad. Syria’s civil war has become a proxy battle for regional dominance between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which funds many of the Islamist rebel movements and which Assad accuses of supporting al-Qaida-inspired militants streaming into Syria.

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures at a news conference Wednesday during the Syrian peace talks in Montreux, Switzerland. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened the meeting saying that the peace talks will face “formidable” challenges for Syria. Ban called on the Syrian government and the opposition trying to overthrow it to negotiate in good faith.

Threat about Sochi attacks considered a hoax

By ANGELA CHARLTON and PABLO GORONDI The Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary – Threats to a string of European Olympic offices are reviving a question that has haunted preparations for the Winter Games next month: Is it safe to go to Sochi?

European Olympic authorities, whose countries have faced terrorist threats and attacks in the past, largely shrugged off the

new menacing messages as a hoax, a marginal phenomenon that security experts say is common ahead of big events.

Some members of the U.S. Congress aren’t so sure. They say Russia isn’t doing enough to assure that athletes will be protected at the Feb. 7-23 games, happening not far from an Islamic insurgency that Russia’s huge security apparatus has struggled for two decades to quell.

Russia may run greater

risks in towns outside the tightly controlled Olympic zone. Suicide bombs last month a few hundred miles away have increased concerns, and an Islamic warlord has urged his followers to attack the Sochi Olympics, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s pet project.

The threats reported Wednesday appeared to be more anodyne.

They were first revealed

by Hungarian sports officials, who announced

they had received an email in Russian and English threatening Hungarian athletes with terrorist attacks.

The International Olympic Committee insisted it takes credible threats seriously, but “in this case it seems like the email sent to the Hungarian Olympic Committee contains no threat and appears to be a random message from a member of the public.”

International Olympic Committee President

Thomas Bach said he remains confident in Russia’s Olympic organizers.

Talking to reporters in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, he said: “Security is always a matter of concern, not only in the Olympic Games but at every big event, whether it’s sport or any other. That is unfortunately the world we are living in.

“But we are very confident and we know the Russian authorities together with their many partners

internationally are doing everything to organize the games in a safe and secure way.”

The Hungarian Olympic Committee said it had received a message from the organizers of the Sochi Games saying: “Threat described in the email sent to your address is not real.”

It turned out that Olympic committees from several other European countries had received similar messages but hadn’t publicly reported them.

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NEWS BRIEFS Obama targets college assault epidemic WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama shone a light Wednesday on a college sexual assault epidemic that is often shrouded in secrecy, with victims fearing stigma, police poorly trained to investigate and universities reluctant to disclose the violence.

A White House report highlights a stunning prevalence of rape on college campuses, with 1 in 5 female students assaulted while only 1 in 8 student victims report it.

“No one is more at risk of being raped or sexually assaulted than women at our nation’s colleges and universities,” said the report by the White House Council on Women and Girls.

Nearly 22 million American

women and 1.6 million men have been raped in their lifetimes, according to the report.

The report said campus sexual assaults are fueled by drinking and drug use that can incapacitate victims, often at student parties at the hands of someone they know.

Perpetrators often are serial offenders. One study cited by the report found that 7 percent of college men admitted to attempting rape, and 63 percent of those men admitted to multiple offenses, averaging six rapes each.

Illinois short on propane supplies CHICAGO – Wet fall weather and the recent cold spells have combined to put a pinch on Illinois’ propane supplies, causing distribu-

tion problems across the state.

Propane distributors have traveled as far as Mississippi and Kansas to keep up with demand, the Springfield bureau of Lee Enterprises Newspapers reported.

John Tibbs, the director of education and safety for Illinois Propane Gas association, said he’s “going to be scared to death” if cold weather persists for the next couple weeks.

If cold temperatures continue, people who use propane to heat their homes could experience some negative effects. Nationwide, the blast of winter weather is sapping fuel supplies. Propane users are hit hardest by the fuel shortages, some paying up to $100 to $200

more per fill-up.

Michael McCafferty, a propane expert at Platts, an energy information provider, said the wholesale spot price of propane rose 70 percent between Friday and Tuesday to a record $2.45 per gallon.

two regions on Ceres.

The observations, published in Thursday’s issue of Nature, come as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is set to arrive at the Texas-sized dwarf planet next year.

Telescope spies water plumes on Ceres

WASHINGTON – Child car seats would for the first time have to protect children from death and injury in side-impact crashes under regulations the government proposed Wednesday.

The proposal by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would upgrade standards for child seats for children weighing up to 40 pounds to include a new test that simulates a side crash. The agency

LOS ANGELES – The largest object in the asteroid belt just got more attractive: Scientists have confirmed signs of water on the dwarf planet Ceres, one of the few bodies in the solar system to hold that distinction.

Peering through the Herschel Space Observatory, a team led by the European Space Agency detected water plumes spewing from

Rules sought to make child car seats safer

estimates the standards will prevent the deaths of about five children and injuries to 64 others each year.

“Car seats are an essential tool for keeping young children safe in vehicles, and they have a proven track record of saving lives,” NHTSA Acting Administrator David Friedman told a gathering of automotive engineers.

Under the proposal, the new tests will simulate a “T-bone” crash, where the front of a vehicle traveling 30 mph strikes the side of a small passenger vehicle traveling at 15 mph.

NHTSA’s research has shown “these speeds will cover over 90 percent of the side-impact crashes seen in the real world,” Friedman said.

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NEWS BRIEFS WSD releases February schedule JOLIET – Workforce Services Division of Will County has announced the February schedule of its workshops for job seekers, according to a news release from the county.

• Standout Resumes will be offered at 10:30 a.m.

Feb. 5. Attendees will learn the basics of creating a competitive resume and may then schedule one-onone resume reviews with WSD staff.

• A session on job search skills, Master Your Job Search, will be offered at 2 p.m. Feb. 13.

• Networking Your Way to a New Job will help job seekers learn how to develop relationships and contacts with relatives, friends and acquaintances that can assist with the job search. The class also includes the use of social media in networking. The workshop will be held at 10 a.m. Feb. 19.

• How to Complete Online Applications will cover the basics of submitting an online application that will help an applicant get noticed by a hiring manager. The workshop will be offered at 2 p.m. Feb. 20.

• Participants will learn interviewing techniques at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 26, in Successful Interviewing. Learn how to prepare for a job interview, be confident and make a positive impression.

Attendees may schedule an individual, digitally recorded mock interview after completing the workshop.

• A LinkedIn Lab will be offered at 9 a.m. Feb. 28.

Participants should already have a basic LinkedIn account. During the lab, they will review LinkedIn features and best practices for success in finding a job.

• Career Café will meet at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesdays.

Career Café is a networking event designed to connect people looking for work. In addition to sharing tips with other job seekers and learning job search techniques, participants will hear from guest speakers sharing their hiring expertise.

All workshops will be held on the fourth floor of the JJC City Center Campus building at 214 N. Ottawa St. and are offered at no cost for Will County residents. Workshops last about an hour.

To reserve a seat, call 815-727-4444 and press “0” or email chellis@willcountyillinois.com.

WSD’s computer lab will be open at 10:30 a.m.

Thursdays and 2 p.m. Fridays. Walk-ins are welcome at computer labs.

For additional information about the Workforce Services Division of Will County, visit www.jobs4people.org.

MWC releases its February schedule JOLIET – The Mobile Workforce Center’s schedule for February has been announced by the Workforce Services Division of Will County.

The mobile unit travels throughout Will County to

help residents with resume development, cover letters and job applications, according to a news release from the county. The workforce center contains 11 computer stations, has internet access and offers keyboarding lessons, as well as resume and job search assistance using online listings including jobs4people. org and Illinois workNet. MWC will not operate on Lincoln’s Birthday, Feb. 12, or Presidents’ Day, Feb. 17.

• The unit will be at Bolingbrook IDES, 321 Quadrangle Drive, Bolingbrook, from 9:30 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3:30 p.m. on Mondays, except Feb. 17.

• It will be at the main entrance to Governors State University, 1 University Parkway, University Park, from 9:30 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3 p.m. on Tuesdays.

• Plainfield Public Library, 15025 S. Illinois St., Plainfield, will host the unit from 9:30 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3:30 p.m. on Wednesdays except for Feb. 12.

• MWC can be found at Wilmington City Hall, 1165 S. Water St., Wilmington, from 9:30 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3 p.m. on Thursdays.

• It will be at Mokena Community Public Library, 11327 W. 195th St., Mokena, from 9:30 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3 p.m. on Fridays.

The service is offered at no cost to County residents.

For additional information about the Workforce Services Division of Will County, visit www.jobs4people.org.

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States weigh labeling genetically altered food

By DAVID KLEPPER The Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. – In the absence of federal regulation, states from Rhode Island to Hawaii are considering laws to require labels on food items containing genetically modified ingredients.

Currently, only Connecticut and Maine have laws requiring labels for genetically modified food.

But those requirements won’t kick in until other states adopt their own rules. Bills to do just that are expected in more than two dozen states.

Seventy percent of processed foods contain at least one ingredient made or derived from genetically modified crops, known as GMOs, according to the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest.

The industry-backed Grocery Manufacturers Association puts the number between 70 and 80 percent.

Genetic modifications to a plant can improve its quality, hardiness or

resistance to pests or disease. Scientific studies have found no evidence that GMOs are more harmful than foods without genetic modifications, but those pushing for label requirements point to the value in the information itself.

“I don’t know if it’s harmful or unhealthy, but it’s something people have a right to know about,” said Rhode Island state Rep. Dennis Canario, a Democrat sponsoring a labeling bill.

The proposals are opposed by biotechnology companies and many agricultural groups, who say genetic engineering has yielded more sustainable, affordable and productive farming around the globe.

Business groups worry that labeling requirements would raise costs for food producers – and ultimately consumers – and raise unnecessary fears.

“This is mainstream agriculture,” said Karen Batra, a spokeswoman with BIO, a biotechnolo-

gy trade association. “It is how our food is grown, and it’s how the vast majority of our commodity crops are grown. There’s never been a single reported medical incident related to the consumption of these foods.”

Voters in California and Washington rejected ballot proposals in the past two years that would have required GMO labeling.

And in New Hampshire, state lawmakers defeated a GMO labeling bill Wednesday. Among other arguments, opponents said any labeling requirements would likely face a legal challenge.

“If you believe genetic modification produces food that has a health risk, then you’re saying the FDA should be the one to label it,” said New Hampshire state Rep. Linda Lauer, a Democrat and a retired chemist. “And if there’s no health risk, then why are you requiring a label?”

The issue may be decided in Washington.

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The longest holiday At last, the holiday season that began on Halloween will finally come to a close with Super Bowl Sunday. You may say it’s not a holiday because most of us get Sunday off anyway, but la-la-la-la, I can’t hear you, it’s a holiday. After that we must wait two entire weeks, a fortnight, 14 days, before we get another long weekend for Presidents’ Day. But then THE VILLAGE you’ll have to wait IDIOT until Memorial Day Jim Mullen to really relax.

Unless, like me, you choose to celebrate and honor local and religious holidays by not going to work on Texas Independence Day, Casimir Pulaski Day, Mardi Gras, St. Patrick’s Day, Maryland Day, Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day, Cesar Chavez Day, Seward’s Day, Pascua Florida Day, Father Damien Day, Maundy Thursday, Patriot’s Day, San Jacinto Day, Oklahoma Day, Arbor Day, several Confederate Memorial Days, Law Day, Rhode Island Independence Day, Cinco de Mayo, Truman Day, Mother’s Day, Armed Forces Day, Harvey Milk Day and National Maritime Day. Sorry, I had to leave out a few to save a forest.

All together, I counted 36 holy days, name days and observance days between Presidents’ Day and Memorial Day – and that’s not counting the ones that fall on the weekends, such as Easter.

If you do celebrate Mardi Gras, do you really think you’re going to make it to work on Ash Wednesday?

Not if you’re doing it right. But the Super Bowl is different. It’s the one holiday where you can overeat and over-drink and wager on football.

Whoops, I forgot: That’s pretty much true for Thanksgiving and New Year’s, too. Or any day they play football. Maybe this year someone will finally come up with a Super Bowl snack that rivals the Turducken of Thanksgiving. Instead of turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken, they’ll invent the Sauguaco: a sausage stuffed with guacamole stuffed with nachos.

But the real difference between the Super Bowl and other holidays is that you’re supposed to show up at work the next day and talk about it. When people ask you if you had a nice Christmas, you could say almost anything and it would work, because after all, whose business is it that you had a fight with your son-inlaw and will never see your grandchildren again?

Who’s to know if your wife didn’t like the exercise bicycle you bought her?

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The War on Poverty, success or failure?

Earlier this month – Jan. 8 – marked the 50th birthday of Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” and it should surprise next to no one that both parties are trying to exploit the issue in their own unique if predictable ways, not just because they care in ways large or small about the plight of the poor but because ... well, did we mention that 2014 is an election year?

Where more than a few conservatives and Republicans are concerned, LBJ’s Great Society has been an abysmal failure, creating a crippling dependence on government while defining America’s slide into socialism, as evidenced by a record number of poor Americans, nearly 47 million. The poor, they argue, are worse off than they were in 1964, and

middle class taxpayers are, too.

More than a few liberals and Democrats would beg to differ, arguing that given the nation’s population growth – 125 million – the percentage of poor in fact has dropped in the last 50 years. Poverty is a relative thing, with America’s poor far better off, for the most part, than their counterparts around the world. For them, the programs created and/or expanded in the context of LBJ’s War on Poverty – Head Start, food stamps, unemployment compensation, Medicaid, etc. – have been a critical safety net and a lifeline that has put millions who otherwise wouldn’t have had a prayer over the top.

There is an element of truth in what both sides have to say, as

well as an element of self-serving, vote-counting nonsense.

From this vantage, Republicans have a steeper hill to climb in mounting the pedestal inscribed “Pals of the Poor,” especially following a 2012 presidential election in which their nominee expressed contempt for the so-called “47 percent” of Americans he considered “takers” rather than “makers.” Since then the party has sought significant cuts in programs that serve the underprivileged, such as food stamps.

There’s some validity in the old saw that teaching a man to fish is far preferable in the long run to giving him a fish to eat, but when you balk at funding even for job training programs, it starts to ring hollow.

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In about 100 years, will IF YOU NEED TO LOSE LESS every day be a holiday?

• VIEWS Continued from page 22 But the Super Bowl, you better have your facts straight. The only excuse for missing work on Super Bowl Monday is that you didn’t watch it – or you watched something else.

Or maybe that’s your job, figuring out what to put on TV opposite the Super Bowl. Commercials that sell for a $1 million a minute on the Super Bowl must cost pennies on the other stations. It must be infomercial heaven. Can I

hear a “ShamWow!” Most of us are wise enough to use the bathroom during the game and not to go during precious commercials.

Someone can always tell you about the plays and the scores, but the commercials have to be seen. I missed one last year and people had to explain to me that I had to buy this brand of beer because the horses that pull the wagons have good memories.

If that doesn’t make sense, you haven’t had enough beer.

As big as football is

in this country, someday soccer may equal or surpass it, and certainly our national heroes will still pass away.

Which makes me wonder: How many holidays will there be a hundred years from now? Will every day be a holiday? Will every weekend be three days? Will every weekend need decorations on the outside of the house?

But in a hundred years, maybe we’ll celebrate some holidays differently. Like by showing up for work.

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We now have ive states that allow aid in dying, a.k.a. physician-assisted-suicide, to terminally ill patients who wish it.

Admittedly, this is a complicated moral issue, but it is an issue that is not going to go away.

It is something that deserves to be analyzed and discussed in a “marketplace of ideas” such as The Herald-News editorial page.

Is it moral to believe: My life. My death. My choice? Or is it an affront to God and man?

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BOYS BASKETBALL: LINCOLN WAY-CENTRAL 48, JOLIET CATHOLIC 37

Bass, Mampe lift LW Central past JCA

By DICK GOSS dgoss@shawmedia.com JOLIET – With starting guard Alex Parks sidelined with an ankle injury, Lincoln-Way Central went to more of a two-man game on the offensive end. It could not have worked out better.

Brad Bass and Kevin Mampe combined for 44 points Wednesday night as the Knights overcame a slow start and beat nonconference foe Joliet Catholic, 48-37.

Parks has been averaging about 15 points and was a key in other aspects of Central’s attack. The Knights (9-7) had lost four of their previous five in his absence.

“We worked the highand-low game real well with me and Mampe,” said the 6-foot-7 Bass. “We changed things up and went more to that with Parks out, and our twoman game, with kickouts to our other guys, worked real well.”

Bass also grabbed 12 rebounds and Mampe seven, helping Central to a 37-24 advantage on the boards.

“We didn’t finish of-

fensively and we didn’t go to the offensive boards enough,” Joliet Catholic coach Joe Gura said. “But part of that was we played so hard on the defensive end.

“We had a hard time guarding Bass. We wanted to keep the game in the 40s, and we did. We wanted to compete, and we did.”

Bass presented the double whammy. He was a load down low for the smaller Hilltoppers (7-12), and he stepped out and nailed a few jump shots.

“I thought our other guys did a good job understanding their roles,” Central coach Bob Curran said. “They did a good job getting the ball to Mampe and Bass where they could finish, and they played good defense.”

And how. The Hilltoppers, whose two-game win streak ended, shot 21.6 percent on 8-of-37 over the final three quarters.

“They did have some good looks,” said Curran, whose team trailed 13-4 early and took the lead for good midway through the third quarter. “But the last three quarters, our defense got them fur-

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Lincoln-Way Central’s Brad Bass does a layup during the second half of a game Wednesday against Joliet Catholic at Joliet Catholic. Central defeated Joliet, 48-37. ther off the three-point line.”

“We weren’t getting on their shooters early on,” Bass said. “They gave us a pump fake and got us in the air.”

Colton Kolowski led Joliet Catholic with 12 points and Nick Dalesandro and Jalen Jackson chipped in with nine.

Dalesandro had eight and Kolowski five early on, when the Hilltoppers grabbed their 13-4 lead.

“If we had hit some of the layups we missed in the second quarter, and if our good jump shooters had hit some open jump-

ers in the third quarter, we would have been right there,” Gura said. “We wanted to start fast and we did, but after that we couldn’t get the ball to go in.”

Curran said the Knights considered it “one of those 50-50 games” that can go either way.

“We have a lot more of those coming up, and some teams are a little better than us and we’ll have to try to steal those,” he said.

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Plainfield North sights set on SPC title, 6 more Young, but experienced Tigers riding 7-game win streak VIEWS Dick Goss Plainfield North boys basketball is 14-3 overall and tied with Plainfield South at 5-1 for the Southwest Prairie Conference lead.

Watch the Tigers go about their business, and you come away feeling they have the ingredients to make noise in the postseason.

Trevor Stumpe is a scorer and a solid allaround player. Jake Nowak and Kevin Krieger supply plenty of offensive support. Cody Conway does what he is asked in the post. Isaiah Webster is a veteran point guard, and the bench is more than adequate.

Conway is 6-7, Stumpe 6-5, Krieger 6-4 and Nowak 6-3. Kyle Speas, who backs up Conway, is 6-6. So the length is there.

However, height and strength are not necessarily synonymous.

Lemont had just dropped a 63-46 decision Monday to North in the Joliet Central MLK Day of Hoops. Indians coach Rick Runaas complimented the Tigers but noted they may need to get stronger in order to play on an elite level.

He speaks from experience. He had solid teams the last couple of seasons, led by point guard Juozas Balciunas.

“North played strong against us and they are well coached, but when you go into regional and

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ABOVE: Plainfield North’s Jake Nowak goes up for a layup during the second half of a game against Lemont in the Martin Luther King Day of Hoops at Joliet Central High School on Monday.

RIGHT: Plainfield North’s Trevor Stumpe drives towards the basket during the first half of a game against Lemont during the Martin Luther King Day of Hoops at Joliet Central High School sectional play on the 3A and 4A level, it’s a different game,” Runaas said.

Webster and reserve forward Abdallah Mitchell are the only seniors

on the Tigers’ roster, and Krieger and Speas are sophomores. The other nine are juniors. Yet, North entered the season sporting a good amount of

varsity experience.

“Sometimes, like I tell my kids, being a year older does not make you a year better,” Runaas said. “But if these kids (at

North) get stronger, they may be able to play at an elite level before they’re through.”

One thing the Tigers do is spin the scoreboard.

They are not shy about getting the ball down the floor and taking advantage of opportunities.

They are excellent as a team shooting the three.

“We have a lot of shooters,” Nowak said. “If one guy isn’t shooting well, others will.”

The Tigers won their last three games at the Pontiac Holiday Tournament to claim the consolation title and ignite what now is a seven-game winning streak.

“Winning the consolation title at Pontiac was

a mental boost for us,” Nowak said. “But we haven’t really thought about how many wins we have or what kind of streak we’re on. That’s not our concern.”

“Winning the conference title is the first goal of many,” Stumpe said. “We want to win the regional and play for the sectional championship and maybe win that.”

Bob Krahulik moved up from coaching the North sophomore team to take over the varsity this season, after Nick DiForti left to replace Luke Yaklich at Joliet West. Krahulik said he enjoys opportunities in midseason to face a different opponent such as Lemont.

“Next year we are supposed to play Sandburg here,” he said. “We see the same styles over and over in our conference.

It’s good to see a different style once in a while.”

“It’s always good to play people who don’t know you and you don’t know,” Stumpe said.

The Tigers will visit Minooka, always a difficult assignment, Friday night and then will see another of those different foes in Saturday’s nonconference game at Lincoln-Way East.

Whether this weekend helps build momentum toward an SPC title and a postseason run is to be determined. But these Tigers are accomplished beyond their years, and most will be around for at least another season and a half.

It’s an enviable position to be in.

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MORRIS

Dance team set to host sectional

By T.G. SMITH

Class 2A Minonk Sectional

tsmith@shawmedia.com Competitive dance is a relatively new sport as far as the Illinois High School Association goes. For the performers at Morris Community High School, having a successful pom-pom team is anything but new.

After all, the Redskins dance squad is regularly announced as the “33 time state champions” when the locals perform at home games, having earned that by competing in other organizations like TDI, IDTA and UDA in the past.

Last year was the first time the IHSA hosted competitive dance as a state-sanctioned event and declared it an official sport.

This year, the Redskins will be hosting its own 47team sectional with the top six teams in Class 1A, 2A and 3A advancing to the state finals at the U.S. Cellular Coliseum in Bloomington.

“We are very excited for the advantage to perform on our home court,” Morris coach Becky Struck said. “The energy in the gym from the Morris fans should be a great motivator for the girls to give a topnotch performance.”

Last year Morris won the Class 2A Minonk Sectional with a team score of 86.37 and then ended seventh overall down in Bloomington with a score of 81.06. The Redskins are hoping for a repeat of that sectional performance.

“I think it’s really exciting and cool that we get to do it. Performing in front of everybody at home. I think we’re going to get a lot of supporters,” Morris senior captain Molli Aldrich said.

n Who: 47 teams from three

different classifications n What: IHSA Competitive Dance Sectional n Where: Morris Community High School n When: 10 a.m. Saturday, running through approximately 5 p.m.

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Led by Morris captains Molli Aldrich (front left), Ashley Gibson and Peighton Shannon (second row from left), the Redskins’ competitive dance team is ready to defend its sectional championship.

“I feel like traveling is much more stressful because you are not familiar with where you are at. We’re hoping that’s an advantage. We’re just going to go out and do our best.”

Aldrich said the Morris dance team has been working to perfect it’s lone routine for the IHSA. “We’re doing Poison for the IHSA. It’s strictly that one dance and we’ve been getting feedback after every competition and we’ve been trying to correct everything we can and so far that’s worked,” she said. “After every competition we’ve gotten higher and higher scores and hopefully we can continue that. I think we’re ready to go.”

“This year, we have been really looking at the IHSA rubric and focusing on perfecting a solid routine. We have competed twice so far, and we have tweaked the dance both times after looking at the judges’ scoresheets. IHSA is dificult because our pom routine competes against many other types of dance ...”

Becky Struck Morris coach Struck said the team has been working and learning the new association’s scoring.

“This year, we have been really looking at the IHSA rubric and focusing on perfecting a solid routine,” she said. “We have

competed twice so far, and we have tweaked the dance both times after looking at the judges’ scoresheets.

IHSA is difficult because our pom routine competes against many other types of dances. There is no separation of categories like

in other competitive dance circuits [TDI, IDTA, UDA].”

Morris will be competing in Class 1A and neighboring Minooka also will be there and dancing in Class 3A, as well.

“At sectionals, we will be competing against 16 other teams who will be bringing all different types of performances, and only the top six qualify for state,” Struck said. “There is a little bit of added pressure since we will be defending our sectional win from last year. I know the girls are very excited about performing on our home court.”

In terms of hosting the event itself, Morris athletic director George Dergo said he is hoping the competi-

tion runs as smoothly as last year’s Northern Illinois Big 12 event. An event that earned MCHS high praise for the way it ran.

“Last year we hosted the first NIB12 Conference competitive dance event. One of our judges for that competition is a top IHSA official who plays a major role in the IHSA competitive dance panels and forums,” Dergo said about getting the bid to host the sectional. “While she was here, she toured our facilities and our set up is very favorable for a competitive dance competition and coach Struck ran a smooth competition. I would have to think that was a big factor. Another factor in our favor is our location. We are very accessible with limited travel for many schools. This will be one of only five sectionals in the state. It will really test our organization and manpower.”

The event begins at 10 a.m. with the Class 1A competition running through 11:52 a.m., then Class 2A starts at 12:32 p.m. and finishes at 2:03 p.m. Class 3A ends the day running from 2:43 p.m. through approximately 5 p.m. Morris will run its routine at 10:14 a.m. and Minooka performs at 3:25 p.m.

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Secondary scoring key to Joliet Catholic’s success

By ALEX SOULIER asoulier@shawmedia.com CHICAGO – It’s no secret that the engine powering Joliet Catholic’s welloiled offensive machine is McDonald’s All American nominee Jasmine Lumpkin.

But, as competition stiffens and defenses zero in – and, possibly double-team – Michigan State commit, it’s the Angels supporting cast that will keep the wheels turning down the home stretch and in the Class 3A playoffs.

While Lumpkin leads the East Suburban Catholic Conference in scoring, averaging 18 points in seven league games, she is not the sole proprietor of Joliet Catholic’s unblemished, 20-0 overall standing.

Underclassmen Nicole Ekhomu and Ty Battle are not only logging substantial minutes on a nightly basis, the duo ranks second and third on the team in scoring, each averaging around 10 points per game

over seven ESCC contests.

Holding Lumpkin off the scoresheet is a nearly impossible feat, but Joliet Catholic head coach Ed Schodrof knows that the teams needs secondary scoring in order to succeed.

“I’d say that about 95 percent of the teams we face try to jam the middle and jam Jasmine,” Joliet Catholic head coach Ed Schodrof said. “When that happens, it’s crucial that we get contributions from the rest of our starters and our bench.”

A 5-foot-9 sophomore guard whose sister, Christina Ekhomu, is one just four seniors on the Angels’ roster, Nicole Ekhomu has grown into her role as playmaker while developing her scoring touch.

In her second year on varsity, Nicole Ekhomu is scoring at a 10.4 points per game clip while facing East Suburban Catholic competition. Moreover, the standout sophomore was named MVP at Hillcrest Holiday Classic after

collecting 25 points, five rebounds and five assists in the championship game, an emphatic 77-60 win over Bolingbrook.

Schodrof attests that Ekhomu’s scoring prowess is her biggest asset, but she is far from a one dimensional player.

“She is quickly rounding out into a very complete player,” Schodrof said. “She is a strong defender, she works hard, and she has great vision.”

Ekhomu agrees that she is seeing the court much better this season.

“This year, I am much more capable of spotting the cutters and hitting open players,” Ekhomu said. “Instead of driving the lane and forcing up and shot, I am now creating offense and picking my spots.”

Meanwhile, Battle is a new face on the 2013-14 Angels squad.

One of three freshman who made the immediate jump from middle school basketball to the Joliet

Catholic varsity team, the 6-foot forward gives Joliet Catholic an inside presence and an ability to slow the game down – a stark contrast to their typical run-and-gun style.

Battle – who is averaging 10.1 points against conference opponents – says that her teammates have made the transition very manageable and allowed here to mature as a player.

“These girls have really helped me adjust to the speed and physicality of varsity play,” Battle said.

“It’s a joy to play with such skilled athletes – they set met up, and my job is to be strong and finish.”

Joliet Catholic notched it’s 20th victory of the season Tuesday in dominating fashion.

The Angels outscored Marist 18-3 in the second quarter, breaking open a hard fought game and cruising to a 69-52 victory.

It was Joliet Catholic’s seventh East Suburban Catholic Conference win this season.

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Plainfield’s Norris earns weekly honor at Dubuque STAFF REPORTS CEDAR RAPIDS – University of Dubuque sophomore forward Andre Norris, a Plainfield Central graduate, was named Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Athlete of the Week for the week ending Sunday.

Norris had 17 points and 10 rebounds on 8-of-12 shooting with three assists and two blocked shots in a 79-69 win over Luther.

He added 13 points and eight rebounds in a 65-63 win over Buena Vista. His traditional three-point play with 11 seconds to go erased a one-point deficit

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Boys basketball Lockport 56, Lincoln-Way North 45: John Campbell scored 18 points for Lockport in the nonconference game.

Peotone 60, Wilmington 28: Andrew Marganski scored 23 points and grabbed eight rebounds for Peotone (9-7, 4-3 in Interstate Eight).

Girls basketball Coal City 42, Seneca 28: Emily Halliday scored 14 points and Britta Spelde 10 for Coal City (20-0, 7-0 Interstate Eight). Nicole Borgetti chipped in with eight points and Madyson Bun-

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Andrew 58, Lincoln-Way Central 46: Lincoln-Way Central fell to 9-9 overall and 4-3 in the SouthWest Suburban Red with the conference loss.

Wrestling Lockport splits: Lockport went 2-1 in a quadrangular meet. The Porters beat Metea Valley 49-21, lost to Glenbard North 31-26 and beat Bradley 52-19.

Trevell Timmons (145), Vincent Dietz (160) and Tyler Johnson all won three matches for the Porters.

Johnson won twice at 195 and once at 220.

Swimming Stagg 104.5, Lockport 79.5:

Lockport winners were Jacob Jagodzinski (200 IM), Steven Howell (50 free), Michael Howell (diving), Jacob Speechley (100 fly) and Eric Johnson (500 free).

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8BEARS INSIDER / BY HUB ARKUSH

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Free agency shaping up draft Long before the Bears get around to the NFL draft, they will have to decide what participation, if any, they will have in NFL free agency, which will begin March 11.

On offense, they have to decide whether to retain backup quarterbacks Josh McCown and Jordan Palmer, and starting center Roberto Garza.

On defense, Henry Melton, Corey Wootton, Nate Collins, D.J. Williams, James Anderson, Major Wright and Charles Tillman will be free agents, as will punt and kickoff returner Devin Hester.

It appears the Bears will try to keep McCown, but if another team is willing to

offer him any more than $2.5 million to $3 million a year on a multiyear deal, the Bears probably will allow him to walk and stick with Palmer. It is highly unlikely both will be back.

Wootton is the only other one of their own free agents they will make a priority to retain, but it wouldn’t be shocking to see Williams back, too.

They will then have one more decision to make before they plunge into the free agent marketplace.

Are the Bears going to stick with the Tampa 2, one-gap defense, or will they switch to more of a base 4-3 two-gap defense or the 3-4?

Many are assuming the

addition of Paul Pasqualoni as defensive line coach and Reggie Herring as linebackers coach, according to The Score and FoxSports1’s Alex Marvez, could signal a switch to the 3-4 because both have significant experience in that scheme. But both are also more than capable of coaching in the 4-3. So that speculation may be premature.

Whatever scheme the Bears decide on, they are going to need at least one more starter at defensive end, at least one at tackle and probably one at linebacker, one cornerback and at least one or possibly two new safeties.

They are not going

to find five to seven new starters on defense, plus a center, young quarterback and kick returner all in one draft. So some participation in free agency is a given.

Safety is a priority for the Bears, and the draft crop is thin. Jairus Byrd of the Bills, Cleveland’s T.J. Ward and Indianapolis’ Antoine Bethea are all Pro Bowl safeties and free agents.

It’s not inconceivable Ward will get a franchise tag, but it’s likely all three will hit the market, as well as the 49ers’ Donte Whitner, New Orleans’ Malcolm Jenkins and Philadelphia’s Nate Allen.

Those three should be a bit

less expensive. Any of the six would be a significant upgrade over Chris Conte or Major Wright.

The problem with discussing defensive linemen is that most of the best 4-3 prospects are not good fits in a 3-4. But assuming the Bears stay with what they know, the Panthers’ Greg Hardy, Bengals’ Michael Johnson, Vikings’ Jared Allen, Giants’ Justin Tuck and Seahawks’ Michael Bennett are the best 4-3 ends on the market. Hardy likely will sign a long-term deal in Carolina or be franchised.

The Bengals franchised Johnson in 2013 and it’s hard to picture them tagging him two years in

a row.

As you may have heard, Bennett is Bears tight end Martellus Bennett’s brother and is having a good postseason with the Seahawks. He did have 8½ sacks this season and five tackles for loss, and had nine sacks in Tampa in 2012. But he managed just six sacks total his first three years in the league and is not the double-digit sack pass-rushing threat the Bears desperately need, assuming Julius Peppers is a cap casualty.

• Hub Arkush covers the Bears and pro football for Shaw Media. Write to him at harkush@shawmedia.com.

Super Bowl memories – and advice about where game should stay The Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks will head to New Jersey for Super Bowl XLVIII. Shaw Media’s Hub Arkush and Tom Musick discuss:

Musick: Hub, we’ll have all kinds of time to break down the Xs and Os of the Super Bowl. For now, however, I’m more interested in hearing about the absolute circus that is Super Bowl week. You go to these games, you know about the big parties that take place leading up to the game. What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen?

Arkush: Ah yes, the most overhyped, overdone, overrated week in sports.

Don’t get me wrong, Tom, I love the Super Bowl and it’s a privilege to cover it.

It’s almost as if you have to find a way to survive the craziness the week of just to make it to the game.

I started with Super Bowl XIII in Miami, January of 1979 with the Steelers meeting the Cowboys.

So this will be my 36th straight Super Bowl. Don’t worry, I know that doesn’t make me cool. Just old.

But what’s the strangest thing I’ve seen? That’d be like identifying the smallest pea in a full Green Giant can. I can tell you the most annoying waste of time annually has become media day, which takes place every year on the Tuesday before the game.

That’s when 1,500 or so of the total 3,500-plus credentialed media – it’s actually about 300 or 400 working

TAKE 2 Tom Musick and Hub Arkush face off journalists and 1,000-plus jesters and clowns – show up at the stadium to visit for an hour with each team. Always fun to see the real media trying to work while the clowns try to annoy.

Musick: Gosh, imagine how many clowns will show up now that one of their own (Pete Carroll) will play a key role in the game. I still think you’re cool, Hub. In fact, I think you’re 36 times cooler than when you went to your

first Super Bowl. Through all of those years, and all of those venues, which has been the best game? The best city? The worst game?

The worst city?

Arkush: Sure, 36 times cooler and 37 times balder!

Let’s hit the easy part first.

I’ve written many times through the years that New Orleans should be the permanent home of the Super Bowl. Beyond being the greatest party city in the world, with the Dome and an abundance of ho-

tels, incredible restaurants and bars all within walking distance of the French Quarter and the “River” as central gathering points, it’s the best. Almost all my favorite Super Bowls have been there. Actually, Indianapolis did a fantastic job a couple of years ago, but it got amazingly lucky with the weather that week and I don’t know if you could count on that again? South Florida is always nice and San Diego is great. I was not as wild about Los Angeles, San Francisco or Phoenix as Super Cities.

Jacksonville was a mess and Dallas may have been the worst Super Bowl week ever. Detroit and Minnesota pose the same issues as New York, but at least the games were indoors.

Best game – can I keep my job if I don’t say Da’ Bears 46 - Patriots 10, in New Orleans? The worst game was also in New Orleans, 49ers 55 - Broncos 10.

Musick: Which brings us to the Big Apple. I don’t know about you, but I’m rooting for snow, sleet, wind and freezing cold.

Maybe throw in a polar vortex while we’re at it.

Arkush: I’m with you man, this was a bad idea from the get go and I hope the guys who made this decision pay for it. We all see the downside, but what I’ve been trying to figure out all along is what’s the upside? I hope they pay – but wait a minute, I’m going to be there. Maybe we could skip the polar vortex?

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8WHAT TO WATCH Pro hockey Blackhawks at Minnesota, 7 p.m., CSN

Another typical week for Chicago Cubs

The Hawks are back on the ice in Minnesota after taking on the Red Wings on Wednesday night in Detroit.

Also on TV...

Pro basketball L.A. Lakers at Miami, 7 p.m., TNT Denver at Portland, 9:30 p.m., TNT Men’s basketball Illinois at Ohio St., 6 p.m., ESPN Florida at Alabama, 6 p.m., ESPN2 Nebraska at Penn St., 7 p.m., ESPNU Colorado at Arizona, 8 p.m., ESPN2 Middle Tennessee at Tulsa, 8 p.m., FS1 San Diego at Gonzaga, 9 p.m., ESPNU Oregon at Washington, 10 p.m., FS1 Pro hockey Pittsburgh at N.Y. Islanders, 6:30 p.m., NBCSN Tennis Australian Open, men’s semifinal, 2:30 a.m. Friday, ESPN Golf PGA Tour, Farmers Insurance Open, first round, 2 p.m., TGC Women’s basketball Northwestern at Purdue, 6 p.m., BTN Wisconsin at Minnesota, 8 p.m., BTN

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VIEWS Rick Morrissey Quite the painful week and a half for the Cubs and their followers, even by their standards.

First there was the rollout of Clark the mascot, doomed from the start to be a hairball stuck in the throats of most Cubs fans.

Then there was the news Wednesday that pitcher Masahiro Tanaka, the most Minnesota Utah

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 33 7 .825 — Bulls 20 20 .500 13 Detroit 17 24 .415 16½ Cleveland 15 26 .366 18½ Milwaukee 7 33 .175 26 Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 20 20 .500 — Brooklyn 18 22 .450 2 New York 15 26 .366 5½ Boston 14 29 .326 7½ Philadelphia 13 28 .317 7½ Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 30 12 .714 — Atlanta 21 19 .525 8 Washington 20 20 .500 9 Charlotte 18 25 .419 12½ Orlando 11 31 .262 19

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 32 9 .780 Houston 28 15 .651 Dallas 25 18 .581 Memphis 20 20 .500 New Orleans 16 25 .390 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 32 10 .762 Portland 31 11 .738 Denver 20 20 .500

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coveted free agent on the market, had chosen the Yankees over the Cubs. The only way it could have been worse was if the White Sox, also pursuing Tanaka, had landed him. This being Chicago baseball, that wasn’t going to happen, either.

Finally, there was Wednesday’s revelation from the SunTimes that the war between the Cubs and the rooftop owners over the renovation of Wrigley Field was headed to court. You can’t beat fun at the old ballpark, though both sides seem

19 21 .475 14 28 .333 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 29 14 .674 Golden State 26 17 .605 Phoenix 23 17 .575 L.A. Lakers 16 26 .381 Sacramento 15 25 .375

intent on beating it to a pulp.

There ought to be a warning that comes with being a Cubs fan: “Following this team has been shown to cause side effects such as weakness, dizziness, nausea, stomach pain, seizures, cardiac arrest, profound depression, life-threatening allergic reactions and, if you’re lucky, death. Ask your doctor if the Cubs are right for you.”

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Wednesday’s Results Atlanta at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Boston at Washington, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Houston, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m.

Today’s Games L.A. Lakers at Miami, 7 p.m.

Denver at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games L.A. Clippers at Bulls, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

Charlotte at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Memphis at Houston, 7 p.m.

Washington at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Indiana at Sacramento, 9 p.m.

Minnesota at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday At Honolulu Team Rice vs. Team Sanders, 6:30 p.m.

SUPER BOWL Sunday, Feb. 2 At East Rutherford, N.J. Denver vs. Seattle, 5:30 p.m.

MEN’S BASKETBALL AP TOP 25 Wednesday’s Results No. 5 Wichita St. 70, Illinois St. 55 No. 7 San Diego St. at San Jose St. (n) Minnesota 81, No. 9 Wisconsin 68 No. 21 Michigan 75, No. 10 Iowa 67 No. 12 Louisville 86, South Florida 47 Richmond 58, No. 13 UMass 55 No. 18 Duke 67, Miami 46 No. 19 Saint Louis 76, Duquesne 72 No. 25 Oklahoma 77, TCU 69 Today’s Games No. 1 Arizona vs. Colorado, 8 p.m.

No. 6 Florida at Alabama, 6 p.m.

No. 15 Cincinnati vs. UCF, 8 p.m.

No. 17 Ohio St. vs. Illinois, 6 p.m.

No. 23 Memphis vs. Houston, 7 p.m.

Friday’s Games No games scheduled Saturday’s Games No. 2 Syracuse at Miami, noon No. 3 Michigan St. vs. No. 21 Michigan, 6 p.m.

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No. 4 Villanova at Marquette, 1 p.m.

No. 5 Wichita St. at Drake, 7:05 p.m.

No. 6 Florida vs. Tennessee, 3 p.m.

No. 7 San Diego St. at Utah St., 10:05 p.m.

No. 8 Kansas at TCU, 8 p.m.

No. 9 Wisconsin at Purdue, 4 p.m.

No. 10 Iowa at Northwestern, 11 a.m.

No. 11 Oklahoma St. vs. West Virginia, 1 p.m.

No. 14 Kentucky vs. Georgia, 12:30 p.m.

No. 16 Iowa St. vs. No. 22 Kansas St., 12:45 p.m.

No. 18 Duke vs. Florida St., 11 a.m.

No. 20 Pittsburgh at Maryland, 5 p.m.

No. 24 Baylor vs. Texas, 12:30 p.m.

NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Blackhawks 51 32 8 11 75 St. Louis 49 33 11 5 71 Colorado 48 31 12 5 67 Minnesota 52 27 20 5 59 Dallas 50 22 20 8 52 Nashville 51 22 22 7 51 Winnipeg 50 22 23 5 49 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts Anaheim 51 37 9 5 79 San Jose 50 32 12 6 70 Los Angeles 51 29 16 6 64 Vancouver 50 25 16 9 59 Phoenix 49 23 17 9 55 Calgary 50 16 27 7 39 Edmonton 51 15 30 6 36

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opment for Cubs fans, oddly enough, was the team’s inability to land Tanaka, a 25-year-old pitcher who went 24-0 last season in the Japanese League.

Odd, because no one in his right mind thought the Cubs were going to get a player whom big spenders and big winners such as the Yankees and the Dodgers were pursuing.

GF 184 171 142 125 141 125 141

GA 139 115 122 129 152 152 150

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GA 126 123 108 127 149 159 181

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 49 31 15 3 65 141 109 Tampa Bay 50 29 16 5 63 146 123 Montreal 49 27 17 5 59 126 120 Toronto 51 26 20 5 57 145 154 Ottawa 50 22 19 9 53 141 155 Detroit 49 21 18 10 52 122 134 Florida 50 20 23 7 47 120 151 Buffalo 48 13 28 7 33 89 137 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 49 34 13 2 70 157 120 N.Y. Rangers 52 27 22 3 57 131 133 Philadelphia 50 25 19 6 56 137 144 Columbus 49 25 20 4 54 143 138 New Jersey 51 21 19 11 53 122 124 Washington 50 22 20 8 52 142 152 Carolina 48 20 19 9 49 117 137 N.Y. Islanders 52 21 24 7 49 147 169 Two points for win, one point for OT loss Wedneday’s Results Carolina at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Calgary, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Blackhawks at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Carolina at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Ottawa at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at N.Y. Islanders, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Nashville at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Los Angeles at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Winnipeg at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

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Joliet couple facilitates marriage event

By DENISE M. BARAN–UNLAND dunland@shawmedia.com Diane Sharp of Joliet knows what it’s like to be in a “roommate” marriage, complacent and lacking intimacy.

Fortunately, Sharp also knows how to change it.

On Feb. 7 and 8, Sharp, with her husband Wallie Sharp, will facilitate “The Art of Marriage,” a twoday, video-based, smallgroup conference based on the popular Christian getaway, “A Weekend to Remember.”

“The Art of Marriage” features vignettes that address the same concepts and principles found in “A Weekend to Remember,” but without the higher cost, traveling distance and need for child care, all of which may tax younger families, Sharp said “To put effort in your marriage, to treat your spouse as Christ treated the church, that takes work but it’s worth it,” Sharp said. “It’s really easy to give up and the media doesn’t help.

There’s hope for a lot of marriages.”

“The Art of Marriage” topics include: “Love Happens: God’s Purpose and Plan,” “Love Fades: Overcoming Isolation,” “Love Dances: Fulfilling Our Responsibilities,” “Love Interrupted: Communication and Conflict,” “Love Sizzles: Experiencing Real Intimacy” and “Love Always: Leaving a Lasting Legacy.”

“To put effort in your marriage, to treat your spouse as Christ treated the church, that takes work but it’s worth it. It’s really easy to give up and the media doesn’t help. There’s hope for a lot of marriages.”

If you go n What: The Art of Marriage n When: 7 p.m. Feb. 7 and

Feb. 8, 8:30 a.m. n Where: Our Savior Lutheran Church, 1910 Black Road, Joliet n Cost: $60 a couple for the two-day event. Includes materials and Saturday’s lunch. n Visit: www.artofmarriage. com n Register: By Jan. 26 at www.artofmarriage.com/ locations

Diane Sharp Facilitator of “The Art of Marriage”

“I wish we had known about it years before,” Sharp said. “We would not have struggled the way we did.”

Seven years ago and after 18 years of marriage, Sharp and Wallie felt a vague sense they needed marital help. Their youngest child had some undiagnosed special needs, which complicated the usual stress of daily life.

However, Sharp did not feel their marriage had any serious issues requiring marriage counseling.

“We needed some tools,” Sharp said.

“A Weekend to Remember” provided those tools.

Through it, the Sharps learned how to limit outside activities – including church-related ones – in favor of time spent together. They learned to say, “I feel hurt,” rather than, “You hurt me.”

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Wallie and Diane Sharp of Joliet give practical tips and encouragement to married couples.

They learned that their children watched their interaction. Gradually, they felt their marriage grow stronger.

“Do we slide? Oh,

yeah,” Sharp said. “But we communicate more and we put in more effort.”

Encouraged by the results, the Sharps attended

another “Weekend to Remember” and eventually joined the Chicago team that presents them, Sharp said. In 2011, FamilyLife, the creators of “A Week-

end to Remember,” introduced its companion, “The Art of Marriage.”

According to www. theartofmarriage.com, more then 400,000 people have since participated.

Ninety-seven percent of them said they would do it again.

“The only difference between the event and the small group series is the setting,” Sharp said. “The materials are the same.

You can do this at your church or in your neighborhood.”

When possible, Sharp suggests couples also plan to attend one of the “A Weekend to Remember,” events as it offers couples date nights, where they can enjoy an interrupted dinner, a movie or whatever they would like to do, often a luxury during a couple’s childbearing years. However, neither event has an age limit.

“It doesn’t matter if you’ve been married for six months or 50 years,” Sharp said. “There’s always stuff we can learn about being married.”

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FAITH BRIEFS Saint Dennis School Fashion Show

St. Joseph Academy is celebrating its fourth annual Catholic Schools Week beginning with an open house Sunday. The public is invited for a tour of the school and refreshments from noon to 3 p.m. The school is at 51 W. Jackson St., Joliet.

The theme of National Catholic Schools Week 2014, which runs from Sunday through Feb. 1, is “Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith, Knowledge, and Service.”

Reservations are not required for the open house, but may be made by calling 815-723-4567.

Saint Dennis School will be hosting “Spring of Hearts,” a seasonal fashion show and dinner that will highlight current trends in children’s clothing from local department stores.

Dinner will be catered by Luigi’s House and a cash cocktail bar will be open before dinner. Raffle and silent auction baskets also will be available to buy to support the fundraiser.

The event is scheduled for Feb. 1 at the St. Dennis Parish Center 1201 S. Washington St., Lockport. Tickets are $45 VIP, $35 general and $25 for children. Tickets may be bought after all St. Dennis weekend Masses, or contact the St. Dennis PTC at ptc@ saint-dennis.org for more information.

St. Jude to participate in Catholic Schools Week St. Jude School will celebrate Catholic Schools Week with a community panel and an open house the week of Sunday to Feb. 1.

On Monday, students will attend an all school assembly at 8:30 a.m. where a panel of community members will speak about their jobs, how they serve the community and how faith has played a part in their careers. Following, the students will have the opportunity to ask questions about the challenges and rewards of the jobs.

St. Jude invites prospective students, their families and community residents to attend one of two open houses. The open houses are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 30. The school is at 2204 McDonough St. St. Jude serves students in pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. For more information, call 815-729-0288 or visit www.stjudejoliet.net

Westminster Soup and Sandwich Day Westminster Presbyterian Church will have a soup and sandwich day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at 1015 Winthrop, corner of Clara and Larkin.

The Church will be making homemade soup, chili, sandwiches and desserts. Call for information 815-725-6687.

Friday only call to place orders 815-725-6686 or 815325-3404. Cash only.

Church of God In Christ celebrates 75 years The All Nations Church Of God In Christ is in a year of Jubilee Celebration, in the Joliet Community. All Nations has been in the Southeast Joliet area for 75 years.

To celebrate this occasion there will be a 75th Jubilee anniversary banquet. Founding families and supporters

will be honored on that evening. At 6:30 p.m. there will be a social hour, followed by a 7:30 pm. dinner March 6 at the Holiday Inn Joliet 411 S Larkin Ave. The tickets are $75. For ticket purchase or information contact All Nations COGIC at 815-722-1647.

Holy Family celebrates Catholic Schools Week SHOREWOOD – Holy Family Catholic School will kick off its Catholic Schools Week celebration with registration for new families.

The open house will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.

Visitors can expect to talk with teachers, meet current school families, and visit classrooms during an informative tour. New families interested in registering a child for any pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade classes should bring an original county birth certificate, a baptismal certificate, and the $75 registration fee.

For more information, call 815-725-8149.

St. Mary to hold open house St. Mary Nativity Catholic School and Early Learning Center, 702 N. Broadway St. Joliet will host an open house from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Registration for the 2014-2015 school year will be accepted.

The school offers an academic program for children 3 years old through eighth grade.

For more information about St. Mary Nativity or for a tour of the school, call 815-722-8518 or www. stmarynativity.org.

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BRIDGE by Phillip Alder

How many winners do you need?

CELEBRITY CIPHER

Benjamin Franklin Fairless, a steel company executive who died on the first day of 1962, said: “What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind, there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.”

What is the recipe for success in this four-spade contract? West cashes his two top hearts, then shifts to the club king.

The bidding was instructive. North’s redouble indicated at least 10 high-card points.

Then, when he raised spades on the next round, he showed exactly three-card support. (With four spades or more, he would have responded two no-trump.)

East’s two-heart advance did not promise any values. By the logic of the auction, he was known to be weak. He was just saying that he had a definite preference for hearts over diamonds and clubs. West raised hearts with four-card support and a full-weight takeout double.

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Declarer has six black-suit winners.

Ergo, the essential ingredient for success is taking four diamond tricks, which might Arequire three finesses. And if so, speed is of the essence. At trick four, South must play a diamond to dummy’s 10. Then, he cashes the spade queen, leads a spade to his 10, repeats the diamond finesse, returns to the spade king, takes a third diamond finesse, and claims.

Before playing from the dummy at trick one, count losers and winners.

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Husband enlists Hemingway in campaign Dear Abby: I am 36. My husband is 60. We have been together for 10 years. During the first four years we got along great, but he now says he wants to have affairs.

He texts women and tries to hide it from me. I found out he was texting his first ex-wife. It made me uncomfortable, so I asked him to stop. He didn’t. When I realized he hadn’t, I told him I would leave if it happens again.

I am at the point where I don’t want to cuddle or be affectionate with him at all.

He commented the other day that he should be allowed to have an affair because I mentioned that I find Hemingway interesting. (He was known for affairs.)

I’m at a loss. I care for my husband and don’t want to hurt him. But I’m also scared that I can’t afford to be on my own. A little advice? – Unsure In Washington

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips Dear Unsure: Hemingway was also known for his drinking and big-game hunting. Is your husband considering doing those things, too?

If ever I heard of a couple who could benefit from marriage counseling, it’s you two. As it stands, your marriage is broken. Counseling may help. If it doesn’t and you don’t have a job, find one and figure out a way to cut your expenses so you CAN afford to be on your own, because it looks like you will be.

Dear Abby: I am an esthetician who works as a waxing specialist.

A customer of mine came in a short while ago and admitted to driving to my salon while drunk. She mentioned she had almost crashed her

car getting here, and I could smell the liquor on her breath.

She is one of my regular customers, but I am very against drunk driving. How would I professionally handle this? – Conflicted In San Francisco Dear Conflicted: Because you know the woman well, you might say, “You nearly crashed your car getting here. I care about you too much to let you drive home like this. I’m calling you a taxi. Pick up your car tomorrow.”

When she’s sober again and comes in for her next appointment, tell her how worried you were about her. There are two ways to lose a customer. One is by offending her.

The other is by letting her kill herself behind the wheel because she’s so drunk she can’t see straight.

• Write Dear Abby at www.dearabby.com.

How a wound is treated affects how it scars Dear Doctor K: How and why does a scar form after injury or surgery?

Why do some scars last, while others fade over time?

Dear Reader: It’s actually amazing how few scars most people have despite a lifetime of injuries to the skin.

Skin heals in a remarkably complicated process. When you cut yourself (or a surgeon makes an incision), three processes take place in roughly the following order, although they often overlap.

• Inflammation. When you cut the skin (or any other tissue), the tiny blood vessels inside the skin start bleeding.

Within seconds of a cut or an incision, cells near the cut send out chemical signals that tell blood vessels to narrow. This limits bleeding until blood cells (called platelets) can form tiny clots that plug up the ends of the tiny vessels and thereby stop the bleeding.

Additional chemical signals recruit white blood cells and other substances to the injured area.

These white blood cells release a flood of chemical factors to relax blood vessels that were not cut and

ASK DOCTOR K Anthony L. Komaroff thereby increase blood flow to the injured area. This causes the pain, redness, heat and swelling typical of inflamed tissue. The white blood cells are part of the immune system.

They fight infection and clean up damaged tissue.

• Proliferation. In this stage, cells start to form new blood vessels to replace the ones that were severed by the cut. Skin cells burrow under dead tissue to begin forming a healthy layer of skin.

Fibroblasts, specialized cells that are critical to wound healing, produce substances that pull the ends of the wound closer together.

The fibroblasts also form a small scar over the injured area, which protects the new skin and blood vessels growing underneath it.

• Maturation. The wound gets stronger.

If the two sides of a wound are too far apart, it will take a long time to repair the cut, and it is more like-

ly to leave a scar. That’s why surgeons use sutures (stitches), staples or tape to bring the edges together when they’ve made a wound.

So, why are some scars bigger than others? If a wound is “clean” – even, straight, and not contaminated by dirt and bacteria – it will generally heal well. Wounds caused by a surgeon’s knife fall into that category.

Wounds caused by accidents don’t. Such wounds are more likely to be jagged, to contain dirt and bacteria, and to be infected. These wounds are more likely to have been reinjured or reopened after the initial accident.

All of these factors tend to increase the chance of a permanent scar. Finally, some people are born with a tendency to form prominent scars called “keloids.” These scars do tend to get smaller with time, and there are treatments to make them smaller if they are bothersome.

• Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. Visit www.AskDoctorK.com to send questions and get additional information.

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Money management skills important for teens to learn Dear Teens: Learning to handle money without letting it slip through your fingers is more difficult than ever today, but for teens whose parents have encouraged them to have even a part-time job, the experience in personal bookkeeping pays off, says a professional financial planner.

“Teenagers who earn money usually handle it better,” Elizabeth Lewin, director of Budget Advisory Service, pointed out in a special report on financial tips for teens.

According to Lewin, earning money by working (if possible) is a valuable opportunity for young people of almost any age.

For teens 16 and older, Lewin strongly recommends taking on a parttime job. Not only is this the best possible crash course in money management, but Lewin also says that it is a gesture parents will appreciate these days since the family budget could probably use the money given out as allowance.

Even though boys and girls under the age of 16 are generally not eligible for regular part-time jobs, they should try to arrange to receive an allowance at home, rather than simply asking parents for money as it’s needed. Having a set income teaches a young teen how to set spending priorities.

In order to get a feel for expenses and spending priorities, she recommends that teens keep a money diary for several weeks. By examining this after a certain period of time, it will be easier to see just where their money is going and how best to save for a major

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace expense such as college or purchasing a car. After reviewing the money diaries of several teens, Lewin explained how to better manage funds by offering the following financial tips: • Open a savings account and try to deposit at least 10 percent to 30 percent of each allowance or paycheck. For Kim, a Mobile, Ala., sophomore who was squandering too much of her $30 monthly allowance on junk food, the decision to invest about $2.50 a week into a savings account proved an ideal plan.

• If you pay a lot of bills, open a checking account. Make sure you understand any and all charges associated with your account; you might want to “comparison shop.” Gail, a 17-year-old from Brooklyn, N.Y., whose weekly allowance was $25, had been working part-time. Yet, school lunches, entertainment, gifts and transportation costs left her with no savings. “When I work, I can’t seem to get to a bank,” she told Lewin. “I just put any leftover change into a cup.” Keeping change in a cup makes it too easy to get at. She instructed Gail to set aside and deposit a certain portion of each paycheck.

• It’s fine to treat friends once in a while, but be careful of always picking up the bill or lending money.

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

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HOROSCOPE

By BERNICE BEDE OSOL Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY – You will finally be forced to make tough decisions that you have managed to avoid in the past. The only way to make progress will be to address any longstanding problems once and for all.

You may not like change, but it will be necessary to accept it this year.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Knowledge will be the defining feature of your future success. Take part in anything that will give you an edge over the competition. A romantic interest will develop swiftly.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Look after any chronic health problems. Don’t cut corners with legal or financial concerns. Stay informed about any important matters and don’t allow stress to wear you down.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – A relationship may preoccupy you today. Remain calm and try to be fun and lighthearted. You will be emotional, and it’s better to be positive, affectionate and devoted than upset.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Now is not the time to pause and reflect. Move forward and reach for your goals. Professional matters could work out in your favor if you make an effort.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Decide what you need to do to update your image for the better.

Socializing with someone who interests you romantically will have a positive outcome, but be careful not to move too fast.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Stop yourself before you overreact and do something you may regret.

You will lack important details about a situation that is bothering you. Don’t make a hasty play.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Take advantage of any opportunity you have to travel today. If you can’t get away, content yourself with research. New information will help you plan your future.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Do whatever it takes to stay ahead of the curve. Concentrate on your work. Push your proposals forward without reservation.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Don’t let conflicting feelings paralyze you. Make decisions that will eliminate interactions with people who are causing you grief. You are at a crossroads in your life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Limitations are evident. If you carry on with your current approach, you will lose your footing. Focus on friends and creative endeavors. Clandestine activities will blow up in your face today.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – You will need to accept help from a capable person. If you go it alone, you won’t get off the ground. This is not the time to rely exclusively on your own resources.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – You can’t trust anyone else to do your job correctly. If you wish to advance, you must show your worth to those with influence. Business trips are likely to be profitable.

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‘Gimme Shelter’: Message with a light touch

By MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN The Washington Post Vanessa Hudgens’ campaign to erase the memory of “High School Musical” from our nation’s collective consciousness continues apace with “Gimme Shelter,” a fact-based indie drama in which the former Disney teen queen plays a troubled, pregnant 16-year-old runaway.

As with her bad-girl performance in last year’s campy, cult-y “Spring Breakers” – which garnered more critical praise than viewers, but also a few outright pans, including mine – it’s unclear whether middle America is ready to embrace this newly serious actress.

That’s a shame, because she’s quite good.

It’s more than a matter of adopting fake facial piercings, matted hair, a spotty complexion, a Noo Yawk accent and a bad attitude, all of which Hudgens does with great conviction. That’s nothing that a host of other glamorous actresses seeking artistic street cred haven’t also done.

Hudgens, however, makes the most of her physical transformation, down to her character’s shuffling, boyishly belligerent walk.

Hudgens also gets at the character’s vulnerability, making it poignantly clear that the chip on the girl’s shoulder is a defense mechanism. From the opening scene, when Apple decides to leave her mother – a junkie prostitute played, with ferocious intensity and filthy yellow teeth, by Rosario Dawson – it’s obvious that Apple is terrified, despite her bravado.

She tracks down her birth father, Tom (Brendan Fraser), a wealthy Wall Streeter who’s willing to take Apple in if she gets an abortion. But our heroine can’t go through with the procedure and finds herself in a shelter for pregnant teens.

The movie, which was inspired by Kathy DiFiore, a New Jersey woman who operates several such shelters, has a strong antiabortion message but mostly avoids religiosity.

That doesn’t mean it’s areligious.

James Earl Jones plays a kindly Roman Catholic priest who leads Apple to the shelter.

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Vanessa Hudgens stars in “Gimme Shelter,” a fact-based indie drama in which the former Disney teen queen plays a troubled, pregnant 16-year-old runaway.

At one point the camera zooms in, significantly, on a book, lingering on the words “Holy Bible.”

It isn’t especially polemic. At first, Apple isn’t interested in what the Good Book has to offer.

Filmmaker Ron Krauss wrote the script while living in one of DiFiore’s shelters, and the character of Apple is a composite of two real people, one of whom, Darlisha Dozier, plays a shelter resident. Thanks to Ann Dowd’s unvarnished performance as the fiercely protective yet baloney-free mother hen, Kathy, the film has a plain-spoken, un-preachy verisimilitude.

The truth-telling is bolstered by a supporting cast that features, in addition to other real-life shelter residents, mostly unknown young actresses.

The mothers-to-be are shown sneaking into Kathy’s office to read their files – a surprisingly poignant scene – and delighting in such simple pleasures as a meal at an old-fashioned diner.

Missing from these glimpses of shelter life, however, is the Bible study offered as part of DiFiore’s shelter programs (which the real-life DeFiore spoke about at a post-screening Q&A session). I suppose

that would have seemed too much like proselytizing.

When it comes to its agenda of raising awareness about pregnant teens who choose to keep their babies, “Gimme Shelter” has a lighter touch than you might think. Yet there are times when its attempts at wringing drama out of real life are more strenuous than is strictly necessary.

After Apple has had her baby and reunited with her father, there’s a touching scene where the new grandfather is cradling his daughter’s infant, flashes of regret and joy playing out subtly on Fraser’s expressive face.

Though Tom doesn’t need to tell us what he’s feeling, Krauss’ script feels compelled to. “I never got to do this with you,” Tom tells Apple.

It’s not the only time “Gimme Shelter” doesn’t trust the power of its own story – and the truth of its acting – to deliver the point.

• “Gimme Shelter” received two-and-ahalf stars out of four. The film is rated PG13 and contains mildly crude language, mature themes and brief violence. It runs 100 minutes.

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BEST BETS ± 7 p.m. WGN 9 The Vampire Diaries: As Katherine’s (Nina Dobrev) health takes a turn for the worse, she flashes back to the night in 1490 when she gave birth to her daughter. Damon, Matt and Jeremy (Ian Somerhalder, Zach Roerig, Steven R. McQueen) share some Katherine-related memories of their own.

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Thursday Tuesday, January 23, 2014

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LABORERS Eagle Services seeks Laborers to perform industrial cleaning work.

Higher pay for 40 hr OSHA or CDL. Apply online at www.eagleservices.com or send letter or resume to: Eagle Services, 24227 W. Riverside Dr., Channahon, IL 60410. EEOC

FITNESS Auto LEAD / EXPERIENCE TECHNICIAN for high volume auto repair shop.

Must have valid drivers license. ASC certification a +. 815-634-0004 Bob's Advanced Auto & Tire Coal City

Aqua and Group Fitness Instructors

for AM, PM and weekend classes for a Shorewood active adult community.

Melissa 815-730-8530 mhornick@fosterpremier.com

FENCE INSTALLERS Must be experienced. Instaladores de cercos con exp. All positions Healthcare avail. Start immediately with good pay. Call 815-255-2132 Large Homecare

Inside Sales Specialist

Provider Now Hiring:

(2) STAFFING SUPERVISORS - FT National Marketing Group is (1) OFFICE SUPPORT STAFF - PT currently seeking an Inside Sales For Our Joliet Office Specialist. This position will pri- The ideal candidate will possess efmarily work with customers to fective communication skills, prior increase client memberships.

Staffing experience and knowledge of IDOA & DCFS rules, Must be The Inside Sales Specialist is re- computer literate, highly organized sponsible for growing Revenue and a team player We offer paid by selling print & digital prod- vac, Hol, Full Health and Dental. ucts for the Chicago Sun-Times DCFS DRIVERS & Southtown Star to customers for Transportation contract at retail locations such as Kmart, Menards, Walgreens, Candidates must be 23 years of and at various grocery store es- age, have good driving record and reliable transportation. tablishments.

HOMECARE AIDES to service clients throughout all of Will County We provide in-home services to Senior Citizens and Adults with disabilities.

Must be dependable and willing to travel.

We offer paid vac, Hol, Mileage, Travel Time and supplemental Health Insurance and sign on Position will require a reliable bonus means of transportation and For immediate consideration candidate will work in the folplease apply online at: lowing counties: www.helpathome.com or fax: IL: Will, Cook resume to (815) 725-9027 IN: Lake, Porter

The ideal candidate must be a creative thinker and be able to handle multiple tasks and deadlines. Candidates should have prior sales experience, be goal oriented, and possess an entrepreneurial spirit. Enthusiasm, with a high degree of ownership, and accountability for achieving consistent results a must.

Apply online at: www.NMGINSPIRES.com Call: 866-700-9494

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OPTICIAN FT Optician wanted for very busy Optometrist's office in Joliet.

Must be willing to work Saturdays and after 6pm M-F. Email resume with salary req to: eye2eyemanager@gmail.com or fax: 815-577-0998 No phone calls please.

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Large Public Auction Kendall County Fair Winter Consignment Auction Saturday, February 1, 2014 Auction Start: 8:00AM Kendall County Fairgrounds, 10826 Route 71, Yorkville, IL Call Ahead And Reseve A Hayrack Call Jim Brummel (630) 675-7589, Kent Bateman (630) 918-2823, Tom Anderson (815) 739-3634, Doug Thanepohn (815) 739-8328, Steve Cottingim (815) 651-4527 or Mark Gavin (630) 327-6052 Farm Machinery, Tractors, Trucks, Crop and Hay Equipment, Livestock Equipment, Shop Tools, Autos, Trailers, Contractor Tools and Equipment, Mowing Equipment, Farm Collectibles, Nursery Stock, Hay Rack Items, Farm Equipment, Plus Antiques, Collectibles & Household Items.

(Also accepting kitchen appliances) Note: Drop off Equipment & Items starting Saturday, January 25th and January 26th by appointment only (call Kent Bateman) or without appointment Monday January 27th through January 31st (9am-5pm each day). Loader Tractors - Available to load. **Proceeds from the commissions of this auction go to maintaining the facilities and fairgrounds.

Terms: $40.00 per Hayrack, 10% on Hayrack items, 7% Farm Machinery, 10% Auto's - $25.00 Fee Tag Titled Equipment, 10% Construction Equipment and $25.00 Tag Fee, 10% Lawn Mowers and Golf Carts and $5 tag fee, Buy Back Fee $50.00 or 1% which ever is Greater. All Antiques and Household Furniture Items will have a $5 tag fee. All Household Appliances are 10% and a $10 tag fee. NO Mattresses, NO Auto Tires and No Computer or Television Electronics will be accepted!

Cash or Good Check with proper I.D. Bank Letter of Credit for Purchases over $10,000. All items paid for day of sale. All items sold AS IS. Not re-sponsible for accidents or items after they are sold.

All announcements day of sale supersede advertising.

AUCTIONEERS: DeBolt Auction Service, Plano, IL www.deboltauctionservice.com Brian DeBolt IL Lic. #044.0000595 630-552-4247 Richard A. Olson & Assoc., Morris, IL Dick Olson IL Lic # 044.000020 4 www.richardaolson.com

1 King Set $199

King Bed New $149 Twin $79 -- Full $89 New in Plastic Warranty 630-717-8545 Can Deliver 5pc Living Room Set $399 Can Separate 630-717-8545 New Leather Sofa $499 630-254-6165 Can Deliver

1-800-354-2608 Lyn & Rob

Joliet

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Be your own boss as an independent contractor!!

Contractors needed to deliver, build, maintain, and service single copy sales delivery routes in the BrookfieldWestchester area.

Deliveries are one day a week.

Must have reliable vehicle, valid drivers license, insurance, and a good driving record.

Contact Nicole Austin at 630-427-6204 or naustin@shawmedia.com

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$$$ TOP CASH $$$ FOR YOUR JUNK CAR, TRUCK, VAN 708-448-9155

GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS

ADOPTION: Loving TV Sports Editor and Pharmacist, Music, Nurturing Family awaits 1st baby.

Expenses paid.

Contact the Better Business Bureau www.chicago.bbb.org - or Federal Trade Commission www.ftc.gov

SHIH TZU PUPPIES 3 male, 1 female, shots, parents on site, $450/obo. 815-557-8099 815-722-7637 Call 9am-9m

Sat & Sun January 25 & 26 9AM to 4PM 545 Springwood Dr. Houbolt Rd & McDonough St. Moving sale at our old house.

We have LOTS of Books and DVD's for sale, 2lots of home decorations and holiday decorations, kitchen goods. Also for sale is a Whirlpool stainless steel, gas stove with 4 burners w/ cast iron range top, a Fridgedaire stainless steel dishwasher, a brown micro-fiber couch, love seat and chair w/ ottoman, and an Admiral washer/dryer set that is in excellent condition. Please stop by and look, no reasonable offers will be refused, it all has to go!

Kitchen Cabinets, solid oak, 4 tops 5 bottoms, very good condition. $600 OBO (815) 382-9480

WANTED SCRAP METAL Garden Tractors Snowmobiles, Appliances, Anything Metal

815-210-8819 Free Pick Up

AKC/OFA! Imported parents on site.

Great fam dogs and protection. 2 litters, $1250/ea. 815-685-4764 www.promisedlandshepherds.com The Herald-News Classified It works.

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NEED CASH? I will buy your Guns, ammo, coins & antique motors.

Call Rick at 630-674-0832.

JOLIET PARKVIEW ESTATES 2BR Duplexes starting at $800/mo and Single Family CLASSICS WANTED Any classic Homes. Call for move in specials! cars in any condition. '20s, '30s, PAYING CASH 815-740-3313 '40s, '50s, '60s & '70s. Hotrods & for pre-1975 sports cards, Exotics!

Top Dollar Paid! Collector. Mokena: 4 rms, near train, nice non-sport cards, comics, yrd, city water, half of gar., no pets, Call James, 630-201-8122 advertising signs, toys, trains, any $900/mo.+sec., 708-717-5535 & all collectibles & antiques, entire collections & estates WE PAY THE BEST Call Mike 219-331-9224 For Junk Cars, Trucks & Vans or Don 586-634-5900 with or without titles.

630-817-3577 or 219-697-3833

ELWOOD ~ 3 BEDROOM 1 bath, all appliances, garage.

No pets/smoking, $990/mo.

815-467-2718

HOMER GLEN 3 BEDROOM Free AT&T internet access and TV. Half mile to 355, $1150/mo + sec + utilities. 708-278-1958

1995 DODGE RAM 1500 PU With snowplow, as is, $2500.

815-909-8217

$$ TOP $$ $$ CASH $$ FOR YOUR CAR, TRUCK, VAN WE PAY THE MOST! 7 DAYS – FAST SVC. No haggling

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$$ TOP $$ $$ CASH $$ FOR YOUR CAR, TRUCK, VAN WE PAY THE MOST! 7 DAYS – FAST SVC. No haggling

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BURBANK - 79th & Oak Park 1 BR heat & water included, $650 month + secruity. Credit report.

No pets. 708-233-0689 CHICAGO Newly decorated 2BR, 2 BA, near 111th & Western, $800/mo + $900 security.

Call 773-238-8575

CREST HILL 527 Pasadena 2BR w/ balcony, appl included.

Secure bldg, no pets, $950/mo.

By Appt. 815-592-3782 JOLIET WEST Spacious 2 bedroom with carport, a/c, appliances, $850 / month + security deposit.

815-436-9899 JOLIET, heated 2BD apt, Cathedral area, $850/mo, call Sandra: 815-722-4931

Joliet & Plainfield 2 & 3 BR Starting @ $700/mo Call 815-516-5080 or visit www.visionrents.com JOLIET, 2415 Pecan St. Newer house, 3or4 BD, 2 BA, Plainfield schools. $1375/mo + sec dep.

Avail 2/1. 815-325-9128

LOCKPORT 2 BEDROOM Heat, C/A, appl, pay all util, lndry hook-up. $800/mo + sec + ref + credit check, 1 year lease, no pets, near metra. 815-886-1316

NEW LENOX 4BR RANCH 2 bath, 2 car detached garage.

Avail 2/1, $1500/mo + security.

815-351-3566 ROCKDALE/MORRIS 2 & 3BR Houses, newly remodeled, basement, appls, 1 car garage, Back and Front yards. 815-942-6776

Suburbs. - RENT TO OWN! Joliet: modern 2BR w/dining rm, Buy with No closing costs and get help with your credit. Call 708no pets, 562 Clay St., $750/mo+dep., 815-919-9219 868-2422 or visit www.nhba.com MINOOKA 2BR, large, very nice, West Joliet Convenient Location Spacious 3BR, 1.5BA, CAC. off street parking, extra storage, Laundry room, Sect 8 OK. no pets or smoking. W/D hookup. $945/mo. 815-722-1389 $840/Mo. Call 815-528-5692 www.protown.org

NEW LENOX 2BR TH STYLE

1 bath, private basement & patio.

D/W, coin laundry on site. $1025/mo. 708-710-2570 Rockdale - Turn Key. Street Front Commercial Property for rent. Fully renovated. Currently Hot dog shop unlimited business opportunities.

Parking lot included. 217-723Twin Oaks West, Clean, Updated 4646 1BR, oak kitchen, appl, blt-inmicro, lots of closet, a/c, free heat.

Ready now. 815-744-5141

Rockdale Newly Renov Lower 2BR Clean & quiet, appl, carpet, water incl. $650 + sec, no pets, 1 car parking available. 815-439-1065

Twin Oaks West, Large Clean 2BR Open kitchen, mirrored closet drs, appl, blt-in-micro, D/W, free heat.

Troy Schools. 815-744-5141

Carillos Towing, We Buy Junk Cars! Running or not Running.

WE PAY CASH! $200-$1000 With or Without Title. Same Day Pick Up! Call 630-664-2527 or 773-606-3179

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Updated Clean 2BR, New Carpet Appl, blt-in-micro, 2 a/c's, ceiling fans, elec entry, free carport and water, no pet. 815-744-5141

I PAY CASH FOR HOUSES Joliet ~ Bellarmine Drive Spacious 3BR TH, 1.5BA, appl.

W/D in bsmt, heat, A/C, $980/mo.

Tenant pays all util.815-730-6873 BREAKING NEWS available 24/7 at TheHerald-News.com

Any Location. Any Condition.

Ron Orloff 815-730-1300

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY - JOLIET, ILLINOIS HSBC MORTGAGE SERVICES INC, PLAINTIFF vs.

DARNLEY MATHURIN; JACQUELINE MATHURIN; UNIFUND CCR PARTNERS; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, DEFENDANTS 10CH 7648 PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, DARNLEY MATHURIN; JACQUELINE MATHURIN; and UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of the 12th Judicial Circuit, Will County, Illinois by the plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage conveying the premises described as follows to wit: LOT 12 IN BLOCK 6 IN PARK FOREST SOUTH UNIT 5, BEING A SUBDIVISION IN THE SOUTH 1/2 SOUTHEAST 1/4 AND THE NORTH 936.87 FEET OF THE EAST 40 FEET OF THE SOUTH 1/2 OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 ALL IN SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 34 NORTH, RANGE 13, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, (EXCEPT THAT PORTION PREVIOUSLY TAKEN FOR WESTERN AVENUE) ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED APRIL 20, 1972 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER R72-10220, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. COMMON ADDRESS: 507 Farmview Rd., Park Forest, Illinois 60466 P.I.N.: 14-13-416-003 and which said mortgage was signed by DARNLEY MATHURIN, mortgagors, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Accredited Home Lenders, Inc., as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Will County as Document No. R2005-150769; and for such other relief prayed; that summons was duly issued out of the Circuit Court of Will County against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

YOU MAY STILL BE ABLE TO SAVE YOUR HOME. DO NOT IGNORE THIS DOCUMENT. By order of the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, this case is set for Mandatory Mediation on February 20, 2014 at 1:00 pm at the Will County Court Annex-3rd Floor (Arbitration Center), 57 N. Ottawa Street, Joliet, Illinois. A lender representative will

pr be present along with a court appointed mediator to discuss options that you may have and to prescreen you for a potential mortgage modification. For further information on the mediation process, please see the attached NOTICE OF MANDATORY MEDIATION. NOW THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU, the said above defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of this Court in Will County at Will County Court House 14 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, IL 60432 on or before the February 24, 2014, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said complaint.

Pamela J. McGuire Circuit Clerk Johnson, Blumberg, & Associates, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite 1125 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Ph. 312-541-9710 Fax 312-541-9711 JB&A # IL 10 8253 I585299 (Published in the Herald-News January 23, 30, February 6, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 12th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY, JOLIET ILLINOIS. HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for Wells Fargo Home Equity Asset-Backed Securities 2006-3 Trust, Home Equity Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-3, plaintiff, vs.

Levy Vasques; Linda Vaughn, Springleaf Financial Services of Illinois, Inc. f/k/a American General Financial Services of Illinois; Unknown Owners and Non Record Claimants, defendants.

12 CH 01289.

NOTICE TO HEIRS AND LEGATEES. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to you, the Unknown Heirs and Unknown Legatees of the Decedent(s), Levy Vasquez a/k/a Levy Vazquez Sanchez. That on December 10, 2013, an Order was entered by the Court naming Kenneth J. Donkel, 7220 West 194th Street, Suite 105, Tinley Park, IL 60487, 815806-9000, as the Special Representative of the Decedent(s) under 735 ILCS 13-1209 (Death of a Party). The cause of action is for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage upon the premises commonly known as 1017 North Prairie Avenue, Joliet, IL 60435.

(Published in the Herald-News January 16, 23, 30, 2014. HN045)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY JOLIET, ILLINOIS

Thursday, January 23, 2014 • Page 41 NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, Plaintiff, vs.

JOSE R CARDENAS, MARICELA GARCIA, UNKNOWN OWNERSTENANTS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, et. al., Defendants, 13 CH 3444.

The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you: JOSE R CARDENAS, MARICELA GARCIA, UNKNOWN OWNERS-TENANTS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, defendants in the above entitled suit has been commenced in the IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY, JOLIET, ILLINOIS, by the said plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, towit: THE SOUTH 32.5 FEET OF LOT 12, IN BLOCK 4 (EXCEPTING THEREFROM THAT PART THEREOF CONVEYED TO SPRING CREEK DRAINAGE DISTRICT OF JOLIET BY WARRANTY DEED RECORDED IN BOOK 411, PAGE 529) IN HARRIS AND LANDAU`S SUBDIVISION OF THE WEST 1/2 OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 10, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MARCH 25, 1889 IN PLAT BOOK 6, PAGE 36, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 151920, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PIN: 30-07-10-234-024-0000 Commonly known as: 403 Garnsey Ave, Joliet, IL 60432-2432 and which said Mortgage was made by JOSE CARDENAS,MARICELA GARCIA,, as Mortgagors to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., as Mortgagee, and recorded as document number R2007089522, and the present owner of the property being JOSE CARDENAS, and for other relief: that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said above named defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in the said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY, JOLIET, ILLINOIS, Will County Court Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street, Joliet, IL 60432 on or before February 18, 2014, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint.

Pamela J. McGuire Clerk of the Court 14 W Jefferson, Suite 212 Joliet, Illinois 60432 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Korin Knutson Attorney for the Plaintiff

ey Attorney ID: 6309451 Kozeny & McCubbin Illinois, LLC 105 West Adams Street, Suite 1850 Chicago, Illinois 60603 Phone: (312) 605-3500 ext. 1533 Service by Email Accepted at: intake@kmi-law.com I583258 (Published in the Herald-News January 16, 23, 30, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WILL, STATE OF ILLINOIS WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-5, Plaintiff(s), vs.

CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO FIRST NATIONAL BANK, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO GREATBANC TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE, UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT DATED NOVEMBER 17, 1992 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 7439, HARRIS N.A. N/K/A BMO HARRIS BANK, N.A. AND UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES OF CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO FIRST NATIONAL BANK, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO GREATBANC TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE, UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT DATED NOVEMBER 17, 1992 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 7439, UNKNOWN TENANTS, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendant(s).

13 CH 3853 PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite Affidavit for Publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you: UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES OF CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO FIRST NATIONAL BANK, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO GREATBANC TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE, UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT DATED NOVEMBER 17, 1992 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 7439, NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN TENANTS and UNKNOWN OWNERS, Defendants in the above entitled suit, that said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Will County, Chancery Division, by the said Plaintiff, against you and other Defendants, praying for foreclosure of a certain Real Estate Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: LOT 4, (EXCEPT THE SOUTH 600 FEET THEREOF) IN FOREST VIEW, A SUBDIVISION OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF THE NORTHWEST FRACTIONAL 1/4 OF SECTION 6, (EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE EAST 441.785 FEET THEREOF) IN TOWNSHIP 34 NORTH, RANGE 14, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Tax Number: 15-06-100-022 A/K/A 23-15-06-100-022

commonly known as 2155 RICHTON RD STEGER IL 60475; and which said Real Estate Mortgage was made by CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO FIRST NATIONAL BANK, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO GREATBANC TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE, UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT DATED NOVEMBER 17, 1992 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 7439, and recorded in the Office of the Will County Recorder as Document Number R2005031394; that Summons was duly issued out of the said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said named Defendant, file your answer to the Complaint in the said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the office of the Circuit Court of Will County, located at 57 N. OTTAWA STREET, JOLIET, IL 60432, on or before February 24, 2014, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint.

YOU MAY STILL BE ABLE TO SAVE YOUR HOME. DO NOT IGNORE THIS DOCUMENT. By order of the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court, this case is set for Mandatory Mediation on MARCH 5TH, 2014 at, 11 a.m. at the Will County Court, Annex 3rd Floor (Arbitration Center) 57 N. Ottawa Street, Joliet, Illinois. A lender representative will be present along with a court appointed mediator to discuss options that you may have and to prescreen you for a potential mortgage modification. For further information on the mediation process, please see the attached NOTICE OF MANDATORY MEDIATION. YOU MUST APPEAR ON THE MEDIAITION DATE GIVEN OR YOUR MEDIAITON WILL BE TERMINATED. LAW OFFICES OF IRA T. NEVEL, LLC Ira T. Nevel - ARDC #06185808 Timothy R. Yueill ARDC #6192172 Greg Elsnic - ARDC #6242847 Marny Joy Abbott ARDC #6238958 Richard Drezek - ARDC #6301323 Nathan J. Buikema ARDC #6302969 Brian D. Nevel - ARDC #6309777 175 North Franklin St. Suite 201 Chicago, Illinois 60606 (312) 357-1125 Pleadings@nevellaw.com BB # 13-04782 I584476 (Published in the Herald-News January 23, 30, February 6, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY- JOLIET, ILLINOIS MARQUETTE BANK AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO HEMLOCK FEDERAL BANK FOR SAVINGS, Plaintiff, v.

DAVID OLIVARES, JP MORGAN

CLASSIFIED

Page 42 • Thursday, January 23, 2014 CHASE BANK, N.A., HUNTINGTON VILLAGE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

Owner Occupied Residential 700 Crystal Court Shorewood, IL 60431 13 CH 03857 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION The requisite Affidavit for Publication having been filed Notice is hereby given you, UNKNOWN OWNERS and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Will County, Chancery Division, by the said Plaintiff against you and other Defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: LOT 105 IN HUNTINGTON VILLAGE P.U.D. UNIT TWO, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 4, TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 AS DOCUMENT NO. R2003227223, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS PIN: 05-06-04-404-050-0000 Common Address: 700 Crystal Court, Shorewood, IL 60431 and which said Mortgage was made by DAVID OLIVARES as Mortgagor and Marquette Bank as successor in interest to Hemlock Federal Bank for Savings as Mortgagee, and recorded on July 26, 2005 in the Will County Recorder of Deeds Office as document number R2005-124736; And for other relief; that Summons was duly issued out of the said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

NOW, THEREFORE, unless you, said above named Defendants, file your Answer to the Complaint in the said suit or otherwise make your Appearance therein in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Will County, Chancery Division, in the City of Joliet, Illinois, on or before February 18, 2014, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint.

Pamela J. McGuire Clerk of the Court 14 W Jefferson, Suite 212 Joliet, Illinois 60432 YOU MAY STILL BE ABLE TO SAVE YOUR HOME. DO NOT IGNORE THIS DOCUMENT. By order of the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court, this case is set for Mandatory Mediation on February 20, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at the Will County Court, Annex 3rd Floor (Arbitration Center) 57 North Ottawa Street, Joliet, Illinois. A lender representative will be present along with a court appointed mediator to discuss options that you may have and to pre-screen you for a potential mortgage modification. For further information on the mediation process, please see the attached NOTICE OF MANDATORY MEDIATION. YOU MUST APPEAR ON THE ME-

DIATION DATE GIVEN OR YOUR MEDIATION WILL BE TERMINATED. GOMBERG, SHARFMAN, GOLD AND OSTLER, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 208 S. LaSalle St., #1410 Chicago, IL 60604 (312) 332-6194 I582159 (Published in the Herald-News January 16, 23, 30, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE Carlson Dash, LLC 216 S. Jefferson St., Suite 504 Chicago, Illinois 60661 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WILLSTATE OF ILLINOIS BMO HARRIS BANK N.A. f/k/a HARRIS N.A. AS ASSIGNEE OF THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION AS RECEIVER OF AMCORE BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, v.

MIZYED, INC., SHAHER M. MIZYED, THE WEXFORD HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

13-CH-03988 The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Will County by said Plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: LOT 1, AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF WEXFORD WEST COMMERCIAL SUBDIVISION, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE WEST 1/2 OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 36 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Tax identification numbers: 0335-209-088-0000 and 03-35209-087-0000 Common addresses of mortgaged real estate: 3480-3524 Caton Farm Road, Joliet, IL 60431 Mortgagor: Mizyed, Inc. Mortgagee: Amcore Bank, N.A. Mortgage recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Will County on June 11, 2008 as Document No. R2008073913; Present owner of the property: Mizyed, Inc. Notice is hereby given you that the said Complaint prays for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless, you, the said above named defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in the said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the office of the Circuit Clerk of Will County, 14 W. Jefferson Street, Joliet, IL 60432, on or before February 10, 2014 default may be entered against you at any time after that

agains yo any day and a Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint.

This is an attempt to collect a debt pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I584074 (Published in the Herald-News January 16, 23, 30, 2014)

y, ity Illinois or before February 18, 2014, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint.

Pamela J. McGuire Clerk of the Court 14 W Jefferson, Suite 212 Joliet, Illinois 60432 Clark Hill PLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 150 North Michigan Suite 2700 Chicago, IL 60601 PUBLIC NOTICE Telephone No.: 312.985.5900 I582054 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT (Published in the Herald-News JanWILL COUNTY- JOLIET, ILLINOIS uary 16, 23, 30, 2014) BMO HARRIS BANK N.A. f/k/a HARRIS N.A. f/k/a HARRIS BANK JOLIET, N.A., PUBLIC NOTICE Plaintiff, vs.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF DANIEL P. McNAMARA; ANNETTE M. McNAMARA; UNITED STATES OF THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT AMERICA; WEDGEWOOD ESTATES WILL COUNTY- JOLIET, ILLINOIS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; UN- BMO HARRIS BANK N.A. f/k/a HARKNOWN OWNERS, NON-RECORD RIS N.A. f/k/a HARRIS BANK JOLIET CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN TENANTS, N.A., Plaintiff, OCCUPANTS and LEASEHOLDS, vs.

Defendants.

BMO HARRIS BANK N.A. f/k/a HAR13 CH 4001 RIS N.A. f/k/a HARRIS BANK JOLIET NOTICE OF SERVICE N.A. as successor to FIRST NATIONBY PUBLICATION The requisite Affidavit for Publi- AL BANK OF JOLIET as TRUSTEE cation having been filed, notice is U/T/A NO. 2868 DATED DECEMhereby given you. Unknown Own- BER 18, 1986; PETER X. MEDINA; ers, Non-Record Claimants, Un- CYNTHIA L. MEDINA; UNKNOWN NON-RECORD known Occupants and Leaseholds, OWNERS, Defendants in the above-entitled CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN TENANTS, OCCUPANTS and LEASEHOLDS, suit, that said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Will Defendants.

13CH 4002 County, Illinois, by the said Plaintiff NOTICE OF SERVICE against you and other Defendants,

BY PUBLICATION praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the The requisite Affidavit for Publipremises described as follows, to- cation having been filed, notice is hereby given you. Unknown Ownwit: Legal Description: ers, Non-Record Claimants, UnLOT 12 IN WEDGEWOOD ES- known Tenants, Occupants and TATES UNIT ONE, A SUBDIVISION Leaseholds, Defendants in the OF PART OF THE NORTHEAST above-entitled suit, that said suit QUARTER OF SECTION 33, TOWN- has been commenced in the Circuit SHIP 36 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST Court of Will County, Illinois, by the OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDI- said Plaintiff against you and other AN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT Defendants, praying for the forecloTHEREOF RECORDED SEPTEMBER sure of a certain Mortgage convey22, 1992 AS DOCUMENT NO. ing the premises described as folR92-74227, IN WILL COUNTY, lows, to-wit: ILLINOIS. Legal Description: Permanent Index Number: 03- LOT 20 AND 21 IN BLOCK 10 33-205-012-0000 IN C.E. ROBINSON'S RESUBDIVICommonly Known as: 2216 SION OF LAKEVIEW ADDITION TO JOLIET, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF Irvine Lane, Plainfield, IL 60544 and which Mortgage was made THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF THE

by Daniel P. McNamara and An- SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 17 nette M. McNamara to BMO HAR- AND THE EAST 1/2 OF THE SOUTH RIS BANK N.A. f/k/a HARRIS N.A. EAST 1/4 OF SECTION 18 AND f/k/a HARRIS BANK JOLIET N.A. PART OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF and recorded with the Recorder of THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION Deeds of Will County, Illinois on 19 AND PART OF THE NORTHDecember 17, 2002, as Mortgage WEST 1/4 OF THE NORTHWEST Document No.: R2002222114 1/4 OF SECTION 20, TOWNSHIP and the present owners of the prop- 35 NORTH, RANGE 10 EAST OF erty are (the above-mentioned THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, Mortgagor), and for other relief; ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREthat Summons was duly issued out OF RECORDED NOVEMBER 28, of said Court against you as pro- 1906 IN PLAT BOOK 14, PAGE 34 vided by law, and that the said suit AS DOCUMENT NO. 241724, IN is now pending.

WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Now, therefore, unless you, the Permanent Index Number: 07said above-named Defendants, file 20-100-001-0000 and 07-17your Answer to the Complaint in the 309-008-0000 said suit or otherwise make your Commonly Known as: 716 Orr Appearance therein, in the Office of Street, Rockdale, IL 60436 the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Will and which Mortgage was made County, Illinois in the City of Joliet, by BMO HARRIS BANK N.A. f/k/a

by HARRIS N.A. f/k/a HARRIS BANK JOLIET N.A. as successor to FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF JOLIET as TRUSTEE U/T/A NO. 2868 DATED DECEMBER 18, 1986 to BMO HARRIS BANK N.A. f/k/a HARRIS N.A. f/k/a HARRIS BANK JOLIET N.A. and recorded with the Recorder of Deeds of Will County, Illinois on April 15, 2003, as Mortgage Document No.: R2003086841 and the present owners of the property are (the above-mentioned Mortgagor), and for other relief; that Summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said above-named Defendants, file your Answer to the Complaint in the said suit or otherwise make your Appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Will County, Illinois in the City of Joliet, Illinois or before February 18, 2014, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint.

Pamela J. McGuire Clerk of the Court 14 W Jefferson, Suite 212 Joliet, Illinois 60432 Clark Hill PLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 150 North Michigan Suite 2700 Chicago, IL 60601 Telephone No.: 312.985.5900 I582060 (Published in the Herald-News January 16, 23, 30, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF WILL IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT ESTATE OF Betty McCown Deceased CASE NUMBER 13 P 37 NOTICE TO HEIRS AND LEGATEES Notice is given of the death of Betty McCown whose address was 21006 W. Walnut Dr., Plainfield, IL. Letters of Office were issued on February 11, 2013 to Nancy R. Kessler, 913 69th Street, Darien, IL 60561 as: INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR whose attorney is Michael Overmann, Ltd. The estate will be administered without Court Supervision, unless under section 28-4 of the Probate Act of 1975 (755 ILCS 5/28-4) any interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the Circuit Court Clerk.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the Office of Pamela J. McGuire, Circuit Court Clerk, Will Co. Illinois, or with the representative or both on or before July 10, 2014, any claim not filed within

The Herald News /TheHerald-News.com y that period is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Circuit Court PUBLIC NOTICE Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to the atSTATE OF ILLINOIS torney, if any, within ten (10) days COUNTY OF WILL after it has been filed with the Circuit Clerk.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF PAMELA J.MCGUIRE THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Clerk of the Twelfth WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS Judicial Circuit Court Michael Overmann, Ltd. Attorney No.: 6229995 Attorney For: Representative 7702 S. Cass Ave., #115 Darien, IL 60561 630-810-0316

In the matter of the Estate of Mary Ann Snodgrass, Deceased.

CASE NO. 13 P 0912 CLAIM NOTICE

Edge lingbr 60440, as Independent Executor, whose attorney of record is Paul Wheeler.

Claims against the Estate may be filed in the Circuit Clerk's Office, Will County Courthouse, 14 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, Illinois, or with the representative, or both, on or before July 31, 2014, or if mailing or delivery of a notice from the representative is required by Section 13-8 of the Probate Act of 1975, as amended, the date stated in that notice.

Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the clerk must be mailed or delivered by the claimant to the representative and to the attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed.

(Published in the Herald-News Jan- Notice is given to creditors of the death of Mary Ann Snodgrass. Letuary 9, 16, 23, 2014. HN016) ters of Office were issued on December 30, 2013 to William L. Snodgrass, whose address is 217 Paul Wheeler PUBLIC NOTICE Edgehill Dr., Bolingbrook, IL Attorney for Independent Executor UNITED STATES OF AMERICA STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF WILL IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT ESTATE OF Esther Krapek Deceased CASE NUMBER 2013 P 407 NOTICE TO HEIRS AND LEGATEES Notice is given of the death of Esther Krapek whose address was 14100 Sheffield Dr., #204, Homer Glen, IL. Letters of Office were issued on July 10, 2013 to Kenneth Krapek, 12412 Huntleigh Rd., Homer Glen, IL 60491 as: INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR whose attorney is Michael Overmann, Ltd. The estate will be administered without Court Supervision, unless under section 28-4 of the Probate Act of 1975 (755 ILCS 5/28-4) any interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the Circuit Court Clerk.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the Office of Pamela J. McGuire, Circuit Court Clerk, Will County, Illinois, or with the representative or both on or before July 10, 2014, any claim not filed within that period is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Circuit Court Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to the attorney, if any, within ten (10) days after it has been filed with the Circuit Clerk.

PAMELA J. MCGUIRE Clerk of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court Michael Overmann, Ltd. Attorney No.: 6229995 Attorney For: Representative 7702 S. Cass Ave., #115 Darien, IL 60561 630-810-0316 (Published in the Herald-News January 9, 16, 23, 2014. HN015) The Herald-News Classified It works.

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY - JOLIET, ILLINOIS GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC, PLAINTIFF vs.

SILVIA BARAJAS RIVERA; MIDLAND FUNDING LLC; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, DEFENDANTS 13CH 3593 PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, SILVIA BARAJAS RIVERA; and UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of the 12th Judicial Circuit, Will County, Illinois by the plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage conveying the premises described as follows to wit: LOTS 8 AND 9 IN BLOCK 1 IN FAIRMONT A SUBDIVISION BY GRANJIL W. CAMPBELL OF A PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER AND A PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 34, TOWNSHIP 36 NORTH, RANGE 10, EAST OF THE 3RD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, SITUATED IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. COMMON ADDRESS: 212 North Avenue, Lockport, Illinois 60441 P.I.N.: 11-04-34-206-002 and which said mortgage was signed by SILVIA BARAJAS RIVERA, mortgagors, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Irwin Mortgage Corporation, as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Will County as Document No. R2006160672; and for such other relief prayed; that summons was duly issued out of the Circuit Court of Will County against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

YOU MAY STILL BE ABLE TO SAVE YOUR HOME. DO NOT IGNORE THIS DOCUMENT. By order of the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, this case is set for Mandatory Mediation on February 6, 2014 at 1:00 pm at the Will County Court Annex-3rd Floor (Arbitration Center), 57 N. Ottawa Street, Joliet, Illinois. A lender representative will be present along with a court appointed mediator to discuss options that you may have and to pre-screen you for a potential mortgage modification. For further information on the mediation process, please see the attached NOTICE OF MANDATORY MEDIATION. YOU MUST APPEAR ON THE MEDIATION DATE GIVEN OR YOUR RIGHT TO MEDIATION WILL TERMINATE. NOW THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU, the said above defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of this Court in Will County at Will County Court House 14 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, IL 60432 on or before the February 10, 2014, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said complaint.

Pamela J. McGuire Circuit Clerk Johnson, Blumberg, & Associates, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite 1125 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Ph. 312-541-9710; Fax 312-541-9711 JB&A # IL 13 8757 I581960 (Published in the Herald-News January 9, 16, 23, 2014)

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PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF WILL IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION TO CHANGE THE NAME(S) OF Anastasiia Myroniuk TO Anastasiia Garza CASE NO. 14 MR 0049 NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned on behalf of herself, Anastasiia Myroniuk, adult(s) shall appear in the Will County Court Annex Building, 57 N. Ottawa, Joliet, Illinois, 60432 courtroom 236 at 9:00 a.m. on the 28th day of February, 2014, before the judge assigned to hear said matter, and then there present a petition requesting the names of Anastasiia Myroniuk, be changed to Anastasiia Garza. /s/ Anastasiia Myroniuk PAMELA J. MCGUIRE CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF WILL COUNTY (Published in the Herald-News January 16, 23, 30, 2014. HN042)

PUBLIC NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE CITY OF JOLIET ADVERTISEMENT TO BIDS CONTRACT NO. 1971-0214 PROJECT NAME: JOLIET MULTI-MODAL REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION CENTER BID PACKAGE NO. 2C: TEMPORARY PLATFORM AND TICKET OFFICE, JOLIET, ILLINOIS The City of Joliet, Illinois, does hereby invite sealed bids for the construction of a new +/-230 foot long, elevated temporary commuter rail platform and two (2) prefabricated temporary ticket office trailers.

Platform construction includes drilled concrete piers and wood framing and walking surface. Platform improvements include prefabricated aluminum shelter, lighting, landscaping, and way-finding signage. Site construction includes electrical, water and sanitary services.

on Thursday February 13, 2014 at the last week of March thru midwhich time they will be opened and November 2014. Also, to supply, install, maintain and take down publicly read aloud. portable fencing as well as supplyPre-Bid Meeting: Monday, ing and maintaining additional February 3, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. portable toilets and hand wash stain the 1st floor Planning Confer- tions for special event (Proud ence Room at Joliet City Hall locat- American Days) running July 24ed at 150 West Jefferson Street, July 27, 2014 Refer to Bidding Documents for Joliet, IL 60432. additional information relating to Those desiring to bid may exam- the scope of work. ine the bid documents and detailed Bid Documents will be available specifications at the above address, at the New Lenox Park District between the hours of 8:00 A.M. Community Center (1 Manor Drive) and 4:30 P.M., Monday through New Lenox, Illinois, on January Friday. All bidders will be required 27, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. to submit Bid Security in the form of A public bid opening will occur a Certified Check, Cashier's Check at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, Februor a Bid Bond in the amount of Ten ary 10, 2014 at the New Lenox percent (10%) of the Base Bid, Park District Community Center located at 1 Manor Drive, New payable to the City of Joliet.

Lenox, Illinois. Sealed bids will be The successful bidder will be re- received until 10:00 a.m. Monday, quired to post performance Security February 10, 2014 at the New and to provide a Certificate of Insur- Lenox Park District Community ance as set forth in the Invitation of Center. Bids should be labeled Bid and the General Terms & Con- “Portable Services”.

A Certified or Cashier's check ditions. payable to New Lenox Community Bidders are required to be pre- Park District, or a Bid Bond in an qualified through the Illinois De- amount equal to Ten Percent partment of Transportation or the (10%) of the total bid amount must accompany each bid. Failure Capital Development Board. to provide a Bid Bond or Certified The right is reserved to accept or Cashier's Check shall render the any bid or any part or parts thereof bid incomplete and rejected. Once or to reject any and all bids. Ac- submitted, no bids will be withceptance of any bid is subject to drawn without written consent from concurrence by the Illinois Depart- the New Lenox Community Park District's Attorney. ment of Transportation.

The successful bidder will be reAny contract resulting from these quired to furnish Performance and bids is subject to financial assis- Payment Bonds in the full amount tance contracts between the City of of the contract price and proof of Joliet and the Illinois Department of insurance demonstrating the Bidder's insurability.

Transportation.

The New Lenox Community Park District reserves the right to accept Contractor will be required to comply with all applicable Equal or reject any or all bids, reject non Employment Opportunity laws and conforming bids, reject conditional bids, waive irregularities in the bidregulations. ding procedure, or to accept any The Contract shall be subject to bid that in its sole opinion best the provisions of the Prevailing serves the interests of the Park DisWage Act (820 ILCS 130/1 et trict. seq.) to the extent required by law.

(Published in the Herald-News JanALL PROPOSALS ARE SUBJECT uary 23, 24, 26, 2014. HN061) TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE CITY OF JOLIET PROCUREMENT PUBLIC NOTICE CODE (Section 2-430 - 2-453 of the Code of Ordinances) Bid Notice James D. Hock City Manager The New Lenox Community Park District is accepting sealed bids for Margaret E. McEvilly Turf Mowing Service in the district.

Contract Administrator PROJECT DESCRIPTION (Published in the Herald-News January 23, 26, 2014. HN068) The scope of work includes: providing all labor, services and equipment/material necessary to PUBLIC NOTICE complete the Turf Mowing Work as indicated in the Bid Documents.

Refer to Bidding Documents for Bid Notice additional information relating to The New Lenox Community Park the scope of work.

District is accepting sealed bids for Portable Services in the district.

PROJECT SCHEDULE

PROJECT DESCRIPTION/ Bids will be received at the Office SCHEDULE of the City Clerk, City of Joliet Municipal Building, 150 West Jeffer- To supply and service Portable son Street, Joliet, Illinois 60432- Toilets at numerous parks and 4156 until 10:00 A.M. local time school sites within our district from

The Turf Mowing Service will occur at numerous parks throughout the district and New Lenox School District 122 sites -a map of the site locations will be provided in the Bid Documents. Generally, sites will be

lly mowed once a week starting in mid April thru first week of November 2014 (weather pending-see bid documents for particulars).

Bid Documents will be available at the New Lenox Park District Community Center (1 Manor Drive) New Lenox, Illinois on January 28, 2014 at 10 a.m.

A public bid opening will occur at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at the New Lenox Park District Community Center located at 1 Manor Drive, New Lenox, Illinois. Sealed bids will be received until 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at the New Lenox Park District Community Center. Bids should be labeled “Turf Mowing Service”.

A Certified or Cashier's check payable to the New Lenox Community Park District, or a Bid Bond in an amount equal to Ten Percent (10%) of the total bid amount must accompany each bid. Failure to provide a Bid Bond or Certified or Cashier's Check shall render the bid incomplete and rejected. Once submitted, no bids will be withdrawn without written consent from the New Lenox Community Park District's Attorney.

The successful bidder will be required to furnish Performance Bond in the full amount of the contract price and proof of insurance demonstrating the Bidder's insurability.

The New Lenox Community Park District reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, reject non conforming bids, reject conditional bids, waive irregularities in the bidding procedure, or to accept any bid that in its sole opinion best serves the interests of the Park District.

(Published in the Herald-News January 23, 24, 26, 2014. HN062)

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PUBLIC NOTICE Certificate #28870 was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Will County on January 7, 2014 where in the business firm of WORKING MANS HVAC Located at 3102 Joann Drive, Joliet, IL 60431 was registered; that the true or real name or names of the person or persons owning the business, with their respective post office address(es), Is/are as follows: Joshua Earl Bolin 3102 Joann Drive Joliet, IL 60431 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and Official Seal at my office in Joliet; Illinois, this 7th day of January, 2014.

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