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Looking back, and forward, as another new year dawns I love Jan. 1.

Although I logically know nothing really changes when the calendar flips from December to January, I’ve never shaken the notion that New Year’s Day is a new beginning, filled with renewed hope and faith.

It’s also a time to reflect on the past year, what went well, what could have gone better and chart a course for how to improve in the new year.

A year ago yesterday, Shaw Media purchased The Herald-News. The publication had what the company looks for in its products: Based in a strong community that wants a locally focused news source.

And it’s proven to be true: This is a community that cares deeply about its institutions, history and people. It’s a great place to be.

We’ve come a long way in the past year: When the purchase went through, we had maybe five or six people total hired for the staff. Our office didn’t have functioning phones for almost a week.

The first few weeks were

VIEWS Kate Schott spent hiring staff, assigning beats and getting to know the community.

In my introductory column to you, I wrote: “My love of journalism is rooted in the belief that every community, no matter how big or small, deserves a news operation dedicated to providing comprehensive local news, sports and business coverage, and interesting stories about the people who make our community a great place to live.”

I still believe that. And I think we’ve done a great job this past year making that happen. That’s not to say we hit home runs every day, or that we don’t have areas we need to improve upon. We’ve hit plenty of singles (and had some strikeouts), and I am well aware there are areas we could do better at.

But, as the new year starts, I am again filled with

a sense of promise about what we can do in 2015 with our publications. And I’m also reflecting on 2014 to zero in on what we could improve. I’m going through every edition of the past year and noting what worked and what didn’t. I’m seeking feedback from readers on their thoughts; please shoot me an email or give me a call in the next week to share your thoughts.

Personally, I love living in Joliet and getting to know Will and Grundy counties. I love the self-ownership many of our readers have for our publications, and the passion they show for the issues that are important to them.

Happy new year to you and yours. And, as always, thank you for reading The Herald-News.

• Kate Schott is editor of The Herald-News, the Morris Daily Herald and Herald Life. She can be reached at kschott@shawmedia.com or 815-280-4119. Follow her on Twitter @Kate_Schott78.

Parents arrested after children left in hotel

By BRIAN STANLEY bstanley@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Police say a couple left an infant and a toddler in squalid and dangerous conditions at a motel Thursday.

Deputy Police Chief Ed Gregory said a guest of the Star Inn, 2219½ W. Jefferson St., called police about 6:30 p.m. after hearing a woman screaming in another room. Gregory said police and security began checking rooms and saw a baby alone inside Room 235.

“Housekeeping let them in to find a 1-year-old boy sitting on a bed in a T-shirt and soiled diaper. The boy was covered in urine and feces and chewing on a cigarette lighter,” Gregory said.

According to police reports, the motel room had more than a dozen baby bottles with the remnants of formula decomposing inside.

“The boy attempted to eat

from one of them while officers were there,” Gregory noted.

Police also said there was Peji C. an open cup Patterson of alcohol and shaving razors on the floor within reach of the child, piles of diapers overflowing from a trash can and no heat.

“After two or three minutes in the room, an officer noticed something moving in the two black pillows on the floor at his feet and found a 5-month-old boy wearing a soiled diaper,” Gregory said.

Officers later questioned guests in nearby rooms and learned the boys’ mother, Stephanie Patterson, 22, was sitting in a car in the parking lot, according to Gregory.

Stephanie Patterson told police said she’d gone out to

smoke and gone out to shop before saying she’d fled the room after her husband, Peji C. Patterson, 24, had struck her, Gregory said.

Gregory said Stephanie Patterson was treated for a wound on the side of her face at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center and arrested on a charge of endangering the life or health of a child.

Peji Patterson was located about 9:15 p.m. at a gas station in the 2300 block of Glenwood Avenue. He was arrested and booked into the Will County jail on charges of domestic battery and endangering the life or health of a child. The couple and their children had been living in the motel room since early December, according to police reports. Gregory said the Department of Children and Family Services was notified about the incident and the boys’ great-grandmother has taken temporary custody.

LOCAL BRIEF Joliet fire destroys garage, damages sheds JOLIET – Fire destroyed a vacant garage and damaged two sheds Thursday afternoon.

Capt. Robert Wohlrab said firefighters were notified at 1:50 p.m. and arrived to find the detached garage of an unoccupied house in the 400 block of Krakar Avenue in flames.

Wohlrab said the fire spread to a shed on that property and another in a yard off the 400 block of Scribner Street before firefighters brought it under control. Siding on the house next door also was damaged from the heat.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

– Brian Stanley

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CORRECTIONS In the article, “Two injured in truck accident on I-80” that was on page 2 of the Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015, edition of The Herald-News, the box truck involved in the accident was incorrectly identified because of information available from state police at the time of the accident. A state police report later identified the vehicle as a Nicor truck.

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bokon@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Three candidates are running for mayor in Joliet.

All are well-known figures in the city – making this race much different from the 2011 election when the nine candidates were on the ballot. The campaign for the April 7 election will heat up in the coming months with campaign signs, candidate nights and political advertising.

Here is an early preview of the candidates who filed petitions in December for the election: Mayor Tom Giarrante; Councilman Bob O’Dekirk; and Andrew “Andy” Mihelich, chairman of the Joliet Junior College Board of Trustees.

Tom Giarrante

Giarrante seeks a second term as mayor.

Elected in 2011, he is only the second Joliet mayor in 23 years, having Tom followed the late Giarrante Mayor Arthur Schultz, the longest serving mayor in the city’s history.

Giarrante, 73, said the city is good condition and points to his handling of the $17 million budget deficit in 2011, the major issue during his first campaign, as among his accomplishments over the past four years.

“We were told by then-City Manager Tom Thanas that if we didn’t bring in some more revenue we’d have to look at laying off police officers, laying off firefighters and maybe closing a fire station,” Giarrante said.

Giarrante and a council majority in 2011 approved a hike in sales and utility taxes. Giarrante said those measures, along with belt-tightening, put Joliet in strong financial condition and helped erase the projected deficit.

The mayor said economic development has been one of his major focuses and he plans to continue on that course if

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An entrance to Joliet City Hall is seen on Wednesday. re-elected. He points to new restaurants and stores that have opened in Joliet and emphasized ongoing downtown redevelopment.

Giarrante is a former Joliet firefighter who also headed the firefighters union. He served on the City Council for 14 years before becoming mayor.

Andy Mihelich

Mihelich is making his second run at mayor, having been on the crowded ballot in 2011 that included nine candidates. Andy W i t h j u s t Mihelich three candidates on the ballot this time, Mihelich, 63, said he should have a better opportunity to communicate his ideas for the city. And Mihelich said he has 101 of them.

His campaign theme is “101 Ideas for a New Joliet.”

“I’m pretty excited about the possibilities that Joliet has, and I’d like to turn those possibilities into reality,” he said. His strength, Mihelich said, “is coming up with creative ideas” and putting them into action.

A few of Mihelich’s ideas including creating a task force to focus on high-crime areas in Joliet and developing solutions, cleaning up Joliet streets to improve the city’s appearance and creating jobs by pursuing more economic development.

Mihelich said he wants the city to refocus on the Bridge Street Town Centre plan for a lifestyle shopping center at the crossing of Interstates 55 and 80. The plan, and another proposal for a Lego theme park, faded when the recession came.

“We need to bring those back now,” he said. “We’re moving out of the recession.

We want to show people that we want to attract jobs.”

Mihelich retired eight

years ago from his position as associate vice president for extended campuses at Joliet Junior College.

Bob O’Dekirk

O’Dekirk is a lawyer and former Joliet police officer elected in his first run for City Council in 2011. He is Bob among a group O’Dekirk of new council members that has at times been at odds with Giarrante.

He said the city needs to change the way it does business, particularly out of the mayor’s office, to bring more business and jobs to town.

“You can’t operate the way you did 25 years ago,” O’Dekirk said. “I think the mayor needs to be marketing the city to the Chicagoland area and outside the Chicagoland area.”

O’Dekirk, 45, said he

can step back from his law firm, The Law Offices of Bob O’Dekirk, to devote full attention to the mayor’s office and the active role he promises to pursue. He said he already has done that for the mayoral campaign.

“I own the law firm,” he said. “I have partners and several associates who work for me. My job is going to be mayor.”

O’Dekirk said there is too much “cronyism” at City Hall and attributes some of the in-fighting on the current council to a lack of leadership from Giarrante. His election, and the election of other new council members in the 2011 and 2013 elections, shows a desire for change in Joliet, O’Dekirk said.

“I think some of the arguments that myself and others were making four years ago – one, I think we were right,” he said, “and I think they resonated with people.”

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Opening Chicago Street on Joliet agenda for 2015

By LAUREN LEONE–CROSS lleonecross@shawmedia.com JOLIET – City and county officials hope a deal can be struck in 2015 that allows Joliet to open up Chicago Street – the city’s main street downtown that was cut in two sections decades ago by the Will County Courthouse complex.

That, and other plans, are on the horizon in 2015 for Joliet.

City Manager Jim Hock said the opening up of Chicago Street won’t happen in 2015, but a deal will likely be worked out in the spring so the city can begin design and engineering work on the project.

This section of Chicago Street, from Washington to Jefferson streets, has been closed to through traffic for decades. Once opened up, Chicago Street would run through what is now a county-owned parking lot. The opening would provide an easier entry to the downtown area and a better venue for businesses, making it a high priority city project, Hock said.

Details of a possible deal are unknown. But the county will lose parking options in the process, so it’s likely the city will provide parking.

Also in store for 2015 is continued work on the new

transportation center and installing fiber optics downtown – each components of the City Center Master Plan.

A big expenditure in the 2015 city budget is the return of the once-abandoned tree removal and replacement program, Hock said. In all, $500,000 is budgeted for next year. Many of the city’s ash trees have died, or are dying, from infestation from the emerald ash borer, Hock said, requiring removal.

Another $125,000 is budgeted for a tree inventory program, he said.

Evergreen Terrace deal

Hock said a jury will de-

Joliet outlook for 2015 Q Continued work on downtown transportation center Q Trial in March regarding Evergreen Terrace case Q Possible design and engineering work on Chicago Street reconfiguration cide in early 2015 the value of Evergreen Terrace – the federally subsidized housing complex at the center of a years-long condemnation lawsuit that pitted Joliet against the housing owners.

A federal judge ruled in favor of the city’s condem-

Plenty of salt in the shed thanks to mild winter

By VIKAAS SHANKER vshanker@shawmedia.com A lack of wintry weather has public works officials anticipating cost savings and plenty of road salt for 2015.

In addition to the low use of road salt due to less snow and warmer weather than previous years, local municipalities have paid out less for overtime pay and contractual services while not having to send out plows.

The snow and sleet that came down Saturday morning did lead to several accidents on local roads. But it marked only the second weather event that required road salt this winter for many municipalities.

Mild winter

“We’re in really good shape,” Plainfield Director of Public Works Allen Persons said, adding that the village purchased 3,000 tons of salt at $107.20 per ton earlier in the year. By the end of December a year ago, Persons said, “we already had 11 storm events, and this year in the same time we only had to apply salt once.”

Demand for road salt was high this spring and summer,

causing some municipalities to spend double the price per ton to restock low reserves.

Persons said the winter season last year forced the use of 2,000 tons of salt through Dec. 31 in Plainfield. This season, the village only used 100 tons by the end of December.

He estimated the weather difference resulted in savings of more than $180,000 in road salt, overtime pay and contracting compared to last year.

Shorewood Public Works Supervisor Chris Drey said the village had used under 100 tons of salt by the end of December.

“This year is considerably different,” he said.

Shorewood made two salt purchases for 2,000 tons in 2014 averaging $99.68 a ton.

“Right now we’re content with what we have – a full salt shed,” Drey said.

Joliet was able to keep its salt price closer to 2013 levels, purchasing 14,500 tons at $58.36 per ton.

“We have four salt domes – all full,” said Jim Trizna, Joliet director of public works.

“I’m sure we’ll get snow in January.”

Trizna said the strategy is to be conservative in salt use

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A Plainfield salt truck gets stocked Friday afternoon in anticipation of wintry weather on Saturday. because of the impact of salt on the environment. The city also will continue using a product that includes beet juice to help de-ice the roadways.

“Last year’s costs were very high so we’ll see how the rest of the winter goes,” Trizna said.

Saturday accidents

State police said slick road conditions caused several minor accidents early Saturday.

“We’ve had nothing but accidents this morning,” Master Sgt. Wilfredo Rivera said. “Nothing super serious.

It’s mostly just cars driving into ditches and hitting light

poles.”

Rivera said police handled seven minor crashes and towed five cars at locations along interstates 55, 80 and 57 and other roads in Will and Grundy counties. That didn’t include several people who were helped out of their cars that fell in ditches and didn’t file reports.

Rivera said there were minor injuries in some of the accidents.

“Every year during the [first snowfalls of the season], people don’t realize the roads are slicker and they’re driving too fast for the conditions,” Rivera said. “Slow down.”

nation of the Evergreen Terrace housing complex, but the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court in its nine-year journey to a September ruling.

Hock said the two parties will go to trial sometime in March to “argue the property’s value.”

In the meantime, Hock said, the city has hired Chicago-based Holsten Management Group to develop a plan that involves buying and managing the complex properties.

Plans for the property are uncertain, with City Council members at odds over whether the property is worth keeping or in need of demolition.

LOCAL BRIEFS Joliet city manager set for a raise

JOLIET – Joliet City Council members are slated to vote on a pay raise for City Manager Jim Hock at the Tuesday meeting.

If approved, Hock will make $188,700 – or 2 percent more than his starting salary of $185,000 – next year. The salary would be retroactive to Nov. 12, 2014 – his one-year anniversary with the city, according to a memo addressed to council members from Mayor Tom Giarrante.

Hock will also request the council’s approval to fill 16 position vacancies, including six patrol officers, two sergeants, one captain, a firefighter and paramedic, a building safety inspector, utilities superintendent and four maintenance workers.

– Lauren Leone-Cross

One injured in I-55 crash in Wilmington

WILMINGTON – A lane on Interstate 55 was briefly shut down Friday after a crash in the Wilmington area at 11:19 a.m.

State police said one driver suffered minor injuries.

– Brian Stanley

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6 Buildings, transportation 2015 focus for Will County

By LAUREN LEONE–CROSS lleonecross@shawmedia.com WILL COUNTY – County government will focus on transportation issues and capital improvements in 2015.

Nick Palmer, chief of staff for County Executive Larry Walsh, said he anticipates a greater regional effort in addressing the area’s ever-growing semitrailer traffic from the two trucking intermodals in Joliet and Elwood.

Discussions will pick up regarding a proposed high-level bridge connecting Interstate 80 from the Houbolt Road exit to the intermodals, Palmer said.

“We’re focused on economic development and job creation, but [the bridge] would be a huge shot in the arm to the intermodal facilities to keep them strong and viable, but also to get a lot of that traffic off I-80 and Route 53,” Palmer said.

The project, which would likely take shape as a public-private partnership, still is in the discussion stage, he said.

County officials will host a “Growing Our Regional Economy” conference later this month, inviting leaders from Cook and surrounding counties to discuss the county’s growth and possible longterm solutions to the truck traffic.

The meeting will serve, in part, as a discussion on how to streamline the overweight truck permitting process with technology and intergovernmental agreements, making the system more user-friendly while providing needed revenue to repair roads, Palmer said.

Such a system is a “long way out,” Palmer said, but it’s an important issue for Will that is sure to come up in 2015.

Will County outlook for 2015 • Talks on a regional approach to overweight trucking permitting • Moving county’s coroner and recorder of deeds offices into former Social Security Administration building • Extending Joliet water and sewer service to the area near the sheriff’s Laraway Road facility

“It’s a big year for us for facilities,” Palmer said, noting the office moves will ultimately lead to the county building a new courthouse at the First Midwest Bank building site, bought earlier this year.

Later in January, the county’s recorder of deeds and coroner’s offices will relocate into the former Social Security Administration building at 158 N. Scott St. The move opens space at the EMCO building, 57 N. Ottawa St., which houses the Will County state’s attorney’s office and could house the public defender’s office.

“While that’s all going on, we’re moving the sheriff’s offices into the First Midwest Bank building,” Palmer said, helping set in motion the eventual demolition of the Eagle Building, 20 W. Washington St., which houses several of the sheriff’s departments.

Other county offices may temporarily relocate to the bank.

Out by Laraway Road, the county is closer to its goal of extending Joliet water and sewer service to the area around the sheriff’s facilities, Palmer said. Construction on that project could begin in the summer, he said.

In northern Will County, construction on the heavily congested Interstate 55/Weber Road intersection will pick up in 2015, Palmer said.

Downtown game of chess “It’ll take several years, so Will County government it’s going to be a little bit of a will play a complicated game headache, but it’s going to be of chess in the downtown Jo- a massive improvement up in liet area in 2015, as officials the northern part of the counrearrange and consolidate of- ty, where the bulk of the popfices as part of its long-range ulation lives,” Palmer said. master plan, Palmer said.

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Neil Patel, one of Michael Vilim’s attorneys, told Judge Edward Burmila on Friday there have been “financial issues” that prompted his office to file a motion to withdraw from the case. Vilim, 56, has been represented by Chuck

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Neither Vilim or Bretz were in court Friday.

“I don’t think I’ve ever denied a motion to withdraw, but this particular case is going on nine years old,” Burmila said.

“There have been a multiplicity of hearings consuming hours of the court’s time.”

Burmila estimated transcripts would cost the state “thousands of dollars” if Vilim hired another lawyer.

“If the only issue is a financial breach, the chances of

that motion being granted is almost zero,” Burmila said.

Vilim is scheduled to appear before Burmila on Monday for a status hearing on the criminal case and argument on the attorneys’ motion to withdraw.

In September 2006, the Metropolitan Area Narcotics Squad allegedly found 17 kilos of cocaine at Vilim’s Naperville home. Vilim’s then-wife was having a sexual relationship with a MANS agent, according to court records.

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Batis said interviews revealed Koch met the girl on the Web and they traded explicit photos via cell phone.

“He admitted meeting her with the intention of sexual contact, but it appears that did not occur before officers arrived,” Batis said.

Koch, of the 2200 block of Benedict Avenue, was arrested on charges of soliciting a minor for sex, indecent solicitation, child pornography and violating sex offender registry requirements.

Court records show Koch is on probation after pleading guilty to two counts of child pornography last year. An internet task force learned Koch was downloading child pornography and police found 40 full-grown marijuana plants in the basement while searching Koch’s then-residence in the 1200 block of Nicholson Street.

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MONDAY • Will County Mobile Workforce Center – 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3:30 p.m. Fountaindale Public Library, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. For information, www.jobs4people.org.

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Another abuse lawsuit filed against Gibbs, Joliet diocese

By BRIAN STANLEY bstanley@shawmedia.com JOLIET – The Catholic Diocese of Joliet and a former priest were sued Tuesday by a man who said he was sexually abused in 1977.

Stan Lewandowski claims Lawrence Gibbs molested him during a religious retreat that summer while Gibbs was a priest at Divine Savior Catholic Church in Downers Grove.

Lewandowski and his wife Cindy are seeking more than $600,000 in damages.

Gibbs has been the subject of several lawsuits settled as far back as the 1990s. He was removed from the priesthood in 1992.

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OBITUARIES HELEN M. BENAC Helen M. Benac (nee Popek), age 97, passed away peacefully on Friday, January 2, 2015, with her loving family by her side.

Helen is survived by two daughters, Janice (David) Stefka of Joliet, Mary Ellen (Gilbert) Giles of AZ; one son David (Kristine) Benac of CA; four grandchildren, Michael (Joan) Stefka, Karen (Greg) Wiegmann, Mark (Wendy) Giles, and Shannon (Jason) Smith; nine great-grandchildren, Nathan, Natalie, and Naomi Stefka, Joseph and Emma Wiegmann, Benjamin and Nicholas Giles, Regan and Andrew Smith; one sister, Joan (Arthur) Krieger; one sister-in-law, Virginia (the late Thomas) Popek; numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Preceded in death by her husband, Victor Benac (1961); her parents, Anton and Mary (nee Nemanich) Popek; three brothers, Anton, Thomas, and Raymond (Josephine); and one sister Marie (Frank) Scheidt.

Helen was a lifetime parishioner of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Joliet. She graduated from St. Joseph School and Joliet Township High School class of 1935 and retired from the County of Will. Helen was a member of St. Genevieve Society, KSKJ, Slovenian Union of America Branch 20, Cantigny Post 367 VFW Ladies Auxiliary, Will County Retirees Association, and St. Joseph Senior Parishioners Club. She was a lifelong resident of Joliet and a resident at the Timbers of Shorewood since 2004.

A special thank you to the friends and staff at The Timbers of Shorewood as well as Rosewood Care Center and Joliet Area Community Hospice for their loving care.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Helen’s name to St. Joseph Catholic Church in Joliet or Joliet Area Community Hospice would be appreciated.

A Celebration of Helen’s life will begin on Tuesday, January 6, 2015, with prayers in the funeral home chapel at 9:20 a.m. then driving in procession to St. Joseph Catholic Church in Joliet for a Mass of Christian Burial to be held at 10:00 a.m. Interment to follow at St. Mary Nativity Cemetery in Crest Hill. Visi-

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Obituary and Tribute Wall for Helen M. Benac at www.tezakfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements entrusted to:

Judith was an avid gardener, enjoyed cooking, and collecting birds.

Funeral services private.

Funeral arrangements entrusted to Kurtz Memorial Chapel, 102 E. Francis Rd., New Lenox, IL 60451.

Info www.kurtzmemorialchapel. com or 815-485-3200.

tions to Alzheimer’s Association or St. Jude Church, Music Ministries would be appreciated www.kurtzmemorialchapel.com or 815-485-3200 for info.

HUBERT COLEMAN FREDERICK J. BISHOP Frederick J. Bishop, age 73, passed away on Wednesday, December 31, 2014, at his daughter’s home in New Lenox.

Survived by his beloved wife, Judith nee Mumbower; devoted daughter and caregiver, Annette (Max) Bryant; and son, Mark Bishop; and treasured grandchildren, Samuel and Kayla Bryant.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Lois Fischer.

Frederick enjoyed computer programming. He was a skilled handyman, and enjoyed machine fabrication and small engine repair.

Funeral services private. Funeral arrangements entrusted to Kurtz Memorial Chapel, 102 E. Francis Rd., New Lenox, IL 60451. For information, www.kurtzmemorialchapel.com or 815-485-3200.

JUDITH K. BISHOP Judith K. Bishop, nee Mumbower, age 72, passed away on Thursday, January 1, 2015, at her daughter’s home in New Lenox.

Survived by her devoted daughter and caregiver, Annette (Max) Bryant; and son, Mark Bishop; and treasured grandchildren, Samuel and Kayla Bryant.

She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Frederick Bishop; and parents Murel and Rosemary Mumbower.

Born: Jan. 23, 1922 Died: Dec. 22, 2014

GARY L. BLACK Gary L. Black, age 65, of New Lenox IL, formerly of Canton IL, born and raised in Macomb IL, passed away on January 1, 2015.

Loving husband of Therese Black (Nee Henseler); beloved father of Craig (Nicole) Black, Kevin Black and Rachel (Rob) Bogart; dearest brother of Allen (Paula) Black and Jamie (Ralph) Stone; cherished grandfather of Isabel Bogart, Collin Black, Ava Bogart, Elyse Black, Claire Bogart and Leah Black; dear uncle to many nieces and nephews.

He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, member of American Legion Post #1977 in New Lenox, Knights of Columbus and TTM both at St. Jude Church.

Family will receive friends at Kurtz Memorial Chapel 102 E. Francis Rd, New Lenox, IL 60451 on Sunday, January 4, 2015, from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Funeral Mass Monday, January 5, 2015, at St. Jude Church 10:30 a.m. Interment Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood IL. In lieu of flowers memorial dona-

Hubert (Art) Coleman was born in Ft. Wayne, IN, on Jan. 23, 1922.

He’s survived by his loving wife of 61 years, Carol Coleman; one son, Kevin Coleman; one daughter, Barbara Coleman (Mark Pasdo); one grandson, Shaun Coleman; three- step grand-children, Lucas Pasdo, Courtney Pasdo, and Angela Pasdo; one sister, Virginia Chapman of New Haven, IN; one brother, Virgil Coleman (Lola Coleman) of Frankfort, IL; and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Violet Coleman; and father, Hubert Coleman; and two brothers, Richard Coleman and Robert Coleman.

Art was inducted in the U.S. Army in 1941 and served in the 151st Signal

Corps, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge in the 11th Armored Division of the 3rd Army under the command of General George Patton. After being honorably discharged from the Army in 1945, Art worked as an airline pilot for Chicago and Southern, and owned his own plane. He later worked as a truck dispatcher for Emery Air Freight near Midway Airport in Chicago, and owned and operated a Standard Oil Service Station in Joliet, IL. In 1964, he entered civil service, working for the Department of the Army in Dayton, OH, the Joliet Ammunition Plant in Joliet, IL, and the Rock Island Arsenal in Rock Island, IL. After 23 years as a computer programmer, Art and his wife retired to Mountain Home AR, where they resided until 2012 when they moved to Chicago to be near their daughter and family.

Art was a 32nd Mason, serving as a Past Master of the Joliet Masonic Lodge in Joliet, IL, and Sherman Masonic Lodge in Orion, IL. He was a life-time member of the VFW and was a 50-year member of the Masons, Scottish Rite, and Shriners International.

Art’s remains were cremated, as per his wishes. There was no visitation or funeral. However, a memorial service will be held at a later date.

Memorials may be made in his name to his favorite charity, the Shriners Hospital for Children, or a charity of your choice.

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I thought of you with love today but that is nothing new.

I thought of you yesterday and days before that too.

I think of you in silence as I often speak your name.

All I have are memories and your picture in a frame.

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JAMES A. HOPSON James A. Hopson, age 66, of Joliet, IL, US Navy Veteran, beloved husband of Karen (nee Krueger), dearest brother of Joseph (Sharon) and Robert Smith, fond uncle of many nieces and nephews.

All services private. Interment at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery is planned for the spring.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to JOHA foundation, 2614 W. Jefferson Street, Joliet, IL 60435.

Arrangements by Care Memorial, for more information, call 866-9129822.

LINDSAY RAE JENSEN AMY LYNN GUCA Born: Feb. 16, 1973 Died: Jan. 1, 2015

Amy Lynn Guca, Nee Montella, at peace with the Lord on January 1, 2015. Born February 16, 1973, in Chicago Heights.

She graduated from Marian Catholic High School and Western Illinois University. She received two degrees and worked as a special education teacher before opening Families First where she worked independently as a pediatric developmental therapist.

Survived by her husband, Matthew Guca; 2 sons, Jacob (17) and Nicholas (13); parents, Alan and Judy (Jarecki) Montella; 1 brother, Robert (Suzanne) Montella; and two nephews, Evan and Nolan Montella.

She was a member of the Cathedral of St. Raymond. Amy dedicated her life to serving families of children with special needs.

Funeral from the Blackburn-Giegerich-Sonntag Funeral Home Monday, January 5, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. to the Cathedral of St. Raymond for a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. Visitation will be held from 2:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Sunday. Private interment will be held.

Theresa A. Jordan at www.tezakfuneralhome.com or for information, 815-722-0524.

Arrangements entrusted to:

Lindsay Rae Jensen, born on May 4, 1980, of New Lenox passed away peacefully on December 31, 2014.

She is survived by her devoted family; parents, James and Patricia (nee Derrig) Jensen; brother, Dan Jensen; sister, Carly (Mark) Mitrovic; nephew, Emmet Rae Mitrovic; grandmother, Helen Jensen; she was loved by many special aunts, uncles and cousins.

She was welcomed to heaven by her grandparents, Michael and Alice Derrig; and her grandfather, Robert Jensen.

After Lindsay completed her schooling at United Cerebral Palsy and Elim Christian, she attended Wishing Well N.F.P. day training center in Frankfort where she made many great friends. Although her time here was short she has left a lasting impression on those around her. She spent her last days in the presence of her caring family. She will always be remembered for her loving nature, sweet smile and sassy attitude.

A celebration of Lindsay’s life will be held at Kurtz Memorial Chapel 102 E. Francis Rd, New Lenox, IL 60451 on Sunday, January 4, 2015, from 1:00 p.m. until time of memorial service in the funeral home chapel at 3:00 p.m.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Wishing Well N.F.P or Parkview Christian Church would

THERESA A. JORDAN Born: March 22, 1917 Died: Jan. 1, 2015

Theresa A. Jordan (nee Zelesnik), age 97, passed away peacefully Thursday, January 1, 2015, at Presence St. Joseph Medical Center with her loving family by her side.

Theresa was born in Joliet, IL on March 22, 1917, to the late Frank and Theresa (nee Riffel) Zelesnik and a resident of Crest Hill for most of her life. She passed away on the birthday of her son Joseph who was the first baby born in Will County in 1959.

Preceded in death by her parents; her husband of 61 years, Michael A. Jordan (2002); son, John M. “Jack”; grandson, Sean M. Sweeney USN; brother, Frank; and sisters, Frances (Jim) Counts and Julie (Larry) Skolds.

Survived by her children, Mary Jean (the late Henry) Sweeney of Sheridan, IL; Michael J. (Theresa) of El Paso, TX; Kathleen (Joseph) Walsh of Homer Glen, IL; Theresa “Terry” of Tarpon Springs, FL; Joseph (Tania) of Santa Cruz, Bolivia; James, Frank and Susan (Dale) DelSasso of Crest Hill, IL; also 15 grandchildren ; 11 great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was a devoted mother, seamstress and baker of potica and apple strudel and loved to dance the polka. After her children were grown, her passion became buying and selling at garage sales.

She loved helping the less fortunate with food and clothing.

A Celebration of Theresa’s life will begin on Monday, January 5, 2015, with a visitation from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at Tezak Funeral Home, 1211 Plainfield Rd, Joliet, IL 60435 then driving in procession to St. Anne Catholic Church in Crest Hill for a Mass of Christian Burial to be held at 11:30 a.m.

Interment to follow at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Joliet.

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FRANK J. KOCHALKA Frank J. Kochalka, 67 years, December 30, 2014, at Presence St. Joseph Medical Center.

Survived by his wife Barbara (Racki); 2 sons, Dean (Theresa) Kochalka and Darryl (Tina) Kochalka; 2 granddaughters, Jamie (Tate) Langdon and Stevi (Brad) Fritts; 4 great-grandchildren; one brother, John (Sue) Kochalka; one brother-in-law, Gene Sanford; one aunt, Ann Honiotes; numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Elsie Kochalka; one sister, Sharon Sanford; one niece, Kelli Kaczynski; numerous aunts and uncles.

Born in Joliet, IL and was a Vietnam veteran. Retired from Commonwealth Edison.

Funeral services for Frank Kochalka will be held Monday, January 5, 2015, in the Tezak Funeral Home Chapel at 10:00 a.m. Interment Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood IL. Visitation Sunday, January 4, 2015, at Tezak Funeral Home, 1211 Plainfield Road, Joliet, IL from 2:00-6:00 p.m.

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Marjorie A. Graham (nee Tynon), age 85, joined the angels after a battle with cancer on Thursday, January 1, 2015.

Survived by her husband, Charles; son, Kevin; and nieces, Sara (Sally) Niedrich, Jean Bagel and Jane Crnkovic.

Preceded in death by her father, James Tynon; mother, Madeline Feaser Tynon; stepmother, Josephine Tynon; and sisters, Mary Jane Crnkovic and Helen Niedrich.

Marge’s first job was as a secretary at the Joliet Arsenal followed by appointment as secretary to the first three Joliet city managers. During this ten year period, she cared for an ailing mother. At about this time she had a blind date with Chuck with whom she would marry in 1960, and in 1969, son Kevin arrived.

She was a columnist for the Herald News, a teacher’s assistant at Parks School and narrator for Chuck’s travel films shown on Channel 6. Her travels included heli-hiking in Canada and a tour of the Orient (Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaya).

There were cruises to Alaska (her favorite), the Bahamas, Cabo San Lucas and a cruise that included a submarine dive off the Yucatan coast. There were rail tours of the Copper Canyon, a mule ride down the Grand Canyon, a hot air balloon ride over Albuquerque and a ride in a sailplane. Besides many tours in the U.S., she booked tours to Ireland, the U.K., France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Morroco and Yugoslavia.

Among her more memorable trips was in the U.K. three days after Princess Diana died. Another was an audience (along with 5,000 others) with Pope John Paul.

An introduction of special guests included one for St. Raymond’s choir from Joliet. She had no prior knowledge of their presence there.

Marge enjoyed getting together with her many friends.

She belonged to several clubs, a den mother for the cub scouts, president of the Paulites church seniors group and a Eucharistic Minister. Later in life, she brought Holy Communion to the sick and was active at St. Paul the Apostle

Church. And now she will add to her bucket list by soaring with the angels. According to her Irish heritage, we should cry at the birth of a baby and celebrate a life well-lived.

Funeral Services for Marjorie A. Graham will be held on Tuesday, January 6, 2015, at 9:15 a.m. from the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black at Essington Rds., Joliet to St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church for a Mass of Christian Burial to be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. Interment Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery. Visitation Monday, 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home.

For more information: 815-7415500 or visit her Book of Memories at www.fredcdames.com

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JOANNE LAPENDA

ALFRIEDA M. KUHAJDA

Joanne Foglton Lapenda, nee Marchet, age 87, passed away on Thursday, January, 1st, 2015, in New Lenox.

Beloved wife of James M. Lapenda; loving mother of Michael (Kimberlee) Foglton and David Foglton; cherished grandmother of James, Nicholas, and Caroline Foglton; dear aunt of Darlene (Chip) Cleminson, and Gail (Cliff) Darnton; and great-aunt of Dr. Monique Cleminson.

Joanne was preceded in death by her first husband, Steven P. Foglton; her parents, Joseph and Lucy Marchet; and sister, Irma (Frank) Osadzienski.

Joanne enjoyed spending time with her family and friends, and could light up the room with her joy and laughter. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and friend who will be sorely missed.

The family will receive friends at Kurtz Memorial Chapel, 102 E. Francis Rd., New Lenox, IL, 60451 on Tuesday, January 6, 2015, from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Funeral service Wednesday, January 7, 2015, with chapel prayers at 9:15 a.m. to St. Mary Church, 19515 115th Ave, Mokena, IL 60448 for a 10:00 a.m.

Mass of Christian Burial. Interment Resurrection Cemetery, Justice, IL. In lieu of flowers, donations to Make Your Mark Foundation, 21005 Ron Lee Dr., Shorewood, IL 60404 or Vitas Hospice, 3033 Jefferson St., Suite 204, Joliet, IL 60435 would be greatly appreciated.

Info www.kurtzmemorialchapel. com or 815-485-3200.

Alfrieda M. Kuhajda (Wojnarowski) “Fef” passed away peacefully, Monday, December 29, 2014, with her daughters by her side. Age 81.

Survived by her daughters, Nancy Kuhajda and Christine (Mark) Deters; two granddaughters, Katherine and Natalie Deters. Three brothers, Richard (Ann) Wojnarowski, Eugene (Florence-deceased) Gawenda and Casimir (Marian) Gawenda. Several nieces and nephews also survive.

Preceded in death by her parents, Carl and Elizabeth (nee Kunke) Wojnarowski; her brothers and sisters, Harriet (Joseph - deceased) Kopernik, Cecelia (Stanley - deceased) Stanek, Eugenia Ritter, Edward (Loretta - deceased) Gawenda, Eleanore Wojnarowski and great-niece, Kristi Sontag.

Born in Joliet to Carl and Elizabeth on October 14, 1933, and a lifelong resident. Longtime member of St. Mary Magdalene Parish and the VFW Ladies Auxiliary. Graduate of St. Thaddeus Grade School and Joliet Township High School Class of 1951, attended Joliet Junior College.

She was the office manager at Associated Radiologists of Joliet for many years.

Mom always loved the first robin of spring, a great cup of coffee and a good laugh. She believed each day should be a fresh start.

Funeral services will be held from the Carlson-Holmquist-Sayles Funeral Home, 2320 Black Rd., Monday, January 5, 2015, at 10:30 a.m. to St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church for a Mass of Christian Burial to be celebrated at 11:00 a.m. Visitation Monday from 9:00 a.m. until time of services at 10:30 a.m.

LUCILLE T. LOCASCIO Lucille T. LoCascio (nee Brandolino), at rest, Thursday, January 1, 2015. Born in Caramonico, Italy.

Survived by three children, James (Darlene) LoCascio of Lemont, Terrie (Michael) Rydzon of Elmwood Park and Sandy (Bob) McPherson of Plainfield; eight grandchildren, Anthony, Amy, Bobby, Brett, Dana, Nina, James and Nicole; one brother, Sandro Brandolino of Joliet; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Preceded by her husband, Sam LoCascio (1991); parents, Antolio and Francesca Brandolino; one sister, Mary DiGiannantonia; and one brother, Guido Brandolino.

Funeral Services for Lucille T. LoCascio were held Saturday, January 3, 2015, at 10:30 a.m. from the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home 3200 Black at Essington Rds., Joliet to the Church of St. Anthony for a Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 a.m. Interment Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Visitation was Saturday morning, from 9:00 a.m. until time of services at the funeral home.

For information (815) 741-5500 or visit her Book of Memories at www.fredcdames.com

RICHARD D. LOEHMAN, SR. Richard D. Loehman, Sr., 78, of Lockport.

Survived by sons, Richard Jr. (Rhonda), John, Timothy (Paulette), Thomas, Brad & Brett (Sandra); grandfather of 17, great-grandfather of 5; uncle of Mike Parker.

Preceded in death by wife, Donna.

Services will be private.

Cremation Society of Illinois is handling the arrangements.

For info 1-800-622-8358.

ELSIE L. PIRC Elsie Louise Pirc (nee Wilson), age 92, entered eternal life on Friday, January 2, 2015.

Elsie is survived by her loving son, John M. (Karen) Pirc; cherished granddaughter, Kate Pirc; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Preceded in death by her husband, John R. Pirc; parents, Sam and Alma (nee Hadfield) Wilson; sister, Sarah Hopkins; and brothers, George and Marion Wilson.

Elsie was a proud United States Navy veteran, serving during WWII as a member of the Waves.

Throughout her life, Elsie worked and made many friends at APSA, Hallmark Services Corporation, and Lewis University. She loved baking, playing cards with friends, going out to eat, and most of all she loved her granddaughter Kate, who could brighten her day in a moment. She was the best mother and mother-inlaw that anyone could ask for. Elsie was the healthiest mix of frankness, honesty, sincerity and humor. She was truly one of a kind.

A Celebration of Elsie’s life will begin on Tuesday, January 6, 2015, with prayers in the funeral home chapel at 9:30 a.m., then driving in procession to St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Crest Hill for Mass of Christian Burial to be held at 10:00 a.m. Entombment to follow at Resurrection Mausoleum in Romeoville.

Visitation will be Monday, January 5, 2015, from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Tezak Funeral Home, 1211 Plainfield Rd, Joliet, IL 60435. Obituary and Tribute Wall for Elsie Louise Pirc at www.tezakfuneralhome.com or for information, 815-722-0524.

Arrangements entrusted to:

RONALD J. RUGUONE SR. Born: May 12, 1943 Died: Dec. 21, 2014

Ronald J. “Ron” Ruguone Sr., age 71, of Lockport, passed away at his home on Sunday, December 21, 2014.

Born on May 12, 1943, in Chicago, living in Bridgeport then moving to the Lemont-Lockport area. Ron was employed by Carpenters Local Union #174 for most of his career.

He was a United States Army Veteran, stationed in Germany.

His hobbies were wood carving, riding his motorcycle with his son and frequenting the gun range.

He enjoyed planting a variety of flowers and trees, but his greatest passion in life was his family.

Preceded in death by his parents, Anthony and Angeline (Spiri) Ruguone; two sons and two daughters in infancy.

Survived by his loving wife of 51 years, Donna (Scanlon) Ruguone; loved and most proud of his son, Ronald Jr.; three adored grandchildren, Ronald III, Devon and Rebecca; brothers, Anthony (Barb) and Noel (Deb) Ruguone; a sister, Marie (Dick) Johnson; Godfather to Sandy Evans and Anthony Ruguone and numerous family members of Ron’s and Donna’s.

Ron’s family would like to extend their heartfelt thanks to Dr. Daniel Co, Dr. Grace K. Suh and Vitas Hospice for their wonderful care and concern and to Fr. John of St. Mary’s Church, Mokena.

Per Ron’s wishes, cremation rites were respectfully addressed.

Family and friends can sign the online guest book at: www. oneilfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements were under the care and direction of O’NEIL FUNERAL HOME, LOCKPORT.

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Lincoln loss: Attendance dips at Springfield sites

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Monica McCarthy and her dog Spike brave the winter slush and rain Saturday as they take a walk in their Arlington Heights neighborhood.

harder to entice people to come back if you’re stretched thin by just keeping the doors open.”

Figures are only available through November.

WINTHROP HARBOR – Some valiant police officers spent part of New Year’s Day freeing a swan trapped by Lake Michigan ice.

The Waukegan News-Sun reported Winthrop Harbor police

officers Mike Falasco and Bill Bogdala came to the bird’s rescue in North Point Marina. Falasco says a caller alerted police about 2:30 p.m. to the exhausted swan.

Bogdala called a friend – off-duty North Chicago police officer Micah Cress – who retrieved a small boat from Bogdala’s house.

They made their way to the swan and found it was snagged by fishing line that was frozen to the ice.

They cut the line and the swan swam away.

and Mary Louise (nee Doud) Serena, Sr. He retired from TJ Lambrecht in Joliet, IL following twenty-eight years of employment. Vic was a member of the St. Jude Catholic Church in New Lenox, IL and a Fourth degree member of the Knights of Columbus Council #1574 in Braidwood, IL. He was an avid gun collector and enjoyed attending his Tuesday night meetings at the Gun Club in Bourbonnais, IL. Surviving are his wife, Marlene (nee Laduron) Serena of Joliet, whom he married September 21, 2003, in Austin, TX; three daughters, Kim (Rick) Marks of Gardner, IL, Candi (Ryan) Butzow of Onarga,

IL and Cassi (Nick) Dermody of Minneapolis, MN; two step-sons, Joseph (Jennifer) Schneider of Roseville, MN and Todd (Julie) Schneider of Brooklyn Center, MN; grandchildren, Benjamin, Blake and Braden Marks, Quinn Butzow, June Dermody, Makayla and Thomas Schneider, Elizabeth and Cate Schneider; five brothers, Monty (Dorothy) Serena of South Wilmington, IL, Arthur (Jane) Serena of Bonfield, IL, Carmen (Janis) Serena of Kankakee, IL, Kenneth “Skinner” Serena of East Brooklyn, IL, and Michael (Jackie) Serena of Gardner; one sister, Regina (Paul) Chase of Gardner; sister-in-law, Diane Serena of South Wilmington;

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Policemen rescue swan trapped in ice

CHICAGO – A suburban Chicago man accused of striking a police officer with a stolen van has been charged with attempted first-degree murder.

The Chicago Police Department says in a news release that 19-year-old Randy Kendricks of Harvey also faces weapons and other charges. He was to appear in bond court Saturday. It was not immediately clear whether he already had an attorney.

Police say officers in the Englewood neighborhood were pursuing two men in a stolen van Thursday. The news release says Kendricks accelerated and intentionally struck one of the officers, who had gotten out of his patrol car.

The two suspects fled on foot. Police say Kendricks was caught, while the second man remains at large. The officer who was hit was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

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Westmont senior citizen sexually assaulted, robbed

WESTMONT – Police say a man sexually assaulted a senior citizen at gunpoint in her suburban Chicago home before forcing her to drive to an ATM and withdraw money.

The assault happened Thursday

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Doctor suspended for sexual misconduct

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois regulators have disciplined a Springfield psychiatrist for alleged sexual misconduct with a female patient.

The Springfield State Journal-Register reported that the state has temporarily suspended the license of 64-year-old Dr. Duttala Obula Reddy of Psychiatric Associates of Central Illinois.

He’s accused of engaging in multiple sexual encounters with a patient at his office and other locations while also prescribing the patient antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs. The patient had been referred to him by another psychiatrist who also was disciplined for having inappropriate sexual contact with patients.

Court filings show Reddy also is accused of sending the patient romantic, flirtatious emails.

He can refute the state’s allegations at a hearing later this month.

– Wire reports

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JOSEPH V. SERENA, JR. Born: Dec. 3, 1946; in Joliet, IL Died: Dec. 31, 2014; in Brooklyn Center, MN

Joseph “Vic” V. Serena, Jr., age 68, of Joliet, IL passed away Wednesday, December 31, 2014, at North Memorial Residential Hospice in Brooklyn Center, MN. Vic was born December 3, 1946, in Joliet, IL to the late Joseph Victor

and numerous nieces and nephews.

Preceding him in death were one daughter, Kelly Serena; and two brothers, Alvin Raymond Serena and Anthony “Slabs” Serena.

Family and friends will meet at St. Jude Catholic Church, 241 W. 2nd Ave., New Lenox, IL on Tuesday, January 6, 2015, for a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 a.m. Fr. Don Lewandowski will officiate. Visitation will be at the R.W. Patterson Funeral Homes, Ltd. & Crematory, Braidwood Chapel, Monday, January 5, 2015, from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Cremation rites will be accorded following services. Inurnment will be held at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in his name to the National Kidney Foundation would be appreciated.

For more information and to sign his online guestbook, please log on to www.rwpattersonfuneralhomes. com or find us on Facebook at R.W. Patterson Funeral Homes, Ltd. & Crematory.

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SPRINGFIELD – As Illinois prepares to mark the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and the end of the Civil War, attendance is down at all five state-supervised sites dedicated to the former president in his hometown.

The Springfield State Journal-Register reported that even at the crown jewel – the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, which is gearing up for its own 10th anniversary this year – the number of visitors could fall below 300,000 for the first time when the final 2014 figures are calculated.

Officials blame a $1.1 million budget cut which forced shorter hours at eight historic sites in the Springfield area, staffed by fewer employees. They say schools cut transportation spending, limiting field trips and suggested a public dust-up over removing control of the library and museum from Illinois Historic Preservation Agency might have contributed.

“We also have had to cut back on new programs, services and new events,” Historic Preservation Agency spokesman Chris Wills said. “We’re doing a lot of them, but with fewer employees, not as many as we’d like. It’s

Driver accused of striking Chicago officer charged

morning in the western suburb of Westmont.

Police there say the man broke into the woman’s apartment, sexually assaulted her and made her drive her own vehicle to an ATM where she withdrew several hundred dollars.

Police say the man then dropped her off in the nearby suburb of Woodridge.

The woman was treated for minor injuries at a hospital.

Westmont police are still searching for the suspect.

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Falasco says the bird “was preening itself [and] was happy to get back to swimming in the harbor.”

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS Cuomo attends cop’s wake innocent to the charges against him, wouldn’t live to see his 2 days after his dad died

NEW YORK – Hundreds of police officers from across the country streamed into the wake of a slain New York City officer on Saturday, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo said his late father would have wanted him there after “really pointless” killings.

The uniformed police officers showed respect rather than disdain for Mayor Bill de Blasio when he arrived with Police Commissioner William Bratton, with some saluting as the men entered at the start of the daylong event for Officer Wenjian Liu. “This is a really tragic story,” said Cuomo, who attended the wake two days after the death of his father – former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo.

trial start Jan. 12. He died Friday night at a New York hospital of complications stemming from a recent liver surgery, his wife and authorities said Saturday. He was 50.

Al-Libi, once wanted by the FBI with a $5 million bounty on his head, was chronically ill with hepatitis C when the soldiers seized him. His wife, who asked to be identified as Um Abdullah, told The Associated Press that his experience only worsened his ailments.

“I accuse the American government of kidnapping, mistreating, and killing an innocent man. He did nothing,” Um Abdullah said.

Libyan charged in ’98 U.S. embassy bombings dies

BOSTON – Former U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke, a liberal Republican who became the first black in U.S. history to win popular election to the Senate, died Saturday. He was 95.

Brooke died of natural causes at his Coral Gables, Florida, home, said Ralph Neas, Brooke’s former chief counsel. Brooke was surrounded by his family.

Brooke was elected to the Senate in 1966, becoming the first black to sit in that branch from any state since Reconstruction and one of nine blacks who have ever served there – including Barack Obama.

CAIRO – Fifteen years after allegedly helping al-Qaida plot the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Abu Anas al-Libi parked his car on a quiet street in Libya’s capital.

Within moments, soldiers from the U.S. Army’s elite Delta Force forced him at gunpoint into a van and sped away. They’d fly him to a naval ship in the Mediterranean Sea before finally bringing him to New York to stand trial on charges of helping kill 224 people, including a dozen Americans, and wound more than 4,500.

But al-Libi, who pleaded

Girl, 7, survives Kentucky plane crash that kills 4 in her family

Edward Brooke, 1st black elected U.S. senator, dies

– Wire reports

KUTTAWA, Ky. – Bleeding and alone, 7-year-old Sailor Gutzler had just survived a plane crash that killed her family. She walked through about a mile of woods and thick briar patches, wearing a short-sleeve shirt, shorts and no shoes in near-freezing temperatures when she saw a light in the distance.

The beacon led her to Larry Wilkins’ home, police said, and she knocked on the door.

Wilkins answered to find a thin, black-haired girl, whimpering and trembling.

“I come to the door and there’s a little girl, 7 years old, bloody nose, bloody arms, bloody legs, one sock, no shoes, crying,” Wilkins, 71, told The Associated Press on Saturday. “She told me that her mom and dad were dead, and she had been in a plane crash, and the plane was upside down.”

Federal Aviation Administration officials arrived at the crash scene Saturday to try to determine why the small Piper PA-34 crashed on Friday evening, killing four people, including the girl’s parents, Marty Gutzler, 48, and his wife, Kimberly Gutzler, 46, authorities said.

Also killed were Sailor’s sister Piper Gutzler, 9; and cousin Sierra Wilder, 14. All were from Nashville, Illinois.

The bodies have been sent to Louisville for autopsies.

The plane reported engine trouble and lost contact with air traffic controllers around 5:55 p.m. CST, authorities said. Controllers had been trying to direct the pilot to an airport about 5 to 7 miles from the crash scene, authorities said.

About 40 minutes later, 911 dispatchers received a call from Wilkins, who reported that a girl who had been involved in a plane crash had walked to his home.

Wilkins told the AP he

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Larry Wilkins speaks with a reporter at his home Saturday in Kuttawa, Ky. A 7-year-old girl, the lone survivor of a plane crash near his home, walked approximately three quarters of a mile through heavily overgrown woods to Wilkins’ home, where he called for assistance. brought the girl inside, got a washcloth and “washed her little face off and her legs.”

“Brave little girl, outstanding little girl,” he said. “I feel real bad for her.”

The girl had a broken wrist, but was coherent and calm when interviewed by authorities, Kentucky State Police Lt. Brent White said.

White and Wilkins described the terrain she walked through as heavily wooded with thick brush.

White said the girl traversed two embankments, a hill and a creek bed. The temperatures were below 40 degrees when the girl showed up at Wilkins’ door.

“She literally fell out of the sky into a dark hole and didn’t have anybody but her own will to live and get help for her family,” White said.

“Absolutely amazing.”

The girl was treated at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Kentucky, and released early Saturday to a relative, Kentucky State Police said.

In Nashville, a man stepped outside the family’s white, split-level home on Saturday and politely waved off a reporter.

“Not now,” he said, his head lowered, before he

stepped back inside.

Neighbors said Marty and Kim Gutzler had lifelong roots in the largely rural southern Illinois town about 50 miles east of St. Louis.

Marty ran the furniture store that his father started, and the couple was wellknown and well-liked, said neighbor Carla Povolish.

With two basketball hoops in the driveway, the Gutzlers’ home was the center of neighborhood fun on a block full of children.

“All the kids in the neighborhood are just so upset about this,” she said.

Povolish said the two sisters — Sailor and Piper — were together constantly.

“That’s what’s going to be so devastating for the little one,” she said.

The FAA said late Friday that the plane had taken off from Tallahassee Regional Airport, Florida, and was bound for Mount Vernon, Illinois. Patterson said the girl who survived indicated that the plane had left from Key West, Florida.

Attorney Kent Plotner, who was serving as family spokesman, said the Gutzler family was devastated by the loss.

GOP focus for Congress: Cut deficit, don’t stumble

DISTRACTIONS AND THE CALENDAR

GOP leaders still face tea party lawmakers. Their recalcitrance helped produce stalemates with Obama that excited conservative Republican voters but appalled others, causing GOP approval to plummet. Top Republicans want to ensure that Scalise’s 2002 speech, for which he has apologized, doesn’t hurt their efforts to appeal to more diverse voters.

Another complication: By autumn 2015, the developing presidential race could distract voters from congressional Republicans’ messaging.

ENOUGH REPUBLICANS?

McConnell will often need at least six Democrats for the 60 Senate votes required to overcome filibusters, procedural delays aimed at scuttling bills. Republicans will need two-thirds majorities in each chamber, impossible without Democratic support, to override Obama vetoes that await bills threatening his health care law and his actions easing immigration rules.

McConnell says at an upcoming House-Senate Republican retreat, he will warn, “Don’t get your expectations so high that you’re inevitably going to be disappointed.”

IMMIGRATION

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Funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which enforces immigration laws, runs through late February.

House Republicans plan to quickly vote to finance that agency through September but are still discussing how to use that bill to block Obama’s executive actions deferring deportation for millions of immigrants in the United States illegally. That measure’s Senate fate and GOP strategy for an Obama veto remain unclear.

Indonesian military personnel sit with a coffin containing the body of a victim of AirAsia Flight 8501 in an ambulance upon arrival at Juanda Naval Airbase in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Saturday. Indonesian officials were hopeful Sunday they were honing in on the wreckage of the flight after sonar equipment detected four large objects on the ocean floor, a full week after the plane went down in stormy weather.

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PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia – With the weather improving, divers prepared Sunday to examine wreckage of AirAsia Flight 8501 in hopes of retrieving the rest of the bodies and finding clues to what caused the plane to crash in stormy weather a week ago.

The breakthrough in the hunt for the Airbus A320 came after sonar equipment aboard search ships detected four massive objects on the ocean floor in the Java Sea, and Indonesian officials said they were confident they belong to the plane.

The biggest piece, measuring 59 feet long and 18 feet wide, appeared to be part of the jet’s body, said Henry Bambang Soelistyo, chief of the National Search and Rescue Agency.

Strong currents and big waves that had prevented divers from entering waters eased on Sunday. About 90 divers from Indonesia and Russia were being deployed to recover more bodies that officials believe are still strapped in their seats, said National Search and Rescue deputy chief Tatang Zainudin.

“We hope lower waves will give us a better result today,” Zainudin said. “We are racing with time and weather in running this mission.”

There were 162 people aboard the plane, but after a week of searching, only 30 bod-

Republicans are itching to vote to repeal Obama’s 2010 health care law, knowing that would never get his signature.

They’re preparing measures repealing the medical device tax and ending the requirement that people buy medical coverage. They would also exempt companies from providing coverage to employees who work under 40 hours weekly, up from the current 30 hours.

BUDGET AND TAXES

The new House Budget Committee chairman, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., expects his chamber to approve a budget similar to blueprints written by former chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., ending deficits in a decade, trimming spending and overhauling benefits like Medicare. Senate Republicans want belt-tightening, but McConnell didn’t promise a balanced budget in 10 years.

Republicans want to rewrite tax laws but progress is uncertain. They want to lower rates for corporations and for businesses whose owners pay individual taxes, with lost revenue recovered by eliminating unspecified tax breaks. Democrats want the exercise to raise fresh revenue, partly to boost dwindling highway funds.

Divers sent to examine wreckage of AirAsia

By TATAN SYUFLANA The Associated Press

ies have been found floating in the choppy waters.

The plane crashed Dec. 28, halfway into a two-hour flight from Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, to Singapore. Minutes before losing contact, the pilot told air traffic control that he was approaching threatening clouds, but was denied permission to climb to a higher altitude because of heavy air traffic.

It remains unclear what caused the plane to plunge into the sea. Bad weather appears to have been a factor, according to a 14-page report released by Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency.

“Flight 8501 appears to have been trapped in bad weather that would have been difficult to avoid,” the report said.

While the plane’s black boxes – the flight data and cockpit voice recorders – have yet to be located, the discovery of the wreckage, especially if it is largely intact, would greatly benefit the investigation.

The objects on the seafloor were discovered Friday and Saturday, and an Indonesian Geological Survey vessel was used to assess their dimensions. In addition to what appeared to be a significant part of the plane’s body, chunks of debris found in the target search area measured up to 39 feet long.

Other suspected plane parts were seen scattered on beaches during an aerial survey.

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WASHINGTON – In the first Republican-dominated Congress to confront President Barack Obama, GOP leaders will focus on bolstering the economy and cutting the budget – and oh yes, avoiding self-inflicted calamities that make voters wonder if the party can govern competently.

When the new Congress raises the curtain Tuesday, Republicans will run both the House and Senate for the first time in eight years. GOP leaders want to showcase their legislative priorities, mixing accomplishments with showdowns with Obama but shunning government shutdowns and other chaotic standoffs.

Another priority is minimizing distractions like the recent admission by No. 3 House leader Steve Scalise, R-La., that he addressed a white supremacist group in 2002.

“Serious adults are in charge here and we intend to make progress,” incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told The Associated Press recently.

McConnell says the Senate’s first bill would force construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which Republicans call a job creator but Obama and many Democrats say threatens the environment.

The House leads off with legislation letting small companies sidestep some requirements of Obama’s prized health care overhaul by hiring veterans, followed by other measures weakening that law and pushing the Keystone pipeline.

Other bills likely early would block Obama’s executive actions on immigration and ease environmental and business regulations that the GOP contends stifles job growth. Additional bills would cut spending, squeeze Medicare and other benefit programs, revamp tax laws, finance highway construction and speed congressional approval of trade treaties.

Democrats say the GOP’s

goal is cutting taxes on the rich while crippling Obama’s accomplishments, including expanded health coverage and restrictions on financial institutions.

“In the minority, your role is to play defense and stop the worst from happening,” said Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Senate Democrat.

Republicans captured Senate control in November’s midterm elections, adding nine seats for a 54-46 advantage that includes two Democratic-leaning independents. A 13-seat gain swelled their House majority to a commanding 246-188 with one vacancy, the result of New York Republican Michael Grimm’s planned resignation following his guilty plea on a tax evasion charge.

With McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, jointly mapping an agenda and scheduling long congressional work periods, goals and potential pitfalls include:

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Retiree needs an income Dear Mr. Berko: I’m a 79-year-old healthy widower. I’m a retired high-school teacher with wonderful memories, and I still keep in touch with some of my ex-students. I recently sold my house to the family who had been renting from me since 2004, and after all the pages of make-work and paperwork, I came away with a check for $109,000. This family was paying me $1,200 a month. I’ve been living comfortably in a modest coach house that used to be the garage. For years, my son and his wife have been urging me to join them in their Tallahassee, Florida, home. Their home has a nice “father’s area” – with a kitchen, bath, TV room and private entrance – and it sure beats the winters in Detroit.

My problem is that I need about $9,000 a year from the $109,000 I got from the sale of the house. Every year, I take a special journey for six

TAKING STOCK Malcolm Berko weeks with a couple of male colleagues. All my other living costs are comfortably supported by savings and my pension.

At today’s low rates, the best I can get on $109,000 without risk is less than 3 percent, which leaves me $6,000 short of the $9,000 I need. I won’t ask my son for money, though this is pocket change for him.

Apparently, there are many stocks paying 9 percent or better, but I don’t have the knowledge to pick the best issues. So I would appreciate any help you can give me to pick the steadiest and highest-yielding stocks. – MS, Detroit Dear MS: Moving from Detroit to Tallahassee is like moving from Katmandu to paradise. However, if you come across a huge stink

that’s difficult to place, don’t worry about it. That odor comes from the Florida Capitol on Monroe Street, and most residents become used to the rank smell after a few years.

There are plenty of issues that pay dividends of 9 percent or better that I can vouch for today but can’t vouch for tomorrow, which is where you hope to spend the rest of your life. I can give you the names of 207 issues with dividend yields better than 9 percent. You may have a remote chance with issues such as Annaly Capital Management (NLY-$11.26), yielding 10.6 percent, Chimera Investment (CIM-$3.33), paying 10.7 percent, and dozens of others with double-digit yields. But I wouldn’t take the chance. Short-term Russian and Ukrainian paper will bring you 17 percent and 13 percent, respectively. Longterm Venezuelan bonds bring

BRAIDWOOD

300 holiday meal boxes packed The HERALD–NEWS BRAIDWOOD – Employees from Partners Warehouse of Illinois were joined by members of the Elmwood Fire Department on Dec. 17, in packing meals for hungry families in Braidwood.

“Packing Holiday Meal Boxes is a meaningful way for our employees to get together over the holiday season to benefit families in need in our community,” said Craig Sesemann, the president of Partners Warehouse of Illinois who sponsored the Holiday Meal Boxes through Northern Illinois Food Bank’s annual program, in a news release.

Sesemann is chairman of Northern Illinois Food

Bank’s board of directors.

Partners Warehouse of Illinois sponsored 300 Northern Illinois Food Bank Holiday Meal Boxes, which were taken to Community Care Center in Braidwood for distribution to area families. Each box contained mashed potato and stuffing mixes, canned fruit and vegetables, yams, gravy, cranberry sauce, dessert and coffee, and were paired with a frozen turkey upon distribution to families in need.

A program of North ern Illinois Food Bank, the Holiday Meal Box provides enough food for a family of eight to enjoy a traditional holiday meal. To learn more about NIFB, visit www.

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Employees from Partners Warehouse of Illinois were joined by members of the Elmwood Fire Department on Dec. 17, in packing Holiday Meal Boxes for hungry families in Braidwood.

35 percent, and there are some mighty attractive yields from Turkey, Argentina and Brazil that knock your socks off.

However, the risk factor with these issues is so obscene that you could be arrested for indecent investing, and I could be named as your accomplice.

At a healthy 79 years old, you could easily live to 91 before continuing your special journey elsewhere. So consider putting that cash in a 1 percent certificate of deposit and taking an annual check for $9,000, including $8,000 from principal. In this instance, that $109,000 would last you for 13 years – or perhaps a tad longer if interest rates rise a bit. It’s a no-brainer; it’s no muss, no fuss and no bother.

A second alternative I sometimes recommend is a single premium immediate annuity. This is a contract in which you give an insurance company a specific sum of money and it guarantees to

pay you an income every quarter for the remainder of your life. An insurer would guarantee you, as a 79-yearold man, a 10 percent income on your lump sum, so all you would need to invest would be $90,000. And the insurer would post you a $9,000 check (partially nontaxable) every year, even if you live to be older than Moses or Methuselah.

Then you’d get to keep $19,000 in cash for gewgaws, gimcracks and doodads. But there’s a caveat: If you were to die next year or four years hence or eight years from now, the insurance company would keep all of the remaining kit and caboodle.

In the end, though, my best recommendation is: Ask your son what to do.

• Please address your financial questions to Malcolm Berko, P.O. Box 8303, Largo, FL 33775, or email him at mjberko@yahoo.com.

Marquette Bank employees feed area families in need The HERALD–NEWS ORLAND PARK – From October through April of 2015, Marquette Bank employees are dedicating the third Wednesday of every month to feeding those in need by volunteering with South Suburban PADS, a program that provides shelter and support services to the homeless.

Bank volunteers purchase, prepare and serve meals to more than 70 guests at Our Lady of the Ridge Catholic Church in Chicago Ridge as part of the monthly Cook Team made up of eight or more volunteers.

“As a neighborhood bank

it is our duty to help our community in any way we can, and that includes feeding the hungry in our neighborhoods,” Betty Kosky-Harn, executive vice president at Marquette Bank, said in a news release. “We take great pride in the dedicated employees that give their time every month to help South Suburban PADS.” Marquette Bank also packs weekly lunches for South Suburban PADS through its Lunch Program. Marquette Bank has branches in Bolingbrook, Lemont, New Lenox and Romeoville. For information, visit www.emarquettebank.com.

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The Herald-News Editorial Board Bob Wall, Denise Baran-Unland, Hannah Kohut, Bob Okon and Kate Schott

OUR VIEW

Stop these silly filing objections Every election cycle, the same political dance plays out. Months before voters have an opportunity to select their representatives, a single person or small group of people try to make that choice for them.

In the run-up to the election, every candidate interested in running for office files reams of paperwork with state, county and local officials to declare their candidacy. Included in that paperwork are signatures of supportive voters, economic disclosure forms, a statement of candidacy and loyalty oath.

And once those papers are filed, people, often with political ties to one person or another, come out to view those papers, looking for any violation of filing rules they can find.

Sometimes, those violations are large, but more often than not, they are technical violations of rules. Such was the case in Morris, where two candidates were dinged for not properly fastening their paperwork.

Discussion before the local Electoral Board degenerated to a discussion of the type and color of paper clip used to keep all these papers together. Ultimately, the pair was removed from the ballot, but have declared write-in candidacies.

Both these people may have made fine public officials. But unless they run strong write-in campaigns, a difficult task, no one will have the chance to find out.

There is an argument to be made about paying attention to detail. If a candidate cannot follow the rules in the run-up to an election, what will they do if they are elected?

At the same time, when politicians have to be more concerned about fastener types or ink color than about issues faced in their municipalities and districts, there’s something terribly wrong.

This is a recent phenomenon in Morris. Such objections are not typical there. But there are several candidate objections pending throughout Will and Grundy counties.

When people are removed for technical and inane reasons, it contributes to voter cynicism – which politicians often bemoan when it suits them.

Rather than play political games, we all would be better served if candidates were allowed to run on their ideas. That’s not a radical concept, but these days, it’s becoming increasingly rare.

These frivolous objections are just a part of the problem, but they need to stop.

THE FIRST

AMENDMENT

2015: A look ahead Ahhhh ... 2015.

Nobody knows for certain what the new year will hold.

That’s probably for the best – if we did know what was going to happen this year, we might be less inclined to even follow through on all those resolutions we’ve made. Like you, I too just have to be patient and hope for better days ahead.

As Americans, we can safely predict that many of the problems that afflicted us in 2014 will still be with us in the coming year, if only because many of them – like disease – have afflicted humankind for all of recorded history.

In the U.S., we’ve had only

VIEWS Donna Brazile two fatalities from the Ebola virus, but Ebola continues to rampage in Africa, and no place will be safe until it’s brought under control everywhere. Progress in 2015 can happen if we put the same vigor into fighting Ebola where it originates that we put into stopping it from gaining a foothold here.

Another easily predictable and sad constant in our world is war,

and 2015 promises to undoubtedly see the continuation of two of America’s most intractable conflicts. In 2014, the end of our 13-year war in Afghanistan was announced. But as we learned in Iraq, the fighting often continues after the war is declared over.

With the rise of ISIS, Iraq is now in as much turmoil as it has been at any time since the U.S. invasion. The next year will undoubtedly see not only a fight with ISIS, but also a fight at home over how to fight ISIS. On a happier international note, 2014 finally saw a thaw in

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On the new Cuba policy

To the editor: The new Cuba policy by Obama is an attempt to showcase democracy and free market economics endeavoring to influence Cuban public

opinion and undercut the communist grip on the country by weakening popular support.

Successful examples are the fall of Eastern Europe, Russia and the shift of the Chinese economy away from central

state control. Cuba is no longer a Communist revolutionary hot box, but has been discredited and the leaders have mellowed with age. Currently their most dangerous export is probably cigars.

Thomas Cechner Lockport

Hearty thanks for sports coverage

To the editor: I would sincerely like to thank the entire Herald-News sports staff for their very thorough coverage of our local high school and collegiate teams.

This is especially noteworthy during state playoff times

and holiday tournaments. A multitude of these articles are consistently written in a very descriptive and highly professional manner.

I am absolutely confident that all of our high school and collegiate coaches, players and loyal fans are very appreciative of this incredible sports coverage, win or lose.

David R. Marco Joliet

Obama criticism omits certain facts

To the editor: Well, Ray Malmgren is spewing his right-wing garbage about President Obama again, but he omits certain facts.

The Senate sent a bipartisan

bill to the House over a year and a half ago dealing with immigration reform. Of course, the do-nothing Republicans did nothing.

Ray says the president broke the law, but how about Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and, of course, little George, who used executive orders for not only immigration changes, but to spend trillions of dollars for a fake war in Iraq that cost the lives of over 4,000 troops?

Bush and Cheney belong in prison. Put the blame where it belongs, Ray, and oh, by the way, these low gas prices are Obama’s fault. Have a good life.

James Bedner Joliet

Past struggles should be lessons for the future • BRAZILE

Continued from page 29 relations between the U.S. and Cuba, so 2015 will be a year of reconciliation and renewal for many long-separated families.

We know for certain that 2015 will see several very significant anniversaries.

Some of these deal with the complicated history of race relations in the United States, just at a time when our problems in that area are very evident. But, then, that’s hardly a coincidence, since problems with race relations are constantly part of our lives in America. And if those problems are not always evident to all people, that merely highlights the problem.

The killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner last year saw attention finally focused on the problem of

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police treatment of communities of color. In 2015 we’ll be reminded of how those communities have been mistreated throughout our history.

August 2015 will see the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Katrina taught us that Mother Nature may treat all of us the same, but the poor and disenfranchised get much worse treatment when it comes to allocating resources to repair the ravages of nature.

And just as the streets of our cities have recently been full of people protesting police treatment in the Brown and Garner cases, the 50th anniversary of one of the most iconic rights marches of all time arrives in March with the commemoration of 1965’s Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights. On March 7, 1965, 600 voting-rights marchers were brutally attacked by police using billy clubs and tear gas in what came to be

known as Bloody Sunday.

With the renewed impetus of the Brown and Garner cases, the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee in 2015, more than ever, will be a call to use the lessons of past struggle to move forward in the future.

And we can all hope that the economy continues to improve. Chances for that look good, as most economic forecasters predict a rosy 2015, fueled by increasing employment, low interest rates and low energy prices.

If the predictions hold true, then 2015 could well see us transition from a recovering economy to a truly healthy one.

One thing that could help that happen are the increases in the minimum wage that are set to take place in 20 states this month. That will help not only the 4.4 million people who will receive wage increases, but all of us, as the spending money put into the

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pockets of minimum-wage workers helps drive the economy as whole.

Politically in 2015, Republicans will control both houses of Congress, and will be under more pressure to accomplish things. The 113th Congress was one of the least productive of all time. The 114th Congress will have higher expectations, but deep divides within the majority party may hinder its ability to meet those expectations.

For his part, if people expected President Obama to go quietly into lame duck status, his bold moves late in 2014 on immigration and relations with Cuba would indicate that 2015 may feature a feistier Obama than we’ve seen since early in his first term.

There’s so much more to look forward to, including many annual occurrences – a Super Bowl winner, a new batch of Oscar winners, the

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women’s World Cup. And, of course, there’s another royal baby due in April 2015.

But the only thing that is securely documented as definitely happening next year comes from the movie “Back to the Future II.” There, it’s clearly shown that Doc, Marty McFly and his girlfriend, Jennifer, will arrive from the past on Oct. 21, 2015. Of course, we know in detail what they do once they get here, but I won’t spoil the movie for you if you’ve never seen it. Suffice it to say, by that time we’ll all have shoelaces that tie automatically, flying cars and hoverboards.

So there’s a lot to look forward to in 2015!

• Donna Brazile is a senior Democratic strategist, a political commentator and contributor to CNN and ABC News, and a contributing columnist to Ms. Magazine and O, the Oprah Magazine.

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Joliet Central (3) Jerry Gillespie drives to the basket past Joliet West’s (12) Trevian Bell on Saturday at Joliet Central High School in Joliet. Central won, 67-39.

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Joliet Central (21) Kenyon Woodfork puts up a jump shot in front of Joliet West’s (11) Jeff Washington during Central’s 67-39 victory Saturday at Joliet Central High School.

BOYS BASKETBALL: JOLIET CENTRAL 67, JOLIET WEST 39

West ice cold in loss to Central

Steelmen limit Tigers to 22.2-percent shooting in 28-point win

By DICK GOSS dgoss@shawmedia.com JOLIET – The Saturday matinee had all the makings of a classic.

Visiting Joliet West and Joliet Central boys basketball both were 7-5 heading into the SouthWest Suburban Blue match-up.

But while the Steelmen were coming off a month of December where they struggled – that was especially true during a 1-3 McDipper Christmas Tournament – West had played relatively well at Pontiac, finishing 2-2 after suffering a three-point loss in the fifth-place game to highly regarded Curie.

Central also was without one of its top players, Taquan Sims, who sat for disciplinary reasons.

On this occasion, however,

it was all Steelmen, all the way.

They led 18-4 early in the second quarter, 29-11 at halftime and by as much as 49-17 late in the third quarter en route to a 67-39 victory.

The day at Central began at 9 a.m. and included a freshman A game, which Central won; a freshman B game and then the sophomore game, both of which West won, and finally, the varsity. The exciting sophomore game finished 55-51 in favor of the Tigers.

“It was a split across the board, and it was a good thing for the community and both programs,” Central coach Jeff Corcoran said. “I wouldn’t have thought the crowd would be as big as it was, with this being on Saturday during the day.

“If you had asked me yesterday what I thought of this sched-

uling, I wouldn’t have been for it at all. I’m always nervous against West. But we played well.”

“We were not ready to play,” West coach Nick DiForti said, “and they played awesome.

They got after the loose balls and loose rebounds and we didn’t.”

In fairness to West (7-6, 1-3), the Tigers did play four games this week at Pontiac, including two Wednesday.

“It was the same for them, though,” DiForti said, noting the four games the Steelmen (85, 3-1) played at the McDipper.

“They outhustled us. It’s on our coaches and players to be better than this. I liked how we played at Pontiac, but they wanted this one more than us.”

A basketball team always looks worse when it is not put-

ting the ball in the basket. West was 3 of 27 from the field in the first half and 14 of 63 for the game, 22.2 percent. Included in that was 1 for 20 from 3-point range.

“Our coaches did a good job pushing us in practice,” said Central point guard Jerry Gillespie, who hit 9 of 14 shots, including 3 of 5 3-pointers, and led all scorers with 26 points.

“To hold them to 13 of whatever they had in the first half [11], that was great. It was defense first, and then the offense would start to flow.”

Tigers sophomore forward Trevian Bell was a major concern for the Steelmen in their rotating zone defense. He led West with 12 points on 5 of 11 shooting, which Corcoran gladly will take.

“Bell is a ton,” Corcoran

said. “He is going to be a phenomenal player. He makes me nervous. We did a good job rotating to him and their other shooters.”

Gillespie and Bell were only players on either side to score in double figures. Ternell Jordan played an aggressive game and scored eight for Central. Malik Fuller and Kewon Ware each had six and Jose Grubbs added five.

Max Ahern provided West with a strong inside presence in the second half and finished with eight points. Teyvion Kirk chipped in five.

Central finished hitting 25 of 56 shots, a .446 clip. West held a slim 48-45 rebounding edge as Jeff Washington grabbed eight boards and Bell seven. Fuller and Ware led Central with eight rebounds apiece.

WRESTLING: LINCOLN-WAY CENTRAL 42, PROVIDENCE CATHOLIC 20

By CURT HERRON cherron@shawmedia.com

• Sunday, January 4, 2015

NEW LENOX – While Lincoln-Way Central wrestling coach Jason DePolo didn’t expect to see his squad dominate Providence Catholic like it did a year ago, he also didn’t anticipate seeing his team lose nearly as many matches as it won.

But that’s what happened when the teams met Friday at Providence in a dual meet where the much-improved Celtics put up a good fight against the state-ranked Knights.

While Central wound up claiming a 42-20 victory, that total was boosted by six falls.

The Knights had an 8-6 edge in wins, which included a pair of close decisions for each side.

“Obviously Providence has some bright things going on, so hats off to them,” DePolo said.

“They have some young guys that we’re impressed with.

Their 145-pounder looked really good, their 220-pounder had a big win on our guy and the same goes for their 106-pounder.

“I think that we looked a little flat today. In some situations we were going for home runs when we didn’t need to.

We just need to get back to solid wrestling and when things open up, we take them. It’s a big rivalry and we want to come in here and do what we need to do. But we were so aggressive that I think that we kind of hurt ourselves a little bit.”

While veteran Celtics coach Keith Healy has enjoyed too much success to get excited about a defeat, he’s encouraged by the way things are progressing for his program.

“From last year to this year, we’ve got some kids who are learning how to compete better,” Healy said. “I’m excited and I guess that I’m looking for a little more right away. But I also know that it’s a slow process that we have to deal with, and we’ll take some bumps along the way. But overall, I thought that our kids wrestled well.

“We lost a couple of close ones and those are the ones that we really want, but Cen-

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TOP: Lincoln-Way Central’s Nick Olson (left) wrestles Providence Catholic’s Andreas Korallus in the 138-pound match Friday in New Lenox.

LEFT: Providence Catholic’s Pat Follenweider is put to the mat by Lincoln-Way Central’s Tristan Singer during the 160-pound match.

tral is more experienced than us at some weights. We’ve got a young team, and I’m excited about what I see. Hopefully, we can just keep building off of certain things. We’re still waiting on some guys to get in the right spots and once we solidify that, I’ll feel pretty comfortable.”

The Knights found out quickly things weren’t going

to be easy when Matt Crnich needed to get a near-fall just before the buzzer to win 4-2 over Chad Tracy in the opener at 126 pounds and then Brian Renfro used a third-period reversal to help him claim a 4-3 win over Dominick Ambrose.

Providence responded with a pair of major decisions to grab its only lead at 8-6. Andreas Korallus won, 17-7, over

Nick Olson at 138 and Cole Smith followed with a 13-4 victory over Ryan Gillooley.

After Zach Rudsinski recorded a fall in 15 seconds at 152 to put the Knights back in front, Pat Follenweider held off a late comeback try by Tristan Singer to capture a 7-5 win.

Central took control of the meet over the next three matches when Brandon Dominski, Jake Dudeck and Joe Brandt all recorded falls to give their team a 30-11 cushion.

Dominic Ferraro used a pair of early five-point moves to help him pull off a 10-3 surprise over Sean Kelly at 220.

But Central’s Bryan Ditchman followed with a pin to make it

36-17.

At 106, Ben Emery used a third-period takedown to claim a 5-3 win over Austin Rudsinski and then Alex Wojciechowski followed with an 8-3 victory over Liam Meagher to give the Celtics their final win.

Vinnie Piunti ended things by recording the Knights’ sixth fall.

“We know to never give up and to always to try our hardest,” Emery said. “We always push each other in practice and go 100 percent. We want to eventually be the best team, so we have to wrestle the best teams. I like how we’re like a family and we push each other and never stop since no one wants to lose.”

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Fletcher on deck to entertain Old Timers Scott Fletcher has worn multiple baseball hats since his 15-year major league career ended in 1995.

The former good-glove shortstop said he would love to manage a major league team some day. After spending the past three season as assistant hitting coach with the Atlanta Braves, Fletcher was recently hired by the Detroit Tigers as their minor league infield coordinator.

Regardless of where the winds of the game may carry him, however, he never will forget his years with the White Sox, especially the playoff season of 1983. “ ’83 was one of my favorite times,” said Fletcher, the guest speaker for the annual Old Timers Baseball Association of Will County banquet Jan. 29 at the Clarion (the former Holiday Inn) at Larkin Avenue at Interstate 80.

“We won 99 games that year, made the playoffs. It was a fun year. We got close to the World Series.”

Fletcher’s bosses and ex-teammates recognize his ability to teach the game.

With the Braves the last three years, he worked with hitting coach Greg Walker, his former Sox teammate, and also prepared advance scouting reports before each series.

“We made the playoffs two of my three years with the

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Fletcher is excited to be joining Detroit because it affords an opportunity to work for general manager Dave Dombrowski. Back in the day, the esteemed Roland Hemond was the Sox’s general manager and Dombrowski was his understudy, an up-and-comer learning the ropes.

“I’ll be back with Dave Dombrowski in Detroit, which is good,” Fletcher said. “He is one of the best.

“Of course, there is nobody in baseball better than Roland [Hemond]. He’s still with the Diamondbacks. He has meant so much to the game. He is a quality individual and has always been a high-energy guy.”

A shortstop who also played third base and second base, Fletcher was drafted

by Texas in 1978 but did not sign. The next year, the Cubs selected him and he signed.

He made his major league debut April 25, 1981 with the Cubs.

He played on the North Side for parts of two seasons before being traded to the White Sox. He had two threeyear stints with the Sox,

played with the Rangers for four years and also played for Milwaukee, Boston and the Tigers.

“I was fortunate to be able to play for 15 years,” said Fletcher, whose daughter, Brittany, is married to former Sox second baseman Gordon Beckham and whose son, Brian, is an outfield prospect with the Kansas City Royals. “The Lord blessed me.”

When a ballplayer enjoys a 15-year career and plays for six teams, chances are he was involved in trades with fun names to recall. Fletcher’s transactions form a joy ride down memory lane.

The Cubs traded Fletcher along with Pat Tabler, Randy Martz and Dick Tidrow to the Sox for Steve Trout and Warren Brusstar. After three years on the South Side, he was traded to Texas with Ed Correa and a player to be named (which became Jose Mota) for Wayne Tolleson and Dave Schmidt. At the trade deadline in 1989, Fletcher, Sammy Sosa and Wilson Alvarez went to the Sox for Harold Baines and Fred Manrique.

His other changes of scenery resulted from signing as a free agent.

Fletcher, 56, was a .262 career hitter with only 541 strikeouts and 514 walks, an excellent ratio. He had

“The Sox and Cubs made some nice moves.

I like the Sox getting [former Yankees closer Dave] Robertson and the Cubs signing [Jon] Lester. Joe Maddon is one of the best managers in baseball. Of course, the Cubs getting a No. 1 starter like Lester is really big.

Scott Fletcher guest speaker for the annual Old Timers Baseball Association of Will County banquet

30-plus doubles twice and hit .300 in 147 games with Texas in 1986.

Both Chicago teams have been wheeling and dealing this offseason, a topic Fletcher likely will address when he speaks at the Old Timers’ banquet.

“The Sox and Cubs made some nice moves,” he said. “I like the Sox getting [former Yankees closer Dave] Robertson and the Cubs signing [Jon] Lester. Joe Maddon is one of the best managers in baseball. Of course, the Cubs getting a No 1 starter like Lester is really big.

“The Cubs are getting improvements to their park, too. There’s a lot of good things going on on the North Side. Fans should be excited about it.”

While the thought of managing always is there, Fletcher thoroughly enjoys all the

baseball jobs he has had and will have. He was the roving infield coordinator for the Colorado Rockies (2009 to 2011), a roving instructor in the Tampa Bay organization (1996 to 97), manager of the Class A Charleston RiverDogs (1997) and an assistant coach at Emory University in Atlanta.

“I would love to manage in the big leagues one day,” he said. “That would be great. But I also enjoy teaching defense, offense, the running game, just working with players and helping them develop. I love all parts of it.”

The Old Timers’ crowd will enjoy his company as well.

Call Stan Turk at 815-7309411 for tickets.

• Dick Goss can be reached at dgoss@shawmediacom.

BOYS BASKETBALL: REED-CUSTER 103, CLIFTON CENTRAL 74

Reed-Custer hits century mark, defeats Clifton Central

By CURT HERRON cherron@shawmedia.com BRAIDWOOD – When the buzzer sounded, the scoreboard read 60-40 in favor of Reed-Custer’s boys basketball team, an effort that most teams would be pleased with.

But while that could have been the final score for most teams, it was merely halftime in the Comets’ nonconference home game Friday against Clifton Central.

High-flying Reed-Custer added 43 more points after the break to claims a 103-74 victory over Central, the second straight game that coach Mark

Porter’s squad hit the century mark and its third of the season.

If there was any letdown from the team’s dramatic 10196 overtime comeback win over Dwight for the Marseilles Holiday Tournament title, it wasn’t apparent.

Reed-Custer (12-3), which is averaging more than 90 points, placed five in double figures while 13 players contributed points to the cause.

“I was afraid of a little bit of a ledown, but it’s great that the kids stepped up,” Porter said. “We’re not in our regular routine and we weren’t sure how many people would show

up. So we told the kids that we need to create our own energy and they did a really good job of that.

“They weren’t going to let the three-ball beat them, but we have athletic-enough kids who can get to the basket. Our kids have to understand that we’re not going to hit 15 to 20 threes every night so we have take what the defense gives us and they gave us lanes to the basket.”

Mason Dransfeldt (six rebounds) and Travis Schoonover each had 18 points and five assists to lead the way, while Austin Hauck chipped in 15 points.

Brent Headrick (eight rebounds, three blocks) and Tommy Shaw each hit four 3-pointers for Reed-Custer, which added 11 3-pointers to the sign on the wall pointing out that it had already made 194 coming into the game.

While Central (5-8) seemed determined to prevent the hosts from getting off early long attempts, Reed-Custer converted 23 layups in the opening half.

That helped build a 14-0 lead and after Central closed to within 20-16, it was 30-18 at the first break. Dransfeldt had 16 points at halftime and the hosts added 30 more points in

the second quarter to build a 20-point advantage.

“They weren’t really helping us so we just took the opportunity to go to the bucket,” Dransfeldt said. “This shows that we’re not one-dimensional.”

Zach Zoltani contributed seven points and six assists while A.J. Simonelli added four points and four rebounds for Reed-Custer, which led 8654 through three quarters.

Central, which will join Reed-Custer in the Class 2A Seneca Regional, was paced by Justin Lemenager, who tossed in 23 of his game-high 31 points during the first half.

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: ST. FRANCIS 98, ST. AMBROSE 95 (OT)

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points, six assists and six rebounds) was a big spark in the Saints’ comeback.

“Once we picked it up on defense, everything became a lot easier,” Ekhomu said. “They [St. Ambrose] are a great team and you have to give them props. They play hard, are real tough and real aggressive.

“Toward the end of the first half, coach told us that we needed a turning point. She said, energy on three, and no one had energy. She completely went nuts. After seeing her look like that, we wanted to match her intensity.”

USF (6-11, 3-2) had energy to open up the second half. In the first two minutes, sophomore guard Mary Rouse and sophomore guard Kamari Jordan out-hustled the Bees. Within the first 40 seconds, Jordan got a steal and had an easy layup, making the score 49-40. From

the tip-off, 5-foot-7 Rouse got her hands on rebounds and remained a threat defensively.

Behind Rouse’s and Jordan’s early energy, more players followed. Senior guard Kaitlyn Ray and junior guard Alexis Brown hit 3-pointers to close in on the point deficit and, with 7:11 on the scoreboard, Ray tied the game at 72.

In the first minute of overtime, Jordan and Ray hit backto-back 3-pointers, making the score, 92-88. St. Francis never looked back.

“We’re getting on a run and playing really well as a team,” Gonnering said. “Hopefully, as the season continues, we will keep this going and get a few more wins out of this.”

Normally, 26- and 24-point performances from Gonnering and Ekhomu would have been good enough to earn a victory for USF. But against St. Am-

brose, the Saints needed Ray (13 points), Brown (12 points, four assists, one block and one steal), Rouse (10 points, nine rebounds, one steal and one block) and Jordan (10 points six rebounds and four steals).

“Katie [Gonnering] is a huge impact every night,” coach Samantha Quigley said.

“With her being such an impact, it opens up so much for players like Christina Ekhomu and Mary Rouse, who just came up big on the boards.

It’s awesome to watch when someone that little gets so many rebounds. It was a huge team effort. If you look at the box score, everyone contributed.”

“It was a good team win,” Ekhomu said. “It feels good to get an overtime victory in front of your home crowd. It feels nice and just makes you smile.”

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Reed-Custer 55, GardShayne Oster fell, 6-3, to Rockford Boylan’s Alex But- ner-South Wilmington 35: Morler in the 138-pound champi- gan Zacharias led the Comets onship match while Abdul- with 21 points while Val Guzlah Assaf lost, 14-7, in the man added nine points. Katie 113-pound title match to Paul Costernaro and Mackenzie Bianchi of Two Rivers, Wis- Fox had eight points apiece. consin.

Sydney Perkins and Kaylee Trevell Timmons bounced Steichen had 10 points each back from a one-point semi- for GSW. final loss to take third at 152, Lincoln-Way West 59, Sam Fuentes placed fifth at Stagg 26: The Warriors (13-0) 126, Chris Murino was sev- grabbed a 41-12 halftime lead enth at 220 and Dalton Dwyer as Dani Morgan led the way finished ninth at 106 for the with 16 points.

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Austin O’Connor recorded a fall over Sean Cannon of MEN’S BASKETBALL Green Valley, Nevada in the Lewis 79, Quincy 59: The No. 132 finals.

23 Flyers (9-1, 1-0) opened the New Year and the Great Lakes GIRLS BASKETBALL Valley Conference campaign JCA 64, Nazareth 19: The with a win over Quincy to exAngels (9-5, 2-1) received 18 tend its winning streak to six points from Nicole Ekhomu, games.

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AREA SPORTS SCHEDULE SUNDAY’S EVENTS Men’s Basketball Lewis at Truman State, 3 p.m.

Women’s Basketball Lewis at Truman State, 1 p.m.

MONDAY’S EVENTS Girls Basketball Peotone at Momence, 6 p.m.

Wilmington at Illinois Lutheran, 7:15 p.m.

Seneca at Marquette, 7:30 p.m.

Boys Bowling Plainfield Central at Joliet West, 4 p.m.

Rich South at Joliet Central, 4:30 p.m.

Men’s Basketball Indiana University Northwest at St. Francis, 7 p.m.

Men’s Volleyball Lewis at UC Irvine, 7 p.m.

Lewis senior guard Jeff Jarosz posted a game-high 16 points and four assists, while backcourt mate Ryan Jackson chipped in 14, including a 10 for 14 performance from the free-throw line.

Freshman guard Max Strus finished with a dou-

ble-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds, while senior forward David Niggins picked up 10 points.

Lewis enjoyed a sizeable advantage on the boards as they outrebounded Quincy, 47-35.

As a team, Lewis recorded a season-high 10 steals, led by four swipes from Jackson.

and three blocks in the game.

Senior Jess Reinhart also had a double-double, finishing with 12 points and 15 rebounds. She grabbed 10 rebounds in the second half.

Junior Jamie Johnson finished with 19 points. Senior Alexus Grayer added 12 points off the bench. Senior Kristin Itschner hit double-digits with 10 points.

Johnson and BrawnWOMEN’S BASKETBALL JJC 68, Fox Valley Technical er-Henley will enter Sunday’s 66 (OT): Juatece McNear (12 contest with a chance to make points) got a steal and Hillary history.

Johnson is 14 points short Dietahin (13 points) scored the game-winner on a rebound of 1,000 career points while her teammate is 25 points basket late in overtime.

Bernasia Fox and Naomi away from 1,000.

Mayes had 10 points each while Chavon Banks had 13 COLLEGE SWIMMING Lewis honors: The Lewis rebounds.

Lewis 88, Quincy 72: No. 2 women’s swimming team has Lewis (12-0, 2-0) erased a five- entered the national rankings point halftime deficit in the according to the most recentfirst two minutes of the sec- ly released College Swimming ond half to rally for a Great Coaches Association of AmerLakes Valley Conference vic- ica (CSCAA) NCAA Division II Top 25 Poll. tory.

The Lewis men, who were Junior Mariyah Brawner-Henley scored 16 of her 25 No. 20 in the initial poll, moved up to No. 19 in the latpoints in the second half.

She also added 11 points est poll.

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JOLIET – Sometimes dominating performances don’t win basketball games. In many cases, it’s role players who make the difference. For St. Francis women’s basketball team Saturday, however, it was a combination of both.

The Fighting Saints came back after trailing by as much as 18 points to beat No. 18-ranked St. Ambrose in overtime, 98-95, at Sullivan Center.

With two second remaining in the second half and her team trailing by two points, Katie Gonnering stepped up to the free-throw line. After making her first try, St. Ambrose called a timeout to try and freeze her. It didn’t work, as the senior sunk her second shot and forced overtime.

“It was really nerve-rack-

ing,” Gonnering said. “I looked at the time and there was only a couple of seconds left on the scoreboard. I knew it came down to those free throws and that I had to put them in.”

Gonnering, who before the contest was the top scorer in NAIA Division II with 26.5 points a game, had a double-double with 26 points and 18 rebounds. The 5-foot-10 forward shot 16 of 18 from the free-throw line, played all 45 minutes and scored 18 of her points in the second half.

While Gonnering dominated offensively in the second half, St. Ambrose dominated in the first. At one point, the Bees led, 37-19, behind Sydney Greiner’s (27 points) three first-half 3-pointers .

By the end of the half, they led only, 49-38. Freshman point guard Christina Ekhomu (24

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Cutler is not Bears’ biggest problem BEARS INSIDER Hub Arkush Bears fans need to stop talking about Jay Cutler.

Stop thinking about him, stop worrying about him, stop complaining about him, stop crucifying him, stop blaming him and stop defending him.

Cutler is an absolute nonfactor at the moment as the Bears set about the more serious business of finding a new general manager and new coach to lead them back to competitiveness and eventual contention.

Why are you all so obsessed with Cutler?

Unless there’s a McCaskey reading this column, you didn’t pay him a penny or lose a dime of the $38 million to $54 million he’s going to walk away from the Bears with from his most recent deal, not to mention the $30 million to $40 million he made on his first contract with the Bears.

The Bears didn’t fail to sign a single player they thought could help them win because of what they paid Cutler.

Unless there’s a truly huge story brewing out there, he’s never hurt your Mom, Dad, brother or sister.

I’m sure of it, so let it go.

Cutler isn’t the reason Phil Emery and Marc Trestman had to be fired.

The incompetence of the two most important people in the organizations is what got the Bears where they are

Follow the Bears’ searches for a new general manager and new coach at ChicagoFootball.com. listened to my work know I am not a Cutler fan and I may have been the first guy in town to dispute the wisdom of the trade when they gave up two first-round picks for him in 2009.

But at some point, Cutler being every Bears fan’s excuse for all that is wrong with the team gets over-the-top old, dumb and annoying.

There will be no NFL starting caliber quarterbacks available in free agency this coming offseason. The very best of the group are Jake Locker, Mike Vick, Mark Sanchez, Brian AP photo Hoyer and Matt Moore.

Which of those fellas would Bears quarterback Jay Cutler walks off the field after Sunday’s game against the Minnesota Vikings in you rather have than Cutler?

Minneapolis.

Marcus Mariota and Jameis today, not Cutler. one more season, perhaps even ter quarterback play to be good Winston will be the first two quarterbacks drafted this There is no way George more. on offense. year and the only ones with a McCaskey and Ted Phillips Cutler is a symptom, not a The Bears also need a bigchance of starting as rookies, can drain this swamp if they disease. Symptoms can be eitime pass rushing right end, and their scouting reports think the best possible general ther cured or made to go away. at least one and possibly two manager and coach prospects Not only would the Bears more starting linebackers, two aren’t nearly as good as Cutler’s, minus the signal caller’s are going to take their jobs if have been at best 5-11 with starting safeties and quality constant brain cramps. keeping Cutler is a prerequiJimmy Clausen or David Fales depth at cornerback before Cutler will probably not be site. at quarterback, they most like- they’ll be ready to compete the long-range answer in ChiIf they are that dumb, I can ly would have been worse. with the Packers and Lions. cago, but it’s almost impossible promise you Ernie Accorsi Fales and Clausen clearly The quarterback doesn’t to dream up a better option at will disabuse them of that aren’t as good as Cutler. have to come first. In fact, notion in short order.

This team needs at least with most of those other needs the position in 2015.

But the next Bears’ general two more wide receivers, a addressed, the Bears were a • Chicago Football editor manager is going to decide the backup tight end, a number Cutler knee injury away from future of Cutler in navy and two running back who might beating the Packers and going Hub Arkush can be reached at harkush@chicagofootball.com orange, is going to know he eventually become a quality to a Super Bowl in 2010. or on Twitter @Hub_Arkush. should be the QB for at least starter, a right tackle and betAnyone who has read or

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Newton, defense lead Panthers to upset victory over Cardinals

By STEVE REED The Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Cam Newton finally has his first playoff victory – with a big assist from his defense.

The fourth-year quarterback threw for 198 yards and two touchdowns, Carolina’s defense set an NFL record for fewest yards allowed in a postseason game, and the Panthers defeated the Arizona Cardinals, 27-16, on Saturday.

It was Carolina’s first playoff win in nine years and Newton’s first playoff victory since entering the league as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2011 draft.

Jonathan Stewart ran for 123 yards and a touchdown on a rain-soaked afternoon. The Panthers held Arizona to 78 yards, intercepted Ryan Lindley twice and sacked him four times. Carolina had 386 yards.

The Panthers (8-8-1) will play at top-seeded Seattle next weekend if Dallas beats Detroit

on Sunday. If the Lions win, the Panthers play at Green Bay. After a 9-1 start, Arizona’s once promising season was undone by a rash of injuries, including to quarterbacks Carson Palmer and Drew Stanton.

The New York Giants held the previous NFL record for fewest yards in a postseason game, holding Cleveland to 86 yards on Dec. 21, 1958. It appeared the Panthers wouldn’t get the record, but Arizona began lateraling the ball around

the field on the final play and lost 19 yards. It was a fitting end to Arizona’s offensive struggles. The Cardinals managed 12 yards in the second half and had eight first downs for the game.

Trailing by one at halftime the Panthers scored two touchdowns in a span of 1 minute, 32 seconds late in the third quarter to take control.

Rookie running back Fozzy Whittaker caught a pass in the flat from Newton, reversed fields and got a key block from

Kelvin Benjamin to spring him for a 39-yard touchdown.

On the ensuing kickoff, Melvin White stripped returner Ted Ginn Jr., a former Panther, at the Arizona 3 and Kevin Reddick recovered for Carolina. A pass interference penalty on Tony Jefferson on third down gave Carolina a new set of downs, and Newton took advantage. He found wide-open fullback Mike Tolbert in the left flat for a 1-yard touchdown and a 27-14 lead.

No. 4 Ohio State Buckeyes (13-1)

AT&T Stadium At Arlington, Texas

Jan. 12, 7 p.m., (ESPN)

Playoff exceeds expectations

By PAUL NEWBERRY The Associated Press

Through Saturday Conference W L Pct. Pac-12 6 1 .857 C-USA 4 1 .800 Independents 2 1 .667 Southeastern 7 5 .583 Big Ten 5 5 .500 Sun Belt 1 1 .500 Mountain West 3 4 .429 American Athletic 2 3 .400 Atlantic Coast 4 7 .364 MAC 1 3 .250 Big 12 1 5 .167

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Ohio State coach Urban Meyer (center) stands on the stage after the Sugar Bowl against Alabama on Friday in New Orleans. Ohio State won, 42-35.

The Sugar Bowl had its largest turnout in eight years (74,682) and an electric atmosphere, with what appeared to be a near-even split between Ohio State and Alabama fans.

• The banana-peel fumble by Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston was a huge hit on social media, giving his many detractors a chance to poke fun at the quarterback who kept getting in and out of trouble during his time in Tallahassee.

• The Sugar Bowl was the better game, but the Rose Bowl produced more water cooler topics. Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher was caught on the sideline threatening to bench Winston if he didn’t calm down. Several Oregon players did a tacky rendition of Florida State’s tomahawk chant, substituting the words “no means no” in reference to sexual assault allegations against Winston and leading to a hasty apology.

Under the old BCS system, you might remember, there was a huge gap between the end of the regular season and the championship game. That led to forgettable contests such as Auburn’s 22-19 victory over Oregon in 2011, the second-lowest scoring game of the season for both teams instead of the expected shootout, two of the nation’s most dynamic offenses clearly thrown off by a 37-day layoff.

That shouldn’t be a factor in Arlington, featuring two teams that just combined for 101 points on New Year’s Day.

There are certainly issues with this new system, in which six major bowls rotate the semifinals on an every-three-years basis. The other four bowls are guaranteed an attractive game, but being an also-ran resulted in an awful turnout for Georgia Tech’s victory over Mississippi State in the Orange Bowl, while the Peach Bowl’s 17-year sellout streak ended with TCU’s thumping of Ole Miss.

The other four bowls would surely be better off with a quarterfinal round in their nonsemifinal seasons – played around Christmas Day – than they are with games that have no impact on the national championship. But adding another layer to the playoffs would make it even more expensive for a team’s fans to travel to all the games, so it might be better to play the opening round at the campuses of the four highest-seeded teams.

Those are issues we need to start discussing. But at least we have a playoff. Two teams played their way into the title game, instead of relying on some convoluted ranking system. Under the BCS, Ohio State’s season would have been over. Instead, the Buckeyes get a shot at a title.

“It’s good for college football,” coach Urban Meyer said.

“We’re part of history.”

• Paul Newberry is a national writer for The Associated Press. Write to him at pnewberry@ap.org.

1957 * Ohio State 10, Oregon 7 1961 Ohio State 22, Oregon 12 1962 Ohio State 26, Oregon 7 1967 Ohio State 30, Oregon 0 1968 Ohio State 21, Oregon 6 1983 Ohio State 31, Oregon 6 1987 Ohio State 24, Oregon 14 2010 * Ohio State 26, Oregon 17 * - Rose Bowl

OHIO STATE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME BCS National Championship Game – Jan. 3, 2003 (Fiesta Bowl) Ohio State 31, Miami 24 BCS National Championship Game – Jan. 8, 2007 (Fiesta Bowl) Florida 41, Ohio State 14 BCS National Championship Game – Jan. 7, 2008 (Sugar Bowl) LSU 38, Ohio State 24

OREGON IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME BCS National Championship Game – Jan. 10, 2011 (Fiesta Bowl) Auburn 22, Oregon 19

TAXSLAYER BOWL: TENNESSEE 45, IOWA 28

Tennessee overwhelms Hawkeyes

By MARK LONG The Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Tennessee coach Butch Jones was soaked from a celebratory sideline dousing.

Quarterback Joshua Dobbs carried the Most Valuable Player trophy with him all around EverBank Field.

Both of them, as well as the rest of the Volunteers, donned championship hats for the first time in years.

It was tangible proof that the program is headed in the right direction.

Dobbs accounted for three touchdowns, Jalen Hurd ran for two scores and Tennessee beat Iowa 45-28 on Friday in the TaxSlayer Bowl for its first postseason victory since the Phillip Fulmer era.

“This is the start of something big that’s going on at Tennessee,” Dobbs said.

“It’s momentum that we can carry into the offseason. It’s the start of something big, a lot of momentum going into the offseason to get ready for next year.”

The Volunteers (7-6) took the momentum early Friday, scoring on their first four possessions and leading 28-0 before Iowa (7-6) managed 70 yards.

Hurd, Dobbs and a bit of trickery helped Tennessee build the big lead.

Hurd broke tackles on nearly every run, capping Tennessee’s first possession with a 3-yard score and adding a 29-yard touchdown scamper on the next drive.

Tennessee made it 21-0 late in the first quarter when Dobbs threw a lateral to running back Marlin Lane in the right flat. Lane, a senior from nearby Daytona Beach, turned and hit Vic Wharton in stride down the sideline.

It was a nice send-off for Lane, one of just a handful of Tennessee’s seniors.

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Midway through the first College Football Playoff, one thing really stands out.

Why did it take so long for this to happen?

The two semifinal games produced record TV ratings, packed stadiums, plenty of social media chatter and a bit of controversy. There’s no reason to think Oregon and Ohio State won’t give us another thrilling contest to finish a memorable season when the national championship is decided Jan. 12 at Arlington, Texas.

So, in a sport that moves at a glacial pace, let’s go ahead and start talking about how to expand this thing. Eight teams is a must. Sixteen would be even better, though that would probably require more radical changes than anyone is willing to accept at the moment.

Until then, the four-team system isn’t too shabby.

Oregon wiped out defending national champion Florida State, 59-20, in the Rose Bowl, snapping the Seminoles’ 29game winning streak. Ohio State upset top-seeded Alabama, 42-35, in a thrilling Sugar Bowl, heading to the title game behind a quarterback (Cardale Jones) who was a third-stringer back in August.

With apologies to Big 12 co-champions TCU and Baylor, both of which could certainly make a case for being part of the playoff, there’s little doubt the new system has worked better than even its biggest supporters could’ve predicted.

• The TV ratings were off the charts, with ESPN reporting the two-largest audiences in cable TV history for the semifinals. The Sugar Bowl averaged 28.271 million viewers, while the less-competitive Rose Bowl wasn’t far behind with 28.164 million. Look for even bigger numbers from the title game.

• The Rose Bowl drew a crowd of more than 91,000, though Florida State had trouble selling its allotment of tickets because it had also played in Pasadena the year before; many Seminoles fans were saving their money for a title game that never materialized.

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Gasol helps Bulls beat Celtics in OT

EASTERN CONFERENCE Bulls Cleveland Milwaukee Indiana Detroit Toronto Brooklyn Boston New York Philadelphia Atlanta Washington Miami Orlando Charlotte

Central Division W L Pct 24 10 .706 19 14 .576 17 17 .500 13 21 .382 9 23 .281 Atlantic Division W L Pct 24 9 .727 16 16 .500 11 20 .355 5 30 .143 4 27 .129 Southeast Division W L Pct 24 8 .750 22 11 .667 14 20 .412 13 24 .351 11 24 .314

GB — 4½ 7 11 14 GB — 7½ 12 20 19 GB — 2½ 11 13½ 14½

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest Division W L Pct Memphis 24 9 .727 Dallas 24 10 .706 Houston 23 10 .697 San Antonio 21 14 .600 New Orleans 17 16 .515 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 26 7 .788 Oklahoma City 17 17 .500 Denver 14 20 .412 Utah 12 22 .353 Minnesota 5 27 .156 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 26 5 .839 L.A. Clippers 22 11 .667 Phoenix 19 16 .543 Sacramento 14 19 .424 L.A. Lakers 10 23 .303 Saturday’s Results Bulls 109, Boston 104, OT Charlotte 98, Orlando 90 Houston 115, Miami 79 Utah 101, Minnesota 89 San Antonio 101, Washington 92 Denver 114, Memphis 85 Atlanta at Portland (n) Philadelphia at L.A. Clippers (n) Sunday’s Games Dallas at Cleveland, noon Brooklyn at Miami, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at Detroit, 5 p.m.

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

Toronto at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Indiana at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

GB — ½ 1 4 7 GB — 9½ 12½ 14½ 20½ GB — 5 9 13 17

Anaheim Los Angeles Vancouver San Jose Calgary Arizona Edmonton

CHICAGO – Pau Gasol had 29 points, 16 rebounds and five blocked shots, and the Bulls beat the Boston Celtics, 109104, in overtime on Saturday.

Aaron Brooks added 19 points for the Bulls, who won for the ninth time in 10 games.

Taj Gibson and Derrick Rose had 12 points apiece.

Evan Turner scored 24 of his 29 points after halftime, but Boston dropped to 2-6 since trading Rajon Rondo to Dallas on Dec. 18. Avery Bradley had 17 points for the Celtics.

The Bulls were without AP photo starters Jimmy Butler (beBulls guard Derrick Rose (left) drives to the basket against Boston Celt- reavement leave) and Mike ics guard Evan Turner (11) during overtime Saturday at the United Cen- Dunleavy (right ankle).

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Nashville Blackhawks St. Louis Winnipeg Dallas Minnesota Colorado

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MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

NHL Central Division GP W L OT 37 25 9 3 38 25 11 2 38 22 13 3 39 20 12 7 37 18 14 5 37 18 15 4 38 15 15 8 Pacific Division GP W L OT 40 25 9 6 40 19 12 9 36 21 12 3 38 20 13 5 40 21 16 3 38 15 19 4 39 8 22 9

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Pts 53 52 47 47 41 40 38

GF 113 119 111 101 115 104 98

GA 84 81 97 93 119 106 113

Pts 56 47 45 45 45 34 25

GF 111 112 105 104 115 92 83

GA 107 103 97 96 105 124 133

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts 39 26 11 2 54 40 24 12 4 52 38 20 9 9 49 40 21 16 3 45 36 17 10 9 43 39 19 15 5 43 37 16 14 7 39 40 14 23 3 31 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Islanders 38 26 11 1 53 Pittsburgh 39 24 10 5 53 N.Y. Rangers 36 21 11 4 46 Washington 37 19 11 7 45 Columbus 36 16 17 3 35 Philadelphia 39 14 18 7 35 New Jersey 41 14 20 7 35 Carolina 38 11 23 4 26 Montreal Tampa Bay Detroit Toronto Florida Boston Ottawa Buffalo

GF 108 130 108 130 84 103 100 77

GA 89 106 95 122 93 106 101 136

GF 119 118 113 108 92 106 90 75

GA 104 94 90 96 116 120 117 101

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Results Ottawa 3, Boston 2, OT Nashville 7, Los Angeles 6, OT New Jersey 5, Philadelphia 2 N.Y. Rangers 6, Buffalo 1 Montreal 4, Pittsburgh 1 Winnipeg 5, Toronto 1 Dallas 7, Minnesota 1 Arizona 6, Columbus 3 Detroit at Vancouver (n) St. Louis at San Jose (n) Sunday’s Games Dallas at Blackhawks, 7 p.m.

Boston at Carolina, noon Florida at Washington, 2 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Ottawa, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Nashville at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – D’Angelo Russell scored 22 points, including eight during a decisive 15-0 second-half run, to lead No. 20 Ohio State past Illinois, 77-61, on Saturday.

Sam Thompson and Marc Loving each added 13 points for the Buckeyes (12-3, 1-1 Big Ten), which bounced back from a conference-opening, 71-65 loss at home to Iowa on Tuesday.

Rayvonte Rice had 20 points for the Illini (10-5, 0-2), who led by eight points in the first half and were ahead by three with 16:33 left before going scoreless for a span of 5:28.

Ohio State, shooting 52 percent from the field coming in, hit 60 percent.

The Illini forged a 37-36 halftime lead by hitting 8 of 15 3-pointers. The Buckeyes shot 59 percent from the field, but also had nine turnovers that led to 16 Illini points.

Ohio State then started the second half with three consecutive turnovers.

But just as suddenly, while playing man-to-man instead of the 2-3 zone they’d employed all

season, the Buckeyes turned the game around. The Illini didn’t score from Kendrick Nunn’s 3 at the 16:33 mark until Nnanna Egwu hit two foul shots with 11:06 remaining.

Over that span, Ohio State hit big shots and made plays at both ends.

After Russell hit a 3 to tie it, substitute big man Trey McDonald made two free throws for the Buckeyes’ first lead of the day. They kept pouring it on after that.

No. 14 Notre Dame 83, Georgia Tech 76 (2 OT): At South Bend,

Indiana, Notre Dame coach Mike Brey called it “circle rip.”

Georgia Tech called it a dagger.

By any name, Pat Connaughton’s rise-up 3-pointer in the second overtime was too much for the Yellow Jackets to overcome.

Connaughton came alive in the second overtime with five points, two rebounds, a steal and a block, and Jerian Grant finished with 24 points to lead No. 14 Notre Dame to a comeback win over Georgia Tech.

After missing a pair of free throws late in the first overtime that could have won it, Connaughton followed his 3

with a layup for a five-point lead with three minutes to play, and all the momentum the Irish needed to close the game out.

“He was so mad about the free throws, he’s so competitive, that he’s the kind of guy that’s gonna answer back and try and win the game,” Brey said. “I love the fearlessness.”

DePaul 71, Xavier 68: At Chicago, Billy Garrett Jr. had 15 points and matched a career-high with 10 assists as DePaul outlasted Xavier.

Forrest Robinson added 17 points and Jamee Crockett had 10 for the Blue Demons (8-7, 2-0 Big East), who shot 52.2 percent from the field and hit 10 3-pointers.

Trevon Bluiett paced Xavier (10-4, 1-1) with 19 points and 12 rebounds, Myles Davis chipped in 14 points and Dee Davis had nine with seven assists.

Garrett hit a 3-pointer for a 64-58 lead with 3:17 remaining, but a layup from Myles Davis and a 3-pointer by Bluiett tied it at 66 with 42 seconds left.

After free throws from Aaron Simpson and Garrett, Dee Davis settled for a quick layup with five seconds left.

Rookie Nikola Mirotic scored 10 points in his first start, and Kirk Hinrich replaced Butler for the Bulls’ ninth different starting lineup of the season.

The Celtics were coming off a 119-101 loss to Rondo and the Mavericks on Friday night.

Jared Sullinger scored 16 points in Boston’s fourth consecutive road loss.

Rose stole the ball and passed to Joakim Noah, who found Gasol for a layup for a 103-99 lead with 2:21 left in overtime. Two Gasol free throws and a Rose layup extended the lead to 107-103 with 24.4 seconds left. The Bulls then held on despite going 2 for 4 at the line in the final eight seconds.

WHAT TO WATCH SUNDAY College football GoDaddy Bowl, Toledo vs.

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Lockport teen self-publishes a novel, hosts reading Jan. 10

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OCKPORT – Although many children have rich imaginations, not all eventually harness those imaginations into a disciplined creative work.

Katelyn Dombrowski, 15, of Lockport, is one teen who has. She recently republished her first novel, “The Hearts of the Cold,” as an eBook on Amazon’s Kindle.

Republished?

“I wrote it in 2012 and put in on Kindle in 2013,” Dombrowski said of the first draft she wrote over that summer.

“At the time, my computer was very slow and the chapKatelyn ters were very Dombrowski short. When I went through it, I wanted to expand it.”

When Dombrowski was a little girl, she’d dreamed up entire villages, along with the people who lived in them, she said. She pretended she could change into an animal.

She invented an alter ego of herself.

These early experiences became the foundation for Dombrowski’s novel, a story about 17th century Leolitha, a 17-year-old teen who belongs to a race of Arctic shapeshifters – the Beastarum – who gather in a castle at the summons of their Creator.

Using her fascination of big cats (“I love how secretive they move”), white animals (white tiger, white wolf, polar bear, Arctic fox) and snow, Dombrowski writes how Leolitha negotiates the challenges of her relationship to Star Paw, once they learn the Creator has arranged for them to marry.

The process confirmed for Dombrowski that she has

publish together, she said.

By creatively using odd bits of time, Dombrowski – a Joliet Catholic Academy student who said she participates in the school’s science club, vocal ensemble and literary magazine, as well as choir at St. Dennis Church in Lockport and a monthly adult writer’s group at the Lockport Public Library – said she writes four to five hours a week.

Dombrowski believes young writers should play with ideas, persist in their work and seek out similar writing groups, as the feedback gained from them is invaluable.

“Then you can kind of teach yourself,” Dombrowski said, “and mature in your writing.”

Novel a wish come true

Dombrowski is not the only local teen disciplined enough to write and publish a full-length novel.

Last year, Sourcebooks, an independent traditional publishing house in Naperville, accepted “An Adventure of a Lifetime,” by Photo provided Ravina Thakkar Ravina ThakTeen writer Katelyn Dombrowski will read from her novel, “The Hearts kar, now a of the Cold,” on Jan. 10 at Old Towne Cafe in Lockport. freshman at Plainfield North High School. writing talent. browski added. The castle, Thakkar had written the “I also learned that I need however, is not a metaphor 20,000-word chapter book to keep working at it,” Domfor heaven. for middle-grade children browski said. “You just can’t “It’s more of a home, the while battling cystic fibrosis. be a good writer at the start.” place that protects all of the The story focuses on a bored Dombrowski said her novBeastarum, kind of like their 9-year-old girl who becomes el contains some unintended temple,” Dombrowski said. the sidekick to the heroine in Christian parallels. For Dombrowski said it took her favorite book series. instance, the Creator mimics her a year to write – and When Make-a-Wish God, in the sense that he sacrewrite – this 263-page novel.

Foundation approached her rifices himself for his people, She is co-writing a fantasy to grant a wish, Thakkar had Dombrowski said. trilogy with another 15-yearjust one – to publish her book The Creator also gave the old writer. The two are also through a traditional publishBeastarum leaders to guide separately working on a coling house, not a self-publishthem, much as Jesus provided lection of inspirational short ing one. the apostles as guides, Domfictional stories they plan to With Sourcebooks, Thak-

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kar completed several rounds of intense editing – as any author would. Thakkar said she received a letter from a fan requesting a sequel. That would be nice, Thakkar agreed, once she negotiates writer’s block and the demands of increased amounts of homework that come with high school.

Through her experience with Sourcebooks, Thakkar said she expanded her knowledge of plot holes, character development and pacing. Her strong points, she said, are punctuation and the ability to construct a story without an outline.

“I just see where the story takes me,” Thakkar said.

Kim Winters of Lockport, who said she has run teen writing groups at public libraries in Lockport and Orland Park, said teens have wonderful voices and tend to be more open and expressive in their writing than adults, as they tend to tune out their inner editors.

“With teens, I’ve found their biggest need is to be heard,” Winters said. “They need to find a safe place where they can share their writing.

Librarians are great resources, Winters said, as they can point the teen to local writing groups or – if enough teens ask – perhaps start one.

Two online resources that are safe for teens, Winters said, are www.teenink.com and www.sixwordmemoirs.com/ teens/index.php.

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JWHS teacher Hackney joins national educator fellowship The HERALD-NEWS JOLIET – Joliet West High School English teacher Sean Hackney was selected for the America Achieves Fellowship for Teachers and Principals as a fellow for the 2014-16 school years.

This program is highly selective, with a less than 20

percent of nominees selected.

Hackney joins 180 national fellows located across 35 states and Sean Hackney the District of Columbia, to develop skills to significantly impact stu-

dents locally and nationally.

He. was in New York City from Oct. 17 to 19 to meet with other fellows and develop action plans, advise policymakers and thought leaders, dive into critical issues and collaborate on ways to scale their impact.

Each fellow takes on an Impact Project to help expand his

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reach beyond the walls of his school and classrooms and to gain an increased understanding of current research; opportunities; and challenges in practice, systems and policies.

Hackney has taught at Joliet West for 8 years. He currently teaches English 1 Honors and Rhetoric 101 and 102.

In addition to teaching, Hack-

New Lenox high school junior helps restore reef system in Caribbean The HERALD-NEWS NEW LENOX – James Watson, Lincoln-Way Central junior, joined a small group of high school students and adults in Crew 3000 to help restore the reef system in the w e s t e r n C a - James Watson ribbean over Columbus Day weekend in October.

This is his second scuba diving environmental trip.

The first was two years ago in the same western Caribbean area. Watson worked with his father and others to restore

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ney is on the Instructional Leadership Team that writes curriculum aligned to the Common Core State Standards and district initiatives.

In addition, Hackney has recently published articles about this work in English Journal and Hybrid Pedagogy and blogs at highschoolrhetoric.blogspot.com.

coral by helping the coral to grow in a damaged area.

This time Watson joined other high school students from Connecticut, Virginia, California, Missouri and Florida. The group will expand a coral nursery and transplant coral into the reef system all while scuba diving.

Watson began diving three years ago. He learned about Crew 3000 from his father, a master diver, who got to know Dr. William Zarillo, Crew 3000 president. Crew 3000 is a nonprofit organization consisting of youth and adults who learn about the ocean ecosystems and help in conserving, restoring and exploring them.

Frankfort fourth-grade students learn science through experiments

Go Math! published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is a new resource being utilized at Arbury Hills School in Mokena to help students meet the new Illinois Learning Standards aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Pictured left to right are second-graders Dylan Vladika and Matthew Ni playing a mathematical game developed to help students master the skills of even and odd numbers. Both students are from Mrs. Jody Diehl’s classroom.

Old Quarry Middle School students display their heritage Old Quarry Middle School students recently developed ancestral/heritage symbols based on what they researched in their family history The symbol could be a coat of arms, a family crest or family shield. Students described and demonstrated the process of clay building and identify and describe the elements of visual arts.

The student work is on display in school cabinets throughout the building. For information, contact Jean Dorrance at 630257-2286, ext. 4259

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Fourth-grade students at Indian Trail Elementary School in Frankfort are exploring scientific tools, as well as the scientific method, by conducting experiments with chewing gum. The students had to answer the question, “Which gum’s flavor would last the longest?”

The students examined three different pieces of gum and made observations, as well as a hypothesis. Through the investigation, the students had a controlled time in which they had to chew each piece of gum. The data was recorded and compared to see whether the students’ hypothesis was correct.

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The “paw ticket” will then go into a bucket and each Friday students’ names will be drawn for prizes that have been purchased through PTO funds.

The students also will get

Classroom teachers and staff also teach students expected school. behaviors through a variety of The office will keep track of venues and circumstances. how many tickets each student As opportunities occur, earns. teachers will re-teach expecAt the end of each trimester, tations to students who fail to students have a celebration in display appropriate behavior.

PE class, where they earn praise In the event a student does not and prizes for tickets earned. meet the school’s expectations, Principal Debby Lynch and consequences are handed Assistant Principal Maggi Burdown through the individual khardt met with all 28 classes at classroom teacher or with an River Valley in town hall assem- office referral. blies the first week of school to review the “Three Rs.” – The Herald-News

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Hope, a community-wide service learning project.

Every year, members of LFA JOLIET – A new, free online tool for job seekers called Career gather packages of stuffing, Coach is now available on Joliet macaroni and cheese, brownie mix, and cans of fruit and Junior College’s website at www.jjc.edu/info/careercoach. vegetables for the Harvest Hope food drive. Student and parent Users can browse job titles volunteers set up a popup and see salary data and open grocery store at the AJK school positions in the local area, review degrees JJC offers to lead and served a pancake breakfast to the young children. toward specific careers, take Afterwards, LFA’s Science on assessments to identify personthe Fly team, a club dedicated ality types and match them to to exploring science through the best careers and get help building a high-quality, targeted experiments, presented a lesson on making film canister rockets. resume.

Lake Forest Academy is an independent boarding-day school Plainfield Park District of 434 students on Chicago’s has childhood programs North Shore. The school enrolls PLAINFIELD – The Plainfield students from 39 countries and Park District has openings in 15 states. Nearly 50 percent of several early childhood prostudents live in dormitories on grams that start in January. campus.

• 1, 2, 3, Come Learn with Me – 9:15 to 11:45 a.m. Monday and Wednesday, Jan. 12 through Joliet Central H.S. host Tri-Fecta Costume Run May 6, Recreation AdministraJOLIET – On Oct. 31, more than tion Center, 23729 W. Ottawa 50 students and staff participatSt., Plainfield. Weekly themes, ed in Joliet Central High School’s crafts, games, music and play.

Steelmen Tri-Fecta Costume Ages 3. Must be toilet trained. $380 resident and $570 nonres- Run. The Tri-Fecta, sponsored by teachers in the Health and idents.

Medicine Academy, is a 3-series • 2 + 2 = 4 year old Fun – run/walk event is held for the 9:15 to 11:45 a.m. Tuesday and second consecutive year.

Thursday, Jan. 13 through May Students and staff who com7, Recreation Administration pleted all three events received Center, 23729 W. Ottawa St., a free Steelmen Tri-Fecta shirt.

Plainfield. Play, creative projThe second of the three ects, active movement, learning activities. Ages 4. $415 resident. events, the Turkey Trot, was Nov. 25. The final event will be and $622.50 for nonresidents.

• Kindergarten Readiness – 1 Feb. 13. to 3 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Teacher receives Friday, Jan. 12 through May teaching award 8, Streams Rec Center, 24319 LOCKPORT – Tina Sochacki, Cedar Creek Lane, Plainfield. who teaches French at Lockport Social skills, motor skills, writing, counting, letter sounds, Township High School, received math activities. Age 4 by Aug. 1 an exceptional teaching award from Stanford University for her to age 5. $450 residents, $675 dedication as an educator and a nonresidents.

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Sochacki was nominated by 815-436-8812. former LTHS student Eric Cuevas, who now attends Stanford Frankfort resident University. participates in outreach FRANKFORT – On Nov. 15, Elijah Stanford offers the initiative because the university acknowlKuli of Frankfort joined a group edges how important it is for of more than 45 Lake Forest their students to have received Academy students and numerous parent volunteers at the A.J. support, guidance and friendship from teachers and mentors who Katzenmaier School in North Chicago to participate in Harvest helped prepare them for college.

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JOLIET – The Joliet Central High School Student of the Month for October are Karen Perez, Kiwanis Club; Myra Limon, Rotary Club; Milena Singletary, Lions Club; and Estefania Zavala, Exchange Club.

The Joliet West High School Students of the Month for October are Hailey Clement, Kiwanis Club; Parker Budzinski,

Rotary Club; Stephanie Lee, Lions Club; Matthew Mackey, Exchange Club; and Jaidah Blakney, NAACP. Joliet Township High School Students of the Month must demonstrate character, citizenship, dependability and maturity.

The final selection is then based on the student’s resume and academic performance.

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Lincoln-Way Central High School students learning strategies for taking the ACT exam

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Nelson Ridge School had a special lunch provided for those students that demonstrate one Pillar of Character. These pictured students excelled in “Respect,” which was the character count pillar for the past few weeks. The special luncheon guest was New Lenox Police Officer Michael Jurka. (Above photo): Fourth-graders kneeling: Jessica Weaver, Megan Hennessy, Lucy Westbrook, Paige Michalowicz and Maddie Dul; standing: Jurka, Jonah James, Zack Jesernik and Jacob Schram. (Left photo) Fifth-graders kneeling: Nolan Dynia, Julian Panici, Kady Winans and Zachary Schultz; standing: Jurka, Hunter Ramos, Nathan Rickey, Katy Skonicki, Maddy Thiel and Alivia Glas. (Below photo) Sixth-graders kneeling: Amanda Yaeger, Alison Dunbar and Olivia Shafer; standing: Jurka, Mohammad Kudos, Bobby Ryan, Evan Neisler, Chloe Schliffka, Avery Kline and Hannah Van Kampen.

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More than 200 Lincoln-Way Central High School students are coming in early and/or staying after school to learn strategies and practice taking the ACT exam. They were given black T-shirts with “When Opportunity Knocks” on the front and “Open the Door – Drive for 25” on the back.

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The HERALD-NEWS ROMEOVILLE – Lewis University’s Mock Trial team opened its season with back to back tournaments held at Wheaton College and Bradley University.

Members of the 1173 team are David DeSchepper (captain), Megan Arehart (cap-

tain), Mary Huggins, Ashley Patek, Korin Navarro, Vanessa Patenoude and Larry Beyer.

Members of the 1174 team are Anthony Scorzo (captain), Erica Swanberg (captain), Sandra Ayala, Kajal Sharma, Dustin Murray, Martin Romo and Amber Milliron.

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Schepper received the only Perfect Attorney Award given at the tournament while working with his team for a 15th-place finish at their first competition of the year.

At Bradley, DeSchepper earned his second Perfect Attorney Award of the year while adding an Outstanding Attorney Award for his ad-

Plainfield High School hockey association hosts toy jamboree

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The Plainfield High School Hockey Association collected toys at its annual Toys for Tots Jamboree to make Christmas merry for some children. The three hockey game event was held Dec. 6 at Canlan Ice Sports Rink in Romeoville. PHSHA’s Varsity and JV Red teams played teams from Lincoln-Way, while PHSHA’s JV White team played the Cobras. All six teams participated in two on-ice toy presentations, individually skating to two U.S. Marines and presenting their unwrapped toy. The skaters met and shook hands with the Marines.

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LWCHS Mathletes score well at conference

by Michael Gentry and Sawyer Hobbs with 48 points out of 50, NEW LENOX – The Lincoln-Way and at the Junior/Senior level on Central Mathletes took the lead Functions and Graphs by Matt in their first round of a tradition- Fleckenstein and Derek Jones with 46 points, and Logic by ally tight conference competiPriya Patel and Allison White tion Sept. 17. with 48 points.

The Knights scored a total of First-place Knights in the 676 points over Lincoln-Way senior topic of Vectors were Pat East with 672 points and Lincoln-Way West with 666 points Burke, Priya Patel, Caitlin Rinke, Allison White, Joey Yurkanin, by capturing three first-place John Christel and Brandon Ross. spots and two second-place spots out of 15 areas of compe- In Sophomore Word Problems were Jessica Bettridge, Liana tition.

Chidichimo, Carlos Ferran-HeOutstanding performances redia, Matt Klock, Matt Murphy were given in the oral comand Tommy Zivat. petition at the Freshman/ – The Herald-News Sophomore level on Matrices To place a classified ad in the Herald News, call 877-264-2527.

vocacy on the plaintiff’s side of the case. Swanberg earned another Outstanding Witness Award.

Scorzo led in Trial Advocacy, taking home an individual award for his efforts on the plaintiff’s side of the case while missing a chance to repeat his previous week’s performance by one point on the defense.

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LOCKPORT – Freshman students at Lockport Township High School learned exactly what to do if ever approached online to supply an inappropriate photo, even if their cyber “friend” sent one first and says they owe a picture.

Det. Rich Wistocki, of the Will County State’s Attorney Office, spoke to the entire freshman class about cyberbullying and Internet safety during the freshmen center’s Yellow Ribbon Assembly Oct. 21.

Working with the Naperville Police Department and Will Country State’s Attorney Office, Wistocki is the regional expert on Internet crime involving juveniles. He conducts

undercover operations online against people who exploit children and also is committed to teaching our parents and teens about keeping kids safe.

Wistocki recently spoke to District 205 parents regarding Internet safety as well and he is a regular guest on Fox 32 Chicago as an expert in cybersafety. Cyberbullying occurs when someone is being embarrassed, humiliated, harassed, or stalked online, Wistocki said.

He said victims of cyberbullying should take a screenshot of the content and report the incident to the police.

Wistocki also taught students about sex-tortion, which is when a person is tricked and coerced into sending inappropriate pictures of themselves online.

Block Klukas & Manzella, Paul Namie of Law Offices of Jason R. Moseley and Cary Hansing, a financial analyst for BP Oil. Second year mocker Swanberg won an Outstanding Witness Award leading team 1174 to a 19th-place finish. Scorzo won Outstanding Attorney Awards for his performances on both sides of the case. De-

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Frankfort’s Mayor Jim Holland welcomed 44 tourists from Iowa to Frankfort’s historic downtown district Oct. 22. Hosted by the Chicago Southland Visitors Bureau, the tourists enjoyed a lunch at the Pickwick Tea Room in downtown Frankfort, and then shopped in the downtown district for the rest of the afternoon. This is one of several tours organized throughout the year by the Chicago Southland Visitors Bureau.

Third-grade students at Arbury Hills School in Mokena performed a Reader’s Theater production, “The Meal Must Go On.” The play is about how the turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie must all cooperate together to form an outstanding meal. Pictured are: Jana Abedrabbo (pumpkin pie), Keegan Curley (cranberry sauce), Karissa Munson (mashed potatoes) and Emily Richter (turkey).

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How do you handle the club suit?

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Dennis Bilde from Denmark is now too old for junior events, but his final junior deal ever was memorable.

In the auction, North’s two-notrump response showed four or more spades and at least game-invitational strength.

If West (Majka Bilde, Dennis’ sister) had led the diamond ace against six spades, it would have defeated the slam and ruined the story.

When, though, she led the heart nine, South won with his ace, drew trumps, cashed his other two heart tricks, discarding the diamond king from his hand, ruffed a diamond in his hand, crossed to dummy with a trump and ruffed the last diamond. Now declarer had to play the club suit for only one loser.

How did he read the deal?

South felt sure that if East or West had six or seven diamonds, he or she would have entered the auction. So declarer decided that the diamonds were 5-5.

Furthermore, the carding in hearts suggested that West had begun with five. If so, West had started with 2-5-51 distribution.

Backing his judgment, Bilde led a low club toward the dummy. When West played the nine, declarer covered with dummy’s 10. East won with his king and returned a low club, but South played low from his hand to make his contract.

That was very well read. Also note that if West had had a singleton club honor, she would have been endplayed. On her forced red-suit return, declarer would have ruffed in the dummy and sluffed a club from his hand.

Then he would have run the club jack to get home.

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Dear Doctor K: How much protein do I need?

Should I drink protein shakes to make sure I get enough?

Dear Reader: Protein is important for building and maintaining muscle and bone strength. It is necessary for the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skin and hair cells to grow and repair. It also sends signals to your brain that you are full and have had enough to eat. People in the developing nations who cannot find enough protein to eat develop two terrible and sometimes fatal diseases, kwashiorkor and marasmus.

We need protein in our diet mainly so that our bodies can make protein. Proteins are made up of chains of amino acids. When we eat and digest proteins, we break them up into their individual amino acids. Then our bodies use those components to build new proteins.

There are 20 amino acids; nine are â&#x20AC;&#x153;essentialâ&#x20AC;? for our health.

For most of us in the developed nations, the questions are how much protein we need and what foods are the best sources. The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for protein intake is 46 grams per day for women and 56 grams for men.

Most animal- and plant-based foods have proteins that provide the amino acids we need.

Meat, poultry, seafood, beans, legumes, eggs, cheese, tofu, nuts and seeds are rich protein sources. The richest sources of plant-based protein are legumes, such as lentils and split peas, and beans â&#x20AC;&#x201C; black, kidney, garbanzo, lima, navy, pinto and white. If you are a vegetarian or vegan, you need to eat a wide variety of plant proteins.

Which type of protein is best? Reducing animal-based proteins and increasing plant-based

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Get protein you need from plant foods rich in nutrients

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COMICS Arlo & Janis

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Dear Optimistic: If you hadn’t met someone as compatible as Darren, I would say full speed ahead with your plan. But if you feel awkward going out with others, then you shouldn’t be doing it.

This is not to say you should rush into anything with Darren. It takes time to really get to know someone. Take the time because in the early months of a relationship, both parties are in the “selling” phase.

You can always decide to go back to Plan A. Dear Abby: My sister “Diane” lives across the country and is an active alcoholic. I have been sober for 13 years, with the exception of a relapse in 2012. I have an 11-year-old daughter.

In addition to the alcoholism, Diane is in an abusive marriage. I have seen it firsthand when I visited her. During each of these visits we have argued, she and her husband have fought, and Diana has

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips drunk heavily.

I have decided to not expose my daughter to my sister’s drama. It was sad and stressful for me when I witnessed it. Diana is hurt and now refuses to speak to me. Did I make the right decision? – Safe & Sober in

Oakland

Dear Safe & Sober: I’m sorry your sister is hurt, but as a parent, it’s up to you to decide what you want your impressionable daughter to see. That you don’t want her to be exposed to your alcohol-addled sister interacting with her abusive husband seems like a sensible choice to me. Yes, you made the right decision, and you should stick with it.

Dear Abby: I recently started dating a woman I have been friends with for a few years. She’s smart, funny, has many wonderful qualities, and I’m starting to fall in love with her.

She’s attractive – except for one thing that could easily be fixed. I don’t know if I’m being shallow, so if that’s the case, please tell me. She has a bit of a mustache.

Is there a way I can tactfully ask her to remove it without hurting her feelings? Or should I just be grateful I found someone who wants to be with me and keep quiet? – Tactfully

Challenged

Dear Challenged: If you and this lady have been friends for years, you should know each other well enough to level with each other. Because the mustache is “distracting,” ask her why she has never done anything about it.

However, if she opts to keep it, you’ll have to love her just as she is.

• Write Dear Abby at www.dearabby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

• Sunday, January 4, 2015

Dear Abby: After a year of separation and divorce, I have decided to dip into the online dating world at 45. My plan was to carefully select three to five men over the next few months and just date, without diving into a relationship or into bed.

To my surprise, the first man I met, “Darren,” is a great guy. He treats me wonderfully, is respectful, makes me laugh, and I love spending time with him.

Now I’m no longer interested in meeting anyone else.

But I am forcing myself to stick to “the plan.”

Darren is aware of this.

He respects my decision, but says he’ll convince me to choose him. Am I making a mistake by continuing to date others?

I have real feelings for Darren and feel awkward about continuing with my plan. I think I should guard my heart. Perhaps dating others will help me take things more slowly. Any thoughts? – Cautiously

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HOROSCOPE TODAY – Follow through with your plans and build a bright future. Be grateful for what you have, and use whatever is available to reach your goals. Be generous with your time and resources in order to receive what you need to advance. Important relationships will blossom if you are conscientious.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Direct your excess energy in a positive direction. A younger or older family member will benefit if you are attentive. The assistance you provide will help build a closer bond.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- You should investigate the pros and cons of moving in a new direction. Get together with someone who has the insight and answers you need to make

a wise decision.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Your desire to help less fortunate people should be put to good use. Donating your time or services to a local agency will bring you satisfaction and recognition.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You’ll be flattered if someone wants your opinion, but be careful not to divulge too much information. It’s possible that your confidante may try to pass your ideas off as his or her own.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Don’t let personal issues stop you from accomplishing everything you have so carefully planned. Keep your mind on the job in order to have a productive day.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- A tense situation

can be resolved if you keep your emotions in check. State what you are willing to offer, and be realistic and honest about what you expect in return.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- A peer will offer advice about a troubling situation. Don’t commit to a partnership or enterprise unless all the facts are in writing. Placing your trust in the wrong person will be costly.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- All work and no play will be emotionally debilitating for you. Take care of responsibilities and plan an entertaining evening. A balance between career or chores and recreation will lead to a better state of mind.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Be cautious. Keep a close eye on your wallet and ignore pleas for

donations or loans. Your budget may take a beating if you are too generous or gullible.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Promote your talents or the services you have to offer. Highlight your skills to the right individual. Keeping your capabilities hidden will not help you move forward.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Join a group or an organization that shares your concerns and values. Getting together with like-minded people will increase your circle of friends and improve your outlook.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Avoid any sort of exaggeration and refrain from making an unrealistic promise. You will end up looking and feeling foolish if you have overstated what you can honestly contribute.

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ty, Illinois, in favor of Harrier EnerAll utilities incl, available immediately. 815-254-0193 gy, LLC, Plaintiff, and against Lati-

go Capital Partners, LLC, Kawamura Capital Partners, LLC, Brian Kawamura and Raymond Bastin, Defendants, I shall at 10:00 a.m. on the 26th of January, 2015, in the First Floor Lobby of the Will County Courthouse, 14 West Jefferson Street, in the City of Joliet, 60432 in the County of Will, in the PUBLIC NOTICE State of Illinois, offer for sale at public vendue, to the highest bidIN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR der, for cash, all the right, title and THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT interest of said Defendant, Brian JOLIET, WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS Kawamura, in and to the following described tract or lot or parcels of BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY, a land, to wit: Delaware corporation, Plaintiff, v.

Lot 707 in White Eagle Club Unit JOHN WILLIAM JOHNSON, AS 19, being a Subdivision in Part of TRUSTEE UNDER THE PROVIthe North ½ of Section 4, Township SIONS OF A TRUST AGREEMENT 37 North, Range 9 East of the Third DATED APRIL 21, 1993 AND Principal Meridian, according to KNOWN AS TRUST NO. 1993-1, the Plat Thereof Recorded Septem- NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS and ber 14, 1995 as Document No. UNKNOWN OWNERS, Defendants.

R95-68580, in Will County, IlliCase No. 2014 ED 64 nois. Commonly known as 3407 LPC-West Scottsdale Circle, Naperville, IL 60564.

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION TO CHANGE THE NAME(S) OF Aaliyah Nichole Sanchez TO Aaliyah Nichole Mendoza CASE NO: 14 MR 3003 NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned on behalf of herself and Rosemarie Mendoza, Marcos Mendoza-Perez, shall appear in the Will County Court Annex Building, 57 N. Ottawa, Joliet, Illinois, 60432 courtroom A236 at 9 a.m. on the 28 day of January, 2015 before the judge assigned to hear said matter, and then there present a petition requesting the names of Aaliyah N. Sanchez be changed to Aaliyah N. Mendoza. /s/ Rosemarie Mendoza PAMELA J. MCGUIRE CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF WILL COUNTY (Published in the Herald-News December 28, 2014, January 4, 11, 2015. HN1535)

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The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, in this cause, JOHN WILLIAM JOHNSON, AS TRUSTEE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF A TRUST AGREEMENT DATED APRIL 21, 1993 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NO. 1993-1, NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS and UNKNOWN OWNERS, that Plaintiff BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY has filed its Complaint for Condemnation in the Circuit Court for the 12th Judicial Circuit, Joliet, Will County, Illinois, for condemnation pursuant to the eminent domain laws of the State of Illinois, of the lands and premises in the Complaint situated in Will County, Illinois, to wit:

THE SOUTH HALF OF THE PUBLIC NOTICE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 18, LYING SOUTH OF THE SHERIFF'S SALE NOTICE RIGHTS OF WAY OF THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY AND OF Case No. 14 L 607 THE CHICAGO AND ALTON RAILROAD COMPANY, ALL IN TOWNBy Virtue of a certain judgment SHIP 33 NORTH, RANGE 9 EAST order filed and entered on August OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL 11, 2014 in the Circuit Court of the MERIDIAN, IN WILL COUNTY, Twelfth Judicial Circuit, Will CounILLINOIS, ty, Illinois, in favor of Harrier EnerSAID PARCEL CONTAINING gy, LLC, Plaintiff, and against Lati0.326 ACRES, MORE OR LESS go Capital Partners, LLC, KawamuPART OF PIN 03-17-18-400- ra Capital Partners, LLC, Brian 003-0000 Kawamura and Raymond Bastin, Defendants, I shall at 10:00 a.m.

Summons was duly issued out on the 26th of January, 2015, in of said court against you as provid- the First Floor Lobby of the Will ed by law and such case is now County Courthouse, 14 West Jefferpending. son Street, in the City of Joliet, The aforesaid Complaint for Condemnation is for the ascertain- 60432 in the County of Will, in the ment of just compensation to be State of Illinois, offer for sale at paid to the owner or owners for the public vendue, to the highest bidfee simple title to the above-de- der, for cash, all the right, title and scribed property sought to be ac- interest of said Defendant, Brian quired for the purposes of the LPC- Kawamura, in and to the following West project in Will County, Illinois. described tract or lot or parcels of NOW THEREFORE, unless you, land, to wit: the above-named defendants, file your appearance in this cause, in Lot 707 in White Eagle Club Unit the office of the Clerk of the Circuit 19, being a Subdivision in Part of Court for the 12th Judicial Circuit, the North ½ of Section 4, Township 14 W. Jefferson Street, Joliet, Illi37 North, Range 9 East of the Third nois, on or before February 6, 2015, default may be entered Principal Meridian, according to against you at any time after that the Plat Thereof Recorded Septemday, or the case may be tried at ber 14, 1995 as Document No. any time after said date, and judg- R95-68580, in Will County, Illiment entered in accordance with nois. Commonly known as 3407 the prayer of said complaint.

Scottsdale Circle, Naperville, IL 60564.

PAMELA J. McGUIRE th Clerk of the 12 P.I.N. 07-01-04-257-009-0000 Judicial Circuit Court Joliet, Will County, Illinois Terms of Sale: Ten percent is re(Published in the Herald-News De- quired down the day of sale in cember 28, 2014, January 4, 11, cash or certified check. The balance is due the following day in 2015. HN1536) cash or certified check.

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