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Inspiration found at Troy school If you’re looking for a little inspiration this week, look no further than the students in Allison Acevedo’s Citizenship through Community Service class at William B. Orenic Intermediate School in the Troy School District.

WBO Principal Larry Piatek said the 12-week class is for fifth-grade students and aims to instill at an early age the importance of community service and how rewarding it can be.

Acevedo said students talk about community needs and then do a volunteer service project that will benefit a local organization or residents. Projects so far this year have included a book drive, taking part in Operation Care Package, holding a food drive and then volunteering at a local food pantry, and helping out at Hopeful Tails Animal Shelter.

And for their efforts, the school was named Volunteers of the Week for the week of March 28 by Serve Illinois, a bipartisan commission appointed by Gov. Bruce Rauner with a mission of improving Illinois by “enhancing volunteerism and instilling an ethic of service throughout the state.”

Acevedo said she was thrilled the whole class was recognized.

“It’s an honor for them to know what

Too often, we hear about what kids are doing wrong. It was wonderful to find a powerful example of kids doing something so right.

VIEWS Kate Schott they have done has been honored by others,” she said.

“We felt honored to be acknowledged by this group,” Piatek added.

Piatek praised Acevedo’s passion and creativity for making it a successful class, and noted the enthusiasm for giving back is “becoming contagious throughout the building.” He said the class has helped build a bridge between the school and community, and has shown students that they should not expect to just take things from the community, but to give back.

Acevedo said the best part of the class for her is seeing her students collaborate and the time and energy they invest into doing their projects right. She also enjoys reading the reflections students write at the end of the class.

“Even kids you don’t expect to hear much from, they can’t stop writing and share their positive experiences and how they want to continue to do more,” she said. “It’s always very rewarding.”

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The group is a place for people in the Joliet area to share information and converse about events and other local news.

While it’s moderated by Herald-News Digital Editor Anna Schier and Features Editor Denise Baran-Unland, Joliet Connect is a forum open to anyone.

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Man is charged in incident with Joliet councilman at bar Rialto Theatre controversy figures into case

By BOB OKON

bokon@shawmedia.com JOLIET – A Joliet businessman was arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery Friday in connection with a March 31 encounter with Councilman Larry Hug outside of a local bar.

Police still have not released a report of the incident.

But the Rialto Square Theatre controversy, in which Hug at times has been a key figure, appears to have figured into what happened that night.

Mark E. Koenig, 46, was arrested Friday morning and immediately released, Joliet Deputy Chief Al Roechner said. Koenig is a Joliet real estate broker.

The incident happened at 11:43 p.m. outside of Double J Sports Bar at 1001 Essington Road in Joliet. According to

“All the decisions from this point on will be made by a special prosecutor.”

Charles Pelkie

Will County State’s Attorney’s Office spokesman the bar owner, the two men were outside in a patio area of the bar when it occurred.

“The Rialto was discussed,” Hug said Friday when asked if the theater figured into what happened.

“That was the main topic.”

One of the witnesses in the investigation is Annette Parker, director of marketing and sales at the Rialto Square Theatre.

Parker also is a member

of the Will County Board.

Because of the connection to the county, the Will County State’s Attorney’s Office will refer the case to a special prosecutor, spokesman Charles Pelkie said.

Pelkie said the matter was sent to the state’s attorney’s office Friday “for review for charges for misdemeanor battery.” But because Parker and her husband, a county employee, are witnesses in the incident, the matter will be reviewed by a special prosecutor, he said.

“All the decisions from this point on will be made by a special prosecutor,” Pelkie said.

Police have said very little about the incident and have not even identified Hug as being involved. But Roechner

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ON THE COVER A delegation of university officials, representatives and beneficiaries break ground on the LaVerne & Dorothy Brown Science Hall during a ceremony Friday at the University of St. Francis in Joliet.

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USF FINDS ANOTHER WAY TO GROW IN URBAN ENVIRONMENT

Construction starts in May for USF science building on main campus

By BOB OKON

bokon@shawmedia.com JOLIET – The University of St. Francis this spring will build new instead of remodel in the latest expansion of its Joliet campus.

USF on Friday celebrated the pending construction of a 35,000-square-foot science building. The LaVerne & Dorothy Brown Science Hall will be the first new building on the Joliet campus in 30 years.

But USF has not been standing still.

“We’ve been renovating classic buildings,” USF President Arvid Johnson said.

Those buildings include the old Mode theater downtown, the onetime Guardian Angel orphanage on Plainfield Road, and even the Motherhouse, the familiar face of the USF main campus. All three of those buildings have been remodeled in recent years as they have been converted or updated for a university that has found ways to grow in an urban environment where available land can be scarce.

“For schools like us that are in an urban area and want to stay in the community, this is what we do,” Johnson said.

Eric Ginnard – eginnard@shawmedia.com USF actually counts three campuses in Joliet. Downtown buildings are Arvid Johnson, president of the University of St. Francis, addresses a delegation of university representatives, beneficiaries and guests grouped as the St. Bonaventure Cam- Friday during a groundbreaking ceremony for the LaVerne & Dorothy Brown Science Hall at the University of St. Francis in Joliet. pus. Guardian Angel Hall, being remodeled for nursing programs, will be ied in the building.” part of a new St. Clare Campus.

Microbiology professor Ben Whitlock joked during remarks he made at Main campus the Friday ceremony that the building The excitement last week was at will include “a glistening new cadaver the main campus, where USF held the lab probably filled with glistening new ceremonial groundbreaking for the Lacadavers.”

Verne & Dorothy Brown Science Hall.

But Whitlock also talked about a The brick-and-glass building will building suited to modern ways of edadd a bit of modernity to a campus, ucation. where new construction is rare, while “The days of the science professor also keeping with the tradition of the delivering his lecture and then disapbuildings that border it. pearing are long gone,” he said. The “The idea here is to complement new building, he said, is designed with Tower Hall, which it will be directa vision that “our students learn more ly adjacent to,” Johnson said, while by doing than by hearing.”

Image provided quickly adding that the new science building will have a number of fea- An artist’s rendering depicts the LaVerne & Dorothy Brown Science Hall.

The neighborhood tures designed for more-modern methThe building is another sign that for biology and environmental class- students, even to the point that each USF is staying in the same Cathedral ods of education.

“We will have a green roof that will es,” he said. “It was designed very floor of the building has a theme acSee GROW, page 21 essentially be an outdoor classroom much for faculty involvement with cording to the sciences that are stud-

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NEWS ANALYSIS

Rialto makes some strides

But struggling downtown Joliet theater still has some big steps to take

By BOB OKON

bokon@shawmedia.com JOLIET – It was a wild week for the Rialto Square Theatre, which faces more uncertainty ahead.

Some questions and concerns did get settled – which, in turn, opened the door to how Rialto leadership will stabilize the theater’s finances and brighten its outlook.

Here’s what got settled: • Randy Green was removed as general manager when the Rialto board approved a separation agreement first considered more than three weeks ago as the theater’s late payments on payroll taxes became known.

• The City Council rejected an intergovernmental agreement, which the Rialto board may not have accepted anyway, thus ending the prospect, for now, of a city inspector general investigation into theater operations and finances.

• The Rialto staged two shows with Pauly Shore and Jeff Foxworthy turning out large audiences, thanks to the city putting up guarantees that the performers will get paid.

Among what is not settled: • Who replaces Green, and how does the Rialto pay for a general manager with the theater’s financial struggles?

• What’s next in the Rialto’s relationship with City Hall, which provides $600,000 in annual funding and helped the theater through its recent financial peril?

• When will the Rialto begin booking shows again, as theatergoers look at a fall schedule that right now promises only four performances?

Randy Green and the next GM

Rialto officials emphasized last week that they will not use city money to pay out the $35,000 needed for Green’s separation agreement, something demanded by city officials.

Theater management plans to meet with representatives from the Rialto Square Theater Foundation to see what money the foundation can provide.

“I’m certain we’ll be having a conversation soon about how we can help,” foundation board President Tricia Simpson said.

Jack Ericksen, Rialto’s director of development, talks to reporters March 21 at the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet.

Ericksen was named interim general manager.

Shaw Media file photo

The foundation is known to have a large endowment. But the endowment is not a bank account.

“That’s really off the table completely,” Simpson said, noting that the terms of the endowment restrict its use, and limited funds can be used for programming.

Separately, she said, the foundation continuously raises money for operations and programming.

“I’m sure that those funds will be part of the settlement solution,” Simpson said.

Rialto Finance Manager Dale Evans, in a report to the Rialto board’s Finance Committee, said there was $45,000 in a checking account with money supplied by the foundation as of early last week. That and another $35,000 in a separate checking account was all the cash available, he said. The Rialto has more than $400,000 in bills to pay.

Rialto-city partnership

“I don’t want any of my tax dollars going to the Rialto theater anymore,” Joliet resident Ron Gruber told the Rialto board at its meeting last week.

“You’re bankrupt. Why should the

city of Joliet bail you out?”

Gruber was just one person. Many Joliet residents still wince at the thought that the beloved Rialto was slated for demolition in the late 1970s before it was saved by the creation of the Will County Metropolitan Exposition and Auditorium Authority – commonly known as the Rialto board – that always has relied on city support.

But the relationship between the theater and city has become so strained that even longtime Rialto booster and City Councilwoman Jan Quillman is talking about no more bailouts.

“I agree that the Rialto is essential to the future of downtown Joliet,” Mayor Bob O’Dekirk said.

But O’Dekirk also said the City Council may not give any more money unless the city is allowed to do its own investigation of the theater’s finances and operations.

Booking shows

“We’re not booking anything new until we see where we’re at,” Interim General Manager Jack Ericksen told the Rialto board last week.

Ericksen said Friday the plan now is to put booking on hold until a new general manager is hired. If that process takes too long, booking could start sooner, he said.

Ericksen, who was hired in December to do fundraising for the theater, does not plan to seek the general manager job.

Booking shows could be complicated by the Rialto’s financial problems.

The city already has had to step in to guarantee performers will be paid, and it’s not clear how long the city will do that.

But there may be other options.

Evans said in his presentation to the Finance Committee last week that one promoter has discussed the possibility of providing acts if ticket sales for those shows are put into an escrow account that guarantees the availability of the money.

In his presentation, Evans included a history of Rialto finances showing a long track record of making ends meet and struggling to pay bills.

“It’s always been a challenge,” Evans said afterward. “It’s nothing new. We’ve done the best we can with what’s available.”

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Grundy County veterans groups divided, services at risk Veterans Reid Enger (left) and Rick Hart are seen in Morris.

Hart is a veteran who helps fellow veterans by working as a driver for the Grundy Veterans Assistance Commission transportation program.

The popular program could be in danger, as courts have ruled the county doesn’t have a legitimate VAC.

By HEIDI LITCHFIELD

hlitchfield@shawmedia.com MORRIS – Veterans organizations give those who fought for their country a place to come together, help one another, offer support and allow the brotherhood and sisterhood established in service a chance to continue.

No matter the organization, the roles are filled by a group that fought, united.

But in Grundy County, the veteran organizations have become a house divided.

And that divide is putting services provided by the county Veterans Assistance Commission at risk, including rides for nearly 100 veterans or their spouses to VA services each month.

The 3rd District Appellate Court released an opinion April 1 that upholds its May 2015 opinion, which found that neither the old VAC, run by Elton Monson, nor the new VAC, run by Ken Buck, is valid since neither has a delegate and an alternate represented from every veterans group in Grundy County.

“The 3rd Appellate Court has said that if we don’t appeal their decision to the Illinois Supreme Court, that there is not a valid VAC in Grundy County because not every veterans organization supports the current VAC,” Buck said.

Of the 11 veterans organizations in Grundy County, only seven have delegates assigned to and attending the monthly VAC meetings run by Buck, which is the one the County Board officially has recognized.

The other four organizations – Mazon American Legion Post 352 in Mazon, Danner-Madsen American Legion Post 663 in Gardner, Amiens VFW Post 1740 in South Wilmington and Morris AMVETS Post 53 in Morris – do not participate. Monson is the leader of Morris AMVETS. While Monson said he will do anything to help area veterans, he is not

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willing to join the VAC run by Buck in order to create a legitimate commission.

“I just can’t sit across the table from a liar,” he said.

Keith Wetherell, executive director of Illinois AMVETS, said the AMVETS organization supports VACs and their mission throughout the state. He declined to comment further at this time.

James Sterba, commander of the Mazon American Legion, said he believes the VAC in Grundy County was split apart for political reasons, and his post has not participated with the new VAC, despite its participation with Monson’s VAC. However, that could change with the court’s ruling.

“I feel there is a real need for a VAC in the county,” Sterba said. “The VFWs and American Legions use the VAC as a vehicle to assist our veterans. I will absolutely participate in the VAC if it is needed to keep services for our veterans.”

The other two organizations not taking part in the VAC run by Buck did not immediately return calls Friday for comment.

Cosmo DeBari, commander of Coal City American Legion Post 796, said

the services provided by the new VAC – especially the transportation program taking veterans to Hines VA Hospital and the Joliet VA clinic – are vital for area veterans.

“We’d like to have a Veterans Assistance Commission in the county, and we need one in the county,” DeBari said. “We are doing our jobs. The other VAC screwed it up.”

Charlie Brown, commander of St. Juvin VFW Post 1336 in Coal City, said his group has been involved with Buck’s VAC since it was organized.

“We took the position that whichever VAC received funding from the county is the one we would support,” Brown said.

When the County Board recognized Buck’s VAC, the post joined and sent a delegate to the meetings.

“We have not missed a meeting since January 2012,” Brown said.

“Having a VAC is not only beneficial, but absolutely necessary.”

Chief Shabbona DAV Post 86 leader Rhode Bronk agreed that the VAC is necessary and is willing to fight to keep it.

He said he encourages veterans and their families, along with other residents, to email or send letters to the County Board and local legislators to keep the VAC active.

Buck said the VAC and its attorneys are looking at ways to keep the organization open. Whether an appeal will be filed to the Illinois Supreme Court had not been determined as of Friday.

All of the leaders involved agree that legislation needs to be passed to prevent one organization from stopping the services to veterans.

State Rep. John Anthony, R-Joliet, said his office has been contacted and is looking at how it can help moving forward.

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JOLIET – Forest Preserve District of Will County officials are eyeing an increase in fines and crackdowns on crime after last month’s sting operation that targeted trail users who engaged in lewd acts or drug use.

The district’s Operations Committee last week discussed increasing fines from $750 to $1,000 for such acts.

Offenders would be banned from the preserves for 12 months under proposed changes. Now, offenders are banned only for six months.

Seventeen men were cited last month for lewd conduct in Will County forest preserves during an undercover sting operation conducted at Hammel Woods in Shorewood, the Keepataw Preserve in Lemont and Veterans Woods in Romeoville. Two men also were charged with public indecency, one was charged with misdemeanor battery, and one was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Suzanne Hart, R-Naperville, president for the district’s Board of Commissioners, said Friday that type of

behavior is “unacceptable.”

Hart – an avid trail runner herself – said the recent sting “struck a chord” with her because she’s “at the forest preserves six days out of the week.”

“It’s scary. I can’t imagine going out for a run, walking into an entrance of a trail head and seeing this.

And worse, what if I was taking my daughter?” Hart said. “We have to send a message of zero tolerance, that we’re not going to put up with this.”

District police also plan to increase enforcement and monitoring of trails for such illegal activity, Hart said. In addition, they will monitor websites where offenders are known to set up meetings with others to engage in lewd acts at the local preserves.

Ray Tuminello, chairman of the district’s Finance Committee, said the district – in increasing both fines and enforcement – is trying to mitigate lewd acts as much as possible.

“I absolutely want the forest preserves to be a place that you can bring families and not have to come across any type of indecency like that,” Tuminello said.

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Sameh F. Atiq, 20, of Lockport, and Noah Kask, 32, of Homer Glen, were involved in a two-car collision about 5 a.m. in the 15000 block of 151st Street in Homer Glen, according to the Will County Coroner’s Office. Both were drivers in separate

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In the other new case, court records state that Rodriguez touched the buttocks of a minor at Jewel-Osco, 1401 W. Jefferson St. in Joliet. He is charged with aggravated battery in connection with the Sept. 3, 2015, incident.

Rodriguez previously was jailed on additional charges.

According to court records, for more than a year he repeatedly raped a teen, intimidating the victim by threatening to expose him or her to ridicule.

Rodriguez is charged with criminal sexual assault, intimidation and three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in that case.

Bond amount for all three cases is $2.55 million. Rodriguez’s next court date is for a pretrial appearance April 15.

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Lockport Township supervisor Lockport, New Lenox, Frankfort, Troy and Joliet, this year’s agendas are – for the most part – slim. In general, financial reports will be read into the record, and meeting minutes from the 2015 township annual meetings will be up for approval.

Frankfort Township will appoint a certified public accountant to perform its annual audit of township accounts.

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The township form of government was established in 1636 and is the oldest existing unit of government in the United States, Lockport Township Supervisor Ron Alberico said.

“Back in the day when we first formed colonies, neighbors started coming together to create government.

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It’s example of how voters can play a key role in government, Alberico said.

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Alberico said it was back to the drawing board after that. In December, the township board voted to instead buy the 25,000-square-foot Parkview Christian Church for $1.1 million to rehab.

“In hindsight, when a door closes, another opens. When they turned down that idea, this beautiful opportunity arose, this church, something that we could purchase and remodel, all for under $2 million,” Alberico said.

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This year, there’s not much on the docket for area townships.

Public meeting notices have been running in newspapers the past month, and agendas are available either at individual township offices or on each township’s website. Agendas must be posted at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting.

Joliet Township Supervisor Dan Vera said the township’s annual meeting agenda has slated time for a group called Citizens Climate Lobby to talk about climate change.

Vera said the group sent a letter by the March deadline requesting to be placed on the agenda.

There will also be consideration of a resolution authorizing the transfer of $850,000 in surplus dollars to the highway commissioner’s road fund.

“We had extra funds so we thought, ‘Let’s move these road projects forward,’ ” Vera said.

A second resolution requests the transfer of surplus general dollars to the senior and needy veterans assistance funds as the township board explores ways to increase services for both populations.

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“Back in the day when we first formed colonies, neighbors started coming together to create government. Every year since then, township government has held annual meetings where electors, the registered voters, can vote.”

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Plainfield D-202 board set to review, consider custodial service bids

By FELIX SARVER

fsarver@shawmedia.com PLAINFIELD – The Plainfield School District 202 board is scheduled to publicly review and consider bids for custodial services at its meeting Monday.

Since District 202 officials announced in February they were exploring outsourcing custodial services, the district has published a request for bids, and the board has approved authorizing honorable dismissal of custodians effective June 30, affecting about 190 custodians.

On the board agenda for Monday’s meeting is a presentation of a cost analysis for a three-year full service custodial contract for all district buildings.

According to a presentation on the item posted on the district’s website, seven vendors expressed interest, with bids received from ABM, Aramark and GCA. The district’s announcement of potential custodian outsourcing has drawn backlash and rallying from its support staff union, the Plainfield Association of Support Staff.

PASS President John Piechocinski urged the board at a March 21 meeting to “reject privatization.”

At the same meeting, the district’s teachers union, the Association of Plainfield Teachers, affirmed its opposition to subcontracting custodians.

School Board President Michelle Smith said in a February statement that discussions about outsourcing initially arose in response to concerns of a possible strike by custodians during the upcoming PASS negotiations.

She also said in the statement if the board decides to outsource, it will require the selected provider to offer employment to qualified current PASS members before the start of the contract.

If the board were to outsource, it also would require the provider to give qualified current PASS members benefits comparable to what they now receive.

“The Board of Education is obligated to investigate any and all ways to reduce and control costs for the district,” Smith said.

Prospective bidders were required to attend a pre-bid conference March 21 at the district administrative center, according to the request for bids.

They also were required to attend a tour of representative facilities March 21 and 22.

A public hearing on proposed subcontracting is scheduled for April 25.

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Re-enactors bring Vietnam War to life for students at Plainfield Central

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Eric Percy, a volunteer Vietnam re-enactor, shoots to demonstrate the fire rate of an M16 during a Vietnam War demonstration Friday at Plainfield Central High School in Plainfield.

More online: Visit this article at TheHerald-News.com for more photographs from Friday’s re-enactment.

LEFT: Weapons and other items that would have been carried by American soldiers in the Vietnam War are displayed during Friday’s demonstration at Plainfield Central. RIGHT: Vanessa Ramirez, a sophomore at Plainfield Central, tries on a GI helmet during the demonstration.

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PLAINFIELD – Eric Percy, a Vietnam War re-enactor, stood in the rain Friday at Plainfield Central High School with his green Army fatigues, in stark contrast against the hoodies, jeans and Converse shoes on the two dozen high school students he addressed.

He pointed his M16 rifle in the air and opened fire while demonstrating his weapon’s high rate of fire to the students. The blank rounds fell, tumbling one after another onto a carpet of wet grass.

“Who wants to see that again?” Percy said to the group of wide-eyed students after he emptied the magazine.

Percy and his fellow re-enactor, Erik Benson, brought more than a dozen pieces of paraphernalia and weapons from the Vietnam War to Plainfield Central to bring life to the students’ history class.

“This is a labor of love,” Percy said. “They get a better understanding of history than they ever have before.”

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Minooka police discontinue body cameras; workload cited

By MIKE MALLORY

mmallory@shawmedia.com MINOOKA – The Minooka Police Department has stopped using officer body cameras after a six-month testing phase.

Last year, Illinois was one of the first states in the country to pass legislation creating comprehensive law enforcement rules for body cameras.

The law did not mandate that police departments use them, but it did specify how and when they should be used if a department elects to use them.

Minooka Police Chief Justin Meyer said Friday the issue was not with the functionality of the cameras, but that it became a burden for staff to fill the many requests for video footage.

Meyer described a hypothetical example of the extra work it created for department staff.

“You could have four officers on a call for a domestic incident,” Meyer said. “If they are on scene for an hour – whether there’s an arrest or not – that’s four hours of video that has to be uploaded.”

Then, when cases reached the court

system, there were many requests for the videos from attorneys and anyone else involved in the case. Officers were required to turn the cameras on for any law enforcement situation, from directing traffic to serious crime responses, Meyer said.

“I was happy [with the body cameras],” Meyer said. “It just became a bit burdensome for our administrative staff.”

The department was the first Grundy County agency to start using body cameras. It employed 10 of them in July as part of a 60- to 90-day trial run, which ended up lasting through January of this year. BatteryJack of Minooka supplied the cameras, which were shared by the department’s 15 uniformed officers.

The cameras could record up to nine hours of continuous footage with 16 GB of storage. They were plugged into a USB port at the department after a shift to collect the footage and recharge the battery.

The Braidwood Police Department began accepting donations to fund its body camera program earlier this year.

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• Tyler Frencher, 20, of the 500 block of Emerson Circle in Bolingbrook, was arrested

by Bolingbrook police Thursday on a charge of drug possession.

• Jasmine T. Murphy, 29, of the 10000 block of South Aberdeen Street in Chicago, was arrested by sheriff’s police Thursday on a charge of retail theft.

• Adam R. Pechous, 18, of the 1600 block of Theodore Street in Joliet, was arrested by sheriff’s police Thursday on a charge of residential burglary.

• Scott H. Boza, 30, of the 400 block of Porter Street in Lemont, was arrested by sheriff’s police Thursday on charges of burglary and theft.

• Kaprison D. Holmes, 30, of the 800 block of East Jackson Street in Joliet, was arrested

by Joliet police Thursday on a charge of retail theft.

• Kenneth A. Jordan, 25, of the zero block of Fernwood Drive in Bolingbrook, was arrested by sheriff’s police Thursday on charges of drug possession, manufacturing and delivery of a controlled substance, operating an uninsured vehicle, operating a vehicle with expired registration, transporting liquor in a vehicle, failure to notice state of address or name change, and driving with a suspended license.

• Darnell C. Lee, 38, of the 600 block of East Cass Street in Joliet, was arrested by Joliet police Thursday on a charge of criminal trespassing.

• Geraldine Y. Lindsey, 25, of the 800 block of Ewing Street in Joliet, was arrested by Joliet police Thursday on charges of aggravated battery to a peace officer and resisting arrest.

• Darnell L. Parrish, 23, of the 300 block of South Joliet Street in Joliet, was arrested by Joliet police Thursday on charges of firearm possession by a felon and being an armed habitual criminal.

• John J. Valdez, 44, of the 200 block of Lilac Drive in Romeoville, was arrested by sheriff’s police Thursday on a charge of aggravated driving under the influence with no driver’s license.

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Note to readers: Information in Police Reports is obtained from local police departments and the Will County Sheriff’s Office.

Individuals listed in Police Reports who have been charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court.

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GOTTA DO IT April 10

• Forest Preserve District of Will County Volunteer Workday – 8 a.m. to noon, Romeoville Prairie Nature Preserve, Romeoville.

For information, email rgauchat@fpdwc.org or call 815-722-7364.

• Restoration Day: JJC Natural Areas – 8 a.m. to noon, Joliet Junior College, 1215 Houbolt Road, Joliet. For information, visit jjc. edu/sustainablecampus, email mrafac@jjc. edu or call 815-280-2546.

• Men’s Club Pancake Breakfast – 9 a.m. to noon, St. Ann’s Catholic Church, parish hall, 24500 S. Navajo Drive, Channahon. $6 (adults) and $3 (children age 3 to 11).

• Citizens Police Academy Alumni Romeoville Bingo – 1 to 4 p.m., Romeoville Recreation Center, 900 W. Romeo Road, Romeoville, 18 and older. For information, call Jean at 815-651-1437 or Nancy at 708691-4560.

April 11

• Scholastic Book Fair – 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., through April 15, Heritage Professional Center, 24023 W. Lockport St., Plainfield. For information, visit www.plfdparks.org or call 815-436-8812.

• 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. Visit jobs4people.org.

• English as a Second Language Grammar Club – 10 a.m., Plainfield Public Library, 15025 S. Illinois St., Plainfield. Call 815-2638145 or email thess@plainfieldpubliclibrary. org for information.

• Microsoft Word – 1:30 p.m., also 10:30 a.m., April 14, Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. How to use Microsoft Word in job searches and create a professional looking résumé and cover letter.

RSVP by calling 815-723-3885 and press 0 or email chellis@willcountyillinois.com.

April 12

• Free Tax Preparation Service – Lockport Branch Library, 121 E. Eighth St., Lockport. By appointment only. Visit whiteoaklibrary.org or call 815-552-4260.

• English as a Second Language Reading Club – 10 a.m., Plainfield Public Library District, 15025 S. Illinois St., Plainfield. Contact Tania Hess at 815-263-8145 or thess@ plainfieldpubliclibrary.org.

• Career Café – 10:30 a.m., Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. RSVP at 815-723-3885 and press 0 or chellis@willcountyillinois.com. Visit jobs4people.org.

• Bingo – 5 p.m., Harry E. Anderson VFW Post 9545, 323 Old Hickory Road, New Lenox. Call 815-485-8369 or visit vfwpost9545. org.

• 100+ Women Who Care of Will County – 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Mullets, 14903 S. Bell Road, Homer Glen. For information, visit www.100wwcwill.org or email Maribeth@100WWCWill.org.

• Internet Safety Workshop – 6 to 7 p.m.,

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The University of St. Francis in Joliet is partnering with Ableton, a music creation software company, to bring the Ableton University Tour to USF. Ableton representatives will be at the Joliet campus on April 12 to explore unique approaches for music making, performance; composition, sound design, production tips and tricks for utilizing Ableton Live, a unique music creation and performance software; Max for Live; and Push, a hardware instrument for playing and composing with Live. The event is free and open to the public.

Hufford Junior High School, 1125 N. Larkin Ave., Joliet. Presenter: Will County State’s Attorney’s Crimes Against Children Unit.

Free. For information, call 815-740-3196.

• Bingo – 6:45 p.m., Knights of Columbus, 100 S. Infantry Drive, Joliet. Call 815-7250746.

• Digital Music Event for Audio Recording Software – 7 to 9 p.m., University of St. Francis, Turk Theater, 500 Wilcox St., Joliet.

Free. For information, contact Jeff Jaskowiak at 815-641-0637 or jjaskowiak@stfrancis. edu.

• Morris Area Toastmasters – 7 p.m., Morris Hospital Education Room, 150 High St., Morris. Call Matthew Woyner at 815-4783574 or Frank Hankins at 815-942-4733.

• Midwest Crossroad Chorus of Sweet Adelines International – 7 p.m., Trinity Christian School, 901 Shorewood Drive, Shorewood. Call 866-588-7464 or visit midwestcrossroad.org.

• Joliet Antique Auto Club – 7:30 p.m., Stone City Post VFW, Laraway and Route 53, Joliet. New members welcome. Call 815-7266302.

April 13

• Memory Clippers – 9 a.m. to noon, Manhattan Township Historical Society, 255 S. State St., Manhattan. Digitize and organize artifacts. Email ManhattanHistorical@yahoo. com.

• Successful Interviewing – 9 a.m., Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. May schedule individual, digitally recorded mock interview. One hour. Free.

RSVP at 815-723-3885 and press 0 or chellis@willcountyillinois.com. For information, visit www.jobs4people.org.

• Will County Mobile Workforce Center – 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3:30 p.m.,

Plainfield Public Library, 15025 S. Illinois St., Plainfield. Visit jobs4people.org.

• English as a Second Language Grammar Club – 10 a.m., Plainfield Public Library District, 15025 S. Illinois St., Plainfield. Call 815-263-8145 or email thess@plainfieldpubliclibrary.org.

• Wellness Fair – 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Joliet Junior College bridge, 1215 Houbolt Road, Joliet. For information, www.jjc.edu/sustainablecampus or contact Maria Anna Rafac at mrafac@jjc.edu or 815-280-2546.

• ESL Conversation Group – 3 p.m., White Oak Library District, Crest Hill Branch, 20670 Len Kubinski Drive, Crest Hill. Call 815-5524185 or visit whiteoaklibrary.org.

• Free Tax Help – 5:30 to 8 p.m.; also April 14; and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., April 16, Spanish Community Center, 309 N. Eastern Ave., Joliet. First come, first served. Income guidelines apply.

• Genealogy: Using Fold3 – 7 p.m., Fountaindale Public Library District, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Call 630-7592102 or visit fountaindale.org.

• Severe Weather Preparedness Seminar – 7 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1015 Winthrop Ave., Joliet. Presenter: Greg Sebben, EMA coordinator, city of Joliet. For information, call 815-725-6687.

April 14

• Will County Mobile Workforce Center – 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m., Wilmington City Hall, 1165 S. Water St., Wilmington.

Visit www.jobs4people.org.

• English as a Second Language Conversation Club – 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Plainfield Public Library District, 15025 S. Illinois St., Plainfield. Call 815-263-8145 or email thess@plainfieldpubliclibrary.org for information.

• Lunch Time Learning – 11 a.m., Plainfield Township Community Center 15014 S. Des Plaines St., Plainfield. Topic: How to Use Facebook. Bring bag lunch. 18 and up. RSVP at 815-267-3350.

• ESL Conversation Group – 3 p.m., White Oak Library District, Lockport Branch, 121 E. Eighth St., Lockport. Call 815-552-4185 or visit whiteoaklibrary.org.

• Swarming Bat Colonies – 3:45 p.m., Joliet Junior College, 1215 Houbolt Road, Joliet.

Focus on echolocation and flight dynamics.

Presenter: Laura N. Kloepper. For information, contact Andrew Morrison at amorriso@ jjc.edu or 815-280-6871.

• Internet Safety Workshop – 6 to 7 p.m., Gompers Junior High School, 1501 Copperfield Ave., Joliet. Presenter: Will County State’s Attorney’s Crimes Against Children Unit. Free. For information, call 815-7403196.

• Family Network Night – 6 to 8 p.m., Lukancic Middle School, Romeoville. Keynote address by Equip for Equality, Breakout sessions on self-advocacy topics. For information, call Barb LaFauce at 815-886-2700, ext. 6070.

• Thursday Night Horseshoes – 6 p.m., Harry E. Anderson VFW Post 9545, 323 Old Hickory Road, New Lenox. Call 815-485-8369 or visit vfwpost9545.org.

• Retirement Income to Last a Lifetime – 6 to 7 p.m., Abri’s, Romeoville. For information and to register visit abricu.com or call 815-267-7700.

• The Chicago Street Pub And Social Capital – 6 p.m., Joliet Area Historical Museum, 204 N Ottawa St., Joliet. Speaker: David Masciotra. $6. Free for museum members.

Register by calling 815-723-5201, ext. 235, or visit www.jolietmuseum.org.

• Birds of Goose Lake Prairie – 6:30 p.m., Pilcher Park Nature Center, 2501 Highland Park, Joliet. Hosted by Will County Chapter of the Illinois Audubon Society. Free and open to the public. Call 815-725-2934.

• ESL Conversation Group – 6:30 p.m., White Oak Library District, Romeoville Branch, 201 Normantown Road, Romeoville.

For information, call Pat at 815-552-4185 or visit whiteoaklibrary.org.

• Philatelic Club of Will County – 6:30 p.m., Messiah Lutheran Church, 40 S. Houbolt Road, Joliet. Contact Rod Juell at rajuell@gmail.com or 815-741-2734 or visit willcountystampclub.wordpress.com.

• Vegetable Gardening – 6:30 p.m., Plainfield Township, 22525 W. Lockport St., Plainfield. Free. Contact Anita Gerardy at 815-436-8308.

April 15

• LinkedIn Lab – 9 a.m., Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet.

Need basic LinkedIn account. 90 minutes.

Free. RSVP by calling 815-723-3885 and press 0 or email chellis@willcountyillinois. com.

See GOTTA DO IT, page 20

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Carol Posey (left), co-founder of Junk in the Trunk, haggles with a vendor at July’s Junk in the Trunk.

This year’s JITT season kicks off April 17.

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Road, Joliet. For information, visit www.jjc. edu/sustainablecampus or call Maria Anna Continued from page 18 Rafac at mrafac@jjc.edu or 815-280-2546.

• Joliet Cares – 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Ridge• Will County Mobile Workforce Center wood Baptist Church, 1968 Hillcrest Road, – 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m., Mokena Joliet. Free medical, dental, vision, and Public Library, 11327 W. 195th St., Mokena. chiropractic screenings; massage therapy, Visit jobs4people.org. haircuts, professional portraits, clothing; per• Fish Fry – 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Knights of sonal care bags; food pantry, fresh produce; Columbus Council 4400, 1813 Cass St., Joliet. kids’ activities; books; prayer; and lunch to Fish, chicken and shrimp. Carryout. Call 815- underserved.

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• A Fair Tax meeting – 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., • Fish Fry – 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Stone City Silver Spoon Restaurant, 1601 W. Jefferson VFW Post 2199, 124 Stone City Drive, Joliet.

St., Joliet. A lively discussion to abolish the Carryout and eat-at-bar begin at 11 a.m.; din- IRS. Call 815-474-4385. ing room opens at 4 p.m. Call 815-722-7122.

• Fish Fry – 4 to 8 p.m., Knights of Colum• Holistic Health Summit – 3 to 7:30 p.m.; bus Council 4400, 1813 Cass St., Joliet. Fish, also 10 to 3 p.m., Morris Area Public Library, chicken and shrimp. Carryout. Call 815-723604 Liberty St., Morris. Seven professionals 3827. speaking on nine diverse topics. Free. RSVP • Ham & Scalloped Potatoes – 4 to 7 at 815-482-6224. p.m., Elwood Community Church, 101 N. • Fish Fry/Karaoke – Fish fry is 4 to 8 p.m. Chicago St., Elwood. $10 (adults) and $5 Karaoke is 8 p.m. to midnight, Cantigny VFW (children 12 and under). Tickets at door.

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815-722-5398.

April 17 • Fish Fry – 5 p.m., Harry E. Anderson • Restoration Day: JJC Natural Areas – 8 VFW Post 9545, 323 Old Hickory Road, New Lenox. Karaoke begins at 8:30 p.m. Call 815- a.m. to noon, Joliet Junior College, 1215 Houbolt Road, Joliet. For information, visit 485-8369 or visit vfwpost9545.org. www.jjc.edu/sustainablecampus or contact Maria Anna Rafac at mrafac@jjc.edu or 815April 16 280-2546.

• Earth Day Celebration – 8:30 to 11:30 • Junk in the Trunk – Set up is 8:30 a.m. a.m., Utilities/Public Works Facility, 524 Center Road, Frankfort. Help clean up Frankfort. Sale is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 100 Commercial Contact Mary Canino at mcanino@vofil.com. Drive in Morris. For information, call Ken at 815-942-2032 or email at willis824@ • Citizenship Clinic – 9 a.m. to noon, comcast.net.

First Baptist Church of Bolingbrook, 314 E. • Bunco Party – 1 p.m., St. Ann Parish Hall, Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. For information, 24500 S. Navajo Drive, Channahon. Snacks, call 462-7660. raffles, desserts, beverages. $10. Tickets • Semi-Annual Model Railroad Swap Meet – 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Stone City VFW Post sold at door.

• “From Famine to Prosperity” – 1 p.m., 2199, 124 Stone City Drive, Joliet. $3. Kids under 12 free. Sponsored by the Will County Joliet Area Historical Museum, 204 Ottawa Model Railroad Association. For information, St., Joliet. Speaker: Mary Beth Gannon.

Topic: Irish immigrants who came to Joliet call 815-485-8977, email swap@wcmrra. in the 19th century. Call 815-723-5201 or com or visit www.wcmrra.org.

• Free Model Railroad Club Open House visit www.jolietmuseum.org.

• Dart Tournament Fundraiser – 2 p.m., – 9 W. Cass St., Joliet. Sponsored by the Will Paddy’s, 362 Theodore St., Crest Hill. $10 County Model Railroad Association. For information, call 815-485-8977, email swap@ entry fee. Winner receives half; Wags to Wishes Animal Rescue receives half. Also wcmrra.com or visit www.wcmrra.org.

• Clean Up Houbolt Road – 10 a.m. to noon, $5 nachos and $3 margaritas, raffles. Visit Joliet Junior College greenhouse, 1215 Houbolt www.w2wrescue.com.

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Dorothy Brown blesses a pile of soil Friday during a groundbreaking ceremony at the University of St. Francis in Joliet. ly for residents who live close to the campus. But USF offers amenities in the neighborhood, too, including plays, concerts and college classes within walking distance.

“They keep in close contact with the neighborhood,” Kella said, noting that USF representatives attend CAPA’s monthly meetings.

Mayor Bob O’Dekirk, a resident of the Cathedral area, called USF “a real

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The science building will be constructed on Lot A, the largest parking lot on campus just outside the Sullivan Center. The plan is to replace parking on lots already acquired as construction takes place.

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The groundbreaking ceremony Friday was a symbolic one, mainly because USF needs the parking lot where it will be built for its May commencement ceremony.

Construction starts in late May, and the plan is to have classes in the LaVerne & Dorothy Brown Science Hall in the fall semester of 2017.

The building will make room for growing numbers of students taking classes in the sciences. According to USF, 45 percent of entering freshmen and transfer students declare a major in the sciences.

Sister Dolores Zemont, president of the Joliet-based Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate that founded USF, said after Friday’s ceremony that she agreed with a number of the speakers who said the building was needed to enhance education in the sciences.

“It’s a wonderful thing for the university,” Zemont said. “But it’s also a wonderful thing for the Joliet community and beyond.”

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area neighborhood it has called home since 1920.

USF owns land on the far West Side of Joliet, an acquisition made years ago raising concerns that the campus could be relocated.

That won’t happen, Johnson said.

The undeveloped land “was acquired in the event that the university wanted to build a larger, single-integrated campus. That no longer is the intent,” he said. “We have doubled down – I would say tripled down – on our commitment to Joliet.”

The St. Bonaventure Campus and St. Clare Campus both have developed since the acquisition of the far-west parcel, reflecting USF’s commitment to remain an urban college.

“It would have been a real detriment to the neighborhood to have that whole campus empty,” said John Kella, president of the Cathedral Area Preservation Association.

USF and its neighbors are at times at odds over parking issues. Most students are commuters, meaning USF has a lot of cars to accommodate. The university has been buying up houses in the neighborhood to open more parking lots.

Kella said student cars parked along the streets can be an issue, especial-

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March warmer, wetter than usual across Illinois CHAMPAIGN– Illinois’ state climatologist said last month was the 10th-warmest March on record. Illinois has now experienced warmer-than-average temperatures in every month since September.

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alto Square Theatre management and has advocated cuts in city funding for the theater. In a December city budget meeting, Hug engaged in a prolonged questioning of then-Rialto General Manager Randy Green over management practices at the theater, saying at one point he was tired of “the polished turd.” He later clarified he was referring to the Rialto’s business model and not the theater itself.

The exchange led to criticism of Hug’s conduct, including comments from fellow Councilman Pat Mudron, who told the Rialto board later, “I do believe his tactics are to bully.”

Green was removed Wednesday as general manager amid Rialto financial problems that have included $120,000 in late payments on payroll taxes dating back to November. Hug was the lone no vote at a March 28 meeting in which the City Council agreed to pay the late taxes by advancing money already budgeted for the theater.

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said Koenig “struck the subject in the face.”

Asked whether either man was intoxicated, Roechner said, “the investigation has not proved any of that.”

Koenig did not immediately respond Friday to requests for comment.

Hug said he was not intoxicated.

Asked what he was drinking, Hug said he had two 7-and-7s, a mixed drink of whiskey and 7 Up. Before stopping at the Double J, Hug said he had been at a community meeting in the Cathedral neighborhood.

He would not discuss more details about the incident, saying that he will become a witness if the case is prosecuted.

“I can’t publicly go into details,” he said.

Hug has been a frequent critic of Ri-

Climatologist Jim Angel said in a news release that the statewide average temperature for March was 46.5 degrees. That is 5.2 degrees warmer than the average.

Angel said just about the entire country experienced a warmer-than-usual March, too.

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OBITUARIES WILLIAM R. ALSTOTT

Born: April 29, 1922; In Joliet, IL Died: April 6, 2016; In LaSalle, IL

William R. Alstott, age 93, born in Joliet on April 29, 1922. Died peacefully at the LaSalle Veterans Home on April 6, 2016.

Survived by his son, Roger (Mary) Alstott; and his daughter, Patricia (Ronald) Parks; grandchildren, James, Jean and Michael Alstott, Ronald J. Jr. (Kelly) Parks and William (fianceé Stacy Hileman) Parks; great-grandchildren, Cole and Cate Alstott; and one brother, Allan (the late Clarice) Alstott. Also surived by numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Preceded in death by his wife of 49 years, Helen (Dupont) Alstott; parents, William D. and Emma (nee Reeves) Alstott; four sisters, Rose (the late Donald) Frey, Margaret (the later Robert) Pershey, Mildred (the late Joseph) Rande and Mary (the late Robert) Nolan.

World War II veteran. Retired from the Chicago Tribune in 1984. Bill was an avid gardener and a lifelong Chicago Bears and Cubs fan. Member of the Western Avenue First Presbyterian Church of Joliet and the American Legion Post 1080.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the First Presbyterian Church of Joliet, in William’s name, would be greatly appreciated.

Visitation will be held on Monday, April 11, 2016, from 9 a.m. to noon at Woodlawn Funeral Home. A Chapel Service will also be held on Monday beginning at noon Interment at Woodlawn Memorial Park I with military honors.

DONALD J. BERNHARD Donald J. Bernhard, age 91, of Manhattan, passed away peacefully with family at his side on Friday, April 8, 2016, at Salem Village Nursing Home.

He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Phyllis (nee Stukel); one daughter, Donna (Larry) Jagmin of Frankfort; three sons, John (Mary) of Manhattan, Richard Bernhard of New Lenox, and Thomas (Joyce) of Columbia City, IN; seven grandchildren; one sister, Mary Agnes (Don) McLaughlin; one sister-in-law, Lois Bernhard; one brother-in-law, Dr. James J. (Joan) Stukel and numerous nieces and nephews.

Preceded in death by his parents, Leo and Agnes Bernhard; one brother, Leo E.; and one nephew, Dan McLaughlin.

Don and Phyllis farmed all their lives together in the Green Garden area. He was a graduate of Joliet Catholic High School Class of 1942. and was a lifelong member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Manhattan.

Funeral service for Don will be 11 a.m.

Monday, April 11, 2016, from Forsythe Gould Funeral Home in procession to St. Joseph Catholic Church, 235 W. North St., Manhattan, for 11:30 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial.

Visitation will be the same day from 9 to 11 a.m. at the funeral home. Interment St. Joseph Cemetery, Manhattan.

Memorials in Don’s name to St. Joseph Catholic Church or to Joliet Area Community Hospice would be most appreciated.

ing and loved his trees in particular.

A celebration of Steve’s life will begin on Monday, April 11, 2016, 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 at 10 a.m. Interment to follow at St. Joseph Cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday, April 10, 2016, from 4 to 8 p.m. at Tezak Funeral Home, 1211 Plainfield Road, Joliet, IL 60435.

Obituary and tribute wall for Steve Bilo at www.tezakfuneralhome.com or for information, 815-722-0524.

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of Illinois, Class of 2003, where he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. He worked in the family business as the VP and project manager of Olde Towne Floors.

DJ is survived by his loving parents, Daniel G. and Ann Marie (nee Moca) Burdzinski; sisters, Jeannette (Jim) Selinger and Beth (Mike) Dwyer, uncle of Luke and Katie Selinger, Ella and Dylan Dwyer; and godfather of Margaux Maga, many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

Visitation will be held on Sunday, April 10, 2 until 8 p.m. at the Beidelman-Kunsch Funeral Homes & Crematory, 24021 Royal Worlington Drive, Naperville. Additional visitation Monday, April 11, 9 a.m. processing to a Mass of Christian Burial, 10 a.m. at St. Dominic Church, 440 E. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Interment Resurrection Cemetery, Justice, IL. Memorials may be made to IDF - Immune Deficiency Foundation, www.primaryimmune.org or to JDRF - Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, www.jdrf.com Info with online guestbook at www.beidelmankunschfh.com or 630-922-9630.

DANIEL J. BURDZINSKI Born: April 2, 1981 Died: April 6, 2016

Daniel J. “DJ Burdin” Burdzinski, age 35, of Plainfield, IL, passed away surrounded by his loving family on Wednesday, April 6, 2016. He was born in Hinsdale, IL, on April 2, 1981.

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Steve is survived by his beloved wife of over 70 years, Kathryn (nee Topeninska); loving children, Mary J. Bilo and Steve R. Bilo; grandson, Nicholas E. Sohn; dear brother, Walter Bilo; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.

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and friends helped her throughout, but as she told us once, it was her battle. During this time she continued to live her life to the fullest. She joined the Illinois Prairie Painters, volunteered at St. Joseph’s Hospital making baby hats, heart pillows, lap robes and Boo Boo Bunnies. She learned to play the organ and participated in the Senior Local Spelling Bee in which she took second place in 1994.

Through the Positive People Group at St. Joseph Hospital she reached out to others that were battling cancer. Her positive, strong attitude was catching. She used her 91 years wisely.

In lieu of flowers donations to a charity of your choice would be greatly appreciated.

A celebration of Betty’s life will begin on Saturday, April 16, 2016, with a visitation from 10:30 a.m. until the time of funeral service to be held at 11 a.m. at Peace Lutheran Church, 24024 W. Main St., Plainfield, IL 60544. Interment will be held privately at a later date.

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Survived by his wife, Mary Jane (Rafac) Gromos; 2 sons, Edward (Beth) and David (Kim) Gromos; 3 grandchildren, Zachary, Blake, and Cade; brother, John (Rose) Gromos; and sister, Lillian (Michael) Petrick.

Preceded in death by his parents, John and Mary (Ivan) Gromos.

Born in Joliet. A lifelong resident. He loved to bowl and was an avid sports fan.

His sons and his grandkids were the loves of his life.

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Visitation 8 to 10 a.m. Interment Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers memorials to Joliet Area Community Hospice would be appreciated.

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bara J. (John) Smith, Beverly J. (Paul) Woelfer, and Bradley D. Gatons; 9 grandchildren; KEVIN M. COLVIN 18 great-grandchildren; and 2 great-great-granddaughters; Kevin M. Colvin, age 38, passed away as well as numerous nieces, suddenly Wednesday April 6, 2016, late of nephews and cousins.

Joliet, IL. Preceded in death by her beloved husband He is survived by his loving mother, Bonnie of 72 years, Robert A. Gatons Sr.; loving son, (the late Cary) Colvin; a son, Gavin Colvin; Robert A. Gatons Jr.; and two sisters, Lois sisters, Sheri and Jennifer Colvin; nephews, Canaday and Ruth Schneider.

Ricky J. Peters, Jayden Delgado and Jaxx Betty was a devoted wife and a nurturing Hines also his soulmate, Heather Joutras. and loving mother, but then there was so Visitation Tuesday, April 12, 2016, from 6 much more. She was always a hard worker. to 8 p.m. with a service to begin 7 p.m. at She worked side by side with her husband Anderson Memorial Home, 21131 W. Renwick whether it be in the garden, building a Road, Crest Hill, IL 60403. Service concludes house, or being his partner in the wood craft at the funeral home, cremation rites to be business where she did the artistic painting. accorded.

She was an excellent baker, seamstress In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory and all around wonderful homemaker. She directed to his family appreciated. was active in her children’s lives being a (www.AndersonMemorialHomes.com) den mother, band booster, president of her (815) 577-5250. church’s Ladies Guild, and active in the PFA. She worked for several years in the Plainfield National Bank Bookkeeping Department. She JANET M. FLAGG showed her family and everyone she came in Born: August 20, 1944; In Joliet, IL contact with Inner strength and supportive Died: April 6, 2016; In Joliet, IL love.

Her biggest challenge began in 1988. She Janet M. Flagg, age 71, a lifelong resident of fought five bouts of Non-Hodgkins LymphoWill County, passed away peacefully on April ma over the period of 1988 through 2004; 6, 2016, at the Joliet Area Community Hosfour times with chemotherapy and one time pice Home. She was born on Aug. 20, 1944, at with radiation. She had a strong will to live Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet. and a deep religious faith. The love of family Janet is survived by her devoted husband of 51 years, Doug Flagg of Plainfield, IL; her loving daughter, Rebecca (Sean Stofko) Flagg of Joliet, IL; her cherished granddaughter, Emma Stofko; her dear mother, Dorothy Wilson; and her brothers, Don (Patty) Wilson and Mark (Denise) Wilson.

She was preceded in death by her father, Robert Wilson.

For those who would like to leave a lasting tribute to Janet’s life, memorial donations may be directed to the Will County Humane Society, 24109 Seil Road, Shorewood, IL 60404, or TLC Animal Shelter, 13016 W. 151st St., Homer Glen, IL 60491. All services will be private. Overman-Jones Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Plainfield, entrusted with arrangements. For information please call 815-436-9221 or visit, http://www.overman-jones.com.

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Arrangements have been entrusted with U.C. Davis-Callahan Funeral Home, 301 W. Washington Street, Morris, IL. For further ANDREW J. HEGEDUIS information visit the website at www.ucdaRobert G. Lee Sr., 75, of Ma- viscallahan.com or contact the funeral home Andrew J. Hegeduis, age 26, of Manhattan, zon, passed away Wednesday, at 815-942-0084. Online condolences may be was called to his heavenly home unexpecteddirected to the family by visiting the website.

April 6, 2016, at the Morris ly on Friday, April 8, 2016.

Hospital. Born Feb. 24, 1941, in Arrangements pending and entrusted to Morris, he was the son of the Forsythe Gould Funeral Home, Manhattan, late Erwin and Velma (Finch) ILwww.forsythegouldfh.com, 815-478-3321.

Lee. Bob was raised and educated in the Mazon Schools, graduating with the class of 1959.

LLOYD PAUL JESKE He married Patricia Reeve on March 3, 1962, and worked for 27 years with Grundy Drywall.

Lloyd Paul Jeske, 93, CarlsHe loved to fish and camp, go four wheeling, bad, CA, passed peacefully loved everything Cubs and Bears or anything ANDREA M. MEDVED at his home on March 29th, sports, but most of all, loved his grandchil2016. Born in 1922 in Joliet, IL. dren.

Andrea M. Medved (nee Dooley), passed Survived by his loving wife He is survived by his wife, Patricia; children, away peacefully, Wednesday, April 6, 2016, at of 62 years, Joan Jeske; sons, Robert G. Jr. (Donna) of Mazon, Sandy Presence St. Joseph Medical Center. Age 68 Kenneth Jeske(Sheryl) of Red- Cullen of Coal City, Brian (Sarah) of Mazon; Survived by her three boys, Thomas, lands, CA, and Steven Jeske daughter-in-law, Barb Moran of Chicago; Michael and Timothy Medved; four grandof Oak Brook, IL; daughters, grandchildren, Ashley (Nate) Enerson, Robert children, Joshua, Audra, Isadora and Avery Debra Zack(Jerome) of Solana (Heather) Lee, Patrick (Crystal) Messersmith, Medved. Two sisters, Kathleen Ward and Beach, CA; Paula Glassel Taylor (Jason) Hollis, Christopher J. (Jessica) Colleen (Gus) Dooley-Harding. Several nieces (Donald) of Grayslake, IL; 6 Lee, Christopher M. Jr Lee and Justin Moran; and nephews also survive. grandchildren; and 4 great-grandchildren.

11 great grandchildren; brother, Richard Lee Preceded in death by her parents.

Preceded in death by his parents; and first of Gardner; sisters, Mildred (Ivan) Scott of A longtime hairdresser in the Joliet area and wife, Phyllis (Parry).

Bloomington, Betty Griffith of Clarion, PA, and formerly a bus driver with the Troy School First in his family to graduate from college Lora Jackson of Las Vegas; and several nieces District.

(Purdue University), he applied his chemical and nephews.

Per her wishes cremation rites will be engineering degree to our country’s defense Preceded in death by his sons, Thomas accorded. Memorial services will be held at a by enlisting in the U.S. Navy in 1943 and served Moran and Christopher M. Lee Sr.; grandson, later date. in the South Pacific. He raised his family in James Moran; brother, Ralph Lee; sisters, Ann Joliet and Kankakee, IL, moved to Minneapolis, Williams and Mary Ellen Punke.

MN, and eventually retired after a 40-year Memorials may be made in Bob’s name to career to Oceanside and Carlsbad, CA, where the donor’s choice. he delighted in seeing his grandkids, playing A visitation will be held on Monday, April 11, tennis and serving his church. Lloyd thanked 2016, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the U.C. Davis-Calhis faith in God for bringing Joan into his life, lahan Funeral Home located in Morris. Bob’s providing deep friendships when he needed family would like to ask that those who will them most, and blessing him with family. be attending to please wear your Cubs attire, JUDITH A. MILLER A celebration of life will be held at La Costa as this was Bob’s favorite team. Enhanced Born: September 2, 1946; In Joliet, IL Glen, Carlsbad, CA, on April 16, 2016, at 2 p.m. video tributes will be played throughout.

Died: April 7, 2016; In Aurora, IL Burial will be at Eternal Hills Cemetery and A celebration of Bob’s life will be held on Mortuary, Oceanside, CA. Tuesday, April 12, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. at the Judith A. “Judi” Miller, 69, of Oswego, IL, Memorial contributions for missionaries funeral home, officiated by Pastor Karen Fapassed away Thursday, April 7, 2016, at may be made by addressing to “Missions,” bian of the Mazon United Methodist Church. Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, IL. Carlsbad Community Church, 3175 Harding Burial will follow at the Mazon Brookside She was born Sept.2, 1946 in Joliet, IL, the St, Carlsbad, CA 92008.

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Judi worked for many years at Carlson Tool & Machine in Geneva, IL as a bookkeeper. She was a member of St. Anne Catholic Church in Oswego, IL. After her retirement, she was involved in the Red Hat Society, where she loved to play cards and games. She was also a member of the Scarlet Foxes. She enjoyed spending time with her family.

She is survived by her husband, Don Miller of Oswego, IL; children, Debi (Ted) Kozielec of Belvidere, IL, Kim Miller of Oswego, IL, Kari Miller of Oswego, IL; grandchildren, Tyler, Amanda, Brandon, Nikki, Amy and Scott Kozielec of Belvidere, IL; siblings, Sharon Cabay of Joliet, IL, Ben (Nit) Cabay of Goldsboro, NC, Marcia (Bill) Schlosser of St. Peters, MO, Sue Cabay of Aurora, IL; and several nieces, nephews and many cousins.

Visitation will be on Sunday, April 10, 2016, from 2 to 6 p.m. at DUNN FAMILY FUNERAL HOME with CREMATORY, 1801 S. Douglas Road, Oswego, IL 60543. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday, April 11, 2016, at 10 a.m. at St. Anne Catholic Church, 551 Boulder Hill Pass, Oswego, IL 60543. Burial to follow at River Hills Memorial Park Cemetery in Batavia, IL. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, 208 S. LaSalle St., Ste. 1500, Chicago, IL 60604 or CKMC, P.O. Box 746, Huntley, IL 60142.

For information: 630-554-3888 or www. dunnfamilyfuneralhome.com

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MARYLOU PETERS Born: January 22, 1928 Died: April 6, 2016

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numerous nieces, nephews, family members MARY ANN PLATA and friends.

In lieu of flowers donations to the family for Mary Ann Plata (nee Morrone), age 44. funeral expense would be appreciated.

Suddenly on Thursday, April 7, 2016. Born in VISITATION & DVD MEMORIAL: Today Evergreen Park, IL to Frank and Mary Ann (nee Sunday, April 10, 2016, 4 to 9 p.m. at Lungaro) Morrone. Raised in Chicago and living in Plainfield the past 15 years. Mary Ann Delgado Funeral Chapel. Live Visitation Webcasting also available on-line for took great pride in becoming the “Coupon details call (815) 774-9220. Burial: will be Queen”. held from Delgado Funeral Chapel Monday, Survived are her husband, David E. Plata of Plainfield; three children, James George, Alyssa April 11, 2016, 8 a.m., to Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Elwood, IL for 9:30 a.m. and David Jr.; her parents; her brother, Frank military honors.

(Judie) Morrone of Homer Glen; her sister, Online guest book at: www.DelgadoFunerCynthia Cicero of Hometown, IL; and numerous als.com. nieces and nephews.

Preceded by her brother, Michael (2001).

Funeral Services for Mary Ann Plata will be held Monday, April 11, 2016, at 8 p.m. at the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black at Essington roads., Joliet. Private family interment Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Hillside. Visitation Monday, 3 p.m. until time of service.

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

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Born: November 18, 1930; In Joliet, IL Died: April 6, 2016; In The Villages, FL

RUTH ANN ROMAN Born: Jan. 18, 1946 Died: April 5, 2016

Ruth Ann Roman, age 70, passed away unexpectedly Tuesday, April 5, 2016, in Rosiclare, IL. Born in Chicago, January 18, 1946, and a longtime resident of Joliet. A veteran of the United States Navy.

Preceded in death by her parents, Jesse and Dorothy Louise (nee DeLong) Roman; two brothers, Jesse and John Roman; one sister, Mary Eagle.

Ruth is survived by her six sisters, Donna (late Hal) Daniels, Gloria Jean (late Theodore) Trautman, Corine (Robert) Turk, Deborah (Charles) Graves, Loretta (late Johnny) Marshall and Michelle (Joseph) Curry. Also

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Richard E. Ross, 85, of The Villages, Florida, formerly of Joliet, Illinois, passed away peacefully on April 6, 2016.

Born in Joliet on Nov. 18, 1930. Attended Joliet Public Schools. A United States Army Veteran serving during the Korean War. Retired from Caterpillar Joliet after 30 years, moving to Florida in 1991.

Preceded in death by his father, Frank Ross in 1950; his mother, Marian Ross in 2004.

Survived by brothers, Donald (Marlene passed, 2014), Ross and Thomas (Janet) Ross both of Lady L; one niece, Holly Rardin; grand nephews, Matthew (Melinda) Ross and Tyler Rardin all of Lady Lake; two nephews, Steve (Debbie) Ross of Atlanta, GA and Kevin Ross of Lafayette, IN. Funeral Service will be held on Saturday, April 9, 2016, at noon at The Beyers Funeral Home Chapel, Lady Lake, FL. Online condolences may be left at www.beyersfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to Beyers Funeral Home and Crematory, Lady Lake.

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ship, which later became the Inwood Golf Club & Picnic Area.

Marylou was preceded in JANET M. PATTERSON death by her parents, George and Hilda (Wirth) Nussbaum; Janet “Jan” M. Patterson three brothers, John J. (in (nee Macklem), age 84, infancy), Robert J. of TX, and passed away peacefully at her George of FL; her parents -in-law, Nicholas and home with family at her side Jeanette (Darby) Peters; and several sisterson Thursday, April 7, 2016. and-brothers-in-law.

She is survived by her loving Marylou Peters was the fond mother husband of 63 years, James; of Marybeth, of Gilbert, AZ, Nicholas J. III one son, Craig (Cheri); two daughters, Kathy (Pamela), of Houston, TX, Joan C. (aka Katee), (Lonnie) McCollum, and Karen (Joe) Boseo of Joliet, IL, and Michael J. (Carol), of Hoffman all of Manhattan; her grandchildren, Corie Estates, IL. She was the loving grandmother (Brandon) Delimata, Craig (Brooke) Patterson, of Stephanie, Michael, Lauren, and Kristin Kevin (Jessica) Patterson, Tom (Amanda) Peters and one step-granddaughter, Jenna McKenna, Kyle McKenna, Tyler McKenna, Jacki Withers. She is also survived by her sisters, (Kyle) Wesolowski, Julie (Alex) Szepelak, Steve Dorothy Love (late Carlo Valkovich and James McCollum, Jake McCollum, Dan (Melanie) Love), of Joliet, and Joan M. (Bruce) Barnes, Boseo, Andy (Kazia) Boseo, Joe (Tina) Boseo; of Sun City, AZ. Several nieces and nephews fifteen great grandchildren and many loving also survive. nieces, nephews, and friends.

Marylou was a member of St. Ambrose Preceded in death by her parents, Gerould Catholic Church in Crest Hill, IL; the “Just Us” and Ruby Macklem; two sisters, Jean Evans line dancers, located in the Will County Senior and Nancy Sheler; and one granddaughter, Center in Joliet; and a life member of Will Kristi (Mark) Sewing.

County Historical Society in Joliet. A graduate Jan was born in Davenport, IA. She was a of Providence Catholic High School, Marylou long time resident of Manhattan and a memserved as President of her sophomore and ber of St. Joseph Catholic Church since 1962. junior years and Treasurer of her senior class.

Jan was also the founder of The Rosary Makers She was the founding President of the St. of St. Joseph.

Ambrose CCW Ladies group and was selected Funeral service for Jan Patterson will be 9:30 as the first Woman of the Year at the church.

A.M., Wednesday, April 13, 2016, in procesVisitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. on Monday sion from Forsythe Gould Funeral Home, to April 11, 2016, at the Fred C. Dames Funeral St. Joseph Catholic Church, 235 West North Home, 3200 Black Road (at Essington Rd.) St., Manhattan, for 10 a.m. Mass of Christian Joliet, IL. Funeral services will be held Tuesday Burial. Visitation will be Tuesday, April 12, April 12, 2016, 9:45 a.m. from the funeral home 2016, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. to St. Ambrose Church, 1711 Burry Circle, Interment St. Joseph Cemetery, Manhattan.

Crest Hill, IL, where a Mass of Christian Burial Memorials in Janet’s name to Joliet Area will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Marylou will Community Hospice or to the American Cancer be interred in the Abraham Lincoln National Society would be most appreciated.

Cemetery in Elwood, IL. Pall bearers will be the four children of Marylou and Nick, and grandchildren Stephanie and Michael.

In lieu of flowers, memorials in her name to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital would be appreciated.

For information 815-741-5500 or visit her book of memories at www.fredcdames.com.

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WILLIAM J. SCHMITZ Born: May 1, 1929; In Joliet, IL Died: April 4, 2016; In Joliet, IL

THERESA H. ROUSONELOS Theresa H. Rousonelos (nee Horvat), age 81, entered into eternal life on Thursday, April 7, 2016, at Presence St. Joseph Medical Center surrounded by her loving family.

Theresa is survived by her loving husband of 54 years, Nicholas Rousonelos; loving sons, Robert “Rocky” (Ginny) Babecki and Nicholas (Julie) Rousonelos; numerous cherished grandchildren and great-grandchildren; dear sisters, Dorothy (the late Joe) Lakotich, Delores (the late Leonard) Suhadolc, and Maryann (Joseph) Pluth; dear brothers, Robert (JoAnne) Horvat and Raymond (Gladys) Horvat; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Preceded in death by her daughter, Kimberly White (nee Babecki); parents, Joseph and Mary (nee Kobe) Horvat; sisters, Josephine Remus-Ercegovich, Catherine (Walter) Sargent, Evelyn (Louis) Mauro, Rose (Lewis) Meyers, and Lorraine (Ralph) Wedic; and brother, Joseph (Eileen) Horvat.

Theresa was a longtime parishioner of St. Mary Nativity Catholic Church. As an usher, she greeted people, always with a hug, compliment and often times a kiss. She made everyone feel as if they were a part of her family. She was proud of her Slovenian heritage, letting others know by word and by action that you cannot spell the word “Slovenian” without “Love.”

In lieu of flowers, donations to St. Mary Nativity Cemetery or to a charity of your choice would be greatly appreciated.

A celebration of Theresa’s life will begin on Tuesday, April 12, 2016, with a memorial visitation from 10 a.m. until the time of Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m. at St. Mary Nativity Catholic Church. Per Theresa’s wishes, cremation rites have been accorded. There will be NO services held at the funeral home.

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William J. Schmitz, age 86.

Peacefully Monday, April 4, 2016 at his home with his family by his side. Born in Joliet May 1, 1929, and a lifelong resident.

A United States Army Veteran serving in the Korean war.

Graduate of Joliet Township High School, Class of 1948. He was co-owner and operator of Schmitz Brothers Plumbing with his brothers, retiring in 1992.

Member of Cantigny Post VFW 367, American Legion Post 1080, Moran A.C., Old Timers Baseball Association and Retired Plumbers Union Local 422. Former member of Elks Lodge Joliet 296 and Loyal Order of Moose Lodge 300.

Survived by his wife of 65 years, Elizabeth L. Schmitz; children, Sharon A. (Paul) Frausto of Joliet, Deborah L. (Jerry) Mosher of Montgomery, IL, William B. (Vicki) Schmitz of Joliet, Michael J. (Lynne) Schmitz of Joliet and Kathleen M. Schmitz of Joliet; grandchildren, Jennifer (Jack) Clark, Michelle (late Steve) Detmer, Richard P. (Captain U.S. Army, Maria) Harrigan, Sarah (Steve) Hunter, Samantha (Louis) DiCamillo, Michael Frausto, Amy and Mallory Mosher, William (Jennifer) Schmitz, Amanda (John) Casford and Nicholas Schmitz; great-grandchildren, Joshua, Justin and Jordyn Clark, Caleb and Katelyn Carr, Travis Detmer, Zachary and Stephanie Hunter, Brooke Samuelson, Xander Mosher, Margaret and Vivian Johnston, Cassidy Schmitz and Madison and Megan Casford; one brother, James (Josephine) Schmitz of Joliet; five sisters, Mary Louise (Bernard) Stahoviak of Plainfield; Marge Simpson of Lockport, Virginia (James) Gray of Canada, Noreen (Thomas) Bussey of Chicago Heights and Karyn (Richard) Bazzarone of Joliet; and numerous nieces and nephews also survive.

Preceded in death by two children in infancy; parents, Oscar and Mabel (nee Ruffing) Schmitz; and one brother, Robert O. (Mary) Schmitz.

Funeral Services for William J. Schmitz will be Monday, April 11, 2016, at 11:15 a.m. from the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black at Essington roads, Joliet to the Cathedral of

Local 338 and Mt. Olive VFW Post 5790.

Also preceded in death by an infant son, Steven Thomas (1953); three brothers, Vernon, Robert (Ann) and Russell (Lucille) Stoddard.

Along with his daughter of Shorewood and grandson of Manhattan, he is survived by his brother, Raymond (Dorothy) of Mt. Olive; sister-in-law, Genean Stoddard of Minooka; brother-in-law, William (Carol) Lesko of Belleville; and brother-in-law, Harry Lesko of Carlinville. Also survived by his “other daughter”, Donna Fox of New Lenox; special friends, Bob and JoAnne Benedick of Joliet; and numerous nieces and nephews also survive.

He cherished family, loved his country and enjoyed working among the beauty of God’s flowers.

The Stoddard family will always remember the kindness, care and compassion afforded Orville by the staff of Our Lady of Angels and Joliet Area Community Hospice.

Visitation for Orville T. Stoddard will be held Monday, April 11, 2016, from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. with a Prayer Service at 7:00 p.m. at the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black at Rds., Joliet. Further services will ORVILLE THOMAS STODDARD Essington be held at Becker & Son Funeral Home in Mt. Born: Oct. 18, 1921 Olive, IL on Saturday, April 16, 2016, at 2:00 Died: April 8, 2016 p.m. following visitation from 12:00 Noon until Orville Thomas Stoddard, age time of service. Burial with military honors in the Union Miner’s Cemetery, Mt. Olive, IL. 94, beloved father of Connie Donations to Trinity Services, 301 Veteran’s Gossar and grandfather of Eric Parkway, New Lenox, IL 60451 in his memory Gossar passed away Friday, and for the benefit of his grandson, Eric would April 8, 2016, at Our Lady of be appreciated.

Angels Retirement Home in For more information: (815) 741-5500 or visit Joliet, IL. He now dwells in the his Book of Memories at www.fredcdames.com. house of Our Lord.

Born in Mt. Olive, IL on Oct. 18, 1921, the third son of David W. and Florence E. (nee Williams) Stoddard. Graduate of Mt. Olive Community High School. Enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving in WWII aboard the USS Idaho in the America Area and Asiatic Pacific Area as a shipfitter 2/C. Honorably discharged December 17, 1945, with a good conduct medal.

He married the love of his life, Elizabeth Rose IN MEMORIAM Lesko on September 21, 1946. She preceded him in death on June 3, 2010. He lived in Mt. Olive before moving to Joliet in 1959. Resided RAY CONWAY in Shorewood these past seven years, and of 2/21/1924- 4/9/2015 late, at The Timbers of Shorewood. Employed

by Don L. Dise Builders, Peoples Furniture One year ago you left us to be with your and retiring from Barretts Hardware. He was family and friends in heaven. a member of Carpenter’s Local 916, Labor’s Miss you, Dotsie St. Raymond Nonnatus for a Mass of Christian Burial to be celebrated at noon. Interment Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery where full military honors will be conducted under the auspices of the United States Army. Visitation Sunday, from 2 until 7 p.m. at the funeral home. As it was William’s request, Cremation Rites will be accorded following his visitation.

In lieu of flowers, memorials in his name to Joliet Area Community Hospice would be appreciated.

For information: 815-741-5500 or to visit his Book of Memories at www.fredcdames.com.

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Students at 24 state colleges object to Illinois budget mess

SPRINGFIELD – Students at two dozen Illinois colleges have penned an open letter to Gov. Bruce Rauner and lawmakers about the 10-month stalemate on a state budget.

The letter singles out the Republican governor for saying he wants a separate piece of legislation to fund elementary and secondary education for the coming year.

The letter said that initiative would be undermined if better-prepared high school graduates “leave the state for college because their preferred in-state college has either closed, is in serious financial jeopardy, or has fallen in educational ranking due to lack of state funding.”

The Budget Cuts Mean Us Coalition began at Northern Illinois University’s student government association and gained support from 17 other universities, seven colleges and the student board member to the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

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ISU spending 20 percent below budgeted amount

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Only the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been stronger with its spending.

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Man who fled to Mexico after fatal accident sentenced

CHICAGO – A man who fled to Mexico following a 2009 hit-and-run that killed a DePaul University student was sentenced in Chicago to eight years in prison.

Carlos Castillo pleaded guilty Friday to leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident involving the death of 25-year-old Rachel Gilliam.

Before Byrne’s court appearance, Gilliam’s sister, Audrey Gilliam, said she couldn’t reconcile the remorse Castillo expressed in a letter he wrote the family with his unwillingness to return to the United States following the crime.

In sentencing Castillo, Byrne said when he escaped to Mexico, married and started a family, he “compounded the unfathomable anguish” of Gilliam’s family.

Gilliam was struck from behind

by Castillo’s auto as she crossed a North Side street after finishing a shift as a bartender.

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Chicago, retailers prep for hike in age to buy tobacco

CHICAGO – The city of Chicago is working with retailers to ensure they comply with a new NORMAL – Illinois State Uniordinance that sets the legal age versity officials said the school for buying tobacco products at has fared better than most others across the state amid the 21 instead of 18.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Friongoing budget crisis. day the city is notifying retailers The university in Normal that the change takes effect has been spending below the July 1. In addition to stopping level authorized by its board of sales to people under 21, stores trustees as it waits to see how much money it will receive from also must post a sign making the new minimum age clear the state.

The board in October approved to shoppers. The City Council approved the age increase last a $422 million operations month, along with higher taxes budget under the assumption that there would be a 10 percent and other efforts to combat illegal tobacco sales. cut in state appropriations Emanuel said it’s an effort compared with the previous fiscal year. But Chief of Staff Jay to reduce smoking by young Groves told The Bloomington people in Chicago.

Pantagraph the university has – Wire reports

Yorkville turns on Hastert as details of claims emerge The ASSOCIATED PRESS YORKVILLE – The small town that boasted of the role it played in Dennis Hastert’s ascent from high school wrestling coach to speaker of the U.S. House spoke bitterly of him Saturday, a day after prosecutors detailed allegations that Hastert sexually abused several members of the team.

The Illinois Republican’s reputation for congeniality contrasts with the government’s portrayal of him in a presentencing filing late Friday as a manipulator who exploited his mentor role to prey on young athletes.

Prosecutors said he also lied to investigators about why he agreed to pay one alleged victim $3.5 million, falsely accusing the victim of trying to extort him.

The Hastert revelations have made Yorkville seem less idyllic, said a 65-yearold retired UPS driver Mike Piatkowski as he watched his grandson, a freshman at Yorkville High School, at a Saturday baseball practice.

“It’s going to be hard to trust anybody, especially with the kids,” he said.

Hastert pleaded guilty last fall to violating banking laws in how he structured his cash withdrawals. Prosecutors said they would have considered abuse charges, but the statute of limitations for bringing such charges expired decades ago.

The court documents detail sexual abuse allegations involving at least four boys that took place at a motel or in the boys locker room at Yorkville High School, where Hastert taught and coached from 1965 until 1981.

It describes a “Lazyboy”-style chair where Hastert often sat in the locker room with a direct view of the stalls where the boys showered.

An emailed statement from Hastert’s lawyer, Thomas Green, on Saturday – as in earlier defense filings – refers

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Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert arrives at the federal courthouse June 9 in Chicago for his arraignment on federal charges in his hush-money case in Chicago. In a court filing Friday, prosecutors said Hastert agreed to let investigators record phone conversations he had with the man who later became known as “Individual A.” Agents later questioned Individual A, who told them about abuse that occurred when he was 14. only in general terms to past misconduct by Hastert.

“Mr. Hastert acknowledges that as a young man he committed transgressions for which he is profoundly sorry,” Green wrote.

Hastert helped put Yorkville on the map during his eight years as House speaker, making his unmasking all the more painful, several residents said.

Bob Evans, a former school colleague and friend of Hastert’s, recalled telling someone during a fishing trip in Canada years ago that he was from Yorkville and the person knowing it was the House speaker’s hometown.

“It hurts even more because we were all so proud of him,” he said of Hastert’s fall from grace.

Now, Evans said he and many others in town are asking themselves the same question: “All this time together, what the hell did I miss?”

Hastert left Yorkville High School for the state Legislature in the early 1980s. He entered Congress in 1987 and became speaker in 1999, holding the spot until his retirement

in 2007. He now lives near Yorkville, in Plano.

In the court filing, prosecutors said Hastert “was so sure his secrets were safe that he apparently had no fears about entering a profession where one is subject to constant scrutiny and media attention.”

Around 2010, one of the victims confronted Hastert about what he had done to him decades earlier, prosecutors contend. After the two agreed on a total payment of $3.5 million, Hastert managed to pay $1.7 million from 2010 to 2014. They stopped when the FBI questioned Hastert in late 2014 in about his massive cash withdrawals. They had no inkling abuse allegations had anything to do with the case when they first approached Hastert, Friday’s filing said.

According to prosecutors, it was only shortly after that first interview that a Hastert lawyer got back to agents with an explanation: Hastert was being extorted by the former student, who is referred to in the filing as Individual A, on a contrived claim of sexual-abuse.

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS Belgians find elusive ‘man at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. The official spoke on the in the hat’ from attack BRUSSELS – After nearly three weeks of frantic searching, Belgian authorities announced Saturday they had finally identified the elusive “man in the hat” spotted alongside the two suicide bombers who blew themselves up at Brussels Airport: It was Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini.

Belgium’s Federal Prosecution Office said the recently detained Abrini – the last identified suspect at large from the deadly Nov. 13 Paris attacks – also had confessed to being the vest- and hat-wearing man linked to the Brussels bombers whose image had been widely circulated by authorities.

condition of anonymity because the person isn’t authorized to speak publicly about the case.

After escapes, security at mental hospitals boosted

SPOKANE, Wash. – Washington officials promised Saturday they were working quickly to increase security at the state’s psychiatric hospitals after a week in which two patients escaped and another two went missing.

A man accused of torturing a 20-year-old woman to death in 2013 was recaptured Friday night after a two-day, crossstate manhunt that some worried would not end peacefully.

“I was afraid this was going to go sideways,” Spokane sheriff’s spokesman Mark Gregory said Official: Former FBI agent Saturday. “I’m glad it didn’t.”

Gregory gave much of the gunman in base shooting DALLAS – A federal official has credit for Anthony Garver’s capture to a canine officer named identified a former FBI agent who later enlisted in the U.S. Air Gunnar. The dog found Garver Force as the man who killed his hiding in the woods near his commander at an air base in San family home in Spokane, then signaled two human officers.

Antonio before turning the gun The Washington Corrections on himself.

Department has taken custody In a statement Saturday, the Air Force identified the two men of Garver, who is now being held as Tech. Sgt. Steven Bellino and at Airway Heights Correction Center in eastern Washington, Lt. Col. William Schroeder. according to Kathy Spears of the The statement did not name state Social and Health Services the gunman, but a federal official close to the investigation Department.

– Wire reports said Bellino opened fire Friday

Sanders picks up win in Wyo. Presidential hopefuls look East, West for delegate support The ASSOCIATED PRESS COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Ted Cruz completed his sweep of Colorado’s 34 delegates on Saturday while rival Donald Trump angled for favor a half-continent away in New York’s all-important April 19 primary. On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders picked up another win in Wyoming — but it did nothing to help him gain ground in the delegate chase.

Cruz netted 13 more delegates at Colorado’s state GOP convention. The Texas Senator already had locked up the support of 21 Colorado delegates and visited the state to try to pad his numbers there.

Keeping up his tussle with Trump over values, Cruz told the Colorado crowd it’s easy to talk about making America great again – “you can even print that on a baseball cap” – but that the more important question is which candidate understands “the principles and values that made America great in the first place.”

Trump left the Colorado convention to his organizers, and spent about a half-hour

on Saturday touring the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum in lower Manhattan.

His campaign issued a statement describing the site as “symbolic of the strength of our country, and in particular New Yorkers, who have done such an incredible job rebuilding that devastated section of our city.”

“This is what ‘New York values’ are really all about,” it added, a not-too-veiled poke at Cruz, who has taken heat for his earlier criticism of “New York values.”

Democratic presidential hopefuls, too, were focused on New York’s big trove of delegates even as Wyoming gave its nod to Sanders over Hillary Clinton.

Sanders got word of his Wyoming win from his wife, Jane, midway through a rally in Queens, part of a fourstop swing through New York City. A raucous cheer went up from the New Yorkers, but the Wyoming vote was a draw from a delegate perspective: Sanders and Clinton each picked up seven.

That means Clinton has 1,287 delegates based on primaries and caucuses to Sanders’ 1,037. When including superdelegates, or party officials who can back any candidate, Clinton has 1,756, or 74 percent of the number need-

ed to clinch the nomination.

Sanders has 1,068.

Sanders, who has now won seven of the last eight state contests, called Wyoming “a beautiful, beautiful state,” and told reporters the vote there was part of a shift in support in his direction since the campaign left the Deep South.

“Now that we are in the second half of this campaign, we are going to state after state which I think have a more progressive outlook,” Sanders said. “We are in this race to win.”

On the Republican side, more than 3,000 people at Colorado’s Republican state convention picked the remaining 13 delegates. Cruz supporters sported bright orange T-shirts with his slate of delegates printed on the back. Trump’s organizers distributed a slate that listed incorrect information for four of his candidates.

Trump’s campaign contended the errors were due to changes to the ballot by the state GOP and did not rule out challenging the results.

Of the 34 delegates Cruz won, only 30 are technically pledged to his campaign; four are party officials who are unpledged but have promised to support Cruz, and the campaign placed them on its slate.

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GALESBURG – This railroad town promotes its ties to Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and the poet Carl Sandburg. But Galesburg’s long history also shows in a hidden way: Aging pipes have been leaking lead into the drinking water for decades.

Blood tests show cause for concern.

One in 20 children under the age of 6 in Knox County had lead levels exceeding the state standard for public health intervention, a rate six times higher than the Illinois average, in 2014.

Galesburg offers just one example of how the problem of lead-tainted drinking water goes far beyond Flint, Michigan, the former auto manufacturing center where the issue exploded into a public health emergency when the city’s entire water system was declared unsafe.

An Associated Press analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data found nearly 1,400 water systems serving 3.6 million Americans exceeded the federal lead standard at least once between Jan. 1, 2013, and Sept.

30, 2015. The affected systems are large and small, public and private, and include 278 systems owned and operated by schools and day care centers in 41 states.

Galesburg officials downplay the water’s potential contribution to lead poisoning, which can affect children’s mental development. But city councilor Peter Schwartzman called the AP’s findings alarming.

“Most people in Galesburg are not really being told that there is a problem,” said Schwartzman, an environmental scientist. “I’m very close to this and didn’t know it. I feel ignorant.”

The AP reviewed 25 years of sampling data reported by 75,000 drinking water systems that are subject to a federal lead rule that took effect in 1991.

Details of the EPA data were first reported by USA Today.

While no amount of lead exposure is considered safe, the rule calls for water systems to keep levels below 15 parts per billion. If more than 10 percent of sampled high-risk homes are above that level, water agencies must inform customers about the problem and take steps such as adding chemicals to control corrosion and prevent leaching of the lead.

In Galesburg, a community of 31,000 about 200 miles southwest of Chicago, lead levels have exceeded the federal standard in 22 out of 30 testing periods since 1992. City officials said their ground water and water mains are lead-free, but the toxin enters the supply in service lines that deliver water from the streets to 4,700 homes. Lead-

based plumbing fixtures that were common in homes built before 1980 also contribute.

The city discovered its most recent problem last fall, when 7 out of 40 samples came back at unacceptable levels.

The city followed EPA guidelines by informing residents of the situation two months later. Its notice said that a chemical added to the water since 1993 has been effective in reducing the lead levels and resulted in “lead compliance since 2010,” a misleading statement since no testing was required in 2013 and 2014.

The notice added that recent testing showed the standard had been exceeded “by a narrow margin.” In reality, lead levels were 1.5 times the standard.

Whitney Zielke, 32, said her mother “freaked out” after receiving notice, but that she didn’t know what to think.

“It’s so downplayed,” Zielke said, standing outside her mother’s home on a street where testing revealed high amounts of lead. “It’s like, ‘Hey, we have to tell you this may or may not be happening.’ It’s bogus.”

Critics said the current rule has not done enough to protect public health or to inform individual homeowners about risks. Dozens of systems have exceeded the standard 10 times or more in the last quarter-century, including in Portland, Oregon and Providence, Rhode Island, the data shows.

In a statement, the EPA said events in Flint, Michigan, and elsewhere have raised questions about how the lead rule has been implemented. The agency is considering changes to the rule and urging state water regulators in the meantime to improve lead monitoring.

But the ultimate solution is expensive: It will take billions of dollars to replace millions of miles of lead service lines throughout the country.

Those are the lines that connect water mains to homes, schools and businesses, remnants from a time when scientists didn’t understand the dangers caused by lead.

Water operators sought to distance their systems from the situation in Flint, saying they were taking actions to reduce lead.

“We try to minimize it, whatever our contribution is” to childhood lead poisoning, said Joseph Bella, executive director of the Passaic Valley Water Commission in New Jersey, which has repeatedly exceeded the standard.

His agency serves 314,000 customers and has increased its lead sampling. It’s also replacing the last 400 lead service lines the utility owns and is speeding up a $135 million plan to add storage tanks for treated water so phosphate can be added to prevent the corrosion that leads to lead contamination.

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What to do with $83,000 in this market Dear Mr. Berko: The stock market has recovered tremendously, but we think it will crash again. We have $83,000 to invest for growth and income. We are very nervous but desperately need more income. Two stockbrokers recommend index annuities, and a third recommends six stocks (each enclosed), but if we believe that the market is going to crash again, what should we do? Please advise us. –

SS, Jonesboro, Arkansas Dear SS: Some brokers who think

the Dow Jones industrial average will crash pass on fear to investors so they can sell high-commission annuities. Smart brokers consider a market crash to be a buying opportunity, knowing that if the Dow tanks, a Golconda of bargains will abound.

And they’ll suggest good-till-canceled orders at prices far below current market prices. A GTC order remains, well, good till you cancel it. For example, a GTC order to buy a stock at $19 while it trades at $25 will be executed only when that stock falls to $19.

If you think the market will crash, consider trolling with GTC orders well below current prices; you might hook some beautiful yields. Consider GTC orders on the six stocks recommended by broker No. 3. This is called trolling

TAKING STOCK Malcolm Berko for treasure.

Seagate Technology (STX-$33.70) is the world’s largest manufacturer of hard drives, and it also provides data storage services for small to medium-sized businesses. The $2.52 dividend, yielding 7.3 percent, may be raised to $2.71 this year. Place a GTC order at $27. If the order were to be executed later on a market dip, the dividend would yield 10 percent. The median target reported by Thomson First Call is $35.

Verizon Communications (VZ$53.10) is a $139 billion-revenue information and entertainment products company. The $2.26 dividend yields 4.2 percent and may be raised to $2.32 this year. Place a GTC order to buy VZ at $38. With the increased dividend, VZ would yield 6.1 percent. The median target price by Thomson First Call is $51.

Philip Morris International (PM-$97.97) sells $78 billion worth of tobacco products – e.g., Marlboro and Chesterfield – and has a swell history

of dividend growth. The $4.08 dividend yields 4.2 percent. Place a GTC order for PM at $75. With an increased 2016 dividend of $4.55, PM would yield 6.1 percent. Thomson First Call has a lower median target price of $92.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK-$39.63), a $37 billion-revenue pharmaceutical company, also sells Tums, Polident and NicoDerm CQ. Competition from generics has inhibited growth, but management expects a turnaround this year. The $2.68 dividend yields 6.7 percent. Place a GTC order to buy GSK at $35. If executed, the dividend would yield 7.6 percent. The dividend was raised in February. Thomson First Call suggests a median target of $48.

AT&T (T-$39.14) is a $140 billion telecommunications giant that also owns DirecTV. T has a long record of small dividend increases, and the current $1.92 yields 4.9 percent. Place a GTC order to buy T at $30. If executed, the dividend would yield 6.4 percent.

Most brokerages have a “buy” recommendation on T. HCP Inc. (HCP-$32.18) is a $2.5 billion-revenue real estate investment trust investing in properties that serve the health care industry.

For more than 25 years, it has grown revenues and annually increased

dividends. The current $2.30 yields 7.3 percent, and this year, HCP expects to pay $2.38. Place a GTC order to buy HCP at $25 and the yield would be 9.5 percent. Thomson First Call shows a median target price of $31.

Enterprise Products Partners (EPD-$24.36) came public in 1968 and dwarfs its competitors. EPD may be the largest and most diversified master limited partnership in the nation and is one of the few without a general partner. With nearly 50,000 miles of pipeline and enormous storage capacity, EPD has weathered this oil crisis with aplomb. The $1.56 dividend yields 6.4 percent and may be raised to $1.61 this year. If you were to buy EPD at $19 with a GTC order, it would yield 8.4 percent. Thomson First Call reports a median price of $32.

Or you can pick 20 or so stocks that have good potential. Observe the 12-month trading range and bait your hook with a GTC order on each issue using its lowest 12-month price. Then cast 20 lines, sit back and begin trolling for treasure.

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

LyondellBasell Morris Complex gives $114K to United Way The HERALD–NEWS MORRIS – The Morris Complex of LyondellBasell recently announced donations totaling $114,000 to United Way of Grundy County, United Way of Eastern LaSalle and United Way of Will County as part of its completed 2015 campaign.

“We are committed to being a responsible, good neighbor in the communities where we operate,” LyondellBasell CEO Bob Patel said in a news release. “We are very proud of our efforts and the generosity of our employees in giving back to their communities through charitable giving and volunteer service.”

In 2015, LyondellBasell held United Way campaigns at 22 company sites across the U.S. and raised a total of $2.7 million. The money raised by the company’s campaign will benefit thousands of programs across the country that people in need rely upon.

“We truly appreciate the hard work and dedication of LyondellBasell’s Morris Complex,” said Kar-

en Nall, executive director of the United Way of Grundy County. “The money raised through their United Way campaign helps support a variety of vital programs and services in our area and we could not do this without the corporate leadership of LyondellBasell and the generosity of their employees.”

In addition to supporting the United Way, in 2015 LyondellBasell Morris employees and their families participated in Global Care Day, the company’s annual day of service, where they beautified Arroyo Trails Park in nearby Channahon. Other organizations the company supports include Joliet Junior College, Junior Achievement of Chicago, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Will County and We Care of Grundy County.

“The United Way provides valuable resources to our community,” Morris Complex Site Manager Brian Angwin said. “LyondellBasell is proud to help support an organization that does so many good things throughout the area.”

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United Way representatives and LyondellBasell employees mark the completion of the company’s 2015 campaign with a check presentation. Pictured (from left) are Sarah Oprzedek, United Way of Will County resource development director; Shelli Ocepek, United Way of Eastern LaSalle County executive director; Karen Nall, United Way of Grundy County executive director; Katrina Metty, LyondellBasell engineer; Ted Cudak, LyondellBasell maintenance manager; and Timothy Smith, LyondellBasell reliability specialist.

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Show of faith in Rialto is a good first step Attorney David Silverman did something Wednesday that has been sorely needed in the past year or so.

He publicly showed hope for the Rialto Square Theatre.

Silverman received a standing ovation from a packed room when he announced his firm was forgoing $11,000 in legal fees in a show of support for the Rialto.

“We do that to express confidence in the Rialto and to try to get people to join us to rebuild this organization,” Silverman said.

The Rialto has had a rough ride since November 2014, when a celebrated plan for a new marquee became an albatross costing the theater $170,000 even though the project was abandoned amid public opposition.

Financial problems continued to get worse, and General Manger Randy Green was put on paid leave March 21 after the board learned details about unpaid payroll taxes totaling about $120,000.

All of that and more (we know there are other problems but the highlights illustrate our point) have understandably led to the shattering of the public’s trust when it comes to the storied Jewel of Joliet.

But Silverman’s gracious action indicated faith in the Rialto, and it was like a ray of sunshine bursting through dark clouds that have been above for a long time. There are other slivers of hope too: The board has in the past few months become better organized, as evidenced by the creation of bylaws, responding in a more timely manner to FOIA requests and making sure agendas are posted. It ousted Green after giving him the due process a public employee is entitled to.

We hope and encourage local residents and organizations to follow Silverman’s lead in supporting the Rialto, whether that’s through a donation, taking in a show, volunteering or expressing a vote of confidence.

We in turn hope the Rialto board is open to new ideas of how to better use its space and attract perhaps a different genre of entertainment acts. We hope board members realize they’re at the beginning of what will be a long road to making the theater financially secure, and realize their commitment to being in it for the long haul will help restore the public trust.

We hope to see the Rialto Foundation continue its work to raise money both for the endowment (of which only the interest can be used) as well as general fundraising that can be used for operational costs.

In May we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Rialto. We hope this year is used not just to honor the theater’s past, but to cement its future in Joliet.

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AMENDMENT

The heat is on in presidential races The Wisconsin primary results were still fresh when Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders hit New York’s primary trail with fiery exchanges that lit up the race like a blast furnace. And here I thought the Republicans had all the fun with personal attacks.

Sanders led off with a mistaken (or invented) claim that Clinton had called him “unqualified” to be president. Both Clinton and her campaign deny saying this, and a Google search confirmed that while Clinton may have inferred Sanders is not qualified, she did not say so in quotes.

Legendary journalist Daniel Schorr, who covered politics for 70 years, once said reporters are “mischief makers.” I quite agree, from my own experiences. The mischief maker here may be The Washington Post, which ran a headline “Clinton questions whether Sanders is qualified to be president,” over a story where it never quoted Clinton uttering those words during a broadcast.

On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,”

VIEWS Donna Brazile Clinton did point out Sanders’ difficulties in handling an interview with the New York Daily News, noting “he hadn’t done his homework.”

That was good enough for Sanders, who unloaded a fusillade, reciting judgments and votes during Clinton’s career that he said made her “unqualified to be president.” This was a harsh contrast with Sanders’ early campaign conduct, where he showed the world it was possible to run an effective, vote-getting campaign and remain a gentleman.

Sanders’ attack does surprise me. He had just won Wisconsin, after all, and not by a few points, but by landslide proportions, nearly 14 percent. Sanders didn’t allow the public and media to savor his win before distracting their attention with a full

cannonade assault at Clinton’s inference, which would have sunk out of notice by lunchtime had Sanders not called attention to it.

Sanders advisers are reportedly telling him he’d be ahead in the delegate count by now if he’d been harder on Clinton earlier in the campaign. There has been a noticeable shift in Sanders’ tone, one the The Boston Globe noticed in devoting a full column to it with the headline “A Dark Turn For The Sanders Campaign.”

It’s a dangerous gamble for Sanders, who alone out of more than 20 candidates running for president in 2016 has enjoyed consistently favorable ratings as a candidate in all polls. Yet Clinton does remain ahead in the delegate count even after her loss in Wisconsin.

The Democrats do not have any “winner-take-all” states.

Their primaries award delegates proportionally to their votes, so Clinton picked up delegates in

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Lockport Township residents should attend annual meeting

To the Editor: In a time of escalating property taxes, state government and taxpayers are calling for streamlining or eliminating township governments in Illinois. However, the Lockport Township Board is ignoring this wave of discontent by recently voting to buy a new building more than triple the size of the existing building. Along with the new building will be the creation and expansion of township government with a list of superfluous services.

A small group of residents that informally call ourselves “Concern Citizens of Lockport Township” have been working to build a more responsible and transparent township government. At the 2015 annual Town Hall Meeting, there was a 4-1 vote to not build a new Town Hall and expand services, which would have resulted in more long-term taxpayer debt and increasing services not wanted by the majority of residents present.

Township Supervisor Ron Alberico has cited as justification for purchasing the 25,000-square-foot building the need for space for storing records of the assessor’s office and the expansion/creation of new services or space for other activities.

Some examples discussed by the board include a day care center, walk-in clinic and senior community center.

At last year’s annual meeting, senior residents repeatedly stated they didn’t need or want a community center. The township should not be providing space for band practice or duplicating services.

In order to offer solutions, Concern Citizens of Lockport Township attempted to legally add discussion items to the agenda of the 2016 Town Hall Meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. April 12 at Central Square in Lockport.

The township board refused to place our items on the agenda and initially refused to allow for public comment on the annual meetings agenda. After our legal counsel contacted the township attorney to remind him of state law, the public comment section was added to a

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Continued from page 35 Wisconsin though her total against Sanders shrank slightly. It’s also a very odd strategy for Sanders – to make moves that could damage Clinton in the general election, when Sanders will ultimately need the votes of so-called superdelegates, who are charged with looking after the interests of the party.

Now to the Republicans.

revised agenda.

Our petition sought to place four items on the agenda: • Provide a solution to the assessor’s office records problem by allowing a state agency to determine which records could be destroyed and digitize the remaining records.

• Discuss and act on a $553,683 judgment against the township.

• Asked for a space utilization study to determine actual needs of the township.

• Asked to cease all spending of taxpayers’ money on the new building until the space utilization study is completed.

As residents and taxpayers of Lockport Township, we are only asking for a transparent and fiscally responsible township government. Please attend the annual town hall meeting and make your voice heard.

Pete DeLaney

Crest Hill

will cost in time and money. When other topics are broached as also needing to be fixed, simply state if they become more pressing than those I have chosen of course they will be considered.

Wait until the end of your time with any host. Then tell them why you have the ability to do what you are proposing to do, giving them a short list of your past accomplishments. Point out the astute people who will help you meet your objectives.

I don’t believe I will be around to see many of the results from the next president’s term in office, but many in my family will. It is for them I am going to vote for the best people to handle the many problems facing this country.

Jerry Cavender

New Lenox

Hospital honors volunteers during National Volunteer Week

To the Editor: For as long as there have been individuals in need of health care, there have To the Editor: been those moved by compassion to help I will be 96 this year and am going to any way they can. They are hospital volvote for the candidates I think will do the unteers, selfless donors of their time and most good for our country. That person talent, who share our values of Honesty, must run a clean campaign.

Oneness, People and Excellence. National The person I vote for must have the Volunteer Week, recognized April 10 ability to fix the problems they encounter through 16, is designated as a time to while in office. They know how to prorecognize these special, truly good-heartpose to fix those problems, and/or have ed individuals and to celebrate the spirit aides who can get the job done. I don’t of volunteerism. believe a person needs to be on every At Presence Saint Joseph Medical Centalk show program. They should go on ter, we are especially grateful for the 526 a show once a month until the two last dedicated volunteers who gave 70,537 months before the election. Then go once hours to our ministry in 2015. Each job a week thereafter. they perform enables us to provide our Stay clear of shows that will try to use patients and guests the highest level of an approach to portray you as other than quality health care with an exceptional you are to the public. Choose hosts you level of trust, compassion and kindness. know are fair in dealing with any subject Our volunteers play a critical role in our matter to discuss. Have the host give you ability to keep caregivers by the beda list of questions they propose to ask side. They do meaningful work that may you. otherwise take our specialized associates Don’t get in any arguments with the away from their primary roles in providhost or any candidate; stick to your pro- ing acute or chronic care. In this way, gram. Give a precise picture of what you and others, volunteers have a true and propose to do in office. Tell them what it powerful impact on the excellent care

Vote for those who run clean campaigns

They are behaving as usual, which is to say as bad boys. Donald Trump does not lose graciously, and Ted Cruz did not win Wisconsin good-naturedly, rubbing his win in a little.

It was to Trump’s advantage to take the focus off his disastrous Wisconsin loss and he did so quickly, reminding a New York crowd that Cruz had dissed New Yorkers to win the Iowa primary.

That didn’t faze Cruz, who’s courting conservative Republican voters. He rejoined that yes, Trump was a liberal

New Yorker.

Cruz is currently running a poor third in New York.

As far as Trump is concerned, while it is still mathematically possible for him to win enough delegates between now and the convention, he has to outperform, in almost every remaining primary, his best previous wins to do so. Wisconsin was only the latest in a series of serious setbacks for Trump, most of which, if not all, are of his own making. However much he has condi-

we are able to provide at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center. In addition to the impact felt by our patients and visitors, volunteers inspire our staff with their willingness and ability to give freely of themselves in the service of others.

Although we are able to count the number of volunteers and hours served in our ministry, the impact they deliver throughout our hospital or entire organization and the community we serve together is immeasurable. On behalf of our administration, associates, board members, Sisters of Presence Health and every patient and visitor that enter our Medical Center, we offer our volunteers the thanks and gratitude befitting the selfless work they do on behalf of others.

Sincerely, Lowell Johnson

President & CEO at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center

More of the same: We give, they take

To the Editor: An article in the Herald-News on March 21, 2016, discussed another change in the law that our legislators rewrote in order to give them more rights than we citizens and their employees.

The article claims that the 2009 Freedom of Information Act that allows for public record disclosure exempts state government legislators’ information.

Previously, the legislators went to court to get paid, even if they didn’t do their job. They also have special retirement, not the not-so-great Social Security.

These employees have special health care, not Obamacare, and now they don’t even have to be transparent!

The legislators are against term limits, fair remapping, a balanced budget, and even working vs. being on vacation.

We need to take the proper action. Vote them out and work toward getting legislators in office that will do the people’s work, not theirs.

Mark Turk Joliet

tioned the media, and the public, to expect “winning, winning, winning,” the reality is that Trump is losing, losing, losing in a number of crucial areas.

Cruz and Kasich are wise to continue their fight.

• 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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BASEBALL: GAME 1: MADISON COLLEGE 2, JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE 0; GAME 2: JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE 6, MADISON COLLEGE 0

EVEN FOR THE DAY

Taller pitches JJC to 6-0 win over Madison after Wolves drop opener, 2-0

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Joliet Junior College’s starting pitcher, Patrick Kenny, pitches against Madison College.

JJC lost 2-0 in game one of a doubleheader Saturday at Wayne L. King Field at Joliet Junior College.

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St. Francis settles for split with Trinity Christian

By CURT HERRON

cherron@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Being able to win consecutive games is something that most college baseball teams pretty much take for granted.

But one squad has found out the hard way that stringing together victories can not only be challenging, but also be very frustrating.

That’s unfortunately the scenario that’s been facing the University of St. Francis in recent weeks, and the futility was evident Saturday when its hopes to get a winning streak started came up a bit short.

Coach Brian Michalak’s Fighting Saints put themselves in a position to claim back-to-back victories for the first time since March 20 and 22 when they captured the opener of a Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference twinbill against Trinity Christian College.

But a few too many mistakes in the finale put them in a hole from which they couldn’t recover and the Saints wound up splitting their doubleheader with the Trolls, winning 2-0 before falling 6-5 at Silver Cross Field.

The Saints (20-20, 5-11) fell behind 5-0 through five innings in the second game before rallying to get the potential-tying

runner to third base with one out in the ninth before Trinity Christian (27-11, 113) finally wrapped things up.

“I told our guys that we’re making mental mistakes that we just can’t make,” Michalak said. “You can overcome physical mistakes, and you have to, since that’s part of the game. You’re going to make errors, so you have to minimize your mental mistakes and we’re really not doing that. As people would say, we’re not getting the little things done.

“In the second inning, they loaded the bases on two errors and a walk, and I don’t know too many defenses that can overcome that consistently. We minimized that inning where they did score twice, but it adds up, and there’s the difference in the ball game. You win one game, then two and it becomes three and four and you get on a roll. We had a good southern trip, so they’re capable, but mentally we just have to be tough enough to say, ‘We’ve got to get through this.’ ” Following an 11-0 home win over Ashford and a 4-2 victory at Saint Xavier two days later nearly three weeks ago, USF owned a 16-11 record but it’s only gone 4-9 since then.

The Saints were hoping to do something that they last pulled off Feb. 28,

which was win twice on the same day.

They did that against Mount Mercy in Marion, and that kicked off a six-game winning streak on their southern road trip.

Saints senior Rick Faron watched Saturday’s action from the dugout as he took his first day off this season in order to recuperate. He’s hopeful that his team can overcome its recent woes and start enjoying more success as the regular season winds down.

“At the beginning of the year we had a lot of success, especially when we went to Florida,” Faron said. “We were playing good baseball then but right now we’re just having a tough time stringing things together. I thought that we had a pretty good day today, even though we didn’t get the win in the second game.

We battled hard and scored some late runs.

“We have pretty good leadership on this team and we have a group of guys who want to work and are dedicated to each other and are like a family. We’re doing things the right way and we’ll continue to do that, so down the line, once we get everything together, then I think things will start going our way.”

Things definitely went their way in the seven-inning opener as Charlie Ludolph (3-2) got his first career shutout

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Davis Purviance (Lockport) lofted a sacrifice fly to deep right field and Jake Drada knocked in two more with a double into the right-field corner.

JJC added insurance runs in the third and fourth innings, which was more than enough for Taller (Plainfield South). The freshman right-hander escaped a jam in the first inning, inducing a double-play ground ball with runners on the corners and one out, then faced two batters over the minimum over the final six innings. He finished with a three-hitter with one walk and two strikeouts.

“I was just trying to throw strikes to the bottom of the zone, get them to hit ground balls,” Taller said. “They had a couple of weak hits in the first inning, but we got the ground ball for the double play and got out of the inning.

“We had really good defense all day.

Our infield handled the ground balls, and there were diving plays in the outfield (by center fielder Terry and right fielder Purviance). The defense helped make this one of my better outings.”

Taller (2-4) entered with a 4.50 ERA in 24 innings. He lowered that to 3.48.

“All my pitches were working well,

Joliet Junior College’s Davis Purviance attempts to put down a bunt against Madison College during a doubleheader at Wayne L. King Field at Joliet Junior College. JJC lost 2-0 in game one.

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especially the two-seamer,” said Taller, who also throws a slider, changeup and curve. “The two-seamer tails in and goes down a little. I was getting them to hit ground balls on it.”

Madison (12-13, 7-3) hit only a handful of balls to the outfield off Taller. That is something the WolfPack failed to do at all through the first five innings of the opener against Kenny (2-1), who entered with a 0.70 ERA in 25 2/3 innings.

Game 1 still was scoreless through

five innings, but with one out in the top of the sixth, Kenny walked the No. 9 hitter after being ahead 0-2 in the count. That was followed by a single just over the leap of shortstop Thomas Smith, a run-scoring double and a sacrifice fly for a 2-0 Madison lead that would hold up.

“I lost my focus a little when I walked the 9-hitter, and then that little shot over the shortstop’s head, and it got away a little,” Kenny said. “I felt

by tossing a four-hitter while striking out four. Only one of the hits went for extra bases and no Troll reached third base.

USF drew three walks in the first inning with Tony Faron getting the last to bring home Kyle Burton for the eventual winning run. In the fourth, Tony Faron singled, moved to third on a double by John Riordan and scored on a grounder by Kevin Rada. Plainfield Central graduate Blake Kerzich went 2-for-3 to lead the Trolls.

In the second game, Cori Herbert pitched a complete game and allowed four earned runs. The Saints made it 5-2 in the sixth when Kevin Mampe (2-for-5) scored on an error and Burton (2-for-3) came home on a hit up the middle by Zach Barkdull. USF scored on a balk in the seventh and Tony Faron got a twoout RBI double in the eighth to bring home Mampe.

After the Trolls scored an insurance run in the ninth, Dan Darling (2for-4) tripled in Riordan but reliever Zack Jones (4-for-5) saved the outing for winner Brent Kiesel by retiring the last two hitters.

Joshua Pieper drove in three runs for the Trolls while Coal City graduate Dan Budde went 2-for-3 and drove in a run. good for the most part, although I was maybe a little tight because it was cold.”

Kenny left after the sixth inning, his sparkling ERA having jumped to 1.14.

Although Madison did not have a fair ball out of the infield through five innings, the sophomore right-hander did not forget a long foul ball down the right field line by left-handed hitting Ty Jandrowski.

“I threw him a pitch up and in and the guy loves it there,” Kenny said. “I stayed away from him the rest of the game.”

JJC, which plays an N4C doubleheader at 10 a.m. Sunday at home against Harper, threatened to get back even in the bottom of the sixth as Jake Capko (Morris) and Glenn Kubek opened the inning with singles.

But a failed sacrifice attempt hurt, and although an error filled the bases with two outs, the Wolves could not deliver the big blow.

“We got ‘em on base and couldn’t get ’em in,” King said after Game 1.

“That’s the way it’s been going. Pat [Kenny] threw well, maybe except for a couple of pitches late in the game, but our problem still is swinging the bats. We’re doing everything right except for that. It comes down to the little things, like not getting that bunt down in the sixth inning.”

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL: NO. 13 LEWIS UNIVERSITY 1, NO. 2 BALL STATE 0 (25-22, 25-19, 25-13)

Flyers pull away from Cardinals late in opener for three-set victory

By CURT HERRON

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• Sunday, April 10, 2016

ROMEOVILLE – A clash of men’s volleyball teams ranked in the top 15 in the ACVA poll was only one aspect of Friday’s match between Lewis University and Ball State University.

Things took on more significance since a win figured to provide some momentum heading into next weekend’s Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tournament.

The No. 13 Flyers pulled away late in the opener, remained in control during the middle set and closed things out in three as they captured a 25-22, 25-19, 25-13 victory over the No. 8 Cardinals at Neil Carey Arena.

Lewis (16-12, 9-6) is the fourthseed in the MIVA Tournament while Ball State (20-7, 12-3) is second-seeded behind Ohio State and ahead of Loyola. The Flyers split the season series with the Cardinals, who won 3-2 when the squads met Feb. 18 in Muncie, Indiana.

The Flyers, who closed regular season play against Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne on Saturday, open the MIVA Tournament on Friday at 7 p.m. when they host fifth-seed Grand Canyon. A victory would likely lead to a semifinal match at No. 2 Ohio State.

Coach Dan Friend used a lineup in which two of his starters had combined for just 40 sets played this season.

But the group that he went with proved to be up to the challenge to help the Flyers snap a two-match losing streak in a clash of teams very familiar with each other from their days in high school and club ball in the Chicago area.

“I thought that we did a nice job of bringing some serving pressure and that really put us in a position to score some points,” Friend said. “We play Grand Canyon first and they’re a great team that’s playing well and we split with them. I don’t think there’s a big separation of teams. Ohio State has a bit of a leg up, but we went four with them last time we were there. But ultimately, putting ourselves in a position to play them again is what we want to do.”

The Cardinals suffered a big blow in the second set when outside Brendan Surane fell to the floor.

The Lockport native and Providence Catholic graduate, who was the MIVA’s Offensive Player of the Week last week, had to be helped off

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Lewis University’s team members celebrate a point against Ball State on Friday at Neil Carey Arena in Romeoville. Lewis won in three sets.

“This is a great step forward to get the win in three against a ranked team after losing to them earlier in five.”

Scott Fifer

Lewis University setter the court and was taken to the locker room. He exited the gym a short time later on crutches.

When Surane got injured, he had 10 of his team’s 15 kills and also two solo blocks as the visitors trailed by a 10-9 score.

Ball State had difficulties adjusting to Surane’s absence and Lewis responded by scoring six of the next seven points to grab a 16-10 advantage.

The Cardinals could get no closer than four points back in the set after that.

In the initial set, Ball State owned leads of 12-8 and 16-13 before the Flyers began to rally. John Hodul got a kill to start a 3-0 spurt that gave the hosts a 20-19 lead.

Then Minooka graduate Mitch Perinar (10 kills, .381 hitting percent) got a

kill and Patrick Lilly served an ace to make the score 22-20.

Will McCall (six kills, nine digs), Lilly and Julian Moses (10 kills) each added a kill down the stretch to wrap up the first-set victory.

“Everyone stepped up today,” Perinar said. “Will came in and played really good and Julian also played a great match. And John, who hasn’t started earlier, came in and played a great match and had a couple of good blocks and that was great to see.

“Some of this team’s best qualities [is] our work ethic since we’re all working hard, through the tough times and good times. I also like our team unity.

We have a lot of young guys, but we’re all meshing. We’re coming together at the end of the season and everyone is playing well and hopefully we can con-

tinue that into the postseason.”

The final set was never really in doubt after the Flyers grabbed an early 9-3 lead.

Ball State closed to within four points three times before Lewis pulled away.

Scott Fifer had 29 assists and three aces, Bobby Walsh contributed eight kills and Michael Simmons added eight digs. Hiago Garchet had 18 assists for the Cardinals.

“This is a great step forward to get the win in three against a ranked team after losing to them earlier in five,” Fifer said. “We have a lot of guys coming in and out, but we battle every day in practice to earn our spots, no matter who it is. That’s what really pushes us.

“If you look at our games against all of the ranked teams in conference, we were right there and lost ground-out battles and we weren’t playing our game completely. We’ve had our ups and downs, but we never saw them as downs and just learned from them because we knew that the only time that it mattered was when conference play starts.”

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Isom likes how Slammers are shaping up VIEWS Dick Goss Back in 2011, the Joliet Slammers took the Frontier League by storm, winning the championship in their inaugural season in the league.

Since then, highlights have been sparse. Things have not worked out the way that the organization thought they might.

But, as they say, hope springs eternal.

The Slammers begin training camp April 28, with the regular-season opener May 12 at Windy City. After a three-game series May 13 to 15 at Normal, Joliet will return to Silver Cross Field to prepare for the May 17 home opener against the Washington Wild Things.

With opening day only about month away, this is a time when the rosters are taking shape. There is more work to be done in that area, of course. But Slammers manager Jeff Isom, the team builder in addition to the field general, has a good feeling about what has been happening so far.

“You can print this, we will be a playoff team,” Isom said during our Friday conversation. “We might be winning the championship this year.”

The Frontier League has 12 teams as the Frontier Greys, the 96-game road warriors, and the Rockford Aviators are no more. Six of the 12 teams will make the playoffs, two as division champions and four as wild cards.

Whether Joliet will fit into the playoff mix is to be determined. Isom, however, has a feeling this is the right time.

“We’re in the middle of the process of building the team, and it’s a work in progress,” he said. “But there have been a lot more guys, more good players, released by organizations, more than I have seen in the past. We’ve been helped by that, but we still have some needs we have to get better at.”

Isom said the Slammers entered the offseason needing starting pitching, and they must fill some bullpen spots as well. They needed more speed in the lineup and more pop in the middle of the lineup.

So, the Joliet welcome mat will be rolled out for Matt Hobgood and Rock Shoulders, among others.

Hobgood, a 6-foot-5, 250-pound right-handed pitcher, was a firstround draft pick of the Baltimore Orioles, the No. 5 overall selection, in 2009 out of Norco (California) High School.

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The Slammers’ Charlie White beats out a bunt single during a game last season against Evansville at Silver Cross Field.

The Slammers’ Alfredo Rodriguez runs through first base after hitting a single during a game last season against Rockford at Silver Cross Field. sign a former No. 5 overall pick.

Hobgood was a three-sport athlete in high school and a football and baseball teammate of former Stanford All-America running back Toby Gerhart.

“Hobgood has been relieving,” Isom said. “He had a couple of inju-

ries to his arm. But we want to try to have him as a starter. He can get it up to about 97 [mph] and averaged 92 to 95 last year.

“I haven’t seen him in person yet, but there had to be something about him that attracted the scouts’ attention. If he can command the ball and

work in his offspeed stuff, he may not be here for long.”

Shoulders, a left-handed power hitter, has the name that could make him an instant fans’ favorite. Playing in the Cubs’ organization, he has hit 45 minor league home runs in barely more than 300 games, so the power element will not hurt, either.

“We can play Rock at first base, third base or at DH,” Isom said. “A lefty hitter in our park with some power is an interesting combination.”

Among the familiar names back with the Slammers for 2016 are shortstop Alfredo Rodriguez, outfielders Charlie White, Phil Bates and Marc Flores, and catcher Joe Staley.

“We’re excited about Rodriguez coming back,” Isom said. “White is now healthy. It was a big loss when we lost him.”

White suffered a torn labrum when he made a full-extension dive for the ball in the outfield.

“He got it fixed, and he will be back at the top of our lineup,” Isom said. “You don’t see many true leadoff men like him, even on the upper levels of minor league ball.”

Bates came to the Slammers straight out of college last year and had a good summer.

Flores showed some power in a limited stint at the end of the season. Staley came aboard late in the season and showed well defensively.

Isom is hoping his offense will be back to normal this time around.

“We have four or five guys now who can steal 20 bases, and that’s something we have not had,” Isom said. “There are a lot of question marks with the staff, but in a good way. If we can get quality starts, with the guys in the pen we have left from last year, we should be much better.”

Kevin McNorton and Sam Moore return in the bullpen. Navery Moore will be a big loss. He wanted to move on to the independent Atlantic League. Isom has gotten good reports on Dakota Freese and Kevin Simmons, two recent additions to the staff.

Isom will be hands-on with the pitching staff as he also assumes the duties of pitching coach.

Pascual Santiago is not returning in order to concentrate on coaching his college team.

A hitting coach will be named soon, and Isom said local fans will be very interested in learning that person’s identity.

• Dick Goss can be reached at dgoss@shawmedia.com.

AREA ROUNDUP

SUBMITTED REPORTS

HIGH SHOOL SOFTBALL

Providence 11-11, Resurrection 0-1: Jes-

sica Miklos went 5 for 5 in the sweep for Providence (6-0, 3-0). Jessica Cothern pitched a no-hitter with nine strikeouts in Game 1 and Marissa Lewinski pitched a four-hitter with 11 strikeouts in Game 2.

In Game 1, Jessica Cothern, Lex Leighton and Miklos homered, and Cothern, Taylor Amato and Miklos combined for eight RBIs. In Game 2, Miklos and Taylor Young had three hits and Emily Pilon chipped in two hits and three RBIs. Young and Cothern drove in two runs each.

HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL

Marian Catholic Invite: Lockport (9-2, 0-0) went 3-0 Friday to advance to the gold division. The Porters defeated Plainfield East, 25-15, 25-22; Marian Catholic, 25-23, 22-25, 15-8, and De LaSalle, 24-26, 25-10, 15-6. Kyle Dixon had 26 kills, Rob Wozek 16 kills and Ryan Sadler 47 assists for the Porters on Day 1.

Plainfield South 25-25, Oswego 21-17:

Donnie Doran had seven digs and four points; Logan Nash six kills, four blocks, seven digs and 10 points; Nick Welter two kills and three blocks; Matt Friddle 17 assists, four digs, three kills and one block; Brandon Langys five kills, six points and nine digs, and Rhome Apton three points and five kills for South.

HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER

Plainfield Central 2, Plainfield East 1

Erin Graefen, assisted by Chloe White, and then won the Southwest Prairie game on penalty kicks.

Minooka 4, Burlington Central 3 (OT):

Hannah Rieker scored three goals and Kennedy Messina scored the overtime winner for Minooka. Sydney Arlis and Martina Kotrba had assists. Bella Alessio made five saves.

Lockport 3, Vernon Hills 0: Ally Fischer scored 21 seconds in to start off the Pepsi Showdown win for Lockport (4-2-1).

Finley Travis scored off an Allison Polinski assist and Stephanie Barrientos scored the final goal. Cassidy Henson posted eight saves for her fourth shutout of the season.

Whitney Young 2, Lincoln-Way West 1:

Jane Pinkerton scored for West (6-3, 1-0) in the PepsiCo opener.

GIRLS TRACK

Seneca Quad: Seneca won with 166 points to 53 for runnerup Morris. Herscher had 25 and Aurora Christian 23.

Seneca winners were Cora Wilkinson in the 100 hurdles (17.179), 300 hurdles (50.19) and triple jump (32-9.5); Eva Bruno in the 800 (2:36.69); Carina Collett in the 1600 (6:00.909); Eve Odum in the pole vault (8-0); Claudia Paulson in the discus (95-6); Shawnna Goins in the shot (38-1); 3200 relay (10:654.605); 800 relay (1:55.969), and 1600 relay (4:29.364).

Morris winners were Madi Mayberry in the 100 (13.327), 200 (28.232) and long jump (16-5.5); Sabrini Batiri in the 400 (1:04.297); Meaghan Smith in the high jump (4-10), and the 400 relay (53.783).

COLLEGE BASEBALL

Lewis 9-12, UIS 7-15: Sam Cybulski had three hits in the GLVC Game 1 victory for Lewis (16-9, 6-4). Chris Pikoulas and Neal Tyrell (Minooka) had two-run singles in a five-run second inning. Pikoulas later homered, and Brandon Collins singled in a run.

Alex Shake (4-1) allowed one hit with 10 strikeouts in six shutout innings.

Phil Warner earned his fourth save.

Collins and Ethan Bloom each had four hits in Game 2. Collins homered once and Bloom twice.

COLLEGE SOFTBALL

Schlattmann cited: Miami (Ohio) freshman shortstop Michaela Schlattman (Plainfield Central) was named Mid-American East Player of the Week

for the second time this season.

Schlattmann hit .467, had a .619 onbase percentage, 1.067 slugging percentage, drove in eight runs and scored six during the week.

She had three doubles and two home runs.

MEN’S TRACK

USF’s Santillo honored: St. Francis’ Joey Santillo (Minooka) has been named CCAC Men’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week. He met the NAIA standard in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 31:08.78 at the Washington-St. Louis Invitational. That was the fifth-fastest time in the NAIA this spring and placed him second among 21 competitors at the meet.

Lewis’ Holesinger honored: The GLVC announced that Lewis sophomore Bryce Holesinger has been named GLVC Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week.

Holesinger broke a 20-year old school-record with a NCAA Provisional and first-place mark of 6,888 points in the decathlon at Eastern Illinois’ Big Blue Classic. That included a NCAA Provisional heave of 194-2 in the javelin, currently the best in the GLVC and fifth overall in the nation.

WOMEN’S TRACK

USF’s Kelly cited: St. Francis junior Raven Kelly (Romeoville) has been named the CCAC Women’s Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week. She met the NAIA automatic-qualifying standard in the shot put while attaining a provisional-qualifying mark in the hammer throw at the Washington-St. Louis Invitational. Her 45-9 in the shot put was second best in the nation this season and led a field of 47 competitors at the event. For the hammer, her throw of 157-10 was second at the meet in a field of 48.

MEN’S GOLF

USF’s Barber earns award: Registering the second-lowest score of his collegiate career, St. Francis junior Lane Barbier has been named CCAC Men’s Golfer of the Week.

Barbier fired a 1-over-par round of 73 as the Saints’ No. 5 player at the weather-shortened Illinois Wesleyan Invitational to finish in an eight-way tie for sixth place in a 111-golfer field.

WOMEN’S GOLF

USF takes fourth: Led by Krystal Garritson (Lockport), St. Francis captured

fourth place at the 13-team Trine Spring Classic. Garritson finished fourth among 71 players with an 8-over-par 80, one stroke off the lead shared by three players.

Alex Catalano (Plainfield South) joined shot 85 for a share of 15th place.

Kayla Garritson (Lockport) shot 88, Mary Jackson and Sarah Maddox (ReedCuster) 93.

MEN’S TENNIS

Indianapolis 6, Lewis 2: No. 19 Indianapolis (10-2, 2-0) topped No. 39 Lewis (10-7, 2-1) Saturday in the GLVC showdown at the Five Star Tennis Center in Plainfield. Mate Srdanovic and Alan Braschinsky combined for a doubles victory and Srdanovic also won in singles.

Lewis 8, Saint Joseph’s 1: Lewis won the GLVC match Friday. Mate Srdanovic-Alan Braschinsky and Andre Norasith-Brendan Peterson all won in doubles and singles.

Anton Levitin-Chandler Stimpert won in doubled and Levitin prevailed in singles.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Lewis 5, Indianapolis 1: Lewis (11-4, 3-0) upset No. 27-ranked GLVC foe Indianapolis (9-6, 2-1) Saturday at the Five Star Tennis Center in Plainfield. The Flyers’ No. 6-ranked Dora Andrejszki -Nora Mindiyarova won their No 1 doubles match and also triumphed in singles. Megan Nguyen- Jill Wetmore won in doubles and Nguyen rounded out the team victory with a singles win.

Lewis 9, Saint Joseph’s 0: Lewis lost just seven games in the GLVC sweep Friday. Dora Andrejszki-Nora Mindiyarova, Megan Nguyen-Jill Wetmore and Megan Conlin-Hannah Cross won in doubles and singles.

USF’s Lopez gains honor: Dropping only two games in four match victories during the week, St. Francis sophomore Eva Lopez has been named the CCAC Women’s Tennis Player of the Week.

WOMEN’S GOLF

USF’s Catalano honored: Sharing medalist honors at the weather-shortened Saint Francis (Ind.) Spring Invitational, St. Francis sophomore Alex Catalano (Plainfield South) gained a share of the CCAC Women’s Golfer of the Week award. She shot a 6-over-par round of 78 at the 5,844-yard Cherry Hill Course to finish in a three-way tie for top honors.

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CRESTWOOD – Lincoln-Way Central scored four runs in the top of the fourth inning and two in the fifth en route to an 8-4 victory Saturday over Richards in the SouthWest Suburban Conference-South Suburban Conference Baseball Challenge at Standard Bank Stadium.

Cam Post went 3 for 4 with two doubles, an RBI and three runs scored for Central (4-7).

Chad Tucker went 2 for 3 with a double and drove in two runs. Ryan McWilliams added two hits and Tyler Schuerg had a hit, RBI and two runs scored.

Knights starting pitcher Ian Duke (1-1) picked up his first win. Luis De La Rosa, Kyle Nolan, Tyler Franc and Brandon Bennitt all pitched well in relief.

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Spieth stumbles, but keeps Masters lead

By DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Another march to a Masters title for Jordan Spieth suddenly turned into a walk on the wild side Saturday.

Spieth finished in the lead for the seventh straight round at Augusta National. He was one round away from becoming only the fourth player to win back-to-back in 80 years at the Masters.

But he sure made it hard on himself.

Spieth had a four-shot lead as he stood on the 17th tee. The wind that caused so much havoc earlier in the round had subsided. Rory McIlroy was out of the picture. And then it all changed with two wild tee shots, two poor wedges and three dropped shots.

And just like that, it’s a wide-open Masters.

“It was a really tough finish to go from holding a four-shot lead ... to where all of the sudden, now it’s anyone’s game,” Spieth said. “So it’s tough to swallow that. I’m in the lead after 54 holes. If you told me that at the beginning of the week, I’d be very pleased. So it’s mixed feelings right now.”

A bogey and a double bogey gave Spieth a 1-over 73 and a one-shot lead over Smylie Kaufman, playing in his first Masters. It also gave plenty of hope to a cast of challengers that include 58-year-old Bernhard Langer and Hideki Matsuyama of Japan, who were two shots behind.

Looming were world No. 1 Jason Day and Dustin Johnson, only three back.

Spieth was at 3-under 213.

Eleven players – even McIlroy, who didn’t make a birdie and shot 77 – were within five shots of the lead.

“I think it will be tough to put it behind me,” Spieth said of his finish.

“That wasn’t a fun couple of holes to play. It’s not going to be fun tonight for a little while. Hopefully, I’ll sleep it off and I’ll be fine tomorrow.”

He led by four shots after the third round a year ago and was able to protect the lead. With a forecast for less wind Sunday, it could be a sprint to the green jacket filled with birdies, eagles and those Augusta National roars.

“I know I have to shoot a significant under-par round tomorrow in order to win this tournament, when I could have played a different style of golf, like I did on Sunday last year,” he said.

Kaufman, who qualified for the Masters by shooting 61 in the final round to win in Las Vegas, used to spend his summers playing junior golf against Spieth. He kept the stress to a minimum and rallied with three birdies over his last six holes for a 69.

AP photo

Bernhard Langer of Germany hits out of a bunker on the second green during the third round of the Masters golf tournament Saturday in Augusta, Ga. No one has won a green jacket on his first try since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979. Maybe there’s one waiting for a 24-year-old named Smylie.

“This place fits my eye pretty well,” Kaufman said. “I just enjoy playing, coming out every day. It’s Augusta National. It’s hard not to have some fun out there.”

The biggest surprise was Langer, who won the second of his two Masters in 1993 about three months before Spieth was born. Playing alongside Day – and usually playing from some 60 yards behind him – Langer plodded his way around in the wind and ran off three birdies for a 70.

On the 30-year anniversary of Jack Nicklaus becoming the oldest Masters champion at 46, Langer now has a chance to become the oldest winner of any major by 10 years. Julius Boros won the 1968 PGA Championship when he was 48.

Can he really win?

“I believe I can,” Langer said.

Matsuyama, who won the Phoenix Open earlier this year, had a brief chance to tie Spieth until missing a birdie chance on the par-5 15th. Just like Spieth, he let the last few holes get away from him with bogeys on the 16th and 17th for a 72. He still was only two shots behind.

Day (70) and Johnson (72) were at even-par 216, along with Danny Willett, the Englishman who wasn’t sure he was going to be able to play in his first Masters because his wife was pregnant. She gave birth last week.

Almost as surprising as Langer being two shots behind is McIlroy still even having a chance. Starting the round one shot out of the lead, he fell apart after the turn with a bogey from the trees on No. 10 and a double bogey

in the water on the 11th.

Spieth also made double bogey at No. 11, but was able to recover. The lead was down to one shot, until he made an 18-foot birdie on the par-3 12th, then holed fast, sliding birdie putts on the 14th and 15th to restore his margin.

And three holes later, it was gone.

At Augusta National Golf Club Augusta, Ga. Purse: TBA (Last year: $10 million) Yardage: 7,435; Par: 72 Saturday – Third Round a-amateur Jordan Spieth 66-74-73—213 Smylie Kaufman 73-72-69—214 Bernhard Langer 72-73-70—215 Hideki Matsuyama 71-72-72—215 Jason Day 72-73-71—216 Dustin Johnson 73-71-72—216 Danny Willett 70-74-72—216 Lee Westwood 71-75-71—217 Soren Kjeldsen 69-74-74—217 Brandt Snedeker 71-72-74—217 Daniel Berger 73-71-74—218 Rory McIlroy 70-71-77—218 Justin Rose 69-77-73—219 Angel Cabrera 73-73-73—219 J.B. Holmes 72-73-74—219 Louis Oosthuizen 72-77-71—220 Matt Kuchar 75-73-72—220 Billy Horschel 70-77-73—220 Emiliano Grillo 71-75-74—220 Paul Casey 69-77-74—220 Jimmy Walker 71-75-74—220 Chris Wood 72-73-75—220 Bill Haas 75-74-72—221 Charley Hoffman 71-77-73—221 Matthew Fitzpatrick 71-76-74—221 Jamie Donaldson 74-72-75—221 Brooks Koepka 73-72-76—221 a-Bryson DeChambeau 72-72-77—221 Kiradech Aphibarnrat 72-72-77—221 Danny Lee 68-74-79—221 Scott Piercy 70-72-79—221 Rafa Cabrera-Bello 74-73-75—222 Davis Love III 73-73-76—222 Webb Simpson 77-72-74—223 Adam Scott 76-72-75—223 Harris English 74-73-76—223 Shane Lowry 68-76-79—223

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Bulls stay in playoff race, beat Cavaliers 105-102

Garcia’s homer powers Sale, White Sox past Indians, 7-3

By ANDREW SELIGMAN The Associated Press

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CHICAGO – Chris Sale had never been colder playing baseball, then exited his outing dejected and staring at a loss after giving up two late home runs.

Enter Avisail Garcia and the newlook, confident and clutch Chicago White Sox. Garcia hit a three-run home run in the decisive seventh inning in the White Sox’s 7-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians on a frigid Saturday that allowed Sale to remain unbeaten.

Garcia, picked off first base a day earlier in a miserable home opener for the White Sox, went the opposite way off Bryan Shaw (0-1). Melky Cabrera’s nine-pitch RBI single a batter earlier put Chicago ahead.

Jose Abreu hit a solo home run and reached base four times, while Sale (2-0) AP photo allowed three runs and six hits with six Chicago White Sox starter Chris Sale throws against the Cleveland Indians during the strikeouts in seven innings in the White first inning Saturday in Chicago.

Sox’s fourth win in six games.

The White Sox went ahead 2-0 when Unlike last year’s 86-loss team, the later put the Indians ahead before Chicenter fielder Rajai Davis misplayed White Sox showed spunk in their sec- cago’s five-run seventh.

Cody Anderson was in line to win it Alex Avila’s one-hop single and Garond comeback win in a week despite after a solid six-inning stint in which cia scored from first in the fourth inthe 32-degree weather.

Sale had retired 12 straight before he allowed two runs and six hits. But ning.

Napoli had been 1 for 15 in his caan infield single and Mike Napoli’s Cleveland wasn’t helped by three ertwo-run homer to center in the sixth rors and two wild pitches in difficult reer against Sale before pouncing on tied it. Yan Gomes’ solo shot an inning conditions.

Sale’s changeup.

COLUMBUS 5, BLACKHAWKS 4

Blue Jackets rally for 5-4 overtime win over Blackhawks The ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scott Hartnell scored a power-play goal at 2:28 of overtime, and the Columbus Blue Jackets rallied for a 5-4 victory over the depleted Blackhawks on Saturday night.

Hartnell finished with two goals and two assists as Columbus (34-408) closed its season with four wins in five games. Alexander Wennberg had a goal and two assists for the Blue Jackets, and Brandon Saad added a goal and an assist against his former team.

The Blackhawks (47-26-9) were without forwards Artem Anisimov, Marian Hossa and Andrew Shaw due to injuries, and defenseman

Columbus Blue Jackets’ Scott Hartnell, left, keeps the puck away from the Blackhawks’ Brent Seabrook during overtime Saturday in Columbus, Ohio.

AP photo

Duncan Keith was shelved by a suspension that runs through the first game of the playoffs. Captain Jona-

than Toews and defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson were held out for rest ahead of the postseason.

Patrick Kane and rookie Artemi Panarin each had two goals and an assist for the defending Stanley Cup champions, who head into their playoff matchup with St. Louis coming off a pair of overtime losses. Corey Crawford made 20 saves in his first game since March 14 after he was sidelined by an upper-body injury.

Kane finished the season with a career-high 46 goals and 60 assists.

He is set to become the first American-born player to lead the NHL in scoring and is one of the front-runners for league MVP. Hartnell picked up his 23rd goal when Cam Atkinson’s shot went off him and past Crawford in overtime, ending the season on a high note for Columbus.

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CHICAGO – Jimmy Butler scored 21 points, rookie Cristiano Felicio added a career high 16 and the Bulls kept their playoff hopes alive with a 105-102 victory over LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday night.

Chicago took the lead with a 15-0 run early in the fourth quarter and hung on for the win when JR Smith missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer, preventing Cleveland from clinching the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference even though James scored 33.

The Bulls still need to win their final two games and hope Indiana drops its remaining three in order to avoid missing the playoffs for the first time since 2008.

James had a huge game for Cleveland, hitting 13 of 17 shots – 4 of 5 3-pointers.

The four-time MVP also grabbed seven rebounds.

Smith hit seven 3s and scored 24 points, and Kevin Love added 20 points and 13 rebounds.

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WEEK TO DEAL!

CUBS

NHL GF 239 227 211 240 236 221 201 198

GA 203 201 224 230 247 236 222 246

GF 247 245 236 230 209 198 184 219

GA 190 203 217 211 216 226 208 252

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF x-Dallas 81 49 23 9 107 264 x-St. Louis 81 49 23 9 107 223 x-Chicago 82 47 26 9 103 235 x-Nashville 81 41 26 14 96 226 x-Minnesota 82 38 33 11 87 216 Colorado 82 39 39 4 82 216 Winnipeg 81 34 39 8 76 211 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF x-Los Angeles 81 48 28 5 101 222 x-Anaheim 81 45 25 11 101 216 x-San Jose 81 45 30 6 96 240 Arizona 81 35 38 8 78 209 Calgary 82 35 40 7 77 231 Vancouver 81 30 38 13 73 187 Edmonton 81 31 43 7 69 200

GA 228 196 209 212 206 240 236 GA 191 192 210 244 260 240 241

Saturday’s Results Ottawa 6, Boston 1 N.Y. Rangers 3, Detroit 2 Philadelphia 3, Pittsburgh 1 Anaheim 5, Colorado 3 Montreal 5, Tampa Bay 2 Florida 5, Carolina 2 New Jersey 5, Toronto 1 Columbus 5, Blackhawks 4, OT Calgary 2, Minnesota 1 Buffalo 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, OT Washington at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Dallas, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Winnipeg at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

Arizona at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Philadelphia at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Washington, 7:30 p.m.

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct y-Cleveland 56 24 .700 y-Toronto 53 26 .671 x-Atlanta 48 32 .600 x-Boston 47 33 .588 x-Miami 46 33 .582 x-Charlotte 46 33 .582 x-Detroit 43 37 .538 Indiana 42 37 .532 Chicago 40 40 .500 Washington 38 41 .481 Orlando 34 45 .430 Milwaukee 32 47 .405 New York 32 48 .400 Brooklyn 21 58 .266 Philadelphia 10 69 .127

GB — 2½ 8 9 9½ 9½ 13 13½ 16 17½ 21½ 23½ 24 34½ 45½

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct z-Golden State 71 9 .888 y-San Antonio 65 14 .823 y-Oklahoma City 54 25 .684 x-L.A. Clippers 51 28 .646 x-Portland 43 37 .538 x-Memphis 42 38 .525 Dallas 41 38 .519 Utah 39 40 .494 Houston 38 41 .481 Denver 33 47 .413 Sacramento 31 48 .392 New Orleans 30 50 .375 Minnesota 27 52 .342 Phoenix 22 58 .275 L.A. Lakers 16 63 .203

GB — 5½ 16½ 19½ 28 29 29½ 31½ 32½ 38 39½ 41 43½ 49 54½

x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference Saturday’s Results Phoenix 121, New Orleans 100 Atlanta 118, Boston 107 Golden State 100, Memphis 99 Bulls 105, Cleveland 102 Oklahoma City at Sacramento, (n) Minnesota at Portland, (n) Sunday’s Games Charlotte at Washington, 1 p.m.

Dallas at L.A. Clippers, 2:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Houston, 2:30 p.m.

Utah at Denver, 4 p.m.

Milwaukee at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

Orlando at Miami, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Golden State at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

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

By BOB BAUM

The Associated Press PHOENIX – The Cubs’ slugger Kyle Schwarber is out for the season after tearing two knee ligaments in an outfield collision, a major setback for a team that many picked to win the World Series.

The Cubs made the startling announcement Friday, a day after the 23-year-old Schwarber was injured in a game at Arizona. An MRI revealed the injuries to his left knee and a sprained ankle. There was no immediate word on possible surgery.

“A young man in his sophomore season in the big leagues,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said, “one of the most refreshing and talented in all of major league baseball. Now to be out for the rest of the season, it’s not easy.”

A catcher by trade, Schwarber made his major league debut last year. He then hit a franchise-record five home runs in nine postseason games.

“He’s going to be missed. I mean there’s no sugarcoating.

We love the guy. It’s a sad day here in our locker room,” Cubs

catcher David Ross said.

“Freak things happen. You’ve got to move on. The game doesn’t wait around. He doesn’t want us to dwell,” he said.

Schwarber was expected to produce plenty of power for a Cubs team that was a leading contender to win its first World Series championship since 1908.

The Cubs were 3-0 this season going into Friday night’s game against the Diamondbacks.

Schwarber was playing left field when he was hurt. He collided with center fielder Dexter Fowler and tumbled on a ball that became an inside-the-park home run for Jean Segura.

“That kid hit the ball and it’s in the wrong spot, at the wrong height, the wrong trajectory, the wrong everything for us,” Maddon said. “If it went over the wall, we’d all be better off.”

Maddon said the Cubs have the depth and versatility to have several options in left field. Jorge Soler was in left field Friday night and will play there often, the manager said. Tommy La Stella can play in the outfield and so can second baseman Ben Zobrist and third baseman Kris

Bryant.

The overall fourth pick in the 2014 draft and Chicago’s backup catcher, Schwarber stayed on the ground for several minutes before being helped to his feet and driven off the field in a cart.

Maddon talked to Schwarber before the Cubs played Friday night.

Schwarber hit .246 with 16 homers and 43 RBIs in 69 games for the Cubs last season.

“He’s one of those guys that plays hard every day. That’s why he got hurt, because of the type of player he is,” Ross said.

“That’s what we expect out of our teammates. We expect you to go out and sacrifice for the team.

That’s what he did.”

The Cubs still have two catchers – regular starter Miguel Montero and Ross.

Maddon said Fowler was a little sore from the collision but was back in the lineup Friday.

Infielder Munenori Kawasaki was called up from Triple-A Iowa to take Schwarber’s roster spot, a move Maddon said gives more flexibility to shift one of the regulars to the outfield at times.

WHAT TO WATCH SUNDAY College softball Oklahoma at Baylor, 3 p.m., ESPN Cycling UCI World Tour, Paris-Roubaix race (same-day tape), 2 p.m., NBCSN Pro golf The Masters, final round, at Augusta, Ga., 1 p.m., CBS Gymnastics 2016 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, at Everett, Wash. (tape-delayed), noon, NBC Pro baseball Boston at Toronto or Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, noon, MLB

N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, 7 p.m., NBCSN ESPN Bundesliga, Bayer 04 Leverkusen at Koln, 10:30 a.m., FS2 Pro basketball Women, International friendly, Charlotte at Washington, 11 United States vs. Colombia, at a.m., NBA Chester, Pa., 1 p.m., ESPN2 Dallas at L.A. Clippers, 2:30 MLS, Seattle at Houston, 3 p.m., NBA p.m., ESPN Golden State at San Antonio, 6 MLS, Chicago at New York p.m., NBA City, 6 p.m., ESPN Pro hockey MLS, Portland at Los Angeles, Philadelphia at N.Y. Islanders, 10:30 a.m., FS1 6 p.m., NBCSN Pro tennis Pro soccer WTA Tour, Volvo Cars Open, Premier League, Leicester City championship, at Charleston, at Sunderland, 7:30 a.m., NBCSN S.C., noon, ESPN2 Bundesliga, Borussia DortWrestling mund at Schalke 04, 8:30 a.m., U.S. Olympic Trials, finals FS1 (men’s & women’s freestyle, Premier League, Manchester Greco-Roman), at Iowa City, Iowa, United at Tottenham, 10 a.m., 9:30 a.m., NBCSN

East Division W L Pct Washington 2 1 .667 New York 2 2 .500 Miami 1 2 .333 Philadelphia 1 4 .200 Atlanta 0 3 .000 Central Division W L Pct Cincinnati 4 1 .800 Pittsburgh 4 1 .800 Cubs Milwaukee St. Louis

GB — ½ 1 2 2 GB — —

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4 1 750 ½ 2 3 .400 2 1 3 .250 2½ West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 4 2 .667 — San Francisco 4 2 .667 — Colorado 2 2 .500 1 Arizona 2 3 .400 1½ San Diego 1 3 .250 2 ___ Saturday’s Games Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 1 L.A. Dodgers 3, San Francisco 2, 10 innings Miami at Washington, ppd., cold weather Houston 6, Milwaukee 4 Philadelphia 1, N.Y. Mets 0 St. Louis at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

Cubs at Arizona, 8:10 p.m.

San Diego at Colorado, 8:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Philadelphia (Hellickson 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 0-1), 1:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Locke 0-0) at Cincinnati (Melville 0-0), 1:10 p.m.

Miami (Koehler 0-0) at Washington (J.Ross 0-0), 1:35 p.m.

St. Louis (Wainwright 0-1) at Atlanta (W.Perez 0-0), 1:35 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 1-0) at Milwaukee (Nelson 0-1), 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 1-0) at San Francisco (Cueto 1-0), 4:05 p.m.

Cubs (Arrieta 1-0) at Arizona (S.Miller 0-0), 4:10 p.m.

San Diego (T.Ross 0-1) at Colorado (Bettis 0-0), 4:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

East Division W L Pct 4 0 1.000 3 1 .750 3 2 .600 2 3 .400 2 4 .333 Central Division W L Pct Detroit 3 1 .750 Kansas City 3 1 .750 White Sox 4 2 .667 Cleveland 2 2 .500 Minnesota 0 5 .000 West Division W L Pct Seattle 2 2 .500 Oakland 2 3 .400 Texas 2 3 .400 Houston 1 3 .250 Los Angeles 1 3 .250

Baltimore Boston New York Tampa Bay Toronto

GB — 1 1½ 2½ 3 GB — — — 1 3½ GB — ½ ½ 1 1

Saturday’s Results Boston 8, Toronto 4 N.Y. Yankees 8, Detroit 4 White Sox 7, Cleveland 3 Tampa Bay at Baltimore, ppd., rain Houston at Milwaukee, (n) Kansas City 7, Minnesota 0 Texas at L.A. Angels, (n) Oakland at Seattle, (n) Sunday’s Games Boston (S.Wright 0-0) at Toronto (Estrada 0-0), 1:07 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 0-0) at Baltimore (Worley 0-0), 1:35 p.m.

Cleveland (Tomlin 0-0) at White Sox (Quintana 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 1-0) at Milwaukee (Nelson 0-1), 2:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Nolasco 0-0) at Kansas City (Volquez 1-0), 2:15 p.m.

Texas (M.Perez 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 0-0), 3:35 p.m.

Oakland (Bassitt 0-0) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 0-1), 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 0-0) at Detroit (Verlander 0-0), 8:10 p.m.

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NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference

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EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts y-Florida 82 47 26 9 103 x-Tampa Bay 82 46 31 5 97 x-Detroit 82 41 30 11 93 Boston 82 42 31 9 93 Ottawa 82 38 35 9 85 Montreal 82 38 38 6 82 Buffalo 82 35 36 11 81 Toronto 82 29 42 11 69 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts z-Washington 80 55 17 8 118 x-Pittsburgh 82 48 26 8 104 x-N.Y. Rangers 82 46 27 9 101 x-N.Y. Islanders 81 45 26 10 100 x-Philadelphia 81 40 27 14 94 Carolina 82 35 31 16 86 New Jersey 82 38 36 8 84 Columbus 82 34 40 8 76

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‘No better vocation’

Joliet woman joins the ranks of the people she admires – authors

By DENISE M. BARAN–UNLAND

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OLIET – You’ve got to grab the reader.

That’s advice Irma Kump of Joliet said she learned from her writer’s group. So Kump opened her novel “Aprons of Stone” with a letter: “Nola: Your crazy sister Sabina arrived in New York, and I curse her coming.

Better she had died at sea and been fed to sharks.”

Drawing from her childhood experiences of a medieval mountain village in Italy, Kump addresses the caste system and moral code of the time as seen through the eyes of fictional villager Nola D’Andrea, who waits for the letter that will allow her to join her husband, Luca, in the United States.

Kump felt mixing fact and fiction eased the process of writing her first novel.

“You already have the plot,” Kump said. “If you’re going to make up a story, that’s a different process.”

John Stobart, coordinator of the writer’s group, said “Aprons of Stone” is charming and readable, taking readers to a time and place they’ll never see. Stobart said Kump is an accomplished writer – she’s a former Herald-News fashion and travel columnist – and has no ego about her accomplishments.

“She really hung in there, writing and rewriting it,” Stobart said of the time Kump put into her novel.

Writing roots

Composition and ancestry blended nicely for Kump when she enrolled in Joliet Junior College after her three sons were grown. One of her first classes was Stobart’s creative writing class.

Kump said the return of her first assignment had these words from Stobart: “You should write a novel.”

The praise felt good – but an entire book? Kump couldn’t envision it. But its seeds were sown. One poem Kump said she wrote for that class about a 6-year-old immigrant had this refrain: “The little girl knew that her new home would be white with mirrors and a balcony.”

Kump was 6 when she came in 1935 to Joliet. Her favorite place was the Joliet Public Library. Kump said she walked to that peaceful, cathedral-like building every Saturday.

“I sat at a table in front of the unlit fireplace in the children’s section and read book after book,” Kump said.

“When I boldly ventured into the adult

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“I sat at a table in front of the unlit fireplace in the children’s section and read book after book. When I boldly ventured into the adult section, I got a library card. I spent hours just walking up and down the aisles, taking a book and reading the first page. If it sounded interesting, I would take it out to read at home.”

Irma Kump

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Irma Kump of Joliet borrowed from her childhood experiences of a medieval mountain village in Italy for her first novel, “Aprons of Stone.” section, I got a library card. I spent hours just walking up and down the aisles, taking a book and reading the first page. If it sounded interesting, I would take it out to read at home.”

Kump never lost her awe for books.

“The admiration I felt for the authors was exalting,” Kump said. “In my mind, there was no better vocation.”

After JJC, Kump’s various projects helped her earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from Governors State University in University Park. Kump created 12 portfolios and earned 164 credit hours.

Later, when working part time in JJC’s information center, Kump wrote and taught a non-credit sociology course at the college. One issue the course tackled was racial prejudice, using elements of sociology, anthropology and history, according to a 1988 story in The Herald-News.

‘A tapestry of words’

But it was Stobart’s writer’s group that provided framework and support for Kump’s novel. At first, Kump simply wanted to document history for her family. But those stories had the drama of good fiction.

Kump recalled a boy who ran away from school when the authorities were summoned to punish him, all because he hadn’t worn one of Mussolini’s black shirts that day.

“He hid in the cold river, breathing through a reed while he was hunted down like an animal,” Kump said.

She remembered the illiterate grandfather who was misidentified as a criminal and sent back to Europe.

“He had to borrow the $25 it took to get to America,” Kump said. “With interest, it took my uncle 20 years to pay off the debt.”

Eventually, Kump completed a

working draft.

“After I wrote it, I showed it to different educators because I was never that confident it would be good enough to publish,” Kump said. “At the writing group, I read different chapters and got good feedback about what I wrote.”

That’s why Kump calls her book “a tapestry of words,” woven together not with thread, but with suggestions from her writing comrades. To honor their input, Kump asked each to add a word or theme: “betrayal” (Nancy Lockhart), “shadowed” (Judy Bond), “line” (Ted Thompson) and “pinched” (Stobart).

Kump said Stobart’s wife, Charlotte Stobart, was an enduring morale-booster.

“They encouraged me,” Kump said.

“I wanted them to be part of the book.”

Who should read it? Fans of historical fiction, certainly. Kump also feels anyone whose relatives emigrated from Europe will enjoy it, too.

“Most of the countries, especially the mountain villages, were all alike,” Kump said. “They had the same morals and the same caste systems. It just shows how difficult life was for them and how cruel the isolation was.”

Kump is the mother of Arnold, David and Tim Kump, all of Joliet.

Arnold is married to Carol Kump and they have two children, Matthew and Nicole.

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Pictured are Jeff Pierson, board of education president; Aseneth Ruiz, Joliet Central High School guidance counselor; Martha Villegas Miranda; and Alberto Filipponi.

The HERALD–NEWS JOLIET – Martha Villegas Miranda, Joliet Junior College Latino outreach and retention specialist, received recognition at a recent Board of Education meeting for her generous donation of a Cesar Chavez portrait to be displayed at the Joliet Central High School campus.

Villegas Miranda donated the painting by Mexican artist Carlos Bueno so it could be public-

ly displayed to educate others about the life and legacy of Cesar Chavez.

The portrait will be accepted at a formal ceremony open to students, parents, staff and the community who are interested in learning more about Latino culture.

A variety of activities are being planned by JTHS students and teachers to highlight the cultural contributions made by Latinos.

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On Feb. 5, students from Lockport Township High School placed first at the annual Regional Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering competition, which was held at the University of St. Francis in Joliet. Awards include: biology – Mariah Dicksen, first place; chemistry – Karol Styrczula, first place, and Mary Kate Buchheit, second place; engineering graphics: Ethan Filzone, third place; English: Sean Stimac, second place; math: Alex Garcia, first place, and Karol Styrczula, second place.

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Holocaust survivor speaks to eighth-graders

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Magda Brown shared her story of living through the Holocaust as a teenager in Hungary during World War II with John F. Kennedy Middle School eighth-graders Feb. 19. She told the students about the horrors she endured, including losing her parents at the concentration camp, being stripped of her freedoms and being forced to work in a dangerous factory making weapons. Brown lives in Skokie and is a member of the Speaker’s Bureau of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.

Grand Prairie Elementary second-grade students (left to right) Sophia Campos, Jacob Lorimer, Declan Glancy and Zoe Ebers in front of shopping carts filled with food donations for the Frankfort Township Food Pantry

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D-202 sets kindergarten sign-ups Registration dates, times vary by school; information available online or by phone The HERALD–NEWS PLAINFIELD – District 202’s 17 elementary schools will register kindergarten students for regular, half-day kindergarten for the 2016-17 school year in April and May. Children must be 5 years old

by Sept. 1, 2016, to start kindergarten this fall.

Registration will be taken at the child’s home school. Fees for regular education, half-day kindergarten for 2016-17 will remain at $88.

School registration information and forms are posted at www.psd202.org and on the individual elementary websites.

• Central – Call the school for an appointment at 815-436-9278.

Kindergarten roundup is 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. May 12.

• Charles Reed – Call the school at 815-254-2160. Kindergarten roundup is 6 to 7 p.m.

May 4.

• Creekside – By appointment,

from 9:30 a.m. to noon, and 1:30 to 3 p.m. Call the school at 815577-4700.

• Crystal Lawns – 5:30 to 7 p.m.

April 14. Call 815-436-9519.

• Eagle Pointe – Call the school for an appointment at 815-5774800. Kindergarten roundup is 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. May 5.

• Eichelberger – By appointment on Wednesdays and Fridays. Call 815-577-3606. Kindergarten roundup is 6 p.m. May 5.

• Freedom – From 8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. April 11 to 15. Call for an appointment at 815-254-4005.

Kindergarten Welcome Day will be April 15. Times are 10 a.m. (A-L) and 2 p.m. (M-Z). Kindergarten Parent Information Night will be 5 to 6 p.m. May 3.

• Grand Prairie – By appointment only, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Call 815-436-7000. Kindergarten open house is 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

April 25.

• Lakewood Falls – By appointment from 10 to 10:45 a.m., and 1 to 1:45 p.m. Call 815-439-4560.

• Liberty – By appointment between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Call 815-609-3037.

• Lincoln – By appointment from 5 to 8 p.m. April 11; by appointment daily during the school day. Call 815-577-4500.

Kindergarten Information Night is 6 p.m. May 4.

• Meadow View – Daily appointments available during April and May. Call 815-4394828.

• Ridge – Call 815-577-4630.

Kindergarten roundup is from 6 to 6:45 p.m. April 14.

• River View – From 4 to 7 p.m.

April 20. Call 815-439-4840.

• Thomas Jefferson – From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. until the end of the school year. Call for an appointment at 815-577-2021.

• Walker’s Grove – From 4:30 to 7 p.m. April 12. Kindergarten roundup is April 26. Full-day kindergarten is from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Half-day kindergarten is from 7 to 8 p.m. Call 815-439-2885.

• Wesmere – Kindergarten and new student registration from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 18 and from 4 to 7 p.m. April 26.

Appointments are not required.

Call 815-439-3244.

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Healthy Kids Day is a free event that is open to the entire community. Festivities include a health and wellness expo from local vendors, kids games, prizes, giveaways and YMCA membership deals.

For more information or to participate, contact Anna Miller at amiller@jolietymca.org.

VVSD Summer Learning Experience registration begins April 11

Registration begins April 11 for Valley View School District 365U’s unique all-day Summer Learning Experience.

It will operate from June 8 to July 20 at $16 a day for children within the VVSD attendance boundaries and $20 a day for children outside of the VVSD district.

The Summer Learning Experience focuses on key reading comprehension and writing skills as well as handson common core math instruction during the morning, and enrichment activities such as hands-on science, Readers Theatre, book talks and plenty of leisure motor skills time during the afternoon.

The day begins at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 3:30 p.m.

Participants will receive a free breakfast before their day begins and a free lunch as well.

For more information, call the Summer Learning Experience voicemail hotline at 815-886-2700.

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The HERALD–NEWS JOLIET – On Jan. 22, Laraway School District 70C sixth-, seventhand eighth-grade students completed “Turn 2” of Chicagoland Speedway’s motorsports-themed reading program, “Racing to Read.”

The students accumulated points on an online program that appeals to each individual’s reading level to improve literacy.

Chicagoland Speedway created “Racing to Read” to encourage the sixth- to eighth-grade students at Laraway School to read more frequently throughout the school year. The program kicked off Sept. 14.

Laraway middle schoolers visited the track before Sprint Cup qualifying Sept. 18. The students saw Champions Park, the Infield Fan Zone and the Kids’ Club.

One of NASCAR’s young stars, Justin Allgaier, spoke with the students.

Each student received two tickets to attend the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race.

Racing to Read’s inaugural year will finish May 26. At the end of each “turn,” the winning class will host the program trophy, and individuals will have the chance to win prizes such as leader trophies, Chicagoland Speedway merchandise, autographed items and gift cards.

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Women of the Year

The Herald-News continues its long-standing tradition of recognizing women and the valuable contributions they make to their communities.

The women recognized through the Council of Catholic Women will be honored at a Mass celebrated by Bishop Joseph Siegel at the Cathedral of St. Raymond in Joliet on April 16, along with their counterparts from throughout the parishes of the Diocese of Joliet.

The theme of the Mass, and the reception to follow is, “Holy Mary, Mother of Mercy.”

The following women are being recognized as the 2016 “Woman of the Year” by their churches and organizations.

Devier organizes the making of bookmarks for prisoners, helps with Cub Scouts and puts together volunteer projects for the church’s religious education classes.

CCW activities include creating bookmarks for the church’s First Communion classes; belonging to a sewing group that has donated sundresses, blankets, baptismal bibs, hats, aprons and other items to charitable organizations; baking for and helping at the Lenten fish fry dinners; and assisting with Mother’s Day flower sales, bunco parties and funeral luncheons.

Council of Catholic Women member. She has served as CCW president for two years, vice president for two years, and presently as adviser. She is a “collection counter.”

Futterer assists at parish dinners and functions. Along with her family, she has volunteered at The Mission of Our Lady of the Angels in Chicago – helping with children’s Christmas parties, neighborhood dinners, food pantry and clothes distributions.

She is married to Jack, is the mother of one daughter and one son and is the grandmother of one.

Nancy K. Bannon, St. Patrick’s Parish, Joliet

Linda (Sovich) Dyke, Church of St. Anthony, Joliet

Joanne Gesell, St. Jude Catholic Community, New Lenox

Bannon, a lifelong parishioner, currently serves as the Council of Catholic Women’s treasurer and as the St. Vincent de Paul Society’s secretary.

Previously, Bannon served as president of the parish council and as a board member of the school’s parent-teacher association.

For more than 10 years, Bannon volunteered at the Daybreak Center and assisted with the parish food pantry.

A true believer in Catholic education, she is a graduate of St. Patrick Grade School, St. Francis Academy, Loyola University and St. Louis University.

Kathy DelRose, Cathedral of St. Raymond Parish, Joliet

A member of the cathedral for more than 40 years, DelRose serves as a Eucharistic minister and pastoral care minister to the homebound, and is president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

DelRose assists the Thursday morning coffee team, bakes for parish events and delivers flowers to the homebound during Easter and Christmas. She is a longtime member of a small Christian community faith sharing group. She is married to Rudolph “Skip,” and has two children and five grandchildren.

Elizabeth (Betsy) Devier, St. Ann Catholic Church, Channahon

Devier has belonged to St. Ann’s for 13 years and is the current co-publicity chairperson for the Council of Catholic Women and a member of the Elizabeth Ministry. For the church,

Sovich is an employee of the Church of St. Anthony is Joliet. She serves as secretary and housekeeper. She helped redesign the memorial/ prayer garden and maintains it. She coordinates the monthly pancake breakfast and dinners. She prepares the church for Christmas and Easter.

A former longtime parishioner of St. Anne Catholic Church in Crest Hill, Sovich served as the Council of Catholic Women secretary until 2016.

She cooked at the pancake breakfast, chaired the parish picnic and shopped for the church food drive.

Sovich is married to Scott. She is the mother of Joel (Corsola) Sovich and Katie (Greg) Cash.

Sharon Erdman, St. Rose of Lima Church, Wilmington

Erdman moved to Wilmington 20 years ago, where she and her late husband Tom raised their five children. Her volunteer work at St. Rose includes cooking and serving for the Council of Catholic Women’s funeral dinners.

She helps with the annual CCW card party in May and the parish’s annual turkey dinner in November. For six years, Erdman has served at St. Rose’s Kuzma Cottage, which provides food for low-income individuals.

Erdman has six grandchildren.

Nancy Futterer, Church of St. Anthony, Joliet

Futterer has strong family roots at St. Anthony’s Parish and is a longtime

Eugene have three daughters.

Rosemary Konopek, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Joliet

Konopek is a 54-year member of the parish. She’s been president and treasurer of the altar and rosary society for many years.

This group raises money for the parish through card parties, the summer homecoming fair, bake sales and raffles. Proceeds supply vestments, candles and altar lines.

Through the years, Konopek has held many chairmanship roles.

Margaret Lee, Sacred Heart Parish, Joliet

A 19-year member of the parish, A 20-year member of St. Jude, New Lee has worked with the youth ministry, leading Lenox, Gesell has served groups, discussions and as the past vice president, and treasurer of trips for the church’s the Council of Catholic youth for over a decade.

Women. She was the Lee is an usher and CCW sunshine girl, the member of the parish CCW photographer and council. yearly scrapbook maker.

Lee also volunteers at Daybreak Gesell has served the parish as Center. She he enjoys spending time a religious education teacher and with her children and grandchildren. volunteered at the St. Jude ElemenPat Meade, Kapps Mu Omega tary School Library. She is a core member of the St. Jude Seniors’ Social Chapter, Soror of the Year A member since 2004, Meade is Club. Since its inception, Gesell has president of Kappa Mu volunteered with the St. Jude-Saint Omega. She has served Joseph’s Table. as the International She helps her husband, Roy, in Leadership Seminar Knights of Columbus events. The Hydration chairman Gesells have three children and one and co-chairman of the grandchild.

Health Partners LiteraBarbara Kestel-Satrun, St. Mary ture Association. A regCatholic Church, Mokena istered nurse at Presence Saint Joseph A longtime member of St. Mary Mo- Medical Center in Joliet, Meade also kena Catholic Church, serves as secretary of the Chicagoan Kestel-Satrun became a President’s Council. She is in the valued member of the St. choir and the parish council at Sacred Heart Parish in Joliet. She is treasurer Mary Council of Catholic Women in 2012 and is for the Illinois Nurses Association. currently vice president.

Fran Mildice, St. Andrew the She has served as phoApostle Parish, Romeoville tographer, scrapbooker Mildice is an active member of and publisher of the annual membership handbook and directory. the Council of Catholic Kestel-Satrun has assisted with Women, parish council and St. Vincent de publicity for the annual mum sale Paul. She is a minster and the 2016 Polka Mass. She participates in the prayer shawl ministry of care. She has helped and helped publish a handbook for with parish mailings and events. She has sold its members. She leads a Bible Study raffle tickets. group discussion. She belongs to the She donated the New Gather books Clothing God’s Children ministry, and in memory of her loving husband Bill. has organized/coordinated brunches for the organization.

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Women of the Year Continued from page 50 Mary Pagano, St. Dennis Church, Lockport

Maggie Redman, St. Mary Immaculate Parish, Plainfield

Although Redman was new to St. Mary’s Council of Catholic Women in 2014, she stepped up and took on the role of president, bringing enthusiasm and dedication to making St. Mary’s CCW a vibrant and growing part of the parish community.

Janet Russ, St. Ambrose Parish, Crest Hill

A longtime parishioner, Russ currently serves as a music director. She has served in many capacities over the years: as an active member of the Council of Catholic Women, teaching religious education and working with the religious education program to provide music for special occasions. Russ is married to Gerald.

They have a son, Brian.

Rose Sontag, St. Joseph Parish, Rockdale

Sontag, a 32-year member of St. Joseph, serves as the First Communion catechist and has sung in the church choir for many years.

Jane Spray, St. Mary’s Parish, Minooka

Spray, a 28-year member of St. Mary’s and 13-year member of the Council of Catholic Women, has held many offices, including vice president, treasurer and international chair.

She is currently cochair of the community commission, and on the style show committee, as well as the St. Patrick’s Dinner committee.

Spray helps with the CCW potluck at Dollinger’s Farm, collects for the troops, makes prayer squares, organizes Bingo at the nursing home and helps with the giving tree and coat collection.

She is the wife of Larry, mother of three and grandmother of three granddaughters.

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Pagano has been an active member of St. Dennis since 1983.

She and her husband, Frank, are the “go-to people” when cooking for fundraisers and many church events, including Lockport Canal Days, golf outings, picnics and spaghetti dinners.

She has played guitar with the St. Dennis choir for the past 34 years and sings in the Resurrection choir. She is a past room mom and parent-teacher club officer at St. Dennis School.

Pagano is wife of Frank, mom of three grown children and grandma to Sophia.

Sontag and her husband have served as a mentor couple for Catholics preparing for marriage.

Sontag has served on the parish council. She has three children and 10 grandchildren.

Donna Wlodarski, St. Anne Catholic Church, Crest Hill

Wlodarski has been a dedicated member of the parish for more than 30 years. She has served Communion, worked at pancake breakfasts, and ran booths for the parish picnic. In her spare time, Wlodarski volunteers at the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet.

Her son, Chuck, a student at Joliet Junior College, is also a Eucharistic minister.

Mary Workman, Church of St. Jude Joliet

Workman recently joined the parish and its Council of Catholic Women. In this short time, Workman has chaired the arts and crafts fair at the annual St. Nicholas Festival, has volunteered at the school’s Believe Benefit and Rosary Run events, and is co-chair for the parish picnic committee. She is secretary of the parish school.

Workman has been married 24 years and is the mother of Andrew and Charlie.

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Students on Team 2 (DEI) are Martin Chavez, Jeff Law, Anthony Tokarczyk, Mari Rosas and Jimmy Miller.

Local engine team qualifies for national competition The HERALD–NEWS JOLIET – Students from the Joliet Township High School engine-building team are advancing to the nationals, with two teams qualifying after this weekend’s competition in Schaumburg. The two teams will compete in the national competitions held in Las Vegas and Indianapolis in November and December.

The engine-building competition requires students to disassemble and re-assemble a Chevy V-8 race engine using only hand tools. Teams are timed and the engine is expected to run once assembled. To qualify for nationals,

teams had to finish with a time under 34 minutes, including penalties.

Before the trek to nationals, the two teams will have one last chance to improve their rankings at the Route 66 Raceway Invitational held July 30 and July 31. The engine team sponsor, Sean Reisdorf, is hoping to bring the final time down to under 18 minutes.

Joliet Township High School students on Team 1 (Firestone) are Kevin Conroy, Eddie Arriaga, Gustavo Ruiz, Antonio Gonzalez, Kevin Gonzalez and Rogelio Mendoza. Students on Team 2 (DEI) are Martin Chavez, Jeff Law, Anthony Tokarczyk, Mari Rosas and Jimmy Miller.

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How to reduce ‘sundowning’ Dear Dr. K: My husband and I are in our early 80s. Sometimes in the evening he is agitated, confused and just quite a handful to deal with. The doctor says he has “sundowning.” What is it, and is there anything I can do?

Dear reader: Some older people have trouble concentrating, grow agitated or even confused and become especially fatigued at the end of the day. This phenomenon is known as “sundowning” because its effects tend to coincide with sunset – usually occurring in the late afternoon into the evening, then settling down late at night.

Sundowning behavior is quite common in people with dementia. However, it also can occur in older people without dementia.

Sundowning is more likely to occur in an unfamiliar environment in a dark place. In a previous column about sundowning, I described a patient who never experienced it at home. However, sometimes when she and her husband traveled, it would happen in a hotel room at night. Sundowning occurs quite often in hospitalized patients.

Sundowning needs to be taken seriously, because it can lead to falls and fractured bones as people get out of bed in their confusion and trip over something.

Sundowning isn’t an illness; it’s a temporary condition, and we don’t entirely understand what causes it. But we do know some ways you and your husband can alleviate its effects: • Keep a daily log and jot down events that seem to trigger symptoms. For instance, too much noise or the act of preparing dinner could be a trigger. Once you and your husband recognize these triggers, you can work on ways to avoid them.

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Stick to a regular schedule. Take walks or exercise at the same time each day, preferably early in the day. Eat an early dinner and go to sleep at the same time each night.

• Schedule appointments, trips and activities in the morning. Limit obligations in the late afternoon hours.

• Take a late afternoon rest. Just putting his feet up and closing his eyes for a short respite can help preserve your husband’s energy and prevent end-of-day fatigue.

• Prevent overstimulation by reducing noise from televisions or stereos.

• Reduce food and beverages that contain caffeine or restrict them to early morning hours. Caffeine can stay in his system for as long as 16 hours and interrupt his sleep. Poor quality sleep may also contribute to sundowning.

• When he begins to feel symptoms, he should either rest or do something familiar that relaxes him, such as reading the newspaper.

• Fortunately, sundowning is not usually a sign of a serious underlying problem. But because it can lead to falls and fractures, try some of the things you and your husband can do yourselves. If they don’t help, ask his doctor if testing of his intellectual function might be required.

But I’ll bet that won’t prove necessary.

• Write to Dr. Komaroff at www.askdoctork.com or Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.

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Dentist’s politics are bad for patient’s blood pressure Dear Abby: I have been seeing the same dentist for a number of years and always have been satisfied with his work. He recently has begun to talk politics while he works on my teeth. While I feel he’s entitled to his opinions, I don’t think I should have to listen while his hand is in my mouth.

He doesn’t realize it, but I am very politically active with the other party.

Abby, his politicizing grates on my nerves and raises my blood pressure, but I don’t know how to tell him I find his comments to be unprofessional.

If I change dentists, I possibly could encounter the same problem, especially in this area of the country.

Should I discuss it with him and hope he doesn’t start withholding anesthetic or charging extra out of spite? I’m not sure how to handle this because I have dental issues and

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips need a good dentist who will see me when I need him. Help. – Open Wide In

Virginia Dear Open Wide: It shouldn’t be

necessary to reveal your political affiliation to your dentist. All you have to say is there are some subjects that you find stressful, and among them are current events, so he should please refrain from bringing them up while you’re in his chair because it upsets you and raises your blood pressure.

P.S. If you feel you need more novocaine, ask for some.

Dear Abby: My husband and I – as well as our close friends – are having

a disagreement and would like your expert advice. There is a nice man who is blind and who frequently sells brooms and other objects in our neighborhood. Other people who have their own disabilities do the same.

I find myself making kindhearted donations to these individuals and declining to take their goods. My husband thinks we should accept the goods so we are not making a “pity” donation. I have the best intentions.

Please clarify this for us, once and for all. – Best Intentions In Indiana Dear Best Intentions: I’m not sure I agree with your husband. If you already have bought what the man is selling and don’t need to replace it, but would like to make a donation, I see no reason to take anything you won’t use.

Give the person a small donation, wish him a good day and keep your closets

clutter-free. Sometimes less is more.

Dear Abby: I have been married three times. My first two husbands were unfaithful, and the third was bipolar. I finally have found the man of my dreams, and we recently became engaged. There is just one small problem. He has two house dogs he loves dearly and doesn’t want to part with, and I refuse to have dogs in my house.

Our marriage is on hold because of this. What should I do? – Stickler In

North Carolina Dear Stickler: If you are unable to

share this man with his house pets, then realize that although he may be the man of your dreams, you are not the woman for him, and let him go.

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

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Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY –Don’t shy away from change when you can embrace it. Your adventurous attitude and need to enjoy whatever you do will take you on a wild and wonderful journey. If you embrace what life offers and live in the moment, you will find peace of mind and a path that leads to happiness.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Discipline and research are encouraged. Put more time and effort into personal improvements and your relationship with someone special. Share your feelings and set the stage for romance.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – A new interest will result in inexpensive fun. It’s OK to do things

differently. Figure out what works best for you and carry on.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Follow your gut feeling and get involved in something that promises personal gain or improvement. Romance is featured, and sharing an experience with someone will bring you closer together.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Don’t take on responsibilities that don’t belong to you. An unexpected change of plans shouldn’t stop you from doing your own thing. Stick close to home and nurture what’s important to you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – You will be at the top of your game physically, so make your actions count.

Don’t let someone meddle in your affairs. Stay focused and enjoy a competitive challenge.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Take the path of least resistance. There is no point in arguing or letting your emotions get the better of you. Do what needs to be done and move on.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Enjoy meeting new people or visiting places you’ve never been before. A gathering or reunion will lead to love and romance.

Don’t be afraid to initiate personal change.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) –You’ll have some great ideas that will help you incorporate something you love to do into the way you earn your living. A discussion with a colleague or someone influential will motivate you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Keep a low profile. Avoid anyone looking for a fight or trying to pressure you into something that isn’t in your best

interest. Altering your living arrangements will be beneficial.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Look after your physical well-being and make a point to find healthy alternatives to any bad habits or routines you’ve adopted. Be smart and do what’s best for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- You need to get back to the things and people that make you happy.

Spend time with children, family or the one you love.

Personal improvements will bring high returns.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Don’t give in to an unrealistic plan or individual. Emotions will surface, causing confusion and imprudent choices. Don’t contribute to something you know little about.

Protect against loss.

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Jean Genet, a French author and dramatist, said, “Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.”

Last week, we looked at the few bidding conventions I believe all pairs should employ. There is one other for serious partnerships: the splinter bid. It comes up rarely, but it is great when it does because it helps you to reach low-point-count slams and to avoid bad slams.

A splinter bid is usually a doublejump-shift to show a big fit with partner’s suit, at least game-going values and a singleton (or void) in the suit just named. The splinter is typically below game in the agreed suit and is one level above a bid needed in a natural sense. One caveat: Do not make a splinter bid with a singleton king (and try to avoid it with a bare ace).

In this deal, North’s four-diamond response was a splinter bid. South then knew that he had no diamond losers, because if necessary he could have ruffed his low diamonds in the dummy. He used Blackwood before bidding seven spades.

After West led the diamond king, what should South have done?

Declarer seemed to have 13 top tricks: five spades, two hearts, one diamond and five clubs. He just had to draw trumps -- but how?

If spades were 2-2 or 3-1, there was no problem. If East had all four, the contact was unmakable. But in case West had four spades, South cashed his queen first. Then he twice led through West, using dummy’s king and ace to capture West’s 10 and jack.

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PUBLIC NOTICE SPECIFICATIONS AND CONDITIONS OF THE RFQ ARE AVAILABLE AT www.demandstar.com OR BID INFORMATION FOR CISCO www.willcountyillinois.com OR WIRELESS NETWORKING EQUIPFROM THE PURCHASING DEPART- MENT CAN BE SECURED BY MENT, 2ND FLOOR, WILL CONTACTING THE DIRECTOR OF OFFICE BUILDING, BUSINESS & AUX. SERVICES, 1215 (Published in the Herald-News April COUNTY 302 N. CHICAGO ST., HOUBOLT RD., JOLIET, IL; 10, 2016) 1176334 PUBLIC NOTICE JOLIET, IL 60432, AND purchas- 815.280.6643. BID DOCUMENTS CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM ing@willcountyillinois.com.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT THE TENDERING OF A PROPOSAL THE JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE PUBLIC NOTICE FOR THE 12TH JUDICIAL TO THE COUNTY SHALL BE CON- WEBSITE AT THE FOLLOWING CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY STRUED AS ACCEPTANCE OF THE LINK: http://www.jjc.edu/businessLINCOLN-WAY COMMUNITY JOLIET, ILLINOIS SPECIFICATIONS. THE BIDDER AC- auxiliary/purchasing. BIDS WILL BE HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 210 KNOWLEDGES THE RIGHT OF THE RECEIVED AT THE OFFICE OF BUSINEW LENOX, ILLINOIS Nationstar Mortgage LLC COUNTY OF WILL TO REJECT ANY NESS & AUXILIARY SERVICES, A REQUEST FOR BID CUSTODIAL Plaintiff, OR ALL PROPOSALS AND TO BUILDING ROOM A3100 UNTIL vs.

SUPPLIES FOR LINCOLN-WAY WAIVE NON-MATERIAL INFORMALI- 10:00 AM ON APRIL 19, 2016.

Charles E. Campbell a/k/a COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL TY OR IRREGULARITY IN ANY RFQ JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE RECharles E. Campbell Jr.; DISTRICT 210 RECEIVED IN WHOLE OR IN PART, SERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT Bank of America, NA; ANY OR ALL BIDS OR TO ACCEPT Unknown Owners and Non- Lincoln-Way Community High AS SPECIFIED IN THE SOLICITAANY BID WHICH MAY BE IN THE record Claimants; Richard School District 210 invites bids TION. BEST INTERESTS OF THE COLLEGE. Kuhn, as Special Represen- from qualified contractors to submit tative for Charles E. a bid for Custodial Supplies for the BY ORDER OF THE WILL COUNTY Campbell a/k/a Charles E. 2016-17 school year.

EXECUTIVE, LAWRENCE M. WALSH (Published in the Herald-News, 8, 2016) 1175951 April 10 Campbell Jr. Defendants.

Sealed bids must be received by (Published in The Herald-News Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 1:00 April 10, 2016) 1176253 Case No. 15 CH 02479 p.m. at the District Office located within Lincoln-Way Central High PUBLIC NOTICE The Notice to Heirs and Legatees. School, at 1801 E. Lincoln HighHerald-News Notice is hereby given to way, New Lenox, IL 60451. Bid you, the Unknown Heirs and opening will commence at 1:00 Classified NOTICE OF PUBLIC Unknown Legatees of the p.m. on April 28, 2016, in the 877-264-2527 HEARING ON FISCAL YEAR decedent, Charles E. Camp- Board Room located at Lincolnbell a/k/a Charles E. Camp- Way Central. Bids received after bell Jr., that on February 24, the submittal time will be rejected 2016, an order was entered and returned unopened to the by the Court, naming sender.

Richard W. Kuhn, 552 S. PUBLIC NOTICE Washington Street, Suite A pre-bid meeting will be held on ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS 100, Naperville, Illinois Thursday, April 14 2016 at 1:00 Union School District 81 60540, Tel. No. 630-420- p.m., in the Board Room at Lin8228, as the Special Repre- coln-Way Central High School, sentative of the above 1801 E. Lincoln Highway, New ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS named decedent under 735 Lenox, IL, 60451 to familiarize 1.1 BID INFORMATION A. Sealed bids will be received by the Board of Education, Union ILCS 13-1209 (Death of a contractors with the project, answer Party). The cause of action questions, and view the property. School District 81, on April 19, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. prevailing time for for the Foreclosure of a certhe 2016 Renovations. Bids will be opened at the Union School District tain Mortgage upon the A complete bid package may be 81 District Office, 1661 Cherry Hill Road, Joliet, Illinois 60433. premises commonly known available after April 10, 2016 at B. A Pre-Bid Conference will be held on April 12, 2016, 2:45 p.m. as: 176 Grady Drive, the Operations office located in the at the Union School District 81 District Office, 1661 Cherry Hill Road, Bolingbrook, IL 60440.

Administrative Annex at 1801 E Joliet, Illinois 60433. All Bidders are encouraged to attend and sign in Lincoln Hwy, New Lenox, Illinois at the meeting which will also be attended by the Owner, Architect and (Published in the Herald- 60451 between the hours of 7:00 Engineer.

News on March 27, 2016, AM and 3:30 PM, Monday through C. Anticipated Award of Contract date: April 27, 2016 April 3, 10, 2016) Friday, 815-462-2112. There is D. Anticipated Start of Construction: June 20, 2016 no charge for the package.

1171212 E. Anticipated Substantial Completion date: August 10, 2016 F. Lump sum bid proposals will be received for this project at the (Published in the Herald-News April scheduled time of receipt bids and will be publicly opened at that time.

10, 2016) 1176299 G. Bid security in the form of a bid bond, certified check or cash in PUBLIC NOTICE an amount equal to 10 percent of the base bid amount shall be submitted with the bid. Should a bid bond be submitted, the bid bond shall LINCOLN-WAY COMMUNITY HIGH PUBLIC NOTICE be payable to the Board of Education.

SCHOOL DISTRICT 210 NEW H. Bids shall be submitted on or before the specified closing time in LENOX, ILLINOIS REQUEST FOR ADVERTISEMENT OF REQUEST BID 3 YEAR CONTRACT FOR an opaque sealed envelope addressed to: Tim Baldermann, SuperinFOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR LANDSCAPE SERVICES tendent, Union School District 81, 1661 Cherry Hill Road, Joliet, Illinois CONSULTING AND ENGINEERING 60433.

Lincoln-Way Community High I. The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or all bids or SERVICES WILL COUNTY School District 210 invites bids parts thereof, or waive any irregularities or informalities, and to make LAND USE DEPARTMENT from qualified contractors to submit the award in the best interest of the District. a bid for a 3-year contract for land- SEALED PROPOSALS TO THE REJ. All bidders must comply with applicable Illinois Law requiring the scape services at Lincoln-Way Central High School, Lincoln-Way East QUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) payment of prevailing wages by all Contractors working on public High School, Lincoln-Way West FOR CONSULTING ENGINEERING works. Bidder must comply with the Illinois Statutory requirements reHigh School, Lincoln-Way North FIRMS INTERESTED IN SUBMITTING garding labor, including Equal Employment Opportunity Laws.

K. Bidding documents are on file and may be obtained upon receipt and Lincoln-Way Transportation PROPOSALS FOR THE DESIGN OF A STORM SEWER SYSTEM FOR of deposit in the amount of $100 for 1 set of the bidding documents Center, AN AREA OF UNINCORPORATED consisting of 2 sets of plans, 2 Project Manuals, 1 Compact Disc Sealed bids must be received by LOCKPORT TOWNSHIP IN THE containing PDF files of drawings and project manual, and 1 set Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 10:00 FAIRMONT COMMUNITY FOR THE of bid forms from: Gill Reprographics, Inc. (GRI), 17W715 Butterfield a.m. at the District Office located WILL COUNTY LAND USE DEPART- Road, Suite B, Oak Brook Terrace, IL 60181, (630) 652-0800, within Lincoln-Way Central High MENT WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE www.gillrepro.com.

School, at 1801 E. Lincoln High- WILL COUNTY PURCHASING DEL. The Architect for the above referenced project is Tria Architecture, way, New Lenox, IL 60451. Bid PARTMENT, WILL COUNTY OFFICE Inc., (630) 455-4500. opening will commence at 10:00 a.m. on April 28, 2016, in the BUILDING, 302 N. CHICAGO ST., (Published in the Herald-News April 10, 2016) 1176224 Board Room located at Lincoln- JOLIET, IL 60432, UNTIL THE Way Central. Bids received after the submittal time will be rejected and returned unopened to the sender.

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN A pre-bid meeting will be held on That on April 30, 2016, a sale will be held at Greg's Body Shop, 2221 Oak Leaf Street, Joliet, IL, to sell the Thursday, April 14 2016 at 10:00 following articles to enforce a lien existing under the laws of the State of Illinois against such articles for labor, a.m., in the Board Room at Lin- services, skill or material expended upon a storage furnished for such articles at the request of the following coln-Way Central High School, designated persons, unless such articles are redeemed within thirty days of the publication of this notice.

1801 E. Lincoln Highway, New Name of Person Description of Article Amount of lien Lenox, IL, 60451 to familiarize David Surufka 2000 Mazda Miata VIN # JM1NB3532Y0145051 $17,510.63 contractors with the project, answer CarMax 2000 Mazda Miata VIN # JM1NB3532Y0145051 $17,510.63 questions, and view the property.

(Published in the Herald-News March 27, 2016, April 3, 10, 2016) 1170808 A complete bid package may be

The Herald-News / TheHerald-News.com • Sunday, April 10, 2016 • 2016-2017 BUDGET The Village Board of the Village of Minooka, Illinois will hold a public hearing at 7:00 p.m. on April 26, 2016 at the Village Hall located at 121 East McEvilly Road, Minooka, Illinois for the purpose of hearing written and oral comment from the public concerning the proposed fiscal year budget, and to ask questions on the use of all funds.

The proposed budget has been published for public inspection at the Minooka Village Hall in the ofAfice of the Village Clerk during norLmal business hours. All interested citizens, groups and organizations representing their interests are enCT couraged to attend the public hearing.

By Order of President and Board of Trustees, Village of Minooka, IL Any individual with a disability requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the public meeting should contact the Village Clerk, Village of Minooka, 121 E. McEvilly Road, Minooka, Illinois at (815) 467-2151 at least

( ) three (3) working days in advance.

By Order of President and Board of Trustees Village of Minooka, IL The Herald-News April 10, 2016 Morris Herald-News April 14, 2016 1176583

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PUBLIC NOTICE Will County Clerk's Office Assumed Business Name Certificate of Registration of Ownership of Business

PUBLIC NOTICE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL The Village of Mokena is soliciting proposals from qualified firms of certified public accountants to audit the financial statements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, with the option of auditing the financial statements for the four subsequent fiscal years. Audit firms expressing interest will be provided with a copy of the request for proposal.

A copy of the request for proposal may be obtained through: Barbara A. Damron, Finance Director Village of Mokena 11004 Carpenter St.

PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF JOLIET ADVERTISEMENT TO BIDS 2165-0516 PROJECT NAME: 2016 PAVEMENT MARKING PROGRAM MFT SECTION NO. 16-00496-00-ST The City of Joliet, Illinois, does hereby invite sealed bids for 200,000 linear feet of Thermoplastic Pavement Markings, 14,000 linear feet of Polyurea Pavement Marking, 1000 square feet of pavement marking removal, and 100 each raised reflective pavement markers.

Bids will be received at the Office of the City Clerk, City of Joliet Municipal Building, 150 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, Illinois 60432-4156 until 9:00 A.M. local time on APRIL 25, 2016 at which time they will be opened and publicly read aloud.

Those desiring to bid may examine the bid documents and detailed specifications in the City of Joliet Purchasing Division, 150 W. Jefferson St., Joliet, IL 60432 between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday. Electronic copies can be downloaded free of charge at http://www.cityofjoliet.info/bids-proposals.

All Bidding Document holders should sign up for RSS feeds at http://cityofjoliet.info/departments/finance/purchasing/bidsproposals/construction-public-works and provide your first and last name and email address to automatically receive addendums.

Addendums will also be posted on the City of Joliet's website at http://www.cityofjoliet.info/bids-proposals. The potential vendor/contractor remains responsible for obtaining all addenda to the original specification so they should check the specific bid page before submitting a bid to make sure they have received all addendums to a specific contract.

All bidders will be required to submit Bid Security in the form of a Certified Check, Cashier's Check or a Bid Bond in the amount of FIVE percent (5%) of the Base Bid, payable to the City of Joliet. The City of Joliet's local qualified bidder ordinance does not apply to this contract.

The successful bidder will be required to post performance security and to provide a Certificate of Insurance as set forth in the Invitation of Bid and the General Terms & Conditions.

Bidders are required to be pre-qualified through the Illinois Department of Transportation. It is the responsibility of the bidder to ensure that their pre-qualification information is provided to the City of Joliet Purchasing Division prior to the bid opening. The City of Joliet reserves the right to reject any and all bids, parts of any and all bids, or to waive technical errors or omissions in bids.

The Contract shall be subject to the provisions of the Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1 et seq.) to the extent required by law.

ALL PROPOSALS ARE SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE CITY OF JOLIET PROCUREMENT CODE (Section 2-430 - 2-453 of the Code of Ordinances) ______________________________________ Hard copy bid document fee: $50.00, Electronic download is free.

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y rp Mokena, IL 60448 March 22, 2016 708-479-3900 Completed proposals must be (Published in the Herald-News received at the above address by March 27, April 3, April 10, 2016) 10:00 a.m. on May 6, 1171323

James D. Hock City Manager Margaret E. McEvilly Contract Administrator

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Name of Business: Apassion Auto

PUBLIC NOTICE Will County Clerk's Office Assumed Business Name Certificate of Registration of Ownership of Business Name of Business: CrossIce Training Certificate No.: 30639 Filed: March 29, 2016 Located at: 13958 Cambridge Circle Plainfield IL 60544

Certificate No.: 30609 Filed: March 22, 2016 Located at: 40 Meadow Ave. Rockdale, IL 60436

Name(s) and residence of address (es) of the person(s) owning, conducting or transacting business: Michael Gedzun 13958 Cambridge Circle Name(s) and residence of address Plainfield IL 60544 (es) of the person(s) owning, conIN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have ducting or transacting business: hereunto set my hand and Official Stephanie Cardwell Seal at my office in Joliet, Illinois.

3900 Leominster Ave. Jolliet, IL 60431 /s/ Michael Gedzun March 29, 2016 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and Official Seal at my office in Joliet, Illinois. /s/ Nancy Schultz Voots County Clerk /s/ Stephanie Cardwell (Published in the Herald-News /s/ Nancy Schultz Voots April 10, 17, 24, 2016) 1176347

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INVITATION TO BID OFFICIAL NOTICE PROJECT TITLE: DEMOLITION OF PROPERTIES Sealed bids shall be received by the Will County Land Use Department, Building Division, 58 E. Clinton Street, Suite 100, Joliet, Illinois 60432 until 3 o'clock p.m. local time on April 29, 2016 at which time all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud for: PROPERTIES: 1. 407 North Avenue, Lockport, Illinois 60441 11-04-35-106-016-0000 LOT 16 IN BRUCE HIGHLANDS SUB, BEING A SUB OF PRT OF THE W 1/2 OF THE NW 1/4 OF SEC 35, T36N-R10E. 2. 800 Magnolia Drive, Joliet, Illinois 60435 05-06-01-408-009-0000 LOT 1 IN ROONEY HEIGHTS UNIT 1, A SUB IN THE E1/2 SE1/4 OF SEC 1, T35N-R9E. 3. 352 Stevens Avenue, Joliet, Illinois 60432 30-07-11-303-001-0000 and 30-07-11-303-002-0000 LOT 86 (EX THE E 50 FT THROF) IN RIDGEWOOD, BEING A SUB OF PRT OF THE E1/2 OF THE SW1/4 OF SEC. 11, T35-R10E AND THE N1/2 OF LOT 87 ( EX THE E 50 FT THROF) IN RIDGEWOOD, BEING A SUB OF PRT OF THE E1/2 OF THE SW1/4 OF SEC. 11, T35N-R10E. Contract documents and detailed specifications may be examined at the following location and on the following terms: Examination: All examinations of contract documents and bid specifications from the Will County Land Use Department can be accessed at www.willcountyillinois.com. Questions should be directed to Michael Smetana via telephone 815-774-3367 or by email at msmetana@willcountylanduse.com.

Bid Document: Entire bid packet shall be downloaded from the website, completed, and returned, as directed in the bid document. If pages are found to be missing or sections are left blank from the bid documents, the proposal shall be rejected.

Pre-bid: Mandatory attendance at the following properties on the provided date and time: 1. 800 Magnolia Drive, Joliet, Illinois 60435 April 20, 2016 at 9:30 a.m.

2. 407 North Avenue, Lockport, Illinois 60441 April 20, 2016 at 10:00 a.m.

3. 352 Stevens Avenue, Joliet, Illinois 60432 April 20, 2016 at 10:30 a.m.

Insurance: The successful bidder shall be required to purchase insurance as set forth in the General Conditions.

MBE/WBE Outreach: Women owned and minority owned contractors are encouraged to submit a proposal. The County of Will and Will County Land Use Department reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

Bids submitted may not be withdrawn for a period of thirty (30) days following the bid opening without written consent of the awarding body.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

CITY OF JOLIET ADVERTISEMENT TO BIDS CONTRACT NO. 2166-0516 PROJECT NAME: 2016 SIDEWALK/ CURB REPLACEMENT PROJECT The City of Joliet, Illinois, does hereby invite sealed bids for 10,000 SF PCC SIDEWALK, 5”; 400 LF CONCRETE CURB & GUTTER; 200 SY PCC DRIVEWAY PAVEMENT, 6”; 72 SF DETECTABLE WARNINGS; 35 SY HOT MIX ASPHALT REMOVAL & REPLACEMENT, 3”.

Bids will be received at the Office of the City Clerk, City of Joliet Municipal Building, 150 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, Illinois 60432-4156 until 9:15 A.M. local time on Monday, April 25, 2016 at which time they will be opened and publicly read aloud.

Those desiring to bid may examine the bid documents and detailed specifications in the City of Joliet Purchasing Division, 150 W. Jefferson St., Joliet, IL 60432 between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday. Electronic copies can be downloaded free of charge at http://www.cityofjoliet.info/bids-proposals.

All Bidding Document holders should sign up for RSS feeds at http://cityofjoliet.info/departments/finance/purchasing/bids-proposals and provide your first and last name and email address to automatically receive addendums. Addendums will also be posted on the City of Joliet's website at http://www.cityofjoliet.info/departments/finance/purchasing/bids-proposals. The potential vendor/contractor remains responsible for obtaining all addenda to the original specification so they should check the specific bid page before submitting a bid to make sure they have received all addendums to a specific contract.

All bidders are required to submit Bid Security in the form of a Certified Check, Cashier's Check or a Bid Bond in the amount of Ten Percent (10%) of the Base Bid, payable to the City of Joliet. The successful bidder will be required to post performance security and to provide a Certificate of Insurance as set forth in the Invitation of Bid and the General Terms & Conditions.

The City of Joliet has a local qualified bidder ordinance that would apply to this contract. To apply to be a local qualified bidder please go to http://www.cityofjoliet.info/departments/finance/purchasing/prequalification-process.

Bidders are required to be pre-qualified through the Illinois Department of Transportation or the Capital Development Board. It is the responsibility of the bidder to ensure that their pre-qualification information is provided to the City of Joliet Purchasing Division prior to the bid opening.

The City of Joliet reserves the right to reject any and all bids, parts of any and all bids, or to waive technical errors or omissions in bids.

The Contract shall be subject to the provisions of the Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1 et seq.) to the extent required by law.

ALL PROPOSALS ARE SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE CITY OF JOLIET PROCUREMENT CODE (Section 2-430 - 2-453 of the Code of Ordinances) Hard copy bid document fee: $50.00, Electronic download is free.

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James D. Hock City Manager Margaret E. McEvilly Contract Administrator

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CITY OF JOLIET ADVERTISEMENT TO BIDS CONTRACT NO. 2170 - 0516 PROJECT NAME: 2016 ROADWAYS RESURFACING CONTRACT The City of Joliet, Illinois, does hereby invite sealed bids for 32,242 tons of Hot Mix Asphalt Surface Course; 6,342 tons of Hot mix Asphalt binder course; 260,107 sq yds. Of Hot mix asphalt surface removal; 1,623 sq yds. Class D Patches; 422 each Structures to be Adjusted; 45,757 ln ft Pavement Marking.

Bids will be received at the Office of the City Clerk, City of Joliet Municipal Building, 150 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, Illinois 60432-4156 until 10:00 A.M. local time on Monday, April 25, 2016 at which time they will be opened and publicly read aloud.

Those desiring to bid may examine the bid documents and detailed specifications in the City of Joliet Purchasing Division, 150 W. Jefferson St., Joliet, IL 60432 between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday. Electronic copies can be downloaded free of charge at http://www.cityofjoliet.info/bids-proposals.

All Bidding Document holders should sign up for RSS feeds at http://cityofjoliet.info/departments/finance/purchasing/bidsproposals/construction-public-works and provide your first and last name and email address to automatically receive addendums.

Addendums will also be posted on the City of Joliet's website at http://www.cityofjoliet.info/bids-proposals. The potential vendor/contractor remains responsible for obtaining all addenda to the original specification so they should check the specific bid page before submitting a bid to make sure they have received all addendums to a specific contract. All bidders will be required to submit Bid Security in the form of a Certified Check, Cashier's Check or a Bid Bond in the amount of FIVE percent (5%) of the Base Bid, payable to the City of Joliet.

The City of Joliet's local qualified bidder ordinance does not apply to this contract.

The successful bidder will be required to post performance security and to provide a Certificate of Insurance as set forth in the Invitation of Bid and the General Terms & Conditions.

Bidders are required to be pre-qualified through the Illinois Department of Transportation. It is the responsibility of the bidder to ensure that their pre-qualification information is provided to the City of Joliet Purchasing Division prior to the bid opening. The City of Joliet reserves the right to reject any and all bids, parts of any and all bids, or to waive technical errors or omissions in bids.

The Contract shall be subject to the provisions of the Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1 et seq.) to the extent required by law and the City of Joliet Procurement Code (Section 2-430 - 2-453 of the Code of Ordinances). ALL PROPOSALS ARE SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE CITY OF JOLIET PROCUREMENT CODE (Section 2-430 - 2-453 of the Code of Ordinances) Hard copy bid document fee: $50.00, Electronic download is free.

Sunday, April 10, 2016 Thursday, April 14, 2016

James D. Hock City Manager Margaret E. McEvilly Contract Administrator

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