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Joy down by the train tracks Nephew Jonathan and I hit the train trifecta on Easter Sunday.

Both of my nephews love trains, and while the appeal is somewhat diminished for me, I love spending time doing something they get such a kick out of. My parents live a block from train tracks and I have spent hours with Jonathan and Noah during the past decade, lingering behind the fence that separates the sidewalk from the tracks, hoping that we came down at a good time to catch a locomotive or two chug past.

We’re usually lucky to see one – and if it’s a freight train, they consider the trip a success, because it’s so long and loud.

But last Sunday, after we donned our (almost matching) green jackets and headed outside for the short walk to the tracks, we hit the train jackpot that perhaps only a little boy filled with awe and wonder at the power of a train truly appreciates.

Within a few minutes, we heard the “ding-ding-ding” of the warning bell and

saw the flashing red lights that meant a train was on its way. An Amtrak train sped past. About 10 minutes later, we saw a Metra, and probably 2 minutes after that, a freight train chugged past; the conductor’s wave sent the 3-yearold in my arms into a delightful grin as he furiously waved back long after the engine had passed.

We returned home, and he was bursting to tell everyone what we saw.

His face was alight as he recounted the adventure. In the scheme of things, it wasn’t an important moment in life. But it was one filled with the joy and wonder and innocence of a child, one us adults don’t experience often.

We need more moments like that in our lives.

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Inspector general powers might expand for Rialto investigation

By BOB OKON

bokon@shawmedia.com JOLIET – The City Council is being asked to consider expanding the authority of Joliet’s inspector general to investigate local governments and nonprofits that get money from the city as part of a package aimed at reviewing records at the Rialto Square Theatre.

It is not clear yet whether the Rialto board will invite the city’s new inspector general to do an investigation, which could go beyond the theater’s finances.

But it may have to let him in if the theater is to continue getting financial support from the city.

The Joliet City Council is scheduled Monday to discuss and possibly vote on expanded powers for the inspector general, an intergovernmental agreement with the Rialto, and the hiring of a firm to do a financial review of the theater.

The actions are being taken as the Rialto has sought increased financial assistance from Joliet to cover late payroll taxes and ensure that performers slated for upcoming shows get paid.

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Joliet accounting firm that the Rialto planned to hire for a financial review of its books, has pulled out.

“It’s really for reasons related to my business,” Theobald said. “I have expressed to the city manager that I have limited resources, and I’m concerned about taking on something that I can’t finish.”

Inspector General Chris Regis told the council last week that he did not know how long his investigation would take or where it might lead.

The City Council now is slated to vote on hiring a financial consultant of its own to review the Rialto’s books. The matter is on the agenda for the Monday and Tuesday meetings of the council, but the name of the firm was not included on the agenda as of Friday.

Theobald Associates originally was to work for the Rialto.

But some council members said at a meeting last week that they wanted Theobald working for the inspector general.

Regis said Friday that his accessibility to the Rialto was being worked on by city and theater officials.

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“That’s still going back and forth,” he said. “There’s a draft of the [intergovernmental] agreement, but that’s not finalized.”

The council is slated to vote on an amendment to the ordinance approved in December to create the inspector general’s position to expand investigations to “charitable organizations and other governmental bodies to which the City of Joliet lends either financial or other support.”

City Attorney Marty Shanahan described the amendment as primarily an expansion of job duties that clarifies the inspector general’s ability to investigate the Rialto.

But a council memo from City Manager Jim Hock describes it as an expansion of powers.

“The City frequently lends financial or in kind support to charitable organizations or other governmental bodies,” Hock’s memo states. “In order to insure that our tax dollars are being distributed in the most efficient and responsible fashion possible, the Inspector General should be given the power to investigate such organizations.”

Providence Catholic fans dressed for the cold weather Saturday. Providence beat Joliet Catholic, 18-2, at the 11th WJOL/Don Ladas Memorial tournament championship game at Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox.

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Consumers left with no electronics recycling outlet in Will County

By LAUREN LEONE–CROSS

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LOCKPORT – Will County’s electronics recycling program brought in a record-breaking 4.4 million pounds of TVs, monitors, computers and other items last year.

In the first two months of 2016, the county collected more than 800,000 pounds.

March was a different story.

“We’re getting a lot of calls, a lot of emails saying, ‘Hey, we hear your sites are closed,’ ” said Marta Keane, recycling specialist with Will County’s Resource Recovery and Energy Division.

March 1 was the day the county program – including its 13 drop-off sites – dismantled after its longtime recycling vendor exited its contract prematurely. That left officials scrambling to find a new one and consumers without an outlet to drop off old electronics.

Sites are still closed, Keane said. But there are plans to reopen some and possibly create new ones. The city of Lockport is the only community so far that’s agreed to reopen a drop-off site, but that won’t happen until May at the earliest, Keane said.

Electronics have been banned from landfills in Illinois since 2012.

Will County residents eager to rid their homes of bulky TV sets and old computers will have to hold onto them a little longer, she said. The reopening is pending approval of intergovernmental agreements and county hires to man the site.

“I know this is difficult to understand, why we can’t just have this up and running again,” Keane said.

New restrictions, responsibilities

Lockport Public Works Director Joe Cronin said it is unrealistic for Lockport to

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Leo Ocon uses a roll of clear tape to wrap a pallet of old TVs during Will County’s Recyclepalooza held in April 2015 in Joliet. The county’s electronics recycling program discontinued March 1 after the county’s longtime vendor bowed out of its contract early. Drop-off sites are temporarily closed and Will County plans to host one-day collection events. be the only community with a drop-off site over the long term, and urged other cities to sign on.

“I hope some of our neighboring towns hop back on the bandwagon. I think it’s an important benefit for the county,” Cronin said. “[My staff] is already picking stuff out of ditches, so we’re going to wind up stuck with them either way.”

When the site in Lockport does reopen, there will be limited hours and more restrictions. The site will be open 6 to 11 a.m. Tuesdays and Fridays, and staff will check identifications, limit services to county residents only and limit acceptance to two TVs per car.

Before, the sites were somewhat of a free-for-all with few restrictions, he said.

As part of the new vendor’s $200,000 contract with Will County, California-based Electronic Recyclers International is requiring county staff to sort, shrink-wrap and load the materials onto pallets and into a truck. Before, Vintage Tech Recyclers – the county’s former vendor – did that work at no additional charge, Keane said.

The county will be charged fees if workers improperly pack trailers or load electronics that, while not banned from landfills under Illinois law, are accepted by Will County’s program.

It’s those new require-

ments that have communities shying away from being a part of the county’s program once it’s up and running again.

‘Turnkey’ operation

The county itself anticipates hosting one-day collections in summer and fall 2016.

In the meantime, consumers can turn to Best Buy or Staples for electronics recycling needs if they’re willing to pay. However, Best Buy no longer accepts cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs and computer monitors – which are costly to recycle – from Illinois and Pennsylvania because state law forbids the company from collecting fees.

Keane said she is trying to establish some type of “turnkey” operation so more communities are willing to sign on. The county would provide the staff and communities can provide a site.

She said she also hopes communities will consider A chronic problem one-day collection events.

Keane said the fear is that Plainfield earlier this month worked out an agreement with the bulky TV sets and old computers will end up in ditches its waste hauler to recycle and landfills. residents’ electronics. Households are billed $1.15 monthly See RECYCLING, page 26 for services.

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Rialto Square Theatre board faces another decision on Randy Green

By BOB OKON

bokon@shawmedia.com JOLIET – The Rialto Square Theatre board will face Wednesday a decision for the third time on the future of General Manager Randy Green’s contract.

Green was placed on paid leave March 21 as Rialto officials turned to City Hall for help paying late payroll taxes Rialto and city officials have said is about $120,000. At that meeting, the board for a second time tabled a vote on a separation agreement as its attorney asked for more time to work out an arrangement with Green.

Rialto attorney David Silverman said Friday he had not reached an agreement with Green.

“We really don’t have any further report at this time,” Silverman said. “I don’t know where we’ll be on Wednesday.”

But Silverman said at a Joliet City Council meeting last week that the Rialto board could choose at some point to hold a hearing on whether to terminate Green.

Silverman elaborated on the situation while being pressed by Councilwoman Jan Quillman on why Green was still on

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Rialto Square Theatre General Manager Randy Green addressed the Joliet City Council in December 2014. The Rialto Square Theatre board could decide this week the future of Green’s contract. the payroll.

Silverman said Green, as a public employee with a contract, had a right to a hearing before he could be terminated.

“I can’t say here we’re going to dis-

charge an employee who has a constitutional right to a due process because that would negate the due process,” Silverman said. “This employee, you may not like him, but he has due process rights to a hearing.”

Green’s contract expires at the end of December.

Silverman said the Rialto had not offered Green money as part of a separation agreement.

“We’ve tried to negotiate an exit agreement with Mr. Green, and we have not been successful,” he said.

Some council members have been getting impatient.

At a March 14 meeting, the council put off a Rialto request for help paying the back payroll taxes while Green was still general manager.

“I felt pretty strongly that the city was not going to forward money to buy out a contract or to pay whatever needed to be paid to Mr. Green,” Mayor Bob O’Dekirk said at the March 25 council meeting.

The council, however, agreed to provide the money sought by the Rialto to pay late payroll taxes. The city also has agreed to cover performers’ fees at two shows this week, an amount estimated at $200,000.

The money is coming out of $400,000 the city had budgeted in Rialto contributions for 2016.

Councilman John Gerl commented Green was not likely to come back.

“He’s on his way out,” Gerl said.

Joliet Junior College spring enrollment steadily drops

By FELIX SARVER

fsarver@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Joliet Junior College spring enrollment numbers continue to decline – but online enrollment has more than doubled, and the Hispanic student population is rising more.

Joseph Offermann, JJC Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness director, gave an update last week on JJC student enrollment to the Board of Trustees, showing the college ranks fifth among all Illinois community colleges in headcount and full-time equivalent enrollment.

The spring headcount for JJC is 14,442, a 9.1 percent decrease from spring 2015 and the full-time equivalent – reflecting a full-time class load for students – is 8,050, a 7.1 percent decrease from last spring.

Both headcount and full-time equivalent enrollment continue to decline as JJC comes off what Offermann said were

By the numbers JJC spring headcount enrollment

n 2016: 14,442 n 2015: 15,888 n 2014: 16,735 n 2013: 17,706 n 2012: 16,079

JJC spring full-time equivalent enrollment

n 2016: 8,050 n 2015: 8,663 n 2014: 8,962 n 2013: 9,495 n 2012: 9,461

Source: Illinois Community College Board banner years in enrollment, which were between 2009 and 2013.

“We have nothing really to beat ourselves up about. … We’re working through it with student development area and enrollment management,” Offermann said.

Online enrollment more than doubled since 2007 by 107.3 percent, according to Offermann’s presentation.

With 25.3 percent of the student population being Hispanic for the spring semester, he said JJC is at the point of becoming a Hispanic-Serving Institution, or HSI. According to the Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities, HSIs are defined as colleges, universities, systems or districts where the total Hispanic enrollment consists of a minimum of 25 percent of total enrollment.

The college won’t see the designation from the U.S. Department of Education, but it can still designate itself as one or through HACU, he said.

“Right now, there are 10 institutions in Illinois that are an HSI. We want to be at No. 11,” Offermann said.

JJC still is seeing a declining trend of students who are 25 or older, he said.

The college saw an uptick in this catego-

ry during the Great Recession – lasting from 2007 to 2009, according to the Economic Policy Institute – and there is a correlation between the economic crisis and the college’s enrollment, he said.

“They were coming here getting their education. …They were training for new jobs. So, that’s what we’re attributing a lot of the decline. They got their credential, they got their degree or certificate and they moved on,” he said.

Board Vice Chairman Andrew Mihelich said JJC should be reflective of its community in terms of enrollment and he requested to see a breakdown of enrollment by race and age.

He said he believed the college should be concerned with the number of black, non-Hispanic students and there should also be a focus on black males.

“See if we have an issue there and something that needs to be addressed by this institution,” he said.

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Crest Hill El Burrito Loco closed after fire No injuries were reported

By MIKE MALLORY

mmallory@shawmedia.com CREST HILL – El Burrito Loco of Crest Hill will be closed until further notice as a result of a fire Saturday.

There were no injuries. Customers and employees escaped safely, owner Adan Barrios said.

Staff called 911 about 12:40 p.m.

when they noticed smoke in the restaurant, said Barrios, who was not present at the time.

Dark smoke was seen from the outside emitting from the roof of the building, located at 1659 Plainfield Road.

“Our main concern was customer and employee safety,” Barrios said.

“Most importantly, everyone made it out safe.”

He said the next step is to see if the inspector and insurance company can find the cause of the fire.

Barrios said as of Saturday afternoon, the building is not lost and the the he intends to reopen whenever

possible.

“We’ve been here 20 years,” Barrios said. “We have a lot of loyal customers. That’s why we’re not going to go anywhere. It means a lot to us.”

The fire comes on the same day the authentic Mexican cuisine restaurant chain opened its newest location in Lockport.

Barrios said he and the staff are sad to temporarily lose one restaurant on the same day they opened a new one.

He encouraged customers in the area to visit the Joliet, Lockport and Bolingbrook locations in the meantime.

“Once we figure out what happened, we’ll get it solved and get good food going out of here again,” Barrios said.

A statement on the restaurant’s Facebook page read: “As you may have heard, our Crest Hill location caught fire today. We are all saddened by this but are glad to announce all of our employees and customers are safe. The location will remain closed until further notice.

Thank you for your understanding.”

Calls to both the Lockport and Plainfield fire protection district offices were not immediately returned Saturday afternoon.

‘On the Table’ discussion planned for Tuesday in Joliet

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JOLIET – A session is scheduled for Tuesday in Joliet to discuss ways to better local communities.

During the past two years, more than 40,000 Chicagoland residents have come together to participate in The Chicago Community Trust’s On the Table. This annual forum is de-

signed to elevate civic conversation, foster new relationships and create a unifying experience across the region, according to a news release.

Joliet Junior College and The Community Foundation of Will County are hosting the local session, which is scheduled for 8 to 9:30 a.m.

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Windy weather causes power outages in Grundy, Will counties

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mmallory@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Wind gusts upward of 50 mph Saturday caused power outages throughout Will and Grundy counties.

A wind advisory was in effect most of the day, which meant winds of at least 35 mph were expected. Gusts were expected to reach 50 mph, with isolated bursts of up to 55 mph possible.

Throughout the afternoon, the Outage Map on the ComEd website showed multiple outages scattered throughout the region. At noon, at least 600 people were without power in Plainfield, 300 in Morris and another 200 in the Channahon-Minooka area. More than 1,000 were reported without power in the Braidwood area.

Just two hours later, 1,500 customers were affected in the area of Broken Arrow Golf Club in Lockport and 150 were without power in the area of Aux-Sable Elementary School in Minooka.

But by 5:30 p.m., the map showed spotty outages throughout Grundy and Will counties, where pockets of a couple homes up to a few hundred were still without power.

The winds caused at least one

Photo courtesy of Gardner Mayor Mike Serena

A semitrailer on southbound Interstate 55 was overturned Saturday near the Reed Road exit as wind gusts reached 50 mph throughout Will and Grundy counties. semitruck overturned on Interstate 55, near the Reed Road exit, and there also were reports of shingles removed from homes and fallen branches.

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Employees at both the Wal-Mart Su-

percenter on East Route 6 and Jewel-Osco on North Division Street in Morris said power was out about an hour at each location. Jewel-Osco rang up customers on reserve power. There also were reports of stores like Jewel and Aldi without power in Joliet.

Buffalo Wild Wings had planned four practice sessions Friday and Saturday for its new staff prior to the Morris location’s grand opening scheduled for Monday. The restaurant served, for free, community members who had vouchers for the events.

But general manager Eric Perez said the Saturday lunch hour practice run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. was shut down because power was out between 90 minutes and two hours.

“We didn’t serve, as we had to take food safety into concern,” Perez said.

Morris Police Patrolman Eric Washburn said there was “nothing major” in town but he had noticed flickering traffic lights and knew of the power outages. Channahon Fire Protection District Chief John Petrakis said there were no significant incidents or damages reported to the district.

Sunday was expected be breezy as well, although the winds were predicted to be 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph, according to the National Weather Service. The high is supposed to be 63, with a chance of showers at night.

Jefferson Street bridge in Joliet set to close starting Monday

By BOB OKON

bokon@shawmedia.com JOLIET – If the weather cooperates, the Jefferson Street bridge in Joliet will be shut down Monday as the state works to complete a painting job that started last summer.

The bridge was closed for five months in 2015 for the paint job, but the project was prolonged when work crews found other repairs were needed. Half the paint job was done.

IDOT said when the bridge reopened in November that it would be closed

again in April to finish the painting.

The Illinois Department of Transportation expects this part of the project to be completed in July. Only the lower section of the bridge is being painted.

The detour route will direct eastbound traffic on Jefferson Street to Raynor Avenue, which will go south to McDonough Street, east over that bridge to Chicago Street and north to Jefferson Street.

The same detour was used last year. Jefferson Street only runs eastbound at the bridge.

The Jefferson Street bridge in Joliet is slated to close Monday, weather dependent. It will be painted and reopening is scheduled for July.

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Catholic Charities of Joliet now lead agency for ombudsmen program 11 JOLIET – Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet is now the lead local agency for the Illinois Agency on Aging and Disability Services’ ombudsman program, representing long-term care clients in Will, Grundy and Kankakee counties.

Senior Services of Will County previously held the contract, but Catholic Charities of Joliet was asked to “fill a gap” and finish up the remaining six months of the contract, said Debbi Baldauff, director of the Aging and Disabil-

Ombudsman services are confidential and free.

Call locally at 815-932-1921 for more information; Call the Illinois Department on Aging helpline at 1-800-252-8966. Faxes for the program can be sent to 815-933-4601. To learn more about the programs and services provided by Catholic Charities, visit catholiccharitiesjoliet.org

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ity Services Division at Catholic Charities.

Continuing this ombudsman program is vital for long-term care resi-

dents, she said.

“This is absolutely critical,” Baldauff said, noting how trained ombudsman regularly visit facilities, where they monitor the individual’s care and living conditions. “They are a voice for these clients.”

Ombudsman also investigate allegations of exploitation and abuse, she said.

The goal of this program is to protect and promote the rights and quality of life for those who reside in long-term care, according to a news release from Catholic Charities.

As Illinois remains in a monthslong budget impasse, Catholic Charities is

still waiting on the state to release about $53,000 in federal pass-through dollars, she said. In the meantime, the agency will hire two employees – one full time and one part time.

“We’re hiring right now,” Baldauff said. “We’re not waiting to see the cash.”

Baldauff said she expects the nonprofit will make contact with 400 to 500 people in the next six months – which is why Catholic Charities need volunteers to sign on soon.

Training for the first group of volunteers is scheduled for April 5 to 7. Contact Debbi Baldauff at 815-523-9919 or dbaldauff@cc-doj.org for information.

Spanish Community Center to hold awards banquet on Wednesday

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Patrick’s Church; • Hamilton and Antonsen Law; • Nava O’Donnell, Alfredo Melesio Sr. and Jerry Morales, who are coaches in the Spanish Community Center’s baseball, tee-ball and softball program.

Nevarez noted the significant growth of both sports programs.

Gonzalez organized 10 years ago the soccer league, which includes children as young as 3 and young adults in their early 20s.

“Over 800 children and young adults participate in his program,” Nevarez

said.

The baseball program, too, has grown.

“We started out with 80 children eight years ago. Now we have over 300,” Nevarez said.

Jankowski will be recognized for bilingual programs and other activities at St. Patrick’s parish.

Hamilton & Antonsen Law has done pro bono work for the Spanish Community Center and some of the families it serves, Nevarez said. The firm also is a financial contributor to the center.

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JOLIET – The Spanish Community Center will recognize some regular people making a difference at an annual awards banquet scheduled for Wednesday.

That’s how Spanish Community Center Executive Director Elizabeth Nevarez described the people who will be honored at the Awards Celebration & Fiesta.

“It’s just regular, everyday people who want to make a difference in people’s lives,” Nevarez said.

Tickets will be available up to the event, which is at 6:30 p.m. at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 205 E. Jackson St. Tickets are $30 a person and $50 a couple. For more information, call 815-7273683.

Award recipients are: • Jose Gonzalez, organizer of the Joliet Soccer League; • Rev. Peter Jankowski, pastor at St.

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Plainfield Central to hold Vietnam War program

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A reenactment will follow outside the auditorium on the lawn in a ropedoff area that will include a semiautomatic rifle demonstration. District officials said the demonstrators will be shooting blanks and the demonstration itself is safe.

However, the guns are very loud.

“Please do not be concerned about this noise during the school day on [Friday] and alert your neighbors, family and friends who live in the

fsarver@shawmedia.com PLAINFIELD – A program on the Vietnam War that includes an outdoor battle reenactment is scheduled for Friday at Plainfield Central High School.

The social studies program about the war will be presented from about 7:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday in the Central campus auditorium, District 202 spokesman Tom Hernandez wrote in

Plainfield High School Central campus area,” Hernandez said in a phone message to the community.

The Vietnam War program is put on by Central graduate Eric Percy, who specializes in military reenactments, district officials said. Last fall, he put on a program about World War II. In the past, he taught students how American soldiers win battles through various strategies.

Percy and others part of the reen-

actment wear period uniforms, use authentic artifacts and present historical information to students.

Hernandez said that Central social studies teacher Steve Lamberti organizes these programs.

According to the Independence Hall Association’s U.S. History website, the Vietnam War began in the 1950s and ended when President Richard Nixon signed a ceasefire in 1973. Almost 60,000 Americans died and many more were injured.

New Lenox theater may have liquor license approved

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for AMC Theatre at Monday’s board meeting.

Mayor Tim Baldermann said AMC Theatre has been remodeling their venues nationwide, such as putting in leather recliners and changing their food menu. One change is adding a separate area for buying alcohol.

“They’ve been very successful.

Their business has increased since they [have] done them,” Baldermann said about the remodeling.

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fsarver@shawmedia.com NEW LENOX – A movie theater in New Lenox may start serving alcohol.

AMC Theatre – owned and operated

by AMC Entertainment Inc. – has applied for a Class H liquor license that New Lenox Village Board of Trustees may approve at their April 11 meeting.

The license is for theaters and cinemas.

Village trustees had their first reading of the Class H liquor license

have a McGuffins Bar and Lounge where customers can buy alcohol and take their drink to a movie showing, according to AMC Theatres’ website.

In Illinois, 12 theaters have a McGuffins Bar and Lounge.

“It’s been a very popular amenity for the industry in general and certainly for AMC specifically,” said Ryan Noonan, AMC Theatres spokesman.

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POLICE REPORTS 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.

• Jalil R. Hudson, 21, of the 0 to 100 block of Wildwood Lane in Bolingbrook, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of forgery.

• Tiffani A. Johnson, 24, of the 1700 block of Nelson Road in New Lenox, was arrested by sheriff’s police Wednesday on charges of aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol, driving without a license and driving without insurance.

• Charles Jones, 57, of the 400 block of Strong Avenue in Joliet, was arrested by Joliet police Wednesday on a charge of shoplifting.

• Tony L. Pacheco, 26, of the 8600 block of South Kedvale Avenue in Chicago, was arrested by sheriff’s police Wednesday for failing to comply with the state’s sex offender registry requirements.

• Ryan Redman, 20, of the 7800 block of Palm Drive in Orland Park, was arrested by Tinley Park police Wednesday on charges of drug possession, driving under

the influence of drugs and driving under the influence of alcohol.

• Aerion F. Robinson, 23, of the 300 block of Dewey Street in Joliet, was arrested by Joliet police Wednesday on a charge of obstructing justice.

• Kenneth J. Robinson, 28, of the 1400 block of South Kedvale Avenue in Chicago, was arrested by Joliet police Wednesday on charges of aggravated domestic battery and vandalism.

• Jonathan L. Berg, 23, of the 0 to 100 block of South Hammes Avenue in Joliet, was arrested by Shorewood police Thursday on a charge of aggravated battery.

• Herbert K. Bew, 24, of the 500 block of Water Street in Joliet, was arrested

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• Gregory P. Blair, 31, of the 400 block of Mason Avenue in Joliet, was arrested

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• Crystal N. Miles, 29, of the 800 block of Clement Street in Joliet, was arrested

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There are six settlements, totaling $104,646,436. More details are in Settlement Agreements and other documents available at www.illinoislcdsettlement.com. The cost to administer the Settlements, as well as the Illinois Attorney General’s fees and costs will come out of the Settlement Fund.

Plaintiff will request attorney’s fees and costs amounting to 10% of the Settlement Fund. Plaintiff will request that fixed portions of the remainder of the Settlement Fund will be distributed pro rata to the State of Illinois and state governmental entities (roughly 1.2%) and political subdivisions (roughly 10.2%), and that the remainder Settlement Fund (roughly Settlements have been reached with five 88.6%) be used to pay individual and Defendants (Epson Imaging Devices Corp., business consumers in Illinois.

LG Display Co., Ltd., Hitachi Displays, The maximum amount you could Ltd., Chi Mei Innolux Corp., Sharp Corp., potentially recover will vary by device, and certain affiliates) and one alleged ranging from $270 for a TV to $20 for a co-conspirator (Chunghwa Picture Tubes small-screen device. If there is not enough Ltd.). Three Defendants (AU Optronics money recovered to pay the maximum Corp., Toshiba Corp. and Samsung amount, your recovery will depend on Electronics Co., Ltd.) have not agreed to the number of claims per device settle so the lawsuit continues against them. submitted and the total recovery. We expect that such a pro rata distribution will Who is included in the lawsuit? allow for at least $20 per claimed device The lawsuit involves TFT-LCD Flat Panels and will increase if there are additional purchased indirectly from the Defendants. settlements or the State prevails at trial “Indirectly” means that you purchased against the remaining Defendants. products containing the TFT-LCD Flat Panel from someone other than the How can I get a payment? company that manufactured the component You must submit a Claim Form to get a TFT-LCD Flat Panel. The case is payment. You can submit a Claim Form proceeding to recover money for these online or by mail. The deadline to submit a Claim Form is October 4, 2016. Claim groups of indirect purchasers: forms are available at the website or by Illinois consumers: As parens patriae, calling 1-800-949-0146. No money will be Plaintiff has brought claims for monetary distributed yet. Plaintiff will pursue the damages incurred by any person or lawsuits against the Non-Settling business that purchased TFT-LCD panel Defendants. All funds received in this case products between January 1, 1998, and will be distributed together at the December 31, 2006, while residing in conclusion of the lawsuit or as ordered by Illinois and for their own use and not for the Court. resale. TFT-LCD panel products include most notebook computers with color What are my rights? displays, flat screen monitors, TVs referred If you do nothing, your rights will be to as LCD or LED TVs, cell phones, MP3 affected. If you do not want to be legally players and other handheld devices with bound by the lawsuit, you must exclude high resolution color displays. yourself from the lawsuit. If you exclude

What is the lawsuit about?

There is a lawsuit involving the price of thin film transistor liquid crystal display (“TFT-LCD”) Flat Panels. The lawsuit was brought by the Illinois Attorney General (“Plaintiff”). The lawsuit claims that Defendants conspired to fix, raise, maintain or stabilize prices of TFT-LCD Flat Panels resulting in overcharges to consumers who bought products containing the TFT-LCD Flat Panels. The Plaintiff is asking for money damages and an order to stop the Defendants’ alleged behavior that is the subject of this lawsuit. The Defendants deny Plaintiff’s allegations or that consumers suffered any overcharge. The Court has not decided who is right.

yourself, you will not get any benefit as a result of the settlements, trial, or judgment in this case. If you do not exclude yourself you will not be able to sue the Defendants for any claim relating to the lawsuits. The deadline to exclude yourself is June 4, 2016. Any Illinois state governmental entities: request for exclusion or objection must be Plaintiff has also settled potential claims on mailed to: Illinois LCD Indirect behalf of the State of Illinois and its state Exclusions, PO Box 170500, Milwaukee, governmental entities.

WI 53217. Illinois state governmental entities may not exclude themselves from the Settlements.

Illinois political subdivisions: Plaintiff has also settled potential claims involving the same products and time frame on behalf of counties, municipalities, townships and other political subdivisions in Illinois.

For More Information: 1-800-949-0146 www.illinoislcdsettlement.com

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• Sunday, April 3, 2016

JOLIET – The Homer Glen attorney who was found guilty of trying to hire another inmate to kill his wife while he was locked up in the Will County Jail asked Friday to represent himself again.

Robert W. Gold-Smith said he was “temporarily sort of shocked” and “sort of under duress” when Judge Daniel Rozak found him guilty of solicitation of murder at the conclusion of a bench trial. Gold-Smith had asked for the Will County Public Defender’s office to represent him in post-trial motions, but has now changed his mind.

“I believe it’s in my best interest. I know the case better than anybody,” said Gold-Smith, 53.

Gold-Smith was going through a contentious divorce in 2010 when he allegedly punched his wife outside a courtroom. When he was jailed in March 2011 on charges of violating an order of protection, he approached a handful of inmates and offered to pay for her death, according to trial testimony.

Gold-Smith told Rozak his motions to introduce new evidence and reconsider the case will move faster than if an assistant public defender had to review everything. “[Solicitation of murder] is a mandatory minimum of 20 years at 85 percent

and you’re worried about a couple of months?” Rozak said. The judge then “apologized in advance” and offered a frank assessment of Gold-Smith’s criminal defense as “not only ineffective, you’re inept.”

“You have to realize that you did an absolutely terrible job representing yourself,” Rozak said. “If I want a will or a real estate deal you might be the best attorney in the state of Illinois, but you’re a terrible trial lawyer.”

Before his arrest Gold-Smith worked as a bankruptcy attorney.

“If I told you I needed heart surgery, you’d refer me to a gynecologist. You’d say what’s the difference, they’re both doctors,” Rozak said. “If you could sue yourself for ineffective assistance [of counsel], you’d have a dead-bang winner.”

Rozak said Gold-Smith’s decision to represent himself despite his lack of experience in criminal law was “the best thing the state had going for it” with a weak case.

“If you’d sat there, shut up and kept quiet, maybe – just maybe – my decision would’ve been different, but every hole that was in their case – you filled in,” the judge concluded.

Undeterred, Gold-Smith told Rozak his new motion “is a game changer” and he wants to review recordings made at the county jail before his next hearing April 18.

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Fines reached $1.9 million in March alone, according to the latest figures provided to The Associated Press on Friday by the secretary of state’s office.

In March 2015, the state collected just more than $818,000 in fines.

The agency stopped mailing renewal reminders in October to save an estimated $450,000 a month on postage during the state’s budget stalemate.

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic lawmakers who control the Legislature have been locked in a budget fight that has left many state agencies scrambling to pay bills since July 1.

A group of state lawmakers want fines suspended until reminders can be mailed again, but legislation to do that

is moving slowly through the legislative process.

One of the bill’s sponsors, Rep. Jaime Andrade, expressed shock at the latest figures, which bring the total haul for the state this year to $4.9 million, compared to the $2.2 million collected between January and March 2015.

The secretary of state’s office has said it supports legislation to suspend the fines, but in the meantime has urged motorists to be mindful of their plate expiration date and to sign up online for electronic reminders. So far this year, 247,913 motorists have been

fined $20 each. Last year during the first three months, 111,200 had been fined.

By law, the fines must go into the state’s general checking account. Lawmakers pushing for the suspension of fines have suggested that the state return the money to motorists.

Andrade said the state should consider using the money to resume mailing reminders.

Andrade’s bill was introduced in November, yet it’s still awaiting a full vote by the Illinois House. It also needs to make it through the Senate.

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“There is no justification for operation of our government with such fiscal irresponsibility,” he said. “It’s not beneficial to the vendors who have to wait.

It’s money that could have otherwise gone into programs that is just adding to the cost of government.”

Although the Civic Federation determined that the state’s interest penalties started to climb in the 2008 fiscal year as bills started to get backlogged because of the recession, the poor economic environment wasn’t the only culprit, according to Msall.

“At its core, it is the result of the state of Illinois not having a sufficient budget for the last decade to address either unforeseen developments or under-appropriating areas of known expenditure,” Msall said.

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SPRINGFIELD – Illinois has spent more than $900 million on late-payment penalties over the last six years because of the state’s inability to pay its bills on time, according to Figures from Comptroller Leslie Munger’s office.

About $160 million was paid out in the 2014 fiscal year.

That’s the same amount that Gov. Bruce Rauner wants to remove from dedicated state funds to help the state’s universities through the rest of the cur-

rent fiscal year, The Springfield State Journal-Register reported.

The figures from Munger’s office don’t include any outlays for the current fiscal year in which the state has been operating without a budget since July 1.

Laurence Msall, president of a tax policy and government research organization called the Civic Federation, believes the penalties are wasted money because it doesn’t serve the state or help it deliver services more efficiently.

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GOTTA DO IT April 3 • 61st Annual Pancake Breakfast – 7:30 a.m. to noon, Mokena Elementary School, Wolf and Willowcrest roads, Mokena. Hosted by Mokena Lions Club. For information, visit facebook.com/ MokenaLionsClub.

April 4 • 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 815-263-8145 or email thess@plainfieldpubliclibrary.org for information.

• How to Develop a Resume – 10 to 11 a.m., 1715 Division St. Morris. Free.

• Awareness Open House – 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Easter Seals Joliet Region, Regional Pediatric Center, 212 Barney Drive, Joliet. Drop-in therapy groups, therapy rooms, crafts, storytime, demos, resource tables, refreshments. RSVP appreciated.

Call 815-927-5465.

• Microsoft Word – 1:30 p.m., also 10:30 a.m., April 7, Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. How to use Microsoft Word in job searches and create a professional looking resume and cover letter. RSVP by calling 815-723-3885 and press 0 or email chellis@ willcountyillinois.com.

• NAACP General Meeting – 7 to 8 p.m., Unity CDC Building, 1 Doris Ave., Joliet. Free. For information, email naacpjolietchapter@gmail.com.

April 5 • 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.

• Walk & Talk: Tour the JJC Arboretum and Greenhouse, Joliet Junior College, 1215 Houbolt Road, Joliet. For information, visit jjc.edu/sustainablecampus, email mrafac@jjc.edu or call 815-280-2546.

• Career Cafe – 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 815485-8369 or visit vfwpost9545.org.

• Bingo – 6:45 p.m., Knights of Columbus, 100 S. Infantry Drive, Joliet. Call 815-725-0746.

• 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.

• Minooka Women’s Club – 7 p.m., Minooka Village Hall. Members will make fairy gardens.

Women in Minooka, Channahon and Shorewood invited. For information, visit minookawomensclub.com or email MWC60447@gmail.com.

Members of Minooka Women’s Club display their zinnias (painted bottoms of pine cones), roses (fashioned from streamer paper) and peonies or water lilies (made using colored wrapping tissue) at a program presented

by Carolyn Healy.

• Fish Fry – 5 p.m., Harry E. Anderson VFW Post 9545, 323 Old Hickory Road, New Lenox.

Karaoke begins at 8:30 p.m. Call 815-485-8369 or visit vfwpost9545.org.

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• Forest Preserve District of Will County Volunteer Workday – 8 a.m. to noon, Messenger Woods Nature Preserve, Homer Glen. For more information, email rgauchat@ fpdwc.org or call 815-722-7364.

• Community Coffee with the Superintendent – 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., District 202 administrative center, 15732 Howard St., Plainfield. Free; registration not required.

Photo provided • Excelling with Excel – 9 a.m. to noon, Rasmussen College, 1400 Normantown Road, Harry E. Anderson VFW Post 9545, 323 Old • Three Rivers Gardening Angels – 7 p.m., Romeoville. $50. Payable to Romeoville Area Hickory Road, New Lenox. Call 815-485-8369 or Channahon Methodist Church, 34751 Eames St., Chamber of Commerce. For information, call visit vfwpost9545.org.

Channahon. Speaker from Hornbaker Gardens • ESL Conversation Group – 6:30 p.m., White 815-886-2076 or email info@romeovillewill give a presentation on garden maintechamber.org.

Oak Library District, Romeoville Branch, 201 nance. Guests welcome.

• Housing Expo – 9 a.m., Joliet West High Normantown Road, Romeoville. For more infor• World War II Submarine Program – 7 School, Joliet. For information, visit facebook. p.m., Lemont VFW, Lemont, weather permitting. mation, call Pat at 815-552-4185 or visit whiteocom/joliethousingexpo/ aklibrary.org.

Presenters: Chicago group of submariners.

• World Vision’s Global 6K for Water Fun • “BIDDER 70” – 7 p.m., Universalist Unitarian Run and Nature Walk – 9 a.m., Joliet Junior Church of Joliet, 3401 W. Jefferson St., Joliet.

April 6 College, 1215 Houbolt Road, Joliet. $50 (adult) Documentary about a college student who and $25 (student or child). Register at http:// derailed a widely protested Bush administration • Will County Mobile Workforce Center – teamworldvision.org/jjc6k.

For information, federal oil and gas land sale. For information, call 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3:30 p.m., Plainfield email Linda Blanco at lblanco@jjc.edu.

Public Library, 15025 S. Illinois St., Plainfield. Visit 815-744-9020.

• “Taming Your Inner Packrat” – 10 a.m., • Conservation Gardening Night – 7 p.m., jobs4people.org.

Will/South Cook Soil and Water Conservation Dis- Coal City Public Library, 85 N. Garfield St., • English as a Second Language Grammar Coal City. Presenter: Lisa A. Alzo, writer, trict, 1201 S. Gougar Road, New Lenox. Speaker: Club – 10 a.m., Plainfield Public Library District, lecturer, and genealogist. Hosted by the Will/ University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener 15025 S. Illinois St., Plainfield. Call 815-263-8145 Grundy Genealogical Society.

Nancy Kuhajda. For information, call 815-462or email thess@plainfieldpubliclibrary.org for • Lincoln’s Assassination and Funeral – 3106, ext. 3. information.

Exhibit open noon to 7 p.m. Free program at 2 • Standout Resumes – 2:30 p.m., Workforce and 6 p.m., Woodlawn Funeral Home, 3201 W. April 8 Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Jefferson St., Joliet. Limited seating, RSVP to Joliet. One hour. Free. RSVP at 815-723-3885 or 815-725-0100.

• SMHEC Student Sustainability Summit email pabbott@willcountyillinois.com.

• Licka Vecera – 5 to 7 p.m., Croatian Cul– 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Joliet Junior College, • ESL Conversation Group – 3 p.m., White tural Club,1503 Clement St., Joliet. Smoked Oak Library District, Crest Hill Branch, 20670 Len 1215 Houbolt Road, Joliet. For more informameat, sausage, sauerkraut, chicken, cabbage tion, www.jjc.edu/sustainablecampus, email Kubinski Drive, Crest Hill. Call 815-552-4185 or rolls, potatoes, salad, dessert and coffee. $25. mrafac@jjc.edu or call 815-280-2546. visit whiteoaklibrary.org.

Rakija Band starts 7:30 p.m. Reserve tickets • Spring Youth Rummage Sale – 9 a.m. to • Free Tax Help – 5:30 to 8 p.m., Spanish Comat 815-723-3154.

4 p.m.; also 9 a.m. to noon, April 9, Our Savior munity Center, 309 N. Eastern Ave., Joliet. First Lutheran Church, 1910 Black Road, Joliet. Call come, first served. Income guidelines apply.

April 10 815-725-1606.

• Severe Weather Spotter Course – Doors • Will County Mobile Workforce Center open 6 p.m. Training begins 7 p.m. Will County • Forest Preserve District of Will County – 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m., Mokena Farm Bureau in Joliet. Free. To register, call 815Volunteer Workday – 8 a.m. to noon, RoPublic Library, 11327 W. 195th St., Mokena.

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• Will County Mobile Workforce Center – • Fish Fry – 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Stone City VFW Houbolt Road, Joliet. For information, jjc.edu/ 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m., Wilmington City Post 2199, 124 Stone City Drive, Joliet. Carryout sustainablecampus, email mrafac@jjc.edu or Hall, 1165 S. Water St., Wilmington. Visit www. call 815-280-2546. and eat-at-bar begin at 11 a.m.; dining room jobs4people.org.

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OBITUARIES WILLIAM JAMES BULLIFIN William James “Jimmie” Bullifin, age 78, went home to be with the Lord, Thursday, March 31, 2016, at his home in Whiteville, TN. Funeral Services were conducted Saturday, April 2, 2016, at 11 a.m. in the Lea and Simmons Funeral Home, burial followed in the Harmony Baptist Church Cemetery.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Patricia Barrowclough Bullifin; a son, Raymond Bullifin; his parents, James and Lois Watteridge Bullifin; and a half brother, Tommy Talbott.

He is survived by his son, Kent (Jhay) Bullifin, Manila, Philippines; one daughter, Dianne Bullifin Milam, (Guy) Austin, Texas; his fiancée, Patricia Levine, Memphis, TN; his half sister, Millie Talbott, Pinson, TN; two grandchildren, Kyle Bullifin and Brandon Bullifin; and a great-granddaughter, Gracie Bullifin.

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time with her grandchildren.

Surviving are her children, Cynthia (Ruben) Castillo and Jason Castillo; six grandchildren, Tyler Castillo, Addison Castillo, Douglas (Diane) Camacho, Rory (Erika) Camacho, and Cristina Camacho; four great-grandchildren, Abigail, Vincent, Allison and Sydney; two brothers, William David (Anita) Turner and Joseph Lee (Debbie) Turner; sister-in-law, Vera Ramirez; and several nieces and nephews.

Preceded in death by her husband, Raymond P. Castillo (2001); her parents; and one brother, John L. Turner.

Funeral services for Alice Castillo will be held Tuesday, April 5, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. at Fred C, Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black at Essington roads, Joliet. Interment will be in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial to the family would be appreciated.

Visitation Monday, from 2 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

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

March 23, 1927, a son of Morrison and Hilda Gardner.

The family extends special thanks to the staff and caregivers of the Inn at Willow Falls for their exceptional care and compassion and also to the Cancer Care Center staff at Rush Copley Hospital in Aurora for their friendly and caring service.

Lawrence, who was nicknamed Bum, was a 1945 graduate of Yorkville High School and served as a medic in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1947. He married Mary Joanne Trummel on April 28, 1951. He was a graduate of then Aurora College and earned graduate degrees from Northern Illinois University. He spent 30 years as a teacher and administrator in Millbrook and in the Yorkville School District where he served as teacher, principal and assistant superintendent. He retired from education in 1986 as principal of Bristol Elementary School.

Lawrence was also a member of the Yorkville Trinity United Methodist Church and served as a Yorkville city alderman. In addition, he served 20 years as a volunteer fireman for the Bristol Kendall Fire Department and was a trustee

and president of the Yorkville Bristol Sanitary District.

He is survived by his wife; and two sons, Mike (Joanne) of New Lenox, and Bill of Lakewood, Colorado. He is also survived by a sister, Linda (Bob) Fleckinger of Yorkville; and three grandchildren; and four great grandchildren, Angela (Kevin) Klisz of Crystal Lake and their sons, Mason and Carter; Scott (Brooke) Gardner of New Lenox and their daughters, Taylor and Rylie; and Jeff Gardner of Chicago. He is also survived by several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, and a brother, David.

Memorial services are being handled by Nelson Funeral Home in Yorkville. Visitation will be held 1 to 3 p.m. on Monday, April 4, 2016, at the Yorkville Trinity United Methodist Church, with a memorial service to follow immediately, also at the church.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Trinity United Methodist Church Memorial Fund or to the Yorkville Public Library.

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ALICE C. CASTILLO Born: March 30, 1942 Died: March 31, 2016

Alice C. Castillo, age 74, at rest, March 31, 2016, at Presence St. Joseph Medical Center. Born March 30, 1942, in Memphis, TN, to John L. and Viola (nee Bush) Turner. She was a graduate of Memphis State University and received a master’s degree from the University of St. Francis. She worked for the State of Illinois, Department of Family Services with over 30 years of service.

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OBITUARIES JOSEPH JAMES GINEJKO Born: April 18, 1925; in Joliet Died: March 27, 2016; in Plainfield

TOUSSAINT C. GRIFFIN Born: Oct. 24, 1944 Died: March 17, 2016

Toussaint Chevalier Griffin was born in Cairo, on Oct. 24, 1944, to Jack J. Jr. and Geneva Hathaway Griffin. At a very young age he was christened at Ward Chapel AME Church in Cairo. He was educated in the public schools of Cairo and went on to complete high school

WESTON DONALD JOHNSON

Born: Dec. 5, 1988 Died: March 22, 2016

Weston Donald Johnson, 27, of Washington state, went to be with his Lord on March 22, 2016.

He was born Dec. 5, 1988, in Joliet, to Ramona Weston and Brad Johnson, Weston graduated from Minooka High School in 2007 and then went on to join the U.S. Navy as a Submariner in 2009.

He was married to Miranda Nicole July 18, 2013. Weston enjoyed his Naval career, traveled the world and he was an avid hunter and fisherman.

Preceded in death by his grandparents, Leonard and Irene Weston and Donald and Carol Johnson; and one aunt.

Weston is survived by his wife, Miranda Nicole Johnson; mother, Ramona Weston

(Kenneth Horvat); two brothers, Seth Swanson and Cort Swanson of Minooka; his father, Brad (Dixie) Johnson of Crest Hill; numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and naval family. And his three furry babies, Pono, Peanut and Shy Boy. Services will be held at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 8, 2016, at the Abraham Lincoln National cemetery in Elwood.

Visit his Book of Memories at fredcdames. com.

WENDELL MATHISON JR. Wendell “Buddy” Mathison Jr., passed away suddenly as a result of an automobile accident, Thursday, March 31, 2016. Age 64.

Survived by his loving wife of 40 years, Debra Mathison; two daughters, Christina (Dwight) Jackson and Amanda (Ray) Burger; four grandsons, Willie Mendez III, Cayden Burger, Brandon Turley and Dalton Schraer; two sisters, Mary (George dec.) Drakos and Pam Pomykala.

Preceded in death by his daughter, Jennifer Suzanne Mathison (1986); and his parents, Wendell and Gloria Mathison.

Owner of E.W.P Pallet Co., also Buddy was an avid Bears and Cubs fan. He has a heart of gold and went above and beyond when it came to his family and friends.

Funeral services will be held at the Carlson-Holmquist-Sayles Funeral Home, 2320 Black Road, Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 10 a.m. Interment Maple Hill Cemetery in Elwood.

In lieu of flowers or gifts please make donations to his “Buddy’s Grandsons Education Fund” at BMO Harris Bank.

Visitation will be held Tuesday from 3 to 8 p.m. In Buddies honor please wear your favorite Cubs attire.

RAYMOND H. SCHLATTMAN Raymond H. Schlattman, age 80, at rest Wednesday, March 30, 2016, at Hines V.A. Hospital after a long battle with cancer. Born in Mayville, Michigan to the late Harold and Sylvia (Clark) Schlattman, residing in Wilmington for 12 years.

A former dairy farmer for many years. U.S. Army Veteran, 4th Degree Member of the Knights of Columbus, Marlette, Michigan. He was an avid golfer and bowler, belonging to the Plainfield Mixed Bowling League.

Ray’s granddaughters were the world to him, from the youngest, who has a remarkable resemblance to his late wife, to the oldest, who he was her biggest softball fan. He was a strong man of faith and gentle kind soul.

Preceded in death by his loving wife, Nancy (Boyle) Schlattman (2001); his parents; and his siblings, Joanne, James and Douglas.

Survived by his son, Michael (Kay) Schlattman of Plainfield; two precious granddaughters, Michaela and Morgan Schlattman; one brother, Glen Schlattman of MI; and several nieces and nephews.

A memorial Mass will be held Monday, April 4, 2016, 11 a.m.at St. Mary Immaculate Catholic Church, 15629 S. Route 59, Plainfield, IL 60544.

Please omit flowers. Interment Marlette Cemetery in Michigan at a later date. A memorial gathering Sunday, April 3, 2016, from 4 until 6 p.m. at Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black at Essington roads, Joliet, IL. For information, 815-741-5500 or visit his Book of Memories at www.fredcdames.com.

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In Loving Memory

Emmanuel Delrose

Sept. 30, 1928 - April 4, 2013 To the love of my life. It’s been three years since you’ve been gone, but I carry you in my heart every day. I miss you dearly, and find comfort in knowing you are at peace with God. Your loving wife forever, Ida.

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Joseph James Ginejko, 90, born at his parents’ home on Bluff Street in Joliet, on April 18, 1925, died peacefully in his home in Plainfield, on Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016.

Joseph attended Holy Cross grade school in Joliet, from where he received a scholarship to Joliet Catholic High School. After graduation, Joseph proudly served in the US Navy 13th Battalion as a SeaBee, Seaman First Class, on Tinian and Okinawa in the Pacific theater of WWII. Upon his return, Joseph graduated from Joliet Junior College, and then worked at Ruberoid/GAF. He was active in multiple softball, bowling and golf leagues. He was a lifelong member of Holy Cross Church as a Parrish Board Member, Lecturer and Eucharistic Minister. Joseph was also a lifelong member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

He was a Plainfield Police Pension Board member for 19 years He enjoyed traveling the world and gardening. Joseph performed in Soldier Field with the Sokols at the 1932 Chicago World’s Fair, and was always proud of his Polish Szlachta family heritage.

Joseph is survived by his wife of 44 years, Mary Louise “Bonnie;” his two sons, Dr. Joseph John (Timothy) Ginejko of California with granddaughters, Emily Anne and Sophia Catherine; and son, James L Ginejko of Plainfield. He is also survived by his sister, Dolores (William) Benedict, and multiple nieces and nephews.

Joseph is preceded in death by his parents, Joseph and Emily Ginejko; sisters, Francis (Perry) Coder, Lillian (George) Sweeney/ (Cliff) Heald, Irene (Dr Roy) Greer and Bernice “Dickie” (John) Smeets; and multiple nieces and nephews.

The funeral mass and burial were performed at Holy Cross Catholic Church and Cemetery following a private visitation on March 30, 2016. Arrangements entrusted to:

at Joliet Central High School in Joliet, Illinois graduating in 1964.

Toussaint had a distinguished career while a member of the U.S. Navy. His service in the U.S. Navy from 1965 to 1978 included action in the Vietnam conflict and working in Naval Intelligence in Europe. Upon leaving the Navy, Toussaint joined the staff at the Department of Defense in the Human Intelligence Division and later was transferred to an administrative position in charge of the Technical Division until his retirement in 2014.

He was preceded in death by his mother and father, Geneva and Jack Griffin Jr.; his brother, Brian Griffin; and sister, Angela Griffin. In addition he was preceded in death by his in-laws, Herbert Scott, Martha Kelly Griffin and Ruth Gordon Griffin.

Toussaint was a resident of Annandale, Virginia. He leaves to grieve his loss, his loving and devoted wife of 34 years, Cynthia; his loving daughters, Olivia (Pierce) Royle and Summer Griffin; beloved son, Jack Griffin IV; and beautiful 6 mo. old grandson, (Pierce Jr.) all of Annandale, VA. He will be greatly missed by his sisters, Jacqualine F. Scott of Homewood, Acquanetta (Daniel) Polley Sr. of Shorewood, Makeda (James) Clayton of Seattle, WA; his brothers, Jack J. Griffin III of Lindenhurst, Donald F. Griffin Sr. of Naperville, Robert (Patricia) Griffin Sr. of Moreno Valley, CA, and Pierre (Regina) Griffin of Joliet. He leaves behind a host of nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews; and other extended family members, cousins, in-laws and friends.

Private services were held in Annandale, Virginia.

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Innovative Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid dies at 65

By JILL LAWLESS

The Associated Press LONDON – Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, whose modernist, futuristic designs included the swooping aquatic center for the 2012 London Olympics, has died at age 65. She leaves a string of bold, often beautiful and sometimes controversial buildings around the world.

Hadid’s firm said she died Thursday in a Miami hospital. She had contracted bronchitis earlier this week and had a heart attack while being treated.

In London, where she lived and worked, Mayor Boris Johnson tweeted that “she was an inspiration and her legacy lives on in wonderful build-

ings” at the Olympic park and around the world.

Born and raised in Baghdad, Hadid studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut before enrolling at the Architectural Association in London in 1972.

She worked for the groundbreaking Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas before setting up London-based Zaha Hadid Architects in 1979.

Hadid’s work fused her knowledge of mathematics and embrace of computer technology with soaring imagination and ambition.

She designed buildings around the world – although relatively few, she often noted, were in Britain. Her projects included an innovative BMW plant in

Leipzig, Germany; sleek funicular railway stations in Innsbruck, Austria; the glittering Guangzhou Opera House in China; Rome’s light-filled MAXXI museum for contemporary arts and architecture; and the strikingly curved Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Her buildings were always talking points, and sometimes controversial.

The Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul was compared by detractors to an ugly spaceship that had made an emergency landing. Last year, the Japanese government revoked her commission to build the stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics amid spiraling costs.

Uncompleted works include one of the stadiums for the 2022 World Cup

in Qatar and a new Iraqi parliament building in Baghdad.

Hadid twice won Britain’s Stirling Prize for architecture and in 2004 became the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, known as the “Nobel prize of architecture.”

The Pritzker jury praised her unswerving commitment to modernism and defiance of convention.

Although Hadid said she felt something of an outsider in British architecture – a woman, a foreigner and an innovator – she was made a dame, the female equivalent of a knight, by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.

“I’m not against the establishment, per se,” she told the BBC. “I just do what I do and that’s it.”

April 10, 2016, at 5 p.m. at the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black at Essington Roads, Joliet. Visitation will be held from 1 p.m. until the time of service. As it was his wish, cremation rites have been accorded.

Information, 815-741-5500 or visit his Book of Memories at www.fredcdames.com.

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Many aunts and uncles from the Miller and Hynd families Evelyn was born on Aug. 28, 1916, the daughter of Clarence and Jennie Miller. She was a lifelong resident of Joliet and a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Joliet. Evelyn was intelligent and spirited, she enjoyed visiting with family and friends and telling stories about old Joliet.

Lying in state at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 710 W. Marion St., Wednesday, April 6, 2016, from 9 a.m. until Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. Interment Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery.

Memorials to St. Patrick’s Catholic Church or Joliet Area Community Hospice will be appreciated.

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EDWARD J. SHAIN Edward J. Shain; a Memorial Mass will be celebrated at Holy Family Catholic Church in Shorewood on Wednesday, April 6, 2016, at 10 a.m. All family and friends are invited to attend.

For information, call 815-744-0022 or visit: www.chsfuneral.com.

LAVON SMITH

Born: April 24, 1936 Died: March 20, 2016 Lavon Smith “Cy,” age 79, died suddenly on March 20, 2016, at Loyola Medical Center. Born April 24, 1936, in Dyersburg, Tennessee.

Lavon lived in Joliet for 63 years. He was owner of Cy’s Heating and Cooling until he retired and his son, Mike, took over the business.

Preceded in death by his parents, Herman and Jessie Smith.

Survived by his loving wife, Nell of 62 years; loving father of son, Mike (Judy) Smith; and daughter, Kay (Jim) Elmore; grandpa to Michael, Jordon Smith, Zach (Jackie) Ficarella, Steven (K.T.) Elmore, Laura (Dusty) Stratton; great-grandpa to Nellie (2.20z) Stratton. Lavon was a big brother to Lavern (Jan) Long and Doris (John) Davis.

Lavon was loved and will be missed by many loving friends and family relatives.

Memorial service will be held on Sunday,

DIANE V. STOHLQUIST Diane V. Stohlquist (Tucker), age 74, of New Lenox, passed away on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at her home in New Lenox.

Diane is survived by her loving family, husband, Ralph A. Stohlquist; children, Eric (Sabine) Stohlquist, Cheryl (Steve) Couch; brother, Cal (Kathy) Tucker; grandchildren, Derek Vickers, Drew (Alysha) Vickers, Amanda (Eric) Pole and Neil Vickers.

Diane was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Vernelda Tucker (Balk).

Diane was a member of Peace Lutheran Church in New Lenox where she was very active in the Quilting Group, Altar Guild and Banner making.

Family will receive friends at Peace Lutheran Church, 1900 E. Lincoln Highway, New Lenox, IL 60451 on Tuesday, April 5, 2016, from 10 a.m. until time of funeral service at noon.

Interment will be private.

In lieu of flowers, donations to Family Centered Hospice would be appreciated.

EVELYN F. VERCELLOTTI Born: Aug. 28, 1916 Died: March 30, 2016

Evelyn F. Vercellotti of Joliet went home to the Lord on Thursday, March 30, 2016, at Our Lady of Angels Nursing Home. Age 99 years.

Surviving are nieces, Judy O’Bert of Joliet, Debra (Daniel) Altiery of Braidwood, Nancy (Rick) Heye of Shorewood and Jane Vercellotti of Joliet; nephew, Thomas (Ginny) O’Bert of Shorewood; and several great-nieces and nephews.

A special recognition to her longtime caregiver, Patricia Townsend, for her years of dedicated service; and to the care and commitment of St. Patrick’s Church, Father Peter Jankowski and Julie Dillenburg.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her loving husband, Louis; a sister-in-law, Theresa O’Bert; and brother-in-law, Frank Vercellotti.

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2 employees at youth home charged in death of Chicago teen

WAUKEGAN – Two men working at a residential facility for troubled children in northern Illinois have been charged in the asphyxiation death of a 16-year-old Chicago boy who lived there.

The Lake County James E. Davis Major Crime Task Force announced the charges Saturday. James E. Davis, 37, of Round Lake was charged with Justin J. Serak involuntary manslaughter and obstruction of justice.

Justin J. Serak, 27, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, was charged with obstruction of justice.

Shaquan Allen was pronounced dead at a hospital Wednesday. An autopsy found he died of asphyxiation.

The incident occurred at the Allendale Association in Lake Villa.

Crime Task Force spokesman Christopher Covelli said the two employees struggled with the boy while responding to a “behavioral issue” and Davis put him in a chokehold.

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Tribe’s bingo hall plan under review by federal agency

SHABBONA – A federal agency is reviewing a proposal to put a Native American electronic bingo hall on the outskirts of a northern Illinois village.

The plan from the Kansas-based Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation would put a 24-hour bingo hall near the DeKalb County village of Shabbona. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is reviewing the proposal.

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Department of Interior spokeswoman Nedra Darling said a preliminary report on that impact is expected in October.

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U of Illinois union for non-tenured faculty considers strike

URBANA – About 500 University of Illinois faculty members plan to vote on a potential strike.

Members of the Non-Tenure Faculty Coalition Local 6546 said their negotiations with the university were not progressing after meetings with a federal mediator.

The union represents faculty members who are not part of the tenure system and are paid less than tenure-track faculty.

It is trying to reach its first contract with the school after winning recognition a year and a half ago.

Dorothee Schneider is a history instructor and spokeswoman for the union. She told The News-Gazette in Champaign that the union hopes members will authorize a potential strike to help break the deadlock when they vote over the next week.

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1st Division Museum in Wheaton to get $7M renovation

WHEATON – A museum dedicated to the U.S. Army’s First Division is getting a $7 million update to include more information about recent missions in Afghanistan, Iraq and other regions.

Local media reports indicate the improvements to the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park in Wheaton will celebrate all 100 years of the military unit’s history. The museum was founded in 1960 and hasn’t seen any major renovations since it moved to its current building in 1992.

Current exhibits span the period from the division’s beginning in 1917 through the Vietnam War. The museum will close on Veterans Day and reopen in summer 2017.

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Products for use with marijuana are seen Oct. 20 inside a licensed medical cannabis dispensary in Canton. Under a bill proposed by Republican state Rep. Dwight Kay, medical marijuana products in Illinois would be required to carry warning labels about possible side effects. Kay said the goal is to treat medical marijuana like other prescription drugs that warn patients about possible adverse effects.

Bill seeks warning labels on Illinois medical pot products

By IVAN MORENO

The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – Medical marijuana in Illinois would be required to carry warning labels about possible side effects under a bill proposed by a Republican lawmaker.

Rep. Dwight Kay said the goal is to treat medical marijuana like other prescription drugs that warn patients about possible adverse effects. His bill, Dwight Kay which is up for a House committee vote Monday, doesn’t specify what warnings should be on the products, leaving it to the state health department to decide.

But Kay said he would like to see warnings about how marijuana can cause drowsiness and impaired driving, and that it can affect pregnancies.

Medical marijuana sales

began in Illinois in November under a 4-year pilot program, which Kay opposed. However, he said he believes it will eventually become permanent and wants the labeling to be in place as soon as possible.

“It’s better coming sooner or later that we get the appropriate warnings on the package or whatever this is being dispensed in,” he said.

Currently, marijuana-infused products like chocolates and other edibles are required to have language stating that the cultivation center where the pot was produced is not subject to public health inspection. The products are also required to state that they’re intended for medical use and not for resale or transfer. A clearly visible label warning that the product is marijuana and not food is also required.

But listing possible side effects of the drug, whether in edible or plant form, are not among the current labeling requirements.

Bresha Brewer, the executive director of the Medical Cannabis Alliance of Illinois, said her group is still reviewing Kay’s proposal and has not taken a position yet. However, she noted that dispensaries already provide educational materials at their shops. She also said medical marijuana patients get oneon-one consultations with employees about how pot may affect them.

“Everyone is going to react differently,” Brewer said.

Dan Linn, a spokesman for the Illinois chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, said he believes further labeling on the products is unnecessary. But, he added, “The more information we can provide patients is beneficial.”

Kay said his biggest concern is with people who may come in contact with the drug without understanding the possible consequences.

“For lack of a better word, the innocent bystander,” he said.

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FALLBROOK, Calif. – A small plane crashed on a Southern California freeway Saturday, slamming into a car stopped on the side of the road, killing a woman in the vehicle and injuring five others, including the pilot and his passenger, authorities said.

The single-engine Lancair IV landed on its belly and skidded about 250 feet before striking the rear of a black Nissan Altima sedan stopped on the shoulder of the road. The driver of the car had pulled over to synchronize the Bluetooth device on his phone, California Highway Patrol Officer Chris Parent said.

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she said she hoped McCrory would consider repealing the law when the state legislature returns to Raleigh.

PepsiCo, Inc. developed from the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay. Pepsi-Cola was created in the late 1890s by New Bern pharmacist Caleb Bradham. Annual shareholders meetings have been held in New Bern in the past several years.

LAPD: No link between knife and Simpson case

LOS ANGELES – After nearly a month of testing, Los Angeles police detectives have concluded a knife found at the former estate of O.J. Simpson was not the weapon used to kill Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994.

Investigators ruled out the knife after weeks of forensic tests, Police Capt. Andy Neiman said Friday. “We have confirmed, we have determined, there is no PepsiCo CEO calls for nexus,” he said. repeal of N.C.’s LGBT law Police revealed last month they CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The CEO of had recently discovered the knife a company with roots in North had been in the possession of a Carolina has written Gov. Pat retired Los Angeles police officer McCrory, asking him to repeal the new law that prevents spe- for more than a dozen years. The cific anti-discrimination rules for officer said he received it from a construction worker who told him LGBT people for public accomhe had found it while working on a modations and restroom use. crew tearing down Simpson’s old In a letter hand delivered to Brentwood estate. the governor, PepsiCo head Simpson was acquitted of Indra Nooyi called the law stabbing to death his wife and inconsistent with the way her company treats its employees. Goldman on June 12, 1994, outside her condominium, which was not Nooyi also writes the law is undermining efforts to advance far from the estate.

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Belgian police and soldiers Tuesday secure the area outside Zaventem Airport in Brussels. Airport authorities inspected the construction and fire safety of the temporary constructions and airport staff tested the temporary arrangements and infrastructure for the check-in procedure.

Foreign fighters are evading Europe’s security net The ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS – When Ibrahim El Bakraoui blew himself up in the Brussels Airport check-in area, killing and maiming scores of travelers, it was at least the third time he had passed unimpeded through an airport terminal in recent months.

Suspected

by Turkey of being a “for- Ibrahim eign terror- El Bakraoui ist fighter” and known at home in Belgium as an ex-con wanted for parole violations, Bakraoui was still allowed to board a commercial airliner unaccompanied last summer, flying freely from Istanbul to the Netherlands and disappearing without a trace.

The ease with which he did so raises questions about how much governments know about the movements of returnees among the 5,000 home-grown jihadis who have trained and fought in places such as Syria or Iraq. Many now pose a “serious threat,” according to the police agency Europol. Some, such as Bakraoui, already have used

their deadly skills in cities such as Brussels or Paris.

Testimony from government ministers, extracts of documents and conversations with police, border and aviation officials reveal a series of security gaps, misunderstandings and procedural red-tape that surrounded the deportation last July of this future suicide bomber.

Even those who take some responsibility for missing the threat Bakraoui posed find it hard to understand why his capture raised no alarms. This was a man picked up by Turkish authorities in Gaziantep near Syria, who had done jail time in Belgium for armed robbery, including shooting at police with a Kalashnikov.

“We are talking about someone with a 10-year conviction, who spent a few years in prison, then traveled via Turkey to the Syrian border,” Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon said on March 25, as lawmakers probed for security shortfalls three days after the Brussels attacks left 32 people dead.

“You don’t have to have worked long on terrorism to conclude from all this that there is a very high probability – 90 percent, 99 percent, take your pick – that we are deal-

ing with a foreign fighter,” he said.

Bakraoui may be just one case among many. Turkey has deported around 3,250 suspected “foreign terrorist fighters” since 2011 – a number that does not include those turned back before making it to Syria, according to its foreign ministry.

Turkey’s government says Belgium made no extradition request for Bakraoui when it learned on June 26 that he was in Turkey, leaving him free to travel anywhere in Europe.

“It was obvious that he was affiliated and involved in the conflict zones, and he was wounded. That is the reason why he was deported. And this is the information that was communicated to Belgium,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told CNN in an interview aired Thursday.

Bakraoui is not the only case to fall through the communications gap. In September 2014, just over a year before Bakraoui’s trip to Amsterdam, three French jihadis who said they were defecting from the Islamic State group were able to buy tickets to Marseille, fly together unescorted and walk out of customs as free men, one of their lawyers, Pierre Dunac, said.

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Erika Reichard, a technical manager at Tradebe, places a can of oil-based paint into a designated receptacle during Will County’s Recyclepalooza held in April 2015 in Joliet.

The county’s electronics recycling program was discontinued March 1 after the county’s longtime vendor bowed out of its contract early. Drop-off sites are still closed, but there are plans to reopen some and possibly create new sites.

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Continued from page 3 Lockport Township Highway Commissioner John Cielenski said littering is a chronic problem in his community.

“My guys, they pick up everything they can off the side of the road,” he said.

Now, if he finds a TV, his department knows to hold onto it until Will County gets its program back up and running.

The Forest Preserve District of Will County dealt with illegal dumping issues when it closed its two sites in February at the Monee Reservoir and Sugar Creek Administration Center, but “people seem to be getting the message,” district spokeswoman Cindy Cain said in an email.

“Most of the items were left shortly after the program ended and the number has waned in subsequent weeks,” she said.

In Joliet’s Pilcher Park, at least three dozen computers, TVs and other electronic items have been collected since January.

The park for years has served as a magnet for illegal dumping, but it’s becoming more of an issue, said Larry Burich, superintendent of planning with the Joliet Park District.

“It has increased,” Burich said.

“Instead of taking care of playgrounds, we’re picking up people’s trash.”

Burich said he’d be happy to work with Will County to find a central dropoff site near Pilcher Park.

“I’d love to have [a central drop-off site] versus them going to dump in the park. We can tell them ‘Ride through the park with your appliance, but please drop it off here when you’re done,’ ” he said.

How we got here n Electronics have been banned from Illinois landfills since 2012, and under a state program, manufacturers that sell products in Illinois must recycle a certain weight of what is sold and pay to have those items collected and recycled. n Declining commodity prices, increased costs and lack of contracts with electronics manufacturers resulted in Will County’s longtime recycling vendor – Vintage Tech, now under the Kuusakoski name – exiting out of its contract a year ahead of its expiration date. n Will County’s electronics recycling program was forced to dismantle earlier this year as local officials scrambled to find a new vendor that provides similar services. Thirteen drop-off sites were discontinued. n The California-based Electronic Recyclers International was the only bidder. ERI is requiring that dropoff site staff sort, shrink-wrap and load the materials onto pallets and into a truck. Because of the added responsibility, communities once in the program have shied away from rejoining. n Illinois’ growing, unsustainable program appears to becoming a victim of its own success as e-recycling programs are discontinued statewide. State and local officials continue to push for changes to Illinois’ electronics recycling law so that collection costs do not continue to fall on the shoulders of local governments and taxpayers.

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Expert gunsmith Keith Carey stands Feb. 23 behind the counter at his shop, where he makes suicide prevention literature available, in Montrose Colo. keep guns away from friends or relatives at risk of killing themselves.

Carey said some customers take materials home, or ask a few questions. The conversations tend to be brief.

“Suicide is one of those morose subjects that a lot of us don’t want to talk about,” he said. “But it’s all too com-

mon. I believe any method of suicide prevention is worth a good hard try.”

Across the U.S., suicides account for nearly two-thirds of all gun deaths – far outnumbering gun homicides. In 2014, according to federal data, there were 33,599 firearm deaths; 21,334 of them were suicides. That figure represents about half of all suicides that

year; but in several western Colorado counties, and in some other Rocky Mountain states with high gun-ownership rates, more than 60 percent of suicides involve firearms.

Along with Alaska, the states with the highest rates form a contiguous bloc – Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico.

8 justices asked to rule that racial bias trumps jury secrecy The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON – The American jury room is a bit like Las Vegas: What happens there is supposed to stay there.

But a Supreme Court appeal from a Hispanic defendant in Colorado raises the prospect that a juror’s comments during deliberations can be so offensive they deprive a defendant of a fair trial.

The justices could say as early as Monday whether they will take up a case in the fall involving competing tenets of the legal system: a defendant’s constitutional right to trial by an impartial jury, and the need for secrecy in jury deliberations.

After a jury convicted Miguel Angel Pena Rodriguez of attempted sexual assault involving teenage sisters at a

Denver-area horse race track, two jurors provided his lawyer with sworn statements claiming a third juror made derogatory remarks about Mexican men before voting guilty.

“I think he did it because he’s Mexican and Mexican men take whatever they want,” is one of several racially tinged statements attributed to the juror identified in court records by the initials H.C. In another comment, the juror is said to have cast doubt on an alibi provided by a Hispanic witness for Pena Rodriguez because the witness was “an illegal.” The witness testified he was in the country legally.

But three separate courts in Colorado said those statements could not be used to upend Pena Rodriguez’s conviction because of a long-standing rule that prohibits jurors from testifying

about what happens during deliberations. The rule, found in both federal and state law, is intended to promote the finality of verdicts and to shield jurors from outside influences.

The Supreme Court also has been unwilling to intrude on deliberations.

In a 5-4 ruling in 1987, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote the majority opinion that rejected calls for a hearing to explore allegations made by jurors of drug and alcohol use by jurors during a criminal fraud trial.

“There is little doubt that post-verdict investigation into juror misconduct would in some instances lead to the invalidation of verdicts reached after irresponsible or improper juror behavior.

It is not at all clear, however, that the jury system could survive such efforts to perfect it,” O’Connor wrote.

In dissent, Justice Thurgood Marshall said the right to an impartial jury was more important. “If, as is charged, members of petitioners’ jury were intoxicated as a result of their use of drugs and alcohol to the point of sleeping through material portions of the trial, the verdict in this case must be set aside,” he wrote.

In 2014, justices unanimously reaffirmed the sanctity of jury deliberations. The court rejected a challenge to a jury verdict in a civil case brought by a motorcycle rider who had his left leg amputated as a result of a traffic accident. He sought a new trial based on one juror’s report that a second juror said during deliberations that her daughter had been at fault in a similar case and a lawsuit against the daughter would have “ruined her life.”

• Sunday, April 3, 2016

MONTROSE, Colorado – Keith Carey is a gunsmith in Montrose, a town with a frontier flavor set amid the mesas of western Colorado. He’s a staunch, but soft-spoken, defender of the right to bear arms.

Yet now he’s a willing recruit in a fledgling effort to see if the gun community itself – sellers and owners of firearms, operators of shooting ranges – can help Colorado and other Western states reduce their highest-in-the-nation suicide rates.

“Suicide is a tragedy no matter how it’s done,” said Carey, whose adult daughter killed herself with a mix of alcohol and antidepressants a few years ago on the East Coast. However, he sees the logic in trying gun-specific prevention strategies in towns such as Montrose, where guns are an integral part of daily life.

“It’s very expedient for people to commit suicide by a firearm, without too much forethought,” Carey said.

“Unfortunately, it’s generally effective.”

At the urging of a local police commander, Carey agreed last year to participate in the Gun Shop Project, a state-funded program in which gun sellers and range operators in five western Colorado counties were invited to help raise awareness about suicide. It’s a tentative but promising bid to open up a conversation on a topic that’s been virtually taboo in these Western states: the intersection of guns and suicide.

Carey’s shop counter now displays wallet-sized cards with information about a suicide hotline. A poster by the door offers advice about ways to

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Soldiers look over damage Friday at the historical Bel Temple in the ancient city of Palmyra in the central city of Homs, Syria.

Palmyra is located about 155 miles east of Damascus, the Syrian capital.

Government troops, backed by allied militiamen and Russian airstrikes retook the town Sunday from IS militants who had controlled Palmyra and its environs for 10 months.

Ancient Palmyra is a UNESCO heritage site – an archaeological gem that attracted tens of thousands of tourists every year.

It was completely deserted Friday, except for Syrian army soldiers working on dismantling explosives, and visiting journalists. The town – about a kilometer away from the ruins – is

completely deserted, its remaining residents had fled as the Syrian army’s offensive against IS began a month ago.

Traces of the fighting could be seen all around. Burned cars parked on the side of the road, electricity cables strewn about on the streets, and scattered empty water tanks apparently used as barricades.

At the entrance to the Roman amphitheater, where IS filmed children shooting captive Syrian soldiers in the head, black graffiti is sprayed on a stone wall.

“Lasting and Expanding,” it read in Arabic, a logo of the Islamic State group.

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other nearby wall.

A Syrian officer told reporters that more than 3,000 mines have so far been dismantled. “They booby-trapped everything, trees, doors, animals,” he said, speaking of the militants. Russian combat engineers have arrived in Syria to help the Syrian army clear mines in and around the town.

Later on Friday, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reported that Syrian engineering teams and popular defense groups uncovered a mass grave in a northeastern neighborhood of Palmyra containing the remains of about 40 people, 23 of them women and children.

Kenya marks university attack anniversary that killed 148

By TOM ODULA

The Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenyans on Saturday marked the first anniversary of the Garissa University attack, when four extremist gunmen massacred 148 people, with renewed criticism of the government’s handling of the crisis.

Hundreds gathered at the site of the attack in eastern Kenya to remember the incident, one of the country’s worst-ever terrorist attacks carried out by gunmen from the al-Qaida-allied Somali al-Shabab group.

The gunmen were finally killed by a police commando unit after 12 hours.

The government has been heavily criticized for its slow response to the attack, despite there being a military base nearby.

Kenya has suffered a wave of extrem-

ist attacks since it deployed troops in October 2011 to Somalia to support the weak government there in its battle against the al-Shabab militants.

The university reopened in January after extensive refurbishment of the bullet-scarred buildings, but only 150 of its 700 students have returned to class.

Others were transferred to Moi University in western Kenya.

Aden Duale, the leader of the parliamentary majority, said at the event that Kenyan troops will remain in Somalia until their mission of pacifying the country is fulfilled.

Other speakers, however, reserved their ire for the government, saying the families of the victims should receive compensation.

“That is the duty of the government,” said Garissa County women’s representative, Shukran Gure.

Paul Wekesa, 24, a second-year education student who witnessed the attack, agreed the government should offer some kind of compensation to families of the students who died and scholarships for those survived.

Wekesa said he survived only because he had been up early to study and so was awake when the attack began.

Together with another group of students he went to investigate the sounds of shots and ran into a gunman who opened fire on them.

One student was killed outright and the rest fled under a hail of bullets, scaling a barbed wire fence under fire.

“I am here to bury my past and heal myself,” said Wekesa, who said the two weeks of counseling provided by the government has been inadequate. “I am here to show respect to my three close friends Agnes, Edward and Cherop – I

managed to escape but they didn’t.”

According to political commentator Patrick Gathara, for the public there remain many unanswered questions about the government’s performance such as the delayed response, the inability to stop the attack despite intelligence warnings and the fact that no one has been prosecuted for the security failures.

“Kenya is a country on the edge. People don’t believe they are fundamentally safer despite what the government is saying,” he said. “There is no evidence the government has learned from its failings.”

A year since the attacks, Kenyan universities are prone to panic with four stampedes taking place in different institutions after students thought they heard gunshots or explosions. Hundreds have been injured and two died.

• Sunday, April 3, 2016

PALMYRA, Syria – Explosions rocked the ancient town of Palmyra on Friday and on the horizon, black smoke wafted behind its majestic Roman ruins, as Syrian army experts carefully detonated hundreds of mines they said were planted by Islamic State militants before they fled the town.

An Associated Press crew visiting the town Friday witnessed firsthand the destruction inflicted by the extremist group on the town’s famed archaeological site, less than a mile away from the modern-day town of the same name, now completely deserted.

While some parts of the site, including the Roman-era grand colonnades and amphitheater appeared relatively untouched, the damage was very much visible elsewhere.

The remarkable Arch of Triumph, built under the Roman emperor Septimius Severus between A.D. 193 and A.D. 211, has been reduced to a pile of stones, blown up by IS extremists who filmed the destruction for the world to see. The monumental arch once sat atop the famed colonnaded streets of the ancient town.

The Temple of Baalshamin and parts of the Temple of Bel, one of the best-preserved Roman-era sites, also are destroyed.

Apart from the Roman ruins themselves, heavy damage could be seen on parts of the walls of Palmyra’s towering Mamluk-era citadel, built during the Islamic conquest in the 13th century. On top of the scarred citadel, a Syrian flag flies in the wind.

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BUSINESS

What to do about hopeless son’s future?

Dear Mr. Berko: My 19-yearold son is a high-school senior, captain of the football team and president of his class, but he is a terrible student. He has movie-star looks and personality and admits that he gets other students to do his work, which is how he gets passing grades.

Because his math and reading levels are below average, he won’t make it at college. He is bright but doesn’t test well, and my big concern is his future. Any job that has good earnings or advancement potential is off-limits because it requires a college degree.

The armed services won’t take him because he had a felony conviction at 17. He talks about making big money, but I worry about his methods and choices.

Do you have any suggestions to help my son have a good future? Please don’t use my initials or town. – XX, XX Dear XX: I’m going to give you the best advice for this

TAKING STOCK Malcolm Berko kid that you’ll ever get, and it’s probably the only advice that will save him from becoming a mooch and a bum.

He may not be able to join the U.S. armed forces, but the French Foreign Legion would take him. Don’t scoff! I know two parents whose sons (both had juvenile criminal records, and one was a druggie) joined the French Foreign Legion.

Son A joined in 2001, and Son B joined in 2003. Both lads are back in the U.S. after serving their terms, though Son A enlisted for a second term, which was three years. Both sons are married with children; Son A teaches science at a high school in Texas, and Son B operates and owns four pizza joints in Illinois with a partner.

The Legion doesn’t give a

fig about your son’s citizenship, race, religion, educational background, language proficiency, social status, military background or professional achievements. But the boy must be physically fit, have a passport and be between 18 and 39 years of age. You’ll have to take your son to Paris to visit a French Foreign Legion recruiting center; there’s no other way to join. And he must commit for five years.

During those five years, the Legion should turn your son into a man who understands personal and team responsibility and hard work. And when he returns home, you’ll be so proud and overwhelmed at the changes that you’ll have a few good cries. I’ve seen it.

I’m impressed!

If the Legion doesn’t float his boat, then your son certainly has all the requisite qualities that would make him a gifted politician. And if he were to play his cards smartly, he could make a

bloody fortune.

It’s easy to break into politics at the local level; begin by joining the Young Democrats of America or the Young Republicans National Federation. Because your son is a class president, he’s probably a smooth public speaker, and that’s a fantastic skill. In 10 years, his public speaking and people skills could earn him elected positions at city and county levels, where he could make handsome bucks at the trough by awarding municipal contracts, approving zoning matters, recommending financial relationships, etc.!

But as a member of his state legislature, he could smartly and quietly earn hundreds of thousands of dollars under the hat on a much larger scale. Legislatures in California, New York, Illinois, Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania are the most corrupt and therefore offer the finest opportunities.

But the best bang for the

buck is Congress, because there’s no limit to what he could earn if he were to play his lobbyists right. Your son has movie-star looks, is a felon, is a good public speaker, has a convincing personality and is an athlete. These are perfect qualifications.

He doesn’t have to be bright; most members of Congress are basically articulate incompetents. Electing a congressman shouldn’t be left to voters who watch the Kardashians and Jerry Springer, but they are the stupids who would put your son in Congress and millions in his pockets. So with his thousand-watt smile, larcenous soul, hair slicked back like cake frosting, silver tongue and desire to make “big money,” Congress is an ideal fit.

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

BUSINESS BRIEFS New Lenox Chamber hosting speaker on State of State

NEW LENOX – The New Lenox Chamber of Commerce is pleased to welcome David Hinderliter, president and CEO of the Chicago Southland Chamber of Commerce, for a State of the State update at its April Business on the Move Luncheon.

The luncheon will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 5 at Gatto’s Italian Restaurant & Bar, 1938 E. Lincoln Highway in New Lenox. Registration is $15 for chamber members or $20 for nonmembers. For additional information or to register online, visit www.newlenoxchamber.com or call the Chamber office at 815-485-4241.

Local room makeovers included in national design competition

PLAINFIELD – Interior decorator Jan Bromberek, franchise owner of Plainfield-based Decorating Den Interiors, has three room makeovers that were selected for inclusion in this year’s International Dream Room Competition.

The voting site, www.drvoting.decoratingden.com, is open through April 13.

Included on the site are before and after photos with brief descriptions of each makeover. Categories include bathrooms, bedrooms, children’s rooms, commercial, dining rooms, family rooms, home offices, kitchens, living rooms, window treatments, outdoor spaces and miscellaneous.

For more information, visit www.decdens.com/jbromberek or call 815-2677358 or 630-369-2476.

around the globe who have earned the certification, according to a news release from Will County.

The three are the first in the Will County department to earn the designation, considered to be the gold standard in the career coaching field, according to the news release.

The Certified Professional Career Coach program is directed by Diane Hudson Burns, a multi-credentialed, award-winning career coach, professional resume writer and book author, and is sponsored by the Professional Association of Resume Writers & Career Coaches.

money and a better understanding of how to track where your money goes.

Participants do not need to be a NuMark Credit Union member to take advantage of the free seminar. Seating is limited, so interested participants should register in advance. Call 815-729-3211 to reserve seats.

Wills Angus Farm joins American Angus Association

COAL CITY – Wills Angus Farm in Coal City is a new member of the American Angus Association, the national breed organization headquartered in St. Joseph, JOLIET – Three Will County Workforce Missouri.

Services Division employees have earned NuMark holding training seminar The American Angus Association, with the Certified Professional Career Coach JOLIET – NuMark Credit Union is offer- more than 25,000 active adult and junior certification from the Professional members, is the largest beef breed asAssociation of Resume Writers & Career ing a free seminar April 19 called “Build sociation in the world. Its computerized a Basic Budget: the Five-Step Spending Coaches, the career service industry’s records include detailed information on Plan.” longest-standing association.

This seminar will take place from 6 to 8 more than 18 million registered Angus.

Career adviser Pam Abbott, youth The association records ancestral inforadviser Erin Kohl, and Dave Nichols, Mo- p.m. at NuMark Credit Union’s Crest Hill mation and keeps production records and Office, 2380 Caton Farm Road. bile Workforce Center facilitator/driver, genomic data on individual animals to Find out in step-by-step detail how to spent about six months working toward develop industry-leading selection tools create a working budget. Each particthe designation, including submitting a for its members. testing portfolio that included document- ipant will take away a personal action – The Herald-News ed coaching hours. They join others from plan, plenty of ideas for how to save

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OUR VIEW

Secrets state lawmakers can’t hide

The Associated Press released an extensive study of statehouse secrecy during the recently concluded Sunshine Week, an event that promotes transparency of public governmental records.

Sadly, it came as no surprise to us that Illinois legislative leaders, both majority Democrats (House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton) and minority Republicans (House Minority Leader Jim Durkin and Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno), refused the AP’s basic Freedom of Information Act request of one week’s worth of appointment calendars and government-related emails.

A few days later, the AP reported that the Public Access Bureau, a branch of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, declined to act on the AP’s appeal of the legislative leaders’ denials.

It turns out the Legislature conveniently exempted itself from the Public Access Bureau’s appeal process that so many other units of government are subject to.

Talk about hypocrisy!

The theory that legislative leaders’ schedules and communications should be part of the public record rests on the importance of informing the public about who these leaders meet while conducting the public’s business and what they write about in the governmental email accounts that taxpayers pay for. That way, the public can better judge motives behind legislation and results of their elected servants’ service.

Illinois’ legislative leaders believe such information, so important to the conduct of their jobs, should be kept a secret. No doubt, the Legislature’s top leaders have other issues they would like to keep secret, but can’t.

It’s no secret, for example, that legislative leaders and their minions care more about politics than sound public policies that serve the people.

It’s no secret that politicians in the Legislature have perverted Illinois’ democracy through gerrymandering, which discourages competition for seats in the House and Senate, thus thwarting the accountability that elections are supposed to provide.

It’s no secret that legislative leaders have stood idly by as the 9-month-long budget impasse further weakens the state, particularly in the areas of social services, schools, colleges, and soil and water conservation districts.

It’s no secret that legislative leaders have presided over a state that suffers from chronic deficit spending, billions of dollars of debt, and a public pension system that is unfunded to the tune of more than $110 billion.

Top lawmakers can play “I’ve Got a Secret” with their calendars and emails, but the truth is, they’re doing a lousy job. And no matter how hard they might try, they can’t keep that a secret.

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AMENDMENT

Just playing at being president There’s good news for those who are trying to stop current GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump from getting the Republican nomination: Help is coming from an unlikely source – Donald Trump. The erratic candidate has just inflicted the most serious wound upon himself yet in the brief but gripping history of his campaign.

Trump was in Wisconsin ahead of Tuesday’s primary.

Wisconsin is a progressive state, right up there with Massachusetts and Oregon. If there’s anywhere as a Republican candidate that you try not to say something off-the-wall and right-wing, it is in Wisconsin.

But Trump chose Wisconsin to mess up. Under the grilling of MSNBC veteran politico Chris Matthews, Trump revealed that there is even less to his policy positions than meets the eye.

In the end, according to CNN, Trump took three positions on abortion in three hours. Matthews pressed him 12 times to stop evading and take

VIEWS Donna Brazile a stand on whether, assuming abortion is outlawed, there should be a penalty – and on whom.

Trump said there should be “some form of punishment.”

Matthews pressed: Should the punishment apply to the woman? Trump said, “Yes.” Trump has been boasting for weeks that he’s drawing support from all quarters of the electorate, and this comment certainly proved he could provoke all quarters. He was hit first, and hardest, by conservative, pro-life groups who have never, ever, in their history proposed punishing women for an abortion.

Democratic candidates weighed in quickly.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said he was tired of wondering out loud what universe

Trump is living in. Hillary Clinton quoted Maya Angelou: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

What Trump showed us is that he’s playing at being president. He has been the untouchable candidate to this point. He could say anything, no matter how outrageous, and his polling numbers would go up rather than fall. His secret – an open one – is that he has perfectly mirrored his supporters’ feelings. “Trump says what I think,” is a statement commonly heard by pollsters.

All along his supporters have assumed that, because he’s said the outrageous things they were thinking (Mexican immigrants are criminals, we should build a wall, Muslims should be banned from entering America, etc.), and stood by his comments, he was authentic – and one of them.

But Trump’s assertion that

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Joliet volleyball tourney fantastic start to season

To the Editor: I recently had the great honor and pleasure of attending the Joliet West High School’s boys varsity volleyball tourney from March 24 to 26. This very well-run tourney featured teams from Joliet West, Joliet Central, Plainfield South and Joliet Catholic high schools, and various teams from Riverside Brookfield, Rockford, Edwardsville, Belleville, St. Charles, Bolingbrook and the Chicago Public Schools.

Consistently competitive and hardfought matches set the tone for all three tournament days.

Congrats and thanks to all the teams, coaches, fans and student athletes who made this annual season-opening volleyball tourney simply fantastic.

Very sincerely,

• BRAZILE opportunities in Chicago, residents of Chicago wishing to ride bikes at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie would also benefit from increased bike path connectivity.

According to warehouse workers, the shift times at the warehouses do not always correspond with bus route times.

We ask Will County Transportation Planners to continue outreach to warehouse workers to understand how shifting schedules impact workers’ ability to use public transportation.

We strongly urge the Department of Transportation to prioritize sidewalks, bike paths and bus routes while creating the county’s long-range transportation plan. Any person wishing to submit comment on Will Connects 2040 can do so at willconnects2040.org through April 14.

Sincerely,

one of America’s biggest collection of locomotives, passenger and freight cars.

There also is a collection of street cars and interurban trains.

Steam and diesel locomotive and Russian locomotives are featured at the museum, and it would be a nice place for the people to spend the day there.

Lewis Barnes Joliet

NCAA is about making money, not helping students

To the Editor: Don’t kid yourself, the NCAA is not about students and providing an education through scholarships. The NCAA is big business involving billions of dollars where the vast majority of the workers (students) receive no compensation whatsoever and expose themselves to life-threatening injuries, while some of David Marco Joliet the adults make millions per annum.

Ann Baskerville Conservation Organizer with the Sierra Club The business model involves no Prioritize sidewalks, bike paths, Patricia Nugent compensation for getting injured, no President of Will County Environmental Network bus routes in long-range plan disability payments and no support after Leslie Phemister To the Editor: college. Furthermore, most of them have Suburban Outreach Manager of Active Transportation The planning and development little chance of going pro or making a livAlliance of Will County Connects 2040, Will ing. They are denied collective bargainCounty’s long-range transportation plan, Elections should be about those ing, unionization, most labor laws don’t will influence transportation options apply since they are not paid laborers, who bring together, not divide available to Will County citizens. We and they have little or no representation To the Editor: are writing to advocate for improved I am sick and tired of hearing politicians at the NCAA. Basically the students have sidewalks, bike paths and bus service to running for office going after certain little legal recourse. improve the quality of life for Will Coun- races or sex of the voters. They go after The NCAA is not about helping stuty residents and workers. dents but exploiting them and making African-Americans, Latinos, Muslims, One pedestrian corridor in need of billions of dollars. The students don’t whites or the sex of a person, and the immediate improvement is Route 53 receive endorsement money compenmedia is just as guilty for the way they from downtown Joliet to Laraway Road. cover the news to encourage this. sation for use of their name or image or We have witnessed pedestrians and licensing. I’m surprised they don’t sign I always thought we should vote for bike riders travel along the shoulder the best person, whether a Democrat or their firstborn away – the NCAA probably of 53 without the benefit of sidewalks.

Republican, based on his or her views on hasn’t figured a way to make money on We have witnessed people walk in the that one yet. running our country. I always thought median of 53 to continue north after the we are all Americans, not all separate At a minimum, all student athletes sidewalk ends at Patterson Road. This should get a full scholarship, a stipend to groups of people. creates an unsafe situation for pedestrilive on, disability payments for injury and It seems to me that some politicians ans and drivers alike. and media people are trying to divide our lifetime health care for injuries. Federal One way to lessen the amount of traffic great country. I would hope the people legislation is required to correct these on our roads is to create and promote injustices and protect the rights of the of America vote with their heads, not ways for people to bike or walk to work. the party, in the 2016 very important young and prevent exploitation. What With the opening of the Amazon and election to run our deteriorating country. is the marginal cost of adding one more Ikea warehouses on Laraway and 53, it student to a class and having another is feasible that workers would walk or Donald R. Lattin paper to grade considering the billions bike if they felt the sidewalk or bike path Shorewood being made? was protected from traffic. Furthermore, Actually, marginal cost is not relevant sidewalks and bike paths could connect Railway Museum but increase in revenue and profit is. interesting place to visit commuters with the Metra Station in Naturally the NCAA wants to keep the To the Editor: Joliet. sport “pure” with little compensation for I thought the people in Joliet might Will County is a railroad hub of the athletes while they rake in billions. The enjoy knowing about the Illinois Railway NCAA’s hands are dirty and not pure.

United States. Let’s make sure our Museum. citizens have the option to walk or bike Sincerely, The Illinois Railway Museum is a living to their nearest train station. While our citizens need easy access to Metra history museum in Union, Illinois, and Thomas Cechner stations to reach jobs and recreation Lockport is an interesting place to visit and has

Continued from page 31 women should be punished for an abortion revealed how shallow his knowledge is of pro-life positions, and of his supporters’ deepest convictions.

He quickly modified his “punish them” decree to “This issue is unclear and should be put back into the states for determination.”

Another hour passed and Trump issued his third position in three hours, one that conforms with pro-life groups whom he had just egregiously offended, saying, “the doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon a woman would be held legally responsible, not the woman.”

Even before he made such a stupid comment, Trump was in deep trouble with women voters. During the holiest days of the Christian calendar, Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump’s closest and toughest GOP opponent, had exchanged unseemly barbs over each other’s wives, while a spontaneous alliance of female commentators issued a joint letter saying Trump should fire his campaign manager.

Trump, who has had three wives and a reality show based on firing people for poor performance, shot back that he stands by his campaign manager. Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich did not stand by Trump. They have conservative pro-life positions, and unlike Trump, have held them for years, and acted on them. Kasich, for instance, as a congressman, voted to restrict abortion and to make it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for an abortion.

Cruz is committed to appointing Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, the decision that decriminalized abortions. Both Cruz and Kasich, however, focused on what the real story is here, namely that Trump winged it still again. Trump’s ad hoc answer is clear evidence (at long last) that he echoes what he’s been told his supporters want to hear, but has no personal knowledge of (nor has he even devoted thought to) the issues.

Trump has retreated before when he’s taken an issue that, to his surprise, offended so wide a swath of the public that it threatened to tank his campaign. This time, Trump offended the GOP’s most vociferous political base. He has been the only person who could hurt himself. It makes you wonder if Trump knows that he’s not up to the job, and has a subconscious wish to fail. If he does, he seems to be working harder than ever on making that wish come true.

• 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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34 WJOL/DON LADAS MEMORIAL BASEBALL TOURNAMENT: PROVIDENCE 18, JOLIET CENTRAL 2

Providence wins among wild circumstances

Weather, official decision give Celtics the title after dominant performance vs. Steelmen

By DRAKE SKLEBA

Shaw Media Correspondent NEW LENOX – The asterisk. The symbol that is similar to getting an I (incomplete) grade in a college course.

Former Yankee Roger Maris hit 61 homers in 1961, breaking Yankee Hall of Famer Babe Ruth’s major-league record of 60 homers in 1927. Maris achieved the feat in the present 162game season. Ruth accomplished his feat in the old 154-game season, thus the asterisk always was associated with Maris’ record. Since then, a trio of former major leaguers have broke Maris and Ruth’s record, by not quite following the rules.

On Saturday, Mother Nature unleashed 39-degree temperatures, 40mph winds and snow flurries on the 11th annual WJOL/Don Ladas Memorial Baseball Tournament. After discussion with the parties involved, tournament director Scott Slocum canceled all the place games schedule at Silver Cross Field.

The two championship semifinals, Joliet Central at Providence and Lockport at Joliet Catholic, were on as of 11 a.m. Saturday. Snow hit Joliet’s west side and wiped out the JCA-Lockport semifinal. Thus, the battle between the Celtics and Steelmen became the championship game with the asterisk.

Led by tournament MVP Matt Waznis, Providence (4-1) crushed Joliet Central, 18-2, in five innings, joining Minooka (2009-2010) as teams with consecutive tournament titles. Waznis’ two-run double in the third inning gave the Celtics a 3-2 lead and led to a 12-run explosion, breaking open the game.

In his final at-bat, in the fourth, Waznis hit a three-run homer, his second homer of the tournament. He went 5 for 7 with two home runs and seven RBIs in two games.

“It feels great to win the MVP,” Waznis said. “I have been really seeing the ball really well to start the season. I did my job and my teammates did theirs to win this great tournament again.”

In the top of the second, Colin Airola’s blast over the right-field fence gave the Celtics a 1-0 lead. Airola added an RBI single in the 12-run third.

“I got one up in the wind and it went out,” Airola said. “I hit the ball well today and was really happy to get a chance to start the game. It feels great to win this tournament again.”

Joliet Central’s Tyler Lawson thrilled the frozen Steelmen contin-

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Providence Catholic’s Matt Waznis watches the flight of his hit against Joliet Central on Saturday during the 11th WJOL/Don Ladas Memorial Tournament Championship Game at Providence Catholic High School.

“I got one up in the wind and it went out. I hit the ball well today and was really happy to get a chance to start the game.

It feels great to win this tournament again.”

Colin Airola

Providence first baseman gent when he hit a two-run homer to left to give the Steelmen a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the second. Lawson had fired a complete-game victory in the Steelmen’s 6-2 quarterfinal win over Plainfield Central on Thursday.

“It was great to get the home run, but I wish we could have won today’s game, “Lawson said. “I just threw strikes on Thursday to help us win.

Our success in this tournament will give us confidence for the rest of the season.”

In the 12-run Providence third, Brendan O’Hara singled and doubled

and drove in two runs, Jim Jeffries had two singles and an RBI and Jackson Dvorak singled and picked up an RBI when he was hit by pitch. Dvorak was on base four times in all. Thursday’s hero, Mike Madej, walked twice and had an RBI single, while No. 9 hitter Matt Gruszkowski, doubled and had an RBI single in three trips “I hit the ball hard again today.

“O’Hara said. “I want to thank my teammates for getting on base for me.

They allowed me to do what I have to do for our team – drive in runs.”

Winning pitcher junior Tyler Zarembka (1-0) allowed two runs and struck out two in his two innings of work. Junior Kurt Dankovich, freshman Bryce Barnett and sophomore Jake Miller all threw one scoreless inning of relief.

“I was really impresses how our young pitchers really threw strikes,” Jeffries said. “It would have been nice to face Lockport or JCA tonight, but it still is an honor to win this great tournament again. We all hit the ball over the field. This championship will give us confidence as we move into our Chicago Catholic League schedule.”

Joliet Central three-sport center fielder Jomarre McNair doubled and walked. Ryan King and Armando Jauregui each had singles. And, the Steelmen were able to feel a bit of warmth as Providence parents provided portable heaters for their dugout.

“This was great experience for us to play the defending two-time state champion Celtics again,” Joliet Central coach Kevin Fitzgerald said. “We didn’t execute today. Freshman Robert Farrell, pitched well for us and our success this week will give us confidence as we go forward.”

The championship was the fifth for Providence, three outright, one co-championship and now one with the dreaded asterisk.

“It was great for us to hit the ball the way we did today. We took advantage of what they gave us,” Providence coach Mark Smith said. “I was proud of our underclassmen pitchers who pitched well for us today.

“Matt Waznis, once again showed his stuff, winning the MVP. It is great to win this championship again as we move into our tough Chicago Catholic League schedule.”

By CURT HERRON

cherron@shawmedia.com

AD at Sandburg.

He had big shoes to fill after stepping in for the very popular and well-respected Bruce Scheidegger, who died in a car accident in February 2013.

It wasn’t easy to leave Sandburg, which Krusz considers to be one of the top jobs in Illinois.

“The opportunity that I got there was incredible,” Krusz said. “The people there are fantastic, the coaches are great and their teams experience a lot of success. It’s been a great learning experience to see how they run their programs. I was very fortunate to get that position after just being an assistant athletic director.

Bruce was a great guy, so I knew going in that those would be big shoes to fill. So I just tried to carry on what he had established there.”

But for a job that requires spending a lot of time at school, Krusz wanted to have the chance to be much closer to home, and he’ll have that now.

“I’m a lot more competitive than what people might think, so walking away from Sandburg is tough from a

competitive standpoint,” Krusz said.

“But when it comes down to it, I’ve got four children – a 21 year old, an 18 year old, a 2∏ year old and a 1 year old. So to be able to come back and work with great people like Dave and Lane and be 10 minutes away from my house so I can see my kids was important. This definitely betters my personal situation.”

In his first stint at Plainfield, Krusz coached the 2001 girls team that went 27-4 and lost in a sectional final to eventual state runner-up Neuqua Valley.

After a brief move to St. Charles North, he returned to Plainfield in 2004 and stayed there until going to Sandburg.

“When you split schools, it takes awhile to recover,” Krusz said. “But the good thing is that the splits provided more kids with opportunities.

There’s plenty of individual successes and things that I think that we can build on at Plainfield that are going to be great. All of the things that I’ve learned while at Sandburg are things that I can bring here and we can do better.”

Long-time Morris teacher, coach Dergo dies at 81

By ROB OESTERLE

roesterle@shawmedia.com MORRIS – Gehrig Dergo, a big part of Morris Community HIgh School’s athletic success during the 1970s and 80s, died Thursday night at Joliet Area Community Hospice. He was 81.

Dergo graduated from East Moline United High School in 1953 before enrolling at Western Illinois University.

At Western, he was an All-America football player as a center while earning his bachelor’s degree in education in 1957. In 1969, he earned a Master’s of Science degree from Indiana State University.

He began his teaching and coaching career in 1966 at Morris High School, He taught physical education at Morris until his retirement in 1991, was a member of the wrestling coaching staff from 1966 until 1986 and on the wrestling coaching staff from 1966 until 1990. He also spent time working as a jailer for the Grundy County Sheriff’s Department.

He saw five children graduate from Morris High School – sons George, Gehrig, Garrett and Geoffery and daughter Laurie.

Dergo was an assistant wrestling coach under coach Don Funte when his son, Gehrig, won the state championship at 167 pounds, going 38-0, in 1976.

Gehrig Dergo died at the age of 81 on Thursday night in Joliet.

“I think that was one of the things he was most excited about,” said George Dergo, who is the athletic director at Morris. “That kind of put Morris on the map as far as competing for state championships in anything. The football coaching staff used that as an example a lot. They would say, ‘Look at this guy. He’s from Morris and he did it. So can we.’

“And then the football team went to

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state in 1979 and got second and won it all in 1980.”

The elder Gehrig Dergo was an assistant football coach under head coach Larry Kane when the team included a player named Dan Darlington. When Darlington returned to Morris as the head coach in 1977, Dergo was not coaching football.

“The first guy I contacted when I got the job in Morris was ‘Derg,’ ” Darling-

ton said. “I wanted him to be my freshman coach because he was so good at teaching the basics of the game. Our program wouldn’t have gotten to where it was without him.

“This was back before youth football was very big, so most of the kids going out for football, he had to show them how to put their pads on and get into a stance. He was so good at teaching those fundamentals and at keeping kids in the program. I used to tell him that if we had 50 freshmen go out for football, there better be at least 40 that stayed and went out as sophomores or I would be looking for a new freshman coach.”

Throughout his career, Dergo retained his enthusiasm for teaching and coaching, and it filtered down to his students and players.

“The biggest thing about ‘Derg’ is that he just loved what he did and had fun,” Darlington said. “I don’t think I can recall any kid in all my years at Morris that said they had ‘Derg’ as a teacher and didn’t like him. He loved Morris and he loved teaching kids. We were a better school for having him there.”

Visitation services will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at First Presbyterian Church in Morris. and the funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the same church.

• Sunday, April 3, 2016

PLAINFIELD – Few individuals get the chance to make an impact at a school on three separate occasions, but Mark Krusz recently learned that he’ll have that opportunity.

He coached the Wildcats’ best girls basketball team during his initial stint at what was still Plainfield High School, and then he led Central’s girls program and served as assistant athletic director during his initial return.

Now Krusz will lead Central’s entire athletic program after being named its new athletic director March 21 at the District 202 Board of Education meeting.

He’ll succeed Dave Stephens, who will replace Bob Smith as Central’s new principal at the end of the school year.

Getting the chance to work for and with longtime associates and being much closer to home were two big factors for the current AD at Carl Sandburg.

“Lane Abrell (District 202 Superin-

tendent) was the principal who hired me the second time, and I’ve worked with Dave forever,” Krusz said. “We coached golf together. He was the head boys basketball coach, and I was the head girls basketball coach, and then I was assistant AD, with him being the athletic director. So I have a special place in my heart for Mark Krusz Plainfield since it’s offered me a lot of opportunities.

“I honestly didn’t think that this would happen this soon since I didn’t know what would happen with Dave.

I had the desire to be an athletic director, so when the Sandburg job opened and it was offered to me, that was a perfect opportunity. But when Dave called me and said that he got the principal job, he said that he was interested in me coming back. So I’ll get the chance to go back and work with the great people there. It should be a lot of fun.”

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36 AREA ROUNDUP

Lincoln-Way Central baseball captures win SUBMITTED REPORTS

NEW LENOX – Lincoln-Way Central’s baseball team scored five runs in the fourth inning to claim a 7-3 nonconference home victory over Shepard on Friday.

Nick Podgorny (two runs) led off the fourth with a walk, followed by back-to-back-to-back singles from Tyler Schuerg (2 for 4), Chad Tucker (RBI) and Vinny Baez (2 for 3, RBI). Later in the inning, Steve Likins and Cam Post each had RBI singles.

Podgorny hit a two-run inside-thepark home run in the sixth for the Knights (2-6). Winner Jake Blount (2-1) pitched five innings and Vinny Schroeder tossed two scoreless innings.

rald had two RBIs each.

Schoolcraft led the Porters (2-0) with Brooke Brodzinski, Vanessa Ramos

Families of Faith goes 1-0-1: In a 12-3 a grand slam. Halle Hollatz and Emily and Macie Alexa added assists. Bella

win over Christian Academy of Greater St. Louis, Jordan Welsh led Family of Faith (2-1-1) with two hits and two RBI while Thomas Larson had four runs.

Caleb Blan and Travis Barr had two RBIs in a 6-all tie with Liberty Christian Academy.

Dybas (two hits) also had RBIs while Elena Woulfe added two hits. Lauren Stoch (2-0) posted the win and struck out eight.

Coal City 14, Yorkville 6: Makenna Emerson went 3 for 4 with three runs, four RBI, two doubles and a homer to lead the Coalers (5-1). Abby Olsen was 3 for 3 with three runs and three RBIs SOFTBALL Providence 11, Neuqua Valley 0: Jessica and Leslie Youskevtch went 4 for 4 with Cothern went 2 for 4 with a two homers an RBI. Sydney Miller and Call Caruso and four RBI to lead the Celtics. Taylor each had two RBIs. Youskevtch got the Amato also hit a home run while Emily win and and struck out four.

Waubonsie Valley 10, Plainfield Central Pilon had two hits and two RBI. Kendal Judge struck out 11 and allowed only 8: Sara Peterson went 4 for 4 with three two hits to pick up the win. She also RBI for Central, which led 8-6 entering the seventh inning. Brooklyn Daly, who went 3 for 3 with an RBI. Joliet West 6, Munster (Indiana) 1: Sid- pitched the final 52⁄3 innings, took the BASEBALL ney Budzinski went 2 for 4 with a home loss.

WIlmington 16, Bishop McNamara 8: run, and Jeliza Pecheco went 2 for 3 Rob Van Duyne was 3 for 5 with three with two RBIs to lead the Tigers (4-4). SOCCER RBIs, two runs and a homer, Luke Kiley Robb had nine strikeouts and alMinooka 4, Boingbrook 0: Hannah Mann went 4 for 4 with an RBI and two lowed four hits.

Rieker scored three goals while Hairuns while Steve Smock and Kyle HaiLockport 6, Reed-Custer 1: Courtney ley Arlis also scored for the Indians.

Alessio and Emily Hartke combined for the shutout.

MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

Lewis’ Holesinger sets record:

Bryce 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 Track and Field Classic on Friday.

Holesinger broke the previous record (6,755) set by Kevin Warner in 1996 and broke the old meet standard (6,548) set

by Lewis’ Billy Stadele in 2004. He also set a NCAA Provisional mark in the javelin with a heave of 194 feet, 2 inches.

WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

Lewis’ Cook places third: Amber Cook placed third overall in the long jump at Eastern Illinois’ Big Blue Classic with a NCAA Provisional leap of 19-0 Friday.

Mercedes Porter won the heptathlon with 3,203 points.

BADMINTON

Porters third in Hadley’s final Lockport Invite

By CURT HERRON

cherron@shawmedia.com LOCKPORT – Denise Hadley admitted that Saturday’s Lockport Invitational was emotional.

After all, it was the last of the quality meets and one of the final events that the longtime Porters badminton coach will host. She’s retiring this year, her 32nd at Lockport.

Hadley, who also enjoyed a successful stint assisting Julia Hudson with the Porters volleyball program, has led her squads to three state trophies, including the 1995 championship.

Since that season, Lockport has won 15 sectional titles.

“We have a good, solid coaching staff, but the problem is that we’re all done after this year,” Hadley said.

“I’m not worried about it, but I’d like to see someone take over that knows badminton. It’s a great sport and we’ve got a good program, and I want to see it continue. I was Miss Hudson’s assistant coach for 18 years, and she showed me a lot of things about coaching. You want the kids to know what they need to expect to happen for them to win.

“We have a well-blended team with eight seniors, seven juniors and one

“We have a good, solid coaching staff, but the problem is that we’re all done after this year. I’m not worried about it, but I’d like to see someone take over that knows badminton.”

Denise Hadley

Lockport badminton coach sophomore. They’re a work in progress as far as understanding the concept that we’re trying to do, especially in doubles. This tournament gets them started in understanding that and trying to make it work. They’re hard workers, just like all of my teams, and they know what the expectations are.”

In Saturday’s 12-team invite, TF South and Buffalo Grove tied for first with 27 points, but the Rebels won the title on a tiebreaker for having one more first-place finish. The Porters edged Bradley-Bourbonnais 24-23 for third place while Lincoln-Way West (18), Lincoln-Way Central (15) and Lincoln-Way East (12) were next in the event.

Lockport received a first from Jenna Franzen at second singles while Hannah Burke took second at first singles. The Porters also were second at third doubles behind Jessica Sterna and Clare Kolacki and at fourth doubles with Scout Bauer and Hailey Ledbetter. They took third at first doubles with Jessica Miller and Haley Egelhof and placed fourth at second doubles behind McKenzie Ebel and Alexis Duda.

Franzen was thrilled about picking up her initial first-place showing in a varsity tournament. She beat Lincoln-Way East’s Alyssa Kandow 21-8, 21-19 for the second singles title.

“I was proud of myself because I only played two games in each match and this was the first time that I placed first in a varsity tournament and this is my first year on varsity,” Franzen said. “We’ve been practicing really hard and focusing on specific shots that we need to work on. We’re all pretty dedicated, and we don’t give up, we all get along really well and like to have fun. We want to perform our best so that coach Hadley can go out with a bang.”

Leading the way for Lincoln-Way West were Cassie Ruettiger and Grace Monti. Ruettiger beat Lockport’s

Burke 21-14, 21-6 for the title at first singles while Monti won, 21-13, 21-18, over Buffalo Grove’s Sarah Altieri for the third singles title. Also for the Warriors, Megan Smalter took fourth at second singles.

“I think that I’m doing pretty good since I’ve only lost twice so far,” Ruettiger said. “I did some offseason stuff and that’s paid off. Last year I got knocked out on the first day at state so I want to make it to the second day.

Our team started off a little slow, but we’re getting into it by learning more of the basic fundamentals. I like how our team jokes around all of the time.”

Warriors coach Donna Thompson was happy with how her team fared in the tournament.

“The girls played great,” Thompson said. “We’re on spring break and were missing people, so we had to pull up in front of someone’s house and honk the horn to get her on the bus. Even though the kids played in different positions, they all battled super hard and competed. And I was really proud of Cassie for being the singles champ against all of these tough schools.”

For the Knights, Kaitlyn Forsythe placed fourth at first singles while the first doubles squad of Lili Newtoff and Alyssa Boisvert also took fourth.

Foltynewicz working his way back in Triple-A

• The Atlanta Braves last week optioned Minooka graduate Mike Foltynewicz to Triple-A Gwinnett.

Foltynewicz had an operation last September that removed a portion of his first rib to relieve a blood clot.

He pitched in three games in spring training after getting a late start, and between his last two outings, one was good, one not.

The Braves will not need a fifth starter for a while, and Foltynewicz will be in contention for that spot when they feel he is ready. For now, he is regaining strength and working on his command.

“I’ve got a little time to get back,” Foltynewicz told MLB.com reporter Mark Bowman a few days ago. “You can clearly tell that I’m not really there with pitching. Throwing, my arm feels good and all of that, but we’ve got to get back to pitching and locating and not allow the four home runs (which happened last Monday against the Houston Astros) to happen during the season.”

• First baseman Sam Travis (Providence), who has been referred to as “the next Paul Goldschmidt” by one scout, impressed the Red Sox brass as he tore it up in major league spring training. He went 15 for 32, a .469 average, and sported a .719 slugging percentage to go with two home runs and a team-leading 13 RBIs. Travis has not played at Triple-A Pawtucket yet in his young career, and that should be where he will begin the season. The PawSox manager, incidentally, is Kevin Boles, son of Lewis University graduate and former Marlins manager John Boles, who these days is the senior advisor to the general manager for player development for the Kansas City Royals.

• Right-hander Tanner Roark

VIEWS Dick Goss (Wilmington) continues to battle for a spot in the Washington Nationals’ rotation. He was 2-0 with a 0.64 ERA in the spring. In 14 innings, he allowed 14 hits, walked three and struck out 13.

Roark also can relieve. Even if he does land in the rotation, he may not get any starts early on because the Nationals will not need a fifth starter until mid-April.

• Outfielder Joe Benson (Joliet Catholic) spent about half of spring training with the parent Minnesota Twins and had two hits in 16 at-bats.

He then was sent to minor league camp and was there until being released three days ago.

• Outfielder John Ruettiger (JCA) was released earlier by the Baltimore Orioles, the only organization for which he has played, and as of yet has not signed elsewhere.

• The St. Louis Cardinals released left-hander Steve Sabatino (Lockport) this offseason. He pitched on the Class A and A-Advanced levels last season.

• Left-handed pitcher Tony Cingrani (Lincoln-Way Central) is over his health issues and enjoyed a strong spring training with the Cincinnati Reds. In 101⁄3 innings over eight appearances, he allowed seven hits and five walks while striking out 12.

Cingrani has started and relieved during his professional career. For now, the Reds feel the best place for him is the bullpen.

• Infielder Dean Anna (Lincoln-Way East) had four hits in 13 at-bats, a .308 average, in the spring with the Cardinals before being sent to minor league camp. He is scheduled to begin the season with Triple-A Memphis.

• Left-handed pitcher Tyler Jay, a first-round draft pick a year ago, remains high on the Minnesota Twins’ prospect list. He is on the roster of A-Advanced Fort Myers.

• Left-handed pitcher Kevin Duchene (JCA), Jay’s teammate last spring at Illinois, is in the Oakland organization. Wherever he begins the season, he may have an opportunity to advance. The organization reportedly views him favorably.

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

• Sunday, April 3, 2016

With spring training in the books and the regular Major League Baseball season about to begin, let’s take a few minutes to review the status of some of our local players.

We will call it a mixed bag.

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Area alumni competing for major league playing time

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ABOVE: Atlanta Braves’ Mike Foltynewicz delivers a pitch during a game last season. The Minooka graduate will begin the season at Triple-A Gwinnett as he builds his strength after an operation last September to relieve a blood clot. BELOW: Washington Nationals pitcher Tanner Roark (center) and catcher Wilson Ramos get a visit from pitching coach Steve McCatty during a game last season. Roark, a Wilmington graduate, had a good spring as he bids for a spot in the Nationals’ starting rotation.

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38 WHITE SOX SEASON PREVIEW

White Sox hoping pieces will fit

By ANDREW SELIGMAN The Associated Press

CHICAGO – The White Sox were sailing through a quiet spring training – and then, Adam LaRoche left the team.

That shattered the peace. Now, it’s time to see if this team can get itself together.

The season opens Monday night at Oakland with the White Sox insisting they are ready to contend after struggling in a big way last year.

“For whatever the reason, we’ve always been better as the hunter than the hunted,” general manager Rick Hahn said. “I don’t know why that is. Certainly, in ’05 we came out of nowhere. Expectations were low for us in ’08. And in ’06 we had a good season, won 90 games but didn’t make the playoffs.

“Certainly, last year we had high hopes and didn’t meet up to them.”

It’s easy to forget the White Sox had high expectations this time last year after trading for pitcher Jeff Samardzija and signing several high-profile free agents, including LaRoche. But Todd Frazier the only playoff games in Chicago were on the North Side. While the Cubs broke out with 97 wins and reached the NLCS, the White Sox finished fourth in the AL Central at 76-86 – their third straight losing season.

Here are some things to know as they try to establish themselves as contenders: WHO’S HERE, WHO’S GONE: The White Sox didn’t grab quite as many headlines this time with their offseason moves.

They were busy, though. They traded for All-Star and Home Run Derby champion Todd Frazier to solidify a longtime weakness at third base and add a big bat to the lineup. The Sox also brought in infielder Brett Lawrie, upgraded at catcher with Dioner Navarro and Alex Avila and added pitching depth with Mat Latos and outfield help in Austin Jackson.

Samardzija is gone. So is LaRoche, following an ugly split in mid-March.

Team executive Ken Williams asked him to cut back on his 14-year-old son Drake’s access. LaRoche said he would retire instead, leaving $13 million in salary on the table. The fallout raised questions about the team’s unity, with ace Chris Sale saying Williams “bold-faced lied to” the team, not to mention children in the workplace. After all, Drake LaRoche traveled with the team and had a locker.

ON THE REBOUND: The White Sox have

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ABOVE: White Sox manager Robin Ventura (right) laughs along with general manager Rick Hahn during a spring training baseball workout Feb. 24 in Glendale, Ariz. BELOW: White Sox piter Carlos Rodon throws during the first inning of a spring training baseball game against the San Diego Padres on March 11 in Peoria, Ariz.

a four-time All-Star leading the rotation in Sale and one of the game’s best sluggers in Jose Abreu along with some solid pieces in Adam Eaton, closer David Robertson and starters Jose Quintana and Carlos Rodon. But they also need some bounce-back seasons from a few players.

It would help if Melky Cabrera, one of the big offseason pickups a year ago, got off to a better start. He struggled early

and wound up with a .273 average after hitting a combined .311 over the previous three years with San Francisco and Toronto.

Frazier also needs to show his struggles over the second half last season with Cincinnati are behind him. An AllStar the past two years, he hit .255 with 35 homers and 89 RBIs overall. That’s not bad, but his numbers after the break were .220, 10 homers, 32 RBIs. If Frazier

regains his form, he and Abreu could be a formidable combo in the lineup. The White Sox are also counting on him to provide a spark in the clubhouse.

“You can see, he’s a good guy, always smiling,” Abreu said through an interpreter. “In the field, I think that can be huge.”

IN THE DUGOUT: Manager Robin Ventura enters his fifth season with a 297-351 record and an expiring contract. Expect the scrutiny on him to intensify if the White Sox struggle in the early going.

DELIVERY DUE: The White Sox have been waiting on Avisail Garcia to live up to his potential since they acquired him during the 2013 season and it’s fair to wonder how much more patience they have. At 24, there still is time. But the clock is ticking on him. He struggled in right field and at the plate last year, batting .257 with 13 homers and 59 RBIs, after missing a big part of the 2014 season because of a shoulder injury.

IN CONTROL: Drafted third overall in 2014, Rodon showed promise while going 9-6 with a 3.75 ERA. One thing he needs to improve: his control. Among pitchers with 130 innings or more last season, Rodon’s 4.59 walks per nine innings were by far the most in the majors.

NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL FINAL FOUR SEMIFINAL: VILLANOVA 95, OKLAHOMA 51

Villanova players, including Phil Booth and Kevin Rafferty, walks off the court Saturday after an NCAA Final Four tournament semifinal game against Oklahoma in Houston. Villanova won, 95-51.

By JIM O’CONNELL

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the only close game a 5-point win over overall No. 1 seed Kansas in the Elite Eight.

Villanova dominated the Sooners (29-8) after an opening 7 minutes that had the teams trading the lead almost every possession.

The Wildcats broke it open with a 21-4 run. The stats about NRG Stadium being a horrible place to shoot went out the window along with the Sooners’ chances at playing for their first title.

“I definitely think it helped,” Wright said of practicing shooting in the dome. “’We’re going to be good,’ we keep telling them, and I think they believed that.”

The Wildcats, with Hart going 7 for 8, shot 66.7 percent in the first half, including 6 of 11 from 3-point range in taking a 42-28 halftime lead.

“I wouldn’t say it’s easy, but when you have guys like (teammates) you can go off any night,” Hart said. “When they’re aggressive, it helps me. The

NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL FINAL FOUR SEMIFINAL: NORTH CAROLINA 83, SYRACUSE 63

Inside-outside job lifts Tar Heels to 83-66 win over Orange

By EDDIE PELLS

The Associated Press HOUSTON – North Carolina’s latest step on the way to a title was shaping up as strictly an inside job.

Out of nowhere, Marcus Paige figured out how to hit from 3-point land and the Tar Heels put an end to any hopes of another Syracuse comeback.

Using layups, floaters and putbacks – then, finally, three very timely 3s from Paige – the Tar Heels outmuscled Syracuse 83-66 on Saturday to move a win away from the program’s sixth national title.

Paige finished with 13 points and Brice Johnson and Justin Jackson led North Carolina (33-6) with 16 apiece, as the Tar Heels, the lone No. 1 seed in the Final Four, beat Jim Boeheim’s 10th-seeded Orange for the third time this season and advanced to Monday’s title game against Villanova.

Earlier, the Wildcats made 11 of 18 shots from behind the 3-point line, debunking the theory, first advanced at the cold-shooting Final Four in 2011, that nobody could shoot in Houston’s cavernous stadium.

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North Carolina forward Justin Jackson dunks the ball on Syracuse on Saturday during the second half of the NCAA Final Four tournament semifinal in Houston.

Then, the Tar Heels, ranked 284th in the country this season from long range, reversed that one-game trend. They bricked up 3 after 3, going 0-for-10 in the first half and barely drawing iron on some of them. Paige opened the second half with North Carolina’s 11th straight miss, and for the next 10 minutes, the Tar Heels (33-6) basically ignored the 3-point line.

Only when Trevor Cooney and Malachi Richardson triggered a 10-0 Syracuse run to trim a 17-point deficit to seven did the Tar Heels start thinking long range again. Paige made three 3s and Theo Pinson hit another to stifle the rally and make Carolina almost respectable from the 3-point line: 4 for 17 for the game.

Meeks finished with 15 points and eight rebounds, including a paddy cake

putback after batting a second offensive rebound to himself off glass. That gave the Heels a 67-53 lead.

Before Paige found his range, that was how North Carolina built its lead.

It was a reminder of the days before the 3-point shot was invented, when the way to really beat a zone – and Boeheim’s 2-3 is the best in the game – was to make blink-of-an-eye passes in and around the paint and crash the offensive glass to take advantage of a defense that doesn’t put bodies on bodies when the ball goes up.

That plan still works these days.

Early in the second half, Jackson made a jump pass from the corner to the lane, where Paige was waiting and batted the ball with an open hand over to Meeks, who dunked.

A bit later, Joel Berry got an easy offensive rebound and a layup to put the Tar Heels ahead by 17.

North Carolina finished with 16 second-chance points on 16 offensive boards.

Syracuse trailed by 16 in its crazy comeback victory over Virginia last week to make it here. But there was no full-court press that could beat the Heels, and no meltdown awaiting from them either.

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HOUSTON – Villanova had a night to remember on both ends of the court.

Buddy Hield had a night to forget.

The Wildcats, setting a record for margin of victory in a Final Four semifinal, held Hield to his second-lowest output of the season in a 95-51 victory over Oklahoma on Saturday night.

“That was just one of those nights,” Villanova coach Jay Wright said. “I feel bad for Oklahoma.”

He can feel good for his Wildcats (34-5) as they advanced to Monday night’s national championship game against the winner of the North Carolina-Syracuse game.

Josh Hart scored 23 points and his 10-of-12 shooting performance was part of Villanova’s 71.4 percent (35 of 49) effort. Villanova missed just five shots in the second half.

The margin topped the 34-point Final Four wins by Cincinnati over Oregon State in 1962 and Michigan State over Penn in 1979.

The Wildcats now have four wins in the tournament of at least 19 points,

driving lanes, able to get a couple of shots to fall, when that happens, able to kick out and get some guys some shots.”

As the Wildcats, who won it all in 1985 with the shocking upset of Georgetown, kept making shots, Hield kept missing.

The unanimous All-America selection was 3 for 8 in the first half, including 1 of 5 from beyond the arc. Hield came into the game shooting 46.5 percent from 3-point range.

“Just playing defensively as a team ... we contained him,” Hart said.

Hield kept putting on and off his familiar white sleeve on his right arm. It didn’t matter as the Sooners absorbed their worst loss of the season.

The Sooners finished 31.7 percent (19 of 60) for the game.

“Just credit them for what they were doing. Made it tough on me throwing multiple bodies at me,” said Hield, who had six points against West Virginia. “They just played terrific tonight.”

Hield said Villanova was “one of the best teams I’ve ever played in college.”

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GA 223 192 196 207 196 222 230 GA 183 184 205 230 225 251 234

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 78 44 25 9 97 225 194 Tampa Bay 78 45 28 5 95 217 186 Detroit 79 40 28 11 91 204 216 Boston 78 41 29 8 90 229 214 Ottawa 79 36 34 9 81 224 240 Montreal 79 36 37 6 78 211 228 Buffalo 79 33 35 11 77 193 214 Toronto 78 28 39 11 67 189 229 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA z-Washington 77 55 16 6 116 241 179 x-Pittsburgh 78 45 25 8 98 229 192 N.Y. Rangers 78 43 26 9 95 225 207 N.Y. Islanders 77 42 26 9 93 214 201 Philadelphia 77 39 25 13 91 201 202 Carolina 79 34 29 16 84 192 216 New Jersey 79 37 34 8 82 176 200 Columbus 78 31 39 8 70 203 242 x-clinched playoff spot z-clinched conference Two points for a win, one point for OT loss Saturday’s Results San Jose 3, Nashville 2, SO Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Islanders 0 Philadelphia 3, Ottawa 2 Dallas 3, Los Angeles 2 Detroit 3, Toronto 2 Tampa Bay 3, New Jersey 1 Florida 4, Montreal 3 Buffalo 4, N.Y. Rangers 3 Columbus 5, Carolina 1 Calgary at Edmonton, (n) Washington at Arizona, (n) Sunday’s Games Boston at Blackhawks, 11:30 a.m.

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.

Minnesota at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

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Dallas at Minnesota, 2:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Houston, 2:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Cleveland, 2:30 p.m.

Utah at Phoenix, 5 p.m.

Memphis at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Bulls at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

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

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Keith says he needs to be ‘smarter’ in the future

By MARK LAZERUS

mlazerus@suntimes.com CHICAGO – Duncan Keith’s intensity is one of the defining characteristics of his game. On the ice, he rarely smiles. After games, he broods at his locker stall, stewing on losses and missed opportunities. It’s part of what separates him from other players.

But that fire and bubbling fury has come to the surface at least three times now, resulting in dangerous, illegal plays. He elbowed Vancouver’s Daniel Sedin in the head in retaliation for an earlier hit. He slashed Los Angeles’ Jeff Carter in the face in retaliation for a Carter slash to his ungloved hand. And he swung his stick at the face of Minnesota’s Charlie Coyle in retaliation for being knocked to the ice.

All three actions earned him suspensions, the latest a sixgame ban that will keep him out of Game 1 of the playoffs.

Does Keith – one of the most decorated and lauded defensemen of his era – worry about his reputation? Is he a dirty player?

Can he be a clean one from now on?

Keith believes he can.

WHAT TO WATCH

Pro hockey Boston at Blackhawks, 11:30 a.m., NBC Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m., CSN St. Louis at Colorado, 7 p.m., NBCSN Pro basketball Oklahoma City at Houston, 2:30 p.m., ABC Bulls at Milwaukee, 6 p.m., CSN Portland at Golden State, 7 p.m., NBA Pro baseball Spring training, Philly Futures at Philadelphia, 2 a.m., MLB (sameday tape) Spring training, Minnesota at Washington, 5 a.m. MLB (tape-delayed) Spring training, seattle vs.

Colorado, 8 a.m., MLB (tape-delayed)

“I try to play the game hard, and for the amount of minutes I play, the games I play, I feel I play the game hard,” Keith said Saturday in his first public comments since the Coyle incident Tuesday night. “At the end of the day, I try to leave it on the ice. I’m not really focused on what I’m trying to leave out there as far as a reputation. I think everybody wants to have a reputation as a clean, honest player. There’s a line and a limit. It’s just being smarter and knowing that.”

Keith was asked if he can control his temper and assure both himself and his teammates that such an incident won’t happen again.

“Well, I think I’m going to have to,” he said. “It’s just knowing that line. I’m a competitive person, but I don’t think that’s something that I can’t stop. I think I can stop that.”

Keith said he won’t appeal the six-game suspension, which was handed down Friday night after his over-the-phone hearing with the NHL’s Department of Player Safety, which called Keith’s action “an intentional and retaliatory act of violence by a player with a history of using his stick as a weapon.”

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, noon, ESPN Spring training, Cubs at L.A. Angels, 2 p.m., MLB Toronto at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m., ESPN2 N.Y. Mets at Kansas City, 7:30 p.m., ESPN Auto racing Formula 1, Bahrain Grand Prix, 9:30 a.m., NBCSN NASCAR, Sprint Cup Series, STP 500, noon, FS1 Drag racing NHRA Nationals, finals, 4 p.m., FS1 Golf 2016 Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals, 8 a.m., TGC PGA Tour, Shell Houston Open, final round, noon, TGC; 2 p.m, NBC

PISTONS 94, BULLS 90

Playoff hopes fade in Bulls loss The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO – Reggie Jackson scored 22 points, Tobias Harris added 21 and the Detroit Pistons overcame Jimmy Butler’s first career triple-double to beat the Bulls on Saturday night.

Marcus Morris had 16 points, and Andre Drummond had 11 points and 11 rebounds for the Pistons, who remain on track for a playoff spot.

Butler had 28 points and career highs of 17 rebounds and 12 assists. Pau Gasol had 16

points and 14 rebounds.

Detroit is a half-game ahead of Indiana for seventh in the Eastern Conference and 2∏ games up on the ninthplace Bulls.

Jackson’s jumper gave Detroit an 86-83 lead with 1:46 left. After E’Twaun Moore and Butler missed 3s, Harris scored on a putback for a fivepoint lead.

Morris made two free throws for Detroit’s largest lead at seven with 43.3 seconds left after Butler missed a layup and committed a foul.

INDYCAR: DESERT DIAMOND WEST VALLEY PHOENIX GRAND PRIX

Dixon cruises to victory in Phoenix The ASSOCIATED PRESS AVONDALE, Ariz. – Scott Dixon dominated after taking the lead on a midrace caution and crossed the checkers under another yellow flag to win IndyCar’s first race at Phoenix International Raceway in 11 years on Saturday night.

Dixon started ninth and took advantage of tire trouble for Team Penske’s top two drivers to move within range of the lead on the fast mile

Champions Tour, Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic, final round, 2 p.m., TGC LPGA Tour, ANA Inspiration, final round, 4 p.m., TGC Women’s basketball NCAA tournament, Final Four, semifinal, Oregon St. vs. Connectictu, 5 p.m., ESPN NCAA tournament, Final Four, semifinal, Washington vs. Syracuse, 7:30 p.m., ESPN2 Figure skating ISU World Championships, Exhibition of Champions, 1 p.m., NBCSN Tennis ATP World Tour, Miami Open, men’s championship, noon, ESPN2 Soccer Premier League, Southampton

oval. The Chip Ganassi Racing driver moved past Tony Kanaan out of the pits and led the final 155 laps of IndyCar’s first oval race of the season.

The win was Dixon’s 39th of his career, tying him with Al Unser for fourth on IndyCar’s all-time list.

Simon Pagenaud finished second and Will Power was third after missing the season opener in St. Petersburg with an ear infection. Kanaan finished fourth and Graham Rahal was fifth.

at Leicester City, 7:30 a.m., NBCSN Bundesliga, Hertha BSC Berlin at Borussia Mönchengladbach, 8:30 a.m., FS1 Premier League, Everton at Manchester United, 10 a.m., USA Bundesliga, Koln at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, 10:20 a.m., FS2 MLS, Portland at Orlando City, 7 p.m., FS1 Men’s baseball Iowa at Minnesota, 2 p.m., BTN Women’s softball Rutgers at Illinois, noon, BTN Winter sports World Curlting Championships, Men, United States vs. Canada, 3:30 p.m., NBCSN (same-day tape) Running Paris Marathon, 1:30 a.m.,, NBCSN

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Plainfield to receive a memorial dedicated to its police service dogs

By DENISE M. BARAN–UNLAND dunland@shawmedia.com

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LAINFIELD – Few people realize the significance of a large unmarked rock in a Plainfield field.

That’s soon going to change, thanks to Tracy Caliendo, a K-9 officer with the Plainfield Police Department.

In partnership with the Plainfield Riverfront Foundation, Caliendo is creating a Plainfield K-9 Unit Memorial in that field to honor the past, present and future Plainfield police service dogs, three of whom are buried under or near that rock.

Why should these dogs be honored?

Because their loyalty and dedication is unconditional. Police service dogs – such as Caliendo’s dog Kody – do more than ride around in a squad car with their handlers, Caliendo said.

“He [Kody] is my partner,” said Caliendo, who became a K-9 officer in 2013. “He may have to take a bullet one day so I can go home to my kids.”

Since the late 1970s, seven dogs have been part of the Plainfield K-9 unit: Luger, TJ, Brutus, Blackie, Foster, Aron and Kody. All were German shepherds, except for TJ, which was a Doberman.

The remains of Luger, Blackie and TJ are in the field, which the Plainfield Police Department once used for agility training, Caliendo said. She was aghast when her ex-husband Jim Caliendo, a retired Plainfield police officer and handler for Foster, explained the reason for the rock.

“Three dogs that served this community are buried under that rock and no one knows,” Caliendo said. “People let their dogs urinate on it.”

The first phase of the project costs $15,000 and includes the construction of a granite German shepherd, the flagpole and the mulch around the flagpole, Caliendo said. Phase two will be a granite plaque engraved with the dogs’ names.

The plan is to place the granite German shepherd on top of the old existing rock. If that doesn’t work, Caliendo said the rock will remain in the field as part of the memorial. A donation of $5,000 from the Plainfield Lions Club made it possible to order the granite shepherd, she added.

Tod Schnowske, president of the Plainfield Lions Club, said the club has a special projects committee and felt the memorial certainly qualified.

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The proposed memorial will include a granite German shepherd placed on top of the existing rock in a field that was once used as the agility training ground for the Plainfield Police Department.

Know more To donate, make checks payable to the Plainfield Riverfront Foundation with a memo to the Plainfield Police K-9 Memorial. Mail to the foundation at P.O. Box 358, Plainfield, IL 60544. For more information, contact Tracy Caliendo, project manager, at 630-200 or tcaliendo@plainfieldpd.com.

“These dogs keep our law enforcement safe,” Schnowske said. “They should be recognized somehow.”

The company creating the memorial is the same one that produced the Plainfield tornado memorial located outside Plainfield Central High School, said Robert Epley, executive director of the Plainfield Riverfront Foundation. It

will take six months to complete.

“We’re hoping to unveil it in the fall of 2016,” Epley said.

Six months ago, Caliendo approached Epley with her idea. Epley not only liked the idea, the foundation offered to accept donations on behalf of the project.

When the foundation – which is not directly connected with the village – was formed in 2009, its goal was to raise funds to improve the riverfront. The addition of the Plainfield Police K-9 Memorial will add an intriguing destination point for people using the DuPage River trail, which comes through the property, Epley added.

Bobby Bostanche of Plainfield, a former police officer and handler of TJ and then Brutus, said donations to the Plainfield K-9 Memorial Unit fund

were requested at his mother Phyllis Bostanche’s funeral in lieu of flowers.

“When I was a K-9 officer, my parents would babysit the dog if I was on vacation,” Bostanche said. “My parents were a big part of the K-9 thing.”

Bostanche called police service dogs “remarkable animals” and said serving as a K-9 officer is an honor, fully worth the time and effort involved to become one.

“The joke is that it takes longer to train the handler than the dog,” Bostanche said.

Back in those days, the Plainfield K-9 unit was one of the few units in existence, so Bostanche said he was on call for several counties: Will, Kane, Kendall and DuPage. At one point, TJ was even featured in DogSport magazine, Bostanche said.

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This year marked the 20th anniversary of the Joliet Rotary Youth Leadership Conference.

This year marked the 20th anniversary of the Joliet Rotary Youth Leadership Conference.

The conference was held on March 20 and March 21 and included nine students from each of Joliet’s three high schools, Joliet Catholic, Joliet Central and Joliet West.

Topics of the conference included leadership, decision-making, communications and ethical issues. Rotarians from various disciplines spoke to the students about these topics. The speak-

ers were Rotarians Brother James Gaffney, Ed Dollinger, Mike Hennessy, Ken Mihelich, Brian Benton, Debbie Condotti, Kate Schott, Dr. Charles Coleman, Damon Sloan, Neil McManus and Mike Trafton. Judge Dinah Archambeault, Sen. Patrick McGuire, Scott Slocum, J.D. Ross and Brian McDaniel were also speakers at the conference.

Rotarian Mary Jaworkski has been coordinating the conference for the past 15 years. Rotarian Jen Howard has been working with her for the past five years.

PEOPLE BRIEFS Plainfield Lions Club will host fundraising event on April 23

PLAINFIELD – The Plainfield Lions Club presents its 25th annual Silent Auction and Dinner on April 23 at the Joliet Country Club, 1009 Spencer Road, Joliet.

Social hour begins at 6 p.m. and dinner starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $100 per person. Proceeds go to sight and hearing and other Lions-supported charities.

To purchase tickets, call Mike Phelps at 815-693-8369 or Larry Stephens at 815474-9061. To donate auction items, call Steve Fry at 630-248-4024.

During the 2015 holiday season, 129 families benefited from the Plainfield Lions Club. In 17 years, the Plainfield Lions has donated $193,000 to District 202 families in need with its holiday gift basket program; in the past 11 years, it has donated $80,000 to community sight and hearing cases.

For more information, visit www.plainfieldlions.org.

on April 7.

Ken Koelkebeck, University of Illinois Extension and poultry state specialist, and research specialist Pam Utterback will be the main presenters. Demonstrations will be included.

The workshop will be from 9 a.m. to noon at University of Illinois Extension, Will County, 100 Manhattan Drive, Joliet.

The cost is $10 per participant and registration along with prepayment is required by April 4. Register at http:// web.extension.illinois.edu/gkw.

For more information, call James Theuri at University of Illinois Extension, Kankakee County, at 815-933-8337.

to learn about beekeeping by joining the Will County 4-H Beekeeping Club.

The first meeting will be held at 2 p.m.

April 16 at Pilcher Park in Joliet. Additional meetings will be planned at the first meeting. The club is open to youth ages 8 to 18 that are interested in learning about honeybees by building a hive from the beginning.

This course will introduce each child to

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JOLIET – The University of St. Francis and the USF Career Success Center invites members of the community to attend the Career & Internship Fair on April 8. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to noon in the Pat Sullivan Center, at Open enrollment at the corner of Wilcox and Douglas streets Montessori of Plainfield in Joliet.

PLAINFIELD – Montessori of Plainfield This event is free to attend, but is now accepting enrollment applications registration is required. Street parking is for the 2016-17 school year. Families available. More than 60 employers will interested in touring the school, meeting attend. the staff and getting information about Community members who wish to this academic program for children attend should register at stfrancis.edu/ ages 3 to 6 years old can call Chris for careerfair4816 and email a copy of their additional information at 815-272-3783 or resume to careerservices@stfrancis. visit www.montessoriofplainfield.net. edu with the subject line “Career Fair Resume.” Professional dress is required Poultry care workshop to attend. scheduled for April 7 in Joliet Questions can be directed to careerserJOLIET – Learn about chicken basics: vices@stfrancis.edu. buying them, housing them, feeding them, feeding them on pasture and Will County 4-H Beekeeping Club protecting them against predators, insect will host first meeting on April 16 pests and diseases at a poultry workshop Youth in Will County will get the chance

have a look at the physical, behavioral and social infrastructure inside a beehive.

Registration is required. Cost is $30 per child. Register online at web.extension. illinois.edu/gkw or by phone at 815-7279364.

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The HERALD–NEWS JOLIET – The Will County Regional Office of Education recently honored Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow with its Friend of Education Award for his long-standing commitment to students and educational issues. Regional Superintendent of Schools Shawn Walsh presented Glasgow with the honor during the recent Boys Leadership Conference hosted by the Regional Office of Education.

Roughly 140 students from grades seven through 10 attended the conference, which was titled “Seize the Day.” The state’s attorney began working

with students as early as 1993 when he formed the grassroots organization C.E.A.S.E.-F.I.R.E. (Character Education Activates Self Esteem – Fostering Individuals Respecting Each Other) to raise funds to implement character education programs in local schools.

The group raised more than $100,000 to fund the character education program in District 86 schools.

Other initiatives include: • The production of a Gang Awareness and Prevention Book for parents and students.

• Working with both the Forest Park Community Center and the Spanish Community Center to develop afterschool programs that provide tutoring and homework assistance,

along with transportation.

• Forming and participating in a speakers bureau that meets with students across the county about safety issues including gang activity, the dangers of illegal drugs and Internet safety.

• Creating a Dangers of Heroin Art Scholarship Contest to foster research and discussion about the deadly impact of using heroin and to provide students with scholarships for college.

• Founding and supporting the Youth Experiencing Success in Schools (YESS) program in the Joliet Township High School District. The grant-funded program provides onsite mental health services and crucial support for struggling students.

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Regional Superintendent of Schools Shawn Walsh (right) presents Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow with the Friend of Education Award.

The HERALD–NEWS PLAINFIELD – The District 202 community is invited to help honor 17 exceptional educators and staff members who have significantly impacted their students, schools and the community.

The District 202 Board of Education will host its 24th annual Awards of Excellence at 7 p.m. April 5 in the auditorium at Plainfield East High School, 12001 S. Naperville Road, Plainfield. A reception with light refreshments will follow the ceremony.

The board will also give the Richard Ira Jones award to Joliet-area busi-

nessman Terry D’Arcy, and the Elizabeth “Bess” Eichelberger award to Plainfield Central High School Principal Bob Smith. Both awards recognize recipients for significant community service.

Finally, the board will present the inaugural Cheryl Ricciardi Exceptional Student Service Award to Plainfield North High School counselor Stacey Harrison.

The 2016 Awards of Excellence winners are: • Creekside Elementary School firstgrade teacher Annette Anastopoulos.

• Plainfield Academy teacher Tracy

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• Eagle Pointe Elementary School second-grade teacher Sara Cairo.

• Plainfield South High School English teacher Hannah Christie.

• Plainfield North High School choir director Jason Hawkins.

• Plainfield Central High School secretary Pauline Herbst.

• Plainfield North High School nurse Lori Lenckus.

• Timber Ridge Middle School sixthgrade math teacher Margie McCarthy.

• Plainfield South High School English teacher John Miller.

• Crystal Lawns Elementary School

second-grade teacher Carolyn Nirtaut.

• Central Elementary School firstgrade teacher Ann Peterson.

• Freedom Elementary School teacher’s aide Jennifer Rebhan.

• Meadow View Elementary School first-grade teacher Kim Rice.

• Eichelberger Elementary School kindergarten teacher Courtney Smith.

• Ira Jones Middle School seventh-grade math teacher Jeff St. Yves.

• Grand Prairie Elementary School third-grade teacher Amy Uribe.

• John F. Kennedy Middle School special education teacher Kristen Young.

Volunteers needed for Catholic Charities Ombudsman Program

D-202 offers Chinese immersion summer class again this year

Joliet Area Community Hospice to host annual dinner meeting

PEOPLE BRIEFS Lemont’s ‘Mayor’s Drive for Charity’ is April 25

LEMONT – Help raise money for Lemont charity organizations and service groups during the “Mayor’s Drive for Charity” on April 25 at Ruffled Feathers Golf Club in Lemont. Last year, 45 organizations received funds from the outing. This year’s event is sponsored by Mayor Brian Reaves and Ruffled Feathers Golf Club.

Foursomes can choose to tee off at 7:30 a.m. or 1 p.m. with a shotgun start and scramble format. Afternoon slots fill quickly, so register early. Green fees are $155 per player or $620 per foursome.

This includes 18 holes of golf with a cart, free use of the driving range for the day, a continental breakfast for morning golfers, a box lunch and a buffet dinner.

Sponsorships are available. Cost for the buffet dinner only is $50.

Registration forms are at www.lemont. il.us/MayorsDrive. For more information, contact Linda Molitor at 630-257-1590 or lmolitor@lemont.il.us.

JOLIET – Catholic Charities, Diocese of Joliet, is seeking residents from Kankakee, Will and Grundy counties to volunteer in the most recent addition to its Aging & Disability Services Programming – the Ombudsman Program.

This is an opportunity to become an advocate for people living in long-term care.

Volunteers must be at least 18 years old and relate well to older individuals and persons with disabilities. In addition, volunteers for this program should display strong communication and problem-solving skills and be able to demonstrate empathy and sound judgment. Time commitment for this opportunity is a minimum of eight hours per month.

Training for the first group of volunteers will be April 5 to April 7.

To register, contact Debbi Baldauff at 815-523-9919 or dbaldauff@cc-doj.org.

Visit catholiccharitiesjoliet.org.

PLAINFIELD – District 202 students can learn about Chinese culture and language through “STARTALKing,” a federallysubsidized language program being held June 6 to June 27 at Plainfield North High School, 12005 S. 248th St. in Plainfield.

The courses will be open to District 202 students who will be in fifth through ninth grades in fall 2016. Classes will run from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, except on June 27, when class will run from 8 a.m. to noon. Registration is $80 (nonrefundable). Payment is due with registration. Please pay by check to Plainfield School District 202.

A maximum of two classes with up to 24 students each will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. The deadline to register is May 31.

For more information, visit www. psd202.org or contact Dr. Dan McDonnell at 815-577-4036, or Lilian Blecha at blecha.lilian@gmail.com.

JOLIET – Joliet Area Community Hospice is hosting its annual dinner meeting on April 11 at 176 West Banquets, 1100 NE Frontage Road, Joliet, with a 5 p.m. social hour and 6 p.m. dinner/program. This fundraiser is open to the public. Reservations are due by April 4 and tickets are $55 a person, with tables of 10 available.

Joliet Area Community Hospice will honor as “Champions of Hospice” the Joliet Fire Department for extraordinary volunteer service and support to JACH and the memorial “Care” Bear volunteers, a group of 20 dedicated women who touch hearts by handcrafting hundreds of personalized teddy bears annually to comfort the bereaved. JACH honors all its volunteers that evening and Red Carpet and Staff Awards will be presented.

For tickets, call 815-740-4104 or visit www.joliethospice.org/annualdinner. html.

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Boys and Girls Club hosts volunteers The HERALD–NEWS JOLIET – On March 19, the Boys and Girls Club of Joliet hosted Member Appreciation Day with the help of 47 student volunteers from the College of Saint Scholastica.

The volunteer group traveled more than seven hours from Minnesota to begin their spring break volunteer trip at the Boys and Girls Club. Club members age 6 to 12 spent the morning watching movies, playing games, creating arts and crafts and hunting for Easter eggs with the volunteers. The event concluded with a pizza party and

group photographs.

The Students Today Leaders Forever Club is a community of college students that come together to pay it forward in their community. The spring break trip is an opportunity for the club to volunteer at six new cities on their way to Georgia, where 500 club members from colleges around the nation will join efforts to host one last volunteer event.

This is the first time that the Boys and Girls Club of Joliet has hosted such a large student volunteer group.

For more information, visit www.bgcjoliet.com or call 815-723-3434.

PEOPLE BRIEFS Big Brothers Big Sisters plans bowling fundraiser

tions to submit a brief biography on their honorees (no more than two JOLIET – Big Brothers Big Sisters of Will paragraphs or 200 words), along with a and Grundy Counties will host its annual photo (jpg format, at least 200 dpi) and “Bowl for Kids’ Sake” on April 17 and April daytime contact information to news@ theherald-news.com.

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The submission deadline is noon April 5.

The April 17 event will be from 3 to 6 p.m. at Crest Hill Lanes, 905 Theodore St. Direct questions to Denise M. BaranUnland at 815-280-4122 or dunland@ in Joliet. The April 23 event will be from 2 to 4 p.m. April 23 at Town and Country shawmedia.com.

Lanes, 2231 W. Jefferson St. in Joliet.

Joliet East High School alumni For more information, to register or to to host 60th birthday ‘BASH’ become an event sponsor, visit www.

JOLIET – Joliet East High School Class of bbbswillgrundy.org/bowl or call 815-7231974 will host a 60th Birthday “BASH” on BBBS. Sept. 24 at the Joliet Moose, 25 Springfield Ave. in Joliet.

Annual ‘Women of Year’ Organizers are looking for all Kingsmen nominations sought from the Class of 1974. For more informaOn April 10, The Herald-News will tion, call Jim Chuporak at 815-722-5948 continue its long-standing tradition of or on Facebook at the Joliet East Class of publishing the community’s “Women of 1974 “Keeping In Touch” page. the Year.”

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ASK DOCTOR K Anthony L. Komaroff and have a strong desire to drink. You start to tolerate alcohol; you don’t get tipsy as easily. You start to feel a little nervous and shaky several hours after your last drink, and you learn another drink can quiet the shakes.

Alcohol abuse is a milder problem.

You don’t have the same compulsion or physical need to drink as those who are dependent on alcohol. But you do drink excessively – and if you keep drinking excessively, you very likely are to go on to alcohol dependence.

Even if you aren’t suffering from alcohol dependence or abuse, your drinking still could be cause for concern. I’ve known people who don’t drink excessively, but even a couple of drinks cause them to say things they may not mean, and surely should not say – to their spouses, friends, co-workers or bosses. That makes their drinking hazardous to their home and work life, and to relationships with family and friends. It also puts them at risk for developing more serious problems with alcohol down the road.

So while I don’t know enough about you to answer your question, the fact you were concerned enough about your drinking to ask me about it indicates it may be a problem. Talk to your doctor about your alcohol use. If you do have a problem, you can work with your doctor to determine the best treatment options for you.

• Write to Dr. Komaroff at www.askdoctork.com or Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.

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Dear Dr. K: During my daughter’s wedding, and all the events surrounding it, I started drinking more than usual. But that was six months ago, and I haven’t cut back to where I was before. When do I get concerned I might have a drinking problem?

Dear reader: It’s not easy to answer your question. What constitutes “healthy” versus “harmful” drinking can vary quite a bit from person to person. So where is the line between social drinking and problem drinking? Does drinking every day or drinking a certain amount indicate a problem?

Here’s the bottom line: If your pattern of drinking creates difficulty for you personally, socially or at work, then your drinking likely is harmful to your health.

Now, that sounds reasonable, but it raises some important questions. Most important, are you the best judge of whether your drinking is creating difficulties for you? Would your family, friends and co-workers share your judgment?

Another important question: Could your drinking be affecting your health without you knowing it? I’ve known people who drank throughout the day and were damaging their liver. But in the earliest stages of liver damage from excessive drinking, there often are no symptoms.

And some of the damage silently is done is irreversible.

Several screening tests can help determine whether you might have a drinking problem. (I’ve put two of the tests, the CAGE questionnaire and the AUDIT, on my website, askdoctork.com.)

Alcohol use occurs along a spectrum.

Alcohol dependence is the most severe type of alcohol misuse. It is marked by complete loss of control over drinking behavior. You’re preoccupied with drinking

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Vacation photos reveal more than mother-in law knows Dear Abby: I’m writing to ask what’s the classy way to handle a touchy situation. My mother-in-law lives with my husband and me because she’s financially unable to live on her own.

She sometimes goes away on trips and vacations with her church and “boyfriends.”

About a month ago, I noticed several items of nice clothing and shoes had gone missing. I asked if anyone had seen them and got a negative reply.

Well, I saw some pictures of my motherin-law from a recent trip someone had posted online, and she was wearing some of the missing items. She since has returned, but they haven’t been returned.

I haven’t confronted her about it yet, but I need to figure out how to get my things back without blowing my top.

She does this frequently. They usually turn up after about six months, in

tomer came up the other day holding a book she was interested in and asked, “Does this smell like cigarette smoke to you?” It did, so I apologized and added it to the box of items to be disposed of.

This happens often. Books are places I know I didn’t put them. How returned by obviously heavy smokers do I put a stop to this once and for all? with the pages so saturated with the Please help me. – Upset Fashionista odor of stale tobacco they must be set Dear Upset: Show your mother-in-law aside to see if it will dissipate. Somethe pictures you spotted and see how times they smell better after a day or she reacts. You didn’t mention whether so, but often we have no choice but to she may be losing her memory and not throw perfectly good books away. It’s remember she has taken things or if frustrating, because the cost of books, she’s just light-fingered. The way to fix DVDs and other materials adds up. We this would be to install a lock on your don’t have a policy for charging the closet or bedroom door and use it. (You offenders. also might want to explore putting So, Abby, I hope you will pass along her name on a list for low-cost senior the “hint” to heavy smokers if they housing if any is available in your smoke while reading their library community.) books, they’re creating extra costs for Dear Abby: May I vent about somethe library and their fellow taxpayers, thing? I work for a public library. A cus- and affecting more than just their own

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips

health. – Library Employee In Washington Dear L.E.: I understand your problem

because many years ago there was no rule in the Dear Abby office against smoking on the premises, and several of my mother’s assistants were heavy smokers. In those days, readers’ questions all arrived via snail mail rather than via the Internet, and I vividly remember my mother complaining that when letters were delivered to her home, the tobacco odor was so strong it made it hard for her to review them.

Readers, out of consideration for others, please take note and try to refrain from smoking when using library books. The writer of this letter isn’t exaggerating.

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

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Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY – Your innovative approach to whatever you do will draw interest and support from your peers.

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properties Unique Joliet home in Cathedral area offers rare opportunity Yesterday meets today and tomorrow in this outstanding, wellpreserved and greatly upgraded home from the early 20th Century.

Offered for just the third time in 90 years, this brick three-bedroom with impressive rooflines and curb appeal is anything but ordinary.

Original architecture is wellblended with modern lifestyle, including unique ceiling and doorway designs. Architectural detail is superb, including such features as the oversized moldings, pocket door, granite fireplace, hardwood floors, and wall sconces in each room.

Modern living comforts and needs have been answered with state-of-theart upgrades. The kitchen, for example, includes newer floors, windows, granite countertops and sink to complement the copper cooktop and wall oven. The first floor also features a huge living room with fireplace, formal dining room with chandelier, and sitting room with unique curved design and large windows.

Upstairs are the three bedrooms, each with a preserved floral mural, a renovated ultra-modern main bath, and such features as a built-in for linens and pull-down stairs for attic storage.

The basement features a wood-paneled family room, storage area and full bath.

The fenced yard boasts professional

landscaping, and a vegetable garden on the sunny side of the detached garage, which has a concrete driveway.

Other improvements include a roof tear-off in 2006, high-efficiency HVAC system in 2011, new water heater in 2015, newer garage door with opener, and exterior trim paint in 2015.

ABOUT THIS HOME Address: 960 Black Road, Joliet Size: 2,192 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 2½ baths Room Sizes: Family room, 24-by-13 feet; living room, 22-by-12; dining room, 16-by-11; kitchen, 14-by-9; sitting room, 13-by-8; master bedroom, 15-by-12; additional bedrooms, 14-by-9, 10-by-12 Price: $209,900 Directions: Take Black Road west from Route 30 (Plainfield Road), to the corner of Black Road and Cowles Avenue; or, take Black east of North Larkin Avenue to the Black/Cowles corner Tour: By appointment Realtor: Karen Robertson, of Spring Realty Inc., at (815) 482-8734 (cell and text), or via email to karen@makeamove.us. Visit the Website at www.makeamove.us

25305 S. Old Chicago Road, Elwood 4 bed, 2 bath. Both baths updated. 3/4 acre lot with pole building.

Fresh paint, new carpet. 2 concrete patios.

Partially fenced yard.

Offered at $159,900 Tom Mulvey, Managing Broker, 730-1900 x22 MLS# 09143066

1318 Colorado Avenue, Joliet

25757 S. Red Oak Rd., Channahon 4 bed, 2 1/2 bath 2-

4303 Bluegrass Lane, Plainfield

story. 1st floor laundry, full bsmt. Sliding doors to back patio, fenced yard. Park and walking trails in subdivision.

Offered at $239,900 Tom Mulvey, Managing Broker, 730-1900 x22 MLS# 09179697

All-brick Cape Cod. 3 bed, 2 bath. LR with fireplace. Formal DR. First floor bed and bath.

Full, partially finished basement. Offered at $157,900 Jane Hopkins 730-1900 x23.

MLS # 09152379 3 bed, 1 1/2 bath movein ready 2-story home on large corner lot.

Newly remodeled kitchen. Full, partially finished basement.

Fenced backyard.

Offered at $204,900 Jane Hopkins, 730-1900 x23 MLS# 09165586

Dow Realty, Inc. DowCompanies.com

815-730-1900 1300 W. Jefferson St. Joliet, IL 60435

Tom Mulvey

Jane Hopkins

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Broker

CRB, CRS, GRI

GRI, ABR, SFR

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REAL ESTATE

60440-1388, 02-02-304-056-0000, Arvind Aggarwal to Melanie Bullock, February 11 $118,500, 116 Oakwood Dr, Bolingbrook 60440-2829, 02-15-102-001-0000, Beal Bank to Mohammad Afzal Farooqui & Syeda Saleha Farooqui, February 3 BOLINGBROOK $190,000, 308 Lakeview Cir, Boling$330,000, 2061 John Paul Jones Ln brook 60440-1989, 02-10-201-106-0000, 2061, Bolingbrook 60490-2104, 01-25Illinois Housing Dev Authority to Shuo 301-046-1000, Jimmy E Rios to Lawrence Zhang & Zitian Yu, February 4 Mroczek & Marjorie Mroczek, February 19 BRAIDWOOD $133,500, 230 Thornhurst Rd, Boling$215,000, 276 Deer Run Dr, Braidwood brook 60440-2419, 02-11-404-00360408-2306, 24-08-201-044-0000, 0000, Hannelle J Adams Estate to Jin Andrew Fox to Andrew Berkey & Jessica Wang, December 7 N Berkey, February 1 $233,000, 230 Clifton Ln, Bolingbrook 60440-6127, 02-09-306-019-0000, Praveen K Gupta to Dilipkumar A Patel & CHANNAHON $97,500, 22341 S Donna Ave, ChannaNayanaben Patel, February 4 hon 60410-3073, 06-35-103-003-0000, $253,000, 230 Boxwood St, BolingGoshen Mortgage Reo LLC to Paula L brook 60490-2061, 02-18-307-004Werner, December 30 0000, Garcia Trust to Lindsey K Nyenhuis & Alexi Mandolini, November 10 CREST HILL $72,000, 139 Julie Rd, Bolingbrook $159,900, 21529 Eich Dr, Crest Hill 60440-1333, 02-02-302-044-0000, Hud 60403-1543, 04-19-310-015-0000, to Reham Khayad, February 11 Mtglq Investors Lp to Alesha Thompson, $290,000, 1137 Four Seasons Ln, February 1 Bolingbrook 60440-1435, 02-08-101-051$116,000, 1903 Hosmer Ln, Crest Hill 0000, Marco Anemone to John Neuman 60403-2074, 04-32-408-012-0000, Reque & Celine Marie Reque, February 18 Guido Coimbra to Diana Guzman Rangel, $357,000, 2502 River Hills Ln, BolingFebruary 11 brook 60490-5050, 01-26-400-008$142,500, 1916 Highland Ave, Crest 0010, K Hovnanian At River Hills LLC Hill 60403-2446, 04-33-305-007-0000, to Narendra Babu Modupalli & Vanitha Mark J Gornik to James R Fonseca & Modupalli, February 4 Joanne Fonseca, February 8 $132,000, 312 Whispering Ct, Bolingbrook 60440-3807, 02-15-107-086ELWOOD 1000, Micah Manore to John W League, $170,900, 119 Bushthorn Dr, Elwood February 19 60421-6083, 11-20-108-021-0000, An$299,500, 2169 Misty Creek Trl, drew Hughes to Ryan A Mathis, February Bolingbrook 60490-5046, 01-26-40026 008-0000, K Hovnanian At River Hills LLC to Dwight Anthony Anthement & Luz FRANKFORT E Sanchez, February 19 $118,000, 21339 S 80th Ave, Frankfort $100,000, 361 Evening Star Ct, Bolingbrook 60440-3812, 02-15-108-035-1000, 60423-9181, 09-24-302-004-0000, Christiana Trust to Ryan Kirwan, NovemHud to Anatoli Vozian & Olesea Antoci, ber 10 February 3 $180,000, 232 Bristol Way, Bolingbrook $280,000, 21170 Plank Trail Ct, Frankfort 60423-8834, 09-24-402-027-0000, 60440-1604, 02-16-115-020-0000, Andrew Hill to Rudy L Soto & Catherine G Linklater Trust to Ronald P Napoleon & Julie A Napoleon, February 26 Franco, February 24 $142,500, 406 Langford Dr, BolingHOMER GLEN brook 60440-1215, 02-02-204-014$500,000, 13550 W Chicago Blooming0000, Bayview Loan Servicing LLC to ton Trl, Homer Glen 60491-6124, 05-34Cortney Adams, February 8 200-039-0000, Pennymac Corp to Jay $360,500, 1157 Winding Way, Bolingbrook 60490-3316, 01-26-304-016-0000, Faust & Gloria Faust, March 1 $222,000, 14631 S Arboretum Dr, K Hovnanian At River Hills LLC to Fayzan Homer Glen 60491-9399, 05-10-212Ali & Shahela Ali, February 9 024-0000, Michael Lonergan to Ronald $259,000, 5 Scarlet Ct, Bolingbrook Malcolm & Patricia L Malcolm, February 60490-3186, 02-19-410-017-0000, 12 Anthony C Bartoli to Brian Kirchman, $425,000, 15348 Sharon Dr, Homer October 10 $170,000, 543 Norman Rd, Bolingbrook Glen 60491-6819, 05-13-276-008-0000,

TRANSACTIONS

Raminski Trust to Brendan L Tabor & Kelly A Tabor, February 12

JOLIET

$136,500, 222 Dwight Ave, Joliet 60436-1429, 07-17-108-025-0000, Dgdb LLC to Hayley D Raymond, February 24 $160,000, 2502 Glenwood Ave, Joliet 60435-5444, 06-12-402-025-0000, Don Forte to Rockwood G Summerfield Sr & Iris Y Summerfield, January 28 $150,000, 2112 Tamarack Dr, Joliet 60432-2264, 07-12-202-035-0000, Raul Rivera to Miguel Angel Martinez V, February 19 $144,000, 2225 Arden Pl, Joliet 604355401, 07-07-101-022-0000, Susner Trust to Gregory R Stytz & Kelly E Stytz, January 1 $180,000, 1320 Cumberland Dr, Joliet 60431-6068, 06-06-111-006-0000, Federal Home Loan Mtg Corp to Gina D Fremouw, January 28 $100,000, 430 Chase Ave, Joliet 60432-1618, 07-03-423-012-0000, Maria De Jesus Casares to Gumesindo Montesinos, February 11 $166,000, 3846 Bergstrom St, Joliet 60431-8702, 06-02-114-014-0000, Lisa L Kinser to Christopher Dunphy & Anna Dunphy, February 1 $145,000, 1302 Black Rd, Joliet 604353904, 07-08-109-007-0000, George Reid to Corey J Isom, February 4 $65,000, 308 Krakar Ave, Joliet 604322645, 07-11-409-007-0000, Marquette Bank to Juan Manuel Ruiz Vera & Ma Guadalupe Sanchez Mojica, February 3 $180,000, 1307 Brentwood Pl, Joliet 60435-3303, 07-06-108-032-0000, Kaiser Trust to Mindy Minaeri & Cherri Minaeri, February 11 $71,500, 1421 Woodbridge Rd 3c, Joliet 60436-1377, 07-17-116-001-1000, Marilyn R Papesh Estate to Laura A Mcmillan, February 12 $62,155, 1314 N William St, Joliet 60435-4148, 07-05-221-008-0000, Fannie Mae to Tushar Shah, February 11 $79,000, 1702 Terrace Ave, Joliet 60435-6723, 07-07-405-004-0000, Nationstar Mortgage LLC to Ibrahim Zakhem & Sonia J Zakhem, February 3 $160,000, 2717 Fairway Dr, Joliet 60435-5251, 06-12-401-008-0000, Timothy J Johnson to Thomas A Brower & James E Brower, February 12 $202,000, 2715 Oak Ridge Ln 5, Joliet 60435-0678, 03-36-401-032-0000, Angela Page to Jose J Hernandez Jr, February 5 $57,000, 251 Pearl St, Joliet 604357035, 07-09-314-015-0000, Bank of America Na to Angelica Maria Diaz Cisneros, February 5 $175,000, 1415 Roth Dr, Joliet 60431-

7537, 06-06-203-044-0000, Us Bank Na Trustee to Katina Alfredia Baker, January 16 $166,500, 2404 Cosmic Dr, Joliet 60431-1233, 03-26-408-013-0000, Pac Homes LLC to Charles Jeleniewski, February 20 $316,000, 1514 Clement St, Joliet 60435-4211, 07-04-103-031-0000, Fannie Mae to Jorge Ramirez & Veronica Soto, February 10

LEMONT

$800,000, 13191 Archer Ave, Lemont 60439-7406, 22-32-403-017-0000, Velde Trust to Daniel L Quick, February 18 $282,500, 11 Long Cove Dr, Lemont 60439-7732, 22-34-102-013-0000, Rebecca Lambert to Edward M Bleka Jr & Joanna Gorczyca, March 11 $380,000, 2 Horseshoe Ln, Lemont 60439-9783, 22-24-304-007-0000, Federal Home Loan Mtg Corp to Nicholi T Wozniak & Anne K Wozniak, January 21 $148,000, 315 Front St 1305, Lemont 60439-7213, 22-20-300-037-1010, Julia Huddleston to Justin N Loukota, February 29

LOCKPORT

$273,000, 16550 Watters Dr, Lockport 60441-4770, 05-31-102-037-0000, Aaron M Barnes to Peter J Holtrop & Melissa S Holtrop, January 21 $322,000, 1334 Foxford Ln, Lockport 60441-6231, 04-13-213-002-0000, Michael J Kupiec to Daniel S Ramey & Stephanie L Ramey, February 26 $171,500, 15118 Laurel Ln, Lockport 60441-1301, 05-28-101-027-1000, Stephen J Hausmann to Joseph V Clarizio & Victoria M Schout, February 23

MANHATTAN

$233,718, 16008 W Lacy Ct, Manhattan 60442-1502, 12-19-213-005-0000, Marquette Bank Trustee to Jenny Surman Hayes, February 12

MINOOKA

$269,000, 117 Northfield Dr, Minooka 60447-8274, 10-06-201-005-0000, Stone Financing LLC to Paul H Clampitt, February 24

MOKENA

$240,000, 11048 Daniel Trl, Mokena 60448-1003, 09-08-113-022-0000, Pac Homes LLC to William C Hastert, February 20 $332,500, 10517 Sharon Ln, Mokena 60448-3317, 09-08-432-023-0000, Marianne R Jamrok to Richard G Zehme & Virginia A Zehme, February 18 • Continued on page 54

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This one-owner ranch style home has been lovingly cared for and sits on a spacious lot in nice mature west Joliet neighborhood! This beauty features shining hardwood floors in 2 large bedrooms (14x13, 14x11) and an all ceramic updated bathroom on main floor Formal dining room boasts built- in shelving and could be remodeled into a third bedroom. Formal living room is large and has a gas or wood burning brick -faced fireplace. The kitchen is very large and in excellent condition with an abundance of cabinets and counter-space. There is room for a large kitchen table and it also has built-in glass front- shelving. All appliances in the home stay. Huge unfinished basement has a potential 2nd bathroom with all plumbing and some fixtures. Basement has newer glass block windows. This home is bright and airy with a lovely landscaped yard featuring a charming shed building with its own porch and a huge Rock highlights the front landscaping. Great Street appeal shows the care this home has been given. Roof only about 10 years old.

Nice yard, and a deep 1.5 car attached garage. This home must be seen to be appreciated and can be yours for only $125,000. Call or text Deb Olson, The Deb Olson Team of Spring Realty today to get your private showing, 815-955-0428

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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS Coddington, January 19 $321,000, 1833 Regent St, New Lenox $372,500, 19327 Baron Rd, Mokena 60451-3832, 08-23-208-012-0000, 60448-9290, 09-07-153-001-0000, Julia Walsh Trust to Samuel Frederick R Shaw, A Pechi to Joseph C Halper & Kristine M February 26 Halper, February 17 $287,000, 1780 Heather Glen Dr, New $351,621, 11877 Tower Bridge Dr, MoLenox 60451-4044, 08-25-408-007kena 60448-1988, 09-30-107-054-0000, 0000, Drh Cambridge Homes Inc to Bridges of Mokena to Homes LLC to Philip Aaron M Lamore, February 18 H Victor, February 11 $324,575, 1743 Glenlough Dr, New Le$200,000, 18635 S Parker Rd, Mokena nox 60451-3073, 08-25-309-001-0000, 60448-9539, 08-02-100-039-0000, Drh Cambridge Homes Inc to Edward S Kimberly A Babcock to Patrick B Stimac, Skala Jr, February 17 January 14 $293,010, 1685 Eagle Cir, New Lenox $300,000, 19335 Kevin Ave, Mokena 60451-2890, 08-23-413-010-0000, 60448-7798, 09-09-107-041-0000, Don- Chicago Title Land Trt Co Ttee to Adam B na Long to Marcin Hernik & Karli Lizana, Rusek & Megan C Rusek, January 12 February 22 $225,000, 11004 Kimberly Trl, Mokena PLAINFIELD 60448-1007, 09-08-114-007-0000, Mi$250,000, 11631 S Olympic Dr, Plainchael Brondzinski to Matthew Mowinski field 60585-6777, 01-21-402-020-0000, & Christine Mowinski, February 12 Nicholas Johnson to Philip Lochirco & $244,000, 11539 194th St, Mokena Kathey Lochirco, February 4 60448-8459, 09-07-203-026-0000, $219,000, 6011 Brookridge Dr, Plainfield Mark E Stoner to Andrew K Ipema & Rita 60586-8467, 03-29-305-009-0000, M Ipema, February 26 Us Bank Na Trustee to Hrvoje Cosic, $249,900, 13112 W Rural Route 6, February 4 Mokena 60448, 08-02-200-009-0000, $165,000, 21118 W Braxton Ln, PlainBayview Loan Servicing LLC to Bruce field 60544-7658, 04-06-202-025-0000, Bochenek, January 25 Jean Pierson to Lynne T Mullany & Robert T Mullany, February 9 NEW LENOX $185,000, 5900 Timber Trl, Plainfield $220,000, 152 Markev Ln, New Lenox 60586-6563, 03-32-208-007-0000, 60451-1138, 08-16-202-019-0000, Doug- Nicholas R Rossa to Briana Perrina & las E Boyd to Frank T Sievert & Sheryl J Frank Barrett, January 30 Sievert, February 23 $325,000, 12900 Shelly Ln, Plainfield $241,143, 2831 Joela Dr, New Lenox 60585-6712, 01-31-107-011-0000, 60451-3530, 08-18-408-032-0000, Mar- Dariusz Wysokinski to Francisco Iniguez, quette Bank Trustee to Patrick Garvin, February 22 February 11 $212,000, 1908 Vermette Cir, Plainfield $330,000, 2902 Southwind Dr, New 60586-8323, 03-34-301-026-0000, Lenox 60451-9252, 08-24-410-020Ricardo A Gonzalez to Alvaro R Davalos & 0000, Brian Lenihan to James L Traut Jr & Jessica Davalos, February 12 Andrea N Traut, February 26 $170,000, 25509 W Route 30th Hwy, $260,000, 2340 Foxwood Dr, New Plainfield 60544, 01-20-302-004-0000, Lenox 60451-8564, 08-33-104-014-0000, Robert E Anderson to Marco Anemone, James T Watt to Robert M Sylvester & February 18 Natalie Sylvester, February 8 $260,000, 23723 W Andrew Rd, $269,900, 2885 Shannon Ln, New LePlainfield 60585-7503, 01-27-106-005nox 60451-3446, 08-18-404-038-0000, 0000, James Arnold Gordon to Nathaniel Kevin J Gagan to Timothy M Sullivan R Schmidt & Kristin E Schmidt, February 4 Wood & Krystal G Sullivan, December 31 $128,000, 24187 Pear Tree Cir, Plain$312,500, 2284 Heather Glen Ct, New field 60585-6179, 01-28-201-107-1000, Lenox 60451-3074, 08-25-407-003Jennifer Tracey to Maria Marchuk & Oleh 0000, Drh Cambridge Homes Inc to Marchuk, February 22 Edwin M Frankowski & Jamie L Frankows- $190,000, 15208 S Clover Ct, Plainfield ki, February 5 60544-1456, 03-17-105-019-0000, Fan$170,000, 2117 Sanford Ave, New Lenox nie Mae to Robert C Mayton & Kathleen A 60451-2541, 08-32-101-016-0000, James Mayton, February 22 C Ruhl to Jonathan J Schmuker, February $170,000, 2304 Park Ridge Dr, Plain24 field 60586-5243, 03-32-110-004-0000, $330,450, 2275 Scotsglen Dr, New Le- David Deerwester to Robert Warren, nox 60451-9774, 08-25-306-014-0000, February 26 Countryside Bank Trustee to Cynthia A $497,500, 15706 Brookshore Dr, • Continued from page 52

Plainfield 60544-7726, 03-17-409-0120000, Autumn Homes Inc to Thomas Patrick Uppena & Amy Elizabeth Uppena, February 19 $313,500, 25402 Juniper Ct, Plainfield 60585-2574, 01-32-106-026-0000, Brian M O Neill to William H Graham & Rosiani Graham, February 11 $240,000, 14013 S Tamarack Dr, Plainfield 60544-6356, 04-06-106-010-0000, Castillo Trust to Surindar Bedi & Bhupinder S Bedi, February 15 $161,000, 1413 Brookfield Dr, Plainfield 60586-7577, 06-04-106-006-0000, Fannie Mae to Michael Barabasz, February 11 $227,500, 24831 Franklin Ln, Plainfield 60585-2216, 01-20-405-057-1003, Jon Andrew Phelps to Marek Los & Aneta Zawadzka, February 22 $132,000, 24463 John Adams Dr, Plainfield 60544-4514, 03-09-302-0170000, Joseph A Fields to Gabriela Buck, February 8 $216,000, 1700 Parkside Dr, Plainfield 60586-6810, 03-34-406-009-0000, Daniel J Hobson to Hector Young, February 21

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$125,000, 1890 N Wentworth Cir, Romeoville 60446-5074, 03-12-404066-0000, Julianne G Davis to Stanislaw Szostak, February 9 $152,000, 1977 Tuscany Ln, Romeoville 60446-5008, 03-12-306-009-0000, John P O Neill to James C Giffin Jr, January 11 $118,478, 2018 Winchester Trl, Romeo-

ville 60446-5089, 03-12-308-030-0000, Intercounty Judicial Sales Co to Aimee James, October 15 $128,000, 302 Tallman Ave, Romeoville 60446-1748, 04-04-218-040-0000, Grandview Capital LLC to Anselmo Castaneda & Monica Castaneda, February 4 $227,000, 1937 Tilson Ln, Romeoville 60446-5017, 03-12-304-021-0000, Paul W Fender to Marcin Tulak & Ewa Tulak, February 9

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$130,000, 1721 Fieldstone Dr S, Shorewood 60404-7402, 06-20-103-0461000, Thomas P Lozar to Charles E Lab & Cynthia A Lab, February 24 $136,000, 1733 Fieldstone Dr N, Shorewood 60404-8116, 06-20-102-0440000, Fannie Mae to Kathleen A Dooley & Douglas A Panko, February 16

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3 bedroom ranch in Rooney Heights off of Black Road. Huge 4 car tandem heated garage. Family room with a fireplace. Ceramic kitchen floor. Full partially finished basement includes a second full bath. Patio doors lead to a deck, gazebo, and spacious fenced rear yard. $125,700

320 LIME ST., JOLIET – $109,000

Price reduced! Great family home with 2 bedrooms and a possible third or den with formal dining and living rooms, kitchen, and family room.

1.5 car garage and a partially finished basement. Tile, carpeting, and hardwood flooring. Large fenced-in yard with a peach tree and grapes – Well maintained – Call Nancy Freeman (815-530-5633) or email at nfreeman221@comcast.net

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QUIET COUNTRY SETTING ON WOODED CUL-DE-SAC 5625 MUSKIE TRAIL, GOOSE LAKE

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Spacious ranch on large wooded lot w/4 bdrms, 3 baths & 2.5 garage with extra storage. Partially finished basement with wet bar, electric fireplace and pool table is perfect for entertaining. Kitchen with island dining area has sliding glass doors leading out to deck. All appliances stay. Relax in the hot tub off of the deck while enjoying the view of the decorative pond and secluded backyard. Shared boat dock on adjacent lot. Call Melissa or view property at www.mcresong.illinoisproperty.com

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931 n. Hickory st… Established successful bar business for 40 years - “Andy & Sophie’s”! Not only that but property also includes an upstairs apartment to live in or rent, plus rental house and 3 car garage. Turn-key business in excellent condition offers tremendous business potential! Act now to become your own boss! Asking $285,000! Contact Jayne for further details & for a private showing.

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STUNNING CUSTOM BUILT HOME IN FRANKFORT’S ABBEY WOODS

20488 Abbey Dr…Bank owned, this gorgeous home is 4,600+ sq ft plus an additional 3,400+ sq ft in the finished lookout basement!

5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, 4 fireplaces, custom curved staircase in the 2 story foyer plus 2nd staircase off kitchen. 4 car garage, stamped concrete porch with brick pillars, professionally landscaped with Koi pond. This home has been freshly painted throughout – you don’t have to do anything but move in! Asking $725,000.

Contact Judy Archer at 815-791-9028 for a personal tour of this exceptional property. View even more photos of this property at www.cbhonig-bell.com

SHOREWOOD – OPEN TODAY 1:30-4 1701 Peyton Terrace…Overlooks the water in Towne Center, custom built 2,500+ sq ft, 18x19 master suite with luxury bath, sun room, walkout basement with epoxy floor, maintenance free main level deck plus paver patio, heated garage. Asking $579,000 Marie greets you at the open house today. Preview multiple photos at www.cbhonig-bell.com

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JOLIET - $146,500 409 W Bridge St…Approx. 1700 sq ft, wood floors in living, dining rooms plus kitchen. 4 bedrooms (2 on 1st floor), 2 baths, floored attic, basement. Updates include windows, sidewalks, electric, & garage. Call Frank today at 708-646-6447 to see this home. View multiple photos at www.cbhonig-bell.com

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2616 Crescenzo Dr…1st floor end-unit Golfview Estates condo close to Inwood golf course/fitness center & more! 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, L-shaped living/dining combination, all appliances stay, in-unit laundry, nice patio. Contact Judy to see this home without delay at 815-791-9028. Preview photos at www.cbhonig-bell.com

1208 Taylor St… Charming Cathedral area brick 3 bedroom home with curved archways, crown molding, plaster walls & hardwood floors!

Inviting foyer opens to living/dining room with brick fireplace & builtin bookcases. Sunlit family room overlooks newly fenced yard with two patios, one a brick paver. $194,900 includes home warranty! Call Jim at 815-693-2970. Preview multiple photos at www.cbhonig-bell.com

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637 Lincoln Cir, Shorewood 22852 Harbour Ln, Plainfield 415 Essex Ln, New Lenox 905 Shagbark Rd, New Lenox 298 S Walker St, Braidwood MLS 09109164...In Shorewood Glen Del Webb, open flr MLS 09092820...Townhouse on 140 acre lake in MLS 09172592...On nearly 1 acre, updated Andersen MLS 09171691...2 big bedrooms, 2ba, wood laminate flr MLS 09101301...Updated farmhouse, 3 bedrooms, liv plan, 2,600+ sq ft, hardwood in most rms, 2-3 bedrooms. Lakelands. 3 bedrooms, 3.5ba, 2 fpl, new hardwood flrs, windows, 2,400+ sq ft, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 ba, 2 fpl, fin bsmt. in kit, 12x25 living/dining combo with sliding door to sun & fam rms, sun rm plus 17x13 loft. $149,900 Bonnie $339,000 Diane Lambert 815-509-0656 fin walkout, $474,900 Lesa Meade 815-483-7233 $299,900 Andy Domas 815-735-0902 rm. $149,500 Joyce Flanagan 815-546-3824 McElroy 915-922-9919

833 Deerpath Ln, Elwood 2113 Three Forks Dr, Plainfield 5618 Stonybrook Dr, Plainfield MLS 09154025...End-unit brick ranch duplex, hardwood MLS 09178128...Recent updates incl carpet, flooring, air, MLS 09179801...On corner lot, 3 bedrooms, 1.5ba, flr in kit, all appliances, rec rm & possible 3rd bedroom in siding & roof! 4 bedrooms, 1.5ba, full bsmt, extra large vaulted liv rm, open kit/fam rm arrangement, bsmt, bsmt. $149,900 Lee Hansen 815-478-3872 garage, $199,900 Debra Brisolara 630-240-7407 covered patio. $179,990 Lisa Patterson 815-325-4169

1691 Fiddyment Dr, Plainfield Schools 26336 Pit Run Dr, Wilmington MLS 09179680...Lakewood Falls, 3 bedrooms, 2.5ba, MLS 09150998...Waterfront marina home, 4,400+ sq ft, wood laminate flr in din rm, kit & fam rm. Fin bsmt. 17 rms, 4 bedrooms, 4.5ba, 3 fpl, hardwood on main level, $209,900 Ellen Williams 815-483-5788 fin bsmt. $724,900 Bob LaTour 815-744-1000 X255

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1800 Roberts St, Wilmington 209 N Pine St, Gardner 690 N 1st St, Carbon Hill 409 Pacific St, Essex 1145 S Farmstone Dr, Diamond MLS 08607243...Remodeled on 120x100 lot in Lakewood MLS 09168719...Open flr plan, 3 bedrooms, 2ba, all MLS 08917992...On 50x150 lot, hardwood flrs in all 5 MLS 09102037...Recently remodeled 1650 sq ft home, MLS 09092573...Duplex with fin bsmt 3rd bedroom, 3rd Shores, was 3 bedrooms (23x11 master), $110,000 Bob appliances stay. Large backyard, new roof 2015. $159,000 bedrooms, fam & din rms. 3 baths, fpl, solid oak drs. wood laminate & ceramic flrs, 3 bedrooms, garages, new ba & fam rm. Hardwood flrs in kit & liv/din rms, $195,000 LaTour 815-744-1000 X255 Andrew Cook, Managing Broker 815-530-7800 $229,900 Lori Bonarek 815-325-4760 roof 2015. $155,000 Cathy Zwirblis 815-370-8281 Lori Bonarek 815-325-4760

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709 Buffalo Dr, Minooka 1926 Calla Dr, Joliet 723 Springwood Dr, Joliet 2331 Bicentennial Ave, Crest Hill 918 Nightshade Ln, Shorewood MLS 09097771...Plainfield Schools, 1,383 sq ft duplex, 2 MLS 09117301...Min from I-80 & I-55! Wood laminate MLS 09167962...1st flr condo, 2 bedrooms, wood MLS 09132553...3,100+ sq ft, 20x18 master suite, kit has MLS 09149086...Kit has island, hardwood flr & opens to bedrooms (11x17 master), 3ba, fin bsmt. $184,500 Nancy flrs thru main level, 3 bedrooms, 2.5ba, office & rec rm in laminate flr in liv rm, maple cabinets, marble countertops, island, 42 inch cabinets, hardwood flr & opens to 17x20 fam rm with fpl, 3.5ba, rec rm, fpl & poss 5th bedrooms in bsmt, $264,000 Rick Gray 815-955-2705 Leggett, Managing Broker 815-790-4526 bsmt. $179,900 Melissa Bell 815-342-3400 all appliances. $69,900 Bob LaTour 815-744-1000 X255 fam rm. $289,900 Melissa Bell 815-342-3400

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SUPERBLY CONSTRUCTED - CREST HILL QUAD! Built with 2x6’s giving the home an R-25 rating this 3BR, 2 bath home offers a beautiful kitchen w/all appls, den/4th BR, bsmt rec room, Florida room, large LR & FR, 2.5 car garage, deck, pool, gazebo. $225,000 - Call Bob Vergo today!

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NEW LISTING – DON’T MISS OUT! Fantastic 2BR home in pristine condition offering a huge fenced yard, oversized 2.5 car garage, FR w/ vaulted clngs, skylights & frpl, fin bsmt w/bar, full bath & rec room, tons of storage, newer roof, furnace & a/c! $139,900 – Call Maggie today!

NEW LISTING - GORGEOUS 2-STORY! Spacious, well kept home offering 3BRS, 3.1 baths, all new appls in large kitchen, beautiful hdwd floors on 1st floor, 2nd level W&D, loft, fin bsmt, huge fenced yard & 2 car garage! Troy Schools! $179,900 - Call Phyllis Anselmino today!

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Wanted: 3 Car Garage for Storage of Cars Prefer West Side of Joliet. 815-954-9940

William Shakespeare, in “Henry IV, Part I,” wrote, “Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”

When you are in any contract, but especially a slam, play as safely as possible (unless you are in a duplicate pair event, where overtricks can be so valuable). In today’s deal, South is in six spades. What should he do after West leads the diamond queen?

The bidding had a modern slant.

North’s two-no-trump response was the Jacoby Forcing Raise, promising four or more spades and at least game-going values. South’s threespade rebid denied a singleton or a void and indicated a maximum one-level opening, some 17-19 points. After North made a four-diamond control-bid (showing the diamond ace and denying the club ace), South used Roman Key Card Blackwood to learn that his partner had two key cards (one ace and the spade king, or two aces) and the spade queen. Since a key card was missing, South signed off in six spades.

Declarer saw that, with no losers outside the trump suit, he could afford one spade loser, but not two.

What should he have done?

If the suit was 2-1, anything would have worked, but to accommodate a 3-0 split, declarer led a low spade from the dummy and covered East’s six with his eight. When South won the trick, he cashed his spade ace and claimed.

If West had won trick two, the spades would have been 2-1. Or, if East had discarded at trick two, declarer would have won with his ace and led back toward dummy’s queen.

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Owners of this 125 year old business seeking buyers to continue this family owned co located in a progressive, stable, central IL community. This business services a large area with a good volume of commercial, residential, retail and wholesale accounts. Contact Schrof Companies, Inc. for details. 309-662-3200

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY JOLIET, ILLINOIS Nationstar Mortgage LLC Plaintiff, vs.

Charles E. Campbell a/k/a Charles E. Campbell Jr.; Bank of America, NA; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants; Richard Kuhn, as Special Representative for Charles E. Campbell a/k/a Charles E. Campbell Jr. Defendants.

Case No. 15 CH 02479 Notice to Heirs and Legatees.

Notice is hereby given to you, the Unknown Heirs and Unknown Legatees of the decedent, Charles E. Campbell a/k/a Charles E. Campbell Jr., that on February 24, 2016, an order was entered by the Court, naming Richard W. Kuhn, 552 S. Washington Street, Suite 100, Naperville, Illinois 60540, Tel. No. 630-4208228, as the Special Representative of the above named decedent under 735 ILCS 13-1209 (Death of a Party). The cause of action for the Foreclosure of a certain Mortgage upon the premises commonly known as: 176 Grady Drive, Bolingbrook, IL 60440.

(Published in the HeraldNews on March 27, 2016, April 3, 10, 2016) 1171212

PUBLIC NOTICE COUNTY BOARD MEETING The April meeting of the County Board Members of Grundy County, Illinois will be held at the Grundy County Administration Center, 1320 Union Street in Morris on Tuesday, the 12th day of April A.D. 2016 at 6:00 P.M. for the purpose of Auditing County Claims and the Transaction of any other business that may properly come before the meeting. All bills of claims against the County must be filed at least seven (7) days prior to the meeting to insure notice of the Board at the meeting.

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who attend private schools and home schools, within the District for the 16-17 school year. If you are LEGAL NOTICE a parent of a homeschooled stuCITY OF JOLIET dent who has been or may be ADVERTISEMENT TO BIDS identified with a disability, and you CONTRACT NO. 2167-0516 reside within the boundaries of Lincoln-Way High School District 210, PROJECT NAME: WEST SIDE WASTE WATER you are urged to attend. If you have TREATMENT PLANT BUILDING UPGRADES - 2016 - JOLIET, ILLINOIS further questions pertaining to this meeting or would like to RSVP, The City of Joliet, Illinois, does hereby invite sealed bids for the West Side Waste Water Treatment Plant, please contact Mrs. Mary Harrison, Director of Special Services at Building Upgrades - 2016; Joliet, Illinois. Bids will be received at the Office of the City Clerk, City of Joliet Mu815-462-2254. nicipal Building, and 150 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, Illinois 60432-4156 until 9:00 A.M. local time on TUESDAY, April 19, 2016, at which time they will be opened and publicly read aloud.

(Published in the Herald-News April Those desiring to submit a bid may examine the bid documents and detailed specifications in the City of 3, 2016) 1173775 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 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 Ten percent (10%) of the Base Bid, payable to the City of Joliet.

PUBLIC NOTICE All Bidding Document holders should sign up for RSS feeds at http://www.cityofjoliet.info/bids-proposals and provide your first and last name and email address to automatically receive addendums. Addendums Joliet Township High Schools will also be posted on the City of Joliet's website at http://www.cityofjoliet.info/bids-proposals. The potential Joliet, Illinois 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 specifNOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING ic contract.

The City of Joliet has a local qualified bidder ordinance that would apply to this contract. To apply to be The Board will meeting in Executive a local qualified bidder please go to http://www.cityofjoliet.info/departments/finance/purchasing/prequalificaSession on April 13, 2016 at 6:00 tion-process. p.m. to discuss personnel matters.

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.

All notices are pursuant to the call Bids from bidders who have not submitted required prequalification documents as required in subsections of the Board President.

(1) or (2) below shall not be opened.

Bidders must be prequalified with the City of Joliet to bid this project pursuant to Ordinance 7345. All Mr. Donald Dickinson, Secretary Bidders shall become prequalified in one of the following ways: Board of Education 1. If a company is currently prequalified by the State of Illinois (via IDOT or the Capital Development Board), such person shall submit a copy of said prequalification to Office of the City Clerk prior to the date and time set (Published in the Herald-News, for the bid opening.

April 3, 2016) 1173571 2. If a company is not State of Illinois prequalified as described above, they shall submit a City of Joliet Prequalification Form and a financial statement. The prequalification forms can be obtained from the City of Joliet website at http://www.cityofjoliet.info/departments/finance/purchasing/prequalification-process. This prequalification MUST be renewed yearly. To check on your current prequalification status, you can contact purchasing@jolietcity.org. The current price for City of Joliet prequalification is $175, which offsets the costs for independent auditor review of the documents. Those documents are to be submitted to the Purchasing Division, City of Joliet, 150 W. Jefferson Street, Joliet, IL 60432 at least 6 days prior to the bid opening and must be acPUBLIC NOTICE companied by $175 and need to be updated annually. In addition to the form being submitted, a financial statement prepared or certified by a duly certified public accountant shall also be submitted. The certified pubWill County Clerk's Office lic accountant shall also certify that he/she is presently a duly certified public accountant in the state in which Assumed Business Name he/she is certified. The financial statement must include the company's latest balance sheet and income stateCertificate of Registration of ment showing the following items: Current Assets (e.g., cash joint venture accounts, accounts receivable, Ownership of Business notes receivable, accrued income, deposits, materials inventory, and prepaid expenses). The evaluation of the independent auditor shall determine the amount of prequalification. Prequalification shall be valid for a period Name of Business: of twelve (12) calendar months following the date of certification by the independent auditors.

The City of Joliet reserves the right to reject any and all bids, parts of any and all bids, or to waive techniApassion Auto cal 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 Certificate No.: 30609 the extent required by law.

Filed: March 22, 2016 ALL PROPOSALS ARE SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE CITY OF JOLIET PROCUREMENT CODE Located at: (Section 2-430 - 2-453 of the Code of Ordinances) 40 Meadow Ave. BID DOCUMENT FEE $50.00-Electronic download is FREE Rockdale, IL 60436 JAMES D. HOCK CITY MANAGER Name(s) and residence of address (es) of the person(s) owning, conMARGARET E. MCEVILLY ducting or transacting business: CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR Stephanie Cardwell 3900 Leominster Ave. (Published in the Herald-News April 3, 2016) 1173641 Jolliet, IL 60431 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and Official Seal at my office in Joliet, Illinois.

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That on April 30, 2016, a sale will be held at Greg's Body Shop, 2221 Oak Leaf Street, Joliet, IL, to sell the following articles to enforce a lien existing under the laws of the State of Illinois against such articles for labor, /s/ Stephanie Cardwell services, skill or material expended upon a storage furnished for such articles at the request of the following /s/ Nancy Schultz Voots designated persons, unless such articles are redeemed within thirty days of the publication of this notice.

Name of Person Description of Article Amount of lien March 22, 2016 David Surufka 2000 Mazda Miata VIN # JM1NB3532Y0145051 $17,510.63 CarMax 2000 Mazda Miata VIN # JM1NB3532Y0145051 $17,510.63 (Published in the Herald-News Dated at Morris, Illinois this 31st March 27, April 3, April 10, 2016) (Published in the Herald-News March 27, 2016, April 3, 10, 2016) 1170808 1171323 day of March A.D. 2016.

Kay T. Olson Grundy County Clerk (Published in the Herald-News on April 3, 2016) 1172948

PUBLIC NOTICE On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 10:00a.m., a meeting, conducted

by Lincoln-Way School District 210, will take place at LincolnWay Central High School, 1801 E. Lincoln Highway, New Lenox, IL. The purpose of this meeting will be to discuss the District's plans for providing special education services to students with disabilities

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